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visually impaired and still rockin'!

tails built the visor for him. it acts as a multi-tool: a screen reader and a proximity sensor. you know, like how when you're in a car and it'll beep when you get too close to something? sonic uses it to navigate at super-speeds!

How the heck did I pull two 4 stars-

AND IT ONLY TOOK 6 PULLS-

WELCOME JIYAN

Wuthering Waves is taking over my life like a wave on the beach.

wuthering waves just dropped so i'm gonna "wave" good bye to my productivity

I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE RELEASE DATE-

"✨️Still, I'll know someday you'll come and find me...☁️☄️"

I discovered this parallel and I'm loosing my goddamn mind over it-

Then I realized that if I flip one of the images, TOGETHER THE NEBULAE MAKE A PAIR OF WINGS OR A HEART-

IM ABOUT TO COLLAPSE-

Yooooooooooo

THANK GOD SWITZERLAND WON EUROVISION! Their song absolutely slaps!

I was hoping that Ireland would win, but oh well. At least it wasn't Israel

I bet that FF7R Part 3's ending is going to make Jenova be the real villan, have Cloud and Sephiroth kill her cause she's corrupting the lifestream and it's many worlds inside of it.

And then Sephiroth pulls a Loki by merging timelines and getting all of Jenovas courruption inside him, and sacrifices himself to save the multiverse.

And when it zooms out on what the merging of the lifestream and it's world's look like, we get THIS-

Somewhat possible. We can assume that maybe Jenova might have a greater hand in things given how she seemed to have a visible hold on Sephiroth in Nibelheim. It's going to be interesting to see how things play out!

So I tried to draw in the Sonic art style today, and this was the result.

I think I did a decent job.

As an American this whole situation makes my blood boil. Like it's called the land of the free, yet we're not allowed to protest against Isreal cause the police will arrest us

Free Palestine but also free the USA from whatever the heck is going on with the system

Miku expo 2024 is off to a truly awful start but I haven't seen any posts on here detailing the mess. So here we go, here's what's happened so far.

I will be linking some posts and threads from Twitter and will update this post as need be.

4/16 edits and additions are in blue

**PLEASE DO NOT comment or send me DMs complaining about the setlist**

**Rather than tweet complaints at the Miku Expo twitter account, it may be best to email CFM and/or Crunchyroll directly.**

🎵 First up, ticket presales.

This year the expo was sponsored by Crunchyroll and ticket presales were only supposed to be available to those that had a Crunchyroll subscription. Those that qualified were emailed a code for presale. However, when that code was inevitably leaked to the public, it turned out anyone could buy presales because it wasn't set up in any way to verify your subscription.

Additionally, VIP tickets are supposed to give the holder early access to the venue and merch tables, but I'm hearing that this is not being honored despite it being advertised on some of the venue pages. (see replies to this tweet)

VIP for San Jose did not grant early access to merch

The VIP package does not include a glow stick (scroll down to "about MIKU EXPO VIP PACKAGE" here), which causes some more difficulties for those that were not able to buy a glow stick online.

🎵 Merch

Higher prices and lower stock than usual. This is especially frustrating for the glow sticks.

The only glow sticks that are allowed inside these venues are ones made for the event or ones from past vocaloid concerts. This is because other glow sticks are too bright and will reflect on the hologram screen. But what with the stocks being so low, many people can't even get these glow sticks.

Merch at the venues is also not looking promising. People are reporting there have only been a quantity of 95 glow sticks per venue.

🎵 so about that screen

The biggest news to come out about Miku expo 2024 is that they arent using the hologram screen. The Vancouver and Portland concerts have used an LED screen.

This was neither advertised nor communicated from CFM or Crunchyroll to the public.

This also makes the prohibiting of outside glow sticks redundant, as they won't interfere with an LED screen.

An LED screen is much cheaper to use than the transparent screen used for the holograms. And a lot of folks are pointing out the discrepancies between this and the higher ticket and merch prices.

The LED screen is also a lot more noticeable and out of place, it hasn't been blended well on the stage so far. Views from further back and the sides are not looking great.

The Miku Expo team have stated that the Vancouver show was filmed officially. Seeing as the LED screen was also used in Portland, we can reasonably assume the LED has nothing to do with the filming.

Fans are speculating that the reason the Miku Expo team have prohibited photos and videos at this year's expo is to hide the fact that an LED screen is being used for multiple concerts.

There's also speculation that the hologram screen is in CA in preparation for Coachella, where Miku is meant to preform on the 13th and 20th of April. Please note that this is just speculation, we have no way atm to confirm this. UPDATE: The LED was used at Coachella

Additionally, I personally would recommend not getting your hopes up about the hologram screen replacing the LED one for any concerts after Coachella. Seeing as neither Crunchyroll or CFM have communicated or addressed any of the complaints yet, we may just be stuck with the LED for the whole tour.

