#SEASON TWO. / v2.

[waterfrd]

@laidbear

A bright smile is ever present ‘pon the Wife’s face. Seems she could always find something to smile about when the other was around. ❛ It’s always such a joy to have you here. It feels like the day goes by faster in your company, if I may say so. ❜

[aceironwood]

Any time someone says that rwby is queerbaiting I instantly know they do not watch the show. Sorry that they chose in the no-win scenario of have a queer lead couple get together quickly or through a slow build up, to have a natural progression of a relationship over time

[osbxrne]

@gildedenvy said: “All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn’t be that hard but. . . it is.”

They’ve been at this for a few days now, this gig of writing and reviewing. Heretics, that’s what they are now. Admittedly, it’s kind of fun to talk about something other than her pregnancy or the weather. Sometimes they even get into topics such as these, talking about their places in Gilead. Seems Serena isn’t quite satisfied with her place here either. Wives have bad things too, the handmaid has to remind herself. ❛ May I be frank? ❜ She wouldn’t await her mistress’ permission, instead just move forward.

❛ It sounds like you’d be much happier outside of Gilead, Serena. You aren’t built for this world. ❜ Anyone who wasn’t a Commander couldn’t thrive here, she’d argue. ❛ Why don’t you leave? Have you ever… thought about it? ❜ This was dangerous territory she was entering and June knew it.

[scourgeofmyownbrain]

Only one guy on here has two eyes, and even then, they're fake eyes. It's big-tits-McGee, Mr. logic man extraordinaire, Geneva Suggestion Believer himself: Shockwave! Yep, all 12 of him, a reasonable amount of alternates to have, unlike some people... Shockwave Height Chart, everyone, fuckin wee.

Edit: I didn't like the old scaling I had so I changed it. The old chart is at the end of this post.

Quick Disclaimer, if any of the images look weird, it's because I had to stitch a few separate images together to create a full body shot of the character.

Here are links to my Bumblebee Chart, my Optimus Chart, my Megatron Chart, and my Soundwave Chart. !!NEW!! -> Ratchet & Ironhide. Please go gawk at how many Optimus designs there are, sweet fuck, there are so many. For future reference, all these charts will be filed under my "Transformers Height Charts" tag and my "aka the adventures of a..." tag.

Master Post

Explanations and Sources below the cut.

Unicron Trilogy Energon - ~14 feet 3 inches (No actual source, and Energon doesn't have any listed heights anywhere. For the uneducated, the Unicron Trilogy has given each of its 3 seasons separate names and 3 separate art styles. This is the design used in Energon (S2) though he only shows up in Energon. I was able to compare him to Optimus, and using Cybertron's listed heights, I got this number. I am in physical pain, it does not get better from here. Hilarious side note, his Japanese name is Laserwave, which contains the missing "wave" of Shockwave in this iteration's name.)

Earth Spark - ~15 feet (No actual source for ES, but using a barn door to get Bumblebee's height, then Optimus's, then Megatron's height, I was able to make a guess at Shockwave's. Shockwave comes up to about Megatron's chin; I lost the screenshot I used. It's so convoluted, I know, but it's all I have, also, tiny universe, everyone is so small)

TFA Longarm/V1 - 15 feet 2 inches (Animated has no actual numbers, but the lovely @phoenix-inanis has provided a frankly astounding resource with their own calculations for the heights of all the TFA characters. Go look at it, it's wonderful -> https://phoenix-inanis.notion.site/TFA-Height-Chart-f6ad2960ca8c4c5b859ee4958723aaa4?pvs=4)

Gen 1 - ~18 feet (TFWiki, uuuuh I've got nothing to add)

Netflix Cybertron Trilogy - ~18 feet (I have no source for this, other than assuming that because this design is identical to Gen 1, they are the same height. That's it, really)

Knight/Capel-Verse - ~18 feet (No source, and he never stands next to anyone I can measure him against, but because the TFOne director has said that this movie is both canon to the LA movies and its own separate canon, I am assuming the height I figured out for TFOne applies to this universe as well. Until proven otherwise. Capel directed the ROTB movie if you're wondering why his name is there)

One - ~18 feet (No source, I got this number by comparing him to Optimus. Now, I am aware of the TFO heights listed on the wiki, but I reject those numbers on principal. A: Those numbers are sourced from the Walmart Promotional AR Experience that came out before the movie. B: There are three decimal points, and that number does not convert into a whole number in meters (which is originally what I thought was weird about it). C: The director has said that this movie is both canon to the LA movies and its own separate canon, so I have elected to use the few given heights we have from KCV and worked from there. My Optimus post has slightly more context if you want it)

Cyberverse - 20 feet (This comes from a screenshot of this video which has the Cyberverse height chart everyone uses, though the quality of the screenshot is iffy.)

Aligned Cont. WF/FOC/TFP - 26 feet 2 inches (This number comes from Fandom and I completely believe it, even if they don't list their source, because the entirety of this universe is freakishly tall. Go look at my other charts, all the ALC designs are monstrous compared to the others)

TFA V2 - 29 feet 11 inches (Once again, phoenix-inanis did a fuck ton of work, go look at it, it's wonderful -> https://phoenix-inanis.notion.site/TFA-Height-Chart-f6ad2960ca8c4c5b859ee4958723aaa4?pvs=4)

Bayverse - ~30 feet (Ok, so I don't have a source for this one. There used to be one, BV Shockwave used to be listed as 40 feet tall bc of an article done to promote the movie, but that is no longer listed for reasons not known to me, and making some comparisons to Optimus, I have found them to be kinda close in height. It's very hard to actually validate any of this. Shockwave never stands normally next to anything I can use as a ruler at any point in the movie. He's always at a dramatic angle or partially covered by something in the shot. It's so violently frustrating. I am confident he is around this height though, I just can't figure out how much taller than Optimus he is)

And that's it. I didn't have to leave any designs out, all of them are included here (hopefully). It was so nice to work with a character where I wasn't drowning in 20+ designs across every goddamn universe.

Edit: Here are the different layers separated.

vvv Old scale vvv

[fallouttrait]

An Archive of gloomytrait custom content

Anyone who has been following my blog knows I've been trying to locate gloomytrait's old cc for ages and I have found some of their missing cc through other simmers.

I've decided to make my own archive of their cc in case anyone else has also been looking for their custom content. If for some reason anyone has a problem with this, you can shoot me a message but gloomytrait has deleted their blog and all their download links.

If anyone has their cc feel free to send it to me and I can add it to the folder. (As well as a big thank you to anyone that does! ❤️)

As of Friday January 26, 2024 this folder has:

Grunge kit Addons (May require the kit?)

Grunge Kit Addons Part Two can be found HERE

Gloomytrait's Semi-Functional Stroller

Shopping Trolley

Functional Handbag

Connor Hair

Chrissy Hair

Rhea Hair

Eddie Hair

Gloomytrait x Lilacdreamers Cottage Core Kitchen Collab

Interactive World (Functional Shells)

Cottage Flowers Wall

Portable Walkers

Service Dog Harness (Cats & Dogs required)

Portable Rollator V1 & V2

Old Fashioned Suitcase (Growing together required)

Gloomytrait's 80's collection

per original notes: all CAS items are base game compatible, except for the roller skates. The Seasons Expansion Pack is required for them to show up in your game! The overrides are available for male and female Sims. Please only put one override for each in your game at once. They're available in four different colors. You can mix and match colors (example: you can have gloomytrait80sSetRollerSkatesDefaultReplacementMYellow and gloomytrait80sSetRollerSkatesDefaultReplacementFPurple in your game, but not gloomytrait80sSetRollerSkatesDefaultReplacementFPurple and gloomytrait80sSetRollerSkatesDefaultReplacementFPink) The foosball table, dancefloor and car (woohoo spot) require the Get Together expansion pack. All other buy items are base game compatible.

Download via Simsfileshare

[gaypleasantview]

⋆˖⁺‧₊☆ don't fear the reaper. // Halloween Drop Day 4 ☆₊‧⁺˖⋆

⋆ 4t2 conversion of grimmbats's Skeleton String Lights

⋆ shiftable wall decoration in two versions (V2 repositoried to V1)

⋆ polycount: 2398 (V1) / 1394 (V2)

⋆ two recolorable channels with 10 swatches each, all in 256x256 textures

⋆ files are compressed, clearly labeled and made with love

Link, swatch and more info under the cut ♡

Hey everyone!! And happy Halloween! Here comes the last thingie I'm gonna be uploading this spooky season. I really like @grimmbats's creations (truth be told, this isn't even the first thing of his I've converted, but I've never posted the other one... yet?), and this one in particular caught my eye as something to convert for Halloween, of course. It's a super adorable set of skeleton string lights! They are located under Decorations/Wall, right where the Maxis decorative string lights are, and for the humble amount of §30 you can put them up anywhere in your house. They are not super low-poly but I think it's still quite decent. There are two versions, V1 is the one presented in the preview and in the swatch down below, and V2 looks like this:

You will need V1 to use both because V2 is repositoried to it, meaning it will use all the same textures that V1 uses. I took the original colors and added a bunch of new ones, and the string itself is now also recolorable, which I never intended at first but it kinda just happened? Both channels share one texture, and you can mix and match the recolors however you want.

Fun feature: their bright colors stay bright even when it's completely dark! I think it's super appropriate for the theme, and while these aren't actual lights, they might create an illusion of glowing a bit. This is how they look with and without lighting in the room:

I hope you enjoy using them!! I know I will, they're super cute!

Credits: @grimmbats for the original mesh and base texture, HugeLunatic and PForestsims for the tutorials that I keep using for various stuff on a regular basis.

♡ Download ♡

SFS | Mediafire

♡ Swatch ♡

[taylorswiftstyle]

Favourite Outfits of 2023: Taylor Swift Style

Tour

Etro, V2 evermore

Roberto Cavalli, reputation

Alberta Ferretti, V4 folklore

Roberto Cavalli, V2 1989

Oscar de la Renta, V1 Midnights

The Eras Tour is sartorial feat that distills Taylor’s style timeline, spanning an almost two decade career, into a three hour supercut of looks.

Her outfits strike an incredibly fine balance between familiar but fresh. Full of meta references to her most iconic past looks but presented in higher octane, sparklier, present-day packaging.

Her decision to work with fashion brands (and not her typical costume designers) has resulted in her strongest stage fashion offering yet.

My faves include V2 of the Etro evermore gown (equal parts “willow” witch and “‘tis the damn season” holiday tinsel), the only reputation outfit we need by Roberto Cavalli (because why improve upon perfection?), the spangly and "Midnight Rain" worthy Midnights bodysuit by Oscar de la Renta, and her TSS Green outfits from the folklore and 1989 sections because, well, greeeeen. 💚

Photos by Mat Hayward/TAS23, Ethan Miller/TAS23, Buda Mendes/TAS23, Kevin Mazur, and John Shearer/TAS23 via Getty Images.

[chingyu1023vick]

Patch 1.105

Six mod updates for patch 1.105.

Remarks: Faithfulness Mod + Traits may require updates for people who don't use Seasons Pack.

🌞 All my other mods and traits are compatible with patch 1.105

📌 Updates for patch 1.105:

Balanced Life {Merged Edition} V18 

Buff Replacement Pack V4 

Less Obsession V12 

Massage Socials Fix V2 

No Mopping in Bad Weather/ Outdoors V3 

Slower Relationship Changes V7 

And in case you missed it, two new mods have already been available to the public this month!

NEW: Mood Custom Preferences

NEW: Tiredness Mod (Dark Circles/ Eye Redness)

🔆 Changelog in February 2024 HERE

🔹 Links to ALL My Traits, Game Mods, and CCs

🔹List of IDs for creators who want to refer my traits to their own mods 

🔹 List of Chingyu’s CC Traits Name and Descriptions for mod users

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[citadelofmythoughts]

It really is never enough for some people isn't it? Re: That one anon saying "They spedrun Bees in three seasons!"

I swear. It's like.

Catadora took most of their show before realizing their feelings for each other.

Amity and Luz had maybe a season or two (fuck you, Disney for screwing that over), and in-universe time that's still months.

The Bees have more than a year in-universe of buildup, yearning, a tender reunion, significant development, etc. from V2 onward and some people just reduce it to just "three speeded through seasons".

I swear to god, that's why I only talk shop with a friendly discord group and my mutuals on this subject. Cause I feel like a lot of folks just lost the plot, so to speak, somewhere down the line regarding what counts as "good" time for a couple to develop.

But straight couples never get that kind of backlash, or rarely do.

The thing is, the same accusations that they throw at Bumbleby have also been thrown at Catadora, Lumity, Korrasami and any number of other canon wlw ships. "No build up. Toxic. Pandering."

It's never good enough, WE'RE never good enough to have actual wlw romantic rep meanwhile the blandest m/f couples are celebrated as some grand romantic arc.

[waterfrd]

@charroblanco said: "Sometimes you worry me."

Serena can already feel the anger bubbling inside of her, building to a peak and ready to burst forth. First, it was this whole situation with the handmaid, then it was the way Rita dared to look at her and now this? She didn’t need to hear it from Ernesto too. Obsessing over what happened earlier in the day wasn’t doing anyone any good. Still, it played on repeat within her mind. Ofernesto’s comments at the baby shower, the way she embarrassed Serena in front of all of her friends. She seemed positively thrilled that the Wife had missed the baby’s first movements, that she could feel them moving inside her and Serena never would. As relieved as the woman was to have her baby home, she wished that wretched girl didn’t have to come along with them. Albeit, the handmaid and her blessed miracle were a package deal until the baby was born.

What could he possibly be worried about? The way she obsessed over what had happened, now angrily knitting another blanket for the baby? Perhaps it was the way she had taken it out on Rita earlier because she couldn’t touch the woman in red. Maybe it was the flowers she had once tenderly cared for now being destroyed by her own hands, jealous of their fruitful bloom. The clicking of the Wife’s knitting needles increases, a harsher noise with each impact. ❛ Well, I don’t know why, I’m fine. ❜ Her tone is as icy as ever, irritation dripping from every word she speaks. Seems she's only one wrong move away from completely blowing up, letting out everything that has been building up inside. Does he feel the way she was seething? Would he fall victim to her anger? What a rarity, being so horrible towards her beloved husband.

❛ Don't you have work to tend to? Mustn't keep that waiting, dear. ❜ A pause, knitting ceasing as she finally looks up from the half finished project. Her mood has soured even further. Tight lipped with brows furrowed, she speaks. ❛ Or perhaps you should attend to the handmaid, since you seem to like her so much. I'm certain she'd just love that, getting everyone's attention as always. ❜

[coimbrabertone]

The Golden Age of Japanese Talent in Western Motorsports

So, the heavy rumor at this point in F1 is that Sergio Perez's position at Red Bull has become untenable. An expensive release clause and a lack of a clear alternative has protected Perez for awhile now, but a truly dismal end to the 2024 season has meant Red Bull is willing to pay the price to get rid of him.

Not unlike McLaren with Daniel Ricciardo in 2022.

So, who is getting the nod to Red Bull?

Liam Lawson, it seems. This has pissed off a lot of fans, who feel that Yuki Tsunoda has performed well enough and has spent enough time at Alpha Tauri/VCARB to earn a chance at Red Bull.

Red Bull feels otherwise, and it seems to be because Yuki Tsunoda is at RB as a favor to engine supplier Honda, and Red Bull does not see Tsunoda continuing with them once they switch to Ford.

This got me thinking about Japanese drivers in motorsports, western motorsports in particular. I know that sounds just a bit orientalist and I apologize for that, but a variety of cultural, linguistic, and geographic factors have created a lot of barriers for Japanese drivers to come over here.

Japanese talent instead seems to focus on domestic competitions: Super Formula, Super GT, the Suzuka 8 Hour, etc, etc.

Meanwhile, Japanese talent in the west is most often associated with a Japanese manufacturer. This is what I want to talk about today.

An early prominent example of this is Satoru Nakajima, who Honda tried to put in a Williams in 1986. Frank Williams refused, reasoning that Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell was a much stronger lineup. Thus, Honda went to their other customer team in Lotus, and Nakajima was put into the car in 1987, partnering Ayrton Senna.

Ayrton won two races and finished third in the standings.

Satoru...did not. His best result was a fourth place.

Nevertheless, Satoru continued with Lotus in 1988, now alongside Nelson Piquet. Now, nobody was touching McLaren that year and Lotus slipped to fourth in the constructors' championship, but Nakajima was actually closer to Piquet than he was to Senna. Granted, he only scored one point, but in terms of pace and performance, he was a lot closer.

Satoru Nakajima - nor Aguri Suzuki, who also appeared in F1 around this time - didn't accomplish much, but they did pave the way for the 1990s, which would turn out to be a golden age for Japanese drivers in western motorsports.

