i.m. abett

Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations

When we hear the beautiful call of a bird from a high bough, we’re told it’s likely to be a male – singing for territory, or belting out tunes to woo a female. But as the annual dawn chorus reaches a crescendo this spring, a new guidebook is urging us to think again – and turn our ears to the hidden world of female birdsong. The songs, sounds and sights of female birds have historically been overlooked in field guides and sound archives. In 2016, just 0.01% of the bird sounds in the global Xeno-Canto sound library were labelled female. Another sound archive was just 0.03% female, according to a 2018 study. But the new book – The Sound Approach to Birding 2 – aims to correct this under-representation and properly explain female birdsong. Female birds sing for territorial displays, to ward off other females and to attract extra males, according to Lucy McRobert, a writer and researcher who studied the issue for the guidebook. The book comes with its own library of 300 sounds from 200 species, accessed via web or app. The clips are drawn from the larger online archive of Sound Approach, a birdsong project founded in 2000 with confirmed recordings of females for 41% of species found in the Western Palearctic, a biogeographical region encompassing Europe, north Africa and most of the Middle East...

In order

1. Cold, Cold, Cold by the Family Crest

2. The Killing Kind by Marianas Trench

3. Little White Lies by Aurelio Voltaire

4. Next Mistake by Animal Sun

In order

1. Cold, Cold, Cold by the Family Crest

2. The Killing Kind by Marianas Trench

3. Little White Lies by Aurelio Voltaire

4. Next Mistake by Animal Sun

redrew the art meme that was going round a few weeks ago because “make it good later” has never been that aspiration to me, it’s even been enough to just not make the thing I really want to make in the past.

It's wild they feel the need to specify no slashers, serial killers, gore (that isn't narratively important ig), OR splatter punk. Those are all different things, but also if you say "no serial killers" you are most likely excluding slashers and if you go "no gore" you are obviously excluding splatter punk.

Let's be clear, there's plenty of genres of horror still allowed by their guidelines... It's just oddly specific the ones they chose to exclude, and telling of a certain mentality of some kind of "safe horror".

And also they hate the 1800s

Context:

STOP LINKING WEIGHT WITH MORALITY (“lmao look how fit all the people with Good Opinion are, Person I Hate is Fat”)

STOP LINKING AGE WITH MORALITY (“people with Good Opinion just don’t age I swear!”)

STOP LINKING HEALTH WITH MORALITY (“Well xyz health problem is what Person I Hate gets for being shitty!”)