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retroknightx · 3 years

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hypmic headcanons

since nobody on my instagram appreciates me, i’m going to put them here, and it’ll be like a master post i can add onto that way anyway (which is convenient for me, because i keep adding on… yeah, it’s bad lmao. my notes document can only take so much) all of it will be under the line so you guys don’t just have a big ass post clogging your feed! to whoever my 4 followers are

starting with fling posse…

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Ramuda Amemura

He’s trans.

He has a superiority complex to hide his inferiority complex.

He also likely has a little bot of a god complex… Just a tiny bit… Not to the point it’d endanger his life, but to the point he can never admit he’s wrong (I suppose this can also count as the superiority complex).

He also has a little bit of a schoolboy crush on Dice… that has lasted far longer than he’d ever like to admit – not that he’d ever admit it in the first place – and he gets jealous over Dice.

He started his whole thing with girls, whatever it is, as a power trip, which also explains why he likes to cause so much chaos.

Since he used to smoke, he started candy as a way to stop smoking and it slowly replaced his smoking habit (as I have yet to see him smoke otherwise, but keep in mind I’m not far into the manga and mostly I’m going off the ARB story).

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Gentaro Yumeno

All writers are perfectionists (I’d know as one).

He’s probably very particular about the details and doesn’t like doing things without a plan.

He’s the lyric write for Fling Posse’s raps and does not enjoy making up lyrics on the spot; however he can if he must – This is also why he carries the book everywhere.

I honest to god don’t feel like he’s of this world and whatever his actual form is (irony in his rap name?), it scared Ramuda enough to create Fling Posse, so here they are.

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now for the dice ones… it’s gonna be long!

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Dice Arisugawa

He is, unfortunately, very oblivious to romantic approaches – especially from close friends such as his division members, for he’s been with them for so long that he can never imagine them falling in love with him.

He has abandonment issues/a fear of abandonment because his mother left him.

Speaking of his mother, Dice likely knows how to do “noble” things because he was raised by a politician; i.e. how to play piano and stuff like that.

Adding on top of that, I feel like Dice has an accumulation of many different skills from being all over the place – He learned how to do card tricks by watching others, and he probably learned bird calls from spending time with Rio.

He undoubtedly has ADHD (as a person with ADHD myself, you cannot tell me I am wrong)!

He’s well aware that’s he a leech, but he can’t stop himself because the addiction is stronger and he feels terrible about it; it’s why he often begs instead of anything else that would fit his character more.

He’s a very talkative person and often rambles to get his thoughts organized.

He doesn’t like being put into awkward situations or forced into silence because he is used the buzz of a casino and a busy city.

Relating to the ADHD canon, Dice puts his life on line not only for the thrill of it, but to keep his mind off of thoughts, and it’s also why he gambles; so he can focus on one thing.

He is numb to change because he’s a gambler.

He is very good at adapting to a new environment.

He doesn’t like being looked down up and that’s why he started gambling; to prove that he’s worth something.

He uses humor to cope if he can’t get his mind off of things with the thrill of gambling.

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Extras (Fling Posse all together)

Dice has weird limbs, so clothing fits him weird, and Ramuda started making clothes for them because of that.

Ramuda chased after Dice after he stole his signature parka and the Fling Posse star was embroidered on later by Ramuda after the formation of Fling Posse.

Ramuda likely pulls whatever strings he has access to to make life easier for his division members (not that it stops them from getting into trouble, that is).

Gentaro spends a lot of time away when writing and likely forgets he’s even alive during those periods, so his division members make sure he’s still taking care of himself when he gets like that.

They all piss each other off, but in a platonic love kind of way.

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moving onto matenrou! my favorite division <3

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Jakurai Jingui

Oh, my poor man’s so tired. He just needs a long break and a spa day; speaking of this, he likely doesn’t ask for help often – it’s the messiah complex he undoubtedly has.

His hair is too long for him to be taking care of it himself, and it definitely looks in fantastic condition, so he definitely takes good care of it – I just don’t think he takes care of it himself; I think he enlists the help of his division members (as I headcanon that Matenrou is in a poly relationship).

Jakurai’s matureness can sometimes get in the way of other things, such as emotional moments, and he can come off as cold or distant when he doesn’t mean to come off that way.

Unlike the other divisions, Jakurai wanted to really separate from his past, and that’s why he named his division Matenrou instead of reusing something from the past. He also probably doesn’t like talking about the past.

His hair is naturally silver, but the lighter shades that are nearly white underneath was caused by stress.

He gets cold quickly, which is why he always keeps the lab coat on, and it’s also why he wears a turtleneck.

Jakurai does live in the same apartment as Doppo and Hifumi, but he’s always so busy that he often can’t get there, so he ends up sleeping at the hospital; he also has a separate apartment of his own that’s closer to the hospital if he has free time, but he’s not off work/off work but still on call.

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Doppo Kannonzaka

Man, the first thing I thought when I saw him was that he has a choking kink. Enough said. He also likely has a praise kink.

If he didn’t have social anxiety and wasn’t so busy, he’d also probably be going over to Rio’s camp a lot. I think it’s because he’s so overworked that he doesn’t care about what’s in the food; as long as he gets it.

He’s probably passed out from exhaustion more than once and just got used to it.

Despite all his problems, he definitely wants to be known and he wants his name out there; he wants to be just like the other two and he definitely looks up to them already, but he aspires to be them.

He is so thankful for his divison members and he’s glad that they accepted him.

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Hifumi Izanami

Hifumi is a classic case of “fake it till you make it”; I really don’t know how he became one of the most popular hosts in Shinjuku, but it’s definitely about the fake confidence and the jacket is a comfort object for him that allows him to have that confidence.

He cooks all the time for his division members and he uses the catches from fish all the time, too. He even brings the lunches to their works for them.

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Extras

Since Hifumi’s always out so late, the others make sure he has everything he needs for whenever he wakes up and sometimes they wait for him.

They’re all in a poly relationship and I refuse to believe anything else; I mean, have you seen those “my room” dialouge in ARB? Fruity.

They probably all love to cuddle whenever they get the chance because they can’t do it often.

They definitely set up one day of the month for all of them to just be together.

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buster bros time!

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Ichiro Yamada

This may just be the Ichiro simp in me, but I think he has a very nice tummy that’d be nice to lay on; like a soft one if that makes any sense to anybody other than me.

He’s a very friendly person and if you’re close friends with him, he’s definitely loyal; he’d be willing to drop anything to help you kind of loyal, like he is to his brothers – all that, except the willing to die part.

I think he gets flustered easily and doesn’t know how to respond to compliments. That’s also probably the Ichiro simp in me.

Although he has to stop his brothers from ripping out each other’s throats all the time, he’s very proud of them and of their achievements, no matter what they are. He’s willing to praise them even for the tiniest things to make up for his absence in their lives.

He probably has a terrible sleeping schedule, but he could probably operate on pretty much anything. Two hours of sleep? That’s not an issue for him; he’s used to it.

He’s likely a cheapskate when it comes to himself, but when it comes to his brothers, he spares no expense if he can.

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Saburo Yamada

He has a superiority complex. I mean, just look at how he acts with Jiro – that’s enough proof right there.

He got into hacking and all of that computer stuff because it was interesting to him; he’s probably pursuing a career in it, considering just how good he is at it. I feel like he’d make a good white hat hacker that tests your website security, like Alma in Va-11 Hall-A.

Call him a library, because he holds grudges for years.

I think he just likes picking arguments because he think it’s funny and there’s nothing better to do when you’re stuck with your brothers (as somebody with a sibling myself, I can attest to that).

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Jiro Yamada

Anger issues. Yep, that’s it. That’s the headcanon.

Man probably goes dumpster diving to see what kind of treasures he can find; his room is probably full of that kind of junk.

He probably has greasy hair. It doesn’t matter how much he cleans it, it’s just greasy (as somebody with the same issue, go clean your pillows Jiro).

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Extras

Ichiro has to hold Jiro back from just punching Saburo all the time.

God, somebody save Ichiro from his siblings; with how much they bicker, he probably has taken so much ibuprofen to stop headaches in his life that he should be considered dead from an overdose.

Despite being assholes to each other, they all help each other out – Saburo helps Jiro with his work, Jiro helps Saburo with whatever he can’t do, and Ichiro takes care of the rest. It’s the only thing keeping their bond together.

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mad trigger crew, my beloved.

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Rio Mason Busujima

Rio’s very stoic and that often doesn’t break, so it’s very rare to see a smile on his face. He has different smiles for different things too – there’s the business one; one so he doesn’t look as intimidating, and the actual genuine smile that’s very rare to see, but it happens when somebody appreciates his food.

Rio’s not good at understanding emotions and it takes him awhile to process emotions; he goes quiet in these moments and it can be confusing for those who don’t know him, but once he’s thought everything out, he’s very smart about responding.

He’ll never fully adjust to a life outside of the navy and military.

Opposite to Dice, he finds the buzz of a city to be too distracting for his thoughts and he enjoys his solitude, but he doesn’t mind company at all.

Due to how his unit was broken up, he refuses to abide by H law and keeps his gun on him. Even Rio can be spiteful. However, he mostly uses it for hunting, which is why he’s so far out in the forest.

He definitely has a lot of scars and that’s why he often wears his fatigues; he doesn’t wana come off as off-putting. His cards without the jacket did him so dirty. Of course he’d have scars from fighting in World War 3.

