#too many other sims to tag frankly

[sparepartsbacc]

#ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 bacc #build a city challenge #bacc #ts4 bacc #spare parts bacc #no legacy nation bacc #bacc y4 #deanna norwood #emil bellamy #too many other sims to tag frankly

[lorwolf-salt]

Okay, Coop7011 here, SaltyLoria staff, ignore my first post. Weird vore person here (she for those who don't know), not sure if I should be doing this but I figured it's better that people hear from me instead of talking about me and making things up, plus whatever the frick happened in that thread. Keep in mind all of this (besides the thread issue yesterday) happened months ago. And it started in that thread yesterday because I merely said something along the lines of 'I am not in the official Lorwolf Discord for private reasons, and never will be' and random curseword guy got butthurt about that for some reason, even though it's against the rules to discuss moderator actions. I don't know who he is, but I can only assume it was just a guy who really hates vore. And I suspect a lot of people here also hate vore, and that's fine. I just hope some of you can see past that hate and see the truth of what really happened.

Yes, I was banned from the discord, but not because I 'wanted to show little kids NSFW'. Keep in mind that while I was ON the server, my username was not Wholesome Vore Writer, it was Coop7011, the same as it was on the website. You would only see Wholesome Vore Writer if you DMed me. At the time, I did not have Nitro, so when the staff asked me to remove the link to my Ao3 (that nobody has to click, nobody is forced to read, and has warnings and tags everywhere about the content of the stories) then I'd be changing it for every single discord server I was in. They were also forcing me to change my base username, and not just my nickname on the discord server (which was Coop7011 anyway). I felt this was unreasonable, but changed it for a time so I could conclude some trade deals on the discord server. Then, after some time, I admit that I got salty about the staff of one discord server (LW) forcing me to change so much on an account that I use for so many other things. So I changed it back. Things were fine for awhile (because that's how unnoticeable it is, unless someone snoops through my profile or DMs me) but then eventually I was banned without word. I don't agree with this choice, but I've long since accepted it as a fact that I didn't heed to their requests/went back on it and thus they had their right to get rid of me. I didn't care that much as long as I was able to play on Lorwolf itself. Keep in mind that no word of my writing is on the server or the website, all of this is about my base Discord username (hidden since I set my nickname on server to be my Lorwolf username) and a link to my stories on my discord profile. Personally, I also don't agree with calling my work NSFW, as they are not sexual and I don't write them with sexual intent. They are emotional comfort stories to cope with trauma, where no one is harmed (yes vore is people being swallowed, but they're safe in my work). I won't get into too much detail about this, because frankly, I don't think it should matter what I write about off-website. It's not using Lorwolf characters and it's not being posted directly on Lorwolf anything. This is the most I've ever talked about it in a semi public space about this pet sim game. So there you go, that's what happened. And I am deeply sorry to VNX for what happened to the thread, I purposely didn't take part in discussing back and forth because I knew it would go nowhere and would just result in countless removed posts, but I guess someone else did argue about it.

#lw forums #long post #lw discord

[kawaiijohn]

I've been working on making as many danny phantom locations and sim families as possible, and with my upload of Fenton Works, I feel comfortable enough sharing the few builds/fills I've done for houses.

My Simmer account/ID tag is 'DantePhante' and you can find me pretty easily through some of the tags I frequent.

Alright so here goes!

Locations:

Fenton Works

Completely built from scratch over like the last 6 months. Includes a fully furnished lab, Fenton Stockades, and weapons vault. Only CC is photos I took in game of a few of the sims and slapped on the walls. I will be uploading these guys after fucking Danny over and making him a vampire later lmao.

Manson Residence

This was a shell of a townhouse I decorated fully and uploaded with a TON of clutter in Sam's room, a fully decked out movie and bowling alley in the basement too. Check it out, I'm proud of it!

Unfortunately, the houses I used for the Foleys and Westons were not shells, and I don't feel comfortable uploading them with my edits. I may do it for a short time if requested, but I know there's a big stink about reuploading people's builds without permission. I believe the Foleys are in a lot that's a row of townhouses and the Westons are in a split level suburban.



Families

Manson Family: Ida, Jeremy, Pamela, and Sam. I think these ones might have the extra traits and skills, but I don't remember. I actually used the genetics system to make Jeremy and Sam look like their parents. Also, I think Sam is trans in this? I can't remember.

Foley Family: Angela, Maurice, and Tucker. I redesigned Angela A LOT from her canon because it was dated and frankly, it needed done. She's I believe nurse profession if I uploaded after playing in game.

Walker Family: Alicia, Flynn, and Danielle (Ellie). Listen, you can pry this headcanon from my cold half dead hands, but I see Flynn as being Alicia's son. Kinda yanked the design for him from Stove's swaggie redesign. I also love the idea of Ellie having a family in the form of Alicia so she can truly be Danny's cousin. She's a vampire, but I don't remember if I gave her the sun resistance trait yet for this upload.

Also! It says there's CC, but it's because I have a 'fangs for everyone' mod installed that messes with all my vampire and mermaid sims, so you don't need mods for them. I recommend slapping them in Henford on Baggley on an off the grid challenge lot.

Weson Family: Walter, Nora, Easton, Kyle, and Wes. I have 2 versions of this family uploaded bc my headcanon is that Nora died in a tragic occult (cowplant) accident. But feel free to yoink whichever version you like! I believe Kyle's trans in this :)

Other Families I'm working on:

Vlad is made, I'm working on his house before I upload him, same with the Fenons- Danny needs a bit of tweaking. I plan on making Paulina, Valerie, and Dash's families, as well as Kwan, Mr. Lancer, Star. Clockwork is on my to do list, as are Ember and a few other humanoid ghosts, and now that werewolves are out Frostbite and Wulf.

If you want full versions of families uploaded with relationship tags (like Danny and Ellie being siblings/Alicia and Flynn being related, let me know! I can do variations!)

I also have INCREDIBLY old/dated miraculous ladybug Sims and some BNHA families uploaded, as well as fun random families. Make sure to 'include custom content' while browsing my gallery. Comment if you see something you like!

Happy simming!

#danny phantom #dp #sims #ts4 #the sims 4 #dantes vibe corner #pls rb this

[myheartsims]

Check In Tag ✔️

I was tagged by @berryconfetti for this, thanks for the tag!

Why did you choose your url?

I've been using variations of MyHeart(Blank) since I was 12 and made my YouTube account so when I wanted to make a Sims blog I just took that thought process and ran with it.

Any side blogs? If you have them name them and why you have them.

@myheartsstories - intended for me to post stories on, but it ended up being more 'Kim plays a challenge, takes screenshots and posts them over there' while MyHeartSims became more my cc finds blog

@myheartshistory - one I haven't posted on in a bit, but it was me making a story out of the History Challenge with Berry Sims

@berrygameplay - I'm one of the members of said blog

How long have you been on tumblr?

Uuuuh good question, I have no idea. I was on tumblr before I joined with a simblr blog but I didn't really keep track. I know I was still in high school when I joined though so probably about 10 years ago? And then I joined Simblr about a year, year and a half ago.

Do you have a queue tag?

On this blog I rarely queue and on MyHeartsStories and MyHeartsHistory everything is queued so no queue tag around

Why did you start your blog in the first place?

I started getting more and more involved in the Sims community and it felt weird doing that when I was fandom posting on my old account (I don't even use that account anymore) so I created a new blog just for Sims

Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

It's my Simself with the colors behind it that I've used in my Tumblr theme

Why did you choose your header?

I choose this banner because it's the first build I ever felt proud of. It's a recreation of the castle/lake in Princess and the Swan Lake (the animated movie) with Odette and Prince Derek in the front. I absolutely loved recreating it and I think it fits me too, as I love fairy tales haha. I also didn't want the same banner as I used on my other side blog (MyHeartsHistory doesn't even have a banner)

What’s your post with the most notes?

I think it's the post for when I fixed either the Luumia default skin or the Waterlillies default skin when those broke (before the creators fixed them themselves, which happened several months later I believe), but part of those notes were already on the post as I reblogged the original posts... (Funnily enough people still download my fixes when the original creators have also posted fixes at this point). For an original post, I'm not sure, probably my Swan Lake Castle build download.

How many mutuals do you have?

I don't really know quite frankly. I know of a few, as they're people I'd consider friends from discord, but that's probably not all of them

How many followers do you have?

Ehh not that many and I don't really mind either. I think it's nearing 200 followers? But there may be some bots in there as well. I try to delete those when I notice them but I don't really pay attention. I'm not super active on here anyway and mostly use it to reblog cc I want to find back later

How many people do you follow?

Just over 200, mostly Sims blogs that post cc and people's who's stories I like!

Have you ever made a shitpost?

I don't even know what qualifies as a shitpost haha

How often do you use tumblr each day?

I check pretty regulary each day, as long as I'm home. Barely use the app so I do have to be on my laptop to check

Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

I don't think I've had a fight on here before?

How do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

I thankfully, somehow, don't see too many of those, and I don't think I've really ever reblogged any of them. I just ignore them

Do you like tag games?

Depends on the specific tag game. I rarely get tagged in them anyway haha

Do you like ask games?

I like getting asks with questions so I sometimes reblog them and I do try to send people asks when I see they've reblogged it, but I rarely actually then get asks so

Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

What counts as Tumblr famous? I don't really know haha

Do you have a crush on a mutual?

Nope

Tagging @nynsimmer, @simhurricane, @sweetlysimss and @frolickinggnomes, but y'all should only do this if you actually want to do it!

#tag game #answering some questions about my blog

[storiesbyjes2g]

 I can’t stay mad at them long. They’re too precious. My child is just so happy and carefree, always complimenting my meals. Winston too, actually. Maybe she learned it from watching him. This entire trip has been eye opening. Outside of our debates, Winston isn’t too chatty. I always assumed he was just quiet. I so enjoyed talking to him this week and watching his eyes light up. I even learned a few things about him. It’s funny. I went into this vacation trying to find the sim who showed up at my door that night and ended up meeting a completely different sim. I like this new guy. Well, I shouldn’t say new because he’s always been the same; I failed to see him. He’s interesting. Kinda weird. But we’re all a little weird in our own ways, amiright?

On this Harvestfest, I am thankful for him. We’ve had our ups and downs, the downs being especially maddening, but he’s still my guy and I love him. I’ve misunderstood him, made many assumptions and even more demands of him. But through all of that, he’s still here, loving on me and our daughter. He’s patient, and I appreciate that. I need that. He’s got his reasons for not wanting to marry me, and I need to respect it because clearly it’s something he needs to work through, get over, or whatever. He loves me in his own way, and his way doesn’t have to be my way. Frankly, I should take time to dig deep and figure out why this is so important to me outside of tradition. Maybe there’s something I need to work through. No matter what happens, no matter what he decides or doesn’t decide, I will strive to be content with what is instead of trying to make my life mirror some fantasy because chasing waterfalls has only made me miserable. He’s an old man now, and I want us to live harmoniously in the time we have left because Watcher knows when he’s gone I’ll be a hot mess. 

(commentary under the cut)

I started to put this in the tags, but it got way too long. You guys... I don’t know WHO this sim is that showed up at the cabin, but can we make sure the other guy stays gone?? It’s almost like he felt the pressure from all of us and knew he had to shape up or else lol. I know Amina has many hangups, and she is just as guilty as he, but let me talk about Winston the sim real quick because he is the reason I’ve taken the story in this direction. 

This sim... (sigh) Lemme tell you...he definitely puts the DOLT in aDOLTing that’s for sure! This challenge is fun, but oh so frustrating. To remind you, I can’t control him. Or Emmy. Only Amina. As far as autonomy goes, he is the worst of the worst lol. I’ve had sims in the past that I often left autonomous. Some were wonderful, and some I wanted to hurt (looking at you, Penny Pizzazz lol). Winston definitely falls in the want to hurt category. I know some of you think it’s hilarious (and frustrating) that Amina was surprised that he talked so much, but guys...the sim literally almost never talks to her. He stands around until his bladder almost bursts, dances with Emmy (now that’s cute), sleeps by the pool, plays his guitar, and occasionally does a chore. Literally everything except act like a sim in a serious relationship. Amina, on the other hand is a boss for real for real. She is ALWAYS grinding. When I leave her alone, the girl is about her business, interviewing sims, writing articles, and recording style guides. Frustration aside, though, I really do love how our sims are not cookie cutter. Much like own children, we never know how our sims will turn out.

Anyway...let’s get back on track. Amina and Winston really did feel more like roommates. But Vacation Winston was great! This was the first time I felt like they were an actual family. He literally talked to Amina the entire time. Wherever she was, he came and chatted her up. He did most of the chores, was very affectionate toward her and initiated ALL the woohoo (much to the child’s dismay lol), kept Emmy entertained, and all the things I expected him to do as a member of the family lol. I was just as surprised as Amina, and I can’t wait for you guys to see if this behavior remained after they returned home. Their journey toward getting on the same page will be long, and they have much to discuss and learn. But I’m liking the direction they’re headed.

#ISBI challenge #ts4 story #sims 4 story #ts4 gameplay #sims 4 gameplay #sims stories #adolting #Amina Pope #Winston Crenshaw #Emerald Pope #adolting gen 1

[scammydoesstuff]

So let's talk Resident Evil 8 DLC…

I know I don’t really dip my toe into the RE tag, like…at all (except to post some sub-par fanart), but I had a brilliant idea last night that would not only make Capcom so much money but it’d really give the fans what they’re looking for in the DLC.

So, like, we all definitely want more Lady D since she was in so little of the game — we want more Lords in general, frankly, but I know a lot of folks are focused on her for…reasons. Many of us (myself included) want to team up with Daddy Heisenberg to take down Miranda. And many of us would probably just want a pacifist run version where you don’t kill anybody, save for the zombies (since…they’re…already dead, so does it really count?) and Miranda (since she’s pretty much irredeemable) because we love our Lords and killing them didn’t feel satisfying because they didn’t do much to warrant it.

But I submit to you, dear Capcom, that I have the perfect DLC idea that I’ve not seen a lot of people bring up yet (there's been, like one, I just saw in the tags, but otherwise, not a lot towards this yet).

Capcom…

Make a Dating Sim.

Let me explain:

Alright, so you’ll recall that, for RE7, Capcom gave us a DLC where you play as Mia, taking down moldy bois to bring Jack food for his 55th birthday party — appropriately titled ‘Jack’s 55th Birthday’. All fine and good. Everybody was wearing party hats and your guns shot confetti and everything was just so delightful. It was a silly FPS that was just meant to be a fun distraction to give you a good belly laugh after the horrors you’ve endured from the main game. At least as far as I can tell. It’s not like there’s heavy lore or anything here, unlike the others in that DLC pack. It's literally just for funsies.

But I think we all know that RE8 requires something…different. Something that’ll be a real people-pleaser and with so much replay-ability that they’ll be satisfied till RE 9.

And a Dating Sim is that something…I'd also recommend making a ‘mature audiences only’ version that would require payment. I know the game's already rated M for mature, but this 'adults only' version isn't for violence if ya know what I mean.

Think about it. The players of this game find out they can date their favorite Lord? Already you’d have a ton of people lining up to get that DLC — particularly if that part is free. Just getting to date the Lords — or other characters from the game, for that matter. I'm just focusing on the Lords cuz…well, you know why — would be a great foot in the door. People wanna dote on their faves and give them all the affection they can handle (and then some) and just live out their soft fantasies for a hot minute.

But then…The players finding out that they can also fuck their favorite Lord (for a nominal fee) a la Huniepop?

That shit would sell like hotcakes. I’m talking ‘money; hand over fist’. The Lady D and Heisenberg simps alone would be clamoring for that shit, not to mention the Donna fans and Moreau lovers who would love to see those two get some more attention since they were so horribly overlooked in the main game and didn't have near enough focus.

And furthermore! Getting to fuck the Lords as Ethan Winters? All the shippers will have their moment in the sun and bask in their ship gracing their eyes in licensed content. Or hell! Maybe they can fuck Ethan Winters too? I dunno! The Duke? Damn straight! Chris Redfield? Who wouldn’t want a piece of that? Miranda? …Eh…if you hate yourself, I guess…but sure! Any other character from the Resident Evil canon just kinda thrown in there for shits & giggles? That’s your call, my friend! You do you!

But the fact stands; a dating sim is the perfect way to keep people coming back to play again and again. Would it be a lot of effort? Yeah, prolly. I dunno what all goes into making a dating sim, but I imagine it can get complicated with the various dialogue trees and such and that’s a lot for my square brain to wrap around. But hey! It’s a small price to pay for rakin’ in dat dough, am I right?

As for the visuals? I can’t decide what’s funnier? Going ham on the dating sim aesthetic with all the glitter and softness that’d make those characters anime af, or sticking with a horror look — where they look the same as in the main game (though drawn instead of mo-capped, maybe?), but still in a visual novel format (think Doki Doki Literature Club, but they look how they do in the main game, so not super-cutesy/romanticized.) Either way, it’d be hilarious to see these characters in that kinda format, but I think most of us can agree that it’d somehow fit too.

For more silliness? Take a page out of Hatoful Boyfriend’s book and not only let us date the Lords, but let us change their onscreen sprites/avatars(/whatever you’d call them). Don't know what I'm referring to? Well, in Hatoful’s case, the onscreen characters could either be beautiful anime boys…or pigeons.

Photo-realistic pigeons.

I think y'all know where I'm going with this.

That's right! Give us the option between the Lords as we see them in-game or their puppet versions from the Japanese commercials.

Your move, Capcom. I think we both know this is the correct path. Make it happen so you can sit back and watch the money pour in.

P.S. Since I know Capcom won’t do anything near this fun (and also because…I doubt they'd be able to do some of this, like the more risqué stuff), if someone knows how to make a dating sim, please take this idea and run with it. It'd be a lo of fun and I’ve never needed something so badly in my life.

#scammy talks #Capcom #Resident Evil #RE8 #Resident Evil: Village #I’m torn between acknowledging how stupid this is #and by extension how stupid ‘I’ am #and believing it’s the best idea ever #Give me money Capcom #let’s make some BANK #also this is the dumb shit that made me so happy last night #the idea is just very fun to me #again it made me laugh #particularly after a rough day #so share in my silliness I guess #I know I prolly SHOULD tag this with the character names too #but this post isn't SPECIFICALLY about them #and I'd rather just focus the tags to what the post is about #which in this case is RE8 as a whole #I regret everything already

[fiendfluid]

it is an unmooring of the mind

Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims, Jonathan Sims & Daisy Tonner, Martin Blackwood & Daisy Tonner Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan Sims, Daisy Tonner, Peter Lukas, Tim Stoker, Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Selkies, Drowning, Lonely Typical Depression And Manipulation, Hurt/Comfort, Body Horror, Touch-Starved, Casual Physical Affection, Blood and Gore, Hopeful Ending, Fluff and Angst Chapters: 7/10

“Persistent bastards.”

Jon pulls the binoculars away from his face, his mouth set in a grim line. 

They had to leave port without Daisy, with the Tundra looming ominously in the horizon--drawing closer with every panicked minute of unmooring and setting off. Jon had insisted she would be able to track them down, but even he had looked worried, which of course set Martin off in turn. 

They set off, staying as close to shore as they dared, something about being in the open water without her set Jon on edge, though nowadays anything did, really. Not that he was paying attention.

“Your lot must have finally killed one too many of their playthings.” Martin mutters coldly.

In the six days of speedy travel away from the Tundra, nothing had been done to improve the strain between them--not that either of them have tried to fix anything; Jon just hovers around, like some kind of nervous moth, drawn toward the light but unsure what to do once it got there--and frankly Martin isn’t in the trying mood. 

“Martin,” Jon says slowly, staring in that way he does often; usually when he thinks Martin’s being a moron. “the Tundra was never chasing after me, they’ve been looking for you.”

Martin scoffs, frowning. “What? No it’s not. They dragged you onto the ship in the first place, Lukas has been trying to kill you!” 

The clouds overhead crackle with ill temper, casting the boat in strange, draining grey light. It makes Jon appear more gaunt, haggard as he slides into the chair across from Martin. He hasn’t been sleeping, that much is clear from the shadows under his eyes, the lifeless sheen to his skin--and even if he hadn’t been looking, the nightmares are enough of a tell themselves. Martin stamps down the spark of pity he feels.

“While you’re right that Peter Lukas has never turned down a chance to hurt us, he’s never gone out of his way to seek us out until now.” Jon clarifies. “He’s--he’s probably not even allowed to kill me.”

“What does that mean?” Martin asks, and Jon twitches uncomfortably. 

“It’s a long story.” Jon deflects, fumbling blindly for his lighter as he lights up yet another cigarette. But Martin isn’t in the mood. 

“No, sorry, you don’t get to do that.” Martin says, stabbing an accusing finger toward Jon. “Now isn’t the time for secrets or being cryptic. No more games, so just talk like a normal person.”

Jon doesn’t so much as flinch, matching Martin’s stony gaze with one of his own. He has never been one to push, or walk directly into conflict, but he holds his ground now, and it doesn’t take long before Jon relents, letting out a long, frustrated noise akin to a growl alongside a billow of smoke. 

"You’re right…” Jon concedes, like he’s been forced to swallow glass. “listen, things have happened with Lukas in the past, terrible things I don't ever wish to repeat--you don't know what he is, the friends he keeps."

“Then tell me.”

“Fine.” Jon starts, his voice adopting a tone of professional distance, his eyes fixed at a point just past Martin's shoulder. “I have not been, nor will I ever be safe as long as I live this life as a creature such as I am. I have spent years avoiding the nets and collars of every monster worse than I that wishes to claim me or my skin. But the Tundra has always been one step ahead of me...”

Jon trails off, lost in thought. He smiles so sadly that Martin almost asks him to stop, but curiosity keeps him quiet. 

“I was so cocky, so sure of myself and my abilities. But you can't avoid a cage when it is shrouded in fog.” Jon continues, “I was caught--Lukas wanted to give me back to the Institute, as a gift, probably. I had to fight tooth and bloody nail to get away before that happened. By the time that damn ship finally vanished from the horizon, I was just angry.

“I met Daisy, and she was willing to help me…deal with the Tundra. So I tried to hurt him. Whatever he wanted I took before he could have it. Whether that be potential victims turned proteges or damaging the ship, it didn't matter. We were riding the world of monsters, at least, that's how it felt...but well, you know.”

His eyes flit up to catch Martin's gaze before shying away. “Things...changed.”

His voice warps and changes, fraying at the edges of control. Martin can feel the way his own face turns down in a grimace, unable to keep his horror from manifesting. Not when Jon bares his soul, albeit reluctantly. 

“But he never retaliated against us,” Jon frowns, with a very unsubtle clearing of his throat, “he’s never batted an eye until now.”

“The Institute you mentioned,” he starts softly, wary of Jon’s responding flinch. “does Lukas have a hand in that as well?”

Jon shakes his head, gathering his arms close around himself. “Not entirely. He supplies them with money and other such things. No, that place is...someone else’s doing.”

“And they hurt you too? They did--” Martin cuts himself off. He weakly gestures toward the whole of Jon. 

“Not all of it.” Jon says, rubbing at a couple of his scars. “But yes.”

“And have you hurt them? Has it even helped at all?”

“No. No it hasn’t.”

“Well.”

“Like I said, I'm not trying to justify my-my monstrosity.” 

“You aren’t a monster, Jon. But I don’t understand why you chose now to run away from everything.”

“Because I’m scared, Martin!” Jon snaps, his voice loud like an explosion between them. “I don’t ever want to set foot on that ship again, and I won’t go back to whatever hellish games await me inland. But Lukas wants you--for what I don’t know, could be something to do with the mark Gerry mentioned or simply just being a part of the Tundra, but that could mean anything. So if it means I have to run to protect us, then I will.”

Martin takes him in, all harsh edges and deranged eyes; biting at his lip with single minded doggedness, nails scraping skin as if to rip up every one of his imperfections up from the root with little care for the damage he’ll leave in its wake. 

“You don’t have to fight the world alone,” he says at last, though he isn’t surprised when Jon just shakes his head in instantaneous refusal.  “I’m scared too, for what it’s worth.”

Jon jerks as if struck. The look on his face shatters the distance between them just as swiftly as it shatters Martin into a million tiny pieces. He meant it to pacify, to calm the turmoil raging away in Jon's mind so plainly. But Jon just looks as if the world crashed around his shoulders, the wall he had been building back up between them falling to the wayside, leaving him small, fragile. 

“I'm sorry.” he says, with such sincerity and grief it stabs a shard of pity deep into his chest, that Jon would assume it was him Martin was afraid of. Maybe in the past that would have rang true, that his deeds would have proven too damning. 

“Just promise you won’t do that again.” Martin says, holding his gaze without flinch. 

Jon bristles immediately, predictably, despite all his claims against defending himself. His face does an interesting dance, twisting an array of emotions too quickly for Martin to truly parse until he lands on something weary, accepting. 

His voice is small, a croak of noise in the hollow of his throat. “Alright.”

“Alright?”

“Yes, okay.”

“Just to clarify, you know I mean the drowning--”

“Yes, Martin. I understand, thank you.” He snorts, a humorless sound but a step in the right direction. 

Martin ducks his head, hiding the small, blooming smile spreading across his lips. He reaches out between them, plucking the cigarette from Jon’s unsteady fingers, ignoring the absolutely pissy look it earns him. Depositing it into the bin where it belongs, he turns back to face Jon, daring him to argue. 

Jon scowls, albeit softly, something turning it wobbly. He raises the binoculars back up to scan the empty yet teeming wake they leave behind, not saying another word.

(LINK TO READ THE REST IN THE REBLOGS)

#tma #the magnus archives #jonmartin #unmooring preview

[andersunmenschlich]

Episode 7: The Piper

This statement was given in 1922, when I was -67 years old.

Talk about jumping around. 22, 9, 27, 23, 19, 25, -67... is there any order to this at all? Even the monsters seem mostly unrelated, so if these statements are organized somehow, I don't know how.

Anyway.

In this statement, Staff Sergeant Clarence Barry tells about his time serving with a Wilfred Owen during the first world war.

Wilfred Owen turned up in the trenches as a probationary Second Lieutenant in July 1916, and he wrote poetry. Sergeant Barry didn't care for his poetry, particularly. Thought it lacked soul. Also, when he talked about how awesome he wanted his poetry to be, he had a habit of trailing off and tilting his head like he'd just heard something, which (given the title of the episode) I'm inclined to think means he was hearing something.

Wilfred Owen apparently made it almost a whole year before anything horrible happened to him, which I suppose is reasonable but I'm glad we're skipping that bit because it sounds boring. Here, then, they're getting ready to attack an enemy trench and he keeps acting like he's hearing something.

Clarence Barry gets his leg caught on some barbed wire during the charge, can't get unstuck, and looks around for help.

Wilfred Owen is no help.

He's standing there all caught up in listening to something nobody else can hear, blank-faced and gently swaying like he's hearing music. At which point Clarence Barry starts to hear music.

Some kind of pipes: bagpipes or panpipes or who knows what, but definitely pipes.

And Wilfred and Clarence both somehow know that Wilfred is just about to die. Which he does: there's a gunshot and it hits him, and then there's a mortar strike, and my goodness, he gets hit by that, too! There's an eruption of mud and earth, and he's just gone.

Clarence survives.

He lies in that hole, held down by barbed wire, until night falls and no one can see him moving, at which point he gets himself loose and slowly crawls back to relative safety.

Wilfred, of course, is gone. There was no way he'd be among the wounded, but Clarence asked anyway and no, he wasn't. Clarence Barry thinks about him a lot—or rather, he thinks about that strange music. Can't get it out of his mind.

A week and a half later, Wilfred Owen is found alive.

Which is simply impossible!

But there he is, not dead, not even wounded, lying in a shell hole by a river.

He's covered in blood and gore, but of course this must have come from somebody else, yes? Clearly it couldn't be his. Whoever he's covered in, they're very obviously dead. Which Wilfred Owen isn't.

Right?

Anyway, Wilfred Owen isn't talking. He hasn't said a single word since he was brought in wearing a bunch of ick, a wrecked uniform, and a thousand-yard-stare.

Clarence Barry goes to visit him anyway.

And there, in the hospital bed, is Wilfred Owen, looking intently at a man in another bed, who dies.

Okay... well, that could be coincidence. There's nothing that says Wilfred made that happen. People do die in medical tents at war fronts. Maybe he just knew it was going to happen thanks to his newfound connection to death, and that's why he was watching. Could be.

Wilfred Owen speaks his first words since being found to Clarence Barry.

He tells Clarence that he met the war.

And the war, he says, was no taller than Clarence, though it had three faces: one to play the pipes (made of bone, of course), one to scream, and one to vomit bloody mud everywhere (this one kept its mouth shut, apparently). It also had a lot of arms, holding—well, the pipes, obviously—but also many, many different weapons. And some of the arms didn't hold anything, they just begged silently for mercy (and one of them saluted).

The war wore a beat-up woolen coat that had been olive green once, and underneath it was more wound than body. And apparently it called itself the Piper.

Well, now. Isn't that a delightful image?

Clarence Barry apparently doesn't think so. "I had heard quite enough by this point," he says, "and said so to Wilfred, but if he heard me he gave no indication of it." And thank goodness for that! If he'd listened and shut up, how would we ever have gotten this story?

The war, Wilfred says, had come for him. But he begged to stay.

So it reached out one of its arms and gave him a pen, and somehow this told Wilfred that it would be back for him later, but in the meantime "he too would live to play its tune."

Clarence Barry thinks, just for a moment, that he can hear that piping again.

Whereupon he excuses himself and leaves, and Wilfred Owen gets shipped back to Britain to recuperate.

Clarence asks the men who found Wilfred whether he was holding a pen when they found him, and they say no—all they found was Wilfred, covered in gore, and the dog tags of somebody named Joseph Rayner (so... huh, I guess it wasn’t his old body after all).

Then for a long while nothing we're interested in happens.

Wilfred Owen is in Britain. Clarence Barry is in France. He can't really tell us anything that's going on with Wilfred from such a distance, so....

