Discontinued Blog Info

   Hello peeps! If you happen to stumble across this blog through my main and active blog Little Treasured Things, then welcome! Enjoy the 180+ newly released (from being private) old posts.
 
   This was my old blog, first named The Animal Jam Spring, but when I found out that name was taken, I named it The Animal Jam Garden, and then when I moved on from playing Animal Jam, I changed it to Gacha Games, which I kept until I quit altogether (which was not for long).

   Some backstory:

• I was a semi-popular Animal Jam blogger who went by Princessbg (AKA Princess) back in 2016. Since the AJ blogging community was very small (and welcoming!), I was well-known, along with the other group of bloggers (whose blogs can be found here). I remember just the word Princess caught my attention like someone was referring to me because of my nickname online. :)
• My AJ best friends were a girl called Rawr07 (nicknamed Rawrz) and a boy called Rattlespud2004 (nicknamed Rattles). They were literally so cool to hang out with and I would be extremely happy to contact them again if I weren't a little antisocial moth who felt like everyone was judging her.
• Rawrz and another one of my friends who now goes by Ocean were co-authors on this blog and posted occasionally. You'll see their posts if you scroll down in the archives quite a bit.
• In the very beginning, me, Rawrz, and Rattles had an Animal Jam police force where we caught scammers and hackers and fought injustice. It was actually a pretty serious business, lol.
• Me, Rawrz, and Rattles would write books together. Although I won't release them publicly, they still bring me quite a bit of sentimental value. <3

   And that's about it! Enjoy this plethora of old content (which may be cringy, but who cares anyway).

   See you over on my main blog!

~Summer

Don't Troll on Zoom + More

   Hello, my peeps. My feathered friends. My brightest stars.

   Today we will be discussing behavior that has already been covered (by way smarter people than me) but I want to express my opinions on this topic. I know I didn't post yesterday but I'm really bad at keeping a schedule so... we just won't address when that happens anymore!

   This so-called behavior is sharing your Zoom class codes online and encouraging other people to join your class. Like, no? Don't do that? It's pretty obvious, lol... People have been posting really bad stuff on there and it just disrupts the teachers and students.

   I mean, when it's "harmless", it's pretty funny, but really it's never harmless and it's just an annoyance to our teachers. Please let the adults have faith in this generation, okay?

   Also, I might get a side blog for gaming or other stuff I might not want to clutter this blog up with. I'm also going put up my old blog and it's old posts (called Gacha Games) soon for y'all to check out.

   This includes my old posts from my Animal Jam days! That will just be a doozie to look at.

   Enjoy some top-notch Youtube comments that I have randomly saved on my computer!

   We should all appreciate the first guy's username. Perfection. I wish I thought of that.

   

   Anyways, stay safe and wash your hands!

Music is Weird

   (Sorry for not posting yesterday. I'll post two or three times today to make up for it 😊)

   Music is WEIRD.

   Music is the strangest thing to me, because, we, as humans, create these toys to make certain sounds and then play them back and mix them together to listen to later. I sound like some sort of alien analyzing earth, but, I'm right!

   To me, music is one of the most important things on earth. It can be nostalgic and bring back memories, or it can just be happy and fun. Depending on the genre, it can provoke different moods and feelings.

   You know those edits of popular songs that are like "[song name] but played from outside a school bathroom at prom", that's the song with an echo or muffle effect on it? We make those because they make us feel a certain, weird way, or nostalgia for something we've never had before.

   The comment sections on those videos are really cool, too. People come up with stories related to the song, like answers to a writing prompt. "What do you think of when you hear the song Dancing Queen?" Stuff like that.

   If anyone watches Solar Sands on Youtube, I got introduced to this really fascinating music artist named James Leyland Kirby by one of his videos. He made a project called "The Caretaker" which has albums that are strange, sort of melancholy, but not sad.

   They start as sampled old songs from the 1930's or 40's, kind of distorted and scratchy like they're being played on a record. Sort of like ballroom music.

   People post really sad stories in the comment section, so be warned if you're sensitive about that stuff. However, there are some funny comments too, just to brighten the mood!

   The stages of the album Everywhere At The End Of Time become more distorted as they progress, simulating the effects of memory loss. The total amount of time it would take to listen to the whole thing would be like 6 hours. If you're generally in a good mood/around people/doing fun things on the internet, try to listen to a stage, which lasts around 40-50 minutes.

   I would not advise listening to albums when you're lonely or sad, as they can seem depressing, but when you're feeling optimistic, they can be a real bop. Like some Lo-fi beats to chill to.

   My favorite song from "The Caretaker" is All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There from the album An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. I was going to post multiple songs I liked, but don't you just love it when your computer flips out on you and loses all your progress from the past 10 minutes?

   Anyway beans, stay safe and wash your hands!

