Celebrate National Haiku Day with Duck Prints Press!

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To celebrate National Haiku Day (today, April 17, 2023!) we invited Press contributors to write haiku! Ultimately, three people wrote 10 poems!

Happy National Haiku Day, Everyone. We’d love to read your haiku, too – drop one in the comments, if you’re so inclined! 

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Re: Hi Nina! I just woke up and I am easily excitable, if you can't tell. :P

[curiosity]

!. Is the vtuber Josuiji Shinri?

2. Yes, I feel that. I love cozy comfy games. I tend towards Pokemon, myself.

3. Yeeeeeeeeeees! I love the stories where the fantranslators become the official translators so buying the translations supports them and the original author and then "the circle of life" from the lion king starts playing in my head and I have the urge to hold the book over my head ...

Re: Hi Nina! I just woke up and I am easily excitable, if you can't tell. :P

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Zebragamer. :D I never enjoyed vtube game streamers but my kids got into Zebra's streams and I'll own watching people play games has really grown on me. We also watch TSMC (a Minecraft streamer) and Animators vs. Games.

and YES THAT, I've been so excited to see people who did fantranslations I loved get hired. It's such an interesting time to be in these fandoms. :D

Re: Hi Nina! I just woke up and I am easily excitable, if you can't tell. :P

[curiosity]

Sweet, I will check them out. Josuiji Shinri is my first vtuber ... no lie, a taco fell on my keyboard while I was writing a story and YouTube came up with his debut stream. I got hooked on his voice. I am now officially *curious* about this genre of entertainment.

YES! The way fandom is evolving ... it's insane. There's all this terrible stuff going on in the world at large, but here in the niche spaces, there's some really terrific developments and I love to see it. It gives me hope.

Re: Hi Nina! I just woke up and I am easily excitable, if you can't tell. :P

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Zebragamer is very kid-friendly - he never swears and he plays kid-appropriate games (he DOES have a channel for non-kid stuff, but he keeps it very separate). One of the best things about him is that he narrates everything, including reading all the text on-screen, which when watching with kids means they don't have to be literate, but means it also works very well for background noise while working, because you won't miss things/have to look to read things only given as text.

I. Definitely have become a fan, lmao.

And yeah that's it exactly. Fandom has become an ever-more welcoming space as the rest of the world burns. At least we have a cozy spot to hide in.

Re: Hi Nina! I just woke up and I am easily excitable, if you can't tell. :P

[curiosity]

Kid-friendly is good. Shinri and the holoTempus boys are definitely not, alas. That's cool that there are genuinely kid-friendly vtubers out there.

It only illustrates how much we need stories and fandom spaces, I think. Otherwise we'd all go bugnuts.