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beautifulstorms · 3 years

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i know it's been a while but do you have the vote counts/results of the best programs poll u did? i was curious 👀

yes! here's the results, i meant to post them earlier

[Rank, Name, Program name, Vote count]

1, Jason Brown Sinnerman 119

2, Sui/Han Rain in Your Black Eyes 116

3, Rika Kihira A Beautiful Storm 91

3, Kaori Sakamoto The Matrix 91

5, Mikhail Kolyada The White Crow (Nureyev) 80

6, Satoko Miyahara Song for the Little Sparrow 75

7, Wakaba Higuchi Lion King 70

8, Alena Kostornaia Twilight 67

9, Yuzuru Hanyu Heaven and Earth 63

9, Rika Kihira The Fire Within 63

9, Jason Brown Love is a Bitch 63

12, Yuzuru Hanyu Otonal 62

12, Yuzuru Hanyu Let Me Entertain You 62

14, Kaori Sakamoto The Piano 59

14, Gilles/Poirier Vincent 59

14, Yuzuru Hanyu Origin 59

17, Karen Chen Butterfly Lovers Concerto 58

17, Alena Kostornaia The Departure (Lullaby) 58

19, Stepanova/Bukin Cry Me a River 56

19, Evgenia Medvedeva Exogenesis 56

21, Junhwan Cha Romeo and Juliet 55

21, Evgenia Medvedeva Memoirs of a Geisha 55

23, Miura/Kihara Hallelujah 53

24, Wakaba Higuchi Bird Set Free 52

25, Smart/Diaz The Mask of Zorro 49

26, Muramoto/Takahashi Soran Bushi/Koto 46

27, Junhwan Cha Fate of the Clockmaker 45

27, Javier Fernandez Malaguena 45

29, Boikova/Kozlovskii James Bond 44

29, Stepanova/Bukin Am I the One 44

29, Lajoie/Lagha Rio 44

32, Stepanova/Bukin Moulin Rouge 43

33, Peng/Jin Ophelia 42

33, Shoma Uno Dancing On My Own 42

35, Han Yan La La Land 42

35, Rika Kihira Breakfast in Baghdad 42

37, Satoko Miyahara Tosca 41

38, Fournier-Beaudry/Sorensen Bonnie and Clyde 38

39, Fear/Gibson Madonna (Vogue/Like a Prayer) 37

40, Brown/Brown Nothing Else Matters 36

41, Fournier-Beaudry/Sorensen Spanish Caravan (Flamenco) 35

41, Stepanova/Bukin Tango 35

41, Junhwan Cha The Fire Within 35

41, Wakaba Higuchi Energia 35

45, Mai Mihara Fairy of the Forest 35

46, Kazakova/Reviya In The End 33

46, Lajoie/Lagha Warsaw Concerto 33

46, Chock/Bates Egyptian Snake Dance 33

46, Kevin Aymoz Question of U 33

46, Papadakis/Cizeron Duet/Sunday Afternoon 33

51, Gilles/Poirier Both Sides Now 32

51, Nathan Chen Rocketman 32

53, Satoko Miyahara Gnossienne/Metamorphosis 30

54, Alena Kostornaia Romeo and Juliet 29

54, Boikova/Kozlovskii Dark Eyes 29

56, Shoma Uno Oboe Concerto 28

56, Haein Lee Riverdance 28

56, Adam Siao Him Fa Star Wars 28

59, Keiji Tanaka Hip Hip Chin Chin 27

59, Kaori Sakamoto No Roots 27

59, Peng/Jin Cloud Atlas 27

62, Kaganovskaia/Angelopol Romeo and Juliet 26

62, Kevin Aymoz In This Shirt 26

64, Eunsoo Lim Moulin Rouge 25

64, Papadakis/Cizeron Fame 25

64, Fear/Gibson Donna Summer (Bad Girls/September/On The Radio) 25

67, Evgenia Medvedeva Masquerade 23

67, Nathan Chen Caravan 23

67, Alena Kostornaia No Time To Die/You Should See Me in a Crown 23

67, Lim/Quan Cats 23

71, Shoma Uno Great Spirit 22

71, Kevin Aymoz Horns 22

71, Mariah Bell Hallelujah 22

71, Pavliuchenko/Khokydin Sing Sing Sing 22

71, Kamila Valieva Storm 22

76, Lim/Quan Gangnam Style 21

76, Yoshida/Nishiyama Don Quixote 21

76, Junhwan Cha Turandot 21

76, Wang/Liu Chaplin 21

76, Papadakis/Cizeron Spoken Word (Danny/Find Me/Suspects) 21

76, Evgenia Medvedeva Piazzola Medley (Libertango) 21

76, Shoma Uno Stairway to Heaven 21

