#Radio stuff

[aeolianblues]

Also! Guys I'm doing a 2004 special on my show tonight, in fact, it's not really my show anymore. We're combining two shows together to have a 3-hour chunk block of just 2004 music!

[sunburnacoustic]

girlies the Absolution brainworms are SO hereeee

I personally haven't actually had the brainspace to listen to XX yet because it Will take me out and I'm already a bit out of commission with a big cold (tissue count: 4)

But because I can think about literally nothing else, I've got the Muse Absolution listening party (listening party? Annotation section?? Group study??) radio broadcast that @killedbythegroove and I did when we were losing our minds about the 20th anniversary of the original release back in September!

Tune in if you want to, I'll be in bed mustering up the strength to be completely obliterated by Abso XX

[theringleader]

Need some music to accompany you for the next hour? Check out

wayofm.org

I'm spinning until 11 !

[aeolianblues]

literally joined radio with the sole aim of avenging my baby self who never found the coolest bluesy rock single by an unsigned local band. I take up space on radio solely so that in the one hour that you listen to music with me, I will announce the shit out of every song you hear. I will spell out the band names. I will link you their Bandcamps. I will tell you something about them. Take my hand and we will discover new music together.

When you hear a new song on the radio and you’re desperately trying to pick a notable phrase so you can google it later

[goldsnek]

Idk I made this at 4AM

[greykolla-art]

Don’t know if I ship it, but I do want them to have as many scenes together as possible…

[zeemczed]

Alright, @iwilltrytobereasonable. Here's a list of some stuff that I've seen in my days in radio.

A syndicated right wing radio show sent over their tracks digitally. For a solid week they did not send the right files, and we replayed the SAME last segment over and over and over again. I told the engineers, who shrugged and said "the problem's on their end". I shrugged because I hated that show.

A radio station down the hall would go off the air at 6 PM every night because of a software glitch; as soon as ABC news started I had to bolt down the hall and hit the space bar to manually start the next block of music.

A station was hit by a bolt of lightning, the transmitter fried. It spent SIX MONTHS on the low-power backup. You couldn't get the station if you were inside a building.

You'd think that each station would have an engineer to keep them on the air, but in practice each cluster of stations in an area had one, seeing as how they were in one area. But, uh. Sometimes it wasn't even that. Sometimes you had one engineer commuting between 2-3 clusters as needed.

A remote transmitter (needed for when you were on location) had a tendency to overheat; during one concert I had to hold it against a sack of ice the entire time to keep it cool.

A hard rock station unexpectedly got two tickets to a concert last minute, and the DJ decided that the contest would be "ENTERTAIN US." You had to come to the parking lot in front of the station and do... something. We had a guy do 120 down the street in front of us doing a wheelie on a motorcycle, the same thing but also flashing us, two college girls doing a short skit ending with them making out (and for what it's worth the skit WAS actually funny), and several things that would get someone arrested if I mentioned it.

A complete hard drive crash took one station offline. We had "crash disks" - mix-tapes with station bumpers - pre-made in the event of an emergency. We ended up cycling through the three crash disks for eight hours until a backup was located and set up, and when we finally got it online we realized that it hadn't actually been backing up for months.

A country station had a series of concerts at a local amusement park. Not only did we hardly have anyone interested in tickets every single day, we ended up BEGGING people in the park to stick around for the concert and waiving the ticket cost.

More nepotism than I can shake a stick at.

I was hired for one job because a board op just... didn't show up. And I did. So I was hired.

And there's more, but... that's just what comes to mind immediately.

The old sitcom NewsRadio is not a comedy. It is a documentary.

“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”

[abesetacringe]

absolutely normal about the new lore drop

[nerdynuala]

Little thingy for the latest chapter of Of Saints and Sinners because it has so many scenes that are awesome for illustrating them and I wanna draw them all

And also because the fic has me in a chokehold, who am I trying to fool

@morningstarwrites is probably so tired of seeing me around but it's their fault for making me fall for these two awkward old men

[aeolianblues]

oh yeah, i don’t know if you’ve noticed but I’m kind of a small deal

[aeolianblues]

I came to Tumblr to dump pictures my phone's camera roll didn't have space for. If you end up hanging around here at all, invariably, you end up finding some little community you like. I liked alternative music. I ended up finding blogs of people will similar music taste. People had opinions, I either added on to those, started discussions with people, or reblogged their posts. I started writing about little things about music: riffs, lyrics, artwork that scratched an itch in my brain. People came!

It's been a few years since then. I've fallen into working on radio. You will not believe how many cool people I've found on here who know an insane amount about certain specific bands, the kind of research that I couldn't ever do to match 15+ years of loving a band. So many of my Tumblr friends and mutuals have been guests on my radio show. So many others have been regular listeners over the years. All that sweet engagement of 'we have a caller on the line/we've had a text from a listener who says, 'longtime listener, first time texter'' that I'd craved when I began-- all those lovely people have come from Tumblr for me. It's been wild. And it certainly wouldn't have happened if I'd just posted a Spotify link online and said, 'hey look at me, I'm a Content Creator, reward me with engagement!' I'm not doing the sort of videos where I'm standing aloof in shades and posing for a video to look like a Cool Alt Person. (That's lame.) But if I ever did? Do you know who would write ALL-CAPS REPLIES? My friends, my mutuals, and in turn my soon-to-be friends!

People on this website like dealing with real people. You can't 'buy engagement* or fake followers' to make yourself look big, no one knows your follower count. Things that blow up here have no correlation with success. You could have a link of yours circulated far and wide, I guarantee you only those 50 people who you 'engage' with regularly will actually click the link beyond the previews on Tumblr. So there. Are you going to come off your distant-social-media-influencer high horse and start talking to people, or will you just keep complaining that a recommender system isn't just buying you disengaged 'engagement'?

It sounds like a lot of work, but the thing about this website is, it's not about what would look best on a corporate account. You don't have to do anything for it, just chill out here the way you'd lurk on Instagram, but instead of likes you reblog and say what you wanted to in the tags. Talk to people. That's it.

*Yes you can technically buy 'engagement' in the form of Tumblr blaze, but honestly, that is PVP and is done more often in jest-malice, and people will hate you for it.

I keep meeting artists who complain that Tumblr Is Dead then when I check their blog they've made four posts in six months and all of them were self promo lmao. Influencers whining that "tumblr is useless for engagement" tells me every part of the problem, like sorry you can't just show up and farm this userbase for clicks by waving buzzwords around the way you can on tiktok. This is the Excited About Stupid Things website reblog some shitty fanart or die

[totallyhinged]

i’m normal about him i swear

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[puppyeared]

littlest furth shop

@laikascomet

[latecomerfangirl]

Alastor and Vox backstory be like:

[eternalgyu]

pink pngs

like or rb if u use !!

[allastoredeer]

Alastor 3/4 (right) expression sheet.

I’m gonna make a 3/4 (left), profile, front, and back sheet too. There might be another sheet or two of the 3/4 right because I have a lot of screenshots and I like all his silly little expressions ❤️

(I want to do this for all the characters, but WOOF, it’s a lot of work so it might take a while).

Here’s my Masterpost where I have more character drawing guides and resources!