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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I truly apologize to everyone I am currently in current voice over projects working for. Hopefully I can return to your roles as soon as possible. But with how everything is right now, I need to focus on trying to stay live & being in a better life place.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This goes without saying, but I’ll be taking an immediate break from voice over until I can hopefully be in a better place. Whether that’s where I currently/used to (I’m not sure which atm) live, or something else gets sorted out, I don’t know how long this will take.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Currently staying at a homeless hostel for an unsure amount of time while I try to navigate something that has affected my personal life. I might have to start crowdfunding my ability to fund a roof over my head if things go for the worst.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I emailed them back asking what specifically it was that didn't get me the job, but something tells me they won't want to answer the specific questions I had asked as it would go against the UK Equality Act 2010 if they did answer honestly. TL;DR - I am NOT doing okay. (2/2)

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I failed a recent job application after an interview I had at a local Co-Operative. I thought I might get it due to my mother (when she was alive) having trained that branch’s current manager. But even family connections & other family working there isn’t enough apparently. (1/2)

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I looked back at an old email chain I had somehow saved with a known voice-over coach. It still isn’t great to look at. Some of it from what/how they said things to be, but the rest being how I reacted to them. Maybe I’ll talk about it someday. But for now I still need to focus on my health.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wish people could learn how to communicate with one another better, ESPECIALLY in working environments. Leave it to the autistic person in the room to let you know you should be communicating with those who work or have worked with you much better than you have done.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Voice over auditioning will still be difficult while I try to navigating my body not functioning as I'd like it to, but I won't stop, even if it feels hopeless.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Unfortunately the hope of me getting my Septorhinoplasty surgery done this year doesn't seem likely at this point. I have a follow-up appointment with the ENT specialists, but that will be in November for a catch-up, not the actual surgery.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If there are any specific tutorials/techniques that help you in your process, I would be immensely grateful to know of them to help get my rusty gears turning. For reference, I have Clip Studio Paint as an OS & use a Cintiq 13HD that has exclusively been using as a second monitor for too long.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

To all my digital artist followers, I need your guidance. I want to get back into digital art but have been so out of practice that I need all the help I can get in hopes of possibly reclaiming any artistic abilities I have in my Bachelor of Arts degree in 2D animation.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24... To all my followers who live in Wales (or perhaps the UK even?), please sign this petition to hopefully push the Welsh Government to unfreeze the gender-affirming surgeries that the NHSWJCC caused to happen last week. Your help is needed now more than ever.

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Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.

We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who ha...

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As I am slowly getting back into voice over auditioning, this was the perfect time to update my Casting Call Club account with their new app. Here it is to show I do exist on there, and hopefully to remind people I am getting back to doing my VO.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I didn't get a role I was really hoping to get today. I got to try and stop putting too much hope into my auditions since there's always someone better. This won't stop me from still auditioning for stuff. If anything it'll push me harder to be that someone better.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Forgot to post about it yesterday, but I went to the protest on the cancellation of gender affirming surgeries in Wales at the Aneurin Bevan Statue in Cardiff. It was amazing being around so many of my people yesterday to support this speaking about this horrid decision made by the NHSWJCC.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So long as my body will let me, I plan to go to the protest on Monday at Aneurin Bevan Statue in Cardiff Queen street to support all Trans people in Wales who had their schedule surgeries ‘paused’ due to the Welsh Gender Service doing its job better than any of the other Gender clinics in the UK.

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Be nicer. Be weirder. Wear more pearls, more sparkles, and more lingerie regardless of gender. RIP Dolly Parton, RIP Tim Curry.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

First Hayden Panettiere, then Dolly Parton, and now Tim Curry?! Too many Queer icons have left us this month, too many great people.

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Sister Dottie Bair @dottiebair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The backlash and boycott is working. Hence why Miz Terfy McTerferstons issued that so called "softening stance" statement the other day. She hasn't changed at all, but the source of her money is getting worried. KEEP IT UP.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Heck I might even be using those wrong. I'm not the best speaking in written form, let alone speaking out loud. When I'm given lines in a script, I can do that well enough. But when I speak as my authentic self? It gets messy. Maybe that's the neurodivergent in me? I don't know...

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I really need to try & hold back when I use ' ' quotations. Sometimes I use them to pinpoint what I am talking about. But sometimes I look back at times I use them & think, 'why did I use that in THIS specific moment?' Like even me capitalising specific words has a purpose right? Hindsight is 20/20?

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I saw ‘The Odyssey’ in the cinema today, and it was a solid watch. It’s not really a spoiler to those who know the main Odyssey tale, but the one scene with Odysseus reuniting with his dog got me crying pretty bad. I expected it and I was STILL holding back from ugly crying. 😭

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 06/07/2026

The dangerous rhetoric and misinformation being broadcast about trans people has gone on for too long. The media regulator is failing to do its job, so we are taking them to court to force real accountability. Join us! 👇 goodlaw.social/0r9k

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Each day it gets more dystopian here. I hate it. Screw the UK Government.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thank you to everyone on Bluesky who wished me a Happy Birthday! Oh what’s that, no one did? Welp… 🫥

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Today I am officially old enough where I need to properly remember how old I am! (33 btw) Happy birthday me? 🫠

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Fable on 23rd February 2027?! Persona 4 Revival on 18th February 2027!?! SPYRO THE DRAGON RETURNING WITH A NEW ENTRY in Spring 2027. Not to mention PERSONA 6 (teaser)!!!! Alongside the Summer Games Fest with Final Fantasy VII Revelation, these past 2 days have been WILD!

