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Opossum memes are ✨life✨

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Non-English musical recommendations based of your favorite Broadway/West End musicals

For anyone who start listening to non-English musicals, here are the musicals you should watch on slime tutorials, pro-shots and/or listening soundtracks to based on your favorite Broadway/West End musicals

If your favorite musical that is based on a historical figure like Hamilton, Six, or Evita:

Elisabeth Das Musical

Mozart, l'opéra rock

If you love Romeo and Juliet retellings like & Juliet or West Side Story or love the play in general:

Romeo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour

If you love horror comedy like The Rocky Horror Picture Show or Little Shop of Horrors

Tanz der Vampire (we're not talking about the Broadway version that they butchered the musical so hard)

If you love the musical adaptation version of the Disney's Hunchback of the Notre Dame:

Notre-Dame de Paris

If you love gothic musicals such as Jekyll & Hyde or Phantom of the Opera:

Rebecca

fun facts about sharks

real event that occured that i cant stop thinking about

you guys know that one part of shoboe where he frames his face w his hands.

Yea

Master post for FaOI 2022 Makuhari

25-26/05/2022

Nobu & Yuzu

FaOI cast (partly)

FaOI cast (partly, but Yuzu too)

Deniss+ Kaori & Keiji

Yuzu kisses

Yuzu interview + practice news (video) + translation

More practice news + Yuzu + translation

27/05/2022

Nobu & Mai

Yuzu message before FaOI

Yuzu Opening number photos (1) + (2)

Yuzu EX photos (1) + (2) + (3)

Yuzu Finale photos

News videos/snippets (1) + (2) + (3)

Additional photos released (03/06/2022)

28/05/2022

Kao Miura, Mana Kawabe & Rino Mitsuike

News videos/snippets (1 + short interview translation) + (2) + (3) - same translation

Yuzu Opening photos *

Yuzu EX photos *

Yuzu Finale photos *

*- Some photos may be from Day 3

29/05/2022 - live broadcast

FaOI opening - Yuzu cut

Afternoon Parade

Yuzu EX - Real Face

Finale (1) + (2)

News videos/snippets (1) + (2 + translation) + (3.1 ; 3.2)

30/05/2022 - Multiple Days photos

humans are innately attracted to glowing orbs and portals and that’s very on brand for us

﹟charlie & nick!

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heartstopper wallpapers - nick & charlie

Yuzu's costumes and skates in the Yuzuru Hanyu exhibition ❤️

Photos by @art_ex_japan

my fav parts of the NowVoice conversation between Shoma, Kazuki, and Keiji. full transcript here.

turandot 2.0 costume details (photos taken by me. please don’t repost without permission)

I have discovered Blue Turandot Shoma aka Prince Shoma

Just the most beautiful costume isn't it? 💙

Shoma and Bluerandot are iconic!

Team Japan leads after the SP! 🇯🇵❤️

They were just told at the press con that a last time a country sweeped the podium was in the 1950s.

I find it kinda funny that they all have different team Japan jackets 😂

There you have the leader of the pack 😉

Reminds a bit of this ⬇️

West Side Story 1961: That Officer Krupke sure is asking for it! We oughta show him who REALLY runs the West Side! 🎶 When you're a Jet you're the top cat in town 🎶

West Side Story 2021: The police state is complicit in the classism, racism, and gentrification destroying the West Side and tearing our community apart. 🎶 When you're a Jet you're th

Translation of the “looooong” comments made by Yuzuru during the press conference after the FS at NHK Trophy 2015  (by Sophie Moroi. “For the benefit of time, I have only translated Yuzuru’s answers, omitting answers from other skaters, sorry…”)

Original in Japanese: http://sports.yahoo.co.jp/

Q1)  What is your current feeling after the FS? Yuzuru: To be honest, I am rather delirious myself and am not sure what to say.  I am just simply very happy.  I also would like to express my appreciation to all those who have supported me so far.  [Meanwhile,] this is neither the Pyeongchang Olympics nor the following Olympics.   This is not my last competition, either.  I would like to make further efforts everyday, much harder, in order to make a performance that remains in your heart, regardless of scores.  

