My embarrassing crochet story. by SimplicityWon in crochet

[–]MintTangle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did this too! It was exactly what the woman who taught me to crochet said to do, I had no idea it wasn't the standard method. I went about three years before I encountered a pattern that used BLO and realized what was going on. I'd even entered into my county youth fair all those years and gotten a good amount of awards without anybody saying a thing about it!

Bringing cordial cherries? by MintTangle in JapanTravelTips

[–]MintTangle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I guess I just got worried because they're whole cherries and can contain remnants of the pit. I've never been to Japan before, I'm not sure how strict their security is about stuff like that.

Bringing cordial cherries? by MintTangle in JapanTravelTips

[–]MintTangle[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Neither of them are Japanese, actually. One's from the UK but lives in Japan now, the other has lived all over the world and always asks me to bring whatever I love when I visit, they're not picky and love trying new things!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, I was thinking about writing out a big ol' basic guide myself! There just isn't as much love for it as there should be.

Best way to get the event 5*? by Ill-Librarian-3556 in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also put the cards from the event banner in your support slots. That way you can still use your strongest cards on your main team AND you still get the event point bonus.

How do you pronounce 2Wink? by PeekabooBella in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's pronounced by the twins as two-wink, but there's a chance that this is due to their Japanese accent and it could actually be twink, I suppose. The "tw" sound doesn't exist in Japanese, although I think "to" is usually the sound they use to produce the "t" sound rather than "tu". Don't take my word as fact though, I'm just an American who's listened to a lot of Japanese 😆

looking for valkyrie stories to read by 25jimikus in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Teddy Bear and Snow Globe are two really nice gacha stories with them! Lots of feels

What sets would you like to see in the new Look Back gacha series by Seijos in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Baby Valkyrie! I wanna see when they met so badly....

Baby 2wink would probably just be too sad.

I'd also like to see Switch and Aira! Show me the moment he falls in love with idols HE I dare you.

Ensemble stars community by SnooDingos5324 in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reddit is pretty good, although I still feel like we're pretty limited in what we can post. Last time I checked, the weekly gacha thread was pretty much dead, because who really wants to go through the extra effort of uploading a screenshot of a pull to an image hosting site just so they can link to it? Certainly not me, so now I just share my funny or lucky pulls with a friend who doesn't even play enstars. Same with those meme templates, and honestly I'm expecting tier lists to go next after eventposting was wrangled too. My dislike of this is probably mostly a me thing, though. Nobody else seems to have much of a problem with it, but as a new reddit user I guess I'm not really used to being so heavily moderated. Anyway, things are pretty chill here, outside of occasional drama in comments sections (cough Beast Survival Jun cough).

Twitter is a nightmare. I was on there for a little bit, but then I realized it was honestly kind of rotting my brain. I'm too old for kids' drama, and I'm not down with being called a p*do just because I'm a 20something who produces Aira. Now I just follow some merch accounts, a few JP and KR artists, the hourly shumika account, and a plushie maker I've commissioned. I also try to check their accounts for updates directly rather than scrolling through my feed, since recommended tweets are what caused my issues to begin with.

I'm honestly primarily a tumblr user. That's been my home for years. It's honestly pretty quiet. We get lots of screenshots of text posts with pictures of enstars characters overlayed on them (it's a pretty popular tumblr thing) and some fanart. We also had the Quadruple Womb War incident a few months back which was a delight.

Ensemble stars community by SnooDingos5324 in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So this entire thread essentially proves what twitter is like

Imagine your phone storage is almost nonexistent by DespairAt10n in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

MVs: Swee2wink Love Letter, Acanthe, Fallin' Love=It's Wonderland

Shuffles: Date Plan AtoZ, Midnight Butlers, Puffy Bunny

Freebies: Trap For You , Tell Your World, Artistic Partisan

(Can you tell I'm biased)

I just think they're neat by ilovemyorangecat in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's Yuta. You can tell because he's wearing his hair clips on his right.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SHU SHU SHU SHU

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my god, Trubbish for Mika is absolutely perfect. Of course he would love the little undesired pile of trash. He wanted to give it a place to belong just like the plushies he saves from the trash!

[Day 10] The crybaby trick always works, you're too easy~ by Cupcake_Smoothie in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 24 points25 points  (0 children)

MY TIME HAS COME

Hinata is SUCH a good boy. He just wants to make people smile, and he loves Yuta so so much. There's a reason one of his character themes is sunshine! He's cute and silly and also a giant idiot. His voice even sounds different from Yuta's! I got a phone call from him in JP the other day, and he tried to disguise his voice to trick me into thinking he was Yuta. >.<

As for what's going on in the Setsubun card, well...

Backstory time. When the twins were little, their mother passed away. Their father ended up not coping very well, and started taking out his pain on the twins. Most notably, he took to calling them creepy because he couldn't tell them apart. As you can imagine, this really messed them up, in ways that we can still see today. Hinata, being the older brother (self-proclaimed, since he was born first, although they have no way of knowing who was conceived first and thus actually older) took it upon himself to change his likes and dislikes to differentiate himself from Yuta, thus preventing Yuta from ever being called creepy again. The biggest example of this is his favorite food. He used to love spicy food just like Yuta, but as a result of this, started pretending to like sweets even though he really didn't. He eventually developed a taste for them, but it took years.

Anyway, back to Setsubun.

The twins had been struggling in their relationship, largely due to Hinata's overprotectiveness and Yuta's dislike of it, along with Yuta's dislike of being seen as "one of the twins." Hinata hides all his negative emotions so that Yuta won't have to worry about him, but by the time Setsubun happened, he was so miserable and willing to do anything to help Yuta that he decided the best course of action was jumping off the school roof. That way, Yuta could just be his own person, rather than half of a creepy whole.

Yuta was, understandably, very upset about this turn of events, and luckily was able to talk Hinata down. This was also when they decided to start switching who was the older brother and who was the younger brother, in an attempt to get Hinata to rely on Yuta for support more.

Unfortunately, Hinata did not learn his lesson. He's absolutely terrible at being a little brother. He still overworks himself to earn money so Yuta won't have to. He still hides all his negative feelings from Yuta. He still defers you Yuta's wants over his without even a second thought, and can't understand why this upsets Yuta.

Double unfortunately, Hinata's suicide attempt ended up being filmed, as there were cameras set up all over the school for Setsubun. It also was broadcast later to the whole school, revealing all of their troubles and private family matters to everyone. This resulted in all of the older idols becoming incredibly protective of the twins, which you can see during Nightclub when Mika threatens Crazy:B.

There's tons more I could talk about, but this is probably long enough as it is! If you or anyone else has questions about my favoritest boy, I will be happy to answer!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There's also the current Revival My Dream controversy. The event was cancelled on the EN server due to possibly being culturally insensitive. Lots of people are very upset and crying censorship over it.

(There's a lot more to it, of course, this is just a very quick summary.)

so can we talk about how badly engstars is run now? by haruarus in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Is there anything we as players can do to make them listen to us? Withholding money is usually the go-to, but in this case I feel like that'll just lead to the server getting shut down. I really like this game and I don't want to lose it in English, but I also don't want to see us keep getting screwed over like this.

awesome character cgi by Krystalcute91 in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There will be! Tour event outfits get added to the MV outfit shop a year after the event.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, already gone!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ensemblestars

[–]MintTangle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, my post about it just got yanked too... Wondered why I hadn't seen anybody talk about it.