#mikey speaks

[on-a-lucky-tide]

I can’t believe I’m about to say this as an American but, help me British man!

How are weights marked in the gyms over there? I know you guys use the metric system (like most of the world besides us) but I don’t know the nuances of where the weights are marked, what intervals they’re most commonly measured in and things like that. I know over here, the largest *common* weight for a loadable dumbbell is a 45 pounds but the fixed weights I’ve seen go up to like 70 pounds (and I’ve seen even higher on both but that’s in the big boy gyms) and the smallest is 5 pounds; where they usually ascend by 5 pounds a weight until they reach the max. God I hope this question(s) makes sense. I’m asking for fic reasons.

Sir, I am at your disposal. Because I am a visual person and I like to conduct research in the field: behold, images of the weights, which I took while gasping for air and wishing I could replace my left arm with Bucky's from Winter Soldier.

Dumbbells are in multiples of 2 from 4kg up to 50kg. Except near what I'll call the flex area ('cause of the giant mirror), where they have odd intervals.

Barbell has weight in multiples of 5 from 5kg here up to 25kg. Some places have higher I've seen but can't see why they would. There are also 2.5kg and 1.25kg discs around that I use for preacher curls. (Yes, I spent 5 minutes sorting this clusterfuck, I couldn't leave it.) Pre-weighted barbells too.

There are two types of cable machine we have here. The weight intervals are pictured.

Weights on some random machine. (Breeding bench, heh heh heh.)

If it's a CoD fic, the lads will be doing a lot of body weight work, cardio and explosive movements like box jumps. Not bulking too much cause they still need to be able to move and my powerlifting lads aren't quick. 😬

Bonus progress pic of your tour guide today: one aspiring otter heading home for a shower and protein shake (sunglasses recommended due to ghostly skin tone).

[mr-mikey]

Happy 10 years to the splatoon series! This game was something i tried on a whim at a smash bros meet up, liked it enough to buy a wii u and new tv to play it on. And over ten years it's completely changed my life.

I started making new friends because of it, I started playing with friends through skype and discord. I made so many overseas friends I never would have met without this wonderful series

It even led to the creation of my two splatoon ocs, Justin and Blake! which added to the fun I've had with the splatoon series.

So thank you so much splatoon for all the happy, salty, funny memories.

I also have these photo's of japanese people who I sent messages to, including one message congratulating me for reaching S+ during the first game.

I've even been able to play with them in splatoon 3, which always makes me happy when it happened.

Splatoon truly is a multicultral game that can make friends between nations.

P.S

@rydiabun never forget this is how we became friends >:3

[colonyorats]

So, all credit to my very close friend @silly-boi-broski for reminding me of this song because I need to write a whole entire other post about my relationship with this song and how I kept thinking about it and how well it fits with both my life and probably my favorite book, Hell Followed with Us.

*Deep breath*

I grew up in a very very religious household (I still live in one). My dad's a pastor, my mom works with the youth groups, and I was heavily involved from day one. I was taught to "Love thy neighbour" and that everyone deserved a chance at heaven, that Jesus loves everyone no matter what but at the same time I watched as the very same people would turn around and chase the teen mom out of church or shun the kid who came out as queer and whatever other bullshit things they did.

I remember people at my church saying the most racist and terrible shit ever, like, the kind of things people say on Twitter nowadays but in real life infront of the Pastor and his literal child.

Then, we moved somwhere else and I got sent to a private school up until 5th grade and saw the hate the teachers spread and how a bunch of people bullied this one kid because he was of color and all the rest of us where white and it was so bad that he had to be transferred to a different school the next year because of it but I didn't understand it at the time and he was my best friend so I was so fucking confused.

Same thing happened to a kid in a wheelchair, and, while it wasn't as bad for me, I was, and still kinda am, the fat kid so that made it suck on my part since I heard comments from adults saying things to my mom like "She'd be so much more beautiful if she lost a few more pounds" which, hello??? That's a fucking terrible thing to say about a literal 10 year old child.

That was about the same time I started questioning if any of it was really real and I had a huge drop in my mental health and personally went through hell and back during a bunch of personal stuff I won't get into right now, but involved a lot of questioning my identity and shit and a lot of family drama.

That's when sometime during 2022 my friend (also @silly-boi-broski) suggested me a book called Hell Followed with Us because he was going through some similar stuff. I was skeptical at fist but then I read it and was blown away that someone was writing about similar feelings I had.

The rage and justice I felt while reading it almost broke me because I had grown up in an environment, while not as literally deadly as Benji, was so similar to it that I freaked out and had to put the book down at times. I finally finished it and I felt so seen and understood that I couldn't not want to talk and ramble about it and now I've reread it more times than I can count and everytime it makes me feel so understood.

Fuck, then I remembered the song he sent me and hearing that for the first time made me feel all the same things I did when reading HFWU and it just shocks me.

