#THIS IS SO AWKWARD I LOVE IT

[jamesrodayrodriguezpresents]

legacytheatrect Who’s ready to rumble? Welcome to Ringside Rambles with our own Artistic Director, Keely Baisden Knudsen, and her longtime friend, collaborator, and the co-producer of MASTERS OF PUPPETS, James Roday Rodriguez! Curious how this no-holds-barred new play about the world of professional wrestling ended up on our stage? Check out their conversation, and join us for MASTERS OF PUPPETS opening this weekend at Legacy! legacytheatrect.org/masters-of-puppets

#masters of puppets #legacy theatre #james roday rodriguez #Keely Baisden Knudsen #video #this is so awkward i love it #two actors without a script everyone

[beybuniki]

they should go on a fishing trip pt.1

#DONT COMMENT ON THE BACKGROUND I KNOWWWWWWWWWWWW #anyway this is day 1. they take a bus. the bakugo household has fishing gear so ´deku is wearing bakugo's onesoe (?) and bakugo is wearing #his dad's. and notices he has grown :') #anyway they take a BUS and don't feel like doing this at all it's awkward for so many reason #also trying to relax after everything is neurologically just really hard they might be hyperivgilant dik #and there's so much they never got to unpack bnut they have to and they have to start somewhere and with someone #deku makes that flower crown while bakugo preps everything and they both look at it and are thrown back into their childhood 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️ #and at first they just sit and wait for the bavarian fish to bite (rody should make a cameo tbh) but then bakugo breaks the iceeee. #and he starts with their moms because their moms have been such a stubbron connection between these two :') #and deku answers with the usual 'good :) how's your mom :)?' and to everyone's surprise he actually opens up #and tells deku about his mom's insomnia because she watched her son die (that shit was live streamed tpo 10 bnha tweets btw) #idk i love to think of their moms being a very easy subject to connect through i think it's easier for them that way to be more vulnerablei #and then some fish biteeeeeeeeeeee #but like 3 small ones so they have to gather berries and mushrooms and make stew (dw there's an aldi this is bavaria after all) #but yeah day 1 is a bit weird like it's just them in the woods with no distractions #which is so different from whatever went on during their 1st year of high school #don't read this i will throw up i just need this somewhere this is my public scrapbook #bnha #deku #midoriya izuku #bakugo katsuki #the flower crown on their knees makes this a bit homosexual but fishing is always homosexual im not fighting against that #au: #fishing

[whatohitsonfirewelp]

You know what? I don’t WANT an awkward double date. I don’t WANT buck coming out and people having the ‘I know’ reaction or the ‘is it Eddie’ reaction.

You know what I do want?

I want Buck panicking over what to wear for the date. I want Buck flopping on his bed like very teenager after their first kiss all giggly and happy and touching his lips because he kissed a boy

I want Buck smiling every time he says Tommy’s name because maybe it isn’t forever and maybe he’s not even looking for forever anymore but he’s so happy and he’s so light and being with Tommy feels good

I want Tommy to keep calling him Evan, because before Buck was Buck he was Evan and Evan deserves to be happy to be treated so softly and lovingly and Evan deserves to be free.

I want Buck to be happy. To be happy and free and queer in the way we all deserve.

#the other things are nice I guess #buddie would be nice #but honestly I don’t care anymore #I just want to see a happy queer character in media #because we don’t even fully have that with hen and Karen #their journey wasn’t an easy one #and why can’t we get queer characters who have a soft loving kind story #whatoh back at it again #evan buckley #tommy kinard #eddie diaz #911 abc #give me a giddy buck who’s nervous and unsure but so excited #give me a Buck who’s awkward but so determined to make this work and to discover more about himself #give me a Tommy who is so soft with him so gentle so kind #because don’t we all deserve that love? doesn’t Evan Buckley deserve that love? #for once I don’t want the angst for him I just want him to be Happy and Free

[pherredraws]

hug! that! captain!

#bbc ghosts #ghosts bbc #this is the type of thing that wouldve been too cheesy for the tv show but is so lovely to imagine lol #get hugged jimmy boy #julian is sort of hug adjacent because i don’t think hes much of a hugger. well and hugging him is a bit awkward #yes the star is mary #fanny putting her hand on his arm/back fucking killed me though. if he got a hug from anyone i wouldve been obliterated #cap and kitty hug in the christmas special please please please pretty please #ik humphrey was whole in the coming out scene but i cannot be bothered to fit his giant ass outfit in there. sorry king

[wynnnxy]

Slow dance with you

#svsss #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #bingqiu #mxtx #i love them so much #anyways i feel like shen yuan definitely never had the chance to slow dance with someone in his first life #so one day hes like #binghe let this master teach you a dance from his hometown #and binghe is such a fast learner #give bingqiu the awkward high school slow dance they deserve #wynn arts #the scum villain's self saving system

[coccinelle-et-chaton]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VERSION OF SUKI OMG

bbygirl tried to flirt with sokka by showing him cool warrior moves and he is SO intimidated by her omg i love themm.m

#I LOVE THIS RENDITION OF SUKKA #IT'S SO PERFECTLY AWKWARD #both of them giving THE strongest bisexual energy to exist in mankind dbdbssb #and suki lowkey having the tism i love her so much #natla spoilers #natla #atla #atla spoilers #sokka #suki #avatar the last airbender #sukka

[betaminshitto]

wasn't going to do any Valentine's Day themed stuff but woke up with this idea in my head and ended up drawing it anyway haha!!

