#forced exercise

[scealaiscoite]

reasons for there to be only one bed ˗ˏˋ ꒰ 🍊 ꒱

¹⁾ they’re undercover as a married couple, and as such need to act like one

²⁾ there’s technically two beds available, but it’s freezing cold and everybody knows body heat works best

³⁾ it’s a camping trip, and one character’s forgotten their sleeping bag

⁴⁾ a character goes to their friend’s house after an emotional upheaval in search of comfort, and ends up staying the night - but refuses to kick the homeowner out of their own bed, resulting in the two of them sharing it

⁵⁾ in a roommate scenario, one character’s bedroom has been rendered unusable - and with the couch being unsustainable in the long run, they proffer sharing the one remaining bed as a solution

⁶⁾ there are two beds, but only one blanket

⁷⁾ a character’s taken ill, and the other party worries too much to leave them alone for even a minute

⁸⁾ in a fit of anger after a mission gone wrong, both characters sleep in the only available bed because no one was chivalrous to offer to take the floor

⁹⁾ a character’s had a nightmare, and needs company to feel safe enough to go back to sleep

¹⁰⁾ the weather takes a tumultuous turn, meaning a late night hangout has to turn into a sleepover when a character gets stranded there for the night

¹¹⁾ it’s a late night at work and when they both grow too tired to continue on, the only option is the lone office couch

¹²⁾ a threat’s been made against one/all character(s) involved, and so under the guise of safety in numbers it’s deemed safest if they stay together - everywhere

¹³⁾ one character joins the other for a late-night conversation, and ends up getting comfortable in their bed next to them - evidently too comfortable, as the char in bed falls asleep on the visitor and effectively traps them there

¹⁴⁾ there’s no bed in the shoddy refuge they’ve found after things went sideways, so when it comes time to sleep the only real choice is to stay close together

and, of course,

¹⁵⁾ it’s the last room available at the hotel after a long trip

#8 is extremely simon riley coded but you didn’t hear that from me lol #prompts #prompt list #writing prompts #writing exercise #fluff prompts #rp meme #soft prompts #otp prompts #fluff writing prompts #only one bed #only one bed prompts #forced proximity prompts

[thedisablednaturalist]

I think when people think of mental illness and what helps, especially with things like anxiety and depression, the treatment involves pushing yourself. Pushing yourself to get out of bed, to exercise, to take a shower, to go out in public, to order your own food from the cashier, etc.

And because the mental health movement has grown so much, people think that's the default of ALL illnesses. That the only way someone will get better is if they push themselves. That practice makes perfect. That you'll become more comfortable or strong over time the more you do something.

But what people need to realize is, with physical disabilities and chronic illnesses, pushing yourself in most cases is DETRIMENTAL. Pushing yourself past your limits can lead to flare ups or further injury. That's why it's important to know your limits, how certain activities may affect your condition, and learn how to either adapt or get help to complete the activity in question.

Also, most of us are already pushing ourselves. Most of us don't have access to the help or equipment we need. Most of us live in places where we frequently encounter inaccessible obstacles. Most of us NEED to rest.

So please don't try to be our physical therapists or doctors. There are people specifically trained to help us navigate our own conditions and limitations. There are people trained to help us strengthen our body's resilience without causing flare-ups or injury. Do not tell us "it'll be good for you" or "you need the exercise" when we say something is too heavy or too far or when we say we need our mobility aid(s). Your friend with depression may need to be encouraged to get out of bed, but your friend with chronic illness definitely doesn't.

Respect our rest.

#wrenfea.exe #DISCLAIMER: dont take this as me saying you should be pushing your mentally ill friends #this is more about how physical conditions often differ in how they are treated #also dont like. force your friends or anyone with anxiety to do things they dont want to #thats what therapists are for #also most mental illnesses require medication alongside therapy before they can get better #but even chronic illnesses and disabilities that benefit from exercise still require knowing your limits #and not being pressured to push past them #ive noticed some professionals who help both mentally and physically ill patients tend towards the push method #like my therapist and sometimes my counselors fall back on that method #and i have to remind them i am already pushing myself #and i need to adapt rather than push forward #chronic disability #chronic pain #spoonie #disability #chronic illness #cripple punk #cripplepunk #cpunk

[macchitea]

my addition to @pansear-doodles 's arena icon trend!! :D

took me a while but i had a lot of fun painting these scugs!!

