#us classic

[mustafinesse]

#leanne #wong #leanne wong #us classic #us classic 2022 #gymternet #gymnastics #gage #vault #bars #beam #floor #all around #team usa

[jackabelle73]

I’m kinda over the hype about Simone Biles’ return at the US Classic, but I have to admit that after two rotations I’m impressed by her level of gymnastics. She doesn’t look like someone who just took two years off training.

Suni Lee has my utmost respect, out there competing after battling what sounds like significant health issues.

#gymnastics #us classic

[sunskate]

once a dancer, always a dancer☺️

#figure skating #mitch islam #us classic #lake placid

[gymfanconfessions]

“ I would LOVE shilese to win classic all around and maybe bars too with her new skill on bars. She honestly deserves the world “

#gymnastics #confession #Uneven Bars #us classic #gfc appreciation #shilese jones

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

#i often wonder about how many things would be considered classic or high art had they only received the marketing #how many short films that were made for class could have been the most powerful thing you'd ever seen? if you'd seen them? #“you know the greatest films of all time were never made” etc etc #but like. these works of art ARE being made. it's just enjoyed by a smaller audience with equal impact though #i think about this one furry i used to follow on insta who had the coolest worldbuilding ever. it's been years. #thought prompted by that sketch of nimona from ten years ago that was just for a character design #posted to the creator's tumblr and now it's nominated for best animated feature film at the oscars #and by the genuine emotional reaction a fan comic made me feel. how much work had gone into it. how beautiful it was to me. #idk what to tag this but i hope whoever needs to hear it does #writing #writer #fandom #fandom culture #artist

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[247liveculture]

Simone Biles makes triumphant gymnastics comeback at U.S. Classic, winning three gold medals and setting sights on future competitions.

#Simone Biles #Core Hydration Classic in Hoffman Estates #US Classic #US Olympic Team #US Championships #Gold Medals #2024 Olympics

[allright]

came back wrong trope but the character knows that they came back wrong. they’re so acutely aware of how different they are now from how they were before that it drives them fucking insane. they’re stuck trying to return to somebody that’s long dead. they can never be the person they once were. everybody around them knows it. deep down, they know it too, but they’re trapped in a cycle of their own making. of trying to revive someone that no longer exists.

#i am just obsessed w the idea of someone being revived that so badly wants to be the person they used to be but that person is dead. #they're dead and gone and now all that is left is the person they are now who is fucked up from being revived !!!! #it drives them to madness <3 #also whenever i think of the came back wrong trope i think of jason todd #classic came back wrong (or different at least) trope #all.right

[dark-nymph3t]

#girlblogger #girlblogging #girlblog #coquette #coquette aesthetic #coquette americana #vintage coquette #classic coquette #vintage americana #nympette #soft girl #soft pink #baby pink #it girl #just girly things #this is what makes us girls #cinnamon girl #hyper feminine

[idlesuperstar]

this speaks to me on a molecular level

#spock #leonard nimoy #star trek tos #the deadly years #cinemaocd and I are rewatching original trek to get us through the winter #because nothing cheers like 1960s pop colours #and space husbands #ok so this ep they did everyone dirty with the extreme aging apart from spock who looks fucking fantastic #also len does the BEST old person acting of the bunch #never mind the subtleties of having to make jim step down #it's a classic ep #my wee gifs

[happyheidi]

｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ. March will bring blessings.

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#let’s manifest this shit! #like we do every month #lol #March #blessings #manifesting this for all of us <3 #March pls be kind! #manifestation #cottagecore #positivity #emoji #symbols #text #light academia aesthetic #classic academia #wholesome

[sunskate]

the keeper of the water bottles😊

#us classic #lake placid

[wizardsisananimal]

#classic deviant art lick icon <|:•) #wizards is an animal #ID in alt #licks you #wizard wednesday #feel free to use this wherever #wiz classic

[formerlyanon]

Yeah sure everyone’s finally talking about Goncharov but it’s really disheartening to see everyone ignoring that it had been considered lost media till 2006 due to the actual mafia tracking the distribution to make sure almost every reel got destroyed. Please consider looking into the absolutely batshit history behind that, and then tell me that’s not just as interesting as the actual cyclical ending of the film! 

#also not to be That Guy but try and tell me that this could even be such a classic if it hadn't been lost media for so long #luglio wishes he had that influence over the US postal system #goncharov

[panthermouthh]

“When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

#frankenstein #victor frankenstein #gothic literature #gothic art #gothic lit #mary shelley #lucifer #the fallen angel #we all saw this one coming #I’m very happy w how this turned out #and yes I used colour for once and not just in the creature eyes go me #I thought about doing just the cropped version of this painting but I can’t ever make anything easy for myself #I’m glad people seem to be enjoying this series #which I guess has morphed in to Frankenstein But in Classical Art #based on the fallen angel by Alexandre Cabanel #anyway it’s Friday!! I’m gonna watch a movie and have some good food :))) #my art

[bittsandpieces]

#bitts posts #my pics #nsft #ns/fw #this feels very classic art to me i love this pic. baroque moment #what other tags do peoppe use..... #bdsmkink