Bowser2Queen

Yup, that time has come again where I am another year older, yet another year wiser. While things are still rough on my end in real life after my mother passed away and it left me and my family (my siblings specifically) in a financial downpour, I'd say my birthday for me this time around has less grieving coming from me. While I still very much miss my mother and still trying to adapt to the changes that came into my lifestyle, it does get a bit easier each day. I have learned how to do things I didn't know how to do previously and I feel like I am getting a better crack at being a woman of independence. I still have a lot to learn and I do wish I can take back the years I felt like I wasn't going anywhere. With that said, it's never too late and I look forward to a more positive future for me. Anyways, I know I haven't been that active on deviantArt lately but hey, I've had that "I am not gone, just less active" title under my username on my profile for a reason. Let's just say real life things have been especially more important to me lately than being as active on deviantArt like I used to be. However, I am NOT gone like I mentioned before and I do pop in once in a while to see what's going on with my pals and this website. I definitely want to post some new art on here again when things become less stressful and straightforward for me. With that said, I'd like to thank all of my loving friends and watchers for sticking around here for and with me for as long as you guys have and with all the crap that's going on with deviantArt recently, heh, I think I would have closed my account a LONG time ago, but in my heart I just can't bring myself to do it because the silver lining to all of this is the love and support I get from all of you guys. You truly give me purpose for believing in myself. A Big thank you once again for

for shedding that light in my life when I needed it the most and of course all of the rest of my friends and watchers, thank you as well! Much love to all of you and be safe! The Koopa Queen out!

Another year come and gone for me. While I am still shaky about my birthday being a month after my mother's death, I feel like over time it will become less emotionally painful for me. With that said, thank you ever so much for all of the beautiful and genuine birthday wishes from all my wonderful friends and watchers. You guys have been such a sincere following for me. I want to give a quick shoutout to one of my newest friends who is also a Bowser enthusiast much like myself. Check out aka Dexia she is a great artist and as a very fascinating perspective on Bowser and Koopa lore that really feels like it would fit in the world of Mario with her own AU. She was also nice enough to make this beautiful picture of my Yoshi OC Rosa with Bowser, I absolutely adore it!

Thank you so much dear, keep up the great work, I hope you continue to grow as an artist as well as gain a larger following here in this community because you definitely deserve it. I also wanna give a few more shoutouts to people have been totally there for me through my hardest times coping with the loss of my mother. I love you guys so much, thanks for making this rough year easier for me with your kindness, love and support. As for all my other watchers and supporters, I thank all of you guys as well, you truly give me a reason to stay here and I hope to have a refreshing year in 2022.

Hey everyone, I'm gonna keep this journal brief since I made a kinda lengthy status post in regards to Christmas and Mario Kart CHORE. Lol Anyways, I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and while I and not jumping the gun by instantly believing 2021 will be better than 2020, I can say that I am mostly positive that ANYTHING can be better than the horrible sh*t that happened to everyone that year. The biggest pain for me was definitely losing my beautiful mother and of course seeing my friends and family deal with the turmoil from COVID-19. While that virus is still not over and done with, I am at least confident that this year whenever they release the vaccine, that will be a start of a fresh yet gradual recovery for the most grueling thing we had to endure in 2020. It still baffles me how people didn't really think it was all that serious because of being in denial but honestly it's thanks to many of those defiant people we have lost so many precious lives and how careers, dreams and goals have been put on a delay or hold. Now regardless of the hell I had to put up with in 2020, I won't be completely bitter of everything that has happened considering there are some positive things that came out of it for me.

The beautiful friends that still remain a part of me life in this community, I think you so much for staying true and loving and I swear through my hardest moments, you guys gave me even more love and support than I could ever ask for and it truly felt sincere and genuine. While I appreciate all of the support I have received from my friends on deviantArt, I do wanna give a shoutout to a select few that gave me the biggest support through my hardest times dealing with 2020. Here are the awesome and wonderful pals that I can't thank enough for being there for me and being the true definition of what makes a best friend!

and every single person that sent me a heart felt comment on my journal when I first revealed my mother's tragic passing. Thank you so much and I love all of you guys. Here's to a New Year that is hopefully better than 2020. That's all I really want at this point and I don't think that is asking for too much. Lol

At long last Bowser has finally gotten a new High End (Gold Dry Bowser doesn't count lol) in Mario Kart Tour.

I have been saving my rubies just to guarantee I get him from the spotlight pipe. Now while I am satisfied I did get him and I think it was way overdue, I certainly want to see more creative ones in the future of my Koopa King. Since this is regarding Mario Kart Tour, I did want to bring up my current feelings about the game. I still feel the same in most areas where I think as a Mario Kart title it is mediocre, however there are some points I wanna bring up in regards to how it feels to play currently as well as the pros and cons of playing the game now. I will go over the pros first.