#rain world #rain world downpour #downpour spoilers #rain world arena #rw monk #rw survivor #rw hunter #rw nightcat #rw gourmand #rw artificer #rw rivulet #rw spearmaster #rw saint #rw enot #thats.. a lot of tags lmao #alfksjd this took around 10 and a half hours!!!! i enjoyed it though :D #turned out to be a rlly fun painting exercise aaaaa #forced me to go out of my comfort zone w/ all the different base colors too #i think im most proud of the survivor one ehehe #anyways i hope ppl enjoy enot's scourge cosplay #macchiart

[shyranno]

Painted Ventress to practice for the Force Fatale fanzine!! Have you applied yet? c: We're looking for writers, artists AND cosplayers!! Check us out here: @forcefatalezine

#asajj ventress #tcw #star wars #fan art #force fatale zine #ehehehe sometimes i paint i guess #i prefer toonier stuff #but its a fun exercise!!

[binart]

*positive vibes intentions and wishes from the other side of earth being sent to you*

Hope you're doing well and if you dont right now i hope you will tomorrow!!! :)))

<33 THANK U FRIEND! i am getting better every day i think 💪

#not having a lot of practice regulating my emotions is a recent struggle i've had to start facing again which has been hard #but ten years of yoga and forcing myself to learn breathing exercises i think will be very helpful!! #and one thing i'd like to also try doing is not giving myself constant psychic damage by going on my phone all the time.. #that will be hard but ultimately worth it.. #anyway thank u for ur kind message!! i appreciate it #binask

[moghedien]

I'm curious if like showering in gym class is actually a thing or just in movies to provide teenage angst, because it certainly wasn't a thing in my junior high or high schools

and not just in a "no one decided to shower" way, but in that there were showers in the locker rooms but we weren't allowed to use them and I'm not even sure they were hooked up to plumbing. this was across two schools, and I had pe first period in high school so I might have actually used them if given the option, but we weren't allowed to even approach the showers lmao. i just assumed that was the case pretty much everywhere

#i also live in a swamp so not giving teenage kids forced to exercise in 100% humidity the chance to shower after might be a crime?

[fistfuloflightning]

”Hashirama thinks—“ “I already know what he thinks. I want to know what you think. You were Hashirama’s shadow when you were Senju Tobirama. But you’re an Uchiha now, and that means standing at my side, and not in my shadow. This village is as much your making as it is mine or Hashirama’s.” Tobirama remained silent, red eyes fixed unseeing on her cup. Madara knew the peace haunted her in a way it didn’t the others. Her sole purpose for existence was no longer there and she was learning there was more to life than constant vigilance and a kunai in hand. And she was terrified of it.

#was digging through my old unpublished fics and found this little snippet in my madatobi folder #doubt I’ll ever publish it but it’s a comfort writing exercise #the daimyo forces senju/uchiha peace and butsuma offers an arranged marriage between tobi and mads #intending her to break the peace/help destroy the uchihas from the inside #but she’s more loyal to her brother and his dreams and becomes reluctant allies with mads to take down her dad #I wasn’t sure where I was going with the fic but I might keep working on it #naruto #madatobi #uchiha madara #senju tobirama #female tobirama #my art #naruto art #my writing

[fisheito]

finally listening to the h-scene audio after 1.5 years on mute

yakumo: gasps and whimpers in the whiniest brokenest way me:

#every time i'm on tumblr i imagine myself in a shared cubicle office space with my fellow bloggers #just typing away and creating our gay little posts #sometimes i'm sitting on an exercise ball instead of a regular chair #bc that's the kind of ~hip~ workplace we're in #occasionally i'll encounter something that forces me to take a break from my station #and my coworkers are all very understanding and supportive #this is one of those times #i excuse myself from my desk and my neighbour nods in sympathy #i'm mad. this is a new precedent. i was never into steppable men. what happened #he stifles his moans and i'm like *CLAW GRIP* #i mean i kept the sound on for events and regular storylines so the game wasn't completely on mute #but i always muted for H scenes bc i had no earphones. and this is a shared house. with very thin walls #plus it's not like i'm one of those mega voice-lovers who can pick out a specific VA from 8km away based on a single grunt #but then i got earphones!! so i was like aight let's see what i'm missing here #omniscient external narrator's voice: uh oh #yakumo

[dateamonster]

i dont want to go on twxtter but i do wanna make a thread of stuff i like

1 ❤ like = 1 👻 short horror story rec

#ungodly screeching #recs #more than anything this is an exercise in forcing myself to remember titles

[unpretty]

I am literally begging for Ironicarl lore

he's not even a supervillain, he's just a regular guy whose power is that within a five mile radius the laws of irony are real. he's on a perpetual road trip in his rv because if he lives in the same place for too long someone will try to murder him to make it stop. he tried to have a #vanlife youtube channel but got banned for public safety because disasters kept happening hilariously in the background. black knight pays him to stay away from him so he's doing fine.

#original #writeblogging #ghost devlin #whether he looks exactly like carl from aqua teen hunger force is left as an exercise for the reader

[deheerkonijn]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤️

You caught me in an ugh-spiral haha sorry.