76, Adam Siao Him Fa Daft Punk Medley 21

84, Papadakis/Cizeron John Legend Medley (Made to Love/U Move) 20

85, Marin Honda Lovers 19

85, Evgenia Medvedeva Orange Coloured Sky 19

85, Gilles/Poirier Mack and Mabel 19

85, Josefin Taljegard Joker 19

85, Green/Parsons the Mind on the Wind 19

90, Alysa Liu Don't Rain On My Parade 18

90, Alexandra Trusova Romeo and Juliet 18

90, Evgenia Medvedeva Tosca 18

90, Kaori Sakamoto From My First Moment 18

94, Lajoie/Lagha Otros Aires medley (Tango) 17

94, Pavliuchenko/Khokydin The Storm 17

94, Kazuki Tomono La La Land 16

94, Satoko Miyahara Schindler's List 16

98, Nathan Chen Land of All 15

98, Kaori Sakamoto Bach a la Jazz 15

98, Cain-Gribble/Leduc W. E. 15

101, Nathan Chen Philip Glass Medley 14

101, Anna Shcherbakova The Firebird 14

103, Karen Chen Slow Dancing in the Big City 13

103, Jason Brown Simon and Garfunkel 13

103, Bradie Tennell Moderation 13

106, Eunsoo Lim Somewhere in Time 12

106, Cain-Gribble/Leduc A Storm Is Coming 12

106, Panfilova/Rylov Charms 12

106, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Arabia 12

110, Kseniia Sinitsyna Alfonsina y el mar 11

110, Panfilova/Rylov No One Ever Called Me That 11

110, Matteo Rizzo Volare 11

113, Mae-Berenice Meite Latin Medley 10

113, Turkkila/Versluis Smiles for Y/Unconditioned/Fortitude 10

113, Josefin Taljegard Ready or Not 10

113, Tarasova/Morozov Metamorphosis/Experience 10

117, Alena Kanysheva Dreams of a Winter Journey 9

117, Turkkila/Versluis Bruises 9

117, Nobunari Oda YMCA 9

117, Tomoki Hiwatashi Love Runs Out 9

121, Tarasova/Morozov Bolero 8

121, Anna Shcherbakova Home of the Dark Butterflies 8

123, Kazuki Tomono Hardest Button to Button 6

123, Gilles/Poirier Long and Winding Road 6

123, Eunsoo Lim Capriccio Espagnol 6

126, Reed/Ambrulevicius Aurora Medley 5

126, Green/Parsons Woodkid (Conquest of Spaces/I Love You) 5

128, Michal Brezina Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing 3

129, Kudryavtseva/Karenkevich Nuvole Bianche 2

129, Kudryavtseva/Karenkevich Ruby Blue 2

129, Zabiiako/Enbert Alexander Nevsky 2

132, Tarasova/Morozov Ti Amo 1

132, Anastasia Tarakanova Moonlight Sonata 1

#kai's answers

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figureskatingfanblog · 3 years

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2020-21 Program Music Choices

Pairs

Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro (CAN) will be reusing their 2019-2020 free skate.

Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov (USA) - FS: “Ancient Lands” by Roman Hardiman

Daria Pavlichenko / Denis Khodykin (RUS) - FS: "The Black Swan" soundtrack, Choroegraphy by Alexander Zhulin.

Alina Pepeleva & Roman Pleshkov (RUS) - SP: "Io Ci Saro" by Andrea Bocelli (debuted at Russian Cup Final); They will be reusing their free program from the previous season.

Katie McBeath/Nathan Bartholomay (USA) - FS: "The Blower’s Daughter" performed by Christina Aguilera & Chris Mann, Choreography by Cindy Stuart

Men

Vincent Zhou (USA) will be reusing his 2018-2019 free skate.

Yaroslav Paniot (USA) will be reusing his 2020-2021 free skate.

Keiji Tanaka (JPN) - SP: BGM "11170 CH edition 0706" Shin Evangelion Theatrical Version

Mark Kondratiuk (RUS) - SP: Jesus Christ Superstar

Lucas Tsyuoshi Honda (JPN) - FS: "Blues for Klook" by Eddy Louiss / "The Prophet" by Gary Moore. He will be reusing his his 2020-2021 short program.