How to Survive the Inevitable Apocalypse

   With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are certain that the apocalypse will come soon. However, it takes the most responsible and assertive leader to survive the apocalypse, and this guide will help you be that leader.

Step 1: Make people respect you.
 
   If the apocalypse comes and nobody cares about you, you will surely not survive. However, when you have a team of minions at your feet, you already have the upper hand.

   You will start by learning random facts about anything. When a topic comes up in a conversation and you spew out something all smart, people will begin to respect you.

   Then, learn a bunch of smarty-pants words to impress your friends and everyone around you. Not only will you possibly acquire a mate, but you will become the alpha.

   Don't flat out ignore your friends, but don't cling to them as much. They'll (hopefully) miss you and start to cling to you. This immediately turns the tables, as if they struggle in the apocalypse, they will turn to you for help, instead of you turning to them.

   However, do not make your friends fear you. Express that you enjoy it when they come to you. If you seem bothered to be talking to another human, they'll think they're the problem and then you will lose a minion.

Step 2: Make a statement.

   You may think, when I say "Make a statement", I'll follow it with something like "Not a fashion statement."

   Well, you would be wrong.

   Make a fashion statement.

   Dress in bright, bold colors. Defeat societal norms because you are now the trend-setter. If someone ridicules you for your outfit choice, you will show NO INTEREST in what they are saying.

   You will show everyone that you are fearless, confident, and have a GREAT fashion sense, because you will soon have everybody following in your tracks.

   And for the people who do not agree with you, well, that leads me into my next step.

Step 3: Realize that those who are not with you are against you.

   I have spent too long trying to make people like me. Kill them with kindness, I thought. They'll be nice to you back, I thought.

   WRONG.

   If someone does not like you, you DO NOT like them. In fact, you will despise them. Now that you have your fleet of minions, they, in fact, will be in the wrong for not liking you. If nothing about you is generally hate-able and they choose to hold a grudge against you, that's on them.

   They will die in the apocalypse because they are cowards who have little friends, whose only weapon is anime, as you have God on your side.

Step 4: Do not fear death. (In the apocalypse.)

   When the apocalypse comes, it's likely that everything that comes after is lonely and sad. So, now is the chance to live fearlessly and take risks. Safe risks, but risks nonetheless.

   Go outside. Go on a hike. Look into the forest with your friends and imagine someone's stalking you, just for the fun of it. Climb down little cliffs into tiny rivers and watch nature. This is what you live for.

   Go on adventures and write stories of adventure, feel inspired to do the things you love to do most, and complete your bucket list. Live your life to the fullest.

   In the apocalypse, you will defend your allies knowing that your life and your dreams have been fulfilled, and if you die, you will die a hero.

   (Don't die now though, because you're really important. That brings me into my last step.)

Step 5: Your time is now.

   You only live for so long. Now is the time to make the most of your life- while you're young, carefree, and have the world in your hands.

   Don't spend your life thinking, Why must it be this way? or Why did it have to happen like this? Everything happens for a reason. If your friend hates you for seemingly "no reason", there is a reason. That reason is that they're an awful person. Life is gifting you with the opportunity to move on from them. So take it.

   Don't try to fix the old things, replace them with new things. Find new hobbies, new things you love. There's always tomorrow.

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   I hope you enjoyed the silly nature of this post! It actually came with a good message, so just know:

   Life is only a game if you play it, just in the way that life is only a movie if you have a script, and life is only a book if you write it. So go, write your life, and have fun while doing it!

With love,

Drawing Challenge #1 - Photo-based Character

Rules

   Choose a number 1-6. Whichever number picture you land on, draw a character based on that!

#1

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#2

Tip: Draw two characters or make one character representing both sides.
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#3

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#4

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#5

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#6

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Stay safe and wash your hands!

Comparing 3 Animated Text Makers

   On the quest to find the perfect gif to use as my signature at the end of my posts, I will be doing a comparison between multiple animated text generators. I will be grading these over user-friendliness, customizing options, and the final result.

Textanim
   Our first contestant will be textanim.com. It's very simple looking and gets the point across.

   As you can see, it has a few options and many different colors. Options include text input (obviously), font, font size, background color (optional), direction of the pattern movement, letter shadows (optional), movement delay (I don't know what that might be? Speed?) and pattern.

   I chose this cute hacker/coding/computer pattern. I noticed that if you choose a plain black background, the background becomes the pattern and the text is black. If you do anything but plain black, the text becomes the pattern, which I thought was odd. I did both ways, with the second background being a very dark gray, and here was the result.

User-friendliness: 4/5

   The website was nice and simple, but the background glitch was confusing.

Customizing options: 3/5

   There were lots of patterns, but I feel like different gifs from this website wouldn't appear unique from one another.

Final Result: 5/5

   Alone, the final result (or results) looks really cute.

