#rose adagio

[lemon-snickety]

My top 5 ballet dream roles

#5- Rubies Soloist (Jewels)

I love the energy of the role and all the petite allegro

#4- The Firebird (Firebird)

So much drama in this role, I’m also dying to wear the costume

#3- Dark Angel (Serenade)

Even though this role is generally for taller dancers (I’m only 5’5), but I love adagio. Also, serenade for strings makes me cry

#2- Gamzatti (La Bayadère)

I just love a good diva, and that’s exactly what Gamzatti is. Her wedding variation is my absolute favorite classical variation

#1- Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)

This would be my dream lead role. The Rose Adagio is probably my favorite section from any classical ballet and I would kill to do it. She also doesn’t have to do the big 32, which makes me so happy because I hate fouettés with a burning passion

[vadreams]

Maia Makhateli dancing the Rose Adagio in Peter Wright's Sleeping - Het Nationale Ballet

[which-item-poll]

Ingredients for Potion of Healing: blended with green rooibos tea, black tea, orange, hibiscus, rose hips, marigold flowers, natural orange flavor, natural hibiscus flavor, apricots, mango pieces & natural lemon flavor

Ingredients for Rose Quartz Tea: blended with black tea, rose hips, hibiscus, honeybush tea, apple pieces, rose petals, natural strawberry flavor, rose flavor, strawberries, natural vanilla flavor & raspberry leaves

[ask-sonata-dusk]

"Someone's...following me...I have a stalker!?😨"

[lichfucker]

"you didn't HAVE to fuck a grandma!"

"LOOK AT THAT GRANDMA! yes I did!"

[new-kit-on-the-block]

So, several voice actors in My Little Pony are apparently voicing characters in Sonic Prime, and I’m really excited now

We have: Ashleigh Ball; the voice of Applejack and Rainbow Dash, Shannon Chan-kent; the singing voice of Pinkie Pie, Ian Hanlin; the voice of Sunburst, oh yeah, and Kazumi Evans; the singing voice of Rarity and Luna, as well as the voice of Adagio Dazzle

Netflix better not fuck this up

[bitletsanddrabbles]

FANDOM BLENDS MADE WITH MAMBO ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AGAIN!

This means my Elsie Hughes, Jimmy Kent, and Rose MacClare blends are finally, finally, finally up for purchase again! Seriously, Elsie is one of my favorite breakfast blends and I’ve been out for what? A year now? At least?

......yes I bought a full tin as soon as I realized I could....

Will probably get a bag of Rose next month.

In the meantime I will sit here bemoaning that I haven’t had a good set up for doing graphics since flippin’ 2020 and the Beryl Patmore blend is ready to GO it just needs ART and....and........ARGH! WANNA ART, DAMNIT!

*sigh*

[reine-du-sourire]

A nostalgic blend of lilac, roses, and light summer winds. 

[rose-of-the-valley]

i need barbatos to be real i need to know what he thinks of my custom earl grey blend on adagio teas

[strechanadi]

Here we go again...

another round of Giselle, another discussion of so called balletomanes obsessing over the number of Albert��s Act II entrechats.

I said it once and I’m gonna say it again.

ALBERT IS NOT ABOUT THE NUMBER OF FUCKING ENTRECHATS! You can agree with me, or you can be wrong. End of story.

[morbidloren]

Something to warm you up

Today is blustery and alternating squalls of rain with vivid sunshine: California in winter, in other words. Still, from my office window I can see the neighbor’s redbud tree in glorious bloom, so spring is on its way. Rain or shine, today is a good day to cuddle up with a hot cup of tea and a book. Did you know I’ve made teas to represent the succubus and angel in the As Above, So Below books I…

[rainbowbarnacle]

Please make a tea post so I can save it especially the pineapple ice cubes I need more info

Oh, like, different teas I like to make? Okay! :D

🍍Pineapple Tea🍍

The way I do it is really simple:

Buy a giant jug of already-made tea (I like gold peak!)

Buy a carton of pineapple juice

Freeze the juice into cubes, pour a little of it in the tea for extra flavor

And that's it. That's aaaall you gotta do.

There's all kindsa ways you can dress it up, but nine times out of ten I just do this and drink it by the gallon when it's hot out.

