LadyDragonfly

@LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com

Lady pianist and poet with blue eyes and red hair. The rest changes without notice.

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LadyDragonfly, to random

TOLKIEN: Actually it's pronounced "Jandalf"
TOLKIEN: immediately dies again

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

How many of you just have a random box sitting in the middle of your home, because one of your pets decided it was the best place they've ever sat?

LadyDragonfly,

@RickiTarr this has been under our dining room table for weeks.

LadyDragonfly,

@RickiTarr they don't use the bed.

LadyDragonfly, to random

Ok, well, I have officially applied to beige.party for an account. :)

LadyDragonfly,

@mentallyalex thank you! Still waiting for approval.

LadyDragonfly, to random

Give yourself a silly New Year's Resolution. Go on The Quest To Eat Every Ramen Noodle Flavor! Resolve to Try A New Pasta Shape Once A Week! Tell yourself anytime you see a puppo you Must Learn Their Name And Tell Them Good Boy or Girl! Become ridiculous. No one can stop you.

LadyDragonfly, to random

Ask your partner this & write down EXACTLY what they say.

NAME THIS OWL

LadyDragonfly, to random

Did you know that if you start playing All Star by Smashmouth at exactly 11:54:39 on New Year's Eve, then you're the kind of person who voluntarily listens to All Star by Smashmouth.

LadyDragonfly, to random

There's this awkward thing that happens to all musicians at some point. They get good enough that it becomes difficult to play anything at all.

As your skill increases, so do your standards. So everything you play feels mediocre. The weirdest part is that this "mediocre" performance is better than anything you were doing before. You've just moved the goalposts as you improved.

1/

LadyDragonfly,

You have to give yourself permission to suck. To play even if you think it's bad. What's going to happen is either:

A) You end up surprising yourself by how well you actually can perform when you push yourself

OR

B) You play something that has issues but those issues are easily improved with a little practice later on, bringing the performance up to something that meets your standards.

2/

LadyDragonfly,

You have to be willing to ignore that emotional reflex of "wow this sucks, I suck" and do the thing anyway.

And NO, this doesn't just apply to musicians. This happens with every single kind of artist and craftsperson. Most people tend to quit just when they're starting to get good, because learning to do the thing is the same skill as learning to correctly appraise your skill. (This is called the Dunning-Kreuger effect, by the way.)

3/

LadyDragonfly,

Don't quit just because your standards have raised along with your skill!

I find myself wondering sometimes how many musicians have reached this phase, believe wrongly that they suck, and never pick up their instrument again -- JUST at the exact moment they're really getting good!

I'd imagine quite a lot of them.

4/4

LadyDragonfly, to random

You're allowed to have one bad decision with no consequences before the year ends. What do you do?

LadyDragonfly, to random

Forget pineapple name a truly unacceptable pizza topping

LadyDragonfly,

@integerpoet is... is that... maple syrup?? Please tell me that's maple syrup.

LadyDragonfly,

@qurlyjoe Cap'n Crunch...

LadyDragonfly, to random

I take a power nap
I take a couch nap
I take a beach nap
I take a snuggle nap
I take the naps that remind me of the good times
I take the naps that remind me of the better times

LadyDragonfly, to random

ME, AT 2:00AM: How does a movie sound?

MY BRAIN: Ehhh... Don't really want to commit to a 2 hour long story right now.

ME: Right, right. Ooh! How about we bingewatch 5 hours of For All Mankind instead?

MY BRAIN: Pffffft obviously.

LadyDragonfly, to random

There is a reason the 14th Amendment prohibits violent insurrectionists from running on the ballot. Because anything that doesn't result in disqualification is a valid election strategy.

LadyDragonfly, to random

Sep 30, 2020: We beat them at the soap box.
Nov 6, 2020: We beat them at the ballot box
Dec 9, 2020: We beat them at the jury box.
Jan 6, 2021: We beat them at the ammo box.

Y'all lost. It's over. Go home.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/08/the-new-era-of-political-violence-is-here/671146/

SrRochardBunson, to random

It's a Mad World.

https://doctordeathray.bandcamp.com/track/mad-world-2

LadyDragonfly,

@SrRochardBunson probably beige.

LadyDragonfly,

@SrRochardBunson @DoctorDeathray @DoctorDeathray @ajroach42 I'm still unclear why universeodon seems to have shadowbanned me.

LadyDragonfly,

@SrRochardBunson I'm so out of the loop. What's "the Byron shit"??

LadyDragonfly,

@SrRochardBunson huh. Okay.

LadyDragonfly,

@SrRochardBunson LMAO why tho

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