#preambule

[pantalon-et-colombine]

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

1832-1833, Germany

"Préambule" from Carnaval (sketches), and "Variations on Schubert's Sehnsuchtswalzer", F24 (fragment)

Autograph manuscript

[pantalon-et-colombine]

This is such a great recording of Carnaval!

I love the tiny liberties taken that elevate the performance. The little trill/turn in "Coquette" is very fun. The added low octaves in "Chiarina" and "Promenade" give them some oomph.

The left-hand voicing is fantastic especially in "Réplique", "Reconnaisance", and "Promenade". It brings out melodies and harmonies that are usually buried in other recordings. The sympathetic resonance for the Eb7 chord in "Paganini" is one of the best recordings I've heard: the attack isn't really audible, so it really does sound like a ghost note.

Sometimes during very fast sections, the right and left hands sound a tiny but disconnected (and I don't mean in "Paganini" when the hands are intentionally offset by a sixteenth-note), but at the very end of "Davidsbündler", I wish he had made the rhythms feel a little more unstable. They are written to sound like the finale of the party is so exciting that it's going off the rails!

The rubato and tempo of some a handful of the pieces are not to my liking, but I still respect the interpretation. I think "Valse Noble" has a bit too much rubato. I think "Lettres Dansantes" and "Chopin" are too fast while "Chiarina" drags and sounds strained.

That said, this is an excellent recording of Carnaval and captures the unique character of each piece in the set.

[stackslip]

can i be an fma (manga by hiromu arakawa) hater on main rn. more than usual i mean

[itsinfiniteworld]

my friend will be like are u here and when i answer yes 15 minutes later she disappears.. its been 10 hours where are uuuuu tell me what do u want to say to meeeee

[weirdalfangurl92]

Any 18+ Transfem discord server I’ve been on is just

[marcussour]

EXU: Divergence E01 random bits and thoughts

Guess who's back, back again? Let's do this

Brennan giving the pass to Matt giving the pass to Sam to make the ad

The production team really outdid themselves with the new intro and music for EXU

Oh no, wasted opportunity by Brennan by not starting the episode with just a 1 word referring an elemental concept (tho to be fair, we all were expecting that)

Starting with a vampiric hobgoblin tho, great choice

Loved the change of pace regarding Calamity and Downfall of, ok, we're starting deep within the Betrayers sphere of influence, and everything is terrible

Garen! Love it (there goes my guess that Matt was gonna play a young Ludinus)

Level 0?! Oh, that's an amazing choice, again, great contrast with how the other ones were super high level (and one basically gods)

A dwarf you say? Name Dari? Related to Matt's character?

Nia! Already love her

"I keep my hope quiet but I will never let them take it from me"

Fiedra! love the cockroach tatoo

Hand jokes galore!

"Is there anything remotely drinkable in this kitchen?"; "There's a bucket of blood under the chop shelf"

Kephekedriel's hilarious

Oh, we got 2 dragonborns

Erro! Crokas!

This 4 armed dude kinda sounds like Brennan's impression of Tim Curry, just dialed back a notch. I was waiting for him to ask Nia for some CHAIN WALLETS

Brennan do love some tiny little freaks

Oh, this thing with the mice and the fleas is super interesting. I kinda saw them as, not only some kinda of heralds of change (is it the Changebringer or the Wildmother?), but, is it like, the fleas biting and giving some light like, hope is contagious?

It was so obvious that the stuff at the beginning of the Prime deities being defeated was just propaganda, but its great to have the confirmation. Also, it fits with the theme of the campaign so much, like, Brennan's not being subtle at all, but sometimes there's no time for subtlety

STOP FIDGETING

"It's okay. I wouldn't want to help me either"

"IT'S SO BAD"

Bless by bug-bite. See, there's something here.

They really left the bad rolls for the second half of the episode... and then it comes Jasmine with a 24

Matt's rolling incredibly for a character that's level 0, he's so happy that he's finally getting good rolls for once.

Oh, it just dawned on me, this is the preambule to the Wildmother's fight with the Strife Emperor

Several thousand mice!

