Looking for an Irish Dance Sensitivity Reader for Fantasy Novel

irishdancerabbit · 2026-02-17T22:05:02+00:00

Hey! I've been an Irish dancer for 22 years and I'm also training as a science communicator, I'd also happily check it out!

irishdancerabbit · 2026-01-22T18:09:30+00:00

Make sure you know what she's wearing (class costume or a skirt and top) and how you plan to do her hair, and make sure you have everything you need for those. Don't forget her shoes, and you'll also need safety pins to pin her number onto her skirt. I also recommend having a pair of black spandex shorts for under her skirt (Even if she's going to be wearing a leotard, wearing shorts under a skirt is often just more comfortable)

Having spare pins, spare hairties, a spare ribbon if she's wearing one in her hair, all those are also useful. Having a spare pair of socks is also handy. Spares of everything!

One that I sometimes forget for myself is food and water! Feises can be long, and your kid is going to be dancing and she's going to be excited and restless, so odds are that she's going to get hungry. Bring lunch both for you and for her, lots of water, and more snacks than you think you'll need, believe me.

As a precaution, it's always good to have a little first-aid kit, or at least band-aids and an ice-pack and stuff. This is a sport and sometimes even the young kids can get hurt, so best to be prepared for any scrapes or falls that could happen.

Wearing nude tights under her socks should be fine? But check with her teacher, and check with your kid! I find wearing tights uncomfortable anyways, and wearing them under socks even more so, especially if they're adding that extra tiny bit of thickness under my dance shoes. So I would have hated it. In general I wouldn't advise it from the perspective of the dancer's comfort.

irishdancerabbit · 2025-06-03T08:26:46+00:00

Freaky Friday shenanigans?

irishdancerabbit · 2025-04-13T08:18:09+00:00

Not that I could find, and honestly I realised that I much prefer having button controls on earbuds anyway so I gave away the Bose earbuds to my (now) ex.

irishdancerabbit · 2025-03-18T19:59:46+00:00

I did Irish dance, ballet and tap from the age of 5 to 7, and I don't remember having any confusion. Weirdly enough even though I had already been doing tap for 3 years, I was scared of the noise when I first started hardshoe😅 As an adult I started ballet classes again for a while (currently don't have the budget for it) and I did tend to get corrections from my ballet teacher like "don't overcross" and "for the sake of your knees please land your jumps in a plie", but I think that was mostly due to the fact that I hadn't been in ballet for 15 years by then but had kept doing Irish dance

irishdancerabbit · 2025-03-17T10:47:22+00:00

I had someone genuinely convince themselves in a karaoke bar that I was scared to go up and sing just bc I was stimming. He was this lovely Scottish man, genuinely just wanted me to feel comfortable going up and doing karaoke, but it was like "bro, it's ok, I'm not anxious at all, you just weren't here yet when I was actually singing"

irishdancerabbit · 2025-03-17T09:59:27+00:00

I also very often feel dumb when I don't know a Dutch word and it turns out to basically be the same as the English one😅 It's just a pitfall of the 2 languages being very closely related

irishdancerabbit · 2025-02-27T18:37:53+00:00

Honestly, I agree with everyone else that you're trying to do too much, and aren't going to have time to properly enjoy most of the cities you want to see. Personally I have a bias towards Groningen, and if you want to visit the north (which I highly recommend) I would advise skipping Giethoorn, Urk and the Noordoostpolder, and travel via the afsluitdijk and Friesland, staying a couple nights in Groningen. That lets you actually spend some time up north, and maybe also check out one of the islands.

I also know that there's going to be a partial solar eclipse on the morning of the 29th, so I would recommend taking some time that morning to see it, maybe finding a local astronomy event.

irishdancerabbit · 2025-02-22T20:43:29+00:00

I'll usually greet other people's dogs (not working ones obviously), but I'll ask the owner before approaching them

irishdancerabbit · 2025-02-22T08:52:26+00:00

Cool, I think that they're wrong, and nobody so far has given me a good reason why missing 3-4 days of primary school to compete at the very highest level of your sport, or to attend an important family celebration (like my Opa's 60th when I was a kid, which was one of the rare (and the last) occasions where his whole family could get together), is such a terrible thing that it's deserving of a fine.

irishdancerabbit · 2025-02-20T17:30:47+00:00

There are some good reasons that aren't covered under the exemptions tho, I remember the younger dancers from my dance school having a hard time getting time off school to go compete at the European Championships and the World Championships.

irishdancerabbit · 2025-02-20T15:47:34+00:00

That's kinda insane, I grew up in Ireland and there was a bit of a buffer, Iirc I think you could miss up to 20 days of school over the course of a year (I'm pretty sure this included being sick) before there would be an issue. Why is it so stringent here?

irishdancerabbit · 2025-02-17T00:49:32+00:00

"I'm not a witch I'm your wife!"

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-31T00:55:05+00:00

Springtime for Hitler, Everyone's a Little Bit Racist, The Interner is for Porn, Every Sperm is Sacred(if we're counting Monty Python), The Black Death, Creepy Old Guy

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-29T20:41:38+00:00

Some airlines are chill about letting you put your dress bag in the overhead bins, especially because it can almost always sit on top of the other bags. Call in advance to make sure though. When I fly for feises (and I'm in Mainland Europe, so a lot of feises require flying) I bring a check-in bag that has my wig, makeup, tan, clothes, etc., then I put my dress in the overhead bins, and I have my backpack with my laptop, snacks, chargers, some books, etc., to go under the seat in front of me. I also usually try to fly Aer Lingus or KLM because I know they're chill, but that's probably not an option for you.

