I got so fucking romantic
I apologize
Lemme smoke your weed, no wait
i wish the makeup & beauty industry wasn’t so fucking evil because there’s something so fun and human about painting on your own face and body and i hate that it’s used to make women hate ourselves rather than to allow every person to draw as many eyes on their face as they want
womanhood and having a voyeuristic relationship with your own pain
“am i suffering beautifully?” “is my agony lovable?”
French Winter-Related Sayings/Idioms
I found some French sayings associated with the Winter as we are now in December.
- S’emmitoufler - to wrap up warmly
- Un coeur de glace - a heart of ice (someone who has no feelings)
- Il est givré - he is frosted (he’s gone completely mad)
- Un froid de diable - devil’s cold (it’s extremely cold)
- Il fait un froid de canard - It’s duck cold (again, this means it’s extremely cold)
- Faire la boule de neige - this can be used to express how you’ve made a problem worse i.e the snowball effect
- Faire froid à pierre fendre – It’s cold enough to break stones
‘i wanna say goodbye to my body before my body says goodbye to me. i always call my body ‘body,’ but my body doesnt call me anything at all.’‘ from a poetry reading i went to the other night/am writing about rn
I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)
stereotypical delightful classical music:
- battalia a 10 in d major (biber)
- brandenburg concerto no. 5
- brandenburg concerto no. 3
- symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)
if you need to chill:
- rondo alla turca
- fur elise
- anitra’s dance
- in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)
if you need to sleep:
if you need to wake up:
- morning mood
- summer (from the four seasons)
- buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)
if you are feeling very proud:
- pomp and circumstance
- symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)
- 1812 overture
- symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)
- american (dvořák)
if you feel really excited:
- hoedown (copland)
- bacchanale
- spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)
- la gazza ladra
- death and the maiden (schubert)
if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:
- dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)
- winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)
- symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)
- symphony no. 5 (beethoven)
- totentanz (liszt)
- quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)
- young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)
- symphony no. 5 mvt. 4 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)
- marche slave (tchaikovsky) (added by eternal-cadenza)
if you want to cry for a really long time:
- fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)
- adagio for strings (barber)
- violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)
- aase’s death
- andante festivo
- vocalise (rachmaninoff) (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)
if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:
if you want chills:
if you want to study:
- eine kleine nachtmusik
- bolero (ravel)
- serenade for strings (elgar)
- scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)
- pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)
if you really want to dance:
- capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)
- blue danube
- le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)
- radetzky march
if you want to start bouncing in your chair:
if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:
if you want to hear suspense within music:
- firebird
- in the hall of the mountain king
- ride of the valkyries
- night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)
if you want a jazzy/classical feel:
if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:
- introduction and rondo capriccioso
- unfinished symphony (schubert)
- symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)
- canon in d (pachelbel)
if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:
- st. paul’s suite
- concerto for two violins (vivaldi)
- l’arlésienne suite
- concierto de aranjuez (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)
pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:
- symphony no. 40 (mozart)
- cello suite no. 1 (bach)
- polovtsian dances
- enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)
- perpetuum mobile
- moto perpetuo (paganini)
pieces that just sound really cool:
- scherzo tarantelle
- dance of the goblins
- caprice no. 24 (paganini)
- new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology)
- le tombeau de couperin (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)
- carnival of the animals (added by shadowraven45662)
if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):
- concerto for two violins (bach)
- concerto for two violins (vivaldi)
- violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)
- violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)
- violin concerto in d minor (sibelius) (added by eternal-cadenza)
- cello concerto in c (haydn)
- piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)
- harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)
and if you really just hate classical music in general:
a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!
also, thank you to viola-ology, iwillsavemyworld, shayshay526, eternal-cadenza, tropicalmunchakoopas, shadowraven45662, and thelonecomposer for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!
“And so they still haven’t had sex, and sometimes he is able to convince himself that maybe they never will. But in the meantime, he has grown to enjoy, to crave even, Willem’s physicality, his affection, which is so easy and natural and spontaneous that it makes him feel easier and more spontaneous as well. Willem sleeps on the left side of the bed, and he on the right, and the first night they slept in the same bed, he turned to his right on his side, the way he always did, and Willem pressed up against him, tucking his right arm under his neck and then across his shoulders, and his left arm around his stomach, moving his legs between his legs. He was surprised by this, but once he overcame his initial discomfort, he found he liked it, that it was like being swaddled. One night in June, however, Willem didn’t do it, and he worried he had done something wrong. The next morning–early mornings were the other time they talked about the things that seemed too tender, too difficult, to be said in the daylight–he asked Willem if he was upset with him, and Willem, looking surprised, said no, of course not. “I just wondered,” he began, stammering, “because last night you didn’t–” But he couldn’t finish the sentence; he was too embarrassed. But then he could see Willem’s expression clear, and he rolled into him and wrapped his arms around him. “This?” he asked, and he nodded. “It was just because it was so hot last night, Willem said, and he waited for Willem to laugh at him, but he didn’t. “That’s the only reason, Judy.” Since then, Willem has held him in the same way every night, even through July, when not even the air-conditioning could erase the heaviness from the air, and when they both woke damp with sweat. This, he realizes, is what he wanted from a relationship all along. This is what he meant when he hoped he might someday be touched.”— A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara (via catandkitty)
when kristin chang said godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed or when laurie penny said it’s no surprise that so many women and girls have control issues around their bodies or when fiona apple said there’s no hope for women or when elana dykewomon said almost every woman i have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness or when carolyn gage said you can terrorize her with her own body and then she will torture herself or when angela carter said i often felt like a female impersonator or when leslie feinberg said i don’t feel like a man trapped in a woman’s body i just feel trapped
in stone butch blues leslie feinberg talked abt the 3 items of women’s clothing rule where the police who raided lesbian bars wld check to see how much these women were still upholding femininity. i have never been thru that but i remember reading it + how much it resonated w me. this rule has not been expelled from our cultures mentality… i remember telling a straight woman i was considering getting a buzzcut + the 1st thing she said was ‘oh, they look great w big hoop earrings.’ there’s like a sort of balancing act where for every item of men’s clothing u’ve got to do penance thru makeup + accessories……. + its got everything to do w reassuring the person viewing you, who might feel challenged by ur shirt or jacket or jeans + so needs to be able to look down n take comfort from the pair of heels on ur feet. saddest manifestation is definitely when we internalize it– when the fear of being marked not-woman makes us wear sth we hate, just for some tie 2 femininity. the more masculine the clothing, the thicker the makeup