#PUBLIC NOISE

[kiwiplaetzchen]

"I'm admittedly partial to more fiery forms of magic."

#Sebastian Sallow #Hogwarts Legacy #Sebastian Sallow ai #ai Art #When the Chaos Comes #PUBLIC NOISE #Spotify #he looks so young #brings me back #“Otherwise forbidden spells.” #“Like the Blasting Curse.” #so inappropriate #so addictive #it may take you a while to get the feel for it #just mimic his wand movements #stick to the target #Bobby was always a fast learner #got a tad hot

[gollancz]

Happy Paperback Publication Day to @jonnywaistcoat and FAMILY BUSINESS!

DEATH. IT’S A DIRTY BUSINESS. When Diya Burman’s best friend Angie dies, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Wanting a fresh start, she joins Slough & Sons – a family firm that cleans up after the recently deceased. Old love letters. Porcelain dolls. Broken trinkets. Clearing away the remnants of other people’s lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things. Things that get harder and harder to write off as merely her grieving imagination. All is not as it seems with the Slough family. Why won’t they speak about their own recent loss? And who is the strange man that keeps turning up at their jobs? If Diya’s not careful, she might just end up getting buried under the family tree. . .

'A triumph, thriving on relatable fears, hyper-realistic dirty homes, and understandable grief' - Fantasy Hive

'It completely blew me away' - FanFi Addict

'Don't read by yourself in a strange hotel room if you want to come out psychologically unscathed' - Me, specifically, learning lessons the hard way so that other people don't have to.

If you want a book that will:

Make you twitch at strange shapes outside the windows as the nights get darker

Break you in the smallest ways with the simplest observations of the meaning of humanity and love

Give you new and exciting things to be scared of that actually, on reflection, had probably always been lurking in the depths of your psyche just waiting to be called up

FAMILY BUSINESS is the book you want to grab.

#Family Business #Jonathan Sims #Publication Day! #Reading this while travelling on my own was a Mistake I Made #my hotel room made very weird noises when the lights went out #turned out it was just the headboard creaking ominously whenever I moved #but in the middle of the night!! #when the lights were out!! #Halloween #Horror fiction

[crabsdaily]

havent listened to welcome to nightvale in a solid year but sometimes i do like to look through the nightvale tags just to see whats up and im so pleased that its still always absolutely incomprehensible

#funny story about why i stopped listening is last year i started taking the metro more instead of busses #and i pretty much only listen to podcasts while on public transit #and it turns out that the loud metro noises make it genuinely impossible to hear cecils voice #bc of how low it is i guess? #but yeah i gotta get back into nightvale i miss my blorbos #welcome to night vale #nightvale #wtnv

[jahiera]

as we exit the period of people overly woobifying astarion we will enter the period where people who don’t like him will wildly over-exaggerate and misconstrue flaws he doesn’t even have as a way to combat the woobification and the most painful thing about it will not be that people are talking about his flaws but that they’re not even addressing the right ones

#breathing through my nose reading excessively combative takes knowing that they’re rooted in annoyance but my god they’re also #so so bad. so so so soooo bad. #like that’s something literally addressed in his main arc. it has the answer. you don’t have to like it but don’t misconSTRUEEE IT #anyway it’s fine. I need to be back in the vacuum of silence when the game first dropped and it was nothing but me and my thoughts on it #I PREFER my ideas and my thoughts and my conclusions without all the noise and input I don’t know why I Engage in the popular thought #I must not engage in public opinion of my favorite complicated characters. engaging in public opinion is the mind killer. #‘haha I killed him immediately’ I could not care less about your opinion. in fact I care even less than I do about the #‘astarion is my smoft smol bean’ people. and I also hate that. #complaining /

[mixedmediahmm]

how can I draw a character inconsistently if I kin her? check and mate haters

#my art #pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #the noise #noisette #comic #no I refuse to make a ref for character interps of this #I draw them how I like once then ruminate #I mean unless the public wants it

[orokay]

The thing about Protestant churches is that they took everything the church historically learned about acoustics for cathedrals and focused it into the architecture of their bathrooms

#my dad had shoulder surgery and can’t drive yet #so I’ve been taking him into his church for meetings and stuff #and a girl’s gotta take a dump sometimes as is my god given right #the echoing #I’m not afraid to go to the bathroom in public restrooms and I’m not afraid of the noises we all make #but god the echo in this bathroom. unreal. #also the last time I took a dump here when I stepped out #there was a child waiting outside who I’ve never met before or since #specifically to scare me. she didn’t have to go to the bathroom or anything just waited out there to scare me #I walked into the waiting room and her mother must’ve heard me scream bc she just deadpan go ‘did she get you?’ #YEAH MAN?? #what? #dl #not art

[witchofthesouls]

Tarn is purple as his prose, so did he ever rizz the wifey?

Pffft, only unintentionally. The nurse had seen his Megatron closet and was impressed with the variety as well as the dedication to keep the memories in tact. That kind of devotion reminds the nurse of Caminus, but the Decepticons are not into fire and sun. They unfortunately enjoy high-powered, not-efficient arms. Nurse mourns over their wasteful lifestyle.

Tarn was charming during the wedding, but outside of that, he's your polite weirdo with Strong Opinions on music, justice, and literature.

If Megatron ever ordered Tarn to keep the Camien because of Reasons and Tarn went Shakespearean on you, then he would need to deal with your well-earned paranoia that he's been replaced with a Quintesson clone or a mech with a sigma ability related to mimicry.

#ask #transformers #transformers idw #idw #mtmte #the donor clause au #tarn #reader insert #cybertronian!reader #culture clash #cybertronian culture #maccadam #my thoughts #my writing #Tarn and nurse ain't normal so it's hilarious to watch them. #imagine Tarn being poetic in public and nurse is inconspiciously sharpening a chopstick under the table #because Tarn's being too off and a scapel will do a transformative shift noise #Nurse: Who are you and what have you done to my awkward legal husband

[tozettastone]

Today I was at a cafe in my neighbourhood where I often go after the morning rush hour to write and drink too much coffee, and a guy (probably under thirty but old enough to grow a full beard) came into the small and quiet seating area where about 3 other people were seated, sat down with his coffee, and began watching something involving a gunfight on his phone, without headphones.

This has happened to me in the gym, in elevators, on trains... I have become someone who says things like, "Excuse me, sorry to interrupt you, did you know that your headphones aren't plugged in?" But they always decide I'm the person being rude, and I'm really tired of, and frustrated by, having bizarre arguments with strangers in public about this.

I'm sure the people following my blog do not much overlap with the ambulatory noise complaints I'm describing, so I'm probably preaching to the choir, but I'm just.... so ANNOYED by its prevalence.

Today in the cafe I just got up and left.

Why do strangers have to teach these slovenly people about basic public decorum? What were their parents doing for eighteen years? What kind of person do you have to be to enter a quiet cafe and blithely play a cinematic gunfight on your phone at top tinny volume?

And, most importantly: what the fuck is going on?

#tozette.txt #just complaining #'i can't afford headphones' well then you can't afford to listen to TikTok or YouTube in an enclosed public space either. sorry. #it's not a fucking human rights violation when people expect you to stop turning on the loud noises machine in public.

[detectivedeckerstar]

Sam, thank you

On behalf of all of us thank you

We have what we need for our fan edits for years to come

To whoever wrote these prompts

You gave done a great service here today. Thank you.

#i am forever changed #i saw the clip first on Instagram #while on public transit #i was biting my jacket to keep from making a sound #brennen lee mulligan #make some noise #erika ishii #izzy roland #dimension 20 #sam reich

[convolutedblasphemy]

I swear to God we should ban cishet men from driving cars with a horn. I just walked 10 minutes from my office to my car and a total of 3 of these motherfuckers honked at me for being a woman on the sidewalk I guess.

