#danceathon

[tarathemagnificent]

Now she has His Majesty and Steelclaw doing this little thing with her.

[haitilegends]

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[justsomeguycore]

this runs through my head every time i see fisher stevens btw

[inej-ruination-ghafa]

high infidelity - d.f

paris | glitch | masterlist

Warnings: none

Summary: the one where you do something stupid after your partners break your hearts

Wordcount: 1.5k

Your head was spinning as you ran out of the village hall, your heart pounding in your chest. This was not how tonight was supposed to go.

There was no method to your madness as you just started running as far as your feet would take you. You didn't make it far before the throbbing in your feet caught up with you.

Stopping on the pavement, you pulled your shoes off and looked at them for a minute. He had bought them for you when you had gone shopping last week. That nauseating feeling in your stomach returned as you thought about him. Him and your supposed best friend having feelings for each other this entire time.

You didn't hesitate as you threw the shoes as far as you could, watching as they landed in the grass. You sat down on the pavement, not caring about the dirt staining your dress as you leaned your head into your hands and finally allowed yourself to break down.

The wound in your heart split open at his indiscretions. The rain started to pour at tat point, soaking your skin and the dress you were in.

Jess should have been it for you.

He had promised you that he was going to be there for you no matter what. So many people had let you before without any care for your feelings and you had thought that he was different but he was just like everyone else. He didn't care about you and you wondered if he ever did.

A sob racked through your chest as you realised that you had wasted your summer with someone who never truly loved you. Everything you two had done together had been ruined by this moment.

You thought back to the danceathon and the way that Dean had walked over to you and Jess on the stands, demanding that he admitted that he had always had feelings for Rory. The night had been perfect, records playing, the two of you smiling as you danced around the room.

In his defence, he never admitted to having feelings for her but at the same time, he never denied it which might have been even worse.

As you thought about it all, you felt that bile rising up in your throat. God. He had told you he loved you, you’d even slept with him and for what, for nothing. To be treated like this.

You were so caught up in your mind that you didn’t even hear Dean walking over, your shoes in his hands. He dropped them next to you and you looked up at the sound, noticing it was him.

You felt selfish.

Him and Rory had been together for nearly two years and she did this to him. You and Jess had been together for a quarter of that time. You should be more worried about how Dean was feeling than you.

You wiped your tears away with the sleeve of your jacket and he sat down next to you. The sun was coming up over the square and you wondered how long you had both been wallowing in your own problems before you came together.

The rain started to cease and he didnt care, even if the storm was coming. He just sat there with you in silence and did not care about the problems racing around you.

“You dropped these,” he gestured to the shoes and you hiccuped a laugh out.

Shaking your head, you picked them up, “I meant to,”

“Oh,”

He had a look on his face like he had done something wrong, brows furrowed and raised as he looked at you. You instantly reached over, hand taking his in yours, “I’m sorry,”

”For what?” He questioned.

You shrugged, “For everything I guess,”

There was silence. The two of you thought that you had both played some part in breaking up one another’s relationships and even if that was not the truth, it might as well have been the truth for you.

Neither of you knew what to say, or how to console one another for the whole problem. It was a position you had never been in before. Did you apologise? Yell? Should you be grieving or angry?

Dean could see the thoughts swirling around in your mind and he stood up. You watched in confusion, brows furrowed as he stood up and held his hand out to you.

“Come on,”

Hesitantly, you took his hand and allowed him to pull you up. You left the shoes down there, neither of you even touching them. They were a reminder of everything that he had put you through in the last couple of hours. You weren't going to go back for them, no matter how much sentimental value they might have held.

“What are we doing?” You seemed suspicious of him and he tried to wave it off.

He didn't let go of your hand and at the time, you didn't even question it, “Walking you home. It's late at night,”

You made a sound that was half of a laugh and half a sigh and it made a smile pull at his lips, “Its 5am,”

he shrugged, “Its early in the morning,”

He let go of your hand and linked his arm with yours as the two of you walked in silence towards your house. You had done a science project with him a few weeks ago and he remembered where you lived after you had worked together.

