#dance recitals

[expirisims]

Well I've Never Seen That Before

The sun is rising on a new household, the Snooty family! This is a family that I've made in EVERY Sims game I've owned, starting waaaay back with TS1!

Well, I take that back, I did download TS4 when it became free, but I'll be honest. After playing TS3 for years which incorporated the three things that I'd always wished for (open world, story progression for non actives, and the color wheel/ create a style so things could ACTUALLY match) I just couldn't...personal preference.

ANYWHO, throughout the playthrough I've gotten notifications that parents George and Ruth have random fights in public. This has left me curious about the state of their marriage...

Umm...this is just weird, I'm sorry...Ruth is sharing a bed with her teenage son rather than sleep upstairs with her husband, or ANY one of them crashing on the couch. I've honestly never seen this in my game before...this needs to be remedied ASAP. Ruth! I don't care how much you and George fight and I don't care how much he snores! Your son needs his privacy!

With all the beds now assigned, it's off to school/work for everyone still at home. Margo don't miss the bus!

I zoomed around town as per usual while everyone was out of the house. Looks like Ruth is done at work and watching some townies at the performance park!

O...M...G!!!! Seriously!!!?? What is UP with the water in this world!!?? I have literally NEVER had triplets spontaneously born in game!! Like EVER in ALL my years of playing!! Oh geeze...I'm going to have to move the Williams the moment I get into their household, this makes 5 children, and they have a tiny house!

Meanwhile, back home, everyone is here for the moment. George and Ruth appear to be getting along and John is playing games instead of working on homework.

Oh yay! This is so cute!

Aww...I wish this wasn't a rabbit hole activity, but it's still cute that the family all went together! Well, almost, Margo rode her bike home even though there was plenty of room in the car, but hey she got a trophy!

With the kids off to bed George and Ruth finally get to sit down to a nutritious dinner of--what is that? Waffles? Of course, LOL!

Hmm...I wonder if they're discussing that whoopie cushion John left in the couch that George "discovered".

[muscari-melpomene]

One of my favorite memories is going to a dance recital when I was about 9. It was my first year doing ballet, and I was too scared to be in the recital, but wanted to go see my friends dance.

At this dance studio, every class that wasn’t just a conditioning or acrobatics class had a recital piece they presented the annual summer show, even the teeny-tinies who could barely tendu. In fact, the teeny-tinies go First so they can then. Go Home. Because they are teeny tiny and just did a big huge recital and need to go to Bed.

So I’m sitting towards the back of the auditorium with my parents, and another piece of music starts, and a little baby tap class wanders onstage. Obviously they’re supposed to be evenly spaced across the whole stage, but they are very small, and the stage is bigger than their classroom. So they all stay clumped over to one side, barely taking up half the space.

Except for One Kid.

This One itty bitty little child, couldn’t have been more than 3 or 4, marches right across the stage in her tiny little tap shoes, all the way to Her Designated Spot. About 10 feet away from everyone else. But dammit she was gonna stand Right where she was supposed to.

So they start their routine. They tap their right foot out in front. Their left. Then to the side. Maybe do the slowest, wobbliest spin you ever saw. They’ve got their arms held out in second. Sorta. Every single one of them is Staring off into the wings because spoiler alert, for the younger classes, that’s where the teacher and student teacher stand, doing the choreography right along with the babies.

It’s at this point I’d like to remind you, my 9yr old self and my parents are seated Right Towards the Back of the auditorium, and it’s not Cavernous, but it’s not a small space by any means.

We are sitting at the Back.

And yet, it was with absolute crystal clarity that I heard that One Kid, standing right in her spot and fumbling through dégagés and pliés entirely at odds with any sort of beat scream,

“WE’RE DOING IT, WE’RE DOING IT!!!!!”

Godspeed, kiddo, you sure fucking were. Man I hope she kept dancing.

Going to see children and adolescents dance badly, play ball badly, sing badly, play recorder badly because they are young: YES! YOU ARE LEARNING! INCREDIBLE!

