twitter: we’ve added a view counter to give you Extra depression this holiday season! look at all those people looking at your post and not interacting with it. fuck you.
tumblr: here are bells. swipe your mouse across them real fast to hear the sounds of elon musk strangling the twitter bird
Voice 2 (comes in 4 bars after Voice 1): #180_3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_6_66543_33212_22326_666_3_____2_____6_____5_____3_231_3_231_3_231_3_231_6_____5___6___3_________
Voice 3 (comes in 4 bars after Voice 2): #180_6_____5_____4_____3_____2_____8_____7_____6_____6_____5_____4_____3_____6_____5_____4_____3_____6_____5_____4_____3_____3_____2___3___1_________
whoa! anyone else get the "click for bells" button on their dash just now? I found something really cool that happens if you click it and type in this code:
When I was a young boy
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, "Son, when you grow up
Would you be the savior of the broken
The beaten and the damned?"
He said, "Will you defeat them?
Your demons, and all the non-believers
The plans that they have made?"
"Because one day, I'll leave you a phantom
To lead you in the summer
To join the black parade"
You can play some songs from Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask on the tumblr bells! Unfortunately, the highest note is missing so options are limited in that regard (no zelda’s lullaby or song of storms :pensive:)
Some video game themes that I like, on the tumblr bells
I spend way too much time playing video game music by ear on piano, so I've absolutely loved playing around with the little bells at the top of my dash. What a cute holiday treat for desktop users.
Figured I'd write some of them down :D If I made any errors feel free to point them out.
(In theory this would also work for anything that's a C-C octave. Like a little kalimba or toy piano or etc.)
Each number is one beat, dashes indicate how many additional beats to hold them/wait for the next note ("1" would be a quarter note and "1 -" would be a half note, etc)
Stardew Valley - Overture
3 - 5 4 3 4 5 - 3 1 - -
3 - 5 4 6 5 2 - - - - -
3 - 5 4 3 4 5 - 1 6 5 4
3 2 1 6 - 5 8 - - - - -
Minecraft - Minecraft
6 - 5 2 - 4 - -
6 - 5 2 - 1 - -
6 - 5 2 4 1 - 2
6 - 5 2 - 1 - -
Skyrim - Main Theme
2 3 4 - - -
4 3 4 - - -
3 4 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - - -
2 1 2 - - -
2 1 2 - - -
1 2 3 - 4 - 1 - 2 - - -
2 3 4 - 4 - 4 5 6 - 6 - 6 8 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - - -
2 1 2 - - -
2 1 2 - - -
1 2 3 - 4 - 1 - 2 - - -
TLOZ Majora's Mask - Clock Town
1 - 8 7 6 5 6 - - 4 - - 5 - 2 5 4 2 4 - 5 3 - -
1 - 8 7 6 5 6 - - 4 - - 5 4 2 4 - 3 1 - - - - -
1 - 8 7 6 5 6 - - 4 - - 5 - 2 5 4 2 4 - 5 3 - -
1 - 8 7 6 5 6 - - 4 - - 5 4 2 4 - 3 1 - - - - -
Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Main Theme
(My dash system for rhythm fell apart as soon as eight notes were introduced so you just kinda need to figure this one out I guess. Have fun)
8 7 6 5 3
8 7 6 7
8 7 6 5 3 2 3 5 6
1 2 3 3 3 2 5 3 1 1 2 3 3
5 6 8 7 6 5 6 8 7 5 3 2 3 5 6
Mad Rat Dead - Mad Rat Alive?
(With one wrong accidental at the very end. C'est la vie. The actual rhythm's a bit more syncopated as well, so play by ear.)
I made Discount (open source) Tumblr Dashboard Bells as a Firefox extension to decorate your tumblr dashboard!
(And they're already reviewed and approved even though I only submitted for review yesterday!)
You can get them here.
(You can also look at the source code. (Here are instructions for downloading Firefox extension source code.) The code is Mozilla Public License v2.0, which I think means you can modify it and/or distribute under the same license if you like (but I'm not a lawyer). In any case, I'd be happy to hear any edit suggestions!)
Once you've added it to Firefox, if you to go to your tumblr dashboard it should have a row of bells at the top like this:
When you mouse over a bell or type the corresponding number or letter (not case sensitive) it should play the sound and light up like below.
(After opening tumblr, you may need to click somewhere on the dashboard to get the sounds to work.)
The keyboard keys you can use are q, w, e, r, t, y, u, i, and digits 1-8, with q, w, e, r, t, y, u, i, being one octave below 1-8. ('i' plays the same bell as '1', which is why there is no 'i' bell.)
You can disable the bells by clicking "Disable Bells". Otherwise they will play when you type the relevant keys even when you are making posts :-(
They unfortunately don't look or sound like tumblr bells. When I made them, I couldn't remember how tumblr bells looked well enough to draw them from memory, and these bells were in the public domain. The sound is vibraphone, instead of jingle bells like tumblr bells were, because I couldn't find jingle bell sounds in even one octave. Sorry about this; that's why they're called Discount Bells.
If you click "Play a string" the div should expand like:
And then you can enter a string and a tempo.
Any character in the string which is not one of q, w, e, r, t, y, u, i, or 1-8 (NOT case sensitive) will be treated as a rest. My preferred rest to use is the comma.
The tempo is in bells per minute (rests count as bells).
For example, my best approximation of Hallelujah (verse and chorus) is:
You can find the source code on the Mozilla link provided above. Here are instructions for downloading source code for Firefox extensions.
Hope you give it a try and let me know if you have any thoughts/encounter any issues!
EDIT: I've made an update so that now the bells are disabled by default, so you need to click "Enable Bells" for the bells to work. (I also made them less loud. Let me know if you think they're still too loud.)
I guess if you wanted to do just the opening part of Carol of the Bells, you could play 8786 over and over while a friend on a different device plays 6-5-4-3