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krispyweiss · 8 months

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Album Review: Nina Simone - You’ve Got to Learn

Sonic limitations be damned, Nina Simone’s You’ve Got to Learn captures the singer at an artistic peak.

Recorded July 2, 1966, at the Newport Jazz Festival, and backed by rhythm section and electric guitar, Simone’s six-song, 30-minute set is a stunner despite sound that is mired in the midrange and a blustery wind so prevalent in the mics Simone notes it during “Be My Husband.”

It’s almost as if she knew this would one day become a retrospective live album as the short set is filled with essential songs like “I Loves You Porgy,” the straight-up blues of “Blues for Mama” and a swinging jazz arrangement of “Mississippi Goddam” that would’ve been the definitive version on a pristine recording.

It’s still pretty close.

And when Simone soothes the pin-drop-quiet audience with a fragile “Music for Lovers” to wrap the appearance, her many guises - personal and musical - come alive one more time.

Grade card: Nina Simone - You’ve Got to Learn - B+

8/17/23

#nina simone #you’ve got to learn #2023 albums

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necessarymeanstoanend · 2 months

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i’m bored so here’s a color study i did of nigel

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magical-misfit · 1 year

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Thinking about that one post that was like “Gerard wants to stay in the castle when war comes because he spent his formative years struggling to stay alive and survive and now he’s expected to do it again”

Like…yes you get it.

Gerard was ten.

And at ten years old he knew death better than others. He watched his first friend get eaten alive as part of the food chain at work, he nearly died at the teeth of a dog because he didn’t understand why it was weird for a talking frog to address a guard like a prince. A ten year old experienced near death for the first time and people still have the audacity to call him a coward.

He stayed in that pond for god knows how long (he states he’s thirty but we don’t know how long he and Elody have been married) and he waited for ages for someone to come find him, anyone really. That heron probably came by every day, same with the hunters and their dogs. How much death and injury did you think Gerard saw over those years in the pond? How much bravery and cleverness do you think he had to muster up in himself so as not to get eaten? No wonder he latched onto Elody and the castle life so quickly.

And when war comes at a time when he’s supposed to be free, a time when the curse has been broken and everything is fine, of course he flees. Of course he claims they can stay in their castle and be okay.

Because Gerard knows death. And he knows that if he leaves the castle again, he’s not sure he’ll make it back this time.

And he’s right. He doesn’t.

(At least that version of him anyway)

#neverafter #gerard of greenleigh #once again murph PCs have me going feral #neverafter spoilers #like gerard didn’t do anything wrong he was a kid!#and yes kids suck but you don’t turn them into prey because they annoy you #Gerard’s cowardice and materialism isn’t even that much of a flaw imo #it’s a coping mechanism for when he starts to come into contact with triggers for his PTSD #how long do you think he told himself ‘this is temporary’ while out in that pond?#like yes gerard is a flawed character but when you learn what happened to him can you really blame him?#ugh brian murphy you’ve done it again #idk it’s just like…yes rich people need to be humbled but gerard has been humbled his whole life #he learned his lesson and once he got complacent learned it again #and while I love Elody I do think it’s interesting to think about why she fell out of love with him #was it the complacency?#the materialism?#the supposed cowardice?#we saw why she fell IN love with him but why did she fall OUT of love with him?#I need answers

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leon-doggo · 17 days

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Can’t change what you’ve done

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Set in the recovery era of Fight Dogz because my ass can’t work on the actual comic for no reason 💀 anyways this took me two days because I’ve been listening to Next Semester on repeat and the boys have infested my brain to new levels

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enbycrip · 3 months

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Please, please consider putting the time you are spending playing about using AI image generators into learning how to make art yourself.

If you want to work digitally, there are free programmes; if you don’t want to spend money on Procreate, start on Medibang and try their anime tutorials. Buy a cheap stylus to get started.

Or try watercolour. There’s *so* many tutorials out there for free to give you tips and basic paints and brushes available very cheaply. Or pastels; again, very cheap to get started with and so many tutorials out there. Pencil or charcoal sketching. Pen and ink. Clay sculpting. Pyrography. Embroidery.