But even in an ugh-spiral there are two fics that I’m consistently happy with:

One Thing Leads To Another, in which we introduce an elf having a mental health crisis to Sobriety™️, and Gimli busts his ass open in a National park (not in a sex way).

Balcony Etiquette, in which I do a modern Gigolas take on Hitchcock’s Rear Window, which sounds stupid - and it is, it’s very stupid - but it is also fun and I had fun doing it.

#lotr #fics #mod gigos #thank you for forcing me to be nice tho #it’s always a good exercise

[military1st]

A U.S. Army Soldier during Exercise Combined Resolve 24-1 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany.

The U.S. Army photo by Spc. Leonard Beckett (2023).

#army #military #us army #us military #armed forces #military life #infantry #army strong #troops #veteran #soldier #patriot #tactical #tactical gear #tacticool #training #exercise #military 1st

[severeweatheralert]

You know if Alice in Borderland 3 is set in the real world I really, really hope they give at least one character Borderlands-flashbacks that blend in with the real world to a near-seamless degree. Your subconscious is desperately trying to communicate that something happened. It was real.

No one else can see the firelight dancing across the carpet when you check into a hotel, and you can't feel the heat of it, anyway. No one else can see the vines choking out gleaming high rises or the moss covering the pavement in the reflection of your rear view mirror. No one can tell you why all the fruit in the supermarket smells rotten. No one can tell you why, when you throw open the curtains in the middle of the night after a particularly vivid nightmare, all of Tokyo is dark (except for one white spot in the distance, and you can almost taste the dread in the back of your throat).

That is, until you meet someone you almost recognize.

#alice in borderland #writing #mine #aib 3 #and if netflix won't do it i'll write the fic #fanfic #this wasn't meant to turn into a writing exercise but i'll inflict it on you anway #the psychological horror of having died and coming back changed but not remembering what changed you #and then Kano comes in with a whole host of sketchy techniques to force the memories to come back :)

[sisterdivinium]

Genetic engineering, DNA modification, tested it on herself... Why would Jillian go through all this trouble? Adoption would be easier, surrogacy wouldn't be an issue for a woman with so much money, so why this devotion to medical science, to gene manipulation?

This doesn't seem very logical unless we take one step further in examining her characterisation as a sort of Virgin Mary character implied by her clothing and framing during season one: a man is never mentioned in connection to Michael's conception, either as donor or father... Possibly because Michael has no father. Jillian has made him up from scratch or, at least, using only her own genetic material.

This would surely equate to an awesome "medical marvel" and it would accomplish two additional things: first, it would account for just how sick Michael needs to be so that an extremely rare substance that doesn't even belong to this world can be his sole hope in surviving (the result of a miscalculation, an unforeseen mutated gene, some error in Jillian's design, the absence of something); and second, reproduction without the aid of man ("sinless", sexless) not only ties Jillian's character more closely to the theme of the holy mother, it also more strongly makes a Jesus figure out of Michael.

This is significant because it makes him into a designated saviour: Michael, too, "dies", crossing to "the other side" and later returning with the mission of saving humanity, which is the role he is sure he will play during all of season two. This story has been told before, the structure is the same and we all know it. He mirrors Christ in his being born of a woman untouched by man, in going beyond life and back, in being tasked by a higher power to act for others in his sacrifice. It is a destiny clearly written out for him, a classic narrative, a hero's journey neatly set up for Michael to accomplish and all he has to do is follow the script.

And yet, doing everything right, by the book, Michael ultimately fails.

If, according to all of the doubts awakened by the developments in Warrior Nun (is Adriel's realm not Heaven? Is he not an angel? Is Reya God? Is Jesus just as alien as Adriel? Etcetera), the Catholic church's teachings are all twisted, incomplete, when not simply ignorant of all that is true in spiritual, metaphysical matters, then this saviour narrative that constitutes the foundation of the institution itself is doomed — as well as whatever guidance it could supply.

I was discussing with @halobearerhavoc earlier about (among many other intriguing things) how myth informs the show and how it might predict Reya's fall, but also how that event would necessarily depart from how it plays out in the original myth. That is due to the fact that our protagonist here is Ava, a woman, and that this tiny little fact of sex alone forces a shift in how things are presented, in which values are prioritised, in how conflict is treated, escalated or resolved — this applies here as well.

Michael was the textbook redeemer, he was made for this, brought up by Reya with this explicit purpose and with the acquired conviction that he was the key to it all.

Ava, on the other hand, is a product of coincidence, of accident, of the unfathomable. She is already a rupture in tradition — dead and brought back, unknowingly, unwillingly the "usurper" of the halo, inserting herself in the line of bearers at random when she doesn't even seem to have any belief... Ava exists outside of tradition. To Michael's determined "Destiny", she is the one imbued with free will (it isn't out of guilt or duty that she returns to the Cat's Cradle, but through Mary's sympathy, through her own understanding and action). Ava is the unplanned factor, contrasted with Michael who was so planned that his life might have begun inside a Petri dish.

