(Note: a few quick shots of video game violence and gore)
Now, I already knew that Neil Newbon was the voice and motion capture actor for Heisenberg (Resident Evil Village) and Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3) but I had nooooo idea he was the motion capture actor for my beloved Nyx Ulric (Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV)! The utter sound I made when I saw him acting out Nyx's part was just...
Yeah, it was something, lol!
Anyway, you know that Nyx is mah bb!
*very casually slides you the links to my Lunyx vids*
"Gangsta" - "The Way" - "Dark Horse"
Ahem. Anyway, Aaron Paul is Nyx's voice actor for the English version and Neil does voice a separate character, Petra Fortis (4th row down, right side), so I suppose that's why I never realized that connection.
Ok, when did Wales Comic Con become so awesome? I just checked the guest list and in addition to Jared, Nathan, Mark S. and Chad, they have Jewel Staite (SPN's Amy Pond) and Sean Maher from Firefly, plus actors from Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, Charmed, and more! If I'd have known it was going to be this awesome, I might have actually planned to make the trip!
people cosplaying on public transit are the backbone of our society and i am SO serious. there is no greater omen of good fortune than seeing hatsune miku on the bus.
me, absolutely not an artist, desperately trying to articulate how much i adore people's fanart: ouughgh the colors. there are so MANY of them!!!! and the lines,,,,,,,,,, they are made of lines.. impeccable
Dang I am HERE for Justin/Calian!! That is a beautiful man. The whole cast is gorgeous (how adorable is Philemon?!?) but Justin really is just something else.
Yea! Another Justin/Calian fan! The more I see of Justin, the more I love him. I follow him on IG and his videos/posts are always so positive. You can tell he's really excited to be working on WIndy, but also very humble about it. He's such a cute dad as well! Jared has some competition! (Or I'll just love both of them equally!)
Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.
That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.
That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.
That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.
That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.
That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.
That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.
None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.
I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.
If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.
Celebrate fan work!
To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.