A Wild VA Appears!

I'm Nathan. Use all the pronouns you want for maximum inclusion. I'm an amateur Voice Actor and probably something else later. Just relax here. I believe in you.

[redoniva]

WILL YOU BECOME MY BOYFRIEND

logging back into this account was the biggest mistake

y'know that feeling you get looking back on old forum accounts for sites you never visit anymore? It's this weird nostalgia that's tinged with a hint of embarrassment. Like I know this is the person I used to be, and even though to some degree I wish I could go back to that moment in time, there are also aspects to myself I am SO glad I grew out of. I get reminded of that when I look back on this account. I mean that's not your fault, I have a feeling I would've been reminded of tumblr at any other arbitrary point in my life and come back here then. It's just one of those things you think you get over when you grow up, like when your parents try to embarrass you in front of someone by bringing up childhood stories or old nicknames. But then you do it to yourself and you think "god damnit I thought I was cool now but I'm totally playing myself"

all this to say, of course

[redoniva]

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Famitracker work in progress! This is the music in the tree stages.

[redoniva]

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Famitracker work.

[redoniva]

Oh boooooy, I love it when I hit a rut in the middle of my quarter and can’t get anything done 

it’s greaaaaaaaaat kill me

[redoniva]

GOOD NEWS: Cast as Dio and Old Joseph in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven fandub. BAD NEWS: Somehow the outlets in my room shorted out or something Fuk ; ;

[redoniva]

Did you hear of the recent drama about Ultima?

I did hear about the whole UltimaAlmighty drama happening, though not until recently. 

It just floors me, y’know? The way he conducted himself otherwise was very nice and I actually liked the guy, but these recent events? Well, needless to say, he took the line and line-danced all over it until it was erased. 

Especially knowing that he solicited a friend of mine, I can’t condone those actions, and I unsubscribed from him. Y’just don’t do that kind of stuff, dude. ya just don’t.

To anyone wondering what happened, go and read this http://starbotdubs.tumblr.com/post/156280758024/maxoutoften-ask-drunk-chara . Good insight into the situation.

[ikeychain]

*kissu*

gay 

[redoniva]

I'M

[emilleaah]

Christmas Mistletoe.

Reblog and see who leaves you a kiss in your ask box. ;)

[redoniva]

Oops, there we go. Any love?

[redoniva]

You boys and gals enjoy your presents today, y'hear? Christmas is one of those days where it's hard not to be happy, so make it easy on yourself! You made it through another year, so celebrate! Oh, and expect a sans VA post tomorrow.

[redoniva]

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So I finally figured out how to do a good walkie-talkie sound effect, aaaandd.... This came out.

[kirihamasaki]

Meaning of your birthday in Japanese

1日：欠片（かけら）： Fragment 2日：天使（てんし）：Angel 3日：涙（なみだ）：Tears 4日：証（あかし）： Evidence 5日：夢（ゆめ）：Dream 6日：心（こころ）：Heart 7日：しずく: Drops 8日：ようせい：Fairy 9日：音楽（おんがく）：Music 10日：光（ひかり）：Light 11日：鮫（さめ）：Shark 12日：けっしょう：Crystal 13日：ささやき：Whisper 14日：おつげ： Prediction 15日：おぼじない： Spell 16日：偽り（いつわり）：Lie 17日：祈り（いのり）：Pray 18日：猫（ねこ）：Cat 19日：みちするべ： Signpost 20日：熊（くま）：Bear 21日：保護者（ほごしゃ）： Guardian 26日：バナナ：Banana 27日：狼（おおかみ）：Wolf 28日：翼（つばさ）：Wings 29日：お土産（おみやげ）： Souvenir 30日：かいとう：Thief 31日：妄想（もうそう）：Delusion Month: 1月：月（つき）：Moon 2月：愛（あい）：Love 3月：空（そら）：Sky 4月：水（みず）：Water 5月：花（はな）：Flower 6月：宇宙（うちゅう）： Space 7月：太陽（たいよう）：Sun 8月：星（ほし）：Star 9月：森（もり）：Forest 10月：影（かげ）：Shadow 11月：天（てん）：Heaven 12月：雪（ゆき）：Snow

[jakei95]

I don’t like to post this kind of things on my blog so much…

But I found this curious because my birthday means Light Shadow.