A spokesperson for CFM addressed the concerns via this article from Business Insider. The LED will be used for the entirety of the NA and Europe tour.

The LED screen broke during the phoenix show. Apparently the vibration from the bass was so strong it shook the connection lose. It was fixed at the end of On The Rocks.

🎵 the doujin goods incident at Vancouver

Please refer to this thread for the full info, but here is a summary:

The Miku Expo team refused to let a fan distribute free doujin goods despite this fan getting prior permission from CFM to do so. An individual also took this fan's miku cutout, though I believe it was returned later.

🎵 there is still a live band

I figured I'd clear this up since I've seen some mild miscommunication on it. There is a live band, just not the usual band they have for Miku concerts. This is not at all an issue, and in fact I've heard nothing but good things about the live band. I figured I'd bring it up for information's sake.

Honestly, kudos to them killing it on stage in the midst of the mess.

🎵 Miscellaneous

-Someone Allegedly pissed on the floor of the Vancouver show. I have. no words. What the FUCK dude. If anyone can find the original tweet(s) claiming this, please link them to me. I'm not rooting through vocatwt to find the piss tweets.

-There was a car crash outside of the san jose concert, in front of a full line of miku expo attendees. The driver's plate fell off. Fans got a hold of it and took pictures with it, some using the hashtag #trafficjam as a reference to the NILFRUITS song of the same name. Someone even kept the plate.

UPDATE: The plate was returned to the authorities

-Fans cheering for Elmo at San Jose.

-Someone is looking into a class action lawsuit. This has sparked some discourse. Many want some kind of justice irt to the poor organization of Miku Expo thus far, but others are fearful that taking any kind of legal actions will put the future of NA vocaloid concerts in jeopardy.

🎼Concluding notes

It's been 6 years since Miku expo has come overseas. The 2020 tour was cancelled due to covid and Miku expo 2024 is it's 10th anniversary. This was supposed to be a big deal, a huge comeback tour for NA!!

However, due to absolute abysmal planning on Crunchyroll and CFM's parts, Miku expo has been a massive disappointment for many fans so far.

I know I'm nervous for when I go in May, but I want to try and end this on a more positive note.

Vocaloid has, first and foremost, always been about the music and the community. It's undeniable that we as fans have been mistreated by CFM and Crunchyroll here This is not the concert tour we deserve, but I'm sure we can still find things to enjoy.

Hearing vocaloid songs live has always been a dream of mine, and for the first time in my life I'll be surrounded in person by folks who love vocaloid as much as I do. I couldn't even fathom being in this situation back in the early days of vocaloid, being a little kid listening to Melt and World is Mine for the very first time.

I'm absolutely still angry about how the expo has been handled, but I still want to enjoy what I can, being with folks who share that same passion.

There are plenty of fans on twitter detailing the fun time they had at the shows so far. If you do end up going, you can absolutely still have fun too!! And please please please do not spread your negativity to the producers on the set list for Miku expo and Coachella. These artists worked so hard and they are not responsible for the bad decisions made this year.

If anyone knows the font used in the dialog for shadow the hedgehog 2005 please let me know

Palestine will be free. #ceasefirenow🇵🇸

Global Strike today. Allow me to plant a seed of awareness to all of my friends in the Sonic Community.

I just realized that FF7 Rebirth and the Loki Series have some intriguing parallels. Like is this forshadowing something about Sephiroth's plan to merge the Lifestream and all of its worlds together? The villan named after the TREE OF LIFE in Jewish mystism, MERGING THE LIFESTREAM, THE SOURCE OF MOSTLY EVERYTHING IN FF7!?

DO YOU NOW SEE MY VISION-

FF7 Rebirth Theories (that I have and like to scream about)

Here are some of my theories of what I think is going on in this game and what it means for the FF7 franchise moving forwards.

-The Lifestream is a river of souls, emotions and memories, yet sometimes these threads branch off and create new alternative universes/timelines, like light shining through a prism. Think of the lifestream and its different worlds as the roots of a tree.

-Like how the lifestream connects all lives and how it represents the cycle of life and death, so does the tree of life in various mythologies.

-Now that I look closely at Rebirth's ending I think Aerith is both alive and dead. She's entangled with the physical world and the spiritual world (Lifestream) and can hop between them at will.

-Which is why Cloud and Sephiroth see her as alive, but to the rest of the party, she's dead. She's in a fluctuation of states due to her ancient abilities and uses this to her advantage. (Schrodinger's Aerith lmfao)

-I dunno but I still think there's two Sephiroth's. The evil one who wants to merge all the worlds, become a god, and rule the planet alongside Jenova, and the one from the original OG timeline who's trying to stop this from happening and the one who shows Cloud the multiverses in the first place

-Cloud is slightly aware of what is going on regarding the different worlds/timelines, but the dude has to regain his true self first

Shitty Total Eclipse pictures I took at my nearest Walmart. The grey clouds make them look like fantasy paintings!

