#hyperflexibility

[bobcat-pie]

ehlers danlos artists can you hear me. do we know if the poses that we're drawing look normal.

[mewos-laptop]

Being hyperflexible is funny as shit, bc my ass can put my arms into the most deranged positions like I'm fucking slenderman.

Alas, since my arm hyperflexibility was diagnosed my parents forbid me from actually hyperextending my shoulders.

But the point still stands. The one downside is uhhh my arms feel like they will fall out of their sockets if I ever relax them (and also that one time I sublocated my shoulder at pride to impress a lesbian but that's a whole other story).

(I do not have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome btw, pls do not tag this post as such bc I do not want ppl to assume I am physically disabled when I am not (not bc being physically disabled is a bad thing, but bc uhh I don't wanna be like... disabled-baiting /silly))

[eddieheart]

Went to the chiropractor the other day, apparently I’m stretchier than previously believed. He asked if I’d ever done gymnastics before, then said I have a ‘secret talent’ and I should try gymnastics because I’d ‘be a natural’. Every time I moved/he moved me he went ‘wow you really are flexible’.

(which isn’t really what you want to hear while a grown man leans over your body, puts his hands on your face and snaps your neck)

I’ve also learned it’s not normal for people to be able to lay face down on their stomach, then move only their upper body to lay on their back while keeping their lower body facing downward.

[loonarmuunar]

Ough my elbow got dislocated again. Ack.

[torchickentacos]

people say a lot of shit online but I hope to god that one day, someone has the absolute impudence to call POTS or EDS a 'trendy diagnosis' to my face. I will dislocate my entire arm in front of them. I will make them take my vitals laying down and then standing. I will slide my kneecap several inches in every direction. I will do some cirque du soleil 'needs an exorcism' nonsense SO quickly

[10001gecs]

i want huge legs but my knees are so bad doing half of all leg exercises fucks me up

[ratbastarddotfuck]

Uuuuughhh i have to go back to sleeping in wrist splints, I keep hyperextending in my sleep. Can't even turn on the kitchen tap bc my wrists are too weak today 🙃

[dingodad]

If you had to name your school of analysis on homestuck, what would you name it? For example, contrasting your analysis versus a Classpectis. What would we refer to yours as?

i have humorously referred to myself as mmmmaloesque before. i don't know if that name is super descriptive of my approach but manifestation theory i think is still pretty foundational to the way i approach the text even if i'm not a devout.

i don't want to call classpecters 'literalists' and myself a 'figurativist' because it's a little meanspirited to insinuate classpecters don't understand symbolism. their way of thinking about symbolism is just a lot more rigid than mine is. now that i think of it i guess a name kind of already exists for my way of looking at homestuck in "hyperflexible mythology"? a 'hyperflexibile mythologist' in the sense that I see homestuck's symbols as hyperflexible but also in the sense that my work revolves around treating homestuck's storytelling as 'mythological' rather than 'real'

[peachykcqt]

some ppl window shop for like. clothes or shoes or jewelry or whatever. i window shop for crutches and braces and finger splints 😂😂😂

[radiomogai]

Okay, couple quick tagging system updates.

First, we're going to be tagging terms related to caffeine with the "theme: substances" tag, as well as "drogegenders" when applicable. This still needs to be backtagged but upcoming terms have begun to be tagged like this.

Second, we updated all the tags from the first round of tag standardization polls. The second round of polls may take a bit though.

Third, we changed "theme: cowboys" to "theme: cowpokes". Cowpoke is a gender neutral version of cowboy/cowgirl, and we changed the tag to this to be more inclusive.

Fourth, "gender sonances" has been changed to simply "sonances", to account for things like species euphoria, age dysphoria, etc. As a reminder, the term for euphoria, dysphoria, and the like, is sonances.

I think that is about it?

[lepidopterium]

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[shalom-iamcominghome]

I'm curious, are you a pencil or knife grip crocheter? I personally switch between the two based on how my hands/fingers/wrists are feeling at any time

For those who may not know the difference:

I'm actually a knife holder! The funny thing is my index finger likes to shoot up randomly when I crochet, so I guess I kind of also do a pencil grip?

