Pianist By Night

max 👋 // occasional pianist // even more occasional doodler // Instagram: @pianistbynight// obsessed with marauders and golden trio hp eras

[pianistbynight]

8 Jul 2021

So this is what I recorded yesterday! It's one of those simpler songs, but I thought it sounded pretty, so I wanted to record it to ease back into the groove. I hope you find listening to it as peaceful as I found playing it 😊💗

📷: Pinterest

[pianist-by-night]

I'm taking a break from fandom, but... (Exciting news!✨)

@theroomofreq knows the half of this, but as much as I love the HP fandom, I've been thinking of taking a break from it for a while since it's gotten a bit addictive 😅 (I still read and comment on the occasional fic, but I just won't be online for fandom purposes as much.)

In the meantime, though, I've been working on a new blog for my covers and recording snippets, just to organize things a bit better, and I'm really reaaaallyyy excited about it!!!

I'm not completely moving away from my fandom/miscellaneous blog, but if you want to chat or send me asks or something, I'll probably be more reachable on the new blog @pianist-by-night 😊 (Also, if you liked the song snippet games or the music I played on this blog, there will be more to come on the new one!! 🎵😃💗)

[pianist-by-night]

🌻💫💛✨This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it is sweet to know someone thinks you’re amazing inside and out ✨💛💫🌻💜 <3<3

🤗🤗🤗 right back at you 💗💗💗

[pianist-by-night]

Pass the happy! 🌻 When you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and send this to the to 10 of the last people in your notifications

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getting asks in my inbox because it reminds me of getting paper mail from friends XD

being able to mark emails that have been sitting in my inbox forever as read

successfully recording music

printing new sheet music i know i can play

playing a passage in a song the way i wanted it to sound for the first time

[tumbledfreckles]

Glad

Look, things escalated once I saw a post about in the name of fairness and equality, having a shirtless Lily Evans July, to go along with shirtless James Potter May (wasn’t that a cracker). I went off and wrote something, only to find my colleagues had smartly decided to move it August, give we’ve already got the @jilychallenge going on this month. But I’m all about instant gratification, so seeing I was late to shirtless JP, let me be early to shirtless LE. I doubt it’ll be my only entry, regardless. 

“Does it hurt?”

Lily shook her head, biting down on her bottom lip to keep from wincing or crying out, as pain tore through her back with each of the shuddering breath. 

“Can I see?" 

James’ hand hovered in the region of her shoulder, she could see out of the corner of her eye. He hesitated, waiting for permission. 

"I’m fine.” The words ground out of her with another excruciating shake of her head. 

“Evans.” His fingers brushed her top, withdrawing the second she flinched, a sharp hiss escaping before she could stop it. “You’re not fine." 

"I’m okay.” Lily turned as she spoke, not wanting her back to him, not wanting to let him keep seeing what had to be the grossest, nastiest thing he’d ever seen. Her eyes met his, surprised to see frustration where she’d expected pity, or worse, disgust.

“Let me help you." 

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[pianist-by-night]

🌻💫💛✨This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it is sweet to know someone thinks you’re amazing inside and out ✨💛💫🌻💜 <3<3

YOU are amazing @blitheringmcgonagall !!! 💗💗💗

[pianist-by-night]

Pass the happy! 🌻 When you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and send this to the to 10 of the last people in your notifications

chilling with family

the overwhelming support of my tumblr friends and mutuals 🤗🤗🤗

playing piano

sharing thoughts on piano/music and recordings on @pianist-by-night

making people i care about happy 💗

[pianist-by-night]

Omg MAX when you listen to Phantom please tell me ALL YOUR THOUGHTS! My high school did it the year before I went (I was in 9th grade, my hs was 10-12) and it won all the regional awards and was amazing and foundational to my interest in musical theatre so yes PLEASE KEEP ME UPDATED

WOW that *IS* amazing!! yesssss i'm hoping to do a live reaction post series on @pianist-by-night when i listen to it!!!! 😃😃😃

[solarmorrigan]

So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes

Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us

After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”

To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil

There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”

Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever

[loveharuokumura]

