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taking mr beastrogen and losing the light in my eyes and developing a non threatening smile devoid of intent and especially happiness

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The best way to sum up my views on gender is that there is no difference between trans women and cis women, or trans men and cis men, or cis women and cis men.

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a lot of media assumes robots would be immortal but i think its a lot more interesting to explore robots dealing with their parts wearing down and battery life shortening and all the horrible little failings that come with being a complicated machine. sure they can replace parts but you'd assume you cant completely ship of theseus them, or it'd have pretty big rammifications on their sense of identity. idk. give me robots with distinct, unique signs of aging. as a treat.

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you ever see someone who's completely lost the plot

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When the check engine light turns off with your new gas cap

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it is extremely nice not having serious opinions about top 40s pop musicians

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mfw i go to buy pancakes in my future hypercapitalistic dystopia and the McAI™️ running the ordering window uses my voice to detect im transfem and automatically doubles my price

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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that paying for necessities is freedom.

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no yeah thanks for welcoming me to womanhood again but like yeah this man is in fact currently following me home can we maybe address that aspect

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deleting files makes me so scared what if i Needed That

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Why do people say “healthy as a horse”? Horses are probably the most unhealthy animals in existence, they always got something wrong with them.

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i just rediscovered the pelican spider. give me 1-2 business days to stop laughing at how they're shaped and ill be normal again

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(someone sent me an ask abt music theory. idk where it went)

(western) music theory explained sorta ok

theres 12 notes (except sometimes theres more or less)

there’s 7 normal ones called C, D, E, F, G, A, and B (unless you’re german) and 5 less normal ones which are called either C#, D#, F#, G#, and A#, or D♭, E♭, G♭, A♭, and B♭. the # (sharp) means it’s a half step* above the letter it has and the ♭ (flat) means it’s a half step below

half steps mean go up a note. whole steps mean go up two notes

a Scale is a group of notes. theres a lot of them but the ones you’ll see 99.9% of the time follow a pattern that goes

1 W 2 W 3 H 4 W 5 W 6 W 7 H 8 (8 is secretly 1 again)

where a W is a whole step up and a H is a half step. all the common scales use this pattern. there’s 7 groups of scales that depend on which step they start on, but ~85% of the time you only need the Major (Ionian) ones, which start on 1, or the Minor (Aeolian) ones, which start on 6 and pretend it's a 1

those groups are called the Major and Minor scales because their I chords are-

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you don’t know about chords yet. chords are-

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before we talk about chords we gotta talk about intervals. an Interval is the distance between two notes, and it’s written with a number (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7)

some of them are actually two. 2, 3, 6, and 7 are either major (M) or minor (m). the difference between a major interval and a minor interval is a half step and the minor one is smaller

also intervals that add up to 9 are the same thing (2 = 7, 3 = 6, 4 = 5) as long as one is major and the other is minor because opposites attract. i.e., M2 = m7

4ths and 5ths aren’t major or minor - they’re Perfect. P4 = P5

people who are good at math might notice one’s missing. good catch. that would be the Tritone, or TT (or #5 or flat-4). it’s between the P4 and the P5. it has some cool uses but generally it sounds Weird on its own

some intervals sound nice! others sound less nice. the nicer an interval sounds, the more consonant it is, and the harsher it sounds the more dissonant it is. generally, P5, 3, and 6 are considered consonant, 2, 7 and TT are considered dissonant and P4 just kinda… isn’t either? i don’t get it either

you’re doing great

ok chords time. a chord is a group of notes which is (usually) made (mostly) out of stacked 3s. the most basic chords are Triads, which come in four kinds:

Major (M): M3, then m3

Minor (m): m3, then M3

Augmented (+): M3, then M3

Diminished (*): m3, then m3

(if you're thinking, "hey we're using the same words for a lot of different concepts," don't worry. it gets worse. lmao)

generally, major chords sound upbeat, minor chords sound a bit darker, and the other two are “specialty” chords you won’t see on their own

chords (and scales) are labeled with their Tonic (bottom note, also called the root of the chord) name and then the symbol shown above for that chord (or scale) type (major chords (and scales) generally don’t get a symbol) for example, an E major chord (E, G#, B) is written as E. a G minor chord (G, B flat, D) is written as Gm.

because every scale has 7 notes, it also has 7 chords. they’re named after the notes in the scale relative to their numerical order 1-7, and whether they’re major or minor depends on the notes in the scale. theres also some other chords that will make this post twenty times as long so im omitting them

ok time for this

this is the Circle of Fifths. you’re gonna hear about it ninety thousand times forever. im not gonna explain it because this image does a good job doing that but you’re gonna need this for chord progressions and also for key changes so you should really just memorize it

human ears really like chordal movement by 5ths, specifically counterclockwise. a movement by a 5th is called a Cadence. if you’re going counterclockwise it’s an Authentic Cadence (V - I) and if you’re going clockwise it’s a Plagal Cadence (IV - I). theres also some other ones you will never need to know about

most music works in Phrases. these phrases generally start with a I chord, do some stuff in the middle, and then do an authentic cadence (V -> I, remember?) at the end. when they do this, that I (1) chord at the end is called the tonic (see above) and the V (5) chord is called the Dominant. a lot of the time, the V is preceded by a IV (4), which is called the Predominant because it pre(cedes) the dominant

hey. hey you. if you're writing things with chords the lowest note should (for now) always be the root of the chord. sometimes it doesn't have to be but really it does have to be.

thats really enough music theory to start writing music tbh

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usamericans do you realise that a stereotype we have about u is that you really really love ice. like the amount of ice you put in your drinks and all your ice machines are really silly to us. do your fridges genuinely produce ice????

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not to be that guy but i think it's a lot more ableist to assume that disabled ppl can't make art without ai than it is for me to not like ai

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