#i play like 6 instruments and the bassoon is not one of them. this is not self serving

[formula-fun]

from the ask about writing and reading aus. please can you share some more details about your current works with symphony? are charles and max players? and is the anastasia about the film? sorry for the many questions i love your writing it's very feeling and good

omg yes im SO glad you asked

anastasia is still very much in the talking-about-the-outline phase but it'll probably be a mix between the film and actual history. we're compelled by the imagery of certain scenes in the film, but we're also compelled by the parts of history that the film watered down for a target audience of children. so a bit of both!!

the symphony au is as follows: fernando alonso is a very famous contemporary composer who is working on a new concerto and has approached a conservatory for a test run of it. max is the lead soloist and plays the bassoon. he has been away from the conservatory for 4 months working on a project in la and is only just returning to pick up this project. while he was gone, his conductor (sebastian) recruited a new very gifted pianist (charles) who has already worked his way into max's social circle and is very loved. they become close friends and coparents of the wind section, but the one small issue: they did youth orchestra together and HATED each other, and max is fairly certain charles doesnt remember it. why else would he be so nice to him?

a snippet for you

He crosses the hall and peers in. Charles is at the piano, though Max can’t hear anything through the soundproofed walls. He taps on the glass, and Charles looks up sharply.

Music bursts to life when he opens the door. “Yes?” Charles calls over the din.

“It’s nine,” Max tells him.

“Fifteen minutes,” Charles says, then fumbles an arpeggio, then swears and smacks out a random, dissonant chord.

“You’re not going to get anything worthwhile done in the next fifteen minutes.”

Charles blows out a breath of air through his lips like a horse. His hands drop to his lap; his foot remains on the damper, letting the last dissonant notes hang in the air. He stares at the keyboard for a long beat, one wrist cupped in the other hand, his fingers digging into the delicate tendons.

Max sighs. He lets the door swing shut behind himself, crossing the tiny space until he can sit on the piano bench at Charles’ side.

“Let me see,” he says quietly.

Charles lets out a confused little noise, but his wrist is relaxed in Max’s grip. His fingers twitch as Max flips his hand palm-up and then curls it inward slightly until the tendons in his wrist jump. He finds it with his thumb and then presses downward in a slow circle, and Charles gasps.

“Here?” Max asks, looking up.

Charles’ eyes are wide. His lips are pressed together in a line. He nods, once.

Max nods, ducking his head again. He works in circles, over and over. Charle’s wrist feels delicate in his hold, and somehow smaller than he expected it to be. The pad of his own thumb seems massive in comparison; the knobs of his wrist feel delicate, almost birdlike, but Max isn’t fooled. He can feel the strength there.

Charles sighs as he works his way downward toward his elbow, feeling too-tight tendons give way to long lines of muscle. His fingers twitch again; Max smiles wryly to himself.

“Good?” he asks, just to make sure.

“Good, yeah,” Charles replies, and the breathless note in it makes Max’s ears heat. “Where did you…”

“I dated a violinist a few years ago,” Max tells him. He presses one final circle into the inside of his forearm, then flips his hand over to seek out the pressure point between his thumb and index finger. He presses into it, and Charles’ entire arm goes limp.

“Oh,” he sighs.

“See, this is why we need to take breaks, Charles,” he chides delicately.

“Why would I take breaks? I can just keep a nice bassoonist around,” Charles fires back. “With strong hands and a violinist ex-boyfriend and a—”

He trails off into a hiss as Max extends his thumb and then digs into his pressure point again.

“Breaks, Charles,” Max says delicately.

“Okay, yes, do that again.” Max shakes his head. He does it again.

[cosmerelists]

Stormlight Characters in Band

If we wanted to form a concert band out of Stormlight characters, who would play which instrument?

1. Hoid: Flute

Hoid: But of course!

Hoid: And for the record, I’m NEVER loaning my flute to Kaladin ever again!

Kaladin: ...

Kaladin: Lose a guy’s flute ONE time...

2. Jasnah: Piccolo 

Jasnah: It’s an instrument that requires finesse and control to play properly.

Hoid: I was in a band where Kelsier was on piccolo once.

Hoid: I wished for death.

Jasnah: That was undoubtedly his intent.

3. Lift: Clarinet

Lift: It’s what my mom always said I’d play.

Lift: Plus, I like the part where you eat the reeds!

Wyndle: M-Moisten them, mistress! Don’t EAT them!

4. Kaladin: Trumpet

Kaladin: My dad wanted me to play violin.

Kaladin: But something about the trumpet...its clear brass notes...its martial song...it called to me. 

5. Adolin: Saxophone 

Adolin: It’s an instrument for people who are smooth, quick-thinking, and good at improvization!

Adolin: Plus, ladies love jazz.

6. Elhokar: French horn 

Elhokar: Something about its twisting, curving pipes called to me.

Elhokar: I think I see French horns watching me sometimes, in the mirrors.

Adolin: That’s, uh, very strange.

Elhokar: They watch.

7. Rock: Tuba

Rock: You need big arms and lots of air to play her!

Rock: Air-sick lowlanders could never!

8. Lopen: Trombone

Lopen: It’s what my spren, Rua, really wanted!

Rua: Heh heh

Rua: Tromboner

Lopen: Ha! Good one!

9. Renarin: Euphonium

Renarin: Everyone is always saying, “Renarin, but you seem like a woodwind guy!”

Renarin: But I always wanted to play brass.

Renarin: And so I did!

  10. Eshonai: Snare drum

Eshonai: I did not intend to become the leader of the percussion section.

Eshonai: But somehow I did.

Eshonai: Now I keep the rhythm for the whole band.

11. Rlain: Bass drum

Rlain: It takes a person who can maintain a patient, steady beat.

Rlain: And being very strong does not hurt, either.

12. Venli: Triangle 

Venli: Although I SHOULD be snare drum!

Venli: Eshonai barely practices!

13. Dalinar: Cymbals

Dalinar: Something about bringing these cymbals together...

Dalinar: It...it feels right...

14. Shallan: Oboe

Shallan: Finally! A stick that does what I want!

Jasnah: It’s called the “reed.”

Shallan: Let me have this.

15. Szeth: Bassoon

Szeth: It’s long, it’s heavy, and I wear it strapped to my shoulder.

Szeth: It is just like sword-nimi.

Nightblood: Hey bassoon, want to destroy some evil?

Bassoon: I looooove destroying evil!

Szeth: I have made a mistake.

