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Went swimming again - it's amazing how rapidly some parts of your body remember how to be athletic.
On Friday, my first time back, my form started collapsing almost immediately, but I pushed on for the half-km.
Tonight, though, my lungs remembered how to do the thing and I sailed through a full 1km session pretty easily.
Still plenty of work to do, but that felt real good.
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I made it to the pool today!
I'd been planning on starting back up right after I quit, but...yeah, I needed more recharge time than I thought. At least I did it within the month.
Before my fitness routine collapsed a year ago, I was swimming 3km a week plus the weightlifting.
I managed 0.5km today, which is about what I expected for the first time back. Wasn't expecting to be such a completely dead potato afterwards, though.
those ears alone, how can furries not be all over that. they’re like jumpy fennecs.
Wistfulness about the word draconity
"Draconity" is a term that doesn't get used much any more, I think
It was what we called the state of Being Dragon, a bit more wieldy than "otherkinness" or therianthropy
I liked that little word. It encompassed a community of people some of whom I knew, some of whom I didn't, but that always seemed to manage to avoid unnecessary conflict. When things went bad, I never saw dragons fight with tooth and claw; they retreated, invisibly, and the community got quieter and quieter until it eventually didn't hold together much any more.
But-- I feel like I sensed a core of something in those dragons that felt common and unique to them. A particular kind of quiet solidity, steadfastness within the longing, and a manifest willingness to stay childlike at heart. They didn't always say much, but when they did it was resonant and felt Real. I see it in people who call themselves dragons today, too. Other people are strong, or stoic, or playful, and in every way as good as dragons at these things, and dragons aren't always all these things; but there is a Vibe I get from them sometimes. Like the way people are protective, but a stone symbolises protection.
Perhaps to be Dragon is to clothe oneself in a certain set of symbols, an archetypal armour that moulds the self to a certain eternal pattern.
@irisjaycomics @leafnoodle I want you both to know that this post keeps crashing tootdon when I try to view it while logged in to awoo. He's escaping the matrix.
A rare shot of the dreaded glitchwyrm as he lurks through the error fields, his form blending in perfectly amidst the artifacts of the 'net.
Not many have seen m∅rr1s, but the wyrm's name spreads far and wide.
A commission from @irisjaycomics, who did a *spectacular* job of bringing this character to life!
An ace leafy seadragon tooting about.
Retoots lots of dumb stuff.
Interactions welcome.
Pronouns: they/he.
🔞💦🐉: @lewdnoodle