The two of you walked in complete silence and that’s what you both needed. Even though you didn't want to get lost in the damning thoughts that made you blame yourself for it all, they seemed to vanish when he was around.

You both stopped outside of your house after a quick walk. He looked at you for a second and noticed the puffiness of your eyes from crying and the tears that had dripped down your face onto your 1950’s dress. This wasn't fair to either of you and anger bubbled up inside of Dean as he looked at you.

Neither of you deserved to be treated this way by Jess and Rory.

He caught his eyes flickering down to your lips and you noticed, brows pulling together slightly as you tried to figure out what he was thinking.

“Thank you,” the words were breathy and he felt his breath hitching in his throat as he looked back into your eyes.

He gave you a half hearted smile, “After tonight, it's the least I could do,”

The two of you stood there for a few moments, just looking at one another. Neither knew what to say but just stare at one another, knowing exactly how the other felt.

He moved slightly closer to her and she could feel his breath on her face. She muttered his name, not sure what to do.

He hummed in response, “We shouldn’t do this,” you whispered, voice soft and quiet like you didn't want anyone else to know what was going on there.

Your heart was racing in your chest as you looked at him, eyes tracing the curve of his face, the brown in his eyes, the light freckles on his skin that you had never noticed before. You had never really noticed how beautiful he was.

Every bone in your body told you that this was wrong after what had happened. You had only just broken up with your boyfriend and here you were, heart pounding as you looked into Dean’s eyes.

Your brain might be saying no, but the shattered part of your heart tried to reason with you that this was fine.

“Tell me to leave and I will,” he muttered, voice seemingly deeper than it was before.

Your breath hitched in your throat. You couldn't say a single word. You couldn't tell him that you didn't want this because some sick and twisted part of you did.

Dean leaned in, his nose lightly bumping against yours and your eyes fluttered closed. Against your better judgement, you moved in and closed the gap between you, pressing your lips up against his.

He was gentle and soft and the way that his hand cradled your face was different to any other kiss. He was nothing like Jess Mariano. He held you delicately, like there were already cracks in the porcelain of your skin and he was afraid that a few more mistakes would shatter you.

As you stood there, kissing him gently under the flickering porch light of your house, you let everything else melt away as he held you.

You forgot about all your misery and let yourself enjoy this, even for a moment. you didn't need Jess Mariano. he had never loved you the way that you needed him to, he had never loved you enough, destroying whatever the two of you had together.

As you stood outside of your lonely house, Stars Hollow might as well have burnt around you because all you could focus on was his lips against yours.

Dean was going to be the one. Right?

[jaggedwolf]

pll rewatch 2x11

the liars spill to sullivan. it goes well, then it goes bad.

Spencer: "Well, unless you're Aria's mom. Just assume it's Spencer slutting it up!"

I love how annoyed Spencer is by this, fairly, why is she getting blamed for this when she's shooed off her own grown creepster

Emily =( She drives off without her phone, running herself to exhaustion in the woods before turning up to Sullivan's, where all her friends await her.

Does Hanna know Emily's phone passcode? Phones did have passcodes in 2010, right? Why can't I remember this I literally had a cellphone then....

Emily: "I can't keep asking my friends to take care of me."

Emily, when! When have you asked your friends to take care of you! It would be nice if you did!

I am sure I will bring this up in later seasons too but sometimes Emily concerns me the most of the Liars because it's like. Spencer and Hanna have self-destruction modes that are loud even when they're trying not to be, and while Aria's priorities are whack to me I do generally believe she'll look out for herself and what she specifically wants

But Emily...oh boy...

Ella & Byron have an whisper-argument in the kitchen about Mike going on medication and they are so annoying. Why can't they ever have normal conversations instead of immediately arguing, and why does Ella bring Aria into this argument too

"Can you move your stick? There are people trying to get past you" Emily's turn to be so bad about the blind girl!

Do enjoy Jenna going lol convenient for the school to care about bullying now that Ali's dead

Hanna initially refuses the offer of vodka from Kate

I enjoy Emily and Ashley having this conversation about regrets and exes in this dimly lit kitchen that made my friends question the placement of the microwave

Is there a bit of an Ashley/Emily vibe here? Maybe so, I'm down with it

Ashley Marin's power is that I do not judge her at all for sharing her feelings on her ex-husband with the teenager staying in her house, even as I constantly judge the Montgomerys for how they treat Aria

Montgomery family dynamics are fucked btw, what do you mean Ella can't trust Byron with the info that Mike pushed her

Emily says "I've done that more than once" when Ashley talks about making up the other side of the conversation when the person isn't there, and she picks up her phone to text someone

Maya! They really re-introduce her out of nowhere, like is this the first time Emily reached out since that danceathon phone call and Maya's like uh yeah I'm back and was willing to drive 45 minutes to meet Emily that night

Also, is Emily having second dinner for this?

Rosewood PD fucking suck, Sullivan gets no help from them at all.

Spencer and Toby are making out in his truck right outside Jason's house, and Spencer is like who the fuck is in there

Surprise, it's dad! Peter Hastings is here to throw a gigantic temper tantrum and good job Toby on buttoning up your shirt really fast to not enrage him further

The whole time this scene happened all I could think about was that Peter Hastings' actor voices Nathan Drakes skldfjslkdf. It's the tantrum voice that made me think of that probably

Maya making jokes about Pam spying on their dinner is totally fair given Pam got her sent off to wilderness camp

Maya is allergic to seafood per S1 why did they give her a line about calamari. Or is it supposed to be the point that she's here for Emily and not the calamari. That's giving the writers too much credit I think

Aria trying to be a good older sister to poor Mike, who's going through it.

Enjoy the writers deciding to include Grandma Marin in a flashback since they have the actress this episode

Spencer is clearly charmed by her

Grandma Marin saying "I don't own anyone. There was a war about that. Read a book" is an insane response to Ali asking her if she'd disown one of her kids

Spencer will not get any answers from her father tonight, but does she ever?

Aria is so tired of keeping secrets within this family huh

omg I forgot about the two bottles - one water, one vodka - reveal, and that Grandma Marin figures it out

Not Paige catching strays when Emily catches Maya up on what she's been up to 😭. I would not normally think of this as mean of the show because the show takes shots at everyone, but because fandom is terrible about Paige and always wants her to die for the head dunk, I do think of it as mean :/

I would enjoy seeing Maya interact with Paige or Samara though, that'd be fun

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

Ok yes hi tell me all the headcanons and vibes for that Richie & Kirsty au? 🥺

okay okay so it all started bc in one episode I watched yesterday, one of the challenges was learning a swing dance routine and of course my first two thoughts were "twins at the danceathon" and then "twins on the amazing race"

(warning, in my mind this is delicate-verse, just don't ask the logistics of when Richie is the first gentleman idk)

so first of all, amazing race always loves a Story™ with its competitors so of course i mean, you've got this set of twins raised by a single teen mom, completely non contact with their bio father. Richie overcoming a severe anxiety disorder to be on the show, being all but disowned by his grandmother (and actually disowned by his dad’s parents) for his sexuality, married to the first openly queer (and polyamorous, and latino) president of the United States, became a cardiologist primarily as a response to his grandfather’s two heart attacks and his twin sister’s near-fatal heart condition. Kirsty battling alcohol and drug abuse as a teenager, having her first two children at 18, professional ballerina and former Broadway actress who had to quit after almost dying in labour due to a heart condition, and so many injuries that she was told she’d never be able to dance again. The twin dynamic, really raising each other, Richie being the one to get Kirsty sober and to be her primary support through all of her health issues, Kirsty being a surrogate for Richie’s daughters despite the risks to her own health, both twins having service dogs, maybe something about how Kirsty had lost out on a lot of dreams for her life because of her heart (particularly after the triplets) and she used to love the show, and despite his anxiety Richie wants to give her a chance to still (relatively safely) have some of the experiences that she thought she’d never get to have.

