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[prideknights]

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[the-first-gem]

...Master.

Seems we have met again.

@tormented-nomad

Oh! Hello.

I hope you are doing well, apprentice. You have learned a lot. I am quite proud of you.

[frenchiepal]

Hi there :)

Idk if you were actually looking for tips on how to practice one’s instrument but,,,

I play the piano for almost 20 years now and i used to play guitar in high school. Maybe it won’t work for you or your instrument but that’s what I like to do:

I always like to start with a light hands warm up/stretching

Pick one piece to focus on during practice. First play only the part you’re trying to learn/perfect. Then go back to the beginning and play everything you already know from that piece

Do scale exercises

Repeat number 2

Do dexterity exercises (you can search exercises on YouTube to keep this part entertaining)

Repeat number 2

If you know other pieces, I like to revisit some here. Maybe try to intersperse the pieces you already know with practicing your focal bits from number 2

Sometimes you don’t feel that good practicing and that’s okay. When that happens I like to occupy part of my practice time with strength exercises for my hands and wrists or just studying the structure of the pieces I know. If it’s a bad day and I really don’t want to practice, sometimes I try to watch someone play on YouTube to remind myself why I like playing so much. It’s also nice to find musicians on YouTube that nerd about music theory hahaha

I hope this was somehow helpful. Good luck with practice 💕

oh my gosh thank you so much!! yes i was definitely looking for advice and this sounds so helpful. gonna try that tomorrow right away <3 also you're the second person to suggest scales between the pieces so i really should be doing that because i usually only play them as part of my warmup and only then....whoops.

thanks a lot!!💖💖

[unfinishedjulyrain]

There was no reason for him to be wearing sunglasses, especially with the thick wall of clouds hanging over the city, but the tall man with bleached hair felt a little too embarrassed to show his face. Maybe he shouldn't have insisted that handing out 500 flyers was easier than gaining 500 followers on social media. Or maybe he shouldn't have asked his little brother for help because that idiot used purple for the font along with a sketch of a cat, on purpose. Urgh, he could hear him laugh right now. Do it for the future!

Man, the gym was struggling and if he didn't bring in new customers soon, he would have to let go of the guy he technically could not afford to pay and shut the whole thing down. But who should he even approach? His physique clearly showed he worked out regularly, but he did not exactly look like one of those fitness gurus who wore overpriced brands and had perfectly styled hair. Did they know sweat was real?

People often teased that he looked like a single cat dad who just happened to love working out. Ouch. Okay, wow. Stop there. He was on a mission! Maybe he should go the route of local small businesses supporting each other? Cat cafes surely were supportive of cat flyers, right? He cleared his throat, stepping in, bowing politely a little odd-looking considering he wore a shirt with the gym's logo and his sunglasses.

"Hi, I'm trying to save... uh improve our gym. We are just two streets from you guys, we even have a cat," one just shouldn't try to pat her though. He handed them both some flyers: "You know, you totally should come over and bring your cats. Working out with pets is actually very good." He was making this up on the spot, maybe he should prepare a speech or something... He wasn't usually that odd, but certainly preferred to talk to people in the space that didn't make him feel like he was trying to sell products. That was why he opened a gym, not a store.

save the gym ( guy )!・❥・@lichtgrau

"Ryo-kun, I don't have time for such a long workout routine," Hikaru whined, partly so Ryohei would get out of his face with such a ridiculous idea. Hikaru enjoyed running, he also loved basketball and even tried boxing with his best friend yet he had a limit, unlike the other. "What`s wrong with getting up at 4? You're up early for the shop anyway." By now, the taller was just teasing. His sole reason could be called 'friendship', spending time with Hikaru was his favorite thing, after all ( and the cats ). Ruffling his boss's hair, Ryohei heard the bell to the door ring and he turned to face the potential customer.

"Oh, I know you!" he exclaimed and bowed in response, Hikaru followed. "Good timing. I was just trying to convince my boss to work out with me but he isn't liking my methods..." To which the smaller man just scoffed yet he greeted the man with matching politeness. "Please don't bother with him, Ryohei likes to talk. I'm afraid I didn't catch your name? I'm Hikaru, I own this cafe and this is Ryohei. You have a cat at your gym? And even a course with cats? Interesting," he chuckled. Both studied the flyers and couldn't help the tiny smile tugging at their lips before looking at each other. Hikaru sighed in defeat, cuddling a tabby cat that just happened to nuzzle his face.

"You know what, we will come," the cat café owner then said, to which Ryohei blinked in surprise. Should he just have mentioned cats at the gym? But how could he have known there was one? "Cats don't even have to be involved. You just seem genuine and we just so happened to talk about working out so why not go to your gym? It's close and saves us time, no need to commute for ages. You've got yourself two new members." A start, right?

[simm-mouse]

Here's a white board doodle of Pascal before I pass out on my bed

[seblaineworld]

Hey, Seblainers! Hellooooo, everyone else!

Less than a week to go until we celebrate our beautiful boys' 11th anniversary and SeblaineWorld's first event!

We're already looking forward to seeing what you've all come up with for Seblainiversary 2022 next weekend, November 4th to 6th!

Just in case anyone has missed it, our themes this year are Eleven and Steel. You can find full details, including the rules, here.

To all the fan fiction writers out there, we'd like you to know that we created a collection for Seblainiversary 2022 on AO3. Feel free to add your work to the collection if you post on AO3. You can find it here.

See you all very soon!

Ail & Lisa

[margarethx]

I’d say it’s a win for Sam.

[writernotwaiting]

I’m published!!!!! Woot!