#Arcane Illusions

[sheepyshenanigans]

My favorite CC from S-Club on The Sims Resource!

Arcane Illusions Diamond Wings Earrings

Ye Medieval Curly Braid Hairstyle

Arcane Illusion Braid Long Elf Hairstyle (Fairy)

Arcane Illusion Fairy Hair Accessories

Arcane Illusion Long Curly Hairstyle for Mermaid

Diamond & Pearl Crown

Diamond Flower Earrings

Diamond Flower Necklace

Updo Hair Style (Venus)

Curly Long Hairstyle (Krystal)

Starry Blush (LL TS4 Face Acc)

Starry Crown (LL TS4 Hair CC)

[lilysplacce]

FAIRY WINGS 2 by Jaru Sims

D O W N L O A D

[sheepyshenanigans]

This new collection is everything 😍 😍 😍

Ye Medieval on The sims Ressource

Thank you to all the creators for this wonderfull content 🥰

[rozugold]

Something about guilt and redemption

[the-greatest-magic-of-all]

Kalina was probably unmade in the mall fight along with Cassandra but she's a familiar. Familiars can be summoned. As a cleric, Kristen can't summon her, she doesn't have acess to that spell.

But Riz does.

[wildstar25]

I was thinking about WOL outfits and what not, so here's a question:

And to elaborate on the difference between option 1 and option 2, a brief explanation of my interpretations under the cut:

Illusion magic only masks the true appearance of an item, bending the light aether around the item to make it look different to the naked eye. No physical properties of the armour changes. It maintains its original dimensions and weight. If your WOL was wearing full plate armour then glamoured it to something more revealing, if someone tried to stab an exposed area, their knife would stop on impact of the concealed armour.

Transformation magic will fully alter the physical appearance of the armour into the applied glamour. It will take on the shape and structure of the WOL's desired form, but the properties of the materials used will be maintained. The high grade metal of the armour will be altered to a state where it was like a woven thread. The item would provide the same degree of protection as the original where it physically exists in its glamoured state. If your WOL glamoured their plate armour into a the street wear top, their actual abdomen could be pierced by weapon. Because this is magic you could fudge the physics if you so choose or say there's a secondary spell involved; but I'd imagine that if the transformation was completely lossless, your glamoured item will weight the same amount as the un-glamoured version. (Otherwise it would be more like a transmutation which is a lossy conversion and not reversible. The WOL turned their new savage tier BIS armour into a hempen camise and lost 95% of the material in the process. When they dispel the glamour they have that hempen camise's amount of the original armour piece.)

That's my take on the two options! I don't know if either of them really contradict any canon in-game explanations to the glamour system tbh. It's been so long since I picked up the intro quest and the only time I remember glamours being used as a plot device it was in the ARR Hildebrand quest line (I think the very end or within the coliseum arc, either way I'm not doing all that just to check and see that it says nothing of note)

[gaal-dornick]

hi i will be starting arcane any day now 🫶

[blujayonthewing]

gnome culture emphasizes playfulness and a good sense of humor partly because gnomes are physically small and vulnerable and tend to settle in wild places with a lot of hazards and if they had to take every completely real threat to their safety seriously while also Taking Them Seriously they'd just be paralyzed by fear

[terrestrialtraveller]

All of you are sad about Viktor and Jayce's situationship ending, but I'm loving every second of Sky and Viktor's mission of wholesome commune and new dog.

Update on Mel- Uhhhh....MEL WHAT ARE YOU????

I was just joking about golden sunlight!?!?!

[writerofscratch]

D&D idea: wizard who constantly casts spells like 'Comprehend Languages' and 'Tongues' to be like those annoying "polyglot" youtubers who SURPRISE native speakers BY SPEAKING THEIR LANGUAGE. He records the episodes by casting 'Arcane Eye' so he can get a third-person perspective, and uses 'Minor Illusion' paired with 'Silent Image' to play the recordings back to others.

[sheepyshenanigans]

Fairy CC Finds!

CarlosMG_FairyWings_01 by CarlosMG on The Sims Resource!

https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-accessories-female-bracelets/title/carlosmg-fairywings-01/id/1517083/ 

LeahLilith Earthquake Wings by Leah_Lillith TSR 

https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims3-accessories-glasses/title/leahlilith-earthquake-wings/id/1309219/ 

Fairy Wings Child by Suzue TSR 

https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-accessories-female-hats/title/%5Bsuzue%5D-fairy-child-wings/id/1441390/ 

IMF Fairy Facepaint by IzzieMcFire TSR 

https://www.thesimsresource.com/members/IzzieMcFire/downloads/details/category/sims4-makeup-female-skindetails/title/imf-fairy-facepaint/id/1465265/ 

Fairy Sparkle Wings 1 (S-Club recolor, mesh needed) by Jaru_Sims TSR

https://www.thesimsresource.com/members/Jaru_Sims/downloads/details/category/sims4-accessories-female-hats/title/fairy-sparkle-wings-1-s-club-recolor-mesh-needed/id/1418849/ 

S-Club LL ts4 Fairy wings 01 by S-Club TSR  (this is the mesh for Fairy Sparkle Wings! and is also cute wings itself!) 

https://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/S-Club/downloads/details/category/sims4-accessories-female-hats/title/s-club-ll-ts4-fairy-wings-01/id/1316969/ 

Outfit Loreley 1 by Jaru_Sims TSR 

https://www.thesimsresource.com/members/Jaru_Sims/downloads/details/category/sims4-clothing-female-teenadultelder-everyday/title/outfit-loreley-1/id/1645325/ 

Glass Wings - All Ages (toddler/child/teen/adult) by Esmeralda on Mod The Sims! 

https://modthesims.info/d/541205/glass-wings-all-ages.html 

[lilysplacce]

PENTAGRAM GOWN II by Pipco

D O W N L O A D

[claggrot]

@girlcyclone sent: [ MISDIRECTION ]: the sender points a group of pursuers in the opposite direction to buy the receiver some time to hide. / give it to me in your main timeline or s2p7 timeline

right place, right time prompts (always accepting)

Claggor managed to hide, clearly grateful for his sister to buy him some time to hide. It has been a long time since he felt this much adrenaline and a bit of worry, considering he doesn’t hide as often anymore than he did back then. He waits for the all-clear signal from his sister, staying as quiet he can.

[dndtreasury]

Pendant of Daydreams by Mysterious Trove

[linisiane]

Been thinking about a Modern!Babel AU centered around colleges aimed around Silicon Valley

Immigrant kids being funneled into CS because it’s the field where the money is (linguistics? Where’s the money in that? You want to starve?).

International students coming to America because all the Big Programming Languages and their documentation are in English, because translations of documentation is to err and to betray, because English is the programming lingua franca, because if you don’t know English then you’ll be “trailing edge.” Source

“As an American and native English-speaker myself, I have previously been reluctant to suggest this, lest it be taken as a sort of cultural imperialism. But several native speakers of other languages have urged me to point out that English is the working language of the hacker culture and the Internet, and that you will need to know it to function in the hacker community.” Source

So they come to America to improve their English because you have to be fluent to be taken seriously. Or maybe they’re born in America and can feel the rot of their native tongue as they grow up, even as they learn more and more programming languages.

Java, C++, Ruby, XML, Python, Swift, PHP, etc.

It’s funny, but programmers, even as they’ve decided on English as the one true language, they create more and more programming languages to suit their needs/problem solving efficiency:

Source

[ID: XKCD comic that is titled "How Standards Proliferate (See: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.)" It reads,

Situation: There are 14 competing standards. Cueball (stick figure): 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases. Ponytail (other stick figure): Yeah! Soon: Situation: There are 15 competing standards.

End ID]

(transcript taken from the ExplainXKCD wiki)

And of course, the students from countries on the Indian subcontinent are acutely aware of the unbalanced nature of the work they do, the way they’re expected to do export IT work, despite the digital divide in India, Bengal, Pakistan, etc. Especially since it’s a sign of being well-educated (wealthy) to speak English fluently thanks to the history of British Imperialism on the subcontinent.

Chinese IT students sink or swim thanks Mandarin monolinguism making it difficult to learn English. Americans programmers struggle not to link choppy English with choppy code, even while being monolingual themselves!

Not to mention the heavy sexism in the IT field! Female programmers taking on nicknames on emails and resumes to pretend to be men, so they’ll be taken seriously. Despite the history of women like Ada Lovelace being foundational to computers.

And of course we gotta bring up the ethics of AI, how it’s a march towards the inevitable that only Luddites would oppose. Despite the millions who’d lose their jobs once implemented into the workplace.

Commercial transportation sector lost to self-driving cars.

Digital artists lost to DALL-E.

Manufacturers automated.

But can’t they tell that progress is inevitable? That this is the future and to try to stop it is foolish?

As Anand Giridharadas put it in Winners Take All:

“In [Silicon] Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely to be describing what has yet to occur”

Elon Musk is a genius. Bill Gates is so charitable. Bezos is customer obsessed, and they’re the future, don’t you see? Infinite growth forever and ever.

Tower of Babel? Valley of Silicon.

Unfortunately I suck at STEM, and I’m an uncultured Asian American, so I don’t know programming languages well, nor do I know enough about other cultures to do Ramy, Victoire, Robin, or Letty justice. Just the bare bones to see the structure of this AU and put it out in the world to see if anybody would like to play with it or add on.