#listen to your own voice

[just-aro]

*sigh*

I'm seeing variations of this meme around again, so to today's (un)lucky 10000:

the "inside you there are two wolves" meme is racist. full stop. it was invented by a Christian pastor in the late 70s and attributed to the Cherokee nation, despite being completely made up. every native american / indigenous page I've ever followed denounces it as made up and racist, using their imagery to sound mystical and wise while ignoring the people themselves.

please consider using another format. try to use your guilt productively: I'm not calling you out, this is aimed at educating. You can't erase not knowing in the past, but you can elect to 1) not reblog these in the future, 2) delete any that are easy to delete, 3) help to spread education by following native people's accounts and news so that you hear this from them, not me.

#there is some 'debate' about the origins on the internet but i'm gonna be real: #when i can't find even one person who claims to be native who says it isn't racist and made up... it's racist and made up #do your own research but just... try to listen to the least heard voices and not just those trying to boost them #i'd go find a post on it from a native account but i am currently researched out due to IRL stuff i don't plan to talk about

[gecemi09]

Do you ever think about how horrible of a title "Batman's Greatest Failure" is? How degrading and dehumanising? Everything you achieved in life is forgotten and reduced to the way it ended.

You aren't a person. You are a failure. Your whole life is pushed aside and made a part of someone else's life story. You never mattered, if it weren't for that person you would have meant nothing at all.

Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad you are remembered as something? Even if that something is just saying your whole existence equals just to a mistake in someone's life? An old page that everyone is so desperate to forget. A lapse in judgement. A regret. The people you saved, the people you loved, what you did in life, none of that matters. All that matters is how another person was affected by your death. That is all you will ever be. Everything you did and didn't do will always be irrevocably tied to that person, for better or worse.

You are unable to exist without that person and the only way for you to exist is through his perception of you. The only way for others to see you is to look at you through his biased interpretations of who you were.

You weren't a child or a hero or a martyr or a son or a victim. All you ever were, and will be, is someone's "Greatest Failure".

#can you tell im having Thoughts about jason again #it just came to me all of a sudden #your entire existence is described as another person's greates failure #you don't have a voice in how he tells your story #you can not correct him because yiu are dead. and even after you arent #he will never listen to you #you cant control your own story #your narrative is puppeteered by a narrator who paints you as a mistake #who HAS to paint you as a mistake because otherwise he would have to answer questions that he cannot answer lest they break him #works both in and out of universe #bruce lied abt him bc he would break otherwise #and dc lied bc otherwise ppls would start questioning batman mythos #jason todd #red hood #aditf #robin #robin jason #character meta #meta #jason todd meta #batman #batman comics

[nametakensff]

Okay. I made that blessing wav I mentioned I would!

Involves lots of saccharine blessing, pet names, praising you for getting all your sneezes out, and comments on how good it must feel and how at one point you sneeze all over the place 💕

#I'll never really love my own voice but it's the voice I've got so!! #please be kind and move on if this isn't your thing #I'm really quite shy having listened to this back haha #it's one thing actually talking to someone like this in person but recording it was a trip #anyway I hope some of you get a kick out of it #sneeze wav #sneeze kink #snzfucker #sneeze fucker #snzblr #snz kink #ntwav

[fourteenthz]

VIERAPRIL 15 - SPARK

In the end all I hope for is to be a bit of warmth for you When there's not a lot of warmth left.

#wall of post sorry. crying too much to care rn. #viera ffxiv #vierapril #vierapril 2024 #ffxiv oc #ffxiv viera #wol posting #6.0 spoilers #hydaelyn #pls click the link listen to the most venat + wol song ever. #i've been meaning to use it somewhere and i'll probably use it again but i just couldn't skip it this time #as much as it sounds like venat i hear the wol's voice in it tbh... since hydaelyn has been 'dying' for a little while #so when the one thing you believe the most gives you everything you must try search everywhere to give something back #and then i like to imagine thesa settle for this. maybe she can't do much besides do hydaelyn's will but she hopes this brings her somethin #warmth. if you will. this song is one of the most thesa songs ever bc its just someone keeping herself busy and trying to be useful #the setting fire to your your own hair part IS SOOO HER. #and when the chorus comes with 'promise me you will start were I end' is SO hydaelyn's voice coded. literally venat core. #and thesa answering with 'yeah. i will. and in the end i hope I was something more to you too. some comfort' YOU GET ME????? #they love each other so very much. that's her mother guys. #i like to translate how /i/ never doubted hydaelyn to thesa lol girl is hopeful and loyal to her core. anyway. gushing my heart out here #had more screenshots but well guess 9 is enough. and a bunch of tags for this song bc i love it a lot. ilu 4 winds albuns. #the scions seeing this and some of them seeing thesa cry for the first time....... yeah. get her (emotional) (real) (i love her) #also the lowest you will ever see her ears <3

[brownskinsugarplum76]

Cillian reads a sensual, romantic poem, and I am not okay.

#watch and listen at your own risk #that's all I can say #his voice gave those words magic #send help #cillian murphy #Youtube

[daily-hanamura]

#persona 4 #p4 #persona 4 dancing all night #p4d #hanamura yosuke #genuinely yosuke really goes hard on himself so much he talks about how yu is an impossible standard but he does the same thing to himself #yosuke hanamura #ah yes yet another beautiful example of yosuke using humour to create false confidence for himself but also that confidence crumbling easily #except as usual hes playing down his own skills because yu mentions a couple of times later than yosuke actually IS good at dancing #yosuke is so used to being a disappointment that he preempts any expectations people might have of him #yosuke my beloved DONT LISTEN TO THE BAD VOICE IN YOUR HEAD YOU ARE WONDERFUL AND TALENTED STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP #he's good with his queue

[anneapocalypse]

My toxic trait is I just want an actual butch lesbian in Dragon Age and at this point I don't care if she's a war criminal.

#i know i know problematic lesbians etc etc #hear me out here. #like. loghain but a lesbian. and she looks the same #and has a gruff voice #and she did atrocities but she'll treat me right #that's what i want #listen. the heart wants what it wants #what do you think i made calla for #byob (bring your own butch) #dragon age critical #though if this post is calling out anyone it's me

[good-beans]

I know most of our focus goes (rightfully) to the trial songs, but I genuinely believe Baptism of Fire is equally a masterpiece of meaningful writing and intense vocal acting

Incoming tag rant because I need to yell about this, feel free to yell back

#milgram #fuuta kajiyama #like the other vds have good writing about the character and whatever social issue their crime focuses on #but this one is very pointedly about YOU #its about the audience. its about the milgram project. its about self reflection. its about self-appointed roles. its about you #even if you didnt vote t1 or anything the whole things is calling on you to reflect on your own judgements of others #how you treat people who come off rougher. how you treat people who have made a (bad but) common mistake. #do you also find entertainment in seeing people dragged down and suffering because it would 'serve them right?' #but es always remains in control of the situation. the drama doesnt end with 'and fuuta was right - you guys suck!' #its clarified that situations are different and have nuance. we are reminded to look at things with nuance. #then we are smoothly re-immersed in the story #and then!! the acting itself!!! #arthur lounsbery put his whole fussy into that performance (<- fuuta pussy) and i am in his debt every day for it #in both his vds hes just super expressive and fun to listen to #i dont understand japanese but he packs so much interesting intonation and emotion into every word -- im obsessed listening to him #he nails all the subtle emotions fuuta has: the pouts and outrage as well as underlying fear grief insecurity and immaturity #and then baptism of fire hes just... Wailing #like mahiru has her innocent and pathetic cries of pain in her sweet voice that works for her character but fuutas pain feels much more raw #the way hes practically sobbing at the end -- his voice cracking and screeching throughout -- the whimper of pain #its so unbearably intense!! it hurts!! and its supposed to!! but hes just so raw with it #and dont even get me started on his pained hysteric laughter omg.... #its just. a masterpiece. #i always appreciate the vds but i dont think ive enjoyed/relistened to one as much as this one #okay WAIT im back to add one more thing because im obsessed with ths idea of intentions #specifically in milgram i think the intention behind the murders are very important to consider #so i love love love the huge focus on 'i didnt expect/mean for this to happen' #plus as a general theme in fiction i think its sooo juicy when good intentions get fucked up #so i loved the repetition of that #fuuta is such a special case because he genuinely had no desire or expectation for his victim to die #(maybe kazui too? but he doesn't say so in his vd like fuuta does)