Back in my 10th grade we did a similar things around Lord of the Flies, where we had a test scheduled for that day, and when we walked in, the teacher took role by looking through the window of the door and never entered the classroom. On the board were three tasks written and the teacher had brought in donuts. At first we all sat around and waited for the teacher to come in, but eventually we just started tackling the list of tasks. Task 1- the test. Everybody took it silently, no one cheated, everyone turned it in and we went on to Task Two: tidy up the room. So we did, we split into a couple groups and each one cleaned an area of the room. Task Three: Hand out the donuts. There were 12 donuts, and 30 of us. So we split the donuts into thirds, each took a third, and left the extras for the teacher. After this, the teacher came in absolutely FUMING. She was so upset we had followed all the rules and completed the tasks. Apparently she had been texting kids telling them to start some chaos but they all ignored it because they were too nice. She tried to dock our grades for not going absolutely wild because it meant her class didn’t get the point across

[hookedonafeeeling]

That’s because lord of the flies isn’t representative of humanity it’s representative of rich white male shitheads

[pianistbynight]

8 Jul 2021

So this is what I recorded yesterday! It's one of those simpler songs, but I thought it sounded pretty, so I wanted to record it to ease back into the groove. I hope you find listening to it as peaceful as I found playing it 😊💗

📷: Pinterest

[pianist-by-night]

I'm taking a break from fandom, but... (Exciting news!✨)

@theroomofreq knows the half of this, but as much as I love the HP fandom, I've been thinking of taking a break from it for a while since it's gotten a bit addictive 😅 (I still read and comment on the occasional fic, but I just won't be online for fandom purposes as much.)

In the meantime, though, I've been working on a new blog for my covers and recording snippets, just to organize things a bit better, and I'm really reaaaallyyy excited about it!!!

I'm not completely moving away from my fandom/miscellaneous blog, but if you want to chat or send me asks or something, I'll probably be more reachable on the new blog @pianist-by-night 😊 (Also, if you liked the song snippet games or the music I played on this blog, there will be more to come on the new one!! 🎵😃💗)

[mppmaraudergirl-deactivated2024]

I’m not sure you’re still taking prompts but “I love you” “What? I love you too” ...”um, I was just joking” Perhaps for Jily?🥺 I know that’s insanely specific but I love the way you write !!!!

(This was a challenging one – I took some liberty with your ellipses but I think it worked!) I hope you like it <3 <3

There was nothing quite like the warmth of late spring night when partnered with the sharp burn of Firewhiskey and the pure elation of a Quidditch Cup victory. The party in the Gryffindor common room was dying down, proving to be a stark contrast from the fire and candles that still kept the room bright for the few rosy-cheeked sixth and seventh years not quite ready to call it quits.

Lily was draped across a large armchair in front of the fire, fingers and toes tingling from the warmth of possibly one-too-many firewhiskeys. She had been making them too strong, so the boys had stepped in to – in Sirius’ words – moderate her consumption.

She was very skeptical that moderation was in any part of Sirius Black’s vocabulary.

And the part of her sensibility that was still dangling on the edge of her subconscious told her it probably wouldn’t make much of a difference in the morning. She already had an appointment with the girls’ toilet that even a strong hangover potion probably couldn’t save her from.

Two firewhiskeys later, that fleeting internal voice of sensibility was now humming along with her as she listened to the wireless.

Mary was fairing little better, based on the gaping mouth she currently sported as she listened to some undoubtedly inane story Sirius was telling her.

Internal Lily wanted to laugh at it all, but her eyes kept sliding away from the pair, across the room to the sixth-year boy who’d had a hand in the victory Sirius was most likely still talking about.

He hadn’t changed out of his uniform, though the sheen of sweat from the match was long since gone – she imagined he’d done some sort of spell ahead of the party. (She’d been imaging a lot of things lately. Things that sent sensible Lily’s face aflame.) His cheeks were rosy, whether from still donning the long sleeve jersey or the cask of firewhiskey he had taken it upon himself to drink Lily didn’t know. As usual his hair was in a state of disarray which, partnered with the uniform, could make Lily believe he had just come from the pitch. He wasn’t looking at her, occupied instead in conversation with seventh year Penny Clearwater, one of his fellow Chasers.

Once upon a time Lily had liked Penny.

Once upon a time Lily hadn’t given much thought to why James’ cheeks were flushed.

Once upon a time he wasn’t James, either. But she seemed to have dropped Potter somewhere between Halloween and Easter and she couldn’t be bothered to go back looking for it.

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Ajfhaldhwksksk their drunken thoughts and the mutual pining and the visuals are so hilarious and cute and aaaahhhhhhh!!! 

