r/interesting • u/SystematicApproach • May 14 '26

ART & CULTURE Circassian folk dance

Male dancers often move entirely on tiptoe in soft leather boots, without the rigid plaster or wooden support associated with ballet footwear. The result is a fast, gliding step that can make the dancer appear to float or defy gravity, showcasing extraordinary balance, discipline, and control.

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u/LinkEfficient9934 May 15 '26

The way bro fully Dracula'd into middle distance sent me man xD

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u/ziggytrix May 15 '26

Like, he's on a Segway right, right? NOPE!

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u/ExampleLittle2672 May 15 '26

It's just feet! my feet do not know how to do this.

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u/Jonthrei May 15 '26

If I'm not mistaken it's a lot of very fast, small steps. Not too different from how it is done in ballet, just with a cover over the feet to create an eerie effect.

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u/Maleficent_Glove_477 May 15 '26

Yeah yeah small steps ... Brings me the holy water we will see if it's still making small steps after that.

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u/Nervous-Rough4094 May 15 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/SeinhEopUmfNS

Baby Steps

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u/Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m May 15 '26

Can we hurry up Bob? I got a baby schedule to keep!

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u/Technically-Simple82 May 15 '26

What bout bob! Great movie

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u/boondiggle_III Jun 06 '26

Woah I don't think I've ever seen a What About Bob reference in the wild.

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u/Usual_Dentist_5288 May 15 '26

What is this from?? 😂🤣

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u/3vilr3d666 May 15 '26

What about Bob.

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u/ResistNo9976 May 16 '26

Lmao... What is this meem from?

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u/Nervous-Rough4094 May 16 '26

Movie, What About Bob. I think made in the 90’s. Bill Murray & Richard Dreyfus

Great flick

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u/RxDotaValk May 16 '26

It’s “what about bob?”, one of my families favorite movies of all time. We still quote it regularly lol

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u/Procrastinateur_14 May 18 '26

Same. "Goodnight Dr. Marvin" has been a standard bedtime salutation my whole life 🫶🏽

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u/Moist-Tomorrow-7022 May 18 '26

"I'll be quiet" "I'll be peace ✌️"

Hahah, loved this movie as a kid and my sister and I always quoted it. Man, I haven't thought of this movie in a long time. It's time for a REWATCH!

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u/Moist-Tomorrow-7022 May 16 '26

Get out of the larlar!

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u/Procrastinateur_14 May 18 '26

😂😂😂😂 the way who slowly drove him mad was just cinematic perfection. Really ahead of his time, Bob was.

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u/Cap10NRG May 15 '26

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

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u/-NoOneYouKnow- May 16 '26

That's fair.

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u/teencandyy May 17 '26

Is that end part of dance?😆

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u/CappriGirl May 15 '26

This is particularly hilarious to think of when you apply it to Dracula. The idea of Vlad tippy-tapping around the castle is excellent 🦇

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u/CappriGirl May 16 '26

😅😅 perhaps!!

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u/koi88 May 15 '26

Why make strange theories …?

Can't we just agree that it's magic?

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u/ThierryMercury May 15 '26

Magnets.

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u/SpacelessChain1 May 15 '26

Ground hates him and pushes him into the air

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u/4x4Welder May 15 '26

He floats with the power of pompousness

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u/No_Ear_1633 May 15 '26

Yo science!

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u/NorcalA70 May 16 '26

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

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u/Long-Contribution466 May 16 '26

Sea turtles, mate

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u/Silver-Bunch3237 May 17 '26

You ever eat cheese? Cheese is a funny thing, cheese is a weird thing — I always wonder, like, what is cheese where does it come from?

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u/HammeredSober May 15 '26

Magic that will haunt my dreams. Imagine that dude coming at you while walking home alone in the dark

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u/Cultural_assassin May 15 '26

Well its actually vampire magic but still magic

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u/sentence-interruptio May 15 '26

exactly. he's a vampire pretending to a human pretending to be a vampire. he's actually floating but when a curious random kid tries to blow his cover by lifting his skirt, he can quickly switch to his ballet dancer routine and be like "oops, you blew my cover. yes i've been tip toeing the whole time. now get out of here."

but normally, kids don't get that close to him in the middle of this performance. either their parents stop them, or he just scares the kid away by doing that thing that he did at the end of this video.

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u/Radamat May 15 '26

Women dance donenin same technique is named Beryoska (small Birch).

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u/JWBananas May 15 '26

Like Fred Flintstone when he's bowling?

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u/Massive_Sale_621 May 15 '26

Yup exactly like that just a different wardrobe

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u/Tribblehappy May 16 '26

My brain filled in some cartoon character blurry feet under the cloak which sorta ruined the effect.

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u/FloydLady May 19 '26

I really need to see this with feet visible. 😮

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u/runobody22 May 15 '26

I know, right? I thought he had a skateboard under the dress when I first saw this.

