cindy

@bloomedwings

they/them, migratory bird, secretary bird lover, love movies (especially horror) and games (especially... no true definition) I also have writings and stuff at bloomedwings.com

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cindy@bloomedwings· 15d

The moment where Clea Duvall puts her hand on the fish tank and the thing matches the shape. The teachers outside Elijah Wood's apartment. And of course...

cindy@bloomedwings· 17d

I think my joke hit the discover feed.

cindy@bloomedwings· 23d

This might be the hardest I have ever laughed at this game which I have laughed at consistently for 18 years.

cindy@bloomedwings· Jul 12

QTP with a great female villain

cindy@bloomedwings· Jul 11

Seeing Honey Revenge go from an opener last time we saw this show to the headline now... like, look they rock. Whole thing rocked.

Picture of Honey Revenge on stage. A dark skinned woman with purple braided hair wearing a leather corset-ish dress with fishnets sings into a microphone, while a dark skinned man with an afro, glasses, and t-shirt plays guitar. The stage is bathed in purple light.

The whole band. The same two people from the first pic are on stage left, while on stage right is the bass player, a dark skinned woman with red straight hair in a long sleeved crop top and skirt.

Another picture, with the singer and bassist more in focus, which also shows how the bass has demon horns. The guitarist is also on stage left.

cindy@bloomedwings· Jul 9

cindy@bloomedwings· Jul 7

Tomodachi Life update: game continues to be good. Some highlights of a bunch of video game characters...

[All pictures are from Tomodachi Life, a game with sometimes hyper realistic photos and very simplistic cartoon characters]
A bunch of Miis surround Cloud Strife (a light skinned man with blue eyes that have a cat glint to them, wearing a red birthday hat on his spiky blond hair) for his birthday, saying "Congrats!"
The Miis from left to right are...
CW (horror film Influencer): a tan skinned woman with a distinct dark birthmark on her face, holding a keytar
Espeon (Pokemon): a pink furred cat thing with a red gem in their forehead
Madeline (Celeste): a red haired woman with a stripey shirt
Sheena (a PC I played in a TTRPG): a slightly dark skinned woman with a goggled helmet and a guitar
Gerard Way (the person): a light skinned man with smoothed down red hair with spiky bangs
My kid (my kid): a little blond boy in a chef's hat
Hunter (The Owl House): a young boy with slightly long white hair with a singed end

Madeline and Hornet (Hollow Knight, a short woman with black skin mostly covered by a white mask) over their newborn child, who is reaching for a pixelated strawberrry (from Celeste) and yelling "Canadian strawberry!"

Characters running in the grass, playing tag. From left to right...
Pac-Man (Pac-Man): a short yellow bald round headed guy with a big mouth
Hornet
Madeline
Milly (Baten Kaitos Origins): a tall light skinned girl with turquoise earrings and tied back brown hair, with butterfly wings on her back
Alma (Unsighted): a dark skinned woman with big blue eyes, white hair, and distinct freckles
Kid (868-BACK): a lavender skinned woman with a green earring, purple and yellow mohawk, tiny blue eyes, and distinct red lips
Nahobino (Shin Megami Tensei V): a Young Man with long blue hair and bangs, with a black jawline piece that has glowing blue
Hael (Crown Gambit): a dark skinned guy with long white fabric earrings, and dark hair with white tips, mostly covered by a white beanie

cindy@bloomedwings· Jul 6

It's her, she's here

A shot of Tomodachi Life where a Mii based on Milly from Baten Kaitos Origins plays with maracas.
She is a medium height light skinned girl with brown hair, set with messy bangs but braided tightly in the back. She has turquoise earrings and purple butterfly wings on her back, as well as short shorts, a maroon jacket, and boots.
Her room has walls and objects of sweets and desserts (iykyk) and also fruit on the floor.

Same as last pic, but now she is putting away the maracas.

She has resumed playing the maracas and is in a different part of the room.

cindy@bloomedwings· Jul 4

Important message to many Anthrocon attendees that this billboard is on the way into Bloomfield from downtown via Liberty and may have some use. Thank you for your time and stay cool out there!

A billboard for a massage parlor that says Life Is Hard, Book A Massage
Underneath (the important part) says Knot Now, Not Later

Then below that "massage by maddie taylor"

cindy@bloomedwings· Jul 2

you sure about that puppet boy?

A picture of the dumb blue puppet YouTuber Arlo with a thumbnail showing his dollar section Muppet face over the headline "physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles" and his title/headline is "Gaming news doesn't get worse than this"

And buddy. Buddy.

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 25

the "so long, suckers!" special

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 21

Yeah alright

A 3x3 grid showing "9 Steam Games I Want To Spread". The games are...
Kingsvein (a figure riding a dragon faces a castle)
RKGK (a young woman flies with magenta paint over a city with a teal background)
Let's! Revolution! (Three figures stand against a garish purple castle)
The Spirit Lift (a wolf with glowing yellow eyes hovers over a hand of cards)
Scarmonde (a pixelized gate with a horned skull over it)
Death Howl (a woman with empty white eyes holds out a hand wreathed in blue fire)
Nidus (psychedelic coloring of a wasp and flower)
Missile Command Delta (three silhouetted figures stand in front of a crimson computer array)
Into The Restless Ruins (a woman with flowing red hair faces the giant smiling face of another woman on the horizon)

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 20

Tomodachi Life is basically perfect

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 16

Geebus tags are just useless ain't they lol

A screenshot of Next Fest with the text TRADITIONAL ROGUELIKE VAMES: BECAUSE YOU'VE PLAYED GAMES TAGGED WITH TRADITIONAL ROGUELIKE, and it shows a game called DORTS A DARTS ROGUELIKE.
Unsurprisingly upon clicking the page to confirm, it is not, in fact, a traditional roguelike.

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 12

"National Seersucker Day, you say?"

Alvis from Xenoblade Chronicles. He looks like a young man with shoulder length silver hair, medium tone skin, and a purple bomber jacket. He is holding his hand up a little bit.

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 9

Good things happening on my Tomodachi island

Madeline Celeste and Hornet Silksong walking and talking while slightly blushing. Status indicates they're Sweethearts for 1 day, each falling in love with another, and a subhead says "Ooo, looks like they're on a date!"

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 7

its her

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 5

$The Hacker from 868-BACK with a word bubble implying they're saying this They also have the fractal scarf on, due to selling out to BASILISK PRAISE TO THEE O WORM$

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 5

I thought it looked like a witch? Like

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 4

The way I cackled

A screenshot of 868-BACK where the smiley face hacker has done a series of actions - x trojan flane dial flame dial flame loop loop loop loop loop x loop - and the board is just covered in fire, red siphoned spaces, and still a number of enemies

cindy@bloomedwings· Jun 2

A clip of the Yugioh moment/meme where the Pharaoh holds up a card that is about to blast Kaiba into nothing. The picture on the card is edited to have a screenclip from 868-BACK of the Scrip box with 9: _clear in the top slot, ready to go. It has a nuclear symbol by it. There is also a _gravity below.
Also the Hacker's symbol, a smiling face with sunglasses and a flower, sits on the card.

cindy@bloomedwings· May 31

Given how, when I was putting this together, I kept thinking "this one's for the sickos," I'm happy CD recognized that lol Delighted as always to be featured

Text from Critical Distance, one link/article is highlighted (denoted in brackets)
Critical Chaser

We’re closing out the week with some fun treats for on-line sickos.

[868-BACK Review: A Revisit For The Net Of Now | Bloomed Wings Blog
It’s a review : ) ]

A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS | CD-ROM Journal
Misty De Méo unpacks a wondrous time capsule of early-90s client-server possibility.

cindy@bloomedwings· May 27

Savagery from Monster Train 2.
It is a mostly orange sort of centaur with clawed feet. Its head is a three-eyed human skull with deer antlers. It has plates of red armor lined with white fur, with arrows and a broken spear lodged into it. It is also holding a curved axe.

cindy@bloomedwings· May 23

A screenshot from Zero Parades For Dead Spies of a beer item. It is titled Perro Pale and is represented by a brown bottle with blue labeling. Listed as Type: Drug and Carrying: 0. Text below reads:
The most popular beer in the Developed World, called 'dog water' by both its devotees and detractors. Tastes the way your piss might taste after a day of drinking a better beer.

cindy@bloomedwings· May 15

Crushing it lol

cindy@bloomedwings· May 15

Me @ 8AM

Calvin from Calvin And Hobbes, a small kid with spiky hair, walking while saying "who writes these dumb things anyway?" His shirt and face are scratched, and stars and dust bits are coming off of him.

cindy@bloomedwings· May 14

Keep Driving really hearkens back to old driving by having a big foldout map. Not only is it just good looking, routes really make a difference. A long stretch of non-highway might pack easier "fights" for your build, but the distance to the next town or gas station is a huge risk if things go wrong

A map of various roads and routes, pulled out and suspended above a car dashboard. Various colors and patterns indicate what types of road they are, and symbols on towns show what shopping and necessities are therein.

cindy@bloomedwings· May 14

Into The Breach sells its tactical mech premise with a pulled out map dividing the various islands into territories. You can go from one state to any connected one, which is a definitely limiting factor since you only have so many battles before the big Vek rears its head.

An island map with one green state connected to two red ones. There are then five greyed out ones. The red and grey states have star and lightning bolt markers indicating rewards.

cindy@bloomedwings· May 14

Witching Stone is doing a map, yes, but it keeps it a lot tighter than Slay The Spire and also adds its own little wrinkle of pathing since you can backtrack. Do you do a hard fight first before accruing damage and use a good reward to stomp the other fights? Or just take a safe path?

A map screen of parchment with a tree slightly etched on the back. A green haired woman stands on a space and many routes with glowing enemies, campfires, and arrows stand before her.

cindy@bloomedwings· May 14

That being said!... there are a lot of runners that do have good takes on a separate map screen. Monster Train and its sequel have prerendered views of hell and heaven respectively. While 2 is a far superior game, 1's ice in hell that you slowly melt by progressing is still peak look.