#ij part 2

[swampyswan]

Inside Job really out here feeding us by sexualizing every man at every opportunity

Meanwhile the women:

[swanpyart]

Tryna be a better man but I'm heartless Never be a wedding plan for the heartless Low life for life 'cause I'm heartless

There is a criminally low amount of Ron artwork on Tumblr, so I'm here to do the world a favor~

[lemongogo]

[reagancore]

my inside job oc Caspian Bettencourt III

hey chat do your manic episodes usually end with cosmic horror that halves your life expectancy? no? huh

^ the inspiration ¿;

[spindle-girl]

There's actually a mix between Taylor referring to her as Tattletale out of mask with Lisa not being able to talk about her problems to Taylor.

Lisa consistently prevents Taylor from being let in on her emotions and past and Taylor strangely accepts it. There's the talk about trigger events in Arc 4, the interrogation with Cherish, when they kidnapped Piggot, and obviously the Echidna fight. Maybe a few more, but those are the ones I rememeber.

Contrasts this with Taylor and Lisa's insistence on hearing Alec's past, Taylor going to Lisa about how Rachel functions, and Lisa encouraging her to get to know Brian more.

This all funnels back to what Taylor would prefer. She likes that Danny never asks about the bullies because she doesn't want to talk about it, to bring it home and ruin one of the few places she feels safe in. Taylor is actually giving Lisa the space and time to feel comfortable with talking about her issues with her that she enjoyed. And eventually Lisa does talk and it pushes them further together. Taylor even chooses to ignore Dinah's note for a short time, until Dinah pushes the issue by helping to out her next arc.

Lisa managed to put on such a successful mask and Taylor chooses to believe it even when she's not wearing it partially because Taylor never pushes on de-masking Lisa herself. She waits for Lisa to do it on her own terms and it's part of why I love their relationship. That acceptance without knowing.

This goes further during the end where after they recruit the Simurgh Taylor realizes that she's doing it again when there's no need, so she and Lisa have that moment where she tells Lisa to just stop for a while. Their relationship always grows in Worm and it's why I hate that they never had the time to just stay together for a longer time to let it keep growing.

Do any analysis or opinions on the tragedy that is lisa and taylor or just *cough*(taylor in general) *cough*

i'm fascinated by taylor & lisa i really am. need to conduct some intense lisa studies so i can fully Get Her. i think it's like. really really interesting that during her interlude she thinks that taylor would be better at using her power than her, imagines brian telling her "something we can use" to keep herself focused, and then calls herself stupid. like i'm fascinated by the dynamic where both of their powers are more or less the fantasy of trauma-induced hypervigilance actually Sort Of Working--lisa constantly monitoring, manipulating, and hyperanalyzing her loved ones, taylor always knowing when & how someone is planning to hurt her + actually being capable of stopping it. & of course the catch is that taylor can stop people from hurting her now but she can't stop the ways she's already been hurt from making her drive herself to ruin over never feeling good enough. & lisa can save taylor from the outside world but she can still never save her from herself--this time she's painfully aware of it as it happens, and she's desperately trying to stop it, but she can't keep taylor from killing herself in slow motion. i'm fully just rambling here because i don't have a coherent thesis yet and you gave me an excuse 2 try forming thoughts but like. waves hands. fascinated by the ways in which they're similar, fascinated by lisa desperately placing herself above taylor & trying to manipulate her into better mental health, fascinated by taylor being the one (1) person lisa ever trusts enough to lean on, fascinated by how often taylor calls lisa 'tattletale' even out of mask because even she never gets to fully see past the tattletale persona. i need to attend a seminar or discussion about lisa and taylor it could fix me. like they are not making it out of the homoerotic codependent highschool friendship alive. fascinated by lisa calling taylor 'kiddo' and 'hon' like they aren't literally the same age. fascinated by lisa just outright admitting to taylor that despite taylor being her closest friend she can't talk to her abt her problems because taylor is only her friend Bc of those problems. and then they never even have time to unpack All That. it rlly is like. they would never be friends in any other universe but in this one they're everything to each other!

[theboombutton]

Bad Fictional Data vs Fictional Bad Data

WARNING: This post will include discussion of a name that might be Alice Dyer's deadname. I won't be calling Alice by this name or using it in the context of that name being a pointer to Alice, but I will be using the name, uncensored, when talking about where and why the name appeared in chdb.xls .

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You may know that as part of the ARG, the sleuths on Statement Remains uncovered a document called chdb.xls, allegedly a list that has something to do with The Magnus Institute. There's a list of names, ID numbers, first and last names, dates of birth, and information apparently related to each person's "score" in an assortment of psychological/personality tests. Three of the names in particular have stood out in a lot of analyses: Samama Khalid, Gerard Kaey [sic], and Connor Dyer.

You likely don't know that the commonly linked version of the spreadsheet, ported to Google Docs and linked in the TMAGP ARG Masterdoc, is presented out of order. (I'm guessing they didn't lock down editing until it was already all out of order from various people messing with it - totally understandable, this is not a callout post, thank you for making this easily accessible to people.)

But let me tell you about something I discovered by looking at the spreadsheet in its original order, and the almost certainly incorrect rabbit hole of theorizing it has sent me down.

Bad Fictional Data

Until episode 2 I had the same thought about the Dyer listed in the spreadsheet that I think most people did: that it was Alice's deadname, and that she had therefore been one of the Institute's young subjects. But after Alice had absolutely no reaction when Sam mentioned the Magnus Institute to her in episode 2, I now think this is significantly less likely.

Don't get me wrong: it's still reasonable to think that the Dyer listed in chdb.xls is Alice. Maybe she had some kind of supernatural experience that wiped her memory. (It probably wasn't that Alice was too young to remember, as the Dyer on the spreadsheet is listed as being at Piaget Stage 3, which occurs from 7-11 years old; but it's always possible that the Magnus Institute was using the names of legitimate psychological tests to hide their tracks when recording more esoteric data.) The point is, this isn't hard evidence that Alice has no connection to the Magnus Institute; it just made me go looking for more evidence.

I went back to the spreadsheet to look for more clues about whether or not this was Alice's deadname. What I found instead was some extremely sloppy fake data at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

For context, here are first ten names in the spreadsheet:

Note how each ID begins with the name's first and last initial.

Now check out the last ten names:

Not only do these IDs no longer always match their subjects' names, they occur in order: CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV. The first names of each pair match the first letter of each ID, but many, though not all, of the surnames don't match the second letter.

My first thought was that whoever Rusty Quill had contracted to generate these names had gotten sloppy at the end of the list, created the IDs all at once using this alphabetical pattern, and picked names to fill in that roughly matched the IDs. But hey, we could use this to our advantage! Any name that was filled in as part of a series of IDs with an alphabetical pattern like this could be removed from consideration for red string analysis - we'd know they were meaningless fakes added by a lazy contractor, and not clues or characters that might show up again later.

Scrolling back up the spreadsheet, we can see the person generating the data having more care the earlier we go. We find the beginning of the AA/BC/DE/FG/HI pattern at line 136, but at first, the names mostly conform to the initials they've been given. JK09874 "Josie Jordan" at line 154 is the first break from the "first two letters of the ID are their initials" pattern; and breaks occur more often the further you go down the sheet.

