#the music of dolphins

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[firedragon1321]

Ebook standardization made me so afraid of font. "Oh if I ever publish the font will be lost! 11 point Helvetica forever!". Which is fucking boring. While keeping font consistent is usually a good idea for general readability, I'm just...done with being afraid to fuck with it.

I'm not asking for Geronimo Stilon level freedom, but sometimes? Sometimes changing font size to show character development is good. The Music of Dolphins's writing style never left me, and I'm happy to be copying it for a novella.

[theoihalioistuff]

"Moreover Stesichorus writes that Odysseus bore a dolphin painted upon his shield; and for what reason the Zacynthian records tell us, as Critheus testifies. For they say that as a small boy, Telemachus, having fallen into the sea, was saved by dolphins that took him up and swam with him to the beach. And therefore he made use of a dolphin for the impression of his seal and the ornament of his shield." - Plutarch De sollertia animalium 36.

This one is for all the Epic the musical girlies out there. Cute story ain't it.

[thisisrealy2kok]

Sony Music Media - Dream Dance 25 (2002)

[phonographica]

Hiromasa Suzuki & Osamu Shoji - Synthesizer Fantasy (1983)

[shiftythrifting]

Thrifting tour with my friend for my birthday so.

1. These Deadpool ads are getting out of hand tbh

2. It's a race bed!!

3 & 4: a book called "back when my ex". I felt the urge to buy it and burn it but I resisted.

5. Inspirational words.

6. Pigs on holiday

7. The dolphin decor we all wanted at one point.

8. It's a local parody band but the puppets are very creepy

9. My purchases from the first stop. I love a good statue tbh.

[posthumanwanderings]

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GeneratioNext⏩ - The Dolphin Album Pack

A month behind on my end of summer themed batch for my Patreon ‘Reactor Mode’ supporters but will be shipped next week finally. Was real fun making this one out of my Fluid / Depth (a literal dolphin DAW for PS1) stream from last year. Not pictured: a bonus EP for the two longish tracks that couldn’t fit onto 1 CD. Next release will be sent in December which is usually PS1 themed month for me so probably be based around that... anyway, thanks @ the current and future patrons! [full video album] [patreon]

[daffodilfool]

Music and Intelligence

i made a followup / correction of this post

go read that instead, please I worked so fucking hard on it and people are STILL flocking to this version

I'm gonna preface this by saying I am by no means a professional biologist, I am just a biology student who nerds out about art and biology sharing an interesting thought I had this morning.

We don't know where music comes from. That is the very disappointing answer I got to a very interesting question I had this morning. The best answer science can come up with is ...eh, it's kind of just an evolutionary hiccup that developed out of nowhere.

I don't buy it.

Hypothesis: Music isn't an evolutionary hiccup but actually an integral aspect to developing sapience.

Think about this: One of the very first things we'll hear as human beings both now as we're born and in the ages past when we first evolved is birdsong. We associate birdsong with two very important things:

Winter has passed.

Dawn has broken.

Both of these give us a lot of valuable information like it is no longer dark, it is no longer cold, it is no longer dangerous, it is safe.

Early hominids with the ability to correctly identify birdsong and associate it with safety would thus be at great evolutionary advantage as they would be much more likely to survive the winter and the night, but that ability requires 3 major steps:

The ability to pick out distinct rhythms and melodies to correctly identify something as birdsong.

The ability to correlate said birdsong to the idea of the sun coming out.

The ability to make said connection through an abstract emotional response.

In other words, it requires pattern recognition, problem solving and complex emotion. Sapience. Music is not a coincidental fluke byproduct of sapience, it is the catalyst for developing sapience.

Granted this is largely speculation on my part; there's nothing I can do to prove that this is why our sapience evolved.

However.

We are not the only sapient life on earth, there are others, some debated, some not. Besides us there are dolphins, whales, corvids, parrots and elephants, and do you know what we all have in common? We deliberately communicate through melodic and rhythmic sounds, and we derive a particular pleasure from doing so. We all enjoy music.

If music was an evolutionary fluke in our development, how come it's a commonality among all sapient life? There are many animals that sing to mate and sing to intimidate and yet they lack any signs of sapience, but the ones that sing just because they can all happen to be the most intelligent creatures on earth.

Food for thought.

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[aaronwhorechner]

Aaron Hotchner Criminal Minds 10.18

[greekbros]

Poseidon: "Greetings doll face, I heard you like lovable, marine animals..."

POV: You're Amphitrite.

[teju-v]

I love your art so much!! Do you still take requests? Could you do one where Izzy is feeding dolphins with Axl pleaseeeeeeeeee

Finallyyyy I’m sorry lmao and I almost forget the tattoos again (I forgot the jewelry, can’t have everything)

Painting them using this color palette was so much fun bc anytime I get to highlight Axl’s hair like this I feel complete. And I’ve been wanting to draw them w their UYI era looks for a while now so it was perfect.

At first I was going for something more depressing but decided against it lol; also Izzy made sure to give me so much trouble w his face that any other expressions woulda been the death of me.

Sending lots of love I enjoy your work so much!! Lmk what you think and any feedback or requests are welcome!!

(Couldn’t get anyone to proof-see it lol¿ so excuse any mistakes ty)

[thisisrealy2kok]

Dolphin's Mind - Fluid - The Album (1998)

[bratsygirlsworld]

“This feels like summer” ☀️

[shiftythrifting]

record of dolphin sounds and a music box that played so slowly it had a brake to make it shut up if you didn't want to let it play out its full runtime lol

savers, massachusetts