#DORKERY

[allthelittlecreepycrawlies]

Silly But Firm Belief: The Nie parents had to die because otherwise once their sons were old enough, the combined DILF/MILFs/Buff/Twink energy would have made the jianghu literally explode.

A conference hall where all five of them are present? Nobody remembers anything about the trade and tax talks and the Nie Sect now owns everything.

[genius11rare]

Amazing

I have never read a more excellent article

[higgsboshark]

Dear knitting side of tumblr, would you like to see my new project? I assume yes

This is my beautiful son, he has every disease

the pattern is Sea Glass Cardigan by Wool & Pine. Main color is Valley Yarns Stockbridge in Kiwi. Contrast is a very special OOAK colorway called “Whatever Random Remnants I Found in the Bottom of the Stash Bin”

[outfoxedmulderr]

✨ don’t even talk to me ✨

[novelmonger]

Wait...did they just...write the main character out of the show? @_@

I'm probably not supposed to immediately dislike Sheridan, but I can't help it. I miss Sinclair already :(

I suppose he's got a character arc ahead of him, which is a good thing, but he seems like he's going to struggle with the diplomacy aspect of the job.

[iheardyoulooking]

[rouge-the-bat]

its hard for me to not feel a lil excited over the yyh live action since yyh is a huge hyperfixation for me rn, but i dont want to let myself get my hopes up too high in case they make changes that i REALLY dont like... but i gotta say im really curious what theyre gonna do with the theme song. bc if they dont do a remixed smile bomb im going to murder someone

[raszdemon]

Tomorrow I got a job helping an older lady organize stuff and clean her house and I hopped and pray my chronic headaches and/or migraines don't get in the way 😭

I wanna help, and I need the money.

[pixeldistractions]

welcome!

Please join me in the madness of my long-running sims-storytelling obsession, spanning two game versions, fifteen years, and 250-something sims. All stories exist in the same world and share the same timeline.

Between story chapters, there will also be gameplay shenanigans, storytelling babble, sim-tracking dorkery, and rotational TS4 play. Also, occasional quick flings with Minecraft.

@lauraraeamos is my main. story archive on Blogger chat on Bsky

current story status:

boxes and squares #5.4: togetherness — in 6 parts, now posting! (#5.4 start here // index)

bonus Carly and Kyle baby-making honeymoon gameplay!

⬇️⬇️⬇️ so many stories under this cut!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

boxes and squares, an epic ensemble drama:

story index: Tumblr // Blogger

status: in progress

characters: Jordan, Maria, Colette, Ingrid, Jack, Lou

about: (adventure/coming-of-age/drama/romance)

Boxes and Squares is an ensemble drama series about a wandering group of misfits trying to live their lives boldly, no matter the consequences. Jordan wants to escape, Maria just wants to love him, Colette wants to crucify him, and Ingrid is just playing games… probably. New friends and lovers enter the picture, highlighting the messy and beautiful connections between imperfect people as they search for adventure, love, belonging, forgiveness, and what it means to be home.

content warnings: NSFW as marked, domestic verbal and emotional abuse, death and grief, depression

unexpected unlife, a casual gameplay story:

story index: Tumblr

status: in progress

characters: Robert, Cynthia, Justin, Stephanie

about: (casual gameplay/dark humor/drama) Robert Kim suffered a quick and unexpected death at the age of 54, just as he was looking forward to easing back into an early retirement with the love of his life, in the house they bought down the road from his son and three lovely grandchildren. He wasn’t ready for death, but somehow he isn’t quite prepared for what to do with this surprise afterlife, either.

content warnings: death, grief

real music, a story about love, hate, and music:

story index: Tumblr index of Blogger links

status: resting between story arcs

characters: Vale, Vicky

about: (music/romance/enemies to lovers) Vale is a quickly rising electronica star and epic turd, and Vicky is a prickly and stubborn nobody with an ethereal singing voice. They can’t stand each other, but they also can’t leave each other alone. They want nothing to do with each other, except maybe they might need each other. What do you do with that?

