#or collaborating creatively with other people

[zsakuva]

Hiya! Wishing you well during these colder seasons! Autumn festivities are on their way soon so what is something you're thankful for in your VA journey since these past few years of voicework, creativity & storytelling?

I think one thing I'm so incredibly thankful for is the amount of fellow voice actors that have worked with me and have helped bring my characters and stories to life.

I have met so many great people in this VA sphere, and we all have a similar goal of providing an immersive experience for our audiences. We do this out of passion and a need to share our stories with others, and it never gets old because we have a drive to create.

The VAs in this community are so talented, creative, and singular in their own ways. If my counting is correct, 29 voice actors have lent their skills and free time to my stories thus far, and that number will hopefully grow as I experiment and expand for future productions.

It is a very close-knit community, and I think it's amazing to be a part of something that is so collaborative in nature. It's because of this niche bubble that I can write scripts the way I do, knowing that VAs are down to accept roles and work with me. I have also lent my voice to other VAs' audios, and it's a wonderful learning experience. My abilities have been challenged in various ways, and each story/character is so different that the novelty of voice acting will likely never fade for me.

Without the other VAs, I wouldn't be able to write the way I do, experiment with storytelling, challenge myself with audio engineering, and I will never be able to thank them enough.

[razorblade180]

Not really in the mood for writing a prompt so I’m just gonna ramble about how cool Weiss is in TSF AU

I basically made her the closest thing to a witch I could without stepping into magic territory. It always bugged me how her semblance and Dust was so compatible but it was never tested to its limits, so I imagine Weiss learned to basically be a pro in the field of dust manipulation. Has a real intuitive sense for it, which is why her kids are so good for their age. A lot of it stems from always getting unarmed in battle.

She learns that she can grab a dust cartridge and put a glyph at the end of it to pull it out and construct things like a saber of pure Dust. Eventually she gets creative enough to throw vials and catch them with glyphs to trigger timed explosions.

In crystal form, Weiss gets the hang of making glyphs and simply pushing the crystal into it to create a flame thrower affect. The most reckless and dangerous trick is using the refined powder state. Even with gloves on, the margin for error when throwing or outlining a pattern with it is small cause a chain reaction could lead the effect back to her hands.

Dust for water isn’t actually a thing, but through countless trail and error, Weiss knows how combine fire and ice Dust to create the desire effects. She even helped researcher and companies create vials with ratios already mixed so other huntsman and individuals could have access to the element.

Is the one who helped teach her brother how to use their semblance. Also started the idea along with Ruby to plan “hunting trips” where Weiss or any of her relatives would go off to kill a powerful a Grimm to add to their summon abilities.

Weiss has in fact killed a dragon. Took her an entire month and she did it for free. She learned create magma during this time and gained a fondness for more practical uses of rock Dust. Eventually she learned to make constructs out of most materials. Even lightning.

Is the manger and agent for both of her children when it comes to their professional lives. Most collaborative works don’t make it past her before she even thinks about bringing them up to her kids.

Regularly considered Penny’s science partner in the study of Dust and its utility. One of them is also pitching ideas to the other and showing rough blueprint ideas. Their most popular hit and meaningful success is modern dust weaving into clothes. Suddenly, winters in Mantle weren’t as harsh and Weiss’s daughter could live an easier life with her condition.

Helped fund Oscar’s therapy practice. Was also his first patient. Some might conflict of interest. Those people don’t know Oscar “I’m not gonna sugarcoat it” Pine. Was a super big help in her darker moments after adjusting to parenthood and old family trauma.

Occasionally surprises her friends and family with appearing in a modeling catalog or runway. It helped her gain some confidence back after having twins. She also likes to make a point that Jaune’s wife is incredibly hot so there’s no point in random women thinking he’s going anywhere, and to make any guy that looked down on him feel shame. Jaune matches the energy by also looking gorgeous when the opportunity arises.

Weiss also makes no effort to hide any scars. That includes wearing a half shirt or bikini that shows where Cinder stabs her or the two scars on her face. That way her daughter and even her brother, feel more comfortable about their scars.

If you ask her what her biggest sacrifice is, it’s making sure she never matches hairstyle or clothes with her daughter. Weiss kinda misses the ponytail but Summer will look at her a little funny despite them not being the same kind. Eventually Summer will stop caring and rationalize they look alike regardless of anything they do. They’re both just two pretty ladies other people get jealous of. She doesn’t have this attitude with Winter!!!

The top of everyone’s emergency contact list. Also the only adult aside from Ruby that every child (except her own daughter) feels immensely comfortable with emotionally. Even Yang’s kid is pretty soft around Weiss. Practically karma for how much Weiss’s son adored Yang when he was little.

[adambomb82]

hahahahahahahha uhhhhhhhhh

[allieinarden]

“Young men don’t have role models!” Phineas and Ferb are right there.

