#in the context of the crests

[toxiccaves]

[anpiels]

tried a different shading style for this one :] i missed her

[crimsonender]

I'm glad you mention people with metabolic disorders like, as a fat guy with a metabolic disorder it's really frustrating seeing how people dismiss that as a factor in weight gain and maintenance, including doctors :/ like the number of professionals I have been to in my life- let alone regular old ignorant assholes I encounter- who think telling me to eat healthy and exercise more is going to unlock the secret skinny person that they've miraculously discovered hidden inside a lazy fatty... like you of all people should know my thyroid numbers buddy

I also think that like, something got twisted here. If you're fat you shouldn't give up on your body. You should still eat healthy. Even if eating a perfectly healthy and functional diet doesn't lose you a single pound, you should still do it and it's really important to drive that home to people that are overweight because they are at a higher risk of depression and developing eating disorders, many of which can include binge and binge/restrict type disorders. Because fat people also have a harder time moving around, its just easier for fat people not to. But again, you should build up muscle strength and be able to move around comfortably regardless of how much you weigh.

Being fat doesn't mean, necessarily, that your body is swimming in glucose and carbs and salt, but fat people that don't see themselves ever getting "better" might allow for that to happen because of how much they hate the way they look. Thats why "healthy at any size" is an important movement. Its not about saying "yep. Any size is healthy no matter what!" its that you should try to to be healthy no matter what the scale says. Thats *always* a good thing and *always* better for you.

As a personal anecdote there was a time of my life that I had stopped exercising and didn't give a SHIT what I was putting in my body. I had developed a very bad walking gait that was actively injuring my joints. My core muscles were so weak I couldn't sit up in a chair for longer than twenty minutes without the base of my spine throbbing in level 10 stabbing pain that was so bad it made me dizzy. My gut health was awful and every trip to the toilet was miserable and exhausting.

Then, I started eating right. Then I started exercising. I opted to sit at my desk instead of lounging in bed or on my couch, in an upright chair to start building my core up again. I went on walks. I got a physio consultation and found out that I literally had to relearn how to walk, and even now have to make sure I'm not rocking side to side on my ankles and grinding the joint into the socket with each step, every time I go walking. I have not stepped on a scale in four years. I'm honestly not sure if I am comfortable doing that. I don't know how much weight I lost, but I know it's not nothing because pants that were tight on me three years ago now fall off my ass if I don't cinch them with a belt. (That i had to cut new notches into, because when i bought it I could barely buckle it up around my middle, but now the smallest notch was still too loose.)

I'm not really thinking about my size, I'm not thinking about the number. I'm thinking about how good it feels to feel nourished. How much I can appreciate the sweetness of young vegetables because I rarely eat things like snack cakes anymore. I can go on a six hour hike and my legs feel fine. (even if Im a little slow.) I am more in tune with my body and I don't eat until my stomach hurts, feel guilty, and then punish myself for the rest of the week by not eating anything... only to inhale everything in the cupboard at 2am because of how much I've starved myself. Going to the toilet isn't painful and miserable anymore. I am still fat. I probably always will be, thats the phenotype I've been given. But I just am happier, more comfortable, and more capable since I started giving a shit about my body regardless of what size and shape it is.

All that to say that distorting this and the ideas that go into this sort of positive, healthy mindset into "if you just eat better and work out you'll be skinny" no the fuck you won't. the healthy skinny svelte version of me you're making up in your head doesn't exist, even at my peak, even at my most healthy, I'm gonna be chunky and stout and I'm fine with that. And if you're my Doctor, you better get fine with it too.

[tisslesu]

Chess prodigy!skr AU🩷 (my pfp🥰)

[veone]

😌 ahh that Swedish man is finally getting exposed.

[angrybatart]

🎶🎵🦆🎵🎶

[egittae]

feeling (staring like the autism creature)

93. exhausted

After a generous gulp of water, he let out a drawn out sigh- cleaning the sweat off his face with a piece of cloth and pushing his hair back with his other hand. It had been a fairly long training session and he was positively exhausted, but it had been a good one. Memories or not, if there was one thing Lambert could tell his body remembered well and craved for was exercise and training, even more reasons for him to believe he was a soldier. Besides, he needed to keep his form in good shape if he wanted to do well for his class.

Lambert often came to the training grounds when it wasn’t in use, resulting in fairly odd training hours for him, but he cared little. It felt good all the same, even more when it could get his blood burning through his veins like right now. Part of him wonders if he saw a weird,  little blue-ish light reflecting on the lance he had just used to train (which now looked…nonexistent, it almost vaporized in his hold- but it was an expendable training lance) but he was quite sure it was just because he was tired. Just a trick of the mind.

The man sat down on the ground, crisscross, to slowly cool down and do some finalizing stretches…when he felt someone staring.

It was common now, people staring at him. Part of him feels unnerved but the other assumes it’s natural since he’s new. A blue eye searched around and…voilá, student spotted. A lanky-looking one, definitely the magic type, with green hair. Standing there, staring. It was weird but at the same time it was the type of weird staring Lambert grew to expect from the kid students.

“Hello there, may I help you with anything?” He offered the student. If his assumption was right and the kid was a mage then…well too bad, Lambert was quite sure he had no magic aptitude, but it was polite to ask anyway.

