Both true and false

my dark twisted secret is i always use my turn signals whenever possible because i believe they were included in vehicles for a reason. i’m a bit of a freak this way. a weirdo

many funny and true things going on in the notes. but also

what the hell is going on up there.

met a guy in the airforce in germany was from Boston and he told me in Boston they call using your turn signal “giving information to the enemy”

Official Post of Massachusetts

you will probably not look like a skinny white anime girl when you transition you will likely look like someone's mom and you need to realize how swag this is

I saw a picture of my mom last week and did a double take because we both realized how similar we look. skinny white anime girls are not real women but your mom is. I promise you look like a real woman

Shoutouts to the funniest possible tags on this post

Made this for u 💝

Don't hide this in the tags @voluptatiscausa

the crushing guilt of being unproductive vs the exhaustion of being burned out. fight.

#aaaaand its listless dissociation with the steel chair!!!

*stamps this as peer-reviewed*

衣服のたたみ方　(^o^) ﾅﾙﾎﾄﾞｰ Folding clothes

（karibsailorさんのImgur）

people NEED to stop gatekeeping making music like ohhhh i don’t have an instrument ohhhhh i don’t know music theory ohhhhh i’m not gonna pay for some program. SHUT UP. take my hand.

you need NONE of that shit!!!!! there’s a website called beepbox.co. literally all you have to do is press things until it sounds a modicum of nice. it’s easy it’s free and it works on anything which has a browser because it’s a website.

if even ONE person starts making music bc of this post it will be worth it.

making bad music is just as important and okay as it is to write badly or draw badly or sing badly. you AREN’T BEHOLDEN TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC. making music is not utilitarian HAVE FUN. HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!

love how people will encourage people to just start making shit and see what happens when it comes to drawing and writing but when it comes to beginner musicians (music makers if you wish to be less formal) it’s just COMPLETE RADIO SILENCE. it feels like no one even knows you MAKE music it just sprouts up from the ground one day and some guy picks it up. am i alone in this dark cave

Fuck it

I'm gonna try and make music

Call me betovan bc I'm deaf as fuck /j

HELL YEAH!!!

Alternatively if you wanna get into music producing in a more “proper” way, you still don’t need any money.

Ableton has excellent free websites to learn the basics:

Learning Music

Learning Synths

You can learn basically everything you need on YouTube. I recommend:

Mercurial Tones Academy

Dan Worrall

Bthelick

A lot of your favorite artists, mainly in electronic music, likely have done track breakdowns, you can watch those to learn how they do things.

DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) ultimately all do the same things, and Cakewalk is a great FREE fully fledged one. Sure it has some issues, and doesn’t have many plugins included, but it works just fine. All the music I released so far was made there, before I made the jump to Ableton.

As for VST plugins:

Vital is an excellent free synth

Native Instruments Komplete Start is a good free collection of plugins

TDR Nova is a great free EQ

There’s a lot of others and I don’t wanna name everything I’m aware of here, but feel free to DM me for more (Or if you have any other questions and stuff too).

And as for samples, you can get a bunch of free ones at:

Cymatics

Ghosthack

Having good headphones is nice and what I’d recommend you invest in first once it comes to it, but even your current ones will probably be fine, mainly if you slap AutoEQ onto them to flatten the frequency response. And ultimately, music isn’t all about the mixing, the most important part is conveying an emotion.

I know this goes against the spirit of the original post a little, but I want people to know that getting into music production also no longer costs thousands, you can just do it at home on your computer without no money.

Yeah, there is still quite the learning curve, I get that, though it’s also why it’s managed to hold me as a hobby for so long.

I do however have something of the exact opposite variety too, the most simple way to make music I know of, and a wonderful little semi-social experience, along the lines of the game Journey:

hi op i think you should know that i did indeed make a song for the first time because of this

Famitracker or Milkytracker are free tracking software that you can use to make chiptunes. The limitations of chiptune is an excellent way to learn to make music / learn composing, as it forces you to think outside of the box to balance instruments and tones instead of heavily relying on production and effects. You won’t get bogged down by the details and it’s significantly less daunting

LMMS is a free DAW that is quite similar to FL studio. I composed my first non-chiptune music tracks using it

If you’re learning and not intending to make money off your music… Honestly, pirate shit when you want to branch out. Make sure when you do though that it’s something you feel you’ll eventually be able to buy in the future, cause there’s a significant risk of being caught if you get recognition for your work (such as being hired to compose or if you start making a lot of money ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ). Piracy is a better way of trying before you buy since a trial period is nowhere near long enough to learn the full ins and outs of a program

