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[badgrishaverseaus]

Kaz’s backstory but instead of the plague Jordie is knocked off a cliff by dalmations

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[drtanner]

ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

[mamoru]

[bitsow]

4800 players, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Speedrun

[kaijuno]

its not even music anymore it’s just a shockwave that kills you instantly

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[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.

[best-of-inspirobot]

[Yell into a bucket]

[lujain-37]

لعلَّ البلاء الذي لا تُحبُّه، يقودك إلى قدرٍ جميلٍ لم تكُن تحلُم به. 💜

[themusingmuslim]

Translation: "Perhaps the misfortune that you do not like, leads you to a beautiful destiny that you never dreamed of."

[everythingfox]

That didn’t take long

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[randomposts25]

Some cool signs

[theportabledorothyparkour-deact]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hogwarts houses are out, from now on we’re using Warriors clans and getting sorted into the four REAL personality traits: good guy, shitbag, runs fast, and wet 

[pcklesthings]

And what if you know nothing about Warriors? What happens to you then?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

lmao kittypet

[shareecherie]

I didn’t figure out my passion or what may bring me the most joy until well into age 27. Looking back on the stress of 18-26, it would have made no sense for me to settle into anything else and I wouldn’t have been ready to settle into what I love back then either. Some of us “bloom” later. Have compassion and patience with yourself, but be proactive.

[catchymemes]

A drink or two

[fluffmugger]

#the internet is a chaotic neutral space#if you ask a chaotic neutral entity to do something for you might not get a no#but you might get a very strange yes

[strawberry-lemonade]

okay guys taking a quick break from backwards talk to warn you all that this asshole is back on tumblr so block this shithead as soon as you can

[strawberry-lemonade]

Oh and uh.. don’t just fucking like this post please this is something that needs to go around and people need to see this

[realrandomposts-deactivated2021]

Who’s he?

[worlds-tiniest-puff-pastry]

He wants to kill all ugly people

If that is something that would trigger you to read about, Do Not scroll through his blog

[normal-horoscopes]

THIS ASSHOLE DESERVES IT

I INVOKE THE HUNT

- DO NOT INTERACT WITH THIS ONE

[trainer-stack]

Okay but actually can someone from the UK report this dude to, idk, someone? Dude says his name and that he supports pedophilia and is going to murder people in his hometown and I don't know where to report this shit for other countries?

The blog is triggering but this honestly needs addressed.

[babyanimalgifs]

A skier encountering a highly territorial lemming on the slopes 

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[trainer-stack]

THE CASTING FOR THE HBO HIS DARK MATERIALS SHOW IS SO FUCKING ON POINT Y'ALL

[utopians]

[cheese24k]

Porky Pig’s speech pattern deconstructed.

[20daysofjune]

BRUH

[honeydewhearts-deactivated20190]

:O that was amazing

[ghdos-blog]

I always thought they were just random sounds. That’s kind of mind-blowing.

[blasianxbri]

I’m over this man for making it seem so simple lol

[cannedviennasnausage]

“And nobody can do that and that’s why I have job security.”