He can come up with strategies on the spot and is a very quick-thinker when it comes to combat.

Despite how ruthless he is when it comes to rap battles and being an ex-navy, he’s actually a very gentle soul.

I feel like he’s asexual, but homoromantic.

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Samatoki Aohitsugi

He only uses the bad guy persona as a way to be left alone, but he’s actually a very kind person.

Despite being a yakuza, he actually abides to the H law and it’s probably only because of Nemu (however, this is only based off of the anime, so I can’t say for certain, but I haven’t seen anything in the manga disproving otherwise yet).

I just feel like he eats a lot throughout the day. I can’t explain this one, but he has the vibes.

He also knows how to cook quite well himself, and he does it for his division members sometimes.

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Jyuto Iruma

He’s very cocky because he knows he can get away with things; I mean, he’s the authorties, why wouldn’t he get cocky about what he can do? However, it’s somewhat annoying to Samatoki.

If he wasn’t a gay bastard, Samtoki and Rio probably would’ve been arrested long ago. Thankfully for them, he is a gay bastard.

He likes looking good no matter what; it helps his confidence, so he dresses up to go out anywhere.

His glasses are probably just reading glasses.

He likes spending money on expensive things.

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Extras

Samatoki and Jyuto are in a relationship. They’re so fruity that I’m sure I don’t have to explain this one.

Samatoki doesn’t approve of Rio dating Dice at all and it’s only because of Jyuto that Dice is still alive.

Rio is pretty much their marriage counselor; he has to constantly deal with them bickering, so of course he is. He’s pretty much the adopted child to save their marriage.

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Ships

Riodice

Samajyu

Poly Matenrou

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i will likely make a separate post for the ship headcanons because this will be much longer, but i think this covers all of them anyway, so here you go. enjoy.

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hwrryscherry · 3 years

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I'm so interested in your reader model y/n ❤️❤️❤️ please, when you can do a blurb talking more about her life 🥺

oww thank you lovie🥺🥺 honestly, when it comes to blurbs I like to do them when is related to both Harry & Model Y/N BUT I prepared some facts about her for you since you're interested. Hope you like it and thank you for the love, I really appreciate it🥰🥰

50 Facts about Model Y/N that you probably didn't know.

Her face claim is Devon Lee Carlson BUT I always like to make it clear that you’re free to imagine her as whoever you want and whoever will make you feel comfortable

Model Y/N was born on May 12th, 1997 so she’s 23 years old. I choose this date because it's my birthday as well and besides Harry’s birthday, it is the only birth date that I can remember since I ALWAYS forget everybody’s birthday.

She’s a brazilian. She was born on a brazilian state called Minas Gerais that makes border with Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Besides her first language being Portuguese(pt-br), she can also speaks english, spanish and french.

Her zodiac sign is a Taurus and her rising is cancer.

She’s closer to her mother than she is to her father. They don’t have a good relationship.

She subscribed herself online on modeling agencies in August of her senior year.

She went to New York City on September and signed with IMG models in which is also the modeling agency of Giselle Bündchen, Kate Moss, Gigi & Bella Hadid, Joan Smalls, Karlie Kloss, Ashley Graham, Barbara Palvin, Miranda Kerr, Hailey BIeber, Cara Delavigne, etc.

Model Y/N’s modeling informations are: Height: 5′8(172cm). Bust: 32 Waist: 23 Hips: 35

She considers herself a geek.

Her first fashion show ever for a really big brand was for Balmain by early 2015.

The Balmain fashion show was also where she met Gigi and Bella.

She considers the beggining of her career one of the most difficult moments of her life. She was in a new country by herself. She didn’t received much money on modeling yet and she used to pay rent, which in NYC is very expensive. She had to save money most of the time, so when her first Paris Fashion Week came, she stayed in an Inn and didn’t do any tourism through Paris because she simply couldn’t afford it.

Model Y/N bought her New York apartment on early 2017 when she was 19.

Her favorite country to visit ever is Italy.

Model Y/N auditionated for Victoria Secrets on both 2015 & 2016 but only was accepted in 2017 when she walked for the first time and met Harry as well.

Model Y/N actually met two 1D members before meeting Harry.

The first One Direction member that Model Y/N met was Zain by the end of 2015 when he started dating Gigi.

The secong member was Liam back in 2016 when she was in London for fashion week.

Model Y/N celebrated her 23rd birthday on quarantine when she and Harry were in lockdown with their friends in LA.

Model Y/N ADORES Lizzo btw and Lizzo sent to her bday balloons on her bday that said "100% that birthday b!tch".

Model Y/N prefers New York over Los Angeles.

She believes that one of the most inspirational people in her life is Harry, because she always get inspired by him and she really values his opinion.

Her fashion icon is Rachel Green from Friends.

She is TERRIFIED of dolls. It’s more like a phobia. Just the simple thought of it is enough to cause chills on her.

She is obssessed over MCU(Marvel Cinematic Universe), from Avengers to Fantastic 4. If you want to talk about MCU with someone who knows A LOT about it, Model Y/N is your girl.

She is also a Potterhead and she is a Gryffindor, confirmed by the Pottermore sorting hat quizz.

She is scared of Twitter and doesn’t have a personal one. The one twitter that she ‘’has’’ is controlled by her manager and she doesn’t even has access to it.

The best advice she ever received came from a night out in London with Anne, Gemma and her mother that is: Be educated. Work Hard and always stay true to yourself.

Her spirit animal is a horse.

Her favorite disney movie is either Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas.

Model Y/N is a supporter of humans rights and considers it extremely important to have those conversations and stand for what is right.

Model Y/N has starred at a Vogue US September cover. The September issue is the most important one from Vogue.

Model Y/N never went to college but she was planning to study criminal psychology.

Her favorite Harry Styles song yet is Sweet Creature.

Her favorite 1D song is They don’t know about us.

She is a huge Game of Thrones fan and had a major startruck moment when she met Emilia Clarke in the backstage of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in 2019.

Her favorite books ever are Call me by your name BY André Aciman and a very famous novel called Dom Casmurro by a brazilian author called Machado de Assis.

Her favorite decade aesthetic is the 70s.

On quarantine, Model Y/N focused on things that she has wanted to learn but didn’t had time so she started studying italian and learned how to play piano.

She's a huge American Horror Story & The Hautings series fan and that's why she has a celebrity crush for Evan Peters & Victoria Pedretti.

Her favorite season is Fall but her favorite holiday is christmas.

She only had one serious relationship before Harry that lasted between 2015-early 2017.

Her dream trip is Amsterdam.

She doesn’t drink alcohol.

She walked as the Chanel Bride in 2019 Fashion Week.

Model Y/N says that if she ever has a daughter, she’d like to name her Blair.

She's an art lover. She believes that a world without movies, paiting, music and all the others types of art would be really boring.

That's why she loves musical movies and still knows the lyrics from every High School Musical and Camp Rock song.

She doesn't have a favorite movie from all times but The Mask of Zorro is for sure one of them.

Model Y/N would love to act in the future and she looks foward to trying it one day.

#hwrryscherry #HARRYxMODELY/N #harryxmodely/n #harry styles imagines #harry x reader #harry styles au

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blastron01 · 6 years

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Ascendance of a Bookworm – 078

Book 2: The Apprentice Shrine Maiden

Prologue

My name is Ferdinand. I serve as the head priest of the temple of the city of Ehrenfest. People frequently mistake me as being between twenty-five or, if I'm unlucky, thirty years old, but in reality I am twenty. My half brother often comments that I was not blessed with enough youthfulness and it has already run dry, but this is, in truth, a product of my living environment.

All the way through my coming-of-age, I was part of noble society. I was the son of a concubine, but because I had just enough mana to contribute to the foundational magical tools and because (although this may be a little self-aggrandizing to say) the pursuit of knowledge posed no difficulty to me, my half brother, who is older than me, had me raised to serve as his assistant. Regardless of my father's true wife, my relationship with my half brother was not at all bad.

However, my father's wife seemed to be displeased with the fact that I was serving as my half brother's assistant, so, after my father's death, she began treating me with open hostility. Several politically powerful adults supported her viewpoint, and I could not rely on my biological mother, and I began to fear for my own safety. At that time, my half brother recommended to me that I should join the temple.

To those in noble society, joining the temple is effectively a declaration that you are withdrawing from the world of politics. However, even at the temple mana must still be used to perform divine miracles, so there are still close ties to the world of noble politics. Also, because the higher-ranked priests and priestesses all originate from the nobility, there still exists a strict hierarchy based on social standing.

My half brother grinned as he told me to aim for the absolute top and take control of the temple from the inside. I, however, knew that was far easier said than done, as the current temple master is a man related to my father's true wife's family and his behavior could be extremely dangerous to me, so I just shrugged as I made my way into the temple.

My days at the temple were peaceful. There were people in charge of the temple's finances, of managing the orphanage, of making contact with the nobility, and so on, but that work never came around to me. As such, I had no real work beyond the work of maintaining the ritual tools, and found myself with an overwhelming abundance of free time.

