#and being ATTRACTED to someone looking younger than that is esp weird/creepy

[trickstarbrave]

What’s your headcanon age difference between Voryn and his oldest siblings? In human years, not elf years.

i thinkkkkkkk in human years they're pretty close together. i hc that TES elves age quickly at the same rate as humans until theyre like. 20-25-ish and after that they slow WAY the fuck down with physical aging. but they aren't considered a full legal 'adult' until around 70-100 years old (depending on culture) and a proper adult around the age of 200. most elves also live to be around 600-800 years old without magical intervention or like, murder. so.

so in terms of human ages they'd be considered around the same age. in order for them to have the same gap of maturity as humans morvani (voryn's mom) would have had to have them all within like. 10-12 years or something crazy like that. and 8 kids in 10 years is CRAZY. already most elves thought morvani was weird having kids so quickly after the other but she had a lotta husbands and wanted to get a good, proper heir so she would have a kid, raise them, see their temperament and strengths, weigh her options, and then typically had another kid when they were physically around 15.

gilvoth (oldest) was a young adult (around 110 or so) around the time morvani decided voryn (youngest) would be her heir

another fun fact is because of the weird hc aging voryn and nerevar have known each other like. forever. they met around age 10-12 i usually hc it which for elves is YOUNG. young-young. to elves a 10 year old is just an overgrown infant that can talk. for elves nerevar and voryn have been friends since diapers. for most ppl its bizarre they've been friends this long. what do you mean you both met at age 10???? you're both like 300 now. what the fuck. do you even remember meeting.

[celestialspritz]

this is just a lil bit of a follow up to that one post @sicksadsim made which really hit the nail on the head for me about the community

i notice SO MUCH of the time that people will make artwork / cc / sims story etc that they put so much time into and really outdid themselves, and it'll get practically zero engagement because 'not everybody else is reblogging it/it's not popular, why should i?'.

mind you it is just simblr and it's probably not that big of a deal but how can we be a sims community if we're not uniting together and uplifting each other? why is it reblog the big blogs and sit on the smaller blogs? the answer to that is the community is just a big high school cafeteria and you have to walk on eggshells to sit at their lunch table.

i hate the fact that nowadays people will create things JUST for notes. i miss seeing people posting their stuff they're so proud of and super passionate about. people being frightened to post their cc preview because it's not as good as others or they used the same font as somebody, or the same editing program as another user. a similar sim style. "oh she used true mm hairs/colourful hairs she's defo copying this person" get a grip!!! who cares, why does a community for the sims of all things have to be so cliquey/gatekeeping all of a sudden?

(for the record i dont care about notes lol, i just care about making sure people, esp the lesser known blogs, know that others appreciate their contributions to the community. i know im rambling here and nothing makes sense LOL but what im trying to say is that this whole climbing the popularity ladder in sims comm is ridic. ive literally seen ppl be friends with randos just so their blog can attract more ppl. its so weird like this is NOT a business yk)

there's ppl i know who have been around probably longer than i've been alive and their stuff doesn't get much praise, and the newer, and in my experience gen z members of the community refer to them as "hags", think their style is ugly and dated, laugh at them and constantly trash them; it's hilarious considering at the same time they'll use sims veterans creations as bases for their own. it's the older simmers around us today that have kept the game/its community alive for all this time, if it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have younger fans like myself today.

all in all i just think that there is a creepy weird hierarchy in this community. it's great to uplift our favourites/most popular in the community, but don't forget the ones that started way back in 04 and the ones who are just starting out today.

we all have one thing in common and that's (hopefully) the love and joy we have out of creating our stuff. if you're feeling threatened by someone's work and you're going to be spiteful about it, then it's defo a you problem. stop the gatekeeping, the hierarchy, the cliques. it's so unnecessary and makes you look so fucking ridiculous