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The YouTube algorithm has seen my interest in figure skating and started offering me classical ballet (I think, always difficult to tell how one gets where one ends up).

So I've been watching bits and pieces of that, as well as all of The Royal Ballet's Cinderella. I therefore offer you some fully random observations, from someone who never got into any kind of dance as a kid, and therefore knows baaaaaasically nothing about the topic. (I have been to several ballets in person, The Nutcracker of course, and the Winnipeg Ballet's Svengali..)

I like classical ballet (I'm not really watching modern) because it's quite ridiculous, and unconnected to anything that has ever happened on the face of the Earth.

I have learned that there's dialogue! Classical ballet has a kind of sign language, done through gestures, so that the dancers can explain plot points such as "We make evil men dance until they die!" and "This lake is made of my mother's tears!"

There does not seem to be much point to the male principal dancers. They have thighs like birch trees, which allows them to leap impressively high in the air, but they don't spin around on nothing but their big toe, which makes them less interesting to watch. Their main purposes seems to be to move the plot along, and act as a "Ballerina holder upper."

Maybe it's just because I'm not good enough at reading the mime, but the romantic dances are... not very romantic. They mostly seem to be the ballerina holder upper holding up the ballerina while she spins around on her big toe.

I don't know if there's non-transphobic/misogynistic way to do the comedy roles where male dancers play female characters, but Cinderella sure didn't manage it.

The plot of Giselle is really interesting (boy meets girl, girl dies when she finds out that boy has a fiancée, girl joins chorus of vengeful ghosts, vengeful ghosts attempt to kill boy, girl saves boy), and I wonder if there have been modern retellings like there have of other old fairytales.

I'm pretty sure the human body is not designed to do any of that.

Which is all I have for now.

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Event: Traumatic Experiences
Event Link:

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Pinch Hit Link: Current Pinch Hit Post
Due Date: March 22nd at 8PM PST

traumaticexperiences is a (psychological) trauma themed multifandom exchange. We have 1 returning pinch hit! You must write a fanfiction that is a minimum of 1000 words and include a requested fandom, relationship or solo character, and freeform in your fill. The collection will not reveal until everyone who requested 3 unique fandoms has received a gift that meets the minimum assignment requirements.

Assignment Requirements

~~PH 6 - Given (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), Wind Breaker (Anime), Outlast (Video Games)~~

For more details/to claim, view the pinch hit post.

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Title: Can’t Pretend
Characters/Pairing: Jonathan Pine/Teddy Dos Santos
TV Series: The Night Manager
Music: Can’t Pretend by Tom Odell
Length: 3:35
Streaming/download at: DW | Tumblr

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but 'The Field of Philippi'... 'where Caesar came to an end'... the Ides of March.

(Of course it wasn't; the battle of Philippi was what happened after Julius Caesar's assassination, and the poetical Bunny is probably not predicting his own doom. But I thought it was neat, all the same.)

Anyway, happy Ides!

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galorechallenge is a returning Crossover Fic Challenge from LiveJournal where you would find a crossover, grab a prompt & start writing! NO CLAIMING NESSARY! Post your story to the community (or at least link to it) once you're done. Feel free to grab more than one prompt, and more than one crossover! There are no limits on how much you can write per round. Check out the rules for more information.
Also once the round ends, we'll vote on our favorites by fandom & you can get a fancy award. Or if there is only 1 crossover for a particular fandom, it will move on to the next round.
While it is a multi-fandom challenge, and SO MANY fandoms are allowed, there are some restrictions, so check out the fandoms currently allowed.
Round 14 is open until June 30, 2026 @ 11:59 EST.

Rules & FAQ | Prompts | Submit New Prompts/Crossovers |

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Here's the link to my bingo card for this round! Putting the list of fandoms under a details html tag due to length.

Fandoms List

Punks Triangle
Kamen Rider Gotchard
Kamen Rider Blade
Ultraman Arc
Kamen Rider Zeztz
Kamen Rider Revice
Galaxy Express 999
Kamen Rider V3
Kamen Rider OOO
Kamen Rider 555
Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth
Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth - Endless Orbit SSX
Shin Ultraman
Kamen Rider Kabuto
Kaiketsu Zubat
Mira Sentai Timeranger
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
Chojin Sentai Jetman
Kamen Rider Ghost

(Kamen Rider Series, Captain Harlock, and Ultraman Arc already have tags so don't worry about those. May I please have Fandom tags for the rest? Thank you so much for your time!)

Current Mood: satisfied

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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

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My card is HERE

LIST OF FANDOMS

Advance Bravely
ALIEN Movies
Gossip Harbor (Video Game)
Guardian (TV 2018)
Haven (TV)
L'Oréal "Time Engraver" Commercials
Sapphire and Steel
Stargate Atlantis
Star Trek: TOS
Supernatural
The Devil Judge
The Mummy Series
The Pitt
The Untamed
The Yin-yang Master: Dream of Eternity
Word of Honor (TV 2021)

TAGS needed: Advance Bravely, Gossip Harbor (fandom: video games), The Pitt

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Event: Unsent Letters, an epistolary exchange
Event link:

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Pinch hit link: https://unsent-letters-exchange.dreamwidth.org/26711.html
Due date: April 25th, 11:59PM UTC

Requirements: 1000 words of fic, at least 500 of which must be in a requested epistolary format.

PH 1 - Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's x2, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Metal Fight Beyblade | Beyblade Metal Saga, ベイブレードバースト | Beyblade Burst (Anime), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime 1997-2023), ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/Audrelite

PH 2 - Minecraft: Story Mode (Video Game) x2, The Protomen x2, Bionicle (Generation 1) x2
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/bluerosekatie

PH 4 - Wolf Hall Series - Hilary Mantel, Wolf in White Van - John Darnielle, Beau Travail (1999)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/fullborn

PH 5 - 違国日記 | Ikoku Nikki | Journal with Witch (Anime), Banana Fish (Anime & Manga), Limbo the King | King in Limbo (Manga), とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga), 准教授・高槻彰良の推察 - 澤村御影 | Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture - Sawamura Mikage
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/jessenigma

PH 6 - Bugsnax (Video Game), Crossover Fandom (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Keroro Gunsou), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Keroro Gunsou (Anime)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/malachiical

PH 7 - Medium (TV), NCIS: Los Angeles, Twin Peaks (TV 1990)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/NervousAsexual

PH 8 - Dune (Movies - Villeneuve), Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson, The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/primeideal

To claim, please email unsentlettersexchange@gmail.com or comment on the pinch hit post: https://unsent-letters-exchange.dreamwidth.org/26711.html