I Will Never Leave You

Sol! | 25 | any pronouns | mobile links are at /bloglinks

[nariarts]

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

Whatever. Understand or don't.

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

Hey, wanna make music? Yeah? Got a buncha money? No? Well that's perfectly fine, check this free stuff out:

Vital - A powerful wavetable synth, my personal favorite VST synth, very easy to figure out creating new synth sounds, with the help of the plenty of tutorials that are out there for the plug-in. (There are paid versions but they are completely unnecessary to get 99% of the features of the plug-in.)

Synth1 - A classic piece of synthesizer software.

Pendulate - An interesting, chaotic synth that you can make weird little sounds with.

Native Instruments' free plug-ins - Various cool VSTs, including the Komplete Start pack.

The Free Orchestra - A set of orchestral instruments for Kontakt Player (see previous link).

BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover - More orchestral stuff! This one has its own player so you don't have to download a separate VST to use it if you don't want to.

Magical 8bit Plug - A chiptune plug-in, intended for producing sounds like that of 8-bit systems like the NES and Master System.

Genny - A synth VST made to emulate the soundchip of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

MT Power Drum Kit - A nice rock n' roll style drum kit plug-in.

This guy's weird VST collection - 6.4 gigabytes of weird VSTs, including some you might know, like Delay Lama and MeowSynth!

sforzando - A free player for soundfont files.

Musical Artifacts - A resource I mainly use to find soundfonts, on which you can find other various things as well.

Kilohearts Essentials - 30 effect VSTs including reverb, delay, compression, pitch shifting, transient shaping, ring modulation, phase distortion, and more.

Xfer's freeware VSTs - Exactly what it says on the tin, including the one and only OTT compressor.

Illformed - The good ol' dblue Glitch 1.3, Crusher, Stretch, and TapeStop.

Hysteresis and Fracture - Two interesting glitch effects, one being a delay and the other being a buffer.

Codec - A cool digital audio degradation effect.

Le Phonk - A slick distortion plug-in.

MAIM - An effect that mimics the sound of MP3 compression.

Soundly Shape it and Place it - One is simply an equalizer VST, the other is an effect that emulates a speaker (ex: a radio) and a space (ex: a cave).

Fresh Air - An effect that adds high end information to your sounds, to provide brightness.

ValhallaSupermassive - A combo reverb and delay plug-in that sounds quite big.

UnplugRed - A collection of various interesting VSTs, most of which have free versions.

Chowdhury DSP - I can't personally speak for all of these but their tape model effect is great for some lo-fi style effects.

TAL-Chorus-LX - A thick sounding chorus, good for "retro" sounds too.

Polyverse Wider - A great effect for widening sounds up, really simple too with only two controls.

Freesound - A good audio file resource, mainly for foley recordings.

Cymbatics Dubstep Starter Pack - A little sample pack with some good drum and synth samples.

fishmonger drum kit - A pack of samples from the album 'fishmonger' by Underscores!

WangleLine's sample packs - Free samples put out by my awesome mutual WangleLine!

aaand I might as well include this set of drums I made awhile back :P

As for DAWs, it's been a long while since I've used anything other than FL Studio (not counting Audacity, which I still occasionally use for specific purposes), which, while being the only one I can directly recommend, is paid. However, I've heard good things about Reaper which has a "free trial" that you can technically use forever, akin to WinRAR. Additionally, I've also heard some good things about Waveform Free.

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

(tags from @secretroomba) Ok saving these tags for later for myself

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

MORE because there are some additional little things I forgot about:

Geonkick - A drum synthesis VST, especially simple to get kicks going, but capable of producing a multitude of sounds.

plugdata - A visual programming environment for plug-in projects, that people produce their own plug-ins for, such as infamous plug-in the gusher.

SoundThread (info in description) - A really cool node-based audio editing interface based on the Composers Desktop Project, great for sound design, although it currently only supports .wav files.

