Simone Boccanegra

Opera blog

[simone-boccanegra]

THIS BLOG IS AN ARCHIVE!

Current blog: https://akechijubeimitsuhide.tumblr.com/ 

Discord:  Akechi Mitsuhide#9932

[opera-shitpost]

Since the title of Lohengrin is technically a major spoiler for the opera itself, let’s all just pull a M*cbeth and start referring to it as Untitled Swan Knight Opera

[beyfann]

13 years ago today, Pepsi’s Super Bowl commercial starring Beyoncé, BritneySpears, Pink & Enrique Iglesias was premiered. #PepsiGladiators

[beyondthescatteredwalls-deactiv]

Damn these were simpler times

[allisonpregler]

so lemme break this down

-lord caesar iglesias, who does not sing in this musical commercial, has captured britney spears, pink, and beyonce to battle it out gladiator style -our trio decides instead of fighting, they will instead rock so hard that the audience forgets about their battle to the death -their musical prowess is so damn powerful they rock the foundation of the earth and overthrow caesar iglesias along with his stash of ancient roman pepsi -beyonce, britney spears, and pink drink pepsi while the audience cheers -enrique iglesias is eaten by a lion

[hoomie]

Kendall Jenner could never >_>

[muzikalsiren]

y’all are overlooking the most important part of this ad. all of this centers around Queen’s “We Will Rock You”, with Brian May and Roger Taylor even making a split second cameo (Roger’s even playing a little drum!!)

truly the collab of the century

[the-real-skeletor]

Better than avengers endgame

[simone-boccanegra]

why can’t more commercials be creative and fun like this

[thatwasthenightthingschanged]

okay so since we all agree that being 13/14 was the worst for most of us, reblog this + put in the tags which songs/albums/artists carried you through that tough time

[coraorvat]

Justice baby, my adrenaline junkie Hawke gets off on this, you have no idea~

If you want a DA2 post-credit cutscene, do it yourself! A parody for the famous final scene from Some Like it Hot/В джазе только девушки - I had this darn idea for ages (ha), ever since my jokester Hawke’s answer from Legacy DLC when Anders starts his “You should find someone else, love” self-flagellation routine. No regrets whatsoever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

*yes they’re on Isabela’s ship, she let Hawke steer for a bit~

[mirkwoodest]

Lol, here's a fun one: if you had been born in the medieval era and without access to modern medicine, how long would you have lived? If I managed to survive being born (unlikely) I would have died at age 22 from appendicitis :) hbu?

[mirkwoodest]

The number of you absolutely convinced you would have been convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake seems statistically unlikely.

[simone-boccanegra]

no idea really. never had any dangerous illness but then again I grew up in a normal vountry where kids were vaccinated against pretty much everything so in the Middle Ages I might have died of a lot of illnesses

[beckmessering]

the director of my don giovanni production has never seen an opera in her life but she just sent out a scene-by-scene filming guide and someone should hire her to write synopsis booklets for opera houses

[simone-boccanegra]

please ask her to let you upload the whole thing this is perfect

[amshiiii]

whats ur role in the tumblr community how do you contribute

[simone-boccanegra]

I allegedly post about opera and liveblog sometimes but lately there hasn’t been much new stuff that’s worth watching and I’m consumed by taiga dramas anyway

[opera-shitpost]

Happy International Day of Mushiness Valentine’s Day from the opera-shitposts team, y’all!

