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they/them | aroace | 18уо | music major | absolute shitpost | multifandom | don't know eng well

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I wanted to make a list of my top fics from all of my fandoms, but then I realized that I can't. I can't even choose one in some fandoms 😭it's so difficult

so I've decided to mention fics that I remember. bc I've read like thousands, it means a lot for me if I'm thinking of fandom and remember one concrete fic that I liked without looking on ao3.

from merlin(tv) i have loaded march. 😝 holy shit I'm in love with it it's so good. ofc there're many other good fics but for me this one stands out

9-1-1(tv)... oh buddies... I think I'm gonna go with Come Away, O Human Child and sweet child, you are a blessing (poor child, you have been cursed). i remember reading a large amount of very good stuff in this fandom but these two I remembered more than others (also you can see that I like magical realism)

in the Harry Potter fandom it's really hard to choose bc my heart belongs to one russian series. В борьбе обретёшь ты (in 1, 2 n 3 parts for now) is awesome. I'm obsessed with worldbuilding. on ao3... for some reason I can only remember Potter and Malfoy's Guide to the Internet🤔

okkkkk, bnha. I really enjoyed reading Walking Study in Demonology, it's soooo good and kinda philosophical. also i think i should mention all this "human are space orcs" fics. OH AND in the face of anger, you say patience before pride. I love psychology. I can't think of anything else but bhna has many others awesome fics....

der ring des nibelungen: Toys and Treasures and Tears⚠️

heated rivalry💥. i think i can pick flaws in the statue of david. also i liked It's all Canadian Vodka's fault. in general i love this fandom for socmed fics

dcu... batman... my boy tim drake... idk man I've read too many, It became a problem. I'll just mention the last fanfic I read that deserves more attention: Frost covers my hands, scales cover my skin. (nvm, just checked my notes where i gave few recs to my friend. hm: the prophetic spring, Heart. Lungs. Blood. Nerves., To Hear, To See, To Smile and The Definition of Valor)

hermitcraft: Phasmobros. phasmophobia au phasmophobia au phasmophobia au.

project hail mary... lets brighten up this dismal swamp a little. SCHEDULE B, SECTION 4: Declaration of exotic pet. also, star trek crossover!!!! the impacts of a cosmic anomaly on the 40 Eridani A star system

i have other fandoms but I'm getting bored so that's it for now. mb some day I'll make p2

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how fandom (me2) see rocky and adrian

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i rlly want to write a fic bout c!grian with hermitcraft setting, but i only know his lore (like watchers, backstory, this sruff), not the others 😔. is there anything that can quickly bring me up to speed with the rest of the hermits?

and I can't do it myself (like, watch all important videos from all channels?????) bc i touch too many grass. I don't have that much time

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okay who tf is the lamp guy? I've seen only one explanation and it was Stephen Hawking😭😭😭.

he must be related to Clark, bc his life still reacted to captain appearance and was scared like Clark wife's life still

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It's called having fun, you should try it

and this is how toxic ooc fanons are created

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egg with the hoes bc he as an angel reaps a harvest of human souls in honor of his deity

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I haven't seen any "rocky is like a pet".

what I've seen is "grace is like a pet"

and i don't like it.

comparing grace to a pet is dehumanising. he's, in fact, kinda dehumanised in an aliens society, bc they don't understand our mentality and don't treat him as one of them. they don't treat him as a pet too, but still.

also i dont like all of this "human biology/culture is stupid, statement". in the book grace and rocky both agreed to each others rights to act in accordance with their culture. in fanfics grace doesn't say anything about erid, but rocky says a lot about earth. idk, with the pet thing it feels really imbalanced to me

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"I'm slowly forgetting your face", but Colt can't.

every time he unexpectedly stumbles upon a new mirror, his heart sinks. just for a mere moment. this moment is not enough to even think about something, but it is enough to cause pain. so he changes himself. he grows his hair long and dyes it black, he gets piercings and grows a beard, he gets tattoos and tries out unusual clothing styles. and when that doesn't help, he stops looking in the mirrors. but they are not the ones who store the memory.

there is a scar on his knee from when he fell off the bike he was riding with his brother. оn his shoulder there is a scattering of moles, the placement of which they compared in childhood. оn his bag hangs a keychain his brother gave him because it "reminds me of you." so he stops trying, he returns to his normal appearance and faces every mirror.

but now he realized that he did not remember those differences that had always seemed obvious to the two of them. hе frantically looks through all the old photographs, but too many years have passed and his face has aged. he doesn't remember if they laughed at their slightly different noses or the different squint, did they have the same lips and how exactly were the moles on their shoulders different. аnd what difference does it make? hе's not getting any younger.

at some point he will look in the mirror and for the first time in a long time he will feel nothing, because... the man in the mirror is not Ryland. Ryland was not so tired, gray and wrinkled. Ryland smiled and seemed to glow with this inner energy, thirst for knowledge and kindness. the man in the mirror is Colt, tired and broken, wrapping himself in an old cardigan in the hope of escaping the all-consuming cold.

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i can't stop thinking bout bloodymary. in the most non-romantical ways but can't

if we assume that Simon is from the future... and even despite the fact that according to the lore, the colonization of Mars began in 1995, which means the story is already different... we'll make the admission for comic effect.

language changes quickly. and it is quite possible that Simon will be able to understand Grace, but will have some specific expressions. and it is also quite possible that some of the slang words from the present may become a common word in the future. and it's even more possible that Grace, being a teacher, knows this slang. and like...

"wow. rocky is lowkirkenuinely a rizzler. adrian's such a baddie, 10/10 gyatt"

"simon, stfu"

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not so usual bloodymary

Grace and Rocky are flying through space on their way to Eris when they suddenly notice a strange anomaly. It seems as if one of the planets simply appeared out of nowhere after a whirlwind of spatial disturbances. This planet is red. The closer the Ave Maria gets, the clearer it becomes that the entire surface is covered in blood. Strange, boiling, but familiar human blood.

The ship's sensors detect movement on the surface. Grace steers the ship even closer. closer and closer, until it becomes possible to discern something covering the entire planet.

It is a tree.

The tree is so huge that its roots have spread across the entire planet. It amazes with its size. Its crown reaches the atmosphere, and its branches, trunk and roots contain an entire ecosystem. and this tree is definitely alive. There are no winds to disturb the fragile foliage, but the tree moves, trembles slightly and sways. It moves its roots and sometimes seems to shift in place, as if tired of sitting still.

"Amaze, amaze, amaze" said Rocky.

Grace felt a slight melancholy. He didn't know if it was because he missed the trees of Earth, or because he couldn't share Rocky's delight. He had no strength, because the comatose state had ended a couple of months ago. But something in his soul seemed to be drawn to this tree. Probably just simple scientific interest.

"Did we record this, Rocky? This planet was definitely not on radar before. maybe some kind of magnetic field was hiding it from us... We'll have to take a look when we arrive at Eris, it's definitely some kind of interesting anomaly."

Ave Maria continued its movement, moving further and further away.

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I have seen takes where Grace snores MEGA LOUD and Rocky is like ‘holy shit that’s so cute he’s purring’ but I raise you this as well: Grace is a teacher, which is like being a parent, so Grace has dad sneezes, which if you don’t know are MEGA LOUD sneezes that are kinda scary (bonus bonus: my dad yawns like someone yelling I hate it it scares me lmao, so this too) and Rocky hears it and is all ‘…holy shit that was so cute wtf noise was that?????’

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when I was a kid, I would hear loud sneezes several (high-rise) buildings away on the and I would understand that my dad was coming home. imagine a sneeze that pierces the space-time continuum to reach earth.

stratt: it's almost like i can still hear him😓

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my fav challenge:

open ao3, search random fandom and just reading fanfics till u can understand the plot and know characters

holy larp but idgaf

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i find it quite interesting how people choose to portray eridian society as close to ideal

i think that it can leads to some psychological researches but i still refuse to read the book to distinguish canon and fanon

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abother day, another eridian hc post

anddddd we're back to the music theme again

so, for this one we're gonna talk bout human biology first

in fact, we still don't know much about the nature of music. there are even speculations about why music appeared in the first place. of the main theories:

• music as part of social bonding. it is known that joint activities bring people together, and music requires a high level of coordination of group activities. a feeling of belonging to a group

• music as a by-product of speech (аuditory cheesecake). then music is a by-product of adaptations such as language, signal recognition, which affects the pleasure centers without providing any practical survival benefit. highly doubt

• and music as sexual signal. music requires a lot of brain activity, and the selection of partners was based, among other things, on intellectual characteristics

and we don't know enough about eridians to say whether any of these principles might apply to them. we don't know about their evolution, ancient societies, etc. so we'll accept it as a fact that they have music

but will it be pleasant to our ears? and will they like our music?

first, let's figure out why we like our music. speaking about music in general, the prediction theory is popular. the brain has evolved to constantly predict possible future outcomes. research has shown that the brain releases dopamine not only at the moment of climax, but also before it. the brain doesn't like to be too accurate in its predictions because it's boring, but it also doesn't like to be completely wrong. something close to the truth in music turns out to be just right

the reasons why we like rhythm are quite simple. our body adapts to the rhythm, the brain to some extent synchronizes with it, “resonates”

harmony is a little more complex, but has a lot to do with our biology. we love consonances because of their frequency relationships and we don't like dissonances because when two frequencies are not at the right distance, it creates a "roughness" effect in our ears due to the resulting beats. the brain finds it more difficult to process information and the sound feels tense, it also creates more sensory overload

so, knowing that our perception of music is very much dependent on our biology... would the music of a creature with a different biology be as pleasant to us?

we already know that many animals don't like human music. scientists conducted research and found that even monkeys, in general, do not enjoy our music as much as music created specifically for them (but they surprisingly appreciated heavy metal). you can listen to music created for animals (i found cats) by david teie - it sounds interesting. i can't find his music for tamarin, but, I'm quoting "Snowdon says even the music that made the monkeys content is not pleasant to the human ear."

so it is almost certain that humans and eridians would not be able to aesthetically enjoy each other's music. from a scientific perspective? yes, they would be delighted to explore each other's biology and culture. but I think listening to this on a regular basis would quickly start to irritate them

it would be interesting to think about what rhythms, frequencies and patterns would be pleasant to the eridians. would they love repetition as much as we do, to give their ever-working brains a rest, or would they hate routine and try to add constant pattern changes? would they like very low sounds that resonate in the body, or very high sounds that are inaccessible to human hearing but suitable for the language? idk man im not andy weir

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ahhh yep

i saw the tags and hope u don't mind if i add my thoughts (⁠๑⁠•⁠﹏⁠•⁠)

it's about "eridians wouldn't enjoy our music bc it sounds like gibberish to him". i've seen quite a few people who hold this point of view. but i don’t think that this particular part will be a problem.

we can assume two things:

1) еridians would perceive our music as a completely indistinct set of sounds resembling words

2) eridians would perceive our music as a series of incoherent words that they could understand

and, in fact, we have an example of both types in our music.

if we take the first option, then these are literally songs in a foreign language. especially if we take groups of similar languages (slavic languages, germanic, romanic, etc). you are familiar with the phonetics of a similar language and you can even understand some words, but the fact that you do not understand the meaning or that some sounds are similar to your words, but are not, does not interfere with your enjoyment of music

if we take the second take... it's very similar to the first, + there are songs written in gibberish on earth. the most famous example is Prisencolinensinainciusol by celentano. and ngl this music is kinda slaps

so the problem of perceiving music as gibberish can only arise if eridians do not develop the phenomenon of music as such that is familiar to us. then I think if they have music it might be percussion based (I just reread your tags, I assumed this in my other post too!(⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠). if not, and if eridians have our equivalent of music, we return to my original post

and yes, it's realy interesting how david teie worked with scientist to create his songs for animals. and i believe that "cat music" was designed to be pleasant for human ears too.

