vastderp:

tatterdemalionamberite:

zippkat:

heartdiver123:

zippkat:

heartdiver123:

zippkat:

why do people bruise so easily in fanfictions

Are the characters particularly pale?

doesnt matter- i’m pale and i dont bruise that easily

No, but it does. Like, I’m pale if you don’t look at my freckles, and I DO bruise easily on my arms and stuff. Not, like, one brush easy, but if I fall I’ll have a bruise.
Crazy easy bruising suggests cancer. But I understand your problem. Apparently bruising is an interesting plot device…?

No i mean they just throw it in there, like someone kisses your neck WHAT IT’S A MARK NOW or dragging nails down thighs and there’s red marks that last for days in the fic and i’m just. It doesn’t work that way friends.

Some people do naturally bruise pretty easily. Less to do with skin color (although bruises show up more on pale skin) and more to do with things like thickness, blood vessel strength and platelet counts (also affecting the way some people get lots of nosebleeds and some people never seem to.)

I’m always walking around with bruises on my lower legs and I never have any idea how I got them. And I have one partner who shows hickeys *really really easily*, which is entertaining, but I don’t nearly as much - so clearly the blood vessels in my neck and collarbone area are comparatively sturdier than the stuff on my legs? 

Similarly, I don’t really scratch up very easily but I know someone who does, due to somewhat dry/thin skin. Never managed to leave a red line on him though, just occasional spots.

Audrey came over once with a giant awful black bruise all over her leg. I asked what happened, and she was like “what? WHOA! Where did that come from?” and as far as I know, she never did figure it out. 

My bruises are really hard to see. I had a really sore hematoma on my leg that lasted for about a year or so after I got hit by a car, but the color faded after a few months. Still very tender but you’d never know from looking at it. Bodies are amazingly weird.

I chalk this fanfic phenomenon up to the hyperbole of inexperienced writers who want passion and drama in the sex scene but aren’t quite schooled on how to make it plausible for the reader. So we end up reading things like passionate lovebites that sink “down to the quick” of someone’s shoulder, while the bitten partner keens (or warbles, ugh) in delight, or the Plague of Hickies phenomenon.

And yet lubeless butt sex still leaves a virgin without a limp the next day. Fandom is mysterious!

i pulled really hard against the handcuffs yesterday but today there isn’t even a mark

put that in your fanfic and smoke it

chirart:

jhameia:

Cover of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” on the koto and shakuhachi by Team Kozan 

that shakuhachi player is really rocking it

there’s nothing I don’t love about this

gonna walk to my doc appointment because i can totally do that now

physical therapy is so magic

then perhaps writings! or maybe draws thing! i am determined that today is going to be a good day. i woke up before my alarm and read a bit and made a good breakfast and remembered my appointment. i figure even if i don’t do anything when i get back except pet kitties and drool, i’m still ahead of the game.

also luka got me moose tracks froyo and when i come home all sweaty and tired imma have summa that mmmm

thelegendofkungjew:

ziyadmd:

Can you turn over a new leaf, go on a diet, learn a new language, and get up every morning at dawn to meditate and clean your house? The idea of ego depletion says, “no.” And it has physical evidence to back that up.

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I foresee this as something Tumblrites will use to justify not doing anything as opposed to using as a reason to sort out their priorities.

wow, sneer much?

considering most of the comments in the reblog chain are disabled people saying ‘yes finally science recognizes what we knew all along’…

but hey everyone on tumblr is lazy congratulations you called it

odditiesoflife:

Frozen Swiss Landscape

In January 2005, Lake Geneva and the surrounding area were hit with a horrific ice storm. Everything was completely blanketed with ice when waves breaking on the lake’s shore hardened into a solid coating in the sub-freezing temperatures. Several boats even sank under the weight of the ice. The wind gusts reached 110 km/h (60 mph) and literally froze water sprays in their place.

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gbringer:

jumpingjacktrash:

ziyadmd:

Can you turn over a new leaf, go on a diet, learn a new language, and get up every morning at dawn to meditate and clean your house? The idea of ego depletion says, “no.” And it has physical evidence to back that up.

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this is an important thing to know.

it also explains why, if you have, for instance, a disability that has you struggling every day just to get out of bed, you’re going to have a much harder time dealing with things healthy people barely expend effort on.

This. I can start the day off pretty well, but if it’s a day that involve stressers  toward the evening, I spend all morning thinking about it and getting worked up because of my anxiety issues. By the time I make it through getting my shit together and completing the stress-thing, I’m completely worn out. I will get a headache, I’ll be exhausted, my body will ache. Sometimes, it even starts during the thing, which is really bad. In some cases, I’ll even be wiped out the next day.

And I should share this around, because I’m often told I’m ‘not trying hard enough’ and I’m ‘being lazy’ and other such deprecating things, and that makes things much worse.

i grew up being held responsible for my failure to thrive. finding out that adhd and high-verbal autism are Things for me gave me an explanation but didn’t undo the damage. looking back, i was expending so much willpower just trying to think through the noise and talk through my overload, it’s not at all surprising i didn’t ‘work up to my potential’.

positive-press-daily:

awkwardsituationist:

For India’s poor, a school under a railway bridge

NEW DELHI (AP) — Their classroom is a flattened patch of dirt and rocks under the elevated rail tracks. Their blackboards are rectangles painted on a chipped concrete wall. Their teacher is a shop owner with no formal training, but a conviction that education is their only hope.

