37 Years Old, And Things Seem to be Looking Up! Now if only I were making any money at it...
So... Things have really picked up in every way but a work way since getting back from DragonCon and turning 37. Me and CableFlame have dialed things back from an active boyfriend/girlfriend stature, since the longer we remained so, the worse things got. They're some better now, so I'm not gonna jinx things by commenting on it any more than that. But wait, there's a lot more!
I managed to get inspired enough to do a piece of fiction for the Mind Control Board over in this here thread. A fun little suspenseful piece that probably says more about me than the genre itself. I've not gone into my adult photoshop work here overly. It's not online anywhere at the moment, so don't worry about that. (And that's a whole big thing that deserves a post all its own.) But the story focusses on that some. Here's a link to the thread its in. Those of you below the age of 18 need not apply. Go do something legal for you. And if you go look, understand it's of your own volition, and that you hold me blameless for all situations and mental states you find yourself in afterward.
September Event: www.oBey.com -Everything Must Go - by WinterRose
http://www.mcforum.net/yabbse/index.php?topic=16386.0
International Talk Like a Pirate Day came and went, which I observed in Second Life by pirating myself up a treat, then doing an image of myself. As well as a nice steampunky Jolly Roger that I have some plans for. Here's those for ya.
Under My Flag.... I Am Free!
YAR-HAR-HARR! Tha's th'sorta thing what makes for a fun afternoon, it do!
The big news? I've managed to find an online Voice Acting community that does their own dubs of popular anime and movies. Even domestic animations. These aren't just a bunch of internet yahoos out to do vaguely professional bits of dubbing destined for YouTube. These folks are dedicated to their craft, and like me, seem to want to do this professionally, and be noticed by the industry in a way that will get them work.
So I've dug out my microphone, an AKG Perception 100 Condenser Mike with a Shock Cage...
And my Art Tube MP Project Series Pre-Amp...
...and started auditioning for things I think I could do. I've done several auditions over the last week, since the stuff they're doing there? I recognize about half of it. But that half is some pretty awesome opportunity. From Calvin & Hobbes, to Sailor Moon, to Spider-Man, to original stuff, to Final Fantasy, to Harry Potter. There's a LOT going on there. How successful have my efforts been?
Well, I've landed two parts so far. The first being in an original fan production called the Marauders of Hogwarts. This would follow the generation of adults that figured so prominently in the Potter Books. Harry's Parents, their friends and enemies, and the challenges they had to face as first years at Hogwarts. Who did I get? The lycanthropy afflicted erstwhile Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, Remus John Lupin. Yay me! A character that recognizes the value of chocolate! Yes I come to a bad end. But I get to be with Tonks as an adult! SCORE!
The second part? None other than Dr. Toshiaki Nagashima. The lead role in a fan-dub of the Japanese science-horror thriller, Parasite Eve. This is the movie of the novel that the Squaresoft videogame was based on. In the game, you hear about an incident in Japan, but it isn't expanded on so much. My character is a guy who's lost his wife, but he still has liver cells from her saved away. He's looking to try and resurrect her through some technique involving the culturing of the mitochondrion in her liver cells. Things take RATHER a turn however when the Mitochondria seem to have ideas of their own. Revolutionary ones at that.
There's other things brewing in that community that if they bear fruit, could be really neat feathers in my dramatic resume, and possible additions to a demo reel I can submit to voice over agencies and voice acting houses. One's a production that bills itself as something crossbred between The Sandman and Doctor Who. IT was just picked up by an NPR station looking to help re-establish radio drama as a valid form of entertainment. So were I to get that part, thousands of people might hear me in actual radio broadcasts. Maybe even people that would want to PAY me to be in something else.
Another one's a full-cast audiobook presentation of Alice in Wonderland with a daytime emmy winning actress voicing the Queen of Hearts. And I just voiced a guard type character for a friend of mine who's doing animated Legend of Zelda parodies with SNES sprite graphics on Newgrounds. She even got the rights to use this Zelda theme that most people on Peer to Peer networks seem to think was done by System of a Down. (It isn't them people.) All in all, things seem to be jumping voice acting wise!
I went to the Crucible again a few weeks ago. I'm not sure I wanna go back for a while. At least not til I'm working. I can think of a lot less expensive ways to stand around feeling awkward and like an outsider looking in. The folks there aren't bad people. But they're pretty much BDSM folks. And I'm more a fetishist. I don't wanna be beaten, or beat anyone. I don't wanna be tied up or tie anyone up. I don't wanna hurt anyone or be mean to em, or have anyone hurt or be mean to me. And for an alternative sexuality, the mindset there can seem to be pretty traditional when it comes to what preconceptions of BDSM and D/S mean.
