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Horrorcon UK 2024

Myself and a few voice actors from the NoSleep Podcast will be appearing at Horrorcon UK in Sheffield this May!

We’ll also be promoting other audio fiction in horror, so if you have any promo stuff (postcards/stickers) you’d like us to giveaway on our table, please get in touch.

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Ash Millman

[chaosallstar]

𝕽𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖓 𝖎𝖓 𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉

Ash Millman

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Ash Millman

[birdwithabrokenwing]

Made this because Ash is leaving Playstation Access. I'll miss her! ;^; Thanks for everything!

(I wrote a whole thank you letter on this post https://www.deviantart.com/coraleana/art/Goodbye-to-the-Queen-of-Halloween-1030433348 )

[memetaped]

way of the peaceful warrior taken from the 1980 dan millman book.

stick around and make yourself useful.

even a great warrior like you can make a boo-boo now and then.

well, bye for now. see you in a few weeks.

and i can tell you this. your path is going to be steep and rocky.

the breath is a bridge between mind and body, feeling and doing. balanced, natural breathing brings you back to the present moment.

what happened to me?

nothing wrong with anger or any other emotion. just pay attention to how you behave.

this tea will strengthen you and help cleanse the blood.

you just need to relax into life a little more.

and you, my young friend, have another kind of heart trouble.

comfort yourself with a saying of confucius.

be careful! you want to snap your leg again?

trust this, my young friend. your path will guide you.

i suggest you visit a physician.

why should a warrior sit around meditating? i thought the warrior’s way was about action.

we’re all fools together. it’s just that a few people know it. others don’t.

i’d better sit down.

and once we straighten out your technique a bit, we can work on your attitude.

you know, this reminds me of the story of the tortoise and the hare.

i have a story you might enjoy. want to hear it?

sitting meditation is the beginner’s practice. eventually, you will learn to meditate in every action.

when you lose your mind, you’ll come to your senses.

i’m not afraid of missing a meal.

like the phoenix, you’re going to throw yourself into the flames and rise from the ashes.

i’ve been having this dream. you’re in it.

you don’t need me and you’re already a warrior.

i’m rooting for you.

realization is three-dimensional. a simultaneous comprehension of head, heart, and instinct. it comes only from direct experience.

you seem different, more relaxed, nicer to be around.

there are no well-defined edges of reality. the earth isn’t solid. it is made of molecules and atoms, tiny universes filled with space.

the world’s a puzzle. no need to make sense of it.

[freewayshark]

Ash Millman posts on her Instagram and I am literally

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Ash Millman

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Photo: Stoney DarkStone HMUA: Kari Roberts Model: Ash Millman

[novaknole]

Novak Djokovic - John Millman (Head-to-Head)

Novak will face John Millman in the quarter finals of the US Open on Arthur Ashe on Wednesday at about 9 PM local time (on Thursday at about 3 AM CET).

They played each other only once. Novak beat Millman in straight sets in Queens this year.

(via atpworldtour.com)

[astralbooks]

October Book & Comic Haul

a couple of really good books came out this month! it was my birthday this month so i got some things then, also it was comic con this weekend just gone so i got some art zines there too (which totally count as books shhhhh)

i’ve already read a lot of these because right now i’m doing quite well at keeping my physical tbr as small as physically possible  : D

i’ll go through them from the bottom of the pile upwards

this is an art zine for the webcomic Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, which serves as a prequel to her debut novel Solitaire. the comic follows two students as an all-boys grammar school in england realise that they like each other. i ordered my zine the second time they went on sale (i heard they sold out in around 15 minutes !!!) and it’s sooo pretty. my photography skills really do not do it justice lmao. if you haven’t read the webcomic, i highly recommend it !!

i love Night Vale a lot okay. this novel focuses on one of Carlos’ scientists, a woman called Nilanjana, who investigates the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God. this novel answers one of the podcast’s biggest questions: what exactly is the Smiling God? this was a fun read, and Carlos was in it quite a lot which i really appreciated

this is the third issue in an independent comic series. i supported the kickstarter for this issue because i really enjoyed the first two, but i need to reread them before i read this one. i believe it’s about a coffee shop in cardiff (i’m not sure if it’s actually cardiff but i’m leaning towards cardiff) in a world where dnd style creatures exist and are treated as normal. i think the owner of the coffee shop is a legendary demon in hiding. i’m not sure as i can’t quite remember what happened in the first two issues, but it’s pretty cool!

this is an artbook by pearlesqued full of characters for her upcoming comic series. i already had a bookmark with one of her characters from may con, and i honestly love her artstyle. i will definitely be checking out her comic when it happens

the bunnies say things like ‘we’re all going to die’ while looking cute, and the foxes are adorable

i found this at a charity shop (i love charity shops, those things can be absolute treasure troves). i’ve been meaning to pick this book up for a few years now so this was a great find! this is a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, and i will definitely be getting to it soon. the cover is gorgeous as well !!