Vladimir Litvinsev (AZE) - SP: Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor ("Bells of Moscow"), Choreography by Sergei Rozanov

Koshiro Shimada (JPN) - SP: “Giving Up” by Donny Hathaway; FP- Charlie Chaplin Medley (including “Limelight” and “Smile”); Both with choreography by Stephane Lambiel

Sihyeong Lee (KOR) - SP: Polovtsian Dances from ‘Prince Igor’; Choreography by Yeaji Shin

Matthew Markell (CAN) - SP: “Per Te” by Josh Groban. He is doing his own choreography.

Roman Sadovsky (CAN) - FS: “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol, Arranged by Maxine Rodriguez, Choreography by Mark Pillay

Conrad Orzel (CAN) - FS: “Who Wants to Live Forever” by Queen, Choreography by Jeffrey Buttle

Nikolaj Majorov (SWE) - SP: “Sound of Silence” by Disturbed; FP is to a martial arts theme.

Alexei Erokhov (RUS) - SP: "Fallin' " by Alicia Keys, performed by Nicola Cavallaro

Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) - FP: Daft Punk Medley

Leonid Sviridenko (RUS) - SP: "Sturm I: Fear" by Dardust

Ilya Yablokov (RUS) - FS: "Walk Away" by Maxime Rodriguez and Xavier Mortimer

Eric Sjoberg (USA) - FS: Interstellar Soundtrack, Choreography by Misha Ge

Artur Danielian (RUS) - FS: Scheherazade

Nam Nguyen (CAN) will be reusing his free from the 2020-2021 season.

Ice Dance

Eva Pate / Logan Bye (USA) - FD: The Hunger Games Soundtrack

Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri (ITA), Natalia Kaliszek / Maskim Spodyriev (POL) and Elizaveta Shanaeva / Devid Naryzhnyy (RUS) will be reusing their 2020-2021 free dances.

Molly Lanaghan / Dmitre Razgulajevs (CAN) - RD: “Spice Girls”; FD: Tango

Loïcia Demougeot & Théo Le Mercier (FRA) FD: "Lonlon (Ravel’s Bolero)" by Angelique Kidjo, Coreography by Benoit Richaud

Ladies

Anastasia Arkipova (UKR) - SP: “Entre tu amor”

Ayaka Hosoda (JPN) - SP: "Leyenda" (Flamenco); Choreography by Misha Ge

Yeonjeong Park (KOR) - SP: Ballade No.by Chopin, Coregraphy by David Wilson; FP: Hymne A L'amour, Coregraphy by Pasquale Camerlengo

Starr Andrews (USA) - SP: “At Last” by Etta James; FP: “Bigger” / “At Last” by Beyonce; Both with Choreography by Derrick Delmore

Violeta Ushakova (USA) - FP: “Circles”, Coreography by Olga Ganicheva

Amber Glenn - FP: “Rain In Your Black Eyes” Ezio Bosso, Remixed & Choreographed by Misha Ge

Rika Kihira will be reusing her short program from the 2020-2021 season.

Anastasia Guliakova (RUS) - FS: "Don't Say You Do" / "Real Boy" by Lola Blanc, Coreography by Tatiana Prokofieva

Audrey Shin (USA) FS: Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven, Choreography by Drew Meekins

Madeline Schizas (CAN) - SP: "My Sweet and Tender Beast" waltz (female vocal version) by Eugen Doga, Coreography by Asher Hill

Alexandra Feigin (BUL) - SP: Charlie Chaplin; FP: Firebird; Coreography by Nikita Mikhailov

Ekaterina Ryabova (AZE) is keeping her short program from the previous season.

Mia Kalin (USA) - SP: "Waltz of the Flowers" from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Stanislava Konstantinova (RUS) - FS: My Love, The Devil You Know by Kovacs; "Take The Lead Tango" by Bonnie Greenburg

Alexia Paganini (SUI) - SP: "La Cumparsita" by Gerardo Matos Rodriguez and Gerardo Matos Rodriguez

Mariah Bell (USA) - SP: Music from Chromatica by Lady Gaga, Choreography by Cordero Zuckerman; FP: Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell, Choreography by Shae-Lynn Bourne

Karen Chen (USA) is keeping her free program from last season.

Eliska Brezinova (CZE) - SP: "Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics, Coreography by Misha Ge

Shan Lin (Ashley Lin) CHN - FS: "Papa Can You Hear Me?" performed by Barbra Streisand, Choreography by Lori Nichol

#figure skating #pairs skating #ice dancing #program music choices

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greekmythszine · 4 years

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✨ CONTRIBUTORS LIST - GREEK MYTHS ZINE ✨

We are extremely excited to announce the wonderful contributors that will be participating in this project! Please check them out on their social media and give them lots of support. We can’t wait to share what they create for the zine!

