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advertisesouls · 2 days

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[ @praeteritus-memories || plotted starter! ]

They say that soulmates can sense when their other half is no longer a part of this world.

Perhaps that's why, as she was preparing yet another delicious meal for them (with a special portion of their latest victim mixed in for good measure), all she could feel is a suffocating grip around her heart that causes the plate in her hand to drop and shatter to the floor beneath her and her knees to give out from underneath her. Dread shortly sets in as well, wrapping around her tightly like an unwelcome embrace from her worst enemy. This is something that she hasn't experienced at all, and for all of these emotions to be surging forth at once is completely overwhelming, almost to the point where she can barely even think.

No, this couldn't be it, could it—? Had their luck finally run out...?

What other explanation could there possibly be, though? Alastor hadn't returned home when he said he would, and while she assumed he'd be home soon, it's never been like this.

Hesitantly, and uncaring for the ceramic shards, she crawled over to the nearest window just to glimpse out of it. In the distance, she could see flashes of light peek out from the trees along with the sounds of dogs barking in the distance.

Fuck. Fuckfuckfuck—

Scrambling back up to her feet, she dashes over to Alastor's gun cabinet to retrieve a shotgun and—

The last thing she remembers is after telling Alastor that she loved him that she'd see his murderers in Hell, then she pulled the trigger, and...

And then there was nothing for a long time. Had she somehow entered the cycle of reincarnation, even with her list of horrific deeds behind her? (That was something she would laugh at, especially since she knew her soul was too far gone already.)

Maybe that's why her head feels like it's been filled with rocks and her body weighed with lead. A single crimson iris opens to a sky painted blood red and that's when both of her eyes shoot open and she sits up, though her weight feels... off somehow. Her back's aching, almost as if it's on fire until she reaches behind her, talons brushing against her feathers and it's then that all too familiar feeling of dread starts to set in again.

Hurriedly getting to her feet, even with stumbling a few times due to needing to get used to the fact that overall weight and physiology has changed considerably, she races over to the nearest reflective surface—a destroyed storefront's glass window to look herself over. What was once long raven hair, round hazel hues, and beige-colored skin has now changed into a deep scarlet overall along with oranges and yellows mixed within, akin to that of the legendary phoenix from the myths she'd hear as a child. Along with that is a set of haunting ruby irises, devoid of pupils.

Just... just what is she? Was this the Hell she knew she was destined for all along?

But then, as much as they teased the other about it, where is Alastor? Is he here, too? Or, if in a cruel twist of fate, was he the one sent to Heaven while she languished in Hell?

The Gods, if she even still believed in them at this point, would be that cruel to do that.

Though, it's not like she can ruminate any further on that as she can hear the sound of something behind her, which causes her to clumsily grab at a snapped pole, itself clattering to the ground beneath her as she's not used to her talons quite yet.

Well, shit. Maybe she can run—? (Oh, and make herself look like a fool in the process, too, what with needing to support herself against the wall right now.)

Either way, whatever kind of hell this was, she could still fight to live another day, and as she pushes off the wall, she nearly trips over her own feet before trying to run to whatever resembled safety.

...That is if there is any safety to be had in a place like this.

#praeteritusmemories #*ooc: um so OOPS......... i tried to keep this short then felt like the scene needed to be set and then i just wrote this #long post cw #long post tw #long post for ts #suicide mention cww

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girldraki · 4 months

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god i wish tumblrs search function actually worked since, short of flat out asking cww “did you ever become normal about asexual people”, there’s really no way to verify

#though last i remember checking they were not-normal as recently as 2021 #txt

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seafood-33 · 2 years

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A short segment of CWW in 2018.

(translate by ゆゆゆ@UJF59822151)

He said：At one time, when I was going through a lot of problems with the weekly newspapers and so on.

I wondered why I was still alive.

I tried to die many times.

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Source

UJF (ゆゆゆ) twitter

#yuzuru hanyu #羽生結弦

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biscuityskies · 9 months

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Cww being done means that I can move on from those wips to this behemoth (for reference this is already the longest thing I’ve ever written (ik it’s still comparatively short shhh) and I’m not done with it)

Someone help.