#as someone with trauma who reacts to sudden loud noises and gets startled easily this ain't fun #i hate these stupid fucks and catcallers #if it was socially acceptable I'd walk around with a plague doctor mask in public #this happens to me at least once a week because i live in a conservative ass town where men know nothing about feminism

[musicktoplayinthedark]

My albums selection for the next heat week:

Cancerous Growth — Remission

Ersatz Olfolks - Ersatz Olfolks

Killing Joke ‎– Killing Joke

D'incise -l'étreinte

A Certain Ratio – To Each…

Godflesh – Purge

Public Image Limited – Metal Box

Pain Teens ‎– Case Histories

Kovana – Club Catharsis

Cosey Fanni Tutti – Tutti

#musical sugestion #musical selection #cancerous growth #ersatz olfolks #killing joke #d'incise #a certain ratio #godflesh #public image ltd #pain teens #kovana #cosey fanni tutti #industrial metal #industrial rock #industrial #industrial music #post punk #experimental music #noise music #electronica #electronic music

[deers-doodles]

Colored in that one contained leshy doodle for the sole purpose of using it as my pfp for this account XD

#cult of the lamb #cotl #deersdoodles #shitpost #cotl leshy #creechure #la creatura #contained #he is a danger to public safety #and must be contained #he is a rogue missile #he will be free one day #cotl au where instead of narinder in chains its just leshy in a jar #shamura put him in there because he ate something he shouldnt have #hes in time out if you will #theyll let him out eventually #once he tires himself out #but for the next 4 to 5 hours all theyre gonna hear is the small tinking noise of him running in there at mach jesus #and screaming #hes gonna try to push the jar off the table in hopes of breaking the glass #but mura is gonna catch it every time so he doesnt escape

[transfaguette]

You all really need to internalize the concept of competing accessibility needs. For any power-point presentation you can make detailing your specific needs, there is always going to be another person who's needs are incompatible with yours. Neither of you are more or less deserving of having those needs met. Neither of you are more or less deserving of existing comfortably in public.

#inspired by the listening to music loudly in public discourse #as someone who would greatly prefer no one made uneccessary noise in public Ever #i understand some poeple think and feel differently #coyote.txt #accessibility #competing access needs

[duckprintspress]

I feel like I need to start talking more about how one of the big things that Duck Prints Press does is open the door to people who could never even get a foot in with traditional publishing or even most medium/"small" presses (we're a small press, but we're really more of a micro-press, I see places calling themselves small presses that are fucktons bigger than we are).

I've got some anecdotal evidence that people avoid the publications of Presses like this one because they think our writing and editing standards are lower - that we're the people who failed to make it in bigger presses because we weren't good enough - and that, consciously and unconsciously, gatekeeping biases on who is and isn't qualified to write lead people to support small presses less than they might support a more established organization.

So...y'all realize that there are a lot of reasons people wouldn't pursue working with trad pub, right? and I don't even mean ethical doubts, and I don't even mean "trad pub doesn't want to publish certain kinds of stories," though those are definitely factors - we're able to give more space to play with themes and genres because we don't focus solely on "is this marketable" as a sales rubric.

But that's not what I consider the biggest difference.

Hi, I'm Claire, and I own Duck Prints Press, and I have a massive history of clinical depression, including being suicidal in the past. I'm a great writer, and I'm not just tooting my own horn, I've got almost 150,000 kudos on AO3 that suggest that just maybe, I know wtf I'm doing stringing words into sentences. I don't need a big press to tell me I'm competent, I already know that. What I do need is to not end up suicidal again. If I face the gauntlet of rejections that's supposedly "required" as part of gatekeeping trad pub, it will do severe damage to my mental health, and probably destroy my ability to write as depression-induced self-deception eats through what I know to be true.

THAT'S what's different about a micropress like ours. Yes, our founding vision was to work with fans, but the vast majority of the people who work with us have mental illnesses, physical disabilities, neurodivergence issues, and/or other "meatsuits are terrible actually" issues that strict publishing environments can't or, really, won't accommodate. We say "fuck that noise" and go out of our way to accommodate people, granting extensions and ensuring everyone can work on their own schedule. We're able to be very flexible, which means we bring in a lot of people whose incredible skills are overlooked, ignored, looked down on, kept out of, more mainstream publishing options.

If someone has trouble with deadlines? We still work with them.

If someone has an illness that flares irregularly and unpredictably? We still work with them.

If someone needs frequent reminders? We still work with them.

If someone works slowly because they can only do a little at a time? We still work with them.

If someone needs extra time, additional support, special software...we have thus far been able to accommodate literally everyone who has come to us.

