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It is my firm belief that while he was simultaneously working as hard as possible to appear as the world's biggest normal boring bland DEFINITELY NOT GAY player, he was also becoming deeply weird/kinky/twisted in his mostly mental (with rare very anon RL) sex life. serial killer fantasies for sure.

You wouldn't think 2 lb would make that much of a difference but going from old cat who was 6 lb soaking wet on a good day to new cat who is now around 8 lb... Just feels orders of magnitudes heavier when she steps on me

look at the little gremlin faces!

@seascribble.bsky.social

#uspoli The thing is it's much harder to go oops never mind with a war then it is with tariffs etc. :/

oh yeah loved this one

If you want sapphic heated rivalry and you haven't seen the A League of Their Own series from a few years ago over on prime video, you are missing out.

I am a weirdo who has an analog clock on all four walls of her main living/kitchen room space, and they are awkward to get to and now we get to see how long I let them be the wrong time.

ughhhhhhhhhh I love having to defend myself about shit I never said.

start from the end of your chapter and work back to the beginning, you can jump straight to the next insert point without wasting time hunting.

(the entire rest of the file gets bumped down by half a second or whatever). This means that by the time you finish fixing insert three or putting in the sentence you somehow missed, insert four is now going to be at 23:38 instead of 21:56. which means another minute of hunting. but If you

work from the back of the file backwards towards the front. So the last insert of the chapter first. This is because, you've got these things noted by timestamp, And if you start with the first insert of the chapter, you are slightly changing the time and that ripples downwards in the file

sentences to keep the flow right. You record a big file of all of the inserts, You run that whole fucking thing all the way through to mastered, so that you can go back and insert them into the mastered file.

And here is my final huge tip for when you are going back and editing in inserts.

If it was a tiny fuck up that didn't change the substance like I said the bag instead of her bag I might leave it and hope the writer didn't notice). The thing to remember is sometimes you can't just rerecord that phrase you have to re-record the entire sentence or maybe a couple

workflow for that would be note the time stamp on file, highlight the section of the text, And I would just have a physical piece of paper I would write the notes of what I had to change. I would generally have at least half a dozen of these little fuckups to fix in any given chapter. (although TBH

fuck it. One more tip. there will absolutely be points where you get to the export process and you are proofing (reading along as you listen) And you will run into stuff where you dropped a sentence or said the wrong word or said it super weird, or you had a tummy gurgle you didn't pick up. My

for your purposes. I worked a lot of this out when I was like doing a 15-hour book, and even at a 5 to 1 labor hour to finished hour ratio, small fuckups could add literally days of work if they weren't caught at the right point).

apply something to 8 hours worth of audio, And then discover that something in the export process means you really wanted that one setting at 0.45 and not 0.55 so oops You need to go back and run all eight hours through again. and then remaster. And then re-export. (YMMV This all may be overkill

have to redo everything.

BUT, You don't want to start batching until you are relatively confident of your process (getting one 5 minute chunk all the way through from recording to final proofing) to produce a usable product. Because what you really don't want to do is

I'm sure this seems like overkill but believe me You think You're doing fine but you fucked up some setting or whatever And you're going to want clear save points to a) Go back and do the detective work to see where you fucked up and b) have a clean pre fuck up save point to go back to so you don't

then I would let those stack up, and eventually export (which was a lot of double check settings, hit button, wait for 20 minutes, repeat). THEN, I pop that mp3 into something with a speaker and do a final listen through. (And again I would often batch this.)

mindlessly bang through while watching something. (or while editing a different chapter on a different laptop once I got good at it). I would save that as _mastering while it was in process, then _MASTERED once it was done. (When you're working on hour-long files this can take a fucking while).

and then save as _PREEDIT. Then I would start editing and save as I go with _Editing. once I got to the end of the file I would save as _EditDONE. then I would generally let those stack up because the mastering was a whole lot of 'Hit a button, wait 3 minutes, Hit another button' that I can

all levels for quality control), you want to do that after you edit.

The naming convention I eventually stuck on was xxx_RAW for the initial recording. there were some filters (I'm using filter broadly here including amplifying volume or whatever) I would do before the edit so I would do those

The shorter of those processes take. (This is going to vary a lot depending on the speed of your machine, but It still takes time) But yeah, once you understand your processes and audio enough to know that your raw quality is good enough to come out decent in the mastering (basically tweaking over

edit first, and not fuck around with like noise reduction mastering stuff until you've got your edit done. for the simple time saving reason that your raw chapter record file might be 27 minutes long, but like 22 after you trim everything down. and the shorter the file you run thru various processes

then hit another process and wait for minutes. (This is where the macros can come in handy).

oh! And I think this was a question from earlier in DMs but I'm remembering now, aside from an initial listen to make sure there isn't some weird fucked up shit going on, It's better to do your initial

end, I would let them stack up and then when there were a bunch to master I would bang through those, etc. certain stages are a lot more mentally taxing and then other stages like mastering are a lot of 'Hit this processor, Wait two and a half minutes while it chews on half an hour of file.

doing blocks of recording at a time (which you have a physical limit on for the day in terms of voice). those chunks (a chapter or whatever) then get put into the To Edit pile, after which they go into the to master pile, then the export pile. I generally wouldn't follow one file from beginning to

1 finished hour. Obviously this will depend a lot on How strict the specs you are trying to hit are, your machine, etc. But for me it had a lot to do with workflow and batching. like once I could trust myself to record and not fuck up that one little thing that meant I had to redo it, I could start