Because I had so much time, I reached out to my half brother and asked him to send over books and wooden tablets from our home. I used them in order to build a library, one that even nobles with unfortunate economic circumstances would be able to use. However, the blue-garbed priests and priestesses at the temple were all people who were incapable of returning to noble society, so none of them had any interest in the pursuit of knowledge. The deplorable fact of the matter is that the only person who showed any interest in it whatsoever was a single commoner girl, who wanted to read so badly that she fell to the ground weeping.

Then, a coup happened in Central, and the ranks of the nobility were thinned out. What first happened to us is that our apprentices who were still young enough to be sent to the House of Lords were, one by one, called back home. Then, the priests and priestesses who were still of marriageable age were called back into noble society. Finally, a demand came from the temple in Central for all priests and priestesses possessing a particular degree of magical power to make their way there.

Now, there are no priestesses left in the temple, and the only priests left are those who are too old to return home and who possess not enough mana to be considered useful by the temple in Central. All of the people who were primarily in charge of managing the temple's affairs had been called away, leaving me to take on every single aspect of running the temple. My easy, peaceful days have vanished without a trace. Because of the scope and importance of my work, the stature of my family, and the supplication of my half brother, I became the head priest, despite the fact that it had not been terribly long since I joined the temple and that I was still very young.

"Father, the temple master is calling for you." "...It seems he's alright, then."

When Fran, my attendant, informs me of this, I stand, sighing. As I leave my room and head towards the temple master's chambers, I lament to myself that, if only the temple master could have been laid out a little longer, I could have gotten a little more work done. Reverend Bösewanz is a man who never assists me in my work, but is forceful in giving his opinions, so I am thankful for every moment that he sleeps while I am performing my duties.

As I make my way through the halls, the library room passes through my field of view. The face of Maïne, the child who ignited such chaos in order to read the books here, floats through my memory, and I reach up to massage my temples. She is the source of all of my most recent headaches, and it is likely that she is the reason the temple master is calling me to him this time.

During the baptismal ceremonies, Maïne discovered the library and declared that she wished to become a sister-in-training. At the time, she wore clothing that made her appear to be the daughter of a wealthy family. In order to secure her apprenticeship, she offered an enormous sum of money as a donation. The temple master, dazzled by the sheer amount of coin, met with her to discuss the matter of having the daughter of a wealthy family join the temple. When this happened, it was revealed to us that she possessed mana.

Based on her reactions when she was reading the scriptures, it was clear to me that she was quite intelligent, and from her demeanor and polite manner of speech, I could easily guess that she had had an excellent education. As such, when the temple master suggested that she be granted a blue robe when she joined the temple, I could not disagree.

However, when her parents were called out to the temple in order to discuss the matter further, it became apparent that Maïne was not the daughter of a wealthy family, but instead the daughter of commoners.

To my sensibilities, it did not matter whose daughter she was. Provided she brought her donation and possessed mana, there was no problem at all. Reverend Bösewanz, however, thought differently. He adopted an openly aggressive demeanor towards the three of them, angering Maïne in the process.

If she were a noble, she would have had magical tools to help her manage her mana. Or, in other words, she would have offered her mana to magical tools at regular intervals, so even in the event that her emotions were to stir her mana into motion, it would not have run rampant. However, Maïne was a commoner, and as such had no access to magical tools.

Of course, when her mana did run rampant and escaped from her body, it was directed entirely at Reverend Bösewanz. Her mana was far stronger than could possibly have been expected from a girl who managed to survive the devouring all the way through her baptismal ceremonies. The reverend, taking the full force of Maïne's magical coercion, fainted on the spot and did not regain consciousness for some time. As he slept, I made use of the excellent opportunity to have a conversation with Maïne's parents directly and was able to come to an arrangement with them.

Although the temple master has only just regained consciousness and is still resting, he made the express effort to summon me. Most likely, he wishes to confirm how the discussion with Maïne had turned out and, of course, voice his complaints. It's easy for me to imagine all of the many complaints that might fly from his mouth.

The figure of the attendant standing next to the door comes into view as I approach. It's not my place to say it, but it might be good for the temple master, the most important man in the temple, to stand up himself every once in a while. I take in a long, slow breath, and as I let it out I let my irritation out with it.

"Reverend, Father Ferdinand has arrived."

The attendant opens the door for me, matched perfectly with my walking speed so that it opens exactly as I arrive. From the slight tension I see on his face, I wonder if he might be a newcomer. When I enter, I see that the temple master is sitting at his work desk, slumping heavily into the back of his chair. It is a pose that highlights his protruding belly.

If one were to think solely of our families' relative positions in noble society, I would be more highly ranked than he is, but I am an illegitimate son, while he is legitimate. And, as he is a member of the extended family of the mother of my half brother, the standing of his house is not at all insignificant. As such, since he cannot help but to show his superiority over me, whenever he calls me to see him, without fail he will always be sitting at his work desk, leaving me to stand as he smirks at me.

However, today he does not have the emotional leeway to even smirk at me. His expression is fiendish, his brows so tightly knit that deep bumps cross the bridge of his nose, and he drums his fingers hard against the surface of his desk in clear irritation. The instant he sees me, he vigorously starts to speak.

"Father Ferdinand," he says, "what happened to that thing?"

I leisurely make my way over to him then, with careful emphasis on the grace a nobleman should comport himself with, tilt my head slightly to one side.

"To what thing are you referring?" "What else?" he yells. "That unbelievably impertinent little child!"

Like a child throwing a tantrum, he sits up straight, slamming his fist into the surface of his desk. This falls entirely within my expectations, so I have long since raised the wooden tablet on which I had brought my report, pretending to read it while actually using it as a shield to protect my face from his flying spittle.

"Ahh, of course... I believe her name was Maïne." "That's right. You sent her away, right?"

He glares at me with wide eyes, but I just slowly shake my head.

"I fully understand your displeasure, Reverend, but the temple is facing a serious shortage of mana. You must be very aware of this yourself, seeing as you had been trying to get her to join the temple. This will only be a problem until the number of nobles in this city has increased again." "Ferdinand, are you telling me to be patient? Me, the master of this temple..."

Before he can launch into his usual long, long tirade about his parentage and position, I launch into an outline of the current status of the temple.

"If we do not have her, then our dedication ceremonies will almost certainly be fraught with difficulty. And then, when autumn comes... And what if a request for us comes from the knights' order? Would you be willing to say that we don't have enough mana and cannot help them? Or, would you be willing to have to constantly ask for help from other temples until the number of nobles here rises again?"

The temple master's social stature is high and, proportionally, his own sense of self-conceitedness is high as well. I know full well that a man like that would never be able to bow his head to another human being. It seems that my words found their mark, as the temple master starts to turn bright red, perhaps imagining himself having to beg other temples for assistance.

"Tch, if we didn't have a mana shortage, I'd have that impertinent girl executed immediately..." "Provoking her to her face is quite dangerous, Reverend. If you are on the receiving end of that much mana again, your heart might not be able to withstand it."

I wonder if he has forgotten that it was his heavy-handed behavior towards Maïne that caused her to use her magical coercion on him until he fainted? This is the problem with old people.

Reverend Bösewanz audibly grinds his teeth together. As a mild diversion, I decide to bring up the topic of the discussion I had had with Maïne's parents and the agreements that we had come to.

"As the two of us had discussed prior to the meeting, it was ultimately agreed that we would provide Maïne with a special set of blue robes. Her parents also agreed to our other proposal that she be assigned to not only maintain the magical tools, but also to be given work in the library room as she herself had asked for. This is all as we had planned beforehand."

I make very sure to hammer in multiple times that these were points that the temple master and I had agreed on beforehand. This may be due to his age, but he has lately been prone to forgetting the contents of conversations he was part of, whenever it seems to suit him. And, perhaps because he forgot everything just as I expected, he sits there glaring at me, with an extremely unwilling expression, like he wanted so badly to object but was unable to.

"Grrrr..." "Ahh, and then, we agreed that Maïne would not live in the orphanage, but instead be able to commute between her home and the temple. Since there are already many nobles here who have homes that they return to, I did not judge this to be particularly problematic, and gave it my approval." "What did you say?!"

The temple master's eyes fly open wide as he snaps at me. This, too, is well within my expectations.

"...I believe that allowing her to live at home would be preferable to having her demand that since she has been given blue robes she should be given a room in the parts of the temple reserved for the nobility. Do you not agree?" "Hmph! Well, you're right in that."

The choice between giving her a noble's room and letting her live at home seems easy for the temple master to understand, so he gives me a very unpleasant smile as he nods in approval. It seems that he's already forgotten his own declaration that he wouldn't think twice about throwing her into the orphanage, but since he has just agreed, Maïne's ability to commute has been established.

"In addition, because Maïne is very frail, it seems that she may be unable to perform her duties every day, but since there is ultimately not a tremendous amount of work for a blue-robed sister-in-training to do, I believe that it should not be a problem for her to rest when she is not feeling well." "Hah, what an unmotivated little girl."

It seems like he will not be satisfied if he doesn't find some way to complain about every single thing. He appears to understand, though, so I merely shrug my shoulders and continue.

"I merely judged that doing so would be preferable to her falling ill while at the temple. ...On that note, we also agreed that Maïne, in order to manage her condition, would be assigned attendants." "That's unnecessary!"

Reverend Bösewanz's objection was very much within my expectations, so I simply breathe a small sigh, then deliver yet another rehearsed answer.

