Look at him go!

there was a guy in my drama school who was a former Olympic gymnast and he was insanely ripped and could do shit like backflip and the splits no problem, and one day he was walking around on his hands and i was like, “damn i wish i could do that!” and he said,

“No you don’t. Not really. You don’t wish that you had done all the shit I had done to be able to do this. You’d like to be able to do it without the practice.” Anyway he explained how he had done gymnastics even from when he was a tiny kid; always missing out on stuff and doing it after school; being away all the time, being a bit of an outcast; been injured several times; won a few competitions but also had many crushing losses - and just generally all the things he had to do before he could do that. And it made me a lot happier about where I chose to put my time, and I appreciated more the things I could do that he wished he could. And whenever I see someone and I’m like, “FUCK I wish I could sing like her, or look like that, or have those talents!” I remember my buff gay gymnastics Gandalf

I watched the men’s Olympic gymnastic qualifier last night and am watching the women tonight, and it’s really jarring to see the difference performance standards each are held to.

The men all have identical team unitards, nothing gets fancy, and then they go up, do their thing, and leave. No frills, no decoration.

But the women all have to have different, custom costumes and makeup, give little wrist flourishes and dance moves between their athletics. The men don’t even set their floor routines to music!

I love the outfits and flourishes and get that they’re fun, but why do the women have so much more factored into their performance besides their athletic skill?

A Potato: You have to accept that canon didn’t end the way you want. Wake up. You can’t just run away into a fandom bubble forever.

Me:

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