#trobed my sons

[smolerthanthediagram]

They can finally have their sex life back

[conanssummerchild]

ok my thoughts are barely coherent rn my brain is just a puddle of sludge and i have pulled out this thought, but like picture this, a fic where after troy leaves on the boat, abed gets visited by evil abed and evil abed tells him that his timeline (the darkest timeline) was the one where troy leaves to get the pizza and like now that troys gone from the prime timeline whats preventing everything from going to shit and abed from going crazy (only accentuated by the fact that this is happening in his mind and im pretty sure abed is aware of this) and um idk does this make any sense i need help

[justforbooks]

Bill Viola

Video artist who melded the material and the spiritual and applied modern technology to Renaissance subjects

In 1957, on a family holiday, Bill Viola fell in a lake. He was six years old. Sixty years later, Viola, who has died aged 73, recalled the event. “I didn’t hold on to my float when I went into the water, and I went right to the bottom,” he said. “I experienced weightlessness and a profound visual sense that I never forgot. It was like a dream and blue and light, and I thought I was in heaven as it was the most beautiful thing I had seen.” And then … “my uncle pulled me out.”

It seemed an unpromising start to an artistic career. However, in 1977 Viola began a series of five works called The Reflecting Pool. Four years out of university, this was his first multipart artwork, its constituent films occupying their maker for three years. In the title piece, a shirtless man – Viola – emerges from a wood, walks toward a pond, makes as if to jump into it and freezes in mid-air. The pool registers his entry nonetheless, its surface rippling as though disturbed; the flying man fades slowly away; and, after seven long minutes, Viola emerges, dripping, from the water and walks back into the woods. The Reflecting Pool drew on the near-drowning of his six-year-old self. It was also classic Viola, its most notable features – slowness, water, a numinous spirituality – recurring in his work of the next half century.

It was the subaqueous blue glow of the screen of a Sony Portapak video camera, donated to his high school in Flushing, New York, that first attracted Viola to the medium. He was raised in the neighbouring lower-middle-class suburb of Queens. It was not, recalled Viola, a cultured household, but his mother, Wynne (nee Lee) “had some ability and sort of taught me how to draw, so when I was three years old I could do pretty good motorboats”. A year before his near death by drowning, a kindergarten finger-painting of a tornado won public praise from his teacher. It was then, Viola said, that he decided to be an artist.

His father, a Pan Am flight attendant turned service manager, had other ideas. Fearing that an art school education would leave his son unemployable, Viola senior insisted that he study for a liberal arts degree at Syracuse, a respected university in upstate New York. “And in saying that,” Viola would admit, “he saved me.”

As luck would have it, Syracuse, in 1970, was among the first universities to promote experimentation in new media. A fellow student had set up a studio where projects could be made using a video camera. Signing up for it, Viola was instantly converted: “Something in my brain said I’d be doing this all my life,” he remembered. He spent the following summer wiring up the university’s new cable TV system, taking a job as a janitor in its technology centre so that he could spend his nights mastering the newfangled colour video system. In 1972, he made his first artwork, Tape I, a study of his own reflection in a mirror. This, too, would be trademark Viola, bewitched by video’s ability simultaneously to see and be seen, but also by his own image. The I in the work’s title was not a Roman numeral but a personal pronoun.

Tape I and works like it were enough to catch the eye of Maria Gloria Bicocchi, whose pioneering Florence studio, ART/TAPES/22, made videos for Arte Povera artists. When Viola took a job there in 1974, he found himself working alongside such giants as Mario Merz and Jannis Kounellis. By 1977, his own reputation in the small but growing world of video art led to his being invited to show his work at La Trobe University in Melbourne, his acceptance encouraged by the offer of free Pan Am flights from his father.

The invitation had come from La Trobe’s director of culture, Kira Perov. The following year, Perov moved to New York to be with Viola, and they married in 1978. They would stay in the house in Long Beach, California, that they moved into three years later, for the rest of their married lives. In 1980-81, the couple spent 18 months in Japan, Viola simultaneously working as the first artist-in-residence at Sony Corporation’s Atsugi laboratories and studying Zen Buddhism.

