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What I've Been up to

Hello! I've been really inactive and haven't posted anything in more than two weeks so I just wanted to get out what I'm doing and how I'm feeling right now.

I believe I've talked previously about how I get overstimulated easily and how I was taking a brief break from my hobbies so that I could refocus and calm down. I started that break about three weeks ago now and I never really felt any better so as of right now I think it's best if I just start back up with my hobbies and try to push through it.

Participating in my hobbies is my main way of getting out of bad moods so It can be pretty hard for me to feel ok when I get in that overstimulated state. If it has been this long I think that forcing myself to participate is probably the best course... Sometimes it is hard for me to tell if a bad mood is causing me to not be very active or if not being very active is causing me to have a bad mood. Life is difficult like that.

In the mean time, while I work up the motivation to unpack more of my collection and start writing again, I thought it would be a good idea for me to just briefly write about what I've been up to recently as a way to ease myself back in. Of course, I haven't really done much due to my mood but there are still some things I could write about and every little bit of effort helps so here we go!

First of all something completely off topic: a few weeks ago I reposted something from an account I like talking about how everyone should be careful of the heat and make sure that they are staying safe. I really love things like that where you can tell that the creator genuinely wants everyone to be safe and take care of themselves so I couldn't help sharing it, but now thinking about it I would like to keep this blog as a place for just my thoughts so I'll likely remove the repost. I just felt like mentioning it here because of how much it made me happy and also because it is a genuinely important reminder! Just a few days after seeing it I was being completely unsafe and ended standing in the sun for more than an hour. I got really sick suddenly and I just feel the need to remind people that heat stroke can occur very quickly and that you should genuinely take extreme caution while outside during extreme heat!

Recently, I've read a lot of romance comics. To be honest, it's mainly because my TikTok recommends a lot of them to me. Typically I try not to use TikTok that much as it always has trouble recommending stuff that I'm genuinely interested in but occasionally it actually understands my tastes and I get addicted for a few days. I haven't read too many comics/manga but I do really enjoy the cheesy romance stuff. About a year ago I got really into Komi Can't Communicate and bought the first few chapters and read them a couple times over, but reading all of that cute stuff makes me super excited which tires me out so I wasn't able to keep up, although I would still consider myself a fan. The series I just got into is called "Crossplay Love" and it's about two crossdressers who are just completely in love with each other. It is super cliche and on the nose but it's also adorable and I just can't help but love it. I read through every currently translated chapter online and am now considering actually ordering all currently published parts as I definitely prefer actually having physical copies. I'm also considering getting back into Komi Can't Communicate while I'm thinking about it.

Now for something actually on topic: I got the recently released Miku tamagotchi and have been having lots of fun taking care of her. I had a tamagotchi when I was younger but I was never a huge fan so I had to relearn how to take care of her but she ended evolving into Magical Mirai 10th ver, which is apparently the, like, "perfect care" version so I'm super happy about that.

Ok now I'm pretty tired so I'm going to stop here. It feels really nice to write again. In the next few days I definitely want to write more. The Miku Expo 2023 costume contest winner turned out super cute and I would love to talk about her. Also, the Polaris scale finally got a painted prototype and she looks gorgeous. She was in my top three most anticipated figures so I'm super glad she will be up for preorder soon. I would also like to focus on unpacking but that is something that takes up way more of my energy than it should so I want to make sure I'm ok to do that. I'll try to start small today and if everything goes well I'll hopefully post about it later and finally be able to start arranging my shelves.

Anyway, that was kinda just me writing anything that came to my head just to get my motivation back up so it ended up being way longer than I meant for it to be, which I guess is a good thing. I promise I'll try to be more active in my hobbies but I also have to make sure I'm not pushing myself. Even through it can be hard sometimes, I'm actually really glad I get so excited over things, it's way better than not having anything to care about. It just is sad it causes me to get so tired.

Thank you so much for reading, if anyone does. I typically just try to focus on posting stuff for my own sake as I enjoy doing it and I like looking back on them, but I have to admit that is does make me happy when my posts get interactions. I don't really expect this to get much as it is kinda just me rambling and I'm not going to tag it but seeing people actually like my posts is super cool. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my stuff. Love you lots!

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Art on the Internet

This is a bit unrelated to what I typically post, but It's something that I was thinking about since writing a previous post about changing my phone screen.

I feel like I don't appreciate the art I see on the internet enough. I see so many amazing pieces each day, and understand that most took hours to create. With that said, I spend only a few seconds appreciating them. I typically try to retweet any really good piece I see so that I can scroll back through my twitter to look at them, but there are too many to look back on and lots of the time I end up forgetting about those I love most.

The thing that really sparked this was when I was choosing art for my phone background. I ended up going with one of my favorite pieces of art, so It was one I had "memorized," but while looking for potential alternatives I found two pieces that caused me to kinda worry about how I was failing to remember pieces I loved.

The first was a painting of Miku that was meant to be a rainy day design. Her hair is in buns, my favorite alternate Miku hairstyle, and she has lots of cute details. There are flowers and raindrops in her hair, and she has umbrella earrings and a cloud hairpin. She is wearing an adorable blue dress and a pink undershirt with a blue ribbon as a belt. The colors of this piece are wonderful and overall Miku looks very adorable in it. It is probably one of my favorite pieces of art ever...and I had completely forgotten about it. I now have it saved as an alternate wallpaper, but It makes me worry about all of the other pieces I've potentially forgotten about.

The second piece is pretty much the same story. It was a piece that I couldn't stop thinking about for a period of time, that just completely left my mind. It's a collection of small drawings of Miku in her Hanami Outfit (the one designed by Rella) in a bunch of cute poses. I remember obsessively going back to this piece to look at it over and over again for at least a week just a few months ago. I shared it with all of my friends and liked it about as much as the official artwork by Rella. Then, when I was actually thinking of pieces of art to use for my phone wallpaper, I didn't remember it at all. I only found it again because it randomly showed up in suggestions while I was looking through Rella's PIXIV.

These are some of my favorite pieces of art, and when I had the opportunity to appreciate them again they didn't even come to mind. So many other amazing pieces had filled up the one place I use to save art that I forgot about them. I've created an actual "wallpapers" album on my phone now to save pieces I like enough to want as wallpapers, so hopefully it doesn't happen again. Still, I can't help but worry about there being other amazing pieces I've forgotten about. I don't exactly have the time to scroll through every single one of my retweets, so unless I dedicate time to it, I'll probably rely on pieces I see in the future to have as wallpapers.

This isn't really the type of post I necessarily want to occupy this blog, and it ended up being way longer than I meant for it to be. I just appreciate being able to get these feelings out. Honestly, however, I wrote this because I've been queueing posts (great feature btw) and I've been on a daily streak since starting this blog, but only have the phone screen post queued right now. I definitely haven't run out of Miku related things I want to post, like I said, I have a long history of instagram story posts I would like to expand on, I'm just experiencing the thing I mentioned in my "Unpacking" post where I get a bit overstimulated by my emotions, even positive ones. I wrote most of my previous posts all on one day only briefly after my initial day of unpacking. I haven't been able to work up the motivation to do much else, and I'm going to be away from home for the next few days. Basically, I got overstimulated from the excitement of unpacking and being able to write here and I haven't quite "recovered," and on top of that I won't even be able to unpack for the next few days due to me being busy. Overall it has me a bit bummed. I definitely want to unpack all of my figures so that I can go ahead and arrange my shelves, and I also want to write about a bunch more stuff on here.

Again I've made a post that completely goes off topic. Can you tell I like writing? I'm using writing as a way to relax from writing and ending up writing way more than I initially intended. Moral of the story: Artists please frequently repost your artwork, I want to see it. Next I'll most likely write about some goods I ordered recently, or something completely random and off topic. Who knows.

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Phone Screen

I recently changed my phone screen to be Miku themed. "Themed" probably isn't accurate, I just changed my wallpaper and cleared out my home screen so that the wallpaper was visible📱.

I don't really know why I felt like sharing this, I was just super happy with it and I love looking at it so much, I needed to channel that excitement somewhere. I wasn't going to share it originally because I don't feel comfortable posting other people's art (unless it is promotional art like figure prototype/expo photos, event visuals, etc) but I figured it was fine as you can't really appreciate the art with all the phone stuff in the way.

This piece of art is by 🎇Rella🎇, my current favorite artist of all time👩‍🎨. She does a lot of Miku designs and visuals and is amazing at what she does. She designed the 5th Anniversary symphony version (and 2022/2023ver)🎼, Harvest Moon version🌕, Land of the Eternal version🍁, the hanami outfit Sakura Miku doll🌸, and my absolute favorite Miku design, NT✨. She also designed the 16th anniversary main visual. She is so incredibly talented and every piece of art she makes is so beautiful. I would love to have a poster of every single Miku piece she has.

The piece that is currently my phone screen is probably my favorite piece of her's. I love the ocean and sundresses and huge sunhats and bows🏖️🎀. Everything about this piece is perfect. Miku looks so serene and happy here, I feel calm every time I look at it.

Here's her PIXIV. I look through it pretty frequently. It doesn't have all of her works sadly (notably, I think the Hanami Outfit visual and all NT stuff is missing) but I'm pretty sure it is the best place to view her work in as high quality as possible.

(ps. I know I said she designed all of those Miku versions, but I understand that a lot of people work to help design stuff, she is just listed as the main artist)

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Late Arrival

I sometimes feel bad because I came into the vocaloid fandom so late and don't really know any of the history or classic stuff or pretty much any vocaloid(s?) besides Miku, Rin, Len, and Luca. It's the same with figure collecting. I've liked Miku pretty much my whole life but my obsession, when I started to actually listen to vocaloid songs and collect figures, didn't start until early 2022.

The people in this community that I look up to have loved Miku and figure collecting for years, most more than a decade. I know that me coming in late doesn't make my love any lesser but I sometimes feel weird saying that the 15th anniversary design is one of my favorites, or that I prefer the design of NT over all previous base designs. I also feel weird saying that I love classic (but basic) songs like Triple Baka.

I guess it feels like I'm too new to this community to have any "valid" opinions. If I like newer stuff then I get the feeling It's just because I don't know everything. If I like older stuff then It's like I'm just pretending I was here from the start.

None of this actually affects my enjoyment of Miku content, I love her an incredible amount just the same. I guess it just makes me feel like I don't quite fit in with those I look up to. I would really like to have more friends to ramble with but I feel like If I did I would just embarrass myself or come off as disingenuous.

Miku is my favorite thing. Period. I love her so much and I've known that for long enough to know it is true. I am not going to let these dumb feelings prevent me from loving her and sharing my love.

I really like that idea where everyone has their own Miku, and it is a concept that I would want to write about in more detail later. My Miku is caring, kind, supportive, and understanding. Even though she is new and she doesn't always quite know what's going on, she still deserves love.

...This post went off the rails, but that's what this blog was for! A place where I can ramble about whatever I'm thinking about.

Thank you for reading🩵

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Magical Mirai 10th Anniversary Nendoroid

The MM10th🛰️ Nendoroid was fully revealed a few days ago. I was never a huge fan of the MM10th design but her Nendoroid caME OUT SO WELL‼️

She looks so bright and cute and colorful🩵🩷🤍. I think this design is much better suited for a Nendoroid/Chibi than it is the scale. I'm a huge fan of the cosmic motif🪐 (off topic but DECO's new single🧑‍🚀?? isn't it incredible? that song fits this nendoroid🎶) so I love all of the stars and her little antenna📡. The stars are sprinkled evenly throughout the design like in her hair or wand/mic thing. I especially love the large one with the bow attached to it⭐️🎀.

Her colors are, I think, the main reason I prefer the Nendoroid to the scale/main visual. They look so bright here compared to how they are slightly muted in other depictions. I think the simpler design of Nendoroids highlights the colors better by removing some of the shading details. It could also be that the more "condensed" figure lets me focus on all of the colors together. The bold blue and pinks stand out even more paired with the clean plain white (another blue, pink, white Miku?🏳️‍⚧️) and it all comes together to make her so eye-catching🤩.

I also love her posing in the showcase photos, she looks so cute yet graceful, and look at the sparkle in her eye✨🫢.

Apparently she will be up for preorder online in September, I can't wait⏳!

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Unpacking

I'm in college right now, or rather, I was at college during last school year����. Because I was living in a dorm I couldn't really unpack all of my figures and had to just keep them stored in their boxes. I would consistently get new preorders delivered so more and more un-displayed figures piled up and for a long while it was really negatively effecting my mental health📦. Since then, I've transferred schools and I'm living in my (parent's) actual house again. Now I'm able to decorate and setup my room how I would like🎉!!!