Scrolling up to before line 136 (AA09911 - Aaron Atkinson), while the pattern isn't yet at AB/CD/EF/GH levels of obviousness, the first initials are still in alphabetical order. Zoe Hart follows Yara Logan follows Xavier Freeman follows Wyatt Edwards. The data creator skips a few letters - for example Niamh Fenton is followed by Phoebe Emmett, and S and T are together in the same line in Skye Travers.

We can follow this less-obvious version of the alphabetical pattern up to an abrupt break right at line 118, above which the IDs don't follow an alphabetical pattern at all. (They might follow a different pattern, but it's not one that I've found yet.) So that means we can discount all the names in line 118 and below as purely fake, generated lazily by a contractor, and not worthy of our attention for the purposes of red-stringing. Right?

What the fuck?!

(highlight is my own, it is not present in the original document)

My first thought was that the sloppy data generator had done the funniest thing imaginable, sending everyone on a wild goose chase about Alice's deadname just by having the name "Dyer" on the brain while looking for a surname that started with D. This would be Very Funny. No plot relevance, no implications, just the brain fart that launched a thousand theories.

My second thought was that maybe Connor Dyer was the last legit name on the list, and whoever started filling the rest of the sheet in with alphabetical junk data was inspired by the "CD" initials in the first place - whoever it was went on from there.

These are both valid thoughts! But I prefer my third thought:

What if it's on purpose?

Fictional Bad Data

There is a very obvious break between the set of data that doesn't look obviously* fake, and the set of data that is immediately identifiable as such. If we assume that this was intentional - and I want to reiterate that it all being unintentional is still a very real possibility here - why would someone at Rusty Quill want the data to be structured like this?

If the sharp dividing line between reasonable-seeming data and obviously fake data is intentional on RQ's part, it would suggest that we should take the data above row 118 as in-universe real data, and the data below row 118 as in-universe falsified data. It suggests that someone, either at the Institute or after its demise, was adding nonexistent children to the roster of The Magnus Institute. Why would someone want to do that?

There are all kinds of possible reasons, but here are a few off the top of my and my theorizing buddies' heads:

Financial fraud (institutional edition). If the Magnus Institute received funding on a per-child basis, they'd have an incentive to inflate their numbers.

Financial fraud (researcher edition). One or more people on staff were blowing off their child-analysis sessions and recording fake numbers for fake children. This would be ballsy as hell if they could be fired for it, but it was the Magnus Institute, so there's decent odds they couldn't be.

Scientific fraud (faking conclusions edition). The Magnus Institute in the Protocolverse claimed to be doing research on giftedness in children, which is the kind of thing that you'd normally publish in a scientific journal. It's not unheard-of for dickhead academics to falsify data to generate statistically significant results, since statistically insignificant results aren't going to get you published.

Scientific fraud (obscuring paranormal bullshit edition). If the Magnus Institute was using legitimate psychological test names to record Fear-related test results, it's possible their results showed different patterns from what you would expect from the real tests. They could have added the fake children to balance out the dataset as a whole.

Pseudonyms. The children are all real, the Institute just started using fake names for them for privacy purposes. They couldn't go back and change the names they'd already written properly for some reason. Probably something paranormal.

Those are all pretty interesting possibilities, and if we could narrow them down, it might tell us something about what things were like at the Magnus Institute before it burned down!

And the other big question is: why did RQ make the dividing line between the two sections, the first likely-fake entry, Connor Dyer?

One straightforward reason could be as a troll, a red herring to watch fans get in a lather over. And once the community inevitably noticed all the obviously falsified entries, RQ could eat popcorn and watch us lose our minds over whether or not that's even a real entry! (That sounds really fun, I would absolutely do that.)

But let's dig a little deeper, and look at what Connor Dyer being on the border between the real and fake entries would mean in-universe. Because of its position as the border between real and fake, it would be very easy for that entry to be accidentally included in the wrong group - a real research subject discarded as fake, or perhaps more interestingly, a fake research subject accidentally reclassified as real.

Remember, if a name is fake in the context of the Magnus Institute's research, that doesn't mean that the name itself is made up. If I was trying to think of a name that fit the initials CD, and those were the initials of my next door neighbor's kid, I might just write their name in as a lark. Especially if it was my first time trying to get away with falsifying information: this is a kid that verifiably exists and lives in the area.

My theory, supported primarily by my love for The Implications instead of actual evidence

Twenty years on, after all institutional memory of the fraud was long gone, trans icon Alice Dyer applies to work for the OIAR - an institution that (according to this theory) has an unofficial preference for hiring former Magnus Institute kids.

They are very confused when Alice proceeds to act nothing like a former Magnus Institute kid. It doesn't occur to anyone that her entry might have been falsified. What reason would anyone have to do that?

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* Of course people with a background in data analysis or statistics will see immediately that even above line 118 this is a wild-ass dataset that would raise red flags for falsification, but at least it's not "the alphabet over and over" levels of obvious.

[whateverisbeautiful]

♥️ Ranking Richonne

#19: This Is Good (S6E15)

I mean...do I even need to explain? 😏 I always love this scene for its relaxed, happy, and intimate vibes and for really solidifying that all the romantic sexual tension Rick and Michonne had pre-canon would play out just as perfectly once they could finally act on it and be in love out loud. They do intimacy so well and naturally. The best word to describe this scene is straight-up sensual. And as they let themselves be fully immersed in their Richonne bubble in this scene, I truly believed what they believed - the world is theirs...

I didn’t realize how much opening minutes really used to be blessing us in this series. Cuz in 6.15 we get to see Rick and Michonne cuddled up again for the first time since their canon ep.

And I love that after seeing some couple-y moments with Glenn and Maggie and Abe and Sasha in this episode opener, we get this scene that reminds you there are some powerhouse newlyweds a part of this TWD couple list now. Won’t He do it! 😊 

The scene opens with Judith on the baby monitor, which lets you know this is the bedroom of her parents. Plus the baby monitor made an appearance in Rick and Michonne's 6.10 canon moment as well so it sorta connects the two scenes in a way. And their family truly feels so whole now that Rick and Michonne have embraced that they’re meant to be.

I adore the way they're wrapped up in each other, and Michonne’s smile, and the way Rick's kissing her shoulder and like being as close to her as possible. 😍 They just both seem so genuinely content. And even half asleep they can’t keep their hands off each other lol. When I tell you these two are magnets - all you have to do is watch their body language in this scene to know it’s true. 🧲

And then Michonne takes that apple and bites it, and I love the subtle expression Rick makes when she does that. And then this show said, if y'alls' glasses somehow ain't fogged up yet then let’s just keep serving steaminess and have Michonne feed Rick the apple lol. They're wild for putting this moment in, and I'm here for it. 😋

Just their breaths and laughs in this, I love that in this quiet moment, their love is so loud and clear. And the apple suggests two things - 1) Adam and Eve fall-of-man foreshadowing and 2) that they are the hottest couple in all of television. 🔥👌🏽

It’s additional perfection when she runs her hands through his hair, and he immediately goes back to wrapping her in his arms. Um every second of this scene is a blessing. 😍 And of course Rick kisses her again, and the way she rubs his hand that’s holding the apple...Cup runneth over, y’all. It’s so great how natural and comfortable they are to be like this so soon after making their feelings for each other known.

It really does go to show that now they get to do what they've always wanted to do.

