As someone new to voice acting, I’ve been facing a lot of rejection, so I made a video detailing how I’ve learnt to deal with it! I still feel sad and down about being rejected for roles I really wanted, but over time I’ve learnt how to deal with those emotions a little better. I hope what I’ve learnt can help someone else in a similar boat! \:)
The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.
Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil. Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again. (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)
I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.
The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.
This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life. The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.) There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors. Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime. And yes, so much of it is of the personal type.
dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.
One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases. In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them. Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.
There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:
Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)
Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.
#my favorite murder in holmes canon#is when they straight up witness a lady murder her blackmailer#do nothing except destroy his other blackmail material#and then straight up lie to lestrade about it#sherlock holmes#more of this in modern adaptations pls (via @cactusspatz )
Let’s not forget the time Holmes helps a young woman who’s being catfished by her own stepfather to steal her inheritance, and when the villain sneers that the law can’t touch him, Holmes grabs a horsewhip out of sheerest chivalry.
I think it’s also important to note, and complicates our ideas about what the highly patriarchal/misogynistic society of 19th century England looked like, that these stories SOLD
they were POPULAR
the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)
which is fascinating in light of. you know. [gestures broadly at all of Victorian gender dynamics, laws, etc.]
Legal Eagle asking "are you covered to have an open flame in the studio?" and a producer worriedly yelling "we're not!" as Ally goes to light a bong they filled with real whiskey is maybe the hardest I have ever laughed at an episode of Game Changer.
I’ve started a comic dub of the Fantasy High Webtoon!
It’s only the very first part but I saw a few other people do this and really wanted to give it a go myself, as like voice acting practise I guess. I definitely wanna do more parts in the future, this was a lot of fun!
I had Game Changer on the brain at work today and this was the result.
Sometimes when me or my coworkers are bored at work we’ll draw little doodles on post-it notes and stick them on the cafe’s fridge. I had Game Changer on the brain today if you couldn’t tell.
I’m definitely not gonna stick the “quit your job” doodle up though, don’t think management would be too happy with me if they saw that one lol
“How are you fairing under the crushing weight of late stage capitalism and the existential horror that a minimum wage barista is all you’ll ever be because this society makes it basically impossible to achieve any kind of creative career or dream even though you’re someone whose self worth and reason to keep living are so deeply tied in with being creative that just having a creative hobby alongside an unfulfilling job isn’t enough, you need to live and breathe creativity to feel like you’re living any semblance of a decent life?”
rocky's crew dying from radiation exposure, something humans go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of and ryland's crew dying in their "sleep" with nobody watching, something eridians go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of. cool book that is easy to read through your tears.
In another instance of my decided to use my voice acting powers for chaos, here’s what I think some of the clowns from Season 3 Episode 1 of Make Some Noise would sound like if they had voices!
Because that’s a question everyone wants answered, right?
More videos for the other clowns coming soon! Because again, everyone definitely wants this, right?
Characters from: @makesomenoise
Watch this video on YouTube if you want: https://youtu.be/CG8kwQaOK-c?si=qEqmzCpC9AbkopFL
One of the reasons people headcanon Grace as aromantic is the unfortunately realistic scene where they go "you don't have a family or a loved one" as if that's enough of a justification to send him on a suicide mission. As if not having a family makes Grace inherently less valuable and means he should be more willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.
Grace wasn't sad and lonely, he was happy, he had a good life, he very much did not want to die. They have to do a looney tunes chase sequence and drug him because Grace was *very* unwilling to be the sacrificial lamb. Humanity's savior was dragged kicking and screaming into the role and called selfish for daring to be a coward, as if most of us wouldn't be.
And then he befriends Rocky, who never demands a sacrifice from him, who willingly prolongs his journey home so Grace can go back to his. Rocky has a mate back home and his species depends on his return, and still risks his life to save his squishy human friend. And Grace returns the favor.
And thus the power of friendship saves two planets.
the best part of dropout behind the scenes content is when you think you know what the crew is going to say and then all of a sudden they're talking about something completely different. like what do you mean the d20 production team tried to invent hologram technology for mismag2?? what do you MEAN dropout producers were literally trying to contact NASA so they could send a sam reich standee INTO SPACE????
I’ve been thinking way too hard recently about an Amazing Digital Circus AU where the characters are just the cast of Game Changer. This thought process has come about for 3 reasons:
1) I was bored at work
2 I drank too much coffee at work to combat the boredom and now can’t sleep
3) I’ve been watching both Game Changer and TADC pretty close together and I think they’re merged in my brain.
I’m now looking to Tumblr to judge my character choices, both the ones I think fit really well and the ones I’m less sure of. Here they are!
Sam Reich is Caine, for reasons I don’t think I have to explain.
Zam Reich is Bubble, both because Bubble is kind of an offshoot of / linked to Caine in the same way Zam and Sam are, and the mental image of Sam going "why are you like this?" to a puppet version of himself is hilarious to me.
Brennan is Kinger. Both have been in their respective games the longest, both have been slightly driven mad by said games, and both eventually take part in an elaborate plan to end the torment once and for all, to varying degrees of success.
Siobhan as Pomni. I mean she was literally in two episodes where the cast had to escape some kind of peril (an escape room and being stuck in a time loop). If that doesn’t match Pomni’s desire to escape the circus idk what does.
By association with Brennan/Kinger, it makes sense for Izzy to be Queenie. However, Queenie seems to be very POC-coded (basically all fanart of her as a human I've seen depicts her as black, and she has a black voice actor), so I don’t feel the most comfortable setting that choice in stone in case it comes across as whitewashing. So I’m thinking Aabria might also be a good choice. Both options are equally floating around my head right now, so I leave this to the court of Tumblr opinion.
Grant as Jax. This pick feels pretty good to me, but at the same time I feel a little bad making anyone Jax because I feel like I’m by association calling them an asshole xD Do you see the vision??
Erika as Zooble. I’ve also been floating Ally and Vic around for Zooble but I think Erika fits better personality wise. I mean I could totally see Zooble writing "Caine Sux" on the side of their head.
Rekha as Ribbit. With Grant as Jax I think this pick makes a lot of sense, given how they're both in a lot of episodes together and are definitely a chaotic duo.
Mike Trapp as Scratch. I genuinely have no explanation for why this fits so well in my head, it just does. This is another one where I'm just like do you see the vision?? I don't know how to explain the vision to you but do you see it???
And then we reach the characters I have absolutely no idea about yet: Ragatha, Gangle, and Kaufmo. I kinda feel like Jess Ross could fit either Ragatha or Gangle, and maybe Trapp should be Kaufmo instead of Scratch?? Idk, I'm drawing a blank now.
Also I’ve been trying to come up with a way to merge the two show names together and am also drawing a blank. Best I can do right now is either The Amazing Digital Game Changer or The Changed Digital Game.
Anyway yeah, uh, thank you for reading whatever this is. If you wanna go down this weird rabbit hole of thought with me, please give me your suggestions! (Or corrections, if you think all of my picks are wrong which is totally valid.)
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