I Just Finished The Slides, And Man...

I just finished the slides, and man...

Freud was weird.

I'm happy with how everything turned out, and I had a ton of fun picking out various pictures of Donnie for each of the slides, but

F R E U D

I'm analyzing Donnie using five different theories of personality in my psychology class tomorrow--and I get to present my work. Wish me luck.

No one is safe from the turtles. All shall fall victim to my obsessions one way or another, even complete strangers. In Donnie's own brilliant words, evil laugh.

Maybe I'll share the slides afterward if I can figure out how.

A Small Mystery

So, there's this Friday Night Funkin' Heathers mod that blew up a while ago, and someone made a Doki Doki Literature Club-themed cover of the Candy Store remix. Here it is if you're curious (but be sure to check out the original, too!).

What's so mysterious about this? To me, it's the vocal samples. I really, really think Vocaloids were used here, but aside from Sayori, I'm not confident about which ones they could be. Here are my best guesses:

Monika: Megurine Luka. Her clips seem to fall in the mezzo soprano range, and Luka was the first Vocaloid in that range who came to mind. I also considered MEIKO, but the clips used here don't have MEIKO's distinct, metallic, somewhat nasal tone.

Sayori: Hatsune Miku. Again, this is the only one I'm really sure of. Her clips have a lot of the same qualities as Miku's voice (i.e., vowel pronunciations and emphasis).

Natsuki: Kagamine Rin or Otomachi Una. Natsuki and Yuri only sing during the final chorus, and they don't have solos; it's difficult to know which clips go to which character. I will be assuming that the higher ones go to Natsuki. In this case, Natsuki's clips are even higher-pitched than Sayori's. Rin and Una are two of the most popular Vocaloids who fit the bill, though there are several more out there.

Yuri: GUMI. It's basically impossible to tell since the lowest clips really blend in during that final chorus, but I'm just going to throw this guess out there. GUMI's my favorite, anyway.

Anyone with sharper hearing or better knowledge of the video, do you have unique insight into this? Were other synths used that I hadn't considered (UTAU, Cevio, SynthV, etc.)? Are these non-vocal synths, rendering me completely off-base? I'm dying to know!!

I'm angry.

I didn't get to share my work today. We only got through two presentations because my professor went on rambles after each one. And we're going in a very specific order based on the textbook, so I'm dead last.

I was up until 3:30 a.m. working on this thing. I legit wanted to punch something.

I'm supposed to go on Monday now, but I doubt that's happening if my professor decides to talk for such a long time again. I'm thinking I'll get to go on Wednesday at best. So you know what?

I'm just going to give you guys the slides now. If I can't present my work to my actual class, I can at least share it with fellow turtle fans.

Go wild. Just be sure to give credit if you decide to share/cite/etc. it for anything; otherwise, no major rules/restrictions. Have fun.

I'm analyzing Donnie using five different theories of personality in my psychology class tomorrow--and I get to present my work. Wish me luck.

No one is safe from the turtles. All shall fall victim to my obsessions one way or another, even complete strangers. In Donnie's own brilliant words, evil laugh.

Maybe I'll share the slides afterward if I can figure out how.

Good timing. I was thinking about one of my grandmothers yesterday. :)

I would like to talk about my other grandmother here, though, since I know the most about her.

We always think of her when we go to her old house for certain holidays. Two of my uncles own the house now, but we always call it Grandma's house anyway. She also had a delicious nut bread recipe! One of my aunts has the recipe now, but for whatever reason, Grandma's was just something else.

I miss her. I miss all of my grandparents, but Grandma was one of the most consistently present in my life. She and Grandpa babysat me and my brother when my parents were busy, though we easily spent more time with her than we did with him. She took us shopping at the local Shop 'n' Save. She cooked and baked delicious stuff for us, and we helped out a bit when we got old enough. She was special, and we were lucky to have her.

She died in early 2014, when I was 11. She had pancreatic cancer. One of the last conversations I remember having with her was about my grandfather and her last moments with him; he died in 2010. She remembered staring into his eyes has his heart rate on the monitor dropped, holding his hand and telling him how much she loved him. All he could do was stare back at her since he had some kind of surgery on his throat, keeping him from talking. As his heart stopped, and he slipped into the void, she sent him off with a kiss.

It's incredible how quickly life moves, isn't it? How much can happen in just a few years? I wonder what she'd think of me and my brother now.

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TW/CW for the tags: N9zis, r9pe/SA, somewhat in-depth discussion of dementia

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• First two letters of your last name • First vowel of your first name • Third letter of your middle name (or parent’s first name if you don’t have a middle name • Last consonant of your last name • Add IEL or EL to the end!

The results are in!

And... I'm not surprised that Candy Store won. It's THE song of the entire musical. Pleasantly surprised by Dead Girl Walking coming in second, though, especially by such a close margin! (Also glad that Kindergarten Boyfriend has some fans)

But NO ONE voted for Big Fun? Or Shine a Light?? OR BEAUTIFUL??? I mean, I get it. People have their own tastes. I'm just a little shocked by how different my tastes seem to be from all of yours. ^^"

My mom and I are going to see a performance of Dear Evan Hansen tomorrow as an early birthday gift to me. I don't really know what to expect, but I'm looking forward to it!

This has kind of put me in a musical theater mood, but the only musicals I've seen in any capacity are The Phantom of the Opera (a stage performance streamed on Netflix a while back; I don't know if it's still there) and Heathers (found the off-Broadway on YouTube). So yeah, I'm looking forward to my first live musical!

I've been watching videos about Heathers left and right, as well as listening to the soundtrack. I should do the same for Phantom, but I digress. Back to Heathers for now. I want to know:

My personal favorites are Candy Store and Big Fun. They're just so dramatic and fun! (But My Dead Gay Son is also really funny. I would have included it, but...poll limit. :/)