About Me!

So, who am I?

I am Lemonheep, a queer nerd who is mainly a hobbyist 2D artist and aspriring system administrator, but often also a home cook and a gamer. I’ve mostly been doing small projects here and there in my free time, though I hope to get better at things like making comics, 3D art, and webdev in the future.

• Pronouns
  • She/Her (Preferred), They/Them
• Birthday
  • August 04, 2005
• HRT Date
  • March 30, 2026
• Location
  • Currently in Southern Arizona

What neat things would you share?

1. While I don’t really game too often, it’s an enjoyable time whenever I set aside the time for it. Video games reward puzzle-solving and quick thinking, plus many of their worlds are amazing to explore in.

• Some of my favorite games are:

  • Super Smash Bros. Melee

    • This is the game that has had the most influence on my gaming tastes. Its combat is surprisingly robust and all (it’s no secret why tournaments hosted on it are still one of the most popular e-sports competitions), but I’ve especially enjoyed how it was designed. The Adventure Mode is barebones now, but it was so cool exploring its expansive stages and imagining their world-building. Its music remixes are fantastic as well, as it doesn’t try to show off (unlike with most other modern remixes now) and instead just gives them a modern sound.

  • Super Mario 64

    • One of the very first games that I’ve committed to and beaten as a really young kit. I especially loved how much it encouraged exploration through its semi-open design, even with how early its design was back around 1996.

  • Pokemon Black Version 2

    • One of the first games that was gifted to me. Besides having even more exploration than Super Mario 64, the Unova region is so fun to explore, and its designs for both the trainers and Pokemon is one of the best.

  • Mario Kart 7

    • As stated before, I’m not really much of a gamer, so as a result, I’m not too good at it either (I can handle a single-player RPG or platformer more or less okay, but shooters and rhythm games fuck me hard in the ass). I was able to do fairly well in modern Mario Kart, though. I scored 1st with either two or three stars in all of its 150cc and Mirror cups, and I beat Time Trials against the staff ghosts as well. Mainly, it’s because Mario Kart is easy to begin with while still being skill-based.

  • Super Mario Galaxy

    • Another Mario game that I’ve committed to and not only beaten as a kit, but enjoyed replaying as an adult. It still has the exploration that made Super Mario 64 so fun, but it has even better controls for Mario and even better level designs that can also encourage puzzle-solving. Plus, apologies for saying something so obvious to say, but it’s beautiful. Its soundtrack is majestic, energetic, serene, silly, and grandiose all at once, and the worlds feel lived-in and diverse in their tone.

  • Portal

    • As I’ve grown up, I’ve been learning that Puzzles, while something that I haven’t really experienced besides the games on Adobe Flash, might be my favorite genre of games, honestly. I’m not the best at reaction time, but they still offer me a lot of challenge in terms of what moves I should make. Portal, while being first-person, is no different. It offers a lot about how best to utilize the various properties of portal movement, and its environment nails the science-y (????), cold feeling.

  • Tales of Symphonia

    • One of the last games I grew up with, and damn isn’t it so fun to explore the expansive worlds of Sylvarant and Tethe’alla. The dungeons are a fantastic test of one’s puzzle-solving skills, and the characters are so charming. The combat, while I’m not so great at it, is surprisingly robust as well, with a ton of stuff that I can customize and stuffs. Most importantly, it’s really fun to play with frens. They’re able to play a major part in the combat, especially when it comes to teamwork against a boss. Really, I’d just criticize the story, which is nonetheless really fun to play through but feels very illogical when one thinks about it too hard(then again, I’m not a game critic, so you might think it’s fucking horrible).

2. My main PC has been one of my absolute favorite systems ever since I’ve built it just before the end of High School. Besides feeling solid to use due to its decently powerful components and its stable Fedora installation, it carries some of my oldest digital files in it, from my quaint sketches from when I was getting into drawing to the Internet animations that have been particularly special for me against an otherwise anti-artistic world to the projects that have showed how much I want to explore and sometimes blossom into something even more permanent.