While I don't align myself with the church in any way, I think I still believe. Kind of like how Faith said it in the book, "I do, actually. And I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about that. Talking to friends--you know, Sadaf is Muslim, Salvador is Catholic, Carly is Jewish--to see if anything clicks. Or if I'm just going to have to deal with believing in the same kind of God those motherfuckers do... I guess what I'm saying is, I believe in something, and I don't know what to do with it, and maybe, I don't actually believe in anything at all, and I just want to because I hate the idea of Trevor being faced with nothing." (-page 55 of the US edition paperback of HFWU)

This is already so long so I'll stop but I still have so much to say about this book and this song but I'll save that for another day.

Here's the song I was talking about btw

[thelittlemagicbrother]

Pearl and Marina are the best idol duo in Splatoon hands down

[mikeydraws]

Guess who’s seeing a psychologist for the first time on the same day that school starts

Yup this guy right here 😋⁉️

[neeetr]

i burn i pine i perish for these little cabbage looking dishes

[dinojynx]

Im thinking about this post again it makes me actually emotional they are literally besties. They care about eachother so so much. Like mcr is a band of friends that kills me inside I'm being insane i know but ugh i love them I want to cry

[mikeyway666]

i love x rays until i see my own and all i can feel is a throbbing in my arm

[on-a-lucky-tide]

The glimpses of your life with your partner always make me happy for you (and him, obvi, lucky duck he is) and fill my own heart a bit cause I grew up confused and repressed (southern church boys represent!); it’s good to see other people work it out because it means I can to!

(Also sometimes I think, fuck where did you find that guy and where can I get a similar model [different genders acceptable] for myself?? From what you reveal, y’all’s sense of humor is fucking goals)

The conservative upbringing baggage is not something that is easily managed. Give yourself grace, mate.

I genuinely believe there is someone out there for everyone. Not feeding "the one" narrative, there is more than one; love takes time, commitment and work. Find that imperfect someone who makes you laugh. I found mine on World of Warcraft. He didn't know I was 17 at the time because back then you didn't share your bloody age or "minor" on the internet. He said I was funny, I said "thanks, it's the trauma" and we exchanged numbers about a month later.

16th anniversary in May. Time flies when you're uh... battling the dystopia of late stage capitalism with someone you love.

[mr-mikey]

Some days I still think about how one single season of digimon animated series and one digimon game reminded me of why I was a fan of digimon as a kid, and it was where my interest in pokemon as a whole fell off.

There's a lot I could say about the subject, but the short version of my feelings is that Digimon did over one year through the animation and game was show the importance and value of the connection between human and partner more convincingly in one year than 25 years of pokemon games and anime did.

And I feel that Pokemon won't ever be able to show a connection between human and their non human partner as well as digimon has which I find to be a real shame. Especially when I think about the morale of Gen 5.

[colonyorats]

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[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Little Shadow 2/2

[ 1\2 ]

When I was little I thought my brother was the coolest person in the world. I wanted to be just like him!

Now that I’m older though, I’ve grown into my own person. Now, my brother and I can stand on equal footing, side by side. Whenever he asks for my help or advice, I will always remember how much he helped me when I was young, and I am immensely grateful to be able to do the same for him.

I don’t know if he misses having a little shadow, but I know he’s proud of me :)

[twenty-words-or-less]

Ok, bye.

Bye, asshole.

~ Mikey

[mikeydraws]

You guys ever had friends that are so sweet to you that you sometimes tear up thinking about it?

I think it’s because I’m not used to it, no one has been this nice to me in a long while, and when I mean really nice like chat I’m gonna set an example!!

One of my friend, does tarot readings, funniest shit ever, and I ask a question about my transition—and the answer is along the lines of costing a lot of money—my other blessed friend just joyously announces “I’ll pay it for you! :D” OMG SHUT UP PLS I LOVE YOU SM BUT DONT SPEND MONEY ON ME

and when the tarot starts saying smth about hiding it, my tarot reading friend starts sorry bc she feels like it’s too sad- AND IM JUST SITTING HERE LIKE WHY DO YOU GUYS CARE SM ABOUT ME?!?! HELLO?? DID GOD JUST DECIDE TO SEND ME HIS MOST SWEETEST ANGELS?!???? I CANT ANYMORE :((

[meggahamicide]

more old art? ╰(*°▽°*)╯

plus zoomed in version. i ain't going to finish this one, so i figured i'd post it as is.

[1nk-ling]

One of the (many) things I love most is when the main conflict of the episode has nothing to do with the B team and they're just existing together. They're so openly supportive of eachother! Little things: Dee clapping when Mikey made that jump; Mikey regularly saying how awesome Dee's inventions are; eyerolling when the older two are fighting.

Not to mention how Mikey coined the phrase "Like a turtle do!" and then Donnie using it in later episodes when no one else did.

While Leo and Raph are out there being the perfect duo in the most contentious way possible, Donnie and Mikey are just rocking being quiet besties in the background. And the level of deviousness they come up with together is frankly terrifying.

The dynamic we never got: Softserve Duo!

Ice Cream Kitty is an absolute QUEEN by the way.

She is all good things. She is the predominant female character in cinema. I want to write a ten page discertation on why she makes every scene she enters into gold! But I won't.

Ice Cream Kitty speaks for herself, and if a person can't see it, who am I to cure the blind?