squigglydigg:

mercurialmalcontent:

ask-xion:

flatbear:

foervraengd:

Every artist who sees this post should do the following:

- Watch the video.

- Follow the instructions

- Reblog

I can’t stress you enough about how important these exercises are for your drawing hand. You don’t wanna get CTS of Tendonitis and similar stuff that will prevent you from making art or even hold  a pencil.

Okay, this guy is my HERO. I just did these exercises as I watched the video, and already my arms and hands feel better. I have a degenerative tendon disease that prevents my muscles, tendons and ligaments from retaining their elasticity, and so anything that maintains the health of my bendy parts is important.

I URGE YOU. Even if you don’t draw, do these several times a day. Even just sitting at a computer can do serious damage. My dad, who was a rugby player, a carpenter, and now a handyman, suffered from severe carpal tunnel syndrome, simply as a result of sitting at the computer at the end of the day to play a little solitaire. Don’t let it happen to you!

((Guys, I will reblog this like, 5 times a day just so you all will see this. This is REALLY helpful, and it’s quick and easy.))

Wow, these are REALLY helpful. And yes, this is not just good but IMPORTANT for more than artists — if you type a lot, play a lot of video games, do anything that requires lots of repetitive movements of your hands, wrists, and arms (gardening, sewing, factory work), these can help. Even if you don’t yet get pain these are a great preventative measure, because the damage builds up over time. Youth is no protection.

And like he says, you should feel a stretch, but don’t push it too far!

Signal boosting.  Guys, I just did this and holy cow do I feel incredibly light and limber in my arms.  Again, even if you don’t have any sort of disease, do this as a preventative measure.

Adding to the above testimony - just tried these, and not only did I discover how much my hands and arms differ in strength, but I can already feel a huge difference as well. Plan to continue doing these!

50shadesofyodaddysdick:

I’m happy for her

(The only audio is of the various objects the child tosses clanging and thumping as they land)

abominablesnowpickle:

sakurapuncherofhamsters:

Where is this?!,!?! I need to do this!

This is Switzerland!
I wanna do this so badly^.^

I’ve never before been able to definitively decide something I want on my bucket list.
This video changed that.
I need to ride an alpine slide.

quoiquecesoit:

from a well, actually

sergeantasset:

Alexander Pierce + methods of manipulation

animatorzee:

People will tell you that emotional abuse isn’t real and what you’re dealing with isn’t that big a deal and you’re just exaggerating, but let me tell you something.

If you’ve ever been wary of everyone you know, even people you trust, because you’re expecting them to get angry with you over literally anything, make fun of you, or start making threats, something’s wrong.

If you’ve ever had to plan things in anticipation of a potential tantrum that you fear will be taken out on you, something’s wrong.

If you succumb to someone’s demands because you’re never sure if their threats are empty or legit and you just want to play it on the safe side, something’s wrong.

If you find yourself jumping at smaller noises in anticipation that they’re a warning sign for a tantrum, something’s wrong.

If you hide things - especially things that make you happy - because you’re so afraid that they’ll make fun of you for liking them, scold you for liking something they don’t, take them away, destroy them, or that they’ll defile them and ruin that love you have for them, something’s wrong.

If you find yourself being silent in the face of mild disagreements or thinly-veiled insults, rather than standing up for yourself because you just don’t want to start an argument and make things worse, something’s wrong.

If that very lack of standing up for yourself eventually leads to you never offering your opinion in any sort of discussion out of fear of ridicule or being scolded because that’s what you’re so used to, something’s wrong.

If you end up spending a lot of your time in your room keeping to yourself and keeping any trip outside of your room to an absolute minimum because you don’t want to risk putting one toe out of line and setting off a tantrum, yet you’re also aware that hiding out will also cause an issue and you’re probably just minimizing the risk instead of erasing it entirely, something’s wrong.