[riickgrimes]

i can’t tell you how bitter i am that we didn’t get sydney and carmy’s taste testing food adventure i would have loved to see carmy and syd bouncing ideas off of each other, sharing their thoughts on the food they were trying, learning from each other, getting a deeper understanding of how the other views and understands the passion that they share

[sendmyresignation]

ok one thing that's been pissing me off lately is the way. in both positive and negative opinions holder's estimations. hole is completely reduced to courtney love's band. in ways that completely ofuscate the conributions of the other members. this is very typical in music generally in a way i already find frustrating but it's especially egregious in the case of all-female or mostly female bands where each member had entire histories completely just removed from the discussion outside of the frontwoman. how many female drummers do you know list them top 5 lets go. ok now how about female drummers NOT in all female bands do you take the time to discover these women to listen to them to track the different bands and projects they're in do you CARE outside the list-ification of "diverse bands" about these artists as creative contributors who have tangible effects on music at large. <- guy listening to a lot of shift rn voice

[good-beans]

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[sharkface]

Do you have art block or do you just draw 24/7 without taking breaks and assume that a momentary lull in your creative energy is you being cut off from the well rather than needing to refill the well

[xx-dark-dart-xx]

Any other actors out there out of fucking room in their head for things they're trying to memorize in a day?

I have a 2 page monologue assignment for class I'm doing a paragraph each night, but I memorized an entire scene today for Little Mermaid cause I didn't get it until last night. I just. Can't cram any more in here. I'm not head empty. Head quite full, actually

[prettysweetprettysweet]

“He could take that thing he was singing, and just sledgehammer it through somebody’s heart,” Shinoda said with reverence. “I’ve grown to appreciate what we had even more, because it’s hard to get that. I work with people where I go, ‘Oh, can you sing it this way?’ And they just can’t.”

Brad Delson, the band’s guitarist, called “Lost” a “surprise gift” from Bennington. “The performance is so beautiful, delicate and clear,” he said. “I’ve heard a lot of great Chester vocals, and this is among the best.”

...

But the process of assembling the reissue has provided another means of considering how Bennington may have wanted the band to proceed without him. In particular, Shinoda said he “felt confident” that the singer would have endorsed these expanded editions. “Historically, he was always way more bullish about putting out stuff,” he said. “A typical Chester reaction would have been, ‘Why not just make the album 15 songs?’ When I thought about that, it was very reassuring.”

[pauls1967moustache]

Not sure if you’re familiar with it but what do you think John’s love language was? And Paul’s?

Oooh good question.

I think Paul’s is acts of service. He likes to be needed, and he likes to be helpful, and he clearly struggles to express himself with any sort of words so showing his love through actions really seems to work for him. I think he’s slightly more uncomfortable when receiving acts of service because he doesn’t like to seem like he doesn’t have everything handled, but then because of that, I think he really appreciates it when people are there for him in that way. He also seems to really like receiving love as as quality time which is good for him because it leads me to…

I think John’s— for how he expresses his love at least—is quality time. He gives people attention, he takes them on trips to Paris, he brings them into all his studio sessions even if they’re not strictly wanted by the rest of the band. He likes to keep his people around.

For how he likes to receive love, I think John prefers words of affirmation just bc he’s..yknow…deeply insecure about everything. A lot of the problems between John and Paul seemed to stem from the fact that Paul never verbally gave John the kind of reassurances he wanted, within their partnership. Paul assumed all those things (like the fact that he loves John, and that he’ll always primarily want to write with John, etc.) we’re a given, whereas John’s paranoia sort of meant he needed to hear Paul actually tell him that, I think. Which Paul never seemed to do to John’s satisfaction.

[thaliagrayce]

hnnn.... my roommate is participating in a fandom bang and it sounds really fun..... ive always shied away from them bc when i'm not crazy about an idea it takes me forever to write it but i think being paired w someone else who was excited about it and making stuff would help........... i wanna do a bang

[came-out-of-the-coffin-desisted]

fucking grammarly’s using their ai model to make a text generator like you absolute fuckheads. fiction writers have been your bread and butter for YEARS and now that there’s a writers’ strike you’re gonna use our work to fuck them over like. new levels of cyberpunk dystopia on that one

[casual-eumetazoa]

I’m re-reading the 25k-ish words that I’ve written for FrankensteinWIP so far and man, it’s been so long since I actually enjoyed reading back my own text. It’s not the kind of literary prose I wish I could do, but it’s so distinctnly mine, and this book in general is such a self-indulgent project, it makes me happy just to work on it. 

On the other hand, I’m realizing more and more that I can’t juggle PhD school, youtube, and writing all at the same time. And logically I should prioritize youtube over writing because it has at least some sort of potential to become my full time job, but it hurts so much to post these videos that I spend months on and get like, a couple hundred views and 10 comments. So I would much rather focus on novels, but it makes me feel guilty. I feel like I haven’t had any sort of success with youtube yet because I don’t try hard enough, don’t post often enough, etc etc.

Doing the PhD is great because my workload is not insane, I get paid pretty well, and I love the people at my institute. I do have to manage my energy levels incredibly well and I end up burn out every few months anyway, but I make it work. Still, eventually I will graduate and will need to get a real job... and I don’t know if I can do it. Like, I don’t know if I will be able to hold a full-time post-doc position, especially a tenure track one. Especially if my chronic illnesses will keep detereorating. 

