#Lisa Dunk

[concord-and-cliches]

study session's going super well, don't even worry about it

[calleb-web]

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[kxllerblond]

noooo i can't stop making hot and evil npcs!!!

[lilacura]

Court side drama

Pairing: Lalisa Manoban x Reader

Word count: 610

Tw: no tw

Summary: "Courtside Drama" follows (Y/N) and Lisa's loving relationship, disrupted by Yeji's attempts to woo (Y/N). This tale of love, rivalry, and secrets leads to an intense showdown with unexpected twists.

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You couldn't help but feel the energy pulsating through the gymnasium as you, (Y/N), stood at the edge of the basketball court. Dressed in your vibrant cheerleader uniform, you watched the game intently, your pom-poms ready for action. The star of the team, Lisa, was a force to be reckoned with on the court. She dribbled the ball with grace and precision, her quick reflexes making it seem like the basketball was an extension of her being.

Lisa was not only a talented basketball player but also your girlfriend. Her charisma and friendly nature had drawn you in, and you both had become fast friends and eventually, much more than that. However, tonight, things would take an unexpected turn.

As you cheered for Lisa and her team, you noticed a tall figure from the opposing team making her way over to you. Her name was Yeji, and she had a reputation for being a player. You tried to be polite, offering a friendly smile, but your focus was on the game.

"Hey there, (Y/N)," Yeji said with a confident grin, leaning against the bleachers. "You look incredible in that cheerleader outfit. You know, I've always admired cheerleaders."

You blushed, feeling somewhat flustered by her attention. You weren't used to this kind of forwardness. "Uh, thank you, Yeji. We're here to support the team."

Yeji chuckled, looking over at Lisa as she made a fantastic slam dunk. "Your friend Lisa is amazing out there. She's got quite the talent, doesn't she?"

You couldn't agree more, but you couldn't help feeling a bit uneasy about the way Yeji was eyeing Lisa. You replied, "Yes, she's an incredible athlete, and she's my girlfriend. I'm lucky to have her."

Yeji's expression shifted from confidence to surprise and disappointment, realizing that you and Lisa were together. She awkwardly cleared her throat and retreated, her earlier charm evaporating.

Meanwhile, Lisa noticed the interaction from the court and decided to take matters into her own hands. During a timeout, she approached the sideline and spoke loudly enough for Yeji to hear. With a sly grin, she quipped, "Well, well, well, (Y/N), it seems like Ms. Smooth Talker here thought she could just waltz in and whisk you away from me. Newsflash, buddy, this cheerleader is very much taken, and I don't share. So, you might want to reevaluate your game plan."

Yeji looked taken aback as Lisa continued, her voice dripping with possessiveness. "I know you're impressed with my skills, but (Y/N) and I are a package deal. You might want to back off."

You couldn't help but smile at Lisa's bold declaration. She wasn't one to let anyone encroach on what was rightfully hers. Yeji, feeling the tension in the air, retreated quickly, deciding it was best not to pursue any further.

As Yeji made her hasty exit from the gymnasium, her disappointed expression shifted into a sly smile. Unbeknownst to both you and Lisa, she had a few tricks up her sleeve, and she wasn't one to back down easily.

As the weeks passed, Yeji remained relatively quiet, seemingly accepting the situation. But behind the scenes, she was hatching a plan to catch your attention once again. She knew that she couldn't compete with the strength of your relationship with Lisa on the basketball court, so she had something entirely different in mind.

What Yeji had in store for the next time she saw you would not only test your loyalty to Lisa but also leave you questioning your feelings and decisions. The game was far from over, and the suspense continued to build, setting the stage for a dramatic showdown that would change everything.

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pt.2 🤔

[decipheringsidelines]

MEET THE ROSTER MASTER LIST (A continuously updated post)

The meet the roster site can be found here.

HUGE THANKS TO @puckingproblems FOR HELPING WITH THIS 🫶

I’ll continue to update as people are added, but I’ll also create a post for each explaining why I believe who is who and also to potentially debunk all things posted.

