#dancinginpurgatory

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dancinginpurgatory answered to your photoset “Alright guys I need your input…which skirt should I get for...”

personally i think you should get the black one but maybe that's because i like turquoise and black together haha

Yeah I really like the blue leotard I have right now because it does fun things in the back and the color looks really good one me. And I think our captain has the same skirt but in pink and she wore it to Madison and it looks really pretty and flirty and spinny on the dance floor. The purple one comes in black but I don't think it looks as good in black as it does in purple and I really like purple, too

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dancinginpurgatory said: honestly that sounds super stressful!!

Yeah it is :/ One of my friends on the team told me that if we don't really know it, when we're supposed to dance slow fox to just not go on the dance floor because I'd rather not dance it than go out on the floor and make a complete idiot out of ourselves because we can't remember any of the choreography because it was taught to us in like 25 minutes.

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dancinginpurgatory said: ok yeah getting stuck with no good instruction really fucking sucks. And i don’t really blame you for not wanting to compete because if you don’t know the dance then it might not be good and you don’t feel ready and just ugh.

Exactly. Like I'd be fine dancing waltz, tango, and slow fox even if they were shaky and needed work but I still knew the choreography. I feel like with what our captain told me to do, everything's going to really rushed and my partner and I are just going to have a fuckton of choreo threw right in our face and then we'll get on the dance floor and it'll just suck and fall apart, and that's not how I want my first competition of the year to go (and let's not mention the fact that I've never been actually taught the latin dances, I've just picked up the basic from watching people and we just guess what steps are allowed in latin that we also dance in rhythm). I asked my partner on Monday if he knew the difference between american and international cha cha besides bent knew in american and straight knee in international and he didn't know, he was just guessing what moves were allowed. And we had good instruction last year, like we had a fabulous coach who taught us good technique, but the problem was that it wasn't reinforced at practice. The captains last year would rarely go around and correct people's technique, it's like they assumed that we would just fix it ourselves, except that's not how it works in dance no matter what style it is.

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dancinginpurgatory said: nonono don’t cry!!! i can totally see how frustrating that is though ugh. i mean why do you have to get approval not to dance a dance??? but hang in there- i’m sure you can get all your dances learned!

I DONT FUCKING KNOW THATS MOSTLY WHY IM SO ANGRY LIKE SINCE WHEN DO YOU NEED APPROVAL ITS NOT EVEN LIKE WE JUST DONT WANT TO DANCE ITS THAT WE DONT FUCKING KNOW IT and like I told my friend on the team who's having her own issues with the team and she basically said the same thing too and it's like, I don't want to learn 3 dances in a total of 90 minutes because they're not going to be good and we might not even remember them because we learn them so quickly and then to be expected to go to a competition and dance it well in bronze is just really overwhelming and I don't want to compete something if I don't feel confident enough in the dance. If I'm going into a competition thinking "oh fuck I don't know how to dance this" I don't want to compete it. On top of the fact that tonight I heard a couple of returners commenting that most of the second years (so everyone in my newcomer class) don't have the technique to be dancing bronze. Like thanks I'm sure you meant in just an observational way but still. It's not our fucking fault if we don't have the technique. It's the captain and the team's goddamn fault for not fucking teaching us this technique last year when it should have been taught.

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dancinginpurgatory said: ahhhhh ballroom no don’t quit!!! unless you have a valid reason to quit i guess then quit but what happened to make you want to quit?

It's just been like building up with everything that happened last year and I thought this year was going to be better because I have a new partner and it generally has except my partner and I are playing major catch up because we're supposed to be dancing bronze American and International and I've never actually learned the newcomer syllabus for International and we've been trying to balance learning our new American bronze routines with learning the standard dances. And my partner and I filled out the registration form for the competition in 2 weeks and we made a note on the form that said to not register us for slow fox because we haven't learned it yet but we got registered for it anyway so I emailed the person in charge of registration and asked her to take it off our list of dances and she said she couldn't because we didn't get approval from the captain (except I was never aware that we had to get approval to NOT dance a dance???) and so I talked to the captain to explain the situation and I told her that we only have 2 weeks, and Patrick and I still have to learn international waltz and tango (because we're dancing bronze and I don't even know the newcomer syllabus) and we only have one lesson a week so you know, waltz one week and tango the next week right? And I figured our captain would see the logic in that, but she just told me to have our coach split our lesson in half on Sunday and do half waltz and half tango and the week after that, to work on slow fox half the time and the other half work more on tango and waltz. Did I mention that our lessons are only 45 minutes long? So basically I have a total of 90 minutes to learn 3 basically new dances and be able to dance them at a competition. At the bronze level. And after I talked to the captain I was just so frustrated and angry and stressed and overwhelmed that all I could do was just go back to my room and cry for a good 30 minutes. And as soon as I start thinking about it, I want to cry again. It's honestly gotten to the point where I wonder if it's even worth it anymore. And if I hadn't already put so much money into it, I would most likely quit. But I love the dancing and competing part, it's just the team stuff like this and everything from last year that is just getting too much.