If you wanna get fancy with it, feel free to cold brew your own black (or green) tea, add actual hunks of pineapple fruit in there, add some orange juice, add some honey, add some coconut milk or sweetened condensed milk, whatever sounds good! (Also, pairing pineapple tea with coconut cookies? SO GOOD.) Put mint in the pineapple cubes if you like mint! Add a bit of boiled ginger root or some brown sugar and cinnamon for a little kick! Heck, last summer I used blue peaflower star-shaped ice cubes just because they were pretty.

(Peaflower petals don't taste like much, but they make a GORGEOUS blue, and if you put something acidic in there like lemon juice IT TURNS PINK. :D)

🍓Strawberry Tea🍓

I find this stuff sort of difficult to find where I live, so often I go the same route as the pineapple tea: grab a jug of black tea, grab a jug of strawberry juice, (ocean spray has a really nice cran-strawberry one I like) freeze the juice, mix, and enjoy. Super simple.

If I can't find strawberry juice, I dice some strawberries up and put it in a jar with some water and a bit of sugar for a few hours, then add *that* to the tea. (heck, it's really nice all by itself!)

What goes with strawberry? ANY DANG THING YOU WANT. I am particularly fond of lychee. Jasmine tea and rose petals pair really well with it too. Again, if you like mint, it's *really* nice with strawberry. And you know how if you put black pepper on strawberries they taste even strawberrier? (If you haven't tried this, go do it, it's magic.) Same goes with the tea, add some peppercorns or a teeny bit of chili powder or some ginger.

If you wanna drink it hot or cold brew a batch of your own, here are some brands that are also nice:

1. Strawberry Sensation

2. Adagio Strawberry Tea (this is also where I got the peaflower petals)

3. Any of Lupicia's Strawberry Teas they are HEAVENLY

🍏Apple Tea🍏

As with the pineapple and strawberry teas, it's totally fine to just go find some ready-made tea and mix it with some apple cider or apple juice for tasty low spoons fun. If you drink it iced, a bit of sugar and lemon juice brings out the apple flavor nicely!

I prefer drinking this stuff hot though. You know that Fall Drink post that was floating around? IF YOU HAVEN'T YET, TRY IT, IT'S AWESOME.

☕Chai Tea☕

So here's the thing about chai for me personally: I don't tend to drink it iced or sugary, but if you do like it iced and sugary, there are a couple of really nice chai tea concentrates:

Oregon Chai Latte

Tazo's Chai Latte (Forget the "skinny" nonsense, I just wanted to include an option with no milk so you can add whatever you want to it)

Pacific Chai isn't concentrated, but you can use it to make hot or iced chai and it's really lovely, not too sweet and super easy to work with. As for dressing up chai, I don't tend to! There's already so much going on with all the flavors, I just drink it as-is most days. Play with milk-to-tea ratios or sugar amounts all you like, figure out what's your jam.

I do know that mixing chai and coffee together (or chai and chocolate together) is guaranteed to make a feeling groovy kind of morning, at least if you have two thumbs and you're me. Iiii think that's all the tea blather I can think of for right now. Thank you for asking, anon, it was fun! Anybody reading this, feel free to add your own favorite things to do with tea. :D

[princesssarisa]

If there's any character from Sleeping Beauty from whose viewpoint I might like to write a poem or short fic, it would be one of the four princes from Act I of Tchaikovsky's ballet.

Other, later retellings of the tale have also given Sleeping Beauty a suitor before she succumbs to the curse, but those princes are usually portrayed negatively, as silly fops in contrast to the charming prince who ultimately wakes her. The four suitors in the ballet, on the other hand, are perfectly nice, handsome, gallant young men. Aurora dances the famous Rose Adagio with them, and while she doesn't choose one of them to marry, she seems to like them well enough. Yet after sharing that beautiful moment of dance with her, with every reason to hope that one of them will soon be her bridegroom, they have to witness her fall under the spell.

Aurora's finger-pricking doesn't happen in a secluded tower in Tchaikovsky's ballet. The evil fairy Carabosse comes to her 16th birthday feast disguised as an old beggar woman, and (depending on the production) either gives her a drop spindle as a gift, which she takes naïvely because she's never seen one before, or gives her a bouquet of roses with a spindle hidden inside. Then she pricks her finger and collapses in front of the whole court and all the party guests, including the four princes. In some productions, one of the princes catches Aurora in his arms as she falls, and when Carabosse jubilantly reveals her identity, many productions have the four of them rush at her with their swords just before she vanishes. Then, after the Lilac Fairy arrives to assure everyone that Aurora is only sleeping, not dead, and to put the King and Queen and all the rest of the court to sleep too, in some productions it's the four princes who carry Aurora into the castle to her bed.