But also the vision for the challenges, Kirsty wanting to do all the adrenaline ones (bungee jumping off a cliff especially) and Richie for sure doesn’t want to but is also very worried about her, all the time spent in the car and the camera crew keep getting the most precious clips of him getting her comfortable for the drives, Richie showing everyone up at puzzles, both of them and all of their very random trivia knowledge from Lorelai and their knowledge of different languages, and they quickly become everyone’s favourite because when they start to struggle, most teams I’ve seen get snippy with each other and start blaming each other and fighting and can get kind of nasty but the twins always just take a minute to hug, breathe, and either try again or decide together if they need to take a break (or a penalty)

And then I just have a vision of the story through some gifs of the twins doing interviews & of challenges but mostly being told through social media (mainly twitter) edits of people watching the show and reacting to it (eg - user: I don’t even think I’m as careful getting my kids into car seats as Richie Gilmore is when he’s getting his sister in the car / user: okay but kirsty finishing the bungee jump and then stopping to show richie that she’s okay before getting a clue? my sister would have pushed me off the cliff without the harness)

This has been 98% of my brain capacity for the last 24 hours it’s a problem

[vernalloy]

I have got to put the saw characters in a high school danceathon.

[cactus-cactus-cactus]

i‘ve never been a big musical person but i stumbled on your blog by accident and all the stuff you post about seems like so much fun!! what are some of your favorites, or recommendations to ppl who aren’t familiar with them?

Omg hi!! I have been thinking about this for a hot minute believe me.

My PERSONAL favorite musicals are LIZZIE, Murder Ballad, and Don’t Stop Me at the moment.

LIZZIE is a punk rock musical loosely based on the historical murder trial of Lizzie Borden. It’s pretty intense, both musically and story-wise, so just know that I’m advance if you hope to listen to it.

Murder Ballad is a rock opera about an affair that goes very very wrong. It’s a relatively simple plot so it’s very easy to grasp just from listening to the album. The music is legitimately some of my favorite stuff ever. I would definitely recommend this for beginners, aside from some meta stuff with the narrator it’s not too confusing.

Don’t Stop Me is about the troubles of growing up as represented through a demonic high school danceathon. I wouldn’t recommend for a beginner solely because it’s like barely above lost media. If you’re willing to venture into the depths of 2000s era websites and unlisted yt videos I would be happy to show you how to listen to this cause it like changed my life but also it’s way too much effort lmao. (If you genuinely want to listen or watch this tho like dm me I can hook you up)

As for other recommendations for beginners:

Carrie. Oh my god everyone pls listen to Carrie. It’s based on the book, so if you have even a vague sense of the story it’s not hard to follow. Beautiful music, and if you want to dig deeper, the backstage drama has actually books and documentaries on it.

Hadestown. You’ve probably heard about it, it’s really popular lol. Based on the green myths of Hades and Persephone/Orpheus and Eurydice. Will make you feel every emotion ever and there’s a really big fan community if you want more content out of it.

36 Questions. This one is actually the most accessible, I think— it’s literally a podcast. It’s about a relationship ending very messily (I won’t say why— spoilers!!). Again, makes you feel so so many emotions. Plus if you like Jonathan Groff (he plays the guy) you can check out the quadrillion other things he’s in.

[angel-blood-art]

my OC Yang from the three-way OC art collab; sketched by me, lined by @cosmicarts and coloured by @tubapun!

