#the sound of wonder

[heckyeahponyscans]

The H5N1 (bird flu) virus is going around, and cats are proving especially susceptible to it. A big cat sanctuary in Washington state had TWENTY of their big cats (cougars, tigers, etc) die of bird flu.

There have also been cases of indoor-only domestic cats getting sick or even dying of bird flu after contracting it from raw cat food. And of course coming into contact with birds also puts your cat at risk.

To keep your cat safe:

Keep them away from birds, preferably keeping them entirely inside. If they are indoor-outdoor then remove any bird feeders from your yard to make cat-bird contact less likely.

Do NOT feed them raw food of any sort, including freeze-dried raw food. Freezing will not kill the virus!

A lot of raw pet food companies are using PR speak to assure customers that their raw food is safe. Remember that at the end of the day their priority is to make money and stay in business. Unless they are testing every bird carcass for the virus their assurances are meaningless, and they certainly are not testing every bird because it would be too expensive.

Cooking kills most viruses and bacteria, including H5N1.

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I remember discussing Tintin casting choices with a friend from Germany and remarked how it was odd he often has an English accent in adaptations rather than a Belgian one, and my friend just replied "that's because Tintin gives incredibly strong English boy energy (derogatory)"

Here in the UK there's a lot of weird classism tied into accents. Today accent diversity and representation in broadcasting is actively pursued but in Tintin's time there certainly was a preferred accent to have.

imagine this exchange happens between pages 28-29 in The Crab with the Golden Claws

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

"ummm the global strike was called on such short notice we need more time to plan ahead this just isn't gonna work it feels like slacktivism :///" hmm lets try to figure out why a palestinian journalist in gaza who has been documenting her own genocide for the past hundred fucking days called for a global strike on short notice during a livestream while the hospital she was sheltering in was being attacked and she believed she was going to be killed that night. lets think about it. lets put our thinking caps on. lets sit down in our thinking chair and think think think

[corseque]

I realized that I could easily do the same to DAI's script, and I did that, but then I immediately created my magnum opus:

A Text File of Everything Solas Says In Inquisition and Veilguard, The Ultimate Fanfic Resource For Writing Solas' Voice*

and I fell on the floor because it made me happy.

*edited to correct a minor mishap

[specialagentartemis]

Reading (listening to, as Homer intended) the Iliad making me go oh. Ohhh. I should have done this before I read Gideon the Ninth. I get it now.

Particularly thinking now about the tidbit that in early drafts, our beloved gray-eyed Necromancer Warden of the Sixth House was named Diomedes Sextus. For Diomedes, king of Argos, young, brave, noble, heroic. Favorite fighter of Athena, bestest friend of Odysseus. And, notably, fought gods and—well he didn’t win exactly. But he got them good.

And specifically, he fought and wounded Aphrodite; Aphrodite, who is also called Cytherea.

And then of course Tamsyn Muir said she decided to change his name so she could make the Sex Pal joke.

Palamedes is a less heroic, less fondly remembered character in the Trojan War, but according to Plato, he unrelatedly invented both number and the alphabet, so you keep that connection to scholarship even if that’s not the first association with him. More interestingly, imo, there’s also an Arthurian Knight of the Round Table named Palamedes, best known for his unrequited love for Isolde (and his apparent ultimately gracious acceptance of her choosing Tristan).

I think this is actually a super interesting shift in thematic naming focus: from favored-of-Athena, fought-gods-and-wounded-them to unrequited heterosexual love, but didn’t act like a dick about it.

Also y’know. Sex Pal

[egophiliac]

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!

[thebibliosphere]

I'm scrolling through some ambient noises to help me write, and it got me thinking. Y'know those white noise machines people use for sleeping?

Do you think there's a very specific brand marketed at Gothamites?

Like everyone else has rainy nights on the beach, whale song, the crackle of the campfire, and everyone's all-time favorite "rickety fan about to oscillate off your shitty ikea desk at four in the morning."

And then there's "The Sounds of Gotham," a nighttime ambiance made up of heavy thunderstorms interspaced with the wail of police sirens and the occasional smattering of gunfire.

If you upgrade to premium, you can get the added sound effect of "small vigilante child dropping onto your apartment roof followed by the heavy pitter-patter of their combat boots as they dropkick a criminal off the fire escape."

Mm. Cozy.

[puppppppppy]

horrible truth bomb dropped on my head 20 min ago

[cornmagnate]

🔶 Let’s start with a story 🔶

Alternative version and closeups:

[rocals]

CDs are obsolete because the sound quality sucks

yeah sucks me good and hard through my jorts

[notherpuppet]

Hiii I've been a fan of your comics of radioapple and i don't know if someone already asked you this but i noticed that there's scene where Adam mentioned that he recognise Alastor from Al's radio show, and in another scene where Al said that he needed his job as a nanny to Charlie. What I'm asking is why would Alastor need his job as a nanny when he's already had a job as a radio host? Is it like something happened to his job?

I think I mentioned this but a million years ago. (Granted I'm pretty reckless with how I treat the AU stories lol. This could possibly have just been all in my head this whole time.) Alastor was a radio host in the city they're all living in now. They live in Downtown 🌆 and in a district that Lucifer used to represent in City Council. Lucifer lost his position in government after he invited dangerous criminals into the city. Uptown 🏙️ blames him for the dangers of the city. The City is really divided between Uptown and Downtown, with Uptown basically being an entire gated community. Lucifer was instrumental as an architect for the Downtown area, but he is disgraced as a former politician. The criminal underworld of Downtown still respect his status (he's connected to old money and very powerful people in the City), however the dynamics have really changed ever since his wife left him 7 years ago. Despite Lucifer's old money connections, it's not easy to ask his family for financial help, so he continues to work as an architect to support his daughter. Back to Alastor; for some reason, Alastor fled Downtown 7 years ago at the height of his radio host career. When he came back to town, his radio job was no longer a viable option (everyone's watching TV now ugh) So he needed a job where he could lay low, indulge in his other favorite hobby🩸, and that's how he became the nanny!

[justheblueberry]

there are those for whom we weep, the young, the bright, the fair

[auuwmk]

orv.....

[sweeneydino]

Already showing signs