Pros:

1. The Gold pipe you get to pull after finishing all the cups in a current tour always rewards you with a high end character, kart or glider.

2. Tier and Token shops give you more desirable rewards that are often consistently better than the Daily Select rewards. The Token shop is especially good because you don't have to use any of your main in game currency like coins and rubies to purchase the prizes.

3. 2 free pulls for spot light pipes as well as special 50 pull pipes that could nail you some extra goodies if you don't wanna spend too much to empty a spotlight pipe. Still do at your own risk, you're not always guaranteed to get what you want out of the 50 pull pipes, but at least you will usually get something solid like supers and maybe a high end.

Cons:

1. If you are at a point with the game where you can actually tier down from not performing well enough in rank cups, this discourages people from taking a break from the game if they don't want to participate in a ranked cup. There should be a choice at the beginning of a Tour or ranked cup if you wanna participate in the single player ranked cup for tiering up and or prizes or you want to sit out on it and not have your current single player stats be effected. You won't be able to get any prizes from the current ranked cup however you won't be forced to tier down if you don't want to participate.

2. There are way too many Mario and Peach alts/ high ends. There needs to be more variety with alts for other characters or make first time characters playable in this game.

3. The cpus in single player mode are relentless cheaters. They tend to be more brutal in ranked cups. When the game was first released, Nintendo made the ai more fair for people since it's more difficult to play a Mario Kart game on the phone but since Nintendo has seen how people started getting used to the game's physics, they jumped up the intelligence of the cpus tenfold! 150cc prepared to be brutally murdered from the cpus! I also feel like this is a consumer practice to get people to spend more money in the game to get better characters, karts and gliders to make it "easier" for them to beat the cpus which is a disgrace! Whenever I do online multiplayer in this game, the other people I raced against would never do some of the most brutal things the cpus do! Here's some examples of how the cpus cheat in this game and I honestly believe this game has the worse ai in the Mario Kart series.

Examples:

• Persistently being more aggressive towards the human player as a team or so to speak instead of other cpus with their items such as holding them for a long time to either have the human player run into them or accurately snipe or hit them with items when they are nearby or vulnerable.

• Rubberbanding/ getting unrealistic bursts of speed to keep up with the human player. And yes they can get this speed without mushrooms or other items that give the characters speed.

• Will try to do anything to make it more difficult for the human player to keep a long combo streak going, this could be attacking the player as I said before or even following them so they can't grab coins or get bonus combo points for running into harmless objects and or obstacles.

• The cpus are usually unaffected by weight when you push them however when they push into you, it's more common to throw your off making it awkward for you to stabilize when driving.

Okay I think I pretty much said what I wanted to say about Mario Kart Tour for the most part in regards to how my experience have been with this game lately. At this point, the game feels like a total chore to play from cup grinding, ranked cup point grinding and of course ruby, coin and character grinding. This is not the type of game that is fun to play for a long time and it's recommended in short bursts. I'm getting to the point where this game has been totally draining me for trying to consistently do well in ranked cups but now that I got my Santa Bowser, I guess it was worth it. I believe in the future I will be less motivated to play this game since it really doesn't seem like Nintendo is truly adding many things to pull people in besides new characters and tracks which you can't fully enjoy because of the gacha mechanics and wonky controls. When they make it an option to use your controller to play the game, I think I'll be a little less frustrated about doing ranked cups. I think everybody will. Lol Anyways, Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas everyone! May Santa Bowser not fill your presents with coal.

While this year hasn't be the nicest to me and so many others, especially with my dear mother passing away a month ago, I am at least going to be humble about it considering I'm still alive and my time could have been over before reaching the day of my creation once again. Plus my mother would want nothing more than for me to carry on my life with the unconditional love she has given me so I can give to others. More people gotta make this world better some how and I am gonna try my best to do my part. It has been quite a journey for me on deviantArt and even though I'm not as active as I used to be on here and with the huge changes coming in my life because of my mother passing away, I feel like I am going on a even newer and bigger journey and I hope it builds me up to be a stronger, wiser, and a more humble person. I'd like to thank all of my watchers, friends and supporters for sticking by me for so long and I welcome my new ones along for the ride. In advance, I thank everyone for all the beautiful birthday wishes and gifts! While I don't see myself as someone who is a big name in terms of this art community, I certainly believe every friend and watcher I have gained passed the years have been the most passionate, sincere and loyal people I have ever met on social media. I don't have to give names because I am certain all of you know who I am talking about.

Honestly I probably would have been left this website even before Eclipse was introduced if it wasn't for you guys. You made me wanna stay because I just love you all so much. With that said, everyone stay safe and treasure your life, especially every birthday you experience because you'll never know when it will be your last~ Take care everyone and thank you!