#tay lore

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jdfhglxdjfhgfdlxh I've touched on it before, but I'll go a bit further into it, sure!

back in 2012-2013, I was a part of an online fan animation studio that produced fan animations for my little pony: friendship is magic (yes, I was in that fandom back in the HAYDAY of bronies). originally, a casting call went out for a fan movie for the show, and on a whim I decided to audition for the role of twilight sparkle, since I thought I could do a pretty good impression of the character.

welp, I got the part and joined a group of other fans to produce this fan-made movie. SHIT HAPPENED. I won't go into details cuz it's legit insane, but long story short, the movie fell through (cuz yeah of course it wasn't gonna get finished lmao) and the main "director" guy dropped out of the group due to circumstances as well as a few other people. but the main core of the group, which included pretty much all the voice actors and some artists/animators, had all become super close friends and we decided to stick together as our own studio and put out smaller projects. we were actually really successful within the brony sphere, although we did put out a few videos that had nothing to do with mlp when we started growing out of the fandom.

I did a LOT of voice acting back within that time frame, both within our studio and in other little projects outside of it. nothing was ever on a professional level, I never made money, it was all hobby work, but I absolutely loved it and had so much fun. our studio got invited to a few different conventions and got to attend as guests, we hosted panels, got to meet professionals in the industry, it was seriously like living the dream (I was 17/18/19 around this time).

FUN FACT THAT I'VE DEFINITELY MENTIONED BEFORE: I dated the english VA for aki hayakawa from chainsaw man (reagan murdock) for a little over a year during all of this. he and I met when we both landed parts for that fan movie and joined this studio. of all the voice actors that were a part of it, I'm pretty sure he's the only one who moved on to doing it professionally, which isn't even a surprise cuz he's SUPER talented and there was no way he wasn't going into the professional space.

our little studio doesn't really put out content anymore, not as a group at least. a few of us do solo stuff nowadays. but we're still really close friends, we still have a discord chat that we talk in regularly, and they are legitimately some of the best/closest friends I've ever made. and it was all because of my little pony lmao

I tried putting together a demo reel once upon a time, but I never actually finished it or put it out there at all. not pursuing that line of work while I was still in my hayday and had several professional contacts is one of my biggest regrets tbh. I do still have very loose footholds in the industry, including successful contacts, but it's been so long since I've actually done anything that I don't even know where I'd start.

This is how the world works, you gotta leave before you get left.