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peaches2217

peaches2217

Give me Gackpoid AI or give me DEATH 26 From Arklahoma
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  • peaches2217
    I got a handmade video from Patuk, a bunch of new hairclips, a water fountain for my cats, AND I found a very elusive G5 pony, one of only two I've ever been able to track down! That's not even going into the self-spoiling I've been doing. I've got the funds for a few more synths while still having a sizeable chunk to put towards my savings. I'd call this a good Christmas!
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    I’m conflicted: do I go ahead and buy Natalie? Or do I wait to see out the new metal vocalist in the off-chance DT doesn’t make him embarrassingly mediocre like 75% of their releases? Because if they actually pull him off well, I’m tiddy-slapping that Buy Now button, but I don’t know if I wanna buy two SynthV VBs at this point. I just don’t use it enough.
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    I promise I don’t hate Dreamtonics, I’m just fed up with how consistently underwhelming their releases have been. I’m open to being surprised! I love Yuma and Natalie is lovely (even if her demos did her so dirty). I’m just trying not to get my hopes up. 😅
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    I would say to wait. Even if you do decide to get Natalie anyways, it's better to be sure you prefer her than to get her now and possibly regret spending that money if you prefer the new vocal.
    peaches2217
    Everyone shut up, this is now a Rose stan account. Thank you.

    Okay, but seriously, I love CeVIO AI but it's quirky, so I always approach new banks with cautious optimism. Rose is exactly as I'd hoped she'd be. If you're on the fence about getting her, take the plunge. She's SO worth it.
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    Paycheck today, Christmas over the next two days (benefit of being part of a divided family)! Rose I'm comin' for ya baby~

    And, perhaps, another SynthV vocal... 👀
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    Dreamtonics… Dreamtonics, when I said another SynthV vocal, I meant I’m considering buying Natalie, not “Please announce another VB a month after releasing your most recent ones and continuing to oversaturate your market with the same three vocal types”

    Please take a break for Christmas Dreamtonics

    (though if the rumors about it being a Peking Opera vocal are true… 🥺)
    peaches2217
    I've been exploring and paying closer attention to my identity of late, and I'm getting stuff figured out! There's days where I want to present as masculine or feminine, but when I don't feel a strong urge either way, I just feel kinda... weird. Like, I'm a man and a woman. If I want to present feminine, easy! If I don't wanna present either way, well, guess I'm presenting feminine by default. If I want to present masculine, too fucking bad, because wearing a binder and a packer and spending half an hour on convincing facial hair and giving the cashier at Wendy's the name Donavan still gets me called ma'am. And then the fries are cold and the Frosty is half-melted and I suffer through it anyway because if I make any other comments I'll be an asshole. 😰

    I feel like I shouldn't be uncomfortable, because, well, I am a woman. But I don't ever feel like I'm more one than the other, they coexist. Only being half-acknowledged just gives me a weird feeling in my stomach. But what do I do? I don't like going by they/them, but I can't just ask people to alternate masculine and feminine nouns/pronouns for me, that's a hell of a lot more awkward than going by they/them. I get this happy feeling when I'm called masculine words, but I don't want to be called them exclusively. Call me sir! Call me handsome! Call me he and him and guy and dude! But call me the feminine equivalents just as often! I'm not sure how to convey that in a manner that's, well, convenient for anyone else.
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    That said, on a more private front, things are going great! I have an extremely supportive girlfriend who I can talk to about this stuff, and, maybe it's TMI, but discovering packing has been life-changing for me. I can take or leave binding, I only really wanna hide my chest when presenting masculine, but I've been wearing a packer around the house and I feel a lot more like Myself, somehow. I'm working up the courage to wear it in public on my days off no matter how I'm presenting. I don't guess most people will notice unless I position it a certain way or they're just intently focused on that area, in which case packing is the least of my problems, but it still makes me nervous. I got an STP too (and on complete accident! The company sent me the wrong thing but let me keep it and sent what I actually ordered!), but I don't think I'll be using it in public any time soon after the whole Wendy's incident, so looks like public bathrooms are now off-limits whenever I pack, no matter how I'm presenting. Bleh.

