#exercise is therapy

[nicistrying]

Tues 11th Feb

Another gross, dark, soggy day

Walked Mags. Took calls this morning, lines were thankfully v quiet. Back out into the woods at lunch time, it stopped raining briefly 🙌 worked some more. Got a message from my doctor saying she's checked over my scan, my coil is fine, she doesn't think that's what causing the pain. I asked for a face to face appt to discuss my options bc now I just feel a bit lost. I also told her I've been spotting since my last period end of Jan so she is going to do another exam. So was feeling a bit shitty after work thinking about wtf I am going to do bc switching to a hormonal coil will be traumatic in itself - removal and re-insertion will be so painful. And if that fucks up my anxiety and I want it taken out again that's another painful procedure and another day written off. So that would be 2 days I'd have to take off work. And I would be paranoid af in between. Equally she might just say lets try stronger painkillers. Idk I need her opinion

Forced myself to do a little workout bc Matt was so happy to see me when he got home and I was so grumpy and it wasn't fair. And a brief workout done in my pyjamas is better than nothing

Tried on the dresses I ordered last week - 2 casual for work when the weather warms up. I have quite a few dresses but they all have low V-necks so needed some more modest ones and I like these.

And a few I wanted to try for a couple of weddings we have coming up. I'm returning the peach & paisley bc they just don't fit right. V sad bc I thought the paisley would be more fitted, it didn't look that flared on the photos. And the peach just fits terribly, it looks like I'm wearing a curtain 🤦🏼‍♀️The green I think I will wear for Matt's friend's wedding in May bc realistically we'll be lucky if it's 15°C

[opalsiren]

we as a society have got to stop prescribing exercise as a universal cure for chronic illness. yes exercise can be extremely beneficial for certain chronic conditions, especially under the guidance of a physical therapist or physiotherapist. how and ever acting like exercise will undoubtedly reduce the symptoms of every single chronic illness on the face of the planet just isn't it. exercise is even known to worsen the symptoms brought about by certain illnesses and disabilities, and can have detrimental effects if not approached with the utmost care. 'exercise can be beneficial for certain conditions' well yes. 'exercise will have a 100% positive impact on any and all chronic illness' no no nope and also no

[mothgenes]

Part 3

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

[goldenamaranthe-blog]

Group Exercise! Clap! Clap!: Hazbin Hotel

Charlie: Alright, Everyone, gather around! We're doing another singing circle!

Angel: *trying to sneak away*

Vaggie: *holds Angel at spearpoint* Oh, no. Get back there and play along.

Angel: This was stupid the last time! *grumbles as he sits down in the circle* Fucking singing and clapping like a bunch of cheerleaders. Haven't seen this much clap since I was alive.

Charlie: Don't worry, Angel! I've adjusted the song to specifically match most of our guests in a way that they may be more open and honest!

Angel: *blinks* Doubt.

Charlie: Watch! AHEM!!! *sings* I have turned all of my trauma into kinks!~

*CLAP!!! CLAP!!!*

Vaggie: *face falls* Babe!

Husk: *spits out his drink*

Alastor: A- What now?????

Lucifer: *singing* I've turned all of my trauma into kiiiiinks!~

*CLAP!!! CLAP!!!*

Charlie: Vaggie! Go!

Vaggie: Uh..... *sings awkwardly* Run a knife right down my spine?

Charlie: *wiggles her eyebrows at Vaggie* Be my Mommy~

Angel: *sings enthusiastically while swooning backwards into Husk's lap* Make me cry!~

Charlie & Lucifer: Because I've turned all of my trauma into kiiiiiiinnnks!

*CLAP!!! CLAP!!!*

Charlie: Second verse, same as the first! Husk, take it away!

Husk: YOU ALL NEED FUCKING THERAPY!!!

[findmeinthefallair]

Mindscape, based on this post I made weeks ago

The yellow light is Flapjack's life force 😭😭😭😭

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

Emily and the extra realization that an angel had her wings torn off and eye gouged out and halo repossessed and was left for dead in hell- why exactly??

