This World Is Better When It Has A Hint Of Strange

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

I had to go to occupational therapy a while back due to pain in my ulnar nerve (same nerve that acts as your 'funny bone'). It was getting compressed from jamming my elbow against hard plastic armrests that were in a too-tall fixed position on my cheap old office chair. I was having burning and tingling pain and numbness radiating from my elbow into my ring and pinky fingers. It sucked. Honestly, I found it worse than carpal tunnel, because a rigid elbow brace makes life way harder than a rigid wrist brace.

Anyways, the main exercise that my occupational therapist had me do was called a nerve glide. The stretches OP describes help improve flexibility, but the nerve gliding exercise helps move the nerve out of the pinched spot so it can move more freely.

Here's the best diagram I can find of it:

It's a little confusing, so have some extra description on the weird parts:

Step 3: thumb side moves down and towards the front.

Step 4: hand rotates out and around, pinky side first.

Step 5: nothing fancy here, just straighten your elbow.

Step 6 (not on diagram, but recommended by therapist): with arm in the same position, tilt your head towards the opposite side for a few second (works as a stretch).

From ancient to abstract, this one sure got around.

Let’s climb on papa :)

Awww, your words make me so happy, dear anon! I think people know me mostly thanks to my edits, but I do write fanfics too! Even though my humble English skills make me struggle a lot. So I'm really glad you appreciate this part of my work too ❤️

DanLady cuddling/hugging headcanons:

• Dante is certainly into it. If it were up to him, he'd never let Lady go. Too bad, his girl loves her personal space and scolds him when he's too affectionate in public.

• Despite her stern mask, Lady melts every time she feels his strong arms around her. Dante's body temperature is higher than the human norm, so in cold weather, she uses this as an excuse to cuddle up to him. But she can't tell him the truth: show him a finger, and he'll bite the arm off.

• It's not common for Lady to initiate their hugs. But when Dante wakes at night, gasping for air from another nightmare, her hands always find his face in the darkness, and then she gently cradles his head, letting him rest on her chest, stroking his hair. With the soft rustle of her voice, he can breathe again.

• Dante fears his demonic nature, the whisper in his ear that he's too gentle: he needs to crush her in his arms, hear the crunch of her bones and the song of her cries. Lady only snorts at it, reminding him that she can stand up for herself.

• To finally dispel his fears, Lady hugged him while he was in the Devil Trigger form. But maybe she shouldn't have thrown herself on his neck while they were flying in the air. Dante was so shocked he almost crashed into a skyscraper.

I decided to create something that I wish I had when I first got diagnosed with autism - so here’s my comic for ASDComicTakeover! You can find out more about the project here!

I played through Age of Imprisonment again (because it’s so good) and got severely ill about them again. Thinking about the post-game scenes of biggest totk and aoi,,