a) Some video games are genuinely better without voice acting (see: Undertale)

b) Voice acting is so much cheaper than people realize. I'm directing an indie game and even at SAG rates, with as much voiced dialogue as Hades, we're probably not going to break even $30k. One session is like $500.

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

My friends & followers! My insurance has finally been blessed to me. Please wish me good luck in upcoming tests as I have been unable to breathe as well lately. I have been taking care to exercise & rest accordingly for now! May our light shine brightly this year once more 🙏🏻 I am excited

AI boosters and fence-sitters think viscerally negative reactions to AI are "irrational" but mass deployment of LLMs is actively destroying everything I care about (the open internet, the planet, creative industries, art, my ability to buy RAM). Total rejection is the most logical response.

I may not be trans but you folks are all always welcome amongst myself & my loved ones. We are all human. You deserve love, respect, and a normal, uncensored, unsurveilled life like everyone else. You are not a criminal for living. I'm sorry for the times we are facing.

Happy #TDOV! 🏳️‍⚧️

We are Transplanar RPG, an all-trans POC-led Actual Play channel telling stories in an original noncolonial, anti-orientalist world.

Our transness is expansive, poetic, grief-stricken, complicated, beautiful, vicious, and part of everything we do. These stories are for us first.

a digital illustration in the style of a relief print depicting a black cat in a defensive pose holding a torn and tattered transgender pride flag in its mouth as it looks directly towards the viewer. the background is purple with some specks of blue and pink showing through, and behind the cat is a black midground resembling grass or flames. the top right corner features a box with a caption reading "T.D.O.V."

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️

#art #tdov #transart

I wish to draw the love of my life more often, and return to what brings me the most joy of all- sending him art I made that were inspired by his brilliance- his thoughts, the way he makes me feel, his beautiful face. But I am selfish and keep those mostly to myself (and of course to him).

I know what I enjoy, which is creating from the memorable times I shared with my friends and loved ones!
My great uncle who is suffering heart failure now suggested I make poetry of my son, my cat Taro. I think I wish to draw him as well. He deserves to star in a memory manifested on pages :)

I am debating the options in my free time. I've returned to poetry on the few blank pages of paper I had in the back of a planner. I am hoping to find a new notebook in a near future! I wish to make art too. We plan to do dnd again. Do you all like dnd? I don't know what's popular anymore, but

I am not sure how I want to proceed as an artist or how long I can, both by way of censorship and by way of my very limited joy in life left.
Hard to create on empty stomach & bone thin arms! But I do! And I wish to present it again some way without all these threats of prison and Aye-Eye thefts!

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Reminders from your resident Two-Spirit artist this Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ Celebration and Awareness Day

• We are sacred
• We have always had essential roles in our communities
• Transphobia Is a form of colonial violence 💯
• Non Native people, Two-Spirit isn't for you to claim

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I feel a strong urge to create amongst the rubble, the metaphorical and the literal. I feel an unshakeable drive to persevere despite the dire situations enclosing me. Until I am gone, I suspect this motivation will never truly go from me.

It is crazy how just a few years ago, I would see movies and play games with the love of my life and my friends. Things were hard then, but life is so, so different now. It is so isolating to not recognise the world everyone else is in. To be denied your basic rights, luxuries, abilities.

"Why haven't the Epstein class been arrested?"

Because the legal system was never intended to hold them accountable.

Policing was designed to control how you react to oppression. It was never designed to stop oppression.

the thing about "separating the art from the artist" is that it comes from academic circles where they were trying to separate an artist's views from an interpretation of their work as an intellectual exercise, not as a way to give people moral carte blanche to support shitty people

The Nationwide Book Ban Bill Moves to the House: How to Take Action Now The nationwide book ban bill, HR 7661, has progressed out of committee and into the House. Here's what you need to know to take action.

