#like bring back the boost system that was used for rep

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I feel like there’s a better way to get tickets into the hands of actual fans than the “verified fan” program and it desperately needs to be implemented.

[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

“Hey guys the problem with America isn’t the fact that almost all of our population believes in this scary caricature of what communism is and thinks that in order to bring change to a society who’s entire existence is built on the back of oppression, is to *vote* it out! We can change our policies through voting! It’s not a way to break our spirits! Voting works when we want to implement institutional changes!”

Why are y’all so naïve? Let’s start by addressing how “communism isn’t socialism”, have you ever read anything any communist have ever written ever? I beg all of you, no matter if you think “but communism kills!!! 1984!!! George Orwell was write!!!”(like he wasn’t a traitorous slime ball of a man who sold out his comrades for the whisper of rewards).

And if your solution to a very institutionalized problem, one that is written in your constitution, a constitution that has already been changed by the “will of the people” in the past few years, is to vote??? Which party are you going to vote for? The Democratic Party??? The same party who does nothing but filibuster whenever a more “left wing” legislation is proposed? The one who will clam up and shout “bipartisan compromise!!!” If they even get a whiff of the masses unionizing and trying to create parties that are out of their control? Are you going to tell me the same Democratic Party that saw the almost complete destruction of the Black Panthers? Who tried for years to reject every olive branch that MLK tried offering? But you might say “but fei! These all happened years ago! The DP is more moderate and tolerant now! Look at how progressive they are! Look at the diversity!” If your diversity comes at the cost of my global south brother and sisters lives then I do not want it. I reject it so wholeheartedly that I spit on the spirit of your two dime cheap diversity.

How can you dream of saying that the Democratic Party would do ANYTHING to help anyone, especially anyone from the global south overseas or their descendants within the borders. They bomb countries into oblivion with one hand and distract you with empty words and shiny messaging and you forget all they tried to do in regards to fucking over the lives of millions in the Middle East, Africa and South America. Just cuz you can’t see the suffering definitely means you don’t have to comment on it! A word or two on Twitter commenting on “oh how we must stop the bombs Trump just dropped in Syria!!!” But not a peep when Obama does it more and with higher frequency and bigger devastation.

You Americans, especially white middle class Americans, are so blinded by your silly little lives that you cannot being to comprehend how another system that is peace and Justice and stability can ever be achieved and attempted without trying to destroy it. Every time we global south people walk outside of the carefully constructed borders of what is acceptable to YOU, with all our resources taken from us to feed your gluttony and our children’s killed for daring to think maybe, just maybe, we can achieve self determination.

To say “look at Putin and Xi!!! They’re the reason communism has a bad rep!!!” Are you serious or am I just a third world idiot who can’t understand this imperialist language? If you believe Putin or Xi are the pinnacle of communism/socialism (since apparently you think this is a different thing???) you should not be on the internet telling others what to think in regards to politics. You are the reason most everyone who’s interacted with Americans hate you. With your poor political literacy and the fervent need to spread “awareness” that does nothing but boost your own social clout.

Let’s say that you vote for another political party in the next general elections, congrats you’ve wasted your time! If you believe that either party would give up their power for some “upstart” Green Party candidate you’re delusional. There is no “voting the problem out of office!!! We can achieve the change we want if we just all voted!!!” Because that is not how your government works. To enact change you have to be willing to tear everything down and start again. A house is only as strong as the foundations and Americas is rotting. To stop an infested tree from spreading the disease throughout the forest you pull the tree out by the roots and start over. There is no saving Americas “democracy” when it was barely one to start with.

Your solution to your problem fixes the aesthetic issues of your government. It does nothing but superficially hide the rot under the floorboards. What may be good for you in the short term is devastating to the global south in the long run. There is a reason why most of the world despises the global north and it isn’t because we are jealous of your countries democracy and riches. You’ve stolen your riches from our land and when we fought back you bought nothing but ruins and devastation.

Funny you should bring up China in this too, when it is so clear all your opinions of my country is parroted directly from the NYT. And some of you guys have the guts to say we’re brainwashed because “state media has control!!!”. The only difference between you and us is that the oligarchs have control over your news media. All you are fed is in their best interest. How many newspapers have covered the fact that during the afghan war Aussie soldiers committed war crimes after war crimes with their government helping them cover it up in reports? Two. That’s how many. And it took me until I scrolled to the bottom of the page to even find it. Something that should’ve been front and center is relegated to last page news because the war was extremely profitable for those that run the news papers. How much will their soft power diminish if the consumers found out how they helped with this coverup? How much blood money is exchanged through their hands every second of everyday?

You cannot vote people out of power when your entire government is rotten to the core. They get out of office but their policies will never be over turned. Or they run on false promises (AOC comes to mind with her aesthetic of “oh yah I’m a socialist but a DEMOCRATIC socialist, not like those dirty commies!!!) change comes from the barrel of a gun and with the wings of revolution carrying the bullet to where it is needed the most.

And it’s a good thing you bought up the Cold War! Who started it? Who escalated it? Who was the one who put a nuclear weapon right on the border of the USSR and when the Union retaliated threw a hissy fit that threatened to blow all of Eastern Europe and some of East Asian to smithereens just because we dared to say “no more” to the tyranny of the west? Who went ahead and leveraged my country’s need to help against our strongest ally because they were terrified of no longer having the biggest dick in the world? Who turned around and blacked mailed us into siding with them, holding our most vulnerable hostage in order for you to get what you want? “Oh but those baby boomers grew up with threats of nuclear annihilation!!!” So did my mom and my grandmother, and no one in their generation went ahead and decided that if they can’t have something no one else can either.

You pointed out how Americans have a very American centric view on the world, yet you’ve done the same in your call to action.

I dunno I mean I knew a lot of Americans were against it but I assumed they were all elitist right wing weirdos.

What's the mainstream left wing position then if it's not socialism?

[healthspiritbody]

Diastasis Recti Exercises: Say Goodbye To The Mommy Tummy!

If a postpartum pooch is making you self-conscious, we know how you feel! Diastasis recti or the mommy’s tummy affects about 40 percent of unsuspecting new moms, causing them to look pregnant even 6 months after delivery. But this jutting out of the belly is not something that happens post-delivery. Our internal organs in the abdominal region are held together by the “six-pack” or rectus abdominis muscles. This set of two muscles stands guard, vertically, on each side of the abdomen. Through the course of your pregnancy, as the tummy grows, the linea alba, the tissue that connects this pair of muscles, stretches and becomes weak. Abdominal separation is a condition in which the muscles between your ribs and hips separate. This gap can cause you to look pregnant, but only if it’s over 25 millimeters long. It usually sorts itself out after birth, however, some women still have this issue weeks later – making them appear as though they are expecting again!

It causes or aggravates lower back pain and urinary incontinence, along with other conditions like umbilical hernia or pelvic girdle syndrome (pain during sex). While severe cases of diastasis recti may need to be corrected surgically, exercise targeting the abs can make a great difference in most instances. The good news is that there are these diastasis recti exercises that will help whether your separation is just three months old or you have a gorgeous teenager to show for it! Strengthening the core and transverse abdominal muscles is integral to improving overall strength. Those who want a flatter stomach should focus more on strengthening these muscles than trying to close any gaps completely because they’re considered more vital for health and stability than aesthetics alone.

Exercises that can help you manage and heal diastasis recti

Tummy Tuck Exercise – This basic and deceptively simple move stabilizes your core and also strengthens and tones your transverse muscles. No wonder, then, that the tummy tuck exercise forms the foundation of exercises for diastasis recti.

Lie on your back and keep your knees bent. Breathe normally.

Pull in your tummy below the belly button, drawing in the abdomen all the way toward your spine.

Do not suspend breathing or suck in the entire tummy as you would while posing for a photograph! The move should only involve the lower abdomen.

Hold the move for 10–30 seconds.

You can aim at 10 reps 3 times a day.

Once you master the exercise, you can do this contraction while sitting, standing, or even carrying your baby around.

Pelvic Squeeze – From sorting out urinary incontinence or even the inability to attain orgasm, there’s much that Kegels can do for you. This simple Kegels squeeze involves tightening your pelvic floor muscles and can help strengthen the core as well.

Lie down in a comfortable position.

While breathing normally, tighten the front and back pelvic floor muscles as if you were trying to stop yourself from urinating.

Hold the contraction for 10 seconds.

Do 20 reps three times a day.

Once you have perfected this, you can do faster rounds, squeezing for one second and then letting go. This move can be done anytime, in almost any position during the course of the day.

Pelvic Tilt – This fundamental move practiced in yoga and pilates works the transverse muscles and tightens them. The trick to perfecting this move is to keep the focus on the pelvic muscles without involving your glutes.

Lie on your back with your knees bent.

Place your hands, palms down, on your lower abdomen and contract your lower abdomen muscles.

Breathe normally, while rolling the pelvis up till your lower back is flat against the floor. Keep the shoulders relaxed.

Hold the position for 10 seconds and then relax the pelvis down. Do 5 reps of this move.

Upright Plank With Support – While the traditional plank pose is great for strengthening the core, it should be avoided if you have diastasis recti as it puts pressure on the abdominal separation. Instead, you can modify the plank pose and practice it in the standing position with a wall for support.

Stand straight facing a wall and rest your palms flat on the wall, keeping your arms and shoulders straight.

Draw your belly button close to your spine to engage your core, while breathing normally. Do ten reps.

If you can hold this pose for 10 seconds and still feel strong in your core, you could give the move a boost by adding a few wall push-ups.

Upward Plank – Apart from these exercises, if you want to add another core strengthening exercise to your routine, the upward plank could be your best bet. This move has an additional perk – it also helps to strengthen your back.

Lie in the supine position. Keep your legs hip-width apart, with your feet flat on the ground, toes pointing straight forward.

Support your shoulders by placing your hands beneath them. Slowly move your heels toward your buttocks so that your fingers can touch the heels.

While breathing in, lift the hips up off the floor.

While breathing out, press your hands into your shoulders and spread out your collarbones. Now breathe out slowly.

Hold the pose for at least 5 breaths – you can gradually bring it up to 20 breaths

Deep Belly Breathing – The benefits of deep belly breathing are legendary. Practice it correctly and you can tone your abdominal muscles. The bonus? It stabilizes the heart rate, reduces blood pressure, and lowers stress levels.

Sit down cross-legged on the floor or lie on your back on a mat.

Inhale deeply, till you can feel the fullness in your belly and chest.

Then exhale gradually, tightening your abdominal wall.

Do 10 reps, 3 times a day.

To splint or not to splint?��Using a special diastasis recti splint to bind the belly, especially while exercising, is an integral part of some exercise systems. While there is little evidence to show that a splint can strengthen the core or close the gap, it can support your lower back and hold you in, making the pooch less obvious. If you choose to wear a splint, a physiotherapist can show you how to splint and help you find the best fit.

Strengthening and restoring the core after pregnancy is a holistic process that goes beyond healing the separation of muscles. Correct posture, getting enough rest, not engaging in heavy-duty work can all help. Once you have found the moves that work for your diastasis recti, make them a part of your daily routine and you will find several gaps closing on their own!

Diastasis Recti Exercises: Say Goodbye To The Mommy Tummy! was originally published on Health Spirit Body

[disillusioned41]

With the Democratic Party poised to take control of the U.S. Senate on the back of projected victories by Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff—achievements made possible by tireless grassroots organizing—progressives on Wednesday wasted no time making clear that Democrats will soon have a mandate to urgently pursue a transformative policy agenda aimed at tackling the immediate crises facing the nation and securing a just, livable future.

Major networks declared Warnock the winner over Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) early Wednesday, and Decision Desk HQ projected that Ossoff will emerge victorious in his race against Republican David Perdue. If Warnock and Ossoff's leads hold, as they're expected to, Democrats and Republicans will each hold 50 seats in the Senate, putting Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the role of tie-breaker. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is set to become Senate minority leader.

"Change won't happen unless we demand it. This is the moment we've been preparing for. It's time to celebrate a new era of possibility, and it's time to get to work." —Eric Holthaus

After applauding the historic nature of the likely runoff victories—Warnock is on track to become the first Black senator from Georgia, and Ossoff the state's first Jewish senator—progressive activists and lawmakers swiftly pivoted to detailing what Democrats must do to ensure that the wins bring about desperately needed change.

"Victory in Georgia must lead to transformative change across America," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). "Recurring survival checks, union jobs that pay a living wage, guaranteed healthcare, racial justice, voting rights, immigration reform, climate action, reproductive justice, education, and much more. It can't wait!"

Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) added simply, "The era of small ideas is over."

In the late stages of their pivotal campaigns, Warnock and Ossoff both threw their support behind the effort to deliver $2,000 direct payments to most Americans, a popular push—led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Senate and CPC members in the House—that may have given the Georgia Democrats a last-minute boost.

With President-elect Joe Biden also behind the demand, the checks were viewed as a no-brainer relief measure that Democrats could pursue immediately upon taking power to provide rapid financial assistance to millions of Americans struggling to afford food, rent, and healthcare amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

"Why yes, I just asked Majority Leader Schumer's office when the $2,000 checks bill would hit the Senate floor," The American Prospect's David Dayen tweeted late Tuesday as the election results rolled in.

The direct payments, as well as other significant Democratic legislative priorities, could be passed through budget reconciliation, a process that requires only a simple majority vote—something that could still prove hard to achieve, given the willingness of right-wing Democrats such as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to buck the party.

Making matters more difficult for Democrats seeking bold change is the legislative filibuster, which requires at least 60 votes to clear. While only a simple majority is needed to kill the filibuster—the persistence of which could effectively give Republicans veto power over big-ticket policy items—Manchin has made clear that he is ardently opposed to such a reform.

"If Democrats win both Senate seats in GA, it's going to be hard to explain why they should promptly re-empower McConnell by seeking small-ball deals with him instead of getting rid of the filibuster and passing Biden's big, bold agenda," Adam Jentleson, public affairs director at Democracy Forward, said late Tuesday. "Biden has a mandate. Time to use it."

"Many senators who once opposed going nuclear later supported it," Jentleson added. "For Biden it's a question of whether he'd rather spend his energy courting folks like Manchin to pass big stuff, or chasing McConnell (plus 10 Republicans) for small deals that probably won't materialize anyway."

Take Back the Court, an organization dedicated to reforming the U.S. judicial system, warned that if Democrats fail to make effective use of their Senate majority, Biden's legislative agenda "is mostly DOA" and the nation "will return to an authoritarian trajectory once the GOP returns to power."

With Trump and his Republican allies continuing to wage war on democracy, Indivisible co-executive director Ezra Levin said early Wednesday that he "cannot stress enough how existentially important it is for Dems to enact democracy reform ASAP."

"These attacks from Trump and his acolytes will only intensify while they're out of power," Levin warned.

In his newsletter Wednesday morning, meteorologist Eric Holthaus called Warnock and Ossoff's projected victories "incredibly good news for the planet," but stressed that the work of advancing a policy agenda sufficient to prevent the worst of the climate emergency and ensure a just transition away from fossil fuels has just begun.

"The implications of Tuesday night's victories by Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock cannot be overstated in terms of climate action," Holthaus argued. "The effects will reverberate for centuries and millennia in the climate system. For once, it's OK to feel tremendous hope for the future. We've earned it. We deserve to look ahead to a livable future."

"But... change won't happen unless we demand it," added Holthaus. "This is the moment we've been preparing for. It's time to celebrate a new era of possibility, and it's time to get to work."

[rowandpyr973]

Does A Foot Detox Work? Know The Realities

So, we do not recommend this solution unless recommended by a certified physician as well as performed under clinical supervision. In much more extreme cases of hefty metal poisoning, the suggested treatment is chelation treatment under the guidance of a certified medical professional. This entails taking medicines in the form of pills or injections. These drugs, also called chelators, bind to the metals as well as help with the process of their removal. The ordinary individuals usually do not require to be bothered with hefty metals poisoning. As it was elaborated in an earlier write-up, we're subjected to different types of unsafe hefty steels such as lead, mercury, cadmium, chromiumand, as well as arsenic. These toxic substances normally discover their method into our bodies through the food we eat, the water we consume, the air we breathe, or the cosmetics we placed on.

