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The Dance Awards, Orlando Florida 2021 Results
Best Dancer:
Mini Female
Top 20:
Kaylee Schwamb
Maya Steinfield
Georgia Beth Peters
Esme Chou
Diana Kouznetsova
Ariana Kovalevsky
Bella Rey D’Armas
Regan Gerena
Top 12:
Kensington Dressing
Denise Torres
Emely Carrillo
Braylynn Grizzaffi
Isabella Kouznetsova
Elizabeth Scott Lanier
Ellie Melchoir
Roxie Onellion
Ellary Day Szyndlar
Top 3:
2nd runner-up: Carrigan Paylor
1st runner-up: Skylar Wong
Winner:
Kya Massimino
Mini Male
Top 9:
Dylan Custodio
Philip Trescases
Ian Castenada
Liam Retseck
Mateo Perez
Brayden Winchell
Top 3:
2nd runner-up: Blake Metcalf
1st runner-up: Santiago Sosa
Winner:
Michael Cash Savio
Junior Female
Top 21:
Jazmine Raine Werner
Anya Inger
Alexandra Perez
Mary Jordan Clodfelter
Halle Hunt
Lena Garcia
Mya Tuaileva
Emme James Anderson.
Brooke Toro
Kamri Peterson
Top 11:
Maddie Ortega
Giselle Gandarilla
Stella Condie
Taylor Morrison
Daniela SanGiacomo
Aaliyah Dixon
Hayley Marshall
Top 4:
3rd runner-up: Angelina Elliott
2nd runner-up: Laci Stoico
1st runner-up: Gracyn French
Winner:
Cameron Voorhees
Junior Male
Top 9:
Amir Shah
Bosco Wong
Lucas Pignotti
Gage Davis
Kylan Wright
Kaden Brown
Top 3:
2nd runner-up: Nicholas Moreno
1st runner-up: Zachary Roy
Winner:
Ian Stegeman
Teen Female
Top 20:
Zoe Ridge
Suvannah Hunter
Harlow Ganz
Ying Lei Pham
Whitney Tomes
Brooklyn Law
Camilla Cordoer
Natalya Toirac
Sophie Garcia
Top 11:
Destanye Diaz
Lindsey Weaver
Rachel Quiner
Isabella Lynch
Cydney Heard
Avery Lau
Arianna Quant
Rachel Loiselle
Top 3:
2nd runner-up: Hailey Bills
1st runner-up: Keagan Capps
Winner:
Dyllan Blackburn
Teen Male
Top 21:
Logan Speer
Phoenix Decker
Joshuah Rivera
Gavin Miele
Edon Hartzy
Jeremy Powalowski
Niko Nyman
Julian Smith
Sam Evans
Skai Llorente
Top 11:
Hayden Mucha
Braylon Browner
Garris Munoz
Colin Bendziewicz
Jesse Flaherty
Andres Jiminez
Anthony Dessables
Samuel Ek
Top 3:
2nd runner-up: Xander Perone
1st runner-up: Sam Fine
Winner:
Brady Farrar
Senior Female
Top 23:
Shane Higa
Amanda Taylor
Kiara Fina
Karisa Pluchino
Gionna D’Alessandro
Tyler Burden
Samantha Schmaling
Morgan Olschewski
Nanea Yu
Hallie Green
Bella Mills
Top 12:
Kaitlyn Linquist
Paloma Santos
Camila Schwarz
Chantel Le
Madi Autry
Madison Mazovec
Ruby Castro
Emma Cook
Cassidy Reigel
Top 3:
2nd runner-up: Savannah Quiner
1st runner-up: Selena Hamilton
Winner:
Kayla Mak
Senior Male
Top 24:
Jaylin Sanders
Parker Brudzinski
Dominic Keider
Zakk Fowler
Thomas Perkey
Christian Bottger
Brian Class
Oliver Morris
Cameron Stedman
Evan Hamilton
Ta’Nario Riggins
Kahly McCurdy
Caden Thephavong
Top 11:
Reginald Turner Jr
Caden Hunter
Franco LaGrega
Wesley Cloud
Jordan Apodaca
Artem Tikhonenko
John Chappell
Jackson Roloff-Hafenbreadl
Top 3:
2nd runner-up: Carter Williams
1st runner-up: Thiago Pacheco
Winner:
Jaxon Willard
Finals
High Scores by Age:
Cash Prizes:
1st: $200
2nd: $100
3rd: $50
PeeWee Solo
1st: Lainey Hess-’Amayzing Mayzie’
1st: Amanda Carpenter-’Hey Daddy’
1st: Sophia Novo-’Red Hope’
1st: Ella Venerio-’Signals’
2nd: Stella Brinkerhoff-’Fly’
3rd: Ava Piedrahita-’I Am Free’
3rd: Penelope LeMieux-’I’d Rather Go Blind’
4th: Amaya Rodriguez-’Fly’
5th: Ava Wilkins-’Always Love You’
5th: Reese Braga-’Fallen Memory’
6th: AnnaCameron McGlohorn-’Dance Like Yo Daddy’
6th: Mikaela Florez-’Stop Go’
7th: Audrey Mikkelson-’Shake the Room’
7th: Navie Mees-’Sweet Child’
8th: Khylie Wilkerson-’Proud Mary’
9th: Addie Goodwin-’Cause I’m A Blonde’
9th: Charlotte Brayman-’Wonderful World’
10th: Brinley Evans-’Beauty and the Beast’
Mini Solo
1st: Kensington Dressing-’A Distant World’
1st: Kya Massimino-’System Activated’
2nd: Michael Cash Savio-’Interpretation of Mike’
3rd: Carrigan Paylor-’Orange Colored Sky’
4th: Lexus Natalie-’Alternate World’
4th: Regan Gerena-’My Boyfriend’s Back’
4th: Camila Giraldo-’Welcome to Miami’
5th: Isabella Kouznetsova-’Almost There’
5th: Ella Dobler-’Enter Now’
6th: Winter Eberts-’Hit the Road Jack’
6th: Ellerie Cox-’New Miss Rhythm’
6th: Mya Lanigan-’Roxy’
6th: Denise Torres-’Swan’
6th: Sophia Gil-’Sway’
6th: Jazmin Covos-’The Air’
7th: Dylan Custudio-’Discerning’
7th: Bella Rey D’Armas-’Extraction’
7th: Alyson Merino-’Internal’
7th: Emily Core-’Without Limits’
8th: Savy Luetchtefeld-’Beautiful Thing’
8th: Ashley Otano-’Dark Matter’
8th: Raegan Hess-’Intertwined’
9th: Camryn Studebaker-’Everything Fades’
9th: Diana Kouznetsova-’Rainbow’
9th: Jasmine Pando-’Strains’
10th: Santiago Sosa-’Becoming’
10th: Baker Barboza-’Boots’
10th: Milly Berry-’My Big French Boyfriend’
10th: Melody Cocina-’On The Hour’
10th: Ruby Arnold-’Ruby Blue’
10th: Lily Hackney-’Static’
Junior Solo
1st: Gracyn French-’A Character of Quiet’
1st: Cameron Voorhees-’Unplug’
2nd: Kylee Casares-’Lonely’
2nd: Laci Stoico-’Mein Herr’
3rd: Giselle Gandarilla-’All Human Beings’
3rd: Aaliyah Dixon-’That’s Life’
4th: Maddie Ortega-’Summetime’
5th: Zachary Roy-’Higher Ground’
6th: Hayley Marshall-’Ink’
7th: Alexandra Perez-’Valentine’
8th: Caitie Polis-’Fallen Angel’
8th: Daniela SanGiacomo-’Restless’
8th: Shayla Blair-’The Thing’
9th: Angelina Elliott-’Out’
10th: Kamri Peterson-’Broken Mirrors’
10th: Lena Garcia-’Falling Away From the Surface’
Teen Solo
1st: Brady Farrar-’The Apology’
2nd: Sam Fine-’Obsession’
3rd: Georgia Greene-’Alpha and Omega’
3rd: Dyllan Blackburn-’Indian Summer’
4th: Avery Lau-’From the Ashes’
5th: Isabella Tagle-’100 Times’
5th: Destanye Diaz-’My Own’
6th: Xander Perone-’Elijah’
6th: Garris Munoz-’Enlightenment’
6th: Rachel Leon-’Just the Two of Us’
6th: Kaitlyn Esquivel-’The Curse’
6th: Isabella Weidmann-’Where They Lay’
7th: Iliana Victor-’Drawn to You’
7th: Jordan Lassiter-’Hometown Glory’
7th: Antonia Gonzalez-’Like the Wind’
7th: Sophie Gracie-’Lost’
7th: Ava Miller-’Tarnished’
8th: Kaitlyn Ortega-’Ain’t No Sunshine’
8th: Ava Carroll-’Are You Sure’
8th: Harlow Ganz-’Breaking the Surface’
9th: Edon Hartzy-’Claire De Lune’
9th: Sam Hardin-’Crunk Driving’
9th: Sarah Georgiana-’Heartstrings’
10th: Angel DiMartino Palladino-’Disable Blocker’
10th: Ellen Grace Olansen-’Ghost’
10th: Hadley Snell-’Like This’
10th: Isabella Warfield-’To Be Continued’
10th: Samuel Ek-’Uncovered’
Senior Solo
1st: Jaxon Willard-’Female Energy’
2nd: Caden Hunter-’I Am Not the One’
2nd: Kayla Mak-’Tuesday’
2nd: Gionna D’Alessandro-’Wish You Were Here’
3rd: Thiago Pacheco-’Strange’
4th: Carter Williams-’Change is Everything’
5th: Selena Hamilton-’Black Car’
5th: Wesley Cloud-’Black Lake’
5th: Jackson Roloff-Hafenbreadl-’Darkness’
5th: Sophie Tosh-’Lumina’
6th: Melina Dalton-’Errors’
7th: Jaylin Sander-’Extraterrestrial Movement’
8th: Caitlyn Knowles-’Exhibition’
9th: John Chappell-’Through the Fog’
10th: Gabriella Garavelo Bortoleto-’Kitri’
10th: Javon Hunter-’OMG’
10th: Emma Cook-’Out of Line’
10th: Elle Tosh-’Safe’
PeeWee Duo/Trio
1st: Dance Town-’3 Blessings’
2nd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Fly Me to the Moon’
3rd: New Level Dance Company-’I’ll Be There’
4th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Beats’
5th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No More I Love Yous’
Mini Duo/Trio
1st: Woodbury Dance Center-’Yesterday’
2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Something’s Gotta Change’
3rd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Gallows’
4th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Lumineuse’
5th: Dance Town-’Cola’
5th: Project 21-’I Am the Cute One’
Junior Duo/Trio
1st: Evolve Dance Complex-’Exiles’
2nd: Dance Town-’The Boy and the Snake’
3rd: Project 21-’A Match Made In Heaven’
3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’C’mon Talk’
4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Size’
5th: Center Stage Dance Studio-’Arms Around You’
Teen Duo/Trio
1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Wake Me’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Home With You’
3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Not That News’
3rd: Dance Town-’No Weapon Formed Against Me Will Prosper’
4th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Still Life’
5th: Artistic Edge Dance Center-’Cello Sonata’
Senior Duo/Trio
1st: Dance Town-’This Time is Real’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’To The Moon’
3rd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Le Plat Pays’
4th: South Tulsa Dance Co-’I’m Coming Home’
5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Be Still My Heart’
PeeWee Group
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Bird’
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Ooh La La’
2nd: New Level Dance Company-’I Need A Hero’
3rd: Dance Unlimited-’Fabulous’
4th: Dance Spectrum-’Mr. Sandman’
5th: Dance Spectrum-’Shake Your Groove Thing’
Mini Group
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Impending Loss’
1st: Dance Town-’Together in Separation’
2nd: Evolve Dance Complex-’The Awakening’
2nd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Undertow’
3rd: True Dance and Company-’Doors are Closing’
4th: Project 21-’Fan Tan Fannie’
4th: True Dance and Company-’Fly’
4th: West Florida Dance Company-’Spice Girls’
5th: Dance Town-’Good Question’
Junior Group
1st: Project 21-’Stuff Like That There’
2nd: True Dance and Company-’Another Time’
3rd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Cello Suite’
3rd: True Dance and Company-’Solitude’
4th: Project 21-’No Fear But Anticipation’
4th: Dance Town-’No Journey’s End’
5th: True Dance and Company-’Eyes Closed and Moving Forward’
5th: Evolve Dance Complex-’New World’
Teen Group
1st: Project 21-’GirlsGirlsGirls’
2nd: South Tulsa Dance Co-’I Love Movies’
2nd: True Dance and Company-’In Memoriam’
2nd: Westchester Dance Academy-’Now You’re Out of Sight’
2nd: Dance Spectrum-’Seven’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Softly, Heavy’
2nd: Westchester Dance Academy-’The Mist’
3rd: companyONE-’Her Blues’
3rd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Lost’
4th: Dance Town-’My Hypergraphia is Exploitable’
5th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Anything I Do’
5th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Debut’
5th: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Endless Falls’
Senior Group
1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Fade’
1st: Vlad’s Dance Company-’Your Weight Is Not Mine to Carry’
2nd: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’I Feel Pretty Perplexed’
3rd: Dance Town-’Kiss’
4th: Westchester Dance Academy-’Against the Dying of the Light’
4th: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’React’
5th: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’WAIT’
PeeWee Line
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Dump Him’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Let’s Get Loud’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Mr Piano Man’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Reflections’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Rainbow Brite’
3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’The Rose’
4th: The Southern Strutt-’ABC’
5th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Scooby Doo’
Mini Line
1st: Project 21-’Dive In the Pool’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Scrapers’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Fergalicious’
3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I Work 2020′
3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Uptown Girls’
4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’The Moon’
5th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’I Don’t Speak French’
Junior Line
1st: Dance Town-’Create’
2nd: Dance Town-’Black Bird’
3rd: True Dance and Company-’Final Moments’
4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Girls’
5th: Stars Dance Studio-’For All We Know’
Teen Line
1st: Project 21-’Post That’
1st: companyONE-’The Whole Truth’
2nd: companyONE-’City Limits’
2nd: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Get Up’
3rd: The Artist Project-’Wanted: Dead or Alive’
4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Through Our Strength’
5th: Dance Town-’305′
5th: Dance Town-’Lord Have Mercy’
5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Mack the Knife’
Senior Line
1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’After Dark’
2nd: Dance Town-’Now What’
3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Deep Fried Flavor’
4th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Maybe It’s Just Me’
5th: Stars Dance Studio-’Minus 61′
PeeWee Extended Line
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Flying Solo’
Mini Extended Line
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Wonderland’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Drumming’
3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’Dawn of Love’
4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Flykicks’
4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Time’
5th: Dance Town-’Disco’
5th: The Southern Strutt-’Yacht Club Cuties’
Junior Extended Line
1st: Sheffield School of the Dance-’New York City’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’The Gospel Truth’
3rd: Dance Town-’Cats’
3rd: Sheffield School of the Dance-’The Beat Drop’
4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Foot On the Gas’
5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’My Dearest Friend’
Teen Extended Line
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Aquatic’
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’You’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Could Look Away’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Weightless’
3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Earthquake’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’The Wave’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’XR2′
4th: The Southern Strutt-’Pound Sterling’
5th: The Southern Strutt-’Beetlejuice’
5th: Dance Town-’Grown Woman’
Senior Extended Line
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Here Comes the Boom’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Kick It’
4th: Sheffield School of the Dance-’FUNK2K’
5th: Sheffield School of the Dance-’Symphony’
PeeWee Production
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Chewy Chewy’
Mini Production
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Swagger Jagger’
Junior Production
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Snitches and Rats’
Teen Production
1st: Dance Town-’Salsa’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Diamonds’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sexy Back’
3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’Papa Was A Rolling Stone’
4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’For Dodo’
5th: The Southern Strutt-’Book of Love’
5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Money’
Senior Production
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No Bystanders’
1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Catwalk’
2nd: Sheffield School of the Dance-’The Hollywood Wiz’
High Scores by Performance Division:
Cash Prizes:
1st: $200
2nd: $100
3rd: $50
PeeWee Jazz
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Ooh La La’
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Chewy Chewy’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Dump Him’
3rd: Dance Unlimited-��Fabulous’
4th: The Southern Strutt-’Rainbow Brite’
5th: Dance Spectrum-’Shake Your Groove Thing’
PeeWee Hip-Hop
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Scooby Doo’
2nd: Dance Spectrum-’Juice Break’
PeeWee Tap
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Mr Piano Man’
2nd: Dance Spectrum-’Mr. Sandman’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’ABC’
PeeWee Contemporary
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Flying Solo’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Bird’
PeeWee Lyrical
1st: New Level Dance Company-’I Need A Hero’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Reflections’
3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’The Rose’
4th: Studio Powers-’Big Love, Small Moments’
PeeWee Musical Theatre
