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"Take a look at what you've done, gaze upon what you have wrought!!"

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no happy endings

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1 million dollars or dinner with mc princess

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GABRIEL ULTRAKILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Pretty birbs

Meet the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, the fourth and final creature in my extinction series!

This cute little hawaiian bird disappeared in the 1980s thanks to habitat loss and the introduction of invasive animals such as rats and pigs.

For me, personally, their story hits especially hard thanks to a super heartbreaking audio clip of the last living bird singing a courtship song, calling out to his mate. He of course gets no response. At the time of recording he was presumed to be the last of his species, and his mate was almost certainly dead as she hadn't been seen in years.

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You can hear the recording in the video below. But if you're already feeling a little blue, uh... Maybe save it for later or something because OOF.

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someone on twitter wanted to see it in arm floaties and i wasn't gonna say no!!!

(follow-up....prequel???? to this!)

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happy summer from the sunny shores of purgatory 🌞🌴🍹

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the aesthetics of (impersonal) love

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on cleaning duty

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Love

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Wish I was more active on here

Silly little uhhh, Splatoon Salmon Run looping animation, referencing the mission loading screen in Warhammer 40k Darktide

Idk if tumblr will actually loop this lol

I plan on editing in a couple things for a Youtube upload

#splatoon 3 #splatoon #warhammer 40k #i did not expect my interests to be combined like this but it goes incredibly hard

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the thing about hatsune miku is that she is quite literally a product you can buy. she and the other vocaloids (actual tm) are all voice synthesis software with some art attached for the sake of packaging and (at first) rudimentary marketing and anyone that has bought her can make her say/sing anything. and normally she’d be left at just that like the vocaloids preceding her like MEIKO, KAITO, LEON, LOLA, among others.

today she gets cameos, collaborations, and sometimes voiced lines in anime and games, actual rhythm games featuring her and the other piapro 6, she’s the face of GoodSmile racing (and was very temporarily the face of Domino’s Pizza in America, even), dozens of figures are made for her every year, there’s how her songs have been the foundation for multiple multi-media franchises and IPs like Black Rock Shooter and KagePro, and she among other virtual singers get to hold actual physical concerts people attend to see her “live.”

but the way she spread and has become an online cultural fixture is almost entirely dependent on genuine effort from online communities and what I can’t help but describe as love. all this couldn’t have been possible without online producers like ryo of supercell and EGOIST fame, cosMo, OSTER project, and kz simply putting their songs on niconico where everyone can watch and listen to the music videos for free, without the huge help of the marketing that miku gets today.

songs like “Melt” from ryo and “Packaged” from kz were posted just because these producers wanted to share what they created with the world. and that music was shared more and more because people just really liked listening to them. these songs convinced and inspired other producers down the line that there was a way for their music to spread without being singers themselves and that using Vocaloids was entirely viable. producers like Mitchie-M and wowaka used miku in new, striking ways that were huge departures from the likes of supercell and kz. and this isnt even going into the fanartists and animators who drew and animated because they loved miku and her songs just that much.

all the figures and concerts and rhythm games would not have happened without companies realizing she’s gotten all that love and attention even without a huge official push for her for her first couple years. so even as miku gets more and more attention as the years go by, and people eventually forget or just don’t recognize that she’s just software you can buy, the fact remains that everyone recognizes her now because of love. and that makes me so incredibly happy every time I stop to think about her.

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luka luka night fever!!

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From now on, the stars will shine, for I have been here before. From now on, the flowers will bloom, for I have never left.

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pmmm taught me that not even a god could save you from being human and also that drawing girls is a ton of fun 😳

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Room like this but full of manga and anime figures

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