AO3: Darkicedragon Just a fanfic writer of tiny fandoms. Tends to write gen, crackish premises, domestic fluff, and non-human instincts. Reblogs wolves, politics, and whatever makes them laugh. Will talk paragraphs at you at any given chance. Especially if it's about writing. Also overuses emoticons. Swears casually. Unable to read something without liveblogging it. If you want to use anything I've mused, conversations I've had, and make it into a comic, fanart or fanfic, go right ahead! You don't have to ask me beforehand. Agender/ asexual/ aromantic (they pronouns)
"autistic people need instructions for every simple task" okay how about we talk about the neurotypicals not following clear instructions. what do you mean it didn't work the way you wanted, i gave you the instructions. oh you didn't follow them? you didn't see where i clearly indicated the directions you were supposed to follow for this task? and you're shocked it didn't turn out right? you decided to pull a Jared I'm 19 and go rogue? you're surprised the road less travelled isn't fucking paved because no one travels it? do you get off on this
Anybody who has spent any time working in retail, hospitality or IT can tell you that a not-inconsiderable number of NT people cannot follow a fucking instruction if you wrote it down on a piece of paper and stapled it to their forehead
The slide in the first post bothers the fuck out of me because heās using his right leg to slide on the ground.
So, I ride a motorcycle and I know at least the theory of doing a power slide (still cool but you donāt slide nearly so much and you need a pretty light bike to do it most of the time). You have to lock the back wheel until your back wheel looses grip on the road and then turn sharply to the left. Rear wheel slides and the front wheel turns.
But how do you lock the back wheel you might ask? Well with your rear break of course.
WHICH IS UNIVERSALLY UNDER YOUR RIGHT FOOT! How the FUCK is he locking the back wheel, with his shifter on his left foot??? Not possible. The creators of Akira knew it, and so did everyone that homaged it. The post above gets it right even if heās likely on a slider and being pulled back.
This is why I love tumblr. Where else could I find gifs of back to back tribute references and a perfect explanation of why the above doesn't work and how you would need to do everything to ideally execute to move in question? Thank you for explaining, fellow tumblr friend.
the biggest problem with it is the fact that theres no sense of momentum at all, the bike looks like its going at about walking speed and theres no sparks or dust or anything, and the gratuitous slow mo just kills any momentum even further
But I wouldn't get into the cypher that much since they do kinda tag team and go straight in because lol Americans. (Tbf, I'm not signalling to go in and others do go in before them if they signal first)
But hanging out and vibing. š¤
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Breaking open session!
Oh wow is it normally this quiet or is it because it's the summer holidays. š Was all 4 of us who were there for the start of the open session ahah. It eventually got to 9.
5km run beforehand and then rushing over and then constantly checking the time to leave by 930. Just. Doesn't feel too relaxing. I did have more energy compared to after a class which is hilarious actually. š But yeah, I was more concerned about time and that I was Wasting Time by not going into the cypher and - :/ This is not the vibe I want to have.
Annoyingly I had backseat brain yapping about I'm really not that good to go into the cypher again compared to everyone else. But yeah, everyone else is also trying stuff out and making mistakes and that's totally fine, shush u.
I did go a couple of times. I managed to get the kneel into flip over into chair freeze, but I still don't know what to do after that. Positioningwise, it seems to be the easiest way for me to get out is a queda de rins, so I Guess i gotta get back to practicing that as well haha. Either that or maybe this is a way for me to get into the headstand.
Also managed to do the 6 step direction change as well. :D
The American breakers, who I came over specifically to say goodbye to for their final session here, didn't arrive until 30 mins later lol. OTOH, yeah, once they do arrive I feel my chance of actually getting into the cypher lowers drastically, so either way I get some bit of practice haha. And yeah, they're busy with all the logistics stuff they need to do right now. š
One of them gave me chocolate. š„ŗ because yeah they need to get rid of some and can't eat it all themselves lol but still!
Also, American teacher seems really touched I remember stuff she mentions and I ask about them later. I'm just??? I know my memory can be stupid stronk but also?? U told me thing?? I want to know if thing went okay?? But also she's expressing gratitude and not taking it for granted and rhhshsbe YEAH. SOCIALISATION.
Practiced some handstands. I'm definitely feeling better with that now, and I'm hanging out in the air for a second or two when I tap off the wall. :D Progress!
I realised I only brought my hoodie and not my beanie for headstand practice. ā¦.WOW my beanie makes such a difference. š i only managed to practice it once before I went noooope that's so much pressure on my head!
Did some more practice w the changing directions with 6 step too.
Someone was giving out advice later on. Some of it I knew. He was showing us a standing 6 step and for the third step, I was turning it into a queixada lmao. The capoeira comes out eventually.
He was also talking about ways to get down to the floor and. Yeah. When I'm in the cypher I just forget different ways and just drop because I just wanna do the move I'm thinking about.š So I need to practice THAT too lmao.
Saying bye at 930 and teacher is like š„ŗ 'Already?'
Duuuude. Even leaving at 930 and chances are I'll be sleeping Late š We shall see.
Final/mid verdict:
Doing the monday session is doable. I have more time than I thought to go between the run and the session (originally thought I'd only have 30 mins to finish the run and arrive at the studio), so I'm less rushed.