• Here are its specs for those of you who are interested:

  • CPU - Intel Core i5-10400F

    • This was a processor from the era when Intel was floundering in the market, where it was losing market share against AMD and later Apple Silicon. In my experience, though, it’s been a solid chip for its price. Besides the multitasking that I need, it handles games and 3D and video projects well.

  • CPU Cooler - Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

    • It’s not discussed so much compared to more flashy PC components, but I would recommend a CPU cooler. It’s good for providing the needed airflow with less noise than a stock cooler, and for more demanding processors, the water-cooling ones are especially important for keeping them from overheating and frying themselves.

  • Motherboard - ASRock H470M-HDV/M.2

    • It’s not a fancy board, as it doesn’t have USB-C nor overclocking. It’s cheap and works with my processor, so good enough, tho.

  • Memory - TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z (16GB (2x8GB),DDR4-3200, CL16)

    • Seriously surprised to see how cheap RAM has gotten (at the time I built my PC). Like you’re telling me that this much RAM at these good specs were just $30????
    • Would have been a good time to rant about the RAM crisis (as of writing this page), but CXMT will save us. It’s just that waiting for this kinda sucks for now.

  • Storage - Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB + Seagate BarraCuda (4TB, 5400RPM)

    • Initially, I was confused with why it focused on high-performance rather than maximizing storage, as NVMe is already hella fast enough. Still, it’s been quite reliable for my needs, and it will still be a while before I need more storage, so no problem here.
    • As for the Seagate, I don’t need that much storage, so it’ll just be a backup for my primary as well as other portable drives I have around.

  • Video Card - ASRock Challenger D (Radeon RX 6600)

    • The funny thing about it is that I haven’t really been utilizing its power too much, lol. Certainly, it’s a great card for rendering and gaming, but my hobbies are hardly something that challenges the card (indie/retro gaming, 2D art, producing shorter videos).

  • Case - Lian Li LANCOOL 205M MESH (Black)

    • It’s a case with a design that’s plain and doesn’t have much to note, but in a solid way. It’s just a good case that hadn’t made the PC building process harder than it should. Plus, it’s easy to work with whenever I need to clean up my system or upgrade a component.

  • Power Supply - EVGA (Not sure which model, Semi-Modular)

  • OS - Fedora Workstation + KDE Desktop

    • I’m surprised that I haven’t fully gotten into this distro until recently this year, but it’s helped my system feel much more responsive than before. Before this, I was using Pop OS, which only became more unstable over time, especially considering that COSMIC DE still feels unfinished and installing another DE hasn’t worked out so well on it. By contrast, Fedora feels great in terms of basic usability, and KDE offers a ton of useful customization for my needs and aesthetics.

• Here are also my favorite programs on it:

  • Krita

    • One of the most robust libre-software programs in general, it’s both customizable for various needs an artist might have for a project and solid in terms of the basics of drawing on its brushes.

  • Firefox

    • While other browsers are better in terms of their specialty (Librewolf gives you the best privacy, Zen has the most functional customizations, Chrome is perfect if you’re stupid), Firefox is a jack of all trades for me. Its profiles are perfect for managing both personal accounts and school tasks separately, plus it still has the customization I need by offering tab groups, customizable toolbars, and vertical tabs.

  • Solanum

    • I’m far from perfect when it comes to productivity, but Solanum has been a surprisingly nice tool to use. There’s a ton of Pomodoro timers that are unusable trash for some reason, but this program is just concerned with doing the basics that I need well, and this should be at least commendable.

  • Parabolic

    • Another program that does the basics well, Parabolic has been quite reliable when it comes to Internet video preservation. It’s easy to download a few videos or even an entire playlist, plus there’s still download options if I ever need to change a thing or two about it.

  • MarkText

    • It seems that editing Markdown in rich-text is just really hard (Notesnook has been seriously glitchy, as well as Jotty, and most other editors do just source code editing instead), but this editor has worked well at least for my school notes and journals. It doesn’t glitch too much, and there’s always the option of toggling Ctrl + E to edit the problematic source code if it does. Plus, its rich-text editing is helpful when working with formatting that I otherwise am unfamiliar if I worked with Markdown with just its source code.