[queen-fenestra]

I, a bassoonist, went down the rabbit hole of double reed instruments on wikipedia, and will be rating them out of ten mostly based on looks

a regular bassoon 9/10. i love it very much but there is room for improvement

okay, next up, the tenoroon, which receives the award for dumbest sounding instrument ever 4/10 would be less but it looks kind of cool. lost a lot of points on the name

also, the contrabassoon, something i wish i could play so much. it looks so cool 10/10 no notes

next, the dulcian. I used to think this was cool, until i tried making this post and then every single picture i put in here turned into a blurry upclose shot of a dulcian and i almost went insane. it looks like it'd be fun to play though. its so small. 6/10 lost a lot of marks due to its trying to be every picture

Oh! and let us not forget semi contra, an instrument i only learned about today. it looks so interesting and why is it metal??? 8/10 it seems like it is trying to betray the woodwinds and join the enemy (brass and saxophones)

Alas! my friends, my foray into wikipedia did not end there. I ventured to explore variants of the oboe (the worse of the two best known double reeds).

again, a normal oboe for reference 6/10 is kind of shrill and too hard to play. pretty good in the hands of an expert just not my type

i also found the piccolo oboe, but that looks exactly the same, save smaller, and so i will decline to include a picture

next i saw the english horn. half decent. looks cool. it gets an 7/10 one more point than oboe simply because itslike an oboe but trying to be a bassoon and in my book you get points for trying

after that came the oboe of love. (why it is called that? i dont know but i find it hilarious) pretty much the same as a regular oboe again 7/10 its just an oboe but with a better name

next another instrument i had never heard of the oboe da caccia. its like if an oboe and a french horn had a baby so its like an oboe but worse 5/10 (remember kids, brass are the enemy)

and last but not least, bass oboe. 8/10 only oboe i would play

note: i i offended brass players, oboeists, or saxophonists in this post, then i have acheived my goal

[antisocialgaycat]

since none of y'all know how the music program at my skl works i can rant so bands for next year came out today right

like 5 minutes ago

and in that time i have screamed eight times, lied down on the floor twice and almost broken my clarinet three and a half times this is because:

1. how the fuck did j move up and i didnt i am like 20 times better than him and this isnt ego its literal facts (but hey at least he's gone)

2. jazz bands havent come out yet ???????? why

3. i just found 2 new keys that dont work on my clarinet and i realised that i broke the barrel even more

4. also we have no fhorns cos they all moved up or are still in the band below which is sad but also wtf why we deserve fhorns

5. mhgfgjhkgybj i thought the tree licker was gone but i forgot she also does percussion so i still have to deal with her unfortunately (she moved up for trumpet btw)

6. why did s move down a band he deserves better

7. my sister didnt move up to the top band but other worse people did and thats not ok she deserves better

8. why. are. there. no. jazz. bands. yet.

9. c should have moved up she was the best out of all of us but yet shes still in my band (shes first clari tho)

10. why did n move up a band. wait. did he replace s. he better have fucking not.

11. i broke a reed earlier and now im sad

12. l is still one of our percussionists. for the third year in a row. aaaaaaaaaaa why must we suffer this way

13. why are there only 9 clarinets. there were 19 of us last year 14. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FLUTES

15. how dare jem move up now i have no one to subtly flip off from across the band

16. WE HAVE NO OBOES???????????????

17. we have 1 (one) bassoon

18. i think they made us have 3 different types of saxophone to make up for the fact that we have so little instruments (bad idea)

19. why did they combine treble voices and the boys choir that was a terrible idea

20. why are there so many concerts next term

21. why doesnt wb2 have a tuba ????? 22. why does wb4 only have alto saxophones ?????

23. how the actual fuck did y not move up at least to my band if not higher she deserves it

24. they spelt one of my friends names wrong

25. did n just die cos she definitely still plays flute but isnt in any band

26. one of my best friends will have to share a stand with b who doesnt understand the concept of deodorant i wish her the best of luck

27. unrelated but i think i lost my glasses (again)

28. also m just got completely forgotten too

29. i have to deal with ms e for another full year

30. i do not want to sing with the combined choir cos half of them dont want to be there and i also hate chris with a passion

i think 30 reasons is enough but i have more i am so pissed sdfsfgbgdfs

[warningsootgnfer1972]

About me! :>

hi hi!! I’m Maria :D I’m new to this whole tumblr thing so bare with me please ☹️

here are some facts about me so you can get to know me a little better!

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🎸 - im super in love with Green Day, they are my hyperfixation right now.. I saw them back in July and will be seeing them on the Saviors Tour!! 🩷🖤SAVIORS OUT JANUARY 19TH🖤🩷

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🐴 - I ride horses and this year, 2024, will be 8 years that I’ve been going to the farm!! i have three horses!

Cat (the oldest, he turns 28 this year!)

Skippy (Cats short and hot tempered boyfriend)

Daytona (the youngest, he pushes the old men around a lot ☹️)

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👾 - I play games like;

Forza Horizon 4

Minecraft

Fortnite (only for the guitar hero mode thing)

if you have any recommendations for games, please send them my way!! (I have an Xbox one s from 2018 please be kind to me) (I also have a Wii U and Wii)

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🖤 - I’m super into the punk scene.. I’m working on my ‘battle jacket’ now! I love punk bands so much, they hold a special place in my heart.

ex: U.K. Subs, Sex Pistols, The Clash, etc!!

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❤️ - I have a boyfriend, we’ve been together since December 21st, 2023. He’s literally the light of my life. (Apart from Cat and the horses, they come first) He gives me his hoodies, I give him my perfume..

He won’t ever admit it but he’s a HUGE softie for me. And my friend Parker, it was so cute to see that when Parker left he said “bye, love you guys!” And my boyfriend said “love you too..” (of course in a friendship way) AND IT LITERALLY MELTED MY HEART. He always asks if Parker is okay (he has a bit of a troubling home) and would probably kill someone for not only Parker, but me too. If he finds out I told you guys this, I’m dead meat. I love him so much, and everyday he always reminds me of just how much of an amazing person he is. He doesn’t think very highly of himself, which is crazy, but he’s an amazing person and I just need to shove that statement into that stupidly thick skull of his.

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🎸🎼🎶🎵🎧 - I play a fairly wide variety of instruments!

I’ve been playing clarinet for 6 years now, it’s my favorite (perfectly designed to fail) instrument. I play guitar, and have been for over a year now. I’m in marching band!! Here’s where the range kicks in..

I’ve played things like the bassoon to the harmonica, clarinet to guitar, recorder to piano… I’ll put a list of all the instruments (from what I can remember) that I’ve tried/played!

clarinet

bass clarinet

guitar

bass

saxophone

oboe

bassoon

harmonica

recorder

flute

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👁️👁️ - that’s all the facts I have about me so far.. not sure how much or when I’ll use this but I’ll come back every once in a while to update and tell you guys I’m not dead!

❤️❤️❤️ EAT FOOD DRINK WATER BE AWESOME KILL ALL WHO STAND IN YOUR WAY

- MARIA

[yesyourstalker]

Neta: wow! Your place is big! You sure you want me to stay here, I'll get lost.

Ikkan: Don't be ridiculous, it's reasonable size. It's not a mansion or anything. It's a nice quiet place away from the city.

Neta: Nice and peaceful

Ikkan: The kitchen is fully stocked, vegetables, fruit, fish, I also have chicken.... just a little bit though it's hard to find.

Neta: ohhh fancy

Ikkan: I have four streaming service subscriptions and cable. I also have a Nintendo console I don't really use it that much.

Neta: sooounds fuuun.

Ikkan: Uhhhhh........what else? Oh I have a cleaning lady that comes every Monday and Thursday at 6:00 a.m. named Coral she's really nice. I always put you know 200 tip on the kitchen counter for her.

Neta: she hot?

Ikkan: Neta!

