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meet the current victim of my tosca obsession: emotional-support-angelotti

#Angelotti is his real name lmao #i got him at an airport and i’m not too proud that i’m still entranced by plushies #but he’s a REALISTIC RABBIT PLUSHIE what was i supposed to do #i now cuddle him while i write my fucking stupid thesis #which i need emotional support for #opera #classical music #opera shitpost #giacomo puccini #puccini #tosca

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i think the best part of being very obsessed with some kind of play or something with a plot is that you end up completely overanalysing the most minor side characters and i absolutely love how spoletta is quite terrified of scarpia and his rage at the henchmen’s failure, and it makes him want to be on top of everything and everyone, and in control, and cavaradossi laughing at him while he searched the villa really ticked him off, so he’s almost gleeful to know cavaradossi will be tortured and have some kind of confession beaten out of him, until exactly that happens before his eyes, and tosca’s crying on the sofa, and cavaradossi’s screaming, and the evil of everything makes him whisper prayers while she cries. and he likes power, because he’s used to getting kicked by it, and wants some for himself, but is still capable of seeing the price it carries, somewhere, and i also think someone should take the tosca recordings away from me now

#this reads shitposty but god i’m serious #opera #classical music #opera shitpost #classical music meme #opera meme #giacomo Puccini #puccini #tosca

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winter. january-march.

#moodboard #winter moodboard #winter magic #winter aesthetic

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copenhagen moodboard bc i went on a Little Trip

#will i use this blog to post more of my silly little pictures? maybe #travel #moodboard #copenhagen #winter moodboard #travelblr

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favourite part of the day was 100% when my lab supervisor gestured at me and said to someone else “what’s cis and straight about that?”

#said i was “’probably nonbinary’ #still waiting for the moment of confidence to ditch that probably #my supervisor is a phd student so not much older than me #beckmessering researches brains #queer pride

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i kind of think it’s slightly rude when i see something or whatever and spontaneously discover a new emotional support baritone like ??? i’m sorry, i had NO time to prepare ?? can u pls give me a heads-up so i can mentally prepare beforehand & also enjoy it properly, fcking thanks man

#is this still about the keenlyside rigoletto from nov 28? yeah #once i found out how much he likes talking about zoology i (scientist dabbling w animals) was enamoured #i have diagnosed him with Scientist Instinct #and idk any other opera singers with Scientist Instict (Nerd Subtype) #opera #opera shitpost #classical music #simon keenlyside #rigoletto #verdi

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if i shouldn’t bop at jesus’ crucifixion then MAYBE j.s.bach shouldn’t have put so many boppy choruses in his passions. just sayin

#bach #johann sebastian bach #baroque #baroque music #st matthew passion #st john the evangelist #classical music #classical music meme

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absolutely obsessed with the idea of getting two creechers (options are rat/mouse/cat, no others, sry) that share precisely one (1) brain cell between them and naming them spoletta & sciarrone

#‘lettie’ & ‘ronnie’ for normal people #but SPOLETTA & SCIARRONE for my fellow nerds #someone give me cats #or phd creechers #opera shitpost #opera #tosca

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update: i basically have all the clothes for it now and i realise retrospectively that i was looking for a reason to dress more like “androgynous & increasingly queer gremlin infiltrating a humanities department”. papageno was the subconscious inspiration & obviously i’m looking forward even more to wearing the clothes together now lol

my brain on 1.1.2024, ca. 9:30pm: we want an opera halloween costume again this year!! 🤩💗🥺 we miss dressing up as opera characters* 🥺💔😢 pls think 😰😰NOW!!1!11!😰😰 about what you want to dress up as in 10 months despite having no mental concept of how far “10 months” really is or any idea where you’ll even be living in october 2024

* wotan costume is on hiatus for now bc i haven’t solved various difficulties 1) i am 1,80m and most purchasable spears are only 1,50m, looking incredibly dumb, 2) i may have grown out of my mum’s black coat, and 3) cannot attach crow to coat

my brain on 2.1.2024, ca 00:01am:

💖🦆🪩🦜✨S O L U T I O N✨🦆🪩🦜💖:

#are we becoming more enby? LOL I THINK SO #opera #opera shitpost #opera shitposts #classical music meme

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the narrator of franz schubert’s winterreise: [suspiciously] why are you following me, you weird little crow…are you waiting for me to drop dead for you to feast on?

me: [not an emo romantic or involved in a breakup] no man u see, this crow hopping around you is a Little Friend, you have acquired him on your Quest,

#opera #classical music #opera shitpost #classical music meme #winterreise #schubert #franz schubert #opera meme

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my brain on 1.1.2024, ca. 9:30pm: we want an opera halloween costume again this year!! 🤩💗🥺 we miss dressing up as opera characters* 🥺💔😢 pls think 😰😰NOW!!1!11!😰😰 about what you want to dress up as in 10 months despite having no mental concept of how far “10 months” really is or any idea where you’ll even be living in october 2024

* wotan costume is on hiatus for now bc i haven’t solved various difficulties 1) i am 1,80m and most purchasable spears are only 1,50m, looking incredibly dumb, 2) i may have grown out of my mum’s black coat, and 3) cannot attach crow to coat

my brain on 2.1.2024, ca 00:01am:

💖🦆🪩🦜✨S O L U T I O N✨🦆🪩🦜💖:

#i am a REALLY GOOD premature overthinker. behold! #i am (scandalous) not a huge magic flute fan #but 80% of this outfit are things I’d wear in my normal wardrobe #so it’s not a waste if I buy them secondhand or something #and it shouldn’t be too expensive that way #i might even have some things at home or could borrow them #anyway. EXCITEMENT #die zauberflöte #halloween #halloween costume

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it’s nearly been a month and i’m still not over simon keenlyside and his “spooked cat crawling out of a wet paper bag” rigoletto. send help or a pirated production

#not kidding truly #there’s one where he loses his voice midway through #sadly that one will not do #opera #classical music #opera shitpost #opera meme #rigoletto #verdi #giuseppe verdi #simon keenlyside

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YESYESYES YOU GUYS GET IT EVEN MORE

unqualified opinion: christmas music in november gets on everyone’s nerves because it’s excessively commercialised and forcibly cheery and high voices belting out carols to artificial jingle bells is not actually as great as the hype, now if stores just played gregorian chant over the loudspeakers we’d all be calmer while fantasising the murder of our relatives via arsenic in christmas pudding, sorry to be a spoilsport about that

#officially: i fcking hate modern christmas music #give me ALL the choirs & the ancient music #christmas music #Christmas #christmas carol

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u people in the tags GET IT

unqualified opinion: christmas music in november gets on everyone’s nerves because it’s excessively commercialised and forcibly cheery and high voices belting out carols to artificial jingle bells is not actually as great as the hype, now if stores just played gregorian chant over the loudspeakers we’d all be calmer while fantasising the murder of our relatives via arsenic in christmas pudding, sorry to be a spoilsport about that

#traditional Christmas carols are BANGING ok #christmas music #christmas #christmas carol

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bayreuth have finally decided to do something about the gaping holes in their casts (*they had neither sieglinde nor hagen until recently lol) and since vida miknevičiūtė is now sieglinde and this is actually a top-tier choice, i’m now manifesting david leigh as bayreuth hagen

#fr if they defrost albert dohmen again i’m writing a letter of complaint #he’s not bad but he has zero spice #i don’t wish valentin schwarz’s production upon anyone #but dang would i like to hear David Leigh’s hagen in the festspielhaus #der ring des nibelungen #bayreuth #götterdämmerung

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rigoletto as a character is so relatable because he goes “you’re against me? all of you? all? well ok i’m going to cry” and tbh same

#loving this man more and more #opera #verdi #giuseppe verdi #rigoletto #classical music meme #classical music #opera meme #opera shitpost

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my department offers haikus instead of “error 404 page not found” notifications. brb i’m cryinghowlinglaughing

#this may be among the oxfordiest things to ever have oxforded #and i’m not even in a literature department?? I’m not even in humanities??? #I AM IN STEM OK #I am in psychiatry. good god #tbh it is exactly what psychiatrists appreciate #university #oxford #oxbridge #academia #chaotic academia