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EntangledPear
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We are an indie game developer couple, creating old-school games in RPG Maker, mostly as a hobby and a tribute to the games we grew up with. You can find us at https://entangledpear.itch.io/
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Mr EntangledPear was concerned about how uncomfortable it must be for the cats to lie directly on top of the radiators, so he made “perches” to be fitted on them and give more space. It was a bit of a learning curve, but our two radiator cats got the hang of it in the end 😸

#caturday #cats #pets
A photo of a small black-and-orange cat, lying with its top half on the radiator, and its bottom half on a perch fitted on the radiator, with a small towel on it to make it more comfortable. A photo of a small black-and-orange cat, lying with its top half on a perch fitted on the radiator, and its bottom half on the radiator itself. A photo of a small black-and-orange cat, finally grasping the concept of the perch and lying fully on it. She looks at the camera as if she was saying: "What? I knew this the whole time!" A photo of a radiator with a perch fitted on it. A small black-and-orange cat and a big orange British short hair cat are both lying on it, very careful not to touch each other.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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It is weird to have a Malboro pop up in a battle and NOT be the worst thing ever. I think the later Final Fantasies traumatised me with this monster (it doesn't really do much in FF2, but I seriously tensed up when I saw it for the first time).

#gaming #FinalFantasy #FF2
A photo of a TV screen, showing a battle scene of the Final Fantasy 2 game. The backdrop is dirt ground with broken up pavestones and walls overgrown with vines. On the right is the party and on the left the enemies. A cursor in the shape of a pointing hand is next to the green tentacled monster. At the bottom of the screen are two windows side by side - the left one has the names and numbers of enemies, Malboro (in green, since it's chosen by the cursor) 1, Parasite 1 and Brain 2, while the right one shows the names of the party members (Firion, Maria, Gus and Leila) and their current and maximum HP.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Having well and truly pacified the toy mouse, Mr Orange remained calm.

(And this burst of activity took no less than a whole 20 seconds 😸)

#cats #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #pets
A photo of a big orange British short hair cat, lying on his back on a carpet. His hind legs are spread, exposing his belly, while his front legs are curled up under his chin. He's lying in a sort of a C shape. Peeking from under him is a dark blue toy mouse on a string, which can be seen in the top part of the photo, ending in a plastic O. The cat looks like he's enjoying his well-deserved rest.
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Today is the birthday of an amazing lady who served as an inspiration (very loose, as usual) for a character in the game we're working on (a sequel to this one entangledpear.itch.io/fairy-tales, play it for free 😇). Do you know who she was❓

#indiegame #history #gaming #gamedev #SpittingImage
A screenshot from a retro-style role-playing game. At the top is the name of the game - The Stuff Fairy Tales Are Made Of 2. The setting is an inn, with a stone floor on which tables, chairs and sofas, some occupied by guests, are standing. There's also a pool table and on the right is the kitchen, with the innkeeper standing in the doorway. On the left is a fireplace, in front of which a blonde woman is sitting on a sofa. The party is facing her, talking to her. At the bottom of the screen is the text window, which has the character's portrait on the left - a blonde, blue-eyed, sort of innocent looking woman, and the text "I am Marie. Come, sit with me. The fire is very pleasant." occupying the rest of the window.
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Does Bluesky do #FensterFreitag? Because I have a fun photo to share 😊 Some time ago, I went to our old dirty attic to get something, and this was the view that greeted me as I was coming up the stairs. Different colour for each window 🪟

#WindowFriday #nature #autumn
A photograph taken inside a house, in the attic. It shows the front wall of the house with two big windows. The view from the right window is yellowing leaves of a linden tree growing outside, while the left window shows the dark green of a spruce tree. It's a bit like looking into two worlds from one place.
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Kitty-boo's walkies are now being supervised by Mr EntangledPear, since I'm not really in a state to be outside in the cold. He can't help but take a lot of pictures, either 😄 What do you think caught Boo's wide-eyed attention here?

