i think every filmmaker deserves one big swing for the fences where they piss away millions of a studio’s money and the production is shot entirely on location and they do insane things like sit around waiting for the right light on the horizon to appear once a day and if it works they get to make whatever they want forever
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"But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies..."
Leah, Silver's ancestor and the one who gave Lilia one of her rings to pass on (they acted as her magic stones to use her magic)
A previous lover of Lilia and a thorn in Baul's side. The queen of the human kingdom who never supported her husband's decisions and fled to the forest whenever she could
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listen i know that the star rail girls suffer from "same character design" but i got mildly obsessed with a bit of ruan mei's design because of one particular detail and that is:
it's this particular bit where the DNA strands are joined together by the plum blossom she's named after.
in order for DNA to be replicated, it has to be unwound by a protein called helicase which then allows for the reading of the DNA to create the new strands. I felt like it was fitting that like the plum blossom unraveling the DNA in her design, she's also trying to unravel the truths of the world and get to its essence.
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Honestly though saying (or implying) that vocaloid or vocal synths in general "devalues the human voice" is SUCH an incredibly shit take for SO many reasons.
Like yeah Saki Fujita getting so many other roles in voice acting because of her contribution to Hatsune Miku (the anime cameos and stuff are usually done with her original voice, them modified to be robotic) is a bit of an outlier when most other vocaloid and sythns don't have that influence.
You can even sort of wave off the dozens upon dozens of people who go for realistic tuning- like whenever a synth has any sort of clarity, there are like five people commenting about how real they sound. Clearly people do still care about human sounding vocals, because they go nuts over realistic vtuning.
There are many different aspects of vocaloid that use human voices, too- from Set It Off's duet "Why Do I?", human rap artists using Miku's vocals as background, and the entire CONCEPT of Project Sekai which releases AND COMMISSIONS songs for vocal synths and real people.
But the sheer number of vocaloid producers who use their own vocals as back up (MikitoP, PinoochioP, and I believe Kira off the top of my head), the number of producers who can sing and/or do self covers (again Kira, GIGA, Ayase, Teniwoha, syudou and so many more), and the amount of vocal producers who have gone forward with legit musical careers after working with vocaloid (Kenshi Yonezu, most notably, who did work for years under the alias Hachi)
I mean, hell. There are vocaloid producers who go on to become vocaloid vocals themselves- like nostraightanswer, the vocal provider for DEX, who has made both vocaloid and original songs. Some even duets.
That's not even including creators like JubyPhonic, Rachie, Will Stenson, Lollia, Octavia, Razzy and Co., and SO many other HUMAN cover artists who gained following or honed their skills on none other than vocaloid covers. (And that's just a handful of English Cover artists, not like Sati Akura a Russian cover artist or Ado who has commissioned songs from vocaloid artists)
It's also not including UTAUites who input their own voices to use for covers.
"Devalues the human voice" is such blatant bs. They ARE human voices. They are OUR voices. "You'd think by now that we would have learned, behind every piece if art is a human to be heard." (- CircusP, 'Better Off Worse')
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NOOOO FUCKING WAY TEN IS MENTORING ON NEW SEASON OF CHUANG OMGGG THE FIRST SEASON OF CHUANG IN 3 YEARSSS there are gonna be sooo many ppl tuning in once everyone falls in love with ten and he skips the mini album and goes straight to full solo album then u will all see
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I’ve got to hand it to the actor who plays Ari, he may not exactly look like a 15 year old, but he is very good at playing teenage awkwardness and confusion. There’s really nothing smooth about anything Ari does and it’s kind of endearing.
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just watched robo’s cutesy little pitch… those beautiful 30 seconds have left me so inspired i’ve decided to live by the jrobertson philosophy of never doing anything without the utmost sincerity and a whole lot of awkward
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Liz's definitive track assignment list that nobody asked for (but I know I'm right)
"Fortnight" (featuring Post Malone) -- DAIRFAIR DAIRFAIR DAIRFAIR
"The Tortured Poets Department" -- derena breakup track. derena divorce track. take your pick. serena pov <3
"My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" -- 🪑
"Down Bad" -- changing course because this is rwrb firstprince alex post lake house I'M RIGHT
"So Long, London" -- same for above. acd-coded
"But Daddy I Love Him" -- blair waldorfian. i'm having his baby jk lmao. unhinged.
"Fresh Out the Slammer" -- calling it another post derena divorce. pov both of them. dan floats to blair, serena gravitates to carter. and. fuck it. 🪑divorce. "I served my time" and all that shit
"Florida!!!" -- ivy/charlie. florida woman. fuck this city i'm getting fucked up in the gulf. yeah. she could have been so much more.
"Guilty as Sin?" -- BLAIRRRRRRRRRR s5ep4 if you want to get specific. reading steamy book scenes. gurl.
"Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" -- JENNY GIRL. "I am what you trained me to be." I MEANNNNN.
"I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)" -- 🪑
"Loml" -- dan. sad dan. sad lonely boy
"I Can Do It With a Broken Heart" -- serena. always. constantly. (though cherry & I also agree it's firstprince coded)
"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" -- louis divorce yeehaw
"The Alchemy" -- serenate reconciliation
"Clara Bow" -- blair & jenny and the girls that are destined to replace them.
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