this is one of the books that my brother got for me for my birthday. i watched the anime earlier this year and i’ve already read the first two volumes. this series is about a princess who is forced to abandon her pampered lifestyle and becomes a competent fighter who is determined to make the world a better place. there are also reincarnated dragon warriors and one of the best found families i’ve ever seen. if any of that sounds interesting i highly recommend checking this series out. fun fact: the blond boy on this cover does not appear at all in this volume

i bought the first two volumes of this series myself when getting other things for other reasons from amazon because there were cheap copies available. i watched the anime last december and really enjoyed it so i wanted to read the manga. 12 assassins are drafted into a year 11 class at an elite private school. their target is the 13th student, but one of the assassins decides that she is going to protect her instead. this is such a fun series! plus, you know the ‘bury your gays’ trope? this series is the opposite of that. nobody is straight and nobody dies, even when they really really should have done

my brother got me volume 2 for my birthday, and i bought volume 1 for myself. i watched the anime last summer (i am spotting a theme here) and loved it, so wanted to read the manga. it’s a wacky slice of life series. the anime is one of the very few pieces of media that has succeeded at making me cry (it was from happiness and i will love it for that forever) it’s great and i highly recommend it to everyone!

i got this on kindle because i have limited space, and clearly all my money is going towards manga. i was happy when John Green announced he was releasing another book, because i’ve enjoyed all his other books and he’s a cool person in general. this book didn’t disappoint. i appreciated its representation of anxiety and ocd (which Green himself suffers from), and was impressed with the depiction of living with the death of a parent. the protagonist, Aza, lost her father a few years prior to the book’s start. i lost my father when i was 12, so i am familiar with how that felt then and how it feels now. i think that John Green did a very good job

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it’s on goodreads so it counts as a book. i enjoyed listening to this. however, i listened to most of it while walking around town, and when The Dead Line was suddenly very sad i may have made some people a bit worried as i did not keep reactions off of my face. i made sure not to listen to The House of the Dead until i got home because i at least had some warning about that one

this book is very big which is why it’s not pictured. i’ve kinda temporarily stolen it from my brother (he said i could borrow it. he didn’t say for how long). it’s pretty cool. i’ve flicked through it and it’s set out like an actual history book. it doesn’t mention the rift as much as it really should, but while that’s slightly annoying i understand why they’ve done it

i just recieved an e-arc of this novel !!!!! it’s about an all-girl starship pirate crew, which already sounds amazing. if i pick this up before thursday morning then yell at me because i have an exam that i should really be prioritising, but i will be reading this one within the week

summary:

this is why i’m broke lmao

seriously the few books on this list that i haven’t already read, i’m really looking forward to doing so. i just need to actually revise for my exam first haha

[kimkitsuragi]

Final Cut News!

All right, so, by now most people are probably aware that we got a glut of new information about Disco Elysium: The Final Cut yesterday. However, so much content from so many sources can be a bit overwhelming, so I’m making a roundup of links to all the new articles, art, music, and videos I can find, highlighting the details that I personally find interesting.

(under a read more because this will be quite a long post!)

To start with, new official art of Harry and Kim has been released! This art was created by Anton Vill, who did the art for the in-game Thought Cabinet.

ZA/UM's Head of Publishing, Mikk Metsniit, also posted art of Martinaise in the official Disco Elysium Discord. This art has been shared in lower quality before as part of a promotional image for the collector’s edition of Disco Elysium, which will include it as an “illustrated fabric map”. The file Metsniit posted is named “Martinaise Revitalization ‘48.″ In-universe, a design studio previously made an attempt to restore Martinaise to its pre-war state, but ultimately failed. This piece appears to show the planned development of Martinaise--except it’s being swallowed up by the Pale. Fun!

Along with the first piece of art come two new songs by British Sea Power, which will be featured in the final cut:

Advesperascit, named after the city in Vesper-Messina where Dolores Dei was crowned Innocence in-universe. Apparently the name is Latin and roughly translates to “evening comes”

Ignus Nilsen Waltz, named after a prominent communist figure in-universe.

I think these songs will likely be tied to the new political vision quests, which are four new questlines that are each associated with one of the game’s four political ideologies. More information about them, along with other details, can be found in the following articles and videos:

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut Is Like Going From A Black-And-White Movie To Color, article from GameSpot’s Phil Hornshaw. In this article, voice over director Jim Ashilevi talks about adding full voice acting to the game and says that The Final Cut will feature 59 voice actors from countries around the world, chosen to reflect the backgrounds of Revachol’s diverse inhabitants. Lead artist Kaspar Tamsalu speaks about the political vision quests, saying that they will allow the player to meet new characters, learn more about the existing ones, and dive deeper into the politics, secrets, and history of Elysium. Tamsalu also says that The Final Cut will add the ability to fast travel and include Twitch integration, allowing stream viewers to vote on streamers’ decisions and even influence the build of the protagonist.