Emily: "A child."

Lute: "A filthy little sinner."

Emily: "You did all that to her, because she showed a moment of mercy to, a C H I L D?"

Lute: "Yes."

Emily: "And then you tried blackmailing her with this??"

Lute: "Yes."

Emily: "That's terrible."

Lute: "I'll admit it didn't work how we wanted it to, but the broken look on her disgusting little demon fling's face was still worth it."

Emily: "I meant that it was a wrong and terrible thing to do TO her. And to Charlie!"

Lute: "They've probably already broken up by now. That traitor will spend her final hours alone and wretched with nothing but her own failings to keep her company."

Emily: "How you can SMILE while saying that!?"

Lute: "Oh don't worry, she'll be out of her misery soon enough."

Emily: "..... respectfully Lute, I hope she fucks you up a little."

Lute: There's no chance in hell.

Lute: (comes back sans arm after getting a little fucked up by vaggie in hell)

Emily: "HA!"

Emily: "Anyway have you met our newest angel Sir Pentious? Sir Pentious is an angel now. He arrived here fresh from hell. Did you know sinners can be redeemed and Charlie was right and you were wrong and Vaggie did the right thing and Sir Pentious was just telling me allllll about how they made up and it was very cute and they're probably going to be in love forever? Meanwhile, YOU on the other hand- oh I'm so sorry, Lute. Too soon?" :)

[theloveinc]

Being the on-call masseuse at pro-hero dynamight’s agency who he’s weirdly vulnerable with because you’ve already seen him naked

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

Exercise and other forms of exertion can cause profound and lasting harm to people with ME: various forms of evidence

My 2011 paper, "Reporting of Harms Associated with Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis / #ChronicFatigueSyndrome" included data from earlier surveys and discussed the issue of reporting of harms

[comicaurora]

this is non comic or OSP related, so sorry if i'm overstepping, but do you have any advice for someone that wants to move/exercise more but is utterly unmotivated?(not exercise for muscles, just movement for the sake of movement)

Honestly? Think of something physically demanding you want to be able to do. Stuff like hiking and/or climbing rough terrain, running free with the wind in your hair, swordfighting, stunt falls, sick metal gear combat rolls - anything that has ever made you sit up and think "I wish I could do that!" Once you reframe movement and exercise as a way to make your body capable of more fun things, it becomes a lot easier to stay motivated.

[serrennedyanonwriter]

Capcom needs to drop a Luis DLC for me, my almost 60K word-count Luis autism doc doesn’t have enough information on him, I need more /hj

[nicistrying]

I can do it. It's 7.30am, I have an hour before I need to log on for work, which is plenty of time for a quick stretch and arm workout. I don't even need to make myself super presentable for work as I shouldn't be needing to call anyone until I start answering the phones at 1pm. I need a proper workout after a weekend off 💪

[jenny-94]

Physiotherapie today 😍

Heute mal was Bewegung 😍

[rickybaby]

Daniel in Alex Volkanovski's Aus gp vlog

I still got some fucking some to release [...] I feel like I still need to put my hand through something

[bullmotif]

how it feels to not be able to spend 400 hours a day researching history events that are consuming your brain

[nilboxes]

Anon who asked about Ratio getting seriously hurt. Thank you for the very detailed answer! Was very pleasantly surprised by the sweet treat :) If it's okay, can I ask how deep you think Aventurine's greed for Ratio could go?

Fathomless.

Aventurine himself cannot quantify just how deep this greed and desire for Veritas goes. It permeates his very being, so much that it's such a part of him. He knows it's always there like his own bodily organs, the back of his palm, the breath in his lungs, the feeling is very much at home, it's so familiar sometimes he doesn't quite notices it. He can still desire other things, but the hunger he has for Veritas runs far and deep.

