#if you can read music at least

[majorshatterandhare]

[Answer options in order are:

1. Yes, guitar, mandolin

2. Yes, piano/keyboard

3. Yes, violin, viola, cello, bass (inc. electric bass)

4. Yes, percussion

5. Yes, a woodwind

6. Yes, a brass instrument

7. Yes, multiple

8. Yes, something not mentioned here

9. No, I do not currently play an instrument but I sing

10. No, I do not currently play an instrument and I do not sing.

End Options]

Please specify in the comments or tags!

I’m sorry there aren’t more options, I only had 10 spaces or I would’ve included more. I tried to go with the most common and obviously with groups!

What counts for singing is up to you. I think most people sing some amount, but you can decide if yours counts or not. The reason for this is because you can teach yourself an instrument, so not requiring lessons or anything for either instruments or singing.

If you want to learn an instrument, especially if you don’t currently play any, I would love to know if you shared!

Please reblog! I wanna know how many of us play instuments ourselves and what that distribution is.

If you don’t listen to the Mechanisms don’t respond to this poll! I’m sure your answer is very interesting, but it will skew the results!

#the mechanisms #poll #i included the answer options in brackets because my phones screenreader wont read them if i havent voted. ive heard other peoples do but i- #included it to be safe! #i have experience with multiple instruments! #chronilogically they are guitar. recorder (which i still count even though it was required in my school because i still have it and can- #still play it). alto saxophone. piano/keyboard. ukulele. violin. electric bass. #i have most experience with the saxophone and least with the bass! #i also sing. i did musical theatre ages 10-14 and a bit of non-musical theatre outside of that. so i have *some* amoung of training.- #plus chorus in middle school. but very little of it was one-on-one. plus i take t now and my voice dropped! so i dont havd any idea how my- #singing is now. not that i really knew before. #anyway im very curious! i always think its interesting when people are really into music but play no instruments (like my dad) #sorry to harmonica and accordion for not being able to fit you in the poll and also everything else because there are so many instruments!

[daisies-on-a-cup]

my biggest problem with the new age quick poetry books is that they aren’t sincere, none of them are

#im all for new writers and poets trying to show their work to the world #but when it’s read so clearly that there was no sincerity no true effort #and that it looks as if it was only done for the quick one liners and the attention such stupidity can bring #it just sucks. reading and writing shouldn’t be easy. even if you have no formal education you could at least #try to find resources on the structure of a poem or how the best poets out there styled their prose #these tiktok poets don’t actually read poetry that’s not hand fed to them in 5 slides over some classical music #be sincere with your efforts please… #poetry #poems #literature

[blizzardream]

Tumblr's turn to get this!

Marigolds by colbub on AO3 reached 10k kudos last month!! So I drew this in celebration!

Here's the fic btw ^ pretty sure a lot of you P5 fans on Tumblr have read this fic but if you haven't here it is!

Link to timelapse under the cut!

I spent the past month working on and off on this piece aaaaaaaa please spread it around if you like it T-T

Bonus tidbit:

Yeah there's 80+ layers. Keep scrolling

#AKBDKGAKDIDW I'M SO GLAD IT'S DONE #THE TIMELAPSE TOOK LIKE AN HOUR TO EXPORT #AND THEN I HAD TO EDIT IT WITH MUSIC AND WHATNOT #YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BIG OF A RELIEVED BREATH I'M SIGHING RN #persona 5 #marigolds by colbub #marigolds #they're catified so I can draw them T-T I'm still not quite comfy with humans #blizzardream art #timelapse #if any of you in the marigolds discord are reading this I LOVE YOU ALL (PLATONICALLY) YOU'RE ALL SO NICE TO MEEEE #AND DON'T BULLY ME FOR CATIFYING THE WILDCARDS + PHANTOM THIEVES #LEAST I CAN DO IS DRAW Y'ALL SOMETHING #this is my gift to the discord too hehehe #bliz talks too much #now it NEEDS that tag

[hag-o-hags]

I'm sorry I'm so sorry John Darnorniellerierlille, I am a lover of lyricists and bitches who know how to write words to a melody and rip my heart out and stomp on it but GOD BLESS your singing voice physically hurts me and when I am going to make it through this year if it kills me, it's Shearwater announcing it