Oh, but he does notice that before a charge some men will look like they're listening to something far-off; and those men never come back from the charge, they always die. He mentions the phrase "paying the piper," and wonders about the lost children of Hamelin, maybe partially because they had a German prisoner from Hamelin (but he couldn't communicate with him because the guy didn't speak English, though he did hum a familiar tune...).

Wilfred Owen's poetry, meanwhile, has improved markedly.

It's popular, apparently.

Clarence Barry, however, never satisfied, still doesn't really like it. "There was something about it that sat uneasily with me," he says. Some people.

In July 1918, Wilfred Owen comes back to the trenches.

He and Clarence don't talk much anymore, but when he looks at Clarence there is, apparently, a fear in his eyes that he's quick to hide. Which makes me wonder: is he afraid because he knows Clarence saw him get A) shot and then B) blown up? Or is it just a general fear that Clarence only notices whenever their eyes meet?

Whatever the case, our statement-giver thinks the war's running out of steam and Britain's trying to push Germany into a surrender.

On the first day of October, Clarence Barry finally gets to see Wilfred Owen in action again. They hadn't fought alongside each other since Wilfred, you know... died. Very comprehensively.

And it looks like the new Wilfred is an amazingly vicious fighter!

He also briefly casts a shadow that isn't his, which I like. As creepy touches go, the somehow-wrong shadow is one of my favorites.

He gets the Military Cross for that particular savage attack, and Clarence Barry is spooked. About a month after that Wilfred tells him it's almost over. He's crying, and obviously listening to the Piper's tune. He asks if Clarence can hear it, and Clarence honestly tells him that he can't. Two days later, Wilfred Owen dies.

He dies at what Clarence Barry thinks is the exact moment peace between the nations was assured, and frankly I'm not going to argue with that, because it lines up really well with the whole Incarnation Of War Coming For You Later thing.

Also, he dies via the bullet wound that killed him earlier.

"The bullet hole simply opened, like an eye, and he fell to the ground, dead." That's cool. And what's more, it opens in his forehead—so it's like a third eye.

Clarence Barry also says that he had to close his window, back at home in Britain, when the military band in the parade for Armistice Day marched by his house. "It wasn't a tune I cared to hear," he says. Which means whatever tune the Piper plays, it's one humans also know and play. I wonder what one it is? Hmm. Kind of inclined to say this one, just because of the composer....

Oh, okay. According to Jonathan Sims, he's been going through the mid-2000s (and was apparently annoyed to find a statement from 1922 filed in there). So that's how he's picking statements: he's working his way through a specific file.

I really wanted to know that, so I'm pleased that now I do!

Mr. Sims also says the name "Joseph Rayner" sounds familiar, though he can't think where he might've run across it before.

This episode makes me think of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality. Not that the incarnation of War worked quite like this in that series of books, but somehow it just has a similar vibe, you know?

I'm looking forward to the next episode.

#The Magnus Archives #episode 7 #commentary #late to the party

[lurafita]

SIM Tony x Peter, part two

I’ll warn you all upfront, I haven’t gotten any better at writing smut, and this chapter has zero. Actually, this chapter doesn’t even have Peter in it. It’s just a lot of introspection into Tony’s character and how I envision he could slowly slip into SIM-mode. You will likely find this pretty boring.

If you are still willing to read, however, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND I HOPE YOU LIKE IT!

Read the first part here: part 1

SIM Tony x Peter, part 2

He had drunken himself into a stupor after Peter had left first the living room, and then the tower.

Alcohol had always been one of his vices, and admittedly not the greatest coping mechanism. However, no matter how truly stupid, and sometimes even abhorrent, he behaved under its influence, the morning after often brought with it a new insight and understanding for his problems.

As well as a headache. Jesus!

“Jarvis, hangover protocol.” He rasped at the ceiling.

The A.I. complied immediately with the demand, lowering the shutters on every window to dim the natural light in the penthouse, and started the coffee maker in the kitchen.

“You should find some Tylenol in your bedside drawer, Sir.”

Tony blindly grabbed for the bottle after prying the drawer open, and swallowed two pills dry.

“Should I order you breakfast, or would you prefer to further endanger your health by ignoring your basic bodily needs, as usual?”

The billionaire let out a long and tormented groan as he got up from his bed (for which he mentally patted himself on the back. It wasn't often that his intoxicated mind managed to get his drunk ass into an actual bed, before he passed out)

“Remind me to program the sass out of you later, J.”

He wouldn't

“Certainly, Sir.”

Tony slowly made his way across the room, already able to smell the godly brew that was coffee.

“And that's a no for breakfast. But remind me in a few hours to order something hearty from that one restaurant I like. I'm starting on a new project, and I probably shouldn't 'endanger my health' – as you put it – too much before I get to finish it.”

The coffee was too hot and too strong and exactly what the genius needed right then.

“A new project, Sir? Does this have anything to do with Mr. Parker's visit and subsequent departure yesterday? I should caution you on making any rash decisions. Research shows that people are very susceptible to such upon experiencing rejection.”

Tony winced at that, but blamed it on the temperature of the coffee.

“Okay, J, one: we are not calling it a rejection. Peter loves me, he is just too worried that something might happen to me, if we started a relationship. That's not rejection; that's fear. Two: while this may seem rash, my new project is possibly one of the sanest, safest, and best decisions I have made in my life.”

Which Tony actually believed to be true.

No matter how much he wanted to be angry at Peter for the younger man's unwillingness to take that step with Tony, he couldn't.

Peter's rejection (god how he hated that word) might have been a fear based response, but it wasn't a groundless one. Everything Peter had said last night was the truth.

His enemies were deranged and obsessed with making Spiderman suffer.

Tony was vulnerable without the suit, and there had been instances when his technology had either malfunctioned due to outside tampering, or he himself hadn't been aware of any danger or not fast enough to activate his suit.

The losses Peter had suffered due to his superhero alter ego, had left the younger man scarred and traumatized, and Tony could hardly fault him for that.

Arriving in her personal lab (a space he usually loved to share with Peter, but after the events of yesterday evening, the brunette would probably avoid the lab – and the tower as a whole – for a while) Tony had narrowed down three major obstacles that stood in the way of him and his love.

The first was his suit.

Peter was right. Technology wasn't infallible, and Iron Man was due for an upgrade anyway. For years now, Tony Stark had spearheaded any advancements there were in the field of engineering. It was time to take the next step.

A press of a button and a command typed into his holographic interface, brought up the specs of all of his suits. From the clunky and uncomfortable Mark 1, to the sleek nano-technology Mark 75.

The second problem, was the fragility of his human body.

There would be no point in creating the perfect Iron Man suit, if he fell victim to things like illness, infection, or senility. The age difference between him and Peter was another sore spot. Meeting and falling for the Spiderling when Tony had already been in his late 40's was bad luck, because it would leave them with that much less time to spend with each other. Bruce and Peter, both sharing an interest in the sciences dealing with biology, cross species dynamics and mutations, had figured out that the spider bite that had given Peter his powers, had also slowed down the rate of cell decay in his body. They had estimated that the brunette would likely live way past a hundred years. Which meant that he deserved far more than the maybe 30 to 40 years that Tony still had in him. If Tony wanted to be with his Baby Boy for as long as possible, the too short human lifespan was a hurdle that needed to be overcome.

More tapping on the holographic keyboard opened up all the files he had on the Extremis virus. The genius had isolated the cause of it's recipients exploding two years ago, and fixed it. The only reason he hadn't utilized the new and improved Extremis sooner, was that it was one of those 'too powerful for humanity' things, that morally uptight people like Rogers would frown upon. Also, he hadn't felt that he needed it, placing far more trust and value into his suits. Just goes to show, doesn't it? Even Tony Stark was wrong sometimes.

The third major stepping stone were Spiderman's villains.

This was both the easiest and hardest to fix. The easiest way (and quite frankly the one Tony himself would prefer) was to kill them. Again, Peter was right. It didn't matter how many times the spider-themed hero beat them and handed them over into Shield custody, they always found a way out of their imprisonment. And as soon as they did, their main goal was to make Peter pay.

However, Tony also understood why Peter could never bring himself (or allow anyone else) to eliminate them for good.

Harry had been his best friend since childhood, Conners and Octavius had been mentors, and Eddie Brock had been a pseudo older brother. And even disregarding the personal feelings and history that bound Peter to each man, non of them were technically evil.

Harry had been a terminally ill teenager, hoping to escape his father's fate. The serum he had thought would cure him, had molded and messed up his body and mind, akin to someone who had been drugged or brainwashed.

Conners and Octavius had been decent, even honorable, men, who had sought to use their intelligence and research to help people in need. It had backfired and, as with Harry, twisted their minds, and in Conners case, mutated his body.

Brock had simply been unfortunate to be so compatible with the symbiote that Spiderman had managed to resist and fight off. Being bonded to Venom so thoroughly had changed the man.

The fact that each of the four knew who Spiderman was underneath the mask, but had never shared that information with anyone else, had manifested the believe in Peter that somewhere, deep down, their original, good, selves were still alive. That there was still hope for reversing the transformations, restoring them to the men they used to be.

And while Tony thought it naive, he also understood. After all, it was this penchant to hope where others would have long given up, this forgiveness and purity, that had attracted him to Peter in the first place, when they had just gotten to know each other years ago.

So, no. Tony could never make Peter change his stance on his 'No killing' policy, and he didn't want to.

But neither did he want for his love to keep being haunted by the people who had, if anyone were to ask Tony, lost their right to a second chance long, long ago.

Which meant that Tony would just have to deal with them himself.

More holograms popped up, this time displaying all the information that had been gathered on Doctor Octopus, the Lizard, Green Goblin and Venom. Tony zoomed in on the black alien parasite.

And he knew just where to start.

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I thank you all very much for reading and hope you have a wonderful day. Remeber to drink enough water and give yourself frequent breaks if you start getting stressed. Be fair to yourself and treat yourself with kindness, as you deserve no less. Find at least one thing to truly smile about today (and every other day). Also, never be too hard on yourself should you fail at something. Nobody is perfect, and it is often through defeat, that we learn how to overcome many of life’s difficulties.

Tagging: I simply always tag anyone who commented on the last chapter, if you don’t want to be tagged, drop me a quick message, please.

@sassy-starker @momobaby227 @retroxvailles @grimalkinmessor @bbalienbae @deliciousflapbanditfarm @starkersenses @kirakishou @von--gelmini @kaddiisarat

Kaddiisarat for some reason didn’t work? I’m really sorry honey, I tried!

Please tell me if I forgot anyone!

#starker #fanfic #superior iron man #Tony turns superior out of love #spider-man #peter parker #tony stark #mixed up canon #canon divergent #Dark!Tony #love #obsession #turning to the dark side #adult!peter #still a bit of an age gap though #op lurafita

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Replies, the God edition.

I promise that I’m not going to talk about this stuff a lot, though now I’m kinda thinking that I do want that sideblog, if only just to get down all my own thoughts in writing, which has always helped me to sort of mentally organize things. But, I did want to reply to a couple replies and also paste in some nonnie replies, so that I can get ‘er all done in one (long, of course *eyeroll*) post. I also apologize for not tagging previous posts as non-sims, for those who block such posts. In my defense, I’d gotten in from a night out and was in that “tired, but not quite tired enough to sleep” place, and in that place I get kind of spacey and careless. So I’ve fixed that.

So, anyway, replies for @snarkysims​ and @nimitwinklesims​ as well as two anons who sent me asks are behind the cut...

snarkysims replied to your post “Speaking of religion, I saw in a lot of MTS off-topic discussions that...”

I appreciate you being candidate about your journey. While I do consider myself to still be Christian, much of what you said resonated with me. I appreciate you being open to people regardless their beliefs. Cheers!

Frankly, I’ve never understood not being “open” to people of other beliefs, even when I was very Christian. I mean, that sort of attitude is...Well, not very Christian, is it? Christians are charged with bringing the gospel to the non-believer, and you can’t do that if you can’t meet people where they’re at in order to talk to them. Sure, some brands of Christianity are more isolationist, so as to avoid ungodly influence and whatnot, but as a Christian, I was always of the opinion that doing so was a mark of dangerously weak faith and that it defeated the whole “be in the world but not of the world” thing, not to mention making spreading the gospel that much harder. Our society has just become so polarized and tribal that it’s ridiculous. 

Well, in any case, I love people of all kinds, whatever their beliefs about anything, and I have very strong disagreements, including religious ones, with some of my very best friends. I have no truck with the whole “purity test” business, wherein I can’t be friends with, or associate with, or ally with on issues on which we do agree, or have spirited discussions with people who disagree with me in any way. While I do understand the importance of having community with supportive like-minded individuals, what’s the point of always surrounding yourself with people who agree with you in every single particular? Mutual back-patting? Circle jerking? I’ve never understood that, and it’s only gotten worse with the whole “call-out culture” thing. No thanks.

nimitwinklesims replied to your post “Speaking of religion, I saw in a lot of MTS off-topic discussions that...”

For some reason I can't access the entire post when on mobile -- will try laptop later.. curious to read!

It’s probably because it’s freaking long! *laugh* I do go on, I’m afraid. *sigh* But if you still can’t read it, I’d be happy to copypasta it into messages or some other format.

I am so sorry that you were indoctrinated. I had difficulties breaking away even as a non-indoctrinated (self-indoctrinated?) convert. I still sometimes have nightmares about hell and all. So I can’t even imagine what it’s like for people who had this stuff drilled into their brains from birth. I am glad that you had the fortitude to escape. :)

It rather surprised me -- though it probably shouldn’t have -- that the “if Yahweh was proved to be real, I’d believe in him but refuse to worship the f***er” is a common theme among atheists, especially, it seems, among those who had a fervent belief at some point and then deconverted, as opposed to those who were raised secular and/or just never believed. Maybe it’s a reaction to betrayal. I mean, you spend “X” amount of time being spoon-fed carefully-chosen rhetoric and scripture and swallowing the notion that this character is all-loving, that he’s the very embodiment of love, and then when the scales are lifted from your eyes you realize how very wrong that is and, at least in my case, I really felt the weight of the time I had spent (and wasted) thinking that this character was something that he clearly isn’t, by his own words, if you believe in the whole “the Bible is the Word of God(TM)” thing. I was angry. I guess I still am. Not at god, per se -- because I don’t believe that god is real -- but at the people who deliberately misrepresent him in order to make more people believe in him.

I cannot presume to speak for all people for whom speaking in tongues is a thing. And even amongst fundamentalists, it is a not a thing for all of them. A good percentage of fundamentalists are, in fact, very opposed to the concept. It is primarily a thing in charismatic Christianity, which IIRC consists of maybe 400 or 500 million Christians worldwide of various denominations. (As opposed to the 2 billion+ Christians that exists as a whole.) So, it’s not a common thing by any means, on the whole.

And yes, they are babbling random nonsense, and IMO many of them are just faking it and deluding themselves. Why? Because within charismatic churches, speaking in tongues is considered proof of one’s born-again status. Meaning, it’s proof that you’re saved. So there is tons of pressure -- especially among impressionable children -- to do it, with the unspoken admonishment that if you don’t/can’t do it, then maybe you aren’t really saved, and if you aren’t really saved, then you’re destined for hell. So, you get situations like this clip from the Jesus Camp movie.

The other thing is that mass hysteria is a thing. Christianity is generally practiced in a group rather than as a strictly individual activity. We are social and imitative animals. So, if one person starts “feeling the Spirit,” genuinely or otherwise, sure enough other people start thinking “Hey, there must be something to this,” and then they start feeling it, too. If this happens among a large group of people, then it becomes truly awesome, in the original sense of the word rather than the 80s sense of it. And then you end up with things like the Toronto Blessing, and people swearing that they felt and/or were imbued with the Holy Spirit and then felt compelled to do all these crazy-ass things.

So, my own personal opinion is that the whole thing is part being conformist out of fear and part mass hysteria. But, like I said, I don’t really speak for anyone but me. For me personally, I have both faked it and experienced the mass delusion thing. Pentecostal worship services are wild. But, were I to speak in tongues now, it’d definitely be just faking it...but I can fake it really, really well. :)

#snarkysims #nimitwinklesims #replies #non sims

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i got tagged by 2 superly duper sweethearts @verseziam @ohthathurt to answer questions about myself. thank you my lil ones :*

Favorite snack? gummy bears and hot cheetos

Favorite place to go on vacation? mexico is the only place i've ever really travelled to and it’s been to visit my family there and it’s just.....165165123% the place i love most

Tea or coffee? coffee!!! but i do enjoy tea  

What kind? mocha flavored coffee where it’s a lil bitter. then I like my tea sweet as heck, don’t let me taste even a HINT of plant 

What’s a song that makes you dance immediately? right now it’s con altura by rosalia 

Do you play an instrument? i don't actively play any instruments but i have a keyboard that i claim as one of my most prized possessions so can i be an honorary keyboard player?

What’s your favorite type of personality? being super funny, super considerate, and not a mean-spirited bone in your freakin body

Favorite comedian? i honestly don’t watch many comedians but john mulaney cracks me up

Gummy candy or chocolate? as i stated in the first question, i am gummy candy’s bitch

What did you want to be when you grew up as a kid? a librarian :’) 

What’s your favorite physical feature about yourself? i tried contouring my nose the other day and came out hating the outcome and loving my nose so at the moment my nose is my favorite feature

When was the last time you watched a tv show or movie? i watched us by jordan peele on saturday (everybody say ‘got me fucked up’ on one!)

Unpopular opinion? i feel like this question just opened this huge filing cabinet in my mind and lil me in my brain is just going through all of my filed away opinions aldjfadlj

Are you scared of bugs? i will try my very hardest to co-exist but when they fly at me? electric chair for them!!!! (im kidding please but seriously @ any bugs reading this please please leave me alone)

Cats or dogs? i love cats, i love dogs - i’m allergic to both :)

Are you allergic to any foods? i’m lactose intolerant does that count? but other than that no

Does the description of your star sign match your personality? all the descriptions that i have read say that i, a cancer, am the mom friend, that i care a lot, that i cry a lot, that i am moody mcmoodster and frankly? they’re all right.

Favorite type of accent? super duper southern accents, like so super duper southern that i have no clue what the fuck you just said. or australian accents. they’re fun. love the way that accents in general have people putting emphasis on different syllables

Name the first song that comes into your head? it was ‘ave maria’. a classic. literally dljdflakdjf

Who is the sexiest famous person to you? ma’am this is a dairy queen drive thru

Cake or pie? ooOOoHOoo (chocolate) cake with buttercream frosting (also chocolate)!!!!!!!!

When was the last time you read an entire book? i read a fic this morning

Favorite junk food? fries and mozzarella cheese sticks

Do you like your height? it’s not that i’m not happy with my height like......five feet tall is cute but...…...five feet of me??? not enough

Apples or oranges? apples bc i have really bad acid reflux and oranges bring me more misery than apples do

What’s your favorite personality trait in a person? deadass had to refer to ‘the sims 4′ traits. im going with ‘genuis’ you have to be a genius or i won’t even acknowledge you

Do you like salad? love salad!!! love my greens!!!! love ranch on that bitch!!! love some sharp cheddar in there too!!! 

Which person inspires you the most? my oldest sister. she’s hilarious and so intelligent and stubborn as heck. she’s at the top tier of my favorite people ever. she always makes sure you know she’s got your back. she’s everything i hope i’m becoming honestly

What is a song that has made you cry? a drop in the ocean by ron pope bc We have some memories linked to that song, pals

i will be tagging @zaynsbambieyes @oh-no-its-elle @somewhereisaplacethatziamknow @treacle-black @aladdinzainau @altarrias @she-is-the-kryptonite @empty-altars @brodferd @lespendeja @top-rider-liam @paynefulperiods @zaynliam @quietzap @ifigureditout 

#I feel like so many of these seem so jokey (some of them were jokes) im soRRY #and seriously if i didn't tag you but you have even an inkling of want to do this please #do it!!!!!!!! and tag me bc i love learning about you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!! #okay farewell now i send my love

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Original by @spacenez and @daddy-winter

I love the challenge and thought It’d be fun to alter it to the Sims 3! I made some changes but for the most part they’re just small things!

You never really fit into the world of Bridgeport- the people there seems too fake, boring. That’s why when you reached young adulthood you packed up and left for the town of Moonlight Falls. But alas, not all is what it seems in the quaint city. The days are cold and gloomy and the nights hold whispers of the supernatural. You swiftly find a mysterious lover whom you fall desperately in love with, though, that would not last. They were busy most nights (staying late at work they would always say) and you would be left alone. It was lonely in the house. And that’s when you met them.

Your heir must be human and live in Moonlight Falls.

Marry a vampire.

Have an affair with a werewolf.

Have three children, your decision who sired them (Vampire or Werewolf)

After your vampire lover finds out have them turn you.

Max the Charisma skill.

Heir must be sired by the Werewolf.

Your Vampire S/O must be in the business career.

You were always resented by your parents’ partner. They saw you as the mistake you often thought you were. You had dealt with the hatred in their eyes for your whole childhood until one day you just couldn’t take it. You packed up and left the dreary house that had haunted you for far too long. You moved in with your werewolf parent, your fellow kin. You thought your trouble had ended for you when in reality they had just begun.

Challenges:

Have at least one dog.

Move in with your Werewolf parent as a teen.

Have one night each week where your sim must go out and perform mean interactions on others.

Have a friendship with a ghost that then turns to romance.

Resurrect your ghost partner back from the dead using Ambrosia.

To make ambrosia you must max the cooking skill.

Max the the gardening skill.

Have as many children as you wish.

Heir must be a ghost.

Your parent would always tell you that you’re half werewolf half ghost but, honestly, you never saw your parent as a Ghost and frankly you think it’s a huge joke. So in your youth you began reading up on supernatural law and soon came across the allusive genie. Out of all the magical beings they held your gaze the most. Through the problematic vampire stage and even the unicorn stage, Genie’s always were the ones that intrigued you the most. With this you continued to travel the world in search of the allusive genie. You developed expensive tastes which soon you needed to support and you put your dream of the supernatural being on the backburner in favour of something else, politics.

Challenges:

Have at least 5 relationships in your lifetime.

Travel to all vacation worlds.

Have a home worth at least $75,000.

Find 3 magic lamps.

Have a baby with a Genie (May be summoned or created by yourself) and you may decide if your sim ends up with them.

Have children with a witch.

Have children until you have a girl (the heir), this child must be a witch.

Your parent was always the romantic, flirting around your whole childhood. You, on the other hand, couldn’t relate. You never had those childhood crushes, never enjoyed your first kiss, and never valued the romance that other people held so close to their heart. You found more solace in plants and nature. Your parent never understood so as soon as you could you left. You moved to Isla Paradiso to escape your overbearing parent and decided to live off the land. It was peaceful but it was missing something.

Challenges:

Have no legitimate children.

Adopt one child.

Live in Isla Paradiso..

Complete the Zombie master lifetime wish.

Max the Alchemy skill.

Have no romantic or sexual relationships with any sims. (Aromantic and asexual)

Max the gardening skill.

Only live off the land.

Your mother was the very definition of a helicopter parent. She always asked you how you were, made sure you got your school work done on time and never let you out after curfew. This was nice, you knew she cared about you but eventually it got tedious. You need to be able to leave, spread your wings and leave the coop. And that’s what you did; only you couldn’t move out alone. You had to move in with a roommate who had a certain affinity for water. They would spend hours upon hours in the bath and enjoyed the sea more than the land some days. You simply assured yourself that everyone had their thing.

Challenges:

Move from your family into your own house, then get a roommate.

This roommate is a mermaid, make one yourself or move in one of the mermaid townies.

Only make money by painting and publishing books.

Max the photography skill.

Get into a serious relationship before you tragically break up.

Get in a relationship with your roommate only after you become best friends.

Have at least one cat.

Have your child/children be a mermaid.

I’ll be doing this one myself! Let me know if I did anything wrong or made mistakes with this! Use the tag: TS3 Simblreen challenge!

#TS3 #TS3 CHALLENGE #sims 3 simblreen challenge #simblreen challenge #halloween #ts3 simblreen challenge #sims 3 #the sims 3 #sims 3 challenge

[murfeelee]

I just want to speak my piece and voice my hopes & concerns about the ideas for a new Sims Networking site.

Disclaimer: Despite the length of this long effing post, I know absolutely nothing about creating a website, or hosting, servers, or anything like that.

In light of Tumblr’s clear and present determination to kill its own website, many ideas are being proposed about The Sims community starting its own website. This would be a safe haven for simmers, where we can all share our content without fear of overzealous censorship and nefarious politico-economic stunts and power-plays.

Having different simmers presenting different platforms and ideas about how to get a simming network started is great, and I support anyone who pitches an idea. I don’t care who figures it out, just as long as someone does, and it’s good. But at this critical point and time what the community really needs is to not be splintered -- that’s what the problem is: that when Tumblr internally combusts we’ll all mass exodus and go our separate ways (to LJ/DW, Twitter, Blogspot, WP, etc), and we won’t all be in one place anymore. :(

There’s nothing wrong with having multiple simming networks, and having a selection of simmers-only social media outlets, not at all. We do that already, with sites like TSR & MTS, etc, that embrace content from ALL the sims games (1-4, etc), but where different preferences/standards/visions naturally lead to different websites doing their own thing separately.

But I think it’s time we as a community had one main home.

IMO, ideally, it would be one that functions like Tumblr did -- just Better and More Positive. ;) It would not be moderated by admins like the other sims sites, and instead the site runners would be there strictly for site support and maintenance. We’ve been moderating the simblr side of Tumblr all these years pretty okay -- aside from the abuse/neglect of the Tags (which I hope we could come to a more unified system with on a new site).

The new site could have all the image uploading/storage and other features we enjoy (Follows, Reblogs, Likes, Comments, IM, etc) but possibly even with an additional forum aspect, with rich text text threads & private messaging, etc. Is that at all possible?

The forum half of the site could have moderators, if only to keep the threads organized, but there would be none of that censoring crap that gets users warned/banned over stupidness like language, adult content, or my personal favorite: filesharing (especially when cc users rely on WCIFs and reuploaders to share content from dead sites and creators who delete their content for one reason or another).

I’d also love to see a return of more community events:

more Simblreen-like photo prompts & challenges for other holidays & seasons

more creative contests (like the one recreating real movie posters as sims images to get featured as new cc)

more visibility for machinimas (those mofos work HARD)

the return of sims magazines for fashion & builders & whatnot

Age and Adult Content Restrictions

The Sims is a borderline Teen/Everyone/Mature-rated game. It’s got sex and violence and crude humor and weirdness that isn’t really suitable for little kids. It's at each parent’s discretion what their kids are exposed to, but most simmers are either in their teens or older (I haven’t come across any 7 year olds playing this crazy game, at least.) As such, I don’t feel this new site should be censoring/blocking adult content and nsfw. Let the tags do their jobs -- even implement a Safe Mode & parental controls if you have to.

When it comes to what the age restrictions are, can’t y’all just have a captcha or one of those buttons you click that says you’re 13+ or whatever the age needs to be? And there are pretty cool captchas out there, too -- we don’t need something as crazy as what Thaithesims had (for those of y’all who don’t know, it was freaking nuts, trust), but there are others that ask a simple math question, or makes you to click the picture of the vegetable, or some Where’s Waldo looking thing to find all the bicycles or whatever the heck. Y’all’ve seen them, I don’t know.

Again, I don’t even know what goes into making a website, and determining what it can & cant support -- or AFFORD.

And that brings me to Money:

While it’s so exciting and heartening to see different ideas coming out now, honestly, it’s not gonna work when all y’all are all asking for money and donations. That’ll have us scrambling to fund & invest in a million different people’s ideas, until someone gets a site working that we’ll actually use.

Of course we know money is THE issue, and of course websites are Expensive AF™. But it would be more realistic for all y'all to get a site up and running, have us use it and test it out, and once the community gives it our seal of approval, then start doing donation drives to keep the site/servers funded. That’s the way fan-made ad-free sites with adult content like Archive Of Our Own do it; I’ve been subscribed there for years, and they make $100k+ every drive, it’s amazing. Sites like Wikipedia & the Wayback Machine no doubt make more. (Didn’t SimFileShare fund itself to get started? They use ads, though, which might force adult content restrictions like what’s happening with Tumblr.)

I wish I had the disposable income to give to ANY of these fantastic websites that I know and love, just to show my appreciation, but I’m dirt poor, so.... But I just feel that it really shouldn’t be up to users to fund free websites, because that’s hardly better than having to pay for subscriptions to join paid sites. I don’t even like pay for CC, or DLC, or even video games at full price. So any bid for money makes me suck my teeth a bit, frankly speaking.

In Closing:

The Sims community deserves its own space, to freely express ourselves.

The Sims is unique from any other game ever made, because simmers create the stories, simmers create the content, and simmers create the gameplay -- it’s not a linear pre-determined storyline, but a more or less open-ended open-world mechanism by which the gamer decides (and can create) everything from the characters to the plots to the locations.

We’re not just posting pictures on the official forums of our customized Lara, Shepard, Geralt, Arthur Morgan or whoever beating a level or discovering a hidden location. No. We’re creating our own characters and worlds and directives, and sharing art through images, storytelling, and custom content. And we’re sharing a bit of ourselves in the process.

Tumblr used to be the one place we could rely on to embrace our individuality, freedom of speech, agency, expression, and be part of a community that supported us and our content. I don’t want the Sims community to be fractured, and certainly not die out. Y’all have been like family to me, for the 5 years I’ve been on Tumblr, and for almost a whole decade now in the online Sims community -- 2019 will make it 10 years (which is a lot, for an antisocial psychopath like me). If Tumblr fails us, I won’t know where else to go, and it really saddens me. The Sims is a Lifestyle.

So I really hope y’all movers and shakers out there who know about web development can come together, figure things out together, and create a Better, More Positive space for us to enjoy playing and sharing our love of The Sims games.

#simblr #the sims #RANT ALERT #mini rant #murf is a derp

[nikatyler]

Technically I still want to stay on a break but also...yesterday was the worst and I basically needed to come back here to feel better. Did it help? Not really, but fuck real life, who needs it anyway, ya know? Sims are never gonna give me up, never gonna let me down, all that good stuff.

