#Furbies... Peace and love on planet earth...

[jackalfurbyposting]

Furbies I Would Love to Have One Day:

(Or: My favorite furbies I found while browsing ebay and the furby wiki)

(images mostly from the first search engine results & the furby wiki)

1: A jester furby!

I mean, come on... They are oh so adorable!! The checker pattern, the pompoms, the magenta feet...But unfortunately I don't think I'll ever be able to have one since they're so ridiculously expensive 😔 Whilst getting a picture for this post I saw one going for over $600

2: Slightly more attainable, the Valentine's day Furby!

I lovveeee Valentine's Day themed stuff (despite likely being arospec but cough cough we dont need to talk about that.)

I also just really love pink . Look at this cutie pie!! I love the brown eyes on it since it's like chocolate... The green looks really good too! Green + pink my favorite color scheme ever...

3: The Flamingo Furby!

Once again . pink. I chose this image because it looks like it's scheming.... Wonderful beast. Another one that's marvelous with every eye color . 10/10 creature I love these things !!

4: The autumn/witch Furby!

The little hat??? Is so cute ??? Just . Adorable I love it so much. I prefer winter and spring(we're getting to spring wink wink) as seasons, but autumn does have some pretty impeccable vibes . Especially on a furby.

5: Angel furby!

This probably should have been higher on the list next to the jester bc i was like. Vaguely organizing them from like. Most expensive/hard to get to easiest but i forgot 🙏

Anyways if you know me atall you know that I. Love. Angels. To a concerning degree. And the purple eyes ? Best design choice ever ?? Looks fantastic?? Really otherworldly while still being cute. Obsessed.

6: Spring time furby! (Baby or adult)

The light purple is just so nice... It reminds me of the lilacs that bloom in a bunch of different shades of purple at my grandparents' house during the spring, which makes it extra sweet looking to me! It's kind of confusing with the baby version that apparently wasn't special addition- but yaknow what it's cute so it's ok.

7: Lime Green Baby!

I cannot express to you how much I love this cutie... little keylime pie lookin ass. Adorable. Also green is my favorite color so-

8: Sunny Baby!!

Look at how delightful this creature is! This is the one I'm most likely getting soonish- I absolutely adore the sunny babies! They are just one of the cutest things on beautiful planet earth to me. I'm so dedicated to getting one of these sweethearts once I move I already have a list of name ideas... (Any suggestions would be welcome!)

Before I move on to the last two furbs, here are some honorable mentions:

Confetti, Clown, Primary, Mint Green, Red wolf, and wizard.

9: Strawberry Milk furby!

Honestly I'd be happy with any of the 2005 furbies (the adult ones, not the babies... those were the only actually scary furbies lmao). They're all pretty pricey, but I think someday I'll be able to find at least one- I'd be satisfied with that. Also i really like this one specifically bc it reminds me of vanilla ice cream with red velvet chunks in it.

10: Funky Purple Furby!

Last but definitely not least!

Again- I'd be happy with any of the '05 furbs, but something about the green and purple here is so charming to me . This will probably stay a dream though, since the funky ones are even more expensive than the regular ones.

And that's all of my dream furbies!! It was mostly just an excuse to talk about the ones I like, i doubt I'll ever get my hands on most of them- but I had a lot of fun making this!

Anyway if anyone ever wants to talk about furbies or show off theirs you are absolutely more than welcome to dm me I will be over the moon!!

🩷 have a lovely day/night !!

[furbyutopia]

i bought myself two new fubys online yesterday (a bear and a springtime) and omgggg i'm so excited to get them. i've been wanting to get back into furbys because i miss them and for a long time i felt so guilty for not really being interested in them anymore, but now i can feel the love rushing back and i'm so emotional. i would be lying if i said i wasn't crying while typing this. these two new friends are gifts to myself for making it through a really rough semester and i'm so pleased to be able to say that i think i will start posting furby content again. i don't want this fandom to die out and i will do my best to help it stay alive. I LOVE YOU ALL! peace and love on planet earth.

[noncomsociety]

Non-community core tags and the meanings behind them ♡

Please do not reblog this! This is a post that will be continuously updating! Sharing the link to this post is fine.

