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[cop-disliker69]

[thenightlymirror]

The “bats can do calculus” thing is funny, because if you play around with synths for a while, you realize a lot of what humans perceive as “natural” sounds are just us directly perceiving certain complex mathematical things as big gestalt gestures. Like recognizing a multiplied wave as sounding like a woodwind. Hearing individual notes within a chord is basically Fourier analysis. Feeling how naturally a note decays is perceiving how linear or exponential the curve is. The fact that a sine wave sounds smooth but a sawtooth wave sounds nasally, and a square wave has a certain hollow fuzz to it. Is someone doing “math” there? Once you get the flavor of what each of those qualities are like, listening to the world becomes like directly perceiving math. Also, listening to birds becomes very strange. Because you realize some goofy easy weird sound you can squelch out of an analog synth is the same thing a bird is doing. Then sometimes they make a sound you can’t make. What kind of math is that bird on? Makes you wonder.

[st-just]

You know, I do wonder if whether part of the reason Agnes kept the Cult of the Lightless Flame at arms length was just because, unlike all of them, she could still shower

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

alright here's today's controversial post. a good amount of you on here will be like "english was my favorite subject 😍😍😍" and then reblog posts like "here is why sex scenes CAN'T have symbolism" and "stop consuming media with toxic characters" like okay so what were you doing in your english classes then. cause it apparently wasn't learning or analyzing. i'm pretty sure it was doodling pictures of eyes.

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

to the "op i'm actually NOT a native english speaker, so my 'english classes' didn't have literary analysis" people in the notes

[titkoks]

“take me to the book that you wish you could reread for the first time”

[technologist-revolution2]

the sequel to The Thief is a weirdly brutal piece of middle grade fiction which I absolutely did read at the intended age since I found it in my middle school library... I recall one reviewer calling it “Game of Thrones for kids” and I never did read GOT but I wouldn’t be surprised if the comparison was very apt.

[st-just]

Without trying to imply the current political situation in America is in any way not incredibly fucked, horrifying, absurd, dystopian, etc I have to admit that when people go all 'has ANYWHERE EVER recovered from a situation worse than this?!?!" or "This is LITERALLY the worst threat to democracy in American history!" or whatever I'm just incapable of taking them even slightly seriously.

Like FFS I know you guys know you had a civil war.

[cristalplanetheart]

😳

[savethewailes]

Let! That! Baby! Eat!!!!!!

[adelphicoracle]

Perfect tags

[i-cant-carry-it-for-you]

[russingon]

i find it frustrating when a character makes a decision (especially an emotional one) that makes sense for them as a person to make in a given situation, but because the decision has unforeseen ill effects of some kind, fandoms attribute this choice to the character’s stupidity. because it’s like. no!! they aren’t stupid, they are just trapped within their story and cannot see further forward in it than where and when they are!! they are not looking at this with the omniscient god’s eye view that you, the viewer who has already read this book or seen this movie, are where you know what happens after this and the consequences of every move on the narrative chess board!! they cannot make the decisions that you think you would, knowing what you know, because they don’t have all that insight!!

[thethirdbear]

[allolexicon]

Vomiting in English

Some synonyms for “vomit” (n,v) in English

barf

blow

blow chunks

honk

hurl

puke

purge

(be) sick

spew

technicolor (yawn OR dream)

throw up

toss your cookies

upchuck

Many thanks to Jav and Kelly-Lee for their contributions.

So does vomit have a special meaning for speakers of English?

Just putting a lid on the whole notion of linguistic relativity.

[technologistrevolution]

It’s importance to speakers of the exotic English language is especially apparent in the phrase “paying homage to the porcelain throne”.

[kaylahadlington]

i often wonder how many ppl from 2012 tumblr are still active on here

are u also still here, lurking in the shadows????

[guccixcoochie]

[claviclez]

[trr3rr]

[thatfunkyopossum]

[twofingerswhiskey]

[aye-write]

Saw this on Twitter. What 3 potions would you drink?

I would take brown, white, and yellow!

[technologist-revolution2]

blue, dark red, and white... the dark red and white are really just to enhance the speed at which the result of the blue happens but everything else here I either don’t desire (like Marketable(tm) Ideas) or I’m fine with my current methods.

if I could get 4 I’d choose orange tho

[technologist-revolution2]

I am SO confused as to what the fuck tumblr did to my blog. Because my username and posts and followers and following are all GONE... but my blog’s theme and tags(??) have been superimposed on this old alternative blog I had that wasn’t even associated with the same email

baffling

[technologistrevolution]

MY favourite things to “yes… ha ha ha… YES” about in fiction are:

-Older generation screws over the current generation. Just stuck cleaning up generational messes.

-Friends to Enemies. That delightful journey from “We’d die for each other” to “Unfortunately, due to ideological differences, we have to murder each other”

-Individuals who were once relatively decent people with Hope and Dreams but something went Wrong and now they’re going to make it Everybody’s Problem.

[ante--meridiem]

- Manipulation and general mindfuckery. Bonus points for supernatural component.