[andgogames]

Hyperflex

Hyperflex is a dynamic arcade game in the spirit of Super Hexagon and Impossible Game! Dodge deadly obstacles by changing gravity and reach the goal of 1000 to unlock new levels. Follow us!

[stealthkills]

next vector update: He Bounces Now

[stressedjester]

Being fat is all cool and sexy till you get the dreaded Itchy Back

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 08/05/2024

weird hyperflex but ok

Season 3 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume L [Side A]

Ripped by Krizis

Requested by Fezaki! (Request Form)

Y'know, I've mentioned it before, but big medley rips like weird hyperflex but ok can at times feel a bit messy. There's a lot of appeal to that messiness, I talked a lot about that in Man, why does every Bleck actor gotta rap some, but it also gives me a lot less to actually talk about, yknow? A lot of rippers approach things with the simple mentality of making something that purely sounds good, which is fantastic - but I can only say "its fantastic!" to a rip so many times before it becomes uninteresting to read. Not every rip is fit for this kind of coverage, and I was at first apprehensive to cover this one for that very reason - but, like I described with Bramble Blast Collab, these sorts of rips have the ability to tell narratives of sorts through what sources are used in them - meaning within all of the madness. weird hyperflex but ok is comparatively more reserved, but as submitted Fezaki points out, ends up feeling like a big celebration of the whole of Season 3, representing all the big hits and overall throughline to one of the most underrated seasons under the channel's belt.

After an introduction that repeats the infamous opening notes to Megalovania, the rip shows its hand by the chorus - throughout most of its runtime, weird hyperflex but ok is a Grand Dad rip, primarily carried by the tune of The Flintstones from beginning to end. As the channel's most used and over-used joke, its easy to have grown well too tired of the meme at this point, its undergone so many stages of ironic and post-ironic appreciation at this point that its hard to say what the opinion on the meme even is these days - but in my eyes, it was in a great place during Season 3 in particular. Back then, two years after the channel initially started, people were beginning to grow a bit nostalgic for those early days, for that very unique feel that the channel had in its growing pains-days of early Season 1. That feeling was what led to the Nostalgia Critic takeover in the middle of the season, the one discussed in Fragile Snowman (Remastered): After having spent the better part of Season 2 focused on far bigger things than a stupid Flintstones meme, it was really nice to take some time to remember just how much that tune all united us. With Season 3 bringing that nostalgia to the forefront, and like I mentioned in CG Man HD Remastered Edition, the emotions of Season 1 in tow - it makes all the sense in the world for weird hyperflex but ok to headline itself with the funny Flintstone - yet the melodyswap is so natural, it almost feels like a completely original EDM Chiptune arrangement celebrating the channel. Or, well, maybe that's just my unfamiliarity with Hyperflex speaking.

Of course, like I said, its the Season 3 hits that make this rip what it is - its lovely to see Paralyzer be celebrated here so shortly after the Unregistered Hypercam 2 takeover, helping further cement just how much of a legacy the entire King for a Day tournament was going to have way ahead of its sequel being announced. We got Undertale, we got Calamari Inkantation (Off the Hook in KFAD1 reference?), and most importantly - we got SEAN KINGSTON, the legend of Crazy Noisy Beautiful Girls fame himself. It getting an extended 30 second verse all to itself feels special in a way I really can't articulate - as I said back in Take You To The Desert, the Sean Kingston takeover was something purely spurred on by Chaze the Chat's bizarrely high enthusiasm for the guy, and yet all those months after the takeover its STILL being remembered by completely unrelated rippers - that just warms my heart, yknow? It's a lot of the same feelings that Return to Collision Clouds instilled in me, the idea that SiIvaGunner's team members latch onto and care for these small little nuggets of one another's works.

At this point, I do have to fall back to the thing I said at the very beginning of the post and just re-emphasize - weird hyperflex but ok is just plainly fantastic! It is, for a lack of a better word, bumpin', a really celebratory yet fun-loving sound to a rip that is mostly Flintstones - but it EARNS that Flintstones melody through just how befitting its reappearance is to Season 3 in general. Its the kind of rip that exudes genuine love for the channel, and feels like a trip down memory lane on every listen.