    So I guess I've figured out as much as I've realized I don't know. It's a journey, and it's an interesting one at that. I'll figure it all out eventually! I hope.
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    Kirune and AiSuu are both quite noisy, but oddly enough, I don't think it works to their detriment. It's not quite invasive like early CeVIO AI banks. Any flaws I've encountered is heavily outweighed by their strengths and charm.

    Which is to say, I sped through half of a cover with Kirune last night and I hope to have it finished ASAP. I also had something with AiSuu in the works but accidentally saved the Kirune cover over it, so here's hoping I have an older version of the file saved somewhere. 😅
    peaches2217
    I wish gas was cheaper and not so bad for the environment. When I’ve got too many thoughts, I love hopping in my car and driving. And being in the Bible Belt, everything closes before 10, so driving around at midnight is nice and quiet and peaceful, and I can just be alone with my thoughts for a while. It’d therapeutic.

    I had so many thoughts in my head tonight that I just drove around for an hour straight. I’ll have to plant some trees as an apology.
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    I made many excellent revelations about my gender identity and presentation, ideas for getting my cats acquainted with the New Guy with minimal hissing and growling (there’s been a lot of that this past week), and a concept for my KFP fics that’s canon-divergent but jam-packed with lore potential, and juuuuuust in line with canon enough that it doesn’t even change much, just adds some new dynamics. I also realized I still have most of the songs from the SpongeBob musical memorized. Asterian would sound great in No Control.
    Blue Of Mind
    Blue Of Mind
    Where I live, it only takes half an hour to end up in the middle of (English) nowhere, and some roads are amazing for going full pelt at 60 or 70 miles per hour. Unfortunately, gas is still clocking under £60 right now, and I have to ferry people around sometimes so I have to conserve it.
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    Shit, I forgot Kirune and AiSuu were coming up so quickly. I was only planning on getting Kirune, but since he and AiSuu will both have trials, I'll need to prepare songs for both of them!

    Hmm... I wonder how Kirune will handle Jewelfish! I'm at a complete loss with AiSuu though.
    peaches2217
    I had an older customer trying to fax some papers to the IRS. She barely spoke English, but she was extremely cheerful and kept bowing when I handed her papers back or updated her on the fax status. After she got everything paid for, she thanked me and said "Xinh thật! Xinh thật, in my language, 'pretty girl'! Thank you!"

    I'm honestly still blushing, she completely made my morning. 🥰
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    I had to look that up, but the pronunciation matched, so I'm like 98% sure that's what she said. 😅

    Honestly I've been considering learning Vietnamese casually. We have a huge Vietnamese population here and I think it's such a beautiful (and ridiculously unappreciated) language. (It often tops Ugliest Languages list and I'm like,,, are we hearing the same thing?? Maybe that's just my All Communication is Beautiful and Evidence of Human Progress-ass speaking, but still.)
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    BREAKTHROGH! 1/2
    KFP 2 and 3 make it pretty clear that Po regularly confides in Tigress, or that he’s at least more comfortable doing so with her than with anyone else. But he’s obviously holding back in 2 — she asks if learning that he’s adopted bothers him, and he assures her it doesn’t, right after having a dream in which his birth parents replace him. When he nearly gets everyone killed because long-suppressed PTSD hits at the worst possible moment, it still takes Tigress essentially beating a confession out of him before he admits to what’s haunting him and why he’s willing to die to face Shen again.

    Something similar but much more abbreviated happens in 3: Tigress tries getting Po to realize he’s not thinking straight because he’s too blinded by frustration and come up with a more realistic plan for defeating Kai, and while Po briefly attempts bravado, he’s mostly just earnest with her, not bothering to hide his frustrations, and then he does something he didn’t even do in 2: he tells her point-blank that he’s at a complete loss and that he’s convinced of his inevitable failure. He doesn’t stick to any kind of noble pretense, just bluntly tells her his most vulnerable, helpless thoughts.
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    Which leads me to my theory! There’s some kind of breakthrough they have between the two movies wherein the last walls break down between them. She’s protective of him throughout the second movie. She displays affection in a desperate bid to keep Po safe, and when he goes against her orders and faces Shen anyway, her mindset goes from “Stop Shen or at least slow him down” to “Save Po, no matter what,” a mindset she retains to the extent that she takes a fucking cannon shot in his place. So at what point does Po begin displaying vulnerability to the same extent? At what point does he stop trying to act like a tough guy and just lets himself trust her with even his most pitiful thoughts?