The well honored tradition of having a door being the fiercest enemy they've faced so far (which, since they're all level 0, makes total sense)

Oh Crokas, sweetie

"What do you do if you see a miracle?"

Crokas grunts are amazing

Great to see that there's the remnants of how the Dawnfather and the Storm Lord helped the Wildmother defeat the Strife Emperor

"10 gets you somebody, 15 gets you some buddies, 20 gets you everybody", see, I love so much that kind of wordplay that Brennan always do, dude's just so good at this

Oh, those rolls by Jasmine were just terrible

Liam nonchanantly with that Nat20

Starmian Fiddleflask, amazing name, no notes

A bottle of red wine, a wheel of cheese and a bottle of fish roe, not a bad start tbh

"Sorry Vox Machina, get good"

One night over and Fiedra's already talking about eating people

Oh, Alexander has a mean Gollum imitation, giving Liam a run for his money

Once again, the contrast between the opulence of Avalir in Calamity vs the characters making dairy checks to survive and struggling to find food and water here in Divergence

RIP Starmian

That last scene with the party watching the Stormlord passing through was incredible. The highlighting of the rain doble nature as both creation and destruction. Crokas conversation with the Stormlord.

Give and take and take and take and give and take.

[somuchbetterthanthat]

Jonelias week day 6! Setting: time travel // Prompt: Old memories

Elias sends him flowers. Hardly the apology he thinks it is, if this is an apology at all, which Jon can't be sure of. It makes him feel uneasy, not to be able to grasp at any knowledge he wants whenever he needs or craves it. He's been having headaches ever since he woke up in his flat, with very little power left beyond the wisp of compulsion. He wishes he didn't miss it.

He wishes he still had it.

All the same, that wouldn't help with El-- Jonah. He couldn't know him at the end of the world, and he's not sure he could ever know him truly here either. Ever since that first week of looking like a mad man, Jon has tried to be more careful, even if it hasn't yet stopped hurting to see Martin's eyes so soft and yet so young, so unaware of everything they've had and that was destroyed, or Tim's growing wariness that isn't quite genuine dislike yet.

Not!Sasha is not worth talking about; Jon merely wishes he was powerful enough to destroy it all over again.

And Elias -- Jonah --... Well, Jon was under the assumption that he was avoiding him. And now, after weeks of brief conversations by emails -- only ever work related, the way they'd... God, the way they'd never been... before... Jon gets this.

Flowers.

"Do you think this won't make me want to kill you a second time any less?" Jon asks out loud in his flat, staring at his own eyes in the mirror. He could swear that for a brief moment they turn grey but he blinks and nothing but silence answers him. He presses his lips together, and tells himself it doesn't sting.

Jonah has to remember. He has to, because Jon remembers his face, that first week, when their eyes had first crossed. A mixture of awe, and pride, and fear. Gone in a heartbeat, of course, but Jon had seen it, he had, and it means Jonah has to remember. How, when Martin doesn't? How, when he was dead? It doesn't even matter to Jon anymore. He only wants -- he only needs --

He puts the flowers into an old vase inherited by his grandmother, waits for almost an hour and then, at last, he gives in, and calls Elias.

"Dekker only knew how to emprison the Not!Them, but surely there's a way to kill it without merely knowing it to death?" he asks without preambule the moment the call connects.

"Pardon?" Elias says, with the perfect tone of mild confusion that would put most actors to shame, and Jon glowers at the phone.

"Don't do that," he snaps despite himself. "You sent me flowers, you asshole."

"A gesture of good will," Elias tells him. "You've been rather tense ever since you came back to work --"

"I can't do this," Jon cuts him off, staring off at the vase. "I'm not going to do this. You want to hear it? Fine. I won't try to kill you again. Does that make you feel better? And no, I don't accept flowers as an adequate sorry for ruining your life and the world for my own very brief gain and enjoyment, but for god's sake, I need something -- someone -- to be real with me. Right now. Just. Be real with me, Jonah. Please."