(Some tags are finished yet but I really wanted to post it)

Kidcore - Kidcore is a aesthetic that started in 2010 about primary colors, nostalgia, and childhood. It’s like a memory tag. It is usually filled with bright colors, icons from the 90s, and popular toys such as beanie babies and webkins etc. The aesthetic started as a fashion that involved adults wearing bold primary colors and other childlike aesthetics as children had. Other names of this tag: Kiddiecore and Kidwave

Babycore - Babycore is an aesthetic that was about primary colors, nostalgia, and babyhood. The aesthetic started as a fashion that involved adults wearing bold primary colors and other baby-like aesthetics as babies had. This tags later evolved into its own tag separate from kidcore. Babycore is now a tag that is centered around infantile comfort items, nurseries, toys, and infantile looking wear.

Toddlercore - Toddlercore is an aesthetic that was about primary colors, nostalgia, and being in the toddler stage. The aesthetic started as a fashion that involved adults wearing bold primary colors and other toddler aesthetics as toddlers had. This tag later evolved into its own tag separate from kidcore and babycore. Toddlercore is now a tag that is centered around toddler essentials, comfort items, toys, clothing wear, and activities.

Toycore - Toycore is a tag that started out as a tag for toys seen in the 80’s and 90’s. Most of these toys were brightly colored. An example of popular toys under this tag are furbies and my little pony. Now this tag is for all toys but especially for toys that give the majority of users a feeling of nostalgia. Other names of this tag: Toywave

Rainbowcore - Rainbowcore is a tag for the aesthetic, items, makeup, and fashion that are filled with colors of the rainbow! This tag has nothing to do with being LGBT+ but those that are are welcomed to use the tag!

Primarycore - Primarycore is a tag for the aesthetic, items, makeup, and fashion that are filled with colors red, yellow, and blue!

Clowncore - Clowncore is a tag for the aesthetic, items, makeup, and fashion of clowns! It’s key colors are primary colors and colors of the rainbow. Clowncore is most commonly on the happy side of things rather than it being related to horror clowns it gets its inspiration for kid friendly circus clowns and cute antique figures and dolls and plush clowns. Other names of this tag: Circuscore

Spacecore - Spacecore is an aesthetic based around space! Everything in the universe beyond the top of the Earth’s atmosphere – the Moon, where the GPS satellites orbit, Mars, other stars, the Milky Way, black holes, distant quasars, and what’s between planets, moons, stars, etc. Common things seen in this tag are planets, astronauts, and rockets.

Lovecore - Lovecore is an aesthetic based on the visual culture of manufactured romance & affection. Lovecore is also a tag that corresponds to Valentine’s Day. Popular motifs seen in this tag include hearts, boxes of chocolate, lipstick, lingerie, love letters, vintage/romantic movies, cupid, angels, and the colours red and pink. Other names of this tag: Cupidcore, Heartcore, Crushcore

Medcore -

Animecore - Animecore is an aesthetic revolving around the visual culture of Japanese anime and manga.

Webcore - Webcore is an aesthetic utilising traditional web design elements combined with aspects of poetry and self-expression. This also includes GIFs, video games, and clip-art. This aesthetic mainly exists for the sake of nostalgia for late 1990's and early 2000's internet culture.

Emocore - Emocore is a tag that is based on a style of rock music resembling punk but having more complex arrangements and lyrics that deal with more emotional subjects. Emocore has a culture according to music fanbases and types styles inspired by bands in the 2000s

Scenecore -

Cleancore - Cleancore is an aesthetic based on getting clean and feeling pure. Popular motifs seen in this tag include bathrooms, soap, bathbombs, rubber ducks, clean rooms, etc.

Honeycore - Honeycore is an aesthetic based around the rural production and consumption of honey. It is similar to cottagecore in that agricultural imagery and values are emphasised, but the visuals are streamlined to create a colour palette of mostly yellows and browns.

Farmcore - Farmcore is an aesthetic based around the visual culture of an idealized life on a Western farm. Common things seen in this tag include barns, farm grown food, and farm animals.

Dirtcore - Dirtcore is an aesthetic centered around anything that grows or lives in or above the dirt/ground.

