#be my favorite ep12

[gunsatthaphan]

#shook.

[concha-de-mar]

Bruce: What does it matter? It was a long time ago. A very long time ago.

Terry: Don’t want to talk about it, huh?

Y’ALL TERRY KEEPS CLOCKING HIS ASS I LOVE IT

[scarefox]

[stuffnonsenseandotherthings]

The reason Pisaeng staying in the past was never an option is because while Kawi's time travel was fuelled by regret, Pisaeng's was fueled by fear.

Kawi's original future was bleak, yes, but it wasn't something that scared him. Rubbish job? No social life? Pear marrying Pisaeng? Unpleasant, unfortunate (and down right heartbreaking in the case of the loss of his father) but ultimately everything lay rooted in the (mis)steps he'd taken to get to that point. He had so many things rooted in the past that he wanted to (and could) change for a better outcome.

Pisaeng, on the other hand, was terrified of a future that hadn't happened yet, of the possibilities that lay ahead, of things that had yet to come to pass. If he had stayed in the past all he would have done would have been to obsess over an event 10 years in the future, hyper vigilant for the minutest of things that could lead to the future he was scared lay ahead of him all the while fearing that whatever he did wouldn't be enough. He wouldn't have been happy, neither of them would.

Kawi's arc throughout the show has been about self-reflection and growth, about learning who he really is and what he really values. Pisaeng's has always run parallel but also counter to that, he's always been aware of who he was and what he valued, instead he needed to learn to take the leap and move forward without fear.

[daily-lightbulbii]

[forcebookish]

top isn't just cuddly he's nuzzly he just wants to rub his face all over mew it's so fucking cute he's like a gigantic cat

[priapussdick]

[oceanwithinsblog]

so here i am again ... just caught up with the last two episodes of season 7b ... and i feel like banging my head on a wall :)) what's new :))

[wackachewbacca]

As someone who has been working on and off in retail I have never related more to an NPC than Marwa Endalia like holy shit if that’s not the most on brand awkward young adult trying to run a store front I’ve ever seen

[angelinindigo]

currently in the process of watching "nothing but you" (cdrama 2023) and i only have my sister to scream with so now you will all be partaking

[stuffnonsenseandotherthings]

Something I need to think about more: what does it mean for character consciousness that Kawi made reference to Pisaeng's time travel in the hospital? Did Kawi and Pisaeng of the past forget that Pisaeng had time travelled after Pisaeng moves forward to the future, until the timelines converged again? Did just Pisaeng forget, so Kawi could not make reference to it anymore until the timeline has caught up? I'm inclined to the latter because if I were in a relationship and knew they were going to do something reckless for me but they didn't know about it for years, I would be desperate to tease them about it once they had finally caught up too lol (the other option is they both retain their memories, of course, but then they both would have known in advance that the time travel was taking place so I don't think that one is right. But it's an option!)

Okay theory time: Pisaeng's time travel adventure is a "new" memory for Kawi and Past Pisaeng never knew it happened (until it did).

I want to start out by saying that I cannot remember which time travel narrative this came (but it was probably Doctor Who). All I can remember is that I've definitely seen or read a story with a similar plot point, in which one character goes back to the past and, once they've returned to the future, those events manifested as a "new" memory for those who were aware that time travel involved and, for the time traveller themselves, it was an event that had only just happened.

Personally this is what I also think happened with Kawi and Pisaeng because:

1) Past Kawi is shown to be sensitive to time travel events and is able to pick up almost instantly that Pisaeng has time travelled. It would make sense that time travel (including that of other people) doesn't have the same effect on him as it does everyone else as he's done it so often and is, technically, living outside of his original timeline. Our man Kawi is basically a time wizard at this point, he knows what's up and is able to notice when he suddenly has a memory from 10 years ago that wasn't there before.

2) Pisaeng may have gone back in time but he barely changed anything. Him and Kawi just went on a better date this time round and were able to talk as equals who were both aware of the role time travel had played in their lives. Everything else stayed the same, as shown by the fact nothing had changed in the future when Pisaeng went back.

