Filled With Imperfections

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[ranawaytotelltheworld]

[elodieunderglass]

oh. ohhhhhhhhh. oh nooooooooooooooo

[dr-dendritic-trees]

[A mom and baby otter are floating together. The baby otter is sleeping on his mom’s tummy so he’s still all dry and fluffy.  She keeps giving him little otter kisses.]

[roger-taylor-owns-my-wigg]

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

[deathbutwithfuzzyanimals]

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony

like, what other song can make that claim?

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

Some of the highlights of that video include:

The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing

So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do

The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)

How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”

Hands up, hundreds, thousands deep for the final “ooooo”s and the last line to close the song

[aces-to-apples]

Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.

[zohbugg]

[solitarelee]

[iamthespineofmybook]

One of the things that struck me, listening to the video, is that you cannot distinguish the original vocals from the crowd, and sometimes you can barely hear the music. And the POV is on the stage the speakers are playing the song from!

There’s good reason why, nearly fifty years after the height of their career, Queen is still considered one of the best bands of all time ever.

(And how albums left lying about in cars will eventually metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.)

[prismatic-bell]

Something else that’s rather incredible about this is, Bohemian Rhapsody is a very difficult song from a technical standpoint. Like–humor me, okay, go flip it on and try to sing the whole thing at the top of your voice without falling off-key, out of breath, or cracking at least once. Then come back.

Okay. You’re back? Welcome back. Unless you’re a trained singer, you probably can’t do it. There are too many long notes, too many key changes, and too many places where–if you’re singing all the parts–you’re just up and down the scale too damned fast. I’m saying this as a trained singer and I can’t do it. I always crack on “magnifico” and “leave me to die,” and I have a pretty decent range, but I know I sound ugly as hell on that final coda.

Okay. Now that we’ve established that, I want to talk a little about singing as a chorus. One of the things a lot of people learned during the pandemic is how hard it is to take twenty people, all in different places, and stitch them together to make a single coherent song with perfect pitch and timing. You’re all practicing on slightly your own tempo, slightly your own key, even if you’re all working from the same base track. (You can see this in a lot of the Wellerman compilations from Tiktok, where someone always says “Soon” a moment before everyone else on “soon may the Wellerman come.”) When you have a chorus comprised of many smaller choruses that are all traveling to be together, this is what dress rehearsal is for–to get all of you onto the same tempo so you’re starting and finishing at exactly the same time. This is a thing that normally only happens after at least several days of practice, and it is an important skill that must be taught. You’re not just born knowing how to do this.

I do not know how many people at that Green Day concert were trained singers. But I do know there is no way in hell all few thousand of them were a single group–they showed up a few at a time, maybe even flying solo for the night. Now go and listen to the video again. Listen to the ends of verses and the pickups. They’re fucking crisp as hell. Everyone is starting and ending at the same place. Not even a single note off. (And yes, you can hear when it’s a single note off, even in a crowd that big. A handful of people would be enough to throw it off.) And while a few in the crowd may be off-key, so many more are on-key that the cumulative effect is of the song being on-key. This isn’t even the band they’re there to see.

They don’t just know this song, this technically-difficult song, this long and complex song by a completely different band. They know it perfectly. They know it down to the fucking note. They know it so well that they did it in perfect synchrony, without a single chance to practice.

Do you know how insane that is?

[pendragyn]

[modern-austen]

GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING

[rockboci]

Add the author’s reply, cowards!

[thewhiskeykitteh]

I scrolled through the notes on this post and my favorite has to be one mockingly accusing Madeline Miller (a Latin and Greek teacher with a Masters in Classics) of needing to do research and she wasn’t a real writer like them.

Anyway when I read that line I immediately understood what she was trying to say.

[rises-vagrant]

Articles mentioned (I think, anyway…)

https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/2018/05/11/scholars-respond-to-racist-backlash-against-black-achilles-part-1-ancient-greek-attitudes-toward-africans/

https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-world

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-colors-17888/

True Colors

Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target

Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world? | Aeon Essays

The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea?

In February of 2018, the BBC broadcast an eight-part miniseries, Troy: Fall of a City, that told the story of the Trojan War. Netflix later

[augustdementhe]

Honestly, the first time I saw this tweet, I laughed my tits straight into the ocean.

I know what ‘olive skinned’ (and thus variations on it) means, but the author taking the time to have a little laugh, acknowledge that it’s at least a bit funny, and drop some knowledge is appreciated.

And a double thanks to the person I reblogged from for linking the articles.

[snorlaxatives]

the fact that 2016 was 5 years ago and 2022 is just 4 months away is making my eye twitch…. need a support group for people who can’t process the linear progression of time

[o-kurwa]

Russian car mod

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

Based

[nerdvanaxi]

I guarantee that whatever car mod you expect to see going into this is not going to be what you get

[larval-tear]

our fireplace doesn’t even have a secret passage i hate this stupid fucking family

[obi-quiet-deactivated20170627]

Car sex just got a helluva lot easier.

[therenaissanceratchet]

or homelessness

[fonzworthcutlass]

two kinds of people.

[primesinister]

you could put a dead body there and put a blanket on it and people would think they were just sleeping and it would be a great way to transport dead bodies inconspicuously. 

[happybirthdaykiddo]

* three kinds of people.

[fandomsdevouredmysoul]

[punished-lincolnshire-poacher]

HOW CAN YOU EVEN HAVE A GIF THAT’S THAT SPECIFIC?

[jessica-the-tank-deactivated202]

I agree, it is highly unnatural…

[ninja-pyro]

You might even say it’s ….. “Supernatural”

[uppityamy]

I haven’t seen a supernatural reaction pic exchange since the dark ages

[ninjathrowingstork]

This post has the same energy as 2012 Tumblr, and while it brings back ancient, strange memories, it also feels reassuring that some things will never change.

[zennistrad]

Good god, what year is it?

[simonalkenmayer]

April

[architectureofdoom]

[inmynegativespace]

Yoooooooooooooooooo!

[191195-deactivated20240210]

[cinematv]

[kiralamouse]

“Joe Biden is the first actor from Parks and Recreation to become the President of the United States.”

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

This blew my damn mind

[glowin-theshark]

[d-eadnam-e]

I fucking KNEW there was a difference between address and address!

You address a person by their name.

You give someone your address.

[nyanbinyuri]

i hate this god damn bastard language

[hydro-homies]

[eternalgirlscout]

me: *happens to stand between multiple light sources and casts two shadows because that’s how shadows work*

my brain, still to this day, every single time:

[devouringyourson]

me: *hears a ticking clock but can’t immediately locate the source of the noise*

my brain, still to this day, every single time:

[justdecadentcollectiondestiny]

me: *sees a gas mask in any context ever*

my brain, still to this day, every single time:

[whatisthisplaceidonteven]

Me: *sees a stone angel statue*

My brain, still to this day, every single time:

[licoricefern]

what does it say about us as a culture that most of our microwaves have a dedicated popcorn button

[cognito-ergo-hazard]

i dont know but whatever it says, its magnified by literally every bag of popcorn saying "don't use the popcorn button"

[lucifers-ass-cheek]

this thread absolutely killed me

[clownships-deactivated20230325]

one time i was drinking lemonade and then took the cup randomly and spilled my drink on the floor next to me before setting the cup down in from of me on the table. i sat there for 10 fucking minutes before realizing that my cup was empty, to which i then got up from my chair to get some more, cause a bitch was thirsty, and my ass slipped

[unclefather]