#Spring 2018 Anime

[anisongoftheday]

Megalo Box Ending

Kakatte Koi yo by NakamuraEmi

[rabbitcruiser]

International Zebra Day 

International Zebra Day is observed every year on January 31. With their natural environment diminishing and increasing human development, these gentle animals are in danger. When habitats are threatened, animals, too, become endangered. International Zebra Day is all about raising awareness and what you can do to help in the conservation of this animal. Zebras are mostly found on the African continent, in the semi-desert areas of Kenya and Ethiopia, and the hilly areas of Namibia, Angola, and South Africa. You can easily identify a zebra by its unique black and white stripes.

History of International Zebra Day

International Zebra Day was most likely founded by a consortium of conservation organizations such as the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and the Conservation Biology Institute. International Zebra Day aims to help raise awareness about the living conditions of zebras and how their numbers can be protected from further decline.

Presently, three types of zebra can be found in the wild. They are the Grévy’s zebra, plains zebra, and the mountain zebra. Although the Grévy’s zebra, found in the northern regions of Kenya and are extremely rare, they are an endangered variety having suffered a loss of more than 54% of its total population. The loss has occurred rapidly in the last three decades because of zebras being poached for their hides and pelts.

Zebras are found in the African Savannah where their natural habitat has been well preserved and not all zebras are in danger of disappearing. The other two subspecies of zebra are less endangered than the Grevy’s zebra. Plains zebras are thriving and don’t face threats of endangerment. The mountain zebra lives in South Africa, Angola, and Namibia. Along with the dangers of poaching, these zebras are also in danger from locals who might hunt them for meat when the going gets tough. Zebras have been battling many concerns regarding preserving their population.

International Zebra Day timeline

28,000 Years AgoZebras in Rock Art

They are depicted in cave rock art in African regions.

1261Zebras in Diplomacy

Zebras are sent as exotic gifts to establish democratic relationships.

1878The Quagga Becomes Extinct

Quaggas, a type of plain-dwelling zebra, become extinct.

2019Grevy’s Zebra is Endangered

It has a population of less than 2,000 mature zebras.

International Zebra Day FAQs

Why is International Zebra Day celebrated?

International Zebra Day is observed on January 31 every year to create awareness about the need to protect zebras.

How many zebras are left in the world?

They are considered endangered, according to National Geographic. There may be some 300,000 left in the wild, and on the Serengeti-Mara Plains, there are an estimated 150,000 plains zebras.

Are zebras endangered?

The Grevy’s zebra is considered endangered on the Red List of Threatened Species. Their population has gone down by about 54% over the past three decades, according to the African Wildlife Foundation.

How to Observe International Zebra Day

Dress up in its colors

Raise awareness

Donate

Celebrate International Zebra Day in style by dressing up in black and white. If you’re feeling adventurous, wear a zebra print outfit.

Talk about International Zebra Day on your social media accounts to raise awareness of this day. You can help spread information on their dwindling numbers, the dangers to their habitat, and what we can do to help.

The best way to observe International Zebra Day is by donating to organizations that ensure the welfare of zebras. You can donate to the World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, and others.

5 Facts About Zebras That Will Blow Your Mind

They are fast runners

Zebra stripes are unique

Foals grow up quickly

They can sleep standing up

Zebras live in groups

Zebras can run at a speed of 40 miles per hour.

What fingerprints are to humans, stripes are to zebras.

Zebra foals can stand up as early as six minutes after they’ve been born.

However, they can sleep while lying down too.

A group of zebras is called a ‘dazzle.’

Why International Zebra Day is Important

Conserves the zebra population

Our chance to do something

Protects our future

International Zebra Day is aimed at conserving, persevering, and increasing the zebra population. But a large number of zebras isn’t enough. These celebrations ensure the animal’s well-being.

Celebrations like International Zebra Day allow us to do our bit for wildlife conservation. Through awareness programs and donation drives, we can become involved in the conservation of the species.

The planet is for all creatures to inhabit. International Zebra Day helps preserve the zebra population and envisions a future where all creatures can co-exist peacefully, without fighting for resources.

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[hardworkandguts]

Space Battleship Tiramisu

宇宙戦艦テ���ラミス

(Anime)

Sci-fi Parody by Satoshi Miyakawa

Era: 2010s

Rating: C

Plot: After humanity expanded into space, those colonies are now a threat to Earth. To keep it safe, they build in secret a new battleship, the Tiramisu. Aboard it is ace pilot Subaru Ichinose, who has a tough time getting along the other pilots and crew and prefers to stay inside the cockpit of his mecha as much as possible.

