#uniform programs

[sea-jello]

hong kong miku,,,

[demon4dilfs]

more pics of Terrence Mann as Javert on Broadway, 2003

[formosusiniquis]

🪱 Wiggle Wednesday🪱

Thank you @paperbackribs who tagged me last week, I saw it while I was in class and immediately forgot until I saw people posting their things today. But I'm always excited to share my current brainworms

This is a scene from a fic that I pick at every now and then, so it's basically always on the brain. It started as something about Lucas and Steve and trying to explain away the slight anachronism of Steve (popular and rich) being in Nikes before Jordan made them cool (thank you Air) and it has turned into something much more about Lucas and also his Mom relating through a shared love of basketball and Steve is also there.

It’s a Friday night after the end of the world, and strangely Lucas is at a basketball game.

Or maybe it’s only strange because it’s so normal.

A Friday night in a small town and there isn’t much to do except support the home team. Only Mom won’t watch football, she calls it barbaric, so she reserves all her team spirit for November when basketball season starts. Lucas’ skin itches a little under the Hawkins Tigers shirt he’s wearing, as he’s pretending to be normal when a couple weeks ago he learned monsters were real. What can he do though? Mrs. Byers has Will on house arrest, Mike is still mourning Eleven, and Dustin hasn’t been allowed out since Will’s Lazarus act.

Maybe he’s being too sensitive. Steve is here, who Lucas mostly knows from Mike complaining about being Nancy’s stupid boyfriend. Steve is playing like everything is fine, even though Lucas knows Steve knows. He heard whispering about it with Nancy when he went to the bathroom the last time he was at Mike’s. But Steve is smiling as he paces down the court. Miles better than the other players around him, when Steve has the ball Lucas feels like he does when he’s watching a real basketball game on the couch with his Mom.

If Steve can act like things are normal. If he can sink three pointer after rebound after assist, maybe it’s okay that Lucas is wearing his Tiger green. He floats down the court and everyone cheers. But no one cheers right. When #21 Hagan gets a rebound off of Seymour’s best player, a girl’s voice screams so loud it makes his throat hurt. No one cheers that way for Steve. It’s just excitement for the game, not for him and the way he is playing.

When the game ends, Hawkins 73: Seymour 42, and the crowd storms the court Lucas stands by his Mom in the bleachers. She hates feeling the push of the crowd against her and as he gets older, and people’s hands get rougher, he’s starting to understand. He’s too old to be caught standing by his Mom though. After everything, he knows better than to move too far away from her; going to the game with your Mom is one thing, being the kid getting called out over the intercom because she can’t find you would be life ruining.

Lucas watches the thinning crowd while he waits. Parents and girlfriends crowding their sweaty players. He doesn’t want to get caught looking at any of those boys for too long now that they aren’t playing. He isn’t sure why. So he keeps looking for something familiar.

Steve is standing beside a short, dark haired man who’s got what his father calls a beer gut. He doesn’t look anything like Steve, but he’s also the only adult anywhere near him. He’s the only person at all that’s really near Steve. They’re talking excitedly about something. He claps Steve on the back and whatever he says next has Steve looking down toward the floor.

“Is that Steve’s dad?” he asks his mom before thinking about why that might be a weird question to ask her.

“Who?” The way she says it makes him sure she hadn’t actually heard the question. She’d caught a name, when he interrupted her conversation with the lady next to them, but not enough to answer. It’s a free chance to drop the issue. To say sorry, never mind, and go back to watching people move on the floor below them.

“That guy,” she slaps his hand down as he goes to point. “The guy next to Steve, number 8, is that his dad?”

“How do you know him?” The question, instead of an answer, startles him enough that he looks at her instead of Steve. Stern, he knows he doesn’t want to lie to her, but he also isn’t sure how to say that this random high school boy saved two of his best friends’ older siblings' lives.

“He’s Nancy’s boyfriend. Mike talks about him.”

If he’d just waited. He would have gotten his question answered without asking Mom. They both watch as that man says one more thing to Steve, shakes his hand, and walks out of the gym. “I don’t see Nancy here.” Because they both know he doesn’t really need his other question answered anymore.

“I don’t think she really likes sports.”

Mom sucks her teeth, a judgmental tchk that has heat climbing the back of his neck when it's not even for him. "Well that's a shame, he's a good player." There's finally enough space on the floor that they could leave. He wants, desperately, for them to just go cause something about this conversation is making him feel guilty again. "Do you want to to say hi?"

There's nothing he wants less than that. Lucas thinks if he has to go up to this guy, who went toe to toe with a monster, while his mom trails behind he'll die. Lucas thinks if he says hi to a guy who has only seen him maybe twice in the context of Mike Wheeler's house, and has to sit there while Steve blankly accepts his congrats he'll melt into the floor.

"Can we just go home? I still have homework."

And some tags to @fuctacles, @cauldronoflove, @thefreakandthehair, @stevespookington, @stevieharringtonwifeguy

@eriquin, @grasslandgirl, @augustjustice, and anyone else who wants to play!