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’New Girls In Town’
PeeWee Specialty
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Lets Get Loud’
PeeWee Acro
1st: Dance Spectrum-’Hot Hot Hot’
Mini Jazz
1st: Project 21-’Dive In the Pool’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I Work 2020′
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Fergalicious’
3rd: Studio 61 Dance Company-’I Don’t Speak French’
4th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Kiss, Kiss’
4th: The Southern Strutt-’Ponytail’
5th: True Dance and Company-’Business of Love’
Mini Ballet
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Concerto in E Major’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Spanish Flair’
Mini Hip-Hop
1st: Rhythm Dance Center-’Flykicks’
1st: West Florida Dance Company-’Spice Girls’
2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Back at It’
3rd: Studio 61 Dance Company-’C-Breezy’
4th: True Dance and Company-’Mint Chocolate Chip’
5th: Dance Spectrum-’Jump’
Mini Tap
1st: West Florida Dance Company-’Do Your Thing’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Splash N Go’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’As Good As It Gets’
3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Jitterbug’
4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Love Shack’
5th: Dance Spectrum-’A Train’
5th: Xplosive Dance Academy-’This Will Be’
Mini Contemporary
1st: Dance Town-’Together in Separation’
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Impending Loss’
2nd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Undertow’
3rd: True Dance and Company-’Doors are Closing’
4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Dawn of Love’
5th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Time’
Mini Lyrical
1st: Evolve Dance Complex-’The Awakening’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Drumming’
3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’The Moon’
4th: True Dance and Company-’Fly’
5th: West Florida Dance Company-’I Believe’
5th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Fly Me to the Moon’
5th: Westchester Dance Academy-’Fade to Silence’
Mini Musical Theatre
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Wonderland’
2nd: Project 21-’Fan Tan Fannie’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Yacht Club Cuties’
4th: Carolina Collective Dance-’Legally Blonde’
4th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Don’t Rain on My Parade’
5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Forget About the Boy’
Mini Ballroom
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Swagger Jagger’
2nd: Dance Town-’Cafe Latino’
3rd: Dance Town-’Ballroom Babies’
4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Let’s Do It!’
Mini Specialty
1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Scrapers’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Uptown Girls’
Mini Acro
1st: Evolution Dance Company-’Dream On’
2nd: Dance Spectrum-’Hoedown Throwdown’
Junior Jazz
1st: Project 21-’Stuff Like That There’
2nd: Dance Town-’Black Bird’
3rd: Sheffield School of the Dance-’New York City’
4th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Replicas’
4th: The Southern Strutt-’This Place About to Blow’
5th: Project 21-’Proud Mary’
Junior Ballet
1st: Dance Town-’Waltz’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Waltz of the Hour’
3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Violin Fantastique’
4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Going to School’
5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Springtime Waltz’
Junior Hip-Hop
1st: Sheffield School of the Dance-’The Beat Drop’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Snitches and Rats’
2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Foot On the Gas’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Dirty South’
4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Walk it Out’
5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Mr. Brown’
Junior Tap
1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’My Dearest Friend’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Birds’
3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Sussudio’
3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Here Comes the Sun’
4th: True Dance and Company-’Art Official’
5th: Dance Spectrum-’Crazy in Love’
Junior Contemporary
1st: Dance Town-’Create’
2nd: True Dance and Company-’Final Moments’
2nd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Cello Suite’
3rd: Project 21-’No Fear But Anticipation’
3rd: Dance Town-’No Journey’s End’
4th: Evolve Dance Complex-’New World’
4th: True Dance and Company-’Eyes Closed and Moving Forward’
5th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Better Days Ahead’
Junior Lyrical
1st: True Dance and Company-’Another Time’
2nd: True Dance and Company-’Solitude’
3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’For All We Know’
4th: The Southern Strutt-’I Will Leave the Light On’
5th: True Dance and Company-’Almost Heaven’
Junior Musical Theatre
1st: The Southern Strutt-’The Gospel Truth’
2nd: Dance Town-’Cats’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’First Day Frug’
4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Zero to Hero’
5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Fish are Friends Not Food’
Junior Ballroom
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Girls’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Salome’
Junior Specialty
1st: Dance Town-’Life is a Tango’
2nd: West Florida Dance Company-’Rama’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Spa’
3rd: West Florida Dance Company-’Bamboo Banga’
Junior Acro
1st: Xplosive Dance Academy-’Nocturnus’
Junior Improv
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Grey Achea (Shen)’
Teen Groups:
Teen Jazz
1st: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Anything I Do’
1st: Evolve Dance Complex-’Debut’
2nd: West Florida Dance Company-’Glass’
3rd: Middletown Dance Academy-’Make Your Body’
4th: Orlando International School of Dance-’Focus’
5th: Dance Spectrum-’Delivered’
Teen Ballet
1st: Westchester Dance Academy-’The Mist’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Lost Light’
Teen Tap
1st: Dance Spectrum-’Seven’
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Softly, Heavy’
2nd: companyONE-’Her Blues’
3rd: Legacy Center for the Arts-’Ain’t No Mountain’
4th: West Florida Dance Company-’Sir Duke’
4th: Dance Spectrum-’Don’t Worry’
5th: True Dance and Company-’Requiem’
Teen Contemporary
1st: Project 21-’GirlsGirlsGirls’
2nd: South Tulsa Dance Co-’I Love Movies’
3rd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Lost’
4th: Dance Town-’My Hypergraphia is Exploitable’
5th: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Endless Falls’
Teen Lyrical
1st: True Dance and Company-’In Memoriam’
1st: Westchester Dance Academy-’Now You’re Out of Sight’
2nd: Thomas Dance Studio-’It’s Been A Year’
3rd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Then You Look At Me’
3rd: Orlando International School of Dance-’Grey’
4th: Patti Eisenhauer Dance Center-’The Face’
5th: Middletown Dance Academy-’Love Wins’
Teen Specialty
1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Carbon Cycle’
2nd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Highest Flood’
3rd: Orlando International School of Dance-’I Won’t Complain’
Teen Acro
1st: The WHEREHOUSE-’Lime in the Coconut’
Teen Line, Extended Line, Production:
Teen Jazz
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sexy Back’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’XR2′
2nd: Project 21-’Post That’
3rd: companyONE-’City Limits’
4th: Dance Town-’305′
5th: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Santa Maria’
5th: Stars Dance Studio-’One More Night’
Teen Ballet
1st: Dance Town-’Swan Lake’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sometimes When It Rains’
3rd: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Apres Minuit’
3rd: Dance Town-’Snowflakes’
4th: Sheffield School of the Dance-’Faust’
5th: Dance Spectrum-’Bataille’
Teen Hip-Hop
1st: The Southern Strutt-’The Wave’
1st: Rhythm Dance Center-’Earthquake’
2nd: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Get Up’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’For Dodo’
3rd: The Artist Project-’Wanted: Dead or Alive’
4th: Dance Town-’Grown Woman’
5th: Dance Town-’Lord Have Mercy’
Teen Tap
1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’House of Frug’
1st: Rhythm Dance Center-’Rock Your Body’
2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Hook’
3rd: Dance Spectrum-’Shining Star’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Gold Watch’
Teen Contemporary
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’You’
1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Papa Was A Rolling Stone’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Could Look Away’
2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Weightless’
3rd: companyONE-’The Whole Truth’
4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Through Our Strength’
5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Still’
Teen Lyrical
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Aquatic’
2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Pound Sterling’
3rd: Westchester Dance Academy-’Things Left Behind’
4th: True Dance and Company-’Et Moi’
5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Young & Beautiful’
5th: Dance Spectrum-’We Choose’
Teen Musical Theatre
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Beetlejuice’
2nd: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Mack the Knife’
3rd: companyONE-’Hot Honey Rag’
4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Groundhog Day’
5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Time Warp’
5th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’One’
Teen Ballroom
1st: Dance Town-’Salsa’
2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Diamonds’
3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’After Hour’
Teen Specialty
1st: West Florida Dance Company-’Money’
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Book of Love’
2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Into the FUNknown’
3rd: Dance Town-’Paradise’
4th: Westchester Dance Academy-’DarkRoad’
5th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Born to be Alive’
Teen Acro
1st: Dance Spectrum-’I Just Wanna’
2nd: Studio Powers-’Area 51′
Senior Jazz
1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Fade’
2nd: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Maybe It’s Just Me’
3rd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Fade’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Kick It’
4th: Westchester Dance Academy-’Just What I Need’
5th: Dance Town-’I’ve Got You’
Senior Ballet
1st: Dance Town-’Stars and Stripes’
2nd: Sheffield School of the Dance-’Carmen’
3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Recomposed’
Senior Hip-Hop
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No Bystanders’
2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Deep Fried Flavor’
3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Here Comes the Boom’
4th: The Artist Project-’Taking Over’
5th: Sheffield School of the Dance-’FUNK2K’
Senior Tap
1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’I Feel Pretty Perplexed’
2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’What A Girl Wants’
3rd: West Florida Dance Company-’Come Together’
4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Layla’
Senior Contemporary
1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’After Dark’
2nd: Dance Town-’Now What’
3rd: Vlad’s Dance Company-’Your Weight Is Not Mine to Carry’
4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Catwalk’
5th: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’React’
Senior Lyrical
1st: Westchester Dance Academy-’Against the Dying of the Light’
2nd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’How Do I Live’
3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’First Encounter’
4th: West Florida Dance Company-’Sweet Dreams’
5th: Dance Spectrum-’Station’
Senior Musical Theatre
1st: Sheffield School of the Dance-’The Hollywood Wiz’
1st: The Southern Strutt-’Too Darn Hot’
Senior Ballroom
1st: Dance Town-’KISS’
Senior Specialty
1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’
2nd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Moonlight Presto’
3rd: Dance Town-’RUN’
4th: The Dancer’s EDGE-’Think About You’
4th: The Artist Project-’Curious Creatures’
5th: Westchester Dance Academy-’Ne Me Quitte Pas’
Best Performance by Age:
PeeWee
Winner:
The Southern Strutt-’Flying Solo’
Mini
Winner: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Swagger Jagger’
1st runner-up: The Southern Strutt-’Impending Loss’
2nd runner-up: Project 21-’Dive In the Pool’
3rd runner-up: Dance Town-’Together in Separation’
4th runner-up: Stars Dance Studio-’Scrapers’
Junior
Winner: Dance Town-’Create’
1st runner-up: Project 21-’Stuff Like That There’
2nd runner-up: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Cello Suite’
3rd runner-up: The Southern Strutt-’The Gospel Truth’
4th runner-up: True Dance and Company-’Another Time’
5th runner-up: Sheffield School of the Dance-’New York City’
Teen
Groups:
Winner: Project 21-’GirlsGirlsGirls’
1st runner-up: Westchester Dance Academy-’The Mist’
2nd runner-up: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Softly, Heavy’
3rd runner-up: True Dance and Company-’In Memoriam’
4th runner-up: South Tulsa Dance Co-’I Love Movies’
5th runner-up: Dance Spectrum-’Seven’
Line, Extended Line, Production:
Winner: Dance Town-’Salsa’
1st runner-up: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Diamonds’
2nd runner-up: Stars Dance Studio-’Papa Was A Rolling Stone’
3rd runner-up: companyONE-’The Whole Truth’
4th runner-up: Project 21-’Post That’
5th runner-up: Rhythm Dance Center-’Earthquake’
6th runner-up: The Southern Strutt-’XR2′
Senior
Winner: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’After Dark’
1st runner-up: Dance Town-’Now What’
2nd runner-up: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’
3rd runner-up: Vlad’s Dance Company-’Your Weight Is Not Mine to Carry’
4th runner-up: Stars Dance Studio-’Catwalk’
Best Performance by Style/Division:
Best Hip-Hop
Rhythm Dance Centre-’Earthquake’
The Southern Strutt-’The Wave’
Best Tap
Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’I Feel Pretty Perplexed’
Best Contemporary
Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’After Dark’
Best Jazz
Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sexy Back’
Best Ballroom
Dance Town-’Salsa’
Best Musical Theatre
The Southern Strutt-’Beetlejuice’
Best Ballet
Westchester Dance Academy-’The Mist’
Best Lyrical
Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Aquatic’
Best Specialty
Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’
Best Acro
Dance Spectrum-’I Just Wanna’
Special Awards:
Professionalism
Westchester Dance Academy
Best Production
Dance Town-’Salsa’
Outstanding Achievement:
Mini/Junior Choreography
Project 21-’Stuff Like That There’ (Molly Long’
Teen/Senior Choreography
Dance Town-’Salsa’ (Manny and Lory Castro)
Costume Design
Rhythm Dance Center-’Recomposed’
Mini Technical
The Southern Strutt-’Impending Loss’
Junior Technical
Dance Town-’Create’
Teen Technical
Stars Dance Studio-’Papa Was A Rolling Stone’
Senior Technical
Westchester Dance Academy-’Against the Dying of the Light’
Best in Studio ($3000 per style):
Best Hip-Hop
Rhythm Dance Center
Best Tap,
Denise Wall’s Dance Energy
Best Contemporary
Dance Town
Best Jazz
Project 21
Best Ballroom
Center Stage Performing Arts Studio
Best Musical Theatre
The Southern Strutt
Best Lyrical
Westchester Dance Academy
People’s Choice ($250)
Rhythm Dance Center-’Earthquake’
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thehollowprince said: And I also stand by the opinion that they could have just done a solo run of the O5 X-Men starting a new timeline with the information they got from the future.
