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Things I like about this decal on a restaurant window: -the insane orange waiter -that he’s carrying his plates in the air like a strongman -the couple looks like this isn’t the first time he’s done this, but it’s easier to just let it happen at this point. -the sign says PASTA as if he’s screaming it like a frankenstein -but he’s holding a plate of an entire chicken and a plate of wine glasses -there’s three wine glasses -one’s for him.

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jokes that will literally never not be funny to me:

saying “speedrun strats” every time you fuck up

saying “first try” when you’ve tried the thing like 15 times, minimum

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dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

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(Looking at fandom spaces) God, people get so easily attached to characters, this guy has like two lines of dialogue and people are already obsessed with them…. Heh, good 😈 (Figuring out ten different ways I can make my characters likable before killing them off to make people really fucking sad)

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I had a discussion with a friend the other day, so I figured I'd ask tumblr.

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could i ask how you make your voice sound the way it does when you do the gangle voice lines? I want to try my own impression and curious how you do yours

Gangle has three distinct voices so far, and each of them are placed slightly differently in my mouth/throat to create them.

Tragedy - Made by imitating what I sound like when I'm actually crying. It's very much in the nasal part of the face with a lot of vocal fry. Sniffling before delivering each line can help make it sound more real. Voice cracks are encouraged and should not be shied away from. It's hard to give more instruction on how to do it, though, because it truly is just my real crying voice. I find that people with naturally higher voices actually have a bit of trouble making it sound the same, and it's easier if you have a naturally lower voice like I do and are pitching up to cry instead. That's where a lot of the natural vocal fry comes from.

Comedy - Very soft, higher in pitch than my natural voice but not too high. Front of the mouth placement. You should feel your soft palette at the roof of your mouth engaging when you do this voice. Not very loud. I know there isn't much Comedy Gangle in the show to work with as far as learning to imitate her goes, but one cultural touchstone I think gets pretty close is Fluttershy, specifically in the song "What My Cutie Mark is Telling Me". If you can do that, but slightly higher pitched, you're pretty close. I also do a decent bit of these voice in my "Saying a Lot of Things as Gangle from Digital Circus(?)" video on my YouTube channel if you'd like to reference that.

Manic - All head voice. Very high-pitched, should feel like it's coming out of your forehead. Much louder than Comedy, practically half-shouting everything. This is the top of my register without manipulating my throat, so my instinct is to tell people to go as high as they can, but if you can go higher than me, that's not quite right. You'll need to figure out where exactly my "top" lands in your own register and try to aim for that. It might be in the middle for you.

If you have trouble with "placement" and understanding what I mean by that, one trick I teach my voice acting students is called the "Humming Trick". Everyone places their voice differently in their body to create their natural voice. People speak from the head, the nose, the front of the mouth, the back of the throat, or the chest. When you hum, you should feel one of these areas vibrate. As you proceed down (from head to chest), the pitch should get lower as you allow more reverberation to occur in your vocal folds. This is why smaller people (who tend to speak from the head/nose/mouth) have higher-pitched voiced than larger people (who tend to speak from the throat/chest). Training your voice to "move placement" will naturally change your voice, even without much forcing, because it's changing the amount of air you're allowing to flow through your vocal folds, which is the thing that creates people's natural voices. This is my biggest trick to creating huge differences in character voices.

Good luck! :)

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never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

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Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

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a party of adventurers that are all equally convinced that they are in completely different forms of media

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