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so did that the vampire get the job

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#friends

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A horseshoe crab being a home to other sea creatures!

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Signs and their months on an alignment chart

#also an angelic smartass markéta🫶🏻

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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.

#fs

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task manager kill this man

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i think rice with things on it & also some sort of sauce is like basically the best food genre tbh

#every struggle meal is this #or just. lazy dont feel like making something meal

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i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue

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Playing with my dolls in my mind palace. Making them fight

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ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

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#friends

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abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

#aren’t they embarrassed to only have the same criticism from the last hundred years #like it has not changed at all. it’s been ‘I could make that’ for all of the 20th century #like get something new or shut up

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#this makes it sound like he was like a decent role on the show too which he WAS NOT. ONE EPISODE #one episode made that much of a difference for him

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i still have trouble wrapping my head around how the beatles evolved from hit teen sensation boy band to psychedelic weirdos. i'm trying to think of a modern day equivalent. like what if BTS just got super into ketamine and jimin began singing about ants

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