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Glorified baby sitter

[tonystarksuggestion]

i think hating the british is funny

[justborrowedcarbon]

Vision died for what tony?

[tonystarksuggestion]

nationalism

[sarahtaylorgibson]

To all my freshman babies who are panicking right now about how much your college textbooks cost: Yeah, you’re right, that’s some highway robbery. No, you don’t have to lie down and take it. You have options. Follow my advice and fly on your own debt free wings.

1. Forgoe the bookstore entirely. Sometimes you can get a good deal on something, usually a rental, but it’s usually going to be considerably more expensive to go through official channels. Outsmart them, babies.

2. Does your syllabus call for edition eight? Get edition seven. Old editions are considered worthless in the buyback trades, so they sell for dirt cheap, no matter how new they are. It’s a gamble, sure; there might be something in edition eight you desperately need, but that never happened to me. However, I’ve only ever pulled this stunt for literature/mass comm/religious studies books, so I don’t know it would work in the sciences.

3. Thriftbooks.com, especially for nonfiction and fiction. Books are usually four or five dollars unless they’re really new, and shipping is 99 cents unless you buy over 10$ in books, in which case shipping is free. 

4. Bigwords.com. It will scan every textbook seller on the internet for the lowest price available, and will do the same to find the highest price when you try to sell your books back at the end of term. Timesaver, lifesaver.

5. In all probability, your library offers a service called interlibrary loan which is included in your tuition. This means if your library doesn’t carry a book you can order it for free from any library nationwide in your library’s network and it will be shipped to you in a number of days. Ask a librarian to show you how to search for materials at your library as well as though interlibrary loan; you’ll need to master this skill soon anyway.  If you get lucky you can just have your required reading shipped to you a week before you need to start reading, then renew vigorously until you no longer need to item. I’m saving over 100$ on a History of Islam class this way.

You professors might side-eye you for bringing an old edition or a library copy, but you just smile right back honey, because you can pay your rent and go clubbing this month. You came here to win. So go forth and slay.

[spodiddly]

Can I add to this? 6. Find PDFs of your book to store on your computer. I managed to find an up-to-date edition of my textbook for sociology by doing this, and other books for other classes. It may be risky to have to look high and low for them, but it’s a godsend trust me

[mariesbookblog]

don’t even think about pulling number 1 for math classes. they change problems and examples between editions. get your butt to Amazon the SECOND you know what book you need. the earlier the better. put in the ISBN number and you’ll get the right edition. buy it used. you don’t need that damn CD. buy it used. I used to get two hundred dollar math books for twenty bucks.

[kittensanonymous]

for the record I would recommend a lot of caution with math/science/psych books, the editions generally have a lot of changes to them (also email your professors; I had one explicitly tell us to buy an older edition bc the publisher made a new one every year regardless of if there were any changes. and they understand books cost a lot so they’re generally on board with you saving money; another professor actually had a student who managed to get a free pdf of the textbook share it with the whole class)

[romanticwound]

one time i tried to get a previous edition for a humanities class and there were like 10+ stories that weren’t included that the teacher referenced often so make sure that there’s not a huge discrepancy in content also if your uni uses ~custom textbooks~ like mine does for entry level courses then you my friend are fucked

[justborrowedcarbon]

Man, I’m Bi

Y’all I’m in the theaters rn and that new MIB (Men in Black) trailer got me fucked up

[silenceofsixx]

[badamazonfinds]

[gothkingzz]

a man: has long hair

me: ohhhh uuuh shit 😩😩 *nuts*

[i-remember-there-was-mist]

The Ranges of Disney Princesses.  AKA, the case for the mezzo princess.

We all hear that the Disney princesses are all sopranos, and that this sucks.  “When will we get an alto princess?!” is a phrase I constantly hear.  Well, I wanted to set down the facts for all to see.  Let’s look at the ranges.  Note that all are based on the movie songs, not the musical versions when applicable.  Let me know if I missed something, or want me to check a song again.  I cross-checked sheet music to videos, but I could have missed something.

Snow White: D4-Bb5

Anna: Gb3-G5

Rapunzel: G3-G5

Aurora: D4-F5

Pocahontas: G#3-F5

Jasmine: C#4-E5

Elsa: F3-Eb5

Mulan: G#3-D5

Tiana: G#3-C#5

Ariel: C4-C5

Belle: G#3-B4

Cinderella: A3-Bb4

So we see some sopranos here–Snow White and her little operatic runs are, undoubtedly, soprano territory.  But from there, we pretty quickly drop off from true soprano territory and fall smack-dab in the middle of mezzo-land.  Anna and Rapunzel, sure, may be tough for some mezzos who don’t have a developed upper range.  But as you move down that list, we’re suddenly getting down to notes that I know many sopranos cannot sing.  I have lots and lots of students who cannot consistently sing a G#3, so it’s tough to argue that these ranges are unreasonably soprano-esque.  In fact, we get to Ariel who has a downright tiny range.  Crazy, right!  Cinderella, Belle, and Ariel would really be considered more of altos if we just look at their ranges!  

But many people hear these songs and immediately think, but they’re so high!  And this is where timbre comes into play.  Some of these women have very light timbres, and it makes their voices sound higher than they actually are.  It’s shocking to really take a look at how low some of these songs actually are, right?  

I actually feel like amongst all these characters, there’s a pretty great representation across many ranges and types.  We’ve got belters, legit singers, more operatic, more mixed, more pop…  Ranging all the way from an F3-Bb5 altogether!  Represent, female voices.  