#shanks x buggy #akagami no shanks #buggy the clown #shuggy #one piece #fan comic #betamins #never experienced the complications and awkwardness of teenage love so i must draw the most embarrassing things #they torment me #one piece au #red haired shanks

[inkskinned]

you're grabbing lunch with a nice man and he gives you that strange grimace-smile that's popular right now; an almost sardonic "twist" of his mouth while he looks literally down on you. it looks like he practiced the move as he leans back, arms folded. he just finished reciting the details of NFTs to you and explaining Oppenheimer even though he only watched a youtube about it and hasn't actually seen it. you are at the bottom of your wine glass.

you ask the man across from you if he has siblings, desperately looking for a topic. literally anything else.

he says i don't like small talk. and then he smiles again, watching you.

a few years ago, you probably would have said you're above celebrity gossip, but honestly, you've been kind of enjoying the dumb shit of it these days. with the rest of the earth burning, there's something familiar and banal about dragging ariana grande through the mud. you think about jeanette mccurdy, who has often times gently warned the world she's not as nice as she appears. you liked i'm glad my mom died but it made you cry a lot.

he doesn't like small talk, figure out something to say.

you want to talk about responsibility, and how ariana grande is only like 6 days older than you are - which means she just turned 30 and still dresses and acts like a 13 year old, but like sexy. there's something in there about the whole thing - about insecurity, and never growing up, and being sexualized from a young age.

people have been saying that gay people are groomers. like, that's something that's come back into the public. you have even said yourself that it's just ... easier to date men sometimes. you would identify as whatever the opposite of "heteroflexible" is, but here you are again, across from a man. you like every woman, and 3 people on tv. and not this guy. but you're trying. your mother is worried about you. she thinks it's not okay you're single. and honestly this guy was better before you met, back when you were just texting.

wait, shit. are you doing the same thing as ariana grande? are you looking for male validation in order to appease some internalized promise of heteronormativity? do you conform to the idea that your happiness must result in heterosexuality? do you believe that you can resolve your internal loneliness by being accepted into the patriarchy? is there a reason dating men is easier? why are you so scared of fucking it up with women? why don't you reach out to more of them? you have a good sense of humor and a big ol' brain, you could have done a better job at online dating.

also. jesus christ. why can't you just get a drink with somebody without your internal feminism meter pinging. although - in your favor (and judgement aside) in the case of your ariana grande deposition: you have been in enough therapy you probably wouldn't date anyone who had just broken up with their wife of many years (and who has a young child). you'd be like - maybe take some personal time before you begin this journey. like, grande has been on broadway, you'd think she would have heard of the plot of hamlet.

he leans forward and taps two fingers to the table. "i'm not, like an andrew tate guy," he's saying, "but i do think partnership is about two people knowing their place. i like order."

you knew it was going to be hard. being non-straight in any particular way is like, always hard. these days you kind of like answering the question what's your sexuality? with a shrug and a smile - it's fine - is your most common response. like they asked you how your life is going and not to reveal your identity. you like not being straight. you like kissing girls. some days you know you're into men, and sometimes you're sitting across from a man, and you're thinking about the power of compulsory heterosexuality. are you into men, or are you just into the safety that comes from being seen with them? after all, everyone knows you're failing in life unless you have a husband. it almost feels like a gradebook - people see "straight married" as being "all A's", and anything else even vaguely noncompliant as being ... like you dropped out of the school system. you cannot just ignore years of that kind of conditioning, of course you like attention from men.

"so let's talk boundaries." he orders more wine for you, gesturing with one hand like he's rousing an orchestra. sir, this is a fucking chain restaurant. "I am not gonna date someone who still has male friends. also, i don't care about your little friends, i care about me. whatever stupid girls night things - those are lower priority. if i want you there, you're there."

he wasn't like this over text, right? you wouldn't have been even in the building if he was like this. you squint at him. in another version of yourself, you'd be running. you'd just get up and go. that's what happens on the internet - people get annoyed, and they just leave. you are locked in place, almost frozen. you need to go to the bathroom and text someone to call you so you have an excuse, like it's rude to just-leave. like he already kind of owns you. rudeness implies a power paradigm, though. see, even your social anxiety allows the patriarchy to get to you.

you take a sip of the new glass of wine. maybe this will be a funny story. maybe you can write about it on your blog. maybe you can meet ariana grande and ask her if she just maybe needs to take some time to sit and think about her happiness and how she measures her own success.

is this settling down? is this all that's left in your dating pool? just accepting that someone will eventually love you, and you have to stop being picky about who "makes" you a wife?

you look down to your hand, clutching the knife.

