#false noise

[bonicle]

You know what I'm tired of keeping this under wraps so here's a quick teaser. This is the most proud of anything I've ever made so be excited. Coming sooner than you think

This is also kind of a tribute game to the song Majesty by False Noise, definitely go check it out! I'm also looking for playtesters currently, so if that interests you my DM's are open.

[cheese-in-space]

Album a day poll

Winner of last poll: “The Horror and the Wild” by The Amazing Devil

Votes are appreciated even if you don’t know any of the albums!

I tried to do something with eponymous or adjacent album names this time! The last option cut out the amount of characters I could use. The artist on that option is Mindless Self Indulgence.

Review of last album: “Floral Strobe” by False Noise

I really liked this one a lot. I don’t think I could listen to it often, since it’s the sort of album that you have to pay close attention to to really appreciate. I really enjoyed how the songs really sound like the titles.

Last poll here

Next poll here

[koisher]

first new false noise track in over 2 years !!!!!!!!!!!!! please listen it's so good !!!!

[atalkosys]

“Cold gray sand swimming across me. Am I dreaming? Now white lightning on the horizon. The fog is cool and the air is damp. There's mismatched thunder claps rippling off the concrete sea in front of me. So flat and still is the ground and sky they merge creating only noise in form. I turn and the the rain drops fall nearly motionless. Ever slowly, the prismatic light arches and explodes out of reflection. Have I always been here?”

[thetaizuru]

(False Noise)

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

jjk men being ”objectified” is a Good Thing actually and believe me gojo would be all for it so why are we acting like people are out of bounds for thirsting over a hot guy when men have been reducing female characters to nothing but ”waifu material” literally Forever … why are we acting like it’s an issue in any way shape or form that people want to impregnate gojo when the entire fandom writes essays over him constantly anyway while sidelining the women with the excuse that akutami didn’t give them enough spotlight ”so i don’t have to either” . i fear we have bigger things to worry about than female fans finally getting to be unabashedly horny for once

[sexhaver]

Why are people acting like if you trigger a single veteran's PTSD every single person who suffers from it will have theirs triggered at the same time. Like I know why - this is tumblr - but still.

funnily enough i just got someone in my replies answering this exact anon for me

[postpunkindustrial]

False Maria - False Maria cassette

Bandcamp HERE

[mystxmomo]

Two more drow for the road?

I've been throwing around a few character concepts with Cari over the last week or two. The first one is the promised House Weapons Master for Sabdra's house. He's relevant during Enclave's early life. The second character is one I haven't talked about publicly before, but wanted to throw together the reference sheet for while I was in the mood to do design stuff.

Design notes for the two of them are under the cut.

Beltrin Torndar

I already talked a little bit about him in that big lore-post, and implied a little on what his role in the story would be. So his section of the post is going to be a little bit shorter, especially compared to the next one. But I've been sitting on this guy's design WIP for a hot second now, and honestly I want to be able to start posting stupid shit posts with him so we're just going to barrel into it.

Weapons Master for House Torndar, Beltrin is every bit as ambitious and arrogant as you'd expect him to be. He's not particularly good at playing the wider societal game of social chess, because he's a little too stupid to actually be cunning, but he IS good at playing the Sabdra game (: Where you both get Sabdra's attention and keep her interested enough not to kill you. So credit where it's due.

Clothing design, I wanted to soften up his clothing compared to what the normal angular Lolth-society style is. Given that he's under Sabdra's house, her fashion sensibilities are bleeding into what he wears, as he's dressing specifically to impress her and keep her happy with his presence. I also think the softer design choices are a fun contrast to his role as a strict melee fighter. He has no particularly strong feelings on this.

Normally I don't share name meanings explicitly, but his name means burned, burning, fire, flame // clan, house, merchant, of the house. However, the reason I picked it was because the prefix "Bel" has a lot of associations to me of real world prefix that I think can be fun (Belladonna like the poisonous plant // Bella just being beautiful in a lot of languages.)

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"???"

Cari and I have been calling them by the title The False Chosen, and I'm going to keep doing that.

I want to do something with the note that some of Selvetarm's followers are working to free him from Lolth, and how little he cares or answers their prayers. So, the main point of conception for this character is as a chosen for a god, not chosen by the god themself, but by the church in service to the god. This character in particular is also born at the tail end of the Masked Lady era. Like Vhaeraun, Selvetarm is dead. So their goal is two fold - Bring him back, and bring him back "right." And take out anything in the way of that goal.

Vibe-wise, they're based on HEAVILY on the way slasher movie villains move and feel. One one hand, it's the constant, suffocating threat that comes with something that always seems to be able to keep going. On the other hand, most slasher movie villains are often written to be rather sympathetic figures lashing out due to the circumstances they were in. I think that contrast has always been rather interesting, and something I hope to play into with this one. Their motivation is honorable, and they clearly have a point of trauma in their backstory given the scars and lack of arms. But do we ever get to know it? Do we ever get to understand them? Or are they a threat before they're a person now.

