#what an ice surprise

[magicaleggplant]

The Case for Same-Sex Figure Skating: Why It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of the Ice

Gabriella Papadakis has written an essay on ice dancing with Madison Hubbell, and the issues caused by heteronormativity in figure skating. Please give it a read!

Figure skating has the potential to be so much more. Imagine a sport where skaters are free to lead, follow, or simply express themselves—where the artistry isn’t confined by outdated stereotypes. What if the next generation of skaters saw same-sex partnerships as normal? What if breaking these traditions inspired innovation in mixed pairs? What if we stopped teaching women to shrink and men to suppress their artistry? Thinking about all the talents that we’re losing and those we’d gain back: shorter men who love to dance, tall & muscular girls whose strength could be celebrated rather than concealed. Skaters who don’t see themselves in the expected gendered expressions but still have things to say. We dance on frozen water and skate on a surface that contains the fluidity of life itself. I’m wondering about all the art that could emerge from this beautiful sport. All the artistic & athletic diversity. I believe these changes would elevate the sport—not diminish it. They would create more room for individuality, artistry, and excellence.

[teamingmate]

Important update, my Antarctic horror fic is middle-aged Danbert. I have a plan

EDIT: Whoop it's here (ao3)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

it doesnt need to be said but its genuinely so funny how at-the-hip charles and erik are in krakoa like they really had the green light- the OBLIGATION- to be as obnoxiously close to each other as possible and abused that right to the fullest extent

[demaparbat-hp]

In "For the Spirits", will Zuko eventually tell Katara he met her mother?

Oh! I was hoping someone would ask me this!

You see, Zuko actually [REDACTED] that he [REDACTED], but that happens after [REDACTED] in Chapter [REDACTED]. Of course, [REDACTED] didn't expect [REDACTED] to [REDACTED], and I don't think [REDACTED] ever really [REDACTED].

That's one of my favorite scenes!

[lyrelock]

lonely pluto

[seleneprince]

Another user pointed it out for me and I now so love this even more.

Do you know the best part of Nesta ending with Eris and Elain with Lucien?

That it would fulfil the "two sisters for two brothers" phrase

[fisheito]

i told myself that yakuei only had one position then i proved myself (sorta) wrong

my fave face here:

[jtl-fics]

Fluent Freshman - Part 16

PREVIOUS

Sweeties is very busy tonight but they get a table relatively quickly. He sees some people looking at their group all dressed in the ‘required’ attire for going out to Eden’s and reminds himself that maybe it’s for the best that people remember him tonight. It MAY help the police find his body in a shallow grave somewhere if they can piece together his last few hours.

Nicky stops by the salad bar and grabs three packs of crackers. He hands one pack to FF who just stares blankly at it before shrugging and figuring his stomach needs something so he opens the pack and just eats the crackers.

Nicky looks at him with an abundance of fondness that he doesn’t understand but shakes his head and hands a laminated menu over to him to order dinner from. “I know you’re not drinking but you still gotta take your meds before we leave.” Nicky reminds and FF nods. He reaches into his pocket to confirm that they’re there and feels something cheap and plastic.

Oh god, he forgot to take his Happy Meal Toy out of his pocket. No one needs to know that.

He shoves his hand into his other jacket pocket and the sandwich baggy with his single dose for his Ulcer is right there.

He starts to look at the menu when he realizes that everyone else already knows what they’re going to order since they apparently come here regularly. He tries his best to never be a regular at any place where they can see him and repeat his order back to him (Hello CVS girl, yes thank you for holding some Pepto for him. No he is very brand loyal and would not like to try Tums thank you.)

FF stands behind the art of the panic pick.

He has cultivated this ability over his many years of panicking. He can look at a menu and pick an item that might not be the thing he most wants on that menu it is something that he can eat or drink. Then while he has that pick queued up and ready to fly if a member of the waitstaff comes over before he’s actually read what’s on offer he has his panic pick.

A place like this has GOT to have a burger.

He finds it under the sandwich section easily enough and now he has his panic pick as he peruses the rest of the menu.

The waitress comes far faster than he had anticipated and slams waters down at each of their spots. “What can I get you?” She asks and before anyone says anything Nicky and Aaron slide over the two packets of crackers that she takes before looking at the empty packet in front of FF, “Just two?” She asks.

WHAT KIND OF CODE IS THIS?

“Just two.” Nicky says grabbing his trash and handing it over to her.

She shrugs, “Anything else on the menu I can get you boys?” She asks.