This melding of the sacred and technologically profane would mark Viola’s work of the next four decades. Viola listed “eastern and western spiritual traditions including Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism and Christian mysticism” as influences on his art, although it was the last of these that was the most apparent. At university, he said, he had “hated” the old masters, and proximity to the greatest of them in Florence had not changed that view. It was only with the death of his mother in 1991 that he began to feel the weight of western art history, and to acknowledge it in his own work.

Having struggled with a creative block since the late 1980s, he found that the grief of his mother’s death freed him. Summoned to her side by his father, Viola filmed first the dying woman and then her body lying in an open coffin. This footage would be used in a 54-minute work called The Passing, and then again the following year in the Nantes Triptych, its three screens concurrently showing a woman giving birth, Viola’s dying mother and, in between them, a man submerged in a tank of water.

The first of Viola and Perov’s two sons had been born in 1988. Nantes Triptych was, or appeared to be, a meditation on birth, death and rebirth through baptism. If the subject was traditional, so too was Viola’s use of the triptych form. His references to the old masters would soon become more direct still. In 1995, Viola was chosen to represent the US at the Venice Biennale. One part of the work, Buried Secrets, that he showed in the American pavilion drew openly on a painting by Jacopo da Pontormo of the visitation of the Virgin Mary to her elderly cousin, Elizabeth.

Not surprisingly in these secular times, Viola’s subject matter was not universally popular. The art world was particularly divided. When his videos were shown among the permanent collection of the National Gallery in London in an exhibition called The Passions in 2003, one outraged critic dubbed Viola “a master of overblown, big-budget, crowd-pleasing, tear-jerking hocus-pocus and religiosity”.

The pairing at the Royal Academy in 2019 of his work with drawings by Michelangelo from the Royal Collection drew the barbed comment from the Guardian critic that “Viola’s art is so much of its own time that it is already dated, dead in the water”.

Predictably, he was more popular with the public at large, a survey at a Viola retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris showing that visitors had spent an average of two-and-a-half hours at the exhibition. Churchmen, too, were won over by Viola’s work, particularly those of the Church of England. In 1996, the artist was invited to make a video piece, The Messenger, for Durham Cathedral. In 2014, the first part of a two-part commission called Martyrs and Mary was installed at St Paul’s, the second joining it two years later. The project, thanks to ecclesiastical wrangling, had been a decade in the making. “The church works kind of slow,” remarked Viola, mildly. “But then I also work kind of slow.”

That mildness, and the religiosity of his subjects, may have led critics to underestimate the rigour of his work. Like Viola’s art or not, he was a master of it. His appreciation of the promise – and the threat – of technology was profound. Viola chafed against the primitiveness of early video, seeing each development in the medium as an opportunity to be grasped. The close-up portraits of The Passions series, for example, made use of flatscreen technology almost as it was invented.

By contrast, the binary nature of the modern world bothered him. “The age of computers is a very dangerous one because they work on ‘yes or no’, ‘1 or 0’,” Viola mourned. “There’s no maybe, perhaps or both. And I think this is affecting our consciousness.” The dissemination of video as an art form had not been like the spread of oil painting by the Van Eyck brothers 500 years before, he said, video having appeared everywhere and at once. True to these beliefs, Viola saw no contradiction in treating Renaissance subjects, and a Renaissance belief system, with the latest inventions from Sony. “The two are actually very close,” he said. “I see the digital age as the joining of the material and the spiritual into a yet-to-be-determined whole.”

In 2012, Viola was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. His work after this was increasingly made with the help of Perov, a fact that lent a new poignancy to the themes of memory and loss that often ran through it.

Viola is survived by his wife and their sons, Blake and Andrei, and by his siblings, Andrea and Robert .

🔔 Bill (William John) Viola, video artist, born 25 January 1951; died 12 July 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[wingamy24]

Jeffshirley>>>jeffannie

Well, yeah, everything is better than Jeffannie. I think Jeff and Shirley's potentially romantic relationship is way more entretaining and unique than Jeff and Annie's "oh look it's an innocent, young and good girl with a bad, 35yr old man" dynamic.

