In the prior thread Gryphon said about Raora;

> both aphantasic and color-blind.

A quick google of aphantasia later
Holy crap, I can't...heh...I can't imagine..not being able to form mental pictures. It's such a core mental thing that it's...impossible to think of life otherwise. And she's such a great artist without it?? Holy frick.

>In the prior thread Gryphon said about Raora;
>
>> both aphantasic and color-blind.
>
>A quick google of aphantasia later
>Holy crap, I can't...heh...I can't imagine..not being able to form
>mental pictures. It's such a core mental thing that it's...impossible
>to think of life otherwise. And she's such a great artist without it??
>Holy frick.

A bit counterintuitively, it seems like it's not that unusual for aphantasics to become graphic designers and/or artists. I've seen it described as similar to thinking out loud--they can't picture things in their heads, so they let their hands do it on paper/drawing tablet instead.

--G.
meanwhile, I have a very visual imagination and my hands can't draw... well... anything that doesn't involve a ruler.
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Raora announcement
> Hi everyone, Raora's manager here.

> We would like to inform you that Raora has to handle some important
> administrative procedures, so unfortunately, she will be taking some time
> off from work for a little while.

> She is very much looking forward to returning as soon as things settle down
> for her, in the meantime we will keep you updated how she is doing until she
> is back!
> For now, please have a message from Raora:

> "Ciaora Chattini!! 🐱💕
> Please don’t worry about me, I’ll be back as soon as I can. Something
> unexpected came up that I have to sort out, so please wait abit for me! Thank
> you so much for your patience. I'll be back very soon! Manager-san will keep
> you updated in the meantime!"

> Raora will still be appearing in various recorded content that are scheduled
> for release!
> Thank you and we appreciate all of your warm support for Raora as always!

Probably visa issues, similar to a couple other girls. Either someone screwed up (again) or Japan's bureaucracy was being slow.

>> We would like to inform you that Raora has to handle some important
>> administrative procedures, so unfortunately, she will be taking some time
>> off from work for a little while.
>
>Probably visa issues, similar to a couple other girls. Either someone
>screwed up (again) or Japan's bureaucracy was being slow.

Yeah, I saw that and thought, "Oh, this shit again. When will they learn?" (But it dropped right as I was going to bed, so I didn't post about it. So thanks for covering that lapse. :)

The punch line here being that she just came back from a several-week absence for her vocal node surgery. I feel like someone could maybe have done this paperwork during that period, but what do I know?

--G.
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LAST EDITED ON Mar-08-26 AT 10:52 AM (EDT)
 
Hololive is cooking something.

"There's something big and sparkly making its way WEST.
Find out what it is on March 15th at 7PM PDT!"

Perhaps a new Holostars? Perhaps an EN concert?

Could Sana be returning? (No)

>Could Sana be returning? (No)

Saw a comment the other day that we now have enough HoloEN alumni who've graduated and then returned to indie vtubing to create a generation.

That's basically what happened with NijiSurvivors and VShojo, before The Bullshit.

Nimi, Sachi, and...I'm blanking on her other name...had a stream together the other day, a council reunion of sorts~

...There really is five of them now, isn't there, huh. I thought there was more for some reason.

I'm glad..uh...(god, me and names) not-Gura's been more able to stream at her own leisure. Also Dooby. (Maybe Doob's mainly twitch tho, I don't watch twitch...)

>Nimi, Sachi, and...I'm blanking on her other name...had a stream
>together the other day, a council reunion of sorts~

Namie is the other one, the puffin girl from down-under.

>I'm glad..uh...(god, me and names) not-Gura's been more able to stream
>at her own leisure.

Saba, Gura's new outfit indie persona.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>>Could Sana be returning? (No)
>
>Saw a comment the other day that we now have enough HoloEN alumni
>who've graduated and then returned to indie vtubing to create a
>generation.

I don't see it there any more, but someone in the waiting-room chat suggested that the big announcement would be an entire gen designed by Namie, possibly under the Speaker's name.

The designer for Hatsune Miku version 6 is
LAM, who is also the model "mama" of the one and only Kureiji Ollie.

As you might expect, Ollie is being very normal about it.

--G.
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LAST EDITED ON Mar-09-26 AT 10:36 PM (EDT)
 
It's a toss-up whether or not this should be in Games or not, but
Suisei is joining Fortnite!

...I'm probably the only person around here this means anything for. But she's joining Kizuna AI who was added back in January!

She's coming to the shop on the 12th, and it looks like her melee weapon is her mic rather than a hatchet, showing they know nothing of her work. :3

I can't wait for Dokibird to get a streamer skin to go with her creator code

Koganei Niko is going on hiatus for adjustment disorder. (She probably should have gone on break after her cat died but she pushed through it for fes)

LAST EDITED ON Mar-13-26 AT 07:33 PM (EDT)
 
Kronii announced on Twitter that one of the guests on her birthday live tonight will be Amelia Watson.

As you might expect, the replies were very calm and nonchalant about the whole thing. :)

--G.
AMEEEEEEEEEEEE
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About time.

...

I'll get my coat.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

And in an even more surprising pull, her last guest is her artmom Wada Arco, who is notoriously reclusive.

People have joked about fes needing an alt stage for not-hololive featuring luminaries such as Shigure Ui and Iida Pochi. Well, maybe there's something...

>And in an even more surprising pull, her last guest is her artmom Wada
>Arco, who is notoriously reclusive.
>
>People have joked about fes needing an alt stage for not-hololive
>featuring luminaries such as Shigure Ui and Iida Pochi. Well, maybe
>there's something...

Meanwhile, Anya's special guest at her recent birthday live was... her?!

The guest-star game is strong lately, is all I'm saying.

--G.
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I'm sure Anya's guest list was established before the Miku v6 announcement, but it's fun to imagine that they're related. It's Ollie's sister, Kureiji Miku!

In a very short stream this evening, Fuwawa revealed that she needs surgery (not voice-related like Raora's was) and will be away for a month undergoing and recovering from it. During that time, Mococo will be streaming on her own, which I imagine will be pretty daunting for her. It's tough to operate a Jäger with only one pilot, after all.

--G.
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Been a busy month for Suisei. Not only is she in Fortnite now, but she's just done a big free live - with a live band, no less - and announced:-

- New birthday merch dropping
- A 2026 live tour at four venues in Japan
- A February 2027 live concert
- Also a new orisong and MV

Oh, and one more thing, not a particularly big deal but I'm including it for the sake of completeness...

She has her own production company now.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

>Oh, and one more thing, not a particularly big deal but I'm including
>it for the sake of completeness...
>
>She has her own production company now.

We're going to have to invent a new metaphor for this. It's not graduation, it's... she went and founded her own university while remaining adjunct faculty at the existing one.

--G.
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Apparently Studio Stellar is going to be affiliated with Cover, but not like a wholly-owned subsidiary. So it's like taking a Vice-Chancellorship job at the university you just left, on a campus that you paid to build, and which is entirely your brainchild.

I think this means, by the transitive properties of academic moneygrubbery, that Hoshimachi Suisei is some manner of Carnegie.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

So Mori's stream featured a new model!

---
"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

subscribe to her bonely fans

So that new Tomodachi Life game's been doing the rounds, and your friend and mine Kiwawa made Amelia Watson in the game! It, uh. It broke her a lil bit.

Also, in unrelated news, Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame (Scarlet Queen, harbinger of order, leader of Justice, mayor of a little village up the coast) has been advertising her upcoming birthday live! It features thirteen guests, and since the gimmick for the show is "80s Era MTV but ERBTV instead", she's been commissioning art of each guest in the style of 80s anime designs.

IDK why holomems in 80s anime style might be of interest to any Ben Hutchinseses on the premises, no, it completely eludes me... =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

i want my
i want my
i want my erb tv...