OC info under the cut

Name: Yang Yun-seo

Age: 46

Personality: Capricious; generally pretty dry and sarcastic on a normal day but there's a quiet, mischievous chaos under the surface that shows every now and again, like if you were at a festival and you didn't know her, you'd expect her to snark at it, but no, she's getting her face painted and playing the games bc fuck it. She's a little rough on the edges but not like. in a scary way? You'd find her in alternative bars if she actually cared for bars. She's generally a homebody and has been kinda bored with life for the last 10 or so years, though she's been causing chaos here and there for most of her life - climbing things, pranking people, and so on. Generally she gets away with it but that's also partially through association with her much more influential friend Isabella who has put a fair bit of work into convincing people she's cool (even if she already is). Think Touya and Yukito from Cardcaptor Sakura. That's those two

Facts:

-She was able to see ghosts between ages 7 and 21. It freaked her out so badly that she forced herself to stop seeing them at 21, at the cost of no longer being able to dream, and also dealing w semifrequent headaches

-As mentioned above, doesn't care for crowded spaces, and lives by a river in the forest. She spends a lot of time just...wandering

-In the 28-hour danceathon Isabella hosts every year (and Yang helps set up), the longest Yang has made it is 22 hours. I don't think setting up helps her tbf but she sets up EVERY year despite Isabella telling her she can skip setup if she really wants a shot at the full 28

[whatsonmedia]

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[cantfightmoonlight]

NEW YEARS EVE •   MEENA RAJA-MOORE

Given that Meena has already shown off a 1920s look back on Halloween, Meena decided to have more fun with her looks on New Years. Showing up to the Black Carpet, she styled a Cocoon Coat decked out in pearl fringe with a pearl embellished turban, pearl encrusted Jimmy Chos and a pearl fringed gown. 

Only for her to later change into a diamond fringe ensemble for the Danceathon decked out with matching shoes and a moon headdress reminiscent of the showgirl looks of the time.

[yasmini24]

Skye and Sean at the danceathon

[loth-caatgirl]

goes to the danceathon in a shirt that says I HATE DANCING / MEDICARE 4 ALL front n back

[middleageamerican]

eye'm up

my emotional level raises and lowers w the Trump-Kamala battle . . and 2day eye’m up . . bad days 4 Trump alone only help a ltl bc eye’ve hated Trump since he was a NYC celebrity and his faux University got destroyed . . recent media delivered: the danceathon ¿Overplayed? by my media was not overplayed . . when put in context w the sincere questions read by the Spanish-speaking viewers of…

[jaggedwolf]

pll rewatch 1x22

get its own post for finale reasons, the show does its first hitchcock homage, and the liars become the liars

getting ezria out of the way: even as fan of vest + tie combos ezra's outfit sucks this episode, he sucks for his useless texts, aria's tantrum at the faculty party is dumb, all of this is so stupid

ok ok the other note is that my friend remarked that when one of the liars goes "who do we know that's interested in younger girls" after the creep videos, none of them even think of ezra in that vein

which is distressingly warped even as it makes sense for these girls' worldviews: spencer does not view ian negatively until A gives them the video of him possibly killing ali, she views him positively in her flashback of kissing him

Spencer is so bad for saying that Melissa's baby might be inhuman but she is so fucking funny for saying "humor is subjective" instead of apologizing. I just really enjoy it when Spencer takes a break from being tormented to be the teenage brat she was born to be

Pam takes ten fucking years to answer Emily asking if her dad is okay and that is wild to me, Pam y'all are a military family and you should know better

why did the writers come up with this Texas plotline by the way, did they ever explain that?

Emily and Samara are exchanging the blandest emails. Why do all these girls email each other so much, the only things I emailed my high school friends about was schoolwork, otherwise it was all about texts

do you think they have negative associations with texting because of A. does only Spencer get tormented via email is she special like that.

Lucas is back! And still miffed about the danceathon ploy. I completely misremembered him already knowing Caleb before he goes on this fetch quest, but no, this is solely a "Hanna should know the truth" move

anw my take on how he tracks him down is that (1) Caleb's cheap-ass bus ride has lots of delays because that is his fucking luck (2) Lucas gets Caleb's number from Hanna's phone before passing it over to Emily

Okay, I make fun of the liars a lot for being super weird about the blind girl (who they are partially responsible for blinding), but most of the time I enjoy it, because of moments like this episode's where Jenna will be like come on bro :/ I'm just a girl who raped my step-brother via threats :/ just a girl who made a mistake and regretted it :/ why you gotta be so harsh bro :/

jenna we all saw you this season still trying to creep on toby when you were back in the same house...