Q2)   Mr. Hanyu, how were you feeling as you nailed all the jumps one by one, and what was your emotion at the end of your programme? Yuzuru: At any rate, I wanted to land each jump in a careful manner.  I suppose everybody was really surprised by the final score, as much as I am.  To be honest, [probably] the performance was good but I cannot actually feel it; anyway, I am filled with indescribable emotion.  I feel as if I am floating.  As regards FS, not all the jumps were perfectly clean; and not all the elements including spins and steps were absolutely beautiful.  I performed each and every element by inserting my feeling into it, believing in my practice so far and my body.  I was able to feel the cheering voices and zealous eyes of the audience, whenever I nailed one jump.  While we are not on the other side of the TV, I was able to hear voices of hearts that I shouldn’t be able to hear in reality; I had a feeling that I was receiving power from all over Japan and the world.

Q3) Questions to all three skaters.  At the NHK trophy [this time], all the skaters challenged a quad for both SP and FS, for the first time in the figure-skating history.  There were a total of 25 quads, which means that one skater jumped 2 quads on average.  In the future, particularly towards the Pyeongchang Olympics, what kind of jumps and how many do you think will be required?

Yuzuru: My lutz are not as stable as Boyang’s.  I have landed 4Lz only once just by accident.  I cannot nail either 4Lz or 4Lo with the same quality of Boyang’s quads.  I have actually tried 4A several times, but neither succeeded in landing nor completing sufficient rotations. Then, if you ask me how many quads will be necessary in the future, I don’t know, either.  My memory of Olympics is not very certain, but I have a feeling that the figure-skating generation changes every Olympics.  The most impressive one for me is the Olympics at Salt Lake City; half of the skaters or all the skaters above 10th place were landing high-quality quads.  At Vancouver, on the contrary, Mr. Evan Lysacek, who didn’t have any quad, won the gold. If being asked which was correct and which was wrong, be it in Salt Lake City, Torino, or Vancouver, I would suppose that all are correct.  To be sure, there were heated discussions in the figure-skating world at the Vancouver Olympics as to whether it was OK for not trying quads, or whether Mr. Evan Lysacek deserves a gold.  Amid such debates which didn’t necessarily produce any “correct answer”, almost half of the skaters at the Sochi Olympics challenged quad(s) and fought the competitions. In fact, I myself am surprised to hear that all the skaters [at NHK] challenged quad(s).  However, the question is not only whether you jump a quad, but also you have to make a clean landing.  Only by achieving a clean landing can you get good points.  The base value of a 3A and that of a quad have no more difference than 2 points.  This means that, if you nail a clean 3A, obtaining GOE + 2 or 3, then you will get a higher point than a quad.  So, quite bluntly, as was the case for the Vancouver Olympics, if you get GOE +3 for all the jumps, then you could potentially win even without a quad.  That’s the rule of figure-skating, as I understand. Having said that, I have challenged a total of 5 quads including short.  That’s because my best weapon, I believe, is to try [several] quads, challenge more difficult entries and exits, and land a 3A, which is the nearest jump to a quad, with a high quality sufficient to obtain a point similar to a quad.   Also, there will be many other new skaters in the future. What I felt this time is that Mr. Boyang made a wonderful performance, including quads in the second half both in SF and FS, despite the fact that he has just moved from junior to senior.  I feel like we are witnessing the future of figure-skating, but at the same time that is not the only solution.  I also would like to try my absolute best and practice harder, aiming at more difficult quads and quads with higher quality.  

— After very short comments from Boyang and Mura —-

[MC: I am afraid we have already run out of time.  So, the press-conference is now over.]

Yuzuru: I AM AWFULLY SORRY FOR TALKING SO LOOOOONG!!!!

Translated by Sophie Moroi on YH international Fan Group on FB 

(gif: nonchan1023)

Update: video of a news programme on this.  At the end, Yuzu went to the interpreter to apologise for giving him so much work to do. ^^

Identify Figure Skating Jumps, In Real Time

So, we once did a gifset on jump identification, in slow-mo. But it’s time for an ambitious upgrade — now, identify jumps in real time, without slowing down or pausing.

All skaters land (clean) jumps in the same way: on the outside edge of one foot, gliding backwards. Skaters who rotate counterclockwise during their jump will land on their right foot while skaters who rotate clockwise will land on their left. All the examples below feature skaters who rotate counterclockwise. 