thehollowprince said: Its not like Marvel doesn’t constantly do AUs and retcons
OMG Josh you have no idea how bad I wanted this. They could’ve done SO MUCH with that concept. Letting the 05 keep their foreknowledge and the world they could have created with that?
They could’ve averted the initial Krakoan mission and saved Darwin, Gabe, Petra and Sway in the first place. They could have all been X-Men from their Day One, Scott and Alex would have actually gotten to KNOW their brother and Gabe quite possibly would never have gone full Dark Side despite the writers apparently now seeming obsessed with the idea there’s just something innately bad within Gabe that’s always destined to bear fruit at some point, ugh, whatever, like who do you think you are, Kant?
They could’ve recruited the Giant Size X-Men lineup earlier, and saved John Proudstar, who side by side with his brother Jamie, are a force to be reckoned with.
They could have convinced Pietro and Wanda to join them instead of the Avengers and been like no but seriously that way lies nothing but shitty storylines and bad decisions that will be blamed on you by your teammates despite the fact that any and all of the bad decisions that were ACTUALLY yours could have been averted if any of your teammates were capable of functioning as an actual support system. Come join us. We have actual support systems, except for the times when we don’t, but we recruited Deadpool to break the fourth wall and he and Logan are currently cutting through the ranks of every writer who would write as hating and fighting each other instead of being a loving fucking family goddammit.
Jean could have faced the Phoenix head-on when the time for that came, using her knowledge of the future not to fear an inevitable death, but rather to know she had nothing TO fear, that the power to not control this force, but just be ONE with it, with no NEED to control it or be controlled by it, a symbiotic union, two beings in harmony deciding on courses of action together. The Phoenix’s innate powers and prerogative of rebirth and destruction tempered by Jean’s mercy, aimed and focused by Jean’s reason, the double-edged sword that is fire capable of warming homes or destroying them completely combined with Jean’s conscience guiding it to use its power for the former rather than the latter.
They could have stopped the Legacy Virus from getting out and killing millions as well as spared us from migraines induced by an AIDS metaphor so shitty at being a metaphor most people forget it was literally written to be an AIDS metaphor.
The body swap would never have happened and Kwannon could have joined the X-Men as a full member from the time she was introduced, rather than dragged along in the wake of Betsy’s tangled storylines for a couple decades.
They could have stopped Fitzroy from killing the Hellions. Hell, if they train Illyana early enough and have her mentored by Wanda who is perfectly fucking competent when left to her own devices, then like, maybe they can even take a jaunt to the future to save Fitzroy from dying in the first place and being resurrected with no soul. Not gonna lie, ever since then I’ve kinda been seriously interested in what the hell would a hero version of Trevor freaking Fitzroy even BE like, y’know? Call it morbid fascination, but like. I kinda want it, guys. LOL.
Add to that note, they could have taken another jaunt to the future and rescued Rachel from being made into a Hound by Ahab. Through the power of some convoluted plot tangle I just made up for convenience, Scott still ends up in a relationship with Maddy briefly, in one of those self-fulfilling prophecy type things where he went into it with the full intention of just averting the future and saving Maddy from her fate as the Goblyn Queen, but somehow ended up in a love triangle with a very alive Jean and Maddy who is fully informed of Sinister’s shenanigans and quite displeased with that asshole, and look, I don’t know how all of this goes exactly, but let’s cut to the chase, my only real endgame with this is making sure that Nate’s born properly, saved from Apocalypse and the techno-virus by the combined efforts of Scott, Maddy and Jean as well as Uncles Warren, Bobby and Hank, and Jean calls up the Phoenix through some psychic bond or whatever and is like hey girl, can I hit you up for a loan real quick? Got some losers that need toasting.
And in this AU the Phoenix totally has her back, and one brief cosmic power-up and gratuitous Sailor Moon transformation later, Jean glows and intones some epic one-liners with appropriate gravitas, and then just punts both Apocalypse and Sinister to the far side of the universe, never to be seen or heard from again. They like, hit a black hole on the way there I guess. It was very sad. Violin strings may commence with the requiem. Okay that’s enough, they can stop now.
So then through the plot contrivances of fuck you, I said so, Scott and Maddy ultimately part amicably and Scott and Jean get back together and the three of them civilly co-parent both baby Nate and Rachel, as Maddy keeps the healing powers she gained as Anodine and stays with the X-Men for her own reasons.
The telepaths are all better trained by the expertise Jean gained in her powers while in the future, so the next time the Shadow King comes bumming around looking to cause chaos, Betsy, Emma and Jean just look at each other and laugh and say nuh-uh before psychically squishing him into a marble.
Warren never becomes Archangel. Onslaught isn’t a thing. They make nice with Magneto and say okay you may have a couple points, let’s discuss. Bishop arrives in the past for reasons totally unrelated to his original story, has no traitor to seek out among the X-Men, and thus he and Gambit end up besties in complete defiance of that stupid fucking story and because I just think they’re neat together. Yes I said neat. Gambit and Bishop are just neat. Deal with it.
Bishop still hates that Fitzroy guy though, he’s like, I don’t even know what it is about that guy, he just rubs me the wrong way, even though Fitzroy is not evil here and has always done good with his powers, which are channeled through a device Forge made him that lets him just absorb life force from a wide range around him, spread out and diluted enough that its like, the grass feels weird for a second, like whoa what even was that, and then its over. Actually, y’know what, scratch that. Fitzroy’s powers are stupid and unnecessary the way they are now anyway, so fuck it, this Fitzroy doesn’t need life force or whatever, he’s just a dude who makes time portals. He’s like Illyana with green hair and that ugly goatee. Hey I said this Fitzroy was non-evil, not that he was perfect.
Bobby’s out and proud since he was sixteen, and with actual competence and proficiency with his powers, which make him a Literal Unkillable Gay Icon, he’s an inspiration to LGBTQ+ teens everywhere and inspires other gay, bi and trans heroes to come out. He’s a big brother figure to all the baby gays that later join the X-Men, like, Rictor comes to him for advice back during the time equivalent to early X-Factor, when Rictor’s a trying-too-hard sixteen year old who thought college age Bobby was like the coolest, which is valid, because X-Factor Bobby was like A+ Bobby characterization and deserves more reads.
So Rictor comes out earlier as well, and by the time they even meet Shatterstar, instead of a slow burn friends to roommates to lovers scenario, Rictor takes one look at the love of his life and wastes no time coming out swinging with an absolutely terrible pick up line. Look, I said his big brother figure Bobby was out and proud in this AU, not that he magically had a better sense of humor. Some things just don’t change, y’know? Luckily, Shatterstar is a weirdo, and thus he finds terrible pick-up lines charming. At least when its Rictor saying them. They walk off for a first date, already practically hand in hand, voices fading into the distance as Rictor asks “By the way, have you met Dazzler yet? According to Bobby, apparently she’s your mom. That Longshot dude with the mullet over there is your dad I guess. We should go say hi.”
Hank gets an assistant hand-picked by the rest of the original X-Men, and who has one job and one job only. To follow him around and observe all his experiments, and he has veto power over experiments that People With IQs As High As Yours Should Know Better But I Guess You’ve Got Reed Richards Syndrome.
Hank’s like, “Hmm, if I built a time machine I could go back to the Jurassic Period and observe whether my theory of - “
Hank’s assistant: “Veto.”
“Damn. Okay I was also thinking of making a deep space communicator that can reach into the farthest reaches of space beyond any known civilization and just say hi, y’know? See if anyone’s out there.”
“Veto.”
“If I combine these genetically modified antibodies here with this strain of of DNA from - “
“Veto.”
“Well Forge built this device that does this to mutant powers but I think I can make it do - “
“Veto.”
“These nanobots I - “
“VETO,”
“Honestly, at this point I think you’re just saying that just because you like saying it.”
“Dr. McCoy, I promise you, I’m really, really not.”
Logan finds out about his future clan of stabby children, and seeks them out. He rescues Daken from Romulus, somebody stabs that loser with the immortal-killing sword, I don’t even care who, and after a few tense months of Logan trying too hard, he and Daken eventually bond over how hockey just isn’t violent enough. If you’re going to make a sport all about hitting each other, just really go for it or don’t even bother, y’know? Logan claps him on the shoulder and sniffs. That’s my boy. Then they find and rescue Laura and Gabby and take a road trip to Earth 1610 to pick up Jimmy. They have a house on campus, and new students walking by it are used to hearing loud growling and even howls. They were assured during orientation that that’s nothing to worry about, it just means the House of Snikt are watching a game and are rooting for opposing sides.
Emma’s recruited practically the day they get back. She’s only just started at the Hellfire Club and has only done a tiny bit of Evil when Warren schedules an appointment with her, and then he, Scott and Jean make a better pitch than Shaw and his ilk could ever match. They’ve been to the future. Come join with us and we’ll give you an all access pass to memories detailing exactly what’s going to happen in these particular areas and many more. All you have to do is ask. Oh and also please don’t seduce any married teammates. Its bad form. To be honest, I don’t think it’ll be an issue because Deadpool assures us Morrison has been taken care of, and don’t worry if that makes no sense to you, its a head-scratcher for us to. Just roll with it.
Nate ages normally here so its not like he ends up besties with forty year old Wade, but the latter having his own plot-contrived knowledge of the future because He’s Just Like That, decides that he won’t be denied at least SOME kind of bond with The Bestie That Wasn’t. He becomes Nate’s official babysitter. Well, not official, seeing as how Scott, Jean and Maddy don’t hire him and are very clear that their son is not to be left alone with this man at any time, he is a terrible influence and he keeps giving our kid guns. But then Wade just shows up anytime they’re out because he just has a sixth sense for Making Trouble, and he terrifies away whatever babysitter’s there and greets the returning and exasperated parents with a cheery wave.
“I know what you’re going to say, but don’t worry, we didn’t do anything dangerous or against the law. All we did today was I taught him to make bombs, but we were very careful, we wore safety goggles and really, they were very little bombs. Not even anything atomic. I honestly don’t think any of them could have even blown up this whole house, and I’ve been meaning to say, I’m not impressed with the structural integrity of this place. Couldn’t you have picked something with a sturdier foundation? Its like you don’t even expect random space mercenaries to attack your place out of the blue every other month. Have any of you even read a single issue of your own comics?”
Scott’s jaw twitches Ominously. Wade starts gathering up his things. Jean rubs her forehead wearily.
“Wade, what do you even think ‘dangerous’ means?”
Wade pauses and cocks his head. Gives it a solid twenty seconds of thought. Then he shrugs.
“I don’t know actually. Don’t think I’ve ever really thought about it. I always figured it was just one of those things people just say. Like, ‘oh, it looks like rain today,’ even if they’re not a forecaster and have no real meteorological credentials to speak of. ‘Oh, this mission will be dangerous,’ and I don’t even have to use up all my ammo and I only get shot twice. Y’know?”
“Leave,” Scott says. More like intones. House shakes a little bit but that might just be Wade’s imagination. Its very active.
