#or maybe that's the wine speaking

[personalth1ngs]

Honestly, I just need to be fucked until I can't remember my name anymore

[handsomegentlebutch]

Me and a (new) mutual: *spam liking and rbing each other's posts*

Me, internally: so are we gonna kiss or....

[graveyard-party666]

I did lil' something for the next chapter. 👀

Now I'm one of you cool people that do renders.

Thanks to @chloekistune for being patient with my slow ass. You're an amazing teacher, pookie.

[kaerinio]

would anyone like to be mains or affiliates? 🥹✨

[supercantaloupe]

okay don giovanni review from last night. under the cut bc it's me. tldr the vocal performances were great, leporello carried the show, one of the most insane productions i've seen thus far but somehow in a new bizarre direction from normal. good snacks.

first of all i don't care how much wine you offer i think it's kind of ridiculous to charge $165 for a base ticket price for a performance that 1. isn't even in a concert hall or theater 2. is a concert performance rather than a staged performance (which was not advertised ahead of time) and 3. was not even a full production because they made the absolutely mind boggling decision to cut 100% of the recitative and replace it with Some Guy sitting on the stage narrating the plot between every 1-3 numbers

i did not pay that much gd bless. the student ticket was way cheaper.

the narration wasn't even good it was weirdly ungenerous to the women (like how do you even make elvira out be a "women, amirite" thing and also vaguely imply anna was into it in a production with zero acting? well they figured something out) and i don't think it even explained well enough what happens between each number to truly give a first time watcher a good idea of what's actually going on. not to mention that it absolutely kills any sense of momentum in the plot and makes the entire show drag like hell, because you have to wait between every single aria for either Some Guy to talk at you for three minutes straight, or wait awkwardly while people onstage walk off and people offstage walk on. it was so painfully clunky

they had a piano up there but since there was no recit it's not like she was accompanying much of anything. in practice what it ended up being used for was 1. the mandolin part for deh vieni (acceptable in the absence of a mandolin player; they were working with a limited chamber ensemble of musicians so i get it) 2. the party music at the end of act i (egregious fault imo because it absolutely kills the vibe of the scene and completely obfuscates the way the music is supposed to be adding to the tension and chaos with its different instrumental groups playing in different meters)

and 3. used to give singers their notes when the vocal line of their arias start on beat 1 measure 1, which they otherwise would have been able to get from the preceding recits (which is imo painfully amateurish for an ostensibly professional production)

all the numbers in act i were there although the narration was so bad i got jumpscared by fin ch'han dal vino because i forgot it was supposed to be there and thought we had skipped over that point in the plot. act ii had some really bizarre additional cuts made, notably they just entirely skipped over meta di voi and vedrai carino. it was like masetto and zerlina fuck off for the entirety of act ii save for, like, mille torbidi (they VERY briefly mentioned masetto getting beat up in the narration and i don't think they mentioned vedrai carino at all, they just skipped straight from deh vieni to sola sola. and also there was a painful awkward pause before deh vieni because i think the pianist forgot she was supposed to play there and the narrator jumped ahead to the next chunk of plot explanation too early). kept both dalla and tesoro (i'm fine with this ottavio was quite good though could've used a bit of ornamentation imo), kept mi tradi, kept non mi dir (more on that in a bit). no per queste which is probably a good thing not only for the show itself but also my head would have absolutely and irreversibly exploded if they had, probably

the whole thing kind of felt underrehearsed. like a quarter of the time it seemed like people didn't know what they were doing or had to be reminded where to be at that point in the show. and there were a few moments throughout where the orchestra struggled to keep up with the singers, but i really don't think they had much time to rehearse together, honestly.

and then, to my utter shock, the finale was actually really good?? like. insane compared to the rest of the show thus far. though it helps that 1. i absolutely love the harmonieband arrangements of cosa rara/i litiganti/non piu andrai, after possibly the draggiest non mi dir i've yet experienced it was like a breath of fresh air to hear that (and non mi dir was actually well performed i liked this anna but considering how much the Entire Show was dragging, the fact that they cut meta di voi and vedrai carino, AND the fact that they promised this act would be short, it felt crazy to me to keep it at that point.)

2. leporello and the don were by far the best performers of the night. so much so that i sought them out during the post show reception to tell them how great they were and enjoyed their performance. which i usually do not do, but in this like, high school recital ass production value. unbelievable relief that the final scene is dominated by the two actors in the show who most remembered that they can, and in fact Should, be acting. so much more movement and physicality and expression from those two compared to most everyone else. leporello especially, his actor apparently specializes in comedic bass roles and it shows, he was the standout all night

and 3. for the first time in the entire production they made an interesting decision regarding the physical space and staging! they had the commendatore sing from up on a balcony overlooking the audience in the foyer. the bar admittedly was set very low in the previous act and a half but the finale reminded me that i actually like this show again which is appreciated

