#custom painted media center

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Traditional Living Room - Open Large elegant open concept medium tone wood floor living room photo with white walls and a media wall

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Los Angeles Living Room Open Large elegant open concept medium tone wood floor living room photo with white walls and a media wall

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Family Room Enclosed Family room - eclectic enclosed medium tone wood floor family room idea

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Living Room New York Large transitional enclosed medium tone wood floor living room library photo with beige walls and a tv stand

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overrides

Refreshed Main Menu 

Urban Erotica (functional books)

No Tune After Loading

Nap Replacement Mod

Restaurant Default Menu

MyxDoll Fenty Beauty Override 

HighSchool Years Textbook Override

Toothbrush override by dsco

Paintbrush Override

The Ultimate Default Underwear Collection by vixonspixels

Paired Selfie (in game photo overrides)

iPhone 12 Override OR H&B Smartphone Override (ONLY CHOOSE ONE)

UNO Card Replacement

 Photo replacements (in game)

Pink Build Buy UI 

Black Sitcom TV Overrides 

San Sequoia Bridge Override

Realistic TV Mod (Reality TV)

Realistic Phone Icons (multiple available on CoCo Games patreon)

Phone Wallpaper Kit OR Phone Wallpaper Override (only pick one)

Control Any Sim

San Myshuno Billboards

PC Game Overrides 

CocoGames Video Game Bundle

Starbucks on Campus

My Wedding Stories Engagement Ring Recolours 

Stand Still in CAS Poses

Hidden Highlight 

Functional Airpods

Hello Kitty Infant Seat

The Missing Plumbob

No zzz (when sim is sleeping)

Towel After Shower

Functional PS5

Black Art Painting Mod

The Sims 2 Font or Life is Strange Font (only pick one)

Gallery Poses (female)

Gallery Poses (male)

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Take Off Shoes With Animation

Stop Random Accessories on Townies

Parenthood Recolour - link is at the bottom of the thread

lighting

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cas & loading screen

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Loading Screen Plumbob Replacement  OR by pinkishwrld

Minimalist CC Wrench Override

More CAS Columns (I use 5)

Map Replacements Overhaul

Colour Slider Mod

I alternate my CAS backgrounds so see below for my fave creators:

- MeekGames

- LadySimmer

- SlimmazSimz

- Essemelle 

- BougieChloe

- SierraTheSimmer

- Xurelia

- DonavinGames

- NeriSims

food

Somik & Severinka (I use the Realistic Cooking Mod & all others they have)

ONI Custom Food

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QMBIBI Thee Kitchen Tablet

Functional Breakfast Cereals

Airfryer

Waffle Maker

Pressure Cooker

gameplay

misc

Computer Side Gigs

Kuttoe Mini Mods: Small Additions

Carry & Kiss

Longer Parties & More Guests

Functional Magazines

Better Social Media Sponsorships

Higher Lifestyle Brand Payouts 

QMBIBI Skincare Mod

QMBIBI Express Delivery

QMBIBI BabyCare Overhaul

Online Skills 

It’s Movie Time 

BabyCare Mod

Basemental Drugs

Basemental Gangs

Celebrate Adoption

Sip & Paint Event

Luxury Real Estate Career

Recipe Notebook

Sulani Events Calendar and Flyer

Functional Personal Care Products

Go For A Jog... Together

Morning Routine

Everyone Can Sleep Together

Spa Day Face Masks From Mirrors

Pole Dance Mod

Online Apprenticeships 

Turn the TV on

Ask For Money 

UI Cheats

MC Command Center

Self Manicure & Pedicure

Make Functional Perfumes

Shear Brilliance - Active Hairstylist Career

Cute Romance

LOT 51

- Ring Doorbell 

- Dust Buster 

- Plumbros (heating, plumbing & cooling)

- Alarm Clock 

- Simlink (wifi)

High School Years

Fashion Authority   KimbaSprite has a tutorial on this mod here

More Classmates

Adeepinigo

I have many mods by this creator, check out their website here

Lumpinou

There is an index on Lumpinou’s Patreon with all the below mods listed, see here

- LGBTQIA+

- Memory Panel Mod 

- Open Love Life

- RPO Collection “Realistic & Pregancy Overhaul”

- Science Baby Tweak

PandaSama Childbirth 

SimRealist 

- Mortem  - no recent updates

- Real Estate

- Private Practice

- Sim National Bank 

- Sim National Bank Bills

- Sim National Bank Financial Center

SimWithShan

- Cyber Teacher Career

- Homebody Prefences

- Housewife Aspiration

pose player mods (for in game photos)

- Andrew Poseplayer 

- Teleport Any Sim 

Go to creators for poses & animations: 

- KatVerse 

- King Black Cinema 

- Frxsk0sims

- helgatisha

- AfroSimtricSims 

- Gawdly Games

- Hardswae

- Maysbat

- TS4 Poses (tumblr blog)

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[tinydefector]

Behind the Scenes 4

Tim Drake x Male reader

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Warnings: swearing, Tim being Tim in his stalkerish way.

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Y/N’s Internet Presence

Y/N had a small but active social media presence. His accounts were filled with harmless posts, pictures, animals, and the occasional group photo with friends, coworkers at the nursery and even family photos. Nothing out of the ordinary. If anything, he seemed like someone who genuinely loved his job and the environment he worked in, And always had a smile.

Job Records: Y/N had worked at Sarah’s nursery for about three years, with a clean and consistent employment history. Before that, he’d held a few odd jobs, mostly in landscaping and animal care. Everything seemed legitimate. No Criminal Record, A quick background check revealed no red flags—no arrests, no shady connections, nothing that immediately jumped out.

Tim frowned, leaning back against the headboard as he scrolled through the results. On the surface, Y/N seemed completely normal. His life seemed almost too clean, which was suspicious in itself. Gotham wasn’t exactly known for producing people with zero skeletons in their closet, and from what Tim had found he was gotham born and raised.

Shifting gears, Tim dug deeper, turning his attention to the nursery itself. Sarah’s Green Thumb Nursery had been operating for over three decades and had mostly stayed out of Gotham’s usual chaos. However, there were a few notable incidents.

Encounters with Poison Ivy, Several thefts had been reported over the years, all attributed to Pamela Isley. She had stolen rare plants and equipment from the nursery on multiple occasions, though she had never harmed the staff or caused significant damage, there had been a pattern off it for a long while, almost as long as Ivy had been operating in Gotham.

Unusual Growth Patterns of some of the plants. Local rumors suggested that plants at the nursery grew faster and healthier compared to other similar businesses in the area. While that could easily be chalked up to Sarah’s expertise after all she had a very dedicated team, it make have been a small nursery but considering Alfred frequently brought from there, and from his knowledge had been since Bruce was a boy it was clear to say that the nursery had that reputation even before Julian started working there.

A few online reviews mentioned how lovely it was to see animals at the nursery from rare birds nesting in certain plants to the occasional squirrels, possums and fauna in general often congregated near the nursery. One customer joked that the place felt like “a Disney movie come to life.” and left rather good reviews over the nursery.

Tim’s brow furrowed as he stared at the screen. None of this was concrete evidence, but it painted a strange picture. Ivy’s repeated thefts were concerning. Why that nursery? Why hadn’t she escalated her behavior there like she had in other areas? And why did it feel like Y/N was at the center of it all?