Anyways here are some iconic moments that make me laugh

#dani writes #star wars #it’s a shame I only write at 2am since I go to bed at 10pm now #posting this for wip Wednesday even tho it’s Tuesday #because I have no self control or self respect #🤠

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aerialimagining · 3 years

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Midterm Assignments (that I didn't do) (CWW #8)

She sits at her desk,

hunched over the resonating blue light

of the silver laptop screen and

narrows her eyes as

they try and make sense of the

small font and

narrow margins of the paper she has written and

rewritten and

told herself that she would be done

in just a few short hours because

she is tired and

it is late and

she wants to close her eyes but

she can't because

this is due so soon.

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No long drawn-out reflection today because I'm having a uveitis flare-up and everything is sad. The prompt was to write a poem that is basically one long sentence to introduce writing flow. Kind of sad because this is the second to last writing prompt of the semester and I've actually had a lot of fun doing them.

#creative writing wednesday #creative writing #prompts #poetry

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shaqohel · 3 years

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Terms of Reference for The documentation of Global Parntership for Education funded programs in Somalia - Mogadishu

Terms of Reference for The documentation of Global Parntership for Education funded programs in Somalia - Mogadishu #somalia #somalijobs #shaqohel

Terms of Reference for The documentation of Global Parntership for Education funded programs in Somalia 1. GENERAL INFORMATION Assignment by MOECHE FGS Partners CARE, SCI & CWW Donor Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Assignment Production of short video’s, photographs and collection of human interest stories for the GPE program Location of the Assignment All of Southern States of Somalia…

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flamintango · 3 years

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Taming the Shrew, Gaming the Rules: Domestic Space as a Site of Transgressional Mother-Daughter Homosociality in Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”

Jamaica Kincaid’s "Girl" (1978) portrays the painstaking confines of domestic space for women in the Caribbeans in a tersely crafted short story. Despite the impression, I would argue, the motherly narrator’s unending tirade signifies less a ruthless drill of patriarchal disciplines, but more an interwoven fabric of mother-daughter bond and female coalition. The idea of girlhood and mother-daughter homosociality of Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” has been the subject of widespread scholarly intrigue for decades. Adopting the approach of rhetorical features analysis, K. Jayasree’s “Linguistic-Literary Camouflage in Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘Girl’” anchors its critical emphasis on the rebellious potential of the female homosocial subtext in the story. The essay maintains that “Girl” tactically utilizes the common textual format (i.e. the “oral tradition”) in which patriarchal values effectively disseminates in order to issue the “call to arms” (82) that likewise instills transgressive ideas into girls.

“Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk bare-head in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; . . . this is how to sew on a button; this is how to make a buttonhole for the button you have just sewed on.” (320, italics added)

As the extract above illustrates, the lines roll rhythmically with a string of alliterations and unrelenting imperatives and structural repetitions, rendering the tone almost sermonic. The incessant use of colons in lieu of sentence-ending punctuations (e.g. periods) or meta-language represents the disciplining tone of the narrator who assumes a mother’s voice in a relentless mantra penetrating into the daughter’s head. “Girl”’s writing falls in line with the oral tradition not only for its conversational nature, speaking exclusively to the girl with the second-person “you,” but also for its quick-paced, fragmented sputter of sentences inflected in such a way that Rabea and Almahameed would call it “poetic” and “genre crossing” (157).

Denise De Caires Narain’s “Naming Same-Sex Desire in Caribbean Women's Texts: Toward a Creolizing Hermeneutics” aims to tap into the queer undertow of familial female homociality in Kincaid’s text . It laments the uncontested heterosexual norms in Caribbean literarures by female writers in the 1980s, despite their continuous effort to challenge the conservative male canon. In its analysis of Lucy and The Autobiography of My Mother, on the one hand, the essay recognizes that Kincaid’s depiction of heterosexual sex as detrimental to women, and merely a tool for male to assert virility and dominance. On the other hand, it positions the mother-daughter tie prevalent in Kincaid’s theming as a “strategically defensive one” against men that “orbits around the heteronornmative,” and conceptualizes it in the form of mother’s control over “the girl-child’s life script” (204). The homosocial bond between mother and daughter equally courses through the thematic vein of “Girl” for its vehement, moralizing narrative. In the short story, the mother effectively micromanages her daughter’s existence down to the hairsplitting details of her day-to-day with sermonic mantras that seek to indoctrinate patriarchal, lady-like virtues into the girl at first glance. The girl’s day is arranged for her from “Monday” through “Sunday”, and her life is held to miscellaneous household duties, interpersonal interactions, and female etiquettes: “wash” the white and colored clothes on Mondays and Tuesdays; “cook” the pumpkin fritters; “walk like a lady” to reject “a slut that you’re bent on becoming”; never sing benna in “Sunday schools”; never speak to “wharf-rat boys” (Kincaid 320).

