#music majors

[musictheoryaugmented]

THIS IS THE PERFORMANCE. IT’S A PIECE BY JOHN CAGE WHERE THE PERFORMER(S) ON STAGE SIT(S) QUIETLY. IT’S A STATEMENT PIECE ON “SILENCE” AND AMBIENT NOISE, AND WE ARE PART OF THE MUSIC!

#musictheoryaugmented #music theory augmented #musictheory #music theory #music history #musichistory #musicology #conservatory #music majors #music major #musicmajors #musicmajor #music students #music student #phd #college #academia #gradschool #university #grad school

[williamcorystanley]

#poetry #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writing #writers #artists #music majors #musicians

[stuckinapril]

megan thee stallion is the perfect example of unbothered energy. nicki has repeatedly vagueposted about her, gone on unhinged rants about her, gone so far as to mention her dead mother (such a classless low blow), threatened her on live, and has now released the tackiest diss track in history. and what has megan done? literally nothing. she straight up ignored her, aside from that one ig story where she posted herself laughing (which was perfect btw). she is the epitome of “i will not dignify that w a response.” i love it.

#btw i was rly into megan before it became trendy now in light of her dropping hiss / the nicki debacle #nicki’s latest music has been ass anyway but it’s sad to see her behaving like this to newer rap girls #the parasocial hate is literally so intense / insane like i can’t imagine hating someone enough to be persistently harassing them like this #nicki’s a celeb so you’d think she’d know a thing or two about how dangerous it is to pit her fans on somebody else like this #unless this is all just a bid to stay relevant which i would not be surprised ab but nicki seems PRESSED. #i guess if i released something like pink friday 2 id also be feeling threatened by a new rap girl w the bars megan has #i just want her to leave my homegirl megan alone. good on megan for ignoring and living her best life. the energy i wanna emulate #i’m not usually one to play into the whole pit women against other women thing but nicki’s recent actions are so inappropriate. wild #btw megan majored in health administration in uni?? which is a major factor as to why i’m obsessed w her. anyway #text

[louceph]

Silent Hill but nothing bad happens

#art #silent hill #music #just a silly thing i did to practice using the NES soundchip #major key silent hill theme makes for a nice theme for minmo #strong and healthy... #chiptune #8 bit

[silverystardustt]

At its core, every piece of media we ever have consumed and ever will consume — whether it’s art, music, books, movies — is fundamentally about love, or the lack of it.

it’s an inescapable facet of human life. it could be about the love you have for people in your life, or how much you hate your job, or love your city, but the love is always there.

#literature #academia #dark academia #poetry #classics #english major #theater #theatre #music #art #light academia #books #reading #jane austen #dark academia aesthetic #museums #liberal arts #university #student #artist #latinx artist

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

love how Solar Opposites started out as a sitcom about two aliens who can't stand each other, stuck with their teenage clones (whom they also can't stand) & a toddler antichrist (whom they view as a sort of self-sufficient free-roaming hamster?) on a stupid planet they can't stand

and 4 seasons later it's a sitcom about a family of genderqueer aliens, headed by a gay couple in a happy & horny open marriage (with a graphic off-screen sex life, despite their canonical lack of genitalia?) teaching themselves to be okay parents to their 3 kids (whose Sci-Fi Antics now slightly-less-frequently revolve around wreaking havoc on human bystanders, and slightly-more-frequently revolve around alien-clone-sibling-bonding*), to the point that the central plot point becomes "We need to provide our toddler antichrist with a stable home environment."