Tim tapped his fingers against the keyboard, his mind racing as he pulls out a voice recorder pressing record and sitting it beside himself “Okay,” he muttered. “So you’ve got a guy who’s weirdly good with plants and animals, works at a place Ivy’s targeted multiple times over the years, but suddenly her activities stopped a year ago, what happened to make her stop stealing and breaking into this nursery. You don't just change your behaviour when you have been doing it for over ten years, something must have happened to take this nursery off her list.” He starts rereading his information he had found.

“ then we have Y/n, no dirt on him anywhere. Either he’s the most boring person in Gotham, or he’s hiding something, and knowing the people of Gotham it is most likely the latter, but the question being what is it, why. His boss referred to him as a druid and it is rather suspicious with Ivy seemly uninterested in this nursery now”

Tim wasn’t ready to call Y/N a meta or accuse him of working with Ivy—not yet. But there was enough here to keep digging through files, old nursery documents, sales and other titbits he could find.

His potential theories so far consisted of:

1. Meta-Human Abilities: Y/N could have some form of plant-related powers. His connection to plants and animals wasn’t normal, even for someone who worked with them every day. Something just didn't sit right and Tim had done enough investigations into meta’s to know the signs.

2. Ivy’s Influence: It was possible Y/N had some kind of connection to Ivy, whether he knew it or not. He was benefiting from her powers and that was the reason she wasn't interested in the nursery anymore due to having an inside man, it wasn't likely but there was always the possibility if he was a meta with similar abilities

3. Coincidence: Tim hated this theory the most, but it was always possible Y/N was just a guy who happened to work in a place Ivy liked to steal from before just stopping. But it felt far-fetched now, nothing was ever coincidence.

---

Tim sighed, running a hand through his hair. “This is going to drive me nuts.” He bookmarked the searches for now, deciding he’d dig deeper once he had more time. For now, there wasn’t enough evidence to act on, just a gut feeling and a few loose threads. He’d have to keep an eye on Y/N, maybe even pay another visit to the nursery under the guise of getting information over plants, or buying more.

His eyes flicker to the little cacti, he could always use the excuse of getting another plant to put with it, he knew enough on them to know that most plants were social, not to mention he had dealt with Ivy alot and some of the things she said had rubbed off on him when he was younger, he himself may not have been into plants but he knew enough on what they were like, and that had social networkings not far off from humans and plants can and will die if just by themselves.

Closing his laptop, pressing stop on his voice recorder, he'd listen back over it later and type out the information he missed. but he always found that rambling to the recorder helped him preserve more information for later. Great,” he muttered, flopping back onto the bed. “Now I’ve got plants and a potential mini Ivy to deal with.”

The dining room of Wayne Manor was as lively as ever during dinnertime. The grand table was lined with the usual suspects, Bruce seated at the head, Damian to his right, Duke and Cass on the left, all of them already settled with their food. Tim made his way in, and slid into the empty seat beside Damian.

“Nice of you to join us,” Damian quipped, glancing up from his plate. “I was beginning to think you were upstairs mourning the tiny plant Alfred forced on you. Have you dropped it already” Tim rolled his eyes, already prepared for the onslaught. “It's not dead yet, Damian. Believe it or not, I can handle a cactus.”

“Yet,” Damian repeated with a smirk, stabbing a piece of roasted vegetable with his fork. “I give them a week.” “Two weeks, tops,” Duke chimed in with a grin, leaning back in his chair. Tim groaned, looking across the table at Cass, who was silently eating but raised an eyebrow at him, her expression clearly saying ‘he’s got a point’.

“This is why I don’t come to dinner at the Manor, this is the reason I have my own apartment, and go there after meetings” Tim muttered, taking a bite of Roast Pumpkin as the others chuckled. “Speaking of which,” Bruce said, setting down his glass of water and turning his attention to Tim, “how did the pharmaceutical marketing meeting go today?”

The small talk at the table quieted as everyone turned their attention to Tim, curiosity sparking. Tim set his fork down, his expression hardening slightly. “I shut it down.” Bruce raised an eyebrow. “Care to elaborate?”

“They were trying to push a pricing model that would’ve gouged life-saving medication,” Tim explained, his tone sharp. “It was unethical and downright disgusting. I told them no, and I made it clear that if they brought it up again, I’d personally ensure they were out of business by the end of the quarter.”

Duke let out a low whistle, while Damian hummed in approval. Cass gave him a subtle nod, Bruce leaned back in his chair, studying Tim for a moment before giving a slight nod. “Good. I trust you’ll keep an eye on them to make sure they don’t try to sneak it past you again.” “Already planned on it,” Tim said, picking his fork back up. “I’ve got a team auditing their entire portfolio now. If there’s even a hint of them trying something like this again, I’ll shut them down permanently.”

“Remind me never to get on your bad side,” Duke said with a shiver, earning a small laugh from Cass. They were aware how brutal Tim could be when in a workplace, he took WE with the same determination and skill he did dealing with Rogues and he could be downright scary in either Fields, it was one of the things that Damian respected about Timothy Drake. “You’d have to try a lot harder than that, Duke,” Tim said with a soft chuckle.

“So, you’re capable of destroying corporations and putting fear into your subordinates, but let’s see how long you can keep a plant alive” he states plainly, it felt at this point he was just trying to stir trouble At the table, and in truth he was bored, Dick hasn't come for the weekly dinner this week due to Riddler and extra work at the precinct, and Jason rarely visited as it was unless he knew Alfred was making is favourite as a bribe.

Tim groaned, rubbing his temples. “Can we not go back to this?” “No, no, I think Damian has a point,” Duke said, leaning in with a mischievous grin. “We should take bets. How long do we think Tim’s little cacti is going to last?”

“Three days, he will knock it over while working, if he doesn't leave it here and it dies while he goes back to his apartment ” Damian said immediately, crossing his arms. “A week and a half,” Duke said thoughtfully. “Maybe two, if Alfred steps in to save it.”

Cass tilted her head, pretending to consider it before holding up two fingers. “Two days?” Duke asked, laughing. Cass shook her head and held up two fingers again, then made a small motion with her hand to indicate a zero. “Twenty days,” Tim translated. “Thanks for the vote of confidence, Cass. Really appreciate it” he snarks while picking at his food. Cass shrugged, giving him a small smile as she continued eating.

Bruce cleared his throat, though the ghost of a smile tugged at his lips. “As amusing as this is, I’m sure Tim will manage just fine. They’re cacti. They don’t need much.” “Exactly,” Tim said, pointing his fork at Damian. “Even I can’t screw that up. They are one of the plants that need the least amount of work done for them, and i might just get another one just to prove you wrong Al-ghul”

“We’ll see,” Damian Muttered under his breath. Duke shifted the conversation talking about a new project he was working on at school, and the girl he had been teamed up with. Damian about the latest Gotham Academy assignment, stating they needed to improve the curriculum as he was currently ahead of everyone. Tim found himself relaxing, Even Bruce seemed more at ease, chiming in every now and then with his usual calm authority to settle Damian down.

For all the chaos that came with being part of the Wayne-family, moments like this reminded Tim why it was all worth it.

Tim sat cross-legged on his bed, laptop perched on his lap, the glow of the screen casting faint shadows across his face. He promised Alfred he’d get some sleep tonight, but the nagging feeling about Y/N refused to let him rest. He had his medication and was working up until it finally made him drowsy was his excuse.

“This is probably nothing,” Tim muttered to the recorder again as he began accessing sites breaking through firewalls and re-writing coding as he went as to not set off any alarms over the nurseries website to find what site they used for security footage, storage and payroll. fingers already flying across the keyboard. The nursery’s network wasn’t exactly Fort Knox. In fact, it wasn’t even a padlock on a garden gate.

“Seriously?” Tim scoffed, his fingers moving effortlessly as he bypassed the weak security. “Cloud storage with no encryption? No firewalls? Who set this up, a middle schooler? I’ve seen better protection on my local coffee shop’s Wi-Fi.” Within minutes, Tim was in, scrolling through the nursery’s security footage archives. He chuckled to himself, shaking his head. “That was embarrassingly easy. I almost feel bad. Almost.”

He sifted through the grainy footage, narrowing his search to recent days and areas where Y/N was most likely to be working. The cameras weren’t great, low-quality, with just enough resolution to make out people and their general movements. Tim leaned forward, squinting as he scanned through clips of the nursery staff going about their day. “Alright, Y/N,” Tim muttered, tapping through timestamps. “Let’s see what you’ve got going on.”

After about ten minutes of searching, he found a few clips of Y/N. The young man was exactly as Tim remembered him calm, focused, and completely at ease in his surroundings, there were a few clipe that showed him clearly laughing at something a coworker had said and occasional play fighting with one where a handful of dirt or trimmed leaves were thrown between people. Tim watched as Y/N worked with the plants, carefully pruning leaves and arranging pots with a precision that felt... oddly natural, almost instinctual, hed read orders in trays as if memorising it and then disappear with a tray only to come back five to ten minutes later with the tray full.

“Okay, not weird,” Tim muttered, scrubbing through another clip. “Just a guy doing his job. Nothing meta about that.” Then he stumbled across something strange. The footage showed Y/N walking through one of the nursery’s outdoor sections late at afternoon, it was clear he was there after hours. A flock of crows was perched on a nearby fence, their dark feathers standing out against the greenery. As Y/N passed, the crows took off, circling him briefly before landing again. A few hopped closer, dropping small objects onto the ground: a shiny button, a piece of foil, and what looked like a coin.

Y/N knelt down, inspecting the trinkets with a quiet smile before pocketing them, throwing down a handful of mixed berries, nuts and seed before continuing on his way. Tim paused the footage, staring at the screen brows furrowed. “Huh. That’s... different.” He replayed the clip, watching the crows’ behavior more closely. They weren’t acting randomly if anything, they seemed to be deliberately offering Y/N the trinkets. And Y/N didn’t seem surprised by it.

“Okay, that’s a little weird,” Tim muttered, rubbing his chin. “But not meta weird. People feed birds all the time. Maybe they just like him because he gives them snacks or something. Crows are smart. That’s not exactly groundbreaking; he must just enjoy birds. So that seems cross that off for now, nothing sinister over the animals, he's not using them in some sort of mind control ”

The rest of the clips were mundane. Y/N working with plants, chatting with coworkers, and occasionally being followed by the stray animals Sarah had mentioned. A cat curled up by his feet in one clip, while a raccoon trailed after him in another. Tim leaned back, resting his hands on the keyboard. “Alright, so... nothing incriminating. No superpowers that I can see, no secret meetings with Ivy, no glowing green hands of doom. Just a guy who’s really good with plants and animals. Which is surely suspicious but so far nothing dangerous, but a visit to the nursery again might do well to just wipe it off the theories and clear him. Christ i can't believe i did a deep dive over this because he set me off for Some reason” he grumbles to himself more out of annoyance at himself.

He stared at the screen for a moment longer, replaying the clip with the crows one last time. “Still weird, I’ve seen birds do that before, but it’s usually with people they’ve been around for years. They don’t just do that for anyone.”

Tim sighed, closing the footage and logging out of the nursery’s system. “Well, that was a whole lot of nothing. Still doesn’t explain why Ivy keeps targeting that nursery, and then just vanished. There’s gotta be more to this.” He set the laptop aside, flopping back onto the bed and staring up at the ceiling. “Alright, Tim. Let’s recap. Y/N’s clean, at least on paper. The nursery had run-ins with Ivy, but she’s never hurt anyone there. Y/N is weirdly good with animals and plants, but that doesn’t scream meta. Yet.”

He closed his eyes, letting out a long breath. “Maybe I’m overthinking this. Maybe Y/N’s just... some guy who happens to work at the most eco-friendly nursery in Gotham. And maybe the crows are just crows. Yeah. Totally normal.” But even as he said it, the nagging suspicion in the back of his mind didn’t go away. Something about Y/N still didn’t add up, his finger hovered over the stop button of his recorder ready to stop it and finish for the night, Tim knew he wouldn’t be able to let it go until he had real answers. “Alright,” he muttered to himself, reaching for his laptop again. “One more search. Just in case.”

It was going to be a long night.

Tim’s tired eyes were starting to burn from staring at his laptop screen when he came across the file. He wasn’t even sure how he’d missed it earlier, it was buried in an older folder, timestamped for a day when Poison Ivy had reportedly broken into the nursery. “Finally, something interesting,” Tim muttered, clicking on the file. He leaned forward, the grainy footage loading in a small window on his screen.

The video started off normal enough. It was one of the outdoor sections of the nursery, where rows of plants and shrubs were neatly arranged. The timestamp told him it was late night, the moonlight casting long shadows across the ground.

The camera angle wasn’t the best, but within moments, he spotted Y/N in the frame. He was standing near a row of potted trees, a crow perched comfortably on his shoulder like it belonged there. Y/N wasn’t working, though he was frozen in place, staring at something just out of the camera’s view. Tim scrubbed the footage forward a few seconds, and then she appeared.

Poison Ivy stepped into the frame, her signature green skin and fiery red hair unmistakable even with the low resolution. She moved slowly, her gaze locked on Y/N. The plants around her seemed to react instinctively, their leaves shifting toward her as if drawn by a magnetic force.

Tim’s breath hitched as he watched the scene unfold. His eyes flicked between Y/N, who stood stock still with the crow still on his shoulder, and Ivy, who stopped a few feet away from him.

For a moment, neither of them moved. “Okay, that’s... not what I expected,” Tim whispered to himself, his fingers hovering over the keyboard. The crow on Y/N’s shoulder fluffed its feathers, its small body tensing as if it were ready to spring into action. Y/N, meanwhile, looked like he was trying to decide whether to run or stay put.

Y/n looked nervous, understandably so—but not panicked. If anything, he seemed more unsure of what to do than outright afraid. Ivy didn’t respond. She just stood there, her expression unreadable. The plants around her continued to shift and sway, their leaves almost quivering in her presence. Y/n doesn't move, but it seems As if the plants around him don't even react to Ivy, their leaves only moving with the slight breeze.

For several seconds, the two of them simply stared at each other. The crow shifted slightly on Y/N’s shoulder, its beady eyes locked on Ivy like it was ready to defend its human companion.

And then something unspoken seemed to pass between them. Ivy’s gaze softened not in a warm or friendly way, but in a way that suggested she’d made some kind of decision. Her posture relaxed slightly, and the plants around her seemed to ease back into stillness.

Y/N, for his part, didn’t say a word. He just stood there, watching her with wide eyes as the crow puffed up its feathers again. Ivy turned on her heel and walked away, disappearing out of frame. Y/N remained frozen for a moment longer, Finally, Y/N seemed to snap out of it, shaking his head and muttering something under his breath before walking off in the opposite direction.

