Life, fandom, and everything in between. https://mystsaphyr.me/blog.html Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:36:34 +0000 60 https://mystsaphyr.me/blog/2021/9/8.html Whew, Artfight did NOT happen, did it. Sorry about that. Moving on though! You may have noticed a few updates here and there. A new icon, updated about me page, et cetera. <br> Long story short, I'm switching things up a bit with a new online avatar/persona! My old one was just a toon version of me, and recently I started thinking 'isn't that a bit boring? Maybe I should do something silly and fun.' The opportunity arose when I noticed a lot of my vocalsynth fandom friends creating ENVtuber avatars. I was reluctant to the idea at first (no I'm not gonna make a new character, my Aiko vroid model is fine!) But, well, here we are. <br> It seems a lot of Vtubers have a specific gimmick, aesthetic or specialty, and all I had decided going into this is "objectheads are cool, let's do that." So I lopped off my head and replaced it with an iMac G3, as one does. I've been ruminating a lot lately on the internet of my youth — a place of oekakis, fan shrines, AIM and the like — so I thought a metaphorical interpretation of that would be appropriate for my vtuber persona. <br> I'll be primarily streaming art, vocalsynth music making and games as I did before, but I would like to maybe sprinkle in a bit of early net culture nostalgia here and there. Perhaps streams exploring virtual pet sites, old forums, net shrines, the Wayback Machine and Geocities/Neocities stuff! We'll see though. <br> I still have to work out a good schedule, one that lets me not bug my roommate too much, but for now you can expect to see me stream Sundays at noon-ish EST! Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:36:34 +0000 https://mystsaphyr.me/blog/2021/7/1.html So I joined Art Fight this year, even though I hadn't really been expecting to. I participated for the first time last year and only managed to squeak in 3 attacks, but I did have fun with what I got around to drawing! I'm going to give it another shot, but it should be said I have 2 major projects I'll be working on at the same time this month. We'll see how it goes. If you'd like to add me, I'm on Team Cyberpunk this year, and my profile is here: https://artfight.net/~MystSaphyr Fri, 02 Jul 2021 02:31:02 +0000