#vexations

[wholesalemagnesiumoxide]

You tweet one bad poem. Everyone calls you insightful. 100 points.

What if I put out 840 machine-pressed poems?

If each one is worth just one measly point...

...I've beaten you eight and a half times over.

This is Detest the Labor.

[annemarieyeretzian]

vax saying “dis, the capital of hell.” and grog saying “dis, a rock.” GIRL HELP 🤣

[xx-all-purpose-nerd-xx]

This was absolutely insane

[aspiringsophrosyne]

I feel like it's worth informing those who have not watched the Vox Machina stream that the players used the fifth edition of DND for their rules, character-building and gameplay. In this edition, there are six stats: strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, and charm. Without a magic item that boosts it above its highest threshold, a stat's soft ceiling is 20.

At this point in the Campaign, both Vex and Percy had at least 20 dexterity. And Vex had expertise in acrobatics.

That is all.

[coeurdeverre82]

john cale plays satie's vexations on i've got a secret sep 16 1963

cale had recently participated in an 18h40m concert organized by john cage, in which the piece was repeated 840x (as notated on satie's original 1893 manuscript) by a team of 11 pianists playing in 20min shifts

The piece bears the inscription "In order to play the motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities." ("Pour se jouer 840 fois de suite ce motif, il sera bon de se préparer au préalable, et dans le plus grand silence, par des immobilités sérieuses.") From the 1960s onward, this text has mostly been interpreted as an instruction that the page of music should be played 840 times, although this may not have been Satie's intention. (wiki)

The EEG of the pianist Armin Fuchs recorded during the 28 hours he played the Vexations led researchers to conclude that a trance cannot be avoided when keeping scrupulously to Satie's instructions. (youtube)

Consistent among both witnesses and performers are reports of the piece’s mystical effects. Pianists say there is something about Satie’s fiendish notation that makes the brief line impossible to memorize. Even after hundreds of repetitions, players are forced to sight-read from the beginning, as if learning for the first time. Witnesses have reported a similar effect. Listeners that subject themselves to the unnerving melody for several hours still find themselves incapable of humming it.

Those who sit for all eight hundred and forty repetitions tend to agree on a common sequence of reactive stages: fascination morphs into agitation, which gradually morphs into all-encompassing agony. But listeners who withstand that phase enter a state of deep tranquility. “Vexations” veterans often say that reëntry into the natural world is thrilling because they are able to hear sound as if for the very first time. Of course, not everyone gets there. An Australian pianist named Peter Evans abandoned a 1970 solo performance after five hundred and ninety-five repetitions because he claimed he was being overtaken by evil thoughts and noticed strange creatures emerging from the sheet music. “People who play it do so at their own peril,” he said afterward. (new yorker)

[aurorasprings]

[velvetvexations]

i have very standard boring kinks (by kink standards, not by normie standards) that would probably still get me shot into the sun by a specific contingent of people on this website, but i wanted to just tell all the people coming forward with wild kinks in your inbox that they are SO cool and i love them all very much

Velvet Nation is kinky as hell, it rules

[ill-stick-ar0und]

"VEXATION"

Boris Behara and Joey jordison as lust Succubus's/demons, I messed up on the boris one but it still looks good, I think. But this is a cool concept.

(Both drawings took a total of 2 hours)

Now I just need to draw them together...

@thatwriterstarr @shame-in-you @p00tithestupidcat @spiritusnonsanctii what do y'all think of this concept?