#Travis Wall

[chalkrevelations]

I'm rummaging back through footage of old SYTYCD performances, as I am wont to do when I can't focus too hard on anything, and every single time it amazes me how much the entire trajectory of this show from S3 onward becomes Nigel Lithgow working as hard as he can to make up for the travesty of Travis Wall's S2 loss to Benji Schwimmer, That Smirking Asshole.

I mean, 1) yes, they only start pushing Travis to the forefront as a choreographer in S5, but they're laying the groundwork for it from S3, if you pay attention. And 2) sure, I'm glad Nigel realizes what bullshit that S2 final outcome was, but it's almost funny how much the show becomes a vehicle for Travis's career in response. Because fuck America and their horrible taste, that's why! (lol)

But maybe most importantly, 3) from S3, they clutch so tightly to their chosen narrative on everyone - from Las Vegas onward - that it SQUEAKS in DISTRESS several times when strong performers can't be contained and end up breaking free of their assigned edit. This is, in fact, why Brandon is the top contestant of all time, (followed by Joshua, who they tried to frame as some kind of dancing bear instead of the cross-trained performer he actually was) because even though Brandon didn't win his season, he (with the help of Janette, who deserves AWARDS for how she backed up her partner in the only way that mattered - on the DANCE FLOOR) shoved their chosen edit for him back at them and down their throats, where I continue to hope they choked on it.

Anyway, don't get me wrong, I completely agree with the decision to bully the entire course of a 17-year-series toward bolstering Travis Wall, because I love his work. Bravo, Nigel - it's the best decision you ever made on this show, besides shading Mia for opening her homophobic mouth about Brandon. But it's still kind of fk'n funny.

[demisexualemmaswan]

this is a very niche thing but I think a lot of my problems could be solved if travis wall choreographed a very dramatic SYTYCD contemporary routine to the bridge of the smallest man who ever lived

[jackie-mae]

Mystreet Incorrect quotes pt.2 Electric boogaloo

[dancingdaffodils08]

SHUT UP SLEEPING WITH JAVI’S WOLF?! MY BABY😭

[nataliesscatorccio]

Lottie telling Travis to take Javi to the bedroom so he'd be spared the violence of watching Shauna pulverize her body. Lottie's injuries driving the group to hunt. Javi facing violence anyway, abandoned beneath the ice. Shauna covering her eyes so she'd be spared the violence of watching her own hands carve his body. Lottie eating Javi to regain her strength from the same beating that was too violent for a child to watch.

[nataliescatorccioapologist]

[cherrytraveller]

i think @pinetreevillain's Abaddon is neat so i am now holding him like the barbie to play with my oc Ed bc red-eyed ppl gotta stick together yknow?

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[hamletshoeratio]

"I want x spinoff, I want a book about y"

I want to meet the woman who had not one but TWO kids with Hermes. Two kids so close in age and are so alike people just assume that they're twins, two kids who are chaos personified, who singlehandedly run the camp shop, who are in charge of the biggest cabin at camp and look after their equally chaotic gremlin siblings plus every unclaimed kid at camp like Lou Ellen a daughter of Hecate and another being of chaos who learnt it all from them, and who take every opportunity to fuck shit up, to prank their camp mates or to steal shit. Their last name, which they get from their mama? Stoll by the way. Neither child notices the pun.

I want to meet Mama Stoll, who saw the chaos, who saw the bullshit Hermes brought into her life the first go around and said tonight's the night let's do it again. She is either the world's greatest cat burglar who enticed the god of Thieves or the messenger god was enchanted by the best god dam delivery woman on the planet. There's no in-between. It was just a bonus that her surname was the perfect pun. Her and Hermes laugh about it. In my head, it's all canon. Regardless, she unleashed two agents of unlimited chaos onto an unsuspecting world, and I love her for it. I take my hat off to her, I kneel before her.

Oh, and the oldest kid, Travis? He's dating a girl called Katie, who is the daughter of Demeter. Her last name? Gardner. Fucking Gardner. She has a sister called Miranda Gardiner, by the way. Mama Stoll finds it hilarious. Her sons still don't get the pun, but at least she gets on with her future daughter in law like a house on fire.

[the-better-stoll-brother]

Im not saying men are hot… but if Timothèe Chalamet walked into the camp and asked me to make out with him I would pretend I didn’t have a wife

[vrtlworld]

FRIDAY VISUALS

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[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds series)

Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.

On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.

But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.

Science fiction, multiverse, politics, mystery, series, adult

The Adventure Zone Graphic Novels series (Vol 1: Here There Be Gerblins, Vol 2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!, Vol 3: Petals to the Metal, Vol 4: The Crystal Kingdom, Vol 5: The Eleventh Hour, Vol 6: The Suffering Game) by Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy (Illustrated by Carey Pietsch)

Endorsement from submitter: "One of main characters is in gay relationship with Death"

Welcome to the Adventure Zone!

SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure!

READ! Their journey from small-time bodyguards to world-class artifact hunters!

MARVEL! At the sheer metafictional chutzpah of a graphic novel based on a story created in a podcast where three dudes and their dad play a tabletop role playing game in real time!

Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided ("guided") by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance.

With endearingly off-kilter storytelling from master goofballs Clint McElroy and the McElroy brothers, and vivid, adorable art by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins is the comics equivalent of role-playing in your friend's basement at 2am, eating Cheetos and laughing your ass off as she rolls critical failure after critical failure.

Graphic novel, fantasy, humor, adventure, series, adult

[crabridgedart]

C3E07 Abridged - Art by @spookystirfry and @agarthanguide

[shinebrightlikeanarwhal]

Sally Face but it’s Sal bullying Travis back

Travis: why do you have your hair in pigtails? What are you a girl?

Sal: no but I can make you my girl if you keep bothering me.

Travis: you must be so ugly under that mask, thanks for saving our eyes

Sal: nothings going to save your ass if you keep touching me.

Travis: Aw does little Sally Face have a girlfriend?

Sal: why? You want to be my girl? I don’t mind you’d probably look pretty in a dress…

Cue Travis curled up in a ball and sobbing because he just can not win.

[novabeansvip]

What if.

[dancingdaffodils08]

What if I ate this and ran away.

[sparring-spirals]

Chetney never stops winning huh. Good at history checks because he's fucking old (his words not mine). Sniffing around wildly and actually getting back relevant info. He's got all the maps. He rolled a 17 on a survival check. At any minute he's ready to like. lick a tree. and i bet it would pay off.