Ecce potestas casei

INTJ, Machiavellian, existential nihilist, relative empiricist, writer, composer, organist. Also actually mentally ill.

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I feel like writing a post about the drawbacks of using starch pens to detect counterfeit money and how only stupid criminals get caught but it might put me on a watch list...

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Poor Moore.

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All of my new plots just consist of dialogue, then characters going to other places and talking to other people

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‘Live Photos’ have movement and sound?

So, a video.

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Why do we still have wisdom teeth

Evolve already for God’s sake

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Mfw I’m searching for my tutor’s door at the Faculty and pass by a door labelled with the name of an academic I cited in the crappy essay in my bag

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fuzzball likes angry french music

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There's some lady visitor coughing downstairs from the organ loft and I'm trying to determine if she wants quiet or more roof-blasting Vierne

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Music Lecture today

Lecturer: I want you to listen to this piece of music

Lecturer: *opens Youtube link*

Youtube: *starts playing ad about doll houses with dramatic happy music*

Lecturer:

Lecturer: I didn't mean this one

Students: click 'Skip ad'

Lecturer:

Lecturer: but i want to watch it

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New blog appearance, complete with a music player featuring the Great Fantasia in G minor by J.S. Bach, played by yours truly. Yay.

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Now changed to the Guilmant Sonata 1 Finale because more exciting. Recorded at Chester Cathedral by Neil Young and Richard Astridge. Sorry about the crying babies.

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never forget that J.R.R. Tolkien seriously considered writing the entirety of The Lord of the Rings in Sindarin (because this is a fantasy world with a fantasy culture and Sindarin was the most commonly used language of Preserving Lore) but decided he didn’t want to do that because no one would read it

dear Conlangs Georg: hi, it’s your fans. we would absolutely fucking read it.

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Never mind that I wrote something based in Wheel of Time's Age of Legends and considered writing the whole thing in the Old Tongue.

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Arriving at uni like

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me, playing piano: I can barely stretch a tenth. I wish more composers would write complex and interesting pieces that people with small hands could learn without having to omit notes

me, composing for piano: if the performer’s hands can’t stretch two octaves, they’ll just have to use their feet to hit those notes. *writes “stop whining” into the score*

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I was recording a composition I wrote that requires a stretch of a tenth in one part and being pedantic absolutely did not tolerate the idea of rolling the chord, so I brought a friend in to punch those bottom notes for me

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So it's not Caturday but I just met this random fuzzball who wanted scritches and belly rubs

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So, my mum found my phone and saw all these Whatsapp group messages on my alerts, the source being a group of bygone acquaintances arranging a meet. She asked if I was going and I said, 'Is there anything to gain from attending?' 'WhOa Machiavellian'

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God, the jackpot noise at the Nar Shaddaa casino scares the living daylights out of me

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Aviendha’s hair length in Winter’s Heart.

So yeah, artists can draw her with long hair if they want without that part of the fandom going crazy..because it has happened…

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There’s issues about how long her hair is? And now I’m thinking about how long her hair could actually be.

Although it still can’t be very long. I’d be surprised if it was much past her shoulders. She only started growing it out in Shadow Rising and Winter’s Heart can’t be more than one year later (I’m not looking up the timeline for this). Presumably she trimmed as it grew to even it out and so it didn’t look like shit. This would encourage growth, bit there is still an actual limit to how long her hair can be, just based on hair growth time.

So, I’d say within the time frame of the series it could only be maybe just-past-shoulder length. Unless the Wise Ones have a magic hair growing serum. Which they could.

Or maybe Sorilea just scares the hair into growing.

(Using myself for an example it generally takes me 18-24 months to grow out my hair from a bob to mid back, depending on if I get trims.)

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I can’t believe I’m getting involved in Hair Discourse but since I’ve been wondering about the definition of “long” hair as defined by hairdressers myself in recent years… why the hell not.

The issue is when people draw her with long flowy hair way down to her lower back, like Egwene and Elayne. No fucking way that’s happened. (I mean… artists can draw her any way they like, and they shouldn’t be given shit over it, obviously, but if we’re talking about what’s realistic and what’s not? Yeah, that’s not.)

But going by what hairdressers (at least around here) define as “long” hair, and what costs ridiculous amounts of money to get dyed, my hair prior to my last haircut apparently counts as “long” and it wasn’t even properly down to my shoulders. As someone who’s had actual long hair at least down to my mid back for most of my adult life, yeah, I don’t consider that long. But if hairdressers do, then I suppose RJ might too…

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Well, RJ being a man would probably have stunted opinions of what qualifies hair as long.