#gentle stretching

[compassionmattersmost]

6: Gentle Movement and Stretching in the Gym: Reconnecting with Your Body

Now that you’ve taken the significant step of entering the gym without the pressure to exercise, you might feel ready to begin exploring gentle movement. For people living with Post-Viral ME/CFS, this phase requires a delicate balance—respecting your energy levels while slowly reconnecting with your body through light movement and stretching. In this blog post, we’ll look at how to introduce…

[kelliaellis]

The 10 Best Stretches for Total Body Flexibility - for Fibromyalgia.

We’ve all been told time and time again that stretching daily, as well as before and after exercise, is very important for our muscles – so why is it so hard to commit 10-15 minutes actually doing it? For a lot of us, stretching is, well, boring. When we run a hill sprint or bench press weight, we feel the energy we use to perform such tasks and equate results in the mirror to the time spent…

[veinsfullofstars]

👑 Kirbtober 2024 Day 27: Control 👑

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Traitor Magolor magically manipulating a lines of plushies(?) modeled after Kirby, Bandee, King Dedede, and Meta Knight. He smiles behind his scarf, resting his head casually on one hand while puppeting his new toys around with the other, the Crown atop his head watching the spectacle with its unnerving gemstone eye. END ID.)

Previous Day | Next Day | Prompt List (made by @/paintpanic)

Started on 10/10/24, finished on 10/13/24. | Kirbtober 2023 Comp

[moonlitkissing]

Tonight, I'm fantasising about tying a shy sweetheart up and focusing all of my attention on him

Just to watch him squirm under my gaze as I'm slowly stripping him, his poor face all flushed as he tells me to "get it over with" - so naturally I go even slower, kissing every part of uncovered skin, showing him with words and touches how pretty he is, how handsome he looks, and how much I want him, until he's flushed down to his stomach and whimpering quietly with every compliment - and arching into every touch even though he tries not to be obvious about it

Once I have him completely naked, I want to make out with him, kiss his cute face and down his neck until he's fully relaxed and not trying to hide from me anymore - and then I'll sink down on his pretty cock

While I'm riding him, I'll ask my pretty boy all kinds of questions, if he likes how I'm touching him, if he feels my pussy clenching around him, how he feels all tied up and spread for me, if he ever fantasised about me having him like this? And each time he stops talking, too embarrassed to answer, I'll stop moving and tell him that he only gets to cum if he answers my questions - I don't want there to be any doubt about how much he's enjoying everything I'm doing, and I want to hear all his cute noises, including shy affirmations that slowly but surely morph into desperate begging <3

[windydrawallday]

MARAUDER LOCKDOWN

... Tbh he is more of a "vagrant" but that sounds too low for his reputation IMEAN--

I'm both excited and nervous to show at last a proper reference for my own interpretation of this character 💚 I think it's not a surprise anyway for the ones that know me and my love for him ksdjhfjdsfh

I wanted to do it too so I can work comfortably on my HCs that edge in very OOC territory from the canon (and even some fanon)... and because I admit I have been enjoying sharing short stories and RPs with people again ✨ and activity I missed a lot!

And of course, this interpretation got its own whole backstory that differs from the canon and follows my HCs and concepts around his species, but I'll talk about that in another post (or if someone is curious enough to ask for it coff).

For now! Have more initial sketches from when I was developing him (this is since... 2022 gosh).

First: a time ago I used him for an old (discontinued) post-apocalyptic AU with designs inspired by hunting-scavenging clothing. A friend said he looked like Robin Hood x'D

... I almost didn't change the way I sketch digitally. Anyways. To not let this rot, you can notice I used many design cues from this one!

Then during half of the past year, I did studies of his ROTF toy because I liked how that one kept the weird silhouette of the TFA but aligned to the IDW design too!

And from there I chipped away traits and straightened others until it felt right to me.

BONUS one of the first and fastest sketches I did for him during a conversation with @goobygnarp x'D Thanks to this I not only got the courage to finish the reference but to understand WHAT design cues I wanted to keep and didn't give me too of a headache.

[ Btw that kremzeek is my rascal baby Scintilla ]

[mysweetlapetitemort]

thinkin about. getting kissed so so sweetly while my pussy is fucked relentlessly

[tj-crochets]

Hi hello I cannot focus

[augustinewrites]

my first patient of the day today was an 8 month old infant and it gave me major baby fever 😭

[smorgasbort]

AC6 Girlboss Alignment Chart

[mpsansy]

Will Casper and Thatch ever become friends in your AU? You did say their relationship enemies will develop overtime.

I feel like this has become a very repetitive question asked of me. And I'd rather be blunt than beat around the bush with them. Tell you what I think.

