#dancing duchess

[spiritundaunted]

Those shoes do sound FABULOUS though! 🤩

(Apparently an awful row about the midnight follies.)

(From Counting One’s Blessings, letters of the Queen Mother complied and annotated by William Shawcross)

This was the only article I could find about York’s at the Midnight Follies, from The Era, January 16, 1924:

[vivi-designs]

At the ballet from the chorus line! Duchess and Justine!!

[mercysong-tardis]

Dancing in empty ballrooms

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[blackbirdsnonsense]

Dancing Queens is real.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Wills is smitten 😍

[chaotictoon]

Dancing: Ballet

[half-blood-goods]

One thing I like about older Barbie movies is that the villains always served cunt

Ate and left zero crumbs

[thatssosussex]

Day 1- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex watching a cultural performance by African dancers at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. (5/10/24)

[whateverafterhigh]

I'm thinking about EAH putting on an "event", perhaps a charity ball type thing, where there are students from any class attending (because you don't not invite certain important people lest they choose to curse you and your baby) but it's still graded on the basis of performance counting towards extra credit in various subjects (dance, wooing, princessology, etc).

Only you don't choose your own partner.

It's a bit like the teachers pairing you up for a group project with other people in the class, but the metric they are using to decide who gets partnered with who is based on the Ballroom Dance portion of the evening. As your ideal Ballroom partner is meant to be the same or similar height to you (you're supposed to be able to see over their shoulder, though generally the person being spun should also be short enough to go under the arm).

Which is where ship pairings come in.

Obviously, as a Dexven shipper I'm thinking about Dexter and Raven being around the same height. Maybe they were paired up together originally and Dexter had to do some smooth talking to stay paired up with Raven because someone balked at the idea of placing Raven with a Prince Charming (especially when his extra credit class is Advanced Wooing), or maybe he was originally paired with Duchess but Duchess made a fuss of some sort about Dexter being a bad dancer in the practice dance they had and Raven gets defensive (jealous) and does a practice dance with Dexter to "prove" that Duchess is the problem (inadvertently earning extra credit points for one of her villain classes for stealing someone else's prince) and getting paired with Dexter instead(I think that one would need a meaner-than-canon Raven given she'd be roleplaying a villain part to even do that in the first place, as the Prince dances and professes his love to someone who is not the Swan Princess in Swan Lake. Poor Duchess).

Meanwhile, Apple is having a crisis of her own because she and Daring aren't height matched and that's just feeding into her preexisting insecurities about her looks as she believes it implies she's not good enough for her role if she doesn't match her Prince Charming. Like maybe the two of them did get paired together anyway for that reason and Apple is still a little short despite that and whatever heels she's already wearing.

Or maybe they didn't get a chance to try as Apple and Darling get paired together since EAH has more girls than boys. And Darling gets to play the part of Prince Charming comforting the upset princess, and slowly falling in love, while Apple is perhaps too caught up in "destiny" to realise that she might not be straight (or rather rejects the few glimpses she does have during the dance when she does let herself have some fun because she's too scared by the fact she doesn't know how taking that chance at happily-ever-after would turn out).

[shadowedskies178]

What if we were in a homoerotic rivalry

[mercysong-tardis]

Obitine Dance

Tumblr absolutely ATE UP my last Obitine drawing so here; Theyre dancing (:

One with a background and one with an *Aesthetic* background. This was partially inspired by my WIP fanfic "Dance with me, Duchess"

[thedoctorscompanion]

Tall People Problems

Trying not to step on your toes

[blackbirdsnonsense]

Was thinking about some EAH ships today at work and I know people like to ship Ramona & Justine and Duchess & Lizzie cause of the whole "They were roommates" joke/meme.

And I get it, it's a fun take on things and to mess around with tropes. But they're also too easy. Excepted. Boring.

Consider the following scene...

What if this moment really sparked up a rivalry between the two that was already bubbling under the surface since both their stories center on dancing. Plus, we have seen they're in the same dancing class & with how competitive Duchess can be, I could easily see her "challenging" Justine every class.

Justine goes along with it to basically humor Duchess but she comes to find out that "competing" against does indeed help her own dancing improve.

Eventually the realize they come to actually like dancing not only against each other but WITH each other. When they're together, the world seems to disappear around them and it's just them together in the dance.

Which one time ends with them in each other's arms, blushing wildly and trying to figure out what THAT means! And of it does mean what they think it means, can they have a happily ever after together since either of their stories could end in tragedy?

So there ya go! You want an angsty, rivals-to-lovers ship? This is it! And the ship name could be "Dancing Queens" and that SO makes me want to make an AMV about them set to that ABBA song!

