Emma Rae

@RileyCBolt @Devon_Eriksen_ @RobHendersonPH @MrWasnt @CDoombeard @toss_across @Opera_Rocks 👋

@Devon_Eriksen_ @RobHendersonPH @MrWasnt @CDoombeard @tiny0nion @toss_across @Opera_Rocks Who played Miranda? Was it @tiny0nion or @toss_across? That way I know who played who without having to SPOILER. 😆

Those of us who lived next to them always knew. I once heard a left-leaning comedian say that nations have a character like individuals, and that America was like a testosterone-driven thirteen year old boy, and Canada like a smart, educated forty year old woman. I think this comparison was more apt than he knew. Because it precisely describes both the surface appearance AND the way that appearance falls apart when you look more closely, and discover that the thirteen year old boy rebuilds classic hot rod engines in his dad's garage, and just took the GED because high school is boring, and that the forty year old woman is, in fact, educated in some form of grievance studies, and is an insufferable self-righteous Karen, complete with that haircut. Naturally, these generalizations only stretch so far, but they kinda work, and one of the reasons for that is that Canada has a serious problem with its political philosophy and basic sense of identity. Canada has been defining itself as "We Are Not America". And gradually, any other aspects of Canadian-ness have been trimmed away, in the service of being Not American. Because Americans are exclusive, and insist on our own culture, therefore Canadians must be culture-neutral, and welcoming, and insist on nothing save being Not American. A fact which they remind Americans of without cease, whenever they can get our attention. It seems to be their favorite topic, or at least their favorite topic to talk to us about. But you can't base your group identity on a negation. Negations give you nothing to bind you together. It's why atheists don't have church communities. "Canadian" is ceasing to be a thing, or at least a thing that matters, even to Canadians, because Not American simply isn't enough. Nations need something to stand for. What does it mean to be Canadian, now? I'm sure that I will hear some answers, and not all of them will be trivial things like Tim Horton's, poutine, or ice hockey. And I'm sure these answers will be very good at distinguishing them from America (because they are Not America), but... will those answers distinguish them from Belgium? From Australia? From Iceland? What defines a Canadian? This question is especially relevant now, when Canada's political class seems determined to welcome infinite numbers of people who share no values whatsoever with the natives. Is there something? Can someone help me out here? Because if your only mission in life is not to be your obnoxious neighbor Steve, with his giant pickup truck and his noisy house parties, then how could you possibly avoid becoming just a bit more sanctimonious every day?

@BackwoodsEnginr Thank you so much🥹 I also dream of voicing her in an animation! Maybe one day right @Devon_Eriksen_ 👀

@tiny0nion I would just like to say that your voice characterization of Miranda Foxgrove in the Theft of Fire audiobook was amazing. I've listened to the whole thing four times now, and bits more than that. You brought her to life! Hope you can voice her in the (hopefully forthcoming!) animated movie. In my head, your voice is Miranda, a force to be reckoned with. As an enemy, she is a nightmare, but as a friend, well, she saved Marcus. Thanks.

@Lord_Igthorn @CDoombeard @Devon_Eriksen_ Agreed.

@CDoombeard @Devon_Eriksen_ Miranda: "Markus, what the fuck???"

