#spiral ic

[starlit-ocs]

(for: Spiral)

-> The canine demon is walking around, trying to catch a break from his usual life and trying to keep a low profile as well.

— Hex (@prismsassortmentofocs)

(OOC: I have a very specific reason for picking him for this lol)

-> A green female demon could be seen moving around Crossroads, waving and chatting it up with anyone who considered talking to her. Loud and sweet, that's what her voice was. -> She seemed friendly! Even with those sharp ass teeth of hers...

[princes-of-music]

HEYYY!!!! whats up guys!!! hey!!! :3

hope you enjoy it here!!! theres alot to unpack & explore- so just be careful is all!! (i am so ominous mwahaha)

-hexx & iso 🌀

“Oh don’t worry we’re are used to a lot of people! Right little brother?”

Crow nods, not looking you in the eye. He he seemed distant while Dove was perky and moving around and full of life.

[thesilicontribesman]

Bronze Age Spiral Jewellery Items, The British Museum, London

[lotussgrl]

[lleclerc]

iceman + his concern for maverick post-hop 31

[itsalbir]

Huevember - Days 1-6

Started with Green, done with Blue and tomorrow we'll get back on with Purple!

Hope you like following this trend with me, thanks for the support.

[cent-scratchnsniff]

of where [ ] [ ] used to be

[quiltofstars]

The Hidden Galaxy, C5 // Ani Shastry

If this galaxy was not heavily obscured by dust in our own Galaxy, it would be visible to the naked eye on Earth! It has a diameter of about 75,000 light years, roughly three-quarters the size of the Milky Way. This equates to a size of about half a full moon on the sky. The best time to try and spot it is during late autumn and early winter in the northern hemisphere, so get out there and try to find it!

[trainwrecksys]

[strryhaze]

bobby & david kennedy

“There was some level on which David tapped his father’s sensitivity. You would find him walking with David or with his arm around David. David just seemed to need it.”

— chuck mcdermott.

“If his father’s death hit David harder than the others, it was because there had been a special bond between them—both were the runts of the litter, sandwiched into the middle of a large family. He was the only one in the family who hadn’t been enthusiastic about the run for the presidency. For weeks after his father’s announcement, David had been plagued by recurring nightmares about Bobby’s death. Distraught over episodes that seemed premonitory, and missing the special attention his father had given him, David had gotten in trouble for throwing rocks at cars passing by Hickory Hill. The day of the California primary, he had joined his father in Los Angeles. The two of them had been swimming and he had felt himself being carried out by the undertow when his father grabbed him, scraping his own head on the ocean floor as he reached for David’s slippery arm. With a teenager’s melodrama, David had decided that he owed his father a life and would look for an opportunity to pay him back in the years ahead. That night as he sat in front of the television set in his room in the Ambassador Hotel and watched [his father] bleeding on the floor downstairs, one of the thoughts he had was that the debt would be forever undischarged.”

“As the worst year of their young lives came to a close, they decided to surprise their mother at Christmas with a book comprised of letters about their father. David’s said: ‘Daddy was very funny in church because he would embarrass all of us by singing very loud. Daddy did not have a very good voice. There will be no more football with Daddy, no more swimming with him, no more riding and no more camping with him. But he was the best father there ever was and I would rather have him for a father for the length of time I did than any other father for a million years.”

— the kennedy’s, peter collier & david horowitz.

“David looked at himself in those pictures like they were a strange sort of mirror. He looked at them half a dozen times at least, mesmerized by them, and he kept asking me questions. There was a tremendous desire to know his father, to really know him.”

— john seigenthaler.

“David and Bobby were so close. They were inseparable. David was small, a runt like Bobby had been.” Ethel then explained to Noelle (her secretary) that David had always been a very sensitive youngster, very introverted, "not like the other boys. He and I would go and pick flowers while his brothers were killing each other with their crazy games", Ethel recalled with a smile.

— ethel kennedy.

“I think about death a lot. Time hasn’t erased the death of my father from my mind. My family thinks I’m no good and that I’ll never beat my problem. They’ve written me off. I’m trying to get it together, but it’s so difficult. I’m having a terrible time at it. And the thing I want most in the world is the approval of my family, but they want nothing to do with me. All I want is to be with my father.”

— david kennedy, april 1984.

“Like his family, his friends had all wondered at one time or another if he would kill himself; but when it finally came his death was nonetheless shocking. ‘I keep asking myself why. Why David? Why now? All I can come up with is that maybe his father was looking down from heaven and saw all the hell these people were putting him through and said, ‘Come on, You’ve suffered enough. It’s time you were up here with me.’”

— nancy narleski.

Years after David Kennedy’s death, his cousin, Patrick Kennedy recalled a haunting and heartbreaking recollection he had with his father, Teddy, sitting beside his cousin’s casket: “My father remembered Bobby telling him that, as a father, he needed to spend more time with David. He also recounted a story Uncle Bobby had told him just before his own death. On the day before the California primary, the Robert Kennedys had gone swimming in Malibu, to relax together. David had been knocked over by a wave and got caught in the undertow, and his father had come to his rescue. When Uncle Bobby told my father this story, he talked about ‘the undertow’ in broader terms, how there was an undertow in life and David, who was only then thirteen, already seemed vulnerable to it. And then, just hours later, Uncle Bobby was murdered as David watched the TV coverage in their hotel room upstairs. It was unbelievably poignant to hear my father tell this story. David was in the casket next to us. And I wasn’t that much older than David when his father worried whether he could survive the undertow.”

[starlit-ocs]

hugs!! you deserve them >:]

-> She gets giddy! She loves hugs!

[gabbyp09]

[thesilicontribesman]

Castleton 7a Prehistoric Rock Art Panels, nr. Falkirk, Scotland

[lotussgrl]

andy goldsworthy, ice sculptures, 1980s

[vee-lociraptor]

was spiraling so i got a piece of ice to hang onto for until it melted (therapist recommendation, i think the cold is meant to shock you out of it or something) and what i forgot in this situation was that my dog loves ice. it's like chicken to her. so while im trying to calm myself down she's following me around like i have a treat and my point is chat it's kind of hard to keep spiraling when you become like 2% aware of your surroundings and realize your dog is looking at you with the biggest most pleading eyes because she wants your piece of ice

[edgecallskating]

I'm feeling vintage, so I'm going waaaaaaay back to a time when spiral sequences were a required element in the SP. Few skaters mastered the spiral sequence like Sasha Cohen, so let's take a look at the sequence from her 2005-06 Dark Eyes short program.

First, I-spiral (which Sasha popularized!) into a fan. No struggle for the I position and superb balance into the fan position.

The sign of a great fan spiral position isn't just the height of the free leg but minimal bend in the working leg. Bending the working knee can help cheat the position by offsetting a lack of strength or flexibility. Note the minimal knee bend here! Then the spirals dreams are made of: a nearly 180 degree arabesque held over a change of edge. I love how she tugs it just a little bit higher to get the full extension and the point in the toes is *chef kiss*.

And finally, just because she can, a Beillmann position to round out the ice-spanning set:

Spiral sequences are a hallmark of early IJS programs. When I watch them now they feel like an attempt to reconcile some of the showiness of 6.0 skating with the bullet points of IJS. Not every skater survived the transition. For every sublime Sasha Cohen moment there were a dozen skaters with limp Kerrigan spirals and dodgy catch-foots.

The spiral sequence was replaced with the choreographic sequence as of the 2012-13 season, a nod to changing tastes and shifting technical priorities. Few skaters now could hit a 180 arabesque, which is why I get so excited when I see a classic, well-supported spiral in the competitive wild.