↓ Artists and writers below ↓

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Writers

Anjali P ♦ ardett ♦ Bubblysage ♦ Dannye Chase ♦ Elliot ♦ Feyra ♦ JDominique37 lickitysplitfic ♦ Melanie Gan ♦ Nick ♦ OnceABlueMoon ♦ R. Vincent ♦ ren ♦ Shannon Brady ♦ VeloxVoid ♦ WillfulAbyss

#Greek Mythology #greek myths #greekmythszine #zine #fanzine #contributor list #contributor lineup

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activatingaggro · 7 years

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needle in the thread (trying to get you out of my head)

NANAKO BONJOU | 8.3 sweeps / 18 years old

lang kheh, red light district

(3,070 words)

The air is heady with incense and the scent of too many trolls when you duck inside the small building.

This is the one thing you'll give it: past that doorframe, the ceiling is high enough that your horns don't go scraping on the rafters. But that's the only thing. It's mood lighting as far as the eye can see, little bulbs of red too dull for the empress's blade bobbing in the darkness, and drawing it all the deeper for their efforts. There's stalls as far as the eye can see in the plaza, stretching from wall to wall, and the owners eyes glint red as you walk by each.

You hate going into places like this, for a hundred different reasons. There's too many bodies, for one - it feels like there's a hundred smells tugging at your nose, sweat, and salt, and blood all bandying to be heard, the rank smell of too many people in one space barely covered by the candles burning at each stall. Every time someone jostles you, or touches you, it feels like the smell lingers, just a little more. There's too many bodies.. and there's too many people, because it's all you can do to draw your coat tighter, pull your sleeves longer.

When someone comes close enough that their horns scrape against yours, without even so much as a pardon, you have to grit your teeth not to lash out.

There's too many people, here. There's too many smells, and there's too much noise, washing over you like a gust of the simoom, a thousand little sounds digging into your patience and flaying it raw. There's just too much of everything, and you're scarcely a minute in, but your breath is already trying to catch. You hate coming in here. The red light market of Lang Kheh is one of the worst places on the planet, and you're not even allowed, anyway - if your instructors knew where you were right now -

They'd slap a nullifier on your hide, just to flay you alive.

But they don't, and it doesn't matter how much you hate it, because you're not here for you. Hdijah loves the market, more than she loves anything else in the entire world, and Hdijah is the one that forgot the both of you have an exam in the morning.

Luckily, there's only a handful of stalls she goes to, and at this time of day, only one of them is still open.

Your stomach curls when the stall vendor smiles at you, ears lifting in recognition. "Morning, lah," he says, pleased. He's got a rickshaw spot across half his face, bloomed blue with blood colour just short of teal. It's the sort of thing you shouldn't care about, not really, and you wouldn't of, before the academy. But things rub off, no matter how bad you feel about it later. "Back again so soon? Was not expecting -"

"Not here for me, abang. Looking for friend." You don't bother to smile. He knows you by now, and the last time you'd tried, he'd laughed at you, asked if you were going to get sick on him.

His stall is one of the largest ones in the market. The shelves reach higher than he can, and he's not a small man. Even with his horns shaved down to the scalp, he's bigger than you. (And you'd been so surprised, the first time you'd spotted them. Thought only criminals did that, you'd whispered to Hdijah, later, and she'd laughed, and laughed, and laughed until she'd wept from it.)

You make a noise to stop him, but he doesn't pay you any mind as he scrambles on his step ladder. There's bottles stacked on the shelves, each labelled in a variant of Standard that you can't read in this poor lighting, but the one he grabs is small, nearly flourescent. When he drops back down to the counter, he holds it up with a flourish, and it shines in the red light. "Have something for jades," he says, grinning at you. He's got flat teeth like a hoofbeast, unnaturally even, and when he sees the way your eyes linger on them, his grin widens.

"Ha! Like them? Had them filed, mah jie. Cousin down row." He leans forward, klacks them together with a sound that makes you flinch. "Could bite right through bone, now," he says, smug. "You want stall number? Could give discount -"

"Going back now," you say instead, and dart past him, and behind the curtain to the rest of his stall, ignoring his forlorn okay lor behind you.

There's curtains separating each little room of his business. You have to push past three, murmuring apologies and keeping your eyes ahead of you, before you find Hdijah.

She looks different everytime you see her. The only way that you can recognise her, sometimes, is the way that her psionics make your horns itch, like a burr right in their bedrock: her psi is strong enough that it aches when it latches onto your pan, but the irritation's a familiar one, by now. She'd told you it was worse for lower castes, once, and you could believe it. There's a reason you're the only lowblood who'll talk to her.

Several reasons.

She's lying on a bed, a troll half asleep, and sprawled across her. She's been braiding their hair, fingers tangled in the middle of a weave, and she scarcely looks up when you come in. Then her face brightens, all at once, and she practically jerks. "Nana," she cries, pleased. "What're you doing here?"

Tonight, her face's as jade as your own. Her nose is sleek and broad, her lips full, and her eyes are soft, heavily-lidded, with eyelashes so thick that you can barely see the colour underneath them. She's pretty, in short, and suddenly you feel awkward and under-dressed, despite the fact she's in little more than a t-shirt.

You can't keep your eyes on her face. So you settle them on her horns, instead. They're curling out tonight, in a big, spiral mess that'd cause her neck to snap, if they were real. You're not sure if it's the troll in her lap that's drawing that image out, or someone else in the building, but..

"Came to get you for exams, leh," you sniff, "but see was wrong. Fuck files, should have brought file. Someone watching too many vids?"

"i thought they were cute," she protests, mild. "Look at them. You could hang dangles from them!"

"Could stab eye out with them, yeah?"

"If you want to get gory. I don't know why you scimitars are always like this. But - ah - come here! Sit down!" She shifts, pats the side of the cushion next to her. You squint at it, and then her. "You might be a little in my lap," she says, apologetic, "but I've still got this room for another two hours. We could get some honey - well, no, I could get some honey, and you could get some juice - and just talk, this fellow's not waking up for a few hours, I think -"

You huff, running a hand through your hair. You'd cut it, recently, and the new shortness still bothers you: there's no strands to work your fingers through, really, just.. tufts. "No can do," you tell her. "Why act so blur, girl? Said already, exams. Need to go hive, get some sleep, lor."

"I'm still going to exams. I'll be there before first bell, don't worry -"

"Stinking of honey?" You lean forward, give a sniff. It's not as bad as you'd expected, but it's still there: the chemical tang of mind honey, so sweet that it borders on painful. "Will hit you with hose, lor, then put in brig. No good, Hdijah, no good! Who I cheat off of then? Have me copying Tuyuut?"

"Tuyuut barely literate, siao," you sniff. "Lusus write better than him, eh, each one!"

When she laughs, no matter what she looks like, it's always the same way: the skin bunches under her eyes, her cheeks push all the way up, and she cackles, in a ripple that goes all the way from the bottom of her belly up.

"You could manage without me," she argues, when she's done. "And don't be cruel to yourself, Nana, I love you. You know you're not dumb."

Easy for a torrent to say, you nearly sniff, but you hold off. You don't want to fight with her, no matter how much the scent in the air's starting to get to you. You've never wanted to fight with Hdijah, not even when it's so easy to prickle your other program members. It's just this place. You've never liked this many people around! It's better here, in the markets, then it is in the institute, at least: it doesn't really matter if people judge you, here. But it's one thing to know that, and another thing to remember, when there's a hundred bodies pushing in.

The curtain doesn't quiet the chatter of the other stalls that much. Or..

"Hdijahhh." Time to try another tactic. You pout at her, biting your lip. "Came all the way here to get," you say, just short of a whine. "Come with, yeah? Can come back to shady stall later, liao, listen to people, um - pail?" You glance side-long at the farthest curtain.

She does, too, wrinkling her nose as she takes it in. "Pile," she tries, but there's enough doubt in the word that even she pauses. ".. pile?"

"Pail," you huff. "Listen to shady strangers pale, pile with weird fellows, can do all that on own time. Could do at home, too. Come to my dorm, leh, stay day, have to listen people pailing all time, have special broom just for it. And not dumb, maybe, but not smart as you! Need to go home, study," you emphasize, "but look this, am out retrieving you, instead."

"I have make-up exams, least. Doesn't matter if study! Am not here for brains, leh, what they care if dumb? But you all brains. What you got, if you go failing? Will have to leave the program, Hdijah." You jam your hands in your pockets. "Not good," you finish up. "Not good at all."

You don't usually have to convince her like this. Usually, she's not hesitant at all; by the time you come to get her, the handfuls of times you've had to, she's been agreeable enough. Hdijah doesn't want to fail, anymore than you do, even if her reasons run different than yours.

You think. She won't tell you too much about herself. You don't even know what she looks like, under her psi, but that's fine: sometimes, you're not sure she does, either.

Usually, you don't have to convince her.. but she's hesitating now, looking down at the fellow instead of at you. Her hair's too short to fall in her face, but the candle on the table nearby is finally banking. The red light flickers on her, deepening the yellow of her face, turning the shadows darker.