Tiger King - Joe Burrow

Little ‘Roni - Rory McIlroy

Ice Devil - Jack Hughes

Wounded Bird - Caitlyn Clark

Mediocre Duck - Trevor Zegras

Dr. Dutch - Max Verstrappen

DD Dunks - Donte DiVincenzo

Killa Klown - Travis Kelce

Big Bird - Jason Kelce

Sky- Lashes - Angel Reese

Blonde Baller - Cameron Brink

Fresh Fruit - Ricky Pearsall

Pretty Boy - Jalen Hurts

Tin Hat - Aaron Rodgers

Zeus - Justin Herbert

Little bear - Nick Bosa

Big Bear - Joey Bosa

Oxen Free - Ollie Bearman

Mississauga Menace - Vince Dunn

2Pm - Patrick Mahomes

Sad sibling - Quinn Hughes

Home town - cole sillinger

The ace - Kelsey Plum

Sharknado - Mikey Essyimont

Allons-Y - Esteban Ocan

MoanA Lisa - Andrei Svechnikov

The prodigy- Lily He

Bon Bon - Alex Albon

Curly & Confused - Luke Hughes

Puck Baby - Connor Bedard

2 Pretty 2 Play - Mat Barzal

Open Wide - Tee Higgins

Peppa pigskin - Josh Allen

Pasta pro - Tommy Devito

Certified Loverboy -Jordan Love

Eyebrows - Jamie Drysdale

New Kid - Matt Rempe

Play that funky music - Lauri Markkanen

Chubby Cheeks - Kirill Kaprizov

Mr. World Wide Web - Braxton Berrios

Mouthpiece - Matthew Tkachuk

Cupcake - Brooks Koepka

Big Purr - Mac Jones OR Caleb Williams (?)

Four leafed forward - Jayson Tatum

The Viking - William Nylander

UPS - UPL

Goldfish - Noah Hanafin

Greasy K - George kittle

Simba - Spencer Knight

Minnesota airlines - Justin Jefferson

Goldie locks - Trevor Lawrence

Old Head - Sidney Crosby

Oscillate - Jeremy Swayman

Magic Mule - Luka Dončić

Miss USA - Simone Biles

Pirate Skeeze - Paul Skenes

Flying Tigress - Livvy Dunne

Skipper - Dylan Crews

Buddy - Cam York

Paul Bunyan - Connor McDavid

[notsosecretlyalesbian]

"-Oh, come on. What, are you kidding me? You said it yourself, the parents don't exactly love you. They would be psyched to come and dunk your ass.

-I don't know how to swim.

-And now it's dangerous? Even better."

Lisa Ann Walter as Melissa Schemmenti in Abbott Elementary | 02×19: Festival

[dandelion-wings]

it's really easy to write young!Kaeya as abused before Crepus took him in, I have read and enjoyed those fics, but I honestly enjoy much more the concept that a lot of his reactions at first just look like the way people expect an abused kid to act (being unfamiliar with the sky and hence agoraphobic and fearful outdoors, quiet and retiring at first because he's still adapting to the language and customs and doesn't want to be found out through a mistake, flinchy around adult strangers because. they're adult strangers and he's a malnourished little kid, with the aforementioned fear of exposing himself only magnified by the Adult Strangers part, etc.), and once he realizes that this is making Crepus concerned about him, he feels obliged to play it up because it's getting him more care and attention and thus securing his place with the Ragnvindrs. but it leads to really awful presumptions about his original father and he hates that. that part is awful and he never really gets over it.

(someday I will finish the wingfic, in which this has become an unexpectedly significant part. but I enjoy it as a thing in general)

but the addendum to that line of thinking is that, depending on what other people know about the fight and about Diluc and Kaeya's relationship in general, it is possible to likewise take Kaeya's... ~everything~ as an adult and attribute that to abuse at the Dawn Winery. he used to be quiet and reserved and Diluc's shadow, but he's blossomed into a much more charismatic individual since Diluc left and he moved away from the Winery. he was injured in the fight, but refuses to say more than that he provoked it, and sometimes, in his cups (or during his first frantic refusal to let anyone investigate or press charges), that he deserved it. he tends to avoid going to the Winery and acts as if he has none of the family privileges. despite his friendly mask, some people can definitely catch glimpses behind it, and there's a wariness there about opening up to people and a whole fucking lot of trauma. he hates when people make these assumptions just as much as he did the ones about his original father, but they're pretty impossible to believably deny without peeling the lids off a lot of boxes he doesn't want anyone touching.

