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That pretty hair
#greg lake#golden boy#bass face#his fingers on the strings#the voice of majesty#elp#emerson lake and palmer#emerson lake & palmer#emerson lake palmer#a greg a day (or two or more)
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You are spot on! He’s a perfect bass man!
Look at this stately man. He does shine. FB snag.
#greg lake#legs!#this beautiful man#the bass man at peak intensity#the voice of majesty#elp#emerson lake and palmer#emerson lake palmer#emerson lake & palmer#a greg a day (or two or more)
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someone once asked here for a majesty
here's my humble attempt, animals rly aren't my forte
#bg3#bg3 spoilers#baldur's gate 3#his majesty#astarion#my tav is right he's voicing everyone's thoughts during that conversation#astarion ready to hate his answer#probs ends up agreeing and proud of the fact though#confirmed cat person after all
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Where is all the buzz about this book??? All my dragon friends should be reading it!! It’s an Own Voices historical fantasy/AU with American dragons! Natural and emotional heir to Temeraire. Read it AT ONCE!!
#dragon#books#reading#dragon books#own voices#temeraire#his majesty's dragon#naomi novik#moniquill blackgoose#nampeshiweisit#fantasy#awesome#fantasy books#fantasy biology#indigenous#american indian#read it now
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i said i'd read a ton of dragon books for the year of the dragon. took a break to read a bunch of unsatisfying litfic and weird historical fiction. surely this cannot be related to the fact that almost every dragon fantasy series is a trilogy of doorstoppers and i can only read so many 800-page books in a year before i melt into a puddle
#there is a Weird amount of regency romance + little handheld dragons for some reason#i'm into it of course. but there is a weird amount#i do want to reread his majesty's dragon if only to get back into that voice for dragonfic#i don't think i'll ever be able to reread the series past book 5 though#anyway. off to read pern while i wait for library books to come in#bolt reads things
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i was very sad that arthur/lucius got eliminated so here's very brief old man yaoi
#*priamus voice* your majesty why does king arthur call you babygirl#arthur x lucius#king arthur#arthuriana#my art#barely#this is the same as studying right?
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Today I will remember the extraordinary soprano Adelina Patti (1843-1919). Here we see this antique Postcard from 1898.
Spanish-born soprano who was one of the greatest of her century.
The Spanish-born soprano Adelina Patti was the most renowned singer in Europe and the United States for over 30 years. She was born in 1843, the youngest of three children, into a family of opera singers and musicians. Her parents were opera performers well known in Europe by the time of Patti's birth in Madrid, where they were on tour. Her Italian father was Salvatore Patti; her Spanish mother was Caterina Chiesa Barili-Patti , known before her marriage as Signora Barili. Caterina also had four children from an earlier marriage, and all seven of her children would enjoy successful careers as singers.
When Adelina Patti was four the family moved to New York, where her father became an opera house manager. Her half-brother Ettore Barili gave Patti voice lessons starting at age five; by the age of seven Adelina was recognized as a child prodigy and the next year she gave her debut concert at New York City's Tripler Hall. Audiences and critics at subsequent concerts were stunned by the maturity, range, and purity of her voice. Her success in New York led to a three-year tour of American cities, unprecedented for such a young child, from 1851 to 1854. A second concert tour followed in 1857. Patti's sister Amelia Patti was married to the renowned pianist Maurice Strakosch; he took care of Adelina while on tour and served as her manager, instructor, and accompanist. She received only a minimal education, although her family background and musical training made her fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, and English. Her parents and Strakosch continued training Patti in the demands of operatic singing until they felt she was prepared to sing opera professionally. They arranged for her critically praised debut in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor at the New York Academy of Music in 1859; she was 16, and would perform in opera continually for the next half-century, enjoying a career that was decades longer than that of most opera singers. Soon after her debut Patti faced serious family crises, as her father's struggling opera house failed and her mother left the family in 1860 to return to Rome. Patti then began to provide much of the family's income through her performances.
She toured the eastern United States and the West Indies from 1859 to 1861. In 1861, she went abroad, under the care of her father and Strakosch, to perform in La sonnambula at the Covent Garden opera house in London. She was enthusiastically received in London, where she was to perform every autumn for 25 years.