They all make their orders and Nicky, bravely, steps in to remind him he likes his burgers well done when the waitress asks.

“Sorry, I should have warned you.” Nicky laughs bumping his shoulder against FF’s “This place has this stuff called cracker dust, it gets you high but it’s not addictive.” He says.

Every single 80’s PSA goes off in FF’s head all at once.

NICKY “FLIPS TURTLES BACK ONTO THEIR FEET” HEMMICK DOES NOT LOOK LIKE HOW THE ‘JUST SAY NO’ ADS HAD SAID HE WOULD.

There’s not a trench coat! He wasn’t even wearing a hoodie with the hood up! There’s no sunglasses! Nicky had given him a baggie for his ulcer meds but IT WAS A SANDWICH BAG.

“I see.” He says out loud.

“Do you wanna try some.” Aaron asks. He double checks and yeah Aaron is still in the same club clothes he had left the house with. He has on a hoodie but the hood is down.

He does as any 80’s teen sitcom protagonist does by the end of the episode.

“No thank you.”

He thinks Mr. T would be happy that he said No. That ad had been especially nerve wracking as a kid when Mr. T ‘shakes some sense’ into the camera.

“Alright, no worries. Neil and Andrew don’t do any either.” Nicky says quickly.

The drugs come with the food and Nicky and Aaron pocket them before handing over cash to the waitress who just counts it right there. He focuses on digging into his burger and realizes it has jalapeños on it but Nicky volunteers to eat them with his nachos and lets the conversation weave around him as he polishes off his burger and takes his ulcer meds. “Oh cool, hand me the bag so I can keep our stuff in there.” Nicky makes a grabbing motion with his hands and FF just hands it over.

He zones out as he eats his fries. He wonders if Great Gran is upset watching him or if she’s happy that he said no to drugs. Maybe he should have said yes, then he could at least be blasted out of his mind when Andrew dragged him to the basement.

Well, it’s too late now.

The waitress comes and clears out their plates but picks up her notepad and pen again. “So, what ice cream do you boys want tonight?” She asks and looks straight at FF.

But FF is prepared.

Ice cream places are easy. His panic pick is a given, it’s Vanilla. Every ice cream joint has it so he barely even notices how his heart rate kicks up to 190 BPM and his palms grow instantly sweaty.

“Vanilla.”

“Sorry Hun, we’re fresh out.”

OH GOD. QUICK, SAY SOMETHING ELSE.

“Surprise me.”

NO YOU IDIOT SAY CHOCOLATE.

“Surprise you?”

RETRACT, IT’S NOT TOO LATE.

“Yeah. Surprise me.” He repeats and he can FEEL Nicky vibrating with laughter next to him.

“Alright Hun, I’ll surprise you.” She winks at him and he blinks back at her.

The rest of the table all order (They’re all normal people who order strawberry (neil), the special with chocolate (Nicky), Lemon Sorbet (Aaron), and Brownie Fudge (Andrew).

“Surprise me.” Nicky whispers to him.

“I panicked.” He whispers back.

“Yeah obviously.” Nicky snorts but pats him, “It’s fine. The worst is you might end up with Pistachio or something.” He pats FF on the back.

FF likes Pistachio and the world loves to make FF suffer.

“Here you go hun. We just got this in, it’s Mango.” She says setting down two scoops of a bright orange ice cream down in front of him, “With a little surprise.” She winks again as she sets the other ice cream down.

They all get started.

Why is the Ice Cream kind of spicy?

He eventually puzzles out that the waitress has served him a Mango and some kind of pepper (probably habanero) ice cream. She smiles when he thanks her for the surprise, tries not to let it show how much the spice is KILLING his stomach let alone the acid of the mango.

Andrew has his eyes narrowed on him and he’s sure the man doesn’t want him to make a scene at a place that seems to be a frequent haunt for the family. So he eats every last bite and ignores how his lips tingle.

“Ohhh it must have been good. Maybe we should get you her number.” Nicky says looking at his empty bowl.

“No, I’m good.” She was pretty but considering the acid currently swirling in his stomach she probably thought he was an asshole for asking for her to ‘surprise him’. Even if that wasn’t the case, what if she thought it’d be cute to serve him this spicy ice cream as a cute couple thing? His stomach can’t take that.

“Aw man you’re no fun.” Nicky pouts.

They pay for their meals and the waitress hands him his receipt with a wink. He nods back at her before shoving the receipt into his pocket next to the Megamind toy. “Have a good night.” He says.