“Leaving!” He says hastily. He jumps through the closed window and then teleports away amid the falling shower of broken glass. Why didn’t he do that while he was still inside the room? No one knows. Not even Wade knows. Why did the chicken cross the road? Who the fuck cares, now is it Original Recipe or Crispy?
Scott, Jean and Maddy search the house while Nate angelically claims they won’t find anything, Wade doesn’t even bring him cool stuff anymore cuz he knows you’ll just take it.
Maddy finds a high-tech laser space gun under a floorboard in the closet. She holds it up with one eyebrow raised pointedly. Scott and Jean flank her and their own eyebrows raise in solidarity. Well Jean’s does. Scott’s probably does but its hard to tell sometimes. Depends on what glasses or visor he’s wearing.
“That was already there,” Nate tries. Most powerful telepath and telekinetic in the world, but the kid can’t lie for shit. There’s not much point in trying when one of your moms is the freaking Phoenix, and that’s a skill that takes practice he just doesn’t have.
The three sets of parental eyebrows make a V, judgingly.
“One month of no video games or TV?” Okay, so terrible liar but quick on his feet. At least he knows when he’s beat and jumps straight to trying to shape his own punishment proactively.
“Two months. And no flying lessons either,” Jean says. “And don’t pout at me, young man. You know the rules. No weapons inside the house unless your grandpa Corsair is visitng and we’re too tired to fight him on keeping knives under his pillow. This is a Do As We Say, Not As We Do house. Deal with it. Now, this is going with the others and you can have it back when you’re eighteen.”
It would have been three months, but Jean and Maddy caught a telepathic sniff from Scott. He’s just so proud of his kid thinking so tactically. He’s growing up so fast. Both women mentally roll their eyes. Why is he like this.
“I don’t see what the big deal is anyway,” Nate sulks. “Its just a stupid laser gun. I mean, Uncle Gabe blew up our last house with his brain.”
“Yes and it was an accident and he feels absolutely terrible about that which is why we’re not going to bring it up when he and Armando come visit this weekend, right?”
“You can have my full compliance for two weeks off my sentence.”
“Or we can have your full compliance or two weeks will be added to your sentence,” Maddy says.
“You guys suck,” declares the ten year old vessel of near unlimited psychic might. He goes to his room, stomping all the way up the stairs so his grievances can be heard even by the House of Snikt next door. Course, they’ve already been listening to the whole thing with their enhanced hearing. There was nothing good on TV. Jimmy made popcorn and chewed with his mouth open just to piss off Daken.
‘The second Father leaves the room, I am going to stab you in such a slow healing place you’ll still be bleeding at bed time.’ Daken mouths at his little brother from another universe. Jimmy scrunches his face in confusion.
‘What?’ He mouths back. He’s terrible at reading lips. Or anything that isn’t skateboarding, really. And yet Father’s so happy that ‘at least one of my kids is content with stupid normal stuff and doesn’t go around drawing cover fire just because a mission is going so well its boring and they haven’t even gotten to pop their claws out yet.’
“That’s only because you’ve coddled him. He’s barely ever even been shot at. Just the one time on vacation in Majipoor and he wasn’t even the target, the assassin was aiming for me. If you would just let me take him on a proper outing to gain some real experience - “
“Not gonna happen.” Logan shuts that down real quick.
“Really Father, just look at him. He has zero situational awareness. I’ve been glaring a hole in the back of his head for a full minute now and he has no idea. That could just as easily be an actual laser scope, you know. He’s a disgrace to the whole family.”
“Daken, we’ve been over this,” Logan says firmly. “You have your sisters to bond with over gratuitous violence. Leave your brother alone. I don’t want anyone traumatizing him until trauma finds him all on its own. It’ll happen sooner or later, he’s as much a part of this family as anyone and that means its as good as done already, so there’s no need to hurry it along. If later on he decides he’s got a taste for it, you can take him on all the outings to get shot at that you want. But he’s gotta figure it out for himself first, and he doesn’t need his big brother being the one who introduces him to all that. He idolizes you, you know.”
Daken scoffs. He can’t even get the brat to chew with his mouth closed.
“He cut his hair from that style he liked so much, just because you hated it so much,” Logan says obliviously. Daken nods like he’s conceding the argument and hastens from the room while he can still keep his mouth shut. It won’t benefit anyone at this point to tell their father that Jimmy really only cut his hair because Daken told him he would set it on fire if he didn’t.
Ugh, families are the worst. Don’t even get him started on Laura stealing some of his clothes to wear without asking. And then has the gall to yell back at him when he yells “Silk! Its the finest cut of silk! Does that mean nothing to you?” at her.
“Oh get over it. Its not like I asked for killer robots to interrupt my date.”
“Of course they were going to interrupt your date with that Julian boy. I keep telling you, he’s a magnet for trouble. I can tell. I’m one too, remember?”
“Fine, whatever, you’re right and I should just expect every date with Julian from now until the end of time to end with fire and disaster.”
“Well now you’re being melodramatic. There’s no way that boy makes it past twenty five. He doesn’t even have a healing factor.”
“Why do you hate him so much anyway? If you’d just give him a chance - “
“What are you talking about? I give him a chance every single time he’s here and I don’t kill him.”
“Ugh, I can’t even talk to you when you’re like this. You always do this, you just decide on something and then you commit to that like the fate of the world depends on you standing firm on what’s usually a completely arbitrary decision in the first place!”
Daken sniffs. “I can assure you, there’s absolutely nothing arbitrary about my disdain for the Keller boy.”
“His name is Julian,” Laura enunciates with a glare.
“I don’t care,” Daken enunciates with an expression of lofty superiority.
“You two are so dumb,” Gabby says from the end of the hallway. They both turn identical glares on her. They’d noticed her arrive several minutes ago but they weren’t about to be distracted from their battle of wills. “Laura, you know Daken isn’t actually going to kill Julian. He doesn’t do that anymore except for really bad people sometimes and he just talks about stabbing people or killing them cuz he thinks he’s funny and then he gets all pissy because nobody ever gets that he doesn’t really mean it. He doesn’t even hate Julian and he used to be fine with him before he started dating you, its just he doesn’t think he’s good enough for you.”
Daken frowns at the petite would-be peacemaker. Meddlesome toddler. “What are you even babbling about? None of that is remotely true.”
Gabby rolls her eyes up at her brother from her much lower height. She taps the side of her nose with emphasis. “You do know we all have the same abilities to smell and analyze scents as you do, right? And you know everything you can tell from peoples’ scent, right? Of course I’m right, I can smell it as clear as anything and so can Jimmy and Dad and we actually all know this and talk about it all the time, and its why Dad never actually gets mad at you for talking about killing people because he can smell you’re saying it just cuz you’re used to saying it but really you’re too marshmallowy on the inside now to do half the stuff you claim you’re gonna do. Hate to break it to you bro, but you’re a closet softie and you’ve been made. The nose doesn’t lie. Only reason Laura doesn’t know it is because you piss her off like its your favorite hobby and its probably impossible for her to smell anything beyond her own scent of Royally Pissed Off.”
Ugh. Meddlesome insightful toddler. Who asked for her intervention anyway? Daken crosses his arms in a way that’s decidedly aloof and not at all sulking.
Laura’s staring at their sister assessingly. “That’s really what you think is going on? And Jimmy and Dad think so too? You’re not just saying all that?”
Gabby bats her eyes up at them. “Would I lie to you?”
“Yes,” Laura says without missing a beat.
“Without a shadow of a doubt,” Daken says dryly, right on her heels.
“For the sake of a candy bar,” Laura adds, because that really did happen.
“Or just boredom, because god forbid you pick up another hobby that isn’t just Chaos.”
“This from the guy who only has fun when there’s blood and bullets flying about,” Gabby fires back from a position of petite petulance.
Daken smirks down at her. “Didn’t you just say I don’t really mean it when I say all of that?”
Gabby narrows her eyes. “Touché. My own words thrown back at me. I am undone.”
“Yes, well - “
Daken’s cut off as Jimmy chooses that moment to walk past them down the hallway to the bathroom. He’s laughing and shaking his head.
“You guys are both so dumb. She plays you like this all the time, and you never see it.”
“Silence, mortal!” Gabby thunders at their brother menacingly. The effect is somewhat diminished by the fact that she can’t hit a baritone note to save her life.
“No, I’m interested in hearing what he has to say,” Daken says coolly. “For once. This is a moment without precedent and one unlikely to occur again, so let’s explore it a bit.”
Jimmy sighs and shakes his head without ever losing that amused smirk. “Had to tack on that last part, didn’t you. Just couldn’t help yourself.”
“I am a faithful student of the Truth,” Daken says, matching his brother smirk for smirk.
“The point, Jimmy?” Laura prods aggressively before that can erupt into a wholly separate thing she wants no part of.
“Oh, right.” He shrugs nonchalantly. “Its kinda her thing with you two when you get like this. You pick a fight with Laura, Laura gets pissed off and succumbs to the family curse of Tunnel Vision at the Worst Possible Time, and you both go back and forth endlessly and like you have all the time in the world for your stupid tete a tete, because on account of you both being practically unkillable and immortal, you kinda do and you know it. And then whenever she gets bored of listening to you two, Gabby swoops in and draws both of your attention until you’re both so focused on being annoyed with her you don’t even realize you’re actually side by side agreeing with each other, and she keeps it up just long enough til she’s sure she can just say she’s bored now and just leave the room, leaving you both annoyed and frustrated by a fight you can’t even claim to have won because she really just kinda...left, in the middle of it, and you’re so focused on that, you’ve totally forgotten to be pissed at each other. And by the time you do remember, like, the moment has passed and peace has been returned to the kingdom. Or at least as peaceful as this place ever gets.”
Daken stares at his mistake of a brother in the hopes that if he stalled long enough, his senses would arrive at a different conclusion. But nope. Scents don’t lie, unlike baby sis, apparently. He’s telling the truth. And Daken really does not....care for that conclusion.
Gabby stamps her foot and glares up at their brother.
“You are such a tattletale. I am providing a service, by keeping this family free of these two constantly at each others throats, and how is that service repaid? With betrayal! I hate you, you’re dead to me. Never speak to me again or at least not until I’ve stopped being mad at you, but that could be like ten years or something, I don’t even know right now.”
She draws up to her full height and squares her shoulders as she thunders this Mighty Mouse style at the still laughing Jimmy. Then, seeing she’d yet to make a dent in his armor of amusement and he was failing to take her pronouncement seriously, she punctuated her declaration by spitting on their brother’s shoe. Daken’s eyebrows shoot up again, this time in amusement of his own. Gabby then spins around on her heel and stalks off down the hallway, muttering more dire threats under her breath as she goes, the sound of them nonetheless carrying clearly to three siblings with enhanced hearing of their own. And apparently, little sis could be quite creative. Who knew she’d been hiding such talent?
Jimmy barely even notices; he’s still staring down at his shoe.
“Dude, you spit on me! That’s so not cool.”
“Some things need to be expressed so strongly, mere words will not suffice,” Daken says loftily, savoring a slightly renewed sense of superiority.
One quickly dashed, of course, because apparently he just can’t have anything.
“Bold words from the seventy year old who needed the sixteen year old to clue him in he’s being regularly manipulated by the twelve year old,” Jimmy fires back. As a return volley, its obnoxiously effective, and Daken’s still grinding his teeth and searching for an adequate rejoinder as Jimmy just grins even wider and then strolls off down the hallway as well. Whistling either an absolutely hideous song or else proof that he’s absolutely hideous at whistling. Tough call. With him it could be either.
Daken and Laura both stare after him in silence as he rounds the corner and disappears, leaving only the lingering scent of smugness in his wake. Daken hates the scent of smugness. It has a particularly....cloying feel to it. Well not his of course. But everyone else’s, especially little brothers? Acrid is the only word adequate for that.
“Sometimes I really do want to stab him. Just a little bit. And I’m not even lying,” Daken says. Laura just nods, her own nose scrunched up in distaste as well.
“Honestly? Me too.”
Brother and sister enjoy the rare moment of solidarity.
“You know what’s really bugging me?” Laura says suddenly, still staring off down the hallway. Daken turns an inquiring eye on her, prompting elucidation. She frowns.
“Where the hell did he learn a phrase like tete a tete? I mean. Its Jimmy.”
Daken does know what she means, and frowns as the nagging awareness of that leaps from his sister to himself like memetic chain lightning.
“And he used it correctly. That’s....unexpected.”
“Sometimes I wonder if maybe he’s not as completely airheaded as he pretends, and the fact that he’s got everyone so convinced of that actually means he’s running circles around the rest of us,” Laura says. She shrugs. “Of course, then I have to question everything and who has that kind of time and also the very idea of genius mastermind Jimmy disturbs me on a deeply visceral level. So then I just. Stop doing that.”
Daken nods and sighs. “Sometimes, that’s all you can do.”
“Okay, this is annoying. I kinda still want to fight, but now fighting with you feels kinda anticlimactic. Ugh, siblings are the worst,” Laura declares with a glower. “They ruin everything.”
“On that, we can agree. With allowances for temporary occasions of some of them being bearable,” Daken says. “Some.”
“That’s the nicest thing you’ve never said to me, big brother,” Laura says lightly. Daken swiftly scowls but she holds up a hand to forestall any rebuttal. “Sorry, don’t mean to ruin the moment. I’m thinking about how else we can put all that frustrated energy to good use. Wanna go pick a fight with the Summers’ kids?”
A slow smile spreads across Daken’s face. “Well now. Finally, a family outing I can get behind. I believe that’s precisely what we need right now. Care to lead the way?”
He still hates her boyfriend, of course, but he supposes he can let that be.
For now, at least.