It takes a look at your certain situation as well as decides the kind of therapy you get.

The pads cover the soles of the feet as well as cover the sections of the foot that correspond to significant physical systems.

Colon Cleansing Supplements-- There are lots of colon cleansing supplements on the marketplace.

Yes, marijuana detox beverages do work, but you have to know that the majority of them are aimed at passing urine tests as well as do not assist with hair or saliva examinations.

The wrong nutrients, too little rest, stress and the modern-day always-on mentality can put a great strain on health.

Detox programs might be essential to success as, once more, there are no immoral medicines admitted these facilities and recommended medication is taken care of as well as administered by nursing personnel.

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How Is An Ionic Foot Detoxification Intended To Work?

Every person has different needs when it comes to treating alcohol usage problem, a condition that can be diagnosed when your pattern of alcohol use is bothersome as well as causes substantial distress. It can vary from mild to severe, depending upon the number of signs you have.

There is no study revealing they boost high blood pressure or cholesterol or have a favorable result on the heart. Any kind of diet regimen that drastically restricts what you consume could bring about alarmingly reduced blood sugar if you take medication for diabetes mellitus. The only kind of detoxification diet that is rewarding is one that restricts processed, high-fat, and sweet foods, and also replaces them with even more whole foods likefruits as well as veggies. That clean-eating technique is your best bet to getting your body in good shape. If your objective is weight loss, a detoxification diet may aid you go down a few extra pounds, but you'll likely just get it back. Ultimately, you have not accomplished anything, and also it's definitely not a healthy and balanced strategy. Exercised for centuries by societies worldwide-- consisting of Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine systems-- detoxification is about resting, cleaning as well as nurturing the body from the inside out.

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Wait on some scientific evidence that confirms a claim prior to you spend your cash. According to oriental medication, our feet have marks pertaining to the wellness of every body organ in our body. These diet regimens are low in calories, which will certainly leave you with little power to exercise and may disrupt your metabolic price and blood glucose degrees. Prior to you decide to cleanse and also invest large dollars on a magic drink or extra pounds of freshly juiced fruits and vegetables, Patton claims to ensure to evaluate the advantages and also downsides. Solid foods are typically changed with beverages like water with lemon, maple syrup as well as cayenne pepper; eco-friendly tea; or freshly pressed fruit and vegetable juices. Alcoholic liver disease.All alcohol usage need to discontinue in order to allow the liver the most effective opportunity for recovery.

We just recommend this intense colon cleaning strategy for special cases and also those with intense constipation. Less hostile techniques are advised for the average Joe. For the moderate instances of hefty steel toxicity, the most effective treatment is as straightforward as preventing further exposure to hefty metal resources. The hefty metal source usually is a pollutant workplace atmosphere or a toxic food such as fish or shellfish. One of the most typical withdrawal symptoms are fatigue, depression, anxiousness, nausea, as well as sleep disorders. But reducing the sugar intake is not as easy as it might appear. The factor is that sugar consists of habit forming compounds which impact the mind as morphine or cocaine do.

What Occurs During Detoxification?

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[confettipizza]

Lunar Recap

How it started. How it’s going. How it ended for the last lunar cycle of 2020.

This lunar cycle began with the New Moon on Jan. 12, 2021 @ 11:01 PM CT (Jan. 13 @ 05:01 UTC). It was the 13th Moon of 2020 according to the lunar calendar. And it ended Feb. 11, 2021, just before the 1st Moon of 2021! Happy Lunar New Year 2021, Year of the Ox!

South Korean Court Orders Japan to Compensate Women Forced into Sex Slavery

Colorado AG Opens Grand Jury Probe of Police Killing of Elijah McClain

Guantánamo Bay Prison Starts 20th Year of Indefinite Detentions

Pfizer to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Output as WHO Warns of Vaccination Inequality

Lawmakers Catch COVID-19 After Sheltering in Room Where GOP Reps Refused Masks

FBI Warns of “Armed Protests” in All 50 States and at Biden’s Inauguration

Tomorrow is Sun conjunct Pluto. Something that’s been lurking in the shadows bout to jump out. Might be pretty big, but there’s also the individual personal experience of this event and might feel more like an early Full Moon for you.

House to Impeach Trump as GOP Shows Signs of Backing Removal

Well this is dumb. Sun conjunct Pluto?

The $3,000-a-month toilet for the Ivanka Trump/Jared Kushner Secret Service detail

I also remembered/realized how much I really love Anna Sui designs since I was a kid which is pretty random to pop up on my radar, but this woman gets that all I want is sparkly heart shaped objects in lacquered black and flowy hippie dresses

Trump Tells Aides Not to Pay Giuliani’s Legal Fees as Bid to Overturn Election Fails

All I know is talking about dreams and discussing them with others makes you feel better. The tarot angle is there to shed some light on what the dream is actually telling you.

Joe Biden Unveils $1.9 Trillion Coronavirus and Economic Relief Package

ICE’s Acting Director Resigns After Two Weeks on Job

Found out today the woman at the car mechanic I've been faithfully taking my car to for the past two years can speak to the dead and had some messages for me from my dad who passed in October-

Intuitive guided tarot card pull.

Waxing crescent into Aries Monday, January 18, 2021 at 1:06 AM CT Today’s Astro x Tarot forecast valid for the next 24 hours: Feelings are flaring up for you to make a statement, a very zippy move or a quick decision about someone or something.

So long as you remain flexible and agile, whatever you choose to do with them will work to your advantage. If you decide not to impose hyper-agility into your decision making rn, then kudos to you! You’ve gained practice points in self-control experience.

More Than 760,000 Pounds of Hot Pockets Recalled

‘I Answered the Call of My President’: Rioters Say Trump Urged Them On

Raphael Warnock and the Legacy of Racial Tyranny

The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei Navalny

Whoa, I was like a cycle early on celebrating the lunar new year! I’ve been a month into the future for a week now. My bad! I apologize for any confusion.

I was thinking that the soul's law of attraction is probably pretty unstoppable even concerning partners, so like, if someone didn't love you back then it's not some mistake or human misunderstanding that you or they need to fix.

To find one's soulmate looks something like 2 souls flying towards each other from opposite ends of the galaxy to join their physical selves together in a collision force so brutal you're stuck like that and if that's not what yours looks like then maybe that ain't your soulmate?

All the men going to jail for their poop smearing Capitol rioting have online dating profiles and that’s reason no. 2 I do not date online! Reason no. 1 is ain’t nobody cute on there.

The Witch’s Myth: The true story of the crane husband

Where are your witch stars, Circe and Hekate, located? Their location can explain your relationship to witchcraft. Circe is in my 1st house influencing my outer appearances and Hekate is conjunct Jupiter influencing my domestic style and home to be distinctively witchy.

Sun into Aquarius Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 2:33 PM CT Here is your Sun into Aquarius forecast effective for the next several weeks of Aquarius season. 

Down to earth and grounded is our most qualified position to receive everything we need and use everything we receive. This is the reality of ourselves, the human condition.

We love reality based reality.

Get ready for reality-grounded White House press briefings

Why do people believe the lies they’re fed? Because those lies are designed to be more palatable than reality. Lies offer a quick easy patch, but what you’ve gotta ask yourself is are those lies actually designed to support the flow of all things into your life?

~* First Quarter Jan. 20 3:02 PM CT (21:02 UTC) *~

Biden and Harris Attend Memorial to Honor 400,000+ COVID-19 Victims in U.S. on Eve of Inauguration

Steve Bannon Among Final Trump Pardons and Commutations

Trump Admin Declares Multiculturalism Is “Not Who America Is” as WH Releases Racist, Revisionist Report

4,000+ Columbia Students Back Largest-Ever Tuition Strike

Today, whatever you’re doing or are wishing to become will be to the benefit of this unifying, love-aligned uprising.

Joe Biden Sworn In as 46th President of the United States, Ending Trump Era

Good inauguration Astro climate this morning feels like. #BidenHarrisInauguration

“What has shaken the U.S. population so badly, this assault on the Capitol yesterday, is really nothing by comparison to what U.S. operations have done in Latin America, in Asia, in Africa, in the Middle East, to other democratic movements and elected governments over the years.”

Progress towards wholeness can’t be made until we own up to the roles we’ve played in the past.

Read the full text of Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem ‘The Hill We Climb’

When did politics get so vibrant and fashionably uplifting? Please and thank you! #Inauguration2021

The two of wands says to review your options, do your research, crunch the numbers, imagine the outcomes, but there’s no need to force making a choice if you don’t have to. Buy yourself some time and let the plans for a resolution find you, not the other way around.

Donald Trump Leaves Office and Washington, D.C., Threatens “We Will Be Back”

Watchdogs Demand Transparency as Corporations Pour Millions into Biden-Harris Inauguration

Senate Dems File Ethics Complaint Against Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley over Jan. 6 Insurrection

Federal Forces Arrest Ex-Marine for Beating Officer with a Hockey Stick During Capitol Riots

It’s Friday and it just feels good to be alive, a socialist and calling Bernie Sanders cute on Inauguration Day week! What a difference a pandemic makes.

Instacart Lays Off 2,000 Workers, Including Group Who Started Company’s First Union

Mars square Jupiter January 23, 2021 @ 1:49 AM CT (7:49 GMT) Someone wants you to know that you are ready to conquer your perceived limits to arrive at expansion in your thoughts, feelings, emotions and understanding today.

Waxing gibbous into Cancer January 25, 2021 @ 12:51 PM CT (18:51 GMT) It’s a supportive Moon for dreaming for mental health and well being. Begin a dream journal or review your latest dreams, reflecting on them for a few minutes today.

You are opening yourself up to an emotional practice that includes care for yourself in ways no one else (besides you and your connection to the Moon) can provide.

And too my Tarot Dream Readings are open if you would like guidance or support on a particular dream. See my pinned tweet for how it works.

When one’s soul is allowed to lead one’s life, working in the dark shadows, the invisible silence, the soul’s manifesting results are way more lasting and way more powerful than egocentric anything.

Good morning, self! A reminder my ego has never done a thing for me my soul can’t do better.

National Guard Deployment at U.S. Capitol Becomes COVID-19 Superspreader Event

Russia Violently Cracks Down on Protesters Calling for Release of Alexei Navalny

Trump Plotted to Oust Acting AG, Use DOJ to Force Georgia to Overturn Election Results

Hunts Point Market Workers in the Bronx Win Wage Increase After Week-Long Strike

This mourning brooch is a mindful way to mark the death of a loved one while paying tribute to the impact it has had on you. Bring back this Victorian trend!

Veteran Talk Show Host Larry King Dies After Hospitalization for COVID-19

Hank Aaron, Who Overcame Racist Barriers to Become Home Run Record-Holder, Dies at 86

We don’t give our bodies or our intuition enough attention and nourishment a lot of the time, so today’s the day we practice finding and sitting quietly with our inner voice.

~* Full Moon Jan. 28 1:17 PM CT (19:17 UTC) *~

House Delivers Article of Impeachment to Senate, Triggering Trump’s Second Trial

Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani for Lying About 2020 Election

President Biden Increases U.S. Vaccination Goal to 150 Million Shots in 100 Days

President Biden Reverses Trump’s Transgender Military Service Ban

Biden Restores Plan to Feature Abolitionist Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill

Value is further added the more you mint your words with a most whole and complete love. Love is the greatest asset we can let appreciate in our lifetimes.

This Full Moon tomorrow sends a flash point that reminds you to circulate this wealth because it’s the greatest emotional gift we can bestow upon our loved ones, family, friends, neighbors, elders, members of our community, etc.

Venus conjunct Pluto in Capricorn January 28, 2021 @ 10:18 AM CT (16:18 GMT) Going through your day today uncovers a forgotten desire or creative goal. You find yourself asking something like: Remember when I wanted to become a pastry chef?

Although you decided to pursue a different course, take a moment to focus on and honor this memory when it arrives and then release it. What did you become instead and why?

45 Senate Republicans Back Dismissal of Trump Impeachment Trial

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Supported Violence Against Pelosi and Others in 2018 Facebook Posts

Taking the time to recognize and honor your past desires gives the respect these memories deserve and it integrates them into the whole wider scene of the individual, both shadow and light on your path builds confidence in your steps, confidence in yourself.

You are who you are for a reason.

Had no idea how literal this grassroots King of Pentacles card was gonna materialize today, but here it is folks! When a subreddit takes down a hedge fund!

Leader of Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, Was a Government Informer

U.S. Freezes Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, Reviews Deal with UAE Made Under Trump Admin

Poland Enacts Near-Total Ban on Abortions, Triggering More Protests

Honduras Locks In Total Ban on Abortions, Attacks Marriage Equality

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Confronts Parkland Survivor David Hogg in Newly Resurfaced Video

The stock market this morning: Sh*t! Normal working class people read the market and figured out the game! Time to change the rules again. Let’s write it in ancient Babylonian hieroglyphs this time. They’ll never figure that sh*t out.

A message crucial to promote the awareness of your personal role in the collective will become evident over the next three weeks. You will come to ask yourself, What am I doing with my life?

If you aren’t familiar or comfortable with seeking your inner journey, then the greatest clue I can offer you at the start is to become open to the invisible world within you. How you learn to relate to it is completely personal and uniquely your own

Speaking in more concrete terms the next few weeks may manifest a life event for you where you must apply both logic and feeling in order to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion concerning an interpersonal relationship or the question what am I doing with my life?

This Mercury retrograde should be a cinch, but during it don’t buy tech if you don’t have to. And remember to triple check communication before hitting send. If you arrive at conflict be quick to apologize and say no more until tomorrow 

President Biden Expands Affordable Care Act Enrollment Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

House Speaker Blasts GOP for Assigning Racist Conspiracy Theorist to House Education Committee

Lawmakers Demand Probe into Trading App Robinhood After It Blocked Stock Sales That Hurt Hedge Funds

Pioneering African American Actor Cicely Tyson, Winner of Two Emmys, Dies at 96

Sun in Aquarius square Mars in Taurus February 1, 2021 @ 4:33 AM CT (10:33 GMT) The warrior’s edge has melted away and now you can take the scenic route through a field of wildflowers and mushrooms instead of blasting your way through a hillside of obstacles.

This energy catalyzes a scene that supports growth through varied experiences and it encourages everyone to seek their own way to resolutions, conclusions and understandings that are uniquely their own. Searching out your own way illuminates a strategic aspect of your purpose.

Happy Venus in Aquarius! The idea to refresh your wardrobe, hairstyle or redecorating by public opinion can be too hard to ignore under this influence. Your personal style will be influenced by the collective for the duration.

Burmese Military Stage Coup, Detain Aung San Suu Kyi

FBI Uncovers Evidence Jan. 6 Attack Was Premeditated as More Far-Right Rioters Face Charges

Trump Faces More Businesses-Related Woes as His Legal Team Departs a Week Before Impeachment Trial

It’s only the 21st day of the lunar cycle and already we’ve gone from the end of a rotten presidential era to the people’s revolution of the stock market, ok? And this moon ain’t even finished yet!

~* Last Quarter Feb. 4 11:38 AM CT (17:38 UTC) *~

U.S. Tops 26 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Shots, Surpassing Confirmed Coronavirus Cases

Moon Last Quarter in Scorpio February 4, 2021 @ 11:38 AM CT (17:38 UTC) A time for Descending, settling, closure, receiving compliments for doing a good job. Prime time for tying of loose ends and wrapping up unfinished business.

Democrats Say Trump “Singularly Responsible” for Jan. 6 Insurrection in Impeachment Brief

With consciousness humans are able to transcend the unconscious and reconfigure our relationship to it.

Though we can transcend the unconscious through viewing ourselves objectively, we are still apart of the the unconscious. Those rules still apply to us even as we contemplate their logic.

Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO After Amassing Huge Personal Fortune

Amazon to Pay Contract Drivers $61.7 Million After FTC Probe Finds It Stole Tips to Pay Wages

Republican Leader Won’t Punish Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over Racist and Violent Rhetoric

Prosecutors Seek Rearrest of Kyle Rittenhouse, Wisconsin Teen Charged with Killing 2 Protesters

Sometimes the right thing to do is protect your one actual valuable thing not by defending it, but closing up all the channels the valuable thing is being attacked from the outside. Sometimes you just gotta block, delete or remove your account and move on with/to what's good.

What if we wake up one day and COVID has disappeared, like poof! It vanished into thin air? Maybe it’s the moon opposed to Uranus that’s got me wishing wild problem solvers would pop up overnight.

Poll Reveals 25% of U.S. Adults Plan to Gather at Super Bowl Watch Parties

VP Harris Casts Tie-Breaking Vote to Move Ahead with Democratic COVID Relief Bill

House Removes Marjorie Taylor Greene from Committees over Violent, Bigoted Rhetoric

Smartmatic Sues Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell for Election-Related Lies

I unfollowed some lawmakers this morning after feeling second hand anxiety over the handling of their interpersonal conflicts. Realized they were me on IG two years ago and I’ve moved on since. Can relate, but don’t wanna relive, thanks!

I just want to let y’all know that I’m coping w insufficient candle syndrome & will be studying the art & science of candle making to save myself potentially hundreds of thousands of $$ by making my own delicious smelling coconut wax babies in diy terra cotta flower pots.

Wyoming GOP Censures Rep. Liz Cheney for Backing Trump’s Impeachment

Mass Protests Continue in Burma Opposing Military Coup, Removal of Aung San Suu Kyi

You may tell others like it is today, but hopefully this inspires you to check in with yourself and be honest/come clean about something you've been overlooking.

Indian Farmworkers Blockade Roads as Mass Protests Show No Sign of Slowing Down

Black Sheriff’s Deputy in Louisiana Dies by Suicide After Condemning Police Violence and Racism

Amazon Workers in Alabama Begin Historic Vote on Unionization

Second Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump Opens in the Senate

Georgia’s Secretary of State to Probe Trump’s Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election

Mercury square Mars February 10, 2021 @ 6:14 AM CT (12:14 UTC) Still talking about talking, it’s also Dark Moon time to shape or let a habit form. This practice can come from breaking free of outdated relationships with yourself or with others in order to spur growth.

Dreamed Jungkook was correcting my pronunciation of Korean last night. I’m sorry! I’ll try harder to take this lesson seriously

Senate Votes to Proceed with Impeachment as Managers Present Harrowing Video of Jan. 6 Insurrection

Gov’t to Send Vaccines to Community Health Centers as U.S. Continues Ramping Up Vaccinations

WHO Team Confirms COVID-19 of Animal Origin; Ghana Shuts Parliament After Outbreak Infects Lawmakers

Journalists Decry Raid on Progressive Indian News Site NewsClick

U.S. to Pursue Extradition of Julian Assange as Press Freedom Groups Warn of Dangerous Precede

Fossil Fuel Pollution Causes One in Five Global Deaths

Four Louisiana Officers Arrested over Police Brutality Cases and Other Misconduct

Two NYT Journalists Exit Paper Following Revelations of Improper Conduct

Venus conjunct Jupiter February 11, 2021 @ 8:59 AM CT (14:59 UTC) Receive the overflow of creativity into your life. Welcome it even if you aren’t sure what to do with it. Write down project ideas if you don’t have the energy to start on them now. You can work on them later.

I'm cool with double masking, but a lot of folks still aren't even doing the one :|

“The Inciter-in-Chief”: Democrats Accuse Trump of Being “Singularly Responsible” for Insurrection

U.S. COVID Death Toll Tops 471,000; Half of All Deaths Occurred Since Nov. 1

Saudi Women’s Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul Released After 1,001 Days in Prison

Biden Administration to Continue Trump-Era Policy of Turning Away Asylum Seekers at Southern Border

Sen. Bernie Sanders Grills Neera Tanden, Biden’s Pick to Head OMB

Sen. Bernie Sanders: “According to The Washington Post, since 2014, the Center for American Progress has received roughly $5.5 million from Walmart, a company that pays its workers starvation wages; $900,000 from the Bank of America; $550,000 from JPMorgan Chase; $550,000 from Amazon; $200,000 from Wells Fargo; $800,000 from Facebook; and up to $1.4 million from Google. In other words, CAP has received money from some of the most powerful special interests in our country. How will your relationship with those very powerful special interests impact your decision-making if you are appointed to be the head of OMB?”

Neera Tanden: “Senator, I thank you for that question. It will have zero impact on my — on my decision-making.”

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Jade’s SSO Rambles - 7 Cartography

(Please keep in mind that these are my thoughts and opinions at the time of writing these rambles. I may change my mind in the future.)

This ramble is more of an idea for a fun side system to integrate much like how Mary’s lost animals have been added but a lot more Jorvik wide exploration in mind. I’ve had this idea since spring but felt I should cover quite a few other topics first before delving into a new side system idea. If anyone knows me well they will know I adore exploration in games and my idea for a cartography “system” is yet another way to pull more of that into SSO’s beautiful and expansive world.

Overview

Cartography is a daily activity players can participate in where they receive missions (mini quests) each day that incentivize them to go out and explore the whole map and interact with different aspects of the world. It would be a good addition for both new and end game players as the former will have more reasons to explore and learn the map while the latter will receive something else to do to stay invested and entertained within the game. I also think it’s something the team could easily build upon if they wished to integrate it into other gameplay aspects. (And is definitely something explorers like me would love to interact with.)

The cartography mechanic would be set up to be found and completed in the world without visiting an NPC. The player can still visit the NPC to get a hint on where to look for the activator (given that the areas can get quite large) but over time they should get an idea of the spawn points. Some of the cartography quests could even have semi-unique gameplay such as mini games or having different ways of interacting with the world. Lore wise I think the person in charge of the cartography may have markers set out for you or send you a message daily on where to perform the cartography work so as to avoid forcing the player to visit them first. Some characters could use this and some could require you visiting them first as well.

I imagine Chiron and Mario would ask you to place down markers whereas Nic and Evergrey ask you to photograph and survey the landscape in order to fill in a map. Druids (and Evergrey) may end up having you collect samples or the druids could potentially have you seal small budding rifts that don’t require the same amount of work as the larger ones that pop up in the storyline or soul riding.

Areas & NPCS

Silverglade & Mario

Mario is still not willing to leave the observatory so he needs the player to go out and set up equipment throughout Silverglade for him to adjust star maps. (Doesn’t need to be cameras, could be an updated version of calibration for the telescope.)

This can be a simple setup similar to Nic’s original map marking quest or it can require a mini game or some additional work on the player’s part.

I imagine this would be the first cartography quest the player gets and so should be the simplest for them to complete. This would also give them a higher paying and higher rep reward with the AAE Astronomical subset.

Dino Valley & Nic Stoneground

Nic requires the player to fill in blank spots on the map

Could use a similar setup to the existing mini quest just instead it’s a daily event that requires you to visit different parts of Dino Valley. Could also use updated gameplay mechanics and work more like a mini game.

I think while this is a once a day quest for Nic it would be the highest paying quest and reward a large amount of rep (and progress) to the expedition/camp itself. If possible, after maxing the rep with Nic’s group I think rep for this should spill over into increasing the general AAE reputation if possible.

Epona & Professor Chiron

Chiron is looking for additional areas across Epona that may be potential interesting dig sites or places to study.

This might involve a slightly modified version where the player must put out markers for Chiron that denote the edges of the area. (The team would need to be careful in how they set this up and especially with any updates to terrain too.)

Again it gives a once a day high paying quest that would provide a big boost to AAE rep.

Full Map (Minus Dino) & Avalon/The Druids

Avalon (or some other druid if he’s not available for whatever reason) would request the player to inspect pandoric activity across the currently unlocked part of Jorvik besides Dino Valley.

This could have some really interesting game mechanics or mini games and could even bring back the player needing to close rifts. Overall I think this would be a nice way of further making the player feel connected to the druids and as though they are truly a part of the faction. For an example of gameplay perhaps the player would need to record the flora (and fauna?) that is being affected or cropping up from pandoric activity before sealing the tiny rift that has sprouted up.

This would pay well and give a large boost to the Keepers of Aideen rep.

Pandoria & Evergrey

Evergrey is interested in mapping Pandoria and sending you to study it as he can no longer access it without endangering himself. He assures you that the momentary visits will not injure you as you won’t be staying for prolonged periods. It would be intended as end game cartography.

This is open to some interesting mechanics and could involve actually gathering samples of parts of Pandoria (flora, crystals, ect) for Everygrey to study.

Again, high pay and high rep. I personally love the idea of this being something only for Evergrey so it leaves him as kind of still a semi independent element. I think this could be a neat way of adding a rep system to him and if implemented then a reason to expand upon his character and give him more interactions with the player. (Such as teaching/training or sending them out on his own quests.)

System Ideas

The team could either have it where it’s always in the same place per day of the week but I think a “semi random” system similar to the druids and Mary’s missing animals could be far more interesting. There are a limited number of locations so players can eventually learn all potential spawn spots just like how the druids always have their events in the same spots but it’s somewhat random per day.

I also think having the system favor a certain area depending on the day of the week would be nice though. For example if all of the goldenhills quests are on Fridays then I think Avalon/the druids cartography quest should be available there.

I think the Rangers could also request the player to survey Mistfall or map out Northern Mistfall but that may be something added to a more ranger based mission system.

Another potential future idea is once you go up past Northlink into Wild Warden territory you have to use your cartography skills to build your own map.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my idea for a cartography system as much as I enjoyed writing it! I would adore seeing something like this implemented into SSO and even if it isn’t I know I would certainly love to make my own game with it in it. Let me know what you think or if you have any further ideas on how cartography could work in SSO via a reblog, reply or ask. As always, likes are also appreciated and again thank you for taking the time to read my rambles!

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Why My Personal Trainer Is Worth It.

Why Is It Essential For An Individual Trainer To Collaborate With Clients To Agree With Objectives And Also Goals?

Five Means Fitness

Just How To Come To Be A Fitness Tutor (2020 Update).

Choosing The Right Personal Trainer.

Layout Your Own Program.

Level 3 Personal Trainer Diploma.

See listed below for an annotated work summary from Sports Direct, one of our corporate companions, and also what an interviewer may ask you pertaining to the advert. When it involves including muscle to your framework, you need to ensure you're giving your body a lot of time to rest between stamina training sessions. Doing the same amount of workout day after day can hinder healing and also cause you to shed muscle in time.

Can I get in shape in 3 months?

If you're serious about getting fit, choose an exercise you really enjoy and carve out the time for a regular workout. Stick to it for three months and you'll reap the rewards, be full of energy and feeling great.

Most of all, your early questions to a customer are to guarantee their safety and security. Think about the info you need to know prior to planning a fitness program. Connection building is one of the most important component to being a wonderful personal trainer. Customers just buy from individuals they like, as well as who they feel engaged with. Just as, don't claim that you intend to use this work to develop skills in order to have a desire job with a straight competitor.

This implies they should be experienced, thoughtful as well as responsible with ambiguity in the workplace. While it is certainly a valuable ability to closely follow comprehensive instruction, it is also necessary to be able to establish what it requires to accomplish the desired end result. Finding work/life balance is important to maintain motivation in your task.

Why My Individual Trainer Is Worth It.

I just wore a polo shirt and blue jeans, I was offered a job withinin half an hour of the interview. This is vital info, so you understand what to anticipate after you leave of the interview area door. If a 2nd meeting is pointed out, make certain you recognize when you must listen to back by.

As alluring as it may be to distinguish yourself from other candidates, do not tell a hinge on your meeting that could come back to haunt you if you get the work. Whether it's knowing just how to utilize a certain software application or experience with a social network's ad system, a lie could harm you if the truth appears later on. You have restricted time in your meeting to make a great impression, so utilize the moment you have to speak eloquently and thoughtfully. Self-confidence is a big part of preparedness, as well as the duty you're interviewing for will certainly most likely need you to be decisive and also positive so you can obtain things done. So don't say you fidget-- it will probably make youmorenervous, as well as it will not do you any kind of favors with your recruiter, either.

If this is true for you, make sure to show this to the job interviewer in your story. Tell the recruiter about exactly how stress or tension can motivate you to really buckle down, focus, and work vigilantly to obtain projects done. To provide a good solution to this question, you ought to supply instances of exactly how you have actually dealt with anxiety in the past as well as just how it's made you a much more effective worker. Recruiters ask concerns similar to this since they need to know just how pressure impacts you as well as what you do to manage it.

Speak to clients at active times on reception to completely involve with them. Offer cost-free suggestions and check up on gym-member that appear to be battling. It is additionally music to an interviewer's ears if you state that you want to go on a sales/marketing program to improve these skills if you are not solid on these areas. Much like taking notice of your responses and way of speaking, paying attention to your body language and also disposition can bring wonderful benefits.

Even the most flexible people can have trouble dealing with others that have certain characteristics or personality traits. Having good team effort skills likewise implies having a solid recognition of just how you deal with others as well as ways you can readjust your technique to far better offer the company. An occupation in the fitness sector can be what you make from it, yet it makes sure to be enjoyable, flexible as well as fulfilling regardless of where you work or who for. Whether you like functioning outdoors, inside, a team setup or solo, there are a variety of settings within the fitness industry to fit.

Why Is It Important For A Personal Trainer To Work With Clients To Agree With Objectives And Also Goals?

You ought to not overlook medical recommendations, or delay looking for medical suggestions, due to something you review in this website. If this is an obstacle for you, focus on getting little exercises in throughout the day. If your work takes the majority of your time, think about taking 3-10 minute breaks and also stroll at moderate intensity, where you damage a little sweat as well as are somewhat short of breath. Taking these breaks are not only great for physical health, but also for mental health. This indicates that your body has actually come to be made use of to the task you have actually been doing to drop weight.

5 Method Fitness

If you truly want to see results reflected on the range and also remain to make development with time, you require to dedicate to working out at the very least four to 5 days weekly. This is especially so if the quantity of time you're placing in doesn't compare with your objectives. Linda Le Phan is the Senior Material Advertising and marketing Manager atkununu United States, a location where work hunters can obtain an authentic view of life at a business and also where employers have a relied on platform to much better involve ability. When she's not developing material regarding the modern-day workplace, firm culture, and also life & work hacks, she is most likely heading out to get an iced coffee, raiding the treat cabinet, or obstructing to kununu's Spotify playlist.

they line up well what you shared on your resume, as well as shows preparedness in case a recruiter does not have a copy. Whether you're interviewing to flip hamburgers or run a country, turn up dressed to excite. While a fit is no more the only way to dress well for meetings, it is still a great go-to in most circumstances. To be lean muscle gainer , ask the firm before the day of your meeting what their dress code is or do a bit of research study on your own regarding proper meeting clothes for various scenarios. At the end of the day, however, It's always, always better to overdress than underdress.

Just because you think of a prepared a specific response does not automatically indicate the answer is the best one. You do not intend to be captured by shock by a concern and also do not have a decent answer. If you lack experience, researched points so at least you can discuss the topic.

If you aren't contacted by then, be sure to ring up and also ask why you weren't successful and also how you can boost your possibilities for next time. This is an excellent question to ask to gage your working problems and also to see how your toughness would certainly profit the business. It will additionally make the company restate your formerly pointed out toughness, which will stick to them through the employing process. Constantly seek the guidance of your medical professional or various other qualified health care supplier. Constantly consult your health care service provider prior to starting any type of new treatment, or if you have any kind of inquiries regarding a health problem.

Prior to you leave the meeting, deal to give the recruiter with any kind of extra details they need to make their choice. Added details can include a list of recommendations, a copy of your profile or a duplicate of instructional and also expert certifications. " Many thanks so much for your time, I truly delighted in finding out more regarding you as well as the firm." " My greatest weak point is public talking, something I haven't had several opportunities to do in my existing function, so I'm hoping to expand on those skills dealing with a bigger group at this firm."