Neta: joking, joking babe. You know I play.

Ikkan: humph.......... I have a recording booth downstairs I don't really go to the studio anymore so if you don't see me I'm downstairs.

Neta: can I go down there?

Ikkan: If the red light is on no, if the green light is on yes. oh I also have a pet nudibranch her name is nibble she's-

Neta: YOU HAVE A NUDIBRANCH?? WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT EARLIER? CAN I SEE HER? CAN I SEE HER?

Ikkan: she's on the couch....

Neta: ohhh she's soooo cute! Sweet little baby aww, I'm going to love you and kiss and take care of you! you have a new daddy now!..... She's chewing on my beard.

Ikkan: That's why her name is nibble.

Neta:hmmm, she's mine now. Oh hello who is this? Is this you in high school? You look so weird without your goatee.

Ikkan: yeah.... that's me, I think that was sophomore year.

Neta: what's that You're holding?

Ikkan: it's a bassoon I used to play it in school I was first chair .... I played clarinet and saxophone....... during senior year and...... I got my upright bass ....uhhh...ummm it's dumb, I'm sorry I stopped playing them anyway.

Neta: that's not dumb! that's really cool. Do you still have them?

Ikkan: I still have them I haven't picked them up in a while, I just use them to fill a room.

Neta: can you play for me?

Ikkan: no.

Neta: pleeease, pretty please. For me.

Ikkan: No, Neta no

Neta: do it for nibble then, come on. I want to see you perform, a private show just for me wink wink

Ikkan : ........You're ridiculous. Fine! But I'm only playing one instrument ok.

Neta: yes!

*Ikkan playing Molto Allegro in F minor*

Neta: wow.....

Ikkan: I messed up some notes sorry uh.... It wasn't that great.

Neta: ikkan that was amazing. Are you kidding me, why don't you ever play these instruments in your music?

Ikkan: No one wants to hear a bassoon at a punk concert.

Neta: You don't know that! Ikkan you're so talented and have so many amazing skills. Sometimes It feels like you don't want to share it with people. You have so much potential to branch out with your music, show a different side of you. I see so much passion and talent in you babe..... I just want everyone else to see it too.

Ikkan: hmmmmmmmm.......... do you want to see my books of sheets music?

Neta: hell yeah, I would be honored to see your sheet music. I know I say this is a lot but you're really impressive honey it's amazing what you can do.

Ikkan: thank you........you do say that a lot. You said that to a kid who blew tea into a cup with their mouth.

Neta: you just had to be there okay, they didn't even use their hands.

Ikkan: you sent me three videos of it in different angles.

Neta: you just had to be there in person It was really cool.

[aprillikesthings]

OH MAN I LOVE THIS because I did know that those notes are SUPER high for a bassoon, but not the rest of it

What's really wild to me, is that as as a rule I prefer when music sounds a bit rough/shaky/like it's about to fall apart--the idea that you're trying to express an emotion so large/powerful that your instrument/voice struggles with it, or is pushed to the breaking point.

(Something something that Brian Eno quote about analog media)

To be fair to the musicians playing the rest of the piece, I've heard recordings where they're not quite unified on the beat (as off-kilter as it is) and that can just sound Bad, imho.

One of those recordings was a really old one that Stravinsky himself conducted? And now I wonder if it was "off" on purpose? But I've also read he wasn't a very good conductor lol.

I know that for a while musicians really had a hard time with this piece, because they often hadn't heard it before. Whereas now, while it's still difficult and complicated, anyone playing it has heard it a billion times! It's easier to play it "technically" perfect when you're deeply familiar with it--I can "sing" along with significant portions of it because I've listened to it so many times.

And now I wonder if there's performances where they intentionally have the bassoonist struggle with it a little, or sound like they're struggling with it. (The irony being that intentionally doing something "badly" can be far more difficult.)

Hah, while looking for this video I remembered we've talked about the rite of spring before, on twitter!

this video is so silly but great, and it turns out it's part of a series which is cool.

But yeah I read a conductor just this last year point out--you can't really count out the rhythm for a lot of the rite of spring. You just have to feel it. And you can't do that if you haven't already heard it a bunch of times.

The wikipedia page does point out that the beat for some sections in the first half is one you can count out, but it's REAL WEIRD:

one two three four five six seven eight one two three four five six seven eight one two three four five six seven eight one two three four five six seven eight

According to Roger Nichols "At first sight there seems no pattern in the distribution of accents to the stamping chords. Taking the initial quaver of bar 1 as a natural accent we have for the first outburst the following groups of quavers: 9, 2, 6, 3, 4, 5, 3. However, these apparently random numbers make sense when split into two groups: 9 6 4 3 2 3 5 Clearly the top line is decreasing, the bottom line increasing, and by respectively decreasing and increasing amounts ...Whether Stravinsky worked them out like this we shall probably never know. But the way two different rhythmic 'orders' interfere with each other to produced apparent chaos is... a typically Stravinskyan notion."

We've decided to do a "hear me out" cake for Daci's birthday next week

Everyone was pointing out that I cannot use a dozen different images of Catra

I pointed out that I only really need two (maybe three)

Anyway also I am also including Mt. St. Helens, and the opening page of sheet music for the Rite of Spring

because yes I would fuck those opening bassoon notes. specifically from this recording. if you care.

hell I'd fuck the whole thing, lbh

[virelais4]

DOWNLOAD - POSE (SFS) DOWNLOAD - OBOE OBJECT (SFS)

DOWNLOAD BOTH (SFS)

(6/14/2022: Version 1.01 - Pose is updated so sim now properly supports holding up the oboe. Oboe object is updated to have spec map so the the keys are reflective)

[I got out my oboe and modeled from my own hand position to do this edit. I hope that makes it a bit more accurate. =) )

Oboe object is high poly just like the original one I posted. You can see more details in the link to the original, which the details should be similar.

Hello, long time no see. I got a full-time job very shortly after my last upload and have taken the last several months to get adjusted to that. Yeah, I’m weird like that. Sorry. >.<

So, this is something completely different. I know people don’t follow me for poses, but when I brought these instruments into the game, I always wanted to make poses for them as well! Or at least the ones I play - bassoon and oboe.

I plan on gradually making a set of these, but thought I’d post my very first one alone if anyone was interested.

My self-sim is the model! =D

Also, while I’m an oboist myself and know where every finger goes, understand I’m brand new to posing and thus this isn’t perfect.

Needs Pose Player to work.

Use the Teleport Any Sim mod further down the page from where you find the pose maker to help with placing this pose.

(Oboe model by LeOpold_Gnosov @ 3dsky .)

