Moonlight Butterfly

In which my various thoughts and personal projects are placed for your mocking pleasure, or something. Just a trans woman who writes about stuff and is more or less an open book. She/her, and I'm nearly 40 so I'm too old to be puritanical about my posts.

[laurarolla]

Backlog Resolution Master Post

First things first! HRTCafe.net has valuable information for how to DIY your HRT if you feel so inclined or lack the option for medical access. Link will be up here for permanent, easy access.

This is a post to list links to my posts of youtube playlists for my gaming backlog playthroughs that I started this year. I'll also list what the next/current game is on this post.

Previously completed:

Titanfall 2

Hitman: Absolution + Sniper Challenge

Shovel Knight: King of Cards

Tomb Raider 1 Remastered / Unfinished Business

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Saint's Row 2

Elden Ring

Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut

Destiny 2: The Final Shape

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Unreal Gold

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Nightmare Kart

Pokemon White Version Nuzlocke

Abzu

Resident Evil Village / Shadows of Rose DLC

Armored Hunter Gunhound EX

Splendor (Board Game on PC)

Blood Rage (Board Game on PC)

Talisman Digital Edition (Board Game on PC)

Hexarchy

Prey (2017)

Batman: Arkham Origins / Cold Cold Heart DLC

Dishonored Death of the Outsider

Resident Evil 6 (Ada, Leon/Helena, Sherry/Jake, Chris/Piers)

Lies of P

Septerra Core (w/ commentary)

Yakuza 0

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Into the Breach

FTL: Faster Than Light

Plague Inc.

Tales and Tactics

Valkyria Chronicles 4

Another Century's Episode 2 (PS2)

Zoeti

Lies of P Overture

Metro 2033 Redux

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Small World (Digital Board Game)

Unsighted

Upcoming game:

Pokemon White 2 Nuzlocke

Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows

Unfinished games:

Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Unity

Pathologic 3 Quarantine (demo of the full game)

Finished but not uploaded:

Bioshock (No spending ADAM, no vending machine, restricted hacking, no saving extra little sisters)

Steven Universe: Save the Light (CBF Badge vs. All Bosses, Fusions/Team Attacks restricted)

Extra game list:

Pathologic 2 (delayed)

Strike Suit Zero Director's Cut Heroes of the Fleet (bonus campaign)

Child of Light (requires Uplay account and I don't know if I have one)

Battlefield 1 (on my EA account, previously Origin)

RE4 Seperate Ways (Remake, DLC)

[laurarolla]

Starting to like myself again, time for an overdue selfie. X3

I did have a cat on my chest a little bit before this but she didn't want to sit still for the picture. All well 😊

[stackslip]

NOAH CALDWELL GERVAIS CAME OUT AS TRANS WE FUCKING DID IT

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A Major Personal Update | Noah Caldwell-Gervais

A Major Personal Update by Noah Caldwell-Gervais on Patreon. Join Noah Caldwell-Gervais's community for exclusive content and updates.

worth reading the entire thing. has some really good thoughts on why transitioning is worth it even in this day and age + when you're older, and is also genuinely wonderful

[mollyjames]

I'm seriously gonna cry over this

[quank]

happy pride month to my favorite piece of official sonic the hedgehog art

[puyopuyo]

[lynnsenpai]

Happy Pride Month!

Non-canon tangent episode! Because I drew a Pride comic last year and literally just forgot to post it anywhere. ^^; Happy Pride, everyone! Stay safe, stay happy, stay healthy!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[stealthrockdamage-deactivated20]

i just realized this is funny every month of the year actually

[otterloreart]

gay calico critters or bust

[bbbutterfingers]

you’re doomed, there’s nothing I can do 

[bbbutterfingers]

100k notes on kiss you stupid. thanks for making my ocs immortal 😊

[sharkgirldick]

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[json-derulo]

I have a wild idea. what if we supported our claims of fact by linking to a reliable source. better yet, what if we went hogwild and just straight up linked to the actual unpaywalled study

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

[laurarolla]

Cards sleeved, decklist submitted, nails painted.

