This was recorded by the Portsmouth Sinfonia in an experiment where all the members of the orchestra would swap instruments with each other and attempt to play them to the best of their ability.
favorite things about this
literally all the brass starts to get the hang of it and then the crescendos happen and everyone is like FUCK FUCK FUCK??? FUCK. JUST. BLOW RLY HARD.
the strings are lazy but also the same. like u can tell a lot of the ppl w/ the stringed instruments may already basically know how to play stringed instruments. like there’s definitely a section at the beginning where you hear a good portion going “oh yeah this is like. a smaller/bigger version of what i do.”
all you hear of any woodwinds is just “pffffttt??? pFFFTTTT???? PFFFFFTTTT I SAID PFFFFTTTT!!!!!” bc woodwinds are fucking HARD and you hear after like the first crescendo half of them just give up. they give up. they’re done. fuck this it tastes weird and my lips hurt.
that trumpet. that person is fucking TRYING man they fucking GOT this. they may not have figured out notes but they figured out LOUD and they GOT this.
I JUST DIED
I SEARCHED THIS POST FOR AGES OH MY GOD
As someone whose played instruments before this makes me ridiculously happy.
Maybe you could fight
the Mark for years, maybe centuries, like Cain did, but you cannot fight
it forever.
And when you finally turn – and you will turn – Sam…
And everyone you know, everyone you love – they could be long dead.
Everyone except me.
I’m the one who will have to watch you murder the world, so if there’s
even a small chance that we can save you, I won’t let you walk out of
this room.
I am spending 30% of the next two weeks on airplanes and on long car rides so for the love of god
REC ME YOUR EPIC LONGFIC AND FAVS IN GENERAL
I have incredibly undiscriminating taste in fandoms and pairings please I just need STORIES or I will go crazy and try to stab the flight attendants on Air Blarghistan
Like Cats and Dogs: “Dean knew his mate would have to be different. He just didn’t know what
“different” would really mean, and how “different” would bring his whole
world crashing down on top of him” It’s the DeanCas shapshifter ABO fic of my dreams.
Baby You Should Stick Around: “If somebody had told Steve he and Bucky would end up
raising Bucky’s clone as their son, he’d probably have- wait, no, he
wouldn’t have done anything, because nobody would ever have said that. And yet. Here they are.” Steve and Bucky are dads; it’s great
Sweeter Coming from My Hand: “‘“In conclusion: Dean Winchester, will you marry me?”“What?” Dean almost chokes on his sandwich.“I’m trying to save your soul,” Cas snaps. “You don’t have to look so horrified.”‘ Be still my heart, basically.
I’ve Got Nothing To Do Today But Smile: “Arthur’s a corporate lawyer, Eames owns the coffee shop across the
street, and all good love stories start with a quadruple shot latte.“ I don’t follow or really care about Inception, but I love this fic and I love this pairing in this fic.
The Best Years of Our Lives My Ass: “AU after Season 8, episode 6, “Southern Comfort.” Dean goes to sleep in a
motel room in Texarkana, and he wakes up 17 years old, in his childhood
bedroom in Lawrence, Kansas, 1996. He has no idea how he got there, why
his parents are still alive, why his brother is an adorable freshman
with no memory of his adult life, and why the only ally he has in this
place is the angel he left behind in Purgatory – somehow also 17 years
old. They have to get out, that’s the important thing. Only, falling in
love with his angel wasn’t a part of the plan.“
what fun it all would be: “Nothing dies in Purgatory, but they are forever finding corpses. A thoroughly jossed S7 coda fic in which Dean and Castiel find Emma in Purgatory.“ Aka the fic that inspired me to write Emma and dad!dean.
Something by the Sea: “After suffering the horrific cost of being cured from demonhood, Dean
and Cas settle down in the small town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine,
buying a run-down shack near the beach to call their own. Dean attempts
to get into a normal routine– fixing up the kitchen, chopping wood for
the fire, and picking out paint colors– all with the pleasant backdrop
of Cas’s company and a beach fifty feet away. These things prove
themselves to be fragile, however, and the past haunts Dean in the form
of nightmares and strange phone-calls from an untraceable number, along
with the far-from-innocent history of their new house.” Leanna’s beautifully painful bigbang.
The Path of the Fireflies: “After his humanity is restored, Dean wakes up in bed with Castiel, a wedding ring, and no memory of the past twelve years.” I am an unbelievable sucker for Dean waking up five to ten years in the future married to Cas, freaking out, and the realizing why he’s married to Cas. It melts my heart. It is my greatest wekaness.
I am spending 30% of the next two weeks on airplanes and on long car rides so for the love of god
REC ME YOUR EPIC LONGFIC AND FAVS IN GENERAL
I have incredibly undiscriminating taste in fandoms and pairings please I just need STORIES or I will go crazy and try to stab the flight attendants on Air Blarghistan
I am spending 30% of the next two weeks on airplanes and on long car rides so for the love of god
REC ME YOUR EPIC LONGFIC AND FAVS IN GENERAL
I have incredibly undiscriminating taste in fandoms and pairings please I just need STORIES or I will go crazy and try to stab the flight attendants on Air Blarghistan
Here’s some of the best long fic I know from a variety of fandoms. All of these are on AO3, by the by. 1. to the sky without wings by leupagus: An epically beautiful Force Awakens fanfic with one of the most unexpected pairings ever conceived. Still a work of art. 2. Swallows on the Beam by shuofthewind: A Fullmetal Alchemist fanfiction that is currently in progress, but already has a ton of material. A very well-written story with lots of political intrigue, cultural exploration, and badass women. 3. An Exercise In Worthless by beastofthesky: An adorable slow burn Destiel fic featuring Dean as a tattoo artist and Castiel as a linguist. 4. A Draught of Light by GretchenSinister: A Rise of the Guardians fanfic set in an epic fantasy AU with a great starcrossed lovers side arc. 5. The ‘Frankenstein and the Newt’ series by orphan: A collection of Pacific Rim fanfics that is simultaneously hilarious, sweet, and enthusiastically scientific.
You are a person of remarkable taste. Make this taste known to all mankind.
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How how? Go to your blog, poke the palette button, and you’ll see some new switches.
When? This is rolling out over the next week or so.
Tips? Yes! Go look at other Tumblrs that are showing their follows and likes. Learn about the millions of corners of Tumblr you didn’t even know existed. Become brilliant. Fall in love.
BUT WE WANTED REPLIES BACK.
my theories on Tumblr have begun shifting from “incompetence” in the “malice” direction
Well, Yahoo doesn’t know how to monetize us & they paid too much for us. I want fandom to move already, because this place is sinking fast.
I am spending 30% of the next two weeks on airplanes and on long car rides so for the love of god
REC ME YOUR EPIC LONGFIC AND FAVS IN GENERAL
I have incredibly undiscriminating taste in fandoms and pairings please I just need STORIES or I will go crazy and try to stab the flight attendants on Air Blarghistan
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