Patti remained on tour in Europe virtually continuously for 20 years, not returning to New York until 1881. She played to crowded houses in Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris, and across Italy. The operatic roles she chose ranged from light comedy, which she preferred, to tragedy, but whatever role she appeared in, critics were universal in their praise of her acting ability and the emotive power of her voice.
While in Paris in 1866, through her friendship with Empress Eugénie , Patti met the aristocrat Louis de Cahuzac, marquis de Caux, who served as a personal servant to the French emperor Napoleon III. They wished to marry but the marquis was not allowed to retain his privileged position at the French court if he married a working woman. Since Patti would not consider giving up her career, de Caux eventually resigned his post. This freed the couple to marry in 1868, when the new marchioness was 25 years old and her husband 42; however, the marriage lasted less than a decade, and they obtained a legal separation in 1877. As Patti was by then a celebrity throughout Europe and the United States, her marital problems brought scandal to the opera world and were the subject of often sensationalistic newspaper articles in many of the countries she had performed in. In the divorce suit, de Caux charged Patti with an adulterous affair with her co-star, Italian tenor Ernesto Nicolini. She admitted to the affair, but maintained in her defense that de Caux was jealous, controlling, and violent, and that he allowed her no access to her substantial income. The divorce would be finalized in 1885, when de Caux was awarded a settlement of $300,000 from Patti. Freed at last from her unhappy marriage, Patti married Nicolini a few months later.
Despite her personal problems during the separation and divorce, Patti continued to travel widely. She did a concert tour on her return to New York in 1881, followed by two operatic tours of the United States. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, she was the most highly paid and most visible singer in Europe and the United States, receiving press coverage for her appearances as well as for her shocking personal life, legendary jewel collection, enormous wealth, and for her demanding, often capricious personality. She maintained homes across Europe, where she was friends with and frequently host to Europe's royalty and aristocracy. Her fame even led to mentions in contemporary literature and drama, such as Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Patti gave a farewell performance at the New York Metropolitan Opera House in 1887. She and Nicolini then left for another extended tour abroad, performing in Spain and Argentina. In 1895, at age 52, Patti gave six farewell appearances at Covent Garden. She and Nicolini then went into semi-retirement on an estate in Wales called Craig-y-Nos Castle which Patti had purchased some years before, and where she lived with Nicolini prior to their marriage. Patti adopted Wales as the native land she had never truly had, and was respected by the Welsh for her generosity to charitable causes and to her poor neighbors.
Ernesto Nicolini died in 1898. Patti, age 56, remarried a year later. Her third husband, a Swedish aristocrat named Baron Rolf Cederström, was a former military officer who, at the time Patti met him in 1897, was director of the Health Gymnastic Institute in London. At the time of their marriage, Cederström was only 28; their age difference and his occupation made the renowned opera star once again the subject of a flood of news articles and gossip columns.
The urgings of Patti's American fans called her back to the stage in 1903, when she began her last operatic tour at New York's Carnegie Hall. Although Patti was by then considerably older than most opera singers were at retirement, audiences were still moved by her powerful performances. In 1906, at age 63, she made her formal farewell appearance at Albert Hall in London. She also made numerous recordings which have preserved her work and demonstrate the remarkable purity and range which captivated her admirers and which had once led the composer Giuseppe Verdi to call Patti the greatest voice he had ever heard.
Adelina Patti was called out of retirement to perform occasionally at charity events in Wales and England through 1914, when she left the stage for good at age 71. She spent the remaining five years of her life at Craig-y-Nos Castle, where she died in 1919, at age 76. At her wish, her husband buried her in the celebrity cemetery Père Lachaise in Paris. He eventually remarried, selling Craig-y-Nos Castle to the Welsh National Memorial Association which converted it into the Adelina Patti Hospital. The hospital remained in operation until 1986, when the castle and its grounds were turned into a national park and cultural center.
