#YOUR TRYING TO REPLACE ME!

[kamilucky-blog]

here's a fun theory.

Grian is a human turned watcher. He is trying to cause chaos and does not want to function

BigB is a Watcher turned human. That's why he's actively trying to be a normal person but what is normal to him?

[rudeboimonster]

~help your local rat get stable housing~

edit post nov 2023: I GOT THE HELP I NEEDED THANK YOU SOSOOSO MUCH

dramatically sprawled out on the floor

so i gotta move for the third time in that many years. unfortunately between health problems and the General State of The Economy, I have been unable to find work to be able to save any money. i have no choice but to leave the entire state. i thankfully have somewhere to go, however I need help getting there. i've been trying to do the math to get what I need to its lowest amount possible, but even that is still at least $2.5k.

after this move, i should be able to get things more stable and I might even have a couple job prospects lined up in that area, but right now I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel funds wise and desperately need help.

if you're able to spare anything, i've set up a goal through kofi so i can track it publicly. i have trouble asking for help but i really need what help i can get. thank you, so so so much.

[uniiiquehecrt]

Voice actors are NOT the same as actors.

It takes a specific kind of skill-set and training to be able to warp and meld the voice. It takes a certain kind of talent and dedication to hone that talent into the ability to meld the voice and invoke emotion with one's voice alone. Actors are used to using their voice secondarily to their body language and their facial expressions. It's all mirrored back on camera. They do have nuance. But it's a different kind of nuance and a different kind of training to produce that nuance.

Voice actors might get their likeness transposed on their character's design, and maybe their mannerisms might seep into the character's animation. But when it's all said and done: their presence is in their voice. They are bringing a character to life, showing that emotion in their voice, trying to keep a specific accent, drawl, pitch, tone in that voice and keep it consistent for their recording sessions.

The voice actor is like a classically trained musician who can play first chair in a competitive, world-renown orchestra. The actor (who fills the voice actor's role) is like a moot who played violin in beginner and intermediate high school orchestra and thinks they can get into Juilliard with that 2-4 years of experience.

This doesn't mean that the HS orchestra moot can't play. They can even be really good at it. Maybe they won competitions and sat first chair. But they are not in the same league as the person who's been training their whole lives and lives and breathes to hone their craft using the instrument and all of the training they've ever acquired to perfect it. They are not meant for the same roles. They are not in the same caliber. You do not hire the HS equivalent when you want to play complex music in a competitive orchestra.

Actors are not the same as voice actors.

And furthermore, actors - especially big name actors - taking the roles of animated characters for big budget films or TV pilots makes no sense anyways when - at least in the case of TV pilots - there's not a point to hiring a big budget actors anyways. That money could be used elsewhere (like paying your animators), and the talent that is brought onto the screen for X character could then be hired on to voice said character no recasting required.

I wouldn't say voice acting as a profession is in danger exactly, but it's certainly being disrespected and overlooked for celebrity clout, and this has ALWAYS been an issue. Shoot, even Robin Williams knew that much - which is why he tried so hard not to be used as a marketing chess piece for Aladdin and got royally pissed off when it happened anyways. People shouldn't go to any movie (but especially not animated films) because "oh famous actor is in it". People should go because it's a good movie and the voice acting is good.

People who honest to god think that voice actors are replaceable because "oh well anyone can voice act" or "I like xyz celebrity so naturally it'll be good" ... Honestly I just wish you'd reassess your priorities because you're missing the point and are part of the problem.

Voice Actors ≠ Actors.

[nekohrine]

ace culture is listening to a fun popular song and not relating to a single lyric

[strawberry-smog]

I need to know more about Pyramid Steve in your au, the comic you posted left me intrigued 😞😞😞

I don't want to share toooo much about Steve because I honestly haven't completely nailed down the particulars of Bill's whole backstory yet, especially that part, but long story short he's the baby Bill's parents decided to have when he was in high school, a move he (probably correctly) read as trying to replace him with a better child at the last minute. Steve is no longer with us in the present day :)

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Bury Your Gays

Horror

a scriptwriter in hollywood who’s getting attention & an Oscar nom after working in the industry for years, but is being pressured by algorithm-obsessed producers to kill off the queer characters in the season finale of the show he writes

and when he starts getting stalked by the monsters he wrote (based on traumas of his past) he has to figure out how to survive, along with his best friend and boyfriend

[menthol--crush]

Just heard my interview for the QA job is today, as in like. In twenty minutes 😵‍💫

God I hope i get it. I cannot do shipping for much longer lmao

[deoidesign]

Can you make a tutorial on how you world build and make ocs? I can't seem to make any people in my brain, but then when I try to come up with environments jobs, beliefs and little details to slowly come up with someone, I think: well I don't really know how people have influenced the world- it's a weird loop

To be honest, I don't think I can! Writing is an extremely personal process. The way I write is directly related to how I process things, what I find important in stories, years of my own analysis of my and other's writing, etc... The way you write will be unique to you, as well. But I can explain how I personally think of it.

