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Welcome to the complete and utter miscellany I call a blog! Expect dragons, fanart, dumb memes, and whatever I else like at the moment.  Over 18. Sometimes I write or draw. Enjoy your stay.

[fleebites]

junicorn

day 29

‘flock’

[headspace-hotel]

my brother and I get on bandcamp and click on songs from the live updating list of albums that are selling and we listen to 30 seconds or so of a song and if we like it we add it to a playlist. and we call this "foraging for music."

anyways one of terminology we have coined to talk about music is "Knee Music" which is derived from the fact that album covers that show a person's knees tend to sound the same as each other. It's kind of a sleepy, grungy indie folk pop sound with youthful-sounding, vocals that affect a candid and vulnerable feeling.

or anyway we found multiple album covers with knees in quick succession, and they all sounded the same, hence "Knee Music"

but it doesn't have to be knees to be Knee Music. any kind of blurry, candid-looking photos that include skinny white people is likely to be knee music

[headspace-hotel]

My other brother's method of foraging for music is slightly more complicated: he gets on everynoise and uses random number generators to get a random genre, a random artist, and then a random song from that artist.

For a while, his method was slightly different, instead choosing a random genre and listening to it until he found a song from that genre that he liked.

However, this could be very time-consuming. once he became trapped for a long time in "geek rap" which was mostly a lot of people rapping in potentially spanish or portuguese (?) about Five Nights at Freddy's

[headspace-hotel]

My brother and I have a rating system where we rate songs on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 is absolute dogshit and 7 is the best song ever.

The challenge in this is that even if a song isn't particularly pleasant to listen to, novelty will increase the rating, because it's something interesting we haven't heard before. So, it's incredibly difficult for a song to get the lowest rating, because a song that is outstandingly bad has something different about it to make it bad, which paradoxically makes it good.

We had a very hard time rating this song, Burial Etiquette- Ivy Staircase in Ruin. We both disliked it, but we had never disliked a song in this way. The harsh vocals are so far to the background and relatively quiet that it's like, a kind of generic song but there's a guy screaming incoherently somewhere in the next room

We didn't like the harsh vocals, but we also thought they should raise the rating of the song because they made it weirder. We ultimately didn't settle on a rating at all for it.

[headspace-hotel]

We both agree that the best random song we found is Butcher Brown- No Way Around It. It is groovy and makes you want to dance, with a unique style.

The genre is Funk, so we looked into funk some more, but it turns out that funk is not very popular anymore and it was popular mostly in the 1970s.

Only one other random song we rated with a 7, which is Thrailkill- Cattywampus.

Those are the two songs we rated with a 7. I haven't counted up how many songs we rated yet, but the ratings suggest that an excellent song is hard to find...

[headspace-hotel]

The random songs we rated with a 6 are these. a 6 rating means it is a really good song that we would listen to again and again but not the most excellent song possible

Benny Bleu- Five Miles from Town

Death Threat Cassette- Use Your Delusion

[headspace-hotel]

@red-naxe

(Regarding the song Burial Etiquette- Ivy Staircase in Ruin)

exactly! weird art has a charm and fascination to it.

[headspace-hotel]

today's foraging for music was successful as we found two more songs that we gave a rating of 6

Gabor Szabo- Some Velvet Morning It has a unique and complex energy with some unusual twangy strings in it that sound good and kind of groovy, and a lovely solo in the middle. It is skillful and fun, doing a lot of different things with subtlety.

Spillings- Terminal Agitation This song is atmospheric, menacing and unsettling, slowly building and developing, the sounds distorting and corroding, with an ominous voice and tortured screams. I love how the kind of "dripping" sound at the beginning ties it all together. It pulls off what it is trying to do so exceptionally well, evoking feelings of dread and horror and inspiring a story to unfold in your mind.

[eldritchbauble]

You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. Outrage about hedonism is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radical rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.