#classical music#opera#music history#bel canto#composer#aria#classical composer#classical studies#maestro#chest voice#Adelina Patti#soprano#the nightingale#Covent Garden#His Majesty's Theatre#Metropolitan Opera#Met#La Scala#Paris Opéra#Leo Tolstoy#Anna Karenina#Oscar Wilde#The Picture of Dorian Gray#Royal Albert Hall#Carnegie Hall#classical musican#classical musicians#classical history#opera history#history of music
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highly disappointed in myself for just now realizing how good off the hook’s music is ,,, i have almost cried to into the light like 3 times now
#splatoon 2#splatoon 3#off the hook#both of their voices are so beautiful i am actually obsessed with them#like. ooohmy gosh pearl nd marina in nasty majesty… nd the highnotes in 47 onward…
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"Her skin feels just like velvet, her voice sounds like a song.. and her hair is like silk, maybe this is why I long. Her eyes are like two full moons, her mind is like a trap.. her legs are majestic, maybe that's why I give her ass a slap. Her fingers are like an ocean, oh the way they move.. her soul is like music, the way she feeds my groove. Her heart must be made of gold, a priceless commodity.. and when she looks at me, I feel just like the sea. Passionate to my very core, I look at her and I just want more.. forever to explore her depths."
I could explore her mind for a thousand lifetimes - eUë
#velvet#full moon#moon#moonchild#silk#softer than silk#soft as silk#her hair#her skin#her voice#that voice#love song#slap my ass#majestic#her majesty#ocean#poem#poetry#poetic#poet#poets on tumblr#spilled ink#spilled thoughts#spilled words#love quotes#love#love quote life quotes#love quote for her#quoteoftheday#romance
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Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
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If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is now the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.
Mod opinion: I've read it and if you want a british witch story this one is fun :)
#her majestys royal coven#juno dawson#polls#trans lit#trans literature#trans books#lgbt lit#lgbt literature#lgbt books#trans woman#own voices#fantasy
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Another gift from our FB friends.
#greg lake#bassman#good god that face#his hands!#it never gets old#such a handsome man#and#the voice of majesty#elp#emerson lake and palmer#emerson lake & palmer#emerson lake palmer#a greg a day (or two or more)
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Isn’t he just the prettiest boy?
FB Grab. Photo by Julien Baum, 1974.
#greg lake#the bass man at peak intensity#the voice of majesty#hot boy!#his hair!!#and that little peep of chest#whew#elp#emerson lake and palmer#emerson lake palmer#emerson lake & palmer#a greg a day (or two or more)
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#ok can we talk about this performance#leaving aside the fact that I couldn’t witness this majesty firsthand#HER VOICE SOUNDS SO CRISP AND WHOLE HERE#AND THE EMOTIONS CARRYING THROUGH THE BRIDGE#TRULY ONE OF THE BEST BRIDGES EVER CONSTRUCTED#AND WHEN I WAS SHIPWRECKED I THOUGHT OF YOU 😭😭😭#Taylor Swift#God please let me get tickets lol 😭#Youtube
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i need to replay sleipnirs scenes + fight sooo bad i cant get his cadence down 😭
#jupiter.speaks#❤️.sleipnir#> my (mental) notes on how he speaks is like. big arm gesture. says his majesty a lot. sassy + smug#> but that isnt enough eughghhh i need more like voice lines i can mentally refer to to build other sentences#> this sounds nuts whatever. writing life 😎
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I realize this is random, but they dragged SIMON VANCE into the Fire and Blood audiobook and I just can't. The voice I know as Captain William Lawreance and Jonathan Harker reading GRRM...I cannot.
I love his voice work, but that cognitive disconnect is FIERCE.
It's so, so deeply wrong...Captain William Lawrence shouldn't KNOW those words in that combination.
#captain william laurence#his majesty's dragon#naomi novik#simon vance#fire and blood#game of thrones#voice acting#george rr martin#audiobook
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Lyubimoya in her usual form: 7'1, legally a giant
Lyubimoya in her true form: 15 FOOT TALL FROST GIANT
#(bitch fr levels up with the height of the shouki no kami)#(*Wendigood voice* GIANTS)#musings [lore; ideas and aesthetics]#lyubimoya; headcanon [obeying the wishes of her majesty]
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