For some of these dozens of children of poor migrant workers in India’s capital, this makeshift, open-air school under the rumble of mass transit is the only school they have. Others who attend overcrowded and dismal government schools come here as well — to actually learn.

India’s Right To Education Act promising free, compulsory schooling to all children ages 6 to 14 was supposed to take full effect March 31, but millions of children still don’t go to school and many who do are getting only the barest of educations.

So every morning, more than 50 children gather under the bridge for two hours of lessons at Rajesh Kumar’s informal school. They sweep the dirt flat and roll out foam mats to sit on, just meters (yards) from the bushes were several men had been squatting and defecating minutes earlier.

The students, ages 4 to 14, study everything from basic reading and writing to the Pythagorean Theorem.

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[Photos: Altaf Gadri]

Video here.

theprettiestboy:

jumpingjacktrash:

sirsparklepants:

jumpingjacktrash:

idk why people think paper books are so much better than ebooks

my hands hurt so bad from holding this damn paperback open and my eyes are crossing from reading each line as it curves into the fold

let the trees live man give me pixels

I totally respect people’s right to read however they like, but for me personally, the problem goes back to AP English. We were encouraged to mark key spots and favorite lines and write comments in the margins, and the habit both made my essays a billion times easier and helped me actually understand the text better, as well as making it easier for me to meta about. So it stuck, even when I’m reading for pleasure. I like to write all over my favorite passages and go back and underline themes or reoccurring motifs and stuff like that on rereading. If a tablet or e-reader allowed me to do that, I’d be all over it, because cheaper books, man! Reading at night without disturbing my boyfriend! (Someone should prove me wrong and tell me this feature exists. I’d love it.)

you’re THAT guy

the one who writes all over all the books i get from the used bookstore

i hate wrote-on books so much

so much you don’t even know

…

ok but something like goggles for ebooks would be kind of awesome tho

I just got a nook (and yes, I giggle every time I say that because I am twelve) and it lets you highlight text and put notes in, and I love it because then the notes and highlighted areas are searchable. The one that I have is the simple touch, which is the most basic version and not very expensive. So there’s that.

I still love analogue books because I love the smell of them and the feel of paper, but I also do a lot of traveling around on foot and having a library in my pocket is kind of the best.

i use the nook app on my ipad, i haven’t checked to see whether it has that function. wouldn’t be surprised, tho.

also? stanza + downloads from project gutenberg = free classics all the time

also downloaded fanfic from ao3

also don’t need a different device for music, plug headphones into tablet, all in 1 go go go

also random people don’t ask you ‘what are you reading’ wow i hate when they do that bluh bluh but on a tablet they just assume you’re playing angry birds

yggidee replied to your post: idk why people think paper books …

I just don’t want to re-buy my entire Pratchett collection… it would be over 600 $

i hear ya

i’ve been re-buying my whole library little by little over the past few years

pratchett complete, now starting on elmore leonard

elmore y u gotta wrote so much ;_;

sirsparklepants:

jumpingjacktrash:

idk why people think paper books are so much better than ebooks

my hands hurt so bad from holding this damn paperback open and my eyes are crossing from reading each line as it curves into the fold

let the trees live man give me pixels

I totally respect people’s right to read however they like, but for me personally, the problem goes back to AP English. We were encouraged to mark key spots and favorite lines and write comments in the margins, and the habit both made my essays a billion times easier and helped me actually understand the text better, as well as making it easier for me to meta about. So it stuck, even when I’m reading for pleasure. I like to write all over my favorite passages and go back and underline themes or reoccurring motifs and stuff like that on rereading. If a tablet or e-reader allowed me to do that, I’d be all over it, because cheaper books, man! Reading at night without disturbing my boyfriend! (Someone should prove me wrong and tell me this feature exists. I’d love it.)

you’re THAT guy

the one who writes all over all the books i get from the used bookstore

i hate wrote-on books so much

so much you don’t even know

…

ok but something like goggles for ebooks would be kind of awesome tho

takaratime:

if equius was the human who adopted the nepeta troll

grimnyan replied to your post: manyblinkinglights replied to you…

The only pro of paper books I can think of aside from “nice smell” is “infinite battery” really.

my tablet has more stamina than me tho

and for camping there’s solar chargers so yeah for me it p much comes down to the smell

get some book smell perfume put it on my tablet cover i’m good to go

also my tablet cover is rainproof and it is red and has a white racing stripe so it makes me think of muscle cars

result i am reading and thinking about cars and i don’t care if it rains

few things are better than this

quoms:

dont ever invite me over to ‘watch movies with you’ if that’s not what you actually mean because i like movies a whole lot more than i like human contact and i will just watch that movie

ziyadmd:

Can you turn over a new leaf, go on a diet, learn a new language, and get up every morning at dawn to meditate and clean your house? The idea of ego depletion says, “no.” And it has physical evidence to back that up.

Read More

this is an important thing to know.

it also explains why, if you have, for instance, a disability that has you struggling every day just to get out of bed, you’re going to have a much harder time dealing with things healthy people barely expend effort on.