Virva Valkea (he/hyphae)

I couldn't fall asleep with the routine shift coming up in a few hours, so I picked up one of my mycology books. It reminded me of the real horrors: Aspergillus.
Trust me, cordyceps is the least of your worries. 🤭

#AutisticJoy #SpecialInterest

It would be great if autoplay settings for GIFs and videos wouldn't reset every time I clear my cache, @support.bsky.team.

As someone with chronic migraines, being unexpectedly flashed by a GIF will trigger an attack. Persistent settings would really help avoid this kind of health risk.

VirvaValkea’s stream schedule, 18th August until 24th August, is a hand-drawn illustration of an open green-tinted leather-bound logbook with metal edges on a dark wooden desk. A dark green fabric bookmark lies in the center. Grey hands with almond-shaped white nails hover above; the right hand holds a quill. Schedule: Mon: Offline, shown with multiple stylized “Z” graphics. Tue: The Midnight Walk - 8.00 p.m. CEST, marked with a dark spring green Twitch logo on the left. Wed & Thurs: Offline, shown with multiple stylized “Z” graphics. Fri: Lego & Brickbuilding: Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night – 08.00 p.m. CEST, marked with a dark spring green Twitch logo on the left. Sat & Sun: Offline, shown with multiple stylized “Z” graphics. The logbook is surrounded by various items such as a blue candle on a silver metal tray, torn paper notes slips, one of them featuring a fungal fact and one of them featuring upcoming events, a wine glass with a blue liquid and a branch of ivy, a twig with blue berries, a herbal twig and insect wings. An icon of VirvaValkea’s avatar, a fungal infested elf with grey skin, white eyes, long wavy green hair, is also featured.

I'm going back to on-site teaching tomorrow, and I already miss all the extra time we had together!

🍄Tue - 8.00 p.m. CEST: The Midnight Walk

🐍 Fri - 8.00 p.m. CEST: #Lego - Van Gogh's Starry Night (if my disabilities permit, if not: Date Everything!)

#Vtuber #VSky #Gaming #Brickbuilding

Lewry - Twitch Beware the Static Dread🕹️⚡ Arcade Punk #Vtuber

Beware the Dread contained within the Static! I'm live right now over on twitch playing #StaticDread:TheLighthouse come on over and see what is happening #VTuber #ENVTuber #VSky www.twitch.tv/lewry

Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.

When we played Party Animals @khamikitsu thought she was safe, but little did she know I had channelled my inner trickster. 😏🍌 #Vtuber #EnVtuber #VtuberClips #PartyAnimals #Trickster TikTok video by Virva Valkea

We love to mess around in this household! 😂

www.tiktok.com/@virvavalkea...

www.youtube.com/shorts/AJ7YT...

Please give some love to @khamikitsu.bsky.social as well! She's a joy to hang out with! 💚

#Vtuber #VtuberClips #VSky

Tangia crop of "Chat G P T image" for 150 bits showing an orange in a super hero outfit.

Tangia crop of "AI image editing" with an orange driving a car for 75 bits.

As a reminder to people on Twitch:

Tangia uses and promotes GenAI actively.

They also just pushed more GenAI into channels using it.

Fuck GenAI. Fuck ChatGPT.

Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.

5 things that made me happy this week

- the Spore Society Community event
- the deep conversations during streams
- a medical assistant being proactive about diagnostics
- reading so much
- progressing crafts a lot

It's actually the practice not to. The amounts of times you accidentally get flashed at weddings is interesting. 😂

A beautiful mushroom with a deep yellow stipe and shiny green cap emerges from underneath a decaying dark brown stick in the ground. Faint striations of dark green mix with light green on the margins of the cap. The light green fades to a darker green at the top of the cap.

Ughh, that cap! Who could get tired of staring at these incredible and colorful Parrot mushrooms? Not I!

📷 Canon 5D Mk III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/20, ISO 800
Stack of 73 images
11/24/21
Olympia area, Washington

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

I encourage everyone who is curious about joining community events of a content creator to at least read the panels of said content creators. It is a good way to learn about the content creator, what they are about and their boundaries.
A follow, while appreciated, does not entitle you to join.

