#and then only servers i'm in rn are with my friends

[inavagrant-a]

Remembering this whole blow up drama that happened in a discor d server I was in in my last fandom where the intention was to make the sense of "community" better and less clickey and the intention was good but boy oh man the fake bitches in that server was insan e awraxawraxa.

[house-on-sand]

hm

[ellistocracy]

the problem with getting sensitivity readers is that it's a job and you have to pay them. which is fair but i don't have any money and it's highly doubtful that I'm going to make any

[moonlight12086]

I KNOW, I KNOW IM LATE, BUT THE SCOOL IS STOPPING ME TO GIVE YOU BIRTHDAY GIFT (sorry my bad english rn) I WANT TO DO MORE (and i am doing more) BUT, I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU THIS IN THIS MOMENT SRRY

@rmgkyle, love you sososososososo much, more than you can imagine, I'm not very good with words but I hope you understand how important you are to me, the truth is you were one of my first friends on the server and I don't regret meeting you, every time I see you you make me feel comfortable and you make me laugh, we have good times and I appreciate those moments together, I don't know what I did to have such an amazing friend like you.

ILYSM POOKIE 🫶🏻🫶🏻💖💖💫💫

ENJOY YOU BIRTHDAY GIFT MWJAJAJAJ

(AND STILL IS YOUR BIRTHDAY ON MY COUNTRY SO SHHHH)

[pedge-stuff]

strawberry margs (pedro pascal x gn/m!reader)

a/n: same vague universe as “marked,“ per usual, yada yada.

happy belated labor day, y'all! tip your servers and thank your union reps.

(my union is on strike rn and, while it is ass, I'm very grateful for the people who are working hard to secure a better future for all of us. wga strong!)

summary: a totally normal labor day cookout with no big announcements whatsoever.

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"Hey!" Pedro is slightly out of breath, flushed from the cocktail and the dry heat. Sometime in the fifteen minutes he's been gone inside the house, a tiny sombrero-on-a-headband has made its way onto his head. 

He plants a kiss on your temple, slinging an arm over your shoulder; the man gets a little possessive, after a couple drinks, but not in an unpleasant way. There's a pitcher of pre-mixed margaritas on the picnic table, and only a thin finger of the same drink left in his plastic cup. You squeeze the hand that now rests on your right shoulder. 

"Are you having fun?" 

Truthfully, yes. Parties usually aren't your vibe, and you'd been nervous about this one, for some reason. Had expressed as much to him, beforehand.

Oscar and Elvira usually host in the summer, the little patio attached to their apartment far surpassing anyone else’s outdoor space in the city. No reason at all to be nervous— you were just here, for the 4th of July, alone, kindly invited while Pedro was still filming in Morocco. (And oh, how the summer had changed.) Had been here almost every weekend since then, while things were shut down. 

But, this was the first party since… well. Since you’d put a ring on it, so-to-speak. 

The social etiquette of the whole thing has you flummoxed. Are you supposed to tell people? Is that annoying? Do you just not say anything? Wait for them to notice? Take the rings off and break up so you don’t have to do this at all? 

Ultimately, these are Pedro’s friends, so it’s been Pedro’s call. Not that you communicated that to him. Which might have been a mistake. Regardless, you’re deferring to him, despite the pit of stupid anxiety it left in your stomach leading up to the party. 

Not that you’re not proud of the ring, either. You couldn’t be fucking happier. Social anxiety is a tricky thing, apparently. (You might have way, way overthought all of this.) 

“Yeah,” you smile at Pedro, shaking cobwebs of shitty thoughts from your brain. “Yeah, this is lovely.” 

Another kiss, this one soft on your lips. He tastes a little fruity, some kinda flavored syrup in the margaritas. You’d accidentally opted for an IPA that tastes like ass, so you’re just carrying around the can as a prop. His fingers are sticky from something, you discover, as he licks them clean.

The arm around your shoulder steers you towards the long picnic table, around which most of the party is gathered: the hosts, and a few extended family members you’ve definitely been introduced to, before. Sarah is here, with Holland, which is a nice surprise. The kids are deep into a game of corn hole, in the small grassy area. 

You settle at the table, folding chair pulled flush against Pedro’s. A large hand palms above your knee, exposed below the inseam of your shorts. The sun is warm on your skin, fingers wet from the condensation of the can you’re pretending to nurse.  

“— the AMPTP doesn’t know what they’re talking about,” Holland is saying, from where you’ve entered the conversation. 

Oscar’s brother, whose name you should know by now, laughs. “Been four months now, though,” he shrugs. “You think someone would’ve budged by now, but—“ 

"Woah, woah." From his perch on his wife's lap, Oscar points, looking scandalized. “What the fuck is that!" 

Pointing, unexpectedly, at the ring on your finger. 

"Uh." Pedro's looks sheepish. 

"You're joking!" A hand dramatically clutches his heart, while Oscar swoons against Elvira. "I'm wounded. Sarah, did you know about this?" 

Across the table, she raises a glass, mockingly. "I picked out the ring." 

"That's not true—" Pedro begins to protest. 

"—Sorry, I forced him to make a fucking decision because he'd been agonizing over three options for like a month." 

Pedro shrugs. "I wanted it to be perfect," he says sheepishly, "sue me!" 

"No, no, backup," Oscar says. "I don't care about the rings. I can't believe you didn't tell me!" 

"I can," Elvira offers, "you've got a big mouth." 

He groans. "It's not like it was a secret!" 

Loud interruptions from across the table. "It was absolutely a secret, that's the whole point!" 

Oscar throws a hand up. "You already act like you're married, is anyone surprised about this?" 

"You were surprised." 

"I was surprised you didn't tell me! Wounded, frankly. Irredeemably. To the core." 

"Are you done?" Sarah rolls her eyes, squeezing Pedro's shoulder affectionately. "About damn time, but we're happy for you." 

She gestures at Oscar. “Yeah, yeah, we’re happy for you.” 

“With feeling this time.” 

“Guys,” Pedro interjects, “I wasn’t keeping anything from you. It happened two days ago!” 

He launches into the tale, eggplants and double-rings and all. The hand stays planted on your knee, and you take advantage, laying yours on top to thumb over the band on his ring finger. Someone tops Pedro off, and you reach for a sip— strawberry, you determine, is the marg syrup. You’re not really listening, but you lean back, content to watch him retell the story. 

The next time he kisses you, as the sun sets into the Brooklyn skyline, you taste like strawberries, too. 

[huntershowl-moving]

Positivity hour! Tell us about your favourite RP partner and your favourite thread! <3

OOH! i love positivity hour! cut for length because WORDY BITCH DISEASE STRIKES AGAIN APPARENTLY!

i don't think i could pin down just one favorite because i'm so incredibly lucky to have so many amazing partners during this sephblog golden age. this is only a few of the ppl who have touched my presence here and live in my brain rent free rn, i wish i could remember all of them but a shortlist will have to do o7

i will shoutout @harerazor and @tewwor for being my OGs, my rp besties, the truest mfs who always stick around through my year-long (sometimes years-long) absences and whenever i come back to discord or the dash, it's like we never left <3 AND for following me into my hyperfixation zones omg. writing windbreaker and jjk muses would be so much more lonely without u two in my life. <3

on the topic of OGs, @spiritcrown, @never-surrender and @bcdomens are the CREW!!!!!!!! THE FIRST PPL I EVER WROTE WITH AND SOME OF MY FAV FOLKS ON THIS HELLSITE you guys are the best. ily. connecting with u guys again felt like coming home.

@favorskill has ascended past the title of rp partner and into the title of friend. rio is one of my favorite people ever, genuinely, he's so cool and so skilled with writing/worldbuilding/watching his DICE MAKING SKILLS GROW has been so amazing too??? i care u so much rio. biting u. even when my brain is hopelessly deep in the fixation hole i am thinking about u and ur muses always <3

also shoutout to my wife @vsagis / @theixth (bc ik uve been on this one today) for just being like??? overall such a lovely person and an amazing writer??? our main dynamic is so deep and expansive we're starting to develop an extended universe for them. i love them i LOVE THEM TO DEATH. alex u match my freak ily i hope i get this job so we can hang out irl <3

speaking of matching my freak, @koseigu and i get along like a house on fire, and i don't think the world is truly ready for us. the more dynamics we develop, the more dangerous we become. everything we do with geto & sephsho ROCKS and i am terrified (excited) to see where seph and sukuna lead us in our newest explorations. we get up to some absolutely nasty (hot) shit with our creatures and it's always an amazing time. hehe

@chaoslulled hol you are so so so special to me. i owe u so many things and im so sorry omg but i literally never stop thinking about our threads & dynamics they're soooo good. i think you're one of the only partners i've actually been able to maintain Main Threads with over a long period of time?? there's something about the way we write together that makes that actually work in my brain which is super unusual JSDKJDHJKD i'm not complaining though, i love it so much. also your ocs are spinning around in my head on a daily basis, especially char because seph, chiaki and geto all like her very much. <3 ALSO. U ARE THE REASON I WRITE GETO. I HATE IT HERE HE WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE HOW COULD U DO THIS TO ME (affectionate). ur satoru is always the one he and seph come back to first because he is the original.