(also the grumpy alien husband is too busy ingratiating his family with their suburban neighbors to even remember whom or what he dislikes. what is this show)

#*there is still SIGNIFICANT wreaking-havoc-on-human-bystanders. there is still a major Body Count. it's just not the Thematic Focus ok #solar opposites #solar opposites spoilers #i guess? #i'm in the middle of season 4 if u put spoilers in the notes i will HUNT you #ANYway #and then there's the whole B Plot #which is just a casually emotionally-gripping angst-ridden character-driven action-apocalyptic dramatic tragedy #just this masterpiece of emotional turmoil and sci-fi horror that technically is a C Plot to canon #a C Plot at BEST #love this show. try to think about it as little as possible. migraine-inducing #love all these characters. want to snap their necks like a game of musical chairs

[hyprfxtdbstrd]

I'm seeing everyone pointing out the possible issues with Epic the Musical's deviation from the original story of Circe and Odysseus, and as someone who's studied Ancient Greece/ancient Greek myths a bit, I wanted to say some stuff about it. This will be a bit of a long one, so apologies for my rambling!

Note that I'm not trying to shit on SA survivor's perspectives and (completely valid) arguments. I'm just trying to offer some context surrounding the original myth and how it fits (or rather, doesn't fit) with a modern audience. If I'm wrong with any of this, feel free to call me out! Criticize the shit out of me! I like learning about Greek culture and myths and would 100% love to hear other perspectives on this.

So, a few points about Ancient Greek myths to kind of explain the context around Circe and Odysseus:

Greek myths generally did not have good views/depictions of women. Women were almost always depicted as conniving, selfish, sexually insatiable creatures. To largely summarize the process within actual Greek society, women had three/four stages in their life: child, dangerous/wild virgin (after first menstruation), married woman (whose wildness was tamed by her husband), and then a "real" woman (a mother). There are a few deviations from the "evil" trope, the most prominent of which being Penelope herself—she's basically the ideal Greek wife, staying loyal to her husband for 20 years and all that.

Adultery only applied to women. Husbands cheating on their wives wasn't merely tolerated, but expected. Marital sex wasn't seen as enjoyable, rather something that had to be done for the sake of reproduction and continuing the bloodline/securing inheritance. Men cheated on their wives with various kinds of prostitutes, concubines, mistresses, etc, but sleeping with unmarried women (that weren't specifically prostitutes) or married women was looked down upon. Women didn't have this same standard. They could only sleep with their husbands, hell, their husbands were pretty much the only men they could even interact with (excluding family, obviously).

The original myth has Hermes very plainly lay out how Odysseus' confrontation with Circe will go: Odysseus will eat the moly, draw his sword at her, she'll proposition him, and Hermes directly tells Odysseus to accept. Basically a "sleep with her if you want your men to live" situation. (See this post for more specifics on this).

So, let's apply this to Epic: The Musical. Here's some reasons I think may explain the Circe myth being changed:

The Greek "women being evil" stereotype is... problematic. While I 100% understand that it's important to acknowledge male victims of SA, I don't think the original myth was focusing on Odysseus being a victim—I saw it more of an emphasis on Circe being a sexually selfish woman, as all Greek women were believed to be. Changing Circe to be less conniving and evil deviates from the concerning Greek stereotype.

The SA in the myth is not actually very clearly SA. Yes, with a modern perspective, it absolutely is sexual coercion, but for Greeks, not so much. It made sense to them that sex could be transactional. It's already been established that Epic, while still generally accurate to the original myth, does change things relating to morality/themes in order to better align with modern Western ideas (i.e. OG Odysseus not being as remorseful and merciful, as that was expected of a Greek hero, but Epic Odysseus having more empathy because that's more modernly heroic). If something from the original myth doesn't translate well into modern culture, then it's understandable to want to change or omit it.

In the case that the original Circe myth wasn't SA (I'm not saying one is more right than the other, I'm just covering all the bases), then it wouldn't even constitute as cheating. Like I described earlier, it was perfectly acceptable and expected for men to sleep with women that weren't their wives. Plus, being a goddess, she's already kinda exempt from being blamed if Odysseus slept with her—only women are ever really blamed for sleeping with (or being SAed by) gods, and even then, their husbands sometimes don't even give a shit. But modernly, we would not see it that way. To us, it's not societally acceptable for a married man to sleep with another woman (without his wife's consent, at least). While Ancient Greeks viewed Odysseus as a good (or at least okay) husband, a modern audience wouldn't. Making Odysseus loyal to Penelope and not sleeping with other women (assuming this wasn't SA, but again that's one interpretation) makes him the good, loyal, empathic, modernly heroic man that Epic is clearly aiming for. Repeating my last point: If something from the original myth doesn't translate well into modern culture, then it's understandable to want to change or omit it.

