#describing exercise

[lamaery]

more painting practice. A centaur in the morning light. Reference is Cristian (who has the best smile) via fatfotoref.com and @fugitiverabbit

#painting exercise #centaur #body positive #morning light #procreate #heavy horse #massive horses are the best horses #described #id in alt text

[btrflyng]

A few words to describe Voices

Angelic (Light, soft, calm and considered very beautiful.)

Breathy (Speaking with a lot of audible breathing.)

Brittle (About to cry.)

Croaky (Sounds as if the one speaking has a sore throat.)

Dead (Showing absolutely no emotions.)

Flat (No tone, or in other words, not going up and down.)

Grating (Laughing, but in an annoying/unpleasant way.)

Honeyed (Nice sounding, but untrustworthy.)

Husky (Deep and hoarse in a positive sense.)

Low (Either used to describe quiet or deep voice.)

Monotonous (Boring and unpleasant voice. Changes neither tone, volume nor speed.)

Nasal (Speaking “through the nose”.)

Orotund (Loud and clear.)

Ringing (The same as orotund, loud and clear.)

Rough (Not soft, rasp/hoarse but usually in an unpleasant way compared to husky.)

Shrill (Very high, loud and unpleasant.)

Singsong (Rhythmic, melodic.)

Smoky (Rasp, usually used for a sexy and mysterious sounding voice.)

Thin (Very high, to an uncomfortable degree.)

Throaty (Deep voice and speaking “from the back of your throat” as the word says.)

Wheezy (Speaking while having trouble to breath.)

Wobbly (Nervous, frightened, not confident or about to cry.)

#writing advice #writing #writers resources #writing resources #voice #voice writing #writeblr #writing inspiration #writing exercise #authors resources #author tips #alternative words #describing #reference #writerslife

[th3e-m4ng0]

if Transformers, then One 🔥🤟

#art #im not using the main tags im so fucking embarrassed #the caption is a joke. i saw a blue checkmark on twt say if mario then bros and it made laugh #i wish i could describe how insane i feel about the upcoming movie even tho there's NOTHING to go insane about #screams and rips my hair and explodes into a million pieces #to be fair it also was an exercise to see how accurately i could match the logo's colors without using the color picker #[coping] [coping] [coping] [coping] [coping] [coping so hard] [coping] [copium] [coping] [coping]

[cookinguptales]

Do me a favor, okay? Next time you have a chance, close your eyes for a minute and take a deep breath and imagine someone loving you.

Imagine someone who gets excited just thinking about you. Imagine someone who loves the things you say and do and who genuinely enjoys spending time with you. Imagine someone who feels lucky every moment they get to be around you.

It can be a real person or someone you just made up. You can imagine them praising you or laughing with you or touching you or whatever love means to you. It can be romantic or otherwise. Take your pick.

And if you had a hard time doing it?

Do it again. And again. And again.

I read once that it’s important for us to visualize being loved. That your brain needs to be trained like a muscle, and like a muscle, it can become weak from disuse. Your brain can only do the things that you practice doing, and if you never, ever visualize someone loving you, it becomes difficult to even imagine someone loving you. You get stuck in a rut. And once it’s impossible to imagine someone loving you, it becomes impossible to believe you will ever be loved.

I think… sometimes it can become easy to stop believing that we’re worthy of love. And I think sometimes we have this fantasy of someone making us believe that we’re worthy of it again. Or that somehow we’ll just — earn it, one day. Being worthy of love and desire, respect and affection.

But I think the truth is that we can only start believing that we’re worthy of love if we’re capable of imagining it. And it becomes much, much easier to imagine it if you practice doing so.

It may feel awkward at first. Embarrassing. Silly. Maybe even painful. But think about it like this, maybe: your first day in a dance class, you’ll fall. You’ll look ridiculous. It’ll feel like your body will never be able to do this fluidly. But by the end of the class, you’ll be able to move in a whole new way. Maybe not perfectly, but… better, y’know?

Learn to waltz with your own mind, and try not to cringe too hard at your first awkward movements. Start small and work your way up if you have to. Someone liking you, then someone liking your conversations, then someone liking your presence, then someone purposefully seeking you out. Someone putting time aside for you. Someone thinking about you when you’re not there. Someone being with you because there’s nowhere they’d rather be.

It may feel self-indulgent, but… I mean, we all deserve to be indulged sometimes. And we all deserve to feel worthy of love.

So… indulge yourself. Take a moment and have a silly little fantasy. Get into the habit of imagining love, and imagining it for the you that exists right now, not the you that you wish you were.

Learn to speak the language of love as it applies to you, even if you think that it doesn’t, and one day you’ll realize how to use those syllables to say your own name.

It’ll come one day. In the meantime, let’s learn to dance together, okay?

#personally... #I mean I am disabled and I am not conventionally attractive #I have PTSD now from the kind of childhood abuse that makes you feel... broken I guess #so I have spent an awful lot of my life finding it difficult to imagine truly being loved #when there are so many 'easier' choices in this world it is hard to imagine someone picking me #so believe me when I say I know it's hard #but I also know that I closed myself off to love once I stopped being able to imagine people doing it #I lost the vocabulary for people loving me so when people did it I could no longer describe it #I didn't notice or worse - it stressed me out #but... I have started doing this visualization exercise and it does help #sometimes I have a spark of... well yes this person in this fantasy does deserve to be loved #and I am that person #so there's a spark of hope to it #hope can be good and hope can be bad but... I guess it's necessary too isn't it? #so let's do our best to make our brains stfu when they're being mean and instead focus on self-love

[therandomfandomme]

Biking is accessible movement

Biking is a very accessible mode of transportation and way to exercise, however I think a lot of people don't know that, since there are a lot of countries, who don't have the right infrastructure (which is sad). So, this post is me showing y'all how biking is very accessible.

I am writing this from the perspective of someone with mild chronic pain, so I don't know the ins and outs, I have just seen all these bikes around on the streets, because here in the Netherlands they are very prevelant. I do want to say that biking is far easier on my joints than walking, except the knees, even with my unmodified bike.

An accessability feature that is not the bike itself, but often seen in traffic are the signs for hard of hearing people, which can be attached to the back of the bike to let others know that the person won't respond to audible traffic cues and to be careful.

1. Not having the muscle mass or lung capacity for intense exercise

Electrical bikes used to be mostly associated with senior citizens, however in recent years it has become more popular with high schoolers, who have to bike long distances to school or adults, who don't want to arrive sweaty at work. They can either assist you or do the biking for you. Normal electric bikes can go up to 30 km/h, but the recently popular fatbike can go up to 60 km/h (which is a hazard and should be regulated, but I digress). Every bike type that follows after can be an eletric bike.

2. Needing back support

Of course not everyone can sit on a bike, whose seating gives no support and for those there are lying bikes. Though being able to get up and down from a pretty low seat, which is less.

3. Not having the balance for biking

One big thing with bikes is balancing, which is something I struggle with (shout out to physical therapy for helping with that). Once I'm on the bike it is easier for me, but I struggled a lot with getting on and off the bike for a while as well as balancing in general, so I had training wheels for a lot longer than most of my peers.

Luckily, there are a lot of options for people who have bad balance or for whom getting on and off a bike would be more of a struggle. A fatbike already makes for easier balance, however for more aid you have tricycles for adults, which are pretty common. And an extra wheel can also be put on a lying bike.

4. Mental disabilities that limit safe independence in traffic

Not everyone can be in traffic unsupervised due to mental disabilities or brain damage, so not everyone can bike on their own. However, there are many ways to bike while having someone there for safety.

A tandem might seem like a gimmick to some, but it can allow someone to bike without needing to take into account all the moving traffic. And the dubble bike, which is more often used as a fun thing for tourist to explore a city while being able to chat, can provide the same for those with bad balance. If the person in question is smaller than the person supervising, such as a child or little person, than there is also a bike attachment for any bike with a luggage carrier.