OpenUtau - An open source software for UTAU voicebanks like Kasane Teto, much easier to work with imo than the original UTAU software for a beginner to vocal synths like UTAU and Vocaloid.

Famitracker - More NES style chiptune stuff, this one's a classic standalone tracker program.

Furnace - Another tracker I've heard fantastic things about from chiptune artists, more fully featured and capable of producing a wider variety of sounds.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

[oswinunknown]

BROTHER IM BACK AT SQUARE ONE

[transsexual-feminism]

Apparently I need to explain the basics of gender/sex here because people seem to have the "do whatever you want forever" mentality so deeply burned into their psyche that I need to completely restart to get anywhere.

Gender/sex is biopolitical complex, it is a tool of social control. (I'll use gender for short, but gender/sex or gender-sex is probably more correct)

I used the word "biopolitical" there, and I use it a lot in general because biopower a very useful concept. To explain it, I want to introduce it's inverse, "necropower". Necropower is the ability to kill. It's armies and guns and swords, but also managed starvation(think Bengal famine, or the Nazi Hunger Plan), engineered suicide(you should be familiar with this one), ignored or facilitated disease (AIDS crisis) and tolerated interpersonal killing(cars, femicide).

Biopower then, is the ability to control living people. This is not to say that it does not involve killing, or guns, or suicide, or so on, but that the goal is not death, but control. Necropower is actually extremely useful in gaining biopower, but biopower is a far more fungible currency. It's the difference between a shooter and a mugger. Both have guns, both will at least sometimes kill someone, but one is about killing, the other is about your wallet.

Gender, and really all biopolitical complexes, work via both coercion and incentive (if the two can even be separated). It punishes, but it also rewards. Crucially, it does these to elicit social control, to elicit biopower, nothing more or less. When people use and are used by the gender complex, they are either being controlled and being rewarded, or controlling others and using it as reward.

To use an example, when a man does something 'manly' like join the military, he is being controlled (by the military/state) and being rewarded with masculine gender affirmation, which translates via social status to material benefits. On the state's end, they had some guy draw up a propaganda and advertising campaign (these days with AI and the words LETHALITY in big bold text) which invoked masculinity and masculine values. He didn't do it because he was evil or held some love of the gender complex, the guy doing it probably had no clue what he was doing, he did it because it worked. Given the wages and other benefits the military offers, some number of people would join, when you add the social status granted by masculinity, that number goes up.

The advantage for the state is that the material benefits granted via the gender complex do not come at their expense, but at the expense of women. This socializes some of the costs of running a military, with obvious upsides for the state.

Nobody in this example acted because they really believed in masculine superiority, or in the actual ontological existence of gender, or in the continued working of the gender complex. They acted out of incentive. The guy running the campaign and the guy joining could believe any number of things about feminism or patriarchy or gender, so long as they also believed that their actions were permissible.

Men are not the only ones who can be controlled by the gender/sex complex either, in fact it is usually women. We do the dishes, clean the house, cook the food, we offer our bodies sexually and our minds emotionally, and for that, we get rewarded not with money, but with the social protections afforded to a wife. Some of us are not offered that.

When a women "accepts" being raped by a man, when she stays quiet afterwards or even "consents" under the implied threat of additional violence, she is being controlled in return for the "reward" of not actually facing that violence, when she doesn't accept it, she is punished, sometimes killed, as a message to every other woman in her position. Such acts of necropower and of violence more generally are the necessary costs of running a biopolitical complex.

This violence is directed against women, especially trans and Black women, because those people are the ones for whom punishment is acceptable and control frequent. The logical endpoint of being "a girl you can hit" is that not that you always get hit, although you will, it is giving men your lunch money, your body, your labour, and even your consent, because both of you understand that the threat is legitimate.

It is violence, not identity, not natural inclinations, not cultural inertia, not "tradition", that maintains the gender-sex complex. This load-bearing violence maintains the social structures which run our lives, it keeps the threats credible and the control constant. The violence is where our activism must begin and end, it is the pillar upholding patriarchy and the battleground of all feminist politics. If you are not fighting here, you are doing cosplay, not liberation.

