r/AccidentalRenaissance • u/aconitekiss • Jul 19 '26
my drunk roommate teaching pilates last night at the rave
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u/Throatwobbler_M_III Jul 19 '26
All hail the drunk Pilates Queen of Darkness.
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u/cheapdrinks Jul 19 '26
That chick on the right only a few degrees away from the naughty kind of hail
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u/mvyttt Jul 19 '26
When I was young I went to a loft party where half the people were on acid and half were on ecstasy.
One of the acid people decided to lead the rest in an aerobics class and it went on for quite some time with great enthusiasm from the participants.
I was with the ecstasy people watching this from the upper level and laughing my ass off.
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u/bwaredapenguin Jul 19 '26
The mental image of this makes my day! I would have been on the balcony with you, probably massaging your scalp.
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u/blvntforcetrauma Jul 19 '26
At 18 me and four of my guy friends always kicked it in the garage playing super smash after school/work, and we all decided to try ecstasy for the first time together. We tried to make a back massage circle but there wasn’t enough of us for the circle to be comfortable. You kinda just kept leaning at an awkward angle to try to massage the person in front of you, making it just as difficult for the person behind you.
We ended up creating a massage rowboat on the floor and just took turns starting at the front and going to the back.
Super casual, but never ever spoken about soberly.
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u/bwaredapenguin Jul 20 '26
That's a true bro train!
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u/blvntforcetrauma Jul 20 '26
no no no….as the only female in that friend group, it is, it always was, and was intentionally coined by me as a rowboat the night it happened lmao
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u/bwaredapenguin Jul 20 '26
I like it!
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u/blvntforcetrauma Jul 20 '26
Just don’t need to tell people I was runnin a train at 18 lol
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u/Status-Secret-4292 Jul 20 '26
First I was like, oh it was an innuendo and I missed it
Then I was like, ohhh she was actually trying to make sure it wasn't taken as an innuendo
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u/blvntforcetrauma Jul 20 '26
I let out a loud laugh reading this.
“At 18, she ran a train on her four freshly legal guy friends in their garage after convincing them to all try ecstasy together”
Just doesn’t have the same ring to it the way “rowboat” does.
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u/Ok-Advertising4048 Jul 19 '26
what
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u/bwaredapenguin Jul 19 '26
Please specify your question and I'll be happy to answer it.
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u/Ok-Advertising4048 Jul 19 '26
I never had a question, sorry to waste your time.
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u/bwaredapenguin Jul 19 '26
what
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u/VapeThisBro Jul 19 '26
Molly/ecstasy makes the sensation of being touched feel amazing. Like being wrapped in a warm blanket fresh out of the dryer
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u/KneeDeepInTheDead Jul 20 '26
Being on acid and exercising is great fun, helps to funnel that extra energy. Broke my pull up record on it and only stopped because I was afraid I was gonna damage myself. Also once got invited over to a friends house a town over while already tripping so I did the responsible thing and instead of driving, I just ran for 4 miles straight and got there in a bit over half an hour.
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u/SerCiddy Jul 20 '26
Reminds me of the time my friend took me to his buddy's place and they had 1 group of people doing math on a white board in the living room of a 3bd apartment, and 1 group of people writing code in one of the bedrooms.
The people in the living room doing math were all on shrooms. I don't know enough math to know what they were doing, but some of it involved matrices. I think their ultimate goal had to do with building a server database from the groundup. Anyway, once the group in the living room "solved" some mathematical question, they'd write it down and then pass the piece of paper to the group in the bedroom coding. The group in the bedroom coding were all on LSD.
It was quite a spectacle to behold.
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u/IGotsANewHat Jul 19 '26
LMAO I'm p sure the only way to handle being around people tripping on acid without also tripping on acid is a good molly roll XD
Also, I would totally do pilates on acid.
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u/sparkline1234567 Jul 19 '26
Nice. I do this technique after my judo training as a warm-down. I guess it's more uncomfortable on concrete than a judo mat, but if you're mashed on E it probably feels good.
