#effective exercises

[effectivethings]

Effective Exercises for Boosting Stamina

Stamina, also known as endurance, is important in our daily lives. It helps us perform better physically and can lead to success in different areas. Increasing stamina through exercise can boost productivity and achievements. How can we improve stamina through exercise? Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com Contents Cardiovascular Workouts: Running: Start with short distances and gradually…

[galiccfinds]

1 base, 4 sims 🌷🫧💭

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: i know that everybody has their own personal headcanons about what garrus' dick looks like, but can we all at least agree that its self-lubricating?

[peachfruitcake]

well gosh

[th3archivisst]

Things I've started noticing in media as someone who recently developed a not yet diagnosed chronic pain disorder that has fucked up my life.

- seeing rep for any. Any. Disability makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

- in fandom, every time I see another disabled person discuss a disabled character, they actually like analysing the character in terms of how they function with their disability. But I only ever see ablebodied people make aus in which "everything is fine".

- seeing arguments about what is and isn't good representation is extremely draining. This goes for any minority, many of which I'm part of. It's an important conversation to have, but so often the focus is on tearing down the character instead of building them back up yourself. The approach is too focused on rooting out the bad apples, not on planting the seeds for better ones.

So often I see complaints, and those complaints are entirely valid. I agree with most of them. But wouldn't it be more productive to point out what was done right and suggest what could've been done to make it even better? If there's one thing school taught me, it's that constant criticism just leads to resentment.

Make up ocs with disabilities, draw them as well as you can or commission someone to draw them for you and post that shit with a detailed explanation. Someone is bound to see it. Write fanfiction of your favourite character and go in depth on the struggles they face and how they still find happiness alongside those struggles. Make videos or write books or animate something and include your story there, because that won't make you miserable. Force people to see you for who you are. It's far more effective than getting into arguments online.

[freeonlineworkouts]

10 Effective Tricep Exercises for Stronger Arms

10 Best Tricep Exercises

1. Close-Grip Bench Press

Muscles Worked: Triceps, chest, shoulders.

How-To: Lie on a bench and grip the barbell with hands shoulder-width apart. Lower the bar to your chest and press it back up.

Pro Tip: Keep your elbows close to your body for maximum tricep engagement.

2. Tricep Dips

Muscles Worked: Triceps, chest, shoulders.

How-To: Use parallel bars or a sturdy bench. Lower your body by bending your elbows until your arms form a 90-degree angle, then push yourself back up.

Pro Tip: Keep your torso upright to focus on your triceps instead of your chest.

3. Overhead Tricep Extension

Muscles Worked: Triceps.

How-To: Hold a dumbbell or kettlebell overhead with both hands. Lower the weight behind your head, then extend your arms back to the starting position.

Pro Tip: Keep your elbows stationary and close to your ears to isolate the triceps.

4. Tricep Pushdowns (Cable Machine)

Muscles Worked: Triceps.

How-To: Attach a rope or straight bar to a cable machine. Push the bar or rope downward until your arms are fully extended, then slowly return to the starting position.

Pro Tip: Keep your elbows locked in place for better isolation.

5. Diamond Push-Ups

Muscles Worked: Triceps, chest, core.

How-To: Position your hands in a diamond shape beneath your chest. Lower your body until your chest almost touches the ground, then push back up.

Pro Tip: Maintain a straight line from your head to your heels for proper form.

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[shadow-pvppets]

me reading network effect is just pausing every time Murderbot gets Vulnerable™️ and going "oh Murdy ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️"

[kitnapz]

sorry for only ever posting about the gym lately but i think the couple months where i wasnt allowed to go (health issues) were the worst in my life and now that we are SO BACK im literally the happiest little smiler in the world

[anghraine]

Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

[emmavakarian-theirin]

do I even bother attempt to draw it

[balluprojects]

work in progress with coffee, 2025

SOUND ON: if i did not take the sound of my recordings while editing xD

amazing album btw - Roots of Chicha, filled with traditional and psychadelic cumbias, to call out the sun and good mood - highly recomend and so much funky and danceble tunes!

have a great wednesday*

>>>>original music>>Los Destellos>Patricia>>

[gorps]

Did the 4b movement actually achieve anything in SK? I keep seeing people talk about it here as if it would do something, but I haven't seen any evidence that it's improved anything in SK.

[altarfates]

i think one of the worst things about insomnia that is kicking my ass rn is that im only getting about five hours of sleep and i wake up everyday between 5-5.30am so by 7pm im literally so tired again.

[draganaesfrost]

save me netsed sketches save me

[justgallifreyanthings]

I had to put together a presentation for work recently where I basically introduced myself to my team, so of course I talked about being a Gallifreyan artist and how I've designed tattoos for several dozen people. (My day job is not art-related at all, so it always comes as a bit of a surprise to folks that I've got a successful artistic side hustle.)

In that presentation, I shared my Gallifreyan social media handle, and one of the gals on the team immediately and in front of the whole team was like "I see that handle! I know you. You were on a very specific corner of Tumblr in 2014, weren't you?" Which is a very fair read, but also why were you at the devil's sacrament, bestie?

Anyway, after I got over the shock of being so blatantly clocked for quite literally the first time ever in the history of using this handle, I decided I really oughta pay homage to the origins of my handle, which is indeed a reference to the "Just Girly Things" phenomenon that had a chokehold on the meme economy a decade ago. It's a reference that will date me for the rest of time, and that no one will ever understand again, but I've grown attached to it over the years, and I can't see myself adopting a more evergreen brand name anytime soon. So you're well and truly stuck with me for the foreseeable future!

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[bannock-freak]

im not crying over nendo and saiki in the zombiefic nope not me nosir sobs