#GUYS PLEASE

[whim-prone-pirate]

do they know about the dropout cast

[amarachno]

Every time Bruce pisses one of his kids off, they dramatically proclaim something along the lines of, “I hate you! Im going to stay with mom!!!” and then run off.

The first time it happens, Bruce nearly pisses himself because he takes it as some sort of suicidal ideation thing. He tries to go after whichever kid started this, probably Dick, but is unable to find them for whatever reason. He decides to look as Batman. Bruce absolutely sick with worry.

Selina Kyle put his kid in a catsuit.

As time goes on, more of his kids pull this little stunt and Bruce is a little less concerned. Every so often Catwoman is seen with her sidekick ‘Stray’ but every time Stray is makes an appearance they have a wildly different gender, height, and body type. It always the same costume design but in different sizes

Even Cass participated once! Bruce just sighed deeply and looked vaguely regretful. The only one who hadnt made an appearance as Stray had been Damian. Bruce really couldnt imagine Damian running off to be Stray. The kid still had his birth mother so there was no reason to.. become… stray…

Damian shows up as Stray. Instead of his sibling’s preferred stolen objects as a trophy? Selina let him keep a cat. The worst part? The cat’s name is Selina.

Jason as stray

[thaliasthunder]

im sorry for the newcomers in the fandom i know everyone's rediscovering old stuff but i swear if i hear or read the word "persassy" one more time i'll just

[cacaocheri]

this is how I feel whenever I'm in the notes screaming and crying about how badly sun fnaf wants me

[mcchipisfried]

Do it for the Old Man Yaoi

[cowgyaru]

make arcane twitter links 2024!!!!!! WE ARE IN A CRISIS AND THOSE WILL SAVE HUNDRED, EVEN MILLIONS.

[mimi-croissant]

“I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I kind of feel bad for the zombies” DO I EVEN HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS LINE. DO I. ITS HIM FEELING BAD FOR SO CALLED “MONSTERS” IN THIS MADE UP MOVIE BECAUSE OF NIMONA. DONT HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS it makes me cry

[extraelodee]

serious art later ive got essays to work on have this while waiting xD

(16th September)

[10yrratiolover]

the delusion continues

[fluffitanuki]

just a glimpse into my dark and twisted reality 😏😏

[fortheloveofwbb]

I will NEVER shut up about this

everything about this is just so 😖😖 really did something to me

[monachopsis-420]

how it feels to be scared u did smth ur moot doesnt like

[mikeluciraphgabe]

“Blind Al lets Logan move in until Wade and him move across the hall a few months later-“

AND LAURA!!

LOGAN AND LAURA MAKE A WEIRD DAUGHTER/FATHER R/S WITH WADE AS THE DAD WHO STEPPED UP

LAURA LIVES WITH THEM FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS IN THE ‘GUEST’ (her) ROOM

Laura makes some friends from the local college who become roommates down the street from Logan and Wade (never too far) and help her enroll to the same and other locals [colleges] a bit later

Logan and Wade help her forge all of her ‘past schoolings’ and stuff so she looks like she’s definitely had a normal life. Yep. Nothing to see here. Just a normal 22 yo getting her life together

(Not that you NEED college to have your life together - it’s just how Laura’s life went)

Laura walks across the stage about three years later - having took a four year major but did it in three - and looks out in the crowd to see her weird ass family she made along the way

Her roommates turned life long friends, Blind Al whose turned into a weird grandma figure, Peter whose kinda like an uncle, Venessa whose label isn’t solid; balancing between mother, aunt, friend, Wade’s friends/family becoming her own friends/family

And most importantly she saw Logan looking at her like she’s his everything. It’s not the same man, not at all, but he’s still her dad.

The years were strange to build their timid but solid relationship

They had to balance the fact Logan wasn’t her Logan, no matter how similar/not similar they were. They had to balance the fact that, yes, they still care for each other on a deep and intimate level. Logan, most of all, had to come to terms that, despite not being his, Laura was his.

And of course, Laura saw Wade, wearing a matching jogging suit with her face printed all over it with a foam-finger reading “number one Laura fan” as she walked across

[fermithesilly]

Heya!

I noticed that you wanted questions about the main toons.

Well, ya got anything about Vee and Shelly?

If u are okay with talking about the Past and Future [Lesbian-] Duo!

I think they’re cute! The iconic doomed yuri.. Though I gotta say I’m a bigger fan of Veestro (Vee x Astro) and Shellsha (Shelly x Tisha)

…Also don’t kill me but I see Shellevision as one sided— *TOMATOES TOMATOES THROWN INTO MY FACE*

[xx-j4nu5-c4t5-xx]

"An ideal Sims game would have Sims 2's gameplay mechanics, Sims 3's open world, and Sims 4's graphics!"

I absolutely despise this take, and I want to explain why. This is a very long rant and it is full of piss and vinegar directed at everything in the Sims 4. I'm gonna try to keep everything kinda professional as much as I can but I can't guarantee an unbiased opinion.

