#i'm just gonna have them pay off the 20k

[virsancte]

a smaaaaall loan of 20,000 simoleons later, hello henford on bagley! they also adopted a young shiba and named him apollo. the original house was made by risshella and is available on the gallery, i just recolored some stuff and imploded it with cc

[cryptiam]

New cc creators jumping straight into Early-Access content...

TL;DR

Creators: learn cc properly before charging on patreon if you plan to do so. Don't be an asshat and perma-paywall your recolor of a couch.

Simmers: quit bullying new creators over their shitty cc. Say your criticism of their content, quit paying them and they'll either adapt or won't. Being toxic won't fix the problem, you'll just make them double-down.

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I've been seeing some fresh cc creators immediately posting Early-Access content without ironing out the process of cc creating. I'm not here to name names (so don't even speculate), that shit gets toxic fast and is something I hate about this community.

Rather, I want to bring the focus on pushing these creators to learn a bit more through experience before charging people joining on patreon if that's their goal.

Most of the time, your first cc batch is gonna be hot garbage. No sugar coating it. It's not very intuitive to learn so you will make mistakes and have broken cc.

Either you didn't do it correctly, weight paint issues caused your mesh to break and stretch across the map, you forgot or ignored uv_1 maps for morphing (which is important), or god forbid your model is 20k+ polycount for a single top.

These are the growing pains of cc creating that we all go through. Difference is and my criticism here are focused on charging money while you figure these things out right off the bat. People are paying you expecting some effort put in and quality cc in return.

CC Creators are replaceable at the end of the day. Anyone with the determination/time and some computer skills can pick up creating. If you're going to charge money for it, then make sure you deliver some damn good stuff. This goes for conversions, original meshes, and even textures.

Simmers: don't immediately bully creators when you see this happen. Say your criticism, quit paying them, and that'll either force them to adapt or they'll keep digging their own hole in the ground. It's ultimately on you as the player if you choose to pay for cc or not.

[kinardsevan]

this was actually a Send Me Asks list I posted back in June, but I'm bored and want to answer these anyway sooooo. enjoy.

🫓 What is your most popular fic? -this really depends on which metric we base it on. hits: empty bones. comments: empty bones. kudos: the saboteur (in terms of WIPs and not one shots, aneurysm fic is first) bookmarks: it's gonna be alright (piece by piece) [aka aneurysm fic] that all said, these two get just about equal attention (which is why I love them both equally)

🥘 What category do most of your fics fall under? 😂😂😂😂😂 emotional angst, hurt/comfort. my friends have a lot to say about it too 😂😂😂😂

🍲 When did you start writing and why? literally as a little kid, because my mom told me about her writing poetry as a little kid and gaining recognition for it. i thought that was cool. given the fact that I'm now a published poet and have had a group exhibition, I'd say my artistry is paying off.

🍱 Do you read your own fics? yes and no? I don't read all of them, but with stories like aneurysm fic and empty bones (and a little bit the devil doesn't bargain), I need to refer back to them for information. Plus, I tend to write shit I end up being really proud of, and I like to read those scenes back to myself.

🍛 Have any comments, tags or reactions to one of your fics every made you laugh or cry or both? make me laugh? all the time. @im-turnip and @girlwonder-writes always entertain me with their responses. I haven't really ever had one that's made me cry, but every time I've gotten a review on Empty Bones (or Lost That War in the PLL fandom) about the way people could relate... I screenshot and save those babies as memories that someone else understands it too. Makes me feel less alone and more understood.

🍜 Do you ever feel pressured to write? fuck yes. I thrive off of positive reinforcement, and at one point last summer I was posting EVERY. FUCKING. DAY. Waking up to those reviews drove me to write even more. Now that I'm back in school and have less time to write, it's harder to generate content, but I still crave that attention. But even beyond that, I know there are people waiting to see what's going to happen (fun fact: you and I are going to find out together 😂), and I don't like the idea of letting them down.

🍠 How long does it take you to write one of your fics or a chapter/part? ....depends. if I have the time, an 8-10k chapter can be cranked out in about 3 days, sometimes less. For something with chapters the length of aneurysm fic (which started at 10k and now have some as long as 20k)....weeks? chapter 6 probably won't be done before November. Honestly it just depends on how much detail goes into one scene and how much I've mapped that dialogue out in my head.

🍢 Have you ever gotten hate on a fic? yes. not in the 911 fandom (yet...that i can remember lmao), but way back when I was a teenager writing in the tslotat fandom, I got it more than once.

🍣 What helps you focus or get in the mood to write? music. youtube videos. little 'what-if' scenarios.