Of course this also has to do with my complete lack of interest in sex recently too. That and an innate shyness when it comes to me being able to go up to someone and ask if they wanna play around sexually. I'm kinda put off by the preconception I can't seem to get rid of that someone will go "Sure! Which one of my floggers would you like me to hit you with/do you want to hit me with first? What kind of pain are you into?" If they only had some way I could get to know them first without the awkward expectation that I might totally get my libido back all at once and want to have them right there on the floor, real horrorshow?
"My first thought was I'd like to have her right there on the floor, real horrorshow."
There is hope in that vein. I have also, thanks to CableFlame discovered the happy existence of FetLife.com. It's not so much a dating site. At least so its administrator claims. It's more like a kind of fetishy/bdsm-y facebook. Which I can't describe more than that, since I've never done any kind of facebooking. It does have all sorts of little boards and groups where people of like interest can meet up and talk to one another. Which would include Hypnofetishists, Robot & Doll Fetishists like myself. Or just people local to a particular area. I even found people that lived in Charlotte NC who are into my kinks to some degree. Isn't it always the way? You find people like that AFTER you move away. Ahh well. There's my online solution for talking to people in the local community. And it's free! My favorite price. ^_^
Finally, I've discovered the awesome that is CafePress. I've been doing designs like mine for HOW long and I haven't been taking advantage of this? For those of you that don't know, it's a site that lets you upload your art, which they put on shirts and sell. And you get some of the profit. According to the hype on their site, some of their artists make 100 grand a year from their profits. Of course for that, they'd REALLY have to strike a nerve with the current zeitgeist by doing designs that people would wanna buy. That said, I think I can do that in some instances RATHER well. I just have to find my niches. I've already got a document full of ideas. I just need to start working on them. Hell, I'm already gonna start with that Skull & Crossbones up there. Among other designs I've done that were meant purely for shirts.
Maybe I'll make scads of money like this enterprising young woman.
Annnd... that's what I've been doing lately. That and job hunting. Expanding my search beyond the borders of Washington DC to see what bites. My future is up in the air, but the opportunities are not at all bad. (I just wish they were paying ones.) Wish me luck, gentle readers.
I managed to get inspired enough to do a piece of fiction for the Mind Control Board over in this here thread. A fun little suspenseful piece that probably says more about me than the genre itself. I've not gone into my adult photoshop work here overly. It's not online anywhere at the moment, so don't worry about that. (And that's a whole big thing that deserves a post all its own.) But the story focusses on that some. Here's a link to the thread its in. Those of you below the age of 18 need not apply. Go do something legal for you. And if you go look, understand it's of your own volition, and that you hold me blameless for all situations and mental states you find yourself in afterward.
September Event: www.oBey.com -Everything Must Go - by WinterRose
http://www.mcforum.net/yabbse/index.php?topic=16386.0
International Talk Like a Pirate Day came and went, which I observed in Second Life by pirating myself up a treat, then doing an image of myself. As well as a nice steampunky Jolly Roger that I have some plans for. Here's those for ya.
Under My Flag.... I Am Free!
YAR-HAR-HARR! Tha's th'sorta thing what makes for a fun afternoon, it do!
The big news? I've managed to find an online Voice Acting community that does their own dubs of popular anime and movies. Even domestic animations. These aren't just a bunch of internet yahoos out to do vaguely professional bits of dubbing destined for YouTube. These folks are dedicated to their craft, and like me, seem to want to do this professionally, and be noticed by the industry in a way that will get them work.
So I've dug out my microphone, an AKG Perception 100 Condenser Mike with a Shock Cage...
And my Art Tube MP Project Series Pre-Amp...
...and started auditioning for things I think I could do. I've done several auditions over the last week, since the stuff they're doing there? I recognize about half of it. But that half is some pretty awesome opportunity. From Calvin & Hobbes, to Sailor Moon, to Spider-Man, to original stuff, to Final Fantasy, to Harry Potter. There's a LOT going on there. How successful have my efforts been?
Well, I've landed two parts so far. The first being in an original fan production called the Marauders of Hogwarts. This would follow the generation of adults that figured so prominently in the Potter Books. Harry's Parents, their friends and enemies, and the challenges they had to face as first years at Hogwarts. Who did I get? The lycanthropy afflicted erstwhile Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, Remus John Lupin. Yay me! A character that recognizes the value of chocolate! Yes I come to a bad end. But I get to be with Tonks as an adult! SCORE!
The second part? None other than Dr. Toshiaki Nagashima. The lead role in a fan-dub of the Japanese science-horror thriller, Parasite Eve. This is the movie of the novel that the Squaresoft videogame was based on. In the game, you hear about an incident in Japan, but it isn't expanded on so much. My character is a guy who's lost his wife, but he still has liver cells from her saved away. He's looking to try and resurrect her through some technique involving the culturing of the mitochondrion in her liver cells. Things take RATHER a turn however when the Mitochondria seem to have ideas of their own. Revolutionary ones at that.
There's other things brewing in that community that if they bear fruit, could be really neat feathers in my dramatic resume, and possible additions to a demo reel I can submit to voice over agencies and voice acting houses. One's a production that bills itself as something crossbred between The Sandman and Doctor Who. IT was just picked up by an NPR station looking to help re-establish radio drama as a valid form of entertainment. So were I to get that part, thousands of people might hear me in actual radio broadcasts. Maybe even people that would want to PAY me to be in something else.
Another one's a full-cast audiobook presentation of Alice in Wonderland with a daytime emmy winning actress voicing the Queen of Hearts. And I just voiced a guard type character for a friend of mine who's doing animated Legend of Zelda parodies with SNES sprite graphics on Newgrounds. She even got the rights to use this Zelda theme that most people on Peer to Peer networks seem to think was done by System of a Down. (It isn't them people.) All in all, things seem to be jumping voice acting wise!
I went to the Crucible again a few weeks ago. I'm not sure I wanna go back for a while. At least not til I'm working. I can think of a lot less expensive ways to stand around feeling awkward and like an outsider looking in. The folks there aren't bad people. But they're pretty much BDSM folks. And I'm more a fetishist. I don't wanna be beaten, or beat anyone. I don't wanna be tied up or tie anyone up. I don't wanna hurt anyone or be mean to em, or have anyone hurt or be mean to me. And for an alternative sexuality, the mindset there can seem to be pretty traditional when it comes to what preconceptions of BDSM and D/S mean.
Of course this also has to do with my complete lack of interest in sex recently too. That and an innate shyness when it comes to me being able to go up to someone and ask if they wanna play around sexually. I'm kinda put off by the preconception I can't seem to get rid of that someone will go "Sure! Which one of my floggers would you like me to hit you with/do you want to hit me with first? What kind of pain are you into?" If they only had some way I could get to know them first without the awkward expectation that I might totally get my libido back all at once and want to have them right there on the floor, real horrorshow?
"My first thought was I'd like to have her right there on the floor, real horrorshow."
There is hope in that vein. I have also, thanks to CableFlame discovered the happy existence of FetLife.com. It's not so much a dating site. At least so its administrator claims. It's more like a kind of fetishy/bdsm-y facebook. Which I can't describe more than that, since I've never done any kind of facebooking. It does have all sorts of little boards and groups where people of like interest can meet up and talk to one another. Which would include Hypnofetishists, Robot & Doll Fetishists like myself. Or just people local to a particular area. I even found people that lived in Charlotte NC who are into my kinks to some degree. Isn't it always the way? You find people like that AFTER you move away. Ahh well. There's my online solution for talking to people in the local community. And it's free! My favorite price. ^_^
Finally, I've discovered the awesome that is CafePress. I've been doing designs like mine for HOW long and I haven't been taking advantage of this? For those of you that don't know, it's a site that lets you upload your art, which they put on shirts and sell. And you get some of the profit. According to the hype on their site, some of their artists make 100 grand a year from their profits. Of course for that, they'd REALLY have to strike a nerve with the current zeitgeist by doing designs that people would wanna buy. That said, I think I can do that in some instances RATHER well. I just have to find my niches. I've already got a document full of ideas. I just need to start working on them. Hell, I'm already gonna start with that Skull & Crossbones up there. Among other designs I've done that were meant purely for shirts.
Maybe I'll make scads of money like this enterprising young woman.
Annnd... that's what I've been doing lately. That and job hunting. Expanding my search beyond the borders of Washington DC to see what bites. My future is up in the air, but the opportunities are not at all bad. (I just wish they were paying ones.) Wish me luck, gentle readers.