A Dancer Dances

Katie. 90 years old* *age unverified She/her Bisexual and recovering Southern Baptist Preschool director, but also actor/dancer/singer. Optimist and general sap. Complex. Cannot be described. Scintillating. Cute Redheaded Chorine.

[melorasmushrooms]

Reasons why Dropout raised their pricing:

- to get Jake that 100k

- to get Robert Reich

- afford a Ranboo cameo that’s only talked about in the BTS

- Brennan’s departure video

- Buying Sam’s house back from Vic

- Try Guys cameo

- Hot People, Big Tobacco, and Mr Money Bags fees

- Blurring Katie’s feet

- Magnifying Ify’s feet

- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire inspired stage

- Hush money for Angela Giarratana. She knows what she did

- Elaine Carroll appearance fee

- “Kiss From A Rose” license

- Giant Wheel

- Custom shirts for Crowd Control

- Hype squad on “One and Done”

[raspberryzingaaa]

I'm going to take a minute to be frustrated with Anne of Green Gables adaptions.

Why does no-one ever follow the story? Do they think that if they follow the plot of Anne on Avonlea their story is going to suck? It won't!

In the movies(with Megan Fallows) Anne of Green Gables was pretty good. But Anne of Avonlea was a straight up travesty. They miss out on some of the best characters and story lines and instead they smash 3 books together and it just doesn't work. The build up to Anne and Gil doesn't work as well with out him pinning for all of AoA and then all that stuff in AotI.

Green Gables Fables is actually one of the best adaption I've seen. They attempt to follow the main-ish storyline of Anne and I appreciate it.

PBS. Listen I'm sure they tried but Martin Sheen as Matthew? No. Sorry.

Now for AnnE. What on Earth. Listen, I like AoGG but it's really best as a jumping off point to the rest of Anne's life(and also a beautiful picture of girlhood) and AnnE just messed up the whole plotline.

Anyways. I could write way more in this but I have things I need to do. I just get frustrated that we keep starting at the same point and no one ever does it right so that we end up with the stories that Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island give us. Is that so much to ask? I don't need crazy drama I just want the gorgeous story that LM Montgomery wrote.

[attheballet]

Green Gables Fables is still my favorite AoGG adaptation, but Project Green Gables did a good Anne of Avonlea season. I really appreciated that they dedicated as much time to that as they did AoGG and AotI.

[salty-inc]

Gonna tell y’all what I can hear now that I got my hearing aids

[salty-inc]

Birds! They chirp and it’s so beautiful.

[salty-inc]

Far away cow moos

[salty-inc]

My friend has this is his back yard and to say I cried is an understatement.

[salty-inc]

My best friends singing voice

[salty-inc]

Chickens: *chicken noise*

Me, sobbing:

[salty-inc]

The filter for my fish tank! Bubble bubble bubble

[salty-inc]

I sit in the bass section in band. Today I could clearly hear the flutes up at the front! They’re not great, but I can finally hear them!

[salty-inc]

The sound of walking in sand.

Soft but kinda crunchy? Very nice sound 10/10

[salty-inc]

Me playing guitar for the first time. Took the hearing aids out. Not a very good sound… yet

[salty-inc]

Tree leaves in the wind. I got a little spooked at first because it’s 1 am and I’m alone in the park but it’s a real good sound.

[salty-inc]

Bees

Let me say, it was really fucking terrifying walking past the flowering tree in my backyard and hearing zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz coming from it.

[salty-inc]

“sunlight” by Hozier

I sat in my car alone while listening to it. I knew it would be special but wow, that was a religious experience.

[salty-inc]

Their hooves make sounds in the grass but they are completely silent. Beautiful creatures. Beautiful sound

[salty-inc]

Pine needles and pine cones make crunchy sounds!!! Oh my! Very nice

[salty-inc]

Colored pencils make a real nice scratch noise when I’m drawing. I didn’t know they did that

[attheballet]

My favorite advice I've ever been given is my mother in law telling me to "Marie Kondo" my biological father after a particularly hurtful incident. "Does he bring you joy? No. Thank him for his time in your life, and throw him out."