If you'll let me talk your ears off for a moment, I'd like to explain, from my own experience as an artist and a casual player, my issues with the art style and direction of The Sims 4 compared to The Sims 2. (I'm not really going to comment on 3 because I've never played it.)

I want to start off by explaining the difference between better graphics and higher resolution. The Sims 4 absolutely blows Sims 2 out of the water when it comes to textures and polygon counts on sims, no contest. But I'd argue that the graphics themselves... aren't better. They're worse, even, so much fucking worse. The biggest problems come from the stylization and the animations, in my opinion, so I'll explain what I mean.

Have you ever felt like the Sims in 4 just look... weird? Not quirky, not kinda strange, but off. Distressing. Uncanny. Whatever the fuck the kids call it nowadays. When you strip away the packs and the CC and the shaders, the sims in the base game look bad. They're very close to being human; they walk like us, talk like us, have families like us, but they don't look like us, not exactly. There's always something off about them, no matter how close you try to get. Proportions will be a bit off, or your eyelashes will be like three polygons for some fucking reason, and the jig is up. The illusion is gone.

This is one of the instances where a higher resolution and more detailed models and meshes work against you. You aren't making believe. You are beyond the point of pretending that the pixelated shapes are real clothes and bodies and faces, because at this point, they're close enough that you don't need to. There's no gap to bridge. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're lifelike, at least, not enough to be completely human. In some ways, they're still tethered to being cartoony and plasticky and fake. Just enough to frighten you. Enough to put you off. They're not using it to their advantage anymore, and instead, it's holding them back.

When the Sims 2 came out in 2004, the developers knew that they weren't going to make a perfectly accurate life simulator. They physically couldn't render every wrinkle in the face or fold in the clothing. In some animations, things clip strangely or the facial expressions are sort of janky or there's just some form of roughness around the edges. But that's okay; your brain doesn't need a perfectly accurate representation this time. That's not what you're here for, anyway.

The Sims 4 is basically Icarus-ing itself into disaster. The entire game sacrifices style for complete realism, a goal that was unachievable ten years ago, and is unachievable now.

The Sims 2 never thought of itself as a completely realistic life sim, though. It has cartoony, low poly meshes and exaggerated proportions and wild, raunchy storylines that would never occur in real life. BECAUSE IT ISN'T REAL LIFE. And it isn't like real life, not because it's failing to be, but because it doesn't want to be!

The Sims 4 is not ever going to completely replicate human looks or interactions or dynamics. And if it's trying to, it's doing a shit job of it. That shouldn't be the goal in the first place. If I wanted to watch a lonely college student talk to himself in the mirror to try and get better at interacting with people, I'd close the computer and go look at myself. It somehow highlights the most mundane parts of life without any of the whimsy and goofiness that the earlier installments had. It takes itself too fucking seriously for its own good, and it's killing both the gameplay and the art style.

The other point I'd like to bring up is the animation. The Sims 4 allows for much more customization of both sim and environments, but at the cost of dynamic animations. How many times is that grab animation reused? How many times is the same set of animations used for sims with wildly different personalities? Your sims barely feel alive with how little they express themselves.

Now, look, I'm a digital artist. I've dabbled in animation, but only briefly, and only in 2D. I've got no clue how 3D animation works, much less how it worked 20 years ago, but I can see the passion in every single animation in the Sims 2. The more niche interactions allowed for more expressive animations than in 4. They could afford to have a distinct animation for mean sims throwing the football extra hard to be assholes, rather than every sim using the same generic football-throwing animation to save time and money. I get where they're coming from. I get the idea. But in one move, you've both made the art style stiffer and less expressive, and you've made the personalities of the sims seem meaningless. Everyone acts the same, regardless of what their moodlets or their traits say. It's hollow. It's stifled. It's a waste of potential.

But for what Sims 2 lacks in polygons, it makes up for in smaller animated details. Quality over quantity. The sims have hair physics, they open the door before they get in the car, they take utensils out of the counters when they cook, they jump on the couch and the cushions smush under their weight. When they dance, the weight is realistic, and when they smile, it tugs at every one of the few dozen shapes that make up their faces. The sims are lively. They dance and sing and love and hate just like humans, and rather than being some strange attempt at mimicry, it's almost a tribute. They were made with love. You can tell that they were drawn up and rigged and animated by a bunch of people working together, studying each other and making faces in the mirror for reference and watching their kids and neighbors and dogs and hands for reference. The sims are not human, and not trying to be, but they're taking the most human parts of us and making them their own.

You could never have a game with the Sims 4's graphics and the Sims 2's gameplay. The gameplay and graphics are inexorably connected, and the Sims 2 just has so much glorious detail baked into it, that you could never really make it work underneath the limitations of the later games. The developers of 2 knew what their limits were, and they worked tirelessly to make the game as full and complex as they could within those limits. The developers for the Sims 4 just did not have those guidelines, and thus, the drive to bend the rules was no longer there. They didn't go wild in rebellion because they were never told they couldn't in the first place. They spent the entire time chasing a goal they couldn't meet, and lost sight of what made the series fun to begin with.

It wasn't the realism you came for; you had realism already surrounding you. It was the caricature of it that made it interesting.