Minor superpowers
Jan. 22nd, 2013 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaWhat's your minor superpower? Something you do well, that you're proud of, that maybe you can't quite explain how you do, but it fits just so with how your mind/body/spirit work.
My minor superpower is figuring out what folk dance someone is requesting from very slight clues. For example, "the Donald Duck dance"* or "left foot crosses over, then jump apart and together, not done by many people"**, or "slow dance we can sing with, starts with M."*** (Answers below, for anyone playing along.) It requires pattern-matching, memory, and intuition. It's particularly fun with people who haven't danced for a long time, because they get so happy doing dances they remember from long ago.
* Raca, Serbia, speeds up radically. In Portland, some people recite nursery rhymes during this dance while maintaining the footwork. Impresses the heck out of me, since I can barely listen to them without messing up.
** Makazice/Bela Rada, also Serbia, and it's the right foot that crosses over
*** Moj Dragane, Croatia. There are several possible answers to this, but I got the one my friend meant on the first try. Minor superpower, like I said.
My minor superpower is figuring out what folk dance someone is requesting from very slight clues. For example, "the Donald Duck dance"* or "left foot crosses over, then jump apart and together, not done by many people"**, or "slow dance we can sing with, starts with M."*** (Answers below, for anyone playing along.) It requires pattern-matching, memory, and intuition. It's particularly fun with people who haven't danced for a long time, because they get so happy doing dances they remember from long ago.
* Raca, Serbia, speeds up radically. In Portland, some people recite nursery rhymes during this dance while maintaining the footwork. Impresses the heck out of me, since I can barely listen to them without messing up.
** Makazice/Bela Rada, also Serbia, and it's the right foot that crosses over
*** Moj Dragane, Croatia. There are several possible answers to this, but I got the one my friend meant on the first try. Minor superpower, like I said.
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Date: 2013-01-23 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-24 03:13 am (UTC)I wonder if people are naming memory-linked minor superpowers because I did, or if that's the form they usually take.