Like this feels like a whole passionate morning routine already and the married vibes are immaculate. It confirms how the physical aspect of this relationship was truly the final piece of their already perfect union. They’re happy and fed, and so are we. 😌

And in Rick’s first dialogue of the scene he says the only fitting thing to say on a blissful morning like this. “This is good.” And Michonne agrees it is and notes how Jesus came through. And did. Won’t he do it. 🙌🏾

Rick is really confident saying, "They all did, and they’re going to keep coming through." Homeboy is feeling really hopeful and confident during this period of the show and part of it is def cuz he’s now officially in a relationship with the baddest chick in the game. IJS. 😌

Michonne mentions how Maggie wants her and Glenn to set up watchpoints and Rick is in that lovely 'take a break' mood so he tells her to 'stick around.'

I love that it’s such a common theme for Rick to always want to extend his time with her. I repeat - the world can always wait when Rick is with Michonne. 

It’s cute that part of his pitch for her to stick around is that 'Judith isn’t even up yet.' Mom and Dad, y’all. And then Rick really makes his pitch enticing when he starts kissing all over her and making her laugh. 😊

The way they can make each other smile and laugh like no other is the absolute best. (and Rick is more hungry for her than the apple ijs) I love that they’re so unabashed in expressing their love and desire for each other. And you know I’m always happy to see Rick and Michonne's playful side.

Like how great is it that we get to watch a couple that's so grown and mature while still having something youthfully energetic in their want for each other too. 🙌🏾

Michonne is disciplined like no other tho so she laughs and says, "wait no." Rick stops and looks at her asking, "yeah, why not?" in that fine voice and idk how Michonne remembered what she was saying with Rick over her like that lol. But, like I said, Sis is more disciplined than most so while her body language is certainly saying she'd love to stay in bed with him, she also wants to keep her commitment to Maggie and Glenn.

I love how she again runs her hands through Rick's hair while saying  Maggie has them on a schedule and she doesn’t want to piss off a pregnant lady. And then Rick’s subtle pout. Every cute choice was made in this scene, I’m telling you. 🥰

Also I was like Michonne, sis, this is your chance to enjoy yourself and maybe even be a pregnant lady too, Maggie will understand lol. Like tell me Maggie wouldn't be like...

But Rick understands and doesn’t want to piss Maggie off either lol so he playfully tells her to go. It’s cute the way he says, "not that pregnant lady," and Michonne says, "right." Always in agreement.😊

And as we know, mornings like this blissful s6 one with Rick will have Michonne also one day being a pregnant lady who's nothing to mess with in the future. 👌🏽

(Side note: I’ve noticed every time Rick and Michonne have a scene chatting in bed together, the one person who comes up each time is Maggie. This scene in 6.15, the bedroom scene in the Sanctuary in 9.01, and their gorgeous bedroom scene in their home in 9.03. Rick and Michonne express care for Maggie's well-being every time, which is part of why it's so unfortunate that Maggie’s relationship with Rick and Michonne ended with a falling out. And the fact that all we know is something vague occurred and somehow Maggie and Michonne grew distant after Rick was gone. It's sad cuz they were shown to mean a lot to each other but then ended on a sour note.)

Rick says go and Michonne laughs as she starts to get up, and Rick again looks so rested and satisfied eating his apple and laying in bed. Michonne be giving that man life, y’all. 😊

Michonne notes that Maggie is worried about an attack and again Rick is confident saying when they come for us, not even "if," but "when," they’ll be ready. He’s extra confident saying this won’t be like before, and "the world's ours, and we know how to take it."

It’s sweet that Rick again takes his time to really reassure Michonne. It’s like he can sense that Michonne too might be having some concern about the looming fight, and so he’s so gentle but certain when he tells her everything they need is inside these walls and they aren’t losing any of it again.

I love that Rick feels they have everything they need, and I know he and Michonne having each other is very much included in that for him. And you can’t fully see it, but you can tell he comfortingly places his hand on her, really wanting her to know, “we’re not losing any of it again.” 

And then I love how Rick says, "I’m not." Basically saying, trust me whatever is trying to take from us is going to have to go through me, and it won’t end well for them. And Michonne knows it too so I love the way she believes him and boosts him up saying, “No you’re not.”

She knows Rick is a fighter and a force to be reckoned with. It’s part of why she fell in love with him, and you can see that in this moment.

Also hearing Rick just eating the apple again lol, homeboy ain’t worried about no outside threats in this moment. He’s too busy on cloud nine. Having good fresh food, a strong community, a healthy family, and a goddess of a wife has Rick like...

And because she’s a fighter too, Michonne takes his hand and also says, "I’m not," cuz they’re cut from the same cloth, really and truly. And you just believe the two of them so much when they say this.

Even knowing Negan is coming, you just feel like ultimately he’ll be no match for Rick and Michonne because those two together are unstoppable. 💯

I love that they got this peaceful morning moment to just fully enjoy each other's presence and affirm to each other that what they have is good and not going anywhere. These at-home scenes always paint such a great picture of why Rick and Michonne make for the absolute best husband and wife.

And again, the sensuality of this whole scene is A1. In every inch of every frame. And I remember loving this scene back then but watching it back now it’s even more sensual and sweet than I remember. Like it’s so good from beginning to end and solidified that Rick and Michonne really do work perfectly as a couple. I love the way they talk to each other and so visibly want each other. I’ll say it 1000 times. 

Two more cute moments I just want to note in this 6.15 ep are Rick ratting out Michonne and low-key himself too, when he reveals to Morgan that Michonne did steal that protein bar back in King County. Like he thinks he's telling on Michonne but also Rick,...

Cuz Rick stayed letting the world know he remembers pretty much every detail about Michonne. 😋 I love that Rick remembers so much from his first run with Michonne in Clear and then Morgan’s smile like 'oh I know your girl took it.' Also, I just love any time Andy and Lennie get to act together. Legendary talents. 👏🏽

And then I really love the Rick and Abe scene towards the end of the ep too. It’s one of the most heartfelt exchanges between two men on the show imo, and I like how Abe was the tf member who always most wanted the Richonne tea. He’s one of us lol. 

It’s always heartwarming seeing Rick ask Abe specifically if Michonne is back yet. Like I’ve said before, some of Rick's Day Ones are out there, but of course, his wife is his utmost concern. And Abe is so compassionate when having to reveal that Michonne is still out there. It’s heartrending that Rick can’t even hide the concern he feels and wants Michonne back home. 

I appreciate that Abe seems to notice this and wants to talk about love when asking Rick if he’s scared to go back to it and let someone in close. We know from the "rules keep changing" scene that letting someone in is big for Rick. So he pauses for a moment and answers "yeah" twice.

Abe brings some levity saying how he’s basically ready to blaze a path of his own (with Sasha 😊💜) even despite this world's penchant for taking things away. And Rick’s amused face at Abe is cute.

Then the way Rick stays standing at the gate, almost wanting to will Michonne home. So sweet. 😭

And extra sweet is Abe kindly saying, "any second now" to reassure Rick while he’s in this state of feeling off because Michonne's not okay somewhere, so even from afar, Rick's not entirely okay right now either. 

Rick had been feeling so unshakeable all ep, but Michonne being out there while the looming threat of the Saviors is high shows that there are still things he worries about, and of course, Michonne and her safety are high on that list.

