i already gushed in the tumblr post tags but i must say again god she looks SO GOOD i LOVE HER!!! thank you!!!!!!!!!

listen if it’s a piece he’s familiar with or practiced a lot he could be thinking about anything. i’ve plotted a lot of fic in boring rehearsals.

i’m trying not to ramble on too much but genuinely i love talking music, if you want to know more or get a pair of eyes on a particular section feel free hit me up! (i don’t understand if this site has dms but i think we might be in a server together?)

from actually playing, mostly what’s at the forefront of your mind is not running out of bow on the long notes, making sure the long notes SOUND good when they’re exposed, not rushing, and expressing emotion through phrasing+volume. and whenever it gets to a tricky part there’s more intense focus.

i know that!’ and non musical readers might just nod along and if you throw in any from type 1 classically trained musician readers would know what you meant immediately but i have no idea what non-music people would think besides ‘ooh fancy’. group 2 also is like…very specific things.

regular adjectives that would probably come to mind for any listener who was just trying to describe the music (emotional, melancholy, mournful). you could absolutely get away with just sticking to type 3; if you wanted to be fancy you could throw in a couple from 2 and musician readers would go ‘oh

for sad: there’s actual fancy italian music terms that get put on the sheet music by the composer to indicate how the music should be played (legato, espressivo, sostenuto, lacrimoso), there’s the technical terms for what you’re doing (slurring, vibrato, intensity, phrasing) and then there’s the

like, what happens when you’re playing one? or how the sound of the instrument works? I can explain either of these (sources: 17 years of playing cello 1.5 of playing violin)

i am fairly certain that literally everyone who is currently reading my fic has something they would prefer to see updated sooner than the namivivi gods au. however!! i am the one with the keyboard and the mad cackle!!!

+ this particular au has no designated victim to annoy, so woe, collective victimhood be upon ye

it’s not that i think ‘deadly serious mob enforcer’ is less of an Assumed Persona than ‘silly clown trying to make a sick kid laugh’ it’s simply that i’m committed to BOTH of them. yknow.

woman who WOULD die for her teenage niece as full of hate as a wet cat at a dog show, but who can also just scruff said niece up in the air via magic anytime she wants, and therefore doesn’t need to be nice or convincing to get her to do anything.

eventually she’s going to turn a third corner into ‘damn i guess this is kind of unethical to practice in the absence of rigorous studies on efficiency’ because otherwise her parents will be disappointed in her but she can go a little mad with power in the middle. as a treat.

-pirate club. luffy’s idea, obviously.
-sailing club. they’re not half bad but it’s really an excuse to goof.
-rogue faction of the drama club to counterpart the Heart Pirates in the tech/AV club

but I’m trying to figure out if that’s going to manifest as them just perpetually hanging out in the library or if I give them shit to do. and of the shit to do, I can think of three immediately appealing options:

will-they won’t-they with the reveal where we see Law and Luffy’s nonsense playing out simultaneously and they just keep missing each other and the mid-season twist is when it finally all comes crashing together (at the worst possible moment, of course)