And also a great thank-you for @simone-boccanegra and @lessthansix for the pictures! which mod rayatii stole from their blogs

[simone-boccanegra]

the real OTP of opera XD

[simones-artblog-blog]

Plans for the Sengoku tarot (I'm taking suggestions, feel free to send)

0 The Fool - a young Oda Nobunaga 1 The Magician - ??? 2 The High Priestess - maybe Hosokawa Gracia? 3 The Empress - Yodo-dono 4 The Emperor - ??? should it be the actual Emperor, or someone else? 5 The Hierophant - Uesugi Kenshin 6 The Lovers - Azai Nagamasa and Oichi 7 The Chariot - Takeda Shingen 8 Justice - ??? 9 The Hermit - Takenaka Hanbei 10 Wheel of Fortune: ??? 11 Strength - Sanada Yukimura 12 The Hanged Man - Ishida Mitsunari 13 Death - Sen no Rikyu (done) 14 Temperance - Tokugawa Ieyasu  15 The Devil - Nobunaga at the height of his power 16 The Tower - Honnoji 17 The Star - ??? 18 The Moon - ??? 19 The Sun - Toyotomi Hideyoshi (done) 20 Judgement - ??? 21 The World - ???

@odatodeath @odaclan @daeva-agas ideas please? I need to find cards for Akechi Mitsuhide, Date Masamune and Honda Tadakatsu. And there are still some to fill.

[daeva-agas]

Akechi - Justice or Judgement. I honestly have no idea what the difference between the two is. But Honnoji was sometimes considered “judgement” of Nobuanga’s “wrongs”. Also the Japanese Minister of Justice in 2015 is actually named Mitsuhide and I thought that was the funniest thing ever.  

Masamune - the moon. His crescent helmet.

Tadakatsu - The magician, maybe? image-wise the magician has a magic wand that you can replace with his spear

[simone-boccanegra]

I think Justice is the allegoric figure of Justice with a sword, and Judgement is Judgement day. Either could fit :D

Oh yes the Moon is perfect for Masamune!

[simone-boccanegra]

more Skyrim characters

Leonora, Imperial. she collects poisons but won’t use them, she will just put them in one of her houses when she has a lot

Sieron, Wood Elf

Makrah, Orc

tried to make Mitsuhide again but there are NO good samurai hairstyles in either Apachii or KS Hairdos

[simone-boccanegra]

Isabelle, my Breton Destruction/Conjuration mage (to be a vampire later)

[simone-boccanegra]

7 and 15 for the book asks?

7. Have you ever despised something you have read? The Piano Teacher was the worst trash I had to read for uni.

15. Do you agree that Jane Eyre should be considered a feminist novel? I haven’t read it since I was a teen and frankly never cared much

[simone-boccanegra]

so I helped out the Companions with the Giant as usual but must have accidentally hit one of them because they aggroed on me. Sheathing didn’t do anything. So I ran away into Whiterun, hoping they would cool down. I started smithing and they eventually walk back to town, spot me and instantly attack again. The guards give zero fucks, mind you. So I attacked Ria and apparently she’s killable. Aela kept shooting at me so I blasted her with flames. She’s essential but once her health went back up she was suddenly fine with me and walked off. I then resurrected Ria with the console and she was also fine with me now, even told me to come join. I didn’t even get bounty? The guard was there, watching, then the only comment he had was “heard they are reforming the Dawnguard”

Skyrim logic...

[simone-boccanegra]

6, 8, 24 for the book asks. :)

6. Are you the type of person who will read a book to the end whether you like it or not, or will you put it down straight away if you’re not feeling into it? Life is too short to waste on bad books.

8. answered

24. Do you prefer happy endings or sad endings? Sad, but it has to be well-written.

[simone-boccanegra]

3, 10, and 25 for the bookish asks, if you don't mind?

3. Are there any genres you will not read? Romance, horror unless it’s historical, erotica and generally stuff with a modern day setting unless it’s magic realism or soemthign equally weird.

10. Bookmarks, dog ears or leaving the novel open and face down to keep your spot? Bookmarks only

25. Do you enjoy concepts in books to be concrete or abstract? I don’t like overly philosophical books. Give me plot.

[simone-boccanegra]

8, 26 and 27 for the books ask?

8. Do you prefer to read first person or third person? Third 

26. A book you studied in school and ended up loving? A baroque epic about a historical siege that most students hate. It’s got so much badass fighting and heroic deaths. If only the Hungarian film industry had any money for this kind of thing...

27. Classics or modern literature? Classics