iamjohnlocked4life:

I made a meme for today

katjohnadams :

techplanetlife :

Invisible Rube Goldberg machine👀
Follow @techplanetlife 

this is the best use of a solid with the same defraction as water *ever*

freakshows199 :

averruncusho :

fangirltothefullest :

queerbioengineer :

atinyqueersystem :

nikaalexandra:

OKAY SIT DOWN SHUT UP, WE’RE GONNA TALK COLORS

THIS IS SAPPHIRE

THIS IS TEAL

THIS IS PERIWINKLE

THIS IS AZURE

 AND THIS IS TURQUOISE

WONDER WHY THOSE ALL DON’T LOOK LIKE THE SAME COLOR? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT 

OTHER THAN BEING PART OF THE SAME FAMILY OF BLUES, THEY ARE NOT ALL THE SAME FUCKING COLOR! WHY WOULD THEY ALL BE THE SAME FUCKING COLOR! DO YOU THINK WE JUST NAME NEW COLORS FOR KICKS!?!?!?

WHEN DESCRIBING A CHARACTER’S GOD FORSAKEN EYE COLOR, PICK ONE YA GODDAMN HIPPIE

As someone who is colourblind this post is fucking hilarious because they are in fact all the same fucking colour

things heating up in the fuckin uuhhhhhhhhh BLUE fandom 

So uh….. fun fact about turquoise

They come in varying degrees of blue and green.

THIS IS TUMBLR

Lmao

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swinginsportscutebasketball:

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red-swimmerz:

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all of the numbers that are divisible by 17 sound so absurd. 51? 68? 85? ridiculous. 102? absolutely not. and don’t even get me started on 119

34 and 136 i can believe, but i feel like i shouldn’t. it’s 102 in a trench coat

did we just run out of posts to make

no, i haven’t made a post about every number yet

I’m sorry to let you know that 100,000,001 (one hundred million and one) is divisible by 17 and because of that, so is every 16-digit number that is four digits repeated four times e.g. 1234123412341234

rogue-snorunt :

mitz-terblue :

darkalleysunflower :

dysfunbats-shitposts :

la-shangri:

sharkblade:

texeirax:

sararye:

AND THAT IS HOW YOU USE AN EFFECTS PEDAL

I was gaping the entire song this is insane

I had to watch that twice how could I not

WHAT MAGNIFICENT MUSIC IS THIS

I didn’t want it to end.

HOLY. SHIT,

I haven’t seen this in years!! This is up there with Tom Holland’s Umbrella and the 2 adorable dudes lip syncing to Grease in a parking lot with the amount of joy they bring me.

(why do yall insist on posting these things without mentioning the artist?!)

Pretty sure this is Bryson Andres. He’s on youtube and spotify (and likely other places) and does some really rad as heck covers.

Rebloggin with credit to the artist

aner-bananer :

sufferingtransvoid :

roastducksauce :

queenvulture0 :

paintchipsfromthewall :

slumberblues :

the-mad-march-hare42 :

gammywank :

taragrimface :

mysharona1987 :

mysharona1987 :

samanthasbarkss :

lifewithoutcosette :

How the fuck was this a children’s television character?!?

this always cheers me up.

I don’t know who played Mr Blobby here.

But that guy deserved a Best Actor in a Comedy Emmy Award here.   

He is hysterical. 

Jack still being so suspicious.

what is this.

an anxiety attack

He gone

Bonus:

Jack: no fear

Mr Blobby: J̡̼̓̓ͮ͑ͩͭ̇͞A̧̬̙̹̝̻̼ͯ̑͆̉̿C̯̬̯̬̤̻̦̞̎̐̈̏́͗̀̐͘Kͭ҉̹̼̭̹̻͢

Jack: one fear

if you haven’t seen this.

Be blessed

mr. blobby’s got me WRECKED

“Apologies jack; Mr Blobby”

“/oh fuck/”

What is this demon????

oscarsbewildin:

gay comic writer andrew wheeler is writing the nicky and joe anthology issue and it's BEING SET IN BERLIN BETWEEN WWI AND WWII, which is one of the most vibrant times in queer history (right before the onset of fascism)... I AM SCREAMING

HELLO NINE ONE FUCKING ONE

official-lucifers-child :

dancinbutterfly :

elodieunderglass:

killorbekillian:

God: Now listen to me Gabriel, these are going to be really fun because some go on pizzas.

Gabriel: Yeah, okay, okay.

God: You like that? And then some will make you see things.

Gabriel: …’Kay?

God: And some, Gabriel, some just… kill you.

boazpriestly:

This “God Creating Things” series by @lonnieiiv on TikTok is HILARIOUS!

Gabriel: [Long pause] You doin’ okay, pal?

I love how he turns off the stove to give this the attention it deserves

OKay so, when Morgan Freeman retires, we need to hire Lonnie cuz, uh, he’s got it

his voice his voice his voice, and his ACTING skills oh my gods, the RANGE, the little actor in me is shaking with happiness i love this so much

aqueous2:

instructor144:

ventraman:

another-bondi-blonde:

This could save your life.

BOOST.

Absolutely vital information to have if you live where the waters freeze over.

I especially appreciate this guy’s commitment to actually showing the steps himself. That cold-shock response is a bitch and willingly subjecting himself to it couldn’t have been fun.

whamlastchristmas:

@frawgs

outofcontextchrisfleming:

tiktoksthataregood:

HIIII BRUUUUUUCE 🌸🌸🌸

nathanielthecurious :

a lot of you hate historians and archaeologists, and i think that’s a problem

look, i fully recognize that there are reasons to be skeptical of history and archaeology. i am very on board with criticizing academia as an oppressive institution, and the way that researchers take their bigotry and bias with them to their work. i also recognize that academia does a pretty bad job of communicating what it does to the public, and that’s a part of why people’s hostility to it is able to flourish.

but i am disturbed by the pervasive narrative in online leftist spaces that people who research the human past are ignorant and bigoted, and i think we need to do more to combat that narrative.

historians being homophobic has become a whole meme, and it feels like people are just using historians as a homophobia scapegoat, when in reality the humanities are overwhelmingly left-leaning. people also keep blaming historians for erasing the homoeroticism of fictional literary characters, which is just… not what historians do. homophobic biases and erasures in the interpretation of history over the past few hundred years are a very real thing that’s important to learn about, but scholars have radically shifted away from that approach in recent generations, and these memes are not helping people outside the field to understand history and reception. instead, a lot of people are coming away with the impression that…

(source… really? nobody?)

this thread gets bonus points for the comments claiming that modern historians argue about whether achilles was a top or a bottom using homophobic stereotypes, which i can only guess is a misunderstanding of the erastes/eromenos model (a relationship schema in classical greece; i think people have debated whether achilles and patroclus represent an early version of it). also a commenter claims that the movie troy invented the idea of achilles and patroclus being cousins when no, they were also cousins in lots of ancient sources.

there’s this post about roman dodecahedra (link includes explanation of why the original post is misleading).

there’s this thread about how some thin gold spirals from ancient denmark look exactly like materials used in gold embroidery to this day but archaeologists are stupid and don’t know that because they dont talk to embroiderers enough. in fact, the article says they were most likely used for decorating clothing, whether as a fringe, braided into hair, or embroidered. so the archaeologists in the article basically agree with the post, theyre just less certain about it, because an artifact looking similar to a modern device doesn’t necessarily mean they have identical uses.

this thread has a lot of people interpreting academic nuance as erasure. the museum label literally says that this kind of statue typically depicts a married couple, giving you the factual evidence so you can interpret it. it would be false to say “these two women are married” because there was no gay marriage in ancient egypt. (interpreting nuance as erasure or ignorance is a running theme here, and it points to a disconnect, a public ignorance of how history is studied, that we can very much remedy)

lots of other conspiracy theory-ish stuff about ancient egypt is common in social justice communities, which egyptologists on this site have done a good job of debunking

oh, and this kind of thing has been going around. the problem with it is that there are loads of marginalized academics who research things related to their own lives, and lived experience and rigorous research are different forms of expertise that are both valuable.

so why does this matter?

none of these are isolated incidents. for everything i’ve linked here, there are examples i havent linked. anti-intellectualism, especially against the humanities, is rampant lately across the political spectrum, and it’s very dangerous. it’s not the same as wanting to see and understand evidence for yourself, it’s not the same as criticizing institutions of academic research. it’s the assumption that scholars are out to get you and the perception that there is no knowledge to be gained from thorough study. that mindset is closely connected to the denial of (political, scientific, and yes historical) facts that we’ve been seeing all around us in recent years.

on a personal note, so many marginalized scholars are trying to survive the dumpster fire of academia because we care that much about making sure the stories that are too often unheard don’t get left out of history… and when that’s the entire focus of my life right now, it’s disheartening to see how many of my political allies are just going to assume the worst about the entire field

afloweroutofstone:

yaninus-de-venoix:

have a couple medieval dance tunes, feat. my hammered dulcimer and me in my pajamas since I have no reason to leave the house

Catch me and the bard going HAM to these at ye olde inn

feanor-the-dragon :

toktiks :

by @ 23notecanon on tiktok

Let me out.

LET ME OOOOOOOOOUT

fuckyeahnaturalphilosophy :

rosslynpaladin :

bull-business:

promithiae:

If you like the wellerman, try on this classic

this is a pathologic ass song 

The Chemical Worker’s Song. Not far off our current days’ wage slave experience. I’m telling you, you need Union Songs.

Sailors aboard a ship used to hum to warn the captain they were THIS close to a mutiny and didn’t like conditions AT ALL. Because humming was something others could keep doing when you stopped. Anyone comes close you stop, but the hum of the rest keeps on and they can’t prove who, exactly, is doing it.

Just saying.

Sea shanties are a gateway drug to work/labour songs of all kinds, labour songs always end up including union songs, and that’s how you end up extremely hardcore for organised labour.

And if people want more information, this particular song is called “The Chemical Worker’s Song (Process Man)”, written by the Canadian folk group Great Big Sea.

Sea shanties and labour songs are an active tradition! Are you pissed? Sing about it.

akidwhoslostcontrol:

I’m obsessed with this tiktok. He went so hard.

garlic-bread-addicted-vampire :

raidahblossom :

felinelovincanine :

fennecsus :

flamingrainbowzofawesome :

hey-italex :

honestly, I think it’s a lot more funny than it actually is

The Evolution of a Meme

how could u forget…

the holy trinity

I love how each image worsens in quality but the actual tweets do not

purplepints :

missrebelred:

carnivalseb:

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madgastronomer:

mycroftrh:

smallswingshoes:

psychoactive-teratogen:

elfwreck:

star-anise:

brs-love:

aphilologicalbatman:

freedom-of-fanfic:

star-anise:

My girlfriend and I talk a lot about our different generations of queerness, because she was doing queer activism in the 1990s and I wasn’t.

And she’s supportive of my writing about queerness but also kind of bitter about how quickly her entire generation’s history has disappeared into a bland “AIDS was bad, gay marriage solved homophobia” narrative, and now we’re having to play catch-up to educate young LGBTQ+ people about queer history and queer theory. It gets pretty raw sometimes.

I mean, a large part of the reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people haven’t is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.

“Excuse us,” she said bitterly the other day, not at me but to me, “for not laying the groundwork for children we never thought we’d have in a future none of us thought we’d be alive for.”

“the reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people haven’t is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.”

thank you for giving me a good reason to finish my dissertation and try to make it in the academy

Wait, idk LGBTQ+ history, but they died of AIDS cause, what, hospitals refused to treat them or…?

Oh heck yeah.

When an epidemic happens, public health agencies spend millions of dollars trying to understand what happens: Why are people sick or dying? What caused it? Who else is at risk? Government health departments like the Centres for Disease control and private companies both invest hundreds of millions of dollars into preserving public health. This happened in 1977, when military veterans who all attended the same gathering began to get sick with a strange type of pneumonia, with 182 cases and 29 dead, and the CDC traced the illness to a bacterium distributed by the air conditioning system of a hotel they all stayed at, and in 1982, when seven people died of tainted Tylenol, and pharmaceutical companies changed the entire way their products were made and packaged to prevent more deaths.

Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic took six years to be recognized by the CDC (1975-1981) because at first the only people dying were intravenous drug users, which is to say, heroin addicts; when it was recognized, President Reagan’s government pressured the CDC to spend as little time and money on AIDS as possible, because they literally didn’t think gay lives were important. So yes, hospitals refused to treat them and medical staff treated them as disgusting people who deserved to die, but also, there was very little funding for scientists to understand what this disease was, what caused it, where it came from, how it spread, or how to stop it. The LGBTQ+ community had to organize and fight to get hospitals to treat them, to fund scientific research, to be legally allowed to buy the drugs that kept them alive, and to have access to treatment. An effective treatment for AIDS wasn’t found until 1995.

And it’s ongoing; a lot of the difficulty of fighting AIDS in Africa is that it’s seen as “the gay disease” (and thanks to European colonialism, even African societies that used to be okay with us were taught to think LGBTQ+ people are bad).  Even now that we have medications that can treat or prevent AIDS, they’re incredibly expensive and hard to get; in 2015, New York businessman Martin Shkreli acquired the exclusive right to make a drug that treats an AIDS-related disease, and raised its price from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill. 

Here’s one history on what it was like to have and fight AIDS, one history on how politicians responded to the epidemic, and if you can get a copy of the documentary How to Survive a Plague, it’s a good introduction, because it’s about how AIDS patients had to fight for their lives. A lot of these histories are imperfect and incomplete, because privilege played a big part in whose lives and deaths were seen as important–Poor people, people of colour, trans people, and drug addicts were less likely to be able to afford or access medical care, and more likely to die without being remembered; histories often tend to focus on straight people who got AIDS through no fault of their own, and then white cis gay men who seem more “respectable” and “relatable”.  

I mean, people who will talk about how homophobia led to neglect of AIDS still find ways not to mention that AIDS isn’t just sexually transmitted; it’s hugely a disease of drug addicts, because sharing needles is a huge way the disease spreads. But because society always thinks, oh, drug addicts are bad and disgusting people and of course criminals, that often gets neatly dropped from the histories, and it’s still hard to get people to agree to things that keep drug addicts alive, like needle exchanges and supervised injection sites. But if you want my rant about how the war on drugs is bullshit used to control poor people and people of colour, and drugs shouldn’t be criminalized, you’ll have to ask for that separately.

They died of AIDS because

• Hospitals refused to treat them, and when they did get admitted, treated them like dirt so their will-to-live was eroded - refused to let long-term partners visit them, staff acted like they were disgusting nuisances, etc.
• Very little funding was put into finding causes or cures - AIDS was considered “god’s punishment” for immoral behavior by a whole lot of people.
• Once causes were understood (effective treatments were a long ways off), information about those causes weren’t widely shared - because it was a “sex disease” (it wasn’t) and because a huge number of the victims were gay or needle-drug users, and the people in charge of disease prevention (or in charge of funding) didn’t care if all of those people just died.
• Not until it started hitting straight people and superstar celebrities (e.g. Rock Hudson) did it get treated as A Real Problem - and by that time, it had reached terrifying epidemic conditions.

Picture from 1993:

We lost basically a whole generation of the queer community.

As a current AIDS survivor, this is really important information. I was diagnosed not only HIV positive in 2014, but I had already progressed to an AIDS diagnosis. Knowing how far we’ve come with treatment and what the trials and tribulations of those who came before cannot and must not ever be forgotten. Awareness is the number one goal. I often speak to the microbiology students at my university to explain what it’s like to live with, how the medications work, side effects, how it’s affected my daily life, and just raise general awareness.

Before my diagnosis, I, like many others, was clueless to how far treatment has come. I was still under the belief my diagnosis was a death sentence. Moving forward, even if only one person hears my story, that’s one more person that’s educated and can raise awareness.

I believe it’s time for us as a society to start better education of this disease. The vast majority of the people I’ve spoken to are receptive to the knowledge of my status, and I’ve received lots of support from loved ones, friends, and total strangers. It’s time to beat the stigma.

