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That shit look absolutely cursed, but finally! I've done it!

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Here is the small excerpt from the opera I've listened today, and IT SO FUCKING GOOD. I've listened Khayrullina's music before, and I loved it, so I bought tickets to her opera, completely ready to not understand anything (it's in Tatar and it was preformed in concert hall, not in the opera theatre) and only listen beautiful music. There were subtitles. The staging was surprisingly good for an opera staged on a small part of concert hall scene with the full symphonic orchestra behind singers' backs.

And the opera itself is a MASSIVE BANGER. I mean it. It's not just "I've listened the opera of a local young composer, it has very nice music, I think other local classical music enjoyers would agree with me", you can put it straight to any major opera theatre repertoire, and it won't be out of place there. It has beautiful music, clear and clever plot, very good libretto, interesting characters and of course sea of tragedy. It's about two writers, husband and wife, Qawi Näcmi and  Särwär Ädhämeva, who both were arrested during the Great Terror (they survived it), and the librettist handles this theme really well without any The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas type of shit.

I was crying like a baby in the end, and people around me were crying too.

#music #classical music

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Literally the only thing that caught my eye was an obviously pirated Vogue reproduction pattern, and tbh if it had reviews I would have bought it.

literally me calculating shit for sewing

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Bodice block is so hard (especially if you measure yourself) but patterns in Russian are so boring 🥲

literally me calculating shit for sewing

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literally me calculating shit for sewing

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Me, looking at the requests I haven't done yet while my inspiration went away and I was able only to finish couple of old comic strip ideas: 😬😬😬

So, I haven't forgotten about them, just a bit out of inspiration right now.

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hey! If you'd be open to it, I'd love to translate your post-rotj series on ao3. I don't speak russian, but I've translated danish/french/english before so the concept isn't foreign, I thought maybe we could run it through deepL, I take a look at it, you check if it's any good?

I am sorry it took me so long to answer, I was thinking how to answer you without sounding weird. But I think there is no way around it.

If you like my fics and want to translate them, you are welcome, I can look at it and say if there are any factual mistakes.

If you've seen my whining about not being able to write in English and try to help me like that, you really shouldn't bother yourself with it.

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Another installment of time-travel au.

It's cool to tell Obi-Wan that you are older and more experienced that him, it's not cool when he is ready to commit to the bit and call you old man.

#star wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #my art #time travel au

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USSR sewing books be like: it's a very easy way to make your own pattern, you just need a bit of math

A bit of math

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Oh, hip level is this high because it's the fashionable silhouette of the era, I'm very silly. There is a petticoat for with this type of skirt to create more prominent fashionable silhouette.

Back when I sew dresses for a doll I used my grandma's 1960 sewing book. And I remember it was relatively easy to construct a pattern using it.

I've spend couple of days looking on modern construction schemes on the internet and I was completely lost. Did I become this stupid in 10 years?

No. I found and downloaded this book and it's just more comprehensive. It has all formulas written right on a scheme, so you don't need to go back and forth from scheme to instruction.

I need to sew it to understand is it any good (it has some weird calculation of hip level instead of real measurement, I've just used my measurement) or I need some adjustments, but I was able to make all calculations in three minutes.

And this shit just made me feel really dumb.

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I am always annoyed with people trying to make Anakin "inherently bad" and other characters "inherently good" in their metas/fics/whatever, because Star Wars is a lot about personal choices. There is no need to be "inherently bad" and "show signs" from the early age, a completely normal person can make terrible choices and spiral into evil. But also person can make right choices after years of the wrong ones.

(Tbh it's a way more realistic view on people than the one that is usually present in these metas. I've seen totally normal people participating in terrible things and mutating into terrible people because of their wrong life decisions (oh man so many people don't understand that you can spiral into that shit really really fast if you tells yourself "oh, I am with these bad people only ironically" or "I will do some shit for a bit just for money, everything will be ok"). But also I've seen people who walk away from the terrible mindset and started to make right choices (unfortunately, not as often as I wanted). )

#star wars #anakin skywalker

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But he is like: "My poor little meow-meow did everything wrong".

key to understanding star wars is knowing that anakin is george’s poor little meow meow

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Star Wars fandom be like: This person put a hand in a big chopping machine and it chopped his hand! Who is to blame? Of course all these people who write safety rules about not going to close to a chopping machine! If they allow people put hands near chopping machine it will be absolutely fine, because not everyone who got near chopping machine hot their hand chopped and it means that restricting putting your hands in chopping machine is evil and abusive 😡

It's interesting how Anakin broke every rule the jedi had and yet people still say those rules are why he fell.

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Cute general Skywalker.

#star wars #anakin skywalker #my art

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Modern internet: Self-insert Mary Sue is so cringe

Richard Strauss in 1899: There is a piece called A Hero's Life, it's about me (because I am no less interesting that Napoleon and Alexander the Great you know 🙄), where I fight with my enemies (evil critics who don't like my works 👿) and defeat them, also it is 50 minutes long, has the most epic music you've ever heard, and you need over 100 musicians to preform it 😏

#music #classical music

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I've seen @stealingpotatoes comic strip about Luke learning to swim, and I can't stop thinking that teachers in my pool have these long sticks to hold people who can't swim at all.

Like this.

Imagine Han grabbing Luke with this thing while he learns to swim

#star wars #luke skywalker #han solo

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previous post reminded me that my parents had divorce of convenience so my dad was able to get some bonuses from his work as a single father of a small child. They remarried when I was in my teens.