Length: 26 episodes +3 bonus (~ 7 minutes)

Thoughts: Well, if you are into gag comedy, you're in for a treat. While something like Martian Sucessor Nadesico, is a serious show with oddball characters, Tiramisu never goes past the gag angle, throwing one bizarre situation after another. Episodes are short (just around 7 minutes, including a short OP and ED), and for the most part feature two scenarios, involving things such as eating breaded pork skewers in a zero G environment, talking to public hair, putting Christmas decorations in you battle Mecha, dealing with really dumb clones, going over the speed limit in space, and someone dealing with the family court in the worst way possible. Plus, you don't really have much in character development beyond learning about Subaru and his brother's Isuzu (I think you've noticed a pattern in characters' names) odd quirks, like caring about bubbles under a protective screen and ripped seams during an emergency atmospheric re-entry, and there's little in development in that front because our boy Subaru goes to great lengths to not interact with anyone. I guess that's where the 15 minutes missing from each episode went, you can't say he's anything but efficient with his time. There's some more of a plot in the second season, but (pointing at episode length) you know what to expect.

This was a difficult show to grade because I don't have any major faults to point at. Also had to rewatch it after maybe a year or so to be able to write a single meaningful sentence about it, which I feel shouldn't happen with gag anime, but at least it made me realise rewatching some shows is better than half-assing a post with stuff I kinda remember. At the same time, if you are into parody and / or mecha/sci-fi anime, it's hard not to recommend it, the whole series can be watched in little over 3 hours, after all, and has some incredibly bizarre moments.

Recommended to: Gag anime and Mecha / sci-fi fans

Plus:

It looks surprisingly good for a gag anime, visually it plays straight until they start bringing out the props.

Minus:

It's the same issue mentioned in the last paragraph, I think it may lack "it", for lack of a better way to put it.

[latvian-spider]

Gar Daugavu 3

Originally Uploaded on DeviantArt as WinxPossible on May 31, 2018

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[wirewitchviolet]

Let's talk about how Ranma is trans in the 2024 anime, part 1

Way the hell back in 2018, after a random exchange with a friend, I sat down and wrote a series of four blog posts where I looked at the manga Ranma ½, which ran from 1988 to 1996, explicitly through a lens where I assumed the protagonist is in fact a trans girl. A major component of the series being that Ranma and several other characters fell into various pools in a cursed set of natural springs causing them to magically change into whatever tragically drowned in one when hit with cold water, then back to their original body with hot, and Ranma fell in the girl one, so it was bound to be a series that would crack a lot of eggs regardless, but my memory of reading it years before transitioning was that it worked on a mundane level too, particularly later. I did somehow forget a bit towards the end where Ranma honestly just kinda straight up comes out of the closet, but I'm not going to link to that panel yet again for the sake of preview links not blending together. Anyway, those posts were already the most popular things I ever put on this blog and have never stopped circulating, despite it being a pretty old and largely forgotten series at the time.

I had always had the idea that I really should go back and also watch the anime adaptation(s) of Ranma, which deviates a good bit from the manga, but that is 161 episodes, 3 movies, and 11 OAVs which are terribly terribly paced, and I don't actually get paid for this. But then lo and behold, here's a brand new anime adaptation coming out decades later, looking really nice, and surely that will deviate even more from the source material, so here I am diving in to find all new bits of gender stuff to talk about, under the fold here and-

Oh. Turns out the new anime series is actually an EXTREMELY faithful adaptation of the original manga and the only deviations I've actually noticed are that there's a little bit less nudity and the one scene with Ranma's breasts fully on display goes the route of not drawing nipples. And really that's only significant because the original anime adaptation somehow got away with that one. Speaking of the original anime run, this adaptation brings back the entire surviving voice cast, and continues the tradition of coloring Ranma's hair red in cold-water form as an extra tell for the audience. And speaking of color, one thing this adaptation does now and then that I really appreciate is punctuating certain scenes with the sort of cool pastel palettes (see above) that were used for the cover illustrations of the original manga.

Another thing the 2024 anime does is throw in a quick little vignette before the opening credits of each episode to restate that Ranma and Akane are engaged, and the feminizing water thing, which mostly feels like it's there as just a little extra emphasis that regardless of all the other shenanigans going on, those two are the one actual couple and making it clear that the rest of the tangled web of crushes and obsessions don't really matter. Something I feel like this adapatation is keen to emphasize in general. In fact, being as nearly 1 to 1 an adaptation as it is, the title of every episode is directly lifted from the chapter names of the manga, so we can just slap together a little infographic and see what's getting compressed a bit and what's getting the time it needs to breathe!

We're chewing through the extended fight scenes pretty quick and slowing down any time Akane's having an emotional moment or some time in the spotlight basically. Which makes sense since the action scenes in the manga are like all full page splash images with a word of text and need to be flowing quickly, and because we have the benefit of hindsight knowing that the Kunos become irrelevant real quick. We're also squeezing out a little early identity crisis stuff for Ranma in the process (there's an early dream sequence after first meeting Kuno, coming to grips with the whole "since I'm a girl, dudes want to sleep with me" realization that barely makes it in and a few early moments of internalized misogyny that get dropped), and we really give Shampoo's debut some space (not QUITE as much as the above suggests, most of episode 10 is wrapping up a three parter on the ice skating with her just punching through the wall as a cliffhanger at the end).