On the Formula One side of things, we had Nakajima, Suzuki, Naoki Hattori, Ukyo Katayama, Toshio Suzuki (no relation), Hideki Noda, Taki Inoue, Shinji Nakano, and Toranosuke Takagi all made appearances.

A number of these guys, most prominently Shinji Nakano and Tora Takagi, would also make appearances in CART, where Honda and Toyota were engine suppliers.

The racing series where Japanese talent shined brightest, however, was Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing, now known as MotoGP. Here, Honda, Yamaha, and Suzuki made sure that Japanese manufacturers were well represented, and the 1997 season is probably the best example of that.

Australian Mick Doohan was dominant, yes, but behind him...the Japanese were all over the series. Teammate Tadayuki Okada won the Indonesian Grand Prix and finished second in the championship, whilst Takuma Aoki on a Repsol Honda entered NSR500V - a cheaper V2 variant of the V4 NSR500, meant for customer teams - finished fifth with three podiums.

Takuma's brother, Nobuatsu Aoki was third on another V4 Honda, taking four podiums and managing to just barely finish ahead of Repsol's Alex Crivillé, who was hampered by a midseason injury.

It wasn't limited to just Honda either, as Yamaha had the famous Norifumi Abe, who won three races himself - the 1996 Japanese GP at Suzuki, the 1999 Rio de Janeiro GP at Jacarepaguá, and then the 2000 Japanese GP, also at Suzuka - but was more known for wild and aggressive performances.

Norifumi was so famous at this point that a young Valentino Rossi used Rossifumi as his first nickname.

Before there was the Doctor, there was Rossifumi.

So yeah, in 1997, there were four Japanese riders in the top ten of the championship, and while none of them could quite match Mick Doohan, neither could anyone else back then.

So, what happened to all this?

That's the difficult question really. My first thought was that maybe it was the switch from 500cc bikes to the 990cc bikes of the MotoGP era. Perhaps the increased cost and professionalization of the grid reduced the number of Japanese riders.

The problem is that it doesn't quite hold true. Daijiro Kato in 2002 was shaping up to be the best Japanese prospect perhaps ever, before his career was cut short by a tragic death at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix.

Did that death kill the Japanese stomach for motorcycle racing? I mean, maybe, but it sure didn't in the moment.

Abe was still around, as were Tohru Ukawa and Noriyuki Haga, while Shinya Nakano spent the mid-2000s dragging his Kawasaki into contention whenever he could, and Makoto Tamada won at Rio and Motegi in 2004 on the Camel Honda, giving us the first multi-win season for a Japanese rider.

It more just seemed to fade out over the course of the 2000s.

By the 2010s, Japanese participation in MotoGP was reduced to one satellite Honda rider and then maybe a wildcard ride or two from the Yamaha or Suzuki test teams at Motegi.

By the 2020s, that rider was Taka Nakagami, but for 2025, that seems to be changing.

The Idemitsu LCR Honda - the Honda reserved for Asian talent - will go to Thai rider Somkiat Chantra. Surprisingly though, this does not mean the end to a Japanese rider on the grid, as Ai Ogura has been signed by Trackhouse to ride an Aprilia.

A Japanese rider on an American team running an Italian bike.

This is a big deal, because it marks the first time in twenty years that a Japanese rider was picked entirely on merit, having denied a chance to go to LCR Honda to stay in Moto2 and prove himself.

And prove himself he did, because Ai Ogura won three races and the Moto2 championship in 2024. These wins were at Catalunya, Assen, and Misano too, so these are classic European venues.

He's not just a Suzuka/Motegi specialist, he might just be the real deal.

P.S:

So yeah, I've been reading up on 90s and 2000s two-stroke era Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing and I noticed how prominent and successful Japanese riders were, so I wanted to write about it. I wasn't sure where exactly I'd go with the blogpost from there, but I actually like how this one went, let me know what you think!

P.P.S:

Oh, and Offtopic Offseason...I liked writing that blogpost a lot and I think I'll do some more of those. I was thinking about alternating weekly between an Offtopic Offseason post and a regular motorsports post, but I think I'm just gonna leave it open to whichever I decide to do on a given Monday. This week I had something motorsport-y to talk about, next week I might, or I might not, we'll see.

I'm going to label and number all of the Offtopic Offseason posts, so you'll know exactly what it is once you see it post. I hope that's alright with all you guys.

[osbxrne]

@stellarisen said: ‘every person who bears a legacy makes the choice of a partner with whom they will share it with.’ From Ernesto too surprise surprise

What was that supposed to mean? Had he found out about Nick, about her regular visits to his home above the garage? Or was he just being strangely cryptic? June couldn’t be quite sure. She’d proceed forward with caution, assuming the Commander spoke of her mistress instead of assuming the worst. ❛ And you chose to share it with her? ❜ The handmaid’s distaste for the other woman was clear, the feeling was mutual and all knew it. She didn’t hate the Commander as much as she hated Serena Joy. She knew in his presence she could get away with far more, be allowed special privileges otherwise forbidden.

Information about Hannah, speaking out of turn, roaming freely amongst the house when Mrs. de la Cruz would prefer otherwise; etcetera… ❛ Forgive me but, how do you stand her? She’s... ❜ A Grade A cunt, she wants to say. But the woman knew better than to speak in such a way in front of him. There was speaking out of turn and then there was insulting his beloved wife. One could lead to being locked away in her room with no time outside again. ❛ Difficult to get along with. ❜

[scourgeofmyownbrain]

My siblings in Primus, holy fucking shit. I made an Optimus Height Chart. This took me.. SO LONG TO DO. Were y'all aware of how many Optimus designs there are?? Because I don't have all of them on this chart, and I still have TWENTY NINE (29, a 2 and a 9) out of the THIRTY SIX (36, a 3 and a 6) that exist. I didn't include the SEVEN (7) because either they were just a temporary upgraded form, or I already had multiple designs from that universe that were the same height and having all of them is redundant and repetitive.

