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History wants so badly for Cleopatra to be beautiful. Like they can’t conceive of Rome being intimidated by anything less

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     “The Dragon and the Wolf” — S7EP7 Official Script

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This is part of why art that depicts the female experience is so important because on one hand for women and girls it allows us to go ‘oh I have that experience too’ and those that aren’t in our bodies can look at it and go ‘wait, that happens to you?’ // Brie Larson for Yahoo

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Masterpost 4 out of 50: The Motivation  Self-Discipline Masterpost

 It’s better to work blindly than not work at all.

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Workout For Daily Life

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you’ve heard of: getting emotionally attached to your roomba

now get ready for: genuinely mourning the mars rover like a deceased loved one  

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Cate Blanchett though. 

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Oh hey look, something that ISN’T TOTAL FUCKING BULLSHIT :D

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I remember some YouTuber tweeting like “TV shows are too political these days old shows like Fresh Prince didn’t have all this sjw bullshit” and like the first episode will and uncle phil talk very sternly about malcom x

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Dear Santa,

May I PLEASE have a version of this dress I can wear everyday to be EXTRA? But like with more skirt because I COULD NOT PULL THAT OFF.

Please don’t post this on any other social media. Please just enjoy looking at this and let it exist in peace on tumblr and only tumblr. 

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YOOOO, what was the “very, very, very [NOT] toned down version” of Carmen?!

About Carmen in the 2012-2013 season:

ALI HASSAN: Very popular piece of music, originally from Bizet’s opera, Carmen. So this was a bit of a daring move to perform this five years ago. By doing it, I mean, if people don’t know, Carmen had been done, some people would say overdone. […] And then you guys decided to bring it back five years ago. So can you take us to that decision?

SCOTT: Absolutely. Actually, that was a turning point in our career, I think, a little bit. We should’ve done that free dance, we should’ve gone back to it in 2014 but what I remember is our whole career is we tried to do things that had never been done before, do new music, things that were original and then this was trying to do something original to a piece of music that had been absolutely as you said overdone, has been overdone for sure, there’s no denying that. So taking that piece of music and trying to make an original program out of it was a huge challenge for us and something that we really liked. We had some injuries that year, it wasn’t one of our strongest training years, but it was probably one of our most brilliant programs, I think! I loved it. I wish we could’ve gone back to it for the Olympics, I think that one miiiight—would’ve taken us to a gold instead of silver.

TESSA: That’s funny because people talked about how — at the time — how controversial it was. It was quite sensual and the focus of the storyline was sort of that obsession with sexuality and what we ended up performing was a very, very, very toned down version of the program. And sometimes I wish we had stuck to our guns and just gone with the original vision for the program.

SCOTT: Yeah.

TESSA: Right.

SCOTT: Yeah, we ended up with the Mickey Mouse version of it.

ALI: Oh wow, the Globe and Mail headline from that season was “Steamy, sensual free dance is a departure from Virtue & Moir” which is almost comical to look back on when you look back on the past Olympic season when you recreated Moulin Rouge.

TESSA: But that’s art, right? You want people to, you want to spark a conversation, in today’s world, it’s hard to have something that’s in any way shocking or innovative and so that was always one of our goals: to bring something to the ice in an artistic way, not in a way that, not just for sake of doing something risky.

— Tessa & Scott on CBC q

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I will always be on this ship... The team work. The preparation. The goal setting. The self-awareness. So MUCH to learn from.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir on 20 years of skating and their most iconic performances

Olympic ice dancing champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have captivated fans from across Canada and around the world with their story.

The longtime skating partners began their careers as young children, officially competing together as partners in 1998. Today, they’re the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history with three gold and two silver medals under their belts.

“It’s been almost been 10 months since the [2018 Pyeongchang] Olympics and we still pinch ourselves,” Moir told q guest host Ali Hassan. “That dream actually came true.”

This year alone, Virtue and Moir have made landmark career achievements both on and off the ice. Since their unforgettable performance at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang earlier this year, they’ve been inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame, performed coast to coast on the Thank You Canada Tour and released a new and expanded book called Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold, which was originally published in 2011.

In the new and expanded book, Virtue and Moir look back on some of their best-known performances, including their famous free dance to the music of the opera Carmen during the 2012 pre-Olympic season.

The sultry performance sparked questions about their relationship and had many fans speculating that the two were actually a couple. Despite the fan reaction, Virtue and Moir, who are not romantically linked, told Hassan that what viewers saw back in 2012 was only the “Mickey Mouse version” of the program, with the original being a lot steamier.

“It’s funny because people talk about how controversial [the Carmen performance] was,” said Virtue. “It was quite sensual and the focus of the storyline was sort of that obsession with sexuality and what we ended up performing was a very, very, very toned down version of the program. Sometimes I wish we had stuck to our guns and just gone with the original vision for the program.”

We knew if we connected to it, then people would connect to us. 

- Scott Moir

“That was a turning point in our career, I think,” said Moir. “I wish we would have gone back to it for the [2014 Winter Olympics] and maybe that would have taken us to a gold instead of a silver.”

Learning from their mistakes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where they were silver medallists, Virtue and Moir said they knew they had to choose music that they felt passionate about for the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. “We knew if we connected to it, then people would connect to us.”

The result was their gold medal-winning free dance to the soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge, which captured the attention of viewers around the world and is said to have even created a spike in sales for the film’s soundtrack on iTunes.

Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir Free Dance at 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Games:

Despite the song’s massive popularity among figure skaters, Virtue and Moir said they enjoyed the challenge of taking an “overdone” piece of music and turning it into an original program.

“You want to spark a conversation and in today’s world it’s hard to have something that is in any way shocking or innovative,” said Virtue. “That was always one of our goals — to bring something to the ice in an artistic way … not just for the sake of doing something risky.”

“We loved skating that program every single day,” agreed Moir. “And I can remember being in the last 25 or 30 seconds in an element that was very difficult and we were focused, and I would get misty eyed and emotional just doing it in training in a dirty hockey rink at 7:30 in the morning.”

As for the relationship rumours, Virtue and Moir told Hassan that they now see it as a “compliment” because it means that they’re doing their job as storytellers on the ice.

“I think it’s cool,” said Virtue. “You know, I think this friendship and the business partnership we’ve been able to cultivate — I think it’s almost better. What we share is this entirely different level and scale. I mean, we cherish it so much, clearly. We’re very protective of it and very proud. I think it’s probably what I’m most proud of in our entire career.”

If you missed Virtue and Moir on their Thank You Canada Tour this year, the pair have announced another big tour for 2019 with more details to come.

Produced by Emma Godmere. Written by Vivian Rashotte.

- CBC q

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F*ck I needed this.

If there’s anything I can finesse, it’s a resume, interview and pay rate. 

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It me.

Coming into a fandom late

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Tessa and Scott’s speech tonight.  I know…you have all seen it.  but this is my recording of it.