You can learn *so* much with such remarkably little work. I am disabled. I have a fatigue disorder and my hands do not work incredibly well, and even though it is *beyond* exhausting to do, my dexterity has improved so much with the work I have managed to do, even when it is basically simply messing about trying things. You start learning a whole new way of seeing the world around you when you start learning how to depict it.

Start by tracing, if you like; it absolutely teaches you about perspective and shapes. Do a paint-by-numbers; you are learning about brushwork and colouration and how to handle and use pigments. Copy a photo you really like. Make a little pot out of cheap clay and keep stuff in it. Mess around making leaf prints with watercolour and see the cool effects when you sprinkle salt on it. Mend a hole in your jumper with contrasting thread and see how it has suddenly become a whole new garment. Create a little dude and feel his soul enter the universe through your fingertips when you poke eyeholes in him and suddenly he has an expression.

With the time you spent using a prompt machine to mash stolen pieces of other people’s work into an image, you could have been learning to create your own. Please don’t waste that time again.

What you create and communicate will have thousands of times the value, even if you think it is “terrible” because it will be genuine, unique creation and communication of *your* unique perspective on the world.

And if you keep doing it, it will not continue being terrible. It will start being good, because people get good at things by doing them.

Art isn’t a gift. It’s a skill; or rather, thousands of skills. Learning any of them gives you transferable skills that will make other ones easier to gain too.

#plagiarism engines #ai isn’t art #ai #create #if you’ve got time to fuck about with an image generator you’ve got time to fuck about and learn a thing #it doesn’t need to be good to be art #art theft #art is human

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cryscendo · 6 months

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kurt hummel in every performance

6x03 - Jagged Little Tapestry

You Learn/You’ve Got a Friend - Rachel Berry, Kurt Hummel, Tina Cohen-Chang, Santana Lopez, Brittany Pierce, Quinn Fabray, Noah Puckerman, and New Directions

“We took the jagged and the smooth, the angry and the sad, and the joyful, and created something new. Mash-ups aren’t always pretty.”

#glee #kurt hummel #my stuff #kurt hummel in every performance #episode: jagged little tapestry #song: you learn/you’ve got a friend #rachel berry #hummelberry #tina cohen chang #kurtina #tinchel #kurtinchel #bringing back the old step and sway move #he should be a professional at that move by now lol

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efingart · 10 days

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By the way, can I say something funny? When I realised your Bell OC's name was "Mila", at first thought it came in my sense that it's one of the words we speak in our language.

"Mila" basically means "to find or get something", if I say "Kuch mila?" it means "Did you get anything?" and it was so funny to me HAHA,, but I know it's a Russian name! I just got it mixed in my language 😭

Oh wow, that is funny! And that definition is perfect for a Bell OC trying to regain her memories!

I love it so much!! Thank you for telling me!! 💙💙💙

#you’ve got mail 💌#thank you khushi!!#learn something new every day!

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8rujaa · 14 days

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my therapist really saved me….

#tw abuse // tw sa #i can’t sleep bc i keep thinking about this.#like i probably would’ve not been here if it weren’t for her #i started seeing her january of 2023… my life has changed entirely since then and she was definitely the one who got the ball rolling #literally so much has changed since then and it’s all because of her #i was so dissociated during our first few sessions #thanks to her i was able to get diagnosed and medicated for adhd. i was able to realize i was in an abusive situation and plan a way out #i was able to focus on myself and my healing and she’s helped me reframe so much of my negative thinking #i was able to process a lot of emotions and become a better version of myself with each session #she’s truly incredible.#i remember the first comment she made about the relationship had been ‘’so it’s like there’s an imbalance of control in the relationship’’#i had put my partners on such a high pedestal that i had no idea they could be doing anything wrong #and i asked her what she meant and she said ‘from what you’ve been describing it’s sounds like a strict parents and child type of dynamic’#she told me they didn’t need to understand why i wanted to leave and they didn’t need to make that decision. if that’s what was going to be #best for me the only thing i could do is let them know my reasoning and simply leave. i didn’t need their permission.’’#i remember being so confused at that realization bc like… i had been putting their emotions over mine the whole time i had forgotten simply #doing what’s best for me was an option… l #ever since then i’ve been putting myself first and it’s been a steady uphill from rock bottom… i’ve made an incredible amount of progress #when i first started with her getting out of bed and walking to the kitchen was incredibly difficult and took all my strength.#yesterday i conquered a mountain!!!!!!! i hiked all the way to the top!!!!! :D #me a year ago thought it was going to take me years and years to recover. as soon as i left i made leaps of progress #im incredibly proud of myself and grateful for her. and my reiki lady she’s also been a great great help.#the silver lining is i realized who really matters. and the relationships i cared about deepened.#my sweet virgo friend was the one who was always like ‘THATS A GROWN ASS MAN WHO CANT UNDERSTAND BASIC CONSENT???’#LMFAO i would be like ‘but he has trauma and bla bla bla’ she looked me dead in the eyes and said #’jess you said with your last boyfriend that you would never make excuses for a man who was hurting you again. stop defending him.’#she’s really a gem and i treasure her with my life. i hope she knows i love her. she’s family at this point #she’s also literally saved my life before (like deadass called 911 for help)#im glad i had the support system i had. that was a rough situation with so many layers and im glad i got through it #my 22nd year of life was by far the worst of my life and i don’t ever want to put myself in that situation again. im glad i learned.

