me when i'm silly

Minty Tempest, it/she | Girl of cat and mess of brain | I like video games, cats, and writing fiction | yes i'm an adult, no you don't need an exact number

[wingedcatgirl]

hey there everynyan it's time for a new pinned post again

i'm mintleaf wingedcatgirl, it/she, local snuggly transfem catgirl #2424. i'm an adult but i've made it a policy that the entire internet is not just inherently entitled to my exact age on demand. if you truly must know, i'm sure you can dig up some birthday post i made before i had this policy and work it out yourself.

you may know me from being gay and not going to bed on time.

things i'm into include balatro (i'm making some mods! go look at them! they're fun and/or useful!), fallen london (character list down below the cut), tales of symphonia, deltarune, terraria, kingdom hearts, final fantasy xiv, puyo puyo, miraculous ladybug, cats (the animal, not the musical), and being queer and awesome. i write fanfic sometimes and am also vaguely attempting to work on original fic, so hello to writblr as well. a works list is below the cut

we occasionally reblog ask memes, which are a good way to start a conversation if you can't think of something off the top of your head. (include a link to the ask meme in question if it's an old one!)

we're plural, but the headmates currently don't talk much here. this may or may not change in future. you can always say hi if you wanna

if you wanna find us elsewhere for such reasons as *gestures vaguely at fucking everything about this webbed site*:

your most reliable option is dreamwidth; we don't post there much but we do check regularly so a comment on any of our posts will get our attention

if you want a tumblr-shaped experience, we're trying out noterook; see the creator's post for some detailed info on that site (it's 18+ only tho; minors come back in a bunch of years)

you can ask for our discord @ if we're friends (read: have interacted twice ever) or our server links if we're acquaintances (read: you're not a spambot)

we also have a sorta dead and disused forum, trouble cube. It's There™

but tbqh we don't plan to leave tumblr unless we're forced to. by the entire website being shut down, for example.

IMPORTANT: this blog is intended neither as an "adults only space" nor a "minor safe space"; it's a space for us, and you can also hang out as long as you're reasonably chill

below the cut, some lists:

list of some things we're making:

Leaf Story, an OC insert fanfic of Tales of Symphonia (blog tag for it, also)

Menthol, a mod for Balatro that adds a new suit (3s) and a bunch of random other stuff because we thought it was amusing

we'll add more to this when we actually do stuff instead of letting it sit on our WIP pile forever

our fallen london character list for fellow fallen london enjoyers:

Inessa Fonseca, the Curious Lady (main, Light Fingers, Midnighter, non-canon Seven-Fold Knock someday when i feel like tormenting myself)

Inessa Fonseca in a rather more dire timeline (Seeking alt except the Seeking is canon so maybe the other Inessa is the everything-except-Seeking alt? Heart's Desire)

Lucky Kity (cat, Bag a Legend, I saw @waterlogged-detective's Boots the Cat and was like "CAT!!! i have a recurring cat character what if there was ANOTHER cat in london")

Lila Rossi (sure, crossover roleplay account for our Nemesis alt, i guess) (don't expect her to be as active as dire!Inessa and Lucky)

feel free to send us various RP and/or mechanical actions!

sideblogs we have:

@elakha-house-cube, the roleplay blog that currently consists mainly of asks from one friend

a lewd sideblog. mostly for reblogging. you can ask for it if you're cool

[tobermoriansass]

saying this as mildly as possible but the anti ai posting tenor on this website (not last post, but in general - i have been biting my tongue for a long long time) is one generally oriented towards a maximal amount of self-righteousness. in my experience, self-righteousness only ever produces martyrdom and a punitive desire for "justice" that can never quite be quenched. none of it is actually conducive towards good politics around the matter in question, least of all ai, which is frankly poorly understood and thought about on here. a little more compassion and thoughtfulness and a little less solipsistic self-absorption perhaps is in order.

[caracalliope]

finally! a type of pollution i am not complicit in

finally! proof my art is innately virtuous in at least one way

finally! a perceived theft of which i am invisibly the victim

finally! a perceived laziness which i can avoid falling into

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[leftcosine]

I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know

[humanfist]

I Successfully Overthrew The Demon Lord And Instituted Demon Democracy But They Voted For A Commie So The CIA Not Some Fantasy Equivalent The Actual CIA Who Have Known About Magic And Alternate Realms The Whole Damn Time But Won't Just Unisekai Me Launched A Counter Coup And That's When Things Really Went To Shit

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

used to live in a college town that was huge on sports. 80% of small talk was sportsball and so i developed an Evil Habit: whenever the conversation inevitably turned to the upcoming Big Game i would act excited and then confused. I would earnestly insist they had the details wrong. "the game next Saturday? don't you mean the Thursday after? playing against the [predator species]? no we're playing against the [other predator species]." And so on. i would draw this argument out for as long as feasibly possible, until eventually someone would pull out their phone to prove to me my wrongness. At which point I would squint exaggeratedly at the screen, slap my forehead in an eureka moment, and exclaim "oh you meant the MEN'S team!!! are they doing a game? that's nice."

