#reconnecting with the body

[theeternalwombtarot]

Don’t ever let someone gaslight you into believing that you’re being irrational about the way that you feel about their behavior. They are not you and your spirit is telling you that you don’t like something that they did and it isn’t right or that maybe you feel hurt about it or uncomfortable and that is your definitive confirmation and “ok” to feel how you feel and then create a course of action behind said feelings. They are not you and they do not get to define for you what it means to hurt, what it means for something that they did to you to have been wrong or unjust, etc. they are not you.

[compassionmattersmost]

6: Gentle Movement and Stretching in the Gym: Reconnecting with Your Body

Now that you’ve taken the significant step of entering the gym without the pressure to exercise, you might feel ready to begin exploring gentle movement. For people living with Post-Viral ME/CFS, this phase requires a delicate balance—respecting your energy levels while slowly reconnecting with your body through light movement and stretching. In this blog post, we’ll look at how to introduce…

[hmsdoodlin]

Soul probably thought that as soon as they brought Heart back from apathy everything would be ok again. Sure he knew there’d be pushback, heightened emotions and snarling. Heart wouldn’t be happy when he came home, but Soul was sure they’d get back on track soon enough.

How could he be so naive?

All he got was an empty husk, something staring at him that’s devoid of any life. Heart doesn’t speak, he barely even responds, apathetic and broken for days on end.

It gets to a point where Soul is crying, begging, shaking him and wailing for his Heart back. He wants him to cry, to speak, to scream, to do anything!

He misses him so so badly, it’s almost as if he’s dead.

Apathy had consumed him whole. And Soul has no idea how to fix it.

[headphonemouse]

[icharchivist]

Seeing people make fun of Solas for being so into the Fade always made me sad as an autistic person, because by god can I relate, but it feels extra bad since the Veilguard reveals.

god same

i also can relate a lot to it. i think i swing more on the ADHD side but i'm technically not diagnosticed with that, i have hyperfixation and bad cptsd though due to many things including neglect and trauma from bullying, so the whole idea to make fun of someone for being into something they like just makes me so infinitely sad and makes me feel alienated as well. Like even without the Reveals, the man is just happy to talk about something he likes. what's so bad with that. And he rarely does so without being prompted and/or because he faces something that excites him. That's just cruel to me to hold it against him.

(there's also how sometimes people make fun of the fact Solas and Cole get along so well in game like leave them aloooone they understand each other at least!!)

After the Reveals however this is even worse. Like i was rereading his banters the other day and like, there's one where Bull makes fun of the Fade and then adds that demons are not people like, almost verbatum, and Solas gets so annoyed and sends it back at him "wouldn't people also say the same about the Qunari" and that gets Bull upset. And i'm just.. bro... you insulted him as a person over his own nature first....

Like he goes from hyperfixating nerd who really wants to share what he loves, from literally the last remaining person who truly knows what was lost from the disconnection to the Fade -- one of the last "spirit made corporal", the one who still see spirits and the awakening world, and is trying to reunite the two, and in a way i feel like it's... almost like he's trying to act as an ambassador for spirits. Like the way he talks about them in DAI where everyone also kinda come representing their "faction"/"background", he feels like he's begging you to consider how spirits feel, and he'll assume what you think of spirits is also directed at him too.

and it just... feels so bad.

I keep thinking about the banter where Dorian says "since you love spirit so much why don't you bind them, we love binding spirits back home" and Solas gets so cold and it's like. my god Dorian. King of putting both his feet in his mouth at the same time.

guuuhh. Poor guy

[impossible-rat-babies]

"of all the corpses i have carried, yours is my favorite by far."

[yearinlou]

Zayn Malik & Louis Tomlinson: Friendship + Reconciliation

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body//A, Swim Pony, I Loved My Friend//Mikko Harvey, Let the World Have You//Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous//One Direction, History

[buttercupart]

timeskip Molly concepts - probably when she's around 16-17 ish, maybe even early college? ( I'm not a big fan of the "ooh the bubbly character gets older and is now SUPER SAD" trope so this is more like... Molly is still Molly, she just gets older and faces more hardships/life stressors that come with age, and struggles to maintain the same high level of positivity/resiliency she used to have )

[iaxsl]

