it's a dire situation

I'm drawing a new comic on twitch today, come say hi and distract me

Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

*currently suffering from a horrible migraine. Tries this*

Are you fucking shitting me it works!?

@thebibliosphere I don't know if it'll help, but it may be worth looking into.

This is something my magic physio man also taught me. It helps if your migraines are triggered by muscle tension. Not so much if you have other root causes like OP mentioned above.

If you're a person who gets migraines when you menstruate, you might appreciate how furious and relieved I was when my new primary care physician told me to try 400 mg. each of magnesium and riboflavin (vitamin B2) every day, and that if two months of that didn't seriously lessen my symptoms then we could look at something more serious. It's been a tremendous help.

alexander pierce fumbled a 70 year plan with one single decision. one fight w steve rogers was enough to break thru decades of winter soldier brainwashing/manipulation/torture and pierce really thought to himself “yah that was just a fluke. send him back out into the field, and specifically to kill the man that jogged his memory in the first place” 

yet another reason to switch to firefox

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In the second image, it is two drawings side by side, seperated by a thin line, showing a parallel. The whole image is titled "Total Cookie Protection". The drawing on the left is titled "Before", and shows three site windows. They each have an arm with a Facebook logo, and are reaching into a large orange jar labelled "Cookies". The sites are labelled "facebook.com", "fuzzyslippers.com", and "mealkit.com". The image on the right is labelled "after", and shows the exact same site windows and arms as before, except now they are reaching into individual cookie jars labelled with their respective site names.

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Studio Ghibli’s animation software will be made available via open source this month. 

That’s right…💯% free.

Read more on CartoonBrew.com

This is a BIG DEAL, folks.

Animation software is, by and large, very expensive and out of the range of most people seeking to get into animation.  As of March 26th, this software will become open source and available to all prospective animators!

Spread the word!

Here’s a direct link to the Toonz website.

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^^this but connect four

And sitting down. Love watching an employee waiting for their next task while off of their feet.

you actually do need one thousand different graphic tshirts to survive and dont listen to anyone who tells you different

The QR Menace

I just realised where Kylo got his name from:

Ky = sKYwalker

Lo = soLO

Ren = literally just his birth name with an R

which means that when he was choosing his super scary Dark Lord name, he just mashed up the surnames of the most positive figures in his life. poor sod can’t even evil right

literally a ‘what is your star wars name’ meme

2nd two letters of your mother’s last name Last two letters of your father’s last name

1st three letters of your name but with an R

Ibon Reri

saw a thing recently about how callin ppl “y’all” and “folks” is becoming cringe. buddy you can pry those terms of address from my cold dead hands, they’re the only thing keeping me from calling everyone “honeybee”

at least if i die on this hill i’ll go to y’allhalla

No matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something that's so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And you'll say "Huh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but you're right" and that doesn't mean you were "morally toxic" before, it means you're a non-omniscient human capable of growth.

"Tastes like somebody killed Italy."

I miss Leslie

Love it.