pairing: choreographer!steve rogers x ballerina!reader
summary: After receiving acclaim in your dance company's production of Sleeping Beauty, you audition for the principal role in its newest production, Giselle, and catch the eye of your attractive, new choreographer.
warnings: none
word count: 534 words
notes: i've been sitting on this for almost two years, and after re-reading it today, i decided to publish this sneak peek and see if there's interest in this. as a former ballerina, this is a passion piece for me, so please let me know what you think! <3 (initially wrote this as an ofc so if there's errors, my b!)
Someone was watching you. It took you a while, but when you finally realized it, your dancing changed.
You were always so sure that no one was in the building at this time. It was far too early. You loved coming in the studio early, doing warmups, choreographing ballets you were too nervous to ever present, and physically baring your soul to the three floor-to-ceiling mirrors that surrounded you. But now, someone knew your secret, and they were watching you at your most vulnerable.
As much as you wanted to cut the music, grab your bags, and flee the room, you couldn’t. The stakes were way too important. If you wanted to be Giselle, your lifelong dream, you had to stay and practice until your feet fell off.
This was your first audition where you had to perform a piece for the director and choreographer. It was new to you, and frankly, you loved the idea. It emboldened you to pick a piece from one of your secret choreographed ballets, especially one so ethereal and heartbreaking.
You began choreographing this piece when your heart first shattered into pieces. As you worked on the pieces, you felt the pieces of your heart slowing finding its way to each other, waiting for the glue to put it together. On the night you choreographed your favorite eight-count, you broke down in tears. Every time you performed that section that night, tears welled into your eyes until you was too emotionally exhausted to continue dancing.
Whoever was watching your dancing was entranced by you. They felt directly connected to you and the emotion that lied within your movement. You didn’t feel cruel judgment as you continued dancing under their watchful eyes. If it was Gia or a member of her entourage, they would’ve snickered loud enough to break your concentration. If it was Pierre, he would promptly tell you to go home and get rest.
This person felt foreign to you, but you didn’t mind dancing for them. Your nervousness quickly subsided, and you wanted to give them a show. To make up for your hyper-vigilance, you put more emotion into your movement. All of the emotions you felt while choreographing this piece rose to the surface like lava finally exploding out of a volcano. Yet no tears stained your cheeks. Your tears came in the form of arabesques, grand jetes, and a series of the best pirouettes you had ever performed in your life.
When you finished, you let out a loud exhale. You had stopped breathing unintentionally, and something told you the person watching did as well. Although you couldn’t see them beyond the one-way window, you knew they were moved by your performance. If they didn’t want to endanger their position, they would’ve clapped and sang praises for the performance. Instead, you (correctly) imagined them walking away stunned, unable to forget what they saw.
You felt proud in yourself and your capabilities. You weren’t the only person who knew your true potential. All of your anxieties had subsided in this moment. You weren’t worried about the other dancers or being reduced to a member of the corps.
You were Giselle, in more ways than one.
This is the only 🪩✨TWILIGHT🪩✨ in a nutshell I will accept
Disco tampon fights dog with issues over walking crippling anxiety. Crippling anxiety doesn’t like dog with issues, but doesn’t wanna hurt dog with issues. So she hops between the two, but makes it clear, she likes the disco tampon. Crippled anxiety then finds out disco tampon, is in fact, a disco tampon! She’s like “ooh, so pretty! So cool! I wanna date you even more.”
Crippling anxiety meets disco tampon’s family, and expensive girl is like “WE BEST FRIENDS” while her boyfriend, blood constipation, can’t be around her cause he wants to do want tampons do and suck da blood.
Moody booty CanNOT stand crippling anxiety, and wants her to go away. (Same bestie, it’s tiring) Anyway! Moody Booty’s boyfriend, Gorilla Man is a lovable dumbass.
They adoptive parents, Dr. steal yo wife and Ms. I just met you but I claim you as my kid Are loving! Crippling anxiety is a dumbass and follows tracker the tractor and almost become a disco tampon.
