#oh what a sound

[whatthefusco]

Alright after some cursory investigation here’s some wild speculation about this new project being teased by some big Dimension 20 names. It seems to be related to Rude Tales of Magic, which I am almost entirely unfamiliar with, so this is all going to be a major shot in the dark.

1) The website is here, if you’re unfamiliar: https://earstotheskynewgroundallaroundheavensplitopenandohwhatasound.com/

2) Currently it has been posted by Brennan Lee Mulligan, Aabria Iyengar, Erika Ishii, Lou Wilson, and Taylor Moore. My understanding is that Taylor Moore produces, but does not play in, Rude Tales of Magic, an actual play podcast. It has not been posted or retweeted by any official dropout accounts. Rude Tales of Magic has retweeted it all, though.

3) The countdown leads up to midnight on New Year’s Eve - in Eastern Time. Dropout projects typically use Pacific time. Further feeds my belief that this is Rude Tales of Magic related, not Dropout. Plus Dimension 20 has its own established hype cycle - this would be a weird approach.

4) All of the above means to me that despite having so many of the Misfits & Magic crew, that’s not what this is. At least I would be VERY surprised if it was.

5) Whatever it is, it’s strongly associated with sound. Beyond being mentioned in the url, and the “hear it comes” pun, there is a very eerie dramatic audio/song playing in the background. Digging through the html, the audio is called “The Worlds Whisper” (or “the world’s whisper”? unclear on whether the apostrophe is missing due to technical reasons, but the meaning could be VERY different depending) and is hosted on Squarespace. That leads me to believe this is an original audio creation uploaded for this project. Or my ability to google sounds is bad, which is probably true regardless.

6) The favicon for the page is a small black cube. So I am 100% confident this is definitely a fully audio-only podcast of some very well known dnd players playing minecraft. Just talking about what they’re looking at on their screens. A new age of streaming is upon us, I’m certain of it. (just kidding this is the squarespace default icon, if you’re gonna go down a rabbit hole like me know this is a dead end)

7) This is a stretch, but if sound is a recurring theme, then time is also a possible theme? It’s released with a countdown to the New Year. The site features a rotating ring of stars and a burning campfire - both used as storytelling shorthand for the passage of time.

8) why did I do this, I am very tired

[teaboot]

Okay so I may have been struggling under a miscommunication issue

[dappy-dappernette]

I keep on hearing people go all "The voice of the Smitten is such a creep. All he wants in the princess is someone to control and keep as a pretty object. He'd drop the princess if she wasn't the perfect petite maiden like in the damsel route." and I will not stand for the Smitten slander.

Like- He's been in love with her as a burning corpse ghost lady:

A terrifying ghost woman who wants to bring fear and chaos to the world:

And even a murderous blade monster woman who would kill you and enjoy every second of it:

Like, he ALWAYS loves the princess no matter what she looks like or how she acts, he loves her for being herself no matter what or who she is. That's the point of his character and I'm tired of people slandering my boy.

[inkskinned]

hey btw if you're in the USA at  2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, they're testing the emergency broadcast system. your phone is probably going to make a really loud noise, even if it's on silent. there's a backup date on the 11th if they need to postpone it.

if you're not in a safe situation and have an extra phone, you should turn that phone completely off beforehand.

additionally, if you're like me, and are easily startled; i recommend treating it like a party. have a countdown or something. be surrounded by your loved ones. take the actions you personally need to take to make yourself safe.

i have already seen mockery towards any person who feels nervous about this. for the record, it completely, completely valid to have "emergency broadcast sounds" be an anxiety trigger. do not let other people make fun of you for that. emergency sounds are legitimately engineered to make us take action; those of us with high levels of anxiety and/or neurodivergence are already pre-disposed to have a Bad Time. sometimes it is best to acknowledge that the situation will be triggering for some, and to prepare for that; rather than just saying "well that's stupid, it's just a test."

"loud scary sound time" isn't like, my favorite thing, but we can at least try to prevent some additional anxiety by preparing for it. maybe get yourself a cake? noise cancelling headphones? the new hozier album? whatever helps. love u, hope you're okay. we are gonna ride it out together.

[mindonmymoneyandmoneyonmymind]

@demolisherspork on tiktok soo talented

[frenchublog]

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[seizethegay420]

[smellroy]

Happy Halloween👻. Many spooky things are afoot… I wouldn’t go into the orlop if I were you,John.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

RIP Will Campos the only person who was murdered this episode.

[imminent-danger-came]

2x02 // 3x01 // 3x03 // 3x13 // 4x12

Team huddle!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Daughter of delta Yu, show them that you're no fool!

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[itsnotacostume]

we as a fandom do not talk about this scene enough. what the fuck is this. why did he feel the need to install this? so he could stare at his boybestfriend all day without having to get up?

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

I love seeing Danny Phantom showing up and being like ‘don’t ask too many questions but John Constantine I own your soul. All of it. Lmao sucks to suck bitch’, and he’s usually all Ghost King Full Regalia as he does it, at least in front of the Justice League, but consider—

He just shows up as Danny Fenton.

“yeah I got bored and collected the pieces like Pokémon. Gotta catch ‘em all” says the 5’2 teen who looks like a stiff breeze could trip him. He denies being a sorcerer, or a magician, concedes he’s maybe psychic but mostly he’s just…. The kid of two mad scientists—who have a basement lab where they opened a portal to what he SAYS is not hell but no one is frankly CONVINCED, by the way—and he hasn’t decided what to do with Constantine yet besides getting Danny into some r rated horror movies, but figures he should tell the dude probably.

“What’d you even trade for some of his soul contracts?”

“Don’t worry about it”

They worry about it

[stranger-detective]

In honour of the end of the first act:

[egophiliac]

swipes everything else off of the table to yell about diasomnia flower bookmarks

(I gave Silver one too :D)