I realize this is a rather serious event that took place earlier today, but if someone told me this was how 2025 was going to start even yesterday, I would have laughed at the ludicrous poignancy of the idea. Yet, here we are. Looks like a damn renaissance painting, or AI slop trying to be a renaissance pop-culture slop, but nope, reality is insane.
But you can see that while Hoodie knows the song and is setting the aesthetic, Glasses is the one actually leading the dance! West coast swing is a style where the follower (in more traditional dance, the woman) is being led but is actually the one moving more. You can see that Hoodie is the one taking up the slot and Glasses is giving him something to hold onto while mostly just getting out of the way–which is what the leader does.
so in the hobbit when offered a cup of chamomile tea by dori, gandalf instead asks for wine; but when offered a glass of ‘the old winyards’ by bilbo in lotr, gandalf instead asks for tea. from this we can draw one of two conclusions:
a: hanging around thorin oakenshield was enough to turn gandalf to drink
or
b: getting to know a recklessly be-tooked bilbo baggins was enough to make gandalf reconsider his life and realise he needed to be the sensible and sober one
c: gandalf just likes to be contrary and will never accept whatever is specifically offered
