Misc sailing team au dynamic brainworms
420 sailing partners with skipper who thinks they’re in charge because they have the tiller and always yells for port right of way and crew who’s done with their skipper bossing them and having to do everything.
Skipper yelling at crew for not rolling enough on the tack and crew swings the boom on purpose into skippers head on the next gybe
crew is on the trapeze wire and skipper does a mean tack, doesn’t give them warning to unhook and jokes about how sailors can die from not unhooking from the wire in time, capsizing and being wrangled to death under water by the trap
Screaming at the autobailers making the boat a pool… and why is it up to our knees?!? (Universal experience, a cut up milk container is your bestie now, I don’t make the rules)
Duct-taping the autobailers shut out of spite (as you should)
Skipper yelling about blisters from main sheet and crew yells back telling them to shut up and hike to flatten the boat before the capsize and just wear the damn gloves
Skipper who yells at crew about how they’re hips aren’t hanging off the boat so they’re hiking incorrectly (let’s be real, they just wants to stare at their crew) and whines about not wanting to capsize so flatten the damn boat.
Crew deadpans by telling them they can’t even trapeze and boat balance so handle your stupid steering stick properly.
Crew: WHY ARE YOU STEERING INTO IRONS ?! Did they not teach you sailing directly into the wind is a no?!
Crew whose role definition involved planing strategy for the regatta and stubborn skipper who won’t listen because I’m steering, I choose
Skipper saying they’re gonna tack, forgot directions, goes for a gybe instead, gets crew whacked in head by boom amidst confusion
THE duo that gets a black flag on the start line and has to forfeit the race
Skipper: WHAT IF WE DO A PORT TACK BARGE START ?!
Crew: … WHY? And cross tack the entire fleet?! (Of like 50 boats?)
Skipper: *excited eye glimmer*
Crew:…. *inhibitor side slipping and begins enabling*
Comes in last place, but hey, what’s a regatta without someone trying that?
Crew staring into the skippers soul on the start line like do not fuck up. And skipper begs them to just not sit in the crew box and face backwards because it’s scary. Crew retorts that this is proper crew posting so skipper should just shut the fuck up (skipper is kinda impressed their crew can backwards navigate left from right and not vomit, does not admit)
Dumps dirty bailer water on each other
Skying halliards and climbing the mast
Etc etc
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Every so often I remember and get annoyed about how my liberal arts college was trying to push "math in the arts", but the professors from the departments didn't seem to want to talk each other? And, like, I was studying in both those departments. And I'd be like, "cool, my interests!" and go to the math department's special little lecture, and it'd be, like. A three hour presentation on linear perspective. And I feel like that happened multiple times? But my memory could be exaggerating, lol.
It's just irritating, cause the math people obviously couldn't be bothered to learn about the arts, but still wanted credit for crossing over into different subjects. Like, there's SO much math-inspired art!! There's often a lot of math that goes into making art! These subjects are not as discrete as they seem!!!
But also I'm probably just biased, cause I was raised by architects 😅 like, sorry, I thought we ALL grew up learning drafting basics... my bad...😬
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I will only accept one change to the Status-Quo right now, and it’s if the Marsh’s divorce. Here’s why:
If the Marsh’s divorce, Randy can keep Tegridy. The show can stay in the middle ground, with a half return to form by having Sharon and the kids move back in to their old house, but Randy keeps the farm and Stan and Shelly visit sometimes/half the time. This way you can still use both settings, but Stan isn’t stuck out on a farm all the time and away from everyone else (except To(l)k(i)en). Also it gives Sharon a chance to do something again. She has some potential, I think, but she’s just been reduced to the hysterical wife of Randy.
Let’s see how Shelly takes it. She hasn’t done shit in forever. What if Sharon starts dating again? Like in Clubhouses but way less stupid. Fine, we can watch Randy sort of loose his mind without Sharon around, if you insist.
~Oops I got a little sidetracked here~
Or, and hear me out, we do all this and then LET THE MARSH’S FADE TO THE BACKGROUND FOR A BIT. God they have had so much screen time lately. Bring back the main four, with no weird dynamic shifts or fighting. Let Stan’s family be the same as everyone else’s, not that important most of the time. Let the side characters do something, and not just To(l)k(i)en! Clyde, Craig and Tweek deserve more!
Also, stop bringing in new characters. As much as Betty Boogie is an icon, she doesn’t need a new character every other episode. And if you must bring in new characters, don’t design them weird so they look out of place. Use Heather Williams instead of Betsy if you must have a Betty Boogie character. Betsy looks really weird and out of place, and my heart only has room for one Betsy (Rest In Peace Betsy Donovan).
I think this post has gone off the rails, oops. I think my point is that if we must use the Marsh family as often as we have been, it would be a good idea to separate Randy from the rest of his family so that he doesn’t drag them down with him. Or they could stop obsessively using the Marsh family as often, and just let other characters have their moment for a minute.
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