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  • For this Halloween, I have finished my audiobook of H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu!!

    The video will be posted here and on my blog of "Cthulhu Reads Cosmic Horror" by 11 PM Mountain Time. I hope I timed everything right so that a certain event in the story happens right on 12 midnight!

    Hope you guys enjoy my little Halloween gift to you all!

    ^_^
    How I honestly feel with disagreements. To anyone: if we have a disagreement, I don't think less of you as a person, but when you resort to this, I feel it's a betrayal of respect.

    When my boundaries are disrespected like this, yeah, I can get impulsively riled up and react, but even when I do I never wish harm or malice on anyone. I won't be a doormat though, if you disrespected a boundary with me, I'll insist on it being respected, and this is where I can get pretty bull-headed.

    Just be respectful, don't always assume someone is acting or arguing in bad faith unless and until they do.

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    I agree. I love disagreeing, I learn new things. Today I disagreed and then mulling it over I came ro their point of view. What is important is respect in disagreeing.
    Just recorded a reading of H.P. Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark. For October, I'm going to be reading a lot of scary stories, and of course, H.P. Lovecraft's stories are going to feature, I'm thinking of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, or The Shadow Out of Time.

    For Halloween/Samhain, I'm saving a special story of Lovecraft's for that day, my introduction into his work, so stay tuned!
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    I think I found your next instrument:

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    Indeed!

    Thanks for reminding me, I need to write that blog on tyrannosaurs.

    I'm just..... doing a lot of research to refresh, because on one of my old and deleted Quora accounts, I did a gigantic answer on both Tyrannosaurus, and another on tyrannosauroids generally.
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    Make sure to let me know when its up so I can read.
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    I'm writing it right now, and as I am, I think I might have to separate it into four entries at least, one discussing early, basal tyrannosaurs, one discussing the larger more derived tyrannosaurs, one discussing famous specimens and their history of discovery, and a final one discussing Tyrannosaurus specifically.

    There's..... a lot to cover with tyrannosaurs.
    Out of curiosity, does anyone have the ZD forum Discord link?
    Not really the forum's. More like the site's:

    There's also ZD Nights, for when people want to play games together and stuff:
    Heyo Cthulu! I had a question if you don't mind (Also sorry I didn't check to see if you already made a blog post about this bc the site is mad laggy rn)
    Do you happen to know anything or have any tips when it comes to having an easier time with singing? I mean in the sense that like, I'm the only person in my choir who has to drink water before every song bc I get a sore throat, and by the end of it sometimes I get lightheaded from singing too much. I was just curious if that's something I can improve or if my lungs just suck. Or if that's 2 seperate issues. That might be 2 spereate issues now that I think about it.
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    I would suggest making sure you're not singing from your throat, and a great way to train it is changing how you breathe.

    If you are, then it never hurts to reassess the fundamentals, making sure your notes are supported by your diaphragm.

    First, when you inhale, imagine the air isn't filling your chest cavity, but imagine it or let it fall down into your belly. Done correctly, you should feel your belly button expand out a bit, and your shoulders remain in place. They shouldn't lift, and it should almost feel like air is falling down into your belly.

    Second, when exhaling, use your ab muscles to push the air out and get a steady stream of air, and add a note to it.

    It should sound a bit fuller and louder.

    Now the art comes in manipulating that engine. If you project or feel reverberation in your chest (as you do in talking), that's your chest voice, if you feel it reverberate in the face or head, that's your head voice, and if you feel it in kinda both, but it also feels projected out the front of the face, that's your mixed voice.

    Also, I suggest before choir, your voice is nice and warmed up. Some exercises I'd recommend are lip trills, your vowels of "AH" "OH" "EE" and "AY" are as supported and open as you can make them, and practicing arpeggios on each. Also, just depending on the day, it could take a bit before your voice "wakes up" so to speak.

    Also, the water habit is a good one! Water is great for the voice, and my favorite singers and vocalists basically chug lukewarm water by the bucketload during a show.

    Tea with honey at night, for me at least, helps to relax the throat, a tip I learned from Johan Hegg from Amon Amarth. Sure, he's a death metal singer, but it seems to work, and tea is harmless! Maybe try it out.

    :)
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    Thanks!!! That's really helpful
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    TheGreatCthulhu
    No problem! All the best!
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