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dancinginpurgatoryreplied to yourpost:dancinginpurgatory said: WHAT BOOK lol The Rise...

omgggg i remember reading the first one forever ago and loving it but then i read other stuff and forgot about it gah so omg i shall read them!!!

Dooooo it omg they're so good. and the 4th one is coming out august 27th too

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dancinginpurgatory said: WHAT BOOK lol

The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore! It's the 3rd book in the Lorien Legacies :)

I highly recommend reading them if you like fantasy

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I've been tagged again! (but this is the first time i have 11 people who i know reasonably well on tumblr following me!)

I’ve been tagged!! 

Rules:

-Always post the rules

-Answer the 11 questions and then create 11 new ones.

-Tag 11 people and link them to the post

-Let them know you’ve tagged them.

Questions I’ve been asked:

 1. BBC Sherlock or RDJ Sherlock?

Gahh! I don't know...I feel like they both capture different sides of who I understand Sherlock to be. Like RDJ is more the classic Sherlock (or how I imagine him to be). Like if he actually was living in his original timer period, RDJ would be Sherlock. But Benny does a wonderful job at capturing Sherlocks soul in a modern sense. So both...yeahh...

Ever been bored out of your mind? If so, what did you do to cure it?

I'm bored all the time...sometimes I have random dance parties, by myself, and clean my room (i redo my room every 2-3 months...I have a problem). Other times I read or go on Tumblr.

Are you insanely loyal?

Sometimes, yes. Other times, no. I'd say I'm always respectful to people, if not totally, die-hard, cult-like loyal.

Who’s your spirit animal?

Hmmm...maybe Storm from X-men. We have the same fears, and I think I'd make an excellent weather-witch/African Queen. 

If you have the power to make one ship canon, which one would you choose?

Destiel. Fo' shizzle. 

Fandom(s)?

First Fandoms: X-men, Star Trek, LOTR, Scooby-Doo

The rest of mine: Marvel/Avengers, DC (Original Teen Titans, Young Justice, Batman), HP, SPN, Hitchhikers Guide, Grimm, Bones, Big Bang Theory, Fringe, Portal, Tomb Raider, AC, HP, Sherlock, DW, and a lot more that I can't even think of... 

Merthur: yay or nay and why?

I feel like people are going to hate on me for this, but nay. Definitely nay. I'm not a huge shipper. A lot of times, I see bromances, rather than anything romantic. And that's what I see in Merlin and Arthur, a bromance. Just two dudes who are friends. I honestly think Arthur and Gwen are perfect together (mostly), so I couldn't brake them up with Merlin. 

If you had to look at only one artist’s work for the rest of your life, that artist’s work would you choose?

No idea....nope...none....probably some photographer. I can't even think of the names of people that I like....

Favorite author?

Don't have one. I love the world Tolkien's created, though his writing style isn't my favorite. I'm also loving Douglas Adams, but I just started his books so I can't judge yet. And Charles Benoit, i think, for young adult books. 

Are you a nerdfighter? If so, who got you into nerdfighteria?

I'm a quasi-nerdfighter. I like to say that I have all the interests of nerdfighters, but I'm not obsessed with the vlogbrothers, or their affiliates. I haven't even read most of John Green's books, and didn't like the ones I read until Fault in Our Stars. So I'm interested in nerdfighteria, but not obsessive 

Are you a fan of the fab four? (danisnotonfire, amazingphil, crabstickz, kickthepj)

I don't even know what/who those are...

My Questions to you lovely people...

1. What would your soulmate be like?

2. Favorite superhero (any universe)?

3. If you could do one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?

4. What do you consider to be your "first fandom"?

5. African or European swallow??

6. Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield Spiderman and why?

7. Are you a shipper?

8. Most embarrassing high-school moment? 

9. Favorite geeky item that you own?

10. Tell me your feels about the Desolation of Smaug trailer? 

11. If you watch Doctor Who: thoughts on who the 12th Doctor should be

If you don't watch DW: Favorite kind of accent??