#this audio has been in a lot of tiktoks lately

[genderkoolaid]

The transandrophobia brainrot has hit tiktok hard. There's a sound going around right now that uses the T slur in a reclamatory way, but whenever a transmasc person uses the sound people lose their minds saying it's transmisogynistic for them to use that word. But when cis male drag queens use the audio it's a slay.

My answer to those people is Get Kate Bornstein'd:

Tranny. Many people don’t know the history of the word, they assume it was an assigned hate term or slur along the lines of the “n” word. That’s not how it happened. Tranny was invented by us in Sydney, Australia in the 1970s where drag was a big deal, and still the best drag shows ever are in Sydney, Australia – they’re amazing. So a lot of trans-identified women who were assigned male at birth did drag, that’s how you made your living. And so they were transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens, and they were all doing drag to make money. They all bickered amongst each other who is better than who, “Well the drag queens are better,” “No, the transsexuals are better.” “You are all freaks, we’re better.” And on and on and on. But they worked together and they were family together, so they came up with a word that would say family and that was tranny. In Australia they do the diminutive, that’s how they come up with words. So tranny. I learned the word in the mid-1980s, late 1980s from my drag mom in San Francisco, Doris Fish, who was the city’s preeminent drag queen and she’d come from Sydney. And she schooled me in this word tranny, she said, “This way it means we’re family, darling.” “Thank you mama.” [...] So we used it and we were trannies together. And F to M was just beginning to start, the trans men were just beginning to become visible, Lou Sullivan was a neighbor of mine around the corner, and he was the first big out trans man, wrote his book. So trans men and cross dressers . . . cross dressers were also family. Transsexuals, we were all trannies and that felt good. That got into the sex industry and became a genre – there was tranny porn, there were tranny sex workers – chicks with dicks, she-males. [...] And, my only guess is that people who . . . because the only way they would have found out about the word is if they were watching tranny porn or having been with a tranny sex worker and then hated themselves so much that they turned it into a curse word. So it’s not really technically correct to say we’re reclaiming a word – it was always ours. So, many people mistake the word for the hatred behind the word and, in my generation, and I’m sure in future generations of trans people, tranny is going to be a radicalized, sexualized identity of trans in the same way that faggot is a prideful identity in the gay male community – not all gay men are faggots, but those who are are proudly fags and those who are dykes are proudly dykes within the lesbian community, trannies are proudly tranny within the transgender community. Does that mean we can’t call ourselves that because some trans woman does not want to be called a tranny? No. I’m going to keep calling myself a tranny. To the trans woman who gets called tranny, I’m sorry – as soon as . . . you’ve got to look at why you’re getting called tranny and if you don’t pass, you’re going to be read as a transgender person and then you fall back on the cultural view of trans folk which is freak, disgusting, not worth living, we can hurt you. It has nothing to do with the word, it has everything to do with the cultural attitude. So the word has stirred up a shit storm, but it’s not the word.

^ From this interview

Four weeks ago, Bear posted a call for submissions on his blog. In the interests of keeping the call as open as possible, we agreed to include as many trans-identities as we knew, so we used the word "tranny." And that's where the activist shit hit the postmodern fan base. People have been pissed. Here's their argument: FTMs are co-opting a word that belongs to MTFs. The word "tranny" belongs to MTFs, reason those who were hurt by our use of the word, because it was a denigrating term reclaimed by MTFs—ergo, only MTFs could be known as trannies. I spoke with Bear, and we agree that’s wrong on several counts:

Tranny began as a uniting term amongst ourselves. Of course it’s going to be picked up and used as a denigrating term by mean people in the world. But even if we manage to get them to stop saying tranny like a thrown rock, mean people will come up with another word to wound us with. So, let’s get back to using tranny as a uniting term amongst ourselves. That would make Doris Fish very happy.

It's our first own language word for ourselves that has no medical-legacy. 

Even if (like gay) hate-filled people try to make tranny into a bad word, our most positive response is to own the word (a word invented by the queerest of the queer of their day). We have the opportunity to re-create tranny as a positive in the world.

Saying that FTMs can’t call themselves trannies eerily echoes the 1980s lesbians who said I couldn’t use the word woman to identify myself, and the 1990s lesbians who said I couldn’t use the word dyke. 

At one phase in the evolution of transpeople-as-tribe, it was the male-to-females who were visible and representative of trans to the rest of the world. They were the trannies. Today? Ironically true to the binary we’re in the process of shattering, the pendulum has swung so that it's now female-to-males who are the archetypal trannies of the day. The generation coming up beyond the next generation, i.e. my tribal grandchildren are the young boys who transition to young girls at the age of five or six. They’re the next trannies. None of us can own the word. We can only be grateful that our tribe is so much larger than we had thought it would be. How to come together—now that’s the job of the next generation of gender outlaws.

^ From Who You Calling A Tranny?

We've been having this debate forever and its been stupid forever.

And its an increasingly outdated debate. More people know about trans men&mascs than ever and there are plenty of TM&Ms who have been called tranny by transphobes who don't give a shit about this distinction. And not just people who have been mistaken for transfems, either, but men like Andrew Jonathan Blake-Newton and Saye Skye who were attacked by people who knew them. Do they have more or less of a right to say tranny than a trans girl whose never been called it by a transphobe? (Neither. Because no one owns this word.)

#m. #ask box

[sugurufic]

I Wanna Ruin Our Frienship (Geto x F!Reader)

Summary: You want to try out a tiktok trend with your friend who you maybe have a crush on

Word Count: 1.1k

Content: Fluff :)

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You’ve been seeing this trend all over tiktok for quite some time, but you never got the time - or courage - to try it out. You had a not so low-key crush on one of your friends, Suguru. His beautiful appearance was easier to resist when you didn’t know him closely, but lately his soft voice, his pretty eyes, and his silky hair have been plaguing your thoughts.

So you finally got the time and the courage to try this trend on him, confessing your attraction to him in disguise. And you could use the trend as a perfect cover-up, in case he didn’t like you back. Easy-peasy!

You’re both sitting in the parking lot in your car, having just done shopping for your essentials, snacks, instant ramen, coffee and period care stuff. 

“Suguru, there’s this trend on tiktok…” You start, setting your phone on the dashboard and turn to him with your best puppy eyes. “Will you do that with me, please?” looking straight into his pretty eyes is never easy, but with the plan in your head it’s even difficult.

“You know I can’t say no when you look at me like that.” He whines, but the steady smirk on his beautiful face says otherwise. You love the way his bangs fall on his face, they compliment him well, you think. “What’s the trend?”