The whole thing is also paced out to nicely cover the first four volumes of the manga, out of 38. They might up the compression rate a little, but as it stands, it's going to take another 8 or 9 seasons to get through everything at this rate. In comparison, my first blog post got through three times this much of it, but the original anime covered only the first half of this in the same episode count (and then for some reason introduced Shampoo and Mousse early and didn't get through the ice skating until episode 27).

Anyway, like I said, this doesn't really change things up enough to have a lot to say about how clearly Ranma is trans. Jumping back to the start though yet again, it really cannot be emphasized enough though just how clearly, even from the very first episode, she is SO much more comfortable presenting as a girl, not at all nervous meeting Akane's family like that, then suddenly super tense and awkward and closed off when interacting with... really anyone while boy-moding. So I guess it's time to bust out some of these other lenses to look at this...

Let's talk about how Akane is gay, part 1

I mean, we've established she's into Ranma, with extra emphasis in this adaptation, and we've established that Ranma is in fact a girl, but that's just the one data point. What else do we have? Well, she's quite explicitly not a fan of guys, particularly guys who are attracted to her, and we're keeping plenty of a focus on that while not wasting time trying to pretend Kuno matters at all in the grand scheme of things. The closest she ever comes to showing interest in a guy is Dr. Kuno, and the anime here is strongly emphasizing how that's less of a real crush and more just emulating her oldest sister (Nabiki of course is also some flavor of queer, and I don't think anyone has ever questioned that) since that's kinda what you do, right? She also gets intensely jealous of the idea of Shampoo kissing Ranma while assuming Ranma is a girl, talks about how hot she is, and hell, at the start of things when everyone's assuming they've somehow gotten into a situation where one of the three sisters has to marry a cis girl, Nabiki points out how that works out perfectly for her. Because she is extremely gay.

Let's talk about how Ryoga is trans, part 1

OK so this isn't the same absolute slam dunk as Ranma turned out to be, but there is a surprisingly strong case to argue that Ryoga is also a trans girl. What do we know about Ryoga after all? Real real socially awkward. Only has one sorta-friend from childhood, who turned out to be trans later. Can we call Ryoga a furry? I'm not even talking about the pig curse, but there's this whole feral wolf vibe before that's even established. In a series where basically every guy who is ever introduced is a horny creep obsessed with rigid gender roles, Ryoga does not bat an eye at seeing women naked (which comes up oddly often), spends a lot of these early arcs hanging out with the gal pals to help practice gymnastics and skating, deals well enough with the pink heart collar and being called Charlotte, and like so many of us, Ryoga is introduced to the series indignantly sputtering about how Ranma's situation shouldn't really be called a curse and is a situation we'd be happy to be in. You could argue that Ryoga's saying this just relative to the pig curse, I guess, but I do at least get the vibe that Ryoga wouldn't be too super worried about finding hot water with that one.

Speaking of the pig curse, I feel like every time I revisit Ranma I have a different perspective on the whole "P-Chan" situation. With this adaptation, it does feel significantly closer to "it's really just this super awkward situation where I've been looking for a good moment to explain and at this point it's been so long she'll probably kill me" than "I am a loathsome sex offender using a disguise to snuggle up with this girl who thinks I am a small animal" and Ranma is doing an appropriate amount of "I'm not going to blurt it out, but you should seriously come clean already" so, glad to know we're downplaying that.

Also, the emphasis on Ranma and Akane as The Couple in this adaptation really makes it clear that Ryoga isn't so much into Akane as just kinda... incapable of conceiving of any sort of existence that doesn't involve being Ranma's rival/friend/polycule member.

Anyway, I guess that's where I have to leave this until the second season drops? Have a patreon link?

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Okay folk, I need advice regarding navigating Tumblr policies circa 2018. Specifically, I need input on how to not get nerfed by the platforms for posting animal photos.

My problem is baboons.

Male baboons, specifically.

See, this spring, I spent a couple days at the Oakland Zoo, which happens to currently have an infant hamadryas baboon. He's adorable, and I took a lot of photos.

An interesting thing you might not know about hamadryas baboons is that they have a pretty unique social structure - when it comes to baby care, the young males in the troop actually do a ton of the work.

Another thing you might not be aware of regarding hamadryas baboons is that their junk is strawberry, stop-sign, "word processor thinks you spelled that word wrong" neon red.

I have a lot of photos of a bunch of different ages of very amped up male baboons chasing around a very enthusiastic miscreant of a male infant.

They're great, dynamic photos showing really fantastic social dynamics in a group-living primate. I'm also worried that I'll get thrown off any platform I post them on for obscenity.

Does anyone have experience with navigating this? I don't know exactly how accurate the human/non-human AI flagging algorithm is and I'd really rather not get this blog set to NSFW accidentally. Worst case I can like... add some eggplant emojis over the photos... but goddammit it, it's just nature photography.

A rare safe photo of said child and his mother for tax.

