Merry Christmas To All My Mutuals, And If You Dont Celebrate It, Or Celebrate Something Else, Have A

Merry Christmas to all my mutuals, and if you don’t celebrate it, or celebrate something else, have a good day!

@grainofrhiice

@sssleepylizard

@capn-o-my-soul

@arsoniswarm

@ninahoeben

@docdust

@the-angel-muriel

@bil-daddy

(I also send apologies to any of my mutuals who would have preferred not to be tagged in this post)

To celebrate, I sketched this quick(ish) drawing of Jacob and Robert Marley from The Muppets Christmas Carol.

This is my Spotify wrapped, I don’t really listen to music much though.

This was very fun and it sort of looks like me :)

Am I allowed to start a picrew chain?

Picrew

No pressure!

@asexualmisconduct @thegirlwholivesin-delusion @demonicchicken1121 @grapeagata @guess-ill-dye @strongindependenttrash @summerblademoontime @comicbookzombie @chaosgremlinlivinginyourwalls @crewman-six and anyone who wants to

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okay not enough of you classical music people know about the dsch journal and that is a CRIME

so, the dsch journal is a volunteer-run journal dedicated entirely to the life and works of dmitri shostakovich. it’s been running since the 90s and publishes two journals per year, which are filled with historical interviews and letters, musical reviews and analyses, opinion pieces from fans and listeners, and updates from the world of shostakovich research on new projects and discoveries to help us better understand one of the most enigmatic- and yet, one of the most famous- composers of the 20th century. their website contains some sample articles from over the years, which often have exclusive information that can be hard to find in biographies and other publications, like interviews from shostakovich’s close friends and family. anyone from anywhere in the world can apply to submit their work to the journal, which is how I got my start with them. they also have an instagram and facebook, where they post lots of neat shostakovich photos, so you should check those out!

I’m now a volunteer writer, editor, and researcher with the dsch journal, and the opportunity has just been amazing. in the upcoming issue, I have three articles- two obituaries and a news piece on a ten-volume (!!) chronicle being released over the course of this decade documenting shostakovich’s life in intense detail, which I was SO excited to read about. I’ve also had a chance to proofread some interviews from his visit to america in 1973, which contain some fascinating information on his artistic process.

also I just gotta point out the covers of the print journals, because they are GORGEOUS. here are some of my favorites-

just !! look at them!!

about shostakovich, this one is my favourite picture of his

Love that one! It was taken in 1943 at Ivanovo, where he briefly stayed at the Composers’ House during the war. There are a lot of neat photographs from this time, many of them taken by his wife Nina. You can find a lot of them in Mikhail Ardov’s “Memories of Shostakovich.”

Here are some more interesting Ivanovo photos:

These two, from the same collection, with his son Maxim and his daughter Galina:

hanging out with Gliere and Khachaturian:

Chickens!

With Maxim in the dacha, and working on the Eighth Symphony:

With Maxim and a horse: