strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide

@strings

[ 28 - they/he - nonbinary transsexual man ] 🎸 Artist. Anarchist. VGC Player. 🦀 Support, Death Crab for Cutie 🀄 Riichi Mahjong enjoyer

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strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· 7d

Home safe

ID: my cat Effy stretching out on the carpet of my home in greeting. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· 8d

Free him

ID: a vending machine with a singular plush eevee in it. It has an out of order sign taped onto it. End ID

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· 20d

yesterday I showed my son why our Splatoon team is named Death Crab for Cutie

ID: me holding a plushie of my octoling sona, eve, at the Death Cab for Cutie concert. End Id.

ID: me holding the plushie so he is facing the stage. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· 24d

ID: a screenshot from Deltarune of a comedicly long jack-o-lantern with “YOUR LONG” in all caps. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jul 6

Hello Pokemon TCGheads. Are you going to Gridlock, and have bulk lying around? Well I have a deal for you. I’m collecting as many of THIS grubbin card as I can get my hands on. I’m paying 20 cents per grubbin, 50 cents per reverse holo. SCR or ASC are fair game. If you got grubbins, I want em!

ID: the stellar crown common grubbin card, of the cute beetle pokemon grubbin looking up and to the right. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jul 2

Just the one card this visit, but it’s a big one!

ID: my hand holding up a reverse holo weedle from the skyridge set. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jun 21

Card show haul from today. Always fun to haggle and trade with others!

ID: a spread of six cards, the center one held by a tiny volcarona plushie. In order: rising rivals e4 scizor, nymble illustration rare, fourth place reverse holo scyther, first edition Neo discovery scyther, and Neo discovery unlimited scizor holo. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jun 19

You ever look at a pokemon card so cute you start tearing up? Just me?

ID: a common Pokemon card of grubbin, featuring a crochet plush of the tiny beetle pokemon. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jun 16

Y’all suck (/j)

ID: replies to the below bluesky post. Terret says “I have been off for a bit. But damn beef sounds tasty”. olive says “Beefing IS my hobby, thanks. Let's start one over this right now”. Hammy says “im going to start beef with you over this post”. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jun 14

Contorted in ways I didn’t think possible

ID: my black cat Effy, contorted in a way where she is simultaneously lying on her back and standing on her front two paws. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jun 12

Three moths and a bike

ID: a spread of four cards I bought. From left to right: larvesta illustration rare from Black Bolt, volcarona illustration rare from Black Bolt, gold shiny frosmoth full art, and koraidon illustration rare. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jun 8

About damn time I went to the cafe…. It’s been too long since I’ve been, and it’s just so nice out

ID: A picture of my food at an outdoor cafe table. It’s a strawberry turnover with a white vanilla drizzle over it. A tall glass of iced coffee is to the side of the plate. End ID

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jun 8

Some cool bugs that decided to say hello to me today at work. For reference, the dobsonfly is about as big as my hand, and the cecropia moth is bigger than that. What beauties!

ID: a colorful orange and brown cecropia moth relaxing on the side of an emergency exit door. Its wings are pulled inward, and it is very fluffy. End ID.

ID: a dark brown winged insect, I believe a female dobsonfly, climbing up a wall. It has long antennae, little eyes on the side of its head, and prominent mandibles. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· May 12

Had a bad day so I bought some bugs about it

ID: me holding two Pokemon cards, the breakdancing genesect V alt art, and the ariados e-reader card. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Apr 29

One year since I’ve adopted Effy, by the way. I love her so much.

ID: my black cat Effy lying down on my lap on the couch. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Apr 12

Home safe

ID: a photo of my cat on the carpet, laying on her side and licking her paws. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Apr 12

I’m having fun giving my son Beverages

ID: a small plushie of my sona propped up against a packaged baked good and a coffee cup bigger than he is. End ID.

ID: a small plushie of my sona propped up against a can of mead bigger than he is. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Apr 11

Everyone shut the fuck up and look at this plushie I got from @cherililyyy.bsky.social They did a fantastic job with my son and you want to commission them soooo bad

ID: me photo of the picture taker holding a palm-sized plushie of an octoling. He has blue hair, a green scar covering his face, and an octoking face mask. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Apr 6

Gator sliding rapidly towards your location

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Apr 1

He’s got the energy of a hot topic employee who’s worked there for the past 15 years and no longer gives a shit

ID: a ref sheet for eve’s octoling sona. He’s an older octoling with blue hair tied back in a ponytail and wears motorcycle jackets. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Mar 31

Happy trans day of visibility from Camden Yards

ID: a view of Camden yards from the drink rail seats of the ballpark. I, taking the photo, am holding out a natty boh beer in front of the camera. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Mar 26

ID: an edit of a Seinfeld screenshot. George Costanza has an orioles hat on, and it’s captioned “I gotta focus. I’m shifting into baseball mode.” End ID

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Mar 24

Painful painful favorite Pokemon Picker quiz. Here’s my top 20

ID: a screenshot of a Favorite Pokemon Picker quiz. The found favorites are, in order: volcarona, slither wing, frosmoth, ho-oh, croagunk, scolipede, Jirachi, gastrodon, dachsbun, ribombee, yanmega, torterra, sugared, wurmple, brute bonnet, glimmora, sinischa, grubbin, weedle, and ariados. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Mar 6

9 games that changed my brain chemistry at some point in my life. my9games.com

ID: a list of 9 games. From top left: Yume Nikki, Higurashi no naku koro ni, Umineko no naku koro ni, Splatoon 3, Blaseball, Fallout: New Vegas, Pokemon Emerald, Zelda Breath of the Wild, and Kirby Super Star Ultra

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Feb 5

Oh I love these. I want in

ID: a chibi octoling with blue and red tentacles tied in a ponytail. He has a red mask and black jacket. He is holding a soda can with the bottom text that says “LIVE.” End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Jan 18

Home safe

ID: a black cat perched on a white bedroom dresser, looking at the camera. End ID

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Dec 11

good morning

ID: a screenshot from the show Twin Peaks. Agent Cooper, a man in a black suit, is sitting down with a cup of coffee and speaking to the girl on the right. The caption reads “Well, Audrey, to be perfectly honest, I’m tired and a little on edge.” End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Dec 7

Home safe

ID: a picture of my black cat Effy, belly up on white carpet and happy to see me. End ID

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Dec 6

Oh btw if you see me at big dapple, come get some stickers. I still have plenty leftover from Riptide. Come find me early, and I might still have some riptide trading cards left…

ID: a pile of two types of stickers. One is of my octoling holding a tacticooler can with a deadbeat expression, with text that says “LIVE.” The other is of a chibi Callie plushie sipping a soda. End ID.

strings 🎻 🔜 Riptide@strings· Dec 4

The Kraken Throne has become Effy’s favorite spot to sit as of late. ( ft. @toripng.com ‘s giant Kraken plush )