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the rake's progress really has everything. heavy handed morals. a tenor who makes every bad decision possible. a lesbian with a beard. a meta relationship with opera as an artform and its history. some of the most gorgeous orchestrations of the past hundred years. some of the most awkward dialogue ever put to english language. the literal devil

#yeah!!! #opera #opera tag #the rake's progress #stravinsky #igor stravinsky

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write weird shit. Write indulgent au fanfiction and self insert fics. Write creepy horror scenes and random character crossover dialogue. Write in a different genre. Write that sex scene that you know won’t make the cut. Write about sentient furniture turning into werewolves that try to date your MC. Write whump or hero/villain fic. Write your kink. Write your worst nightmare. Write your delusions of power and fantasies of control. Write whatever the fuck you feel like. Write whatever comes to mind. You don’t have to share it with anyone (but you can). Your writing impulses don’t define your morality anymore than your reading preferences, and actually going outside your comfort zone will improve your writing skills (making a horrifying villain sympathetic requires good characterization). Even if it doesn’t improve your skills, that’s still something you created out of nothing. It’s still valuable. Don’t let purity culture kill your creativity. That’s how culture stagnates. That’s how writing stops being fun.

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i wish i could show you guys this program for this opera scene concert my college is doing because it’s the most “fuck it we ball” lineup ever

#DND IDOMENEO #I NEED THIS IMMEDIATELY #opera #opera tag

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ultimately the cheesecake factory menu fails to tell a queer narrative

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The vegan to ecofascist pipeline

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#yes. hello.

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i heard my nephew got enslaved by cave bugs

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googgles “mysteries” to find some local mysteries to solve

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LATE AS HECK BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

you’re fine!!! and thank you <3

#asks

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Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me

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3 core beliefs of be kind be weird eat berries

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happy birthday sav!!! you redeem the date of tur*ndot 😌

awwwww that means a lot thanks <3

#asks

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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i do think it’s a really fun feature that operas have birthdays. i know that everything can have a birthday if you know how to look at things but i love that every march 6 i see people saying happy birthday la traviata!! and every october 29 i see jokes about how of course don giovanni the opera is a scorpio (although i think don giovanni the character should have been born in may). there’s something so kind about it

#forever saddened that i share a birthday with fuckin TURANDOT #of all the operas #opera #opera tag