god i’m not even through one episode of paranormal home inspectors and it rules, this lady thought she was being haunted by the wails of the restless dead but she was just listening to raccoons fuck in her attic
psychic: these are hieroglyphics… the spirits are trying to communicate…
home inspector: you put new paint over old paint and now the old paint is bleeding through, that’s why you’re not supposed to do that
homeowner: my daughter’s room is always cold… cold like the dead…
home inspector: you put furniture on top of her heating vent
business owner: i got locked in the bathroom even though the door has no lock
home inspector: it has a lock. the lock is right there. on the knob.
Fun fact a scientist who is very not spiritual or superstitious began seeing corner eye hallucinations and feeling intense fear and a presence in his lab around the same time that everyone else in the building was suddenly reporting it haunted.
Determined, he found that the “hauntings” stopped when the industrial air conditioning unit, that had just recently been installed, was turned off. We’ve found that measurable micro vibrations in a structure cause immense fear, and a feeling of a presence and corner eye hallucinations – just like when you watch a scary movie alone at night and you see things move in the corner of your eye or are afraid to go in the cellar because you’re convinced someone’s in there.
Why?
Because many members of our species built homes in and around cliffs and caves for tens of thousands of years. And it’s likely that these certain shaky vibrations give us intense fear and a need to move far away because that would have saved our lives if the cave were collapsing or unstable.
You’ll notice it’s always falling apart, dilapidated homes that are “haunted” - or very very old restored homes. These places might just be slightly structurally unsound. That’s all.
That’s infrasound, sounds that are below 20hz, or the limit of normal human hearing. Things that produce infrasound in nature include severe weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, tigers, alligators, rhinoceros; also known as things that can kill people. We developed an evolutionary sense of dread when our brains perceive sounds we cannot hear. The vibrations from infrasound can also vibrate the eye causing visual hallucinations.
You know what also causes infrasound? A LOT of machines, especially large industrial ones. There’s a reason haunted house stories started popping up in post industrialization. That scientist was Vic Tandy and he wrote about it in a the paper Ghosts in the Machines
“Vic Tandy, experimental officer and part-time lecturer in the school of international studies and law at Coventry University, along with Dr. Tony Lawrence of the University’s psychology department, wrote in 1998 a paper called “Ghosts in the Machine” for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Their research suggested that an infrasonic signal of 19 Hz might be responsible for some ghost sightings. Tandy was working late one night alone in a supposedly haunted laboratory at Warwick, when he felt very anxious and could detect a grey blob out of the corner of his eye. When Tandy turned to face the grey blob, there was nothing.The following day, Tandy was working on his fencing foil, with the handle held in a vice. Although there was nothing touching it, the blade started to vibrate wildly. Further investigation led Tandy to discover that the extractor fan in the lab was emitting a frequency of 18.98 Hz, very close to the resonant frequency of the eye given as 18 Hz by NASA. This, Tandy conjectured, was why he had seen a ghostly figure—it was, he believed, an optical illusion caused by his eyeballs resonating. The room was exactly half a wavelength in length, and the desk was in the centre, thus causing a standing wave which caused the vibration of the foil.“
Okay I didn’t need my eyes to have a resonation frequency but thanks for that, science
So this is actually my main issue with turian subvocals - if they’re not audible to humans, they’re either below 20Hz or above 20kHz (or even above 15k or less is reasonable once you’re talking about adults that grew up with modern noise exposure). As stated, if they’re low we got some hallucination shit going on.
And if it’s higher, I have an anecdote: in my high school physics class our teacher was using an open speaker and some kind of pitch generator during our sound unit, at one point slowly upping the frequency so that we could see how high we could hear.
Meanwhile in the other room another science class was taking a test, and apparently at one point they all started looking around, feeling something weird/unsettling and getting headaches, even though it wasn’t loud enough for them to physically hear through the closed door and was also eventually out of hearing range. The testing teacher came over to see what we were doing a couple of minutes later when we were still playing with high frequencies and that’s how we found out and figured out what was up. And our friends who were in that other class complained to us afterwards because the teacher told them about it lmao.
But basically, if turian subvocals are outside of human hearing? They’re either causing hallucination-type shit or hella feelings of unease. Which I think is actually a really interesting idea for fic especially since turians were the first species humans encountered, not to mention Shakarian implications.
Also I live for Garrus being a heat leech and whenever he and Shepard are in bed together, he’s usually got her cuddled as close as he comfortably can without giving the poor woman rub burn, purring away, and godspeed if she needs to get up.
It’s like a cat; once he’s comfortable you’re not moving on pain of death until he wants to get up.
You are correct, Garrus is the heat sink. But also consider: Garrus as the little spoon c:
Well, today’s diary entry was another deeply chilling and creepy moment. Dracula has put some real thought into how he can make Jonathan disappear while also directing suspicion away from himself and it’s just made creepier by the fact that he’s forcing Jonathan to participate in covering up his own murder.
I feel so sorry for Jonathan here; it really does feel like he’s being made to write his own death warrant and he’s desperate to get out but he’s absolutely helpless.
and dracula knows that Jonathan knows and he’s reveling in his power over him and in jonathan’s helpless dread
[ID: a tweet by username normalhoroscope that reads Every day new pregnant mothers (sic) arrive at the doors to my wizard castle asking me to place terrible curses upon their unborn children. “Come on” they say “it’ll be really funny.”]
i’m not aro but can you scrap the white ring and change the universal aromantic symbol to a ring with pyridine or at least hexagon ring. “but why?” i hear you asking?? quick chemistry lesson, aromatic compounds are a specific type of ring in organic chemistry that are flat and have delocalised electrons, this is benzene (C6H6) which is one of the simplest aromatic rings
if you have a keen eye you may be able to tell that aromatic is only one letter from being aromantic so lets chuck an N in there shall we
each of the corners of the hexagon represents a carbon atom and when you swap one with a nitrogen (N) then you get pyridine. pyridine is also aromatic itself but it is also an aromatic ring + N and therefore an aromantic ring!
