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asoftepiloguemylove · 1 year

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Not sure if you do requests, but could you do one about not being able to move on from your first love?

i don't mind doing requests at all !! i hope this is what you were looking for

come back. even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Steven Espada Dawson excerpt from Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother's Heart / Fyodor Dostoyevsky excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov / @/ratsandlillies (on instagram) C + M / Trista Mateer Salt / Iain Thomas excerpt from The City Rises and Falls / Yves Olade Belovéd / Amber Run I Found / Tony Belobrajdic Hands 1 / Kim Jakobsson I Won't Become / Hozier Almost

i. Steven Espada Dawson, Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother's Heart

[ "We're under the same moon and I'm sick with that knowing." ]

ii. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[ "I am too young and I've loved you too much." ]

iii. @/ratsandlillies, C + M

[ Stylized painting of a man and a woman leaning towards each other. Their faces blend together in the middle. ]

iv. Trista Mateer, Salt

[ "I want you to know that it is okay not to love me. / I want you to know that you are not the first person / who found it a little too tough, who took two steps / back when my jaws started snapping." ]

v. Iain Thomas, The City Rises and Falls

[ "You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory." ]

vi. Yves Olade, Beloved

[ "I choked / on such longing I couldn't spit it out. Yes, desire is so different / when God bore you hungry." ]

vii. Amber Run, I Found

[ "For a while it was love, wasn't it? For me it was love." ]

viii. Tony Belobrajdic, Hands 1

[ Painting of two hands intertwined together. ]

ix. Kim Jakobsson, I Won't Become

[ Painting of a young woman standing with her back towards the audience. Stylized various different hands hold her face and back. ]

x. Hozier, Almost

[ "The same of music haunts her bedroom / I'm almost me again, she's almost you" ]

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brookbee · 9 months

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David Bowie performing "Suffragette City," 1973

#the second one is right before he says “wham bam thank you ma'am”#the spiders from mars are there too obviously but they're not in the gifset so it feels weird mentioning them in the caption #david bowie #the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars #ziggy stardust #suffragette city #da pennebaker #1973 #hammersmith odeon #bowieposting #my gifs

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canisalbus · 7 months

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I've got to say, I've been doing a lot of research on Italy recently and I literally can't stop thinking about your boys. I'm over here trying to read about whatever Crusade and my brain is just a constant loop of "isn't Machete a cardinal? And Vasco was from like Verona, right?" Not super conducive to learning anything, but I am enjoying myself and thought you should know.

Thank you for your lovely art and for sharing your darlings <33

That's adorable ;^; But also sorry the lads keep distracting you, hah.

I'd argue that getting invested in your characters and their stories and having to do background research for them is actually a great way to accumulate knowledge about various subjects. Often it's stuff you probably would never get around to reading about otherwise. I'm not saying it's always information you'll have many practical uses for, but learning about new things is fun and it's beneficial to you and your brain in the long run.

Vasco is from Florence actually! It's usually considered to be the birthplace and the main hub of the entire Renaissance movement. Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Michelangelo lived and influenced there and Dante Alighieri (author of The Divine Comedy/Dante's Inferno) was florentine as well, albeit he lived several centuries prior to them.

#Verona is a stunning historically significant city as well but it's a bit too far from Rome in this case #nowadays the fastest train ride from Rome to Florence takes around a hour and a half it looks like #travelling was slow and took a lot of effort in the 1500's but it was still a manageable distance #answered #nnnnnnnothingtoseehere #for real though the stuff you end up googling when you try to piece together a character is pretty funny #like #the evolution of breeches #history of bathtubs #history of sofas #timeline of peach cultivation #the cost of gyrfalcons #winemaking techniques #ear infections on dogs #how Italian surnames are formatted #the rise and fall of the Medici dynasty #are there any beaches near Venice #can you survive being stabbed in the liver #can you survive a hemlock poisoning #can you survive severe malaria

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gentledeathsblog · 7 months

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Lucifer Vesperus

in his eyes you can see

the end of all days

your rest, at last

#lucifer as the dusk #the realisation that all must end #even you #even love #and all that you know #cities rise and fall #and what seems so big and fearsome is quite small #luciferianism #theistic luciferianism #there’s something reassuring in knowing all will come to an end someday #i think of lucifer in duality—or rather two aspects as the Dawn and a new day and potential #and as the dusk to rest and allow oneself to let go #upg #reminder of old age #and of the decay inherent in nature and in us and that’s what makes it all so #beautiful

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sinistermusings · 13 days

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Fall of the House of X 4 (2024) by Gerry Duggan & Lucas Werneck