It isn't determinism that will save us, a mantle of glory woven by someone else wanting to place it upon our shoulders regardless of our own wishes; it isn't a decrepit institution or some despotic deity that will define us or what we do; it isn't the heavy, malodorous layers of ancient mould gathered over the endless tomes of Established Tradition or the carefully made calculations of arrogant scientists who think they can predict and explain and control everything.

Salvation cannot be through what Michael represents: an imposed duty, a stagnant, hackneyed story.

A story, we would do well to remember, which was already used to subjugate others, whatever its initial intentions might have been; Jillian certainly didn't predict what would be of her son and surely the primitive Christians didn't see into the future to understand what their devotion and their modes of its transmission would cause, yet it came to happen. The extermination of the Cathars, the persecution of pagans, the burning of "witches", the suppression of indigenous beliefs, activities and lives, to name but a few of the atrocities committed in the name of this one story...

So it cannot be Michael, embodying this narrative so well, that will bring about a fortunate ending to humanity's troubles.

Instead, salvation comes through Ava. She herself might be inhabited by a number of parallels with Christ, but she also carries freedom, an outsider's view which makes the inside so see-through, love, an ability to move outside of what had been previously set for her by someone else (one might even argue that these are the traits that made Christ before the story surrounding him came about)...

The walls built around her needn't contain her — and, phasing as she does, they do not.

Moreover, what would have been the real ending to Reya's plan, had it been followed exactly as it should have? The divinium bomb did hit Ava in the end, but wouldn't it have been worse had she not been interrupted in running up to Michael while he immobilised Adriel during the televised freak circus?

Ava's unpredictability, her impulse, her innate need to act with free will rather than constricted by what others dictate — Ava is the foil to fate itself, the foil to a structure, to a hierarchy that has been festering and rotting from the beginning of time, it should seem.

The hero of this story could only ever be her.

#warrior nun #jillian salvius #michael salvius #ava silva #i had been sitting on this for days #mostly because the initial post was like WAIT IS JILLIAN REALLY LIKE THE VIRGIN MARY and not much more #but i decided to make it into a more organised little essay #COULD you argue that the halo reaching ava was “fate”? yes of course you could #but this reminds me of a post by winterlorn if i'm not mistaken in which the #idea of vincent being the driver who caused the accident ava was in caused displeasure rather than satisfaction #why? because this erodes the very basis of what ava seems to represent #which is being an agent of change unchained to Something Else #so COULD you interpret all that i have exposed in the contrary and say it WAS ava's fate to defy fate? #you could. but in the process you destroy the very nucleus of what ava is #you would also have to almost automatically admit that there is a higher force at play than reya #some more powerful god or whatever #that manipulates everyone (including reya) as puppets #(and his name would be simon HAHA) #analysis and similar #exercises in observation

[uncanny-tranny]

Okay, are belly button piercings "trashy," or do you just associate them with femininity, or women, or sex work and strike it down as inherently less worthy? Are 'tramp stamps' "trashy", or do you just associate them with femininity, or women, or sex work and strike it down as inherently less worthy? Is pole dance "trashy", or do you associate it with women, or sex work and strike it down as inherently less worthy?

These are examples, but I find it interesting when people link things with womanhood or femininity or - gasp! - sex work and then immediately condemn, scrutinize, and dehumanize those who even dapple a little in these things, even if it isn't for sex work or to "look trashy." It's funny how the feminine or woman is seen as trashy until proven otherwise, and it's shameful that people still hold the bias that women must prove their humanity by not "being trashy" or "acting like a hooker."

#feminism #look i'm not arguing sex work with people but it's funny that SWers are seen as less than human unless they have a sad story or they hate.. #...themselves for 'stooping so low.' and it's funny that women bear both brunts of misogyny (sarcasm) #i'm saying this as a man who is also 'trashy' because i exercise my bodily autonomy every chance i get #just got my belly button done and i think it's a lovely body mod that can be so versatile #same with lower back tattoos!!! some of them are SO pretty in design and artistry #misogyny #misogyny tw #as i get older i realize just how deep the misogyny and policing of ESPECIALLY femininity and those who are/are forced to be/ect women #frankly a woman should be able to 'be trashy' or 'act like a hooker' and not fear for their safety or wellness #again i say all this as a man but i also want women* to feel safe and able to exercise the same bodily autonomy i do as a man

[sweatyhanded]

my art style but evil ?

#cat burglar nami #one piece #lei or lei art #this was very fun exercise #had to keep reminding myself with the evil art style to be messy #i kept trying to do clean continuous lines #physical forcing myself to do chicken scratch sketching lol #AND i haaaate rendering it never looks right jo matter hwat i do it makes me feel so frustrated lol