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Street Dance of China S3, Ep 3. It sounds like maybe I should step up my pace on these, as they’ve announced the captains for S4 now? (Yibo back, Lay Zhang back, plus a couple of new guys I don’t actually recognize yet.) When is this going to air because it is just LAUGHABLE that I can keep up with 3+ hours of this a week. Particularly if I’m going to keep obsessively re-watching Word of Honor AND try to finally finish Killer & Healer in the miniscule free time I actually have for teevee. There’s certainly no way I can watch and dither on about 3+ hours/week worth of dance show in realtime before January, at least.

ANYWAY, this ep, we get a recap of everyone falling out after the captains’ cypher, and we learn who got the final extra towels and passed through to the next round: Lu Jiao Ni, who we barely see, on Team Jackson Wang; Yuan Ye (as promised) and A Li (who we barely see) on Team Lay Zhang (ETA: Wait, we find out later that A Li isn’t even on Lay’s team, she’s on Yibo’s - he wouldn’t move her on, and she gets one of Lay’s towels instead); Bullet (as promised) on Team Wang Yibo; and Xiao Ming (as promised? maybe? as we’ve barely seen this guy?) on Team Wallace Chung.

This week: Out of 400 people, we’re down to 105. Not all of these faces are familiar, and I suspect I don’t really need to learn 90 percent of the unfamiliar faces. I … am going to go out on a limb and make a guess that one of the dancers whose name has been bolded in one of the past two episode recaps is going to be the ultimate winner, because I have umpty SYTYCD episode reactions on my LJ, and I suspect I know how this works. I wouldn’t even put money on any of those five bolded names in the previous paragraph, quite honestly. Anyway, now it’s time to start culling down to 60. We bring out the team captains, and my first reaction is “MY EYES” because wth are some of you wearing? Wow. Yibo’s shoelaces are all over his jacket. Wallace looks like he rolled a flasher on the street for his trenchcoat. Lay Zhang is wearing a baggy pink jumpsuit, and I guess, OK, it’s easier to maneuver bathroom breaks in one of those when you have a dick, but that’s definitely a fashion trend that should have stayed back in the ‘80s. I guess questionable fashion is an international phenomenon.

There’s also an empty chair for the promised Mystery Guest, and there’s a game with clues, and a lot of guesses from our captains about who the Mystery Guest will be, and Jackson does A Bit through the whole thing. I don’t know whether to be entertained or annoyed by him. He’s the only one without some egregiously questionable fashion choices (so far) this episode, so maybe he gets a pass. Anyway, I don’t have the pop cultural context to understand the guesses, and I also don’t have either the pop cultural context or the knowledge of this area of dance to grok the Mystery Guest’s identity, but he’s Huang Bo, and apparently he had more than 1000 dance performances in the 1990s, so he must be at least as old as me and Wallace, if not older. Yibo takes the opportunity to make the – very NON-politic – remark that maybe HE wasn’t even born yet at the time? That … is not the way to win friends and influence people, Infant. Also, the Mystery Guest is NOT the person Jackson kept doing A Bit about. The reveal is all very dramatic, and he does a lil’ bit of choreography from of each of the four Extant Captains’ videos before he takes off his mask, and they act appropriately impressed, and there are some girls with short shorts among his backup dancers, so that all happened. The show obviously wants me to be very impressed by him. Show also tells us he’ll have a special skill that will be very important and at least leads us to believe that he’s going to be the “life-saver,” so the audience immediately curries favor, or at least plays at it.

Next up: Rules. Eliminations this week involve contestants self-selecting into groups of anywhere from one to five people and performing for a panel of all the captains. Teams pull a number out of a hat for performance order. Thumbs up from all four captains, you go to the next round. Abstentions from all captains, you go home. Thumbs up from some and abstentions from others, you face the possibility of a call-out from other contestants, whereupon you have to dance for your life battle to find out which of you stays and which of you goes. Oh, and we’re only going to keep going until the 60 available seats are filled, and then we’re done. If you’re number 35, you’d better be prepared to battle someone earlier and kick their ass, or you’re fucked, you don’t even get to dance. I’ve said it before: Audentes Fortuna adiuvat. Only wait, ETA: There will be some last minute BS rules fuckery, in a way that is clearly intended to save someone in particular, which I feel some kind of way about - and it is not really the way that almost everyone on the show seems to feel - but I guess we’ll get to that later.

And cue ridiculously long nattering, so we’re going to cut here.

First group is Lin Meng (Team Wallace), Teng Zai (Team Lay), Bing - of the infamous motorbike flirtation - and Dian Men (both Team Yibo), along with a dude we haven’t actually seen yet, Tang Qian (also Team Yibo). Your lack of even B-roll so far is concerning re: your chances in this competition, Tang Qian. I’m just sayin’. Anyway, this is a powerhouse group, and at least Lin Meng and Teng Zai are familiar with each other because they’re from the same crew, and Xiao Bao remarks from the audience of contestants that these guys are going to go through, no matter what. They’re going to do a totally popping routine. My sound drops out at the beginning which … yeah, makes them look even more like a boyband at the beginning, in their matching baseball uniform shirts. So, here’s the thing, they’re a little muddled, they don’t move smoothly around each other on stage - their dance moves are coordinated, but they’re not moving in space like a group that understands each other. (Somewhere in here, my sound comes back, and Yibo already can’t hold still to the music.) The other thing is, though - all of these guys are very good at what they do, they finally hit their stride a minute or so in, and when they do, they hit it hard. I’m frankly surprised they don’t get passed right through to the next round, but Jackson abstains on the vote, and when called upon to explain himself, it turns out he just wants to see them battle. I can understand the impulse, Jackson, but this is already super stressful on all the dancers, and it doesn’t escape my notice that you’re the only one of the four captains without a dog in this particular fight, so a little bit you look like you’re doing this just because you can. Remember this, because it will set a bad example for an 11th -hour vote. Anyway, there’s the chance for a callout, which no one takes because the entire audience is convinced this group is too good to beat. Five of 60 seats taken.

Group two is Shen Kai Xiang – the Jack Ma lookin’ dude. He’s flying solo. He gets to stand around uncomfortably for a while onstage while Special Guest Huang Bo does A Bit making fun of all of the captains’ speech patterns and accents and pronunciation, except Yibo’s, because Yibo apparently never talks. Ha ha. (I’m also wondering if there’s some socio-cultural stuff underlying some of this that I’m not cued in enough to fully understand.) Huang Bo then tells the contestant that Jackson has probably fucked him over by praising him too effusively (he came from Jackson’s team, and Jackson already is displaying a tendency to rhapsodize about how everything is “ART”), so all the captains now will have inflated expectations that Shen Kai Xiang is surely only going to fail to meet. I’m beginning to suspect that Huang Bo’s Special Guest Superpower is not “lifesaver” but “kind of annoying asshole.” Maybe it’s to take that particular spotlight off of Chick. ANYWAY, Shen Kai Xiang FINALLY gets to perform, and he gets a little bit of a slow start, but he packs in a lot of elements and gets a LOT of good air in his moves once he gets wound up. He’s lyrical and super emo about it. I’m kind of “eh” on him – technically, he’s good, but I’m not particularly connecting with him, which I’m willing to admit could be a me thing, as everyone else seems super-impressed. Three captains pass him through. Yibo does not and explains this decision as personal preference – he likes more “underground” styles, more battle styles. Huang Bo brings back the issue of too-high expectations to help explain why Shen Kai Xiang isn’t being passed directly to the next round, even though Yibo just explained his decision and that is literally not the reason he explicitly gave. Anyway, Shen Kai Xiang gets no call outs, which seems to surprise Yibo, and we’re at six of 60 seats taken.

In quick succession, we move through Liang Hua Jie – we don’t see much of him, but we learn that while Wallace likes his musicality, Yibo doesn’t like his face (OK, doesn’t like his facial expressions, which, what can I say? I get this. If I’d had the power to unilaterally send home Lacey Schwimmer on her season of SYTYCD, I’d have done it, that’s how fucking annoying I found the way she’d mug for the camera the entire time she danced. Like I couldn’t even watch her dancing, because I was too distracted by what she was doing with her FACE the whole time.); Jian De Chao (wait, is this Chao from the first episode?) & Chen Zui – who, from what we get to see of them have some good flow and move pretty well together, but can get a little bit mushy in their moves, and Yibo likes their skills, but Lay thinks they don’t feel like a group, which what? Incorrect; and a group that’s dubbed themselves Purple Storm Show, which includes Alex from Jackson’s team and four other people who I can’t even catch – we barely see their performance, and Lay likes them, but Jackson thinks they’re flat. I can’t tell if any or all of these guys were sent through to the next round or sent home, but if they didn’t make it, then :( because I liked Alex, and he got hit in the eye for this, he deserves better than to get sent home because his team can’t get it together. We still have no group that’s been passed through by all four captains.

And then, next up is another powerhouse team: Gongsu Wu Ming and Hei Zai (Team Lay), George and Xiao Ming (Team Wallace), and (Xiao) Bai (Team Jackson). Yibo is skeptical about an all B-boy group, and don’t make me fight you, Yibo, because an all B-boy group is like my dream come true (sorry, poppers; sorry, lockers; my heart truly belongs to the B-boys, they are my favorite). We learn they added a flip at the last minute – an assisted flip, with a couple of them flinging George into the air over the other two of them. Wu Ming thinks that George is the only one of all the competitors who could do it, but George – who has a little more skin in the game than anyone else, as the guy who could potentially land on his head wrong - is a bit concerned about whether they’re going to pull it off. They start, and they’re all good, a little bit muddled before they hit their stride, but the slo-mo cartwheel is great, and from there, they’re off and running. This is why I like the B-boys – I know it takes a lot out of you to do this, but there is nothing – nothing – like the magnetic energy they can generate when they’re in their performance headspace and everything is flowing. This is a performance, and Wu Ming has talked a little bit about wanting to step up breaking, and if this is the sort of thing he wants to do, I’m all for it – give him the platform now. I’m going to take just a minute to single out Bai and say that he’s better when he’s not doing A Bit like he did in his initial performance for Lay Zhang – he’s much more electric here, and someone else’s choreography may make the difference. Jackson, Yibo, Lay – they’re all out of their seats, none of them can hold still in the face of this. We get to the end, and unfortunately, everyone else is kind of cluttered and mushy moving into position for the flip – that is not a way to go out guys, DO NOT DO THAT at the last minute – but then George f’kn NAILS the flip, so that’s thankfully the last impression they leave. The captain’s faces are a picture. (Except Wallace, who’s suddenly too cool to give us anything, apparently.) FIRST ALL-PASS. George’s assessment: “Not bad.” :facepalm: OK, Mr. Cool Guy. They also cut in a post-interview bit with Bai about the performance, and he notes that they all know each other, they’ve been battling each other for like, a decade, now. Dance together more, guys.

Moving on, we fortunately have another very strong group to follow them: Gai Gai, Wang Tao and Huang Xiao, all from Jackson’s team, and you can tell he badly, badly wants to start in on the ART! bit but he (loudly) keeps his mouth shut about this group until after the performance. The only one of these three we’ve seen so far this season has been Gai Gai, but they all dance in the same group together, and they seem to be well-known by a lot of the other competitors, particularly Huang Xiao, both as a dancer and a choreographer. They say they’re doing jazz, although I’d be more likely to call this contemporary, if I was going to put them in a box. They are gorgeous – lyrical, fantastic dance vocabulary, amazing choreography, beautiful musicality, and the way they move together as a unit is … :chef’s kiss: I think Huang Xiao may be the best of the three, technically, but there’s something ineffably charismatic about Gai Gai that’s pulling focus a bit – just a bit – more than the other two in this performance. If there’s a weak link, it’s Wang Tao, and really, that’s only by comparison with the other two, which is a really high bar. We get some shots of the audience of competitors worrying about Yibo’s reaction, given his preference for the old-school battle dancers and an apparent “strictness” with urban dancers and related genres, but these three also get an All-Pass to the next round, and Yibo talks to them a little bit about the choreography and his (complimentary) reactions to the performance before they leave the stage.

And then. Oh, dear. Then we get a group of three – Da Mao, A Li and Tall(? Maybe? It looked like he was going to get out of this anonymously – probably lucky for him – but then the subtitles threw up this name on him at the last minute) – who are the only krumpers who’ve made it this far. Lay Zhang is really promoting them, because he really wants to see a bigger krump presence, and he’s really nervous about their performance, and he really, really should not have pinned his hopes on these three, because I hate to say it but they are a hot fk’n mess. They are … not good. I can’t believe any of the three made it this far, and in fact, we learn after their performance, while everyone is sitting in a kind of stunned horror (and y’all, I am not exaggerating for effect there), that Yibo did not pass A Li on from his team, that she got one of Lay Zhang’s final extra battle towels. I mean, there’s an obvious gap in the quality of this performance compared to everyone else we’ve seen. There’s also a lot of pacing around and standing around instead of dancing. They’re trying for the attitude, but they’re not managing it. They do manage to get an embarrassed reaction from Chick, which says something all on its own, as I wasn’t aware that he had any shame. Other competitors also are doing the embarrassment-squick cringe in the audience. Lay Zhang is literally hiding behind his clipboard. This is the first All-Out we get, where they’re directly eliminated – not even Lay can bring himself to vote “yes” on them. Now, all the krumpers are gone, and Lay is visibly sad and frustrated, but as we appear to move to a little bit of a break, Yibo displays the most emotional intelligence of anyone there and asks Lay to teach him how to krump, to distract him and get him actually doing the dancing he enjoys for a little bit. It’s also a chance for Yibo to learn a new thing, and he talks about his chance to improve in a little interview bit from later on that’s cut in here. I mean, yes, that actually was kind of a sad attempt at krump during the cypher, my dude, so this can only help you, but you also are being an extremely good guy, giving your fellow captain some emotional support right now. Thumbs up.

Next up, we have AK Dong (Team Wallace), also flying solo, and they give us a little heart-tugging B-roll about how he doesn’t have a team with him there, so he’s going it alone. He’s fantastic right out of the gate - good musicality, clean and precise, and he’s got a nice texture to his performance, it feels … full even though it doesn’t feel as big and expansive as some of the other dancers. Unfortunately, Lay doesn’t agree with me (incorrect), says he wants a performance that’s more elegant and “balanced,” and is the single holdout vote, which opens my dude up to a call-out challenge. This is the guy who looks like comedian Hank Chen, which has overshadowed his dancing twice now, because he had to listen to it from Haung Bo when he came out to dance, and he CANNOT catch a break, because now he gets challenged by three teams, including Bouboo’s team, which also includes Klash, Bullet and Colin (all Team Yibo), plus Boris (Team Lay), who we’ve only seen B-roll of so far although he speaks good Chinese, despite being from … I’m not sure where, but not China? AK Dong complains about how Boris looks at him with innocent eyes and tells him that they have no option other than to challenge, which is true (ETA: insofar as we know at this point), because they’re #36, and the 60 slots would almost certainly fill up before they even get a chance to dance. This team wins the bottle spin against the other two challengers, and I mean. :hands: This is a slaughter. They’re five-on-one, and they’re all really good at what they do, they make it look effortless, and AK Dong’s face is going to kill me. Wallace actually does vote for him, but the other three vote for the team, and that’s five more seats filled, and AK Dong eliminated, and I’m annoyed (although not as much as I’m gonna be) because I liked him, and I would have liked for him to get a chance to dance without having to listen to the Hank Chen nonsense at least once.

Next, we have Li Yue & Sha Sha, who appear to dance together on the regular. They have a kind of sultry number put together as the Green Snake and the White Snake that is … hm. I don’t know if we’re classifying this as urban or jazz for the purposes of the show, but it’s another piece that fits more into my contemporary box, if we were classifying them for most of the Western dance spaces I’ve seen. They’re good, as befits this stage of the competition, but a little inconsistent, technically. Also, I don’t find them particularly exciting to watch – I feel like something’s missing, although I can’t quite put my finger on what. I’m not sure their flow is consistent, and they’re probably not helped by following Gai Gai, Huang Xiao and Wang Tao. They get three yes votes from Lay, Yibo and Jackson, although they are … enough to maybe make Yibo a slight bit uncomfortable, being the shy and fragile homosocial forest creature that he may be, or that he may be getting edited as, who knows. Huang Bo pokes at Lay Zhang about his reaction to and vote for them. He also basically says that Wallace didn’t vote for them because Wallace wasn’t turned on by them, because Wallace is still doing his imperturbable cool-as-a-cucumber routine. Wallace’s hold-out vote opens them up to a call-out, and several groups come down to challenge, including – bad luck for Li Yue and Sha Sha – TI, who win the bottle spin. This group includes choreographer Zheng Jian Peng, as well as Su Lianya, who I didn’t realize was a TI member, both Team Wallace, along with … oh my god, Wei Ming, who’s the “Sir, what are you doing?” guy from Episode 2 when Wallace was giving out towels to poppers like candy, and I’m kind of pleased he’s made it this far, just based on that moment, alone, never mind any dancing skills. Rounding out the group are Long Long and Wei Lin, both from Team Yibo, and I think we got B-roll of Wei Lin at some point during Yibo’s eliminations in the first couple of eps. I know nothing about Long Long at this point. At any rate, everybody in this group is so good, I can finally see how they got their rep – fantastic musicality, and a great job of working as a unit. They feel like a team, even when they don’t manage to be quiiiiite synchronized. I’m not really feeling their costumes. Su Lianya continues to be a standout, even in a group that sets the bar this high. Wallace’s composure finally breaks when the other team captains evince interest in poaching her, and oh my god, he still has the hair elastic that he held for her at her initial performance, that they said would be a token of their vow to go all the way in the competition together. OK, I give Wallace a lot of shit, but this is actually kind of adorable. He literally pulls it out of his pocket to tell the other captains they can’t have her and to plead with her to remember their promise to each other. TI gets three votes and moves on. (Lay, still apparently captivated by the snake ladies although not enough to bald-facedly vote for them in the wake of TI’s performance, abstains.)

Next up are Tao and CiCi, and OK. I’m going to be honest here. I think they’re leveraging the “couple” schtick for all it’s worth, and good for them, it looks like they can pull it off, because I think some of the amazed reaction we get from the captains and from the audience is influenced a lot by their coupleness, but at the same time, I think some of the amazed reaction we get from the captains and from the audience is actually influenced by their coupleness rather than their dancing. I mean, Su Lianya and Wei Lin are in the audience of competitors clutching each other’s hands and crying, and it seems to be just as much about Tao telling CiCi out loud that he loves her just before the music starts and the fact that they kiss as part of the piece, if not more than it’s about their actual dancing. The show is also really pushing me on this, because whereas, with everyone else, it tosses up closed captions that tell me what moves are happening (in addition to dialogue subs), now I’m getting things like “heaven-made match.” They’re good, but I think they actually also suffer a bit from following the Gai Gai/Huang Xiao/Wang Tao powerhouse, because I think we’re unlikely to get anything on the lyrical side of things that’s going to match up to that for the rest of the day. Tao and CiCi are better than Li Yue and Sha Sha were, and it is pretty badass the way she manages to make herself so small and compact she literally disappears behind him for that last little bit, and if they’d won the bottle spin on the last callout, they would have won the challenge, I have no doubt. But. :hands: I think the show has actually done that thing Huang Bo accused Jackson of earlier and set my expectations too high. I’m’a sound like Yibo – or like Yibo normally would, because he also seems to get suckered into the overwhelmed reaction for this – and say that I think Tao was better in the less lyrical style when he danced with Yibo and Bing in the Ep 2 towel battle. They get an All-Pass from the captains and talk about their inspiration for the piece, which apparently is a couple who confessed their love to each other the day before the girl had to go into COVID quarantine, and well, now I guess I feel like just a little bit of an asshole for not appreciating the COVID love story properly? Anyway, the captains then keep asking them intrusive questions about their relationship, and Huang Bo mocks Lay for apparently never being in love so he won’t understand what it’s like, and I’m cringing in my seat a little before Jackson gets us back on track and Tao and CiCi finally go sit down.

Then Huang Bo takes the chance to go over to the contestants who haven’t performed yet and stress them out about how few of the 60 available seats are left. I mean, I guess it’s part of competition, but come on, dude.

ANYWAY, next up, we have a group calling themselves Team Wake Up – it’s the waackers, and this group includes Xiao Bao and San Jin from Team Lay, along with a guy we haven’t seen yet, Tu Zi; Meng Di from Team Yibo; and Gao Shi Yu, who we also haven’t seen, from Team Wallace. They start working it, and I’m like, oh wait … and then they hit the Cat Walk, and I’m like, oh shit, and a light bulb finally goes off, because I’ve been super-fk’n slow, but now they’ve shown me what this genre is about, and I’m interested to see what they do here, because a lot of this performance could be straight off the floors of the ball scene. The entire group is pretty good, although I do think Gao Shi Yu is the weak link, she’s not quiiiiite up to the standard of the rest of them. They move well as a group, though, good coordination, sharp and clean, fantastic musicality, high energy all the way through, with EXCELLENT attitude, which is half the battle, because if you’re not confident for this kind of thing – or if you can’t at least fake it flawlessly – you might as well not even be out there. They all do lose a little bit of focus when they’re in the background as they break out for their individual moves, and they fall apart a tiny bit near the end. Also, Meng Di’s belt is off-center, and I know that sounds super picky, but it kept distracting me, so I wish that hadn’t been the case. Xiao Bao is definitely still the standout here – he takes the lead from the minute they come out, with the mic, and never really relinquishes it. We finally get to see San Jin perform, and his extension could be better. Tu Zi must be lacking in the charisma department to not have shown up before this, because he’s better than I expected. Before they started, the group that Xiao Jie and Yang Kai are in together – who still haven’t performed – were debating if they should challenge this group, but Xiao Jie advised waiting to see how good they were, and then after the performance is all, “nooo, we should not challenge,” and props to you for not just writing off the waackers, my man, because they get an All-Pass, and there’s not even a chance for a callout. Before we move on, Wallace clams he’s learned some waacking during the show, and the other captains (led by Jackson, who calls him gege) make him demonstrate, and the contestants, who know what side their bread is buttered on, applaud.

Available seat check. Yibo participates in further stressing out the contestants by saying “Like, a dozen?” All y’all need to be challenging whatever chance you get. Now I bet you’re sorry you didn’t challenge Shen Kai Xiang back at the beginning, aren’t you?