[rat-thingo]

gender is a scam made by bathroom companies to sell you more bathrooms

[toskarin]

I'm always trying to limit the amount of clunkiness in morrowind that I apologise for as a product of its time, and in practice this looks like pointing new players towards the manual before trying to explain anything, because it's actually an incredibly casualised and approachable game for its era. it's simplified to the point where I don't think that hyping it up as an impenetrable monolith of bygone design does anything but make people less receptive to games with actual friction

a lot of its most arbitrary mechanics are the result of it trying to simplify a system that was much less approachable to a casual audience before it. almost all of its biggest problems (barring actual bugs) are in what it does automatically while smoothing over a crunchier system (see: attack types, or how it tries to increase your attributes automatically in ways that can fuck up your health pool)

this is also, generally speaking, why morrowind's initial reception was one of mainstream and fandom positivity along with complaints from a core crpg audience. that seems unthinkable now, but you can't really achieve an understanding of a game (that is, to meet a game on its own terms) if you place every 20+ year old game into an amorphous mass of "it is old, and old games were harder"

you also see this with, to pull an incredibly adjacent example, world of warcraft. part of understanding what it's actually doing requires you to understand what systems from everquest it is abridging, so you can properly appreciate what design decisions the developers were making beyond "they didn't know what they were doing yet" or "we've forgotten how to do things like this"

while it's true that over-contextualising older games can lead to you forgetting that there isn't an expiration date on the experience of artwork, it's also true that the body of conversations which makes up genre should not be ignored when trying to read for intent

it's like trying to understand fine dining without wanting to listen to the explanations of what you're eating, and what you should be tasting for. things are often greater than the sum of their parts in a way which cannot be retrieved without really considering what you're expected to notice

[toskarin]

and of course, extrapolating all that a bit, I think that the best way to experience an older game for the first time is to book club it. it helps to have at least one person around who's played it before, along with several people who have not, so that you can cross-reference things and briefly emulate the sort of conversational space that surrounds games when they initially release

which is like, true of all games, especially computer rpgs, and it's kind of an anomaly for them to be considered things you can run into completely blind and alone these days

[blue0909]

Please stop being nonbinary too. God only created one gender. You must conform to that.

THERES ONLY ONE NOW?????

[miketon]

[bamfspock]

Bosses and Coworkers: you've got a great work ethic, going above and beyond

Me: I am literally just doing my job. Everyone else is slacking off.

Everyone Else: (magically knows somehow the secret amounts of work the boss is actually asking of them, which the boss cannot tell anyone for Reasons)

[bamfspock]

There always seems to be a gap in instructions (from bosses, parents, teachers, friends, whoever) between 'required' and 'expected', and this gap is:

invisible

never explained

always a different size

you have to guess the size

if you guess wrong you either get Praised or In Trouble

[bamfspock]

At least on 'the price is right' you know (because someone *actually told you*) that you are playing a guessing game and that there is an over/under mechanic and that the conquence of guessing wrong isn't a punishment or damaged relationship or getting fired

[bamfspock]

On an unrelated note my psychiatrist has given me a referal for a formal ASD evaluation

[bamfspock]

This post is about the neurodivergent frustration of having to deal with neurotypical authority figures who don't say what they mean but I love the pro-union labor-rights energy I'm seeing in the notes

[vullen]

slippery wood floor

[flaafyhasmoved]

oh my fucking god

[prokopetz]

If you look at the actual history of the decline of empires, in the vast majority of cases it's less an immediate implosion and more a decades-long slide into geopolitical irrelevance, so it's pretty likely nobody reading this post will live to see the ultimate Fall of the American Empire™, but there's value in being there at the start, too.

[prokopetz]

(Like, cities burning is a striking image, but in practice that almost never happens on its own, even in the case of open civil war. You generally need foreign invaders taking advantage of a faltering empire's weakness for that, and who exactly are we imagining is going to conduct a land invasion of a US in decline? Fucking Canada?)

[phidelta]

Shimigami eyes should add a feature where you can label someone pink for girls who dont realize they're girls yet. It would make the extension worse and almost certainly cause more drama

[phidelta]

We are crowd sourcing her gender

[storyweavingspider]

“Hey, did you know you’re rated Egg on shinigami eyes?”

[prettyponyprincess-prancespiety]

As far as justly deserved critiques of fandoms go, I have to say that the more mainstream my interests get the more serious the dysfunction of the fandom gets.

There’s nothing really that the bronies do or did that are as shitty as the way your average sports fan treats referees.

Gamergate is gravely serious but it also looks pretty tame next to whatever the fuck is going on with the paparazzi.

Not saying you can’t critique fandoms as a whole about stuff, obviously, but if your aim is to never be associated with people who seriously harm other people over frivolous things you won’t have any hobbies left.

[ot3]

even if trans women did have a notable advantage in sports i wouldnt give a fuuuuuuuuck. wahhhhh wahhh what if minorities start playing games too good! society could crumble! we just have no choice but to unperson them to avoid that from happening. absolute loser behavior.

[flaskrobonoid]

gen z is trying to cancel the mysterious and horrible obelisk im building at the edge of town

[onlinebeast]

DOWNLOADING MILK …

1% …

2% …

DOWNLOAD COMPLETE .

[argumate]

don’t like it when I’m about to board a plane to America and discover it just came from there not one hour ago and is getting sent straight back, like please put this girl in the stables and give her some oats, rub her coat till it shines, she’s earned a rest

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Also there's the fact that having just escaped America, she has to return to America.