#tbh i went through the same issue the when i listened to Hamilton but at least that was tempered by the LADEEZ and they boys who can sing #nerd singing trauma #flavor of many inadvisable karaoke okcupid dates #after like ma peche and me were like. interested but not together? #i went to a karaoke night with a guy #and by coincidence his friend from (school??) sang too #FUCK i was there with the wrong boy goddamn #he did idk Darin or Sinatra or something and OOH HE COULD SING #I've gotten off track ma peche won't do karaoke with me because he's an incredible musician and it makes him homisuicidal #THE POINT IS bless you for trying The Mountain Goats I will sight read your music and lyrics instead of listening to yoy

[vanana-r0tat3]

You weren't meant to see that

- shit fuck did i post this alreayd i forgor 😭

#if i share a song every time i post art what then #whos gonna stop me #the answer is no one #listen to my music or ill kill you #like comment and survive /q #my art #my ocs #batim #bendy and the ink machine #batim oc #i drew this before i read dctl #also the studios layout in dctl is so. very incorrect and all over the place #at least compared to the first games studio layout #though i guess you can argue the ink worlds studio layout isnt accurate to the real worlds

[echthr0s]

I used to always get mad at The Mountain Goats because they're like a Trojan horse to me. I see some banger lyrics on a tumblr post and go oh word 👀👌🏿 and then I go listen to the song and get slain by a Greek army, which in this case is my lack of interest in that musical genre

now imagine that Trojan horse is the latest Hozier album and maybe you can imagine how mad I am

#like of COURSE you had me at ''i carrion / icarian'' but then i went to listen to it 😭 #listen i'm happy for him and for y'all but i think i knew this was gonna happen eventually #too many of his songs have lullaby vibes. like honkshoo type shit. i ofc listen to way more genres than just metal but #i think the visceral-feeling components that make metal what it is are indeed the foundation of my tastes. #like. i need my music to punch me in the soul in some way laksmfdlakjflkjg #it can't just be lyrically bc then that's just. that's just a poem. that's a different thing altogether #and yeah i CAN just read these lyrics as poems. which is what i'm doin. but they're NOT poems they're SONGS #anyway. it's too bad but at least the first album + would that i + sunlight will always exist #his accent cute tho i'll grant y'all that #(i also have only heard 3 songs so far and am assuming the rest of the album doesn't deviate that much. change my mind?)

[lesbienneanarchiste]

Obligatory disclaimer that I don't think this is gospel or that the complaints aren't valid bc they are and I will probably continue to complain myself, this is just me spitting into the void a few minutes after waking up while I wait for my coffee to be done. But. I sometimes suspect that a lot of people who complain about the quality of cultural media these days, e.g. movies and books etc, need to just like. Learn how to find the good shit. Is the sequel-and-rebootification bad for film culture as a whole? Yes obviously. Is the tiktokization of a lot of pop music bad for music culture as a whole? Obviously yes. However. Have you considered watching/listening to/reading something that wasn't written in a year starting with a 20? Has it occurred to you that maybe ""booktok"" is not only whatever the first person you see when you search #booktok on the app says? And that there are many people talking about all kind of excellent new releases that show there are plenty of books with literary merit still being written? Published even?

Perfectly valid complaint to be angry about the way arts and media have devolved into Content but I also think some of you are just bad at finding new stuff so you keep reconsuming the same things over and over and talking about how nothing meaningful has ever been made in the last decade.

#disgruntled octopus #maybe this is the anarchist in me but i find it frustrating to only see criticisms with no effort being put in #to build up artists who ARE trying to combat the problem #or at the very least explore the past instead of relying solely on new releases that you can see in theaters/concert/etc #this is not abt mutuals or anyone btw like this was inspired by multiple things but mostly just my lil brain first thing in the morning #and the episode of Teacup Demagogues i was listening to #TD is hosted by a tiktoker i like who recommends 'new music for old heads' and she was talking abt this exact phenomenon #ppl in her comments will be like 'no good music is made anymore' and then her whole channel is just abt sharing new(er) releases #that are likely to be enjoyed by people who like old(er) music #like. her channel is right there. you're commenting on it. there is good shit being put out you just ignore it or dont try to find it #''''everything is so commercial and soulless these days 😤😤😤'''' #meanwhile they refuse to seek out anyone with less than 100k monthly listeners on spotify #or read self-pub or indie press books #or watch people's passion projects on youtube #nevermind shit being released by small indie studios #''''games are just data farming flashes in the pan made by artistic sweatshops'''' but they wont download a single indie game on steam #like. again. valid complaint overall and i am going to say that shit myself at times. #but. very frustrating counterphenomena

[mummer]

thinking about how laenor and qarl's ending slots into the extremely weird patchwork canon of "queer/Othered couple escapes the world to find bittersweet joy(?) in exile" story endings. i have to go ruminate on this brb

