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Cheesed to meet you!

My name’s Dandy! (Short for dandelion). welcome to my main blog!

This is a zone of chaos, so enjoy your stay!

Posts on here will occasionally be art, but mostly just me being insane, yapping about tv shows I like, goring feral, interesting thought that I can come up with once a month, and losing my marbles.

Animation student! Hoping to work on my own animations and games in the future. Updates will be sparse, because I’m just a bit silly like that.

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tsukkiiramen

modern orufrey x 50 first dates

pierogiy

guy who says eep

wiriu

MAKE YOURSELF ANXIOUS MAKE YOURSELF ANXIOUS MAKE YOURSE

anxiety-banana

hello i would like everyone to know that sometimes you can sob your eyes out and have an existential crisis one moment and then suddenly you're booking your driver's test and applying for jobs and crocheting a blanket and maybe life isn't so bad anymore!! maybe you can feel awful and fix your life anyway!! maybe you're allowed to be a wreck and still be good enough!! i am a full on adult and have avoided getting my license for years but now i'm finally doing it because i've grown around the fear!!!! the world didn't crash and burn when i was fifteen!! i did this for myself and i'm going to be okay!!

stevishabitat

anxiety-banana

the way i am shaking with tears is an understatement I'VE BEEN QUOTED

stevishabitat

I'm printing it and taping it to my mirror BTW

the-haiku-bot

I’m printing it and

taping it to my mirror

BTW

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

catchymemes

Waiting for grades is SO HARD! all my hard work… I need to know how I’ve done!

womanguy

you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.

My mother has the best of intentions when encouraging me and my brother to use the bathroom at the same time in the evenings to brush our teeth etc. saves time, right?

Wrong. My brother and I just spent half an hour saying ‘peetah. The horse is here’ and doubling over laughing. We googled the periodic table. We discussed anime. It took so much longer than just brushing teeth.

I love my brother

myuminji

brushbuddy fashion week

mandatory report to the watchful eye

lettuccine

role swap? age swap?

A little early to dnd (which I understand) and I’m overhearing the end of magic the gathering (which I do not understand)

These two worlds, though similar, could not be further apart

rinkibu

WHA x Eeeveelutions!

cryptidbite

....so..... 'eppy

piggyhedgehod

thestuffedalligator

I’m going to level with you. I have listened to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for most of my life. We were a country music household, this was a staple of my childhood along with Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, and that one Chipmunks country album.

I have no idea what “Fire on the mountain run boys run/The Devil's in the house of the rising sun/Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough/Granny does your dog bite no child no” means and at this point I’m too scared to ask.

dementian

For once I can be of assistance.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

Mountain Whippoorwill (aka How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize)

impossiblepackage

this is the key part of the song, that a lot of people miss. people have this misconception that the contest between Johnny and The Devil is about who is the better fiddle player. but it isn't. its about who is the better fiddler.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

but Johnny wins because the contest is about being the best fiddler. the song uses these lines mentioned above as a shorthand for saying that Johnny is playing these songs. Johnny launches into a set of the most popular songs, played well, and that's what gives him his big win. A good fiddler knows all the hits, and can read the room to know what to play next. The Devil loses because he completely fails to read the room, and doesn't know the right songs.