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.
Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.
So my old list is unchanged and I’ll list new files below, but a title from either post is fair game! (lots of repetition in this one but i don’t feel like going through and figuring out which are duplicate files)
Googles Docs (owned by me, last modified)
ghost garrus mech
ghost!garrus full
Evernote (recently created first) (v = venom)
beach house
mechs sm
mechs
gg mechs
v convo 2nd
v convo new
v convo
ghost garrus beg
ghost garrus end
ghost garrus notes
v convo
v post rocket
ghost garrus more
(take a wild fucking guess what shakarian au i’ve been poking at lmao)
I’m not tagging 15 of you let alone 122 of you lmao so no tags this time
I just had an idea for a world setting inspired by a post I just read from @incandescent-creativity.
A world where the seasons are determined by the zodiac placement of the sun (or better yet, the moon).
So for instance, when the sun (or better yet, the moon) is in Cancer, there is more cold and snow but when the sun (or better yet, then moon) is in Leo, it is really hot and sunny and bright.
Or maybe, since the sun & moon change so frequently, I instead would do the Pluto signs, which basically change generationally. So with each passing generation comes a new season.
Ooh! Or maybe, since I’ve already done so much with Astrology, maybe I could do it according to Numerological stuff.
Every 30 years, the seasons change according to a 9-year cycle. The 1 year has the air of authority. The winds blow like they’re trying to push you where they want you to go. It’s also a season where strength casts over the weak, as the trees blossom their colorful leaves, falling on the flowers, which are slowly dying.
But the 9th year in the cycle is the holiest of all. The days have that nice glow to them but they’re not overly hot. They have the kind of air that tells you change is coming. The flowers blossom and show their brilliant, vibrant colors the most during this generational 3-decade season.
I just had an idea for a world setting inspired by a post I just read from @incandescent-creativity.
A world where the seasons are determined by the zodiac placement of the sun (or better yet, the moon).
So for instance, when the sun (or better yet, the moon) is in Cancer, there is more cold and snow but when the sun (or better yet, then moon) is in Leo, it is really hot and sunny and bright.
Or maybe, since the sun & moon change so frequently, I instead would do the Pluto signs, which basically change generationally. So with each passing generation comes a new season.
Jane rubs her temples, hoping the human action would help calm her frayed nerves. In her peripheral vision, she sees Kana scratch at the back of her head nervously.
“Let me guess,” says the nuisance. “You’re not mad, you’re just disappointed?”
Barking out a laugh, Jane replies, “No, I’m mad anddisappointed.”
Okay, so finally a proper introduction to my daughter. Her name is Kaho Tsuchiya and she’s a very minor character (one-time antagonist) of AssClass that had only appeared in the manga, which was the 2-chapter rainy season arc that gave focus on Maehara, who was her ex-boyfriend.
Other than those 2 chapters, Kaho had since then only made 2 cameos throughout the manga with a significant gap. Hence, she’s easily forgettable and the only ones who does remember normally despises her.
Except for me of course because I overanalyze shit to the point that I managed to justify every single bit of her actions in those two chapters. Now I adopted her and is currently gatekeeping her from any more villainized writing in the fandom
At a later point of the school year, everyone in Class E knows what Chiba’s eyes look like.
Except for Sugaya.
When he attempts to guess what they look like for the umpteenth time, the whole class spectates. But the cheeky ones chose to mess with him by purposely giving him all the wrong hints.
Chiba was not amused at all when he later saw a drawing of his face with Korosensei’s beads for eyes.
With all of that being said, I do have an idea for Dieter that I want to get down somewhere so I don’t forget.
It’s your classic assistant!reader and she is in love with Dieter, but he doesn’t realize it because he’s just kind of ditzy. Maybe he doesn’t realize he feels the same until it’s too late and then they have a chance meeting a couple of years later or something.
It definitely wouldn’t take place during a pandemic and I’m not sure if there would be drugs in the story because they can be pretty triggering for me. But I wanted to put this out there and see if anyone would be interested in something like it.
story set in medieval time where a princess sets herself free and everyone is so confused
She starts an OldenTube channel dedicated to diy rescuing, so the princesses can rescue themselves
Princesses start watching the channel on their iscroll from their towers and use the tips and tricks to escape their towers
Then the KAPES (Knights Assisting Princesses in Emergencies Service) who hire knights to rescue princesses, start finding it harder and harder to find princesses that haven’t rescued themselves. They realize they need a new plan. But what?
They can kill the DIY princess(the OldenTube diyer’s channel name) but their knights are held to too high a chivalrous code for that. They couldn’t frame her either, for similar reasons. That leaves one other option. They have to find the diy princess.
After a week of searching and pulling strings, they eventually find her. They send their best knight, who isn’t much, Lance(he isn’t a lot). She just got done with her workout(two cinder blocks from her tower), her hairs a mess, she’s covered in sweat, she’s wearing a tabletop, her large muscles glistening. He’s flustered, she’s his height, much more muscled than him too. She glares at him, shes tired from a long workout, and says, “what.”
story set in medieval time where a princess sets herself free and everyone is so confused
She starts an OldenTube channel dedicated to diy rescuing, so the princesses can rescue themselves
Princesses start watching the channel on their iscroll from their towers and use the tips and tricks to escape their towers
Then the KAPES (Knights Assisting Princesses in Emergencies Service) who hire knights to rescue princesses, start finding it harder and harder to find princesses that haven’t rescued themselves. They realize they need a new plan. But what?
They can kill the DIY princess(the OldenTube diyer’s channel name) but their knights are held to too high a chivalrous code for that. They couldn’t frame her either, for similar reasons. That leaves one other option. They have to find the diy princess.
