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My name is Alice/Chrysa/Fiasco (take your pick) - LVL 33- Demiro/Pan-Gray Ace & Polyamorous.   Storyteller, LARPer, Dreamer, FFXIV player, Cat Owner. Her name is Skadi Mischief. Trans/Enby are safe here, terfs are not. Trans rights are human rights. I am Cisfemale, just naturally androgynous. ADHD Addled, Dyspraxic and have PCOS

[chrysalicefiasco]

WELCOME TO MY PAGE

Heres the longer version of my page intro.

My name is Alice/Chrysa/Fiasco

(take your pick)

- CURRENT LEVEL 33-

[Anyone under 18, be aware I may reblog or post 18+ content - do not interact with this please.]

Demiromantic and Pan-Gray Asexual

Polyamorous

 Storyteller, ask me about the fantasy novel I'm supposed to be editing right now if you want either a long rambling explanation or a deep deep sigh followed by incoherent screaming. (I love my story, i hate editing)

LARPer, UK based

FFXIV player, main Bard and WHM. Miqote. Have written some fanfic drabbles.

Cat 'owner', Her name is Skadi Mischief. She's part Bengal. An affectionate little creature with a penchant for pompoms and theft.

Trans/Enby are safe here, terfs are not. Trans rights are human rights.

I am Cisfemale, just naturally androgynous.

ADHD Addled, Dyspraxic and have PCOS

[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.

[cumaeansibyl]

as far as I can translate it, the German notes at the octuple forte mean something roughly like “You want the instrument to cough… this is not for wimps”

this man was a menace

[it-was-justified-deactivated201]

Yeah I need to join another brass band

[kierongillen]

Getting Tuba feels.

[necromancelena]

Die temu ad die

[necromancelena]

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

[chef-boy-ar-girl]

It accidentally is latin

[saanah]

Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.

[santapau]

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

[qqueenofhades]

This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.

Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)

Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.

[nudistcat]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[sekkitsune]

Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!

[qqueenofhades]

Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)

So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.

[sekkitsune]

I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.

But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.

[qqueenofhades]

....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.

[laurenthemself]

how dare you say we error on the scribes

[jtimu]

this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu

[ryan-sometimes]

I wonder how it feels to be a therapist or psychiatrist in 2026 and watch the despair of young patients and realize it’s not attributed to mental illness but a rational response to the state of the capitalist hellscape world we live in

[ryan-sometimes]

I’m not depressed because I need a higher dose of my mood stabilizer. I’m depressed because I spent years of my life working my fucking ass off to get a degree in biochemistry from one of the top universities in the world only to apply to over 100 jobs and the only one I land is one I hate every second of doing, the work is literally useless, and in spite of being there over 40 hours a week I still don’t make enough to pay rent. The food benefits I get can’t even feed a german shepherd. I’m 23 years old with a college degree asking my parents to take me grocery shopping so I don’t starve. I’m not upset because of my mental illness I’m upset because I work my ass off only to be broke and miserable

[justsomeguycore]

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

[justsomeguycore]

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots

[jalapenyochips]

a guy and his ghorse

[chrisweedpiano]

one of my favorite posts of all time

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[cognitiveinequality]

[dailycatsblog]

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong who is saying “ta da!” after his big magic trick

[teaboot]

I have a medical condition where no matter how many people are in a room I will find the one person who likes me the absolute least and become desperate for their approval

[teaboot]

I spoke to the doctor about this and she prescribed 100mg of "stop giving a fuck about people who hate you", hiding it in a spoonful of peanut butter labeled "the people who care about you deserve more of your time"

[kintatsujo]

Tea I'm sorry but are you possibly a cat

[teaboot]

[johannestevans]

Mage who regularly sets off this trapped spirit to solve murders and he's really good at finding clues and stuff and at one point another mage is like. "Um. Does he think he's solving his own murder?"

And the mage is like. "Oh yes he's very self-involved, he wouldn't bother otherwise"

"But didn't he die like 200 years ago?"

"Quite! Wasn't even a murder, he just slipped on the stairs, though he had a murder coming, no doubt. He doesn't recall his name or anything, so he just retraces his steps from the corpse each time i set him off, like a spinning top"

"And is that... ethical?"

"He is dead, dear. And he never finds out the truth, anyway, because i just reset him. He was a terrible man, but this isn't really a punishment for him, just utilising his skills with the only reward he'd be interested in"

"This is fucked up"

"But effective!"

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[normalcei]

Not all dogs have jobs and I think they should get to wear little vests too

[toskarin]

the aldi subreddit is worth a check. most brand ones aren't, but maybe 10% or so of the posts are just people posting "this wasn't good" with a photo of some sort of boschesque food item that they invented and unleashed on the civilian population

[toskarin]

I'm imagining the smell of lemon and lavender broth wafting out of the pot in a way that would upset someone and keep cackling because all I can imagine is that it has to smell like a dead centipede

[krabbydon]

i hate aldi so much. when i was sad and alone and abandoned in frankfurt they gave me the worst amaretto i have ever tasted how do you fuck up amaretto if you make a bad batch just add more sugar.

one time they sold me a bag of bread rolls that turned out to be TURBO mouldy

FUCK aldi

[dankxsinatra]

[iiumz]