Grandparentcore - Grandparentcore is a tags based on the visual culture of an idealized life a Grandparent or a elderly person. Common things seen in this tag is what a grandparent would stereotypically enjoy such as, baking, cooking, knitting and crocheting, gardening, telling stories, collecting magnets or antique dolls and other items, having vintage clothing, and having fine china etc. A lot of people in this tag involve Farmcorm, Cozycore, and cottagecore in this tag. (See definitions below) Other names of this tag: Grandmacore and Grandpacore and any nonbinary terms for a grandparent.

Cozycore - Cozycore is an aesthetic centered around enjoying staying in doors and cuddling up with a quilt or a blanket, enjoying stuffed animals, wearing sweaters, and drinking warm tea, coffee, or hot cocoa, and baking.

Warmcore - Warmcore is an aesthetic centered around things that make you feel warm or things associated with a warm color palette. Things within the cozycore tag are also usually seen in this tag as well as the autumn season.

Cottagecore - Cottagecore is an aesthetic based on the combination of Grandma and Grandpacore, Cozycore, and Warmcore that is centered around living in a cottage and enjoying the nature and animals around you.

Sleepycore - Sleepycore is a tag based on being tired and going sleep. The aesthetic of this tag is comfort items. Popular things seen in this tag are pajama’s, pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, bedtime stories, nightlights, yellow crescent moons, and lullabies etc. the color palette of this aesthetic is dark and light blue, white, and yellow.

Quietcore - Quietcore is a tag that focuses on peacefulness, silence, and calmness. The outside world and our internal world can be incredibly loud, so this aesthetic is designed to calm people down. This tag is centered around any quiet and calm activities people do to relax and find peace such as meditation, reading, studying, star gazing, bath time, preparing to go to bed, and sleeping, etc.

Teddycore - Teddycore is a tag centered around loving stuffed animals that are specifically teddy bears. The colour palette of this aesthetic is white and dark and pastel shades of browns. Users who feel connected to bears or feel teddy-like also use this tag.

Meadowcore - Meadowcore is a tag based on an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants. Common things seen in this tag are picnics, flowers, and animals of the meadow such as shrews, voles, mice, red fox, white-tailed deer, and birds.

Faeriecore - Faeriecore is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural.

Hobbitcore - Hobbitcore is a tag based on stories by J. R. R. Tolkien about an imaginary race similar to humans, that are small in size (like fairies) that have big hairy feet.

Goblincore - Gobblincore is a tag about a monstrous creature from European folklore.

[shirlleycoyle]

The Tamagotchi Cemetery

This article was originally published on Burials and Beyond. You can subscribe to the Burials and Beyond Patreon here.

“I thought it would be better for him here because I didn’t really want to reset him because it would be like a different thing and I was really close to him. I know that sounds stupid, but I was. But you can bury your pets and if you love something else, you can bury them as well.”

So said young mourner Danielle Perren in 1997.

Interring her pet into the beautiful farmland of Pontsmill, Cornwall, Danielle’s beloved friend was placed into a tiny wooden coffin and buried in a small square grave, there to rest in peace. Danielle’s grief was very real, but her pet? Not so much. That was a Tamagotchi.

In 1996, Japanese toy designers Aki Maita and Yokoi Akihiro debuted the first ever Tamagotchi. The tiny plastic case held the world’s first virtual pet, which, despite being a simple arrangement of pixels, required constant care and attention, lest the creature perish. Released by Bandai, the egg-shaped toy was one of the biggest fads of the 90s, maintaining a surprising popularity over the decades, with over 82 million units sold as of 2017.

The name itself is a portmanteau of two Japanese words; ‘tamago’, meaning ‘egg’ and ‘uotchi’, meaning watch. Considering the product is an egg shaped toy, the size of a watch…it seems to be pretty solid marketing.

​Image: ​​​Mathieu Polak/Sygma/ Sygma via Getty Images​

Those of us who were at school in the 90s will vividly recall a classroom of incessant bleeps and cries of ‘I’ve gotta feed ‘im’, before the eggs were promptly and unsurprisingly banned from schoolyards. From this grew a strange, rarely remembered, sideline in individuals who would take your Tamagotchi into daycare, feeding and washing them (via tiny button clicks) until you could return from school or work. As bizarre as it sounds, after recently discovering a pair of 25-year old Tamagotchi survivors, I believe nothing to be impossible.

