Molten_Switch

Just saying I think Gideon would participate in this strongest dyke competition at a women's sports bar canonically.

I have unfortunately been sick the last week and I was suffering immensely. I did go to the gym a little bit and just tried my darndest. I did finally confirm an interview for my dream job that I have tomorrow morning (woo woo) and I'm participating in a strongest dyke night comp on Saturday night so I'll be looking forward to posting about that even though I doubt I'm going to even get in the top three. Anywho here's a pic of Pete (my emotional support t-boy friend) and I at the torrent game:

We were getting absolutely thrashed in the wind yesterday and we kept standing in logs and saying, "lowkey God has forsaken us."

Cut update: one thing I'm not struggling with is getting my lifts up. I did a one rep PR on bench, squat and deadlift day on Saturday

Getting cut for the Gideon cosplay update:

Been wanting to share some of the sea glass and rocks I have found.

I'm going to be sticking with a weekly progress report on my Gideon cosplay. I was gone for most of the week at a work training in the middle of nowhere learning how to use crosscut saws. Didn't have any service the whole time so I couldn't track macros or anything so I just kind of winged it based on needs. I did a mostly self imposed evil combination of events, ran a 10k with my pals on Monday night, did the arduous work capacity test for my wild land fire red card recert and did a skit for open mic night with my crew. I immediately got sick for the rest of the weekend which was evil but I stuck to my deficit and my Sunday fast schedule. BW:198.2->196.9

I've been aspiring to do a Gideon cosplay for many years now. There aren't a lot of beloved butch fictional characters that I personally can identify with so she does mean a lot to me as representation. I also like that she is big and buff, I am not particularly big or buff in fact I would classify as a hefty short king (photo of me next to a small log for scale). I really haven't done a lot of cosplay because I am subject to so much social anxiety and I feel nervous about being not the perfect fit for a cosplay...then I got tickets for my wife and I to go to DashCon 2: revolution and isn't this the perfect opportunity to chase my dreams?? I do think it's perfectly fine for me to cosplay Gideon just by how I look right now but I want to look more ripped and it's already on my personal trajectory anyways so why not go more full hog into prep for this? So I'm gonna be posting updates about my physique progress and when I collect some more items I'll post what I have so far. At the same time don't get it twisted I am fairly strong, I did just recover from carpal tunnel surgery in my right hand so I've been going back to lifting full on weights again the last few months so I feel more confident now that I can gain muscle again. I've spent the last two years already working very hard on losing weight and increasing my overall fitness to try to become a wildland fire fighter full time. Right now I'm working in conservation so I am already quite dirt covered and for sure am a tough fella (photos for proof below). Maybe I'm also trying to be cringe but free again in the spirit of DashCon and I truly do everything that my 13 year old self would think is rad.