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slepaulica:

Synaesthesia conversation!

To me this song is predominantly Slate blue, Dark Slate blue, with highlights of periwinkle. There are some midnight blue and indigo parts. Your synaesthesia might be showing you different colours. that’s okay! reply by showing me a song that has similar colours to this one (so if you see this as yellow, show me another yellow song). Your song can be any genre of music as long as the colours look similar to you. and then i will reply with a different song that has similar colours to what you showed me. and we can talk to each other with music.

if you see movement instead of colour then give me a song with similar movement. (i see movement too, but colour is easier for me to describe in words) if you smell something, then give me a song with a similar scent. so equal opportunity, any kind of music related synaesthesia welcome.

colour chart here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

This was a tough one. It’s not very strongly coloured, and it’s hard to find the right mix of grey and brown.

This isn’t quite right, but I had to settle.

:)

Phil Collins voice has a lot of bronze in it, yeah. I had to listen to it a few times, the one you picked isn’t very strongly coloured for me, but i can hear the grey like raindrops in parts of it. and in some ways the movement is similar to my song in parts.

I reply with Cowboy Mouth – Jenny Says because of those grey polka dots and because there’s some browns in the chorus, not quite the same as your song, but i think it matches it or complements it, and they both have some bits of yellow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfpoUuKFOY

Black with grey stripes. (Somewhat less stripe-shaped in that one.)

oh wow that’s gorgeous. never met that band before. yay new music. dark blue mostly but it has uterus red in it, which is a very addictive colour. i’ve been listening to this practically non stop with breaks to listen to my other favourite songs to find the perfect one. i think this is the closest, different shade of blue + uterus red http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzOnZ4rj6b0

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#(November 2013) #conversational aglets #I never did respond to this #a while later slepaulica had a brain injury that worsened their pre-existing verbality issues #I think the reason they stopped using Tumblr was because they didn’t have enough language spoons anymore to do that much blogging #for a while there‚ they would scrape together enough spare words every few weeks to post a life update on Dreamwidth #but it’s been a long time since they even did that #I hope they’re doing okay #a few months ago I stumbled across a forum post they made in the spring of 2017 #(it was a different username but it was the kind of username they might have chosen) #(and I recognised the childhood story they were telling as one they’d told before) #so I know they were still around as of then at least #music #synesthesia #tag rambles

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ferretandscarehead:

Look I DON’T CARE if I won’t haVE TIme FoR reading I WILL BRING MY BOOK ANYWAY cause having a book with you when you go somewhere is such a good feeling, OKAY?

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#yes this #I bring paper books a lot less often than I used to #(I’m more strongly germophobic now that I work at an outside-the-home non-freelance customer-facing job) #(there are never times anymore where I can just take a week off from my life with no knock-on effects) #(if I get sick every possible response involves letting a bunch of people down) #(including my future selves who needed those wages for food and shelter and stuff) #((yes of course I take the stay-home response)) #((I am neither amoral enough nor desperate enough to sink to such levels of evil)) #((and my boss gives out unpaid leave very freely as long as you tell him in advance or have a decent reason why you couldn’t have known)) #anyway my point was that paper books are kind of a pain to disinfect #and if you have a dedicated Outside Book you won’t make much progress in it because yeah there often *isn’t* time for reading #what I do have is a vast and ever-expanding archive stored on my smartphone #much of it in the form of text #and quite a bit of that in the form of ebooks #I agree that it’s not *quite* the same visceral feeling as clutching a chunk of paper to you #but I find it does manage to capture *most* of the comforting emotions #tag rambles #in which Brin has a job #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #tangents #I guess I’m in a tag-rambly mood today

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raptorbarn:

does anyone else have a Misophonic Anger Switch and a Misophonic Shame Switch that are triggered by totally different categories of sound? I just want to go up to evolution and ask it w hat

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#yes this #(I was gonna say I don’t know whether I qualify as misophonic) #(but then I looked it up and apparently nobody *else* knows who qualifies either‚ so) #((although with the anger one I’m not sure if it’s really *those* sounds)) #((or if I’m just very general-sound-sensitive right after eating dinner)) #church bells chiming out hymns manage to sound like unfulfilled obligations #sometimes I wonder if they do it deliberately to try to convince lapsed churchgoers to return #but the effect seems to get weaker the more familiar you are with the song #and lapsed churchgoers would presumably be pretty familiar with *all* the songs #so maybe not #(one time I was staying in a place within earshot of a church that chimed two hymns three times a day) #(and a person came door-to-door asking for signatures for a petition) #(about noise pollution) #(from the *trains*) #((however I was not the one who answered the door)) #((so I had no chance to tell him his noise-pollution priorities were sorely misplaced)) #tag rambles #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #misophonia

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nossik:

uniunibros:

starfleet medical’s proudest moment

this man won medical awards

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#Star Trek #DS9 #it’s so weird to me that Odo never tried to get more information on how his own body works out of the Founders #not even before he knew they were evil #like #to name the most blatant example #if you’ve spent your whole memory-span among beings with lifespans of 1 – 2 centuries or so #and you finally meet a member of your own species #and she greets you with ”oh you’re early we weren’t expecting you for another 300 years” #would you not then *immediately* ask about your life expectancy? #like I get that there’s a zillion questions to ask but #I feel like that would be near the top of my list in general and *especially* after she says that #but he doesn’t ask about his life expectancy at *all* during that visit! #not even off-screen! #(we know this because he *does* ask on-screen *years later*!) #((the answer is live-until-killed by the way)) #tag rambles #death tw

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etirabys:

me: [mad at myself for some inadequacy]

the giant: you know that 99% of people don’t meet the standard you’re flagellating yourself for failing

me:

me, biting and then swallowing the bullet: then I hate them too, just as much

the giant: asldkjflskdjf, no,

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#this is not a feel that I am experiencing at this particular moment but it is definitely a feel that I know #it weirds me out that so many people recommend ways of dealing with self-loathing that #casually assume you loathe *specifically* yourself #and that if you merely judged yourself the same way you judge others you’d be fine #I suppose I understand why people would want to focus their ways-of-dealing-with-self-loathing discussions on #forms of loathing that don’t extend to the interlocutor #but it does make the advice pretty useless to me #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #scrupulosity cw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what

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im-a-tnuc:

I don’t know why, but I think some Americans don’t realise how big the UK is….

 

American Customer: you’re English right? Do you know the bookshop between Wales and Bristol that has lots of books in?

 

Me in my head: yeah mate, I know that one. Classic. Love to pop down there on a cheeky break between work. What a wanker…

 

lizq-vs-the-kitkatuprising:

the continuous 48 states are is almost 39x the size of the isle of great britan

that’s your answer

 

mymindsecho:

For reference:

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That’s JUST Texas.

 

welcometothemusicandthemisery:

Fucking hell

 

ryuraven:

But how many bookstores do you know the location of in your state, just for reference? Because my guess is it’s still too big to know even a quarter of them, which I think op’s post was about.

 

elodieunderglass:

If the conversation happened at all, the poor possibly-fictional American was probably just trying to talk about Hay-on-Wye. Hay-on-Wye is the most famous book town in the world, with a prestigious literary festival and so many “shops with all the books in” that the streets are literally full of open-air bookshelves. It’s like Pinterest and Diagon Alley and Waterstones all created some kind of massive hashtag-book-life village for the sole purpose of trying to attract Americans. It’s on the Wales/England border and a tourist would have approached it from Bristol.

This is hardly an unreasonable conversation starter, not like how British people are always demanding to know where I’m from, and then, when I release the information, say chirpily “I have a brother in San Diego!” as if that isn’t on the other side of a continent. And then! ! the only thing for it! is to say “Oh, I don’t believe in San Diego”! and turn away!

In general, the premise of the OP surprises me a bit, because I bet that I could put a photo of a single tree from somewhere in the UK on my Tumblr with a slightly incorrect caption, and three people would immediately correct me, because they would know that specific tree with an uncomfortable intimacy. I know because you have done this to me. It’s like a national pastime for you all. I’m shaken by OP, I am shaken to my fucking core and I respect them so much for having this terrifyingly novel attitude. I bet they’d look me dead in the eyes and tell me they had never heard of London. This is some kind of Gen Z shit that I’m not prepared for.

Because I know, I KNOW that I could spout a bunch of gibberish CAPTCHA word salads that are much more obscure directions than this, and y’all will IMMEDIATELy know exactly where in the British Isles I was talking about to a fuckin’ five foot radius, like some kind of wild scavenger hunt, you’ll all be like “oh did you enjoy it Elodie? did you go to the tea shop”

I swear to God I’ll do it. how do we place bets. how does that work exactly, does anyone know

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#UK #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #home of the brave #geography #discourse cw? #embarrassment squick? #(I actually kind of find it weirdly gratifying when people ask me questions about where I’m from with bad geographical assumptions encoded) #(I know that sounds unlike me but) #(I tend to suck at foreign geography and I find it reassuring that foreigners also suck at my geography) #(like it’s fair you know? it’s not just me‚ means I don’t feel as guilty about Shouldn’t I Know This) #((I’ve had multiple people at work express concern about my relatives dealing with hurricanes)) #((and I’ve had to explain that we’re from the *north*east and hurricanes are just big thunderstorms by the time they reach us)) #(((unless they’re named Sandy))) #(((but Sandy was a pain in Ontario too))) #((one time I told a Brit I was travelling to Massachusetts and he wished me luck with the jet lag)) #(((it’s in the same time zone))) #tag rambles