The Tamagotchi interface is incredibly simple, with most utilising three buttons, which correspond to care functions of the creature. The pet, should it live that long, is designed to go through a basic life cycle of Baby, Child, Teenager and Adult (with later versions adding a hopeful Senior option). However, the majority of Tamagotchis had brief, fleeting lives before succumbing to death through a child’s negligence.

While many parents bought their offspring Tamagotchis as toys, others thought that a child taking responsibility for a digital creature would be an ideal pre-pet investment, to see if they were mature enough to understand the needs of another living thing. While this is an ideal moralistic exercise, what occurred in reality was a pocket of brief generational trauma where young children woke up to find that, after sleeping though muted midi cries of hunger at 3am, their new toy had perished overnight. You killed your first pet.

​Image: ​​​Mathieu Polak/Sygma/ Sygma via Getty Images​

This culpability for death is one of the strangest qualities in toy history; even the death of shoals of Sea Monkeys failed to elicit such a primal reaction of grief and blame from the very young. In the new world of portable digital pets, they were expected to entertain, but not truly die. This element of blame, guilt and finality was truly amped up in the early Japanese models where a ghost and headstone would meet the neglectful owner. In more recent English-language variants, this cemetery scene was substituted for an angel of death, or a cheery little UFO, popping in to take the Tamagotchi back to its home planet. Once you’ve inadvertently murdered your new pal, the game can be reset and you’re trusted with a strange egg baby once more.

The Tamagotchi in its many forms has never shied away from death, addressing the finality of existence in its cheery little game, but also in its genuinely bizarre cartoon.

In the ninth episode of the original tie-in anime, titled ‘The First Death’, several little creatures gather and weep inconsolably at the bedside of a dying Tamagotchi (Ginjirotchi),after a small yellow doctor with mouse ears (Mametchi) confirms death. Quickly, the soul of the deceased is surrounded by tiny little angels, who guide it to the pearly gates and Tamagotchi heaven, which is mainly pink clouds and sweets. Suddenly, the sweets disappear in a cruel trap and the Tamagotchi is tormented by little bat creatures with forks (Deviltchi), before being rescued once more and taken back into hyper-cute heaven where everyone sits down and has pudding together. The whole affair lasts a matter of minutes and is as brilliant as it is disconcerting.

I never owned a Tamagotchi in my 90s heyday, as my mother couldn’t afford the indulgence. Instead, I had a knock-off variant, a Giga Pet called ‘Compu Kitty’ from Woolworths, with which I was utterly chuffed. (I still have it to this day, unable to part with the luminous yellow crap plastic atrocity.)

I vividly remember crying when I woke up for school one morning and the pixelated cat had breathed its last. But one reset later, those tears dried, and after another six hours came another death. After that, the circle of life seemed rather less majestic and a more predictable cycle of button pushing and bleeps.

In 1996, a pet cemetery in Pontsmill, Cornwall was the first to diversify their interments and fence off a dedicated section for the burial of electronic pets. When CNN reported in 1997, they equated this very modern mourning with the established love that British people have of their traditional, breathing pets.

On January 17th 1997, two teenage girls were in Cornwall to bury their Tamagotchis, named Sid and Arty, two consoles never to be reset.

My first thought was very outdated parental shock, as Tamagotchi’s weren’t terribly cheap when they came out and to bury a brand new toy seems awfully wasteful. Taking another expensive trip to Argos wouldn’t have gone down too well in my household.

However, 14-year-old Danielle was strong in her resolve and placed the little plastic contraption into the earth. She was not alone in her beliefs either, as cemetery owner Terry Squires revealed that many international burials had been carried out in his Cornish field. Tamagotchis from as far afield as Switzerland, Germany, France, Canada and America had all been laid to rest in his pet cemetery, with many more on the way.

However, looking at Pontsmill today, there are no mentions to be found of deceased cyberpets, with the business promoting itself solely as a pet cemetery and green burial site for traditional human interments. I would be curious to know if the rudimentary headstones remain, or if the Tamagotchis and their mournful batteries were turned over or forgotten as many other crazes came and went.

For those who wanted to memorialise their Tamagotchis, but didn’t fancy burying the case in the garden, there were several online cemeteries and memorial sites for dead digital pets, where eulogies, ages and causes of death could be recorded in one enormous late 90s census.

