#peachy project

[superstarhumbucker]

Peachy Project #1: Making Crossword Puzzles

Peachy Project #1: Making Crossword Puzzles

Making Crossword Puzzles! Hi scholars, if you would like to make your very own crossword puzzles, check out this video!

[pk-psi]

I saw her and INSTANTLY knew I had to draw bug type Miku,,,,

[ascorian]

reposting (??? idk i don't remember posting this?????) stuff from summer

[puellamaga22]

HC sae itoshi would listen to more more jump

here's the drawing by itself:

song is JUMP! MORE! JUMP! by MORE MORE JUMP from project sekai

[peachybunana]

that color wheel thingy on twitter

[lunalunawillow]

Pjsk canon event:

Vibing to the event comm instrumental in the event tab

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Peachy (yes, a very large Peachy) is admiring some of the flowers in the biome at the Eden Project.

In Cornwall, England.

[adversary-to-inamorato]

"I reach out my hands to what lies beyond. The things I've touched and the scars I've worn, I want to memorize them all."

my beloved ♡

[utsukurou]

'Why is Luka your favorite Vocaloid?'

Notice how whenever Luka is the Vocaloid it's my favorite song

[mercymaker]

thinking about my girlies and halsin

little thoriel, doomed before she could ever taste fresh air on her lips. before she could see all the beautiful colors of this world. destined to suffocate in her mother's womb. to kill her as her first and final act. god's favorite little doll. with such a weight settling on her tiny shoulders the moment her eyes opened to a stream of silver light illuminating the room. what should she do with the gift of her own life? surely, she can't waste such an enormous favor?

and mal, oh poor mal, for just a brief moment resigning to death. she would never admit it, but for just a second, she didn't just accept death. she welcomed it. and while both of them were saved, it didn't change her heart. it didn't change the pain. in fact, at first, it all felt worse than before. there were times she could scarcely look at thoriel, her precious little child, her almost-killer. maleane felt like she was rotting from the inside, a bone-deep sickness that was slowly consuming her. worse than that, it felt like the corruption spread around her, poisoning the waters. but she didn't care who drank from the well. none of these people mattered to her. but she couldn't harm the druid. the thought of hurting him filled her with despair. is this what love felt like? maleane had already forgotten what that was.

and halsin? the gentle, kind halsin with a foreign sort of sadness locked behind his brow. with a heart that doesn't stir so easily. yet, it stirred for her. it was pointless to deny his feelings, as they had all resurfaced the moment he'd set his eyes on her. what sort of leech did he invite into his bed? but he'd seen her kindness, the power to break centuries old curses. she can be different. not like the rest of them. she's different, right?

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Gaby Del Valle at Politico Magazine:

The threat, we are told here this weekend, is existential, biological, epoch-defining. Economies will fail, civilizations will fall, and it will all happen because people aren’t having enough babies.

“The entire global financial system, the value of your money, and every asset you might buy with money is defined by leverage, which means its value depends on growth,” Kevin Dolan, a 37-year-old father of six from Virginia, tells the crowd that has gathered to hear him speak. “Every country in the developed world and most countries in the developing world face long-term population decline at a level that makes growth impossible to maintain,” Dolan says, “which means we are sitting on the bubble of all bubbles.” Despite this grim prognosis, the mood is optimistic. It’s early December, a few weeks before Christmas, and the hundred-odd people who have flocked to Austin for the first Natal Conference are here to come up with solutions. Though relatively small, as conferences go, NatalCon has attracted attendees who are almost intensely dedicated to the cause of raising the U.S. birth rate. The broader natalist movement has been gaining momentum lately in conservative circles — where anxieties over falling birth rates have converged with fears of rising immigration — and counts Elon Musk, who has nearly a dozen children, and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán among its proponents. Natalism is often about more than raising birth rates, though that is certainly one of its aims; for many in the room, the ultimate goal is a total social overhaul, a culture in which child-rearing is paramount.

NatalCon’s emphasis on childbirth notwithstanding, there are very few women in the cavernous conference room of the LINE Hotel. The mostly male audience includes people of all ages, many of whom are childless themselves. Some of the women in attendance, however, have come to Austin with their children in tow — a visual representation of the desired outcome of this weekend. As if to emphasize the reason we’re all gathered here today, a baby babbles in the background while Dolan delivers his opening remarks.