↳ pencil tests by james baxter

Actually I'll never forgive Punk Rave and Killstar and fast fashion brands for tricking people into thinking that being goth or punk or emo is expensive. Babygirl the only goth brand names you need to know are Rit, Good Will, Etsy, and Studs and Spikes, we used to shove safety pins through our ears and then they started selling earrings that look like safety pins for 15.99. We used to dye thrifted wedding dresses black and they started selling gothic gowns for 300 bucks. We used to put studs on boots we found in the back of the good will and they started making Demonias. DIY or die wasn't perfect it can be exclusionary to disabled people but whatever the fuck we've got going on right now is so much worse. It's not any more inclusive to the disabled and it is exclusionary to the people who made punk, to the people who made goth, to the people who made emo. If you've got the funds and you don't want to do diy pay someone else to do it for you but please let it be a small artist or a friend not some guy in a suit who's made it his business to gentrify punk. You can turn flats into platforms with flipflops, hotglue and gumption don't let anyone tell you different.

I would like to add, for anyone who does not already know, that using a 2:1 ratio of black-to-dark/navy blue dye will give you a richer/darker black than black dye alone.

it should be illegal to put ads in apps or sites for solitaire or picross or sudoku tbh. playing classic puzzle games uninterrupted needs to be a HUMAN RIGHT

Hey hey

Everyone go download "Simon Tatham's Puzzles" by Chris Boyle

Here is a Play Store link:

It contains pretty much any famous puzzle I've ever known, with the exception of riddle-based or language-based puzzles. All puzzles are automatically generated by your phone, and highly customizable in difficulty, size, and other variables. Note that the puzzles often have other names than they classically have (e.g. Sudoku is named "Solo"), but almost everything is in there.

The app is free, it is ad-free, doesn't necessarily look pretty but is very functional! Also bc it's all randomly generated on your phone, you don't need to give it access to internet at all! And you get infinite puzzles! And it doesn't ask you for personal info, you don't need an account, they don't want to "send your information to the developer to help develop the app/sell to third parties".

And it has a dark-mode!

it’s on ios too?!

Simon Tatham's puzzles are based on an open-source cross-platform backend for which implementing the frontend is relatively trivial which means it has been ported to, among other things

he's also the guy who wrote PuTTY

Via twitter

The tags on this post lmfaoooo

gems from the tags: round 2

sorry to the sad tumblr girlies but the real cunt is in the room containing these 4

new SuperWhoLock just dropped

#we joke that the first room is a bloodbath#but you couldn't pay me to sit in on the second room#there's mental illness in that room so complex it's only perceivable by shrimp  (via @moorishflower​)

While I'm talking about writing I do want to rec two INCREDIBLE writing apps that have helped me immensely as a writer with ADHD

Stimuwrite is a little program that you can customize with all sorts of really rewarding instant tactile feedback, for example sound effects every time you hit a key, emoji notifications and balloons when you hit your custom goal (which can be as low as you want for low energy days), and neat animated backgrounds.

4thewords turns writing into an RPG and you can kill monsters via word count in order to complete quests and progress through what I personally find to be an interesting and fun storyline. It comes with all the RPG trappings like loot, gear, even custom housing (win more stuff for your house by writing).

I cannot stress ENOUGH how amazing both of these have been in terms of my writing productivity as someone with pretty severe executive dysfunction issues. Usually I use Stimuwrite for the instant feedback and then copy and paste those over into 4thewords for the gamification.

Both are small indie projects, Stimuwrite is pay-what-you-can-afford and 4thewords is $4/month but they are very good about helping people who genuinely can't afford it.

and AS THE CHERRY ON TOP, Stimuwrite's programmer is a trans woman, and while I'm not sure about the 4thewords team in specific, the game is FILLED with really great rep, they are literally having a lesbian wedding global event going on right now as I type this. So like. I like giving money to them more than giving money to a lot of other projects lol.

Anyway no neither of these projects have told me to write about them or anything I just want to spread the love. Go check them out!!

Stimuwrite

4thwords

When reading fanfic keep in mind that for professional literature: 

Fics over 40k are literally a novel written and shared for free.  If you have written a 40k+ fic, you have literally written a novel.

Yep. In addition, chapters in published novels are generally around 3,000 words in length.

Fanfic writers go hard.