Other Credits:

Sims 4 Studio (Wishes)

Blender 2.76

PhotoShop Elements 9

[lnterjection]

I’m making my way through Valley of Serenity again and just saw in the authors notes that YOU PLAY OBOE. I AM A BASSOONIST (I also played oboe for like 6 months) AND ANOTHER DOUBLE REEEEED PLAYER. HELLO FELLOW BUYER OF $15-20 REEDS.

jokes on you my bassoon teacher sells them to me for 7 dollars-

(jk that was like once when i was starting out. she doesn't make a lot of reeds 'cause she's also a librarian at a school since there's not enough music-related jobs for her, so she doesn't have the time. so i have to buy 25$ reeds online + shipping. and needless to say i've learned to treasure them quite well).

my oboe teacher is wack tho. she sells me reeds for 13 dollars. that has nothing to do with her being wack she's just wack (but like the good kind).

every time i practice piano nowadays i'm just immensely glad the only thing i have to join together is my book to the stand lmao.

idk why i decided to do so many instruments but that's why i've been on a bit of a hiatus recently with writing/updating social media (dont know when this was asked, not sure i want to know). start of school also brings a ton of auditions and audition opportunities and i've been taking my music a little more seriously given i'm a year closer to graduating and would like something music-related to be a possible future career and major, if not one i'm very sure on.

ALSO YES HELLO FELLOW DOUBLE REED im guessing from the wording you didn't realize im a bassonist too (i mean granted im not as good as on the oboe but i'm doing a marcello solo this year if that's any indication of my base skill level).

every time i play the tenor sax i cry in relief at how easily all the notes speak

[vergilboyfriend]

You should do all of them questions and 90 is true

I love you!!!!

1. Favorite instrument?

I work at a music store u can’t just ask me this. When my coworkers play it’s the saxophone or the flute, when the boys in the repair shop are testing repairs and they harmonize with each other or try to outplay one another it’s the bassoon or the trombone or whatever they’re fixing at the moment. When I hear 🎺 give his lesson on Wednesday afternoons it’s the trumpet, and when I think about middle school it’s the clarinet, the flute, the French horn. When I hear the nutcracker pas des deux is the oboe and when I hear edith piaf l’accordeoniste it’s the remarkable human voice. Really my favorite instrument is all of them, it just depends.

2. Favorite fic trope? Mutual pining 🥺

3. Sport you played for the longest amount of time? LMAO I wasn’t a sporty kid but I did ballet

4. Shoe size? 10-11

5. Most recent (good) dream? Uhh I had a dream last night about my coworker 🎹 it wasn’t bad though I can’t really remember what it was about

6. Last person in your DMs? smugg

7. Can you do a handstand? Nooo nooo lmaoo nooooo

8. Unpopular food opinion I don’t like oranges or red meat

9. Conspiracy you believe in? There’s some kind of weird weather dome in my hometown around the military base that makes most storms pass around us

10. Is your hair its natural color/style? Most of it is I dyed the bottom layer of my hair tho so it’s blonde rn

11. state a useless fact all that’s coming to mind is outright lies rn hold on. The inventor of pringles is buried in a pringles can that’s so fucking nasty omg

12. most interesting gossip you’ve heard? Idk I don’t really care for gossip uhhhh have u heard tho rin dippindogs is a huge gay hah she uhh she like men AND women lmao gaaay gaaaay

13. Middle name? Carolyn

14. Sexuality? Bisexual

15. Amount of sleep you got last night? Idk actually I think like 9-10 hrs tho I slept in until 11

16. Opinion on ice cream cake? Tasty!!!

17. Opinion on (cup)cake frosting? It’s depends buttercream is usually too sweet for me in large amounts so I prefer whipped cream frosting

18. Last board game you played? Idk??? We played hunt a killer tho last Thursday me n my family I guess that counts kinda

19. Project you want to start? I need ideas first baby

20. Project you’re working on right now? HAHAHAHAHAHA

21. TV show you’re watching? nothing rn I just rewatch bojack a lot if I watch anything

22. Last movie you watched? Lego batman I think

23. Ever left anon hate? Not legit hate

24. Ever left anon love? Yes all the time. Sometimes to strangers it’s my favorite thing to do

25. Best Disney movie? The princess and the frog

26. Best Pixar movie? Soul or Up I can’t decide

27. Best Star Wars? Um. Empire strikes back

28. Last thing you consumed? Fuit gumy

29. NoTP? Idk I don’t really hate ships unless they’re gross like pedophilic gross

30. story behind your (nick)name? When I was a fetus my great grandfather had a dream that my name should be Carolyn Marie but my parents were huge dweebs so they named me Marina after the actress of Deanna Troi in Star Trek. Idk about my nickname ive just always been Rina/Rin as long as I can remember

31. ice cream order? Lately it’s lemon sorbetto I know it’s SO high in sugar but I love it

32. describe your blog in <5 words I love you

33. how many blogs do you follow? 436

34. Describe your voice it depends usually I sound like a sick child but my customer service voice is really pleasant

35. Describe your smile it’s cute :)

36. What is the place you live known for? LMAOOO LMAO we have a military base nearby and like. I could go on abt that one but also like. There’s a lot of gang violence and a lot of the other consequences of poverty. People from the cities around us see us as “””ghetto””” or violent but it’s just. It’s more than that it’s always more than that. And idk what else there’s nothing really particularly special about this town except that we’re all here and not anywhere else

37. What is the place you’re originally from known for? (if they’re different)

38. pronouns? she/any idc

39. Languages you speak? English

40. first friend you made through tumblr? Idk. I probably don’t talk to them anymore :(

41. Person on tumblr you know in real life? my brother

42. First dog breed you think of shih tzu I have 2 next to me rn

43. room wall color? Purble!!!! The paint color is called grape juice that’s why I picked it!!!

44. Song that’s stuck in your head right now? It’s tricky to rock a rhyme to rock a rhyme that’s right on time it’s trickyyyyy

45. Favorite number? 5, 34

46. Color you associate with your name? Red

47. Favorite jolly rancher flavor?watermelon

48. Pets? 2 dogs rocket and groot and 4 cats loki danni who r from the same litter and we raised from kittens, miss kitty who we adopted from a shelter after my boy blue moon passed away and ben (his real name is Kylo Ren thanks to my mom but I refuse to call him that) he is my little baby and he has 7 toes on his front paws

49. Collections? Hot wheels

50. Character outside of your fandom you’d marry? Girl what lmaooo idk

51. Character outside of your fandom you’d kill? That’s mean :(

52. Have you met any celebrities? NO thank god id have to kill on sight

53. Favorite time period in history? Itslian Renaissance & Romantic Era

54. What time is it right now? 2:35 am oops

55. History or future? Future but like . A good one. Or prehistory

56. Space or ocean? Space

57. Fears? Abandonment

58. Command + v and post. It’s this list of questions u don’t want that

59. Favorite season? Spring

60. Describe your aesthetic. Messy just a mess, neon and old buildings and things, antiques, countryside if there weren’t so many trump pence flags still lmaoo give uppp give up, nature just al of nature and space and places humans can’t touch and places they used to touch but can’t anymore

61. MBTI? Infp but I haven’t taken it in a few years

62. What’s your relationship with your family like? Normal.

63. “Biggest fan” in your tumblr activity? I’m in mobile hold on acc to tumblr it’s akky

64. Favorite musical? Sweeney todd

65. Comfort book? Idk how to read 💔💔💔 wuthering heights tho

66. Comfort movie? Whisper of the heart

67. OTP? Girl idk

68. BroTP? Joey and Tristan yugioh

69. AUs or canon compliant? Canon ig idk

70. Opinion on the person who’s sending the ask? It’s an anon!! But I love them

71. FMK + 3 characters anon didnt leave any characters and I was going to say something very bad but I won’t

72. Dream date? I’ve wanted to do this for a while but ideally it would be after we’d been together a while maybe even engaged or whatever, I wanna go to like a Home Depot or a furniture store and pretend to be married and looking for house paints and furniture and plan what our home is going to look like I wanna do that so bad. But idk for a first/early relationship date i really want to go to the zilker botanical garden it’s one of my favorite places, we could also go to the natural gardener which is a plant nursery in Austin I really love it there too and it’s not that far from zilker.

73. Relationship status? Single

74. Ever dyed your hair? Do you plan to? Yes and perhaps. Maybe

75. Dream job/career? Idk anymore I used to have big girl goals and I haven’t had any in a while. But when I was younger I wanted to be a game warden

76. Favorite band/singer? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

77. Something that makes you soft/that you find adorable? My cats

78. The first thing you would do if you won the lottery? Buy a house

79. Are you superstitious? Yes

80. Character you project onto? Shizuku tsukishima

81. Fictional character you’ve had a crush on? Vergil devil may cry. Forever husband

82. Celebrity crush? LMAO

83. Person on here you’d date? my mutuals

84. Person on here you’d marry? 🥺 my mutuals

85. Person on here you’d throw into the void? Smugg

86. Other social media you have? I’ve got a photography insta that I barely use and a Twitter that’s just nintendo switch screenies that’s it

87. Finish the sentence: Due to personal reasons, ___________i will be passing away

88. Bad habit? I find it rlly hard to say no or like to say when and why I’m upset I don’t feel like for the latter I don’t feel like I should bring something that’s upsetting me up because I know I’ll get over it on my own and I don’t really trust myself to be upset about rational things. Idk I’m working on it

89. Three things you like about yourself? I’m hot, I’m kind, I’m resilient

90. Ily and you deserve the world I love you!!!!! YOU deserve it too!!!

[jensungf]

10 questions tag pt.2

hoo boi okay so ive been tagged in this a lot so im going to split it up into parts but this is alr a lot to read so if u read all of this u deserve a cookie so reply back with cookie and ima send u kithes and hugs

thank u to every who tagged me!! @byunbaekby @neocitybynight @bumblebeenct

aurora’s questions (these r from awhile back hehe

what’s your favorite dish from your culture?

i like phở gà (chicken noodle soup) or bún bò huế (hhh idk it in english)

vegetables or fruit?

fruits? i don’t like either

what’s the last book you’ve read and did you like it?

i think i had to read frankenstein for decathalon before corona hit and no i did not ugh

what inscription would you like on your tombstone?

heart nutted too hard or leyna [redacted] ; jk i actually dont know, i guess in loving memory leyna her love shall forever be remembered thru photographs bc even when the people change, the memories still stay or something (my brain is chaotic rn)

what should they teach in high school but do’t?

definitely financial literacy and how to do taxes and whatnot

who would you most like to sit next to on a 10 hours flight and why?

probs jisung or renjun bc lbr jisung and i would be the type to play smash the entire time and snack (and also if i fell asleep on his shoulder that shit would be so cute omfg) but renjun and i could continue talking for hours hahahah

what skill would you like to master?

cooking/baking!

what movie title best describes your life?

to all the boys i’ve loved before (ok not rly but i couldn’t think of much)

what’s the best way to start your day?

waking up well rested with my outfit planned and no rush getting ready to go eat brunch w my friends

what pets did you have while you were growing up?

i never had any pets hehe i’m allergic and mis padres say no

milly’s questions

where is the favourite place you’ve ever been?

i think i really like the city in toronto!! it’s super aesthetic and the vibes are amazing but i didn’t get to explore :( @longassride kidnap me pls

what is your best school subject, and if it changed drastically why?

it’s always been english haha but i’m not even that good

animated or live action films?

i prefer animated tbh the live action films i’ve seen don’t do any justice

do you play any instruments, how long for?

i play the bassoon and it’s been like 6 years (don’t need fooled i hate it)

have you told anyone irl that you have a blog?

yeah lmao a lot of my irls know and i let some follow me but we dont talk about it too much

favourite social media? 

instagram or tumblr

can you quote me something from your favourite book?

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.” — Just Listen, Sarah Dessen

what was the last tv show you finished in its entirety?

fuck i have no idea i don’t even think ive ever finished a tv show...  oops?

do you have an all time favourite nct fic on this site?

i have many so it’s so hard to choose but one of my all time favs might be @/starlightkun’s ayakashi series for jeno called featherbrain and @lovingyong’s tatbilb series for jaemin. i stayed up until 7am reading featherbrain and i didn’t stop rereading it for a wk bc it was everything i’ve ever liked in one story since i was super into otome games at one point and if i’m being honest, kelsie’s series helped move past a lot of hardships bahahah i could probably quote a few lines honestly bc they mean so much to me 

if you could time travel, when would you go?

the 90s!!

sunny’s questions

If you could pick one artist to soundtrack your life, who would it be?

niki bc she is queen and relatable !!!

If you could have a Magic Eight Ball that really would answer your questions, what would you ask it?

am i going to be happy and successful?If you could bring one cryptid (supernatural creature) to life, what would you choose?

If you could bring one cryptid (supernatural creature) to life, what would you choose?

honestly that’s so hard ugh i might say angels/demons (i know that’s two but the concept has always intrigued me)

Coke or Pepsi?

coke but i don’t like either

What is your guilty pleasure?

otome games hehe but i guess just reading ff/webtoons all the time

If you had a title after your name (e.g. Alexander the Great) what would you want?

leyna the lover or some shit like that haha i rly dont know

Would you rather have a band who narrated all your movements through song or the paparazzi follow you around?

haksjsk i think band bc it doesn’t always have to be a literal narration and paparazzi would expose my every move

If you could be a K-Pop idol, would you be? Whether or not you answer yes, would you date an idol?

no i wouldn’t because it’s too much of a sacrifice to give up everything and dedicate my life to the toxic industry. and personally no i wouldn’t unless i rly loved them and it happened naturally bc it’s again a huge sacrifice and it’s difficult on both ends

When it rains, are you inside watching from the window or outside twirling in the puddles?

inside haha i could never go outside during rain

If you could time travel to any time period, which would you choose?

maybe the late 80s or 90s.. it seemed like a lot of fun to interact with people without technology. drive in movies, cheap candy, rollerskating down the boardwalk, the fashion and music, the vibes

my questions:

what is your usual resting facial expression?

what was your favorite childhood cartoon?

would you ever have kids? if so, do you have any baby names ready?

whats your favorite way to talk to people? (irl, text, call, ft, etc)

what color fits your vibe and why?

what is your preferred way to be comforted? emotional support or finding a solution?

how long have you been on tumblr?

do you wash your clothes right after you buy them or right after you wear them?

do you have an ideal type or any celeb that matches your ideal type?

do you believe in soulmates?

you’re under no obligation to do this but tagging: @lovelyjsuh @nanasarea​ @neolights @jaemallow @jaetyhm @glossyjaems @cherrysung @yongiefilms​  @juyeonzz​ @lovingyong​ @gohyuck​ @longassride​

[justanotherqueerfan]

Tagged by @flatlineghost

Rules: Answer 17 questions and tag 17 people you want to get to know better.

Nickname: Jay is the main one my friends call me plus a few goofy childhood ones from my parents.

Zodiac sign: Taurus

Height: 5’7 5’8 or about 175cm

Hogwarts House: Slytherin or Ravenclaw

Last thing I googled: prior to googling the height conversion for this post I had looked up sewing scissors.

Song stuck in my head: surprisingly none at the moment, but songs by the Amazing Devil have been featuring heavily recently.

Following: 14 Followers: like 9 I think

Amount I sleep: honestly anyone’s guess my sleep schedule has been non existent since my school shut down. I’m typing this at 2am.

Lucky numbers: 16, 13, 4, 6

Dream Job: I don’t know, I don’t even know what I’m going to major in at college. Probably something Science based though, and hopefully something that allows me to help people.

Wearing: pjs grey sweatpants and a teal shirt from my aerial silks studio.

Favorite songs: currently I’m a big fan of most of the Amazing Devil’s songs.

Favorite instrument: honestly don’t know but my least favorite instruments when I was in band were the oboe, bassoon, and the piccolo if played even slightly out of tune.

Random fact about me: as I briefly mentioned earlier I am learning aerial silks and have been on and off for about a year. I’ve been riding horses for almost 6 years, and I occasionally competed in shows. Unfortunately both of those are shut down due to COVID.

Fav Authors: I haven’t read enough books lately to have a favorite. I have a varied taste when it comes to books, I’ll read pretty much anything recommended to me by anyone who’s opinion I value.

Fav animal noises: the silly noises my dog makes in her sleep, cats purring, the sound of horses chomping peppermints because I know they’re enjoying their snack(I love horses).

Aesthetic: ranges from “how do my parents not know I’m gay” to I just got out of bed don’t talk to me, to what most teen girls in America looked like 3 years ago because I don’t really get rid of clothes unless they’re ruined or I really dislike them.

Tagging: @hereisasuggestionshutup @autisticgeralt @jaskiersvalley @jaskiest @jaskier-wearing-dresses @qu33rling @a-hopeful-disaster @incorrectly-quoted-queers @explodingrainbowunicorns @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels @taramacgay If you’ve already been tagged in one of these or just don’t want to answer it that’s perfectly fine. I hope you’re having a good day!

[goingoverthegardenwall]

Chapter 6: Lullaby in Frogland

Let’s look back. Way back. Back before the dawn of animation, before the dawn of film, well before Ruby or Spears or Disney or Iwerks or either Fleischer Brother. Back to 1835, in a town named Florida in a state named Missouri when a boy named Samuel was born.

Like Ub Iwerks, Sam was raised in Missouri. And like Max Fleischer, Sam’s family took a financial hit when his father’s work stopped (this time due to a premature death rather than the decline of tailory), giving Sam a practical approach to employment. He left school at age eleven to become a printer’s apprentice, then moved to his older brother’s newspaper as a typesetter and occasional columnist, writing humorous articles and drawing cartoons. But unlike Beatrix Potter or the animators we’ve covered, visual art wasn’t in the cards for Sam.

He moved to the East Coast to work for other papers, bouncing between cities before returning to the midwest to embark on a career he’d dreamed of since he was old enough to dream: piloting a steamboat. He thrived on the water, and kept writing about his work along the river, but everything stopped when the Civil War closed off the Mississippi. So Sam headed west to work for the same brother who once ran the newspaper, now a politician in Nevada (I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that this brother was for some reason named Orion). Sam tried mining, and it didn’t take, but he’d gotten pretty good at writing and set off for San Francisco to get back into his jocular brand of journalism. 

It was here that he had his first success, a short story published in his paper called Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog. But, like a certain frog we’ve covered in this series, Sam wasn’t huge on permanent names. Within a month, the story was reprinted as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Jim Smiley’s name was changed to Jim Greeley. Until the book version came out, when it was changed back to Jim Smiley. And this whole time, within the story, it’s a mystery whether Jim’s real name is actually Leonidas (it turns out that it isn’t, but it might be). None of this should come as a surprise for Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the names of Josh, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, and most famously, Mark Twain.

“I knew you were special.”

Over the Garden Wall is, among other things, a story about the importance of solid communication. After five episodes spent building up our heroes as a group of friends, all it takes is one episode of terrible communication to throw it all away. The specific issues vary, despite leading to a similar result of not verbalizing their thoughts very well: Greg’s youth stops him from articulating his rapidly changing ideas, Wirt’s anxiety leaves him too timid to speak up or too rambling to be clear, Beatrice’s true intentions make her obfuscate the truth, and Jason Funderburker straight-up can’t talk. Or so we think.

This time he’s named for American statesmen George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, which fits the continuing vintage Americana vibe of the series—while I figure it’s a coincidence, it should be noted that Mark Twain’s Jumping Frog was named after American statesman Daniel Webster. Surrounded by other frogs that walk around and wear fancy garb, our frog is more anthropomorphic than ever, standing on his hind legs and dancing along with Greg. But it’s still a shock to hear him open his mouth and sing, a shock that soon cedes to the realization that the frog playing the piano at the beginning of the series is singing the Jack Jones song in the montage that follows.

Lullaby in Frogland is Jason Funderburker’s episode through and through, so much so that it’s the first time we hear of his namesake, Jason Funderberker. This is an episode where Wirt rejects Greg’s assertion that their frog is “our frog,” a plot point that’s paid off in their last conversation in the series. This is an episode where Greg wonders aloud if he can be a hero, sees the frog set off on a diverging path immediately afterwards, and accepts it, because he’s willing to sacrifice his happiness for the good of others. And it’s an episode where the frog returns after a harrowing betrayal, showing that even when all seems lost, there’s still room for hope. Over the Garden Wall (the song) might not sound like a traditional lullaby, but it soothes us into a cold night as the sun sets on the first half of Over the Garden Wall (the show).

Adelaide’s true nature is foreshadowed by Beatrice’s sudden hesitance to bring the brothers to the pasture after several episodes of nagging, but the twist is made tragic by Wirt finally letting his guard down enough to be happy. He sings a completed Adelaide Parade with Greg and joins the dance before collapsing into the most earnest laughter I’ve ever heard in a cartoon. He’s a good enough friend to notice when Beatrice is “uncharacteristically wistful,” and takes a risk by playing the bassoon instead of just giving up. He’s still got growing to do—it’s one thing to blame Greg for getting them in trouble by throwing away the ferry fare and forcing them to sneak aboard, but another thing to literally shout “Take him, not me!” when confronted by the frog fuzz—so it’s clear that his journey isn’t over yet, but he doesn’t even get a full episode of peace before everything blows up.

The whole steamboat sequence flows between simple delights, like saluting the captain mid-chase, the revelation that the frogs love music more than they hate trespassers, and the repeated gags of three gentlemen frogs snatching up flying flies and a frog mother dropping her tadpoles. Everything just feels calm, even when antics are afoot. Wirt gets to save the day with his bassooning, Greg gets to feel rewarded in his knowledge that his frog is special, Jason gets to sing a song after being silent throughout the series, and Beatrice seems, for now, to come to a sort of peace about things after several clear attempts to sidetrack the boys. This is the only episode to feature two major stories instead of one, but the steamer segment is rich enough to feel like a full episode. If only we could’ve stopped here.