Tim stared at the screen, replaying the clip again and again. “Okay,” he said to himself, his voice low and measured, “what the Fuck was that?” He scrubbed through the video frame by frame, trying to pick apart every detail. Ivy hadn’t attacked Y/N, nor had she even said a word to him. That alone was strange. Poison Ivy wasn’t known for her restraint, especially when it came to people she considered a threat to plants.

But what was even stranger was Y/N’s reaction. He hadn’t seemed terrified, not really. Nervous, sure, but not the kind of fear Tim would expect from someone face-to-face with one of Gotham’s most dangerous metas. And the crow. Tim rewound the footage, focusing on the bird perched on Y/N’s shoulder. It wasn’t just there for show it had been watching Ivy the entire time, its body language mirroring Y/N’s. Protective. Guarded. Almost... intelligent.

Tim sat back, running a hand through his hair. “What are you hiding, Y/N?” he muttered. He replayed the footage one last time, his mind racing with theories, and its only when he freezes the screen he sees it, it's almost not there but he sees it, there are faint raised marks on the man's cheek bones. They look like tiny little vines or fern leaves creeping down his jaw lines, the camera quality makes them barely visible but he sees them.

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Tim's first lot of theories had been completely thrown out and replaced with a new list.

1. Y/N Has flora and Fauna based Meta Abilities: The interaction with Ivy suggested there was something more to Y/N than just a green thumb. Whether he was a meta himself or had some kind of connection to plants, it was clear Ivy had recognized something in him.

2. Ivy Knows Him: The way Ivy had reacted calm, almost respectful hinted at the possibility that she knew Y/N or at least saw him as an ally, or someone not worth antagonizing.

3. He was working for Ivy.

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Tim closed his laptop, staring at the darkened screen as his mind whirled with questions. Whatever was going on with Y/N, it wasn’t normal. Ivy didn’t just walk away from people without a reason, and she definitely didn’t leave witnesses unless she had no choice. The footage didn’t give him all the answers, but it gave him enough to know he was onto something.

“Well,” Tim muttered, running a hand over his face, “Alfred’s going to kill me for not sleeping, but there’s no way I’m dropping this now.” he presses stop on his recording, he'd listen back over it tomorrow and recheck his details, fix Errors and update the file. Tomorrow, he’d dig deeper. One way or another, he was going to figure out what was really going on with Y/N and what role Poison Ivy had to play in all of it.

Tim stared at the laptop screen, replaying the final seconds of the footage for what felt like the hundredth time. Ivy’s departure from the nursery had been uncharacteristically calm, almost as if something about Y/N had unnerved her. That alone was odd, Poison Ivy wasn’t someone who spooked easily. And yet, based on the records Tim had pulled, that was the last time she’d ever shown up at Sarah’s nursery. No thefts. No threats. No cryptic notes about protecting the environment. Nothing. It was like the place had suddenly gone off her radar completely.

“That’s... really weird,” Tim muttered, scrubbing a hand down his face. He leaned back against the headboard, staring up at the ceiling. “Ivy doesn’t just stop. If she wants something, she’ll take it. She’s not afraid of anyone—so why would she back off because of him?” He glanced back at the laptop, the image of Y/N frozen on the screen. The young man looked completely ordinary had it not been for the fact he could now pick out the small little fern like markings that flared under his skin, standing there with the crow on his shoulder.

“Alright, fuck it, we aren't sleeping tonight ” he muttered to himself grumbling over stopping his recorder as he hunts for where he put it on his bed again, pulling up the nursery’s incident logs again. “Let’s think this through. Ivy’s hit this place multiple times in the past, but then this one encounter happens, and she’s gone for good. What made her stop, it's clear she wasn't expecting Y/n to be there, Both of them seemed rather stunned to see each other”

He started jotting down notes on a scratchpad beside him, organizing his thoughts. Tim tapped his pen against the notepad, his brow furrowed. The pieces didn’t fit together neatly, but one thing was clear: Y/N’s presence had changed something.

“ he’s a meta. he’s got some kind of connection to plants and animals. That would explain why Ivy reacted the way she did—she saw him as a threat or... someone like her. Maybe it was a territory dispute of some sort” The thought made Tim pause. Ivy wasn’t known for showing restraint, especially when someone got in the way of her goals, and she was fiery protective of plant life. But she also had a deep respect for nature, and if she’d seen something in Y/N that aligned with her own ideals, it might have been enough to make her back off.

“But that doesn’t explain why she never came back,” Tim said, shaking his head. “Ivy doesn’t just give up. If anything, she doubles down, finding someone like her, she wouldn't jsut let them disappear under the radar, she would pursue them.” He leaned forward, pulling up additional records to cross-reference. He looked for anything, news articles, social media posts, rumors that might hint at why Ivy had avoided the nursery since then. But there was nothing.

“She’s completely wiped it off her radar,” Tim muttered, scrolling through search results. “It’s like the place doesn’t even exist to her anymore.” He sat back with a frustrated sigh, running a hand through his hair. “he spooked her, the fuck is able to spook Ivy. Or at least make her decide the nursery wasn’t worth the trouble anymore.”

Tim glanced at the clock on his laptop. It was well past midnight, and he could already hear Alfred’s voice in his head, gently scolding him for staying up so late. “Alright, fine,” Tim muttered, closing the laptop. “I’ll get some sleep. But this isn’t over.” he set the laptop on his desk and flopped back onto the bed, staring at the cacti sitting on the desk as his mind continued to race. Whatever was going on with Y/N, it was bigger than just the nursery. Ivy’s reaction had proved that much.

As sleep finally began to creep in, Tim made a mental note to dig deeper tomorrow. If Y/N was hiding something, Tim was going to find out what it was one way or another.

The next morning, Tim found himself sitting at the kitchen counter, nursing a mug of coffee. His eyes were locked on Alfred, who was outside on the Manor’s grounds, carefully planting the greenery they had picked up the day before. The older man moved with his usual precision, tending to the plants with an almost meditative focus.

But Tim wasn’t meditating. His mind was racing. His gaze flicked back to his laptop, which sat open on the counter beside him, the screen dark after half an hour of inactivity. He’d barely slept. His thoughts kept circling back to Y/N and what exactly he was hiding. The footage from the nursery had only raised more questions. Ivy’s reaction to Y/N wasn’t normal. The way she froze, the way she turned and left without so much as a fight it wasn’t just strange, it was unprecedented. Ivy didn’t back down from anyone.

Unless she didn’t see him as a threat, if she saw him as an equal? Or at least something close enough that she didn’t want to risk a fight? He shook his head. That thought didn’t sit well with him. But that was the thing about Gotham. Nothing was ever just anything.

Tim’s thoughts broke as Alfred stepped back inside, wiping his hands on a towel he’d brought with him. “Good morning, Master Timothy,” Alfred said in his usual composed tone, glancing at Tim as he set the towel aside. “I trust you’ve already begun overthinking something that likely doesn’t require your attention this early in the day?”

Tim blinked, caught off guard for a moment, before letting out a small laugh. “You know me too well, Alfred.” “Indeed,” Alfred said with a slight smile. “If I may be so bold, I suspect this has something to do with yesterday’s excursion. Or, more specifically, with the young man you’ve been quietly obsessing over since we returned?”

Tim froze, his coffee mug halfway to his lips. “I—what? I’m not obsessing!” he tries to argue, he hated how easily Alfred read him, how?, he had only looked at Y/n a few times yesterday, didn't mention it outside of Sarah saying she called him a druid.