- The same friends to enemies thing but there’s some romantic tension thrown in for flavour too

- Characters having to figure out how to navigate a relationship where one or both have done things they can’t forgive themselves or each other for. Bonus points if this is a continuation to the previous point.

- Character is stridently self-aware but not self aware enough to save themselves/still crucially wrong about themselves when it counts

- Character who was fervently convinced they were doing the right thing having to reckon with just how wrong they were about that

- Character’s sense of self being utterly shattered and needing to be rebuilt from scratch

- The above, but done deliberately by someone or something that proceeds to reshape character in their/its own image

- Apotheosis, but it’s fucked up and evil

- The lull in which a character knows they’ve dug their own grave but they’re still waiting for it to catch up to them and thinking just maybe it won’t

- When the audience is in on something the character isn’t that completely reframes the situation (for the worse)

- Character who for whatever reason cannot fully express their emotions has had to sublimate them/grind them into dust; they may or may not still shine through in inconvenient and messy ways

- Character convinces themselves of something patently untrue because they can’t live with the implications of realising it’s false. Bonus points if the untrue thing is that they’re happy with their life choices.

- The only way a character can happily exist in the world is if they accept a part of themselves/a position in the world that is to some extent genuinely harmful/evil

[milfmacbeth]

-calm and stoic characters becoming progressively more unhinged

-corruption arcs

-demonic possession (or possession of any kind), and deals with the devil

-characters obsessed with revenge, especially if they know that vengeance is empty and won’t undo the past but they just have to go through with it

-fucked up evil mentors who are making their mentees worse, bonus point if there’s romance or sexual tension

-seconding apotheosis above

[1wn8ure]

-characters who exert control over other characters, just to prove that they can

-characters giving up- physically, mentally, emotionally. they just can’t keep going anymore. bonus points if they’re not even sure they want to

-characters who watch the “giving-up” happen and are powerless to stop it, but still, they have to try

-characters who are forced into hurting their loved ones, and aren’t allowed to apologize. bonus points if it’s the loved one prohibiting the apology

[technologistrevolution]

MY favourite things to “yes… ha ha ha… YES” about in fiction are:

-Older generation screws over the current generation. Just stuck cleaning up generational messes.

-Friends to Enemies. That delightful journey from “We’d die for each other” to “Unfortunately, due to ideological differences, we have to murder each other”

-Individuals who were once relatively decent people with Hope and Dreams but something went Wrong and now they’re going to make it Everybody’s Problem.

[ante--meridiem]

- Manipulation and general mindfuckery. Bonus points for supernatural component.

- The same friends to enemies thing but there’s some romantic tension thrown in for flavour too

- Characters having to figure out how to navigate a relationship where one or both have done things they can’t forgive themselves or each other for. Bonus points if this is a continuation to the previous point.

- Character is stridently self-aware but not self aware enough to save themselves/still crucially wrong about themselves when it counts

- Character who was fervently convinced they were doing the right thing having to reckon with just how wrong they were about that

- Character’s sense of self being utterly shattered and needing to be rebuilt from scratch

- The above, but done deliberately by someone or something that proceeds to reshape character in their/its own image

- Apotheosis, but it’s fucked up and evil

- The lull in which a character knows they’ve dug their own grave but they’re still waiting for it to catch up to them and thinking just maybe it won’t

- When the audience is in on something the character isn’t that completely reframes the situation (for the worse)

- Character who for whatever reason cannot fully express their emotions has had to sublimate them/grind them into dust; they may or may not still shine through in inconvenient and messy ways

- Character convinces themselves of something patently untrue because they can’t live with the implications of realising it’s false. Bonus points if the untrue thing is that they’re happy with their life choices.

- The only way a character can happily exist in the world is if they accept a part of themselves/a position in the world that is to some extent genuinely harmful/evil

[milfmacbeth]

-calm and stoic characters becoming progressively more unhinged

-corruption arcs

-demonic possession (or possession of any kind), and deals with the devil

-characters obsessed with revenge, especially if they know that vengeance is empty and won’t undo the past but they just have to go through with it

-fucked up evil mentors who are making their mentees worse, bonus point if there’s romance or sexual tension

-seconding apotheosis above

[metroid963]

-Dramatic, perhaps even sympathetic villains with tragic yet relatable backstories getting ruthlessly crushed by a far more insidious, industrialized, and impersonal evil. 

-Genuinely awful character seemingly finally facing justice only to be revealed to have escaped with nary a slap on the wrist in the epilogue.

[thesassycat]

SIGNAL BOOST - how to get your tumblr account back/restored

ok so as you may know blogs are getting deleted left and right. mine was also deleted but i got it back within an hour. 

here is what i did to get mine back (under the cut because its a lengthy post)

Keep reading

[technologist-revolution2]

They deleted my account and haven’t bothered to respond to me in a week no matter how I try to contact them.

[technologist-revolution2]

@staff @support You deleted my main blog without warning and without reason. I’d been using it since 2015 and had a ton of art, writing, and mutuals even if I only had a small number of followers

I want my blog back. PLEASE.

(this blog was one I had associated w/ a different email I am trying to contact you every way I can because it is important to me to get my blog back)