On the subject of the postcolonial context in Kincaid’s work, De Caires Narain notes that Kincaid exhibits a literary tendency to employ little to no Caribbean creole in her writing, which is executed mostly in standard English. Despite the linguistic choice, Kincaid still successfully communicates Caribbean specificity and postcoloniality through subtle sprinklage of cultural references. For instance, “benna” is a type of Antiguan folk song that largely features raunchy rumors in its lyrics, helpful in spreading folk news across the streets. In “Girl,” meanwhile, it is the same song that the mother cautioned the daughter against singing in the Christian Sunday school that symbolizes colonial heritage. The slut shaming of the female body that the mother casts derogatively onto the daughter here ties thematically with the baudy benna prohibited in the imported religion—the remains of colonial heritage from the West and the symbol of civility in public.

From an alternative angle on postcolonial discussions, Betty Joseph signals an invitation to problematize the subject from the globalization perspective in her essay, “Gendering Time in Globalization: The Belatedness of the Other Woman and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy.” Joseph’s grounds the analysis on the notion of time-lag in cultural exchange due to “crony capitalism” (67), a geopolitical framework under which the social-cultural and economic capital is distributed in inequity across the globe due to geopolitical limitations. The essay admonishes Euroamerican feminist criticisms to diverge from their traditional view that evinces an “implicit discourse of progress” (69) of culturally diverse female subjects towards Western apotheosis.

Likewise, the Westerncentric feminist activism inspired attempt to read the mother as an idle mouthpiece and her preaches as patriarchal propaganda fails to account for the transgressive hints that the mothers slips into her teachings. Positioning the narrator as a mere fathering figurehead who indefatigably preaches female behavioral decorums is a tempting reading strategy. It may easily interpret the mother’s disciplining as instances of male oppression. Nonetheless, the expedient reading ignores the male-excluding feminine specificity that charged the story. It also disregards the transgenerational female alliance that is rendered accessible by the gendered lived experience produced in the domestic context, and relayed from mother to daughter. Any prominent masculine role is barely present in the story, barring a metonymic "father’s khaki shirt" that the girl is commanded to iron, the nameless "wharf-rat boys" from whom the girl is distanced, and the "men" to whom the mother alerts the girl about bullying (320-321). By dissolving male figures into the background, “Girl” places a major feminine accent on the inherited experience of womanhood yet to be shared across generations. For example, she holds the daughter to nurturing maternity by teaching her how to “make good medicine for a cold.” Even so, immediately in the next line, she effectively backpedals that didactic gospel by instructing her how to make “good medicine” to “throw away a child” (321), an act that stands in diametrical opposition not only to traditional Christian values, but also to conservative womanly virtues imbuing the ethos behind “Girl.”

The multidimensional tensions between the lines unfold with such linguistic, narrative, and social-realistic density, it renders the short story a suffocating yet complex depiction of Caribbean womanhood. The narrator’s character deepens and expands in multiple directions in a nonlinear fashion: she represents the seasoned woman in a conservative, male-dominant society; she embodies the voice that she may have been attuned to throughout her girlhood; she manifests protective maternity for the sake of the household that she has been maintaining, but for the girl against male aggression, to which she imparts motherly love and attendance. “Girl” is a woman’s bildungsroman in contemporary Antigua. It is a tender tale of a cross-generational sisterhood.

Works Cited

De Caires Narain, Denise. "Naming Same-Sex Desire in Caribbean Women's Texts: Toward a Creolizing Hermeneutics." Contemporary Women's Writing, vol. 6, no. 3, 2012, pp. 194-212, MLA International Bibliography, doi:10.1093/cww/vps027.

Joseph, Betty. "Gendering Time in Globalization: The Belatedness of the Other Woman and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 21, no. 1, 2002, pp. 67-83, MLA International Bibliography, doi:10.2307/4149216.

Jayasree, K. "Linguistic-Literary Camouflage in Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"." IUP Journal of English Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 2018, pp. 81-87, Humanities International Complete.