Biggest Changes In Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, video from GameSpot’s Phil Hornshaw, accompanies the above article. This is a fairly short overview of The Final Cut’s new features as detailed in GameSpot’s article. It includes samples of new voice acting, clips of new animations from the end of the game involving the protagonist and his coworkers (1:47, 2:05), a scene showing a new area added by one of the political vision quests (1:57), and a particularly funny voiced line from Kim (3:22)

‘Disco Elysium: The Final Cut’ comes out March 30. Here’s what’s new.  Article from The Washington Post’s Elise Favis. Includes more details about the political vision quests. According to developer Kaspar Tamsalu, these quests may be started after one in-game day, and are mutually exclusive so that only one may be completed in each playthrough. Jim Ashilevi talks more about the challenge of recording all of the game’s dialogue--more than one million words in total--without outsourcing the work to other studios. Ashilevi also says that he sees ZA/UM as an “art collective”, and “compares his team to the Wu-Tang Clan, in that each person has other creative endeavors, both personal and professional, outside of creating video games.”

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut even gives your horrific necktie a voice. Very brief article from PCGamer’s Fraser Brown. Not much new information in this article, but there is one interesting tidbit: apparently the Horrific Necktie’s voice will be provided by Mikee Goodman, who is one of the game’s voice over directors. Goodman also provides the voices of the Ancient Reptilian Brain, the Limbic System, and several other characters.

Disco Elysium is getting even more political, a long article from PC Gamer’s Fraser Brown. Lead writer Helen Hindpere talks more about the political vision quests, which she says ZA/UM was inspired to add based on fans’ enthusiastic reception of the game’s existing political themes. Hindpere says that the new quests can change the game’s map itself, allowing the protagonist to leave his own mark on the district of Martinaise. The quests will also allow for deeper and more serious exploration of the protagonist’s political views, which were often taken to humorous extremes in the original game. Each quest is different, with some being more wordy and some more visual. The Ultraliberal quest will allow the player to “build a personal brand”, while the communist quest “inspires you to begin a movement”. One quest also adds a new urban location to the game, which Hindpere says reminds her of Berlin. The quests don’t just revolve around a single topic, though; according to Hindpere, "You'll be talking about love, sexuality, hope, ambition, and even about certain geological features specific to our worldbuilding. There's an opportunity to get close and intimate with characters who have thus far seemed unapproachable. Let's say that once you share the same ideology many barriers disappear, allowing you see a different side of many important characters." There will also be a significant amount of new dialogue with Kim Kitsuragi related to these quests.

Disco Elysium PS5 Gameplay - 5 Things You Need To Know, fairly long video from PlayStation Access’ Ash Millman. This video provides some basic information about the game’s premise for new players and shows what the game will look like on PlayStation 5, with a user interface redesigned for the console. The video also includes clips throughout that show some new content, presumably from the political vision quests. Three of these clips seems to be connected: in the first of them, wires are shown that run from the battery of the protagonist’s crashed car to radio equipment set up on and around the statue in the center of Martinaise; in the second, Soona, the radiocomputer programmer from the church questline, can been seen climbing the statue itself to set up some more equipment; and in the third, Soona, Harry, and Kim stand near the modified statue, talking about attempting to contact the flying warship Archer via radio. There are also two other clips: in one, the statue has been splashed with multicolored paints, while in the other the protagonist is seen talking to Idiot Doom Spiral, a local drunk, about hiring him for an unspecified job. Millman also talks about the three different settings that will be available for the game’s voice over: “Classic Mode” will play the same as the original game, with only a few lines voiced, while “Psychological Mode” will provide voice acting for all characters except the protagonist’s internal monologue and skills. The last option, “Fully Voiced Mode” is, well, exactly what it sounds like. There’s also a brief clip that provides a sample of the Horrific Necktie’s new voice (1:26).

DISCO ELYSIUM - The Final Cut (Cuno Voice Example), YouTube video shared by developer Mikk Metsniit. Video is age-restricted. This video includes new voice samples for Cuno, a few of the skills, and Kim. Due to COVID-19, Cuno’s original voice actor, Dot Major, was unable to return, so Cuno is now voiced by Oli Dabiri. Lenval Brown, the narrator of the English language trailers, acts as the game’s general narrator and voice of all 24 skills. Jullian Champenois remains as Kim.

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Spoopy Season

Ash Millman

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Stylish People I ❤: Ash Millman