"You understand your volatile mood is exactly the reason I can't trust that you won't try to kill me again, don't you?" Jonah asks, and Jon lets out a shaky breath of relief, shamefully realizing his eyes are filling with tears. "Or, god forbid, succeed at it once more."

"You haven't made me a complete monster yet, here," Jon manages to say.

"And yet at times I feel foolish enough to want to bring you right back to godhood all the same," Jonah sighs. "If only for how magnificent you were, at the end."

"Shut up," Jon mutters.

"I thought you wanted us to talk properly." It's like Jon can hear his smile, on the other end of London, and it shouldn't feel good, it shouldn't, but -- "Let's have lunch," Jonah offers. "Get reacquainted with one another. How does that sound, Jon?"

[arthurroxane]

Les fantasmes des hommes sous cage de chasteté

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Les fantasmes des hommes sous cage de chasteté

Quels sont les fantasmes inavoués des hommes sous cage de chasteté ?

EN PREAMBULE

Un homme sous cage de chasteté peut avoir d'autres fantasmes ou aucun de ceux présentés dans cet article réalisé grâce à des tonnes d'information collectées sur Fessestivites.com

Il peut être utile à une épouse de savoir ce qu'il peut se passer dans la tête de son mari quand il est sous cage de chasteté.

Il est important de savoir que les effets et fantasmes présentés ci-dessous n'arrivent qu'après quelques jours da chasteté. L'effet cage n'est pas immédiat, le premier jour, c'est juste « chiant ».

QUELQUES FANTASMES COMMUNS CHEZ DES ENCAGES

1°) Madame gère sa sexualité.

Elle impose la cage de chasteté, c'est elle qui ferme le cadenas et qui conserve les clés qu'elle cache soigneusement. Si elle impose à son mari de lui faire des massages et des tonnes de bisous coquins ou non avant d'ouvrir la cage pour un câlin conventionnel, ce n'est que mieux pour la libido de monsieur et le plaisir de madame.

2°) Madame l'excite et le prive

Elle joue avec son excitation et son sexe sous cage de chasteté. Lorsqu'elle touche sa cage, embrasse ou caresse ses testicules, monsieur grimpe aux rideaux et si en prime, elle joue la sadique en lui indiquant, de rester devant la télévision pendant qu'elle va se masturber, (ou juste lui faire croire) ce n'est que mieux.

3°) Aux pieds des femmes

Quand s'associent deux fétichismes, la chasteté et le fétichisme des pieds, c'est encore mieux. Si madame met l'homme à ses pieds et joue avec sa cage de chasteté avec ses pieds, qu'elle peut aussi se faire lécher, certains hommes atteindront le nirvana. Quelques pressions ou petits coups de pieds légers sur ces boules si fragiles peuvent parfois déclencher des écoulements de sève…

4°) Les effets sadiques de la surprise

Monsieur pensait ce soir être libéré et pouvoir câliner. Madame joue avec la cage puis lui indique qu'elle rajoute 2 jours supplémentaires pour faute par exemple. Jouer avec la surprise et la frustration de monsieur est parfois aussi intense psychologiquement qu'une jouissance qui ne durera que quelques secondes.

5°) L'ultime frustration

Madame a envie d'une tendre pénétration et de sentir vibrer le corps de son mari. L'usage d'un gode ceinture ou d'un accessoire phallique à mettre à la taille de l'homme sous cage de chasteté le rendra fou, mais fou d'amour aussi car la frustration le rend dingue. Si après quelques mouvements de gode ceinture elle lui impose de la lécher et de le faire jouir, dans sa tête, il devient l'esclave sexuel et le sex-toy de madame.

6°) L'humiliation

Si madame lui impose la nudité puis quelques tâches ménagères auxquelles elle assiste ou mieux encore fait assister une amie, la pression psychologique atteint son paroxysme.

7°) Le larbin sexuellement forcé

L'usage d'un accessoire anal par exemple en complément de la cage de chasteté, transforme un homme en véritable femme de ménage attentionnée. Mesdames, si votre mari fantasme sur la cage de chasteté, vous constatez que lui accorder ce plaisir, n'a pas que des inconvénients.