If you ever habitually glance outside the window to keep watch for your supposed abuser’s car to return from their work, errand or trip, and then heading to your room or other hiding place to keep out of their way, erasing any obvious signs that you’ve been out and about in the rest of your living space, something’s wrong.

If one of your greatest fantasies involves not a dream career or winning the lottery but instead an escape plan succeeding, something’s wrong.

If you could basically summarize your life as living in constant, subtle fear, Something. Is. Wrong.

Emotional abuse is very, very real, and it has lasting consequences that can affect people’s relationships, their jobs, and their lives all-around.

Don’t you dare tell me it isn’t real.

Thank you. Thank you so much for writing this.

So much of this resonates with me. Especially, especially hiding things that make me happy for fear they’d be used against me or taken away.
Never told my mom if I had an event coming up for as long as I could delay it, because it was fewer days for her to have the chance to hold it over my head.
And to this day, I get the most. intense. anxiety if I don’t have all my things with me. People crack jokes about how much I pack for a single night somewhere, but it’s because I have to bring the things that I could never stand to lose or have taken away. *All* my DS games, my favorite shirts, books, my kindle, my favorite necklaces. I barely ever let my phone out of my sight. Because all of this and more used to be fair game for being taken away.
Was any of it stuff I necessarily *needed*? I could argue some of it for my stress and sense of security, especially my phone now, but no, not to physically survive. But I came to feel like nothing was really mine, like anything given to me ever could be taken away at a moment’s notice. It was a constant verbal threat, and I took to hiding things for fear it would be taken from my room if I didn’t. And when it still was, because I didn’t hide it well enough one time,
I started taking it to school.
I took a fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood wall calendar to school in my backpack, along with a brush still in its packaging and my new digital camera, as well as several DS game cases, and all my chargers,
For fear that they’d be taken from my room when I went to school.
I packed all of that and *more* when I ran away from home. Barely any clothes, just the things that I was afraid would be used as leverage against me.
I still carry everything in a bag now, everywhere. My dad makes jokes about me keeping bricks in there.
This isn’t right.
I love my mom, and our relationship is getting better now that I don’t live there 24/7, but this was abusive, this put me in a constant state of doubt, *and I’m still suffering for it*.
And that’s just one of the many things in this non-exhaustive list that I can attribute to the emotional abuse I went through growing up.

So thank you. Thank you for this post. Thank you so much.

grimdarkthroes:

equalityformost:

grimdarkthroes:

as ur friendly Neighborhood Nursing Student™ i feel somewhat compelled to remind everyone with the hot weather:

1. every liquid except sea water and alcohol hydrates you. It’s not CHUG WATER OR DIE. in fact, gatorade and the like are designed to hydrate you efficiently.
   
2. yeah, this includes coffee and tea and soda. the diuretic is not enough to cancel out the liquid. juices and milk have solids in them, sure, but they’re also mostly liquid! it counts. 
   
3. your body can only absorb so much water at a time, so chugging 64 oz of water at noon and calling it good will do a wonderful job of flushing your kidneys, but not so much of hydrating your tissues. it’s more important that you’re getting consistent fluid throughout the day. 
   
4. there’s a lot of fancy ways to determine How Much Water (Liquid) I Should Drink but honestly? 8 oz (1 cup) every other hour on cool days and 8 oz every hour on hot days should be fine (assuming you sleep for a normal amount of time per day…. i’m assuming ur awake 16 hours a day.)
5. figure out how many oz each of ur favorite cups is. it’ll help your guesstimation. 
6. if ur urine is darker than light yellow, you’re dehydrated. 
7. if u pinch the skin on the back of ur hand for a couple seconds and it takes more than a second or two go to back to normal then ur dehydrated. 