though they then threw another curveball at me by Cutting the sextet at the end. which like didn't even piss me off at that point i was just baffled. like the don sinks down in agony and leporello sinks down whimpering in fear and the orchestra cuts off. and i'm expecting an awkward pause while they quietly get up and shuffle off so the rest of the cast can come back but nope. big orange title slate appears on the big screen behind them and the audience breaks into a roaring applause and the announcement of the wine and dessert reception. felt like i was in a fever dream

i will say the desserts were very nearly almost worth the bullshit that was the preceding show. they were so good. thank you austria for your dedication to pastry. and because i don't drink and couldn't appreciate the free wine offered i had to indulge in my own manner. spread contained chocolate oat bites (tasted as much like espresso powder as chocolate and coated in coconut, 4/10), almond sponge cake (classic, 7/10), cardamom apple bread pudding with caramel cream (not enough cardamom but otherwise very tasty and autumnal, 8.5/10) and honey cake (11/10. i don't know how they made this so good. i want more right now so much). i take both my mozart opera and my desserts very seriously.

anyway overall the production was. i would say frustrating. the singing quality was Really Good (leporello was the clear standout, probably followed by the don though i prefer my dons with a lighter voice but technically he was very good, then probably ottavio, then maybe masetto or anna. the commendatore was great but he's in it so little it's hard to compare)

i just wish they could have, like, actually done a full production. it would have been so great if they had gotten to tell the actual story and had been fully allowed to act. when there Was acting were the best moments of the show, and it's really unsurprising that most of that came from leporello, the absolute legend.

[pondslime]

going insane. where's that one post. it's a picture of a (japanese? maybe?) liquor bottle w/a graph of the drinking experience that goes from eh to tastes like strawberry soda (or juice??) to I need him bouncing and moaning on it. to like. fugue state. or smthn

I cannot. find It. but I know. it exists

[cuteniaarts]

Wine stains on porcelain

(Alternatively: @katkastrofa and I have created 5 OCs in 3 days and I suffer from chronic “I wanna draw the little guysssssss” disease)

[paetal]

guy who is just trying to settle down and live a peaceful life ( guy who is running and burning every single bridge that ties him to his former criminal underworld type of life ).

[nocentis]

x

[elithemiar-blog]

I want a new weighted blanket that's a little cooler, and my very specific sensory stipulations would rather have a feel before buying ANYTHING.

We were shopping the other day and my own mother needed to feel blankets/pillows to understand what I meant by Too Much Texture.

My niece (who we believe is also on the spectrum), had no problems understanding Texture differences. Then she found this hypersoft blanket and it was the only one left. [Koolaburra Ellowyn by Ugg].

Anyway...I want to touch all the available weighted blankets before choosing and that's not possible.

[petruchio]

this is how i KNOW olivia rodrigo follows my blog come on. like two days since i changed my icon and she gave me another iconic shot. ily2 queen you’re everything to me

[graveyard-party666]

THEM!

Just made another thing for my upcoming chapter. I actually did a whole ass "comic" for the chapter but i don't know if i should post it.

[bizarrebazaar13]

fancy names for character dynamics I have (so far)

SeaHeart (Alexandria + Amelia)

world’s most dysfunctional roommates (Amelia + Alexandria + Manager + King)

Academia Anathema (Dexter + Naturalist)

Fine Wines (Elaina + Jervaise)

[sargetblu]

Can you make sure Demo is perhaps brought somewhere soft? It's, uhhhhmmm, a really. Good. Attack plan? Revenge? Thing? -Chef Anon

I don't want to red team to see me in their base.

Ruins the surprise attack.

But I can't leave him here.

(@meeeebbottalofscruhmpyuyy)

[stoertebeker]

Where's this post with the transphobic parents saying "this is our beautiful daughter" and the daughter looking like *picture of house from house md* because that's gonna be me this evening ✨

[thistransient]

- Tonight a drunk girl said "hey sexy" to me and then almost fell down the stairs

- I was caught in the act of unintentionally trying on the silk dressing gown of the event host, who I considered something of a celebrity after reading multiple articles (and making a post on my sideblog) about her. (I thought it was part of the things for sale, thank god she didn't care, 好尷尬呀)

- I still don't really understand how Instagram works, cause one guy was quite surprised after I followed him back immediately, is that not what one does?

- I went to this event very much on a whim after seeing a news article about it, and upon turning up and standing around a bit confused about how to proceed (in the door, or loiter at the porch bar), I heard someone call my name only to discover a friend I had no idea was going. Then the bartender addressed me by my Chinese name unprompted, and turned out to be someone I'd met at rope events. Later an unfamiliar guy told me we'd met at an art thing last year... I'm not sure if Taipei is small, the Taipei alternative scene is small, or I'm just...distinctive. (I've also run into acquaintances by similar sheer coincidence at border crossings and international airports.)

- Last but not least I am now the proud owner of a metal door dragon that I absolutely did not need but asked the owner about and he said make him an offer. I had to bike home and man did that thing clank in the bike basket with every bump but at least it cleared people out of the way.