#other works in the canon: flint black sails.... wicked (musical)..... the shape of water #rolling this around in my head #to be clear i love all these works and i love the kind of horrible ambivalence of their endings.... #because they are romantic and they are 'good endings'. bc they're together. At Least They're Together #but the sacrifice it requires............... #a world so inhospitable it must be totally abandoned. It's itneresting to me #hotd #like theyre all tragedies.... except the shape of water which i dont think i would call a tragedy???? but maybe it is? theres something so #SAD about that ending right? #but i also prefer it to stories that pretend othering doesnt exist. Or even 'revolutionary' stories that fix all the problems of society #by the end. #which always leans a bit too optimistic for my taste even if i get what they're doing #but it's like..... to LEAVE THE WORLD. to leave all of it. because at least you can be in love. It's so. big. its such a big feeling #theres something ABOUT this dude. idk im not well read enough to have an opinion #DOES ANYBODY GET WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT

[j-esbian]

no but genuine question bc i’m still thinking about that post lmao. why do Music People have such a superiority complex

#i don’t know if it’s intentional but that’s how it comes across #there are. a LOT of things where i don’t understand what most people are talking about and feels like they’re faking interest #bc i genuinely don’t get it. it’s lonely for me but ultimately fine ig #but there’s something about the way Music Bros talk about Normies that rly just. feels very demeaning #like. people who aren’t as into music as they are are uncultured little monkeys #genuinely i have gone months without listening to music of my own free will #and if i say that people are like ‘oh you poor baby’ when it’s like. this is only a problem for you #or like. idk i feel like there’s better and more enjoyable ways to use my time #i listen to podcasts at work bc at least it makes me feel productive. i can do two things at once and it’s more efficient #but music to me is like. movies. there’s something about them that i don’t get and usually just bounce right off from #i will say there’s something nice about singing in the car or at home by yourself #but just because something is important To You doesn’t mean it’s important to being human #i don’t make posts making fun of people who don’t knit #or people who don’t read. we all spend our time on different things whoaaa crazy

[celestial-toys]

been laying here listening to Lucky by Dermot Kennedy on loop for half an hour while thinking about Everything Stays and crying

#it’s good crying dw i am just. i have so many feelings about this story #Seven’s Celestial Commentary #Everything Stays #writing stuff #i may be stuck in bed struggling to type due to personal reasons but that will Not stop me from cooking up ideas for this fic #there is gonna be so much fucking angst and it’s gonna hurt soooooo good #the more i listen to it the more the possibilities expand #i can easily see Moon and Reader going back and forth between verses vulnerably arguing over Sun #but i can also see it being Sun and Moon getting real and discussingcougharguingover Reader #can’t decide which i like more #god i wish y’all could see this story the way it plays out in my head #next best thing would be to keep writing and sharing the story instead of vagueposting abt future plot points tho wouldn’t it lmao #and GOD don’t even get me fucking STARTED on Two Hearts… #Dermot Kennedy’s music is responsible for yet Another plot point for this story and i can’t even be mad about it. his fucking lyricsss dude #‘and so we jump to the THEATER??? in that SAME OLD TOWN???’ DO WE? FUCK I GUESS WE DO NOW!!! #picture me listening to that song and inspiration hitting me like a truck. diligently taking notes like the lyrics r instructions from God #‘she sees his face?? and HE sees HER as the LIGHTS GO DOWN???’ write that down write that down #‘the life that they should’ve had sat between them that night??’ FUCK Man yeah it sure did!!! #anyways it’s chill i’m chill. i’m very normal about my little stories and their musical inspirations! #and i’ve listened to these songs a very normal amount (translation: they will likely be in my top ten for the 2024 wrapped) #(cut to the scenes playing vividly in my head) ‘Well‚ at least I can always say that I /told/ her!’ #‘I can’t relate to having a heart like that‚ Sun! With all of your wonder and your trust intact…’ #like no i wouldn’t lift the lyrics directly for the song to use as dialogue but FUCk does it work well.. Lucky is such a good script for- #like- a heated conversation between my Relentlessly Positive Sun and my Apathetic Jaded Moon #‘How could our farewell mean as much as our time? Honey‚ I’ll be gone. It’s better if I’m something that you leave behind.’ #‘I used to paint these trees‚ now I just scream at the sky. Honey I was wrong. Guess there’s certain things you never leave behind.’ #*sobbing shaking throwing up clawing at the walls* I Am Normal About These Characters #anyways uh. on an unrelated note how many song lyrics do ya think i can cram into ES before it’s Too Many #gonna have to start getting creative with how i can incorporate more songs in a way that feels natural and not forced #even tho i am forcing it. i am forcing it very much bc i have songs with applicable lyrics and y’all Will read them one way or another

