Where the Wild Things are...

Nye (knee). 25. (formerly: rocknye) Queer, literally African-American, and a raging feminist. College graduate and budding author. This blog contains a lot of gymnastics, sometimes politics, and random other stuff I like. Hi.

[twoflipstwotwists]

@gymnastics: Magical Murakami 🇯🇵 captures hearts and minds with historic display 🥈🇯🇵 👉bit.ly/2JxDA5F

[tutyayilmazz]

Mai Murakami ensured that the build-up in Japan to Gymnastics at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games won’t all be about ‘King’ Kohei Uchimura and ‘Prince’ Kenzo Shirai as she won the women’s All-around World Championship silver medal in Doha.

A talismanic team figure, Murakami displayed huge grace and skill under pressure to deliver four clean routines, banishing memories of 12 months ago in Montreal when she threw away a World Championship All-around medal with an error-ridden display on Balance Beam.

“That has been the only apparatus I did – all year,” Murakami joked in Doha, before she added more seriously, “I worked so hard on it and instead of trying to get a medal I was just focusing on staying on the beam, that is it.

“And I wanted to finish with a smile.”

[agathacrispies]

[okchuso]

[yunakoroleva]

Mai Murakami’s silver is highest finish for a Japanese gymnast in aa.Keiko Ikeda and Koko Tsurumi both won bronze in 1966 and 2009 respectively

[postolympicworlds]

[murakamimai]

Coming out of tumblr purgatory just to say that I have no idea wtf I just watched

I'm super happy for Mai but how the actual fuck did Morgan not score higher than her? Why was Gelya not higher than Nina?? How did Simone not die from kidney pain??

I'm sleep tbh

[tripletwistingyurchenko]

Mckayla Maroney - #MeToo

[sparklesandchalk]

2017 World Floor Finals: Brooklyn Moors

photos by Getty Images

[griffinssclarke]

Montreal 2017 | Mai Murakami is the new Floor World Champion - the first world title for the Japanese women

[siobhanblank-deactivated2019011]

been watching livestreams of US news channels lately and

1) they have a LOT of commercial breaks

2) i didn’t realize that ads for medicine were actually like this

[siobhanblank-deactivated2019011]

ppl keep reblogging this and asking “well what are the medicine ads like in your country” and like…there aren’t any? It’s literally illegal to advertise prescription medicine here?

[jheselbraum]

All of America: God I wish that were me

[systlin]

So who’s gonna tell the Not America part of the world about our legal ads for class action lawsuits against drug companies.

[songsofstars]

*deep breath* the whAT NOW?

[systlin]

Yep. The ads run on tv like

“Hi. This is Rathford and Tyson law firm. We’re representing a class action lawsuit on behalf of people who were prescribed sybelifex for their asthma. It turns out that sybelifex can cause spontaneous bleeding from every orifice and also super cancer. If you or a loved one has been affected by sybelifex, please contact us at xxx-xxx-xxxx or go to our website at sybelifexmurderedmydog.com.”

Those are totally normal here.

[iordikachu]

PUT THIS ON MY GRAVE

[jyosef]

If you forget about the millions of injuries, this was a pretty good worlds!

But you can’t forget about the injuries. A couple would have been bad but still “okay.” This was just too many. IDK who to scream at, 

Gymnova? Maybe, at least for the floor.

Whoever was in charge of the fucking lights? Definitely.

Lack of podium training time? A little bit.

Casella? ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY. There was no way Vany should have been here. You literally PUSHED her onto the worlds team.

The FIG and the FGI better learn from their mistakes or I am going to crack some skulls.

[shutupmckaylasvaulting]

Mai and Jade making me feel so blessed with their first two tumbling passes

[jpww]

Can we applaud how consistent Mai Murakami was on floor this year?

All-Japan Championships (Prelims) - 14.250

All-Japan Championships (Finals) - 14.150

NHK Cup (Finals) - 14.150

All-Japan Event Championships (Prelims) - 14.100

All-Japan Event Championships (Finals) - 14.000

All-Japan Student Championships (Prelims) - 14.500

All-Japan Student Championships (Finals) - 14.800

Worlds (Prelims) - 14.200

Worlds (All-Around Finals) - 14.233

Worlds (Event Finals) - 14.233

[mustafinesse]

ok epke… this seems fake but ok…

[iordikachu]

THE CUTEST

[jyosef]

IS SHE MAKING IT RAIN?!

[kylarossappreciation]

Make it rain in the finals Mai

[kylarossappreciation]

MAI MADE IT RAIN!!!

[decencybedamned]

Why did this have to happen to Vanessa? She’s fucking carried Italy for 11 years and wanted a nice quiet rest and rehab and she got dragged to Worlds and fucking THIS happened what bullshit