Is Personal Training Profitable?

If you learn how to sell and grow a big business, you can usually make up to $25–35/hour in those situations. So, if you aren't good at marketing and sales, it's not profitable. If you ARE good, and you're a good trainer, you can make as much as you want with the right clients.

The most remarkable prospects regulate their need to fill up every area with impulsive answers as well as hesitant "um" s and also "uh" s. When asked a question, take a moment to think through your response or identify an appropriate story and after that start talking. The pause is great as well as it also reveals your capability to be tranquil as well as made up.

If they do smoke, ask if they 'd fit sharing how many cigarettes per-day they smoke. Obviously, you ought to constantly encourage your client to give up cigarette smoking for their health, yet this can be a turn-off to some clients, so choose meticulously just how much you wish to harp on this. Rest can have a significant influence on achieving fitness results, so you'll need to know just how much sleep your client enters a normal evening in order to help them.

Our bodies are clever machines and also come to be really efficient gradually when the exact same activity is executed. Weight lifters should do reps per muscle of their selection, and the weight made use of differs based upon your fitness degree. You are much less likely to utilize amateur language throughout an interview when you decrease, take your time to consider your action as well as concentrate on talking plainly. You can additionally prevent using filler words by practicing changing them with a quick time out or deep breath.

Individuals picking an as soon as a week routine will certainly require to carry out work on their own as well as can not anticipate to reduce weight without technique.

If you are comfortable with your regular and feel as though you do not require even more training, an as soon as a week training may suffice for you.

These sessions are normally shared with two to 4 other individuals working together under a similar program.

Lots of people that select to deal with a trainer will certainly select an as soon as a week meeting.

If we think about the function of education and learning, accreditation and also certification, we recognize it as a means of quality control.

Various other people value the organized atmosphere that having a personal trainer produces as well as pick to train with them forever.

For instance, you may assume you need to meet your trainer 5 days a week to lose twenty pounds, for an extensive duration, yet in truth, a couple of sessions weekly for a month or more is possibly adequate.

Commonly, people that select this kind of training currently understand just how to make use of the equipment effectively and also understand how to exercise properly.

The length of time with your individual trainer will depend upon a number of various variables.

Several fitness professionals pick the sector to avoid a desk-based work and also have the capability to move as well as remain on their feet. With the rise of the health as well as wellness trend in Australia over current years, fitness is at the leading edge of more Australian minds and service is surely thriving as well as readied to remain to follow this pattern for fairly some time. If you're considering a career in fitness, the bright side is your future can be loaded with excitement, adaptability and financial rewards with a lot of chances to expand as well as establish an effective occupation. Help work hunters learn more about the firm by being objective and also to the point.

How To End Up Being A Fitness Tutor (2020 Update).

Free Courses & Certifications Take courses on the most recent company trends, instructed by sector professionals. Client Assistance Get help if you have questions about utilizing HubSpot software application. If you can be made up as well as offer examples of how you take care of anxiety, you're practically assured to provide an effective response. Do not state that you don't function well in difficult circumstances or mention a time when you could not do your work effectively since you were burnt out.

Do excessive, as well as you take the chance of overtraining and also shedding your hard-earned muscle. On the other hand, if you do not up the strength as well as put the moment in, your muscle gains will be minimal.

If you're not getting muscle as rapidly as you like, you could be dealing with the feared plateau. When you educate the exact same body parts with the exact same exercises as well as amount of weight over an extended time period, there's a good chance your body will certainly quit responding. Finding the right equilibrium of cardio exercise as well as strength training is key when it pertains to placing on lean muscle.

Obtain our complimentary digital book guide of example responses as well as professional interview suggestions emailed to you now. For example, if you have a client who wishes to lose 50 extra pounds yet operates at an inactive desk work for 10 hours per day, after that you're mosting likely to require to amp-up those exercises to make certain maximum calorie and also fat melt. On the various other hand, a client who works as a building employee is already getting more exercise throughout the day, to make sure that ought to be thought about when identifying the best fitness plan. An additional way of life information that you should find out about your customer is whether or not they're a cigarette smoker.

Your recruiter has actually listened to every one of these in guide, so do not try to fool them into believing your "greatest weak point" is anything but an unique ability on your resume. It's alright to not recognize the response to an inquiry, but don't leave it at that!

Attempt to make the inquiries look unrehearsed as this will produce a far better impression of you. You require to show a little of character as well as your story in order to make your response credible.

Selecting The Right Personal Trainer.

Check out on the internet fitness publications so you positively know what hot trends are arising. The fitness world stays one that is rooted greatly in trends and, yes, fads. Whether cardio kickboxing or bootcamp training is the warm thing, studios require to satisfy customer demands or they likely go somewhere else. Not all fitness workshops accommodate people that desire hardcore workouts. Neither is every fitness center wanting to educate individuals who aren't thrilled concerning working out also hard.

How Can You Become An Individual Trainer In Just 6 Weeks?

Providing a response such as this could make the recruiter believe that you won't connect to your employer, also if there's a trouble you require aid with. As an example, if component of the work summary is servicing multiple jobs at once, claiming that you have anxiety attack when you have to handle numerous tasks at the same time is an excellent way to make on your own look poor. Do your best to stay clear of stating that you were emphasized by a scenario that you'll on a regular basis run into at the work you're interviewing for.

Exactly how to Respond to" What Is Easy Fit Personal Training " With Example Responses The blog offers the information required to plan for an interview where the general meeting concern "What is your biggest accomplishment? can be asked. If this is the weakness you are presenting in a meeting, discuss the success you have actually located adhering to instructions yet additionally your occupation capacity when locating convenience with uncertainty. You ought to also explain the steps you are taking to define your day when given ambiguous tasks or goals. Lots of tasks need candidates who are comfortable individually defining tasks and working in the direction of objectives.

When you have actually safeguarded a position, consider making use of company administration software application to track clients, courses showed, etc . Ask for a trial of our All-In-One Fitness Service Management Software today.

Speak to the other personal trainer straight and listen to their sight. Recognize factors of contract and dispute and also prevent routing blame. A recruiter will want to find out about something that actually tested you here. You could have had to find out a brand-new modern technology, or overcome challenging issues in a tough amount of time-- it has to do with exactly how you approach adversity as well as how you conquered it.

She likewise has greater than 15 years of experience training as well as advising supervisors at organizations from American Express to the City of New York City. This candidate has some wonderful teaching fellowship and also part-time experience, but she's a new university grad and doesn't have any type of permanent placements to discuss. She has a great deal of self-confidence and has the ability to concisely sum up how she satisfies the position's leading needs. This solution is a little bit basic as well as can probably be more reinforced with instances.

Personal Trainer Work Summary: What You'Ll Do.

Make sure your solution acknowledges a space in your understanding in a way that still provides you authority. easyfitpersonaltraining.co.uk can provide a solution like, "It's challenging to hit goals when leadership top priorities are constantly changing," but honestly, we don't advise claiming anything that could be regarded as an individual minor. If you're mosting likely to toot your own horn, see to it you have some data or evidence to back it up. Any person can claim they excelled in a previous function, yet numbers or instances will make you attract attention to your interviewer.

Where do most personal trainers work?

Personal trainers typically work in gyms and health clubs. They are self-employed and can also open their own fitness studios. Personal trainers can get creative and work almost anywhere.

While it is definitely respectable and also reveals a solid work principles to spend your energy and time on job, it is also necessary to focus on resting, taking place trip, spending quality time with your family and also taking pleasure in hobbies. Doing so can assist you really feel rejuvenated when you go to work and can raise inspiration, creativity and sustain a favorable expectation.

For optimal results, a workout program should consist of cardiovascular as well as stamina training workout. This permits you to raise your metabolism and melt calories at a greater price, also when you're not working out. How much weight you lose depends upon the quantity of workout you want to dedicate to and also exactly how carefully you stay with your diet regimen.

Design Your Own Program.

A lot of grownups require in between 6 and also 8 hrs per evening to function at their top; if your client isn't getting adequate rest, your very first examination may need to include discussing some methods to improve sleep. Your customer requires to comprehend that the hours they'll invest in the gym won't indicate much if they're not looking after themselves in your home. Run those responses by individuals you trust such as a customer or fellow trainer.

Level 3 Personal Trainer Diploma.

Personable responses that respond honestly will constantly trump reading from a manuscript. Nevertheless, if you were nervous concerning any one of the questions you could obtain, try out a couple of these methods. If there was one thing to look out for, it would be time restraints. You can not bring all of your clients to the table, so select your ideal ones, and also make certain you can talk about them in detail if questioned.

How many personal trainer sessions do I need?

Fitness Goals For example, you may think you need to meet with your trainer five days a week to lose twenty pounds, for an extended period, but in reality, two to three sessions per week for a month or two is probably sufficient.

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Physiotherapy Therapy of Injury Collection - Sprained Ankles

Sprained ankles are extremely typical and repetitive strains can bring about an inflamed, unpleasant ankle, problems strolling on harsh ground and also the danger of re-injury. The physiotherapist starts with asking: Exactly how did the injury take place? Existed a high degree of pressure included? What happened later - could the patient stroll or did they most likely to hospital? Existed an x-ray? Exactly how badly the joint has been damaged is shown by the degrees of discomfort experienced after the injury. Extremely high pain degrees or discomfort which does not steadily reduce misbehave indicators and the physiotherapist may ask for an evaluation in instance of a fracture or severe ligament injury. Where the ankle joint has been injured can be deduced from the website of pain as well as validated on later testing by the physio. Special questions are asked about the previous case history and also previous injuries, any type of medications the person is taking, their appetite degree, whether they are dropping weight, their sleep quality and also discomfort in the early morning, their bladder as well as bowel normality as well as any appropriate household history. This is to get rid of the client of any serious underlying problem to make sure that therapy can be safely done. How Physiotherapists analyze a sprained ankle Activities of the ankle joint noted up on the bed without weight bearing are dorsiflexion (pulling the ankle up), plantarflexion (pointing the foot down), eversion (transforming the foot in an outward direction), and inversion (turning the sole of the foot inwards toward the other foot). The motions inform the specialist about the readiness of the client to move in the existence of pain and anxiousness and also minimal movements provide essential information concerning the joint. Testing of the ankle muscles manually is done by the physio to look at any kind of calf bone muscle damage, typically on the bed or standing up, progressing to easy assessment. The physio stretches the ankle delicately in each instructions to check damage to the joint structures, going on to palpating all round the joint to suggest which structure is harmed. Therapy methods for Physiotherapy Physiotherapy therapy begins with PRICE, which represents protection, remainder, ice, compression as well as altitude. Protection includes using a support to stop uncommon activity of the joint and also more damage. Relax is essential for broken frameworks and enables the part to settle without stress. Cryotherapy or cold/ice therapy serves to reduce pain as well as swelling. The physio may make use of hand-operated therapy for joint stiffness or discomfort and also this enables the physiotherapist to boost the joint moving movements as well as allow even more typical joint auto mechanics. This reduces joint tightness, chills out the joint and relieves pain, enabling weight bearing workouts to start. Fixed workouts are utilized initially whilst holding on, advancing to energetic exercises without support. The mind keeps track of ankle setting constantly, instructing the muscle mass to get to prevent destructive placements. Rehab involves balancing on one leg, advancing to depending on a wobble board and afterwards tossing and also capturing a round. Equilibrium as well as sychronisation retraining takes place up until the ankle joint is good on harsh ground and also running as well as jumping. The ankle joint has actually recuperated when pain has decreased, motions are good, stamina has returned and also the proprioception or sense of joint position has been restored. Rehabilitation is greater than activity science. The APTA-endorsed Activity System method foundationally recognizes the concept that exactly how we select to move is formed by our physiology, our experiences (observations of others, past success or failures), assumptions, and also the job handy. Over the last 5-8 years, recovery has actually progressed dramatically in our admiration of the functions that cognition, pain, and perception play in activity. For the individual in persistent pain, these forces impend huge. We are beginning to see chronic pain as more concerning opportunities and also prospective, than concerning terms that might have been bandied in the current past, such as: dead-end, hopeless, an option, or even worse. People that are experiencing persistent discomfort might have an accurately-formed low expectation of the clinical area-- yet one more possibility, if we pick to see it in this manner. This beginning is essential for us to consider the primary concern-- can we overcome the cycle of chronic discomfort (of which dependency to an opiate may be simply a part), through an organized program of successes, releasing dopamine? Dopamine is a natural chemical because it is a neuromodulator. Dopamine can be launched when we experience a success-- if that event was unique, substantial, as well as unexpected. Getting here securely to work with a routine bicycle commute for the 80th day in a row, is not as most likely to create a release of dopamine, as high as (also when the distance took a trip on the bike is the same):. 1) biking while participated in a great conversation with a friend that you had actually not expected to satisfy on the road today, or,. 2) getting here in a closely opposed yet unexpected positioning of third location at the end of a bike race. Your individuals have a reward facility that is dopamine-based. Are you a skilled-enough specialist to convert their pain-avoidant options in activity (picking just how little or much to move, as well as how to and also not to move) right into a series of successful and advancing experiences? Can you develop purposeful jobs that are both salient to the individual, useful, and frequently skilled (repetitions in life) that are surprising enough to launch dopamine? Can you press the pendulum back toward the concept that activity is both excellent and also can be rewarding, as opposed to the reverse? 3 pain-free successive reps of retrieving a 15 extra pound backpack from 20" high, after that lifting as well as wearing it, prepping for a walk-- can be the actual very first steps that develop a new path, leaving the well-trodden expectation that all activity equals discomfort. Once more, can we be imaginative enough to follow a wonderful restorative workout, or hands-on treatment session instantly with such an experience? Envision overtraining a person for this experience, doing 3 collections of 8 repeatings at 20lbs, and afterwards immediately following with the backpack experience. Go one step further with each of your clients, to see the person. To discover what available paths you can travel to access their dopamine incentive centers: competition, avocation, entertainment traveling, occupation, and also family functions are yet a few of the too-often untapped possibilities. On therapeutic workout, there is shown quality in nonspecific effort that is of moderate intensity. We can not do this subject justice in this online forum, yet are sufficient to say that BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) and also IGF (insulin-like development aspect) are supportive to neuroplastic growth (discovering) and also can be released with physical effort. The family member subtypes as well as levels of BDNF and also IGF are person-specific and also can be regulated by age, along with illness. Dopamine incentive loopholes are also broad of a topic to cover thoroughly in this blog. Suffice to state that we can enhance our habitual actions as well as procedural memories (how we relocate without thinking) via neuroplasticity, that is ultimately chemically-attracted by as well as strengthened with the launch of dopamine, to name a few natural chemicals. Your takeaway ideas include:. Effective repetitions through neuromuscular re-education are insufficient to disturb discomfort cycles. Dopamine is launched with task-specific objective success that is surprising and fulfilling. Dopamine draws in neuroplastic growth. Reps reinforce the development structurally. Attaining the same objective repetitively provides reducing activity possibilities as well as dopamine rewards. Person-specific therapy supplies our best opportunities for significant incentive. Nonspecific workout can potentiate brain-based processes that sustain neuroplasticity. These include yet are not limited to proteins such as BDNF and IGF.

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The Promises I Made (2019 Edition)

For the past thirteen years, I’ve spent every New Year’s Eve compiling a list of fifty promises I intend to keep or fulfill over the next twelve months. The results have been truly amazing, and I have kept some promises I never thought I could. 2019 was… a nightmare that I can barely believe I survived, but I still kept some promises that I honestly did not expect I ever could.

This year, for New Year’s, there will be a new set of promises for to me keep, but here are the old ones, for review!

The Promises I Made (2019 Edition)

1) Be more proactive about tracking and following up with struggling students to decrease the number of students who drop from my class when they realize they cannot pass. Status: Somewhat broken? I tried really hard to be proactive with my students; however, there were some massive issues outside the classroom this year that made it extremely difficult to keep the focus on the students. When administration drags your attention away from the class, there is not a lot you can do…

2) Find a place to put in volunteer hours because uhhhh like this is actually important to my work evaluation and I definitely need something to write in that section… Yikes, this spring is my last chance to do this!! @_@ Status: Kept. I volunteered with the Utah Shakespeare Festival and it was super fun!

