I have to say the passing of @stethingdave caught me very off guard. His blog was the first place I seen the word “cardiophile” and I still remember the first time I scrolled through it. I joined the cardiophile community when it was still young, when there was just a couple people some come and gone, some still here. Over the years we struck up a friendship and he was their for me during some very hard times in my life and I can’t say how much I appreciated his friendship. I’ll really miss his presence in the community and our friendship. My condolences to his children and partner. There is a go fund me set up to help his children with college if anyone is seriously interested in donating let me know and I can send you the link.
This man was such a beacon of kindness and positivity in this community. I’m very saddened to hear about his passing. RIP.
His blog was how I found Tumblr. I’d googled something heart-related, and a post of his came up in the search results. And just like you @fantasiesoftheheart his blog was where I first learned the word “cardiophile’. Just so sad he’s no longer with us.
I’ve been acquainted with him since the Heartbeat Maniacs MSN groups were active about fifteen years ago. We became friends, though, on Tumblr. We weren’t extremely close, but I did enjoy our conversations when they happened. I’d wondered why he was being so quiet lately, but I’d assumed that he was just busy with moving and would be back soon. Hearing that he’d died was a particularly unpleasant surprise.
It’s a testament to the kind of person he was that so many people remember him so fondly. His passing definitely leaves a gap, and I wish that he’d had more time to pursue the things he loved and see his kids grow up. But aside from that period when he was doing things he later regretted, he mostly seems to have made the best of the time he had (especially in more recent years), and that’s something to be thankful for.
ECG on the picture was recorded at the same time with audio. I have not yet devised a way to make the ECG picture run in time with the sound. Still, enjoy!
I can feel mine coming on. I almost know when the pause is going to be. When it happens it kinda feels like my heart swells up or gets big. Then I get a really hard thump on the next beat
Just felt like posting a random long recording on here, so here’s another one. It’s supposed to be resting, but it does feel a little fast (I realize I say that a lot about my resting files in general)
Tweaked the Adult site message to make it clear that you need to set an age on your account before the NSFW checkbox will appear (you can unset the age immediately after). Before now, it just gave a completely useless "Your account is ineligible for Adult access" message.
So that people actually see that they exist, adult posts show up in the main pulse feed now (IF you have enabled Adult access), but with images stripped out while you are on the SFW side.
I comprehend the meaning behind this, but ironically from a cardiophile perspective, I would flip the symbol.
“How is your heart?” comes with a mountain of subtext in our world. Depending on the circumstances, those words can be powerful, but unfortunately they’ve been overused and most often imply that the recipient of this question is being reduced to his or her heart alone. When someone messages me and asks “how is your day”, it means so much more and implies they’re interested in me as a whole person with feelings and junk and stuff. Even if the conversation eventually takes a turn into the cardiophile realm later on. 😊
