#possibly flute

[ash-and-starlight]

modern au and esen’s honkers are haunting the instagram feed

[thatswhatsushesaid]

just remember friends, when life gets you down and your baby brother cuts off your career criminal (alleged) bestie and/or soulmate's whole arm

flute solos are always an option. flute solos are always there for you.

[wickedcriminal]

Spirit Tracks swap ayoo✨️

I like to think that Link was part Lokomo, so he could have feasibly hosted Malladus if Zelda managed to get away. That's not to say Zelda's in the clear— Cole and Byrne are still actively looking for her— but Link will work as a temporary solution. At least until his body burns up.

Hope Zelda's good under pressure; she's on a bit of a time crunch.

Redraw of these from 2021!

[maslosstuff]

Their captain is a idiot

Without subtitles below:

[loola-a]

one of my newer tavs, odette <3 created specifically for the purpose of being laezel’s cringefail damsel in distress gf

[fairy-ganj-mother]

yesterday at 29.5 years old I watched as many videos as I could find from my high school marching band, choir, and theater run crew days and realized I barely have any memories of my junior year of high school (13-14 years ago btw) other than feeling bad™️

[kvroii]

I've been doing more sketching than anything I'd consider comparatively finished lately, so here is another colored sketch of Roselie.

[noirandchocolate]

Me: *listening to my big shamisen playlist while I work at home reading cases* Hehe strings go twang nicely for my braincells

Spotify: *hits me in the face with “Blue” by Aun J-Classic Orchestra again*

Me: I am going to die. ToT

[future-crab]

requesting a rant about that sweeney todd song 👀

Ooh thank you!

So. Johanna Quartet (which I spelled wrong in my post. Sorry, Johanna.) and why it slaps.

The first thing that deserves a mention is that it’s just absolutely beautiful. I don’t know anything about music theory, so I won’t try to break that element down, but if you haven’t, I’d really recommend giving it a listen. The 2023 revival cast version is excellent imo.

The part I mainly want to talk about is Sweeney’s verses, cause I think they’re really interesting. It’s (arguably) the most introspective we ever see him in the show, and it is (arguably) both the point in the tragedy when it becomes clear that it’s too late for things to turn out well, and the false high where it seems like things might work out.

Like, the beginning of the song makes it pretty clear that at this point, he has become the person he most hates. With his possessiveness over Johanna (“my little lamb, my pet” and all that) and the incestuous overtones in lines like, “And are you beautiful and pale, with yellow hair, like her? I’d want you beautiful and pale, the way I dreamed you were, Johanna” it’s laid bare for the audience that there is no difference, really, between him and Judge Turpin anymore. They both just want to own this woman, because she’s beautiful and reminds them of her mother.

But then the last couple verses come in, and we’re given a tantalizing glimpse at the possibility of character growth with lines like, “And though I’ll think of you I guess until the day I die, I think I miss you less and less as every day goes by, Johanna.” From the second he walked onstage, he’s been single-minded in his focus on his grief and revenge, but in this incongruously honest moment, he’s admitting that he could move on.

And then! And then!!! For (to my memory) the first and only time in the show, he actually acknowledges that his fantasy of getting Johanna back is flawed. Like, earlier he doubted that it would happen (“And I’ll never see Johanna, no I’ll never hug my girl to me,” “I think we shall not meet again, my little dove, my sweet Johanna,” etc) but this is the first time he acknowledges that if it did, it wouldn’t make him happy. “And you’d be beautiful and pale, and look too much like her.” Getting Johanna back would just remind him of everything else he’s lost. There is no going back.

And his last line in the song encapsulates this contradiction – “Wake up, Johanna, another bright red day. We learn, Johanna, to say goodbye.” On the surface it seems like more character growth – he’s going to learn to let go of the past! – but the fact that he can’t help but address this statement to Johanna is a sign that he’s still too deep in his obsession. You get the sense, even at this point where he’s the closest he’s ever gotten acknowledging his fatal flaw, that it’s far too late.

Also probably worth mentioning that the entire time he’s going through all this introspection, he’s just. Slitting people’s throats. Just the whole time.

[kamorth]

Youtube's algorithm has given up on me.

The computer generated playlist I've got going right now can't decide between Kiwi reggae, 80s power ballads, Mongolian throat singing, and Ecuadorian death metal.

I feel like I just unlocked one of those hidden achievements... "confuse an algorithm so much that it can't decide if it should be selling you 4C wigs or Nascar parts or pan flutes or parachutes"

[supercantaloupe]

One of my coworkers is ex air force, and he says that some of the most highly educated people in the military are the people in the bands, for whatever that's worth. He also says that the air force has the easiest physical requirements, again, for whatever it's worth.

yeah i've looked into it. every semester in orchestra/band at some point we get a military musician in to give a lecture about it and try to recruit new players. plus i play with (or have in the past) multiple musicians from various military bands. they're fantastic players and really smart, and honestly some of the nicest people i've worked with. but they're honest about the Military Experience(tm) and i don't think it would work out for me.

i'd be lying if i said i wasn't tempted, but i also know that i wouldn't qualify if i went ahead and tried it. even the air force's physical requirements would disqualify me; if you're auditioning as a musician, you still have to meet the same physical requirements as anyone enlisting normally, and i definitely do not. and if i don't even make the air force's requirements i definitely won't make any of the other branches so

[poems-of-a-lover]

love language: making them listen to every single song i ever find enjoyable so they can hopefully experience the same thing

[soap-is-an-artist]

i get the urge to tag my agender friend on every post like this and i gotta resist because i know it's like

like "THAT'S YOU!!!" yeah they know already dumbass stop tagging them

Source | Day 23

[ultrakatua]

I sure write a lot about music for someone who genuinely knows NOTHING about music

I don't know why it's always so recurring???

[spocks-husband]

Mainly because when he started adopting kids he just sort of figured 'this is just what you do with children' since it's how he was raised and then felt weird not doing it with the rest after Dick and Jason, all the Batkids have random super obnoxious rich kid skills that Bruce either taught them or sent them to classes for. Obviously they all know how to fence, that's pretty common knowledge-- but they're all also fluent in French and Latin (plus varying degrees of Arabic and Ancient Greek), very well familiar with dining and event etiquette for any possible situation (mostly by Alfred's doing), well versed in classical literature and mythology, capable with at least one instrument (piano for most of them-- though Dick plays the flute!), and quite comfortable writing in cursive to the point where for almost all of them it's their natural handwriting, just like Bruce.

This usually isn't an issue... Except for that time when, early in his crimelord career, Jason sent a threatening note reading--

I will find you 🩷✨

--to a gang leader in his territory, which... Didn't have its intended effect. He used magazine cutouts to write his threatening notes from then on.

[roseband]

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