I Will Never Leave You

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

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a love letter to the ds version of 999 <3

higher quality still under cut

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

Vital - A powerful wavetable synth, my personal favorite VST synth, very easy to figure out creating new synth sounds, with the help of the plenty of tutorials that are out there for the plug-in. (There are paid versions but they are completely unnecessary to get 99% of the features of the plug-in.)

Synth1 - A classic piece of synthesizer software.

Pendulate - An interesting, chaotic synth that you can make weird little sounds with.

Native Instruments' free plug-ins - Various cool VSTs, including the Komplete Start pack.

The Free Orchestra - A set of orchestral instruments for Kontakt Player (see previous link).

BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover - More orchestral stuff! This one has its own player so you don't have to download a separate VST to use it if you don't want to.

Magical 8bit Plug - A chiptune plug-in, intended for producing sounds like that of 8-bit systems like the NES and Master System.

Genny - A synth VST made to emulate the soundchip of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

MT Power Drum Kit - A nice rock n' roll style drum kit plug-in.

This guy's weird VST collection - 6.4 gigabytes of weird VSTs, including some you might know, like Delay Lama and MeowSynth!

sforzando - A free player for soundfont files.

Musical Artifacts - A resource I mainly use to find soundfonts, on which you can find other various things as well.

Kilohearts Essentials - 30 effect VSTs including reverb, delay, compression, pitch shifting, transient shaping, ring modulation, phase distortion, and more.

Xfer's freeware VSTs - Exactly what it says on the tin, including the one and only OTT compressor.

Illformed - The good ol' dblue Glitch 1.3, Crusher, Stretch, and TapeStop.

Hysteresis and Fracture - Two interesting glitch effects, one being a delay and the other being a buffer.

Codec - A cool digital audio degradation effect.

Le Phonk - A slick distortion plug-in.

MAIM - An effect that mimics the sound of MP3 compression.

Soundly Shape it and Place it - One is simply an equalizer VST, the other is an effect that emulates a speaker (ex: a radio) and a space (ex: a cave).

Fresh Air - An effect that adds high end information to your sounds, to provide brightness.

ValhallaSupermassive - A combo reverb and delay plug-in that sounds quite big.

UnplugRed - A collection of various interesting VSTs, most of which have free versions.

Chowdhury DSP - I can't personally speak for all of these but their tape model effect is great for some lo-fi style effects.

TAL-Chorus-LX - A thick sounding chorus, good for "retro" sounds too.

Polyverse Wider - A great effect for widening sounds up, really simple too with only two controls.

Freesound - A good audio file resource, mainly for foley recordings.

Cymbatics Dubstep Starter Pack - A little sample pack with some good drum and synth samples.

fishmonger drum kit - A pack of samples from the album 'fishmonger' by Underscores!

WangleLine's sample packs - Free samples put out by my awesome mutual WangleLine!

aaand I might as well include this set of drums I made awhile back :P

Geonkick - A drum synthesis VST, especially simple to get kicks going, but capable of producing a multitude of sounds.

plugdata - A visual programming environment for plug-in projects, that people produce their own plug-ins for, such as infamous plug-in the gusher.

SoundThread (info in description) - A really cool node-based audio editing interface based on the Composers Desktop Project, great for sound design, although it currently only supports .wav files.

OpenUtau - An open source software for UTAU voicebanks like Kasane Teto, much easier to work with imo than the original UTAU software for a beginner to vocal synths like UTAU and Vocaloid.

Famitracker - More NES style chiptune stuff, this one's a classic standalone tracker program.

Gender/sex is biopolitical complex, it is a tool of social control. (I'll use gender for short, but gender/sex or gender-sex is probably more correct)

I used the word "biopolitical" there, and I use it a lot in general because biopower a very useful concept. To explain it, I want to introduce it's inverse, "necropower". Necropower is the ability to kill. It's armies and guns and swords, but also managed starvation(think Bengal famine, or the Nazi Hunger Plan), engineered suicide(you should be familiar with this one), ignored or facilitated disease (AIDS crisis) and tolerated interpersonal killing(cars, femicide).

Biopower then, is the ability to control living people. This is not to say that it does not involve killing, or guns, or suicide, or so on, but that the goal is not death, but control. Necropower is actually extremely useful in gaining biopower, but biopower is a far more fungible currency. It's the difference between a shooter and a mugger. Both have guns, both will at least sometimes kill someone, but one is about killing, the other is about your wallet.

Gender, and really all biopolitical complexes, work via both coercion and incentive (if the two can even be separated). It punishes, but it also rewards. Crucially, it does these to elicit social control, to elicit biopower, nothing more or less. When people use and are used by the gender complex, they are either being controlled and being rewarded, or controlling others and using it as reward.

To use an example, when a man does something 'manly' like join the military, he is being controlled (by the military/state) and being rewarded with masculine gender affirmation, which translates via social status to material benefits. On the state's end, they had some guy draw up a propaganda and advertising campaign (these days with AI and the words LETHALITY in big bold text) which invoked masculinity and masculine values. He didn't do it because he was evil or held some love of the gender complex, the guy doing it probably had no clue what he was doing, he did it because it worked. Given the wages and other benefits the military offers, some number of people would join, when you add the social status granted by masculinity, that number goes up.

The advantage for the state is that the material benefits granted via the gender complex do not come at their expense, but at the expense of women. This socializes some of the costs of running a military, with obvious upsides for the state.

Nobody in this example acted because they really believed in masculine superiority, or in the actual ontological existence of gender, or in the continued working of the gender complex. They acted out of incentive. The guy running the campaign and the guy joining could believe any number of things about feminism or patriarchy or gender, so long as they also believed that their actions were permissible.

Men are not the only ones who can be controlled by the gender/sex complex either, in fact it is usually women. We do the dishes, clean the house, cook the food, we offer our bodies sexually and our minds emotionally, and for that, we get rewarded not with money, but with the social protections afforded to a wife. Some of us are not offered that.

When a women "accepts" being raped by a man, when she stays quiet afterwards or even "consents" under the implied threat of additional violence, she is being controlled in return for the "reward" of not actually facing that violence, when she doesn't accept it, she is punished, sometimes killed, as a message to every other woman in her position. Such acts of necropower and of violence more generally are the necessary costs of running a biopolitical complex.

This violence is directed against women, especially trans and Black women, because those people are the ones for whom punishment is acceptable and control frequent. The logical endpoint of being "a girl you can hit" is that not that you always get hit, although you will, it is giving men your lunch money, your body, your labour, and even your consent, because both of you understand that the threat is legitimate.

Easy as can be, perfect apartment dweller

Might take some convincing

Basically a coin flip

It will be an uphill battle but I might be able to, while saying goodbye to my deposit

No increased rent, deposit or argument could convince any landlord to let us in

I was trying to track down a non-soundcloud version of Chords of Humanity, the song he wrote that when he was 17 was used by Doctors Without Borders, and instead found that it was used in a Fallout New Vegas mod that he may also have made at 17?

which is a sequel to another mod that's also credited to a Dylan Hollis, which I'm not necessarily assuming is him. Could have been a different Dylan Hollis who happened to have found the song by searching his name--oh, wait, there's a video of game play (with the song as background), and there's a tiny bit of voice acting...yeah, that's him.