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yourstrulylightstar283 · 10 months ago

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My Voice Fancast for Donkey Kong characters and some Mario characters

For disclaimer, I don't own Donkey Kong franchise, Mario franchise and their characters.

The people I cast for this voice fancast (c) Themselves

John DiMaggio or Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Donkey Kong

Joy Tanner(Joy Tanner voiced baby Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong animated series.) as Young Donkey Kong

Eric Bauza(Eric Bauza voiced Diddy Kong in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.) as Diddy Kong

Grey DeLisle as Dixie Kong, Kiddy Kong(Dinky Kong) and Tiny Kong

Mark Hamill or Bill Farmer as Cranky Kong

Tress MacNeille or Kath Soucie as Wrinkly Kong

Ben Schwartz or Phill LaMarr as Funky Kong

Susan Egan as Candy Kong

Bill Fagerbakke as Chunky Kong

Tom Kenny as Lanky Kong

Sam Marin as Swanky Kong

Dee Bradley Baker as Squawks, Rambi, Expresso, Enguarde, Winky, Rattly, Squitter, Glimmer, Clapper, Quawks, Ellie, Parry, Lightfish, Hoofer, Flurl, Orco and Helibird - All of Animal Friends

Benedict Campbell(Benedict Campbell voiced King K. Rool in Donkey Kong Country animated series and DKC: Return to Krocodile Isle. Plus, personally, Benedict Campbell is the best voice talent for King K. Rool to me. 🐊😀🙂) or Dee Bradley Baker(Reminds me of Dee Bradley Baker's vocal performance as Actor Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender's "Ember Island Players" episode.) as King K. Rool

Adrian Truss(Adrian Truss voiced General Klump in Donkey Kong Country animated series and DKC: Return to Krocodile Isle.) as General Klump

Fred Tatasciore(Len Carlson(The voice talent of Krusha in Donkey Kong Country animated series) passed on in 2006. Rest in peace, Mr. Len Carlson. 😢) as Krusha

Tara Platt as Kalypso

Kari Wahlgren as Kass

"Weird Al" Yankovic as Mario and Luigi Mario

Jennifer Hale as Princess Toadstool(Princess Peach)

Kate Higgins(Kate Davis) as Princess Daisy and Pauline - Kate Higgins(Kate Davis) voiced Pauline in Mario series.

Keith Ferguson as Toad

Jessica DiCicco as Toadette and Mario & Luigi's mother(Mama Mario) - Jessica DiCicco voiced Mama Mario(Mario and Luigi's mother) in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Totaka Kazumi(Kazumi Totaka) as Yoshi - Totaka Kazumi(Kazumi Totaka) is the voice talent of Yoshi.)

Rob Paulsen as Wario, Waluigi and Mario & Luigi's father(Papa Mario)

Scott Burns or Jack Black as Bowser Koopa

Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek

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abigailspinach · 2 months ago

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While she’s made gains with a number of groups since entering the race — independents, suburban voters, even white non-college-educated voters, to name a few — only Black voters have swung as hard in her favor as young voters have. An analysis of crosstab data from polls conducted before Biden’s dropout and after Harris’s debate performance by the former Democratic pollster Adam Carlson found a Harris gain of nearly 12 points with voters 18–29, compared to a shift of 4.2 points for the electorate at large.

he results were grim for Democrats and confirmed what other qualitative research of young voters has found: that young people feel like the American dream is a “fading mirage” that is increasingly “out of reach.” They were still hopeful, dreaming about what could be, but felt especially left out of political discussions, uninspired by Biden or Trump, and pressured by the cost of living, debt, and threats to abortion rights.

“I am struggling in every aspect when it comes to the cost of living, the cost of food, everything is barely making it so that I can [stay] just above water … (barely making it),” one 28-year-old Biden-supporting female participant told the researchers. Pluralities of respondents felt the same way. And more than half of them said 2024 was trending in a worse direction than any of the past few years.

“You’d see over and over again, just how young people do feel powerless and out of control, regarding their finances, their own ability to provide themselves, health care, and just the state of the world. That is something that [persists] and is still a thing we have speak to,” Fernandez Ancona said.

The results offered a clear picture of what Democrats needed to change if they wanted to win in November: Replace Biden, promote younger leadership, and offer a clearer, more positive, and more forward-looking platform that moved beyond Biden or Trump.

That’s just what has happened in the following months. “What we see in the data is that Harris is almost kind of the ideal candidate for them, because [she presents] the three things that [young people] said they wanted most: authenticity, actionable policies, and a change from the status quo,” Fernandez Ancona said. “Harris becomes that avatar for everything you are asking for. So she can possibly help solidify them as a voting block by speaking to their agency in [pushing for this change].”

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caitlin666 · 2 years ago

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Why Are Romantic Relationships So Pushed In Teen Girl Magazines?

Romantic relationships, or more specifically heteronormative romantic relationships are constantly pushed in so many teen magazines and teen websites/blogs. Let's talk about it.

Enormously popular and highly successful, women’s magazines and teen magazines represent the largest segment of the U.S. consumer magazine industry. Circulations range from 500,000 to more than 1 million. Containing advice on everything from diets and exercise to how to dress and use make-up, and how to attract men, women’s magazines play a socializing function through the stories they tell in columns, features, and advertising. Readers encounter and then may imitate cultural myths of identity. Women’s magazines particularly fill in the contours and colors of what it means to be a woman and how women should relate to men.

In December 2016, an online opinion piece headlined "Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America" appeared in Teen Vogue magazine. Within hours, the harsh indictment of the then-president-elect exploded on the internet: Comments sections erupted in debate, and egg-avatars trolled the writer, Teen Vogue Weekend Editor Lauren Duca, on Twitter.

But it wasn't just the subject of the article that caused the uproar; it was the nature of the publication that ran it. What was a political piece doing in a teen magazine?

"There's definitely a mode of stealthy condescension sometimes," she told Mother Jones about the reaction to the piece. "Other versions of the Tucker Carlson comment: 'Her last post was about Selena Gomez's makeup.' " But, she said, "it's possible to like both those things".

Yes, it is possible to like both makeup and politics, fashion and feminism. And yet, the last thing most people expect from a teen girl magazine is substantive articles or opinions on the issues of the day. Teen magazines are supposed to be about clothes and glamour and summer jobs and relationship advice, right? Actually, wrong.

Teen magazines today "are introducing girls to feminism that isn't bra-burning, which is also cool," she says. "But you can be feminine and a feminist".

Paging through contemporary teen magazines, readers may be struck by the seeming "hipness" of the images. The pictures feature pert, smiling, predominately white, middle-class, young women dressed in the latest fashions. The teenaged models look confident and in control. In short, they imply agency, the ability to do as they choose. However, researchers have found this image to be at odds with the messages carried in the magazines.

In 1974, only ‘Teen, Glamour and Mademoiselle directly and openly addressed the issue of sexual activity and sexuality through such topics as sex and the single scene, infidelity, pregnancy and abortion, venereal disease, “his body,” and bust exercises. YM and Seventeen spoke more implicitly, focusing on the dating game, dating etiquette, abusive boyfriends, kissing, love letters, going steady, surviving a breakup, and being a loser on the dating scene. By 1984, all more openly addressed male/female sexuality and sexual relations.

The setting for the sexual relationship dance between male and female teenagers is rarely named or described in teen magazines. Sex appears to occur whenever and whenever possible. Implicitly, Finders (1997) found teen magazines help young women identify the nature of their new adult community, as well as the other actors. In the magazines we surveyed, there are two actors in this sexual drama: the "guy" or boyfriend and the "girl." The most prevalent questions were: What are guys like? What do guys want from girls? How should I behave around guys? Overall, men or "guys" are characterized as users and controllers within the community, while women or "girls" are characterized as negotiators of their own use.

In teen magazines' girls are assumed to be, quite simply, in the process of "becoming." Girls are never right just as they are. This vision takes on added importance in light of the Gilligan, Lyons, and Hanmer (1987) study which found adolescent girls see themselves as becoming someone in relation to other important persons in their lives, such as their mothers or teachers. Gilligan et al. argue that many girls submerge their individuality and sense of identity in favor of becoming what someone else wants them to be. They found it is the rare girl who maintains her sense of self if it conflicts with what she perceives to be the sense of self promoted by important others. Our analysis finds teen magazines encourage girls to become what significant others, in particular, “guys,” want them to be.

Health and relationship advice columns, supplemented and complemented by fictional stories and features on sexual issues, encourage young women to become sexual objects whose lives are not complete unless sexually connected with a man. Girls can earn a man first by recognizing the traditional interests ("affection" and "company") and training of women (to be "ladylike," "neat" and "polite,") (Rubis, 1984) and second, through the changing of self as they negotiate their way through sexual encounters and relationships. Young women achieve the latter by being better informed than guys about male and female physiology and psychology; by attracting guys through good-looking hair, beautiful clothes and thin bodies; and by developing sex and relationship skills. As Seventeen advises: “If you see someone you like or who seems interested in you, let yourself glow. Take a chance. Bring yourself to flirt. Play a little. That’s what flirting really is: part of a game between men and women. (What’s wrong with games?)”

In teen magazines, guys simply "are." Guys need to know only themselves and, because they "are," they need not worry about "becoming" men or achieving power or status; they already have it. According to ‘Teen, because they possess these qualities, guys are "allowed to be wild," have "fewer restrictions," and to focus more on "impressing buddies" and "group bonding" than on relationship and communication skills.

Ironically, these male ways of being, while depicted as regrettable, are not shown as lacking worth. While the advice columns overtly guide young women to accept men as they are, further guidance comes from other parts of the magazine, in particular, the celebrity biography and photo spread. In teen magazines "guys" are set up as ideals or poster boys meant to be treated by young women as icons: someone to placate, adore and manipulate. This ideal, two dimensional male is presented as the type of "guy" who can fulfill the "girl's" dream, standing in for all men for young women trying to understand and know men's wishes, needs and behaviors.

Magazines tell young women to be ready and willing through the standard articles and advertisements on "sexy outfits," "sexy hair he'll love," and "passionate fingernails." They encourage girls to "shape-up" for that "sexy swimsuit he'll love" and to eat right for that "healthy" and "sexy" glow.

Within this vision, young women are told they must lose weight, learn about sophisticated sexual techniques, apply make-up well, dress sexily, and engage in self-analysis when (not if) their real world does not fit with the world depicted. This serves the purposes of the magazines well, to sell advertising. Female deficiency is needed in order to maintain advertising sufficiency. Editorial content that promotes knowledge about issues such as AIDS, abortion, and pregnancy do not fit advertisers’ profiles of deficient women (Steinem, 1990). As Sassy, and Ms., found out, magazines that put women first do not prosper with advertisers. They fit neither the vision nor the community.

But is this changing? Heteronormativity and romantic relationships are constantly pushed in teen magazines and teen media, but is it changing? Some teen websites are focusing much more on makeup, fashion, politics, and pop culture rather than relationship advice, and when it does focus on relationship advices, the words and terms are more gender neutral, making it more LGBT+ friendly. Plus advice for queer and questioning teens is much more prominent in these similar publications. I have also seen a few articles in these same publications focusing on prioritizing friendships and that "romance" isn't everything. Teen magazines—canonized as packed with dating tips and eye candy for young, heterosexual, female readers—have gone queer. More specifically, mainstream teen titles are slowly shifting toward pages and websites full of LGBTQ voices and visibility, reflecting a broad consensus that in order to survive, broadening their editorial perspective beyond a traditionally heterosexual readership isn't just good business, it's imperative to reach teens today.

"For the past year or so, we've made a concerted effort to limit (and, eventually, banish) heteronormativity from all of our content, especially as it pertains to matters of sexual health and relationships," said Phil Picardy, Teen Vogue's digital editorial director. "Rather than assume our readers are hooking up with or dating men, we use gender neutral pronouns in almost all contexts. Our readers have appreciated the shift, and often help police our language to be more inclusive via social media and [website] comments, which we welcome." The shift isn't limited to magazine websites: LGBTQ folks are visible throughout the pages of Seventeen. In 2014, the magazine dropped the "Guys" from its "Love & Guys" section, and has since made an effort to use general neutral terms when discussing relationships, subbing in "your crush" or "bae" for traditional, gendered terms.

"We want Seventeen to be a magazine where all girls feel represented and included, regardless of their sexual identities," said Joey Bartolomeo Seventeen's executive editor. "We always knew that not all of our readers were into guys, which was reaffirmed when a study came out earlier this year saying that only 48 percent of Gen Z-ers consider themselves exclusively heterosexual." Bartolomeo also noted that readers may have LGBTQ parents and friends or be dating queer teens, which Seventeen accounts for as editors continue weaving LGBTQ topics into the magazine in an organic, helpful way.

While mainstream magazines still have many more improvements to make, progress is evident in pages dotted with LGBTQ faces and voices, inspiring momentum throughout the media for better and more comprehensive representation. "I hope for both our present and our future that somewhere there's a teenager who picks up a copy of Teen Vogue, opens it up, and can see themselves positively represented, and feel affirmation in that recognition," Picardi said. "And I hope that feeling gives them the courage to live their most authentic lives."

So why are romantic relationships so pushed in teen magazines and teen websites? Some may say because its a normal part of growing up and teens need help and guidance to navigate these situations. Other people think it's unnecessary because teens can focus on other things, like friendships, hobbies/interests, schoolwork, family, jobs/internships, and so much more. Me? I'm personally unsure. If you want a relationship, get one, if you don't want one, don't get one. At the end of the day romance isn't necessary to live life. Let me know your thoughts below.

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