8°) Sodomie de l'homme, soumission de l'homme

Celui qui pénètre domine, ou du moins, en donne l'impression. Indépendamment des éventuels plaisirs de la sodomie, un homme « baisé » par sa femme se sentira plus encore sous sa domination. A cela se rajoute que la cage de chasteté fait parfois ressortir une certaine féminité chez beaucoup d'homme qui éprouvent le besoin d'être féminisé et de jouer le rôle de la femme ou d'y être forcé. Mettez-lui une paire de bas et portez un gode ceinture, puis observez sa cage de chasteté. S'il se met à bander dans sa cage, vous saurez tout…..

9°) Sous-vêtements choisis et imposés.

Quitte à être obligé de s'asseoir pour uriner, l'homme à qui l'épouse impose le sous-vêtement féminin à la maison, se sentira humilié mais encore plus soumis ou femme dans sa tête. Lui imposer une petite culotte féminine comme seul vêtement pour qu'il vous fasse le ménage, lui donnera de la motivation pour devenir la fée du logis, surtout…….si vous lui annoncer qu'il aura des jours de cage en plus si c'est mal fait.

10°) La peur est un excitant

Pour se faire conduire au restaurant, il n'y a pas mieux. Une femme qui féminise sont mari encagé sous des vêtements « civils » pour se faire conduire au restaurant, pourra sans souci lui imposer ensuite le cinéma ou de faire les boutiques…… Ah, il n'aime pas faire du lèche-vitrine avec vous et les salons de thé ? Vous avez maintenant la solution. Et le pire, dans tout ça, c'est que malgré ses dires, il est fort possible qu'il adore !

11°) Le fantasme d'être cocu

Une femme sachant gérer son mari sous cage de chasteté peut sans trop de souci le conduire à accepter un ou des amants. Le candaulisme ce n'est pas être cocu, ce sont des relations sexuelles extra conjugales consenties. L'homme sous cage de chasteté qui assiste à la relation de son épouse avec un autre homme peut aussi l'accompagner de caresse et de tendres « baisers ». C'est une forme de trio mais avec un mari chaste. Il n'est pas impossible qu'il fantasme d'être attaché aux pieds du lit sur une chaise pendant que madame s'envoie en l'air sous ses yeux.

12°) Lèche sa semence

Une femme qui aime le candaulisme avec son mari sous cage de chasteté peut aller très loin. Une fois les tests HIV réalisés, elle peut parfois se permettre d'imposer à son mari de lécher là où son amant a déversé sa semence. Beaucoup d'hommes encagés en rêvent mais ne l'avoueront pas.

Sans pour autant aller jusqu'au candaulisme, conserver au congélateur un petit glaçon avec une paire d'éjaculation de votre mari pour jouer le « jeu du cocu lécheur » », peut être une alternative. (Ou une préparation psychologique à l'acte…)

13°) Transformé en « salope » ou en « pute »

Comme un gode ne remplacera jamais un véritable sexe, si madame rêve de voir son mari avec un autre homme, la cage de chasteté ouvre souvent la voie de la bisexualité dite « forcée ». Forcée parce que sa morale et ses tabous peuvent éventuellement s'évaporer si on l'y oblige…..

14°) Plus rare

L'impuissante totale ou une forme de fantasmes sur la castration mécanique par la cage existe aussi dans les fantasmes des hommes sous cage de chasteté. A ce niveau, il est bien de se poser des questions pour essayer de savoir si un problème médical existe, par exemple, la compensation psychologique d'un souci d'érection. Si cela est possible, il est bien d'en parler dans le couple et à son médecin mais ne jugeons pas ce fantasme, si cela permet à l'homme de s'épanouir, c'est son droit.

EN CONCLUSION

Il y a bien d'autres déclinaisons et fantasmes……….., mais cet article n'a pour objectif que d'aborder ce qu'il se passe dans la tête de certains hommes sous cage de chasteté. A chacun sa vie, à chacun ses fantasmes.

[feathersinmygutz]

following total atomic annihilation it may fall to you to save the great nation that's why vault-tec have made extra preparation and are proud to present to you a special education regarding aptitude you are an absolutely unique amalgamation of attributes now it's time to find out in which you excel what makes you S-P-E-C-I-A-L?

you're special, you're special you're special, oh, so special S-P-E-C-I-A-L spells out that you're quite swell

strength! supplies are sparse so on seeing something sweet, be sure to scavenge or starve the stronger you aren't, the smaller the stack of scrap, storage and snacks that you can haul on your back but do be sure to stay on track of the numbers or a savage could suddenly strike as you're over-encumbered and should your special self have such a regrettable incident you'd better get swinging, any suitable weapon or implement

perception! post-nuclear places are pretty prearranged to put you through your paces pinpoint the parts of predators that plan to prey with the vault-tec assisted targeting system (hooray) you may need to pickpocket pinching for your own protection, practicing your pilfering purloining to perfection, if your preferential predilection's petty theft of peoples' possessions you'll be protected by perception

you're special, you're special you're special, oh, so special S-P-E-C-I-A-L spells out that you're quite swell

endurance! epidemics are endemic everywhere infection, amputation, radiation, never rare end the negative effects, refresh your energy by eating everything even extra limbs and enemies, your belly's not ever empty there's endless entrées, extend the length of time you exercise eons, days, escape encounters with louts and rowdy hooligans or environments ensure you'll eventually be food again

charisma! communists conquered this clean continent and concomitantly, corruption was the consequence as such, you must be confident and cognizant of compliments confirming that, commercially, you're consummately competent convert companions to confidantes convincing them to change a cuddly toy for cutlery and condiments swallow down countless cups of cocktails and charm your way from harm, chum combat curtailed

you're special, you're special you're special, oh, so special S-P-E-C-I-A-L spells out that you're quite swell

intelligence! is idiocy inverted, innate instinct take information and interpret it, the inner intuition and initiative to impliment inventive ideas, to be inquisitive it is indicative of ingrained imagination to take an inspiration and create an innovation insure against injury through investigation because ignorance induces incapacitation

agility! after all the aggro, antagonists are all too available there's no ASBOs accelerate your acts of accurate aim and have any angry adversaries aptly aflame avoid adverse assaults from automatics avert or annul their action with acrobatics agility, amazing adaptability awesome, what an absolutely ace ability

you're special, you're special you're special, oh, so special S-P-E-C-I-A-L spells out that you're quite swell

luck! the lady that lowers the likelihood of life's lotto's loss for the lazy when you're larking with lice that are larger than life at least you'll have the lethal last laugh and the like the lie of the land's less than lavish and lovely but when looking for loot, you'll locate lots of luxury loads of little lowlifes leering at your luggage? a lone laddy's liable to let them learn what luck is

congratulations, you've passed the test, yes from everyone at vault-tec, splendid work on your success give yourself a pat on the back and maybe shake hands then preambulate into the haze of the wasteland war, war never changes look at the history book's torn-up pages 'cause when the dust settles after all out war you'll be glad we taught you what to deal with fallout for

you're special, you're special you're special, oh, so special S-P-E-C-I-A-L spells out that you're quite swell

you're special, you're special you're special, oh, so special S-P-E-C-I-A-L spells out that you're quite swell

GOOD LUCK OUT THERE. (>,<)

[babblingpipit]

Placenta

Memanglahh tumblr ini adalah tempatnya sambat dan bersedih hati. Padahal weekend seru banget hosting 17an terus minggunya ngedate ke city sama Adit tapi ga tergerak buat posting di tumblr, cuma muncul keinginan nulis kalo lagi sedih dan stress aja.

