#pacing exercise

[compassionmattersmost]

2: Imagining Movement: An Introduction to Gentle Exercise for Those Living With Post-Viral ME/CFS

When living with post-viral ME/CFS, exercise can seem like an impossible dream. For many, the simple act of getting out of bed can take monumental effort, let alone the thought of stepping into a gym. However, there are ways to gently integrate physical activity into your life without exacerbating symptoms—and these steps don’t necessarily start with physical movement. Sometimes, they begin in…

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[mrsthunderkin]

Consistency? Who's she?

Part 2 >>> Part 4

[inktheblot]

the best people in life are free 🌈✨

Been a while since I finished an AMV so I just messed around with one for fun 💖

[tinkertailorsoldierguy]

[angelmush]

i loveee wearing sweaters i made to work heheheeee

[comicaurora]

this is non comic or OSP related, so sorry if i'm overstepping, but do you have any advice for someone that wants to move/exercise more but is utterly unmotivated?(not exercise for muscles, just movement for the sake of movement)

Honestly? Think of something physically demanding you want to be able to do. Stuff like hiking and/or climbing rough terrain, running free with the wind in your hair, swordfighting, stunt falls, sick metal gear combat rolls - anything that has ever made you sit up and think "I wish I could do that!" Once you reframe movement and exercise as a way to make your body capable of more fun things, it becomes a lot easier to stay motivated.

[fictionadventurer]

I'd have been much less intimidated by the idea of writing poetry if I'd known that all you have to do is:

Have a thought

Write it down

Find a cooler way to say it

[ennaih]

me every time there's a new promo pic of Lee Pace in Foundation:

[softly] jesus fucken christ

[28dayslater]

The one thing I've never ever understood and will always think is mass gaslighting against me is endorphins after exercise. Not once in my life has any form of exercise made me feel good. I went gym for a bit a few years ago bc my mum had a free membership and I'd try hard do an hour of cardio maybe some sit ups and squats and come out thinking jesus that was hell on earth I wish I was dead

[kickingtheladder]

GOOD NEWS!!! My favourite bonkers nurses and pilots show is apparently back!!!! Hello again, Skymed! I can't wait to see what blows up this season!

[compassionmattersmost]

1: Introduction to the Exercise Series: Gentle Movement for Body, Mind, and Spirit with Post-Viral ME/CFS

Dear Friends, As we embark on this series exploring exercise and movement for those living with Post-Viral ME/CFS, it’s important to begin by acknowledging a simple truth: your path to wellness may look different from anyone else’s—and that is completely okay. The nature of living with Post-Viral ME/CFS requires us to redefine what exercise means, adapting to a new rhythm that is in harmony with…

[magentacat]

Wolf Faunus Weiss AU (part 3)

"You're sorry?" Blake asked, feeling a cold shudder running down her spine.

"Yes," Weiss slowly sat up next to her, pulling back her arms from holding onto Blake to rest them on her lap. "I'm--" she hesitated for a second, digging her nails into her palms. "I'm sorry for being," she opened her arms, half shrugging, half gesturing at herself. "This."

"What do you mean?" Blake inquired carefully. She wasn't sure what she was getting at, but she feared the worst.

"This!" Weiss put her hands over her chest, a tear rolling down her cheek. "I'm the lowest of the low." She lowered her gaze again, as if surrendering herself.

Blake couldn't believe what she was hearing. No, she could believe it, but she didn't want to. She really wanted to give Weiss the benefit of the doubt. That she was sincere when she said she wanted to be better after what they went through with Sun some weeks ago.

She really hoped that Weiss didn't hate faunus as much as to hate herself for being one.

"Do you really hate faunus so much?" She said before realizing it, standing up to glare at Weiss.

"No..." Weiss sighed a drowned reply, as if she had just been stabbed. She hid her face in her hands, ashamed her friend would think that of her. "But you must hate me so much."

"Hate you?" Blake wasn't even sure how she felt anymore. She tried to reach for her with a hand, but Weiss just pulled back further. Her wolf ears bent back, showing fear. "Weiss, why do you think I hate you?"

"Because," Weiss had to swallow before continuing. "Because of all the things I said," she wasn't crying anymore, but her voice betrayed her exhaustion. "After how I treated you and Sun," she was still avoiding Blake's gaze. "I'm just a filthy traitor."

"Weiss," Blake said, sitting down again and breathing in, carefully. "Did you know you were a faunus before today?"

"No," Weiss replied again, finally looking up at her. "But that doesn't--"

"Then you weren't a traitor," she put a hand on her shoulder. "But you still have a lot to learn." Weiss' wolf ears perked up, her mouth showing the slightest signs of a smile.

"Then you?" she asked.

"I could never hate a friend."

They finally hugged. Blake lightly tapped Weiss' shoulders to calm her down, while the latter kept whispering 'thank you' over and over.

[Part 1], [Part 2], [Part 3], [Part 4], [Part 5], [Part 6], [Part 7], [Part 8], [Part 0]

[lionscion]

🌌+ obligatory werewolf au

Send ' 🌌+ a universe / au ' and I’ll make an AU verse based off of it. (Accepting)

((Of course fellow person of culture 🤝

I discuss minor spoilers for the game South of Midnight in here so Imma just shove the rest under a readmore.