Alfred raised an eyebrow, his expression neutral but his eyes sharp. “Master Timothy, I’ve known you for quite some years now. You have a... particular way of fixating on things you find unusual. I seem to recall a certain young boy who, at the age of thirteen, managed to deduce the secret identities of both Batman and Robin. And then tracked down Master Dick even after he relocated to Blüdhaven.”

Tim groaned, setting the mug down. “Okay, first of all, that was different. Bruce and Dick were being *really* obvious. And second of all—” “You’ve barely slept,” Alfred interrupted smoothly, moving to refill Tim’s mug with fresh coffee. “You’ve been staring out the window for the past twenty minutes, and I suspect you’ve already gone through most of the nursery’s security footage. Am I wrong?”

Tim sighed, slumping against the counter. “No, you’re not wrong.” he mumbles under his breath.

Alfred gave a small nod, his expression softening just slightly. “Might I suggest that you take a step back, sir? Obsession rarely leads to clarity. And while your instincts are rarely incorrect, they do have a habit of leading you to... less-than-healthy habits.”

Tim stared at the coffee mug in front of him, his fingers tapping lightly against the ceramic. “It’s not just a hunch, Alfred. There’s something off about him, he's a meta who unsettled Poison Ivy. It doesn’t make sense. She’s never acted like that before. And the way animals and plants react to him—it screams meta.”

“Perhaps not,” Alfred agreed, folding his hands neatly in front of him. “But that does not necessarily mean it requires your immediate intervention. It is possible, after all, that the young man himself is unaware of whatever it is you suspect him of.” “That’s what worries me,” Tim muttered. “If he doesn’t know, then he can’t control it. What if he becomes another rogue And if he does know, then he’s hiding it. Either way, I need to figure out what’s going on.”

Alfred studied him for a moment before speaking. “Might I remind you, Master Timothy, that not everyone who appears unusual is harboring ill intent? You, of all people, should know that Gotham is not always so black and white. There are plenty of Metas who just wish to live their life without being profiled” he states with a hum.

Tim looked up at him, his lips pressing into a thin line. “You think I’m overreacting.” “I think,” Alfred said carefully, “that you are driven by a need to understand. But understanding does not always require immediate action. Perhaps, for now, it would be wise to let the matter rest. Tim didn’t respond right away. He knew Alfred was probably right, his tendency to dive headfirst into mysteries had gotten him into trouble before. But this felt different.

“I’ll think about it,” he said finally, though the look on his face suggested otherwise. Alfred gave him a knowing look but didn’t press further. “Very well, sir. Breakfast will be ready shortly, should you decide to join the others.”

As Alfred made himself busy in the kitchen, Tim turned back to his laptop, grabbing it and moving to the dining room table, his fingers hovering over the keyboard. He wanted to let it go—really, he did. But the nagging feeling in his gut refused to let him drop it. He opened a new tab and began digging deeper into Sarah’s background, hoping to find any hint as to why she’d hidden that footage. If she knew something about Y/N, she’d gone out of her way to keep it under wraps.

"Why would she bury that recording?" Tim muttered to himself. “What was she trying to protect?”

The questions kept piling up, and Tim knew he wouldn’t stop until he had answers.

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[conflictofthemind]

what are ur thoughts on gnc will?

This will be a long winded one.

Short of it: yes he is gender non conforming. I don’t think he’s particularly “girly”, but it’s this nice touch of the feminine he carries. There’s other users on this platform that have probably discussed this in a more proper manner than I have, and certainly more than I will writing this ask. I’m just going to give my own flavour of take and personal anecdotes about the topic under the read more 🙃⬇️

Honestly I find it a very underrated topic of discussion in this fandom that otherwise likes to discuss the same things over and over again (all love because I do it too with the added bonus of being new so often I don’t realize).

I do think it’s because the fandom isn’t very conducive towards it. There is a small but sometimes loud portion that likes to assume you have some secret nefarious reason behind any ‘gnc will’ posting (i.e. stereotyping). Or say by pointing out certain things as feminine, I’m being regressive and misogynist. Whereas I have another profile where I almost exclusively discuss female characters and often gender in those media. This is not a new topic to me (which I’m sure you’ll see).

In the first season he is absolutely a damsel-in-distress. He’s kidnapped by a monster and is hiding away in a ‘castle’ while his friends must come to rescue him. This continues from then on, but is the most obvious in S1.

We see the two characters that tend to chase him down when he is upset or in danger being Mike (duh) and Lucas, who are the two most masculine members of the party and play corresponding roles in DnD as Paladin and Knight. Even in the painting Will makes of the party, it features the party (Mike highlighted) facing off against a dragon. In that game the boys play in the arcade, the goal is defeating the dragon to save the princess —

— which is also such an iconic image of particularly Sleeping Beauty, who is a princess trapped in a castle. I have a whole idea centered around this one for later.

So in terms of role he has definitely been given a traditional female one. Even within the Byler relationship, Will stays in that passive ‘yearning maiden’ type position who is waiting for her true love to confess his feelings first. As Mike should.

All of that might have been very controversial because quote unquote ‘boxing Byler into gender roles’ is regressive (even if the characters intentionally fit these princess/knight archetypes, oops!). Personally I don’t find it regressive at all, I find it interesting to look at things from this perspective. Part of this labelling is the deconstruction of the tropes as well. Will can’t and is not going to remain passive in Season 5, so how will this be dealt with and how will it affect specifically the Byler storyline?

I’m especially interested in whether he completes the transformation from Princess to Witch 👀 but my fairytale posting might get some entries of its own.

Now what you provably mean irt clothing and gender presentation:

The answer is still yes. I think a lot of the reason people deny Will as being gnc is because he doesn’t look the part. But instead of thinking about why that might be, the conclusion is made right then and there.

Will wears clothes that are mostly hand me downs from Jonathan. Their family is poor and if he does get ‘new’ (read: personal choice) clothes they are almost certainly from the thrift store. He has no option to even try and experiment with.

In the original pilot the Duffs actually wanted him to be identifiable by ‘colourful’ (read: girly) clothing, and did keep a bit of that in his Will the Wise outfit that is customized and only worn when he’s comfortable and in his element. The original conversation around the table was Dustin poking at him for wearing a wig and purple gown:

My personal headcanons are that he would keep the natural colours because they are pleasing to the eye, but would experiment and branch out with slightly cuter designs once he is out of Hawkins’ claws. I think the femininity in his style would be kept fairly lowkey apart from certain DnD reunions with the party where he might pull out a costume with some experimental and colorful makeup.

Like, I own an 80s vintage sweater that I think he would wear:

I hope the theoretical reader enjoyed a look into my closet lol. But yes, I see Will as gnc (very broad term there btw) and it is a part of my enjoyment of the character. I am mostly a fan of female characters, and the few male characters I do really stand behind usually have at the very least a few gender non conforming traits.

<- All of this is said as a lesbian who doesn’t necessarily consider herself gender non conforming, but also doesn’t fit a lot of major feminine ideals. I’m butcher than the average twenty year old woman solely off of not wearing makeup, not shaving, and being gay which I do consider as particularly gender nonconforming for women.

[incognetomisquito]

GUESS WHO FINISHED

we got THE mist upon the hill by @ereborslionheart, a Widomauk fanfic where soulmates share their scars, and Caleb is the unfortunate damsel who has to bear through Molly’s recklessness. Dont let my summary fool you though, this fic is brutal and wonderfully angsty

Production rant under the cut :3

The cover is made of 100% genuine leather (according to the tag on the purse i bought at goodwill) and is embroidered with the colors of Molly’ jacket. The back embroidery is meant to mimic his tattoos, because of the whole soulmate thing involving skin.

The leatherbound book and the fire colored headbands were my nod to Caleb. (Plus, if you think of it, how fitting is it to have something of Caleb’s be covered in symbol’s of Molly) If im being honest, my first idea was to paint acrylic scars on the leather, but that pales in comparison to what i landed on.

Im really proud of the typesetting too, I’ve definitely improved since my last bind. (The fic is maybe 10k words longer, but literally almost the exact same size. Thats how much the margins improved)

AND i added a fan poem i wrote for the fic like 3 years ago for an english class. It was “write a poem about a book or piece of media” or smth. Ironically, the teacher accused me of plagiarism bc i put the name of the fanfic by it. I had to inform her that no, the fanfic in question is 70,731 words, my poem is about it, not directly it. Good poem tho, im still proud of it, and i figured itd make the beginning of the book feel more real.

I also put Devon Rue’s map in, specifically centered around where they’re running around in the book, which just simplifies to the Dwendalian empire.

I definitely couldve been more careful with my glue job, and the corners are gonna need protectors eventually bc i didnt cut them right, but overall i am really proud of this.

Hopefully by next book im using printed covers though because i dont know how many more custom fabric covers i have in me. I love them but my god are they tedious to make.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez at Rolling Stone:

Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, is incensed about seeing rainbow Pride flags during Pride Month, according to a new recording obtained by Rolling Stone. If it were up to her, she would be flying a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag in response. Or she might design her own flag, one sporting the Italian word for “shame.”  In recent weeks, Martha-Ann Alito has been at the center of a national firestorm over two flags seen flying at their residences that have been associated with right-wing movements that question the legitimacy of the results of the 2020 election. Justice Alito has blamed his wife for flying those flags — and rebuffed calls from Democratic lawmakers to recuse himself from upcoming decisions in cases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Like her husband, Mrs. Alito is unbowed by the criticism and controversy — as she makes clear in comments recorded by liberal documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor. Windsor, posing as a Christian conservative, spoke at length with Mrs. Alito at a dinner reception hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society last week. Windsor attended the dinner as a dues-paying member and bought a ticket; a colleague joined her.

Rolling Stone first reported on Windsor’s conversation with Justice Alito on Monday. While several outlets have recently relayed stories of Martha-Ann’s tense interactions with neighbors — apparently in response to a sign opposing Donald Trump — Windsor’s recording presents the justice’s wife in her own words. The audio, provided exclusively to Rolling Stone, paints a picture of a right-wing ideologue that matches with the private reputation that Mrs. Alito has developed in the Republican Party and judicial social circuits in the D.C. area and beyond.

In the most jarring moment in the recording, Windsor attempts to pose the same prompt that she presented to Justice Alito, about how, in order to take America back to “a godly place,” conservatives need to win. She doesn’t complete the thought before Mrs. Alito starts complaining about having to see rainbow Pride flags in June, Pride month.

“You know what I want?” Mrs. Alito says. “I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag, because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.” Referencing her husband, Mrs. Alito says, “He’s like, ‘Oh, please don’t put up a flag.’ I said, ‘I won’t do it because I am deferring to you. But when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up and I’m gonna send them a message every day, maybe every week, I’ll be changing the flags.’ They’ll be all kinds. I made a flag in my head. This is how I satisfy myself. I made a flag. It’s white and has yellow and orange flames around it. And in the middle is the word ‘vergogna.’ ‘Vergogna’ in Italian means shame — vergogna. V-E-R-G-O-G-N-A. Vergogna.”  “Shame, shame, shame on you,” she adds. (Last year, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority ruled that businesses can discriminate against LGBTQ customers.) In other points of the conversation with Windsor, Martha-Ann Alito agrees there is no negotiating with the radical Left. She claims “the Femnazis believe that [Justice Alito] should control me,” adding: “So they’ll go to hell. He never controls me.”

[...] Mrs. Alito has for years harbored a disdain and bitterness towards others in the D.C. elite, whom she has bashed for supposedly excluding or shunning her and her husband, and for being too mean about them and their unabashedly conservative beliefs. Sources add that Mrs. Alito also has a longstanding reputation in influential GOP circles for ranting about politics, the culture wars, the Left, and the burning grudges she’s nursed since at least the George W. Bush era.  

Rolling Stone’s report on Martha-Ann Alito’s unhinged temper tantrum about the LGBTQ+ Pride Flag and her whining about “woke liberals” is something to behold. She is just as much as a fanatical right-wing extremist as her husband Samuel is.

[starscatteredsky]

I know it's like...fandom specific

but could I get tips for inklings/octolings?

(from splatoon, if you know about theeem)

tips for inklings/octolings

pt: tips for inklings/octolings

dye your hair bright colours!

have fun with splatter painting, hydrodipping, and other “messy” bright art forms!

use paint, splatter, octopus/squid, or other themed neopronouns!

wear neon colours!

bright coloured contacts!

get some super bright clothes!

do big thick eyeliner to recreate the sort of style inklings/octolings are in!

collect paint swatches/brushes/etc!

paint your nails, wear lots of crazy accessories, do fun makeup and lots of fun clothes! “customize your avatar!”

play your media/source!

listen to splatoon music!

hope these help!! enjoy! -🩸

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[fairylandblog]

Seelie Court and Unseelie Court

Within the magical world of folklore and mythology, especially in Scottish and Irish customs, two opposing faerie or supernatural court groupings are known as the Seelie Court and the Unseelie Court. These courts are more than just collections of ethereal beings; they represent the good and evil energies that coexist in the faerie realm and represent the dualism aspect of fairy lore.

The most charitable-minded faeries live in the Seelie Court, sometimes known as the "Blessed Court." This court's name, which comes from the Old English word for "happy" or "blessed," often connotes favorability toward people. It encompasses a range of beings, including pixies, sprites, and elves, who are all renowned for their beauty and typically amicable relationships with people. Even though they may get into mischief, it's usually innocent mischief meant to teach a lesson or moral. These faeries are active at dusk and on particular celebration days, such as Midsummer's Eve. They are frequently portrayed as forces of good and protectors of the natural world, who could assist people in need, but only under certain restrictions centered around reverence for the natural and mystical realms.

The faeries of the Unseelie Court, in contrast, are less amiable and more hostile toward mankind. Being "unhappy" or "unlucky," the phrase "unseelie" refers to a group of darker spirits and animals, including bogies, bogarts, and redcaps, who are infamous for their evil activities, such as painting their hats with human blood. These faeries, who represent the darkest facets of the faerie realm, are frequently hideous and terrible. They play an antagonistic role in folklore, harming or deceiving mankind. The Unseelie Court, which stands for natural disasters and the dangerous unknown, is not time-bound like the Seelie Court. It can arise at any moment, usually during stormy or dark evenings.

Both courts have had a profound impact on Western media and literature, inspiring a wide range of fantasy-themed works. Writers such as J.K. Rowling and William Shakespeare have incorporated Seelie and Unseelie folklore into their works, demonstrating the timeless appeal of these legendary creatures. The way these courts are portrayed reflects complicated human emotions and moral quandaries, providing a rich examination of issues like good vs. evil and order versus chaos.