[animefeminist]

Crunchyroll fails to meet industry standards for Closed Captioning

In 2017, Sony Pictures Entertainment bought a 95% majority share of Funimation Entertainment for $143 million. Four years later, Sony completed its acquisition of Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion, bringing the two companies back together after their partnership break in 2018. The decision cements Crunchyroll-qua-Sony’s place as the largest monopoly in the English-language anime streaming space.

The merger has included the gradual sunsetting of Funimation’s streaming site; all titles that aired after Spring 2022 will be uploaded exclusively to Crunchyroll; while any Funimation-exclusive titles have either been transferred over to Crunchyroll or will leave streaming, and dubbing projects are now carried out under the Crunchyroll umbrella. All of this makes one of the biggest issues with the site even more glaring: with a few exceptions, Crunchyroll does not offer closed captioning for its English dubs.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[bisexualmcqueen]

may i offer this thought for the feral racers hc

racecars are like loyal little guard dogs (not little at all. those are metal beasts) with the people they love. they just kinda like. imprint on people and its like an immediate switch to feral mode when they perceive threat and danger to loved one. and they do that thing where they try and make themselves bigger to intimidate enemies.

idk if its something similar like this has posted about or discussed before but uh yeah. the feral racers hc just kinda read to me as racecars being like dogs. wolves. instinctually wild animals. i like how strip and doc being particularly old veterans translates into them being Extra Dangerous or Extra Feral, something like that. though i dont even think racecars get normaller the newer/younger. i think the next gens are just a different flavor of freak (i.e. chewing, zoomies) like they're domesticated sort of in a way

YES YES exactly

ok many thoughts. lets see here

so ive been thinking about this and. the thing is. that part of what makes this headcanon so fun is that theres actually canon precedent, in a way.

Lightning for example. is crazy protective. like instantaneously. zero forethought, action only, putting himself between the Danger and the Friend.

some examples:

in cars TVG, Chick hires the DRH to rob Mack so Lightning will be without supplies for the upcoming race. when Lightning hears that Mack was very upset about it from Sheriff, he gets so pissed off he takes to the streets, tracks the DRH down, and proceeds to spend all night chasing and beating the shit out of them until they drop his stuff. not because he was Robbed, but because they Upset Mack.

i think its funny that Sheriff doesnt say Anything. he just nods in agreement. ...not that i think Sheriff could have stopped him though. Lightning is sort of Insane about Mack. Mack is the greatest. [two quality versions. one oldschool for nostalgia and one more HD]

in the comics (admittedly ive only read in sections), Mater was beefing with Bubba, Lightning also started to get pissed off at Bubba being rude + protective of Mater:

i dont know if Lightning would be good at fighting or get his ass beat terribly. either way, i want to watch.

next up is my favorite example: the thunder hollow crazy 8 race. Lightning LEAPS in to help Cruz several times. it is my fucking Favorite.

HERDS HER BACK OUT ONTO THE TRACK

and then he jumps in front of a speeding attack-bus and takes a metal sawblade to the drivewheel for her. NO thoughts, head empty, protect Cruz. love this man. apparently, type-c school busses can be between 10-20,000 pounds. crunch.

and my last example on this topic: the radiator springs 500 1/2:

these racers show up in town looking for trouble. its supposed to be a silly little western parody, but in terms of this headcanon it comes off as territorial as hell imo. wdym other racecars show up at his house to fight him. hello. and then they insult Stanley, which deeply upsets Lizzie:

cue getting their asses kicked by mcqueen. that is HIS freaky old woman.

[i love this short]

so yeah. my terrible guard-dog-horse-thing-car.

Doc is largely The Same:

14 billion KEEP OUT signs. shooing Lightning away from his friends family because he is A Perceived Danger. another racecar standing in his lawn barking. yeah. you territorial old wet rag.

I agree with what you said its very in line with the vibes of the headcanon yes. true and real. def like dogs/wolves, and i personally try to throw some cat/horse stuff in there too. again, i blame being an x-men/wolverine fan.

a few other tidbits from source material for funsies:

^that ones wallpaper, apparently. for like a Room. in a house. my cars wallpaper merch thats 2018 xrs drag racing diecast merchandise.

Doc was so amped to do racecar stuff again he wakes Lightning up in the middle of the fucking night to run around in circles with him the moment he shows back up in town.

they lost Guido in the fucking sand.

Cars Origins: Struck By Lightning quick aside: "everyone's going to think something is wrong with me" Lightning these are not mentally stable thoughts im so sorry.

second topic: generational/evolutionary differences.

first of all i would like to point out that my basis for strip especially being some sort of craazzy toothy freak is entirely the headcanon of @youhavehitawall that i adopted out of coolness. non has some lore about the weathers that explains it, but basically it boils down to a repeated expression of racecar genes getting more pronounced the more generations it travels down (so long as its an expressed gene).

now for the nextgens (funny calling them that in 2025. theyre all in their 30's lmfao. not saying thats 'old', but they arent rookies anymore, damn does time fly). [disclaimer: dont quote me on this, my knowledge is an approximation] in real life NASCAR, they used very old technologies right up until about 2012. carburetors, leaded gasoline, 4-gear h-box frontend transaxles, reticulating ball steering, etc. most of these things vanished from the dealership road cars between the 60's and the 90's. Meanwhile cars like Lightning and Cal are still running this stuff in the mid-aughts. so when the nextgens came along, they showed up with fuel injection, e85 15% ethanol fuel, 5-speed sequential rear-mounted transaxels, rack-and-pinion steering, bigger aluminum wheels, bigger calipers, and less ground clearance/more areo, there was a very sudden and massive shift in what sort of technology was being run in the piston cup. tech-wise, Lightning +co were very similar to cars like Chick and even Strip. the change in tech could be a good marker for other genetic shifts too. cars change much, muuuch faster generation-to-generation than mammals. its Moore's Law in a way: theyre machines. add that to the incredible 12-week turnaround in which every team booted their driver and replaced them with a 'nextgen', and ive had to spend some time wondering Why? why??? thats brutal! Doc certainly warned us, but goddamn. imagine if that happened mid-season in any real sport! holy shit! (i still want to know more about the fan's reactions to this...) in the context of this headcanon, i Also wonder about what you said, the nextgens being feral in a little bit of a 'different' way. maybe theyve got easier-to-handle temperaments; an added bonus to their overall higher speeds+better track times. uhm. Jackson being the temperament-outlier here, maybe.

to be fair, he did get fired after throwing too many fits.

Cars Origins: Storm Chasing

But yes... racecars!! they are a lottt to handle. the driver AND the incredibly powerful machine mashed into one?? hooo boy. honestly i am a bit fearful of racecars irl. very loud, very fast, smell bad, they breathe fire, etc. why not reconcile that by making the talking ones into Beasts. theyre already crazy, already quadruped, my brain just starts assigning horse/wolf to them. and some of it comes down to me loving logan-wolverine tropes. protective growly little guy with pointy teeth. yeah can i get 5 more of these little fanged bitches.

ok i have to stop yapping now this turned out quite long, but i still have Things to Say about this headcanon/worldbuilding. i didnt even get into the amazing bonds racecars seem to have with their teams/families (the 'imprinting' thing you mentioned!). very fun!!

thanks for the ask!!

[mikyapixie]

🌸🌸🌸

The Pizza Hut franchise announced a delicious and magical collaboration with Cardcaptor Sakura. It is a special pizza to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the anime, and the future sequel to Clear Card. The special edition of Pizza Hut "Key of Dreams" will be available from June 4 for diners in Taiwan. In a promotional video, other delicious products are announced, such as a bun filled with matcha and red beans, but with the appearance of Kero-chan.

In addition, for the purchase, fans of the CLAMP series will be able to take a special edition pizza box, which is shown in the advertising video. There are also four collectible keychains as exclusive gifts for purchases. Pizza Hut revealed on its official blog that an activation will be organized on a Sakura bus. The 48 winners of this promotion will be able to travel on this bus decorated with the illustrations of the anime. Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card began on Nakayoshi's pages in July 2016 as a sequel to Cardcaptor Sakura. The series follows Sakura in new magical adventures during high school. The anime adaptation aired from January 7 to June 10, 2018, under the direction of the director of the original series Morio Asaka for MADHOUSE.

This is the synopsis of the anime that is available on Crunchyroll:

Guided by the Key to Dreams, Sakura embarks on a new adventure. Sakura managed to capture all the Clow Cards that could have caused a cataclysm in the world and turned them into her Sakura Cards. Now spring has arrived, the cherry trees are in bloom and Sakura is about to start a new stage in high school. His beloved Syaoran has returned from Hong Kong and Sakura is very excited to be able to go to class with him again. That's when one night something strange happens to your letters...

[rabbitcruiser]

National Alpaca Day 

Alpaca Day is a special day that celebrates the unique and gentle alpaca. It falls on September 26th every year.

People across various countries show their appreciation for these friendly animals. Alpaca Day highlights the importance of alpacas to agriculture, their contribution to the environment, and the need to conserve them and their natural habitats.

Alpacas, our companions for thousands of years, are more than just wool providers. With their soft, padded feet and gentle grazing that doesn’t harm pastures, they are the unsung heroes of sustainable farming.

The Alpaca Owners Association, established in 2014, is dedicated to educating the public about alpacas and their role in sustainable farming. Events across the U.S.A. provide a unique opportunity to experience these gentle creatures up close.

Why do we celebrate Alpaca Day? For starters, alpacas are known for their friendly nature, unique personalities, and their wool quality, which is softer and warmer than many others.

They play a significant role in maintaining ecological balance, making them valuable to both agriculture and wildlife conservation. Alpaca Day serves as a reminder of the bond between humans and alpacas and the importance of protecting these charming animals and their environment.