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Tagging: @jeangrcysummers & Kara When: The day the siege started Where: Central Park (it all happens in Central Park) What: Jean tries to understand why Kara has changed. Warnings: Blood mention, death mention Word Count: 4,231
JEAN: Something was wrong. Something was wrong far beyond the general anxious gnawing Jean had at her gut since the United Nations meeting gone wrong, since Mystique dropped that man to the ground and Jean was left wondering what kind of army she’d signed up to, what price she would pay for achieving freedom for her people -- that was if this plan of Erik’s actually worked. If they got to the end of this and still had nothing to show for it, what would Jean do then? What would the next step be?
The future had never seemed so uncertain, and Jean was the woman who had died more times than most of the students could keep track of.
In the midst of the chaos of her life, there had always been lynchpins, points of contact, anchors that she could come back to. Scott. Rogue. Illyana. Erik, when he returned. Charles. Kara. Kara Danvers, who looked her straight in the eye and said that the Phoenix, what it made her do, changed absolutely nothing about their friendship. Kara who provided a home, right from their first meeting. Kara, who made Jean feel like she was alive again, instead of masquerading in the place of a ghost.
Kara, whose aura she could pick up on, even dimly, across cities, countries, continents. Kara, who Jean knew like the back of her hand.
Kara, who had changed. It was a dangerous move, to return to the Institute and use Cerebro to search for her. It was putting people at risk, it was opening up the shield to potential Sentinels, it was stupid by all tactical considerations -- but love made people stupid. And Kara was someone Jean loved, someone she considered family.
As it turned out, she could’ve just looked at the news.
Central Park. It couldn’t be anywhere but Central Park.
(Bullets flying, blood staining the grass, that sound of a disembodied scream that turned out to be her own, an Enforcer falling to the ground and then disintegrating into dust.)
Jean swallowed all of that back, landing lightly on the grass.
“Supergirl,” Jean called out, allowing the name to reverberate through psychic channels, too -- but she couldn’t get through. Kara’s natural immunity seemed to have been bolstered, shifted in the past few days. “It’s Jean. Can you hear me?”
KARA: Somewhere overhead, a helicopter beat a sharp staccato against the mid-afternoon sky. Kara could hear each blade as it spun, the heavy, rapid breaths of the news crew in the cabin. Their lens made a soft scrape as the cameramen spun to zoom. Their hearts beat too fast: scared.
She was a reporter, she knew what message was being broadcast to the world. Another superhero out of control, more collateral damage, more reason to control them. Her fingers curled into her palm, her head tilted to the helicopter as it circled above her. At one point, she may have written a story about how they misunderstood, but now...
She was tired of trying to convince them. They didn't care that she was a refugee, that she liked chocolate pecan pie, and she considered herself a Gryffinpuff. They didn't care that Gabbie just wanted people to look at her like she wasn't something to fear, or Peter had a right to his identity. They didn't care that Scott died in love not too far from where Kara stood, and Jean only ever wanted to love him back.
They didn't care. They only cared about what they could do. And in that moment Kara could do so much. She thought about wrapping her hands around the landing skids and dragging it back to Earth. They metal would give so easily. She could...
Jean's voice broke through, more than just aloud. Something prodded at the edge of her consciousness and her thoughts derailed. Her gaze dropped, squinting to find Jean landing on the grass just through the trees, and she smiled. She caught, just for a moment. No one had approached her since Alex the night before, and there was Jean. Of course there was Jean.
(A part of her screamed, if anyone would understand what was happening, how her mouth formed words she didn't want, how her hands had pulled apart struts even as she fought so hard not to–)
She was in front of her in a moment, "This is awfully public of you. Are you here to try to talk some sense into me, or is this just a check in?"
JEAN: Everything was supposed to be coming together. The rest of the city was living life on a knife’s edge, never entirely sure of where the next chess piece would move, but Jean was on the inside of this one -- she knew where she needed to go, knew what needed to happen, knew that the outcome would be the same even if they were forced to improvise on the finer details for part of the way. This was supposed to be, at least for her, the wind down. It was supposed to be where everything slotted into place, where the gnawing anxiety that had been building in her chest since Central Park started to wane.
Instead, it felt like everything was falling apart.
The first person she thought of when this happened, naturally, was Kara. Kara, who maintained something of a distance from her life in the Institute, who represented someone outside of mutantkind who looked at Jean and saw all of her and accepted her anyway. Kara, who was her friend, her sister, her family.
She didn’t realize until she investigated further that those bridges falling weren’t the work of the Brotherhood, or the defected X-Men. She mentioned it, albeit briefly, to Scott, who knew nothing -- enough of a warning bell that she knew asking Erik would give her nothing but more questions. So she investigated for herself.
And now she was standing face to face with Kara, and her voice didn’t sound like Kara. It didn’t feel like Kara. This force pressing back on Jean’s psychic push, the natural Kryptonian immunity seemingly bolstered by something that wanted her out, that wasn’t normal. Jean never looked deeper into her friend’s mind than she was asked to -- but the option was there. The option was there because they trusted each other. Jean hoped that would stand by her now.
“The latter,” Jean replied, “unless you feel like you need some sense. I’m not entirely sure I’m the right person to give it.” After all, what had she done for the past few weeks that indicated she was good at thinking things through? Every action Jean took only seemed to lead to more problems, or encourage those around her to take a situation and make it worse. “What are you doing, Kara?”
KARA: There was something nagging on the edge of her mind, and she knew it was Jean. It was different than the fight she'd been waging with herself for days. It was different than Alex and her gun, or Lar and his papers and that look. It was something she didn't feel very often, not even with Jean, who respected her boundaries better than most.
It meant Jean didn't know, and oh, that was interesting. Maybe Erik did have something he couldn't stand to lose.
"I'm–" Failing, somehow. Thoughts slipping one over the other, unable to grasp more than the ones that hurt. And Jean was right there, pressing in. Somewhere Kara screamed; she could imagine Jean pressing each bad thought down, one by one. Untangling the web so she could just think, just for a moment. She could apologize, or run, or fling herself into space until she didn't feel as much like tearing the whole world down to make a new one. But red outlined her veins and the screaming was smothered.
"I'm remodeling." She spun with a grin, squinting at the buildings around her until New York was nothing but skeletons. The bridges in the distance were warped steel and iron, and smoke rose steadily from various incidents throughout the city. She settled on one building, seventy-stories high, the inside wrecked. "I think L-Corp is a bit of an eyesore, don't you?"
Erik had cautioned her to wait, and her mind easily wavered from Lena. Jean had been at the United Nations. Jean had been on the news, she didn't flinch. Kara wondered if she was following orders, or if she believed just as passionately as Erik. Or if, like Kara, their goals would only run parallel for so long.
"I'm doing just fine, Jean. Having the time of my life, actually. Don't you have better things to do?"
JEAN: She didn’t enter minds without permission. She did, once, a long time ago -- she was a child without a notion of how to control these new abilities, and everyone’s thoughts blurring into hers. Sometimes they were like bulls in a china shop, tearing through her memories, their psyches confoundingly present. Other times, it was far more sinister. Their ideas, their concepts, slid into Jean’s thoughts and wrapped around her own mind. They made her feel as if they were hers, and before long, she didn’t know what was really Jean Grey and what was something else.
Maybe that’s why she was the ideal host for the Phoenix in the first place. Maybe that’s why days and nights disappeared into darkness, why she woke up in the morning and knew, instinctively, that she had been somewhere, done something, that she couldn’t pinpoint. Jean knew what it was like to be in the backseat of her own body, screaming that they were headed for a cliff, powerless to stop it.
She didn’t know why she was thinking of that now. She didn’t know why Kara -- her friend, her sister, bridesmaid at her wedding and co-parent to her cat -- would be pushing back this ferociously now, why her voice would be sharp where it had once been warm, but jumping immediately to something like that…
It was paranoia, from watching Erik. Paranoia, from seeing how Scott was growing more and more obsessed with plans, staying awake late into the night, seeming almost startled when she passed him a cup of coffee. Paranoia from seeing herself.
But this wasn’t Kara. Jean pushed just a little more as she stepped forward -- and pain rippled through her own temple. Resistance. Strong resistance. Kryptonian level resistance if Kara was really trying to keep her out.
“What kind of remodeling?” Jean asked, keeping her voice casual, as if she was asking her friend for a Starbucks order. “You know I’m not great with interior design, but maybe you can let me in on it.” She followed Kara’s gaze towards the skyline, still keeping her form in the periphery of her vision, and saw the familiar logo. “Well,” Jean said, thinking back to Erik’s rage about Lena Luthor, about the Sentinels, about what she had said on the matter -- that the woman deserved what she got.
Jean wasn’t so sure about that, now.
“I can think of worse places,” Jean commented. “Luthor … you’ve spent time with her before, right?” Supergirl always seemed to be there when Luthor needed help. Jean wasn’t going to act like that was a coincidence. Kara turned back to her, and Jean sucked in a breath. It was uncharacteristic, a bit like a slap in the face, but she could take it.
She could take it now she knew what she was dealing with.
“You’re not yourself, Kara,” she said, simply and firmly. Her voice softened as she continued. “I know what it feels like, to be … to be angry. Believe me, I know. But I can help you. I can help this all go away, you just need to let me in.”
KARA: "On Krypton, we didn't have all of these blocks. Our buildings curved." She could almost see it, tracing the bend of her family home with a finger. Her voice was almost gentle for the first time in days, and her heart thudded painfully in her chest. She didn't want to see it anymore. She was so tired of painting Krypton in shades of red and orange, of covering her canvasses and hiding them in corners because Rao forbid someone were to walk in. Someone who didn't know. Someone who didn't agree.
The sky was blue, and the buildings were blocks, and Kara was still the last one who cared.
"I could see all of them from my bedroom window, all the pods, the lights." She paused, her hand dropping to her side. For a moment, her veins glowed red, her hands clenching into fists. "We also didn't hate each other just for being who we are."
She caught again on L-Corp tower. There was so much about this world she'd grown to love. It was amazing how so much of it could be erased in moments. Just one word, built upon one too many missteps. She didn't want to remodel. She wanted to tear it all down. She wanted to dig her fingers into steel until it warped and tore. Again and again until the world broke or she did.
Jean might know what it meant to be angry, but their anger came from different places. It aligned at times, of course. They both lived in a world that punished anyone who dared to be normal. They both knew what it was like to hide. They both hurt in ways that couldn't be described or quantified, it just was. Jean was born into a world that had already decided she shouldn't be there.
Kara could still remember a world that had loved her, and she lost it. And she never had a choice.
She never had a choice.
"I'm more me than I've ever been." She looked to Jean again, eyes traced in glowing red. One hand lifted to rub at the slight prick at her temple, taking a step closer. "I'm finally helping myself. I'm– stay out I don't need you, Jean."
JEAN: Jean couldn’t read her friend’s mind, couldn’t get past the invisible wall that she’d formed between them, and she’d always promised herself that when someone said no she would listen. When a friend looked her dead in the eye and said get out, she would. Telepaths had an even greater responsibility than most mutants, she knew that — and she also knew that right now, she had a responsibility to her friend, to her fall, to the city, to bend some of those rules without breaking them.
“It sounds beautiful,” Jean replied, voice thick. “Maybe you can show me those memories, sometime. I would love to see it.” Life had been so hectic since their respective secrets came out. Jean learned Kara’s identity in a hospital room when they were uncertain if Alex would even wake up. Kara learned about the Phoenix over orange juice only a few weeks before the world fell apart. They knew each other, but they hadn’t had time to talk about it, not really.
Jean knew that look in Kara’s eyes. She’d seen it reflected in the mirror a million times — and she’d seen it in the faces of her husband and mentor in the past months since Central Park, too.
Was it the bird? For a brief second Jean reached to her, but the flames didn’t lick against her skin. There was energy here, palpable and unnatural, but not cosmic fire.
“Okay,” Jean said, taking a step back, hands up as she moved. “You’re doing what you feel is right. Why don’t you tell me what that is, Kara? We can fix this, together. We can fix all of it.” Jean sucked in a breath, letting the silence sit between them for only one tense moment. “Burning the world down,” she started, “will not bring you peace.”
KARA: "Then what is supposed to bring me peace?" Kara took a step forward, brows drawn together, hands restless at her sides. "Putting on a pair of glasses, pretending to be human? Making myself less every day because if I don't someone somewhere will punish my family for it?"
Kara thought of Krypton. She thought of curved spires and the markets at street level. She thought of Rao's prayers, and how her family would recite them every night. And she felt peace, then. With her mother's soft voice guiding her through words born into her she was home. Soft and warm under Rao's light. She hadn't fully realized how much she'd missed it until Reign, and then Lar came into her life. It was something lost among the stars; she'd shifted and changed so much she'd nearly forgotten it was a part of her.
And truly, it was lost. Her family had turned there backs the moment she'd spoken Magneto's name. Lar's heartbeat had faded not long after she'd shoved his proposal against his chest. Alex held a gun to her chest. There was only Kara, and her memories, and a world that insisted it didn't want her. It didn't want her prayers, or her history, or her culture. It stole the word 'alien' and morphed it into 'roach' and wrote it on protest signs to wave in Central Park. If she was going to find peace, she was going to have to make it.
"Besides," she pulled in a breath, steady, letting her hands unclench, "Isn't that what you're doing? Searching for peace in war?"
JEAN: It had always been different for Jean. She could pass, where other mutants within the Institute were forced to be recognize for what they were, outed by their appearance or abilities that couldn’t be hidden behind measures of control. When Kara tales about a pair of glasses, about blending into human life, about denying her true self so she could live in peace, Jean understood that — but that didn’t mean she could let her friend keep going.
