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please guys stream Kassya prelude and Kassya trepak by Leo Delibes cause I need some orchestra to perform the whole opera and put it online.

context: it's based on a short story by Sacher-Masoch. Delibes died before the opera could be arranged and it was arranged by someone else (I don't remember who rn) so it technically could be performed. There was also an exhibition that was recorded for an article for Le Figaro but that's it and I can't even download that for some reason.

don't remember when i last worked on this study but I'm never gonna loop back to it so here you go

me to myself through gritted teeth: people are allowed to have friends who aren’t you! people have the capacity to be friends with multiple people! someone having friends that aren’t you doesn’t mean they hate you or like them more than you!

The way Chateau de Lacoste is basically Čachtice castle

sometimes a family is a you, a feral ballerina with 6 limbs, and a brain damaged man with a lot of trauma but a very optimistic attitude

As we celebrate 106 years since the formation of Czechoslovakia today, one of the most important moments in our history, I want to say how much I appreciate how much we are still close, even after 3 decades of having separate countries.

I love how we refer to each other as brothers.

I love that we are the first countries for every new president and the last country for every leaving president to visit.

I love that whenever there is any disaster, we are always among the first countries to offer each other help.

I love how many events, competitions, etc. we hold together.

I love how much cultural space we share.

I love how often I still hear people from both countries say how we never should have separated when meeting people from the other country, even to strangers.

I admit that I used to take so much of this for granted and it's only in recent years that I realized that this is sadly not a usual way to get along after countries separate, especially after seeing how some countries (russia) treat their neighbors, or learning more about how tragic some separations were, like with former Yugoslavia for example. This just makes me appreciate so much more how we managed to separate in a completely civil way and keep our relations so strong.

May it always be so!

Veritas vincit! And happy anniversary to us all!

I might be the only person thinking about the historical Lindheim water pipes in the world right now, isn't it crazy? (I am crazy)

Today I went to Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien so I'm posting the least atrociously photographed art I have from there ^^

Behold! Helena Fourment! (Only real ones know the context) (I am ashamed to admit this painting was the entire point of the trip and even after seeing it with my own eyes I still dislike it lol)

Judith with the head of Holofernes:

1. Carlo Sacareni

2. Simon Vouet. Always a pleasure to see his work in a gallery.

Ancient statue of godess Isis. She's so badass looking and the two colors of marble, breathtaking.

Girl in a fur, Tizian. I have no idea if Masoch ever saw this painting so just in case I am in love with her for him. But genuinely, my favourite from the "new" paintings that I saw today.

Me n who? (Idk who they are ngl)

Apollo and Daphne, Jakob Auer. One of those that impressed me the most.

More Apollo.

Dionysus, good to see you!

Aaand souvenirs:

(Somebody cure me of autism please)

But WHEN will the gif set of Tedesco hitting the vape arrive

Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.