Broadly speaking, the people who have paid as much as $1,000 to attend the conference are members of the New Right, a conglomeration of people in the populist wing of the conservative movement who believe we need seismic changes to the way we live now — and who often see the past as the best model for the future they’d like to build. Their ideology, such as it exists, is far from cohesive, and factions of the New Right are frequently in disagreement. But this weekend, these roughly aligned groups, from the libertarian-adjacent tech types to the Heritage Foundation staffers, along with some who likely have no connection with traditionally conservative or far-right causes at all, have found a unifying cause in natalism. At first glance, this conference might look like something new: A case for having kids that is rooted in a critique of the market-driven forces that shape our lives and the shifts that have made our culture less family-oriented. As Dolan later tells me in an email, declining birth rates are primarily the fault of “default middle-class ‘life path’ offered by our educational system and corporate employers,” which Dolan says is “in obvious competition with starting a family.” These systems, he believes, have created a consumer-driven, hedonistic society that requires its members to be slavishly devoted to their office jobs, often at the expense of starting a family.

But over the course of the conference, the seemingly novel arguments for having children fade and give way to a different set of concerns. Throughout the day, speakers and participants hint at the other aspects of modern life that worried them about future generations in the U.S. and other parts of the West: divorce, gender integration, “wokeness,” declining genetic “quality.” Many of the speakers and attendees see natalism as a way of reversing these changes. As the speakers chart their roadmaps for raising birth rates, it becomes evident that for the most dedicated of them, the mission is to build an army of like-minded people, starting with their own children, who will reject a whole host of changes wrought by liberal democracy and who, perhaps one day, will amount to a population large enough to effect more lasting change. This conference suggests there’s a simple way around the problem of majority rule: breeding a new majority — one that looks and sounds just like them.

In recent years, various factions of the old and the new right have coalesced around the idea that babies might be the cure for everything that’s wrong with society, in the United States and other parts of the developed West. It’s not a new argument. Natalists made similar claims in the early 20th century, when urbanization drove birth rates down and European immigration kept the U.S. population afloat. Then, too, people attributed the drop in fertility rates to endemic selfishness among young people.

Throughout it all, some religious conservative cultures have continued to see raising large broods as a divine mandate. White supremacists, meanwhile, have framed their project as a way of ensuring “a future for white children,” as declared by David Lane, a founding member of the white nationalist group The Order. More recently, natalist thinking has emerged among tech types interested in funding and using experimental reproductive technologies, and conservatives concerned about falling fertility rates and what they might mean for the future labor force of the United States and elsewhere in the developed world. The conservative think tanks the Center for Renewing America and the Heritage Foundation — the latter of which was represented at NatalCon — have proposed policies for a potential second Trump administration that would promote having children and raising them in nuclear families, including limiting access to contraceptives, banning no-fault divorce and ending policies that subsidize “single-motherhood.”

[...]

The speakers who lay out this bleak state of affairs are a motley crew of the extremely online right, many of whom go by their X (the website formerly called Twitter) handles rather than their names. Via Zoom, anonymous Twitter user Raw Egg Nationalist warns us about endocrine disruptors in everything from perfume to bottled water. Ben Braddock, an editor at the conservative magazine IM-1776, claims that antidepressants and birth control pills have permanent, detrimental effects on women’s fertility. Together, the speakers paint a dire picture of a society that has lost its way, abandoning fundamental biological truths and dooming itself to annihilation in the process. The solution, of course, is to have more babies. Peachy Keenan, a pseudonymous writer affiliated with the conservative Claremont Institute, urges attendees to “seize the means of reproduction” — as in, to out-breed liberals, who are already hobbling their movement by choosing to have just a couple children, or none at all. “We can use their visceral hatred of big families to our advantage,” Keenan says. “The other side is not reproducing; the anti-natalists are sterilizing themselves.”

Here lies the project, spelled out in detail: The people who disagree have bloodlines that are slowly going to die out. To speed up that process — to have this particular strain of conservative natalist ideology become dominant quickly in the United States — everyone in this room has to have more kids, and fast. But it’s only when the speakers get to who should have babies and how they should raise them that their deeper concerns, and the larger anxieties behind this conference, become clear. The goal, as put by Indian Bronson, the pseudonymous co-founder of the elite matchmaking service Keeper, is “more, better people.” But the speakers lack consensus on the meaning of the word “better,” as they do on the subject of using technology to encourage the best and brightest among us to breed.