Favorite lines:

“But she seemed to have dropped Potter somewhere between Halloween and Easter and she couldn’t be bothered to go back looking for it.” [*melts at this cutenessss* 💗💗💗💗💗] ‘Lily, flinging her legs off the chair and onto the floor. The world wobbled around her. “Oi – Potter. Ye greatest Quidditch Captain of noble Gryffindor. I offer my greatest affection to thee.”’ [AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this is *SO* adorableee 😍😍😍 loll and drunk Lily is so dramatic XDDDD] 'James’ face split into an easy, carefree smile. “What? I love you too, Evans, oh apple of my eye.”’ [*snorts in laughter* gosh they’re so /drunk/!!! 😂😂😂😂😂] “I know you think you’re joking,” [oooooohhhhhhhh!!! 😏😏😏😏😏💗💗💗💗💗😂😂😂😂😂] '“Well, I can see my presence is no longer welcome here, so I ought to go to bed. Mary, are you coming?” It took her two tries to push herself off the chair and to her feet. The force of which caused her to stumble and completely miss whatever Mary had replied. She took two unsteady steps forward before a set of strong hands caught her elbows.’ [this entire visual of her drunkenly trying to move and navigate the common room is just so funny and cute to see in my head 😂😂😂] “Peachy, Potter. And that entirely depends on what percentage of water there is in punch. You’re ace at Artithenmancy…er… so whatever that comes to, likely I dunno seventy to eighty percent multiply that by five.” [BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA] And dammit if he wasn’t so tall, and so close, that she could feel the sound vibrating in his chest even louder than she heard him. His hands had not moved from her elbows, and she suddenly found that her hands were pressed to his stomach. Even sensible Lily licked her lips at this realization. [ASDJDLAHFJAJDESJSKSKSJD 😍😍😍💗💗💗😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😂😂😂😂😂] “I think you meant seventy to eighty percent of the punch was whiskey not water. And five drinks, Evans? Here I was, thinking you were a responsible prefect. You ought to turn in your badge.” [*snorts in laughter*] 'She pulled away from him just enough to get a better look at his face. It was a mistake, because his grin exploded her stomach with butterflies. It wasn’t so long ago his look boiled her blood with molten anger instead of… “And lose privileges to the Prefects’ bathroom? What kind of fool do you take me for?”’ “Fine, fine. And they call me an intolerable fusspot.” And by the time she went to bed, three glasses of water later, she thought she might have tolerated him kissing her. [AND THISSSSS!!!!! I WAS *NOTTT* EXPECTING THIS SUDDEN TRANSITION BUT OMG IT HITS EXACTLY RIGHT AND OMGOMGOMGOMGGGG *FANGIRLS* SIXTH YEAR JILY IS KILLINGGGG ME WITH THEIR ADORABLENESS (and for some reason i don’t seem to mind 😂😂👌👌👌💗💗💗💗💗😍😍😍😍😍)]

[ginnympotter]

52 you're my new pillow With pinning jily, if you may?

A/N: omg ok i dont think i really nailed what you were aiming for in this request but this is just what happened, an entire texting exchange lol it was really fun to write so I hope you like it anyway :)

LE: you’re my new pillow

JP: yes alwayswait what do you mean

LE: Christmas gift from Sirius[picture attachment]

JP: oh my godi swear i only had a little bit to do with this

LE: a little bit?

JP: well Sirius asked me to send him a picture of something I think you’d likeso, obviously, I sent myself

LE: shirtless

JP: well that’s what you like! isn’t it?

LE: well yeah

JP: I didn’t know he was going to put a shirtless selfie of me on a body pillowalthough that was actually pretty smart

LE: and all I got him was a subscription to Cycle World. He really outdid me, huh

JP: no he is so hyped about the subscription! he is in my room right now reading through ithe said he is trying this new thing called patienceand that he wants to make sure he makes the most informed choice possible for his motorcycleand that a motorcycle review magazine is the best way for him to take his time in making such a lifechanging decision

LE: wow

JP: his words, i swearhe is standing over me as we speakhe is glad you like your presenthe also says “sorry the real thing is currently unavailable, but we can put you down on the waitlist and give you a call for our next opening”ok I’ve kicked him out now he’s in his own roomyou know there’s no waitlist right

LE: lol yes i know

JP: good, good

LE: I do wish I had the real thing, though

JP: do you miss me, lily evans?