Baiklah sebagai preambule, di kerjaan tuh ku sedang agak-agak confuse sama supervisor (pertanda red flag ga tuh). Kenapa? Karena draft paperku dari April belum dia baca samsek. Di php mulu, cenah akan dibaca di keretalah, di pesawatlah, apalah. Aku tuh ga masalah dan ga ada kepentingan harus buru-buru publish juga gitu sih, tapi inginnya kalo janji ya ditepatilah ya, kalo emang ga bisa ya bilang aja gabisa bulan ini gitu. Sampailah kita janjian tanggal buat doi ngasih feedback gitu, yaitu 15 Agustus. Aku ingetin h-7, terus hari-H aku ingetin juga dia minta tambahan 2-3 hari. Yaudah kan jadi 18 Agustus ya. Terus aku harusnya meeting sama beliau 17 Agustus, ternyata double booked dan dia minta diundur sampe dia kelar baca papernya. 18 Agustus udah lewat sampe sekarang tanggal 21 juga belum dapet feedback.

Si temen seruangan aku juga bareng tuh nungguin feedback kemarin-kemarin, tapi yang punya dia udah dibalikin dengan revisi minimmm banget grammar doang yang agak bikin bingung jg ni orang sebenarnya baca ga sih apa cuma skimming aja. Yaudahlah intinya mungkin ini kesimpen di memori bawah sadarku sampe kelar weekend semalem mimpinya adalah dapet feedback paper dan si temen sekantorku juga dapet feedback tambahan!

Mari kita lanjut ke inti ceritanya. Sebenarnya, penyebab utama keteganganku adalah hari ini ada appointment sama obgyn jam 8.30. Gile bener degdegannya belum apa-apa udah mau nangis aja. Rencananya pengen promil lagi secepatnyaa huhu tapi takut dan penuh anxiety. Udah kontak PCP (primary care provider, dokter umum), udah cerita, direfer ke obgyn dan hari ini ketemu.

Yang membuat shock dan lemes adalah, pas baca medical chart aku sebelumnya dia tanya-tanya kan dulu prosedurnya gmn, ada hasil ultrasoundnya ga gitu-gitu. Aku bawa tuh semua lengkap. Dan dia jelasin "oh ini aku duga ada masalah di placenta ya, soalnya si baby pas trimester 3 lingkar perutnya kecil, 12% dari populasi. Plasenta adalah sumber oksigen dan nutrisi bayi pas di dalem perut. Pas semester tiga ketika organ-organ bayi udah lengkap, aliran darah dari plasenta akan dipake untuk menyokong fungsi organnya dan untuk menggendut. Nah ini lingkar kepala dan lain-lainnya normal, tapi lingkar perutnya kecil. Sepertinya karena plasentanya menurun efisiensinya jadi tubuh bayinya lebih mengutamakan aliran darah ke otak, jantung, dan organ-organ penting lainnya, jadilah dia ga menggendut".

DHUAR

Jujur selama di Canberra tiap tanya kenapa tuh gapernah ada resolusi dan jawaban yang jelas. Selama sebelum meninggal, semuanya bilang baik-baik aja, liat ukuran lingkar perut segitu dibilang karena mamanya petite jadi mungkin bayinya juga kecil. Di USG sih tapi gapernah ada concern gitu loh. KENAPA. Bahkan sampe meninggal pun ga pernah ada keluar penjelasan (bahkan meskipun suspect aja).

Terus w lemes. Masuk akal banget bisa jadi plasentanya efisiensinya menurun sampe akhirnya stop ngalirin oksigen huhu yaAllah ga kebayang Salma suffocated didalem perut :(((((((((((((

Obgynnya bilang emang tapi 12% itu borderline sih, untuk bisa ambil tindakan early induction itu biasanya kalo dibawah 10%, jadi bisa dibilang 12% itu masih normal, cuma mungkin harusnya dimonitor lebih! Tapi ya it does not matter at this point juga sih. Kedepannya kalo hamil lagi akan dimonitor lebih bismillah semoga ga kejadian lagi.