    And this has been a needlessly lengthy pitch for a fic I’m writing, because I don’t think that’s something I’ve ever seen explored in depth. I mean, I’m probably not gonna do that either because I can’t write for shit, but I’d at least like to address it, because that shit’s fascinating.

    I will not be accepting “It’s a series about talking animals doing martial arts, maybe calm your tits” or similar comments at this time.
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    With each passing day, I grow more and more convinced that Gakupo AI might actually be happening.

    God, please...

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    Yee, I know the posts are teasing the plush, and I’m so excited! But like… after six years of barely acknowledging his existence, they’ve got Gumi dropping a Gakuniichan every day or two, and he’s got an official model AND an upcoming plushie. This can’t be one-off. It can’t be. :gackpo_ani_lili:
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    What are the chances GACKT wants to come back and rerecord for training the model? I'd be so so so excited, though.
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    What were the chances of him coming back to make two more VBs for Gakupo in the first place? It’s all speculation anyway, I’m just having fun :miku_ani_lili:
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    I’ve decided that Kung Fu Panda, or at least my interpretation of it, takes place sometime within the Tang Dynasty. I figured assigning it a more concrete point in time would be beneficial to help motivate me to research and write more. Instead it has me desperately trying to explain away historical inaccuracies, because the series, to the best of my knowledge, is a melting pot of fashions and architectures and aspects from multiple dynasties with a dash of modern Chinese culture thrown in to keep it from being a full-fledged period series.

    Which is fine, up until I realize that “qipao,” which is the best way to describe Tigress’ shirt in the first two movies, doesn’t work in ANY dynasty, much less the 600-900s of the Tang Dynasty, because the qipao wasn’t created until the 20th century. That’s like describing an early-middle ages peasant wearing a wifebeater, unironically, in the midst of something you’re trying to keep SOMEWHAT authentic.

    This has been both a blessing and a curse.
    peaches2217
    Today on VocaTwitter Doesn't Always Suck: yesterday, Naoto Fuuga made a heartfelt post wishing everyone a happy Miku Day... three months early. He later apologizes and explains that he blanked out and read the 12 for December as 1+2, and decided it was March.

    The entire fandom rolls with it.

    peaches2217
    Everyone please praise Asterian, I managed to make him hit a B5 and he didn't immediately combust

    (Look, I forgot to take harmonies into account when I started this cover. The melody's well within his range! Some of the harmonies... my poor boy 😭)
    peaches2217
    My dad's love for Asterian gave me an idea: for Christmas this year, I'm gonna make him a cover! Current plan is to have Asterian sing End of the Beginning. It was always my favorite gospel song growing up. He sang it for a Christmas concert last year, and when I gushed over it afterward, he admitted that he likes singing that song for singings and local concerts because it's my favorite. So it's an easy choice!

    Depending on how well it turns out, I might put it on SC as well. YouTube probably ain't happening because, well, it's gospel. I'm mockable and cringe enough, I don't wanna give anyone else any more reason. :LOL:
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    To give you an idea of how much Southern Gospel I listened to with my dad growing up: one of my earliest celebrity crushes was Guy Penrod. I watched God's Zoo over and over and over until the tape wore out because that was my man. To this day, when we're in his truck together, I'll sometimes crank off on Good, Good News or Give It Away or this song that I always called Fisher of Men but I guess it's actually not called that and we'll pass the melody and harmony back and forth. I directly attribute Southern Gospel to my love for multi-part harmonies. I don't care how antiquated the genre is, it carries such good memories for me, so I'll always have a soft spot for it.

    I am cringe, but I am free.
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    Ooh, Mary Did You Know could be fun too! I know it's my stepmom's favorite Christmas song. Maybe that'd be more fitting for a Christmas cover, but it's also got a wonkier tempo... but it's also popular enough in general thanks to the Pentatonix cover that I could probably get away with putting it on YouTube!
    peaches2217
    Well, I think it's fairly obvious I'm rusty with SynthV. But dammit I'm having a good time.

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