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.

Julius IdontgivaFucik

More like Julius Fuckit

Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share

I haven’t been in band for years but this made me laugh so hard

I haven’t seen this post in ages and I’m dying of laughter

I didn’t think it could get better after The Foghorn Tuba Story, but it did. It got better. Bless you, MusicTumblr.

Bottom academy vs top academy

fuck the idea that your stuff is “too weird to write”. your concept isn’t “too obscure”. your worldbuilding isn’t “too niche”. fuck this whole idea that writing success is measured in copies sold or kudos or mainstream appeal. sometimes writing success is just making whatever the heck you wanted to make. 

I’d like to take a moment, as we all are currently, to mourn the loss of astrophysicist Steven Hawking. He passed away in the morning of March 14th, 2018, at the age of 76.

When you live in a community as underrepresented as disabled people are, I suppose you could say the upside is that you don’t have to write many obituaries for public figures. However, the ones that you do have to write hit you kind of hard. For many people around the world, Hawking was not only the greatest scientific theorist since Einstein, but also the most widely recognizable wheelchair user in modern history. His lifelong issues with ALS were difficult and they were visible, which made the reality of his disability prominent in ways that challenged social norms. He could not be infantilized, because he was a grown man with children and a complex romantic history. He could not be spoken for because he maintained a voice of his own, and he couldn’t be ignored because to do so was to silence the thoughts of a scientific genius.

Steven Hawking was the greatest proof that a disabled person’s equipment was a part of them; after a complication damaged his vocal chords, he famously bought up the rights to a computer voice he often used in order to make it uniquely his. Steven used it in public appearances and in some cases, he even did his own voice acting with it, until the computerized voice was more publicly recognized than his previously strained voice.

He was, in many aspects, a disabled superstar, and reached larger realms of visibility than anyone previously thought possible. Very few people can be as intellectual as a groundbreaking physicist, but in many other ways all disabled people were just like him. Rest in Peace, Dr. Hawking.

hope your pets stay healthy in 2017

I almost didn’t blog this and felt guilty

Not risking it

hope ya pets even healthier in 2018

They are going to pass all of their finals

who?

the student reading this ❤️

why is it humans not humen

bc “human” comes from a latin root (homo > humanus > humaine > human) and “man” (and thus “men”) comes from a germanic root (mann > man) 

so you get humans, not humen, since “humans” doesn’t play by germanic rules

look at that i asked a question and i got an answer THANKS

English isn’t a language, it’s three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat.

Come on it’s at least four

Tru.

.

Once took a senior college level class on the History of the English language. This true. 

If you scroll pass this you don’t got ten dollars

Need my $10

Guys i literally just got tipped $10 at work

Keep the flame going for those we have lost to suicide. 

Couldn’t scroll

I don’t give a fuck if this doesn’t suit your ‘theme’ have a heart and reblog.

Could not scroll past this

Always reblog. Please.

it’s so sad how the number of victims keeps increasing

the most depressing thing about being on writeblr for anything length of time is seeing ‘get together! support each other!’ blogs set up to boost work visibility in the community. because every time they die slow, painful and protracted deaths as the people behind them get less and less attention after their original set-up post dies out. then people always bitch about lack of attention so someone else creates a ‘get writers’ work attention!’ blog and like fools, we let history repeat itself 

we always let history repeat itself

As disappointing as this is, there’s a really easy, beautiful way we can fix this.

Boost other people’s writing!!!

Don’t make a new blog for it. Don’t advertise it as some big thing. Just do it. 

Actively find writing you care about and share it.

Support blogs will never work because most human beings aren’t interesting in them on a subconscious level. We don’t want a huge list of everything available. Sometimes we think we do, but we really, really don’t. 

What we want is to be interested in what our friends are interested in. We want the people we care about to go ‘hey look at this cool writer, come enjoy their work with me’.

We don’t need one huge blog to support all writers. We need each writer to share the load and support each other. 

The single best thing you can ever do for a writer is to tell your friends how much you love their work.

The irony is that this doesn’t work when you have a huge list on a blog made simply for boosting indiscriminately. You can’t make something personal for someone by impersonalizing it.

So personalize it instead.

I’d written in the tags, but TBH this is too important not to stand by it. Guys, really. Take this to heart. Imagine the last person who reblogged one of your character bios or your new wip’s blurb. Be that person.

I use the tag “wips i follow” if you’re interested in works I track. I write stuff in the tags, but let me know if you think that’s not enough, if I can do more. (and if you have something you want me to look at, hmu!!) I try to reblog at least one wip/bio/excerpt a day; I try to engage best I can. Come engage. Go find writers you like in the community and interact with them. What do you want the response to your work to be? Go do that for other people. This is important. This is our community. Let’s make it even more of a place for us to be loved and encouraged. Be part of the change.

it would be awesome if people reblogged this with their tags for reblogged writing so that anyone check out what their mutuals/fave blogs have shared! mine’s just “fic”

(tip: for multifandom/multishipping blogs instead of going to /tagged/{the fanfic tag} you can instead try /search/{the fanfic tag}+{fandom/pairing tag} e.g. kageyamms.tumblr.com/search/fic+victuuri, this way it’ll only show the posts that use both of these words (anywhere in the post though, not just the tags, so some may be about fanfics in general) narrowing it down to what interest you)

please reblog this if your blog is safe for asexuals

(an ace safe space)

This is an acephobia free zone <3

o'course :)

IM LAUGHING

if you’re reading this, it’s too late

I already sent good vibes your way… they’re coming. there’s nothing you can do to stop them

This is the most threatening way I’ve ever been cheered up.

WRITING HELP/CHARACTER

How about some writing resources for those post-NaNoWriMo blues?

the LGBTQA resource center made a lil typo, i fixed it

*rolls eyes into oblivion*

And DONT erase ally either!

no just erase the ally

erase all the ally

being an ally is not a sexual orientation or a way of life that is discriminated against

so just erase the ally

Being an ally is like being a parent at a sporting event. Like yes great, you know those people on the field and you care about them but you are not playing the game you are not the one who is going to get hurt you have no stakes you personally do not ‘win’ anything so changing the A to ally is like a parent running out onto a field after a big game, ripping the trophy away from the child and being like:

LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! I WON! I WON THE GAME! ME IT WAS ALL ME YOU GUYS COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT ME!!!!!!

and that is just plain silly.

^ that may just be the best analogy I’ve ever seen

“Ace people aren’t queer enough, we don’t want straights in our community!” “What does the A stand for then?” “Allies, obviously!” “Allies. As in straight people who aren’t queer. But still support us. Allies. Are queer enough. But ace people. Aren’t.”

no way in hell am i passing this up

a student from uni scrolled past this and ended up failing all of his courses, even the ones he thought he passed… not gonna take this chance.

Sometimes writing is like having an enormous lake in your head, and you want to get it out of your head and into a proper place for a lake so other people can come and go swimming and ride jet skis and stuff, except all you have to move the lake is a teaspoon. So you’re just sitting there frantically flinging water out of the lake with your teaspoon and telling people, “Guys, this lake is going to be so cool when it’s done,” but it will never be done. There is so much lake.

I didn’t really expect this to be relatable, but if you wanna reblog, go wild.

this is

exactly

how it feels

@spinestalker

This is mesmerizing to watch.

actually physically painful to watch because you know months were spent masking all those frames for each of the kajillions of transitions in this