I mainly see Jeff and Shirley's dynamic as father-son (yes, I'm aware that their age gap is smaller than Jeff and Britta's, but you know how Shirley is with everyone.) but I could definitely see them as a potential couple. Of course, there's no way in hell it would actually work, but shipping-wise, it's fun to imagine a sweet, passive-agressive housewife who loves children, marriage and christianity with... Jeff. Jeff x Shirley shippers are definitely welcome here.

I've definitely changed my mind over time about them as a couple, and it's not something I ship, but I can see the appeal and I think it's fun. Much like Trobed or Jeffdean

[quinnigallagherjones]

community and hannibal if u want!

ooo thank you anon !!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻

community

my favourite female character: annie !!!

my favourite male character: abed <333

my favourite book/season/etc: season 2

my favourite episode (if it’s a tv show): s2e23/s2e24 (all the paintball episodes are iconic !!!!!)

my favourite ship: trobed !!!!!

a character i'd die defending: troy

a character i just can't sympathise with: pierce

a character i grew to love: jeff

my anti otp: jeff and annie (sorry i just find it weird lmaooo)

hannibal

my favourite female character: alana bloom my BELOVED !!!!!

my favourite male character: will graham (the icon himself)

my favourite book/season/etc: season 1 (i desperately want to rewatch ittttt)

my favourite episode (if it’s a tv show): s2e13 (SUCH A GOOD SEASON FINALE LIKE OML)

my favourite ship: hannigram and marlana <3333

a character i'd die defending: will !!!!

a character i just can't sympathise with: mason verger (hope he is enjoying HELL THE SON OF A BITCH)

a character i grew to love: idk i think i loved most of these characters immediately haha

my anti otp: hannibal and alana

send me a show/movie/fandom !!

[bisexualelphie]

trobed peter pan (2003) au

troy as wendy

abed as peter

jeff as hook

shirley as mr darling

annie as john

britta as tinkerbell (but she's not evil)

the dean as smee

+ magnitude, pavel and neil as lost boys and starburns and leonard as pirates

in my head, troy and annie are not siblings but they're in an orphanage and they're best friends. shirley, the orphanage director, loves them, but sometimes they're a bit much for her. troy tells annie stories to cheer her up when she's sad, which often happens when she remembers her parents. he tells her stories about a boy named abed, who often goes on adventures with his friends and fights pirates in a place named nevergreen (the name's in progress). the worst pirate of all is the captain, jeff hook, who got his name when abed cut off his hand (he tried to go for the arm) and fed it to a crocodile. he's been looking for revenge ever since.

i have two options for what the catalist is:

1. troy's 13th birthday is coming up. an inspector goes to the orphanage and advices shirley that troy should have his own room now. troy is angry that he's not going to be able to spend as much time with annie and storms off.

during tutoring he imagines what it would be like if he went to nevergreen with abed and draws himself and abed flying together hand in hand. his tutor sees it and takes it to shirley, who lectures him on how he needs to grow up and leave these stories behind and how inappropriate it is that he drew himself holding hands with a boy, which leaves troy heartbroken.

he rants to annie about how unfair everything is and this time she tells him a story to cheer him up.

2. troy's 18th birthday is coming up and shirley tells him he's going to have to leave the orphanage once that happens. now troy is sad because he's going to have to leave annie and because, in all the time he spent in the orphanage, nobody wanted him as a son.

the drawing still happens.

troy and annie have one last sleepover and, again, it's annie who tells a story to cheer troy up.

abed, who has been listening to troy's stories the whole time, comes into the room to retrieve his shadow, which had been detached from him when he had almost been caught one time. he tries to be silent but troy, who was crying instead of sleeping, sees him. troy helps him find his shadow and abed asks why he's crying. he tells him why and abed suggests he goes to nevergreen with him and says annie can go as well. the rest plays out mostly like the movie, except britta isn't jealous and doesn't try to kill troy on purpose.

