Mintleaf's Post-Mortem Goatlings Blog

So, I thought I'd make a separate space to yap and post old stuff, maybe post HA Buddies I make in the multiple closet revival tools or revamped goat bios with the archived item/AD PNGs.

Anyway, uhh... Hi? I'm Mintleaf.

Vaguely Notable Things Where My User Might Seem Familiar:

Owner of "Randomness Vendor" user shop

Host of "Angel and Elmyra's Lollipop Loto" forum during the Summer Night Carnival

Designer of the Lisa Lots of Fizz and Sugar Star Boba items in the Coffee Shop

Tags:

HA Buddy posts: #ha buddies

Goatling Profile posts: #goat herd

General Chatter: #mintleaf muses

Goatlings was on the mental backburner during 2023 and 2024 so I missed Deathly Growler vs Phantom Maestro and Abyssal vs Big Bad Red because I remembered Monster Masquerade in the middle of October. Nearly forgot again for 2025, but I remembered just in time, although I did a lot of events on crunch time because the November extension made me a bit lazy with it.

Solely based on items, I think I would've picked Phantom Maestro and Big Bad Red, which would've gotten me Grimmgill, but not Phantom Growler. I didn't get many of their items post-events besides the plushies, but someone did get me Big Bad Red's AD off of my wishlist for Giving Treat Wars last Masquerade.

Only to discover that one of the caps, the one with the dangling flowers on the left, the one the HA Buddy I use as my PFP is wearing, was the one that had to get redesigned with the original Botanist for looking too much like a Hoyoverse character.

If you need an extra hint on the fictional character that (partially) inspired my PennyCandy goat, here's my first cosplay HA Bud to maybe shed some light on things

(Additional variants below cut)

First up to get the mockup treatment in Goatlings Editor is my delightful bday goat PennyCandy, or Penny for short.

Take a wild guess about what character may have mildly inspired her. Girlie has goat-autism /pos

(The Goat Editor doesn't have the birthdate editable at present, so I changed it with Inspect Element. Normally it wouldn't bother me but PennyCandy's birthdate is sacred to me.)

Bio:

Post 3/3 of my goat herd! The ones that didn't get bios but at least got a smidgen of treasure. Sens and Auburning are rehomes, though the latter was named Craftbit when I first got them.

Victuri is a Yuri on Ice reference that I managed to snag and PennyCandy was my birthday goat with one of my Dream ADs.

Post 2/3 of my Goatlings herd- the ones that I never got around to giving full bios or treasure and I will likely make mockups for them in the future. Of note, all of these, with the exception of Ravenstar and StarStriker, are rehomes! SunsetShimmers was a Discord giveaway rather than from the rehome center, but she still counts.