#sternocleidomastoid

[laudaddysmitten]

Stunning View

Ch 5: Binary

by LaudaddySmitten

(GOAD Writer's Guild Official)

CW: Rated Explicit (eventual smut; see tags on AO3)

Summary

An angel and a demon walk into a private room at an inn, for more of that closeness they crave. They are safe from Heavenly and Hellish intruders…right?

This chapter is sweet, things are heating up, and wait, is that some plot simmering beneath the surface? As usual the boys can't help but think in science- because I'm the one writing them.

😈 🌈🔭 😘 🧣🧠 😇

Excerpt

While Aziraphale worked on undoing the tailcoat's large buttons fastened on the right side, he began to talk — a light, running patter, as much to calm and distract himself from the dull murmur of inner turmoil fighting to break free again, as to tease Crowley.

“You know, Crowley, this clothing of yours excels at being inscrutable. So many overlapping portions or at least the illusion of such. Even the human body is easier to figure out.�� All the muscles are completely hidden by skin, but even then I can find where a muscle begins and ends. For example, when I kissed down your neck and up the other side…”

Crowley nodded and let out a long hum of pleasure at the recent memory.

I was tracing the path of one of my favourite muscles, especially on you.

Continue reading on AO3:

Pssst, it's the neck chapter, folks, featuring my favorite (and Aziraphale's favourite) muscle. Calling all members of the Neck Club of GOAD!

Credits:

@goodomensafterdark @paperclipninja @kotias

Thanks to my VERY patient beta readers. This chapter and the next proved what saints you all are. @olfactoryventriloquism , @outrageousring5655   @happynachohologram @adverbian, @nosferatini astrophysics

Art banner by @lexarturo

[curvymommy70]

Show me on this picture where the gym hurt you.

Really hurting after a solid workout today, lats, fly, press, incline press, Russian twists, and a couple other things I can no longer remember.

[missedstations]

"Sternocleidomastoid" - Lisa Allen Ortiz

If I can live without myself, what else can I live without? Trees, no. Breath. But. Lungs. Not. My friend's dad growing up had one lung. I thought about that. My cousin had no kidneys. We're all missing parts, but my question is when does the missing become all that we are. That crow shrieks from the wire. Me with talons. Imag1ne. Something called soul cut out of night and pasted on day. Foul bird. Ghosts. The grass under the feet I still have. Dirt under the grass. Thing is, I feel connected to you. No tendon or cervical spine but I've (whatever) spent time with your body. I've felt your body inside mine. Inside, your body inside mine, appendages and crevices. Body inside a body. Wheel inside the old wheel. Sex is weird says the crow from his wire. How crows make love I type in. Photo of crows, stacked. Will I talk to you when you're dead? Will I visit your grave or some beach where your charred bones lay at rest? Will you be eaten by crows. (Vile but everything that falls on the earth becomes earth. You told me that.) You. You know who you are and you also know who you are. Me. Will I talk to sand? Will you talk to me when I'm sand? Sometimes go to the gym. People at the gym push their bodies hard on machines. Same way I push against you (special you) in the night. I hold on with all my might. I want. Is wanting all that we hold with our life? Is appetite all that we are? Will I be fed in the end. Will I feed? My friend's dad had one lung but his mother had two. Together they lived a long time sharing three. They sat in their house. Same with you and me. We sit and wait for our wife, her two lungs, the wholeness she holds in the hollow she has. We glance at the birds the balance they make on the way we connect— that photo of you vibrates my pocket, a ping from tower to tower, and I'm between you and me. All of the you's. All of the me's, a neck without itsell, an open space under a floating mind, a speck in the sky faint as a heated up cloud— a dim knowing: once there were so many birds on so many wires.

[acervo-de-memes]

transcription:

"posso dar um beijo no seu

esternocleidomastoideo?"