Therefore, the first and most important thing in jump identification is to scrutinize the takeoff instead of anything else. Look carefully at what the skater does with their feet before they jump, anything else is not particularly relevant in naming a jump. 

Toe Jumps

If the skater strikes the ice with their toe pick, it’s either a Toeloop, Flip or Lutz. These jumps are known as Toe Jumps because of the skater’s use of their toe pick. 

The Flip 

Skaters usually do a turn immediately before this jump. Notice how Zhenya swings her right foot while doing the turn; this is very characteristic of flip jumps. This is a very common entry into the flip, but it’s not a necessary one, skaters can opt to perform a flip with a different entry. 

Zhenya rotates towards the foot that is placed on the ice during her takeoff. Her own torso and leg are “blocking” the direction of her rotation, such that she is assuming a closed body position just before takeoff.

Take note of how the foot that is placed on the ice is on an inside edge. If a skater uses an outside edge instead, they will be penalized for incorrect technique.

The Toeloop

Skaters usually do a turn immediately before this jump. Again, while this is a very common entry to the toeloop, skaters don’t necessarily have to do it. 

Yuzuru rotates away from the foot that is placed on the ice during his takeoff. His torso and leg are not “blocking” the direction of his rotation, such that he is assuming an open body position just before takeoff. 

The Lutz

Skaters don’t usually do any turn immediately before this jump. Instead, they do a long backwards glide. Notice how Yuna gradually deepens the outside edge on her gliding foot as she goes backwards; this is one distinct indication of a lutz jump. Once again, this is just a very common entry to the lutz but skaters can use other entries too.

Yuna rotates towards the foot that is placed on the ice during her takeoff. Her own torso and leg are “blocking” the direction of her rotation, such that she is assuming a closed body position just before takeoff.

Take note of how the foot that is placed on the ice is on an outside edge. If a skater uses an inside edge instead, they will be penalized for incorrect technique. Skaters who make this mistake often switch to the inside edge at the very last second, just before takeoff.

Edge jumps

If the skater does not strike the ice with their toe pick, it’s either a Salchow, Loop or Axel. These jumps are known as Edge Jumps because the skater takes off from the edges of their blades.

The Salchow

The skater’s legs assume a “/ \” shape.

After that, the skater sweeps his right foot forward and takes off.

The Loop

The skater’s legs assume an “X” shape.

After that, the skater briefly “sits” down before launching into the jump.

The Axel

Skaters typically do a long glide backwards before this jump. This is common but not necessary.

After that, they turn their head and take off in a forward direction.

And that’s all you need to know! It also helps if you watch videos of many, many skaters, so you can practice identifying jumps with these common indicators from various camera angles. :) 

As a challenge, try identifying all the jumps in these programs (x, x, x, x, x) and let us know if these tips were useful! (Not all the takeoffs in those videos are the typical ones, but we’re sure you’ll get the hang of it eventually if you watch enough skating). ^^;;;

Until next time, folks!

More from us: Part I (Jump Identification in Slow-Mo)   ✦   Part II (Jump Identification in Real Time)   ✦   Part III (Combination Jumps)   ✦   Part IV (Spin Identification)   ✦   Part V (Steps Identification)  ✦   Part VI (Step Sequences)   ✦   Part VII (Grade of Execution - Jumps)   ✦   Part VIII (Transitions)   ✦   Summary of Figure Skating Scoring System

Yuzu is the sweetest, kindest and most wonderful person imaginable. 🥰 💖

omg so last night Li Yugang, one of the most respected singers in the Chinese music industry, released a song called 羽生 (Yu Shēng/Hanyu). its a song he wrote for Yuzuru Hanyu, inspired by Yuzuru. i cant emphasize enough how big this is. everyone in China knows Li Yugang. i feel like everyones bound to fall in love with Yuzuru and his skating.

anyway he wrote a poetic essay on his Weibo to introduce this song. the song is STUNNING. pls give it a listen.

「天と地と」 氷柱 • 羽生結弦

「Heaven and Earth」 Ice Pillar • Yuzuru Hanyu

src: x x x x x x x x x

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

By far, my favourite photo to come out of the Olympics

Mark giving me very much: ‘Do you have a second to talk about our saviour Je-’

does anyone know pieces for one percussion and one piano? ahh it would be great if anyone could tell me some :)