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[coffeepeople]

I find it endlessly fascinating that most humans just want someone who will get up in the middle of the night to close the windows with them when it starts down pouring. We want someone to dry our dishes after we wash them. We just want another person to do mundane activities with. We want to tell someone how the copy machine broke at work and we want to listen to how Debra is causing office drama again. We just want something so simple. We want human connection and honesty and to be bored with someone else instead of bored alone. 

[cillianmurphy]

I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

[cillianmurphy]

READ PART TWO AND THREE BELOW !!!!!

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

there is a VERY chaotic Cupid running around this village

[embodiedfutures]

A child was lynched in my state of Louisiana. A child. Was lynched. We cannot continue to let the murder, the absolute mutilation, of Black folks, of Black children, to continue. Please continue to share his story and put pressure on the investigators of his case. Please. #QuawanCharles

[ID: So You Want to Talk About Quawan Charles

Fifteen-year-old Quawan “Bobby” Charles went missing in rural Louisiana on October 30th.

The Iberia Parish Parish Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division and Bureau of Investigation claim to have located Quawan’s body on November 2nd. 

He was found in a sugar cane field 25 miles from his home. The sheriff’s department told his family that Quawan had drowned.

Per The Root:

“After three days of searching, one of Quawan’s friends mentioned that he last saw him in the car with a white lady and her teenage son, which they passed along to the police department, who were beginning to take Quawan’s disappearance seriously.” 

“The mother of the teenage son admitted that she picked Quawan up to ‘go hang out with her son,’ but after that, she doesn’t know what happened, according to investigators hired by the family. Neither Quawan’s mom or dad had ever met this 17-year-old son or his mother according to The Root’s interviews with Quawan’s family members and attorneys.”

Per The Cut:

“Police found Quawan’s body in a nearby sugar cane field later that day after talking to the Irvins. The sheriff’s office told the family that water was found in Quawan’s lungs, and he had drowned, but the family says photos of Quawan’s body show that his face was incredibly mangled.”

“Celina Charles, a cousin serving as a family spokeswoman, said that Quawan’s mother, Roxanne Nelson, ran from the viewing room wbhen she saw his body. The Post reports that, in a photo of Quawan, ‘the teen appears so disfigured that his teeth are visible outside of his mouth.’ Charles told ABC that Quawan ‘looks like he’d been tortured.’ Nelson has since shared photos of his body online to call attention to Quawan’s death and to pressure law enforcement to act.”

Quawan’s family has received no answers.

Quawan’s family has accused the Baldwin Police Department of ignoring their concerns and refusing to investigate when they reported him missing on October 30th. Police would not issue an Amber Alert. 

“He was found dead under mysterious circumstances, and we just want an honest and thorough investigation with Iberia Parish Sheriff Department,” Quawan’s stepfather Jason Nelson told KATC.

It has been nearly two weeks since Quawan went missing and the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office has just released a statement saying that they are investigating “suspicious circumstances.”

What you can do:

Amplify + share Quawan’s story. 

Put pressure on investigators. Demand answers & justice.

Iberia Parish Sheriff Thomas S. Romero: [email protected] / 337.369.3714

Baldwin Police Department: Chief Harry Smith / 337.923.4835

Follow @JusticeForQuawanCharles to stay updated on the case.

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[gaelgarcia]

20 years of The Parent Trap (July 20, 1998 / dir. Nancy Meyers)

[cundtcake]

swiss cows celebrating their autumn tradition of leaving the alps to go down to their other home in valley while wearing big bells and flower crowns (x)

[thepersonalquotes]

[promisetoloveyouforevermore]

this goes so hard

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

i love it thanks

[madeofwhitebone]

[dasaka]

Ali and Ash reacting to the next president and vice-president taking the stage // 11.7.2020

[kadimakara]

Melanated Female Inventors. Ten inventions that happened because of Black Women.

[gertruderobinsonscat]

I hope that “between the crematorium and the dildo store” becomes a famous saying for whenever a person has lost in the most pathetic and undignified way possible. Sort of like how we still use the phrase “crossing the Rubicon” two thousand years after the event. 

[crumplelush]

Some guy on twitter described it as “being between a cock and a charred place”

[willingtobe]

when Charles Bukowski said “and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”

[underchestnuttree84-deactivated]

[gypsy-that-i-was]

If you listen, her tapping very much adds to the music.

[lizzy52955]

Love this💗💗💗💗💗

[froggybangbang]

That’s Emma O'Sullivan! She’s a famous tap dancer (all-Ireland champion) and you can see her often if you walk the streets of Galway, dancing in the street!

