Meu Nome E Andrea

I want my life to be something more than long.

[thecommonchick]

college is like when you go from 1st place to 11th in mario kart because you slipped on your own banana

[birdlaces]

clara johnson

one forty-two

east lake street

[fabulous-fitblr]

[wordsnquotes]

There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.

Luna Adriana  (via wordsnquotes)

[dateaboysuggestions]

Date a boy who will take you to the symphony

[awkwardlyobnoxious-deactivated2]

[theatregraphics]

Jessie Mueller performs during the 70th Annual Tony Awards at The Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2016 in New York City.

[evanhanscn]

2016 Tony Awards » Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

↳ Cynthia Erivo as Celie in The Color Purple

[the-bluespirit]

“I’m not freestyling, I’m too old. I wrote you a sonnet instead.“

[tchaikovskify-deactivated201712]

what have i done

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

WHAT

[tchaikovskify-deactivated201712]

SORRY I HAVE SINNED

[franzschubert-official]

isNT THE OBVIOUS CHOICE SHOEBERT

:’(

[igorstravinsky-official]

[classical-crap]

[fach-off]

[amiable-cherry-deactivated20240]

@twelve-ace YOU CALLED

[aceholmes]

OH MY GOODNESS THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER

[fach-off]

[itsaviolathing]

[itsaviolathing]

[itsaviolathing]

[doing-it-for-debussy]

[tchaikovskify-deactivated201712]

TCHAICOUGHSKY WHAT

[tchaikovsky-official]

I come online just to see this that’s it I’m out goodnight

[fach-off]

[confessions-of-a-cellist]

[confessions-of-a-cellist]

[atoneindvorak]

[blueviolist]

the last time i saw this none of the pictures loaded and frankly this was not what i expected

[gendersecretsuggestions-blog]

Reblog if your blog is safe for people of all genders and sexualities

[musicartlife99]

some music theorist: the beauty of classical forms comes from their elegance and logic, the careful succession of themes in a preordained manner leading to a sense of inevitability and cultured gravitas.

me: *awkwardly shoves a binary dance movement into the middle of a sonata-allegro recapitulation*

[officialtrumpets]

Brass problems

Leaky water keys

Transposing

Running away from tubas

Practising all day and then waking up with a split lip

Playing piano

Being the only girl in the section

Rowdy 12 year old boys trying to take over the trumpet section

Being totally undermined by the rest of the orchestra while knowing that you’re secretly the best you just don’t want everyone else to get jealous

Anything above a top C

Forgetting your mute

Being the only one to remember a mute

Being section leader/principal and trying (and failing) to control your section

Chromatic scales

Counting anything over 4 bars of rests and drifting off because you have a terrible attention span

People calling your baritone a tuba

People calling your instrument a different brass instrument

Not being able to use vaseline. Ever.

Having that one responsible prick in the section and not having any fun

Being that one responsible prick in the section and controlling the fun

People laughing when you say your instrument is called a cornet and asking where the ice cream is

[official-octavin]

Woodwind problems

1. Reeds 2. Reeds 3. Reeds 4. Reeds 5. Reeds 6. Reeds 7. Reeds 8. Reeds 9. Reeds 10. Reeds 11. Someone calling your bassoon an oboe. 12. Having to deal with brass players. 13. Fingerings. 14. Reeds.

We win

[official-sopranoflute]

flute problems:

1. piccolos 

2. @paultaffanel-official 

3. @cecilechaminade-official 

no we win 

[atoneindvorak]

String problems:

Callouses, callouses, callouses

Hahaha big violin right?

Snapping stings in your face

There are so many of you it doesn’t even matter if you’re there or not haha

Fighting to the death for front desk and not even getting a solo

Anything above 5th position (3rd for violas)

Getting stabbed in the eye by a bow

Tchaikovsky vibrato

Slipping pegs

Wtf is a viola?

YOU CAN NEVER HAVE FINGERNAILS THEY MUST BE DESTROYED

Second violins

Everyone trying to find that high note out loud before your entry

Ominous rattling string/instrument

Sweaty hands sliding right off the end of the fingerboard

I could go on….

[itsaviolathing]

More strings: 

-Getting new strings and having to retune every 2 minutes 

-New strings are soooo expensive and you’re meant to change them like 3 times a year (seriously I just bought a new set for over £80) 

-When you get your bow rehaired and have to use your less good spare bow for like a week 

-If you wear foundation and play violin or viola expect the foundation to end up all over your chin rest 

-Taking cellos and basses on public transport 

-Trying to find a good instrument and having little idea of where to start and what to expect in your budget 

-With any string instrument case: “is that a guitar?”

-Rosin stains on your black concert clothes

-(for viola) When composers don’t understand how alto clef works so you either get stuff easily within your range or huge awkward shifts etc.

-(also for viola and possibly cello and bass) When composers think that shifting clef so the next notes look around the same area as the last ones on the stave means it’s fine because it doesn’t look like a huge shift when, in fact, it is (I’m looking at you @ottorinorespighi-official *ahem*Pines of Rome mvt 4*ahem*

like it or not that’s a huge shift from 1st to 6th position in nearly no time) 

-When composers change clefs like every 2 bars (again, I’m looking at you @ottorinorespighi-official *ahem*Fountains of Rome mvt 3*ahem*

just why)

-Knowing there’s a definite possibility that the instrument in the back of your car is probably worth more than the car itself (definitely in my case anyway)

[wordsnquotes]

But how do you find the right people-how do you love without smothering them? How do you not suffocate them with all the love you’ve built up in their absence?

Simon van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After (via wordsnquotes)

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[cryptovalid]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

[athenadark]

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

[thepsychicclam]

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

[ladynorbert]

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

[culturenlifestyle]

Bohemian Watercolor Illustrations Inspired by Literature and Nature by Ana Victoria Calderon

Mexican/American designer Ana Victoria Calderon’s work is deeply inspired by nature and its beauty. A native of the sunny Cancun area, Calderon combines her passion for the outdoors with stunning literature passages, which pay homage to inspirational thoughts and Mother Earth’s beauty.

Dreamy and intense, the watercolor portraits are composed of deep colors, mimicking the effect of a starry night, the beautiful aurora borealis and various sceneries. You can find her entire collection in her Etsy shop!

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[pycore]

If you reach for the stars, all you get are the stars; but we’ve found a whole new spin: If you reach for the heavens, you get the stars thrown in.

Mary Poppins, Anything Can Happen (via pycore)