Keenan, who has previously celebrated her sense that it is now acceptable to say “white genocide is real,” says better means conservative. Pat Fagan, the director of the Marriage and Religion Institute at the Catholic University of America, says good children are the product of stable, two-parent Christian households, away from the corrupting influences of public school and sex ed. (Christian couples, he adds, have “the best, most orgasmic sex,” citing no research or surveys to support this.) To protect these households, we must abolish no-fault divorce, declares Brit Benjamin, a lawyer with waist-length curly red hair. (Until relatively recently, Benjamin was married to Patri Friedman — grandson of economist Milton Friedman — the founder of the Seasteading Institute, a Peter Thiel-backed effort to build new libertarian enclaves at sea.) And to ensure that these children grow up to be adults who understand their proper place in both the family and the larger social order, we need to oust women from the workforce and reinstitute male-only spaces “where women are disadvantaged as a result,” shampoo magnate and aspiring warlord Charles Haywood says, prompting cheers from the men in the audience.

The far-right natalist movement's goals are to cause a population explosion of people who think like them.

[dogstar9069]

The Peachy Key/ももいろの鍵 - iyowa

Translations reference from Yoshi and MadamePhoton

Collaborative effort with @br0kenphone

“Why are you sad, or maybe you’re mad?” a young voice cries out to me

“Don’t you worry you see, I’m smiling happily,” this answer just floats in the air… waiting

The things that we drew on that day, our color of dreams, constantly darken in its hue

And so now that I know, that I’m not alone, I turn sideways and see

That it, so suddenly, slowly slips away

So I stand at this crossroad, a diorama of

Dear memories long ago

The clover called out to me, it clasped my hand to show me, that it’s there the stage that shines in my dreams

So I looked into your longing eyes, we looked at the starry sky

I cried out a single wish: “May it not hurt anymore!”

I feel so numb, it feels so cold, can we re-tie our friendship of old?

This shining stage lights and the falling shadows, my heart yearns to love you all… again

Hey, now don’t cry! Hey, please don’t cry! I’m standing here right by your side

Let me put my hand on your trembling fingers, so we can unlock the door… forward!

And the burden of old with worries I bear, slowly darken their shape

And so now that I know, that I’m not alone, I face forward and see

That it, so suddenly, cannot be seen anywhere

So I stand at this crossroad, like memories, that are saved in a photo frame

The clover invited me, claiming it’s leaf in my hand, now I wait for the stage that’ll unfold our story

So I looked into your longing eyes, we looked at the starry sky

I cried out a single wish: “May the stars never fade!”

Oh so dazzling, oh so sparkling, I reach my hand for the future beyond

My experiences and the scars I now bear, shall become apart of me… again

Hey, no don’t lose! No, don’t give in! I’m standing here right by your side

Although we can’t see it, the world far beyond, I’ll close that gap for… my dreams!

“Why are you sad, or maybe you’re mad?” a young voice cries out to me

“Don’t you worry you see, I’m smiling happily,” this reply drips into a song, it’s my gift you

Hey now…

Smile for me! Smile for me! Show them the kindness written on your cheeks

This shining stage lights and the falling shadows, I won’t let them fade… again

Overcome it! Surpass the numb past! And just keep moving on ahead

And with your hand on my trembling fingers, I’ll unlock the door forward

Although rusting, the colors won’t fade

With key in hand, I’ll open it!

[psoiz]

Peachy key Sinclair

This was done tonight very quickly and crookedly, I'm not sure what I will finish to the end.

I was just obsessed with redrawing Sinclair in Peachy Key.

[reinabeestudio]

This started as 'what if he wore a jumpsuit while he works :]' but then evolved into a sleep-deprived Pizza Head and—wait bro where are you lookin at 🤨

[astarsor]

UFO (Kikuo) 【UTAU cover】 ^^^

ももいろの鍵 / Momorio no Kagi 【UTAU cover】 ^^^

my new interest of the month is making utau covers!! please listen to them on youtube :3

and make sure to like and subscribe!! >:3c

[peachybunana]

I LOVE YURI