A gambler wants a lot of things after all. I wrote in the drabble collection fic Nemo Saltat Sobrius how he found inspiration from the Scholar King. This greed and desire definitely built over time. I imagine in his early days in the IPC, prior to becoming the Stoneheart Aventurine, he finally has enough personal freedom to go try all sorts of things. He eats all kinds of cuisines, shops, goes around Pier Point, does little side trips when his assignments take him off Pier Point, sleeps around with flings. It fast becomes empty, but he finds comfort in the Scholar King lectures he puts on when he feels particularly in need of some company for encouragement.

An image of Dr Veritas Ratio forms in his mind, the Scholar King. He still has goals here at this time, he still thinks he has a chance to make a difference for his people and those who've helped him. He strives, he perseveres, not quite alone because he's got the Scholar King on his side.

He collects images of the Scholar King, at first it is because he believed it brought him luck, but then for lack of friends (his Sigonian eyes and his commodity code spell trouble for a lot of people) he finds some companionship in the little Scholar King figurines he collects. (He buys them online and even then they aren't plenty) He also starts to learn more about the Scholar King, Dr Veritas Ratio, he reads the articles, watches the biographies, the documentaries about him, sees the rare pictures of him without that alabaster head. He thinks, how beautiful.

It is when he becomes Aventurine that things take a downturn. His fondness for the Scholar King becomes obsession. Since learning his people are gone and those who helped him cannot be reached, the deep and sudden meaninglessness must have hit him hard. I imagine he would have held on to his inspiration and found some strength to go on because of the Scholar King's teachings about finding one's own purpose in life.

Still, the reality is crushing. He clings harder, he buys an actual life-sized statue of Dr Veritas Ratio, his Scholar King, it keeps him going. He fantasizes about this beautiful man and starts to imagine all sorts of scenarios with this Scholar King. It's a defense mechanism, to imagine, to be taken away to another reality, to hope. The Scholar King in his head is not enough, he needs the real one, the Dr Veritas Ratio.

So he does what he's good at, he schemes, he makes little nudges in the Technology Department and in extension the Intelligentsia Guild, just introducing them to this very talented person in this corner of the cosmos, it is the tiniest nudges, here and there. He cannot really wait but he doesn't want to nudge too hard, and eventually that invitation letter gets sent, and it's thanks to Aventurine's luck it finds Ratio at the most opportune time.

When he sees Ratio he can't help himself, every sense of propriety is melted away by the yearning, the hunger. Ratio is every bit as beautiful in the candid photos taken without his headgear. The real Scholar King is now accessible to him, the one built in his mind is was just a projection, Aventurine knows this well, and it's easier for him to separate that version with this living breathing one he has a chance to come to know now, and he wants to know everything about Ratio. He does this in the manner only a worldly, materialistic man knows how, to touch, to feel, to consume and consume. He doesn't have to have expectations about what Ratio would be like, the Scholar King was nothing but a construct in his mind, he just wanted the man in his entirety to be in front of him.

Aventurine's greed-filled desire is marked with intense looks, harsh nips of teeth, torrid hands that itches to grasp tight and never let go. He never really thinks too hard about why he's come to harbor these feelings for a man he doesn't really know, he hasn't even truly met, but the greed persists. There's no logic behind simply wanting, one can desire things simply because, and that's true here for him. He rides these feelings, unsure where it will take them, and surprisingly Veritas reciprocates in some manner. The greediness persists, even when it is being fed, he always just wants more and more of Ratio, he cannot get enough, he will never get enough, because he's obsessed.

The entire train of thoughts only appear to be healthy and sane because Aventurine wants so, so many things, most of them contradictory, like wanting Veritas all to himself but also wanting the world to see how brilliant he is, that it cancels back to balance. There is a strong desire to fully possess Veritas but he also doesn't want it, because that would mean taking away what makes Veritas who he is. So Aventurine is at a standstill with his own endless insatiable greed and lets it be, feeds it with what he can get, what is best for the person who matters the most to him, and it's not enough but it needs to be, but it's still never enough. The thoughts could make him dizzy if he traces it too much, so he makes it simple, so long as his darling Veritas is within his reach, it is enough.

[grabby-smitten]

I understand how uncomfortable part of the fandom feels with the new trailer. It’s the same feeling I get when I see domestic life w kids posts.