Health Update

Health Update

I've actually been meaning to post this for a while, but hey, better late than never.

Upon further ultrasound analysis, it seems that I don't actually have a teratoma!

But.

The OBGYN thinks I have hemorrhagic cysts instead. So blood, clots, etc. build up into ovarian cysts over the course of my cycle and then just bleed out again when it's time to go. Not the worst thing in the world, but in my case, they're still getting big enough to be a risk factor for ovarian torsion. Fun.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'll see you on the next episode of "I hate my body and my body hates me."

Withered Redesigns, Part 4: Two-for-One Spooktacular

Part 1 here

Part 2 here

Part 3 here

Content warning, just in case: blood

Hey, remember how I said several months ago that I would share my idea of a redesign for pole-bear's Withered Foxy?

I finally did it...and added a bonus to make up for making you all wait so long.

But let's focus on Foxy first.

I took inspiration from Captain Foxy's design, particularly for the blue color of the coat. The elaborate shoulder pads are meant to be a reference to/evolution of classic pole-bear Foxy's shoulder pads, and his neck cloth calls back to classic Foxy's cravat. The huge hole in his stomach is represented by a bandage around his torso, and his exposed facial endoskeleton is represented by a torn left ear and a scar going down the left eye.

How about Goldie?

I wanted this Golden Freddy to look similar, but not identical to my Withered Freddy; after all, FNAF 2 is where the two gained some defining physical differences aside from color. To reflect this, I gave my Goldie an open jacket and a cummerbund around his waist. The purple in his outfit comes from Fredbear and Nightmare Fredbear, as does the white ribbon on his hat. As for the blood around his mouth and chest? Well, you know what happened at Fredbear's Family Diner in 1983.

This was fun! I'll have to do this again for the Nightmares and Funtimes.

Okay, I figured it out! Otoma-chan is the hat. GUMI uses U-chan for Una, just like Gackpo.

I'm scrolling through Gackpo's official Twitter right now, and oh my gosh, the social media team behind this whole thing is made of geniuses. It's only GUMI, Gackpo, and Una for now, but it's still great. They all have their own little character quirks, and it's so cute!!

Una uses a lot of cutesy emoticons in addition to emojis, whereas the other two gravitate more toward emojis.

Gackpo calls Una "U-chan" and doesn't use any honorifics for GUMI. He's also a little goofy and refers to himself in the third person sometimes.

GUMI calls Gackpo "Gakunii-chan" and Una (or her hat? Google Translate can only do so much) "Otomachan." She also tweets in English the most frequently of the three.

Oh, and we're getting GUMI and Gackpo bath salts I guess???

So...

AI Otomachi Una is a thing.

I'm debating over whether or not to get her.

Pros:

She's cute. She sparks joy.

Her updated Sugar voicebank honestly sounds really good.

Since she has two cross-lingual voicebanks, I might be more motivated to practice using XSyn. I love GUMI V4, but copy/pasting Japanese syllables from Wikipedia to make song lyrics is painful. (Is there any way to make this process quicker?)

GUMI will have a friend that isn't one of the standard Yamaha voices.

She'd be the first non-adult voice in my (admittedly very small) arsenal, adding a bit of variety to the lineup.

This will show Internet Co. that their products are wanted. With enough interest in/purchases of their V6 voicebanks, maybe more of their characters will get updates. That's a big maybe, but never say never.

Cons:

She's freaking expensive ($138 US before tax).

Her updated Spicy voicebank is kind of underwhelming.

I love playing around with tuning/making covers privately, but I haven't had the courage to actually upload anything to the internet; in this sense, it might just seem like an expensive waste of time.

The whole "interest in Internet Co.'s stuff" thing outlined above isn't guaranteed to work.

So with all that said, I'm tossing this decision to a third party since I'm super indecisive.

Okay, but why is Donnie such a mood?

I'm scrolling through Gackpo's official Twitter right now, and oh my gosh, the social media team behind this whole thing is made of geniuses. It's only GUMI, Gackpo, and Una for now, but it's still great. They all have their own little character quirks, and it's so cute!!

Una uses a lot of cutesy emoticons in addition to emojis, whereas the other two gravitate more toward emojis.

Gackpo calls Una "U-chan" and doesn't use any honorifics for GUMI. He's also a little goofy and refers to himself in the third person sometimes.

GUMI calls Gackpo "Gakunii-chan" and Una (or her hat? Google Translate can only do so much) "Otomachan." She also tweets in English the most frequently of the three.

Oh, and we're getting GUMI and Gackpo bath salts I guess???