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aethertownusa · 24 days

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Iron sharpens iron so the awful truth is that if you want your loved ones to be better you’ve got to show them how it’s done on your own body first

#saying this in my creepiest most Catholic way #to disguise the fact that I’m flipping a truism:#you don’t need to love yourself first to be loved;#you’ve got to love yourself so the ones who love you will learn to love themselves

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whotookmysenbon · 1 month

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@selenophilephile So since you’re a medic nin, does that mean I can come to you for cough treatment whenever? Like, weekly? Semi daily? Daily? *Coughs*

I’m no specialist, Hayate. I’m a Field Medic. If it gets bad properly you need to go see a hospital doctor. But I can reduce the inflammation and soothe the irritation in your lungs when nothing else is helping before you go to the hospital, or on a particularly bad day in general. I can also clear airways in a pinch but that’s a T&I tactic after waterboarding someone and not the most pleasant.

Back to your question though: swing by my place and if I’m off duty or even during the day on my lunch break if you need it and I’ll do what I can.

#did you need something right now? I’ve got a few minutess #field medicine is different from hospital medicine #my skill set is mostly just #close that open wound/fix that bruise/set that bone/stabilize that poison #and if there’s nothing to be done just pain management #I’m happy to help my friends though in any way I can #so you learn to be flexible with what you’ve got #hence why I’m used to also helping with lung inflammation and sore throats because Ram hates allergy season #genma shiranui #shiranui genma #tokubetsu jonins shenanigans #mother hen genma shiranui #hayate gekko #anbu shenanigans #anbu genma shiranui #medic genma shiranui

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detentiontrack · 1 month

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So apparently now on t*ktok being a terrible driver is a funny “trend” and not being reckless and selfish and endangering everyone else on the road

#you should not be BRAGGING about how many things you’ve hit with your car #or how many unsafe maneuvers you make while driving #it’s not funny to have gone through 5+ cars because you keep crashing them #take your time. learn how to be a safe driver. it’s not funny.#driving a 3000+lb vehicle at high speeds is a serious thing #and this is coming from someone who failed their drivers test twice #(although the second time was for a really stupid reason)#I didn’t get on the road by myself until I was CONFIDENT I was a safe driver #I’ve had my license for a while now and I’ve never hit anything or got into an accident

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thehappiestgolucky · 1 year

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I feel bad for Mer Xero.

His husband just got rescued, now he's stuck only seeing him in the very rare rift until shenanigans stop happening.

Also, if I may ask, is the galaxy team merfolk to, or are they just confused humans wondering what is even happening?