anyway, the specific upshot of that most often tends, for me, to be that Lisa, who didn't know Diluc but is very perceptive and, in my headcanon, rather older and more learned than Kaeya, comes back to Mondstadt to become Ordo Librarian, more-or-less befriends him (and/or ends up sharing Jean with him, which leads to the same result), learns all the information above in bits and pieces, and, in that manga scene where she's drinking tea with Diluc, is 100% contemplating whether she could get away with poisoning him. :>

(obviously her views have changed by the time of the Weinlesefest, if I'm lining this up with canon. but I have soft spots for both Lisa and Kaeya being friends and Lisa being vengefully protective and for dunking on Diluc, and sometimes I want to indulge that >> )

[cantsayidont]

LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024): Perplexingly tepid retro pastiche of HEATHERS and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, about a teenage outcast (Kathryn Newton) who befriends a reanimated 19th century corpse (Cole Sprouse), leading to murder and mayhem as they try to get him the spare parts he needs to be a Real Boy.

The premise promises grisly fun, but Diablo Cody's hopelessly muddled script undersells the central romance, takes a weirdly ambivalent attitude toward its own violence (which fails as both horror and revenge fantasy), and awkwardly nerfs both the gore and the obviously necrophiliac overtones in pursuit of a misguided PG-13 rating (which I'm astonished it actually received, given the content).

It's clear that Cody and director Zelda Williams are big fans of the older cult classics the film endlessly quotes and paraphrases, but it's equally clear that they've failed to grasp what works (and doesn't) about those movies, much less how to combine their various homages into a coherent original story; LISA FRANKENSTEIN has no real satiric direction of its own and is only intermittently funny. (Also, despite the title, the film, which is set in 1989, includes no vintage Lisa Frank designs, the filmmakers having apparently blown their entire licensing budget on REO Speedwagon and Echo and the Bunnymen songs.)

This could have been a slam-dunk for people who grew up loving the movies it references, but you'd be better off just (re)watching HEATHERS instead.

[themightymoose]

Frenemies

So is this photo was from when Zoe first joined the pet shop

So is Zoe the last one to join

And if so, how much has passed since then. Because she looks like the same age

AND PENNY

WHO JOINED LAST

STOP DISPROVING MY HEADCANONS DAMMIT

Okay so it would be one year ago Penny joined The Squad

My headcanons 🥺

imma ignore canon >:)

Pepper and Zoe being so excited for her

Penny's just like "No, bitch they're gonna kill each other."

Blythe brushing Penny

Vinnie being excited about Penny's party

Vinnie middle name is Alfonso?

Huh

Vinnie almost fucking died

They all look so traumatized

He is legit scarred for life

"I think you look pretty cute without your tail, Vinnie!" :)

What parents Sunil? What are you talking about sir

Uh oh

Blythe is like "Well this is awkward. :/"

Guys your hyperfixations aren't Penny's hyperfixation

"And we all get a pie that we can throw at Zoe!" "WhAT-" damn 💀

Girlie just got shot into another dimension

Which is a reoccurring theme of this show

"I look terrible in lilac." NO YOU DON'T SUNIL

Russell looks so snazzy

"And then we have the skunk dunking booth where we can dunk Pepper!" "WHAT-"

The shaaaaadddeee

"Okay that's kinda funny actually-" at least she's taking it like a champ

Pepper's middle name is Mildred 💀

Yeah she seems like a Mildred to me

The fellas are just so silly :)

What's Minka doing during this

Buttercream just comes from out of nowhere

The awkward tension

They should just kiss me thinks

Pepper is so shit at lying

Russell trying to give confidence in his mongoose bf <3

Vinnie's cranky

Oh hi Minka

SUNIL'S MOTHER AND FATHER?????

I'm so confused

Vinnie drew the Mona Lisa

Vinnie is going through fucking hell right now

How the fuck did she get that hay bale inside

They're laughing so passive aggressively

Blythe has no idea does she

Vinnie is so sad he can't perform a dance for Penny

Blythe giving Vinnie some encouragement

Vinnie's so happy

Pepper just got flung into the wall

Damn hit a nerve there

Vinnie breaking them up to make the conversation about him

King

"HE'LL DANCE AT MY PARTY!"

