#i guess i thought it sounded like fun

[marshmallowgoop]

I combined footage from my Detektiv Conan Blu-ray with audio from my Case Closed FUNimation DVD and made an HD English dub clip compilation for Episodes 57-58, "The Holmes Freak Murder Case."

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[ask-ttte-dragons]

Y'all, do any of you like writing songs?

Thomas: Hm, song writing. I know Reg like to sing and make up songs while he's working. At least that's what Edward tells me. And Salty knows a lot of sea shanties. I'm pretty sure he's written a few himself. Other than that, I don't think anyone else does-

James: *shoves Thomas out of the way enthusiastically* Ooooo! Pick me! Pick me!

Thomas: James?! Since when do you do song writing?

James: Oh my dear Thomas, I have many talents. *Somehow produces cellphone???* Why, a song I wrote was just released today by a composer I collaborated with! See for yourself!

*They look at the screen. The song is clearly James's Anthem, complete with his engine version of himself smacked on the cover*

Thomas: What's that thing on the cover???

James: Hm. Not sure.

Thomas: It kinda looks like-

James: He's a handsome devil though, isn't he?

Thomas: ...

Admin: After finally listening to the song, and discovering the lyrics had been changed to fit a steam engine, James was furious and wrote a scathing letter to the composer. He hasn't heard back since. Lol.

[13eyond13]

actually stunned by how gay The Beatles has been all this time and I just never knew

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

quick mental health rant--

i'm pretty sure this has something to do with either caffeine or one of my many daily medications (also my parent has a major surgery coming up that they are terrified about and therefore i am also terrified about it), but i've felt like my chest is going to explode from vague, nebulous Life Stress for every day for like the past week and it's driving me absolutely deranged. i feel so bad!!!!!!! my life is intolerable to me for technically no reason!!!! i hate myself for not being a more accomplished writer because that's where my brain always goes when i'm feeling unhappy about anything!!!! aughhhh!!!!! i also wonder if it's a post-covid thing to ... go emotionally insane???? i did have covid at the end of last month! and now i'm emotionally insane!

[merevide]

Post a spotify link ur fans are waiting

4 of them bc i feel like i post one every blue moon and bc you asked very nicely ✍🏽

[jichanxo]

how it started:

how it's going:

[motherforthefamicom]

oh yea i can upload art this time uh heres a drawing from new years eve =]

[mblue-art]

Hi yes I would like it if you went insane over cross (publically on Tumblr dot com) thank you

(hehe hi catto i appreciate u 🫶🫶🫶)

today is not the day, btu. i really wish you guys could see through my brain, and look at the part of my brain that's responsible for simping for cross (DAILY) and see how fucking, weird it is, how delulu i am for him how ill i am for this guy

[piplupod]

also i sometimes feel like im the only person in the world who finds six-packs etc to be an actual turn-off. they are off-putting to me. i dont feel like the human body is supposed to look like that most of the time. idk i get uncomfortable and kind of repelled when i see guys with well-defined muscles 🧍(i think maaaybe on women its a different story though LMAO)

obviously im never going to shame anyone for their body but i simply do not see the appeal of six-packs or huge muscles fhdkdl

[thedreadvampy]

I GENUINELY wish I understood the appeal of Taylor Swift I really really do. many of my friends do. but it's just. I don't think a single one of her songs has ever landed above 'ok' or 'nostalgically cheesy' for me and every time I think that I feel so incredibly like I'm trying to be snobby but I'm not? it's not about not liking pop or not liking the cool thing I love pop I love cheese I just also like music that has some...I guess energy and danceability or specific and meaningful rage and I have found nothing to hook into in anything she's made. Antihero nearly works for me. Blank Space works conceptually but not in practise. but other than that the last thing she made that did anything for me even as a throwaway pop song was. god it actually might be We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together or 22 which at least are catchy but I can't say ever made it to my playlists.

I want to get it, I genuinely do. I have listened to most of her releases at least once because I keep thinking if I try hard enough something will open up for me but nah however hard I try it's just extremely mid. like yes that certainly is music. I can immediately recognise it as Taylor Swift, it's not like it's utterly generic, but it absolutely just registers to me as background music. I want so much to understand what it is about her that makes her the biggest person in music for like 15 years now.