Modern au where Sanji and Luffy fall in love while Sanji is engaged. Similar to the events of WCI, Sanji is in a forced business marriage. A merger of Germa Tech. and LinLin Industries. Sanji has no feelings of hatred, he accepts since that is what he’s supposed to do, and who knows, maybe he will fall in love with whomever he’s engaged to. At least then, he’ll be able to leave his family. He signs up at a gym after snide remarks from his family about his weight and meets Luffy as he struggles with one of the machines. Luffy is pure sunshine, and Sanji envies that; he seems so free. Luffy is a personal trainer part-time and a semi-pro boxer. As they spend more time together, Sanji starts to realize that he’s falling more and more in love with Luffy (for added drama, he maybe doesn’t tell Luffy that he’s engaged). Luffy falls first; he tells Sanji as such after Sanji cooks for him for the first time (maybe as a thank you, but also as an excuse to spend more time together). Sanji is hesitant, though he feels the same way, but Luffy doesn’t give up. Somehow, Sanji’s family realizes what’s happening, and they find Luffy. They threaten him and attempt to silence him, Luffy fights back and wins (obviously). He goes to talk to Sanji, and Sanji finally tells Luffy everything. Luffy gets upset, not at Sanji, but at his family and wishes he beat up the goons they sent even harder. Luffy and Sanji meet up with the smartest person Luffy knows (Nami), and together, they come up with a solution. Something something, Sanji finally confronts his family and gets together with Luffy.

[purple-egg-yolk]

Could regrowth be used to reconnect part of someone’s spirit web that’s taken out with hemalurgy?

Spoilers for the lost metal by Brandon Sanderson:

We know that hemalurgy now can take out just part of someone’s soul, so if someone had the spike, person and access to regrowth, could they reconnect their spirit web? Also could someone have a spike made of them and then somehow get the spike back and put it in themselves and have their soul back?

[zs-starwars]

Look before the War Within starts and Anduin gets to work on his Shadowlands gotten trauma and development I need to dunk on him (affectionate) for a quick second okay?

So in Before the Storm he has this line:

"Her [Sylavnas's] eyes narrowed. Anduin knew she understood the lesson of this day's tragic events. She was not universally loved among her people. He was. She ruled with an iron fist. He ruled with compassion. (pg347)"

Which comparatively sure, fair. Sylvanas has just put a hard, murderous, stop to Calia's first attempt at girlbossing and killed about half the desolate council. Before the Storm is what it needed to be for BfA and beyond.

But I would like to point out that earlier in the book we have this:

"Anduin had been informed that negative sentiment was not limited to his advisors. Guards and Shaw's people had reported that there was muttering in some of the taverns and on the streets. The guards had been instructed to interrupt such conversations if they verged on sedition or grew violent. (pg 248)"

Baby boy that is not universally beloved and ruling with compassion. Lol. Lmao even.

I've scrawled all in my copy with little notes and I have a messy word document with rewrite ideas for this 6 (!) year old book. I am excited to see what we have going on under Silithus. In the end WoW is a video game that needs to keep selling and making new storylines.

[lunasilvis]

When I've screwed down my head again onto my body by the end of this week, I'm gonna take spicy pictures and feel like a stone cold fox again 🖤

[mrligerslair]

75% of online discourse is just this to me:

[dutyworn]

I know I talk a lot about how much Wren hates appearing vulnerable, but that's more about emotional vulnerability. She's actually pretty vocal about physical pain, unless she needs to hide an injury for tactical reasons (to keep quiet in general but also: including downplaying an injury to her team mid-mission if she is confident it won't hinder her and worrying her team would distract them). She grunts a lot when moving, falling, exerting her body, and if she's badly injured and in pain she's likely to go with her body's instinct to regulate her nervous system by making noise (cries, wails, whimpers) about it. This is something she doesn't think about, and not at all something she would think of as the type of vulnerability she tries to avoid showing.

She is simply. a vocal person, and very at home in her body.

[eyeballsoup7310]

Struggling with my ocs I’m just gonna make yall decide for me

[c1airidryl]

Working on set has been amazing. I find a lot of pleasure in working hard with my body especially for my art. The temporary suffering of physical discomfort and resulting growing strength and improvement is such an important component of my mental health that I first learned when I began working out at the gym. I hope I get to keep doing art department work after this mentorship is done.