Kincaid Jamaica, “Girl.” The Story and its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. 6th Ed. Ed. Charters, Ann. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003. 320-321. Print.

Rabea, Reem Ahmad and Nusaiba Adel Almahameed. "Genre Crossing in Jamaica Kincaid's 'Girl': From Short Fiction to Poetry." Advances in Language and Literary Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, 2018, pp. 157-165, ERIC, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=eric&AN=EJ1185919&lang=zh-tw&site=ehost-live&custid=s5650286.

#imma free the drive but need somewhere to dump mah English homework don't mind me

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sunnydaleherald · 4 years

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter - Sunday, August 30th

The Sunnydale Herald is currently looking for a few good editors! Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on! For more information, send us an ask (on Tumblr) or post a reply to this post!

Anya: Come on, Torg, that was like a lifetime ago. Torg: Three, but who's counting. You broke my heart, Anyanka. Anya: Don't be so dramatic, Torg. You don't even have a heart. Six spleens, two stomachs, half a brain maybe, but no heart. Torg: Don't mock this. The night we spent together was...important to me. Anya: It was one date. And it wasn't even a date. We just happened to be invited to the same massacre, and—and you hit on me after I had a few… Torg: I remember, you wore pink. Anya: Those were entrails. Giles: I'm sorry, perhaps we could skip the nostalgia— (Anya glares at him) Sorry, no, no, carry on. Anya: OK, Torg, look, you open this tiny little gateway to the Beljoxa's Eye for me, and I'll— You and I will go— I'll have sex with you again. Torg: Ugh, please, you're human. The way you look now, I wouldn't touch you for all the kittens in Korea. Anya: You're rejecting my offer of sexual bribery? What am I, a leper in this town? I can't even give it away! Torg: (grabs his garbage can and starts walking back inside) Come back when you are a leper.

