#Now I must retire

[disgracefulthings]

At Qian Cao Peak

Mu Qingfang: Shixiong has been stressed lately. What is weighing on your mind?

Shang Qinghua: I can't really say- wait! You're a doctor, that means you took the Hippocratic Oath! Which means that whatever I tell you, you can't repeat it to the other peak lords...

Mu Qingfang: What is-

Shang Qinghua, not listening: Well it all started in a previous life...

Later

Shang Qinghua: ...and now Cucumber-Bro and I need to make sure the world doesn't end. Wow, it feels nice to get that off my chest. Thank you for listening, Mu-shidi! I'll be back in a week for our next session

Mu Qingfang: ...

Yue Qingyuan, walking up to him: What's wrong, shidi? You look spooked

Mu Qingfang: I can't say. Apparently I took a hypocrite oath

Yue Qingyuan: ?

[emperorofthedark]

WIP: Ripp Grunt's apartment

[broken-clover]

It's eternally a little funny whenever I see someone say something along the lines of 'everyone in Strive is so happy now! Everyone's stories are getting resolved! It'll be hard to make a new game when everyone's retired and living peacefully and resolved their problems' and then there's a haunted semi-sentient mecha corpse in the corner constantly screaming from being trapped in limbo

[toshio]

I know you probably have answered this before but just mostly curious when you started working out, roughly how long did it take you with being consistent before you started seeing results with your chest? Mine always has been a struggle to get muscle and any definition 😭

LOL tbh i've answered a lot of the same questions over and over again but i don't mind at all giving you more of my fitness journey!

i started around the pandemic after a breakup, so like march-april 2020 i think. i looked up how to get pecs or something and we were in lockdown, i was just playing animal crossing new horizons and doing push ups on my bedroom carpet. and i tried to get protein in, i didn't know how much at the time was necessary, i just would order like 30g protein shakes (premade) from amazon, coffee flavor. i didn't know what the fuck i was doing back then, i have a better idea now, but i still am just a "casual". that's why my body isn't like, bodybuilder or IFBB pro level when you look at the photos i post of myself online.

so yeah i'm not an expert, i'm a very casual "fit" enthusiast. the main thing is just motivating yourself, i know working out is painful, it's not fun, but you can make it fun - and the results are VERY addicting in my experience, like obviously when you start lifting weights and doing push ups at home you think to yourself "oh this is stupid, i'll never make gains" but you just have to put in effort, be disciplined, and tell yourself something along the lines of "i was given this physical form by god or whatever super powerful being in the universe exists, and damn it i have one life to live and i'm gonna be SEXY" lmfao. idk, i'm very obsessed with youth and beauty and i'm a very shallow person admittedly so i started working out for aesthetic reasons if i'm being honest. everyone has their own motivation. obviously i like being able to lift heavy groceries from the supermarket to my car's trunk more efficiently. but my main motive was just to look sexy because i would look at muscular guys posing on like, instagram/twitter/tiktok and be like DAMN i wish i was that sexy. LOL. MOTIVATE YOURSELF.

i'd say you can get a somewhat noticeable looking chest in about 1 year if you're very consistent. again i'm not a fitness expert so my best advice i will give to you anons is to just eat a ton of protein and start doing push ups and probably like running/walking more often per day to lose fat. i know i give very vague feedback but i don't want people to think i'm claiming to be a personal trainer, you guys know what my body looks like, i'm not a bodybuilder. GOOD LUCK :)

[basilpaste]

happy one am! hands you mira and isa thoughts.

how long do you think it took before isabeau started calling her mira? do you think it was as soon as they started traveling together? or did it take some time? do you think she laughed the first time or that she was too surprised to? do you think he crosses fingers and hopes that shell pick up a nickname for him at some point, too. because theres something awful comforting about giving someone you love a name.

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

been creatively flatlining someone give me silly little doodle prompts

[figofswords]

what they don’t tell you about college is that you’re going to be aging at a rate of about three years for every one earth year

[bassdaily]

Just when you thought you were safe... Insanity Wolf Bass is back with more """practical life advice."""

