I was thinking in reading all those borrowed Dragonlance books that it kind of annoys me that fantasy shared settings of that general demeanor (maybe see also Forgotten Realms, for example, or even 40k thought that's debatable) utilize gods that play active roles in the stories and are often capricious or more human in character than not. It just...seemed to me to make something 'god'-like into more something that was kind of dumbed down, or just dippy, even; maybe it just became hard for me to take them seriously as 'gods.' So, in that style of fantasy writing I gravitated towards other shared settings, either without gods (Dark Sun or White Wolf Publishing's new stuff) or that made effort to maintain 'gods' as things that were really god-like, and not just another character (Planescape or WW Publishing's old stuff).

But, all of a sudden I've got two angled thoughts off of that. One, that maybe those gods that annoyed me were being used like the gods in Greek myth; that is, maybe they aren't being dumbed down so much as being used to try to lend these fantasy stories an air of myth and make the story 'bigger' than it would be otherwise. Then, two, there's the interesting path of H.P. Lovecraft, who attempted with his writing to de-centralize humanity. Where myth generally serves to validate humanity's existence and place it in a place central to destiny or fate, Lovecraft wrote his 'gods' in such a way as to make humanity, and whatever its destiny or fate may be, insignificant, to loop back around as opposed to 'gods' taking a personal interest in the day to day living of individuals.

Though I'm still very much a proponent of bodyweight exercise over any weighted exercise, this seems a nice survey of exercise technique for the womens.

I don't know what the hell it is, but looks yummy - well, unwholesome, but still yummy.