"If someone from outside the temple were to see a blue-robed priestess without any attendants, it would only reflect poorly on the temple and, in turn, I believe it would reflect poorly on you. ...Besides, as of now we have an excess of gray-robed priests and priestesses. Do you not think that it would be a good idea to simply assign some of those to Maïne?" "...I see."

Although the blue-robed clergy has left, the gray-robed priests and priestesses have largely been left behind, save for those few who were the favorites of any individuals who were being called away. Given that the donations to the temple from the families of blue-robed priests have diminished, the ever-accumulating expenses of the largely masterless gray-robed clergy are nothing but a problem for the temple.

"Next, according to my investigations into Maïne, it seems that she has been registered with the merchant's guild as the manager of a workshop. It would have been quite simple to be able to tell her that those working in the service of the gods have no need to make money, but I believe that if we can regularly acquire some of the profit from the workshop for ourselves, it would be quite beneficial to the temple. What do you think?" "Wring her dry." "As you wish."

As the size of the clergy has decreased so much, the amount of money that the temple can earn on its own has diminished. To Reverend Bösewanz, this money is far more useful than the public doctrine of the temple. With this, I have finally gotten his approval on all of the points I had come to an agreement on with Maïne's family. I breathe a sigh of relief.

"For the time being, in order to avoid causing you any trouble, I plan to personally see to handling all of the burden Maïne will bring. If the merchant's guild is going to be involved, I believe I should be able to handle the additional paperwork. Also, I shall ensure that she never shows her face in this room. Then... ah, yes. When selecting the gray-robed priests to be her attendants, I will assign one of my own attendants to her as well, so that we can receive detailed reports on her activities."

A light glimmers in the temple master's eyes, as if he's found something interesting in the idea of being vigilant about Maïne. He thoughtfully strokes his white beard, smiling that unpleasant smile that he gets whenever he cooks up another worthless scheme.

"Hmm? ...In that case, perhaps I should assign someone to her as well? Even that girl should confide in another girl around her age. Delia, I think, would work hard for my sake. And for the others, let's give her the most troublesome kids we can dig out of the orphanage. Inconvenience her as much as humanly possible. Squeeze every last drop of donation that we can get out of her. After all, there's nothing else that that... thing is good for." "As you wish."

This became something problematic. Maïne is unfamiliar with the details of noble society and the workings of the temple, so I had planned to assign to her an assistant who could help her navigate both of those things, but if the temple master's protege is assigned to be her attendant as well, then my own actions will wind up being brought to the temple master's attention as well.

I weave my fingers together in front of me, thanking him, then leave his room. Bitter regrets plague me as I return to my own room.

"Good grief..."

What a profoundly troublesome temple master. The blue-robed priests and priestesses given to the custody of the temple are largely illegitimate children. Amongst such company, he, a legitimate son from an influential family, finds much to boast about. In truth, he has comparatively very little mana, so he has a terrifyingly powerful inferiority complex towards those given to the temple who have more than he does.

If we are not careful with our behavior towards Maïne, there is a good possibility that he may cause her to run rampant again. Besides the fact that her social standing is even lower than mine, she brings with her not just mana and coin, but an aptitude for writing reports and handling paperwork, so to me, she is a far more capable person than Reverend Bösewanz.

I look over the report on Maïne, and my eyes find their way to the section on her commercial dealings. With the backing of the Gilberta Company, she was registered with the guild under a provisional apprentice's license. The products that she has transferred rights to up to this point are "rinsham", a vegetable-based paper, hair ornaments made by knitting thread, "pound cake" and many variations thereof. It would seem that she, as an individual, commands sizable financial assets, to the point where her declaration that she could afford to donate a large gold coin was no exaggeration.

Due to concerns with her physical condition, she abandoned her path towards becoming an apprentice, and instead plans to use Maïne's Workshop, set up for her by the Gilberta Company, to continue to profit from the goods she invents.

"To make this many contracts for new products within just one year... she seems to just think of one invention after the other."

It seems that the goods Maïne's Workshop will produce will generate spectacularly large amounts of profit. I must ensure that I assign an attendant to her who will be capable of making very detailed reports to me, if we are to avoid being deceived by any greedy merchants.

As I consider that thought, I look around at the attendants currently stationed in my room. Now then, who must I assign to be Maïne's attendant? I will need someone deeply loyal to me, capable of making accurate reports, and very patient, I think. They will, after all, need to be able to flawlessly handle the trouble that the temple master's chosen attendant will cause.

"...Fran." "Yes, Father, how may I assist you?"

Upon hearing his name, he smoothly steps closer to me.

"I will have you become Maïne's attendant. I would like you to provide me with reports on her actions, as detailed as you possibly can. Additionally, please ensure, to the best of your ability, that she does not cross paths with Reverend Bösewanz." "Um?! ......Very well, Father."

For an instant, a discontented frown flashes across his features, but then he nods slowly in agreement. Fran had been present when Maïne's mana went out of control, so it's possible that the image of the temple master fainting flashed across his mind.

"Her other attendant should be... Ah, yes. Do we have anyone who is particularly difficult to handle, to the point where they would be a poor fit to be assigned to a noble? We must, after all, at the very least appear to take the reverend's opinion into consideration."

A look of bewilderment enters Fran's eyes as he glances nervously around the room. After a moment, he lowers his gaze. Arnaud, who had waited on me as I went to Reverend Bösewanz's room, speaks up, coming to his rescue.

"Ah, I see. How about Gil? He is frequently sent to the meditation room, but never seems to learn. He very much troubles the managing priest." "...Hm. Then, let's have Gil, Delia, and Fran be Maïne's attendants."

It has been decided who Maïne's attendants shall be. It will take her blue robes another three days to arrive, and Maïne's apprenticeship is set to start in five days.

All of the preparations for Maïne's arrival are very much in order, but I wonder just what might happen next?

Although at this point I was able to imagine that Maïne might stir up strife with her arrival, I had not even the slightest idea of just how much chaos she would incite.

Translator's notes for this chapter:

I'm updating how I translate the temple master's title to "Reverend" instead of "Father", as I can't imagine the legitimate son of a good family being greeted by the same title as the bastard child of a concubine.

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The “60% of products absorb into your bloodstream” myth

The myth that “60% of what’s applied to your skin is absorbed into your bloodstream” is one of my pet peeves. It’s so far from the truth, and it’s cited with such an air of authority that it really ticks me off.

It also tends to be cited by the sorts of people who push “non-toxic” products, which is very much a BS marketing tactic.

Let’s break down how human skin works, and why this myth is just plain wrong.

Skin is not a sponge

One of your skin’s main functions is to act as a barrier – that is, it blocks substances from getting into the deeper living layers of your body. If things were so easily absorbed into skin, humans would’ve died a long time ago (probably from exploding after absorbing a tree or something). Thank you, evolution!

So by default, the amount of substances absorbed is going to be closer to 0% than 100%.

You can see this in everyday life as well:

You don’t get massively heavier after you take a bath.

You don’t absorb your clothes.

You still have make-up to remove at the end of the day.

You can’t just slap food you don’t like on your skin to get around eating it.

Medicated creams and patches

At this point in my rant, people who promote the 60% absorption myth like to bring up medicated creams and patches. If skin’s such a great barrier, they say, why do medicated creams and patches work?

(They smile smugly as I take a sip of water. “Got her!” they think. But they’ve made a huge mistake. Medicinal chemistry is MY home turf.)

Transdermal medications have a few advantages.

One of the biggest headaches in designing medications is first pass metabolism, which is when your digestive system metabolises and gets rid of oral medications before they get absorbed into your bloodstream. To compensate for this, you have to take a lot more of the medication so that enough of it makes it to your bloodstream to have an effect. Alternatively, you can avoid the digestive system altogether with IV drips, injections, suppositories etc. – or transdermal delivery.

Transdermal products can be designed to release the drug more slowly and consistently than other methods. They’re also easier to administer to uncooperative patients.

But while transdermal medications sound great, it actually takes a lot of effort to get drugs through your skin and into your bloodstream. Compared to the total number of medications on the market, the number of transdermal medications are extremely limited, and lots of formulating tricks are used to get them through the skin.

Take transdermal patches, like nicotine patches – as well as lots of penetration enhancers that help the nicotine get through skin, they also need a liner to protect the ingredients from rubbing off.

Even with all this intentional effort and design, there’s still 10-95% of the drug remaining on the surface of the skin with the transdermal drug products currently on the market.

Absorption depends on a lot of different things

So why do some things get through skin into the bloodstream? If skin is such a good barrier, does that mean skincare doesn’t work?

Well, how much of a substance absorbs into skin depends on a ton of things (which is why the blanket statement of 60% rings alarm bells for us pharma nerds).

What is it?

How well a substance gets through your skin into the blood depends on the structure of the substance itself.

Firstly, molecular size is important. The smaller the molecule, the more easily it squeezes in between all the substances already in your skin, sort of like how you try to make yourself as small as possible to get through a crowd.

Your skin is also both watery and oily at the same time, and things that dissolve in water tend not to dissolve in oil. It has to have the right balance of hydrophilic and lipophilic (the right polarity) to get into the skin, then leave the skin and enter the blood.

As you’d expect, drugs that can be delivered transdermally tick these boxes – but most drugs don’t, and it’s the same for other substances that encounter your skin.

Where are you putting it?

Your skin doesn’t have the same permeability all over, so skin absorption depends on the location of application.

For example, here’s a table (from this book) showing the permeabilities of hydrocortisone and two pesticides through skin in different locations.

Anatomical regionDose absorbed (%) hydrocortisoneDose absorbed (%) parathionDose absorbed (%) malathion Forearm1.08.66.8 Palm0.811.85.8 Foot, ball0.213.56.8 Abdomen1.318.59.4 Hand, dorsum-21.012.5 Forehead7.636.323.2 Axilla3.164.028.7 Jaw angle12.233.969.9 Fossal cubitalis-28.4 Scalp4.432.1 Ear canal-46.6 Scrotum36.2101.6

You can see that the different substances have different permeabilities, and you can see some areas are better at absorbing things (armpit (axilla), jaw angle, ear canal and, uh, scrotum… I’m assuming the additional 101.6% for parathion is experimental error), while others are pretty impermeable (foot, palm, forearm).

Note that this table only shows percutaneous absorption – in other words, absorption through the skin. Getting through the skin doesn’t necessarily mean that the substance ends up in the blood, since not all locations have the same blood flow, and the blood vessels are at different depths, so the actual amounts of these substances that get to the blood are much lower.

What are you putting it on with? How are you applying it?

There are some other things you can do with an ingredient to enhance how well it absorbs into skin. Transdermal patches and creams exploit a few of these. For example, occlusion (covering up your skin) will help underlying substances penetrate the skin.

A lot of medicated creams and skincare products also include penetration enhancers. These ingredients help substances absorb better. Some of them will make the stratum corneum (the dead outer layer of your skin) more fluid, others will disrupt the proteins and oils on your skin, or hydrate your skin. Penetration-enhancing ingredients include alcohols, essential oils, fatty acids, urea and just plain water.

You can also use tools to increase penetration, like ultrasound, electroporation, iontophoresis, heating and microneedles. Depending on the technique, these drive the ingredients into the skin or disrupt the skin barrier.

Related post: Ion Boosted Skincare? Panasonic Skincare Tools (video)

But in your standard beauty products, you rarely have many of these special tricks in place. In fact, some products are specially formulated to stay on top of your skin. Sunscreens, for example, are designed to sit in a layer on top of your skin, since they’re useless if it’s under your skin.

Does this mean skincare doesn’t work?

So if skin is such a good barrier, does that mean skincare won’t absorb and therefore won’t work? Luckily for us skincare enthusiasts, not necessarily!

Skincare is for skin, not blood

As previously mentioned, most things that do get absorbed into your skin don’t make it past the first few layers of the dead stratum corneum. Even less make it through the epidermis to the deeper dermis, where your blood vessels are. But for skincare, that’s fine – you want generally want it in to stay in the top layers of your skin where you apply it! Moisturisers are meant to work to hydrate the stratum corneum, and most actives work in the epidermis.

Ingredient selection

Most of the active ingredients used in skincare, like ascorbic acid and tretinoin, are small enough to penetrate into skin. Larger ingredients like collagen, hyaluronic acid, petrolatum and sunscreens work at the surface of the skin, so they don’t need to penetrate.

Formulations can help ingredients penetrate

Skincare products can be purposely formulated so the ingredients have the best chance of penetrating through the dead stratum corneum into the living layers of the skin.

The most common method is the use of penetration enhancers. The same ingredients used in transdermal medications show up in skincare as well – that’s one of the reasons why denatured alcohol is in a lot of products.

Another factor is pH. If there’s an acidic ingredient, a low pH will generally help it penetrate skin, while higher pH usually makes it too polar (water-soluble).

Related post: Why pH matters for AHAs and acids in skincare (video)

There are some less commonly used strategies as well, like liposomal delivery – but these aren’t common in skincare products.

Verdict

There are a few freak things that absorb 60% or more, but for the vast majority of ingredients and situations, 60% is a massive overestimate. Phew!

Further Reading

Pastore MN et al., Transdermal patches: history, development and pharmacology (open access), Br J Pharmacol 2015, 172, 2179-209. DOI: 10.1111/bph.13059

Alkilani AZ, McCrudden MT, Donnelly RF, Transdermal drug delivery: innovative pharmaceutical developments based on disruption of the barrier properties of the stratum corneum (open access), Pharmaceutics 2015, 7, 438-70. DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics7040438

FDA, Guidance for industry: residual drug in transdermal and related drug delivery systems, 2011.

Bronaugh RL & Maibach HI, Percutaneous Absorption: Drugs – Cosmetics – Mechanisms – Methodology (3rd Edition); CRC Press: 28 May 1999.

The “60% of products absorb into your bloodstream” myth syndicated from Lab Muffin Beauty Science

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Revolutionary Girl Utena Episode 4 Liveblog

Join us this week for discussions of time, projecting fantasies onto others, non-diegetic inserts, and “I didn’t realize this was going to be a hentai”

This episode starts with a flashforward structure, rather than a flashback to the fairytale. This is also our first two-part episode, which is something I might come back to later in the series -- every one of the Student Council gets a two-part duel at some point, most of which are in the third arc (Saionji becomes a prop for Wakaba’s story in the BRS), but Miki gets his in the very beginning. (I’m not sure what to do with Touga here, since he arguably gets two multi-part episodes, one in the first arc and one in the last arc.)

Regardless, opening with letting us know that Utena will have to face Miki in the Dueling Arena is a unique choice here. No other characters get that kind of flashforward. I think that this happens for a few reasons. The kind of obvious, teaching you how to watch the show reason is that this is our first duel with someone other than Saionji, and we are being told by the series both that the characters aren’t what they seem at first glance (sweet, gentle Miki is shown to be possessive and antagonistic) and that we should, all along, not be taking these characters at face value. Having Miki challenge Utena to a duel without the flashforward would create a greater element of surprise, but surprise is not the motivating factor here -- rather, the show is telling us to look for clues as to how these characters are functioning. (I think that it also creates even more tension to know from the start of these two episodes that Miki will challenge Utena to a duel, since you are then anticipating what events could possibly lead up to it.)

The other, less surface-level answer is that Miki, of all the Duelists (well, all the ‘main’ Duelists, not counting Mikage), has the closest and strangest relationship with time. We’ve already witnessed this with his use of the stopwatch. He’s also the character who is most out of sorts with time in his story arc -- Juri has ties to the past, but it’s mostly causing her pain in the present, Saionji has ties to the past and is seeking eternity but is still doing so in the present, Nanami and Touga have some ties to time and the past but it isn’t a major structuring force for either of their characters (I would say they’re both more future-oriented than anything, but not strongly so). Miki, by contrast, is constantly seeking to recapture a lost past that he never really /truly/ had access to. All he has is his memory, tainted heavily with nostalgia, of a childhood he never really got to live or enjoy because he’s a prodigy, and his creepy af fantasies of returning to a sense of oneness with his twin. His entire motivation is about reliving and trying (in vain) to access an idealized version of the past, while he both resists and struggles to fit normatively into the adulthood he is moving towards. It would make sense for these reasons to have the opening of his first set of focus episodes place both him and the audience out of sorts with time by using this flashforward structure (and the later ambiguous transition that makes the flashforward seem almost like a memory).

I would like to take a moment to also appreciate Juri taking the place of Touga as the person dramatically watching from the sidelines. Where even is that location? How many stairs are there to get up there?

We move directly into the next scene with little in the way of fanfare -- there’s a bit of a dissolve, but the music continues, so it seems like a subjective view or memory of Miki’s, which gives some ambiguity to when the scene with Nanami takes place. Is it after the duel and Miki is just moping around after losing, or does it take place before? It takes place before (as later plot developments show, but looking at it closer, it’s left pretty ambiguous in terms of cinematic structure, if not in terms of narrative.

Miki is also a dramatic edgelord in this scene and I feel like he’s always seen as so soft and sweet and innocent that people forget this side of him. He’s just as extra as the rest of the Duelists.

This is a pretty ambiguous line -- we’re led to think that “she” is Anthy, since Nanami finds Anthy’s photo right after this line is spoken, but it could just as easily be Kozue. Of course, we don’t know that Kozue exists yet on a first watch, so the ambiguity only works on subsequent viewings. But since Anthy becomes a Kozue stand-in for Miki, I feel like this comparison works.

Anthy slap count: 4 (drink another shot!)

Miki timed the exact moment when he needs to go rescue Anthy from the Mean Girls Brigade with his stopwatch. Oh my god. How extra can you be.

I haven’t gone through and tested this theory, but I feel like Miki episodes are far more likely to get non-diegetic inserts like this one. It’s meant to punctuate the scene (marking in this case Miki blushing when anthy thanks him for saving her), and I’m wondering why these tend to show up the most in his episodes. Does he have the most tenuous grip on the diegetic world of the show (see also: the stopwatch)? Is there something about Miki’s character on a diegetic level that would make sense for there to be a lot of non-diegetic inserts (such as his living in a fantasy world moreso than the other characters, despite all of them having to face ‘reality’ in some way or another, even if that ‘reality’ is the construct of the narrative)? Regardless, these moments really point to the ways in which the narrative structures here start to break down.

We interrupt your scheduled liveblogging to present Juri dramatically walking down the stairs in the coolest library your school will never have. (I believe the library set makes a reappearance in the BRS, but is largely underutilized.)

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Juri’s utter confusion at Miki talking about happiness, and quickly changing the topic. “Happiness? what’s that?”

