To Dance Is To Live

Sometimes lessons come easy. Sometimes you have to run head-first into a wall.

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A friend of mine is going to Comic-con in PHX this weekend with this bad-ass Garrus costume.  So freakin’ talented! She told me to tell Tumblr that if anyone wanted to see more pics and info on this, they should check in at Red Nebula Studios (http://www.rednebulastudios.com/)  where she’ll post more after the Con…

HOLY FUCKING CALIBRATIONS.

whoa. WHoa. WHOa. WHOA. WHOA!!!

My brain just fucking exploded. This is perfect!

I SAW THIS ON DA, AND I’M STILL SWOONING. SO.GOOD.

O_O I thought it was a poster or something at first.

Cosplay is wonderful.

Vana?  Vana.  If you could get me snapshots of this wonderful cosplay, I would love you forever.  Seriously.  There would be cookies and soup and I would pretty much just be your kitchen slave and other things.  We can work out the details later.  

There’s this disjointed feeling I’ve been dealing with for about a week now.  Never had a sore throat caused by allergies, and then I have a sore throat that refuses to go away.  Doctor’s office says that it’s not caused by strep.  No fever, despite the hot and cold flashes that I’ve been experiencing.  They just say ‘go push fluids’.

A number of other things happen both before and after the sore throat that leave me questioning the world around me.  And now…  

Now, I’m not better physically, but I -am- better mentally and spiritually.  My energy is flowing in ways it hasn’t flowed in years.  My fur is vibrant, almost glowing.  But my body…  My throat isn’t sore, but I’m coughing up crud from my lungs, I’m on antibiotics I’m not sure I need but will finish anyway, and I can barely carry three grocery bags.

But I WANT to do things.  I want to go running.  I want to lift weights.  I want to go dancing in the hard rain and kick up my feet and just BE.  I want to travel.  I want to explore.  I want to laugh and cry and exult.  

There are things that I feel I should be worried about, things that would have brought me to my knees a week ago, but now?  Now it’s a feeling of ‘what will be will be.  You’ll be able to change the things that you can change and adapt to that which you cannot change.’  

Normally this would be a private affair, something that I kept hidden in Google Drive and never showed anyone, but the idea of that feels so very WRONG right now.  I’ve been hiding for a while now.  The rust flakes on my fur were proof enough of that.  

Yet this isn’t something I want to go painting across facebook, either.  There are people there that would not understand, my parents included, and it would bring up questions that I’m not sure I can adequately answer right now.  I don’t know that I can explain it well enough right now.  

It’s amusing.  I find my voice when I can’t communicate well.  I learn the dance steps again when my partner is unsure that he wants to continue forward.  These things would have broken me not too long ago, but now…  Now there is a different sense, a different tilt to it.  

Those that know me well on tumblr will probably understand, at least in some way.  I’m just still sorting through the threads and coming to terms with me.

“I think a lot about what makes a strong female character. You know, movies and TV shows, these things have influence, my own website. So I think the question of “What makes a strong female character?”, often goes misinterpreted. And instead we get these two-dimensional superwomen, who maybe have one quality that’s played up a lot. Like, you know, a Catwoman type, or she plays her sexuality up a lot and it’s seen as power. But they’re not strong characters who happen to be female, they’re completely flat and they’re basically cardboard characters.
The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple. When in actuality, women are complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy. And women happen to be people!”

-Tavi Gevinson for TEDTalks [x]

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So You Think You Can Dance ft. your ridiculous male squadmates 

Vega - I can and will rock it.  Yeeah!