[ratatatastic]

Complete Chaos: The Cats pick their band members 🎸

matthew: finns (good music taste but the best energy)

kuli: sasha (dj), maffhew (singer to which he refutes and insist hes a hype man), and himself as director/manager because hes bad rhythmically

ekky: maffhew (hype man/lead singer), benny and reino (guitar and drums), forsy (pure eyecandy quite literally just there to take his shirt off 😭😭)

swaggy and benny: sasha (dj), swaggy (singer/guitarist), benny (guitarist), ekky and gadjo (no other role than to look like "bandguys")

reino: also finns lmao (popular choice)

sasha: himself as dj, and swaggy (singer, his karaoke insistence proceeds him)

roddy: forsy (guitar), benny (drums), himself (no role whatsoever lol), reino (second guitar) and sasha (cymbals, girl what kinda band 😭)

mikksy: sasha (dj) just sasha no one else just him actually :)

BONUS: sasha finally revealed his dj name to which last time he staunchly refused to do so and its DJ Layz!!!!

[xyzmp3]

How Shane feels entering his solo investigation knowing Ryan will be having a panic attack in that same spot in 20 minutes

[mooneyedmoth]

Wendy should get to be silly too, as a treat

[franollie]

i dont see them as often anymore but there used to be a lot of posts about bruce being a good dad to cass/going to see her dance recitals/general fanon batdad stuff. aside from the occasional post from the “im a comic fan but i refuse to read comics” crowd, a lot of these posts seemed to be made by people who knew what they were talking about, and just wanted to see more cass. so, i know they came from a place of love. that being said, something’s always felt off about those posts and i think the biggest reason is because bruce isn’t cass’s dad. batman is. sure when the mask is off, it’s still her dad, but thats only because batman is who bruce is more than bruce is who he is. does that make sense? idk theres something about the way cass says batman and it means father but it also is bruces name more than bruce ever was.

[bubmyg]

84/547 posting a picture every day until jeongguk is home

[gingermintpepper]

hi I love your tags so so much! they were so sweet and so interesting and creative and the whole Aphrodite type of beauty thing sounds really interesting do you have any articles and recommendations to read further into it??

-hogoflight

Hello my fine feathered (I am assuming possession of feathers if you are, indeed, capable of flight) @hogoflight! I'm always always happy to hear that people appreciate my frenzied rambling in the tags :D! I have a lot of articles and recommendations :D!! Ancient Greek notions of beauty and representations of it in their art and sculptures is a pretty well studied topic! There isn't any way for us now to know definitively what the beauty standard was (it varied widely from region to region and culture to culture after all) but here are a couple of my favourite reads about Aphrodite and what her representations tell us about idealised beauty!

Probably the most empirically extensive one I can list is Krönström's thesis which compares statues of Aphrodite and literary text referring to both the goddess and mortal women to determine physical ideals for women in five specific eras of Grecian antiquity. Including measurements of the statues there are many descriptions of Aphrodite as 'curvy' with a 'voluptuous figure' and with 'ample buttocks and bosom'.

"When the beauty traits are described in the texts, they are never extreme or anything that could not be found in normal people just that they are more beautiful in every aspect. Furthermore, the sculptures’ physical forms look healthy, they are tall and have distinct curves. Great examples of this are the Knida sculpture and de Milo (the Melian) sculpture."

Of course, these images are still idealised, and there was still a concept such as 'too fat' or 'too skinny' found in written records (and this thesis even includes analysis of pornographic writings and descriptions of the fashion and stylings of pubic hair of women from different regions!!) but from an interpretational standpoint? There is absolutely no reason why these can't refer to a fuller figure. Height was also a very important factor after all and over the course of many eras, it seems like being well proportioned in addition to the length and appearance of one's hair were the most important factors (and, like Apollo, greater beauty was given to those with curlier hair)

Mireille M. Lee's 'Other Ways of Seeing' essay which talks about the forgotten female viewers of Knidian Aphrodite which is also extremely illuminating on how Aphroditic sexuality and sensuality was perceived totally differently from the well documented male voyeuristic gaze (which was overly preoccupied with the statue's nakedness and therefore over-sensationalised the statue's physical appearance) vs women's perspective on the statue which is more centered on the beauty of simplicity in Aphrodite's garment and decoration and in her power and ability to captivate both in her finery and without it. I think it's especially useful in exploring the importance of finery, jewellry and adornment in representations of Aphroditic beauty.

