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Princess Tutu x POPUP Store Collaboration
Princess Tutu X POP-UP Store collab
Original new artwork drawn by Ikuko Itoh
We can expect merchandise related to PT and this new artwork Official Website HERE (pre-order via proxy like buyee, japonicamarket, zenmarket)
Merchandise includes
Acrylic Figures Acrylic Keychains Postcards Pin Badges Tote Bag
Photos below
today in "google AI is fucking useless because it hallucinates things that never happened", i bought a couple CVS thermometers that have both been acting up, tried to search if there had been a problem with the whole product line:
there is no record of this product recall. it did not happen. the date "feb 8 2024" is the date someone listed a thermometer for sale on ebay.
Google's trying to save you the time spent clicking on a site full of AI-generated SEO garbage by presenting the AI-generated garbage right up front! Such efficiency.
#so google probably uses chatgpt right? #because for some time now chatgpt has done this #become utterly insane and make up random bullshit #and nobody knows why
I was under the impression that we did know why: AI isn't actually a brain and can't actually think or understand information, so it has no concept of something being true or not, or what markers indicate truth or falsity, or how to synthesize information. It's putting a bunch of words in a jar, shaking the jar, and then dumping it out, and acting like that means the jar knows how to talk.
Like, in this case, OP asked for information about a recall. The AI knows that, throughout the entire internet, the word "recall" usually is surrounded by information like a date or a number, so it gives you a date and a number. It doesn't know what a date is or what it's for or what it means. (It also apparently doesn't know the difference between "recall" as in "removing a dangerous product from the shelves" and "recall" as in "remembering," since it smooshes the two together)
what's that thing again that you can put into ublock that blocks all the ai results from google?
On Github is The Huge AI Blocklist for UblockOrigin. You can import it, the linked ReadMe gives a description on howto.
[ID mostly by @homunculusalphonse : A photo of the Google search results for the phrase "cvs thermometers recall": "On February 8, 2024, CVS Health recalled its rigid tip digital thermometer with memory recall and fever alarm. The thermometers have a memory recall feature that stores the previous temperature. The item number for the recall is 375235991489." Both the links attached to this text are from eBay and Pinterest. This module does say "AI overviews are experimental", in much smaller font. /End ID]
The uBlockOrigin AI blocklist above is super helpful yâall.
Try this as well
https://udm14.com/
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
Fruit will last 3 weeks longerâŠ.
Why You Should Keep Fruit In Mason Jars Instead Of The Containers They Come InâŠâŠ.
When you get your fruit home from the grocery store, the first thing you should do is remove it from the plastic containers theyâve come in and recycle them. Next, clean out your sink and fill it with water (you could also use a large bowl). Then, toss in a few tablespoons of distilled vinegar. Youâll then want to submerge your fruit in the water and let it soak for about 10 to 15 minutes. The purpose of this is to get rid of any mold or bacteria on the fruit which is what causes them to go rotten more quickly.
Once the fruit has had a nice soak, remove it from the vinegar water, transfer to a strainer, and rinse with cool water. Leave the fruit out to dry on a tea towel or paper towel. Once dry, transfer the fruit to mason jars and seal up those lids. This is the best way to make your fruit last, particularly berries, which tend to be very prone to mold and bacteria buildup.
And thatâs it! Incorporating these few extra steps into preparing and storing fruit can help you eliminate food waste, save money, and keep your fridge stocked with fresh produce for much longer.
helpful advice for people who donât eat the entire kilo of raspberries on the ten minute walk back from the supermarket, yay!
I saw this post a couple months ago and tried it, and it is amazing how much longer I can keep berries now. Plus they look so pretty in the fridge!
The neverending bullshit of living in the same dorm with That Fucking Guy The Absolute Legend TM
aka Princess Tutu canon divergence where everyone in the boys' dorm learns about Fakir's sad attempts at knighting but at this point it's just another tuesday for them
Edel dying and becoming Uzura is one of the most powerful things to me in Princess Tutu to me. She is a great parallel to Mytho. Mytho loses his emotions. He lives without them, and he has to learn how to deal with them again when he get's them back. Edel never had feelings. She never got to learn. She had to be reborn to properly learn her emotions. Some day I want to do a breakdown of this because Edel and Uzura are the same but different. I think Uzura joining Drosselmeyer at the end is also really important. She fulfills the same job as Edel, but now she is her own person. Unlike Edel who was always told she is a puppet without emotions and had come to "pretend" to have emotions, Uzura is a girl with emotions first and informed she's a puppet second. I truly believe Edel had emotions because she has no logical reason to do what she did if she didn't care for the main cast. She even died expressing a want to see Mytho and Princess Tutu dance together. Wanting something is an emotion even if Edel says it is all pretend. I believe Edel was compartmentalizing her feelings because of her identity as "just a puppet." Uzura is a second chance. Uzura gets to feel freely. Being a puppet isn't something to hold her back. She loves. She's curious. She's a person.