(I could say the same about Beyoncé who if anything lands worse for me. Break My Soul owns, but other than that I have landed everything I've heard of hers since like 2008 firmly in the Do Not Relisten pile it just lands like a ton of loose sand for me. and this is not mentioning the actual crime against music that was Jolene bc I don't think that worked for most people tbf. and again it's not that I don't like pop or r&b or rap cause that's like. between those genres about a third of the music I listen to. but her work is just so unengaging to me personally and I don't know why and I wish I got it)

[coquelicoq]

been paying more attention to my r sounds in french lately and while i do default to the voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/ most of the time, in intervocalic contexts i'm doing what i'm pretty sure is a voiced uvular approximant /ʁ̞/ maybe half the time? i wasn't sure if it was a tap/flap or an approximant, but it does sound a lot like the audio clip for the approximant, and apparently the approximant is often an allophone for the fricative, while the tap/flap is an allophone for the trill (which makes sense since a tap/flap is basically an abbreviated trill), and i don't really do uvular trills in speech.

the fricative has always been difficult for me and at this point i doubt it will get much easier than it is now. it makes sense that as i learned to speak faster i would end up producing the approximant in at least some contexts, and i suppose that it makes sense that the main context in which that happens is intervocalic, since approximants are kind of like if you took a fricative halfway to being a vowel.

the reason i've been thinking about this lately is i've been listening to a lot of stromae and his r sounds keep jumping out at me. i mentioned in some tags the other day his r sounds in bonne journée (skip to 1:24):

Si l'bonheur [tap/flap?] des autres [elided] te rend [trill] malheureux [trill] C'est qu't'es un rageux [tap/flap?] Si l'malheur [trill?] des autres [elided] te rend [trill] heureux [approximant??] C'est qu't'es un rageux [tap/flap?]

that sound in heureux in the third line is really interesting because he pronounces that exact word (within the word malheureux) two lines before, but there he's clearly trilling the r, and here he is not, and it doesn't sound like a tap or flap to me either! it sounds like an approximant!

he does do the uvular fricative as well...specifically in consonant clusters (also in variation with trills) (skip to 1:37):

Tu profites [fricative] jamais vraiment [trill?] de ce moment présent [fricative] En fait t'es juste dépressif [fricative]

elsewhere in the song he seems to trill a lot of consonant cluster rs, so i think it may also be a function of syllables/second - in these two lines he's going really fast, and possibly fricatives are faster to pronounce than trills? they certainly are for me, but i'm not sure if that's because i'm not a native speaker or because of some fundamental property of trilling.

between a vowel and a consonant he's sometimes doing a trill and sometimes something else, i think an approximant but it might be a fricative. hell, maybe it's a tap/flap. (rs in this context are fairly difficult for me to distinguish with any accuracy if they're not trills or really emphasized fricatives, so fuck if i know.)

ultimately i think he (at least in song) trills every r possible and resorts to (not consciously, obviously) one of the other options when necessary. i am nowhere near that proficient at uvular trills and can pretty much only do them on extended notes (because they take extra time for me to pronounce) and on higher pitches for some reason. i'd love to learn the uvular tap/flap, and it's probably the fastest of all the options (citation needed but it feels right lol), so maybe a year from now, when my speaking speed has increased another incremental amount, i'll notice that i've started spontaneously producing those as well. i live in hope.

[nightmun]

Hope y’all enjoy some incredibly cursed RD edits I’ve done

Also I specifically saved these to post on a Wednesday because of this image

[askthekirbysquad]

Oh hey, just realized that this week's ask is getting posted on the Kirby series' anniversary

Neat!

[infiniteseriesofhalfways]

man, as a person who does not use or even fully understand dating apps, it's sure hard to write a character explaining the appeal of dating apps

[spikrock]

house

also theres a new character named bea (?)

no idea what animal she is (or why she gets a normal name) also i was right abt the no roo. but theres also no owl!!!! again!!!! what!!!! why!!!!!!!!