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Greetings :D I'm rhyme and I draw stuff! And I do some other things also. I am Sapphic, Aromantic, and Aplatonic (probably??). I use she/t

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(post last edited 2025, August 13)

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Vintage Story Progress, 20 hours in

Still living in a humble cave I've carved out, but I've made it to copper age! Currently I'm working on establishing a berry garden around the ruins & fleshing out my farm :D

#vintage story #rhyme rambles #vintage story rambles #fandom rambles #since i started this game i basically haven't put it down #except for sleeping and such things #current primary pastime. we will vintage story until morale improves #not pictured: my humble cellar that is the love of my life #i really enjoy the survival mechanics of this game. it's honestly very fun to spend so much time on feeding myself

whoever was responsible for first planting japanese knotweed on the border between our yard and our neighbors' deserves to be forever haunted by visions of what they've done

#rhyme rambles #and they ALSO planted bamboo #diabolical #plant rambles

You 🤝 Me

Experiencing Maladies™

many such cases

#rhyme answers stuff #aha so i do have an asks tag

doctors appointment in 4 days! cannot wait to talk about the Maladies

#rhyme feelings tag #maladies in question are both somewhat related to the medication i was prescribed last time not working right #so im hoping that some adjustment in prescription will lead me to having a much better time next month

besides experiencing various malaries i did also try out Vintage Story today. tbh I'm not quite sure yet how much i like it (the maladies make it hard to tell), but i think i want to keep playing it for a while (it is at least a nice way to distract from the maladies)

here's some scattered thoughts in bullet point form i guess:

i like playing a weird inhuman thing. really enjoy how you can't make yourself look entirely normal in the character creation

between wolves and starvation ive probably died over a dozen times by now. which actually isn't too bad now that ive gotten used to it and am basing near spawn. sometimes I'll arrange a death on purpose to get my hunger or health back up

all the creatures in this game are too slippery. they should just hold still and let me spear them. I've almost been able to build up a stable food source hunting fish but it kind of takes forever. really i just want more berries to eat

i've made a couple attempts at eating mushrooms out of desperation. the first time i got off light with just a lot of crazy rainbow affects, but the second time i made a stew that just instantly killed me. both very funny tbh

making pottery takes forever but the process is kind of fun. and i kind of like how long the firing process runs, since it ends up being a nice source of light in my dark cave

this game has a lot of awesome plants. i should start putting together a collection once I'm dying less often

my first attempt at a barebones starter base turned out to be temporally unstable (too close to an evil cave i think) so i had to move. which wasn't too bad. however when i last left off the game a rift had just opened right on my front doorstep so! we'll see how that goes!!

overall i think I'm probably going to end up liking this game quite a bit. right now I'm mostly just amused by what an atrocious first week my character's having, which is great since it means they're suffering more than i am (with the maladies). my main goals for my next play session are to get some crops going, establish a stable food source, and figure out what to do with the copper ore I've found.

#rhyme rambles #fandom rambles #(sorta)#game rambles #vintage story rambles #vintage story #i could see this game working better than minecraft as something to play while heavily depressed #good amount of tasks to do and the kind of gloomy aesthetic to it that tends to make me feel a bit better for some reason

the great thing about my body is it's kind of like my own personal torment nexus

#rhyme feelings tag #the organs are betraying me once again #i need them out of here

i wonder if once we have antidepressants that work art will actually feel worth making again

#i think it'd definitely help #but also it might take a bit more than that because we've been developing some weird thought patterns lately #there's also just a lot of other stuff we want to do so it's hard to figure out where we should be focusing our attention #but just having energy to think and being able to feel joy again would probably go a long way #rhyme rambles #rhyme feelings tag

sometimes i do get surprised by how effective journalling can be. escaping my spiral and fighting my inner demons by Writing Them Down. we will make it through this with the power of word-vomiting into a private document on our phone

#rhyme rambles #rhyme feelings tag #unfortunately a lot of the time i do avoid journaling because i am scared of acknowledging the inner demons out loud #and especially afraid of facing them head on in a way that might make my problems harder to ignore #but oh well

hey could anyone recommend some video essays focusing on nonbinary identity to me? i have trouble finding them and it's currently making me feel very alone

i particularly like video essays about media analysis (especially video games), and essays that get personal or philosophical.

