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  • stephaniepixie 🏳️‍🌈stephaniepixie
    Nov 6, 2026, 11:36 PM

    My mother is more curious than my cat so when my art posters came in the mail she waited to see what it was (as she always does with absolutely anything I get in the mail 😅) and when I showed her the one I named “Naoe’s Forest” (as shown in previous post) she said “you can paint that?”
    I’ve been doing detailed art since I was a kid. She knows I’m an artist. I even gave her a calendar of some of my art last year, but my parents are as interested in art as they are in sports - which is to say not at all - so I don’t usually show them what I make.
    Until I joined the Fediverse I never shared my art with anyone, but I love looking at other people’s art so I figure some people might like looking at my art too.
    I nearly laughed at my mom’s surprise at my ability to create something. Do you even know your own daughter?
    Sometimes I see why I was a loner from a young age. I never made friends with other artists until I met some artists online in recent years.

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  • stephaniepixie 🏳️‍🌈stephaniepixie
    Nov 3, 2026, 10:16 PM

    @30yrdscreamer Is this a rhetorical question about the game I’ve been raving about for months? 😄

    I love AC Shadows. My favourite edition of the AC franchise. It fits my style of playing games really well. A perfect balance of quiet nature time (including finding animals to paint), social interaction (chatting with allies at the hideout), being able to accessorize and design the layout of the hideout (one of my favourite parts of the game I can get lost in for hours), adopt adorable animals, fantastic climbing mechanics (has a mixture of the old rooftop parkour without compromising on open world - which is quite large and lets you go off-grid), excellent combat (if you like the Odyssey warrior style you can focus on Yasuke, but Naoe is more the classic assassin type shinobi), the best accessibility options I’ve seen in the franchise, great music, and improved horseback riding so it’s nearly on par with Red Dead Redemption 2.

    I’m on my second play through and having just as much fun.

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  • 30YrdScreamer30yrdscreamer@mastodon.me.uk
    Nov 11, 2026, 10:23 AM

    @stephaniepixie your enthusiasm convinced me to buy the game. Just finished the first major boss fight and I'm enjoying it a lot so far.
    Runs really smooth maxed out on my pc and looks gorgeous.

    👍

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  • stephaniepixie 🏳️‍🌈stephaniepixie
    Nov 11, 2026, 5:51 PM

    @30yrdscreamer It really is a beautiful game. I’m glad you like it. I play on console and I had been so used to Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Sims taking ages to load but I treated myself to a PS5 this year and games are so fast now I don’t have time for a snack 😄

    I actually hate big boss style of fighter games and AC Odyssey had a lot of that and I still loved the game.
    Shadows somehow doesn’t feel as big boss style even though there’s so many branches of clan bosses. I like that I can still sneak up on most of them and if there’s a lot of fighting I just use Yasuke.

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  • stephaniepixie 🏳️‍🌈stephaniepixie
    Nov 9, 2026, 6:51 PM

    @azaliz For the most part my mom means well. She’s just a bit clueless at times. Part of me thinks it’s part of her survival mode.

    She blocks out a lot. It allows her to endure my dad and any other stresses. But it also means it blocks out some of the good stuff, like her own daughter.

    Living with my parents as an adult has brought a lot of clarity about why I felt the way I did as a kid. I used to feel anger about a lot of it without knowing why exactly, but I find I mostly have understanding now.
    It’s made me feel more compassion for the child version of me and also has allowed me to see more of the human side of my mom.
    Interestingly, it hasn’t changed my view of my dad. Tyrants are inadvertently transparent and don’t change much. I now realize my view of him as a kid was really accurate and it’s been affirming to know the kid me was right and her reactions to her environment was very valid.

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  • Azalizazaliz@eldritch.cafe
    Nov 9, 2026, 8:19 PM

    @stephaniepixie oooof. Yeah , glad you can' ca have an adult/objective view on them now, abf understand more of your childhood.

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