#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

[recsspecs]

Anthony going from a man with apathy to drowning in emotions is the kind of leap I want in my reality. 0-100 super quick

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[blackbirdsnonsense]

Dancing Queens is real.

[chaotictoon]

Dancing: Ballet

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Wills is smitten 😍

[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)

[wouldtheyfuck]

[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"

[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

[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!