[kingdom-falls]

Take a sleepy Siffrin on your journey with you!

[kirbyddd]

ok that was a new one

[crestoflames]

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like a month and a half ago a hairdresser mentioned that i was having some hair loss, something i had worried about for so long but i thought it was my ocd playing tricks on me (fellow ocd havers will know, you can get fixated on an aspect of yourself and get obsessed with a “what if” scenario. ex: “what if my teeth are actually in terrible condition despite brushing and flossing twice a day”, “what if I actually have cancer”, and of course “what if my hair is falling out”). having that confirmed really fucked me up bc I’ve always had really thick hair that i took pride in and it was one thing i didn’t have to feel self conscious about it - the amount of hair i had. and I’ve been seeing a dermatologist who specializes in hair loss, and they think i have androgenetic alopecia, just a mix of hormones and genetics. I’ve started a couple medications and supplements, both oral and topical. it can take 6 months to work but im just really just hoping my hair can go back to the way it was because it really fucks with my self perception. Everyone i talk to who isn’t trained to notice what hair loss looks like tells me it’s not noticeable, but i still get paranoid about it. i guess the one positive thing about this type of hair loss is it isn’t just random patches of hair all over your head falling out, it starts with the area where your hair is parted widening and some hairs growing in thinner while it expands outwards from your part. its mostly on the front of my scalp from what i can tell.

idk why im rambling about this but yeah. if ur a cis woman and think you might have hair loss definitely go see a dermatologist specialized in it bc it is reversible. and it used to be thought that it mainly happens in older age but it’s actually being seen at all ages now, and I’m only 26 (nearly 27).

[silvertherogue715]

Rai doodles ft. (a slightly older) Snoot Snoot/Stringbean

[captainsparklefingers]

The only downside of finally being able to be productive at work (a genuinely good thing considering how dead and slow most days can be here) is that it's cutting into my fic writing time. Which would be fine except for the fact that I've been on a groove and I'm afraid to lose the juice and hit a wall again.

[pyrriax]

Ah, so tell me Sugar or Salt for better preservation?

salt! especially when you're working with dry preservation, which is what it's being used for typically. sugar will attract bugs and other things which will eat away at the specimen, along with not drawing out the moisture nearly as well / at all.

but if you're working with things like rabbits feet, which are intended to be dry at the end, you'd think that the process involves just drying them, right? but you'd be wrong! the process (at least that i've followed in the past) involves soaking them twice, once in a soapy water mixture to remove parasites, then in a high concentrate isopropyl alcohol, rinsing thoroughly between steps.

processes vary depending on what you're working on. another example is that for the rooster i'm planning to take the wings from, i'm going to need to both remove his wings, and go through the process of removing the flesh while also keeping the skin in tact around his bones, since i'm going to be effectively stuffing the void with cotton, so that everything lays properly when its all dried. those are actually going to be dried in salt, which is primarily because he was a domestic animal and i know where he'd been.

[enhanced-operatives-division]

writing a starstruck fic while THE starstruck song comes on shuffle should be a crime

[ihopeitgetsokaysoon]

My dog drew this

[hexhomos]

isnt it wild how jayce is the most heavily misunderstood arcane character..everytime i see takes about him being upper-class and rich or mean and condescending or not caring about viktor in s1 or whatever other garbage ppl say about him i lose a year of my life

It's crazy to me that I've been saying jayce is working class for years and this got confirmed in the draft 1 board for arcane christian linke posted on twitter sometime ago lol

house Talis is a MINOR HOUSE of toolmakers whose most prominent contribution is the 'collapsible pocket wrench'. They're literally blacksmiths. This is a service and labor position. Jayce can't even afford to use gold in his inventions in act1 because he relies on the Kiramman money for everything. This is not the life of a rich guy in Piltover this is middle class at best lol his drive to finish up hextech and succeed academically is him trying to build a better life for himself!

Blacksmithing is historically a very intensive work position. The work wears you down & eventually disables you very early in life (jayce's injury in act3 seems to be a metaphorical speedrun of that, in some ways) we're never told how jayce's dad died but it is very fair to imagine it was a work related. he's fucking aware of this, its true In Real Life and it brings such an interesting context to his interactions with Viktor and how they want to create things that help common laborers and make the work better if it wasn't for the council. (in s1 act2 their progress day showcase to heimerdinger BEGINS with jayce complaining that they've been stuck fulfilling the council's demands these past 10 years and now, finally, *finally* it's their time to decide what to do with hextech. and they're not even allowed that.)

Also, the perfected hexgems in s1 are kept in Kiramman-crest boxes. I noticed this just the other day. JAYCE AND VIKTOR DON'T OWN SHITTTTTTTTTTT they're getting exploited big time while all that 'investor' money is charged back with deep dividends

just like real life academics they probably spent most of their life writing up grant proposals like dogs and begging for funding that will wring them dry later on. Where the hell is all my jayce and viktor class solidarity 'getting drunk off their mugs and complaining about their dipshit bosses' content?

[related post]

MARCH 2025 UPDATE: just got my Arcane artbook and it directly confirms the Talis family legacy is not big industry, because those weren't even part of the world. It is only post-timeskip that we start to see ramped up production + Jayce's focus is giving magic to the common people.