#caturday #cats #CatsOfBluesky #pets
A photo of a black-and-orange cat, sitting on a well-organized heap of wood. A couple of ends of spruce tree branches can be seen at the top of the picture. The cat is in a hunched, hunting position, with her ears pricked and eyes wide open, looking slightly to the left and up. Her pink harness is lost in her fur, but the black leash ca be seen going from under her to the hand of the person holding the camera (not pictured).
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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For the last #Spooktober #FrightFriday, I present you a creepy spider 🕷️ This one - a wasp spider - had its spiderweb among the flowers in my "flower meadow" last year. I saw one there this year, too. Could it have been the same one? How long do they even live?

#spiders #CreepyCrawlies #nature
A photo of a wasp spider, hanging upside down in its web, which it bulit among flowers. There are blue and white flowers visible at the bottom of the picture, and green leaves and stalks in the rest of it. The spider has black, white and yellow stripes on its huge abdomen. Its head can't really be seen. The legs are spread, and also have stripes at the ends.
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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As they say:
A hand-drawn picture with two sections. The top one says "The Artist" in top left corner and shows a table with two cakes on it. On the right is a big elaborate one, on the left, just being put on the table by a person, is a smaller one without many decorations. The person - the artist - looks sad and says: "Aw man, that guy's cake is way better than mine." The section below shows the same two cakes on the table, with another person approaching them with cutlery in their hands. In top left corner it says "The Audience" The person, lookig happy, says "Holy shit! Two cakes!"
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🕸️ A tiny normal #spiderweb for my last #WebWednesday

Spiderweb + dew = guaranteed cool photo ☺️

#Spooktober #nature
A photo of a small spiderweb covered in tiny drops of dew, woven on grasses and narrowleaf plantains.
October 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I'm sick right now and not able to think too much, so I decided to dedicate the time when I don't sleep to mindless grinding 🎮 in Final Fantasy 1. I got to the max level (it only took 7 hours! 🥴), so I hope after almost a year, I will complete that final temple 😆

#FinalFantasy #gaming #grinding
A photo taken from the bed where I'm lying sick. In the foreground, my knees under the blanket are visible, with the Playstation 2 controller hanging over them. In the background, in focus, is the TV I play on. It shows a Final Fantasy 1 battle screen, with the enemy Evil Eye on the left and the party on the right. At the bottom is the window with info about party members, currently with the action window, giving the possibilities of Attack, Magic, Items, Equip and Flee, for the first party member open, waiting for the player's choice.
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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It's coming closer! 😱 Good thing it's almost November. Spooky stuff ends with November, right?

#Spooktober #MistyMonday #nature #mist #fog
A photo taken at sunset (so not very high quality). It shows the meadow and a small hill behind our house. A layer of mist is creeping on the ground towards the photo-taker. It's thickest near the hill further in the background, where it originates from the river, and is gradually getting thinner, with some grass peeking out from it.
October 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Feeling sick? Cat the healer to the rescue! Unleash the purr!

#cats #CatsOfBluesky #caturday #pets
A photo of an orange British short hair cat sleeping on a sick person's legs, covered by a blanket, taken by said person.
October 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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There were several of these #CreepyCrawlies in our garden this year. I think it's a cricket, only mildly creepy on my disgusto-scale. Much less than a mole cricket, which I wouldn't inflict upon you here 🤢 (warning: don't look it up)

#Spooktober #nature #insects #FrightFriday
A close-up photo of a small insect, which I assume is a ground cricket. Its whole body is completely black. It has two longish antennae on its head and two cerci - a word I learned today - coming out of its butt (it's like antennae, but shorter). It doesn't have any wings. A couple of spruce needles, looking really huge (the insect is as long as one of the needles), are around it, giving an idea of the scale.
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Appropriate reading for the spooky season. 🕷️