"Some of the small-scale copies are heavily jeweled, especially those from the eastern Mediterranean, for example the Hellenistic gilded terracotta statuette in the Çanakkale Museum (Fig. 5) in which the goddess wears, in addition to the armband on her (right) arm, the following: a necklace with multiple pendants; cross-bands extending over both shoulders and hips, with a cascading pendant in the center; a coiled snake armband on the left arm and another snake on her left thigh, and a twisted anklet on her right leg. (The left leg has been restored, and might also have featured an anklet.)"

"Jewelry is especially associated with Aphrodite in Greek literature. As seen above, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess adorns herself with gold jewelry, dress-pins, and earrings in the shape of flowers (162–3)..."

Finally, and to me, the most important one in the argument for an interpretation of Hyacinthus as fat, beautiful and fundamentally Aphroditic comes from Brilmayer's brilliant brilliant thesis done on Aphrodite's work and influence in Archaic Greek Poetry which does away with all of that masculine preoccupation with physical proportion, measurement and bodily ideals for a focus on a Sapphic Aphroditic ideal centered in clothing, ornamentation and, most importantly cunning as symbols of Aphrodite and ultimately a feminine idealised form of beauty. This paper also discusses Pandora and Helen in these terms and it is just kind of a wonderful read tbh.

"Combining Homeric and Hesiodic elements with her own ideas, she [Sappho] alters the way female beauty is viewed. For example, the Homeric war chariot – a symbol of male, military prowess - comes to symbolise the totality of Aphrodite’s power uniting in itself male and female qualities. Having addressed the concept of beauty directly, Sappho then concludes that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. With the help of Helen of Troy and her beloved Anaktoria, Sappho sets out to reinvent the concept of female beauty as a godlike, subjective quality that may be expressed in many ways, yet remains inspired by Aphrodite."

The conclusion to all of this of course is that Aphroditic ideal beauty is much more fluid compared to its stricter Apolline masculine standard. The nuances and understandings of both are of course, constantly being studied, analysed and scrutinised but really, if Dionysus who was both bearded and clean shorn, effeminate, birthed and rebirthed (and twice gestated!) and strongly associated with vegetation can be popularly portrayed as fat and handsome, why can't Hyacinthus?!

[kittykat8311]

Babys First* Performance 🩰🖤

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Please enjoy my performance from @leedspoledancestudio 2023 Showcase! Featuring my gorgeous dogwalkers @tras @erratic_charmer and beautiful and obedient puppys @veganmandooor and @hothouse_baby 🐩🖤

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So I'm pretty proud of this one. I started pole dancing toward the end of last year and fell in love with it, and for the last 6 months I've been attending classes like half a dozen times a week or more. I prepped as hard as I could for this but alas my body had other ideas and threw a chest infection at me, so I had to cut the routine down a bit toward the end cos I.. stopped.. breathing - silver lining is i have moves prepared I can slot into whatever routine I do next though! 😅🖤

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Super many all the forever thanks to @junieee_95 for organising the whole showcase and killing herself doing it and so proud of literally every beautiful soul that performed, it was one of the most magical joyous nights I can ever remember 💋🖤

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Outfit: @libidex / @liberationlondon / @parkin.beth / @pleasershoes

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*technically my first performance was over 20 years ago soloing a comedy version of Willkommen to a crowded room of anglia summer school parents but that was a different lifetime ago 👀🖤

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#poledance #dance #danceroutine #poledancing #balletboots #blacklatex #latexlingerie #mistressworship

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[pinterestgirlie]

guess who has a dance recital tomorrow 😘

[ghost-proofbaby]

i'm still not over lestat's "i thought we could have an orgy - you could fuck them, and i could eat them :)" line.

[hydaelyns-bitch]

workout selfie for funsies

gonna start taking a belly dancing class in addition to pole i think

listen when i made my FFXIV main a dancer i had no idea i would ever pursue it IRL but here we are

[twentyonefirstmates]

Anyway oldies station is the most beautiful song ever written sorry I don't make the rules

[not-actually-human]

dance is great until you are the only not straightcis passing person in your entire company and then you look in the mirror at all the girls getting ready around you and feel a strong sense of alienation and wonder for just a second. why did i give this up. why didnt i just stay normal and get to engage in this culture in a way i know i never will

[mintandcreme]

wait have u learned kpop choreo before?

Tragically, no 😭

I know random parts of a lot of choreos, but I’ve never learned a full one 😔

The only dances I’ve ever fully learned are Just Dance ones 😭🙏

Have you?