#fast day

[writtenfoxscreams]

[186-3]

it's tisha b'av everyone

for anyone who doesn't know what that means, for the next 25 hours, i, and many other jews, will not be:

eating

drinking

bathing

washing hands past the fingertips

wearing leather shoes

and as a bonus, we're not allowed to sit in chairs until almost 1 pm tomorrow

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[eretzyisrael]

[girlactionfigure]

Tzom Tammuz 2023 / צוֹם תָּמוּז 5783

Fast commemorating breaching of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple

Tzom Tammuz for Hebrew Year 5783 occurs at dawn on Thursday, 6 July 2023.

The Seventeenth of Tammuz (Hebrew: שבעה עשר בתמוז‎, Shiv’ah Asar b’Tammuz) is a Jewish fast day commemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple. It falls on the 17th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz and marks the beginning of the three-week mourning period leading up to Tisha B’Av. Like other minor fasts, Tzom Tammuz begins at dawn (first light) and ends at nightfall (full dark). If the 17th of Tammuz falls on a Shabbat, the fast is instead observed the next day, the 18th of Tammuz (on Sunday).

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[proselles]

alex hirsch was really just so pissed that no one saw his epic old man yaoi that he went and wrote a whole new book and made a whole website specifically to show meticulous evidence that this weird old man fucked a triangle.

he really said what were ford and bill really doing in that pocket dimension they shared, hm? did you ever think of that? oh - you think it was just chess? hm. interesting. i dont.

the ultimate rare pair shipper. i have never seen a creator do this before. absolutely fascinating at every angle.

[toyastales]

Pizza Grilled Cheese

[fabiansociety]

da2 isn't the best dragon age game *because* it's openly a tragedy, but being a tragedy forces a level of narrative coherence that the other games in the series don't have, and *that's* what makes it a better game.

okay, so. dragon age 2 runs on nested foreshadowing and a limited set of themes that almost every character and plot beat fall into: love is not enough, wealth is not enough, power is not enough, good intent is not enough. the problems you run into are structural, rather than individual, and your ability to resolve them as one person is strictly limited. the arishok is a central figure for this, because he prefigures every other tragedy and makes the game's thesis statement as clear as possible. he doesn't want to be in kirkwall, but he is compelled to remain until he gets back what was stolen. he doesn't want to lead a coup attempt, but he is compelled by qunari codes of justice to act. he does not want to die and fail his duty, but but he is compelled to by the other two impossible demands. every tragedy in kirkwall is the result of too many people with wildly different definitions of justice crammed into one place specifically designed to maximize human misery and suffering, and so you get a wonderfully nested narrative onion where each quest reinforces that idea, where there are no good options, just positions you can take — even the affinity system plays into that, where constantly gassing up your friends or constantly pushing them to change are equally correct ways to go, but ones that won't ultimately make a huge difference in their lives or characters, because no matter how much they like you, they're not under your control.

this coherence is even justified by the framing device. of *course* the moral of the game is "insisting on a dogmatic, narrow idea of justice destroys individuals and societies," it's a yarn being spun by varric the con artist to a chantry cop!

neither origins or inquisition play with that sort of narrative complexity. origins is a jaundiced hero's quest, certainly, but it's still basically a hero's quest; inquisition has a number of characters who question what you're doing and why, but the multitude of voices pulls the game in too many potential directions. DA2 was so constrained in its production that it pulled on decidedly ancient theatrical traditions, and it worked so, so well

[recoverediary]

One of my coworkers gave me the brilliant idea that I should buy a fuckton of groceries and do meal prep so that I’m not constantly spending money on snacks and have healthy dinners to eat after work. So today, I’m made chana masala (aka Indian chickpea curry) and my favorite Thai pineapple curry with tofu and veggies. I’m keeping the calories down by not cooking rice to go with it, but both meals have protein and good nutrients from veggies, so it’s a small price to pay.

What’s even better is that this will probably last me through the rest of the week! Yay!!!

Current meal log for the day (2/6/24) is two protein shakes (chocolate pea protein + 1 cup almond milk + rest water, 150kcal per shake). My fever hasn’t come back and I feel fine, so I decided to give the whole fasting thing a try. I don’t know if I’ll stick to under 500kcal today (yes I know that 500kcal is the limit for what you can eat during a fast), considering that I’ve had 300kcal already and I might eat 300 more for dinner (just to get my fiber and protein), but fasting was easy today. Probably because I wasn’t at work lol

Edit: ended up eating around 630 calories today (2 protein shakes, a bowl of veggies, one candy cane leftover from Christmas just to treat myself), I think I burned 1800 calories so I’m in a deficit of 1170 calories. I’m pretty proud of myself today! Best case scenario, I can restrict my calories and fast at least once a week to hopefully get this stubborn weight off faster :)

[herbarimoon]

Here with you

+ bonus danganronpa blood version

[draconym]

My friend gave me their old road bike and so I had to draw it next to my mountain bike. They are friends.

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: Why have they changed it? These colors are awful. I– ew! I actually hate it! Where– what happened to the orange? Why’s it purple?

Tubbo: [Realizes] OH—

Tubbo: Oh, I'm actually– I'm actually a bigot, it’s Ace Race, I get it. Ohhh, ohhh that’s awkward. Ohhh, that's awkward. I’m a bigot. Oh, I'm a bigot. Oh, I'm a bigot. Ohhh. It’s crazy that they let bigots into MCC these days! Well actually, they’ve always done that.

[luxris]

brothers 🧡💙

[isatohlee]

Get reverse animorphed loser

[waveoftheocean]

09.21.24 happy batman day!!! 🦇✨