[unfinishedrambles]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Community (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Troy Barnes/Abed Nadir, Abed Nadir & Gobi Nadir Characters: Gobi Nadir, Abed Nadir, Troy Barnes, Abed's Mom (mentioned) Additional Tags: Have some fluff to make up for all the hearts I broke with my other piece, Troy and Abed going shoooooooping!, Gobi Nadir Is A Good Father, Not the father-son relationship we got but the one we deserve, Set in Season 3, Casa Chez Trobed, IKEA, You can read it as Pre-Slash or Slash either works, Just know that they are in love, Troy Is A Good Son-In-Law, Fluff and Humor, Troy and Abed Being Dumbasses, no plot to speak of, Gobi Nadir POV, Canon Character of Color, Canon Muslim Character Summary:

“Do you see it?” Troy whispered as he stared up at the light fixture. Abed nodded. “It’s the Death Star.” “No,” Gobi said, already knowing what they were thinking. “Abed, we agreed the only extra object we were getting were the recliners,” he said to his son, ignoring the confused look from the other. “It’s the Death Star,” Abed repeated, his face and voice strained just enough to seem pleading. “The Death Star, Baba.” Troy leaned out from his son’s side with his hands folded in prayer on his chest and his eyes brimming with tears.

Gobi Nadir accompanies his son and his best friend on a trip to IKEA to get furnishings for their new apartment and gets much more than furniture out of the trip.

[connorswhisk]

three lines from three wips...because i’m bored and never going to finish these?

this first one was a hanahaki au i never finished back in my trobed days and tbh? it was kinda the move.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Abed has been thinking about Troy more often lately, even more than he usually does. Ever since the Pillow War, their friendship’s sort of taken a new turn, but Abed’s pretty sure now that he’s been in love with Troy for longer than a few weeks. He isn’t sure when it started, but he knows that Hanahaki has an incubating period. It doesn’t happen immediately. 

But there must be some mistake. Troy and Abed’s friendship wasn’t meant to make it past comic relief, a little bit of queerbaiting just to draw in the audience, a couple of gay jokes. It was never supposed to cross the line into actual romance. At least, Abed doesn’t think so. That’s not what the writers intended.

No, Abed doesn’t love Troy. He probably likes Annie, instead. They’ve been teased a little, and they had that whole Han/Leia bit during the last paintball game, when Troy had been his Lando. Or maybe this one petal was a fluke. Maybe Abed isn’t in love with anyone, and his body’s just doing something weird. That must be it. That’s the only thing that makes sense.

and this was part of a trans!enjolras study that i never posted because i never managed to finish it up how i wanted to (this part is from the point of view of his mother):

She asks for the young man’s name, and the undertaker gives it. Heard someone say he was right by your daughter when they got them. Died at her side. 

She takes his body, too, and buries it in a grave next to her son’s. It feels right, somehow.

She will visit every week to lay flowers by his name. Red carnations, for endurance. Hibiscus, for glory. It is her apology. Her remorse.

...and finally, part of a hawk fic that i doubt i’ll ever finish but is about him and the larussos post s3.

Demetri probably still hates him, and Demetri’s parents definitely hate him, and Hawk’s own parents hardly speak to him at all, and Hawk keeps having these nightmares, nightmares about snakes and Kreese and angry red lip scars that just don’t stop coming, they don’t stop coming. He wakes up in cold sweats, alone in his bed, and no one helps him change the sheets.

And he’s fighting so bad these days. It’s like, now that he has to learn all this balance crap, everything’s gone. He has to show mercy and he has to fight fair, and Hawk doesn’t know if he can do that.

Maybe Eli could have. But Hawk isn’t sure where Eli even is anymore.

