#c: performance

[audramcdonald]

Audra McDonald stars as Rose in the Broadway revival of Gypsy (Majestic Theatre, 2024)

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Nobunari Oda performs to Matsuken Samba at the 2024 Japanese National Championships. It is his first performance at Nationals since his retirement in 2013. Oda, who was the Japanese National Champion in 2008, is now 37 years old. He landed three clean jumping passes in his short program (4T3T, 3A, 3Lz) and placed 5th with 84.53 points.

[sophsun1]

Believe me, I didn't see it coming, either.

9-1-1 – 8.06: Confessions

[anghraine]

The other thing about the Kirk-Uhura brotp that I have many feelings about:

Of all the ~430 positions filled by people on the Enterprise, I'd argue that there are none for which outwards composure is more important than for the communications officer and the commanding officer. Above all others on the ship, those two have to stay cool under pressure and retain the ability to keep talking (often to large numbers of people), while projecting unfaltering assurance and resolve.

As individuals, Kirk and Uhura have obviously put a lot of effort into developing that bedrock of composure, while also being pleasant or assertive as needed. Throughout TOS, they both come across as confident, charismatic, very skilled, eloquent professionals. Both of them can be lightly charming and easy to underestimate, or sharp-tongued and forceful, and both of them are clever and good liars.

But tbh, I think that TOS also gradually reveals both Kirk and Uhura to be incredibly high-strung people who are just really good at their jobs.

It's not that either is naturally easy-going and chill! As people, Kirk and Uhura have zero chill. They're just very controlled and very deliberate about projecting what's needed.

Neither are perfect at this by any means. Kirk lashes out now and then, and visibly fights off tension headaches or anxiously fiddles with his own hands. Uhura gets intensely nervous or upset every once in awhile. There are points in the show where one of them will just start losing their shit. But that's unusual, and mainly used to flag the circumstances as exceptional. And even in those cases, we repeatedly see them swapping the role of being a calm and reliable rock for the other one as he/she is about to snap. When Kirk's composure starts to crumble, we'll often see Uhura as this steadying, quietly supportive, or challenging presence as needed; when Uhura starts falling apart, we repeatedly see Kirk flip into a calm, affirming figure taking pains to remind her of her importance and capabilities.

I think this is a bit different from the way that, say, Spock works to keep an iron grip on his vulnerabilities and adheres to cool reason while doing Science, or McCoy might get snappish or plainly desperate but always has a clear enough head for Medicine. Kirk's and Uhura's roles, at least as they choose to approach them, require these constant performances of a sort of lightly emotive, personable steadiness that keeps the whole ship smoothly running even as they're doing the intellectual/practical work of their jobs.

Also, in addition to the explicit dialogue around their professional synergy and rapport, quite a bit is carried by physical acting from Nichols and Shatner as well. For instance, we'll see Uhura's expression shift without a word to dawning realization around some Scheme or Shenanigans that Kirk is carrying out while people around her are still visibly ?????????? Or you'll see these moments of solidarity or trust in how Kirk physically carries himself towards Uhura. It's also made really clear that there is zero sexual attraction or romantic interest between them—they're both charming, attractive, intelligent, and even close in age but it's just not there at all, even repressed or stifled.

In any case, Uhura is the only person other than Spock whom Kirk feels the need to name both times that he records potentially-posthumous special commendations in TOS.

Kind of-neurotic-but-hypercompetent platonic duo of my heart <3

[caemidraws]

The cat stared / «You are the wolf, indeed. But is he the snake?» «Am I wrong, then?» howled the wolf / «Am I wrong?»

The snake did not reply / The snake wasn't there «Am I wrong?» howled the wolf / «Wrong, again?»

[markscherz]

Do you have a favourite rain toad? I love them. They're so round and look grumpy even though they aren't.

Did you know that there are arboreal rainfrogs‽

[src]

Meet the genus Callulina, from the rainforests of Tanzania and Kenya

[src]

Who said you had to be lithe to take to the trees?

[src]

You may not like it, but this is what Peak Performance looks like.

