#Balance Distribution

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Another year has passed, and with it the opportunity to reflect back on all that has happened. While my growth was not as dramatic as last year, I can still see lots of positive change.

I'll never have enough ways to say thank you for all the love and support you have given me this year. On to 2025!

(2023 summary here!)

[calamarispiderart]

magical girls, generally, have something they fight against. this holds true in hms mg:ljga!.

heart, mind and soul fight 'Shadows', abstracted manifestations of consciousness and circumstance that have a tendency to mirror (or 'shadow') their individual and group situations. they often carry repetitive motifs or themes, functioning as tangible metaphors that must be 'resolved', much like any conflict.

the way in which a shadow is resolved varies. itd be wrong to say that there is ever one true or 'correct' resolution. rather, its a matter of what the group (or the individual,) sees as a proper ending to the matter. often, they default to violence.

it works well (or well enough...) for most shadows, as far as they can tell. its certainly easier than trying to talk it out...

[agendratum]

i keep thinking about seeing that one comment under a minchan back hug moment (you know, where chan hugs minho all happy, and minho just hangs in there mentally on another plane of existence), the person said something like, "i guess chan is something like his manager, so minho is setting his boundaries here, creating a healthy distance" or something and i just.. like first thing calling chan his manager is really a choice, and giving the reasoning shouldn't all three of 3racha be called managers then and now that's just ridiculous (maybe the word producer is here for a reason)

but the more important thing is that in this most recent code episode i watched minho straddle his manager and roll in the snow with him while entangled in ways that were not supported by the game format and i don't know what kind of relationship you have with your manager, but i-

[aroaceleovaldez]

funniest result on the ship polls so far is perachel getting almost a perfect normal distribution. like, congrats everybody, we've done it. the fighting can finally be over. we're free.

[electricxmayhem]

sketchbook Japer based on this epic tattoo by xaramar_ on instagram

[85-rend]

i will always hate that stupid "gooner art style body" shit so bad. fucking god forbid someone's fat distribution be mostly in the lower half of their body. genuinely makes me too nervous to like give my sona the same body type i do bc people are gonna see it as "gooner bait" and either harass me for it because they hate that or harass me for it because they take it as a free opportunity to make weird creepy comments about me unprompted

[crimsonender]

I'm glad you mention people with metabolic disorders like, as a fat guy with a metabolic disorder it's really frustrating seeing how people dismiss that as a factor in weight gain and maintenance, including doctors :/ like the number of professionals I have been to in my life- let alone regular old ignorant assholes I encounter- who think telling me to eat healthy and exercise more is going to unlock the secret skinny person that they've miraculously discovered hidden inside a lazy fatty... like you of all people should know my thyroid numbers buddy

I also think that like, something got twisted here. If you're fat you shouldn't give up on your body. You should still eat healthy. Even if eating a perfectly healthy and functional diet doesn't lose you a single pound, you should still do it and it's really important to drive that home to people that are overweight because they are at a higher risk of depression and developing eating disorders, many of which can include binge and binge/restrict type disorders. Because fat people also have a harder time moving around, its just easier for fat people not to. But again, you should build up muscle strength and be able to move around comfortably regardless of how much you weigh.

Being fat doesn't mean, necessarily, that your body is swimming in glucose and carbs and salt, but fat people that don't see themselves ever getting "better" might allow for that to happen because of how much they hate the way they look. Thats why "healthy at any size" is an important movement. Its not about saying "yep. Any size is healthy no matter what!" its that you should try to to be healthy no matter what the scale says. Thats *always* a good thing and *always* better for you.

As a personal anecdote there was a time of my life that I had stopped exercising and didn't give a SHIT what I was putting in my body. I had developed a very bad walking gait that was actively injuring my joints. My core muscles were so weak I couldn't sit up in a chair for longer than twenty minutes without the base of my spine throbbing in level 10 stabbing pain that was so bad it made me dizzy. My gut health was awful and every trip to the toilet was miserable and exhausting.

Then, I started eating right. Then I started exercising. I opted to sit at my desk instead of lounging in bed or on my couch, in an upright chair to start building my core up again. I went on walks. I got a physio consultation and found out that I literally had to relearn how to walk, and even now have to make sure I'm not rocking side to side on my ankles and grinding the joint into the socket with each step, every time I go walking. I have not stepped on a scale in four years. I'm honestly not sure if I am comfortable doing that. I don't know how much weight I lost, but I know it's not nothing because pants that were tight on me three years ago now fall off my ass if I don't cinch them with a belt. (That i had to cut new notches into, because when i bought it I could barely buckle it up around my middle, but now the smallest notch was still too loose.)

I'm not really thinking about my size, I'm not thinking about the number. I'm thinking about how good it feels to feel nourished. How much I can appreciate the sweetness of young vegetables because I rarely eat things like snack cakes anymore. I can go on a six hour hike and my legs feel fine. (even if Im a little slow.) I am more in tune with my body and I don't eat until my stomach hurts, feel guilty, and then punish myself for the rest of the week by not eating anything... only to inhale everything in the cupboard at 2am because of how much I've starved myself. Going to the toilet isn't painful and miserable anymore. I am still fat. I probably always will be, thats the phenotype I've been given. But I just am happier, more comfortable, and more capable since I started giving a shit about my body regardless of what size and shape it is.

All that to say that distorting this and the ideas that go into this sort of positive, healthy mindset into "if you just eat better and work out you'll be skinny" no the fuck you won't. the healthy skinny svelte version of me you're making up in your head doesn't exist, even at my peak, even at my most healthy, I'm gonna be chunky and stout and I'm fine with that. And if you're my Doctor, you better get fine with it too.

[lovely-english-rose]

man i wish we had gotten a second fire emblem warriors game <//3

[lea-knows-the-devil]

Learning a new language is unnecessarily tough. You've got apps that do all the setup and prepare classes/flashcards/whatever for you, but they don't want to scare you with grammar or you can't go at your own pace or they're too pricey or they're just awful. And I get that apps, flashcards, and other stuff are just supplementary material for reading proper books and taking proper classes and immersing yourself, but like, it's language. Language is not hard to teach, at least for the basics. And it's literally everywhere. So why are the most popular free options for getting into language learning so awful?

(I know it's because a lot of apps use a subscription model which incentivises them to space everything out, make you feel like you're making a tiny bit of progress each day (not really), make you feel like this app is the only resource you'll ever need, and keep you there for the next ten years, but I'm being rhetorical)

Of course, the solution is to start reading good books, reading decent guides, watching free videos, immersing yourself, making your own spreadsheets and flashcards, and so on. That's what I've finally started doing. But it's devastating that so many people are super duper motivated to learn a new language, which is something that *IS* fun and easy if you know what to do (and avoid), and then. They look up how to learn a new language, click on the first result, and now they're in Duolingo hell memorising the names of a hundred countries for no fucking reason. As a social species of billions we can finally communicate instantly with almost everyone all the time, with the biggest limiting factor being language barriers. And we have somehow not made it priority numero uno to make learning languages as easy and as accessible (i.e. free) as humanly possible. It's just sad.

[dandyshucks]

this is me today btw real not clickbait <- chronic fatigue + was working off an energy deficit all week

(wait big brain idea what if I give Dandyfae chronic fatigue.... would perhaps help me with making peace w it myself irl... HMMM much to think about....)

[countdown-til-sanders-take-over]

my fav of the core 5 as a kid was always lagoona. because blue was my favorite color :) out of the main three it was clawdeen i think

THIS is what peak performance looks like 💯💯

[gaydryad]

ok question if hypothetically I were to make a html + css template for making custom pokémon teams (cough such as for OCs cough) in the Bulbapedia widget style, would anyone else be interested in using it? if so I will go into this trying to write it as an actual decent template

[wilsonthemoose]

I personally should not be made to do research

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[dravidious]

I often hear people say stuff like "Some cards are bad because there have to be bad cards for there to be good cards!" There shouldn't be good cards, actually. None of the cards should be good. I think the game would be a lot more fun without good cards. Bad cards can stay tho they're funny