[speedydestinydream]

I think "countdown to his final show" and its direct continuation, "and i'll be in denial for atleast a little while" by drewsterling on ao3 are the only fics to send me on the verge of tears. Not like. Full on crying but I teared up a lot. I don't cry over books, let alone fanfiction, but these fics have DESTROYED me mentally I cannot stop thinking about them

This is a recommendation if you love heavy angst and pain and suffering and misery because that's the only thing you'll find. no happiness. no joy. only sadness and grief and it's written beautifully

I could talk about these fics all day they have hurt me SO MUCH and I LOVE THEM

#THESE FICS DO INCLUDE A TW FOR DETAILED SUICIDE!!! #you probably should not read these if youre extremely sensitive to heavy and dark topics #you can look at the fics tags to figure out what you might get yourself into #im so miserable about these fics #its basically just jakes life disintegrating into shambles. but more realistic than most fics about it and way more painful #''and ill be in denial for at least a little while'' isnt finished yet but the author is still updating #they updated like. 2 days ago? 3? #im making this post because i just read chapter 3 of the sequel/aftermath and it fucking killed me #especially drew and haileys argument. it was so toxic but interesting holy fuck #i wish to write angst as well as this author does. one day ill get there #fic recs #fanfic recs #fanfiction recommendation #tmf #the music freaks #tmf fanfiction #tmf fanfic #tmf fanfic rec #i started reading “and ill be indenial for atleast a little while” (i hate typing all of that repeatedly) chapter 3 at like 5:00am #or maybe like 5:30 am idk #and its like 6:00 am and i just want to go back to sleep because i can barely process what happened #these fics have hurt me emotionally they are amazing!!! #the music freaks rosyclozy #tmf rosyclozy #the music freaks fanfic #the music freaks fanfiction

[linawritesocs]

dark academia au with lina x lilia and lina x rollo love triangle!! wow!!

some notes about lina's design:

yes, lina has kneepads now! i kinda wanted to add them to her design bc i wear them every time i have to leave the house and i wear some other stuff for my legs as well bc. yeah walking is hard and at first i was a little insecure about this bc stuff like this isn't really ~aesthetic~ and it would look especially weird in a dark academia setting but. whatever i want my sona to be comfortable

i actually own a lot of the things lina is wearing here! i have basically everything except the jacket. i also have the plushie she's holding and their backpack.

also lina has new glasses now! just like me!

+ more drawings under the cut!

#yes i also own the outfit from the last drawing. yes #“but lina!! isn't the whole point of rollo's character that he hates magic??” i know! but also consider. this is funny #ohhh if only lilia told me to drop out of uni and join his detective gang rn. i wouldn't even hesitate #also fun fact. i remember going to the aesthetic wiki and reading an article about dark academia and it had a list of media examples #and twst was there. #so technically. uh. twst is already a dark academia game ig #when you have to fight the ob gang but at least you can imagine it being a cool dark academia movie with classical music ost #also also! lina x rollo art may be a bit sudden but also. i'm a multishipper wbk #lina draws ocs

[aria0fgold]

I'm beaming all my thoughts to this uninvited guest to "go back outside again please" cuz why oh why... out of all the houses around the neighbourhood... must this spider enter MINE!?!?!?!?

#aria rants #it was on the right track until it decided to just go UNDER THE RUG #at least i dont see it anymore BUT OHMYGOD YOU JUST NEEDED TO GO FORWARD A LIL BIT MORE #am vibin here listenin to music and reading a manhua and then life decided to just give me a vibe check #in the form of a spider charging into the house and istg it felt like my soul went out my mouth with that gasp #it was runnin bro. it had its two front legs up and i ran to the other end of the room and just beamin my thoughts on it #this is the third time bro. third time a spider from outside just RUNNIN INSIDE THE HOUSE #can these dudes smell my fear and only mine specifically or what or am i just the only one scared of spiders around here #whhhhyyyyy my house bro wwwhhhyyyyy #like youre a cool lil guy yes but can ya pls not show yourself to me im scared of you #my arachnophobia is stronger than your charms am sorry dude

[eyivibyemi]

✧ I won’t really write descriptions for these, but see original post tags for explanation/commentary on the song snippet ✧

