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[mentalillnessmouse]

recently someone asked if our inbox is still open and accepting questions, and the answer to that is "yes, of course!"

just mind the rules about answering questions, but otherwise go nuts.

[filipinfodump]

Welcome to the FilipInfoDump!

This is a blog dedicated to posting random things about the Philippines including trivia, media, history, and culture. Here, we will do our best to share information and answer questions about the country.

This blog was started by @maya-chirps as a way to just share Filipino stuff that they had learned from their Filipino history and culture hyperfixation.

Please be patient as there is currently one mod who has to regularly deal with personal health issues. We will get to your questions in due time.

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[tropicolor-official]

♠ Another day, another random and pointless drama. This time it's Manchas releasing a secret album with Big Man and Cora making it into this thing about loyalty and how Deep Cut is "the enemy" or whatever... We have songs to write, you know. You could at least wait until we're out of the studio to start this dumb argument.

[calisthenicsdanceaustralia]

Welcome!

First thing's first, we don't want to be sued. This blog is unofficial, run by fans of the sport, and purely for fun!

Current mod list: Mod Izzy - Blog starter, 22, favourite item is March. Been doing Cali since age 11 on-and-off. Recieving my 5 year badge this year, finally! Mod Maya - Pronounced May-Ah. 17, my favourite item is Freearm. I've een doing Cali since I was 6, with only two off-years! Mod Destiny - Hi!! I'm 19, and my favourite item is Clubs! Only my second year, but I also did Gymnastics before so it's been pretty easy to get into! Mod Maddy- 16, Izzy's sister, and I've been doing Calisthenics since I was 7, missing only one year!! My favourite item is probably Dance, but also I like anything that isn't Aesthetics.

Definitions under cut:

Calisthenics/Cali - The name of the sport! Though it's officially called Calisthenics Dance, to avoid confusion with the body-building exercises, most will shorten it in conversation.

Tinies - The youngest group you can compete in, typically from 3-7. Items performed in tinies are under 2 and a half minutes, and they perform only 4 items: Rods, Freearm, Aesthetics and Song-and-Dance.

Sub-Juniors/Subbies - Second youngest age-group, typically from 8-10. Their items are also under 2 and a half minutes, but often involve more technical skill and speed, as well as doing 2 more items: March and Clubs.

Juniors - For kids 11-13 years old, their items can last up to 3 minutes each, involving even more skill and speed than subbies, and with Review instead of Song-and-Dance.

Inters - For teens, 14-17 years old, their items can be up to 3 minutes fifteen seconds long, and are again faster and more skillful than before. They do Rhythmical Aesthetics instead of Aesthetics, and Dance instead of Review.

Seniors - The Young Adult section, for anyone 18+, with no upper limit, with the same limits and items as inters, if again faster and with more complicated moves.

Masters - For anyone 26+ with no upper limit (including the occasional 80+ year old!). Items run up to 3 minutes, and aren't as fast or complicated as a Senior item, but are still inpressive. They do Review instead of Dance.

March - A form of dance that involves marching in patterns to the beat of a song. It's trickier than it sounds! It involves keeping in time with the music to avoid bumping into teammates, keeping shapes even, and a lot of upperbody strength to keep yourself from swaying side-to-side.

Rods - A form of dance that involves the twisting of a metal rod - measuring from right shoulder to left fingertips - and includes more footwork, movement, and complicated twists the older you get. You need to be able to correctly twist the rod in time to the music, as well as keep in-pace with teammates. Again, trickier than it sounds!

Clubs - The swinging of two clubs to the music, including a lot of tricky movements, precise timing, and control over your body. It looks really good when done well, and really not-good when not done well.

Freearm - Now called Free Exercises mostly, it's a form of dance that involves a lot of control and flexibility. This is where people get to show off what tricks they can do, or that they learnt that year! Again, when it's good, it's great! When it isn't, it's really not good.

Aesthetics - Essentially the kiddie version of the item, it involves a lot of graceful, flowy movements, and dramatic facial expressions. You wear an ankle-length organza (or similarly flowy sheer material) and sadly dance to sad songs, except for the small sections of the song that aren't sad. Then you happily dance to those parts.