Today, there are a handful of online Tamagotchi cemeteries still functioning, if long-abandoned. However, records of their digital death and memorials remain in sites such as Tama Talk’s Memorial page. These old GeoCities or Angelfire websites are framed in pixelated gifs and solemn MIDI music where you must adjust your eyes to decipher the spidery text against questionable repeated wallpaper. In these simple databases, names and brief epitaphs are recorded; some sincere, some dismissive and some simply odd:

Banjo – Cause of Death: Died taking the biggest crap you’ve ever seen.

Joe the Dinosaur – Cause of Death: Accidental Resetting.

‘My poor Joe. The first born. He had a good life and was taken care of very well It was unfortunate that his life had to come to such an abrupt end, whilst living in a jeans pocket. We shall all miss him very dearly.’

These eulogies and epitaphs are time capsules of young people’s first interactions with death and loss, where an essay can prove as impactful as an unplanned tumble into a bathtub. There’s a certain importance of a digital emotional connection in childhood that deserves to remain memorialised, and not lost to the ether.

The levels of emotional investment that we have with digital media, and computers in particular, has been tracked by researchers since the 1980s. Alan Turing said in his 1950 paper ‘Can Machines Think?’ that we can judge the intelligence of a computer by its performance in conversation with man. Namely, if the computer is able to convince the human subject that they are talking to a fellow human and not a machine, then human-equivalent intelligence can be determined. This test became known as the ‘Turing Test’ and is still studied and implemented today in experiments of navigating artificial technology, or the ability of ‘bots’ to mimic human interaction.

In the intervening decades, it has been noted that people attribute an increased level of personhood to a computer, not least in terms of pre-programmed gameplay. Therefore, if a Tamagotchi was able to incite very real joy and grief from its user or owner, it could be seen as the first great wave of artificial intelligence in the western world.

In more extreme contemporary circumstances, man’s relationship with digital games has snowballed. While in terms of toys, other digital pets like the Furby, Poo-Chi (which I did own briefly, but was swiftly broken by my portly, recently-divorced father screaming into its microphone on Christmas day. I’m over it. It’s fine.) or even NeoPets virtual pet community have not brought about the same primal love and devotion as the humble Tamagotchi. Perhaps it was the inevitability of death that separated our love for the Tama from its immortal digital counterparts.

However, interactions with digital gameplay appear to have moved in two separate directions; ambivalence and devotion.

Today, electronic games and pets are commonplace, providing no new emotional experiences for children who have grown up within the digital age, where entertainment can be accessed at the click of a button and nothing is finite.

On the other hand, there are instances of individuals such as a 27-year old Japanese man named Sal 9000 (the only name he would provide to the press), who was so emotionally invested in the DS Game ‘Love Plus’, decided to marry the main avatar in a lavish, if highly controversial ceremony in 2009. When questioned as to whether he could truly love a digital, pre-programmed woman, he explained that “I love this character, not a machine.” Going on to say that “I understand 100 percent that this is a game. I understand very well that I cannot marry her physically or legally.”

However, his preference for the digital, predictable and placid provoked far more discussion. Explaining that Nene Anegasakiwas better than a ‘real’ girlfriend, he listed her perks, stating that, “She doesn’t get angry if I’m late in replying to her. Well, she gets angry, but she forgives me quickly.”[1]

Sal is not alone in his preference and several others have followed in his stead, marrying digital characters in ceremonies across the world. In 2018, Japan hit the headlines again as 35-year-old school administrator Akihiko Kondo married the hologram of video game character, Hatsune Miku. Whether these marriages will last when the bride’s updates are discontinued is another matter, but our changing relationship with life, love, and death in the digital age is undeniable.

On which note, I’ll thank you for taking this strange journey with me and take my leave. My Compu Kitty needs feeding.

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[aliens-think-we-are-weird]

Xander nodded as they walked onto the planet. No obvious dominant species. But that meant all intel on the Fauna and Flora needed to be discovered.