“I can’t tell you that yet,” you giggle. “I’m recording it just for us anyways,”

“Okay,” he relents with a sigh. “At least tell me how to act.”

“Oh, just be yourself,” you keep it vague. “I’d prefer your honest reaction,”

“Really?” he draws out, almost purring in your ear. You have to deliberately suppress the shiver that threatens to come down your spine. Sometimes, you think he does stuff like this deliberately just to get a reaction out of you. Instead, you grin at him, and press record on your phone and the audio starts to play.

Jenny darling, you’re my best friend, you lip sync, looking at Suguru’s smiling face in the video. You just pray that he hasn’t come across this trend yet.

But there’s a few things that you don’t know of, the song continues, and Geto turns to you with a confused frown on his brow. He looks you up and down as if trying to decipher you, to see through the lyrics.

Why I borrow your lipstick so often, you lip sync, and Geto wets his tongue, pretty eyes jumping back and forth between the camera and you, extremely confused at the lyric.

I’m using your shirt as a pillowcase, you continue, finally turning to him. You bite your lip as you think of your next move, body heating up in anticipation of his reaction. He’s looking at you now, foxy eyes focused completely on you.

Leaning forward, you put your hands on the collar of his t-shirt and pull him close so that your noses touch as the speaker says, I wanna ruin our friendship. You could swear he looked about as nervous as you felt and when you let him go without kissing him, he too had a pretty pink flush on his face, breathing heavily.

We should be lovers instead. He doesn’t look very happy with that. You’re scared that you’ve pushed too far, but then his big hand gently wraps around your throat and pulls you to him, kissing you properly. His lips fit against yours perfectly, like pieces of a puzzle meant to go together, so soft, so delicious and all-consuming. Geto has the best pair of lips that you’ve ever kissed.

You’re flustered, shocked, delighted and feeling like a dream all at the same time with the intensity of Geto’s kiss. His hand doesn’t leave your neck as the song continues to play, long fingers pressing down on your pulse point, making you shiver. The video stops when the time exceeds, and you finally pull back, nearly panting with the intensity of your emotions.

“If you needed an excuse to kiss me you should’ve said so,” Geto tries to sass you, hiding his pink face behind his hand. He’s playing with his bangs, a habit you’ve noticed he does when he is nervous. 

“I think both of us know who actually kissed who, Mister,” you sass him, suddenly feeling very confident. “I can still feel your hand on my neck,”

He clears his throat again, attempting to gather himself. His pretty eyes, usually full of confidence and looking straight into your soul, are averted as he asks, “So… did that song mean anything?”

“Only if this kiss means something to you,” you say, shying away from his words.

“Gods, I’ve wanted to do that for so long now,” he says, the tone of his voice sending shivers down your spine. If it wasn’t for his damned voice, he’d be easier to ignore. “I’m sorry I kissed you so suddenly,” 

“We both know you don’t mean that, pretty boy.” You say, narrowing your eyes at him with a smirk. You put your hands on his collar, pulling him close yet again to kiss him. He hits record on your phone once again, putting his hands on the small of your back to pull you as close as he can to the passenger’s side. This kiss is less intense than the first one, but so much more intimate - your lips move in a graceful dance, savouring each other's perfume, taste and the feelings that the kiss surfaced.

“Darling,” Geto purrs against your lips, forehead resting on yours and noses touching. “You should let me take you out to dinner first,”

“You need to ask me to dinner first then,” you whisper, lips brushing against his.

“I’m asking you now,” He says. “Let’s have dinner outside tonight, just the two of us. What do you think?”

“I’d love that,” you whisper before planting another peck on his lips then separating. You pat your thighs, getting ready to drive back to Jujutsu Tech. You can feel the change in the stale air of the car, but it’s a good change. Geto takes your phone to send the tiktoks to himself, grinning like an idiot. You like Suguru just a bit too much, and you hope that he likes you a bit too much too. But there are still things to figure out, and you don’t want to worry about that yet. 

The two of you are awfully cheery on the drive back, and it doesn’t go unnoticed by your friends. They don’t question you, yet. You’re getting ready, dressed in a lovely shade of red and applying a lipstick to match when a loud shriek deafens you. Getting out of the bathroom, you see Shoko and Satoru sitting on either beds of the room, a hastily dressed Suguru rushing in, trying to snatch away the phone in Satoru’s hand, veins popping out on his forehead.

“Give me back my phone!” Geto yells, lunging at Satoru. 

A/N: Man's so pretty I wanna kiss him stupid

#geto x reader #geto suguru x reader #geto suguru #jjk x reader #geto suguru fluff #geto x you

[amalgamateofficial]

The Danganronpa V3 Fanfic Amalgamate Now Has an Official Tumblr!

Hey, y'all! So, if you're someone who's been reading my fanfic Amalgamate on AO3, you probably just know me as DoctorHaifisch, although if you follow me on Tumblr, TikTok, or Instagram, you usually see me go by Jamie. I post a lot of Danganronpa art (like the illustration above) and cosplay :)

Anyway, I have no idea why I didn't make an Amalgamate Tumblr sooner, especially since Amalgamate already has an official YouTube channel, but better late than never!

The main reason I wanted to do this is because I realized how hard it is to communicate with AO3 readers between chapters other than using the Official Amalgamate Discord or making occasional announcements on YT and TikTok in my Ultimate-Cosplayer-cosplaying-Junko-cosplay.

So! I want this Tumblr blog to be a place where I can update Amalgamate fans about progress I'm making on new chapters (including previews!), where I can share my own Amalgamate art, reblog the amazing Amalgamate fanart I see on Tumblr, update you all on the Amalgamate Audio Series' progress, etc.

But due to the aforementioned communication problems, it's not easy for me to let any Amalgamate readers know this new Tumblr blog exists until the next chapter comes out, so if you're an Amalgamate fan, I'd love it if you'd reblog this post to spread the word a little :D

#Danganronpa #Danganronpa V3 #Kokichi Ouma #Kaito Momota #Kokichi Oma #Ouma Kokichi #Momota Kaito #DRV3 #NDRV3 #Amalgamate #Danganronpa Amalgamate #Amalgamate Danganronpa

[smokingtiger]

I really liked your post about shipping and I feel the same. I was on twitter the other day and a Jikook account posted that in 2020, dispatch wanted to reveal Jikook’s relationship. And when I asked them to give me the link to that article, they told to look for it myself. I made a little research myself because I was curious. I asked my mutual army and he told me that in 2020, dispatch posted that “two members in the same group were dating, and this group is well known”. They didn’t specify wether the group was bts or if the members were Jikook. This showed me how these shippers just change everything to fit their own narrative. Taekookers always claim that dispatch knows about Taekook but won’t reveal because the company pays for their silence. I don’t get how these people think. In JK’s recent Vlive, someone was heard talking in the background, and Taekookers claimed it was Tae, while Jikookers claimed it was Jk. It’s always a battle between these two ships. They made the fandom toxic.

