#the voice in your ear

[innqufocus]

happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈 this one goes out to all our queerplatonic folks out there. your identities and relationships are valid!

made with the Draw With Me app via my beautiful spouse, who gifted me an ipad and stylus for my birthday. love you, nifey! 🩷

[bobbinalong]

the "jack finds out tim is robin and instead of steph sneaking around (because why would she if i don't plan on killing her off), tim asks her if she'd like to be robin and when she says "yes" and bruce says "no", they do it anyway, with tim becoming her man-in-the-chair/oracle knock-off" au. title might be a little long lol

[gojoest]

love when tall men lean in to hear you better

[generalsdiary]

hybrid cat!ratio but aventurine isn't aware how feline like he is, until a sleep deprived ratio sits beside him on the couch and rests his head on his shoulder. and purs. aventurine freezes, soft rumbling of veritas' chest soothing him, and then, if purring wasn't enough, the long purple tail curls up in his lap. aventurine wants to jump out of his skin- cuddly veritas? doctor veritas ratio purring, seeking touch? kakavasha is losing his shit by the second.

meanwhile ratio is running on three hours of sleep for a stupid reason, and he simply embraces aventurine, cuddling closer wanting more of this comfort.

the last straw is ratio nuzzling his face into the blond's neck. rubbing his cheeks, nose against the soft skin. the furry ears brushing past his jaw. purring getting louder.

aventurine is a mess, he loves it of course, nonetheless he is caught off guard. he attempts at one of his one liners, to feel out the atmosphere, "do you... also meow?" he ends up sounding like a teenage boy stuttering in front of his crush.

shivers go down his spine when ratio speaks lowly against his ear in a husky voice, "would you like to hear it?"

[blackkatdraws2]

Stanley's raspy voice surprised Narrator (Grey.) I think he likes it.

⬇ a little bit of background information down below ⬇

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This is an AU called Achromatic Loop and IT TAKES PLACE AFTER THEY ESCAPED THE PARABLE!!

When they were still in the Parable, one of the games rules was for the protagonist to be silent in order for the Players inhabiting Stanley's body to self-insert themselves into the story.

The game didn't remove Stanley's voice, but it did change something within Stanley so he had more control over his own voice (-so he doesn't accidentally yelp and scream whenever he's surprised. As for why the game didn't remove Stanley's voice completely is still unknown.)

Since Stanley wasn't allowed to talk, it caused his voice to become a bit hoarse and raspy. Talking for a long time hurts his throat so he prefers to whisper. He likes to drink lots of water because it soothes his throat.

[mrsoharaa]

I feel like sparring with Suguru (especially with cult leader! suguru) he would be sooo intimate and mischievously coy with you. Like, it'll be the little fragile finger grazes slipping across your hips, agonizingly slowly. The hot, prodding whispers of encouragement and slight taunt bellowing directly into the depths of your ringing ears. And god, don't even get me started on the way this man swiftly and easily maneuvers manhandles your every abrasive attack, how easily he pins you to the nearest solid object. Hips solidly connected with yours, eyes leering ever so intently and strictly into your own — creates a massive swarm of unwarranted butterflies deep within your fluttering tummy.

[lookanartdweeb]

You all are cowards "Peach is finally girbossing!" "Peach isn't the damsel!"

Cowards all of you 😔 I was there when it was written

[toomanyf4ndoms7]

Too many batboys get de-aged fics out there. Do you know what'd be fun? Babs gets de-aged to a kid but she still tries to be Oracle and good luck stopping her, so now Dinah and Huntress are taking orders from a seven year old over their earpieces.

[gomzdrawfr]

mw 3 spoilers!! some doodles that I've been meaning to draw <3

Ghost: 0-7 in position with Kilo. Farah: Convoy approaching southeast, four vehicles.

Based on these:

bonus Farah side eye HAHAHAHA

[innqufocus]

Amkorr and Gero posing as the unofficial ‘seafood duo’, named such because of a typo calling Amkorr “seafood green” and Gero “shrimp scampi”

Gero © @skeezpyuff

colors by @michi0no

[teddybeartoji]

you go to take a pottery class bc why the hell not and suguru geto is the one talking you through it what do you do

[marciaillust]

Asterism book cameeeeeee <3

Since Orion is a journalist in this AU there are a few instances where his newspaper articles and blog posts are shown, and my friend and I loving formatted all the sections to imitate websites and whatnot down to sharing buttons and comment sections. Def one of the most hilarious parts of the book imo, I love them sm. Thank you best friend [Name Redacted] for writing this book for me, I love it sooooo much! You *get* Orion like noone else ;w;

[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

[actual-changeling]

someone needs to stop me from writing a post-s2 fic that's entirely about crowley and aziraphale communicating via phone calls to stop the second coming and they end up falling in love with each other all over again

[lycorim]

I was recently reminded of the first time I read ADwD, with it being the only book in the series that I listened to via audio book, and I chose to do so during my shifts working food-service. Anyway, don't do that, friends!

(The artist, c. 2021, retraumatizing herself every three chapters over shortbread cookies:)

[binah-beloved]

hi mod

ummmmm so do you have Pequod Heathcliff? If so do you pretend that he’s the real Queequeg (I do that to cope)

once i saw a mod that replaced Pequod Heathcliff with Queequeg and i've never wanted something more. other than a Queequeg announcer. i would pay money for that.