#Spooktober #reading #books #DavidWong
A photo of the cover of David Wong's This Book Is Full Of Spiders. It has a red background, on which there are several spiders, made up of paper with text printed on it. The middle of the cover looks like it has a progressively bigger hole in it, maybe made by the spiders coming out, or a bullet (I haven't finished reading yet, so I can't tell which is more likely). Besides the title of the book and the author's name, there's also text saying "Seriously dude, DON'T TOUCH IT" and at the bottom "The Sequel to John Dies At The End"
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Weird web-like structures in an autumn morning forest. It must be a seasonal thing, since we've never seen them there before. And they were everywhere! 🕸️

If anyone knows what they were made by, let us know! (Unless it's something too terrible, then don't.)

#Spooktober #WebWedneday #nature #creepy
A photo taken in a forest. It shows the ground, covered in old dry leaves and fallen branches (there was a gale not too long before). Among these, there are quadrangles of thick spiderweb-like material, attached to the debris. There are around thirty of them in this picture alone. A close-up of the webs. It seems there might be several layers making up the structures, together making them seem thick. There's a bonus "normal" spiderweb in the middle. Apart from the webs, there are branches, twigs, dry leaves, and a patch of moss on the ground.
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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In the spirit of the spooky 🎃 month, here are some eerie locations from our game. If you'd like to see more of them while having fun saving the kingdom, go to entangledpear.itch.io/fairy-tales and download the game for free.

#Spooktober #gaming #indiegame #indiedev #freegame
A screenshot from a retro-style role-playing game. The name of the game - The Stuff Fairy Tales Are Made Of - is at the top. In the middle, there is the main character, Paul, in a circle of light, which slowly fades into dark surroundings. The setting is a scary dark forest, with twisted vines and dried up trees. A crow is sitting on a branch of the tree Paul is standing near. A screenshot from a retro-style role-playing game. The name of the game - The Stuff Fairy Tales Are Made Of - is at the top. The party, Paul and Adele, are standing in a dark basement, partially illuminated by lamps on the walls. The room they've just entered has bookcases, parchments, various chemical equipment, and a hexagram on the floor. At the bottom of the picture is a text window with Adele's portrait and the text: "Can you say 'sinister'?" A screenshot from a retro-style role-playing game. The name of the game - The Stuff Fairy Tales Are Made Of - is at the top. The main character, Paul, wearing a dark helmet and what looks like armour, is standing in a cave corridor, in the middle of a circle of light, which becomes progressively darker as it goes further from Paul. Next to him is a skeleton lying on the cave floor. A text window at the bottom of the screenshot says: "Looks like this poor person got trapped here. There seems to be something beneath the bones. Will you search the skeleton?" A smaller window on the right just above the text window gives the choices "Yes" or "No". A screenshot from a retro-style role-playing game. The name of the game - The Stuff Fairy Tales Are Made Of - is at the top. It shows a small grassy hill, in the middle of which a big old tree is standing. A noose is hanging from one of the lower branches, which a crow is sitting on. There are woody roots coming out of the ground, some thorny vines, and also some harmless bunches of grass. Near the exit from this map there is a small firepit. Paul and Adele, the party members, are standing in front of the tree.
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Misty forest. Taken some time ago when we were mushroom hunting.

#Spooktober #MistyMonday #spooky #forest #nature
A photo taken in a forest. The trees in this part are all deciduous, and there were still some green leaves, rather vibrant-looking in the prevalent brownish-grey palette, on some branches at the time the picture was taken. The trees in the foreground can be seen clearly, but further into the background they are less and less visible in the mist. The mist is not very thick, and it looks sort of delicate. The ground is covered in brown fallen leaves of the previous seasons, and an occasional mossy patch.
October 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Caught red-pawed! And we kept wondering why our heating bill was so high 😳

#caturday #cats #CatsOfBluesky #pets
A photo of a small black-and-orange cat lying on the radiator. Most of her body is covered by the curtain, only her head and front paw are visible. The paw is resting on the thermostatic valve used to determine what temperature the radiator will heat to. The cat looks startled, as if she was caught doing something forbidden.
October 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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🦇 This one really gave me a bit of a fright, even though I was looking for it – we didn't want to trap it in the cellar which we close up for colder months. Look at those little feetsies 🥹 How did it even get a grip on the brick?