[onehundredandeleventropicalfish]

there's so many del conversations i really fucking love and wanted to put my own spin on before we get an officially cast delirium, so starting off with this fun one from kindly ones!

(i have also started a del themed tiktok bc i have a lot more audio/video stuff in the works, so if you're interested you can find this video cross-posted here)

#other things also includes music writing but shhhh spoilers #(also if you have an endless you wanna voice in something like this hmu so im not just talking at myself!) #(don't worry about mimicking existing actors you're welcome to bring your own flair) #also yeah i have a tiktok now! the conversation with my partner basically went 'so i wanna do more audio stuff with sandman' #'but it's really hard to get audio posts to take off on tumblr bc most people aren't listening as they scroll' #'.......yeah no tumblr is not the right platform for audio stuff.' 'what is?' '......you're gonna hate what i'm about to say.' #and lo and behold here i am adjusting to a new social media 😂 #but no hope this is as fun for you as it is for me we'll be back soon hopefully #the sandman #delirium of the endless #dream of the endless #sandman comic spoilers #the kindly ones #my art #voice acting #mine

[yugiohio]

A lotta folks were mad at Cody for "stealing Jey's shine," and I said nothing. I let yall be loud and wrong in peace. But now I'm really curious as to how that even made sense to yall??? Cody Rhodes has never and could never need Jey Uso to get over. Maybe if you're a die-hard Jey Uso fan, then yeah, he probably had to win you over. But the audience, the iwc? Indie fans??? Yeah there was not a single thing that Jey Uso did, for the brief moment he was paired with Cody Rhdoes, to make Cody seem any cooler than he already was and Jey damn sure didn't lend him more star power than Cody already had.

It was most definitely the other way around because Jey has practically no experience as a singles wrestler. He has no character. He has no story (of his own. Who is he post-Bloodline???). Naturally, you pair him with the top babyface in all of wrestling right now to help ease him into being on his own since he has been a tag wrestler his entire career. I will not mention that the first attempt to pair him off initially started with Sami Zayn. But Jey has done little to prove himself as a singles wrestler. He's done the bare minimum to prove why he should be in the main event scene. His matches drag on, his style of wrestling isn't very impressive or something we havent seen before, and his wins are hardly believable or noteworthy (his matches against Roman notwithstanding ofc, those were epic). I've seen fans mad at Cody for how beloved he is when it is clear that people haven't taken a moment to approach his character or career with any kind of genuine respect or attention because one glance at his resume would let you know that while he may not have always been The Guy™️, he was always The One™️ and very rarely disliked througout his career. Cody is not where he is by accident. it's by design. So, to accuse Cody of capitalizing on Jey's surge in popularity is laughable at best and truly perplexing at the most as Cody outshines and outworks him by miles. No shade. All tea.

This isn't really that big of a critique of Jey as it may seem, I mainly just find find him to be indistinguishable as a wrestler and entertainer on his own, I think he has so much more to offer but I'm truly not sure how much longer I'm gonna stay around to find out.