“I know what it’s like, keeping yourself under control. Every single day, you ... you can’t even breathe in case you take down a building with you, in case you brush a little too close to someone and ruin their life. I get that. But Kara, lashing out won’t get you anywhere. It only ends badly.” Jean had died before, when she leaned into that fear, into her anger. She had burned up on the lawn and she came back, only by the grace of an entity she still couldn’t completely figure out the intentions of. “You’re right. I am fighting a war. But I’m not doing it alone.”
Jean took a small step forward, hand up. “You are so powerful,” she said, “but your true strength always comes from the people who love you. You taught me that, more than anyone. If you want to fight, you can fight with us. We are making a world better for everyone who is different. We are forcing them to give us a place to rest. You can help with that. Don’t let the pain force you into doing this alone.”
KARA: I'm not doing it alone.
Kara's apartment had a revolving door, and it wasn't because it was a particularly nice apartment, or a convenient location. It was average, and out of the way. No, it was because for so long, Kara had loved everyone she could, everyone who needed it. She'd fostered a home and called her friends family. El Mayarah meant stronger together, it meant hope, and it was one of the few things she could take from Krypton and embody entirely. She'd crawled out of a pod and watched Kal fly away, and decided she wasn't going to let anyone ever feel unloved or unwanted.
For a moment, Kara caught. Jean had a family and a purpose. She had Scott, and Erik so obviously loved her. They were fighting for their family, for the people they loved, so they may live in a space safe for them. Late nights with tea and a purring super cat said Kara was a part of that family. But–
"I asked my family." Kon told her to get out, Alex held a gun to her chest. Kal was only ever a cape on a television screen, there only when it best suited him, and gone before she could ask him to stay. Donna was off putting the pieces she'd left behind back together, and hadn't truly talked to her in so long Kara wondered how they'd let so many miles grow between them.
She couldn't hear Lar's heartbeat anymore.
She wanted her family. Stronger together, she thought. She wanted them to understand her anger just as well as they understood her hope. She wanted to tell them about Krypton, to see the same vision for the future she did. She wanted curved spires and marketplaces that smelled of food Earth couldn't even dream of. She wanted her dad and his lab, her mom's arms around her. She wanted, she wanted all these things she could never have, and it hurt.
It hurt until she couldn't hold it anymore, and when she broke she was answered with guns and lit eyes and 'not like this, Kara.' "I asked my family, and they said no. Why don't you tell them we're supposed to be stronger together." Kara pulled in a breath, fingers flexing at her sides. "What was your goal here, Jean? Stand here and tell me I'm loved, and it'll all be okay? We'll figure this out together? It's not enough." She took a few steps back, shaking her head. Something tugged at her, something that said Jean had understood better than anyone else. Jean actually said things that mattered.
Jean had sat across from her and talked of anger, and how hard it could be to control. She wasn't just reaching a hand out because she wanted Kara to stop, she was reaching a hand out as someone who could see her, honestly see her. And Kara rallied, she tried so hard. Let her in, let her in, but her thoughts tumbled away. "Unless you have something more productive than 'love bonds us all,' I think we're done here."
JEAN: Jean was a scientist. She was a soldier. She’d been a part of the X-Men since before she was anything else, and that meant logic and pragmatism needed to be at the forefront of everyday life. In the Institute, they put a target on their own backs in order to prove to the world that mutants were there to protect themselves, yes, but also humanity — to prove that they weren’t there to propel evolution forward, or to wipe out other races in an attempt to save their own.
That meant that her heart should never outweigh her head, but it did, constantly and consistently. Jean acted on her gut far more than she did on tactical expertise or reading the terrain. She fought on her own terms, allowed the auras of the people around her to guide her actions. It was only when she took that feeling out of it that things started going wrong. When she looked at the logic of a situation, like the decades and centuries of mutant suppression and discrimination, and figured that nothing would change in her lifetime, in any of their lifetimes, that they were doomed to live half an existence for as long as they were allowed before dying a premature death. When Jean allowed herself to see only in facts, hope diminished, and people got hurt.
People were getting hurt now. That was never Kara’s intention. It wasn’t just a smiling girl in a karaoke bar that drew Jean to Kara — she knew that the second the truth came out in the hospital, and then over the island counter in her kitchen. They were more alike than they ever thought. “I can do that. We can work it out, together. You could come with me, and we could talk to them.” There was nothing that couldn’t be solved if they worked together. (Was that hypocritical to say when Jean’s family reunion turned into a civil war in New York? When what they accomplished together was only more bloodshed, albeit with good intentions?) “Your family love you, Kara. You’ve formed something here that people can only dream of. I know what you’re going through, but we are never better alone.”
There was a moment, just a split second where Jean stepped forward and Kara didn’t increase the distance between them, a brief instant where she saw something shift in her friend’s eyes. She reached for her hand, and then Kara was gone, in a burst of speed she’d never seen before, not this close.
We could follow her, a voice whispered. Jean would. She needed to. Kara was her friend, her sister, the woman she wanted by her side on the best day of her life and every day before and since. We could follow her, but you don’t want to do that.
The wind picked up, blowing through the park. The grass shifted, and Jean was back in that moment, blood soaking into the dirt.
We have other battles to fight, it said, and you need to save your strength.
It was right. (It was always right.)
It was time to pay Erik a visit.
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rules: tag ten followers you want to know better !
name: El
star sign: aquarius, which does kind of reflect me, also water is cool
height: 5'8″
middle name? was never given one. forever bitter. would choose something like ‘Ramen’. So that when someone asks if I want to get ramen, I can just make the obvious naff joke...or just something generic, like ‘Danger’
put your itunes whatever on shuffle. what are the first 6 songs that popped up?
‘Slip Away’ by Perfume Genius
‘Genesis’ by Grimes
‘What’s a Girl To Do’ by Fatima Yamaha
'Only God Knows’ by Young Fathers ft. Leith Congregational Choir
‘Limit To Your Love’ by James Blake
‘The Bottle’ by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
grab one book nearest to you and turn to page 23. what’s line 17? “[One of the] big problems about climbing trees is what to do when you’re at the top”
ever had a poem or a song written about you? Both. One ex wrote multiple poems, which were okay but painted me as some kind of extremely anxious manic pixie dream girl, which is kind of true, but meh. My other ex wrote a song about deciding he was gonna stop fucking around and commit to me, and how strong his feelings were, which is now the first track on his bands’ debut EP. it’s SO not a banger, highly disappointing (he also cheated on me, so the whole thing was and still is bullshit)
when was the last time you played air guitar? earlier whilst running, I think, to the solo of Tribulations by LCD Soundsystem.
who is your celebrity crush? oooof. It varies. Annie Clarke. Also Chris Hemsworth. Steve Harington in Stranger Things. Harry Styles, as basic as that is, but he is gorgeous. I also have a really weird thing for Michael Cera.
what’s a sound you hate; sound you love? I DESPISE forks on a plate. I really like the sound of a squeaky whiteboard pen on a board, but my favourite sound is definitely rain outside hammering on your window
do you believe in ghosts? I was convinced I saw one once, in a haunted pub, but I’m ultimately a ghost agnostic
how about aliens? I mean definitely, in some form, but we couldn’t even begin to imagine what they’d look like
do you drive? yes sir, skrrt skrrt
if so, have you ever crashed? yeah but it wasn’t my fault. stupid blind old lady who shouldn’t have been driving *cough* prince philip *cough*
what was the last book you read? ‘This is Going To Hurt’ by Adam Kay, about being a junior doctor on the frontlines
do you like the smell of gasoline? Can’t stand it, gives me a headache
what was the last movie you saw? The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. FAR more dark than I was anticipating following the first quirky ‘ballad’
what’s the worst injury you’ve ever had? I once got my pinkie finger trapped in the hinges of our hugeass front door. It needed reconstructing. It still looks kinda funny
do you have any obsessions right now? Making whipped TikTok coffee every single day of my god damn life.
do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong? Yeah. I hold onto shit for a long time, but I always try to practice forgiveness and remember people make mistakes just like I do. But if you’ve been an absolute asswipe then I probably will hold a grudge forever, soz
in a relationship? Yes, and very happy, albeit missing him in current circumstances
Tagged by: @bladesandblazes - thanks Phoenix!
Tagging: whoever wants to do it! @canuck-sweeety33 , @extraneousdominomask & @kingncp, if they fancy it!
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Book Roundup 2019!
I’ve read a lot of really amazing books this year so I thought I’d give a brief ‘review’ of them and my recommendations!! I know it looks like I’m a light reviewer, but I’ve decided to not waste my time on books that are lackluster to me so I’m more than willing to give up on a book halfway through lol
5 Stars
1. Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim YA Fantasy
ahhh!! I’m so obsessed with the book. The cover art alone is insane!! Basically a mix of Mulan and the fairytale about spinning straw into gold. Has sorcery, magic, and shapeshifting!! A proper OTP <3
2. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden Fantasy
A spectacular end to a spectacular series. Russian fairytale retelling. Another amazing OTP. Magic!!
3. The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera Fantasy
Lesbians on horses with swords! What more could you ask for! Demon slayers and Gods!
4. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi Fantasy, maybe YA?
oof. Got this in one of my OwlCrates and did not expect it to hit as hard as it did. Based in Paris. A beautiful burlesque dancer who can ‘read’ an objects history. A character who’s been robbed of his proper inheritance. A flower artisan. A rebel. A arguably autistic coded Russian girl who’s a little to into making things explode. And an ‘antagonist’ who isn’t really an antagonist and who I may be a little in love with. Super beautifully done! Excited for the sequel!
5. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan YA Fantasy
Heart wrenching. Powerful. Painful. There are three castes: Moon caste are demons who each take on animalistic features. Steele caste are half human and half demon with a few animalistic features. Paper caste are pure humans. Every year the Bull Moon caste king brings in about a dozen Paper Girls from the different regions. This is the year one of girls brings in a rebellion. Primary characters are lesbians and I love them <3 tw: for sexual assault. there are warning at the beginning and resources given at the end
6. We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal YA Fantasy
oof. My boy Altair isn’t a ‘main’ character but not a ‘main main’ character but I love him and his flirty, flirty ways!!
opening line is: “People died because he lived.” second chapter opens with: “People lived because she killed.” and the dichotomy between the two characters is amazing!! beautifully well done!! Arabic inspired!
7. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake YA Horror
a wonderfully intense and engaging horror!! the characters are amazing and very well developed. Kendare is one of my favorite authors <3
8. Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld YA Scifi? Dystopian?
A continuation of his “Uglies” series and just as engaging and powerful as the others! A long time favorite series and author!
9. The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg 5 stars YA Fantasy
Holy shit. This book absolutely knocked me out. The style is unique and fresh. The story is told through a series of court transcripts, police interviews, surveillance cameras, and the POV of Ana. Ana is a ‘Fantasist’ in the Kingdom basically Disney World. The Fantasists are incredibly lifelike androids meant to make your wishes come true! But then she gets accused of murder and is put on trial. Absolutely amazing!
10. Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake YA Fantasy
A solid ending to a spectacular series!! Spent a little too much time on a lackluster romance but overall a favorite <3
11. Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Horror
Horror from the 50s!! Pretty much nothing like the netflix series but still a wonderful read!!
12. Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan YA Fantasy
Sequel to Girls of Paper and Fire. Not quite as enthralling as the first, but that’s not out of the ordinary. Moral of the story: everyone’s gay! Has the same TW as the first, along with recovery, self-harm, addiction
13. Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake YA Horror
Sequel to Ana Dressed in Blood. A great follow up! I was worried about how it was going to end but I was pleasantly surprised!
14. Crown of Feathers by Nicki PauPreto YA Fantasy
Phoenix riders!! Warrior Queens! Quite a few great plot twists. Two sisters ended up in a civil war against each other for the throne, animage queen vs magicless queen. Afterwards animages were hunted down and forced into servitude. But there’s a small underground rebellion forming of new Phoenix riders!! I’ve already preordered the sequel for feb!!
15. The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones YA Fantasy
A nice little standalone. I believe it was Welsh based? Ryn is a gravedigger near a forest rumored to house magic. Magic that brings the dead to life, but very few people believe this. When the dead start to rise in greater numbers and attacking the nearest villages Ryn and a map maker out to make his name set off to find the source and return the area to normalcy. Well done and cute <3
16. Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart YA Fantasy
Similar to Girls of Paper and Fire in that every year the king brings 6ish (?) girls to court to be his consorts. But it’s for life instead of just one year. One of the girls gets convicted of reading and sent off to the female prison island just off the mainland where the women there get split into different ‘tribes’ and are expected to fight for resources in a gladiator type ring. She manages to convince most of the others to band together against the island guards and is determined to find a way back to her sister on the mainland.
4 Stars
17. Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan YA Fantasy
A religious country with a paladin vs a magic country with blood mages. The paladin is forced to align herself with a blood mage in order to save her country. She struggles with her faith throughout the novel while trying to find a way to align what she beliefs with what she’ll have to do to save her people. Some of the blood mages go super far to the point they’re no longer human and become howl-esque bird monsters w/steel teeth, fingernails and wings.
18. Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson YA Fantasy
Another cute standalone!! Sorcerers and magic books! Elisabeth wants nothing more than to be a warden in one of the great libraries, taking care of the grimoires. When the head of the library she’s studying at is killed but a rampaging grimoire she is the prime suspect and is forced to travel with one of the ‘evil’ sorcerers. In her quest to prove her innocence she is forced to question her beliefs and the morality of the sorcerers.
19. Queen of Ruin by Tracy Banghart YA Fantasy
Sequel to Grace and Fury. Very cute. A little lackluster. The endings a little cheesy but heartwarming.
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Talking about the X-Men...
Hi @camsthisky! I know you asked if I had any reading/watching recommendations for X-Men. First of all let me say that my knowledge is REALLY scattered, as are the individual X-Men I am obsessed with. Like, in DC, I know and love almost everyone, but when it comes to the X-men I mostly obsess over just a few characters...and I have never read any of the comics, so my knowledge comes from movies, shows, fanfic, and reading pages of wikipedia. So with that fair warning out of the way, let me just spend the rest of this post dumping my thoughts and recommendations out for you :D (Also I don’t know what your familiarity is with any of this so....)
A few short character introductions mostly per the movies
Nightcrawler aka Kurt “my smile will melt your heart, also take three guesses as to my parentage” Wagner (hmm Nightwing, Nightcrawler, both lived in a circus at some point, guess what they’re both the light of my life...)
Havok aka Alex “wait I’m supposed to be the younger bro, ah who cares my face is made of sunshine and so are my death beams and death hula hoops” Summers
Cyclops aka Scott “I’m not a perfect person but dang it the movies screw me over consistently, also I’m the younger? bro??? what” Summers
Phoenix/Marvel Girl/Dark Phoenix aka Jean “most of the movies screwed me over too but at last I get to look badass and gorgeous, also I am legit the most powerful of you all” Grey
Quicksilver aka Pietro/Peter “I’m adorkable as heck and just as fast, also thank gosh the movies actually made that thing with my father a thing” Maximoff
Professor X aka Charles “my issues have issues but at least I help other people with their issues” Xavier
Magneto aka Erik “if ever a guy had good motivations because of his background, also that’s not my real name” Lehnsherr
Rogue aka Marie “with great power comes a great lack of human touch, I either need to kiss someone or punch them in the face, preferably both if it’s Remy” D’Ancanto (tbh the films did NOT do a great job with her, though she was cute still)
Mystique aka Raven “I’m blue, I look like everyone, my name is cooler than yours, I’m probably your mom” Darkholme
Wolverine aka Logan aka James “I have a different love interest for every day of the week but I’m really cool so hopefully Jean won’t notice, yeah that’s right go away movie!Scott because movie!Jean is my soulmate!” Howlett (I love this guy just...not how the first films push the romance with Jean...where is dad Wolverine that’s all I want)
Storm aka Ororo “queen of everything, deserved waaaaaay better than movies for real, where’s her backstory and her brotp with Gambit?!” Munroe
Gambit aka Remy “could and would charm you out of everything you own, a lover and a fighter, does both with Rogue, pretty sure he was Death one time” LeBeau
Angel aka Warren “my backstory changes, I’m an angel or a harbringer of the apocalypse, but either way I’m in pain” Wilson
THERE ARE SO MANY MORE I NEED TO STOP AND ACTUALLY RECOMMEND STUFF
Movies
1. X-Men, X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand: I enjoyed the first two films. I absolutely love Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellan, and to watch the two friends play best frenemies is a treat. I love the teams and the people, though Cyclops several of the characters get screwed over and Wolverine several of the characters try to take over the story. As far as I am concerned, 75% of the third movie does not exist
2. Wolverine: Origins, The Wolverine, Logan: Apparently Origins is a terrible, terrible adaption of the comics. I secretly love it anyway...mostly because we get an appearance from Gambit, the card throwing, stick-wielding, energy-kabooming Cajun thief who was probably the first X-Man I really fell for. That said, even he is not a great adaption. I’m just desperate for what I can get. What I really want is a live-action film of his life story (not with Channing Tatum, sorry my guy I really do love you but you just don’t fit my picture of him), not to mention his romance with Rogue, the woman who literally kills whatever she touches. Ahem, anyway. The Wolverine was pretty cool--I enjoyed most of it, though there is one ethical dilemma that I still scratch my head over. I HAVE NOT YET SEEN LOGAN BUT IT IS ON MY LIST BECAUSE APPARENTLY I AM DYING TO WATCH ANGSTY MOVIES
3. X-Men First Class, X-Men Days of Future Past, X-Men Apocalypse: I love love love First Class. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender KILL it as young Professor X and Magneto, and they get to be besties almost the whole movie! And we get an origin story for how the X-Men began in the first place! And Alex Summers makes his first appearance as Havok, and I can’t help it I fell aboard the fangirl train I love him. Days of Future Past isn’t my favorite but HOLY HECK I love Quicksilver and there is a fabulous speedster scene in it! Apocalypse is my fave out of these three movies because my faves are almost all here. Also another great speedster scene. Bby Nightcrawler is in this movie and HE IS THE FREAKING CUTEST THING TO TELEPORT THE EARTH! He also happens to be the first X-Man who I decided to adopt as my son. My sweet sweet blueberry son who deserves only happiness...look at his face again!
Cartoons
Okay, this is easy, seeing as I have only seen one so far. X-Men Evolutions. I LOVE IT. I LOVE EVERY CHARACTER’S PORTRAYAL. ROGUE GETS JUSTICE. NIGHTCRAWLER IS PRECIOUS AS ALWAYS. WOLVERINE DOESN’T MAKE ME WANT TO PUNCH HIM. JEAN AND SCOTT YESS. IT’S FUNNY!!! LAST I CHECKED IT WAS ON YOUTUBE
Fanfics
1. “This Is a Story about Control” by GrayJay https://archiveofourown.org/works/4439783
This is a really cool fic about who Scott Summers is. A great intro to his character, one that makes me love him more and more.
2. “The Way Things Break” by GrayJay https://archiveofourown.org/works/7227142 This fic is an au of Alex and Scott Summer’s relationship and meeting. “It might help to watch First Class, Days of Future Past, and Apocalpyse, but you could probably get away without watching them, if you really didn’t feel like it.) The fic is a brilliant explanation of part of the FREAKING MESS that the film and comic timelines has become. Because Scott is the older Summers brother and Alex is the younger Summers brother...except, well, after they find each other after YEARS of separation, Alex is 30 and Scott is 15. It’s weird. Both brothers have issues, but they love the heck out of each other. There is soooo much angst!!!
3. “Corner Pocket” by GrayJay https://archiveofourown.org/works/5520086
This short little fic involves Wolverine watching Scott Summers play pool with Matt Murdock. I never would have thought of Scott and Matt being good friends but I read this and the world makes sense. Also I really really love Logan and Scott being kinda friends? Despite their differences? (The author has a few Daredevil stories that are really good too btw)
4. “Connect the Dots” by GrayJay https://archiveofourown.org/works/4279881
Scott Summers wants to hire a lawyer to teach at the the Institute, so he pitches his idea to Matt Murdock. Two guys with red glasses read Braille menus. I REALLY LIKE SCOTT AND MATT BEING FRIENDS
5. “Rex Racer on the Final Turn” by you guessed it GrayJay (I stumbled on her fics I am just so enthralled by them I can’t help it I have to spread the word) https://archiveofourown.org/works/2356574/chapters/5200295
This is a bit of a long fic but I LOVE IT TO DEATH. It’s a mostly comic canon compliant au of how Alex and Scott reunited after having been seperated for many years. Mostly it is letters, texts, emails, and phone calls, and normally I am not as into that but the author does it really well. Realistic dialogue, a great mix of angst and fluff, so many freaking feels. The author also links various fics along the way that more like traditional fics set in the same universe. You like brother things? You’ll like this. When you start though, know that Scott is secretly Cyclops, that Alex hasn’t manifested his mutation yet, and he doesn’t know that Scott is a mutant.
6. “The Busy Griefs” by likeadeuce https://archiveofourown.org/works/63189
This fic is heart-wrenching. Deals with the aftermath of a major death in X2. Storm has a lot to deal with--mostly people dealing or not dealing with grief.
7. “in the lonely cool before dawn (the wings for wheels remix) by handyhunter https://archiveofourown.org/works/189580
A friendship fic for Scott and Ororo (Storm). Scott really loves his plane
8. “Hell of a Thing” by likeadeuce https://archiveofourown.org/works/68110
I feel like I’m staring to just randomly throwing out a bunch of my recent fave X-Men fics at you without regard anymore to whether you will appreciate them as a newcomer...so feel free to set these aside till you get better acquainted with the characters and stuff. Anyway, this fic is a quiet one where Scott Summers and Kitty Pryde have a talk about griefs and miracles. And weird relationships with former enemies. (I love Scott but the guy’s love life is a mess.)
9. “Angelus Redemtio” by Misha Berry https://archiveofourown.org/works/7868899
A beautiful hurt/comfort AU that takes place after X-Men Apocalypse. Features Warren/Angel and my precious son Kurt/Nightcrawler. Kurt is the sweetest kid in the world!
10. “Help Me Find My Way on Home” by oppressa https://archiveofourown.org/works/7010188
Takes place after Apocalpyse. Something is vaguely hinted at in that movie, like, really vaguely. This follows up on it. Features light of my life Kurt Wagner and also Raven Darkholme.
WEEELLLLLLLLL sorry that all got really long and idk if any of it will even be helpful to you but...here it is anyway! :D
P.S. You think DC Comics is a mess? HAH
P.P.S. If you want a headache, just look up the Summers’ family tree and general timeline. It’s a freaking train wreck
#x-men#x-men fanfic recommendations#i love nightcrawler my precious blueberry son#alex summers#scott summers#idk if this will be helpful at all but i enjoyed putting it together#i have a lot of feelings about things#especially where brothers are concerned#i am not nearly as obsessed with xmen as i am with the batfam but there is still plenty of cool stuff#camsthisky#cyclops#havok#rogue#gambit#nightcrawler#professor x#magneto#angel#storm
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Jon ALi Presents: The Top 50 Albums Of 2018!
My beautiful music lovers: We have (almost) reached the end of 2018!
This year proved once again to be a true test to the human psychique with the mess that is our current Presidential reality – but, luckily, in the midst of life’s many expected ups and downs this year, there was (thankfully) a ton of great music to help distract, heal and lift us up.
First up, I’m counting down my Top 50 Albums of the 2018! As per usual, this list was the quickest to make because I find it easier to rank my love for an album based on if I can get through the whole thing from start to finish without banging my head against a wall (repeatedly). WITH THAT SAID: That doesn’t necessarily mean I find album #19 any more or less tolerable than the ones before or after it so please save your trolling for someone who actually cares. The list reflects my personal taste, you know the person the blog is named after. I love music. You love music. We love music!
K, without further ado, here’s the list:
50. Fischerspooner – Sir 49. Hayley Kiyoko – Expectations 48. Teyana Taylor – K.T.S.E. 47. Ella Mai – Ella Mai 46. Rita Ora – Phoenix 45. Shawn Mendes – Shawn Mendes 44. Little Mix – LM5 43. Rae Morris – Someone Out There 42. Paloma Faith – The Architect 41. Travis Scott – Astroworld 40. Sofi Tukker – Treehouse 39. J Balvin – Vibras 38. Empress Of – Us 37. Blood Orange – Negro Swan 36. CHVRCHES – Love is Dead 35. Nicki Minaj – Queen 34. Jess Glynne – Always In Between 33. The Aces – When My Heart Felt Volcanic 32. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships 31. Twin Shadow – Caer 30. Toni Braxton – Sex & Cigarettes 29. Florence and the Machine – High as Hope 28. Lily Allen – No Shame 27. The Carters – Everything Is Love 26. Tinashe – Joyride 25. MNEK – Language 24. Khalid – Suncity 23. Christina Aguilera – Liberation 22. Camila Cabello – Camila 21. Black Panther: The Album 20. Goldilox – Very Best 19. Kali Uchis – Isolation 18. Ariana Grande – Sweetener 17. Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy 16. SOPHIE – Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides 15. Kylie Minogue – Golden 14. NAO – Saturn 13. MØ – Forever Neverland 12. Rosalía – El Mal Querer 11. Jorja Smith – Lost & Found
10. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
2013’s The Electric Lady – Janelle‘s sophomore effort – saw this multi-talented diva hone in on the sound she displayed on her debut The ArchAndroid, showcasing a playful-yet-wise mix of pop, funk and soul that rocked our world. Dirty Computer is a more versatile and ambitious move: an addictive master class in futurist freedom and pride, packed with a whole lot of substance, enlightenment and soul. Here Janelle continues to paint and play with all the different colors in her wonderful artistry. The triumphs outweigh her constraints of not wanting to miss out on another chance to enlighten. She’s not afraid of being herself, and the fact that she only continues to refine within that is what makes Janelle such a necessary presence in today’s musical landscape. Highlights: “Take A Byte,” “Screwed (feat. Zoë Kravitz),” “Django Jane,” “Pynk (feat. Grimes),” “Make Me Feel” and “I Like That.”
9. Years & Years – Palo Santo
On the follow-up to their fantastic 2015 debut, Years & Years – comprised of lead singer Olly Alexander, bassist Mikey Goldsworthy and synth player Emre Turkmen – returns badder, more unfiltered and more confident than ever before. Olly and crew are bleeding into each and every one of these songs, at times menacing, confessional and aggressive like on “Sanctify” and “All For You,” where they break free from a broken relationship with edge and a liberated attitude. Palo Santo pushes Years & Years to new and mature heights while refining their brand of pop excellence and increasing its production value. Highlights: “Sanctify,” “All For You,” “Karma,” “Hypnotised,” “If You’re Over Me” and “Palo Santo.”
8. Mariah Carey – Caution
From start to finish, Mariah‘s fifteenth studio album, Caution, creates a great “Portrait” of where the legacy of Mimi‘s career has been and where it is now. There’s a certain maturity in her tight vision that we haven’t seen in recent efforts like Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel and The Elusive Chanteuse; thematically, Caution feels like a return to form. What really keeps the record feeling cohesive and modern is the lyrical content and sleek production – and all it took was 10 tracks. It’s the perfect example of quality over quantity. Caution is undeniably one of Mariah’s finest moments – her tightest, strongest and most cohesive effort since The Emancipation of Mimi. Highlights: “GTFO,” “Caution,” “A No No,” “The Distance,” “Giving Me Life,” “8th Grade” and “Portrait.”
7. Tove Styrke – Sway
I first noticed Swedish songstress Tove Styrke nearly four years ago when she released her dynamic, well-received sophomore album Kiddo. It’s no surprise to see how she has developed into a major international force since those early days. Her third studio LP Sway is a sure sign of her development as an artist: a restrained, sophisticated and fresh body of work showcasing her gorgeous angelic voice across an array of simple electronic arrangements, acoustic layers, heavenly harmonies and huge pop choruses. She may not have made the biggest noise this year, but she certainly has proven herself to be a more than worthy addition to the Swedish elite we have all come to revere. Highlights: “Say My Name,” “Mistakes,” “On the Low,” “Changed My Mind” and “On A Level.”
6. Christine and the Queens – Chris
The sophomore slump can sometimes be nearly impossible to avoid, but with Chris, Héloïse Letissier managed to deliver a more than worthy follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut, Chaleur Humaine – which introduced her as a heartfelt, articulate queer artist and earned her a thriving following of listeners who felt she was singing directly to — and for — them. This time around, the French diva took on a bigger and dare I say “more accessible” approach, all while building upon her many strengths. The LP is a record brimming with ’80’s-esque grooves, intimate electronica, and a whole lot of soul baring. Christine is more confident than ever here, challenging both herself and her audience. An effortlessly eloquent, cool and intelligent listen from start to finish. She is the chameleon-like artist we deserve today! Highlights: “Girlfriend (feat. Dâm-Funk),” “Doesn’t matter,” “5 dollars,” “Damn (what must do a woman do)” and “Feel so good.”
5. Robyn – Honey
While it may not have been what everyone hoped it would be, Robyn‘s first solo album in eight years proved to be yet another masterpiece from the Swedish Queen – a subtle, more restrained serve from a woman who has always thrived by rejecting pop music standards throughout her career. Honey is a cohesive collection of sophisticated and deeply emotional dance songs that come packed with slick melodies and intelligently written lyricism, bridging her previous work and with the rest of Honey‘s flowing numbers, which draw on the things that gave her the strength to recover during grief: her longtime friend and collaborator, producer Christian Falk, died from pancreatic cancer in 2014, and she separated from her partner, photographer Max Vitali (they have reunited since). Robyn continues to make the trends instead of following them, and with Honey, she enters the next phase in her legacy with some of her most emotionally satisfying and musically innovative music yet. Highlights: “Missing U,” “Human Being (feat. Zhala),” “Because It’s in the Music,” “Honey” and “Between the Lines.”
4. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born: The Soundtrack
If you’d told me I’d be completely obsessing over a soundtrack a year ago, I’d probably laugh in your face. But lo and behold, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s spectacular A Star Is Born, a film filled with full-fledged SONGS, all of which serve the story. Strip out the unnecessary dialogue interludes and the plot of A Star Is Born is still evident, as the music moves from the grungy Americana of Bradley‘s character, through his classic-feeling duets with Gaga, toward her cookie-cutter “Ally” pop, and then culminating with “I’ll Never Love Again,” the beautifully heartbreaking song where the two estranged lovers reunite. Each of these phases is expertly executed, particularly on the now staple-ballad “Shallow” where their sensibilities and chemistry are fused powerfully – I’m still not over it. All the songs just make sense to the narrative and on their own, and as a result, hold together well and amount to the soundtrack of the year. It’s a true gift to us all. Highlights: “Shallow,” “Music to My Eyes,” “Always Remember Us This Way,” “Heal Me,” “I Don’t Know What Love Is,” and “I’ll Never Love Again.”
3. Lykke Li – so sad so sexy
In today’s current state of high-gloss pop-stars, who are all about taking things to the next level, there is something about hearing someone like Swedish talent Lykke Li going slightly left with her sound that is very refreshing. This time around, she took on a more ambitious sound, enlisting husband Jeff Bhasker, T-Minus, DJ Dahi, Illangelo, Emile Haynie, Jonny Coffer, Kid Harpoon and Rostam Batmanglij, among others to complement her strengths. The LP is a record brimming with dark trap grooves, intimate electronica, and an unusual blend of pop and R&B. But, don’t get it twisted: No matter how new the sound may be for her, the Lykke Li heard on so sad so sexy is still a fearless and powerful one. In fact, she’s reached a whole new level of self-awareness and the lyrical craftsmanship, yeah, it’s better than it’s ever been. Are you really surprised though? Highlights: “hard rain,” “deep end,” “last piece,” “sex money feelings die” and “bad woman.”
2. Troye Sivan – Bloom
On the follow-up to his fantastic 2015 debut, Troye Sivan returns liberated, more unfiltered and more self-assured than ever before. As displayed on the cover art and promotional images for the LP – where Troye is seen flaunting his queerness front and center – his guards are completely down and his insecurities are completely visible for anyone willing to look and listen beyond the sexuality. Bloom is a gorgeous, intimate, soft, tender, sensual and supremely crafted listen from start to finish. An album for steamy, unfiltered romping. The shift is evident, Troye is here to stay. Bloom is it. The End. Highlights: “Seventeen,” “My My My!,” “The Good Side,” “Bloom,” “Dance to This (feat. Ariana Grande)” and “Lucky Strike.”
1. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve totally been sleeping on Kacey Musgraves all these years. Thankfully, I’ve woken the fuck up and realized what I was missing all this time. Like most of Kacey‘s back catalog, her fourth major label LP Golden Hour revolves around some expected lyrical themes: boys, love, family, independence and varying levels of self-assurance, sadness, isolation and lust. But Golden Hour strives as a much bigger deal than anything she’s ever done before, it’s her “official” transition into a genuine mainstream pop player. It’s a honest, slow-burning and an extremely therapeutic body of work, in which Kacey‘s delivery is quietly confident throughout, blooming at its own leisurely strut, swaying between casual confessionals and songs about love. The very sound of Golden Hour is warm and enveloping, kind of like a setting sun – but the album sticks with you because the songs are so smart, clever and sweetly blissful. There are no mistakes on this album. Everything works and everything is perfection. Kacey Musgraves has knocked it out of the park with this effort and has perhaps cured my anxiety forever (or at very least, provided the perfect antidote). Highlights: “Slow Burn,” “Butterflies,” “Oh, What a World,” “Love Is a Wild Thing,” “Happy & Sad,” “High Horse” and “Rainbow.”
Honorable Mentions: Zayn – Icarus Falls, Rhye – Blood, Emily Warren – Quiet Your Mind, leuan – Over the Graden Wall, Lauv – I met you when I was 18, Ralph – A Good Girl, Bebe Rexha – Expectations, Clean Bandit – What Is Love?, Sabrina Carpenter – Singular Act I
from Jon ALi's Blog http://jonalisblog.com/2018/12/27/jon-ali-presents-the-top-50-albums-of-2018/
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The Definitive Ranking Of Reese Witherspoon’s 10 Best Movies
In honor of the glory that was , we need to just take a moment to appreciate the queen that is Reese Witherspoon. You may be asking, like, wait, is Reese even a betch? She seems kind of nice girl-ish to me. But while Reese may be super nice, she’s no basic nice girl. She gave us so she’s grandfathereder grandmothered?in to the group. Kind of like how Rachel McAdams seems like she is mostly a narc in real life but she played Regina George so she is automatically betchy forever. It’s like, a betchiness lifetime acheivement award or something. Reese’s contributions to the genre just cannot be ignored. So, in honor of all of the acheivements Reese has made to amplify the voices of betches everywhere (not that we really need it but whatever) we’ve conveniently ranked her best work.
What, like it’s hard?
10. ‘Hot Pursuit’
You probably forgot that this movie even exists or just had it really confused with another female buddy-cop movie like or that one with Melissa McCarthy and the guy from . But this is an actual movie starring Reese Witherspoon and Sophia Vergara and it came out in 2015. Let’s just say, the reviews were not great. It scored a whopping 7 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Not your best work, girl.
9. ‘Pleasantville’
Tobey Maguire plays Reese’s weird brother who is obsessed with a TV show from the 50s, so much so that he gets them both trapped in the black-and-white world of the show. Tobey’s character was definitely one of those Make America Great Again types who, when actually sent back in time, realized that despite being straight white male, the 1950s fucking sucked. Maybe we can do this for the Trump supporters?? Somebody get to work on this. Anyway, Reese played Tobey’s slutty sister who fucked shit up by opening these 1950s dudes’ eyes to the wonders of sex. But then in some Freaky Friday-esque twist, Tobey ends up realizing modern times are better and Reese realizes she’d rather be stuck in the 50s. was an enjoyable movie and I’ve seen it like six times with my family, so it’s not Reese’s worst movie, but her character actually does a reverse transformation from a betch into a nice girl which I do not appreciate in any way. Ninth place.
8. ‘Election’
Reese stars as the iconic Tracey Flick who, though she was a dork, was kind of a ruthless betch who stopped at nothing to achieve her goal of becoming student body president. It’s basically 90s movie gold. That hot-ish guy from the movies is in it too. Anyway, Tracey is so driven and empowered that she drives one of her teachers literally insane, a sentence that could also describe my high school experience. Reese might be annoying AF in this movie, but in true betch fashion, she gets her way in the end. Still, I don’t think anybody saw this movie, and I had to Google it to make sure this wasn’t the one where Will Ferrell and Zack Galifinakis are running for political office against each other, which says a lot about the lasting power of the film IMO.
7. ‘Wild’
Sure, is a movie about hiking, which I mean, gross, but anyway, it’s still watchable. And it was maybe nominated for an Oscar, unless I’m just making that up? Based on Cheryl Strayed’s book of the same name, we follow Reese on the mission of an independent-woman-who-don’t-need-no-man hiking the Pacific Coast Trail. And now I’m getting PTSD flashbacks, ugh. Where this movie beats out Julia Roberts’ self-indulgent pasta-fest, though, is that Reese’s character swears a lot and ends up throwing a pair of ugly boots off a cliff. I mean, if I was forced to hike for more than three minutes I would do the exact same thing. Don’t put me down for hiking, I’d legit rather be eaten by a bear.
6. ‘This Means War’
Was this her best work? Of course not, but I had to include it on the list because what isn’t betchy about two really fucking hot CIA agents fighting over you? Especially if one of those dudes is Chris Pine. I mean, really. Also, Chelsea Handler played her best friend in this movie. Every betch should have Chelsea Handler as a best friend. Not a great film, but something you could definitely watch on a hungover Sunday morning, meaning it passes the Betchdel test.
5. ‘American Psycho’
Did you forget Reese is in this movie? Yeah, probs. DW about it, Reese probably forgot she was in this movie, too. She has a minor role as one of Patrick Bateman’s posh Manhattanite girlfriends, which we obviously connect with on a personal level. Spoiler alert, she doesn’t get murdered in the movieanother plus. In fact, I think she might be in maybe two scenes. Nonetheless, has had kind of a resurgence latelypossibly because of Scott Disick’s physical and mental resemblance to Patrick Bateman, or the fact that the title can also serve as a two-word biography of our current presidentso this seems like a good time to mention that Reese was not only in it, but seemed like a pretty decent match for Christian Bale in that role.
4. ‘Walk The Line’
The role of June Carter earned Reese an Oscar. That’s right, her portrayal of Elle Woods wasn’t the role that won her the hardware. Shame. Anyway, props to her for winning an award and getting to hang out with Joaquin Phoenix before he got all weird. Even as a brunette, we can still get behind her being the apple of a fake Johnny Cash’s eye. Like, also, of course she can sing. Because Reese Witherspoon is basically perfect, and why would you think otherwise?
3. ‘Cruel Intentions’
This was probably one of the first rated R movies you wanted to see. Sure, you could watch an edited version on TV, but it really leaves out some of the good stuff, including the insane amount of swearing these supposed high schoolers do. If you didn’t think Ryan Phillipe was hot as shit in this movie, who even are you? He was the king of fuckboys, but still hot. Aparently Reese thought he was alright too because they ended up getting married. Also, that kiss between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair was iconic. So yeah, even though Reese is kind of the designated “nice girl” of this movie, Reese to selflessly assume that role so that all of SMG’s betchiness could be truly appreciated. It’s like how only once you know darkness can you truly appreciate the light, or some shit.
2. ‘Sweet Home Alabama’
Once again, Reese finds herself in a love triangle between two really hot dudes, one of which is McDreamy himself. I recently watched this movie because it was on, and let me just tell you, the plot holes are pretty glaringbut, for some reason, it’s still good. Reese plays an up-and-coming fashion designer in New York City (because that’s an easy enough job to get) who gets engaged and is forced to go back to her hometown in Alabama to finalize a divorce with her high school BF and explain to her family why she hasn’t been answering any of their calls for a decade. But, plot twist, her family still loves her and her ex husband has become both hot and wealthy. Then Reese is faced with the classic dilemma: Can a woman be hot, rich, and southern all at once? (SPOILER ALERT: she can).
1. ‘Legally Blonde’
This is in the betch cannon of classic films so is it even any fucking surprise that this is Reese’s best work? Let’s pretend like all of those shitty sequels didn’t exist so we can just focus on the real story of Bruiser and Elle Woods. In case you forgot, they’re both gemini vegetarians and probably the two betchiest to ever attend Harvard. Who among us hasn’t been motivated to do something crazy after a breakup? Given, going to law school isn’t necessarily as self-destructive as chopping all your hair off, but still. This movie is responsible for so many amazing lines that can be quoted in almost all curcumstances that it’s difficult to even pick just one, and there is no way Elle wasn’t directly responsible for Harvard being flooded with scented resume and poolside video applications. Like I said, it’s hard to nail down just one moment from this movie to leave you with. The bend and snap? The playboy bunny Gloria Steinem costume? The moment when she saves Paulette’s dog using legal jargon? No. Instead i’ll leave you with one of the film’s most iconic lines, which will be used as an example of rock solid logic for years to come:
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