@quillheel and i have been mutuals for a while but didn't start regularly chatting until recently, and geto has been keeping me hostage in our 1x1 server over the last week or so, it's a problem, please help me. please. my crops are dying. also ur my current record breaker on "most fucked up start to an rp dynamic" with sukuna and rusa and im gonna be real i think u might hold that title for a while KJSDHIUSDHSJDHSJKDHJSKDH

@hinodae gray i think i would follow u to the ends of the earth. our little accidental threads have been some of my favorites ever, and i love to PIECES every one of our ship dynamics so far. thank u for being just as much of a slut for ships as i am, i feel like we match each other's energy and vibe so well!! TUMBLR BETTER UN-SHADOWBAN U SOON OR IM GONNA THROW HANDS >:'O

@eraserisms and @rcguish u two are like a package deal in my brain. D.A., the fact that we exist on the same chef wavelength always makes me so happy. i love seph and shota so much, they make me Hurt in all the best ways and i'm lookin forward to getting more into todoroki's voice so we can keep building out shota becoming his dad i mean mentoring him! and rys!!! i know ur absolutely going thru it rn so we haven't been talking as much lately, but i'm still just as feral for our dynamics as ever. seph and shouta's broken friendship. shou and orion's blossoming romance. seph has so many feelings and thoughts about silver that i don't even know how to articulate but that might need its own separate post. blowing u kisses.

lastly but not leastly, @gomannakami we only connected recently but we've already got this absolutely TRAGIC AND BEAUTIFUL set of pairings going on. satoru and chiaki are so stupidly cute and so so sad. seph and suguru are still in the beginning stages but i LOVE writing them sort of dancing around each other, the mutual pining is so spicy and delicious.

AS FOR THREADS!!!!!

ooh. hm. fuck. i think my first thought is always gonna be my longer-running threads with @chaoslulled — the one that stands out the most in my mind rn is the thread where satoru found seph on the brink of collapse after a hellhound kill. it was only the second thread we ever wrote together, and i ACUTELY remember how nervous i was that it was too intense and i was gonna scare hol away with it because that's happened so many times before. SJDHKSJHD

another one that comes to mind is one of my first threads with @tewwor's litho, which started with the simple inbox prompt "can't sleep?" and ended up turning into one of our longest threads to date and spiraling out into the longest fucking slowburn of this blog's career. i loved it. i'll never stop thinking about that apple.

[natureismynature]

Ok. But I do actually want to talk about this now.

In Foolish's day 26 vod, Leo showed him paintings of her three friends. The first one was Cucurucho.

She kept saying it was there, watching them. Always. Then she said Foolish should say hello, to which he complied. He said hello to the air, but then Cucurucho ACTUALLY showed up and said hello too before leaving again.

When Foolish asked what the hell was that supposed to be, Leo told him that "It just came to say hello. It always takes care of me." Then Cucu came back and game Foolish a book.

Inside the book (written in Spanish) was the question "HAVE YOU BEEN TAKING CARE OF LEO?"

Which is just??? WHAT??? I know that Leo always claimed that she was friends with Cucurucho, but for Cucu itself to actually ask this question?? To show this much care for Leo??? It blows my mind, I don't even have the words rn. (This leads me to believe that Leo's friend is the defective one, Osito Bimbo)

After Foosh and Leo confirm that yes, he's been taking good care of her, Cucurucho leaves them alone once again.

The next friend is interesting because, well, it's a painting of a capybara saying "Hola Leo! :)"

They didn't really get to dive deeper into this since Foolish thought that Perry (Leo's pet platypus) was the one in the painting, despite Leo saying it was a capybara. To be fair, she didn't really try to correct him when he asked if she was talking about Perry.

And knowing what I know now, this really really sticks out to me. Because on this day, Leo introduced Foosh to mysteriously powerful entities she called friends... and one out of those three friends is supposedly a capybara...

The third friend is where things get a little more freaky. Leo showed Foolish a painting of Dark, who she called her best friend.

She claimed that Dark is powerful and he protects them from bad people, but he can only do it on Foolish's dragon home and nowhere else. She said he lived on top of the dragon. And she also said he was an enemy to the "green things" (the Codes).

Leo tries to explain her friends to a very confused Foolish.

"My friends are good pa, they only kill bad people"

"My friends want you to take care of me so they don't see more eggs die"

"You don't see them, but they are always here"

These words were the one who stuck out to me because it's... strange. How favored Leo is. Like, why her? What did she do to gain favor of the Feds? Are Cucurucho and Dark on the same side? Or are they on the opposite sides who got attached to the same kid? If Dark is an enemy to the Code, then is he a friend to the Federation? What if he isn't? And what of the capybara painting? Was the concept of the capybaras solidified that early on to the server?

And why does Leo know so much? How did she befriend such powerful entities?