The short answer:

Write. Write anything and everything, it's a tool to explore your ideas. Analyze your own writing, and write more. Then, as you discover which ideas you want to develop, write more to explore them more. You won't know what you want otherwise!

The long answer:

I think this kind of loop is common. It's easy to feel like everything needs to be done "at once," because our job as writers is to make elements logically fit with each other for our readers. But as you've discovered, developing multiple elements simultaneously isn't really possible, or at least is extremely difficult.

Personally, when I think of writing, I break it into three major elements; characters, world, and plot. As much as possible every scene explores one or more of these, and as much as possible these three things tie back into what I personally consider most important: theme.

Everything I do is in service of the themes I want to present. Without them my events feel aimless. It can take a while to discover them, but they're the core of my work. You will have to discover what you feel is the core of yours. Analyzing other media helps with this too.

Concepts in your brain exist in a state of infinite potential. But when you start writing you have to start making choices, which removes potential as you move forward... But you have to move forward anyways. If there's ideas you want to explore later, you can always explore them later.

What this ends up meaning, to answer your question, is that I don't think of my characters as "people in my brain" or my worlds as something people have influenced... Not at their core, at least. They are tools that I use to represent specific ideas. Obviously they're also my blorbos, but mostly they're serving a specific narrative purpose.

So above all else... Write. Write, and discover what you're writing about, and then start over and write with that in mind. Keep doing this. But you have to write!

[skyekitsuneart]

What should have happened when Loki reunited with Billy and Teddy in Loki The Liar

Teddy: So yeah, basically we're married and ruling space together now :D what have u been up too?

Loki: Oh not much,,,, worked as a spy for Asgardia,,,, fought with Thor again,,,, got betrayed by Asgardia,,,, died and was reborn again,,,, watched the multiverse collapse,,, i saw America briefly!!,,,,, became ruler of the Jotunhiem,,,,,, so you know, the usual

Billy, local reality warper: What do you mean the multiverse collap---

Loki: Oh! And i fucked your mom

Teddy:

Billy:

Billy: What. Please tell me youre lying again.

Loki: Damn you got me!!

Billy: Thank god

Loki: Yeah no, we didnt actually fuck, but we were really close. Wanda rejected me at the last second,,, :(

Billy: wha-???!!? you-?!!!? she-?!!??

Billy:

Billy: You have 10 seconds to run.

Loki: hehe

Teddy: D:

[bumblingbabooshka]

Harry Kim saying Naomi is lucky to be born on Voyager and that he would have given "anything" to have her life when he was a kid...

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

i'm reading a paper from 1936 on soda jerk slang, and it's wild how many of these terms are still around, unchanged, as widely used slang terms in america, or else evolved into similar sounding contemporary slang. the paper is pretty narrow in scope, too, focusing solely on soda fountains in nyc that were independently owned. once again, you gotta hand it to new york city.

not to say the soda jerks invented all of the slang they were using (though part of getting the job was the ability to create clever euphemisms on the fly), more so that their social position of being the local neighborhood Cool Dude made the preservation and proliferation of slang terms easy to track. who knows if we'd still be calling it a "cup of mud" or "cup of joe" if not for the humble soda jerk

[gremnda]

i haven't checked the lstwt since kaboodle left. i open up twt and oh that's a clip of derapchu calling his fans replacable. I close twitter.

[quietwingsinthesky]

Have you watched dead boy detectives yet? I think you’d like it. Canon gay ships!

I’m gonna be real with you, man. Absolutely fucking nothing I heard about that show made it sound even remotely interesting to me before, and now, the idea of even interacting with stuff tangentially attached to Gaiman makes me feel physically ill. I’m not watching that.

[dizzybevvie]

"Kingdom Hearts is so complicated" "Nomura made it up as he went along" "KH makes no sense" Have you considered that Riku is 15 and autistic and gay bc if you do I think itll change things

[fortjester]

ur supposed to get one period a month yea? not me. i'm periodmaxing. we're on the fourth month of the year and guess how many periods i've had. brother, we are solidly on no. 7

[mistress-light]

Sorry for being a bit MIA these last days. Had a issue with my driver, but also just discovered that the 13th and 14th gen of Intel cpu's can suffer from a degrading problem over time! Well I wasn't sure mine was effected.. But I took no chances and got a brand new replacement with the latest bios update.

If you have a 13th or 14th gen intel cpu, update your Bios asap! It could suffer from a degrading issue or else over time. Intel has released a patch in August to prevent that. But existing damage cannot be helped.

More info here!