#5 rhythms

[wellbodymind]

Teaching: Deepening awareness of embodiment

This past Saturday, I provided the “ofrenda” at the monthly gathering of women dancing the 5 Rhythms (Step Into Yes) in Austin, facilitated by Lisa DeLand (dancingfirelizards.com). Lisa and I are old friends. We met at Sweat Your Prayers, an ecstatic dance, in 1995. We have similar paths of recovery from adverse childhood experiences, and now, having worked a lot with our selves, by ourselves and…

[leslietheluna]

Art meme I wanted to do!! Oops, they're all sega characters😭

Template from @/__ksgi on twitter!

While I was trying to plan which characters would go where, I just placed the first image of them I had on hand, so Sonic is just a doodle, while Satan's looks the most out of place😭😭

[to-shards-you-say]

things nightblood doesn't remember:

killing a fucking shard vessel

things nightblood does remember:

lift wants him to bring snacks

[evergreen-endo]

WE PLAY THE SAME KEYS AT DIFFERENT TIMES — r. kaji.

cw: 18+ mdni, f! reader, car sex, spit. wc: 0.8k a/n: unedited. thought about him on my drive home. enjoy. 

You and Kaji can’t ever just listen to music in the car together.

He really never intended for it to be like this at first— but once it happened the first time, it’s all he could think of the next time he got in his car. It’s the same every time; inviting you for a ride to listen to a tune that’s stuck in his head, one he claims he can’t get rid of until he hears it again. But with him, it can never just be one song. There are too many that make him think of you these days, despite his best efforts to press skip on those in particular. 

He drives around until night falls, and you’ve both shared everything you’ve had on repeat this week. As he pulls onto the highway, the low vibration of his car picking up speed thrums against your thighs, much like the guitar blaring through his speakers. The low light of the city falls on his hands as he steers with practiced motion, heel of his palm flat against the leather. Warm yellow light trails along the veins on his arms, dragging your gaze wherever it touches. It highlights the rim of his features for a split second, long enough to see the way he side eyes you.

He lets out a huff, leaning back against the headrest to hide in the dark, though it’s futile. As he whirrs past the overheads, the light guides your gaze to his thighs, spread lazily even with one foot on the gas, and up, up, up to…oh. It’s only a second that you see it before light rushes past, and you wait on the next street light to illuminate him. It takes its time, stretching slowly over the same path, fingertips to forearms to biceps. A flit of your eyes down, and the car leers onto the exit ramp, light changing its course and missing the bulge of his cock entirely. 

The both of you huff for different reasons, you in disappointment, and him in relief. Not that you can hear each other over the music, anyway.

You spend the rest of the ride bopping your head along and picking up your phone to add songs you like to your own playlist. He’s grateful that there aren’t as many street lamps on the route to your place, so you miss the poorly hidden smirk that plays on his lips. 

Pulling into your driveway, he thumbs at his wheel to turn the music down just as that one song comes on. The one you fucked to the first time he did this; the reason he keeps inviting you to do this. He pauses, sighing, and turns it back up again. You tense, thighs crossing as you hear the click of his seatbelt and squeak of the leather as he reaches over to click yours, too.

Kaji’s breath always comes out ragged— grits his teeth and hisses through them even as his chest heaves for more oxygen. He’s got you bouncing on his cock in his backseat, guiding you to some extent, rough grip on your hips because he really can’t find it in himself to be gentle. Not when you move so perfectly you hit every goddamn beat. 

You’re the perfect melody to him— he has half a mind to lean forward and turn the music down in favor of the sound of you. Ass clapping against his thighs, wet squelching from between yours, breathy moans and gasps and keens. He wishes he could isolate every salacious layer of sound— to savor it, ingrain it into his memory to replay over and over.

The beat of the song slows, just before he knows it’ll build up again. He takes the break to wrap an arm around your waist, effectively slowing the motion of your hips. You whine as he forces you to grind your clit against him, and he hums, captivated.

Using his free hand, he twirls his fingers through your hair, wrapping the strands around to get enough hold to pull you forward, the abruptness ripping a gasp from you. Perfect. Twisting his lips up, he tilts his head forward, letting a glob of spit travel past his lips and drip down onto your awaiting tongue as he plants his feet firm on the ground. With all the leverage in the world, he bucks his hips up into you as the beat picks up again, the heavy weight of his thrusts knocking the air from your lungs. 

It gets hard to move when you squeeze around him, ticks him off that you’re slowing down his rhythm. He just wants to give you what you deserve and you’re always holding him back with that fucking grip of yours. At least, he thinks, you’re giving him a chance to readjust his hips, so he can hit that spongey spot inside you until the song closes out, until all that’s left is the sound of your shared panting.

[curlytsunamiart]

played thru rhythm doctor a few days ago n ended up liking it way more than i thought i would :] looking forward to the full game. i love u act 5 i love u dr paige

[moronmorolian]

[ultimateinferno]

If Vasher is in fact the one who made Gavilar's anti-Light then this man has invented 2 completely unrelated weapons of mass destruction.

Walk with me.

Anti-Light is very clearly the investiture equivalent of antimatter. Like antimatter, which has the same "mass" as regular just opposite charge, anti-Light has the same energy (wavelength) as Light, but opposite amplitude. When combined, they're completely eradicated as they're transformed into energy (explosion). This applies to antimatter and—as seen in Rhythm of War—anti-Light. Not only can this create a bomb, but it can perhaps create the bomb.

The issue with most conventional weapons (and any source of fuel, really) is that their conversion into energy is imperfect. There's numbers floating around out there about the percentage of energy actually put out per source from wood to gasoline to plutonium. The big thing about all of them is that they create some byproduct besides the energy. Methane combustion for instance always puts out carbon dioxide and water.

In Einstein's famous equation, E = mc^2, we are given a "perfect conversion" between mass and energy. You can X kilos of matter from Y Joules of energy and vice versa, assuming you don't lose anything to byproducts. This is a shit load of energy. That c in the equation isn't a variable like E and m are. It's the speed of light. 299,792,458 meters per second.

By and large, tapping into this energy is really super hard. As I mentioned, there's always byproducts. Even ignoring the issue of entropy and diffusion of energy into an environment, most of it is preserved by the aforementioned material byproducts that come out of chemical reactions. The most efficient reactions we have in the modern day is all nuclear in nature, be it fission like decaying atoms in nuclear reactors or fusion like within the sun. But even then, for all the energy they release, you will still come up with matter in the end.

That is unless you have antimatter.

The amount of energy you will release from a kilograms worth of an antimatter bomb is 1000 times stronger than that released from Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki. Half of that of the largest nuclear bomb ever tested, the Tsar Bomba. 90 petaJoules of energy.

If Harmonium/Trellium was the Invested equivalent of a nuke (hi, this is a Cosmere post, remember?) then antiLight is far and away worse, and it's been invented on two separate occasions, once by Navani (#girlboss), and—if theories turn out to be correct—Vasher, who's given us other hits like the God Killing Sword.

[offcampusstillnerdy]

Feeling like your body's been conditioned? 5 rhythms class anywhere will help the undoing of taught and stereotyped movement patterns. And a cool way to support Black business would be to go find a POC led class in Afrobeats or Street - you'll find some power and strength in the movements you learn there. Done respectfully, you can avoid cultural appropriation and offer respect.

JUST LEARNED IT'S OK TO DANCE HOWEVER I WANT

omg i actually love dancing, but growing up in a backwoods town in the middle of minnesota (redneck territory) the pressure was on for females to learn to dance as slutty as possible. As an as-yet-un-knowing demisexual, I did learn the ways but always found it superbly uncomfortable.

I have avoided dancing and dances since college. My excuse was always "I don't dance."

Well flash forward to now, I happen across a happy goth who is teaching how to dance the gothic dances learned from their mother. The FLOW, the BEAUTY, the sheer FLUIDITY of movement, the pure expression of passion and art...this is what I've been missing, this is how I danced before I knew what dancing was.

This. This is extreme joy. Thank you gothic stranger with a cool ass mother, thank you for showing me the roots of my favorite form of dance.

[punkitt-is-here]

shoutouts to melatonin fr for making my night owl stay up to 3 am ass become The Snoozer right around when midnight hits. im actually waking up at reasonable times that make me not feel like shit

[fictionisalwaysbetter]

Many condolences to anyone who has had to wait YEARS in between the Stormlight archive books. I have been without Kaladin and Adolin for a few weeks at best and the voices in my head are back. Symptoms raging. Withdrawal severe.

[linzb0t]

When I reordered some old Ulala design keychains on a whim I didn't expect they would be the hottest seller of my new stock O.O

Only a few left already??? You guys really love her as much as I do. Working on some new rhythm game icons as we speak..

Stay Tuned...!

(I have about 5 Ulalas left in stock so grab her now if you were thinking about it!)

[leslietheluna]

✨Rhythm!!✨

It feels so surreal that the new Samba de Amigo game releases tomorrow AAAAA I'm so excited!!

Heres the speedpaint!!

[taravangians-storming-balls]

If Brandon wanted max mental trauma on the max number of characters, killing Adolin Kholin next book would be a real bang for his buck

[herosplatling-replica]

narrative foils

[snifflekitty]

i think theres about an essay's worth of character analysis of ada to be made based on this animation alone

[yamham154]

crackship time!

thought it was funny that amigo was blushing so hard at sonic in the sega superstars tennis trailer and one of my friends said “pov he’s his celebrity crush” so as the person who loves drawing sega crackships, i got to work