Disco tampon family leave crippling anxiety behind and she becomes crippling depression. She almost dies, but expensive girl is like “NO! HELP ME SAVE DISCO TAMPON!”
They then go to ?Italy? and crippling depression saves disco tampon, gets threatened by Rat-man and his premium disco tampons, and becomes crippling anxiety again.
Crippling anxiety leaves dog with issues for disco tampon and they get married. THEN! CRIPPLING ANXIETY GETS HORNY AND CREATES FAKE DOLL BABY!
Crippling anxiety become a disco tampon; dog with issues imprints on doll baby, becomes alpha, and has his baby pack. Rat-man and his team of premium disco tampons wanna kill doll baby cause she a child who don’t age. But the original disco tampons are like “fuck you!”
And they fight, with the help of wannabe werewolves. Blood constipation dies, Dr. Steal yo wife dies, Rat-man and his team of premium disco tampons die, and a bunch of other disco tampons die. Including the wannabe werewolves!
But then it turns out that it was a vision 👀 expensive girl had, which would happen if Rat-man tried to kill doll baby.
Bonus: Crippling anxiety became crippling anger and tried to kill dog with issues because he imprinted on doll baby. She ended up hurting tiny cutie. But tiny cutie was like “it’s ok” and they mended that real quick…
and every Caucasian in that movie had a big ass forehead
Leviathan, the mysterious sea serpent was captured on camera in his natural habitat.
I wanted to try a trail cam footage aesthetic for this one, idk why.
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Ok so, mob boss skin in particular is so johnny cage coded
I’ve seen a lot of talk in the writing community lately around quitting writing/giving up on your WIP, and it’s really been quite discouraging. So, I’ve decided to go in the opposite direction. So, here are EXAMPLES of reasons your WIP is worth finishing:
Imagine your story after multiple revisions, rounds of beta readers, a professional edit and proofread - it’s shiny and ready for publication - is it something you’d like to read?
Instead of comparing your first draft to others’ finished products, imagine your manuscript/story idea as the best it can be. If that version of your WIP is something you’d enjoy reading, others will probably too, which means that it’s worth writing.
Not all novels need to make some monumental statement or drive readers to tears of inspiration, but if your story does that, it’s sure as hell worth writing.
If you feel that your story has the potential to cast light on an important topic or mean something to someone, it’s worth continuing.
When that first spark of inspiration for your WIP hit you, you were excited, right? Excited by the ‘what if’, by the characters, by a specific scene or a plot twist. Something about this story made you think: “Wow, I have to write that.”
Writing a novel can take a lot of time and spending such a long period with one story can dilute your excitement. So, think about that element that made you excited at the beginning. Do you think readers might get excited at that when they read it for the first time? If your answer is yes, then your story idea is worth writing.
This isn’t compulsory. Nearly all books have similar elements.
BUT if your WIP has a fresh take on a cliche or a world unlike any other ever created or a unique story line, it’s probably worth writing.
Just think about it. You’ve had this awesome, original idea. If you don’t write it, the world will never experience it.
Yep. That’s it. If you like writing it, then keep doing so. There doesn’t have to be some objective justification for you to do something you enjoy. You can just do it because you want to.
And no, no one likes working on their WIP all the time. Sometimes, you feel like pulling your hair out or setting your manuscript on fire.
But if it mostly gives you joy and excites you, you should keep writing.
I’m not advocating for continuing your WIP at all costs. By all means, if you want to abandon it, do so. But don’t do it because you feel discouraged or someone else has convinced you it’s not good.
If you have any requests for posts/questions about creative writing, feel free to pop me an ask or a DM.
