cesaretimizi yitirmeyiz

latina, ashkenazi, and the fakest turk. künefe kraliçesi. uptight christian woman. i post bad opinions and enjoy ANE history, linguistics, MENA issues, and jesus christ.

[girlwhowasonfire]

logged onto tumblr for the first time in 8 million years to find a fan mix from my hunger games era from 10+ years ago and cannot find it 😔

anyway does anyone I follow still use this thing?

[girlwhowasonfire]

pictures, much like an overabundance of zoom meetings, can never replace the real thing. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHO1X5xFRLEiy7ttEGHB8jBA7XVwTYSq1waK6U0/?igshid=6b99g12g473c

[violaboss]

I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)

stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

also, thank you to viola-ology and iwillsavemyworld for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!

[studyinginfonts]

This list is so good I wanna cry

[girlwhowasonfire]

The various stages of growing a Small Child so far, this is every 2 weeks or so. God willing, she’ll be coming in August ☀️

Also including the various stages of quarantine (pregnancy during a pandemic is, uh, interesting) and moving out of our tiny garage home into a much larger place (sooo many boxes)!!

[girlwhowasonfire]

Lol I haven’t posted in soooooo long, how does tumblr work again? but anyway hello I’m alive and also 6 months pregnant lol

[vergak]

[girlwhowasonfire]

where do i find fine middle eastern men that believe in jesus and have curly hair? asking for a friend

Omg lol 😂 💀

Coptic, Maronite, Chaldean, Armenian, and various other Orthodox or Catholic traditions are full of middle eastern Christians! Lots of them can also be found in your regular Protestant churches in the west but your best chance is an ethnic church, tbh!

[adobsonartworks]

I Collected Every Item in Untitled Goose Game

[dragongirltitties]

untitled dragon game

[lonelyroommp3]

the other day i was perusing the dessert options in the dining hall and this group of absolute stereotypical frat boy types were also milling around the desserts and one of them pointed to the strawberry pastries and said to the others “what’s the vibe with these, boys?” and i haven’t been able to get that sentence out of my head since

[celestiyal-deactivated20201022]

same energy

[ezk03]

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[girlwhowasonfire]

🎵it ain’t my fault that I’m out here gettin’ loose, gotta blame it on the goose 🎵 I’ve never played video games, but my husband decided to buy me Untitled Goose Game because he thought I would like it and….it’s actually been fun! I’ve never enjoyed being a nuisance so much 😂 anyway, here’s the Horrible Goose painted with @artezaofficial gouache and @drphmartins BPW on a watercolor journal! Featuring a Sun Tzu quote, because nothing sums up the goose’s life purpose more 😅 (Press Y to honk!) 🦢 
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3GHWemgnZb/?igshid=1f2c9hbdw46p2

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

If I lived in Hollywood I would simply not date someone half my age

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

RIP to almost every male actor alive right now but I'm different

[girlwhowasonfire]

remember when blossom or whatever fake diy video channel tried to tell everyone that if they buried a piece of charcoal in peanut butter and then plunge it in ice that it would make a diamond?

[amateur]

[anastasias-not-disney]

Reblog to save that one Tupperware that's never been the same after your curry leftovers

[chaneajoyyy]

In all of my Black ass life, I never thought I’d see the day. This was a tip I needed!!

[theblulife]

@chaneajoyyy girl don’t get excited it didn’t work for me. I think the stain has to be like fresh.

[chaneajoyyy]

@theblulife Dang! For real? Thanks for letting me know!😩

[girlwhowasonfire]

anything that blossom puts out is fake trash! please don’t try this! glass containers are the best because they never stain and can be safely cleaned with chemicals if mold grows inside. AND, glass is better for the environment. if you can't afford to have all glass, get a couple at least and put your staining stuff (pasta sauce, curry) in the glass and the nonstaining stuff in plastic containers (oatmeal, salad) :)

[05fordexplorer-deactivated20211]

cooking and cleaning is a basic life skill and not a gender role🗣🗣

[nasa]

NASA Spotlight: Christina Hernandez, NASA Mars 2020 Rover Instrument Engineer

“I was in love with the beauty of space. It was my introduction to appreciating the beauty of complex, chaotic things—black holes, giant gas planets, or killer asteroids—that got my imagination riled up.“ -Christina Hernandez

Christina Hernandez, a space enthusiast and self-proclaimed nerd, is an aerospace engineer at our Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California where she works as an instrument engineer on our newest rover mission – Mars2020. The Mars2020 rover is a robotic scientist that is launching to the Red Planet next year. If you would like to launch to the Red Planet as well, you can Send Your Name to Mars along with millions of other people! Christina’s job is to make sure that the instruments we send to the Martian surface are designed, built, tested and operated correctly so we can retrieve allll the science. When she isn’t building space robots, she loves exploring new hiking trails, reading science fiction and experimenting in the kitchen. Christina took a break from building our next Martian scientist to answer some questions about her life and her career: 

If you could go to Mars, would you? And what are three things you’d bring with you?

Only if I had a round trip ticket! I like the tacos and beach here on Earth too much. If I could go, I would bring a bag of Hot Cheetos, a Metallica album, and the book On the Shoulders of Giants.

If you could name the Mars2020 rover, what would you name it and why?

Pilas, a reference to a phrase my family says a lot, ponte las pilas. It literally means put your batteries on or in other words, get to work, look alive or put some energy into it. Our rover is going to need to have her batteries up and running for all the science she is going to be doing! Luckily, the rover has a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) to help keep the batteries charged!

What’s been your most memorable day at NASA?

It’s been seeing three of the instruments I worked on getting bolted and connected to the flight rover. I’ll never forget seeing the first 1’s and 0’s being exchanged between the rover compute element (RCE), the rover’s on-board brain, and the instruments’ electronics boxes (their brains). I am sure it was a wonderful conversation between the two!

It’s a long journey to get from Earth to Mars. What would be on your ultimate road trip playlist?

Metallica, The Cure, Queen, Echo and the Bunnymen, Frank Sinatra, Ramon Ayala, AC/DC, Selena, Los Angeles Azules, ughhhh – I think I just need a Spotify subscription to Mars.

What is one piece of advice you wish someone would’ve told you?

Take your ego out of the solution space when problem solving.

Do you have any secret skills, talents, or hobbies?

I love reading. Each year I read a minimum of 20 books, with my goal this year being 30 books. It’s funny I increased my goal during what has definitely been my busiest year at work. I recently got into watercolor painting. After spending so much time connected at work, I started looking for more analog hobbies. I am a terrible painter right now, but I painted my first painting the other day. It was of two nebulas! It’s not too bad! I am hoping watercolor can help connect me more to the color complexities of nature…and it’s fun!

What’s a project or problem that you would love the ability to tackle/work on?

I would love to work on designs for planetary human explorers. So far, I have focused on robotic explore, but when you throw a “loveable, warm, squishy thing” into the loop, its creates a different dimension to design – both with respect to operability and risk.

Thanks so much Christina! The Mars2020 rover is planned to launch on July 17, 2020, and touch down in Jezero crater on Mars on February 18, 2021.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

[lehonello]

Y’all too old to be saying you don’t like vegetables and/or water.

[unown]

viva la vida defined 2008 I don’t remember anything else and I refuse to