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every day i'm shuffling

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sorry I can't make it, my mutual is spam texting me about their oc. yeah actually not sorry, this is very important to me.

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Painting by Duri Baek

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If you enjoyed the music of Sinners, may I recommend one of my favorite musicians, Rhiannon Giddens? She was featured on the soundtrack playing "Old Corn Liquor" on her banjo alongside former bandmate Justin Robinson on the fiddle.

But the real reason I'm recommending her is because she does what the movie does: celebrates southern American music in all its forms. On her first solo album she did covers of Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton alongside covers of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Elizabeth Cotten and Geeshie Wiley (also of the Sinners soundtrack).

My favorites from the album (though every song is wonderful) are:

"Waterboy" (by an immigrant Jewish songwriter who wrote for vaudeville and collaborated with Langston Hughes)

"Black Is the Color" (we love an Appalachian folk song with a beatbox!)

"Round About the Mountain (The Lord Loves a Sinner)" which would make for an INCREDIBLE Sinners fanvid....

Her second album is more explicitly political and explores many different moments in Black American history.

On this one she covers songs by Mississippi John Hurt, Richard Fariña, and Roebuck Staples, but she wrote most of the songs herself. Several of the songs are about the dangers of being a black man in contemporary America and she's got an excellent New Orleans-tinged cut or two, but my favorites are:

"At the Purchaser's Option," a title taken from an ad for an enslaved woman that said the baby could be sold with the mom or left behind "at the purchaser's option"

"Come Love Come," which sounds like it belongs on the Sinners soundtrack

And after you've listened to her solo stuff, check out her early work with Carolina Chocolate Drops for some old-time covers of R&B hits and Tom Waits songs and traditional bluegrass songs.

And the incredible project Songs of Our Native Daughters for banger after banger after banger after banger.

Oh and she was also a MacArthur genius and won a Pulitzer Prize for writing an opera about Omar ibn Said. So. You know. Rockstar.

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i try to be chill but my brain writes essays about everything

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Snoot ✨🐶

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good morning, this is the best day of my life

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THE MUPPETS (2011) dir. James Bobin

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Honestly be pretentious as fuck about the stuff you create. Do a press release for your fanfic updates. Do a Q&A about your webcomic. Make fake merch designs for your OCs. Commission "official" book covers. Very few of us will ever get to a stage where something we've created Makes It Big but even if you have an audience of 5 people plus a shoelace fucking indulge yourself and pretend!! It's the only way to live!!

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The author’s poorly disguised love and adoration for existence and humanity despite its flaws and hardships

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Happy Pride Month!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Prompts

Mon, July 7: Ice Cream Tues, July 8: Campfire Wed, July 9: Swimming Thur, July 10: Moonlight Fri, July 11: Vacation Sat, July 12: Sunglasses Sun, July 13: Thunderstorm

Mon, July 14: Butterfly Tues, July 15: Fruit Wed, July 16: Melancholy Thur, July 17: Beach Fri, July 18: Sunflower Sat, July 19: Blush Sun, July 20: Festival

Bonus prompts Perseids Summer Fling Illusion Fireflies Signature Drink

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Everyone shut up! It’s the ten year anniversary

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Grave of Caroline Christine Walter, Freiburg Old Cemetery. She died aged 17 in 1867 and every day since then a mystery donor has left flowers on her grave.