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Don’t mind me, saving this for later 😉😉
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Just gonna make a big list of reader insert writers, and my favourite works from each of them <3
I adore Mar's writing style. She knows how to hook you in with clearly depicted emotions so easily, and it continues to resonate throughout the entire fic! Also my go to writer for angst <3
My Fave: Hope You Never Read This - Poe Dameron x Reader
↳ angst, made me cry, death tw
Priya is so good with details, like I'm talking fully realized worlds, things I would've never thought of, but it makes sense when you read it. Plus her writing makes me laugh, she has a great sense of humor :)
My Fave: Married to Your Work - Duke Leto x Reader
↳ Slow burn, arranged marriage stuff, pretty funny, I live for Reader's internal thoughts
Sooo Mercy is obviously just one of my favourite people on here, because she's a total sweetheart and is also talented at writing to boot. I think she's great at writing characters! Somehow she knows exactly how each character would act in every scenario, it's never OOC. And she's great with fluff :D
My Fave: Dead to Me - Wade Wilson/Deadpool x Reader
↳ Fluff, angst, multiverse shenanigans, made me sad and happy at the same time
Rain is super inspiring, she's great at angst and enemies to lovers, which is something I'm trying to work on! Also she's really great if you love Evan Peters' characters.
My Fave: Mistakes (ongoing series) - Peter Maximoff x Reader
↳ Enemies to Lovers, Medieval AU, angst, fluff, future smut
Birbs is a multi-fandom writer who's works I'm not super familiar with yet, but the fic I did read? The emotions conveyed in it were so real and so potent. Really good grasp on how emotions build characters and all that.
My Fave: Reunion - Din Djarin x Reader
↳ Friends to Lovers, fluff and comfort, a little angst
If I'm not mistaken, Olivia is a newer writer (please correct if I'm wrong!) but even so her writing already shows a great grasp on everything good about fic writing! Her fluff>>>>>
My Fave: This Ask Based On a Prompt - Matt Murdock x Reader
↳ Basically just fluff but somehow perfect in a few words!
Skye is a super awesome multi-fandom writer who somehow manages to write exactly like how the original media is written, even when there's a lot you gotta make up on your own.
My Fave: Family Outing - Logan Howlett x Reader
↳ Fluff and angst, really cute, based off of Old Man Logan
I love Bucky, and even though I've written for him, I haven't really gotten him as well as Tara has! Somehow even in AU works she keeps it as in character as possible
My Fave: The Guardian - Bucky Barnes x Reader
↳ Demon AU, series, angst, fluff, depression, body issues, violence/torture, suicide***
She's a great writer for descriptive stuff, and I love that people still unabashedly love Logan out here :D (I miss the X-Men era of film)
My Fave: Easy Like a Sunshine Caf - Din Djarin x Reader
↳ Fluff, part of the mando'a challenge, really just cute <3
I've just found Thora but from what I've read, I really love her stuff! Dialogue and banter is just off the charts>>>>
My Fave: I've Already Lost - TASM!Peter Parker x Reader
↳ Series, unrequited love kind of, angsty as hell but WORTH IT
Liane is awesome at fluff. It will make your heart clench but in the best way, because it's just that cute <3
My Fave: The Coolest Twinkie - Peter Maximoff x Reader
↳ Just the fluffiest fluff that made me smile super hard
Kelsey is another multi-fandom writer who always seems to know exactly how to write for every character, and her prose is so gripping- you always want to keep reading no matter what.
My Fave: When She Loved Me - Loki Laufeyson x Reader
↳ Angst, death tw, made me real sad but in a good way
Beez is crazy underrated. Definitely my go to writer for Din because she writes him so well, and I just can't describe how easy it is to digest her work but also feel smart for doing so :) <3
My Fave: Show Yourself - Din Djarin x Reader
↳ Soulmate AU, Princess/Royalty AU, series, fluff and angst
Kat is a go-to for Peter Maximoff. Trust me, I love every single one of her fics and she updates really frequently, too!
My Fave: Convenience Store - Peter Maximoff x Reader
↳ Fluff, Peter being protective, just very cute <3
I will never get over the fact I was using c.ai bc I wanted some inspiration for a fic I'm supposedly writing and I just.... yes.
me: (can we skip through the dinner dialogue, please character.ai? no offense though you're doing great)
c.ai: {Of course, that's no problem :) }
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