"I think," she says, carding her fingers through their hair, ruining the braid that she'd only half-made, "maybe I want to leave, Nana."

She gets dressed readily enough after that. In silence: she doesn't have much else to say, no matter how much you nudge her. And you try. Her face's pale, though, and her lips are pinched tight.

By the time the two of you leave the marketplace, her psionics have shifted. She's back to the way you usually see her: violet-skinned, with rickshaw spots spackling her hide, with the long, tapered features that always make you pause. Her coat resettles on her thinner frame like it was made for it, the fur collar still tucked meticulously under her chin, and you know if you reached out to touch it, your pan would tell you it was real.

It's not, of course. None of her features are. Her pan tells you what you should see, and yours does all the work of fixing things until she fits.

But when you take a hold of her hand, you know the way her fingers twine between yours is real. "Hdijah," you plead, "talk to me." The air is cleaner out here. The fresh salt breeze feels like a blessing, after nearly an hour inside of the cramped marketplace, and the streets are nearly empty at this time of day. "Why you want to quit?"

Torrents can't quit. Even you know that.

She doesn't answer for the longest time. But it's a lengthy walk back to where you'd parked the ship. Lang Kheh is a fine enough city, for the area, but.. there's no point in leaving an IPC vehicle out, this close to the Hanhai, and Port Mina. No one looks fondly on imperial programs out here, not with Temasek looming in the distance like some great squid.

It's fine. You just have to wait for her answer, and take it in stride.

"Don't you ever want quadrants, Nana?" is what she finally says, though, and you do pause.

"Me?" You wrinkle your nose at her. "Why we talking about me?"

"Because I want them," she says, and pulls up short, tugging your hand so that you pause with her. Her eyes are very, very violet in the darkness, bright as the moon above. "I want quadrants, and I want a clade, and - and - I don't want it in, oh, what did you say? A shady market stand, where I'm listening to people pail." Her laugh is strained. "If you think I like that, I'm afraid I have to correct you. It's awful."

Hdijah's your closest friend in the corps. She's your only friend, in a lot of ways! You've always chafed at getting too near anyone else: you joined to get out of the caverns, not to form some new unit, and the idea that you had to, just because you'd joined, was one you'd fought against. You'd have your battery, someday, but until then, you didn't need anyone else.

But Hdijah had wormed her way into your affections, through bringing you perfumes, and dropping by with books, and stealing your lunch when you weren't looking, because she'd sat down at your table when you were gone. And..

It's striking you that you might be her closest friend, too, if she's telling you this. Because torrents can't have quadrants. You barely pay attention to the other branches, but even you know that.

"But you like the work?" You thread your fingers through hers, clasp your other hand on top of hers. It doesn't matter what temperature she really is. Your brain says that violets are cold, and so that's what you're feeling, radiating through the thin leather of her gloves.

"I adore the work," she says, thin. "But I like people more, Nana. That's the problem. The proctors can go pail my exambooks, because I can't -" She takes a shaky breath, runs her tongue over dry lips. "If it's people or work, I can't do it. I thought I could, but I can't."

".. don't see why you can't have quadrants, anyway." You squeeze her hands. "They say you can't, yeah, I know," you add, "but - go to markets, all shady, do your thing already. How they gonna know if you do it elsewhere? Say they're friends!" A beat. "Really close friends! What they gonna say, eh? Can't have friends?"

"Gonna hide cameras in apartment, prove you pailing? Nah. Creepy! Too creepy." She's too serious. You lean in, tipping your head to bump your horns against hers. Or bump them where they should be: you've seen her with them short too many times for the illusion to hold, and your horns cut straight through them.

Just like you'd hoped, she laughs.

"They might have better hobbies than that," she agrees, and your pumpbiscuit does an unhappy little lurch at the way it sounds clogged. "Do you think that'd work? Because you're not allowed to have quadrants. I don't think you're even supposed to pail, unless it's their choice."

"Don't think they care," you tell her, firm, and you're not sure if you're right, but it's what she needs to hear. She can't leave the program, anymore than you can. There's only one way out, even if your pan skirts every time you try to think about it, and you won't let her, no matter what it takes. "Just for appearances, yeah? Making a point! Don't flaunt it, leh, why they bother? Could pail me, could pail proctor, could pail half of campus, long as it not on lawn, or flashing rings, dunno why it matter."

She blinks at you.

"I mean," you add, "don't do that, leh. Unsanitary! For every reason, yeah? Catch diseases, spread diseases - give lawn diseases - no good, no good. Stick to third of campus, pass proctors. Better that way."