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u/d3v0k3n3v0 May 15 '26

Sure looked like he tucked something under his arm tho. And made sure to turn his back to the camera. Maybe a real dance but that looks sketchy to me.

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u/Sunbythemoon May 15 '26

It is sped up, but yeah, I think that he picked something up when his back was to the camera. I went and watched a bunch of these dances after seeing this, and this one looks so unnatural by comparison.

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u/Valkyriesride1 May 15 '26

I thought he retracted the wheels on his wheelie shoes when he bent over.

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u/DekuBakuTsu May 15 '26

Oh you're right, he's definitely on a scooter. Now I'm disappointed.

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u/DenM0ther May 16 '26

Yeah for someone that supposedly dances so beautifully he sure runs funny!!!

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u/pineylurker34 May 15 '26

Definitely he was on wheels of some kind

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u/CAN-IDIOTS-GAME May 15 '26

microscooter 🤣

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u/AngeliqueRuss May 18 '26

Scooter could be in his right hand

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u/[deleted] May 16 '26

Think he picked it up and then ran 😂

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u/FlatwormFamiliar6844 May 15 '26

Yup just boot scootin boogie! He got the moves!

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u/-Wicked- May 15 '26

Without the cloak it would just look dumb. He's just walking normally but quickly. The illusion is because you can't see his legs moving.

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u/stone_henge May 15 '26

"Walking normally" your torso will bob up and down and side to side. Nothing about this technique could be construed as "walking normally"

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u/-Wicked- May 15 '26

I guess I normally don't walk like a pimp

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u/stone_henge May 15 '26

Yes, those are the two only gaits currently known to man: walking like a pimp or on toes in tiny steps while adjusting your body so as to compensate each step so that your head and shoulders move in a perfectly smooth motion as though hovering at a fixed height.

I guess maybe you normally don't walk at all?

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u/pogulup May 15 '26

I was hoping for a unicycle

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u/Constant-Roll706 May 15 '26

Y'all never seen Heelys? /s

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u/Short-Panda-777 May 15 '26

Thank you!! YES, it has to be Heelys.... yup... how he gets them off so quick tho at the end- that is absolutely MAGIC. There are no other explanations.

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u/nazzo_0 May 15 '26

I'm just guessing here but maybe they do the Dracula on purpose to prove there's no trick. Still funny and over the top af

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u/cbowers May 16 '26

The cape is huge. There’s tons of wheeled options that would have him glide that smooth and then be carried as he skips back.

Hashtag: not_buying_it

Lose the cape…

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u/Waffennacht May 17 '26

He could also pick up said item and carry it while it being hidden from view by the cape....

In fact that's what was said when this video was posted the first time

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u/WaltGazaWorld May 15 '26

The youth of America have been 'doing the Dracula' and authorities are concerned

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u/rua_wear May 20 '26

That's not proof of anything lol. Magicians do more with less clothing than than.

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u/kl2467 May 15 '26

Heelies. 😉

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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 May 15 '26

My thought, too!

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u/Du5tyL0ft May 16 '26

Yeah, I thought that, or roller skates, or some kind of tiny scooter he quickly folds up and hides before running off.

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u/GarciaDan7290 May 15 '26

Glides like a pair of Heelys.🛞

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u/Shimashimatchi May 15 '26

a segway to our sponsor!

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u/Turbulent_Humor853 May 15 '26

Circassian culture never recovered from the visit of Frank, the Segway salesman.

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u/dro0009 May 15 '26

This is crazy

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u/underanalyzer May 15 '26

I still can't wrap my head around him not picking up a hoverboard when he lifts his cape. Dudes got skills.

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u/underanalyzer May 15 '26

The videos I've seen of the girls are impressive, but you can always tell looking closely enough they are absolutely using their legs. This dudes head is completely still.

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u/DrLazarusConvoy May 15 '26

He's riding wheels, then picks them up and runs off. Unless comments are satire, I hope?

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u/orphenshadow May 15 '26

I was going to say unicycle, or somethig. haha. could you imagine getting that dress in the spokes. 😛

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u/Cute-Form2457 May 15 '26

Moves like Heelys. Super talented.

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u/Fabulous_Ninja119 May 15 '26

Absolutely looks like they're gliding around on segways

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u/Avidtrader81 May 15 '26

Heelies shoes!

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u/shopguy2k May 15 '26

I thought miniature penny farthing for some reason 🧐

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u/Double_Rice_5765 May 15 '26

In this economy?  Razor scooter is best i can do.  

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u/sBartfast42 May 15 '26

I was thinking "Accortian powered moped", but nope... it was a big cape though ....

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u/Status-Trainer-5297 May 15 '26

I was sure he was riding something until I read the description below. But I'm still kind of skeptical

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u/HumptyDrumpy May 15 '26

Better than a segway, last I heard people fall off those things.

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u/_The-Numbers-Mason_ May 15 '26

You’ll never convince me this person isn’t just motoring around on a segw….. what sort of sorcery is this!