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yeahwriters: amandaonwriting: 100 Beautiful and Ugly Words by Mark Nichol One of the many fascinating features of our language is how often words with pleasant associations are also quite pleasing on the tongue and even to the eye, and how many words, by contrast, acoustically and visually corroborate their disagreeable nature — look no further than the heading for this post.Enrich the poetry of your prose by applying words that provide precise connotation while also evoking emotional responses Beautiful Words Amorphous: indefinite, shapeless Beguile: deceive Caprice: impulse Cascade: steep waterfall Cashmere: fine, delicate wool Chrysalis: protective covering Cinnamon: an aromatic spice; its soft brown color Coalesce: unite, or fuse Crepuscular: dim, or twilit Crystalline: clear, or sparkling Desultory: half-hearted, meandering Diaphanous: gauzy Dulcet: sweet Ebullient: enthusiastic Effervescent: bubbly Elision: omission Enchanted: charmed Encompass: surround Enrapture: delighted Ephemeral: fleeting Epiphany: revelation Epitome: embodiment of the ideal Ethereal: celestial, unworldly, immaterial Etiquette: proper conduct Evanescent: fleeting Evocative: suggestive Exuberant: abundant, unrestrained, outsize Felicity: happiness, pleasantness Filament: thread, strand Halcyon: care-free Idyllic: contentedly pleasing Incorporeal: without form Incandescent: glowing, radiant, brilliant, zealous Ineffable: indescribable, unspeakable Inexorable: relentless Insouciance: nonchalance Iridescent: luster Languid: slow, listless Lassitude: fatigue Lilt: cheerful or buoyant song or movement Lithe: flexible, graceful Lullaby: soothing song Luminescence: dim chemical or organic light Mellifluous: smooth, sweet Mist: cloudy moisture, or similar literal or virtual obstacle Murmur: soothing sound Myriad: great number Nebulous: indistinct Opulent: ostentatious Penumbra: shade, shroud, fringe Plethora: abundance Quiescent: peaceful Quintessential: most purely representative or typical Radiant: glowing Redolent: aromatic, evocative Resonant: echoing, evocative Resplendent: shining Rhapsodic: intensely emotional Sapphire: rich, deep bluish purple Scintilla: trace Serendipitous: chance Serene: peaceful Somnolent: drowsy, sleep inducing Sonorous: loud, impressive, imposing Spherical: ball-like, globular Sublime: exalted, transcendent Succulent: juicy, tasty, rich Suffuse: flushed, full Susurration: whispering Symphony: harmonious assemblage Talisman: charm, magical device Tessellated: checkered in pattern Tranquility: peacefulness Vestige: trace Zenith: highest point Ugly Words Cacophony: confused noise Cataclysm: flood, catastrophe, upheaval Chafe: irritate, abrade Coarse: common, crude, rough, harsh Cynical: distrustful, self-interested Decrepit: worn-out, run-down Disgust: aversion, distaste Grimace: expression of disgust or pain Grotesque: distorted, bizarre Harangue: rant Hirsute: hairy Hoarse: harsh, grating Leech: parasite, Maladroit: clumsy Mediocre: ordinary, of low quality Obstreperous: noisy, unruly Rancid: offensive, smelly Repugnant: distasteful Repulsive: disgusting Shriek: sharp, screeching sound Shrill: high-pitched sound Shun: avoid, ostracize Slaughter: butcher, carnage Unctuous: smug, ingratiating Visceral: crude, anatomically graphic Notice how often attractive words present themselves to define other beautiful ones, and note also how many of them are interrelated, and what kind of sensations, impressions, and emotions they have in common. Also, try enunciating beautiful words as if they were ugly, or vice versa. Are their sounds suggestive of their quality, or does their meaning wholly determine their effect on us? From Writers Write Learn some words yall.

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100 Beautiful and Ugly Words

by Mark Nichol

One of the many fascinating features of our language is how often words with pleasant associations are also quite pleasing on the tongue and even to the eye, and how many words, by contrast, acoustically and visually corroborate their disagreeable nature — look no further than the heading for this post.
Enrich the poetry of your prose by applying words that provide precise connotation while also evoking emotional responses