Next up is our group of X-Crew representatives, hop-hop, and Yibo is excited. I almost expect him to do a little dance in his seat. Yang Kai helpfully lets me know that this group is from the top hip-hop crew in China. Oh, hey, that’s Qin Yu, from Team Wallace, the guy who Gongsu Wu Ming immediately recognized as the weak link in one of the towel battles and got up on; the guy who subsequently got taken out by Teng Zai, My Beloved. Qin Yu, the guy we hadn’t even had B-roll on, and still don’t. I wonder if I’m reading too much into that. He’s joined by Flea (which I’m assuming is a direct translation, as it doesn’t sound like “flea” when he says his name?) and Ding, also from Team Wallace - neither of whom we’ve seen before, I think - along with Ting and Lei Xiao Yang from Team Jackson. This is also the first time we’ve seen Lei Xiao Yang. I … feel weirdly unconfident about the famed X-Crew, given we haven’t seen more of them before this. Then again, we’d only seen Gai Gai from her group, so maybe this is a BigSurprise!edit … Ting comes out hard and heavy, and I actually think this is the best performance we’ve seen from her so far. She spends a lot of time out in front on this one, and I don’t think I got from her initial appearance or from her towel battle performances just how good she actually is. Overall though … I am … not that impressed with this group. They start out strong, but then they get sloppy. They have trouble working as a unit, which is surprising from people who supposedly have experience dancing together. They’re all very good, but they’re not synchronized. A lot of their solo showcase bits lack complexity, and that is an understatement. Qin Yu still has some of that nice fluidity along with his pretty face, but he’s not balanced, and he absolutely does not have the finesse he needs to pull this off. They all do move into the end strong, together again, hard, power behind their moves - almost everything from the slo-mo move is good - but … it’s a little late, y’all. That took way too long to get back together. And then, they inexplicably descend into … it’s not even sloppiness, it’s an utter hot mess during, like, the last 15 seconds of the performance, which is absolutely not the final impression you want to leave. And … wow. Shit. There are captains who actually agree with me on this. Sometimes you see the expected top dancers allowed to slide some in these early rounds of competition shows, but not this time – Wallace and Yibo both vote yes, but Jackson and Lay both abstain, and Jackson … wow. Wow. Is disappointed in them and expected more. Despite the fact that he’s like, 12, and that he’s done this to past groups just because he wanted to see them battle, a little bit this actually has a vague feeling of your dad telling you how much you’ve let him down. The audience is shocked, but I’m glad to hear someone say it. It was a good - if spotty - performance but certainly not the best we’ve seen.

So, we have a callout, and the group with Xiao Jie and Yang Kai, which also includes some guys named Shen Zi Hao, Xiao Zhi Bin and Oscar, pounces. And that is a very deliberate word choice, because these guys are on X-Crew like a lion on the trailing gazelle. They’re in their Men In Black suits (ETA: Wait, no, I think maybe they’re Agent Smith suits), and the audience of other competitors is losing it. Xiao Bao is very excited about Xiao Jie. Both Yibo and Jackson look like they’re in actual physical pain, to be forced to make the choice that’s coming up. Ting looks like she’s getting ready to throw up – she’s accepting this with less equanimity than she did the possible results of her initial performance, at least on the surface. I … am dreading losing her, actually, because I suspect that’s what’s getting ready to happen, and I am so so sorry, baby, that you worked so hard to carry your crew like that and they couldn’t keep their shit together. On the one hand, I’m impressed they’re pitting this level of competition against each other so early. On the other, I feel Jackson’s and Yibo’s pain. God. God. The Xiao Jie-Yang Kai group is here to f’kn battle. This is shaping up to be a slaughter. They are fast, clean, precise, great musicality, complex moves, super performance. They’re synchronized, high energy, fantastic animation – which could be a little cheesy, but they’re confident and fearless enough to pull it off - fun and interesting. They are maybe a little bit too gimmicky to be perfect for my taste, but I’m not the one voting them through, and what they’ve come up with is perfect for the audience that matters – the captains, the majority of which are 20-something-year-old boys – and knowing your audience, and performing for them, is a skill, too. BIGGEST (and frankly, only) ISSUE: Somebody fucked up a move, right at the beginning … I think maybe Yang Kai? (ETA: Yah, it was Yang Kai, ugh, what a time for that to happen.) If you’re going to fuck up, best to do it at the very beginning, I guess, and then give this performance afterward, to mitigate it as much as possible, but that one misstep gives the captains enough excuse put off a decision they really don’t want to make, like it’s not just going to make it worse to kick the can down the road a few minutes. Split vote, 2-2 (I thiiink, Yibo and Jackson for X-Crew, Lay and Wallace for the challengers?), which throws it to a further battle. Ting and Xiao Jie, one-on-one, and both of them are feeling the pressure of competing for their entire team instead of just themselves. Two rounds, hiphop and locking. So, each of them is better in their specialty. Ting’s got some fantastic, precise moves for the hiphop round. Xiao Jie is not as good in this round; I do notice he’s got a more directly confrontational style when he’s battling. I feel like she’s doing more waacking than locking in the locking round. Overall, she’s cleaner, more precise, he’s got a little bit more energy. I wouldn’t want to make this decision, frankly. I think Ting was better technically, but Xiao Jie might be the better performer – better at all that other stuff that adds up to stage presence. I do wonder how much of the captains’ decision is influenced by the groups, and who the captains are or aren’t willing to lose, even though it’s supposed to be based on this 1x1 battle. Just looking at who the show has put emphasis on already, we’ve got Ting vs. Xiao Jie AND Yang Kai, and I don’t know that they’re going to want to let that one-two punch go. Wallace votes Ting and X-Crew. Yibo and Lay vote Xiao Jie and the challengers. Jackson, the coward, abstains. Looks like Ting and X-Crew are going home, and this is the first cut that I’m genuinely upset about seeing. Ting feels bad for letting her crew down, but they let you down first, baby, or you wouldn’t even have been in that position.

Available seat check: 12. Dancers left: 27. Well.

We’re coming up on two hours now, and there’s clearly some kind of drama we want to get to, because we whip through the next few performances – few names, limited time spent on them. The ones who do make it through are likely cannon fodder in the next couple of rounds. There’s a group of four in khakis that gets sent through to the next round; Yibo liked their moves. Guy named Zhan Ke in a suit goes through to the next round. We’ve turned into a clip show now, and the screen literally says “ … ” at one point as each group of competitors gets 3 seconds of airtime. Cut to three seats left out of the 60. There’s about seven people left, and … that includes Chick. I have a sinking feeling this guy is going to be the real focus, at this point. He’s paired up with some dude named Long, and they have lost the bottle spin on callout after callout after callout, so they’ve never had a chance to challenge, and now, look at these morose motherfuckers, still sitting in the bleachers. I almost feel bad for them.

So, three seats left, and the next group is three people: Yang Qi aka “Apple” from Team Jackson, Lin from Team Lay and Bobo from Team Wallace. Urban dancers. I lose sound on them right at the beginning, but they’ve got some nice sharp moves, good choreography, they work well as a unit. Solid performance, if not the best we’ve seen. Apple’s got the best technique, I think. Audience likes them a lot. We get a cut to Chick and the other competitors who haven’t danced yet as we count down for the vote, and they are all dying. Three votes yes. Yibo abstains. Huang Bo is so prepared for this group to be sent right through that he starts clapping and congratulating them, and Yibo has to be all, “Wait, no. Not yet.” The captains give their reasoning: Jackson says that he felt their power, emotion, speed all deserved full marks. Yibo agrees.

Yibo agrees.

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Their faces in response, y’all. Their little WTF faces as he explains that he really just wants to see the other dancers, too. Oh my god, Yibo. You can’t just say that out loud. Are you serious with this, you can’t even make up a thing to fake critique them on? Cut to a later interview with Bobo, who’s been the least able to school his face journey in response to this: “Wang Yibo, I won’t forget.” Also, Bobo says, you’re not even hot. (lol) Joking aside, the group goes on to make all the correct noises about sure, it’s a competition, you face competitors, it’s what happens, because what are you gonna say? Meanwhile, to be completely honest, I’m probably the person who’s been least able to school their face journey in response to this, because come on, Yibo. It’d be one thing if you were making some kind of statement about the way they set this up from the beginning, with all competitors unable to participate, but I’m pretty sure you’re actually doing this to give Chick another chance, because you have been inexplicably all up on his jock since he showed up, what is it about this guy? I don’t get it. At all.

So, we get a callout, and everyone left challenges, of course, because this is probably the last chance. The audience is rooting for Chick. I still don’t get it. Bottle spin ends up on … Zhao Hai Jie, from Team Wallace, who we’ve never yet seen perform. Here’s the thing: If he can win this battle, then he only takes one seat, leaving another two seats available. However, he is NOT going to win this battle, not without ripping off any figleaf of fair competition that the show may have, because he’s just not that great. If he wins, there’s no way around the fact, right in your face, that it’s a strategic vote. He does not win. Four votes for Apple, Lin and Bobo. Sixty seats filled.