History of Alpaca Day

Alpaca Day is a day dedicated to celebrating alpacas, the adorable, fluffy animals native to South America. The day acknowledges their significance in agriculture and their contributions to human society.

Although the origins of Alpaca Day as a celebration are not clearly documented, various countries have adopted their versions, such as New Zealand’s National Alpaca Day on May 2, Peru’s National Alpaca Day on August 1, and National Alpaca Farm Day in the United States on September 26​.

The Alpaca Owners Association, established in 2014, plays a pivotal role in organizing events across the U.S. to educate people about alpacas and promote the alpaca farming industry. These events offer a chance to meet alpacas up close and learn about their care, lifestyle, and the products made from their wool​.

Alpacas have been part of human history for thousands of years, serving as companions and providers of luxurious wool.

They are known for their friendly and gentle nature, each with a unique personality. Besides their role in agriculture, alpacas are celebrated for their environmental friendliness, as their grazing habits do not harm the land​​.

Celebrating Alpaca Day involves various activities, from visiting alpaca farms to learning crafts with alpaca wool. It’s a day to appreciate these creatures’ contributions and promote awareness about their conservation.

How to Celebrate Alpaca Day

Get Cozy with Alpaca Wool Crafts

Why not knit or crochet something special using alpaca wool? It’s super soft and warm, perfect for that cozy scarf or beanie you’ve been wanting. Imagine the satisfaction of creating something unique while celebrating these fluffy friends​​.

Farm Visit Fiesta

A trip to an alpaca farm could be the highlight of your Alpaca Day. Feed them, pet them, and even snap a selfie with a new fluffy pal. Farms often have tours or open days, so check out what’s happening near you​​.

Learn and Share Fun Alpaca Facts

Did you know alpacas can hum when they’re content? Dive into some alpaca trivia and share these fun facts with friends and family. You’ll be the life of the party, spreading joy and knowledge about these gentle creatures​​.

Create and Donate

Consider crafting alpaca-themed items like plush toys or art and donate them to local children’s hospitals or charities. It’s a heartwarming way to spread love and awareness about these adorable animals and their special day​.

Celebrating Alpaca Day is about embracing these animals’ quirky and adorable nature. From crafting with their luxurious wool to learning fascinating facts about them, there are many ways to honor these remarkable creatures.

So, take part, be creative, and most importantly, have fun!

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[vixilic]

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 — my dr list !

ᝰ.ᐟ — lifestyle

ᯓ★ better cr (slight ver.)

ᯓ★ better cr (perm ver.)

ᯓ★ actress dr

ᯓ★ singer dr

ᯓ★ teenage dream

ᯓ★ tb to 2020

ᝰ.ᐟ — movies

ᯓ★ spiderverse

ᯓ★ big hero 6 (?)

ᯓ★ descendants (?)

ᝰ.ᐟ — books

ᯓ★ a good girl's guide to murder

ᯓ★ the inheritance games

ᯓ★ harry potter/hogwarts

ᝰ.ᐟ — shows

ᯓ★ alice in borderland

ᯓ★ ever after high

ᯓ★ true beauty

ᯓ★ never have i ever

ᯓ★ euphoria

ᝰ.ᐟ — anime

ᯓ★ my hero academia (student ver.) [w/ @coquettebratzdoll]

ᯓ★ my hero academia (teacher ver.)

ᯓ★ jujutsu kaisen (2018 ver.) [w/ @coquettebratzdoll]

ᯓ★ jujutsu kaisen (2006 ver.)

ᯓ★ blue lock

ᯓ★ haikyuu (school ver.)

ᯓ★ haikyuu (timeskip ver.)

ᯓ★ demon slayer

ᯓ★ attack on titan (college ver.)

ᯓ★ tokyo revengers

ᯓ★ toilet bound hanako kun

ᯓ★ blue spring ride

ᝰ.ᐟ — games

ᯓ★ danganronpa (non-despair ver.)

ᯓ★ danganronpa (hope's peak ver.)

ᯓ★ genshin impact

ᯓ★ honkai star rail

ᯓ★ obey me

ᝰ.ᐟ — waiting rooms

ᯓ★ clouds lol

ᯓ★ my life(s) on a screen

ᝰ.ᐟ — kpop

ᯓ★ starlight (own gg) [w/ @coquettebratzdoll]

ᯓ★ nct nexus (nct subunit) [w/ @coquettebratzdoll]

ᯓ★ cloudie (own gg)

ᯓ★ soloist

ᯓ★ enhypen [w/ @coquettebratzdoll]

ᯓ★ tomorrow x together

ᯓ★ stray kids

ᯓ★ zerobaseone

ᯓ★ riize (?)