I know what you're talking about, at least regarding the Dispatch couple reveal. I don't know if it was 2020, I think it might've been a little earlier, but yes, back in the day on K-pop twt we all heard about this announcement but it never came. Back then many people had theories, some believing that whoever it was, their company had most likely paid off Dispatch in hopes of keeping this relationship under wraps.

Now what I find to be a more interesting part about this 'Jikook' theory is that there was a 'leaked' Dispatch couple list screenshot, which revealed the names 전정국 & 박지민 among a list of other actual confirmed and genuine celebrity relationships. I see this screenshot all the time, whether it be on Tumblr, Twitter, TikTok, etc... This screenshot is often used as confirmation material. However, as someone who was very active on Twitter during that time, I had never seen this screenshot prior to late 2021 (and I'm a 2015 ARMY), so my only question is, where did this screenshot come from?

I think the problem with a lot of ship discourse on this platform is that people usually quote what they've heard in a shipping echo chamber. People are willing to believe this screenshot, but not one person can really cite where it actually came from. Like, have you guys been on Pinterest? BTS fans are scarily good at editing, what makes you think that they won't edit something like this too?

"It came from Dispatch!" Okay. "It came from a well-known leaker!" Do you guys... have the link to this leaker? How do you know that they're actually authentic?

Who knows, maybe I'm wrong, but if any Jikooker reads this and knows, please send me the legitimate source of this screenshot -- the true 'patient zero' of this Dispatch debacle.

With the whole Jungkook Sleeping Weverse live, I've seen people pick apart the audio like you said, and half the time it's literal white noise. I feel like some of these people are clawing at their wallpaper like "THE VOICES! THE FUCKING VOICES!". For all we know, that could be a fucking mouse or something scurrying about and you just called it Taehyung.

Jungkook's other most recent live, where he goes out of the frame and starts talking to himself -- at least that one has legitimate audio. The first translation (Getting Bam bc Jimin left) that circulated around has been proven to be horseshit by other Korean translators, but some other translations, such as Jungkook talking about his light, moving his luggage, or Jimin possibly moving the light, have a little more veracity to them. Nothing has been confirmed and not even Korean translators (Jikookers or not) can agree on any particular translation -- and they shouldn't have to! Like this is Jungkook literally mumbling to himself, like, who gives a fuck what he says under his breath?

I have always stated that I have no problem with people having their speculations or finding certain pairings cute, hell, I even have an ask post in the defense of creative shipping (which I know some might find to be a bit controversial, but to each their own, no one needs to agree with me) -- but this, this isn't evidence. This is picking at crumbs and attempting to make a six-course meal out of it.

It's sort of funny, my first post on this platform (other than a reblog) was about shipping, and yet the problem is so persistent on this website like a fucking tumor that I just have to make more. How sad is it that I had to tell people to stop being nitpicky during FESTA?

I'm just tired of these people pulling things out of thin air. Half of the shit that taekookers and jikookers argue about... never happened. But since it's all about community, they feed on and regurgitate the same false information over and over. Like if you think something is real, stick to instances that ACTUALLY happened with objective truths. I'm talking about stuff like Jikook said this (and it's confirmed and said in an interview with written or video evidence) so based off of the context it just seems sort of sus but I can't say it makes them real 100% and not like Taekook is real because this is how Taehyung feels and I just know he feels that way because look at his EYES! He hates BigHit and everyone in it because they are trying to keep him from his baby! Company cuts are to stop their love from thriving!

Lunatics.

Tumblr definitely has a problem with shippers more than every other platform that I've been on. It's sort of nice that a user can curate their own content, but they also can't properly filter out or avoid the crazies that infest the website. Instagram is nearly on the same level, but to be fair, it's a bunch of fourteen-year-olds who still can't differentiate a hickey from a pressure mark left by a bag or by a member's own hand. Also, a bunch of people on IG still subscribe to bullshit theories by Taekook-lives (my sworn enemy atp), and I could talk for hours about how harmful they are to both Taekook and BTS themselves. Hell, they accused Jungkook of lying on his fucking birthday, and also they constantly misrepresent and abuse the Korean culture and language for views. Definitely gross.

But yes, toxic shipping has been around forever, and we finally got to see some shippers scramble with the Paris incident. Whether or not that event was real or staged (who gives a fuck), it was scary to see how conspiracies formed over night to try to dismiss any evidence that might prove the contrary. I have a few posts and asks over Taennie as well where I sort of discuss my thoughts and feeling about shippers and fans, not really about the alleged relationship itself.

Jikookers on Taennie | Speculative Pros & Cons | Privacy

But thanks for stopping by anon... it's nice to know we're not alone in this crazy, crazy world.

#ask #jikook #kookmin #taekook #vkook #I am so tired of these people #conspiracy after conspiracy #jungkook #taehyung #jimin #please free the maknae line #if i have to see one more taekooker say that Jungkook hates Jimin I'm going to lose my mind #I saw a jikooker post about how jikookers are turning into 'the enemy' with how crazy some theories have gotten... #but y'all have been alike for a long time! #whether or not these boys are dating e/o can u stop saying that bangtan are enemies #happy tenth birthday bts i love you #ALSO LEAVE THE DAWG OUT OF IT !! #JUSTICE FOR BAM !!

[cfrog]

for the art questions thing: what’s your process for shading? how do you come up with drawing / animation ideas? how do you sketch / how does a sketch differ from a complete piece for you?

Oh boy thank u for the questions! Uhh i ended up writing a lot w these so I'll throw this under a cut. I added pictures too. We'll call this a first draft for whatever I end up doing for my class assignment.

My process for shading changes pretty dramatically between if I'm doing my easy cel shading or my fancy soft shading. Lately, if I'm doing cel shading, I'll just come up with colors straight off the color wheel (colorpick and move it darker, more saturated, cooler/warmer depending on the material). OR, one trick I like, I'll draw where I want the shadows all on their own layer, THEN copy my color layer, mask n merge it on top the shading, and multiply that onto the actual layer. So it's the same colors for each exact section multiplied on top of itself? If that makes sense? Does nothing for the Atmosphere but it is Darker, and if I'm drawing them in a void anyways, it works fine. Sometimes I like to just slap a random tilted rectangle on it like its a garfield background. My soft shading is much more trial and error; for those fancy Xiph pin-ups I've been doing, I'll have like 30 different layers going, all doing different shit. Multiply mostly for shading, then for highlights I'll just try overlay/screen/soft light/hard light until something Works. A fun thing I do on these too: To get that "painted" look without adding a bunch of random texture, I use my default lining pen sized WAY up with the opacity WAY down and just go ham. Close up of robot ass for reference.