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tuyetthienduong · 5 years

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E no dau roi

Soi yko nhu diem

Libe

Ele do tr ma

Ai nua xiu ba sg tr

Run nha lac cha bao voi con

Lo hct con kia vl ht all ttt cho hai

Xiu em ngoi nhu slu tma nhin ngic khang ko gox

Hiwu team em nguco

Lonhabdizz gai sieu do income

Lay em bang mas khox

Wjy dr no nki for me

Xiu ghe cm

Trum nguoc xiu ss

Btqas ehy not dong ling yticp me yo em

Ling hey

Tu hihi

Em hihi sao im vay s co tjoi co tg ngji xiu

Lo hien

Cawpy doi nguoi dep feu co li do ling khoc all

Em cho nhanh mum libe once and for all

S goc lay huhu tjieu nguoi snh

Minh la dua nao igs a nhin may gilbh

Gou shit doi

Em ko he

Tr em di

Tr anh o lau

Hai tr tri ve

Em tr

No do hihi

Anh 21 see

S hay ganh

Gai mo

Nen faul

Lay em khoc

Lacs. Khoc la tai vi em ko niet ghen a

Ah tr

Gais cant

Em tr

Tr lives yoi vuys

Nevr co vo befor

Im bna gms

Kp em tr

Gai moi tjeo dinh joc

Hoan ngo thay hrt tid

Toan beay

Nen fail

Linh tahy het voi ngo

Gais ko the hiem

Tu na dieu tren

Always win

Vay sao

Xawy emw

Huy g jieu toi 28t vai ct kjoc

Hc best roi vam thua best ngo kives

Dt di bui roi non moi thay

Lunh anh21 ko he dung

Em chu gi ngu

Hihi bgu = dung

Att

Congrats 28t

Biet gio uon

Tmd ganh

Sg all ne

No do do hai hoih li do 1 kbn ne

Lo hirn

Hypereamo con leve 1

W sao că gãi la em bét all ve kill ttum xiu tr ms

Best do ziu all

Ah hieu roi wm a ai tr

Ma do tr má libe lay em

Ah all stanoont

Cam thay haong hoi vi cac

Linh aty ms

Ê me etc all for hẻ

Cho huy di benh venh hai dua st moi len

Lay em kjoc

Lác. Cha con het hẹ

My level

Still ză

Kahng nưa in actini nartually

Anh 21 ghi lai ce. Voi chanl i

Con 99

Vaycsc dung ke em vay ta

Linh ko biet att

Ly librs ss ma van dung moi

Khoc moi

Dps sọt th la cúnam

Tjoiss len

Tm nghi li bc hien

Ko he. Linh khoc that

Em co gi do sai sai

Ntqt ko bi pha att

Di nhagap sc do

Linh 23 a ko biet co lM ko

Giet nha ah bsst

Bhjn tém no cua idol jiji

Scy tiem joa ko he

Bangma soc no main tji co

Ele do that di bui

Giay walk hom

Same level jusy shit motwhr like hoáng

Ces drive no whete

True story

No need right makeing

Tru genius taleny

Soc dẻ

Helpless

Unyil somebone leaves food sệt by poke mon vsiual ah lubes fi bui janh vo

Gái toan ugly t tr

Gais vang be king

Any t

Hai tu tém xiu sao biey

Ko co kinh xiu sicac do

Plawhrond tíu

Tr stiry

Xé ls skae

Xeess iy is

Igs sp

Mics bro big tởn do a

Moc im la jiei best

Rr no

Yes

Imevetabily phy

Ban than léc nevr fail

Anh 35 cmm fan

T3 hiwu ko

Moc ko

Ah soc

Béy

Bms libe

Em jihi ctw

Lay em lwgs hihi

Khoi hihi em libe bms hoeu foi

Em ngico hieu nha

Movs lo noi that hihi nl thua

Wwww drigs long a

Em huy ha

Mivs huhu bd roi

T3 tr du

Thom bihi

Moc jelp alwyas eorkd unlike me ọters

30t ngoi am wus

True short

Twam tjom cho co

Why try and fail

Em dont know

Doubke for mr

Lacs helo fsm gjen lo

T hien hj

Hiens fo bien

Linh lau

Helo us cww live you

Em main ò cu co gai

Moc gian nha

Anh too

Em xiu jiem team

Em dung day vo cchua voi ma fox

Qm team cant

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shortorderpoems · 7 years

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https://www.facebook.com/events/303237706814265/?ti=icl This Thursday! Join us as poet Jason Poudrier leads this month's Ralph Ellison Creative Writing Workshop with his interactive session "Emotional Transference: Making Your Reader Feel." Poudrier's a powerful poet in his own right, but his work with Military Experience & the Arts is worth noting as well for its engaged contribution to the cultural life and health of Oklahoma and beyond. The workshop will meet at 6:30 PM on July 20 at the Ralph Ellison Library. For more about Jason and this series, please see http://ralphellisonfoundation.org/cww/. Many thanks to Oklahoma City University's Red Earth MFA in Creative Writing at OCU and Short Order Poems for their partnership in presenting this program with us.

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wherespacepooh · 7 years

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Hope & Legacy, traces, etc. (空色羊 @sorairohituji)

The awesome @sorairohituji has kindly allowed me to translate her wonderfully detailed review of Hope & Legacy, Yuzuru's FS program this season, from her blog.

Pay attention to 1) the traces for each part of the program, 2) how it all fits with the music, 3) "...there is a spot where Yuzuru brings his hands forward and looks into it. In that scene, Yuzuru finds himself looking into the mirror." What is Shae-lynn talking about?

Original post is here in Japanese. Translated by gladiolusc .

After I was done, I realized I should have done the traces from 4CC instead of GPF, given the many fan cams from different angles available. I did GPF’s because I thought that the original layout was better, but the tracks going into 3A-lo-3S was almost the same as the ones going into the emergency 4T2T… *sweatdrop*

There may be many parts that are a little displaced, the curves might want to be expanded, or not, etc, but please pardon me. Since I am an amateur who has never skated before, please let me know if there are any mistakes in in the steps & turns.

I thought the theme was nature, but according to Shae-lynn’s interview at WFS EX, it was Hope & Legacy (quite a break). I got a little heartbroken thinking of the number of remaining competition left...

I wrote a post earlier on H&L’s StSq assuming the former (nature). It is yet different from Hanyu-kun's interview on Ice Jewel. Both are pretty abstract. Perhaps this program is open to various interpretations? I might just enjoy the program by itself without thinking too deeply about it...

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The program opens with View of Silence/ Joe Hisaishi

In Shae-lynn's interview, "After the circular sequence of footwork, there is a spot where Yuzuru brings his hands forward and looks into it. In that scene, Yuzuru finds himself looking into the mirror."

