ways to tie knots on pendants and keychains

Golfers 🤝 cats:

Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it” 

Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect. 

To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.

On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.

I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…

Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.

The lengths we go for music.

Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.

One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.

This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this

which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that

Who does that?

This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.

World Heritage Post

Can I get a ffffffffffffffffffffffff in the chat

i wonder how much healing that one xkcd comic did to the internet with saying “you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000″ when encountering a person who hasn’t been exposed to a popular or well known thing

you’re so right

So I just noticed some old comments on my fics, and now I’m overthinking replying since it’s been so long. So tumblr:

oh gee discord should I try adding numbers? should I try that???? should I try adding numbers to the end of my username so that it's individualized and only mine???? should I try adding numbers??????????

I got my OG numbers and tacking them onto my username first thing as a big middle finger to the stupidest decision a communications app ever made

Doctor Who is a procedural medical drama featuring a disabled doctor who’s a genius but also an asshole. He never goes anywhere without his cane or his vicodin.

Famous for his catch-phrase, “It’s never Lupus.”

LADS LADS LADS LADS LADS LADS LADS LADS

Context:

[ID 1: A tweet by Yang Wen-li (@Yang_wenIi): "I feel obligated to point out that the US flag code does not specify where the blue field is placed, how thick the stripes are, or what shade the colors of everything is, so this is a 100% code compliant American flag." Below is an image of an "American flag" with the shades of blue and red as well as the sizes and locations of the stripes made to resemble the Trans Pride flag.]

[ID 2: A tweet by WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMemes): A photo of a jar of pretzels. The jar is labeled "Patriotic Red, White & Blue Pretzel Twists" but the red and the blue prezels look more like the pink and light blue of the Trans Pride flag.

Below the photo is an image of the character Cocoa from the anime GochiUsa. She is a strawberry-blonde girl with a cherry-blossom hairpin and purple eyes. Cocoa is saluting with a serious look on her face. She is standing in front of a Trans Pride flag background. On either side of her are a trans symbol and in the top right corner is a photo of a physical trans flag.

Below the tweet is the aforementioned reply tweet by Yang Wen-Li]

ok now im kinda curious

Artist/writer/creative friends, my darlings, I am reaching through your screens and gently holding your faces in my hands as I say:

Please stop dunking on yourself on public socials.

I know it's so tempting to post some art and put "this came out real bad lol" "I suck so much why did I post this" but as a follower (and as a friend to a lot of people who do this) it's really disheartening and uncomfortable. A friend of mine got a really nice comment on some art they'd made and their reply was "thanks it looks way worse than my usual art" how do you respond to that?? Coming across like you have no faith or love for your own work will most likely mean your followers won't either. And if you're putting this work up for sale/as samples for commissions, it doesn't look very professional.

Yes tooting your own horn is hard but you don't have to swing to the other extreme end of the spectrum and start saying "look at me I'm so amazing!!! I aced this!!" (Although you should definitely try it at least once when you're super proud of something, it's a really good confidence boost sometimes) Just don't be 100% negative about your work in a place your followers/potential customers can see. If you really don't like a piece that you're posting, try and put a positive spin on it: "this didn't come out quite the way I wanted and I think I've learned something about anatomy!" or "working on this made me realize I'd like to get better at drawing backgrounds" etc etc. And if someone gives your work a compliment that you feel your work doesn't deserve, don't try to convince them they're wrong - just say thank you! Not only does it make it much more approachable for your followers (and possibly open up engagement in terms of people offering tips/feedback) but you will start to feel much less negatively about your work, and yourself as well. Please be a little bit kinder to yourself and your hard work ❤️

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Escape from Divinity Masterpost

Hey you wanna watch a series of OC Animatics set to music that tell a cohesive story about a nun and a demon(?) escaping from magical cultists and going on the run and struggling to hold hands and crying a lot?  Maybe?  This is that.

(ID in alt)

Hello Tumblr! I am posting this on behalf of the Queer Liberation Library, who don't yet have a Tumblr, but have promised me they're working on it. Some of you may remember them from the Twitter Poll I was involved in a few months ago where Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites beat multiple award-winning, trad-pub queer authors with a hefty 69% (nice).

For those of you unaware, the Queer Liberation Library, or QLL, is an organization fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.

And today, June 12th, 2023, they launched their fundraiser to try and reach 15k so that they can start purchasing digital licensing for queer media and hopefully open their digital doors to library patrons across the US in 2023 with as many queer and trans books as possible.

You can check out their newly redesigned website here:

(If you are in an unsafe space and need to exit the webpage quickly, there is a quick exit bar at the top that redirects to a weather page. When I spoke to them about their web design they were also open to accessibility suggestions and are potentially working on a dark mode for those of us who need it.)

If you know me, you know I am unequivocally pro-library, both as a reader and a queer writer. But with the current rise of homophobia, transphobia, and the proposed ban on books taking hold in certain States, the importance of having protected access queer books cannot be over-emphasized enough.

The QLL aims to protect that access, aiming to provide FREE access to queer and trans media (ebook and audio) to patrons regardless of location within the United States.

They are funded entirely through regular donations from their supporters and their now annual Pride fundraiser, where they hope to afford the cost of not just library books but also maintaining their web presence and staff.

I cannot emphasize enough how much this project is a labor of love for everyone involved and its importance.

And just to clarify, I am not involved in any way beyond raising awareness. When QLL reached out and asked me to retweet their fundraiser tweets, I readily agreed and offered to post about it on Tumblr because I believe in their mission and the world they are trying to build.

One where queer and trans books can't be banned or taken off of shelves because of bigotry and hatred.

If you would like to donate to the cause, you can do so here:

They've already surpassed their first 2k, and it'd be absolutely wonderful if we could help them reach their next milestone. And if you can't give, please consider signal boosting this post.

You can also follow QLL at:

Hello wonderful people!! As promised, we've set about creating a tumblr account. We're so grateful for all of your support so far, truly it means the world. Queer books for everyone, everywhere, all the time - Happy Pride!

Eeey! Welcome to the hellsite.

Found this on the interwebs… Offered here for… REASONS.