• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Absolutely a thing. Part of it was also teachers noticing I could competently read Shakespeare with the correct pacing (reading a lot and escapism have their perks!) 😅 but yeah, a lot of girls saying “omg they should do this character!!”

    • Miss Brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      Now there’s something I can relate to, I’ve often been told I have a good voice for reading or narrating.

      Which isn’t wrong, and I can appreciate the compliment, but… yeahhhh.

      (Quick side note: Why is narrating something so strongly associated with masc voices in the first place? At least it seems so from my experience with the people around me.)

      I’ve been practicing the girl voice™ every now and then since realizing, and wow, is it hard. I can do everything from Darth Vader to Stitch, I can gurgle like a fresh zombie or gulugulu like a turkey in heat, but an everyday womans voice is apparently too difficult.

      Still though, I try to appreciate everything my voice can do, and while I do wish to learn the girl voice™ as quickly as possible, I am at least a little less uncomfortable with how it is now.