Balik kantor ini jujur masih shock dan lemes karena baru pertama kali dapet penjelasan medis > 1 tahun setelah kejadian meninggalnya Salma. Aku pikir ga mungkin ga sih dokter-dokter di Canberra ga tau atau ga punya suspek mengingat dokter sini bahkan cuma ngeliat rekam medis aja udah punya tebakan. Apa waktu itu ga disampein karena takut disalah-salahin? Selama ini cuma mikir "it is what it is" gitu loh huhu sedih banget, sampe nyalah-nyalahin diri sendiri karena kurang at tune sama gerakannya Salma. Mungkin kalo aku udah ngerasa kurang gerakan lebih awal masih bisa diselamatkan, etc etc. Ah udahlah sedih banget ane mau pulang aja makan cake yang banyak.

Jujur ku nangis di ruangan dokternya dan sampe sekarang juga masih belum lega. Udah bikin plan dan program sih untuk future pregnacy, bismillah semoga sehat-sehat dan dikasih rejeki berupa anak yang sehat oleh Allah swt.

Pas jalan pulang terbersit pikiran, ini dokternya nanganin kasus aku kan harus bikin team sama obstetrician yg spesialis risky pregnancies gitu juga ya, belum harus ngehandle emosi ibu-ibu yang sedang grieving ini. Nyesel ga ya dia ngambil aku sebagai pasien. Ga sanggup banget deh aku kayanya jadi dokter kalo nemu kasus yang agak rumit kek gini. Huhu :(

Nyampe kantor aku udah ga peduli lagi sama si paper yang bikin stress sampe masuk mimpi. Langsung mengemail bu Boss dan asistennya untuk menagih dan bikin janji meeting lagi.

[sonataforsybelle]

Ambitions ; Sybelle & Armand

@diaboluserebus

Bored of only hunting for the weak and forgotten, the ones nobody would miss as Marius put it, Sybelle had taken an interest for a whole other kind of prey. No seedy murderer or drugged out man living in the outskirts of society, no, the one Sybelle had been watching for several nights was the well-known and well-educated man.

Carl Jefferson owned a bank, no less, and danced his way seemlessly among the privileged crowd and sophisticated invite-only parties. Sybelle was no stranger to those. A lifetime ago her brother would attend on her behalf, soaking up the praise and adoration that she never had any interest in. He wouldn't have taken her, as she didn't know how to act normal, or so he said. She had never wanted to go anyway.

Sybelle also knew too well that as powerful men passed themselves off as sophisticated and virtuous, they turned into monsters behind closed doors. Jefferson had a wife, or truth be told a captive in a gilded cage, unable to break free of her abusive monster of a husband. And then there was the human trafficking ring with the young women, something she could barely stomach.

She'd been watching him for several nights now. It was taking all her willpower not to barge in just now and kill him, but somehow she wanted to make the hunt last.

Sybelle wanted a real hunt. And Sybelle never, ever, hid anything from Armand.

When she got home to Trinity Gate that night, she found her mentor and immediately plopped down the couch besides him with no preambule. Wordlessly, she projected images of the man she was after. His investments into firearms and wars. The monster-husband and the violence in his uptown luxurious penthouse. The money to shut the police up.

"Armand, I want him. I want to kill him."

Society would always, always protect such men. Wasn't it good, if, as vampires, they could change that ? If Armand told her this was too dangerous, she would obey, but she hoped he'd be interested in helping her.

[pantalon-et-colombine]

Schumann – Carnaval

Performed by Nikita Magaloff

The twenty-one pieces grouped under the title Carnaval were composed in the years 1834-5 when Schumann was in his middle twenties. He was living at Leipzig and had recently taken over the direction of a journal, the Neue Leipziger Zeitschrift für Musik, to which various notable writers and musicians of the time contributed. Schumann used to sign his own articles with one or other of his two pen-names, Florestan and Eusebius, representing respectively the extroverted and introverted sides of his personality.

