#My posture right now

[fisheito]

omg where'd you get your top it looks like it would fall apart after one cycle in the wash

[veinsfullofstars]

“Can’t you see I’m in the middle of something?”

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Dark Meta Knight, bust shot, covered in bloody spatters that drip down his armor, half-draped in a deep red shadow that bleeds in lines down the background. He glares at the viewer through the tilted visor of his mask, a single, manic-wide eye glowing gold in the shadows, an unusual orange slit pupil slashed through its center. He holds one hand up before him, gloveless, bloodstained, curled into claws as if he’s just ripped it out of something. END ID.)

Started 11/14/24, finished 11/16/24.

[tubbytarchia]

I just saw a few "beginner artist" animations and posts that had gained some traction and their comment sections actually made me pretty seethingly upset.

"Experienced" artists really just jump on "beginner" artists to tell them all the 2 to 5 to 50 things that they can do better. All under the guise of "I'm just tryna help" and coated with "you have potential!". Well I am also a fellow artist and that is so haughty and discouraging to me. Some artists need to get off their hyper realistic objectively superior anatomically correct high horses and give the goofy newbie ones some fucking room to breathe. Leave beginner artists alone, a tip or two is fine but they do not need 20 people correcting all their "mistakes" and giving tips and criticism where it was never asked for. I genuinely feel so bad for these beginning artists who put in effort to create something, and that's the foremost beauty of art, only to get jumped like prey by all these other artists who fail to appreciate the very core of what they claim to teach. If you do that, THEY DON'T NEED YOU to grow as artists, and that's assuming you even wanted to help and not just having a superiority complex

[seldompathic]

Thought my back hurt because my posture was garbage from drawing hunched up in bed. Turns out it was SCOLIOSIS LMFAOO

How tf did I go 21 years without knowing my spine and pelvis were twisted and one of my legs was shorter than the other 💀💀 WACK

[hawkeyedflame]

i cannot overstate how much postural restoration therapy has changed my life. i can actually snowboard now. like for real, my center of gravity actually shifted back to where it is supposed to be and i can comfortably stand balanced over the board in a way i was completely incapable of last year when my pelvis was all twisted and fucked up. i can't believe how drastic the change is. i can't believe i was walking with a limp for years and i didn't even know it until i stopped limping. and above all, i can't believe how simple the therapy was. i'm like. wow. what the hell.

[vegetable-soup-wizard]

POTS flare ups are kinda funny why am I having to speed run like. Making toast

[sebs-out-of-spoons]

i hate when it’s cold and my bones start aching extra 0-0

[dribs-and-drabbles]

The Thai Communal Wardrobe item #129

Only Friends ep 1:

My Stand In ep 7:

[thecrenellations]

“sorry for clutching your hand while that lady I’ve definitely never met before was calling me the name of your dead betrothed”

“don’t worry about it! Let’s go for a walk.”

(Nirvana in Fire, ep. 2)

[completeoveranalysis]

[6]

UM EXCUSE ME?!

UNPROMPTED?!?

[noisytenant]

i have a soft spot for kitsch. i love compulsively collecting those stupid sticker sheets with bijons and bunnies and bears in all kinds of expertly designed inoffensive situations. i love heart and star and flower hair clips. i'm staring at a phone strap with beads that are shaped like fried eggs and you bet your ass they've got little smiley faces on them. i got it without even knowing what i'd attach it to

so anyways, i think of kitsch as kind of like, an aesthetic lubricant, or a sort of balm. it's easy to swallow because it aspires to be exactly what it is; in the case of my favorite, it aspires to be--and is by generally agreed-upon metrics--cute.

i think perhaps what separates typical kitsch from corny art is that a corny piece seems to aspire to something greater, often something political or cultural, yet ultimately is seemingly nothing more than exactly what it is. a frog with a sassy catchphrase, maybe a pun. the deeply personal and political nature of queerness captured in a few vector lines and a gradient. there is nothing to "figure out", you have everything you need. no questions at this time.

i think perhaps the idea is for the cutesiness to be a spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down. one might think combining those thorny and often painful feelings associated with politics and identity and suturing them to something saccharine and simple makes them more bearable.

but i feel like the "what you see is what you get" nature of kitsch isn't something that can easily transfer to things adjacent to it. a political slogan or symbol, ostensibly, reveals an ideology, a context, a history. a cute drawing of a frog rarely does the same (not to say it never can). when placed together, do you want to flatten the political message into an unquestioned notion, a "vibe", or do you want all your artistic decisions to be considered and exposed as they might be in any other context?

it feels like a kind of art that doesn't take itself seriously, so i think those of us who hold a great deal of seriousness find it jarring. because of the kitschiness, the implicit message to not think about it too hard, it ends up being confounding, because how could i not think about it? at times the underlying politics seem to slap you in the face, the simplicity of the motifs lay bare the careful calculation involved, and all you can think is, "this is really corny and lame".

i don't feel deeply wounded by much of it because i'm lucky to surround myself with people who have more personalized and thorny artistic tastes. and in general, i have lower stakes for politics in images because i seek politics in my life. but it is tiring to see, and it sometimes reveals deep and troublesome assumptions about the world, and worst of all--it's uncool. so yeah, pack it up. but i will be taking one of those cute cat stickers on the way out, yes, thank you

[toxooz]

lmao my dad had an appendectomy a couple months ago and I had to call an ambulance for him 💀 his recovery took about two weeks even with it partially ruptured AND after a couple days in the hospital, but he was up and moving okay a couple days post opp. It wasn’t necessarily comfortable but it was manageable and he could complete basic tasks so overall the struggle shouldn’t be that bad for you either 🤗. He also didn’t take the pain meds they gave him for the most part and opted for ibuprofen so if you’ve got a prescription it should be even better for you, I hope recovery goes well <3

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OH FUKKI I JUST SAW THIS yeah unfortunately it was those instances where you have to get up and move in order to build strength and get better whichhh suuuuucked BUT it was necessary and my strength is almost kinda back to normal now💪but damn those first few times getting up were justttttt rough to say the least sksksk my color came back I don't look like I died 3 days ago anymore AHA and I'm inching thru solid food🤘 so I'm on the right track now its just a matter of taking it easy but also pushing my body necessarily

[youngchronicpain]

Did I just do one of my PT exercises for the first time in over a month?

One that I should have been doing every day?

Yes.

And that is okay.

Because I have been going nonstop, and I have been in entirely too much pain.

Sometimes, I have to just get by. But that doesn't mean it isn't important that I pick back up again when I can.

I'm proud of myself. It hurt. But I'm getting back to it.

[charonean]

Breaking news: doing things that are good for you are, in fact, good for you.

[cerbreus]

im living a nightmare called 'i am prone to mid/low back strains and also had a surprise asymptomatic kidney infection this year that presented as flank pain before things went very downhill in the span of 2 days'

[ourceliumnetwork]

circling back to the adrenaline dumps, i learned about those as a POTS symptom today and if i've had POTS as long as i'm pretty sure i have (progressively getting worse every so often just for kicks and at random but that's like...all my shit doing that so i'm taking it in stride at this point - sucks but what can i do about it really?) then that would explain some of the less concrete "anxiety and panic attacks" i've had in the past.

normally i can pin down what i'm freaking out about - i might not want to admit that's what i'm freaking out about but there's usually some sort of reason i'm having a panic episode. The most distressing times have been when I couldn't figure out what was wrong enough to cause that big of a reaction. Because nothing was bad enough. and i'm wondering if those times weren't just my body flushing adrenaline through my system like for shits and giggles and for fun. it would explain some of the times i've just been sitting still (or laying down) and my heart just starts THUMPIN and i'm like "yo nothing is in any way That Serious my guy" and my body goes "TIGERS. TIGERS IN THE WOODS. CHASING YOU." which like.

sure fine, but we're inside where the tigers aren't can we calm tf down? there are no tigers? literally none? This is also probably where the "Tense everything up and let it go" thing doesn't always work for me but it does work often enough it's worth a shot.

...Anyway. i just wanted to touch back on that because like. That was eye opening as far as revelations go. It was also eye-opening to have someone reframe the "coat hanger pain" as "listen if the tension in your back and neck feel better when you're laying down, it's probably not muscle-tension, it's probably your muscles can't breathe because no oxygen." and boy howdy does that really just put the last 20-odd years of my life in perspective yeah of course i feel better laying down NOTHING IS GETTING BLOOD.

...okay that's all i think. It's just like. goddamn. i knew learning the causes for all my woes would like. help give me something to blame when things went fucky i didn't realize it would be everything would be related to the fucky shit. anyway. Have a great day, bitchin' yule erryone.