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@thestarserpent

Why are u here? Anyways, sup, name's Aster | He/They
On some nights, it's harder than others. By an equally lonely tree, he stares above at a thousand stars floating, and they blink back.

Got a commission for my guy! Many big thanks to @mellozheist for drawing him so lovely <3 <3 <3

"I'm so bad at keeping plants alive, I killed a succelent :((" LISTEN TO ME!! SUCCULENTS ARE HARD MODE PLANTS!!! YOU SET YOUR DIFFICULTY TO NIGHTMARE MODE ON YOUR FIRST TRY AND WONDERED WHY IT KEPT DYING!!!

Succulents are hard mode because they WANT dry soil. You have to be extremely scheduled about when you water them and how much you give them, and then on top of that, they don't tell you ANYTHING!!! The way you know you aren't killing it is if you don't wake up to a dead cactus one day, that's literally all you get.

If you want easy plants for your first time, get tropical plants. The big, luscious green tropical ferns and bamboo trees and monsteras and peace lilies. "But they're so intimidating!" Theyre dramatic crybabies. If you don't know when to water your plants, they'll tell you by drooping everything and acting like they're already dead. You give them water and they perk right back up within the hour. You water them when the soil feels dry to you and they're thirsty mfers, extremely difficult to overwater unless you're actively trying to drown them. Give em a mist every few days and they'll slurp it right up. All purpose fertilizer works great on them, no need to get intimidated by all the labels and numbers on the shelf of the garden center.

Cacti are hardy but they don't tell you shit and if you give them one drop of water extra they drown and die. If you give them the wrong fertilizer numbers they choke and die. If you also forget to water them for one (1) day off their schedule they dehydrate and die. The reason you think you suck at plants is because you chose the hardest one on the shelf. Get a fern or a bamboo tree instead

If your goals basically amount to "after The Revolution everything will be great because people will all have the Good Ethics and work together in my Perfect System and the Evil People with Bad Morals and Bad Behaviour who are making this world bad will be gone (killed/imprisoned/exiled/all converted to agree with us when they see our Perfect System)" then that's just fascism. I hate to say it but you've put a gay socialist hat on fascism.

The MAGA people are still gonna be around in your Perfect System and a very large proportion of them are still gonna be Like That. We can discourage antisocial behaviour through laws and education and changing cultural norms, but if plans for future society involve [group I'm opposed to] magically not being part of it so the Good People can Do Things Right, well.

✨No Bad Guys Here✨ - how do you want to enforce that.

Honestly, I think this concept of The Revolution is to some leftists what Armageddon is to some Christians: an easy excuse to not try and grapple with difficult problems like hunger or poverty or injustice or climate, because any day now the Great Reckoning will come and wipe the slate clean.

btw congrats to the flow cast too

(photos of the cast)

quick and very cute notes:

the cat is named Miut

Capybaras aren't very talkative, so they had to tickle it to make it make noise. The resulting noise was too high-pitched, so they had a Baby Camel voice act for Capy instead.

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one of my favourite linguistic phenomena/in-jokes is spanish potato chips being “ham-flavored, probably”

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y’see because spain and portugal are so close, labels in stuff like food, shampoo, etc often come in portuguese as well as spanish

this brand of chips, Lay’s, displays the flavor in spanish and portuguese, resulting in ham-flavored chips looking like this:

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with “jamón” being spanish and “presunto” being portuguese

however, “presunto” is also a spanish adjective, meaning “presumed” (or suspected)

so you have this in-joke going where spanish chips taste like ham, presumably

You’ve heard of “I can’t believe it’s not butter!” now get ready for “It’s questionable whether or not this is ham”

“Why would you want to make a game for the original Nintendo?? No one is going to buy that”

Jokes on you! I sold 1 copy!!!

LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL GRAPH! THATS A SALE BAAAABY

Holy shit yall. I just woke up to 21 sales! The game has officially recouped the cost of all the software I used to make it!!! IM PROFITABLE?!

...What's the game, how did you make it, and how are you selling it?

A week ago I was losing my mind over 1 sale, now I’ve sold 81 digital copies and 52 physical ones.

Over 100 people bought my game!!!!????? This is mind blowing. I don’t even know how to process this. I am so grateful. I would not have sold nearly this many without yall sharing this post as much as you did. I love you all so much. Thank you for making this happen. You all made my childhood dream come true in a bigger way than I thought possible.

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NEStseller

Sell a new title for the fucking Nintendo Family Computer in the year 2025 AD.

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