#and I got my new contract

[katzenkarussell]

Today I’m having such a fucking good day 💖💕💞💗💖

[amphibianaday]

day 1609

[merverelli]

dec 2023 - jan 2019 - sept 2017

its a redraw of a redraw!

(psst: here's a speedpaint if you're interested! https://youtu.be/9nn73oxU7eg)

[isbergillustration]

1.5 min wip to reiterate how deeply open for commissions I am, how very much all my originals are for sale, etc

[thelaurenshippen]

open ai made a little post about how they chose their chatbot voices and two things stood out to me:

a) I am genuinely pleased and surprised that the voices come from specific real people that they hired and paid, rather than being built off of all of the data open ai has scraped. the voice for siri did one job for one company 20 years ago and now she is literally everywhere without ever being compensated by apple or even acknowledged as the voice. there's simply no way she was paid enough in that original job. whereas, open ai says "each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products." this could mean literally anything (what market rate are we going above? does continue mean they get residuals or get paid for doing more sessions?) but, christ, at least the actors are doing it with full knowledge of what their voices are being used for and can decide for themselves if the compensation is enough

b) the post talks about working with "award-winning casting directors" to get the voices. first of all, yay for paying casting directors! we love to see it. but they also say the CDs received over 400 submissions in a week and they state that like a big number and it's just...not at all. and look, without knowing the intricacies of the casting process, it's hard to know what approach the CDs took - it's very possible they were selective from the jump and 400 is a lot from the pool they were tapping. 400 would be a lot if you were going to the agencies directly and asking for names, but there's just no way in hell open ai went after big stars for this. so it would've been a pool of unknowns. in which case, 400 is laughably small. even if you're not using the big casting sites like actorsaccess, I've worked on projects with CDs and their own internal systems where we've gotten over 100 submissions for a single role. I've posted roles on casting sites and received literally thousands of submissions in just a few days

look, I have a very limited perspective on this - I am not a casting director (imo, one of the most important and undervalued jobs in hollywood) and I, in fact, hate the process of casting with a passion. but 400 just seemed like such a tiny pool to pull from and, idk, it heartens me! it's heartening to think that there's very little interest from actors and agents to be doing this kind of stuff. and absolutely no shade to the actors who did--I want actors to get their bag however they want as long as it's, like, safe sane and consensual, you know? but there's something encouraging about thinking that open ai hired some big casting agency to get their foot into the voice acting door and people didn't come running

[pennedinblood]

as of ten minutes ago we are officially Jobless™️. my sign to retire early and devote the remainder of my existence to writing toxic old man yaoi

[theflyingfeeling]

...😭

[cementcornfield]

the way i know it's taking everything in him not to say some ridiculous comment to the press rn 😭

[fandaniel]

i have an interview tomorrrrroooowww

[yohankang]

i officially resigned today :')

[dickpuncher420]

dickpuncher wdym "retire from sports" ??? the implication of retiring and having to think about t levels is that you sport pretty well???

HA yeah lol i suppose u could say that…. i played varsity rugby (was even team captain in my last year!) where doping is a big no-no (we had to do an online module on it every season) and unfortunately being on t counts as being roided up! so yeah, no t for me until i quit playing rugby. ive been out of commission for almost 2 years now bc of a knee injury 🥴 but my goal is to get back to playing this season. i’ve already been in talks w a new team (thats why i moved!) and am going to start training w them this coming week :D

anyways yeah. basically my entire life revolves around rugby LOL and i have to make all my decisions based on that. i’m hoping to get top surgery this coming year but the off season is only like a month long and recovery for that takes at least 2 months soooo we’ll see if i’m able to squeeze it in somewhere lmao. t is gonna have to wait a few more years (maybe a decade if im lucky and my body doesnt give out on me)

[pynkhues]

Just booked a new freelance writing contract from a client I thought had ghosted me, God-is-real.gif.

[an--artistic--autistic]

let's see how long executive dysfunction will kick my ass before stress let's me do all the tasks that need to be done in the next 10 hours

[stromer]

[g4rchomp]

put my 2 weeks notice at work today check out how wonderful stunning gorgeous the sky was for the occasion

[aldieb]

now i can say that i’ve edited a bestseller. granted that would be somewhat disingenuous because it’s a canadian not an american bestseller, but this is still a fairly big moment for me