Idk your main blog otherwise I'd ask there
But I love the Wilhelm scream + looney tunes bonk post going around
I want to try silly sound design too now, where do you get silly sounds and is there a list of recognizable silly sounds somewhere?
Please and thank you! 🌟
(Tal's main blog is @starplanes but they (I) don't mind answering sound design stuff here too so don't worry!)
Thank you! I get the bulk of my silly sounds (and a number of serious ones) from Freesound. I like the site because anyone can upload to it so you get a really huge variety, and one can also sort by public domain sounds so I can make sure my licensing is in order. The original recording session for the Wilhelm scream was recently uploaded there!
Sonnis's yearly free audio packs are also great for a beginner sound designer wanting to build up their library. They won't have recognizable silly sounds in there, but it's great for random sounds you sometimes need.
In so far as a list of recognizable silly sounds, I'm not sure if one exists! The Wilhelm is definitely the most popular, but I also find that searching for "cartoon" sounds will lead you to recognizable stuff sometimes too.
I love this ask because most of the time as a sound designer I am trying very hard not to use recognizable sounds cause it'll take people out of the piece. But it's perfect for the shitposts!
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Podfic: Chapter Two, "From the Perspective of a Royal Guard" by CaptMickey
By permission of the author, @captmickey, a shabby narration of the second chapter of her King's Quest Ficlet. A festival of bad voice impressions, reading blunders, and much love and appreciation for the wonderful fic! Come sit by my imaginary fireplace and have a hot cup of tea while I struggle with scansion. :-)
The original text can be found here:
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ok nope i’m not done @podcastenthusiast and @dancingwiththefae have set off a new round of brainworms i hope you’re proud of yourselves lmao
because like. it’s about the humility, right? it’s about admitting ignorance. it’s about acknowledging that sometimes you, personally, might not be enough to fix something, or someone, or that maybe whatever it is can’t actually be fixed. that it isn’t about fixing.
it’s “why so much makeup? you don’t need it, you’re so beautiful to me” vs “‘do you think i’m sexy?’ and oh god i really did”
it’s “i don’t know how to reach you when you get like this” vs “i don’t know, but i’m here”
it’s “stop making up death wishes and take my lifeline” vs “oh dear god, dear heart, don’t cry”
it’s “something’s sucking out your core and it’s so boring” vs “and now even though you’re mad…that’s ok”
it’s “can’t you see that i’m enough for you, but you don’t want me to be, because that means you’ll actually have to be content” vs “i will wait (for you to get better, for you to tell me what you need) and hope (that it’s still me)”
marbles answers the question “why so sad” with a partner who finally understands what she means when she says “stop asking why i’m sad, it’s enough to know i’m sad”
marbles is what happens when the partner of a mentally ill person stops trying to find a solution to the mental illness and decides to simply love them anyway. to wait, and hope, and sometimes pour them a drink and sit on the kitchen floor with them while they cry, and promise to murder their shitty customers for them. to not say “i’m enough for you” but instead “you’re enough for me, exactly as you are.”
(i know it’s about memory loss and not depression but eh depression can come with memory problems a lot and also sticking by a partner through severe mental or neurological illness looks pretty much the same all through, in the end)
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blacked out for 6 hours and recorded + edited my very first podfic girl help
trick-or-treat [Podfic]
written by @kaydear (Illyria_Lives) — read by crow podfics (cryiling)
Rating: G
Category: Gen
Fandom: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
Relationships: Omega & Wrecker
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Brotherly Love, Brother-Sister Relationships, Family Fluff, Halloween
Podfic Length: 0-10 minutes
Audio Format: MP3 and streaming
Summary:
“You’re not helping, Wrecker,” Hunter admonished, and Wrecker just pouted, head hanging. He couldn’t help it; he felt bad for poor Omega, trapped inside on Halloween with a headcold. For the afternoon, he’d fought a good fight with her to convince Echo and Hunter that if she bundled up, a little night walk around the neighborhood wouldn’t hurt, but then the rain had come to scatter even those distant hopes.
Wrecker and Omega make the most of a rained-out Halloween.