[spaciebabie]

affirmations for seniors in this final semester:

i will pass all my exams

i have all my credit hours and nothing will go wrong. there will be no silly administrative errors

i will find the strength to study for my finals and do my final papers

i will graduate

[simplydnp]

if dan and phil could refrain from publicly grading each others' performance in the bedroom, that'd be great

[magicsprat]

The aesthetics/mood boards of Patti LuPone's characters.ㅤLucia Beltran — Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (musical)

[terezicaptor]

pilukey with newborn rascal. btw. 1 molecule rascal

not sure if it's obvious but lukey is wearing some of pili's clothes here^

[vaguely-concerned]

'strong poison' is high up there in the wimsey book rankings so far. most crucially for me: so much love for bunter, so richly deserved (the scene where he and peter are tiptoeing around each other like 'so uh... are you breaking up with me to get married then?🥺'/'of course not, that's -- wait what are -- are you breaking up with me if I'm getting married?? 😟😢😭'/'of course not my lord don't be silly'/'then don't scare me like that bunter oh my god!!!!'). also more bunter as pseudo-mother (/wife and very overtly so lmao the duchess directly comparing him to helen as gerald's wife... immensely favourably so.) figure, yes-tumblr-user-vaguely-concerned-you-are-so-valid textual underlining. peter literally wanting to smash his own reflection in a wild and unguarded moment. not doing it, because it would change nothing and bunter would just have to deal with a lot of broken shards before a new one got ordered. him recounting going to his mother in a State because uh-oh he's gone and love-at-first-sighted himself and if he can get her off death row and also maybe introduce himself to her the wedding is back on!! parker being a useless lesbian except he's a very well brought up boy with victorian values. mary noticing that peter's feeling low because he's class clowning it up at christmas and giving him a hugggg 🥹. harriet with the 'life is already so fucking weird. this might as well happen' vibe throughout quietly editing a novel from prison in the background because what else is there to do. ms. climpson who could set the murderous machiavel to school if she wanted to actually richard iii go home. in another world she's the moriarity of the wimsey 'verse. an honest soul with a fine criminal mind indeed. the hilarity of looking back through the ages and seeing with all the tiredness of living in the age that before there were astrology girlies there were ectoplasm girlies. peter having a pet safe cracker on speed dial who's seen the light ('allelujah) but y'know a man still has the pride of his craft. impey biggs is there. delicious. characterful. brimming with flavour and also arsenic of course

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Riku Miura & Ryuichi Kihara: Paint It Black » 2025 World Team Trophy

[jockbots]

idk who needs to hear this but Leebeebee's gonna die id put money on her threatening Gugu in the next ep and Seccy being like ew no! no one gets to kill that one except me

[anghraine]

One of the weirder parts of being formally tested for autism as an adult—apart from the hellscape of hours of math hell—was that they kept asking me for my conclusions or opinions about things I had very little knowledge of. These weren't basic facts you'd expect someone to pick up in the course of a standard US education, and I kept repeating that I would have to do actual research to form opinions on subjects I had no significant information about.

Obviously, "not opinionated" isn't a major problem for me when I do have a reasonable amount of information, but my eventual diagnosis specifically mentioned that I kept repeating that I would have to do more research to acquire the necessary baseline of data for forming opinions on [whatever], and that the phrasing of my various refusals tended to be identical or very similar (I didn't see any need to alter my wording when I was simply repeating the same position over and over).

*cough*

Anyway this is also about Star Trek. (Surprise.) I knew Spock would be relatable before we started the grand TOS watch, but did not expect him to be the most relatable character on television ever, and his continual refusals to deliver opinions without enough data for informed theories was actually a big part of this.

[gl1tchrix]

Currently sobbing

So, because I’ve been obsessed with Christian Borle, I finally decided to watch (a totally legal version of) falsettos.

It honestly was so much better than I was prepared for. The way it explores so many themes: queerness in the 70/80s, irregular family dynamics, fragile masculinity, Jewish culture, and the AIDS epidemic. It’s a show that’s just so full of love and soul and I couldn’t be happier that I watched it… but oh god nothing has made me cry like that in a good long while. like. I swear to you. It’s very hard for media to make me cry. But by the end of this show I was WEEPING.

I woke up my sleeping girlfriend just because I needed to tell her I love her and how happy I am I have her because oh my god. There’s no wake up call stronger than watching a loving couple be separated by forces out of their control. Reminding me that I can’t take my loved ones for granted. (P.s. girlfriend was very concerned cuz she woke up and I’m just sat, crying and saying I love you)

anyways, if you haven’t watched falsettos, go watch it, and if you have, watch it again.

[ringmaster-pixie]

note to self: change bandaids BEFORE meeting any fans. That. That did not go well.

Unrelated but my head hurts :(

I’m kinda bored now that circus shows are postponed. I can probably still do it if I have like- a chair!! Maybe I’m just not cut out for this all in the first place

@mizisua-enthusiast @acrobat-harunii @themanedbish

The autograph incident…