Erika Gritton 💖

Erika Gritton 💖

@xweetara.com

32🔹️🏳️‍🌈🔹️She/Her Voice actor and digital + resin artist, collector of dolls and Precure things, person who makes weird voices at the D&D table to delight her friends. erika.gritton.org

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Hello all! I'm Erika, I'm a voice over artist, and I want to bring YOUR characters to life! 💖 Check out my credentials on my website, or hit play to hear my range for yourself. #voiceactor #demoreel

The best kind of advertising makes you happy it worked. Twice now, I've been by my neighbor's front-yard free food pantry on a Sunday night, and it's filled with at least a dozen loaves of fresh sourdough from a small local baker. Allison, whoever you are, you have a new customer.

Went to a protest today. Here's my signs. There was police violence, no firearms fortunately, but they bodily hauled a girl out and threw her on the ground with a SMACK, claimed she was resisting arrest. Only reason they grabbed her and not me was she was smaller and closer to the door.

Going to give this a shot, would anyone happen to have a #VGenCode they would be willing to let me have? I'm a lifelong graphic designer and digital artist (my first playground was Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7) as well as a voice actor and singer! No AI ever touches any step of my process. Please share! 💖🌈

Being a freelancer (✨sparkling unemployed ✨) in this rock-bottom job market means spending most of my work hours on "if" instead of "when" ideas. But hey, IF I'm able to have some kind of future in drawing streams, my Procreate folders now both look neat and hide their contents from prying eyes! 😊

Guys this character has LITERALLY made me cry multiple times PLEASE check out this project I'm lucky enough to be a part of 🥹

Do you remember them? If you don’t, or if you’re seeing them for the first time, you should check out the demo for our upcoming sci-fi visual novel! (Link in bio) For those who do remember Meaphkastel… updates coming soon-ish 👀 #indiegamedev #visualnovel #indiegames #art

Do I write with AI? No. I write with the delusional confidence of a 16-year-old pretending to take notes while building grand collaborative worlds in old notebooks passed around the halls after school, convinced that walking into a publishing house with her pen scrawls will captivate the world.

I think #Sony could win back an awful lot of the goodwill they've lost by killing physical copies of #Playstation games, if they just went back to everyone's favorite media storage system: the good ol' UMD.

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Each of these incidents is being framed as a success — a terrifying success that you must believe in and fear— rather than what it is as a criminal failure of ethics and institutional control.

Today I saw a $500 rolling toolbox/table in my favorite color and I was SMITTEN, completely in love. I thought about what I could do if I owned it, imagined my dream craft room. Now I'm crying about how my entire generation will never afford a house. How's your day been?

My dreaming brain: ✨💖🦋🌈✨Seafoam walls, sturdy vinyl floors in wood texture, a sewing desk, a doll shelf with UV protection glass, lots of windows...✨💖🦋🌈✨ My logic brain: BITCH you've been unemployed for so long your therapist is thinking of getting you on social security! Be real!

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Cannot be overstated how much ass it sucks that artists can't make weird errors without being accused of using genAI. Need these slop machines dead and buried yesterday

A couple friends are showing me Ocarina of Time for the first time, since I've somehow gotten this far in life without playing a Zelda game. Rated E for Everyone my ass 😭 The cursed spider people have officially scarred me for life. (No spoilers please!)

We just made it out of Jabbujabbu's belly. I've got a couple other friends (because apparently everyone has played this game but me) going "ugh, you WOULD like Princess Ruto 🙄" as if I don't already have a reputation for liking cute, bitchy, kinda annoying girls AND for liking mermaids, come on

Post time skip salesman: Gyehehe, thanks to Ganondorf destroying the land, it's a FANTASTIC time to be the only businessman! I hope the world gets WORSE! Me: Oh, he's a Trumpist. Make Hyrule Great Again.

And I will continue to use and love this software 🥰 Literally broke my non-Apple stance and got an iPad specifically to use Procreate, no regrets

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

Procreate confirms it has NO plans to add generative AI features to its apps. The company continues to stand firmly against integrating generative AI into its creative tools.

Having some ✨emotions✨ in the recording booth today. I love voice acting so much. Shout out to everyone who writes such amazing scripts and then lets me read them aloud.

Working my ass off on SEVERAL projects out here, please wait warmly until I am ready. Here's a pretty doll to tide you over! Estrella is a Teacup Lottie by Do Dolls Dream, painted and styled by me

Kids these days, taking care of their physical health and normalizing disability because it's *hip* and *in* and little girls can't think for themselves and struggle like the rest of us

Nick Barlow@nickbwalking.bsky.social

In a move that will surprise absolutely no one who's been paying attention, Stock has decided that women with disabilities are suffering from "social contagion"

I love being proven wrong. An old man looked me up and down at the store today, and my thoughts went, he's got something to say about my mask, or he's judging how much skin I'm showing, like usual. Instead, he pointed at my hot pink platform Crocs. "I like your shoes." Hell yeah, sir, thanks! 🤩

Using my graphical IT degree by volunteering to play around in Canva for a local anime con ✌️ Let's gooooo

HachiCon@hachicon.bsky.social

Have Thursday on us! HachiCon wants to thank our community for all their continued support, so not only are we not raising badge prices, you also get Thursday, August 20th FREE with any badge purchase (that's weekend AND single-day badges)!

Something about the way furniture restoration channels always say "time to find out what's under all that paint" as if they don't expect it to be wood every single time

A friend of mine was talking about how her mother fell for a Facebook scam promising to sell her a holistic cure for neuropathy. I tried to sum it up in emoji form, but I couldn't find an oil emoji. So, um. 🐍🧈

Not even remotely. The only place I'm more disappointed with than the US as a whole is Utah in particular.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com

I'd be interested in some thoughts from Americans on here on an idea: Over the last 5 years, have you found yourself identifying more with your home state than the US as a whole over time?

Wishing every Microsoft a very "disrespectfully FUCK OFF" forever and ever

Alejandro Saab - Voice Actor@alejandrosaab.bsky.social

I know only post about voice acting announcements on here… but I have to say if @doublefine.com ends up shutting down I will be a wreck. I’m really hoping they get the chance to go indie. I understand these are “business decisions” but disrespectfully FUCK OFF. Let all those studios go indie

Me: [suffers a major life change] What if I tried to do voice work for the games industry? 😊 Games industry: [suffers historic mass layoffs of over a third of total developers in only two years] [devours small studios with buyouts and dissolution at unheard of rates] [actively dying] Me: Oh.

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When someone asks "does your art use Generative AI" I don't want the answer to be "well we utilized it at an early stage of development trained on ethical datasets internally used by our team of VERY respected human employees" I want the answer to be "No."

Random soapbox moment: I really dislike the term "vegan leather". It's plastic, you're just green-washing plastic. Real, legit leather is LEAGUES better for sustainability. Carry on with your scrolling, just wanted to say that.

I'm so pumped for this! New Touhou fans, ようこそ!

IceFairy@richardeffendi.bsky.social

I'm compiling everything we've learned about the EoSD remake into an easily digestible thread. A thread 🧵. First of all, the game will be released globally on Steam and officially translated into multiple languages. Not sure if the Switch/PS5 version is also releasing globally.

Goddd, I'm glowing with happiness today. Getting my hair done, my stylist is queer and ex-Mormon so we have SO much to talk about. Client next to me is a nonbinary teen getting their first haircut since coming out, they look SO good. And all in my ultra conservative hometown! Happy Pride, goddamn.

Was literally just talking about this with my roommate. If it's not actively harming anyone (no, general "ick" is not harm!) then letting people be into what they're into in their own ways and on their own time is not only a decent, considerate thing to do, it's essential to ideological freedom.

Mad(s)@digitalflinch.bsky.social

Working on a cool project today. A friend of mine who's getting into kaigai idol and song cover stuff has a long-time favorite anime song she'd like to sing in English, so I'm rewriting the translation to match the scansion of the music and maybe even rhyme in places! This kind of thing is so fun ✌️

The druid at my table just felled a swarm of undead birds animated by a necromancer, and then IMMEDIATELY cast Animate Dead on the same swarm and rose them back up for herself. Apparently it's fine when she does it.

AI "working" as intended ✌️

🌈Dr. Frizzle@swilua.bsky.social

My student told me he ran his paper through an AI checker to see if it would get flagged even though he wrote it, and it offered to “humanize” his paper by changing the sentence, “Illicit cocaine use is responsible for many potential adverse cardiovascular events” to “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”