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Send help my cousin just saw my AO3 tab.

#the tags were... ahem #i swear he thinks i'm watching porn or some shit i swear i'm not 😭😭😭 #the story's really good but just a little smutty that's all

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okay new ask game. what's your ethnicity and can you slav squat (squat directly down with your heels touching the floor).

#this is fascinating stuff #im singaporean chinese and i can do both squats #but i hate doing it cuz i have flat feet which makes my knees and ankles hurt

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Satoko Miyahara, Libertango » 2022 Fantasy on Ice: Shizuoka

#satoko miyahara

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According to Phil Hersh, the GP assignments will be delayed a couple more weeks. Originally, he said they were expected on the 30th.

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Shoma and Stephane in Shoma's favorite Yakiniku restaurant 😊

#shoma uno #figure skating #stephane lambiel #ugh too cute

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ISU rule change on PCS

Let's call this an extensive personal comment...

I am too lazy to list exactly what has changed, but as you might have seen the PCS components being 5 before are reduced to 3. Namely IN (interpretation) and TR (transitions) are now gone.

This is what is left now:

I think changing something in PCS is right, because the PCS are a huge joke how they are scored and used. I just think that again the descriptions are too vague and leave so much room for interpretation that in the end the rules won't be followed. But were they ever followed anyway?

And because rules weren't followed with 5 categories anyway I am not optimistic they will follow 3 categories, but I am also not as upset about it as some others, because if rules aren't followed why being upset they have changed? 🙃 Imo they could just put the skaters in real categories because no matter what some do, how I see it a skater is always judged within their corridor based on reputation, federation politics and passport. Some get high PCS for granted, some can work their ass off hard and still not receive any reward. So will it matter if there are 3 or 5? I don't think it will.

In theory it should have been possible to give skaters with mediocre skating skills a 10 in performance, but it never happened to have for example a 5 and a 10 in individual categories. So as long as you will get a 9 in all categories if you get a 9 in one category, what harm is done by reducing them to 3? That PCS are even less understandable valued? I don't think that's possible. It wasn't understandable before. I mean now at least they don't have to pretend to understand what transitions are used when it's muzzled together, so eventually it becomes easier to accept when some things aren't specified anymore 🙃

Some say now they cannot hold judges accountable for not following the rules within those PCS categories that were somewhat objectively countable like how many transitions, 1 foot skating etc. And it's true that now that these kind of "technical" stuff is now all muzzled into skating skills and not exclusively named it can become less of a thing for skaters to include into their programs, but let's be real on this: Skaters like some Russians (I don't do names today) did do many many transitions, but where they good or did most of them make sense for their programs? A spiral held for 1 second surely fits the criteria, but does it fit the program? Nah...and holding judges accountable? I can only laugh...as if judges ever were held accountable for not doing the PCS correctly. It's a dream, not a reality. Telling on SNS that judge A, B, C etc didn't do their job properly is hardly holding someone accountable. The effect is 0 I fear.

I think in the end it does not matter if there are 3 or 5 categories. As long as judges do however they like and give superb PCS to skaters not because of their skills but because of politics and/or high TES and reputation. A rule change is the least of the problems.

As long as judges are not better trained and really held accountable for their judging - not by fans, but by the ISU - any rule change will only be a new way for judges with an old habit attached.

I hope the new rule change at least make some judges read again what is actually in the rules. For the rest...well judging is what it is and it was never meant to be fair no matter what the rules say. Sad but true.

Last shout-out to the ppl claiming #figureskatingisdead...figure skating is never dead as long as ppl watch it. And rule changes within a sport are normal. And lastly just because a sport is not the way you want it, it doesn't make it dead. Surely there will he be fans who leave this sport, but there will be others who will start watching now and will find the old ways bad or less enjoyable. (Look I find most of the 80s and 90s comps quite boring and the rules there not slightly understandable, but it wasn't the time I started watching. I know ppl who would prefer the way 80s and 90s skating was. I don't. Same will happen now.)

#i just woke up and am too lazy to read this right now #tbh idrc what they do with pcs it was screwed up to begin with #figure skating

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Shoma Uno - Gravity (2022-2023 SP) at Prince Ice World 2022

Choreography by Stéphane Lambiel 

#mother i love him #shoma uno #stephane lambiel #figure skating

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Stéphane Lambiel, Fantasy on Ice - 2022 - Photo by Joe Kobashi

#i- #stephane lambiel

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Chopstick Taboos

Like all utensils, chopsticks have their own set of etiquette. This is a list of the 10 main Japanese taboos for using chopsticks to help improve your table manners.

