#fitness cost

[blueskittlesart]

everyone look at this fish i had to draw for my illustration class. for a grade. i am going to get a good grade in therapy salmon, something which is both normal to w

#just did the calculation and this class costs me 8k a semester. btw. money well spent #new york times hire me to do your spot illustrations since i am clearly so fucking good at it. god i hate editorial assigments #skribbles #the worst part is i KNOW im going to go into crit and people r going to be like umm therapy salmon doesnt really fit the vibe of the articl #OK SHUT THE FUCK UP. MAYBE I LIKE DRAWING FISH HAVING MENTAL BREAKDOWNS. HUH. DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT

[inkskinned]

no, but really, we need to talk about the casual objectification that has become the fallback discourse of the internet: if you're pretty and dressed nicely, you're a slut. and if you're even vaguely outside of their body standard, you're fucking disgusting.

too-frequently, people position sex workers as being "the problem". they sneer you're addicted to pornography, you don't know what a real woman looks like. but real women are in pornography. the real bodies on display are not the issue here: the issue is that other people feel extremely confident when commenting on someone's physique.

2000's super-thin is slowly worming its way back into the public ideal. recently i saw someone get told to "go for a run", despite the fact she was on the thinner side of average. not that it would ever be appropriate to say that: but it's kind of like sticker shock when you see it. people think that is fat? holy shit. do they just have no idea about things?

but what are you going to do about it? that's the problem, right. because chances are - you're a normal person. we can say normalize carrying fat on your body, but we are not the billion-dollar diet industry. we are not the billion-dollar fashion industry. we are just, like. people. who are trying to make content on the internet, without being treated shittily.

as someone who has been on both sides of things: you are treated better when you are thin and pretty. this is statistically correct. i am not saying that you cannot be bullied for being thin; i'm saying there are objective institutional biases against certain bodytypes. there are videos of men and women who lost weight all saying: i now know for a fact exactly how much worse you're treated. in the comments, some asshole inevitably says something akin to you deserved to be dehumanized when you were fat.

which means that ... the easiest thing to do is be pretty and thin. it is the path of least resistance, because of course it is, because any time you post a picture of yourself without a thigh gap, someone immediately comments something like you need to try a diet.

the other half is also dehumanizing though, huh, just in a different way. when i put on makeup and nice clothes, i am told i slept my way to the top as a professional. do you know how many women in STEM have told me they purposefully dress to "unimpress" because they already struggle to be taken seriously and if they're ever considered pretty - it for some reason takes away from their authority.

so they make it seem like it's your fault. you, existing in a body - it's your fault! if you didn't want shitty comments, don't have a body. they position us against each other like chess pieces; vying for male attention we don't even need.

and i can be an authority on this unless you think i'm fat and unattractive. when i am pretty and thin, i'm an activist. when i am just a normal person who makes a good point: i am immediately dismissed. nobody fucking believes you if you're not seen as attractive. you literally lose value. you cease to exist.

but the whole time, it feels like - is anyone actually grounded the fuck in reality? the line of "pretty and thin" keeps shifting. nobody seems to understand what "a normal weight" even looks like, because it's not something that exists - you cannot tell a person's health by looking at their body. even if you think you could tell that, even if you're sure a person is dangerously overweight - people are not your dolls. they do not need to be dressed up or displayed properly to soothe your aesthetics. you aren't concerned for them, you're stealing their agency. you don't get to say if they're "allowed" to take pictures and post them on the internet - you don't get to tell them how to exist.

people hide behind "the obesity epidemic" without any actual qualifications. they crow things about "normalizing unhealthiness".

but it's bullshit. i have visible abs. there is a pair of parallel lines on my body, even when i'm relaxed; where my obliques meet my abdominal wall. i am proud of this because it means i'm strong, because i overcame an eating disorder only to be ripped as fuck. it is genetic and physical luck that i even get any definition, i'm pleased as punch.

but it does mean that my abdominal wall sticks out a little bit. the other day i posted a video of myself dancing, and, for a moment, my shirt slipped. you could see a little bit of my stomach. i was cartwheeling to the floor. moments before this, i'd had my foot over my head.

a guy slid into my DMs. a row of vomiting emojis prefaced: you should really lose some weight before you think about dancing.

i stared at it for a long time. there was a time when i would have been triggered by this, where it would have encouraged me to starve myself. i would have ignored the fact i'm flexible, agile, good at jumping: i would have lost the weight for a stranger's passing comment. i would have found myself and my body fucking disgusting.

and for what? to please what? because why? so that he can exist in this world without an unchallenged eyeball? what would my self-hatred even accomplish? usually i write paragraphs. obviously. on this particular occasion, in this body i've been at war with for ages: i just felt exhausted.

it shouldn't be even worth saying. it shouldn't be hard to explain. all of this emotional turmoil when he cannot even comprehend the most basic truth: i am not an object on display for him.

#spilled ink #writeblr #warm up #like if im getting fatshamed. babe......... wake up #is there fat on my body? yes :) #btw this behavior wouldn't be okay even if I WAS overweight!!! that is my point!!! #it is both that people have no idea what weight is supposed to look like #and even if they DID... they do not seem to understand that PEOPLE ARE NOT DOLLS #YOU DO NOT GET TO TELL THEM HOW TO EXIST #if you respond anything akin to ''but raquel there IS an obesity epidemic'' #you're blocked and reported. #go fucking DONATE TO A FOOD BANK THEN. volunteer in a food desert. start a free fitness program #GO GET A DEGREE AS A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AND PRACTICE IN NUTRITION IN UNDERPRIVILEDGED LOCATIONS #FIGURE OUT HOW TO LOWER FOOD COSTS. FIGURE OUT HOW TO NORMALIZE AND STANDARDIZE #ACCESS TO FARM-FRESH FOOD. PROVIDE ACTUAL FREE ACCESS TO OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES #FIGURE OUT HOW TO TEACH PEOPLE HEALTHY CHOICE MAKING WHILE ALSO LOWERING THE COST OF MEALS. #THE AVERAGE GROCERY BILL OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN HAS QUADRUPILED IN THE LAST YEAR. #SHUT. THE FUCK. UP!!!!!!!!! #you don't want to help these people!!!!! #you want to bully them but still feel like a good person! #you want to be justified in your hatred of an entire CLASS of people!!! #you don't give a fuck about how it makes them feel!!!! #you care ONLY about whether or not YOU get to VIRTUE SIGNAL that YOURE so thin and pretty!!!! #it is BECAUSE of people like you #and the fact you tolerate fatphobia - BECAUSE of that normalization. that men like the one who called me fat #feel like they can get away with it. #bc there's a line for you where you WOULD be okay with it. where if i WASNT thin you'd be okay with it. #which means the line can always be pushed in a certain direction. and it's always going to appeal to male aesthetics. #''well you didn't deserve it'' maybe fucking NOBODY does babe. maybe we should just all agree not to comment on ppls bodies!!

[amueed]

Why unfollow the unqualified Fitness Guru?

Why unfollow the unqualified Fitness Guru?

I went a little mad during the Stay at Home order. Didn’t we all? But my madness manifested in an odd way: I entered over a half dozen Peloton giveaways on Instagram. Each one of these contests required that I follow about a dozen different Fitness influencers to be qualified to win. Only I make sure there aren’t any unqualified fitness guru in them. I follow a few influencers. Most of them were…

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#diet guru #fitness #fitness cost #fitness fraud #fitness guru #fitness influencers #health guru #yoga guru

[hellenhighwater]

My car has needed to be replaced for a while and it sounds like that's gonna happen this weekend. Which is good in the long term but an ooof for my wallet, but also

there are so many projects that I have not done because there is no way to fit 4x8 foot sheet stock into my car

but that is about to change! because I'm gonna get

a Van

#vans have no style whatsoever and i kind of hate them but in this case its the most practical choice #and dear god the shit i am about to build my friends......fucking unbelievable #were it not for the cost of lumber i would be unstoppable #two weeks ago i almost built a wizard tower in my back yard because i found a scrapped grain feed bin funnel that was six feet across #and the only thing that stopped me was the fact that I couldn't get the plywood I would need #and also the fact that my back yard cannot fit a wizard tower

[zevzevarainai]

video game challenge: [3/7] male characters – Fenris (Dragon Age: II)

If there is a future to be had, I will walk into it gladly at your side.

#fenris #fenris dragon age #dragon age #da2 #daedit #da2edit #dragonageedit #dragon age 2 #da fenris #dragon age edit #gamingedit #vgc* #my gifs #my edit #mine #my sister gave me her game pass login so i can finally gif da2 #but god at what cost #(i only ever play da2 when im having a prolonged mental breakdown.) #i could not fit all the fenris lines i love. it is sad but i gotta make sacrifices.

[personishfive]

in which the metaverse is a dangerous place

#my art #persona 5 #goro akechi #joker p5 #p5 spoilers #p5r spoilers #i was going to draw a partial background but i couldnt quickly find a ref for 3rdsempalace saferoom. lol #wasnt going to turn on my playstation or search thru a playthru so lazier version for u👍 #i never draw blask with the mask or helmet on for a reason and that reason is hes goofy as fuck lol. this outfit man <-said with love #i drew his arm belt too high but whatever. is it better or worse that he didnt design the fit it just came from his psyche #anyway how did he survive in the metaverse for 3 years without healing skills. items only challenge. #(lavaeteinn costs 25% hp) (less relevantly it also has a godawful crit rate :/) #i had to revise his dialogue like 5 times to make him more of an asshole.i love him btw he sucks so bad #oh yeah. finally: robin hood is traced. i only drew him once for that animatic and that was enough. <3 #anyway fuck school.shoutout persona five #comics

[sparrow-bear]

Okay so here’s the thing that gets me about Good Omens (s2 in particular):

Earth and humanity are (as far as we know) meant to exist so that heaven and hell have a playing field to best one another, initially by seeing who can exert their influence on humans most and ultimately as a battleground for their war. Humans themselves are kinda inconsequential.

But! Anyone from either side who comes to earth with even a *skerrick* of curiosity immediately starts to fall for the emergent properties of humanity- the music, the food, the art, the shades of grey that simply do not exist in heaven or hell. We see this in Aziraphale and Crowley who have found ways to keep their positions on earth for 6000 years yes, but we see it even more in Beelzebub and Gabriel, who have been to earth many times but only started to *see* it for the first time together, and in Muriel who we are told has never been to Earth before and is overcome with excitement seemingly within seconds of arriving.

There is something so deliciously pure and healing about this story that centres not just love between individuals being the most powerful thing in the universe, but also the simple love of *being alive*. It’s so potent that celestial/demonic powers succumb to the joy of living the *moment* they open themselves up to it. To see these timeless entities stumbling together through human history interacting with and delighting at, not humans themselves so much but the things that they have created. To know that the joy they find in these human constructs is literally changing the very fabric of who they are in ways that they clearly find freeing and deeply fulfilling. That they would literally rather live their quaint little lives on earth, drinking and eating their fill and experiencing human creations, than fulfil their purpose in some cosmic destiny. That they’ll fight to protect it so fiercely even though they’ve been told it’s destruction is preordained.

It’s wild that a story that doesn’t have human characters at it’s centre (in the show anyway), so expertly conveys the joy of being human. Whether you believe humanity exists for a purpose or not, we are simply silly little creatures with an overactive pleasure drive making things that are infinitely more complex than the sum of their parts.

Idk man, it’s the absolute reverence for simple contentment this story holds above all else that gives me life (especially in contrast to its irreverence of Christian morality). I liked season 1 a lot but season 2 soothed some deep hurt in my heart and I’m just so grateful it exists.

#I don’t even know if I properly described it here #I just have so many emotions #*slaps my own back* this baby can fit so many feelings in them #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #ineffable husbands #ineffable bureaucracy #Muriel must be protected at all costs #good omens analysis #good omens meta #okay wow we’re all a little starving for the simple joys of life huh

[densitywell]

there's nothing orym would ask of the other hells that he wouldn't do himself, which is sort of the problem, really

#critical role #cr spoilers #orym of the air ashari #bells hells #if you don’t have a homegrown curse you can use to your advantage (moon powers) storebought is fine (deal with a hag)! #and its not even sunk cost fallacy or feeling like he needs to make the deal worth it i think. this is just what he feels is necessary #and its his own self worth and the value he places on his own life vs the importance of this cause. reflected back on the others #how the rest of the hells have adopted this mindset but with wavering conviction and doubt - not really fitting quite right #while it fits orym like a glove. bc that's who he is. it's what he's been taught. bc this conflict is his past and his present #and as far as he's considered it. his future! #me this morning: i will not get back into orymposting. orymposting is the mind killer. #me now: #eta: i guess this could be disputed by him saying fearne would have to be the one to take imogen out pre-solstice. #but i've always seen that as a purely practical 'who would actually be capable of doing this' issue as opposed to sentimentality. #he was fully ready to cut dorian in exu. however he may feel about the act his resolve is not an issue!

[bruciemilf]

Thinking about how well the '' grumpy, beat up middle aged man adopts feral child" trope fits battinson and the batkids but like. In reverse. Especially Damian

#basically i've been thinking about how damian's a child of two different worlds. similar enough to merge but too different to stay #connected. and i'm thinking about him - a child of brutality and love meeting bruce who's both. and it strikes him like thunder #when he realizes he can be both. but he also realizes he must protect bruce at all costs #it also hits me that they're all hyper developed children and bruce is too but -- he hasn't totally fit in shape of a Person yet #bruce wayne #dc #batman #batfamily #batfam #jason todd #dick grayson #damian wayne #text #text post

[satans-knitwear]

Matched my cardigan with my little baby belle ✨

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

#Very much wish I had taken a proper pic of my makeup bc wow I was proud of that #Also the lingerie underneath was so pretty but I forgot to take pics of that as well. #Shall be me job for later today now. #I'm on the wait list for a few new corsets that should fit better but I'm not expecting them for a few weeks still #I've been waiting a month already but I'm always happy to wait for nice things like that #Means I get to spread the cost out over that time as well. So that helps me out 😂😂 #bi girl #cheeky #uk girl #wlw #satans knitwear #alt pinup #pinup girl #my gif to you

