Sorry, Still Not Ginger

Morgan, 20s, any/all. How much do I use this blog? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ MY DOCTOR WHO SPOILER TAG IS dw spoilers. DO BLOCK IF YA WANNA. (I'll be tagging trailer bits on that tag too) Please do ask if you want something specific tagging- I tag anyway so it's easy to add a specific. Expect Doctor Who (esp big finish and new series), Discworld, and general bits mostly.

[dinomoder]

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

[potato-lord-but-not]

Reread Monstrous Regiment a few months ago and forgot to show y’all my doodles of the booyyyysssssss

[hoodiehorizon]

Me the first half of The Backrooms: "oh I get it. He's a down on his luck failed architect and even more failed furniture store owner who's trying to better himself. He'll probably be fascinated with the furniture/architecture of the backrooms and start selling the items there for money + notoriety. And eventually he'll go deeper and deeper to get more and more items until he gets trapped and encounters The Horrors. A classic tale of hubris :) "

Me the second half of the backrooms:

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

I am once again saying that romana should really be physically disabled after everything she has gone through

[energyprison]

Having a job is an awesome way to stay hydrated because you get so bored you start drinking water just for a little excitement

[recoil-operated-deactivated2021]

Only People Who Can See RED Really Well Can Read These Words

Will you be seeing red after taking this quiz?

I can only read “dogs” and only see anything in one other. I see nothing in any other.

[bunjywunjy]

8/10 but fuck, OW.

[stevolteon]

8/10 also!

[homoeroticjunoincident]

people NEED to stop gatekeeping making music like ohhhh i don’t have an instrument ohhhhh i don’t know music theory ohhhhh i’m not gonna pay for some program. SHUT UP. take my hand.

you need NONE of that shit!!!!! there’s a website called beepbox.co. literally all you have to do is press things until it sounds a modicum of nice. it’s easy it’s free and it works on anything which has a browser because it’s a website.

if even ONE person starts making music bc of this post it will be worth it.

making bad music is just as important and okay as it is to write badly or draw badly or sing badly. you AREN’T BEHOLDEN TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC. making music is not utilitarian HAVE FUN. HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!

[homoeroticjunoincident]

love how people will encourage people to just start making shit and see what happens when it comes to drawing and writing but when it comes to beginner musicians (music makers if you wish to be less formal) it’s just COMPLETE RADIO SILENCE. it feels like no one even knows you MAKE music it just sprouts up from the ground one day and some guy picks it up. am i alone in this dark cave

[godofautism-deactivated20240303]

Fuck it

I'm gonna try and make music

Call me betovan bc I'm deaf as fuck /j

[terri-theslime13]

HELL YEAH!!!

[unhinged-popsocket]

Alternatively if you wanna get into music producing in a more “proper” way, you still don’t need any money.

Ableton has excellent free websites to learn the basics:

Learning Music

Learning Synths

You can learn basically everything you need on YouTube. I recommend:

Mercurial Tones Academy

Dan Worrall

Bthelick

A lot of your favorite artists, mainly in electronic music, likely have done track breakdowns, you can watch those to learn how they do things.

DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) ultimately all do the same things, and Cakewalk is a great FREE fully fledged one. Sure it has some issues, and doesn’t have many plugins included, but it works just fine. All the music I released so far was made there, before I made the jump to Ableton.

As for VST plugins:

Vital is an excellent free synth

Native Instruments Komplete Start is a good free collection of plugins

TDR Nova is a great free EQ

There’s a lot of others and I don’t wanna name everything I’m aware of here, but feel free to DM me for more (Or if you have any other questions and stuff too).

And as for samples, you can get a bunch of free ones at:

Cymatics

Ghosthack

Having good headphones is nice and what I’d recommend you invest in first once it comes to it, but even your current ones will probably be fine, mainly if you slap AutoEQ onto them to flatten the frequency response. And ultimately, music isn’t all about the mixing, the most important part is conveying an emotion.

I know this goes against the spirit of the original post a little, but I want people to know that getting into music production also no longer costs thousands, you can just do it at home on your computer without no money.

[unhinged-popsocket]

Yeah, there is still quite the learning curve, I get that, though it’s also why it’s managed to hold me as a hobby for so long.

I do however have something of the exact opposite variety too, the most simple way to make music I know of, and a wonderful little semi-social experience, along the lines of the game Journey:

The New PLINK! is the long overdue update of #plink by @DinahmoeSTHLM. Jam with friends and strangers all over the world.

[plaguery]

hi op i think you should know that i did indeed make a song for the first time because of this

Visit Original Link

[daco-showman]

why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic

[transhuman-priestess]

He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

Capitalism is disgusting.

