#the sound mystery

[idontknowreallywhy]

A little WIP piece for our favourite Musician’s birthday.

I really really really meant to have completed the ceiling paint mystery one for today but it’s messing with me and I can’t get the ending right, so I’m compensating by starting yet another fic (with my usual music-nerd theme) promoted by my chats with the well of inspiration that is @astranite - thanks for letting me mess around with this one.

Blitzed out in my lunch break and entirely unproof-read… but if I don’t post now I’ll keep prodding it instead of actually doing my job so…

THE SOUND

“I know what the post-flight readouts say, Brains!”

He breathed in for an adagio 4 then out for the same, allowing the white hot knot of tension between his brows to ease a little. The gap it left behind it was immediately filled with the hollowness of guilt that he’d let himself snap at his old friend. He dug his fingernails into his palms and summoned the overly-calm baritone that was most effective when cajoling his elder brother into something resembling a reasonable response to whatever the latest apparently world-ending catastrophe was.

“I trust your creations and your protocols, I do, but I need you to trust me too. I know her and I know she sounded… off.”

“Off” was an understatement. Two had been shrieking at him all the way home. Oh, her habitual E-pitch purr was there, and the usual harmonics from ploughing through pockets of turbulence. Even the faint echo that told him her fuel tank was nearing empty… that was all a familiar part of the symphony. It was the extra note that made his teeth sting. That sharp wavering whine which defied his attempts to fix a pitch and filled his vision with flashing daggers of sickly neon green instead of his girl’s usual rich rainforest blanket.

Scott’s eyes flicked over to Gordon with an unspoken question. His wingman’s shoulders were a picture of awkwardness and he appeared to be trying to dig through the floor of the hangar with the toe of his boot.

“I couldn’t hear it guys… but you know me, I’ve got the musical subtlety of a rock. I shouldn’t get a say. Maybe we shouldn’t take her up again until Virg has had a look?”

Virgil caught his eye and focussed so hard on trying to convey his overwhelming gratitude that he moo-ed slightly. Coughing loudly to cover his own throat’s betrayal, he straightened and turned to his Commander whose exasperation was already tangible:

“I recommend that Two be grounded until Brains and I can complete a full systems check.”

Scott raised an eyebrow then his expression softened and he delivered a #7 variant of the Scott Tracy “Fine”. Virgil knew from the mid-range pitch combined with the slight increase in airflow towards the end of the word that this specific “Fine” meant “I should really be grumpier about this but I’m too tired and I know you’ll win me over anyway because you’re adorable”.

His long-suffering elder brother spun on his heel and tapped his comm as he walked away:

“John, Two is offline for 24 hours, please reroute anything One and Shadow can’t handle to the GDF.”

Virgil’s gaze had already narrowed on his beloved green behemoth as he pondered the most likely source of the disturbance when he sensed movement on the ground behind him. Gordon was knelt down on one knee, head bowed and the largest wrench in the workshop balanced on his upturned palms.

“Your battle sword, my liege.”

[Nerd note: Adagio is generally accepted to be between 55-65 beats per minute. So it’s a 4 second breath in.]

[Lore note: there are actually 16 Scott Tracy “Fines” and only Virgil can distinguish them all]

[halcyon-autumn]

Huge L for Helio this episode I gotta say. Something about meeting that guy makes people want to go worship a dead lesbian

[aimer-arts]

you're my world!

[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

[sirenetica]

It's a mystery, a real mystery Maybe look into the mirror to find some answers.

(miscellaneous sketches below v)

dont redraw repost or color my art /srs

[heilos]

So this was a wonderful surprise even to me, but Luis just uploaded a whole lo-fi mix of the entire Mystery Skulls Forever album! If you liked the Ghost remix then I think you're gonna love this one too. Each song is also uploaded separately on his youtube page along with a 2 hour version. Go get yourself some good vibes!

[hballegro]

ok so i was trying to get a clip of bj saluting so i could make it into a gif [because my friend uses a gif of mulcahy saluting and i want to get him back] and. bj what was this

why did you do this. what the hell was that

[bogleech]

Allegedly the weapon that most rendered knight armor obsolete was the cannon and I don't know if that's true but if it is then there had to have first been a few battles in which some meaningful percentage of knights were getting obliterated by cannonballs and I just wish I'd been there to hear what it sounded like

[froody]

(this was on my post about how pregnancy is inherently dangerous so abortion exemptions only ‘for the life of the mother’ are fucking stupid)

giving birth is not inherently a divine act it is quite literally a bodily function many species are capable of. this is what I fucking hate about the magical thinking mysticism bullshit that often shows up in online reproductive discussions and parents groups. “creating life” isn’t a magical wombenly act bestowed on divine females by God or whatever. if that is your faith and your belief you are allowed to hold it but keep it out of scientific and medical discussions about reproductive rights. giving birth is not magical and holy and a woman who is unable or unwilling to give birth is not snubbing her divine purpose or whatever. not all women can “create life” and not all people who can get pregnant are women.

similarly, a birthing person needing medical intervention/choosing to have an induction/c-section or having complications does not mean they’re weak or less divine and magical or whatever bullshit gets passed around in free-birthing circles.

anyway, I’m sick of this shit. this and the “divine feminine” type mystical shit is almost always a alt-right trad dogwhistle.

[ddarker-dreams]

watching a true crime documentary with chrollo and hearing 'the phantom troupe' get namedropped

[dareduffie]

you know what i miss in movies. sincerity. authenticity. when scripts didn't spend their time being overtly self aware, lampshading all of their mistakes, and winking at the camera. when they told stories without a sense of spectator before they even hit the screen

[hkthatgffan]

Thanks to the Pitch Bible for Gravity Falls leaking too, we now have a name and supposed plan for these two creepy twins from the Next Time On...

Meet The Peaks Twins

Yes, I already made them a wiki page, lmao.

What's your headcanon ideas for them? Let's give these creepy twins the love and appreciation the series never did give them!

[unriding]

me n moze say good morning to the world !!! ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ

art by @rabbbitseason of course <3

[aimer-arts]

when your exploration team partner is a cat pokemon

[shaadowmilkcookie]

Let’s take another stab at it. I think I’m getting somewhere!

[pmpknsoup]

controversial tmagp take incoming...i actually really dont want the story to start focusing on jmart. i like the little nods to them, but i really do hope they dont show up in canon as like. Characters. i enjoy them haunting the narrative or whatever the phrase is, but their ending was satisfying to me, and im honestly enjoying protocol as its own entity, of sorts. if that makes sense? i want to learn about alice, sam, celia, gwen, lena, colin, and all these new antagonists. i dont want to learn More about jon sims and martin blackwood, unless its relevant to the protocol canon. if that makes sense?? i hope that makes sense