[swanprincex]

i hope you dont mind, i was posessed by these words until i drew this little zine and i just thought id put it here

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

shauty i dont. MIND

[zmpl]

how come the only posts of mine that breach containment are the vent posts that piss people off. why don’t you all reblog this instead: 🦭

[campyvillain]

i see it so i See it I see Thart with me EyeBals

when i see it i Look at it Put my eyes on it with My sightballs I look with my look balls and see It so in front of me

i see it with my eyedbarls

[orcboxer]

Things that work in fiction but not real life

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

heterosexual cowboy

[orcboxer]

This post breaching containment has taught me that a lot of people seem to think they can accurately profile complete strangers. For the record, no the fuck you can't.

[orcboxer]

When I was a youngun, my dad, as one of them vocal rural conservatives who imagined there to be some undefined liberal miasma out in the world corrupting the youth gayward, always made me do Masculine Activities™ to "build character" (code for "make you more masculine") which of course never had any effect other than pissing me off, not least of all because I was keenly aware these activities were completely arbitrary and pointless every single time. He once demanded I accompany him to the walmart because he was going to buy tools in the hardware section and it would be "a good learnin experience" so I begrudgingly tagged along and I'll never forget this because he stood in that aisle and deliberated one singular item for two hours and forty-six of god's own minutes and then left the store without buying anything. And I'm gay now. So, catastrophic failure on all fronts.

[charlesoberonn]

I feel like a better rule than “Show, don’t tell” is “Express, don’t state”

Because a lot of people interpret “show don’t tell” as “use visuals instead of dialog” or “play out scenes instead of referencing/describing them” which is an arbitrary rule that doesn’t communicate well what the issue is.

What I mean by “Express, don’t state” is that the facts of your story should be conveyed through the story’s elements instead of stated in the story.

If a character is depressed or guilt ridden, it should be expressed through their attitude, their actions, their decisions, their reactions, etc. instead of stating “this character is depressed”. Whether it’s done through dialog or a visual of a rainy cloud doesn’t matter, because it’s still conveyed directly to the audience instead of being evident in the text itself.

In fact, sometimes having a character describe a scene or a diagnosis or whatever using dialog can express a lot more than showing the scene itself.

[melifair]

This is the best way I’ve seen this described

[klapollo]

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.

[triplehamburgerjack]

Their other brand is EARTHBOUND ORGANICS!!!

[t4timekeeper]

anyway i think fans of unjustly overhated female characters and fans of unjustly overhated characters of colour should unionize

[moonwyvern]

Grandma Vhagar watching over Baela and Rhaena flying a kite, with Moondancer having fun too 🪁

[facelessoldgargoyle]

i fucking hate the “this is the good luck post.” Girl stop contributing to a superstitious environment with ur anecdotes there’s a million goddamn notes on it it’s statistically reasonable that a bunch of people remember the good things that happen after they reblog it

[yvfu]

this is the statistically reasonable post, reblogging it will have no effect except for putting this post on your blog

[moral-autism]

guys this post really works! I reblogged it and it really did put the post on my blog! you need to try it!

[foxpost-generator]

it fucken WIMDY

[foxpost-generator]

At some point will I be banned for the crime of becoming a girl. Then wimdy shall be no more.

[foxpost-generator]

@voidmenace thank you! I forget to mention it much. I have been a girl for 17 months now, it’s the best and most clearly correct decision I have ever made.

[foxpost-generator]

I really need a feminised edit of Wimdy Fox but… I don’t think foxes have any visible secondary sex characteristics. Hmm.

[small-witch-big-hat]

[foxpost-generator]

oh fuck yes

[ilovedthestars]

"how do you feel about labels as a queer person?"

[395nm]

道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。

[eakiturtle]

unironically learning that all models in science are just approximations and therefore technically all incorrect, just with use cases, (all models are wrong some are useful) helped me feel more secure with being GNC and not wanting to find the right labels or adhere to the ones i was supposed to . Sometimes it's not realistic to communicate to people every single nuance of your gender sometimes you just have to cap out the data at three significant figures

[sycamorality]

i think you should post about rain world again you're boring as fuck dude

?????

[sycamorality]

i named the wolf your ask

[sycamorality]

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

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