Was Dark really the one behind the black signs? Was the "LAST WARNING" sign in Vegetta's tower after the code attack a warning to Foolish if he ever fails to protect Leo? Was the "Don't look down" sign a payback for almost failing? Was the "Always watching" sign a reminder that he's always there?

I have so many questions and no answers kfvekehm what I'm saying is, they have to bring back Horror Child Leo because this shit is AWESOME. I mean, she's been bringing it back from time to time, but Dark hasn't been touched on since this day which is honestly super upsetting, I hope they don't scrap the concept...

(Screenshots reblogged)

[preydefiler]

I want to do more text based rp, I wanna write, but I'm feeling so uninspired and I struggle to write anything rn without any kind of community. idk, how would one even go about making text RP friends. last time I did text rp it was a Homestuck oc server, but I'm not as big into hs as I used to be. would enjoy something urban or dark modern fantasy, maybe something alien/sci-fi? fine with erp, but that's not like. specifically what I'm looking for? plus the only erp I like is monstrous stuff, so. idk any setting with monsters and magic and maybe swords and fighting, possibly guns or robots, idk I just want a community I can write with. that's what I'm really craving. i miss playing tabletop with my friends

[isa-ghost]

Would go crazy over any q!phil hc's, but may I request some about phil's harem I mean qsmp server polycule?

OHOHOHOHO YOU'RE INDULGING MY STUPID SILLY HAREM. YESSS.

Previous qPhil Headcanons

SO ANYWAY. QPHIL AND HIS INNATE TALENT FOR PULLING BAD BITCHES ON ACCIDENT.

Reiterating initial mentions of this for context:

--He's married to the Goddess of Death (Kristin) and Missa (a reaper). He's also fuckbuddies with Fit (no one can look at their interactions & tell me there's no homo there) and Etoiles. Strictly fuckbuddies; Fit has something blooming with Pac, and Etoiles is aromantic. --Everyone who Knows(tm) about the polycule has turned calling it a harem into an inside joke they only reference when Phil either isn't around or isn't paying attention enough to be like WHAT. --In fact, it's unfolded into a sort of joke folklore around Phil made up by the islanders closest to him that he has this inexplicable charm to him that makes any man-attracted person weak in the knees. (Baghera totally started it. Cellbit, Foolish, & Fit perpetuated it & it spread from there) --All this fruity silliness in mind, I have no fucking clue what queer label I'd slap on Phil, if one at all. Part of me wants to claim him as pansexual bc I'm Pansexual So Therefore So Is My Cubito + the way he'd explain how he experiences romantic & sexual attraction is exactly what I described *my* exp as in high school and my friend was like "yeah that's pansexual." But I also feel like Phil's the kind of guy to purposely not define his sexuality & remain an enigma both as a "mind your business" & a "It's Funny To Not Elaborate" thing. (As of rn I'm rolling with "he's pansexual but in a font you've never seen before")

S O

Obv Mrs. Goddess of Death Kristin came first, she's been with him since long before Quesadilla Island. Strangely enough, she can't recall too much prior to the island just like Phil, but there's no way the Feds know she exists let alone know how to fuck up the memory of a deity. But yeah, she was his first & is his ONLY romantic dynamic within his weird polycule

She's an avid fan of Phil being his best unintentional whore self with them nice ass shoulders on display all the time and that accidental man magnet charm. Loves watching him pull bitches nonstop without even realizing. And loves watching him be a total fruity dork with his besties. She knows if Phil was forced to choose ONE person out of the polycule to be monogamous with forever, he'd pick her. She's not worried at all about his yaoi island adventures

Next came Fit. Hough, what a man. They WERE, until recently, strictly fwb. They fucked nasty behind that gym and I'll die on that hill. The way they talk to each other sometimes? Big boy?? FitMC people are watching?? They fucked behind that gym. Their fwb was called off as soon as Fit got serious with Pac though. Phil was totally chill with it & actively encouraged it. He loves seeing Fit so invested in the romance he's got blooming. They're still more than friends, not lovers, but a secret third thing, the sexual aspect was just removed from the equation. Truly the most QPR of the polycule

Then came Missa. Oh Missa. Their dynamic IS platonic like Phil has stated & restated countless times, but Missa has a (not yet brought to Phil's attention) massive romantic crush on him. He hasn't spoken up yet to keep their relationship from getting rocky at all. But tbh that prob won't happen. They're platonic in the Kiss The Homies way. So what if they make out sometimes and are husbands? So what if they go on adventures that could be considered dates by some? They aren't a romantic relationship, even if Missa secretly kinda wants to be.