Rhythmical Dance - The exact same as Aesthetics, but you're allowed to lift people into the air. Though, there might be more rules to it (I think my coach mentioned something about more complicated facial expressions).

Dance - Usually called Dance Arrangement, you dance to poorly mashed-up songs. You still have to do cali rules, such as pointed toes and happy feet. It has the least rules to it, though, so it often ends up being a silly fun time (UNLESS you have three teams in the same competition who are doing the same song. Happens almost yearly, somehow).

Review - Officially called Calisthenics Review, it's usually a mash up of songs relevant to a theme, or from a musical movie, with a handful of lipsync roles - though, speaking roles aren't unheard of. The costumes are less uniform, and it involves a lot more acting.

Song-And-Dance - For younger kids, it's exactly what it says. It's adorable every time.

Happy Feet - Having your feet heel-to-heel, but not toe-to-toe, making a v shape. Not nearly as extreme or knee-hurting as ballet.

Demi-Point - Walking or standing on your tippy-toes. Not En-Point, the version used in ballet that is actively painful and harmful.

The definitions list can, and probs will be, updated as we remember more things that need to be defined!

[catws-anniversary]

Hello! Is there going to be a discord server?

Hi! We’ve discussed creating a discord server, and while we do get that it would be a nice way to interact with other creators, build a community, and share content, we’ve decided not to. We'll be collating masterlists for each prompt day and sharing them on tumblr.

This is because setting up and moderating a server next to other mod (and personal life) responsibilities would be too much to balance with everything else, especially given the short run of the event.

We hope you understand!

- Mod Maya

[hwssouthasia]

*walks in months later with starbucks*

(truly showing my age with that line)

i’m still around. i’m still thinking about this and with my complete career shift i’m super interested in doing my massive rewrites and shit HOWEVER i now actually have time to do things!

more info under the cut but TLDR: i want an active sensitivity reader and i need to find artists

feel free to send asks if you can help me find either! or wanna be either!!

first things first hi

a brief reintroduction

i’m mod maya and i’m not south asian so i just wanna make sure that’s clear. i’m just an old guard of the hetalia fandom who latched onto India in 2011 during hetaween and just never stopped loving him. i also stopped reading hetalia in general in like 2016? so i don’t know anything that’s happened since aside from spain once like drank or ate olive oil. i’m too scared to ask for more details about it.

i AM a person of color, specifically i’m Black. i’m also super into other hetalia characters besides this family and run @amechuweek !

uhhh i can’t think of what else to really say here. someone just left a comment on one of my old south asia fam fics and almost made me cry so it reminded me that i should do what i set out to do and finish reading the 20 south asia history books i’ve purchased or friends have bought for me.

you can as always find me over on my main blog @godtiercomplex

[akoichoi]

[nyaagolor]

AA characters ranked based on whether I think I can beat them in a fight

Phoenix: Absolutely not. I don’t think he can or would throw a punch back, but his sheer endurance and invulnerability means that I can never achieve true victory. I’m not convinced he has a hitbox.

Apollo: He would actually fight back, which I can appreciate— however his punch in 4-1 didn’t manage to faze Phoenix whatsoever so I think I can endure long enough to verbally attack his insecurities until he gives up. Get ready for a verbal smack down, Justice, I am not afraid to make fun of your father issues.

Athena: I would get my ass handed to me in three seconds and we both know this, so I personally would just skip the fight and buy her a smoothie or something. No hurt feelings

Maya:

Pearl: I can and will throw hands with a nine-year old to make myself feel better about losing a fight to multiple attorneys. Whether or not it’s fair I count this as a win.

Trucy: She can throw knives I don’t fuck with that.

Edgeworth: According to one of the artists he’s shredded and has a six-pack, but someone has to humble him. Put up your dukes you stupid cunt, this is for Franziska’s honor

Franziska: No.

Godot: On one hand he’s a post-coma disabled man on the other hand he did stab someone to death I think I have a 50/50 chance here. If it’ll shut him up that’s a gamble I’m willing to take

Klavier: He may look strong but I see the definition around that collarbone, I know he’s dehydrated. I could take him. We can televise it. It’ll be great. Imagine the ad revenue

Simon: He would snap me like a toothpick but I think I’m ok with that

Nahyuta: Whether or not I can, I feel like I should. Meet me behind the courthouse for an ass-kicking, Sahdmadhi

[tropicolor-official]

♠ Such confidence in his stride. We mere mortals could never.

camera bugged out so have this cursed judd i guess

[thewanderingace]

You come from a long line of very special women.

