#and he was used to tessa

[sunskate]

When people say Christina’s skating was technically weak before moving to IAMO, could you provide some examples of what that looked like or means or explain what has changed? My “goal” for the season is to get better at understanding the technicality of ice dance :)

i'd love someone who can be more technically detailed chime in on this question, but i watched this video of them skating Farrucas at Lake Placid in 2019, which was the first time i saw them live - and omg how they've grown

back then, they were doing types of lifts where he does a lot of the work- he's lifting and spinning her. many places you can see he's pulling or pushing her, and their speed is determined by how fast she can go. you can tell he could go faster. the video quality isn't great, but sometimes you can see the mark their skates make on the ice, and she's kicking up snow on some turns. she's not as deeply or smoothly curving into the ice as now.

i'm not saying any of this to criticize - Igor favors his male skaters and underestimates his female skaters. in a TSL interview he was asked to talk about VM and DW, and he didn't say a word about Tessa or Meryl, just talked about how good Scott and Charlie were - if he treated female Olympic gold medalist dancers like this, you can imagine what teen Christina's experience in that camp might have been

anyway, her performance quality- in 2019 she has less control over her limbs and her carriage isn't as open as now. the intentional quality all the way through movements isn't there yet

2023 Christina has face, she uses her upper body beautifully and expressively, her skating has more flow and glide, and she's SO strong - their handstand lift would be unimaginable for 2019 Christina. and most of all, she looks more confident and like her skating is personal - i know that's not technical, but it makes a big difference in how performances feel. their RD depends on feeling free

[electrozeistyking]

"Never be Alone"

Started on the sixth of January and planned to be finished on the fourteenth, but landed up not doing that. Somewhere on the sixteenth, I basically said "haha whoops" and pumped out twenty panels. According to Procreate, it took 15 hours and 37 minutes to finish Panels 1-10; 27 hours and 15 minutes on Panels 11-20; and 34 hours and 8 minutes for Panels 21-30.

In total, I have no idea. I just know it took some serious time.

Unlike with She's Gone, I wrote a script. Well, all I wrote was dialogue and some minor actions for Panels 5-23, though lines were changed "in post." Everything else was by the seat of my pants. However, I can say for sure that I was planning on ending it with N being hopeful, but all I had room for was him crying. He cannot catch a break.

(also to those who suspected uzi was still in there, guess you were right all along.)

[wikitpowers]

I have this very specific vision that book 2 of TWP ends with Kit taking the fall for the necromancy and being imprisoned in the Silent City, after which Ty and Dru tell the rest of the Blackthorns + the NY institute + Jem and Tessa everything, but when they try to get Kit out they just find this empty torn apart room because Mother Hawthorn got there first...

and that, my friends would (quite literally) be the cause of my death. like no lie. i would fall apart like so badly. and the fact that ik that at least one of the twp is gonna end on some sort of cliffhanger does not make it better. like cassie is famous for that shit. and if she hurts either of my twp baby leads, i will BAWL!

[drowning-in-deadlines]

I'm sorry but there will never be a time when the silent brother hivemeind is not funny.

Then Clary goes to the Silent City and they poke through her head, try to destroy the block, go through her memories, do everything they can to find out who is at the bottom of this.

Meanwhile, Jem, who must know what they're doing because he's part of the hivemind, and also knows exactly which two warlocks helped Jocelyn disappear, and was an active participant in helping in the disappearance:

[virtchandmoir]

MikeDurzo: With 2 time Olympic Gold Medalist Tessa Virtue!

[clockwork-carstairs]

which characters in the tsc universe break your heart the most? i'll start with my golden trio of heartbreak: matthew fairchild, christopher lightwood and grace blackthorn

[caterpillarinacave]

rip Will Herondale you would have loved Candy Crush

[adelle-ein]

every year spotify wrapped just confuses the hell out of me. what is "pov: indie" (why not just indie????) what is "alt z." what the fuck is "hopebeat," is it like "indie poptimism." and where is provo

[thedawningofthehour]

you named your masters of barbarians after game of thrones dragons didn't u

LOOK IF GEORGE RR MARTIN CAN NAME CHARACTERS IN HIS GRIMDARK MURDERTALE FANTASY BOOK AFTER SESAME STREET CHARACTERS THEN I CAN USE HIS DRAGONS IN MY NINJA TURTLES FANFICTION.

[kraviolis]

hi guys here's my weekly update for y'all about the GTA5 RP streams ive been watching constantly!

the government of los santos is planning on starting a war with a sovereign nation just off the coast of san andreas called the sanguine isles because the nation has been trafficking weapons and supplying gangs within los santos with guns and literal WMDs that have taken so many lives and destroyed entire buildings.

this all started because at first the PD decided to infiltrate sanguine by putting an undercover spy on the island and having him worm his way into the island's militia inner circle. he got heavy amounts of intel on everything and provided this intel directly to the commissioner of the PD and to the director of the detective agency of the PD.

recently, after about 2-3 months of UC work and intel gathering, his cover was blown after the agent was spotted by allies of the sanguine isles while on the mainland for his uncle's funeral (his uncle being the previous commissioner who set up this whole op) and was recognized.

it wasnt immediate recognition and there was a lot of doubt as to whether divine (the cop) and jamie (his undercover identity) were the same person, but it really all got fucked up last night when yaeger (the leader of the sanguine isles) was called by shelby (one of the new commissioner's fiance) because she was pissed the commissioner was focused on work (the spy possibly being in danger bcus he decided to go back to the island) instead of wedding planning and asked him directly if divine (the cop) was in danger. this directly confirmed to yaeger that jamie (the undercover ID) and divine (the cop) were the same person.

divine, having learned how his cover was blown, went full scorched earth because he's severely mentally fucked up from his time on the island. he snitched on the PD to yaeger. then he refused to leave the island and told everyone he was joining yaeger.

bundy (senior park ranger) was called in for legal advice and help with a possible assassination attempt. he managed to talk down the commissioners of PD and the director of detectives from pulling a full on CIA operation that involved infiltrating the island and assassinating divine. because that would've basically been the state of san andreas declaring war on the sanguine isles.

instead, bundy (senior park ranger) invoked legislation written months ago because divine also has a warrant out for his arrest (he shot someone in the head for pissing on his uncle's grave) and the legislation is very clear that if someone on the island has a warrant, then los santos/san andreas has every right to go to the island to apprehend this individual and yaeger has to cooperate and assist them in the apprehension or else it is considered a violation of international law and possibly a declaration of war against the state of san andreas.

bundy (who is, i cannot emphasize this enough, a park ranger who is just a senior patrol officer.) basically came in to what was about to be an international incident that would lead to san andreas being seen as the aggressors and turned it completely around to the point where the sanguine isles are now violating international law and san andreas military has every right to invade them.

[lesbians-all-the-way-down]

Cryptic pregnancy with complications. Send tweet.

[mxwhore]

Sphynx jon calling harpy mart his little meatpie...

[livvyofthelake]

will and tessa being like well we think alastair carstairs is just a lovely young man, just a real stand up guy! and james just kind of sitting there thinking like mom he literally bullied me at school.

[wikitpowers]

A more shadowhunter based question - what do you think his favourite weapon will be??

Every shadowhunter has a favourite weapon, Julian with a crossbow, Emma with Cortana, Livia with sabres, Cristina with her butterfly knives.

For me I see three possibilities for Kit and which ones he’d like best. Bow & Arrow, Katana, or similar to Cristina, butterfly knives (or any kind of dagger)

Ngl im lowkey rooting for Katana. I think he would really enjoy that. I know in SOBH we learn that Kit just lives a normal-ish life, but I do hope he gets to go on shadowhunter missions every once in a while!

i stand by the theory that bc there will be so many links to arthurian legends, we have gotta see someone with excalibur and i predict that that may be kit (entering his arthur pendragon era) ;)

↑ this is from the ‘wayland the smith’ page on shadowhunters’ wiki and i’m being delulu

there is also a cool theory posted by @tys-kitty that durendal might make a return and honestly i think that would be freaking lit, like i'm a sucker for a badass sword and if it ain't gonna be excalibur, then durendal is a really good second!

BUT if it's none of those then i totally agree that a katana would be awesome! i also think that kit being a dagger boi would be cool as hell, like imagine him just whipping them out one by one hitting every target *drools*

[faithfromanewperspective]

this actually sums up the fandom’s confusion about characterisation of james herondale

Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

[stormvanari]

HIE and LOW bingos:

chart made by @/monzinee on this here app

(rambling/notes in the tags)