And finally, aromantic king Etoiles joined the fray. He and Phil started out as friends and that has Barely changed if at all, but sparring matches get a little too homoerotic sometimes and neither of them can resist the other when they're popping off extra hard. Things have. Escalated a few times. If yknow what I mean. Of all Phil's harem members polycule partners, he & Etoiles have absolutely ZERO emotional investment in the Spicy(tm) things they do together. It's simply a very intimate way of showing each other their respect & admiration for the other. What they have going on is a "*spanks you* good game, let's hit the showers team" kinda deal. They're the type of mfs to finish in bed then shake hands like "gg." Casual sex is >>>> to these two, but it happens waaay less between them than it did Phil & Fit, Fitza was habitual. Codebreakers is a once in a while thing

Btw once Fitpac gets more stable together and whatnot, Fitza could potentially reignite with Pac's consent. That's the key to healthy poly, all parties are informed & consenting. Pac would be like. An honorary harem member. He & Phil would have absolutely 0 intimate relations, they're strictly friends in the most basic sense of the word. They just also fuck the same guy (& would totally talk about it together if alone)

Phil sometimes tries to gauge if Missa only likes men or if he likes women too. If he does, he's going to ask if he'd like to hear about his lord & savior, Big Woman(tm).

Etoiles has 100% asked Phil who fucks the best out of the polycule bc like everything else, it's a competition & he Must win, he Must have the best dick game. This amuses Phil very much

*incoherent but clearly passionate noises about how Phil hasn't done anything spicy with any of the polycule in a hot second because of Ender King Situation stress*

GOD he wants to open up to them about it so bad. Like yeah he did w Fit that one time but he didn't go into detail and hasn't said anything since and bc Phil is an idiot that feels guilty easily, he doesn't want to tell Fit more atm bc he doesn't want to dampen Fit's high spirits or take away his time with Pac

OK BUT CONSIDER: POLYCULE GROUP EFFORT TO GET THROUGH TO ENDER KING POSSESSED PHIL AND HELP HIM FIGHT OFF EK'S INFLUENCE. OUGH.

Phil attracted all four partners with his raw skill and talent btw. If you even care. Literally was just going about his business being himself and it bagged him three dudes in addition to the literal goddess he already had

Although his feelings are platonic, Phil is attracted to Missa because Missa is a) the other father of his children and b) such a genuine and sweet person. And funny, even if a lot of the times the reason he's funny is bc he's like 2 seconds from having a stroke over whatever shit he missed hitting the fan this time

Phil is attracted to Fit bc. Well. That's FitMC of 2b2t, baby. Raw skill and talent sees raw skill and talent. Fellow anarchist. Also muscles. And that razor sharp stare. Fit's just dreamy as hell ok, let a man drool a little

Phil is attracted to Etoiles the same way he's attracted to Fit, HOWEVER, the reasoning is different. Etoiles has raw skill and talent, but it's the way he wields it and demonstrates it that makes Phil wanna act up. Also Etoiles is fucking hilarious. Who can resist a good sense of humor? Those dramatics make Phil swoon

[psiioniicarts]

TMC Discord Interest?

I’d like to preface out the gate that this is NOT me promoting a server! There is no server rn, but I’d like to get some opinions on potentially making a server.

I wanted to get some people's thoughts on making or finding a fan Discord. I know there’s a couple of existing servers floating around out there, but they don’t quite match what I’m looking for. Here’s what I want to prioritize:

REGULAR ACTIVITY. I entered the fanbase after The Big Controversy and I feel like the fan spaces have just dried up. Most fan servers are ghost towns with only sparse activity here and there. I don’t care about how many people are in it, I just really want to have a space to meet some new friends with the same interests as me AND are relatively active.

NO RANT SPACE. I really don’t like the culture of having a “vent channel” in servers especially when it’s mostly a bunch of strangers…personal irl discussion or small gripes like "Aw man my car's tires blew out I'm bummed" is like whatever but I’ve had only negative experiences with vent channels in Discord servers where it's led to more than one person using it to talk badly about themselves, eventually spiraling into threatening suicide if nobody responded to them by saying "nobody cares about me", so I’m really not big on having them out the gate

STRICTNESS ON NEGATIVITY. I personally feel like it’s very easy to become trapped in a cycle of negativity when someone constantly complains or is very negative in a server and ideally I’d like mods that can control that. Even if I’m the only mod, it’s something I want to control.

DISCUSSION. This is related to the activity point, but I’d like to have a space where discussion about theories, themes, alternate universes, and other aspects are encouraged and not limited (within reason). This is my main issue with the activity issue, it’s like speaking in an empty box, and then when someone does show up they kinda just…..ignore your message and start pitching their own thoughts about something else. I feel like this is the fastest way to kill a server and I really want to avoid this.

