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Colm Ryan VA

@cryanva.bsky.social

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(He/Him) 26 year old AuDHD LGBTQ+ Irish Voice Actor / Bachelor of Games Development Email: [email protected] Website: https://colmryan.carrd.co/ I have a Ko-fi if you feel generous: http://ko-fi.com/cryanva

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Colm Ryan VA @cryanva.bsky.social · Oct 11

My Current Sample Reel as of 10/02/2024
youtu.be/lW6a-_6Z6fY
And my personal website
colmryan.carrd.co

Colm Ryan Sample Reel 10/02/2024

YouTube video by Decoy Gamer

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Miabyte🎙️— 🎃 Spooky Villain Hero 👻 @miabyte.bsky.social · 12h

There's always this weird form of gatekeeping & 'git gud' mentality from the anti-accessibility crowd. Like adding those options somehow takes away from their achievements.

Reminds me of the whole "my generation had to suffer so you should too" mindset. Clown behaviour.

Games should be accessible.

Miabyte🎙️— 🎃 Spooky Villain Hero 👻 @miabyte.bsky.social · 19h

Silksong should have difficulty settings

Some people don't need the help, and that's fine, but from both an accessibility standpoint and a consumer standpoint, it should have options to help those who need it.

Imagine buying a game and never seeing 70% of it because you couldn't beat a boss.

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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · 10d

A new adopt is up in my shop! Fey of Paradise, a teal & fire Fairy! ✨🏬

A full body drawing of a dark skinned fairy with long black hair and blue eyes. She has red and gold scale patterns on her skin, and bronze coloured metallic arms and legs and antlers. Her outfit and wings are teal, with fire coloured markings on the ends of them.

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 21h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue is sitting at his hobby desk with paint jars, paper, unpainted miniatures and other painting paraphernalia set around himself.
Blue: I'm going to paint some miniatures.
Green, unseen in the background: Okay!

Picking up a miniature, Blue goes deep into focus, gently brushing the figurine with a paint brush, making a soft, quiet little "shup" sound every time.

Looking up from his work, Blue turns to listen as Green interrupts his work to say something.
Green: I like the little sound that your brush makes when you paint.

Blue lowers the miniature, looking at it with a frown.
Blue: Well now I'm too self-conscious about that to finish this.
Green: Aw.

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Liv Smith🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪 @livsmithvavo.bsky.social · 21h

It's me, I'm the big beautiful muscular lady 😳

Screenshot of a post talking about Liv voicing Ulfar from Rogue trader transitioning into a woman

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Colm Ryan VA @cryanva.bsky.social · 20h

I do that with painting miniatures too.

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Theo 🏳️‍🌈🌙 Comms Open @theotimegm.bsky.social · 22h

"If doing the full sketch is too much, just set up the pose. If finishing the inks is too much, just do the head or a limb. If doing all the colors is too much, just do the flats."
It helps me get started and often i get in the grooves and do more.

Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 1d

I saw something recently that said a strategy for adhd is you just need to commit to doing 30%. The full scope of 100% of a project is just too overwhelming. So just start with some thumbnails or sketches for now and then commit to another 30% another day or week. Any progress IS progress

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 22h

The product is just dependence on mind poison. Study after study has shown people using GPT think they are more productive but are empirically not. It is just a button you press that delivers hits of dopamine completely unrelated to the world around you.

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Clara Mello @clar-a-m.bsky.social · 5d

They're thinking so hard about it

@/polytrixsapphic (on tumblr) shared this in the huntrix discord server that we're in and I could not resist the urge to make the mental image real

#KpopDemonHunters #KPDH #Polytrix #Art

Screenshot of a discord message that reads "zoey @ rumira like:" followed by a screenshot of two posts by @softeeya that read:

"stunlocked my girlfriend for 10 full minutes by asking her to name an animal that starts with N mid makeout sesh" and the next post continues "she's still laying on the bed thinking about it"

Doodle of Mira, Rumi and Zoey from Kpop Demon Hunters, all in their underwear in bed.

Mira lays on her back, lacing her fingers with her hands on top of her stomach, she frowns very hard while looking at the sealing and says "An animal..."

