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a grounding meditation

deep breath in.

"i am safe."

deep breath out.

...

deep breath in.

"the ground supports me."

deep breath out.

...

deep breath in.

"my breath brings me home."

deep breath out.

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anonymous user asked:
Who's a good girl???
an anthropomorphic cat in a begging pose. her eyes are big, and she's blushing.
"is it me? oh gosh, i hope it's me..."

she's trying very hard

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neopets was really like

snot neopets

an acara covered in snot. an aisha covered in snot.
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anonymous user asked:
What era of cartoon is Mae?
an anthropomorphic cat in rubber hose cartoon style. her limbs are all stretched and contorted in different shapes. she's smiling and sticking her tongue out.
"nyeheheh!"

erm... i'll get back to you on that.

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

i've gotten lots more neopets tcg cards, so i've overhauled the checklist page! i'm quite proud of it... nya~

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anonymous user asked:
Okay but who does do Mae Bubsy hair tho?
an annoyed anthropomorphic cat. black is starting to show at the roots of her hair, the rest of which is cyan.
"ugh. have to get my hair dyed again."

mae bubsy gets her hair done by a local lgbtq-friendly hair stylist she found on google maps. this stylist specializes in both curly hair and hair dying, both of which are important to her (her hair is naturally curly and dark brown; almost black until it catches the light). unfortunately, her dark hair makes it a pain to dye, so she dreads it... but having a gender-affirming stylist helps.

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anonymous user asked:
what is an apple to you?
animated rotating apple
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anonymous user asked:
Whats your favorite thing in any bubsy game?

it's hard to pick just one! i like a lot of things in bubsy games. the whimsical fleischer-inspired worlds of bubsy 1, the many bespoke death animations prepared for the many ways bubsy can bite the dust, and of course bubsy himself.

but one thing i don't really see talked about is the art direction in bubsy 3d.

an overhead map of bubsy 3d's first level, interspersed with screenshots from the game.

often hated, often called lazy, i personally adore the art direction of bubsy 3d. born out of necessity,1 the environments evoke the same feel as many early 3d renders. you know what i'm talking about. bright colors. flat geometric shapes floating in the air. simplistic water ripples and shiny reflections. and of course, checkerboard patterns everywhere. all taking place in a vast, empty void.

a newton's cradle made up of brightly colored shapes stood on a checkerboard surface.

bubsy 3d isn't the only game to use this style. the first sonic the hedgehog was also inspired by this era of 3d. this is most obviously seen in the game's first level, green hill zone. take note of the checkerboard pattern and the sharp angles of the palm trees' leaves.

green hill zone from sonic the hedgehog.

it's a style that i really enjoy, and i think bubsy 3d pulls it off really well.


  1. per michael berlyn, "I had no tools for drawing environments, [...] no way to relate polygon count to the kind of design I was visualizing [...]"
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robot gears grinding in my skull, smoke billowing out of my ears as I try to think of the biggest ball of yarn possible (it’s pretty big)

dear reader,

i have thought of many, many yarn balls in my time. more than any single person ever should. but not once has smoke come billowing out of my noggin from the sheer computational power required in order to process the magnitude of its size. i would not have thought such a feat possible. but then i opened my inbox, and there it was. a seemingly impossible tale of immense imaginary yarn ball prowess. already, i was impressed. i could not possibly ever comprehend the size of this yarn ball!

and then, a second message came in.

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anonymous user asked:
okay, I thought of a bigger ball of yarn than the last ball of yarn, what about that one?

lo and behold, the anonymous visionary had sent me news of their latest accomplishment; somehow, against all odds, they had managed to think of a yarn ball even larger.

i cannot even begin to describe to you how absolutely incredible this is. if their previous triumph was impossible, then what to call this?? inconceivable? unfathomable? fantastical? surely its magnitude exceeds that of the known universe!

i can only dream of one day being able to visualize a yarn ball a mere fraction of a fraction of a fraction the size of yours, o maestro of the yarn!

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anonymous user asked:
u gae bubsy /paws

mae. gae. two sides of the same coin. many scholars have dedicated their entire academic careers to studying the duality of mae-gae. some, such as dr. mae bubsy, consider it a way of life:

yeah i'm pretty gay

– dr. mae bubsy, professor of mae-gae sciences at paw state university

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anonymous user asked:
Uh hi.

