Mx. H. Wren D'Arcy

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-- Writer (usually 18+) at https://violetey.es/ (website certificate borked, will fix one of these days)
-- Record nerd
-- Ludomantic witch: exploring games as reflections of self-contained probability realities (pondering why all odds are 50/50)
-- Minors probably should not interact with NSFW posts. Minors probably should not interact with SFW posts, lest I end up yelling at them about how good Hawkwind's The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London is.

Shy, sad, occasionally smutty transby who's trying to make friends and not lose their shit.

Does all their best posting between midnight and sunrise. Also does all their worst posting between midnight and sunrise.

Not here to get lectured at or to get into arguments.

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Formerly @hexwren

(aka Cam D'Arcy, in another place)

Pronouns/GenderThey/She non-binary
Age15,700 days + change
The OldestMillennial
The YoungestGeneration Xer
OrientationQueer/Yes, Please
Questions?Feel free to ask!
Flirting?Feel free to ask!
Existential Terror?All full up, thanks
What is the Light?(An untested hypothesis suggesting that the chemical (in our brains) by which we are able to experience the sensation of being in love is the same chemical that caused the "Big Bang" that was the birth of the accelerating universe)
Ready ?Many more battle scenes will soon be available !
Mx. H. Wren D'Arcy6d ago
to develop a theory of non-binary underwear design that isn't just crossdressing
Mx. H. Wren D'ArcyMar 16
the dystopian-future death-arena forum-based strategy-rpg my wife plays an evil corporate sponsor in is running again, so I've dug up the logo I did for her (and in the process of getting a new .png cut from the original files, did a new version in case she feels like changing up styles for a laugh)
Mx. H. Wren D'ArcyMar 8
playing video games
Mx. H. Wren D'ArcyFeb 23

alright

musicians, especially keyboardists/synthesists, i want yr advice

i've been looking at getting into synths in a minor way for a while now

but i am old. i am saying this upfront because whenever i try to set the boundaries on what i want advice ON, people immediately ignore it

what I want is a keyboard or a synth head unit (i've got a midi controller i'll plug into it) that I can very easily just leave up behind my desk here so that when my brain is full of fuck, i can just turn around in my desk chair and slap my hands on the keys and make some vwoo-type synth noises, big enya chords and cheesy late-80s adult contemporary noises

i do

-->NOT<---

want VSTs, DAWs or anything where I'd have to be using my computer or a phone or a laptop (i don't have a laptop) or a tablet (ditto)

i want HARDWARE. i understand knobs, buttons, and plugging things into each other. i do not understand computers. also, it's gotta have a keyboard or be able to be controlled by a keyboard. also i'm not euroracking any time soon, i don't have the money, the space, or the time.

i had a behringer model d for a while, and while that was cool, i didn't have the time to teach myself the whole process of actually running a minimoog (also I was running it into my guitar amp, which i think had bad frequency cutoffs for what the keyboard was actually trying to output, so it didn't sound as nice as i wanted) so in the end it was a lot more bother than the actual act of producing space sounds could counterbalance.

so i took it back to the store, regretfully - maybe i'll do something like that again when i move out of this apartment and have more studio space

but in the meantime, i'm feeling like i want less knob-twiddling and more pure moods

but what hardware? what should i be getting? i don't mind getting something a bit lower-end for simplicity's sake, but i don't want to go full on rinkadink casiotone, either. fuck that, i've spent more than a paycheck on a guitar before. i can do better.

talk to me. i'm considering a roland (if not a d-05 itself for those sweet, sweet enya sounds, then maybe one of the zen-engine pieces they do these days to install those sounds on later) but i'm willing to hear opinions.

Show threadMx. H. Wren D'ArcyFeb 15
From CD-ROM User No. 18, January 1996
Mx. H. Wren D'ArcyFeb 15
reading the internet
Mx. H. Wren D'ArcyFeb 9
LB thinking about how he pronounces "show-joe manga" again
Show threadMx. H. Wren D'ArcyFeb 9

nigeria plays in green and white, their nickname is the super eagles

wonder if someone will ever introduce "go birds" to them

all ending their sentences like philadelphians with go birds regardless of context

Mx. H. Wren D'ArcyFeb 9
watching football
Mx. H. Wren D'ArcyFeb 1

I'm practically salivating to bring back 100-year-old slang

i love outdated slang and vocab, and the more torturous I can make the adaptation to the modern tongue, the happier i am

so i've read this (brief) 1926 text on the topic several times now and yet I know for a fact that there's almost no place in modern life to integrate almost any of it into my speech or writing. sadness.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77369/pg77369-images.html

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