5. Using a mobility aid

A lot of people think that you can't bike when using a mobility aid, however biking is not the same as walking, so should your body allow it, biking is possible.

If a person uses a cane or crutches there are ways to hold them in place. A walker can also be attached to the back if it is foldable. If a person is in a wheelchair (depending on what kind) then a hand bike is an option, which allows for higher speeds than moving regularly, while not taking more energy. A person with a wheelchair can also be transported with a bike, if they are not able to move through traffic independently (i have been informed that this is for kids, so thank you for that addition).

6. Lifestyle makes it more difficult to bike

Some people can ride a bike, but aren't able of biking, because they have kids, pets or need to move more stuff. However, there are ways to still use a bike in those circumstances. Popular among people in busy cities with more than one kid is a cargo bike. A cargo bike is also avaible with three wheels for extra balance and both can be electric. For pet owners the trailer is more popular, since a pet cannot jump out of it, though I've also seen plenty of babies and toddlers in them. Both these options can naturally also hold stuff.

Of course I totally understand that not everyone is able to bike and that not everywhere there is the infrastructure necessary. I am just passionate about it and I think that a lot of people might not realize that biking can be more accessible than it is often portrayed. I might have missed something, so feel free to add if you find anything and I would love to hear thoughts or just reactions :D

#rrrambles #disability #disabled #disability rights #disability awareness #disabilities #mobility aid #accessibility #biking #bicycle #leftism #political #politics #accessabilty of biking #accessable exercise #accessable movement #disabled excercise #image description in alt #image described #image desc in alt text

[archersartcorner]

Okey here’s the final video! Maybe I’ll come back and add more fine details later but I’m alright leaving it like this for now. Boop :)

[Video ID: A digital animation of Norman Takamori and Skip from Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey. Norman is doing push ups and Skip, slug mode, is booping his nose when he gets close to the floor. End ID.]

#my art #described #animation #dimension 20 #a starstruck odyssey #norman takamori #skip takamori #skipperskip #the wurst crew has like. a Joint Workout Day together. everyone kinda does their own routines - Norman’s specifically is very reminiscent- #-of brigade/military warm ups. everyone else is Just A Lil Fearful at how much this 50 y/o man can do actually WHEHS #Skip goes out of body to try n mimic Norman’s workouts but realizes pretty quickly he. can’t really with his slug body. he tries to do one- #-(1) push up and realizes oh his body can’t really do that. cus Norman bursting out laughing cus Skip just kinda slammed his body fully- #-flat on the ground and realized he didn’t really have an ‘upper body’ to support LMAO #so skip just decides to kinda cheerlead Norman on. Norman does sit ups with Skip on his knees and boops his face when he comes up :) #at some point Norman just stops counting how many of each exercise he’s done cus he’s just having fun with Skip. ‘hehe slug bf go boop :)’

[divinekangaroo]

rewatching S6 in bits and pieces for current fic and ahhhhhhhhhh but the whole Jack, Diana, Mosley and Lizzie final dinner is so *viscerally* fucking satisfying on every sensory and intellectual and emotional level of consumption.

#every single movement facial expression breath flick of an eye the choice of 'mosley' not 'mr mosley' #the way mosley says 'lizzie' for the first time #jack's buildup and his mad fucking innuendo just before diana and oswald show #particularly how every drink is taken and by whom and when #lizzie constantly holding herself back the entire time from Saying Something all these flinches and half-breaths #insane #INSANE #as much as the end of S3 is roaringly wrenchingly furiously emotionally good #this dinner is something else #this whole episode is pretty much something else though fffffffffffff #jack's patronising constant reference to tommy as if he's a much younger man/boy when you look at these two guys and jack looks younger?? #by design i am sure #in the scene with the tie before the dinner.the way tommy's face says one thing while facing away from lizzie #then he puts on that mask as he turns to face her and you can SEE HIM DO THAT jesus #it would a writing exercise and a half to actually try to capture that scene in writing and work out what needs to be said/described #to carry the same effect because @coffeeatnight23 -> this scene is totally Tommy ripping his own heart out then eating it with relish :) #it *is* the saddest thing but also a fucking *reclamation* of something that tommy hasn't had since his suicide attempt. there's lots of #small reclamations of self that happen in post-Ruby S6 i seem to recall. despite flicks old trauma/foggy memory wandering also this- #-sort of structural shift/acceptance he is who he is and that is how he has agency (not solely money?) #anyway it's not triumph but there is *something* that i haven't found the word for yet #acceptance is one word but there's something more vicarious and dark in it that acceptance doesn't connote

[danikatze]

Hi op,

I wanted say that I absolutely love the drawing of Jonas Sphar you posted a little while back. 🩷🩷🩷 I’ve been just staring at it in a daze because it’s just so absolutely lovely ✨✨

Thank you for sharing your art 🩷 cheers ✨

Thank you!! He was a pleasure to draw!

It was actually the last of a bunch of little Spahr sketches - here's another little one I kinda like:

[ID in alt text]

#replies #jestersloverre #jonas spahr #I was trying a thing #someone I follow on instagram made a video about drawing with a medium that doesn't allow you to erase/undo #and to just start over if you don't like the sketch #as a way to become more confident and accurate when sketching and drawing #it was fun to do and I should do little exercises like this more often haha #midst podcast #midst fanart #fanart #danikunst #described #2024 #1

[sapitties]

sapnap can deadlift 335lbs I'm fine I'm okay I'm okahskwmdnw

#and he can do one arm rows with 90lbs at least i think thats the exercise he was describing #LIEK FUCKDNAKSW MWS.

[btrflyng]

It tastes...

acidic

ashy

bitter

burnt

buttery

chalky

chemical

chewy

clean

creamy

crunchy

delicious

dry

earthy

fatty

fizzy

hot

lactic

like cardboard

musty

poisonous

pungent

salty

scorched

sharp

smoky

sour

spicy

sweet

tasteless

vegetal

#describing #descriptive words #writing practice #writing resources #alternative words #tastes #taste #words #writing inspiration #inspiration #writing #writeblr #writing exercise #writerscommunity #authors resources #reference #writerslife

[jetink]

OC-tober day 1: favorite OC!

Meet Prince Edulan, my favorite OC from a wip titled The Guard and His Prince. He's got it all: carefree, flirtatious, silly, bisexual, and just a little bit pathetic. Until the horrors, of course. Look forward to seeing him and his guard pop up this month as I do OC-tober!

Image description: A digital drawing of a young man with wavy light brown skin, brown hair, and dark brown eyes. He is shown from the chest up, standing with his right shoulder toward the audience, but looks over his shoulder to the viewer's left. He is smiling, showing teeth and dimples. A few strands of hair fall into his face, slightly obscuring his left eye. He is wearing a pale blue tunic with gold epaulets and buttons, with embroidery on the collar. The embroidery features a subtle grain symbol, as well as a more prominent golden repeating pattern on the edge. Visible poking behind the collar is the neckline of a creamy white top with a scalloped lace edge. He is also wearing a simple gold dangle earring. The background is dark blue with a thick gold border. Behind his back is the artist's signature, JET INK, in cream white and gold. End I.D.

#artists on tumblr #original character #oc art #oc-tober #character design #original art #digital art #image described #has id #kayart #i didnt realize until i started writing the id that i totally forgot to like. shade and detail his eyes OOPS #i kinda rushed this so shrug. not my best but exercising for the challenges this month is fun ^_^ #jetink

[running-in-the-dark]

well. apparently I did something bad yesterday because I woke up with very very very bad pain in my shoulder/arm/upper back. I guess it's sore muscles but I don't know from what. 🙃

#didn't do anything unusual yesterday. mostly sat around. also drove 30 minutes but that was fine. painted a while. stuff like that #I just wish sore muscles (or whatever it is) didn't feel so absolutely fucking horrible #it feels like my arm is being ripped off. it feels like it's on fire. it's genuinely like an 8 or more on the pain scale #it's SO BAD. #and I remember that it did not used to feel like that. the first time it happened I was like 20. #that was... awful. #and since then it keeps happening #anyway idk I just feel like that isn't normal??? #it's not something I've heard other (healthy) people describe? #like it's not. oh yeah I exercised too much and now my arm is sore. I remember what that felt like. no it's like being tortured #or maybe I am just a big baby. it's probably that. #I'm trying to distract myself by watching stuff but the pain is so bad that I can't focus on anything #I've taken painkillers. hopefully they'll work soon. it hurts so bad. #personal

[dootznbootz]

opinions on helen of sparta being compared to prey animals? blink blink

*blink blinks back* Then immediately sits like this because of the question.

It's a good question that I'm happy to answer! It just makes me mad.... I sincerely hate the wording of "prey" being used to describe her.

SHE IS A VICTIM! THAT DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS "PREY"!

I can...see how people in ancient times may have used that word and still meant it in how she is a victim... but modern-day English-speaking people calling her that??? (considering how in different languages the word "prey" could have different meanings.) I'll just say that as someone who has been "prey" herself at one point, I REALLY hate that word as a descriptor. Just say victim or survivor. 👍

Honestly to call ANY victim "prey" is so fucked up. "Prey" to me, feels like "it's meant to happen." "Prey" are part of the food chain and so that's what happens. And to compare that to abduction and SA? Almost as if "that's our place"? It also kind of implies something being "eaten" or killed... Helen SURVIVES. She's traumatized and definitely needs healing and support but it's not like she can't find joy or peace ever again. Prey just feels so fucking gross.

Also, if someone calls victims "prey", I hope they know that Moose, Elk, Boars, Bovine, ZEBRAS, etc. are technically "prey". And these are VERY aggressive animals while still being "prey" for some other animals. And also that doesn't mean that "Oh, they're powerful! Clearly they should've been able to stop it." That's victim blaming :P

She is a clever, determined, caring woman who was ripped from her home for YEARS because Paris was a dipshit who decided he needed the prettiest woman in the world despite already having a wife. He didn't care about the fact that Helen didn't want to be there and was already married. He is so selfish that he will not let her go back even when THOUSANDS have died in the war! EVEN HIS BROTHER HECTOR AND PRIAM DO NOT BLAME HER! Granted, we do not know if Aphrodite would have let him undo their deal of "I want the prettiest woman" if he DID end up feeling bad for Helen and he wished to let her go home (I doubt it based on his personality though).

"Oh, if she is so independent/strong, then why didn't she just kill Paris and leave?"

AGAIN! Victim blaming!!! First thing, people who ask that have media literacy that is piss on the poor. You also have no idea about the political implications that would have happened if she DID kill Paris. She literally cries about staying there and argues with Aphrodite about seeing Paris, only to get strongarmed by Aphrodite as, guess what? A GODDESS WILL ALWAYS OVERPOWER A DEMIGOD. (This isn't Percy Jackson where he "killed" Ares as a 12 year old (Percy, you were my childhood, but that's bullshit.))

Even confined in Troy, she ARGUED with APHRODITE about going to see Paris! She is not some meek woman who just does as she's told with no pushback! She argued with a GODDESSS! Very few survive doing that!!!

She's not "Prey to fate", she's a "VICTIM of Fate".