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𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉. — { @heredis-sanguinis }
{ ⟡ } ——— The endearment in the sweet nickname & how softly he had kissed her lips would deem her entirely silent. It was the tenderness of his hold & concerns, it was the sweetness & care poured upon her broken, powerless, form. The words calling upon her beauty, albeit if at first she had jested to lighten the mood & perhaps bait a compliment or two to feed her ego, had now moved her heart upon the sincerity in his voice. —& with every brush of his thumbs, it would be as if calling forth crimson & life to her otherwise sickly visage… & it wasn’t caused by no magic more than the one bonding their beating hearts together through centuries.
The audacity~
“You truly look at me with Cupid’s Arrow painfully piercing through you, don’t you, Mon Amour?” Her tired voice would joke, yet find delight in the comforting & intimate gestures.
She had to consciously refrain herself from following more into his caresses & let go an undignified capricious plea out of her when his hands would move away from her face, yet immediately soothed by the contact remaining across on her arms. Albeit it made her flinch at the wounds & marks, as the poison in her body would reject any attempt to heal the damaged flesh, instead taking & drinking more & more as a greedy creature…
After all, her own nature perhaps would even play against his attempts, making it a little more difficult as an unexpected counter attack, especially when on normal occasions in the past, when petricide wasn’t in the equations, her silhouette would follow through his own instruction & ministrations, guiding it back into health with no single delay…
Perhaps, simply this occasion was trickier:
A Mortal Body would form out of flesh by itself first, & blessed with sorcery afterwards; siphoning sorcery out of it would not diminish the body’s capability nor alter its stability…. But, a Nymph was Wild Magic on her own first, given a vessel of flesh by Nature itself afterwards & held together at its own seams by fine threads of golden power. It was less stable to heal on its very own without power flowing freely… & the petricide would make it far harder to resew the lose strings that would never deny him at other times.
Yet Emilia couldn’t help but appreciate her beloved’s attempts, noticing how his eyes would change shades to deep crimson, provoking a little pitiful & ashamed smile. “It's fine…” It wasn’t, but she would whisper regardless, almost melancholic, saccharine & condescending. A hand reaching up to touch his cheek ever-so gently. “… There’s no need for you to force it, Vovachka, I wouldn’t wish you to fall due exhaustion, & have us both bed-ridden.”
In contrast, however, the following mentions made her almost unladylike snort along her low chuckles. “Your sweet puppies are amazing guardians, & their hard-work is ever appreciated.” Fortunately for them, as she was lacking her magic meant no sudden bowties, top hats or waistcoats on the Drakehounds for once. Simply nodding at the expectations of his servitude fluttering around her upon calling was, more disliked in the reminder of her weakness even if it was an act of care. Centuries accustomed to be self-sufficient to be almost bed-ridden was going to need customary adjustment—
Her eyes suddenly opened in genuine wonder, albeit the glow of molten-gold was subdued to a darker hue, there was a hint of ever-vivacious attitude swirling underneath. Humming in contemplation, & her tone becoming a bit playful “You are still awfully assertive lately, that almost sounded as when I wasn’t allowed into the royal gardens’ fully by myself without a chaperon…. & a sweet Prince may offer himself to guide me, even if there would always be someone lurking regardless.” In her mind, the memory was clear & bright as if it had been yesterday, it was went their little attempts of secrecy written upon paper strips had started, or when she had picked upon the oddities of fan language from the aristocrats to convey messages to him too.
“But do not fret, dearest Dragon, I won’t stray too far from your Castle’s tower—,… I doubt for now I would be able to give a couple of steps even if I wanted to, before August or Carmine would alert you on something being wrong, or your dedicated servitude noticing the stumbling Matron on the halls... or you feeling it by yourself in that regard.” Her fingers would carefully move inside the collar of her silk dress to take out & look upon a heart-shaped pendant. Crimson blood flowing through clear crystal, silver wrapping around it as veins, one could almost swear it was about to beat ever-so softly—...
" —Is that how you knew I was hurt & needed help? Your Gifts?" She wondered as sinking a little more into the comforting pillows, trying to deny the way her body was aching. Tensed muscle, tired bones, heavy as a doll without strings. It was ridiculous, yet she stubbornly attempted to not show too much of it & pretend it wasn’t noticeable if keeping a caring eye. Despite being a deceiver & illusionist to many, a master of masking her true reactions & intentions to others, Vladimir had always come to be the one she didn’t feel the need to pretend or hide…
… defeated, she had come to that conclusion long ago: he would know either way what lay beneath, wouldn’t he?
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