But I love the Wilhelm scream + looney tunes bonk post going around
I want to try silly sound design too now, where do you get silly sounds and is there a list of recognizable silly sounds somewhere?
Please and thank you! 🌟
(Tal's main blog is @starplanes but they (I) don't mind answering sound design stuff here too so don't worry!)
Thank you! I get the bulk of my silly sounds (and a number of serious ones) from Freesound. I like the site because anyone can upload to it so you get a really huge variety, and one can also sort by public domain sounds so I can make sure my licensing is in order. The original recording session for the Wilhelm scream was recently uploaded there!
Sonnis's yearly free audio packs are also great for a beginner sound designer wanting to build up their library. They won't have recognizable silly sounds in there, but it's great for random sounds you sometimes need.
In so far as a list of recognizable silly sounds, I'm not sure if one exists! The Wilhelm is definitely the most popular, but I also find that searching for "cartoon" sounds will lead you to recognizable stuff sometimes too.
I love this ask because most of the time as a sound designer I am trying very hard not to use recognizable sounds cause it'll take people out of the piece. But it's perfect for the shitposts!
you can try to change, but all you've done is put yourself in a new box.
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i think my personal favourite of them is the newspaper! none of the boxes are really straight because i eyeballed everything, but i did abuse the colour picker on my reference photos rest assured
Podfic: Chapter Two, "From the Perspective of a Royal Guard" by CaptMickey
By permission of the author, @captmickey, a shabby narration of the second chapter of her King's Quest Ficlet. A festival of bad voice impressions, reading blunders, and much love and appreciation for the wonderful fic! Come sit by my imaginary fireplace and have a hot cup of tea while I struggle with scansion. :-)
I like following you but can you go back to reblogging vg gifs soon, its why I’m here
the genocide of the palestinian people is being broadcast online across every social media platform and they are begging us not to look away and turn a blind eye to their suffering doctors and mass graves and murdered children and final words and you want me to post baldur’s gate or whatever. unfollow me and get the fuck out.
reminder that i don't want my gifs to be reposted anywhere. if i say "please do not repost" in the initial tags or watermark the gifs, then it shouldn't be reposted. this is a simple request. giffing is something i put a lot of time into, and i do find it rude to repost my gifs. i've been pretty upfront about this request and it's really disheartening to see my work stolen. please, just read my guidelines and respect them.
ok nope i’m not done @podcastenthusiast and @dancingwiththefae have set off a new round of brainworms i hope you’re proud of yourselves lmao
because like. it’s about the humility, right? it’s about admitting ignorance. it’s about acknowledging that sometimes you, personally, might not be enough to fix something, or someone, or that maybe whatever it is can’t actually be fixed. that it isn’t about fixing.
it’s “why so much makeup? you don’t need it, you’re so beautiful to me” vs “‘do you think i’m sexy?’ and oh god i really did”
it’s “i don’t know how to reach you when you get like this” vs “i don’t know, but i’m here”
it’s “stop making up death wishes and take my lifeline” vs “oh dear god, dear heart, don’t cry”
it’s “something’s sucking out your core and it’s so boring” vs “and now even though you’re mad…that’s ok”
it’s “can’t you see that i’m enough for you, but you don’t want me to be, because that means you’ll actually have to be content” vs “i will wait (for you to get better, for you to tell me what you need) and hope (that it’s still me)”
marbles answers the question “why so sad” with a partner who finally understands what she means when she says “stop asking why i’m sad, it’s enough to know i’m sad”
marbles is what happens when the partner of a mentally ill person stops trying to find a solution to the mental illness and decides to simply love them anyway. to wait, and hope, and sometimes pour them a drink and sit on the kitchen floor with them while they cry, and promise to murder their shitty customers for them. to not say “i’m enough for you” but instead “you’re enough for me, exactly as you are.”
(i know it’s about memory loss and not depression but eh depression can come with memory problems a lot and also sticking by a partner through severe mental or neurological illness looks pretty much the same all through, in the end)
The lack of self awareness of Grizznom shippers has always baffled me. Shippers that romanticize abuse and toxicity by denying it and sweeping it under the rug can already be unnerving enough but they go even beyond that. Like, they obviously don't care about Grizz at all. They just see him a tool to make Nom Nom happy because "he's sooo sad and lonely, he deserves it:(((". They don't care, otherwise it doesn't make sense to look at a guy that struggles with insecurity, bottles up negativity because he must be "the supportive one" and is still kind to jerks despite being uncomfortable and go "ah yes, I will ship him with the dude that constantly tries to use, belittle, humiliate him and was more than ok with getting him killed for a video, made the police hunt him down for a crab, and never tried to apologize to him and his family he also hurted, this ship is soooo healthy and wholesome💕💕💕"
blacked out for 6 hours and recorded + edited my very first podfic girl help
trick-or-treat [Podfic]
written by @kaydear (Illyria_Lives) — read by crow podfics (cryiling)
Rating: G
Category: Gen
Fandom: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
Relationships: Omega & Wrecker
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Brotherly Love, Brother-Sister Relationships, Family Fluff, Halloween
Podfic Length: 0-10 minutes
Audio Format: MP3 and streaming
Summary:
“You’re not helping, Wrecker,” Hunter admonished, and Wrecker just pouted, head hanging. He couldn’t help it; he felt bad for poor Omega, trapped inside on Halloween with a headcold. For the afternoon, he’d fought a good fight with her to convince Echo and Hunter that if she bundled up, a little night walk around the neighborhood wouldn’t hurt, but then the rain had come to scatter even those distant hopes.
Wrecker and Omega make the most of a rained-out Halloween.
Putting this on a separate note but the amount of discourse The Little Mermaid (2023) has gotten so far is ridiculous to me. I don't consider it an improvement or a replacement to the original (mainly because the original is WHY this movie exists, and I don't think the intent is to replace it either), but it's a solid enough film in the vein of Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella where I could definitely see kids and teenagers (even young adults) like it enough to revisit it. It's not a cinematic masterpiece, but why anyone expects that from Disney of all things, I'll never know.
But the obsessive amount of hate it's gotten from bizarro "anti-woke" youtubers is ridiculous, mostly because of the casting and now they're trying to use "Across The Spiderverse" as their way of 'fighting back' against Disney's "woke agenda" as if they aren't foaming in the mouth over Miles Morales being called Spider-man. Just an all-round insane sort of response to a film that for all it's supposedly big changes, is harmless overall.