аn important fact about how the music was created is that both cat music and, apparently, tamaran music contained elements of their vocalizations. "Music inspired by the soothing calls of contented monkeys relaxes the animals when it is played back to them, researchers have discovered. They found that while monkeys were left cold by human music, they reacted emotionally to tunes that incorporated features commonly heard in monkey calls, such as rising and falling tones. Tamarin monkeys lounged around and ate more when they heard music inspired by the calming sounds the animals make when they are safe, the study found. Music based on more fearful monkey calls made the animals agitated and anxious when it was played in their enclosure."

the human brain is more complex, so we don't just react to familiar human cries, but, as mentioned, the brain still prefers certain frequencies. it follows from this that:

1) our music may have a calming effect because it is similar to the language of the Eridians, just as the monkey-like sounds calmed them

2) our music can scare the hell out of them. i don't know if it's because it sounds like their predatory animals or like the cries of sacrificed babies... but it could very well be

and ofc if we're speaking bout "low voice to high" - monkeys has it too! and even if we're not so different from each other in evolutionary perspective, their music still sucks to us

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another day, another eridian hc post

anddddd we're back to the music theme again

so, for this one we're gonna talk bout human biology first

in fact, we still don't know much about the nature of music. there are even speculations about why music appeared in the first place. of the main theories:

• music as part of social bonding. it is known that joint activities bring people together, and music requires a high level of coordination of group activities. a feeling of belonging to a group

• music as a by-product of speech (аuditory cheesecake). then music is a by-product of adaptations such as language, signal recognition, which affects the pleasure centers without providing any practical survival benefit. highly doubt

• and music as sexual signal. music requires a lot of brain activity, and the selection of partners was based, among other things, on intellectual characteristics

and we don't know enough about eridians to say whether any of these principles might apply to them. we don't know about their evolution, ancient societies, etc. so we'll accept it as a fact that they have music

but will it be pleasant to our ears? and will they like our music?

first, let's figure out why we like our music. speaking about music in general, the prediction theory is popular. the brain has evolved to constantly predict possible future outcomes. research has shown that the brain releases dopamine not only at the moment of climax, but also before it. the brain doesn't like to be too accurate in its predictions because it's boring, but it also doesn't like to be completely wrong. something close to the truth in music turns out to be just right

the reasons why we like rhythm are quite simple. our body adapts to the rhythm, the brain to some extent synchronizes with it, “resonates”

harmony is a little more complex, but has a lot to do with our biology. we love consonances because of their frequency relationships and we don't like dissonances because when two frequencies are not at the right distance, it creates a "roughness" effect in our ears due to the resulting beats. the brain finds it more difficult to process information and the sound feels tense, it also creates more sensory overload

so, knowing that our perception of music is very much dependent on our biology... would the music of a creature with a different biology be as pleasant to us?

we already know that many animals don't like human music. scientists conducted research and found that even monkeys, in general, do not enjoy our music as much as music created specifically for them (but they surprisingly appreciated heavy metal). you can listen to music created for animals (i found cats) by david teie - it sounds interesting. i can't find his music for tamarin, but, I'm quoting "Snowdon says even the music that made the monkeys content is not pleasant to the human ear."

so it is almost certain that humans and eridians would not be able to aesthetically enjoy each other's music. from a scientific perspective? yes, they would be delighted to explore each other's biology and culture. but I think listening to this on a regular basis would quickly start to irritate them

it would be interesting to think about what rhythms, frequencies and patterns would be pleasant to the eridians. would they love repetition as much as we do, to give their ever-working brains a rest, or would they hate routine and try to add constant pattern changes? would they like very low sounds that resonate in the body, or very high sounds that are inaccessible to human hearing but suitable for the language? idk man im not andy weir

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I can't imagine human rocky as rocktiz bc in the film he gave off such a strong energy of a restless teenager that it became ridiculous. i imagined him as our equivalent of like mid 20s? for me, his clubbing era hasn't ended yet. and adrian is his school's love.

idc if ts not accurate

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it's my take on humanoid egg

i don't really like eye-looking figure on the hair in some of his designs. it just seems a little bit off to me. so i came up with a hat 🤔

gng he lowkirkenuinely looks like Michael Jackson here

refs (pinterest)

also i don't need criticism on my art. my eng? yeah, sure, but not for my drawings. even constructive ones.