#if it is we don't appreciate it enough

[crabsnpersimmons]

"Your heart was in the right place. Don't blame your earnestness and efforts for their lack of understanding—the right people will appreciate your heart."

EDIT: i mention this in the tags already, but please don't copy my vent tags in your reblogs. thanks for understanding.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.

[edains]

Children of Rannoch: Notable Quarians aboard the Rayya

Children of Rannoch - A Quarian Overhaul (LE2)

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[cosmicdreamgrl]

jungkook ☆ 170927 show champion

[risetherivermoon]

not enough people talk about how funny the scene of lark pretending to be sparrow in the papa johns arc is when you relisten to it knowing it isn't sparrow whos talking 😭

LIKE SIR-

[kanerallels]

I feel like we, as a fandom, don't talk about how incredible the soundtrack for The Dragon Prince is

[mirmi]

15x03 – I Love To Squander Promise

[elvisqueso]

Pocahontas (1995) is a good movie, actually, btw

[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.

[liauditore]

BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY! BDUBS DAY!

[bnunybusiness]

could i have the biggest rabbit in your collection please?? 🥰

This ask taught me I need more large buns in the collection

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

Wait, hold on, I still have more sketches to get out of my system

[wizardsix]

i guess i have to say it a million times since people insist on being dense: gale is just as much of a victim as the other companions. this isn't the trauma olympics. everyone has been through shit and deserves healing and redemption.

gale is not the self entitled, manipulative abuser people are painting him as. he's a lot of things, but nothing so heinous. he was groomed by a goddess who has a history of preying on wizards that threaten her power, and as a result, gale's ambition and faith was what drove him to discover the netherese orb. what he did was for mystra - in his mind, it was to prove his love by restoring her missing power - and by extension for the betterment of mortals. his actions were never malicious or selfish, in fact he puts himself so low on the priority list it's pretty much non existent. he was never going to use that power to usurp her, but mystra definitely saw it like that, which is why she didn't hesitate to present suicide as his only solution. he never crossed her personal boundaries in the way people are twisting it, he only wanted to cross the boundaries she put on wizards and their power.

people who insist he's all of these things and more clearly only spoke to him once or lack the reading comprehension to see past how much of an unreliable narrator he is. i can understand first impressions might put some people off, but you can say the same about the other companion introductions. i don't like comparing but since people insist on doing it; gale is one of the easiest companions to get along with just by being a good person, yet his honesty and selflessness makes people think he's secretly evil? while the companions with the capacity to be evil don't even try to hide it? how are people being so backwards about this? it's genuinely baffling and tiring to see people continuously spit out incorrect takes all too confidently.

no one is forcing anyone to like him, but it's unfair to completely mischaracterize him because you refuse to learn critical thinking. i promise using your brain is not as scary as it seems, or you can just. not talk about things you don't understand.

[cosmicdreamgrl]

occupation: full time heartthrob [ cr: namuspromised ]

[rainofthetwilight]

*walks on stage and taps on the mic* I have another view on lloyd's whole age thing

when lloyd took the aging up tea, he didn't exactly 'age up' per se, we can just look at it like as if he just grew taller and looked much older than his age like any 11-13 year old can be. not all 11-13 year olds are small matchsticks actually, as they all grow up differently. (of course there's absolutely no shade at all to 11-13 year olds who are small, we love you guys <33). as I, for one, looked much much older than I actually was too. there were people that thought I was a literal adult. and if they didn't, they'd think I was 15 or something. so instead of lloyd quite literally 'aging up', he just looked older than he actually was like any normal kid, but that obviously doesn't change the fact that he had to go through a traumatizing fight with his father at this age at all. in this essay I will- *is pulled off the stage immediately*

[tylands]

ASOIAF LIVES SERIES

THE LIFE OF: PRINCESS MERIA MARTELL OF DORNE

"Meria Martell was eighty years of age, and had ruled Dorne for sixty of those. She was very fat, blind, and almost bald, her skin sallow and sagging. Argilac the Arrogant had named her 'The Yellow Toad of Dorne' but neither age nor blindness had dulled her wits." Fire & Blood, pg 23.

"They had hardly reached King's Landing before Dorne erupted behind them (...) After the Dornishmen swarmed in from the shadow city to retake the castle, he was bound hand and foot, dragged to the top of the spear tower, and thrown from a window by none other than the aged Princess Meria herself." Fire & Blood, pg 33.

"The Yellow Toad of Dorne had done what Harren the Black, the Two Kings, and Torrhen Stark, could not; she had defeated Aegon Targaryen and his dragons. Yet north of the Red Mountains, her tactics earned her only scorn." - Fire & Blood, pg 39.pre