A thing happened on campus

So my name is Joey White and I’m a very pasty pale British white guy at uni overseas. So I was introducing myself and this guy from Nigeria goes “Hi, I’m Joseph” so I said, “I’m a Joseph too! Joseph White.” Then he looked me in the eye and said in a dead serious tone “I’m Joseph Brown” and we nearly died.

oh dear god

i’m like 102% tired

you can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness

this is perfect, just see the whole post.

"At least you love me." I say to my pet as I hold them against my chest as they try to get away

are there any benefits to turning 17? 16 was driving,18 is adult hood.

there is none

its the null year. 

you become a dancing queen

young and sweet

only seventeen

when you find a joke mildy funny

Seeing a tumblr URL that is almost completely like yours.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

remus lupin’s patronus is a wolf are you SHITTING me

like can you imagine him doing it for the first time and finally succeeding and it’s a fucking wolf and all his classmates are like “oh that’s cool” and meanwhile he walks over and kicks a desk

Werewolf McWerewolf, the werewolf with the wolf patronus

moon moon. he’s moon moon.

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But…what about learning to read sheet music?

What about it?

Boo fucking hoo, technology is making music more accessible and removing the barriers associated with sheet music. Fire is scary and Thomas Edison was a witch.

Yes, I said barriers.

Not everyone is great at reading sheet music. I started playing piano when I was four and I still absolutely SUCK at sheet music. It’s just never clicked for me. I can identify notes, given enough time, but it takes me forever to learn a new piece, I often have to literally mark what a note is, and sight-reading is incredibly far beyond me. If I had access to this, maybe I would still be playing piano instead of just letting it gather dust in the spare room. Maybe I would still be improving my skills. Heck, maybe I could use it as a tool to IMPROVE MY SHEET MUSIC READING.

Think of how accessible this makes piano music to the sight-impaired. How much easier it is to see those colored bars and lit keys than the little dots on little lines on a page.

Stairs didn’t go out of style because we invented escalators. Books didn’t go out of style because Kindles are a thing. Sheet music isn’t going to just up and vanish because there’s a new alternative on the block. You can keep playing from sheet music if that’s your thing, and people will keep learning from it.

But I can see this being fantastic for people who sheet music just really isn’t their thing, because of accessibility or other reasons.

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