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elsas:

this is still….so funny

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#I was just thinking about this bit recently! #I get that we’re supposed to think it’s hilariously wrong #but look at it this way: #she’s talking about things from *five billion* years ago #and she is *less than a century* off #I *dare* you to talk about stuff that happened during the formation of the fucking Earth to within a century’s accuracy #and they still have! recordings! of Tainted Love!! in five billion years!!! #honestly these guys’ historians are not 100% perfect but they’re doing extremely fucking well keep up the good work #(actually hang on) #(in the 2017 Christmas special) #(which is partly set not long after this) #(New Earth invents time travel and uses it to go around spacetime uploading everyone who has ever lived right before their deaths) #(year-5-billion historians are the *best* historians fight me) #((please do not actually fight me)) #tag rambles #Doctor Who #look I have feelings about year-5-billion historians okay #they are not the feelings the show was expecting me to have but I have them

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derinthemadscientist:

andhumanslovedstories:

How do people with good eyesight go to sleep? When I’m done with the day I take my glasses off and the world is suddenly a pleasant blur of the most generously monet filter of vision degradation and it’s like. We’re done. You don’t gotta see anything anymore. You try sleeping with perfect eyes??? Seeing stuff????? Sad. Shitty eyesight uncorrected is half a dream state already where you did lose your fucking glasses and you won’t find them till morn but it don’t fucking matter till morn do it

Also people with contacts are strong because we casually remove things from our eyeballs, people with 20/20 vision are coddled and weak and they will not survive when the eyeball touching winter comes

Maybe this is why all my friends with shitty eyesight can get to sleep easily and it takes me 4 hours

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#I find it goes more the other way #to me it’s not that no-glasses makes it easier to sleep as much as yes-glasses makes it easier to wake up #on those occasions that I have trouble getting up it’s entirely in the part before I put my glasses on #because putting glasses on sends a very strong signal to my brain of ”okay it is Getting Up Time Now and there will be No More Dawdling” #(probably-relevant note: I’m *not* caffeine-addicted) #in a more morphologically free world I think I would get my vision fixed #and then have the lenses in my glasses replaced with non-prescription ones and keep wearing them #I would like the *option* of functioning without glasses but refrain from taking that option whenever possible #my glasses are Part Of Me #even wearing very similar (but not exactly the same model) glasses feels wrong #(at least I managed to find a backup pair whose differences are subtle enough you can’t tell from the outside) #(so if one day I am forced to resort to them long-term I will still be able to look in the mirror and see myself) #(even if I don’t *feel* like myself) #((also yeah one of the *other* reasons I don’t wear contacts is because I’m a wimp)) #tag rambles

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Quarterly report’s done!

(sorry about the tininess of the picture: Tumblr is not very good at images significantly wider than they are tall. you may need to click on it to see it clearly.)

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#notice how the number on the right is bigger than the number on the left #what a lovely novelty #(fun fact: removing any one person’s effect on the income would be enough to drop it below expenses) #(this is very much a group effort) #(while Brother is by far the highest earner we are *all* of vital importance) #((ftr ”outstanding” deposits here mean paycheques sitting in people’s wallets at June 30th)) #((if we were living paycheque-to-paycheque or otherwise needed that money available ASAP we *could* easily)) #((have gotten it into the bank by the end of the quarter)) #((and I’m not going to make our income appear artificially low just because we hadn’t gotten around to visiting the bank that fortnight)) #(((don’t worry I remembered to remove the outstanding deposits from *last* quarter from the calculations so as not to double-count them))) #adventures in human capitalism #oh look an update #tag rambles #oh look an original post #\o/

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This draft’s original set of tags (here left intact) refers to late January 2014 as being nearly three years ago, so that gives you an idea of when it was written.

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“Even if the risks are small, they are not justified when the evidence indicates no benefit.”

–Steven Novella, on acupuncture

–Also me, on fluid exchange

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#if I ask myself ”Is kissing this person worth the risk of oral herpes?” #and conclude ”no” #this doesn’t mean that the value I place on not having herpes is too high #it just means the value I place on kissing them is very low #such that even the slightest downside is enough to outweigh it #(I mean I *am* somewhat germophobic and *do* place significant value on not having herpes) #(but I think I would be pretty cautious about who I spit-bond with even if I weren’t germophobic) #(I would still have a mild incentive to be cautious and no incentive *not* to be cautious) #((I suppose non-germophobic!me would have to be less desperate in order to accept a shared water bottle)) #((but that’s about it)) #oh look an original post #tag rambles #illness tw? #asexuality #((yes that post I linked is nearly three years old)) #((I’ve had it sitting around in my quote file for just such an occasion))