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Just posted a new (slight) sonadow fic! May add chaps in the future, but I'm afraid that's up to the fates (how much caffeine I can get access to lol)
Black Hole Fantasy on Ao3
Summary:
Sonic was stealing rings.
He sure wasn't being subtle about it either. Tails' blue brother must've gotten too used to being the only one with a heightened sense of hearing if he thought his nightly escapes would go unnoticed for long.
tape casette recorders are compatible with literally every. single. thing. im out here living in 2095.
things you can record (audio only), simply by lying to your computer, telling it that the tape recorder is actually a set of headphones:
and with a VCR you could do all of this AND have the visuals as wellβ¦ but an audio cassette recorder is a good place to start, since theyβre small and simple. I would not recommend a boombox, because those are large and nowadays all very, very bad quality.
Now you may be sayingΒ βhow is any of this helpful, I want a digital fileβ¦β hereβs the fucking magic. You go into Audacity (free program), and lie to it that the tape recorder is really a microphone. Then you hit record on Audacity, and hit play on the tape, and let it play at regular speed. Trim and export the digital file, and youβre doing gangbusters. Youβre cooking with gas. Youβre thinking with portals. Youβve won the internet.
Congratulations, you can βpirateβ* anything you want, and literally no one can catch you, because youβre not downloading in the traditional sense. Youβre streaming to an external device, and that device is recording what it receives. Itβs exactly like taping a live tv show to a VHS. This is a very low-key and non-strenuous task for the computer, since your tape recorder does all the work.
*Is this piracy? No. Well- itβs time shifting. Sort of. Tell it to my Steely Dan albums. Tell it to my The Sims: Hot Date VG Soundtrack album.
OP, dropping surprising knowledge from across time and space:
Or you skip the cassette player part, buy an audio cable (which has 2 ends that both look like the end of a headphone cable:)
, connect one end to your computers audio output thingy (and lie to your computer that itβs a headphone) and the other to the audio input thingy (and pretend itβs a microphone), use Audacity as described above, e voilΓ ! You can make a digital file of any online content you want.
WIKIPEDIA IS 25 TODAY MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!! [Their celebration article here]
there is not NEARLY enough noise on this post !!! CELEBRATE ITS BIRTHDAYYYYYY
small things in life that are actually worth living for
mutual you are so funny and cool How do i form a social bond with you without interaction
Here are the 2024 vaccine recommendation schedules. Theyβve already been wiped from the cdc site. Save them and share widely, especially to your friends with kids.
Hi!!! One of my parents got meningitis when I was a kid.
They were in the hospital for nearly a month, the rest of us were all placed in medical quarantine, there were several points we thought they were gonna die, and even though they survived, it was a SUPER close call and they lost about two years of memories from the ensuing brain damage.
Likeβ¦ a two-uear-long cookie-cutter pocket of thoughts and memories went missing right out of their brain. Itβs an inflammation of the brain that cooks it alive.
I DIDNβT EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A VACCINE.
I WILL BE GETTING IT.
To give you a clue about how serious bacterial meningitis is:
One of my colleagues reviewed a child with mild viral symptoms during clinic, I think around lunch time. They even got a senior doctor to look the kid over, because they were a little less experienced themselves. The child's observations (vital signs) we're normal and they looked good, just like a normal kid with the snuffles and a cough. No signs of pneumonia.
As every good doctor should, they told the parents what to look out for, and when to seek help if things changed.
The parents got worried that evening. They drove you the hospital but the child got VERY sick on the very short drive to hospital.
The child died that evening. They had rapidly developed pneumococcal meningitis. A condition we can now vaccinate against with the pneumococcal vaccine. When the case was examined, nothing was missed, the child had simply become rapidly and life threateningly sick within a few hours with an extremely aggressive infection with a high fatality rate.
Most experienced doctors I know have a story like this - or a story about someone who came into A&E (ED) mildly unwell but only developed actual meningitis symptoms during their wait in the department and could have died if they were sent home earlier.
Cases like this are why I try to drill into each patient when they need to go straight to A&E.
At a GP surgery we actually carry only a few drugs to give patients ourselves, because if someone is sick we call an ambulance and send them over to the hospital ASAP. The aim is to not delay sending people to hospital, as that is where the real intensive treatment starts.
We have defibrillators for cardiac arrest. Adrenaline for anaphylactic (life threatening) allergic reactions. Oxygen, salbutamol, ipratropium (for asthma or copd) and often dexamethasone (for croup) to help if someone is seriously struggling to breathe...and benzylpenicillin. The initial antibiotic injection for suspected meningitis. Because you do not wait for test results to treat it. You don't even wait for them to get to hospital, or even for them to get into an ambulance. You trat as soon as you suspect it. Because by the time it is confirmed, it is often too late.
It boggles my mind that there are people who think it's an unnecessary vaccine. Or who think that a couple less shots for their kids is worth risking an increased chance of developing meningitis.
If you can't find the AAP vaccine recommendations and aren't sure, please look to the UK. Look to Australia. Etc. The rest of us are still vaccinating. And make sure you're with a pediatrician or family doctor etc who believes in vaccines.
[id for the first photo: similar to the second photo, but the fire is labelled βall the stuff i have to doβ and the phone is labelled βfanfictionβ. /end id.]
Anyway thatβs why you wear wool and a life jacket babeeeyyyy
The important thing about wool is that it continues to keep you warm even when itβs soaking wet.
Other natural fibers donβt do this. In fact, quite the opposite. Campers and boaters are usually familiar with the phrase, βcotton kills.β If youβre wet in cotton or linen, your clothes actually sap heat from your body.
If you sink in a lake in late October like I did today, staying warm is important. I was rescued long before I wouldβve actually died, but cold makes your muscles seize up, which isnβt good if you have to swim to land.
Which brings me around to life jackets. If the waterβs cold enough, you may only have five-ten minutes until your muscles seize (today I probably had 40-60, more than enough time to get to land if I hadnβt been picked up), and youβll drown.
In a life jacket, even in extremely cold water, you can float semi-conscious for perhaps another 30 minutes or so before you actually freeze to death, which is usually when someone rescues you.
Whatβs more, you probably know that moving around on land warms you up. Jumping jacks, jogging in place, etc.
In water, moving actually makes you colder. You need to stay still curled up in a ball, which you can only do in a life jacket.
In wool AND life jacket, youβre warm, and your headβs above water, which is pretty much your only and entire goal.
If youβre allergic to wool, synthetics are available specifically for this purpose. I know I always say natural fibers are the way to go, but when it comes to safety, wear what protects you!
Yep! A really simple βexperimentβ I learned as a kid and now use in my own courses is sticking your hand in ice water. Compare moving it around in the water to curling it up in a fist. The contrast is stark!
To increase your survival time in on cold water, you want to curl up! If youβre with others, you want to huddle!
Again, both are only possible when wearing a life jacket!
I know a lot of people are reblogging this for writing reference, but I like to believe that 7,000 people on this site were actually continually living in fear about this specific situation and that when the time comes, Iβve prepared them with what they need to know to survive.
Gonna make one hundred soups this year. Starting off with kapustnyak, carrot soup, chickpea soup, and parsnip soup.
4% complete.
8% complete baybeee. This may end up being a long post. Hope you like the colour of the soup.
Can't stop won't stop. 15 soups so far.
Slowed down for a minute because vet bills ate up my grocery budget but made it to 20%, baybEEEE.
Whoops I slowed down but BAM, 25%. I'm gonna make a comeback baybeeEEEE.
Four new BEAN BASED SOUPS, the first one trailblazing because it was a taco soup recipe courtesy of @alex-of-1000-dumbasseries. 61 IN THE BAG, 39 TO GO.
I am also linking my soup planning doc because I can, and it's easier than tagging all of them individually.
Have I lost all my followers yet? NOT YET. Time for more soups. I'm up to 70 now.
OP this is a gorgeous post and Iβm so proud of you
Thank you, I will take these codfish words to my grave. Also, I have achieved 8 more, putting me at 77 soups. How is 70 plus 9 photos 77? I'm glad you asked.
Earlier, I forgot to include a photo of my cock-a-leekie-soup (#57) - pictured above as the first one of this set - and also I MADE TARATOR TWICE by accident so I've struck one from the record since I'm trying to make 100 soups here, not 99 and one twice.
A new bowl approaches. Bought myself some soup bowls from the 70s with goofy little geese on them for my own birthday (though I did not get them in time for my miyeok-guk), because what else is free will for. This puts me at 86. I JUST MIGHT MAKE IT? SOMEHOW?
A COLOURFUL BATCH featuring another Certified Tumblr Soup because people kept recommending Yeto's Soup, and they were right.
How am I at 92? ALL MY LIFE I'VE BEEN A QUITTER.
If you want to stand up for transgender Canadians, then there's a petition to ask the federal government to repeal the acts signed into law that restrict transgender medical care for transgender youth:
You need only be a resident of Canada, not a citizen to sign. Please help us give transgender youth a fighting chance. Their medical care decisions should be between the handling physician and family only. This isn't a matter for politicians to decide.
hey, so I would he grateful if people living in Canada could sign this and if non-Canadians could signal boost, please.
The petition will be closed for signatures on February 16, 2026.
This needs to be boosted.
I think what might help the whole "low engagement in fandom spaces driving creatives out because they don't see the point in sharing anything only to get crickets or critics" is not the shaming tone of "look this is how you get nothing, you entitled shits" that tends to be very pervasive, but rather pointing out how actually rewarding it can be to leave nice comments.
I like to leave very long rambling comments on people's fics and that has actually netted me some very real, genuine friendships and we've become cheerleaders for each other. My friend has a D&D Podcast that she doesn't get ANY sort of engagement out of, so I started listening to it at work and livereacting the things I enjoy about it and showing her my investment and it makes her very happy and it makes me happy that she's happy.
Being nice to people... is actually a good enough reason to do things, shockingly enough. You don't have to do it. No one should shame you for not doing it. But it doesn't actually cost anything to make other people happy, especially if they created something that made you happy.
Gandalf throwing his staff at gollum is what really makes this
Thank you for commenting because I was going to scroll past this.Β
How it feels to ask a friend to do an activity with you even though you Know both of you will enjoy it and they've never been mean about doing it with you before and you'll both have a great time