>IDK why holomems in 80s anime style might be of interest to any Ben
>Hutchinseses on the premises, no, it completely eludes me... =]

Roboco, in particular, looks like she really belongs in an '80s anime show. Nerissa, too. That version of her absolutely opened for Priss and the Replicants at least once.

--G.
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Further to this topic: Liz's 3D Birthday Live!

Featuring such delights as:-
City Pop!
Bloodraven!
City Pop Bloodraven!
And much more!

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

the lizbians are eating good. i don't care if it's real or kayfabe. it is fun to imagine them on a culvers date having a lovely time.

First, we have Fuwawa returning! A little bit earlier than expected!

And then we have news that Haachama is going to ease back into things after her....incident...and subsequent hiatus!

I know that feel, Kronii. Feelin' old at 40...feels bad, man.

"taking some time off and don’t know when I’ll be back. for now, take care of yourselves."
- Mori Calliope, circa 10 PM Tokyo time last night (9 AM Eastern this morning)

NOTE: As of that morning JP time, she was planning to stream the next morning (tonight US time).

There's more to this, but it was only disclosed in a members' community post on YouTube. Said post does contain the sentence "I'll be back," so that's something, and yet, I feel uneasy.

--G.
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Sounds like something sudden and unexpected happened late last night (her time)...

....I don't know how much I should say, but there's a thread on reddit which either appears to have the information from the members post or has a bunch of people making things up. There's a couple of semi-conflicting things too.

But there's the possibility that it's visa-related. She's been trying to get naturalized for a while now, and remember how Ina ended up having to vanish last year(?) because hers got screwed up. The Japanese government's been playing silly buggers with those...

Summing up today's drama about as succinctly as I can.

5 years ago, Kronii (and Bae) had a sponsored stream for Eternal Return. During the stream, Kronii made a very terrible pun (they were killing a boar, she said they were killing the boar for the crime of being 'boar-ing') in her usual deadpan voice. Rabid Korean fans, not understanding the pun well due to ESL, accused her of badmouthing the game.

Yesterday, Kronii's private identity was announced as the voice actor for an upcoming character in the game. But then the next day, the developer said she was being re-cast due to backlash...as Korean antis had gone hunting and made an uproar resurfacing the incident from her work as Kronii.

She is...displeased.

>Yesterday, Kronii's private identity was announced as the voice actor
>for an upcoming character in the game. But then the next day, the
>developer said she was being re-cast due to backlash...as Korean antis
>had gone hunting and made an uproar resurfacing the incident from her
>work as Kronii.
>
>She is...displeased.

I saw a members post from her earlier, which was understandably vague but generally disconsolate, and was utterly bewildered. Then I poked around and found a clip that more or less explained it... and was still utterly bewildered.

Fuck's sake. As Richard Hammond once said to James May after hearing about some incredibly abstruse thing the latter had recently done, "You must have already done everything in the whole world to have nothing better to do than that."

--G.
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>Fuck's sake. As Richard Hammond once said to James May after hearing
>about some incredibly abstruse thing the latter had recently done,
>"You must have already done everything in the whole world to
>have nothing better to do than that."

From what I remember from the competitive Starcraft days, the Korean fans get so immersed in their Game Of Choice, they make your average French Catholic from the 1300s and 1400s (you know, the time of the Albigenesian Crusade, the destruction of the Knights Templar*, the Avignon Papacies, and Jeanne d'Arc) look relaxed in comparison. This is the culture that, quite literally, created the pro gaming competition scene, and there's at least two murders related to video games on record.

Some of them are entirely round the twist, as an Australian might put it, is what I am saying. So this, depressingly, doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

--
Jen Dantes - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lady of Sith Tech Support.
"This may not be a good idea, but it's the only one I have."

So *that's* what her Tire is tire-ing and boars are boar-ing tweet is about. (And if you find this pun to be controversial, then hospital.)