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Hopefully one day I can be a part of a series that was so creativity accomplished, ESPECIALLY acting wise. The acting in The Final Act was on a whole new level. Everyone in every aspect of this series should be proud of all they achieved.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I was also pleasantly surprised by how respectful the other people were when I saw it, considering many of them seemed under 18, several w/ parents/guardians, which made me ancient by comparison. I expected it tbf, but it made a few moments awkward for those parents.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Just came back from The Final Act of The Amazing Digital Circus & it was well worth seeing it in the cinema. No spoilers, but I felt it was a satisfying end to a great series. I’m not ashamed to admit some bits got me close to crying, the OST did SO MUCH work for many moments.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I REALLY HOPE the NHS pulls its finger out of its backside & gives me my surgery date soon. I hate missing out on work related opportunities, both online and offline. I'm tired of feeling so powerless when I just want to make a proper living for myself.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

What's a good way all you artists out there have done to improve your craft, particularly when doing digital art? I haven't drawn since finishing my Animation Degree in 2018 and I'm at a point where I'd like to gain back my lost abilities.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Like even if I had a regular real living wage job (which I likely never will because society hates hiring autistic people for some reason), I still wouldn't have enough money to live comfortably for a few months.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hey PC manufacturers. Could you freaking chill it on the ever increasing prices of your Memory please? It's literally the only thing I have left to buy for my first PC build & every other week it keeps increasing. Now what I have wish listed is mid £1100... absolutely ridiculous.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

To all creatives, be on the look out for spam emails from people (definitely bots) representing 'Cosmic Games ULC'. I got like 3 spam emails from 3 different emails titled 'Don't Miss' with the span of a few hours. Block them & move on.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Here's how it may look being reached by someone from LILT AI as this was their email, which they sent twice in the span of a week. I didn't bother to click their 'COMPLETE QUESTIONNAIRE' link as that seemed sus a heck. Again, DON'T fall for it.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I was reached out a week later by the exact same person from LILT AI trying to get me to do GenAI Voice Over. I finally responded to them with the following. Be wary of anyone from LILT AI, especially someone surnamed 'Pilisova'. They & anyone from LILT AI aren't to be trusted.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I got an email from a company reaching out to me to train AI models for my Welsh dialect. If they bothered to see my socials, they'd know I do NOT consent to my voice being used for ANY GenAI purposes. If you see an email or a contact from LILT AI appear, avoid them, they are not to be trusted.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

What type combo could the new starters be in Pokémon Winds & Waves? Many have thought of ideas, but what do I think? Rock, Ground & Ice. Here's why I think so, if anyone i interested. www.tumblr.com/rhysins/8097...

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Pokémon Winds/Waves Starter Discussion · I'm going full Pokémon Winds & Waves 'What If' here and no one's going to stop me!!! So since the reveal of Pokémon Winds & Waves on 27t F…

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Some of us spent the day going to St Fagans (my first time ever going in my life) & the whole party later gave her some campaign themed gifts irl. There were some tears before & during the game. A big heart shaped hole will be missing in the party going forward.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Today was a sad day in one D&D campaign I am in, as one of our regular players had to leave the party since she's moving to a different country this week. I mean it's only to England from Wales but she won't be able to come to the sessions anymore due to distance & new career. 😭

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I'll update people here when the procedure will happen since I will be out of action in terms of voice over stuff for a fair bit and it can set any work I am actively doing momentarily.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Some good news! NHS Wales called me recently asking for medical history for my upcoming septorhinoplasty procedure. While a date hasn't been given yet, the fact they rung me asking this stuff means it can't be too far away. I can't wait to get these issues with my nose sorted!

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I just finished watching the Iron Lung film in the cinema. It was a solid watch, not as horror-y as I expected, which I appreciated since I’m not a horror person. Everyone who helped create/be part of it in any way should be proud of what they made.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

As a 2D Animation University graduate, hearing the Adobe Flash/Animate discontinuing news is honestly evil work. So many livelihoods for people who rely solely on those platforms alone will be gone. If I was still animating & only relied on those platforms, I'd be devastated.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Some people just shouldn't be parents, sorry not sorry. If you cannot raise your kids well regardless of their medical diagnosis & cannot raise them well, you just shouldn't have set out on this path in the first place. My neighbours alone have resulted in me losing out on so much voice over work.

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Rhysins / Rhys Drakins (Voice Actor) @rhysins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Maybe hot take? If you parent neurodivergent kids, you still need to parent said neurodivergent kids WELL. I live next door to parents who let their kids make the worst amounts of noise that come through right next to my work room. Shouting, screaming, singing, jumping on scooters INSIDE THE HOUSE-

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