I love that despite the scary aspects of letting someone in, in that world especially, Rick and Michonne still dared to do so fully with one another. And because of it, they get to enjoy blissful mornings filled with love like this one here. It was giving newlyweds and married-for-years all at the same time, and I'm eternally here for it. 😌

[honkshoomimimimimi]

just finished watching moana 2 at odeon.

and.

HOLYSHSIRJIDHAISVSUUAJZJZIZJZIJZJSBS SISMS GSOSJSNG FERLAKS SJNSOANKANZNZK

‼️WARNING‼️ – MOANA 2 SPOILERS AHEAD

(me lit js yapping abt the movie since i have nobody to talk to about it)

OH MY FIKCICNXG GOOODODJSIAUAHZIZJZ

OKAY FIRST OFF MAUI'S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND HIS CHARACTER IN GEN??!?!?!?!?!?!?! JSJSKKSJSKS

CUZ LIKE HE GOES FROM ALL "OH I DONT NEED MOANAS HELP" BLAH BLAH BLAH TO ACCEOTING HER HELP AND RISKING HIS LIFE?????FOR WHAT SHES DOING??????? DOJT GET ME STARTED ON HIM MOTIVATING HER W THIS FIRE ASS SINGING PART WHERE HES TALKING ABT HOW HES BEEN LOW BEGORE AND THEN SHE NEEDS TO START ACTING OUT WHAT SHE PREACHES

ITS SO AJSJISJAIZJZKSK OMG AND THEN WHEN AFTER WAKINH U0 AFTER BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNIJG BY THE BITCH HE IMMEDIATELY REALISES MOANA ISNT THERE AND DIVES RIGHT INTO THE WATER?!?!?!?!TO GET HER????!?!?!?!?!?! AND TYEN WHEN SHE WONR WAKE UP AND HES ABOUTT OT CRY OH FKDU FIKC8CNG GOD

WHEN CHARACTERS WHO SEEM SO CONFIDENT AND INDEPENDENT AND EVERYTHING SHOW THEIR EMOTIONAL SIDE BC ITS GENUINELY SO HUMANISING BC THEYRE NOT INVINCIBLE BC THEYRE STILL A PWRSON???!?!?!??! GNAWING AT THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE.

AND NO MATTER WHAT HES LIT PRIORITISING HER OVER HIMSELF??? WHEN HES LIFYING THE ISLAND UP AND HE KNOWS THAT THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES TOWARDS HIM AND THAT THERES A CHANCE HE WONR MAKE IT OUT, HE SEES HER IJ THE SEA AND KNOWS THAT THE ISLAND WAS HER EJTIRE REASON OF CONTINU8JH ON SO HE DOESNT GIVE UP FOR HER AND PUSHES DESPITE KNOWING HES GONNA BE HIT W LIGHTNING.

bro and then iN THE BEGINNINH OF THE MOVIE WHERE HE WAS SHOUT8NG TO THE BAT LADY (whom i have just remembered as Matangi) "LEAVE MOANA OIT OF THIS" AND IK HE WAS PROBS SAYING THAT BC HE DIDNT WAJT HER HELP BUT STILL.BEVAUSE. SHIAJAISJSKNXKXNSKSK

ahem. I am normal about him.

BROOOO AND THE PPL MOANA PICKED OIT AS HER "CREW" ASW?!?!?!?! THE DEVELOPMENT. OMG. KELE (grumpy man) WAS LIT SO ME???? AND THEN THE JOURNEY W MOANA TAUGHT HIM THAT SOMETIMES LIFE CAN BE GOOD AND THAT BEING W PEOPLE CAN BE ENJOYABLE. MONI (zesty) WENT FRIM BEING SUCH A FANBOY TO SOMEONE WHO LEARNED THAT BEING IN THE STORY ISNT ALL SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS, AND HE WEJT FROM BEING AN OBSESSIVE FANBOU OF MAUI TO BEING BESTIES W HIM?!?!?! then loto. loto is chill asf!!! I don't rlly see the character development w her bUT SHES SO CHILL BRO🙏🙏

thEN MOANAS SISTER SIMEA IS LOWK CUTE!!!!

bro omg. the kakamora actually were so LSKSKAJSOJAIABZIJSJSJ. WHEN MOANA N HER CREW DISCOVERED THAT THEY EERE SEPERATED FORM THEIR ISLAND AND BOTH AGREED TO HELP EACHOTHER AND THEN WHEN THAT ONE KAKAMORA WHICH ENDED UP FALLING W THEM INTO THE CLAM AFTER DOING THEIER BATTLE THING TO THE LRADER.

THEY DONR EVEN SPEAK AND IM IN LOVE W TYEM.

ESPEXIALLY WHEN THEY BRING THAT KAKAMORA BACK TO THE ISLAND WHERE THE REST ARE AND IT IMMEDITAELY RUNS UP AND HUGS THE LEADER AWWWHHWHWHHHHSHAJSJKAK

IT WAS SO XUTE BRO😭😭😭😭

OMFG THE SINGING IJ THE MOVIE AS WELL?????? I NEVER RLLY LIKE SINGING IN MOVIES BUT. HOKY SHITAMOLT. WAS ACTUALLY STRUGGOUNG TO NOT START VIBRAT8NG UN MY CHAIR BC THE SONGS WERE SO??!?? HXJXJSOJAOSNSOJSISJSK

THE WAY IF I WAS WATXHING THE MOVIE QLONE IN MY ROOM I WOULDVE PROBABLY CRIED WHEN THE SCENE W MAUI HOLDING MOANAS LIMP BODH W HIM AND ALL OF THE SPIRITS SINGING CAME ON. NOR EVEN JK.

I LOVED EVERY BIT OF IT.

WHEN MATANGI'S SINGING CAME ON I WAS THINOINH "OH IT CANT GET BETTER THAN THIS" WRONG. CAN I GET A CHEEHOO CAME ON AND PAIRED W THE CINEMATOGRAPHY I WAS FLABBERGASTED.

CHAT IM NOT EVEN OVER EXAGGERATING I PULLED UP THINKING THE MOVIE WAS GONNA BE MID BUR ITS LOTEEALLY THE OPPPSUTE IM YONNA CRYRYYWHIAHAIAJAJNSNSSJS

I genuinely love this movie sm its unreasonable.

I walked into that room asking myself, "will I wish to watch this movie for the first time ever afterwards?"

yes. yes i would. ik it sounds like I'm glazing the movie hard asf but akzjzhzzjzghzgzhzgz

[youcouldmakealife]

How much of COTT is there left now that it’s changed direction?

Of this arc? 1 part.

How many more arcs?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I do know the overarching shape of Arc 3, along with some of the major plot points, but that's about it. (we're in Arc 2 btw. We can count my absolute failure at hatesex as arc 1. Arc 2 is 'how can two people be this smitten with each other'. Arc 3 en route!)

Beyond that? I know the third arc won't be the last one, but I can't tell you (or me) how many arcs are following that or precisely what will be involved.

Which is pretty typical, actually! At least for me. It's very, very rare I get any further than a single arc ahead of myself (IJ(aoe) has probably been the only exception, with me knowing certain moves years in advance, unless you count me technically referring to events as BAIT 2 when they're going to be taking place during what is absolutely going to be BAIT...3) because if I know, I do not wonder, and if I do not wonder, then what's the point? (this is basically my life's credo, for better and for worse)

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode nationale, no. 26, 2 juillet 1898, Paris. Notre patron découpé (Grandeur naturelle). Jupon de dessous. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Explications du Patron découpé:

Ce modèle très élégant se fait en soie, avec volant coupé en forme et plissé; il peut se faire également en alpage, moire de laine ou satin de laine avec volant uni ou garni de dentelle.

Il se compose de 4 morceaux:

No. 1. — Lé du devant; se taille double sans couture, c'est-à dire le milieu du devant au lacé sur le plis de l'étone.

No. 2. — Lé de côté; se raccorde au lé du devant à AB.

No. 3. — Lé du dos entièrement droit fil; se raccorde au lé de côté par CD.

Un pointillé sur chaque lé marque l'endroit où doit être cousu le volant.

No. 4. — Volant; se raccorde au lé du devant à E, au lé du dos à F.

Ce morceau est donné en patron d'une seule pièce; mais comme il est impossible de pouvoir le couper d'un seul morceau dans les étoffes de petite largeur, nous donnons sur le croquis la façon de le prendre dans une étoffe de 0m,56 de large.

1re partie; se taille double droit fil, le milieu du devant sur le pli de l'étoffe.

2e partie GHIJ; se prend entre les deux lisières.

3e partie IJ; se prend sur la lisière.

Ce volant pour être en plissé devra être posé sur l'étoffe préparée d'avance, les plis plus larges dans le bas que dans le haut.

7 m��tres de soie en 0m,56 avec volant plat; 11 mètres avec volant plissé.

Le patron n'étant donné que jusqu'à la monture du volant, ajouter pour continuer le bas du jupon: 1er lé milieu du devant FK 0m,29; couture du côté LB, 0m,31. Largeur du bas, 0m,27.

2e lé: couture LB, 0m,31; couture MD, 0m39. Largeur du bas 0m,44.

3e lé: couture MD, 0m,39; couture FN, 0m,52. Largeur du bas, 0m,44.

—

This very elegant model is made of silk, with a shaped and pleated ruffle; it can also be made in alpine, wool moire or wool satin with a plain ruffle or trimmed with lace.

It consists of 4 pieces:

No. 1. — Front strip; is double cut without seam, that is to say the middle of the front laced on the folds of the etone.

No. 2. — Side strip; connects to the front strip at AB.

No. 3. — Back strip completely straight grain; connects to the side strip via CD.

A dotted line on each strip marks the place where the ruffle should be sewn.

No. 4. — Steering wheel; connects to the front strip at E, to the back strip to F.

This piece is given as a one-piece pattern; but as it is impossible to be able to cut it in a single piece in fabrics of small width, we give in the sketch how to take it from a fabric 0.56 m wide.

Part 1; cut double straight grain, the center of the front on the fold of the fabric.

2nd part GHIJ; is caught between the two edges.

3rd part IJ; gets caught on the edge.

To be pleated, this ruffle must be placed on the fabric prepared in advance, with the pleats wider at the bottom than at the top.

7 meters of silk in 0.56 m with flat ruffle; 11 meters with pleated ruffle.

Since the pattern is only given up to the flounce frame, add to continue the bottom of the petticoat: 1st center front strip FK 0m.29; seam on LB side, 0m.31. Bottom width, 0m.27.

2nd strip: seam LB, 0.31 m; MD sewing, 0m39. Bottom width 0.44 m.

3rd strip: MD seam, 0.39 m; FN seam, 0m.52. Bottom width, 0.44 m.

[snackugaki-jestsjapesjokes]

blep blah, here have some old ass backrooms doodle content when the topic of "the beach episode" concept came up bluhp blooh brain nyooming but art hand isn't arting

i think what is super cute in modern fandom expression that I've seen is that in terms of making OCs or AUs is that sound seems to have a bigger role now than from what I remember when I was young. which I'm thinking has a lot to do with being able to clip audio easily or being able to make multi-track playlists whenever. y'all out here with reels of your art with voice claims and some of the most thoughtfully and artfully crafted soundtracks-- not even playlists, some of that shit is a straight up soundtrack level be real

89% tempted to try one of those shady "free" video/audio editing programs to make a LoFi chill beats study girl visualizer playlist with my iteration's boys ...

anyway gonna contemplate music headcanons for my iteration under the cut

From Turtle Tracks fan letter section, Archie run, #24

so real quick, my iteration is literally just them chilling, hanging out, being together in their mid 30s- early 40s, and then sometimes flashing back to their child/teen years in the 90s because tl;dr i have miiiiiinor beef my childhood turtles weren't quite as "90s" as they "could have been" (nvm I'm cackling at the milennial pop culture refs in Mutant Mayhem drop kicking me back into my adolescence)

but mehehehehe, keeping that they listened to Public Enemy and The Jungle Brothers

and aside from Top 40 musicians of the time... I feel like being outsiders themselves, having to sneak around to explore and learn about people and what's above the sewers had them eavesdropping into a lot of nighttime venues and getting into the underground and various niche subculture scenes that daytime Top 40 didn't play.

cannot tell me the lights, thumping and noise from bands playing hardcore or house or hosting cyphers or raves didn't attract these curious and funky little green dudes like moths to a flame

... Leo definitely fell in deep with the gregorian chant phase, soothing sounds of nature fads , a big fan of Orbital and he fell into that electronic, house, trance, eurodance rabbit hole right after. he also got into Celtic folk music but when his brothers caught his ass studying Michael Flatley to incorporate Riverdance footwork into his ninjutsu he got teased so mercilessly that he took great care to hide listening to it... which just made his stealth better so joke's on them heehoo

Not to mention they're from New York City, the underground music scene is always bangin' no matter the decade; feel like rap and punk got a lot of tracks on their mix tapes back in the day

Raph getting into the metal scene in his own exploring the city trips, and then progressed to music with that boom bap sound (cuz baby boy needs a way to come down off those high intensity moods idk ijs)

Donnie... just the amalgamation of his brothers, he needs that background noise while he's chewing on schematics and protoype development, he would definitely have been the mixtape maker/recording bootlegger (along with Mikey)

Mikey absolutely tagged along with his brothers sometimes whenever they went to their spots for music, though he himself backflipped into ska 'cuz Mikey is always for the people

my tmnt  iteration (where everyone made it past their 20s, splinter’s alive just old, venus is here, and they deserve some goddamn respite and shenanigans)

tmnt  iteration part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 | part 7 | part 8 | part 9 | part 10 | part 11

tmnt  iteration omake 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

lny visit 1 | 2

Keep reading

[soulmusicsongs]

Soul from Nigeria, part 4

Soul from Nigeria in 17 tracks.

Aiye People - Tirogo (Aiyé People, 1978) - Nigeria

Boogie Fever - Geraldo Pino (Boogie Fever, 1978) - Nigeria

Crashes In Love - William Onyeabor (Crashes In Love, 1977)

Freaking Out - Question Mark (Be Nice To The People, 1977)

How Much I Love You - Super Elcados (Togetherness Is Always A Good Venture - Tambourine Party Vol. 2, 1976) Nigeria

Lagos Sisi - Bola Johnson & His Easy Life Top Beats (Lagos Sisi / Jeka Dubu, 1973)

Lahilaha Illallahu - Afro Express (Asalam Aleikum,1976)

Love Is Fair - Black Children Sledge Funk Group (Love Is Fair, 1976)

Obeten Kokuroko - Obeede Express (Obeten Kokuroko, 197?)

