#exercise capacity

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[benevolenterrancy]

Luo Binghe, screen saver mode

[fatedroses]

Finally I can post the comic for Adventurer!Zenos that has taken hold of my brain for the past week.

AKA a man who is currently running off the fumes of the literal souls of the damned being very desperate to be out of the void he was stuck in (and for the first time actually being able to just enjoy something mundane), only to get absolutely overwhelmed but all the stimuli he had just... ignored until now.

[difeisheng]

mundane thing but i love that mysterious lotus casebook has details like qiao wanmian having asthma attacks and li xiangyi needing to watch out for peanut allergies. jianghu representation for those of us bitches who have to deal with common but still deeply annoying health conditions

[pollen]

i'm going to enroll in a personal training certification course for fun :)

[jimkirkachu]

Wtf, even just browsing job sites / listings / descriptions is enough to make me nauseous with anxiety and depression. When, why, and how did I ever become such a useless and pathetic mess?

[pikslasrce]

2024

smile in pictures

diy Everything

get a vibrator

create create create

watch more old movies

listen to more albums

get more goth

speak even when not spoken to

engage in local activism more

actually finish books you started

fix posture

start exercising (something light for starters.. like yoga or something)

look for a job + get a job and heaven knows youll be miserable then

get a camcorder

take a LOT of pictures then paint them

dont drop out

[black-cat-aoife]

Is it not enough that my Russian teacher asks me every week what I did for my Russian since the last lesson - a perfectly valid question, that actually forces me to read/watch something and make sure I understand it well enough to sum it up for her? Does she now also have to ask me how my Polish is going, just because I was foolish enough to mention that I'm trying to learn that, too?

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

Hmmm, I should listen to Epic later while thinking about torchwood, this will only end well for me

[durn3h]

Now that I know the wonders/horrors of incline reverse smith machine lunges I will never again use another exercise that even touches the glutes

[duncebento]

try to speak against dehumanization without using dehumanizing language challenge a lot of people are FAILING‼️😅

[silo1013]

what are your thoughts about krycek's kill in sleepless?

i think i made some kind of small post about this like a month ago but i'm going to get more into it now that you've sent me an ask about it specifically. unleashing the beast.

ok so i don't know if this is like. #controversial or whatever but i don't actually think he was faking his reaction to killing augustus cole! i do think that was baby's first murder.

in the LSG media x-files podcast, one of the hosts points out that, at the end of sleepless, krycek kind of has no choice but to kill cole. cole wants to die, and was going to die either way (he was clearly planning to jump off the ledge of the vehicle yard building before being confronted by mulder)--but he knows that mulder isn't going to do it, so he puts it on krycek by manipulating him into seeing the gun where the bible was. there's obviously no way for krycek to fake that, it's external. so if he thinks that his partner is about to get shot, what does he do? if he wasn't a spy, he'd do what he's supposed to do according to what they teach you at the FBI, which is to shoot cole (the hostile suspect) before he can shoot mulder (the LEO). he is a spy, but he still has to do what he's supposed to do, because if he doesn't, it'll blow his cover.

the conversation between krycek and the cigarette-smoking man in ascension makes it pretty obvious that krycek is like. at this point, basically an errand boy. a foot soldier AT MOST. the cigarette-smoking man tells krycek, among other things, that he "has no rights, only orders to be carried out," and that if he has problems with that, they'll "make other arrangements," which is like. very obviously a threat that krycek seems disquieted by, placing him in what is probably a relatively low position in the syndicate's hierarchy. he's a mole, someone who watches and passes along information--not the kind of operative that assassinates people.

we get basically nothing on krycek in terms of backstory/what he was doing before being introduced into the story (which in almost all cases i think is a plus) but to be honest i don't think there would have been any reason for him to have killed anybody before cole. krycek mentions in ascension that the cigarette-smoking man "had" him do something--we infer that this is related to the death of duane barry at the least, if not also what happened to the tram operator at skyland mountain--so we know that he wasn't doing that of his own accord, he was receiving orders. we see him doing the same thing in anasazi (before the cigarette-smoking man decides he's a loose end that needs to be tied), except now he seems to be being specifically ordered to carry out hits; likely because somebody, somewhere, saw what he did in ascension and decided that he could handle it. i don't believe that that was always his job, and i definitely don't think that it was anywhere NEAR his job during the period of time he was assigned to be mulder's partner. the confrontation the end of sleepless puts him in the position to kill someone when he wasn't intended to be, and he does it, and after they realize he can do it, he's put in positions where he has to do it more. if it helps the government cover up the fact that they've been doing fucked up experiments on people, that's an added bonus.

part of this can be attributed to nicholas lea being a good actor, obviously, but i think when it comes to determining this sort of thing, it's physical reactions that tend to sell it. at the end of the scene, right before the cut to mulder finding out his file's been stolen from the car, there's the shot of mulder and krycek leaning over cole's body in the vehicle yard building. it's the most well-lit part of the scene, and there's a long shot focusing on the bible lying at cole's side where he'd dropped it as he fell. it's pretty zoomed in, since the focus is on the book, but both mulder and krycek are partially visible in-shot. mulder, who we know has killed people before, doesn't enjoy it but is familiar with it, is very sober and still; krycek's hand is shaking so hard it's changing the reflections on the face of his wristwatch.

so yeah, i do think augustus cole was the first time he ever killed anyone, and i think his hesitations and reactions were real. frankly i think most of his reactions to things regarding the case were real; he might be part of the alien cover-up conspiracy but i feel like maybe that doesn't prepare you for war veterans that can kill people with their minds. i guess it's the sort of thing where it's like. he COULD have been faking it? "it" being the fear and anxiety and immediate shock of killing a person for the first time. even though i think the emotions that you must be experiencing after you kill someone for the first time, especially if you didn't necessarily want to do it--residual fear, sick adrenaline, some kind of fucked up relief--would be pretty difficult to fake, particularly if you're trying to fool one of the best psychologists in the bureau, i don't doubt that he could have gotten away with faking it if he'd had to. but i just think it's a little more interesting if he didn't

[captainjonnitkessler]

We need to start coming down harder on people who respond to posts with intentionally bad-faith interpretations like "well this doesn’t apply to me specifically so it’s bullshit and actually you’re a bigot for not explicitly addressing literally every single possible scenario in your offhand tumblr post”. It’s exhausting and pointless and I have to imagine people responding with shit like that are wildly unpleasant to be around in real life

[mire-7viii]

The thing about researching Victorian writing is that you find arguments, by men, that have been perpetuated for centuries and that they have been repeating to this day, no matter how many times women respond to them.

It is one of the reasons why it does so tire me to see contemporary women make the same arguments again, and again. The man is pointless in activism. He is empty from birth and has to actively choose to listen to a woman for him to take anything in. He cannot be a listener, he is not your audience, he cannot hear you. The man will not change by the initiative of a woman.

[sovonight]

the scenes where xan swiftly lifts and carries charname when he clearly could not have cast strength on himself beforehand are so funny to me. "it was effortless" no it surely was not

[dragonatthedinnertable]

My mental health is still being a rollercoaster.

But! I've been walking without my cane for days and I mostly feel fine!