This is slightly off-point, but as for the cost, I wanted to mention that some pharmacies have specialties that let them get special coupons/programs and stuff to save money.

A bottle of Truvada (a month supply commonly used for treating this) is at least $3,000 out of pocket and insurance doesn’t usually take a lot off of that. But the pharmacy I work at is an HIV specialty and we always get te price down to less than $10.

If you’re on HIV meds and they’re ludicrously expensive, ask your local pharmacy manager if there are any local HIV specialty pharmacies that they know of. They might be able to help.

I think it’s important to emphasize that, while the diagnosis is no longer a death sentence, it is also true that people dying of AIDS because of homophobia is not history only.

My brother’s first boyfriend was kicked out/disowned by his parents for being queer, got AIDS, couldn’t afford treatment, and died.  He died in 2019, at around 20 years old.

In 2019.

Barely more than a kid.

Of a treatable disease.

Because of homophobia.

Because his parents cared more about not being associated with a queer person than they cared about their son’s literal life.

AIDS is not just history.  Neither is homophobia.

Back to history: When AIDS patients held die-ins, they went to hospitals, lay down in front of them, and literally waited to die.

If you’re young & either queer or queer-adjacent, think about the number of people out of the closet you know your own age & think about how many you know your parents age.
They’re not stamping us out of the mould any quicker these days than in the ‘60s, except in lockstep with population growth.

I think, growing up, my picture of relative numbers of queer people & straights was unavoidably impacted by the number of empty seats at our table. That might be the case for you too.
The number of elders you never got to meet.

Remember this when people talk about how small the LGBTQIA+ population is. That it’s “such a small percentage of the population to be catered too”. Remember this and tell them, “that’s because homophobia killed them”.

This picture of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus is often included with the “The men facing the camera/in white are the surviving members” but it leaves out something extremely important:

By 1996, all of the men facing the camera in the picture were dead.

Every.

Single.

One.

Eric Luse, the photographer, said this in a more recent article :

By 1996 the obituary list was almost 50 names longer than the entire choral roster. All of the positions plus four dozen more, gone. The obituary list continued to grow, too. The cost and availability of any treatments in the mid-late 90s continued to cause more death.

If you were queer in the 80s and 90s, you knew someone who had it and knew people who died from it. Period. I cannot stress the impact this had on the queer community and those of us who were alive at the time, and I know the scope of it is almost unimaginable to younger people today.

By 1996, there were NO surviving original members of the SFGMC. You need to know that when you see this picture.

Dozens of the men turned away from the camera here in this shot were also dead alongside the men in white. It is vital to recognize that.

There is no hope in this picture, it isn’t a display of a lucky few who avoided death. There is no “Well at least some of them survived” because no, they didn’t, and this time was so fucking bleak and painful it’s astonishing that anything got done. They’d march one week and die the next. Their friends would bury them in the morning and march in the afternoon. This went on for years.

Bigotry and hate and ignorance killed generations of queer people. It speaks to the sheer resilience of the community that from that all but state-sanctioned genocide, we have gained so much ground in the last few decades. Much is owed to the people who refused to stay quiet and who fought even on their deathbeds, so please consider learning about LGBTQ+ history as a way of continuing the fight and showing respect. Many of us coming of age at that time didn’t have that opportunity, and made it a point to learn and get involved as teenagers and young adults because we saw what we were losing.

Sing for two.

queerbeerz:

If you’re into sea shanties, may I present:

Stop Line 3

Honor The Earth">Welcome Water Protectors

Stop Line 3

Honor The Earth

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Honortheearth

musingsofaraven :

thehappysnail:

iplaytolosebitch:

x

Holy fuck

This works best if you keep windows closed.

Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.

