It's a confusing civilization, darling

Hi, I'm Anna. Composer, singer, overall piece of garbage. This is my main blog where I post basically anything I want (mainly whatever of my fandoms has most recently updated or any political thing I am angry about). Check out my original pieces in the composition tag or anything I've covered or parodied in My Voice. (btw I always follow back)

[articulatelydecomposed]

Hello people returning to tumblr! People who haven’t made their way back on my dash since 2018!

Do you remember me? Do you want to remember me? Well, this blog has been abandoned since 2019 and I’m now @articulately-composed (yes, there’s barely any difference, even down to the theme I’ve kept since 2013...)

I still do voice acting-focused youtube videos, primarily Hiveswap/Homestuck, but I’ve been branching out into other fan content too, and I still write musicals (original ones this time!), but tbh, most of what goes on on my new tumblr is just fucking around and reblogging things I like. Come stop by if you want!

As always, I always follow back, as long as you look like a real person :)

[articulately-composed]

A couple weeks ago, I found this post here, and immediately needed to voice the list of wild tweets. So I did! ft @transkanayamaryam and a bunch of *completely original* character voices!

[articulately-composed]

My latest youtube video is a video essay about my thoughts returning to Legend of Korra, my first fandom, after eight years. Featuring politics, nostalgia, a liiiiittle bit of music theory, and an anti-mako rant for the ages.

[articulatelydecomposed]

I’m starting fresh!

I’ve really missed tumblr in this past year, but every time I try to come back, I see the dead shell of what my dash once was, get really sad and leave again. So I’m starting over.

Follow my new blog @articulately-composed for... well a lot of the same bullshit you came here for

[catchymemes]

[biglawbear]

You know what, looking back on it, my friends and I survived the Bush Presidency

We would have survived a McCain Presidency

We would have survived a Romney Presidency

I honestly worry that there are some people who would not survive a Trump Presidency

I don’t care how much you love Gary Johnson, or Jill Stein. On November 8, 2016, one of two things will be true: either Hillary Clinton will be elected President, or Donald Trump will be elected President.

Which one, HONESTLY, would be worse?

This isn’t the year to “vote your conscience.”

There’s a fucking dangerous man one election away from being President.

This is the year to vote to survive.

Any other year, this would be an exaggeration. We survived Bush, we could have survived McCain or Romney. This year, Trump’s danger is no exaggeration.

Don’t vote your conscience, vote to survive.

[heyitscdubs]

We will not, not, NOT SURVIVE Trump.

[notsafef0rtwerk]

The LGBT community will not survive.

The communities of middle eastern descent will not survive.

Women, especially women who want a right to choose, will not survive.

The black community will not survive.

The latino community will not survive.

The disabled community will not survive.

I guarantee that there are more groups.

We as a country will not survive a Trump-Pence Presidency

[goldstar-goldfish-deactivated20]

The poor will not survive

[rainxcanndy]

Please understand that Trump plans to not only do what the US did to Japanese Americans in WWII on a massive level with Mexicans and Muslims but also destroy the economy with it

[biglawbear]

Somehow this post is going around again and it’s appeared on my own dash and I still think Trump is going to kill us all. Y'all’s protest votes did nothing.

[biglawbear]

Hey look it’s my post from 2016

Now that it’s almost 2020, can you see that this wasn’t a fucking exaggeration

Do you understand now

This is going around again and now that we’re in the Democratic Primaries and y'all are already saying about how you’ll stay home if you’re favorite doesn’t win I’d just like to remind y'all that people are dying in the Trump administration

People are dying in concentration camps at the border

Trump rolled back Obamacare and now millions more people are without insurance

Trump is rolling back environmental regulations and climate change and pollution will kill us

States are banning abortion which will affect millions of poor women and women of color and SCOTUS night overturn Roe v Wade

Hate crimes against Jews and people of color and LGBT people are going up

There are Nazis in the White House and marching in the streets

And Trump has given tax cuts to billionaires and appointed judges that will take away your constitutional rights

Are you happy with your choice to vote third party? To stay home? Was it worth it? Was all of this worth it?

We’re facing the same choice again. We can’t have four more years of this.

Fight like hell for your candidate in the primaries. Then if and when they lose, get in line behind the winner.

We failed in 2016. The life and death stakes in 2020 are even higher.

Vote. For. Democrats.