content warnings: NSFW as marked

drown, falling in love at the end of the world:

story index: Blogger only for now

status: complete!

characters: Justin, Stephanie, Keri, Jeremiah

about: (sci-fi/romance/drama) Earth has been pulled into its first extraterrestrial war. Justin and Stephanie are two childhood friends who begin to see each other in a new light as the world around them falls apart.

content warnings: NSFW as marked, war, alien invasion, adultery, domestic abuse and violence, graphic violence, traumatic childbirth, depression

gameplay families:

Akiyama-McCarthy family gameplay (tag) index

other games:

minecraft adventures are here

also loved FFXV so much!

some other fun tags to browse: sad stories that have no ending // sim storyteller problems // sims being sims // random townies being random // sims are being too real life // sims are funny // sims are crazy

[higgsboshark]

not naming names here but I’m just saying, if you’re going to make a black and white colorwork pattern and call it the “Badger Sweater” there better be some fucking badgers on it

get out of here with your “these abstract shapes subtly reference the idea of badgers.” No one wants subtle badgers. I want my sweater to yell “BADGER!” when I walk in the room

ps. and if you also have a pattern called “Mushroom Raglan” (with NO MUSHROOMS ON IT seriously why are you like this), your next one better be the “Snake It’s a Snake” cardigan or I will riot

[madnessfromthemountains]

Horse nerd here...

Polo is also played in the US, mostly by the US equivalent of posh rich assholes, but sometimes really talented riders can horn into a club and maybe get sponsored.

Riding skills very much translate into polo. Pretty much everybody fools about it if they have horses and a riding teacher and some brooms and a ball. I have. I sucketh rocks. :D

Fun fact! Polo in the BC's was ridden with no stirrups. You couldn't stand up in the stirrups and lean over to make a shot. YIKES, tm. Also most likely on actual ponies, because people favored shorter horses until stirrups were invented (because they vaulted onto the horse, generally, which is harder when the horse is more than 15 hands (60 inches, or 5 feet or about 150 cm). Note the pretty Tang dynasty statues have no HINT of stirrups. Those ladies ROCKED.

had dreams involving your boys. woke just enough to consider sending you very out of context asks as if the dreams were your posts but decided to go back to sleep again instead

one ask was gonna be about Killie making pies for a fair, and the other about Golf But on Horseback. Charlie was there. something about the golf was a pretense but he was also good at it for reals

(The Horse Boys)

Bestie did your subconscious put Charlie in a polo game? That is GALAXY brained of you?

Here are some facts about polo (I don’t really know anything about polo)

Polo is one of the oldest team sports in recorded history!

The first recorded game of polo was 600 BC between the Turkomans and the Persians; the Persians won.

Polo sources claim that horse polo is the ancestor of both golf and (all forms of) hockey, as its recorded history is older than those - and rather than being innovative, they are simply what happens when you remove the horsies. Golf and hockey sources do not acknowledge this. Horseless behavior.

Polo horses are correctly called “polo ponies” but they’re mostly technically horses. This is a horse person linguistic nonsense thing.

The field for playing polo is the largest of all field sports.

Calvary-type nations around Europe, Asia and the Middle East would play polo as a training exercise. The demise of cavalry units in warfare made polo less interesting.

The idea of “polo originating using the severed heads of enemies” is possibly apocryphal, since balls are fairly old technology and a ball is literally just better for sports.

I love how there are a lot of Chinese representations of female polo players, they’re sooo expressive 😭 yes girls!!! It IS like that!!! female Tang Dynasty polo players, source 1 and source 2

Since I know you nerds will ask

according to Tolkien, the hobbit Bandobras Took, who stood 4’5” and could ride a horse, was credited with “inventing the game of golf” after charging goblin ranks and using a club to whack the head off the leader.

Given the visuals and pragmatic realities, etc, he was probably mounted on a horse and struck downwards. Think about it.

so yes, what he probably actually invented was polo.

But you’d have to remove the horses anyway, if nobody else in the area could manage one, which instantly results in golf or hockey.

ANYWAY

A very pretty sport, although I don’t follow it myself. Currently practiced in its “modern” form mostly in Argentina I think?

Only REALLY obscenely wealthy, posh British people play it in the UK, which Charlie isn’t, so you can have fun Inventing a Convoluted Premise

Maybe that’s the Pretense. Charlie can’t actually play polo and is actually a massive imposter, pretending to be a 6-foot Tory English baron, and everyone knows he fucking well isn’t, but he’s doing it anyway

I don’t know why but I agree wholeheartedly with your subconscious that Charlie is running around doing MOUNTED WARFARE while Killie is stressing to death in the tea tent.

AAaaaaAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaah

[outfoxedmulderr]

WE’LL CARRY ON 📢

[general-alicia]

It is abandoned-WIP Wednesday. Here's some Ras dorkery that's not going to go anywhere.

"I don't think you quite understand your position here, Miss Thorne," the woman spoke, spreading her hands out in explanation. "I am the Goddess of Death."

Ras struggled to stand. The oppressive aura that emanated from this woman suddenly made sense. She was the one in charge. She was the one who had Gil in her clutches. She was the one who would give him back.

As she got to her feet, breath heavy and hair matted against her face, caked in mud, blood, and sweat, she lifted her sword. It took everything she had to stand up, never mind lifting her blade and pointing it at the adversary before her.

The Goddess, however, wasn't used to such resistance; for a brief moment her oppressive aura relented, allowing Ras to regain her footing in a proper battle stance. She stumbled a bit as the weight released her, before she firmly planted her feet on the ground and took a deep breath.

She reached within, seeking the power that had helped her so many times before. The flames that coursed through her veins began to sing, bringing her blood up to a furious boil as the rage that built up within her surfaced.

Suddenly, the aura returned, the Goddess having had time to recover from her surprise. Only this time, Ras was prepared, and she resisted much more easily, standing straight with her blade remained pointed at her opponent.

With a grin, she spoke. "Then die."

…That definitely sounded cooler in her head.

[deathprocession]

Local man arrested for major dorkery more at seven

[ignis-et-glacius]

Ok, got tagged so here's 5 boring (in a stupid way) things about me I guess??

1. My favorite fruit are apples (Honey Crisp all the way)

2. i like Synthwave (check out Ollie Wride, he's really got some Queen mixed with a little Toto vibes and pretty much anything by The Tilt is perfect to dance to; both are 10/10)

3. As much as I talk and reblog fandom stuff, I'm not really much of a con goer. I'm awkward as hell in crowds when there's a lot of stuff to do

4. I feel THE most at home at metal concerts though. I love getting tossed around in mosh pits and I ran in like an excited kid for my first wall of death

5. I've been so desperate for fanfics that I've gone to non-english sites with only Google translate and prayers. You know you're in a small fandom when you have to go scraping in Fanfiktion.de (on the upside, there's someone I can recognize from their writing style alone when they cross-post translated stories)

Time to tag some randos!

@luckygoldfish

@unlimitedbitterworks

@kittykatkatelol

@eggchjf

Tell us 5 boring things about yourself tag game (thanks to the lovely @drmothmaam for the tag!):

1. My earliest surgery was when I was 3 days old

2. I have 7 pairs of shoes

3. I don't like peanuts. I'm not allergic or anything, I'm just not a fan

4. I own a non-even number of gloves

5. I don't have plants in my house because I'm too bad at taking care of them. Even the ones that take hardly any effort

I hope they were boring enough?

An undemanding tag for @mantis-lizbian @maidenofmadness @transgirlthanatos @deliriumcrow @zerosuitsammi3 @o-wright or anyone else who wants to answer

[eddywoww]

every iteration of steve and eddie you write is sooooo good!! obsessed with the absolute dorkery of bartender eddie 🤭🤭

Thank you!!! He’s a funny little guy