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Angelina || She/her || Christian || Aspiring hippie || I've reverted back to 14 years old, so lots of fandom things || Psych/ed student || Professional nerd (legit, paying big bucks to make big bucks by being one) || I have a tendency to hurt my own feelings

[peaches2217]

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: In Kung Fu Panda fanworks, Tigress is often portrayed as a violent, temperamental tomboy while Viper is portrayed as demure and polite and a full-blown girly-girl. However, canon shows that Tigress is actually calm and slow to anger unless something really agitates her (such as being passed up for a position she’s been training HER ENTIRE LIFE for in favor of a fanboy who struggles to even climb the stairs), and while her fighting style is aggressive and her personality is curt, her body language is often reserved and even traditionally feminine. Then there’s Viper, whose immediate response to the problem of a building full of cannons AND LIVING, BREATHING PEOPLE MANNING THEM is “We bring down the building!” with the most gleeful tone and the biggest smile on her face, and who canonically entered the world of kung fu because a giant warrior injured her father and her response was essentially “Square up, bitch.” She’s a sweetheart and a peacemaker, make no mistake, but this girl loves a good fight. There’s so much nuance to each character, but they’re often stripped down to “the tomboy and the girly-girl.” Why? In this essay I will

[teaboot]

The chick's bathroom at my location always has a bunch of fake flowers and seasonal soaps and posters n shit in it and I just asked the custodian kid if the men's did too and he said "Nah just the urinals, the women's room gets all the nice stuff" and he sounded so sincerely wistful so in conclusion I know what I'm gonna do this Christmas

[armengoldira]

When a bartender becomes a father

[brightlotusmoon]

[missroserose]

I was just thinking while watching this, the skill set for entertaining a baby and a drunk patron probably has a lot of overlap

[thisartisfine]

I drew the gang,

[welcometothemindparty]

my horrible hybrid of all of them

[bi-accident]

The best part of waking up

[knitordeath]

"Richard Nixon" is now my new favorite swear that isnt a swear

[ourdragonsarebetter]

[androidboy]

literally my favorite type of tweet

[forgissimus]

oh my god i have some of these saved 1 sec

[valtsv]

[liquidstar]

i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue

[senyafern]

I discussed the topic of humanizing mlp with friends for a long time and decided to draw my own version

[noneofthekingshad-arthurization]

Y’ALL

[cryptonature]

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

[charlesoberonn]

[sunshine-tattoo]

fun fact!

Vultures are also responsible for keeping diseases at bay.

Vulture stomach acid is so powerful that it can kill anthrax and many other deadly diseases.

So when they consume the carcass of a creature that has died of disease, they actually destroy the disease within it too!

So yes vultures are 100% holy creatures because they not only eat the dead, but protect the living from death.

[soracities]

Naomi Shihab Nye, “Red Brocade”

[Text ID: “The Arabs used to say, When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is, where he’s come from, where he’s headed. That way, he’ll have strength enough to answer. Or, by then your’ll be such good friends you don’t care.”]

[soundcarvings]

When my bibi first fled Iraq for Austria she housed a homeless alcoholic for a week. She fed him and cared for him, and everyone advised against it. They didn’t even speak the same language, but she continued to care for him. He came back to her home years later, this time he was sober and told my aunt he got sober because of my grandmothers help. An immigrant Muslim woman in a country so hostile toward her cared for him when his own people wouldn’t. These are the stories I have to remind myself to center now more than ever.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in a Christian version of Roblox, you had to type a prayer along with your chat message or the message would display backwards.

[tim-official]

impostor syndrome is a common problem in academia. For example my colleagues keep putting me in the airlock and ejecting me into space

[demi-ro-demi]

Uh.. if you're not the imposter how do you keep coming back?

[tim-official]

tenure

[bebx]

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

[noneofthekingshad-arthurization]

Glad to take part in research

[friendshapedhole]

[noneofthekingshad-arthurization]

Yeehaw

Wowowowowow time flies and I've reentered the void

[peaches2217]

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: In Kung Fu Panda fanworks, Tigress is often portrayed as a violent, temperamental tomboy while Viper is portrayed as demure and polite and a full-blown girly-girl. However, canon shows that Tigress is actually calm and slow to anger unless something really agitates her (such as being passed up for a position she’s been training HER ENTIRE LIFE for in favor of a fanboy who struggles to even climb the stairs), and while her fighting style is aggressive and her personality is curt, her body language is often reserved and even traditionally feminine. Then there’s Viper, whose immediate response to the problem of a building full of cannons AND LIVING, BREATHING PEOPLE MANNING THEM is “We bring down the building!” with the most gleeful tone and the biggest smile on her face, and who canonically entered the world of kung fu because a giant warrior injured her father and her response was essentially “Square up, bitch.” She’s a sweetheart and a peacemaker, make no mistake, but this girl loves a good fight. There’s so much nuance to each character, but they’re often stripped down to “the tomboy and the girly-girl.” Why? In this essay I will

[mikrokosmos]

I've always had trouble getting into chamber music (give me large scale works or solo instrument stuff). What do you recommend?

Hm…I would say that there are two general ‘moods’ you could go after,

The first would be checking out sonatas for one instrument with piano, which would feel closer to “solo instrument” with just one added voice and contrasting texture. 

Violin Sonatas:

Franck’s

Mozart’s 21 in e minor

Beethoven’s 5 ‘Spring’

Szymanowski’s “Mythes”

Cello Sonatas:

Chopin’s

Rachmaninoffs’

Brahms’ 1

Janacek’s Fairy Tale

The other ‘mood’ would be very large, dense chamber works that feel symphonic, or maybe also chamber symphonies or reductions of symphonic works for chamber ensembles,

Brahms’ three Piano Quartets

Brahms’ Piano Quintet

Mozart’s Quintet for piano and winds

Strauss’ Wind Symphony no. 2

Schreker’s Chamber Symphony

Roslavets’ Chamber Symphony

Mahler’s 9th, chamber reduction