[mleprae]

ive been reading on how hugs/cuddles and other form of skin to skin contact can aid to some relief of leprosy symptoms and my hand slipped. no aseprite didnt let me finish this one either

[tinesleftnipple]

. 🍓

[majinbangus]

I Wanna Chew On His Forearms

[fraternum-momentum]

I love the way you draw kylar, makes want to kiss/bite him until he passes out

-💌

He enjoyed that quite a lot.

[coolpointsetta]

slightly nsfw

student!iwaizumi who gets so excited when oikawa visits because he has someone to practice on for labs and practicals. oikawa is always happy to help out and claims he has the ‘best muscle definition to work with’ since he is a full-time athlete. he finds it really interesting to listen to all the cool things his smart iwa-chan is learning (and it’s really sexy to watch)

only…no real studying gets done…you’d think that this would be oikawa’s fault, as he’s usually the one to break up serious or calm moments with make out sessions but…

oikawa, on his stomach: okay, find my C7 vertebrae

iwaizumi: alright yeah easy

oikawa:

iwaizumi:

oikawa: that’s my ass, iwa-chan

iwaizumi: well would you look at that it is

or

oikawa: i should have seen this coming

iwaizumi: i really need to practice!

oikawa: YOU DONT NEED TO MASSAGE MY PECS FOR TEN WHOLE MINUTES

iwaizumi: oh so you want me to fail

OR!!

oikawa: iwaizumi hajime i swear to GOD

iwaizumi: what? i was genuinely checking your pulse! there is an artery by your genitals!

oikawa: CHECK IT SOMEWHERE ELSE! GET YOUR HAND AWAY FROM MY ASS -

and it’s really really really great until iwaizumi actually needs to test out on the body systems but he now associates the cervical vertebrae with sexy time so he has to think about old wrinkly cats instead of the muscles he really should have been practicing so he doesn’t get a boner in front of his professor

[vicshush]

[ID : An anatomical cutaway diagram of a human in left profile, head tipped to their right. The jaw bone is visible (labeled "Mandible .. Body angle") as is the base of the skull, behind and under the ear. From the skull behind the ear, at about the height of the mouth, a thick red band of muscle descends along the neck. The muscle is roughly the same length as the ear is tall, and anchors at the bottom to the collar bone, at the front of the neck. At the top, the bone is labeled "Mastoid P S [illegible]", the mastoid process. The red muscle is labeled "Sterno-cleido-mastoideus". At the bottom, the anchoring bone intersection is labeled "Sternal origin" at the front and "Clavicular origin" at the back, with the clavicle (labeled) continuing perpendicular to the muscle. [Not described in detail, but about twenty-one other muscles and a few bones in the diagram are shown in layers, labeled to varying degrees of legibility.] /end ID]

Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

[otterlycurly]

Hey you! See this? 👇🏼

This?

This right here???

MAKES ME GO FERAL

[armandsfangs]

looking up the names of specific neck muscles for my vampire fanfiction and being disappointed that none of them sound sexy

[danmeichael]

Hi great art - fantastic art!! But sorry that’s not a clavicle 😭 clavicles are the collarbones aka the horizontal bones that run between the top of your chest and shoulder blade. (Think strapless shirt/dress??) I’m pretty sure those things on necks are just muscles or tendons?? But feel free to ignore this!!

i know the muscles on the neck aren't the clavicle, thank you for trying to make sure i wasn't misinformed though!

i think my caption paired with the drawing was misleading! i was referring to the space between his collarbones/clavicles (implied to be exposed, but covered by the panel of angy shen jiu) which i've seen referred to as the clavicle before (particularly in reference to jewelry)

the more anatomically correct term is apparently jugular notch (at least when referring to the skeleton), which is better imo so i guess i'll start referring to it as that!

[bilrost]

Procession

[demigod-of-the-agni]

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

unofficial cover art for my Frankenstein-inspired Spider-Man fic

[theophagie]

Why are you as a man wearing a tank top with a low v neck. To have your chest stared at by other men? 🤨