[sinnettini]

🏓✈️🏖️!

thank you maya 💞

🏓 are you superstitious when it comes to tennis?

you know, i thought i was, but then i read some of you guys' answers and maybe not that much LMAO i mean honestly with sports in general my main superstitious thing is that i NEVER say my team/favorite player is going to win or they WILL lose. i'll often go all the way to saying they're going to lose. but i don't really have pre- or during matches rituals or clothes i wear to watch my favorite players' matches or anything like that

✈️ if you could go to a tournament, which one would it be?

well, rome, but i'm hoping to go this year! i just need to find someone to go with me 😭😭 other than that i'd love to go to wimbledon, that'd be my number one choice

🏖️ would you watch tennis if your favorite player was not playing?

yeah, absolutely. i mean, for most of the time i've been watching tennis my favorite player was roger (he's still my fave but yknow) and then he retired and life as a tennis watcher went on skdnsnj honestly i love tennis way too much for it to be tied to one or even a few single players. i love to watch the sport regardless of who's playing and sure, there's some players i like watching more than others naturally, but i think i can say i could watch tennis my entire life even if my favorite players retired one after the other, and then i got other faves and after some time they also retired and so on and so forth

[omargaret]

new pinned graphic, audio, dash icon & theme!

[blood-mocha-latte]

tonight i am thinking Normal thoughts such as

what if i made a tag game

[imageingrunge]

finished dai like all the way so now i gotta lot of thoughts that i must let simmer in my mind on low heat while i play DA:O...and maybe DA: II

[renshengs]

five million ideas absolutely zero time. ououooogh. why on earth did i decide to be an art major

[roylustang]

hiiiii HIIII I loved your response and I was so very compelled by your ideas about why keith finds being dirty comforting and it seized me with the thought about how the castle is so Clean and Pristine. and I was thinking about your post about how the Dirt becomes part of you & your environment and I was like ohhh Keith’s shack was probably sooooo fucking dirty and then he gets this castle room that’s sleek white metal and clean nnnn and I think that is extremely unsettling. also also I see your thoughts about keith associating dirtiness with Importance and I would love to add: he was also dirty all the time during a time in his life where there was nobody around. I think for keith “peace & quiet” and “loneliness” are very intertwined (I hc he got bullied a lot at the garrison so while he found so much love in his relationship with shiro he also struggled a lot.) So the desert is this horrible grief but also this profound emptiness and not having anybody to impress or interact with. which I think is in a way comforting. the image of him coming back to the castle covered in dirt and blood and just sitting down in the lounge like that while everyone scrambles to shower is so vivid

also PLEASE tell me about your daddy kogane thoughts you can’t just bait me like that and not tell me. also you are so entirely right. Our combined power can turn keith into the saddest wettest rat ever. The keith suffering between us is powerful . I need to do my job now but yeah thanks for sharing

IM GOING INSAAAANNEEE okay okay okay i guess i mainly have two major thoughts about this.

The first is what you said about peace & quiet and loneliness. Highly believe Keith was getting bullied in the garrison (and even if it wasn’t bullying we all know he had beef with a lot of people/people had a lot of beef with him. He’s not a people person, obviously. He much prefers to be by himself because it’s safer and less stressful). So if we assume then that Keith is happier when there’s peace & quiet that means Keith probably also associates loneliness with happiness which FUCKS ME UP. And I can totally see how this would make his relationship with shiro more difficult, especially in the beginning. But mostly I’m dying thinking about the fact that, grief notwithstanding, Keith ultimately /believes/ he is happier in his lonely shack of sadness (whether or not he actually is). But I also think you’re definitely right that he takes comfort from the idea that there’s no one around to impress or put on an act for. There’s no pressure on him to perform (whether that be as a pilot or just as a normal human being, moreso the latter esp if we’re taking your hc’s into account) WHICH IS IMPORTANT because living like this, Keith feels less encumbered. He feels, perhaps, that living like this (constantly in the desert, constantly in the DIRT, constantly alone) is where he Belongs. This is arguably the most ideal living situation he’s ever been in, at least when there’s no one around to care about him (which has been the majority of his life).

Which leads me to my second thought that not only is suddenly being forced into the immaculate castle with all its sleek and clean furnishings unsettling, it is also signaling to Keith that this is a place where he does Not Belong. This is a place where he will have to continue to put up some kind of facade, especially considering he’s now living with 5 practical strangers (excluding Shiro), one of whom already seems to dislike him for no reason, like most people. And not only that, but especially in the first few days/weeks that they’re living there, Keith is constantly getting things dirty just by existing, which is very hard on him mentally bc it just makes him feel like he’s ruining everything. Because he Doesn’t Belong here in this nice clean place. He is once again a fish out of water.

[b-blushes]

you know what would be so good. if all my friends lived walkable distance from each other and we could have art club together.

[percyjacksonscookies]

hiiii i changed my user name cause I am Running from something

if you're my mutual and you don't know who tf i am please send me a message to ask!! I dont mind at all :3

ive had some mutuals on here since I first started 10 years ago!!!

i like all my mututals (giving all of you a flower and some soup) so please don't be shy about asking if you're curious!!

ough i was such a good kindergarten teacher and you can tell...................

anyways thx for reading and I hope all of you are staying warm and safe 💜💜