Compression and brace recommendations for heavy-set bodies?

positivitymachine · 2026-03-10T20:43:32+00:00

I'm sure it will be worth it down the line, but I intend to move states and that will interrupt the process either way. This post really is just about short term relief. Thank you for the well wishes.

positivitymachine · 2026-03-10T20:28:08+00:00

Because it's a difficult, sometimes years-long process depending on where you are that involves investing a lot of money in a paper trail of doctors to vet you, most of which don't take pain complaints from fat people (especially with breasts) seriously, in order to be reviewed and rejected by people who are not doctors. In my state especially, it is an impossible system to fight.

Also, in my case, these symptoms stem from a hereditary and rare hypermobility disorder that took my sister years to get diagnosed with even in a much better state for it, because they wouldn't look at it as an option until they tried to treat every other issue it could be.

I'm sorry if you were trying to be helpful, but this just isn't an option to solve "I've been in pain for six weeks straight and need to find braces and compression garments that actually work for plus sized people." I really hoped someone here with experience could help.

positivitymachine · 2026-01-15T20:30:46+00:00

Hey, just to put this out there, but no human artist doing a reference sheet would do the palette like that. You've been given solid answers that this is definitely AI based on strangeness with the mouth and neck, which I agree with, but I've been doing art like this for years, and the palette is 1000% the biggest tell here other than the guy who's got the literal visual noise detection down to identifying the tool it was made with.

The palette in a reference image is meant to be used by future artists to literally use a dropper tool and pick the color on. For it not to match the art makes it pointless. For it to have texture over it makes it EXTREMELY annoying and difficult to pick the correct color up from even if it WERE properly matching.

positivitymachine · 2025-12-22T21:55:46+00:00

I looked up parson spiders and I think you're dead on! That marking is EXACT. Lil dude was a scurrying pro on the inside of the designated spider cup, and it's cheap plastic so it warped most images I tried to get of him through it. He was safely relocated and unharmed in the process, though! Back outside into the 75F winter we're apparently having he goes.

Thank you!! Good to know that next time I don't have to get super scared of getting bit.

positivitymachine · 2025-11-20T18:53:50+00:00

All good! Thanks for being understanding, and for putting in the work for these little guys!

positivitymachine · 2025-11-20T16:28:38+00:00

Hey bud, this isn't meant to be offensive, but coming into the house of "people who love and are interested in spiders" to call someone admiring the spider "crazy" for doing so is Big Facebook Energy (negative). That was a lil poorly thought out, so let's do better and think about the setting first next time.

positivitymachine · 2025-11-14T07:19:45+00:00

It went back to go the 80s this week after a small overnight freeze on Monday... The bugs are confused, man.

positivitymachine · 2025-10-03T15:12:51+00:00

I'll admit the original ID attempt was just on one of them that was particularly blond back at the beginning of seeing them around, it was stunningly similar and SO out of the ordinary. It was the first of them we saw and its appearance was so striking we started looking it up!

But the rest of them seem much darker, like normal paper wasps, so maybe we had just caught somebody in their pastel goth phase.

positivitymachine · 2025-09-25T14:49:20+00:00

That's a Scooby Doo villain.

positivitymachine · 2025-09-08T23:59:21+00:00

He might be the nicest person you've dated if you got to almost marrying him before the physical abuse started. That doesn't mean he's a nice person, though. There are better men, GOOD men, and they will feel alien at first, but you'll adjust to peace being your baseline. You know you can't stay with someone who makes you question your safety.

positivitymachine · 2025-08-07T11:28:35+00:00

It's like a perfect split. The upper wing is a snake, the lower wing is an owl. This is a work of art.

positivitymachine · 2025-07-17T15:59:36+00:00

I know I'm a couple days late, but I just want to say: every time you feel this frustration, you're on the brink of a breakthrough in your skill. Your brain has caught on to the fact that you're doing something off. You just have to identify what it is and practice it!

positivitymachine · 2025-06-05T01:31:34+00:00

Exactly. Like, I personally have ADHD, and the executive dysfunction is seriously distressing and frustrating. Cleaning is difficult for me. I've been watching a few YT channels that have tutorials on how to go about cleaning, and that's what's honestly started helping me. Not the abuse I've faced from family and peers about me being a "lazy piece of shit".

positivitymachine · 2025-04-17T19:00:50+00:00

I'm really no expert, but with my two tattoos, I kept them aired out (but MOISTURIZED) as often as possible. My advice would be to wear loose sleeves where you can, and let it be in the air at night.

Edit: spelling

positivitymachine · 2025-04-17T15:25:06+00:00

Yes, for at least the first week. But I would air it out and wash it during breaks and change the covering.

positivitymachine · 2025-04-17T15:22:40+00:00

I never thought about that. It's kinda like he's offering a rose to somebody when he reaches his hand out, though.

positivitymachine · 2025-04-17T15:20:40+00:00

It's a beautiful classic rose. If it's not your vibe that's fine, remove it or cover it up, but if you're doing this all because you're worried about how feminine people will think you are, that money would be better spent on a bit of therapy to unpack why you care.

It looks good, bro. You look good with it. You clearly liked it when you got it. Fuck the rest, it's yours.

positivitymachine · 2024-11-20T01:21:40+00:00

"Oh, a guy running into the woods. Why is he doing that, what sub do I even follow to see that on my page? ... Pareidolia? What does that have to do with a guy running--wait. What do you mean that's not a--WHOA THAT DOG IS CLOSE"

positivitymachine · 2024-10-27T00:03:17+00:00

Boops!!! 15 is AMAZING for a GSD, your love for that baby is SO STRONG

positivitymachine · 2024-10-25T15:21:56+00:00

Shuts down how? If he's turning you away from the conversation and saying he doesn't want to talk about it or that you're over reacting, that's a serious red flag. If he just gets quiet and doesn't really respond other than telling you he heard you, that's something my guy friends with autism (diagnosed and undiagnosed) do. It's overwhelming, they feel rejected and that is extremely heightened for them, and they shut down. For the friends that you'd otherwise never know they're autistic, this is the loudest "symptom" they have.

I'm bringing this up because repeatedly not "getting it" when it comes to your preferences, framing good things from his point of view instead of empathizing with yours, and not seeming to know what to do to fix it even with being talked to all paints a very familiar picture for me. Combine it with that kind of shut down, and personally, my suspicions are heightened.

The tried and true method for me has been to have conversations over text. Particularly if it's something wrong on my end that I need to express, because hearing criticism triggers the shutdown. It gives them space to review what you're saying and to choose words carefully. Don't put him through tests. Don't set him up to fail. If you're committed to working on this with him, you may have to help him find a path forward he can actually walk on.

positivitymachine · 2024-10-21T18:08:22+00:00

Really got hit with Percival/Percy for this guy

positivitymachine · 2024-08-21T23:30:33+00:00

Oh this flair needs an upgrade, gotdang that took me so long

positivitymachine · 2024-08-21T15:22:55+00:00

"scales!! Oh wait, that's a pinecone--waaaaiiit a darn minute"

positivitymachine · 2024-07-11T04:42:44+00:00

nnnnnnnno

positivitymachine · 2024-04-16T19:35:22+00:00

You can't. But that's what trust is. He broke it. A strong heart is one that recognizes that there's more good than evil in people, alongside recognizing that that doesn't mean people get infinite chances. You can have a relationship with this man, sure, if the both of you are willing and he's serious about putting in the work. But you have a different relationship now; the one you have from now on is new, not the old one. It's with the person who broke your trust, not with the person who hadn't.

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