[sraithpics]

I’d just like to add (for non Irish people especially) that she isn’t actually a tap dancer but a sean nós dancer. Sean nós is a traditional Irish dance (sean nós means “the old way”) but it isn’t the same as the mainstream Irish dance which people would be familiar with. In mainstream Irish dance the dancers have carefully choreographed routines that need to be learned and replicated and keep a rigid upright position at all times. They either wear soft shoes which make no sound or hard shoes which make a tap sound which are worn for different types of dances. People can also usually recognise Irish dance pretty easily at a glance due to the extravagant colourful costumes, white “poodle” socks, white undershorts and heavy wigs and make up that the dancers wear at competitions.

Sean nós is a totally different type of dance separate to this mainstream “Irish dance”. It is a much more loose and free type of dance where the dancers always wear hard shoes since the sound of the feet is very important. There are a few basic moves (the “shuffle, shuffle stamp”, the “heel and toe” and the “slide and shuffle” being the basic foundation steps) but once you have the basics you can combine steps, free style and even make your own steps. You can move your hands and arms to the music unlike in mainstream Irish dance too. Sean nós is often seen as the sexier Irish dance as the dancers are allowed much greater hip and general body movement and can laugh and interact with the audience as they move. There are no particular costume rules for sean nós competitons. Unlike Irish dance, people can really wear whatever but the norm is comfortable and simple dresses or skirts or trouser/top combinations made up from whatever the dancer chooses from their own wardrobes, a huge contrast to the heavy Irish dance costumes and the expense and pageantry associated with them. Part of the appeal of sean nós is that it has not been commercialised and commodified to the degree that Irish dance has and has a much more casual and fun feel to it in contrast to the strict routines and costume norms of Irish dance.

The most skilled sean nós dancers are able to dance a “barrel dance” where they dance at high speed on top of a barrel without knocking it over. It usually takes years to get to this level of skill so people normally start on the ground and then work their way up from a quarter barrel to a half barrel until they can dance on the top of a full one. This is Emma again doing a barrel dance on a half barrel:

Another sean nós dance is Damhsa na Scuibanna “The Brush Dance” where dancers pass a brush between their legs at speed. The still images don’t really do it justice so here’s a clip of three members of the Cunningham family dancers performing it: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3Z8qG7AKo

It’s important that people call it by its correct name of sean nós or damhsa ar an sean nós rather than just “tap dance” as it’s an important part of our cultural heritage and a type of dance that is barely known about outside of Ireland. Sean nós had almost fallen into total obscurity outside of small pockets of rural Ireland until dancers like  Emma O Sullivan and the Cunningham family dancers repopularised it in the early 2010s through their acclaimed performances and TV appearances as well as their classes for children to keep the tradition going into the next generation. Sean nós is still threatened with falling back into obscurity, if you search online most of the popular videos and photos of it are from about nine years ago during this revival and it’s still largely a rural, West of Ireland phenomenon which even people from within Ireland don’t really know about. Calling it by it’s correct name helps to keep it alive and allows new people to find out about it.

[kristiemewisstan]

[nasa]

Are there any parts of the Earth still left unexplored?

[ruskiizek-deactivated20180227]

Slavic Cossack dancing known as Hopak 

Warning: Do not try this at home unless you were born with super Slavic knee strength 

[maneuverability]

THE GUY AT THE END

[kittydesade]

Ahahah it’s not just knee strength you need, friend. It’s thighs, ass, ankles, calves, you need everything from your waist down to be horrifyingly fit and toned for this.

Also core strength. So include the waist. Everything from the nipples down. 

[kindnessinsilver]

Don’t forget absurd back flexibility

[lazy-cat-corner]

 “Ballet is a really hard dance to master.”

Slavic dancing: “Hold my beer.”

My thighs are burning just watching.

[spoonmeb]

this video just laughed at me for being out of shape.

[buh-no]

I had a friend growing up that was from Slovakia or Ukraine, I don’t remember which. I knew him from kindergarten to 2nd grade. And since there wasn’t a large enough slavic community for this kind of dancing, he did competitive ballet. He would constantly complain that it wasn’t hard enough. Guys, its competitive ballet, one of the hardest sports you can be in as a young person. Those C-jumps the guys were doing? In american ballet or dance you usually only get your chest to where you head was. They have their bellybutton or hips where their head was. That’s fucking nuts with out running or a pre jump. This kind of dancing was constantly going on at their house. I would like to point out that’s insane. His mom and dad dance almost every day. Not as high since age. But still.

[amateur]