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if gay means happy why am I depressed

@calechipconecrimes

there is Something Queer™ going on here | Cal or Cale | gender is weird but I'm fine with he/him | teenager | absolutely the worst thing you can do is take me seriously

hello and welcome to my brainspace

new intro post wooooo

my name is Cal, i'm a teen, and I am aromantic and asexual

I’m a really inconsistent tagger but i try my best to tag fandoms and triggers 

I blog a lot about:

  • stuff from my mutuals and others I follow (this takes uop the majority of my blog)
  • Will wood <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
  • the owl house
  • avatar: the last airbender
  • amphibia
  • 17776/20020
  • axolotls
  • the renegades trilogy by marissa meyer
  • aro/ace/aroace stuff
  • my thoughts

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The fact that Andrey was left holding his beloved Gonya’s body at the end, and you can clearly hear a clock still ticking as the screen fades to black (that subtle line that people die and life goes on, which the clock that was supposed to stop for Goncharov actually doesn’t, because he’s dead alright, but humanity isn’t!!!) makes me FEEL THINGS

It’s the fragility of the Society depicted in the film, the instability of human relationships that could crumble at any point the least you expect it, the traitorous circle of life. Humanity doesn’t disappear once you stop existing, it’s the wonder of the world itself, because the clock won’t stop ticking even if you say it will for you.

I’m in tears-

sometimes i think about the friends, mutuals, etc, i split paths with (not a huge event or anything, just a part of life) right before the jpegs like dolls thing started circulating. can you imagine youve finally diverged from this annoying guy and then your friend quotes them to your face

picture me, realizing i am Known and that i continue to exist to other people even when they cant literally see me, and therefore other people must sometimes experience awkward situations About Me:

HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!

Sorry babes but as someone who lived lug around 500 cds they can die. To me lps are at least pretty and pretentious like a fine wine. Cds have no point

the point is cds are sexy as hell. sorry you dont know what sex is.

visual diagram btw ^

As someone who started listening to music on vinyl back when 8-tracks were still a thing, who saw the switch from them to cassettes and then to CDs, I can promise that recording peaked with CDs. Suddenly shuffle was a thing. they were more portable than vinyl, they didn't get chewed up just because the player got dirty, they had almost no moving parts, they were easy to rip, easy to queue up a song, and you could both carry around your media and easily loan (or resell) it - it combined the best of purely digital music with the best of cassettes, and had better quality/less recording artifacts than any previous medium.

Physical media is also the point.

As someone who has mastered music (my own and others') for CD and for vinyl, CD is a very forgiving and gentle platform, with the ability to go hard and loud or quiet and soft with no audible loss in quality (badly mastered CDs exist, lord knows, but it isn't the platform's fault). Their design allows for incredible feats of sound design, bordering on holographic using phasing tricks that are much more available now than in CD's heyday. We could do some amazing things on modern CDs if we wanted to.

Vinyl is not forgiving, and has needs much more demanding than CD. Your low frequencies need to roll off or the needle will skip; your high frequencies can't be too bright or the sound distorts. Loud songs at the ends of sides sound harsh and compressed because you have less physical space than at the start of a side. You have to be very very careful with your sound staging, making sure to take care of any and all phasing; no special tricks for surround sound are allowed.

I love vinyl as an artifact of the creation of music, but if I had to choose a platform to represent my music accurately, it would be CD.

Anonymous asked:

double life, but everyone is partnered up with their irl romantic partners. joel and lizzie would probably dominate due to both being professional minecrafters, but also imagine grian's wife seeing what a menace her husband is in minecraft.

OH I'M IN LOVE WITH THIS IDEA-

Jizzie WOULD dominate on account of being the best- however, watching Kristy and Jimmy play together... 🥺

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I'm sorry what did you call Joel/Lizzie?

here's the thing about "aggressive" spiders

if a spider is running right at you, it's not trying to pick a fight with an animal thousands of times its size. you're so big that it didn't recognize you as an animal at all. it thought you were part of the landscape and it's trying to either take shelter or get to higher ground. if you don't want it crawling on you just kinda stomp on the floor so it can realize you're not stable ground and fuck off

like imagine if you went to climb a tree or perhaps a mountain and then it stomped

Based on this poem written by @mumblesplash

I got super inspired and kinda went a bit wild with this. It ended up being much more work than my original doodle but I am actually pretty pleased with the result!

Idk why its so crunchy. I swear it didn't save like that but idk how to fix it so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

OH MY GOD???????????

every so often i’ll accidentally invent the concept of a mom in my head like “wouldn’t it be so cool if there was a lady who was older and wiser who I could talk to about life and she’d be like curious about my experiences and check in from time to time to see how I’m doing ohhhhhhh wait. Damnit.” 

having a long-standing argument with my mother

we're talking like. cereal. but with raisins instead of cereal. and obviously only a small amount not a whole cereal-sized bowl of raisins because that would just be silly

hell yea i would slurp that shit up like smoothie

you need a psych eval

i’d try it

it tasted like lemon curd and cream. so sue me.

I want to study you under a microscope

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i think a lot of media makes the mistake of treating the child as a cardboard cutout of idealized childhood (state of purity, unfiltered joy, innocence) and its only thru corruption of that ideal that the past selves of adults are made complex. which is a very poor view of childhood and it makes child characters profoundly unsatisfactory at its lamest and borderline reactionary at its most egregious

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a lot of writers are great at writing adults bc they see adults as people with 1. motivations 2. a past 3. a concrete ability to work towards a goal. all of these are things children are presumed to lack, for one reason or another - adults see children as impulsive, distracted by every shiny thing, when not all children are like that, and the impulsiveness of certain children still does not preclude underlying desires that are consistent to them; children have a way higher past:person ratio than the average adult! week for week, children are more profoundly affected by regular experiences because it is all new to them. everything sticks, and they remember. what they don't remember and what they do can be random at times and less random at others, but each child has (again) an underlying logic for what gets held onto harder than other things; children's lack of ability to work towards their goal is in large part why they are so prone to meltdowns. if you couldn't drink a glass of water when you're thirsty - if you had to get someone to help you each time, you'd end up pretty pissed every time they dragged their heels as well. and if that was true for everything you needed? [a/n: i'm aware this is reality for many disabled people! which is why adultism and ableism are so closely entwined as well]. but children ARE capable of working towards many of their goals in their own ways, whether those are emotional or physical goals.

but if you don't see children as people, though, all of those things fall apart, and you end up with the...idea of what role this creature is supposed to fill in the lives of people who look at her. this is inherently dehumanizing, make no mistake, it makes the child something that never appears to experience emotions that don't fill that idea or diverge strongly from that role, which in turn makes the character flat and uninteresting. there's no reason for us to care what happens to her, narratively, because the only thing we do have to care about is what happens to the people who care about her. she's not a character, she's an object that furthers the emotions of the other characters. she's a morality pet, or meaninglessly cute, or an aesop. there's nothing outside that for her. you could replace her with a puppy and literally nothing would change.