Fangirling Myself to Sleep

My fanart, fangirling, and random thoughts

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Character Development

You know it's character development when it goes from everything they do or say or think irritates you (cough *Clary and Jace* cough), to a point where about half of what they do/say/think irritates you.

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Just Read Chain of Gold

I'm also finishing up Chain of Iron. Literally every point in these books I wanted to find these characters and beat them with my book for making stupid choices. I also loved it, but I wouldn't want to beat with the book if I didn't love the characters soo.

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My Rant on Modern Power Rangers

OK, I am very upset at Netflix right now because they took off all the good, and by that, I mean old, (with the exception of the original) Power Rangers.

My brother is just getting to the age where he can appreciate the fandom that is power rangers! It's exciting seeing a superhero that presents a good role model and fights funny villains! However, he is left with the crappy new Power Rangers. The Ninja Steel, Beast Morpher, and Dino Fury Power Rangers. These power rangers lack a cohesive plot, good character development, and an engaging magic/sci-fi system, not to mention creativity. (Ninjas, animals, and dinosaurs have already been done at least twice.)

What I can give the new Power Rangers props for is representation. It's nice to see female power rangers in a non-traditionally feminine power rangers color. Green. Girls have always been Pink, Yellow, White, Purple, or if the writers are feeling rebellious, sky blue. Seeing a female power ranger wearing green, and without a skirt is refreshing. I only wish it could have happened when I was a kid.

However, everything I loved about power rangers is gone. Cool magic systems like jungle fury, made me want to know what my spirit animal was. Characters that I felt I could ship like Mike and Emily (Samarai), Blake and Tori (Ninja Storm), Summer and Dillon (RPM), Ziggy and Doctor K (RPM), and Tyler and Shelby (Dino Charge). Characters that were more than one-dimensional. I only wish my brother and kids just like him would have gotten to know the childhood shows that I love, with more than just puns and cheesy fight scenes, but characters and character dynamics and worldbuilding that will get them prepared for other amazing stories our world has to share with them.

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Love her (and also miss her *sobs*)

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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. 

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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:

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[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.

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This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

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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

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Who does that?

This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.

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World Heritage Post

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as a band kid, I feel obligated to reblog this

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This movie is one of my faves!!!!!!!!

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and todays black widow done quite recently.

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this is an old one of mine, so kind of nostalgic for me. When I started doing flat art .

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Role model

[weedplantar]

pro tip, if you’re ever feeling overwhelmed or upset for no reason, check the holy trifecta

have i eaten?

have i had water?

have i showered?

these questions will literally change your LIFE. if you’re feeling icky for no reason, there’s a 90% chance it’s one of these.

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4. Are there meds I need to take? 5. Do I need a nap?

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Reblogging to save a life. Or improve it!

Trifecta plus a duo!

[bitterlybisexualbard]

So there’s an online checkline called You Feel Like Shit that takes you through basic self care for when your brain just isn’t in good enough shape to remember how to look after you or where to start

It’s handy to have as a bookmark 

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Need to actually watch the show, but from the clips that I've watched, I really like Kara. Just a cool superdork.

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Not fanart, just an important reminder!

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I also take requests for fanart, so yeahl

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Not technically a quote, so sorry for breaking my mo.

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Clueless is one of my favorite movies! And remember folks, it does NOT say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty!