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you-had-me-at-e-flat-major:

prokopetz:

What y’all think ‘gifted child’ discourse is saying: I used to be special and now I’m not and that makes me sad.

What ‘gifted child’ discourse is ACTUALLY saying: The way many educational systems treat children who’ve been identified as ‘gifted’ is actively harmful in that it a. obliges kids to give up socialising with their same-age peers in favour of constantly courting the approval of adult ‘mentors’ who mostly don’t give a shit about them, b. demands that they tie their entire identity to a set of standards that’s not merely unsustainable, but intentionally so, because its unstated purpose is to weed out the ‘unworthy’ rather than to provide useful goals for self-improvement, and c. denies them opportunities to learn useful life skills in favour of training them up in an excruciatingly narrow academic skill-set that’s basically useless outside of an institutional career path that the vast majority of them will never be allowed to pursue.

also the idea that children have to be either smart or popular and can’t be both

tarvek-sturmvoraus:

sarah1281:

sarriane:

sarriane:

can the new thing please be putting quotes from the chilling adventures of sabrina over screencaps from sabrina the teenage witch?

@darth-salem-emperor-of-earth

i was completely ready to just accept the first one as a line from sabrine the teenage witch i didn’t question it at all

(via yuuei-academy)

trenchcoatofthelord:

teenagerposts:

the fray: where did i go wrong….. i lost a friend…..  somewhere along in the bitterness….. and i would have stayed up with you all night……  had i known how to save a life……

12 year old me:

Me now:

(via hotboyproblems)

teenagerposts:

Me in class taking a picture of the board that I know I will never look at again

(via hotboyproblems)

the-silent-trumpet:

Me looking at hard music: I didn’t know Satan was a composer

(via soprano-and-the-altoclef)

runecestershire:

I’ve seen a few [contr]alto appreciation posts over the last few days, so I just wanted to make sure you all know that in Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin, Olga – the sweet, somewhat ditzy little sister who is in love with the doomed tenor – is a contralto.

The two romantic pairs in Eugene Onegin are soprano/baritone and contralto/tenor. It really is the best.

runecestershire:

This is the contralto appreciation post I want to see.
Contraltos, your voices are vast and deep and tremendous, there’s nothing really quite like a contralto (except perhaps a bass). Your voices can be or dark and smoky, and sometimes they’re light and nimble despite their depth. You can pull off jazz like nothing else, and although your operatic repertoire is limited, it contains some tremendously moving music.
Contralto voices are like the sea and the stars and the night, and like daybreak in a pine wood, and like lightning and Autumn rain.
When I imagine what a goddess might sound like, I usually imagine an operatic contralto.
Don’t be hard on yourselves for not having the voice for all the nifty parts, be hard on the composers for neglecting such a beautiful voice type.

labcoatbrat:

common sense: maybe i should practice singing and pick a choir audition song from songs by contraltos

my music taste: baritone or mezzo it is bitch