LGBTQ+ Megathread & Lounge (Part 3)

For what my opinion is worth, you’ve identified something you don’t like. That’s probably the right first step. Everything can be accomplished, it might just take more steps.

If I may be so bold, maybe look at it like this:

Sometimes, when exercising, we lift the bar off the rack ready for what comes next - or so we tell ourselves. We’re pumped up and totally focused for the reps that will come. But after that first sensation of weight on our muscles, as we begin our eccentric contraction and we’re no longer holding the weight on our strong but inflexible skeletal frame, we get our first true taste of what these series of reps will entail.

There is absolutely no shame in re-racking the bar before we follow through on the first rep. We’ve identified that we’re not ready for what comes next and we don’t want to hurt ourselves. And in exercise, our CNS (centra nervous system) gets taxed just as much as our skeletal muscles, so if we’re lifting heavy-for-us weight, we have to make sure we’re ready in every way. When something matters we need to do it right.

We can try again tomorrow. Now with a new sense of purpose, too.

I think that concern you have is valid and I hope my response in no way trivializes your perspective.

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Cheering myself up a bit with a little trip to my past. I found out recently a book I loved as a kid got a graphic novel adaptation. Silverwing. So I’m just reading through it.

Childhood me is pogging out lol.

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Had a similar experience!

Found out the book series I liked as a kid ‘Deltora Quest’ has an anime adaptation!

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Little bummed the villain bat looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more obviously evil in this graphic novel but eh i can vibe with it.

Kinda hard to avoid the ugly when your villain is named Goth lol

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This response is excellent and very well thought out. I appreciate it and you!

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so some of you may find this funny i know i did.my cousin made sloppy joes but he doesn’t like the name so he calls them Disheveled Josephs i guess that’s more proper for him lol

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i would call them DJs for short. Dictionary Joseph is, ironically, a mouthful

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I would hate to tell you what we called stuff like that in the Military.

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One food I absolutely fell in love with, that is not pizza, while I was in Oklahoma is grits. I have no idea how they make them in the south, but I cannot duplicate it here at home. I live in New England. I ate that every morning and loved it.

I miss the days I was moving around bases in the south during training. My favorite things were checking my tent and sleeping bag for snakes before bed and my boots for scorpions in the morning.

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and I’m just here kinda amused with how I read that at first as the concept of “the villain bat” as opposed to a bat who is a villain, and trying to picture it

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Hee. Yeah I thought that sounded funny when I typed it.

He’s a fun villain. Not everyday you see a kids book that has just oodles of cannibalism and hearts being torn out. But that’s more in the sequel book. ( He’s a False Vampire Bat, and those bats do eat other bats )

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had a posting error i ment Disheveled Josephs lol

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Oh that makes so much more sense!

…still gunna call ‘em DJ’s, though :upside_down_face:

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Mom was cookin eggs and asked if I wanted some.

My inner Senshi was very pleased. Haven’t had a egg in awhile so it was very tasty.

( Just to explain. Delicious in Dungeon has a funny side effect where it feels like you have a little Senshi in your head talking about how you need to eat a balanced meal. And he uses eggs a lot when he cooks. )

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I have microwaved my salad. The lettuce was frozen and I saw that recommended here, so I tried this. I liked it. The cheese is also wonderful melted! I would do it again.

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Remember everyone, just throw glitter at the trolls. Do not take their bait.

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Exactly, ignore them and they go away. They want the attention more than anything.

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:rofl:

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agreed microwaved salad is the way to go and next level

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The idea of microwaving salad freaks me out a little. Or a lot. :rofl:

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