[pocketramblr]

So, Hyrule didn't know previous to healing Twilight that his life spell could work on others and not just himself. I am choosing to extrapolate that his other spells work the same way, and he could choose to cast shield or reflect on someone else if he tried to protect them, he just has traveled alone before prior to this and only now has the chance to cast on other people in a not "attacking them with lightning" kind of way

With all of that in mind,

#do i put this in the main tag #yeah ok why not #linked universe #i am thinking. i want to brainstorm. but i just can't pick one sgdhf and i don't think he has the magic capacity to cast that spell on all #eight of the others at the same time #thinking about how much it costs and how much fits in the magic meter #anyway while your down here in my tags: i think he should just 'jump' as an attack to yeet others away #poll #lu Hyrule

[blood-orange-juice]

A friend of mine recently stumbled upon a few genshin-based Tarot decks and the choices people make are so random. For example, one has Tartaglia as Hierophant, the other one drew him as a Page of Pentacles. Really?

I mean, I could make a deck with this guy alone, no other characters (except for NPC roles) but that's a different case.

If I had to pick him for any major arcana it would probably be The Moon. Illusions, irreality, nothing being what it seems, the need to pass between extreme choices because the real goal lies further ahead.

(but also literally anything else. The Fool, The Magician, The Chariot, The Wheel of Fortune, The Star even)

I'm also having fun choosing the best pair for The Lovers. Ideally it's not about romantic love, it's about difficult choices. Also the connections to other cards make someone Khaenriah-related preferable.

This means the best fitting pair of characters would be Kaleluc. Which... you know. I don't even ship these two.

(I pondered about Chilumi for a while, they'd look perfect aesthetically, but there's in fact no choice in that story. the illusion of choice only exists in fanon)

(if I could draw, I'd probably draw a Problematic Genshin Tarot

mpreg for The Empress. don't thank me)

#*vibrating* #I want to talk about it #please talk to me about it #I love tarot symbolism #a good tarot deck is a way of telling a story #trying to fit an existing setting into one always highlights so many hidden connections if done thoughtfully #childe #tartaglia #hmm #do I want to order tartaglia tarot from some artist #it would cost a fortune but also I really want a good genshin deck #at least the major arcana

[w98pops]

me being normal about my courier again

#i know that in the collectors pack courier is a joker #as being equal to benny who is also a joker #but theres no place in the world wendy is an equal to benny #so i think ace of diamonds suits her well :) #also love the fact that ace can be both the lowest and the highest cost card in poker #pretty fitting for wendy as a character #fallout #fallout new vegas #fnv #courier six #oc: wendy #this pixel house portrait might be the greatest piece of art i ever made

[lady-ika]

🪻🔮

If happiness was a tangible thing, it would be you.

If you'd have told me the feeling you'd bring, I'd think it untrue.

And people search for a wonder like you all of their lives

You still amaze me after all this time.

🔮🪻

#bg3 #hi sorry i have brainworms i think theyre so cute #i was gonna use lyrics from yellow by coldplay originally bc im going insane bc giuliana mostly just wears yellow #but i have at all costs (demo) on their playlist and i think its very fitting for them #too bad its from wish but oh well #i keep making gifs of them in various places bc theres pretty bits but its the same like 4 animations so i have to like. force myself to no #but idk the way gale looks at her after he pulls away? damn need me a freak like that #like he loves her (the player) sm!! #i am bewitched by this dweeb #Also im insane bc most of Gale's colours are cooler and giuliana's are warmer and i think its nice c: #i could go forever about them #bg3 gale #gale dekarios #gale x tav #bg3 tav #bg3 tiefling #ika's blorbos #gif

[kreachvera]

HEAVY work in progress stuff for.. a dumb lil au…….

#idk. we’re not cooking yet this is just meal prep #all of these designs and information is subject to change #im still adding characters #if there’s anyone that fits the general theme of peace at the cost of yourself that I’ve missed then lemme know🫡🫡 #slayer could also be a significant backer for the project but i dont see him getting involved with the science and testing stuff #guilty gear #project absolute world #would #the abbreviated term for this au be #pawGG #awful. #robart #bedman guilty gear #bedman #faust guilty gear #raven guilty gear #robdesigns #CONSIOUS ISNT THE RIGHT WORD WHEN DESCRIBIG ONEIROI BTW. it just sorts itself i dont think any consious thing could hold That Much Info #yea fausts fit is inspired from his concept art . i lioev it somuch

[ydbugs]

"the crawl" back from the upside down.

#steddie #eddie munson #steve harrington #steve x eddie #stranger things 4 #art #i drew this waaay before st5 script posted but i think it seems fitting #kas!theory #steve proving himself right that eddie is still alive... but at what cost?