[slutabed]

trobed in Lorde lyrics

(inspired by the trobed lyric posts of @obi-is-the-son-of-god)

“a couple rebel top gun pilots / flying with nowhere to be / don’t know you super well / but i think you might be the same as me / behave abnormally”

“baby be the class clown / i’ll be the beauty queen in tears” 

“we’re all the things that we do for fun / and i’ll breathe, and it goes / play along / make believe it’s hyper-real / but i live in a hologram with you”

“i wear long sleeves / and the heating comes on / you buy me orange juice / we’re getting good at this”

“i like these roads where the houses don’t change (and i like you) / where we can talk like there’s something to say (and i like you)”

“you know we’re on each other’s team”

“we’ve both got a million bad habits to kick / not sleeping is one / i’m biting my nails / you’re biting my lips / i’m biting my tongue” 

“you’re my best friend and we’re dancing in a world alone” 

“you’re the only friend i need / we’ll share our beds like little kids / and laugh until our ribs get sore / but that will never be enough”

“we keep trying to talk about us / i’m someone you maybe might love” 

“we’re the greatest / they’ll hang us in the louvre / down the back, but who cares? / still the louvre”

“three years, loved you every single day / made me weak / it was real for me, yeah, real for me / now i’ll fake it every single day / ’til i don’t need fantasy / ’til i feel you leave”

“but i still remember everything / how you’d drift buying groceries / how you’d dance for me”

“in my head / i play a supercut of us / all the magic we gave off / all the love we had and lost”

“ours are the moments i play in the dark / we were wild and fluorescent / come home to my heart”

[raviposting]

what are 3 ships that you hope to become canon that haven't yet, and what are 3 ships that didn't become canon but you wish did?

Wow this has been in my inbox for a month I’m sorry anon! Also this was VERY hard to choose, since you said canon I’m going with characters that never got together (and to narrow it down for me more, never had romantic inclinations on either character’s end!)

3 ships I want to be canon that haven’t yet: 

Buddie (911): I don’t think they’ll ever be canon yet but...give me bi Buck! Please! It’s all I ask!

Coder BFs (ZEP): They’re just absolutely precious and I adore them! Again! Give me bi Tobin! Leif is already bi in canon but have him explicitly say it because your average viewer would miss that he’s bi!

Maldrisa (Prodigal Son): This would have been Brightwell but they at least started with that in the latest ep! I guess I’m cheating here because Edrisa does clearly have a crush on Malcolm but let me live, it’s like every show I watch got wiped from my head okay okay fine a not cheating answer, Sambucky (Marvel)

3 ships that didn’t become canon but I wish did: 

Trobed (Community): They were so in love :(( They ARE in love! Why didn’t the show have them in canon!!!!

Hmmm I really liked Mattfoggy when Daredevil came out and I think they were infinitely better than Karen/Matt (plus she and Frank were clearly perfect for each other).

I loved EVERY combo of Liv/Ravi/Major/Peyton in iZombie and okay so Liv/Major and Peyton/Ravi did date but I still think that all 4 of them were in love and that’s a fact!!!!

[dashiellqvverty]

Community for the ask thing?

my favorite female character - honestly? frankie

my favorite male character - abed!!! i don’t think i’ve ever related to a character harder it’s so important to me to see autistic (and autistic-coded) with special interests in creative fields?? like he’s not a genius he doesn’t know math he just loves movies and tv So Much and so do i!!!

my favorite book/season/etc - hmmmmm season 2 i think. it just has so many good episodes all in one place

my favorite episode (if its a tv show) - pillows and blankets!! it’s my number one comfort media i’ve seen it so many times

my favorite cast member - maybe danny pudi? i love him on ducktales. honestly i don’t know much of the casts other work or much about what they’re like as people. donald glover too!! i don’t really listen to his music but like from the interviews i’ve watched and other roles i’ve seen him in i like him a lot

my favorite ship - trobed!! i didn’t ship it when i first watched the show can you believe (it’s bc i was deep in mogai tumblr and was like “troy is aro abed is ace they’re qpp” and uh whoops we don’t have time to unpack all that!!!)

