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Top 5 favorite cirque shows? 🎪

5. Alegría - The original. IANL is fantastaic because this one was fantastic first. The White Singer was such an icon of my earliest Cirque fandom years and finally seeing her live felt like a dream came true. Now every year I adore it all the more for it's place in CdS history. What a daring production, and what a snapshot of its era. Though it's not my ultimate forever favorite, I do think Alegría is the pinnacle of classic, true Cirque du Soleil.

4. Varekai - What a lush and splendid show. After the structure and relative severity of Alegría and Quidam, out bursts Varekai with a completely different world, completely different take on costumes, and completely different energy. It's an interesting one too because on the scale of "shit's just happening" to "actual plot," Varekai leans more towards plot in a specific balance I don't think we've seen from Cirque before or since. There are plenty of things in this show that just are, but because the world is so beautifully fleshed out it doesn't distract us from the uncommonly specific plot: boy falls into a forest, he loses his wings and can't walk, he falls in love, his love is kidnapped, his love returns transformed, and he heals and gets married. That's a lot of detail compared to an O, Mystere, or La Nouba, considerably less compared to a Volta, Corteo, or Ka, yet it leaves room for an inexplicable underwater number. And it all still makes sense! Now that's worldbuilding, baby.

3. Kà - SPEAKING OF WORLDBUILDING. I have enumerated on my love for this show for thousands upon thousands of words so I won't spend too long on it now. But something I don't mention often is that I saw Ka because I kind of felt like I had to, not because I specifically wanted to. I was in Vegas for the first time, could only pick two shows, and went with the classic O/Ka spectacle split of artistry vs. technology. There was nothing else to the decision. And since then I haven't stopped thinking about Ka - nor stopped writing about it - for over seven years straight. This is the best plot-driven CdS show in company history by leagues. From setting to music to spectacle to characters Ka is a ten out of ten. It has given me more as a person and writer than I can go into here, and I'm endlessly grateful to it. For fun here is the first post I made shortly after seeing it:

I knew myself well enough to know he'd be a problem but not well enough to think I'd still be on my bullshit for eight years. God damn. What Ka does to me. And I'll thank it every time 🥹

2. Kooza - Everything I say about Kooza makes it sound like it was my very first show, but the real one was La Nouba lol. This is another one I've gone on and on and on about to bear repeating now, but every time I say Kooza changed my life, I mean it. It inspired me to try flying trapeze, and in 2024 I crossed my fifteenth year of training without even noticing. It has become such an ingrained part of my life, all because I saw one trapeze act in one circus show at a pivotal time in my life. So much of my late teens is tied up in Kooza emotions, obsession, and just straight up magic. There have been more complex and effective shows in Cirque history, and this was truest around when I saw it for the first time. But since then I have had the immense pleasure of watching a show grow into exactly what it's been to me since the very start. It's like a real first love. I just feel like the luckiest girl in the world for having met this show.

1. Quidam - Quidam is categorically the best Cirque show of all time. It's that simple. I genuinely think anyone that disagrees just doesn't have an informed enough opinion to weigh in appropriately. It might not be everyone's active favorite, but it is the objective best. The depth and soul of this show is unmatched. There is symbolism with tangible weight - not just motifs, not just weird for weird's sake, but real repeated and deliberate decisions that firmly say something about the characters, world, and plot in a way that even O and Alegría cannot match. This is peak Franco Dragone, this is peak Benoit Jutras, this is peak everything about golden era Cirque du Soleil wrapped up in a setting so sharp and melancholic that whether you are, were, or have never even been a lonely young girl, you now know exactly what it feels like. I have threatened to write so much meta and I really need to sit down and just get it done. I can't think about this show without looking like that poetic cinema meme. Quidam is my top favorite, and it's also everyone's top best whether they know it or not.

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as far as I’m concerned, Padmé and Obi-wan hang out on the regular, which includes a lot of venting about Anakin, and that’s how Obi-wan found out about their marriage by the time of the Bad Batch arc

but as @cranity​ points out, the galaxy’s #1 couple immediately forget anyone else is in the room as soon as they see each other

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lovelylittlewordsmith replied to your post “i can’t tell if this is cringy or admirable, but my acutal fic chapter...”

Just out of curiosity, is this a pearl84 review?

you guessed it! A DoaS one, at that!

I think it’s pretty justified given her 80page chapters.

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For being so nice and cute, copy this to 10 other blogs that you think are beautiful and deserve it. Keep the GAME going and make others feel beautiful! 💕💕💕

I was tagged by @nad-zeta. All I ever do is shit post under your comments section. That's about it. I am undeserving!

And since I know you won't know my user, you may recongise my main: @november-solarstorms. Now. Who to tag...

@chibimyumi (you are a Queen, lol)

@questions-you-say (first blog I ever submitted an ask to and first tumblr friend.)

@sebastian--art (your art, my friend, is straight up orgasmic lmao)

@the-case-book-of-sherlock-holmes (Ah, the first follower on my main account. Love ya)

@otakkunsworld (Just want you know that I appreciate how much detail you put into your asks)

@athxna-writes (and the award for the most active tumblr goes to....)

@kuroshitsuji-scenarios (your blog is what reintroduced me to tumblr. Even if you dont know who I am. Haha)

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@lovelylittlewordsmith (I just enjoy talking to you about all the random shit that pops into my head.)

I was really extra about this and wrote why for each tag, y'all dont have to. But as a whole, these are the blogs who have made my tumblr experience that much better. So I thank you.

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The Luck of the Draw

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by LovelyLittleWordsmith

Ultimates are the best of the best; therefore, it only makes sense that one student should be able to hold the title at a time.

With the enrollment of yet another ultimate lucky student, Komaeda has decided that he must take matters into his own hands to determine who the true ultimate lucky student is.

Words: 1536, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types, Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Super Dangan Ronpa 2

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Komaeda Nagito, Naegi Makoto

Relationships: Komaeda Nagito & Naegi Makoto

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Non-Despair (Dangan Ronpa), Pre-Despair (Dangan Ronpa), Humor, Friendship, School Clubs, there can be only one ultimate lucky student, Cross-Posted on FanFiction.Net

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   What show is this?!  I’m intrigued!    It’s AMC’s TURN. It’s a show based on Alexander Rose’s book WASHINGTON’S SPIES (which I read a long time ago), which is about Washington’s spy ring during the American Revolution. I watched season 1 when it came out, didn’t watch the new seasons after my dad died, and am now getting back into it now that 3 seasons are on Netflix (4 seasons total).

It does a good job of portraying both sides of the spy rings, and I love how you end up cheering for both sides of the conflict because of nuanced characters. Mr. Gibbs from Pirates of the Caribbean also is a major character, as well as Burn Gorman (Mr. Gottlieb from Pacific Rim).

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also, @lovelylittlewordsmith you’ve been warned

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Thank you dreamadove

For showing me a whole new level of emotional pain.

I didn’t think you were being literal when you warned me about losing ability to function

And we are now reading its sequel, which is another whole new level of emotional pain.

and now we are like

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unfortunately for Yondu, it wouldn’t always be this easy to keep Peter around

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Reactivate

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by LovelyLittleWordsmith

If he went through with this, it would probably be the second stupidest decision he had made in his life, right after spending $400 on a miracle computer pill from Japan.

Or actually, this would top that one. This time, he knew exactly what he was getting into and he simply didn’t care. He had messed up his own life more than any supercomputer ever could.

Words: , Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Be More Chill - Iconis/Tracz

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Jeremy Heere, The Squip (Be More Chill)

Additional Tags: Michael mell (mentioned) - Freeform, Post-Canon, they're in college now, One Shot

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[hannasedai]

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no they're beautiful shhhhh

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He'd put his logo on them first

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Oh my GOD they'd be embossed with his initials too

DICK: “Slade what are these? Are you going to make Moscow Mules?”

SLADE: “No, they’re wine glasses.”

DICK: “Tacky.”

SLADE: “You’re tacky.”

And they can also be used as a weapon during dinner.

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lovelylittlewordsmith replied to your post                   OK, if Disney is remaking all of their 90′s Disney...                

   Yes!  Give me a live action version of Hell Fire!    DUDE it would be so EPIC It’s hands down my favorite Disney movie...it’s just so good and the soundtrack is just GAH

Even though I’m side-eying all these live action remakes (like...Disney...make something new come one) I’m still a sucker who’ll see them all. I also love the Broadway adaptation of the movie (which actually addresses the darker aspects of the book) and THAT should be live action!