“You too Hun.” She says.

They head out for Eden’s and in a way the ice cream is a blessing because his stomach hurts enough that he barely even notices his anxiety about being at the place where Andrew most certainly is going to stab him at least once by the end of the night.

MASTERPOST FOR ALL PARTS OF FLUENT FRESHMAN AU

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The requests to be added to the tag list got spread out across a few  different mediums on this one so if I missed you I swear it wasn’t malicious I’m just brunch dumb at the moment. Remind me in the replies!

As stated before if you’re up here and I spelled it  right but you  didn’t  get a notification there might be something  switched around in  your settings that won’t let me tag you properly?

[petit-papillion]

📸 AlePassionF1

Okay Charles, not to toot my own horn here, but I think my ice cream names are a little more imaginative. Happy to offer my services to LEC. Although I do really like Vanillove.

[sarahlancashire]

tagged by @airesgay, thank you <3

Rules: Shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the 10 first tracks, then tag 10 friends to do the same

good luck, babe! by chappell roan

wrong again by kirsty maccoll

working for the knife by mitski

head over feet by alanis morissette

over my head by fleetwood mac

dreaming by blondie

please, please, please let me get what i want by the smiths

wedding bell blues by the fifth dimension

think about me by fleetwood mac

my life would suck without you by kelly clarkson

tagging @alisonscotlock @juliewlters @moxyphinx @elssbethtascioni @pea-green @tevos @lizmitches @notprincehamlet @majoris @luthqrs (feel free to ignore!!!)

[novelconcepts]

I finally sat down and watched To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar last night, and the whole movie was a gift, but seeing Robin Williams in a brief uncredited role was the opposite of a jumpscare. It was like getting five more minutes with a friend you thought you’d never see again. What a wonderful little moment in a wonderful, iconic piece of queer cinema.

[iceiceicecold]

haven’t seen a single topgun hockey au (shocking) so might just say fuck it and draw it myself

[out-of-heaven-and-hell]

Velvette has appeared! What to do?

Leave

Smooch

Throw drink

Marry

[agentmilayawithshield]

Tell me media literacy isn't dead when we have people judging Alicent and Cersei by the same metrics, making it so that Alicent is the worst one out of the two, because Cersei "at least loved her children".

Comparing these two is like judging a fish and a monkey by their ability to climb a tree.

Cersei had all of her living children under her own conditions. The moment her marriage to Robert started to sour, she said "Fuck you 🖕" and went ahead to have three kids with her twin brother. She had children with someone who shared 50% of her genes. That's like a double fuck you, since her kids are not only NOT ROBERTS, they are over 50% hers genetically. (Which a Westerosi wouldn't know ) But to Cersei, who sees Jamie as "herself but a man", her kids are hers, and hers alone. So of course a self-centered narcissist like Cersei loves her children. She sees them as an extension of herself.

Alicent on the other hand has her first child at 15, with a man probably triple her age. She has three more before turning 20. She was a child raising children, with no support system, deep religious trauma, slowly stripped away from her identity. Her whole life becomes the Faith, her sick husband, and children she doesn't know how to connect to. And despite everything, she still loves them.

Is she a good mom? No. But neither is Cersei. They both let their sons run around doing whatever they want, deeply neglect their other children, give them no support. But they also do everything for them, no matter how misguided their judgments are.

Cersei is "better" only because her children never got to show their fully formed identities in front of her. They live and die as nothing more than a part of herself. Alicent's are old enough to see her beyond childhood wonder and innocence.

[omppupiiras]

first the käärijä gig i was gonna go to got cancelled, and when i tried to think about nice things instead i thought "yay at least this week i'll finally get my pc album AND the käärijä print with jere's autograph that i've been waiting forever for 🥰" (because i ordered the cd & the vinyl together and the the vinyl is coming out this week 😭)

AND YA KNOW WHAT I GOT IN MY EMAIL TODAY.... "sorryyy we didn't get the signed käärijä pics in time, well ship it to you later" JERE YOU LAZYBONES get back here from your winter break and sign some stuff!!! 😤😤😤

[yeyayeya]

I’m sorry but the things that have happened in the last few hours have been overwhelming like

The Yuri on Ice movie being cancelled, rumors about the TGCF manhua getting cancelled and starember leaving (I have my personal opinions regarding the artist), and now rumors mentioning how Immortality (erha/2ha live action) and Winner is King (sha po lang/stars of chaos) are releasing on May 1st but later getting taken down???

Hello what the fuck is going on???