For ideas: I'd say the majority of the art I put out is "inspired" from something else, like memes or songs or tiktok audios. Honestly, I'd say every piece of information I receive has to pass through a "could this be about my ocs" filter in my brain, and if the answer is even kind of yes, I Will Make It So. Everything is ocs to me <3 and sometimes I inflict those oc thoughts on everyone else :3 For actual Original stuff though? Most of my ideas come about as a natural result of trying to figure something out with my characters. How would they respond to this, how would they do that, how does that work? The whole reason I started doing art is cause I have such a hard time with words, and sometimes drawing it out is just the only way I can communicate a thought. Expressions, camera angles, visual gags, subtle details, timing, those are things I could never figure out in writing. So I make comics and animations!

Sketching, what can I say about sketching. My sketches are very messy because I try for a Zero Erasing method like I do in real life (<- enjoys drawing in pen). If I sit there overthinking every line of a sketch, I get too caught up in the details before I've figured out the full picture. Sketching is for blocking/framing/posing ONLY, clean up is for lineart. I do sketch in only black/grays if that's a thing people care about, but that's because I have very strong thoughts on color, again it's too distracting. The main difference to me (that im sure no one else notices) is I let my sketches get fuzzy from resizing. I'm very particular about my art having NO anti-aliasing/transparent pixels. Crisp and clean, and VERY easy to color. Sketches I have on hand for example. Lil preview of smthin im working on :3c

Actually, sometimes I don't do sketches at all ? Like I go straight to clean lines. Only for certain characters, like LEDD and the lab rats, and if it's not a crazy angle or something. I can just draw them on command at this point. Very handy.

Thank you again for questions ^^ I am. slowly figuring this assignment out.

#chayos speaks #im not gonna tag this oc talk cause Technically thats for Lore. I did mention ocs tho :] #ask #tumblr keeps wanting to move my read more. keep it where i put it Please

[bqtero]

Tumblr Progress Update #5

The past two weeks have been stressful, but I have managed to keep up with my schedule. I finished working on my third scene and put together another teaser for my TikTok account. I also spent spring break working on writing my fourth scene. Over the next two weeks, I will be working on filming my fourth scene and getting that scene published on March 29th. I will also be working on writing my fifth and final scene. I can't believe that it's almost over.

There were a few hurdles and hiccups that I had to deal with over the past couple of weeks. Rain was another major issue since it always rains on the nights that I need to film. I had to adapt and change the scene to make it work. I made sure to write the fourth scene in a new location that will work with rain in case it does. TikTok was also preventing me from publishing my third scene due to an audio issue, so my third scene went up a bit later than I wanted it to. I've gotten a little more traction on my account lately, which has made it a lot easier for me to write my scenes, which I am thankful for.

I can share my third scene here!

TikTok Account: @bqtero.films

Act Three:

The next scene will be the last scene I collect responses from and I'm hoping to get some good ideas on how to wrap up the story.

I am currently on track with my workback plan. I'm happy that I have managed to not fall behind on my schedule and within the next few weeks, I will be done with my deliverable. I'll still be working on finalizing things and I might try to put together something for my account after the film is done.

Here's a screenshot of my shot list for the next scene!

-Bryson

#capstone #film #writing

[ravenwolfie97]

okay i have to talk about this because it's been really bothering me lately and i need to say something before i explode

so lately i've been noticing on many videos, shortform or otherwise, that they include subtitles! awesome! super helpful and cool

but idk if it's always been a problem and i'm only noticing it now, or if it's gotten particularly bad lately, but... recently a lot of those subtitles are really really bad

slight tangential anecdote: i used to do some freelance captioning work in between real job hunting, and it was a good experience. i was already interested in doing it, obviously, but i was coached on proper captioning etiquette and guidelines to make it look as nice and readable as possible while also transcribing the audio as best as i could before my superiors would touch it up. so i do know a thing or two about proper subtitling, but even if you didn't you would Know that there are some serious problems right now

i'll give a few non-specific examples (bc i'm too lazy to hunt them down to show you). there is a pretty popular (i think) youtube shorts personality who mostly does reaction-based videos, like i think it's actually mostly tiktok stitches reuploaded to yt shorts. but anyway this person, along with most other tiktok people who have subtitles for their lil internet rambles, are probably only basing off of their voice, like there's some kind of auto-caption that gets most of the words right, save for a couple small ones. i can understand that especially for the reaction/vlog crowd who are just trying to pump out videos, but like. i also follow john and hank green. they also reupload their tiktok stitches to yt shorts and have subtitles. and guess what? they're flawless. immaculate. you Can change them. or maybe they just talk better idk my point still stands that there is issue here stemming from having the computer do it with minimal to no touch-up. which leads me to my next example

one of the first nails in the coffin recently was this one pokemon youtube shorts guy i kept getting where he'd look into old game saves. all of the videos are subtitled, but similar to the tiktoks, it appears to be transcribing the voice on its own. what's worse and the most important here is that - remember - this is a series of pokemon videos. saying a pokemon name and expecting an AI to understand what that is out the gate is insane. and it doesn't. any time a pokemon's name is said, it just spews out words that are vaguely similar-sounding standard english words. and it's never the same each time too, which is fun. this is where taking the time to edit or even give a smidge of a damn to the craft of your video really would mean a lot, because for as many as i've seen it turns me even more off every time i see those shitty subtitles. but unfortunately that's not the worst i've seen in the last few days

the one that hurt me so much i physically could not stand it, to the point that i left a Comment on how bad it was, was an edit of a streamer's twitch VOD. normally, this streamer uploads snippets of their streams to yt shorts and has really good and well-edited captions there! i usually have nothing to complain about from this guy. but this one particular video... i don't know if it's because it's an older VOD and someone's just been holding on to it for months, or if it was a huge rush job, or What. but this video had literally the worst captions i had ever seen. they were just slapped down in chunks, not even lining up with the people who were talking, a negligible amount of punctuation, literally the barest minimum of effort. but that's not all! let's not forget that this is an edited clipshow, and there are Effects and Transitions for not only the video itself but the text as well! so SOME amount of effort was put into this because it got actually edited into a decent-sized video instead of just being a small clip. it's literally makes me sick i am so unhappy about it

main point, TL;DR, moral of the story: for the love of all that is holy, please remember that captioning is literally an accessibility feature. some people cannot hear or are unable to listen to videos sometimes, and i can't imagine what a hearing-impaired person who relies on subtitles to engage with videos would think watching either of my last two examples. what makes it worse, too, is that i can't even tell these people to hire someone to do it for them, because oftentimes they DO have people to do that work for them. and they still fuck it up. and then they continue on, to churn out more content. ugh just take a moment to remember that captions are not just for engagement. they're a tool, and some people can use only those as their guide through your video. don't make it impossible to parse. the purpose of them is to be read and understood. and you can't do that if the sentences are in overlapping chunks or if your words are too non-standard to be translated by a computer

