Antics of Yore

Illustration student, LARPer, and fashion enthusiast. Interests include table-top RPGs, girls with swords, video games, comics, animation, dolls, anthros, and whimsical, creepy, or cute art.
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I can’t stress enough the importance of stretching your hands, and forearms every morning and every evening, spend 5-10 minutes going through a stretching routine. These are very easy to do, takes little time to do them.

It’s VERY common in all animation studios. Conditions can slowly develop, the most typical one is Repetitive Strain Injury, it’s a prevalent condition resulting from overusing the hands to perform a repetitive task, such as typing, clicking a mouse, writing, and of course drawing. In simple medical terms, repetitive strain injury (RSI) stems from prolonged repetitive, forceful, or awkward hand movements. The result is minor damage to muscles, tendons, and nerves of the neck, shoulder, forearm, and most commonly hand and wrist, which can cause pain, weakness, or numbness.

If you’re feeling some pains, tingles, weakness, or numbness in the wrist/forearm; one of the best ways to heal quickly are ‘Contrasting Baths’.

What crazy voodoo am I speaking of?
A couple different physiotherapists and massage therapists had recommended this technique to me several years ago, and for anyone I knew that tried it, they all say the results are fast and effective.

Commonly used by carpal tunnel suffers, it’s a method of treating muscle soreness, swelling and inflammation, it’s also known as Hot/Cold Immersion Therapy.

You can use the double sink in your kitchen at home, if you don’t have one, then get your hands on two very large identical bowls, it needs to be big enough to submerge your entire forearms from wrist to elbow.

Fill one up with ice cold water (with a couple dozen ice cubes floating in there). The other with very warm water, not tea-kettle boiling hot water, just hot tap water, or as warm as you can handle, no sense in burning yourself of course.

Have a stop watch or clock ready, and submerge your arms for 30 seconds in the hot, then switch to doing 30 sec. in the cold, and repeat a few times back and forth, 30 sec. a piece. After only a few times you’ll notice the hot water getting cooler and the cold water getting warmer, so then the technique grows to be less effective, but by then, the job is done.

The idea is that the extreme heat and cold contracts and expands your blood vessels, promoting greater blood flow to circulate and flush through your arms, and increased blood flow is what aids in healing faster!


Enjoy!

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For artists and animators.
Take care of your body and your body will take care of you.

The PDF version of this can be found [Here].
Stick it up in your work station. Keep yourself healthy.

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ajanigoldmane: “ onion-souls: “Out of all the pokemon that are “just an animal,” Toucannon is the most “just an animal.” Even Tauros has the tails and gems. Even seel and dewgong have horns and style. This Fruity Loops-peddling motherfucker is...

ajanigoldmane:

onion-souls:

Out of all the pokemon that are “just an animal,” Toucannon is the most “just an animal.” Even Tauros has the tails and gems. Even seel and dewgong have horns and style. This Fruity Loops-peddling motherfucker is exactly a toucan, failing to live up to the ballistic promise of its awesome name.

hey now this particular toucan is pissed the fuck off

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Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
There are only fake geek boys.
Science fiction was invented by a woman.

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Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

Isaac Asimov.

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

Got that?

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Originally posted by newyorkbellco

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

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elk-illustration:

CLOVEN - No. 1 of 10

After weeks of work, I am so proud and so excited to finally share more of Cloven, a personal series of 10 illustrations about friendship, gender, and determination in the face of severe consequence. Cloven is the story of how a young doe and an older buck empower each other to explore their genders in a culture that strictly segregates masculine and feminine activity. 

I’ve been sharing regular updates on Instagram @elkillustration , but here is where I can post higher resolution images that show the subtlety and detail, the real gestural love, that I put into these images. Plus close ups. 

This first piece was the real testing ground for the media I was using, a combination of oil pastel and colored pencil that allows for loose painterly marks and fine detail. I fell in love with it. 

I think many children experience guilt, boredom, and frustration when something that a parent or caretaker clearly takes a lot of stock in doesn’t matter to the child or feels like a joyless chore. That’s what I wanted to capture here, along with a yearning for an alternative…

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pixlotl: “I’m takin a break from tumblr and considering starting over from scratch. I love this blog but my theme needs a makeover and it’s always pissed me off that “pixlotl” is technically a side-blog on this account. ( Is there a way to cheat and...

pixlotl:

I’m takin a break from tumblr and considering starting over from scratch. I love this blog but my theme needs a makeover and it’s always pissed me off that “pixlotl” is technically a side-blog on this account. ( Is there a way to cheat and switch it to my main blog? ) …. sigh. I’ll figure it out.
Peace yall

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