← (GIF / AutumClassic) After 4 Lo, Yuzuru traces a circle, but that’s probably not the spot that Shae-lynn was referring to?

The track of the 4S, unlike in last season, begins with a wide, circular curve that covers a good part of the rink (like the 4L’s) before straightening out into a more linear path. Including the second half, there are a lot of variations. Hopefully 4S-san will be stable!

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Flying Camel, ☆Camel Upright, ☆Camel Sideways, Change of foot (RBO→LBI), ☆Sit Sideways, ☆Upright Biellmann

After the change of foot, Asian Dream Song/ Joe Hisaishi comes on.

Note: In both Autumn Classic and 4CC, the Biellmann is replaced by the A-spin (Upright Forward).

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The uninterrupted flow from combination spin ~ step sequence ~ 3F is one of the highlights of the program. Switching songs mid-spin at the change of foot also enhances the feeling of continuity.

After drawing a semicircle to a decisive halt in the first half of the StSq, he skates diagonally across the rink in a relatively linear path, in keeping with the soaring melody as if he finds a new exit from which water would flow. A smooth progression of the left footwork cluster (in sky blue) there, and a hop that felt as if he were closing the distance (trans. to the exit?). The tempo here is slightly faster than indicated in the musical score. It returns to the original speed when he gets to the corner (after the second backward hop).

For more on StSq → Article on 2016 GPF FS StSq (Hope and Legacy)

Light blue: Cluster of steps and turns

Where does the StSq end? Perhaps at the second backward hop? Otherwise, the leftward (CWW) rotation wouldn’t be sufficient to satisfy the level feature of “rotations in either direction (left and right) with full body rotation covering at least 1/3 of the pattern in total for each rotational direction.” Even if he makes one CW rotation (LFI mohawk ~ RFO) after the last cluster of steps and turns on the left foot, the CWW rotation wouldn’t be full...

But whether or not it ends there, it transitions seamlessly into the 3F. SEIMEI, on the other hand, is divided along the StSq ~ 4T3T with a clear song change. After the SEIMEI StSq, he skated a full circular trajectory for a bit before going into the jump.

←（GIF / ４ＣＣ) "Yuzuru brings his hands forward and looks into it” (SLB) Candidate #1:

Where he comes to a stop after the first cluster of steps and turns. But I’m not sure if this constitutes “after the circular sequence.” The arm movements fit the description but his expression looks calm?

A couple spots have been changed since the brush-up.

←（GIF / Autumn Classic) From LBO, a frontward turn, spreading both arms, RFI Mohawk, RBO, LFO, (enters forward crossover).

← （GIF / NHK) From LBO, RFO, brings both arms to the front, LFO three turn, RBO, LFO, (enters forward crossover).

This is “Yuzuru brings his hands forward…” Candidate #2:

It comes after the circular footwork, but it’s only been changed to this choreography from NHK onwards.

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As the music swells note by note, a certain "floatiness” is emphasized in the 3F by playing to those bottom chords (trans. rather than the melody on top)… I’m not too sure what I’m trying to say.

Haru (@GOEplus5agetyau)’s wonderful take on that “floatiness", reposted here:

The 3F from when the toe pick hits the ice→the jump up→the landing is perfectly synced with the Auftakt (4th beat, toe pick hits) ascending to the first beat (pa!). This beautifully highlights a “sense of phrasing with a strong dip followed by the leap (in music)”, I think, and the “floatiness” might be related to that.

← （GIF / NHK) From LBO, RFO, brings both arms to the front, LFO three turn, RBO, LFO, (enters forward crossover).

Photo: NHK Trophy (MAINICHI PHOTOGRAPHY). I love this photo, and how his hand covering the other eye actually punctuates the sharpness of his glare.

After the 3F, he changes course from CCW to CW (probably weight shift) and shimmies his shoulders (see first photo along the green line in the trace diagram below).

← （Choreography with Shae-lynn)

Choreographic details around this momentary pause after the 3F, but before he enters the setup for the 4S:

“It’s like a light that you see going over… what do you call it… a shooting star? When it falls out of the sky. So if you see… *models*"

← （GIF / Choreography with Shae-lynn) The emotions!

← (GIF / Autumn Classic) Backward crossover, LBO-RFI Choctaw, LF, skating on two-foot, full turn with legs spread apart ending with a stop, three-turn into LFO, RBO, Cross Behind. Probably because he was short on time, the movements felt more brief/ “lighter" compared to the above.

