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Maddie Tourmaline
@madstourmaline.bsky.social
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old lady millennial, mystified by everything

making things sound good, ideally 🦌

(https://madison-tourmaline.tumblr.com)

I post my tunes on https://www.soundcloud.com/page-fortysix
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madstourmaline.bsky.social
Alas, I forgot but here's a glimpse
A frothy cappuccino sits in a mug under dim warm lighting. Behind it waits a bagel sandwich. In the back corner part of a laptop is seen.
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
madstourmaline.bsky.social
it's Catweather! enjoy! be safe etc good luck love you
Screenshot of the home screen of my phone, cropped to show the time, date, weather, and a google calendar widget. The day is Tuesday, 2nd of September, the weather is 23° Celsius and partly sunny, and the calendar lists two tasks and an event: Eat, Eat again!, and in banana yellow, Catweather. It's 4:30 pm.
September 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
madstourmaline.bsky.social
here's a musical red wolf that I drew 🌱
A round and scribbly red wolf standing with a green fender guitar and small combo amp, surrounded on either side by a stylized “AROOOOOOOOOO” and some peach and mango splashes raying out above him
March 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
madstourmaline.bsky.social
Hooray! I finally have a drum rug
Brick and cement room with windows and warm overhead lighting, viewed from a corner. In the center of the frame is a silver and gray drum set atop a 5 by 7 beige rope rug.
March 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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This is where I want to be rn!
A close-up photo of two 2 inch by 3 inch cards loosely pinned to a wall; one of them has drawing of a doe lying in a bright forest clearing, looking at the viewer with grass and trees all around her, and the other a drawing of an extra fluffy red wolf next to a green Fender-style guitar and combo amp with a big “Aroooooooooo” decoratively spelled out to either side. Both are done in ink and paint markers. The foliage fills most of the deer drawing leaving only a sliver of negative space in the foreground, and the wolf is framed only by the words, his guitar, a bit of abstract grass at the bottom edge, and radiating dashes in bright peach and mango around the top half.
March 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I'm so proud of how these turned out, they look and sound huggable if I'm being honest. They're very heavy though so I'm biding my time, slowly plotting a scheme to safely hang them from the ceiling
Lit softly from overhead, three goldenrod-colored obelisks lazily rest against a limestone brick wall, eclipsing a window covered by a curtain of navy blue. Visible to the left are a set of standing shelves and a bouquet of pop filters, and to the right a glimpse of abstract trans art and an exposed copper pipe. Perched between two obelisks is a plastic double shaker in a similar color. A chair intrudes into the bottom of the pic for scale
February 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I definitely followed the tutorial to make this but I feel like I get how now
A photo of the computer screen with VSigFile running and the graphical view of the “My 1st Delay” sig file. Modules are shown as simple outlined boxes with rounded corners and lines depict connections between them. There are markers for two sets of inputs and outputs, a module labeled KNOB/delay amount_k, two modules labeled DELAY/delay 1 and DELAY/delay 2, and a fourth module marked STEREO MIXER/stereo mixer. This is a mono in to stereo out program, so only the first input is used and it connects to both delays in series, then from each into channels 2 and 3 on the stereo mixer module. Input 1 also connects directly to channel 1 on the mixer, then the stereo mixer in turn connects to output 1 and output 2.
January 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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I mistyped 1st but it Works and this is Cool (it's a super simple stereo 1-tap delay)
A photo of the blue backlit LCD screen on an Eventide Ultra-Harmonizer H7600, showing a loaded program called My 1st PanDelay. A single softkey and variable (delay) appears and the value is set to 1000.0 mS.
January 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Guess I'm learning VSigFile now
A photograph of a computer screen showing VSigFile, a piece of software for node editing Ultra-Harmonizer audio effects patches
January 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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cozy (thank you to @curlworks.net but in person)
Tiny plush doe in a corduroy log bag (the log bag has plush mushrooms and moss on it!)
December 7, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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This is a trend I think but I will forget if I don't just post it so here’s a smol collection of videogames that changed my life a little bit, just the pics