As such, the Seelie and Unseelie Courts are significant figures in Celtic mythology, symbolizing the range of characteristics that faeries may display. Their tales pique readers' interest and offer deeper understandings of both the human condition and the age-old conflict between good and evil, in addition to being entertaining.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

In 1558 fray Bernardino de Sahagún was commissioned by the tenth provincial of the Franciscans, fray Francisco de Toral, to write about what could be useful to maintain the "Christianity of the naturals of New Spain".

Sahagún began his research and compiled, in writing and with paintings, everything related to the life and culture of the ancient nahuatl-speaking peoples of the center of Mexico: deities, parties, astrology, holes, philosophy, history of some lords, customs, flora, fauna and finally, episodes of the conquest from Mexico. This information was placed in 12 volumes written in two parallel columns: the original in náhuatl to the right and the Spanish translation to the left; and is one of the most important historical sources to know the history of ancient Mexico.

This codice is called this because it is preserved in the Laurenciana Medicea Library in Florence, Italy, it is a copy sent by Fray Bernardo of Sahagun to Rome with Father Jacobo de Testera to be delivered to the Pope in 1580.

The copy of the Florentine Code presented here was commissioned by Francisco del Paso and Troncoso, during his stay in Europe between 1905 and 1907. Currently kept in the National Library of Anthropology and History, Dr. Eusebio Dávalos Hurtado. Meet him at the INAH Media Library.

Copy of Florentine Codex

[Robert Scott Horton]

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“Our conditioning as members of a consumer society prevents us from abandoning hope that, with sufficient planning, we might yet be able to see and do everything. To move slowly and deliberately through the world, attending to one thing at a time, strikes us as radically subversive, even un-American. We cringe from the idea of relinquishing, in any moment, all but one of the infinite possibilities offered us by our culture. Plagued by a highly diffused attention, we give ourselves to everything lightly. That is our poverty. In saying yes to everything, we attend to nothing. One only can love what one stops to observe. “Nothing is more essential to prayer,” said Evagrius, “than attentiveness.” ― Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

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“We seem to have an insatiable thirst for places that don’t exist, for griffins and wondrous dragons prowling the antipodes of a world we hardly recognize. They symbolize states of growth we haven’t yet achieved.” ― Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

[brookston]

Holidays 9.15

Holidays

Battle of Britain Day (UK)

Born to Be Wild Day

Cantabria Day (Spain)

Capitol Hill Day

Carbon Day

Chestnut Day (French Republic)

Cry of Dolores (Mexico)

Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 5: Health

Engineer's Day (India)

Felt Hat Day

Free Money Day

German American Heritage Month begins [until 10.15]

Google Awareness Day

Grand Magal de Touba (Senegal)

Greenpeace Day

Grito de Dolores (a.k.a. Cry of Dolores; Mexico)

Hunger Action Day

International Day of Democracy (UN)

International Dot Day

International Gotcha Day

International Hypothalamic Hamartoma Awareness Day

International Myotonic Dystrophy Awareness Day

International Sing Out Day

International Wiedemann-Steiner Syndrome Awareness Day

Knowledge Day (Azerbaijan)

LGBT Center Awareness Day

Make A Hat Day

Moonpie Day (Republic of Molossia)

National Africa Civility Day

National Brain Health Day

National Caregivers Day

National Cozy Mystery Day

National Custom Framing Day

National 8-Track Tape Day [also 4.11]

National Hispanic Heritage Month begins [until 10.15]

National Hug Your Boss (UK)

National Malcolm Day

National Muslim Voter Registration Day

National Neonatal Nurses Day

National Online Learning Day

National Ruben Day

National Tackle Kids Cancer Day

National Thank You Day

Nuestra Señora de la Bien Aparecida (Cantabria, Spain)

Oriana Fallaci Day

Pension Awareness Day (UK)

Restoration of Primorska to the Motherland Day (Slovenia)

Roberto Clemente Day

Silpa Buirasri Day (Thailand)

Someday

Tackle Kids Cancer Day

Thimphu Tshechu (Bhutan)

World Afro Day

World Chimamanda Day

World Engineers Day

World Lymphoma Awareness Day

Zombie in the Machine Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Butterscotch Cinnamon Pie Day

Chicken Lovers' Day

National Cheese Toast Day

National Creme de Menthe Day

National Double Cheeseburger Day

National Linguine Day

3rd Friday in September

Bright Pink Lipstick Day [3rd Friday]

Chästeilet (Dividing of the Cheese; Switzerland) [3rd Friday]

Clean Up the World Weekend [Begins 3rd Friday]

Ember Day (Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches) [Friday after 9.14]

Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle Competition begins (Asheville, NC) [3rd Friday, through weekend]

Global Be(er) Responsible Day [3rd Friday]

International Grenache Day [3rd Friday]

Jeans For Genes (UK) [3rd Friday]

King Turkey Day Festival (Minnesota) [3rd Friday & Saturday]

National Black Voter Day [3rd Friday]

National Concussion Awareness Day [3rd Friday]

National Doodle Day (UK) [Friday of 3rd Full Week]

National Foot Drop Awareness Day (UK) [3rd Friday]

National POW/MIA Recognition Day [3rd Friday]

National School Spirit Day [3rd Friday]

National Sunflower Day (South Africa) [3rd Friday]

National Tradesman Day [3rd Friday]

National #WhyApply Day [3rd Friday]

PARK(ing) Day [3rd Friday]

Quarter Tense (Ireland) [Friday after 9.14]

Raspberry Day (UK) [3rd Friday]

Independence Days

Costa Rica (from Spain, 1821)

El Salvador (from Spain, 1821)

Guatemala (from Spain, 1821)

Honduras (from Spain, 1821)

Lutherania (Declared; 2006) [unrecognized]

Nicaragua (from Spain, 1821)

Occitania (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aicard (a.k.a. Achart; Christian; Saint)

Alpinus (a.k.a. Albinus) of Lyon (Christian; Saint)

Aprus (a.k.a. Èvre or Aper) of Toul (Christian; Saint)

Aunt Melba's Guernsey Cotillion (Muppetism)

Catherine of Genoa (Christian; Saint)

Gilles de Rais Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Goethe (Positivist; Saint)

Irish Coffee Day (Pastafarian)

James Chisholm (Episcopal Church)

John the Dwarf (Christian; Saint)

Joseph Abibos (Christian; Saint)

Ksenia Milicevic (Artology)

Kshamavani (Forgiveness Day; Jainism)

Lucebert (Artology)

Rosh Hashanah (began yesterday at Sundown)

Saint Dominic in Soriano painting (Christian; Saint)

Mamilian of Palermo (Christian; Saint)

Media Aestas IX (Pagan)

Mirin (Christian; Saint)

Nicetas the Goth (Christian; Saint)

Nicomedes (Christian; Saint)

Our Lady of Sorrows (Christian)

Roland de Medici (Christian; Saint)

Virgin Mary of the Seven Sorrows Day (Slovakia)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Alice the Jail Bird (Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Almost Famous (Film; 2000)

American Beauty (Film; 1999)

Beer League (Film; 2006)

Be Without You, by Mary J. Blige (Song; 2005)

The Big Picture (Film; 1989)

The Black Dahlia (Film; 2006)

Blood & Chocolate, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1986)

Blue Train, by John Coltrane (Album recorded; 1957)

The Book of Merlyn, by T.H. White (Novel; 1977) [Once and Future King #5]

Bugsy Malone (Film; 1976)

Calliou (Children’s Animated TV Series; 1997)

CHiPs (TV Series; 1977)

Davy Crockett Goes to Congress (Disney TV Film; 1963)

Escape from Freedom, by Erich Fromm (Philosophy Book; 1941)

