#with hayley feeling neglected and all :P
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JUMP Honolulu 2018: Solo Results!
JUMPstart Solos
2nd : Hayley W, Aquarium Blues (Impact Dance Hawaii)
1st : Scarlett F, Dance Like Yo Daddy (Impact Dance Hawaii)
Mini Solos
10th : Nadia L, Arabian (Impact Dance Hawaii)
9th : Graysen G, Clay (Impact Dance Hawaii)
8th : Thalia M, Pizzicato (Impact Dance Hawaii)
7th : Emily L, My Philosophy (Impact Dance Hawaii)
6th : Kayley K, Rival (The Company)
5th : Logan M-K, A Million Dreams (24/7 Dance Force)
4th : Kennedy C, Fela Kuti (Drill Team Hawaii)
3rd : Sienna S, Last Breath (Hypersquad Dance Company)
2nd : Nyah M, ICON (Hypersquad Dance Company)
1st : Elliana W, At The Mercy of The Waves (Michelle Latimer Dance Academy) [YRJ]
Junior Solos
10th : Trinity I, Take Me To Church (Dance Movement Academy)
9th : Leilani K, Survivor (Hypersquad Dance Company) / Hannah H, Feel It Still (Ballet Hawaii) / Sachi Yorkstan, Classique (Manoa Dance Studio)
8th : Jeryn G, Swanilda Variation (Impact Dance Hawaii)
7th : Trelissa I, The Greatest (Allegro Performing Arts Academy)
6th : Kiley N, Stand By Me (Punahou Dance Team)
5th : Naima C, Steam Heat (Pas De Duex Hawaii) / Kylee A-K, Rule the World (Honolulu Dance Studio & Boogie Down Prod.)
4th : Zoe P-S, Beautifully Unfinished (Honolulu Dance Studio & Boogie Down Prod.)
3rd : Kamyle S, Virus (Pas De Deux Hawaii)
2nd : Madi B, Oops (Project 21) / Mariah P, Icee (Hypersquad Dance Company)
1st : Georgia E, Trumpeto (The Company) / Taylor N, Landscape (Pas De Deux Hawaii) / Ava L, Escaping Thoughts (Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts)
Teen Solos
10th : Lily H, Dawn (Maui Academy of Performing Arts)
9th : Casidy C, Crossroads (Punahou Dance Team)
8th : Kyra S-T, Lean On Me (Drill Team Hawaii)
7th : Autumn W, Find Somebody (Bobbie’s School of Performing Arts)
6th : Vanessa R, Station (YYC Dance Project)
5th : Amanda T, Anxious Shadows (The Pointe Academy) / Marisa K, All Again (Pas De Deux Hawaii) / Tani S, For You (Honolulu Dance Studio & Boogie Down Prod.)
4th : Trelyne I, We Were (Allegro Performing Arts Academy)
3rd : Ava F, Escalate (Honolulu Dance Studio & Boogie Down Prod.)
2nd : Riko M, Luminosity (Pas De Deux Hawaii) [YRJ]
1st : Halle L, Grow (Ballet Hawaii) [YRJ]
Senior Solos
10th : Jasmine P, Hold Back the River (Pas De Deux Hawaii)
9th : Draven A, Human (Honolulu Dance Studio & Boogie Down Prod.) / Tahirih P, Release (MVMT Dance Center) / Rachel T, The Other Girl (Pas De Deux Hawaii)
8th : Raina T, Only the Winds (Ballet Hawaii)
7th : Helena R, Out of Darkness (YYC Dance Project)
6th : Christianne M, Loved By You (Honolulu Dance Studio & Boogie Down Prod.) / Kiana K, Sand ( Honolulu Dance Studio & Boogie Down Prod.) / Ally T, Ascent (The Pointe Academy) / Bec G, Black Lake (Tri-City Dance Center)
5th : Alexis K, It’s All Coming Back To Me Now (Drill Team Hawaii)
4th : Sarah R, The Radical Self (Club Dance Studio)
3rd : Rachel S, Ending ( Honolulu Dance Studio & Boogie Down Prod.)
