#exercise adaptation

[compassionmattersmost]

10: Embracing Your Own Pace: The Conclusion of Our Post-Viral ME/CFS Exercise Journey

Dear Friends, As we come to the conclusion of this series on exercising with post-viral ME/CFS, I want to offer you a heartfelt reflection on the journey we’ve been exploring together. It’s been a path of discovery, patience, and above all, compassion—compassion for yourself, your body, and your unique experience with ME/CFS. We’ve discussed everything from imagining workouts while lying in…

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unreal unearth prompts ˗ˏˋ ꒰ 🍊 ꒱

⋆ "i'd still know you."

⋆ "i'd block the sun if you want it done."

⋆ "some part of me must have died the first time that you called me baby."

⋆ "come here to me, when was the last time?"

⋆ "when i was young, i used to guess."

⋆ "do you think i'd give up?"

⋆ "do you think i'd give up? that this could've shook the love from me?"

⋆ "how could you think i'd scare so easily?"

⋆ "my life was a storm since i was born."

⋆ "if i could hold you for a minute, i'd go through it again."

⋆ "heaven is not fit to house a love like yours and mine."

⋆ "i feel lighter than i have in so much time."

⋆ "how could i fall when i am lifted by every word you say to me?"

⋆ "if you need to, darling, lean your weight on me."

⋆ "but if we fall i only pray, don't fall away from me."

⋆ "i do not have wings, love, and i never will."

⋆ "i'm starvin', darling."

⋆ "honey, i wanna race you to the table."

⋆ "two outfits then to my name, and you'd end up in one when you'd stay."

⋆ "we'd go out with no way to get home."

⋆ "but I know being reckless and young is not how the damage gets done."

⋆ "we knew what our love was worth."

⋆ "hold me like water- or christ, hold me like a knife."

⋆ "it's who we are."

⋆ "darling, we sacrificed."

⋆ "if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right."

⋆ "we didn't get it right but, love, we did our best."

⋆ "there are some things that no one teaches you, love."

⋆ "but it came easy, darlin', as natural as another leg around you in the bed frame."

⋆ "so far from home to have a stranger call you "darling"."

⋆ "i would do everything if you'd hear me."

⋆ "the feeling came late, but i'm still glad i met you."

⋆ "i knew i'd no choice but to love you."

⋆ "i thought you were like an angel to me."

⋆ do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, i still carry for you?"

⋆ "it's like i lived my whole life before the first light."

⋆ "the sun's coming up."

[k4mz1k]

Friendship is magic - and magic is heresy!!

MLP crossover with the U5 (as well as other... horse media) more ramblings for my choices under the cut

Ok so first an foremost, Kruber and Saltzpyre are the only ponies in U5, because both are imperials and therefore represent a majority of pegasi and earth ponies (Think of Ponyville uniting with Cloudsdale - boom you get Reikland, so that Bretonia is basically Canterlot haha)((also did I warn you that these are completely unserious?)). Victor is a pegasus with a mauled/missing wing because I thought the skaven did so besides taking his eye, BUT also because of a coooler symbolism down the line: Sigmar is a deity, right? Deities or figures of power are alicorns in the mlp usually, right? So by loosing his flight dude wants to reconnect with his faith which he later does by being converted into Sigmar's prized fridge and he gets like a manifestation of magic through a horn and a pair of wings when he does his warrior priest thingie :oD (plus i only now realised that with his wings on such a display Victor really resembles a twin tailed comet). Kruber can be viewed both as an earth pony and a unicorn (but i like earthponyness more because i don't respect the grail knight career haha). If he is a unicorn, he just hides it under his absurd headwear, (because i think if we take into the account that he is some long descendant of mandelot then a unicorn being born on an earth pony farm sounds almost tragic, but would explain why he felt he didn't belong and left), and if he's a earth pony then it's easy - when he does get to be a grail knight, the lady just grants him a temporary "horn". So Markus and Victor somewhat match haha). As for the rest, there isn't much to say, because their races kinda say everything for themselves. Sienna is a dragon (Still near Reikland, just different nation, so with the dragons in MLP, they lived near Ponyville as far as I remember). Breathes fire, perhaps practices magics? Bardin is a Yak (Patriotic, hold grudges and live in mountains + have a lot of gold braces on their hooves/in their manes/beards), very different (and small) from his compatriots so no wonder he is here and not in Yakistan. And Kerillian is a kirin, because they have this society based on a vow of silence to not rustle emotional demons and shit, so by breaking this vow and going on a killing spree similar to the one, alluded to in the game's lore and dialogue, letting out her edgy fiery teen because of an augury, she was exiled. Plus kirins live in far away forest lands so wood elves it is haha. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. HRT horses are just for fun