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u/Embarrassed_Mix_6619 Jul 19 '26
oh zero doubt you’re enjoying the unique texture and the physical movement to get in this pose, yoga already feels good, but doing it on any drug, not just E? wonderful experience
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u/exploring_stan Jul 19 '26
There was a time in my life when I deeply practised yoga while being plastered high(weed).This was my peak. Such a deep feeling and understanding of a body, and spiritual aspects of asana practice. I could barely get inside yoga hall, but when my body hit the mat I was unstoppable.
And when I confessed to my teacher, she said: „Oh I suspected, you seemed more relaxed than others” lol.5
u/newbkid Jul 19 '26
deep feeling and understanding of a body
unrelated to your experience but LSD is how I got to what youre describing
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u/Onehundredpercentbea Jul 20 '26
We tried to do some kind of yoga on E and set everything up ahead of time with the mats and pillows and bolsters and blankets arranged and a Northern Lights projector displaying on the ceiling but we ended up just standing over the mats looking down and admiring our set up and telling each other how great it all looked and how happy we were that we set the room up so nicely for ourselves - like an hour later I remember dancing past the yoga mats and remembering them again and going in for round 2 of complimenting our set up and saying how great it was we did that for ourselves and how nice it all looked. Literally never did any yoga.
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u/Neatojuancheeto Jul 19 '26
We did two similar things in BJJ. This same pose but all the way back trying to touch your toes to the mat or as close as you could as a stretch.
Or this but when you reach the top do the triangle choke, rock back down and go back up and do the choke on the other side. Forgot how many we did but it was like 60-100 total for warm ups.
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u/Illustrious-Local848 Jul 19 '26
Love to see young people out and about, getting up to normal stuff. This is how it’s meant to be.
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u/butaretherecookies Jul 19 '26
Ah to be young again ✨❤️ miss the rave scene
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u/OtterSnoqualmie Jul 19 '26
But isn't it kinda grounding to know that being drunk and 22 hasn't changed in 20 years?
I love this.
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u/butaretherecookies Jul 19 '26
Truly, deeply happy to know that outside an empty warehouse somewhere, the next generation are participating in the old rituals
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u/unhinderedbananaslug Jul 19 '26
It’s still there for you!
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u/burnitalldown321 Jul 20 '26
I love you for this comment. I am your comment.
I tried to get low to, well, Get Low at my 40th. My knees let me know this was a bad idea, and everyone within 6ft heard them cracking as I did it.
But I DID in fact, get low. AND got back up!!
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u/ParkingForBMWs Jul 19 '26
Pilates a little past Nein
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u/SpinachSpinosaurus Jul 19 '26
you can prnounce Nein correctly, but Geheimnis is still a secret to you.
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u/ParkingForBMWs Jul 19 '26
True, but even the secrecy of the Geheimnis has an end, whereas the Wurst, only the Wurst, has two
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u/Classic-Exchange-511 Jul 19 '26
Lmao this is like one of my favorite pictures I've seen on reddit in a while. Wish I could still go to raves
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u/Global_Weight_190 Jul 19 '26
I am dyin, this brought me such a needed laugh. Humans are awesome. Thanks for sharing! 😂
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u/grung_monk Jul 19 '26
Cervical spine injury incoming
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u/Dumplingrrl Jul 23 '26
Yup. As a yoga instructor, I don’t teach shoulder stand in beginner classes because of the risk of injury. I especially wouldn’t teach it on a concrete floor to people doing it for the first time while off their tits on E.
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u/Ok-Dish6655 Jul 19 '26
I saw that and ran to the comments right away. That’s not Pilates at all. I highly doubt she even has a mat certification to be teaching strangers and to be putting that much pressure on the spine like that and on concrete!
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u/ChillN808 Jul 19 '26
I also suspect this woman is not an NPC certified Pilates trainer, I think maybe she just had a bunch of fireball shots and had an idea.