Beautiful Words

  • Amorphous: indefinite, shapeless
  • Beguile: deceive
  • Caprice: impulse
  • Cascade: steep waterfall
  • Cashmere: fine, delicate wool
  • Chrysalis: protective covering
  • Cinnamon: an aromatic spice; its soft brown color
  • Coalesce: unite, or fuse
  • Crepuscular: dim, or twilit
  • Crystalline: clear, or sparkling
  • Desultory: half-hearted, meandering
  • Diaphanous: gauzy
  • Dulcet: sweet
  • Ebullient: enthusiastic
  • Effervescent: bubbly
  • Elision: omission
  • Enchanted: charmed
  • Encompass: surround
  • Enrapture: delighted
  • Ephemeral: fleeting
  • Epiphany: revelation
  • Epitome: embodiment of the ideal
  • Ethereal: celestial, unworldly, immaterial
  • Etiquette: proper conduct
  • Evanescent: fleeting
  • Evocative: suggestive
  • Exuberant: abundant, unrestrained, outsize
  • Felicity: happiness, pleasantness
  • Filament: thread, strand
  • Halcyon: care-free
  • Idyllic: contentedly pleasing
  • Incorporeal: without form
  • Incandescent: glowing, radiant, brilliant, zealous
  • Ineffable: indescribable, unspeakable
  • Inexorable: relentless
  • Insouciance: nonchalance
  • Iridescent: luster
  • Languid: slow, listless
  • Lassitude: fatigue
  • Lilt: cheerful or buoyant song or movement
  • Lithe: flexible, graceful
  • Lullaby: soothing song
  • Luminescence: dim chemical or organic light
  • Mellifluous: smooth, sweet
  • Mist: cloudy moisture, or similar literal or virtual obstacle
  • Murmur: soothing sound
  • Myriad: great number
  • Nebulous: indistinct
  • Opulent: ostentatious
  • Penumbra: shade, shroud, fringe
  • Plethora: abundance
  • Quiescent: peaceful
  • Quintessential: most purely representative or typical
  • Radiant: glowing
  • Redolent: aromatic, evocative
  • Resonant: echoing, evocative
  • Resplendent: shining
  • Rhapsodic: intensely emotional
  • Sapphire: rich, deep bluish purple
  • Scintilla: trace
  • Serendipitous: chance
  • Serene: peaceful
  • Somnolent: drowsy, sleep inducing
  • Sonorous: loud, impressive, imposing
  • Spherical: ball-like, globular
  • Sublime: exalted, transcendent
  • Succulent: juicy, tasty, rich
  • Suffuse: flushed, full
  • Susurration: whispering
  • Symphony: harmonious assemblage
  • Talisman: charm, magical device
  • Tessellated: checkered in pattern
  • Tranquility: peacefulness
  • Vestige: trace
  • Zenith: highest point

Ugly Words

  • Cacophony: confused noise
  • Cataclysm: flood, catastrophe, upheaval
  • Chafe: irritate, abrade
  • Coarse: common, crude, rough, harsh
  • Cynical: distrustful, self-interested
  • Decrepit: worn-out, run-down
  • Disgust: aversion, distaste
  • Grimace: expression of disgust or pain
  • Grotesque: distorted, bizarre
  • Harangue: rant
  • Hirsute: hairy
  • Hoarse: harsh, grating
  • Leech: parasite,
  • Maladroit: clumsy
  • Mediocre: ordinary, of low quality
  • Obstreperous: noisy, unruly
  • Rancid: offensive, smelly
  • Repugnant: distasteful
  • Repulsive: disgusting
  • Shriek: sharp, screeching sound
  • Shrill: high-pitched sound
  • Shun: avoid, ostracize
  • Slaughter: butcher, carnage
  • Unctuous: smug, ingratiating
  • Visceral: crude, anatomically graphic

Notice how often attractive words present themselves to define other beautiful ones, and note also how many of them are interrelated, and what kind of sensations, impressions, and emotions they have in common. Also, try enunciating beautiful words as if they were ugly, or vice versa. Are their sounds suggestive of their quality, or does their meaning wholly determine their effect on us?

From Writers Write

Learn some words yall.

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xxxritsuxxx: crownedcorvid: brambleberrycottage: ididthatonce: starkidonbakerstreet: caramelfeathers: vablatsky: Every fandom ever This gets better the longer you watch Barney is the fan who insists on complete silence and purity in the fandom.  Feels should not get in the way. Ted is the fan who is too emotionally invested in his ship and screams whenever they are on-screen. Lily is the fan who cries about everything that happens— even when it’s not the least bit emotional. And Marshall is the hate-watcher who is horrified with the whole fandom but can’t stop watching. Game of Thrones night at my house. Accurate. We just need someone clutching a pillow. Considering how I was with Sherlock, that makes me Barney.  ”Shhh, I’m trying to watch!”

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Every fandom ever

This gets better the longer you watch

Barney is the fan who insists on complete silence and purity in the fandom.  Feels should not get in the way.

Ted is the fan who is too emotionally invested in his ship and screams whenever they are on-screen.

Lily is the fan who cries about everything that happens— even when it’s not the least bit emotional.

And Marshall is the hate-watcher who is horrified with the whole fandom but can’t stop watching.

Game of Thrones night at my house.

Accurate.

We just need someone clutching a pillow.

Considering how I was with Sherlock, that makes me Barney.  ”Shhh, I’m trying to watch!”

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Just don’t go toooo overboard with the descriptors.  

Just don’t go toooo overboard with the descriptors.