[daily-pokemon-polls]

You are trying to move into an apartment with your favorite Pokemon. The building is strict about which Pokemon are allowed inside but it’s super affordable. How hard do you think it will be to convince the landlord to let you keep it in the building?

Easy as can be, perfect apartment dweller

Might take some convincing

Basically a coin flip

It will be an uphill battle but I might be able to, while saying goodbye to my deposit

No increased rent, deposit or argument could convince any landlord to let us in

You are trying to move into an apartment with your favorite Pokemon. The building is strict about which Pokemon are allowed inside but it’s super affordable. How hard do you think it will be to convince the landlord to let you keep it in the building?

Easy as can be, perfect apartment dweller

Might take some convincing

Basically a coin flip

It will be an uphill battle but I might be able to

No increased rent, deposit or argument could convince any landlord to let us in

I am the landlord/other/results

Voting ended onMay 15

[tsumugiology]

random question:

what was your first exposure to prev and what made you decide to follow them?

[bi-accident]

Niche skill check

[dollsahoy]

Slight correction to a lot of the comments--it's not "Baking guy plays piano too," it's "Piano guy bakes too"

Young pianist with a love for yesteryear hits the right notes

Inspired by the entertainers of Bermuda’s “golden age”, composer and pianist Dylan Hollis is hard at work on what he does best — creating mu

I was trying to track down a non-soundcloud version of Chords of Humanity, the song he wrote that when he was 17 was used by Doctors Without Borders, and instead found that it was used in a Fallout New Vegas mod that he may also have made at 17?

The Rockwell Pursuit

A Large Expansive Quest Mod has the courier travelling across Post-Apocalyptic America. To reunite the Rockwell People with their Superstruc

which is a sequel to another mod that's also credited to a Dylan Hollis, which I'm not necessarily assuming is him. Could have been a different Dylan Hollis who happened to have found the song by searching his name--oh, wait, there's a video of game play (with the song as background), and there's a tiny bit of voice acting...yeah, that's him.

[dollsahoy]

More people finding out his Fallout affinity thanks to this shirt

[squeaksterr]

reblog game tell me a girl character youre obsessed with (men you headcanon as women are not allowed)

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

What will one day destroy each of the 50 US States

Alabama - Absorbed by Wyoming Alaska - Absorbed by Wyoming Arizona - Absorbed by Wyoming Arkansas - Absorbed by Wyoming California - Attempts to contain the spread of Wyoming by rigging itself with nuclear bombs Colorado - Absorbed by Wyoming Connecticut - Absorbed by Wyoming Delaware - Absorbed by Wyoming Florida - Missing, presumed absorbed by Wyoming Georgia - Absorbed by Wyoming Hawaii - Absorbed by Wyoming after the state survived California's suicide attack and continued to grow Idaho - Absorbed by Wyoming Illinois - Sacrifices itself trying to give Kentucky enough time to find the lost sword Indiana - Absorbed by Wyoming Iowa - Absorbed by Wyoming Kansas - Absorbed by Wyoming Kentucky - Attempts to wield the Wyoming Slayer alone and is not strong enough Louisiana - Absorbed by Wyoming Maine - Absorbed by Wyoming Maryland - Absorbed by Wyoming Massachusetts - Attempts to wield the Wyoming Slayer alone, and is not strong enough Michigan - Absorbed by Wyoming Minnesota - Absorbed by Wyoming Mississippi - Absorbed by Utah Missouri - Begs Utah not to go down this path, and is cut down Montana - Absorbed by Wyoming Nebraska - Absorbed by Utah Nevada - Tries to offer itself as a servant to Wyoming, telling it that together they could rule the world, but is absorbed New Hampshire - Absorbed by Utah New Jersey - Absorbed by Utah New Mexico - Gives its energy to Utah in the hopes that it will be able to stop Wyoming New York - Absorbed by Wyoming North Carolina - Attempts to wield the Wyoming Slayer alone, and is not strong enough North Dakota - Absorbed by Utah Ohio - Absorbed by Wyoming Oklahoma - Absorbed by Wyoming seconds after it finishes deciphering the runes on the handle of the Wyoming Slayer, managing only to croak out the word, "Too" Oregon - Absorbed by Wyoming Pennsylvania - Absorbed by Wyoming Rhode Island - Absorbed by Utah South Carolina - Sacrifices itself in order to get the Wyoming Slayer to Utah South Dakota - Absorbed by Utah Tennessee - Absorbed by Utah Texas - Absorbed by Utah Utah - Attempts to wield the Wyoming slayer and is burnt by its protective magics Vermont- Absorbed by Wyoming Virginia - Plunges itself into the gullet of the ever growing Wyoming to recover the sword which it ate Washington - Absorbed by Wyoming West Virginia - Absorbed by Wyoming Wisconsin - Cries, "I know what Oklahoma meant!" as it readies itself for its last stand. "Not 'too'! Together! It must be used together!" then reaches its arms into the monster's mouth, and takes hold of the sword with Virginia and with all the other states that have been eaten and lends its strength to all of them for one final attack, even as Wyoming's claws dig into its farmlands Wyoming - Stands startled for a few seconds, before beginning to crumble

[apolladay]

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The King in Yellow

The Lottery

The Masque of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw

The Most Dangerous Game

The Nameless City

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Veldt

“you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Voting ended onApr 30

[impishglee]

i’m curious what arbitrary and specific flavors people dislike are. rb and tag a Taste you simply don’t fuck with. for flavor reasons not texture reasons. for me? i do not like elderflower or caraway for whatever reason

[sonicfrontiers]

do you want to play tomodachi life but don't have a switch, $60, or just don't want to pay nintendo $60?

here's an all-in-one site where you can download everything you need to emulate it!

Floralith beta — downloads and setup.

also, with an emulator, you can directly screenshot and record your game, and even mod it! add custom hair parts! import photos directly! remove region locks! emulate it!!

everything?

everything! this site will walk you through downloading the ryujinx switch emulator, the firmware and keys needed, and the nsp game file for tomodachi life ltd.

is this safe?

the files are all directly downloaded from this site, so there's no third party to worry about. i didn't make this site - it was created by PotentialAd943 on reddit, who claims they scanned their files clean before hosting. just to be sure, i scanned my pc after downloading too. it all came up clean! but it's good to be aware of pc safety, especially when pirating. it can't hurt to do a scan of your own to be sure!

how much pc knowledge do i need for this?

you should know how to download files, how to make and manage folders in file explorer, and how to navigate a program's settings menu.

any settings i should change in ryujinx?

here's some i recommend checking before starting the game:

for tomodachi life specifically, make sure you set a timezone in settings! you can have it match your pc's time for simplicity.

there are ostensibly keyboard controls, but they're a little wonky to figure out. if you can, plugging in any controller should work just fine. just make sure to select it in ryujinx's input settings! (you should also still be able to use your mouse for things like drawing facepaint!)

graphics settings will be on a per-pc basis, depending on your pc's strength. it's worth it to experiment with them and see what gives you the best performance. ryujinx will explain what each setting does if you hover over it!

the game crashed?

that's very likely to happen! on first time loading a scene, the emulator can sometimes struggle. it happened to me the first time i opened the mii editor, and the first time i opened the news station. you should be able to relaunch and everything will be fine. if it's happening super frequently, though, you may need to adjust your graphics or cpu settings!

a sixth thing i didn't think of?

feel free to leave a reblog with comment or send me an ask! if you need more specific guidance, i'll be happy to help! i'm not an expert on emulation, but if nothing else, i can try to point you towards a reddit thread that is more competent than i am

i hope you have fun playing the game! i did not create this site, but i found the creator in a single reddit thread asking people to spread the word, so i figured i'd do what i can and make this post. if it works for you, please help out and spread the word even further! thank you!!