[gildedbearediting]

Writing Exercise: Flashback

Today’s cue card writing exercise is straightforward and quick. Remember, if you recognize these cue card exercise then let me know where I got them from in order to properly credit the source. Alright, let’s get to it. Start with these memory prompts: 5 years ago… When I was a teen… My father used to… Keep it short, use the senses. Include important setting details and dialogue. You can use…

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HAS ANYONE ELSE ON THIS EARTH ALSO READ THE NOVEL LOVE BY ELIZABETH VON ARNIM (project gutenberg link!)

I JUST FINISHED READING IT AND I REQUIRE IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

[fireolin]

i hope one day the time i'm spending doing therapy exercises for my upper back, my healing elbow, my bad ankle, and my other foot, plus the pilates i can manage while only putting weight on two limbs or my torso, all lead to actual normal exercise again, lmao

[millenniallust4death]

I've been using the FitOn app for fitness workouts for a few years and love it. They recently added a category for adaptive fitness for wheelchair users. Matt Scott, the Paralympian and wheelchair basketball player, is their first instructor. I did his Medicine Ball Strength video this morning, and it was fun!

[averlym]

lost a bet to a guy in a chiffon skirt (but i make these high heels work)

[yekokataa]

just did a free trial of a workout class and it sucked so bad that it made me hate exercise in a way i haven't experienced since high school

[gotjacobian]

not the first or last time I’ll visit this topic but taking physical skill-type classes sucks so much less as an adult where I’m allowed to say “hey doing X hurts, is that bad and if so can you help me adjust it or give me something else to do”

[gildedbearediting]

Writing Exercise: Letter to my Love

In this cue card exercise, there will be three steps. First, fill out the following details about Marlene, who’s in love with someone at prison. She has [blonde, brunette, ravenette, white, greying, dyed] hair, and [blue, green, brown, hazel, grey, heterochromia] eyes. She has a voice that’s like [pick your descriptor]. She loves [genre] music and [this] is her favourite movie star. She shops…

[adore-gregor]

Lol I keep on doing this, saying I'd come back to tumblr to only disappear again 😂😭

[faggling]

The worst part of taking an opiate is having to eat something with it

[uglypastels]

Last year I did a course in novel adaptations in uni and honestly, while the course itself was put together horribly, it did leave me with some info that makes consuming media much more bearable.

Adaptations of a story are inherently a different story. No matter how accurate or not. They could be a word for word reenactment of the words you once read on a page, it's not the same thing. And it never will be.

Each media product is the result of people working on it together at a certain point in time. With books its a smaller team, but you have a writer, an editor, proofreaders, designers, publishers. They all create something that eventually is seen as a cohesive piece. Something that is there to tell the story those people wanted to tell with the influence they had in their contribution.

And the same goes for other media; writers, directors, actors, editors, etc. They all work together to create something. This might be inspired by a previous work, but they are not making the same product.

They adapt it to a new setting, a new media, a new era, time, place, point of view, whatever.

With the Percy Jackson show, because of course this is what made me want to write this but it goes for anything, one can go into the details of what they changed or what was left out, I can't lie that i sat on the couch unphased as i noticed them skip/change things, but what should always be asked in these situations, or i should rather say, what is much more interesting to consider, is WHY. Why were changes made?

It could be a budget issue, it could be a solution to overcome format differences between paper and screen, or even the specifics of a studio or streaming service. Simple logistics of things (i.e. could percy really jump off the st. Louis arch and survive?) The storyteller might have decided to vocalise a different point of view, emphasise a new aspect of the story, address another topic that they recognise in the plot. Were they influenced? By whom? Who was "in the room" to make the decisions- since 1 person could make the difference on how things come to be. When was it made (since everything is a product of its time)? Current trends/tropes, social issues, discussions? What is their vision of the entire piece of work?

You might not agree with those choices, fine, but i doubt if it was completely up to you that you would make a 100% "accurate" adaptation everyone would agree with. I'm sure there would be dialogue changes, pacing differences, biases towards characters and wanting to make them more/less vocal, casting choices that might not be fitting the discriptions exactly but the actor is perfect to you. You were influenced by things you entire life, brave of you to assume you wouldn't have an effect on anything either.

I mean, just look at fanfiction...how accurate of an adaptation is any of that? But we still eat it up every day, don't we?

People learn, grow and adapt, and so does their work. You do not make a book the same way you make a show or movie, and you dont make any of these the same way now as you would 20 years ago, so it is impossible to expect them to be the same.

And maybe it's for the best, since now you get to enjoy the stories and characters in multiple ways, from different perspectives.

[aidenwaites]

I know Amazon or whoever has the rights to a disco elysium adaptation and all I'm saying is if you're going to adapt disco elysium you better get freaky with it

[jesncin]

I remember reading one of your asks on how you would like to do Batman and Wonder Woman's rouges right if you DID re-imagine them, so here are some recommendations.

For the Batman stuff, your best shots are looking at B:TAS/TNBA (A lot of the rouges were done wonderful there), The Arkham Games (Riddler, Bane, Catwoman, Scarecrow, and Penguin, but Joker is there too), and The Batman 2022 (Once again Catwoman, Riddler, Penguin, and if we want to get into it Gotham's corruption). The Non-B:TAS pieces of media are dark, but they're not edgy dark thankfully so you can pull some pieces from there for Inso.

Now for getting Wonder Woman's rouges right, the best recommendations I have is just reading up on greek mythology and picking up some of the old school, pre-52 Wonder Woman comics to see what elements of from those characters you can pick apart and remix into something faithful yet modern. I mean its what the B:TAS crew did, and one of the reasons why the show is still iconic.

You don't have to follow this advice, but just be aware that you have years of media to help you.

Oh thank you for the recommendations! :D

I've watched all of those Bat media already! I'm a big DCAU fan (finally finished re-watching Justice League Unlimited wahoo), I followed the Arkham games closely in college (where I really became a Bat-fan), and I re-watched The Batman 2022 recently! It's a delight. I tee-hee-d the whole time, what a treat. These adaptations just do such a good job that I don't know what else to add! Like what's there for me to change up? At most Scarecrow is definitely underdone in BTAS and the Arkham Games, so there's creatively wiggle room to reimagine him. But the others? Dunno yet until I look into them more.

Yeah that's honestly exactly my struggle with Wonder Woman, haha. You basically need a lot of homework before tackling adapting her (at least the way I do it)- not only does she have a ton of comics and re-imaginings, but Greek mythology on top of that? Woof I have not attended Wonder Woman university yet where I'd have to major in mythology and history, and minor in "what did this male writer do wrong this time" haha.

I'm so intimately familiar with Martian Manhunter's stories at this point (even without having read all of them, pre-Crisis and many Justice League comics are holes in my knowledge, still-) that I can spot character arc pitfalls and the weaknesses of an adaptation immediately. I know all the plots writers re-cycle with him at this point- so I know where to innovate and where I can pull a through line from. I don't know Diana well enough to do that yet.