blacksteelgajeel:

novel about a morally grey pirate captain who is cursed to die within 5 years for stealing some forbidden treasure, and only giving her heart to someone and expecting nothing back can break the curse

but rather than go on some journey to find some true love or whatever, she decides to use her last years to travel the seas with her crew and collect treasure and drink and be merry

and on the day of reckoning, she is falling more and more ill, and her crew gather all around her to say goodbye to their captain when suddenly the curse is broken. because she gave her whole heart to her ship and her crew, and expected nothing back.

takma-rierah:

kedreeva:

cactus-nymph:

purupurupikopuyo:

now that’s the kinda news i wanna hear

i made my cat listen to the audio clip in from the article + he loved it

I called my skittish kitty, Aislynn, into the bedroom and up onto the bed next to me, and I played the Cozmo’s Air for her. No reaction. But she’s my “suckler” kitty, who does nursing paws and drools on stuff when she is happy. So I put on Rusty’s Ballad instead. And she stopped moving, just staring at me like she’d found god. Then she closed her eyes. I played it again and she carefully laid down with her head near the speaker of my laptop. I paid for and downloaded the whole song immediately and halfway through playing the full song, my other cat came into the room and stared at the computer like she had also found god, and now they are both laying near me listening with their eyes slitted and their ears ticking.

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This dude came and did a talk at my school once! He collaborated with a composer to make music based on the bodily rhythms and communication patterns of both monkeys (who prefer higher-pitched, fast-paced music) and for cats, linked above.

Although interesting already just for its potential to improve pet lives, this work was done to study why humans like music, and what aspects of it we respond to at an emotional level. By trying to predict what elements of sound other animals will respond to and composing for them, we can test hypotheses about why it is that seemingly all humans enjoy music of some variety, too (to the extent that it’s literally impossible to find a human of any age who hasn’t been exposed to music!)