40 fucking years and nearly as many distinct designs, I deserve a medal, honestly. Optimus has been in every single piece of media the Transformers franchise has ever made. Working on this in tandem with the Megatron one was a wild choice of mine, but I did it.

I included Optimus Primal on this chart. Both are named Optimus, I should not have to explain myself. Big Monkey and Big Truck are the same. No, your honour, I do not plead insanity; why do you ask?

Quick Disclaimer, if any of the images look weird, it's because I had to stitch a few separate images together to create a full body shot of the character.

Links to my Bumblebee Chart and my Megatron Chart. !!NEW!! -> Shockwave, Soundwave, Ratchet, and Ironhide. For future reference, all these charts will be filed under my "Transformers Height Charts" tag and my "aka the adventures of a..." tag. Hopefully, my bumblebee post is acting up and idk if the same issue will happen here.

Master Post

Explanations below the cut because I have fucking WORDS to say. This is gonna be a long one... 29 separate designs...

G1 Beast Wars V1 - ~9 Feet (Primal. Straight from TFWiki, converted to feet and rounded, the tiniest baby man gorilla)

G1 Beast Machines - ~8 Feet (Primal. The wiki failed me, but I found a old forum discussion where they made a chart comparing all the BW/M characters. Glorious stuff, I commend their effort.)

G1 Beast Wars V2 - ~10 Feet (Primal. TFWiki with the clutch, I will not always be this lucky.)

Earth Spark - ~15 Feet (Prime. No official numbers have been given, but I have already figured out how tall Bee is, and I was able to compare the two and get a good estimate. This is the shortest non-animal universe to date holy shit. Look at this, I'm showing my work

I am having a conniption they are so short)

RID 2001 - ~16 Feet (Prime. TFWiki once more, we love one source for everything)

Unicron Trilogy V2&3/ENG&CYB - ~16 Feet (Prime. For the uneducated, the Unicron Trilogy has given each of its 3 seasons separate names and 3 separate art styles. These are the designs used in Energon (S2) and Cybertron (S3). The Wiki had Cybertron's numbers but not Energon's, so for my own sanity, I decided the two were the same height. I could have done something in between Cybertron's and Armada's (S1) numbers, but there was a lot of float between the two)

G1 Beast Wars V3 - ~16 Feet (Primal/Optimal Optimus, this is the result of a fusion between Primal and Prime. The TFWiki says this design is like 40 feet tall, but if that is true, Rattrap, a character stated to be 1.8m or ~6f tall across several sources across several different languages, is actually not that tall. So I call bullshit, this guy is 2.6 Rattraps tall, making him around 16f or 4.9m tall. Checkmate, I win)

Prime Wars V1 - ~17 Feet (Primal. Slight spoilers for further into this chart but I decided that the Prime Wars Trilogy and the Netflix Cybertron Trilogy Optimuses were the same height as the Gen 1 design, because they're nearly identical. So comparing Primal to Prime, Primal comes up to about Prime's tits, bada bing bada boom)

Netflix Cybertron Trilogy - ~17 Feet (Primal. Identical explanation to above, don't want to repeat myself)

One V1 - ~17 Feet 10 inches (Prime. Okay, the Wiki says 32.534 feet, and I call Bullshit. A: These numbers are sourced from the Walmart Promotional AR Experience that came out before the movie. B: There are three decimal points, and that number does not convert into a whole number in meters (which is originally what I thought was weird about it). C: The director has said that this movie is both canon to the LA movies and its own separate canon. I already stated all of this in my Bumblebee chart post, and I will be dying on this hill. This is as short as we see OP in the movie, him at his tallest should match his KCV height, he's never taller than Megsy, so knock a couple feet off the biggest number and voila, my brain hurts)

One V2 - ~18 Feet 10 Inches (Prime. Same explanation as above, but taller than he was without his cog, because he got bigger)

Gen 1 - ~19 Feet (Prime. TFWiki has saved me the effort of figuring it out myself)

Prime Wars - ~19 Feet (Prime. As I said before, since this design is identical to Gen 1, it is the same height)

Netflix Cybertron Trilogy - ~19 Feet (Prime. I've said it twice now, identical, therefore same height)

Knight/Capel-Verse - ~19 Feet 4 inches (Primal. No Robot height given, I have his monkey form height from TFWiki, but comparing him to Optimus he's only a few inches shorter)

Prime Wars V2 - ~ 20 Feet (Primal. Compared to Prime, Prime comes up to about Primal's nose area, and we all know how tall I think this Prime is)

Animated - 20 Feet 6 Inches (Prime. This number actually comes from @phoenix-inanis and the glorious calculations they have done on the TFA Characters. Go check it out, because animated has literally no actual numbers -> https://phoenix-inanis.notion.site/TFA-Height-Chart-f6ad2960ca8c4c5b859ee4958723aaa4?pvs=4)

Knight/Capel-Verse - 20 feet 10 Inches (Prime. TFWiki has graced me with a number)

One V3 - ~20 Feet 10 Inches (Prime. If it's canon to KCV, then it's canon here. I've already told you my reasons)

Cyberverse - 21 Feet (Prime. Oh, shitty screenshot from a random Russian YouTube video; you treat me so well. I would adore a better scan of this if anyone has one)

Unicron Trilogy V1/ARM - 22 Feet 11 Inches (Prime. Technically, this number is for the Armada video game, which isn't exactly canon to the show. But I don't have any other numbers and my brain is tired, so CANON IT IS)

Aligned Cont. RID15 V1 - 25 Feet (Prime. I'm really proud of this one: I can already hear some of your questions. "But I thought his second form was as tall as his TFP V2 form, and this one was as tall as TFP V1," "but his V1 forms and V2 forms look like each other," You thought Wrong!! And I can Prove it!! Let's refresh ourselves on the height difference between TFP V1 Prime and Bee.

As we can see, Bee comes up to the top of Optimus's hips. Lovely. Now, let's look at RID15's height difference when Optimus first returns. Keep in mind that RID15 Bee and TFP Bee are the same height.

Look, Bee comes up to Optimus's chest in this form, not his hips. He comes up to a similar point on Bulkhead in the previous picture. Let's look at Prime's second form.

This is from the intro; yes, Bee is crouched, but look, if he stood straight he only comes up to about Prime's hips, JUST LIKE IN TFP!!! With this evidence, we can conclude that Prime's first RID15 form is similar in height to Bulkhead! I was so fucking excited to show y'all this, I was so proud of myself, I still am)

Bayverse V1 - 28 Feet (Prime. From the first 4 movies. Straight from TFWiki, because Mr. Michael Bay loves me)

Bayverse V2 - 29 Feet (Prime. Only in The Last Knight. Mr. Bay has lovingly kissed my forehead because he always gives me numbers for his movies)

Aligned Cont. WF/FOC/TFP V1/RID15 V2 - 30 Feet (Prime. TFWiki/Fandom/Me respectively. I love you, Video Game Info Screens. I am still pretty syced about figuring RID15 out, oh I feel so good. Almost makes me forget about how FREAKISHLY HUGE this universe is. And how the games concretely prove this fact)

Aligned Cont. TFP V2 - 35 Feet (Prime. Yes this number comes from Fandom, but this entire universe is monstrously huge for no reason, I believe it. Go look at my Bee chart for more in-depth and insane rant about how huge this universe is compared to other universes, it's at the end of the post)

Not Pictured: Aligned Cont. Rescue Bots and Rescue Bots Academy Optimus Prime - 30 Feet. (Yes, Optimus in the Aligned Continuity has 7 distinct designs across the whole thing. I am in physical pain. SEVEN?? ONE GUY?? SEVEN??), Bayverse Optimus Prime Power Up - 40 Feet. (It's an upgrade form that does not stick around, why should I include it), RID 2001 Super Mode - ~21 feet (Optimus can turn it on and off at will, it's just an upgrade mode), Unicron Trilogy Energon & Cybertron Optimus Prime Super Mode - ~20 Feet (Once more, upgrade mode, it's like stilts, you don't count something you don't always have on.)

29 pngs, holy shit I've done it. This took so long. If anyone has any suggestions for which transformer I should aggressively analyze next please tell me I don't know which ones to do next.

Here are the different layers separated, just so you can see all the many Optimuses (Optimusi?) clearly. I know my og chart is crowded, there's 29 pngs on there you don't think I noticed?

[moth--mallow]

W.i.t.c.h. 2023 reboot v2

Just some thoughts I had on this I want to get out real quick after reading it

So I didn't know till last night that this reboot was out

So I read the new reboot volume 2

Before I get started I want to make it clear I have nothing against the people who worked on and made this reboot I can tell they put a lot of passion into it

But

I read it and I have a few things to say

First will she doesn't seem that much different than how she was in the original comic I kind of like that she's somewhat the same , there are some things I wish that they had kept the same like how the girls even though they had certain elements were into different activities and I'm going to get into that more when I get to Irma but when it comes to will it just doesn't really feel like she has much to do outside of worrying about the other girls and making her Mom worry and now it seems they have her falling for this new character who's heart is the heart of kandracar

She not with Matt and will be with this Arthur dude 🫤

This feels like one of my au fix where I'm shipping a character from another fictional media with an OC I've made like this is what this is giving with this Arthur character I know I can't talk cuz like I said I'm making an au where I'm shipping a character from a mango with an OC but this just feels like someone saw a hot K-pop idol and thought yeah we'll be good with them I don't know if this will actually be a thing but it feel like it's kind of hinted at and that will probably see more when we get volume three if he's in it

In the heartbeat he's

this feels like some deeper lore related BS and I really pray that doesn't mean we're getting more books from this series

I know we have one more that's coming out possibly next year I heard a rumor maybe one more after that but we do not need any more of these books if you like these that's fine if someone you know like these that's fine but I'm begging this fandom please don't buy these books again I want to make it clear I don't have anything against anyone who worked on these books but this reboot is just so hard to get through and I know people are probably going well don't

read it but I've been waiting for something related to this show and comic to come back for forever as has everyone else and I feel like this reboot just isn't the thing we needed I would have preferred if they made a new coloring book or something at this point that would be interested me more and I don't even lke coloring honestly wish they had just made like some special edition comics that sent her around holidays or something like they used to where we got to see the girls and their families and friends again doing holiday stuff that would have been more interesting like I said I get people worked on this and put passion into it but I just don't feel like this is something anyone really wanted especially after the reactions I remember seeing last year I have not really even seen anyone talk about this new reboot volume two I literally didn't know that this had been out for a month or more so yesterday cuz I saw a few people on Reddit talking about they didn't know it was out

Why this Arthur do kind of reminds me of Cedric and season 1 where he was getting close to Elyon and it seems he's getting close to Will and it's going to lead to some bigger reveal or something but I don't know

and like what the first one is just I can't get past a lot of the things that are so different and I get that this is made for a newer generation I get the feeling that I'm feeling with a lot of the teen Titans comic fans felt when teen Titans 2003 cartoon came out and then we got teen Titans Go and everybody hated it

