Me-made ballgown for The Lafayette Ball in Fayetteville, NC this weekend. What a fun time!

Ball outfit

The photo no one asked for, but that you will get anyway (face whitened out, and full photo only for people I know better ;) )

Ever wanted to do the dancing you see in period pieces like Austen adaptations? You can! Probably. It's called English Country Dance and if you're in the US you can check out this site to see if there is one near you:

It's not the prettiest looking site, but the information is there and you can normally find more information by looking up the group you find closest to you.

Want to try dancing but you're really not into the idea of getting into a hold with someone?

Good news! This style of dance the most you'll do is hold someones hand. You're not even at risk of stepping on someone's foot, you'll likely be too far away to even try.

Most groups are comprised of older members (think 60s+) who love to see young blood walk through the door. Most of the steps are very beginner friendly, and like most line/step dances, there will be someone telling you what to do once you know what each of the steps are called.

So why not go check one out? Worse that happens is you discover it's not for you. Best that happens is you discover that maybe you do kind of like dancing!

do any of the adoption kids dance? what's their taste in music? also is there a story behind the splash on iskra's right forehead temple?

OMG i have so many silly little thoughts about postcanon Cardassian youth music

I love my post-WWII cultural timeline for cardassia, which puts 20 years post-Fire sort of in the mainstream jazz/swing era. Out from the dignified waltzing of Garak's youth and into furtive lindy hopping in basements and bombed-out factories after government curfew.

Iskra definitely sneaks out to go to parties with the rest of the disillusioned youth of Prime. Garak knows. She knows he knows. He desperately yearns for a Cardassia filled with dancing and music and so he will condone youthful rule-breaking.

Mels suggested Romulan pop (rpop you might say) becoming a chief cardassian cultural import and I think that that's hilarious so I'm claiming it. Garak hates it but it's ubiquitous. Electropop cover of the Anthem of the Cardassian Union. Iskra Idan and Jocasta love it and play it constantly.

Young Elim listens to Terran music that he's picked up from Julian. They do sing-alongs on long drives. It's very sweet because neither of them can sing for shit. Jo listens to Cardassian classics and the occasional classical Vulcan or Andorian piece while she works.

Idan plays the Romulan harp (vulcan harp, but Romulan style [e.g. violin vs fiddle]). The harp itself was a gift from Bashir's parents. He mostly just toodles around on it for fun and appalls his Vulcan classmates with his banjo riffs.

As for Iskra's scar, it's the usual thing you'd see with being a child victim of annihilative mondicide.

Foyle’s War 

season 1, ep2 ‘The White Feather’

Not Marc Anthony releasing a new amazing song I won't be able to dance to, either.

A country dance was now called for, which was more acceptable to all parties, as none of Mr. Apollo Johnson's pupils were very perfect in their cotillon, and none of the officers, except O'Brien, knew any thing about them. O'Brien's superior education on this point, added to his lieutenant's epaulet and handsome person, made him much courted; but he took up with Miss Eurydice after I had left her, and remained with her the whole evening; thereby exciting the jealousy of Mr. Apollo Johnson, who, it appears, was amorous in that direction.

— Frederick Marryat, Peter Simple. 1837 illustration of the Barbados Dignity Ball by Robert W. Buss.

These headcanons are actually so random but they are fun so

Bendy first language isn't English, it's actually latin. He has NO idea how he learned it, he just knows it. and whenever he hears a demon speak it he gets super excited because FINALLY someone who speaks the same language as him, well, other than English.

THOUGH, since he can speak Latin like every demon he..feels appreciated because of it. Because every demon just always says that they finally have something in common and actually sounds like a demon, just because of him knowing latin.

sometimes, whenever he remembers Felix's talent, he tries to communicate with the cat in latin, but all he gets is gasps and confused looks.

But the cat himself? Looks at the demon like he just said he found the biggest secret ever, but then he replies!!

Now everyone just grew used to it. Well- Boris, Holly and Felix. The rest just keep forgetting.

He swears holly keeps making him translate phrases in Latin like he's a translator...he doesn't mind though, it's fun. Better than being stuck in a room struggling to read a book in a language he doesn't understand too well.

Not me who keeps rambling in the tags

Why is it when films/TV want to do a "Jane Austen Dance" for flirty reasons they usually do something based on Strip the Willow and/or Sir Roger de Coverley when really the flirtiest dance of all is Well Hall

Please enjoy this commentary on Scottish dancing courtesy of a random English officer in the late 18th century:

Things I love about this:

1. Tarantulas?

2. The implication that Scottish ladies are in it for the love of the game (reel), unlike their English counterparts

3. What kind of weirdo thinks that reel music (generally pretty lively!) is liquid laudanum?

i. LOVE. this movie….

A few weeks ago, we had a ball, doing historical dances as our dancing group does once a year. This year I invested time to go to the hairdressers before, so my hair wouldn't be all over the place at the end of the night.

Well... it wasn't. 10/10 will do it again :)

screaming crying throwing up three A*s🥹🥹🥹

Not me unironically watching the Beverly Hillbillies after hearing Quinton's dad's lengthy talk about it...

I love Jed...

actually, you know what ? im glad my ex gf ghosted me, i dodged a bullet it seems

Ricky Martin - La Bomba 1998

Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Ricky Martin began his musical career at twelve as a member of Puerto Rican boyband Menudo. His solo career started in 1991, and his third album, A Medio Vivir (1995), helped him rise to prominence in European countries.

"La Bomba" was the third single from his fourth studio album, Vuelve (1998). The album earned Martin his first Grammy Award. The song's title, which translates to "the Bomb" in English, is derived from the Afro-Puerto Rican dance music of the same name. Lyrically, it is a metaphor in which Martin compares the bomba music "to a drink that makes you drunk; the listener is high from the rhythm of the dance".

"La Bomba" is one of Martin's most commercially successful songs in his career. It was a top-five hit in Central American countries, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. The song peaked at number 27 on the US Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart while in the same week, the song peaked at numbers 11 and 13 on Billboard's Latin Pop Songs and Tropical/Salsa charts, respectively. In Spain, it reached number five, giving Martin his second top-five hit in the country, following his 1998 chart-topper hit, "La Copa de la Vida". "La Bomba" also peaked in the top 40 of several non Spanish-speaking countries, such as Australia and Sweden. It won the award for Best Danceable Tune at the 1999 Premios Eres.

"La Bomba" received a total of 85,3% yes votes!