I'd also like to be introduced to more nonbinary video essayists in general, but i am particularly looking for videos that actually get into the experience of being nonbinary

#rhyme rambles #rhyme feelings tag #nonbinary #genderqueer #transgender #video essays

i really enjoy it when someone tags their angsty & messed up OCs on a post referencing some kind of unwellness and i reblog it with #mood

#rhyme rambles #common and mildy funny tumblr experience for me #i assume at least some of the time they also relate to the post and that's maybe even why their ocs are like that #also funny to tag a post like: “blorbo” “and also just me”#your ocs my blorbo and me are all going through it together hooray

(spoilers for Aquaria, video game by Bit Blot, 2007)

sometimes I think about Naija's life before her memories were stolen.

Was she happy? Was she curious about the world? How did Mia raise her? Did she love her mother, or hate her? Was Mia as controlling then as we see her later? Did Naija ever feel alone in her own home?

Was Mithalas already in ruins when Naija and Mia lived there? If so, what was it like to grow up in the ruins of a civilization? If not, what was it like to survive its fall?

Was she ever told of the Creator? Was she taught of her future purpose, before her memories were erased? Had she refused it, or tried to escape Mia, before Mia erased her memories? Or was she compliant?

How different was she in her former life? How much of her is echoed in the Naija we see in the game? If the present Naija got those memories back, would they even feel like her own?

Did that old Naija dream of a different life with someone who loved her by her side? Did she dream of freedom, the ability to explore the waters of Aquaria on her own terms? Did she ever dream of power, the ability to defend herself and control her own life? Did she ever want to burn the whole world down around her? Was she also afraid of herself?

I wonder how they would feel if these two versions of Naija, separated by time, lost memories, changed selfhood, could meet and compare their lives.

#rhyme rambles #fandom rambles #aquaria posting #aquaria #aquaria game #aquaria bit blot #aquaria spoilers #aquaria meta #actually posting some of the thoughts i have about this old game lets go #i have so many more thoughts though. so so so many more

trying to write aquaria fanfiction again, lets see if we get anywhere this time!!

the fun thing about Li having very little established personality is that the world is our oyster. for some reason i currently want to give him implied ADHD

.... at some point i should really just write a post detailing all the headcanons we've accumulated for Li & Naija. there's so much that lives in our head and documents and it'd kind of be a shame if it never gets shared in some way or another

#rhyme rambles #fandom rambles #aquaria posting #aquaria rambles #i can't decide if this is interesting enough to main tag or not #maybe if i eventually get around to making a proper headcanons tag then I'll tag that

maybe im just a few months away from having the right antidepressant combination.... and then maybe my life will change forever.....

#rhyme rambles #rhyme feelings tag #one can hope!!!!!#it doesn't even have to be that big of a change but #i would really like to be just a bit less unwell half the time

every now and then i will yearn to play Infinity Nikki again but then i remember how there is a reason i decided not to play a gacha game again after the first time i tried it. it's a shame though because i really would love to play an open-world game centered on exploration and dress-up mechanics, but not in a stressful highly-monetized live service game format that's designed around gambling

I've been trying to get back into MMOs in the hopes that they'll scratch the itch to some degree, but they never really do....

also, I need this game to let me be both fat and nonbinary. please i am begging

#rhyme rambles #i don't really think there's a future where I actually get into game design #and even less of one where I actually have the resources to make my dream game #but man. i do daydream about it sometimes

one terrible thing about tumblr is that out of the many possible bedtime activity options i keep on my phone it has one of the best nightime UIs and doesn't take too much energy to use. however it's also an endless distraction machine containing an unknown amount of stress-increasing landmines among chill & fun posts. which makes it possibly the worst option for bedtime, but it's still what i end up being drawn to

#rhyme rambles #I'm actually having a fine time on here tonight except for the fact its 1AM #but this is a kind of annoying trend ive noticed #unfortunately other websites dark modes tend to be too high contrast in a way that makes them more straining to use #and reading articles or books usually takes more energy than i have late at night #but it's also very unlikely I'll actually be able to sleep as soon as i lie down #fanfiction can be a better alternative but even short fics can be hard to process late at night...#oh well

unfortunately tumblr becomes most delicious with a neglected writing document opened in another tab

#rhyme rambles #i was thinking about chipping away at a shortfic today but it is 1AM now #alas

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