All roads lead to Twain when it comes to depictions of steamboats as a go-to American icon, which is why he preceded this discussion of Lullaby in Frogland: I’m not claiming Mickey Mouse wouldn’t have been successful if his first cartoon was about something else, but I’m certainly claiming that we wouldn’t have gotten Steamboat Willie as it was if Ub Iwerks hadn’t grown up in a Missouri whose lore was shaped by Twain’s tales of the river. But while the author is the root of the episode’s many influences, I think the most fascinating branch that we borrow from is The Princess and the Frog. 

2009 was a great year for animation, seeing the release of Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Secret of Kells, the surprisingly great Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and the first ten minutes of Up (also the rest of Up, if I’m feeling generous). The first two on that list are my favorite of the year, twin stop-motion masterpieces that I’m always in the mood to watch, but The Princess and the Frog is a brilliant last gasp from Disney’s 2D animation studio. It isn’t the final traditionally animated film they made (that would be 2011′s Winnie the Pooh), nor the final fully sincere princess movie they made (that would be 2010′s Tangled), but it marks the beginning of the end for both trends: for better and worse, modern Disney animation feels the need to loudly subvert old tropes and wouldn’t be caught dead in two dimensions.

Lullaby in Frogland’s connection to The Princess and the Frog is certainly visible on the surface level: both feature a long sequence starring frogs on a steamboat where a lead character must pretend to be another animal and play a woodwind instrument to get out of a jam, and both involve our heroes seeking help from a wise woman far from civilization (even if only one of these women is actually helpful). But it’s the somber nostalgia factor that binds these stories closer than anything, the knowledge that this is the end of the road for this type of tale. The ferry’s gotta land somewhere, and the cold is setting in as the frogs begin hibernating for the winter, but there’s still more story to tell.

The second story of Lullaby in Frogland is scored throughout by a haunting string and piano rendition of Adelaide Parade, and Adelaide herself is immediately captivating. John Cleese returns for the second episode in a row, but as both of these episodes aired the same night, it feels like a consistent through-line: in the first half, he’s an eccentric who might be a deranged maniac but is actually harmless, and now he’s a witch who might be harmless but is actually a deranged maniac.

Adelaide gets a compelling amount of detail for someone who’s barely in the show. We don’t get any explanation about her fatal weakness to...fresh air? Coldness in general? Either way, like the Wicked Witch of the West’s lethal reaction to water, it’s absurd that someone like her has managed to live this long. She never says what she needs a child servant for, why she has scissors that seem custom-made for Beatrice’s specific curse, or what her spider-like deal with yarn and wool is (she has a black widow hourglass on her back, but also reminds me of the Greek Fates with her emphasis on thread). We never find out how she’s connected to the Beast, whose theme bleeds into her music as she proclaims, without much prompting, that she follows his commands; her goal of using children as zombie slaves seems counter to his goal of turning them into trees to fuel his soul lantern. But this blend of unexplained characteristics and seemingly inconsistent motives only makes her more enthralling to me, because she feels like the major villain of another story who just happens to intersect with ours. 

What makes Adelaide even more compelling on rewatch is that her scissors, despite their gruesome method for curing the curse, do end up working. Which means she did mean to help Beatrice out as part of the deal. At no point does Adelaide lie, and given Beatrice knows she’s bad news as she lures the brothers in, it becomes clear that for all her villainy, Adelaide is an honest witch. I’m always down for baddies that tell the truth, but it’s of particular interest when we compare her to the Beast, whose whole deal is lying. 

The only liar in this episode is Beatrice, even if she wanted to set things straight without hurting anyone; she values her friendship with the boys so much now that she’d rather make herself a servant to Adelaide than just tell them she’s dangerous and reveal that she lied. By the time she’s willing to tell the truth, it’s too late, and not even saving Greg and Wirt by killing Adelaide is enough for Wirt to forgive her. Considering he knows in The Unknown that the scissors he uses to escape the yarn can save her family, he was also listening in on the end of the conversation before entering the house, which means he must have heard that she was willing to sacrifice herself, but that doesn’t matter either. Beatrice gave the boys hope, and no matter how badly she tried to stop it, the encounter with Adelaide transforms Wirt. Where he was once nervous and unsure, and was then briefly optimistic, he’s now sullen and untrusting.

But again, in comes Jason Funderburker, croaking and hopping on all fours once more to bring some light to the darkening series. He doesn’t do much for Wirt, but allows Greg to quickly get over whatever trauma he had about getting webbed up in yarn; he’s remarkably quiet about it, but it’s important to remember that he was betrayed, too. Whether he doesn’t understand exactly what happened or is just quicker to forgive, Greg is fine with Beatrice, allowing us to focus harder on Wirt’s reaction from now on.

It’s all rain and winter for Wirt until the end of his adventure. But the show isn’t content to leave him even slightly forlorn: when it gets too dark, he has a frog to swallow a lantern to light the way, and when it gets too cold, he has a brother to cover him in leaves, and when he falls, he has Beatrice to help pull him back up. Even the Woodsman tries to save him in his own way (talk about folks who are bad at communication). Bad things happen, and people make mistakes, but the bigger mistake is allowing that to close you off to others, or to never forgive friends that are genuinely sorry. Our heroes have taken the ferry to the other side, and now the story can shift to one about the folly of abandoning all hope.

Where have we come, and where shall we end?

On top of Jason Funderberker, who’s set up as a major rival to make his eventual reveal one of the show’s best jokes, Wirt gives Beatrice a general summary of Into the Unknown three episodes before we see it play out.

[otherluces]

I was tagged by @lordjenjen

Rules: answer 17 questions and tag 17 people

1. nickname: Luces online, D at work, Dej to my few friends irl

2. zodiac sign: Virgo

3. height: 5′9″, but I like to say 5′10″

4. hogwarts house: Hufflepuff cause I’m a jack of all trades, master of none

5. last thing I googled: Uh...probably “SDC nursing abbreviation” while at work because a co-worker was curious what it stood for (staff development coordinator, turns out)

6. song stuck in my head: None at this very moment, but I tend to have 2-3 songs stuck in my head at one time throughout the day

7. # of followers: idk. 744, but of actual active accounts, probably like 50?

8. amount of sleep: Anywhere between 5 to 12, depending on the day and circumstance. 12 is usually after three days of working and only getting 5-6 hours a night

9. lucky number: 8 cause I decided in 3rd grade that it was my favorite number

10. dream job: Realistic based on my current career: maternity nurse; Fantasy based off the fact that I’m a slow ass writer: self-published erotica writer who can live off of her writing alone

11. wearing: black sweatpants and a black short sleeved shirt covered in loose bunny fur

12. favourite song: I don’t know if I have ONE favorite, but I guess I’d say “Kiseki no Umi” by Maaya Sakamoto (The Record of Lodoss War TV opening theme) because it’s gorgeous, I will always love it, I was always love her, and it never fails to make my cry.

