Btw if people keep telling you to stretch but never told you how to actually do it right you’re supposed to go slower than you think & just hold it until you feel the muscle relax. Like how anal works
Also the muscle that goes up to your temples and gives you headaches is the same as the one that clenches your jaw & it goes down the sides of your neck so stretching your neck helps with headaches and jaw tension. You can also massage it with a vibrator
Stretching as far as possible immediately is not the goal you just bend until it feels tight. It’s not supposed to Hurt You Worse. It won’t hurt if you’re doing it right. Much like another activity
Many are saying “we’re on the celibacy website these people don’t know how anal works either” I know. That’s my secret second lesson
[Image ID: A four-panel comic of Penelope of Ithaka, writing a letter to Odysseus.
Panel one: Penelope sits at her desk writing on a tablet. “Dear Odysseus, it’s me, your wife, Penelope. You’ll be pleased to know that my body still be banging. And I’ll be pleased to know where the fuck you are.”
Panel 2: Three men in the background pop out from behind an urn, a bush, or a column, saying “Marry me?” while Penelope glares at them. “It’s been years since you left to play war. In your absence, all these losers have been sniffing around the palace. I sense they’re after something.”
Panel 3: Three men in the foreground pig out on figs, while one looks up hopefully and says “Marry me?” to Penelope, who is standing in the background with her hands on her hips. “Yesterday some of them got into the larder. They ate all of my figs. My fucking figs, Odysseus.”
Panel four: Repeat of panel one but Penelope is leaning in closer to the tablet and writing more forcefully with an angry glare. “Suffice it to say, I pray for your swift return… with a spear… a BIG. FUCKING. SPEAR.” End ID.]
i was thinking about lady macbeth again (as one does) when i realized it’s possible that her hands actually ARE bloody from all the washing making them dry and cracked, or even from actually scrubbing the skin off in places.
her frantic attempts to make herself clean are only harming her, but when she looks down at the bleeding wounds, all she sees is sin. so she washes them again, stopping them from scabbing over and healing. is that anything
Pratchett writing Wryd Sisters like “so they just keep cleaning their hands with increasingly extreme abrasives until the skin is basically gone and they go crazy.”
Christ on a bike, I forgot he wrote that.
Kind of even more horrific considering most of Pratchett comes across as far more light hearted. To me.
I do love that when the Heated Rivalry’s show runner was asked about casting queer actors to play queer characters he ignored the bait and was just straight up like “You can’t ask that. That’s illegal.” lmao because yeah. It is. Weird how a lot of discourse on this subject acts like this is not a factor.
I want to move to Scotland open a bookshop in a small town by the sea. I don’t want to be rich I just wanna get by, read books, hear the waves, find a really cool shell or a shark tooth every now and then and live in peace.
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