what the fuck. theres not even a fucking joke here. its just the fucking alphabet. i was expecting some kind of fucking meme like “gun” or “john cena” or something like that but no its just the fucking alphabet. here. on tumblr.com. 26 users just fucking banded together to write the alphabet. what the fuck, man.
I think the update broke them, and almost everyone else.
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73… I got so angry at this post I had to reblog it and continue
The grave of Marie Taglioni, a ballerina who pioneered the en pointe style of dance. Young dancers often leave their dancing shoes on her grave.
to some of the comments I’ve seen on this—
Marie Taglioni had a different body from other dancers. Modern ballet dancers end up with ‘bad backs’ because we’re trying to reshape ourselves like her but we don’t talk about it.
Looking at that photo, you can see her sloped shoulders and bent-backwards posture. Her head and upper body look pretty relaxed, but if you try to draw a line down to her feet, there would have to be a deep bend in her lower back. That’s something she’s doing intentionally.
It’s unclear at this point whether Taglioni had scoliosis or some other atypical bone structure. It’s clear from portraits that she always had those rounded shoulders and when she stood naturally, the curve of her spine made her lean forward quite a bit, suggesting kyphosis. Although she came from a major ballet family, as a young woman she was repeated rejected by ballet teachers, who referred to her (apparently to her face) as “that little hunchback”.
Training on her own with her father, she developed a way to tuck in her lower back, raising her arms above her head, which lifted up her ribcage so she looked…kind of more like a typically-bodied person.
But it didn’t really make her look like everybody else. Apparently, the posture (and the hours a day, every day, she spent building the strength to hold it with ease) made her look eerily weightless compared to other dancers at the time. To add to the effect, she built up her calf and ankle strength until she could dance for long periods en pointe, which had previously been a very occasional stunt (which involved a lot of arm-flapping, trying to balance. Her statuesque still arms and sheer strength made it look good for the first time).
Her father choreographed the first Romantic ballets, all about faeries and ghostly maidens, to showcase her floating look. She wore knee-length skirts to showcase her gnarly calves and awesome footwork.
When La Sylphide debuted in the spring of 1832, Paris was boiling up toward the June Rebellion (you know, all that in Les Mis). Her scandalous skirts and the dark, haunting sentiment of her dances spoke to the wonder and grandeur and fear Parisians were feeling as they questioned the fundamental order of their world. (She made Parisian teens feel like you feel when you listen to Les Mis.) She was a big fuckin’ hit, performing in the same Paris Opéra that had refused to enroll her as a student.
You know that most basic image of what a “ballerina” is? Arms up high in that pretty frame that starts to hurt real quick and your butt tucked in and your hips all weird? That position wasn’t part of the ballet canon before Taglioni.That’s us trying to make our bodies look like what Marie Taglioni made with her body because people were assholes to her.
Dancers started leaving shoes for her blessing, in a way asking how they can struggle to do what she made seem natural.
That’s us still telling most people they don’t have “the right body for ballet” while we tell the few people who do that they still aren’t enough, because we want people to look perfectly aesthetically able-bodied while doing the thing that a non-normatively bodied woman created for herself.
I’m not saying able-bodied people can’t dance! But hey, maybe we should think about it before we tell anyone they have to dance or be shaped one way.
(In case you’re wondering, it’s not clear if she’s really buried at the be-shoed grave in Montmartre or if that’s her mama. So that’s one of a couple reasons we can’t figure out whether she had a particular condition.)
Honestly? Most of them wouldn’t even register it. In TF: Matrix particularly, they literally don’t have sexual organs in any way we’re recognize them, and vice versa. Gender and sex are functionally meaningless to a transformer who hasn’t been living on earth among humans extensively for some time, and they wouldn’t recognize any physical features by function. Not to mention, humans are like…always wearing pants. You wouldn’t ask a truck if they have five connection ports or three, would you? That’s rude af! It’s tucked away under your armor for a reason!
Not to mention that if you were to point at a Cybertronian’s crotch and be like “Okay, but what have you got there?” in most cases it’d be their T-cog (most frametypes have the T-cog stored in the pelvic cradle, where it’s heavily armored and at the base of the spinal chain. They probably assume humans have similarly vital organs in their own skeletal pelvis that need to be protected.
That is, assuming these cybertronians know enough about humans to realize that they’re wearing pants as opposed to just have naturally denium-clad legs.
Most cybertronians default to they/them when talking to humans because gender just isn’t a thing for them. Alternately, they may ask what a human’s pronouns are or if they’re feeling confident- they’ll make a guess based off what they know of social signals. It’s not a perfect science, but they can pick it up fairly quick- even though they often make the initial mistake of assuming that gendered pronouns are linked to profession rather than anything else (IE “All military individuals are He/Him” or “All caretakers of offspring are She/Her” to the chagrin of female soldiers and dads everywhere)
It’s worth noting that, as well, cybertronians interacting with humans will generally just adopt whatever pronouns humans first start using for them, save for a few rare instances- Starscream is initially referred to as “she” by Unit E before realizing that there’s a stigma to being seen as “female” by these particular humans, and only then do they insist that humans refer to them as male, versus Arcee who self-identifies as female in human terms, effectively adopting gender to include her, when otherwise she may be seen as genderless by others.
So, yeah. Cybertronians likely wouldn’t ask unless they were being polite, but 90% of the time they just straight up wouldn’t care or understand, or they’d just ask what to refer to you as. I mean, Cybertronian pronouns are a lot easier, you just gotta be like “yeah, the Red Truck over there.”
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