i'm not sure what you mean by 'unsuspecting' -- he wasn't luring in creepos, just regular guys looking for regular dates?
OHHHH, I hadn’t seen those posts (or possibly hadn’t processed them fully/had forgotten, my mind is a sieve), my bad! Thanks for explaining!
so many people: i feel terrible so i'm going to make bad decisions now me: AAAAAAAAA FLYING TACKLE HUG PLEASE STOP MAKING THINGS WORSE so many people: no
I felt you should know that when i saw your "outside: Blizzard" post my brain was very confused why i didn't spy a lizard somewhere in the photo, because it just made so much sense for some reason that if blizzard outside then, surely, inside be lizard friend.
thing i miss about tumblr: just randomly doing part of some writing challenge or other, having a few people riff on it, and then letting it all drift away. if i got a dreamwidth or whatever to do these, joined the various communities, they'd be specific to one fandom and/or prompt type (kink bingo, etc), and there'd be more of a feeling of Leaving Things Unfinished when i inevitably leave things unfinished. the thing i liked best about tumblr was its short attention span. no one actually gave a damn that i only did like 4 of the 30 AU challenge. it was just four amusing snippets that occurred and then flowed downstream and vanished. which reminds me, i should probably copy those off my tumblr. i'm not deleting, because i don't want a pornbot to take my name, but i don't trust the site not to auto-delete me because i tripped some bot's badly calibrated criteria, or the whole site not to just delete itself in a fit of madness.
i keep meaning to start doing chair yoga but the thing is it seems really... boring... how do you even handle the passage of time while doing yoga? honestly my big problem with PT and workouts now that i'm disabled is i can't do the kind of workouts that are hard enough to be fun, so it's just boring boring boring. i used to do karate and taekwondo katas, i used to use weight machines, i used to do all kinds of things where my whole body was working hard and there was a lot to engage my brain with. even with repetitive things like treadmills and bikes, i could go long enough that it was worth putting my headphones on. now it's mainly just 'hold this and count' and 'do this thing x number of times, it's not actually difficult except for the fact that it hurts a lot' and i'm honestly just so fucking bored. i have like 5 minutes of stamina before the pain gets too much, so there's no point putting on a podcast or anything. i'm just like. counting to ten a couple times, then counting to thirty a couple times, then taking a break that might turn into just quitting if i'm feeling too stove up. i know there's no point telling doctors that part of my problem with losing weight and gaining stamina is boredom. neurotypicals experience boredom very differently from autistics and adhd folks. my brain is actually really boredom-resistant, in that i get super interested in things very easily, and have a lot of thoughts to think, and can entertain myself in a void for hours. but that distracts me to a random degree for a random period of time, and i don't have any control over it. so i can either be entertained by my thoughts, or i can do the right exercises the right number of times while struggling mightily and exhausting all my willpower maintaining my focus. i guess i can sympathize with bpd folks who find boredom to be the most unbearable sensation. i don't feel the same about it, but i have this different problem with it, so i understand how it is when boredom makes your brain just up and do shit without consulting you. in my case it's not making bad life decisions and starting drama, it's just getting completely absorbed by watching a bug or studying how the carpet was woven or planning some dialogue. probably not nearly as hard to deal with. but it sure makes easy-but-painful workouts a fucking chore.
There are a few communities on dreamwidth that just throw out random-phrase non fandom specific prompts. They seem to be fairly quiet though. :\
re the boredom thing, i manage it with audiobooks and podcasts, sometimes a show in the background. basically anything i would use when my hands were otherwise busy works. rn im listening to the traitor baru cormorant, because queer fantasy intrigue is my jam.
Idk I always had an instructor during yoga so I'm listening to them at the same time as doing the thing. There's often guided meditation, sometimes with that flutey "new age" music or those nature sounds audio tracks on the background. A lot of the focus ends up being internal; feeling the stretch and seeing if my body is okay leaning into it more or if I need to back off, focusing focusing on correct breathing. Yoga is usually intended to be a meditative experience rather than "okay, this many reps and then what?" ETA: @theprettiestboy 's idea would definitely be an option! I've been listening to Skeptiod lately, they're perfect little 15 minute chunk episodes debunking myths, urban legends and conspiracy theories.