#Fall of X #Fall of the House of X #Rise of the Powers of X #X Men #Cyclops #The Peak #Professor X #Orchis #Sentinel #Omega Sentinel #Nimrod #Sentinel City #Space Force #Gerry Duggan #Lucas Werneck

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rastronomicals · 23 days

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4:57 AM EDT April 8, 2024:

David Bowie - "Suffragette City" From the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (June 6, 1972)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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#David Bowie #The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars #Suffragette City

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droughtofapathy · 5 months

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The Gilded Age's Broadway Divas: Dorothy Scott (Audra McDonald)

As Peggy Scott's pianist mother, Dorothy isn't afraid to give her husband a piece of her mind at every opportunity. Though enmeshed in bettering Black society up north, she worries for her daughter's safety down south. As she should.

Here she is boys, here she is world, the one you've all been waiting for. Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald. *The* Broadway Diva. Our reigning queen. Our legend. Our great soprano. Audra has won more Tony Awards for performance than any other actor, and is the only one to have an award in each of the four competitive categories for which she is eligible (Best Leading Actress in a Play/Musical, Best Featured Actress in a Play/Musical). As such, she is one of three theatre greats to have nominations across said categories: the others being the late greats Jan Maxwell and Angela Lansbury. With ten nominations in total, she is tied with Julie Harris and Chita Rivera for most performance nominations and will certainly surpass them the next time she comes to Broadway.

Audra McDonald's repertoire is so vast that this post became the hardest to narrow down. I have elected to highlight a little of everything: songs from shows that deserve a little more love here on Tumblr, Audra favorites, obscure gems, etc.

#1: "The Glamorous Life," Sondheim's 80th Birthday Celebration (2010)

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We have no choice but to start with Sondheim. The third of six performers in the iconic Ladies in Red segment of the Sondheim 80th Birthday Concert, Audra takes on this exquisite A Little Night Music number sung by the teenaged Frederika in the movie version (we don't talk about it).

Among Sondheim standards such as "The Ladies Who Lunch" (Patti LuPone) and "Losing My Mind" (Marin Mazzie), some considered the inclusion of this number a little misplaced. I adore it.

According to the Word of God (Donna Murphy), some of the Ladies in Red were being sewed or even taped into their dresses just minutes before taking the stage.

#2: Lady Day at Emmerson's Bar and Grill (2014)

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Though this particular show features music throughout and has a phenomenal cast album, it is classified as a "play with music," thus Audra was able to win her multi-record-breaking Tony in 2014. She plays the iconic Billie Holiday in 1959 at the tail end of her career. Here, she performs in a run-down nightclub and grows increasingly drunk and demoralized throughout the evening. It is an incredible piece of both singing and acting.

#3: "As You Make Your Bed," Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2007)

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Though the costume is something I feel we should all bear witness to, Audra's demonstration of her full operatic range adds another layer of excellence. A Weill and Brecht collaboration, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogonny was first performed in 1930. This clip is from the 2007 Los Angeles Opera production starring Audra and Patti LuPone. Audra plays Jenny Smith, "a whore." The production was recorded for PBS's Great Productions and won two Grammy Awards.

Truly, is there anything Audra can't do?

#4: "Wheels of a Dream," Ragtime Reunion (2023)

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Ragtime. Oh, Ragtime. That we live in a world where Ahrens and Flaherty's magnum opus lost Best Musical to The Lion King is my villain origin story. Natasha Richardson (Cabaret) beating out Marin Mazzie for Leading Actress is something I have to accept, but this? In 1998, Ragtime won Best Book, Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations, and Best Featured Actress for Audra McDonald's glorious Sarah. Sarah is a young woman at the turn of the century who has a baby with Brian Stokes Mitchell's (Broadway's Leading Man) Coalhouse Walker, and is taken in by Mother (Marin Mazzie), an upper-class white woman with no name after she is caught having partially buried the living child in Mother's yard. It is a masterpiece of musical talent with a breathtaking score and story.

This role won Audra her third Tony in the span of five years. Listening to Audra and Stokes reunite may well be the closest you ever get to hearing divinity. I implore you to seek out the full original cast album.

A reunion concert was planned for April 2020, but was postponed until this past year with Kelli O'Hara stepping in for the late Marin Mazzie as Mother. The concert was done as a benefit for the Entertainment Community Fund, and dedicated in memory of Marin, who passed away in 2018 from ovarian cancer, book-writer Terrence McNally who died of COVID complications in 2020 (lung cancer), and director Frank Galati, who died in 2023, also of cancer complications.

