Look into your eyes, and the sky's the limit

She/Her, Bi. I occasionally write (occasionally). Mainly social justice (Feminism, LGBT+, etc.), memes, fandoms, and other random stuff

[fangirlnerd101]

“Blog theme” lmao nobody has themes anymore it’s not 2012 anymore lmfao. Everyone’s blog is just a cluster fuck now.

dude, chill

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by D.H. Lawrence, Harper Lee, Franz Kafka, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on April 8, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[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.

[quakerjoe]

[liberalsarecool]

The internet is a utility.

[miridai]

[just-shower-thoughts]

billionaire could give me %.01 of his wealth and change my life while he is virtually unaffected.

[buchergenuss32]

0.01% of $1,000,000,000 is $100,000. Which, for some people, is as much as they’d make in five years of 60 hour weeks of labor. And this is one hundredth of one percent of the bare minimum of being a billionaire.

[seananmcguire]

Also, if the billionaire has a decent bank account setup (which, let’s face it, billionaire has), that $100,000 will just come back the next time interest happens.  It is a perpetually regenerating $100,000.

[nightgigjo]

I could get out of debt with that.

I could quit my job to start freelancing with that.

I could finance a good chunk of my child’s education with that.

And I would still have a tiny bit leftover for fun money.

[judithbutleroverdrive-deactivat]

[nickfuckface]

parents: “u should be more active” me: 

[softcore-revolutionary]

[vijara]

lately i’ve been replacing my “i’m sorry”s with “thank you”s, like instead of “sorry i’m late” i’ll say “thanks for waiting for me”, or instead of “sorry for being such a mess” i’ll say “thank you for loving me and caring about me unconditionally” and it’s not only shifted the way i think and feel about myself but also improved my relationships with others who now get to receive my gratitude instead of my negativity

[etereas]

This is some 2017 mood

[90377]

Rothirsch - red deer - Cervus elaphus by Olaf Kerber

[plutomeetsgenius]

You saw the god of the forest and you took pictures?

[closet-keys]

This string of tweets.. I don’t want to pass it off as fact, like things will go exactly as they describe, because I don’t think they will, or I don’t want to believe they will. But I did want to share it because the concept of the obedience test is real and people really do need to take this shit seriously. It’s terrifying. And we can’t afford to downplay that literal nazis are being accepted into powerful positions in United States government as nothing more than “controversial.” We can’t afford to not be outraged at this. We can’t afford to not react.

[roachpatrol]

here it is, guys. 

will you kill me: yes or no

[chelonianmobile]

“Wait and see” works only when nothing is actually happening. When you do see, you have to do something.

[kingjaffejoffer]

[breathinginbiology]

Please reblog.

[lightningparadox]

http://www.patagonia.com/protect-public-lands.html

[cassolotl]

Two applicant profiles were created for a police chief position. One profile was streetwise and one was formally educated. When the streetwise candidate was named Michael and the formally educated candidate was named Michelle, participants tended to choose Michael-and when questioned why, would believe that streetwise characteristics were more important for the job of police chief. But when the streetwise candidate was named Michelle and the formally educated candidate was named Michael, participants would still tend to choose Michael, and would now believe that formal education was more important. This is how we are as humans. Many people who discriminate “feel especially convinced that their selected candidate is the obvious and objective choice.”

From 

The Best Candidate is a Lie by Brie Code for gamesindustry.biz, referencing this 2005 study.  (via cassolotl)

[motelartbabe]