#writeblr #this is a mashup of like 3 dates i accidentally went on lol #by that i mean that i was out with a woman on a date in 2 of these situations #and a man just. joined us. and we were too awkward to say anything while he tried to ''date'' me #& one was a longterm friend that i was like. you what???? #like he's nice he's a doctor and my mom was SO happy she was like raquel think about it #''it's a perfect love story you grew up together and reconnected as adults and like the same things and he's friends with ur brother #and his sister is one of ur close friends!!!'' #yes but alas. he is a boy . she only likes girls. can i make it any more obvious #anyway im tryna write about like the force of male attention being actually incredibly ingrained to women like we are SUPPOSED to like it #it's seen as the only important thing #even if ur gay #and it's a nuanced thing idk #and while rn i i.d. as lesbian #like .... it wouldn't be UNTRUE to say i am probably like ''cusp bisexual'' bc i CAN experience attraction to men bc like . #sexuality is fluid... #don't tell straight ppl tho bc they do not understand the concept that ppl don't necessarily need a solid everlasting label #they're like GET in the BOX #if ur gay & in boston i'm 30 and pretty please come kiss me. #(i usually only date older ppl sorry in advance tho)

[kalofi]

luffy and his brick shithouse boyfriend

#scary looking guy until luffy shows him slightest bit of affection then he’s awkward #ZOLU IS SO TRUE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!! #art #one piece #monkey d luffy #roronoa zoro #zolu #pls don’t mind that i have a slightly different style every time i draw it’s called having fun.<3

[my-magnus-rabbithole]

I love Jon so much. He had one heart to heart with his coworker and then immediately asked him if he was dead.

#he’s so socially awkward #I love him #jonathan sims #jon sims #the magnus archives #martin blackwood #tma #tma s1 #tma season one #mag 39

[frownyalfred]

imagine early-friendship Bruce and Clark having a spicy lunch together and Clark goes “oh wow, you must have a great spice tolerance!” and Bruce just deadpan replies “spice tolerance is achieved through repeated long term deadening of pain receptors in the mouth,” and Clark is like “uh huh…cool.”

two seconds later Bruce cracks a smile and drops the deadpan expression.

“I’m just fucking with you.”

and that’s when Clark realizes he can never trust a single word that comes out of his soon-to-be best friend’s mouth.

#thoughts on the treadmill #bruce wayne #batman #dc #superbat #clark kent #superman #I just love their early dynamic ok #they’re both so awkward

[thepunkmuppet]

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#UGH oh my fucking god I’m so in love with them I could CRY his smile :’) what a lad #he’s just cheesin #as he should tbh he literally awkward photo grins just like me #anyway I hope he has a wonderful day and that he’s happy!!<3333 #I’ve really genuinely had such a great time getting into mcr this past month it’s been so fun #thank you michael romance sir(s) I love being annoying and insufferable about things :) #gerard way #gee way #jared wee #gerald wave #jordan whale #gerry keay (real) (I swear) #mcr #my chemical romance #my chemical fucking romance #my chem

[holographic-mars]

I CANT GET HIM OUT OF MY HHEAD

#BOXWIFE MY BOXWIFE #ohhh my god I love him so much #please god make tf one Soundwave dorky and awkward I will actually die #the MOST fuckass doodle I’ve ever made I drew him so fast #soundwave #transformers #maccadam #maccadams #transformers one #tf one #mars doodles

[drunkenlion]

I love love love how Larian made Astarion:

Avoiding having sex with Tav altogether if you kinda have a wholesome relationship after he confesses that he really likes Tav for real and not just to secure himself a protector/ally. It’s so cute that he just takes some time to figure out what sex means to him in terms of genuine connection with someone and not just a manipulation tactic which has been a behaviour forced on him by Cazador 😭

He is sooo insecure about it, that I already found two instances of him mentioning it: when twin drows in Baldur’s Gate offer their services either to Tav or both to Tav and Astarion. He refuses and asks if the reason Tav would want this is the lack of sex between them. And the second time when Halsin offers to have a poly relationship and you ask Astarion about it (which he is in general chill about) but once again asks Tav if the reason is not Astarion not having sex with them.

Poor Astarion is still having fear that the only thing that can make someone be interested in him is sex. It makes me feel stuff 😰

#astarion #bg3 astarion #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 companions #I just love this train wreck of an elf so much #he’s kinda evil sometimes but he’s also not? #he’s theatrical but also sometimes is too open and awkward and quiet? #damn he stole my heart 2 years ago but now that I can see his development it’s even better #and Neil newborn did such an amazing job with voiceover #love all the intonations in his voice

[gearbroth]

REAL SHIT?

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 spy #tf2 engineer #tf2 heavy #tf2 medic #tf2 demoman #tf2 soldier #tf2 sniper #tf2 pyro #wheeze #and little gordo for me <3 #he got invited but he's socially awkward rip #myart #it was SO fun to draw this honestly askjdhsa #i forget how much i love these guys sometimes #anyway TF2 UPDATE LETS GOOO