#appliances are the best

[faejilly]

guess whose super magpie brain forgets stuff in the washer all the damn time and has to wash it again before it dries?

guess who never liked the washer/dryer or their set-up in the house they bought but there wasn't anything really wrong enough with it to spend money on it?

guess whose washing machine broke? (for unrelated reasons, the 1st thing is hard on water bills and clothes, not so much the machine)

guess who now has a new washer/dryer combo which fits better and will dry things on its own?

[egophiliac]

tsum events really are just the best, huh

[lurafita]

Sentient household appliances add on

Still like the idea that Magnus has had some of his household appliances for centuries and that they have gained a kind of sentience due to Magnus' magic upgrading them to the technological standards of the current times. And that as a result, he may sometimes argue with his toaster or coffee machine.

Magnus: "Brewtiful, I'm begging you. I promise I will sleep tonight… or tomorrow night, but I need some caffeine right now. Please, I just need to get through this one last meeting in the seelie realm."

Alec: "Did the coffee machine make you another cup of decaf again?"

Magnus: "I know she is only looking out for me, but as I have explained to her, sometimes things happen and inexperienced seelie children get stuck in the wrong dimension and you need to work through a few nights to get them back home and smooth things over with the queen."

Alec: "Define a few nights."

Magnus: "… 5?"

Alec: "You are going to sleep. I will send Jace and Simon to give the queen your report. Good work Brewtiful."

[luxe-pauvre]

JUNE 2024

Read:

Are You a Naive Realist?

Frequently Asked Questions About Your Craniotomy

Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now?

Why you shouldn’t shrink from challenging your loved ones’ views

Connected-up-brains

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

Swallowing: I Was Mike Mew’s Patient*

Don’t Give Up on Facts

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants

AirPods Are a Tragedy

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies

The fear that trashy media will rot your brain goes way back

What Discourse Regulation by Social Media Giants Means For Democratic Societies

Your Fitbit has stolen your soul

How To be Influenced

Watched:

An appropriately unhinged recap of LOST (Season 1)**

An appropriately unhinged recap of LOST (Season 2)**

Here’s What Ethical AI Really Means

They’re lying to you. Here’s what to do about it.

Lessons in Chemistry

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Barbie

Furiosa

Listened To:

Charli xcx's brat

The girl, so confusing version with lorde by Charli xcx and Lorde

The Rest Is Politics

Went To:

Back in the Dazed: Rankin 1991-2001 @ 180 Studios

Sargent and Fashion @ Tate Britain

[boyofzoot]

Life Lately (2024)

[haunthouse]

i think having her house burn down a few years ago has (understandably) given my grandma the kind of "you need to keep Literally Every Object Forever" complexes people talk about folks who grew up during the great depression having. i told her i might have to leave my microwave + toaster behind when i move because the ppl i'm moving in with already have kitchen stuff and i think she almost cried

[best-appliance-tournament]

Hello everybody! What qualifies as an appliance? I'm not sure! Give me everything you think is an appliance, and I'll put them all in a tournament against each other!

Submit your appliances here!

[i-am-a-secret-ssshhh]

I've realized I cannot be left to my own devices. Because I would be that dumb bitch to act on my impulsive thoughts when there's no one there to stop me.

I would probably buy a plane ticket to a random destination with no planning and not think about it, or randomly decide to roadtrip across state lines for no goddamn reason, or get a piercing or tattoo, impulsively.

Because I have very little impulse control. It's better when my friends are there, but not by much.

So I have come to a very serious conclusion:

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Never let me live alone.

[adviserbylove]

Do you ever think about how Deuce is canonically good at domestic housework and just swoon 🥰

[pink-lemonadefairy]

let me roam a department store in the couple hours before it closes while i wear headphones and listen to jazz music and i’ll be happy for the rest of my life

[dawnleaf37]

in honor of the tpot short with the failed debuters (assumedly) being announced soon heres my tierlist of all the tpot debuters most favorite to least

tags for longer opinions :3

[saturniade]

i made the spn boys in sims4.

sam went on a big magical adventure and morgyn enchanted his dick in more ways than one. (ts4 tells me they have bad compatibility but thats NONSENSEEEEE they like books and art and magic. im kind of. obsessed with them tbh.)

