#just to practice discipline

[l8tof1]

lewis speaks about his physical and mental preparation for a new season:

i have a program and it’s like 6 days training, twice a day. lots of recovery programs in place, stretching, yoga, and pilates. we add into the mix cryo, ice bathing, heat therapy, all sorts. and then just, you know, focusing on the diet- healthy life style, food wise, is what i generally live with. it’s just candy. i love candy, sweets, all the snacks, all the different crisps that you have.

[mentally] it’s a process. there’s lot of emotional things you go through like we all do. there’s a comedown and then there’s the rebuilding. there’s the constantly evaluating things, re-prioritizing your goals. then, continuing to look for inspiration around you. and it’s just also continuing to expand your mind and realize that it’s not about one thing, it’s about the bigger picture. and the bigger picture is very, very, very big. cause we are living in divided times, we are living in dark times right now, with cost of living and everything that’s happening obviously in the middle east, and it’s easy to fall to the negative but we need more and more positivity out there, and so this is a platform in order to do that.

[nhura]

QUICK NO ONE'S LOOKING

(See readmore for thoughts, cope, bonus, etc.)

Anyone else up thinking about Ratio's big, strong, secure arms and how warm and all-consuming they could be in a hug or embrace. :/ Anyway

I just wanted to draw them being cute and seizing a sliver of a moment where they could have some PDA silly time without actually having any eyes on them. They're public figures and working adults with very clear boundaries between public persona and private life (to varying degrees of "in a sad way"), so while it may be in Aventurine's nature to constantly blur lines for various agendas and self-preservation (read: play "the flirt" without an aligned goal), I believe that in an actual relationship they'd be fairly private.

It's kind of fun to break your own rules, though! Ratio would be more upset about the consequences, though. He's a little bit of a hypocrite, which is devastating for someone of such discipline, but nobody's perfect.

I'm of the mentality of, "If you're tired of working on it, then just post it!", so here are some fun peripherals that I didn't feel like adding:

Some staff in the background sweeping up to evoke a blended sense of fragile privacy and liminal time.

A laptop on the aquarium/bar/counter because there's something fascinating about seeing people on their work laptops in public.

The rest of their clothes (casual friday)

[damian-lil-babybat]

'Dead Poets Society' gang

Headcanon that these four drop poetry and literature quotes on their conversations unprompted.

Jason 'English-major-I-only-visit-the-manor-for-the-library' Todd-Wayne

Damian 'I-master-liberal-arts-unlike-you-plebs-PHD-holder' al Ghul-Wayne

Cassandra 'I-learn-English-thru-Shakespeare-as-god-intended' Cain-Wayne

Duke 'only-title-holder-of-vigilante-poet-and-will-cuss-you-just-as-poetically' Thomas-(future) Wayne

[ficandkaboodle]

Someone (I don’t remember Whomst but please do raise your hand if it was you) once proposed the idea that Terzo might be a bit of a pianist based off of this image

And I just wanted to say that I support this idea. Not only because I think Terzo being able to play piano is adorable, but because it would make the Kazoo of Destiny even funnier in my eyes.

Dude is a classically-trained concert pianist, would make so many of his peers swoon by doing that dumb “Oh is that a piano? Don���t mind if I do~” bit and playing a concerto off the cuff. He could easily wriggle in a piano bit for himself during rituals and acoustic sessions — and the Clergy would’ve been on board for once because they know the power that a confident, handsome man with strong fingers can wield on an already horny audience.

But nope: He toot his lil kazoo, his favorite party favor he got three years ago at a New Year’s Eve party.

[diffenbachiae]

i think this is the first year i’ve really started to realize that there isn’t a magical switch that will flip where i’ll suddenly be happy every single day of my life, it’s just life and finding the joy in it day by day and if it isn’t there making choices to add more of it and while that’s a lot of persistent disciplined work with the meditating and the physical exercise and forcing myself to read instead of letting myself rot on tiktok i think right now i’m happier than i’ve ever been before idk

[mechanismslorearchive]

I feel like it's like. mildly important for you all to know that I get a little rush of satisfaction whenever I remember that if you abbreviate Mechanisms Lore Archive, it's MLA, aka the superior citation format

[bittsandpieces]

As with all physical jobs please make sure you’re taking time to stretch before and afterwards!! There’s only one reason your back should ever be getting blown out and it ain’t from physical labor!

thank you anon!! I should definitely be stretching more, I've gotten super tight 😅 I will say I've only ever strained a muscle once!! it was the upper bit of my left trap and I couldn't fully turn my head for like two weeks. never again!! I had been forced to do a deeply stupid maneuver of lifting a heavy ass box from the ground up to about six feet in the air, while twisting, on my non dominant side, because nothing else could be moved to make it easier and I didn't have anyone to help me... anyway I paid the price for it and now I move much slower when I need to get anything over my heart

[bluesidedown]

🐜

[flourescencia]

how the hell is October barely starting and I'm already fucking wiped out of my money. and they pay me til the 30th? I can kiss all fun plans goodbye for this month fuuuuuck my stupid baka life

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

maizuru seems highly conformist and feminine so its interesting the clothing she wears for most of the series seems to be for noblemen. Its probably bc the iconography of the onmyoji is that strong. But its an interesting wrinkle nonetheless.

[starbuck]

HATE when i’m taking a class that i KNOW would be a piece of cake for people who are fans of objective definitions with no exceptions and unexamined moral outrage…

[gingerfan24]

Dumb thought….

Sanctic Daemonology discipline but make it flavored like Appalachian Granny Magic or something.

[usertoxicyaoi]

god i have neverrrr everrrr everrrr been a morning workout kinda person i usually always workout after work around 5pm-ish, but since its october now and the days will start to get shorter and SAD will no doubt set in this year i wanna try switching things up for the first time and see what it does for my mood and body and brain if i workout in the mornings before work at 6am before or after i pray fajr salah instead.

[thebirdandhersong]

Respectfully: I did not sign up for this. I literally did not

[itspileofgoodthings]

now that most of the immediate moving in dust has settled I really have to wrap my mind around giving it a fair chance and committing to not going home-home whenever I can because it’s not working fam.

[harriertail]

Heya, i wanted to ask that i am having a problem that when i start a project i find myself loosing interest in it on the next day.

Discipline is your friend. If i dont wanna work on something/im art blocked and things are just coming out shit, I’ll work on something related to it- if i’m writing, I’ll go write a different chapter or scene (i dont write in order half the time) or go finish whatever book im reading; if every drawing is just coming out bad I’ll do some traditional studies or colour picking studies instead. Or i’ll go gym and it’ll shake that weird ‘dont wanna work’ feeling off because ill start thinking scenes thru while i run or whatever. Im a creature of spite and force myself to work if im feeling lazy because my ancestors didnt get shot at and shit for me to not feel like drawing cats in my cosy Western home, so this advice is not applicable to all. I say this like i dont have 60 unfinished wips but eh. Try stick to one project at a time, i have a diary/journal where i write down what must be done each day- ie monday “line X piece” tues “do colours” to better see what must be done