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writtenbyevie

you ever read a fic so good you want to sit around and discuss it with people english class style

szczekaczz

Horatio Henry Couldery, A Pup of Great Promise (1800s)

allcatsconstitutethesamefamily

From Photo-Era, 1923.

They’ve had many lives and many ages: cats I’ve met in my time travels.

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per4mancecheck

Don’t want to hear anyone calling classical music boring anymore. If it were boring, why would we use pieces of music from hundreds of years ago to heighten a tense moment? Why would we be performing it at all if it were objectively boring??

I get it, maybe you went to a concert one time and you didn’t like the music there. But even as a professional classical musician, there are some composers’ music that I just admit is not my favorite or some that I have to be in a certain mood or headspace to listen to. But “classical” is such a huge century-spanning and country-crossing genre that to equate all of it to just boring doesn’t make sense to me.

Anyway, this post was inspired by the use of the Toreador song in the Five Nights at Freddie’s trailer

per4mancecheck

VERY GLAD this post is getting notes!!! <3

but also, think how often in pop culture classical music is used to heighten tension in a scene! you’ve got the smash opening of Carmina Burana (”O fortuna”), the mad romp of the can can from Orphee aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld), the unbridled joy of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Ode to Joy), the utter despair of “Lacrimosa” (Mozart’s Requiem Mass). Like, don’t try to tell me this shit hasn’t moved you

bunjywunjy

madnessofmen

60 is not old

madnessofmen

sir john franklin of the eponymous doomed polar expedition died on the ice at 61. it's never too late.

elecktrum

. . . to die on the ice!

postarcadian

bouncing off of @an-ruraiocht’s Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid poll I’m curious about some other ancient Greek and Roman texts

Which of the following Greek or Roman texts would you say you are most familiar with?

The Iliad (Homer)

The Odyssey (Homer)

The Aeneid (Vergil)

Antigone (Sophocles)

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

Medea (Euripides)

The Bacchae (Euripides)

Another Greek tragedy (tell me in the tags!)

Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Pharsalia/Bellum Civile (Lucan)

Thebaid (Statius)

Another Greek or Roman epic poem (tell me in the tags!)

Remaining time: 6 days 5 hours

fleurdulys

Summer Rain - Hasui Kawase

1932

oldpagesclub

Evgenii Rachev illustration for "Red mansion", book published in 1988.

(book from my private collection)

femalegothic

men just love to run their fucking mouth about what women do or do not want without even once considering consulting any actual women on the matter

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8nin

"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

vintagewildlife

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.