Himeutsugi - Twitch early bday bug adventure with friends ❦ SETTLERS OF THE DEAD GOD w/ @goblinjunkyard @merri_mellow @vice_kappatain ❦ !rpg !commands !discord

Thank you so much all for a hilarious Spore Society Community event stream! 🥰

Special thanks to @hazeltheraccoon.bsky.social and @shiatori.bsky.social for the raids! 💚

We sent the Sporelings to @hime.vtubers.social, who is currently playing a TTRPG with friends over on:
www.twitch.tv/himeutsugi

I've been contemplating entering competitive speedruns. What do I need to know? 🤔

Swapping over to Party Animals now.

VirvaValkea - Twitch Welcome! I'm VirvaValkea, a 30+-year-old queer, neurodivergent, and disabled Mycomancer Vtuber. Expect folklore horror & cosy adventure games, Lego & Brickbuilding, co-working sessions, Ragnarök: Echo...

It's finally here: The Spore Society Community Event!
My Sporelings and me will play Gartic Phone and Party Animals. I'm most likely be hurting from laughter. Come join us!

🔴 twitch.tv/virvavalkea

#Vtuber #VSky #CommunityGames

That's so sweet of you! 🥰💚

This looks like something you'd enjoy @veenus.bsky.social? 👀

Saturday has arrived & I'm hosting a giveaway for the game Ritual of Raven & later on playing Tukoni. Use keyword !enter for a chance to win! - good luck everyone!

Live at 12 pm est on twitch.tv/cozyjuni_

🍂 Tukoni: Forest Keepers
🧡 Dev: @dream-operator.bsky.social
✨️ Wishlist: shorturl.at/vHk2G

When can I see Zeal & Ardor live again? Asking for a funguy. 😩

That is so cool! 😍

NyyxVeil - Twitch THE GRAND FINALE! 😭 w/ @KikiPendragon_ ♦️First Playthrough♦️

Thank you all so much for tonight!
I'm so glad I chose to go live despite the migraine pain. I had such a good time and distraction from it all thanks to you. 🥰

Special thanks to @sunofsnek.bsky.social for the raid! 💚

We sent the Sporelings over to @nyyxveil.bsky.social
www.twitch.tv/nyyxveil

VirvaValkea - Twitch I'm really lichen you 🍄💘 | Date Everything! | Mycotic Elf #Vtuber

Change of plans for self-care: Date Everything!
This is also the first game stream with the new monitor. 😱

🔴 twitch.tv/virvavalkea

#Vtuber #VSky #DateEverything

Shiatori's Birthdaython Subs, Bits, Donations, Kofi, Throne... Everything counts! 17th of August 13:00 CEST on https://www.twitch.tv/shiatori Every $5 adds 1 hour stream time Every supporter gets an ara ara~ Incentives $10 - Choose a game from the !list to play for 1 hour $15 - Become a ratty plush (Pictured a rat drawing with a sign containing your name) $25 - Chibi art of a character of your choice Milestones 500 Followers on Twitch - I crochet a rat amigurumi on stream $50 - I answer tellonym tells on stream $100 - I show my old tumblr ask blogs and I re-draw one of my old muses $200 - I draw my rat form in an outfit of chat's choice, which can be lewd. $400 - I raffle the rat amigurumi made by me on Bluesky

In 3 days! We'll start the donothon at 15 hours with no cap limit. I changed the graphic with more clear and updated milestones.

The money will go to funding a new computer 🖥

Reblogs and shares are appreciated 😌

#vtuber #birthday #subathon #donothon

Every time I put this I am annoyed at myself that I don't say migraine attack. The migraine is chronic, it's a rollercoaster ride. The attack is just one event of it. 🙃

I've been in a pretty bad migraine for the last 7 hours (the triptane has taken the edge off, tho), so we are gonna play Date Everything! instead of doing Lego & Brickbuilding today. ☺️

This is also not the first time I am provided keys or I have been testing games, and most of the time I have gotten excellent media kits with instructions and lovely extra content we could explore together.

I am bummed, because I was excited about this, but there will be more studios to support. 😂

Today a game key was revoked from me without any in depth conversation. I was not provided a media kit with clear instructions beforehand.
Content creators are excited to support your games, but clear instructions and reasonable timelines are key. Developers don't "own" our time or resources.

Plot twist: While the monitor was part of the issue, I also need new glasses. 🙃

For context: I'm a severely disabled full-time educator in a school setting.