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It is here! My First YouTube Video! Pinkie Ningennoga goes Live!

Hello my little lights! It is time today for a shameless self plug! I have expanded beyond just WordPress and finally started my life as a VTuber. Well the non streaming variant of that at least. I started making YouTube Videos as a Virtual presence in pursuit of my dream! Yesterday my first post went live! So today I celebrate by taking a day off from content creation and just making you aware of my video!

So tell us about this “Video” You Made

Why certainly, Snary me, pretending to be my readers! It isn’t anything all that special really! Just an introduction video! No me playing any games yet! I have noticed that a few VTubers I adore do this character sheet kind of thing, filling in one of those “friendship book pages” of old as it where! The one you let all your friends sign in which they would tell their favourite food, their favourite colour and stuff! It does that whole thing. Not only do my superior peers do that , it will also help people get a good grasp of me as a creator and the retro vibe might actually fit my plans really really well! So i just went for it! It was Sugoi to make! The moment I finally made my Thumbnail felt so liberating. I finally took a step towards my dream!

I made the video using nothing but free software. The only thing I do use that is paid is Photoshop but that ws a gift from a friend. All the images I made can be made in Gimp or any free software that allows you to create transparent background images and use different layers, whatever you prefer. For the Video Editing Software I use a program called Da Vinci Resolve , which despite a few annoying flaws I have really taken a shine through as my editing journey started. It has so much features and it is relatively light to run as well! As long as I can get used to the fact that Audio and Movie tracks are always synchronized I will do a lot better with my videos in the future as well! It has a professional version and a free version, but the options on the free version are amazing already! I can green screen, I can colour correct do some pretty amazing things I haven’t even begun to discover yet!

My model is made with a program called VRoid Studio. Which is a free Program that is available on Steam! It allows you to 3d draw on a puppet and make it your own! With a whole website of extra tools being available on VRoid Hub. You can design your own clothes or buy one.. I did a combination! I found a free one I liked as a basis and drew my own signature outfit onto it! While it took me a fair while to get this done I spend relatively little time wading through tutorials. Overall I might have watched about an hour or so. Probably less! I had a lot of fun experimenting. It isn’t flawless and I already updated my model to version 1.1 after my last first two videos, but that is the beauty of this software, by seeing your model in motion you get a better idea where it’s flaws are. And you can fix it more natural.. just by being active and creating! That is a style that I really REALLY like to learn with! So while you may see it in the video you can also watch me develop as I get into this more and more and I think that tells a story as well! I want to document that journey so that is mentioned in this video as well.

So it’s just a video about you?! Done Clunkily?!

Wow myself making these titles! Rude! Though also not entirely untrue! I had some struggles with making the first video. The problem lies in the last two programs I use, 3Tene to make my model move. Which is another great tool! It is like Facerig, but it works for free! No water marks and allows for way easier customisation. It allows you to register your self moving the character and allows for a lot of poses and actions, and it comes with a lot of fun anime effects! The problem though! It supports a mouth that moves either based on your webcam OR Your Microphone. However My voice isn’t reliable due to my muscle issues and it is something I really hate so I use text to Speech! Which brings a lot of problems in the mix! Luckily I have found that if I use my text to speech program,do the edit in Resolve, I can use the recorder function of my phone to record that .. and then I add it to my capture software to fairly okay results!

Then there is a problem in overlaying the mute video and the actual words being said in the main project as well! For this I use a lot of timers. I record dead air with the Audio recorder making an audible noise as I start the actual audio track. Then when I record my avatar I make her look up or down quickly on the moment i head the click and then I try to sync up my time by counting the seconds of dead air and matching it up! I think 3tene does allow me to record audio as well but I am not sure! I will figure that out as I go! I will make it work! I need to find a way to add cuts though! That will make things a bit easier! Maybe add in some cool effect or change camera perspective at certain intervals. That is just stuff I need to tinker with though! The text to speech program I use is called Balabolka by the way! It is also whatever other text to speech things you have installed, but is very easy to use! Pretty good!

Okay so just plug the video already!

Patience young Padawan! I worked hard on this video, I’d say somewhere between 15 and 20 hours went into making this (though that does include a fair bit of concept creating time as well). I had a blast making this and I want people to know where it comes from! It will be another bit of humble beginnings! But that does mean I really will look to you all to help me out here! Please watch the video and like it! I would love to see you subscribe but I won’t force you to do that! But if you like this post, I hope you will leave a like on the video as well! It may just help make my character become a blip on the radar! I am pretty sure most of you will have a YouTube account anyway! Thank you in advance and for those who aren’t watching this in wordpress reader: Here is the video!

For those who are reading this in reader! It would be appreciated if you would log into my site to at least give it a watch! I hope you will like my YouTube Debut and thanks for reading! Shine on my little Lights!

Oyasumi!

The Cocoon Opens: It’s VBlogger Pinkie

A lonely pink Cocoon hatches!  Fueled by the warmth of all her followers and online friends!  Metamorphosis has occurred. Evolution.. in terms of Pokémon! I have reached my stage 2! Chasing after her dream, the woman named Pinkie has transcended the bounds.. of Mortality! She surpassed her limits and now exists both in reality and beyond! Pinkie has achieved Virtual status! And thus a VBlogger has been born!

Look Mommy I’m A Moth!

Hey hey hey! Look! I dig the new overdesign! It is a work in progress.. and will be commissioned at one point again to make it look better..I promise! Just like Virtual Youtubers! As a Virtual being I have to get used to being updated now! Before I give you my new backstory and all off that stuff.. let’s take a look at my design!  I am a Moth now?!  Why?! I mean .. I have been a duck before!  I like ducks a lot more than moths?!  So why did I settle on a Moth?! Well.. it all started because my sickness made me cocoon and I wanted to arise like a butterfly… but as glamorous as that sounds, my re-emergence isn’t as black and white tale… we don’t just shrug everything off by a second wind.. so while I feel reborn.. I do not feel like a fairytale thing!  I have to make due with my mothiness! Everyone wants to be a butterfly in this world..but sometimes people just turn out to be moths! That is fine as well! So I am going to show you.. that you can be great if you are not the most beautiful or amazing bug in the world..  just being a bug is fine as well!

The Moth as a theme is also fun because  I review Geeky Content… What do those have in common?! Well if you ever played games after dark with only your screen running.. you know! The screen attracts moths as well! I am drawn in by bright things myself, sometimes it would be better if I did not.. but it is who I am! I see a cute anime mascot and I end up watching a bad show just for it to pop up! We are all drawn to fairly visual mediums .. that light, sharing our geekiness is also kind of a light beacon that has brought us all together.  We all flock towards here to tell our tales. Searching for light and positivity is something I have always tried to make a theme on this blog.. though I have not always succeeded.. but as a Moth.. that search for light can be much more prominent and we can just have a lot of fun!  Finally the moth has wings so it can soar high and free… and into an open flame..!  The possibilities are endless, no longer bound by the gravity that prevents us from going where we want.. it reflects breaking free of my current constraints. 

Why did I have to experience Metamorphosis?! Well it is kind of a VTuber or Vperson thing these days to not be human. The Hololive girls have an Immortal Phoenix, A Grim Reaper, an Eldritch Infected person who grew Tentacles by reading the Necronomicon, an Atlantean.. and A detective who is kind of a Gremlin. Indigo recently made me aware of a VTuber called Ironmouse.. while I do not care for a Succubus.. hearing her tale and who she can be herself online without her sickness holding her back.. and that THAT avatar is actually the real her.. She has a autoimmune disease that keeps her bedridden, which is way worse then what I have.. so I won’t say we are alike.. but that one feeling.. of your physical body not being who you really are.. because of restrictions on your body.. or heck even simple biology is a theme that hits home for me… so I wanted that my new self.. would symbolise that limit break a bit! 
While real world Pinkie may lay sick in bed a lot.. VBlogger Pinkie can sore across her island! Of course I am not just a regular moth… I am a spawn of Mothra!

Hey Pappa! This is a much cooler background story.. then you being drunk and canoodely! 

So as you may have read in one of Sunny’s posts.. in fact two of them! Paradise is often visited by a Kaiju!  We thought the big fish was the only one.. but one day Mothra visited as well. Hubris made me try to befriend the monster, as I do believe that almost everyone , without a fake tan or who lives in their gym,  can be awesome people if you can just draw it out.  They are oftenly not worth the effort.. but it CAN be done!  Regardless Mothra was in a bit of a fickle mood and pierced me with poisonous needles that she can spit out! 

As I lay dying I told Mothra I only wanted to be her friend and she seemed to regret her action! A tear fell into my heavily poisoned wounds.. and I began vomiting like crazy! I vomited a Cocoon all over myself! When I was encapsulated everything went dark.. but for a brief moment I heard Mothra apologise to me! She gifted me the immortality she had.. but a bit differently!  If I get hurt or damaged I will cocoon and restore after a while! Even if only a little part of me remains…this will happen.. it can even occur when nothing is left of me.. like Mothra I need to be reborn… however if I evaporate completely someone else will vomit a cocoon and become me! I don’t want that to happen to everyone.. but it is kinda like Dr Who.. but more gross!

So yeah.. I am still the manager of Paradise.. except now I can shoot laser beams from my Antennas! I can fire poison needles from my throat.. and can create big gusts of wind when flapping my wings!  Which is really neat.. because now i get access to all the sweet fruits Paradise has! I really got into eating  fruit and  playing at campfires a lot more now!  Ooow..campfires…!  I do burn myself a lot though.. luckily I can regenerate pretty fast! … Not my clothes though.. so sometimes I dance around a fire Na… Uhm… A Fire Named Sam! Yes that is what I tried to say! 

Gam Gam Check out my new “LaZOR” attack!

As a flying creature I have to by Aerodynamic.. which is a neat of saying that if I ever encounter an anime boy…or another anime lesbian.. they would look at me and think  of floorboards. If they are annoying though I can use my scales to deflect their attacks and show them they are ugly themselves! Ha!  … I still love you even if you are ugly though! .. Platonically! Except for some girls who I love semi-platonically! Uhm right.. I also have a new found sensor to find the light in something.. and I can turn stuff into candy with a beam as well… that’s not a Mothra power.. but I had to absorb some pink blob creature to make my wings pinkish! .. Not sure.. .. it was fat and gooey so I was pretty sure there was enough goo to dye my wings pink! I killed it with my lasers!

At times Mothra speaks to me.. and tells me to go fight some things! Usually anime characters but sometimes Mothra wants me to attack man/animal hybrids as well l! She thinks  they are like me.. and like Kaiju do battle.. as some kind of rule or something.. so do we Kaijuman.. . that is right! That is the term for what I am .. a Kaijuman.. (pronounced Kaai-JHoo-Mahn). I wonder if there are some nice ones out there.. most of them I have encountered. Most of them are kinda Bassholes.. and I don’t mean Basshole himself.. he is actually kind of an old grumpy fart.  Most of them I fight though are mute!  Like that big soft fluffy mouse I attacked! A  big soft duck in a Sailour suit came to his aid.. but with one powerful gust of wind his head fell off! I was banned from Disneyland after that though.. so I am not sure if Mamma Mothra did me right by sending me  there. Regardless.. who knows I might encounter a friendly Kaijuman at one point! I hope I can make friends!

Okay maybe I won’t befriend this Kaijuman

Doctor Doctor , I act a bit differently now!

As a Kaijuman I have a few needs that are different from your average human!  As I said.. I have to do battle with other hybrids if I can’t befriend them.. When I visited my human mother and not my Kaiju Mother to show her I had transformed I decided to meet up at a public spot.. you know.. so she would not make a scene of me transcending humanity without asking her… “I was dying mom .. Mothra killed me” .. So I decided to meet her in Madurodam.. a sort of theme park in the Netherlands.. It is a theme park that has this miniature version of our cities and national monuments etc.. like the Netherlands scaled down, for us to walk through and enjoy! …..I ….. did …..not ….. handle that very well. I am banned for life…  and so was that 6 year old in the Dinosaur costume.. that roared at me… luckily for the kid he died from my poison so he isn’t banned anymore! I also feel a huge urge to step on sandcastles.. back at the Resort?!

I am still the same person though, I like pink things.. especially pink lamps. I still like watching anime.. especially, in a dark room so that my screen is the only thing lit in that room. I do like playing games a lot.. though I do not like The Sims anymore because I never have enough money to buy lamps.. My Favourite Pokémon? That is easy , Sylve…..Chandelure. Huh, okay maybe I have changed a bit! Only a tiny bit though! My attention span has shortened a bit.. like I usually see another interesting light or something and I kinda have to investigate so I can’t write as long of posts as human Pinkie did but maybe I can write more.. Oh right and I am constantly poisoned by those toxic needles I have in my stomach so I might appear a bit fever-dreamish! But yeah other than that.. I am absolutely the same person….who now needs a tailor to adjust all her clothes… I mean let’s talk about cat girls.. do they really push that tail through a hole in their pants everyday? With wings it’s kinda horrible.. I killed like 4 tailors with my poison scales before I figured out how I could put my wings through my dresses.. the trick is to shower and get them wet.. they are a lot more shapeable like that. 

I might

Let’s see?! Did anything else change? I still have the libido of a wet paper towel, I still can’t drive a car and I am still clumsy as heck.. and these wings don’t work along. Well like I said I eat a lot more fruit! Some of that fruit was meant for reviews! So .. I can do less of them! I am usually friendly though..unless you wear a Dinosaur costume or play with Lego! However there is one fruit I do not eat and that is Coconuts, they are safer than humans even.. so if you do not want to be poisoned by me.. consider becoming a Coconut. Of course just a nice comment is great as well, but followers who support us get an extra little spotlight and become a coconut!  There are two ways you can do that. We have a Kofi and a Patreon! So pick your poison…sort of speak.

Paradise in 2021

Welcome back my sweet Island guests! It has been a little over a week since I last wrote for you! Some heart issues kept me bedridden and unable to get a proper sleep.  A little holiday depression set in after the Christmas days as well and somatic stress disorder finished the cocktail into me cocooning in bed for a good while!  Yet now I am back and I am strong and happy again! So let’s take a look at what this year will have in store for us. Wait…why am I glowing white? Am I evolving?!

500 Follows! POG!

First of all , during my absence we breached the magical border of 500 followers. I would like to thank the 250 marketing blogs following me to sell me some expensive SEO programs and lessons to make more money off my blog. Then there are the 200 or so random follows who searched for a word and found me! You have two times my thanks. Now for the 50 active people out there! You are amazing! I truly love you and sorry for being absent!  I am really happy to have reached this milestone and I practiced a little speech holding a shampoo bottle. Then I dropped the Shampoo bottle on my foot and almost slipped in the shower.  So I ended up winging this little speech that follows next.

While at times my health, and mental issues can make me feel a bit lonely and , while often struggling to reach out to people , you guys have been there as a natural safe space. I am still awkward and will not always interact as my brain is all over the place, that does not mean I do not appreciate you ..  all of you made this community what it is.  Even if we don’t talk a lot and if I miss your blog posts.. or do not leave a witty comment.. you all give me a home on the internet. Even if you aren’t that keen on my content.. you bring people together we can both interact with. So Every follow is appreciated, even if I joke about the insignificance of the number. While I do have a lot of  “empty” followers, those empty followers bring me closer to you all! My real life voice is fragile and isn’t that strong but you.. are my voice box for online!  Thank you all for this amazing achievement..it actually got me an achievement on WordPress as well and as a gamer I do like those! New member goals for 2021 will be an active following of about 20 people interacting with posts. (Be it likes or comments).  As for the number of followers to reach! The new goal will be set at 666! So I can sell all your souls to become a demon girl! …  See then I can become A VTuber!

Thanks Satan! You help me follow my dreams! Sugoi!

What Rose from the Cocoon is not Pinkie.. but Pinkie!

During my Cocoon phase, I tried to get back into content but I kept hitting a brick wall… Well actually it was just plaster… my muscle issue also blocked my legs at times and I stumbled into the wall.. ..  but  regardless my muscles were constantly sore and I had trouble following anime due to constant aches, I had no focus in my head because of a lot of self imposed stress of me being too lazy and not being able to get things done and a lot of fears I imagined.  During the course of Steampunk Month I have realised I took on a bit more than I can chew.  I had to rush games like insane, making me not enjoy them as much.. or to pick games I am able to beat in a short time. Everything kind of became subservient to my blogs.  So during my stressing I realised that would have to change a bit. I would need to make content a bit more “fun” for me. Writing has always been fun but consuming the content needed for the blog wasn’t as fun anymore. Review after review got old.. and I must admit.. during my time in the dumpster I kinda fell down the VTuber hole. So I was thinking.. could I possibly find a way to become a V-Blogger?

From the beginning of my Website I had a bit of a YouTube aspiration but my weak voice would not allow me to do it properly, perhaps with a lot of voice software thrown over to amplify and clarify it and perhaps give it a change… anyway that dream got shelved… but I want more… I want to be a VBlogger… I might even try my hand on streaming if I ever can get the model made.. who knows.. but I want to give a try! I really was struggling putting up content.. I had enough ideas.. but I felt a time pressure on each game. I was constantly thinking on blog chores as if my mind was on fire! So what.. came back from that Cocoon is a bit of a different Pinkie!  It will be revealed tomorrow! The same.. but yet different and I think I will pursue a slightly different style of content! The next step in my evolution!  But more on that in Tomorrow’s post! What will that mean for my content?! Well .. I am not doing as much reviews anymore! Instead my content will take on more “Let’s Play” Like shapes. There will be a heavier emphasis on gaming. Of course in my own unique take! I just feel like that telling you about my gaming adventures and my daily geeky stuff .. is more ME?! I would not have to rush games either!  So expect more of me gaming and doing geeky stuff, and less of an endless slew of reviews!

As for the regular content such as the Animini, I do plan to continue them but I might take a short break from them. I probably won’t take a break for too long, but my current medication is preventing me from a good night sleep. Since I watch anime on saturday morning as a bit of a ritual that kinda conflicts now. I want to figure out how I want to do this at my own leisure! Post times might change as well as I might experiment  with live posting, or just want to work on a post a little bit more or more at whenever it is convenient. Two deadlines a day was too stressful to me and did not help my heart. I need to destress and whatever my new content schedule will be will reflect that. Gaming content will be more regular, but the let’s play formats will focus on all the categories of Paradise.. so for example I might play a movie game, a pokémon game and maybe an anime game. No specific rhyme or reason will apply, I just want to have fun!  My content will reflect that!

The Island gets weird!

While I might have experienced a slight metamorphosis into a VBlogger, I will not give up my Island! The new me has a perfect reason to live here as well and while maybe not fully human (seriously almost no V-Tuber is human)  anymore, she will keep her manager tasks on the island! However when my own health is frail.. this new form will allow me to spread my wings and soar, finding a light when times seem dark, so not only will I tell what I do in my real life.. but also a lot of avatar talk!  If you ever seen anything Vtuber.. you kinda know .. except I don’t do the whole boing-boing thing!  I am chaste….mostly… Flavorwise not a lot will change.. but I hope to put a bit more energy and personality in my posts again! I feel I kinda lost that near the end. Content, be it anime, gaming or whatever will be a bit more bit sized! Think about the length of an Animini.. (two to three..and a bit.. pages in Google Docs).

As some of you may have noticed I do often refer to the community and I do plan to keep that kind of content up! For example I plan to do a Geeky-Blogger Hunger Games where I will use a simulator to let 24 of us battle to the death as I write the story that goes with it. I plan to bring back What If stories. When the Animini episodes return I plan to make them a bit less “review”y and more “reaction video” like. Which still can be read as a review of course..as you can still read what I think about it.. but I don’t feel like I should judge.. but more tell you what I experience.. I feel that will have a bit more energy and me in it! So it might be a bit stranger.. but I was not one for structure anyway! Rather than separating the good and the bad I will take you through an episode and tell you as I go!

Themed Months will still happen as well but I will work them out a bit better beforehand. The structure however might be different. What really hurt me last month was the fact that I had to do a Steampunk Game, A Steampunk movie and other content as well and it clogged up my creativity in the end.  With his New VBlogger Style, I am aiming for I can pick whatever content I feel like doing that is within that theme and will allow theme months to shine more!  Two Month will follow an Narrative on the Island and thusly a soft theme. Events will happen to the STAFF or on the Island which gives a bias towards a theme then after two soft themes, one hard theme will follow. So in other words we tear down structure in return for consistency and fun! I aim to at least have a post for you each day, but it might be two.. and who knows on a crazy day I might even have three! What 2020 has shown me.. and what made me evolve.. is that we have to look out for ourselves.  We have to make our own life fun.. and sometimes that might mean people think you are a raving lunatic. Well my sweet Island Guests.. I might be a raving Lunatic.. that isn’t doing the normal and sensible thing.   but I will at least have fun…

In Short what can you expect from Paradise in 2021?!  I could not tell you! What I do know is that I will have a heck of a lot of fun with it and I hope you will follow me on this new journey as well! Happy New Year and may this year be a year we can all chase our dreams!