3) Install the fire escape window in the Utah house, no matter how much it might cost, because I can’t get a totally unrelated tenant in that basement without said window… Status: Somewhat kept. Okay. This one is a LONG story, but to be fair to me, I worked my ASS off to try and make this happen; just every single thing in the world prevented me from completing this promise, up to and including the city telling me I needed a permit AFTER I had already dug a massive hole in the ground for the window…

4) Buy sod to add grass to the front portion of the lawn so that it no longer looks like garbage. Status: Broken, but I did buy grass seed and put that out there. Unfortunately only some of it sprouted, but there is indeed SOME grass now growing there…

5) Fix the bricks near the windowsills on the Utah house to prevent long-term damage. Status: Broken. After dealing with the stupid window disaster, I had no time for this at all.

6) Get a watering system for my roses at the Utah house because I think my bro is probably killing them and that’s just not cool. Status: Broken, see above.

7) Work on the patio at the Utah house before it just flat out falls down. Status: Somewhat broken. Again, I tried to make progress on this—I called a patio guy to come out and assess how much it would cost to fix the patio—but the price I was quoted was so high that there was nothing I could do at the time.

8) Paint the stairwell so that there’s no chance of anything like lead paint or asbestos being exposed. Status: Broken. The leftover wallpaper glue continues to confound me…

9) Trim the backyard bushes so the neighbors don’t hate us anymore… Status: Broken. We trimmed a few bushes and at least got to the trees out front, but definitely a majority were left uncared for.

10) Move into a new house in Texas where I can get real internet, please for the love of god… Status: Kept. I moved into a very nice house with no scorpions!

11) Save money for my upcoming trip to Japan! 2020 baby! Status: Uhhh, broken. I’m not sure how I thought I’d be able to move into a new house AND save money for an international trip at the same time…

12) Get my wisdom tooth removed because it’s still there and still killing me, yikessss. Status: Broken. AUGH. I’m an idiot.

13) Make an appointment with an eye doctor for like the first time in years. Good job, Yehn, good job. Status: Kept. I got my glasses fixed and even got a new pair of glasses too!

14) Get my prescriptions refilled because I’m dwindling on asthma medicine and like… I could die from this… I should never have been left to care for myself; I’m not mature enough for this responsibility… Status: Kept, surprisingly. But I still need a new doctor because the last one I was going to wouldn’t give me any refills…

15) FINISH THE GIVEAWAY PRIZES I PROMISED LAST YEAR because holy shit I am incompetent and the worst and everyone has permission to hate me for starting things and never finishing them, fuck. Status: Broken. So broken. I am the worst.

16) Go dolphin watching in the Gulf for real this time. Seriously, it’s $10 Yehn, you can do this. Status: Kept, amazingly. It wasn’t as impressed as hoped; however, there was a lovely sunset.

17) Return to the Channel Islands to take better pictures. D; Status: Broken. T_T

18) Level all my classes to 70 in FFXIV before next expansion, please. Status: Somewhat broken. I didn’t have everything to 70 before the expansion, but I kind of feel like I should get credit for this one, because HEY, look at me now:

19) Organize and properly label all the photos on my computer so that I’m no longer desperately combing through folder and folder in blank confusion, looking for a single picture in a sea of thousands… Status: Kept. It took me like eight hours of work, but I actually did this.

20) Update Home and a Half more than once? PLEASE??? The guilt I feel over this currently is crushing. Status: Broken. And the guilt grows…

21) Complete the online American Literature class I am designing on time and with no corrections needed. Status: Kept. I’m counting this as kept even though TECHNICALLY there was one thing I forgot to finish and it came back and bit me in the ass; however, I was approved with no corrections needed.

22) Earn 100% completion for Kingdom Hearts III. So excited! Status: Broken. Um… This just didn’t happen.

23) Update my calendar with important dates—holidays, birthdays, etc.—and be productive about sending cards and well-wishes. Status: Somewhat kept. I wasn’t any better about sending cards really, but I did at least save all the birthdays in my phone so I remember them.

24) Get the garbage disposal in the Texas house fixed ASAP so I don’t have to wash the dishes by hand anymore because I absolutely hate that particular chore. Status: Kept. Then I moved, so it didn’t even matter.

25) Finish all the books my coworkers and friends bought for me recently so I can thank them for their recommendations! Status: Broken. So broken.

26) Actually move into my new place instead of leaving it completely undecorated and lifeless. Status: Remarkably, kept. Nothing has plastic on it, unlike at my old house where the nightstand didn’t get unwrapped even after two years of living there lol.

27) Try hard to get Creative Writing into a different area of the general ed. core so that more people will enroll in it. Status: Kept. I’m counting this because I did my darn best, but we are still waiting on the state to tell us whether or not the class will be accepted.

28) Get caught up on my Ebird reports, even the old, old, old ones I never put in because I was slacking. Status: Kept, actually. Whoo.

29) Throw away/return/sort all the stacks of old mail in the house (OMGGGG they’ve made me look like paper hoarder and I’m nootttt). Status: Broken. There’s just… a lot of papers to go through…

30) Clean up the garage before moving so that I don’t have to fight spiders to move when the time comes. Status: Broken, in that I did not clean up the garage in advance and did, in fact, have to fight spiders when it came time to move.

31) Find a way to boost grading productivity so that each class takes only two days to grade, maximum. Status: Somewhat kept. I was definitely better this year than last year; however, I really think the “two days per class” thing was too optimistic, so for the future semester, I allotted myself three days per class and I think it will work better.

32) Go to a totally new restaurant and try their food. Status: Kept. We went to a Mexican restaurant and I had trompo tacos (al pastor) which is probably not anything special to anyone else but it was my first time so lol.

33) Cancel old credit cards to make sure my credit is good before trying to buy a house (although I just checked my credit score and I’m in the great range already, so this is mostly for posterity’s sake). Status: Broken. But it didn’t affect my loan, so I guess it was okay. And it ended up being good I didn’t cancel my Best Buy card because I was able to get good financing on the new appliances I needed for my house.

34) Get official contracts from my tenants so I can use my rental income in my next loan calculation. Status: Broken, but I ended up not using that as part of the loan calculation anyway >_> so…

35) Talk to an HR rep about my retirement savings so that I can consolidate all my retirement accounts into one. (Man, look at all these ADULTING promises.) Status: Broken. Look at me failing all these adulting promises.

36) Really finish decorating my office so it looks super cute and all my students want to visit me. Status: Broken, but I think it sucks that I have to write this because it was really not my fault I couldn’t finish decorating my office. Our offices were all moved and disrupted by building remodels so I spent the entire year basically working out of a couple cardboard boxes.

37) Not sign up for ANY more new responsibilities at work in the spring semester. This is the biggest challenge. D; Status: Kept, by technicality. I was able to avoid signing up for anything new in SPRING… But fall… was a whole other story. XD

38) Migrate all the rest of my books to the new Texas house instead of leaving them in Utah… SOMEHOW. Status: Kept. I’m going to count this as kept. The only books left at the Utah house are my manga—I managed to bring literally every other book, which is very impressive considering I had only my small Camaro with its tiny truck space.

39) Use my twitter account more often to make it worth following. I will try!! Status: Kept… sorta? I mean, since I didn’t use the account AT ALL before, making even one Twitter post kind of counts as using it more, right? >_>

40) Keep my hair cut nicely so I look less like a mess (than I really am). Status: Somewhat broken. Although I think I got my hair cut more often this year than before, I don’t think I looked any less like a mess. XD

41) Successfully find a bridesmaid dress for my friend’s wedding that matches the rest of the wedding party. Status: Actually kept! It was incredible. The wedding I was in was even featured in a magazine because of how pretty it was!

42) Make sure my skin is in good condition for the wedding so I don’t look like a disturbing ghost… Status: Kept? I mean, in the end, looking like a ghost ended up being the whole point since it was a Halloween themed wedding so I kind of won either way.

43) Complete my BNHA manga collection. Since my bro bought me a bunch of the volumes for Christmas, I might as well. Status: Broken… I bought like… one volume. XD

44) See a groove-billed ani. (It’s another type of bird.) Status: Broken. Very illusive bird. T_T

45) Respond to messages, asks, and comments more quickly. I promise I’m not ignoring people… D; Status: Um, broken. I left many people on read this year, sorry.

46) Lose ten pounds so that I feel more fit and comfy. Status: Broken. I didn’t exercise at all this year, uff.

47) Pay down credit card debt by at least 1/3. Yikesssss, I really need to do this quick. Status: Broken. It’s hard to pay down a credit card when you pour all your money into buying a new house…

48) I will finally fucking finish that chapter 73 analysis of Noragami… I swear to god… Status: Broken. Uh yeah. This didn’t happen. V_V

49) Reach 1700 followers on Tumblr. You should follow me—I’m only marginally a waste of time and space! Status: Kept. Over 2500 followers now!

50) I will keep these promises. LOLLLLL. Status: Somewhat kept/somewhat broken. One year I really will keep them all…

 Totals Kept promises: 18 Broken promises: 24 Somewhat kept/broken promises: 8

Well, there are more kept promises than last year at least… It was another really hard year, what with moving in the middle of the year, over-working, dealing with so much drama with the reaccreditation on our campus, and just EVERYTHING all at once this last year… I keep thinking things are going to calm down and then they never do. Please 2020… just let me rest…

My new set of promises will be up on the 1st!

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Deep Rest: Healing Yoga for Cancer-Related Fatigue

For lots of people, an excellent evening's rest will set us right when we experience occasional fatigue. Cancer-related tiredness is various as well as not completely recognized by allopathic medication. This deep tiredness is not minimized by sleeping and also is among one of the most typical, aggravating, and resilient adverse effects for numerous survivors.

The fatigue may be brought on by cancer itself making the body's processes much less efficient and also needing more power. Chemotherapy as well as radiation might kill cancer cells, however they likewise bring about an accumulation of cell waste, and extracellular power is needed to fix broken cells. The pain, anxiety, anorexia nervosa, absence of exercise, sleeplessness and also low blood matters triggered by these treatments might additionally be adding factors.

Yoga for Cancer-Related Fatigue

Yoga supplies powerful tools that aid to alleviate cancer-related tiredness such as asana (postures), mudra (hand motions), pranayama (aware breath), and relaxation. A current literature review showed that yoga can improve the lifestyle by boosting both physical as well as mental power. The yoga exercise technique that follows is a mix of carefully boosting mudra, motion, and also pranayama, complied with by a corrective inversion which offers a few minutes of remainder. Technique any time of the day, all or in part.

Yoga Practice Tips

Do a little yoga exercise daily to offer yourself the time and space to heal. Make yoga exercise a long-term part of your life after cancer.

Stay conscious of the body as well as breath throughout the technique. Just relocate a comfortable series of activity. If you come to be awkward, lightheaded, nauseated or out of breath, stop quickly and also remainder for a couple of moments.

For this method, a yoga exercise mat and two soft props (boosts, blankets or pillows) will certainly be helpful.

Stating Intention with Uttarabodhi Mudra

Stating an intention, or sankalpa, is a vital initial step towards utilizing yoga as a recovery technique. Incorporated with a mudra that is boosting to the immune system, it can function as a reminder of your objectives during this time.

Begin being in a comfortable seated position with your hands gripped together.

Extend your forefinger and also thumbs away from each various other to produce a diamond shape. Keep the center of your hands open.

First location your hands in front of your stubborn belly with your thumbs resting at your navel, pinkies resting towards your pubic bone. This placement of your hands creates a feeling of self-nurturance. Notification the physical and energised result of this gesture.

Next, try an extra revitalizing variation of Uttarabodhi Mudra by turning your hands to ensure that they rest in front of your breast bone with your index fingers pointing towards your throat (as revealed).

Can you feel a difference holding the mudra here?

While holding Uttarabodhi Mudra state your sankalpa 3 times calmly. If you have difficulty developing an objective, make use of the statement, "I am stimulated and alive."

Hold the mudra for a couple of more breaths, after that release your hands.

Seated Trio

Cancer-related exhaustion commonly produces such fatigue that movement of the body appears like a challenge. When we are inactive, our power becomes stagnant and also prana can not stream to the areas of the body where it is needed to maintain us healthy and balanced. Movement is a simple means to permit both prana and also lymph to flow.

The lymphatic system is vital to immunity and counts on the pumping of muscular tissues to move lymph through the nodes as well as vessels. It is particularly essential for bust cancer people to relocate the arms as well as upper breast, this triad of seated spine activities moves prana and lymph into the armpit location as well as increases the variety of motion in the spinal column and also shoulders.

When moving your arms, it is essential to only extend to a comfortable degree, specifically if there are surgical procedure websites or ports in the chest. Alternate arm placements will certainly be given, so make certain to select what is comfy. Remain to comply with the rate of your breath, it is a measure of exactly how you are feeling in each posture. If you find yourself holding the breath or feeling pain, try again a bit much more gently.

Seated Lateral Bend:

Begin in a comfortable cross-legged placement, being in a chair if desired.

Reach the crown of your head towards the ceiling.

As you breathe in side bend to the ideal bringing your left hand to your appropriate shoulder, behind your head (as shown), or reach the left arm overhead with the hand dealing with inward.

Rest your right-hand man on the flooring with your elbow joint bent.

Keep both rest bones based right into the floor.

Exhale and go back to facility, then repeat to the left side. Alternative sides for 5 reps following your breath.

Seated Twist:

As you inhale produce size in the sides of the torso by bringing both hands together at your heart, positioning your hands on the top of your head, or elevating both arms overhead.

Exhale as well as twist your belly, ribs, as well as after that your breast, to the right.

Place your left hand to your ideal knee and also your ideal hand on the flooring behind you.

Inhale as well as go back to the facility with your arms in your selected position.

Exhale and also repeat to the left. Repeat to both sides with the breath 5 times.

Seated Forward Fold:

Inhale and lengthen from your pubic bone in the direction of the crown of your head bringing both hands with each other at your heart, placing your hands on the top of your head, or raising both arms overhead.

As you exhale lean your torso ahead, resting your palms or your forearms on the floor.

Hold for at least 5 breaths, after that on an exhalation, engage your tummy and press your upper body back up to center.

You may attempt this again with your legs crossed in your non-habitual position.

Reclining Heart Opener

A mild backbend is handy for raising breathing capability in addition to uplifting your mood, as it allows much deeper inhalations throughout the upper chest.

Recline the center back over a reinforce or rolled up blanket. Place a 2nd folded blanket under your head with room between both props for your top back and shoulders to rest on the floor.

If this is hard, location even more assistance under your head, or include assistance under your hips as well.

You may prolong the legs as shown, or rest here with your knees bent for approximately 5 minutes.

Breathe right into your top breast and also keep relaxing your head, neck, and shoulders right into the assistances.

Anuloma Krama (3-Part Breathing)

Practicing pranayama can have an extensive impact on your energy levels and also state of mind. Concentrating on the breathing often tends to boost energy and also lighten the state of mind. You can practice the three-part inhale from the reclined heart opener described above, or hinge on the back with the knees bent and also the feet on the floor.

Begin by discovering your all-natural breath. Just how does it really feel relocating with the nose? How does it really feel relocating out through the nose?

Can you slowly begin to separate your inhalation right into three short "sips" of breath via the nose? Make sure you obtain a full breathing however attempt not to over breathe.

Allow the exhalation to be soft and also very easy. Notification the results of this breath as you continue for a few minutes.

When you are completed, spend a couple of minutes loosening up the breath back to its typical day-to-day pattern.

Legs on a Chair

Restorative yoga can complete a yoga exercise method or be done by itself on days when you are very fatigued and also require to reset your mind and body. This stance is a moderate inversion that provides an adjustment in your viewpoint to gravity and encourages deeper breathing, energy absorption, and also relaxation.

Elevating your legs on the chair aids with fatigue in numerous means. Allowing the body to be still for a few mins, this posture allows the venous blood to move back up the legs towards the heart where it is better circulated. This procedure sends signals to the parasympathetic nerves to turn on the "relaxation action." It does take some time for these interior procedures to happen, so remainder below for as long as you really feel comfortable.

Find a furniture in your house such as a soft chair, couch seat or ottoman that you can use for support.

Recline in front of your furniture support as well as area your calf bones on the seat, supporting your head with a folded up covering or pillow if needed.

Completely relax your legs as well as rest your arms a little away from your sides with the hands encountering up.

Rest below for a minimum of 10 mins. Do not hesitate to set a timer if you are concerned that you may fall asleep.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) floated a 60 to 70 percent tax rate on the richest Americans in an interview with CBS News’s “60 Minutes” that was released Friday, arguing higher taxes on multimillionaires could help pay for the “Green New Deal” she and other left-wing members of the Democratic Party have proposed.

Talking to Anderson Cooper, the new House member suggested the new tax rate apply to Americans earning more than $10 million a year, noting that similar rates existed in America a few decades ago. The top tax rate was above 90 percent during the 1950s, and while it has slowly descended, it remained as high as 50 percent for much of President Ronald Reagan’s tenure in the 1980s.

American households that earn more than $600,000 annually currently pay a 37 percent tax rate, down from the 39.6 percent rate they paid before the Republican tax law passed in 2017. Conservatives have pushed for lower taxes on the rich as a spur to economic growth, while liberals see potentially untapped revenue that could fund their key social spending priorities, such as Medicare for all and free college tuition.

“There’s an element where, yeah, people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes,” Ocasio-Cortez told “60 Minutes.”

How much revenue could new taxes on the rich really raise? We looked at the numbers, enlisting the help of a number of tax experts, including Mark Mazur, a former Treasury Department official now at the Tax Policy Center, a centrist think tank; Joel Slemrod, a tax expert at the University of Michigan; and Ernie Tedeschi, an economist who served in President Obama’s Treasury Department.

1. $720 billion/decade: Ocasio-Cortez’s suggestion for nearly doubling taxes on people earning more than $10 million

In 2016, the latest year for which government data is available, approximately 16,000 Americans earned more than $10 million each. These are not in fact “the 1 percent” many on the left like to talk about — they are a much smaller slice, fewer than 0.05 percent of all U.S. households.

It’s difficult to estimate precisely how much more in taxes the government could wring from this ultra-elite. Collectively, their total taxable income amounted to $405 billion in 2016, and they paid about $121 billion in federal income taxes. They also face state and local taxes, which raise their overall tax burdens.

As she noted to “60 Minutes,” Ocasio-Cortez’s idea for a 70 percent tax rate on those earning more than $10 million would only kick in beyond the first $10 million in income. So, this new tax rate would do nothing to add to the amount of federal revenue on the first $160 billion (16,000 people multiplied by $10 million) in taxes this group paid.

But that leaves about $244 billion in taxable income for those earning more than $10 million a year. If this entire pool was taxed at 70 percent instead of the 39.6 percent they paid in 2016, the federal government would bring in an additional $72 billion annually — or close to $720 billion over 10 years, according to Mazur. The real number is probably smaller than that, because wealthy Americans would probably find ways around paying this much-higher tax.

“You’d certainly see some people under that system change their behavior to avoid the higher rate, which could significantly impact how much revenue it generates,” Mazur said, adding that the effect would be hard to estimate. (The exercise also assumes capital gains would be taxed at this much higher rate.)

This $720 billion in a decade is not nearly enough to fund Medicare for all, which has been estimated to increase government outlays by about $30 trillion over a decade (while also zeroing out premiums and deductibles paid by Americans).

Still, it could fund a number of other measures. It could come close to funding the entirety of Sanders’s free college tuition plan ($800 billion), fund President Barack Obama’s plan to get close to universal prekindergarten ($75 billion over a decade), forgive more than half the student debt in America ($1.4 trillion), cover Democratic leaders' plan for boosting teacher pay and school funding ($100 billion), or come close to funding a $1 trillion infrastructure plan.

And of course, higher income tax rates on the top 16,000 households is not the only way to raise taxes on rich Americans.

2. $3 trillion/decade: A wealth tax on the top 1 percent similar to those in Europe

The American government currently raises tax revenue primarily through payroll taxes and income taxes, and gets a smaller chunk from estate taxes and corporate taxes. It has not adopted a kind of tax that exists in some European countries: a wealth tax, wherein the federal government takes a chunk based on household wealth rather than income.

Norway, for instance, in 2016 taxed at a rate up to 0.70 percent for all wealth over 1.4 million kroner ($162,568). France’s wealth tax in 2017 hit assets above 1.3 million euros ($1.4 million).

Slemrod, of the University of Michigan, said in an email that the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans own roughly one-third of the $107 trillion in wealth in America. This group collectively holds about $20 trillion in wealth above $10 million per household.

From there the calculation of wealth tax is simple: a 1 percent wealth tax on the wealthiest 1 percent of households above $10 million could raise about $200 billion a year, or $2 trillion over 10 years. Tedeschi, the former Obama official, found a 0.5 percent wealth tax on the top 1 percent could raise at most $3 trillion over 10 years.

But this, too, would probably change Americans' behavior and perhaps lead them to try shifting their wealth overseas, and the economists say the actual amount of revenue is likely lower than their estimates suggest. And this is assuming there are no exemptions to what is considered wealth, such as housing assets.

Plus, this approach would require Americans to give the Internal Revenue Service a full accounting of all the assets they own under law — something that could be required under law but may prove difficult to evaluate. In 1990, the federal government did try something similar by placing excise taxes on sales of yachts, expensive automobiles, jewelry and other things consumed by rich people. But that effort came right before a minor recession, leading to the repeal of the taxes.

“The difficulties of monitoring and compliance are huge,” Mazur said of the wealth tax. “But it could be done and raise a lot of money.”

3. $3 trillion/decade: Doubling income taxes on the top 1 percent

In 2012, the economists Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at Berkeley published a paper arguing the optimal top tax rate is 73 percent. In 2018, that would raise the tax rate on income above $600,000 from 37 percent to 73 percent, but back then it meant increasing the top rate from 39.6 percent to 73 percent.

The IRS says that Americans earning more than $600,000 annually compose the richest 0.9 percent of families, so we’ll use that for shorthand for the 1 percent.

In 2016, this richest 0.9 percent earned about $1.7 trillion in taxable income and paid about $530 billion in taxes. These Americans would have to pay an additional $320 billion every year in taxes if the top tax rate went up to 70 percent, according to calculations based on IRS data. Mazur, the former Treasury official, noted this estimate was probably high because the wealthy would probably find ways to try to shelter themselves from higher taxation, such as by buying tax-exempt bonds.

Other economists found similar results. Tedeschi, the former Obama economist, put the number at about $300 billion annually. Meanwhile, raising tax rates for the top 1 percent to 57 percent would raise about $1.7 trillion over a decade, while raising it to 83 percent would raise $3.8 trillion over that period, Tedeschi found.

“You can get a hell of a lot of a money from taxing the 1 percent,” said Edward Wolff, a tax expert at New York University.

The Congressional Budget Office also recently estimated that raising taxes on the two highest income brackets by 1 percentage point would net $123 billion over 10 years. That would be for everybody who earns more than $200,000 annually.

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via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

FiveThirtyEight has been tracking endorsements throughout the Democratic primary. There have been more than 150 of these so far, out of the fairly broad universe of potential endorsers that we’re monitoring. But most endorsements don’t make national news.

Tuesday night was an exception — probably the first time all cycle that an endorsement has led the news cycle. Just as the fourth debate was concluding, reports surfaced that at least two of the four members of the “The Squad,” a group of first-term congresswomen who are outspokenly on the left of their party and often critique their party’s leadership, would be endorsing Bernie Sanders. Specifically, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has already officially announced her endorsement of Sanders, and Rep. Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez of New York will reportedly endorse Sanders at a rally in Queens this weekend. (Contrary to earlier reports, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan has not yet officially endorsed Sanders. A fourth member of “The Squad,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, has no imminent plans to endorse Sanders or anyone else.)

I have quite a few thoughts about this, which partly go to how I think Sanders’s campaign, and Elizabeth Warren’s, are going overall. If you want a takeaway headline, though, it’s basically that this is the kind of thing I’d want to see more of from Sanders. In other words, it’s good news for him, but it will be better news for him to the extent it presages a more coalition-oriented approach to running a campaign, which includes building alliances with diverse groups of voters and winning endorsements in an effort to expand his coalition. If, on the other hand, it signals a desire by Sanders to provoke an establishment vs. anti-establishment confrontation with Warren, I’m not sure that’s as helpful to him. OK, here we go: Nine quick-ish thoughts about the AOC and Omar endorsements of Sanders:

1. There’s reason to think endorsements matter. Historically, endorsements have been a good predictor of presidential primary outcomes, often rivaling early polls for how well they anticipate how the vote will eventually turn out. The theory behind the importance of endorsements, as perhaps best articulated in the book “The Party Decides”, has come under attack in recent years, mostly because Donald Trump’s nomination in 2016 despite a lack of support from Republican endorsers was a poor data point for the theory (to put it kindly). In addition, some Democrats who received a number of endorsements earlier this year, such as Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker, have not yet gained much traction in the polls. Nonetheless, the theory has a fairly good long-term track record. Incidentally, the theory is not necessarily that the endorsements directly influence voters — for instance, that a voter says to herself “Senator Such-and-Such is endorsing Governor So-and-So; guess I’m going to vote for So-and-So!”. (Although, an endorser with as high a profile as Ocasio-Cortez could be an exception.) Rather, it’s that endorsements are a proxy for support from “party elites,” and that party elites’ preferences tend to be a leading indicator of voter preferences.

2. But endorsements matter more when they cross ideological lines — and these ones were more predictable for Sanders. Imagine that, rather than AOC and Omar, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin had endorsed Sanders on Tuesday night. That would have been quite surprising, given that Manchin is fairly conservative while Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. It would have sent a signal, however, that Sanders’s populism could resonate beyond his left-leaning base. Ocasio-Cortez and Omar, by contrast, are more in line with Sanders’s current base, being both quite left-of-center and quick to rebuke the Democratic Party establishment. Those sorts of endorsements matter less, according to “The Party Decides.”

3. The timing was smart for Sanders, and will help to fend off the media narrative that his chances are fading. This is a very pundit-y type of observation, so I’ll be brief. But dropping these endorsements after a fairly strong debate for Sanders1 — and after concerns about the long-term viability of his campaign following his heart attack — strikes me as smart. It could contribute toward a “Bernie comeback!” narrative, especially if Sanders gets a boost in post-debate polls.

4. This is going to intensify intra-left fighting. Want a fairly safe prediction? The primary is going to get nastier. In my read of the various Warren vs. Sanders spats, they’re less about who is further to the left per se and more about how to achieve change, with Warren wanting to work within the Democratic Party and Sanders wanting to upend the Democratic Party and “the system” overall. (To bring about a “political revolution,” as Sanders might say.) One reason I’ve been skeptical about Sanders’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination is that while seeking to upend the system is perfectly valid as a theory of change, it’s a fairly hard way to win a party primary when the party sets the rules, those rules are designed to achieve consensus rather than to reward factional candidates, and voting is restricted in many states to party members. In any event, because Ocasio-Cortez and Omar have a somewhat anti-establishment message — although less so than Sanders himself does — their endorsements are likely to send additional tremors down emerging Sanders-Warren fault lines.

5. “The Squad” is a potential general election liability. A July poll by YouGov found all four members of “The Squad” with negative net favorability ratings among adults nationwide: -17 percentage points for Omar, -16 for Tlaib, -14 for Ocasio-Cortez and -11 for Pressley, although they remain relatively unknown to many voters. (I’d love to cite a wider sample of polls, but I can’t find many others that asked about Omar, Tlaib or Pressler. A number of earlier polls on Ocasio-Cortez found her with negative ratings, however.) They are reasonably popular among Democrats, of course, and Sanders’s objective for now is to win the nomination, not the general election. His campaign has sometimes tried to emphasize his “electability”, however, and these endorsements won’t necessarily be helpful in that respect.

“The Squad” isn’t popular with swing voters

Democrats Independents Republicans Overall Representative Fav. Unfav. Fav. Unfav. Fav. Unfav. Fav. Unfav. Ocasio-Cortez 48 11 17 46 5 69 23 37 Omar 41 11 14 44 5 65 19 36 Tlaib 38 11 13 43 5 62 18 34 Pressley 35 9 13 32 3 55 17 28

Source: CBS News/YouGov Poll, July 17-19, 2019

6. Warren has some tough decisions about whether to lean to the left or the center. One tempting strategy for Warren might be to essentially concede that Sanders is further to the left than she is. Step back and let swing voters associate Ocasio-Cortez and Omar with Sanders, not her, for instance. That doesn’t necessarily mean giving up on voters who identify themselves as left-wing. But it would mean not trying to outdo Sanders by moving further to his left. And it might mean subtlety trying to convey the idea that she’s actually the compromise choice between Sanders on her left, and Joe Biden on her right.

This could be risky, for various reasons. Warren’s current coalition relies a lot on support from the left; 50 percent of “very liberal” voters in the most recent Quinnipiac poll say they prefer Warren, as compared to just 11 percent for Sanders. Meanwhile, trying to strike a middle ground has been difficult for candidates such as Kamala Harris. On the other hand, voters (backed up by a lot of political science research) tend to perceive more moderate candidates as being more “electable,” and electability perceptions have been a problem for Warren. Furthermore, she may eventually need to add support from voters who currently support Biden, and Biden has more support than Sanders, so she could have more to gain than to lose by moving very subtly toward the center.

7. Warren’s lack of endorsements deserves scrutiny. Regardless of her strategy, Warren has received conspicuously few endorsements. She’s currently fourth in FiveThirtyEight’s endorsement tracker, behind Biden, Harris and Cory Booker, and has received only four endorsements from members of Congress outside her home state. She also hasn’t received many endorsements in early states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. Maybe she doesn’t care about endorsements much — but if you believe in “The Party Decides” theory of the race, this is a reasonably big problem for Warren. At the very least, it might mean that party elites are leaving their powder dry and could be open to a candidate who makes a late surge, such as Booker, Pete Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar.

8. Both Sanders and Warren need to expand their appeal to non-white voters, and this is a step in the right direction for Sanders. Ocasio-Cortez is Hispanic (Puerto Rican) and Omar is black (Somali-American). Warren has some nonwhite endorsers herself, such as Raul Grijalva, who is Hispanic, and Deb Haaland, who is Native American. But it’s a pretty white group, as are Warren’s voters. According to YouGov polling for The Economist, Warren has the support of 31 percent of white Democrats, as compared to 15 percent of blacks, 17 percent of Hispanics and 21 percent of voters of “other” nonwhite races.

As for Sanders, his supporters are more diverse than Warren’s in one sense, in that his numbers are fairly even across different racial groups: He has the support of 14 percent of whites, 11 percent of blacks, 19 percent of Hisapnics, and 17 percent of “other” voters, per YouGov. On the other hand, he isn’t actually doing better than Warren with nonwhite voters — she actually has slightly more nonwhite support than he does, according to YouGov (except among Hispanics). Rather, it’s that she’s doing really well with white voters, while his numbers are flagging. In some ways, Warren is starting to replicate the 2016 version of the Sanders coalition, when Sanders won the support of 47 percent of white voters, 26 percent of blacks, and 36 percent of Hispanics, according to the CCES.

To put it another way, Sanders’s support is diverse, but not especially deep, while Warren’s is deep, but not especially diverse. Both of them could stand to gain ground among black, Hispanic and other nonwhite voters, and winning the support of endorsers like Omar and Ocasio-Cortez is good news for Sanders in that regard.