Even though Aurora doesn't fall in love with any of those princes, they still share something meaningful. When Aurora enters, her music and dancing is all childlike exuberance and innocence. But in the grand Rose Adagio – one of the most demanding showcases for a ballerina – she comes into her own both as a dancer and as a young woman receiving courtship for the first time. Arguably, the dance she shares with the four princes serves as her coming-of-age moment, which prepares her for her ultimate marriage to Prince Désiré/Florimund a hundred years later.

Yet there's no happy ending for those four young men. They have to watch Aurora succumb to the curse, fail to take down Carabosse, and then learn from the Lilac Fairy that Aurora is lost to them, destined to sleep until another prince finds her long after they're all dead. All they can do is reverently lay her to rest, then go back to their own lands, presumably to tell the rest of the world what happened.

I'd like to imagine that Prince Désiré/Florimund is the grandson or great-grandson of one of Aurora's four original suitors. A few other adaptations have the Prince who wakes Sleeping Beauty be descended from an earlier suitor of hers, so I'll imagine that's the case in the ballet too.

[ask-sonata-dusk]

So girls, have you ever had contact with Aria Blaze, Adagio Dazzle or Sunset Shimmer recently? If so, what has been going on between you guys.

Dalia: As for me, I haven't met Adagio and Aria, I've just seen Rarity and all of her friends a few days ago, including Sunset!

[valkariel]

Rose Adagio

Head: Little Lady's Crown - default Body: Edengrace Mail of Maiming - wine red Hands: Rinascita Vambraces of Maiming - goobbue grey Legs: Theogonic Breeches of Maiming - soot black Feet: Rinascita Sabatons of Maiming - default

Earring: Augmented Radiant's Earrings of Slaying Neck: The Emperor's New Necklace Wrists: The Emperor's New Bracelet Right Ring: The Emperor's New Ring Left Ring: The Emperor's New Ring

Main Hand: Edenmorn Sickle - wine red Off Hand: --

Fashion Accessory: -- Minion: -- Mount: -- Location: Anabaseios: The Tenth Circle

Shader: Faeberry Bokeh

[reddevilproductions]

⚠️Sonic Prime Infodump/Spoilers Ahead⚠️

Can we walk about how cool all the little references in Sonic Prime are?

The whole show itself feels like watching video game cutscenes and I just find that to be incredible and interesting. It felt like a whole new take on a Sonic series and I loved it.

But back to my original point with the little Easter Eggs. Here are some things I noticed that I just found really neat and I liked how they were included.

• The passcode to Tails’ workshop is ‘1992’. Which is when his debut game was first released

• Similar to the first one. Bigs’s ID number (I think that’s what it is?) in New Yolk City was “1-9-9-8” or 1998. The release year of his debut game

• The mention of the notorious orca whale that likes to fuck with Sonic

• Just him doing video gamey things in general (collecting rings, some of the sound effects from games, Knuckles GLIDING)

• The whole Rusty Rose thing. I was so excited that they brought back a form of robotization. Considering the concept has so much potential but we hadn’t seen it in years.

• Also the bit where Sonic’s shoes weren’t adjusted to the energy in New Yolk and he couldn’t run correctly reminded me of an episode of the original 1992 show. In said episode (which I unfortunately don’t remember the name of), Sonic somehow loses his shoes and because of that he can’t really run correctly anymore. It probably wasn’t an intentional callback but I got serious deja vu, but in a good way!

• And I found it funny how they did a little Deadpool “You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation” bit

• Can’t forget to special mention how they snuck “Maurice” into the show description

I would also like to mentioned that I ADORED Rouge’s new outfit. All of her outfits actually. And that hearing Adagio’s voice come out of her did catch me off guard for a second.

And Nine and Shadow may be my favorite characters. Because Tails is just my favorite Sonic character as a whole, and Shadow was just so cool! Despite the fact that he didn’t get much screen time, but I hope he does if this show gets greenlit for another season!

The art and animation for this whole thing is also just beautiful and smooth. You can tell a lot of work went into it and the crew absolutely killed it!

There’s definitely a lot more stuff I forgot to put here, but if I remember something I’ll definitely be sure to add it in later. Or anything else I notice when I inevitably rewatch the show. Overall I give it a 10/10. I watched it with my younger siblings and we all genuinely enjoyed it

And of course, I can’t forget to mention

He did it, he finally found that damn fourth chaos emerald