#they at least all do a better job at captioning than youtube's built-in auto feature #it's okay in a pinch but it's really. really not good #but man do y'all remember when they Came Out with closed captioning and how incredibly and genuinely awful it was? #as well as unintentionally hilarious? #i must be one of the only people as obsessed with rhett and link's multi-layered cc translation series of videos today as from eons ago #a many charisma wrist to you and to all a good night

[evolution-ofa-geek]

I Have a Wrestling Podcast

linktree.com/fromundertheapron

Its been a year since I've had it, I know some of you already know this. But not really the older friends that I know on here. I figure I just let it out now because why not? I should have posted it on here when I first started it. I know @fatmaninalittlesuit did one about health a few years back and I would listen to it and support it as well as see other people support it. But mine wasn't about health, so I just thought that it wouldn't get the same support.

I started this in January of last year and ever since then I been working my ass off, distributing it, posting it in all the social media sites, even on discord, twitter, I made an Instagram page for it. I even had it on tiktok once. But tumblr is where I was afraid that nobody would be interested in it and nobody would support it.

So now that its done fairly well, I want to share it here. If you are not interested, that's ok. I was told lots of things during episodes 1 through 8. But 88 episodes later, I am confident enough to say that im good with rejection now. If were friends, you are not oblige to listen to it. But if you know someone who would be interested in it, pass it on over to them. This is also the reason I been posting wrestling content and reblogging those wrestling stuff on here is because I want to slowly transition the blog about the podcast.

But... its not all about wrestling.

I mean it started out as such last year. Then I took a mental health break in June because I really needed it. I was posting two episodes a week because I wanted to be consistent and work my ass off. By the time I came back to work on the show again I wanted to include stories about my health, movies and tv shows that I love, video games. So I included that in there. It has "evolved" into something greater than just wrestling. 88 episodes plus interviews with friends about wrestling and our health.

I also stream the podcast live. Well, lately I been doing that. I need to find a good schedule for me to do that instead of doing random hours and have some of ya'll, if you are interested in going to the live, come hang out with me while I ramble on about wrestling or the week. Even do a guest spot and I can interview you.

I also want feedback, let me know if you listened to the show if you liked something or hated it or disagreed with something I said. Want to remain anonymous, thats fine with me. I will be posting my favorite episodes on the blog for now on as well as newer episodes when they're out. If you like to show some support by reblogging or sharing that be great as well. I would appreciate that.

Also, the podcast, From Under The Apron, is on all and any favorite audio streaming devices of your choice such as

Spotify

iTunes

Pandora

Youtube

goodpods

Fountain

If this gets to you and you are down here and didn't roll your eyes like I thought you would do, thank you. I appreciate you. Its now time to evolve and go to the next phase of my epic life.

Join Me.

#from under the apron #wrestling #podcast #wwe #ecw #wcw #tna #impact #aew #nwa #gcw #nxt #wrestling podcast #please support me #Spotify

[lunarsilkscreen]

Actors Strike

So with the Advent of AI Actors, voices, and how many artists have in their contracts: "We literally own your ass for longer than you'll be alive and your family and estate will get nothing when you die, but we (the company) will live forever."

A contract that I have never signed myself, So I wouldn't know how that feels.

Anyway, with the Advent of AI Actors, the bottleneck is in the *quality* of the produced media. You wouldn't know this, but streaming services and DataCaps have limited the quality of any type of movie or TV show quite a bit. And Anime and vtubers specifically, they either stream to a lot of people "audio only" or their lack of depth and flat color schemes drops the datasize quite a bit, which makes it easier for audiences to participate. (And watch)

Now, theatrical releases, and cable releases get to stream at HD4K ezpz. And while some streaming services offer 4K, there's no guarantee every piece of media is offered at that quality, and there's not guarantee that if it is offered at the quality, that it won't just be upscaled.

Now some people may say "the human eye can't even tell the higher quality--technology has surpassed human limitations!" But that's not true, we thought that every step of the way, starting with color tv where it was "realer than real" and then cable tv, and vhs, and DVD. But audio, video, and technology enthusiasts have since pushed the boundaries with "lossless" recordings that your average user doesn't typically play around with (even though you can record videos on your phone at better quality than you can download from the Internet or upload to TikTok.)

AI's limitation is that it cannot upscale into newer cleaner formats. It will never be able to, it needs the detail that it doesn't have access to (that it is currently doing ad libs with) think of zoom on your camera, when it is zoomed out there's missing detail, but if you're interested in moles, you can zoom right in on it and get every hairy detail.

And as technology advances, so will our ability be to capture and stream those details.

But you might be thinking; well telecom companies won't raise DataCaps, and nobody uses physical media anymore so we're free to go with less-than DVD quality, probably for decades to come.

But then what incentive do viewers have to go to the movie theaters then when there isn't a better quality to watch in theaters than the 380p (with buffering) that you can get from your phone?

Well people will buy a bigger TV then (To stream that *same* 380p through Comcast, because you hit your datacap thanks to Fortnight and Roblox downloads, because why does a landline have a data cap anyway!?)

I'm not denying there is a technological bottleneck here, advocates of the free and open internet have been talking about it being a problem for decades. But the leading argument against for decades was "Nobody uses the Internet anyway".

At the very last second you wanna do a UTurn? It's too late for that, now you get to sit in traffic waiting on buffering like it's 1999 all over again.

What this means for the movie industry: is that nobody will want to buy the media you've created and expected a long-term paycheck from after that bottleneck is cleared up. That means that all your investments now will lose out to anybody with a YouTube channel that records in 4k and scales their videos down.

Because people will be able to tell there's digital actors, just like they were able to tell in Final Fantasy Spirit Within, even though all the headlines talked about "This is so realistic! nobody won't be fooled that animation isn't real again!"

[deluxe-rabbitsu]

Idia has been a lot on my mind lately...I think I might be an Idia stan 😩

Anyways I made a TikTok:) based on an audio that I found this morning!