One: Buy condoms. Buy them and keep them with you at all times, and use them before you are asked to use them. And use them every time. The peace of mind you allow your partner will free her to be vulnerable with you, and that, my son, is exactly what sex is about. Condoms are sexy. In fact, call buying condoms foreplay. (Footnote: If you are too embarrassed to buy condoms, you are not ready to have sex.) Two: Kissing is not merely foreplay. Spend entire evenings making out on the couch while fully clothed. Believe me, dry-humping rocks. Three: Sex is not just about friction. It’s about emotion. Stop trying to find her clitoris and find her heart. Because then she’ll help you find her clitoris. Four: If you really wanna know how to please a woman, ask her how she masturbates. Then do that. A lot. If she claims she doesn’t masturbate, offer to take her shopping for a vibrator so you can both learn the vocabulary of her body together. Five: Don’t put anything in her butthole you wouldn’t want in your own. (Footnote: Try a pinky finger, it’s kinda awesome.) Six: When you go down on her—and you will go down on her, and if you are my son, you will be amazing at it—tell her how good she tastes. Stop in the middle and kiss her deeply so she knows how good she tastes. Do the same when she goes down on you. Seven: A simple Google search will yield 1,327 euphemisms for male masturbation, yet only 23 for female masturbation. If guys spent less time jacking off and more time jilling off, this world would be a happier place. Eight: Everything you need to know about the importance of the clitoris is in the movie Star Wars. You are Luke Skywalker piloting your penis-shaped X-Wing Fighter deep inside her trench. Remember: seventy percent of all Death Stars cannot be blown up through penetration of the trench alone. It must be through focused contact with that little exhaust port at the top of the trench. Otherwise, any explosions you experience will be merely Hollywood special effects. Nine: Just because you come doesn’t mean she has, so don’t you dare come before her. Focus completely on your partner. Don’t worry about gettin’ yours, you’re a guy. You always get yours. Your job is to make sure she’s gettin’ hers. Ten: If sex with your partner lasts no longer than this poem, you are not making love. You are masturbating with her body instead of your hand. Shame on you. Go back to step one. You’ve got a lot of learning to do. Love, Dad.

Big Poppa E., “How To Make Love”  (via dorkvader)

I will always reblog this

(via moan-my-name-louder)

Perfection is perfect

(via rasexualfrustration)

[clexa-kru]

others: you ship something, one of them dies, and you move on that’s how it works 

clexa fandom:

[nicole-kidmann]

[bleufleuronthewall]

#from all the bad choices the movies made #not giving this friendship the importance it deserved is number one by a mile #LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT SOME CANON THINGS ABOUT HARRY AND RON FOR A SECOND #Ron is the person Harry would miss the most in the world should something happen to him #Ron was just ELEVEN YEARS OLD when he decided not to go home for xmas #because Harry would be lonely #Ron completely opened his house and shared his family AND EVERYTHING ELSE HE OWNED WITH HARRY #Harry could barely function when he had that horrible fight with Ron that led to him leaving #HE COULD BARELY FUNCTION #LIKE OK REMEMBER THAT PART OF THE BOOK WHEN HARRY WAS TRYING TO FIND THE SWORD #AND IT WAS ALL COMPLICATED AND IT WAS DARK AND HE WAS ALONE AND SO TIRED #AND WHEN RON CAME BACK HE WAS SO HAPPY THAT SAME PATH SEEMED LIKE NOTHING TO HIM #AND RON #Ok Ron was jealous of Harry yes #but first of all CUT HIM SOME SLACK#he comes from a large family where he was always supposed to wear his brother’s handmedowns #almost never had anything new just his own #and then he becomes best friends with the most famous person in the world #wouldn’t YOU be jealous??? #but even if Ron was jealous he NEVER EVER EVER let his jealousy ruin his friendship with Harry #because it’s the most important thing #TO BOTH OF THEM #the MOST #IMPORTANT #BROTHERS IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORLD#YOU ROBBED ME OF THE MOST AMAZING FRIENDSHIP MOVIES #I DEMAND YOU FIX IT SOMEHOW 

[weasleypatronus]

#’miss him?’ said harry. ‘i don’t miss him.’ #but that was a downright lie.#harry liked hermione very much but she just wasn’t the same as ron.#there was much less laughter and a lot more hanging around in the library when hermione was your best friend.#’what?’ harry gasped. ‘they’ve got… they’ve got ron?’#THE THING HARRY POTTER WILL MISS MOST SIR#*gets a tattoo of all of these passages right over my heart*

[politicalsci]