I want there to be an intentional and true denial of identity within their presence. They are a reflection of the most extreme version of what drow society expects of their soldiers and people. Because even when separated from Lolth and fighting against her, the trauma of what their society exists around remains.

Honestly? Easiest physical character design I've ever done. Other than the prosthetics (of which I want to do a full study on, in the near future) and scarring I want them to come across as an otherwise standard drow warrior. Their armor is taken entirely from FR official art, their hair is pretty standard elf hair without much style variation. I almost gave them the spider-leather cloak seen on the first drow in the official art as well, but I think that's too much accessorization for what we're going for here. Perhaps it's something they could wear in the future... one day.

The only other note for their physical appearance I want to add, for my benefit, is in regards to the hair. I've always found it really charming when edgy emo hair covers up something like a scar or mark. I wanted to subvert that a little. Their hair is covering up the side of their face that remains unharmed. Perhaps theres something of a metaphor in that, perhaps not.

Despite all of that, I do want there to be this layer of like? Sincere innocence with them. I think that they are going to be another one that I would mark as "noticeably young by elf standards." Despite everything about them and their goals, they're very sheltered socially and in environment. So perhaps under the bloodshed and violence, a bit of curiosity and innocence remains.

[cattimeswithjellie]

So I don't catch many of Gem's livestreams but I am doing a stream recap on her POV of the server tour from last week and I have to ask: Does she always spend so much time punching people? I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that, punching is clearly a love language for her, but I feel like I'm writing "Gem punches (whoever) off the roof/balcony/bridge" every two or three minutes of footage. Was she in a very punchy mood, or is this just Gem Behavior?

(For reference, I am 53 minutes into the two and a half hour stream and Gem has punched another hermit on 11 separate occasions. Most of the Hermits are just letting her, but Joel has set her on fire twice so far.)

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Album a day poll

Winner of last poll: “Floral Strobe” by False Noise

Votes are appreciated even if you don’t know any of the albums :}

Review of last album: “Collapsed in Sunbeams” by Arlo Parks

I already knew and quite liked one song from this album. I didn’t really like the rest of it all that much. It might be nice to put on in the background for something but probably not something I’ll be listening to a lot in the future.

Last poll here

Next poll here

[not-poignant]

For T/F: for some reason I assume that you’ve probably had some experience (either of yourself or maybe people around you) of falling into the “gifted” category, and I feel like there’s probably some strong opinions on that maybe?

True!

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This one is true in a complicated way.

As a child, no one thought I was gifted until I got into school. I was hyperlexic, reading at a level far beyond my age-range (I read Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species at the age of 8/9, sitting on the library floor with the dictionary next to me so I could flick to different words and understand what they meant).

I was tested for giftedness/IQ but failed every test pretty spectacularly (we didn't know how many learning developmental disorders I had at the time, but it was a lot, and these tests in the 80s didn't favour any child with dyscalculia or severe dyspraxia, or ADHD / Autism for that matter). So everyone kind of officially knew I was pretty stupid, and the librarian was like 'what the fuck' while I quietly went through as many nonfiction books as I could because I found the fiction section mostly very boring.

Recently (like literally a month ago) when I was diagnosed with L2 Autism, I was also diagnosed with 2E, which is Twice Exceptional - or 'gifted but developmentally disabled.' It's a nice way of saying 'oh you're exceptionally smart (at certain things) and you're exceptionally special needs.' This also explains why I tested the way I did as a child, and kind of recontextualised a lot of things in my life, but I had to wait until I was 43 to learn that about myself, and until then I've always viewed myself as someone who was very stupid, but very good at pretending I wasn't simply because I could memorise things / facts I'd read in nonfiction, and I've been reading it since childhood. It's probably going to take a long time to think of myself as intelligent at anything other than words and reading.

So no, I wasn't raised as a 'gifted' child. I was raised as a semi-stupid child who read too many books. My sister tested as gifted and went into academic programs (and that definitely created some issues for her!) and I didn't, and started spectacularly failing maths in high school, which tracks for my level of dyscalculia.

It wasn't until university that I realised I could be clever at things, but again, I still credited that to 'I read well because I've been doing it a long time, and anyone - except for someone with dyslexia - could do this, this easily, and someone with dyslexia could still do this with the right supports.'

So I do have experience of falling into the 'gifted' category, but only for the last four weeks. It's also come with the diagnosis of L2 Autism, so mostly I'm just reminded at how fucking incompetent I am at generally being alive and functioning in a society.

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From the true/false meme!

[paxesoterica]

Somebody save me from asinine takes on G-Witch please

[tilde44]

Listen/purchase: Nothing Will Come Of Nothing by Himukalt x False Maria

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

can’t explain this properly but geto’s gauges being fake is somehow one of the . hottest thing about him