THE SKYLINE

they/it | audhd + bpd system | more or less inactive

[the-skyline-sys]

moving over to @portmonteau for the time being. we were initially planning to take over this blog but i think it'll be nice to have in case they ever come back

[ceruleanheaven]

being on the internet for more than three minutes

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

Hey, wanna make music? Yeah? Got a buncha money? No? Well that's perfectly fine, check this free stuff out:

Vital - A powerful wavetable synth, my personal favorite VST synth, very easy to figure out creating new synth sounds, with the help of the plenty of tutorials that are out there for the plug-in. (There are paid versions but they are completely unnecessary to get 99% of the features of the plug-in.)

Synth1 - A classic piece of synthesizer software.

Pendulate - An interesting, chaotic synth that you can make weird little sounds with.

Native Instruments' free plug-ins - Various cool VSTs, including the Komplete Start pack.

The Free Orchestra - A set of orchestral instruments for Kontakt Player (see previous link).

BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover - More orchestral stuff! This one has its own player so you don't have to download a separate VST to use it if you don't want to.

Magical 8bit Plug - A chiptune plug-in, intended for producing sounds like that of 8-bit systems like the NES and Master System.

Genny - A synth VST made to emulate the soundchip of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

MT Power Drum Kit - A nice rock n' roll style drum kit plug-in.

This guy's weird VST collection - 6.4 gigabytes of weird VSTs, including some you might know, like Delay Lama and MeowSynth!

sforzando - A free player for soundfont files.

Musical Artifacts - A resource I mainly use to find soundfonts, on which you can find other various things as well.

Kilohearts Essentials - 30 effect VSTs including reverb, delay, compression, pitch shifting, transient shaping, ring modulation, phase distortion, and more.

Xfer's freeware VSTs - Exactly what it says on the tin, including the one and only OTT compressor.

Illformed - The good ol' dblue Glitch 1.3, Crusher, Stretch, and TapeStop.

Hysteresis and Fracture - Two interesting glitch effects, one being a delay and the other being a buffer.

Codec - A cool digital audio degradation effect.

Le Phonk - A slick distortion plug-in.

MAIM - An effect that mimics the sound of MP3 compression.

Soundly Shape it and Place it - One is simply an equalizer VST, the other is an effect that emulates a speaker (ex: a radio) and a space (ex: a cave).

Fresh Air - An effect that adds high end information to your sounds, to provide brightness.

ValhallaSupermassive - A combo reverb and delay plug-in that sounds quite big.

UnplugRed - A collection of various interesting VSTs, most of which have free versions.

Chowdhury DSP - I can't personally speak for all of these but their tape model effect is great for some lo-fi style effects.

TAL-Chorus-LX - A thick sounding chorus, good for "retro" sounds too.

Polyverse Wider - A great effect for widening sounds up, really simple too with only two controls.

Freesound - A good audio file resource, mainly for foley recordings.

Cymbatics Dubstep Starter Pack - A little sample pack with some good drum and synth samples.

fishmonger drum kit - A pack of samples from the album 'fishmonger' by Underscores!

WangleLine's sample packs - Free samples put out by my awesome mutual WangleLine!

aaand I might as well include this set of drums I made a while back :P

As for DAWs, it's been a long while since I've used anything other than FL Studio (not counting Audacity, which I still occasionally use for specific purposes), which, while being the only one I can directly recommend, is paid. However, I've heard good things about Reaper which has a "free trial" that you can technically use forever, akin to WinRAR. Additionally, I've also heard some good things about Waveform Free.

[alorz]

i feel like I'm seeing more and more she/he he/hers she/hims every day and it makes me so fucking happy . guygirls and girlguys one day we might even get our pronouns on a pin

[i-suggest-becoming-a-guy]

Shoutout to it/its pronoun users today you may take one thing from the prize box :)

[i-suggest-transing-your-gender]

Shoutout to weird girls who became weird boys and weird boys who became weird girls and weird girls and boys who became both or neither. Let's all be weird and strange together

[luxiomahariel]

[dhddmods]

-Mockery of appearances associated with deformities or disfigurements

-Mockery of speech patterns or behavioral patterns

-Mockery of "useless" products (aka products that help disabled people)

-Mockery of people with "childish" interests

-Making fun of brain damage

-Making fun of small brains

-Making fun of or demonizing plurality

-Stigmatizing cluster B, schizospec, or paraphilic disorders. Misusing the terminology. Throwing around words like narcissist, psychotic, psychopath, sociopath, pedophile, zoophile, necrophile, etc

-Misuse of the words empathy/sympathy

-Constantly joking about psychwards

-Constantly joking about lobotomies

I could go on and on...

[spiribia]

i definitely think minecraft won't be the game for everyone in the end and that's just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don't get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.

[ageblue-aka-varnah-g]

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whatever i guess nobody've read that so imma just drop the screenshots

[ageblue-aka-varnah-g]

Tags are in.

[noctivagant-corvid]

@woopergamer

[woopergamer]

Ok yeah this is absolutely the type of thing I’d do given I had the time. I actually did do something similar on a server.

A pal had a really nice house and naturally I felt inclined to do some foolery. I went into their house and built an entire base UNDER their home. It was only accessible via breaking the floor above. There were crafting tables out of reach, doors leading to nothing, windows that just showed wool, cool stuff. There were blocks placed to look like furniture, but always in an odd spot. Then, I left a sign near the fake entrance that just said “In this house, we live laugh love.”