Ideally, I’d very much like it to be a more adult-oriented space but this isn’t a MUST, I don’t have any specific issues sharing a space with younger people but I’m a little iffy because of the differences in maturity/generational culture gaps (I do think this is the origin of like 60% of issues in some fan servers). The most important thing to me is everybody agrees on the notion that "the internet is an open space and everybody must be responsible for their own experience"

If anyone knows of any servers that meet these requirements let me know (either in replies or you can send me an ask/DM if you prefer), but if not I’d like to know if anybody else would be interested in me making one (I’m looking to pull in at least 5-8 ACTIVE individuals). I’m open to making the server about other common interests too, I just really want a nice space to discuss TMC and make some friends 💕

[n1ght-sh4d3]

Final things about the Flowey/Amanda thing, also other things

~About the UTQV Discord Server~

I've tagged the owner in a reblog, I hope he sees it and she's removed, if he doesn't see it I'll send it to him in DMs, if she's not removed after? I'm leaving the server and making my own (maybe..)

~About my replies to that person~

I don't think they'll see reason rn, best to not interact with them just block them

~To Amanda/Flowey~

DNI ON ALL MY FUCKING BLOGS IF I CATCH YOU ON MY BLOGS I WILL BE PISSED

Same w/ her friends, moots & supporters who refuse to drop her

~About this blog~

Idk what to do w/ this, so for now it's just my main, reblog & misc blog, I have no motivation to start my OC comic rn

~About other blogs~

Only my Pkmn IRL blog has risk of being abandoned, none of my others do, I am considering making my own PJ's Daycare Rewrite blog (which will have a spinoff NAJ rewrite blog) sooo look forward to that!

[konansock]

Hi there! :) I came on here to see if you could give me some advice about the Choose Your Classmates mod. I'm so frustrated with TS4 rn! So I've had your mod for a while, and on a good sim day, it will bring me the sims I CHOOSE for classmates to the school when I bring one of my teens (sorry for all caps, not yelling, just for emphasis). But unfortunately, there aren't too many "good" days. Right now, I have more than enough teens in the world (mostly mine) to fill up my school. So there's absolutely NO need for any NPCs to spawn. But yet....they always do. I get at least 1 NPC each time I go to hs. I play rotationally and have at least 4-5 houses in each of the 8 worlds that I play; there may be only two in a couple of worlds. But basically, my sims compromise a huge majority of the game. Each time I go to play a teen, in the morning before school starts, I go to the mailbox and Choose Classmates/Remove Classmates. I tend to remove some of them when they get older (but are still teens), to make room for my newcoming teens to come to hs and meet each other etc. I remove any NPCs and then go into Manage Worlds and delete those households. And I remove any older teens (like are within a week or so of aging up) or unplayed teens (that I don't intend to play with but aren't necessarily game generated NPCs). I try to choose 35 students. I have my lot limit set to 40, so along with the 2 teachers, janitor, principal, and lunch server, that leaves 35 spaces. So today, after choosing exactly 35 students, I come to school, and most of who I chose aren't there, yet there were 5 NPCs. I deleted them (via MCCC) and switched back and forth to the parents at home then to the hs. Even MORE NPCs. After a third time, I gave up. I went to the mailbox (that I added to the school) after that last time going out and coming back, and there were 11 ELEVEN NPC teens that had been created. I'm like, oh come ON!! (Sorry, I just really HATE NPCs. Would love to play with just my sims, but I know that isn't possible.) Hopefully you'll understand my frustration and predicament. Please let me know if there's ANY other way I should be doing this. And thanks SO MUCH for reading!!

Thank you! I fully understand the frustration!

I have thoroughly tested this mod with my friends, and since the release of the mod, there are many reports on how it's not functioning. Sometimes I ask for their save and it would work on my PC but not theirs.

Another factor might be that classmates are pre-defined so with my mod, normally there would be 8 students max. So the MCCC setting might conflict with that.

I also recommend another mod made by someone else, https://www.nexusmods.com/thesims4/mods/1463?tab=description&fbclid=IwAR2_rVsi-34eAwH2S3FAwqqaT1YX5Hb2gLcTa45_vhObg2-36t1tSACPhD0. This one seems to be working for some who didn't have luck with my version. Hope it helps!

[swimmingdeepbelow]

Its kinda weird and fucked up how I straight up do not have any close friends my age I can talk to. I have my partner but too much information overloads the poor beast, and I am very much a talker.

I can't reach out in my local community even though I'd like to, because for literally since 2017 I've had a stalker harasser that made me have to delete every trace of mg previous online life, and he lives Here. Every person I meet I'm legitimately terrified of. And rn I can't get out of here either?

Tbh I'd like to meet more people on here and make new friends but I'm scared of being burned again BC the last person I met I spent 2 fucking years on and the man dumped me and our partner over a fictional sexual predator and I have trust issues that got wildly exaggerated.

If anyone is cool with a depressed, disabled, native 21 y/o talkative physical nonhuman who is bad at messaging with sometimes intense left leaning beliefs and youre not shit to endogenics and aren't otherwise on my dni I would fucking love to at least have someone to message fun posts to. That would be nice.

I have discord!

My main interests are in no particular order and of varying intensity:

fnaf and mascot horror in general,

robotics and puppetry and costuming of all kinds,

horror as a genre but especially games,

video game challenge runs,

soulsbourne (kinda loosely tho),

music (boring but true),

mlp (fuck you Hasbro),

DND (fuck you Hasbro also no I haven't been able to play),

Cats

Reptiles

Cool moss and just cool things in general

Listening to other ppl talk about things they love (no seriously as long as I get to share too I LOVE this)

Theres like probably a lot more but this should help some I hope! I am a nuanced being as you all are <3 mutuals are always more than welcome to reach out but people seeing me for the first time or otherwise are as well! Like I said, if you're not on the dni and you are cool with me being Me unabashedly then youre welcome to send a message.

I can currently only speak English but am interested in learning other languages, so if you speak other languages thats more than okay as long as you're willing to put up with me being a fool. This post is by no means limited to Americans!!!!

Would vastly prefer anyone under 18 not message. Younger folks are very cool and all, but I don't feel comfortable forming a friendship with strangers who are that young. I've got a couple younger friends I met in discord servers that have become like family to me but I don't feel comfortable talkinh to them the way I would someone my own age or a bit older.

Those with intentions of trying to get in my pants need not message. I'm in a happy closed polycule in and out of system. None of our headmates are interested either.

[aviancataclysm]

icdx loredump but 50% in the form of rp screenshots because there is no way i am writing a new post about it + they will Not talk about it in character either

starting with a conversation between avian (cube oc) and the two grandpa demons

that led up to icy silently disappearing back to their room, and cata noticing theyre gone and immediately knowing that something Bad is happening. (tw for depiction of panic attack + implied suicidal ideation below)

ALSO I JUST REALIZED MY DISPLAY/PROFILE THEME IS ALSO ICDX RN. WHOOPS? SORRY FOR POTENTIAL CONFUSION. I'M THE NARRATOR IN THESE SCREENSHOTS.

the korean translates to "they're all gone".

they then enjoy some chocochips together. then back to serious

the next day.

icdx goes up to my hacker oc who has the ability to delete levels off the servers (but sworn to never use it ever again)

...

you see where this is going.

end of screenshots.

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highly recommend checking out this video detailing the history of the ice carbon series as it heavily ties into the lore i wrote for them.

here's a tldr of the important things:

roadbose wanted to, quoting him, "fix his past". thus he cut contact with everyone trying to dig into the history of the deleted levels especially titan x.

ice carbon fantasy, an auto level, faced backlash because the community back then wanted him to make more extreme demons ever since icdx's release. it was deleted before it was finished.

ice carbon chaos was released before icdx, but it was pretty much completely ignored by the community. it was deleted after it was uploaded.

and here is the lore bits i have for some extra context:

my hcs for icy is that they, alongside the rest of the ice carbon series, used to live in a "mansion" of sorts owned by roadbose.

they were a hack-verified level, which means that they didn't get to spend time properly learning how to deal with players and others alike, having to face the real world before they even knew what's going on, figuring out everything by trial and error. lots of error.

when roadbose quit the game and deleted most of the levels in the series, icdx was there to witness it. the mass deletion. they do not want to think about it.

occasionally, the ghosts of these levels long gone come back to haunt them in their dreams.

they have been pretty much alone for the rest of their time here, and even though zust survived, they did not want to see anything related to their family. (start of the avoidance coping mechanism.) so they never got into contact with zust again, perhaps ever.

they faced a lot of backlash initially. then a brief period of fame. then they met cataclysm, and they became best friends. he is the only friend they ever considered themselves having.

they never really cared about the top 1 position, however when they dropped down to insane demon in ratings, they felt that some sort of "burden"was finally lifted and that gave them the excuse needed to completely socially disappear. this sent cata into a period of severe depression, before he eventually thought he got over it... and before they decided to randomly return to his life out of nowhere.

now they are among one of the most hated insane demons in terms of enjoyability. they pretend and act like they don't care about that. and the nightmares still come back sometimes.

[logicpng]

my friend and i have started collaborating on an ukagaka!!! full disclosure, i might be in your inbox way too often. i only have two questions today:

do you have any tips for inexperienced ghosters?

and is there a specific way you'd recommend organizing ideas / information?

thank you!!!! still obsessed with aster they're so lovely

if you're going to be asking about ukagaka development, I strongly suggest joining the ukagaka dream team server instead of coming to me on here. there's people far more experienced with ukagaka development than I am who are also very forthcoming with information. don't feel overwhelmed by the amount of people on there, very few are actually active, but the ones that are have a lot of experience.