Applying modern perspectives on Ancient Greek society and mythology isn't worth it. Like, we all joke about Ancient Greece being super gay, but they didn't actually like gay men. Homosexuality was literally only acceptable when it was between a young man and a prepubescent boy (it was called pederasty if you want to know more) or between women (they only considered penetrative sex to be 'real' sex so they didn't really care what women did with other women). Y'know the Hades and Persephone story? Like, the original one with the kidnapping? Yeah, that was normal. The myth of Demeter and Persephone is tragic, yes, but it was so normal that wedding ceremonies often included references/recreations of it! Girls got married off ASAP after their first menstruation to men of at least 30 years old. We don't tolerate that shit today (for the most part, at least)! But it was normal in Ancient Greece. Applying modern rules and standards to ancient culture just does not work.

Anyways, I'll shut up now! I'm gonna go keep listening to The Circe Saga lmao

EDIT: there is good criticism in the reblogs of this post that adds more perspective and corrects some of my generalizations/insights!!

#can you tell im a history major #seriously tho im not trying to shit on the opinions of SA survivors talking about this #the greeks were just kinda fucked up #greek mythology #epic the musical #odysseus #the odyssey #circe #circe saga #the circe saga #hermes #epic the circe saga #ancient greece #history

[sexygaywizard]

Me listening to a "medieval version" of a modern song that has multiple melodic and harmonic lines, knowing that polyphony did not become a prominent musical texture until the renaissance era

#ask me about my music major lmao #i talk

[disappointingcabbage]

Fellas, is it gay to live inside another man forever with Satan himself by my side?

#shitpost #jekyll and hyde #dr jekyll and mr hyde #henry jekyll #jekyll and hyde the musical #edward hyde #confrontation #fellas is it gay #guess what musical I’m rehearsing for this time folks #I play some fuckass board of governors asshole #who Hyde stabs in the first scene of act 2 #every ensemble number in this show is an absolute banger #also it is very gender of me to say my lines as a male character and then immediately turn around and sing a high D6 bc soprano 1 vibes #theatre major #musical theatre

[sobsinfrench]

HAPPY 3RD ANNIVERSARY OMORI oh and merry Christmas too ig

Big thank you to @yayi_fuji on Twitter or insta for the shading!!

Lyrics are from Dream Sweet in Sea Major by Musical Miracle 🙄 if you even care

#omori #omori fanart #omori game #omori basil #omori sunny #omori kel #omori aubrey #omori hero #omori mari #Omori 3rd anniversary #AAAAGHHHGH THIS TOOK SO LONG AND ITS FLOPPIMG EVERYWHERE ELSE #this piece has been fermenting in my head for years #can you hear the music that’s supposed to play in the bg bc I can #DREAM SWEET IN SEA MAJOR BELOVED

[endlessfurore]

by the year 2050 there will be david tennant fanfiction moments on all major streaming platforms

#giving them until 2050 bc it’s a nice number and also to account for broadening the definition of a major streaming platform #to a comical degree. i’m talking like literally any recognizable name including specialized ones and also music streaming #rambles

[musictheoryaugmented]

bless the internet for providing Emo SpongeBob #SteveReich

#musictheoryaugmented #music theory augmented #music theory #musictheory #music history #musichistory #musicology #music majors #music major #musicmajors #musicmajor #music students #music student #phd #college #academia #gradschool #university #grad school #conservatory

[royalarchivist]

Richarlyson has been found! The Goddess Mine has been taking care of him. 😊

(Mike and Mine are having lots of fun with Richarlyson in Canada)

#Mikethelink #Richarlyson #QSMP #Mine #Goddess Mine #This is so cute #I approve of the SU music in the background #For those who don't know: Mine is Mike's wife. She's a Creation Goddess #Sorry I can't post the F/P clips rn I'm having some major wrist problems today #I'll try and get to it later #QSMP Pantheon