ᯓ★ boynextdoor

divider by @/enchanthings

"(?)" next to drs im still considering lol

[raasturi]

Made this lol. I hope you like it (°`v°`)

Have I finally lost it? No. You just went back in time to 2017. (Late) April fools! Or as I would say, "Aprillia aprillia. Syö silliä ja juo kuravettä päälle"

I was supposed to post this yesterday, but I unfortunately didn't have time to finish it. Please pretend it's still April 1st

Also sorry I haven't posted in a while. I became severely addicted to building my website (https://raasturi.neocities.org/) and, on top of that, exam week has had a tight grip on me for the past two weeks (exam week? More like "exam TWO weeks, and it's driving me insane"), so I guess you could say I've been a bit busy

If you're wondering about how my matriculation exams went, I survived surprisingly well. I guess YTL was in a happy mood this spring

Anyway, back on topic!

If you're still confused, that is how I used to draw (/talk) back in 2017-2018, aka when I was about 10-11. It was a fun idea I thought of when thinking of making something special for April Fools

Here's a collage I put together of a few old drawings if you're interested in seeing actual art from that time period:

As you can see, there aren't many humans here. I mostly drew animals, anthros and Fnaf characters. I only really started drawing humans when... my Country Humans phase began... and my art style changed quite a lot, which meant I had to get creative with some of my choices when drawing my two favorite blorbos. My goal wasn't necessarily to be accurate, but to capture the essence of my old style

(btw, if you're interested in seeing more of these old drawings, I'm planning on making a gallery on my website where I'll be showcasing many of my older and newer artworks. I'll inform you when I do that)

Here are sketches of both Peri and Dale I drew before the final drawing:

I think Peri looks quite cute in my old style, but my God does Dale look odd. He looks like he came straight out of an animation meme (which isn't far from the truth). Bro is NOT a dilf

Fun fact. I almost gave Dale his boots, but had I done that I probably couldn't have posted this purely because of the anguish it would've caused me. So no boots this time, plus wearing shoes indoors is kinda yucky anyway

Sometimes I stop to wonder, am I cutiefying Dale too much? But then I remember he canonically spoke with an "uwu voice" plus he's kinda cunty anyway. I'm not the delusional one, you guys are just making him too tough and serious

I think the old style is very endearing. It reminds me of a time when I wasn't so stressed and busy all the time. *places a hand on a mirror and looks up like in that one werewolf image* I want to go back to those times... I miss you, the 2010s </3

[morganbritton132]

For the tiktok saga, has Eddie ever been invited to the Met Gala? And would he go? I feel like Steve might be more into it than Eddie, but maybe if there was a cool theme that year where he could wear something crazy? What do you think?

I definitely think that Steve would be more into it than Eddie, but not because Steve is more into fashion. He just likes to judge people.

One year Eddie’s manager tells him that he’s been invited to the Met Gala and asks if he wants to accept the invitation. Eddie, who only vague knows what the Met Gala is through Steve, is like, “Sure, why not?”

He mentions it to Steve a couple days later and says that he’ll try to get him a ticket if he wants. Steve is like, “…You do know those tickets are like, thirty-five thousand dollars, right?”

Eddie says, “…Excuse me?” and promptly finds out that they are nonrefundable too.

So, Eddie attends the Met Gala.

He specifically attends the 2018 Met Gala where the theme is Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination and definitely commits some kind of sin when he shows up as a literal crucifixion.

Specifically, his own.  

The year previous, Hawkins High named their new music room after him and it has pissed him off ever since because Eddie was crucified by that town. They hunted him down with the intention of killing him and no one in that town ever said sorry.

So, Eddie showed up at one of the biggest events of the year wearing an exact replica of the outfit that he’d been wearing during Spring Break of ’86. His leather jacket was water damaged and his Hellfire t-shirt was shredded and torn like it’d survived an animal attack.

He paid a very talented practical effects artist to make his scars look like they had been torn open and were bleeding and then to up the Catholic Imagery and to piss off a few more people, he did the whole crown of thorns and holes in the hands.

He wrote ‘Fuck Hawkins’ around the holes.

He made the local news channel in Hawkins and Eddie was not invited back the next year. He was pleased.

[latvian-spider]

Sakuras of May 123

Originally Uploaded on DeviantArt as WinxPossible on May 5, 2018

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Original Description:

More like 'Ducks in the Park', but, eh.

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No comment.

[elizaditton]

Update: The End

Hello everyone, it's with a heavy heart that I feel I must make this announcement. I have decided that Perthea and its many projects must cease to continue. This includes a great many things, such as a majority of the artwork I create, a majority of the music I create, as well as more specific projects like the Storie series of UTAU voice libraries and my book Too Small To Be Afraid. All of these projects must cease to continue effective immediately.

Lengthy explanation ahead.

I'm sure you're all wondering why I'm suddenly choosing to stop creating something I've been so passionate about for the past 13 or so years. And there lies the problem-- it's been 13 years. I used to be proud of the fact that I've been carrying this project on for such a great length of time, but I now realize this isn't something I should be proud of. Not like other creators can be. Perthea never should have been a "project." It never should have seen the light of day. It began as a coping mechanism and an escape for me, one that tied itself around my throat and began to choke me until it was all I knew how to do. I've lived and breathed Perthea every day since I created Derrick.

