The Seventh Diminisher

He/Him Sci-Fi, music, trumpet, video games I don’t know what to post so this is more of a random blog than anything else now

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Pickle wedges or slices?

Slices for burgers/sandwiches and for deep frying; wedges for sides and snacks.

Funny enough, wedges work quite well on hotdogs.

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Mansplaining? Nah girl, I’m overexplaining.

I’m just a man with a hyperfixation and a whole lot of anxiety.

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Landscaping

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I wrote a mini essay about the need for a Broadway streaming service. Might post that soon. Thoughts?

P.S. Help, Sweeney Todd has me in an absolute bind rn

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Deep thoughts, but not in the sense that they’re insightful, profound, or even meaningful.

Deep thoughts in the sense that they’re so deep in my head I can’t get them out, but I do feel them moving around back there.

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“BRO IT AIN’T THAT DEEP!” Says the jock, who, alongside several other football and basketball players, is helping his 6’6” 300lb friend into a wading pool while cheering for him (the friend has a major fear of water due to severely traumatic childhood events, and now has all his friends helping him face those fears in a safe, healthy environment).

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Sharks support Asexuals and Aromantics, sorry I don’t make the rules. 

No reposting

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Breaking my normal chain of memes/jokes with a mini rant:

Why is searching for trumpet cases so difficult?

I’ve been looking for a triple horn case for a month now and I keep getting handed these Gard bags that I’m not crazy about (seems a bit flimsy), or some $900 piece of plastic that I literally won’t have room in an instrument locker for. JUST GIVE ME A CASE FOR 3 TRUMPETS AT A REASONABLE PRICE-

Anyways, when I find one I’ll (probably not) let y’all know. It may just be that Gard bag.

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Website idea:

We make a website where woodwind players can share what brands of reeds they used or tried on each instrument, track how many reeds they go through in the year, rate their favorite/least favorite reeds, and leave reviews to help instrumentalists make the right feed purchase for themselves.

We’ll call it Goodreeds

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The Hollow Knight is called so because he has no soul.

To become a Solid Knight he must get a soul.

This is why we have a game mode called Steel [the] Soul (I feel as though “the” is implied by the context. It’s just basic sense)

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Funny how people assume that classical music snobs would be like “Oh, you’ve never listened through all the works of Rachmaninoff??? Not even Stravinsky or (insert random obscure composer here)??? YOU PLEBEIAN!” when in reality, they’re actually just huge Mozart/Bach fans who typically refuse to listen to any other composers and will not shut up about how great Bach and Mozart are

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This fanfic shit is so easy

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A knight walks up to a suit of armor on display, the smell of liquor wafting off of a stain his shirt.

“What’s it like being so empty?” He asks it, smiling as though it were an old friend.

The armor responds, “I feel… hollow, knight.”

TITLE CARD

This has been my take on how Hollow Knight should have opened. (I’ve never played Hollow Knight)

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If your friends, hypothetically, came up with a scheme to troll you on tumblr, hypothetically, by all pretending to be a very diverse group of characters who met at an anger management camp, and hypothetically elaborately planned how to create a month's worth of profile content so they could approach you one by one until a grand reveal, but then hypothetically realized after only an hour of planning that this was a joke you'd rather be in on than be the focus of, how would you hypothetically feel?

Just asking.

And it's maybe hypothetically the reason D&D/rp-ing ever came up in the first place. Possibly.

O_O

-_-

O_O

I need a drink…

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Late night Gatsby realization: The fact that the industrial areas are all gray and colorless, while the areas where rich people live and all that are super colorful, is yet another depiction of the hollowness/decay of the American Dream. The people who actually work hard, part of the American dream, are gray and lifeless with no money to show. The people who don’t actually work that hard for their money, like Tom and Gatsby, end up with the colorful exterior.

HOWEVER!

The colorful, rich areas lack true love. We know this with Gatsby and Tom and Daisy, and even to a lesser extend Jordan and Nick. Sure, Gatsby worked his way into his millions, but there’s no soul to it. Tom had no soul to begin with, just money.

So the options are either literal decay, or emotional decay, but you can’t have love. What a novel.

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Personal theory about arguments

So I think everybody has witnessed or participated in an argument between Europeans and Americans over something like imperial vs metric, DD/MM/YYYY vs MM/DD/YYYY, etc.

In these arguments, I concede, the Europeans are correct from a logical standpoint. America uses stupid measurement systems for most things.

However, we still find that Americans, even highly intelligent ones who may agree with the Europeans, will fiercely defend the imperial system and get very upset. Why is that?

Well, here’s my theory: We get mad in arguments like this because we’re getting called stupid for something we can’t control, even if we don’t realize that that’s why we’re mad.

So, the moral of this story: When it comes to debates like this online, and any argument, never assume somebody is stupid for circumstances out of their control. It is a sure fire way to lead yourself into a petty argument with an enraged human

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

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don't ask me why