dean is a neat freak househusband who loves cooking and castiel is his................. roommate............... and an aspiring writer slash beekeeper slash gardener. (i suck at bees and he gets stung however that does fit The Vision.) he has a kitty sweater vest and angel wings tattoo and a fox lamp ^_^

sam has 4 friends and they are dean, cas, morgyn from thesims4, and the fucking smart speaker he played trivia with once. i also gave him the snooty walk. hes so cutesy

my touys..............

and some outfits i liked ^_^

[victorluvsalice]

Welcome to another episode of "I have decided to upgrade the Valicer farmhouse!" It's been a while since Victor, Alice, and Smiler's home got a refresh, and this particular one was prompted mainly by the following two facts:

A) Thanks to all their various side hustles (Victor selling the produce from his greenhouse and occasionally licensing songs, Alice writing books and selling paintings, and Smiler making SimsTube videos), plus the profits from their grocery store and Alice's brief career as an official Artist, the gang had LOADS of money to spend on new furniture and the like

B) My parents agreed as a birthday present to buy me 100 bucks worth of Sims 4 packs, and I spent a good chunk of that on them purchasing Horse Ranch and Home Chef Hustle, so I had some new Build/Buy items to play with!

So yeah -- figured it was time to upgrade some furniture and add some new fun stuff for the trio to use in their daily lives! Let's take it room by room:

Smiler’s Party Barn – This space was pretty much all about the furniture upgrades -- I updated the couch by the stairs to the most expensive and comfortable one (in of course the most wild swatch I could find – purplish-pink with zebra print details on the frame); changed out the chairs around the games table to more expensive and comfortable ones from that actually matched the puzzle table and were still just as colorful; and updated Smiler’s bar to a bigger one (it’s now a three-tiler, black with glowing yellow lights along the bottom -- aesthetic!) and got the most expensive and comfortable barstools to go along the front. Gotta make sure the guests are comfy! :D Even more importantly, though, I ended up changing around a bunch of the pictures and posters – the two sky prints the trio’s picked up from observatory visits are now behind the bar with a couple of space-themed posters; the DJ posters previously behind the bar are now above the ottomans on either side of the karaoke machine; a cute purple painting of a woman previously above the bar is now over the stairwell; and the big portraits of the Valicer wedding (Victor and Alice kissing and Victor and Smiler kissing) are now by the ping-pong table, in a collage with the two biggest pictures of the trio posing in their swimsuits on their honeymoon. :) But where did the other pictures of the wedding and honeymoon go? I’ll tell you shortly...

Cow Paddock – But first, let’s go outside and around to the back of the barn to Moory’s pen! Where, with the power of Horse Ranch, I added some patches of prairie grass and a proper water trough for our cow (moving the CC bucket fountain from "Cottage Garden Stuff" by @plumbobteasociety I was using to represent a source of water for Moory over to the corner of the pen for decoration purposes...though it occurs to me it might be nice to put in the chicken pen to pretend it’s now a drinking fountain and bath for the chickens). The water trough is probably just going to be for decoration (it’s intended for the horses that came with Horse Ranch and I’m not sure other animals can drink out of them), but the prairie grass actually serves a purpose – I know from seeing the option grayed out on the shed previously that you can refill a cow or llama’s feed with the stuff! So that’s cool. :) (And yes, I saw that option BEFORE I owned Horse Ranch, so, uh, great job Sims team.)

Living Room – I changed out the rug under the couch, coffee table, and TV stand for one of the new colorful Horse Ranch ones (doesn't it look cool?), and upgraded the couch and the two chairs in front of the fireplace into more expensive and comfortable models (though I made sure to keep the bright and wacky colors -- the Get Famous and Growing Together furniture have really good swatches in this regard, I'm pleased to report). Again, though, the big change was updating all the stuff on the walls -- mostly because I absolutely had to clean up all the photos around the house so I actually had room for NEW snaps. Plus I'd started looking at some of the photo collections and going “Do we really need this many pictures of you guys in front of your house at the family reunion?��� XD I mean, I like them, but maybe some variety would be a good thing. And look a little less self-important. XD So what I did was remove the four-picture collage of the gang doing various poses in front of the house at the family reunion from one side of the TV, grabbed one medium-sized photo out of the set to keep, sold the rest (and the frame), and moved into its place the picture of everyone posing in front of the store that was upstairs by Smiler’s room previously. And THEN I moved the collage of photos of them on their honeymoon that was previously in the little notch next to the kitchen (which no longer exists as I made the kitchen bigger -- more on that later) over to the corner by the phonograph! So it’s right near the other big wedding collection. :) So THAT’S a little better!

Study – Mostly more picture rearranging in this room, though I did upgrade the chess set and chairs on the left wall to fancier versions – and discovered that the black and red chessboard also has black and red pieces, so I decided to go with that as a color theme. *shrug* If I can’t have white and red, I’ll go with black and red! Anyway, over the chess table, I stuck four of Victor and Alice's original Selvadoradan honeymoon snaps into one of the four-photo collage frame sets I unlocked, then arranged the remaining two photos on top of them in a way that made them look like part of the set (you can tell they're not because the frames aren't as thick, but still works). Then, over by Smiler's guitar, I got two more three-frame collage sets, put the photos from the trip to Granite Falls in those, and arranged them appropriately behind the rug, next to the window. The picture Alice painted of Smiler playing their guitar and the the one she painted of the Granite Falls ranger station sign then went up on the side wall next to the rug (because Victor has the picture Alice painted of him playing piano next to his piano, so I wanted Smiler's portrait to be next to THEIR instrument). After that, I moved the picture of Alice scratching herself that Victor did on the Valicer Honeymoon out of there and upstairs to the attic rec room (I couldn't bring myself to delete it, it amuses me too much XD), then moved the sketches and fancy light Alice unlocked from the Artist career over a little, into that space. Making room for a little photo collage of sorts next to her fancy easel -- the photo of her painting at their old house that Victor took on the top, one of the photos she took of Rory to become friends and get her to turn her into a werewolf on the bottom –

And one of those Moschino Stuff slideshow photo frames in the middle! Because I've been meaning to start using those for AGES now. This is where a bunch of the smaller photos went – I put all the little photos of the wedding from the party barn, one of my favorite little photos from the family reunion, a snap of them posing in front of the store, and a snap from their New Year’s Eve trio date into there and turned on the frame to display them as a slideshow, changing once per hour. :D So now I have a spot to keep tiny photos that I may like, but don’t have room for on the wall! Yay! :)

First Floor Hallway – Bunch of little changes here -- first up, I made the washer and dryer brighter colors (because why wouldn't I?) and put the MySim trophy of Yuki Alice found recently on top of them – turns out that WASN’T a duplicate after all! Nice! Then I got one of the three-photo-frame collage sets I unlocked with the family reunion, put the best three photos of the scenery around their honeymoon island in it (and sold the fourth, which was of a rainy miserable day anyway), and slapped the set up next to one of the windows beside the study. Wasn’t sure where else to put them, and they looked good there! And finally, I grabbed myself the egg-shaped decorative egg display shelf I downloaded from @somecreativecc (seriously, if you need displays, they are the place to go) and slapped it up where the previous hanging shelf with all the eggs had been (right by the entrance to the kitchen and the cats’ downstairs scratching post), moving all the eggs (with the help of “moveobjects on” to access all the slots) onto there! So now all ten eggs fit properly on those shelves, and there’s a dedicated space for the remaining two that need to be found, yay.

Downstairs Back Entrance/Mudroom – I had to move one of Alice’s paintings out of here into the kitchen, and rearrange the boots so they were along the wall next to the coat rack – reason being, the room is now smaller! And why is it smaller?

[crehador]

HEY?! does anyone remember that survey where people were polled on which voice actor they would want to have voice their home appliances and ishida akira was first (naturally) and i was raging that asanuma was only 7th lmao and suwabe wasn't even IN the top 10

WELL WELL WELL LOOK WHO'S AN APPLIANCE NOW

apparently suwabe is being added in december with more voice actors coming in the future? i'm. need to. see if i can get one of these things shipped overseas lol

this was the poll btw:

[apathyfairy]

having a toaster over is like having a grown up easy bake oven everytime i put something in there to bake i just stand there watching it like surely this mini oven on top of the counter can't fully cook my banana bread and then it does and every single time im like 😮

[best-appliance-tournament]

Talkie Toaster is the most annoying appliance alive.

Eggbeaters are useful.