I created Derrick during the spring or summer of 2012 with the intent of using the character for what are known as "MMD Dramas," which, without going into too much detail, are animations using the program MikuMikuDance that usually involve Vocaloids such as Hatsune Miku among others. Derrick was originally a re-color of the model for the Vocaloid KAITO that came with MikuMikuDance. Derrick's original purpose was to be a character that could act as Miku's creator/inventor in the story I wanted to tell. Derrick's original name was Riku (no last name). For about 8 months to a year, though, I didn't use this name (probably because he's white), and he had no name. I came up with the name Derrick Drake around March of 2013. (I came up with a middle name for him, Allen, around 2018 or 2019.)

I wrote a short script of something I wanted to animate (basically Miku being created, aaaaaaand that's it!), and then decided it sucked and proceeded to give up. Except, I didn't exactly give up on the idea. I remembered when I was younger, I used to make up stories in my head. Usually to help me go to sleep. So, I decided to take all the ideas I had and use them for stories in my head. I changed Miku to my own self-insert character, Kaylin... who, at the time, was named Keitorin, which is the Japanese phonetic spelling of my real name, Caitlyn. Except it was pronounced in the most American way possible for some reason. (I was 11 years old and a full-blown weeaboo. And yes I still cringe at this.) Making up stories in my head proceeded to take over my entire life. I began to daydream maladaptively, and used my daydreams as an escape from the real world. A world where I was a sheltered homeschooled kid with crippling social anxiety and no friends (not that I was even allowed to have any).

Over time, I only daydreamed more and more. I would stay in bed as late as 5 or 6 in the afternoon just to make up stories in my head. My parents had to beg, and I mean beg for me to get out of bed. I used to have to pretend I was doing some activity like playing on my 3DS so that nobody would think I was asleep. I couldn't tell anyone about my daydreams. I knew they'd tell me to stop.

Over time, I fell in love with Derrick. I don't mean this figuratively. I mean I was head over heels in love with a guy I made up for some stupid animation project I never finished. He became my world and my everything. My safe place. The only person I felt cared about me for a long, long time. I imagined having conversations with him, I imagined the two of us going on random misadventures... and over time, I started to ignore the fact that he wasn't real. From 2013 to 2016, I believed he was real and was going to find me in the real world and basically save me from the life I hated so much.

On May 18th, 2016, I requested prayer from my small group at church for my daydreaming. Derrick's absence was hurting me far more than I could bear. This ended up leading to a private conversation with my small group leaders, where they told me there was no way Derrick was real. I was crushed. On top of this, they wanted to bring my parents into this and suggested I see a therapist.

My parents may never understand Derrick. My therapists may never understand Derrick. But the knowledge that I'm never going to really know him or ever see him or be with him has destroyed me in a way I'm not sure I can be healed from. Imagine your soul mate suddenly ceasing to exist, and nobody understanding your grief because they don't believe the person ever existed. That may not have been exactly what happened, but it's the torment I've experienced for the past several years.

That's when I began working on projects. I began working on projects to "save" Derrick. So people could know him and so I could have some tangible part of him to hold onto. But in my grief, all I did was begin digging the grave. I never buried the body, and now I'm stuck in a deep, deep hole. I wanted Perthea to be perfect, because Derrick means so much to me. I wanted to give him something to show my love, even if he doesn't exist. But Perthea has been choking me for so long. I don't really have any interests outside of it since it consumed all I do. My art, my music, my writing... everything. It's nearly all I think about. It's nearly all I do and live for. And I want it to stop. I want to be done. And I know that if I don't post this now, I'm going to let it continue to choke me until the day I die. It's going to continue to ruin me and destroy my relationships.

The thing with Perthea is that it's never going to be finished. If I let it continue, it will always be a part of my life. Even if I did finish the book (which I've been struggling to do for years now, and it's taken a huge mental toll on me), Perthea would manifest itself in some other way and continue to control everything I do.

That's why this is the end. I have to make the choice to stop, to turn over a new leaf, to start anew from the beginning. I need to figure out how to live my life without Derrick in it or I'm never going to be happy.

I don't know what Derrick would have wanted for me, but I think he wouldn't have wanted me to suffer for his sake as much as I have. I think he would have wanted me to figure out how to continue living. To figure out how to be happy somehow.

To my readers and followers, to those who have supported me, and to those who have reached the end of this document, I want to take a moment to thank you all for your continued support. Seeing how you all have enjoyed Perthea means a lot to me. Seeing you care for my characters and how you want to see them succeed has meant so much to me. I must now ask for your forgiveness for my decision to not continue Perthea.

I plan on leaving all my content online as is, for everyone to read, listen, see, and enjoy. I ask that no one try to continue these projects in any way, shape, or form. I will try to quickly tie up the loose ends of TSTBA in a summarized sort of way, since I know it must suck to be left hanging. Other than that, Perthea is over, and I'm leaving everything as it stands.

Thank you again for reading and for supporting me. I'm here if anyone has any questions or concerns.