← (GIF / GPF): From a CW backward crossover, he shifts his weight and makes a CCW curve, three-turn with LFO exit, stop, cross behind, three-turn ending in LFO, RBO three-turn.

It’s a pity that the two-foot spin is gone, but now the movements look sharper and more filled out. The weight shift as he gracefully raises his arms and arches his back, coupled with an intensity where he shimmies his shoulders while changing the curve. So, yes, this version is good.

６．４Ｓ+ＲＥＰ (fall)

The melody here is Mi-so-la—Do-ti-ti-la-so-so-la-la—. And the way Yuzuru jumps at “Do", the highest note of the phrase, in the 4S feels good. To contrast, the 4S was initiated at “La” at both Autumn Classic and Skate Canada. It felt like he was going to strike the toe pick for the second jump at “Do.”

I am guessing they tweaked the timing so that it’s easier to jump. And even at 4CC, with the changed course, the timing was the same. It’s okay either way, but after the change, because he does a three turn (RBO) at “Mi-so”, it's easier for me to calculate the timing ← That doesn’t matter (^ o ^;)

７．４Ｔ

After landing the jump, the music changes back to View of Silence around the cross behind or the LFO step… probably the cross behind. A 4T in the midst of that quiet stillness in between songs.

"Yuzuru brings his hands forward and looks into it” Candidate #3:

← (GIF / SC) Skating on both feet (CCW), bringing both hands to his chest, pushing lightly with his left foot into CW, cross behind, RFI mohawk, either cross front or back cross.

← (GIF / NHK) Skating on both feet (CCW), bringing both hands to his chest, LFI mohawk, cross front while changing edge to RBO, three-turn to RFO, LBO.

Notice the way Yuzuru goes with the revolving flow from the half rotation (CCW) and 1.5 rotation (CW) by maintaining a tilt in his neck, accentuated by nods of his head. I think it fits Shae-lynn’s description especially well after the change, but this happens after all the quads. So which part is Shae-lynn talking about?

８．３Ａ+３Ｔ

９．３Ａ+１Ｌｏ＜＜+２Ｓ

Combination jump or otherwise, is the spread eagle Yuzuru’s standard for landing now?

１０．ＦＣＳＳｐ３

☆ Flying Sit, ☆ SF (Cannon Ball), Foot Change ☆ SB (Pancake) × (☆ 8 Rotation)

１１. ＣｈＳｑ１

I wonder if he had placed the hydroblade and the layback Ina Bauer on the left side of the rink because the StSq leaned more right? Near the end of the hydroblade, he stretches his right arm out towards the sky as if trying to grasp something, mirroring the Hanyu-kun who continues to challenge himself… Such poetry!

１２．１Ｌｚ

He changed the course going into the Lutz after NHK. The jump was a little closer to the judges at Autumn Classic and Skate Canada. The program is well balanced with one more jump remaining after the ChSq. Just that it’s bad for the heart because it’s a lutz. (Trans. LOL. Poor maligned 3Lz XD)

Although I wouldn’t completely rely on my traces, when I compare it with SEIMEI's (slightly modified on 11.17), I do find the jump layout more biased (towards the corners): The 3Lo in the center is gone, and the previous arrangement of the Lutz was somewhat more balanced.

And perhaps the 4Lo and 4S are closer to the long side of the rink. I haven’t looked closely at competitions outside of GPF, but 4S, 4T, and 3A-Lo-2S look settled.

Although the jump placements may have been a bit biased in terms of spacing, but the balance in terms of order of elements is improved from shifting his last jump to after the ChSq!

I love this program.

Additional traces from 4CC recovery, etc

Green - Brown ... ＧＰＦ Neon green - Orange ... ４ＣＣ

The course going into 4S was changed. Additionally, because he fell at GPF, the course post-jump was shortened.

Orange - Pink ... ＧＰＦ Brown ... ４ＣＣ

The tracks are basically the same. (Trans. Although, going into 4T, the track is somewhat straighter than 3A’s would have been, and footwork has been simplified?)

Sky blue ... ＧＰＦ Brown ... ４ＣＣ

← (GIF / 4CC) The recovery 3A is a good fit, and I think it adds to the tension here.

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