#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"

[ditzyblues]

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

[may12324]

Eadaz and her queen

[swiftmitsu]

Killer’s after you.

watch yourself guys 🫵

EPIC VOICE BY @cj-does-va

(THANKS FOR LETTING ME USE YOUR AUDIO 💛)

[teshiee]

this is what i did instead of studying for the past two days. magnificent innit

[stealingpotatoes]

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

your mind holy shit

[parallelkozak]

who let zenos yae galvus make a tumblr

[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

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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.

[chimckenns]

Darlin’ doesn’t like to take photos of themself. When Sam visited their place, he noted how they barely kept any photos of mementos of their life or the places they’ve been. Almost as if they’re prepared to leave at any moment without a trace.

This made Sam’s heart ache.

So he started taking photos of them. He has photos of them when they’re sleeping, face so peaceful with a little smile as they snuggled into his chest. He has a photo of them as their eyes sparkled, looking at the view at the top of the mountain on that hike they took. He kept a photo of them from when they were on a date together, their face flushed from the wine and a blissful smile on their face.

At first he took them secretly, but soon enough Darlin’ noticed. How could they not, when he set a photo of them as his wallpaper?

“What are these?”

“Ah… you got me.” He chuckled and put his hands up in surrender with a sheepish smile. “I uh, wanted to keep some memories of us. So I took a few photos of you when you weren’t looking. Candid ones. I hope that’s alright. I’ll delete them if-“

“Can we take a photo with the both of us?”

“Oh! … Yes, please.”

Now they keep a photo of the two of them framed in the living room. In the photo Darlin’ kissed Sam on the cheek, and he had a wide smile as his right hand held the phone.

Little by little, memories of their time together began to make its way into their home. They dedicated a wall in their bedroom to photos of their outings - Polaroids of Darlin’s toothy grin as they jumped onto Sam’s back as they ran through the forest, printed photos of their movie nights, with Darlin’ throwing popcorn towards the camera, and framed photos of their more “traditional dates” - “gotta commemorate the one time we dress up all uptight and fancy, right?” Sam said as he put the frame on the wall.

Their place feels more like a home now, a place that felt like them, filled with all their memories. Sam loves their smile and takes every opportunity he can get to snap a quick photo.

In a few decades, he’ll sit under the tree in their backyard, the one they healed, and look through each photo one by one, reminiscing their memories. He’ll sit there and wait for the warmth of the sun to embrace his body one last time, and he’ll join his Darlin’ and see their smile again.

[wolfythewitch]

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

[tyriq-edits]

D-16 is just a man

[fee-phy-fo-fum]

if a tree falls in a forest and no one’s around to hear it, did it make a sound?

basically, an au where loop had a couple extra... conditions to the wish they made that compounded into mass memory loss of the siffrin.

and the barely coherent post i made about this yesterday

bonus:

i attempted to plan it out.

i'm not very good at planning

[two-pears-in-a-trenchcoat]

"i am going to caboose you" says the evil caboose man