#nonsensical method

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Ballroom dancing isn’t actually particularly queer coded in fact it plays more into tradition and has very clearly defined gendered roles associated with it - male leader - female - follower.

And that’s what’s interesting about it being the activity Eddie was signed up for by Helena, especially in relation to Eddie’s incoming queer arc. Eddie was forced to grow up too fast and to step into the role of ‘man of the house’ by Helena because Ramon was by all accounts an absent father - hero complex provides us with plenty of canon information about Eddie being pushed into a husband/father role at a very young age and being told to man up and not to cry etc - machismo in action.

Helena sending him to ballroom dancing classes is likely because it was a way of reinforcing those traditional gendered stereotypes held by wider society and particularly in Latinx culture that the Diaz’s are entrenched in.

It becomes an especially interesting choice if it’s something Helena did because as well as it reinforcing gender stereotypes, she could see that her son was queer and wanted a way of trying to push him towards girls/women - encouraging him into straightness by surrounding him with girls as generally classes are female dominated and away from activities that would have him surrounded by boys/men.

It’s not about ballroom dancing being queer it’s about trying to prevent him from being queer through the structure of ballroom dancing.

[eek-a-tron]

Loki's shopping + saxophone + shed, from BAFTA

[ducktracy]

the difference in my final draft (above) and rough draft (below) for my reviews never fails to make me laugh

[rosie-tyler]

[bumblingest-bee]

like a week ago i watched the terror episode 3 with my roommate and they said "huh maybe watercolors would distract me from being horny" and i laughed but i just looked over at their desk and guess what they're doing. watercolors

[phoenixyfriend]

I spent a good fifteen minutes in that spot just watching the whirlpool activity.

Anyway. That's the real-world Great Naruto Bridge that I assume the manga version was meant to be a reference to.

[lunadreamsdespondently]

I don’t think she’s read it 💔

[vanishintoyou]

i love arguing with people who say "gaga peaked in early 2010s.. :/". do i think that born this way is the best album forever and ever? yes. will i disagree with this take forever? also yes. and also i love to talk about gaga. i pick up arguments just to get to talk about my beautiful queen with people as long as i can

[modeus-the-misanthrope]

*Taps mic to ensure it is turned on.*

The Beast/Den with a thick and dripping Hyena Gock. That is all.

*I leave the stage by hopping down from center stage and hiding in the orchestra pit.*

[sl8bqqa8]

Looking back it's crazy how there were so many problems in my life that I only just now have the words to convey. And how much of it could have been made so much easier if my neurodivergence had been recognised for what it was and not just some 'quirky quiet kid' habits.

I remember struggling with math so much even though I loved it, and whenever my parents or teachers asked me why it wasn't working out, my response always seemed to fall on deaf ears or no one really knew how to work around it/interpret it. It didn't help that I used to ace math up until around my pre-teen to later teenage years, so eeryone thought I was either lazy or just falling off the learning curve (to be fair the latter may have still been true).

But I didn't have the words to articulate the complex feelings I had around math. Not the way the numbers seemed to mean more than my teachers let on. Not how looking at them made me feel obsessive and feverish. Not the way I used the colors and personalities I associated with them to try and reverse engineer my own equations to solve problems. Or how I could solve them 'correctly' in secret ways I only learned from 'looking further behind the numbers'— Only for my work to be marked as wrong. And how confusing it all was for me. When things made sense I felt invincible, but when I looked at the numbers too hard it was like I ended up lost inside them and frustrated. Swearing off math until it made sense again, and then breaking down when it inevitably fell apart. And being so innatentive and prone to zoning out only made things worse, because I rarely had notes from class to fall back on when things got hazy.

And to my teachers, those messy papers, margins full of so many numbers and arrows you couldn't tell what was proof and what was the answer... That was all just a bit of laziness or odd habit they couldn't quite remedy (making sure to highlight my answers was all they could ask of me). And I can't even really blame them. I've always been a quiet kid, so when things did start going wrong for me it's not like I ever would have told them. When pressed, I would half explain my thought processes, leaving out what made me dizzy lest I spiral, and they did their best to explain the problems to me again. To varying levels of success.

Somewhere out there are dozens upon dozens of papers: Printed math homework covered in nonsense scribblings. And they match the 'textbooks' and 'lectures' I used to write while consumed by the manic belief that I was going to educate the world on my higher form of math. Word for word, number for number.

Teachers thought I was confused and messy. And my parents, if they ever saw my homework, were convinced it was a mark of my dedication to math 🫠

[thedeafprophet]

I do. have to wonder. what series of emotions poor edward must have gone through when he inevitably finds out about Alex and Fires somewhere down the timeline akdlglhlhlj

[probably-not-a-rutabaga]

these designs

[viperwhispered]

Not a question but let me tell you:

It doesn't matter if someone mixed Jafar and Jamil already, you can still do it yourself as well! After all, the idea might be on the internet already but it hasn't been done by *you* :)

I fully support it

(In reference to my tags on this post)

Well, since I’ve been enabled, enjoy y’all (I'm so sorry):

Jafar-style:

Which - not the worst? I mean would look better if I actually knew what I was doing but.

I found this art of Jafar by MarioOscarGabriele on DeviantArt which very conveniently helped me line up Jafar’s facial hair with Jamil’s face.

And of course I also had to attempt a big bushy beard, and well, the sultan is right there:

...yeah that definitely just looks like a costume beard

I ran out of patience when trying to freehand things but this pencil mustache actually doesn't look as bad as I thought?

Alas, I couldn't find any sort of a braided dwarf beard that I could've slapped on his face, otherwise I totally would've gone for that, too.

[lenabobina]

don’t worry guys the writing process is coming along great

[j-esbian]

maybe it’s the ex-catholic of me, but sometimes when i hear american protestants and especially evangelicals talk about the bible, i understand why a lot of people’s reading comprehension is Like That

[answrs]

"oh no, what horrible Take™ is getting dragged for filth on my dashboard this time? this mutual usually skips those, must be pretty serious and/or hilarious then."

*clicks*

"ah, nevermind. just a generic shitpost with a dumbfuck tagging it. on your way, then."

[TO BE CLEAR: THE OP TAGGED THE OG POST THAT WAY, NOT MUTUAL]