[doyoulikethis-videogame-song]

Visit Original Link

Do you like this Video Game Song? #2892

I like it and I've definitely heard it before

I like it and it sounds familiar

I like it and this is my first time hearing it

I don't feel strongly about it or have a complex opinion

I don't like it and I've definitely heard it before

I don't like it and it sounds familiar

I don't like it and this is my first time hearing it

Voting ended onApr 25

[aropride]

could an average, able-bodied person reasonably walk from where you live to a library, in good weather?

yes, because i live at a school/college etc with a library

yes, very easily

yes, there's a library in a reasonable walking distance

yes, but it'd take a while / terrain would suck to navigate

yes, but it'd take so long / be difficult enough to do that nobody would

no, there's no library in a reasonable walking distance

Voting ended onApr 23

[silvervampire-79]

Full moon redraw (of the redraw)

2022 - 2024 - 2026 (apparently I redraw it every 2 years hdhd)

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Hey! Spin this Wheel of all Pokemon Abilities!

You now have this Ability in your real life!

How do you feel?

HELL YEAH THIS IS AWESOME

This is extremely great!

This is very good!

This is… pretty good

This… could be worse?

I feel utterly neutral about this

This has very strong upsides and downsides, feel conflicted

This is basically useless to me!

This… isn’t great

This sucks…

This is really bad, actually!

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

Voting ended onApr 11

[dawnbrigayde]

i know we all love taking personality quizzes but we should drop the german or autistic one.

this one, yes. this quiz is published by the millerman school, run by dr. michael millerman.

putting it briefly, dr. millerman actively aids, bolsters and abets his clients and students into studying and upholding various schools of thought that justify white supremacy, imperialism, zionism and nazism by proliferating the reasoning that lies behind these views as a countermovement and alternative to modern academia.

putting it less briefly, dr. michael millerman specialises, specifically, in the study of martin heidegger, leo strauss, carl schmitt and aleksandr dugin. while in-depth study alone is not neccessarily indicative and can be beneficial in the development of leftist thought, he also serves as the foremost english access point to dugin's philosophies due to his translation work; something he did explicitly in partnership with arktos, a publisher focused on proliferating and supporting, as stated on their website blurb, in right and traditionalist ideas.

you might also recognise that two out of these four philosophers were members of the nazi party, whilst strauss was a zionist and dugin is a contemporary neo-fascist supporting both the 2014 annexation of crimea as well as the 2022 invasion of ukraine, each of these analysed on a foundation of plato and socrates' schools of thought.

it is additionally difficult to take any of his work in good faith when his own website and reviews are rife with statements such as:

Every decision you make rests on assumptions you haven't examined. About power. About what liberalism is and where it's going. About the relationship between technology and the human. About who your real competitors are and what game you're actually playing. I work with a small number of clients — privately, one-on-one — to surface those assumptions, trace them to their origins in the Western tradition, and sharpen the thinking that drives consequential action. Not philosophy-lite. The real thing, applied to your situation. (source, april 2026)

Michael - the creator of Ancient Greece Revisited and the host of the On Tyranny podcast - found out about us through my interview with Students for Western Civilization. He was intrigued by the idea of "right-wing anti-liberalism" and especially by the thought that, as a rule, we do not study the thinkers from that tradition. He heard me mention Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger and reached out for private tutoring. (source, april 2026)

(national post, 2018. quoted april 2026.)

regardless of the extent of benefit of the doubt offered, the bare minimum assumption of his lack of self-consciousness in acknowledging his and his behaviors' influence upon politics and right wing movements is staggeringly naive at best and unfathomably damaging at worst. the less charitable assumption is that thats a nazi, tip to toe. i hope that this is not the kind of person the majority of us would like to platform.

ignore bigots and their enablers, do not engage. we can do better than this.