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Bookworm, wannabe writer, cat lover, cooking enthusiast, movie buff, music junkie; a nerd, gamer, and fangirl

If this is accurate, holy shit. Is there anyone alive today who lived under an American government that would not only not spend every cent of that money if it was the one getting it, but also pay any of it back at all, let alone on time? Amazing what happens when a government realizes it isn't entitled to the money it's given.

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So not political stuff or anything, but have you ever felt like this new upcoming generation of voice actors are extremely bland and repetitious in their range? I feel like every new or young VA nowadays either sounds like some generic teen protag for men or bog-standard anime girl for women (also feels like not a single new female VA can do a good “little boy” voice). Certain VAs used to have a unique kind of sound to their voice and could REALLY flex their range. (1)

(2) Thankfully some of the old guard that have these qualities are still with us (Keith David, Scott McNeill, Tabitha St Germain, Dee Bradley Baker, Veronica Taylor, etc). But it feels like most VAs try to anchor their voices in a niche of anime teen protag or anime maiden, and refuse to budge or expand their range any further. Makes a lot of media feel painfully stale. We need more rumbly men and smokey women voices. More silly creature voices. More nerdy Double D Sam Vincent voices.

I remember when Wendy Lee's voice was instantly noticeable and now every other female anime character just. Sounds like that. As completely overexposed as he is, Troy Baker is at least capable of doing a wide variety of voices. Also, since you mentionad bad little boy voices, shout out to Haley Joel Osment for still managing a pretty good Sora voice well into his 30s.

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I’ve been thinking for awhile now that Laura Bailey has kinda become the Nicholas Cage or Dwayne Johnson of voice acting. She’s had dozens of roles across anime, video games, and animation, but she always sounds like Laura Bailey.

Serana from Skyrim, Invisigal from Dispatch, Kira Carsen from Star Wars: the Old Republic, Jaina Proudmoore in World of Warcraft, the Female Demon Hunter in Diablo 3, Bianca Davri and Dagna in Dragon Age Inquisition, Supergirl in Injustice 2, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist, and Lagoona Blue in Monster High….even when she puts on an accent, she still sounds like herself.

By contrast, Dee Bradley Baker recently voiced basically the ENTIRE MAIN CAST of The Bad Batch, and gave each of the Batchers a unique and distinct voice.

This on top of having a filmography that swings from Squilliam Fancyson in SpongeBob SquarePants, to Klaus in American Dad!, to the talking parrot in Pirates of the Caribbean, Daffy Duck in Space Jam, Stinkfly and Wildmutt in Ben 10, to animal sounds like Appa and Momo in Avatar: the Last Airbender and Perry the Platypus in Phineas and Ferb.

Everyone always behaves as if Rochester kept his wife in the attic as a sort of fun patriarchal thing that he did on whimsy.

1) He was tricked into marrying her. Her family knew about her mental instability and said nothing about it.

2) Rochester never harms Bertha. Even when she attacks others, even when she sets his bed on fire, even when the entire home is burning, he still attempts to bring her to safety. He never sought vengeance.

3) He could not resign to live with himself if he gave her to an asylum. What he could give her at home was better than they had in asylums.

This whole female rage, Rochester abused Bertha, that’s not in the source material. That’s a published fanfic. You know who had female rage? Jane.

You all are saying Rochester is the villain when there is Mrs. Reed? The aunt who hated an orphan to the point that she lied and said Jane was dead when another relative wanted to raise Jane, wanted to love and take care of her? The woman who abused her? Left her in poverty? Loathed Jane (who forgave her, by the way) to her dying breath? This is who we’re ignoring in favor of a man who kept both a wife who was a danger to everyone in the household, and an illegitimate child who he doesn’t even believes is his? Rochester is no angel, but if you’re going to condemn him, condemn him for what he actually does.

Oh wait. The novel already does that. And look at that, he is forgiven and gets redemption too.

My morning glory doesn’t like the wind chime

Or, maybe from the plants perspective. it likes it a lot and wants to hold the thing making all those vibrations in the air. 🤣

Frequency and vibration stimulate plants growth and immune systems.

Morning glory specifically:

“But consider the tendrils of your pea plants twining around their string supports. Or your morning glories, winding around their trellis. These are examples of plants responding to touch. How else would they know when and where to begin winding?

When a morning glory vine touches a support, the stem cells begin to grow at different rates, causing the stem to bend and curve around the support. This phenomenon is called thigmotropism”

Seems to me at least, the plant is seeking out the wind chimes specifically or it would not have done that. 🤷

Disney/Fairytale Inspired Story: Ooh look! The handsome prince! Don't you think he's so handsome and charming?
Me: He's evil, isn't he?
Story: ah-HAH! Shock and terror! He's evil!
Me: Who woulda guessed...
Story: Behold! The evil witch!
Me: She's a good guy.
Story: But what if she was the good g- Okay, smarty pants. How's this? The kind and noble king is-
Me: Evil. Or incompetent. Or both. Is it both?
Story: Th-The stepmother-
Me: Is a misunderstood victim.
Story: The goblins and trolls-
Me: Are good people being opressed by the wicked humans. And let me guess. Fairies and mermaids are evil man-eating monsters?
Story: M-maybe. Well... uh... I swear this world is super surprising and subversive. The themes are unique!
Me: Are the themes related to disillusion with one's own childhood and what you were taught by birth, using fairytales and classic motifs as a stand-in for government, parental figures or religion? Does it frame traditional mindsets as inherently flawed and harmful?
Story: Er ... well... the princess-
Me: I know, I know. She can save herself.

When Shrek did it, it was fun and innovative because no one else was doing it.

Twenty five years later, it’s tired and boring, because everyone’s doing it.

For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit⁠, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child⁠, submissive⁠, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

— Mosiah 3:19

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