13. favourite instrument: I still have a thing for the bassoon, even years after I casually played in high school

16. aesthetic: Depressed person? Slob? Someone who doesn’t try to look pleasing to others because they already have a partner who thinks they look hot even at their grossest? I dunno.

14. favourite author: Uh...does Hollycomb count?

15. favourite animal noise: a bunny tooth purr

17. random: I’m currently playing a Victorian England tycoon dating sim game called Max Gentleman: Sexy Business and its hilarious and the sexy parts are like choose your own adventure kinda and it’s fun.

I’ve spent so little time on Tumblr lately that I can’t think of a lot of handles that I’m close enough with to harass them with this, so please by all means, if you would like to fill this out, please do!! I tag you!

[trewloves]

tag - who’m i

thanks to @fitzrove​ and @georgefancys​ for tagging me!!

name: ivy! (i actually have a given name that is not ivy but. i go by ivy lol)

nickname: i thought it was rlly funny when bex said a few of her friends call her b b/c a few of my friends from high school ALSO call me b

zodiac: cancer

height: close to 5′10″, but i wear heels a lot in both my professional contexts so that usually puts me in the 6′1″-2″ range

languages: mandarin chinese was my first and i can understand a lot of other dialects (mostly cantonese) without speaking, but obviously living in the states my whole life i have pretty much native fluency in english. i also used to know german (i had a private tutor from age 5-12 if i remember correctly) but i’ve pretty much forgotten all of it now, i speak pretty decent french (learned it for ib) and i’m studying dutch rn and also spanish bc i think it’s pathetic that i grew up in the southwestern united states and can barely speak spanish... lol

nationality: american!

favorite season: i think probably autumn because the weather’s the most temperate (i literally live in two of the places with the worst weather) and also i’m a hoe for autumnal colors

favorite flower: carnations!

favorite fictional character: god this is SO hard but like i will always love clara oswald from doctor who till the end of my days (and ofc special shoutout to my sweet baby peter jakes)

coffee, tea, or hot chocolate? i love them ALL but i will say working in a coffeeshop and making hot chocolate makes you less inclined to enjoy drinking it lol... i drink matcha lattes on the regular but i’ll always enjoy both coffee and tea

average sleep: i prefer the classic 7.5 but i usually get closer to 4. oof

dogs or cats: i like both but probably dogs

dream trip: i loved scandinavia and the benelux countries, they’re so beautiful, but i’ve never been to iceland so i’d love to go

blog established: i believe spring my junior year of high school, which would’ve been 2017?

random fact: i’m bleaching my hair right now. lol

gender: is a scam (but i consider myself a cis woman. lmao)

current time: 20.36

favorite artists: hayley kiyoko, hozier, and flor are the first ones that come to mind. i’m a closet camila cabello fan and also i love rina sawayama as well

stuck in my head: the same 4 bars from this piece i’m playing for wind ensemble smh

last movie i saw: i can’t really remember but i’m going to see portrait of a lady on fire on saturday!

last thing i googled: ‘tim longman international criminal tribunal rwanda’ because i’d read on my professor’s wikipedia page that he’d served as an expert witness so i was googling him during class (i’m obsessed with him and need him to adopt me)

other blogs: my main is chuckrussinks but i rarely post there anymore, i haven’t even updated my age lmao

do i get asks? once in a while which is really cute and nice!

reason for url: because i thirst. nonstop. for peter jakes

followers/following: 5,120 followers (most of them are from when i was a shameless supernatural hoe...sigh) and i’m following 128!

lucky number: 8

currently wearing: shorts and my pavement coffeehouse t-shirt

dream job: bruh i don’t even know anymore... i’m currently studying music, political science, and international governance (part of international relations) so we’ll see what happens. would love to go to grad school though and work for the EU since i’m very interested in the topic of european integration and regional organizations

favorite foods: i love all spicy food, but since i’m a western united states bitch i gotta say. in-n-out burger. i miss that shit so much

instruments: obvs flute, since i’m studying flute performance at university (i’ve been playing for 10 years now, shook). my first instrument was piano which i started 15 years ago and i’m still playing, just not studying privately anymore. i also played the bassoon in middle school (i know) and can sort of play violin poorly

favorite song: CRUEL SUMMER BY TAYLOR SWIFT IS AN ABSOLUTE DRIVE!!!

i can’t really think of anyone to tag who hasn’t already been tagged, and i’m lazy af, so if u’d like to just say i tagged u heh

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Tagged by: @extraterezi​ !!! (ty!)

Nickname: lol i have been going by ellis for a bit but thats less of a nick name and more of an intentional name change but!! i was called “ch1″ for many years (pronounced shwun) as a kid and my mother hated it

Sign: lol i used to have my natal chart in my about but i am an aquarius sun & moon & a few others we dont need to get into it

Height: im 6′ !!

Hogwarts house: lol i said i was a slytherin for a long time in my teens because i wanted to be edgier than i am but realistically last time i took the test i got ravenclaw

Last thing i googled: instructions for the projector i found in the garage of my last apartment that i cant get to turn on :-( someone please help me i just want to watch movies on the wall :-(

Song stuck in my head: see for a song to get stuck in my head i would have to not be constantly listening to music (which is never the case. if im not playing music i lose my phone every 3 minutes) BUT yesterday i was thrift shopping for furniture for like 3 hours and i had thats not my name by the ting tings stuck in my head the whole time

Following: 488 (would be a lot higher but i remade)

Followers: 550!

Amount of sleep I get: if i have tests like 6 but a solid 8-10 the rest of the time

Lucky number: 1008

Dream job: ha ha ha i have a lot of things i want to do and none of them are related and i cant narrow them down. im going to have 2 degrees in six months and i had a career advisor meeting last week and he was like “what do u want to do” and i was like well i want to work at cartoon network but also i want to work in climate science and resource regulation,, ha ha on fire its fine dog comic

Wearing: this is what im wearing rn (i drew this at school rn, i steal herbs for cooking on the walk there)

wearing my fave green pants and a shirt i got yesterday with red flowers on it :-)

Favorite song: idk i have a lot of eternal feel good songs , this must be the place etc, right now i have been listening to a lot of big thief (real love and vegas) and ajj (kokopelli face tattoo and personal space invader)

Instruments: i took piano lessons for 6 years as a kid and still play, and then i played bassoon for 7 years in jr high+high school lmao but we are anti bassoon in this house. no ragrets but it is NOT a fun instrument to play

Random fact: thrifting is one of my favorite hobbies i would also do that as a career and be very happy,, but it has resulted in me having a Lot of Clothes. like maybe Too Many

Aesthetics: my apartment and fashion is decidedly grandmacore but with a lot of gay colorful patterns and my hair is pink. my furniture is all vintage 70s or older shit because i like the colors and i have a lot of plants!! my apartment is very orange and has a lot of rugs. wow huh i want to draw it

I tag: @deersovereign @peesh @gardengnosticator @ti3s @mcnerggelerthehamburgerler @cats-and-cacti @kulekrizpy @niluminati @capricallous @vanillacorpse​ and the rest of my mutuals / anyone else who wants 2 have fun