I feel like with the fandom for w.i.t.c.h it's about 50/50 maybe or it's just a lot of mixed feelings one thing I will not get over though is how they drastically trained tarrane personality saying what Cornelius of all people

And the whitewashing of darker skin characters from the original comic I get this as a reboot but we did not need to change everybody so many things about the characters it could have still had better similarities even the she r reboot which has a lot of things people do and don't like felt like it had closer similarities with the original She ra show then I'm feeling with this reboot

I'm getting that usual feeling I get when I see reboots of certain things where it's like someone wants to make something original but there are people who have IPS that aren't in use and they just throw them OIP and tell them to work on this show and have them just add the wrong touches to it from the original story they wanted to pitch and that's really what this feels like this was like this could have been another magical girl series like an original magical girl series but instead someone at Disney instead of giving someone a chance to make something original that stood out as an original magical show kind of like owl House or amphibia

They gave us a reboot that feels more like an original idea that's just using and changing characters we knew to fit the story they want to make again I know I keep saying this but I really don't have anything against these people maybe they really did want to work on w.i.t.c.h.

I don't know this is just what it gives to me when it comes to that when I see reboots especially when it's linked to Disney

Sorry for going off on like a side attention about all this I'm going to try to talk more about the other

They're trying to have it where they're trying to relate to kids or whoever who's reading this with Haley and she feels out a place since she's wants to be a part of her original culture but loves being in Heatherfield but I truly miss how we got to see you quirky fun and bubbly girl who liked sewing designing and painting and drawing

When it comes to Irma I don't like anything they've done with her she's not as funny and quirky and sassy as she used to be they have her on the swim team it seems like for a minute since her power is water

but I really did like that the girls in the original comic and a show had different interests unrelated to their powers will was the one doing swimming and wanted to go to the Olympics, hey lin, like aliens had different unique styles she did fashion or drawing painting designing in so many creative things, tarane wasn't a dancing studying and had confidence in herself which I do not see in this version they completely took her personality away she only wears black and gray in this comic I don't even remember of her brother was mentioned that all in this series but Cornelia has two sisters for no reason okay 🙄

And speaking of Cornelia her running to write reminds me of how in volume 50 of the original comic they had will become a writer and write a story about their magical adventures is the same energy I swear

But them having her not being sure of herself or knowing what she wants to do, Cornelia was always such a confident character sure she came off as a bit mean but you grew to love her over time reading the original comic

her parents being divorced I guess they're trying to relate to kids who have divorced parents or parents who aren't together but honestly don't think we actually needed this in the story at all like kids who have some kids even myself whose parents aren't together I never mind it seeing families and media that were together it never made me feel sad or any other people I knew they actually like seeing whole families together that's why a lot of us really likes growing up watching certain shows where the

family was all together and stuff because it gave us hope for the future when we had families going yeah I can make a family that's together again I get there trying to relate to kids who are going through this and probably have siblings on top of it and going back and forth between two parents I had to go through that myself where it was mandated that I had to go to my dad on the weekends and all

summer and it was real hard for me back then I get there trying to relate to kids with that but this kind of just feels like that's the only thing we're getting with Cornelia is that she's unsure of herself and she just has issues because her parents are divorced and she stuck with siblings it doesn't feel like they're really giving her a personality or anything to focus on

At least with tarrane and Irma in this reboot you can see the things they're struggling with kind of I guess tarrane afraid of losing control of the fire magic or whatever it seems and Irma's interested in a boy is better than nothing and at least even from haylin you see that she misses her grandma and it feels stuck between two cultures again I get that they're trying to relate to people but I do wish they had kept more things from the original comic when it came to these characters personalities or at least try to give them better things linked to it I get maybe Disney told them to steer clear of referencing too many things related to the original so they wouldn't have issues or whatever I don't know maybe the original creators are still trying to fight to get the original comic back from Disney for all I know and maybe that's why they did this reboot to show that they could do their own version but it feels like also if I think about it it feels like Disney saw that winx was getting like a Jillian reboots left and right and then they remembered how back in the day kids would compete or compare the shows and talk about what show was their favorite and which one they stand with cuz I remember those days in school where me and my friends will argue back and forth over the shows and maybe that's what they thought would happen with this newer reboot that it would be a comparison between them and maybe they would win this time I don't know that's just me guessing I don't think that's the case I don't think Disney that petty or maybe they are 🤣

There are just so many changes oh and let's not forget the biggest change

Kandracar is gone in this it seems that the girls have these emotional portal worlds or whatever these are that they go to now to communicate with their powers I don't know if things are real or fake or if we'll see him again I don't know it just feels like I know we're only getting three volumes as of right now but this feels like there's a lot more lower that needs to be built and we would need maybe 4 more books for that

And that's kind of also my fear is that I really don't want any more comics after the third one that we were told we were getting like for years I've hoped for a reboot that will continue where the comic left off like I said with maybe some holiday specials or something or showing the girls a few years older in high school cuz they were in their final few years of high school I think they were getting to I don't really remember that's what it felt like to me I swear we saw the school year beginning in several times in the original comic even after the writing started to get really poor towards the final stretches of the comic where it felt like it was lessons of the week instead of having full arcs we were following with different villains and different characters and different worlds we saw them start school and in school again I believe or maybe they were going back and forth on breaks cuz I'm like where I live when I was in school we didn't get like fall break and stuff I remember my friend told me he wanted she transferred to a different School outside the city they have fall break and I had never heard of that before and they had other types of breaks as well where I lived you went to school hail rain fire or snow if you got a break it was Thanksgiving Christmas and spring break and that was it

