Recent content by Orm Irian

IIRC she's only done choreography for women's singles skaters - Lorine Schild is one.

The Guardian liveblog is now reporting that there is one known survivor from the flight. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/12/air-india-flight-ai171-plane-crash-ahmedabad-india-latest-updates

The introductions didn't bother me, but they did seem like a bit of a timewaster. I didn't like the leader's chair. The green room couches are pointless, but that was actively bad. Let the exhausted athletes get out of the audience's sight, wipe their sweat off, have some water and start to...

Off-topic slightly, but I do wish people, especially media commentators, would stop repeating this piece of misinformation. The age limit was raised as part of the ISU's response to the suicide of Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya; it happened to be formalised shortly after the 2022 Olympics, but it had...

Hallelujah is a very religious song. It's just that the religion in question is Judaism, not Christianity.

In theory, I don't have any problems with this team-up. Neither of them's been accused of any crime, let alone one that should see them barred from competition. His previous partnership has been cleanly if perhaps not amicably dissolved, and presumably hers has too, out of the public eye. It's...

I don't have any specific information, but it looks like he might have a neurological issue of some sort that causes a tic or twitch when he's "at rest" or not concentrating on movement. It must be pretty annoying for him if so!

The Reuters report only names Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov.

Vadim Naumov, according to the Guardian's summary. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/30/plane-crashes-near-washington-dc-after-mid-air-collision-with-military-helicopter-follow-live#top-of-blog

That is unusual, because Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore used music from that album in their SP for two seasons with no issues. Though perhaps they were able to meet the composer's requirements in that case, while the Mrazeks weren't?

Um. Perhaps you remember the summer of 2019-20, when bushfires larger than some European countries were eating Australia alive for months? Once a fire gets beyond a certain intensity, it can't be controlled. Some can't be contained. Some can barely even be fought. The firefighters on the ground...

Yep. Also things like angle grinders and farm equipment being used when they shouldn't (there's always someone who thinks a total fire ban only applies to other people). Or barbeques. There was even a bushfire here in Australia recently that started because a farm machine - I think a harvester...

Whereas I can't count the number of times I've seen someone say that they're looking for a new canon/fandom because their current one isn't inspiring their creativity any more! For a lot of fans, the creation is the point of fandom, even more than the source canon. If you (generic you) want...

That's very interesting, not least in that it positions fandom primarily as a consumption-focused activity. Coming from an SF/F fandom background (both literature and media), I position it as a creation-focused activity with a transformative component (making fanfic, fanart, fanvids, meta...

I don't think most federations are interested in finding out what fans actually want. The big ones want what fans they've got to fit their preferred type (or be pushed into fitting it) so they don't have to make changes to themselves, and the small ones are just grateful to have any fans at all...