Total score: 12/15

   At the bottom of the website, you can see its partner is glowtxt.com, so we'll check that out next!

Glowtxt

   Our next contestant is glowtxt.com. The website is eye-catching and fun!

Top portion

    Here is the top portion of the website, where you customize most of your gif. To pick a preset (which is optional), scroll down and click one of the options. It will then appear above where it says "Your text here."

The presets

   Customizing options include text inputs (max 3 allowed), text size, presets, option for a solid background or a transparent background, comment borders (puts a border around the image), glow intensity, animation options, text colors, font, and make comment (centers all lettering and makes it smaller). Overall, I think these options are pretty neat.

   I chose the preset "neonlights", chose the 5th color option, and made it a medium size with a super glow intensity and a pulse animation. Here's the result!

User-friendliness: 5/5

   Nothing about the website was particularly hard to understand.

Customizing options: 4/5

   Each font comes with a different set of colors/patterns. So, if you like a particular pattern, it might not be available for every font.

Final Result: 4/5

   I wasn't expecting there to be a little black border around the gif.

Total score: 13/15

   When you scroll down, next to the presets you see other animated text makers by that developer. There's textcraft.net (a video game text maker) and pookatoo.com (a spoopy Halloween text maker), but we'll be checking out glitterboo.com!

Glitterboo

   Glitterboo doesn't create glittery text, but it "glitterfies" photos. I'll be creating the text in photoshop and I'll use that as my input photo.

   Once you start, this is what the website looks like. It's pretty! If you're not signed in, you're only allowed 2 different options: sparkles and stars. I'll do sparkles.

   This is the interface. You can select the area you want to be glitterfied. There's a lot of customizing options, so I'm not going to go over them. It's also slightly confusing. Anyway, here's the final result!

   I used light colors in my picture and no background, so it's cut off weirdly and it's hard to see the sparkles (that's my fault, so I won't deduct that). Besides the mistakes on my part, it looks pretty good!

User-friendliness: 3/5

   The interface was confusing and had too much going on. You had to create an account to use lots of features.

Customizing options: 4/5

   They were not lacking, however, I feel like there was too much to customize.

Final Result: 5/5

   Besides my mistakes, this website does a good job on the final result.

Total score: 12/15

   Overall, glowtxt.com wins! These are all the top 3 animated text makers I could find. I will now use a Glowtxt gif as my signature and blog banner!

   Anyways, stay safe and wash your hands. Be sure to have a good day!

Vocaloid Stuffs

I've never really said this on the blog, but I have a huge obsession with VOCALOID SONGS. If you're not sure what a Vocaloid is, Vocaloid is a voice synthesizer software, in other words, a robot that can sing. The Vocaloid product/brand (idk??) is owned by Yamaha.
There are other voice synthesizing companies, including UTAU and their UTAUloids. UTAU is one of the biggest competitors for Vocaloid. UTAUloids are completely free aswell! I'm probably going to get an UTAUloid voice bank just to test one out.
That's the post for today by guys"

EDIT: I tried downloading Teto and it was all in Japanese and I had no idea what to do from there. So yeah! It failed :P

=Gacha Kitty=

Annoying Cafes in Roblox

Today I am annoying cafes in roblox! I made an account called ackboi2000 (yes I am a fan of Flamingo) and then went to Bakiez Bakery. I was waiting in line for a bit and then it was my turn.
While in line I also asked who went pee because it sounded like someone went pee.
I asked for a milkshake, but the kind without milkshake. She just said, "What?" So I said, "I mean the kind without #####" and faked some tags. She replied, "You mean the kind without milk?" And I just said I'd order later xD
I came up with a plan: I'd annoy customers so no employees would kick me!!! (Possibly)
Someone was sitting so I just said "I'M ANNOYING YOU ARE YOU OK WITH THAT?" And she replied, "go away". I was heavily intimidated. Ooh.
The next time, I got in line and told the cashier that my mom said people online are bad. She said she wasn't, I said YAY, then I asked for an iced espresso. I already had an iced espresso in my inventory so I just pulled it out and started drinking it, saying "Thanks" and she was like "HOW?!"
Ok. I'm going FULL CRAZY now.
So, I went up to some employees chatting outside and I found something CRAZY. She used the wrong their! She said THERE! And I was like WEEOOWEEOO GRAMMAR POLICE and I got kicked :)
Next up we're going to Koala Cafe. I actually worked there for a while. It's a really chill place and I recommend going over there! I guess I'll be testing out the staff lol.
Update I can't chat in Koala Cafe. I guess dat's it for today LULZ. Bya!
(WARNING: I DO NOT PROMOTE ANNOYING PEOPLE OR BREAKING THE CHILL RULES OF GAMES. TO KEEP IT CHILLY. IF YOU TRY THIS, MAKE A NEW ACCOUNT.)

ATTENTION!

