#b-t-dubs me being in the choir does not mean I can sing. I’m very bad at it.

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Non-aphblr stuff: So my little writing practice story came from the fact that I saw an absolutely ethereal looking opera student at my school the same day I heard a pipe organ in person for the first time. My college (while I am there for engineering) is well known for its music education and some of my friends bring me with them when they practice, and while the practice building has sound proofing, opera students beat it by a large margin. I was standing, waiting for my friend to pack up when coming out of a room that had been singing baritone, a man who I could only describe as a reformed goth black vampire.

He was like, 6'4, cheekbones that could cut diamond, SUPER shiny brown skin, and he was dressed like a vampire very poorly trying to pass as a normal person. Even the hot topic round red sunglasses, he looked like a vampire and out sung a contra-bassoon, truly not a human person. I then went to a different friends orchestra concert where they had a harp and pipe organ and it truly convinced me that vampires might exist.

Oh my god I LOVE ORGANS.

My village does these different festivals all the time, and the church usually does things for them, they’re very involved. And for Remembrance day every year they have a whole parade around the village and then people sit in the church and there’s a few words from the priest before they do organ and choir stuff. When I was a kid I was part of Brownies and we got to be at the very front for the entire procession.

Because it is done in a very funeral-like way for the sake of respect for the fallen and stuff.

Anyways, that tangent over, opera singers are insane. I wish I got the vocal training for that kind of stuff, but being in the choir as a kid made me hate singing for a while. But I’m pretty sure most opera singers have been sacrificed to a higher being because there’s no way they can sing like that otherwise. And I just don’t have that level of commitment

I totally get you experiencing ANY opera singer, let alone a vampire-lookin dude, and going ‘fuuuckkk i need to write about magic stuff now’