Though, this scene shows part of what Miki’s problem is -- instead of focusing on what he can do to better himself and create his own happiness, he places all of that happiness on the idealized figure of another person. I can’t decide if this is a typically feminine trait or if he’s doing it in the typically masculine (after all, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists as a trope) way.

Another scene of Utena being shocked by someone having the ring...how has she not learned yet that the people with the weird outfits are part of the Student Council? Is it really that much of a shock?

While Anthy is, by now, used to being the site of projected fantasies by others, this particular projection is one that puzzles me more the more I think about it. Up to this point, we’ve pretty much only seen Anthy in Rose Bride persona -- meek, submissive, ultra feminine -- and we haven’t seen her ‘witch’ persona yet (at least, nothing more than the tiniest of hints of it). We haven’t seen Kozue at all, and I feel like her reveal is meant to be a bit of a shock that contrasts to Anthy (or the Anthy we see here), but even so, Kozue must be the site of even more projection by Miki, since she is brash and revels in being the ‘bad girl’ and is about as far from this side of Anthy as you can get. What is it about Anthy, then, or at least the side of her we see here, that reminds Miki of Kozue, besides his own highly rose-tinted memories of her?

Then again, they may be more similar upon a rewatch than we see at first glance.

I think that the way that Miki talks about the mysterious “girl he knows” is meant to make her seem distant, like he no longer knows her, or like she died, or something along those lines, but she’s still very much in his life. Hell, they still live together. Here it’s more of a metaphorical distance than a physical or temporal one. It’s also building up the slow reveal of Kozue, and an opportunity for Miki to be even more dramatic. ;]

How much do you want to bet that Anthy failed her test on purpose as an excuse to push Miki into dueling?

The scenes where Miki is playing piano seem to corroborate the issues with the sense of time that his episodes have. I’d post a gif if I could, but his movements aren’t fluid here -- he pauses in one area and then it fades to the next pose -- creating a sense of being out of joint with time. (I think part of this is to save on animation costs -- fewer inbetweens when they have a more complicated lighting scheme -- but it still holds)

And we all know that music is an inherently temporal medium.

Also, Touga showed up out of literally nowhere just now.

These shots move between diegetic (subjective viewpoint, or a memory) and non-diegetic, it seems. They seem to be non-diegetic inserts during the duel itself, but here, it seems to be a memory.

Note the way that it is drawn to look like a photo in an album or illustration in a children’s book. This isn’t a “real” memory, but rather an ideal.

The butterflies even float on top of the picture, leaving drop shadows, further cementing this as subjective, not objective.

I don’t have too much to say about the Shadow Girls play this time, though it is operating on two levels: one is the surface level of warning you that the girl you seek may not be what she seems (both Anthy and Kozue in this case), and the other is the level of “wow B-ko’s first love was kind of an asshole if he left her over things as trivial as liking pro wrestling,” which is to say, it’s also an indictment of people like Miki who project their fantasies of what a ‘proper’ girl should be onto their love objects.

I don’t have much to say about the “Operation: Himemiya Anthy is a weirdo who keeps a [weird animal] in her [domestic space]” segment (though I do thoroughly enjoy it), aside from noting that it speaks to this sense of projection -- not only is Miki so enamored with Anthy that he thinks it’s cute that she has a pencil tin full of snails, but Nanami is wanting to project her own weirdness onto Anthy for the sake of the others. Nanami is the one walking around with a live octopus in her bag, but she’s not the weirdo -- Anthy is.

Nanami really does have the best magical thinking of any of the characters, though. It’s exactly like a 13 year old to /keep trying these things/ even though it’s obvious that it’s not going to work, and even if it wasn’t obvious from the start, it should have been after the first failed attempt.

I do enjoy the snail getting a spinning rose frame, though.

I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

I’m not sure I understand the moment with the elephant flipbook. She starts laughing uncontrollably while playing with it, and Utena tells her to be serious. Is she actually laughing at the pranks she just played on Nanami and can’t control herself? Is she actually enjoying herself with the flipbook? Is it (along with the animals and the shaved ice) meant to show her as childish? Is it foreshadowing for the elephants that will arrive in a few episodes?

Nanami’s outburst here is interesting for a few reasons, as well. She seems to be concerned with the fact that while Anthy seems to be the image of the ‘proper’ feminine love object for many people, she’s actually rather improper, as we have seen all episode. While this is at least partially a policing of other women’s femininity, it can also be seen an Nanami starting to see through Anthy’s facade and the facade of the entire dueling game, whether she realizes it or not, long before she simply rejects the system altogether.

And we conclude with explicitly pointing to the ‘sunlit garden’ as a site of fantasy, not of real memory, as shown by substituting Anthy into the memories/photographs.

Join us next week for the thrilling conclusion! Will Miki duel Utena? Will he win Anthy’s hand? Will he ever regain his ‘shining thing’? Is Kozue one of the best characters in this show?

As always, if you have comments or want to discuss anything in more depth, please do so.

#revolutionary girl utena #utena liveblog #long post is long #not blog themed #miki kaoru #lots of shitposting about juri in this one actually #oh well #sometimes you gotta shitpost about the waifu

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The Chemist — Chapter 27

“Alex, he just pocket-dialed you,” Daniel argued. “Danny’s right,” Val agreed. “You’re overreacting. It’s nothing.”

I understand that Val might want to minimize things, but Daniel should be aware that the last time he said Alex was overreacting, she was proven right. Besides, what's the worst that can happen with being overly cautious?

Problem is, Alex makes her case in the worst way possible, so I can't really stand by her either.

“Look, Val, I would never question your understanding on anything remotely feminine. That’s your world. This is mine.”

I mean, seriously. Can you establish your expertise without insisting how Not Like Other Girls you are? It can be done, I assure you.

So she…starts imagining how she could have been the one to torture information out of Kevin, because that's totally necessary and advances the plot a lot. Thanks for that, book.

Anyway, Val says she know where she can go hide. And she…doesn't offer Alex and Daniel to come with her, because…reasons? Well, whatever, they start packing to leave. By which I mean Daniel starts packing while Alex thinks about their next move. Which is related to us. In excruciating detail.

The conclusion is: she wants Daniel to leave the country using one of Kevin's fake IDs, and she can't follow because she doesn't have a passport. Even though those fake identities are definitely something Kevin could give up under torture, right?

“It will be a long while till they get around to asking him about false identities, if they ever do. You’ll have plenty of time to catch a flight to Chile tonight.”

Oh, well if you say so, of course this is safe. You're not very good at that "overly cautious" thing yourself, are you?

Daniel refuses this plan, unsurprisingly, because love conquers all or some bullshit like that. They also bemoan Kevin's absence, because…after a whole book of shitting on him, suddenly they act like he's the most competent of them? Which is correct, but still, it feels a tad hypocritical.

Alex wasn’t Kevin, either. She couldn’t even poison Carston while he was still oblivious.

I think misogyny is at least partly to blame for this current contradiction. Like, of course Kevin is more competent than Alex, even though the book keeps criticizing him, because he's a man.

This keeps going for a while too, by the way. Instead of thinking about a better/different escape plan, she starts musing on how Kevin was like family to her now.

More like family – the brother you tried to avoid at family gatherings.

You're really good at these backhanded compliments, aren't you.

Fuck's sake, she even thinks about the dogs. Look, I get that you're trying to show how much she suddenly has to lose and all, but maybe try to find a way to do so that 1) isn't quite so tell-y and 2) doesn't completely kill the emotional tension of this scene? Existential philosophizing does no really impart the urgency of the characters' situation.

But nope, it's angst and angst and more angst. At least the object of her angst is slowly moving towards their present situation, as she tries to imagine how Daniel must feel right now, then goes back to "Kevin might give up information anytime and we need to go".

She needed to focus.

Yes. You do.

She had to operate under the assumption that Kevin was still alive, and the bad guys would soon know both she and Daniel were also alive, and nearby. They would know Val’s name and address. They would know the make, model, color, and probably plate number of the only two cars they currently had access to. It was time to distance themselves from as many of those facts as possible.

And please, stop repeating yourself. You don't need padding. Trust me.

Well, stuff finally happens as they get into the parking garage. Yup, turns out Kevin didn't hold long enough for them to escape, and/or the angst was about as long in universe as it felt to read (i.e. I almost fell asleep on my keyboard).

…Or so the book pretends for a minute. It's actually just Einstein, who's alive somehow and made his way back. And I guess this super dog also knows how to lose someone tailing him? Oh well, I'm not complaining, the dogs in this book have been more effective than the protagonists so far.

For some obscure reason, they bring Einstein back to the apartment, which results in Val having to say goodbye to him as Alex decides to take him with her. Why isn't Val taking him? Who knows, who cares, this book sure isn't going to bother answering.

And while we're at it, let's have Alex checking the surveillance on Carston to determine roughly when Kevin was taken in. Which leads to her learning that Kevin is probably still alive—I say "probably" because all we have is half of a laconic phone call, but I know my Mary Sue Guessing Powers when I see them in action.

Alex also hears Carston call his daughter to tell her he can't take care of his granddaughter as he'd panned. Yep, this is apparently gonna be a plot point, because she also realizes that Carston is going to expect her to run away, which I guess means it's the best time to go on the offensive? Wasn't this logic what got you into this mess in the first place?