God, what a mood. I should shut up. Instead I’m gonna do the replies, yay!

alfalfalegacy replied to your photo “Screenshot Folder I did something very unlike me this week: I deleted...”

Must resist the urge to grab and edit all the Sammy shots ����

Go for it!

Side note, yesterday I added so many new screenshots to the folder. Some of them are really old and no one would ever possibly go and think “this one screenshot with really bad lighting? yup, gonna edit that one”. Unedited screenshots folder? More like a literal archive because simmeronnie is a freak for keeping things organized and in one place

simlovinggirl replied to your photoset “Yeah sure. Into the fire!”

That seems healthy. lolol

He scares me, to be honest. He looks like he’s the gift from heavens but I have a feeling he’s the exact opposite

dandylion240 replied to your photoset “Sunset: “Dad, guess what I want for my birthday.” Ross: “A dog. I’ve...”

Maybe there's hope for him yet!

Yes! He’s slowly but surely getting better. Kind of. We can’t call it a redemption arc but he’s getting better for sure.

green-productivitea replied to your photoset “One day, you’ll go to space, Sunset. I know you will. Keep dreaming...”

Oh, i'm melting

I’m weak for all the moments he shows he cares for her tbh

simlovinggirl replied to your post “tumblr you fucked up, just saying in case no one has told you yet I’ve...”

i just saw this too, i just requested like 50 posts from like 3 different stories, so we'll see how effed up my blog is now. Sorry your having issues too :(

elisabettasims replied to your post “tumblr you fucked up, just saying in case no one has told you yet I’ve...”

Almost nobody remembers when this happened before. It got straightened out but I had so many posts marked sensitive then. As, usual, they went too far. Also the new guidelines have gone too far, too.

Here’s a few things I remember getting flagged:

Sunset. Loads of posts with Sunset in it. Rude. What has she ever done to you, tumblr?

Ross and Valentine teasing each other (well, actually it was Valentine teasing Ross but still)

Why create this “female-presenting nipples” nonsense when the algorithm can’t tell so called female-presenting and male-presenting nipples apart

Basically sims in swimsuits are a big no

Sims travelling around the world? Sorry Ezra and Carrie, it’s dirty :/

Gen 2 of Raven Legacy was sooooo nsfw y’all. Maaaany posts were flagged

For some reason the algorithm doesn’t like Zoey??

My gen 4 pose dump got flagged as well

I have like two posts with sims kissing in bed in their underwear (Tyler and Sharon in the extras tag and then Miracle and Adam in the legacy) and they both were flagged DESPITE THE LACK OF FEMALE-PRESENTING NIPPLES YOU STUPID ALGORITHM THE GIRLS HAD BRAS FFS

Sorry that was aggressive. Wow.

The bras were really nice by the way. My bras are ugly compared to theirs

Did someone say big mood?

Also since it apparently picks the posts by colour as well, posts with a lot of orange/yellow/pink in them were often flagged as well

Surprisingly, only my posts from 2017 and 2018 were affected. The super super old stuff from 2016 wasn’t flagged at all.

jackssims replied to your photoset “Marika: “You’re still as stupid as I remember you.” Ross: “I’m stupid?...”

Oh fuck /off/, Marika

Me whenever I see her in the game

Also, fun fact, all of Ross’s lovers got married by MCCC later. Marika was the only one who remained single. Guess Ross has to pass up that “the Worst” title to her, huh?

jackssims replied to your photoset “Marika: “Anyway…how is my daughter? She’s going to be thirteen, isn’t...”

That ship has sailed? You just straight up left her? Bye ����

Y E S

I want to say something else but spoiler alert, those would be the exact same words Sunset says later, so I’ll just shut up here. Wait for Sunset to say it in a few weeks.

kupari replied to your photoset “Ross: “She has a family. This conversation is over.” Marika: “You...”

I'm glad I'm not the only Marika around heh

It’s a pretty name! Also I’m sorry that my Marika is a bit of a bitch D:

elisabettasims replied to your photoset “I don’t go upstairs to December and Kieran’s bedroom anymore…and this...”

LOL

I’m editing them out of the holiday for sure. They freak me out.

elisabettasims replied to your photoset “I should’ve told her about Marika, I know…but I just couldn’t do it....”

Eh, in this case, I don't think waiting a day or two will hurt.

I mean yeah, it took her years to change her mind too.

dandylion240 replied to your post “Not leaving, might be taking a break”

I agree its not the same right now. I think everyone is just waiting to see what happens.

elisabettasims replied to your post “Not leaving, might be taking a break”

I had to turn off seeing reblogs to get some peace from the anxiety and, frankly, dramatics coming out of this. LOL

I feel like things have calmed down a little bit? Which means I guess I can come back but also, I still have a lot of homework and it would really be for the best if I stayed away...but let’s be real I don’t have the willpower to stay away.

jackssims replied to your photoset “Wait nevermind…are you okay??”

I don’t wanna put the 👀 emoji bc he could just be legitimately sick, but I’m gonna go with the 👀 emoji anyway

👀

elisabettasims replied to your photoset “Caleb: My daughter has a girlfriend. That’s…that’s…I’m happy for her...”

Like any other mature, centuries old adult. You be happy for her.

He is gonna be happy once he’s over the surprise lol. He’s just too shocked to think straight right now.

jackssims replied to your photoset “I failed to get a good screenshot so here’s Sunset looking pretty much...”

Oh god what a mood

Me last year during my birthday party when I realized all my relatives had given me money to get a driving license when I’m in fact terrified of driving (to this day I still don’t have a driving license and I’m not planning on getting it unless I really have to get it)

Me this year...oh wait I’m not having a birthday party with my family this year, nice. And the only thing that was close to a birthday party got cancelled because my friend bailed on me. Really nice I love my life

stfu ron stop being so bitter literally no one cares

jackssims replied to your photoset “Lilith: “I’m surprised you finally decided to show up. What brings you...”

👀

👀  the only acceptable emoji when it comes to this generation

idk what I just tried to tell by that  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#replies #alfalfalegacy #simlovinggirl #dandylion240 #green-productivitea #elisabettasims #jackssims #kupari

[blessuswithblogs]

2018 Game of the Year Top Ten List I guess

2018 has been an interminable mire of exhausting miasma and quite frankly I feel like it has been longer than the entire stretch of 2010-2015 combined. I also didn't play many games released this year because, like last year, I'm still poor. I'll see what I can dig up.

10. Sunset Overdrive PC edition: It's a fun open world game by insomniac. The PC Port is actually balls but like. It's a good game with a unique emphasis on how you traverse the game world, where you can grind and bounce on just about anything and indeed to do so is the only way to not get totally chewed up by the hordes of mutants and scavengers and robots you have to fight. There's also some pretty fun and out there weapons to use, like a gun that shoots vinyl records or one that deploys little auto-turrets kept aloft with propellers or one that shoots out a bowling ball at terminal velocity. The base game didn't actually come out this year (I dont... think it did...?) but it was an XBone exclusive so I didn't play it then. It's got some weird problems with narrative tone and some kind of out of the blue racism but the M rated Nickolodeon toy commercial aesthetic is charming in a weird way. I guess.

9. The Forest: I think this got an official release this year? I don't know I can't fucking keep track. Speaking of a game with weird problems with racism, if you can look past the garbage "main quest" and really deeply uncomfortable racial politics where you murder and steal from cannibal mutants, The Forest is probably the best cool treefort building simulator I've ever played. This game has a love affair with lumber and I respect that. Shouldn't you be looking for Timmy, you ask me? Shouldn't you be shutting the fuck up before I put this airplane axe in your skullmeats? Gazebos are nice. I guess.

8. Spyro: reignited trilogy: haven't actually played this yet but let's be real the spyro games were fucking dope back in the day and giving them an HD coat of paint and packaging them all together is a real standup thing for insomniac to do in between slinging webs and making questionable pc ports. Also its like Dark Souls so it has to be good, right? Everything old is new again. I guess.

7. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: haven't played this one either but like. I know that I am a smash-enjoyer. I even liked Brawl. This is the biggest, smashiest one yet and it's also on the switch which means it could also be portable if I decided I never wanted to leave my bed again. I'm probably going to find some money to get it soon. Should be fun. I guess.

6. The Quiet Man: look no game that is THIS hysterical can be all bad alright? Didn't play it. Won't play it. It's awful. But it's so fucking funny like oh my god. Still better than Fallout 76. I guess.

5. Dark Souls Remastered: was this even a good remaster? I don't fucking know. It's Dark Souls. It's better than 90% of released games by default. I miss Solaire of Astora. I guess there's Shadows Die Twice to look forward to. I guess.

4. Subnautica: I wrote a lot about this actually. Subnautica is great. Just fantastic. A wonderful, visually stunning (mostly) (when it works) journey under an alien ocean to unravel an ancient mystery behind a deadly plague. Building seabases is so much fun (when it doesn't hard crash your computer) and the peaceful playstyle you adopt where you really only kill things for food until you can grow your own, much more efficient produce is a welcome change of pace from everything else. Leviathans are scary, especially now that your cyclops is mortal and not indestructible. This game actually Came Out this year so it deserves to be on the spot. I guess.

3. Dragon Ball Fighterz: Honestly I'm hell trash garbage at fighting games that aren't smash but this was a very well put together, visually impressive as all hell fast paced tag fighter where you can have 3 gokus on the same team fight 3 other gokus on the same team. Goku density alone makes this game worth recommending. The eSports scene that has popped up around it is fun too. I guess.

2. Dead Cells: Another game that gets to be on the list by virtue of it actually coming out this year. Wait, was this on last year's list? Let me check. Ok good it wasn't. Early access is a fucking trip. It's fun, stylish, challenging, has a great deal of variety in ways to play, might have erased my entire save because it became obsolete and I'm definitely not bitter, and it has that classic rogue-lite replay value to give you some bang for your buck. There was that one review plagiarism scandal. I guess.

