#and we had a nice chat

[shrews-things]

There's one cashier at the local store who knows about my transition stuff and he wished me luck today and always asks how I am and it made me tear up a little and I can't phrase things well rn but there's something about strangers genuinely wanting things to go well for you that makes me incredibly emotional about humanity

[supremefloof]

(artwork, warning for blood)

hear me out... uh... twice as wrice? wricest? neckling? licewreck?

i honestly have no idea how this would work but i think it could be cool. nice could be alive or he could be a ghost but either way lin ling has two hands and im an indecisive shipper

[adustoflove]

No one understands guilt better than a girl with emotionally immature parents

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Mom I threw up

OH MY GOD HELLO TEENY

[writeyourdarlings]

pls be his prom date🥺

[incomingalbatross]

Halfway through my comps!!! Think I did okay on day one

[fassklettern]

Being relative toddler in the functional adult world while having mutuals online who can't drink yet is crazy I feel like I should be giving you guys juice boxes and patting you on the head and making sure you're not cracking your heads open on the Tumblr playground

[thelaurenshippen]

open ai made a little post about how they chose their chatbot voices and two things stood out to me:

a) I am genuinely pleased and surprised that the voices come from specific real people that they hired and paid, rather than being built off of all of the data open ai has scraped. the voice for siri did one job for one company 20 years ago and now she is literally everywhere without ever being compensated by apple or even acknowledged as the voice. there's simply no way she was paid enough in that original job. whereas, open ai says "each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products." this could mean literally anything (what market rate are we going above? does continue mean they get residuals or get paid for doing more sessions?) but, christ, at least the actors are doing it with full knowledge of what their voices are being used for and can decide for themselves if the compensation is enough

b) the post talks about working with "award-winning casting directors" to get the voices. first of all, yay for paying casting directors! we love to see it. but they also say the CDs received over 400 submissions in a week and they state that like a big number and it's just...not at all. and look, without knowing the intricacies of the casting process, it's hard to know what approach the CDs took - it's very possible they were selective from the jump and 400 is a lot from the pool they were tapping. 400 would be a lot if you were going to the agencies directly and asking for names, but there's just no way in hell open ai went after big stars for this. so it would've been a pool of unknowns. in which case, 400 is laughably small. even if you're not using the big casting sites like actorsaccess, I've worked on projects with CDs and their own internal systems where we've gotten over 100 submissions for a single role. I've posted roles on casting sites and received literally thousands of submissions in just a few days

look, I have a very limited perspective on this - I am not a casting director (imo, one of the most important and undervalued jobs in hollywood) and I, in fact, hate the process of casting with a passion. but 400 just seemed like such a tiny pool to pull from and, idk, it heartens me! it's heartening to think that there's very little interest from actors and agents to be doing this kind of stuff. and absolutely no shade to the actors who did--I want actors to get their bag however they want as long as it's, like, safe sane and consensual, you know? but there's something encouraging about thinking that open ai hired some big casting agency to get their foot into the voice acting door and people didn't come running

[torchickentacos]

Internet road trip update: today we went in a circle. that's about it. we'll never make it to Canada at this rate.

[himblebo]

She’s married she’s married she’s married she’s married (to a man to a man to a man to a man)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Fam and i were passing a sock shop and we saw a cyclops one and In Devious Union my brother and i said ‘cysocks’

[supercantaloupe]

i also more formally met our rodolfo tonight and he is such a sweetheart. big jolly teddy bear of a man

[fraternum-momentum]

the sad thing about good looking strangers is that I'll never see them again,,,,,,,,

[dkettchen]

oh also in other news, I had my revision top surgery today and it went well!!

I keep fucking having to remember like omg right I had surgery today bc it was such a tiny revision so it's like the babiest surgery I've had to date compared to its "I can't straighten my spine" and "I can't fucking breathe" predecessors 😅

[kate-apologist]

met the chainmail lesbians my girlfriend made friends with at a ren faire this weekend and like

i see my future and it is bright yknow

[zakiyah]

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