[stupid-dyke]

Did you guys know Elon Musk sent that STUPID car into space without sterilizing it, and if it hadn’t gone off it’s intended path, and it had reached mars as he intended, it could have permanently ruined the search for life on Mars by contaminating the red planet with Musk‘s cooties. This may sound silly to you but I assure this is very real and serious. He could have ruined the entire field of astrobiology all for his stupid advertisement. Let’s kill him

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

Capitalist innovation ☺️

[marvelsmostwanted]

SpaceX satellites are also ruining astronomers’ ability to see into space because they are causing images of the sky to become streaky and diffficult to see. Before we reward Elon Musk for “innovation,” hold him accountable for the damage he has already done. This needs to stop; it’s genuinely dangerous and probably the scariest thing I read this week:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/11/18/this-is-not-coolastronomers-despair-as-spacex-starlink-train-ruins-observation-of-nearby-galaxies/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/20/this-is-how-elon-musk-can-fix-the-damage-his-starlink-satellites-are-causing-to-astronomy/

This Is How Elon Musk Can Fix The Damage His Starlink Satellites Are Causing To Astronomy

Observations have been ruined; scientific satellites with the right-of-way have had to alter course. Here's a how-to guide to doing better.

[itscherryterry]

since im out as a homestuck might as well post this now too

@/itscherryterry on instagram

[nowscience-blog]

A vaccine for cat-allergy sufferers is on the way

Cat allergy vaccine in development could be game-changer for pet lovers

Cat allergy got you in mew-sery? This news may change your life fur-ever.If you’re one of the hapless souls who were dealt the cruel fate of

[princesstigerbelle]

Now that’s news we wanna hear

[wakraya]

H E R

[thisiseverydayracism]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-department-to-lgbt-married-couples-your-out-of-wedlock-kids-arent-citizens

[thenerdyanthrohistorian]

Watch the white gays start to give a fuck now.

[roughstar]

First it was the Mexicans, legal citizens born here from immigrant parents, that were claimed as non citizens. Now it’s the children of gay parents. Don’t you see what’s happening? Disenfranchisement. Classic fascism. We’re heading towards a totalitarian regime folks. Trump is a white supremacist and him and his administration won’t stop until they’ve recreated Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

[injuries-in-dust]

Hitler didn’t start as histories greatest monster, or he wouldn’t have gained the power he got. It was only after he became too powerful to be removed that he revealed his true nature. You have to look for the warning signs and there are a lot of them with the Trump administration. Like, big red flags with glowing flares.

[misterdoctorironstrange]

The worst thing is that Hitler had to put some effort into gaining his power, while Trump has been waving his red flags as high as possible since the start and no one seems to care…

[immortalcheesewedge]

What. The. Fuck.

SPREAD. THIS. SHIT. NOW. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. LOOK. AT. THIS.  SPREAD. IT.

[sea-anon]

Ten steps to genocide (we are at number 8 now with the ‘detention centers’ by the way. Next step is literally extermination. Just thought y’all would like to know)

Also see poem “First they came”

I’ve been saying this since 2016. I hope you care now that it might affect you.

[glumshoe]

a power move is writing Stephen King into your horror novel as a minor character

[rae-napier64]

I mean, you’re not wrong. But what story are you writing and when can I read it?

[glumshoe]

It’s a story about a clown who is wrongfully blamed for the murder of a child and is killed by vigilante townsfolk who don’t accept his innocent verdict. Years later, after bouncing from one foster home to the next, his daughter returns to Maine as an adult and decides to avenge her father... by murdering Stephen King, who she blames for inciting the anti-clown mass hysteria that killed her father.

(I’m not writing this book. I should.)

[nanofishology]

Stephen King wrote himself into the books he wrote as Richard Bachman though.

Though... I think he ended up killing Richard Bachman off instead?

[glumshoe]

He’s written himself into a lot of his books. That’s why I think Stephen King should be considered a public domain character as soon as he turns 75.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[saddest-cat-hours]

Me on my way to eat your ass

[cobaltdays-deactivated20210208]

Was that caption really necessary

[whatspeaksofter]

IDK, but the music was

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”

[woolandcoffee]

We stan an icon.

[solarsyrup]

Still blows my mind how quickly capitalism self-destructed streaming tv

Like netflix rejuvenated a dying market and made it way more afforadable and accessible, and then… everyone needed a slice of the pie and fucked the whole thing up

Incredible

[solarsyrup]

An actual genius: What if we made television convenient and inexpensive again?

Corporations: What if we milked this money cow until it fucking DIED

[itsnotvinebutitsfine]

| That’s…. not how that works

[leupagus]

This woman deserves an oscar

[it-is-a-mystery]

same energy

[greia]

Transcript:

Person in scrubs: This was a conversation I had while working at a retail pharmacy.

Person in scrubs: Hi ma’am, how can I help you today?

Customer: [rude, sounding bored] I need to refill my birth control.

Scrubs: Sure, let me check on that. Hm, it looks like you’re a little early. Did the doctor change the way you’re taking it?

Customer: [snidely] No, he told me exactly how to take it and that’s exactly how I’m taking it.

Scrubs: Okay, why don’t you tell me how you’re taking it, and I’ll make sure we wrote the correct directions the first time.

Customer: [rudely] I take one every morning at 8 AM, and so does my boyfriend.

Scrubs: [long pause, blinking] What?

[luthorchickv2]

I am shrieking with laughter but only because if I don’t laugh I will burst into tears.