They are so confused

Minka and Vinnie only joining Zoe's party for the food

Relatable

Sunil and Russell giggling

Damn this is awkward 💀

Did Zoe just flirt with Penny

Got some smooth moves I'll give her that

You can tell that even though they're literally about to kill each other they truly do love Penny

And I think that's beautiful

Penny feels like a child of divorce rn

The girls are fiiiggghhhtinnnngggg

I think the fire hydrant house night be everyone's comfort place

"Okay, you two. You're grounded."

They all probably think Zoe and Pepper are Blythe's favorites

"Blythe that's fucking stupid."

Okay this is so sweet I'll get cavities

They're sharing their feelings

Pepper and Zoe were just jealous of each other

Please excuse me while I rewatch this scene five hundred times

Now kiss

Did they forget Penny exists

I do too sometimes

Mostly with Minka though

Sunil is so happy for Vinnie

Penny and Vinnie's friendship means so much to me I love them

Vinnie's showing off his vocals right now

YESSSSSS GET IT KINGGGGG 😩😩😩😩😩😩

[dorianwolfforest]

I feel like your blog would be the best to ask this, haas anyone here watched eleanor nightwalker's new video about Alex and Maya as queer rep? My adhd brain is curious but would not let me waste my time on it

you just made me click on an eleanor nightwalker video on my own accord and download it onto my computer (she gets no seconds of watchtime from me, fuck that) how dare you

Basically "ue ue ue all the relationship development happened outside of the game" which, fair, but it's hard to retcon things when they've already happened in your main story line.

"The events in Elli's comics don't feel official because they don't add anything to the game" die mad wtf are you on about, we got so much lore regarding the game and the characters in it from those comics

"You meet them as two separate characters and then all of a sudden they're cuddling in a field" yes, people in relationships are also their own separate entities, good job!

"We need something to explain why they're a thing, not just that they are" yet you do not push this narrative on any straight couple in the game. queer people do not owe you a grand romantic story to be "permitted" to exist, sometimes their relationship can just be one small part of their story and their existence does not need to be justified.

"Alex had a crush on justin in the clouds over silverglade comics!!! She also thinks about him a lot when we need to rescue him and is the one who suggests breaking him out of jail." WHAT. OUTRAGEOUS. BISEXUALITY? IN MY VIDEO GAME? (Doesn't even need to be bisexuality a lot of queer people mistake their close friendships as romantic feelings because they haven't clocked what they're attracted to yet) Also, like, yeah, if i was breaking someone out of prison i'd... think about them too? "She needs to stop defending him to make Alex and Maya's relationship seem more genuine" She's being a good friend? A good Samaritan? A person who sees someone get kidnapped and says "yeah i don't think that's right, stop it"??????

"Lisa would be the best queer rep because she doesn't have a romantic past and it fits her character" Lisa is word-of-god-confirmed to be bisexual. Get dunked on. Also, die mad.

"Maya's model is smaller than Alex so it looks weird" ok? fuck short ppl ig.

In short yeah, i'm sure we all want to see more of alex and maya, but that doesn't make their representation forced or bad. To finish off, die mad.

[puckthedrama]

I know it’s unlikely but could UPS be Thatcher Demko? A lot of Reddit bros are speculating trading him to NJD because they need goaltending help and Silovs has a promising future

Also if you haven’t already could you go through all of the sidelines nicknames we do know? Like who is curly and confused??? Because I low key thought Luke Hughes but I’m not so sure

hmmm interesting!! not sure though because it mentions something about “eyes set to warmer skies” and that seems to hint to florida! also lots of cat references throughout the post. but it’s a possibility!! good guess anon!! :)

for more sideline decodings follow @decipheringsidelines !!! they’re also explaining each post!!

here’s a list of allll the sideline nicknames:

• Tiger King - Joe Burrow

• Little 'Roni - Rory Mcllroy

• Ice Devil - Jack Hughes

• Wounded Bird - Caitlyn Clark

• Mediocre Duck - Trevor Zegras

• Dr. Dutch - Max Verstrappen

• DD Dunks - Donte DiVincenzo

• Killa Klown - Travis Kelce

• Big Bird - Jason Kelce

• Sky- Lashes - Angel Reese

• Blonde Baller - Cameron Brink

•Fresh Fruit - Ricky Pearsall

• Pretty Boy - Jalen Hurts

• Tin Hat - Aaron Rodgers

• Zeus - Justin Herbert

• Little bear - Nick Bosa

• Big Bear - Joey Bosa

• Oxen Free - Ollie Bearman

•Mississauga Menace - Vince Dunn

• 2Pm - Patrick Mahomes

•Sad sibling - Quinn Hughes

• Home town - cole sillinger

• The ace - Kelsey Plum

• Sharknado - Mikey Essyimont

• Allons-Y - Esteban Ocan

• MoanA Lisa - Andrei Svechnikov

• The prodigy- Lily He

• Bon Bon - Alex Albon

• Curly & Confused - Luke Hughes

• Puck Baby - Connor Bedard

• 2 Pretty 2 Play - Mat Barzal

•Open Wide - Tee Higgins

• Peppa pigskin - Josh Allen

• Pasta pro - Tommy Devito

• Certified Loverboy -Jordan Love

•Eyebrows - Jamie Drysdale

•New Kid - Matt Rempe

• Play that funky music - Lauri Markkanen

• Chubby Cheeks - Kirill Kaprizov

• Mr. World Wide Web - Braxton Berrios

• Mouthpiece - Matthew Tkachuk

• Cupcake - Brooks Koepka

•Big Purr - Mac Jones OR Caleb Williams (?)

• Four leafed forward - Jayson Tatum

• The Viking - William Nylander

• UPS - UPL

• Goldfish - Noah Hanafin

• Greasy K - George kittle

• Simba - Spencer Knight

• Minnesota airlines - Justin Jefferson

• Goldie locks - Trevor Lawrence

[basofy]

some thoughts regarding joyful (not definitive)

this is more of a personal post about my relationship with this game, but i realized something important a while ago, and it's that, out of the 3 times i've played lisa the joyful, i had never played it again after changing my mind about buddy

yes i disliked her at first im so sorry, i was biased on brad and didnt like others dunking on him GHAGFSGF the first 2 times i played i didnt like buddy a lot, the 3rd time i was starting to take her more seriously but i honestly just replayed for the battles and secrets, didnt even finish it back then.

so i have to say, outside of the new content, replaying joyful felt absolutely necessary for me, after starting to emphatize more with buddy (which ive been doing for like a year and half, still never played again) and not only that but my thoughts on rando. i've been looking wrongly at him since the start becuz i thought he was simply just nice 'rando did nothing wrong' then i realized he, in fact did things wrong, and i had become a bit, hmm, disinterested in him, because i had in mind his flaws too much and it started to feel like he didnt care much about buddy. sorry if this is mean as hell rando fans, but luckily playing again gave me a different view of him. i think rando cares, he cares as much as he can but he cant just agree to everything, there are things that simply just oppose eachother and i think this eats him alive and makes him a little lame in how he handles things. i noticed he mentions the kidnapping at the start quite a lot, which he could be feeling intensely guilty about, even moreso, with the implication that buddy was assaulted, which he even asks her about right after. and even if buddy doesn't bring it up ever again, he seems still worried about this. and i liked paying attention to that. i enjoy not seeing him as perfect but he is still caring

on the topic of buddy, i started to become more and more attached to her over time and it actually pains me to think about her sometimes. much like with lisa, thinking about how they were literally just kids going through the worst makes me cry at times. during this playthrough of joyful i had something strange happen and it's that i'd get actual goosebumps reading some of the dialogue, the things buddy would say to rando, the kidnapping, the flavor text in battles and things the enemies would say to her. i think i finally played joyful like i was supposed to and im happy about that, im rly feeling like drawing buddy and rando now. theyre not perfect siblings but it's good to be assured that they cared about eachother, i needed that

another thing i rly rly needed since a long while ago was to cry for lisa again, i played the brad hallucination fight in spanish (only that part, cuz i wanted to see how the name 'chiqui' got handled) and it made me cry so bad, especially i noticed that right after the dialogue where brad tells buddy to not call him dad, his next phase is literally named 'dad', i never paid attention to that. but anyway it seems this game affects me more if i play in spanish, might be because the first time i played it was the fan translation, very nostalgic. some bits of the new content in painful and joyful made me cry, too, mostly the lisa bits. even if there are some things im not convinced by, i know im thankful for that, idk, i like getting emotional and crying, this game means a lot to me, but for a while i could only cry if at some point i started thinking about it too much, i couldn't cry while playing, so this was nice, im a sensitive and lame guy

[lboogie1906]

Lisa Deshaun Leslie (July 7, 1972) is a former basketball player. She is the head coach for Triplets in the BIG3 professional basketball league, as well as a studio analyst for Orlando Magic broadcasts on Fox Sports Florida. She played in the WNBA. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner. The number-seven pick in the 1997 inaugural WNBA draft, she followed her career at USC with eight WNBA All-Star selections and two WNBA championships throughout eleven seasons with the Los Angeles Sparks, before retiring in 2009. She was the first player to dunk in a WNBA game. In 2011, she was voted in by fans as one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history. In 2015, she was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.

She married Michael Lockwood (2005), who played basketball for the US Air Force Academy and is a pilot for UPS.

She is a Christian. She is a realtor and co-founder of a sports and entertainment real-estate firm named Aston Rose. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha

[cliodevotus]

MASTERLIST.

❛ jjba part 1 - 5.

PHANTOM BLOOD, part 1

Jonathan Joestar Dio Brando Robert E.O Speedwagon Erina Pendleton

BATTLE TENDENCY, part 2

Joseph Joestar Caesar Zeppeli Robert E.O Speedwagon Lisa Lisa Suzie Q Kars Esidici Wamuu

STARDUST CRUSADERS, part 3

Kujo Jotaro Joseph Joestar Kakyoin Noriaki Muhammad Avdol Jean Pierre Polnareff DIO

DIAMOND IS UNBREAKABLE, part 4

Higashikata Josuke Nijimura Okuyasu Kujo Jotaro Hirose Koichi Koshibe Rohan Hazekura Mikitaka Yagamashi Yukako

VENTO AUREO, part 5

Giorno Giovanna Bruno Bucciarati Leone Abbacchio Guido Mista Narancia Ghirga Pannacotta Fugo Trish Una Jean Pierre Polnareff Risotto Nero Prosciutto Melone Pesci Ghiaccio Illuso

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❛ la sociedad de la nieve CAST.

Enzo Vogrincic Agustín Pardella ⠀⠀⠀SOZINHA NO BANHEIRO COM O IRMÃO GOSTOSO DA MELHOR AMIGA Esteban Kukuriczka Matias Recalt Felipe "Pipe" Otaño Francisco Romero Blas Polidori Simón Hempe

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❛ The Walking Dead

Daryl Dixon

⠀⠀⠀(STEP) DADDY

Negan Smith

⠀⠀⠀(STEP) DADDY

Rick Grimes

⠀⠀⠀(STEP) DADDY

Shane Walsh

⠀⠀⠀(STEP) DADDY

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❛ SLAM DUNK.

(Nothing yet)

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[snailsandpuppy-dogtails]

do you ever think Garcia made her date with Luke "miserable" on purpose? It seemed like Luke wanted to give it a chance, only for Garcia to jump in and straight up say how this won't work. Idk I feel like she's self sabotaging her attempts of having a decent relationship with Luke for some reason

Absolutely. I don't think she made it miserable, but I do think both of them were in a very out of their comfort setting (perhaps not Luke entirely, we do see he takes Lisa to a nice restaurant for their first date, so this could be his go-to thing for first dates where he wants to impress someone) in a very empty restaurant and both felt a lot of pressure around *finally* going out with this person. It was bound to feel weird. I think she took the awkwardness as a negative and rather than giving it a chance she jumped the gun wanting to shut it down so she wouldn't get hurt. She then lashes out with the insulting bs (i hate the phrase "dunking" so pft.) rejecting him before he can reject her (in her mind).