#5: Master Class (1995)

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Master Class is yet another Terrence McNally work, this one a play depicting a fictionalized master class given by opera singer Maria Callas towards the end of her life. Audra, as Sharon, takes the part of her student, the second soprano. This play won Audra her second Tony, and garnered a Tony for the brilliant leading actress Zoe Caldwell, whom Audra partially named her firstborn child after some years later. Her daughter's middle name is in honor of Audra's other close friend, the late Madeline Kahn, who like Marin Mazzie, died of ovarian cancer at 57, the same age, though many years prior.

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#the gilded age #dorothy scott #audra mcdonald #ragtime #marin mazzie #sondheim #lady day at emmerson's bar and grill #rise and fall of the city of mahagonny #broadway #musical theater

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cuterozhok · 1 year

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Some special piece that I made for my friend @aspxiety as a treat for her amazing commission I requested👐✨

Can't thank you enough though🥺

#I couldnt lose a chance to draw this character I mean just look at him ;___;#MAJESTIC appearance #якщо ти побачиш що у Suffragette City раптом додався ше один мільйон переглядів #то це я його слухала 203948 разів під час роботи над цим артом #ziggy stardust #david bowie #my art #illustration #digital art #The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars #Space Oddity

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queerchaoticwrld · 9 months

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OMGOMG I JUST FOUND OUT ITS THIS SILLY GUYS BIRTHDAY ‼️

ill whip up something better later but here something from like a month ago

edit 12/6) i never got to whipping up something better

#rottmnt #tmnt #rise of the tmnt #my art #rise leo #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles #leos birthday!!!!#risexidw #idw tmnt #idw leo #dark leo #city fall tmnt #THE SILLY

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thebowerypresents · 6 months

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Chappell Roan – Brooklyn Steel – October 18, 2023

Alternative-pop singer-songwriter Chappell Roan has been getting a lot of love for her first full-length release, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, which dropped in September. “Roan is a blazing tour de force on her debut album,” raves the Line of Best Fit. “She tackles every corner of human sexuality, psychology, desire and lust, all on some of the hookiest choruses of this year.” And as terrific as her recorded material is, it sounded even better live last night at Brooklyn Steel, her second of two sold-out shows at the venue.

Photos courtesy of Samantha Schraub | @samcsch

#Bowery Presents #Brooklyn #Brooklyn Steel #Chappell Roan #East Williamsburg #Greenpoint #Kayleigh Amstutz #Live Music #Music #National #New York City #Photos #Samantha Schraub #The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess #Williamsburg

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gu1lty-as-sin · 7 months

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just putting this here as a treat for my mutuals 🫶

#i have a problem #in which i will see that an artist that i know *of* is coming to my city #but i dont listen to them that much #so i try to get tickets #and in the event i get them #i listen to their music *religiously*#so i can have fun at the concert #and #i see #chappell is coming to my city #do i do it #i have so many concerts lined up tho #hmm #chappell roan #hot to go #the rise and fall of a midwest princess #Spotify

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lastyears-man · 1 year

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#Nina Simone #Bertolt Brecht #Kurt Weill #The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny #Mississippi Goddamn #Moon of Alabama #Alabama Song #music #fave

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lucyshypemaster · 9 months

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reminder that this is a dizznee stan account‼️

#every tongue that rises against the dizznees shall fall #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #dex dizznee #kesler dizznee #juline dizznee #rex dizznee #lex dizznee #bex dizznee #DIZZNEE HATERS DNI #nav's kotlc thoughts

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that-dinopunk-guy · 2 months

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I bought more paperbacks.

(Also I got the Peter F. Hamilton books entirely based on enjoying Pandora's Star like twenty years ago and completely managed to not realize there's another book between The Dreaming Void and The Evolutionary Void.)

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tricoufamily · 11 months

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i don’t do blood sports after this is the fall ends and i instead do my beckett and connor western au

#ok no but my western au fucking slaps #loosely macbeth inspired 1920 heavy rdr2 vibes #so more like. the actual wild west is over but a new type of criminal (connor) is rising. polished wealthy big city moonshiner types #and beckett the country boy falls in with them and he’s extremely unhealthy obsessed w connor and they’re very toxic. anyway #SOMEONE has to do a horse story

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sinistermusings · 27 days

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X-Men 33 (2024) by Gerry Duggan & Joshua Cassara

#Fall of X #Fall of the House of X #Rise of the Powers of X #X Men #Cyclops #Orchis #Sentinel #Nimrod #Sentinel City #Gerry Duggan #Joshua Cassara

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