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If you were followed/liked a lot but this blog doesn't seem relevant, it's probably because the likes are coming from this sideblog, which actually became a personal blog... there's art and nerd stuff there hmu sORRY ABOUT ALL THE REROUTING

[yurasart]

chapter one

[yurasart]

real btw

[exeggcute]

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

[exeggcute]

can you imagine.

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

[cleverlittlefox]

[cleverlittlefox]

[cleverlittlefox]

[marmastry]

Pride the Homunculus

[ptr-sqloint]

mechanical guts

[milfsisyphus]

is anyone else on this hill or is it just me and sisyphus and kate bush?

[le-sansnom]

[fourswordsannotated]

[perplexingly]

Wow

(from Arrested Adolscence by Erik Rebain)

[perplexingly]

Kinda wish I could feel such an intense admiration towards anyone tbh

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[awed-frog]

When an archer is shooting for fun He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets – He is out of his mind.

His skill has not changed, But the prize divides him. He cares He thinks more of winning Than of shooting – And the need to win Drains him of power.

Zhuang Zhou (369 BC - 286 BC)

[theprofessional-amateur-deactiv]

Van Helsing: would it be possible to read your diary

Mina, mischievously: of course

the diary, kept in shorthand:

Mina: Just a little joke, I translated and transcribed it for you last night, I couldn’t resist

Van Helsing, also king of making jokes at dark times:

[charlesoberonn]

[n5fw]

[wyrmarchive]

Ethereal being

[stah-l]

[reblogs appreciated!] 

i didn’t have any luck with icon comms so i’m opening up sketch commissions! i’ll be opening up 3 slots!

if you’re interested or have any queries do dm here (stah-l) or my twitter!

stuff i won’t draw include furries (sb69 ok though!!), mech and nsfw (mainly because i’m not confident whoo)

thank you for your attention and have a nice day! 💕

[sqd-photography]

From Palais Garnier, 2013

[siqiandai]

Throwin’ this in here just as an interest check before I full-out make a commissions post – if I’m offerin portrait/bust commissions in this kind of sketchy-painty style for $6, would any of you bite?

[sqd-photography]

/o/ idk what to write in the descriptions… we did a Tomb Raider photoshoot /o/

Marielle was awesome as Lara and I learned a lot!!

[siqiandai]

also @dustgust and @dinzeeyz and helped out and it was rad basically i just have like 1291289 things to improve on too 

also my tumblr gets 0 traffic honestly but might as well state that prints are available

[sqd-photography]

Inside Versailles