[wildflowercryptid]

all i can think about rn is the art club gang ( juliana, mela, amarys & kieran. ) if i hadn't had to take a benadryl earlier and feel too tired to do anything, i'd be doodling them rn.

[sirompp]

BOO!

yeah so IMMEDIATELY after seeing the @dreamperson-poll tournament i went a bit ham and did not stop till i had drawn my boy :)

[esa-shygurl]

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[publicuniversalenemy]

i have obtained a SIGNIFICANT and POTENTIALLY CARCINOGENIC BIOHAZARD and im BEYOND EXCITED ABOUT THIS

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Who Here Likes School?

Ai does. In fact, school uniforms are her favorite design to make, and in Dreamlike April, you watch her take on commissions and design new outfits. But why is she working so hard? And why is she saving up so much money if she doesn't need food or rent?

But don't worry about school or assignments. The next designer is so sweet and friendly, she'll help you forget all that stress. She is an Envoy, after all.

[sunbeamsandmoonrays]

The IOC is full of spineless cowards 😤

[crazysodomite]

i have hangups about 'official' clothing because of school uniforms 🤦‍♂️ i couldnt afford a 'good' school uniform

[mossboys]

the past few weeks have been the most insane in recent memory. i’m also going back to school in a month so it feels like life is going at 200mph

[the2amrevolution]

They are taught a fuck ton of things for safety reasons including proper form, proper protective gear fit (which is also inspected and replaced and there's large amounts of science going into improving it), and physical conditioning exercises to maintain the strength and flexibility needed to perform the actions they do. Penalties for unsafe techniques have been increasing dramatically in the past 10 or so years and extend beyond the field.

All impact related activities have risk of injury and wear on the body. That includes the most basic impacts from just running to heavier impacts like contact sports. The most common sports injuries are repetitive use injuries from lack of conditioning, lack of cross-training, and obviously, excess repetitive use. The number one sports for producing injuries in children are soccer and baseball because they have too many games and occur most of the year, versus one game a week for 3-4 months.

Any coach worth anything encourages their players to keep up workouts in the off season and will encourage their players to participate in other sports depending on their interests and strengths. Staying active during the off season either with basic body conditioning exercises or other sports with different types of movements reduces injury risk significantly.

Coaches use a variety of resources to determine safety of weather conditions for the activities done at practices, frequency of breaks, and supply of water, electrolytes, and food.

Coaches who do not do these things and put players in dangerous environments are child abusers.

One thing that does need to change for all sports and just in general for children's health is the procedures of their physicals. Physicals are already required to participate in rec league and public school extracurricular sports, but they aren't very thorough and are easy to breeze through as a practitioner leading to missed signs of possible problems. Pediatric providers generally don't know how to recognize abnormal hypermobility unless it's very dramatic or know how to advise parents and kids on how to care for hypermobile joints. "Growing pains" are still a commonly believed, under-researched myth (they have nothing to do with growth) and lead to missed diagnoses. There's no requirement for EKGs, even though cardiac arrest is the main cause of sports related deaths. While a proper exam using a stethoscope can be enough to access cardiac risk, an exam that relies entirely on the examiner's senses and attention and an environment with minimal background noise can miss signs that EKG would pick up. An EKG isn't going to miss something because the patients little sibling started talking or mom sneezed. Given that we have now had a pandemic of a virus known to cause cardiovascular damage in people regardless of prior health or age, updating that requirement seems like best practice to me. Reported family histories is also overly relied on for ruling out risks. Family history should increase likelihood of reported conditions, but a lack of reported family history should not decrease likelihood of possible conditions. There are so many factors that may cause a condition that is present in a family to now be reported, from lack of medical access by family members, estrangement or just not having close family relationships, general forgetfulness, the family history form only having a little bit of space or only listing certain relationships so they leave out things that could be relevant, etc.

What sports can provide to children is extremely valuable, and we owe it to kids to provide them with skilled, properly educated, and safety oriented coaches and thorough medical exams. Spreading lies about safety standards and vilifying sports based on your lack of interest in them causing real or perceived rejection from family or peers does not make them not a critical part of societal provisions for child development alongside public education and all other extracurricular activities.

[ad-astra-de-luna]

that weird feeling when you realize that the uniform shirts your boss left you to try on/have are probably ones that the coworker whose position you've filled left behind when she resigned

[glitchdecay]

my tags in lrb were funny because who the fuck names their kid one half of the word ''detective"? but it's actually not as funny as 田中刑事.

"but wait, nadia, that's just 'police detective Tanaka,'" you say.

except it is also the name of Tanaka Keiji, retired figure skater, born November 22, 1994.

[asbestos-11]

it always gets to me how cyno is technically in the judicial branch of the govt, so like in a modern setting he'd be a law major. here's your 5 years of college, masters guaranteed

[iamsecretlyabagel]

I get that they have to pay the instructors but why is it costing me almost $110 to get CPR certified