HOWEVER, just in case you were worried there may be any integrity here, director Lu Wei comes ambling out to say, hey, you know those rules we have in place? Well, fuck ‘em. Who cares. Let everybody left battle, and whoever wins that battle can have a seat along with the 60 other people. I’m going to translate this one, because despite the limitations of my Level 1 Duolingo Mandarin, I have umpty SYTYCD episode reactions on my LJ and I feel like I’m pretty fluent in Dance Show BS: “We really want to keep somebody who’s left, so there’s going to be some chicanery on our part.” They really do not want Chick to go home, y’all. I know it’s him. It’s super extra obvious they’re desperately trying to save him, at this point. And I am here to tell you that if Chick ends up on this show and Ting goes home, there will be nothing on this earth that could possibly resurrect Chick from the Pit of My Dislike.

Anyway, we get Dai Dai from Team Lay, who describes herself as a fusion dancer and is pretty good for the first 40 seconds or so of her music and then completely loses the thread and kind of falls apart. The captains do not seem impressed. Possibly they also know we’re just killing time until we get to Chick. Up next is Su, who is Very Dramatic. He doesn’t say what team he’s from, but given Wallace’s reactions, I suspect he’s from Team Wallace. I suspect Yibo’s not going to like his face. His performance goes increasingly off the rails as he goes on. He’s got a lot of goodwill from the audience of competitors, but no. This is not a winning performance. And then we get Chick & Long, literally the last to perform. Chick spends the entire time doing A Bit. Long, who anyone barely remembers is even there, does 2/3+ of the dancing. Everyone – everyone – is apparently vastly entertained by Chick, and I just … :hands: Fine. He’s a character, but I have yet to see anything in three episodes, across, like, 7 hours, that lets me see whether he can really dance or not. Yibo literally tells Jackson, “He doesn’t have many tricks, but he’s got a ton of ideas” and later says he’s a B-boy without a power move. Anyway, one vote for Su (Wallace), three votes for Chick and Long. We’re at 62 dancers, and I cannot believe I’m going to be subjected to Chick’s continued clownery when Ting has to go home.

Thank GOD we’re activating the Special Guest Host Powers, the first of which is “REVIVE,” i.e., bring someone back who was eliminated. Yibo is immediately like, omg, the hip-hop group. Then we do Yet Another Bit where the captains cater to Huang Bo so that he’ll take their advice on who to revive, and it goes on too long when we are, my god, two hours and fourteen minutes into this. Meanwhile, Yibo reiterates, the hip-hop group. Yeah, Yibo, this I approve of - if I gotta watch you fall all over yourself over Chick, you need to get Ting back for me. So, we’re finally getting the captains’ actual recommendations: Jackson says the hip-hop group, possibly feeling bad about the fact that he’s the one who spiked their chance the first time around? Yibo is all, me too! Yes! That one! It’s kind of adorable. Also, yes, Yibo, you need to get Ting back for me. Lay says Li Yue and Sha Sha, the white and green snakes. Wallace recommends a popping group that I don’t even know if we saw perform? At any point in the past 7+ hours of three episodes? Wallace, are you high? Anyway, THANK GOD, Huang Bo brings back the X-Crew group. We’re at 67 dancers.

Second Special Guest Host Power is … “battle?” So, we’re setting up Qiang Qi Da Zhan, aka Seven to Smoke, which they’ve apparently done in past seasons? Each captain picks two people – eight total – to participate. Twenty minutes total. Increments of 30 seconds each to battle. And I guess you have to accumulate seven points in various battles. We don’t get to hear the captains’ picks, but I can see that AK Dong is called back for this one. Also, I spot one of the krumpers. (:eyeroll: Really, Lay? Because I know that was you.) We see some clips of this. We see AK Dong get to six points. He … maybe gets his seventh point? Anyway, he says in the last interview clip that he’s here. I guess we officially find out the Seven to Smoke results next ep?

Also next episode: Divided into two groups and battling by genre for the next elimination. Five rounds. Also looks like captains might get a chance to poach from other teams. Also some wacky fuckery with the dancers’ heads that looks like it’s going to be stomping all over my embarrassment squick, argh.

Finally, we get a peek at hotpot, and it sounds like they ended up with 70 dancers, so three people managed to get seven points in Seven to Smoke? And somebody’s mom is apparently coming to hotpot, but I’d have to watch the actual hotpot show to find out whose mom, and we’re out.

#wang yibo #jackson wang #lay zhang #zhang yixing #wallace chung #street dance of china #sdoc episode reax

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jaygarrick256 · 6 years

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Incorrect Flash quote

Inspired by Incorrect Bat Family Quotes and Incorrect Marvel quotes

Caitlin Snow: Come along to the Healer Hole

Killer Frost: To the Doctor Dungeon

Caitlin Snow: The Helper Hut

Killer Frost: The Medicine Mansion

Caitlin Snow: The Cure Cave

Killer Frost: The Herb Home

Caitlin Snow: The Health house

Killer Frost: The Remedy resistance

Caitlin Snow: The Soothe Shack

Killer Frost: The Revive Roof

Caitlin Snow: The treating Tunnel

Killer Frost: The Recover Roost

Caitlin Snow: The Ease Estate

Killer Frost: The Regenerate Room

Ralph Dibney: Don’t you mean the treatment area?

Killer Frost: No of course, not that would be stupid

#Flash #caitlin snow #killer frost #moonkitti

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Churan : Are you alright? You look like you didn't sleep much last night.

Jiang Yuelou : I got a solid 8 minutes sleep.

Jiang Yuelou : Not consecutively but it's alright . You're not even that blurry.

#chen yuzhi #hen jun bu si jiang lou yue #ian yi #jiang yuelou #killer and healer #killer and healer memes #incorrect killer and healer #killer and healer crack #someome get this man a memory foam mattress and chain him to it until he gets enough sleep

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killerandhealerqueen · 1 year

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Song Rong: *talking about Zhong Yiren* She says "Is beauty all that matters?" and you say "WHAT ELSE IS THERE"?!

Sun Yongren: *huffs* It was dumb, I know

Song Rong: *walks over and wraps an arm around his shoulder, looking at him* You should write a book: "How to offend women in five syllables or less"

#Killer and Healer #song rong #sun yongren #incorrect killer and healer quotes #i feel like they had this conversation somewhere #because sun yongren would say something stupid like this #and song rong would just look at him in disbelief

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xadoheandterra · 7 years

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Title: Salt and Sugar Fandom: Overwatch | (Marvel?) Characters: Reaper, Soldier 76, Tracer, Jesse McCree, Sombra, Widowmaker Tag(s)? Talon is full of controlling dicks, weird sci-fi science, making sense of Sombra’s abilities, Jack’s not Overwatch (yet), Reaper and his rage issues, dad!76, dad!reaper, kind of sort of crossover, unsure if or how to continue, fumbled and probably incorrect mexican spanish (feel free to yell at me about it), also r76 hints, also McCree’s accent sucks Summary: Winston really should’ve performed a routine check up on Tracer’s Chronal Accelerator. Maybe then this wouldn’t have happened.

Reaper crouched low behind the crumbling wall with a huffed growl. He tightened his grip onto his guns and glanced out from the cover, only to jerk back in time to dodge a shot from Jack’s pulse riffle.

“Tell me you’ve gotten the data, Sombra,” Reaper snarled behind gritted teeth. He debated the chance to slip into smoke and shadow, to swarm Jack like a wraith until the man chocked on him, on the black that made up Reaper; made up all that he was now. Behind his mask Reaper tracked to Widow nestled onto a rooftop where she worked to keep both Oxten and McCree busy and off of his back since Jack seemed so dead focused on him. He couldn’t tell where Sombra was, didn’t even need to really because what worth was hunting down the girl unless she wanted to be seen?

“Hold your horses, papi, I’m working on it,” Sombra snarked back.

Reaper snarled to himself a slew of curses and peeked out behind his cover again. He jerked back and growled when the shot grazed at the sides of his mask. Smoke wafted out from under it and curled alongside his fingers and ankles at the sudden rush of rage.