I was gonna do a whole angst thing about Mer Xero missing his husband after things have just gotten ok but yknow what, have one of those very rare rift moments instead

(it’s about knowing his husband is ok even if he won’t be home yet, he knows he’s ok even if he sees markoth only once hES OK-)

Also no, the Galaxy Team are a group of human researchers trying to figure out the giant creatures in the world and why things in the ocean are shifting and then Laventon found the girls and things got more complicated

For the record - only Laventon, Cyllene and Rei know about the the girls (and by extension Markoth) because Cyllene flat out doesn’t trust Kamado with the knowledge yet-

#happy screms #doodles #mers in hisui #hk xero #hk markoth #crimson nails #captain cyllene #professor laventon #pokemon dawn #pokedessa #listen it’s a while before he learns his husband is ok let him have it. let him have the moment #cyllene looked at these sad wet girls and went ‘put some researcher clothes on you’ve got a job now’#dawn to odessa: she looks an awful lot like cyrus #odessa - who lives in galar: fuckin’ WHO??

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quibbs126 · 1 year

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I know Alfendi being Layton’s biological son doesn’t make much sense if you consider that, according to the timeline, Alfendi would have had to have been at least 4 by the time of Last Specter, and Layton never mentions having a son (bc he didn’t exist until after game 5)

But now I’m considering the idea that Alfendi is his biological son, and Layton’s taking care of him during all the games, it’s just. He never mentions him. At least not in what we see

Just like. He has a son, he just never mentions it. And so no one knows he has one (well maybe Luke, Emmy, Flora and Rosa, but that’s only after the fact)

And then just some time later he’s talking with one of his friends (maybe Randall and co or Desmond, maybe someone else), and he casually mentions Alfendi, and they’re just like “wait you have a SON?!”

#granted that probably would make him more of a neglectful parent #considering he doesn’t take him with him (though you could justify it as being too dangerous)#and this would be especially true in AL when he leaves for I believe around 6 months is the consensus #but for the sake of comedy shhh #just don’t think about it #but imagine being Desmond years after the fact learning you’ve had a nephew this whole time #or Bronev learning he has another grandchild #or Randall finding out that Layton has had a kid this whole time #for some reason I can only imagine his reaction being “Hershel you got laid?”#to Layton’s disdain #but anyways #professor layton #hershel layton #alfendi layton #random stuff

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riacte · 7 months

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Martyn’s really going through his Foolish One arc 😭

And the Watchers say, “You are not the exception. You will never learn your lesson.” // Foolish one, stop checking your Discord dms for DnD invitations that ain’t never gonna come // Chances are tonight you’ve already got plans, and chances are I will answer a tumblr ask at seven in the morning and write a drabble about us 😭

#BIG /J #now i’m sliding down the wall with my head in my hands #saying ‘how could i not see the signs?’#you haven’t written me or called #but goodbye screaming in the silence #and the voices in my head are telling me why #’cause you’ve got him on your arm and me in the wings #i’ll get your longing twitch clips but you’ll be his king #and you will say you had the best of intentions #and maybe i will finally learn my lesson #oh no ive gone insane 🤡#ria.txt #treebark

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sanyu-thewitch05 · 7 months

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I think it’s time to bring out the “Just because they were oppressed by white people doesn’t mean they’ll like black people” points. Also by Western, I assume they mean tribes indigenous to the USA.

The East Native American tribes in the south owned( and no amount of they were infiltrated by white people or they were trying to appeal to white people more could ever defend or justify holding black people as slaves. Especially when one of the tribes(Cherokee) have a pattern of not treating their black members well.) slaves.

Just because they’re indigenous doesn’t make them any less antiblack.

They have literally indirectly said they don’t like Black people. At some point, black people should be questioning why they’re “Allies” are producing shows that they champion as indigenous representation(Reservation Dogs) are portraying black people and our culture in a stereotypical negative light.

#blackblr #I don’t know why black people keep thinking the IPOCs are going to be their allies #did not y’all not learn when the Asians were racist to you even back in the 90s #did y’all not learn when the brown Latinos were calling y’all ni**era straight to your face up in New York #and y’all foolishly let it slide because ‘they struggled with us in the ghetto too!’#and ‘they’re mixed with black!#meanwhile they’ll call you monkey when they’re angry with you(as we’ve seen with Erica Mena and Evelyn Lozada #and say you’ve got bad hair #also this stuff mainly applies to older generations and some millennials #The gen z crowd is a lot better race relationship wise especially if they’ve grown up in diverse environments #rant #all I’m gonna say is alot of black people are going to get a nasty surprise when those IPOC Allie’s don’t show up when they need them

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