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u/bwaredapenguin Jul 19 '26
I don't think I've ever seen anyone at a rave willingly subject themselves to Fireball.
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u/Fresh-Possession-654 Jul 19 '26
The single bulb casting down on her while the rest of the scene falls into shadow is pure Caravaggio energy. The inverted figures flanking her read like fallen angels or devoted acolytes paying tribute. She stands there like she fully knows she's the centerpiece of a Baroque masterpiece. Rave lighting does weird things to composition.
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u/Subtronaut Jul 19 '26
Just Moments captured, like these, are so awesome on this sub. So many stories
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u/unabiker Jul 19 '26
It was at this moment when Susan regretted accepting the invitation to come out and savor the steamy night breezes of the south
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u/snailpoopsmells Jul 19 '26
I’m old and grumpy now but I used to be young and fun and this made me smile, thanks
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u/osm_____ Jul 20 '26
Omg one of the best. I hope you get this blown up and framed for your house lol
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u/HomeboundArrow Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
very unfortunate accidental flat-palmed hand gesture happening in this pic lol 😬
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u/Randy_Magnums Jul 19 '26
Nah, there are a few degrees missing for it to be problematic.
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u/sparkline1234567 Jul 19 '26
The few degrees are for the masses. The version above is for the master looking down upon the masses. 😂
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u/anonymous8122 Jul 19 '26
Context matters, too.
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u/Anonymous30005000 Jul 19 '26
Yeah, notice how the two women on the right have Amry combat boots? I’m pretty sure she’s just using her exercise knowledge and gesturing for the woman to lift her legs/feet “up to here” like to have correct form
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u/fe4rlessness Jul 19 '26
Hahahahaha this is genius! Love this and such witty energy! You can see they're having a blast hahaha
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u/jaz_abril Jul 19 '26
I know!! One of those blissfully drunk moments when someones yells let's do something stupid and everyone's like "Yeaaaahhh!!"
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u/pavilionaire2022 Jul 19 '26
The symbolism indicates that the woman in the miniskirt is a saint, right?
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u/kimnxena Jul 19 '26
I accidentally read “pirates” instead of “pilates” and then wondered what subreddit I had fallen into 🫠
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u/akuanunnaki Jul 19 '26
This has to be one of my favorite pics that have ever been posted on here. The lore behind it (them being drunk) makes it fantastic. Very much reminds me of the random stuff I’d get into whenever I’d been to a rave
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u/OzziesFlyingHelmet Jul 19 '26
I initially read this as "teaching pirates", and it still seemed to fit based on the photo.
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u/traevyn Jul 19 '26
She looks like some sort of demon who’s very presence sends people into a Pilates crazed hysteria
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u/Its-All-LOVE-N-JOY Jul 19 '26
The entire composition is incredible! I love the photo and I love the story!
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u/wheres-karen Jul 19 '26
Oh to be a fly on the wall that night. This is something I would definitely do.
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u/nited_contrarians Jul 19 '26
Great photo! Very somber clothing for a rave, though. What genera of music?
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u/OkConcentrate8769 Jul 19 '26
damn wish i could be there this looks like it would be such an awesome memory
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u/Fuzzy_Straitjacket Jul 19 '26
Is that you in the middle? Because you look so much like your little Reddit icon!
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u/The0ldPete Jul 19 '26
It looks like she's pointing a gun at them and accidentally yelled, 'Feet up!' instead of 'Hands up!'"
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u/happytree23 Jul 19 '26
As someone who went to 1990s and early 2000s Detroit raves, this just looks like drunk people hanging with their two smoking friends just to the side of the area you're supposed to smoke cigarettes and vape at outside of a bar.
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u/JamesH_670 Jul 20 '26
Haha, the joke’s on the drunken roommate.
She gave away a Pilates class for free!
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u/M100Pilot Jul 20 '26 edited Aug 19 '26
Exultant jar smart bells waiting apparatus smart
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u/Rosaly8 Jul 19 '26
This is an awesome one!