I'm there too so I'll be able to help you there personally as well if I can, but pls don't use me as your only source!!! I've only finished one ghost and made the shell for another

as for your questions:

"Do you have any tips for inexperienced ghosters?"

this ended up wordy but I feel like this is a necessary warning, especially if you're using the Girl and Triangle template

Right now the most comprehensive guide/template for ghost creation is the one on ashido.com. I've personally found a lot of use for it and it covers the process of ghost creation very well! The template is likewise full of helpful functions and commentary. Far as I'm aware this is what a lot of people use for their first ghost, so I have to presume you're using it as well.

But the template the guide provides has an unfortunate side effect, and since Aster was built with it, it also may have contributed to it: it can make an impression that ALL ghosts, including ones you make, have to be just as complex or full of features.

Despite the comments saying that you don't have to fill out/even have a function, you may feel like throwing away anything sacrifices the quality of your ghost, or you may feel that it won't be complete that way.

Please don't fall into that trap!!!! This is something I've experienced making Aster, though lucky for me, most features make sense for them, their character being a literal virtual assistant. Not all functions may be fitting for your character!

Most features within that template are Completely Optional, and all your ghost needs to be a good ghost is just creative random talk and a decent shell. This is why Aster's page suggests using Simplicity template as base, it's what I'm using to make Terror Star! So that I can gradually add any functions I may need for it, instead of having an entire shopping list of things I feel like I Have to fill in, even if it may Say I don't have to.

But I feel like the g&t template is still good for studying how to use some functions for shiori events, if you use any! Since the creation of that guide there's also been an entire page of shiori events translated. So once you have some grasp on how the events work, you can just use whatever you need from there. you can also study other ghosts to see how they do things instead!

There's a saying that most developers never finish their first ghost, and I feel like this is a pretty big part of the reason why! Ultimately keep the scope of your ghost small, it doesn't have to be nowhere near as big or daunting of a project as it may seem.

"is there any way you recommend organising ideas/information?"

I've personally used Google keep for a todo list and dialogue drafts while making aster, and rn I'm trying out Obsidian, but literally anything works as long as it works for you! some folk also use Google docs for their planning. don't be afraid of playing around with different software tbh

I genuinely wish you luck on y'all's journey, and if you have any questions, please ask them on the server instead! My experience may not be enough to help you!!

[conniemb]

Cardfight Vanguard Rant because I want to love this series so bad but life apparently doesn't want me to.

For reference I live in Ireland for some geographical context.

I feel like cardfight vanguard is one of the hardest shit to get into without spending like a lot of money on it unless I'm just being dumb which I hope is the case honestly cuz I love this series.

Like I spent over an hour looking for somewhere to read the original manga and I can't find anywhere that has above the 5th chapter translated which doesn't make any sense because there's an official translated print of the manga which I can still buy but I don't have 120 euro to drop on a manga series rn lol.

Also like I know bushiroad is struggling as a company but who was gonna tell me they closed the servers for vanguard zero last year????? Now there's no mobile game coverage for the series at all which I feel like is a big blow to people that might not have a huge vanguard community to play with as that was probably their only way to get some acc playtime in. Now there is the overdress game which I do actually really wanna get some time but it's like 80 euros and that's not amount I can jus pull out of my ass either.

Having the anime for overdress readily available on YouTube is huge honestly and probably a big part of why I haven't dropped the series yet as a whole lmao so that's great but I feel like that's the only good thing theyve done for it in the last while.

Now idk I could be wrong I know vanguard has never been a popular card game in my area it's always struggled none of my local card shops stock vanguard anymore (which again adds to the cost as I need to outsource all my cards) and I haven't met a single soul id be able to play with around here but if other people's experience with it is different I'd love to hear it.

Vanguard is a series that's always had a very permanent place in my heart I still remember being at my freinds house and stumbling onto the series by accident while doom scrolling through crunchy roll trying to find something to watch and immediately fell in love with the series, i still have all my original starter decks which are probably extremely obsolete now lmao but I love looking at them all the same. Out of the new products I have the danji starter deck for overdress I love the vibes of dark states. But yeah if anyone has tips on how to get more into the scene or has had a similar experience with it id love to talk about it and make some friends who're also into vanguard! Gonna be honest my limit of vanguard above base level is really limited because of the on and offness with which I approached the series for the above reasons but I wanna COMMMITTTT I WANNA LEARNNNNN. Or even if I'm just doing stuff wrong and looking in the wrong places like pls let me know.

Anyways cardfight blogs pls interact I love y'all 💖💖💖