Stupid weeb boy,,,why are you so pretty and funny kbczfjlnxTj,,,,,

#[⚰️] Twisted Wonderland #twisted wonderland oc #twisted wonderland #twst idia #twisted wonderland idia #idia shroud #ace trappola #deuce spade #twst ace #twst deuce #twst yuu #twst #my art

[wonieleles]

— GET TO KNOW ME !

thanks for tag bestie @hanniluvi 🫶🫶

NOTE. for anyone who’s planning on doing this there’s a birthday question but skipped it

FAV COLOR? — blue (ik basic but yea)

ANY PETS? — i have chickens ig?

HEIGHT? — 741901 ft tall 🤗🤗

HOW MANY PAIRS OF SHOES DO YOU HAVE? — i think maybe 5 or so? i’m not entirely sure cause i have a lot of shoes that i don’t really wear anymore

FAV SONG? — i can’t really think of one tbh 😭😭 so i’ll go with the one spotify gave me which is honey by big time rush !! but like sure thing (sped up ver) like the tiktok audio has been stuck in my head lately

FAV MOVIE? — probably crazy rich asians but i love a lot of movies

IDEAL PARTNER? — short ver a christian (preferably chinese) guy who understands me and makes me feel loved. who’s also funny, intelligent, and caring. and also has a good relationship with their family and similar interests as me. basically someone who complements me (no i don’t mean compliment).

DO YOU WANT CHILDREN? — i love kids cause they’re so cute so definitely in the future but i will definitely have to see whether or not i’m financially capable of taking care of them before deciding

HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW? — i don’t even go out that much and have strict asian christian immigrant parents so no i’d probably get killed if i did 😭😭 but also it’s not something i would do even if my parents didn’t care and i hope you guys are like that too

WHAT COLOR SOCKS ARE YOU WEARING? — i’m not wearing socks rn …

FAV MUSIC GENRE? — hmm ig kpop/pop i mean i like rnb as well tho

HOW MANY PILLOWS DO YOU SLEEP WITH? — one for my head and sometimes a second one to hug

WHAT POSITION DO YOU SLEEP IN? — side. i alternate every night but i usually don’t sleep in any other position cause sleep paralysis

SOMETHING YOU HATE WHEN SLEEPING? — um ig loud people or sounds in general. i usually don’t wake up from them but when i’m trying to fall asleep it’s hard to. OH and also i hate when it’s cold like i have to make sure i’m warm when i sleep but i refuse to wear socks so more blankets usually or a jacket

BREAKFAST? — usually i eat whatever’s quick and can be on the go so like granola bars, bread, doughnuts, etc. but if i’m not in a rush or going out anywhere i might eat cereal or eggs and sausages (but usually i wake up too late for breakfast those days anyways)

HAVE YOU TRIED ARCHERY? — yes i have !! my summer camp used to have an archery range so i played then but i wasn’t v good …

FAV FRUIT? — it’s a tie between mangoes, apples, asian pears, and strawberries

ARE YOU A GOOD LIAR? — i think? i feel like i’m good at lying if i really wanted to but most of the time i want the other person to know cause i feel guilty so i hint at it being a lie or just tell them straight up

WHAT IS YOUR MBTI? — istj ! i took the 16personalities test quite a few times and it gave me each time but then i took the sakinorva and keys2cognition ones to double check cause i bear 16personalities is inaccurate. and i still got the same result so yea 😁😁 i also agree with it cause i feel like i relate to it a lot

INDOOR OR OUTDOOR PERSON? — indoors for sure it always feels so draining to go out 😭😭

LEFTY OR RIGHTY? — righty if you’re referring to hands otherwise i’m a lefty

FAV FOOD? — the vietnamese shrimp spring rolls 😋

FAV FOREIGN FOOD? — umm tteokbokki or tonkatsu

CLEAN OR MESSY? — i feel like it depends cause when the place is already messy i can’t bring myself to clean it but it’s already clean i try my best to maintain it

MOST USED PHRASE? — “ain’t no way”

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO GET READY? — usually around 30 mins unless if i’m trying to look pretty or get distracted while getting ready then it’ll take about 1 hour

DO YOU TALK TO YOURSELF? — yes ofc who doesn’t love pretending to be a youtuber 😋😋 but also i usually talk to myself as i’m thinking like i answer my own questions kind of thing

DO YOU SING TO YOURSELF? — obviously i’m gonna sing even when there’s nobody around like do you not?

BIGGEST FEAR? — either failure or being forgotten they’re both pretty up there

DO YOU GOSSIP? — yes it’s entertaining i can’t lie 😭

DO YOU LIKE SHORT OR LONG HAIR? — long just cause i feel like i can do more with it like hairstyles

FAV SCHOOL SUBJECT? — MATH i love math 🫶🫶

EXTROVERT OR INTROVERT? — i like to think i’m an introvert but maybe i’m just a shy extrovert cause social interactions with friends can be fun sometimes but i do need alone time so idk anymore

WHAT MAKES YOU NERVOUS? — um social interactions with strangers or like popular kids omg they’re so judgmental i feel ALSO SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS LIKE PLEASE NO and tests cause i always feel like i won’t do well

WHO WAS YOUR FIRST REAL CRUSH? — honestly idk if i had one yet i think i tend to either like people cause of the idea of them or because they liked me first

HOW MANY PIERCINGS? — two !! one on each ear

HOW MANY TATTOOS? — i don’t have any and i probably won’t get any later on

HOW FAST CAN YOU RUN? — not fast enough. i’m like painfully slow

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR HAIR? — dark brown with grown out blond highlights (?) i had the silver peekaboo hair but it’s grown out and faded idk how to explain it

WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES? — dark brown

WHAT MAKES YOUR ANGRY? — a lot of things but probably when people lie to/hide things from me about something big or when they don’t do something they promised

DO YOU LIKE YOUR NAME? — yes i feel like it fits me really well

DO YOU WANT A BOY OR GIRL IF YOU HAD A CHILD? — girl for sure i’d be able to give them my jewelry and purses and everything and like mother daughter dates

WHAT ARE YOUR STRENGTHS? — i’m able to think pretty logically and i think i’m good at giving advice. i’m also pretty observant and analytical

WHAT ARE YOUR WEAKNESSES? — i tend to doubt myself and my abilities a lot. i also think v negatively

WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR BED SHEETS? — white with blue stripes

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BEDROOM? — purple but like it’s close to blue and it’s kinda of a light shade

tagging: anyone who wants to do it !!

#this took so long 😭😭 #🏷: tag games

[sweetnereater]

I am-back from the dead to finish part 2 of that mini rant I made about underrated gems! Ima just skip the paragraph and get straight to it

Disclaimer: I’m not saying that if you find out about something from a popular trend, tiktok audio etc that that’s bad or your a fake fan or anything like that, if anything I think that’s a good way for these creations to finally get the attention they deserve! My rant is really about how underrated these things are even though they shouldn’t be and how I wish they were more popular not about how people find out about it, I apologize if I come off rude to I mostly just exaggerate for comedy and I hope not to offend anyone 🩷 let’s get to it!