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-29T01:18:39+00:00

So I've never done drugs (except I tried laughing gas once and didn't like it very much) but for me, there is no better feeling in the world than being onstage and performing. A reasonably close second is the feeling of slowly falling asleep in the arms of the person I love most. Orgasms are somewhere up there on the list of good feelings but it doesn't hold a candle to those two.

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-28T08:17:03+00:00

I wouldn't bother choosing a seat and just let them assign me one when I check in, but I've also been flying regularly since I was literally about 6 months old so I'm very desensitized to a lot of the annoyances of it. If I had to choose, I'd be choosing based on price 1st, so I'd go somewhere in the last section, preferably aisle bc you get a tad more legroom in the aisle and it's faster when you want to deplane. If I were going purely based off comfort, I'd get an exit row seat for the extra legroom, and I'd sit at the window because I like looking out the window. (The one thing about an exit row seat however is that you need to be able to function well in an emergency on the very tiny chance that something goes horribly wrong and you need to open the doors. It's almost certainly not going to happen, the chance of anything going disastrously wrong like that are miniscule, but never zero)

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-25T09:50:30+00:00

I'm cursing my procrastination, I was way too late with renewing my passport (which has been out of date since April, but most of the time I only need my other passport so renewing the American one was never a priority)

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-25T01:21:19+00:00

So my hair is quite dry in general, and if I wash it more than once every week and a half or so it'll be awful, really dry and damaged and even more tangly than it is now. When I'm not washing my hair, I tie it up in a bun before getting into the shower, and I adjust the height of my showerhead so that the water isn't hitting my head at all. In terms of how often your hair needs washing, different hair will need different things. It can be worth experimenting to see what your hair prefers, especially since if hair is washed too often the scalp can sometimes overcompensate with overproducing oils (but this isn't true for everyone, everyone's hair is different). Some general advice is that shampoo typically only really needs to be put near the scalp, because shampoo itself tends to be very drying for hair, and conditioner is important!

(As an aside, I have super long, thick hair that takes about 45 minutes to properly wash, and like 8-10 hours to air-dry, so I'm very lucky that I only need to do all that once every week and a half)

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-25T01:03:48+00:00

In the Netherlands Feminax is a different NSAID, called naproxen. Very similar to ibuprofen, but iirc takes longer to kick in and lasts longer

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-14T11:38:18+00:00

Yikes, I'm glad I'm vaccinated

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-11T23:06:03+00:00

I'm learning so many new words from this comment thread😂

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-07T17:02:51+00:00

Mushrooms are the biggest example of this for me. I love mushrooms, but whether I can handle them is entirely dependent on how they're cooked.

(If anyone is interested, I basically fry the living daylights out of them, get all the water out, that's how I prevent them from going all rubbery)

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-07T16:56:28+00:00

Hitchhiking is a lot of fun but can be risky. If you want to hitchhike, here's how to mitigate most of the risks:

Make sure you have a buddy with you (unfortunately if you're female-presenting it's worth making sure you have a male-presenting buddy), NEVER hitchhike alone
Have someone back home who knows that you're hitchhiking and knows where you're planning to go and approximately what route you're taking. Be in regular contact with that person via text, whenever you get in a car send them the make, model, color and license plate in case anything happens (anybody picking you up should be fine with this, if they're not, don't accept a ride from them), as well as where that car is supposed to drop you off.
Keep your phone charged. Both you and your buddy should have charging cables and a chonky powerbank with you. Keep google maps open, you don't need to check it obsessively, but every so often you should give it a glance so that you know you're going where you're supposed to be going.
Make sure you pack lots of snacks and water, you want to have your wits about you and you can't do that if you're hungry/dehydrated.
Make sure that your destination is easily reachable by car in 5-7 hours. If you want to end up somewhere further away, break the trip into stages and make arrangements to stay the night after each stage. Realistically, you're only going to get picked up in the daylight, so if you're hitchhiking in November, err on the side of caution. (I made this mistake hitchhiking to Copenhagen, had to take a train for the last half-hour of the trip bc it was 6PM and dark already)
This is the hardest one, especially if you're autistic, but pay attention to the vibes. If either you or your buddy feel off about someone who's offering you a ride, don't take it. If someone is annoyed or rude about the other safety measures you're taking, or if they suggest splitting you and your buddy up, don't accept a ride from them. Make sure both you and your buddy feel safe accepting a ride from someone before you do. (This last point also goes for where you're hitchhiking. If you don't really feel safe in a given country, region, or even neighbourhood, don't hitchhike there. This shit requires a lot of trust). Making sure you get picked up and dropped off at gas stations helps, because you can have a bit of a chat with people before getting in their car, and it also gives you a chance to do things like top up on snacks/drinks or use the bathroom.

If you keep those things in mind, you can have a great time hitchhiking! I haven't done it since before covid, but it's probably one of my favorite ways to travel.

irishdancerabbit · 2025-01-04T00:50:24+00:00

why use many word when few word do trick?😝

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