#the instrument guys

[siroctobass]

RUBATO!!!! I CAN FINALLY DRAW HIM!!!!! I LOVE HIM!!!

[ottobasso]

IM FUCKING DOING IT!!! I WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO DRAW RUBATO!!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

All he knows is flirt with men and lie.

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[looohser]

THANK YOU FOR THE VISION @condorclaw !!

Without text version + the inspiration lol:

[jomeimei421]

Felt a bit nostalgic watching RT shut down…Here are the og faves again for old times sake 💙

[justarandomart]

Ark siblings lyric comic

you can find the video version of this here

all images under the cut :)

thanks for looking :)

[kingofthewilderwest]

Viola is the most gorgeous-sounding instrument on the planet, but how I became a violist in music school is one of the dumber sets of circumstances I’ve had in music life. You’ve heard of the violinist to violist pipeline? Get ready for… another level beyond THAT.

Guys, I’m a flautist.

And I’m not, like, a slouch on flute? I’m no queen toot toot but I know which end you blow out of. In high school, I was competitive. Nothing extraordinary, but I did all the honor ensembles and made first chair flute All State Orchestra. Ahhh, the memories! XD

I came into my freshman year of college as a philosophy and linguistics double-major, then quickly realized I NEEEEDED formal music again. I was crawling up the walls. I was writhing on the floors. I was ready to eat wallpaper. I was prepared to do anything to get back into the music world.

So in my sophomore year I added music composition as a degree.

I auditioned in with piano and flute as my mains. In addition to the private composition lessons, I was signed up for private piano lessons (flute slots were limited to people getting a degree in flute - understandable enough).

But then came ensemble requirements. Something you’d think would be the easiest and most flexible thing to take care of. This was a good school. Please, not Curtis or Julliard or a conservatory or something, but a good school. We had LOTS of ensembles. Easy peasy lemon squeezy, grab an ensemble and go, right?

Naw.

To graduate, we had to enroll in one ensemble every semester. You couldn’t double up to complete the requirement faster and it had to be on your primary instrument. I was already at a disadvantage because I was doing the degree in three years. Thankfulllly, thankfully, the administration gave me an exception and allowed me to double up for credits.

Didn’t solve all my issues, though. Because here’s the thing: everyone in the flute studio could play circles around me. A composition major without flute instruction is not going to be able to compete with a performance major learning from some of the best people in the country.

So. By their own rules. I could neither get lessons on my primary nor would I have the chance of auditioning into a single ensemble on my primary.

This meant the only ensemble I could get into was the non-audition, lowest tier band. And because there was marching band during fall semesters, that meant the lowest tier band only met in the spring. So that gave me… 3 out of the 8 ensemble credits I needed on my primary.

And I’m looking at the administration, like, “Dudes, you have to work with me. Not getting my degree because I can’t get a few 1 credit ensemble courses is bat guano.” But my other primary, piano, was even more limited for ensemble credit options. What to do? What to do?

Well. In high school. I had a viola teacher. Sort of. I mean, I dated her. She offered to teach me viola during the summers, I paid her a little cash, and we more often than not paid attention to the viola before paying attention to other matters.

Humorous description aside, we were classmates in the same grade. We just happened to make a viola lesson arrangement within our broader relationship. This wasn't the only time we made such arrangements; I later taught her younger sister flute. And like, lessons were a convenient way to meet regularly without our families cuing in on our non-viola relationship.

We had a nasty falling out. So nasty. We were dumb. I was dumb. Don’t need to get into details. But I got two summers’ worth of viola lessons out of this and I owned a cheap@$$ viola I bought secondhand for $100 USD.

So. With my grand total of less than a year of “formal” [cough] viola instruction, where I could barely aim my bow at the correct string, I suggested This Great Music College should accept viola for my ensemble credits. Then I could enroll in the non-audition orchestra. Which, unlike its band counterpart, DID meet every semester. So, between the 3 ensemble credits for band and the 6 ensemble credits of orchestra, I COULD get my required 8+ credits acquired.

This plan was agreed upon.

So now I’m a flautist officially turned violist. A viola-approximate pestilence they can’t get rid of. Every semester they have to hear my yowling and know this is the grave of their own making. We must lie in it. I am second desk viola, not because of merit, but because I’m a music major, and I guess that meant I got preference. I did their optional chair auditions, they accepted that as "good enough," now here I am near the front. I am not where I should be. At all. Last year I was playing the flute solo of Dvorak's Eighth. Now I'm on Dvorak's Eighth near the front of the violas. What.

My problems were ended, though, right? I got what I wanted, right?

Well. There’s one final stupidity in this venture.

You see..... my “viola teacher.” My ex-partner. My now-turned-enemy. Had also enrolled in this college.

And was our section leader.

[miiilowo]

mom said it's my turn on the ponynatural (+rambling about their cutiemarks in the tags)

[rynli]

Thinking about how one of the two voices in Harry's deepest core is feminine.... Thinking about how the Skills are fragments of Harry's psyche, and he's convinced himself he's a manly-man at the moment, but clearly the Furies themselves don't all have to be male... thinking about half the Skills immediately switching to she/her the second Harry comes across the concept of gender as a construct. Wait, we can CHOOSE? Friendship ended with "this guy." "this gal" is my new gender.

[wardingshout]

fast travel duck my beloved....

[siroctobass]

cringetober today was ms paint so i figured i'd draw today's octobasstober drawing in ms paint!!!! i also limited myself to only the default colors

it was very nostalgic for me even though they changed the ui

[ottobasso]

i alternate between first and last names when referring to the instrument guys so here are their full names so you guys know who i'm talking about

pizzicato octobasse (monsieur octobasse)

forte pianoface

accelerando tubaman (also called accel)

rubato basshead

octave timpanison

haha they're also in order of creation

[draculastits]

Nosferatu was so good yall

We got vampire dick, eroticism with a corpse, girl love, 2000 real rats, nicolas holt and atj having the worst days of their lives while willem dafoe is having the BEST

[aliettali]

out of your friends which are you?! (skilltobers 13, 15, 16, 17, 18)

[marzghost]

Had to sketch them out. You can't tell me this didn't happen at least once a week while training. Might finish this later since their on my mind and have been steadily taking over.

[witchlingcirce]

I really do hope we see Thule!Simon at least some point in TWP because I actually think he’s potential be a really interesting character.

Like I really wanna know the context of Simon saying “I’ll kill you Jace herondale”. I don’t know if “context” is the right word but like, I wanna know what the situation was. Like was it just after Clary died? Or was it something else?? Another battle???

I’m also curious to know the guilt he feels about clary dying, it obviously isn’t his fault BUT it was Simon who gave Clary glorious and is probably the reason that she even got to confront Lilith. I think it would be an interesting difference in the book- the last time Lilith had tried to kill Clary, Simon had the mark of Cain to protect him and clary- while this time he couldn’t.

I ALSO WANT TO KNOW HIS REACTION TO IZZY’s DEATH l!!!

Also, I’m so curious about what point did he go missing?? Like was it right after Clary’s death, or a little later?? Unless the book mentioned this and I completely forgot. But I’m so curious, and I mean I think the book does insinuate he’s alive- since Thule!Maia has a tattoo for Alec, Magnus & Clary- and I’d argue that at that point in time Maia was probably closest to Simon in the group.