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brynna · 18 days
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Hey, I made this animated music video. I hope you like it.
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brynna · 28 days
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Have you flipped the tumblr switch to not get scraped for AI-theft today?
It’s in the account settings. If in the app do the following:
1. Go to your blog (tiny human symbol)
2. Go to account settings (tiny cogwheel on the top right).
3. Scroll down to and hit Visibility (the second option from the end)
4. Activate the last oft the three switches (depending on your previous settings it may already be activated (symbol sky blue with switch to the right)
If you have several blogs you need to do it for each one.
Done.
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brynna · 7 months
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As a songwriter I love it when people are able to use some of my work in this way.
Sometimes I get a glimpse of it - my listenership is small enough that I can see it happen. I have a song about masculinity that got 45 plays in one day from a single listener. I don't know who they were or what they were going through, but it feels so good to be able to condense the time I was processing something into music and hand it to somebody else as an emotional shortcut. It's basically magic and probably the main reason I write.
dear Neil
Do you feel weird when a kid is lying in his room watching the last 10 minutes of Go2 episode 6 over and over and crying non-stop?
No. I assume the kid in question must need to feel things.
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brynna · 10 months
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Thanks for listening - I'm glad you liked it 🧡
Here's a new song. I wrote it for a contest but I decided not to enter because I'm not good at getting votes from people, and to be honest, hustling for likes on something I put a piece of my heart into makes me feel ill, so I decided to just share it here instead. Please be kind.
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brynna · 10 months
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Here's a new song. I wrote it for a contest but I decided not to enter because I'm not good at getting votes from people, and to be honest, hustling for likes on something I put a piece of my heart into makes me feel ill, so I decided to just share it here instead. Please be kind.
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brynna · 10 months
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Here's a new song. I wrote it for a contest but I decided not to enter because I'm not good at getting votes from people, and to be honest, hustling for likes on something I put a piece of my heart into makes me feel ill, so I decided to just share it here instead. Please be kind.
I've added it to a bunch of places if you feel like listening to it later. You can find all of my stuff here if you want:
https://linktr.ee/brynnacc
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brynna · 10 months
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I'm an ADHD novelist/songwriter, and if I'm trying to finish a long term project, it's important to honor my own boredom and frustration points and rotate tasks out. Let's say I'm working on a scene and I'm just getting distracted by everything in the room. Here are things I'll use to get out of that mode:
1. Jump to another scene that is totally different in terms of tone. If I'm bored with an action scene, write something witty and dialogue-filled. There's no rule saying you have to write things in order.
2. Do some character doodles. It keeps your brain on your work, but it's outside that guilt zone of "I need to finish this." It also generates ideas. (Oh, I didn't know this character wore boots - maybe they're hiding that piece of evidence in one of them).
3. Write about something story-related that isn't going to be in the book. Maybe it's following an inconsequential character. Your ADHD brain LOVES distracting side quests, so let it have its fun within your parameters and it'll come back to your story when it's done.
(The secret to the third thing is that many of those details will end up in your book anyway)
Basically, you're involving your fandom brain in your own work. You know, the annoying one that writes little songs and ships characters and makes personalized merch? Do that for your own work and it'll help you finish.
Hey Mr. Gaiman, I have loved your stories, characters, and worlds for a long time (you have a designated shelf on my bookcase along with my funko version of Death). This may be an odd question, but when you write do you only write one thing at a time or are you working on multiple things at once?
I have really severe ADHD, I've always loved to write though, but I can never seem to just focus on one story at a time no matter how passionate or involved I am with what I'm writing. Do you have any advice?
Thank you <3
I always used to try and have the thing I was working on and the thing I'd go to when I got stuck on the thing I got stuck on.
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brynna · 10 months
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My NPR Tiny Desk Entry
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I didn't win but I still like how the video turned out. I hope you like it.
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brynna · 11 months
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As a songwriter I'm not in the WGA but most of my friends are Hollywood-based writers, performers, and set people, so I want to put some thoughts down. I'm not going to quote facts and figures because I don't know them, and there are people smarter than me who are better at that. I'm going to do what I can, which is to take emotional stock of what I've seen.
Here's what's happened over the last ten years. I have a hundred brilliant friends who I've seen do beautiful work. They work for free in darkened rooms, running on the hope that someday, someone will allow them to show the world what they've done. They go to their day jobs and think about the inner worlds of their coworkers, picking up the little bits of joy they see around them and filing them away to share with others later.
They're burned out. Work is scarce. It pays less and less. Rent is expensive. Food is expensive. They take every job they're offered. They spend weeks doing rewrites on things that no longer remotely resemble those little bits of joy they've collected so carefully.
Everyone tells them they're living the dream. They should be grateful to be working at all, right? What a privilege! It's the thing all abusive bosses say before they tell them to pull another unpaid all-nighter. They're burning the candle at both ends. They don't have time for the ideas that used to make their eyes sparkle.
I know they're still in there somewhere. I try to check in on them. I ask them what their dreams are. Some still cling to them. Some can't remember. They're strapped to a perpetual motion machine. People used to get time to breathe. Writers need time to mentally process things because that's how they make things emotionally impactful.
I know that sounds entitled. "I dont get a break from work - why should they get to sit around?"
I wish I could show everyone who isn't in Hollywood just a fraction of the incredible things I've seen that have never made it past a black box theater. Trust me - you want these people to be comfortable, because when they are given time, they come alive. You would LOVE their work. And they want to give it to you. They want to give you all those little bits of joy. That's what they do when they're given time to process things.
They can't do it because this system chews them up and spits them out. They want to make things that are worthy of your time. Let them.
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brynna · 1 year
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Last Track on the Album. I promise it's fun!
Check Out My Album
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brynna · 1 year
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I submitted my song "Okay" for NPR's Tiny Desk Contest, and I wanted to share the video. Maybe it's silly to Blaze it. I dunno!
I hope you like it.
In case you want to find the song elsewhere:
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brynna · 1 year
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It's my 37th birthday today, and I wrote this song to try to fight the feeling that I'm wrong for this industry (old, overweight, unsexy, ND).
Anyway I'm Blazing it because it could use a little love. The animation took me three months to make.
I hope you like it!
"Already Irrelevant" - Brynna Campbell (1000 Masks - 2022)
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brynna · 1 year
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Well, unsurprisingly, I'm getting some hate for this song.
And I get it. Women have suffered a whole lot at the hands of men. I am also a woman! And I'm in the music industry - I've experienced harassment, assault, casual misogyny - everything under the sun. I quit songwriting for 14 years because of men who dehumanized me at every second of the day. I carry that anger with me EVERYWHERE. Maybe my song "Siren" is more your speed. It's about men not being entitled to your time or body.
But there are also a whole lot of men in my life who are trying to do better. And we're incapacitating them by perpetuating the same toxic masculinity they get from all sides. We tell them their problems don't matter, which forces them to internalize their emotions. It only continues the cycle.
I dunno. I get your pain. I'm sorry if this song actively bothers you. I didn't write it to make anybody angry. Your feelings are valid, too.
This is a song about masculinity. I promise it's nice! Hope you're having a decent day.
Check Out My Album
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brynna · 1 year
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y'all ever reach the end of google
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brynna · 1 year
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This is a lovely attitude that helped me start writing music and drawing again after years of feeling inadequate. The imperfections are part of the art.
Hi Dr. Tingle!
I was wondering if you have any advice for anxious buckaroos that are a little scared of putting themselves out into the world?
Maybe some advice you would tell your younger self?
Thank you for all you do <3
yes bud. part of my way on autism spectrum is that when i used to create EVERYTHING HAD TO BE PERFECT i would get so riled up by every small imperfection and if one little dang problem popped up then everything was ruined and chuck was in a BAD WAY.
there is no 'cure' for autism and i do not want my way to be cured, i LOVE being autistic, but this particular part of my trot was not healthy for me and i learned to adapt. part of my adapting trot was to start letting things be perfectly imperfect. it was small steps at first but now i can swim in a beautiful ocean of chaos pretty dang well.
anxiety and autism are not the same thing of course but maybe you can relate to this philosophical lesson of chuck:
when you create, whether that is with VISUAL ART or FOOD or A WALKING PATH THROUGH THE PARK or a BREATH OF AIR you have already made the perfect version of this thing, because it is a reflection of that moment on this timeline. you have CAPTURED THE NOW
any anxious feelings of 'am i doing this wrong?' 'is this weird?' 'is this incorrect?' 'is this awkward?' can always be answered with 'well this is perfect representation of right NOW'. if you are trotting with love in your way and fueling your path then THAT will shine through at the end and you will move towards something great, and the STEPS to get there are ALL perfectly imperfect.
to move it back to art, lets say you are trying to paint a field but you get out there with your canvas and you forget your dang GREEN PAINT. you might think 'DANG what a disaster i cannot paint the green grass gotta use red now this is the worst painting ever'. but here is the thing, that painting is not broken it is a PERFECT REFLECTION of what led to it and it is a PERFECT REPRESENTATION OF NOW because now is not perfect. what that painting says is 'this is the field of someone who forgot their green paint at home' and there is nothing WRONG with that. in fact that is exactly the kind of thing that makes trotting through this timeline fruitful and wonderful.
if you get anxious worrying about mistakes, maybe try thinking on idea that most mistakes fall into this category. dont worry bud we are ALL just bumbling through this timeline trying our hardest and making perfect imperfections.
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brynna · 1 year
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What instrument do you play?
I sing and play piano! I also made all my ukulele scratch tracks but I wanted them to sound more professional so I had my dad do them since he's the strings guy.
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brynna · 1 year
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Hola Brynna, hoy al despertar abrí Tumblr y encontré tu música, me encantó y ahora escucho tu álbum 1000 mask en Spotify. Felicitaciones!!
Saludos desde Chile
Muchos gracias!!
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