SPACEMANTIS

It is worth mentioning that I've had so many compliments on this wonderful project. Jake's work is stellar and really speaks for itself, but I'm so unbelievably happy with how it's turned out (and so is everyone else).

Three splash arts for variety games and demos are divided in the background behind a pensive looking Spacemantis, who is in her new low-poly, half-suited form.

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OUR OPTIONS ARE UNLIMITED. THE GRAB BAG GOES EVER DEEPER.

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THE REVEAL

A "Who's That Pokemon" cue card where the pokemon silhouette is visibly "missingno," the infamous first generation pokemon glitch.

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THE ULTIMATE GAME OF "WHO'S THAT MANTIS" BEGINS NOW

*NEW MODEL REVEAL*

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The spacemantis "original suit" design in a cosmic background collecting stars, happily.

Tomorrow I take the suit off, and with it a bit of weight that it's been carrying around from old decisions and preferences made years ago. I simply hope that as I grow and change, you'll all like to grow and change along with me.

I'm a bug out of my spacesuit, but please don't hold it against me.

It always felt like a huge compliment when people described my model as "amazingly expressive," because due to the limited nature of the design a lot of my energy on stream was dedicated to making it react the exact way I wanted. I view myself as an extremely experienced pilot with it.

There is a nature in vtubing for people to view model upgrades or redesigns as "better." They're ashamed of what they used to use. I never want to be that person and despite my enthusiasm, I do realize that we're not doing something *better,* we're doing something *different.*

On Friday, after stream, I looked my model dead in the eye in VTubeStudio and said goodbye to that part of myself.

I've said it before, but it's worth repeating; sometimes when you close a chapter in order to open a new one, it's on the cusp of things you still love.

Monday will be delightful.

A distorted, scanlined image of what appears to be a low poly spacemantis.

🟢 Green Light. 🟢

New model Monday. That's the whole post.

Enjoy your weekend.

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I'm up for another election?

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Looking forward to seeing everybody. Happy Thursday and remember to treat yourself well.

I've been talking about it on stream a bit but there's some (obvious) chatting points I wanna hit in a bit of an announcement. It will greatly effect things moving forward - it's something I need to approach very carefully because it's important to me, and I'd like it to be important to you too.

I don't really have a plan for it - it'll be a normal stream like any other for the most part - but we're going to be talking about the past 12 months, how this year's shaped the channel, how I want future years to shape the channel, and Other Stuff.

Just a little nudge to remind people that this is tomorrow night's stream. I know, it snuck up on me too.

A blurry, reddened Steam store background with a low saturation, off-colour money bag over it bearing a ghost emoji that's glowing. The text above reads "Your Soul," implying the cost.

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Five dollars, ten dollars-...? These games cost something much more precious...

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Surrender, you cairnt escape.

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My Bluesky notifications showing Chiitan, famous mascot, liking my comment about people not being kind enough to non-binary folk.

H-... Huh? CHIITAN?!

A very cottage-core kitchen stock image featuring Spacemantis wearing a chef hat and holding a spatula. A crocheted game logo for "Creature Kitchen" is framed on the background wall. Hidden like a small easter egg in the bottom right corner is a rat from a thus-far unidentified videogame.

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Bless this mess.

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Yes, I can tell when you are treating me as Just A Dude, even if you're oh-so-good about pronouns.

You are not subtle.

I hope it makes you feel very big and strong and cool because I guess that's what you need right now.

To be clear, the shitty side of this is that I've honestly experienced more fellow trans people hung up on the concept of being non-binary than anyone else.

I can't believe it's 2026 and there's still people that think anyone outside of the gender binary is some kind of violent intruder.

Have been referring to the concept of people who don't understand my gender, or the concept of being non-binary, who are clearly hung up on 'is it a girl or is it a boy' as "Professor Oaking" and it's really made an incredibly bitter pill slightly more palatable.

YouTube video by SPACEMANTIS OpalReflections... You are-...

I don't know how the daddy-dom ASMR streamers do this. This shit is hard.

I only laugh for Vinny.

Several "cardboard mantises" floating up into a cloudy sky with cardboard wings and poorly drawn halos. Valkyrie Saga's logo is present in the bottom corner.

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Angels are known for their sick parkour.

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An image of four long coloured stripes that invoke the mantis' new design's colour scheme. Their origin point is four images; one of the original spacemantis pngtuber, one of the original spacemantis live2d model, one of the spacemantis merch design, and another of the latest mantis design in a laughing emoji. The text below reads "4 Years - When I ended my first stream as 'ellyspacemantis' in early 2022, I had a very giddy, ridiculous idea that I could somehow pull off the impossible and make something of it. That I could maintain my connection to gaming and community through becoming a weird little oddity on the internet. Naturally I dispelled this as a ridiculous idea. Happy 4th anniversary. February 13th - huge news - community games - year in review - large party hat."

Next week is a big one, isn't it?

A magpie in retro videogame graphics looking up from its nest of hungry babies, with an attached thought bubble that contains the mantis done up to resemble a "hot tasty delicious" style box of hot chips.

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I have such sights to show you!

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A heart locket opening to show the "Perth cactus" art installation. "Cactus my beloved" is written on the other half. The background is a blurry Perth train station.

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Tonight's stream may feature a cactus.

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A blurry background of a Steam front page with videogames for sale. Two moneybag emojis with "$10" written on it is in the foreground. "Five dollars" is written above with colour and text evocative of the Subway logo.

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The long-awaited sequel to the $5 Stream.

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Oh my god I'm in. Looks very unique!

I consider myself a bit of a 'fucked' vtuber.