More Beautiful You

Don't ruin a perfect thing.

[neil-gaiman]

are you a cat person?

Only in Arthur.

Otherwise I'm an actual human person.

[allsadnshit]

Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

[monsterlogic]

[allsadnshit]

Thank u for this contribution

[instant-oatmeal]

Souphelia

[degeneration-design-doctor]

OPhởlia

[gaylactic-fire]

They always make Link look so serious in promo art and for what?

[gaylactic-fire]

Call this false advertising

[gaylactic-fire]

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

[macromothmicroplastic]

reminds me of when some old church in Sweden was cleaning out their storage and they forgot they had left like 80 medieval corpses in some ikea bags during renovations so somebody opened a closet door and it’s just

[lacefuneral]

[tippenfunkaport]

there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter

tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks... that website still lives on

truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that

[nous-portons]

I thought my cat looked like an astronaut with his cone - so I made him into one 🐱🪐

[lichen-thr0pe]

[mikewheeleronlyfans]

noah schnapp you will always be famous

[thetomska]

Thoughts?

No thanks, I’m trying to cut back

[switchingtogeico]

[switchingtogeico]

[velociraptrix]

i have to agree with megan on this

[roger-taylor-owns-my-wigg]

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

[deathbutwithfuzzyanimals]

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony

like, what other song can make that claim?

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

Some of the highlights of that video include:

The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing

So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do

The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)

How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”

Hands up, hundreds, thousands deep for the final “ooooo”s and the last line to close the song

[aces-to-apples]

Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.

[zohbugg]

[solitarelee]

[iamthespineofmybook]

One of the things that struck me, listening to the video, is that you cannot distinguish the original vocals from the crowd, and sometimes you can barely hear the music. And the POV is on the stage the speakers are playing the song from!

There’s good reason why, nearly fifty years after the height of their career, Queen is still considered one of the best bands of all time ever.

(And how albums left lying about in cars will eventually metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.)

[prismatic-bell]

Something else that’s rather incredible about this is, Bohemian Rhapsody is a very difficult song from a technical standpoint. Like–humor me, okay, go flip it on and try to sing the whole thing at the top of your voice without falling off-key, out of breath, or cracking at least once. Then come back.

Okay. You’re back? Welcome back. Unless you’re a trained singer, you probably can’t do it. There are too many long notes, too many key changes, and too many places where–if you’re singing all the parts–you’re just up and down the scale too damned fast. I’m saying this as a trained singer and I can’t do it. I always crack on “magnifico” and “leave me to die,” and I have a pretty decent range, but I know I sound ugly as hell on that final coda.

Okay. Now that we’ve established that, I want to talk a little about singing as a chorus. One of the things a lot of people learned during the pandemic is how hard it is to take twenty people, all in different places, and stitch them together to make a single coherent song with perfect pitch and timing. You’re all practicing on slightly your own tempo, slightly your own key, even if you’re all working from the same base track. (You can see this in a lot of the Wellerman compilations from Tiktok, where someone always says “Soon” a moment before everyone else on “soon may the Wellerman come.”) When you have a chorus comprised of many smaller choruses that are all traveling to be together, this is what dress rehearsal is for–to get all of you onto the same tempo so you’re starting and finishing at exactly the same time. This is a thing that normally only happens after at least several days of practice, and it is an important skill that must be taught. You’re not just born knowing how to do this.

I do not know how many people at that Green Day concert were trained singers. But I do know there is no way in hell all few thousand of them were a single group–they showed up a few at a time, maybe even flying solo for the night. Now go and listen to the video again. Listen to the ends of verses and the pickups. They’re fucking crisp as hell. Everyone is starting and ending at the same place. Not even a single note off. (And yes, you can hear when it’s a single note off, even in a crowd that big. A handful of people would be enough to throw it off.) And while a few in the crowd may be off-key, so many more are on-key that the cumulative effect is of the song being on-key. This isn’t even the band they’re there to see.

They don’t just know this song, this technically-difficult song, this long and complex song by a completely different band. They know it perfectly. They know it down to the fucking note. They know it so well that they did it in perfect synchrony, without a single chance to practice.

Do you know how insane that is?

[pendragyn]

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“I barely fit inside myself.”

— The Complete Stories, ‘Brasilia’ by Clarice Lispector tr. Katrina Dodson

[blog-of-the-things-i-like]

Pharmacy Jars, 1400s, Italy

[unclefather]

[septamaticloveaddict]

Venting on here because I can’t discuss with a lot of people because, yes, I am a Christian and love God fully and want to pursue Him always but have different views about sex and am sexually active with the ones I deeply love and see a future with

My boyfriend is overcoming a lot. He is in the phase of grief and healing where everything feels like an attack to him. He is not a toxic person but his trauma is causing toxic behaviors. His insurance kicks in in a week or two and he knows he desperately needs medicine and therapy, which is the first thing he’s going to do. I can’t imagine getting by my toxic trauma phase without the support I had so I am doing everything I can to love him and support him while protecting my own sanity. Before anyone judges, until you have severe childhood trauma and fall deeply in love with someone while seeking healing for the first time, you don’t know how difficult early beginnings of a relationship can be. Ive been in his shoes. I had people stick around and love me anyway. It’s a lot easier because I know how to break this behavior down. So we are not going to trash talk him because he is an absolutely amazing person when trauma isn’t getting in the way

Anyway, he feels I have not been reciprocating attention as much as he does. A valid thing and I need to work on it. It was like drawing teeth to get it out of him. I finally did though. And then he said he wanted to take sex out of the relationship for now

I don’t care as a whole. Touch is my last on the list of love languages. But I do value touch with him because I love him so of course, being told that kind of stings. So as the convo continues, I am essentially being told he feels frustrated because I hit the O very rarely and have to finish myself off and then I get frustrated at myself, which he thinks is directed at him. He is totally fine. It is enjoyable when we get it on, no complaints. It is just very hard for me to get there unless it is on my own time alone before bed. I feel mortified about this. I get anxious thinking about the weekends he visits because what if I fail. Again. That type of thing.

And to be told he would rather forego instead of keep trying because he’s tired of us being frustrated and angry and he feels like he is constantly disappointing me really hurts. It feels like I am getting blamed for something beyond my control. My Google search is filled with history of how to improve things. I’ve bought lube, lingerie, have three pages of different positions saved. I found out a side effect of Zoloft, my medication which has saved my damn life, is not being able to hit the O during sex. I feel like I am being blamed for a side effect of my medication which I cannot help one single bit.

Anyway, just needed to get it out somewhere because being an unmarried Christian with different views on sex than is standard makes it tricky to vent sometimes 🙃

(If anyone wants to have a conversation about why I feel convicted the way I do about sex, by all means, I love discussing different interpretations of Scripture in mature ways!)

[lafactoriadelmeme]

Con sonido! 🔈🔉🔊

[abadbowlofsoup]

The face of a woman regretting the music lessons.

[pinkstarlightcomputer]

Bahareh Babaei (Homa Art Gallery) 2014 Acrylic and pencil on canvas 120x120 cm.