#audio reads

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Remember the 6 year old girl who was surrounded by Israeli tanks and the red crescent couldn't reach her? Her name is Hind Hamadeh. Here you can hear the phone call her 15 year old sister, Layan Hamadeh, made with the medics. She was killed exactly a moment later including all people in the car, except for 6 year old Hind who was stuck in the car with the dead bodies of her family, Israeli tanks and IDF surrounding her, shooting, preventing anybody to reach her.

That was last night (29.1.24). Today, still nothing. The fate of Hind remains unknown.

palestine red crescent ambulance team went to rescue her yesterday evening, but they have not returned as of now. We lost contact with them about 18 hours ago, and we still remain unaware of their fate and whether they succeeded in evacuating her or not.

Please, share Hind's story as much as you can on any platform. We need to know what happened to her. Put yourself in her place, how terrified she must be. Don't scroll past this.

This is Hind.

[collgeruledzebra]

the thing about trying to recommend fiction podcasts to someone who isn't familiar with them is that not only are so so many genres represented but also the level of production can fall anywhere from "basically an audiobook" to "major motion picture minus the pictures"

[may12324]

Eadaz and her queen

[ditzyblues]

this was scarily in character for Casey and Foot Lieutenant. audio from TTG

[swiftmitsu]

Killer’s after you.

watch yourself guys 🫵

EPIC VOICE BY @cj-does-va

(THANKS FOR LETTING ME USE YOUR AUDIO 💛)

[stealingpotatoes]

star wars au: everything is the same but anakin plays supermassive black hole during the mustafar fight

your mind holy shit

[giantkillerjack]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

[royalarchivist]

Over 6 years ago, Technoblade and Etoiles played together on United UHC. Although they never got to meet each other on the QSMP, it's nice to see that they already had some nice banter and a fun dynamic developing during the brief time they knew each other. Here are some highlights from the video where they played together!

Subscribe to Technoblade! Technoblade's United UHC video

[ Part 1 || Part 2 || Subtitle Transcript ↓ ]

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Technoblade: Bonjour, mis amis! (Hello, my friends!) Oh god, we already have a zombie on us. No! It's targeting me 'cuz I have subs!

Etoiles: Excellent teammates.

Technoblade: Do trees spawn in these worlds?

Etoiles: [Laughing at a screenshot of Technoblade saying "deforestation has gotten pretty bad"]

Technoblade: It's gotten pretty bad, man. What is this?

Etoiles: B-bonjour.

Technoblade: Stop speakin' Chinese.

Etoiles: You're the best Skywars player, dude. That's why.

Technoblade: That doesn't mean much.

Technoblade: Oh my god, I found diamonds!

Etoiles: Oh, whoa.

Technoblade: Subscribe to Technoblade! I'm suddenly a UHC god.

Etoiles: Oh, I got diamonds too! :D

Technoblade: ...Wow, way to ruin my moment. Wow. Can I just have this one moment?

Etoiles: Yeah.

Technoblade: Does everything- does everything need to be a competition? First diamonds I've ever mined in Minecraft.

Etoiles: Let's redo it, Techno. Let's say I don't have diamonds. I don't have diamonds, you have-

Teammate: I found diamonds!

Technoblade: Oh my god.

Technoblade: I have seven diamonds! And I'm not saying that to one-up you, but- I mean I am, but I mean I'm- I'm also tellin' the truth.

Teammate: Nobody knows which one of you guys is the mole.

Technoblade: Yeah, that's gonna be very awkward.

Etoiles: Maybe Technoblade is already-

Technoblade: I'm right behind you.

Etoiles: Technoblade is already saying to his friend-

Technoblade: I'm already in the Mole chat, plannin' your death.

Etoiles: Like, I'm kind of scared of Technoblade, actually.

Technoblade: I'm not even good, why would you be scared of me?

Etoiles: Because you're the King of Bedwars.

Technoblade: Alright, ok, ok, so here's how it works- I get paid per episode, right? So I'm not gonna betray you on Episode 2.

Etoiles: [Laughs]

Technoblade: Now let me enchant.

Etoiles: I'm so bad at hearing sound because when I'm hearing lava-

Technoblade: Nah, it's 'cuz the sounds are in French, isn't it?

Etoiles: [Laughs] I'm gonna kill you, bro.

Technoblade: No!

Etoiles: [Laughs] I'm gonna kill you.

[wolfythewitch]

All the notes telling me not to make Elias cunty are cowards and in response to that I have more animatics planned

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.

(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)

[raitala]

So it is done! The complete read through of SVSSS.

If you have a friend who you can't make read SVSSS, you can now (possibly) make them listen to it whilst driving or folding laundry or something.

21 individual chapter files or a Zip folder of the whole thing can be found here.

There is also the Youtube channel for people who prefer that.

Content warning for the last chapter: Some very bad sex in part 2. Blood and pain. Somewhat dubious consent, considering LBH is out of his mind and SQQ (at least in part) doing it to save Binghe and save the world. Take care of yourself and skip 0:12:00 to 0:19:00 in video 21, part 2 or 1:32:00-1:39:00 on the chapt 21 MP3 if you need to.

[tarsusingkirk]

i change my mind, lestat would not be jealous of dreamstat once he read daniel's book. he would video call louis with blood tears running down his face and ask if he was really there for louis, if louis really took comfort in that lestat, in that version of him. he would ask through wet sniffs and hoarse voice if he, that lestat, brought louis some form of happiness, of alleviation, of ephemeral safety in those darkened years.

and when louis would look at him for a moment, his face pixelating and blurry with the strength of the wifi connection, and then quietly nod to the side, lestat would smile. a trembling, small thing, red with the blood that they both share.

'i'm glad, mon cher, i'm glad i could still help you despite everything.'

[aroaessidhe]

I don't post much about nonfiction on here, but considering the strike this week I thought I'd share some of the books I've read on Palestine/Gaza in the last couple months. I got these for free from haymarket books & verso books (or my library). I recommend picking up some if not all of these.

The Hundred Years War on Palestine & The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine go into the last 100 years of Palestine's history and occupation

Ten Myths About Israel gives a bit of an more brief overview centred around Israeli propaganda

A Socialist Revolution and BDS go into history & freedom/rights movements & institutional boycotts, in Palestine and globally

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle connects Palestinian liberation movements with Ferguson and Black liberation in the US

They Called Me A Lioness is about the experiences of Palestinians in the West Bank, and a teen girls' 8 month imprisonment

Light In Gaza is various essays on different elements of oppression, resistance, and life in Gaza

The Palestine Laboratory is about Israel's military tech being developed & tested on Palestinians and how it's used all around the world.

Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape: about how the occupation has changed the land over time and the effects of this

[deerspherestudios]

i do have to wonder how in depth MR!Mychael's mind reading goes. does he just hear the words people think? or does he have to focus on you to read your thoughts? can he see the images people think of?

i have so many questions i'm so sorry

For context! Since everyone thinks differently, he first relies on someone's involuntary emotions to cling onto. Maybe your verbal words are confident but he can sense doubt in your mind. Or you're happy and excited but he can feel that you're holding back. That's why extreme reactions like shock and disgust feel like a harsh wave to him.

Once he catches onto what you're really feeling, words come through much easier and he's able to parse through your thoughts like a catalogue somewhat. It's like dipping his hand in water, once he feels the temperature he can actually see what's going on in your head, but without anything to hold onto it's just a vague feeling.

It requires a level of focus! Otherwise it's just some very faint garbled words and static + vague emotion coming from the person near him. You can say he's an empath lmao.

And finally, no, he can't see images.

[miiukkaa]

spicy!!!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