#wwe #cody rhodes #jey uso #anyway i was almost done listening to a voice message from JW and was like 'Nah cuz why tf were ppl really saying that shit?!' #if anything Jey got more popular being eased into Raw by way of Cody and qas further guided by Sami #now hes being assisted by The New Day. its not a bad thing. its just a thing thats happening because he isnt ready to be on his own #im speaking in kayfabe terms so if you come at me crazy off this post please know for a fact that I will verbally murk you. #dont let your feelings for jey uso have you on somebody's watchlist cuz I'm not in the mood. #jey can do better . jey deserves better. but jey gotta get better. #im exhausted with the constant tagging. can homie do it on his own or nah?! summerslam was the last time i truly felt jey was bout to excel #now I'm like...well hes just a catch phrase and a charisma gimmick. i can literally find that in almost any wrestler #can he put on a banger that if he won id legit be like 'wow he earned that.'?? not right now he cant #but i digress

[kisaraslover]

What if Kaiba and Kisara swapped hair for a day? Either color or style (or both!)

IM A WHITE HAIR KAIBA TRUTHER I think he CANONICALLY has a white hair phase around 16, in his High School years -or Duel Monsters years- because how could he not, hes already deeply proud and satisfied about his Blue Eyes Blue Eyes connection (makes him feel like its fate he gets these cards (LMAO boyyy you have no clue)) so he'd definitely have a white hair phase like this

and with Kisara, im pretty sure some fics had her dying her hair to not stick out, to draw less attention post traumatic experiences, but i just wanted to fantasize about a situation where she takes up HIS coloring just for them to further own each other. why not. theyre crazy anyway. why not

#yugioh #ygo #art tag #seto kaiba #kisara #blueshipping #ask tag #AWOOGA my queen in my colors HOWLING AT THE MOOON #yeah no im serious abt kaiba white hair. kaiba bewd tattoos. i think its neat if hes the single worshipper of the god he fully owns #i am your only subject. you are only a god big enough for me. mine is the only voice praying to you. you only listen to me anyway #does a god exist without subjects. do you without me? ill take up your colors. you will only be remembered through me

[saym0-0]

fun lil watcher/listener hc thats been revolving round my brain for a while is that they can cause hallucinations for ppl in a radius if they focus, visual for watchers and auditory for listeners. it would be a fun lil explanation for martyns silly creeper sounds in 3rd life which i think is where this came from 💀

#evo listeners #evo watchers #life series #trafficblr #martyn itlw #itlw #also could be a fun angst piece for aus where all players that arent watchers/listeners lose their memories #they can kinda show them what happened but silently or without visual #wouldnt that be terrifying to hear your own voice and that of your friends fuckin fighting to the death #without even any visual context #that would be horrifying dude

[druidonity2]

For The Alliance.

#world of warcraft #anduin wrynn #tw blood #blood #okay so #A few things went poorly with this piece and thus it warrants a future redraw #I wanted the ally symbol to look almost knife-like like it was sharp and shiney #that it'd cut into Anduins neck which the symbol is pressed against #The idea was based on how Anduins title and job end up harming him- the real him. the person he wants to be. #that in being king you dont get to be you you have to be someone else #as in everyone elses' needs go above your own #i think alot about how Anduin as a teen was much more sassy and joked alot about things #and since being king Anduin hasnt really had many moments like that #if you listen to Anduin's Heros of the Storm voice lines they do a really good job of depicting a king anduin who retains his humor #humor which WoW anduin had to push down to focus on war #anyway thats just one idea this piece also sorta could reference how working for the alliance has physically hurt him too #or #that it is his neck we could consider how kings often are beheaded and what that symbolizes #That his job is slowly killing him #look Anduin would be happier and could do more of what he wants to do if he walked away from the throne #the other thing that went poorly with the art was that i just couldnt do blood properly

[reality-detective]

* * * FOLLOW THE VOICE * * *

A touching story that gave me tears💧

"Listen to the Voice" ✨ †

#pay attention #educate yourself #educate yourselves #reeducate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourselves #think for yourself #think for yourselves #think about it #do your homework #do your research #do your own research #question everything #ask yourself questions #ask yourself #your soul knows #listen to the voice #story #story time #listen #it's biblical #biblical #bible story

