forgive my absolute ignorance and maybe stupidity, but does swimming and other pool related activities help hypermobility? Whenever I told anyone related to medicine I'm having joint pain, they told me to take many a bath and frequent a pool
yes. water-related actitivites help with joint pain a) by in the case of exercise like aerobics and swimming building muscle and b) doing so whilst relieving pressure on the joints because the water is holding you up
hot baths will relieve pressure on the joints (unlike standing or even sitting to take a shower) and the heat will relax the muscles whilst the water supports you
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I dont know if you've answered this but did the MC ever fought in any world wars? As a history student, your IF is very interesting and I wanted to see which side of the war MC was in
MC does have an option to fight in both the world wars. if you choose the soldier path then it is canon that they fought for the allies along with the majority of the supernaturals. since the TCS world isn’t too big on being historically accurate, i’m gonna say that people, regardless of their gender or expertise, were gladly welcomed in the ranks.
however, i don’t want to glamourize what happened in any war and WW1 was especially traumatising if your MC was a soldier. they hadn’t ever seen the sheer amount of destruction that heavy artillery could bring. the usage of machine guns, grenades, weaponized planes were fairly new and seeing everything go down in the battlefield left the MC shell-shocked for a long time. it was also the first time they had seen tanks in action; behemoth of an artillery vehicle crushing soldiers in their wake even though those who were the casualities belonged to the enemy side.
there will be some flashback scenes concerning wars and how badly it affected the MC, whether they served as a soldier, medic, pilot, naval officer, or a war correspondent in enemy territories.
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Would you like to see all of Jonathan's speaking lines from the moment he joins the rest of the crew (September 30) till he witnesses the aftermath of Dracula's attack on Mina (October 3)? Well, here they are:
"I answer for Mina and myself," he said.
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"May I come?" said Harker.
Both on his first day there, after spending most of his time working on documents with Mina. The former, when agreeing to the let's-hunt-Dracula pact, and the latter when asking to go along to visit Renfield. Your mileage may vary on whether he even did that, since Seward and Renfield and Stoker both forgot him entirely during said visit.
That's it. Oh, of course he talks more than that, but it's all described dialogue typically involved a larger group and even then is pretty brief. He suggests the importance of Renfield before the meeting. He leads the way through Carfax on Van Helsing's request, freezes up and has a minor panic attack when he thinks he sees Dracula, but is pretty silent throughout. The next day he has a brief chat with Van Helsing and hunts boxes. The next day, says hi and bye to Seward, then heads out to spend the whole day chasing leads again. When he gets back, the boys all have a music night and Jonathan reads his journal to them to keep them up on his efforts.
I'm not suggesting that Jonathan is totally silent or anything. But there's perhaps a reason Seward initially describes him as a "quiet, business-like gentleman." He's reserved for the most part and focused on the task at hand. Determined but not overzealous in any way that stands out; spends a lot of time off on his own or hanging back quietly.
All this to say... It must have been quite a shock to see quiet, paper-trail hunting Jonathan Harker abruptly start spitting out lines like:
"It cannot have gone too far yet. Guard her while I look for him!"
"May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"
"Then let us come at once, we are wasting the precious, precious time!" + "We shall break in if need be."
"I care for nothing now, except to wipe out this brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it!"
"May God give him into my hand just for long enough to destroy that earthly life of him which we are aiming at. If beyond it I could send his soul for ever and ever to burning hell I would do it!"
All of a sudden Jonathan is a big damn romantic hero. He is making huge declarations left and right, he is ready to hunt Dracula down and kill him in his pajamas, he is rushing and raging and swearing to God and cursing Dracula's soul to hell and offering to trade away his own. All this not to even mention attacking him with a knife and climbing out a window rather than waste any time with stairs.
Jonathan, who has always been pretty mild-mannered around this group to the point they almost find it hard to believe he could have been the same one to write about his experiences in the castle, is now in full on Addams family mode, public displays of affection and murder attempts included. And it's not like this situation isn't understandably dire as hell, an easy recipe for pushing someone past the limits of their composure. They all know that too.
But I just find it really fun to imagine the recalibration going on in their heads. Knowing intellectually the kind of stuff he did to stay alive all that time ago is a little different from watching him rampage around like he did today, and Seward definitely seemed to be experiencing a shift in his perception of Jonathan's manly fervor to say the least.
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Me reading the tamagotchi yugioh manga chapter: lol that was cute and silly
Me watching the season 0 tamagotchi episode:
[IMG: a picture of a cat looking like it has witnessed horrors beyond human comprehension. End ID]
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