I am making a book called Into the Luniverse and if you'd like to be in it comment down BELOOOW! I have NO idea where to start for this so here are my ideas:

• Make it a basic highschool setting where we all interact
• Make it a kingdom, fantasy setting where there's an evil ruler and we're the subjects
• Make it more like Gacha Life, where we're all just going about our lives and interacting
• OR make it SCI-FI!!! We're in outer space and visiting a bunch of cool universes.

Those are my ideas lol. If you like any of mine just tell me. If you have one you think is better, than please tell me! I need feedback to write this thing!
Anyway... byaa
=Gacha Kitty=

Pusheen is Beautiful

O nu I need to post :< So some people are like:
KIT
GET YA LIFE TOGETHER
and to that I say:
NO
Ok enough with the weirdness. Hold on, there's more weirdness.
"Weird is cool, like if you're weird it's a good weird, love yourself for who you are" -One of my friends
Ok that's it. SO I have a really fat cat and a really skinny tiny cat. So I am not used to cats and their normal size. I just assume all cats should be fat and seeing a normal weight cat makes me go like: "WOOOAH, DATS SKINNY! :o" But all cats are beautiful. I'm talking to you, Pusheen.

I have a folder dedicated to pusheen GIFs. Only GIFs. I know, it's lame, but I can pull any GIF out ANYTIME!!! I just need to say this.

I LOVE THE GACHA MOVIE UPGRADING TO OFFLINE by EMILYKITTY

It is a great movie, and all in all, possibly one of my favorites!!!

The story is original and well executed. The characters are original too, so good points :3 Everything can be understood well and there isn't any miscommunication goin' on.

So good job (clap clap)

I know this was a short post. But just watch Upgrading to Offline please. It will be more interesting.
=Gacha Kitty=

Last Day of AJ Membership (And Gacha-y Stuff)

Sooo... I thought today would be a fun day to go on Animal Jam and look and see what's changed. To my surprise (and luck), today was my last day of membership!! Oh no! So I am going to enjoy being a member and also visit some cool dens. First, I will look around. The trends still seem to have stayed. Though, the rarity of arctic wolves and wolves have died down... I mean, there's still huge numbers, but more people are opting for tigers or big cats? BIG CATS RULE!!! MEOW!

I announced I was quitting, although I quit a LOOONG time ago, and somebody asked if I could give them any items. Y'know, since I was "quitting" and didn't need them. Toxicvibez was their username, so shoutout to them! I gave them a few stuffs I thought would be of at least SOME value (of all my years of playing AJ, I am the poorest jammer around). So that's what they got. You're welcome XD

I'm sorry for the short post today, I PROOOMISE to post a ton these two weeks of Christmas break. And I'll make a short Gacha Life video to celebrate Christmas. Btw, here's a little info on the 3 MAIN Lunime games people use to make videos and short movies.

Gachaverse: The "MAIN" one, (well I dunno if it's really considered the "main" one so don't quote me on anything I say) where you can create chibi characters and save them, make videos and skits with those characters, and gacha ("gacha" used as a verb) for people that will soon be able to be upgraded and leveled up and used in battle.
Gacha Studio: Another Lunime game used mostly for their taller character proportions, more detailed art style, AND the ability to give your characters pets and use them in battle. Gacha Studio has less character design and color options, unfortunately.
Gacha Life: My choice of game to create my skits and characters. It has more design and color options than Gachaverse. Gacha Life's art style matches Gachaverse's art style. Gacha Life also has a fun "Life" mode where you can use your character to roam around and interact with Lunime's characters.

All three of these games has a "Studio" mode where you can put your characters together in a scene to interact with one another. If you want a more... DETAILED guide on these games, then I'll probably make a post specifically for that. Anyways... it was a little fun being on AJ one more time before its sad death. Well, at least the membership's sad death. Well, not really sad. More like slightly depressing.

Visiting my AJ account wasn't really nostalgic; I guess AJ isn't really a nostalgic thing to "nostalge" on unless you played it a LOOONG time ago. Although, I have experienced some BIG nostalgia on Roblox, which I haven't even been on as long. I should do a post on the science of nostalgia. Ooh, post idea!

Enough with all this nostalgia and post ideas, it was really cool to kiss my AJ account goodbye. Maybe you can revisit an old online game account you haven't played in a while!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays,
=Gacha Kitty=

P.S. I made a poll on Google+ if I should change my username, and the majority vote was no, so my username will still be Gacha Kitty. If you are interested, my Google+ account can be found here. Bye!

Royale High Holiday Photoshoot

Here are photos I took on Royale High. I think they turned out absolutely beautiful. Happy Holidays!

That's all of the photos! Happy holidays!
MARRY ME REBECCA!
=Gacha Kitty=

MARRY ME REBECCA

Sooo... if you're wondering why I say "Marry Me Rebecca" at the end of my posts... this is why.