This^…now what’s even messed up about this artist is that not only are they multi-talented in a bunch of different genres, have hundreds of songs, and has been making music since at least 2012, but two of their songs blew up ( one of which ; hot milk; blew up twice!) unless you had a animation meme phase as a kid you can garentee that nobody knows or talks abt snails house! And it makes me wanna cry because of the 6 years I’ve been listening to them not a single one of their songs have flopped.

Now just like ujico bee and puppycat is actually getting a lot of attention lately due to finally getting uploaded to Netflix- but as a long time bee and puppycat fan who watched the YouTube series 4 years ago- where were people when this show was going on??? Like for years I would always search up bee and puppycat to see if anyone was finally paying attention to it

AND THIS—-THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE-

I bet you-I bet you 500 bucks and your life if you can guess who these guys are

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No clue??? Yknow this song? The song that should’ve been the moment that this group finally finally blew up because their remixed song got really big on tiktok?

It was made by them, then remixed by the bao person, and then reup loaded into a sped up Version this year. Now as someone who heard banana shake ages ago I found out about humming urban stereo a whole two years before their song blew up…why are they still so underrated??? Like I’ve been listening to them for two years and yet most of their old songs still have ( I kid you not) under 100 likes-( 21, 10,5)

That is atrocious… this song blew up-TWICE- and their still barely getting any attention!

I swear sometimes I wanna cry when I think abt it, now at the very least lately this year all the things I’ve been enjoying have weirdly been getting a lot of attention thankfully! But im just hoping it stays that way

#underrated Song #Spotify #SoundCloud

[chronic-invisibility]

If anyone’s ever curious what my (medicated but not for adhd) brain sounds like at any given moment, I currently have that one chunk of Boy’s a Liar pt 2 by PinkPantheress and Ice Spice (which yes I had to look up the name of the song bc I’ve only heard little chunks at a time from tiktok audios), both Ignorance and Brick By Boring Brick by Paramore, and the line “Prisoner Zero must vacate the human residence or the human residence will be incinerated” from season 5 episode 1, “The Eleventh Hour” of Doctor Who all mushed together in my head. I have no idea why all these little bits got in my head at the same time, it’s not like they relate to each other at all. I mean, I was listening to Brand New Eyes earlier, and that audio has been in a lot of tiktoks I’ve seen lately (I don’t have the app I just watch compilations other people make and upload to youtube) and I was watching something else on youtube that referenced Doctor Who, so I went and looked something else up about the show, but it wasn’t related to that specific episode. I’ll never understand my brain.

[nobodyaskdcourtney]

Daisy Jones & the Six: A Novel + ★★★★★

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Book Blurb by Random House Publishing: Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

Rating: ★★★★★ Descriptors: Magnetic, raw, lively. Recommended by: TikTok, as usual. Recommended for: Those who chase - chase a drink, chase a lover, chase a dream. Literally everyone - read this book.

I was not entirely sure I was going to finish this one - but, man, am I glad I did.

It took me longer than I had hoped to complete it. For an ebook that is approximately 400 pages, I would usually knock that out in a few hours, maybe a day or two at most. No, this took me a week and a half to finish, and the ending was well worth it.

The writing style here is unique. Now, I know Reid is a popular author on TikTok, but this was my first time reading a book of hers. I'll be honest, I think the writing style is what truly threw me off and made it difficult for me to finish. The author writes as if it is an interview instead of a novel, with the occasional "author's note" from the journalist writing the story. It read almost like a screenplay to a documentary. Now, don't get me wrong, I love a good documentary. However, the transition to written word here did not strike me as it might have in, say, an audio book. As a matter of fact, I'm almost certain I would love the audio book. If this is how Reid writes all of her pieces, they may also take a bit of time for me to get through.

Now, onto the good part - Spoilers may be ahead!

I loved each of the characters individually. I think they were all portrayed so well and so differently from one another, they all simply clicked together perfectly. However, I will say Daisy and Billy equally frustrated me throughout. I had an inkling of where the story was going once the two, I'd say, protagonists finally met up with one another. The chemistry was palpable, and the same goes for Karen and Graham, who I was rooting for the entire time to no avail.

I was also wildly attached to Camila, and I hated every instance where Billy messed up. That said, I oddly understood her dynamic and relationship with Billy to a heartbreaking degree. I did not hate their relationship by any means. It was real. It was raw, and I loved every minute of it, even the hard parts.

I come from a musical family, and my father always chose his career over his family. I saw a lot of my father in Billy's demeanor, although from a different perspective. My dad never struggled with drug or alcohol abuse, but he was unfaithful to my mother and several other women in his life. But, as Camila seemed to grasp, I knew there was nothing my father could do or could have done to stop my mother from loving him, even when she hated him. Even when she hated his choices and his treatment of his children, my mother still had love for my dad. My parents ultimately separated, and I still think it was for the best. But reading Camila and Billy's story really set me back into the mindset I'm sure my mother understood.

As for Daisy, I hated her addiction and her seeming lack of self-awareness. I've been fortunate not to fall victim to an addiction like drugs and alcohol, so I have a hard time understanding why people can't say "no." Daisy started out as a selfish main character, but her growth throughout the series really warmed me. Once she started comprehending her feelings for Billy were more than just their shared love and passion for music, I enjoyed her opening up more.

I liked her friendship with Simone, and I will say - Daisy kept it more real than anyone else in that book. She never shied from what she was doing or saying, and there is something admirable in a woman who stands her ground. I also enjoyed her talking about her sobriety, and I especially loved the final confrontation ( if you want to call it that ) between her and Camila. It was the most authentic, heart-wrenching thing, and it set my heart on fire.

The story was, as I've said many times here, real. It was genuine, it was authentic, it was true. Not every love story has a happy ending. Some have bumps in the road all throughout. Some make you question whose side you're really on, and some you cannot help but love yourself. The odd writing style aside, this was an excellent book and worthy of every star here. I have highlighted and annotated so much of this book, I have no choice but to rate it as highly as I can and recommend it to anyone who will listen.

I loved this book.

#novels #daisy jones & the six #book review #fiction novel #booktok #ya fiction

[citrus-system]

do all of the questions from the ask game posted by evilneo!!

>:3!! I am currently eating edible raw cookie dough hell yeah!!! Thank you

🍓- if you’re an introject, what is ur source?

