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Saw this on Pinterest but wanted to share bc actually I have had a physio recommend this to me and it’s been amazing!

Walking backwards strengths the muscles around your knee (esp the quadriceps, which you will definitely feel if you do this) but doesn’t put the same strain on the joint as forward walking or running. It’s very good for your balance, coordination and patellar tracking, all important to reduce knee pain, support your knees and can help rehab knee injuries.

I do it on a gym treadmill, usually at 1.2 km/h (but I’ve seen anywhere from 0.8-1.6 km/h recommended, which is like 0.5-1.0 mph for the Americans). You can start with a very slight incline and then slowly increase it 5% as you get more comfortable, and to help engage the muscles. I usually do this for 5 to 10 minutes, 3-4 times a week. My understanding is that you can also do it outside, either on flat or sloped ground, because just walking backwards itself is useful as hell (the incline is just useful to engage muscles more as you get more used to it)

If you have even a spare 20 minutes a week, this is seriously useful to support your knees, because there is nothing worse than injuring one

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parents will make u feel guilty about absurd shit like breathing too much air or smth. and it will work too like you'll be laying on the ground years later paralyzed by the guilt that you're breathing too much until someone grabs u by the shoulders and tells u that is fucking stupid. and then you'll need to remind yourself of that every day for the rest of your life to function

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my housemate's cat is super chatty so i've just started responding to him

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Vampires Will Never Hurt You | My Chemical Romance

for @fear0phobia, i know you like tragic mick and vampires, so i hope you enjoy this sorta vampire!tragic mick edit 💜💜

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monty & tragic mick parallels | for @fear0phobia, happy birthday ❤️

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it’s really august huh… like 8 whole months have passed……….. disgusting

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I totally forgot that i drew new stuff for the spicy zine- (It was a long month)

so in answer to what is in it-

*THIS* ^ but more- and also fulfilling Big Naturals Aziraphale for the Month.

Femme Aziraphale from the cleavage upwards. She is leaning against some pillows, and wearing a white froufrou bit of nothing. A small Snek Crowley has periscoped up from between her boobs and she's just gently kissed their tiny overwhelmed head. Snek Crowley is doing a tiny Blelelele.

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ur twenties are weird. i have the priorities of a kindergartener again. i don’t know what in the hell is going on EVER. i like colors. i like soup. i want to take a nap

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nobody asked but im saying this anyway

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evenings on baker street

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Three Black Cats, Carl Kahler

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POV: you received a new AO3 fanfiction update email, but you're not sure which human AU storyline out of the dozens you're reading it is

Is it the one where Aziraphale is a bookseller or a priest? Is Crowley a gardener or a tattoo artist? Is this the one where Aziraphale has a religious trauma because of his family? Is Gabriel his brother, his husband or his boss? Why is Crowley a disaster puppy in this one? Have they already kissed here? ...Wait a minute, this is a human AU, right? Right?

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(for @unicorngunter ♡)

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i don’t need a “day off” or a “weekend” i need to respawn in a clean apartment with all my responsibilities reset and the complete certainty that nobody hates me

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🫵 YOU. STOP WHERE YOU ARE

say something nice about prev!!! find something cool about them!! give their blog a skim!!

compliments are FREE TO GIVE so GIVE THEM OUT. pls. thamnk. (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

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just saw a horny post with vaguely historical terms in it and the weird misuse of those terms is frustrating me beyond belief. your historical sexual fantasies should be well cited from primary and secondary sources you can’t just make this stuff up.

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friendly reminder to everyone that first draft just needs to exist.

it doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be there. stories go through so many different drafts that nobody is gonna care if your first draft is a little messy.

you can’t edit and clean up something that doesn’t exist, so make it exist!