The Monocerus

"Hi! My name's Miden and... I'm a monocerus. Y-You probably don't know what that is, so I'll explain: I am a cross between a deer, unicorn, boar, and elephant.  We live deep in the Everfree, but I left my family when I was old enough, s- sort of got lost, and ended up here. So uh.. have any questions?"    References for my characters are located through the 'Useful Links' page which can be accessed below. Minors, transphobes, AI users, Israel supporters, terfs, radfems, homophobes, non-allies DNI Please do not contact or @ me asking for money; you will be blocked regardless of reason.

[kosmogrl]

[bacteriumphage]

You guys are so close to getting it

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[stardella]

Cat n mouse doodles (but make it SISTERS)

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

looked up Heidi because I'm a journalist

for reasons I can't imagine this publisher of sexless Alaska love stories is averaging under 20 likes each on posts about her books, so if I can be so honest I kind of have my doubts that her books are getting read even with the excessive use of generous lending policies

[ariaste]

Also her claim that authors are not getting paid per borrow is.... wrong. With ebooks (which is what she's talking about here with Libby) there are two forms of licensing for libraries to lend out ebooks.

The first kind is that they buy a license for a pre-determined amount of check-outs. I'll just make some numbers up for the sake of illustrating what that looks like: Let's say $20 for 20 borrows. When the ebook has been checked out 20 times, the library has to renew the license and pay more money in order to continue lending out the ebook. The author gets a cut of that $20 as their royalties.

The second kind is literally paying per borrow. (Again just making up numbers here) Let's say the library pays 50 cents every time the book is checked out. The author still gets a cut as their royalties. Is it just 10 or 20 cents per borrow? Yes, but that adds up! AND it means that people who otherwise wouldn't have been able to read my book at all are able to read it, which is great! AND it means that the library is thriving and being used, which is also great!

So yes, authors DO get paid from library activity!!!!!!

Do not feel guilty for using the library. I don't know one single author (except this Little Miss Ma'am in the screenshots, apparently) who would resent their readers for using libraries.

[plursys]

If you hate trans men you should consider changing your mind or dying instead

[mantafurr]

Life taker

Lil something i forgot to post for Halloween

[hemipenal-system]

funny side effect of the racism thing is how white conservatives just can’t really rap. im not sure they understand the genre

[beetalerry]

decided to ink this because I just really like this opossum I drew the other day

[hemipenal-system]

insane long shot but do i have any followers who speak mongolian? (i think it's mongolian)

i think this is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard and i would really like to know what the words mean

[hemipenal-system]

thats very funny because that's actually also why i have it. i do of course also just like the music and listen to it recreationally, but something about Egschiglen's music is just so so dragon rider-y to me

[elodieunderglass]

I tend to like this kind of music so tapped it on my phone

Didn’t realise phone was connected to speaker in kitchen

Door to kitchen was shut

Didn’t realise why music didn’t appear to be playing, so turned it up quite loud.

Was called away to do 18 different things at once for children and slipped phone into pocket

Husband, entering kitchen while thinking about something else, walked into a passage around 1:14 and was blasted, without consent or context, with whatever the music is doing at 1:14

To his credit, he rallied quickly

“Hi. Why is there a Mongolian throat singer in the kitchen?”

I was assisting a child in getting a toddler into a very tight handmade Dalmatian costume, made by a neighbour’s grandmother in a rather unconventional way, while providing sympathy to a third child with a complex emotional problem, and received this question with blank bewilderment, having forgotten what I had been on tumblr for and having not actually heard the music

Only thing I could think of was “and you just LEFT him there?!”

Sorry OP I have no idea what the lyrics mean. Hopefully someone can help you

[amberisatrashgremlin]

@elodieunderglass

As I was reading your post I skipped ahead to 1:14 to understand your husband's experience and immediately went "Ooooh, throat singing!" so I'm pretty sure he was right! Source: my obsession with hit mid-aughts cryptozoology show Destination Truth and the very cool episode they did where they stayed with a Mongolian family and were privileged with a very cool performance. It's pretty cool, if I remember correctly, the singers can sing with several "voices" simultaneously.

[hemipenal-system]

i can actually explain this one!

one paragraph overtones explanation: so basically when something makes a sound it's not just one sound, it's a bunch of sounds all stacked that your ear hears as one thing. when the sound doesn't sound "noisy", the "overtones" are all lined up with the Harmonic Series (if the "fundamental", or base sound, is frequency F the first overtone is close to 2F, the second is close to 3F, the third 4F, etc). the number of overtones a sound has and how quickly they get quieter determines how something sounds. more, bigger overtones means brighter sound. this is why a trumpet sounds different than a flute. for a more in-depth explanation of this concept, Andrew Huang has a great video on it

the human mouth is a kind of resonant filter. when you filter a sound, you take out some of the overtones to change how the "total" sound, sounds. the vocal cords generate a harmonically rich (lots of overtones) sound, and then our mouth takes some of the overtones out. this is how we make vowel sounds. to hear this principle in action, try singing one consistent note and slowly slide your mouth from an eee to an ooo vowel and listen to how the note's "high end" seems to grow and shrink

this is basically the principle that overtone singing, which is what mongolian throat singing is, works on. you start with a low drone and change the shape of your mouth to get what sounds like a single high tone that sounds different than the low drone because of how the human brain perceives overtones.

here's a very obvious example: Anna-Maria Hefele

a less obvious but more practical example: snippet from Pachelbel's Canon, sung by Wolfgang Saus

and a "mongolian throat singing"-y context example: Duulal by Sedaa (it gets easiest to hear at about 2:30, but listen to the whole thing anyway because it's really good)

[hellallamerican]

a ton of people have unexpectedly followed me over the last 2 days so here is my rent-lowering gunshot:

the american south is the most racially diverse and poorest region of the united states, and any political sentiment that treats the south is stupid or expendable is inherently racist and classist. a lot of y'all are racist and classist. the south is also the heart of american culture. argue with a wall. you cannot deny that everybody in the entire world does not emulate artists from atlanta. there is vested interest in keeping the south poor and uneducated BECAUSE this is the most racially diverse region in this country. if you actually give a fuck about progress, you would fight for the south, not mock us.

[jimbles-archive]

[cognitohazardous]

if you read books titled "A Blank of Blank and Blank" i dont want to hear your opinion ‼️

[cognitohazardous]

[anyaboz]

Animation time works differently. Fifteen seconds for them is five hours for me. Kinda makes you wonder. Five hours for me must be like five days for my animator

[demilypyro]

having free control over our endrocrine systems and the ability to change our genitals is currently inextricably tied to trans rights, and for good reason, but frankly i don't think it even needs to be. it should just be a matter of bodily autonomy, and that should be universal. if a cis dude wants tits and a pussy i think that would be fine. if cis women want a dick or nothing at all that should be allowed i think. people shouldn't need to be transgender to be allowed to change their bodies. free the nipple, enlarge the nipple, remove the nipple. whatever the fuck you want. i dont know if there's a term for this belief but i hold it very strongly. everybody biohack yourselves NOW

[silvermoon424]

“Who is the internet even for anymore?” is such a valid question. Companies are sanitizing the internet and stifling natural human expression in the name of child safety and being family friendly, but the kids such as fuck aren’t benefitting from this. The internet is becoming too childish for adults and yet still too adult for kids.

[richerlandtv]

At this point. the internet is for advertisers and nobody else.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-