I don't have an IRL lyra/cosplay partner so I decided I'm just going to draw the moves until I find one. But this was actually really fun to draw and I experimented with lightning a lot (still not perfect but it is what it is).
Here’s a video of me falling, just for shits and giggles. My claw clip did not survive :( but I did appreciate my best friends full body reaction. Feeling better now too, from a few days ago.
I am absolutely furious that exercise treats my depression better than almost everything else I have ever tried. Like, exercise won't cure my depression, but it will knock a 10/10 depressive episode into a much more manageable 5/10.
I hate exercise. I hate it even more when I'm depressed and have so little energy that sometimes I just grab a handful of chocolate chips out of the bag and call that dinner.
I just finished my first aerial acrobatics class in almost 4 months, and I went from full-on dissociation/depersonalization/derealization "I'm not real and the world isn't real and nothing matters and I can't feel anything" to being a person with a body who exists on Earth again. In one hour.
And the worst thing? The worst thing? For it to really work, it has to be sustained, sweaty, exerting-myself-so-much-my-limbs-are-shaking exercise. FUCK.
I've been playing around with a slightly different style of drawing and having a blast, so I had some charms made. These are approximately 2.5in, double sided clear acrylic with a resin seal on the back so the designs won't get scratched off! They come with a little gold star shaped keyring to hang them from whatever you'd like.
Half an hour of O footage!! Catch it before Cirque snatches it down! Here you can see a few of the critiques I've mentioned lately, namely the shortened cadre act (and what I think is a pretty choppy new arrangement of Ephra, and when did Philemon stop being part of this act?) and missed opportunities for innovation (those blank white sheet backdrops, Cirque, I'm begging you...). We also see a technical difficulty with the big lift towards the end of cerceaux! I wonder if this is the same performance or if they've just been struggling with it recently. Interesting to see them work through it on the fly.
On the other hand we get to hear stunning work as ever from Marjana Sobol (Debbie! Svecounia!!!!), the haunting transition to contortion, and Le Vieux stumping around the stage, which is always a treat. And ahhhh that finale <333 Some interesting new choreography for cerceaux too... maybe they're training a new teammate? The intro was promising but overall it looked weaker than usual.