in d&d hell

Kiki. (she/they) Venezuelan. 24. Bi.

[loafofryebread]

neither a morning or night person but a secret third thing (always tired)

[peach-pot]

trans guy who doesn’t realize he’s turning into a werewolf because he assumes it’s all just normal side effects of starting testosterone

[peach-pot]

trans girl who doesn’t realize she’s turning into a vampire because she assumes it’s all just normal side effects of starting estrogen

[peach-pot]

post paused, let’s talk about this now

[fencehopping]

Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.

[afloydianslip-deactivated201705]

H O W 

like you can tell me all you want how the sound is stored in the grooves but fucking H O W 

HOW DOES THAT GET INTO THE NEEDLE

HOW ARE THE VIBRATIONS TURNED INTO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN HEAR???

H O W

[disparition]

The vibrations aren’t “turned into” music, they are music. When vibrations occur inside your inner ear, your brain processes this as sound.

The grooves in a record are an analogy for these vibrations, a method of remembering them so that they can be recreated later on. 

Put your hand on a speaker while loud music is playing and you’ll feel the vibrations. Those are exactly the same vibrations happening inside your ear when you hear the music. 

But how do you capture that? 

Take a surface that vibrates strongly when a sound is played, like the skin of a drumhead for example. Connect that surface to a little tool - when sound causes the surface to vibrate, the tool digs a little bit into some wax, leaving behind a pattern that matches - in proportion - the vibrations of the surface caused by the sound. This is your analogy (hence: analog music). 

Now, when there’s no sound playing, you run that little tool back over the pattern. This causes the skin to vibrate again, this time in response to the tool running over the pattern instead of because of an external sound. The vibrations should match, proportionally, the original vibrations of the music.. and thus these new vibrations, if you were to amplify them, would be a recreation or “recording” of the original music. 

That’s oversimplified of course and things have changed a lot since the days of wax, but that is very basically how the process of recording music worked at first, and the general idea of how sound gets from a groove in a record into your brain. 

[roe-your-boat]

(reblogging for Disparition commentary) 

[mr-hoodrat-deactivated20170607]

Thank you Science side of tumblr

[burndownmiddletown-deactivated2]

I hugely appreciate people taking to the time explain stuff like this, as it helps put an end to the “wow, science is magic!” trope that’s become far too common.

[girlwithhorn]

Mount Macedon Hiking Guide

A comic by Mia Nie. Made or the Emerging Writers' Festival.

[songoftrillium]

[doyouknowwhatimeme]

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

everyone is always acting like there is some crisis of human interaction with one another because everyone is overly sensitive to how strangers approach them and like. no actually its because nobody has any fucking manners. social etiquette has legitimately vanished. it makes interacting with strangers miserable because people don’t know how to fucking behave in public.

like it is rude to stare. it is rude to point. it is rude to have a loud phone conversation in a quiet place. it’s rude to listen to music or videos or whatever on your device with no headphones on a loud volume, or at any volume in an enclosed or quiet space. these are rude things to do. like i’m sorry while some etiquette is silly, an acceptable level of decorum is necessary to make existing in public bearable for everybody…….it is LITERALLY common courtesy

[ralkana]

Also, do not fucking photograph or film people without their consent!

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

sending "?" to represent myself tilting my head like a dog

[crotchapple]

A succubus but instead of stealing your soul through sex she kisses you and your wallet disappears

[crotchapple]

She may have just been a pickpocket idk it was dark

[crotchapple]

Good try but this is already a 6 month old flop post

[emmy-bue]

My favorite thing about Sweeney Todd is that Sweeney gets into the killing-and-baking people business because he’s a deeply broken man destroyed by an unjust and corrupt system that cost him his freedom and family and has been driven mad by revenge.

And Mrs Lovett does it because somthin wrong with her <3

[eathotchip-deactivated20240816]

are u mad at me moodboard

[e-102]

​one of these cats looks weird

[metalgearemily]

this one ?

[e-102]

why did you say that

[dykebeckett]

hey. yeah it happened- yeah it happened again. yeah I got caught up in the magic of storytelling again sorry. it will happen again

[soup-erb]

[natequarter]

oh so when a bunch of roman senators kill their leader it's #girlboss but when i, macbeth,

[fagcrisis]

ideologically i disagree with outside cats but i cannot deny the allure of being able to just meet a little guy anytime anywhere

[memorycycle]

the worlds most shy animal has just built up enough courage to sniff you

[traceexcalibur]

INTRODUCING: THE PRISONER’S TROLLEY PROBLEMMA

A trolley full of your loved ones is heading down the tracks and will hit another loved one. If you redirect it, it will hit three strangers, but all of your loved ones will be fine. However, there is another person on the other side of the tracks facing the same problem. If you both choose to redirect the trolleys, they will crash in the middle, killing almost everyone. 

The least amount of people will die if you do nothing and allow a loved one to die, the best-case scenario for you will occur if you pull your lever and the other person does not pull theirs, and the worst-case scenario will occur if you both pull your levers.

What do you do???

[argumate]

good lord