Two Men Dancing by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1984.
The new Venom comic issue 9 preview, for those who can’t find it.
Mary Brock deserved better.
Slavic Cossack dancing known as Hopak
Warning: Do not try this at home unless you were born with super Slavic knee strength
THE GUY AT THE END
Ahahah it’s not just knee strength you need, friend. It’s thighs, ass, ankles, calves, you need everything from your waist down to be horrifyingly fit and toned for this.
Also core strength. So include the waist. Everything from the nipples down.
Don’t forget absurd back flexibility
“Ballet is a really hard dance to master.”
Slavic dancing: “Hold my beer.”
My thighs are burning just watching.
this video just laughed at me for being out of shape.
I had a friend growing up that was from Slovakia or Ukraine, I don’t remember which. I knew him from kindergarten to 2nd grade. And since there wasn’t a large enough slavic community for this kind of dancing, he did competitive ballet. He would constantly complain that it wasn’t hard enough. Guys, its competitive ballet, one of the hardest sports you can be in as a young person. Those C-jumps the guys were doing? In american ballet or dance you usually only get your chest to where you head was. They have their bellybutton or hips where their head was. That’s fucking nuts with out running or a pre jump. This kind of dancing was constantly going on at their house. I would like to point out that’s insane. His mom and dad dance almost every day. Not as high since age. But still.
“I loved you because you are generous of heart! And you do not need my forgiveness, nor I yours; it is all the same whether you forgive or not, all the rest of my life you will remain like a wound in my soul, and I in yours — and that is proper … Why have I come? To embrace your feet, to press your hands, like this, to the point of pain, you remember, the way I used to press them in Moscow, to say again to you that you are my God, my joy, to say to you that I love you madly… Love is past, Mitya! But dear unto pain to me is what is past. Know that for ever. But now, for one little moment, let there be what might have been… Both you and I now love another, yet all the same I shall love you eternally, and you me, did you know that? Do you hear, love me, all the rest of your life love me!”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880 (via an-overwhelming-question)
Venom: The point is, someone hit Eddie and we need to kill them.
Anne: But that is illegal!
Venom:
Anne: I’m fucking with you, I’m in.
Dan: I’m in too, I heard the phrase ‘someone hit Eddie’.
A Force Sensitive Phasesixer 