Hikari Kage da yo!

Does it have sense??? XD I’m the Universe Balance hell yeah!!!!

[141-point-12]

Oh good. Banana Space.

[thefloatingstone]

*slams hands on table*

GUARDIAN MOON.

[noirandchocolate]

I’m a Flower Wolf yeeeeaaaaaahhhhh!!!!

[redoniva]

Love Guardian? ... I mean sure, yeah!

[helthehatter]

Good Things that Happened in 2016

·         We’re closer to having successful vaccines for lung and brain cancer.

·         New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased the 5-year survival for pancreatic cancer from 16% to 27% (and is getting better)

·         Scientists figured out how to link robotic limbs with the part of the brain that deals with intent to move so people don’t have to think about how they will move the limb, it can just happen.

·         Child mortality is down everywhere and it keeps going down.

·         Thanks to the ice bucket challenge the gene responsible for ALS has been found, meaning we are closer to an effective treatment. Let me rephrase that: we are close to getting a treatment for a very bad disease because a lot of people (including really hot celebrities) got wet.

·         A solar powered plan circumnavigated the world.

·         Michael Jordan donates 2mil to try and help bridge connection between police and the community.

·         Tiger numbers are growing.

·         And manatees.

·         And pandas.

·         Pakistan has made strides toward outlawing honor killings.

·         70,000 Muslim clerics declared a fatwa against ISIS.

·         Pokemon Go players went insane with placing lure modules near hospitals for sick kids.

·         California is now powering over 6 million homes with solar power, a record in the US (and that is the tightest shit)

·         Volunteers in India planted 50 million trees in 24 hours.

·         Apparently world crime as a whole has drastically declined as a whole in the last couple of decades.

·         Coffee consumption has been proved to help curtail cancer and suicide rates.

·         Speaking of coffee Starbucks figured out how to donate perishable food in a food safe way.

·         500 elephants were relocated to a better, safer and bigger home.

·         We made massive strides in Alzheimers’ prevention (my grandmother literally told me that scares her more than getting cancer this is very good news)

·         The ozone layer is repairing itself and all the work we did to get rid of those aerosol chemicals was actually worth it.

·         A new therapy developed in Israel could cure radiation sickness.

·         The Anglican church resolved to solemnize same-sex unions the same as opposite-sex unions which required a super majority of all three orders of the church (lay, clergy, bishop).

·         The Rabbinical Assembly issued a resolution affirming the rights of transgender and non-conforming individuals.

·         Precision treatments for cancer are hitting clinical trials and WORKING (as someone who’s had relatives with cancer this is the best news)

·         Dentists are once again providing free care to veterans who need it.

·         The Orlando Shakespeare Festival showed up with angel wings to block funeral-goers for the Orlando Pulse victims, view from anti-gay protesters

·         We may have cured MS

·         Rise Women’s Legal Centre opened

·         Death by heart disease has decreased by 70% in the United States

·         Two brothers saw color for the first time thanks to specially-designed glasses

·         Pope Francis spoke against society’s obsession with physical beauty while dedicating Mass to the disabled community (love that dude)

·         Portugal ran its entire nation solely on renewable energy for four days straight

·         A retiree is launching a project to transport 80 endangered rhinos to an Australian reservation to save the animals from poaching

·         An Afghan teacher has been delivering books via bicycle to villages that lack schools

·         Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

·         200 strangers attended the funeral of a homeless WW2 veteran with no family

·         A teen battling cancer married his sweetheart

·         Bank firm pays for college tuition for the children of employees who died in the 9/11 attacks

·         New medicine has been shown to increase melanoma survival rate to 40%

·         Over 800 Boko Harem Hostages were rescued by Nigerian Army

·         Toys R Us is Offering Quiet Shopping Hour for kids with autism this holiday season

·         Volunteers made special tiny Halloween costumes for NICU babies

·         A 4-year old befriends a lonely man and helped him heal after losing his wife

