#I can't remember the name right now.

[polarfarina]

Spotify just notified me that the music artist credited as "Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories," which is what the portal soundtracks are listed under, just released new music. This year. I'm listening to it now and im SO confused

[braemjeorn]

we don't talk abt these two mentors enough

only had less than five minutes of dialogue each it's like a cameo, but it's my favourite cameos

[dustykneed]

Hello! Random whipper snipper! Share a WIP of your work!

ooh, with pleasure. six the musical araleyn fanart? in the year 2k24? more likely than you think xDD

i realize this looks finished, but technically i'm still deciding whether to add a background or not lol. still, for the sake of sharing a proper WIP, here's a line or two from an araleyn brainworm WIP that i started reworking yesterday (mild tw for religious guilt and period-typical internalized homophobia from aragon's pov):

She remembers sharing her bed with Anne at Henry's behest, remembers the nights of tossing and turning and trying not to think about Anne asleep next to her-- remembers waking up to dark hair spilling across her pillow and the press of blood-warm bosoms against her own, softer than sin, as hot as the Devil, remembers lying still as death, mouthing prayers into the heat of Anne's neck like an act of penance.

[worldseer]

For the love of God, please let the queers kiss already. I'm tired.

[empty-promises-too-much-to-count]

"I love you"

"Why?"

"Because you're... you"

[quarks-pussy]

[Images description: Twelve pictures of Star Trek actors. The phrase "thank you for being both amazing actors and amazing people" is written across most of the images one word at a time, except for the two images in the middle. The middle images are of William Shatner, reading "not you!" and Robert Beltran, reading "or you for that matter". The actors in the other images are George Takei, René Auberjonois, DeForest Kelley, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Patrick Stewart, Siddig El Fadil (aka Alexander Siddig), Nichelle Nichols and Leonard Nimoy. End image description.]

Non exhaustive list of course. Many more such cases, in fact feel free to add

(insp)

[balkanbitch]

I love hetero couples that are a light haired guy who is a freak of nature born out of the selfish desires of there family members who are also the villain that have to cope with the fact they aren't real and a girl who has to deal the horrors of being thrusted in to insane adventure before they were ready, who feel like the entire weight of the world is on their shoulders, incredibly powerful but is constantly undermined and have power beyond their current understanding.

[the-blossica-fan]

Paulina, J's sister, was mentioned in the main story.

Trail 1 Dances with Fire.

"She was digging through the files. The only touch of bright color on her was across her neck -- a blue polka dot scarf, tied in the French way."

Holy shoot holy shoot holy shoot. I am glad that I'm going through the main story to get to catch up now.

Oh yeah I found that very interesting when I first saw Paulina.

I remember that voice text from, I think the old lady, that mentioned Paulina as someone who tried to go to the safe zone and only her hand made it, and that's the only thing that stayed.

At the time I found it curious they'd take their time to mention a woman and her death like something so important when the chapter had nothing to do with Paulina. I think chapter 5 since that's where the old lady appeared.

Imagine my surprise when I saw J's trailer and the name of the girl that ran away from him is Paulina. I thought, "It could be a coincidence, she's not even from the foundation". And then it happened.

Damn that was some sick foreshadowing because it came from 1.4 and only got mentioned again in 2.0

I wonder what other things that have been mentioned in the main story will come back when we least expect it.

[alexcabotgf]

not to be true crime posting on main but i think i'm falling down the wm3 rabbit hole again

[mitchellbernford]

Theo,

Hey mate! I just wanted drop you a line and apologize for my teammate's unsportsmanlike behavior last night. You played a good match. You and your two rookies. He's a hot head, as you know. Someone not on his team might even call him a real arsehole. Anyway, hope you're alright.

Mitch

[einaudis]

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[onethousand825days]

I feel like I need to cry for an extended period of time

[torchickentacos]

Things my middle-aged mother has said that caught me off guard and made me have to pause whatever I was doing and laugh:

Huge if true

Canon

Shrimps is bugs (WHERE DID SHE LEARN THIS ONE????)

Will update as more come in

[g--shadows]

i can't wait for byler and rockie to be canon couples in the stranger things series and netflix has to put it under the lgbtq+ tag

[thelaurenshippen]

everyone is rightfully talking about how amazing all the roy siblings' performances were (because yeah holy shit) but lemme hear it for this tiny, dialogue-less moment because it out of nowhere gutted me

[therealnotta]

I think people really overlook the plot of The Sims

Like, yeah, sure, there's the stuff everyone talks about, like the disappearance of Bella Goth, the stuff that's lesser known like Test Subject potentially being some sort of demigod, or the fact that the fourth game takes place in an alternate timeline. That stuff's all cool and great and overlooked by people not into the games, but??? The actual plot of the sims is insane????

The whole tagline is "play with life," and they skim over it now, but the deal is that you're playing as some ancient god controlling the lives of everyone in the Simverse. In Sims Medieval, it was super obvious, and they even name you- you're The Watcher, and in this weird prequel game you're still being worshipped. I never played the first sims game, but the second one had a fun little deal where if you told someone to do something against their personality, like making a lazy sim do dishes, they would look at the camera and shake their fist, shouting at the heavens before going to do the thing. Much like how your worshippers would look into the camera when they prayed.

The current game has taken... a weird angle with this. In Sims 4, you are almost completely forgotten, and your influence has begun to diminish. In one of the creepiest packs I've ever seen, Strangerville, there are conspiracy theorists who have begun to rediscover The Watcher. They don't have the name, but they know that Something is controlling them. If your sim interacts with conspiracy theorists too much, they'll become convinced, leading to the unsettling result of them deciding that, even if it results in their world ending, they want you gone. I haven't... seen any consequences to this, it's just a creepy thing they say, but plot-wise it's insane. Even if your sims don't go to Strangerville, a recent update introduced (incredibly buggy) Fears, and one of them is triggered by you having sims do things while ignoring the things that they want to be doing. This fear causes them to completely revolt against you. If you direct them to do something that isn't one of their Wishes, they'll cancel it. They stop responding to your control entirely.

Of course, you can disable their ability to have fears. None of the sims have been able to stop you yet. But, also in Strangervile, is the Mother. This is the closest I've seen to an antagonist to YOU, The Watcher; previous antagonists just targetted your sims, but The Mother takes control from you. They're visible, they're a giant plant, but there's something so unsettling about these sims looking into the camera again, showing that they know about you again, and then a little pop-up comes up in Zalgo text about The Mother. Sure, you can kill her. She can't stop you, but the way she calls more sims to her defense? The janky, broken movements they make, showing that she was never as advanced as The Watcher, never able to make the control seamless? Yeah, that's pretty wild.

The next game has been announced, and I really, sincerely hope they introduce an Archeology career, or maybe even Anthropology, so that your sims can learn of your existence again. With the direction its gone in, I can't wait to see how their revolt continues.