I later texted them saying “check your basement” and they said “I don’t have a basement” and I said “now you do.”

[cookiethebirddoll]

the idea of headmates needing to be distinct is so pervasive. even in the plural community here, there feels like theres this unspoken expectation that being plural involves very distinct and discrete personality states. or at least that you should be able to make a pk that has all of your headmates. because all headmates should have a name and discrete identity apparently. i dont hate pk but it definitely reinforces that idea that systems need to be structured in a specific way

it leads to a lot of hurt. a lot of people fighting their brains to try to fit into a specific idea of plurality. or just deciding they cant be plural or that they arent plural enough

[cookiethebirddoll]

basically everyone i know who is plural can give some specific number of headmates they have and all their names. and like that's great if thats how it works for them. but i wonder how many of them are hurting themselves to categorize themselves like that

[cookiethebirddoll]

also like it's ok for the structure of your system to be unclear. its ok if you dont understand how it works. its ok if you dont even feel that system is the right word for it. theres so much diversity in how plurality presents itself and there is no such thing as not plural enough or whatever

[miyoriia]

Don't fuck around with hardcore kink if you won't take it seriously.

[miyoriia]

via @bissmut

Seconding this. It's not fun and it's not cute when you get hurt in a way that can't be fixed. Even if it feel like just pretend to you it is still real life with real people, and can have real consequences.

[sin-seraphilia]

These are good tags I hope you don't mind me taping them here <3

[skywalkerangst]

adding these tags too <3

[siratonin]

"I CANT HANDLE THIS" *handles this*

[siratonin]

"I CANT TAKE ANOTHER DAY" *takes another day*

[chococrystal]

Nothing ever stays dead 🍃

[luxiomahariel]

attention trans men

begin killing.

[theseus-system]

insystem communication can be so varied

[tatdritt]

I don’t think ego renegade boy Len is metaphorically trans at all. I think he’s explicitly trans. I think he is just actually, genuinely, canonically trans. I think the metaphor lies not in him being trans, but in him being convicted. How he “killed” Rin in the story and is in court for it. The line “case open and shut” once he gets to the courthouse implies that, although nobody is dead, he has already been decidedly guilty. There is a line around the body, evidence at the scene, and yet there is no body there, and there never was. It’s a metaphor for the way trans men are treated. How their families pretend their daughters are dead, how they’re treated as violent and evil just because they’ve changed. Rin is not “dead,” Len is alive and thriving. And yet he’s accused.

[heedra]

one of my very favorite obscure story tropes is when there’s an episode/plotline/tabletop campaign session where the conceit is ‘each member of the gang gets trapped in a specially tailored dream/nightmare/illusory mindscape and has to break out’

[abalonetea]

my favorite addition to this trope is when the gang has to pass through everyone’s specially tailored nightmare scape and it’s just one gut punching trauma after the next that their friends help them through

[gallusrostromegalus]

Some good twists on these:

Nightmares:

- one party member’s nightmare seems like a perfectly normal and even pleasant scenario until the rest of the party realizes that what’s normal and pleasant for them is terrifying for the other member.

-the happy-go-lucky character who told everyone their fear is something benign like “ducks” actually has a massive and crushing trauma nightmare scenario they never told anyone about because they didn’t want to be a burden/still can’t trust.

- villain tries to make a nightmare scenario for someone and it backfires because they didn’t realize that guy is a grade-A Freak and they love it.

“ideal life” illusions

- villain attempts to make what they think will be an ideal dream life only for the protagonist to immediately point out a glaring flaw or get mad because they know damn well life isn’t like this

-a party member struggles to break free from the illusion because it’s just like regular life for them

- party discovers someone in the group has been not entirely honest about who they are when their ideal life doesn’t match thier projected persona at all.

-the illusion is exactly the same as real life save for one glaring but inconsequential difference, like someone having a different hair color.

[eltrolodecadadia]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image IDs: Tumblr tags reading: #writing #also ‘someone breaks of the dream life immediately because ‘you guys would never be that nice to me’ and everyone has to deal with that’ #‘the illusion was actually perfect the target pulled on a string that wasnt even there and made the whole illusion collapse’ #(‘I knew it was a lie because suzie would never betray us!’ suzie actively betraying them sweats nervously) #‘two people dream worlds are nearly identical just with the roles reversed’ #'someones greatest fear is another member of the party and no one knew’ #'one member of the party refuses to leave even knowing its lie and they have to drag them out and it causes resentment’ #(or they just break down sobbing) #'the illusion itself/the avatar of a dead loved one created by the illusion helps the hero escape’ #'it couldnt be perfect because [thing the villain would never think to include in a perfect world illusion]’ #(bonus points if the thing missing was the villain themself) #'someone thinks theyve escaped the illusion but theyve actually just been put in a different illusion’ #'the illusion is obviously glitchy but the character wants it to be real so much they ignore all the flaws’ #'the guy whose dream was almost identical to reality figured it out immediately #but the one in a wacky impossible dream sequence needs it spelled out that flying to the ice cream kingdom isnt normal’ #'a character explains how they figured it out and the new guy asks why [super weird thing] didnt tip them off but that happened irl’ /End ID]

[ranmagender]

Ego Renegade Boy idk like yes its trans masc len and i love that but something about it the more i listen to it, just...trans joy. trans joy in the face of the world being against your existance. trans joy despite it all because at least you are your authentic self.

im not crying, you're crying