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[da-ill-spot]

November 9th | Ganjah K Day | DTLA

Roach Gang presents the 4th celebration of life for the legendary Ganjah K, presenting a host of talented artists! I will be in the house pushing the gear!

Wall Street DTLA | 1714 Wall St. Los Angeles, CA

9pm - LATE | 21+ | $20

[danrifics]

On this day 10 years ago...

The first ever video was uploaded to DanAndPhilGames

[xxplastic-cubexx]

if i said i picked up this issue for anything but drunk erik i fear i'd be lying

(Wolverine (2020) #3)

[emergingghost]

touché amoré and julien baker making 'goodbye for now'!!!! [x]

[raayllum]

It hurts (but I'm here)

[what-inyarnation]

[phoenixtakaramono]

The results are in! Thank you all for voting!

The winning vote is:

👑SUGAR BABY AU THREADFIC with 126 votes👑

We will resume the winning 🔞 butchlander threadfic around next week on my Twitter. Expect weekly/biweekly updates there. For my tumblr only readers, I shall do my best to take screenshots of each new batch of tweets and cross-post them here as well. Just be aware I'd only just started sharing screenshots of this particular Twitter threadfic starting from the second N/S/F/W scene (you can read them here on tumblr: 1, 2, 3); so if you're confused why the new updates begin with Part IV, now you know. You are missing the first 🔞 exposition and context of the flirtatious first meeting between Billy and Homelander, but it's fine. These Twitter threadfics of mine exist as interactive threadfics where I can allow my readers to vote on the direction of where the threadfic will go at certain key points; in the future I'll be turning these experimental first prototypes into AO3 long fics after all four chapters of Truce are done.

Threadfic runner-ups (this will be the future priority order of the threadfics I'll also be updating, but only after Truce ch3 is posted to AO3 or if I feel like switching to a different threadfic after updating the Sugar Baby AU for a long while):

FIX-IT AU THREADFIC with 49 votes M3GAN-INSPIRED AU THREADFIC with 29 votes TIMETRAVEL HALLMARK AU THREADFIC with 26 votes

[figofswords]

anybody remember the stephanie brown essay I was working on under a research grant fully last summer? yeah it’s not done yet it super needs to be done and I’ve been avoiding working on it for weeks. someone tell me to just do it already

[the-one-chin-wonder]

Blaztoise/Staryu

[a-concert-just-for-me]

I've been fascinated by music boxes ever since I was a wee tot, but never got one because I thought they could only play one melody. After learning about punch cards from the early days of computing (and more advanced looms), I decided to try making a music box based on a punch card. (I tried this, never to any great success, several times in elementary and middle school. This once included a robot for a science class)

I have heard RUMORS that you can speak on music boxes for upwards of an hour. Do tell, do tell. I am very curious and captivated 😇

I don’t really know anything about the history of music boxes (I’m such a fake fan! /j), but I do enjoy making them. It’s been a long journey of trial and error to figure out the most efficient way to do it, but I’m pretty sure I finally have my own process down now :)

Infodump under the cut

So! You want to make a music box, huh?

(This is where you say omg yasss girl that sounds like so much fun!!!)

Oh wow, very cool! I am happy to teach this class.

Well, of course to start, you will need a music box. Here are the options of programmable (well, with paper strips) music boxes.

Kikkerland 15

Grand Illusions 20/Murobox 20

Wintergatan 20 (custom)

Grand Illusions 30

Murobox 40

To explain the types of music boxes:

The first part is the brand name, then the number is how many notes they have. I’m only familiar with a few of them.

Fun facts:

1. Muroboxes are music boxes that you can program from your phone. They’re really cool, but super expensive! I’ll stick to my way, haha

2. There is a 60 note option on musicboxmaniacs ‘create’ tool (I’ll talk more on that site in a min), but there isn’t actually a 60 note programmable music box out there. It’s just for fun.

3. The boxes I have are the Kikkerland 15 and the Grand Illusions 30. I’ll explain more about them.

Kikkerland 15

Honestly I never use this guy. It’s 2 octaves, C scale (unless it’s transposed; I’ve never looked into it—more on transposed boxes in a second). No sharps or flats. Very limited in what you can do with it. But it’s very cute :3

Grand Illusions 30

Okay, here’s where things get goofy. So, this one is 3 octaves, and the strips are written in the key of C.

OR *ARE* THEY?

Actually, for some reason, the box is actually in the key of F!

(That means that if you were to punch the note of C on the music box strip, it would actually play an F!)

Here’s a scale I did of what the music box strips say:

And here’s what the actual notes are:

So how do you know how to write the music if the notes don’t match what the box plays???

Well, we have two options!

1. You could write it using the C scale and let the music box transpose it to the key of F for you (still sounds good most of the time)

2. Or if you want an exact 1:1 transcription, you could write the music using the F scale from the get-go. I usually use this option unless I intuit that a song would sound better transposed instead/it’s easier to write that way

Okay, you have your options on what key to write in, now what?

1. You can use musicboxmaniacs.com’s ‘create’ tool (I used this for the longest time—very tedious) and download the strips from there

2. You can use a music notation software (I use Musescore!), convert the song into MIDI format, upload it to musicboxmaniacs.com, and download the strips from there.

3. (Or, if you’re a freak, you can eyeball it and do it by hand on the sheets that come with the box. Idk man I’m not a cop but seriously what is wrong with you)

Done! Now assuming you’re not a freak, how do you convert what’s on your computer to actual music box strips in real life?

1. You could print out the guide strips on copy paper and overlay them onto the strips that come with the box (I think?) OR just glue it on top of a bunch of other pieces of paper until you get the right thickness. And then with either method, punch out where the ‘x’s are.

2. Or you can be galaxy-brained and let a cricut machine do it for you

Yes, you heard that right!!! A machine can punch all the holes for you!!! Someone made a python code that will convert DXF files to SVG files! Then you can put the SVG files into the cricut design space and print them!

I have a video on it here:

EDIT: there was a video here but I realized I accidentally doxxed myself in it 😆 I need to go back and edit it lmao

It’s just a tutorial on how to convert DXF files to SVG files, and then how to use the SVG files in the cricut design space to print out music box sheets

“Okay,” you say, “I followed the video…That’s cool and all…but what materials do I use? Your video seems a bit outdated and doesn’t even have a second part…”

YOU’RE RIGHT, IT IS, and I surely did not end up making that second part, lol. Let me remedy that.

After tons and tons and tons of trial and error, I’ve figured it out. My first method involved using posterboard, which kind of worked, but always made the songs stutter and stop.

Finally, I had the huge-brain revelation that it wasn’t a mechanical issue with my box like I’d thought for so long—the paper just wasn’t thick enough!!!

So now, the best combo I’ve found is this:

1. 12x12 Cricut mat

2. 2 pieces of 12x12 paper (thick ones!)

3. Elmers craft bond stick glue

4. Scotch tape

5. A scraper tool

Directions

1. Glue 2 pieces of 12x12 paper together. I use scrapbook paper, as it comes perfectly in that size! I usually do a pretty design on top, then a boring white on the bottom, as not to waste my pretty paper. But yeah, two pieces of that scrapbook paper glued together is the perfect thickness.

2. Let dry under something heavy.

3. Put the paper pretty-side-down onto a standard grip cricut mat

4. Tape down the edges of the paper onto the mat so that it doesn’t move at all during the cutting process (needs to be precise!)

5. Use a deep cut (cardstock+ is what I use)

6. Plug in your machine and let it do its thing!

7. When it’s done, remove the mat. Peel off the music box strips one by one, making sure to label them on the ugly side according to the order they’re in. This will save you soooo much confusion later

8. Poke out any holes that didn’t get cut all the way

9. Tape your strips together in the right order (make sure that if there are any holes that fall under your tape, to re-punch them!)

10. Test out your strips in the box! If it sounds like there are missing notes, make sure to go back and make sure they’re all punched all the way through/no tape is blocking them

11. Now that you have your beautiful song, you have to clean up your mess. Use a scraper tool to scrape allllllll the annoying little punched-out paper bits into the trash.

13. Now you’re all done! Put your stuff away and think about your next project lol

Thank you for the ask <3

[joespinell]

The Senate War Hearings

from Empire by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

[thebirdandhersong]

I have time during my lunch break for s6e20 and as much as I am a musical theatre lover, I must say I am not really looking forward to the musical episode

[rose-chateau]

[Id: a screenshot of a tumblr post with tags. One of the tags has a quote with double quotation marks around it. End id.]

?? Whuh? ???

Can we. Can we use quotation marks in tags now??

EDIT: IT'S REAL!!!!

[astro-inthestars]

GUESS WHO CAN FINALLY UNFILTER THE ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE TAAAGGGGGG

[ewehen]

scotty and dione having fun 😋