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Duchess of THOTs😳

Preacher: when men look for a wife, they aren't looking for someone who does stuff like that in public...you look in the club for a woman to do something else...all over town...she's all on tape shaking her behind, displaying her behind. Who wants to marry that? Don't nobody want to marry that! Don't listen to Beyonce. You can go out there & twerk & be a THOT if you want to. Ain't nobody looking for a THOT to marry!

Sparry: "Meghan, can I put that on my todger?"

[s-aint-elmo]

on your post about how destiny actually works in ever after i wanted to share some of my thoughts!!!

firstly, (ive had this one in my mind since i watched the show as a kid) they introduce the characters as "abc, daughter/son of xyz" and their stories are continued through the generations, so, for some, wouldn't their forever after partner's parent, be their parent too??? like okay there's apple white, daughter of snow white and daring charming, son of king charming LIKE HOW DOES THAT WORK???? when snow white was fulfilling her destiny wasn't it king charming that woke her up???? like how does that work

also, it's only daring and apple who are (at first) set for each other, everyone knows daring will wake apple from her sleep but the rest of the princesses don't have their princes what about briar? ashlynn?

then, it seems only the first born has to follow in their parents' fairytale footsteps like in the case of holly and poppy so what do the younger siblings do? what's their destiny like dexter charming, he had a page in the book of legends but had no story to go with it

this is a lot but im really awestruck with how destiny is such a fickle thing, apparently your destiny can be taken away from you just by signing in the book of legends, it's not even confirmed i suppose, it can change like how daring ended up with rosabella and not apple, etc etc

destiny in ever after high has so much untapped potential i love rotating it in my mind so thank you so much for this ask!

first off, eah has confirmed that there are four unrelated charming clans from which fairytales draw their sundry heroes so it's logical to assume that all current kings charming serving as their famous fairytale wives' arm candy come from different clans as the princes charming slated for their daughters' destinies. briar's prince i always assumed to be unknown due to the fact that she won't meet him in another hundred years. apple's prince being determined from the beginning i've always chalked up to the snow white tale being so important that grimm, snow and co. all felt the need to lock the details down as early as possible. pair the most eligible princess in the land with the most eligible prince in the land and chain their destinies together before fate gets other ideas and all that.

also YES, the birth order aspect of fairytale inheritance itches at my brain soooo hard. does the destiny go only down the line of the eldest? if the protagonists of the tale are siblings, are the next protagonists their respective firstborns and thus cousins? or does the destiny lineage go to whoever in the birth order has the most important role? can you be chosen randomly for a tale that wasn't in your family? and it's made even more confusing bc eah canon says "both! all! yes!" the rapunzel destiny falls to the eldest twin. the current hansel and gretel destiny falls to cousins. the dancing princess destiny goes all the way down the line of the youngest daughter. the charmings are all expected to fill in as either heroes or damsels for whatever tale needs them. it's WILD.

my personal interpretation is that just to cover all the bases, grimm keeps the school open to all descendants of the major players until they know for certain who destiny has the most affinity with. case in point: justine dancer only being confirmed as the twelfth princess when she started sleepdancing in the webisodes despite all eleven of her older sisters having been chosen beforehand. it makes one wonder if there's a method to knowing which sister needs to have the full dozen (the eldest? the youngest?) or if ALL the madames try to get all the way to twelve Just In Case. could you imagine the family gatherings? hell.

(i love thinking of the dancing princess eldritch nightmare family orchard. one of my eah ocs is the seventh daughter of the seventh dancing princess who's only here bc it would have looked unsporting if nobody from their branch came, despite all signs pointing to justine, and she didn't really have alternative plans. she's just chilling. at least until miss mabinogion crashes into her life and she finds herself playing co-conspirator to a certain flower-faced adulteress's Operation Goodbye Earl.)

i think bc of the sleepdancing there's a lot of flexibility in the line-up of the twelve princesses, so they can be siblings down the line of whoever married the soldier, or they can be firstborn cousins, or they can be first daughter of the first daughter, second daughter of the second, etc. etc. no matter how hard grimm et al. try to hammer down destiny, every retelling still finds a way to veer off the rails. so every contradictory version of every fairytale you've ever heard? probably happened at one point. it was never gonna be science.

another thing i'm really interested in are destinies where the protagonist has to become their child's villain. you ever think about how the juniper tree cycle would necessitate the butchered child eaten by their father to become the parent that eats their child? eah never went that hard but i can. i will. (miss juniper tree rounds out my eah oc roster and she is appropriately furious about it.) cyclical destinies where happy endings don't mean jack are sooo good.

also yes!! that whole thing where destiny doesn't even play by the rules of the people who try to corral it (darling is apple's prince, daring is the beast, raven is one of the seven dwarves, etc. etc.) even when the Book is in play is just !!!!!!! really makes it feel like destiny is a much larger and more powerful force than anybody can really reckon with.