OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-

there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀

Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.

What’s the focus?

1. Keep the flexibility in your spine

2. Stretch the muscles in the front

3. Strengthen the muscle in the back

Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen

Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day

The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down

Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there

Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards

If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.

Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up

There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving

NOTE: I can do most of these with the cerebral palsy. In fact, a lot of these little exercises are automatically part of my physical therapy. My problem is I already have hyperlordosis, spine arthritis, and cervicogenic headache. These have helped me at least try to have a posture.

I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW GOOD THIS ADVICE IS

I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

1) Vaping is confirmed to cause cancer. Vaping coats the lungs with toxic substances, such as heavy metals and benzene, which are known to cause cancer

2) Many vapes contain diacetyl, which, when inhaled causes popcorn lung, or scarring of the lung

3) Ultrafine particles, when being inhaled, can be lodged in the trachea (not good!)

4) Ultrafine particles can also constrict the arteries in the lungs potentially causing A HEART ATTACK

5) Vaping is relatively new. Not much studies have been done in comparison to tobacco. Plus, the vaping companies are powerful people. There is a large chance that they are purposely downplaying and even burying any evidence that vaping is harmful - just like the tobacco companies before them. They do not care about you, or your health, or the truth. They only care for money

Deleted Scenes From The Cruel Prince

(Some of these are alternate storylines)

These are all of them, both deleted and alternate storyline. I highly recommend buying this TCP edition 🫶🏼 as it comes with gorgeous artwork and a neat velvet cover!

You know, with Shein, Alibaba and Temu being so popular, I was thinking that maybe we could make a list of some ethical and sustainable clothing brands. These will be more expensive, but if you buy from them you'll be helping someone anytime you make a purchase. Please list all the ones you know in a reply.

Pact Clothing sizes up to 2X. Sells men, women, and children's clothing. Items are sustainably made and Fair Trade.

Midnight Hour Sizes up to 4X with a few 5X items. Cute goth and alternative clothing. Items are sustainably and ethically made.

Able Sustainably and ethically made women's clothing. Sizes up to 3X.

Svaha Own by an Indian woman. Very cute science themed clothing for men, women, and kids. Clothing is mostly made in India and is ethically sourced. Sizes go up to 5XL

Proclaim ethically sourced bras and underwear and basics that comes in three shades of "nude". Sizes S to 3XL

Toad&Co Clothing inspired by nature. sizes S to 2XL.

Raven and Lily Supports female artisans creating handmade jewelry, bags, and homewares. Empowers communities through fair wages.

Altar Specializes in alternative and custom fashion. Sizes S to 6XL.

@mayakern does skirts ranging from xs to 6xl, has done faux wrap crop tops (which were that popular that they sold out in a few days!). Is having a Halloween drop in a few days 👀

@sergle @witchvamp and @freshhotflavors have been on my watchlist for a while as well 👀

thank you for the mention!!

yes we have button-downs from XS-6X, crop tops from S-6X and skirts that fit sizes XS to either 7 or 8X depending on the design because we had a couple skirt batches where our largest size ended up a little too small

also all our skirts have pockets deep enough to fit a nintendo switch!

other shops i’d recommend: @freshhotflavors @morningwitchy @crowlines

No chot spoilers ahead! only the pain of my heart ❤️‍🩹

The Last Hours trilogy was more than just 3 books for me. I started waiting for it in 2013, TLH was one of the 3 reasons I created this account in the first place.

It's been like 10 years, guys 👁️👄👁️

10 years of searching for every little snippet, every silly information, every piece of art. 10 years of creating such bond with the fictional characters that I've never felt (and doubt I ever will) before.

When I say they're real for me - I mean it. They made me laugh when I had hard times, they made me change some of my views on life AND they made me feel less lonely. Every time I opened any of these books - I felt like I'm surrounded by good friends. And it makes me feel less anxious knowing that they're not going anyway. I can always reread these books and feel this connection again and again.