お箸　おはし　ohashi　chopsticks

箸置き　はしおき　hashioki　chopstick rest

移り箸　うつりばし　utsuri-bashi Do not move your chopsticks back and forth above the food, trying to decide what to eat first. Decide what you want to eat before you move your chopsticks to the item.

渡し箸　わたしばし　watashi-bashi Do not put down your chopsticks on bowls like a bridge to rest them. Instead, use a chopstick rest, or fold up your chopsticks paper package to make a rest.

刺し箸　さしばし　sashi-bashi Do not stab your food with your chopsticks. Instead, pick it up or request different silverware if it is too difficult.

寄せ箸　よせばし　yose-baishi Do not use your chopsticks to move the plates or bowls closer, because then you will be dragging the tableware along the table. Always use your hands to move the plate or bowl.

探り箸　さぐりばし　saguri-bashi Do not use you chopsticks to dig in the food to look for something. Rather, eat the food in the shape that it comes in and from the top to the bottom of the bowl or plate.

もぎ箸　もぎばし　mogi-bashi Do not eat the small pieces of food off of your chopsticks. Instead, ignore it, or remove it with a paper towel.

かき込み箸　かきこみばし　kakikomi-bashi Do not put your mouth on the bowl and use chopsticks to shovel food into your mouth. Instead, pick up the item and carry it to your mouth with small bites.

振り上げ箸　ふりあげばし　furiage-bashi Do not use chopsticks to point at people or at things. It's best not to point with your finger either, but rather to explain using words. You can point at menus, but not at people or things far away.

拾い箸　ひろいばし　hiroi-bashi Do not pass food from chopstick to chopstick. During funerals, the remaining bones of a loved one are collected with chopsticks and can be passed between chopsticks during collection. Thus, passing food between chopsticks is considered bad luck. If you would like to pass food to someone, put it on a plate or a bowl for the other person to pick up.

立て箸　たてばし　tate-bashi Do not stand your chopsticks upright in your food. Chopsticks are stood upright in offerings (usually of rice) to those who have departed. Thus, doing so during a meal is considered bad luck. Instead, place your chopsticks on a chopstick rest.

Information from Let's ask Shogo

#honestly not all 10 are completely taboo #4 8 9 and 10 are the ones that are considered rude and really something you shouldn't do #everything else is pretty ok unless you're in a super formal setting #coming from a chinese person who stayed in japan for a year #btw chinese japanese and korean chopstick manners are pretty much the same so once you've learnt one you've learnt all hehe

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Kanadai practicing a part of Soran bushi &Koto || Stars on Ice 2022 in Tokyo

#daisuke takahashi #kana muramoto #soi 2022

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Just met the first person in my life who actually really likes flesh-coloured tights over boots. Holy it's like meeting a person from a completely different planet

#am still forever a hater of tights over boots <3 #it makes u look like u have unnaturally chunky ankles #idgi when people says it improves lines cuz the line gets cut from the chunkiness of the boot anyways? #idk

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#singapore #kitchen #well not really the kitchen but in a laundry room next to the kitchen #if the machines are in the toilet i swear we'll have a sorting nightmare #also my apartment has like 3.5 different toilets we can't possibly have machines in every single one #people who do their laundry in the bathroom are weird #so everyone has to go to the same bathroom to deposit their laundry?? #what if that bathroom's occupied

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sui wenjing & han cong // TRENDMO, may 2022 » video / photos

#sui wenjing #han cong

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Karen Chen, Requiem for a Tower by Clint Mansell, performed by Escala // Requiem for a Dream by Clint Mansell, performed by Jennifer Thomas

2021-2022 Short Program

Choreography by Drew Meekins

Costume by Hsiu-Hui Tseng

#karen chen #figure skating

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Sakamoto Kaori / 'Gladiator' at Stars on Ice 2022, 02/04 (x)

#SHE CUT HER HAIR??? OMG SHE LOOKS AMAZING TF #kaori sakamoto #figure skating #soi 2022

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Mai Mihara, Les Misérables: I Dreamed A Dream by Claude-Michel Schönberg, performed by Idina Menzel and Lea Michele

2021-2022 Short Program

Choreography by David Wilson

Costume by Satomi Ito

#mai mihara #figure skating

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Being multilingual means suddenly realising you're losing proficiency in one language and then desperately consuming all forms of media in that language to gain it back

#and why it is always chinese that's the first to go #im staring at a paragraph of words that i swear i knew how to read 2 mnths ago but have somehow forgotten #its probably due to how chinese basically has no alphabet and relies you on memorising words in order to read them