Art Post: Hatsune Miku throughout Time

[minoanmiss]

I got swept up in the delightful International Miku meme. Of course: (NSFW)

Comments

[sovay]

I got swept up in the delightful International Miku meme.

Yay!

[sabotabby]

I love this meme but I'm embarrassed to ask who Miku is at this point.

[full_metal_ox]

Hatsune Miku is an open-source Vocaloid voicebank software whose anthropomorphization is a 16-year old anime girl with huge teal pigtails: sort of a combination digital musical instrument and virtual Barbie doll. (And, from what I understand of how she works, she’s not under the corporate-vampiric Generative AI umbrella.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku

[minoanmiss]

I hope it is apparent that I drew her a little older than that here, because boobs.

[full_metal_ox]

For reasons having to do with premature sexualization? I’m not seeing any address to the Leering Fanboy Gaze in your rendition; that was just how ancient Minoan women dressed—just as I’ve seen Muslimah Mikus in trailing teal hijabs that stand in for the modestly concealed hair.

[minoanmiss]

Hooray for keeping clear of the Leering Fanboy Gaze! But yeah, being fascinated by the Minoans as I am there is always the balance to be struck between being true to them and dealing with the Puritan-wefted culture I currently live in.

[sabotabby]

Huh! That is not what I would have guessed. Cool, then.

[petra]

<3 <3 <3

[chochiyo_sama]

Lovely. I sure love your drawings. The women always look so empowered and happy.

[full_metal_ox]

Fitting readymade into a coastal Mediterranean coral-and-turquoise palette. And she could have Minoan serpents spiraling up, or even as, her pigtails!

[acelightning73]

I don't usually know the context of various memes, and is this internet-Japanese for "topless fashions?"

[full_metal_ox]

See my explanation in a comment above, and Ancient Minoan! Miku is bare-breasted because that was acceptable public attire there and then.

[minoanmiss]

Heh, no, the toplessness is because, as ever, Minoanmiss drew a Minoan. and full_metal_ox kindly explained who Hatsune Miku is. There's currently an online meme for drawing her dressed in traditional clothing from one's culture. So of course I drew a Minoan version.

[acelightning73]

I have a fridge magnet with your picture of all the young ladies in Bronze Age high fashions. So can this meme character dress in other historical garb?

[minoanmiss]

Indeed! Tehy've drawn her all over the world and all over times.

[amaebi]

Wow, spectacularly beautiful!

[lunabee34]

*admires*

[asakiyume]

She's great! Love the dynamism of her pose--and I always love the shapes of your women ^_^

[darkmarcy]

Aww yeah, Minoan Miku!