a character I’d die defending - abed but he doesn’t need it as the show is v much on his side in most things (my favorite genre of episodes are the ones where the moral is “hey don’t treat abed like shit”). idk i don’t want to put any member of the study group on a pedastal bc they’re all shit but he and troy are certainly better people than most of them

a character I just can’t sympathize with - pierce fucking hawthorne. also hickey he was. better than pierce i guess? he was cool with his gay son but there was that whole episode about him being mean to abed and i can’t sympathize with that

a character I grew to love - jeff!! he’s an asshole but oh my god he drinks that loving his friends juice. also i was worried about the s6 characters when i started but i love frankie to death

my anti otp - abed/annie. also i used to be into jeff/annie when i was younger and thought i was a girl and was attracted to jeff but now that i’m actually around annie’s age… not a fan. not big on troy/britta either it didn’t work for me

[belindisney]

Belated posting

So I’m really bad at posting regularly, but seeing as we’re getting closer to D-day (Disney day, departure day, d-d-d-damn son you finally getting out of the house day, your choice) I figure there’ll be more to talk about. Of course, because I’ve left this post so late it’ll be vague and probably unhelpful to anyone who happens to read this looking for information... but there’s plenty of helpful Disney bloggers and vloggers out there, so hopefully this info will lead you onto the right track if that’s why you’re reading! 

So first, a correction from my last post: I’m not a B1/B2 in French. I mean, I could be, maybe. But my exams from last year were A1/A2 level. The reason I’m so approximate nd maybe overestimating myself is because of the way uni classes are divided when it comes to language. Surprise! You could begin learning a brand new language at uni if you wanted to (I’m at La Trobe). If I had gone to La Trobe straight out of year 12, which was back in 2012, I would have enough experience with the language to qualify for Unit 5 or 6, however, because it had been four and a half years, I felt I should go back to Unit 4. (Actually, I spent my first week in Unit 1, but because that week was spent learning pronouncing the alphabet and how to say “Je m’appelle” it was apparent that that was too easy for me). And while I am no genius, and I didn’t have the best grammar, I was toward the top end of the class when it came to vocab. And I was only a couple of marks away from 100% on my written exam. Anyway!!! Back on topic!

The visa process and preparing all the paperwork is decidedly more complicated than the application. There are a lot of fees to pay. There’s a lot of questionnaires to fill out. In my case, the process included me standing at the approximate head of the line in confusion and then having this lady shake her head at me because her booth was free and I guess I technically pushed in front of someone. (I only needed to hand over my passport.. but more on that later). 

When you’re accepted into the program, you have a limited amount of time to accept your place, which is about a week from memory. When I was accepted, I went nuts. I was with other uni kids for a group assignment, and we were just making sure the video was fine. I couldn’t concentrate, because all of us who had applied for the January intake were waiting with baited breath for their emails. Someone had already gotten a “no longer in consideration”, so we were all panicking! Cue my freakout as the first person posted their acceptance. The two girls from my group watched as I fretted and finally.. the moment I found my email.. I deleted it by accident. I don’t know how I did it but I did, thank god for the “deleted items” function! Cue calling everyone I know, nearly crying. My parents were in England, and so they got the call at 5am - the first words Mum said after I told her the news were “Oh no!!!”. For the next 3 hours I responded to nearly everything with “Don’t care, I’m going to Disney World!”

Once you’ve accepted your offer, you receive a packet of information, including the fees you have to pay in order to secure your place. One of these fees pays for your housing and utility costs until you get proper pay checks. This is $200AUD (all costs are going to be from memory, and are obviously subject to change). Another pays for housing events and the like, and costs $154AUD.

One of the most time consuming things was getting what I needed from my university in order to satisfy my visa application. You need the university to approve your status as a student and get a representative to sign and stamp a form. This took a couple of trips for me. If you are considering applying for the program and you’re still in first year, keep in mind some things are going to take a little longer because you have to wait until your first year is officially finished. It doesn’t change much else, except you cannot choose your arrival date - only the latter one will be open to you. You’ll need to hand one in by a certain time so your place is secured, but you’ll need another one to satisfy the visa. 