I’m hoping that after I graduate I will be able to scrape enough science writing and tutoring hours together to work part-time from home, and have time for youtube and writing. Doesn’t look very achievable now cause any freelance like this requires self-promo, and it seems like I really suck at it. But a boy can dream I guess.

[sainamoonshine]

A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

[plutonianeris]

Asteroid Aura ཐི⋆♱⋆ཋྀ (1488)

Asteroid Aura is all about the vibe or “aura” that radiates from us, whether it’s through our presence, words, or actions and how people react to it.

Aura in the 1st house makes your presence impossible to ignore. People instantly take notice when you enter a room—your energy naturally commands attention. Whether you are speaking or simply standing in silence, your aura exudes confidence and individuality. Others often feel a sense of admiration or curiosity about you, and you tend to leave a strong, lasting impression. People react to your energy by feeling drawn to you, often finding you charismatic, even if they can’t quite explain why. They might approach you, eager to connect, sensing a powerful self-assuredness.

With Aura in the 2nd house, you radiate an energy of stability and security. People often sense that you have a strong understanding of your self-worth, which attracts respect and admiration. Your presence gives off an aura of abundance, making others feel that you have a natural ability to attract wealth, success, or material comfort. People react to your calm and grounded energy by feeling secure in your presence, often looking to you for guidance on practical matters or financial advice. They may feel comforted, sensing that you are someone who can be trusted with valuable things.

Aura in the 3rd house makes you a captivating communicator. Whether through speech, writing, or everyday conversation, your words carry weight and impact. People often find your ideas interesting, and they tend to listen intently when you speak. There’s a magnetic quality in how you share information, making your conversations memorable. People react to your eloquence by feeling engaged and inspired by what you say. They often feel as though your words hold special meaning or insight, and they may seek your advice in intellectual or creative discussions.

With Aura in the 4th house, you bring a nurturing, protective energy into your home and family life. Others feel a deep sense of comfort and safety around you, particularly in private or domestic spaces. Your aura radiates warmth, and people may naturally turn to you for emotional support or a sense of belonging. People react to this by feeling a sense of peace in your presence, often remarking that your home or company feels like a sanctuary. They may open up to you easily, trusting your compassionate and supportive nature.

Aura in the 5th house enhances your charisma and creative energy. Whether through art, entertainment, or social activities, you naturally attract attention with your playful, expressive aura. People often find you fun to be around and may admire your creative talents, as your energy exudes joy and liveliness. People react to your vibrant energy by being drawn to your sense of fun and creativity. They want to be around you for inspiration, excitement, and the infectious happiness you radiate in social and artistic settings.

With Aura in the 6th house, your energy is centered around healing. People often perceive you as calm, organized, and capable in work or health-related environments. Your aura projects competence and reliability, making others trust you to handle practical responsibilities with ease. People react by feeling reassured in your presence. They may look to you for advice on well-being or efficiency, sensing that you bring a grounding, healing energy to everyday tasks.

Aura in the 7th house gives you a natural magnetism in partnerships. Whether in personal relationships or professional collaborations, people are drawn to the harmonious energy you bring. You naturally project balance and cooperation, making you an ideal partner. People react to your aura by feeling deeply connected and valued in your presence. They may see you as the perfect partner, appreciating the grace and ease with which you navigate one-on-one relationships.

Aura in the 8th house projects a mysterious, transformative energy. People may be drawn to you for reasons they can’t quite explain, sensing a depth and intensity in your presence. Your aura invites others to explore the deeper, often hidden aspects of life, and your influence can be life-changing for those around you. People react by feeling captivated and intrigued by your powerful presence. They may find themselves drawn into transformative experiences simply by being around you, feeling that your energy is both intense and magnetic.

Aura in the 9th house gives you an energy that inspires adventure and wisdom. People often see you as a seeker of truth and higher knowledge, and your aura radiates openness to new experiences and ideas. You inspire others to think big and explore new horizons. People react by feeling uplifted and motivated by your sense of adventure. They may seek you out for philosophical discussions or want to join you on journeys—physical or intellectual—feeling that your aura brings excitement and growth.

With Aura in the 10th house, your energy shines most brightly in the public eye or career-related matters. You project an aura of authority and ambition, making others naturally respect and admire your accomplishments. Your presence in professional settings is commanding, and you often inspire others to take you seriously. People react by feeling respect and admiration for your achievements. They may look to you as a role model or leader, sensing that your energy is aligned with success and recognition.

Aura in the 11th house emphasizes your energy in social groups and collective endeavors. You radiate a sense of community and inclusivity, making people feel welcome and understood in group settings. Others may view you as a natural leader or connector in social circles. People react to your aura by feeling a strong sense of belonging around you. They are often drawn to you in social groups, valuing your ability to bring people together and foster collaboration.

With Aura in the 12th house, you emit an ethereal, mysterious energy that others often find intriguing but hard to pin down. People may sense a spiritual or otherworldly quality to your presence, feeling that there is more to you than meets the eye. Your aura can evoke deep emotions or even subconscious reactions from others. People react by feeling a mix of fascination and curiosity about you. They may be drawn to your mysterious, almost dreamlike presence, sensing that you hold hidden wisdom or understanding.