#Performance Guarantees

[dailyhatsune]

miku celebrating new years a little too late

sorry but it’s actually early! happy eve of lunar new year everyone

#hatsune miku #vocaloid #piapro studio #doodle #ask #diamondbrickz #random rambling: i feel like i’ve seen more lion dances than dragon dances? #like. i know how both work given where i live and how long i’ve lived but #i can at least guarantee i’ve seen a lion dance performance every year #can’t say the same for dragon dances; which is a shame because the performances are so cool #a dragon chasing down a pearl…

[raininyourblackeyes]

I don't think I'll ever be eloquent enough to express completely what his skating means to me. Just thinking about any of his performances makes my soul full, and brings a smile to my face. If I remember what he had to endure as a competitive skater, and that life is not a paradise for him even now when he truly deserves it, then some of that happiness/hope/admiration/awe/etc some of it morphs into something a bit mournful because he deserved and deserves the best. He is the only skater with a program that made me cry, and the only skater I was willing to stay up the entire night to just to see a few minutes of his art.

Hanyu Yuzuru, thank you for picking figure and artistic skating over everything. 19 was stellar for you, so I hope 29 will go in the same manner. Happy birthday GOAT.

I will spare a few minutes to rewatch a program of yours today. Most likely Haru yo, Koi, I think I need that one the most.

#me: i have no words #also me: a half asleep essay #for real spare 5 minutes to rewatch your fave yuzu performance i guarantee it will make you happy #basically my feelings about his skating boil down to this: i am in love with his skating #and i'm so thankful he chooses skating over everything #but also i want him to be able to have a normal life and those two i think are a bit contradictory (in light of certain events in his life) #anyways i'm going to sleep now #figure skating #yuzuru hanyu

[moxielynx]

spider-man 2 lost all categories in goty so heres some parksborn to cope

#the real fucked up thing about it is yuri lowenthal not winning best performance #like i thought that was a guaranteed win #something had to have happened behind the scenes theres no way he actually lost........ /hj #spider man 2 ps5 #insomniac spider man #parksborn #spider man #peter parker #harry osborn #lynx posting

[darkwood-sleddog]

man i am sometimes baffled by the dog posts that reddit's algorithm pushes to my account.

what do you mean you're literally holding your border collie's head up with your hand as they walk to force them to learn a "head up heel" or whatever you're calling it. like just. fucking. teach the behavior with engagement games, it is literally one of the first things i was taught in a basic group obedience class you absolute buffoon.

#dogblr #dog training #you have a fucking border collie and you're saying you need to phyiscally force the dog to look at you??? #something is very wrong here if that is the case #dog of course looked unengaged and shut down as hell #bc r/opendogtraining is a cesspool #and i am tired af of it being pushed on my dashboard or whatever reddit people call it #these people are not good at training dogs to do stuff #and get irate when people get dogs to perform the same behaviors through science based and positive means #just how do you have a border collie #arguably the patron saint of being able to be taught things with positive engagement #and you teach it like this #100% guarantee this person thinks using treats is 'bribery'

[southstand]

i’m not being funny when i tell people who say sonny’s ‘too soft’ to be captain and that he’s half the player without kane and that other players deserve the captaincy more than him to get the fuck out of my club and the fanbase like honestly fuck off

#genuinely fuck you man is this how you treat an all time pl legend who’s had 400 appearances for our club #and who’s scored more than 100 goals and regularly gets 15/20 g+a a season #we’re so beyond lucky he didn’t fuck off to real or pool when he had the chance #like genuinely you only really appreciate what you have when it’s gone this lot were crying about sonny being gone for the asian cup #chatting wistfully like ‘oh sonny would’ve buried that’ #now he’s had a few shite games you want to pull the plug wallahi you don’t deserve him or his loyalty #it’s a two way street man he’s given us EVERYTHING you could at least do with a bit of respect #it boils my blood when ppl say he’s half the player without harold fuck off man #if the roles were reversed and sonny had gone to b/yern then guarantee he would be having a similar season to him lmfao #this lot doesn’t deserve the love and commitment sonny has shown to spurs again and again #and fuck off abt him being too soft to be captain and abt giving it to romero genuinely #you lot will only ever praise cuti when he has good performances while the rest are shite #and suddenly he’s proper captain material??? the guy you lot were calling a hothead??? #wallah if cuti heard all this he’d clock you one genuinely

