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I think that endlessly circulating post that claims to present an actual performance of John Stump’s “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz” but is in fact an arrangement of “U N Owen Was Her?”, Flandre Scarlet’s boss fight theme from the 2002 video game Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil has to be the iconic example of Tumblr misinformation – not because of the blatantly misidentified music, but because every so often somebody reblogs it with a long-winded explanation that no, that’s not really John Stump’s “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz”, it’s an arrangement of “U N Owen Was Her?”, and here’s the real “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz”, followed by a link to a different arrangement of “U N Owen Was Her?”.

(For those popping up in the notes to explain that this particular bit of misinformation doesn’t originate on Tumblr, y’all, I never said it did. Almost none of the misinformation that’s popularly circulated on Tumblr actually originates here. I’m specifically talking about the pattern of some ostensibly helpful reblogger providing an essentially complete and correct explanation of what’s wrong with the original post and why, then proceeding to put forth a “corrected” version that’s somehow even wronger.)

Still, it’s pretty funny that this is so prevalent that most of the initial Google results have mislabeled U.N. Owen arrangements. I found a link in a comment section that lead to this, but I have no idea whether even that’s true. I’m inclined to believe it might be since it’s the only arrangement I found that isn’t a U.N. Owen piece, but honestly I don’t know anymore.

That’s a reasonable approximation of what the Death Waltz might sound like, if it were playable. Which it isn’t – to be clear, “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz” is an esoteric joke about certain conventions of musical notation that only incidentally resembles actual music. John Stump was an engraver specialising in sheet music, and he composed the Dealth Waltz as a parody of some of the odder examples of his craft that he’d encountered over the years.

I’m told that it’s hilarious, provided you have the right sort of musical background. You can judge for yourself!

(The page has been divided into parts for easier mobile viewing. You can find it all in one piece with a quick Google search, if so inlined.)

“Saxes move downstage” might be my favourite bit of notation.

I’m a fan of the single measure of absolute silence with an indicated tempo of seven hundred and eighty-eight beats per minute, personally.

Is it just me or are we all trapped in the belly of this horrible machine?

The modern descendant of the chatelaine is the carabiner send tweet

@glass-oceans ask and ye shall receive!

A chatelaine could refer to the person (usually a woman who ran the household) or the accessory (a belt clip that held keys and whatnots that she might need in the daily running of the household)

We’ve lost the snazzy decorations, but your friend with the carabiner full of keys and a Swiss Army knife and a flashlight and a bottle opener and all the other shit you might need? Same thing

YOU may have lost the snazzy decorations, but MY carabiner has a little charm of Batman dangling from a line on it.

I will accept this the day carabiners are as pretty as chatelaines and not a moment before

I keep a measuring tape, folding embroidery scissors and a flash drive on mine so like. yes, but I also object to it not being pretty

I both love and hate the accuracy of this post.

sorry

new aesthetic for 2022 is vampire the masquerade bloodlines npc

no more cottagecore now we are at the farmers market like this

@weathur

Whenever Americans use Cryillic like. That. I just. Instantly shrivel up an cry

Like idk how to tell you this but н isnt h and и isnt n

It’s true and you should say it.

If you want to explain, what does it mean then? 0.0

н makes n sound,и makes ee sound, я makes ya sound, р makes r sound, в makes v sound

you mean, like, ня?

oh no. It can be made with Cyrillic now

ня

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE EXPLAINED

НЯ

OH. GOD.

THATS SO FUNNY

tumblr is the root of half the internets trends and memes

the curse of being on this website is knowing that shit like cottagecore and dark academia and the obsession with mushrooms and whatnot started on this godforsaken platform and not tiktok

the mushroom thing started with a fucking shitpost where it ends with "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" "im not fucking scared of you!"

"op what does this mean" "decay is an extant form of life"

I KID YOU NOT

I am so fucking normal right now. *stands perpendicular to the tangent of the plane*

Ah fuck, my orientation.

nothing makes me cry like the embankment tube station voiceover story !!! nothing !!!!!!!

embankment tube station voiceover story ❤️

“How to tell the temperature from your cat’s sleeping position.“  From Your Incredible Cat: Understanding the Secret Powers of Your Pet by David Greene.

@notsexualaboutit

cats can tell you everything you could ever need to know

sauron teaching elves how to make ring

i am loving arcane for all the wrong reasons, i think

Essential elements of a 3D action platformer protagonist circa 2000:

No gloves or goggles, but behold the creature that haunts me still.

The funniest title I’ve read on twitter. 

Naruto jutu’s is summoning a gun to his aid. 

you know what i take back everything i said ‘gun no jutsu’ is the greatest thing to come out since Naruto ended.

I realise the folks developing all these forthcoming monster dating sims are doing their best, but personally, I’m holding out for somebody to skip the cutesy Addams Family shit and go full Bloodborne.

You mean full on psychological horror like that pigeon dating sim parody game without the comedy?

No, I mean a wholesome college dating sim where all the romanceable characters look like this:

@trappedinavelociraptor replied:

The eldritch horrors’ speech is incomprehensible to the player, but the player character’s internal monologue and available dialogue choices indicate that they understand it just fine, and generally permit the player to infer from context what the eldritch horror their character is talking to just said.

This will, of course, frequently oblige the player to choose an appropriate response to a question or reaction that their character understood just fine, but which they themselves do not; situations where the player is moved to ask “okay, what could I possibly be responding to that these are reasonable responses?” should be present, but not over-used – otherwise they’d lose their impact!

(Ideally, the player character’s dialogue should occasionally imply that there’s something eldritch about them, too, but always in a plausibly deniable, now-that-just-raises-further-questions sort of way.)