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[lyingheart]

Busy day/night on here. Adding to it in brief:

1. Does anyone here know ballroom dance?

2. Is anyone willing to learn?

[ this is probably totally a genuine interest by Annie to learn some form of cultural dance relevant to the history of this world (no). or... it's a ruse related to tracking something else down involved with ballroom dancing (basically). ]

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[bioshift]

Do you teach it ??? I've seen ballroom dance but I've never done it.

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[lyingheart]

[ Annie stares at this and concludes yet again that she needs someone to screen everything she writes before she writes it, petting Rex as he makes a noise from where he's laying across her lap. ]

I'm looking into learning, actually - a community center close to where I live offers lessons, starting up in the next week or two. School has been encouraging "extracurriculars," and one of the suggestions had been along lines like this, so I wondered if it was anything others were interested in or knew anything about.

Is it something you're interested in learning?

O M G i need to get back to our other thread but this was too good to resist

[doneproperly]

I know the theory.

[Which is to say, he's terrible at it.]

hahaha you make me smile

[lyingheart]

Are you any good at practical application?

[ She suspects not at all. ]

[permavoice]

[heartstings]

Ooo ooo, me. I do.

I kind of know a lot of dances, call it hobby.

permatext

[lyingheart]

Would you say it's a decent skill to have picked up? Knowing various kinds of ballroom dances?

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[hoboagogo]

1. no

2. no

what brought this up

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[lyingheart]

Scholastic recommendations that I examine "extracurriculars" and the fact there's a community center up the road offering free ballroom classes once a week.

[ None of this is a lie. BUT IT IS NOT THE WHOLE TRUTH!!! ]

[ktfod]

[Huh.]

How often?

[He likes classy things. More reason to buy the clothes suitable for it too.]

[lyingheart]

[ Akihiko make your boy do this it'd be fun promise ]

The community center here in Nonah is offering free classes once a week, in the early part of the evening.

[acclimatized]

Ballroom dance is a waltz isn't it?

[lyingheart]

That's one dance that seems to be involved, yes.

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[braided_icarus]

oh yeah. Winry mentioned something about a dance. Is that coming up now?

[Sob. Guess who is :l over it and being forced to dress up. With his brother's help because his own style is hideously 'badass'.]

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[lyingheart]

I have no idea.

[ no, she really doesn't know, what. what dance. ]

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[screenplays]

Just watch So You Think You Can Dance. Or Dancing with the Stars.

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[lyingheart]

To get familiar with the style, or are you suggesting watching rather than doing?

Voice

[liverletdie]

It's not that hard, actually.

Voice

[lyingheart]

[ ... She actually ends up sticking to voice with this one. #points to Tony sort of ]

One of your many talents?

[ Video ]

[onewiththewild]

Ballroom dance? What's that?

permavoice

[lyingheart]

It's a style of... social interaction many humans enjoy, usually accompanied by music. You could probably learn an adapted style, if you were interested - it'd be a bit different with four feet instead of two.

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[anthropophagite]

I know theory, if it's of any help. I don't think it's too difficult to apply it.

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[lyingheart]

Volunteering to help apply the theory?

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[altercate]

Are you offering lessons or trying to find someone to give lessons?

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[lyingheart]

It's bad wording, I realize... but the second. Or... anyone interested in taking lessons as well, if there even was anyone.

[ Annie and failing with words: still a thing. Forever a thing. ]

since annie asked... | text

[heartboxer]

[ hey. hey. annie? remember this guy???? you really should have anticipated Armstrong's ability to insert himself into anything that sounds remotely ridiculous. ]

Ballroom dancing is a family skill that has been passed down the Armstrong clan for generations! Are you, perhaps, skilled at this graceful art form of movement too?

[ #yikes. Who the hell would be able to possibly manage ballroom dancing with Armstrong??? ]

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[lyingheart]

[ it's shirt guy! she did not expect him but then again if he knows this stuff he's actually useful and Annie... does not... turn away from that............. ]

I'm not. I'm looking to learn, actually... I didn't phrase my question well.

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[taselikeabee]

Ballroom dancing... Sounds like it could be fun.

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[lyingheart]

Thinking of checking it out, Bumblebee?

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[databoner]

[Suddenly, and without prelude:]

You, ballroom dancing.

[After such a sudden absence in talking to her, and after the carnival incident... seems rather odd he'd just approach talking to her again like this, isn't it? Certainly has nothing to do with my unspoken hiatus I took. Perhaps, though... he's trying to forgive her? But that doesn't consider, of course, if she's forgiven him.

Either way, being a jerk seems to be the way he's going about it.]

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[lyingheart]

[ Timestamps don't really lie, so it's pretty apparent that Annie puts off answering for a while, because frankly, she's dealing with shit she has to deal with, and that's... more than enough these days. About to get worse, too, but she doesn't see the immediate future, and Bertholdt leaving leaves her as the steady one hoping that she can help Reiner keep a hold of his mental sanity and the split personality that their enemies know too well exists, and have already deliberately tried using against the both of them.

Convince Reiner to be his soldier side, and Annie has no allies from home. She barely knows how to be a shitty friend, and she'll need to be a much better one. You know I don't hate you indeed.

It's a little sad the present highlight of her life is puppy sitting for a dog with more energy than she has while his owner frolics with another Cybertronian off elsewhere, avoiding, you know, even more Cybertronians.

... If Annie pauses to consider her life, she'd realize just how bizarre it's really gotten, but she's too busy for stopping, and so onward she goes. Pausing to consider what she feels over anything much other than those immediate concerns doesn't factor in. She's surprised to hear from him, but that's about where she cuts herself off. ]

Yes. There was a flier at the train station. It seemed interesting.

[ Ooooor it leads on one of several bread crumb trails after rumors of those who know a little something firsthand about the Hornets, but surely, surely she's really into this for the whole extracurricular credit thing. Yeah.

The person who still knows very little about modern music (or any of the music used in particular in ballroom dance) is totally into that now, Inumuta, don't be a doubter! ]

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[glowsferatu]

[ dancing. it isn't the first thing she would have imagined annie to list as a hobby, her movements are always so stiff and measured. but if there's one form of dancing where a lack of grace may go unnoticed, it would be in a ballroom. still, what an odd place to imagine annie. ]

I Wouldnt Call Myself An Expert By Any Means But Ive Tried It Once Or Twice

[ she was all nerves last time, nothing to brag about, but there were extenuating circumstances. her dress was so nice but that was such a terrible night. ]

Is That What Youre Doing Now

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[lyingheart]

[ If only any of these people had seen her in action fighting... granted, to say she'll treat this like fighting, or sparring, is actually to show a level of dedication, but she's going to need to in order to get the innocuous results at the end of the several month rainbow. So to speak. ]

Trying it once or twice? Yes. I am.

[ And all the reasons she's listed here are legitimate, if they're not her end goal. Extracurriculars for school is all for that nebulous idea of caring what looks qualifying to universities, and she really doesn't. ]