[maxphilippa]

( 🔪 ) :: 𝑌𝑂𝑈 𝐿𝑂𝑂𝐾 𝑄𝑈𝐼𝑇𝐸 𝐷𝐼𝑉𝐼𝑁𝐸 𝑇𝑂𝑁𝐼𝐺𝐻𝑇, 𝐻𝐸𝑅𝐸 𝐴𝑀𝑂𝑁𝐺 𝑇𝐻𝐸𝑆𝐸 𝑉𝐼𝑁𝑅𝐴𝑁𝑇 𝐿𝐼𝐺𝐻𝑇𝑆, 𝑃𝑈𝑅𝐸 𝐷𝐸𝐿𝐼𝐺𝐻𝑇 𝑆𝑈𝑅𝑅𝑂𝑈𝑁𝐷𝑆 𝑈𝑆 𝐴𝑆 𝑊𝐸 𝑆𝐴𝑌, 𝑆𝐼𝐺𝑁𝐸𝐷 𝑌𝑂𝑈𝑅𝑆 𝑇𝑅𝑈𝐿𝑌: 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑊𝐻𝐴𝐿𝐸.

oh yeah this is lasso art

!! As seen on the picture, Justin doesn't mind if anyone ships the characters that he gives a voice to (Knife, Paper, Silver, Mepad, etc) with the ones that his sisters give a voice to (Mic, Soap, Salt, Pepper, etc), thos was stated on May 1st of 2023 !!

+ alts

art tags:

@salachy-part-two @peppermintz-25 @facelessthefreak @cookieseals @ch0cocrave @twosnails4eva @knightobreath @sphxremint

@tdutb @moonsprout-sys wowo mic art

#inanimate insanity #ii #inanimate insanity invitational #ii 2 #ii 3 #inanimate insanity microphone #inanimate insanity knife #ii knife #ii microphone #microphone ii #knife ii #ii microknife #ii knifecrophone #ii sharp vocals #object show community art #object show community #osc #miracle musical #dream sweet in sea major #tally hall #max does art

[baalzebufo]

THE WEIRD AL-CANA - THE MAJOR ARCANA, INSPIRED BY WEIRD AL YANKOVIC SONGS

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ho-ly shit, this actually got finished. this was so much work for something that is so incredibly niche, but im so happy with it. this was SO MUCH FUN to come up with, to think of songs for each card, to slip in silly references and make my little border designs... thank you so much everyone else who has been enjoying these posts!

tumblr wouldnt let me upload the full-size stitched canvas so I had to shrink it a little, so if you want to see all the individual cards at their full size PLEASE look at the individual posts on my blog HERE! this was the first time I ever got the tumblr warning that a photo was just too big, haha.

this post also goes out to everyone on the weird al side of tumblr- yankoblr, y'all have brought me so much joy in such a small amount of time with your posts and memes, even though i just got here and started randomly posting one day. i went from being very self-conscious about what i considered an 'embarrassing' interest to wholeheartedly goofing and it feels great. keep being silly no matter what guys

stay weird, y'all :)

#alloyart #weird al #weird al yankovic #major arcana #tarot cards #artists on tumblr #honestly this is why i think fanbases can be Great Sometimes. for all the issues and hypothetical drama it can bring its also just like #oh you post something you think is silly or embarrassing and instantly a group of people swarm you and start cheering and clapping #ive always been SUPER self-conscious about my music taste and things i liked in the past for a bunch of reasons #so sharing anything music related is really difficult for me. but knowing that other folks are there also enjoying their silly thing #it makes it so much easier yknow :'D #anyway not to get too sappy haha- i just wanna say thanks :) #this project was so much fun #weird al-cana

[parlapina]

(the song is "Dream Sweet in Sea Major" by Miracle Musical)

#good omens #crowley #anthony j crowley #angel crowley #miracle musical #dream sweet in sea major #music #lyrics #lyrics quotes #spotify