So I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this, ‘kay?

Casper and Thatch will never be friends. Not in the same way Casper’s friends with Wendy & Inferno. (Also an automatic for Kat too)

The bond they have is something meaningful. Something they all put the effort into making. Keeping it strong through trial and error.

Casper and Thatch however would not have that. And if you hope, by some miracle, they would? I'm sorry. They won't.

At best, Thatch can come to a realization that Casper and his family are nothing like J.T McFadden. The mad mortal who almost ripped the world apart. Maybe he'd offer less insults to the boy and his loved ones. But that's it. He'd still be who he is.

A brat who doesn't like the spirit's, nor anyone else’s, good nature. Believing it's an act to get something out of him. It isn’t.

The idea of them forming a friendship is not here. Simply because Thatch would never put in the effort for it. That's just not him.

Why be in a relationship, of any capacity, like that? It's empty. Torturing even. You get nothing out of it if only one person is trying.

They're better off as acquaintances. With Casper going on with his afterlife. Uncaring of how people perceive his actions.

I’d say that if Thatch was in danger? Casper would still save him. It’s in Casper’s nature to help. Humans, monsters… anyone really.

After all, he did die saving his cousin. Who now calls himself Spooky.

Thatch can’t understand it. Can't understand Casper. And I don't think he ever will.

“Why? Why do all this? Why be nice to me?”

“… I'm not. I just don’t like seeing anyone suffer.”

“…”

This kind of thing is way more interesting. Because you need to understand something. You can’t be everyone’s friend. There are people who will just not like you. And even if they understand where you came from, they have a choice to be more respectful. Or not. Thatch has free will to think and act how he pleases, and much to that effect, so does Casper.

And I’ll be dammed if Casper lets himself get bullied or belittled by people he has no connection with. So, no. They’re not going to be friends. They may be a bit different around each other, but Thatch was raised to be a certain way. He doesn’t see himself as a problem

[androdragynous]

thinking about how my one cat learned that her claws hurt so she only cuddles when I have a blanket she can knead + is very very careful to keep her paws still when she touches my skin instead... I love her

[bunicate]

welt makes his daughter wear a cute butt plug btw 💗

[queerplatonicdiaries]

we talk softly in the kitchen and, in a way, it's everything I've ever wanted.

it's been a bad day. I'm reheating dinner when you walk in, not to grab anything, but just to talk to me because we haven't seen each other in a while.

you know things aren't going well but you don't immediately ask why I've been distant (i'm silently grateful for this small grace). instead we talk about this and that, and the microwave pings distantly in the background but I couldn't care less. you show me the tattoo that you got today, and I can't help but be excited at your excitement despite despite despite the raging black hole inside of me. I can't help but smile at your easy radiance.

I wasn't planning on it, but I make myself a cup of tea, just to have an excuse to stay here a little longer. to bathe in the fragile peace and bask in your presence.

I always did ache for your company.

you ask me how my day's been, eventually, and whether I want to talk about it. I laugh and say it wasn't great, and the light admission balks in comparison to the storm of the last week, but its an admission nonetheless. it's more than i thought i'd be able to give. its nothing compared to what i want to say but can't.

you see it anyway. in the way my hands shake and my smile is brittle around the edges, I meet your eyes and I know that you know.

and so we stand there, in the warm light of the kitchen nestled in a long, tight hug, and in a way, it's everything I ever wanted. there are a million battles raging in my heart and maybe nothing's okay at the moment, but you hold me close and tell me to take care of myself and for a moment I can breathe again, I can remember my own name.

there's a long way to go to get out of this mess, but when we softly say goodnight I carry the memory of your gentle smiles and warm embrace all the way to my bedroom and think maybe, just maybe, things will be okay.

in a way, it's everything I've ever wanted.

(you always were gentle with my heart.)

[unopenablebox]

having a rollicking good time browsing the blogspot-hosted weaving blogs of various middle-aged and elderly women

[sysig]

Feeling and looking good 🌈 (Patreon)

[fist-amidst-the-hands]

hi hi okay imagine. stede wants to brush out ed's hair the way izzy always does. maybe izzy is busy on deck taking note of damages after a raid. maybe they had an infestation and he's going over ration spoilage and inventory with roach. ed is tired and cranky and absentmindedly separating sections of curls and tugging them apart at the bottom where they get stuck together in knots. stede offers to help with the tangles, says he would love to give it a go and help ed relax

izzy walks in a few minutes later and immediately comes up and tells stede he's doing it all wrong but also gently takes the brush from him and shows him the right way - where to hold the hair, how to start at the bottom with little sections and work his way up, when to start with his fingers instead of the brush. neither of them can see it but ed is smiling so much his face might actually burst