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Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are primarily carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

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 a while back :P

As a little belated Valentine's day gift to you all, I have something so very much more romantic than a night out with roses. 🌹🌹

Statistics.... 📊

I swear it's worth it! Check out the results of the visual novel dating sim survey you helped filled out late last year:

Read the Survey Report

If you're curious about what forty-two people thought (nothing too shabby for my small, humble following) of:

how often they check in on ongoing projects

31 extra game titles respondents suggested related to this genre.

Which features were the most important (hint: it wasn't conventionally attractive characters)

Then go check it out!

Most people take a gag as permission to be loud. Either because they take it as a challenge "try to silence me, I'll show you" or because they think it's going to muffle noise so they're free to be noisy. They'll be unintelligible of course but they will make all types of pretty noises.

Expectation is an incredibly powerful tool you can make use of. People like patterns, people like predictability, they like knowing what's going to happen. So make rules and follow them, make patterns and keep to them, be predictable and your sub will feel safe and comfortable with you, they will trust you more if they know what you're going to do and how you're going to react.

Practice your safe words and tap outs. Your sub wants to please you and will cross their boundaries for you, which can be hot sometimes but as a Domme it's your responsibility to watch for breakage. So, play a game to condition your sub to retain the ability to say no more during scenes. The intimacy of knowing your sub can stop you at any point but willingly chooses not to is sublime.

An example could be: Tell your sub beforehand or during foreplay that you want to "play a game" of Yes & No, that all they get to say is yes or no and your goal as a Domme is to get them to say no (or to say the safe word at the end). You start with yeses, throw in easy no's at first (like pinching too hard for soft subs or light degradation for praise subs) and reward them with more yeses. Explore their boundaries as you go, letting them squirm, and testing with harder no's. Make them say it loudly. Trick them with yes/no questions, and for extra fun throw in questions with one word answers that aren't yes/no and punish them when they slip up. (Who's your Domme? "You" Oops, that's not a yes or no. *bite them*)

All stories should have more disabled people, honestly, because disability is a basic part of being alive! What am I supposed to think of any given fictional community if I never see any elderly people, any retired people, any injured people, or any disabled people?

The first gobler is bonus because some criminal decided gabble week started on a sunday.

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

I took a lap dancing class two weeks ago, and some kid thought my dancing was hot. I went to a pole dancing class last week, was the oldest person there, and fit right in (and got some great restaurant recommendations from my classmates!). I have bruises on my legs from a furry mosh pit. There’s a local crew of millennials I hit up at a bar on Wednesdays. I’m just getting into my local kink scene. I’ve just started wearing skirts and showing my thighs in public and playing with my gender in a way I always wanted to as a kid.

If anything, I’m better than I was in my 20s, because now I can do all the things I fantasized about with the calm confidence of someone who actually likes who they are.

Like, yeah, I also need to watch my blood pressure and I don’t have the endless reserves of stamina I once had, but I’ve gained experience in being me and that lets me sometimes dance circles around the youth.