2nd : Alyssa O, Neglected Space (Pas De Deux Hawaii)
1st : Scott A, Light Blooms Into Hollow Space (Michelle Latimer Dance Academy) [YRJ]
Adjudicated Awards
1. G
2. HG
3. G
4. HG
5. HS
6. YRJ
7. G
8. G
9. G
10. G
10A. G
11. G
12. HG
13. HS
14. HG
15. G
16. HG
17. HG
18. HG
19. HG
20. HG
21. HG
22. G
23. HG
24. G
25. G
26. G
27. G
28. G
29. G
30. HG
30A. G
31. G
32. HG
34. YRJ
35. G
36. HG
37. G
38. YRJ
39. G
40. HG
41. HG
42. G
43. HG
44. HG
45. G
46. HG
47. G
48. HG
49. G
49A. HG
50. G
51. G
52. HG
53. HG
54. YRJ
55. HG
56. HG
57. HG
58. HG
59. HG
60. HG
61. G
62. HG
63. HG
64. HG
65. G
67. HG
68. HG
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Album Review: 'lately I feel EVERYTHING' - WILLOW
When WILLOW feels, she feels hard. And lately, she’s been feeling EVERYTHING...
Although pop punk is currently experiencing a renaissance of sorts, 20-year-old Willow Smith is no bandwagon jumper, her love of the genre able to be traced back to her school days, where she was bullied for being a fan of Paramore and My Chemical Romance, as well as watching her mother, actress Jada Pinkett-Smith perform with nu-metal band, Wicked Wisdom.
First single ‘t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l’ might sound like an early-era Paramore clone, but it’s a damn fine one, brimming with urgency thanks to Travis Barker’s drumwork as Smith snarls ‘I knew a boy just like you/He’s a snake just like you/Such a fake just like you/But I can see the truth.’ ‘F*CK YOU’ also gets straight to the point, screaming as a drum kit in the receives a beating it won’t soon forget: ‘Fuck you for fucking up my heart/Don’t you ever get involved with me again/Fuck you for getting in my town/Get the fuck out and don’t come back around.’
On ‘Gaslight,’ things get complicated (‘I like you/You like me/That's why I'm confused, I can't read the signs/So why you gotta treat me like this’), turning crippling insecurity into a dizzying thrill ride. ‘don’t SAVE ME’ offers up a sluggish, blistering groove, culminating in a thrashing, blues-tinged outro. ‘naive’ marks a harrowing coming of age for Smith, her vocals soaring atop rolling, gloomy atmospheres as remembers a phone call from friends asking her to pick them up after being sprayed with rubber bullets at BLM march in the Bronx. ‘Come Home’ (featuring Ayla Tesler-Mabe of Canadian band Calpurnia) is a haunting glam rock waltz that showcases the best of Smith’s vocals, able to stretch them from a dreamy trill to a dazzling wail as she hopelessly yearns from afar.
‘¡BREAKOUT!’ (featuring Cherry Glazerr’s Clementine Creevy) channels the vicious yet playful swagger of 90s riot grrl as Smith eschews human contact in favour of plant life, boasting ‘I don’t fuckin care what you thought of/I can give life to the slaughtered/I can set fire to the water/I can change the world’ in a callback to her earlier, more spiritually-inclined lyrics. She warns on the brooding ‘XTRA’ to ‘Miss me with the fake apologies, you’re being extra’ as rapper Tierra Whack effortlessly glides across a smoky sprawl of sound.
‘GROW,’ meanwhile, links Smith up with on her idols, Avril Lavigne, for a spunky empowerment anthem reminiscent of Infinity on High-era Fall Out Boy. It’s also the kind of technicolour pop punk that wouldn’t have looked out of place on Meet Me @ The Altar’s recent Model Citizen EP. Seriously, if a duet isn’t on the cards in the future...
