#The Midwest 👍

[chicago-geniza]

Tried cheese curds for the first time. They tasted so good and my stomach hurts so bad 👍

[cementcornfield]

good lord my inbox is a mess lmao

[sopheadraws]

Devastation in the groupchat. Man.

[VD: A screen recording of a iMessage audio chat. The audio is below a screenshot of a Tumblr poll by @/slutsge with the title, "where are you from and how do you pronounce 'Appalachia'". The options are "app-a-latch-a" (42.9%), "app-a-lay-shuh" (45.8%), and "some other way???" (11.2%). The speaker has a female voice with a General American accent and she sounds mildly distressed. She says, "Nooo! Appalachia my beloved- you can't be saying it like that! You can't be doing that to me- It's App-uh-latch-uh! It's App-uh-lat-" /end VD]

[beerdobaradoblog]

Midwest Martyr - Echos (From the Jam Space)

[clamityganon]

talking about the superbowl and i said i was disappointed that philly lost. some guy asks me why and it took all my willpower to not tell him that i have an unhealthy attachment to the characters from hit sitcom it’s always sunny in philadelphia

[vigilaent]

my cat will not stop having asthma attacks so i may be a bit scarce

[itsalwaysdark]

so close to being done with one step in the larger step in the larger step of the spreadsheet.

i ran out of space in the tags so im continuing them under the cut bc i wasnt finished... and if you let me finish i would of finshed my santance

anyways i have some countries like. the borders r pretty close to irl countries and i have them in my notes as x country but other ones i split them into like. just smaller subregions of the continent based on irl like. regions. like i split africa into . Madagascar + East Africa + Central Africa + Southern Africa + Western Africa + Northern Africa and its referenced off of maps where those r like. the recognized regions (well. madagascar is usually just counted as either east or southern africa but yk). but idk... im worried its a shitty thing 2 do i just dont know what else 2 do with it. maybe i should just use an actual world map instead since im going more realistic with like. the time periods and stuff. IDK i just rly wanna avoid the shit the sims does so much where it lumps a bunch of cultures together like. the chinese world in ts3 world adventures having a torii gate for the icon. -_- yk. the map was kinda superfluous anyway and more judt a way to visualize where the worlds we have were distributed + also was mostly influenced by that one ts4 mod which takes that more simplistic approach but maybe i can just step away from that and just go more realism based Its just hard bc i dont wanna like. lose the more like. silly isnt quite the word (itis kind of but not fully) ig i mean i dont wanna lose the abstraction kind of thing the sims has. but like. I am auite literally making a spreadsheet to get rid of some of the abstraction the sims has so what am i on about. IDK i just have been thinking abt it a lot basically... like sims im already making shit up and locking the sims to like real world history stuff it only makes sense to like. do the same thing with The world and not have it be abstracted. so yes that was a lot of words to say i think im just gonna move to thinking of the sims as living on Basically earth. In my personal the sims palace that ive made up. this is not to say i personally think of the sims as tkaing place on earth or anything ive just decided to do like. Bc this whole thing is basically an au im making anyway like. taking ts3 sims and making them be from the 1950s thats already Not what the game is like. so ill just make it a Realworld sims au. ok yay 👍 thats all sorry for talking sm abt something so pointless and also for not using a SINGLE paragraph break im basically just writing in this like i write in the tags (stream of consciousness) but the tags have the benefit of being naturally split up so yes i dont think anybody is reading this far. when i was little and playing skyward sword for the first time roughly 7-8 years old i got to the like trial on skyloft and i got so scared i smashed the cd so that i wouldnt have to do it . and then i blamed my dog for it. and i did this even tho lamp had JUST started a skyward sword playthru which idk if i knew at the time but i do feel rly guilty abt it. but i was rly scared. ok thats all

[comradecowplant]

Chappell Roan's musical stylings still don't super ignite my soulfire but now having caught good luck babe & hot to go on the radio several times this week i admit the songs have grown on me quite a bit. perfectly nice fun indiepop earworms!

[number1nedstan]

have yall heard this?????

[oysterie]

i just wanna work in some municipality wastewater lab and Jesus Christ the phone keeps ringing but I'm on break anyways do that or smthn aligned for a long while and work on a master's and in a couple decades teach some community college class and be nice who gives a shit. 👍

[thebibliosphere]

I've been meaning to do this update on Payhip for a while; I just haven't had the mental capacity to deal with anything admin, but! It is now possible to send copies of the Hunger Pangs ebooks and audiobooks as gifts!

(It was always possible before if you exploited the email function, but now it's like, official 👍)

ID: Two images side by side. They show a screenshot from Payhip's checkout page set against a rainbow glitter background. In the first image, the form prompts the viewer to fill in their own details. On the second image, the "give as a gift" box is checked, which shows additional options, such as entering the recipient's email and the ability to add a personalized message.

Sorry for the weird sizing. I'm using the same images for insta and couldn't be bothered to crop it for Tumblr. Because I'm professional like that.

Anyway. Valentines might be over, but it's never too late to give the gift of DRM-free vampires and werewolves kissing as they help an all-powerful magic wielder save the world from ecological disaster:

[marciliedonato]

it's literally just 2000s emo and alt rock but i mean there's also at least 1 (one) nickelback song in there so i guess it checks out ??? 😭😭

just saw the funniest thing on spotify....

2000s DAD ROCK ?????

[vladdyissues]

Found this and immediately thought of our favorite cheesehead. Are Midwest memes a potentially fun source of inspiration?

Detroit Lions fan: YEAH YOUR 🧀 HAT IS GREAT 👍 BUT MINE'S GRATER 😜

Vlad Masters: *racks his arm like a shotgun*

[dallasgallant]

Ponyboy is the final boss of the “Midwest goodbye” he’s quiet on his own but once he gets started and is comfortable he could talk for a real long time. Darry is usually the one to initiate leaving but pony is the one that keeps them longer until he has to go “that’s right champ” and basically shove him out the door or they’ll never leave. Soda saves them by the “it’s been real nice 👍” before closing the door.

[sfiyayaya]

hc that izuku likes midwest emo music 👍👍

[chibishortdeath]

I was at one point gonna make an actually colored nice finished drawing for this, but I’m not feeling it and the trend will probably be completely dead by the time that I do if it isn’t already ugh. So you get doodle Miku now :3!

Anyway uh weird middle of absolutely nowhere in the rural US Midwest Miku. I’ll mini rant about it a little bit under the cut 👍

I literally had to look up my own culture for this cause I couldn’t think of anything 💀💀💀💀💀. Especially not anything that actually applies to me, if that makes sense. Minus the fishing pole, this is the closest to my current experience I could get. Her expression is very reminiscent of the experience of being out here tbh.

Apparently ranch dressing is a thing???? I didn’t know cause I really don’t like ranch. Same with casseroles. Fishing is a local hobby, but I don’t have a fishing license and don’t like being around water. So is fixing old cars, but I’m not strong enough to do any of that. There isn’t a consistent accent or slang here, it’s just a bunch of stuff from everywhere else. Not really distinct clothing. A couple bands are from nearby states, but they’re not associated with them much. Uh some sports teams I guess. I don’t watch sports. Everywhere for miles looks the same cause it’s all corn and closest place to do anything is in a big faraway city and involves spending money you probably don’t have and shouldn’t.

There’s not a whole lot tbh.

Idk, this whole experience was basically “wow Miku around the world? So cool! I wanna draw Miku :D!!!! Oh hey wait, where I live is very bleak and bland actually—“ 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