Cassandraic

Nobody ever believes me...

[imaginarylands4000]

[fsmilanocortina]

Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté (ESP)

2026 Olympic Winter Games Short Program (69.80)

[ao3cassandraic]

Stepping gracefully into Sean Rabbitt's place as The Tall Guy With Total Commitment To The Bit

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[ao3cassandraic]

let's be kinda eldritch with mama

[inthetags]

Reblog and say whether spite is a useful force in your life to keep going, in the tags

[lattebookworm]

I saw your tags. What are you auditioning for? :O

For the higher level choir at my college! I'm hoping that the fact they gave me a big music scholarship is a good sign.

[mirellapryce]

Go you go! That's so awesome that the scholarships aren't limited to sports and academics 💖💖💖💖 You must be a phenomenal singer if they're giving you school money for it. Kick ass on your audition! I'm wishing you all the luck.

What kind of music do you like to sing most?

[lattebookworm]

Aaaa thank you!! I'll need the luck lmao, it's been a while since I've practiced.

I've been trained in classical music for the past eight years, so I'm pretty partial to that, but I'm also quickly developing a fondness for singing folk songs/songs written in the folk music style. Honestly anything in Spanish, English, or Latin rules.

[mirellapryce]

*slides Hadestown, Mumford and Sons, and Monsters and Men over* Just if you needed some more folk music. No but that's so cool! I love how many classically trained musicians we have in this fandom 💖💖💖 But yes, practice lots for the audition.

I'm more of a pop/rock girly but now you have me thinking I should go down a Spanish music rabbit hole.

[lattebookworm]

HADESTOWN HELL YEAH!!! And wait, who else is classically trained?

Lmao I wish I could guide you down said Spanish music rabbit hole, but unfortunately I am also a (American) pop/rock girl who’s mostly been exposed to Spanish classical songs and one or two Mexican pop songs

[mirellapryce]

@babyseraphim sings classical and opera, and @atariakana composes what sounds to me like classical music. Idk if those are quite the same (high school band class was a while ago) but these two always impress me with their musical skills 💖

TO THE MEXICAN POP SONGS!!

[babyseraphim]

Kana plays viola in an orchestra, as far as I know!

[lattebookworm]

This fandom is insanely cool, holy cow

[ao3cassandraic]

I'm the fat lady who sings, usually on the back bench of the chorus risers because I'm tall. I was an alto as a kid, stopped singing for a while after college, then when I got back to it I was suddenly a mezzo and I don't understand it either but I sure do have that A above the staff now.

[dogpuppy]

[ao3cassandraic]

I'll take my filler text cheesy, please.

[elumish]

hello friends! I am having A Time Of It and would appreciate if anyone would share photos of their real animals and/or stuffed animals with me in this trying time.

as payment here is Snorlax

[thehiddenbaroness]

Hope things look up soon!

[leebrontide]

Please accept pics of my beasts: Scribble, Tamino, and Jasper

[ao3cassandraic]

the knowing floof is Finnsie and the epic snoozebutt is Lancelot

[aropride]

tumblrina[1] culture emphasized a markedly religious view of the "Library"[2], envisioning it as a place that could provide any possible worldly need, such as food[3], every social service[4, 5, 6], and 3d printers[7]. Its bishops, known as "Librarians"[8], were believed to contain infinite patience, wisdom, and knowledge[9]. Adherents were hostile towards the suggestion that not all "Libraries" necessarily provided these things, if such a concept was ever brought to their attention.[10]

The primary association with a Library, in tumblrina culture as well as in society at large, was books and the written word[11]. This is ironic considering, despite frequent verbosity[12], proclaimed superior reading comprehension[13], and often a love of reading and writing[14], many tumblrinas were unable to utilize these abilities in conversation with each other, and in fact, cultivated a very hostile culture[15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20].

[ao3cassandraic]

am librarian, can assure you my patience, wisdom, and knowledge are all extremely finite

[teaboot]

Took Ollie to the vet today. And I'm not gonna say who. But ONE of us had a panic attack immediately after the checkup and wouldn't get out of the sink

[dontwannabeaphyrexianidiot]

[ao3cassandraic]

My girl cat goes in for an ordinary dental cleaning. I get a call. "Can we x-ray her abdomen? There's a... lump."

YIKES. "Go ahead."

They call again. "It's a Bate's body. Totally harmless."

Two days later, my boy cat goes in for a thyroid recheck. I get an email a few days later. "Thyroid's fine, but can we check his urine for elevated protein? Might be a kidney problem, it happens in senior cats."

YIKES. "Go ahead."

Two days later, "He's fine. Carry on."

I'M JUST SAYING, YOU'D BE IN THE DAMN SINK TOO.

[strombolicious]

[teathattast]

reblog to do this w your mutuals

[sigmaleph]

every day i am thankful to ancient humans for the domestication of the cat. fucking genius idea. agriculture was a good one too btw but you really outdid yourselves with the cat thing

[machetelanding]

[ao3cassandraic]

the typographical commitment to the bit here is well done

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[ao3cassandraic]

if you had a tux that snazzy wouldn't you show it off?

[caffeinewitchcraft]

A 75 yo man proudly came into the cafe wearing an Ultra Maga hat. I excused my barista from the register to handle the transaction.

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Anyone wearing that type of shit and preying on workers for their own spank bank material is a brainless fucking sheep.

[headedoutleft]

something i want to mention because i’ve seen it growing as a trend online is that not only do people do this just for their own gratification, but watch for glasses. smart glasses are a growing segment of the consumer market, and creeps like this are harassing people in public in order to gather content without the victims being aware they’re being filmed

good job on how you handled it, op!

[ao3cassandraic]

For my fellow election officials/pollworkers: they'll try this at the polls, too. Where I am, in theory the hats are illegal electioneering, but in practice the move is to get them voted and out of the polling place as quickly as practicable, of course without rising to the bait.

At one election I worked a few years back, a MAGA-hatted guy asked the two of us at the ballot table for his "second ballot."

"That would be illegal, sir," I said with the flattest possible affect as I took his voter slip and initialed his ballot. He looked a bit crestfallen at my lack of dudgeon (point to me!), took his ballot, voted, and left. Best available outcome.

[yesornopolls]

Do you also think it's kinda silly when, in some fonts, the lowercase f overlaps with lowercase i and covers up the dot?

ı <- like this letter in Turkish but it's just that f is eating i's hat

Do you also think it's kinda silly when, in some fonts, the lowercase f overlaps with lowercase i and covers up the dot?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 51 minutes

[ao3cassandraic]

Not silly -- it's actually excellent for human readability -- but what IS silly is how often the ligature can't be cut-and-pasted out of a document into somewhere else.

Known problem, should be fixable, should be FIXED.

[theskatingarchive]

Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN)

2025 World Championship Rhythm Dance (86.44)

[ao3cassandraic]

Always at their best in the rhythm dance when they pick music that fits the designated theme but absolutely nobody else thought of because it's at right angles to the apparent intent.

(This is why their Olympic-season rhythm dance didn't do much for me. Reed/Ambrulevicius just did it better.)

[caffedorzo]

spin the wheel to be assigned a mysterious source of income - who will grant you 10k usd every month without fail!!

will you take the money?

yes

no

bald / nuance

Voting ended onAug 1