1. Monster Hunter World: If you really want to know what I think of this game my previous piece on it is a good place to start. In addition to everything said there, MHW is just a fun game. The loop is satisfying and, later on, quite challenging. The combat system takes some genuine getting used to and some monsters like Nergigante actually literally cheat but for the most part the game's unique fighting style, spread across several unique weapon types, is rewarding to learn because it demands some effort be put into it and the dividends of fighting well are very cool, like just knocking a flying monster on its ass with a single mighty swing of the hammer. When a game is hard in any capacity games journalists get dollar signs in their eyes and start drooling uncontrollably because they can immediately declare that Farm Sim 2020 is the next Bloodborne because they somehow managed to roll their tractor into a ditch, but MHW is actually quite similar in style and execution to deliberate Souls combat, but the comparison is made in reverse. Dark Souls is quite similar to Monster Hunter, the first game of which was popular and a couple of years old before Demon's Souls was even a twinkle in Miyazaki's eye. There's a lot of parallels between fighting a big ol' rathalos in monhun and going for the toes against a dragon in Dark Souls, but I think MHW actually does that kind of fight better.  There are a lot of modern conveniences present in MHW that are a godsend to newer players, making the game pretty easy to get into if you're willing to try. It was my favorite game of the year that actually came out in 2018. I kind of wanted to put Warframe in this list but it's been out of early access for years now. I guess.

There were a lot of games this year that I wanted to play, but couldn't. I don't think 2018 was a weak year for video games. It wasn't as strong as 2017 but it had some hits, I just couldn't afford to play them all. Maybe next year I'll be able to give a better list. I think that the whole industry is in for some hard choices and major restructuring of how things get done and how they look at the end result. Stocks continue to trend downward - not just for Bethesda but for most mainstream, prominent AAA developers like EA and Take2. Given the well documented volatility of "The Shareholders", I imagine that they would be most displeased by downward trends even if they were still making a modest profit.

The situation has been likened to an economic bubble ripe for bursting. Games as a cultural institution have come a long way since the catastrophic days of Atari's warehouses of unsold copies of E.T., and I don't believe that we're in any danger of a complete collapse of the institution, but the fact absolutely remains That Something's Gotta Give. The increasingly predatory practices that game developers put in place as they pathologically attempt to Make Every Money Ever are intrinsically unsustainable. People are willing to forgive and overlook the now ubiquitous microtransaction if a game is good enough to overlook it, or if it's the game's only real way of actually making money. Warframe's microtransactions, for instance, are reasonably priced, platinum is often heavily discounted as a login bonus, and you can make large amounts of it without ever spending money thanks to the game's surprisingly robust trading economy. So. Yeah. They get a pass. Warframe is also good on its own merits, despite being free to play. They also listen to their community about pricing. Go check out Warframe. It's free. It's free!!! Warframe is my unofficial top spot.

Sorry I got a little bit distracted. So there's only really two instances where people will tolerate microtransactions and lootboxes in the contemporary sense: either a game is good enough and polished enough and the lootboxes are unobtrusive enough that you can just sort of shrug your shoulders and say "it sucks but what are you gonna do" or it genuinely relies on those microtransactions to support itself. When these tenets are violated, people WILL get mad. People raised absolute hell about Battlefront 2's scummy monetization schemes, enough to get EA to back off. Fallout 76 is getting lambasted in no small part due to its utterly overpriced "cosmetic" shop where you pay ten real dollars to get your power armor to look blue. You can buy fullfeatured, critically acclaimed games for half that price and you already dumped $60 on this lemon of a game. Destiny 2 got into hot water for being cagey about how its exp values were calculated and how the previously free and user-friendly shaders became one-time use items you could only get from rolling the dice. The public is getting positively irate about all of this nonsense, and if Fallout 76 (and evidently battlefield V?) is any indication, we are fast approaching a breaking point where shareholder demand for profit will outpace the consumer's ability to provide it and the developer's ability to skinner box it out of us.

Of course Nintendo continues to march on to the beat of its own drum seemingly unaffected by all of this garbage. Not out of any moral superiority, I imagine. More likely it's just a consequence of that company still being in the process of being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Maybe a few years down the line when everyboy else has abandoned microtransactions Nintendo will pick them up, put a cute Mario motif on it, and we'll be back to square one. Time will tell. We're in a volatile time for games and the timebomb keeps ticking. I just hope the explosion isn't too messy. I guess.

#goty #2018 #monster hunter world #subnautica #dead cells #gamedev

[k1ll-ur-vibe]

hey! thanks for visiting my blog.

i’m jade, i’m 20 years old and i live in south wales in the uk. my pronouns are she/her and i am bisexual. i’m single.

i love music, writing, body modification, bdsm, gaming, tv shows, genealogy, true crime and rugby. my favourite music genre is pop-punk and my favourite band is all time low. i love atl to death, they have helped me so much and saved my life. their music means the fucking world to me and i can’t even express just how much i love them. i own multiple copies of their CDs, DVDs and vinyls, and a shit ton of merch. i have seen them 9 times and met them 3 times. they’ve also noticed me a bunch of times and some of the guys have started recognising me at this point which is really cool. i’ve loved them for nearly 7 years and they are such an integral part of my personality and life at this point, it’s unreal. <3 if you’re friends with me, you’re gonna hear about atl every single day and you need to accept that.

other than pop-punk, i love all different genres and have a very varied music taste. some artists other than atl that i love are simple creatures, busted, lights, little mix, mcfly, the maine, marianas trench, jojo, ed sheeran, demi lovato, breathe carolina, cupcakke and hayley kiyoko.

i write songs, play guitar, bass and drums, sing, read music and am experienced in in-studio and live sound engineering. music is my life, it’s what i live and breathe. i currently work in events staff, helping put on concerts and rugby matches which are 2 of the things i love the most.

i write stories online and have had some pretty popular fics before. i write both fan fiction and own universe stories and i take part in nanowrimo every year. most of my stories will go up on quotev and/or mibba. you can view my profiles on those websites here and here. you can view my nanowrimo profile here.

through writing fan fiction, i have met friends who have made my life so much better and become my family. i met 2 of my best friends, dominique and alexandria, on quotev and i wouldn’t change them for the world. <3 i’m finally meeting dominique in march but unfortunately, alexandria and i still have to wait a little longer. but we’ll get there, i know we will. :) i’ve known both of these girls for nearly 7 years and i just love them so much. <3 i can’t wait to finally break the distance with my sisters. :)

i love body modification. i currently have 3 tattoos and pierced ears but i want so, so much more. i currently want 24 more tattoos plus an entire sleeve, 10 more piercings and stretched ears. all the tattoos i have currently are atl related (therapy and skull tattoos on my left arm, plus atl’s signatures on my upper back) and i love them so much. however, the next tattoo i intend to get is non-atl related but i still have plenty more atl-related stuff to get done, including the sleeve (it will be based on my fave album, nothing personal’s artwork). :)

i am highly into bdsm and am a submissive. before the tumblr purge, i had a bdsm blog but now, since i’ve had to delete it, anything that i can get away with will be posted here. some of my kinks include bondage, pain, torture, degradation and humiliation, dd/lg and watersports. i’ve struggled with my sexuality a lot over the years and part of that has been a struggle with accepting that i’m kinky. but i refuse to let it bother me anymore. i am into bdsm and if people don’t like it, that’s their problem. i will be posting bdsm-related things on this blog so if you’re not into that, please don’t follow me. however, i will try my best to tag everything as both bdsm and nsfw so if you are able to block those tags in any way and still want to follow me, please feel free to do so. :)

i love video games and my favourite games are the gta games (my faves are prob gta san andreas and gta5. however, i am currently making my way through gta4 as i didn’t get to play it when it initially came out). i also love tony hawk, sonic, pokemon and the sims. i am currently an xbox player but love playstation and nintendo too. i have fond memories of the gamecube and the ps2 growing up. i’m hoping to play red dead redemption 2 and undertale soon. i think they look awesome and have watched many let’s plays on them. currently playing: gta4, ts4 and pokemon white.

i love tv shows and some of my favourites are the goldbergs, brooklyn nine nine, how i met your mother, friends, stranger things, you, big mouth and the good place. i mostly netflix binge but sometimes will watch live. the only problem is things take a lot longer to come to the uk from the us haha. i used to be a huge fan of sci-fi and i used to blog a lot about supernatural, doctor who and sherlock but have drifted far away from that now (although i still love misha collins and ship destiel/cockles lmao). so if you see one of my old posts, know that i’m not like that anymore. i definitely prefer sitcoms these days but still love a good drama. :)

i love genealogy and have been creating my own family tree since 2015. my 3 favourite genealogy-related tv shows are who do you think you are? (uk version), heir hunters, and long lost family. i love finding out about my family history and what made me, me really. i get that it’s a super nerdy thing to be into but quite frankly, i don’t care haha.

i’m super interested in true crime and the psychology surrounding it. eleanor neale is my favourite youtuber but a close second is georgia marie. i also love buzzfeed unsolved, both true crime and supernatural editions. i frequently binge true crime docu-series on netflix and i really want to study psychology at some point. i just think it’s so fascinating to think about what must have to break in someone’s brain to make them so violent and/or evil.

being welsh, i of course adore rugby. and of course, i root for wales. the venue i work at is the home venue for wales and it makes me so proud. i would love to meet one of the team one day, probably leigh halfpenny specifically. i feel that rugby is just so much better than football and the fanbases tend to be way more accepting of each other. and the game is way more fun to watch. but unfortunately, i don’t think i’ll ever be strong or brave enough to actually play it haha.

i unfortunately struggle with a few illnesses that can sometimes make life a daily battle but i get through it. i have polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos), which causes irregular periods, cysts on the ovaries, rapid weight gain and difficulty losing weight, hirsutism, male-pattern balding, acne and infertility. i have pretty much every symptom (but i haven’t tried getting pregnant yet so i don’t know about infertility) and it is hell. i also suffer with a few mental illnesses; depression, social anxiety disorder and OCD. i used to self-harm but am now over 5 years clean and i also have attempted suicide in the past but am thankfully not suicidal right now. i take 40 mg fluoxetine daily to manage my mental illnesses and i also see a support worker to help me get out more and build my confidence. i’ve been through both child and adult therapy services in the past. anyone who’s reading this and is struggling too, please stay strong. <3 i promise there are better days out there for you.

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