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jaypilled

are those my only options

lindleland

disco elysium dialogue tree

pankendev

they made "cunt" a bad word? literally one of my favorite things?

featheryfallenangel

l0s3r-g0r3-d3s7r0y4

What if silence is in fact a sound, but because its a universal sound we just adapted to it and dont notice it anymore

friends-of-magic

I actually just wrote a paper on this!!

The short of it is, yes, that's exactly what happens. There's no such thing as pure silence outside of a vacuum (and inside a vacuum you'd be dead). So basically your ears are constantly adapting to the noise threshold of your surroundings and slowly ignoring it. If you were in a perfectly silent room (anechoic chambers are cool!) you would actually start to hear the sound of existing!

aquilacalvitium

darkarfs

Isn't there some room full of sound baffling foam or something that absorbs all ambient noise and most people go mad from the isolation because they start to hear things like their own circulatory system and their heartbeat pounding in their ears?

Ah, there it is. Orfield Labratories in Minnesota. They say the longest anyone's been able to stay inside was 45 minutes, as they could hear their lungs expanding and their digestive system working overtime.

persianmom-deactivated20260602

we must try to find some small joy in this life because it is actually all we have

persianmom-deactivated20260602

inrethssoupflask

because nobody asked — more reth headcanons!

• he styles his hair into twists every day but he firmly believes that whatever the back of his head looks like is none of his business. he does take them out when (if) he sleeps.

• he flirts with his customers all the time because he genuinely believes that no one will actually take him seriously. he just thinks the flattery will get him more tips. (it does.)

• he doesn’t really have the time to take them as often as he’d like, but he loves a hot bath. he almost always adds extra aromatics to the water like fancy oils, milks, epsom salts, and flowers. because of this, he refers to bath time as “reth soup”

• he sleeps either completely naked in a bed made up with clean sheets, or fully clothed face down sitting at a table somewhere. there is absolutely no middle ground.

• he loves reading whatever he can about human cooking. he can’t source all the ingredients because a lot of them are extremely rare or extinct, but he substitutes with Palian alternatives and hopes for the best.

inrethssoupflask

reth / villager interaction headcanons that I think about almost daily

• zeki is the one who taught reth how to pick locks. at first, he broke so many lockpicks that zeki started charging him for them. after that, reth improved staggeringly fast.

• when he started working for the cartel, he stocked up on so much coffee that when tish tried to open the kitchen cabinet, an avalanche of espresso beans spilled out of a torn bag all over the counter. she made him clean it up and immediately enforced a household coffee inventory limit of one (1) bag. he moved the rest to the storeroom.

• ashura was the first person to taste test the lettuce soup recipe. he didn’t want to hurt reth’s feelings, so he said it had a “very unique flavor” and reth assumed he liked it so much he put it on the menu without formally asking permission. ashura didn’t have the heart to tell him otherwise.

• jel desperately wants to redesign reth’s chef jacket, but he can’t bear the thought of it getting dirty and stained in the kitchen. tish catches him staring longingly at reth so much she thinks he has a crush on him, but he’s actually just lamenting over the fact that he’ll never be able to dress him properly without reth ruining his work.