LE: tragically so

JP:  I miss you tooin case that wasn’t clear

LE: I had an inkling

JP: like, an inordinate amountgoing a bit mad, perhaps

LE: honestly? Me too

JP: sirius keeps yelling at me because apparently I’ve been “sulking”and it’s “only been three days”

LE: right, but does he realize there’s still another WEEK until we get to see each other again?

JP: well that’s why he got you the pillowunfortunately he did not give me the same curtesy

LE: the pillow will have to suffice, I suppose

JP: am I better looking in person or in print?

LE: lmaoIn person, of coursebut I will say, pillow print James is kinda doing it for me too

JP: I am very versatilecotton, polyester, silk, jersey, bamboo, you name it

LE: personallyI prefer when my James is not attached to any type of fabricif you know what I mean

JP: …..the drive from mine to yours is only what3 hours?i’ll come get you right now

LE: James

JP: lily

LE: as lovely as that would beIt is late and I’m pretty sure my parents would be upset if I suddenly ran off with you at 2am

JP: you don’t have to run anywherei’ll climb through your windowvery romantic

LE: oh yeah, because it’d be MUCH better if a man they didn’t know broke into their house!

JP: pftttthey know mewait…right?

LE: you know what I meanYes of course they know youBut they haven’t formally met you yet, like officiallyI think they’d prefer that to happen through the front door

JP: the front door can be arranged as well

LE: It already is arranged, for New Year’s Eve, not right now

JP: why don’t we move that appointment up

LE: no

JP: honestly front doors are overrated

LE: you tell yourself that

JP: fine, enjoy pillow me

LE: oh I will

JP: ….lilwhat do you mean by thati feel like there was a certain connotation in that responsehello???please give me details on exactly how you plan to enjoy pillow me

LE: lol by going to sleepgoodnight James

JP: you are an enticingly cruel woman

LE: love you too

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[uhh-im-not-me]

it gets better

[constancezin]

Harry had great times with his god(dog)father and he loved him so much. At the end of the day who could say which one was the most exhausted.

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[scribefindegil]

so many things try to emulate the Beatrice/Benedick relationship and so few of them get it right bc they’re like ‘oh it’s about the banter’ and YES, obviously, but if you make it JUST about the banter you’re going to fail! it’s about the RESPECT!!! it’s about the scene after Hero’s shaming where Benedick drops the banter entirely and sits there with Beatrice as she rages and weeps and then chooses to side with HER instead of the boy’s club that he’s been hanging out with for the entire play, both because he loves her and because she’s RIGHT!

like, it’s not some impulsive thing to make her like him, and it’s not just talk; he asks her if she’s sure and then he agrees and then he remains cold and determined when he meets Claudio and Don Pedro and they try to get him to joke around with them like old times.  i think that’s one of the things that gets me the most; that there’s a scene that you half-expect to fall into that same sort of joking, where Claudio and Don Pedro are specifically like, “Huh, we inexplicably feel kind of sad after ruining this woman’s life and reputation, I bet Benedick will cheer us up!” and he just. utterly refuses to engage. and it’s so powerful and it’s such a tonal shift and such a strong indication of just how much he loves and values Beatrice and!! anything that gets the banter but doesn’t get that completely fails to understand their relationship! THB!!

[gendercents]

@all-pacas

[melyzard]

In this day and age, the most powerful thing a man can say to a woman is “I believe you” - and then back it up with action.

[mppmaraudergirl-deactivated2024]

I love blackevans brotp. 🤩 Please write a second part from james pov I would love to read it.

"Hope I'm not interrupting Hogwarts' new hottest couple," says James, throwing himself down on the couch next to Sirius.

"We simply request no flash photography," Lily says, in a tone of mock seriousness. She meets Sirius' eye as she speaks and James' stomach lurches unpleasantly despite himself. "It's nice to have such devoted fans, isn’t it?"

"Can't blame them, really," says Sirius with a playful nudge of James' shoulder. "Although we can't hold a candle to you and Abbott, Prongs. I suppose love is in the air everywhere."

"I suppose so."

James plants a smile on his face while he strongly considers strangling the smug look off of Sirius'.

[lafioras-deactivated20170624]

love can really save people, and i’m not talking about romantic love. i’m talking about platonic, wholesome, unselfish love that demands nothing in return other than that person’s safety, happiness, and well-being. love for the sake of love. i think this kind of love is wonderful.

[thecollectibles]

Art by Justine Florentino