Still the planet was peaceful. Xe rolled their shoulders as the rest of the crew filed out of the ship. Their human Olivia followed blonde hair tucked high in what she called a ‘bun’. She was already taking pictures and babbling happily to S’kit about the flora. Despite the fact the plant looked to have teeth. Humans were so weird. But Xander was proud xe were getting the patterns. Humans liked soft strange creatures that fit in their arms. Be the neck or an appentage. If they could pet it they loved it. So when xe saw the little creature waddling from the foliage he knew the crew’s human would live it. It was small covered in fur, a little beak and big eyes. “Olivia!” Xe called gaining her and the attention of the crew as xe stepped aside to show her the creature as it made a very odd noise. Hikle snorted at the oddness of the creature and the crew waited for the coo’s and and Awes..... they waited.... Xander looked at their human confused.

Well..... that was a concerning look. Olivia was completely still. Eyes wide and her hands were turning white around the tablet. It took Drril a moment before he remembered the human’s facial meanings. “Are you-.” “Sssh don’t- don’t let it hear you.” She hissed backing away. The creature coo’d and waddled towards her and none of the crew had ever heard their biologist -who once got a venomous creature eight times her own size to snuggle- screech at an animal. But she did. Loudly and ran scrambling into Julith’s arms as more creatures waddled out completely benign. Were they deadly to humans?? Olivia looked horrified to see so many. “No no no no no no no no no no no-.”

“What was that?” Hikle asked once they were back in the ship. Olivia was opening cabinet and closing them frantically.

“So... in earth humans have this toy. Called a furby. Fur baby if you will. It is created with our pack bonding in mind. You know- so cute humans are suppose to love them. It looked exactly like those demons.”

“But... we have seen you pet creatures way furrier- or with bigger eyes- bigger mouths and fangs even? Why does this one concern you so?”

“Well one they are toys they talk and say cute things like ‘I love you and you are my best friend’,two they are battery operated they should need a power source.” “....should?”

“You can take the power source out... but some times.... in the back of the darkest corner of the home.... you hear it talking... a muffled ‘I love friend’.. you can throw it away- and it will be back... some how in the human’s strive to make the perfect cutest toy... we created furbys...”

“but...you have stopped manufacturing them if they are so scary.”

“.....”

“....you stopped manufacturing these creatures of they scare your species right?”

“Nope... you can still buy them.”

“.....but they scare you-.”

“I know.”

“......why?”

“I don’t know.... it is a horrific phenomenon. Oh my god and they are real!! Here!!!” Olivia cried distressed.

Xander sat back with Xir crew as Olivia refused to leave the ship again- until she saw one of the toothed flowers devour the ‘fur baby’ and she cried her ‘happy cry’ and searched to find a way to uproot the plant to keep it living and keep eating the ‘fur babies’ that seemed to flock their human in clusters much to the human’s distress. But much to the joy of the flora that devoured the ‘fur babies’.

After clarifying that Olivia was now in a symbiotic relationship ship with the flora of the forest they continued their journey. Olivia staying near the rest of the crew greatly unnerved by the now determined dominant species (and the longer they were on this planet the fear was more and more justifying). Turns out they had a language. Olivia - or more accurately humans- looked their their version of a local creature lore and capture meant they would have good fortune keeping the creature in their village to be worshipped.

They all kept a closer eye on their horrified Human.

While it was nice to learn deathworlder’s had limits being small creatures with big eyes and small fur bodies.... human intuition proved correct since these creatures were hellish and horrid once they realized they weren’t just going to be handed Olivia. They left the planet in a rush and due to human networking the planet became an official ‘no human zone’ in the federation....

“......why do you make toys like that if you are so afraid of them?” Xander asked as their flew away. Usually when xir team were all in their minds and not panicked kicking and thrashing at the sight of small creatures xir crew was the best research team on this side of the universe. Olivia turned to them looking tired and sad.

“I don’t know....my running theory is these creatures are mind controlling us from across the galaxy so we can come to them... but we know... they are filled with nothing but evil.” She said solemnly and quietly. Then she sat up and spoke normally. “Or we love to torture ourselves with a creepy creatures from uncanny valley and us discovering those creatures was just happenstance.”

why were humans so weird?

Wait but Humans are Weird writers… Has anyone talked about humans will pack bond with anything, but a lot will refuse to even be near a Furby, something literally designed to sate your pack bonding instinct.

[jackalfurbyposting]

@ellc-antlers 's Garfurby finds some lasagna...