In regards to #1, don’t take this as an excuse to drink the sugar water that they call sports drinks. They aren’t bad for you per se, but please choose water.

actually this entire post was written in the spirit of ppl using it as an excuse to drink sports drinks and soda etc

ppl have been commenting abt sodium levels in soda and sugar levels in sports drinks and thats all well and good but what i’ve noticed is that people who internalize “well, ONLY WATER hydrates me” but who HATE WATER remain horrifically dehydrated cause they dont drink anything. 

so like. if ur a person who haaaaates tap water, this is absolutely me giving you permission to drink whatever fluid you can stomach. please take this as a direct excuse to drink nothing but gatorade if that’s what it takes to get enough fluid into ur body.

it’s not the healthiest for you, sure, but you’re a smart enough person to know that. please drink fluids anyways. 

if u like water thats gr8. if you can stomach water that’s gr8. if you can’t, that’s okay too, and you need to stay hydrated just as much as anyone else, so please drink. 

Holy shit I’ve never felt like something was so personally directed at me?? I’ve struggled with drinking water since I can remember, I just *hate* it, no matter how fresh or cold it is, I’ve always hated it and I’ve only ever chosen to drink it when I was absolutely parched. Some of the flavor packets and such have worked for me, but I can’t drink caffeine or aspartame anymore, which ruled out basically all of them. And I drink a lot of pop (soda) - a *lot*. And everybody’s always spouting the “that dehydrates you, you have to drink water” stuff at me.So seeing this?? Honestly just makes me feel so much better and it’s the validation I need.
I’m not going to quit drinking pop, but it’s so good to read a message saying that that’s better than nothing at all, which is something only one other person has told me in my entire life.
So thank you. It’s so nice to hear somebody validate how I feel and not say “how can you hate water/you’re mostly made of water/if you don’t drink water you’ll die/water doesn’t have a taste what’s wrong with you”.
It’s so nice to finally see somebody *get* it.

stonerdayzandpurplehaze:

darksideoftheshroom:

rainbow reflection on water

Oh my god

shanology:

portraitoftheoddity:

Whatever you do, don’t think about the fact that Tony outed Clint’s super-secret family to the government ON TAPE at the RAFT prison, making it impossible for him to go home to them once he’s on the run, meaning he’s stuck using pre-paid phones to hear the distorted, tinny sounds of his children’s voices for the next few years. 

Don’t think about the fact that being a fugitive yet again means Scott can’t go home and see Cassie. That he’s right back to the low-contact long-distance relationship he had with her when he was in prison, mired in the guilt that he couldn’t keep a promise to do better.

And definitely don’t think about the two of them awkwardly bonding on the run over how much they miss their kids, forming the smart-ass long-distance dads club and comparing their to-do lists of what they plan to take their kids out to do once they can finally go home. (If they can finally go home).

Oh no. NO. I had considered that these two were missing their kids, but I kind of went - okay, that was a risk they took when they agreed to help Cap, just like Rhodey knew the risks when he agreed to help Tony. (Although I fully understand Clint’s anger - it’s one thing if the government assholes imprison you; it’s another thing entirely when your friend helps them do it.)

But I hadn’t considered that Tony’s comment about Clint’s family was being monitored. And Tony knew it - he was 100% aware that the farm was a secret Clint had managed to keep safe even from S.H.I.E.L.D., his own employer. Tony was also 100% aware that their conversation was being listened to. 

No wonder Clint went from anger to rage, to “I can’t get through this wall to hit you so I’m going to hurt you with any words I can” at that moment. 

Wonder if Scott’s comment about never trusting a Stark was a response to that? :) if he realized what Tony just did, that he just outed Clint’s family. After all, it’s not like any of this situation, the two sides, had been about trust. It’s not like he was friends with Tony before this.
But Clint was, or at the very least, there was an establishment of trust when he brought Tony to his farm, let him meet his family.
And Tony just broke it.
And that’s gotta piss Scott off a ton, considering how much he must miss and worry about Cassie, how he’s figured out that he’s not going to get to see her for a long time again but Captain America needed him and he was doing the right thing.
Clint and Scott talking about their kids in that van on the way to the meetup.
Scott knowing how much it means to Clint that his family stays safe and Tony just. Did that.
God, no wonder he was pissed.