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I was busy last night! Put away some laundry, started a new load of wash. Managed to shower and tend to my nails. I painted them a pale lilac with a shimmer coat on top.

Ate pistachios, Cheetos, and mocha ice cream balls while doing my nails. (It took a couple hours, going slow, so I was less likely to smudge them.)

Had a quick but heartfelt and poignant chat with phone-friend. The sorts of things I want to remember again later. Def need to take screenshots.

Though I've been snuggled in new bedding for a few hours, I still feel too excited to sleep. Part of it is my body relaying more sensations. The sensitivity always gets renewed after a shower, in good ways and bad.

Moscow is in bed with me, making silly snoring sounds. I'll take my meds soon, even if I don't eat breakfast yet.

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Please reblog this picture of my beautiful son.

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cute ocean themed bedroom where its pitch black no windows full of fucked up shrimps and steaming hot chemical vents. the bed is a whale carcass

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source: paynterjacket on Instagram

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IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS - Nikita Gill

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My first alarm goes off 15 minutes before I have to actually get out of bed, and is the starting gun for Cuddle Time. Everyone reports immediately to the torso.

It is an effective wake up system.

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anyone know that reddit post about a girl who’s gf washes her hair and it talks about non sexual intimacy

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The Key to Writing Freakishly Good Dialogue -- TheLocalScriptMan

As I've browsed through video essays lately, about media analysis and writing, I found this charming video. I like the comparison of the "yes, and..." prompt in improv theater. Each line should lead into the next line, helping to uncover the story in a way that isn't info-dumping.

However, I'm really posting this for the segue into the sponsor's ad-read. I cackled and scared away my cat.

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"Witness my Act and Deed", 1882 - Frank Paton, British (1855 - 1909)

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I’ve been thinking about this TikTok for a week

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Sims 4, Norma Whitaker's legacy (Feb 2025)

Debra, Dakota, and Princess

Michael Wave as Day of the Dead ambassador

Debra, Princess, and Norma's ghost in the living room

Influence the teenager to pee?

Updates under the cut, because I'm long-winded.

I backed up my files before downloading the burglar update. I've heard some peope were getting corrupted save files, related to the "For Rent" expansion. They said corruption can happen even if you don't use residential rental lots, but they didn't specify if it's dependent on having the pack. (I don't have it, but I wanna be safe.)

It's no longer keeping track of which knitting projects I've unlocked, which sucks. I'm trying to get one of the himbo husbands to unlock all the socks before he passes away. Debra and Princess are working well on the sweaters, and Princess already maxed the knitting skill.

-- Family portrait: Debra, Dakota, and Princess Debra is a granddaughter of Norma (the original sim). Debra's cousin Charlie married Princess, and they had Dakota. They also have Egon, and Debra had a son (Cedric) with Michael Wave; both boys are toddlers.

-- Speaking of Michael Wave... Debra had offered a sugar skull at the family graves, which triggered the Day of the Dead NPC interaction. For some reason, the game selected Michael (one of my own sims) for the role. Thus, Debra and Michael hooked up, and now they have Cedric.

When I aged up both Cedric and Egon, Cedric resembled the previous generations more than Egon did. Princess's blond-hair genes are really strong, I guess. With 7 sims currently in the house, I'm debating whether to continue the family line with both branches. Easy solution would be to separate the households, but it's convenient to raise everyone together, especially with multiple toddlers.

-- Updated living room Around xmas, I downsized their house a bit, which included redoing their living room. I haven't sorted out all their paintings and family photos yet. Just a few hang for now. I ended up making an inaccessible basement room just to stash all their collectibles.

-- Influence to pee? I got the Parenthood game pack for the CAS and build-buy items, ngl. I haven't played with the mechanics much. Here, I was looking to ask Dakota to do her homework. I'd understand if this was an interaction with a potty-training toddler. Kinda weird otherwise. Especially because there's a "force [action]" interaction, as well. I feel bad enough when my sims are mean; I'm too faint-hearted to try this feature. =======

I'd also like to note that I forgot to screenshot the family tree. I want to update that later, because I'm now on the 3rd generation of off-spring. When counting the generations, does the initial sim count as 1 or 0? I think it'd be zero, because we'll say the children of immigrants are first-generation [new country citizens].

For example, one of my great-grandmothers was first-gen American, as her parents were English and Canadian. She was born after the immigrated, so she's the first descendant of that line to be a natural-born citizen.

That said, I don't know how the Sims (franchise) community interprets things. Basically, I'm trying to say that Norma was the initial sim, and the youngest kids are her great-grandkids. If I go for the 10-generation challenge, does it fulfill the achievement with the 10th-gen of offspring or the 9th-gen, counting Norma as #1?

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Babycakes

Submission from @etchetcetera

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‘The Rose Necklace’ (detail) by Pavel Tchelitchew, c. 1931.

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Phenomena with Stanisława P. from Phenomena of Materialisation, Baron von Schrenck-Notzing, 1923.