Damnit Claire

Casey. Musician/ music major, Muse lover, Whovian, selective sailor. Always here to listen. Enjoy the strange insides of my head that are in fact, my brain. Message me, I get bored!

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MAKING A NEW BLOG

I won't be deleting this one, but I feel I need to start over again. If you want to follow me, it's RingsTheRover. Hope to see you there!

[1000brokenreeds]

What each instrument says the most

Oboe: I bought shot-glasses and cigarette paper this weekend.... NO IT'S FOR MY OBOE I SWEAR

Flute: Yeah, she said she was going to do the Chaminade too. Looks like we'll have two people playing the concertino for the solo show this year, or there's always murder, you know

clarinet: It's my reed. Hold on I'll get another one out... also if another person asks me to play the mozart clarinet concerto i'll slap a bitch

Bassoon: could you scoot over a bit? I need more space to lean my bassoon... My posture is just fine, THANKS

Saxophone: shit. i still have my neck-strap on don't I?

Drums: Is the snare on? GOD, who turned the snare off again?! AND! Where the frickity frack are my sticks?

timpani: i gotta tune the timpani. hold on

trumpet: i hate partial jumping practice so much

trombone: Do you want to hear my gliss?

tuba: i literally play four notes the entire piece..,.

horn: look i don't know why we stick the hand in the bell. don't ask. it's just how it is

cello: yeah my cello cost 13,000 and my bow is custom made, so it's like 6,000 and my new case which is shock absorbent, fireproof and waterproof cost like 7,500

viola: I know we're trying to play louder it's the loudest i can get i know i know i'm so sick of pizzicato accompaniment give me a break please

violin: um I can't see the concertmaster's bowings from back here... yeah i know i can watch the person in front of me im not stupid it's just...

double bass: how the fuck am I supposed to carry this thing through the door? Hey, can you hold it open for me

[dutchster]

[eveshka]

Chosen.

[mrmrswoodman]

Practice Safe Sex. Tie your partner down to the bed so they don't fall off.

[avvocarlo]

[joey-wheeler-official]

improvised weaponry

[defunct-blog]

they beat jesus with that

[proto-homo]

Vegan BDSM equipment

[secret-mind]

If you need someone to talk to, just message me or send an ask :-)

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[kyleehenke]

intimidating 2018 into submission before it even fucking starts

[motive11331]

The footsteps are the best part of this to me. We don’t waltz or sashay or march to meet the new year, we drunkenly shuffle with purpose.

[pandaaamonium14]

How Do Court Reporters Keep Straight Faces? These are from a book called Disorder in the Courts and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while the exchanges were taking place. ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning? WITNESS: He said, ‘Where am I, Cathy?’ ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you? WITNESS: My name is Susan! _______________________________ ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth? WITNESS: July 18th. ATTORNEY: What year? WITNESS: Every year. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you? WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can’t remember which. ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you? WITNESS: Forty-five years. _________________________________ ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory? WITNESS: I forget.. ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot? ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning? WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam? ____________________________________ ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he? WITNESS: He’s 20, much like your IQ. ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken? WITNESS: Are you shitting me? _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time? WITNESS: Getting laid ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: She had three children , right? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: How many were boys? WITNESS: None. ATTORNEY: Were there any girls? WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney? ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated? WITNESS: By death.. ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated? WITNESS: Take a guess. ___________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual? WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female? WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I’m going with male. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work. ______________________________________ ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people? WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight. _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to? WITNESS: Oral… _________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time? WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished. ____________________________________________ ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question? ______________________________________ And last: ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing? WITNESS: No.. ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? WITNESS: No. ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor? WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

[skrillcholas-cage]

oh my god these are great

[princemetalthunder]

fuck this is like reading a jokes and not actual quotes

[iguanamouth]

an-eighth-of-faith submitted: My aunt’s wizard lizard. You know what to do. (P.s. I love you very much)

[patterns-in-static]

YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

[lukia26]

…you know what to do.