[paimonial-rage]

The biggest recommendation I can give on writing dialogue that sounds in character for the character to say is, not to read the quests they are in, but to listen to the English dub whenever you get the chance. This may seem difficult especially if you are used to playing it in another language, but listening is key to getting the vibe of a character down. What you pay attention to is, not what they say, but the cadence in which they say it. Pay attention to the emotion in their voice, the speed at which they say things, the volume, etc. Once you get this down, it becomes easier to get an idea of what “sounds” right and what doesn’t. Cadence is an especially powerful thing. By training your ears to a character’s cadence, you can get a better idea of which words they would prefer to use, the lengths of their sentences, and things of the sort.

For example, reader asks Zhongli to dinner and he accepts. How would he respond? “Hmm, I’m not busy this evening, so I accept. Thank you for the invitation.” But that doesn’t sound right, does it? Is Zhongli the type of person that uses many contractions? I don’t think so, so let’s fix it. “Hmm, I am not busy this evening, so I accept. Thank you for the invitation.” But would he say “I accept?” Perhaps, but it still doesn’t sound right. How has he accepted proposals in the past? A bit of research shows he has said “sure.” How can I mix that in? “Hmm, I’m not busy this evening, so sure. Thank you for the invitation.” But hmm… the second sentence doesn’t sound right. What else could he say instead? “Hmm, I’m not busy this evening, so sure. It would be my pleasure.” That sounds a lot better.

Some people may ask why you can’t do these things while listening to another language. Personally, I don’t believe you can. If you are not fluent in those other languages, your ears are not properly trained enough to understand the nuance of the ways they speak. The correct emotion and tone will come through, yes, but you still won’t be able to intuitively know what sounds right and what does not. You only will get this sense by listening to it in the language you choose to write in.

The only downside to this is that your writing will become based upon the English translation of the game. As many people know, the portrayal of characters in English often does not completely match the portrayals in Chinese. This is especially so for characters like Zhongli, Xiao, and Kaeya. A lot is lost in the translation and dubbing process. Characters do not vibe the same. Thus, your portrayals will be more true to English, but not how it technically is “supposed” to be. Personally, I don’t necessarily believe this is a bad thing. However, it is something that can bother people. The only way I can imagine getting around it is by playing the game with the Chinese dub and by following accounts that speak Chinese and can give insight on the literal translations and what they mean and imply.

#personal #advice #character analysis #i personally dislike the idea that bc the en translation and dub aren’t parallel w/ cn they did a bad job #yes there are cases where the translation is terrible but it’s impossible to do a 100% true translation #when you translate a work the translation eventually becomes its own entity #it is the job of translation to change the text so that things sound natural #add into this communication misunderstandings between the translators and the writing team and things can become skewed #i’ve completely given up on zhongli but what i do try to do when writing xiao is to follow the notes of fan translators and ppl that play c #i do have it in my plans to eventually open an asian account and replay the whole game in cn too #but yeah training your ear to a character’s cadence is a real cheat way to learning character advice #this is bc it’s less rigid and more open-ended than memorizing straight speech patterns #the only junk thing is that eventually you’ll try writing for a character you haven’t listened to in a while? #and then you are forced to reserve two hours in your day to listen to a character or event quest with them in it #pain peko #also if you’re still here i’m gonna complain a bit like why do ppl always default to the jp voices when the cn voices are right there? #why not listen to cn? that should be the default if you want the best experience #idk man #maybe i’m just tired of listening to jp voice acting. they’re all the same

[occasionaltouhou]

in fairness given zun's kinda vague about the exact nature of a shikigami you can absolutely think i'm completely wrong. you can have your own ideas you like better. but those are what my ideas are, and i like them. they have a certain Crunch

#trapped inside your own mind listening to voices telling you what to do. forever. every day until you like it #i think trying to get too into the weeds of programming languages is a fool's errand though. it's not Meant to be an exact 1-to-1 thing