9. Overall, these endorsements could be consistent with a coalition-building approach, which would be a good plan for Sanders. Speaking of expanding one’s coalition: So far, Sanders has not done all that much to expand beyond his current base of support, as I mentioned before. His numbers have been steady in the polls for months, but “steady” isn’t that helpful when you’re polling at only 15 percent — you’ll need more than that to win primaries and caucuses. He’s winning very few voters who didn’t vote for him in 2016, while having lost about two-thirds of the ones who did choose him in 2016 to Warren and other candidates. His team may have miscalculated, thinking that the Sanders base might have been, say, 20 to 25 percent of the electorate rather than 15 percent. It also may have underestimated both Biden and Warren.

But if the critique is that Sanders’s base isn’t broad enough on its own, getting endorsements from the likes of AOC and Omar is at least nodding in the right direction. Sure, it might have been better if they were “against type” endorsers (see point No. 2). But almost any type of endorsement is consistent with a coalition-building strategy, something Sanders has sometimes eschewed in the past even though it’s usually the easiest way to win a party nomination. If Sanders’s campaign uses these endorsements to build momentum toward that strategy — what I sometimes think of as a “kindler, gentler” version of Sanders who is trying to make a broad range of Democratic voters feel at home in his coalition — they could be a turning point in his campaign. If instead they’re a precursor to more left-on-left infighting, probably less so.

[harryandmolly]

The Long Way Home -6-

Summary: His world is a little rocked when Shawn is joined on his 2019 world tour by Emma, a former child star with a chip on her shoulder and a voice that haunts him.

Warnings: Language, feelings, underage drinking

Word count: 4.4k

Emma can’t breathe.

No, really, she can’t breathe. She stumbles out of the nook in sidestage and manages to throw herself past confused crew members until she reaches the first dressing room she finds, his, and shuts herself away.

She sinks into his couch and shoves her head between her knees, desperate for oxygen, for stability, for quiet. Her nose hits the cool leather of the sofa and that helps a little but she can still hear and feel everything. And it stings.

She plants her hands on the coffee table in an attempt to ground herself. It works enough to let her lift her head and look around.

Shawn’s dressing room is never trashed. There are water bottles everywhere from various friends and crew members but otherwise the place doesn’t look like it’s had a rock star anywhere near it. She focuses on noticing details about the space to drown out his voice. He’s finishing “Mercy” and he sounds a little more composed than he did during ‘Bad Rep’ which she wishes she wasn’t thinking about so she stares at one of his guitar picks sitting on the coffee table.

She picks it up and holds it between her thumb and index fingers in both hands like it’s the holy eucharist. It looks worn – Shawn gets attached to things easily so he carries around the same guitar pick until he loses it and when he does, he gets moody. It’s the only thing keeping her from stealing this pick and keeping it.

Emma stands, still a little shaky, and wipes at her nose with the back of her hand. She closes her eyes to steady herself but it backfires. In her mind’s eye, he’s turned toward her so obviously she’s sure the video is already all over the depths of Shawnblr and Instagram captioned by women screaming about who he could be singing to. She makes a foggy mental note not to look.

She does actually consider barricading herself in here and letting only him in when he’s done with the show but she remembers she has no idea what to say to him after their conflict last night. So she gathers herself as much as she can be gathered and leaves.

She stands outside the venue for a few minutes willing the redness in her eyes and cheeks to mellow before she can think about heading back to her bus. She can’t distinguish his words anymore but she can sift through the din to find that it’s “Lost in Japan.” She gives herself until the end of the song before she begins the death march to the bus.

She’s not remotely surprised to find Sandra and Margaret up hunched over the table in the front lounge with at least three laptops and finishing up another phone call regarding her career she wasn’t included on. Her melancholy and hollowness are sapped out by bristling annoyance.

“Anything I should know?” Emma snaps, folding her arms over her chest, looking indignant despite being out of the bus after the agreed upon bedtime rules.

Sandra and Margaret exchange a look that says ‘let’s not even go there.’

“We have a meeting next week with Kyle Dillon’s publicity team in Chicago. I’ll talk to styling about your look. Need you up at 4 for your morning routine before the meeting at 8.”

Emma, not for the first time at taking instruction from Margaret while Sandra’s nose is in her phone, is dumbfounded.

“Kyle Dillon? For what? A collab?”

Kyle Dillon’s raunchy hip hop/pop wouldn’t mesh all that well with her bubblegum fluff pop but it wouldn’t be the first time her manager, mother and agent all came up with something so ridiculous Emma thought for sure it was a joke.

“We’re working on an image thing,” Margaret sighs, aggravated by having to explain it, “Your Influencer numbers are down. We need something to give you a boost. You and Kyle are going to go out for a while, get you back on the board.”

Emma swallows. They want her to fake date Kyle Dillon. It’s like the start of a really weird fanfiction.

She runs her tongue against her lower lip and furrows her brow, unsure of where to begin arguing. Not that it will matter. Not yet, anyway.

+

Shawn doesn’t look for her when he gets off stage. He doesn’t check her dressing room, doesn’t scan through her Spotify to see if she’s still up and blasting Hank Williams on her bus. He showers quickly and goes to bed under the weight of all his band and crew’s curious eyes. He’s pretty sure he’ll wake up feeling normal again now that he’s got it out of his system.

He doesn’t.

When they arrive in Chicago, it marks 5 days since they’ve talked, which is the longest streak they’ve had since they became friends over the tour break. Shawn is grouchy, which is pretty unusual for him. When he gets like this, it’s because he’s chewing on a song, but it only ever lasts a day or two at the most before he finds his way through it. This is different and no one can agree on who should try to poke the bear to get to the bottom of it. At a loss, they leave him alone.

Emma is pretending nothing’s wrong because that’s what she’s good at. She pretends it’s absolutely fine that Mabel wrangled her into a sheer blouse and a tartan mini skirt for this “meeting” that feels more like two families arranging a marriage. It’s definitely fine that Kyle has been looking across the conference room table at her like she’s his birthday present. And it’s fine that she can’t get Shawn’s face and voice during their weird “Bad Rep” moment the other day out of her mind.

Everything is absolutely fine.

They’re not signing contracts or anything, it’s not quite that formal. They’re all in a big room talking weird, seemingly inconsequential logistics – “well, Island really wants her to be seen with Shawn and—” “yes, but Capitol really needs him to bring the young girls back in so—” “with an average of 3-5 Instagram posts on each of their accounts per week, we can—”

Emma tunes it out. She watches Kyle across the table as he eyes her. Two or three years ago, Emma would’ve given her left arm to be set up in this kind of arrangement with Kyle Dillon. He’s a former YouTuber, not unlike Shawn, but he always maintained a sharper edge and more of a ladykiller vibe in contrast to Shawn’s more earnest, pink-cheeked Canadian thing.

Shawn’s never looked at her like this, like he wants to crawl under the table and bury his face between her legs. Emma’s a little disturbed by recognizing her disappointment in that. But it’s disappointment mixed with appreciation, too, because maybe he wants more than that from her.

Or he wants more than that from the version of her he’d get after he fixed her, maybe.

Kyle is about 5’8”, slim, wiry build. He’s got that skinny six pack thing happening. He’s half black and half Jewish and happens to be covered in gorgeous freckles that Emma used to try to count on a poster on her wall. And he can dance.

Could be worse, she reminds herself, licking her lips across the table at him. His eyebrows lift. She smirks. He giggles. She giggles back.

The meeting ends with Kyle and Emma exchanging phone numbers and Sandra giving Emma a disapproving look for her mid-meeting flirting. As though it’s inappropriate to be making eyes at the guy you’re being set up to look like you’re sleeping with. Emma ignores her.

Kyle texts her that night while she’s in bed listening to “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” on repeat, trying to get “Bad Reputation” out of her head. They talk for an hour. He doesn’t make her wait between texts or anything, no games are being played. Since it’s all meant to be manufactured, there’s less pressure, she notices.

He’s not as big a douche as he seems in the media sometimes, which is cool. He definitely has his moments that put her off and he tries to get her to sext with him which she’s absolutely not interested in but overall, he doesn’t seem as obnoxious as she expected.

She kind of wanted him to be, though. It would be nice to throw in Sandra’s face. And… and a piece of her doesn’t want to be attracted to anyone but Shawn right now. She doesn’t let herself think about why after their blow-up. His stunt in St. Paul on stage made it harder to ignore. But she’ll be damned if she doesn’t try.

But if Kyle will get Sandra and Margaret off her back for a few minutes, fine. She’s not up for a fight, anyway. Ashley is coming, thank god.

Emma and Ashley met by happenstance outside a bar in West Hollywood. Emma had been having dinner with Margaret and Sandra next door at some ritzy Italian place where they were sure Emma would get papped. Emma didn’t even really know who Ashley was while they were both standing on the curb waiting for their cars from the valet. Ashley struck up a conversation, asked Emma for a selfie and tagged it on Instagram. They started DMing and Ashley invited her out with her and her crew and the rest, as they say, is history, thoroughly recorded in headlines on Perez Hilton and Buzzfeed.

Ashley’s attending a club opening in Chicago during the few days they have off before the show at Allstate Arena. Emma was going to go anyway, obviously, she and Mabel have been prepping potential outfit choices for over a week, but it’s decided that it’s the perfect opportunity for Emma and Kyle to “meet” and “hit it off.”

Ashley arrives in style, as expected. She’s pocket sized compared to Emma but somehow seems to take up all the space in any room she occupies. Emma likes that about Ashley – it’s not often she gets to fade into the background, be less seen. With Ashley it’s almost an inevitability.

She looks like a walking, talking Snow White only with better eyebrows and a killer body. It occurs to Emma briefly that she might do well to keep Ashley as far away from Shawn as possible the next couple days… but then she remembers she’s not supposed to care that much. And, honestly, given the way he spat Ashley’s name during their showdown makes her think maybe Ashley is no threat to Emma at all. Not that Emma is in a position to be threatened by the idea of someone else wanting Shawn. Obviously.

Ashley is on the phone with her agent when Emma heads out in search of caffeine for them. She turns the corner in the narrow hotel hallway and finds herself a faceful of chest. She practically bounces back off of Shawn, who instinctively reaches out to grab her arms to steady her. The look on his face seems to Emma like regret when he realizes it’s her. Maybe after everything he’d rather see her spring backwards and fall flat on her toned little ass.

He’s walking back up from the hotel gym. He’s all musky and sweaty and Emma actually has to clench her thighs a little from feeling the moisture from his t-shirt condensate on her nose. She coughs.

“Hi,” she croaks, not avoiding his eyes like she sometimes does.

He looks uncertain. “Hi.”

She opens her mouth to say hopefully something coherent when he speaks again.

“Are you—I mean, how… are you good?” he stumbles, ducking his head and reaching for the back of his neck bashfully. Emma wants to call a technical foul – he can’t be allowed to be this cute when he’s otherwise being so annoying.

She raises her chin. “I’m good. Ashley’s here. We’re going to a club opening tonight.”

Shawn’s jaw visibly clenches. “I know. I’m going too.”

Emma’s tough shell cracks too easily. “You’re… what?”

He shrugs. “Island still thinks we should be BFFs. Thinks Ashley Jackson might be good for business.”

His disapproving tone makes her want to smack him. Instead, she purses her lips and narrows her eyes.

“Well, you gotta do what you gotta do.”

If she were in a generous mood, she would forewarn him about Kyle. But she decides he hasn’t really earned it. Instead, she steps past him, feels her heart shriek out desperately like it wants her to turn around and run face first into his chest again. She continues her caffeine hunt like nothing’s wrong.

Shawn leans against the wall. She doesn’t always bring out the best in him, he’s noticed. He has an odd protective streak that turns him a little more sarcastic and biting than he usually is. He definitely doesn’t like it. But he’s not sure how to control it, either.

Fifteen minutes later, Emma wiggles her keycard into the electronic door lock while holding two green tea lattes. Ashley is perched on the end of the bed, stock straight like the dancer she used to be, scrolling through her phone.

“That took a while,” Ashley purrs knowingly. Emma chuckles, glances down at her Stan Smiths.

“Ran into Shawn in the hallway,” Emma states, sitting cross legged on the bed a few feet from Ashley.

Ashley is focused now. She lifts the plastic cup to her lips, keeping her eyes trained on Emma. “Do tell.”

“There’s something… I don’t know. I don’t know what he wants from me. He’s… I think sometimes he sees right through me, right into me. And then as soon as I’m comfortable he says something that makes me think he wants to change me.”

Ashley nods sagely. “Men are so threatened by women that have fun. They’re not comfortable unless you’re just doing your job and lying down at night under some fucking loser who only wants to do missionary.”

Emma snorts, unconvinced, and glances away as she speaks. “He’s a nice guy. We texted a lot over tour break. But I can’t figure him out. The other night… nevermind.”

Emma looks back at Ashley who’s looking back down at her phone. She raises her little pointed nose in a polite smile. “Hmm?”

Emma misses Shawn a lot in that moment. She shakes her head, pretending it’s unimportant. It’s better, anyway. Ashley probably doesn’t even know “Bad Reputation” and wouldn’t be able to help, instead spewing something about Penny Lane and Kate Hudson being robbed of an Oscar. Emma doesn’t know what Ashley is talking about sometimes but it makes her feel like she has a cool older sister who goes off on intelligent tangents. And gets her weed.

That night, the caravan returns. There’s an extra car for all of Ashley’s crew and her oversized ego.

Shawn watches with interest as they all pile in, Ashley and Emma last. Emma looks beautiful and uncomfortable by her friend’s posse. It stirs a little whisper of hope in Shawn’s gut. Em is here, too.

But Em is not the only unexpected guest.

Shawn sort of hates himself for being at a club opening, especially one called “Trench” but his friends are here and everyone else is game so he has to be, too. He starts in on the bourbon as soon as they’re in the cars. He has two fingers of it in his hand almost as soon as he walks through the door at Trench, which does strikingly resemble a trench.

He eyes Emma carefully. She’s too good for this place. She looks so fucking cute tonight, he thinks, hoping no one’s watching as he rakes her from head to toe, admiring her white slip dress that looks more like a nightgown than most nightgowns he’s seen, and her cool slicked back hair. He wants to put an arm around her shoulders and walk around, absorb some of her clout.

But, he thinks bitterly with a slug from his drink, the clout is fake. He likes what’s real. And the longer they’re standing around in the overcrowded VIP section of Trench, the more he wishes he could be with Em in his dressing room plucking at acoustics, maybe writing together. Instead he’s watching Emma and Ashley do shots of Patron for the ‘Gram.

He plunks himself down between Geoff and Brian, silent and stoic. They do their best to engage him but aren’t surprised when he doesn’t respond. He’s been a little dead behind the eyes since the night of “Bad Rep.” Which still no one understands.

Shawn isn’t actually watching Emma when Kyle appears. He’s glancing around the club trying to guess how much this place spent on blacklights through his bourbon-soaked haze. Geoff nudges him. Shawn looks up.

He’s never met Kyle Dillon in person but he’s heard stories. Kyle Dillon stories remind him a little bit of Blackbeard. Depending on who they’re told by, they’re either spoken in hushed, reverent tones about a master seducer so legendary you don’t dare speak his name above a whisper, or it’s made plain that he’s a douche. By the way Kyle greets Emma with a wet kiss on her cheek and a palm flat on her ass, Shawn’s comfortable assuming the latter.

He tenses slightly and feels his fingers test the cool walls of his high ball glass. Kyle talks into Emma’s ear and by the way she flutters her eyelashes and shrugs an arm around his waist, it’s clear this isn’t their first meeting. Shawn’s throat starts to close up so he waves down more bourbon. And keep ‘em coming.

Emma feels his eyes burning a hole in the back of her dress. Let them, she thinks, this is who I am.

Even after three shots of Patron, she doesn’t have herself believing that.

This is the second fucking time he’s been frustrated almost to the point of tears by her antics in a club. He doesn’t even like clubs. What the fuck is he fucking doing here? If he were a little more sober, he’d have the good sense to get up and leave before he did something stupid or witnessed her do something stupider. A piece of him still wants to be around, though, in case Ashley reaches for a little bag of whatever in her purse. Not that that’s Shawn’s job, to be caring about what Emma may or may not be using recreationally. Maybe it’s her new boyfriend Kyle’s.

