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I'm currently looking for donghua scenes and full illustration and sequential cards
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Hua Cheng meets Xie Lian and discovers his penchant for collecting and repairing scraps and immediately sets out with a katamari to get all the scraps his Gege could possibly want
Papercraft commission of Xie Lian and Ruoye! The client requested that I pose them to look like they were dancing together, and y'all know I love dancing poses! So I took great glee in making Ruoye look extra flowy and detailed and ribbon-like to match Xie Lian's graceful movement. ^_^
Commissioned by @krintou of their super cute lalawolship, lighttenet!! ♡(ෆˊ͈ ु꒳ ूˋ͈ෆ) I absolutely adore them and I had such an amazingly fun time getting to draw them, they're just so cute A;OEIRHG;OAIR
Thank you so much again for commissioning me!!
okay let’s get all this straight.
the FIRST figure skating backflip was performed by this guy Terry Kubicka
now Terry landed his flip at the Olympics in ‘76 and in ‘77 the backflip was quickly deemed illegal in this level of figure skating as it was considered dangerous and, some argue more crucially, couldn’t be landed on one foot, as is the required landing for all other figure skating jumps
Fast forward to 1998 at the Olympics once more and French skater Surya Bonaly.
It is widely discussed and disputed as to whether Surya was historically underscored by American judges. She won five straight gold medals in the European championships from ‘90 to ‘95 but couldn’t break past 4th place at two Olympics during this period of time. It was at her 3rd Olympic Games she pulled out her backflip and crucially landed it on one foot.
The one foot landing was seen as the big obstacle in the way of the backflip being legalised. That and its danger level. In the time between Kubicka and Bonaly however many skater had already added two foot landed flips to their performance routines (ie not scored competitions)
Some people see this as the moment the backflip should had been legalised in competitive figure skating. Many skaters had executed it safely and Bonaly proved she could accomplish the one foot landing. Bonaly placed 10th at this Olympics, incurring harsh deductions for the illegal backflip. The backflip was at no point considered in contention for legality despite Bonaly’s accomplishments, (one of which being the first female skater to land a quad jump at the Olympics). Her Olympic backflip was seen as a middle finger to Olympic judges and the stringently unprogressive nature of the sport. There were more moments than this throughout her career such as her initial refusal to mount the second place podium at the ‘94 worlds for reasons unclear. There are rumours of her ‘throwing tantrums’ or being ungrateful, and while this may be true, it’s not an uncommon sight in the world of figure skating, and given how black women are still treated in sports today, especially those that take physical appearance and body lines into account, it is undoubted that Bonaly faced racial bias during her professional career.
Surya Bonaly continued to preform her now signature one footed backflip in performances. And the backflip remained illegal in competition.
Within the conversation about Olympic figure skating backflips, there is one skater who may well be the most overlooked. The one who got the committees to legalise it! And that would be this guy, Adam Siao Him Fa
At the 2024 worlds he told himself if he skated his routine clean he would finish with a backflip, a move he had been practicing with his coaches despite it still being an illegal move. Fa did skate clean, and did preform his backflip, and so incurred the mandatory penalty of a 2 point deduction for the use of an illegal manoeuvre.
In a figure skating full circle moment, one of the judges on the panel for that competition, was Terry Kubicka himself. Almost 50 years on from his backflip he has since commentated on the irony of seeing the move he began in the 70’s and being required to deduct points for it. This two point deduction wouldn’t stop Fa from still claiming the gold medal that year. He preformed an illegal move at the end of a perfect routine and took the gold. Mere months after this at a scheduled review the backflip was removed from the group of illegal moves. It would not be granted any technical points like other jumps but would no longer incur a two point deduction.
Today at the Olympic Games in 2026, Ilia Malinin, thanks to these three (and many more performance skaters) before him has landed the first backflip at the Olympics since it’s legalisation.
So to wrap up.
First backflip (two foot) - Terry Kubicka - move made illegal
First backflip (one foot) - Surya Bonaly - move still illegal
Legalisation turning point - Adam Siao Him Fa - move made legal
First fully legal backflip - Ilia Malinin - flip still does not score points
In the future personally I hope to see the flip be utilised by more and more skaters, be given a score, and personal creativity to be more welcomed into the sport, because really we could have had 50 years of Olympic Backflips at this point.
The full story is greatly important and should be read in full for greater context of why this is important not to the sport but also the conversation on sports bias and racism.
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that scene when emet-selch saves y'shtola this was all i could think of so i redrew it
"Be sure to shake it!" the bubble tea barista tells me but I don't. I won't. Why would I? "It mixes the sugar" maybe you want that. Maybe YOU do. To be drinking some homogenous concoction. Uniformly distributed. Each sip the same as the last. Just as sweet. Just as sweet. Just as sweet. All pointless flat indulgence. No personality. No humanity. A time-loop of your own devising, bereft of experience, sanitized of risk.
I want my first sip to be teeth-curdlingly sweet. I want the next to be horribly disappointing. I want to hunt. I want to jab my straw into pockets of substance like my ancestors stirring twigs into a bug colony. I want to raise the straw to different depths and feel something. The ocean is so far but I know what it means to rise from its syrupy dark depths into the still waters above.
I want all boba. I want no boba. I want to scoop the bubbles with my straw when the ice-rocks have been washed dry by the tide. "Be sure to shake it." Never. I want to experience every human emotion in this cup of tea. I am not a coward. I am not a sheep. My tea is still enough for pond-skaters to glide. It will not shake. Live your repetitive nothing. Live in fear of the unknown. Live your fear of change. I am choking on a boba.
there really is an effect where if you like your oc enough you will forget that their name is completely absurd until its too late and youve already introduced them proudly
this post has taught me that placeholder oc names are not real. Once you use it you are completely fucked. That is their name now. Stay safe everyone
I don't know where else to post this but if you're interested on TGCF Kayou trading cards I'm selling mystery bags of it! (the cards are mainly from the donghua season 1)
Each bag has around 22 cards:
3x Character Profile Cards
4x TV Animation shots Cards
5x Chibi Red Outline Transparent Cards
10x TV Animation Concept Art Cards
I'm selling them on eBay
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I'm also open to do trades! Just send me a DM if you are missing cards that maybe I have myself. (that includes special illustrations ones though I have a few).
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I just don't want anyone to steal my very cursed amulet
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