#( thread: kali nguyen. )

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for @daemxnium​ / saint where: marzan mansion

      “This is the shittiest thing I’ve ever been to.” Kali’s voice sounded bored as she made a point to walk a big circle around a candle burning on a nearby table before leaning against the wall next to Saint, stealing his drink from his hand to take a sip before making a face. “And what the fuck are you drinking? Either you have bad taste in alcohol or they mix bad drinks.” She thrust the glass back into his hand, then folded her arms over her chest as she let her gaze wander through the room. “This is a pack of bad pretenders if I’ve ever seen one. Don’t you think so too?”

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kali & kerem​:

“Sounds like you live a very neutral life,” Kerem pointed out, “You know one of those people who always is feeling fine. It’s a little depressing to hear, between you and me.” He reached up to card back some of his hair, long since given up on the curls in the onslaught of weather. The shoes he wore also were bound to squeak later from the water that they were taking on, an annoyance that he would have to deal with later. “So what do you think a saviour looks like? I’ll humble myself down to a Good Samaritan if that fits the bill better, I think.” Her tone was clipped and it made him laugh— a genuine sound that tumbled out into the dark and the gloom. “I don’t know about some sort of magic weather spell, but I’d probably do a lot right now for an umbrella. Want my jacket? It’s soaked, but it feels gentlemanly to offer.”

      “I wouldn’t call it neutral.” Kali thought she was capable of many emotions, and she was rarely ever neutral -- but she wasn’t exactly laughing or crying most of the time either. But that was too complicated to explain to someone she barely knew -- it wasn’t even a conversation she’d have with a friend, if she had any. “I don’t know. I figured they have wings or a halo hanging over their head,” she said, her voice sarcastic. Even if magic was real, Kali did not believe in something like that. But it was a poor attempt at messing with him the same way he kept annoying her. She kept on a perfect poker face at his talk about a weather spell. Kali knew some, but she didn’t know whether she’d be able to perform them right now, and she also doubted they’d work in whatever this mess was. Instead, she offered him a smile. “I think your wet jacket wouldn’t do much more but make me sick, but thanks for the offer. It’s appreciated and will be added onto your resumé for when you next apply to be somebody’s good samaritan.”

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JUMP Dance Convention, Dallas, TX: RESULTS

High Scores by Age:

JUMPstart Solo

1st: Mikaela Florez-’Stop Go’

2nd: Mackenzie Glover-’Suddenly’

3rd: Audrina Mossembekker-’Fields of Gold’

4th: Arianna Claxton-’Ride’

5th: Avery Redus-’Lost Boy’

6th: Zephira Duran-’Little Weaver Bird’

7th: Nora Davis-’Broadway Banana’

8th: Symone Armijo-’Rotten To the Core’

Mini Solo

1st: Braylynn Grizzaffi-’Path5′

2nd: Sophia Gil-’Film Credits’

2nd: Anna Holley-’Reminisce’

3rd: Landry Silas-’Cheek to Cheek’

3rd: Allie Plott-’The Path’

4th: Lexus Natalie-’Alternate World’

4th: Winter Eberts-’Dreamlike’

5th: Harper Ducale-’Change Is Everything’

5th: Ashley Otano-’Dark Matter’

5th: Kinsley Oykhman-’Life Could Be A Dream’

5th: Carolina Sterkel-’Thoroughfare’

5th: Kalista Greer-’Yesterday’

6th: Zoey Claxton-’Moonlight Sonata’

6th: Noah Johnson-’Scanner’

6th: Channing Embry-’Whatever Lola Wants’

7th: Denise Torres-’Drag Shift’

7th: Presley Nava-’Pure Imagination’

8th: Cora Woodhouse-’Pulling On A Thread’

9th: Avery LeSaicherre-’Hide and Seek’

9th: Patience Hughes-’Weird People’

10th: Dennis Paul Haggerty-’Beautiful Dream’

Junior Solo

1st: Laci Stoico-’Mibiso’

2nd: Graham Johnson-’New Shoes’

3rd: Lilly Allen-’Femme Fatale’

3rd: Ciana Ciulla-’Nana’

4th: Zoe McDonald-’U Can’t Touch This’

5th: Kortlynn Rosenbaugh-’Concentration’

5th: Colby Rich-’I Lie’

5th: Jazlyn Quintero-’The Deep End’

5th: Lincoln Blakely-’What I Came To Do’

6th: Kanon Greer-’To The Sky’

7th: Caroline McGowan-’Everything Evaporates’

7th: Makaia Roux-’Everything I Wanted’

7th: Kenlie Winsett-’Patterns of The Tides’

7th: Carolyne Knutson-’Peace’

7th: Campbell Thurow-’You Can’t Touch This’

8th: Jade Bontron-’A Night In Paris’

8th: Jocelyn Nguyen-’I’m Not Myself’

8th: Ava Mogote-’Somewhere Over The Rainbow’

8th: London Campayno-’Valis’

9th: McKenna Markham-’Shrine Tooth’

9th: Nyah Jackson-’Slow Meadows’

9th: Stella Eberts-’Valley’

10th: Addison Haggerty-’Ghost In The Wind’

10th: Scarlett Petty-’Stars’

10th: Kylie Carter-’The LOOK’

Teen Solo

1st: Garris Munoz-’Enlightenment’

1st: Avery Lau-’Fear of the Unknown and The Blazing Sun’

1st: Hudson Pletcher-’Forged Imitation’

2nd: Sarah Kate Kurzius-’Charmed’

2nd: Ava Miller-’Tarnished’

3rd: Carmen Beiner-’Dyonisis’

3rd: Braylon Browner-’Run From Me’

3rd: Sabine Nehls-’Shout’

4th: Beth Anne McGowan-’Heart Is As Black At Night’

4th: Ella Williams-’The Garden’

5th: Macie Krause-’Menace’

5th: Dasha Vishnyakova-’Partita’

5th: Caroline Belknap-’Sonata De Le Muerte’

5th: Kali Knewitz-’Wake Up Your Eardrums’

6th: Kathryn Martinez-’Another Brick In The Wall’

6th: Gianna Garwacki-’Epiphany’

6th: Sophie Bishop-’La Mamma Morta’

6th: Isabel Reese-’Spectral Density’

7th: Ella Hendricks-’Ella and Ella’

7th: Faith Stoner-’Solids’

8th: Brielle McCoy-’My Brightest Diamond’

8th: Trinity Kelly-’Sorrow’

9th: Sofia Ramirez-’Long Train Running’

9th: Peyton Koepke-’On The Horizon’

9th: Natalya Toirac-’See how they run’

9th: Jillian Sims-’Shadow Journal’

10th: Dru Neal-’Bringing Back A Past’

10th: Caitlyn Herrin-’Hour After Hour’

10th: Macy Orvis-’Look At Me’

10th: Mia Miller-’Only The Voices’

Senior Solo

1st: Jackson Roloff-Hafenbreadl-’FOUR’

2nd: Ruby Castro-’For You’

2nd: Paige Mcmanaman-’Vienna’

3rd: Jordan Apodaca-’Standing Over The Horizon’

4th: Chloe Lopina-’In Love In Vein’

4th: Lainey Myers-’You Are The Reason’

5th: Raegan Davidson-’After That’

5th: Raegan Stafford-’With All My Love’

6th: Peyton Winsett-’Distortion’

6th: Emily Fluker-’I Will Follow’

6th: Clara Gough-’Snow Queen’

6th: Haley Beck-’Upside’

7th: Karsyn Kelly-’Don’t Make Me Over’

7th: Gracie Lee-’Love of My Life’

7th: Cahntal Le-’Tear Jerker’

7th: Jonah Tran-’Unburdened and Becoming’

8th: Elise Knecht-’Corps’

8th: Emma Sucato-’Memories’

8th: Haley Bogdon-’The Mourning’

8th: Kylie Sicillan-’Time & I’

9th: Emmalyn Mackaron-’San TOI’

10th: Ella Berner-’Grief Point’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st: HYPE Dance Studio-’American Boy’

2nd: HYPE Dance Studio-’G.I.R.L’

3rd: Centre for Dance-’Faith’

Junior Duo/Trio

1st: Artistry In Motion Performing Arts Center-’Cringe’

2nd: Dance Company of Wylie-’Machine’

Teen Duo/Trio

1st: Next Step Dance-’Georgia’

2nd: The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’Listen’

3rd: South Tulsa Dance Co-’Strangers In The Night’

Senior Duo/Trio

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Tea For Two’

2nd: Texas Academy of Dance-’Do The Sacred Mass’

JUMPstart Group

1st: Next Step Dance-’Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy’

2nd: Next Step Dance-’Boy From New York City’

3rd: Next Step Dance-’Milly Rock’

Mini Group

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’We Love to Bebop’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Strings’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Ain’t Your Mama’

Junior Group

1st: Kim Massay Dance Productions-’Dance With You’

1st: The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’Send In The Clowns’

2nd: Kim Massay Dance Productions-’Image Deconstructed’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Letters To’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Threads That Bind’

Teen Group

1st: Next Step Dance-’Maria Bonita’

2nd: Next Step Dance-’A Women Left Lonely’

2nd: Kim Massay Dance Productions-’Herd of Defense’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Wish We Could Turn Back Time’

Senior Group

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Embraceable You’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’A Human, A Light’

3rd: Kim Massay Dance Productions-’Can You Hear That?’

Mini Line

1st: Next Step Dance-’The Chain’

2nd: Next Step Dance-’Spring’

2nd: Next Step Dance-’Sweet Dreams’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’We’ve Got a Ways to Go’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’The Ladies of the Wild West’

Junior Line

1st: Next Step Dance-’Mi Mujer’

2nd: Next Step Dance-’Opening’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-‘Salute’

3rd: Next Step Dance-’Vogue’

3rd: The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’We Are The Ones’

Teen Line

1st: Next Step Dance-’Tarantella’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Dead Hearts’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Where Is My Body’

Senior Line

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Devour’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Invocation of Lust’

JUMPstart Extended Line

1st: Next Step Dance-’Ridin Dirty’

2nd: Next Step Dance-’Hey Diddle Diddle’

3rd: Next Step Dance-’Rock Star’

Mini Extended Line

1st: Next Step Dance-’Runaway Baby’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Footloose’

Junior Extended Line

1st: Next Step Dance-’Bridge Over Troubled Water’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Flatline’

3rd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Don’t Stop’

Teen Extended Line

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’American Pie’

1st: Next Step Dance-’Snowing’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Overture In A’

3rd: Next Step Dance-’Technologic’

3rd: Kim Massay Dance Productions-’You Know Me’

Senior Extended Line

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Hotel California’

2nd: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Sexy Crazy’

Mini Production

1st: Next Step Dance-’42nd Street’

2nd: Next Step Dance-’Game On’

Junior Production

1st: Next Step Dance-’Let It Cook’

2nd: Next Step Dance-’Everlasting Love’

3rd: The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’Wanna Rock’

Teen Production

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Goodnight’

2nd: Next Step Dance-’All That Jazz’

3rd: The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’RELAX’

Senior Production

1st: Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’CRUNK’

High Scores by Performance Division:

JUMPstart Tap

Next Step Dance-’Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy’

JUMPstart Hip-Hop

Next Step Dance-’Milly Rock’

JUMPstart Jazz

Next Step Dance-’Boy From New York City’

JUMPstart Lyrical

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Gypsy’

Mini Jazz

Next Step Dance-’Knock On Wood’

Mini Tap

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’We Love to Bebop’

Mini Contemporary

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Strings’

Mini Ballroom

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Ain’t Your Mama’

Mini Ballet

Next Step Dance-’Spring’

Mini Lyrical

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’We’ve Got a Ways to Go’

Next Step Dance-’Sweet Dreams’

Mini Hip-Hop

Next Step Dance-’Game On’

Junior Jazz

Kim Massay Dance Productions-’Dance With You’

Junior Lyrical

The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’Send In The Clowns’

Junior Ballet

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-‘Salute’

Next Step Dance-’Opening’

Junior Contemporary

Next Step Dance-’Mi Mujer’

Junior Tap

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Letters To’

Junior Specialty

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Marquises’

Junior Hip-Hop

Next Step Dance-’Let It Cook’

Junior Ballroom

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Don’t Stop’

Teen Contemporary

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Goodnight’

Teen Specialty

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Dead Hearts’

Teen Jazz

Next Step Dance-’Technologic’

Kim Massay Dance Productions-’You Know Me’

Teen Lyrical

Next Step Dance-’Snowing’

Teen Tap

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’American Pie’

Teen Hip-Hop

Next Step Dance-’#FreeBritney’

Kim Massay Dance Productions-’Roses’

Teen Ballet

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Overture In A’

Teen Ballroom

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Distortion’

Teen Musical Theatre

Next Step Dance-’All That Jazz’

Senior Contemporary

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Hotel California’

Senior Specialty

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Evermore’

Senior Tap

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Embraceable You’

Senior Lyrical

High Attitude Dance Academy-’Because You Loved Me’

Senior Ballet

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Completely Gone’

Senior Jazz

Eminence Dance Complex-’Cold Hearted Snake’

Senior Ballroom

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Sexy Crazy’

Senior Hip-Hop

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’CRUNK’

Best of JUMP:

JUMPstart

Next Step Dance-’Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy’

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Gypsy’

Mini

The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’Where The Light Gets In’

Next Step Dance-’42nd Street’

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’We Love to Bebop’

Junior

Next Step Dance-’Mi Mujer’

Kim Massay Dance Productions-’Dance With You’

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Threads That Bind’

The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’Send In The Clowns’

Teen

Kim Massay Dance Productions-’You Know Me’

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’American Pie’

The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’A Destination’

Next Step Dance-’Snowing’

Senior

Kim Massay Dance Productions-’Can You Hear That?’

Next Step Dance-’Half the Man’

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Hotel California’

Best In Studio:

Next Step Dance-’Snowing’

Kim Massay Dance Productions-’Can You Hear That?’

The Pointe Performing Arts Center-’A Destination’

Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Centre-’Hotel California’

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who: surprise me / @dreaminghlyy​

     It was easy to say that Kali hadn’t been having the best time. Of course she wasn’t talking to anyone about it, as talking about it would be equal to admitting weakness, and she had not been raised to do that. But when she found herself in the middle of the party with no recollection whatsoever of how she got there, her skin felt cold, and her mouth dry. How had this happened again? She was surrounded by people in costumes, while she looked like she hadn’t slept in days and was wearing nothing but a flimsy black satin dress she usually wore to sleep and boots. “Fuck,” she cursed under her breath, turning around to flee, but promptly colliding with someone else. “Sorry -- sorry, I didn’t see you there.”

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for saint / @daemxnium​​

     “Do you know what the fuck happened?” Kali stormed into the mortuary like a fire hazard — except she was lacking any fire. And that was the whole reason why she was here. Kali was used to her magic being like a beast that tried to slip out from her control, but since the night at the masquerade, she had been incapable of performing any magic at all. She had tried for a long time, then attempted to look up the problem. And when everything failed, she went straight to Saint. The bitter truth was, she didn’t have many friends, and he was one of the only people she could go to. “Is this because of that asshole at the masquerade? Did he take your magic away too? I can’t do shit!”

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where: lighthouse who: alison / @dreaminghlyy​

      Kali’s clothes were drenched, and so was her cat. The black furball clearly wasn’t enjoying all of this, but then again, neither was Kali. She would have preferred to stay at home and sit the storm out, but after she’d watched her neighbors place get ruined, she didn’t want to sit around and wait to die in there. The lighthouse had seemed like one of the safer options, though she didn’t think it was made to be a hiding spot in a catastrophe. Pushing past people, she had her hands curled into fists to keep them from accidentally lighting up any fires. When she finally rounded a corner and thought she’d found a place to maybe cool down in for a minute, she noticed that it was already preoccupied a little too late. “Shit,” she mumbled under her breath. “How many people are in this thing? There’s people everywhere.”

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where: still out on the streets who: dealer’s choice / @heartofasoldier​

      Storms made Kali feel uneasy. They reminded her of her childhood, of the way the tiny beach cabin she grew up in would creak and bend underneath the wind. And of the night she had ended her suffering. But Kali was not someone who liked to show others when she felt anything but strong, and so she’d figured she could just stay home. But then a tree had crashed into the window of her neighbors, and -- well, she would have been stupid to stay. So instead she’d wrapped her cat up in her backpack and started trudging through the streets. She had the backpack wrapped up in her arms to shield Moon from the majority of the rain and wind, when she stumbled over a piece of debris on the ground she hadn’t seen, and lost her footing. The backpack fell into a small flood that had build on the street, and started moving away from her quicker than she could realize. “Grab the backpack,” she yelled the second she noticed another person further down the street. Getting back up to her feet she reached for her magic, but as always it was a petulant child refusing to show up when she needed it the most. “Please, my cat’s in there!”

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for @neverfalling​ / frankie where: outside the marzan mansion

      No matter what Saint had to say about the purpose of chaos this event held -- Kali thought this was just one big shitshow. The drinks weren’t good, the food was barely enough to keep her one step away from turning into a hungry monster, and the company was questionable at best. It didn’t help that her mood usually affected her magic, and considering that she already struggled with keeping it under control, it wasn’t helping that she was too busy being annoyed at everyone and everything to think about not letting a candle close to her burn the entire room. As she made her way outside for some fresh air, every fire source she passed flickered dangerously, but nothing happened until the cool outside air hit her face. Exhaling a deep breath, she brushed her hair away from her face, taking another step only for her shoe to get stuck in the ground. Damn high heels. The phone that threatened to fall to the floor stopped mid air, instinct always working better on her magic than will. Fingers closed around the device, and once she had straightened up once more, her eyes fell on a figure nearby. Great. Just pretend like nothing happened. “What? Never had a high heel get stuck in the ground? No reason to stare.”

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for @dreaminghlyy​ / open where: marzan mansion

      “Can’t a girl get a fucking drink around here?” At this point, Kali’s entire upper body was hanging over the bar top as she basically kept waving her hand in the face of the bartender. And yet, they still decided to walk right past her and to the other end of the bar to help out a guest who she was certain hadn’t been waiting as long as her. Kali questioned whether maybe the bartender had heard her complain about the drinks, but if that was the case, they were much more petty than her -- and that was saying something. Sinking back down onto her feet with an annoyed huff, she glanced to the side and the person standing there. “How long have you been waiting? Am I the only one getting ignored here?”