HELLO

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anonymous user asked:
did you know that it's now possible to send asks to your favorite mae bubsy?

it's true!!! using the convenient "ask" button located at the top right of the page, you too can send in your burning questions! is mae bubsy a cat or a dog? is she related to bubsy the bobcat?? who does her hair??? the answers to all these questions and more lie just ahead!

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an anthropomorphic cat with radio antennae on her head. she looks up at them with confusion.
no, mae, it's tenna, not antenna...
an anthropomorphic cat wearing an arcade machine costume. she is about to tip over onto her face, and looks very alarmed about it.
no, mae, it's kayde, not arcade.....

context (via tenna.zip) [18+]
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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

REJOICE! REJOICE!

BUBSY II RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1994

CELEBRATE IN THE NAME OF BUBSY!

magazine ad for bubsy ii. 'one false grunt, pig lips, and you're bacon bits.'
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really dysphoric today tbh. oh to be a cis girl

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something of an addendum to my blog about bubsy 3...

in an interview for gamasutra in 2005, michael berlyn (creator of bubsy) said that he had pitched bubsy 4 to sony. sony said:

“oh yeah, we’d be interested in doing a product with you. absolutely not a furry animal product, though, we already have one of those.1

and so they agreed to make syphon filter. alright then.

that’s not the end of this, though. ten years later, in an interview for retrovolve, berlyn said at that time he was working on two different pitches; one for a game called sparky and bolt apparently being pretty far along. he mentioned pitching sparky to sega, who rejected it for not being edgy enough. he also pitched it to accolade:

"accolade said, 'ummmmm, i don’t think so. we’re more interested in a bubsy 4.' and i said, 'i really think bubsy’s dead by now. between what you guys did with bubsy 22and what i did with bubsy 3d, it’s time to move on.' they didn’t agree. […] so bubsy 4 was not a possibility, and sparky and bolt never happened."

so depending on when you asked him, bubsy 4 either totally existed and he even pitched it, or it never existed at all and he didn’t even want to consider it. he recently passed away (rest in peace), so i suppose we’ll never really know!


  1. this furry animal product being crash bandicoot, of course.
  2. berlyn was not involved in the creation of bubsy 2, and he hated the game, saying that it "just about killed the franchise."
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i made a checklist for my neopets tcg (ye olde) collection! you can see it here. i'm not sure where to put a link to it... i should probably get around to making a random assorted stuff page or something. anyway, yes. neopetsssssss

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the orange cat holy trinity

bubsy, garfield, and heathcliff

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yes, it's me. miss "pushes the absolute tiniest changes to the git repository because the styling of that thing really just bothered her that much"

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looking at neopets trading cards on ebay and found this listing

ebay listing for five trading cards, each from a different franchise; hot wheels, neopets, pga tour, pokemon, and tron
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saw a post about happy hardvore. which reminded me of my favorite happy hardvore. the opening is so fucking good

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

nya~

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

can you believe no one owned bubsy.org?

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

i'm so bad at long-form writing

turns out adhd doesn't go well with writing. who woulda thought

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

NOOOOOOOOO

something has happened! molly_bubsy says, 'mmmmmm, i love neopoints, i want to be the richest pet in neopia!'

she's fallen to capitalism...

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prepare yourselves

the quest for all the official neopets tcg (2003) decks. caption: time to introduce you to my current hyperfixation
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i really quite desperately want to make a better site button. the one i have is so bad. but the artistic energy (or just energy in general, honestly) just isn't there. ugh

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

literally every pagination library i find assumes i have a computer science major

please internet just tell me how to make the website make pages and tell me it like i'm a baby

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

entirely too much of my css is inline and yes it's cohost's fault

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

i've only been doing web dev for like a week and there are already nine trillion things i hate about it

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

i need bottom surgery so bad it actually makes me feel sick

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

please look at my neopet.

a sad, grey cat-like neopet holding a trans flag. it is raining.

that will be all. thank you

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the thing that sucks about likes and shares is that you know when someone likes your post but doesn't share it, it means it wasn't good enough. especially if they share a lot of art

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

i love this.

it's like my own little slice of cohost. it almost makes it hurt a little less.

still undecided on whether i want to post microblog updates to the rss feed. it could end up being annoying to some, but... hmm. we'll see.

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mae bubsy profile picturemae bubsy @tealsummernights

welcome to the bit!

this is where i'll be posting my stray thoughts. stuff that's too small for a blog post, but it's still worth sharing. or maybe it's not worth sharing and i just want to! nyahahahaha.

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