"And you," she says, tilting her head to the side. She's got a strange look on her face. "Don't forget that part."

".. um." Did you mis-step? Maybe you mis-stepped. From the way she's looking at you, you absolutely did, and you - oh, this is why you don't talk to people, on average, you always get it wrong. "Am part of campus, yeah? Just turn of phrase! Could have said lusus, said nah, girl, too gross, too much, but can take it back. Could pail Tuyuut? Don't pail Tuyuut, too mean, probably bites, leh, but - um - Alsike --"

She tugs her hand free. Your pumpbiscuit gives one big, great stutter, but then she's wrapping a hand around the back of your neck, pulling you in, and -

- oh.

Okay.

You didn't mis-step at all.

#[drabbles]#fantrolls #nanako bonjou #the start of her fairly brief matespritship

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MERCREDI 1er MAI 2024 (Billet 4/4)

Et nous terminons cette suite de 4 Billets par un « coup de gueule » : pourquoi avoir supprimé à la télévision la retransmission des grandes compétitions de patinage artistique ? Il faut payer un abonnement Eurosport pour y avoir accès. Quel dommage !!!

Nous sommes « abreuvés » de matchs de foot ou de rugby mais quasiment rien sur le patinage, jugé peut-être trop « artistique », trop « élitiste »… C’est à peine si nous sommes informés des palmarès dans les journaux télévisés, avec juste une dizaine de secondes d’images dans le meilleur des cas ! Encore une fois, quel dommage !!!

Nous voulions vous montrer une prestation incroyable du Champion du Monde de patinage artistique, Ilia Malinin, 19 ans (il est né le 2 décembre 2004), américain. Ses parents sont d’anciens patineurs de haut niveau, originaires d’Ouzbékistan. C’est le premier patineur de l’histoire à avoir réussi un « quadruple axel » dans une compétition officielle.

Dans la vidéo ci-dessus, il refait dans une patinoire à Turin le « programme court » de sa prestation au Championnat du Monde qui s’est déroulé à Montréal en mars dernier.

C’est littéralement « époustouflant » autant sur le plan « technique » qu’« artistique ». Montez le son de votre PC ou de votre tablette et regardez attentivement ce jeune génie du patinage.

Ensuite, vous risquez de réagir comme nous et de râler qu’on ait supprimé cette si belle discipline sportive de nos écrans qui, malheureusement, au contraire du foot, ne doit pas faire des records d’audience dans la France profonde !

NB Nous avons déjà diffusé sur le Blog la prestation du jeune Français, Adam Siao Him Fa, qui est arrivé troisième dans cette même compétition. Si l’on en juge d’après vos « retours », vous l’aviez beaucoup apprécié. Mais Ilia Malinin, lui, va vous SUBJUGUER (et pas que notre cousine Catherine W.B. à qui nous dédions ce Billet) !!!

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Artist Spotlights!

🎤 sammiety 🥁 SarcasticSpook 🎷 saypil

🎺 Shadow Jack 🎸 ShowersArt 🎻 Siao Bell

Interview below the cut!

Introduce yourself

🎤 Hi there~! I'm sammiety, but you can call me sam! I have a truckload of interests, but to keep it broad, I'm a Nintendo kid, a Pixar kid, an anime kid, and a vinyls and polaroids type gal. I am a Zelda and Layton fan through and through, and I watch Youtube like there's no tomorrow. I hit procrastination station minutely, and you can find all my art at the two links below: https://instagram.com/sammmiety https://youtube.com/sammiety 🥁 Hola! I'm a digital artist that dabbles with traditional work and my art usually consists of demons/humanoids/creatures! I've got a large cast of ocs that I love dearly and I'm working hard to put them in a story that most people can enjoy!My art can also be found on DA and Twitter! https://www.deviantart.com/sarcasticspook https://twitter.com/Sarcastic_Spook 🎷 I'm a young digital artist who experiments a lot (https://sta.sh/21llz63thorq)! I love playing Nintendo games such as Pokemon and Splatoon! 🎺 Hey! I’m Shadow Jack, a 16 year-old digital artist. I have been drawing since I was young, but started trying to improve/expand my reach around age 11/12. I really like music, taking walks, drawing, weird biology, and expanding on ideas that I’ll never do anything with (well, almost never do anything with). You can find my art on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/arsenic.bite/) and all my completed pieces on tumblr (https://arsenic-bite-portfolio.tumblr.com/) 🎸 Im a 23 year old digital artist from Denmark! You can find me @showersart on Instagram! 🎻 I'm Siao Bell an illustrator from Spain. I've been drawing since I can remember and it's a passion that started as a way to escape reality and it slowly became the most important thing of my live. I'm mainly a traditional artist but lately I've been doing more and more digital works. You can find me on twitter and instagram but I use the latter more: https://www.instagram.com/siaobell.arts/ https://www.twitter.com/Reis_SB/

Do you do commissions post? Where can we find the info?

🎤 https://sammietycommissions.carrd.co/#

🎸 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2tvjXfFZWU/

Do you listen to music (or tv shows/films/anything else) when drawing?

🎤 I'm always listening to music, not just while drawing! I usually just listen to the premade mix that Youtube throws together based on my watching history, and its primarily made up of Panic! at the Disco, Yorushika, Eve, various musical tracks, and Steven Universe. My favorite genres are alternative and rock, as well as some pop, but sometimes I like to mix it up and listen to things like "75 Minutes of Relaxing and Calming Nintendo Music" or "1 Hour of the Best Professor Layton Music." Contrary to my favorite genres, my favorite instrument to listen to is the accordion!

🥁 I listen to a lot of music most of the time! The artists vary depending on the character I'm drawing. 🎷 Yes! EDMS is where I listen to really upbeat songs, which motivates me a lot to draw! I also talk to friends while drawing! 🎺 Yes, usually music because I don’t have to focus on it as much. 🎸 Sometimes!

What’s your favorite music artist/band? If you could ask your favorite band/music artist one question, what would it be?

🎤 I live and breathe Panic! at the Disco's music, and if I could ask them a question, I'd ask how their day was going. Y'know, nothing mind boggling or earth shattering. Just wanna know if they're doing alright.

🥁 I actually have two top favorites because I'm too weak to choose one over the other. They'd be FAKE TYPE. and Twenty One Pilots! If I were to ask them a question it'd probably be how their creative process goes when working on music. 🎷 PSYQUI is one of my favorite music artists! If I could ask them one question, I'd ask them if they could teach me how to make such fun music to listen to! 🎺 One of my favorite artists is Hot Sugar. I’d ask them how they get inspiration for their songs/titles. 🎸 Either it’s Mother Mother or Ghost, and for Ghost I would ask what goes into making the lore behind their music 🎻 Right now my favorite band is BTS. I would like to ask them if they actually know what they make us feel because that's the way we want to make them feel. An overwhelming love

Do you play an instrument? If not would you like to play one? Which one?

🎤 I play the uke! Just as a hobby, self-taught, but it's always a treat when I sing a love song to my boyfriend for Valentine's day and I see his face. :)

🥁 I used to play the flute and I'm currently working on learning how to play the ukulele! 🎷 I played the clarinet, violin, and piano! They were all very fun to play with! 🎺 I used to play the piano, and the drums. I am currently in my school’s advanced choir. 🎸 I used to sing if that counts! 🎻 I don't play any instrument but I always wanted to learn how to play the violin or the piano.

Which song(s) are you going to draw?

🎤 I am going to be drawing the song Fool by Cavetown!

🥁 I'm going to be drawing a chill trap remix of Life Could Be A Dream 🎷 I'll be drawing PSYQUI - Still in my heart feat. ぷにぷに電機 🎺 Dear God - XTCArcadia - The Kite String TangleThe Kid Who Drowned At Summer Camp - Hot SugarBaby Hotline - Jack StauberHungover in the City of Dust - AutoheartMagnet - Punch Brothers 🎸 I got hungry by Mother Mother 🎻 BTS - Spring Day (Brit Rock Remix)

What do you expect from this zine?

🎤 Honestly I just expect to make some good friends and have a fun time discovering new music and creating art alongside a bunch of other artists!

🥁 I expect to learn new things in my art with the zine but on top of that I'm looking forward to seeing all the wonderful talent that is shown! 🎷 I want to see the different styles and tones in everyone's drawings! Music has many different forms, and hopefully these pieces will too for diversity! 🎺 Great things! I am very confident in the abilities and creativity of the participants. 🎸 I’m not sure what to answer here other than to have fun with my piece and I hope people will enjoy it 🎻 Honestly, I don't know, but I hope everyone would be capable of express everyting their favorite songs make them feel <3

Anything else you want to add?

🎷 I want to see the different styles and tones in everyone's drawings! Music has many different forms, and hopefully these pieces will too for diversity!

🎺 I do not have an up-to-date commissions post but feel free to contact me if you’re interested! (arsenic.bite on insta)

#sammiety #SarcasticSpook #saypil #Shadow Jack #ShowersArt #Siao Bell #artist spotlight #loop #loop artists

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