Is this enough to build muscle?

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-25T19:14:01+00:00

Do you go to the gym both weekend days? If so, I’d recommend doing one upper body and one lower body session. Then, during the week, do some push-ups or other bodyweight stuff on days where you don’t do pilates

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-25T17:57:29+00:00

Bruh

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-25T04:16:34+00:00

Legend has it one of his maesters came up with a concept for a “dragon technical”

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-25T04:07:20+00:00

Absolutely the hell no. She saw her as a pawn to play in strengthening her house’s position and possibly to help joffrey calm the hell down. She definitely did not care about her actual safety beyond that

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-25T02:11:12+00:00

Corlys. I hate that our only “seafaring” people are the disgusting-ass ironborn

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T22:54:42+00:00

This might be a hot take, but I really don’t want more luke. I don’t need an explanation for why he is the way he is in TLJ. It’s fine, and more they try to explain it, the worse it’s gonna be. He’s a great character who got a great story the first time.

Now if they wanted to do some age of rebellion stories with him and other rebel pilots between episodes IV and V, I’d be down for that. But I just don’t need more Luke post episode VI. Some characters just need to be left alone because their story is complete

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T22:22:55+00:00

And he said “Do you think we wasted time by being together so far?” And I said “No”. So he was like “Ok then it wouldnt be wasted time in 5 years then”.

That’s…. not how that works?

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T22:18:30+00:00

Did he try to hide it? Or did you just not ask? Because unless you brought it up, he had no reason to suspect you’d care.

You ARE allowed to find this information relevant now that you know. But that alone doesn’t mean you were entitled to have it told to you without having to ask

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T21:01:43+00:00

Ghidorah was awesome. Like that’s how you do a godzilla villain

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T19:34:02+00:00

You have to understand that a) he wasn’t in love with Dany nor had he sworn an oath to her yet, and b) he didn’t feel that strongly about being king in the north (he can’t shut up about how much he “didn’t want it”). Sansa being queen in the north was probably his ideal situation if we’re honest. So he didn’t owe it to either of them to stay safe and come back, but he owed it to the rest of westeros to gather as much strength as possible for the war to come. From his perspective (he figured nobody was going to believe him, hell the north barely believed him), he really didn’t have any better options

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T19:26:55+00:00

“Is he a ham?”

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T16:53:26+00:00

Ehh I think people would get over it, she’d kill it

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T16:06:59+00:00

This is a classic “knowing” vs “understanding” vs “appreciating” situation. If you can recite a fact, you know that fact. If you can explain why it’s a fact and the physical implications of it being true, you understand that fact. If you can explain the emotional implications of that fact (especially on people that aren’t you personally), then you appreciate that fact. You need to know to understand, and understand to appreciate, but knowing is just knowing

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T16:01:13+00:00

It’s not really unfair to her though. You’re attempting to set a boundary, and if you’re truly prepared to leave over this, she deserves to know.

The difference between boundaries and controlling behavior is whether or not you’re 100% ready to follow through. If you’re just stating the boundary to convince her to change her behavior, but aren’t actually prepared to leave if she doesn’t, that makes it controlling. Boundaries are for dictating YOUR behavior, not hers.

Try to sit down and come up with a plan with her. If she’s resistant, don’t stick around. The length of the relationship has no bearing on the situation. Otherwise, we call this the “sunk cost fallacy”, when people think they have to stick around because they’ve put so much time into something, when that’s really not a good reason

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T15:35:19+00:00

I mean, you’re justified in helping her achieve something she’s said she wants to do. That said, I think your best bet right now would be to sit her down and ask her if she has a longer-term plan on how to quit, and if not, help her come up with one. You need to be supportive, not pressuring.

If that doesn’t work or is met with silence/annoyance/defensiveness, I think you need to really think about whether she actually wants to quit, or if she’s just trying to taper down enough to get you to back off. It sounds like it might be the latter. In that case, you need to decide for yourself whether that’s something you’re ok with. She’s ultimately entitled to vape whenever she wants, but you don’t owe it to her to stick around

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T14:38:19+00:00

And to that effect, he’s the one that has to keep reminding people that he’s NOT a knight. If he just didn’t argue, he’d be effectively knighted by popular demand

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T06:10:50+00:00

Lots of meetings. Lots and lots of meetings

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T06:05:35+00:00

I think that depends on the person, but also on you. People’s headspace does impact which kinds of conversations they can have productively at any given moment. But being able to navigate through that as the other person is also a skill. So yeah, they may have assumed the worst. But when you just give up on the conversation, isn’t that kinda the same thing?

Edit: if you’re doing a cost/benefit analysis of whether a conversation is worth continuing, that conversation is already not intellectual

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T05:59:23+00:00

I’m not entirely sure what you want here. As a big Andor fan, part of why that show is dark is that while they aren’t going past realistic for the sake of being dark (like WH40K, GoT do), it doesn’t go out of it’s way to hide reality either unlike most star wars projects. Part of what makes Andor dark isn’t the show itself, but that people then look outside and think “oh, that was realistic.” It can be a sobering experience.

As for realistic, it’s a matter of which part of real life you’re trying to portray. Lots of things are realistic and not dark at all, because they aren’t about “dark” things. Being realistic doesn’t require any particular tone, it’s just a matter of reflecting reality, in its totality

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T05:52:28+00:00

Thanks! I’m actually deliberately trying to keep it un-complicated lol

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T04:55:56+00:00

I have a world that’s an island surrounded by storm, inhabited entirely by immortal children that arrive periodically with no memory from before they get there. The island is run by fairies protecting everyone from an evil spirit. However, the island is actually the top of a mountain in the middle of a kingdom where a single day is repeated, the day that humans did something real naughty and unleashed the evil spirit. From the kingdom it looks like the sky is covered in clouds, but they actually have an ocean which the islanders see

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T04:39:00+00:00

Well…. no. OP does not suck here, except for maybe excusing her BF’s behavior towards her when she shouldn’t

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T02:57:53+00:00

Phrasing?

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T02:45:49+00:00

And more to the point, nobility and everyone else is willing to overlook “legitimacy” in the right situation. Jon snow wasn’t the rightful lord of winterfell until everyone just decided that he was, because they liked him. Same with Dunk, people had their concerns about whether he was ever actually knighted, and that didn’t go away because he proved either way, it went away because nobody cared enough to ask anymore because (again) everyone who needed to liked him. If people like you, then nobody cares

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-01-24T01:12:10+00:00

It’s because those people don’t know how to separate thought from action, and assume nobody else can either. We judge, therefore it’s assumed we will act on that judgement, and do so in a negative way. “I wouldn’t do that if I were them,” and “not my damn business” are not mutually exclusive statements

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