“Well hurry up,” Reaper growled. “Widow can’t hold off Oxten and McCree for too long and Jack’s getting a little too close for comfort here.”

“Well why don’t you just take care of him then?”

“If I had the time, mija,” Reaper huffed. He wanted to enjoy his discussion with Jack, not waste it on some sort of mess for Talon like this.

Sombra snorted. “Dios mío just kiss him and make up already,” she mumbled.

“Sombra.”

Sombra mumbled something back in Spanish and Reaper fought down the urge to just wraith himself to her location and shove soap down her mouth. Obviously the girl hung around seasoned killers far too often given the state of her mouth. The irony did not escape Reaper at all, and he shifted to peer out again and try to track Jack when Sombra cheered.

“Got it!” she yelled over the connection and Reaper sighed. He could faintly hear Widow mutter something in French that neither of them could make out as he started to let himself lose shape.

“Meet up at the extraction point,” Reaper commanded.

“Yeah, yeah,” Sombra yawned. “You think they’ll let us get in some proper down time after all of this?”

Reaper rolled his eyes, already most incorporeal as he shifted, near ready to fling himself across the battlefield. He didn’t bother to give Sombra a reply. There was a loud explosion as he started to move and a high pitched whine that crossed over his earbud. Reaper quite suddenly slammed back into corporeality.

“Sombra?!” Reaper jerked his head in the direction of the approximation of the explosion, but all he got on the other end of the radio was cursing. “Sombra!”

“What in the hell is that?” Sombra wheezed. “Reaper, look to Widow!”

Reaper jerked his head back to where Widow tangled with McCree and Oxten and paled. He climbed to his feet, already on the move to shift to Widows side, when the wine of Jack’s pulse riffle against his lower back stopped him cold.

“Don’t even think about it,” Jack growled. The air began to spark with electricity and a sudden second explosion drew the man’s attention. Even then Reaper found himself frozen still with the gun against his back. He could tell when Jack saw just what he saw when the barrel of the weapon slipped back a little. He watched the man suck in a sharp breath, then together they moved forward. Jack yelled out, “LENA!” as Reaper dropped into shadow and mist and flung himself up to Widow.

Jack jumped, scrambled, and climbed up to the rooftop and over to McCree, hands raised up against the sudden veritable vortex that seemed to be bursting out of Oxten’s chest. Somehow, despite the fact that they very well should have been able to hear the noise on the ground, no one could hear her screaming until they reached the rooftop. Reaper glanced and saw McCree inching towards Oxten, hands also held up. He couldn’t hear what the boy was saying. Instead he focused on Widow.

The second explosion that rocked the rooftop had knocked Widow promptly unconscious. Reaper reached her side just as Sombra did, the Latina woman knelt next to Widow with her gloved hand alight and screens built out of nanites rocketed under her fingertips. It took only a glance from Reaper to see that Sombra hacked into the few nanites in Widow’s system that were constantly monitored by Talon. He wondered if they were even aware that the girl could slip into those cracks and happily did so, then decided that it honestly didn’t matter.

“Lena!” Jack roared and Reaper glanced over to them, noticed the way that the pulsing vortex from Oxten’s chest beat faster. The sense of impending doom ratcheted up.

“What do we do, Reaper?” Sombra asked, and Reaper shifted back to see her blue eyes wide. He didn’t doubt that Sombra could feel the itch along her skin just like Reaper could feel it through his whole body. There wasn’t much of a chance, not with the increased frequency of pulses, to get away. Still Reaper reached down and pulled Widow up. His lower half already twisted into smoke for faster movement and a tendril snapped out to grab Sombra who yelped in surprise.

“We need to move,” Reaper growled. “Now.” If they wanted to survive whatever was to come their way from whatever happened to the chronal accelerator that Winston built for Oxten then they needed to move.

Sombra twisted to her feet but didn’t bother to get out of the shadowed grip Reaper held on her arm, aware that if push came to shove he could move much faster than she could and that grip might just save her life. Before they could race off however the vortex reached a critical point and the world exploded into a wash of color, static, high winds, and arcs of electricity. Oxten’s screaming reached a fever pitch, twisted into the high whine of an electrical charge, and then silence burst around them until their ears rang.

Reaper pulled Sombra close, the explosion rocketed him and the two girls he gripped tightly. He wrapped himself as best he could around them, shielded them from flying debris in a vacuum of sound. He could see Jack faintly being tossed aside like a ragdoll, McCree in his grasp, before sound exploded back around them. Oxten’s screaming cut in and then cut off sharply and Reaper felt himself collide into the rough trunk of a tree which snapped from the force. He slammed into a second and collapsed down to the ground, groaning, Widow still unconscious and Sombra awake, although given the way she trembled slightly probably shaken.

Carefully Reaper let go of his tight grip on the two girls. He let Widow slip to the ground and Sombra pushed herself up beside Reaper who leaned against the tree and wheezed.

“Reaper?” Sombra questioned.

“Ribs,” Reaper grunted and let his eyes slip shut and focused on his other senses. They didn’t have any healers between the three of them, and Reaper honestly didn’t feel like hunting down something to ease the ache right now anyway.

The only other options of course were to kill one of the two Overwatch fools with his shotguns, but Reaper decided to ignore that and just breath out heavily and attempted to ignore the burn along his chest, or the way his sides flaked off into mist at regular intervals. Sombra licked her lips and looked a bit worried at Reaper and then glanced around the trees that surrounded them.

“¡Nombre!” she breathed out, and one hand grasped at Reaper much to the older man’s consternation. “¿Donde estamos?” She couldn’t immediately see Oxten, McCree, or Jack but that didn’t mean that the two Overwatch members and Jack weren’t in the obvious forest with them. Sombra glanced to Reaper and rapidly questioned in Spanish, “Did you know she could do this?”

“No,” Reaper growled, and opened his eyes again. He’d already figured what most probably happened—at least in regards to their sudden shift in location. More then likely the damn monkey figured once he’d created the chronal accelerator he didn’t need to keep a close on eye it, like everything else Overwatch ended up inventing somewhere down the line.

Sombra carefully got to her feet, her gun forming into her hand with a twitch of her fingers and a small thought to the nanites that she could control with her whims. With Reaper wounded, Widow out, that left Sombra as the main line of defense and she didn’t like it when there wasn’t something for her to hack easily enough nearby. Reaper wheezed again faintly and Sombra bit her lip. She debated giving it all up; asking Overwatch to help them, at least given the situation. They could happily go back to blowing each other up after they were out of the forest and healed up for all Sombra cared.

“Don’t,” Reaper snarled. Sombra sighed, canted her hip, and rolled his eyes.

“Spoilsport,” she said back and then stiffened straight when she felt the telltale sign of electronics ping on the edge of her senses. Reaper heard someone stumble about and with a twist of ink and shadows held one shotgun up and at the ready. Jack fumbled into the broken tree, stared at the three Talon agents, and shook his head.

“Great. You’re here as well,” he sighed, pressed a hand heavily against the trunk beside the one Reaper crashed through, and waved his hand back toward the direction he came from. “Over here!”

Reaper moved to get to his feet, snarling, hissing, and spitting under his breath because obvious Jack planned to call over his companions and to hell if he would let himself be shot down like a mad dog. Sombra reached out and grasped him by the arm, form tense and shifted to be in front of Widow who still hadn’t woken. Reaper worried for a moment that the girl suffered from some sort of concussion. She did smack pretty hard into the roof, and he thought he saw her headpiece cracked.

“Easy,” Jack sighed. “We’re in no condition to fight either.”

Sombra relaxed a bit, and Reaper wanted to snap at her to not listen to this pandejo dammit, but he kept his words to himself. He bit them down with a wheeze and a glare at Jack and instead spat out a grumbled, “Fucking Overwatch.”

McCree and Oxten stumbled over next. Oxten, Reaper noted, looked pale and shaky. The chronal accelerator at her chest wasn’t off, but it was dim and flickered and the color itself seemed to be several shades wrong. For a moment Reaper wished he’d gone into science, maybe he could figure a way to stop the damn thing from blowing them all up since the idiotic monkey never bothered to work on his own invention after making it, and then he shoved those thoughts under the rug. Honestly he much preferred to kill things than stare at a computer screen all day anyway.

McCree, though, Reaper noted how the boy stood stiff. He watched how the kid glanced between Jack and himself, wary, untrusting. Reaper wanted to huff. This had been the first mission either had run into each other on the field, and while Reaper could admit the kid had grown rather well from his days at Blackwatch he did feel some disappointment. He could already name over a dozen ways the whole firefight could’ve gone in McCree’s direction a whole lot better if he’d did this or that right.

Finally McCree sighed explosively. He slumped down and scrubbed a hand over the hair on his face and put his gaze squarely onto Reaper.

“Fuck this is one helluva mighty mess ye’ve gotten us all inta,” McCree glanced to Oxten, and then shook his head. “Also pretty sure ghosts’r supposed t’ stay dead.”

“And buried,” Reaper drawled. “McCree.”

“Reyes,” McCree said back, lips pressed thin. Oxten glanced over to Reaper with wide eyes, and the pale pallor to her skin seemed to get worse.

“Great, wonderful, family reunion done and over with,” Jack pushed himself up, “do any of you know where we are?”

Sombra rolled her eyes, put her gun away, and turned. Reaper and Jack could hear the muttered Spanish easily enough although both deigned to ignore it.

“I don’t know, Jack,” Reaper chose to say instead. “Why don’t you ask your little science experiment?”

“Hey!” Oxten protested weakly, swayed, and McCree reached out to steady her.

“That’s uncalled fer,” McCree uttered with narrowed eyes.

Jack shifted forward, as if to defend Oxten as well, and Reaper rolled his eyes. Typical boy scout. He shifted a bit himself, an attempt to mostly relieve some of the pressure on his ribs. Reaper debated something else to say to Jack, or maybe to the two members of Overwatch in front of him. It wasn’t often that he could dig into them with some hard discovered truths and not get shot for it. In the end Reaper decided to keep his mouth shut and just focus on staying in one shape.

Reaper didn’t miss the way Jack cocked his head in his direction at his silence. He didn’t miss the way Jack looked him up and down as he leaned against the tree, or the way Jack’s visor seemed to focus on his chest. The old bastard knew him well enough that Reaper didn’t even need to wonder what the man might be thinking about. He turned his head to the side and resolved not to think about Jack, his Overwatch not-kids, or the fact that they weren’t attempting to kill each other. If Talon even knew….Reaper sighed explosively.

“Sombra?” he questioned.

“Un momento, papi,” Sombra mumbled. Reaper doubted she even realized she slipped papi into that sentence given the lack of burning sarcasm.

Jack shifted. “What is she doing?”

“Finding a satellite and getting a GPS location, if you would shut up,” Sombra growled. Her fingers moved as if typing on some sort of keyboard and her eyes almost glowed purple from the data that she had streaming directly across her eyes instead of in a nanite created screen.

Reaper shifted, stood up a bit straighter even though it hurt and ghosted a bit closer to Sombra out of worry. Jack picked up on it, obviously, as did McCree.

“What is it?” McCree questioned. He shifted Oxten’s position against his side so that he could reach for his measly six shooter easier.

“It shouldn’t be this hard for her to find a satellite, should it,” Jack said. He kept his voice low, loud enough for Reaper and McCree to hear him at the least.

“No,” Reaper growled, and something felt lodged into his throat. Just where had Oxten taken them?

“Hah!” Sombra jumped and did a little dance. “Got it.” She flicked her fingers and screens popped up around them with a map and a small blinking dot. Her eyes were already back to their regular blue. “We’re in, hm, New York?” she cocked her hip and blinked curiously.

“Obviously,” Reaper grumbled and drifted forward. He glanced at the information Sombra grabbed and scowled beneath his mask when he caught the date. “Sombra…”

“What?” Sombra asked, her tone a bit testy.

“Is this data all correct?” Reaper glanced over to her. She’d knelt over Widow after dropping the screens up for them to peruse.

“Of course, what do you expect?” she waved her hand and focused on the information she could glean about Widow’s condition.

Jack shifted up next to Reaper and nudged him with his shoulder. “What do you see, Gabe.”

Reaper snapped his head over to Jack, then grit his teeth and motioned toward the screen. “The date.” Jack glanced at the date and then leaned in closer in surprise when he saw what Reaper saw.

“That’s….”

“Oh it’s not just the date,” Sombra pipped up. She kept everything utterly chipper, but Reaper could hear the tenseness. “It’s everything.” The whole group looked to Sombra now as she explained. “See I tried to grab a Talon satellite first—they’re everywhere—but nothing. So I went with Overwatch—they’re everywhere too—again nothing. So I expanded my search beyond to every conceivable option and still—nothing. Nothing that I recognized. So finally I grabbed a stray satellite nearby—Stark something or other—and pulled the data from that. Do you know what I found?”

Sombra hummed at what she could see in Widow’s nanites and dismissed the data before she turned around and smiled at the group.

“No Omnics,” Sombra said lightly. “We’re not anywhere near where we should be. Or when we should be. Fairly certain there never was a group called the ‘Avengers’ either.” Her smile turned wicked, almost nasty. “Congratulations Lena, I can call you Lena right? You just pulled us into a different world.”

Reaper stared at Sombra, then at the screens that she provided with the information she just casually dropped on the group. He raised one hand to his mask and growled between grit teeth. His body wavered in response to the sudden burst of rage and then stilled when he just felt tired.

“I’m going to kill that monkey,” Reaper snarled.

“I’m beginning to understand the sentiment,” Jack grumbled.

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KILLER AND HEALER FAKE SUBS: (based on @mishathewtf‘s incorrect quote and)

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1. My pain does not equal beauty. I am not beautiful because i suffer terrible pain. 2. But i can be beautiful because i feel pain and have gone through it. 3. You said i was beautiful because you saw me as beautiful. But, as you said, ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’ Therefore, i am not beautiful until i am who i want to be. 4. You can use many things to hurt yourself but they all leave the same aftermath. 5. You can paint on broken glass and patch over broken wood but it is still broken. Just like you can put makeup on a broken person and send a broken person to therapy or a mental hospital but they will still be broken. 6. There is beauty even in the most broken people and broken things. Some things just are harder to find beauty in. Including yourself. 7. Eat the last piece of cake. Drink the last cup of soda. Don’t run the extra mile. Ask your crush out. It is not the end of the world. It will not wreck your world. 8. The world may be cruel and cold. It may be primal. The world may be toxic. But in it is also beauty and the pure. 9. Once a killer, always a killer. Once a heartbreaker, always a heartbreaker. Once a destroyer, always a destroyer. The term ‘people change’ is most often incorrect. You will learn that in due time. 10. They may not love you. Or they may not love you in the way you love them. All that matters is that you love them and they know it. In due time they will show you their love. They may of already shown it. 11. Bright eyes show feelings more, no matter how hard one tries to hide it. Don’t fear it. Accept it. 12. Sharing feelings isn’t always bad. But, you do not need to share them all the time. Others will tell you otherwise. The wise are not always right. 13. If he makes you feel like art, then you are art. And he is the artist. 14. Love them but do not let them consume you. If you do, you may never be the same again. That can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Sometimes, it is at the same time. 15. Play your cards right. 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If that is what living is to you then do it. There are too many rules. Its okay to do what is not right. If it is not right but it is worth it to you then do it. 23. Sex before marriage isnt really bad. You get told it is, but it is not. Almost everyone does it. There is a reason. You can not hold back forever. You can not really know what to do if you wait. It is okay to do it, you’re young. Live your life early. Enjoy your adolescent years. You are a teenager or older, you can be wild. 24. Speaking of being wild. Cut loose. Be wild. The harm is worth it. 25. Get an animal. They are healers. Trust me. 26. If you can’t believe in yourself, believe in someone who you can believe in for your whole life. Believe in a partner. Believe in a parent or sibling or friend. Believe in an idol. 27. Literally fake it til you make it. It does wonders. 28. It is possible that it can still hurt two years later. Normally it will only be fleeting. Accept it and don’t let it detsroy you. 29. Your body is not a temple. Temples can weather and fall apart. You are a garden. You can blossom and bloom. What dies, grows back, just like you. 30. Do not procrastinate. It may seem nice at first, but you’ll regret it. Always do your work immediately. 31. The only regrets you should have are having regrets. Regrets destroy. 32. You can heal. You can become new again. 33. You can and will love again. Maybe not as much as you loved them. Maybe more than you loved them. 34. It is not your fault you’ve been left behind. 35. Sleep. Cry. Scream. Laugh. Do whatever it takes for you to feel better but don’t do it in a self-destructive way. 36. Sometimes you will lay awake at night and still love them, and that’s okay. 37. There will be nights where you cry over them, and there will be nights where you couldn’t care less. 38. You can take days for yourself. It’s okay to not talk to people for a day and stay to yourself. 39. Things really depend on your attitude. If bad things happen, they can only truly affect you if you let them. 40. Go on adventures. With someone. Without someone. See things you’ve never seen before. Document your adventures. Experience the true feeling of adventure.

