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That's bloody fantastic! The toe point, the back bend...perfection!

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This is awesome, and I've actually played the contrabass saxophone before - it is absurd. The amount of air required to produce a note was wicked. I play tenor, alto and soprano sax, and I could only do a note at a time, with breaks in between for heavy breathing🤣

the contrabass saxophone is such an absurd instrument

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Good Omens Song Recommendation

'Trajectories' by Bruno Major

definitely give that a listen - I cried. And I don't cry easily.

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Today, one of my music students looked carefully at a piece of music we were just starting to learn, and saw the mf symbol in the dynamics. She looked up at me and asked 'so, like, metaphorically loud?'

I laughed for so long - that poor kid. She's nine.

For any who don't know, mf in the dynamics stands for mezzo forte, or moderately loud.

Frankly, I'm just glad she didn't think it meant, well, something ELSE that mf can stand for...although that would have probably made me laugh so hard that I risked a pants accident.

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Yes!

Just to be clear, and it is brought up in the comments, this little screenshot was taken from the comments section of a post on why paperback books are better than hardcover. Now, I stand firmly on the side of hardbacks are great for shelf longevity, but paperbacks are FAR easier to read overall. Because you can do the things this post was talking about - you can dog-ear pages, you can really crack the spine, you can bend the damn thing in half for one handed reading while standing on the subway train and holding the hand-strap so you don't fall when you stop. And it's just a paperback - there's no real inherent value in them other than whatever you paid for one. Other than the value of being able to immerse yourself in a new world, and carry that world along with you on road trips, plane trips, mass transit commutes, what have you.

I know that my personal copy of Good Omens looks like absolute hell at this point - it's been spilled on, sneezed in (had the flu and wanted a comfort read), spine broken, and the cover chewed on by my house rabbit. That doesn't make it less valuable to me, and the 'abuse' it took was because it's been read so much! Not to mention, I actually stole it from someone else, because they admitted that it was a fun read, but not really their thing in the end. This beat up, bent, broken and stained copy goes with me everywhere. It goes with me to the dentist, on planes, in the car, really wherever I go. And I'm sorry it makes some people uncomfortable to see this book in such a shape, but suck it up! I love the book, and if it ever dies, I will replace it. Probably with another stolen copy, to be honest.

The real point is this - there are things you will see/hear/experience that may cause you some discomfort, but often that discomfort really is harmless, so you can just look away and spare yourself. If you want the world to conform to your every little quirk and whim, then you're making it an uncomfortable world for everyone else, as they'll always have to walk on eggshells around you. Soon enough, no one will ever engage with you, because they know you'll be an absolute pill about every little thing. And then you'll be truly uncomfortable, because you'll be alone. And I do not want that for you (whoever you may be - if you recognize yourself here, and it makes you a little uncomfortable, start thinking about that).

This is not to say that big things - things that are actually harmful should be ignored. Quite the opposite! But learn to recognize the difference. Racism, ableism, homo/queer/transphobia, etc., - these are things that should never be ignored. But someone bending their own possession - the thing they bought with their own money (or stole with their own fingers, in my case) should not even register at all.

Learning to accept and deal with discomforts that are not actually harmful to you is a very important part of growing up, and helpful to prioritizing the real damages you face every day. Don't get caught up in the small stuff! Or as someone once put it - don't sweat the petty stuff, just pet the sweaty stuff. Or don't - the petting of sweaty stuff isn't actually necessary to the point, and might make you feel some discomfort.

many on here need to be learning this lesson

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Hey Marco - you first. You, and Elon, and Jeff, and Donald, and all the other fucked up kooks who think having the most money gets you something other than a fucked up world.

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Absolutely this! Be kind everyone!

This.

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I agree with romance and friendship going hand in hand (if, of course, you the reader are interested in either or both). I'm demisexual, demiromantic, and demiplatonic, and my partner fulfills both my romantic/sexual choice, and is also my best friend. I consider myself very lucky, given my identifiers, that I was able to find the qualities that make a good romantic/sexual partner and best friend in the same person! It might have been quite a difficult life for me otherwise.

I find it strange not to think of your life partner (should you choose to have one at all) as your best friend. Why would you choose to share absolutely everything, including the dark, dirty, nasty things about yourself with someone you wouldn't consider your best friend?

romance is a type of friendship and im sick of people pretending like they're two seperate categories. your romantic partner is Supposed to also be your friend like at the very least why are we pitting romance AGAINST friendship when they r intertwined???? romantic partners are also friends and u can have romance with ur friends stop acting like these bitches are seperate forces

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I agree - 'miscarriage' just makes it sound like the womb bearer did something wrong. And while that may sometimes be the case (and even then, one shouldn't blame said person - you don't know their whole story), more often than not it's just a case of the body will do what it wants to when it wants to, and sometimes it just does NOT want to be pregnant.

An obnoxious Leftie take I have is that we need to make it common knowledge that the medical term for a miscarriage is a “spontaneous abortion” it makes it much more difficult to say something should be illegal when it is understood medically as something the body can just do sometimes.

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Absolutely! When you're young, your mind is such a sponge for new information, and it's far easier to learn new languages then! I wish I had been taught sign language when I was a child - I struggle with what little I know as an adult, and it would have been so much easier to pick it up young. And what a special thing that would be for the people who require the use of sign language - what would the world be like for them if everyone knew at least the basics? They would feel so much more included in society, and that cannot be a bad thing!

reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

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Welcome to the hellscape of modern capitalism - we've lost our door guys. I too, long for the days of hyperfixated specialists whom I could hire to do very specific things to make my home/car/computer, etc. work properly.

One sad side effect of big box stores is that you just don’t get lifelong hyper fixation guy access like you used to.

Like yeah I can go to Menards and buy a door.

But it used to be I could go to the door store, and speak to a man whose sole passion in life was doors and who would talk about the history of door insulation patterns over the last 50 years without stopping to breathe.

That man is gonna find me the BEST door option for me.

Seriously my neighborhood had one of these. They were across the street from the lighting shop owned by the guy who could tell you the exact date, off the top of his head, that your property got electrical wiring based on your address.

Now these guys rarely get to own a shop, make a good living, and sell the very finest doors for decades. They’re relegated to Reddit posts which are informative but ultimately do not replace door guy having a door shop.

I don’t want to talk to some miserable, underpaid 20 year old who was in plumbing last week and in doors this week and doesn’t know a hammer from a hanger.

I want my door guy back.

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That's okay - I didn't take it that way, just my experience with conductors is that the more human they look, the more boring the performance will be. The crazed ones really bring out the best in us musicians🤣

I really like how classical orchestra conductors are either the most clean-cut and polished-looking people you've ever seen, or look like they were just freshly dusted off after being dragged out of a drunk tank in 19th century Paris after personally fistfighting Victor Hugo for reasons that neither party can remember anymore.

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Just thought about how no one in London ever gives Aziraphale a double-take over his sartorial choices. Nope, they either don't notice him at all, or just think 'someone's gay granddad', or 'silly old history professor' or something along those lines. This is the London version of New Yorkers completely ignoring a murder going on in an alleyway. The whole, 'yeah, his clothes are so far out of date that you can't even find them in a charity shop, but that's none of MY business' sort of purposeful ignoring that only city people can manage.

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The second group are the best conductors though - I'll die on that particular hill.

I really like how classical orchestra conductors are either the most clean-cut and polished-looking people you've ever seen, or look like they were just freshly dusted off after being dragged out of a drunk tank in 19th century Paris after personally fistfighting Victor Hugo for reasons that neither party can remember anymore.

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Not Amanda, but I know one!

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

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The Father, The Son, and the Holy Hedgefund?

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Crowley goes beyond beautiful and into the realm of - and I know he'd hate me saying it, but - ineffable. I mean, if I, as a humble human, saw that creature in those days, I know I would have worshipped it as a God, and probably above the God I was supposed to worship. What a way to wind up in Hell!

He manages to tone it down to merely unapproachably beautiful later on in Earth's history, but those early days - simply ineffable.

Just to balance things out - I also see Aziraphale as beyond beauty and into the realm of the ineffable. For both of them, it's something in the eyes for me. Eyes always get me. And they both have hypnotizing eyes.

I just think Crowley is beautiful 🥰🐍🖤