waldorph.

i've downloaded all 56 pages of my AO3 bookmarks and it feels like just in time, what with the whole bookbinding-selling-fic-on-etsy kerfuffle and the tumblr selling data kerfuffle.

beyond that rageprufrock and I are going to have to record our 5x22 episode for the THIRD TIME because it's cursed, so so very cursed

 So if you follow me on twitter you know that bc it's the new year I've been encouraging people who want to work out to give weightlifting a try. 

I hated working out...a lot? Like, pilates was the only thing I enjoyed (and swimming, but not as a workout activity and more of a 'live in the water from June-September kind of way'). I hated running, I got shin splints, and I always felt like that was something my body couldn't do. Same with yoga, dance classes (says the former ballerina and figure skater), spinning, all of it. Horrible.

So a year and a half ago I got a trainer and took some classes, and was introduced to weightlifting. 

Friends. 

I am a small human. I am 5'2 on a very tall day. But I am strong, and when I started doing free weights (kettlebell, dumb bell, barbell) it was like....oh. Oh this is what my body is for. I don't know how to explain it except to say that when I'm weightlifting, and doing a program, I stop dissociating from my body.

Maybe that's the crux of it. Cardio is boring to me, and instead of getting that serenity some runners get, I just...zone out. But you can't do that when you're lifting, because you'll hurt yourself. You have to be aware of 'oh, hey, I'm trying to rock on my toes, I need to plant my heels, engage my core, adjust my grip' etc. I don't feel zoned out, I feel deeply present inside my body.

Which is to say: if you're thinking of trying something new in the new year, try lifting! 

you're FIRED. i said to myself, self, i'd like to finish a fic before Christmas. I said to twentysomething: hold me accountable! i said to foxxcub  and aliassmith: badger me about it! 

and then i got this death flu. the kind where looking at screens for too long is painful so you just listen to hours and hours of monster factory and mbmbam because idk, that's what i wanted to listen to.

anyway, here's a snippet from the fic i'm trying to get done. HP, post-canon, EWE, h/d

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