Short, sharp and loud, lately I feel EVERYTHING is a solid album despite a few missteps (‘Lipstick’ feels ill-fitting and kills momentum, as does ‘Come Home,’ as heartfelt as it is).
Contributions from the likes of Barker, Lavigne and Creevy help strengthen Smith’s rock bona fides, along with some occasionally brilliant lyrical turns and an impressive rasp that would make Hayley Williams proud. And goddamn, is the youthful angst so painfully on point. With massive choruses and blazing riffs, songs like ‘t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l’ and ‘Gaslight’ are perfect to scream along to while in the midst of your first real heartbreak.
At the same time, however, Pitchfork do bring up a good point in their own review of lately I feel EVERYTHING: While Smith helps raise the profile of women of colour in rock and pop punk, she neglects to mention others currently making their mark on the scene like Meet Me @ The Altar, Pinkshift, Frames, Beabadoobee, Pleasure Venom, Nova Twins, Big Joanie and Skinny Girl Diet, without the help of TikTok infamy or famous parents.
How many times do I have to say it: Rock never died; you just weren’t paying attention. Like a lot of Gen Z, they think they invented it first (C’mon, you guys get to make sweeping generalisations about Boomers and Millennials all the time, let me have this...)
Nonetheless, lately I feel EVERYTHING is the throwback emo we deserve, a record that’s not watered down or just a pastiche, but actually feels like it’s straight out of the 2000s. By approaching the album with the same boldness and willingness to take risks as she has with previous projects, WILLOW has managed to create something that’s fun, playful and honest.
- Bianca B.
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Lil bonding fic for day 2 of @lesbianalluraweek (coming out/telling the team) sorry I couldn’t get this out last night, I ad a rlly bad headache
(Also everything here is completely platonic team bonding, I do not ship or condone p@llura)
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It was a rare night that the princess could not sleep.
It was common that she’d neglect the practice, deeming her work more important. But she hardly ever was simply incapable of falling asleep.
That night, there simply happened to be a particular subject on her mind, one that required the waking mind to contemplate. An incredibly complex topic, one difficult for any being to think of without extreme confusion and overwhelming emotion.
Girls, and why the hell they were so beautiful.
She’d been sitting in her chambers for nearly two vargas now, stuck on this question. Images of girls she’d met along her travels with the new paladins flashed in her mind, filling her with a sense that she couldn’t quite place.
It wasn’t lust, nor was it a love, or admiration. At least, she didn’t think so. But she couldn’t be sure.
One thing she was sure of, however, is that girls were beautiful and incredible and stunning and nothing could ever compare to them and the way they made her feel.
Eventually, her train of thought reached a simple loop of that girl is beautiful, I wonder if she felt the same way about me. Did I give a good first impression? Am I one of those beautiful girls?
She resolved to go speak with one of the paladins, perhaps they could take her mind off the subject.
Wandering the halls, she realized only two of the five paladins were awake and out. Keith was fighting his ass off in the training room, but she knew he spared no glances for women of any sort, and decided to keep walking. She eventually reached the Green Lion’s hangar, where Pidge was hunched over at her laptop, coding away with a stale glass of nunvill at her side.
“Hello, Pidge,” she said softly, walking into the hangar.
Pidge didn’t respond, but she did pause in her typing.
“Would you like a blanket? Or..” she grimaced. “A new glass of nunvill? One that hasn't… crystallized?”
“M’good,” Pidge mumbled, through a large chunk of hair stuffed in her mouth. “Why’re y’up?”
“I had a question that’s been… bugging me. I supposed you may be the best to help me answer it.”
The younger girl blinked slowly, seemingly to take an extra few moments to process her words through her sleep-deprived state.
“Wha’s th’ question?”
“Well,” Allura began, unsure how to phrase it. “You’re a girl, correct?”
