#competitive speech

[yourlocalavian]

Currently trying to memorize my original oratory speech on GenZ anxiety..

...it's like almost 15 minutes 🫠🫠🫠

And I present part of it on Saturday (ik how dare it be on valentines day) and all of it Monday and Tuesday 😭

Woohoooo.....

[arinwritesstuff]

Sharing this here cause technically I did do a lot of writing for this project.

I researched, wrote, filmed, edited, and made (English) subtitles for this 47-minute-long video essay. It’s a massive analysis on Ainosuke Shindo/Adam from Sk8 the Infinity and the way he interacts and impacts with other characters. It was definitely a labor of love and hyper-fixation and, from start to finish, making it took about two weeks. I would greatly appreciate you guys checking it out, especially if you follow me for my fics.

I was a competitive speech kid in high school that had to stop after only a year due to several factors, most of all a cross-country move right before the pandemic my sophomore year. Writing and filming this felt like I was tournament-prepping and giving speeches again. When I was writing it, I legit had to stand up at one point and read part of it out in front of a wall because that felt the most familiar to me (if you did competitive speech/“forensics”, you definitely know).

[pepper-m00n]

the romantic tension between me and my multiple tabroom/nsda tabs open goes crazy

[theronanlynchshow]

last speech comp of the regular season is tn!! if i cook tonight I’ll probably make the district team :DDD

[pepper-m00n]

date idea we watch a national final round and I pause every two seconds to explain my detailed analysis of the speeches

[yourlocalavian]

Avi if you're seeing this when I sent this 🫵 get some rest don't answer this lol 🫵

That out of the way how is your debate thingy going? Ik you've talked about it a bit but are you having fun?

Heheh thank you Blubbbb ~ I was doom scrolling on Tumblr back at my hotel when you sent this and was like: "Darn it my wife is making me sleep", so I did :P

Its going good though!!! And yeah I have been having a lot of fun.

Its pretty stressful but these are veeeery good life skills to learn, and ive been honored enough to actually be power-matched against two of the top teams in the nation here, so I've felt pretty good about myself for that 😋✨️

....but ughhhhh im so tiredddd.... I have another impromptu speech ay 10:45 (pst), and then my next debate at 12:45 😭

.....aaaaaaaaaaaa......

[yourlocalavian]

Debate round 2/6 done!! Yayyy 🎉🎉🎉

I'm free until 5:30 (pst) now cause I'm not doing parliament or the second speech pattern~ (there's so many different speech categories so they split them between two patterns. I did impromptu in the first one~)

Thennnnn the final three debates and my final impromptu speech will be tomorrow~

....yayyyy....

[yourlocalavian]

Just gave my impromptu speech..

It was...

Heh..

Heh heh...