#women's free program

[figureskatingfanblog]

The Japanese women swept the podium at Skate Canada. Kaori Sakamoto won the gold. Rino Matsuike had the skate of the night, winning the free and coming up from tenth to win the silver. Hana Yoshida won the bronze.

[lucy-hp]

Nina PINZARRONE (BEL) | Women Free Skating | Grand Prix de France 2023 |...

[sayalaine]

this is just not fun to watch, i want to hug all those girls. some of them looked seriously hurt after their programs.

major competitions shouldn't happen at altitude

[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!

[annainnorth]

Finally caught up to the Women’s GPF programs and Yuzu’s show, and I really hate to admit it but I actually missed figure skating 😭

(Thank you so much @yuzu-all-the-way for being so diligent and generous in sharing)

Mone did good, I’m so happy

[yamennashwan]

The war that took everything from me.My home. My family. My dreams.

My name is Yamen Nashwan, and I used to live in a beautiful four-story house in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. My life was full of promise—I had a job, dreams for the future, and a close-knit group of friends and family. But all of that was taken away from me when the conflict erupted.

The place I once called home is now just a memory. My family and I were forced to flee, and now we’re living in a small tent in Rafah City. There are 27 of us crammed into this tiny space, including 13 children and a newborn. Every day, we struggle to find food, warmth, and safety. Loved ones.

The dreams I had for the future now feel like distant memories, overshadowed by the daily fight for survival. My friends, my community—so many have been scattered, displaced, or worse. The laughter and joy that once filled my life have been replaced by fear and uncertainty.

The hardest part is the loss of the intangible things—the memories of better times, the bonds with friends and neighbors, and the sense of security that came from knowing we had a home. These things can never be replaced.

Life in Gaza is not just a struggle for survival—it’s a constant reminder of what we’ve lost. I wanted to shed light on the harsh reality we face every day. It’s a life filled with pain, but also with a small, flickering hope that one day, things might change.

https://gofund.me/d84fe805

@awesomepeoplehangingouttogether @andreakalfas @gaza @gazaboovintage @gazanarchive @helpingg @help-mywife @helobrother @support @donatellotmnt @palestine @palestinegenocide @palestinesfinest @muslimlinks @muslimdailyreminders @muslim-problems @indiangalz @writing-prompt-s

[theduchessofnaxos]

This paper is actually going quite well.

Too bad it's complete bullshit.

[mothman-dyke]

as someone who has attended a community college, an extremely small and rural state college, and now a large (50000-student!) university, I am always comparing the differences in these experiences. and am aware that each experience is going to have its pros and cons. but honestly my time in grad school at this larger university has been a deeply radicalizing and upsetting experience.

I found attending community college, even at a young age as I did (18-20) really rewarding in that, because of the age-diversity of the student body, instructors were extremely respectful of their students as people with lives of their own. That wasn't quite so prominent at the state college, but you had a lot of well-intentioned liberal-ish types. they were hyper-respectful of student-professor boundaries, were very "it's ok to be LGBT!" and still baseline pretty chill.

In contrast, my experience in grad school has been a trainwreck. professors broadly feel entitled to your time at their discretion and often feel angry if you aren't available at any time. they trample over boundaries and, perhaps because the student-body is broadly older, feel comfortable saying pretty much anything. more than anything, though, in this progressive, university in a medium-sized city, I encounter more unhinged bigotry than I did in ether of my previous experiences. (Author's note: I also encounter far less female professors, which might have something to do with it.) Male professors have trampled boundaries, made sexualized comments to female students, and at every turn condescended to, berated, and verbally abused female students who don't fall in line and defer to them. the same professors have imitated my accent, compared lesbian sexuality to porn, and been openly shocked and agitated if students don't have the newest iphones.

this post is mostly about venting. I have always been passionate about academia and loved my time at my previous institutions, and this experience has been extremely disappointing in many ways. I have never felt more aware of how progressive misogyny, homophobia, and bigotry at large work within the institution, and I am deeply fucking disillusioned.

