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Helen Groothuis
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She/Her | Michigander living in Leeds | Proud Autistic Bisexual Feminist | I chat skating/ESC/movies/other hyperfixations | Posts are my own opinions Website: https://helen-groothuis.com/
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NEW POST: A busy month with quite a few new experiences, including the public pool, Bolero Cup, and the National Media & Science Museum, as well as our comfort TV being back, among other things XD

Have a read when you fancy - I will get better about spacing out my videos and blog posts someday :')
The Last Big Hurdle... September 2025 Monthly Update
I’ll begin with the health update, since it’s the biggest progress I made this month.
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Every day people stumble casually into tragedy
Passing by some figure skating on TV, I’m gonna root for the pair doing their routine to Bjork.
I have been hit with the DELICIOUS combo of *demand avoidance* AND *decision paralysis* so my brain is having an absolutely LOVELY time of it this evening
Beginning and ending CoC today with some clown-ass scores LOL
Also how did that lift get called a level 3 lol
Not Chris saying they got threw unscathed when she literally fell lol
Not Chris saying they got threw unscathed when she literally fell lol
I will say these are the best costumes the Georgians have had, going the same trajectory of the Hungarians of being slightly less bonkers
Highkey I would've had Zhang and Huang ahead of Sui and Han😬⛸️
I did reluctantly pick Grassl for my fantasy team but I am not happy about this
grl pls
If I see no calls for Grassl after all the ones for Misha we’re gonna have problems ⛸️
If I see no calls for Grassl after all the ones for Misha we’re gonna have problems ⛸️
I’m just going to remind everyone that Yudong Chen, who is not here and therefore not in contention for an Olympic spot, threw down a clean 237.70 at Denis Ten a few weeks ago, more than all three of the Chinese men here today. ⛸️
I forgot about the Andrea Bocelli duet version of Perfect and I wish I hadn’t been reminded
Send him to Milan! ⛸️
Tomoki Hiwatashi USA
4T3T, 4T, 3A, 3S(ftdwn), 3A2A, 3Lz1Eu3F(q), 3Lo
everything level 4
TES 90.52, PCS 76.12, FS 166.64, TOTAL 245.71 into 1st - this is a statement from Hiwatashi for an Olympic spot
bit.ly/3WSIocb #2025GPCHN #GPFigure
2025 Cup of China play-by-play/results: Men's free skate — Rocker Skating - Analysis by Jackie Wong
Live stream and play-by-play of the men’s free skate at 2025 Cup of China
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Tomoki saw that my fantasy skating picks were in trouble this week and said ‘I got u grl’ ⛸️
TOMOKIIIII?!?!?!?!?!?! ⛸️
Oh girl I don't drink much but I might need a shot or two before conclave on ice
Lmao at this crowd actually laughing at the start of Litvintsev’s programme ⛸️
Glad Jacob ditched Dune for this season, it wasn’t really fitting him and it’s more important for him to try and go as clean as possible. ⛸️
That twizzle fall yesterday looked really wonky, I wonder if he tweaked something there
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I'm glad I'm not the only person dealing with ice dance disillusionment this year. It's always an absurdist farce with winners chosen in advance by IAM as much as their chosen (and it feels more like a choice than a score) on the day by judges but this year its hitting different and deeper #GPFigure
At least Ice Dance is the first medal event of the four in Milano so we don’t have to end those two weeks on a sour note
I doesn’t help that Chris can’t shut up about FB/C in the commentary box, it does feel like the ISU is working overtime to gaslight us into thinking that they deserve to be here at all.
Which reminds me I need to add the Scottish saltire to my shopping list
I really am so close to throwing out ice dance this season, really one of the only things holding me in at the moment is F/G’s Scottish free ⛸️