Challenge #01965-E141: The Life and Death of Maninsuit — Steemit
It woke. It felt strange. Different. In pain. Angry. These little things that once were larger were the source of its pain. It knew this. Instinctively.
It had more brains to think with. Some things merely scaled up, but others… scaled exponentially. More neurons meant more connections. More connections meant greater learning. Greater learning lead to a normally small creature thinking things that a creature of its kind was never meant to think. And it quickly came to the realisation that it should never have conscious thought in the first place.
So of course it got angry. It wanted to harm the creatures that made it this way. Going after individuals took far too long. It had a concept of passing time now. An awareness of its own mortality. Somehow, it knew how long it had to live, which was drastically shorter if it just started eating the humans willy-nilly.
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An announce.
There are seventy parts of Misfits.
SEVENTY.
My God, why can’t I write this much when I’m working on a Pro-novel?
Words that don’t exist, but should: Inanism
Inanism (n): [in-NAYN-is-um] 1. a saying, malapropism or phrase that is inherently inane. [eg: “Working hard or hardly working?”] 2. a means of filling the air with noise under the guise of conversation. [eg: “Sure, we talked; but it was all inanisms.”] orig: Inane.
Why this word needs to exist: we seriously need a word for the verbal nothing that spouts effortlessly from the mouths of those loud, annoying people in the office/workspace/elevator.
Endorse the word. Make it real.
More police atrocities
There needs to be a full inquisition. There are so many “why’s” unanswered.
Like: why is it looking like another pointless “race war” in the midst of a strictly economic crisis?
You should all be really freaking ashamed of yourselves.
#Thingsthosepeopleshouldn'thave: Beauty. So they can understand what it’s like to be as ugly as their personalities are.
Quick diets and why they fail
I’m more aware of them, now that I’m trying to lose weight. The advertisements. The shill proclaiming their new product and ONLY their product will help you reach your target weight and stay there.
It’s all bullshit.
Especially the ones where they claim you -yes, you!- can drop an extravagant number of pounds/kilos in an amazingly short time.
What they never tell you is that you -yes, you!- inevitably yo-yo back up again when it’s over. Hell, that’s how they make their money.
Many “fast” diets are simple fasting. Or losing ‘water weight’ aka 'dehydration’ in the medical circles. And what happens is simple to predict - your body makes you, the dieter, obsess about all the many, varied no-no’s until you snap and break down in a frenzy of chocolate and fizzy drinks.
And, of course, you pack on more weight because your body has entered 'famine mode’ and wants to store fat for another such crisis.
A wise writer [Kaz Cooke] once said, “Your body is the ultimate smarty-pants”.
Then there are the “one food” diets. The rice diet. The leek diet. The grapefruit diet. The shittons of chocolate diet. Okay, I made that last one up, but you get the idea. After a few days of the prescribed 'one food’, you start to go completely bonkers. Obsessed with everything else not on your personal menu. Eventually, the dieter binges on everything else but the 'one food’ and rises further above their goal weight.
Then there are what I like to refer to as “math diets”. You can eat the stuff you like, but it’s worth score points. Calories, carb-equivalents… you name it. The dieter in this becomes compelled to evaluate food as a number. Now I admit, some of these math diets work. Or seem to. I keep getting the mental image of someone in a grocer’s with a calculator, not working out what their total is going to be, but working out whether or not they should buy a foodstuff based on its point value.
Lots of math diets are bad - simply because the math is off. If the body fails to get a certain amount of fat intake, it once again goes into starvation mode and prepares to balloon when it encounters what it considers to be the good stuff.
One great scam in the weight loss industry is the pre-prepared-meal diet. The dieter pays a great fee for meals made the way the industry mogul decrees. And they have to keep paying or the meals will stop. This teaches nothing - especially in the cases where they make the dieter’s favourite foods for them.
When the diet goal is accomplished and the dieter steps away from the protective embrace of portioned, balanced meals that look and taste exactly like the real thing… the dieter gains weight with the same bad habits the programme did not curb.
There’s a reason why just about every diet book contains a food pyramid diagram. What follows after that is generally attempting to lead the dieter away from sticking with just the pyramid.
But following the pyramid is not enough. You need to eat less. And in order to feel satisfied with less, you need to eat slowly.
The slower you eat, the fuller you feel. Simple.
And the better you eat, the healthier you get. Also simple.
Getting in to good habits, like regular exercise, are also a great help.
But there is a point in a diet where the weight loss just slows down for no apparent reason. Most will convince you this is some kind of unnatural and sell you more products.
All slower weight loss means is that the body has noticed you losing weight.
Keep the three meals a day. Choose healthier snacks when the need arises to snack. Keep the faith.
If you are still losing weight, then that’s the good thing [I am, of course, assuming anyone reading this is above a healthy weight]. Not the speed.
Permanent weight loss takes time.
Three meals a day - eaten slowly, of course - can help fuel the body through the exercise regime of your choice. They also help prevent the body from entering panic mode and wanting to keep or whack on the weight.
A little fat is not a bad thing.
A lot of fat is.
It’s that simple.
Which is why they never tell you that.
What the Flying Heck?
I’m new to drawing on a tablet device and my art skills are not the best.
That’s why I chose to fingerpaint some ponies as humans and share the results with you.
Each humanised pony took about two hours for me to get right. And I still hate what happened with the hands and feet. I suck at both.
By the time I was done focussing on the important part, I was all fgsfds when it came to doing the backgrounds.
I had already decided to do cell-style colouring, hence the lack of shading and depth, so abstract backgrounds made a kind of sense.
Each block of text had to be put in one line at a time, owing to the restrictions of the art program I was using. Sometimes, I didn’t get it quite right.
And why did I post them once a day?
So I could plump out my post queue, of course :)
That, and someone has to encourage the less-brave artists out there who aren’t confident about matching some of the eye-popping pony artists out there. If I can share my sack of suck with everyone, you can have a go, can’t you? You may be pleasantly surprised.