We sorta have one introject :0! She was just a fragment who attached to the character tho, so she just looks like her!

📍- funny story that happened in source memories?

No source, so just a funny story ;p But we wanted to give Pockets an appearance, so we got him to look at pictures with us and he kept saying like; “I don’t look like that. They drew me too short. Why are they so bad at drawing me” etc. and we had to explain to him that they aren’t drawing HIM- we are looking for a picture he thinks he looks like

🍒 - funny story that happened in headspace?

Omg everything just sounds so funny to me until I type it out it jahsbsnishd,

Krow and Jace fight over which bong to imagine (it is ongoing…no resolution in sight…. RIP)

People going “awwhhh, I wish I was blonde/etc.…. WAIT *imagines themselves blonde/etc.*”

Feeling an “:3” with the force of a thousand bricks

Jace’s instinctual motherhood over Bug….. Bug being more stable than Jace

“FUCK YOU *attempts to go further into headspace*”…. *fails*

Everyone fights like toddlers, it’s comical and brotherly and loving..

🌹 - funny story that happened in the meatspace?

(m….meatspace…. omg I can’t believe that’s a real word…. meatspace…)

Okay I’ve been playing Everskies a lot and for some reason I have a TON of lesbian pride stuff, despite none of us being gay ladies, but now my friend Venti is just GASLIGHTING (lighthearted) me into being a LESBIAN, I-

🍊 - tiktok audio/vine that reminds you of a headmate?

front @ everybody 24/7: “CHRISSY WAKE UP. I DONT LIKE THIS- CHRISSY WAKE UUP-“

🎃 - who is close to the front rn?

Jace and Tadpole!! Jace and me keep switching for work (I get downtime >:3c to play video game) and Tadpole is staring with her little eyeballs

🥕 - are there any headmates frontstuck rn?

Nope, thankfully <3

🏵️ - a random song lyric? :)

“買ったので歌詞書きます

歌詞

雨 灰色 滲んだ影 昨日

浮かんでは消えてく 色は見えない

ただぼやけて曖昧な輪郭に

そっと触れた 冷たくて

優しく差す光 目を奪われた

その瞬間 輝き出す” <3

🌻- do you use I/me, us/we, or any other 1st person pronouns?

Yep! Both, depends on what I’m talking about <33

🌙 - do any headmates have typing quirks? if so, what are they?

Not in the common sense no :0 but I think some of us type differently! Honey has a whole bunch of kamojis saved to use and Krow is a chronic ‘lol’er

🍋 - does the system have a host? if so, who?

No one really fits the bill anymore! Luckily we’ve been in a pretty stable spot lately!

☘️ what do you use to keep track of system members?

Google docs and our notes app for my lists & SimplyPlural to track fronts and analytics !

🌿 - Any cliques among alters?

A…angry gays…… (why are you all so angry and into men)

🦎 - do you share any memories with your alters?

Mhm, some! Before 2018 (which holy crap! So long ago now) our memories were very segregated, but lately our barriers have been pretty low & it’s easier for people to peep into front and also to better share what’s been happening day to day!

🍂 - is your system "heavy" with a certain type of alter?

We’re masc heavy, with only one lil lady ;0 and most non-human bubs are canine related!

🐬 - any non-humans?

Ye! Bones, ♟, Pubby, and Honey! (dog, dog, dog, Honey!!!)

🛋️ what does your inner world look like?

A Caucasian minimalist’s living room snshjsjsb

👁️ - what does front look like?

Right now it looks like a dirty shop bathroom :P

☔ - Being a system can be hard, but not always! whats your favourite thing about being a system?

Um! Shitposting brain!! I love (/hate) getting live reactions to my actions, and just a near constant stream of angry gays

👾 - collective name/pronouns?

None really, but we’ve taken a liking to the collective nickname Citrus obviously <33 And he/him! You’ll be right 70% of the time eheh

🌂 - singletsona?

You already KNOW we a creature

#thanks again Mischief !!!!!!!! this entertained my little bunny brain at work #plus the quick doodle for Camp’s ask #i am sitting and waiting for my machine to finish so I can go hoooommme ;0 #ask mem #long post #asks #mischiefmanifold

[gammaprimesmw]

It's been a long time.

So long, in fact, that I've forgotten my Tumblr password. I've just been active on several other social media platforms lately. Last September, I finally created a TikTok account, and I spent the next 3 months posting a lot of content over there. Here's a link if you wanna check it out.

My TikTok

Yeah, I have plenty of videos of me "dancing" to some of my favorite songs, doing random things, and playing with the various effects. I've also used the platform to post several videos that involve deep fake technology in some way or another, whether it's making random people/characters lipsync to songs I like or playing with deep fake text-to-speech. Speaking of which...

My FakeYou Profile

FakeYou, previously known as Vo.Codes, is a community focusing on the creation of deep fake voices using an AI system called Tacotron2. Back in mid-September of last year, I started playing around with the tech and, with the help of a similar community called Uberduck.ai, learned to create my own Tacotron2 voices. Being the huge Transformers nerd that I am, my first voice was none other than Optimus Prime, with Megatron following shortly afterward. Optimus has since gone through the most iterations as I continuously refined his dataset and re-trained his voice. He can still be a bit monotone, but that's a limitation of the Tacotron2 system.

Tacotron2 has a few other limitations too. For starters, it needs a lot of audio data to train on before it can accurately mimic a voice. For characters like Prime and Megatron, who get plenty of speaking lines and are frequently portrayed by the same actors across multiple incarnations, finding enough data isn't too hard. For less prominent characters, it's a bit harder. Just cutting out all the clips where a character speaks isn't good enough though. You need to filter out any music, background noise, and/or sound effects in the clips, which isn't always possible if the clips are extremely noisy, like in the middle of a fight scene.

That's the frustrating part about making these voices. They need at least 5 minutes of clean audio to even work, and even more than that to sound decent. For Optimus and Megatron, the limitations of the speech isolation tools I work with aren't as concerning since I can pull from more audio sources than just an animated series from the mid 80s. For other characters, like the original Ironhide, I only have the original cartoon. Ironhide gets a fairly decent amount of dialogue and screen time in the first two seasons of the show, but he's an action-oriented character, so much of that dialogue is marred by the sounds of laser fire and explosions. His thick Texan accent might even complicate things further. Either way, I only have that G1 Ironhide voice available on Uberduck, and it's not very good. I tried to update it when I found archives of unused dialogue from G1 that included some lines for him, but I could never get a good voice out of that.

Grimlock is in a similar situation. It took a lot of dataset pruning and adjustments to the algorithm's training rate to make his voice even coherent. The voice still has a limited vocabulary though. After all, Grimlock no like big words.