As someone who has highly compartmentalized their emotions to the point where they have trouble identifying that they have emotions, Edel and Uzura are so special to me. When I have tried to start feeling again, I often get called childish and told I'm overreacting. This has led me to stop trying to feel and go back to compartmentalizing. I think this is why Edel had to die for Uzura to get to feel. Because only a child is allowed to deconstruct emotion like that. I love the little wooden dolls. They are everything to me.
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What do you like about Princess Tutu (as someone who only knows the name)? What made you enjoy it?
Oh boy.
Okay so Princess Tutu is one of my favourite ever stories. And if I were to list everything I liked about it we'd be here long enough for you to actually go watch the show yourself.
Which you should do.
Because it's awesome.
But to sort of sum up my feelings... I like Princess Tutu because of how it chooses to tell its story. Every story is told a specific way for a specific reason, and Princess Tutu chooses the medium of a Magical Girl Anime about Ballet to tell a story about Love, Hope, and Willpower triumphing over Tragedy and Despair.
That's fucking genius.
It plays its premise completely straight. There's no subversive takes on the magical girl genre here. No turning to wink and laugh at the camera to try and save face. It's completely earnest, plays its tropes completely straight, and makes it all work together, and it all serves the main themes of the story.
You can really get a good summary of this in the main character Ahiru.
Because Ahiru, in the general space of the magical girl anime genre, is not an outlier from what I can tell. She's kind and she's sweet and she's a clumsy, and her power comes from her empathy and her love of others. There's a lot of characters like her.
But Ahiru is different because all of these things- Her empathy, her kindness, her silliness and innocence and clumsiness and big open heart, they all serve the themes of the story. Because when the main villain, the big bad, the thing you have to stand against, is a seemingly inescapable force of fate, pulling you down the path of tragedy, it takes a special kind of truly indomitable soul to fight back.
See, this is a magical girl anime built around the stories of ballet, and a neat thing that many don't know about ballet is that a solid 75% of what's considered the 'Classics' of the medium are tragedies. Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, and La Sylphide are all referenced in the show proper, with Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet being referenced particularly often. The overarching Villain of the story could be said to be this conceptual tragedy that Ballet seems so enamoured with.
But by applying the fixings of the magical girl genre to this tragedy, approaching this idea of roles in life being fixed like the roles on a stage, of working towards helping someone you love knowing that the result will ultimately be your demise, with the attitude of "I'm going to fix this problem with the power of love and friendship". you get a really interesting story.
Over and over again, Ahiru sees dangerous situations, and reaches out with a kind hand to help those involved. Over and over again, she succeeds. Over and over again, Ahiru almost falls in the face of the despair of her situation. And over and over again, her own kindness comes back to help her, as the people she's befriended come to her side, to support her, to catch her when she falls, and to give her the openings she needs to solve the problems.
Despite being told that her life is meant to be a footnote on the stories of others, that her role is one no one else would take because no one else would want it, that she can never share the love she feels with others, because to do so would literally kill her. Ahiru continuously chooses love. She never becomes bitter to her situation, and continuously chooses to do what she thinks is right, to be kind, to care, and to try to help, and it is this unfailing kindness that, in the end, forces the genre of the story around her to change.
By being unflinchingly and unfailingly herself in the face of adversity and a story that wants her to suffer, she inspires others to want to help her succeed. And in doing that, she forces a grand, cyclical tragedy, to finally resolve with a happy ending.
It's such a clever and beautiful marriage of two different storytelling mediums, and that's just the basics of what you can talk about with the protagonist. The rest of the cast is equally as interesting, and I love them all so very much.
I love stories about storytelling, stories about the triumph of hope, and stories about love and friendship, and Princess Tutu is all of the above. I honestly cannot recommend it enough, it's one of my favourite things ever.
Also it's hilarious. Where else am I going to get a cat ballet teacher that repeatedly threatens his students with marriage if they don't improve at ballet? Or a girl in a donkey costume delivering love notes all around the school? Or... Femio? Just Femio in general???
Great show. Go watch it.
Anyone got ideas for classic paintings that would look cool with princess tutu characters?
Waterlilies by Monet (plus cat) - but with duck!ahiru (google or example:)
Ophelia by John Everett Millais - *Insert Tragic character of choice here*
Portrait of Dora by Pablo Picasso - I was thinking Rue but it would be fun to see any of them Picasso style
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt - *Insert Ship of Choice*
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer - I drew Ahiru in a headdress similar to that once, so i think Ahiru would work
my drawing (pirate Ahiru)
Hey, guys! I don't usually talk about the Princess Tutu fandom much, but I was a big fan a couple of years ago. Anyway, back around 2012-2014-ish I was also on deviantart. I wasn't an artist or anything, but I loved going through people's art and favoriting them, adding comments, ya know. Just being a great member of the community and everything.
Anyway
There's this one little fan comic series about Princess Tutu that I remembered reading! The fanartist was amazing and I love their work. Their style encapsulated the anime, but there was a little twist to it that they made their own.
Anyway, their comics were mostly comedic and satirical, which leads me to my next question...
Does anyone remember Buff Tutu? Manly Tutu?
Like, I remember there was this one panel where it was Princess Tutu asking Mytho if he liked her or anything and he was like... "Er... No???"
And then BAM! There's this panel of Buff/Manly/Bara Tutu with a cigar sticking out of her mouth and asking, "Is it because I'm not tutu enough for you?"
And I'm pretty sure Buff Tutu was a running gag throughout this parody fancomic thing.
Also, Buff Tutu had a bazooka? A gun? A missile launcher or something she would use when she couldn't get what she wanted after dancing?
The series was hand drawn by pencil, I believe. And it was as if the original team from the anime decided to have fun and upload on da for kicks. The art was just that good.
Does anyone know where I can find it? I tried looking through deviantart, but um... The site is so different from what I remember and I don't know how anyone can find anything nowadays.
omg i REMMBER THAT i tried looking in deviantart and thru google but i think it got deleted by the artist. I do suspect its by meiharu but their accounts are blank/ deactivated :( I got a few comics from google but no luck for the rest of their art (like the last two pics are blurry bc i cant find a higher res version). Hope this scratches your itch. fakiru comic that was shared on tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/fakiru/31619192196/meiharu-more-from-my-what?source=share
Currently down the princess tutu rabbit hole and I have to ask someone to make sure I'm not losing it
do you remember this fanfic where duck became human again and was taken in by these people? and fakir had to like try and get her to regain her memories of him? I swear there was so much fan art especially of fakir wearing a mask he had to wear and I can't find the heckin fic
Okay first of all HI and welcome to the Tutu crowd
But also unfortunately I'm not the person to ask, being not a native speaker i have only read a very miniscule number of fics, basically only The Curse of The Dragon and all the @an-aura-about-you 's stuff, so I can't help here
I THINK i understand what you mean because I do vaguely remember the arts, but i also might be confusing ot for the famous Bird Kingdom stuff where Fakir obtained an official birdsona so really I don't
I'm posting this here anyway, maybe my Tutu mutuals will remember what you mean, so i suggest maybe monitoring the answers to this?
Tutu mutuals, please help this anon because I'm completely useless now
*squints*
Some details are off but is that This Pendant Heart?
It's done by lunasphere and mangaka-chan, two of the og princess tutu fans of back then. Tho Fakir didn't wear a mask (in official art he did) nor was Ahiru taken by a bunch of ppl, but Ahiru did lose her memories and Fakir was trying to help her (in a way). That's the only one that comes to mind about Ahiru losing her memories.
If not then, hopefully anon can remember a few more details. ^^;
(EDIT: Needed to remove hyperlink or the post doesn't show up. Thanks Tumblr. You can find the fic if you Google "This Pendant Heart Princess Tutu". It's on fanfiction dot net and a Google site as a light novel.)
little note: event has already started btw, they are showing the previous music festival before the actual event so catch it right now.
Ptutu Event Herbfest Sep 25th - GoldCrown Radio Show
(above art by twitter @nyame8) I've been busy but I'll try my best with what I know. You guys also need to know japanese fandom on twitter is very strong, they just had an online fan event called "Waltz of the Flowers with You" where they recently shared various ptutu goods. it was great. There is an official event on September 25th is a two part event with various ptutu characters (in-character) and ptutu staff will be reading fan mail. You can also DM a fan mail to the official event twitter account at @kinkangakuen to show your love for the show or anything you want to say (please be respectful).
The morning session will start at 1:00pm Japan Standard Time and evening session at 5:00pm JST. Those living in the USA, it will be 12am/4am EST or 24th 9pm/25th 1am PST.
You can buy the tickets mahocast for separate sessions. If you can't make it, you can also watch an archive version if you buy a ticket on mahocast. There were efforts for an English booth/portion(not sure which or if it just means there will be a translator). You can follow the link to the twitter post for mahocast links, either afternoon or evening.
That will be all and I hope you all can enjoy the event.
Ptutu Event Herbfest Sep 25th - GoldCrown Radio Show
(above art by twitter @nyame8) I've been busy but I'll try my best with what I know. You guys also need to know japanese fandom on twitter is very strong, they just had an online fan event called "Waltz of the Flowers with You" where they recently shared various ptutu goods. it was great. There is an official event on September 25th is a two part event with various ptutu characters (in-character) and ptutu staff will be reading fan mail. You can also DM a fan mail to the official event twitter account at @kinkangakuen to show your love for the show or anything you want to say (please be respectful).
The morning session will start at 1:00pm Japan Standard Time and evening session at 5:00pm JST. Those living in the USA, it will be 12am/4am EST or 24th 9pm/25th 1am PST.
You can buy the tickets mahocast for separate sessions. If you can't make it, you can also watch an archive version if you buy a ticket on mahocast. There were efforts for an English booth/portion(not sure which or if it just means there will be a translator). You can follow the link to the twitter post for mahocast links, either afternoon or evening.
That will be all and I hope you all can enjoy the event.
Ptutu Event Herbfest Sep 25th - GoldCrown Radio Show
(above art by twitter @nyame8) I've been busy but I'll try my best with what I know. You guys also need to know japanese fandom on twitter is very strong, they just had an online fan event called "Waltz of the Flowers with You" where they recently shared various ptutu goods. it was great. There is an official event on September 25th is a two part event with various ptutu characters (in-character) and ptutu staff will be reading fan mail. You can also DM a fan mail to the official event twitter account at @kinkangakuen to show your love for the show or anything you want to say (please be respectful).
The morning session will start at 1:00pm Japan Standard Time and evening session at 5:00pm JST. Those living in the USA, it will be 12am/4am EST or 24th 9pm/25th 1am PST.
You can buy the tickets mahocast for separate sessions. If you can't make it, you can also watch an archive version if you buy a ticket on mahocast. There were efforts for an English booth/portion(not sure which or if it just means there will be a translator). You can follow the link to the twitter post for mahocast links, either afternoon or evening.
That will be all and I hope you all can enjoy the event.
Would anyone be interested in a Princess Tutu zine/collab?
Nothing huge, Its not gonna be a booklet or get merch bundles or any of that junk. Just a fun, casual collab with tutu fans. Think like, a drive folder with a bunch of art and writings.
Consider this an interest check I suppose, I just think this would be cool. itâs meant to be a very chill no-pressure thing
OK since this is getting some interest đ hereâs more details, a rough timeline if you will
Iâm aiming for about 10-15 participants, most likely 15, but no more. No application necessary. If you want to join just message me.
Once everyoneâs been selected, I will ask for discord usernames to invite to a server. First order of business will be picking a theme! Give out your own suggestions. I will then make a poll where people can vote on which theme they want to do.
When a theme has been decided on, everyone can get to work whenever they need to. Ideally I want this to be done in around 2-3 months but thereâs no set deadline, so donât worry about taking a little longer. As long as its not like a whole year or anything, youâre good.
The server will then be used for people to share progress updates, ask questions or just chatting. Once everyoneâs work is good to go I will organize everything into a folder and release it into the wild. Participants can also share their work on their own as long as they specify its for the zine.
And thatâs the gist of it! If you have questions donât be afraid to ask ^_^
Would anyone be interested in a Princess Tutu zine/collab?
Nothing huge, Its not gonna be a booklet or get merch bundles or any of that junk. Just a fun, casual collab with tutu fans. Think like, a drive folder with a bunch of art and writings.
Consider this an interest check I suppose, I just think this would be cool. itâs meant to be a very chill no-pressure thing
Another interesting thing about Princess Tutu is that you can read its conclusion as either or both our protagonists accepting their fate and finding happiness (Duck goes back to being a duck, Fakir accepts his role as Drosselmeyerâs heir and starts writing again, Mytho is a fairytale prince and goes back to the story, Rue is an ordinary human) and/or defying their fate and finding glory (Through rewriting the story to have a happy ending rather than the intended tragedy). Perhaps theyâre not so incongruous after all.
so when Edel said âMay those who accept fate, happiness. May those who defy fate, gloryâ the ot4 went:
