#at the least there arent as many

[alldancersaretalented]

Club Five Dancers

Brightyn Brems (grad?)

Athena Andrade (grad?)

Rylee Young (?)

Ayla Rodriguez (Artistic Fusion)

Kenzie Robertson (CCJ Conservatory)

Ellary Day Szyndlar (Club)

Alexis Alvares (Club)

Kendyl Miller (Club)

Piper Perusse (Company Space)

Allie Andrew (Creative Arts)

Khloe Duras (CSPAS)

Stella Brinkerhoff (CSPAS)

Failenn Daley (Dance Colony)

Jessica Detroy (grad. DancePlex)

Belle Arauz (Dance Town)

Makaia Roux (Danceology)

Amaya Rodriguez (DUC Miami)

Kira Chan (Elements Dance Space)

Mariandrea Villegas (Epic Motion)

Lexus Natalie (Evolve)

Hannah Webb (Imperium House of Dance)

Kate Baldwin (Infinity Dance)

Sophie Baldwin (Infinity Dance)

Lilly Anderson (Larkin)

Dyllan Blackburn (Mather)

Emily Madden (grad. Mather)

Carolina Garcia (Miami Dance Collective)

Maliah Howard (Michelle Latimer)

Ying Lei Pham (Movement Emporium)

Ella Dobler (New Level)

Jaqueline DuBois (grad. Patti Eisenhower)

Braylynn Grizzaffi (Pointe PAC)

Faith Crain (Prodigy Dance PAC)

Berkeley Scrifres (Project 21)

Bristyn Scrifres (Project 21)

Cali Cassidy (Project 21)

Laylani Lawlor (Project 21)

Sabine Nehls (Rock)

Kamryn Smith (Soul Shock)

Sophie Garcia (Stars)

Delilah Hewitt (The Academy)

Laci Stoico (The Academy)

Roxie Onellion (The Base)

Layla Krugh (The Crew)

Ell Horan (grad. WDP)

Isabella Kouznetsova (WDP)

Tatum Brady (WDP)

Aria Du (Yoko)

Isabella Tjoe (Yoko)

[bucephaly]

It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.

People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.

And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.

If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.

[beannary]

HELLO I AM THINKING OF MAKING TLP MERCH!!!!

Hi there! I've been wanting to try my hand at making keychains for a while now so here we go! Here are three different designs that I've come up with for potential tlp keychains.

[b4kuch1n]

about ready

[tangledinink]

OMG Big Numbers DTIYS <3

!!! A joint "whoa, those are some big numbers" DTIYS celebration post, both because oh my goodness, there's 3k of you?! And also because oh my goodness, over 1k kudos on ao3 for I'm Sorry, Teenage Mutant What Now?! ; w ; Thank you gang!!!

There are no deadlines or prizes or anything like that! We're just having fun and being goofy, hehe.

Feel free to get silly with the drawing. Draw the boys as above! With your own human designs! In turtle form! As your AU or iteration version! etc. etc. I trust y'all's creative vision.

If you do participate, I will be absolutely tickled, so pretty please @ me and tag with #tangled1k3kdtiys

[sctir]

go with whatever is most applicable to you i.e if you're a bottom but you'd be willing to try topping your partner bc you love them pick 5 and so on. or if you're not currently active for any reason but have a preference pick on the scale :)

pls reblog for sample size + feel free to put nuance in the tags!

[lord-squiggletits]

The reason this fandom hates IDW Optimus isn't because he's a cop (plenty of people are fine with Prowl) or because he's a bastard (most characters in IDW are) but because he commits the crime of being an actual person who's messy, flawed, and makes a shitload of high stakes mistakes fitting for the intense situations and pressure he's put under constantly.

But we can't have Optimus actually react to his situations by lashing out or being unpleasant, no, he has to have the personality of a cardboard cutout of G1 whose only defining personality traits are "dad, funny, nice," and if he ever vents negative emotions it can only ever be #relatable depression or him being sad on his own without ever letting it show during the important parts of the story. If Optimus dares do things like be angry or frustrated or bitter it's just a sign that he's a bastard and LITERALLY the worst Optimus ever. If Optimus ever makes mistakes or does wrong things in the heat of anger/frustration/stress it's because he's just an evil bastard with no redeeming traits.

God forbid Optimus go through an unending gauntlet of war, politics, atrocities, near-complete loneliness, and a seemingly endless cycle of violence for his entire life and come out of it kind of bitter, angry, and tired of dealing with people's shit. He's not allowed to be a realistic person, context doesn't matter, sympathy doesnt matter. IDW Optimus doesn't fulfill the fandom's fantasies of Father Figure or Perfect Cultural Icon or Twinky Fucktoy and since that's the only reason most people care about Optimus in general, the fandom collectively trashes on IDW OP.

All because he can't fit into the overly simplified and childlike double standard the fandom has where if any other character is messy and flawed, that's good writing and interesting and compelling, but if OPTIMUS is messy and flawed, he's Literally The Worst and he's an asshole for no other reason than He Sucks, context be damned

[pinnithin]

yknow i didn't necessarily start my wyll origin run with the intent of romancing astarion in mind but the more i play the more i find their similarities amusing when it comes to like, the surface level personality they present to strangers in act 1.

wyll is a compulsive flirt. you see it in dialogue with shadowheart and lae'zel - he just tosses out a couple lines that clearly aren't supposed to go anywhere (asking lae'zel if she believes in love at first sight, blatantly reusing the same flirtation attempts with shadowheart) and i see this as part of his Blade of Frontiers persona. obviously a traveling vigilante would have no time for romance or relationships, but he's socially aware enough to have learned that people respond well to a certain level of rogueish charm. especially if his reputation precedes him. he can safely and positively engage in surface level flirtations with the people he interacts with because the person doing the flirting isn't real - at least not to him. he often says the Blade is his best self, but to him its an ideal he strives to achieve, not the person he really is. and i imagine that includes the ability to give discouraged people positive attention in a nonthreatening way. its safe. its superficial. he doesn't have to follow through.

this is overshadowed somewhat by astarion's tendency to flirt with anything that has a pulse, but the perspective they both have on it is pretty similar. theyre both coming from a place of not actually being interested in the recipient of their attention - whether that be through astarion's ulterior motives or wyll's lack of capacity for a relationship - but they both still put on this front because it's habitual. it's worked for them and it's gotten them through the varying degrees of social contracts they find themselves in. so they wind up trading lines easily because they've studied from the same script.

anyway what im getting at is bumping these two personalities against each other can definitely result in wyll and astarion committing to the bit so hard they accidentally wind up in a relationship. like, you're safe, you know the rules, you're speaking in a language i'm familiar with but we both understand that neither of us expect anything back on an emotional level. wait when did we start confiding our deepest secrets with one another. what do you mean you trust me.

[sesamenom]

Elanor visiting Gondor

(aka, practicing painting style for the 12 days of dagorath finale lol)

[moeblob]

Ananza realizing that Deacon's mom was a devoted follower of hers THEREFORE that's her son now, too! And she will dote on him and love him and never pick on him like all the other deities tend to do. That's her precious little boy who lives in another city and rarely gets to see her!

[sonknuxadow]

if the only footage youve seen of the game doesnt actually give you a good idea of what the game/story is like (like its from a parody video or is otherwise heavily edited for example) then it doesnt count as having watched the game and you should pick little to no actual exposure to the game. only interacting with the games content through fanart/fanfic/etc also counts as little to no actual exposure to the game

[forecast0ctopus]

which characters do you want to draw more of?

yknow i feel like this is probably more pointed towards star trek. which there ARE a lot of trek characters id like to draw more of. but you just opened a whole can of worms man theres so much stuff i love that i havent really done much fanart for..... i want to do scooby-doo fanart soooo bad but i never get past the sketch phase....i havent drawn hardly any paranatural in ten years... woould love to draw more my babysitter's a vampire fanart its been so long since ive drawn those guys....... ive wanted to do jaane tu ya jaane na redraws for the longest time... okay i wont go on any longer ill stick anythin g else. in the tags lmao

[kevinsdsy]

let me introduce you to my laila dermott fancast hehe

[dykedvonte]

An independent Courier would actually hate being in charge or enforcing standards in New Vegas. At least in my mind.

They made Vegas independent but I feel like that playthrough/style so clearly makes it apparent it isn't for them. They are making Vegas a place where people can live freely, like how House genuinely didn't care what people did but without the behind-the-scenes Big Brother surveillance he did. Having every family, faction, and other influence group or person comes to them about alliances or rules would be draining, and boring, one note.

In an independent Vegas, The Courier is also Independent. They like getting rid of lines and borders that impede freedom, they like to help give people the tool but I don't believe they want to be the one to shape it.

[oatbugs]

the urge to self sabotage bc it would be easier. BUT I WONT DO IT!! I NEED TO PROVE TO MYSELF THAT I CAN DO THINGS THAT ARE GOOD FOR ME!

[bunabi]

100% agree on the bg3 armour thing,they look good but their like ff14 in that there's no discernable layering just lots of patches of detail

And much like FFXIV I just hope the cosplayers are alright 😭

What a labor of love it must be

The process videos for their costumes are so fun to watch though