#FrightFriday #bat #nature #CreepyButCute #Spooktober
A photo taken in a dark cellar, with a flash, which explains the low quality of the picture. It shows the ceiling arch and the opening between two cellar rooms, with a support wooden beam. A small black bat is hanging from the brick arch above the beam. Its body is wrapped in its wings. The toes are spread out and holding onto the brick somehow.
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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A perfect scaffolding for a spiderweb ☺️

#Spooktober #WebWednesday #spiderweb #nature
A photo taken outside on a foggy day. The focus of the picture is a dried remnant of a plant, with branching out flower stalks with what are probably seed pods that remained from the flowers at the ends. The plant serves as a convenient scaffolding for a spiderweb, which is anchored to the ends of the stalks. In the background more plants, grasses, bushes, and at the back trees, are visible.
October 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Behold a giant sunflower! With banana for scale. This one is from the same seeds I used last year, in a different spot, and those grew to be taller than I am (and I am not the size of a banana). Something must be really wrong with the soil where I put this one.

#sunflower #gardening #nature
A photo of a sunflower, which is really small, with the flower itself just opening. Next to it is a hand holding a standard banana, to show that it really is that small and it's not just perspective or something. The banana and the sunflower are almost the same size.
October 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Another eerie misty photo. This one was taken early in the morning, on the way to do some mushroom hunting in the forest. Everything was milky and very quiet...

#Spooktober #MistyMonday #creepy #nature
A photo taken outside, on a path on the edge of the village. The path is visible on the left of the picture. To the left of it is artificially raised ground, a flood prevention measure (further to the left is the river, not visible in the photo). To the right is a meadow and a few trees. At the bottom of the photo, the grass and other plants still have quite vibrant colours, but further on, the mist subdues them. Silhouettes of trees can be seen in the background, and the mist swallows everything else - there is no indication where the sky might begin, it is all just uniform milky white.
October 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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One of our elderly gentlemen had a bit of meds interaction problem this week – scared us a lot, but got better quite fast (he's off the offending meds now). Here he is, basking in the sunshine. Who cares that the ground is hard and cold 🙄🐱

#caturday #cats #CatsOfBluesky #pets
A photo of a grey British short hair cat, lying down next to the base of a cat tree. He's mostly lying on the cardboard that we put under the cat tree base so it doesn't get damaged, but one of his hind legs, his butt and tail are on the cold concrete floor. Almost all of his body, excluding half of his tail, is right in the light rectangle created by the sunshine coming in through the window. He's sort of looking over his shoulder at the camera, with a frowny "don't you judge me" look.
October 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Another creepy-crawly for #Spooktober - brought inside on the rim of a bucket I used for weeds. Honestly, I can't decide if it's creepy or beautiful 🤔 If you know what exactly it is, let me know.

#CreepyCrawlies #FrightFriday #nature
A close-up photo of a caterpillar sitting on the rim of a white bucket. It is black, with red spots out of which thin bristles come out. More thick bristles can be seen on top of it. There are four of them and they are short and yellow. On what I assume is its head, it has two longer black-and-white bristles. On its butt, there is another thicker set of long bristles, which looks like a tail.
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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A different kind of spiderweb – spotted on our juniper tree (two angles provided for your viewing pleasure).

#Spooktober #WebWednesday #spiderweb #nature #creepy
A photo of a section of a juniper tree. Approximately in the middle of the picture, there's a spiderweb, but not the popular type, but thicker, looking more like a delicate veil than a net. This picture was taken slightly from above the spiderweb. A photo of the same section of the juniper tree. This time the spiderweb is photographed from the side, showing threads that create the layers of the web.
October 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM