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Jan Aponte | 29 | Non-binary (She/They/He) | Mixed Puerto Rican | Voice Actor, Musician, and Writer

[dentenzerotwo]

Hello there!

It’s been a minute since I’ve been on here, but in all honesty having this blog back is a welcome respite from the chaos of being on twitter (though i apparently lost the old version of my name with the numbers instead of letters; whoops.)

i appreciate y’all if you’re still around and I’ll be back to posting stuff on here including content I’ve been making or general reblogs.

I will say in advance: if you see something in my blog’s history that is considered problematic in some way potentially (including tags), please know that it is very likely not a reflection of where I’m at now at this present time. I’ve had this blog since i was at least a teenager; There’s over a decade of history on here that’s not been cleaned up. If you feel there’s anything that makes you uncomfortable please let me know and we’ll discuss it or even delete it if i genuinely do find it problematic myself. I will do a proper clean-up at some point in the future.

For those who may not know me, a little about myself; I’m Jan Aponte, a professional Musician, Voice Actor, and (sometimes) writer whose big claim to tumblr “fame” (in a sense of the word) was voicing John Egbert/June Egbert in numerous Homestuck projects back during the heyday of the comic. Since then, I’ve grown a lot, and have gotten to be a voice actor in a number of big projects including multiple different anime (Shikimori’s Not Just A Cutie, Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World, Black Summoner etc.), and multiple video games (Ghost Giant, Lost In Random, Relic Hunters Rebels etc.) When not goofing around on the internet or going about my creative stuff, I’m playing video games, obsessing over mechanical keyboards and being a total gear head for anything related to my craft. Talk to me about microphones, instruments, etc. I won’t bite. 

If you wish to check out any of my other socials, my links are in the side bar or you can find them on my website, which I’ll be updating as i go along.

[nevernill]

A little thank-you for @fivetail and @veggieblt, who played through Featherbent together on 4/13, and then the following stream went over some behind the scenes stuff from that last unreleased chapter.

Stream was a lot of fun, you can check out the VOD on their channel if you want to watch!

[featherbent]

hey, guys.

chapter 4 overview because it never happened and we're reworking it into an original IP so a lot of it is being reworked.

come check it out.

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[dentenzerotwo]

I'm in here too, come say hi!

[the-big-mood]

Crazy this joke hasn't aged in almost 20 years since the episode aired

[cocklessboy]

The other day I told a friend of mine that I never forget to take my ADHD meds because I fucking love my ADHD meds. I'm in my late 30s, I didn't finally get a diagnosis and meds until less than two years ago, and they have changed my entire life.

And he raised his eyebrow at me. We'd been discussing addictive medications a few minutes before, like the Tramadol I finally got from the pain specialist to take once a week or so to give me a break from my chronic pain, so I reassured him that methylpenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) is not addictive (at least not in people with ADHD).

His response? To raise his eyebrow even harder and say "Well it sure SOUNDS like it's addictive!"

And I had to explain to this man - who works in a healthcare related job by the way - that just because medication makes you feel good and helps you, just because you look forward to taking it, that doesn't make it addictive or dangerous. And he wasn't convinced.

The simple fact that I was excited to take a daily pill that has literally changed my life, after decades of fighting to get that medication, made him think I shouldn't be taking it so often. That it must inherently be dangerous.

I'm not even in America, but I'm pretty sure this attitude began there and then spread over here to Europe. This Puritan idea of "if something feels good, you must beware of it. Pleasure is dangerous, it is sinful, it is addiction, it is evil."

I know too many people who subconsciously believe that pleasure = addictive = dangerous = bad. Joy is a slippery slope to hell.

So here is your reminder for today that you don't need to be afraid of feeling good. If something improves your life, use it. Even if it is addictive - learn what that addiction means, whether the addiction is inherently dangerous or not, and whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks and risks.

My ADHD meds are, in fact, not addictive. But I will take them every day because they make my life orders of magnitude easier. I will enjoy them every time I take them.

My tramadol is addictive. I will still take it. I will keep it on a schedule to avoid becoming addicted, primarily because addiction in this case would mean reduced effectiveness. But I am not afraid of my painkillers. They are life changing.

Take your meds, everyone. Don't let anyone scare you away from doing something that improves your life.

[inbabylontheywept]

There is something so sinister about the idea that a medication made to improve your life cannot be trusted if it improves your life so much that you like taking it. Bleh.

[inbabylontheywept]

It puts this weird moral obligation on suffering. Like if you’re actually comfortable with yourself and your treatment you’re somehow failing. That you need to be ashamed somehow that the medication helps you and need to be looking for alternatives.

But you don’t. You found a solution that worked great and then you moved on to something else.

[eblu3]

credits that would instantly kill a starving victorian child

[emkini]

Streamers say 'mods' the same way a medieval lord would say 'guards'

[officialbucknasty]

i miss post-grunge 😭

[officialbucknasty]

did not expect to find an actual answer to my question what happened to rock music

[l0stvegas]

My tumblr experience would be greatly improved by the inclusion of those little DeviantArt journal doohickeys where you can include what you’re watching, reading, eating etc. at the time of writing the post

[graveyardmouth]

[fleshadept]

looking at (vetted) gofundmes for people trying to escape palestine and i don't know how many of you actually click on the gofundme links you reblog but i would like to point out, for what it's worth, just how amazing it is that so many have raised so much money. it may overall feel like a drop in the ocean but the fact that several gofundmes have raised tens of thousands of dollars is amazing. it is so expensive to leave gaza right now, and people still need money after they escape. but regardless of what propaganda the US, UK, canada, and other western nations are trying to pump out, people across the world are doing what they can to help these people survive. many of them are still very far from their goals (like this one and this one and this one) and some of them are very close to high goals (like this one), and some of them have reached almost double their original goal.

and that's not even addressing direct aid or organizations that take continuous donations for distribution of food, menstrual products, etc. the PCRF has raised $16,000,000 of their target goal of $20,000,000 to fund current aid and long-term relief efforts in gaza. ANERA's febuary 13th update discusses the material ways they helped palestinians today:

(ANERA donate link)

my point is, it often feels like the world is turning a blind eye to palestine. but i would like to point out that there is an important difference between "the world" and "western political leaders and media narratives". a breathtaking amount of real people, the people who make up the world, are trying to help. in the face of israel attempting to commit genocide, the world is saying No. These people deserve to live. and literally sending millions of dollars internationally, through the internet connection that israel has desperately been trying to destroy.

it may not feel like it matters in the grand scheme of things. but to the people who get fresh clothes, or a hot meal, or blankets, or the kids who get new toys, or to the people who are able to bring their families to safety, it matters to them. go make someone's day better. i've linked so many options with ways to do that.

[ayouuni-deactivated20250907]

gaza has just been completely cut off from the world.

after increased intensity of israeli aistrikes tonight, the last cable providing communications was destroyed. telecommunications have been completely cut off. they cannot reach one another. they cannot reach paramedics. the red crescent society has completely lost contact with their branch in gaza. nobody inside can reach anyone inside, and especially not outside of gaza to tell us what is going on. this is a complete atrocity.

[ayouuni-deactivated20250907]

al jazeera has managed to maintain infrequent communication with their journalists in gaza. from their reporter wael dahdouh: “we are not fine. body parts are everywhere, missiles are targeting everyone, and the bombing hasn’t stopped for a second.”

do not stop talking about gaza. they are trying to commit genocide in the dark. do not stop talking.

[dentenzerotwo]

Hi

I know i rarely post here anymore compared to other places (i'm on twitter @janapontemuvo and have a bluesky account now) but just so that it's known on here as well, i am absolutely disgusted by the ongoing genocide Israel is instigating against Palestinians. There is absolutely ZERO justification for their use of force, and the slaughter of so many innocent civilians who were already oppressed by this regime. I am calling for not only a ceasefire but for Palestine to be freed. And for all the warmongers and politicians and news media who facilitated this to face actual consequences for their transgressions.

[amtrax]

Emergency Voice Over Commissions OPEN.

Here’s my demo:

Feel free to DM for my rates, if you’re interested. I’ll do whatever, even if you just want a birthday message for a friend or something, don’t be afraid to reach out ❤️

[amtrax]

I need $500 more to make rent this month so if you could share this, I’d appreciate it~

Also if you wanna support but not necessarily commission, I’m available on kofi as well

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[amtrax]

I’m also doing voice over requests for Ko-Fi tips too~!

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

please listen to albums someitmes youll be amazed at what an artists songs do when theyree in an order they made. for you to listen to. etc

[cyberpriestess]

playlistification is the mind killer. the little death.

okay so being real here, as an independent musician, playlists are cool and serve a purpose - for making a driving mix or an exercise mix, or careful curation of music with similar themes or within similar genres. that's the power of playlists - the personalisation aspect and also the sharing aspect.

but albums, albums my beloveds ! sometimes it's more a collection of music made at a similar time; sometimes there's a real cohesion and storytelling aspect. concept albums go 110% on this ! an album is an entire art piece made up of smaller art pieces.

some music is destined to get released as a single as it stands strong on its own as well as within that album. other music belongs entirely to that album. this is also where you get all the beautiful interludes and connections.

the real kicker here is a full album is expensive to produce and will make far less than if you release that same number of tracks as singles to get on playlists. this is why the EP is so popular now as it lets you do the album thing without losing a ton of money, and there's usually 1-2 singles you can get off it.

merch is the saving grace for many artists, so if you love albums or you want to get into albums and you want to support your favourite bands, go buy a t-shirt and a CD at their next show.

buy a CD player if you don't have one, or get an optical drive for your desktop/laptop. rip that CD and then you can put those files on whatever device you want and you still have the original physical copy <3

there's something beautiful about putting on a CD or a vinyl to listen through. the physical act of picking it out and putting it in the player. the experience of sitting back and letting your mind get absorbed in it. go on a journey, my friends ! ^w^

[herssian]

i don’t know where the notion that if you don’t give big bucks to an artist then you’re not really supporting them came from, but when people say even a tiny bit of monetary support saves an artist, it’s not for the aesthetic or the gesture of it all. i’ve been able to have actual drinking water on days i’ve been incredibly broke simply because someone bought a brush pack for 2 euros. in the most actual, literal way i could possibly convey this: the SMALLEST amount counts. in practice counts. people-get-to-eat-today counts. especially in this age of everyone and their mother being out to deplatform artists. there’s value in the tiniest of ways

[artofmisi]

#don’t get me started on how sharing people’s works helps bring in the money down the line even if all you did was reblog something#a little bit goes a long way#that is all

[amtrax]

Emergency Voice Over Commissions OPEN.

Here’s my demo:

Feel free to DM for my rates, if you’re interested. I’ll do whatever, even if you just want a birthday message for a friend or something, don’t be afraid to reach out ❤️

[dentenzerotwo]

please commission my friend Austin! He's extremely talented, very friendly, and overall a fantastic person to work with, no matter how big or small the project. Austin's one of my longest time friends, and i'm so happy the two of us got to come up in the voice acting community together at the same time.

[dentenzerotwo]

Admittedly, there are days where i mourn the loss of a LOT of the Homestuck work i did to the great Tindeck shutdown. There's some archives out there thankfully, but even still, it sucks that so much of the shit we all did back in the day is now lost.

There's lots of stuff that probably went missing that isn't in the archives, and is now basically 'Homestuck fandom lost media', and that's pretty tragic.

Much of my voice acting tag is either sporadic uploads to tumblr, tindeck embeds, youtube videos, or soundcloud embeds that are now broken. Most of the tumblr uploads are also busted and no longer function compared to how they used to.

Even though my involvement in the fandom isn't what it once was, i will still miss all of the absolutely off the wall content that was around during the comic's peak years.

the level of creativity during those days was astounding. it truly felt so vibrant, so inspiring, you really felt like you could accomplish so much. I am a little sad that newer Homestucks won't get to experience that, BUT i AM glad that the fandom seems to be springing back to life in its' own way! Forging its' own path, with plenty of art and creativity in its' own right.