[silbat-deactivated20191019]

you know what to do

[ru-debega]

it keeps getting better

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[nbcnightlynews]

WATCH: The Oregon Zoo in Portland was closed to the public today due to heavy snow – but the zoo’s residents had a blast.

[i-hate-vegans-deactivated201910]

Oh my GODD THE POLAR BEAR GOT SOME SNOW HE MUST FEEL SO REFRESHED

[xenosaurus]

relatable seals at the end there

[followmetoyourdoom]

“Hey Joe! Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe look!!! It’s snow!”

[epicwalrus-deactivated20210127]

I need more of this shit!

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Those happy elephant sounds cleared my skin and watered my crops.

[warandpeas]

We say Goodbye to 2017. We say Goodbye to a good year. Here’s our Top 10. 

Thanks for reading everybody. It’s a pleasure to make these silly comics and to receive all the crazy love. See you next year!  

[weirdpunk-deactivated20121228]

remember when spongebob used to sometimes have actual people be in the cartoon and it was always extremely bad acting or really weird like why though

[jennyslatesbutchgf]

DAVID HASSELHOFF

[oldaperture-deactivated20190504]

those were the fucking funniest parts

[radicalseabies]

[casino-night-zone]

[thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis]

[michealmouse]

the greats hung about this is all of those people is spongebobs voice actor

[gotinterest]

The pirate is also spongebob’s voice actor.

[samuwhal]

One of the best things I’ve heard is that when reacting to adversity, you can be Taylor Swift, or you can be Kesha.

Think about it: drama, while hurtful, got channeled into bashing, immature songs, like Look What You Made Me Do, while years of horrifying sexual abuse ultimately produced Praying, the self-help ballad of a lifetime.

We can’t always control what people do to us or what randomly happens, but we can control how we react and how we try to move forward. We can self-destruct, or find the courage to be reborn. Heck, maybe we can even help others along the way.

Nobody is perfect, but nobody can be expected to be, either. Good people do bad things, bad people do good. But I think a huge part of what makes someone rise up is that transformative ability to make something beautiful out of a hellish pit, by absorbing and accepting it instead of wallowing in it. It’s not an easy choice by any means, but it’s one worth making.

Bottom line? Be Kesha.

[igotcursed]

being angry about the abuse you’ve experienced for years is just as valid as kesha taking what happened to her and writing a song like praying. being angry about the abuse she’s experienced for years does not make taylor a bad person. both women have experienced different kinds of abuse and both women wrote about their experiences in different ways. whether you choose to be angry or choose to rise above, neither one of those things is the wrong response.

[samuwhal]

Oh yeah, it’s fine to experience anger when someone wrongs you. It would be incredibly unhealthy and detrimental to recovery to suppress that. But it is important for it to be processed it in a productive way that doesn’t consume the person already suffering.

I obviously can’t speak for these two singers as people, but as icons, they have let these experiences shape their images in opposite ways. Revenge and dwelling and spite are all present in Taylor Swift’s recent music in response to her experiences. Some people may think that’s good and others bad, but that is a fairly easy to determine fact. Kesha’s abuse also would have leant to those themes, but she chose the angle of moving on and, yes, rising, to process that grief, anger, sadness, and other emotions. Maybe Taylor Swift will go in that direction in her self-portrayl, maybe not, but this is where we are now.

Everybody responds to various traumas differently. It is okay to be angry, to self-destruct, to rip things apart. But it is essential to eventually come around to that light of processing and releasing the negative emotions so that one can go on and live life unencumbered. Anger is a step in recovery, but acceptance is the finish line. There is no wrong or right, just healing.

To me, Kesha’s recent music embodies that big picture more than Taylor Swift’s. While it is just one shallow example, when considering the influence that stars have on our music, and our culture by extension, it is important to critically think about these ideas. This is true for young adults, especially, since we are learning how to overcome adversity as we go.

At the end of the day, be Kesha.