tumblr meets classical ballet

Ballet, and all the memes, pettiness and salt that ensue.

[idfk-ballet]

i’m performing giselle in a week so here are some Thoughts:

- the wilis are a sorority a la scream queens. someone should make that movie

- the two demi solo wilis are gay and in love i will take no criticism on this

- giselle is older than albrecht this is the only correct reading

- if hilaron was alive today he would be featured on r/niceguys

- the little handgrab before the developpe devant in the 2nd act pas de deux makes me go feral

[cybelusreverie]

if any of you people actually watch that new harry potter im coming to your house and throwing rocks at you

[cybelusreverie]

forgot where i am sorry. if you still care about harry potter not only are you a loser but i am going to kill you with a rock

[planetclaires-deactivated202404]

pirating movies by seeing them in tumblr gifs and basing my own story around them

[rabbitrah]

that's how medieval peasants were supposed to use the stained glass windows to teach themselves bible stories when church was exclusively in latin

[therestlessforest]

Blorbaux from my tapestries

[systlin]

If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka

https://openlibrary.org/

and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.

[skaldish]

Guy there are books on magic on there.

[systlin]

There’s books on EVERYTHING there!

[eudevie]

Wouldn’t this be bad for authors though? or is this like a normal library where they get /some/ money?

[systlin]

It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.

There’s like 150 libraries partnered with openlibrary so far.

They also have copies that you can check out if you are print-disabled.

[systlin]

You can also ‘sponsor a book’, which means you pay the cost of the ebook you want openlibrary to acquire, and then they can add it to their collection and let people check it out.

[systlin]

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL26576A/Tamora_Pierce

I sure did!

And click on a title even if it says ‘no ebook available’ and scroll down, ‘cause sometimes that just means “all of the copies of ebooks are checked out right now but you can get on the waitlist when it’s back in”

[kayliemalinza]

This is part of the Internet Archive! I’ve posted about this before. Please go, it’s amazing. 

[deehellcat]

signal boosting because BOOKS

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Oh!

[lost-leitner-database]

Leitner bequeathed by the victim’s deceased grandmother: an old, fragile leather-bound book with brittle pages, affiliated with the Lonely. Its pages seem unusually sharp.

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Skylar Brandt was supposed to debut as Aurora today but since the season was canceled she debuted her own Rose Adagio.

[wizardmobile]

Ok this is SO COOL because the Rose Adagio is a partnered dance–Aurora does exactly what’s shown in the video, but with the prince there rotating her and holding her waist, both for the attitude balance and the pirouettes. That wobbling you see while she turns? That’s not because she’s off balance (you could literally never do this without absolutely pinpoint perfect balance), that’s from the subtle movement of her foot to rotate herself. She is all the way en pointe, rotating sheerly by veeeery slightly adjusting her foot. You may be looking at this going “I don’t know much about ballet, but this looks pretty amazing.” I know ballet, and let me tell you, this is 100%, absolutely, INSANELY difficult, impressive, and fucking radical. Amazing doesn’t even begin to describe it.

[anthoniejcrowley]

shane "i am history" madej

[monsterswithvibes]

somehow shane still says things on Watcher that make me fully believe he is an ancient demon. he also comments on history stuff like “oh yeah that was fun” in a way where im like “..were you there?!”

[oh-theatre]

Me: *stops writing* well that’s enough writing for now

Me: *later* Alright time to write!

Me: *staring at where I left off*

[lagonegirl]

Bishop Curry V may be young (10 years old, to be precise), but the little kid from Texas has some big ideas. He’s currently working on a device that could help prevent children from dying in hot cars.

The number of children who died in hot cars increased across the country last year, and Texas had the highest number of cases. Sadly for Bishop, the issue also hits close to home because a baby died in a minivan last summer outside a home near his own family’s home in McKinney.

Bishop was inspired to create a device he calls “Oasis,” which would attach to a car seat and detect if a child is left inside the vehicle, prompting it to blow cool air until parents or the police are notified.

“It would be a dream to have lots of inventions that would save many lives,” the precocious 10-year-old told the news station.

source

A lot of people don’t realize how easy it is to leave something in a hot car. It’s easy to forget something when it’s not in your daily routine, especially if it’s asleep or under a blanket or something. This is a nightmare. I don’t have kids myself, but I can absolutely understand how this could happen- everyone’s sick so you’re probably kind of out of it, you run in thinking you’re just going to be a minute, get distracted with the task at hand… and then your child dies in a horrific way because of it…

I’m all for any methods or technologies that can help prevent it from turning tragic.

#BlackPride #BlackInventors 

[soofyanstevens]

THIS IS LITERALLY THE BEST WAY TO WAKE UP holy shit I am so proud of this child I wanna give them a huge hug

[lagonegirl]

His GoFundMe is here: https://www.gofundme.com/endhotcardeaths

[tundrakatiebean]

He only has raised $2,950 as of 2/2/17

Let’s boost the hell out of this

[memeclassheroes]

[sashibunbun]

Yee-caw pardner.

[thebibliosphere]

If I wasn’t completely dead inside at the moment I might find it humorous that I was just asked where my “statement” was regarding the TERF Who Shall Not Be Named, and her latest transphobic, racist, 900 page fictional spiral into radical white nationalism and general mediocrity, and Gods willing, eventual obscurity into the footnotes of history as someone who had great cultural impact and influence with endless potential to be a platform for kindness, but ultimately chose to piss it away one tweet at a time in favor of being a hateful bigot.

But instead I’m just tired. I’m tired of so many things, including the aforementioned sack of sentient arseholes above who it now looks like went on a transphobic tirade as a marketing spin for her new book. Presumably because her career as a crime writing author has about as much integrity and substance as a wet paper bag; largely made up of recycled materials and easily shredded.

Anyway, here’s the donation page for The Trevor Project. 

And here’s a list of over 100 books by Trans, Non Binary and Gender Non-Conforming authors. 

[idfk-ballet]

reviving this blog specifically to keep my head on straight in jersey

[idfk-ballet]

when the Nutcracker transforms into a giant squid instead of a handsome prince

Nutkraken

[idfk-ballet]

when the Nutcracker transforms into a giant squid instead of a handsome prince

Nutkraken

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

The knowledge that Tchaikovsky was basically an amateur ballerina….. .. gives me so much life

[idfk-ballet]

calliope: brise voles can suck my metaphorical dick. mag: brise voles can suck my clit. it’s equality.

[idfk-ballet]

[idfk-ballet]

calliope: brise voles can suck my metaphorical dick. mag: brise voles can suck my clit. it's equality.