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Nonstandard Repertoire

@nonstandardrepertoire / nonstandardrepertoire.tumblr.com

composer, bassoonist, playwright, lyricist, sometimes music journalist. it/itself, going on 30, Lenape land

June is for Gay Weddings! This emotional picture of two Jewish men sharing a tallit is just beautiful!

[id: photo of two light skinned Jewish men embracing with their foreheads touching. Both men have ginger hair and short beards, and are wearing cream-colored Kippot. A white tallit with light blue stripes is draped over the two men's shoulders.]

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - I’ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me.

-Emily Dickinson

Happy Pride :) 

my husband: whatcha thinking about?

me: oh, nothing much

me, internally: —and like, all i'm saying is that Keiko is an exobotanist, right? so what if instead of all her arcs being just about how she orbits Miles, she's tasked with building an actual arboretum full of plants that can grow on DS9? and it starts out as just "for the love of g-d we are in deep space and just need SOMETHING legitimately green to keep from going mad" but then as the war heats up, it becomes more of a "ok so if there's a siege and we have to ration the replicators, what can we eat? are there high-respiration plants that can prolong our oxygen supplies if life support goes down?" and Rosalind Chao gets an actual chance to Act and—

please behold the 24 Hours of Lemons race, in which you can only spend $500 total on a car to cross country race for 24 hours

named after the legendary 24 hour Le Mans race, Lemons rallies barely legal cars in an endurance race across America. had the privilege of sharing the freeway with this race and seeing the absolute art od this event

This is so American I could CRY

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oh this is nothing. some of my favorite lemons entries are:

an airplane stuck on a toyota minivan

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this miata built by rocket scientists

the mr2 boat

the nyan cat bmw that i think actually played the song at all times

the homer simpson car built by uranium workers

this limo whose brakes caught on fire

the dumbest corolla and supra wearing funny hats

and so much more. 24 hours of lemons my beloved

The absolute metaphorical snarl that is a Limo modeled after the titanic called "unstoppable", whose breaks caught fire, is just, absolutely sending me

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Late tonight a bunch of staff are playing a game called role call and if you thought fugitive was wild just w a i t until i tell you how this goes cause role call is absolutely terrifying

We aren’t letting the campers play it so that lets us up the scare factor by 147%

Ok so the game had to be pushed back a few days so we can figure out scheduling so heres the gist of it.

The more people you have for this game, the better. It has to happen at night. The people get into a straight line, and begin to walk in that line all around the area. They cannot turn around and look at each other, and cannot speak; with the exception of the person at the front of the line.

That persons job is to begin the role call. They simply say, “Role Call!” And their name, then each person down the line says their name in turn.

Here’s the kicker: there’s one person not included in the line. The Taker. They have the job of stealing away the person at the end of the line as silently as possible. The game’s sole purpose is to instill a sense of fear and paranoia in whoever is in front, because as more people get taken, there are less and less people to say their names during the Role Call.

The front person decides when they want to start the Role Call. Obviously, the more often it’s said, the less scary it is. But as more and more people disappear, they become Takers and can then do more damage than just the one.

Some Takers can replace the person they stole, making the person directly in front of them either incredibly paranoid or safe. At least until the Role Call. Takers cannot say anything during it, so it usually ends up more terrifying to know that the person behind you is silent. Again, everyone in the line cannot make a sound except responding to the Role Call.

The game is over when the person in front is taken. There is no winning, only waiting. Waiting for your turn to go. Imagine the fear that person in front has, when they softly announce “Role Call” only to find that everyone behind them is gone.

Not exactly a game for the weak willed.

My reactions to this, in order 1. What The Hell Kind of Creepy Horror Movie Punishment Game Bullshittery is this?

2. I want to play it Right The Fuck Now.

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not to be pedantic but it annoys me so much when people talk abt how chatgpt is "lying" or "making things up". or esp when people say it "refuses to admit" to lying. like girl that is a toaster oven

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"it REFUSED TO ADMIT that it LIED to me" it is a line of code generating letters in the most algorithmically probable order