☼ ☾

Hey! This may be weird but I wanted to ask a personal question but I saw you around the ABA tag and wanted to ask about your experience. If this is too personal or Much to answer publicly don’t feel any pressure to answer, my dms are open, or answering this privately is more than enough. Im ND with an undiagnosed learning disability and have suspected for a long time i’m autistic. Last summer I started working as an RBT in small small town midwest america. Last night I wanted to look up more online resources on reddit and was surprised by the amount of hate and loathing I saw about ABA. I’m not here to discredit those experiences that being said it was very surprising since as a queer ND i have never experienced a more accepting and genuinely caring community around me then when I started working with my coworkers. I didn’t think a space like this could exist in my town. As well as the information I was fed during training that many others have papers that contradict.

I’ve seen a lot of claims from peoples personal experiences, and I think ABA has changed a lot in the last few decades. and it is highly dependent on the center and technicians/BCBA’s you get. But because of what I’ve seen from the autistic community online I want to see a wide variety of experiences. Especially as this is an ethical dilemma I take very seriously. Would you be willing to detail what your personal experience with ABA Therapy was?

If you need specific questions prompting or an idea of what I am searching for; how old were you when you started? What did you work on? what was your experience with your technicians? Did you meet others who were in ABA and what was that like if so? Were there things that harmed you? What were the things you feel like helped you? Do you feel manipulated in any way from your experience?

Thank you for taking the time to read this whether or not you respond, I have never been ride or die for this field as a job sinceit can be taxing to work with younger children as my current position does. and that has always made me wary of keeping my job; that being said recently I have been considering working with a focus on older autistic kids as I feel like I could really connect and make a good difference in their lives as someone who can at least partially relate. That being said if there is a different or better job to do that through i’d rather start researching now rather than later and would like to improve my current work as much as I can before/if I decide to jump boat without it threatening my future.

I think I was about 2 and a half when I started. I don't remember a lot from my ABA therapy because I was very little back then. I don't know if I got trauma or not,but I turned out ok in the end! I have bad short term memory so writing stuff down and using a timer helps me remember some stuff. Also yes do more research about ABA and stuff if you want to get a job in this department.

Thanks for asking!

Happy MAR10 Day everybody!! Mario loves ya!❤️

Happy Mar10 day! The Mushroom Kingdom seems like it would be a pretty peaceful place when it’s not being invaded by the Koopas.

nice of mr wonka to invite us over for a singular jelly bean and a quarter cup of lemonade eh luigi?

A Willy Wonka pop-up event in Glasgow had attendees calling the police after they paid £35 and the event didn’t deliver what was promised.

Event goers were promised a whimsical adventure all themed around something Willy Wonka might create in his factory.

Source

The keen-eyed amongst you might have noticed something a little bit…wrong.

Imagnation Lab. Encherining Entertainment. Catgacating. Live perforrmances. Cartchy tunes. Exarserdray lollipops. And my favourite “A pasadise of sweets teats”

But what did the event actually look like? WELL.

Feel like the marketing team got a bit carried away.

Source

Some good news

Unpopular opinion time, but I really don't think Jenova possessed Sephiroth during the Nebilhelm Incident.

I like to think that it's him choosing to do the things that he's doing. Since in the OG, his will was confirmed to be stronger than Jenova's. Yes, he was vulnerable and his cells might have drawn him towards her. Yes, he might have gotten traumatizing visions, but all that and more made him realize that his entire life was a lie and how Shinra was manipulating him.

He choose to embrace the darkness, because to him that's the only way he could escape from his fate.

I still think that in Rebirth, Sephiroth chooses to be the bad guy.

Like Sephiroth is FED UP with Shinra and their shit. He is tired of being their tool. Finding out he was made up of Jenova's cells and created to be a perfect monster was the nail in the coffin for him.

🔥

That new Sephiroth and Cloud scene in the recent trailer has shipper me going absolutely bananas

They fucking KNOW. Okay? They KNOW.

And they are doubling down on it. It's great.

FF7 Rebirth state of play highlights according to me

-BLACK MATERIA MENTION!? NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN

-SEPHIROTH HUGGING CLOUD AND whispering in his ear??? Sefikura won today folks!

-ZACK AND AERITH!? CISSNEI AS WELL!?

-The mention of "endless dream" has me both excited and scared. I think it's two timelines rather than the whole "it's just a dream" troupe

-Cloud and Sephiroth clashing at the Forgotten Capital!? Makes me wonder more about Aerith and her fate!

-Gameplay looks dope af

AND THEY FUCKING CALLED IT THAT