Don't Stop, Keep Walking because You Were Born to Make History

Hello! Call me Nanami. Mostly reblogs though. An original fanart if I have the time to do it. Also known as Mánadís and Cecilia. Uses female pronouns, Aro-Ace. Most likely to reblog: Yuri!!! on Ice, D.Gray-Man, Puella Magi Madoka Magica and its spinoffs, WIXOSS, Assassination Classroom, Violet Evergarden, Mahoutsukai no Yome, Dance with Devils, Bananya, Amaama to Inazuma, Boku no Hero Academia, Pokemon, Steven Universe, Houseki no Kuni, Hetalia, Kill la Kill, Eurovision, Symphonic Metal (Within Temptation, Nightwish, Epica, Xandria, Delain and The Dark Element), Kalafina, Rayark games, Doctor Who, The Night Circus (albeit untagged), Sentimental Circus, Sanrio, SINoALICE and pictures of food, scenery, jewels, cats and anything I consider worth reblogging/posting about. Warning: This blog is free of NSFW, but filled with spoilers, especially for the above mentioned fandoms. They will be tagged but proceed at your own risk. One of 2 Mods at the DwD Discord Server Icon by @paluumin

[sweetoothgirl]

Churro Chocolate Stuffed Cookies

[housecatincarnate]

[musicalmelody22]

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. 

[fororchestra]

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…

[justtkeepcalmm-deactivated20250]

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.

[lady-gorthaur]

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.

[elsajeni]

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:

[stifled giggling]

[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.

[minguskingus]

This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

[oxboold-deactivated20180729]

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

[prokopetz]

Who does that?

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

[just-shower-thoughts]

There are early birds and night owls but no afternoon iguana or something.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Every single item you’ve ever lost still exists out there somewhere.

[sweetoothgirl]

Poached Pear Vol au Vents

[jewishaesthetics]

Chanukah foods from around the world

[jewishaesthetics]

Iraqi Sambusak | Persian Zoulbia | Ashkenazi Latkes Israeli Sufganiot | Italian Cheese Latkes | Moroccan Sfenj Kavkazi Kurze | Indian Jalebi | Sephardi Bimuelos

[just-shower-thoughts]

All chefs are chemists, but not all chemists are chefs

[just-shower-thoughts]

The Titanic’s sinking was a true miracle to the lobsters in the kitchens

[opens-at-nightfall]

Strange, how the fence is sometimes weather worn, and lichen-kissed, as if it has always been there…even though you are positive these were empty fields a week ago…

[opens-at-nightfall]

The Circus at this time of year is accompanied by the rattling susurrus of midnight winds dancing amid the fading leaves…

[pusheen]

[heartsnmagic]

[heartsnmagic]

[nero-draco]

Visit Original Link

[thessaliah]

Why does Oberon hate Merlin?

Hmm... "Hate" is loaded. I don't think it can be as simple as hate. It is resentment because they are incompatible despite their dream-being nature. Is it because of Vortigern, the Vile King, who was the enemy of the King of Knights?  Not really. Oberon Vortigern is from the Lostbelt, he has no real relationship with Arturia Pendragon or her uncle besides being a manifestation of Britain's will with the same name (but ultimately a pure manifestation rather than a man born one). Cut for length.

To understand how special this resentment is, well, you must realize Oberon isn't only a story character who fulfilled a role in the series inner logic. Oberon is also a meta-story character that criticizes readers' irresponsible consumerist nature to pick and discard stories as if they were worthless. That's why his last stand feels heroically tragic to anyone who reads it (and why Andersen understands exactly what he is in a metasense and is unable to mock or taunt him), although would have collapsed the life of the planet in the trappings of the fictional narrative. It is not because of the in-story implications, but the metastory ones. He was calling the readers out.

He was tired of the readers treating stories themselves did not have feelings to be cast down a pit and forgotten after they were used. He is this pit, this abyss, and would have engulfed all of us indiscriminately. All this theme was done metaphorically and literally through the in-universe comparison of the relationship between the lostbelt (fantasy) and panhistory (reality) instead of breaking the four-wall as many metafictions do. But it was obviously meta-fiction exploration. That's why Nasu called him special.

When he says flowers and insects, truths and lies, are a complementary relationship I think he really talking about the roles of readers and stories need of each other to exist. Between fantasy and reality. There is no reader without a story, and a tale has no worth and is 'dead' paper without a reader. Merlin stands not as a regular 'character' but his role, as he said in Babylonia, is not having a story of his own. More than Guda, Merlin represents the ultimate irresponsible, fickle reader. He is outside and untouchable, watching in, most of the time not interfering. His role is to observe and watch stories and moves on to the next one after they are done. So Oberon, who represents this fictional world, is the guide, the prince, of sorts (he is the embodiment of Britain, that fictional Britain that was real for a while) hides from his view. He denies being observed. He blocks this story. In my opinion, that is why he opposes him and why he doesn't want anything to do with him.

Mind, this is my interpretation. We'll wait for his material profile.

[detailedart]

A visual explanation of why stars fall on Earth. Details of The Augsburg Book of Miracles, an illuminated manuscript made in Augsburg in Germany in the 16th century, anonymous author-ess.

[emersonmanandnature]

August 14, 2021

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