As long as the creators who work with us keep communicating and keep showing at least a little progress, we will find a way to make things work, because we want to be as inclusive as possible, and because we know that most people with these challenges, no matter how good they are at writing or art or whatever it is they do with us, would face many more hardships to have these opportunities with a larger, more strict organization.

Just, every time I see indications that people think we're "less" because we're not HarperCollins or Penguin or Tor or something, I get so angry, because it shows so little understanding of how gatekeepy and especially how ableist trad pub is, and I wish more of the people who are thinking things like that would recognize that their behavior is, essentially, snobbery.

And to be clear I'm not saying "people with these challenges never get trad pubbed," that's clearly ridiculous and untrue, but I am saying, people with these challenges shouldn't have to be The Most Exceptional just to have a chance, and we deserve to have a place that will accommodate us instead of having to perform health, perform neurotypicalness, etc. just to succeed. We deserve to not have one flare-up potentially ruin our careers, and we deserve the same opportunities and respect as people who choose other directions.

Between trad pub, small press, and self-publishing, no one route is inherently "superior." Backing one over another doesn't guarantee you're only going to get good stories, or good editing. Trad pub publishes utter schlock sometimes, and self-publishing is fantastic sometimes, and some small presses do have lax standards, and some small presses are exceptional, and I feel like maybe people just really don't understand why places like Duck Prints Press try to exist - it's because we're trying to create spaces that meet us where we are, instead of focusing on rigid conformity, marketability, hard rules, etc.

The only way we'll get a diversity of voices in publishing is by supporting a diversity of publishers. The only way we'll be able to make space for everyone is by supporting the places that carve out new spaces to fit those who didn't fit elsewhere.

I wish more people would understand what we do and why we're here, and that folks would at least try our publications before assuming that we're "like big press but worse at writing/arting/editing."

Idk. I'm just tired, and sick, and still working even tho I'm sick, and frustrated with how hard it is to get anywhere, so here, have a rant I probably shouldn't post.

(this post brought to you by me seeing Chuck Tingle - entirely reasonably, to be clear, Chuck Tingle is awesome and I support him entirely! - celebrating the Camp Damascus release to thousands of notes, and Tor posting a poll about some Locked Tomb short story and getting 1300+ votes, and how I have to claw our way out of the background tumblr noise to get 100+ notes even on our biggest releases)

#duck prints press #about us #suicide mention #suicide tw #to be clear i'm in no danger now i'm well medicated #but i shouldn't have to destroy my mental health to get published actually #fuck that noise #authors shouldn't have to destroy themselves to meet the general public's delusional idea of what is success #i'm so tired y'all #why is everything so hard #i'd like to earn enough to take a paycheck some day #another big difference is that a lot of us our parents #and many of us are poor #virtually everyone i know who has succeed in trad pub is childless and has additional income streams #because those are the people who can afford to take the time and expense of writing full time

[gwydionmisha]

#Noise Pollution #Health Risks #Public Health #News

[egberts]

girls wake up there's a new worm bike playlist in progress

alana said the new one is way more funky, I've noticed a lot of punk bands are piggy dippin in a funk/punk sound more than a pop/punk sound and honestly? I'm so obsessed.

#its only like half done but ive already had it on repeat for 2 months #truly a I love this song! oh yeah i added it ass playlist #ever since going public with the worm bikes i am more conscious of how incohesive these playlists are #i can have songs bordering on e boy trap music noise alongside what is basically a pop song alongside screamo #but the point was never to have a cohesive sound or vibe. it was to collect new music in one place #and it does that effectively for me even if not everyone who seeks them out has the same taste #also a seperate thought to make these tags extra long: some of them ARE more cohesive and that's the funny part #you can tell my moods of the time or what i was seeking in song. one of them is full of songs about cutting off abusive parents and #simultaneously songs about being happy having a good time healing and starting over #like in a convoluted way that is cohesive and poetic #idk just weird to look back and be able to identify periods of my life with the music i collected now that theres so much of it #wish i could hard copy it but some of these songs are so obscure i feel like it's unrealistic #but i do want to have copies of my VIP list #okay sorry for the long ass rambling tags byyyyeeee