It's nice going to the session and trying things out.
Being honest with myself, I wouldn't practice at home and would catch up on tumblr dash lol. If I did practice, it would be for 3 tries and then move onto something else.
With the dance classes ending this week, I've got Tuesday and Thursday to catch up on dash anyway. š
More practice getting comfortable making it known I want to enter the cypher and actually trying the moves/sequences I'm thinking about.
If i can make sure I both leave at 930 and that I don't youtube scroll, I can get to sleep at 1030ish.
So at least for the summer term, yeah I think I can do the Monday session! We'll see how i feel after a month and when I have more classes on lol.
in 2026 i am wishing for all of us the energy of bilbo baggins, who was headhunted for an extremely well paid role he had no qualifications or experience for, blagged the interview, and within his first week found a magic ring that does the job for him
I am not convinced by this wish. Personally I hope as few of us as possible are offered free use of a costly, poorly documented device crafted in secret by our enemies which saps our souls every time we use it.
Unfortunately, it is 2026, and most of us work with computers.
so this guy right he makes ancient egyptian themed furry costumes. he makes all kinds but mostly he specializes in Horus heads. it's his passion really. he loves to make the beautiful falcon head of the Sun God. anyway so he's at a con one day and he sees this whole bunch of people in middle kingdom dress with these indistinguishable animal heads. he's like. oh man these folks could really use a new source, i can hardly tell what animal those are! so he goes over and he says "hey guys! i see you are into ancient egyptian mythological themed furry costumes--if any of you are interested in being the radiant Son of Ra, I am the BEST in the business!"
and the group of people look at each other, then at him. awkward. finally one of them says: "uh. no thanks. we're all Set."
Bouldering staff member comes up to us and asks us if we're working on a route. We're like, 'No, we're working on the one beside it'.
'Hmm, okay, because I've seen a lot of people doing it the harder way.'
So of course we're wanting to try it out now, lmao.
'Hang on, why are we doing this one?'
'Because I know you guys can do it.'
š„ŗš„ŗAwwww, he believes in our abilities! And I got further than expected! :D I'll have to do a bit of a jump and grab, but the start seems doable!
There's another route on the overhang-slab, where there's all of four holds. I need to sloth hang with one foot heel hooking onto the starting hold so I can reach the next hold. Aaaaand then it's 'just' mantle up, rock over and piston squat so you're standing up and can reach the final hold. šI can just about mantle up, but it's either re-positioning my hands so it turns into a press hold, and also rocking over to pull myself further. The piston squat may be the easiest part if I'm able to just lie on the lab part. It's fun and I wanna try it again! >8D
I just want to say, if you've ever worked a low-level office job and thought 'wow this is piss-easy', that's not a sign that the work you were doing is objectively easier than other types of work, it's a sign that you were good at it.
by which I don't mean 'stop de-valuing office work' bcos that's not a real problem, no-one is doing that, I just feel like a lot of young people aren't aware that e.g. being able to type fast and accurately, open up a computer program you've never used before and figure it out unaided, are marketable skills, not things that 'everyone' knows how to do.
I've worked in 'easy' office jobs for 6 years now and believe me, some people are bad at them & do not find them easy.
In a job-hunting group I was in once, one woman talked about how, when the power had gone out, she and some other staff members carried all the vital paperwork and some chairs and tables down several flights of stairs to the sidewalk out front (where there was daylight to work by) and processed a bunch of clientsā needs, at least temporarily, and rescheduled appointments and stuff so that when the power came back up everything was still fairly organized and no clients were just turned away. And we all said āThatās the kind of thing you need to include in your resume.ā And she said, āBut anyone can do that; thatās not anything special.ā And weāre all staring at her, going, āNo, they canāt. Yes, it is.ā
That thing you know you did/do really well? Itās probably special.
Being good at an office job takes skills. Real skills. It's just that, especially if you're of a certain age, you learned some of these skills at school already.
Figuring out software, maintaining complex directories, customer service, balancing multiple tasks, interpreting policies, and so on are all skills.
And some people are Very Bad at these skills. There's a trainee right now at my office who might not make it through her training period because she doesn't have these skills.
I find my job super easy. Every person I've ever tried to explain large parts of it to just glazes over when I explain certain processes that I can do in my sleep (and that's not a me being bad at explaining stuff -- one of the many things I'm responsible for is literally explaining THEIR processes to them, and I'm told I'm very good at that bit).
I've spent a lot of my career getting dragged in to meetings to fix problems that I thought had easy solutions... but, like, no one else saw the solution.
And I also know what my boss has to do, and I do not want his job.
Don't devalue things you think of as easy at work, because chances are they ain't.
when I first got my current admin job I explained to my boss that I need things written down, I need hardcopies of stuff because I have an awful memory and I find it easier to keep track of things by noting it all down, otherwise I just get confused and overwhelmed
and he told me 'I'm the opposite, I keep everything in my head, I've always had a good memory so I'm not good at writing stuff down which is a problem when I have to communicate things to other people, that's why I need you, you rely on doing things that way so you're better at it than I am, I can't do what you do'
sometimes your greatest weakness can be your greatest strength, you just need to find an environment where it can flourish, nobody would have guessed I could be a stellar administration officer keeping a whole small company organised based on how fucking abysmal I was at waiting tables
