Yes, As Someone Who Has Been Dancing Since They Were 3 Years Old, I Can Confirm That A Lot Of People

Yes, as someone who has been dancing since they were 3 years old, I can confirm that a lot of people I’ve told I dance tap, jazz, and ballet are shocked. I think half of that comes from if you know me, someone who played basketball and hates skirts and dresses, it wouldn’t seem I’d like something like dance.

While jazz isn’t my favorite (ballet is), tap is definitely special. I think a lot of people do see tap as silly and old fashioned, but it’s not, not completely. The movements we do depends on the song, but most of the time it’s modernized and slightly draws from jazz movements—which is basically a little brother in a way to hip hop. (At least that’s how I see it.) In my most recent tap dance we danced to Sucker by the Jonas Brothers, compared to another year when I danced to Jail House Rock by Elvis Presley…or when I was 8 and danced to green eggs and ham while wearing a striped red and white hat as part of my costume lol. I even did an Irish dance one year, maybe when I was 13, and that was a tricky year for us because learning to Irish dance and remembering to move certain ways was hard for my class.

That’s the beauty of tap though, it can be classic old or new and modernized and it all looks amazing. It’s such a tricky thing to do, besides pointe, because not only are you learning these moves that have to line up with the music at the perfect time, but you’re doing it with 20 other people, and if one person is off you can hear the difference. I don’t think people appreciate dancing enough and how hard it really is. I do tap, jazz, and ballet for 30 minutes each on one day—an hour and a half—and I walk out of the dance studio as tired as I do if I walked out of basketball practice.

I’m not going to lie, that’s why I get slightly annoyed/upset when people say it’s just dance. Like, you don’t know how many people have told me, because I refused to dance at dances for schools because I don’t like to, that I take dance, it’s the same thing; you know how to dance. Guys, it’s not the same thing. Not to me at least.

Please, appreciate people who do ballet, jazz, tap, pointe, hip hop, any form of dancing, because a lot of hard work and practice goes into it, as you can see with the amazing ladies above and even the Nicholas brothers.

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👽 Masterpost of X-Files Fic Rec Lists

Here is a master collection of all the themed X-Files fic rec lists that I’ve posted (so far!).  These and all my individual story recs can be found under my fic rec tag. Enjoy!

UPDATED: Newly added lists have ** asterisks

Post-episode and Movie Stories

all things Biogenesis ** Elegy ** Fight the Future ** Fire Firewalker Ghouli How the Ghosts Stole Christmas ** I Want to Believe I Want to Believe island getaway Millennium ** Pilot Pine Bluff Variant Plus One ** Provenance ** Providence Rm9sbG93ZXJz ** Roadrunners ** Small Potatoes Tithonus ** Triangle The Unnatural ** Trust No 1 (one lonely night fics)

Season Stories

Season 7, part 1 Season 7, part 2 Season 7, part 3 Season 7, part 4 Season 7, part 5 Season 7, part 6 ** Season 7, part 7 Season 7/8 fics involving Mulder’s brain disease thing Season 8 Season 8/9 fics where Mulder doesn’t leave ** Season 11

Holiday Stories

Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Hannukah, part 1 Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Hannukah, part 2 Halloween, Part 1 Halloween, Part 2 Mulder’s birthday Scully’s birthday Thanksgiving, Part 1 Thanksgiving, Part 2 Thanksgiving, Part 3 Valentine’s Day

Other Themed Stories

Angst/smut combo fics ** AU fics Autumn fics Casefiles, Part 1 ** Casefiles, Part 2 ** Cute domestic MSR fics Fics exploring Scully’s faith Fics focused on Mulder and Scully kissing ** Fics where first names (Fox or Dana) are used ** Fics where Mulder and Scully exchange keys ** Fics where Mulder calls Scully “Dana Katherine” Fics where Mulder calls Scully “honey” Fics where Mulder cheats on Scully ** Fics where Mulder comforts Scully and calls her “honey” Fics where Mulder is at William’s birth Fics with camping + smut ** Fics with Mulder and Scully at a team building seminar ** Fics with Mulder and/or Scully in a kidnapping or hostage situation Fics with Mulder or Scully sleepwalking ** Fics with Scully on her period ** First time fics (posted before 2000) ** Funny fics Happy fics ** Historical AUs Jealousy fics ** Kidfic and babyfic Kinky fics ** Long cancer arc fics Marriage proposals Mulder-as-profiler fics ** Mulder being jealous or territorial Mulder comforting Scully ** Mulder comforts Scully while flying Mulder/Scully arguments (leading to happiness) Mulder/Scully reunion after passed time Novel-length stories, Part 1 Novel-length stories, Part 2 Novel-length stories, Part 3 ** Novel-length stories, Part 4 One bed trope fics Party / FBI ball fics Post-colonization stories Scully bringing Mulder to a family gathering Scully giving birth Scully miscarriage stories ** Scully/Other fics Skinner/Maggie Scully fics Springtime fics Stories involving Ethan