I recommend you get your medical insurance before applying for your visa. I don’t recall anyone actually asking about whether or not I had medical insurance, probably because it is a requirement of the program anyway, but I prioritised this over my visa. Because my program is the Australian/New Zealand Cultural Exchange, I had to get medical insurance with a company affiliated with Disney. You have two options - a cheaper one with which you have to pay $50 before a doctor will see you, or a more expensive one without this extra cost. I felt the latter was just going to be better in case I was sick or injured. I have migraines which regular Panadol doesn’t fix, so I’ve seen doctors and visited an osteopath fairly regularly this year to try and fix the issue. I may have to do the same while I’m over there, especially if I’m going to be working full days in hospitality, which I know gets hectic. This cost about $800AUD. 

Another thing you should do before your visa is your police check. In fact, this might be a requirement of the visa, but of course I can’t remember and can’t be bothered checking. This is simply a name check (you do not need to visit anywhere for this), which costs about $30AUD and didn’t take long at all. You have nothing to worry about if, like me, your biggest offence is spending too much time on the Internet. 

The info packet will contain all the specific information on how to fill out the SEVIS ($35USD) and DS-2019 ($160USD) forms online. Here it’ll help to talk to other people going through the same thing as you, because I had a bit of trouble paying for my DS-2019 application. Here is where I fail as a DCP blogger, because I can’t remember why I had trouble and how I fixed it. I can tell you though, that the online application was very thorough. It will take you about a half hour, and have some contact details prepared. Like your passport, you need some people to vouch for you that aren’t family members. Once you’ve finished the online application, you can make an appointment to go to the consulate. 

Because I live in Melbourne, I did not have to travel to get my visa. I went to St Kilda on public transport, got worried that I was lost when I actually wasn’t, and realised that it was freezing outside. Being a consulate, you would expect the building to be glaringly obvious. Not so. In fact, I had no idea whether or not the building I had passed was the building or not - it’s another official looking place amidst other official looking places, but in an area which feels almost rural compared to the CBD in the city. I truly imagined an area like where you would find the Magistrate’s and County Courts. Wrong. Anyway. I was freezing, and very early, and drank hot chocolate in the conveniently-located cafe next door. Then I stood in a line for about 15 minutes (there are signs directing you) before I came in. Don’t be scared or nervous. If you have been to an official building before the process will be familiar - you confirm your appointment, follow the instructions, have your things checked and your bags handed into security. (I visited Barwon Prison twice over two years for VCE, twice because I wasn’t an asshole and listened to my teacher in year 11, this experience was a thousand times more hardcore in comparison as you would imagine). 

Another person from Sydney gave me the impression that the visa interview was incredibly daunting. For me, it was not so. I stood in a line in a very well heated room for a time (I forgot to mention that we had to catch the lift because of reasons. The lift was great. It was half made.) before being called forward to a booth. I was lucky to speak to a lovely American woman, to whom I had to give my passport and my DS-2019/SEVIS forms. She asked me why I was going to America, and was delighted to hear about my program. I’m under the impression that they’re well aware of the program, because in my case the conversation turned to how great Disney was, and how I was so excited to go there and how she was thrilled for me. I had my fingerprints scanned on something out of a sci-fi film (twice I got my rights mixed up from my lefts, how), before going to the next person to go through more of the same. He reviewed the same forms before telling me my visa had been approved, and to go and pay my reciprocity fee before returning. This cost a little less than $150AUD. 

I’m going to end the post abruptly here because that’s pretty much the entire process. I’ve just realised I should probably have mentioned the DOC and hire documentation, but this post is extremely long like the others, so I’ll try and write a brief description of those tomorrow. See you soon!

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by unfinishedlines

“Do you see it?” Troy whispered as he stared up at the light fixture. Abed nodded. “It’s the Death Star.” “No,” Gobi said, already knowing what they were thinking. “Abed, we agreed the only extra object we were getting were the recliners,” he said to his son, ignoring the confused look from the other. “It’s the Death Star,” Abed repeated, his face and voice strained just enough to seem pleading. “The Death Star, Baba.” Troy leaned out from his son’s side with his hands folded in prayer on his chest and his eyes brimming with tears.