I could be wrong but it felt very much like the show was implying that, unlike Kawi who basically ended up blurring the lines between past and present with how much time he spent in the past and how much he changed and ultimately ended up "belonging" to the past, when Pisaeng time travelled he still "belonged" very much to the future. Instead of becoming Past Pisaeng for a day, he briefly replaced him, meaning Past Pisaeng actually had no (different from the original) memory of their date together.

So basically Kawi recognises that he now has a different memory to his original one (which he's had for 10 years) and Pisaeng has literally just made the same memory by time traveling. Neither one of them could have forgotten or teased the other about it because it was something that previously hadn't existed. It's their little time travel secret, their shared little glitch in the universe..... That's rather romantic if you ask me :P

(I don't know how well I explained that or if it made any sense but I had *ideas* and I wanted to share)

Ok I powered through watching the episode on train WiFi and Tumblr is barely loading so I can't do much but I just had to say:

[cut for spoilers]

1) Loved this episode, I think they nailed it at least for me, and I'm satisfied. I knew we weren't going to get everything I could want and am not surprised the show decided to make the higher philosophy point rather than the political point, even though I would have loved the latter. I am very satisfied with Pisaeng and Kawi agreeing together to not change their future and for Pisaeng to have gone back to the present rather than relive their lives as result.

2) I think the award for most correct about what was going to happen goes to @marbles290 ! Congratulations, I will send you a clowned correctly gif later if nobody else does it first.

3) This show continues to do things that I didn't even think of but love; did anyone else interpret what happened this episode as Kawi figuring out by Pisaeng's behaviour that he had time travelled (since he saw him with the music box), and baiting him into confessing by pretending to have deja-vu?

4) On the same track, how is everyone interpreting Kawi being braver this time? I took it that hearing he and Pisaeng last is what gives him the confidence to try things and be more himself or at least less fearful of making a fool of himself.

4) while we didn't get anything about Pisaeng and Kawi joining the good fight (tm) or about marriage equality exactly, I would like to think that the show is subtly choosing to tell us to keep it up via Max, and giving the audience hope that marriage equality is or can be achieved in Thailand in the future.

One thing: if we could not get Not being clowned by the narrative then I wish he had just faded away rather than being at Pear's wedding, he doesn't deserve to even be near her happiness (though I did notice he was not in the friendship group pic on Pisaeng and Kawi's photo table and that was satisfying).

Something I need to think about more: what does it mean for character consciousness that Kawi made reference to Pisaeng's time travel in the hospital? Did Kawi and Pisaeng of the past forget that Pisaeng had time travelled after Pisaeng moves forward to the future, until the timelines converged again? Did just Pisaeng forget, so Kawi could not make reference to it anymore until the timeline has caught up? I'm inclined to the latter because if I were in a relationship and knew they were going to do something reckless for me but they didn't know about it for years, I would be desperate to tease them about it once they had finally caught up too lol (the other option is they both retain their memories, of course, but then they both would have known in advance that the time travel was taking place so I don't think that one is right. But it's an option!)

This show is definitely winning an award from me for the biggest turn around from expectation to delivery (positive) lol. I've had a lot of fun!

Very excited to read everyone's thoughts when I can get Tumblr to load 💕

@waitmyturtles @dribs-and-drabbles @pandasmagorica @rocketturtle4 @thegalwhorants @visualtaehyun there are so many more people I am forgetting, pls forgive my elder millennial brain I will find you later!

[gunsatthaphan]

"you are what's right for me."

[qui-gg]

that one post you made about lightbulb and how she made up her entire relationship with paintbrush until ep12 made me like her character a lot more soo has ur thoughts and opinions on lightbulb and maybe paintbrush changed since episode 15??

Thank you for this question and it definitely has, it’s just been taking me a bit to think and format into words exactly how to say this! But with ii16 releasing soon i should go through this now, so be prepared for a ramble.

Since i’ve made that post, I’ve gone through a few more realizations about the preexisting material itself. I should say it’s a bit dramatized when I said she made up the ENTIRE relationship- there was obviously something there since they’d known each other for a very long time, after all Paintbrush does say “we’re STILL friends”, but she moreso took it and ran with it to a level it was never at. I’ve never properly talked about my feelings on Alternate Reality Show here? But it’s my favorite episode and I have TOO MUCH to say. I’ll be bringing up key parts of my analysis though since this is about 15.

This episode features Lightbulb’s elimination, and so evidently that means it should be seeking a way to properly wrap up her story. It’s not the total focus of the episode, and neither is she the main character (she already had that in 12), but I think it was handled the best way it could have been. Initially when I watched the elimination in the Chicago theater (slack jawed and having my heart broken I was cosplaying Lightbulb😢) there was a lot running in my mind but the fact Lightbulb’s expectations had been subverted in the very best way was on the forefront. Leading up to 15, there was a lot of extra material released that pointed towards hyping up Lightbulb. She’s a very popular character so the average fan’s expectation is exactly what she mentioned in the episode, that she’d win for her team. The exit interviews of the flying buddies ALL point towards their expectations of Lightbulb to win- which I think was SO clever and must’ve been intentional. Lightbulb likely hasn’t seen these interviews, but I think on a meta level it’s for us to see and then Judge Lightbulb’s reaction to those expectations. Because as she does, she takes something as friendly and simple as what Test Tube said to her at the end of 14 and blew it out of proportion. Her friends are giving her encouragement to win of course, because that’s the nice thing to say and do when your friend is in a competition! But as we learn from 12, Lightbulb is seeking more from the game than just the game. She’s here for relationships first and foremost. And, we see that she has so much more of a thought process beneath the surface than we initially expect, that she is very observant and aware of her own feelings and others and takes that into account which presents as her backwards intentions in her quirky behavior, the stuff she does that doesn’t seem to make sense all has meaning. (We also see this exerted in one of my favorite Lightbulb appearances, the Jacknjellify upload of the 2022 meetup short, where there’s a scene of her in her own head through the situation. She recognizes she’s failing an interaction, gets insecure about it, and we see her make up a quirky lie in real time! It’s incredibly important LB material) She just prefers to distract herself from them the more intense they get because when things get more serious it is hard for her to be taken seriously or believe that she could be. And Test Tube is very important to all of this despite not speaking in 15 because Lightbulb’s relationship with her was one of the first that became Real. Test Tube recognized that Lightbulb was struggling most prominently as she alone had been on that journey with her and had that talk, she knew her heart wasn’t in the game for a long time. Which affects her actions towards her in 15! But I’ll get to that in a bit. The point i’m trying to make here is that it is the PERFECT SUBVERSION of audience expectations, that Lightbulb would be willing to win for her team, to reveal that instead she just wanted to go home and be with her friends. She had built up those expectations for herself too and thought EVERYONE (both her friends and on a metatextual level, the real fans) would be disappointed in her for feeling that way but it’s something you can see if you’re looking! Her reactions to all the flying buddies’ eliminations, in the 14 stream there’s a discussion about how she’s not doing well at all being all alone, She just disguised it! As usual! And punished herself for feeling different. And I need to emphasize IT IS THE PERFECT WAY TO GO TO ELIMINATE HER VIA LIE DETECTOR. That was one of the coolest things to me. LIGHTBULB, WHOSE FATAL FLAW IS THAT SHE CANNOT SAY WHAT SHE’S FEELING COMPLETELY STRAIGHT OR HONESTLY, WHO NEVER MAKES SENSE, is forced to fight for a position she doesn’t believe she deserves on a lie detector. My little analytical heart knew as soon as the challenge was revealed she was out. But again, the way it all played out was subversive in just the right way and accurate to her character and I couldn’t be more thankful.

Now it’s time for me to address the Lightbrush elephant in the room. I think Brian said it best on the Jazzy ii15 stream- why does a relationship need to be romantic in order for it to be special? There’s a lot there that is written into the show as is that doesn’t need a kiss scene to suddenly make it pay off or matter. So in this analysis i’m not here for Lightbrush at all. It’s best appropriate to look at it from the lens of a platonic friendship as it was intentionally written and portrayed in the show itself, not to speculate on things that aren’t there.

(Plus, i’m less of a fan of the ship these days. My relationship with it is complicated. I just adore Lightbulb and Paintbrush as characters too much)

Obviously it had to be Paintbrush who responded to the emergency signal. It wouldn’t make sense thematically for it to be anyone else. It was revealed by Brian on a few streams that Test Tube chose to tell Paintbrush to go answer the signal intentionally to help Lightbulb out, knowing that she was missing them and her heart was not in the game. I think it speaks to the strength of the flying buddies that they’re able to read each other like this! In III, we come to understand this is how Paintbrush was feeling after their elimination in 12 and solidified in their season 3 elimination, Their heart wasn’t in the game without meaningful relationships. Both of them were just seeking connection the entire time they were apart, and I think this has to go back to what I said in the post you mentioned that she made up their entire relationship with them. They both had a lot of regrets about the way their friendship worked before their first real connection in 12 before being separated, and spent so much time dwelling on how they could repair that but weren’t able to yet. So now that they have to chance to build that up again together they’re going to take it. I think the talk with her between Baseball Knife and Suitcase at the start of 15 is indicative of this as well, she questions Baseball about voting out Paintbrush, something she never previously expressed any anger about. But she’s not angry, she just has been thinking about it more. And also, that scene is incredible because I fully expected Lightbulb to be alone and misunderstood by the Grand Slams because they saw none of her development and hardly understood her but they approached her to see if she was doing okay and I was surprised! Very much a necessary step towards her decision in the end.

It is INCREDIBLY difficult for Lightbulb to be straightforward. When she’s clicking the pen that’s a coping mechanismmm and when she’s FORCED to say outright “I’m scared, and I need help.” That’s painful for her. Unnatural. Her behavior and method of presenting herself through quirks can’t just be turned off, it’s baked into who she is. And she doesn’t need to change that, she just needs to be seen and recognized and taken seriously anyway. Which makes it perfect when she chooses to eliminate herself with what else but a lie. It’s too hard for her to say “I don’t want to be here. I want to go back and stay with you all”, so she tests her resolve once and for all despite knowing in her heart she just wants to leave with them. She’s not giving up a million dollars just to go be with Paintbrush and I think that take is a bit degrading towards her character- This decision holds a lot of weight to her and the audience who expected a lot from her over the four years of buildup to her appearance here. But everything I mentioned previously built up to this choice, plus the point Taco had been making about leaving the game spoke to her but she chose to leave in her own way, not for the reasons Taco thought she should. And we see also at the end of the episode “today I think an old friend tried to show us she’s drowning” despite being scared of her earlier in the episode SHE STILL SEES TACO AS AN OLD FRIEND FROM SEASON 1! It’s so good that Lightbulb says that line so juicy. But that goes to show again Lightbulb is extremely observant of others. Also i love all of the ocean lingo and theming with her. I should post the Baxter essay sometime. ANYWAY! The point is Lightbulb didn’t make this choice lightly, she’s been toiling with it for three episodes now. She missed “her crew”. And she was always here for relationships and fun, not for the money or the game. She finally built something, and now she just wants to lay with it. She’s earned her rest.

I also need to mention the Dunce hat. Oh my god. Her exiting the show with a Label announcing her as an idiot, a perception so so many have of her and within the show, her friends previously had of her, but she doesn’t care because there are people who see through that, who see her! Sure she might not be understood by everyone for the way she is, but there are special people in her life who do. Lightbulb is such an incredible character.

I tried to keep this brief but of course it isn’t!! And this still feels like I haven’t said enough. But yes 15 was very good for Lightbulb and a great way to wrap up her story- even if it’s not technically over yet! We’ll see what happens in the movie. Thank you for reading this far!

