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“Cats don’t actually love you”

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

cloudidoodles

Cozy fat goat fall

cryptotheism

Having a fursona is not inherently sexual. In the current social climate I see it like having a business card.

alienpapacy

"The tasteful thickness of it."

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I think one of my favourite Votann things (among several) is the fact Einhyr Champions can hyper accelerate themselves fast enough to absolutely fold several astartes at once with sheer impact force. Imagine being a random chaos cultist or guardsman and watching a 4ft tall dude shotgun himself across a battlefield and launch Lord Astartes Xelarnon the Mighty straight through a rockrete bunker

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Alien: Earth SDCC Promotional Poster (2025) William Gibson's Alien 3 variant cover (2018) + Alien: Earth unused original concept sketches (2025) by Tradd Moore

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Supportive!

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Music of Lands Between

Today I really want to ramble about the importance of music we can hear from Elden Ring NPCs bc it makes me feel A LOT. Here's a small video compilation

One of the things that make fictional world building actually GOOD and believable for me is the existence of art in the world. Often art is an urge to express the feelings in reaction to some events or to just cope; it's a catharsis. If the fictional world has history, it would have art history as well. What strikes me about the existence of music in Lands Between is the fact that this world is broken and ruined; and yet...there's an urge to create. The culture still exists and develops. The fact that the developers included these little details in the game's world makes it feel alive.

1) A page playing flute. It seems that they're playing it by the graveyard? I love how this melody fits the ambient music of Leyndell...and the atmosphere of it, too; the grief and the pain and the sombre hope in this city.

2) Chanting Winged Dame and her song of lament. What is interesting, is that the lyrics have a meaning - she signs about the sadness of the fate of this world. Beautiful song and I love that we can hear it from afar.

3) Nomadic Merchant's song. I love how sombre it is, I love how uniquely their culture is designed, I love the fact that the fingers are animated in sync with this melody, I love how it reflects the mood of the environment. They've lost everything, but the music, the important part of their culture, is still with them.

4) The songs of the Ancestral Follower Shamans is what made this place unique and otherworldly to me, such beautiful voice.

5) Frenzied Nomad surrounded by its people who went insane because of the Flame of Frenzy. Love the horrific contrast between the jovial melody and the horrid environment.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

arnaerr

I wrote more bc I'm crazy

snackpony

nick's favorite song art fight attack #2!

storywonker

They recorded tinnitus? It's a physical thing?????

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Lola De La Mata speaks to Patrick Clarke about how her experience with severe tinnitus and vertigo fed into her new album Oceans On Azimuth

Source

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Transcript:

The most mind-blowing moment, not only for De La Mata but the scientists too, came when they managed to actually record the sounds that she heard in her ears – which now appear as ‘Left Ear’ and ‘Right Ear’ which begin sides A and B on the album – and in doing so opened up questions about the nature of tinnitus itself. “The NHS definition is that it’s a phantom sound that your brain is creating, that it isn’t something ‘real’, so you should try to ignore it.” By having De La Mata place her ear into an anechoic chamber, with an ultra-sensitive microphone perched in her ear canal, they were able to provide significant evidence to the contrary. “After the first recording of it, it was ‘There’s no way, this isn’t possible.’” They tried again with her breath held, and again with her tensing her ears, and again with other members of staff, but each time it became apparent that yes, the noises De La Mata hears are seemingly something physical.

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HOLY SHIT THAT'S WHAT I HEAR ALL DAY

plague-agent

OH MY GOD.

I have been on a journey since January to address the sudden and mysterious and worsening tinnitus that has gotten so loud that it becomes impossible to sleep without a super loud white noise maker. At every step of the way, someone has told me that the sound is just in my head, to just ignore it.

Someone can hear it now. I can show people. It’s real. It’s physical. It’s tangible.

I finally got a diagnosis of TMJ about a month ago. It doesn’t usually lead to tinnitus, but mine is severe enough that it developed as a symptom after going untreated for a while. Now as I finally, FINALLY start physical therapy to MAYBE get the tinnitus gone and be able to enjoy silence again, I have something to show people. To make them hear what I hear. All the time. Deafeningly. Unignorably. Tangibly. Real-ly.