All the way from Chafa herself.

They have carried the fire.

They were the protectors of their people.

They fought for their family.

Now, it’s your turn.

Echo 1x05

[nortedwayfinder]

So I'm about to rant about developer layoffs.

I do all my little Sonic fanarts and animations in Blender. It's great, it's free. For my day job, though, I animate in Autodesk Maya. If you've ever been interested in learning 3D art/animation, you've probably heard of it. It's the industry standard.

Autodesk just laid off 1,350 of their employees. Over one thousand people lost their jobs, the CEO choosing to take those funds - money that would go to people who need to pay rent and buy food - and invest them into AI.

We already clown on Autodesk for thinking they can get away with a bunch of shit because they're the industry standard. Now the people who were actually making the program workable are gone.

I'm so tired man. It's no secret that game devs have been facing mass firings the past few years, and generative AI is one of the many ways cooperate greed has manifested into that result. And the thing is, you're not even safe from generative AI tools when you HAVE a job. So many of my fellow game devs have been forced by their managers to either use it or to create content for it to scrape. It's a parasite.

Anyway, rant over. Maya cringe, Blender based. It's not only free, but continues to innovate because the team listens to its users. It's a program made and maintained by people.

Here's the article I got this info from, and here's Blender's website, if you want to download it or support the team.

[mentalillnessmouse]

Are we ok to submit things for support right now? I don’t know if you call them asks or something else sorry

yes, you're okay to submit things for support as long as they don't go against the rule against graphic asks !

personally, and this is me (maya) saying this as i'm the only atm mod, i won't be answering asks that relate to sexual assault or sexual situations ! if any of the other mods return they could answer it but for right now i won't be capable of handling that.

-mod maya

[filipinfodump]

Okay, I should probably post the longer legend later, but I just read a lot about manananggals and aswangs in general lately and oh my goodness, there's a story that contains a manananggal baby!

The context is that two men stay over a family's house and some time in the night, they wake up to see the other family members rubbing a sort of oil or lotion on their arms which make them separate from their body and allow them to fly (something consistently established in most Luzon stories of manananggals as I've noticed). The family leaves behind their baby, sleeping peacefully as they went off to hunt presumably, leaving the two men alone with the child and the bottle of oily lotion.

I don't know really, it's just a little surprising to find that there is a story that at least contains this detail because most manananggal in modern media and even folk stories focus on just young women and often the only family being their sisters or their old mothers. I had never read about a manananggal baby before and especially in regards of a folk legend so this is a little delightful.

[tropicolor-official]

somebody just made some wild allegations about y'all

♠ Alright, what did Cora do this time?

[calisthenicsdanceaustralia]

Alright because there's literally nothing else to do except like, reblog 10+ year old calisthenic photos which feels weird to me, I'm posting music opinions. Fight me.

First on the list is March.

Alright. First of all, no more army-based songs. We get it, armies march. But if I have to hear "the ants go marching 1-by-1, hurruh, hurruh," one more fucking time I will do something drastic.

Next up, and this one is really specific, no more thriller. I saw it once, like 10 years ago, and it was good. Every year since then, no matter which age group we're talking about (except maybe subbies), there's at least one team that uses this reallly specific remix of the song, which the original good one didn't use by the way, and it's awful. There was one comp of my sister, who's in juniors, I went to where there was three of them. The remix is awful. It's mixed in with another song I forgot the name of, it has an awful drum added in overtop, and there's fucking wolf howls added in. 0/10 I'm committing crimes if I hear it ever again.

On a similar note, no more adding drumbeats over top of songs that don't already have a good one. This happens far more than you think, it's awful and super obvious every time. Just find something else, fucking hell.

I think that's it for now. If I think of anything else I'll just edit the post and add it. Actually Izzy just told me I should just reblog it instead. Guess I'll just do that instead.

[lutzlig]

Stardew valley mod concept art from aaaaaages ago... set sometime after apollo justice... cruelly abandoned due to uni stress.... featuring phoenix (jodi) pre and post the return of edgeworth (kent)...