a dumb banjo post

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so I finally, finally ordered a capo for my banjo.

i don’t understand capos. Like… I get it… sort of? in theory? you just put that on and then you play your instrument just like the neck ends at the capo, and you just move everything up and then it’s all the same thing only higher. right? i get it. sort of. i guess? 

i didn’t get it, though.

and then i got one and i put it on [and then i retuned my drone string because the capo doesn’t cover the drone string] and i was like, this is dumb i don’t get it, and then i tried to play a song i know and completely failed because listen i use the markings on the fretboard to navigate, and the markings don’t move when you put the capo on?

but then i counted it out and tried again and

oh my gosh i now am playing the same song, only a couple of notes higher?

i didn’t get it before because there was nothing to get but now i get it

there’s nothing to get, that’s all

maybe i still don’t get it but at least i think i get that there’s nothing to get. 

outsidewolves: Somebody Told Me

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outsidewolves:

Somebody Told Me

anachronic-cobra:Literally every single one of these hit

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anachronic-cobra:

Literally every single one of these hit me other than 18, I haven’t notice anything connecting to that one. Or 7 unless requiring things to be ordered by color or size or I can’t focus on anything until I’ve organized them counts.

I didn’t even realize I was doing 9 until stores were mentioned, I can’t go to stores that are usually busy until past 8pm.

umbrellanumber5:

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Did you just scroll down thinking yes?

So this all describes my BFF to a tee. There might be one or two that aren’t true, but literally all of the rest are things she’s said to me over the uh twenty years we’ve known each other. 

Would it be helpful of me to send her this? I don’t know what to do. She’s having a terrible time in her life at the moment and I think a lot of it is that she really does have… there’s not a better phrase for it, special needs, her needs are special, and so they aren’t being met, and solutions other people suggest don’t make sense to her because she doesn’t think the way other people do, and I’ve been tearing my hair out for almost ten years now trying to figure out things that could help her, but I think most of this list is true for her.

I don’t know how to bring it up, though; she’s very preoccupied with being “normal” and fitting in and I think she’d be horribly offended at the suggestion. But I also think it could be an avenue toward her finding more productive solutions for her problems rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. Even knowing something to begin to say to a therapist; she had an awful one that told her that her terrible depression was totally warranted by her situation and so there was nothing he could do for her and she should just go home. Even terms to know to use to look for a therapist!! IDK. IDK! 

Anyway. I don’t know what to do but I’m reblogging this to find it later. 

hm

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so the next chapter of Little Fishie has long been a planned thing and I had bits of it in semi-outline forever ago, and finally have gone through and knocked it into shape, and am now in final edits, and

uh it’s about uhhh

heh it’s about a typhoid fever epidemic Geralt finds himself in the middle of cleaning up after. Being impervious to disease, and there being a lot of necrophages around, his services are needed.

And that’s a great and fine idea but it uhhh it feels 

well it feels bad, now, as people are dying and parades get cancelled and my dude’s workplace goes into Pandemic Protocol and and people panic and all sorts of horrible shit is going on

and I Really Did Not Want that to be topical and sort of did not dream it would be when I started writing it??? 

😭

So anyway, I can’t really re-edit it to make it be about anything else, so… uhhhhhhh I guess I’ll post it, tomorrow or Saturday or sometime in there when I’m done editing it, and I’m just gonna put a lot of warnings on it. It’s… I mean, it’s got government mismanagement and the looming terror of the asymptomatic incubation period and all that, but:

It also has the fantasy of someone heroically doing something about it and, in fact, a bunch of people doing their best, and then it’s mostly necrophages and magic. So like. Gonna tag the shit out of it, and hope that the fantasy of heroism helps be consoling, instead of this triggering the shit out of a bunch of people who are probably as scared about all of this shit as I am.

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