Well, who cares, because Alex is also randomly angry at the injustice of being targeted by this guy trying to cover up his own ass and/or terrorist plot.

Did he think he was so untouchable? That these hidden choices would never touch his public life? Did he think he was exempt? Did he not realize that he had liabilities, too? There were worse things than being poisoned.

So yes, Alex comes up with a new plan…and this is worth a chapter break. I don't think I'll ever understand the esoteric magic that dictates what is and isn't worthy of one in this book.

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Werefox, Smoke Monster, and Huxian: OH MY! || Bridget & Effie

Effie ran a gloved hand down her face in exasperation. She couldn’t believe that this sort of place didn’t have more of an online accessibility. But at least Bridget was here to help her read and to help her research—Effie was certain she had done a good thing in confiding in Bridget. She was trustworthy and she seemed eager to help, and her allowing her the choice and the control over a session such as this was monumentally helpful for her to even be here. And she learned quite a bit about what was written about the Yako and the Nogitsune fox spirits. However, nothing seemed to be very helpful about this… terrifying fox monster that she saw herself as in her dream. “I haven’t read anything that resembles what I saw.” Effie finally broke their silence, a frown on her face. “How about you?”

Bridget glanced over to Effie. She was glad that she'd been able to help her -- even if just a tiny bit. Of course, the beings -- including Effie herself (Bridget still smiled at the thought, how cool was it that she was actually able to help someone not just on a theoretical level?!) were not something that stood in Bridget's line of specialty but she liked to think that she had done at least some tiny bit of a good job. "No, me neither. I need to get looking into it." She said, another sigh following as she tapped her fingers against her thigh. "More, at least. All I know is that it seems to be totally random -- who it's coming to, that is. It's also not like anything I can find in our books, at least not the ones I've read." She glanced over to Effie. "Have you seen it again, or was it just that once?"

Effie shook her head. “Really the only thing I can tell you about the thing that was in my apartment was… well, it was a little dark, but it was like a black ball of smoke with piercing white eyes… And it had a hand. But it wasn’t visible unless it was touching me… And I was a little distracted trying to get something out so I could defend myself. See how well that turned out.” She made a face. “But that fox monster… The one from my dream… I haven’t come across anything like it. There’s nothing in these texts about some giant… Hold on.” The image of Paige the Fox Monster Wife—something she wished her head would stop calling her—was ingrained in her mind and she snatched a piece of paper off the table and began to draw the best she could. “If so many other people are having dreams like these who also saw that creature then… I was trying to remain skeptical but I’m having a hard time believing they aren’t connected.”

"That sounds like some weird thing half out of Spirited Away." Bridget made a face. "Only worse. Obviously." She regarded Effie curiously, listening to her as she spoke, not wanting to interrupt. "Hey, you got startled. Plus you probably still defended yourself better than I could've." She pushed a few pencils towards Effie as she began to sketch, and Bridget peered over to see what she was creating. "That looks like a --" Bridget bit her lip. "Well, it's not like anything I came across, even when I was reading about you. Sorry, that sounds weird." She sighed. "It's probably connected. There was a time, back in the labours, where a whole lot of us -- or five, I guess -- ended up trapped in a weird dreamscape, but this seems even bigger than that. But still probably connected."

Effie blinked. “Spirited what?” she asked, eyebrows raising. “I was trying to get some of my heavy charged tech equipment. I guess I accidentally blew a fuse without realizing it again, because when I got upstairs none of the lights were on, and I can’t create my own electricity. Or if I can, then I don’t know how.” And she wouldn’t like to find out.” Effie put the teeth on the fox thing and added a tail. “It looks like a what? That might be helpful!” She encouraged Bridget, looking at her curiously. To be fair, her drawing didn’t look like much of anything than a Gumby suit with a snout with teeth and tails. “A weird dreamscape, huh? I don’t… Well I guess so many bad things happen to this town that it would be foolish to say that none of the events are connected.” With a sigh, she leaned back in her chair. “I wonder if that… dreamscape is connected to these dreams.”

"Movie. Not important." Bridget gave a shake of her head. "Though actually, I can lend it to you if you ever want." She blew a strand of hair from her face. "Well, if you ever wanna, we can work on figuring that out some other time." She glanced over to the door to her office. At least the fact that a number of the other Scribes held little or no respect for her had some benefits. They weren't about to be jumping at her door, ready to ask her various questions. "Werewolf, sorry." Bridget bit her lip again. "I don't think it is that, though. Can't see you marrying a werewolf, and you did say she was a fox, so that's that." At Effie's mention of the dreamscape Bridget sighed. "Oh, I sure hope not. I like to think that with getting rid of the labours we got rid of all that. But it couldn't hurt to look into it. However, all that happened with that was a manifestation of various individuals' fears, only in the dream, and a Ceryneian Hind."

“Movie?” Most of the movies Effie watched were various documentaries found on Netflix. “Uh, sure.” At the mention of her powers though, she tried to give her a small smile, thought it came more like a grimace. “Maybe, yeah. Next time… Or whenever we get this sorted out I suppose.” Effie said, her head tilting to the side slightly. Maybe not. Nothing seemed to help. Nothing. But maybe there was some key hidden in all this research… Or, maybe she was just doomed to live in this fear and anxiety forever… Effie shook that off, shaking her head. “It wasn’t a werewolf…. But… Well…” Effie’s eyebrows knit together. “What kind of species of werewolves are there… Uh… Was that the wrong question to ask?” Effie asked quickly, glancing at the door herself. “No, I meant… Can other animals be… were? Were-foxes? Or something? Or is that just things in bad television shows?” Because Bridget could have a point. Werewolves existed and if they looked sort of like that… Then maybe she was seeing some type of Werefox. Or something. “I hope it isn’t connected,” Effie admitted. “I really was only a part of the pageant, and then when I was… well, sick with that tea bird fiasco. Nothing like that. That sounds terrifying.” Perhaps more so than her own little waking nightmares.

"By Hayao Miyazaki." Bridget offered another shrug. "I watched it with my dads and sister ages ago. But it's not important nor is it relevant to the topic at hand." She sucked in her lower lip. "I -- whatever's good for you. No pressure, as always, as I've said. But I've got you if you need any help or find your interests kindled." Bridget rubbed a finger against the bridge of her nose. "Not the wrong question, it's fine!" She assured Effie. "I don't -- I don't think so, 'least not that I've heard of. Likely, or at least possibly the invention of horrible television I've never seen." Bridget held up the drawing. "Oh! I was in the pageant too. Tricked and in love with the whole idea. Still makes my skin crawl." She gave an involuntary shudder. "I remember the tea-bird thing. The dreamscape was quite awful, but we made it. Just like we'll make it through this, too. So... it just appeared, touched you, and kinda 'poofed'? Did it make any noise?"

Effie‘s head tilted. “Oh. It must… be a good movie then. My sister’s probably heard of it.” All four of them. She seemed to remember them mentioning Hayao Miyazaki at some point or another. She frowned slightly at that, and decided to steer the conversation away from her abilities. There wasn’t any need for that right now. But she tried to put on another smile. “I don’t know but… We don’t even know if these things are real. I could be causing a commotion for no reason and…” Effie let out a sigh. “Yeah, me too. I… They put me in some sort of swimming competition, and then some maze where I got attacked by… plants.” Effie rubbed her legs, wincing as she remembered the pain it caused. “No, it scared the hell out of me. I turned around and it was just there… And then it chased me as I ran around like an idiot.”

Bridget gave Effie another nod. "It is. If you ever want to watch it, I might have the DVD..." her voice trailed off as she focused back to the topic at hand. Away from Effie's abilities, which, while it was part of what she'd initially had her to the HQ to study, hadn't been what the two of them had ended up focusing on. "I don't think it's no reason." Bridget clenched her fist against her thigh. She needed to stop wanting to reach out to comfort others. Not everyone wanted that, especially when they were still near-strangers. "Plus, it's worth looking into even if it isn't anything. I had to find a wolpertinger with painted nails and then rid a room of an aniwye's scent. Not fun, either of those, but especially the latter." She glanced down at Effie's legs, then back up. "One, you're not an idiot, and two, okay. And it floated around?"

Effie appreciated the distance that Bridget gave her. She didn’t like to be touched and even though that little voice in the back of her mind told her that things would be different if she didn’t have these abilities that maybe she would like that. Comfort. Hugs. Among other things. “It will help to make sure it isn’t anything, regardless. A what with… I’m sorry, that doesn’t’ sound to pleasant.” Effie sighed, then looked back at her bad noodly drawing of the ‘werefox’. “Thank you, but I’m sure I was running around in some horror movie-esqe manner.” There was a wary grin on her face and she hoped it portrayed the humor in it. “It… Yeah. I think it was floating. It looked like it was floating. It was pretty fast, though. And I think I threw my phone through it, but it was dark and I couldn’t see totally.”

"It wasn't, but it's okay. I survived, and that's what matters, right?" Bridget grinned at Effie. "Well I do think that's probably some kinda appropriate response to such a creature, hm?" She offered another careful smile to Effie, the best way she could think to reassure her. Not that everything was fine and dandy, not exactly, but at least that she was there, and was going to do her best to solve this thing. Even if it meant not sleeping. She'd get it done. "This is all very helpful, thank you." Bridget traced her fingers around Effie's drawing. "Is your phone okay? I mean, you do own the electronics shop but still..."

