more life miscellany

[glass_icarus]

♣ I downloaded the Daily Yoga app yesterday in yet another bid to get into the habit of daily stretching, and I did actually do some yoga this morning. Also I noticed there's a whole section on yoga poses during menstruation! This seems particularly promising, as my previous attempts at home exercise have been derailed by aches and cramps before. We'll see how this goes!

♣ I started on this sweater a few days ago, which looks nice in theory but is very, very boring to execute. Super tempted to break up the hdc monotony with rows of other stitches, except for the part where I'm not sure it'll actually look good, so I probably won't. If I manage to finish it before winter here is over I will be amazed.

♣ And finally, a few notes on Atomic Blonde, before I forget everything I had to say about it! I had no strong opinions or expectations going in beyond LADY SPY HOORAY!, which it delivers, in a Jane Bond sort of way. The plot twists were a bit hard to follow, not sure if that was the execution or my being fluff-brained while watching. The violence occasionally made me flinch (I really dislike gore) but it was pretty satisfying to watch Charlize Theron take on all comers. Her relationship with the female spy was kind of adorable starting out, but its ending quite annoyed me. I saw a clip of Charlize Theron talking about LGBTQ portrayals wrt this movie and was like okay, the existence of the relationship pleases me but the TRAGIC LESBIANS trope (SO UNNECESSARY!) really pissed me off. I don't think this is the "normalization" we should be aiming for! Also why is the espionage business portrayed as so overwhelmingly male?? Surely this can't be accurate? (Not even gonna touch the lily-whiteness of it; some of the Bond movies did better there.)

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Also I noticed there's a whole section on yoga poses during menstruation! This seems particularly promising, as my previous attempts at home exercise have been derailed by aches and cramps before.

YMMV (as is always true with body stuff), but there are particular yoga poses which I've found actively helpful with menstrual cramps. Can babble about this if it'd be useful.

Plus slow yoga can just give you a nice option for a low-energy thing you can do when you're not feeling up for anything strenuous, for menstrual or other reasons.

[secretsolitaire]

Also I noticed there's a whole section on yoga poses during menstruation!

Do tell. My latest period has lasted more than two weeks (FML!!!), and I know you're not supposed to do certain poses when you have it, so I'd be intrigued to know a) what poses I can do and b) what might help with cramps.

[via_ostiense]

some of the Bond movies did better there

Ouch; when you can say that with a straight face, you know the bar is really, really low!