Your mind is beautiful

Fangirls over sparkly Japanese idols, Pythons, bearded Scotsmen, traveling, all and everything Middle Earth, Marvel movies, delicious food and cute animals.

[thenib]

From Gemma Correll in our Family issue. Pick yours up here!

[housecatincarnate]

[musicalmelody22]

Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it” 

Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect. 

[fororchestra]

To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.

On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.

[corruptbucky]

I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…

[justtkeepcalmm-deactivated20250]

Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.

The lengths we go for music.

[lady-gorthaur]

Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.

[elsajeni]

One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.

[minguskingus]

This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

[oxboold-deactivated20180729]

Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this

which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that

[prokopetz]

Who does that?

This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.

[vivelafat]

Julius IdontgivaFucik

[septemberbells]

More like Julius Fuckit

[sushinfood]

Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share

[haha-leigh]

I haven’t been in band for years but this made me laugh so hard

[hisroyalnerd]

I haven’t seen this post in ages and I’m dying of laughter

[tobinlaughing]

I didn’t think it could get better after The Foghorn Tuba Story, but it did. It got better. Bless you, MusicTumblr.

[lingling40hrs]

I FOUND IT. THE ORIGINAL POST

[phantombat147]

The best band post .

[pearlygrey]

pokemon puppies! (part 1)

[obamasnow]

today some guy very confidently ordered a “Busted Nut Parfait” on drive thru without hesitation and i had to ask if he meant a peanut buster parfait without crying

[obamasnow]

update: today someone asked for a peanut buster parfait with “light syrup and heavy nut” and i laughed from the ice cream machine and he heard me

[mithborien]

[justcatposts]

[thefoolishandtheguays]

[thenatsdorf]

The Evolution of Douchebag Style [full video]

[anarcho-compass]

Oh, he’s good.

[oparnoshoshoi]

I don’t know whether he deserves an Oscar or a restraining order.

[takealookatyourlife]

I die laughing at this every god damn time. The prayer hands are so fucking funny

[randomrav3ns]

Despite all the gifsets I’ve seen of this, I’ve never actually seen the video. His extra douchebag comments at the very end…

Also, this is the first time I remembered to go find his name: Matthew Broussard. I’m not doing any in-depth looking, but a quick peek at his twitter produces bits like:

“As a Jew, I love three things: bagels, summer camp, and being told what is and isn’t anti-Semitic by gentiles.”

“The politicization of climate change is a conspiracy by introverts to avoid small talk about the weather.”

mocking the Tangerine Menace, his sycophants, and racism/sexism/anti-semitism/anti-science/etc in numerous posts

“Nobody knows more about the Dunning-Kruger effect than me.”

“I bet the worst part of hell for Hitler is all the selfies he’s asked to be in.”

“Stand up has allowed me to work with people from a wide array of social, economic, racial and educational backgrounds and also 4 women.”

“Trump fears terrorist immigrants because they’d be stealing a job from white people.”

“Jews secretly sponsored a caravan of Honduran refugees secretly containing murderous Muslims. This is a racist conspiracy turducken.”

“If you think women are too sensitive, try underestimating a man’s height by more than 2 inches.”

rt’ing someone else who named these decades:

1940s - Roland 

1950s - Donny 

1960s - Ricky, also Dicky 

1970s - Charles (Pt 2)/“Chuck" 

1980s - Bradley 

1990s - Jason/“Jase" 

2000s - Charles (Pt 3)/“Chaz”, also “Chase" 

2010s - Logan (goes by middle name) 

[geekandmisandry]

I love him.

[killerzebras]

I have never heard of this guy before, but he is hilarious:

[greenteacology]

Good reasons to get mad at a vegan:

-they implied everyone can/should be vegan, ignoring issues of poverty & health that make it impractical or impossible for many people

-they tried to make you feel bad about eating something

-they believe that the current animal abuse/environmental contamination/health crisis is caused by individual consumers rather than the manipulative capitalism of the meat and dairy industries

-they support PETA (eww peta)

Bad reasons to get mad at a vegan:

-they asked you about the ingredients of a food to find out if they can eat it

-they asked if your group could go to a restaurant with a vegan option

-you asked them to explain why they are vegan and they answered

-they got mad when you made fun of their diet

[samingtonwilson]

i really hope there’s a scene in the falcon and winter soldier show where sam says “barnes give me a hand” and bucky just detaches his vibranium arm and throws it to sam buzz lightyear style

[samingtonwilson]

[brolinjosh]

#big dick energy

[effervescentbi]

the revengers: they’re trying

[lizclimo]

[memeculture69]

[punkrorschach]

It’s extra funny bc the character actually is like a 20 year old girl who’s been cursed to look like that.

[darkeecofreak]

As a kid and I was always confused as to why Sophie just accepted being an old woman but I get it now.

[mingpicket]

kink: deleting someone’s pointless comment by reblogging the post from the same person they did

[great-tweets]

There is nothing new under the sun.

[bloodcraving-vampire]

ADHD mood

[tiqqun-deactivated20250830]

*Abbott walks in*

*I frantically spin the wheel from Byzantine Erotica to the Summa Theologica*

[ponderation]

Frozen Kinderdijk by Dag Ole Nordhaug