Therefore if you make pyridine the unofficial ring for the aros then it’ll literally be an aromantic ring! aros pls get behind this <3
I’ve actually embroidered a patch using this symbol & pun! One way to represent benzene/the aromatic ring is to have a circle inside a hexagon instead of showing the three double bonds (partially bc of resonance with double bonds). So yeah, the gold in the patch is the aromatic ring and then I have the word aromantic where the “n” is a different color so it’s aromatic aromantic.
So yeah, 100% agree with using this as an aro symbol.
Good morning to the online learners, my disillusioned college peers trying to crawl to the end of their degree, the ones who love to learn but are constantly thwarted by red tape and bureaucracy, the ex-gifted kids, the ex-not-gifted kids, the textbook pirates, the class skippers, the gap year takers, the kids who stay up late just to experience something that isn’t the work grind, the one-week-at-a-timers, the one day-at-a-timers, the neurodivergent students every institution ignores and overlooks, and everybody who has been and is being traumatized by public or private education systems. Good morning to y'all and y'all only.
Now that I’m halfway done finals week and putting this blog on hiatus till the fall, it seems as good a time as any to present to you just some of the many voices I feel solidarity with:
If any of my mutuals who also do text IDs have the time to make one of these, that would be fantastic. I have a meeting in five minutes so if no one does, I’ll try to make one tonight.
And for all of you, all of you that reblogged this, I’m sending a virtual hug and a reminder:
You have not failed anyone. Our educational systems have failed us, have failed you.And they’ve failed even the best teachers too. I believe in you and I care about your health and safety.
And if this post says anything, you are not alone.
Good morning to the online learners, my disillusioned college peers trying to crawl to the end of their degree, the ones who love to learn but are constantly thwarted by red tape and bureaucracy, the ex-gifted kids, the ex-not-gifted kids, the textbook pirates, the class skippers, the gap year takers, the kids who stay up late just to experience something that isn’t the work grind, the one-week-at-a-timers, the one day-at-a-timers, the neurodivergent students every institution ignores and overlooks, and everybody who has been and is being traumatized by public or private education systems. Good morning to y'all and y'all only.
Can I get a special yeehaw for the gifted kids who graduated early with college credit and then took a gap year and then went back to college for a year and a half and then dropped out?
YEE HAW
A very, and I do mean VERY special YEE HAW to you my friend. I hope you are doing better now.
Not to offer advice nobody asked for but fixing ur sleep schedule is life changing
Things that actually work if u try at them:
Drinking water
No longer making self deprecating jokes
Making sure to take time out of the day to relax and take a breather
Lighting candles
Counting ur breaths in and out if ur having a panic attack
Getting up and trying to do one thing even if u can’t do everything maybe brushing ur teeth but not having the energy to shower
Taking a shower if you can, putting clean clothes on if you can’t, even just a clean set of pjs. Washing your face.
A couple weeks ago I was in a major depressive slump and was feeling really detached from reality. I was trying so hard to fight it but nothing I tried worked until I realized I hadn’t listened to any happy music in almost a week.
I didn’t feel like listening to anything at all but I put on my favorite playlist anyway. Take On Me started and I finger stimmed to the keyboard riff and hummed along and by the end of the song I was smiling. A few more songs and I was fully singing along and feeling more present than I had in days.
Even if it seems small and trivial, like putting on your favorite socks or looking up pictures of kittens, it might be something you need. Of course the music didn’t solve any of the problems I was upset about, but it did help me feel like I was a person again.
I throw on my favorite Just Dance song on my phone and follow along :) always helps me feel more present/my body physically feels better afterward
And literally every election. Local, state, national. This is how close we are to losing rights we’ve taken for granted for decades. We can’t let it happen and we need to fight to keep other civil liberties, and establish more.
Fucking. VOTE.
Good news: I read the article and the AZ GOP Senate candidate did not explicitlysay he wants to ban condoms, and the only “source” i can find on Google is that tweet. (I’m guessing they came to that conclusion because he’s Catholic?)
HOWEVER. He does believe that access to birth control isn’t a constitutional right and that the Supreme Court ruling on it should be overturned, so in a roundabout way it might be correct?
It has belatedly come to my attention that storyboard Ford is a ridiculous fluffy duckling. So I had to redraw him.
Since people seemed to enjoy the owl Ford challenge, I thought it might be fun for everyone to draw their version of storyboard Ford, too! …StoryFord? Anyway, feel free to add your own!
I tried to think of a caption but..ive got nothing
Also you bet im stealing all your hashtags lol
Welp. Here’s my unworthy addition to the bunch (•́ ‿ ,•̀)
What can I say? I tried? Ah well… :P
I have a contribution to the floof pile
Can’t resist the floof! (I really like how everybody’s got a slightly different take on his expression. There’s a great range of moods here.)
forever appreciate floofy Ford!
The floofy boy
LOOKIT DEM CHEEKS
Yay an excuse to try random style things with EXTRA CURLS!
So much fluff!!
Fluffy space boy
Storyboard Ford is 100% the reason I draw his hair so fluffy. He deserves it.
