Ice dance. And sparklies.

[icepixie]

I loathe loathe loathe ONTD-type communities (sparkle!text and huge uncut images make me want to punch things), but I just discovered that there is one for figure skating, and I had to check it out. I quickly couldn't take it anymore, but I did find it hilarious and oh-so-apt that they had tags for things like "illusion mesh fabric" and "oh plushy" (how many times did I say that myself?), not to mention "plushenkohnotheydidn't," as well as "your russian overlords," which, well, yes. Although apparently China is moving on up lately. And the US and Canada somehow started being amazing at ice dance, which I'm still kind of ???? over.

Anyway, I don't think I can bring myself to go back there again (my eyes, my EYES), but before I closed the window for good I did find a great collection of pictures of Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat, the Marina and Gwendal clones I'd hoped would be successful way back in 2004 or whatever. (Look. Clones! Less so now that Fabian has done something different with his hair this season, admittedly, although Nathalie dyed her hair darker, so it's kind of a wash.) Apparently they are successful now! Yay!

BTW, their free dance for this year is based on City Lights, which I guess explains the costumes. I'm not sure what explains the last picture in the collection above, but I can't decide whether to go "awwww!" or laugh. It's cute, whatever it is.

In other news, where half my flist seems to have finished the word-orgy of NaNo this week, I appear to be starting one of my own. Not a NaNo-type project, but between my fake TV show and a stocking stuffer I've started for fandom_stocking,* I've written 2,000+ words in the past couple of days. Pretty shocking for me, I have to say.

* Hahaha, oh, man. I am having such fun with this. I've gone through the lists left at the sign up post and made my own list of requests I could possibly fill. I have, like, thirty written down. I doubt I'll do more than five or ten, but that's okay! I love this buffet-style request-filling. Especially when so many people are requesting small fandoms that I know.

Comments

[alek-sandros.livejournal.com]

Thanks for liking my pictures, even though _skating isn't your thing and all. :D

I was sent here by the pingback_bot. XDDD

[icepixie]

Your pictures are FANTASTIC! I've always admired people who can take really great sport/fast motion-type pictures. I sure can't.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Isn't figure skating kind of an ONTD-type community in real life? I mean, the internet doesn't even NEED to add the sparkles.

[icepixie]

IT REALLY IS! It totally comes with the sparkles PRE-APPLIED.

[magsyb.livejournal.com]

I know ONTD can be ridiculously horid, but there is so much info right at my fingertips without me having to search it out which one thing I do like.. I just ignore the majority of the posts and actually look at the ones I do enjoy.. like Doctor Who posts, Craig Ferg posts, and sometimes when a new movie trailer comes out.. all of that stuff is nice to see without having to go to a whole bunch of different sites.. *shrug* I just no longer comment ..hells to the no on that one.