A screenshot of a 2d game with a tiny character next to a frog (mid hop) half her height in the middle of the screen. The scene is tinted a shadowy cobalt blue and appears like a damp cave-like corridor, stretching straight across the screen from left to right with pitch black above and below. Various formations appear somewhat at random in the background. The character and frog are standing on a section of floor that appears to be supported by trestle across a hollow spot beneath it. The mood of the scene is lonely and dim but still thriving. A screenshot of a 2d game. The scene is lightly tinted yellow and blue, filling much of the screen with some areas of pitch black. The whole background is awash in verdant backlit plants, giving the effect of a jungle on a sunny morning. The navigable space surrounds a central chunk and continues off the screen upward vertically, left over small obstacles, and to the right. The mood of the scene is bright and safe, like a shady spot in a humid greenhouse or arboretum. A screenshot of a 2d game, with two tiny characters facing each other and a large colorful dialog box (blue gradiating into red-orange and slightly transparent) in the middle of the screen. The scene is mostly set by gray hazy light between pitch black cave walls, ornamented with large rocks, and depicts a thin, vertical shaft from the bottom to the top of the screen with an open space to the left and an open space slightly lower to the right, each with a simple rectangular flat black building with little gold windows set into it. A flat color portrait of the character on the left appears in the top left corner of the dialog box next to the name Joshua. The text reads, “Five hundred years ago, the humans fought a war on the surface. Well, it was more of a global extinction event.” A screenshot of a 2d game with a tiny character mid-jump. A wide path chunkily squiggles across the scene from the lower left to the middle right. A conspicuous overhang juts into the middle of the navigable space and a smaller vertical shaft is visible at the top of the screen. The background is fairly brightly lit and festooned with enormous watermelons, very large grapes, giant roots, oversized berries, behemoth seedpods, gargantuan worksheets and monumental chunks of ginger. A tiny little beaked red pebble-like beastie is seen in the lower left and another in green is hiding near the middle.
October 3, 2024 at 1:36 PM
madstourmaline.bsky.social
Bird has been posted,
Photograph, mostly bluish tinted, of an early evening sky looking west and up. Some silhouetted trees fill the lower left corner, and a small tower styled as a gothic castle fills the right side. A hospital is in the background on the right side behind it. The trees and buildings are angled away from the viewer as one looks higher due to their perspective. In the middle ground over a pale blue and darkening sky with few lemony clouds there is a seagull, also silhouetted, with its wings outstretched, and another one mid-flap overlaps the tower.
September 27, 2024 at 4:55 AM
madstourmaline.bsky.social
It's her
My left hand holding a tiny Polaroid print with a 4:3 color sketch of an anthro deer... it's my fursona! She's light brown with a nearly flocked appearance to her shading, wearing a yellow jumper and glowing red heart pendant. She's got small but full antlers and a big sniffy nose with sniff lines drawn emanating from it. A second copy in a plastic badge holder is visible in the background, left on a nearby surface
March 2, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Like. this is undeniably the studio of a woman with ADHD js
Photograph: A music studio control room brightly lit from overhead. A large keyboard (MODX8) and some desktop synths on the left of the frame, closest to the viewer, some racks of equipment on the right farther away, and a flat desk with a light finish placed in between. On the desk is a digital mix controller, two small Genelec nearfield monitors and two large midfield ones, and a screen on a swing arm, as well as an assignment of hand tools, shakers, a coffee cup, all in disarray. The walls are bare cement board and brick and there are large holes in one of them.
September 25, 2023 at 2:56 AM
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certified Wild Bun Wednesday moment !!!
September 20, 2023 at 10:24 AM
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my heart of heart's desire is a light rail service along N Lincoln Memorial and along the length of the lakeshore expressway to connect Bay View, Cudahy and South Milwaukee including better lakeshore park access. Heck, keep going from the top westward and connect the lake with Sherman Park or smth
Maps screenshot of eastern Milwaukee illustrating the path from the top of Lincoln Memorial Drive through Bay View to the south
September 10, 2023 at 8:56 AM
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return this to rails
Evening photo of a split four-lane street with receding automobile traffic, bordered on the right by a basic bike path (foreground), taken from ground level. The area is mainly lit by decorative streetlamps. There is a shadowed treeline on the opposite side of the bike path and four trees have been planted in the grass median between the split lanes.
September 10, 2023 at 8:23 AM
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A narrow, soft dirt trail stretches with a slight bend through many bright green leafing plants, leaking into a shadier spot ahead
August 22, 2023 at 8:05 AM
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I post a little pic !
an unconventionally pleasant white girl shown from the tummy up with lightly wavy shoulder length cherry brown hair leans against a brick wall in a creme sleeveless summer blouse with a colorful and ornately lined pattern of flora and fleur-de-lis. it is not shown in the picture exactly, but she is somehow also a deer.
August 15, 2023 at 5:24 AM