This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.

https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html

Better Box Fan Air Purifier

becausedragons :

camazotz :

i-am-a-koi:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

rattycastle:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

loudestcrowdever:

dragon-in-a-fez:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

The fact the Black Mamba is the most deadly snake in the world continues to be hilarious to me

you think you know what an incredibly venomous snake looks like? wrong! it’s this bitch

are you seriously telling me it’s not even black

@dragon-in-a-fez The inside of their mouth is black and shaped like a coffin when open, which makes it very goth and cool, but otherwise they do look like very bland noodles lol

COFFIN WHAT NOW

Yooooo

THIS SNAKE IS LITERALLY BULLYING ME INTO LAUGHING AT THEIR JOKES

people have pointed out that the belly scales on both pics look like bad video game rendering

okay but have you seen the Blunt Headed tree snake??? cause that one is even funnier 

it is a spaghetti noodle with a head 

Do you guys know about the Arabian Sand Boa

that looks like someone tried to reconstruct a snake from memory

neofooturism :

niklas-sagara :

an-alarming-number-of-bees :

brazenautomaton :

v3r0 :

tilthat :

TIL gorillas only have type B blood.

via reddit.com

B for banana

do you wanna know something extremely cursed?

Horses have 400,000 blood types.

another day another evil horse knowledge unravels

curiosamathematica :

Imagine a simple sliding puzzle with three pieces on the vertices of a tetrahedron, that you can slide around along the edges. There are 24 possible game states. All moves in the game are recorded in the depicted graph, known as the Nauru graph.

Larger sliding puzzles with more “holes” can have even more interesting graphs. You can find a couple of examples here. There is among others a quite innocent-looking puzzle with five pieces and one hole, resulting in a subdivision of the truncated cuboctahedron with a total of 120 vertices!

aubsforthewin:

i need to share my favorite sea shanty tiktok

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJcN4GGB/

math-memes:

tae-fox-cryptid :

ding-dong-the-bitch-is-dead :

dracophile :

twinkgirlboywife :

randomingoftherandomness :

christchex :

dracophile :

teapotsahoy :

fallenangelvictorious :

disregardcanon :

pencilscratchins :

miles “who’s morales” morales’s biggest weakness is the cover story

peter, lying out of his ass: i was, uh, married to his uncle aaron. he just never let you know

Jefferson, later: Do you think Aaron never told us because Peter’s…

Rio: …Tall

Jefferson: I didn’t think Aaron liked … Tall people.

Jefferson: “But listen: Aaron might have married a white boy just to annoy me, specifically. It’s a thing he would do!”

Rio: “I can’t hear you. I’m asleep.  I have a shift in four hours.”

I really wish there was a way Uncle Aaron lived and came back to meet his “husband” at some point now.

Aaron: …Miles…I love you, and I am proud of you…but you are somehow the smartest and dumbest boy I have ever known.

Miles: Says the man who used his big brain to become a criminal when he could’ve been a black Tony Stark with that gear he made. And thought working for the Kingpin, who everyone knows will throw his minions away like tissues, was a good idea!

Peter: He makes a good point, babe, you did kind of mess up first–

Aaron: Call me babe again and see what happens. I’ll whoop you with a collapsed lung.

All I see is “fake marriage au, but it’s also enemies to lovers”

If I ever stop reblogging this post, assume that I have yeeted myself off this mortal coil

Miles: Peter I think we can stop pretending you’re gay, my parents already know I’m Spider-Man.

Peter: Who said anything about pretending?

Miles: What! You can’t do that! You’re supposed to be Spider-Man, not my gay uncle.

Peter: Well congrats kid! Now I’m Spider-Man AND your gay uncle

Miles: Uncle Aaron?!

Aaron: …What? I never said I was straight, kid. And he’s not bad when he makes an effort.

Petter: Is that what we’re calling it now?

Miles: Aaah, god, stop talking!

@blackkatmagic @north-peach

Omfg I love everything about this

lynati :

xonar-verse :

so i’ve seen this around a lot and i always felt like the version i listened to just. didn’t have everything? sO! i edited together my three favourite versions of the tik tok sea shanty! enjoy!!

(listen with headphones if possible!)

(yes i know the ending is bad oKaY-)

YES PERFECT EXCELLENT. THANK YOU FOR THIS!!

I got literal chills listening to it and I’ve only had that happened in response to a handful of songs in my life, and it’s a feeling I adore, so *dumps a bucket of kudos at your feet*