[glumshoe]

You who why I hate? Jiminy Cricket. Horrible little green man. Horny all the time. Bad at his job. And you know what? I don’t even think he was even an insect.

[alittleglassofmilk]

Explain please

[glumshoe]

Condescending moralist. No patience with a literal day-old puppet. Abandons him in frustration multiple times to get repeatedly kidnapped. Doesn’t bother explaining shit with nuance or sympathy. Lusts after every female doll in the movie. Horny on main for puppet girls and made this face onscreen, which I have to look at:

Two legs. No cricket features to speak of. No chitinous exoskeleton. Awful little horrible bald man.

[crystalleena-deactivated2022101]

Out of all the criticisms I've heard against this character, this is the best one

[glumshoe]

Nasty little dude. Bad to look at. Horrible role model.

[glumshoe]

“You who why I hate?” Man I really wrote this post in such a blind apoplectic fury I just stopped stringing words together in a meaningful way.

[igor-shesterkin]

mutt is really the mark brendanawicz of schitt’s creek isn’t he

[winter-lele]

Fake ICE Posters

Hey everyone. So @vaspider the deadset legend brought to people’s attention that there’s a Spanish translation for “If ICE Agents Show Up At Your Door” that has been maliciously doctored to say things like “open the door for them” and “answer all their questions honestly” etc. And some dickhead stole those images from Spider’s post and made their own, all like “so uhm va//spi//der is bad and not a good person so here are the posters and here’s a really poor visual for how to tell them apart.” SO! Here’s MY post, saying 1) Spider’s awesome and they deserve love and hugs for the week they’ve had. And 2) here’s a very easy way to visually distinguish between the fake translation and the genuine one, because most folks have been told to look for “ACLU” vs “ALCU” or whatever, and that’s confusing and unclear.

For the fake, look for “Tu cooperación será apreciada” which can easily be translated to “Your cooperation will be appreciated” which should be a big and clear enough red flag.

Also look at “SOLO SE HONESTO” – Just be honest. Like, fuck these guys.

Really, just look for any instance of the word “honest” in there, and that should be clear that it’s a fake.

The real translation has two instances of these four words underlined and asterisked, with post script at the bottom.

It also says at the bottom: CONOCE TUS DERECHOS – KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

I hope this helps folks like me who don’t do so well with letters and have an easier time with recognising visual patterns.

[vaspider]

This is an amazing post! The only thing that would make it better would be if one of the amazing Spanish-speakers out there would kindly translate the instructions for what to look for so that we can present a fully bilingual explanation. :) 

Thank you for making a great concise summary with lots of good visuals! 

[winter-lele]

Aaaaaa! ¡Olvidé la traducción! Lo siento para mi español porque mi primero idioma es inglés y soy chilena también jajaja.

La imagen falsa dice ‘¡Tu cooperación será apreciada!’ y ‘SOLO SE HONESTO.’ ¡¡¡Estate atento por esas palabras!!! Sola la falsa tiene esas palabras. Mira:

La imagen real tiene asteriscos después las palabras ‘firmada por un juez’ dos veces. Y al final hay una postdata y las palabras “CONOCE TUS DERECHOS”

English speakers, please reblog this version with the translation!

[thestraggletag]

It’s telling that the real posters use the informal “tu” and the fake ones the more formal and distant “usted”. Be on the lookout for that too!

[cat-quest]

[binary-bird]

hamlet, act 1, sc. 5

[attheballet]

Steve: Asbestos Fest...I don't...

Me: The one with The Number?

Steve: I don't remember watching it last night.

Me: We didn't.

Steve: Alright then! *starts the episode*

Me: No, we didn't watch Schitt's Creek at all last night. We didn't watch TV last night.

Steve: ....

Me: But we did watch Asbestos Fest *last time* we watched Schitt's Creek.

Steve: ...

Steve: Yeah but I don't remember watching it *last night.*

[socialshakespeare]

Read-through of Love's Labour's Lost.

This form will be open until Friday, July 5th at 11:59pm EDT.

This play's got everything you could ask for: men being lovesick idiots, women being witty, an immediately-broken new year's resolution, another play, and emotional whiplash like you wouldn't believe.

Sign up now and see for yourself!

[attheballet]

@misslunabelle this is what I was telling you about with the Skype shakespeare readings

[attheballet]

Remember the fifth season of BTVS when Dawn was introduced and they explained the Key thing later but for the first chunk of episodes we're all just thinking "Wait I'm supposed to believe this sister has just been there the whole time but no one bothered to tell me?"

That's how I feel finding out that I have a(nother) half-sister by my estranged father.

[softdeereynolds]

[sabelmouse]

This fake yarn is supposedly better for sheep.

Aimed at people who don’t know where wool comes from, it’s 100% plastic. Yes, plastic.

So any garment you wash will release microfibres into the sea. It’ll never decompose.

You’re supposed to believe that sheep shearing is violent and cruel. There are imbeciles out there that work in an unprofessional manner while shearing, but that’s not the case overall.

Sheep don’t suffer from having their fleece removed.

Left on, the fleece can become a home for fly eggs and the subsequent maggots which can eat the sheep. Chemical treatments are available to prevent that happening. It’s much better for the sheep, the land and the farmer to avoid chemical use.

Don’t be fooled. Wool is a sustainable material, one we should make more and better use of.

[bettagal]

Miscrofibers hurt our fish friends. 😓

[superantikaijuwarmachine]

Hey kiddos as someone who grew up in the sheep capitol of the world, shearing sheep isn’t a bad thing and can be helpful for our fluffy friends!! Please be concious of your decisions!!!

[vvitchella]

Also plastic yarn is cheap and difficult to work with.

[glyndarling]

Please remember to peel your sheeps.

[beachgirlnikita]

Some sheep can be peeled! The process is called rooing.

[eattherich73]

Domestic sheep do not shed their wool. They need to be sheered. If left unsheered, the wool they produce can become to heavy and kill them. Trust me, no sheep wasn’t to have so much wool it crushes them to death.

[thegreenwolf]

Peel a sheep. Save a life. (Or lots of lives, if you consider the sea life choking on microplastics.)

[attheballet]

Life Changing Hack + Backstory

So this is the first summer that I have struggled with thigh chafing. I gained a decent amount of weight since starting ED recovery, and my thighs are really muscular from years of ballet. And this past month it's gotten very uncomfortable on my thighs. I ordered a Bodyglide stick which is great and all, but while I was waiting for it to get here I was lamenting the pain of walking with very chafed thighs rubbing against each other.

And then my boyfriend said, "What if you tried boxer briefs?" He only wears boxer briefs so we have a ton of them, and he pointed out that they should be the right length on my thighs.

I tried it, and it WORKED. I could walk without excruciating pain and discomfort in my thighs.

Long story short, if you suffer from chafing thighs and don't want to/can't buy an anti-chafe stick or specific undergarments (anti-chafe shorts or bandettes), try boxer briefs.

[attheballet]

Me: And my endometrial tissue is causing the problem.

Steve: Dmitri...your tissue is causing the problem.

Me: Of course it's a man...

Steve: Well, duh, it's a MENstrual cycle.

Me: And a HISterectomy.

Steve: A vaGUYna.

[scientificphilosopher]

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

[curiousobsession101]

I have no idea when this was originally posted, but NASA is working on their Europa mission RIGHT NOW to look for alien life! But get this, they theorize that because of the depth, gravity, and composition of the oceans, any organisms that lived there would be waaay bigger than aquatic life on Earth. So far everything’s going well with regards to their Europa mission so they should have a spacecraft on its way to look for giant sea monsters in space in only a few years. (The planned date is in the early 2020s.)

[scientificphilosopher]

Looks like my negotiations worked. You’re welcome, humanity.

[libraryspectre]

I’ve never been gripped with such cold terror and pure delight in my LIFE

[attheballet]

I think the important thing to remember is that NASA is gonna owe OP five bucks.