[champagnemoon]

People are being so nasty to this girl instead of just saying they are sad they couldn’t participate in extracurriculars as a kid lmao like calling her classist and stupid because they wished they were doing shuffle ball changes and plies after school

[unopenablebox]

free grilled shrimps this evening, free donuts and eggs benedict tomorrow morning >:)

[figureskatingfanblog]

Gorgeous Double Axel. Nice Triple Lutz. Short on the last jump of the three-jump sequence, and she fell. Nice spin. Nice Triple-Triple. Nice step sequence. Nice spin. Solid Triple-Double. Fall on the Triple Flip. Nice Triple Loop. Nice spin. Nice spin.

Ack! That was a good skate from Kaori Sakamoto of Japan. It'll be enough to win here, but not the way she wanted. Two falls.

126.24, 201.21 and into first ahead of Matsuike and Yoshida - a Japanese sweep.

[lucy-hp]

Once again the ISU messed up.

Either Niina Petrokina changed nationality, or Estonia changed their flag...

I'm so proud of Loena Hendrickx. What a fantastic start of the season.

Congratulations to all three competitors for their podium

[vadergf]

Palestinian women and girls are actively being denied uterine and gynecological care. they have to use tent remnants as tampons and pads. they’re also getting infections as well. israel is actively denying them humanity. they have 0 access to care they need.

The Pious Projects is raising funds to distribute feminine hygiene kits in Gaza! They have on ground teams serving their own communities and their programs are always 100% admin free. Click the link to learn more & donate a hygiene kit. They have different tiers of donation so anything from a 5 dollar donation to a 1000 dollar donation can be done

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[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

compiling some mutual aid projects and nonprofits working in sudan. though depending on where you get your news you may not see very much coverage of the unfolding crisis, millions of people are in danger every day as the situation continues to deteriorate. i've been really astounded by the scale of your response to the earlier list of gazan initiatives, and i hope you extend the same support to these organizations too!

khartoum aid kitchen - currently running 12 community kitchen sites and supporting five others that collectively provide food for over 10,000 people

fill a heart - provides financial support to sudanese hospitals and families displaced in egypt. updates are available on their instagram.

sudan solidarity collective - supporting civil society organizations and providing psychological and educational programs for displaced people. can also donate through their paypal

darfur women action - runs programs for displaced women and girls

sudanese american physicians association - provides medical treatment and supports healthcare infrastructure

amal for women - currently focused on providing water, food, hygiene products, and shelter for displaced people. general projects include education programs for children, support and professional training for single mothers, and providing trauma care. also has a gofundme

hadhreen - provides food, water, solar panels for hospitals, children's educational programming, and a variety of other support services

hometax - provides necessities for displaced people, including food, shelter, and medical assistance. updates can be found on their instagram.

barana hanabneiho - originally focused on rebuilding and equipping schools, currently providing food, water, tents, mosquito nets, and weather-appropriate necessities to displaced people. they have an instagram and also accept donations through zeffy

saving algeneina initiative - provides a variety of necessities, including food, rain covers for tents, and medical care. works with displaced people in both sudan and chad.

sudanese red crescent society - runs health programs across all 18 states as well as delivering essential supplies

sadagaat - various initiatives including water stations and community kitchens

hope relief and rehabilitation for disabilities support (hrrds) - originally focused on disability justice programs. currently providing food, water, hygiene products, mobility aids, and other necessities with a focus on supporting disabled people and other vulnerable groups

medglobal's sudan emergency appeal - provides medical supplies, equipment for doctors, and fuel for hospitals

sudanese american medical association - provides food, water, and medical equipment, as well as training clinicians and sending extra doctors to hospitals

siha network - provides menstrual products and obstetric/gynecological care

as before, this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add any similar initiatives or organizations you know of. and as always please donate whatever amount you can and share! every small action makes a difference, even if it feels inconsequential to you.

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