“Yeah?”
“On Earth, do girls… you know,” she mashed her cupped hands together in a sort clapping motion.
“Have sex,” Pidge offered, trying to provide whatever word she was looking for. “Date? Kiss?”
She nodded uncertainly, still uncertain as to what Pidge meant by those terms, but they felt like they might be what she was describing.
“Yeah, it’s not suuuuuper common but it happens,” she explained.
Allura sat down next to Pidge, folding her hands in her lap.
“Back on Altea we had this thing called qandaf. It was a sort of relationship, in which two–or more–people would spend time together, go to qandaf events together, do… intimate things together, and eventually, if the relationship worked out, become life partners.”
“Yeah, we call that dating,” Pidge reaffirmed, turning to rest on the skirt of Allura’s dress.
“On Altea, a qandaf between girls, or between boys, was a very common thing. I was wondering if it was the same on Earth, or if that even… happened?”
“Oh! Yeah, like I said, it’s not the most common thing, but it definitely happens! We even have special words for relationships like that, and for people who swing that way!”
She perked up. “Can you tell me what those words are?”
Pidge shot up, breaking out a wide grin.
“Dude, yes! Of course I can! Get ready Princess, you’re about to have a crash course in Gay Shit 101 with Professor Pidge!”
Allura flapped her hands in her lap, letting out a rush of excitement at being able to bond with one of her paladins. And over girls, no less!
Pidge fished a small notebook out of her pocket and passed it to her, along with a pen.
“Take notes, there’s gonna be a lot.”
She opened the notebook and poised the pen, ready to write down anything and everything important about the discussion.
“First of all, a relationship between two people of the same gender is referred to as gay. It’s also an umbrella term for anyone who’s attracted to the same gender. There’s also a specific words for girls who like girls, and only girls, which is a lesbian. I’m a lesbian myself, girls are great.”
“Girls are great,” Allura mumbled, writing downs the words Pidge was telling her.
“Now, after those two, there’s also bisexual, which is someone who likes two or more genders. That’s what Lance is, by the way. There’s also pansexual, which is attraction to all genders. One can have a preference, but they have the capacity to be attracted to any and all genders. I think Shiro is pan, but I’m not sure.”
“There’s also polysexual, which is sort of a middle ground between the two, where someone is attracted to multiple genders, but not all. Hunk is ply, he likes people who aren’t fully any binary gender. So like, if someone identifies as somewhat male or somewhat female, but not all the way, he’d like them, but not if they were just a boy or a girl. But then we get into the specifics of gender and what is and isn’t and whether gender is even real or not and that’s a complicated discussion for another day.”
Allura set the pen down as Pidge stopped talking, smiling nervously.
“That was… more than I anticipated.”
Pidge snorted, throwing her hands. in the air.
“Earth is gay! Earth is really gay, Princess,” she exclaimed.
“Pidge?”
“Yes, Princess?”
“I think I may be what you called… a lesbian?”
“Wait, really!? Nice!”
“I am glad that it excites you,” she chuckled, a little confused by her reaction.
“Man, I am so glad there aren’t any straight people on this ship,” Pidge sighed, lying back down on the hangar’s cold metal floor.
Allura nodded along, despite not knowing what that word meant. She had a feeling.
“Dude! You know what this means?”
“What?”
“I gotta show you my Hayley Kiyoko playlist! Wait here, my phone is in my room!”
Pidge jumped up, dashing out of the room. She smiled as she watched her go to grab her music. The entire encounter had gone far better than she had anticipated, and she was hopeful. Perhaps it could go over as well with the rest of the team when she told them.
Until then, she was content to spend time with Pidge in her lion’s hangar, listening to Earth music and talking about the pure gift to the universe that was girls.
#lesbianalluraweek#lesbian allura week#vld allura#voltron legendary defender#pidge holt#everything is p l a t o n i c#there's no shipping going on here#i just feel the need to stress this point
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