Effie nodded. “Right… And my phone is fine, thankfully. It landed flat and slid under my couch. Really, I’m just glad my dog wasn’t here to witness it. It would have made it so much wor—“ This was it. She was young. She was a Huxian. And today would be the day she gained her human form. Her mom said not to go for the hikers—But she wanted that little boy with the nice smelling backpack. It was easy to separate him—some stupid Eat. Pray. Love. Things would be turning onto the worst situation. She could feel her older siblings watching her and she felt a strike of annoyance. Couldn’t Edward and Ely leave her alone for this? Only her parents were supposed to be there. Ephie tackled the child, using her strong legs to pin him down as she started to rip of his face, the fleshy feeling in her mouth tasting satisfying as he screamed and— Effie’s words choked slightly. “—se? I… I have to go. Um. I forgot that Marley said.. Marley said she couldn’t close the shop today. I… I’ll message you later, okay?” Effie jumped up and was out the door before she could hear Bridget’s response. What the fuck was that… And more importantly, what the hell did she mean that she was a Huxian?

"Well, that's good --" Bridget began before Effie seemed to stammer and stand up. Bridget stood up a few seconds after Effie, but the other woman was already gone. "Yes, of course. Message me --" she shook her head. There wasn't a point of responding if Effie wasn't around, but her words finished anyhow. "anytime." She sat down in her chair again and picked up the drawing, studying it. She still didn't know what was happening, but she did know that she had to figure it out, sooner or later. Sooner rather than later, really.

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10 Tips For Rebuilding Fitness and Strength After Long-Term Injury, Illness or Atrophy

Maybe it’s an injury that took months to overcome. Maybe it’s an illness that left you bedridden (or demotivated). Maybe it’s simple disuse and neglect that dragged on and on—or lasted your entire life until today. Or maybe you read my recent post about claiming health in later life and want to get back on the road to vitality. For whatever reason, almost everyone will be forced to recover and rebuild their fitness and strength after an extended period of inactivity. But there’s a wrong way and a right way to do it.

Here are some tips for doing it the right way:

1. Do Anything You Can

Isometric contractions in the hospital bed (only if allowed by your doc, mind you). Single leg squats when standing up from the couch with your good leg. Bicep curls with the one arm that isn’t incapacitated. Whatever movement you can muster, get moving.

While it’s definitely “better” to train your entire body, training just a single body part or limb is better than doing nothing. It sends a signal to your body that you haven’t thrown in the towel, that you still need your metabolically-expensive muscle mass.

2. Motion Is Lotion—but Only If It’s High Quality Motion

The quicker you can get back to normal movement, the better. Normal movement, not normal speed. Quality over everything. For instance, say you sprain your ankle. The best thing you can do to recover is to start walking on it with good technique. Once you can walk with good form, however slow you go, get walking. Walk without a limp, even if it’s 1 MPH. Walk without a limp, even if you have to use crutches or a cane to bear some of the load. Don’t roll onto the outside of your bad foot. Don’t splay that foot out like a duck to avoid the pain.

The point is moving—and moving well.

3. Eat Tons Of Protein

Inactivity increases the protein requirement. When you’re on bed rest (mandatory or self-imposed), your protein metabolism shifts toward that of an older person’s—lower efficiency, higher substrate requirements to attain the same result. You need more protein just to stay on top of daily maintenance. Plus, since you’re actively healing and recovering and laying down or repairing tissue, you need extra protein to handle the extra processes.

Eat a good 1 gram protein per pound of lean body mass as you prepare for your return to activity. Consider including whey isolate, as it’s an easy additive source of protein that’s been shown to improve recovery after bed rest and surgery.

4. Learn To Distinguish Between Pain and Soreness

When recovering from an injury or just getting back into exercise, you want to avoid pain. Sharp pains in the joints, strains in the tendons that you feel for days after, a pulled muscle—these are not okay.

But you will and should feel discomfort. Muscle soreness after a session is fine. It’s normal. Burning in the muscle during a session is fine. It’s normal. Pain is not. Avoid pain.

5. Go For Walks

Regular walking is a powerful signal of “abundance” to your body. It tells your body that you’re still in the game, that you’re engaged with the world and have places to be. Walking is also the simplest, most fundamental way to get the blood flowing, get your joints lubricated, and apply a low-level stimulus to your musculoskeletal system. Pretty much everyone can walk.

If you have access to hills, even better. Walk up and down hills as often as possible. A brisk uphill walk is a legitimate way to build strength and endurance.

Work your way up to 5 times a week of 30-45 minutes. Throw on a weighted vest or throw some books in your backpack to add resistance.

6. Do Bear Crawls

Slow bear crawls are a great way to loosen up your joints and prepare your shoulders and hips for more complex, weighted movements. They’re actually a good exercise in their own right, especially if you haven’t done them since you were a baby.

Do these several times a week, preferably in the morning or before workouts, for a few minutes each day. Crawl forward, backward, sideways in a controlled fashion, making sure you feel the movements.

7. Do Balance Work

One basic way to improve balance (or just get more comfortable in unstable positions) is to stand on one foot and slowly sweep the opposite foot across in front of and behind you. Switch feet and do this every day for a couple minutes, or whenever you have down time—standing in line, for example.

You can also buy a 2×4 from the hardware store, place it on the ground, and practice walking forward and backward along it. You get the benefit of balancing on a narrow surface without the risk of falling to your doom.

8. Start With Bodyweight Exercises

Basic movements: knee flexion (squat, lunge, split squat), hip hinge (deadlift, kettlebell swing, trap bar DL), push (pushup, overhead press, dip), pull (pullup, chinup, row variations). You can do just about all of them with bodyweight, with the only one that’s really hard to do without external weights being the hip hinge.

Grab the Primal Blueprint Fitness ebook. It’s free and provides a step-by-step progression for all the movements, from total beginner doing pushups on the wall and assisted pull-ups to experienced lifter doing feet elevated pushups and weighted pull-ups.

9. Consider Finishing With Bodyweight Exercises.

Bodyweight exercises are totally sufficient for most people. It’s all about the amount of work you’re willing to do and the amount of effort you’re willing to give. In fact, I made the case in this post that you could build incredible strength and general fitness simply using bodyweight exercises plus some weighted resistance for the lower body (perhaps, say, my new favorite exercise: the trap bar deadlift and its many variations).

10. Take Fish Oil or Eat Fatty Fish.

The benefits of seafood on recovery and bounce-back-ability are multifold:

First, seafood is a great source of bioavailable high-quality protein—protein you need to recover from whatever sidelined you.

Second, the long chain omega-3s have a potent anti-inflammatory effect that can improve your recovery and speed up your return to normal activity. They reduce pain and inflammation without curtailing the healing process. One study even found that high dose omega-3 intake increased physical activity, maintained physical function, and reduced the incidence of joint replacement in older adults.

Third, the long chain omega-3s also increase muscle protein synthesis, particularly in older adults (presumably with higher baseline inflammation levels). In other words, they make physical activity more anabolic. They improve your ability to build muscle, muscle that you’ve probably lost being injured and inactive.

That’s it, everyone. These are the tips and methods I’ve used to get myself back on my feet after a long layaway, and to help others do the same. If you have anything to add or questions to ask, do so down below. I’d love to hear what worked (and what didn’t) for you. Thanks for reading.

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Arentson-lantz EJ, Galvan E, Ellison J, Wacher A, Paddon-jones D. Improving Dietary Protein Quality Reduces the Negative Effects of Physical Inactivity on Body Composition and Muscle Function. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2019;74(10):1605-1611.

Alfaddagh A, Elajami TK, Saleh M, Elajami M, Bistrian BR, Welty FK. The effect of eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids on physical function, exercise, and joint replacement in patients with coronary artery disease: A secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial. J Clin Lipidol. 2018;12(4):937-947.e2.

Smith GI, Atherton P, Reeds DN, et al. Dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplementation increases the rate of muscle protein synthesis in older adults: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011;93(2):402-12.

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10 Tips For Rebuilding Fitness and Strength After Long-Term Injury, Illness or Atrophy

Here are some tips for doing it the right way:

1. Do Anything You Can

2. Motion Is Lotion—but Only If It’s High Quality Motion

The point is moving—and moving well.

3. Eat Tons Of Protein

4. Learn To Distinguish Between Pain and Soreness

But you will and should feel discomfort. Muscle soreness after a session is fine. It’s normal. Burning in the muscle during a session is fine. It’s normal. Pain is not. Avoid pain.

5. Go For Walks

If you have access to hills, even better. Walk up and down hills as often as possible. A brisk uphill walk is a legitimate way to build strength and endurance.

Work your way up to 5 times a week of 30-45 minutes. Throw on a weighted vest or throw some books in your backpack to add resistance.

6. Do Bear Crawls

Do these several times a week, preferably in the morning or before workouts, for a few minutes each day. Crawl forward, backward, sideways in a controlled fashion, making sure you feel the movements.

7. Do Balance Work

8. Start With Bodyweight Exercises

9. Consider Finishing With Bodyweight Exercises.

10. Take Fish Oil or Eat Fatty Fish.

The benefits of seafood on recovery and bounce-back-ability are multifold:

First, seafood is a great source of bioavailable high-quality protein—protein you need to recover from whatever sidelined you.

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