Despite that, It was really difficult for me to work up the motivation to unpack all of my figures and set up my shelf. I get overstimulated very easily and even strong positive emotions make me exhausted😓. I love Miku a lot so even though I really wanted to decorate my room every time I would think about it I would get all excited and worked up and burn out before even beginning😣.

Yesterday, I was finally able to work up the motivation to unpack a large majority of my collection💫. I'm really proud of myself for doing this so I figured I would share it here!

I'm not very good at taking pictures, but here are some photos I took while unpacking📸.

All of my figures are so beautiful and cute and I wish I could do them justice in my photography but they never really come out right😖. Anyway, I'm just glad they are finally out and I can appreciate them in person💕! I'll continue to unpack the rest of my collection and then I'll be able to arrange my shelves. It's very exciting to finally be directly participating in my hobby again🩵

Thank you so much for reading!

👋(^▽^)🌸💐🌺✨🩵💖

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Symphony 2022 Scale

This is the latest "embarrassingly long message" I sent to my friends, and what inspired me to move my ramblings to a blog instead. I decided to leave it relatively unedited so it's really messy but I figured it would be a good first post, so here is me rambling about the Symphony 2022 Scale figure:

(context, friend mentioned how he thought the figure was pretty and how he was going to talk with me about it)

WE CAN TALK RN! dont you think her base looks way too different from her original visual like it was the first thing i noticed ablut thr prototype and then when we got a colored prototype it was even more of a problem but i was definitely letting that one issue overshadow how absolutely beautiful she is (its just that the bow was my favorite part of the visual so i was focused on it) like just look at her colors they are so magnificent like her hair gradient matches so well with her outfit and the outfit itself is of course stunning thanks to rella but the details omg the details its like she stepped right out of a music box which was obviously the point of the entire anniversary design but even separated from the music box context the little mechanical things on her ankles are such a great touch and its such a unique theme and it was executed so wonderfully with such little details the gears on the ankle the golden accents and how her skirt is like a gramophone like what how is she so perfect and i dont think i even finished obsessing over her colors like i know that i feel the gold of the stand is a bit harsh amd that was my main issue for a while but its less abrasive in more natural lighting and i have absolutely no issue with the same gold being used for her outfit like it stands out so beautifully and just serves to highlight her elegant design and the tips of her hair match it so well like you would think the bold green of her hair would clash with the gold but it just fades so beautifully amd it's actually a pretty unique hair color like with how well it fits its hard to tell how bold of a shade it is and her face oh my god you have to look at that one expo photo showing her face in detail she has such a gentle expression and ive already mentioned how striking her hair is but it is even more so in contrast with her glowing skin and her eyes oh my god her eyes they take the same gold from her outfit and they are just so stunning they could see through your soul and her expression is so gentle like her entire posing conveys such serenity despite how she has this golden outfit and is sitting on a gold pedestal she just looks so gentle and serene and beautiful like ignoring her base she is perfect my literal only issue is that her bow isn't positioned or colored how id like it to be and i can understand thats its kinda like the swallowtail butterfly ver like if she had the exact same colors as her visual she would clash with like, reality ps the visual for the swallowtail butterfly ver is stunning but ahhhhhhhh back on topic she looks so graceful and magical and calm i wish i could be her

And then my friend was super nice about me going crazy and said he agreed.

This post is definitely not as neat as I would like future ones to be but I just wanted to get it out as an example/test of what I would be using this blog for.

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Starting Out

Hello! I really REALY love Miku. I also love writing. I love Miku and writing so much that a lot of the time when I get excited over new Miku visuals or content or just ANYTHING I feel like writing a lot about it.

Right now, whenever I want to write about Miku I just post to an Instagram story about whatever I am excited about, but I feel like that is limiting. I've tried to text what I'm thinking about to friends and end up making really embarrassingly long messages. I don't really have any friends that care about Miku as much as I do and I know none of them really want to read my insane rambling.

That is what inspired me to start this blog! I'm hoping that I can use this space to ramble about what I love for as long as I would like with no filter and in as much detail as possible. I'm new to using Tumblr and to be honest it is a little complicated so I don't really know exactly how I'm going to structure this, but I would like to start off by going back through my Instagram story posts and basically just copying down my thoughts from them with more detail.

I hope to make more posts soon! If someone is actually reading this, thank you so much!!!