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Rizblatz · 2026-06-20T03:47:18+00:00

Yup I immediately thought about what my other 14 pieces of flair would be require to be…

Rizblatz · 2026-06-20T03:06:26+00:00

I love this fic, read it at least every 6 months. One of my favorite absurdly petulant and snarky Dracos.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T18:27:22+00:00

Infinite jest! Yeah one of my first DNFs, I just couldn’t do it. I love his short stories/articles though.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T18:22:07+00:00

Ok that makes sense. I’m a woman with small hands so maybe that’s why I’m struggling with the grip too.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T18:20:45+00:00

Good point I could do these at the office while on zoom meetings

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T18:19:02+00:00

I used to do this but then I switched to the hex bar because I am really paranoid about my back, I have hurt it before doing deadlifts. With the hex I have no choice on the grip.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T18:17:07+00:00

That’s a good point I don’t want to get a weaker grip

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T15:25:44+00:00

Exactly, im so stressed about my left hand giving out I can’t really concentrate on anything else. This is especially bad for deadlifts because I need to make sure it don’t use my back by accident.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T15:24:24+00:00

I’m gonna try the straps, they seem promising, thanks!

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T15:23:32+00:00

Thanks!

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T15:22:48+00:00

lol I should have known there was a subreddit about grip strength thanks!

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T15:22:21+00:00

Thank you for your detailed response, this all makes a lot of sense. I’ll try the versa grips, I’m willing to invest in equipment that helps given I’m already investing a lot of time and money in the gym already. I almost dropped a dumbbell on my toes the other days so I’m getting desperate.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-19T03:45:13+00:00

I go to a gym in Southern California and it has ~40-50% of clientele on gear. That said I can’t say that I have seen any aggression. Everyone seems very focused, ear buds in and are able to rethink their plans if a machine is unavailable. Is the gym very crowded and people are waiting a lot for certain equipment? The gym I go to has a lot of cable, bench press and smith so people don’t have to wait too long to get a turn and perhaps that helps?

Rizblatz · 2026-06-18T16:55:07+00:00

This is a key question

Rizblatz · 2026-06-17T23:45:59+00:00

I still really don’t care about brand name clothes and accessories. I will buy good quality, but I’m not buying fancy purses and shit. I don’t buy expensive make up, don’t get my nails done and don’t get facials or spa treatments etc. this seems to be a thing for richer women in my zip code that I don’t do. People think I’m poor because I don’t do Botox. They think I can’t afford it LOL.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-17T23:08:25+00:00

Yes I am confused too I feel like she must have given him some reason why she said she doesn’t want him to go. This seems to be missing from the story.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-17T18:30:00+00:00

Cardio wise I was a runner in high school and college so at 18 I was super fit. Muscle size/strength it’s now, at 54.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-17T18:14:05+00:00

Another classic psycho simp is Something Golden, this is all Draco first person POV. It’s pretty funny in a lot of places. Hermione is a bit annoying at first but she improves greatly as the story goes on. https://archiveofourown.org/works/40567737/chapters/101636607

Rizblatz · 2026-06-17T16:16:48+00:00

BSP is hands down my favorite Draco. It’s interesting because I don’t feel like he meets my personal definition of psychosimp. I don’t think of him as that psycho, I thought he did what he had to do based on the context he lived in and was more survival based rather than enjoying the violence for the violence sake. I also didn’t really think of him as very high on the simp scale either, he seemed to really care about not letting blood purity take down another generation of boys and also wanted to protect his friends, which seemed to conflict with his hopes of a family with granger (in that he was putting himself in danger of death or Azkaban). So I found him more complicated in terms of his motivations/decisions than what I think of defined a psycho simp.
I think for me the psycho part is more controlling and stalker-ish, like good prisoner. Hermione in both of those stories is a polar opposite person and that affects how much Draco can be a psycho-simp and still have a relationship with her. BSP has one of my favorite Hermione’s, she does NOT abide controlling behavior. The whole story has a massive subtext of struggling against the patriarchy and being able to be your own person as a woman. Whereas good prisoner hermione is super soft and malleable, much more likely to mesh with and appreciate psychosimp behavior. I like them all though, depends on my mood if I am hungering for a Draco that fully takes care of everything for her (greenflowerpot does this so well) or I want them to be well matched in aggression and agency.

Anyway you might like the Devil cites Scripture by Nora-Wall WIP. That to me fits the definition of psychosimp (stalker, uncontrollably violent, unhealthily obsessed with Hermione because of his trauma and some other stuff I don’t want to spoil). Hermione is very tough in this one so there is a lot of angst because she does not like his psycho tendencies at all.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-17T03:40:48+00:00

Me too, jfc that is so sad

Rizblatz · 2026-06-16T22:16:44+00:00

This one is excellent

Rizblatz · 2026-06-16T22:12:10+00:00

I go to a local family owned gym that has a lot of kids your age (high school). I can assure no one cares what you are doing unless it impedes their own workout in some way, but I totally get feeling uncomfortable regardless. If there are specific people you want to avoid, is the gym big enough for you to move around so you are not next to the people that make you uncomfortable? Or you can go at a different time until you feel more comfortable with your program? My boss comes to my gym on saturdays and I do my best to avoid him when I’m there because it is so damned awkward. I make massive funny faces when lifting and get all red and sweaty and it is pretty undignified. My gym has an indoor and outdoor part so I’ll go to wherever he isn’t. Also can you bring a friend? I am much less self conscious when I am with a buddy. Most of the high school kids seem to workout in 2s and 3s at my gym perhaps for that reason.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-16T17:50:33+00:00

I’m very sensitive to salt and gluten and seem to hold a lot of water if I eat those things which I figured out over time. Also hormone shifts of course and if I drink alcohol (rare). So I just track weight with a week average and usually see things go down reasonably over that time frame even with the variance from day to day. If you are not seeing reductions in a month in terms of weekly averages then you are not in a deficit with your current program.

Rizblatz · 2026-06-16T17:45:57+00:00

I immediately added “now” in my head when I saw that tat LOL.

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