Onye Ije - The Strangers (Love Rock / Onye Ije, 1972)

Nobody Called Me - The Strangers (Nobody Called Me / Two To Make A Pair, 1972)

No One Else (But Me) - Rock Town Express ( Rock Town Express, 1974)

No Wrong Show - Thony Shorby Nwenyi (Sweet Funk Music, 1978)

Santana Love - Apollo International Band Of Ghana (Santana Love, 1986)

Takuta - Babatunde Olatunji (Soul Makossa, 1973)

Wait… No Hurry - Grotto-II (Wait… No Hurry, 1978)

We'll Get Home - The Wings (Kissing You So Hard, 1974)

More Soul from Nigeria

Soul from Nigeria

Soul from Nigeria, part 2

Soul from Nigeria, part 3

[taevayu]

── ◜✧◞  matching bios! ﹕ᶻz

part 3 with silly lil randoms and kpop

i hate doors (or another game) – lets play horror games idk lol

life in the dreeaamhouse!! – life in the freeeaakshed idk lol

dont stay up late doing (action) at 1am – thats not fair, but you go to bed at 2... idk lol

feels like butterflies~ – i eat moths for breakfast. idk lol

naevis, calling! – my naevis, we love you aespa naevis HAHAAHAAHA

put me in a coffin – dig my grave idk lol

you know that i don't give a- uh what? – i don't give a what (don't give a what) don't give a what - itzy

clap ya hands now i'm coming back in vogue – check, check, check up on me clap ya hands back in vogue by alexa

on my hot girl shit if you missed it, you can find me on every girl's wish list – check me out while i manifest it- i'll marry myself, even be my own mistress! nirvana girl by sorn ft yeeun, this song is so iconic!

그럼 thumb, thumb, thumb, thumb, thumbs it up – 잠시 dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb it out smartphone by yena

im in my zone, – just leave me alone~ freaky by itzy

nah, i ain't got time for that, tried to act the part and rewind it back – over and over, shows over, take or leave; it's make love or, make believe... dumb dumb by somi

hey dumb dumb! nega sarange ppajingeon nae gyehwekdaero done done – hey dumb dumb! ije aesseuji anado tell me that i’m the one one dumb dumb by somi

imma go burn down bbc😡😡 – take me with you to bbc!!!😍😍 yes lets burn down bbc because loona needs to be saved

im the mafia – (ma ma ma ma mafia ya ya) – we do it like the mafia one in parentheses is optional if you wanna trio

[fiuworks]

REGRON WEEK 2023!

Hi there Regron fans!

Me, @nepotism_this and @rreags_ (twitter) are hosting the very first annual Regron Week! We have six prompts lined up, with a days worth of wriggle room, including the anniversary of Inside Job: Part 2, which released on Nov 18, 2022! It's been a year since our last taste of IJ- let's give our favourite doomed lovers some love next week! Tag all your art, writing, whatevers, into #RegronWeek23! I CANNOT wait for what people come out with! Love ya! Enjoy!!

[ravenonice]

Scoring in Yuri on Ice

or the IJS Scoring System prior to 2018

I made a guide like this before but I wanted to rewrite it since I found some flaws and want to add more resources and stuff for both YoI fanfic authors and fans who just want to understand scoring in figure skating a little better maybe :)

Disclaimer: I am only human. This guide is most likely flawed. But the ISU doesn't seem to understand their own scoring most of the time either so does it really matter? Please tell me if I have wrong information on anything or explained it wrong/confusingly. ^^

The International Judging System (IJS) has been used in figure skating and ice dance competitions since 2004. It replaced the prior 6.0 system which awarded two marks on a scale to 0 to 6, one for technical merit and one for presentation.

Some of the "older" skaters in YoI, e.g. Viktor, Chris and Yuuri, still skated under the 6.0 at some point. If you place the start of the story in 2015/16, then Viktor skated under the 6.0 for his whole Junior career and the switch was made around when he started skating in seniors.

But we are not here to talk about the 6.0.

Scores given within the IJS consist of 2 parts: The Technical Element Score (TES) and Program Component Score (PCS), which are then combined to make up the Total Segment Score (TSS).

A score sheet from a competition (in this case short program) looks like this:

So let's break that down, shall we?

Technical Element Score (TES)

The TES is about the technical elements in a program, such as jumps, spins, step and choreographic sequences.

In the Short Program there are 7 required elements which can be skated in whatever order:

A double or triple Axel

one triple or quad jump

a jump combination

one spin with a flying entry

a camel or sit spin with just one change of foot

a spin combination with just one change of foot

a step sequence

Single jumps don't recieve any points at all, but do count as a performed element. That means if a skater "pops" a jump, meaning they open up to early and only perform a single rotation, they can't just try again.

The short program is 2min 40 secs long +/- 10 secs

The Free Skate is more...well...free. But there are also restrictions.

A total of 12 elements have to be performed:

7 jump elements. One has to be an Axel jump.

Three spins. One has to be a combination, one has to be a single position and one has to have a flying entrance

One step sequence

One choreographic sequence

Different to the short program, you get points for single jumps. Though those are hardly ever performed on purpose.

The Free Skate is 4 minutes and 20 secs long +/- (now it's 4 min).

Every Element has a Base Value (BV). That meas the performed element is guaranteed those points minus deductions and plus the Grade of Execution (GOE).

Base Values

In Figure Skating there are 6 jumps which can be performed with up to 4 roations at the time being. I will list them with the according base values and with the according abbreviations.

Toe Loop:

1T =0.4pt - 2T =1.3pt- 3T = 4.3pt - 4T = 10.3pt

Salchow:

1S = 0.4pt - 2S = 1.3pt - 3S = 4.4pt - 4S = 10.5pt

Loop:

1Lo = 0.5pt - 2Lo = 1.8pt - 3Lo = 5.1pt - 4Lo = 12pt

Flip:

1F = 0.5pt - 2F = 1.9pt - 3F =5.3pt - 4F= 12.3pt

Lutz:

1Lz = 0.6pt - 2Lz = 2.1pt - 3Lz = 6pt - 4Lz =13.6pt

Axel:

1A =1.1pt - 2A= 3.3pt - 3A = 8.5pt - 4A = 15pt

Those values are for prior to 2018 and correct in the context of YoI, the Base Value of the quads and 3A are now a little lower.

-> Why is the Axel worth so much more?

Unlike the other jumps, a single Axel has 1 1/2 rotations, since, other than the all other jumps, it has a forward take off, but is landed backwards.

As of now, the quad Axel has only been landed succesfully by Ilia Malinin, a 18 y/o skater from the USA. He landed it for the first time in competition and got it ratified at the beginning of the 22/23 season at the US Classic, a challenger event that was freaking geoblocked so no one outside the US fucking saw history being made...

Prior to that, Yuzuru Hanyu trained the 4A intensely, and landed it in competition on two feet at the Japanese National Championships in 2021, but failed to get it ratified internationally at the 2022 Olympics because he fell.

But, as far as YoI canon goes, not even Viktor jumps a quad Axel. The extra half rotation makes that jump extremly difficult and was deemed impossible for a very long time. And while I encourage you to use the quad Axel as a story point and a goal for one of the characters, and think it can be very powerful, I highly discourage you from putting a quad Axel in your story lightly.