I know it sounds unnecessarily dramatic and kinda cliche, but that's the first time in my life i feel this way. Finishing reading Chain of Thorns broke my heart. In a good way or not - I can't say yet. Now I just wanna lay down and cry (exactly what I'm doing rn) because I feel like some huge part of my life just ended. And I guess I wasn't ready for that. Like at all.

I'm typing this and shaking, I know one day, somewhere in 2056, we'll get The Wicked Powers and will dive into the mess of crazy info, stupid theories and lots of fun content once again. But now ;-; SOBH Mondays ended, TLH ended and we still don't even know the release date of "The Black Volume of the Dead"😞

But at the end of the day I understand that all these things will come and Tumblr is not going anywhere. All my friends are still here and nothing stops us from creating content ourselves 🥹 I'm very emotional rn and also very grateful for everything. It was, as Cassandra Jean said, an amazing adventure and even tho it ended, it doesn't mean there won't be any more.

Absolutely LOVE how their relationship developed!

So very beautiful!!!

Not only that, some anthropologists think that cooking is what MADE us human- as in the ability to consume large amounts of EASIER-to-digest calories (with all the pathogens killed off and the tough cell walls broken down) is the thing that allowed us to devote evolutionary energy to growing larger brains, and solidified the beginnings of communal human civilization. Have you seen how many hours a day pandas spend chewing on raw bamboo? Cooking let us take a shortcut so we could evolve in other ways. Especially bread, bc it’s a lot of caloric energy packed into a portable chunk you could take with you for days and days. Also in order to have bread you have to have grain farms, so bread (and beer, also made from grains) sort of catalyzed humans settling down into centralized permanent settlements. So cooking (and eventually farming) didn’t just help us physiologically evolve into our current form, but also shaped our social structures from the beginning. You should watch the Michael Pollan documentary “Cooked,” on Netflix! It’ll rock your world.

Source: “What makes us human? Cooking, new study says,” National Geographic

Evolutionarily evolved to love Bread

There’s a strong theory that we didn’t invent farming to make bread.

We invented it to make beer.

I did a very quick, sketchy comic because I was extremely inspired by this post. (Credit to @pinkdiamondprince for the original post.)

The entire analogy was just fantastic and so, so accurate, and I wanted to make a comic for it, even if it’s very sketchy because my attention span is nil.

Happy birthday elle, i really looovee her character 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

DID YALL HEAR THE NEWS

Thank you clam man

forever reblog

He says so, so I must do it.

You Might Be Asexual If:

(obligatory disclaimer: agreeing or disagreeing with one or more of these does not necessarily make you ace or NOT ace, your experience will vary!)

Bonus:

You might be Grey Asexual if:

You might be Demisexual if:

If you find many of these things relatable, you might wanna look deeper into asexuality! 

*- Please note that whether or not you have a libido is not a qualifying factor for whether or not you are ace. Some aces have zero desire or need to masturbate, for instance, others do masturbate. Some aces will even have sex to satisfy that drive. Feeling aroused is not the same as sexual attraction. This might sound confusing, but trust me it makes sense when you’re in this situation.

*- Also note that whether you have positive feelings towards sex (for other people or yourself), indifference to sex, or are triggered/repulsed by sex, also has no bearing on whether or not you are asexual. Allosexual people can also be positive, indifferent, or repulsed by sex, especially certain actions.

*- Ultimately, you are ace if you don’t experience sexual attraction, but since it’s a really freaking difficult task to recognize the absence of something you don’t even feel, this list might help some aces figure themselves out! ♥

(Feel free to add more! Aphobes and exclusionists, don’t interact)

there is beauty in the mundane. life doesn't have to be constantly adventurous and excting to be fun or worth living. there's beauty in spending a saturday baking cookies and reading a good book. there's beauty in taking a hot shower after a hard day. there's beauty in ordering pizza and watching a movie with your best friend. these things are just as worthwhile as travelling the world or skydiving. you're allowed to appreciate small joy, as well as big joy. you'll be happier for it.