He was not planning on rejecting her, he was not planning on her rejecting the date, he was relieved when she mentioned it was going weird because then saying it took away the weirdness's power, and they could relax and be normal. You see it in his face, he's about to say something, then she does the terrible thing and he looks crushed and not just because she's lying. I thought the drunk comment/ insinuation that she thought Luke was trying to get her drunk was really fucking rude though and completely out of character in an entirely different way. Penelope Garcia would never think Luke Alvez would try to lower anyones inhibitions, because the further insinuation there is straight up date rape and someone in their line of work doesn't make that comment lightly.

I hate every writer for season 16.

[shauntamae]

Welcome back. Upon my last engagement with you all on IG I stated I was grappling with how often to post. I decided to post when I felt led... Well, consider me led.

For the past couple of days, I've really been thinking about the dreams I envisioned for my life over the years and how they've shifted. As a four, maybe five year old kid, my first dream was to be a tap dancer. I was so fascinated with music and how one could create it with their feet. I love music, and at the time, I loved tapping my feet, being on my tippy toes, jumping around, and dancing. Honestly, I still do! Unfortunately, It was quickly shut down. So, I wanted to be a ballerina. That was shut down as well. Everything I wanted to do creatively was shut down. I remember asking a foster parent at the time, "If none of these make money, what does?" After listing several options, I chose to be a lawyer. It made good money, and I could talk and voice my opinion as much as I wanted. Something I was never afforded because "Children are to be seen. Not heard." That dream quickly dissipated. At that same age of about 5, I began my journey in acting. It was a little school or church play, but I loved it because it allowed me to escape the horrors in my real life and become someone completely different. As much as I loved theatre, at the time, I didn't even consider it because, again, it didn't make money. I did, however, fall in love with basketball. I was always the only girl in most of my foster homes, so I did what the boys did. And did it well. I loved basketball so much that I vowed I would become the first woman to be in the NBA and the first woman to dunk... Clearly, I never made it to the NBA and Lisa Leslie beat me to the punch.

As I grew older, my dreams shifted quite a bit. But one thing always remained. That was to be a voice to the voiceless. A safe space for those who've never experienced security. A cheerleader for the ones riding the bench... the underdogs. I'd say this aligned more with my purpose as opposed to a dream... I'll dive into the difference on another day.

Now, My way of doing this has simply gone from owning a childcare center, to solely being an actress, to being an actress AND an advocate, to being an actress AND an author AND an advocate, to being an Actress AND an Author AND an advocate AND a motivational speaker AND AND AND....

I've found that the world expects us to pick something and sat down somewhere. To find a lane and stay in it. The world tells us there's only room for one dream, and that dream has to be so big that it consumes your every thoughts and being. I was born a rebellious human being. I've always upheld opposition to what society, the world, tells me I should do, be, act, and look. I move to the beat of my own drum. It's mine, and I'll strike it however I please. With that being said, I'm a firm believer of "Yes AND" as well as "This AND." I don't believe everyone was created to simply do one thing or have one desire. If we were, the desire to do more would never be ingrained deep into our souls. I remember a while back, I shared that I wanted to be a foster care advocate. This person said, "But you said you wanted to be an actress. You don't know what you want. " Pause for a second. While I believe in "Yes AND" as well as "This AND," I also believe in the ability to shift directions, to have a change of heart or desire, and simply NOT KNOWING. If you're in this place of uncertainty... LEAN INTO THAT. there's so much freedom in unknowing. As my wonderful Peloton Trainer, Tunde Oyeneyin says, "The Beauty of Uncertainty is Infinite Possibility. When You don't know what's next, you don't know what's next... Thus, ANYTHING can be next." The possibilities are endless. There's no limitations or boxes surrounding uncertainty. It's all open and free for you to explore. Don't allow someone else's ticking clock to turn your hands before their time!

Now, back to the words this person spoke to me. For a moment, I allowed what they said to discourage me. I felt guilty for choosing something else other than acting. And then my perspective shifted and I replied "who says I can't do both?" They had no answer.

Ultimately, this is my life. If I choose to do one thing or I choose to do five. That's my choice. If I choose to strike my drum once or ten times, it's mine. No one can tell me how to live, what dreams I pursue, or how I go about them.

The same goes for you all. Dare to believe in the uncertainty. Dare to believe in the "Yes AND" or "This AND" Do what makes you happy, fuels your soul, and makes you proud of who you are! I hope you found some good nuggets in here. Until next time... 💜