#Thank you for the ask anon!!! :D It's a very fun question! I just really don't like the word of 'prey' being used to describe her. #... #Yes. there's poetic shit with writing. but if I heard someone say 'Helen is prey to Paris' I would be miffed and think that person's stupid #Prey just feels like 'one and done. You'll be a victim from now on and nothing else. You have no life after this.' #I mean you can probably say that if you simply mean that Paris is an abuser I guess. but...idk homies. I just really hate Helen being calle #that you know? #as if she could never be anything but prey in a way. as if she herself has never been the one pulling the strings or the trickster #Helen isn't a rabbit in an eagle's talons about to be eaten. She was a PRISONER. Who still lives and thrives afterward. #idk I'm probably looking too far into the word 'prey' and what it means to ME as an animal lover and survivor but it just feels #really bad to me. like wrinkling my nose and thinking 'out of all the words out there. that's the one you use?' #*sighs* #probably got quite fired up about this :P #ask #anon #yes I plan to write Helen as a big buff cheeto puff but again. she could never fight a goddess no matter how strong!! she's Mortal! #end of story!! I just want to write her that way as A.) it's fun. B.) Sparta upbringing. #(I got SUPER into ancient athletes stuff. (look up Pankration. it's so cool) and since I really love writing women. I just...like it :D #And no. everybody is strong in their own way even if they don't physically fight. I have plenty of women who are not fighters #but still have their own strengths and personalities and silliness #Leda actually doesn't like the 'exercising lifestyle of Sparta'. Ctimine loves running but that's it. Anticlea is the one who taught #Odysseus how to carve wood and is a 'trickster' but she's not really into athletic stuff. (she actually has a heart condition later on) #there's more too it but...tags are already long as hell #Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #my headcanons #kind of #If Helen is prey then she is “prey” like those clever mother birds who pretend to be injured to get predators away from their nest. #*shrieks into a pillow* I'm fine now :D

[antirepurp]

there's something in that one smurf forums thread where a grown man writes misery porn about baby smurfs that feels to me like one of those things every writer needs to experience but im not sure what im gaining from being exposed to it

#soda offers you a can #im watching a stream covering this and it's. fascinating. #the way everything starts off relatively normal and slowly escalates into lovingly crafted depictions of torture. on smurfs. #others chime in to support the writer in a way that feels more and more perverse as the story continues #sentient beings are treated like pets and dehumanized. lengthy paragraphs describe horrible things the baby smurfs go through #the violence feels both childish and perverse in how much it amps up and how carefully it unfolds over time #for the record i don't genuinely recommend this as a reading exercise #it gets weird and uncomfortable and fetishistic even #but it is a weird internet thing and lord knows those fascinate me endlessly

[saeraas]

read chapter 1 of the jjk light novel where megumi and yuji tail gojo and end up at a maid cafe and megumi is so dramatic. he got dragged into the cafe (along with yuji) and wanted to leave so bad he felt like he was about to bring about a new curse the longer he sat there while they took a picture with him

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #megumi fushiguro #yuji itadori #this was cute #gojo ended up making them exercise curses on their day off and gumi was like 'FINALLY I CAN DO SOMETHING COOL' #also funny bc they kept losing gojo but gojo is described as a tall weirdo so they kept finding him with little difficulty #'gojo built like he should play basketball' 'i don't see him playing' 'me neither!' #it's also funny bc the boyos were embarrassed they had to wear angel costumes in the cafe #and they described gojo wearing it like he was wearing a suit or smth lol #sad nobara was kinda left out since she was shopping and only came at the end when gojo found her and dragged her along #jjk light novel

[chocolatewoosh]

EVIL ART STYLE CHALLENGE GO

I wanna try my hand at the Evil Art Style Challenge!!! >:D It looks like fun! If you have no sweet clue what that is, the rules are the following!

"Ask your followers what your art style traits are, and try to draw something without and/or do the opposite of those traits." 

Basically, what are common things you see in my art style that you think defines it and makes it unique? Then I'll take the most common answers, and I will draw something that I believe is the opposite of- or at the very least excludes- those things! :D Which sounds Super Tricky but I at least wanna give it a try..!!! 

Feel free to just comment on this post OR send me an ask, anonymous or not, if you wanna!! :]

And for convenience sake, here's my Art Tag so you guys can look at some examples of my work!!

#Kailey Does A Talk #blease tell me what makes my style My Style cuz this sounds super fun to do!!! Gunna exercise my artistic muscles yeehaw #Also I did not invent this art challenge so By All Means feel free to do it yourself too!!!!!!!! #if you're having a hard time describing what my style looks like someone told me my style looks like a fruit gummy so I'll take anything