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I feel like I'm spamming people. Hello. Please don't hate me.

Summer starts as soon as my take home exam ends. As well as this essay that's due on Monday that I can't get my head into. I'll be returning to Homeland either next Saturday or Sunday. And R4 of ToH started today. A mixture of happiness and sadness...

I'm also kind of looking for some assistance. Or more so, I'm looking to steal some voices for a project. I decided to enter #Coloring-MediumOCT because for the format I'm going with, it won't be time intensive so I can still work on CC and do regular art type things. Even better considering summer starts soon. The problem is, it requires some voice talent. The voices aren't supposed to be over the top of strongly characterized, actually I'm looking for a typical speaking voice. Or three of them. A comrade has already offered to do the one, but might as well list it anyway.

Arbitrary([link]: Neutral voice but not apathetic, somewhat inquisitive. Has a rambling quality to it.
The Creator: No gender preference; confident yet fairly 'average' or typical voice. Can get a little wordy.
The Narrator/Unreliable Narrator: No gender preference, can get wordy. Must be able to read chunks of paragraphs clearly.

Aside from that, let's move on to lists and such.

This week's list of cool people:
:iconsomeguyfromcrowd::icontwelvepm::iconrandoven:

OCT's Auditioning For:
:iconcoloring-mediumoct::iconchernobyl-curs:

List of Annoying Things (part 1):
-People who complain about never getting comments. When they never comment on other people’s work.
-Trolls. You’re not really funny. Just kind of stupid. And it’s not nice to laugh at the stupid.
-Parody wolf comics where the entire point is to draw them looking as ugly as possible. Instead of poking fun at the dozens of clichés and tropes, they focus on bad drawing to reflect… something or other. I don’t know. It’s a failure of parody.
-Animal comics. No seriously, folks just give up. Not worth it. Want to find some good animal comics? Look up an animal only OCT. It’s the only place you’ll find consistent updates, coherent plots, and people motivated to actually produce content instead of concept art and the occasional page every year or two.
-Getting flak for saying that you like dubs over subs.
-Stigma against animal artists
-Animal artists who are contributing to the negative stigma.
-The current trend of “I like taxidermy, stuffed animals made of real animals, and buying from fur farms and therefore I am cool and if you disagree then it’s because you’re close minded”. In so many words.
-People who mass-upload photos. Especially those that are nearly identical and/or of poor quality, uninteresting/unoriginal subject, probably belong solely on facebook, etc.
-The inconsistency and idiocracy of DA’s policies DA is run by amazing staff who are hardworking, honest, and fair in regards to their policies.
-The stories I have to readin my Fiction Technique class.
-Reviews that are completely negative. Good feedback tells the person what is working, and what isn’t working. This way, they know what to keep and what not to keep.
  • Mood: Bliss
  • Listening to: Keep Awake
  • Reading: Just finished White Noise
  • Watching: FMA
  • Playing: The Slammyface game
  • Eating: Instant potatoes
  • Drinking: Coffee (is this a reoccuring them)
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:iconking-reaper:
~King-Reaper Apr 24, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
I could do voicework if you'd like.
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:iconsongdog-strayfang:
*Songdog-StrayFang Apr 24, 2011  Student Writer
Could try. Except with online people, I'm not used to their voices so it's not weird when I hear them reading. Whereas with you, it'd be "Why is Doug's voice reading this. What. What. I am confused."
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:iconking-reaper:
~King-Reaper Apr 24, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Lol but other people wouldn't be that way so it would be fine. :P
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:iconsomeguyfromcrowd:
~Someguyfromcrowd Apr 24, 2011  Student General Artist
If it's any comfort I'm watching people who create a new journal several times a day. You are a a proverbial drop in the proverbial message bucket. Well, a peculiar drop. But this is stretching the metaphor too far. Proverbially so. Ow.

If you want your voiceovers to lack the letter 'r' and randomly chance pace, pitch, and coherency, then you've got yourself a terrible candidate!

And what is with this coffee business seriously

I am cool!
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:iconsongdog-strayfang:
*Songdog-StrayFang Apr 24, 2011  Student Writer
I dislike when people update journals that frequently, which often leads to unwatching them. So as a result, I become rather conscious of how often I upload new pictures and journals, trying to limit it to once a day. When I do breach that limit, I feel weird. Proverbially speaking, of course.

Who knows, perhaps that shall work for any future opponents I might have, as I'll have to find voices for them as well.

I should stop making journals while consuming coffee. Horrible things come of it.

Also, don't forget to send me a note for your icon, silly. You did win the stamp contest after all.
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:iconsomeguyfromcrowd:
~Someguyfromcrowd Apr 24, 2011  Student General Artist
Especially when the journal is updated for no reason other than to announce something like "omg 1,000 pageviews yay" or "i feel sad now" followed shortly by "i am happy now" and so on and so forth. At least they're not uploading demotivators and recolors! Okay so some of them do. The horror, the horror!

Or you could use voices in the manner of The Greatest Possible Magnitude of the Sacrosanct Infrastructure. Pretentious Medium. You could defeat your foes with mountains of text! Or AOL-er text

B-but I'll have to figure out what the icon will be. I have a reference for a novel character colored but need to finish it first.
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*Songdog-StrayFang Apr 30, 2011  Student Writer
Oh dear, I do understand what you mean. A dozen too many I've seen update their journals like Facebook updates. I care not for how your day went, or if you currently went from happy to sad in the past hour. Do not flood my inbox with this sentimental nonsense. And dear me, let us think not of the recolors...

Could you imagine a character with the manipulator power of chatspeak?

Alright, whenever you are ready just send me a note with the details. There's no rush or deadline for it.
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:iconsomeguyfromcrowd:
~Someguyfromcrowd Apr 30, 2011  Student General Artist
I've never quite understood the Facebook/Myspace/Twitter/Raving Lunatic craze. I am not that interested in what my 5,000 imaginary friends ate for lunch, what their current feelings are, and how much they are my total best friend forever. And as such it's even worse when people use their Journals as some sort of news bulletin. I can tolerate it, though, as long as my other inboxes are not being flooded with the previously mentioned recolored demotivationals.

Oh dear lord. I see your chatspeak and raise you a 1337-speak. Coloring Medium has no hope of survival. Yes, yes, I can see it now.

"XxX1337SN1P3RPWN3DDOODXxX"
Appearance: Hyperactive nine-year-old playing violent video games
Strengths: Destroys ears/eyes of opponents by uttering "L0L 1 p\/\/|\| U!111111! \/\/7pH"
Weaknesses: None whatsoever. Save yourself!
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:icontwelvepm:
~TwelvePM Apr 24, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
OMG Voices!? What is this I don't even- What are you scheming SD? >:[
Wow I'm really looking foward to this new format and how you present it. I would love to help you SD but my terrible voice would make everyone's ears bleed. 8D
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR ESSAY COMRADE. Your mind is so smartical and the fact that you write essay paragraph comments every-so-often here LOL You'll get this thing done in no time!
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:iconsongdog-strayfang:
*Songdog-StrayFang Apr 24, 2011  Student Writer
Only the devious scheme. Do you take me for such devious, villainous filth? You know me too well.
I have no idea if this will turn out alright. It may just end up a glorious trainwreck. But let's give it a shot!

Blargh essays. It's been sitting around, staring at me like a papery frog for days now.
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