Please do NOT buy pointe shoes and use them for her cosplay unless you are a trained ballerina and have been given the okay by an instructor. It’s VERY dangerous. Without proper strength in your ankles you won’t be able to hold yourself up, you’ll likely end up snapping your ankles or causing permanent damage to your shins and/or knees. It will be incredibly painful as well, your toes will bleed and your ankles will be bruised by the end of the time. Medical risks aside, it is highly disrespectful to the community. We spend 3 years of training to get our pointe shoes, often longer if we aren’t strong enough by then. To be en pointe is a status sign that you’re a high level ballerina, so unless you are, don’t wear them. However! You can buy split sole slippers and single sole slippers instead! They look very similar, won’t damage your feet and take no strength training to wear. Here’s a discounted dance store for them (X)I recommend the Bloch leather flats with crossed elastics. They’re very comfortable and they have a fancier feel to them than canvas or single strap elastics. The canvas will hold up longer though. Also note the sizing is different than standard shoe sizing. A U.S. size 6 is equal to a 3.5. The shoes also take into account your width, measured A-D. To find your size click here! (X) Happy safe cosplaying!
was this a passive way of saying “don’t wear ballerina shoes, that’s cultural appropriation!!”
because that’s exactly how it reads
No it was a ‘you’ll snap your ankle so don’t’ in addition to the fact you’ll be rude as hell to the people who have worked their asses off to achieve them. You don’t buy a trophy for a race you didn’t win, you don’t buy a gi and a black belt you didn’t earn, and you don’t put striped and stars on a uniform that you didn’t fight for. It’s really rude and disrespectful to the people who actually worked for it. It’s not culture appropriation, it’s safety and it’s respect. No ones stopping anyone from buying pointe shoes and sickling like there’s no tomorrow. You want to risk your health and look bad at the same time? Go for it.
Things just transpired in my house hold that are equal parts offensive and hilarious… Here goes.
So my roommate, Dale, has a gf who does not live with us, but she’s here all the time. So Sunday when my gf was her we were on the couch and we kissed (scandalous, I know) and she saw it, and I’m pretty sure that’s the first time she’s seen us be affectionate, that’s neither here nor there.
So today she tells Dale she’s “uncomfortable” here and wants him to move out because she thinks me and my lady are going to hit on her or something, she doesn’t like living with lesbians, cause it’s not “normal”, so now I’m pissed. Then, Dale goes, “well you don’t live here, so it shouldn’t be a problem, just stop coming over”…things escalated and Dale is trying to break up with her, but she won’t leave our house….she locked herself in Dales room.
So, Dale barges in my room wearing a bathrobe and goes, “call every lesbian you know, we’re smoking this bitch out!” Then turns around and whips his robe like a cape…
And that’s the story of how there are 8 lesbians climbing through the window of Dales room…
I was asking myself just now why they have “16 and pregnant” but not “16 and impregnated a girl” but I realized it would be pretty boring to watch a 16 year old boy play video games and go to school and live life as normal
harry potter au where dumbledore is replaced by ron swanson
“Slytherin wins the house cup because we do not reward an entire house for the inexplicable luck of three of its students. That is all.” - Sorcerer’s Stone
“I am obligated to tell you that you will find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. I would prefer you do not ask me - for that or anything else.” - Chamber of Secrets
‘Now write down your name only.’ “That is not information you need to know.” - Prisoner of Azkaban
“The Ministry is holding the triwizard tournament here at Hogwarts this year and will be on the premises for the better part of said year. My office will be off limits and I will leave the event to my staff as I want no part it.” - Goblet of Fire
“I take full responsibility for Swanson’s Army. They’ve proven that children are, in complete accuracy, more useful than the government.” - Order of the Phoenix
Severus reads symbols in Ron Swanson’s will. He understands them. - Half Blood Prince
“Goodbye, Harry. I’ve enjoyed parts of our time together.” - Deathly Hallows
When I went into the store today after work, I had decided I was going to be brave. I had a pretty good day, and I wanted to reward myself with something I’d been eyeing for quite some time. Mens underwear.
I won’t lie, I stalled quite a bit before I slunk over to the mens underwear section, but eventually I wound up in the aisle looking over my various options. It was while I was trying to figure out what size I would be, that the man is all his socks and sandals glory came into the aisle. I barely had time to look up before he bellowed at me, “you fucking abomination”
I gaped like a fish while I tried to wrap my mind around the fact that yes, this was happening, and yes, he just yelled that at me. He said it again, and began to make his way towards me, very tall and very angry looking. All the clever things I wanted to say died in my throat and tears started pooling in my eyes.
Just as he was getting right up in my face, telling me about how there wasn’t a single god from any religion that would accept a piece of shit like me, you appeared at the end of the aisle. You ran towards us and put yourself between me and him like you weren’t a tiny 5 ft nothing. Then you stuck your finger in his face and told him to “shut the hole in his head that was spewing ignorance and hatred and get out because he wasn’t welcome here”. It was his turn to be the fish then, and before he could say another thing you shouted “GET THE FUCK AWAY” drawing the attention of shoppers who had been so conveniently hard of hearing before. He tucked tail and left.
You turned to me then, put the underwear I had dropped back in my hand and asked if I was okay. I was sobbing and could feel my face doing the ugly thing it does when I cry. I nodded, you asked me if there was anything else I wanted to look at in the mens section, I shook my head. You asked if I had anymore shopping to do. I huffed out that I wanted some bananas. You took my hand and lead me towards produce. You told me I was beautiful. You told me I would look so handsome in the underwear I picked. You helped me pick out bananas and told me my future was so bright and wonderful it was practically blinding.
You held my hand all the way to the cashier, and then outside. You asked me if I wanted a ride, I told you I’d like to walk, that I needed some time to cry. You stared at me very seriously, then hugged me so hard I could feel all me pieces coming back together. You said “I don’t even know who you are and I don’t care, I love you”
I cried all the way back home.
Thank you. Thank you for everything. For who you are, and for what you did. Plenty of other people passed by and did nothing, but you came in like a shining beacon and all I can say is thank you. You saved me when I was all alone. Thank you.
the worst beauty misconception dark girls are fed is that they can’t experiment with their look
you can go as loud as you want
or keep it simple
stick to the neutrals
or go on all out galaxy chic
go out sultry
or go out sweet
cause your skin is so versatile
that there’s no such thing as “the right colour”
be a goddamn mermaid if you like
dress down
or up
go natural
or not
you’ll still look flawless
so go ahead and shower in gold
or do nothing at all
cause at the end of the day
you’re still a queen
You wanna talk representation? Before Tumblr, I never experimented with color, hair or makeup-wise. I’d heard too many people correlate black women and bright colors as ‘ghetto’. Posts like these are So important. So incredibly important.
y’know, that candle josephine has over her board must be awfully inconvenient - spills wax on her work, flickers as she walks, goes out at the slightest breeze.
a mage inquisitor - love interest or not - offers her to conjure a permanent magelight and bind it to the board, so the cool bright bluish-white will always occupy the air about 5 inches off the board, always lighting the way for her.
at first josephine worries that it will fall, or blow out, or disappear if the board gets wet - nothing can dispell the magelight, it seems, and such a small act means so much to her and aids her productivity for the inquisition tenfold. every time the inquisitor sees the board, they smile, and josephine will never tire of the sight.
until one day it does flicker out - and for a reason she doesn’t fully understand, josephine is grieving long before news of the inquisitor’s death reaches skyhold.