It's simple. Culture is a phenotype. What does that mean? It means that every human activity, belief, and custom is downstream of genetic programming. Girls who fell in love with indicators of genetic fitness had more successful descendants than girls who fell in love with being treated like queens. And successful male descendants impregnated more women. So women fall in love with indicators of worth. Not with being treated well. Consider the following excerpt from the recent bestseller, The Vampire Was a Billionaire, by Mormonia Repressederson: Suddenly, he billionaired vampricially across the elevator, too fast and powerful for her eyes to even follow, and seized her problematically, but sexily, by the throat. "Selfinsertia Protagonist," he growled in her ear, "I have known life for thousands of years. I have seen kingdoms rise and fall. I have known riches and adventure, from sailing the high seas as a pirate to living as a nobleman from the richest courts of medieval Europe to exotic Samarkand. I have toppled the thrones of the mighty with a word. I also was a surgeon and a cowboy for a while. Don't ask." His grip on her was strong, like a strong grippy thing. "But never have I known such passion for a brown-haired, slightly chubby 29 year old junior account executive at the New York City firm of Business and Business, who is slightly clumsy and drops things when she's nervous." "Be my dark queen," he whispered, and his voice was very brooding and mysterious. Regardless of the, ah... interesting... quality of the writing, the instincts it appeals to are pretty clear. The Dark Mysterious Vampire Earl of Statis-Cimbal is weathly, powerful, and accomplished, as well as dark and mysterious, and this is the ideal mate. Young, horny, and lonely men may fuss about how women are gold-diggers, but this mostly isn't so. If you can manage to read the rest of the book, perhaps with the assistance of two percocets and half a bottle of wine, you'll that the fantasy is about the Earl himself, not about going shopping with his credit card. Wealth, power, status, and the ability to be immortal by hurting people, are all merely indicators of his genetic fitness, which will give her strong babies. Of course, there won't actually be any babies, because technically Selfinsertia Protagonist is having sex with a corpse, but instincts are imperative programs, not rational plans. By contrast, the sort of behavior that lonely young men are angry at women for not being attracted to is... well, it's free. Any man can be nice and compliant and sit through rom-coms while massaging her feet, so long as he has functioning hands. And cooking isn't exactly a rare skill, either. Any jackass can be nice to a woman, and court her with displays of devotion. All it requires is a lack of self-worth. And it proves absolutely nothing about his worth. So, yes, women are attracted to quality, not compliance. Duh. But this isn't some sort of weird character flaw. It's literally the basic and correct function of the female brain. Women being women doesn't create problems. The woman problems we have are all from men complying with women. You're not supposed to obey them, you're supposed to impress them.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @AnEriksenWife 🥲

@AnEriksenWife I think @tiny0nion now has a lifelong eyebrow twitch that can be triggered by the words "again, please".

Your feelings of well-being in life are supposed to come from accomplishments, not hugboxes. This is why imposing exacting standards for those in your charge sets them up not only for success, but for happiness. That's true whether they are soldiers, student, employees, children, or what have you. When a person is expected to excel, pushed to excel, and given space to excel, and they able to actually do so, they not only feel proud of themselves, but develop a thicker skin around their feelings that allows them to better tolerate future blunt feedback and high expectations. Those who have accomplished can take criticism because they know they are worthy. Hugbox environments, however, cripple opportunities for excellence, and thereby increase the need for hugbox emotional therapy.... a downward spiral. This explains, for example, the deep narcissism and constant attention-seeking of highly successful Hollywood actors. A-list actors are highly paid (for long as they have a good agent and don't fall for net-percentage contracts), but they are highly paid because people develop parasocial relationships with them, giving them vast audiences to bring with them to any project they touch. Their actual accomplishments are relatively modest. They stand where they are told, recite words someone else wrote for them, and emote. It's definitely a real skill, and people can be better and worse at it, but the compensation of major skills is not mainly a consequence of that acting skill. When you get paid a lot for comparatively little effort, it is easy to develop a crippling anxiety about whether you are actually worth anything. Thus, you need a constant stream of reassurance about how valuable and special you are. And you will seek it out. This applies, as well, to recipients of government handouts (SNAP, EBT, etc). While they don't get seven-figure payouts, they are being paid to do absolutely nothing. Is it any surprise that entitled attitudes are the result? This is critical ego defense. It's easy to fantasize about great rewards. But to be content with them, you must get them with accomplishments.

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@tiny0nion @Devon_Eriksen_ Emma, you are simply amazing. 🤯 Your voice fits Miranda so well I can see her every time you speak. Thank you so much for putting your heart into this so well. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

An open letter for my audiobook kickstarter backers: Thank you. You were unbelievably generous, and then you were unbelievably patient. When I set out to showcase the vision in my head of everything I thought an audiobook could be, not just a "book on tape", but a sort of movie you can listen to while driving... I never thought, in my worst anxiety-ridden imaginations, that it would take a year to finish. Of course, I never anticipated having to slip a battle with one of the most lethal forms of cancer into my project timeline, but that wasn't the whole story. When you start out to build something bigger than you can on your own, you have to put a team together. Then you have to learn to work together. Then, because you've never done it before, you have to make every single mistake there is to make, until you run out of mistakes and actually figure out how to do things right. Every moment I had nothing to serve you but excuses, it cost me a little piece of my soul. But today, I am finally at peace, because now you have, in your hands, what I labored to build, and you generously paid for. So I don't have to make excuses any more, because good art requires no excuses, and bad art allows none. I hope that what I, and my team, have made for you was worth our effort and your patience, for it is absolutely the best I am capable of. If it's not good enough, then neither am I. That's up to you to decide. There's no way for me to properly express in words how grateful I am for what you've done for me. Even if, for some of you, it was only a little bit of your time and money, those little bits add up, until eventually here I am, living my dream, creating what I always wanted to create. I'm not a rich and famous author (yet), but thanks to you, I get to make exactly what's in my head, with no compromises, and invite other people in to enjoy it. Most billionaires don't have that. Thank you. I hope that we have justified your faith. I'd like to take a few moments, also, to thank my team: Christine and Sara, for handling an endless stream of tasks so I could just be an artist. And for never telling me my dream of being an A-lister was stupid or unattainable. The faith of loved ones is critical to an artist's success. @CDoombeard, Dain Little, the voice of Marcus Warnoc. Your amazing talent was wasted driving a goddamned bus in North Dakota. You deserve to be famous, and I will do everything in my power to make that happen. @tiny0nion, Emma Rae, the voice of Miranda Foxgrove. You did the impossible just finding that voice, then nailed every acting challenge I put you to. You're too good to spend the rest of your career doing BrawlStars characters. So the next book will stretch your limits and show the world what you're really capable of. No pressure. @MakeAGoddamnedXAccountAlready, Ashley Crossman, the voice of Leela: Thanks, but you don't get headpats in public until you get on social media so you can hear me. @TenorRichards, virtuoso sound engineer: You, and the entire opera world, already know you are a top talent star. So I'd just like to thank you for your incredible patience, and indefatigable enthusiasm, as I micromanaged every last detail and insisted on infusing every moment with an artistic vision that you were actually willing to get on board with and share. Next time will be less grueling, I promise. Backers, please give these folks a follow, so you can see all their other cool projects. You'll doing yourselves a favor. And once again, thank you.

@fibbsjc So happy to hear that!

@tiny0nion This is amazing. Loving this.

The album is out. Nature is healing. Pls listen and support your local singer (me) open.spotify.com/album/0Di1ICKC…

I love severance so much I wrote a song about markhelly open.spotify.com/album/5OKvO7jp…

@Devon_Eriksen_ @TenorRichards @CDoombeard Can’t wait to finally listen to the finished product!! I’ll channel my inner @AnEriksenWife and send it to everyone I know

As of today, audio mastering for the Theft of Fire audiobook is complete. Thanks to @TenorRichards, @CDoombeard , @tiny0nion, and that annoying chick who refuses to get a twitter account, for all your hard work. There will be a little more delay for final quality checks and publication logistics, then we go live. I think you'll be pleased. I spent around $25K in production costs, and listening to the final product, it shows. I believe the future of audiobooks, at least for the A-list set, involves high production values, full casts, and quality sound engineering. Give it a listen and see if you agree.

Season 8 Episode 10 With special guest Emma Rae PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW Website: yhhtmpc.com submissions to: info@yhhtmpc.com Buy me a coffee: buymeacoffee.com/Yhhtmp With music from @tiny0nion @BYOHammer Phoeno #music #newmusic #artists #podcast #musicpodcast

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This is Emma Rae, the voice of Valentine in my short-form anime @NeonGardenAnime. Insanely talented.

It’s out 🥹 youtu.be/EfJjM9MQG0I?si…

All Lost No Found is out at MIDNIGHT with my band, No Fly List, and I have never been more excited for a release in my life. 🥹 distrokid.com/hyperfollow/no…

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@finalbosuX @SteveG60117 This looks SO GOOD🔥

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