#which is probably healthier

[six-of-ravens]

apparently scrubbing the tub is actually a decent workout

[tiredneutron]

So, fun story!

Hanging out with friends when one of them puts on another’s smart watch. She checks her heart rate against the guys previous 4 hours and sees his high was like 94bpm. She sits there and hits 100bpm and is like “yeah I win!”

So naturally, I put on the watch and it starts at 108bpm as I sit there. She’s like, “No way! Give it a minute to get an accurate read”

It stays at about 107-109, so naturally I say “okay but watch this!”

I hit 120bpm

I don’t know if I should be proud of having a high “resting” heart rate…

[deoidesign]

Time and Time Again comes back tonight!

Thank you all for being so patient with me, I know it was a long hiatus.

My health was struggling, my arm was (is) hurting, and I decided it wasn't worth it. I'd rather be slow!

So thank you for giving me that grace, and I hope you'll be there with me for the rest of the series.

[themetalvirus]

shoutout to everyone with chronic hand pain who plays video games anyway. fuck it we ouch 🫡

[stuckinapril]

Something so ineffable about exhaustion that comes not from a lack of sleep but from a lack of rest

[gideonisms]

Want to go somewhere and see different things than my apartment walls but if there is a sound or anyone looks at me I will die right there. And if I go outside today I step into a sauna. Also nearly everything besides restaurants closes at 8 despite the fact that the roads are hell 24 hours a day. You can see how this leaves me with limited options

[neometalsilver]

sonamy is cute but it’s so so so much funnier to pair her with every and all sonic variants/counterparts instead. blazeamy? chefs kiss. metamy? fantastic. chaosrusty? hilarious. surgeamy? fantastic comedic potential.

[zeb-z]

the way they light their cigarettes okay. Louis and Armand always lighting their own cigarettes, until the end of episode four in s2, where Louis lit Armand’s for him with his powers as Armand called him maitre. while Louis and Lestat had always lit their cigarettes with the others light, never really lighting their own or lighting the others for them in any other way.

does it represent their true attempt at living as equals? maybe. their codependency? probably. their intimacy in all things, certainly. but what does that mean for Armand and Louis so far? healthier with proper boundaries until now? or showing a lack of that same intimacy?

[maingh0st]

This is just curiosity if anyone else notices this. People say that the TFOTA fandom holds no toxicity but I don’t think that’s the case. We just don’t have ship-wars. But have you noticed that a good amount of the fandom has a holier than thou attitude on how you’re supposed to enjoy the fandom? I admit I dislike wren and have been open about it in the past, But I noticed that the fandom will defend her and call you names for stating your dislike of her and being rude to you than do the same thing you’re doing with a character they love but do it with Taryn or another character they dislike, and hate noticing that they’re doing the same thing and call you names for stating that. I also noticed that some fans will call you names and be rude to you for having a different opinion on the next faerie book. Say the fandom is not for you for not liking things they like, and call you toxic for not having the same headcanons as them or not liking the same thing as them and being open about it. It’s especially bad on Reddit. But it can be bad on tumblr or any platform that has them do the same actions but say you’re the toxic one for not liking things they like. I’m curious if you’ve noticed that

hi! I'm really sorry you've had those experiences. honestly, I'm pretty new to tfota tumblr, and I don't engage with the fandom anywhere else (you mentioned reddit), so I've had less time to pick up on behaviors like that. I don't know if I'm lucky, or if I've just cultivated a pretty chill group of followers and accounts that I follow, but my time here has been pretty lacking in toxicity (& if people seem like they're trying to be inflammatory, I usually try not to engage)

in general, fandom lives in this really interesting intersection between entertainment (so we get the "let people like what they like; it doesn't matter" crowd) and truth/meaning (so we get the "stories reflect your ethics & our world & therefore shouldn't just be mindlessly enjoyed" crowd). I'm just a person yapping on the internet, but if I had to take a stab at where a lot of fandom toxicity comes from, it's in the clash between those two ideas. everyone has the right to form their own opinions and preferences for the media they consume, and yet at the same time, we often want to have conversations about what those stories mean & whether their themes are good reflections of our real world.

but if a character is your favorite babygirl who can do no wrong & you see someone criticizing their actions (or, alternatively, if you're deeply disturbed by the themes in a story & see someone ranking it as one of their favorite books), it can feel personal. we can forget that the individual behind that account is a whole person with life experiences that form their perspectives & whose opinions are no less valuable than our own.

I'm sorry you've experienced name calling and gatekeeping; that's really unfair. fandom is for everyone (just don't cause harm), and people are allowed to have differing opinions. I wish open & respectful conversations were more common than they are, but they do exist, and that's why I'm still here—I've had so much fun jabbering with people (who often have different perspectives on the books we read!) because I learn from them. I hope you're able to find that comfortable niche here, too.

[lycanr0t]

its funny to ship something but have 0 interest in exploring it in art/etc.

i do ship chil/senshi and love cute art of them but i genuinely think they would be so good for each other in a normal healthy way that its completely boring for me to explore myself since i favor the strange and fucked up

meanwhile i think laios and chil COULD be healthy i guess if the stars aligned but its more likely to be a unbalanced complicated obsessive mess where they hurt each other and need each other and get so tangled in their feelings for each other they basically eat each other alive 🤷‍♂️

[spaghett-onaplate]

I tried dieting yesterday but it was fucking awful I'd rather be happy than skinny

[pochapal]

getting a bad grade in gender identity because i value self expression infinitely less than i value human connections

[maretriarch]

everytime i listen to levan polkka i think about the like 12 year old blonde hair blue eyes cherubic looking little boy i met at the childrens mental hospital when i was 17 who had to have 1 on 1 supervision bcs he liked to kill small animals and we would do levan polkka on just dance together. he wasnt a bad kid. i think just bored. writing creepypasta fanfic would have saved him.

[as8bakwthesage]

I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues I hate having memory issues-

[orcelito]

Wonderful news, after a month of flossing almost every day, my gums are finally no longer bleeding every time I floss!! 😃

[octahyde]

Regardless of what it is you really shouldn’t use romance to be in any way comparable to an irl romantic relationship unless you are extremely fucking boring and only like ships that actively resemble healthy irl romantic relationships.

(It’s me. I am extremely fucking boring. Treyrid are a couple that have been married in a stable relationship for 30 years despite being under 20. That’s why they’re my canon x canon twst otp.)