[muzikalsiren]

yaaaaaas! A couple minutiae I wanted to clarify in terms of upper ranges (this is where me having perfect pitch and my special interest being Disney Princesses comes in handy lol). Sometimes YouTube videos are pitched higher or lower to avoid copyright, but I found clips in the original keys in some singing moments from their original films.

Ariel gets up to a mixed/head voice dominant D5 in her famous vocalise when she gets her voice back from the chaos at the wedding

Belle gets up to a mixy Eb5 in “Belle” right before the bookseller scene (also in “Something There”)

Aurora’s range goes all the way up to an A5 in the vocalise portion of “Blue Bird/I Wonder” (Mary Costa is a soprano legend! Aurora’s legit vocals come from a real-life opera star!)

Elsa’s big note of a belted E5 comes in “For The First Time in Forever Reprise”

Tiana gets up to a belted E5 as well in “Dig a Little Deeper”

https://youtu.be/2v7QQbJO6aw?t=140 

(I could only embed 5 videos boooo)

I can’t seem to find a moment where Rapunzel hits a G5 (she has a mixed E5 in “When Will My Life Begin”)

https://youtu.be/K_AyUovLL7Q?t=98

and same with Anna, I can’t recall her having a G5 anywhere in the first film but she for sure has some mixed E5s in “For The First Time in Forever” and “Love is an Open Door”

https://youtu.be/EgMN0Cfh-aQ?t=183

https://youtu.be/TtCXUFImZYE?t=112

Pocahontas’s highest note I believe is a gorgeous head voice E5 in “Just Around the Riverbend”

https://youtu.be/uZrg3hhntQY?t=117

Cinderella’s range is generally pretty low and chesty but she gets a bit higher up in her head voice to a Db5 in “Sing Sweet Nightingale” (“The Music Lesson”), but I guess maybe you could argue that’s just her bubble reflections singing and not her? (though I think the main melody at that particular moment is coming from her)

https://youtu.be/NAmk_up3lcU?t=53

Also, thought I’d include Moana, who belts a bunch of D5s, most notably at the end of “I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors)”, but also sings the same note in a more mixy/head voice dominant place in “Know Who You Are”

https://youtu.be/HEiSF8HpyDg?t=131

https://youtu.be/2q77EqqzLIk?t=120

Everything else looks accurate with the upper ranges! I haven’t double-checked like this for lower ranges, but they seem to be mostly correct or in the ballpark. For Disney Princesses, it’s more about their tessitura than the actual extremes of their ranges with the exact high and low notes they’re singing. Most of them, with a few exceptions, don’t really live way up in the fifth octave, and aren’t singing “legit” style (or with a classically informed/classically trained sound). They’re mainly singing in a musical theatre/pop mix mezzo-soprano range around the fourth octave with a few money notes at a C5 and higher, like all those E5 moments I’ve included here (but sometimes their big money note was more of a Bb4 or B4. I also feel like as time goes on, we seem to expect higher belting from our Disney gals, but that’s another discussion for another time). Some of them are more jazz-inspired with their vocal technique (Cinderella, Tiana), and some of them are definitely more classical (Snow White, Aurora). So based on all this, the majority of their singing is actually lower than the extremes of what I’ve pointed out here, but thought I’d make sure the upper ranges were extra accurate!

[i-remember-there-was-mist]

Love the additional info, thank you!

[theironfam]

actual footage of happy hogan launching himself into space after pepper to find tony stark:

[human-with-bad-ideas]

@happyhogansuggestions

[fadingraindrops]

I cant rn….

NEW YORK

BABY….

BOOOOOOOOOI.

[themightyrancho]

Did Elmo just hit that Whip

[dannysexbangs]

DID ELMO JUST HIT THAT WHIP

[klondlikesbars]

*stumbles into brother’s room at 3 am* Y-You gotta see this

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Lmao

[quiteliterallyhotsauce]

“I want to go to Harvard because I really want to go to Harvard” “ACCEPTED!!”

[reallystellacadente]

Today’s the day.

I guess I have to be that person who posts this. 

[zodiacspot]

[zodiacspot]

More Zodiac Compatibility here

[shock]

let’s play an all-out group game of tic tac toe. reply and tell me what you put and we all share a turn. at the end i draw all the moves everyone made at the same time and find out who wins. here’s the board, what do you do

[shock]

happy to announce that we all won

[sikky13]

Visit Original Link

Bohemian Rhapsody. Double Speed.

[hannamona-deactivated20141228]

if you can listen to this entire thing with a straight face i will give you a cookie

[asleeptired]

I SHIT MYSELF LAUGHING 0.2 SECONDS IN OMG THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER

[jamessbuchananbarness]

at first i was like challenge accepted but then Galileo happened

[fringetroll]

JESSU CHIRTS

[chickenmcwings]

the endi ng oH MYG OD

[punkfandomtrashprincess]

OW MY STOmACH HURtS FUCKK teARS OMFG

[sherlynomates]

i just

[shygryf]

I made it all the way to the first “mama” without laughing 

[hugealienpie]

Piespouse and I made it to “a little sillhouetto of a man” and then we were done for.

[madnessmadness]

I love nightcore

[made-of-love-and-stars]

I made it to “Thunder and Lightning, very very frighting” before I lost it

[veryfunnymemes]

[super-shar]

So when we gon finally cancel cancel twitter?

[westafricanbaby]

LMAOOOOOOOOO

[itskyalenotkyle]

[respectfulmemes]

[mentalkillness]

I feel like a mom on facebook reblogging this but I genuinely like it. I want to make this into a full size poster and put it in my 3rd grade classroom but I’m 20 yrs old and not a teacher

[tsume-yuki]

As a 23 year old Primary teacher, I will be slapping this up in my classroom first thing tomorrow.

[thotvengers]