·         Families grew

·         People survived c ancer

·         People overcame depression

·         Any kind of victory, even if it affects only one person,  is a victory

·         Now for the pop culture good news

·         LEONARDO DICAPRIO WON AN OSCAR! EVERYONE READING THIS LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO SEE LEO FINALLY GET WHAT HE DESERVED

·         There’s a new Harry Potter book

·         And a movie

·         Harry Potter has no plans on vanishing with time

·         This sweet father gave candy to passengers on a flight so his little girl could trick or treat on Halloween

·         LET ME TALK ABOUT ALL THE KICK ASS MOVIES WE GOT THIS YEAR OH MY GOD

·         Kung Fu Panda 3, this franchise is still going strong despite that its about a panda played by Jack Black

·         Jungle Book. The amazing remake none of us saw coming

·         Finding Dory. I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve heard good things

·         Kubo and the Two Strings. Haven’t seen that yet as well but its Laika so I know it’s a masterpiece

·         Deadpool. The beautiful and super accurate R-rated marvel film

·         Captain America: Civil War. Seriously is the best marvel movie yet in my opinion I need more.

·         Zootopia. Oh don’t mind me I’m just a movie that tackled the issue of racism and not only game changed animated films but also made a billion dollars

·         The Hamilton Mixtape is coming out. Which is a bunch of artists singing songs from the musical (Sia, Usher, Regina Spketor, etc.) I’m excited.

·         A personal victory for myself, I joined Tumblr and met angels in blog form so…that’s uplifting.

·         And I met my favorite voice actor at a con which was a bucket list accomplishment.

Good Things that have yet to happen this year

·         Birthdays

·         Doctor Strange

·         Thanksgiving

·         Black Friday

·         Moana

·         Christmas

Good things that have nothing to do with the year but will hopefully make you feel better

·         Puppies

·         Chocolate

·         Rainbows

·         Rain (I like listening to rain it’s one of the most calming sounds)

·         Cartoons

·         Kissing

·         Music

·         Friends

·         FF: If you are a religious person you are an imperfect masterpiece

·         FF: If you are not then you are a splendid coincidence

·         Any year spent with loved ones be they family or friends is a good year. Trust me.

·         ”A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have” –Roger Rabbit

#NeverForgetTheGood

*Plz feel free to add other good news (even if it’s something small like you ate cheesecake THAT is good news)

[datsemtx]

This is a gorgeous post, everyone should reblog it to see the balancing side to the whole bad things happening in the world!

[japotecture]

[starbotdubs]

Small Rant and a Warning

I don’t normally do these things, but I’ve been seething lately and I figured it would be good to get it off my chest cuz it’s not like I’m going to make a video about it 

So there was this small undertale movie project that I joined, and the first sign of trouble was that the only voice actor I’ve ever had a problem with was in this group. I won’t name him, but me and this voice actor had a falling out because he bullied this poor kid to the point that he tried to commit suicide, then called him delusional and manipulative. I didn’t want anything to do with that, and then he proceeded to call me delusional and manipulative. Anyways, about a month passes and I come to the leader of the project because this voice actor is still smearing my name everywhere he has a chance to, so I told him the situation, what had happened and explained that we needed to at least put this to rest because it was making the whole group dynamic a mess.  He proceeded to insult me for about 45 minutes, calling me childish, manipulative, and then said very firmly that he was my BOSS, not colleague, boss, and that I was a garbage voice actor and I just ‘thought I was better than everyone else.”  I will name this guy, because he named me. Shift/Alimare, leader of Star Story Studios. You can check out the movie trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXf4AvqxS_E He proceeded to make a public statement on his casting call that I was fired because I “insulted the boss” and was “manipulative”. I’ll post the screenshots on here if necessary to show that the whole time I’m just trying to have a conversation, and the kid keeps screaming insults at me. He also proceeded to say how everyone was working under him, not with him, so he has no respect for his people, and that just annoys me.  So I urge anyone in the voice acting community to stay away from this guy. I’ll just include this small screenshot here that I feel like sums up how he is: 

So yeah, please stay away from this guy. He’s really an asshole, and I didn’t want to keep quiet about it lest he catch some other poor VA.  Thanks for listening, peace. 

[redoniva]

Whoooooa whoa whoa, what?

Okay, first off, that’s me in the trailer there as Asgore. I had NO clue he had said any of this before now and I wasn’t that involved with the production anyway. Knowing this now, I’m having second thoughts about getting into this at all if he’s gonna act like this. I don’t blame you for wanting to get out of that project. You do not have to put up with that.

[redoniva]

Sum up your life with a video game title I’ll start

[warlioness]

Tons of video game voice actors have gone on STRIKE

And stunt and motion capture actors too.

So, I won’t be picking up Andromeda until I hear this has resolved in favor of the guild.

[riseofthedreadwolf]

“Triple A video games often generate more revenue than blockbuster movies, yet these video game actors aren’t demanding millions of dollars per film - they just want their contracts to be fair.”

[antrashte-deactivated20190907]

voice actors can’t change their established contracts so i look forward to playing space-faring kiss boy 4 on day 1

[commandercullen]

It’s not about “not being able to play” up coming titles, such as ME Andromeda, it’s about showing support and solidarity for the voice actors and motion capture actors as they work towards a system which would provide more fair contracts for future work.

If WE as a gaming community, the people who are providing these companies with their revenue, were to say(and fucking DO), “we will not buy another game from you until you negotiate fairly with the actors,” it would be a huge wake up call to these publishers.

Everyone rolls their eyes when actors ask for contract negotiations, but this is their profession. It cannot be done professionally by just anybody. Actors deserve to be fairly compensated for their work.

[spinestalker-deactivated2025121]

good for them!

[dawntreadermg]

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jim-craig/a-message-from-steve-blum/10157540806655543

Steve Blum sums up the issues quite eloquently. I fully support them and hope they can get what they want.

[pearwaldorf]

Please read the union’s flyer (PDF) and FAQ on why they’re calling for a strike. It’s not just money, but personal health and safety that’s at risk. The conditions in which some voice actors are being asked to work is unconscionable, to the point where the union has requested an investigation by Cal/OSHA, the state workplace safety office. If you care about video games, and the people who make them come alive, you should be aware of why they’re striking.

[theubergrump]

Reblogging against to add the list of struck games that are currently in production limbo, because working on them at this point is strike breaking. I implore you to check this out and, at the very least, make sure you aren’t pre-ordering or promoting anything on the list.

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

yeah their list of demands are very reasonable and include a lot of things that make me go “wow how is that not already happening!?”. please support these voice actors. it’s not about your favorite games, it’s about safe and fair conditions as well as the basic right to know exactly what you are signing a contract to do.

[axeystuff]

It should be noted that currently video game VA contracts are based on a template that was written in the mid-90s (when video game writing and voice work was usually little more than a gimmick to add as a bullet point on the back of the game box) and don’t explicitly allow the actors certain rights that one would assume are obligatory (seriously, the publisher has the right to not tell the actor what game they’re working on? What?).

So yeah, go support this plz

[meangreanhare]

It’s always hard to feel sympathy for voice actors and writers who go on strike.  Negotiate the terms of the contract to something both parties agree on, or let the producers find someone else.

[axeystuff]

If you’d read the article you would’ve noticed producers did everything in their power to not negotiate at all. Same thing that happened in the WGA’s strike like a decade ago, same thing that has happened in all of these entertainment business strikes.

It’s not even “give us more money”, it’s just asking for basic worker’s rights that one would expect out of any other industry ever.

[sonicmega]

This strike is about - and directly impacts - the industry I intend to work for during the remainder of my life; these are MY people, MY income, and MY potential projects/roles at stake. A failure to find compromise could mean that I literally cannot afford to pursue this full-time as the economy changes, if I can no longer “earn my keep” off of the effort I put into providing a great performance.

At the very least, you should support the proposed safety measures we are fighting for even if you don’t agree with the payscale. At the very core of this strike, we just want to be able to do what we love for you guys, without spending every day worried that it might be our last (because of vocal damage).

[redoniva]

I didn’t even know most of this was a thing until this brought it up.

Guys, this stuff is important and it’s a shame it’s not already being done for voice actors. Go spread this around, and support these things.

[hanaye]

[DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]

[redoniva]

*Vinny losing his shit*