Ready to go lose at card games X3

[rabbitkinglune777]

Paws crossed chapter 1: Awkward Encounter

[laurarolla]

Well, I finally settled on a deck for regionals. This is my Green White Breach deck centered around two very famously loyal fellows. I'll explain my choices below, but suffice it to say that much of the design is built to address the common elements of the modern meta of the Gundam Card game while not fully adopting the strongest tools of the meta myself.

So this deck is built on a combination of White's defensive capabilities and Green's use of High Maneuver, Breach, and the token generation potential that Zeong and Justice bring to overwhelm the opponent while being able to handle some amount of removal. Wufei allows every breach unit to take out or scare off weaker blockers, with his specific Gundams being able to tear through the walls of blocker focused decks. As for Char, he provides token generation on the Zeong and Char's Zaku, allowing for the ability to trade with aggro to keep units off their board without sacrificing my own board presence. Additionally, green Char can bypass blockers completely to put damage exactly where it needs to go, while Quattro can shore up blockers or strengthen breach units to maximize each units survivability.

Blockers are the backbone of the deck's midgame, but aggression is the goal of the deck in general. Thus, while Rick Dias is threatened by many 3 damage ping cards, the extra point of damage makes it an often scary thing to swing into while also allowing it to trade into bigger units that need to be removed. The reason for only 2 copies each of Graceful Demeanor and Overflowing Affection is that the deck really doesn't always need them. Graceful is extremely useful for anti-aggro situations, but very limited in fights with high level decks. Bouncing enemies is a double-edged sword and since the card can only be used in the action phase, it's not always a useful offensive tool unless it can be paired with High Maneuver. Overflowing is most valuable for searching for specific answers, but the discard element of the card is an actual detriment for this deck. Standard draw would be preferable, but we don't have that in this deck, so Overflowing is a valid substitute since it's cheap. We want to use every card we draw if possible, so Overflowing is a special tool that might help but isn't ideal.

Now, why am I using the level 2 6 HP base in this deck compared to other options? The reality of the situation is that both aggro decks that vomit a bunch of 2/2 vanillas on turn 2 and 3 as well as breach deck mirror matches (especially Wing Zero) are real threats to this deck style. Mirror matches concern me most with this deck at the moment, and having 6 HP for the base is so much better than 5 HP right now that none of the 5 HP bases offer anything that really makes up for losing a whole base to Wing or Pharact. As for why the level 2 base instead of Peacemillion, only one of my cards can benefit from Peacemillion, so it's not worth waiting so many turns to play it manually if I draw it. And if you are wondering why there's only one Altron Gundam in the deck, that's because I only own one.

I have higher hopes for the deck than I probably should, but honestly, I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably lose a ton of games and fail to even earn one extra promo card. But regardless of that, I am still going to try. I've never participated in something like a card game regional in my life despite being 40 and a fan of TCGs for as long as they've existed. I've had some recent emotional struggles and reassessment of my sense of self, and maybe I'm just trying to embrace a bit of that "move forward, you gain two" philosophy in a few areas of my life. I think it's time to finally start embracing the desire to feel beautiful and strong, and a lot of that is about attitude. The strength to try your best, fail miserably, and get back up and try again is something I know I have buried inside, and it's time for me to pull it free from the deep.

[theconcealedweapon]

[courtesycalling]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Basically my primary frustration with a lot of mainstream left-ish framings of trans issues is the treatment of trans rights as a concession they're making to be nice, rather than a principled stance grounded in a real, material understanding of the world.

It leads to this attitude of being vaguely embarrassed to support trans people, which crumbles when Right Wing Dipshit Pundit #33145 starts going on about "harsh truths" that a competent advocate could call out for being incorrect.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"You are transphobic" as an argument by itself is a lot weaker than "You are demonstrably, unambiguously wrong about this issue. You have reached an incorrect conclusion despite having all the information needed to be correct, because you'd rather be transphobic than right."