[fuckblast]

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

[transhuman-priestess]

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

[at-the-end-of-all]

so if clerk carmine really is the fiddler at finnick and annie’s wedding it has to be so crazy to be him. imagine your cousins nice capitol boyfriend becomes a murderous dictator and then he kills your adopted daughter and her boyfriends family and then you get to watch your distant relative go to the games and spark a rebellion wearing a pin of the bird lucy gray loved so much and singing your families songs. singing one of your families songs IN the arena which no one has done since lucy gray herself. and knowing she knows nothing about why that is so significant.

[autumn-sweet-fae]

Cannot get the concept of Eridian Opera out of my head.

It’s the closest thing to show biz on Erid. The orchestra and actors are the stars and divas of culture. Of course someone writes an opra about Rocky meeting the alien Grace and saving the stars together.

The casting call to play Rocky would be so cut throat. And Rocky can’t really give any opinion on who to pick since he’s been out of the pop culture loop for 50 years. (A fact the writers use in writing the script. Purposely giving Rocky dated Eridian slang.)

As for Graces actor, the theater’s master puppeteer becomes invested in making as accurate a puppet as possible to play their alien. In the end they would create a puppet where, instead of stuffing, it is filled with sacks and tubes full of fluid. Including an air pump to churn it and a constant beating of what would be a human heart. The puppeteer tries to capture just how horrifyingly alien Grace is in the best way for Eridians, through sound design.

And that’s just the puppet for the actors to interact with. For the audience, I could see the orchestra Amplifying the sounds of the human body during scenes like when Grace hugs Rocky. Or used for laughs when Rocky points out how flawed the human body is as he describes it to the audience.

Actual Rocky being a puppeteer nerd as a pebble. So when the theater gets approval to send the Opera stars to meet Rocky and Grace during the press tour, Rocky straight up pushes past the glamorous opera divas to meet the puppeteer instead.

Rocky is excited to share with them the fact that so much his and Grace earliest communication was through puppet shows.

(The first act , puppet tradition and costuming)

[ofbeinghonests]

if you have one, tag with the "6 degrees of separation" you have with a celebrity

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

Stuck in a historical war

You are stuck as a soldier in this historical war

(this is a magical universe where people who wouldn't usually be able to fight would. so you can all suffer.)

How are you doing?

good somehow

I might survive

OW

dead

results/other

Voting ended on6h

[aroace-ryland-grace]

rocky eats shit (colourised)

[not-equippedforthis]

thinking about grace having to explain glasses because it's been 3 months together on the hail mary and rocky's just realised he has no idea what the squares grace puts on his face exactly are apart from apparently helping him to see things up close. and rocky being like so you can't see through walls you have to have a light source to see you can't see anything when leaking and your eyes specifically don't even work properly. question. and grace is like at least i can see colour pal

[ainecdote-remade-deactivated202]

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

[sloppity-bilepiper]

1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

[vintagedean]

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"

[taran-wood-beast]

Seventh Doctor rules because if you try to kill him he'll calmly talk you into a fugue state and erase your entire civilization from the Web of Time but if you give him a gentle shove he'll pratfall head-over-heels backwards down the stairs and land with his head in a bucket of water

[w0rms-w0rms-w0rms]

Concept: a version of Havelock Vetinari with some kind of lifelong chronic pain condition. Hear me out.

A lot of elements of Vetinari's character could be explained and actually made more interesting by chronic illness. At least in my experience, living with chronic pain forces you to develop a degree of control over your body (e.g. not freaking people out around you by visibly being in pain all the time through facial expressions / voice tone), it can give you a ridiculous pain tolerance, and for some people puts you in a position where you end up with a strong internal fortress which is relatively unshakeable by inconveniences of the physical world, similar to Stoicism in its original ancient philosophical sense -- even when your body is completely going to shit with a million symptoms, you are still Yourself, and you remain rational.

Basically, in short, some people react to chronic pain by becoming a rock in almost all situations.

Now, Vetinari is a man who can be calm when being imprisoned and theoretically having his life in danger; he is able to remain rational and make reasonable decisions when having literally just been shot; and he is able to tolerate the discomfort of being poisoned whilst not allowing the inability to care for himself to affect his internal sense of self. His reactions could for sure be the result of years of training and immense self-discipline (which is the textual implication), but I think it adds a layer of something interesting if he has built up a tolerance to physical and situational discomfort through being in agony for the majority of his life. If this is the case, then I think it's really cool that his disability would actually make him a better Patrician.

As an added bonus, I think this interpretation gets extra fun when you bring in the fact that he's very pale and skinny (pain and other chronic symptoms can affect appetite, and the paleness is kind of self-explanatory), and the fact that he doesn't sleep much (pain-somnia).

Idk. I find it fun to imagine that not only is he resilient and level-headed in the face of crisis because that's the kind of person he is and has trained himself to be, but that he has been forced to become that way by a body which doesn't give him any other choice, other than to simply give up.