#career altering?

[linda-rose]

the fact that all of these vaults both contain INCREDIBLE songs that are hard to believe were even scrapped AND also show how good Taylor is at shaping and editing albums and their arcs to tell a specific story....is just so wild

[desired-misery]

Just want y'all to know I am thinking about Ashley Graham one day giving a moving speech at an event (maybe a BSAA thing, maybe a Tera Save or equivalent) talking about the importance of fighting bioterrorism and talking about her own experiences with it for the first time publically.

She is not a gifted orater by nature. She practiced a lot, she spent a lot of time planning it and getting assistance from speech writers to help her write it (because she cares so much about making sure it has the right impact/she is conveying the meaning she wants to say). So many hours practicing. It is clear she is nervous and she stumbles over it, especially the parts that are emotional (maybe she is speaking about some current event, or perhaps this is some kind of fundraising or awareness press event). The parts about Spain are hard for her to get through because she is doing her best to make sure people understand how dangerous/how important it is to support anti-bioterroism efforts.

But even though it is not as polished as Ashley wanted it to be, it is a damn good speech. Because she is honest and passionate and she clearly means every word she says. When she is done, she gets thunderous applause. That almost sends her into tears again.

This is what starts her anti-bioterrorism career. She tackles more of the political side as a great spokesperson. She continues on to become involved in multiple organizations. Maybe she even ends up in congress on a special committee.

[rotten-fairy-wings]

You better not be pondering your Andre when youre home alone

Cal Gabriel:

[coquelicoq]

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.

[brokenhe4ds]

the way this is objectively one of the funniest pictures matty’s ever posted on his story-

[reigen-small-naturals]

btw diamond didn't post anything about yesterday's concert but he was there trust i have insider sources

[mirandapriestlyswife]

Is it bad or good when a movie starts influencing your life but not necessarily in a negative or positive sense but in a confusing weird third way where you just kinda look into the mirror sometimes and wonder if your favorite character would approve of your outfit

[justamedicalbat]

Speedrunning Trauma center SO again and ughhh I love this game so much

[otrtbs]

i just want to say i've seen a few tiktoks of people going to the louvre and completing the ahb! tour that regulus and james went on and every time i see them i sob. like, tears pour out of my eyes because, quite selfishly i wrote a lot of my favorite works found at the louvre into that chapter. some of them i've seen in person and some of them i haven't. but when i see other people,, looking at the art that i love so much because i wrote about it in a silly little fic,,, it's such a surreal feeling. it fills me with so much joy to know that somewhere someone i don't know is looking at this art!!! they get to see it!!! and maybe they take something away from it!! maybe it changes their life just a little like it changed mine!! but maybe it doesn't,, and that's okay too! i still cry because it makes me so happy to imagine all y'all running around the louvre and finding these artworks and connecting to it in part because of ahb! <33333 :,))

[libracorpvs]

grad school application mood

[proveagain]

Okay but can you please elaborate on Miguel as a teacher? Like what is his teaching style like? Did/does teaching others come naturally to him?

oh, you BET i can! this is definitely gonna be more of a ramble than i'd planned because i'm excited. <33

i think even before the events of the show, miguel seems like the kind of kid that would help his friends with schoolwork if he understood it. he's very good with a handful of subjects, but i don't think he would have opened it up to people he wasn't close with. he's been very vocal through the seasons about getting picked on and bullied at every school he'd been to pre-s1, and showing off his smarts to everyone was a one-way ticket to another target on his back.

but that mindset definitely changes once he gains more confidence in his abilities. one of my favorite things to note about miguel's growth through the seasons is how he turns from a student to practically an assistant sensei as cobra kai picks up off the ground and gains more traction. from the very beginning of the show, he's trying to recruit eli and demetri because he wants his friends to be able to feel the strength that he's found with johnny's help. on his "not-date" with sam, miguel offers to teach her a couple basic moves because he's proud of what he learned. he, eli, and aisha are seen leading warm ups multiple times.

i bring it up all the time, but my favorite clip when talking abt miguel as a teacher is in the sparring fight on tory's first day at ck. he starts giving her tips and pointers about her stance or the way she's telegraphing her next moves AS he's fighting her. he takes a step back and speaks without a second of hesitation, like he's focusing more on helping her out than trying to beat her. from that line delivery alone, you can tell this probably happens with almost every other ck student he spars with.

he's also the one seen talking to and welcoming the new students that show up after ck's win at the avt, as well as adult visitors that show up (kreese before he gets introduced). that same energy translates into eagle fang even while he's going through his recovery arc. even though he's still building up strength, johnny has him sit out from the physicality of training whilst still utilizing miguel's teaching skills to get the rest of the dojo up to speed for the second all-valley. there aren't a lot of scenes with him helping eagle fang students the way he did with cobra kai, but i like to think that a lot of that happens off screen!! (they can pry the devon's first mentor hc's out of my cold dead hands)

[alter-bridge-fanatic]

Is hand porn a thing? Cause if it is... 🤤

[champagnemoon]

I just know Meagan good is going to wake up 5 years from now and wish she had a Time Machine

[nyxronomicon]

i wanna hear about y'all's most obscure self ships... like tell me about your faves from media that doesn't have a large self ship community or it's old/obscure etc. Gimme those self ship deep cuts

[awesometothe3rd]

“When were you going to tell me that the pond can send me ahead in time?”

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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