this episode reveals that Spencer and I have very different notions of burner phones, because she bought this

while I would have gone for a nokia brickphone. Then again I think Spencer and I have different budgetary considerations for burner phones. (717 is indeed an area code for southern pennsylvania btw)

The Ian plan is not bad but maybe would be better if they didn't all swivel to stare at him instead of staring at the phone, you know, the means you purchased to communicate with him

All of the liars leave when Mona shows up (w/o busing their trays! Emily and Aria, your parents raised you better than this! Spencer had no tray and Hanna was not raised better than that) and I know it's primarily because they need to plot, but Spencer also clearly finds Mona super fucking annoying and I respect that

Emily when accosted by a cop that she should really trust him goes wow, maybe he has a point, and indeed calls Garrett later. ACAB, Emily, ACAB. (Except Officer Barry Maple, who has never done anything wrong ever.)

Okay so the real reason they made Garrett her former neighbour is so they could pretend he was on this street to see family, when he was actually here to get in on Rosewood men's favorite hobby: underage girls

why does he take off Jenna's sunglasses before he kisses her, that seems unnecessary.

please remember that Garrett's actor was Paolo in The Lizzie Maguire Movie. swear he was less bland in that

The Hannily porch scene is very endearing, Hanna is so delighted at the notion that Emily might have a type

Toby gets Spencer to chill out before she goes off to do her convoluted plan, which is a good dynamic for them

Spencer calls him a "safe place to land", which will come up again, and says she wants him away from danger because of that

firstly, sweet sentiment Spencer, but I do not think asking him to keep Jenna busy is keeping him safe, he would rather wrestle Ian in the woods any day

secondly, thinking about who Spencer feels the need to protect like this - she is protective over all the liars and Toby, but is she more "don't let danger breathe on them" about Toby and Emily?

at no point does anyone mention the car that t-boned Spencer and Melissa or its driver like, was it a phantom car, are Rosewood PD falling down on even this

Veronica gets some good mom points in comforting Spencer and telling her the crash wasn't her fault and that Melissa knows she cares

S1!Spencer is all about guilt so she takes this as her cue to nobly walk to the church to get Melissa's phone, only to get fucking jumpscared for her trouble

I really love the sequence from when Ian shows up till when the liars find Spencer at the top of the tower. It escalates so well, the tension ramping up, there's a phone call that forces the liars to simply listen as Spencer begs for her life and Ian recites how he's going to construct Spencer's suicide (and would have anyone believed the remaining liars if he'd succeeded?)

Spencer Hastings while being violently thrown about: Uh, Alison didn't die of blunt force trauma, she died of suffocation. ILU Spence never change

And she really gets thrown about! Jeez, someone escort her to a hospital checkup after this, there's probably a fracture somewhere in there

Love the liars fussing over Spence while she clings onto that wooden post. They immediately go "do not worry about having killed Ian, you are so fucking valid" and Spencer has to be like "no, I know it sounds like a traumatized mind coming up with shit but there really was a random hoodie that showed up"

That pan down to the body swinging and that being what set off the bells....still sick

Officer Barry Maple cannot believe these teenage girls lied about a fucking body, cue the entire town going whisper whisper whisper because they're all at the goddamn church

Even Noel Kahn. My dude, don't you have dudebro things to do that are more fun than this.

you know I bet Paige isn't at the church I bet she's at home stressed out about swimming or whatever. this is going to be my take on Paige for a while: that she has minimal awareness of the plot drama the liars are enmeshed in. Bet she didn't even know they got interrogated about rat blood trophy.

I forgot they have "I'm Not Calling You A Liar" play us out. Perfect song choice, but amusing solely to me, because: it is the first credits song for Dragon Age 2, and a long time ago someone asked me for a Hanna Marin crackship and I proffered Hanna/Fenris. Imagine the Liars in Kirkwall....

Our final A message of the season: It's not over until I say it is. Sleep tight while you still can, bitches.

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