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[origin-of-orbits]

"STIMULATION!!"

woah i actually made something

yeah yeah, probable new fixation, have lonely wiz

(also why are water color brushes so fun? program is firealpaca, somehow made this from a mouse again.)

[saturngalore]

afrofuturism🪐

☆ one ~ solange hair by darknightt (tsr warning) ☆ two ~ loretta hair by @simtric ☆ three ~ bahati braids by @sheabuttyr ☆ four ~ isonoe hair by octetsica ☆ five ~ binah braids by @sheabuttyr ☆ six ~ cornrows & curls hair by @leeleesims1 ☆ seven ~ indie hair by @sashima ☆ eight ~ loc petals by @shespeakssimlish ☆ nine ~ mnemosyne hair by octetsica ☆

mini dedication essay to black simmers and ts4 creators below! pls read if you have the chance! <3

this edit is a small homage to afrofuturism and the various unique black hairstyles (and especially the black creators of most of these hairs) that i have downloaded and admired over the years! some of these are old and some of these are new.

to me, afrofuturism means constantly honoring/reclaiming/challenging the past while constantly creating/dreaming of a better society/world/future. a society/world/future that embraces and empowers all of our differences, ingenuity, aspirations, and unique lived/cultural experiences. a society/world/future that does not limit us through the various systems of marginalization and oppression (racism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, sexism, xenophobia, ableism, classism, colorism, etc.) that often affects how we, as black people, live today.

blackness is so diverse and intricate yet it's always been a struggle to find my culture within a game that's known for being so limiting, bland, and extremely eurocentric when it comes to hairstyles, clothing, food traditions/events, etc. black simmers have always had to figure out how to make this game more inclusive and make it resemble either more like how our ancestors lived, how our current lives are, or how we would want our lives (and even our children's lives) to look like in the future no matter how dystopian the real world look and feel now. fortunately, these hairs and their uniqueness bring a huge sense of culture and style to this game. they have always inspired me and made me feel extremely proud to a part of the lovely african diaspora (and the ever-growing black simmer community).

in a way, being a black simmer and cc creator usually means that we are often digitally creating our own worlds as afrofuturists to varying degrees (whether we know it or not) every time we open our game, make our sims, make houses, and/or make black cultural cc. also, now i know that cc making is not easy to do and is extremely time-consuming so this post is also just me giving all black cc creators especially those who create for free their well-deserved flowers! here are some other black cc creators who created cc that have greatly impacted my game since i first started playing sims 4: @/leeleesims1 @/simtric @/hi-land @/yuyulie @/sims4bradshaw @/ebonixsims @/xmiramira @/sheabuttyr @/qwertysims @/oplerims @/sleepingsims @/shespeakssimlish and so many more im forgetting probably (im too shy rn to tag ppl but i greatly appreciate y’all fr i hope y’all telepathically get this message somehow 😭).

last but not least, i am hoping that this inspires somebody to keep creating or start creating regardless of what they think their skill level is! somebody will absolutely fall in love with your work and/or your art/work will 100% change someone's game forever <333

[notbecauseofvictories]

I fucking. love birds. I love them so much. "what if there were small friend-shaped beings who could fly" phenomenal!!

(and also sometimes a squirrel is there)

[tyrianludaship]

getting cradled in medic's arms while resting my face against his hairy old man tummy would fix all of my mental illnesses. i just know he would be so warm and soft....

-a-dope-fiend

I just know that when medic cuddles with someone, he would nuzzle against the crook of their neck and want to be close to the person as much as possible.

(take this as a visual because i think it fits)

[pothosrays]

breaking my silence because I saw a little Fella

[non-cannon]

My valentines day dove chocolate wrapper says "Love is good, but chocolate is better" and I agree

[all-iridescent-birds]

Another pigeon, but domesticated and stunning, the archangel pigeon!

The archangel pigeon (Columba livia domestica) is a breed of domesticated pigeon in the "fancy" category, and one of the ones that are actually morally okay. Their plumage is striking: Black wings with green iridescence, and brown plumage pretty much everywhere else, with signature iridescence on the crop/neck which is pink colored! (However, it may vary. This is just the most popular variant, we believe) All domesticated pigeons, and fancy breeds for that matter all come from the very not domesticated bird, the rock dove, and eventually, the domesticated pigeons from older times became feral pigeons.

[sallufix]

WHY HELLO, LONG TIME NO SEE! Luckily, i have like 3 artworks to post. I'm having a 4 day weekend aswell cause' of back to back holidays in our country, so yay!! ( I'll probably spend it watching shows though so don't keep your hopes up. ) And with that, have ur local insane Clive by Fritz Sallufix. My treat.

[halltastic]

Friendly Mourning Dove

[bigmeatpete69420]

Wooooo got a pretty decent picture not quality wise but quantity 4 birds

I see a raven on the telephone pole

A mourning dove on top of the feeder

And 2 finches!! One is on the lower blue bowl and the other is across from the dove on the feeder

@todaysbird

[origin-of-orbits]

For the slug thing, maybe Oyster and Cavair?

Here you go! Have Pearlshell and Bombiavar! (I am bad with names lol)

[saturngalore]

adéyẹmí

get my newest hairs here! <3

[stayawakee]

[moonbeamwritings]

If there's one perk of the days following any major, candy-centered holiday, it would have to be the half-priced chocolates lining the shelves at your local grocery store— and boy, do you love those discounted sweets. So, like any rational adult would, you plop a bag (or two) of the chocolates into your shopping cart and devise a plan to dig into them after dinner.

Hours later, with your knees tucked close to your chest, you unwrap a chocolate and take the time to read the goofy phrase inside the wrapper, “Chocolate. Always your Valentine.”

“Baby, come on,” Atsumu whines, holding a tin chocolate wrapper up to you with a pout, chocolate lingering on the corner of his lips. “‘Real friends share chocolate.’”

“You already ate one!” Clicking your tongue, you swipe at his lip with your thumb, wiping away the lingering chocolate. With exasperation dripping from your voice, you lightly slap his hand away and remind him, “We’re already sharing!”

He crowds you and pulls the bag closer until it plops into the space between you on the couch — what little there is. Plucking another chocolate from the bag, he grins. “Then don’t mind if I do!”

What ensues is a mess of empty chocolate wrappers and dramatic readings of their little sayings, Atsumu’s arm looped around your shoulders, his face squished close to yours.

“‘Love is nice, but chocolate’s better.’”

“True.”

“Hey, ‘m a good boyfriend! Way better than chocolate could ever be.”

“Mm, chocolate’s not a drama queen like you, though.”

Atsumu’s arm tightens around your shoulders and he’s suddenly pressing loud, wet pecks to the side of your head, punctuating each one with warnings not to “be a little stinker.”

When you finally settle again (after an absolute barrage of kisses), Atsumu plucks one more candy from the half-empty bag. “‘Remember your first crush,’” he reads, a pensive look crossing his features. “Like first real crush?”

You wave a hand. “Sure.”

“Mm, I’d have to say Kita, then.”

You remember Atsumu’s old teammate from Osamu’s restaurant opening and the twins’ birthday celebration last year. He was polite and kind. Handsome. You don’t blame Atsumu one bit; the man’s a catch. For a moment, you think of teenaged Atsumu harboring a crush on his captain, stealing fleeting glances at him on the team bus or in the locker room after practice. You imagine him whispering a confession of his feelings to Osamu late one night like they’re having a sleepover. So cute, and if young adult Atsumu is anything to go by, so obvious.

“Huh, I can see that,” you say with an amused smile. “He’s sweet.”

Atsumu shrugs, a small smile mirroring your own as he nods. “He is. Put up with a lot of my shit back then.” He peers at you, eyes sparkling. “Who was yours?”

You cringe when the image of your first crush comes to mind. “You’re not gonna like it.”

Atsumu’s eyes widen. “Was it ‘Samu?”

“How could it be Osamu? We didn’t know each other in high school, ‘Tsumu.”

“Anything can happen.”

“Well, for your information, it was not.” You pause for a moment, fingers moving to fiddle with the string of Atsumu’s sweatshirt.

He pokes at your sides. “Then who? C’mon tell me. Tell me.”

Quietly, you admit, “It was Oikawa.”

“Oikawa!?” Atsumu asks incredulously. “Baby, say it ain’t so. Yer kiddin’!”

“He sat next to me in math, ‘Tsumu, I don’t know! Crushes are weird.”

“Unbelievable,” he teases with a roll of his eyes. Going quiet for a minute, all he does is stare, chocolate forgotten between you as he does. Before he finally speaks, Atsumu puffs out his chest as he leans closer to you. “’M better lookin’, anyway.”

“You might be a little biased, don’tcha think?”

“'M not. I just think ya have better taste now, is all.”

Knowing this is an argument you won’t win, you bump your nose into his, a sly smile pressing against his mouth. “Mhm, much better.”

[starpros-sunshine]

Eichi gives away the mask so easily because it was never meant to be an "engagement ring" like you delulu wataeis imagined it to be lmao. It was wataru saying that he will continue playing tsumugi clown role in fine and won't leave it for hokuto's mother troupe after graduation. Do you dumb fucks even read the stories? Eichi didn't even understand tf that mask meant when wataru gave it to him and wataru referenced fucking tsumugi in his "proporsal". I dunno why the f you think it's ok to lie about "! EnDiNG wItH wAtAeI EnGaGeMEnT" when the chapter it happened wasn't even close to the end of ep:link. Cope

PS: how do you live with the fact that Eichi clearly admitted to never being in love in his life and Wataru said that even though Eichi likes him, he still can easily discard him for the sake of his objectives?

I love you anon thank you for giving me a nice reason to ramble again beautiful ask 10/10 I'm sorry this is probably not how you hoped this would go but this is such a funny block of text delightful really thank you for the enrichment please marry me

But okay yes now to get down to the actual ask just to disclaim I am solely relying on translations seeing as I do not speak japanese well enough to understant the original text so if anyone has anything to add to this or to correct me on please feel free to do so.

Now to get started I'm not sure if one could say Eichi gave away the mask "So easily" seeing as he claimed that it was "a hard choice to make"? Which, as one might know, implies unease with an idea and pondering and debating and a general amount of thinking behind a decision so? I know this isn't really the main focus of this ask but I'm just a tad miffed with the semantics of it is all. And in either case giving the mask back to Wataru while expecting it back still shows a certain degree of trust in their relationship it wouldn't have been such a big deal for him (as it apparently was) if the mask didn't have a lot of sentimental value to him (the both of them really if we look at the whole exchange).

Now to the claim that the mask was "only" Watarus promise to stay with fine and "continue playing Tsumugis clown role". This is not entirely incorrect. Regarding the acting troupe and staying with fine bit at least.

I'm assuming this bit in EP:Link Deadend/7 is what you are referencing, and I see where you're coming from. But the bluebird line

from literally three dialogue lines further down, which references this line of dialogue (notorious Eichi line everyone should be familiar with)

kind of somewhat really recontextualises that? Because you see this is a reference to a fairytale about a pair of siblings and they get sent out by a nice fairy to find the bluebird of happiness for her sad daughter to make her happy again so they both go on an adventure and travel far and search and search but they can not find the bluebird of happiness and then when they return home again, disappointed because they couldn't find the blue bird, they realise only one night has actually passed and the journey was probably just a dream. But then their eyes fall upon their pet dove in it's cage which appears blue all of a sudden and so they gift it to the fairies sad daughter which becomes happy again and sets the bird free. The real bluebird of happiness is a dove. At least in the version of the story I'm familiar with but I mean everyone sees the symbolism right? It's. very hard to miss.

And then dropping this?

I'm not sure how to say this properly but in the overall context this makes it pretty clear that Tsumugi has nothing to do with this anymore this is Fully between Wataru and Eichi. And I am the last person to dismiss Tsumugis significance in the course of Wataeis relationship as characters I will be among the first to protest when someone dismisses the importance of Tsumugis and Eichis relationship in favour of some image they have of Wataei but he has nothing to do with this one.

Yes Tsumugi gets namedropped but - again - I don't really see how that would lessen the sentiment Wataru is triying to convey here? Because. Yes. Why wouldn't he mention Tsumugi?

The entire conversation pretty much boils down to "Yes I was initially only in this because I thought I could replace Tsumugis role in your life and then I wanted to leave but we have spent so much time together that I realised that that is definitely not working out because I really do love you. I love you as a teammate; I love you as a friend; I love you as a person and I am very angry at myself for not managing to get that into your head. So please allow me to stay with you for as long as you'll have me." And then also Eichi not understanding because he has the emotional self awareness of a very emotionally unaware loaf of bread and also because he hates himself that is a very big thing about his character huge part of his character arc actually that he. you know? Hates himself? And feels guitly for his actions during the war? And doesn't think he deserves love and companionship? Which is why Wataru wanting to stay with him for him and not for some twisted form of revenge is such an alien concept to him? Because he is projecting his insecurities onto Wataru? As one is wont to do when they hate themself? "EiChi Didn'T eVen UnDErStanD WhAt tf ThAT Mask MEAnt" Yeah. That's. That's the point? So he can think about it and come to that conclusion himself which works as a keymoment in his characters journey from hating life and himself to enjoying being alive and wanting to live on because of the people he's surrounded with? He literally explains why he didn't immediately understand the mask during the EP:Link Epilogue/4

And to get back to the "I dunno why the f you think it's ok to lie about "! EnDiNG wItH wAtAeI EnGaGeMEnT" about which I have two things to say:

"Lying" implies further intent and an effort. Neither of which exist in this case.

He literally went down on one knee while making a big proclamation of offering himself to Eichi with a very personal item that works as a symbol for their commitment to each other on a starlit rooftop. The comparison writes itself.

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

And then I expected there to be a proper reason given and instead you proceed to follow that up with "when the chapter it happened wasn't even close to the end of ep:link". I know the shame is on me for expecting something sensical from an ask which has been near constant in it's lack of correct statements but such is human nature I suppose. And you are not wrong. Deadend/7 isn't very close to the end of EP:Link. That is true.

But do you know what Is very close to the end of EP:Link? The Epilogue Chapters 3-5.

Do you know what the content of those chapters is? I do. Very well actually :)

(Eichi literally explains why he didn't get it)

So if this answers your "Do you dumb fucks even read the stories?" questions, Yes. And I think I'm a lot better at it than you. So I'd say I'm coping quite well over here :p

PS: Regarding your PS, I take the "I've never been in love before so I wouldn't know" comment with a lot of humour actually as an aroace person who's emotional self awareness also ends at "good" and "Not good" I think it's very funny all things considered especially because he mentioned the loving Wataru thing several times before that and I'm generally of the belief that actions speak louder than words and also am in a happy long term relationship with the concept of "Reading Subtext". So please excuse me for not breaking down in tears everytime someone reminds me of that one singuar line of text in one of my favourite all time enstars stories that came out three years ago which also brought us the single best card set in the entire game

as well as absolute banger dialogue such as

Among others <33

And there are soooooo many other examples of wataei dialogue that simply make me swoon but I have already had to take out so many of the one's I wish I could put here so this wouldn't get "Do you love the colour of the sky" long

And also, regarding your "Wataru said that even though Eichi likes him, he still can easily discard him for the sake of his objectives" I'll just say that no he absolutely could not. I mean he'd say that and if pull comes to shove and he has no other option then he might seriously consider it but may I mention that Wataru was gone for a few days at most but really not that long of a time during Sanctuary and Eichi stopped considering being a normal rational person that doesn't leave helpless 17 year olds in the midst of a construction site. Very different situation but I feel like it's worth mentioninh here. Another example is Eichis almost not being able to go through with the war because of Wataru. Wataru had to actively come and tell Eichi to go through with it. Wataru isn't the reason Eichi started the war, that is wrong, but he is the reason Eichi almost didn't finish it. and during the war era that was his Main objective. Again I'm part of the fraction "actions speak louder than words" Show don't tell and all that, but even the words are pushing it.

And that concludes my essay :)

[axololtls]