Everyone’s Hero (Animated Film; 2006)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, by Cameron Crowe (Novel; 1981)

The Fighting Kentuckian (Film; 1949)

The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen (Play; 1925)

Hackers (Film; 1995)

A Haunting in Venice (Film; 2023)

Hit Me with Your Best Shot, by Pat Benatar (Song; 1980)

How to Play Football (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, by Dale Carnegie (Self-Help Book; 1948)

The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares (Novella; 1940)

I Spy (TV Series; 1965)

It, by Stephen King (Novel; 1986)

L.A. Law (TV Series; 1986)

The Lone Ranger (TV Series; 1949)

Lost in Space (TV Series; 1967)

Love Story, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2008)

Mechanical Animals, by Marilyn Manson (Album; 1998)

One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science, by George Gamow (Science Book; 1947)

The Shadow Rising, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 1992) [Wheel of Time #4]

The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien (Novel; 1977)

Some Time in New York City, by John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Album; 1972)

Sports, by Huey Lewis and the News (Album; 1983)

A Star is Bored (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)

The Sulli-Gully, by Ed Sullivan (Song; 1969)

The Sword in the Stone, by T.H. White (Novel; 1938) [Once and Future King #1]

Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (WB Animated Film; 2006)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis (Novel; 1952) [The Chronicles of Narnia #3]

Today’s Name Days

Dolores, Melissa, Melitta (Austria)

Dolores, Marija, Tugomil (Croatia)

Jolana (Czech Republic)

Eskild (Denmark)

Kulmo, Kulno, Kurmo, Kuulo (Estonia)

Sirpa (Finland)

Dolores, Roland (France)

Dolores, Melissa, Melitta (Germany)

Nikitas, Visarion (Greece)

Enikő, Melitta (Hungary)

Mamiliano, Maria (Italy)

Gunvaldis, Nikodems, Sandra (Latvia)

Eugenija, Nikodemas, Rimgailė, Vismantas (Lithuania)

Aslak, Eskil (Norway)

Albin, Budzigniew, Maria, Nikodem (Poland)

Jolana (Slovakia)

Angustias, Dolores (Spain)

Sigrid, Siri (Sweden)

Mykyta (Ukraine)

Delora, Delores, Dolores, Lola, Lolita (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 258 of 2024; 107 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 37 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 11 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 1 (Bing-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 29 Elul 5783

Islamic: 29 Safar 1445

J Cal: 18 Aki; Foursday [18 of 30]

Julian: 2 September 2023

Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 6 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Goethe]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 86 of 94)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 25 of 32)

Calendar Changes

桂月 [Guìyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 8 of 12] (Osmanthus Month) [Rooster Month]

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I'm 26 and while my current job is housewife where I manage me and my wife's home and do all the chores and make sure she remembers to eat, I've had a fuck ton of jobs over the years, both official "w-2 I pay taxes on it" work and under the table side gig hobby shit.

Official jobs in order are:

Teacher at The Little Gym: a gymnastics place for very little children

Chipotle crew member: just basic fast food server shit

Professional Twitch Streamer: I got paid minimum wage to stream with some folks for a media group

Head of Creative Content for an eSports company

Substitute Teacher for a homeschooling resource center

Cluemaster for an Escape Room: honestly this job was a blast, loved running groups through the rooms and fixing shit, genuinely so fun

Head of Customer Relations for a Sandbox VR location

Dog Walker for a small dog walking company

Sales Rep for Home Advisor

Mental Health Referral Specialist for CuraLinc: I basically emailed hundreds of therapists a day to try and find openings for people.

Then unofficial/under the table jobs I've been paid for(sometimes in favors or trade) at one time or another are:

Woodworking: I've built a few tables and desks and couches for folks

Running Paid D&D campaigns: what it says on the can, I got paid to run several TTRPG campaigns during the Pandemic for strangers on the net

Art Commissions: I've done some map making, some 3d modeling and printing, a few character art commissions, I even painted a mural once.

Sewing and Costuming/cosplay work: I've done some small scale sewing projects I've been paid for and I've been paid to make a fair number of props and cosplay pieces over the years

I've done both Pet and House sitting at times

I used to do a bit Gardening and Landscaping work for a few people

Probably a few more I've forgotten about

Anyway, I've done a lot of different jobs over the years

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Acer Launches New Nitro V Series Laptops, Expanding Its Essential Gaming Portfolio

LAS VEGAS (January 6, 2025) Acer today unveiled its new Nitro V series in various screen sizes, showcasing a powerful lineup of entry-level gaming laptops designed to make AI-powered gaming more accessible. Ideal for students, creators, and essential gamers seeking all-around performance, the Nitro V laptops offer a blend of exceptional responsiveness, stutter-free visuals, and ample storage to support the demands of evolving AI features and applications.

Available in various configurations and screen sizes, the new Nitro devices cater to diverse user preferences and styles. Additionally, they come with three months of PC Game Pass. PC Game Pass is designed for PC players, including games on day one such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Ara: History Untold, and titles from EA Play.

Nitro V AI Gaming Laptops

Nitro V 14 AI

The new Nitro V AI laptop lineup debuts with a range of models to choose from: the Nitro V 17 AI, Nitro V 16 AI, and Nitro V 14 AI. These gaming laptops are powered by up to the new AMD Ryzen™ AI 7 350 processor, based on the new “Zen 5” architecture. They enable smooth local AI capabilities, and are optimized for low power consumption, offering excellent battery life and accelerated responsiveness when gaming or creating. These Copilot+ PCs are powered by an NPU performing up to 50 AI TOPS of processing power and enable generative AI experiences, like Cocreator in Paint. They also come with AI-powered graphics, featuring up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPUs[[i]] with the latest NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 technologies for lifelike virtual scenes with ray tracing and up to 32 GB of memory and 2 TB of storage.

Nitro V 16 AI

The Nitro V 17 AI (ANV17-61) gaming laptop features up to a 17.3-inch,16:9 QHD (2560 x 1440) display with up to a 165 Hz refresh rate and DCI-P3 100% color gamut range. The Nitro V 16 AI (ANV16-61) offers a WQXGA (2560 x 1600) resolution, up to 180 Hz and sRGB 100% support. The Nitro V14 AI (ANV14-62) provides up to a WQXGA resolution and 165 Hz refresh rate, and its white, pearl-like finish goes beyond traditional designs, making this laptop stand out in a market typically dominated by darker colors.

Acer Nitro V 15 Gaming Laptops

The new Nitro V 15 AI (ANV15-42) features up to an AMD™ Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, while the Nitro V 15 (ANV15-52) is powered by up to an Intel® Core™ 7 processor 240H, with dedicated AI acceleration capabilities. Its 15.6-inch FHD (1920x1080) panel includes a 180 Hz refresh rate, 3 ms response time, and 100% support for the sRGB color spectrum.

NitroSense and AI Features

The Nitro Sense key gives users command over the laptop’s performance and customizations, with direct access to the control center and AI software suite through the new Experience Zone 2.0. Whether in a call or streaming in-game, Acer PurifiedVoice harnesses the power of AI to block out external noises, while Acer PurifiedView always keeps users front and center of all the action.

Price and Availability

Exact specifications, prices, and availability will vary by region. To learn more about availability, product specifications and prices in specific markets, please contact your nearest Acer office via www.acer.com.

Visit Acer’s Media Center for product images and specifications, or visit the Press Room to see all announcements.

[[i]] Specifications may vary depending on model and/or region.