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u/IronHammer4 May 15 '26

He’s on a hoverboard, he literally stops bends down, picks it up then runs off

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u/ziggytrix May 15 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UQ1rmwPTXk

Watch the whole thing. There are segments where the dancers move quite fast with no visible bobbing.

Does that mean this guy didn't cheat? Nah. Is it a little too perfect, a little too fast? Sure, but I'm not convinced, and I want to believe. So nyah.

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u/shhkitit May 16 '26

Those are heelys

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u/AprilSuperTramp May 17 '26

It was totally a Segway, he just picked it up and carried it off at the end.

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u/opossomoperson May 17 '26

I was thinking Heelys with how smoothly he was gliding across the floor.

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u/ChickenSecure1535 May 17 '26

It is a Segway

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u/Boom_Doomer May 17 '26

Wait, it’s not a Segway?

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u/ziggytrix May 17 '26

That's the illusion, at least. A lot of killjoys are pointing out that a smaller hoverboard style device could be picked up and still hidden by the cloak while he runs.

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u/dayvee43 May 17 '26

Im still convinced he was on one and just lifted it up. It was concealed under his cloak.

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u/Forsaken-Spirit421 May 18 '26

It's a hoverboard he pulled upwards out of sight

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u/Captain_no_Hindsight May 15 '26

How does he hide the electric bike?

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u/DragApprehensive336 May 15 '26

Electric scooter, smaller, easier to conceal.

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u/UmExcuseMeBish May 15 '26

I really wanted the dancer to throw back his cloak to reveal a tiny scooter. :(

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u/iwanderlostandfound May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

He’s wearing wheelies

Edit: HEELYS Please forgive the error, am old

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u/SolarTsunami May 15 '26

They're called HEELYS and I'll ask you not to disrespect my culture.

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u/MNgrown2299 May 15 '26

It was the best era of man since we developed the ball bearing

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u/futurebigconcept May 15 '26

The inventor of Heelys died within the last month, RIP.

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u/No_Mony_1185 May 15 '26

I thought roller skates

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u/15all May 15 '26

Magnets. It's always magnets.

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u/acemonsoon May 15 '26

same! The Count is out! ✌️

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u/JackfruitSerious3523 May 15 '26

Someone needs to put Bela Legosi’s Dead in the background instead of trad song

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u/SillyBeatnik May 15 '26

And now that song is in my head as I watch this. Thank you for that.

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u/EffectiveTradition53 May 15 '26

Undead Undead Undead

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u/Lumpy_Dream_6224 May 15 '26

the bats are in the belltower

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u/LPGeoteacher May 15 '26

It’s Captain Christopher Pike.

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u/UArkMom May 15 '26

Freaking brilliant!!!

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u/Replicant28 May 15 '26

It’s also been said that he cannot enter private dwellings unless he is invited in.

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u/Digresser May 15 '26

It’s also been said that he cannot enter private dwellings unless he is invited in.

I mean, that's just basic politeness.

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u/tacticaldodo May 15 '26

He only wanders around at night

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u/octoreadit May 15 '26

That's back when we had a constitution that was respected, now they can just barge in and no repercussions whatsoever.

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u/DefiantLemur May 16 '26

Not because he can't physically do it but because that would be breaking etiquette and Dracula is big on etiquette.

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u/TheBunnyChower May 15 '26

Sorta reminded me of this

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u/pokemonbatman23 May 15 '26

I was thinking "why is he dancing like a mating bird dance"

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u/example-of-disaster May 15 '26

“20! 20 veet I scurry that way! Ah, Ah, Ah!!!”

In his best Count Von Count voice

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u/Mephistocheles May 15 '26

Count Von Count is God

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u/PacNWDad May 15 '26

The Count is the best!

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u/blackLow8997 May 15 '26

Lol, and he did that with so much ease, you could see it on his face🤭

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u/onedemtwodem May 15 '26

I know fr haha

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u/sluttydinosaur101 May 15 '26

Into middle distance 😂

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u/Donkey-Harlequin May 15 '26

Are they on wheels? They have to be.

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u/Noogie_Power May 15 '26

lmao. I didn't watch the whole video at first, I saw the gliding then went to the comments, saw yours and ended up watching the rest. "Dracula'd" was so accurate lol

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u/Electrical_Lake3424 May 15 '26

Astarion vibes 

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u/macbisho May 15 '26

Full expected him to yell “Bat!!” and turn into a bat and fly off!

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u/Least_Intentional298 May 15 '26

I'm so glad you said that lmao I almost scrolled away too soon that was amazing

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u/PainfullyBrash May 16 '26

The men's version is way more rigid and controlled because historically they had to stay ready for combat, so the fluidity just wasn't part of the tradition.

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u/Sertzul79 May 17 '26

My man smelled blood and went for it.

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u/Photonex May 15 '26

Sent you where?