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| Kelli | 17 | 4.13.15 | | do what you want and be happy |

[peashooter85]

Modern technology is making us anti-social!

[pumpkinspicepunani]

It’s almost like people would rather not talk to every random stranger they see in public.

[sluttyqueequeg]

Carrie Fisher is a gift humanity doesn’t deserve

[boredpanda]

New Miniature Worlds Inside Wooden Rings Capture The Beauty Of Different Seasons

[thehotgirlproject]

Fuck a diamond

[nudiemuse]

Wow yes

[obstinate-nocturna]

Holy crap I want all of them these are like sorceress rings

[rocketmermaid]

WANT

[fuks]

[ohbaeme]

Watching this makes me happy

[lstname1st]

I did not see that coming

[mrslean]

yoooo

[kidslutti-]

This is the greatest thing ever the kid recording is losing his shit lmao

[peterparker]

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WATCH THIS

[periru3]

I just went from having 0 feelings either negative or positive about Taylor Lautner and after watching this and with no other knowledge of him as a person I fully believe that he is a gift to humanity if for nothing other than this single contribution.

[leppu]

I watch the road to el dorado at least once a year AND IT’S SO GOOD EVERY TIME!!! ! 

[apup-deactivated20171002]

when ur mental health issues start acting up and someone tells you to just get over it

[col-brightside]

So this happened today at work. While getting a panel going this guy walks past me, turns around and asks for a photo, which is awesome because not a very great many people recognize my Welcome to Night Vale Intern shirt. Also, people love getting complements for their outfits and especially their cosplay. Complement your friends, complement total strangers, complement people on their outfits guys.

Anyway, a few moments pass when it clicks and I recognize the guy asking for my photo happens to be the lead voice actor for Welcome to Night Vale, and I was kind of super blindsided and shocked that he liked it so much. Cecil is a really really cool guy and I had a moment of trying to not break professional composure with a guest BUT GUYS ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTORS ASKED TO TAKE A PHOTO WITH ME.

AND LATER ON

One of the artistic directors I work with texts me saying that Cecil Baldwin performed in a show in like 2005-ish with a company I frequently work for, and she’s been facebook friends with him for like 10 years, and only just 2 weeks ago started listening to WTNV and dude this community in DC is weird and awesome.

[thingstolovefor]

Demanding Black people to pledge allegiance to the flag or “honor” the national anthem is a demand to show gratitude for being here. And behind all of the “patriotic” rhetoric is the seething statement “You ought to be grateful that we let you live here”. If the athletes are Black, there is a requirement that they show deference and gratitude for being able to play for an American team. Usually athletes are supposed to entertain. Black athletes are only valued for their ability to win awards and trophies for America. #Hate it!

[intoasylum]

phoebe is everything tbh

[partymembersonly]

[anovelimagination-deactivated20]

YOU HAVE THE SAME FUCKING FACE.

[homerically]

i don’t think i’ve ever seen something as great as this

[letthewordsoverflow]

Why does no one talk about the fact that there is litERALLY AN ENTIRE ORCHESTRA UNDER THE STAGE OF EVERY BROADWAY MUSICAL WITH TRAINED MUSICIANS THAT LEARNED EVERY SINGLE SONG AND PLAY THEM EVERY SINGLE NIGHT

[lesmiserableslove]

ORCHESTRA APPRECIATION POST

[mistandsundews]

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

LET ME TELL YOU GUYS A BIT ABOUT THESE AMAZING MUSICIANS

IF IT’S AN OLD THEATER, THE PIT SPACES ARE SO TINY AND ALL THESE MUSICIANS ARE CRAMMED TOGETHER. SOMETIMES THEY CAN’T EVEN SEE THE CONDUCTOR. IN THE NEWSIES PIT, IF YOU’RE SITTING IN THE REED 2 MUSICIAN’S SPOT, THERE IS A GIANT WALL HIDING THE CONDUCTOR FROM VIEW

SOOO… THEY USE MONITORS THAT SHOW THEM A LIVESTREAM OF THE CONDUCTOR, BUT THEY’RE OFTEN A SPLIT SECOND SLOW SO THESE MUSICIANS NEED TO FIGHT THEIR INSTINCTS AND COME IN A SPLIT SECOND EARLY

IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET A GIG AS A PIT MUSICIAN, BECAUSE THEY ALL SUB OUT TO EACH OTHER

THEREFORE THERE IS SO MUCH SELF-NETWORKING INVOLVED THAT IT GIVES ME ANXIETY JUST TO THINK ABOUT

SUBBING MUSICIANS DON’T GET REHEARSALS!!!!! EVER!!!!!!!!!!! MAYBE ONCE. BUT THE POINT IS THAT THEY NEED TO GO HOME AND PRACTICE TWO, MAYBE THREE BOOKS TO ABSOLUTE PERFECTION BECAUSE IF THEY DON’T PLAY UP TO PAR, THEY MAY NOT GET THAT JOB BACK.

THEY NEVER!!! GET!!!! ANY!!! RECOGNITION!!! I SENT THE NEWSIES PIT A LETTER ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY INSPIRED ME AND THEY WERE SO FLATTERED AND IMPRESSED AND GRATEFUL THAT THEY FUCKING LET ME SIT IN ON ONE OF THEIR LAST SHOWS.

THESE JOBS DO NOT PAY WELL, TO MY KNOWLEDGE. MAYBE THE SAME PAY AS A MUSIC TEACHER’S SALARY, IF THEY HAVE A STEADY GIG, WHICH MOST OF THEM DON’T.

IF THE SHOW CLOSES, THEY NEED TO FIND ANOTHER GIG, ASAP, BECAUSE THEIR PAY ISN’T ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN AN UNEMPLOYED PERSON AND THEIR FAMILY FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

OH YEAH, AND LUCKY BRASS PLAYERS, YOU ONLY NEED TO BE ABLE TO PLAY ONE INSTRUMENT, TWO AT THE MOST.

BUT THE WOODWIND PLAYERS? LET ME GIVE YOU SOME PERSPECTIVE:

THE REED 2 BOOK AT NEWSIES CONSISTED OF (I THINK) FLUTE, CLARINET, BASS CLARINET, ALTO SAX, BARI SAX, AND…. MAYBE PICCOLO? I FORGET. BUT THE POINT IS, WOODWIND MUSICIANS NEED TO BE ABLE TO MASTER 84379528803436 DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS.

IN CONCLUSION, BEING A MEMBER OF A PIT ORCHESTRA IS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT, BUT THEY DO IT BECAUSE THEY LOVE IT AND HAVE A PASSION FOR IT, NOT FOR RECOGNITION OR THE PAY OR BECAUSE IT’S GLAMOROUS.

[mybrainkindahoyts]

My background photo is literally me playing out of 2 books at once for a pot orchestra. (Trombone and Cello)

[coupdtatertot-deactivated201708]

ok but the woodwind player thing is SO TRUE

unless you have a personal connection and have built up a rep with the conductor/music director you have to be able to play literally five or six different instruments, sometimes only getting a measure or two to switch in VERY cramped seating.

[dissonanceee-deactivated2020022]

MUSICIAN RESPECT PAY THEM MORE

[blackandmildwithgod]

Also Romeo and Juliet are a couple that killed themselves.

Don’t aim for fictional relationships

Aim for a real one.

[firebirdscratches]

Harley’s love for the Joker and her willingness to tolerate his abuse was always very deliberately presented to be deeply unhealthy and tragic: 

The Joker is not her love interest - he is her origin story. He is what formed her and made her the person she is today - but he is NOT her love interest, he is her abuser.

And in later arcs, she has left him behind for good: 

She is now in a happy polyamorous relationship with Poison Ivy and a new character, Mason.

Harley Quinn has grown so much over the years, and I am really proud of her as a character and think she showed so much strength to grow past her obsession with the Joker and become her own woman, totally true to herself and refusing to have her narrative revolve around someone else’s life.  So if you look up to Harley Quinn and see yourself in her, I think that’s great, but Harley Quinn isn’t amazing because she’s obsessed with the Joker, Harley Quinn is amazing because Harleen Quinzel is amazing. 

[divine-noire]

If I mispronounce your name because it is foreign to my tongue, correct me.

I don’t purposefully allow the accents of your name to fall flat on my tongue like the European English demands or the language to sound chopped and misheard.

If I don’t say your name correctly, don’t shrug and say it’s ok because people have been doing it all your life. Your mother worked hard to name you that name, with all its syllables and apostrophes and hyphens and inflection.

I don’t want to disrespect your heritage, your culture, your great grandmother or grandfather and their struggle.

If I mispronounce your name, forgive me, but don’t let it happen again. Make sure everyone knows your name.

[dontpokethevalkyrie]

Yes, please. I so often have my name mispronounced at me, that I despise doing it to others.

[dorothy-snarker]

You guys, you guys. Did you know there was a marriage proposal after the women’s final rugby matches? Olympics volunteer Marjorie Enya (in the yellow) proposed to her girlfriend Brazilian team rugby player Isadora Cerullo (in the green). And, you’d better believe, she said yes. Blame it on Rio, indeed.

[iraffiruse]