vernal angel kiva

dolls on a plane

"stuck on a plane with a rogue combat doll" is the most incredibly niche goth transfem nightmare subgenre imaginable

a thunderstorm just started in animal crossing, and MIDI looked up with very mild concern

or maybe it's like a procedurally generated exploration game, but it's just what happens when you point your creative instincts, which have been trained on every sound you've ever heard, at the DAW and are like, please generate a new map for me

or the sculpture thing about revealing what's inside

it's like getting a little musical present, shaking it gently, wondering what's inside, and then slowly unwrapping it to find out that there's, idk, a really obnoxious synth lead contrasted with some soft, feminine, angelic vocal harmonies

who knew

my process for music usually begins with a particular sound, or a particular melodic, rhythmic or harmonic idea, and then i just build on that seed, figuring out by intuition where i think it "wants" to go

and the fun part is, your sound is eclectic, and you consistently surprise yourself

the temperature has been exceeding my recommended maximum of 68 F (20 C), and as a side effect of estrogen, i am Suffering

i love everything else about estrogen, but i'm only comfortable temperature-wise for 3 months out of the year

didn't i just put my fan in the garage? i object on principle

when you're an angel girl, it's honestly kinda hard to override habit and type the word angle

(and also the name of samba subgenre, but i'd been trying to remember it specifically in the context of bossa nova percussion)

Fake Genre Bot (@fakegenrebot@musician.social) 2.7K Posts, 0 Following, 430 Followers · a bot by https://musician.social/@holydoll (aka purrgesterone) that posts procedurally generated imaginary genres

finally tracked down a bug in musician.social/@fakegenrebot (i forgot to enclose a couple things in # signs, so it thought they were strings)

and while doing so, i realized that the corpus contained a term i've been trying to remember for months: partido alto (a rhythm in some brazilian music)

whoa

i saw more fiddlehead fern in one place than i've ever seen in my life, and by a wide margin

so lucky! it's already such a rare plant to see!!!

last weekend i heard a weird door, recorded it, did some exploratory sound design, jammed over the result in 22-EDO and ad-libbed some vocals, and a few days later it ended up being whatever this whole situation is

musician.social/@holydoll/11...

ad-libbed and ethereal female vocal harmonies, soft electric guitar, more mallets because why not, and the moderately processed, weird squeaky door sound that started this silliness

audio description:

midtempo minor-key microtonal electronic beats with complex piano chords, a simpler, mallet-like chord pad reinforcing the progression, a sequenced sub bass, punchy percussion, a kind of obnoxious overdriven lead synth with a lot of filter modulation,

last weekend i heard a weird door, recorded it, did some exploratory sound design, jammed over the result in 22-EDO and ad-libbed some vocals, and a few days later it ended up being whatever this whole situation is

musician.social/@holydoll/11...

why would anyone dream literally any of this

recently i dreamed that i traveled to narnia by holding two raw eggs in my mouth, and when i got there, i saw two buff, angry brothers walking by with their equally angry grandmother, and one of the brothers was wearing a t-shirt shirt that said WATCH GRANDMA WHILE GETTING PUNCHED

estrogen was like, you're actually gonna *want* to take selfies for the first time in your life, but also any temperature above 68 F (20 C) will utterly wreck you

worth it though

whenever programmers use a function, they should have to announce it verbally like a tokusatsu hero

holy doll (@holydoll@musician.social) Attached: 1 audio "a doll's moonlit halo" (31-EDO) last december, i gave myself creative burnout by making too many music gifts for christmas. then, on saturday night, i noticed that i was actually ...

"a doll's moonlit halo" (31-EDO)

last weekend, music suddenly felt accessible again after months of creative burnout

so i jammed, one thing led to another, and whoa:

i guess i've finished a track (including vocal harmonies!) for the first time this year <3

musician.social/@holydoll/11...

a photo of deep black interrupted only by the full blood moon at the totality of the eclipse, ranging in a gentle gradient from a lighter orange to deep rust to nearly as black as the surrounding night sky

blood moon total eclipse

3 am is when She lets us see Herself in rare form

a screenshot of a notification from google photos that consists of a close-up of my cat's face and the text "ready for this?"

is google photos...ok lately? cause i suddenly keep getting inscrutable notifications like this

what does this mean

2:30 am kiva: huh, the moon looks a lot less red than i had expected

3 am kiva: keanu_whoa.gif

i hadn't actually known this was coming up at all, but on sunday evening, i was taking sunset photos, and this guy on a bike saw me with my (slightly) fancy camera and asked me if i was gonna take photos of the eclipse, and i was like, i am now lol

thanks neighborhood bike dude, i appreciate you

a photo of deep black interrupted only by the full blood moon at the totality of the eclipse, ranging in a gentle gradient from a lighter orange to deep rust to nearly as black as the surrounding night sky

blood moon total eclipse

3 am is when She lets us see Herself in rare form

you know what, while this is probably not the space to get into detail about the whole angel thing, i'm still gonna go ahead and add it/its to my bio, alongside the other pronouns

walking out of the free pronoun store with as many on my person as possible, pointing at my skirt like "it has pockets"

holy doll (@holydoll@musician.social) Attached: 1 audio "a doll's moonlit halo" (31-EDO) last december, i gave myself creative burnout by making too many music gifts for christmas. then, on saturday night, i noticed that i was actually ...

"a doll's moonlit halo" (31-EDO)

last weekend, music suddenly felt accessible again after months of creative burnout

so i jammed, one thing led to another, and whoa:

i guess i've finished a track (including vocal harmonies!) for the first time this year <3

musician.social/@holydoll/11...

[cw alcohol]

me (doesn't drink): huh, the living room smells like...cough drops??

partner: it's rum

a fuzzy, spike-covered black caterpillar with little orange spots on a vividly red, almost coral castilleja flower, with a blurry, light brown background

a pair of toadshade flowers with broad green leaves and closed, very dark burgundy flowers standing vertical in the middle, all amidst various greenery

checkerspot caterpillar on a flower, plus toadshade