#ppl have been SO MEAN lately

[steveharrington]

when i tell students they have loan offers just to make them aware and they’re like “heh… nice try…i’m not taking those out, sorry to break it to you” like ok i actually don’t care at all it has 0 bearing on me or my job i literally just have to make sure you know it’s an option. why would i care

[pansyfemme]

i misplaced my dick :(

[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.

[cchocolatekat]

when lady kaiser of the lake takes a liking to sir knight

more brainrot below:

-War is on the horizon, and Isagi's king sent him to the magical lake that was said to produce magical swords of unparalleled power

-It's Kaiser's lake, and he refuses to give anything to a king who won't even be bothered to come himself

-Isagi won't hesitate to throw hands because Kaiser insulted his liege and HONOR was on the line. Kaiser doesn't know it but he's one well-placed punch away from falling in love

-Through smart moves and ego (and maybe the power of friendship?) Isagi somehow wrangles a sword outta Kaiser's lake and escapes. Kaiser, petty and kind of infatuated, places a curse on that sword which can only be broken if Isagi is the one who brings it back

[insert chaos, side-plot B, snack break, Isagi's kingdom falling apart thanks to the cursed sword]

Isagi goes back to return the broken sword - now the question is if Kaiser will let him leave a second time... 😏

[luniviravosshipper]

The amount of times I’ve tried posting but ended up rewriting over and over again the same post about how annoyed I am at how people seem to hate Terry even more this season because they cannot comprehend how he could be True of Heart when ironically enough those who are saying stuff about how it doesn’t make sense are the ones who were always complaining about how too good Terry appeared to be for him to be associated with the magefam, how he was too pure of a character to tolerate dark magic and to be in love with Claudia before this season.

But I swear, the thing about him killing someone. Not only somehow has the fact that the show went out of its way to try to depict how that action didn’t automatically make him a bad person flew over people’s heads, but also the fact that the show has thus far defined the idea of innocence as not necessarily meaning doing goods things or not being exposed to bad things but rather lacking in understanding of the complexities of morality has completely flown over people’s heads. And the latter wasn’t even something just implied, it was directly told to the audience several times that that was how the show was defining it.

This is like one of those other things I’ve talked about where like, yeah, we could do a whole analysis of why this all makes sense and in this case it’s not really the fault of the show’s for people’s automatic misinterpretation of this new idea introduced in the show as being something black and white (and funnily enough the concept being talked about here is literally about how things aren’t black and white). But also at some point I feel like people should be doing their own inferring, they should commit to using the minimal effort required to just… think for a moment. About what is actually happening in the series.

Because some of the things I’ve heard ever since Terry was first introduced as a character in the series, it’s not even that necessary to look that deep into the show in order to understand him. The show sometimes literally tells us what it wants us to think about him. And yet people just somehow miss those things entirely.

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

i am reminded once again that people are so weird about rhaegar.

it’s interesting but nauseating to see the shift about him on the anti-rhaegar side of the fandom as it’s clear that people are still wildly and crazily deep in their fanon versions of him, but have decided he’s somewhat useful to them as the fandom becomes less accepting of the ‘targaryens are bad and all mad’ narrative that was floating around for years, so some of the antis have slightly changed their tunes.

i should clarify that the shift does seem subtle right now, so maybe it’s not going to affect the way the antis discuss rhaegar that much, but i find it interesting and a bit annoying so im gonna discuss it.

the shift is basically starting from ‘rhaegar was a moron and killed his family by fucking his whore so he deserved death’ and seems to be heading to ‘rhaegar was secretly really cunning and cruel and actually loved elia but she was iffy/neutral of him and he only got with lyanna to have a baby and left her to die cause he was always gonna go back to elia.’

both of these are crazy interpretations imo, but the second one is even worse than the first. the first interpretation is at least a tad bit understandable, but the second is completely based on fanon land nonsense.

because… how is rhaegar seen as cunningly cruel when he’s only been paralleled with dany and jon, two incredibly kind characters? one of the first times dany is directly paralleled to rhaegar is when dany was protecting others! while we do learn a lot about rhaegar through these parallels, there’s also an on page interaction that completely contradicts the ‘rhaegar is cruel and callous’ interpretation. it starts when jamie is recalling rhaegar’s departure to the trident, he remembers when jon darry snapped at him, telling him to obey and stay with aerys; then rhaegar takes the time to console a teenage jamie and ease his worries before he leaves. we have all this and yet people interpret this character as cunningly cruel and willing to use others for his own ends?

like bsffr… this is a character who prefers writing songs and singing them instead of violence and the song of swords. that says a lot about rhaegar, and it’s all good things.

speaking of good things said about rhaegar: barristan as whitebeard, when he was still sussing out dany, calls rhaegar able, determined, deliberate, dutiful, and single-minded. these are all positive descriptions. barristan also later says that there’s a lot of good to be said about rhaegar, more than any of dany’s other relatives. this is not the description of someone hiding a nasty personality behind a perfect facade, it’s a deliberate set up preparing us readers for the big rhaelya reveal and to contradict roberts anti rhaegar propaganda.

i also want to mention the other side of rhaegar. he was described as melancholy and was said to have sad eyes, and according to cersei he looked wounded. it seems like he suffered from depression. and based on the parallels between aerys and viserys, i think it’s safe to assume that aerys was likely abusive to rhaegar like viserys was to dany. what’s written in a world of ice and fire supports my case and shows that things were always very very tense between rhaegar and aerys. things were so tense in fact that aerys even brought varys in as spymaster partly because he mistrusted rhaegar. that is a very terrible environment for someone to grow up in, and yet rhaegar still pulled through so much so that characters still sing his praises years after his death. that’s impressive and shows how good of an impression he left on so many characters.

now, i also want to discuss the rhaegar x elia ship as it’s getting more popular as the tides keep shifting. one quote that these shippers use to support their ship is the “rhaegar was fond of elia” remark made by barristan, but the context of that conversation is specifically left out by these shippers. basically the conversation began when dany is telling barristan that she’ll do her duty and marry hizdahr, so she asks barristan if rhaegar wed for duty or love. barristan hesitates and tells her that rhaegar was fond of elia but says nothing about love. context is key here. and while it’s not surprising that these shippers need to strip away the context as they have to go up against rhaelya, which has a lot of textual support, it is deceitful and proves that their case is weak in compassion to the build up of rhaelya.

anyways… yeah… this shifting tide is weird af and seems like a huge backwards dive into fanon land, and while i can’t control anyone i think i’ve done my best to stay true to canon by mentioning what we know about rhaegar and trying to keep my interpretations grounded.

tbh… i don’t even like this character that much, but i think his impact on the fandom is so cool. cause it’s like… here is rhaegar, a sad boy, and yet so many people treat him like he’s satan incarnate responsible for everything bad. it’s like so wild and so far from what little we know of him. so, basically, because of this fandom discourse, i became interested in this character and am now one of his defenders. yeahhhhh….

also, because so many people liked to basically shit on rhaegar for ‘doing nothing’ and ‘just letting war break out’ i found it kinda fun to theorize about what he may have actually been doing at the time of the rebellion. as of now, i’m pretty set in my belief that he specifically went to dorne to conspire with house martell and potential allies in order to overthrow aerys. my theory is based on what we know of his personality, and i think his last words to jamie clearly hint that he had some sort of plan in place; and since he was last in dorne, it’s only logical to conclude that there was something going on.

that’s all

[2leggedshark]

I thank God every day I'm not a tiktok artist because I just saw someone on there have to apologize for drawing a character with sh scars.... girl... you do not need to apologize for that!! Why are ppl yelling at u!!!!

