Let’s get weird
Hello! Welcome to MonsterBrainSoup. I’m Lukas, and this is my corner of the internet to talk about things that matter to me and share my art and creations.
I want to use this space to talk about alternative identities, self-expression, and ways to live in this world happily and healthily while still finding ways to be who you really want to be, even while that changes and evolves with you.…
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Favorite “Dragon City” Dragons
Last modified: October 21st, 2021
Dragon City is a popular mobile phone game that features most of the classic tropes: resource collecting, daily login bonuses, cooldown times, crafting times, and of course, tons of micro-transactions to speed all of those things up.
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Favorite “Dragon Cave” Dragons
Last modified: October 19th, 2021
Dragon Cave (dragcave.net) is one of only a few remaining “clickable adoptables” websites.
Back in the mid-2000’s on internet forums, you could customize a signature, which was attached to the bottom of every post and reply you made.
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Are Dragons Monsters?
Short answer: yes.
Longer answer: yeah, I think so, kinda, for the most part, depending on context…
Really long answer….
In the context of general human collective unconscious, dragons are the ultimate manifestation of a predator. With the traits of a big cat, bird of prey, crocodilian, and snake, they combine qualities of apex predators across biomes.…
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Let’s Talk About Animal Identity
Last modified: September 15th, 2021
“What animal are you?”
It was a question I asked newfound friends and acquaintances in my early childhood. In my mind, everyone was both human and something else at the same time.
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Favorite “Well of Souls” Monsters
Last modified: September 14th, 2021
Well of Souls is a free-to-play fantasy RPG game that was launched in 1998 and tremendously popular with my gradeschool self and friends. It was the first ever indie-developed MMORPG – in order to play online with other players, someone had to be hosting the session on their own home computer using the creator’s own software called MIX.
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Flight Rising Dragon Species Review – UPDATED
Last modified: November 18th, 2021
Flight Rising is a browser-based game in which you raise, breed, and battle dragons. There are currently 14 17 species of dragons, with different art for the baby, male, and female versions.
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Spotlight on “Scaler: The Shape-Shifting Chameleon”
Last modified: June 15th, 2021
Scaler is a PS2-era game that a grand total of 3 people have ever heard of.
I’m being sarcastic, but seriously, this game did not get a lot of traction.
I acquired a copy by pure and complete accident – I joined a video game trading website, in which you send in your old games for points, and then exchange your points for other people’s used games.
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Spotlight on “Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy”
Last modified: June 25th, 2021
Behold, one of many semi-forgotten treasures from the PlayStation 2. Allow me to share with you this strange, quirky game that honestly didn’t do very well commercially, but which that deeply influenced and inspired me throughout my childhood with stunning visuals, clever design, and a completely unique aesthetic that was far more creative than many other things out there.
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Favorite Gen 7 Pokémon
Last modified: February 24th, 2021
This was an INCREDIBLY innovative generation of Pokémon. The introduction of the Ultra Beasts as extra-dimensional ‘Mon that were often frightening and bizarre was huge.
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