#good body posture

[shaylogic]

Jayden: Oh I love Chick-fil-A

Gay interviewer: PffFFt So you don't support the gays, then?

Jayden: OAO!!! I LOVE the gays!!!

the comments on this interview too omfg

[indashadows]

I have strong feelings about this scene

[exgirlfiend]

yeah just a bit

[geneticdriftwood]

shoutout to the only panel in the cheshire contract where roy actually looks believably 22ish. you will always have a special place in my heart <3

[edwardwonghaupepelutivrusky4th]

wah i looove their designs and animation...

[glitter-garbage]

i dont see a lot of people talking about this so that's my PSA for anyone who wants to get top surgery at some point: building muscle helps a lot with recovery and mobility, and you can do simple exercises at home and already have a world of difference for your surgery

stuff like doing squats, push ups and dips 3-4x a week for example. you can start with adapted versions to ease into them (like chair push ups) and i swear it will help out

as a fun fact since my surgery i lost around 10lbs (not counting my actual breasts) and most of it is muscle 🥲 but I'm glad i worked hard before that so I'd be prepared for that loss

[livyislost]

need to die asap

[fatal-blow]

okay it's happening. im making a post about compensation and muscle pain.

let's say you have a pain. the type of pain that's been nagging at you for quite a while, maybe in different spots but it has a bit of a pattern: like your left shoulder, or the achy knee, and, of course, back pain.

most people don't really know when or where it started, but in this hypothetical scenario it's been building over the years. that pain, and how it has developed over time, is your body Compensating, which starts as something small, but can grow into something utterly disabling.

to give you an idea of what I'm talking about, imagine you've hurt your foot. it hurts to put weight on the ball, but you still need to do stuff, so you just walk around on your heel.

this isn't the normal way to walk, obviously, and most people would go back to normal once the injury is better. but let's say for whatever reason, you end up in the habit of walking on your heel for a while.

because this isn't the right way to walk, you're putting strain on the shin muscles, which have to constantly flex to hold your toes up. it will also overstretch the bottom of your foot. over time, that overstretched muscle starts to hurt too, so now you start curling your toes in to make it hurt less. this in turn puts more strain on the shin muscles, who have now recruited the muscles on the side of your calf to keep your toes raised.

you are now straining several different muscles, and that's just on the foot. each new pain that arises causes a different muscle to act, which creates another new pain when it in turn starts to strain. and the worst part is that this pattern can be so subtle, you don't even realize it happening.

so when you are modifying your posture to address pain, you have to be careful not to continue the cycle. remind yourself that a good posture is relaxed--even standing requires very little muscle activation. if you catch yourself clenching up, try to find the reason for it and follow it back. it's the only way you'll escape the cycle.

a good posture is a relaxed posture. instead of forcing yourself to sit straight, find the reason you were in that pose to begin with.

[licorishh]

Woe, "Your favorite character who's probably just autistic and quiet and not very sociable and often speaks very plainly and in a more direct and blunt manner is now mischaracterized by the entire fandom as a sexy emo possessive no-nonsense 'I hate everyone and everything except for the weird quirky girl cause I'm the only person on Earth who knows she's super hot cause everyone else says she's ugly even though she's actually extremely conventially attractive' serial player who essentially treats every female character in the particular piece of media like his personal slave and is the subject of countless x reader fics, so much so that it makes you feel ashamed to tell people he's your favorite character because you don't view him like that in the slightest but literally everyone else in the fandom does so you're afraid you'll be lumped in with those people" be upon ye.

[lieutenantselnia]

Yesterday I've been doing some proper physical exercise for the first time since last year and I'm just imagining how proud my f/os would be of me🥹

[tvmm7]

I am ill over the glass scientists..

[drinkingbitterboy]

note to self: post more alex closet cosplays when i need a pick me up/ego boost.

thank you to everyone for being so nice to me 🥹

[lieutenant-fred]

i don't feel like creating

[senadimell]

new physical therapy milestone unlocked! If I move my arm a certain way my hand goes numb!!

[cherubchoirs]

wwoah thank you, that way on how you draw the head/s is very useful, if it is okay to ask, how do you do the bodies as well? if this makes sense ^^; hopefully its not too annoying with me asking this stuff !!

not annoying at all! i'm so happy that first process post helped and i hope this one can too :]

ok!! here's an overview of the steps (once again with good posture v1, since that's probably more applicable to most ppl lol):

step 1: blocking out the body in three parts: chest, abdomen, and pelvis. these are based a much more human-like shape, as its body without its back attachment looks a lot like a regular torso in construction imo + again, i tend to go for organic rather than mechanical shapes

step 2: the chest!! i first draw in its chest plate based on pectoral muscles, then make them a bit blockier. its collar is much like a collar bone (innovative i kno.....) and then i use the cut off line i established in the base sketch to know how big to make the two plates beneath its chest. i'm,,,,sorry that's not explained very well ;o;

step 3: the abdomen!! this is pretty simple and follows the base sketch almost exactly, with a tummy panel that includes articulation points and is slightly open to reveal a couple threads of blood tubing just beneath the chest.

step 4: the pelvis! the pelvis is 100% modeled pretty directly from a human pelvis with only a couple notable differences: the front extends much further up in the middle and it has mounts that connect to the hydraulics we're about to sketch in. again this really lends a more organic feel to it!

step 5: the extras! here the hydraulic blood ports are added in - first i draw the rod from the side of its chest to the mount on its pelvis, then i draw in the little blood tank. its "backpack" is added here too, which is the mount for its wings and its blood reservoir.

step 6: an additional step to try to show how its limbs attach. the arms are tough for me every time tbh, mostly bc i'm not good at rotating an octagon in my head lol, but those shoulders do overlap a bit with the top chest plate. its legs are wide set and again attach similarly as they might on the pelvis.

i,,,,hope that helped a little!! i'm really not the best explainer and honestly i'm still learning myself how to draw the vs consistently! so don't give up! they're definitely complicated in shape, esp if you're new to drawing or have only drawn human characters, so just keep trying and you'll improve!!

[binch-i-might-be]

just attempting to practice my flute for the funeral I'm playing at in september and breaking all my bones