[tubapun]

Using James Gunn's Scrappy from the Live-Acton movies as justification for hating Scrappy is the equivalent of reading a salt fic and claiming the character did that stuff in canon, he's literally that far off in characterization

#scooby doo #modern scrappy hate is literally so performative i guarantee the average person posting scrappy hate memes was not a kid when he came out #and has their entire idea of who he is based on the one film or even just the memes that hes hated #not saying no one hated him at the time #but if you asked the average timblr user why they hate him they would not be able to give an answer other than 'cuz memes'

[lily-blue-blue-lily]

ncuti fucking gatwa!! what a man!!!

#unless the writing for the new series is absolutely abysmal #i can pretty much guarantee already that hes gonna be my favourite ever doctor besides ten #he is #so good #doctor who #am i honestly not certain how i feel about the ending of the ep otherwise #i dont hate it but i dont love it and i dont really know what to think #the toymaker performance was impeccable #and the horror vibes for the bit with the doors was perfection #i really hope the horror vibes keep going into the new series because its so fun #i love it when my silly little alien show becomes all dark and fucked up actually #anyway ncuti gatwa is a god i am obsessed with him #genuinely the most perfect casting ever

[eternal-reverie]

Something in the back of my mind has been bothering me for a long while, and I figured out what it was. I have this tendency of censoring myself when I speak? I dance around a subject, which I keep hinting at, but never explicitly say what I want to say, and when someone doesn’t pick up on that, I get disappointed when they don’t help me open up to the topic.

#the disappointment deepens and I guess the fear of truly opening up of showing my self flaws and all is scary #in short I’m scared to have an opinion!!! #also when people ask me what I’m into reading to watching oh man I feel the pressure to pitch it and possibly defend it #and instead I just vaguely share what it’s about for the sake of not spoiling the experience #then the envy I feel when other ppl share wholeheartedly what they love and take their time with it explaining #and they explain it so clearly and I wish I could do that #click clack #the problem was so vague it’s taken me awhile to discern #I’m guessing this all stems from being made fun of or dismissed for my interests 😔 #a long time ago but the effects still linger #the fear of being perceived is all wrapped in me #I do the same thing here. it bleeds to all the ways of socializing this day and age #I wish I were one of those ppl who have a more lively social life online and talking to ppl regularly #but my first instinct to a message is to close the notification and leave it for later because it’s so intimidating!!! #it feels like I have to perform an image that’s guaranteed to be liked rather than just be me authentically #ok I got to the crux phewwww uhhh lol got all my vulnerabilities out in the middle of the night

[dislocatedshoulders]

LOOKIE WHAT I GOOTTTTTT 😍😍 (I am so in love with this)

#I literally watched it as soon as I got it #GUYS I THINK I HAVE PURPOSE NOW (no guarantee) #slipknot #disasterpiece #disasterpieces #dvd #live performance

[throwaway-yandere]

Everyday I feel like an idiot cuz I'd look up the yandere dimitri tag to see if there are new fics and become a sad puddle when there's nothing when I can just. Write. It. Myself? I can. I can write. Somewhat decently. The frick is stopping me.

And then I remember I have real world responsibilities and the cycle repeats for the next day hAHAHAHHAHA. Aight, going to sleep. It's time for that new samsara.

#the super secret other reason for not actually writing a yan!dimi fic is cuz I know #i can't exactly share it to my friends cuz they haven't played the game 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #and I'm mostly a genshin blog— i feel absolutely sad abt how when I do non-genshin ones it doesn't perform well #when will i find a fire emblem three houses moot shbfjajdisjisjsks where is this soulmate #if i ever find that person I fricking guarantee you I will absolutely reset my whole tumblr lore. #dain? who??? there's only ever been dimitri. ayato? HAHHAAHA who?— #my lore would be just an officer's academy alumni who writes in their spare time and I'd go on pretending #genshin is like the fricking Iliad and Homer— “heard they're written by the author Hoyo but I'm pretttyyy sure that's a collection of #authors and not just one person” #and then I'll be like one of the dante alighieris of “Genshin Impact”. boom. mic drop. war starts. /j #lord knows id be a very different person if i had a yan!fe:th content creator moot. lord knows it takes one “bad day” for me to #become the joker /jjjjjjj #ansy-stalks #yknow what. #i bet 500 mora that if i look up the ansy-stalks tag 90% of them has longer tags than the post itself hAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

[qqueenofhades]

Obsessed with the fact that if the idiot MAGA board of supervisors in deep-red Cochise County, Arizona keep refusing to certify the county election results (which they are currently doing because of Something Something Election Fraud... in their own uber-Republican county, oop), Arizona law requires the statewide results to be certified by a hard deadline anyway, regardless of whether one county has done so. So in that case, the winner of Arizona's Sixth District US House race would flip... from a Republican to a Democrat.

It wouldn't be enough to flip the whole House back to Democrats, but my god, it would be funny.

#hilary for ts #politics for ts #oh look it hurt itself in its confusion! #strike up the band boys #play that old classic #'fuck around and find out' #what are a bunch of maga lunatics to do? #admit they lost? #or stick to their guns and lose their boy his house seat #lmaoooo #i can guarantee they did not know this prior to pulling this stunt #because republicans are not interested in law or governing #only performative fascist clownery #anyway yes bless

[sexynetra]

New redboynetra dropped lads

#she’s just a little sillygoofy #also neech baby I love you but please dissolve those fillers 😭 #but anyways! I’ve been seeing some good videos of her performing lately I hope she looks cute tonight #I hope I say as if it isn’t basically guaranteed #drag race #rpdr 15 #rpdr #drag race 15 #anetra #RuPaul’s drag race #RuPaul’s drag race 15 #boynetra #rednetra #redboynetra

[sanstropfremir]

I saw the comment on your last ask and wanted to ask what's your 5th gen theory? I know that for me actually looking at the years 5th gen should have started already but it feels like we're still in 4th gen because no one other than a few girl groups have blown up the way that 3rd groups both boy and girl had and anyone who has gotten popular has been in last year or two. Making a big three comparison exo in their 3rd or 4th year was in a very different place than stray kids or treasure now

fifth gen HAS already started! just not where or how you would think. and for clarity's sake: i don't categorize gens by group popularity, and that would be a moot point anyways because the success of previous gen groups is never going to be replicated on the same scale because of how dramatically the industry has changed.

my fifth gen theory is this: there's already starting to be a generation change in the last year, but it's being lead by smaller companies who are unable to sustain the current fourth gen performance model, and subsequently there's either going to be a delayed transition where the big four companies will be the last to debut fifth gen groups, OR there's going to be a full split where big four and other well funded companies can keep producing groups in the fourth gen method, while every other smaller group has an entirely different performance method.

the main characteristic of fourth gen has been very strong and heavy dance skills paired with difficult choreography, on a scale that's much more extreme than previous gens. although a lot of third gen choreography was probably harder on its idols' bodies thanks to the acrobatics, third gen idols were still trained as well rounded performers and were able to transition smoothly out of their stuntmen eras and still be able to maintain their group's artistic identity. in order for companies to ramp up the spectacle factor from this, instead of tricking + stunts they prioritized technically difficult dance, which has translated into the bulk of fourth gen idols being by large, probably the most technically skilled generation of dancers. however, like i've said in previous asks, that has come as a detriment to pretty much every other skill that used to be trained into idols. making the sacrifice of dance vs singing is fine for companies that have the funds to support having big spectacular cbs and have large stable fanbases that consume uncaringly, but it's more of a problem with smaller companies who are getting priced out of being able to afford cbs to even hope to match the scale that fans are coming to expect. so as a result, they're going back to training their idols as more holistic performers and simplifying choreography. i know a lot of people are not paying attention to the rookie bgs but a lot of the ones from the last year and change have been a totally different calibre of performer than the established fourth gen groups, and it's likely to continue that way. my hypothesis is that the last company to catch on fifth gen is going to be the next jype bg, and how they perform is going to be the indication of if there's going to be a staggered transition or a full split.

#fourth gen has been the shortest gen (only 2-3 yrs) bc its such an unsustainable performance style #you can already see some of the big groups falling off in terms of ability + consistency #the shape of fifth gen is probably gonna look like a combo of second and third gen #kpop questions #sm groups almost always lead a gen transition without actually being part of the gen itself #see: tvxq (i subscribe to jaejoong's theory that they're gen 1.5) exo and nct #and they've lead into fifth gen again with aespa #sm has also always holistically trained their idols so tbh i would argue that sm has NO fourth gen groups actually #but all of aespa's choreo has been really heavy on second gen style point moves and throwback imagery #which has been picked up by a LOT of other groups #and some groups are pulling references from early third gen (like fifty fifty billlie trendz + just b) #anyways #no guarantees any of this actually plays out im just speculating based on what i've seen #also ppl always say that fourth gens are just nct knockoffs but they are NOT! #we are likely actually to see more fifth gen groups be nct knockoffs than fourth gen ones bc fifth gen groups will actually have the skills #to do so. see tempest dragon and atbo attitude #text #answers

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: May 10

"The Ghosts of Beverly Drive” by Death Cab for Cutie

#song of the day #lovely rain today and exactly the right amount of cool and windy to get the smell of it in my room #spent my morning performing excel magic tricks for a /very/ appreciative audience I must say #one of my coworkers is very much in demand for help with identifying poorly-labeled fields in our oldest query structures #she's been around for a million billion years and can glance at a column and effortlessly expand its useless acronym title #I tapped her for a question and she was answering me on what I did not realize was an open zoom call in the conference room by her office #and then when she finished answering me she asked me for help with an excel formula in exchange #and I helped her (an easy fix. she is /not/ good at logic structures. always goes for OR when she needs AND and vice versa) #and then I was teasing her and said how she didn't have to hold onto her questions until she had something to barter with #that I like fixing things and I'll help for free #and then her laptop was physically wrenched around by another coworker farther down the table #(not as disorienting as actually being grabbed by the head and bodily turned but even over zoom it was still an Experience) #and the accosting coworker asked if that went for everybody. could anyone ask me for excel formula fixing help. please /please/ #and I was like yes? can't guarantee I can do anything but sure? how much help could you need? #y'all I gotta say. like battling an enthusiastic and especially unthreatening hydra. chibi excel hydra. #it was incredibly satisfying after so many days of intense frustration to have problems I could so easily solve and for such grateful folks #and some of their formulas were pretty fun to set up. always love the little glimpses of behind-the-scenes in special exceptions #any time you put in conditional formatting for if a single specific person's ID is in the 'comment entered by' cell #there's a story there #anyway I heard so many people say 'I don't know why' this morning and then it was such a perfect cool gray day #I've been humming Ghosts of Beverly Drive all evening #'I don't know why I don't know why / I return to the scenes of these crimes #where the hedgerows slowly wind / through the ghosts of Beverly Drive'

[detectivenyx]

is that character moment really wasted potential or is it a tragedy to further the themes of the text that you've decided is wasted potential because your beloved blorbo was just another victim instead of the hero who saved the day

#look this could apply to virtually any of your blorbos that you say this to #but for the sake of an example: kaede. #her sacrifice is a lot of things. positive and negative in both ways. #a thematically relevant sacrifice that haunts & drives the rest of the narrative including a destruction she could inspire but not perform. #a misogynistic move to market heavily with 'the first female protagonist!' and then immediately drop her for another boy. #but one thing she isn't is wasted potential. #kaede's potential is fully utilised. death is fucking powerful. #a death isn't just 'a cheap gut punch' #or where it is it shouldn't have to be. #a character might not be able to interact with the narrative in the traditional sense #but with death being the only one guarantee we have it is one of our most powerful narrative elements. #what that death means can be as diverse as what one's life means.

[countessklair]

listen, i don't care if gary can't cook. he was raised by two women, his mom and his nan. that boy would be hygenic (you know that his mom and his nan taught him how to clean a house and more importantly himself), he would be respectful, he would be emotionally available and more importantly accepting of your emotions, and to top it all off, he wouldn't blink an eye at anything his girl wanted while on her period. plus, he'd be equally down to watch sports as he would whatever trashy young adult drama is all the rage (gary watching the vampire diaries?? please it'd be so cute) because he is ALL masculinity, NO toxic

#litg gary #gary rennell #litg #litg s2 #i stan a man who's so comfortable in himself like that #yeah he's got his struggles but performative masculinity is NOT one of them i guarantee you