#Swimming Pool Issues

[eyeris-moni]

Canonical fact that he overheats real easy

[allora-v]

Pool day 🩷

[transhetanybodys]

So I'm a fan of Hamilton but not of its treatment of women generally. The fact that Maria was only included as much as she needed to be for Hamilton's side of the story and the most sympathy she gets is Eliza referring to her pretty neutrally isn't great, but it really shocks me that her divorce from her abusive husband wasn't given so much as a throwaway line, especially considering that Burr was her divorce lawyer. A major character was involved in her getting free from her abusive husband and that still wasn't enough for that event to be mentioned anywhere in Hamilton. Even if Burr wasn't involved it's still very weird and honestly upsetting to me that this woman who is being abused is introduced, used only to fuel the male main character's arc and subsequently the impact it has on those around him, and then dropped from the plot without even a blink and you miss it reference to her divorce from her abusive husband.

The audience is apparently expected to be concerned about what's going on with Hamilton when the question of Maria's fate has been left completely up in the air. If I didn't know already that Maria was able to escape that relationship I would be completely preoccupied with what happened to her and not care at all about anything else because none of it matters in comparison. Obviously I feel a lot of sympathy for Eliza and Angelica and I do care about their suffering in the wake of Hamilton's mistakes, but if I didn't know what happened to Maria I probably wouldn't be able to care very much because 'my bitchass husband/brother in law had an affair and then publicized it' is a much smaller problem than 'I am actively being abused and one of the men who took advantage of me published a pamphlet about it.'

Also lmao @ Theodosia Sr.'s death only being mentioned tangentially through Burr trying to justify his murder of Hamilton by saying that he can't let him make an orphan out of his (21 year old) daughter. I wanted to end off this post by saying something like 'Maria x Burr ftw' but that feels out of place now somehow. I still ship them tbh. He helped her get a divorce from her abusive husband and then killed another guy who took advantage of her, it's a pretty good ship.

[bitchapalooza]

I can’t get the idea of hard rock trolls being immune to lava out of my head. Trollstopia seems to debunk this idea while in World Tour there’s a background gag where a hard rock trolls dives in(or falls?) and is completely okay, but the movies are more canon to me so I’m ignoring the show. Anyway, the mental image of Barb inviting Poppy for like a cultural exchange tour to strengthen the pop and rock tribes’ relationship and Barb diving into a pool of lava thinking Poppy can come in too is making me lose it. Her intentions are so pure and here Poppy is mentally screaming because this shit is so unhinged, LIKE IT WAS TOTALLY WITHOUT WARNING, SHE DOESN’T MEAN TO JUDGE OR ANYTHING SHES HERE WITH AN OPEN MIND AND IS READY TO LEARN BUT HOLY SHIT ALL ROCK TROLLS CAN DO THIS WTH WHAT IS THEIR DEAL THIS IS SO COOL YET SO TERRIFYING, and then Barb climbs out and shakes her entire body of excess lava like a dog after a bath 😂

[jhsharman]

Dinner Date

Calling card for Bob Bolling, the long pun of a subtitle. Dropped.

Recoloring job predates the cutting out of cigar.

Now favoring blue hair over white hair.

[tryingtimi]

being in a pool after not getting near to open water for years is truly a religious experience. never thought i’ll miss it this much.

[enniewritesathing]

there wasn't enough space for Were!John/Vin in the house. I thought of just having one floor with the bed and enough room for a mini fridge and stuff like that...

then I got to considering a Thing that happens to him and he's not gonna be wanting to go much of anywhere until it passes.

ended up making a whole ass apartment.

[theforesteldritch]

turns out nothings wrong with my heart probably other than being a bit fast, still no closer to understanding why intense cardio makes me almost vomit and pass out (no it’s not a conditioning thing, it started when I was playing hockey 2x a week and soccer also 2x a week). My moms solution is of course just exercise more with more of said intense cardio but that’s just so helpful when I go too hard a lot of the time I have to literally sit down so I don’t fall over and control my breathing so I don’t puke

Like not to self diagnose here but I think Something is Wrong and especially since it started at the most active point in my life I don’t think it’s that I’m not active enough. And also not to self diagnose but I have just the slightest suspicion that needing to stop and recover for 15-30 minutes so I don’t pass out and or puke when going to hard may be interfering with said exercise.

[writing-good-vibes]

Did you you decide to do that story where Roger….husband,father and Adulterer teaches Corey how to swim

ahh i can't lie i have been thinking about this story, thank you for asking and giving me an excuse to talk about it more !! also, i love that description of roger lol

this story only really exists in my head at the minute, but hopefully i'll put it together in a better way than i'm about to, so that it can exist as a bonus chapter for the main story. basically, besides it being about learning how to swim, it's also about corey and roger hugely blurring the line between flirtation and fatherly support.

to set the scene: they do make it to the pool -- one of those big blue hotel pools with glass windows looking out at the city and a sauna off to the side -- after their post-breakfast activities. corey stays firmly at the edge in the shallow end, watching roger swim laps.

corey tries to insist he's okay where he is, but roger keeps playfully trying to lure him further into the pool and swim laps with him ("work up that appetite of yours") and corey kind of has no choice but to admit he doesn't know how to swim.

honestly, swimming really hasn't come up that often in corey's life, so he is just a little embarrassed at having to admit this for basically the first time to someone (even though plenty of people can't swim).

this admission takes roger by surprise to be honest, he really just assumed it was a given that corey -- an adult -- would be able to swim. but he reigns his reaction in, tries not to let corey see his surprise, because he knows it would only embarrass him further. "hey, that's okay. how about i teach you, hm?"

roger taught jeremy to swim when he was 4 or 5, not that long ago really, and the similarity in the situation is absolutely not lost on him.

they start with the total basics, letting corey get used to just floating in the pool, first on his back and then with his face in the water. before they get to more effective swim strokes, roger stands a few feet away and lets corey doggy paddle his way over to him. corey, pink-cheeked with embarrassment or exertion, complains "i can see you moving", because roger isn't being half as sneaky as he thinks he is about taking a few steps back as corey gets closer.

when they move onto "real" swimming, corey almost shivers when roger puts his hand on his stomach to keep corey up so he can kick his legs. neither of them mention it when roger's thumb just barely slipping beneath corey's waist band. neither of them say anything when roger's fingers glide down the back of corey's thigh when he tells him to keep his legs straight.

maybe roger shouldn't feel as proud as he does when corey swims his first clumsy length of the pool, but he does. he taught corey that, he literally and figuratively held corey's hand, he gave corey this milestone.

corey keeps close to the edge the whole way, but they do end up in the deep end and roger absolutely shouldn't like it so much when corey clings to him instead of the pool-edge when he realises he can't reach the bottom to stand up.

their kiss tastes like chlorine.

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

Waking up to the news of Matthew Perry's death is just so....

[robinsnest2111]

the swimsuit I got at the fleamarket today makes me wanna go swimming again. haven't been since summer 2018...

[nonebinaryleftgender]

I think of this every time someone says I should start swimming as it's the perfect exercise. I always say I can't and no one ever understands why until I explain how awful it would be for a trans person living in the current world.

it sounds stupid but nobody talks about how many years of joyful swimming transphobia and dysphoria take away from you

[starmagnets]

i have GOT to go swimming more again

[cuntyromero]

I feel better for having gone to synchro. Getting in the pool was hard though I thought I was over that but guess it still happens sometimes :/

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[butchlifeguard]

how i see the world when i get to go swimming tomorrow