Nonstandard Repertoire

composer, bassoonist, playwright, lyricist, sometimes music journalist. it/itself, over 30, Lenape land

[nonstandardrepertoire]

g-d i love reading about proposals for space exploration

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[itscolossal]

International Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the World from Above

[coraniaid]

In Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer the Big Bad is defeated because Xander insists on following Buffy when she goes to fight the Master. He is thus able to resuscitate her after she drowns, which Angel (representing Buffy’s emotional link to the supernatural world) explicitly could not have done.  This illustrates one of the big themes of this season: the idea that Buffy’s connections to the ordinary world and to the people in it who love her are not a weakness but in fact a source of great strength.  Contrary to her mentor’s insistence earlier in the season that she should focus on Slaying above any and all other interests, she is ultimately able to save the world precisely because she is still a part of it.

In Season 2 the Big Bad is defeated because, on the one hand, Spike does think his love for Drusilla is more important than the fate of the world (and so he is willing to betray her and work against her plans because of his own feelings of jealousy) and, on the other hand, Buffy does not think her love for Angel is more important than the fate of the world (and so she is able to send Angel to hell even after his soul is restored).  This illustrates one of the key themes of the second season: the idea that romantic love should not be something that you allow to control you, however tempting that might be and however much it might hurt not to.  While Angelus and the Judge both argue that ‘passion’ is what makes us who we are, the show itself suggests that to allow yourself to be ruled by passion is to become something not quite fully human.

In Season 3 the Big Bad is defeated because, a few episodes before the finale and against all reasonable odds,  the Mayor just so happens to contact an old  acquaintance of Giles when looking for help in getting Angel’s soul removed, and this acquaintance passes the information on to Giles.  This entirely unexpected coincidence, this stroke of astronomical bad luck for the Mayor, directly leads to both the failure of his current plan and to Faith unwittingly letting slip crucial details of the Ascension to Buffy ahead of Graduation Day, a mistake which ultimately allows Buffy and her friends to research, prepare for and prevent it.  And this in turn illustrates what I can only assume is intended to be the central theme of the third season: which is that proper vetting and background checks are of vital importance when recruiting private contractors to work for local government.

[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[taxidermycatgirl]

you’re just jealous my blood is all over the floor and yours is stuck inside your body

[nohoperadio]

Menial chores and drudgery get a bad rap, but really there's something to be said for work that merely demands the application of time and straightforward unglamorous effort and has simple unambiguous parameters for completion. If the only way to unlock the state of having achieved something worthwhile was by doing things that express your values, virtues and personality, well that would soon become a heavy burden I think.

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[godisafujoshi]

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

(eating a pill i found on the floor of the club bathroom) hope it's a placebo. i don't need any effects right now

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

hendrik van loon, the home of mankind (1931)

[xalatath]

3-5 turkey vultures will soon be dispatched to your location.

[nonstandardrepertoire]

g-d i love reading about proposals for space exploration

[androdragynous]

there is a screen reader / magnification program that is the only one the low vision clinic knows of with these features and it is $650 Canadian Dollars behind specific approved vendors that require you to be geographically close to them and get government approval of a degree that I am only just now reaching after being visually impaired for going on seven years. I feel normal about this

[androdragynous]

if you can code a program that does any or all of the following:

Magnifies a display beyond standard options with keyboard / mouse movement inputs or voice commands,

Can read text on the screen,

Has different color filter options for text / background distinction,

Can change and magnify the cursor beyond standard amounts,

Works on Windows or more than just Windows,

Has a keyboard echo (says the character you've pressed on the keyboard out loud)

... there is a genuine, GENUINE need for you to code this and put it at a more accessible price point than $650 Canadian Dollars which I also just learned is a SUBSCRIPTION FEE AND NOT EVEN PERPETUAL. if you are reading this and able to code I am begging you. would genuinely change lives

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[sarahthecoat]

where i am, a box fan and the filters run about $20 each, so if $100 is too much of a stretch at the moment, get the fan and one filter. tape the filter to the intake side of the fan, all the way around. this is also good if your space is small and a 20" cube won't fit.

[modelsof-color]

Chol Mabior at Robert Wun Couture FW 2026

[laeffy]

Hey tumblr???? Hey fucking tumblr?????

[thyrell]

her what

[thyrell]

does anyone know whag the rest of it says