Euler Jump (a transitional half jump used in combinations to change the edge for take off): 1 EU 0.5 points

-> in YoI that would still be called a single Loop (because thats what it is basically...) and be marked as 1Lo! They changed the name in 2018.

I will try to make another post about the different jumps soon, but for now here is a guide for telling apart jumps!

Combination jumps:

For jump combinations the base values are simply combined. E.g.: A 3F+1Lo+3S combination has a base value of 10.1 points.

Reduction of Base Value:

An underrotated jump (<) will receive 70% of the Base Value, a downgraded jump (<<) receives the Base Value of the jump with one less rotation. If I am not mistaken the 70% Base Value rule also applies to jumps with a wrong take off edge (marked with "e"). Someone please corect me if I'm wrong, I couldn't find the information anywhere...

Repetition:

In the Short Program, each jump can only be executed once. That means that if a skater jumps for example a triple toe loop as a solo jump and as part of the combination, the second jump won't receive any points.

Further in the Free Skate, the "Zayak rule" is to be observed, meaning that from all triple and quad jumps, only two can be executed twice. The repeated jump has to be in combination! For example having a 4T and 4T+2T in your program is valid. But if you have two solo 4T the second one gets marked +REP and receives 70% of the base value.

This also means that if a skater falls on that combination with the repeated jump, it's extra bad. Because that means -1pt for the fall, negative GOE of course and the jump is only worth 70%...tough.

If a skater repeats a jump, it will often be refered to as "zayaked".

Jumps of the same type but with different amounts of rotation are not considered the same jump.

Extra jump elements exceding the 3 in the Short and 7 in the Free don't receive any points.

Spins:

For Spins there are 4 basic positions: Upright, Layback, Sit and Camel. A Combination Spin must include an upright, a sit and a Camel position.

You can get awarded up to a Level 4 for a Spin, depending on various features such as a difficult entry, difficult change of position, visible increase of speed....

I will explain Spins and Spin Levels further in another post but here is a (very long...) list of values for different spins:

Upright Spin (USp):

USpB 1pt - USp1 1.2pt - USp2 1.5pt - Usp3 1.9pt - USp4 2.4

Flying Upright Spin (FUSp):

FUSpB 1.5pt - FUSp1 1.7pt - FUSp2 2pt - FUSp3 2.4pt - FUSp 4 2.9pt

Upright Spin with change of foot (CUSp):

CUSpB 1.5pt - CUSp1 1.7pt - CUSp2 2pt - CUSp3 2.4pt - CUSp4 2.9pt

Layback Spin (LSp):

LSpB 1.2pt - LSp1 1.5 - LSp2 - 1.9 - LSp3 2.4 - LSp4 2.7pt

Flying Layback Sping (FLSp):

FLSpB 1.7pt - FLSp1 2pt - FLSp2 2.4pt - FLSp3 2.9pt - FLSp4 3.2 pt

Layback Spin with change of foot (CLSp):

CLSpB 1.7pt - CLSp1 2pt - CLSp2 2.4pt - CLSp3 2.9pt - CLSp4 3.2pt

Camel Spin (CSp):

CSpB 1.1pt - CSp1 1.4pt - CSp2 1.8pt - CSp3 2.3pt - CSp4 2.6pt

Flying Camel Spin (FCSp):

FCSpB 1.6pt - FCSP1 1.9pt - FCSp2 2.3pt - FCSp3 2.8pt - FCSp4 3.2pt

Camel Spin with a change of foot (CCSp):

CCSpB 1.7pt - CCSp1 2pt - CCSp2 2.3pt - CCSp3 2.6pt - CCSp4 3.2pt

Sit Spint (SSp):

SSpB 1.1pt - SSp1 1.3pt - SSp2 1.6pt - SSp3 2.1pt - SSp4 2.5pt

Flying Sit Spin (FSSp):

FSSpB 1.7pt - FSSp1 2.0pt - FSSp2 2.3pt - FSSp3 2.6pt - FSSp4 3pt

Sit Spin with a change of foot (CSSp):

CSSpB 1.6pt - CSSp1 1.9pt - CSSp2 2.3pt - CSSp3 2.6pt - CSSp4 3pt

Spin Combination (CoSp):

CoSpB 1.5pt - CoSp1 1.7pt - CoSp2 2pt - CoSp3 2.5pt - CoSp4 3pt

Spin Combination with a change of foot (CCoSP):

CCoSpB 1.7pt - CCoSp1 2pt - CCoSp2 2.5pt - CCoSp3 3pt - CCoSp4 3.5pt

If you want to see good spins in men's skating, I highly recomend taking a look at Roman Spindovsky...ehm I mean Sadovsky ;D Here an example of a level 4 change of foot combination spin from him:

Step Sequence

A step sequence should have little two footed skating, a variety of different difficult turns and steps and cover the whole ice surface. Just as for spins, levels from base to 4 are awared depending on several factors that I will try to explain in a future post.

But for you to get an idea of what a masterful Level 4 step sequence looks like, here is the step sequence from Yuzuru Hanyu's Rondo:

As for Base Value:

Basic Level: 1.5 points

Level 1: 1.8 points

Level 2: 2.6 points

Level 3: 3.3 points

Level 4: 3.9 points

Choreographic Sequence:

The Choreographic Sequence is only performed in the Free Skate, and includes choreographic elements such as spirals, lunges... I will also make a post introducing different choreo elements in (hopefully) the near future, but for now have this Choreo Sequence from Deniss Vasiljevs as an example!

Watch the video from 1:25min to roughly 2:00min (or watch the whole thing I highly recomend :D). Using this as an example out of spite because the judges are stupid and inavlidated it for some reason...idiots...

As for Base Value, there are no different levels for choreographic Sequences so, very short "list":

ChSq 2pt

Grade of Execution (GOE):

The GOE ranged from -3 to +3 prior to 2018. The panel of judges awards GOE depending on how well executed an element is.

But how is GOE awarded?

Both positive and negative aspects of a performed element are considered and then added in the end for the final GOE.

Jumps:

To receive +1 GOE, 2 of the following bullets must be achieved, for +2, 4 bullets and for +3 6 or more.

unexpected/creative/difficult entry (An example for that would be a back counter into an axel jump)

clear recognizable steps/free skating movements immediately preceding the element (My favorite example in Yuzuru's Twizzle exit from a 3A)

varied position in the air/delay in rotation (Remember when Yuri Plisetsky raised his arms during his jumps in the Grand Prix Final? That's what they mean with varied position in the air. Delay in rotation is pretty self explainatory I think. The skater needs longer to rotate, making it more difficult)

good height and distance

good extension on landing/ creative exit

good flow

effortless throughout

element matched to the musical structure (I just love when a skater lands a jump right when the music pics up mmmh chefs kiss)

Negative GOE is given for the following errors (It's too much to write down so here is a screenshot from the ISU Guidelines):

Spins:

To receive +1 GOE, 2 of the following bullets must be achieved, for +2, 4 bullets and for +3 6 or more.

good speed or acceleration during spin

ability to center a spin quickly

balanced rotations in all positions

clearly more than required number of revolutions (which is 3 is think)

good, strong position(s) (including height and air/landing position in flying spins)

creativity and originality

good control throughout all phases

element matched to the musical structure

Negative GOE is given for the following errors:

Traveling refers to a skater moving across the ice during a spin instead of staying in roughly the same space.

Step Sequence:

To receive +1 GOE, 2 of the following bullets must be achieved, for +2, 4 bullets and for +3 6 or more.

good energy and execution

good speed or acceleration during sequence

use of various steps during the sequence

deep clean edges (including entry and exit of all turns)

good control and commitment of the whole body maintaining accuracy of steps

creativity and originality

effortless throughout

element enhances the musical structure

Negative GOE is given for the following errors:

Choreographic Sequence:

To receive +1 GOE, 2 of the following bullets must be achieved, for +2, 4 bullets and for +3 6 or more.

good flow, energy and execution

good speed or acceleration during sequence

good clarity and precision

good control and commitment of whole body

creativity and originality

effortless throughout

reflecting concept/character of the program

element enhances the musical structure

Negative GOE is given for the following errors:

Calculating GOE:

The Panel of judges usually consists of 9 judges. The lowest and highest GOE mark are cut, then the average of the remaining 7 is used to determine the GOE points for that jump.

For example:

A skater executed a Triple Lutz with a base value of 6 points. The GEO marks from the judges were as followed: +2, +2, +3, +2, +1, +1, +2, +2, +2. The highest and the lowest mark get cut. The average of the remaining 7 is 1.86. To calculate the GEO you now take the base value and do the following: 6 x 18.6% = 1.116 so about 1.12 points. The total points awarded for that jump would be: 7.12points

For combinations the base value of the hightest valued jumps is used to determine GOE, not the combined base value of the jumps.

As for step and choreographic sequences you multiply the average by 0.5 to get the GEO.

Yay! Maths :D

Highlight Distribution:

Jumps performed in the second half of the program are awarded a 1.1 multiplier of the the base value. E.g.: A 3A performed in the second half has a base value of 8.8 points.

Yuuri takes advantage of that a lot.

Prior to 2018 there was no limit on how backloaded (term used to describe programms with a lot of jumps in the second half) a program could be. Technically all jumps could be executed in the second half. However that left programs empty and boring in the first half since the skaters were basically just stalling time.

Now the multiplier is only applied to the first jump in the second half of the short and to the first 3 in the second half of the free. I am not opposed to that rule. The ISU made a rule that made sense for once

Deductions:

Of course, points are deducted for mistakes or other rule violations.

Deductions are:

Falls:

First two falls -1pt each. Third and fourth fall -2pt each. -3pt each for each fall after that.

Interruptions:

If the performance is interrupted by the skater, they lose -1pt for >10 but <20 secs, -2pt for >20 but <30 secs and -3 for >30 but <40. -5pt if the program isn't resumed withing 3 minutes.

Time violation:

-1pt per 5sec (program either too long or too short)

Costume/prop violations:

-1pt

A costume violation would for example be feathers (real feathers are prohibited), or if, for women, a boob falls out or something.

Props aren't allowed all together.

Part of the costume falls off on the ice:

-1pt

Somersault type jumps (aka Backflip):

-2pt

Late start:

Skater doesn't take starting position within 30 secs -1pt

Program Compoment Score (PCS):

The PCS used to be about the 5 following categories and is awarded by each judge on a scale from 0 - 10 in steps of 0.25. 5.00 Would be "average". As you may already be able to tell...this is not a very reliable way to judge this. Yeah...

Skating Skills:

Basically how good a skaters skating is. Can they skate with power and ease both forwards and backwards as well as clockwise and counter-clockwise? How clean and clear are the curves (edges) over the ice?

A skater should look effortless in their movement. Quick and easy, flowing over the ice with soft knees and ankles.

Their skating shouldn't be scratchy and noisy, resulting from pushing with the toe rather than the side of the blade.

Something you will often hear fans complain about or praise are edges. A Figure skate blade has two edges, outside and inside, and one sign of good skating skills is being able to go down deep on them. Look at Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir for example. Edges so deep the side of the boot almost touches the ice. Beautiful!

Transitions:

The "in between" technical elements. You don't want to just skate between elements, you want to tie the program together with linking steps. Skaters idealy incorperate different steps and turns to make the programm seem seamless. You want there to be little (visible) prep time for the next element.

I will make another post regarding such steps and turns.

Performance:

This is one of the categories that is heavily dependent on the judges personal preference.

In this category skaters are judged based on their, well, performance... Are they emotionally, physically and mentally involved? Do they project the entire audience? Do they have good ice presence?

In the case of Yuri on Ice: this is where all the Katsudon, waterfalls, grandpas etc. come in. Yuuri seduced Viktor for those sweet PCS points haha xD

Composition:

In this category the placing of the elements across the ice surface are judged.

Idealy a skater should use as much of the entire ice surface as possible.

Then there's also questions such as if the spacing of the elements etc. has some sort of purpose. Is there a story told or idea conveyd? Does the movement match the phrasing of the music?

For this category, having a good choreographer comes in very handy ;)

Interpretation:

Again, heavily judge dependant...

Is the skater performing with their soul? Are they skating with music in the background or are they skating to the music, their movement matching the beats in it?

This is the "music" that Yuuri emits when skating according to Viktor! So this is something he is very good at and should receive high points in...if the judges actually do that is another question...

Calculation of PCS:

Very easy this time! It's just the average of the individual scores given by the judges. For the Free Skate the score is factored by 2.0, meaning it's doubled to balance it a little with the TES.

Further Resources:

Now this looks very overwhelming! But here are some pages to help you!

SkatingScores:

You can use this blank IJS sheet to easily calculate scores using the abbreviations I used in this post! They also are the best and biggest available data base for scores in figure skating and you can look up competitons and skaters here!

ISU Results:

If you want to find score sheets for a specific competition you want to reference, you can also quickly google "ISU results (competition)". For example, Grand Prix Final 2015:

There you can access the judges scores for the competion as pdfs.

So you want to watch figure skating?:

This blog is really helpful. They have various guides to figure skating as well, but be aware that they are of course up to date with the newest rules. But they also have a handbook with terms you will often hear and may want to use!

Further Notes:

Scoring in figure skating is highly controversial and in conversation with fans you will often hear terms such as over- and underscoring.

There is corruption, there is favoritism...you name it, figure skating probably has it...

If you want your characters to be upset about something in the sport, scoring is one of your safest bets.

You can have Yuuri's fans and probably Viktor too, be outraged by Yuuri's too low PCS, or the low GOE on his step sequence. Maybe they even rated that one a level 3 instead of the usual 4? Lot's of possibilities for frustration...

Another thing that is frustrating for Yuuri in particular is that jumps are worth so much more and make up a big chunk of the TES.

He is known for his intricate step sequences. But what does that matter if he can't get more than 5.4 points for it? And you rarely get full +3 GOE! The step sequence, which is such a vital part of a figure skating program and show cases such a varried skill set, is worth roughly the same as a triple flip max...

Sure there is the PCS, but here the judges are often biased, or simply don't know how to award points. It sometimes appears to be a bit arbitrary. Skaters who do a shit tone of cross overs suddenly get skating skill scores in the 9 point + range... It's bizarre.

Anyway...I hope you enjoyed this guide and find it usefull! I will try to get the other parts to this out as soon as I can!

And if you read this far: thank you <3 Have a lovely rest of your day and have fun writing!

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