#This was literally just off the top of my head improvising words that rhyme (as is obvious from me rhyming the word #'on' with the word.... 'on' (what's going ON my name is ON' etc. lol) but after actually thinking about it this kind of seems a little #sinister?? why is his name on the news? why is he fleeing town? makes me think of of some guy who's killed #someone or is finally getting caught for his crimes so one last stop before he flees town is he returns home to his husband (who he #calls Hummingbird sometimes I guess) and is like 'erm... tee hee.. I can't tell you why but I shall leave. farewell' etc. #also 'I guess I could show you' having a bad implication like.. yeah I COULD show you the dead bodies and evidence of my crimes #but I will spare you from that and simply let you live in ignorance (at least until you see the news at 10.. but I will be long gone by #then.. eating green beans somewhere lol).. ANYWAY.. 100% unintentional but you could actually almost read some sort of meaning #out of this one. until the green beans part ghhbjb.. I try so hard for everything to just be meaningless gibberish #that has no connection but I suppose sometimes a connection can be made. alas.. a perhaps accidentally Dark seeming song snippet #OR alternate theory. uhh... actually his name is on the news for a good reason. he donated all his money to charity and now #he's fleeing town just because he's embarassed to be publicly recognized.. a shy philanthropist OR an evasive murderer #BOTH versions of him like green beans. which is the truth? up to listener interpretation lol.. Also I #still find it immensely funny for some reason to do this lower sounding style of singing. which not that I really care about like having a #Broad Range or something since I don't think it'd even be possible to have one in my position (as someone #with zero musical/vocial training/etc.) BUT because part of what I find fun is like.. experimenting with all different sorts of sounds #and also doing choir type stuff. So then I do want to be able to sound like multiple people.. if that makes sense? I want to have a really #high voice and the a really low voice and have them sing together and it sounds like a duet or something when it's really just one person. #etc. Thus have a passing interest in learning to adopt different singing styles if I can. because then that's funny and I can do a wider #variety of things like it's all different characters or something as if all the song snippets are done by different people or etc. #(maybe just part of the nature of it being experimental). #And the low voice is always the goofiest sounding to me and very 'fake' seeming I guess #like blatantly is just someone putting on an affect or whatever but still in a kind of fun jokey way lol #beepo tag

[greencheekconure27]

" But I don't own any headphones 😢 🥺"

Says teenage sibling who just bought himself a brand new sound amplifier for the express purpose of playing extra loud rap music in the kitchen (across the wall from my bedroom) and in the shower (across the hallway).

Yeah sorry buddy then I guess you'll just have to go without music while you make yourself a pizza thrn.😒

I swear one of these days i will buy my own amplifier and start playing baroque opera music and medieval polyphony under his door. Only problem with that plan is that unlike him i have manners and would have to do this while the rest of the household is out as not to bother other people.

#grumpy older sister moment #headphones #fucking use them #you can get decent ones for five euros #nothing against rap i just don't want to hear it while trying to read an academic paper with a migraine #like if this was in his room i'd be ok with it more or less but it's not #you don't need music to shower or make yourself coffe sorry #at least not amplified music #general randomness

[skitskatdacat63]

I feel like Khachaturian is such an underrated composer :<

Everyone should listen to Gayaneh >:(

#though i think most people would prob recognize sabre dance and Masquerade #but i absolutely love Gayaneh in its full form its soooooo good #and i cant recommend it to anyone UGH #like 'hey you should listen to this ballet! how long you ask? uhhhh 2½ hours.....' #though ive probably listened through the whole thing at least 10 times #ITS MY FAVVVVVVV ITS SO GOOD!!! #but i listened to it when i was reading a book. like literally only listened to this one ballet while reading it #so now whenever i listen to it i can still only think 'huh this has the essence of [novel]' #i love when music gets permanently linked in your brain with something else #so then it just has the pure essence of whatever its linked to #like i literally feel like im in the universe of that book every time i listen to Gayaneh #though its hilarious bcs the book in question is Chinese but i cant help but imagine the charas in traditional Armenian clothes instead 😭 #i sent the ballet to my chinese friend and im like DOESNT THIS REMIND YOU OF [novel] #and shes like bruh of course not 😭 #some fanart i have of a different chinese novel was drawn in a more slavic folk style #so thats now how i imagine this one book in my head #SORRY SUPER RANDOM TANGENT #anyways i love slavic classical composers by far the most absolutely nothing can beat them imo #but anyways listen to Gayaneh. the 2 hours are worth it i swear!! #im listening to Masquerade while i make gifs so i wonder if Jense and Mark will now have this essence #catie.rambling.txt