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  • Can I rant about my writing? I'm gonna rant about my writing.
    Shortly after Kung Fu Panda 3 came out, I came up with a concept: being dead and then returning to the world of the living 500 years later granted Kai immortality and limitless power, to the extent that Po had to kill himself just to send Kai back to the Spirit Realm and defeat him once and for all. Po was, with no ambiguity, dead, and he was able to return to the world of the living, just as Kai had. So would that mean Po is now immortal as well?

    I'm sure I'm not the first one who had that thought, but I was the first to write about it. I wrote a short fic in which he grapples with his newfound immortality that ends on a gentle note... until the last two lines shatter the illusion of peace. I was known for my KFP-stanning in college and showed the draft around to my friends and roommates. Three of them cried. One of them pelted me with pillows from the breakroom while shouting "You monster! You're a monster!" (all in good fun, of course; we were laughing the whole time). I showed it to my dad and he choked up. It was one of my most popular pieces on Tumblr, and a few years after leaving Tumblr I posted it to Ao3. It has over 1,000 hits and is nearing 200 kudos. I get notifications on it and some of my other KFP-centric works at least three times a week.

    I wrote it five, nearly six years ago. And that's the last time I can remember being able to elicit such an emotional reaction from anyone with words on a screen alone.

    That's part of why I've lost my drive for writing. I still love it as much as I always have, but I'm just... not good anymore. Maybe I can write stuff that's technically fine or even good, but I can't inject my soul into it as I once could. Instead of tears or laughter, the strongest reactions I've gotten from anybody with anything I've written in the past two years is "Oh, that's nice". And I don't know what I need to do to get back to where I was. I can write and write and write until my writing is technically perfect, but no amount of practice is gonna make my readers feel anything other than "Oh, that was nice. Now where was I?". That's a skill I don't have anymore. And if I can't make people feel with my writing, is there even a point to writing anymore?
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    sketchesofpayne
    sketchesofpayne
    It's important to keep practicing writing, even if it isn't giving you the results you want, so that one day when the inspiration strikes you'll be able to make another great work.
    Now who is this adorable, sweet girl whose listing has just been sold? Why, it's Kaai Yuki! Her original voicebank, no less! I wonder what lucky peach is gonna be bringing her home~?


    (I've wanted Yuki for so long but could never justify her price because she works for like 5% of what I usually do, but I found her for like $30 on Mercari and I couldn't say no, it was a sign, Yuki sweetie I'll take such good care of you 😭 )
    I'm still astonished that the majority of negative Amazon reviews for JAPANESE Vocaloids featuring sets of synthetic JAPANESE vocals for a JAPANESE audience are "The instructions are in Japanese! Don't buy this!"

    Also, I love how the majority of these people just... forget that Google exists? Literally Googling "How to install Vocaloid" brings up dozens of English-language results tailored for English-speaking audiences.

    Hoo boy.
    So I’ve developed an addiction to Silk Ultra. I picked up the chocolate and unsweetened flavors last night because 20g of protein per serving, with seven servings per carton, with each carton only costing about $4 at Walmart? I’ve been paying quadruple that trying to find alternative protein sources, so it was worth a shot, at the very least.

    It’s literally indistinguishable from regular dairy milk. I drank half the carton of chocolate while watching my shows before I realized how much I’d had. I poured the unsweetened milk over a bowl of cereal and didn’t leave a single drop by the time I went to wash the bowl. The only thing that separates it from dairy milk? It doesn’t kill my stomach.

    I’m in heaven. :ia_ani_lili:
    I'm set on getting Kasumi before the Color Voice Series is discontinued, but I'm also considering getting the two old folks. As you can guess by the fact that I don't remember their names, I don't really care about them. But what if I regret not picking them up? After all, once they're gone, they're gone, and they're not coming back.

    On the one hand, rare collectables. On the other hand, $70 for two banks I'll probably never use. Gah, I wish I wasn't so intense about these things...
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    GET THE BOOMER VBS YAAAAS
    MillyAqualine
    MillyAqualine
    Same feel since those three are my top fave TwT"' And at the same time, if i was having money to quick splurge, i'd get the whole six because Airi and Minato are nice (plus I love how Airi shares same voicetype as MEIKO so it's a bonus point here) and yuudai well.... Poor boy is the most cursed and I'd use him less, but at the same time it'd be sad he'd be the only one who isn't saved and I could still use him as a BG vocal or make very specific ballads for him so yeah... tough choices
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    I already have Minato, Airi, and Yuudai thankfully! It's a matter of completionism for me I guess. I don't particularly want the other two, but what if I regret not getting them?
    Happy Halloween from a stuck-at-work Peaches and her new ride-along companion Aurelia! She stole my hair clip.

    What started as a fun but necessary side-project to learn Affinity Photo (which is what we use at work) turned into a full-on passion project that I brought home with me to finish on a more familiar program. Avanna as drawn by her artist has always felt... weird to me, so I decided to edit her for fun and I'm not too displeased with the result!

    Now to make a box for her. C'mon Peaches she's like your only Vocaloid that you haven't made one for yet

    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Don't come at me with "But Peaches, look how crooked you've made her face!", just because I'm dating an artist doesn't mean I'm anything near one myself. :clara_ani_lili: I gave this girl some realistic freckles and green eyes and that's what I had set out to do, so I'm happy.
    WyndReed
    WyndReed
    Beautiful! You fixed her hair and eye color, the biggest issues with her design in my opinion.
    The bad news: I wasn't able to get the cover up today because I came down with a bad case of the Southern Girl in Cold Weather, so I spent all day in bed.

    The good news: I've got the best girlfriend ever.

    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Another bit of good news! There's like a 90% chance I can have this up by tomorrow! Assuming I'm feeling decent and can drag myself out of bed long enough to get it posted.

    I'd just set it to premier, but the only other time I premiered a cover it did horribly, and it's one of my personal favorites, adding insult to injury... so I think I'll just. Not risk it.
    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Ah! I didn't realize you could schedule uploads! That makes my job easier. New cover coming in about twelve hours~
    ...have I ever mentioned that I have Sora? I don't guess I've ever really tried hiding the fact, she's in plain view any time I post my collection, but I dunno if I've ever made the formal announcement.


    Basically, I found her Complete package for a really good price on Mercari and decided to get her for Patuk. We share custody of her VBs and I got her box because I'm the box slut of the relationship.

    So... yeah. I have Sora. Still need to use her.
    I blame CosMo for my desire to make Talkloids when I was younger. Being the slut for Dr. Realist that I was, I listened to this one-minute clip on repeat multiple times.

    Now I'm trying to midi a Talkloid section in another of his songs, and I'm suffering. This is what you get for dreaming, Small Peaches. :clara_ani_lili:

    peaches2217
    peaches2217
    Also, fun fact: Dr. Realist's full design was never formally shown in the series proper until the final song, so at the height of my obsession with the character, all we had to go on regarding his appearance was this video and his self-titled song, which only shows half of his face. So when we had Favorite Character Day during our school's Spirit Week, I came to school in black pants and a black turtleneck (in October, which is still quite hot here), my hair in a ponytail, and purple lipstick, with a pair of monocles made out of paint caps and a star drawn under my right eye in Sharpie.

    Naturally, no one had any idea what the fuck I was supposed to be, and multiple people thought the monocles were a medical device that I was wearing due to a broken nose. It was the best day of my life that year.
    I think I've FINALLY conquered the mix for EuphoriaHolic! Though I wouldn't mind a few extra pairs of ears to confirm or deny that 😅 After I finalize everything I'll just need to make the spoken part, and then I think I'll be able to post it. At long last :kaito_lili:
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