Gobi Nadir accompanies his son and his best friend on a trip to IKEA to get furnishings for their new apartment and gets much more than furniture out of the trip.

Words: 2882, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Community (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Gobi Nadir, Abed Nadir, Troy Barnes, Abed's Mom (mentioned)

Relationships: Troy Barnes/Abed Nadir, Abed Nadir & Gobi Nadir

Additional Tags: Have some fluff to make up for all the hearts I broke with my other piece, Troy and Abed going shoooooooping!, Gobi Nadir Is A Good Father, Not the father-son relationship we got but the one we deserve, Set in Season 3, Casa Chez Trobed, IKEA, You can read it as Pre-Slash or Slash either works, Just know that they are in love, Troy Is A Good Son-In-Law, Fluff and Humor, Troy and Abed Being Dumbasses, no plot to speak of, Gobi Nadir POV, Canon Character of Color, Canon Muslim Character

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Shah Rukh Khan shares perfect family pictures from their Maldives vacation, see pic

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Shah Rukh Khan shares perfect family pictures from their Maldives vacation, see pic

After having a fun-filled vacation in Maldives, Shah Rukh Khan and his family is back to the bay.

Now, the actor has taken to his social media to share pictures with his family as they enjoy their time there.

Shah Rukh Khan shares perfect family pictures

Sharing the pictures, he wrote, “Perfect handstand. Perfect Harmony. Perfect Sunset. And Perfect wife. (sic)”

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  Perfect Handstand. Perfect Harmony. Perfect Sunset. And Perfect wife!! Thank you @jumeirahvittaveli and @makeplansholidays for a Perfect Holiday.

A post shared by Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) on Jul 22, 2019 at 4:33am PDT

The first picture appears to be of Aryan doing the ‘perfect handstand’; the second features SRK and little AbRam enjoying underwater diving; the third is a lovely photo of Suhana posing amidst a breathtaking background and the last is of SRK and Gauri. 

Before these pics, SRK had posted a video of himself, in which he wrote about leaving Maldives. He captioned the pic as, “Feeling bad having to leave the Maldives and especially all the wonderful people at Jumeirah Vittaveli. Thank u for a lovely holiday @JumeirahJV will miss u all.”

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  Feeling bad having to leave Maldives and especially all the wonderful people at #JumeirahVittaveli. Thank u for a lovely holiday @jumeirahvittaveli will miss u all. @makeplansholidays

A post shared by Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) on Jul 21, 2019 at 4:26am PDT

Earlier, Gauri Khan had shared an adorable photo of her three children, Aryan, Suhana and AbRam from their vacation.

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  My Three Little…..❤️

A post shared by Gauri Khan (@gaurikhan) on Jul 21, 2019 at 8:44am PDT

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Shah Rukh Khan to be honoured with another honorary doctorate from Melbourne’s La Trobe University

On the work front, Shah Rukh Khan recently collaborated with son Aryan. They both lent their voice to Mufasa and Simba in the recently released ‘The Lion King’. The actor is yet to announce his next film. 

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uhhh 5+1 jabed?? springsteen road ship? cooperative stationary? all sound wonderful so please feel free to share <3

hello I lov u <3 

so 5+1 jabed came about bc I know remedial chaos theory is mostly a v trobed episode but I love jeff’s face when abed calls him a conniving son of a bitch so this is like a vaguely ~5 times abed surprises jeff and 1 time jeff gets him back~ kinda thing

springsteen road trip I will probably never post bc it is SO self-indulgent and pointless but im actually v much enjoying writing it, basically on my jeff loving springsteen bullshit again lol it takes place a year after the show ends and it’s basically abed taking jeff on a cross country road trip and seeing all the lil springsteen-related landmarks in jersey and just kinda rediscovering themselves as Them post-series

cooperative stationery is jeff as a greeting card writer and abed as an illustrator and their slow budding romance explored through the lil codes they leave each other in their cards <3 I may never finish this one but I really like the lore in this one with all the other characters too so we’ll see lol