#my apologies for the jumpscare at the end i did not know what to put😭

[thelilylav]

My one true gripe w the ending of hazbin hotel was Charlie did NOT get to go apeshit enough let my girl lose her temper I need to see her rage

Also here’s the actual comic lol:

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

dress rehearsal went overtime by almost an hour but hey, we’re alive. barely, but still. because i’m trying not to complain too much about my personal performance, moments of levity only:

tita conductor could not find her scheduled order of pieces on her phone so she asked very generally how long we had for the first piece on the roster and i (had my phone on my stand to record the rehearsal) piped up “4:10 to 4:30”. habitually helpful strikes again

we started the britten at a noticeably faster clip than i was used to and got cut off very shortly after with tita conductor saying “so that’s a really good example of me being a little wound up and, therefore, you playing fortissimo instead of pianissimo. so i will try not to be wound up and you will play pianissimo” 😭

WE HAVE REAL CELESTA THIS TIME YAYYYYY

“it’s a tinker bell moment!” (tita conductor, about celesta)

tita conductor questioned the violas and cellos what they were trying to emulate (pro tip: if tita conductor ever asks you “what are you trying to emulate” the answer is, 99% of the time, “a hurdy-gurdy”) and they stared back at her. stand partner and i took a look at each other and sort of just held in our giggles because we both knew what answer she wanted.

tita conductor turned back to us, made eye contact with me, saw that i was suppressing giggles, and almost started giggling as she prepared to cue so she stopped, said “sorry,” composed herself, and started the piece

“can you sound really perky and not scared?” -tita conductor to the firsts on a tricky entrance

tita conductor gestured out at the theater and said, “we can’t be thin or pale because this hall will eat us alive if we don’t put sound out there, i promise you. it ain’t the…like, st. patrick’s cathedral. i assure you” at this viola friend and i made very pardon me? faces at each other across our sections

tita conductor continued to ask me for the time and when we switched to the dvořák after my botched solo attempt i wasn’t entirely ready to consider all the possible angles of my sentence and said a little shortly “it’s 5:15 and you were supposed to start it at 5:00” and she started giggling which did NOT help matters. girl i was in a CRISIS 💀

“now we only have two clarinets against the WORLD!!!”

the cellos and violas were being too soft about a part and tita conductor told them “this is the time to be aggressive. as my high school football team used to say. i will not do the cheer for you. be aggressive.” GIRL HELP ME

“there’s a fear loose…afoot in the populace. i don’t know why. i don’t know what happened.”

we got a little too heavy during the dvořák second movement and tita conductor whipped around to us and said “like you’re happy to be here?” and we cleaned up our act immediately

“it’s an open invitation to fall into a hole” -tita conductor. context totally unknown.

we were at least fifteen minutes overtime when tita conductor squatted on the podium, tapped her phone to wake it up, checked the time, and muttered “oh god” under her breath

tita conductor apologized to one of the flutes, who apparently took a huge breath at the end of the lyrical heart of the fourth movement of the dvořák in preparation for the coda

we jumpscared someone who was watching the rehearsal getting into the coda section of the dvořák movement 4 when we finally did it 😭 he quite literally jumped in his seat when we all came in 😭 i hope nobody screams like in that one firebird video that goes around

tita conductor gave us a rehearsal marker to start from in the fourth movement of the dvořák and it was in one of my least favorite places of the whole piece (because of all the repeat bars that go fast) and i said “eugh” under my breath but tita conductor overheard, looked at me, and said “eugh?” and i was like whoops sorry you didn’t hear anything lol 🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢

fourth movement is going to go WAYYY slower than i was working up to on metronome lmao.

“it’s like a drum beat,” tita conductor said to the violas during a rather percussive, militaristic bit. “he gave it to you because there wasn’t a snare drum lying around.”

tita conductor apologized for the winter concert being scheduled the weekend after lunar new year which was really sweet of her 🥹

concert in two days. i don’t know whether to be scared or excited at this point. i pray to god everything will be okay.