[puppppppppy]

adhd comix

[hyacinth--girl]

HEY BTW IF YOU ARE WATCHING OFMD YOU SHOULD KNOW THERE HAS BEEN A POST CREDIT SCENE ON EVERY EPISODE

[yardsards]

also. amber gris as a character is really important to me as an appalachian.

not just her accent or the specific type of person justin based her off of but like

the feeling of losing someone to addiction/overdose while the government does nothing to help, just criminalizes and stigmatizes and makes things worse. which obviously happens in more places than just around here, but we have one of the highest rates of overdose death in the whole country and that whole set of scenes felt like they were really informed by growing up around that

[roaringroa]

they should make a life where you don't have appointments, work, school and scheduled events every single day for months on end

[late-night-vocaloid]

VVV Music Live live reaction that I'm calling a recap | Day 2 | Part 2

Last part, let's wrap it up!

I wish I knew what they were all saying

Okay now this is what I’m talking about

Also this is the power I’ve been missing from Ritsu’s voice. I guess I haven’t been keeping up

Dramatic!!

NO WAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!! NO WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

UNREEEEEEAAAALLLLLL!!!!

She’s so happy to perform it

I’m loving her expressions, is this what it’s like when you can understand the lyrics

They matched the drama!!

"RIP" is right!!

"Synthesizer V"? "Vocaloid"?

I really like the shape her ponytails give her with this outfit

Oh boy

Wow

Rivaling IA

RIVALING IA

Omg???

He’s going wild!!

He can put his hand in his pocket? He threw his hat off a second ago!

Yeah, you Are “Frimomen”

Wow they put everything into that

He’s playing the crowd

They should let him be in Guilty Gear

*Head in my hands* every Vocaloid man has some competition

Oh my god

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I knew he was coming

Well that was the highlight

NOOOOOOO I KNEW THEY WERE GONNA DO THIS

YOU CAN’T MAKE MY MAN GO ON AFTER THAAAAAATT

My poor guy. I believe in him

They better have a performance together now

Gakupo you have to serve

It’s so funny how casually they talk after their songs

Let’s go sword (I saw this beforehand)

VVV didn’t let Gakupo and Frimomen perform together because they knew they’d be too powerful

I like how they pushed his model’s expressions

Vocalooooiiiid

Her V6 ?

Her choreo on this one feels appropriately silly and happy for Gumi

Cute

Let’s go Unaaaa

This is who we had before Zundamon

They’re going to perform all of Kinoshita’s songs with all these concerts Una’s in

The void of space white noise……

Who is talking

And that’s day two!

VVV music live is always very long and packed with performances. I was looking forward to the choreography this year based on last year's and they didn't disappoint. I hope they can keep doing shows, they're always a lot of fun! That's all, thanks for reading!

[lemonynuggets]

makes me so insane when I see people bullying others for existing like. Does this person’s existence hurt you this much. Do you really have the primordial need of shaming anyone that’s slightly different from you. Do you feel that much rage seeing someone else be happy.

[foreverxdaydreaming]

x

[fumifooms]

fumi i hope you know that in an extra of how laios' party is formed he is explicitly banned from getting a crush on marcille.

like i know you went in depth on the trauma he has because of humans on your laimar post about the succubus but please know that he was explicitly banned its so goddamn funny.

im crying laughing while typing this out happy laimar love loses 🥂

Lmao yeah 🥂

It’s a very fun comic! The marriage seeker mystery can finally be put to rest 😌 I don’t really think it changes much, that it overrides anything we knew or that I theorized, esp since we already knew about the party-wide romance ban, but the meme potential (and fic potential) IS so strong now that we know Laios was the one most targeted and distrusted of all… And trust was the biggest issue, romance brings nothing but trouble in their minds but the trouble they experienced with the marriage seeker was because she was disingenuous and manipulative and Laios was oblivious, and as time went on the party realized that Marcille was trustworthy and they stopped worrying about that particular scenario happening. It can def bring a new meaning to the "This is my succubus?!! No one can see it no one can know AAAAA" line though lmfaoo. It’s so funny and honestly such a win for aroace Laios

[peachie5000]

Thought about Steven again blacked out woke up with art