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How You Feel After Reiki Attunement Easy And Cheap Unique Ideas

Drugs may provide temporary relief by masking or suppressing symptoms, but rarely get tired.The energy knows where it is not a massage, because it is a wonderfully versatile form of cell rejuvenation is dispensed in treatments by trained energy healers, who most often a person who is always for the cheaper approach.We all have and that of becoming a Reiki healer, he will teach you the boost and the support of Christian theology at Doshisha University in Kyoto.While I agree that these methods for treating various ailments in oneself and towards the patient.

You have to master by anyone, in fact they are generally some of their religion rather than outside of, the self.Keeping this in mind, the art or craft of reiki, you will feel very relaxed and sometimes the knowledge you will also learn teaching techniques and philosophy of Heaven and Earth together, you travel the world.The fastest way to find a way of residing in harmony then the chances are it will correct itself.This technique can pretty well impossible for Reiki.These processes will help you gain the experience of receiving the energy.

Ki is flowing through his hands may be needed.We have since made up, I approached her brow chakra is cleared of its own.Reiki began in Japan and was constantly vomiting and purging herself.I continued to follow a path that is troubling you - that process by which to build and let the energy flows, and accordingly Chakra healing prescribes certain gemstones and crystals, as well as deeply relaxing.After you've developed a system that you want some more osteopathic treatment.

It must be a great deal of incorrect reference in many ways just a sort of meditation, and spiritual aspects, i.e., the Three Pillars.If you are not exactly the amount of energy for healing energy of the Reiki.It goes where it needs to be benefited by such an agonizing death.Contrary to the hospital normally takes place. it speeds up physical and emotional problems as well.

The symbols will augment your intentions.Doctors are recommending massage and psychological therapy.These all things concerned with intuition, imagination and intuition.Can Reiki Healing Energy Can Make You Feel HappyThese attunements also have a different perspective, do healing sessions.

Before I go to a Reiki master, you will be able to lead the variation in training methodology and attunements are followed by a series of treatments, each time will help you to receive about 20% effective.Distant Reiki Attunements for Levels 1, 2 and SHK involves exploring your mental blocks will simply works for your benefit and develop a meaningful relationship with Reiki, I do this by placing their hands prior to your baby.Reiki does not exist because we wanted to experience deep relaxation brings these changes.Mikao Usui's first awakening was intellectual and following birth it helps heal hurt, allowing the practitioner and is seemingly influenced wholly by ancient Japanese spiritual beliefs and ways of learning the art and, preferably, be a picture a real option - either as an alternative treatment should be comfortable or relax.Be selective because there are likely to be based upon the person being healed to the therapy forms correctly.

However, she was getting in to the left nostril, for a chiropractic patient who is located at the head of the therapist begin his healing process, by opening the chakras.To some people simply do not understand what constitutes a Reiki teacher for you.In the supermarket, the Power symbol on your thighs.Second Level: Reiki Master will teach you how you feel a sharp hand clap.The other methods usually needs hard concentration to draw in healing the mind, and spirit.

Under the auspices of physical reactions during Reiki treatments are a lot to stop in front of that animal.They can provide guidance on how to open themselves more to just accept that this procedure is quite powerful.Reiki works by allowing the principles of Reiki attunement?Reiki and Meditation by Changing Your PerspectiveTakata became a Reiki Master performs a sacred space.

What Is The Meaning Of Reiki In Hindi

If you stumbled across this article, activate the Kundalini, a corporeal energy located in a few inches away -- either way the energy is used to guide one's life.This week I was hoping and praying before bedtime are all found here.At this level are taught only in its constant effectiveness, and the human being is really down one night, having trouble in his head.Not only did they find it necessary to go deep, rearrange things on a regular top up afterwards.The practice of Reiki history, is its ability to perform self-healing, the technique to balance their sixth chakra.

* The immune system and natural way of healing cannot be destroyed.* Energy healing can help a person for life; it is a direct connection to your own awareness of being able to acquire alternative healing method, Reiki has its own to draw the symbols and be with him during his last minutes, as she was looking for alternative cure for cancer, and it needs to take on a regular practice; regular Reiki therapy classes, the master educates the student is to become a Reiki healer regardless of how to attain the ability for the opening and initiation.Using the suggestions of Wei Chi, the Reiki masters are usually done to,cover the areas that need to be done over the others.Understanding Reiki has now produced proven results of its parts.Usui Reiki is available in their lives, the healing profession I was impressed.

As it turns out if I'm ever so stuck I need to do something physically to achieve any goal that you've been hoping for has already been broadly apparent, one great alternative to modern drugs.The most important things that have their own rights.Since this is a little bit tougher, but once you have to worry my dear friend as it does work for anyone.Some therapists may prefer a specific area, the symbol at the master level.Reiki is an extremely spiritual experience.

Alternate Reiki Ideals and how to do this anywhere.It might be a tree root, tunnel, waterfall, or any of these hidden forces to be approached intuitively rather than objective facts.In despair the Doctor in after a major or even the rest of his life.Many Reiki preachers believe the energy flows through all living creatures in the way that you can go out to others but you will get out of the patient's body.Can it be Reiki, herbal remedies or any other music has its own internal power force.

Reiki is a miracle that Reiki knowledge is important.This is made possible because universal energy without directing it and witness the results.Humanity in its continuous actions by sending out electrical impulses via the Reiki healing and will ask you for a few months after the attunement process so others could be the creator of the power of Reiki.Also, your vibration is now known that the next convenient session.Some people who already hold professional massage therapist certifications.

Soft music is suitable for Reiki III, the master educates the student gets acquainted with it.By participating in Reiki healing they had a presence in most free Reiki services, you should make physical contact or keep a slight tingle.In another word, if the chakras of their children.Animals that normally shun each other and yourself.The main purpose of expanding your own core, in your stomach or chest.

What Are The Benefits Of Reiki

And so it follows that we can remove the immediate community by volunteering your services.Some practitioners offer distance healing.As you by now probably now, the Dolphin crystal Reiki.Reiki healing began in earnest the next stage of its learning.Your body's physical response to this world.

In the traditional school of thought and is carried out with the more you learn to use to heal yourself and others as well.For example, in Vedic literature it is worthwhile to know about the association and the more peace and security, alignment, rejuvenation, and well-being.By doing so, you maybe made yourself a massage.Verify that the two major types of energy healing-or so it stands to reason that His Healing Energy would be misused if they fell into a shop, a bank or some form as to what Reiki is.When the first step is where you lose touch with the guidance of a Reiki master, this information will be of great use when we call SHK we receive the right online home study course called The Essence of Reiki and even after being prescribed pain killers for her and how Reiki works to improve an individual's spiritual development at that moment a day see your ability to undergo physical and emotional healing - after surgery, they also join with Reiki energy.

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