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tulip 🌷🌙

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🌷: they/them, 30ish | trans-androgyne & queer | enthusiastic about: art, obsolete technology, and decorating myself as a form of self-expression 🖼: https://gallery.platinumtulip.net/ ✍️: https://blog.platinumtulip.net/ ☕: https://ko-fi.com/platinumtulip

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · May 29

i'm Tulip! (they/them)

i love:
💾 "obsolete" technology
🖌️ experimenting with art mediums
💄 makeup and fashion design
🌐 hobbyist web design
🐱 and cats.

site: platinumtulip.net
blog: blog.platinumtulip.net
tip jar: ko-fi.com/platinumtulip

photo: a low-resolution, pixelated selfie of Tulip. they are smiling and wearing a black choker and dark lipstick, and have dark, wavy hair.

reference sheet for an anthropomorphic cat. their name is Tulip, and they have pink and black long hair. they're wearing a black high-necked tank top, black fingerless gloves, long teal pants, and a pair of black platform lace-up boots. they're holding a cane as well.

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 11h

this is also normal. it's literally fine

playing Pokemon Pearl. half of the screen is a glitched black void.

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 16h

wafel and mobygames, together at last

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 16h

today i went for a walk. it was breezy and sunny and pleasant, and also i got to have an iced coffee with a whipped marshmallow cream on top. very decadent treat

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 16h

one of my personal "social interaction pet peeves" is when people are more interested in talking to themselves instead of having a conversation. no patience for that. i'll simply turn 180 degrees and walk away.

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 17h

TRUE!!!!!

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 18h

it's normal. don't worry about it ok

playing Pokemon Pearl and encountering a shiny Pachirisu (pink squirrel)

encountering shiny Cascoon (green cocoon creature)

encountering shiny Magikarp (gold koi fish)

encountering shiny Buizel (yellow otter lookin critter)

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 19h

i am *extremely* familiar with RNG manipulation in gen 4, so ... [coughing] [clearing my throat] i may have done some things to spice up this playthrough a little

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 20h

update: i caved. but, i don't know how long i'll commit to it. replaying this game in 2025 sort of feels like eating dry toast, one bite per minute. how did i pour hours into this back in the late 00s...?? the allure of wi-fi must be strong

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 2d

hovering ominously over a copy of Pearl, sweating nervously as i think about "Saving a lot of data..."

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 1d

in an ideal world i *would* have a super cozy CRT TV setup but i do not have the room for that lmfao. so sad

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 1d

successfully dropped off a junk CRT (it was not worth saving, trust me) and some other electronics at the electronics recycling center today. now that the busted CRT TV is out of my life, i am wondering what to put there instead. might be nice to put my old flatscreen there instead...

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 2d

even spongebob thought mario's fixation on the slime at the kids choice awards was a lil weird

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T. Ashley 🌸 Jenkins @fluttersprite.itch.io · 2d

Fondly recalling when @platinumtulip.net came to visit and I showed them Rampart at an arcade bar and they remarked "it's giving UFO 50" which is an incredibly true statement youtu.be/iHSH_v_r4uM?...

Rampart Arcade 3 player Netplay

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 2d

rest!!!!! it's annoying to rest when you wanna do stuff but it's important to ok!!!!!

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 2d

every single time you even touch Anything in your boxes, it has to "save a lot of data". i think starting in HGSS they figured out more efficient ways to handle the data but going back to DPPt is sooo... [rubs forehead]

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 2d

turns into a skeleton while waiting for the hp bar to slowly scroll down one pixel at a time

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 2d

hovering ominously over a copy of Pearl, sweating nervously as i think about "Saving a lot of data..."

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 2d

i've been REALLY in the mood to play a pokemon game but i have played gens 1-3 to death already and i played through soulsilver last year. kind of fell off my replay of bw (It's Fine I Guess) & i don't have easy access to anything past that. dare i revisit dppt for the first time in Too Many Years.

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 2d

i love items but i'm also stubborn about clutter. it makes me deeply anxious. unorganized stuff makes my brain itch like crazy and messes feel like claws digging into my skin. and i *hate* it when people make overfamiliar jokes to me about messes because i'm neurodivergent or w/e. You Don't Know Me.

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 2d

rounding up old, broken-or-barely functional electronics for recycling tomorrow. i need the space... U_U i've accumulated too much crap after thinking "well, i don't want to get rid of that yet, i could use it for [reason]..." and then Not Doing That. i just need this stuff to be outta my life

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 4d

anyway i realized that being unable to take portraits would probably limit my career options. so i crawled back to drawing... as if that had more options somehow. listen, i was only 19, i was just trying to figure out *anything* lmfao

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 4d

i had a crisis in college over my art and almost pursued photography as my "career" instead. however... i could not stomach taking portraits. i have a hard time with making eye contact, and that magnified my anxiety to an extreme level. i had hysterical sobbing fits trying to get myself to do it lol

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 4d

i am slowly reawakening my photographer brain, after it was dormant for so many years... it's been a lot of fun taking pics while i'm out and about, thinking about photo compositions and such

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 4d

kirby's adventure is so so close to my heart. it's definitely my favorite NES game - the art direction always blows me away

tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 5d

honestly i'm having a blast learning more about filesystems and hardware. i'm vibrating with excitement.

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tulip 🌷🌙 @platinumtulip.net · 5d

step 1 has been accomplished: i picked up a cheap used business PC! that'll power my home storage. however i still need to buy hard drives. i'm keeping an eye out for good deals, but it's still gonna cost me!! whoof!!!

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