He hears Kyle’s name in a whiney, snarky voice in his head. He reaches for more bourbon. He doesn’t want to hear anything in his head.

An hour after Kyle arrives, Emma finally gets to sit down. The tequila hasn’t quite dulled the ache of her new pointed toe disco ball Louboutins. But she loves them like she would love a pet if she were allowed one. She actually looks down at them affectionately and rubs off a mark with a thumb she licks.

She leans back and swings one leg over the other, sighing. She clocks Kyle talking to someone that looks suspiciously like Zac Efron at the far end of the VIP section. Ashley went to do a line in the ladies’ bathroom. Time to look for Shawn.

Her placidly interested expression drops when she sees him. He’s a little slumped over in a booth. Geoff is illuminated by a blacklight on the opposite side and is wearing a serious expression. Emma’s heart throws itself across the room before she can even scramble to her feet to check it out.

Her hustle in her shoes is impressive. She reaches him in a few long, brisk steps. She tries not to make a scene as she squats beside the table, wishing her dress wasn’t so goddamn short. Fucking Mabel.

Geoff eyes her warily. Her face tightens. Her bullshit tolerance is low tonight.

“How much has he had to drink?” Emma asks without looking directly at Shawn. She sees his head bobbing slightly in her periphery. She tries not to wince.

Geoff looks like he’s about to get defensive, which Emma has no time for. She rolls her eyes and straightens up.

“We have to get him out of here. I don’t want people seeing him like this.”

A flash of confusion at Emma’s concern shows on Geoff’s face before he can paste over it with resignation. He nods.

Emma looks to Shawn, finally. His eyes are open, barely, and he’s still holding onto a melting glass of boozy ice. She wrenches it out of his fingers and lifts his hand, squeezing.

“Hey, look at me,” she demands, voice as quiet as ever but firm. Shawn’s eyes wander to hers. He frowns almost comically.

“C’mon, let’s blow this popsicle stand,” she mutters, jerking her head at Geoff to help get him upright. Thankfully, at this time of night, no one’s really watching them and the VIP section is well hidden from the rest of the club. There’s a separate exit to a pap-free zone outside. Their cars were supposed to meet out front to catch her and Kyle “canoodling” outside.

With one arm around Shawn’s frame and one hand frantically shooting a text to the driver, she maneuvers them toward the exit before it’s blocked by a familiar freckly face.

“Hey, he ok?” Kyle asks, raising his eyebrows at Shawn, looking judgey. Emma wants to slap the smirk off his face. She huffs.

“He’s fine, I’m taking him back. We’ll have to get papped some other time.”

Kyle looks like he’s ready to argue and she’s sure it’s more about what he thought was going to happen after they got back to the hotel that he’s disappointed about. She doesn’t give him the time. She and Geoff sweep Shawn through the doors. She’s pleased he’s a compliant drunk rather than sad, angry, or, the worst of all, tricky.

The car is waiting for them. Geoff helps get him inside and they sandwich him in the backseat on the unnervingly quiet drive back to the hotel. Again, they’re brought around back despite the late hour, just in case any fans have staked out the place. Geoff and Emma are still silent on their trek up through the back bowels of the hotel to the service elevator, but Shawn has started blabbering.

He’s muttering into Geoff’s shoulder, nuzzling him sweetly. Emma tries not to smile. Shawn’s eyes open as he’s rolling his temple against Geoff’s arm and he seems to spot Emma.

“Ems,” he whispers, closing his eyes like the name brings him comfort. Goosebumps spread on her skin like wildfire. Geoff turns his eyes to the ground wisely.

He continues mumbling, talking incoherently about something or nothing, looking over at her through squinty eyes as though she should be paying attention to what he’s saying but she’s too busy trying not to twist an ankle in her skyscraper stilettos while she steers him down the corridor.

Outside his room, Geoff swipes Shawn’s wallet and locates the keycard. They get him inside and flop him down face up on the bed. Shawn’s eyebrows pull together and he releases a low groan that makes Emma smile. She looks around, takes stock of her supplies, before she kicks off her shoes and nods once at Geoff.

“You can go.”

Geoff looks baffled. “I…?”

“Go. I’ve got this.”

She’s not leaving him much room for protest and by the ‘don’t fuck with me’ look in her eye, he takes option number one and bails, telling her to text him if he needs anything. Emma makes a mental note that she likes Geoff more now.

She plants her hands on her hips and looks down at Shawn. He’s sprawled awkwardly on the bed, jaw hanging open slightly, eyes fluttering. She’s had some practice with the drunken hotel room recovery thing, so she slips into nurse mode.

She pulls off his shoes and belt so he’s at least a little more comfortable. She almost goes to remove his button up but it feels just a hair past too intimate so she leaves it. He’s sleepily pliant, moving as she needs him to, even sitting up so she can force feed him a bottle of water and some aspirin. He’s still talking about absolutely nothing, head bobbling, eyes opening and closing randomly.

When he’s downed the water, she props him up long enough to retrieve a lined garbage can to leave by the bed. When she returns, he’s hunched over sideways like a plant towards the sun. She hauls him upright and smooths her fingers through his hair before she realizes how… not ok that was.

He opens his cloudy chestnut eyes at her like he forgot she was there. “Emma.”

“It’s me,” she confirms under her breath, watching his adam’s apple bob on his throat.

“Kyle Dillon,” Shawn groans, swallowing roughly.

She expects him to follow that up with another thought. He doesn’t. It seems to say enough.

He closes his eyes for a minute or two, breathing quietly. “Why?” he whispers.

It breaks her heart just a little bit.

“It’s fake,” she admits easily, “It’s a PR stunt.”

Shawn opens his eyes again. “Fake? Like Hailey?”

He’s a little childlike and blabby when he’s drunk, making him more adorable than she anticipated. She giggles. “Fake like Hailey.”

Shawn seems satisfied by this and shimmies back against the headboard. He’s coming back little by little, Emma can tell. She’s not going to leave until he’s mostly sober. Not even if he wants her to.

“What happened the other night?” she hears herself say.

She and Shawn look equally shocked by her words. She snaps her jaw shut and frowns.

“The… song?” Shawn guesses, wincing as he adjusts on the mattress. She nods.

“I didn’t know you were there.”

Emma doesn’t buy it. “Funny, because I know you saw me. I know that’s where you watch my shows from.”

Shawn looks a little guilty, a little sheepish and a little indignant. “I only ever listen to ‘How I’ve Been.’ Your other music…”

“Sucks?” she chuckles. He returns the sound but it sounds choked off and tired. She curls her legs up to her side and he watches.

“You’re so fuckin’ pretty, Em.”

Words Emma’s heard since she was a small child. Easy to swallow, not so easy to believe.

“I like you.”

Now those… those are new.

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[blayzez]

I'm sorry, I know I don't usually post discourse on my blog. I'm just... really hurt right now.

At the age of 24, after spending my entire childhood forcing myself to believe I was straight because that's what my family and religion said I was supposed to be, I finally acknowledged that I was bisexual. Even then, I was still second-guessing myself: What if I only think I'm bisexual because the internet/social media makes it seem like the "In" thing? What if my sexuality is just a mask and not who I really am? What if, what if, what if. It was hard.

Then I saw Voltron. Lance seemed to have a bisexuality arc laid out for him, and it was obvious that he didn't quite know he was bi and/or wasn't emotionally ready to acknowledge it.

That was just so validating. It made me happy to know that being confused about your sexuality -- not being sure if you're the sexuality you think you might be -- was common enough to include it in a kid's show and it made me feel so much better! I was so happy, and with Lance's help (and the help of my friends and therapist), I was able to finally accept my sexuality for what it was. And I'm an adult. Think about how many kids his arc could have helped! Kids who were questioning, kids who were unsure, kids that might not being surrounded by a good support system and have to hide who they are. Lance was shaping up to be someone kids could really look up, admire, and in turn accept themselves for they are because of him.

And now that's washed down the drain. It meant so much to me, perhaps meant so much to a lot of kids that needed that role model, but it clearly meant nothing to the writers and that is just so disheartening.

This isn't even about shipping. I love K/ance with all my heart, but I would be okay with any endgame ship so long as it was written well. This includes keeping the characters in-character and allowing the romance to help in their character development. Keith was the most likely candidate -- he really did make Lance a better person and vice versa -- but if someone else filled that role and filled it well, I would have been perfectly fine with that! But that's not what we got. Instead, the boy who has been insecure ALL SERIES has to spend his only romance building up his partner and have that not be reciprocated. That most-likely-candidate boosted him up more than Lance's actual romantic partner, and that is just bad writing. That's not a good relationship. Relationships are two-way streets; you can't have only one of the partners be supportive -- they have to be EQUALLY supportive. And A//urance was not that. A//urance was rushed, did not help the characters develop in the slightest, and took away TWO great role models.

I don't like Allura. I think I've made this clear before, but I really don't like her. I was neutral to her in s1, then the whole Not-All-Galra arc happened in s2 and my opinion of her started going down at that point.

But she didn't deserve the hand she was dealt. She was the only woman of color in the main cast, and they KILL HER??? WHY????? I may not have liked her, but that doesn't mean she was a bad character! On the contrary, she was a great role model and I'm sure many girls of color looked up to her. And then they just kill her? First they take away the great role model Lance could have been as a confused bisexual character, and then they take away the only woman of color on the main cast. WHAT. THE. FUCK. You can't just do that! I feel so horrible for the kids who looked up to those characters only to have it all ripped out from under their feet.

Oh, but there was a random gay wedding at the end, so that makes it alllllllll better~

Except it doesn't. Adding in a gay wedding/kiss with little-to-no build-up is more likely to cause confusion than anything else. And it doesn't erase how dirty they did Lance and Allura. Both characters deserved better.

On the topic of shipping, yes, it was queerbait. I refused to believe the showrunners were doing that -- I absolutely refused because I trusted the showrunners completely. Surely they wouldn't have ALL OF THESE ROMANTIC PARALLELS between K/L with other canon romantic couples for nothing. Surely they wouldn't have developed K/L's relationship more than any other relationship unless there was a really good reason for it. SURELY THEY WOULDN'T BE OKAY WITH VAGUING ABOUT THE SHIP MULTIPLE TIMES AND BEING OKAY WITH DW USING K/L FOR MARKETING PURPOSES IF IT WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.

But nope. All of the media techniques to subtly hint at a romance used specifically for K/L meant nothing. It was just bros being bros nothing gay here.

And that is BULLSHIT.

Honestly, the whole season just screams, "SHOCK VALUE," to me. They wanted to shock people, but I don't think they really considered the repercussions of how they were doing it. I get shock value, bringing up the interest and encouraging audiences to rewatch the series to understand why the shock was actually built-up from the beginning, but there's right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. Voltron took the wrong way and screwed it up royally.

To be clear, I am not against straight ships. Far from it, some of my favorite ships are heterosexual. Nor do I fetishize mlm relationships -- K/L is only the second mlm relationship I've come to really love (the first being Hau and Gladion from Pokemon Sun & Moon). It's just that K/L really struck a chord with me and with so many other people, and to take that away for the sake of a straight ship and some shitty shock value? Dirty thing to do to the show's audience. Don't build up proper LGBT+ rep UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY FUCKING HAVE IT. The only rep? Shiro, and a hastily-added Zethrid/Ezor ship. Blaytz, too, but that was glossed over tbh and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the audience (not on tumblr because we analyze everything to death lol) completely forgot about Blaytz's interaction with that make Galra. That's not proper rep. That's throwing it in and thinking, "It exists so our job is done."

Media in general has being doing LGBT+ rep dirty for SO LONG. Even when we had positive LGBT+ characters in media, they were still characters based off of gay stereotypes. They were good positive characters, but were still perpetuating a certain bias against LGBT+ by displaying these stereotypes as fact. Times are supposed to be different now. We're supposed to be progressing, making it BETTER. I really thought Voltron was going to be part of that progress, that it would give us a well-written, well-developed, well-loved LGBT+ representation for kids of this generation to look up to and admire and learn acceptance -- about themselves and about others -- from. Instead, the showrunners three half-assed, tacked on LGBT+ reps and called it a day.

THAT'S NOT COOL.

This isn't about ships. This is about proper media representation for the LGBT+ community -- something that is really scarce, even now -- and how it affects the LGBT+ community when it's done badly. This also goes for racial rep. You can take two misrepresented groups and treat them horribly and then call it good rep. IT ISN'T. The poor representation of the LGBT+ community has proved to be detrimental in society's view of them. THIS DOESN'T HELP.

*sigh*

Off the topic of that, can we talk about how shit the writing was? Because it was really shit.

I'll admit that while I like s7, it wasn't written amazingly-well. Still, it wasn't bad and did have plenty of interesting episodes. Even with all of the asspulls we got in the last episode, it was still awesome because we got to see Shiro back in his element after losing almost everything in prior seasons. It was a mix of good writing and bad writing, but the good writing made up for the bad.

The seasons previous to that were well-done. Maybe not s4, but the other seasons were well-written and really enjoyable! There's a reason the show took off; the plot maybe standard, but the characters, character dynamics, and relationships were fantastic and were the true driving force behind the series and its success.

So why was s8 so all over the place? Why were plot threads that had been hinted at or outright confirmed left hanging or tied together hastily? So many things were alluded to in previous seasons only to lead to NOTHING. WHY???

Why did everyone BUT Lance get an arc?

What was the point of Lance getting a sword if it was never going to be brought up again?

Why was Keith's arc suddenly thrown to the wayside?

Why did Allura have to DIE for her arc to reach its conclusion?

WHY?

So many people complained about bad writing in Voltron, but I had always believed that the writing in Voltron was relatively good. Sure, it had its problems (like the entirety of s4, and the MFEs being boring as shit), but it was mostly a well-rounded show with well-rounded characters.

And s8... just threw all of that away.

All of that potential, all of those good arcs -- wasted.

The writing went downhill SO fast, and it's just such a shame. Something that meant so much to me has dissolved into the mess s8 was. It's disheartening.

I also want to apologize to all of my followers who followed me because my K/L optimism and metas. I'm sorry if I got your hopes up; I really thought K/L was the logical conclusion -- everything was building up to it, right from the first episode and even continuing in s7 (hell, even s8 added to it) -- and I truly thought the writers were going to follow through with all of the logical conclusions the previous seasons built up. I had faith in them, but I was wrong. For that, I apologize. I know it's just a cartoon show, but I also know how influential and meaningful media can be -- especially for marginalized groups -- so if my hype bringing you up made your fall harder when s8 was released, I am so sorry. You didn't deserve that; nobody in the fandom did.

I'm so jaded and disillusioned right now. Voltron has been a major inspiration for me; I originally decided to be a cartoonist to bring LGBT+ representation to children's media because of Steven Universe, but it was Voltron that really motivated me to reach that goal. I looked up to Voltron -- it was my muse, my main inspiration. I've learned so much about writing -- writing character arcs, relationships, etc. -- from Voltron and all of the analyzing people did. Seeing it devolve into what it did is upsetting. Something I loved so much has let me down, and I'm hurt and disappointed.

But more than ever, I want to create cartoons that don't do this; cartoons that tie up its loose ends, follow through with obvious character relationships, puts the main characters through complete arcs, and give proper development to them all. Cartoons that have proper LGBT+ and racial representation -- with LGBT+/characters of color that can be admired, that won't fall flat, that will teach the children of the generation about acceptance of others and acceptance of yourself regardless of sexuality, skin color, gender identity, etc. Voltron failed in that aspect; it was a compelling show that failed in everything it needed to succeed in. I refuse to make that same mistake.

With that, let's all look ahead to future and enjoy the fanworks that do these wonderful characters justice. Let Voltron's failure inspire you to create and make something better, something that will be much more impactful, much more meaningful.

Don't let it get you down; let it bring you up.