In the spring of 1834 Schumann was introduced to Ernestine von Fricken, a beautiful and accomplished girl of eighteen. For a time the two were enchanted with each other and Schumann, stimulated by his feelings, composed not only Carnaval, but also the Études symphoniques on a theme by Ernestine’s guardian. The key to Carnaval lies in the name of the lady’s birth-place, the town of Asch on the German-Bohemian frontier. If the letters of Asch are taken to represent notes, they read A flat, C, B (As being the German for A flat, and H for B natural); alternatively, if the S is taken as Es (German for E flat), they read A, E flat, C, B; finally, if the letters are taken in the order in which they occur in Schumann’s name, E flat, C, B, A are produced. These are the three groupings of notes set out in the score as “Sphinxes”

But it would be a mistake to try to listen to Carnaval as a set of orthodox variations; the work is much too light-heartedly romantic for that. The Carnival is a ball at which various of Schumann’s friends and acquaintances enjoy themselves in company with characters of the commedia dell’arte, Pierrot, Harlequin, Pantaloon and Columbine. Schumann admitted that the names of the pieces were added after their composition, so the listener should beware of excessive preoccupation with non-musical images while hearing the music, but the titles are nevertheless deliciously apt.

Préambule has an impressive opening and the ball begins with a quickish waltz which is eventually rounded off with a very coda-like presto passage. We are then introduced to two of the guests at the carnival, the doleful Pierrot, and Arlequin, a delightfully gay and frisky little fellow, whom Nijinsky impersonated so wonderfully when Schumann’s music was used for a ballet. Next there is a graceful and most engaging dance which fully deserves its title of Valse noble. Eusebius and Florestan, as mentioned above, represent two sides of Schumann’s nature. The introverted Eusebius is characterized by an adagio in 2/4 time in which an unusually elusive rhythm is achieved by the use of irregular groups of quavers, first seven in a bar, then five-plus-three. Florestan is a cheerful, bouncing figure, even more energetic, though with less grace, than Harlequin; there is a quotation from Papillons, Op. 2 in his nineteenth bar. Coquette is an engaging dancer who is answered by Réplique with a phrase of smooth crotchets alternating with a dotted falling figure similar to that in the music of the questioner. 

At this point in the score the “Sphinxes” are printed, but they are not, of course, intended to be played. Papillons, taken at a breakneck speed, is one of the most difficult pieces in the set. Lettres dansantes, a gay little presto waltz, is headed by the letters A.S.C.H.-S.C.H.A.; the former combination, if we count acclaccature, opens the pieces, but the latter is not used. The next three pieces are character-studies. Chiarina is Schumann’s future wife, Clara Wieck, who would have been about fifteen when Carnaval was written, and Estrella represents Ernestine von Fricken who, according to this portrait, must have been of a somewhat impulsive nature; the Chopin piece which comes in between is an excellent imitation with its characteristic harmonic progressions and scope offered for rubato. Reconnaissance (which means recognition and not its English namesake) is one of the most charming pieces in the set. The engaging melody in A flat major passes to the minor and then modulates into B major (C flat) for a brief development section, after which it returns in the original key and dances merrily on above its tripping semi-quaver accompaniment. In Pantalon et Colombine we watch the dainty little lady fluttering around the stage with her old curmudgeon of a father hot in pursuit. Valse allemande is another charming dance with a violent ending very much in contrast to that of Valse noble; before its final repeat an Intermezzo gives a sketch of the great virtuoso violinist Paganini whose astonishing technique is cleverly suggested by the piano. Aveu is a delightful piece of intimacy and forms, with Promenade, another waltz, and the earlier Réplique, an attractive little romantic trilogy.

Pause merely repeats a section of the opening Préambule and leads straight into the famous Marche des ‘Davidsbündler’ contre les Philistins. The Davidsbund was a fictitious society “founded” by Schumann and much referred to in his journalistic writings. Its purpose was to combat Philistinism, and amongst its members were many of Schumann’s friends and also great composers, past and contemporary, of whom he approved. In this concluding piece, we hear the members of the Davidsbund going forth to battle against the Philistines, showing their magnificent contempt for convention by marching in ¾ time. Beethoven is evidently a member of the Davidsbund, for a phrase from the finale of the ‘Emperor’ concerto soon appears. The Philistines are represented by the seventeenth century Grossvatertanz which is knocked about sadly from one key to another until music from the beginning of the carnival reappears and the festivity ends with the coda-like passage which concluded the Préambule. 

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