So little preamble first: I'm sure you've heard of loup-garous and rougarous right? For those who dunno, loup-garous are France's version of werewolves, and then when the French came to North America their lore began to change a bit and get more variations as it blended with Native American mythos. This kept going until they got so distinct you got rougarous, which are still a part of the American South's own collective lore and mythos today :)

I also say all this cause due to the numerous variations of these werewolf myths, my understanding of loup-garou traits may differ slightly from others' due to what sources we each read, so sorry if they don't line up exactly with what others may have learned. I also am basing this on the loup-garou because French muse.

So, that preamble out of the way...

For setting up this AU, I just set it in a typical middle ages fantasy setting similar to mainverse FE's (just, vanilla instead of actual FE's specifically). Ares was still rescued and adopted by his Javarro-equivalent in this verse after his home burned down like in canon and all that, and the Leonster collapse equivalent is what causes him to become a loup-garou.

Cause see the way to become a loup-garou varies a ton, but the version I chose is supposedly one of the oldest, taken right from medieval French oral tradition. And it has to do with 'something in the person's life to act as an initial trigger'. There's also a bit about tasting human flesh as the thing to complete the transformation but for simplicity I just stuck to the trigger part. We dunno what that trigger is supposed to be, but I like the idea put forth by the new game South of Midnight (play it it's awesome) for its rougarou character: witnessing a sufficiently traumatic event (or events) and being overcome with the torment it caused. Hence, Ares' mom and home going up in a fiery blaze after already losing his dad is his trigger.

Javarro doesn't see a traumatized kid tho. Like in mainverse, he sees dollar signs. Cause becoming a loup-garou is what allows Ares to survive his home's collapse in this universe just like in mainverse with his Hodr blood, and he finds Ares surrounded by the carnage of people he tore up in self-defense in wolf form. Given France actually had a witch trial-esque werewolf panic going on in the middle ages, Ares was actually still in danger. Kid or not, if anyone found out what he became, they'd burn his ass at the stake. And Javarro probs considered it too for the money reward of catching one, but luckily for Ares he was greedy and ambitious enough to think he'd make more bank if he hid and raised this new wolf kid as a merc in his company like in mainverse.

So events unfold similarly to mainverse in that he grows up a merc and all that and becomes quite good at it. Loup-garous are known to be fully in control and aware while in wolf form -- memories, personality, everything -- so Ares only ever used it on jobs to kill enemies and stuff...as well as despicable people he bumped into. So rather than a rep as the Black Knight like mainverse, he creates a legend/rep around his loup-garou form nobody knows is his (tho it does start toget sussy that this scary black-furred loup-garou repeatedly shows up wherever Javarro's group is). Meanwhile Javarro still does the 'you owe me' bullshit too, except now he also reminds Ares of what will happen if anyone ever finds out what he is.

He doesn't make this an outright threat to Ares until Ares eventually has his fallout with him and defects. Javarro still tries to kill him and all that, and in the process Ares' identity as a loup-garou gets outed and so now everyone is on his ass. Ares accidentally paints an especially bad picture cause, the scene people find is a loup-garou slaughtering the guy he treated like a dad their whole life. Naturally, nobody wants to hear from the loup-garou that he only killed in self-defense either. Talk about accidentally cranking the hysteria up several notches.

And that's where I think things left off. Alone, hunted by humans, the usual werewolf things. With all his newfound free time he now wants to go hunt down the person who he thinks is responsible for his dad's death (Seliph-equivalent), and there is room in there for him also going back to save the Lene/Laylea equivalent from danger like in mainverse, but I just leave it out in this summary to keep it simple.

Some rougarou myths say that they were a communal sort of werewolf type that would gather in swamps and forests to party and shit before going on hunts together, and personally I like that as a place for Ares to end up in. Like finding people like himself who actually give a fuck like he does in mainverse.

Miscellaneous tidbits about his loup-garou form I couldn't fit in above:

Can transform anytime but involuntarily transforms under full moons and is stuck that way til dawn.

Usual werewolf powers (super strength, enhanced senses, etc.) with one weakness (fire).

Some irl loup-garou myths say they are often connected with vengeance and protecting wronged innocents, so that's another reason I chose this werewolf flavor for him.

Also I misread this prompt originally and thought I had to include the sender in the verse too so I figured I would throw in what I had written down for Zelkov until I caught myself cause I thought it was still fun:

Fellow loup-garou who became one young like Ares did

No stranger to vengeance urges like Ares so I thought that could be a neat connection here

Is now part of the communal werewolf group that actually gives a fuck that Ares stumbles upon

And that's about all I thought out for this one ty for enabling my werewolf brainrot <3 ))

[liurae]

hourly comic day 2024~ it was a real struggle but it was fun!

[j2zara]

I don’t want to go anywhere else I like it here. I like yall it’s so rare to feel any sense of community in fandom. I just always feel like I’m fucking up whenever I’m in discord it’s so overwhelming and I feel like I never say the right thing. My impulse is always the wrong one etc etc