So maybe in the original comic I'm confusing all the different breaks they had with them going back and forth with school

Sorry I know at this point it just sounds like I'm yapping but I'm just sitting here thinking back on the comic and wishing we could have gotten a bit more from that or maybe them just giving us a season 3 for the show like if they were promoting these comics to maybe give us a season 3 for the show then yeah I would be all in support of buying these even if I'm not really much of a fan of how these reboot comics go I guess if you want to collect these to just have them with the rest of the series or whatever the other that's cool but a lot of the choices in these are just so different it just feels too different and again I know I said earlier in my post this kind of feels like what happened with teen Titans versus the teen Titans comics that originally came out and then we ended up getting teen Titans Go and everybody hated that

And like also said the fandom when it comes to this comic seems about 50/50 some like it some just start like myself aren't really sure and just don't like it and I'm just really wish we could have got something related to the original

[dystopianam]

Premades Sims Extracted (Original, Ancestors and Genetically Correct) - Masterpost

Are you tired of having to extract your favorite premades when you want to move them to another save or you simply want them in Bodyshop? With this list I will try to make your life easier! (The " * " indicates a lack of link because there is no download for that particular thing. Feel free to help me find the missing sims if you want!)

Look here for other masterposts!

⚠️ Always use the Clean Installer for install sims and lots instead of bodyshop installer.

If some sims are missing and you are in a hurry to get them, remember that you can extract them yourself! You can use this tutorial.

BG+EPS Premades

All premades of all the main neighborhoods extracted (Pleasantview, Strangetown, Veronaville, Bluewater Village, Riverblossom Hills, Desiderata Valley, Belladonna Cove + Roseland, Newson, Ottomas, Cooke, Gavigan, Picaso, Ramaswami, Traveller)

Ancestors Premades

Pleasantview Ancestors

Strangetown Ancestors

Veronaville Ancestors (+ two ver. of Viola)

Bluewater Village Ancestors*

Riverblossom Hills Ancestors*

Desiderata Valley Ancestors*

Belladonna Cove Ancestors*

University Premades

The premades of all the three university extracted as adults (Sim State University, La Fiesta Tech, Académie Le Tour)

Nightlife Premades

The Tricou Family + Rainelle

The Tricou Family + Rainelle

Genetically Correct

Genetically Correct Pleasantview

Genetically Correct Pleasantview V1

Genetically Correct Pleasantview V2

Genetically Correct Strangetown

Genetically Correct Strangetown

Genetically Correct Veronaville

Genetically Correct Veronaville V2

Genetically Correct Tricou + Teens

Genetically Correct Bluewater Village

Genetically Correct Riverblossom Hills

Genetically Correct Desiderata Valley

Genetically Correct Belladonna Cove

Genetically Correct Bin Families (Kim, Ottomas, Traveller, Gavigan)

Townies, Bin/Stealth Hood Sims

Almost ALL the townies of ALL the neighborhoods + The Garden Club (Only Bluewater Village townies are missing)

Alexandra Teatherton from Riverblossom Hills

Bluewater Village Townies*

Seasons Stealth Hood Sims*

Pets Stealth Hood Sims*

Apartment Life Stealth Hood Sims*

[thelaurenshippen]

Hi Lauren! I’ve loved The Bright Sessions since 2017, my first year of high school (now I’m about to graduate college!!), and am really excited for this opportunity to ask you stuff!

As a writer (hopefully!) myself, my question is: How many drafts/versions do your scripts typically go through before you deem them ready to record? How different does the final version typically look from the first?

ahhh I love hearing that the show has been with someone through such huge periods of their life!!! that's awesome.

it, of course, depends on the project, but most scripts go through at least three drafts - a first draft, a second draft that may make major changes to the first draft, and then a polish that just cleans everything up and strengthens it.

that's usually what my contracts stipulate, because it's a pretty good rule of thumb to have a script and two revisions. but when I'm making my own stuff, it varies hugely. the pilot of The Bright Sessions is a second draft with really only a few lines changed from the first. every Breaker Whiskey episode is, by design, a first draft. for the big idea I'm working on right now (that sadly I can't tell you anything about), the pilot script went through.......idk, seven? eight? drafts?

that is largely because of collaborators - for early TBS, I was doing everything entirely by myself, like I do with BW. as TBS evolved, the actors got more involved with their characters and I would always send them (usually a second draft) the script and ask for any feedback/concerns/questions/ideas. those usually didn't change anything massively, but when you're building a story with people, it's going to change a bit more!

crucially, that script editing does not stop once you've recorded. using the thing I'm making right now as an example (we've made a pilot proof of concept), here's how the revisions went:

I wrote a pilot script that I didn't share with anyone

I found partners to develop the idea with. through the outlining stage, a huge part of a character's season 1 arc shifted, so I threw out pretty much the entire pilot script I'd written

I wrote a new pilot script

I got notes and did a V2

I got more notes and did a V3

we cast the proof of concept and then decided to cut half of the last scene

we recorded and created a draft and I ended up: cutting several lines, cutting an entire scene, and adding three new lines. I also changed the staging/action of several scenes

and those are just the big changes - I also did a lot of smaller shifts and adjustments in between drafts based on how I was feeling. in terms of who was involved: two producers, a director, a sound designer, a composer, and six actors. while the actors didn't directly give notes or feedback, their performances prompted some of those post-recording changes.

in terms of how different the versions look, again, it depends. as I said, the pilot of TBS barely changed, and the thing I'm working on now is an entirely different shape from how it started. usually it's somewhere in the middle - a scene may get cut or added, but if you've outlined, the final probably won't be so different from the first draft, beyond the dialogue itself!