"That starts with N..." Rumi continues. She is next to Mira, laying on her front, holding her hands together in front of her mouth as she has a serious face, looking directly to the headboard, thinking very hard about it.

Behind them both Zoey is sitting on the bed, with a hand in front of her mouth as she laughs and says "guys..."

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Maxi Molina @maximjdev.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Voice Actors!!

Once upon a time the community was fairly easy to find on twitter, but it's getting harder to keep track of all the VAs I know across social media, so I'm finally making my own (long overdue) private roster for clients that like to cast through demo reels!

You can sign up below!

Maxi's Voice Acting Roster

Hey everyone! I'm Maxi Molina, freelance casting and voice director for all sorts of indie games and animation since 2017, as well as the creator and solo dev of The Hayseed Knight! Once upon a time t...

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Sam // Dollar and Wolfe Trading Co. @samluu.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay !

I’m Sam and I like drawing characters :)

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Melissa Rowland @missyrowvoice.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ ANIMATION DEMO REEL 🎙️

My name is Melissa Rowland, I'm an east coast US-based voice actor with over 5 years of professional VO experience, and I've got this rad as hell home studio too!
Let's rock~

Website: missyrowland.com
Contact: [email protected]

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Gay Breakfast @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 2d

🏳️‍🌈✨ ᶜᴴᴼᴼˢᴱ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᵂᴱᴬᴾᴼᴺ ✨🏳️‍🌈

✨POLL in 🔗👇

The Chaotic Queer Cat runs a medieval stall with a chaotic claymore, a windfall wizard staff, a crows flight bow, and a cat axe. The corvid familiar, starry eyes, ogles the collection as the sign beckons “choose your weapon.”

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Carina 🇳🇱🌷🧶 @carina2025.bsky.social · 22h

Yesterday I finished the #koality, a blanket with a koala on it made with mosaic crochet. A project I worked on for five months. Size is 140 × 110 cm.

Lady holding a grey/beige blanket picturing a koala.

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Mr. Crowbar has Brainworms @mistercrowbar.art · 21h

Isn’t Aldiirn a cute little treat 💖

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Koffie Kobold - Yip Yap Crew @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social · 22h

Aaaand they're back!

A photo of a stack of opossum stickers that feature a sketch of a perturbed looking opossum alongside the text I'm tired and my brain is soup

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Austin Lee Matthews 🐭 @amtrax.bsky.social · 1d

#portfolioday ! My name is Austin, and I am the voice of Fire Spirit Cookie in CookieRun Kingdom, Roche in Final Fantasy VII, Hidetoshi in Persona and tons more!

I’m available for voice over performance and 2026 convention appearances (represented by @gunghobookings.bsky.social )!

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🩸 morteraphan 🗝️ @morteraphan.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween is just around the corner, Lucian, keep up the dangerous creature look (as much as you can at least) 🍷🍷

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Ben Fleuter @benfleuter.bsky.social · 1d

Fishgirl Commission!

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Ryuutsu 💫 @ryuutsu.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay ! ✨

I'm Nika, an illustrator based in the Netherlands, and I paint stylized (often fantasy) characters and enjoy working with strong color identity. I've lately been intrigued by art for books and murder mystery narratives!

✉️[email protected]
🌿https://www.ryuutsu.com/

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leo garcia ☻ @leogarcia.art · 1d

Hello #portfolioday

My name's Leo, I'm a comic and board artist. I'm rolling off of my current storyboard directing job in mid-November and I'm looking for a new production to jump into!

Here's some of my work from Nickelodeon's Kamp Koral.

Drop me a line, let's work together! 🤙

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Colm Ryan VA @cryanva.bsky.social · 1d

Said wizard had to go through the remainder of the dungeon (on another unsettled continent) wearing only a breastplate and a spare coat of another character as a kilt.

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Lackofa @lackofa.bsky.social · 11d

This art is a year or two now but I'm still really proud of it. Pigeons!! I sell these lil guys as prints https://www.lackofa.com/shop

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R. Mel @cadystat.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings free art. I give anyone who likes it permission to use it.

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