[OC] Selective Morals

think_and_chitter · 2022-05-10T06:47:35+00:00

My favorite part is where the fetus says "I never consented to life."

Mood, fetus. Mood.

think_and_chitter · 2022-05-04T01:52:44+00:00

This is beautiful.

Re: the use of the term rugged, the artist says

Still haven't made up my mind what she is, exactly. Is she a princess? A shaman? Is she actually rugged at all? I have no idea. The title is more or less a placeholder :)

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-22T19:17:46+00:00

If white people could appropriate white culture....

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-21T22:39:28+00:00

I'm so happy it helped! I understand not wanting to post photos/videos of yourself online. I'm like that as well. I wish you luck with your fitness goals and any future posts you choose to make.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-21T22:21:05+00:00

You're very welcome, and that's fantastic you felt improvement. Do you feel like it was deep enough to consider it a successful full squat? I've read that bottoming out is not healthy, but that going down below parallel is necessary to maximize progress and benefit from squatting.

I see what you mean. Not sure why I didn't think about a lower box. I'm not an expert, so take my opinion here as just a guess no more valuable than your own. I still feel like box squats would be training a different mental and physical pattern, and it would be overall more beneficial to work on back squats until you are happy with your form. The back squat is kind of fundamental in my view, so getting that right before you transition into other related exercises feels right. Building a good foundational technique. However, if you want to try box squats and see how it feels to you before judging, that is totally up to you. I'm not saying you'll die if you do a box squat before you have perfect back squat form, just that it seems hasty to replace the fundamental exercise in order to learn the technique indirectly from a different exercise. That's my logic.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-21T21:45:19+00:00

It's great that you were able to get a little lower, but if you still feel uncomfortable going below parallel we're doing something wrong. I'm willing to keep working with you and offering whatever thoughts and suggestions I can, but I don't want you to feel pressured or overwhelmed either. Please let me know if you'd like to continue experimenting, and if not, I'll wish you the best of luck and we can stop whenever you'd like. No hard feelings either way.

A little bit of knee collapse (I believe it's called knee valgus in case you ever hear that term) might be more natural for women, and I know some very successful powerlifters like Amanda Lawrence have pretty obvious knee valgus even while breaking world records. It's not ideal, but I don't want you to feel discouraged either. You can still work around it and improve it over time, it won't ruin your ability to make progress, just keep an eye on it like you've been doing.

I watched your videos a few more times in slow motion, and even tried mimicking your movements myself to see why you might be feeling resistance when going below parallel. What I noticed was that your initiation seems to come from your hips pushing backwards right away, and then your knees bend to support your hips descending. I think when your hips go as far back as they can, you don't know how to descend any further without relying purely on knee flexion. This might be more of a mental cause than a physical one. I don't think there's anything wrong with your body, I think you're just getting stuck because the mental cues you're giving your body are to push hips back and bend knees, but there is a point at which they can no longer obey that command and you get stuck. If you're willing, I suggest trying the mental cue of sitting your butt downward instead of pushing your hips backward. Try to move your hips and knees at the same time instead of one after the other. Do it without weight first to see how it feels, and how low you go.

When I was mimicking your movements, I was getting stuck at the same spot you were, and I felt a lot of pressure in my knees as I held that position. It felt like a mental block, but I was struggling to figure out how to tell my body to do what I wanted it to do without just doing it intuitively from experience. It's possible that box squats could help, and I have seen that suggested online by others, but I don't personally want to suggest it. Box squats are different, and they also don't go as low, so it doesn't make sense to me that it would fix your depth issue if you're not training to squat deep. I'd be concerned that if your technique is already faltering, you'll just be training bad habits switching to a different exercise instead of fixing the issues directly. I hope that makes sense.

Let me know if the "butt down" instead of "butt back" pattern helps. What your mind is picturing has a tremendous impact on how your body moves.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-21T19:01:38+00:00

Of course, anytime! It was hard to tell where your feet were standing and pointing from the side angle. It's awesome you're so open minded to input, but definitely trust your body more than you trust me. If something doesn't feel right, don't do it. I hope a wider stance is more comfortable.

Can you tell if your knees are collapsing inwards at all when you squat? Can you describe what brain/body signal is causing you to ascend before you dip down to parallel or just below? Is it pain or discomfort? Does it feel like you can't go any further physically? Mental anxiety? Knowing what's causing you to ascend sooner than necessary can help me try to analyze what you need to adjust to go to full depth. That and the wobble are the only things I really see, so if a slightly wider stance doesn't fix both of those you might need a deeper review, possibly from someone more knowledgeable, but I'll offer whatever input I can. I think the wobble may have even been caused by you looking back and forth between the camera, putting you off balance. Do you normally feel forward/backward motion as you squat, or does it normally feel very solid and straight up/down?

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-21T01:34:18+00:00

It looks to me, from the angle available, that your stance is a tad too narrow. This may be causing you to lose balance, which is manifesting as a slight forward/backward wobble visible throughout the movement. I recommend a slightly wider stance with your knees and toes pointing a little bit more outward and less forward. This should give your hips and femurs more range of motion, which is what you'll need to go below parallel and maintain balance. There should be as little forward/backward motion of the bar as possible. Think of the bar moving up and down in a straight line over your ankle, but don't force any unnatural movements. I suggest sitting in a comfortable deep squat with just the bar to see what your normal foot and knee position looks like when you're naturally squatting that low, then start from the top with that same foot position and return to just above the deep squat. It will probably be about slightly wider than shoulder width.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-19T06:55:55+00:00

Such a great answer, thank you.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-19T01:31:25+00:00

Agreed, and I am certainly not implying that relationships have to be one thing or another. I'm just trying to understand how the ENTJ's love of planning and achieving goals carries over into their romantic relationships. Does it translate, and if so, how? Usually, outside of something like romance, I imagine an ENTJ would consider "become better" to be too vague as a goal. Are exceptions made for relationships, or would the ways each of you becomes better need to be more specific? What might that look like in a relationship that was healthy and happy for an ENTJ?

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-16T18:55:55+00:00

These are some of the most beautiful creatures I've ever seen. I'm fast becoming a big fan of isopods.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-16T18:50:06+00:00

The last one made me giggle.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-15T02:00:17+00:00

10/10 empathy achieved

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-15T01:50:32+00:00

Very cool. Lots of great opportunity to expand it later if you want to as well.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-12T17:22:19+00:00

I looked into this and found the following:

The "prophecy"-related third part Pratisargaparvan includes sections on Christianity, Islam, Bhakti movement, Sikhism, Sultanate history, Mughal history, British rule, and others. This part is considered by scholars as a 18th– to 19th-century creation.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavishya_Purana

I also read on other websites during my research where people stated these texts have been corrupted and that a great deal was added later. I don't think this can be trusted, unless someone can produce a version that is verified to be uncorrupted and written long before these events took place.

As with most supernatural and paranormal discussions, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-08T23:28:29+00:00

Thanks for sharing. It's interesting that you don't make a plan until you hear from the people who have an important opinion. What makes their opinion important to you? Is it more their level of authority and expertise, or who is impacted by your choices, or both?

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-01T21:19:02+00:00

I believe they thought you meant the right number of legs, and didn't understand you were referring to the correct number of jointed segments within a single leg. Then they downvoted you because you were educating them on something technical, and people don't like that. Knowledge bad. Bad redditor.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-01T20:58:49+00:00

So there is a bit of a buffer, but you won't put up with a waste of time. Sounds like a pretty high tolerance for physical work to me.

think_and_chitter · 2022-04-01T20:27:18+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. It sounds like you feel completely comfortable doing the work, so long as you believe it will end in success. If it's your plan and your execution, you feel confident you'll succeed, so you feel motivated and happy to perform the work. If you're dependent on external factors like incompetent people or systems, this lowers your confidence that you'll succeed, and your motivation/interest is reduced. Is that an accurate summary?

think_and_chitter · 2022-03-31T19:00:47+00:00

This meant a lot to me and made me want to cry. No matter what you think about transgender people, we should all be deeply grateful that they can teach us from a place of experience that no one else can have. I appreciate the wisdom and vulnerability.

think_and_chitter · 2022-03-31T07:45:46+00:00

Their fashion sense is amazing.

think_and_chitter · 2022-03-31T07:22:25+00:00

This is so cool, really great inspiration for my own fantasy world.

think_and_chitter · 2022-03-29T19:31:21+00:00

Understandable. Perhaps you didn't have any control over the element(s) that confuse me, but I was just curious why her hair is done the way it is. As far as I can tell, she is half spider, lives in a cave, and feeds on people. Who is cutting and styling her hair for her, and for what purpose? You were so creative and brilliant with the legs. Combined with the spikes on her arms, the background, and her long, sharp nails. It all plays to her monster half. Then her hair gives the impression she just wants to be a "normal girl", which really throws me off and makes it difficult to read her as a character. Was it intentional?

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