The nationwide book ban bill is now entering the House of Representatives for consideration. Here's everything you need to know about HR 7661, including next steps to take in helping defeat this anti-LGBTQ, anti-intellectual, pro-voucher bill before it goes any farther: bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

Wasn't there a whole thing last year about how women aren't embracing AI as fast as men, and they claimed it was because AI was "too scary/intimidating" for them to use.

Flattening global dynamics like this, even if your messaging is that "we are human because we are alike" is orientalism. It appeals to western people on western terms on who gets to live, who gets to count as a human being.

An intricately detailed watercolor painting of nine pairs of hands, all cupped in a du'a posture (an Islamic prayer) around a central circular tile with the writing of 'Eid Mubarak' in both English and Arabic. The tiles are vibrant intertwined swirls of turquoise, soft magenta, purple, and yellow, all surrounded by a vibrant yellow background. The hands vary in shape and color, with three pairs decorated with intricate types of henna (ranging from Egyptian to Malian styles). A few characters have rings, and the woman's hands at the top has a small rainbow pride bracelet. One pair also has Islamic prayer beads cupped in her hand.

Wishing you all a happy, blessed, abundant, and safe Eid~! ✨🌙✨

Repeat after me: the more you feel the need for media to explicitly tell you who's good and who's the villain, how to behave and how to love, the more you expect it to give you answers instead of making you think and ask questions, the more vulnerable you are to all kinds of propaganda.

Oppose Nationwide Book Ban Bill ⭑ 5 Calls Rather than prosecuting people involved in child sex trafficking, House Republicans are trying to “Stop the Sexualization of Children” by turning the …

Terrified of the nationwide book ban, please call your reps. This website makes it easy and gives you all the resources you need. I love you. 5calls.org/issue/federa...

do not ask yourself whether or art is good instead ask is it sincere was it cathartic was it fun to make is it made by me and don’t forget to stay silly

Every time I'm on insta and see an AI add, the comments are full of people just posting "AI."

"But that's still engagement so they think it's good!"

Yes and no. I am unsure why, but yes lots of marketing teams still only care about impressions not conversions. But I think that is coming to an end.

something clicked when I read that post about art being hindered by desirability — how we hold ourselves back from angles, expressions, actions that would make our subjects look unflattering. the fear of "ugly" is a hard barrier to overcome, but you free not only your art but yourself when you do.

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My mom needs help! YouTube video by FilmCow

Hey furries!

Did you like Charlie the Unicorn and/or the other things that @filmcow.bsky.social creates?
His mom needs some help!

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Please consider helping out, I know we can help make a difference. Please share, thanks!

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Hello, I'm a constituent from [PLACE] and im contacting [REPRESENTATIVE] because I would like to give my opinion on a number of bills and issues. The following legislation I believe should be OPPOSED should it come to a vote before [REPRESENTATIVE] The SAVE ACT/SAVE AMERICA ACT The KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT The KIDS ACT The SCREEN ACT The APP STORE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT HR 7661 The TRUMP AMERICA AI ACT Additionally, I want to voice my opinion on the following issues: I want to see opposition to any attempt to reform/repeal SECTION 230 I want to see opposition to ONLINE ID/ ONLINE AGE VERIFICATION LAWS, as well as repealing any existing laws I want to see ICE ABOLISHED I want to see OPPOSITION TO THE WAR IN IRAN as well as its aggression towards VENEZUELA, GREENLAND AND MORE

Hey, if youre like me, i know that it's hard to keep track of everything you need to call your reps about right now

this isnt exhaustive but here's a script with a check list of issues that demand attention right now. I'll likely be add more later

CALL YOUR REPS

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Hammam and his family

Washing clothes

Washing herbs

Hammam selfie

🚨URGENT🚨
My disabled brother & my mother have asthma, and I are appealing to you from Gaza. We are displaced, living on dirty sand without a tent. We are sick & have no healthy food to eat😭
We are pleading with you to donate so we can buy a tent that costs $100🤲
Help⬇️
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Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.