#community chatter

[novapark]

Tumblr Crushes - 8/31

I used to do my tumblr crushes over the weekend so I thought if we're going to try to bring it back I'll try to make it a habit like it used to be. This week's crushes are:

@acidheaddd

@ladybugsimblr

@nexility-sims

@acuar-io

@mspoodleccfinds (well I did say I went shopping this week haha)

@clouseplayssims

@digital-deluxe

@hazelminesims

@penig

Fun mix of all three games and lots of simming styles here.

[novapark]

Depends on the save. For my rp story absolutely, give me all that loot. I want all the shinies, don't show me the numbers my aging desktop can totally handle it (lol). For gameplay I'm continually working towards a cc free game in terms of build and buy. I feel like all the sims games start to get pretty unstable and slow the more build and buy cc I have. I can deal with a slow cas but I can't handle slow laggy gameplay.

Feel free to share, and/or explain your answer in the replies or tags if you feel like it. Whether you play, or only posts pics, stories or renders would also be good to know.

[mosslingg]

my contribution to the selfshipping community 🫡

[cecilthecowardly]

reblog to preen and care for prev’s wings

[shepherdingthepie]

ok I know these posts are like bait but my neurodivergent ass really needs some motivation on this one

I’m currently closeted as nonbinaryand im like sick of it but im really scared to come out

50 notes and I’ll come out to my trans friend

200 notes and I’ll come out to my whole (lgbtq) friend group

500 notes and I’ll come out to my friends who aren’t queer

750 notes and I’ll start using my real name and pronouns at school next year

3000 notes and I’ll come out to my parents who I’m like 75% sure support trans people

5000 notes and I’ll come out to my extended family

10000 notes and I’ll come out to my racist, homophobic, transphobic grandparents who live in Indiana(no hate against Indiana I just felt the need to specify)

Edit: I came out to my trans friend!! He took it really well and sent me a screen recording of him changing my contact name in his phone:)

[novapark]

Each of the sims I've made in CAS have a vibe of their own in my head so I'd say I try to make the traits match what I feel is right for them. If it's gameplay, I typically randomize unless I have some rule stating differently for the save.

📩 Simblr question of the day: How do you decide what traits to give your sims? Do you pick traits based on their drawbacks and benefits or to fit the personality of the character?

answer in whatever way is most comfortable for you and feel free to share this SQOTD around, make sure to use the hashtag SQOTD and tag me in separate posts ~ 💛

This question was contributed by : @/sirianasims ~ Thank you for submitting multiple questions ~ (This is question 3 of 9)

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I need to make Ford into a goddamn Disney Princess that can communicate with animals except he just has a special connection with the supernatural. Do you understand when I say that I need him to have a BOND with the strange creatures and anomalies of the nature in Gravity Falls. DO YOU SEE MY VISION WHEN I SAY THAT THE FOREST ITSELF IS FRIENDS WITH HIM. DO YOU GET WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY THAT THE MYSTERIOUS MAILBOX WOULD SOMETIMES GIVE HIM WARNINGS; AND HOW STEVE THE TREE GIANT WOULD SOMETIMES SCOOCH THINGS OVER SO HE DOESN'T TRIP WHILE HE HAS HIS FACE BURIED INSIDE HIS JOURNAL; OR HOW ALL THE CREATURES WITHIN GRAVITY FALLS JUST UNANIMOUSLY IS COOL WITH STANFORD WHILE HE HIMSELF HAS NO IDEA. HE IS SPIRITUALLY CONNECTED WITH THE FOREST IN SOME ELDRITCH MANNER BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW. DO YOU SEE MY VISION??

[thepatchworksys]

actually you know what . appreciation post bc as a traumagenic system who splits involuntarily, frequently, and with a lot of less developed alters, i look up tulpamancy and willogenic practices and it helps US !!! it helps those nondeveloped headmates to feel more like people!!! so!!!!! thank you for that!!!

NO SYSCOURSE ON THIS POST ILL KILLLL YOUUUU

[whumpcateyes]

I have one(1) irl friend who follows this blog who isn't into whump at all and this is what it feels like ever time he likes a post

[novapark]

My secret is to keep playing the families I like but in different challenges and saves. I just slowly move through my generations one impulse choice at a time.

Now the folks that are playing the same family in the same save and have like 13 generations. They're the real ones.

If your blog is dedicated to one sim/sim family, you are the strongest.

[anghraine]

Is there a good post outlining all the evidence against Gaiman? I know the podcast has it and that's what people pointed to me, but considering it has been days I was wondering if someone had gathered it all into seperate post so one does not have to listen to someone advertising their work every few minutes in order to listen to the important parts.

Belatedly (given that at least three other women have accused him since my post), there are some. The best of the original ones is probably "Manufacturing Consent" by Annabel Ross, but there are also transcriptions of the original accusations that, iirc, weed out some of the editorializing and focus on the raw material (which is, just be warned, very raw).

This (long) thread provides the important links in terms of the accusations conveyed by Tortoise, I think (a more to-the-point list is here at muccamukk's Dreamwidth account). I included the long thread because I'm in strong agreement with the final person in the chain that, Tortoise's many failings notwithstanding, they provided enough evidence for the SF/F community to judge and respond more appropriately than with a collective blanket of silence punctuated by occasional cavalier or desperate dismissals of the accusers, before the other accusations broke.

In all honesty, I'm pretty appalled by the idea that, well, now there's enough to start talking about it with a modicum of decency and respect but wasn't before, because apparently it was okay to use trans people (who had nothing to do with any of this) to justify defending a cis guy beloved of fandom from very thorough rape accusations.

I particularly feel this way about the parts of the community dedicated to publicizing news and major ongoing discussions that simply said and did nothing. Scalzi's "I'm horrified, might take awhile to process, here's a link to RAINN" personal statement was fine (Vernon's wasn't), and I don't think every random author was obligated to make their own statement as such. But spaces that exist specifically for covering ongoing discussions and news in the SF/F community not saying anything at all—even that the allegations existed—was far worse and really disheartening. So I wanted to link to a discussion that acknowledges how very few people lived up to their stated principles when there was solid evidence against an influential, popular man in their own circles who knows the right catchphrases and terminology.

I was particularly unimpressed with Mike Glyer's handling of discussion at File 770 and, as far as I could tell, Tor only acknowledging the whole thing on their German-language site. The German article seems to be very good, but ... they're based in NYC and Gaiman is an English-language writer, why was their only commentary for weeks shunted away from the English site? US law should absolutely cover acknowledging the existence of the accusations.

There was, let's say, a lot of disappointment to go around, so I'm also grateful for the other women who kept the ball rolling, awful as it is that they a) had similar experiences and b) had to reveal those to get the whole thing taken seriously.

[novapark]

Crushes 9/15

Quiet week reading/creating wise for me tbh but I hope ya'll are having a good time with your sims. ^.^

@courtleymanor

@tau1tvec

@anachrosims

@grilledcheese-aspiration

@elderwisp

@xldkx

@acuar-io

@armoricaroyalty

@melsie-sims (loving your bunker challenge btw)

[based-and-superstructure]

today is the 35th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall and all the time im seeing people who should be filling this form out

[novapark]

I had to go check what mine looked like rn. :P

I know I’ve been here too long when I remember how it used to be the norm to post your tumblr crushes once a week.

[shepherdingthepie]

two bros

chillin in the hot tub

sittin pretty close but they’re just friends

and that’s ok