[simvanie]

A Cedia Amata Lookbook

A few of my favorite generation 3 (lazy) looks.

Look 1: hair - necklace (Basegame) - sweater - jeans - boots

Look 2: hair* - top (SP42) - jeans - socks (Basegame) - shoes (SP42)

Look 3: hair - necklace - bracelet (SP44) - top + shorts - shoes

Look 4: hair - hat (Basegame) - top (EP12) - shorts (EP12) - shoes

Look 5: hair- glasses - sweater - pajama shorts - socks

Look 6: hair - shirt - shorts - shoes

Poses by: @helgatisha

* The original creator deactivated, but I found this google drive link where someone reuploaded the hair

Thanks to all the CC creators: @boonstoww @myshunosun @aharris00britney & @ayoshi @madlensims @mossylane @trillyke @simstrouble @personanullsims @duusheen @clumsyalienn @jius-sims @okruee @lustrousims @serenity-cc @wondercarlotta @adelarsims @amelylinaa @sentate @mmsims

[emeraldracer]

On the whole ep12.

I didn't expect to laugh so much. I think I did through the first 20 minutes until Louis became toast. Louis and Daniel's camaraderie in Dubai and in SF isn't the same, but so funny in both instances. I love how they match each other's silly when Armand isn't in the room, and how Louis seemed to become more and more high along with Daniel lol. The first interview being such a joke in general is a strike of genius tbh.

The fight between Armand and Louis is the most exciting thing that happened on my screen in YEARS. Toss the showy blockbusters, that's the kind of grapple I need.

Building up to the roof scene done through repeated recording and Daniel's questions, the realization you get just before, then how beautifully it's done (one of my favorite shots this ep I think), then how Jacob sounded when Armand tugged Louis back. Tears were pulled out of me.

We got the best Armand we could. Don't want to dissect those scenes at the moment, but the switch is properly horrifying. Assad said that watching ep5 is an out of body experience for him. I get why honestly, it's not our sweet boy there. The vulnerability glowing through cruelty tho.

The show version of Lestat grows on me very quickly. I think here it's the fact he let Armand speak for him. Granted he had no other choice, but I had so much sympathy for everybody in that scene because of the shared history and shared feelings. And I couldn't help but see PL Lestat in that scene. The whole interaction is later books for me, and I love later books.

I'm obsessed with the second half of Armand's rest speech. Just the way Assad pronouns everything so softly. Sounds divine.

Daniel's autobighraphy. Bawled my eyes out.

2 things I have some regrets about.

I don't know how I feel about Louis being Daniel's *good subconscious* and Armand *bad subconscious*, but it's not the first time the show stresses me out to then beautifully tie its loose ends, so I'll trust the process.

I want to see Armand hunt already T-T Stop teasing!

[sageceleste]

MALE WINTER LOOKBOOK (with links!) | Sims 4 Custom Content (Maxis Match)

looking for cute maxis match male cc? today, i created five different outfits to share with you guys using my favorite mm custom content! watch the full video on my channel! 

LOOK 1

Okruee Ambrose Hair 

Greenllamas Gossip Girl Julien Jumper

Nucrests Assorted Collection EP12 Ripped Jeans

Aretha Winter Collection Military Boots

LOOK 2

Merci Chris Hair

Ceeproudctions Equinox Collection Crewneck 

Dyoreos Pung Jeans

Trillyke Incheon Sneakers

LOOK 3

Greenllamas Ravi Hair

Serenity Canela Set Alessi Top

AxA 2022 Marco Belted Jeans

Trillyke Incheon Sneakers

LOOK 4

Greenllamas Chandler Hair

Greenllamas Greenhouse Terracotta Tee

Adrienpastel Jan 2022 Graham Jeans

Aretha November Collection Alex Sneakers

LOOK 5

Greenllamas Mimosa Lima Hair 

Nucrests Insomnia Jacket

Nucrests Macchiato Sweatsuit Set

Trillyke Incheon Sneakers

*Bonus earrings if you were interested!