🍥 What's your favorite fic you've written? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

DON'T ME PICK BETWEEN THE TWINS, OK?

Ok ok, though... it's empty bones. BUT. It's my heart and soul and I just... you know?

But also, it's aneurysm fic, because of the level of work and research and it's my little baby and and and. So.... you know?

🥮 Do you have any writing milestones you're working toward? I know at the end of the summer I was closing in on like 400k on the year. I'd like to hit 5 and maybe even further. in the depths of my depression in 2013, when I quit writing, I'd done roughly 750k that year (for a fully calendar year), and there's something enticing about breaking that record, especially knowing my mind is in a completely different place these days.

🍡 Which of your fics was the most emotionally difficult to write? One Tear At A Time. I wrote that entire series off the heels of my friend dying when we were 21. I had a really hard time dealing with it, especially because I was living at home with unmedicated, severe depression and no prospects for my future. He was married, in the army, with a baby on the way. I used that story as a vehicle to really face my issues with the fact that I was angry about my own situation and also talk about what it's like to lose someone you were once in love with at such a young age, but I still cried while working on it.

🍘 Is there a fic or idea for a fic that you've abandoned? oh absolutely. 40 Days was supposed to be a 4 story arc. I wrote two of them and started the third....and then fell off hard.

in terms of what I'm working on now.... I mean I still have my list of ideas. I wouldn't say I've abandoned anything newer, mostly that I'm just super busy and haven't found time to get back to them. even with Your Arson's Match, I know what happens next. I just have to get around to it 😂😂😂😂

🍙 Is there a fic you wish had gotten more attention? I mean selfishly I want them all to 😂😂😂 However, I realize that I write a particular brand of fic (angst) for a ship that, while it's doing well, isn't the #1 ship for its show. That all said... empty bones and aneurysm fic 😂😂😂😂😂😂

🍚 What genre do you have the toughest time writing? .... .... .... ( @girlwonder-writes no one asked you 😂😂😂) ...fluff.... LIFE IS PAINFUL OK. I NEED TO PROCESS THE ICK. 😂

[lionews]

TyCoon here. Remade a blog a while back just to read the occasional Tumblr post someone sent me. Gonna correct some of these rumors and confirm some of these rumors.

First, I did not send anyone 5,000 GB.... Why would I? Why would anyone? I may be guilty of sending that in total to a couple specific artists, but that wasn't gifts... It was for art.

As for art, saying I brag about getting cheap art and give bad tips couldn't be further from the truth. Much less swindling artists? I am one of two owners of to my knowledge the largest art-based Lioden clan/discord server, we have our own little community here and I've seen many people raise prices after joining because they get bombarded with commissions and raise their prices because they have been told they can. Even putting that aside, I regularly pay 100, 200, hell lately 500 GB for a single character/commision is becoming concerningly common for me.

Also, good try calling me out for buying currency. Have fun calling out a fourth of LD, especially during Feb.

I offer on trades once then hide them, with few exceptions. And I rarely mess with GB to SB exchange rates, I primarily focus on breeding items.

And now the big one! Claiming I'm driving prices up. This one actually made me laugh out loud. First off, 3 years is a long time and 3 years of inflation is a lot. Prices across the board have went up in those three years, and while I can affect some things I do not have that kind of control over LD. No, the truth of it is that I have been driving prices up in season! But out of season, I've been driving prices down. So things sell for more now during the event, and less out of it! If anything I've hurt myself more than anyone else with this. Profit margins have decreased by half, probably more since I started playing the game. And I can't even claim credit for all of it, it's a group effort!

This Feb for example, I set my prices after watching the market. I didn't decide prices or change them at all. But when I did, back in October I had over 20k GB to spend, and I did. I specifically drove crunchy prices up to 20 GB, and multiple people followed my example. Crunchy prices stayed at 20 until I ran out of GB, then for the last week they dropped down to 18-19 and stayed there for months. Shot myself in the foot with that one!

This isn't even mentioning the half dozen people that have similar amounts of GB as me and do pretty much the same thing as I do. And then the dozens that have 1, 2, 3+k GB and do what I do on a smaller scale.

Anyway. TLDR; 5000 GB gift fake, I spend a thousand+ GB on art a month, I run one of the biggest art LD clans/discords, everyone buys currency or items, and I'm driving prices up in season and down our of season which is far better for the average player and far worse for big sellers such as me, of which there are many and I'm just the most visible one.

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[bitchimasnake-sss]

bitchimasnake-sss presents: 2k event!

the one piece AUs

featuring: monkey d. luffy; roronoa zoro; vinsmoke sanji; portagas d. ace; trafalgar d. water law [coming soon.] set-up: your favourite men in the modern settings [with a dash of my cringey humor, ofcourse.] what more can you ask for? a/n: i have literally no excuse. i just wanted to do these haha, and i hit 2k!!! so this was perfect timing!! jokes aside, ilysm you beautiful baby who decided to give my writing a chance. one day, i'm gonna hunt you and feed you your favourite food. but for now, have these stories instead hehe. (don't tell anyone i told you this, but i'm obsessed with all of these men. ) a/n [part 02]: all of these fics are gonna be long long (>5k)! and if you have any more ideas for AUs, you can send in your suggestions! if it inspires the filth in my brain correctly, i'll write those stories down (though... how long that might take, who knows?) that being said, i would ask you to send in the suggestions un-anonymously through your id instead (if you're comfortable), so, that even if i cannot write your idea down, then we both can chat away our delusions on dm. i hate leaving people hanging :') but anyways, again, tysm pookie for 2k,,, ily <3

E V E N T S:

🍒monkey d. luffy [coming soon]:

01. dumb and dumber [coming soon] synopsis: jesus fucking christ, the education system is fucked. coming to college was one thing, but paying for college, though? a whole 'nother. burdened with the duty of trying to pay off your student loan debt — and enlightened by the idea of scamming the rich by your friend, nami — you decided to give babysitting a try: a young, overtly-pampered child to a newly-wed couple in the rich neighbourhood. how hard can it be, after all? well, hard enough for them to keep a second babysitter: monkey d. luffy. cw: sheer tomfoolery, fluff, asl brothers, friends to lovers. i love luffy sm. best boy. smut. (genuinely dumb shenanigans coming your way.)

🍀roronoa zoro [completed]:

01. i serve! (my ex's head on a platter) three part series. synopsis: you've worked your ass off; early mornings, late nights, diets, workouts, everything. only to still to fall in the shadow of the current badminton world champion and your ex: roronoa zoro. bitter, agitated and absolutely exhausted, you had decided to never see him or even think of him again. but when an email from his coach dracule mihawk finds you, proposing you and zoro team up for the upcoming mixed doubles champion's cup, can you refuse? wc: 20k [both parts included] cw: crack, angst, enemies to lovers/fake dating trope. zoro is a pain. smut.

🪻vinsmoke sanji [in progress]:

01. (don't) let 'em cook! two part series. synopsis: when you heard the words cooking competition, you only heard two things: cooking and competition. you only had one thing in mind: to get the cash prize and open your own bakery. sounds easy enough, right? then, why the fuck was management telling you to play lovers along with that blonde, heart-eyed freak who was supposed to be your competitor? vinsmoke sanji. risking your heart and cooking skills, all in the name of "increasing viewer ratings"? what could ever go wrong with this? cw: crack, vinsmoke family trauma, close proximity, sanji is a flirt. smut. wc: 8.7k [thus far]

🦋portagas d. ace [coming next]:

01. save me, firefighter! firefighter... save me! [coming soon] synopsis: coming out of break-up is never easy on it's own, but imagine burning down your fucking kitchen because you were stress-baking. fuck. how did you do this? somehow, the only good thing about this situation is the fact that you caught the eye of the suave firefighter that saved your apartment complex from burning down. but now he wants a favour, and he wants you to accompany him as a plus one to a wedding. the wedding of your ex's sister. what the fuck?! will you survive this? (maybe it'll be worth it just to climb that firefighter like an exotic tree, phew) cw: relationship angst, fluff, a tiny bit of angst, asl brothers. just ace and his smug, sexy self. smut.

🌙trafalgar water d. law [coming soon]:

01. oh my, think i need an appointment with the doctor! [coming soon... i hope?] let me be so fr guys, this part will take forever because i cannot write law for the life of me [i make him too ooc 🤡😭]. so, have faith in me and pray for me. synopsis: it was a friday night, you got drunk, your friends drove you back home, you stumbled through your apartment and crashed on the couch. then, why did you wake up in the-doctor-who-lives-next-door's apartment? now it's dawn, and turns out you had stumbled through the hot doctor's door, crashed on his couch, gave him a cheek kiss and bid him goodnight. oh my god, how are you ever gonna meet his eyes again? quick, maybe change apartments! cw: avoidant, touch-starved law, shitty healthcare system, close proximity. law, marry me. smut. (yes. yes, i thrive off tomfoolery. can you let me, please?)

a/n: for the millionth time, thank you so much for entertaining my dumb ideas! it means the world that you guys like whatever stupidity i spew forth. again, feel free to drop suggestions (un-anonymously, if possible 🤭) and i'll try my best to get to that! thankyouuu again <3

[sarah-dipitous]

Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 105

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid/Turn Left

“Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”

Plot Description: The dead are rising from their graves and happily reuniting with their families in Bobby’s hometown

Would I Survive the First Five Minutes??: 1) I thought they said the dead were HAPPILY reuniting. But 2) I don’t think I’ve pissed off anyone who’s died enough for them to KILL me. But also I’m not answering the door in a storm like that if I don’t know someone’s on the way

That is some very convenient narration from the nature documentary

Well, they’re not calling you a TRUTHER. Mmm, but okay. Just solidifies my hypothesis that I wouldn’t die in the first five minutes: I’ve also never killed anyone

These are, in fact, the correct faves to make when you get caught impersonating a government official because you had the sheriff of Bobby’s home town call him

Oh shit…Bobby didn’t tell them what the fuck’s going on because his wife is back from the dead too

So DEATH Death is on his way

I am…extremely sympathetic to Bobby’s dilemma (and I am EXTREMELY glad I didn’t watch this last week). But yeah, if it were John and the boys had found out he came back from the dead, Bobby would be telling them the same thing they’re telling him now.

Well, one good thing about Sam getting attacked by that old woman is that we know you don’t have to do anything special to kill them

Bobby, come on.

Look…the level of planning Dean’s doing to go kill Bobby’s wife is exactly the level that Cas did to get Famine’s ring yesterday. Surface level to the extreme

Oh Jody…now I see why you’re pro-zombie. Oh no…oh you poor woman. To get your son back and then lose both your son and your husband in the same night due to your son coming back. I can’t even imagine. Jody, I’m so sorry

Oof, Karen knows it’s over, but Bobby (predictably) can’t do it. He can’t kill her again

Aw come on…I wanna know the messagggggge

Oh Bobby. He did it. He had to, but that doesn’t make it hurt less

WHY ARE THEY SO FOCUSED ON KILLING BOBBY AND/OR DEAN? Unless Bobby is somehow responsible for their deaths too?? Maybe??? I dunno. Are we gonna get closure on that?

This must be so hard to do a second time.

Oh…this whoooooole thing was a hit on Bobby’s life.

“Been On My Mind…”: Nope. 9

“Turn Left”

Plot Description: Donna's entire world collapses, but there's no sign of the Doctor. Instead, she finds help from a mysterious blonde woman - a traveler from a parallel universe

(First things first, HBO Max spelled traveler wrong in their plot description...just needed to get that out of the way)

I'm not ready at all for this episode. I feel like I JUST. GOT. Donna. (The episode just about every day all last week didn't help, but I still want to complain)

*blinks slowly* they were going to pay her HOW MUCH a year? to be a secretary? 20k a year? adjusted for inflation and converted to USD, no. No absolutely not. Well, I suppose if you had multiple wage earners in the house, sure. Anyway...

Normalize making what turn out to be life altering decisions out of spite. I love that for you, Donna.

You can take the companion away from the TARDIS but you can't take the instinct to run toward danger away from the companion

There's so much I've forgotten (fitting) about these episodes because I rarely went back to these in particular. They're so painful. So, yeah, I forgot the Doctor straight up dies.

Rose came all the way across universes just to find out the Doctor died.

Way to go, Mama Noble, making Donna take the job where she's just gonna get laid off because half of he employer's contracts are on the other side of London and they can't cross the Thames.

YES, DONNA!!! GO OUT LOUD AND TOXIC!! This is cathartic for me.

Watching this in 2023 is...something, for sure. Wilf's (rightly) going on about how there's solid proof of alien life, and how it's coming to Earth, and it's not friendly. All the while, Donna and her mom are (also correctly) still having to deal with the minutia of daily life. (Adore that Donna stole Beatrice's label stapler.)

I don't like that Donna and Rose don't get along here. Darkest timeline.

WILF IN HIS TWO PAIRS OF CHRISTMAS ANTLERSSSSSSS <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

Oh...oh, shit. Girl..."is that like a sequel?" TO TITANIC??

"America is in crisis" bitch, you are telling me. OKAY HANG ON NOW. I was on board with you when you said that the country I live in is in crisis, but I will always draw the line at the fatphobic comments about Americans...

GODDDDD this episode is depressing. Like. I've seen this episode of Supernatural, that one sucked, too. I don't like watching all the things our protagonists accomplished, all the people they saved....be....not that. (I'm tired. It's nearly 11pm because I was dreading watching this)

Oh god...this family Donna and her family have been living with. Fuck. FUCK. The Donna I know wouldn't be this oblivious to what's actually happening around her. The knowing looks exchanged between the patriarch of that family and Wilf...it's heartbreaking

I hate Donna's mom so much. How dare she.

Oh,...that's what Rose meant when she told Donna she was going to die. She's going to cause the accident that forces...herself to turn left

The Doctor's reaction to hearing Bad Wolf once more...

[anexperimentallife]

General Update

Hey kiddos, I'm enduring. I may not respond to every message, but I do see all of them, and I appreciate it; your support means a lot.

You're all a bunch of wonderful weirdos, and I love you for it. All, what, nearly 10,000 of you now following a crippled old autistic dad? That's heartwarming and humbling.

Right eye still won't focus and I'm literally trembling and cramping up and barely sleeping from the combo of a high doss of prednisone and cutting back my nerve damage meds and other stuff, but I'm enduring. Just paying the price to try to get the residual numbness out of my face and neck and get my eye to work again. I THINK there might be a little progress? Not sure.

Long COVID treatment is taking away from saving for the SRRV, though. We At this point we're gonna need to eventually come up with around 32K USD. Maybe more if I can't stop breaking teeth and getting sick. And I'm just so tired. All the time. @thesurestthing picks up SO much more than her fair share taking care of all of us.

If I hadn't gotten COVID despite isolating and vaxxing and masking and rarely leaving the house, we'd have nearly enough to start the SRRV process. It's frustrating.

I'm okay with putting off my surgeries and stuff (which would add probably another 10-20K to the tab) for El's sake, but thanks to all this long COVID shit, we'll... never mind.

There are some positives: The local immigration office is pretty sure they'll be able to get us extra time (after I literally begged, with tears in my eyes) to come up with the money to prevent us being forcibly separated from El, but that's gonna be expensive, too.

(If the situation sounds confusing see my pinned post. I need to update it, but I'm tired, and it'll at least give you the gist of how all this started. It also has donation links of anyone wants to kick in.)

And if you read all of that, you deserve something pleasant for dessert. So here. (The frozen side of my face is sorta cropped out for both your comfort and mine.) :-)

[killerchickadee]

I was looking at my private student loan info and you know why it's going to take me another 9 fucking years to pay off a stupid $20k loan I've been paying for 6 years? I'm currently at a 14.5% interest rate, and I'm accruing $10 in interest A DAY.

And they don't make it easy to make extra payments. Like if I want to pay extra towards the principal I have to call them and bully them into it.

What's annoying is my car payments are roughly the same for the same original loan amount, but that somehow that's just a 6 year loan. 4 years left, nbd. So I think I'm gonna start throwing as much money as possible at that to get it paid off early, and then double what I'm paying on the student loan to get rid of it. It'll still be too many fucking years of payments but it's LITERALLY ruined my life and it infuriates me every time I think about it.

Don't ever take out private student loans, kids. Like even if it means having to drop out of school, it's not fucking worth it. Federal loans will work with your income; private loans don't give a fuck if you're unemployed and homeless, they'll still want their fucking money.

[vicsdeangelis]

as someone who was supposed to be going to leeds festival, seeing everyone vent their frustrations made me wanna join in.

they'd been on the lineup for leeds fest since early december last year. they've hardly touched the uk since eurovision, which i partially understand because since brexit, it's expensive and tedious for artists to bring instruments etc to the uk from europe; but as someone who has adored them loyally since eurovision, who was supposed to see them in february, the leeds cancellation fucking broke my heart. leeds fest is essentially down the road for me because i live in the north, whereas next year i have to travel down to london. i'm generally someone who suppresses their emotion and barely cries, but sobbed for an hour after the announcement.

the emotional stuff is now on top of not knowing if i'll get the money back, another major headliner pulled out, meaning there's now no rock acts on the friday, but leeds fest are refusing to give refunds for those with day tickets despite the festival being materially different. i'm constantly stressing about whether the ticket will sell.

i do hope they learn from their mistakes and move away from the US management when they can, and hopefully find a manager who isn't one of their friends so it's easier to objectively stand up to him. if the next album panders to the US market, it'll be their flop era and they'll hopefully learn from that.

(also, people shouldn't worry about the london O2 gig being cancelled for not selling enough tickets. general admission is sold out and there's about 150-200 seats left at the back to sell in a venue that holds 20k, with nine months before the gig. i just don't want uk fans to panic even more.)

i would like to highlight the last bit first, because like you said, i don't want uk fans panicking over o2 arena either. it's good to know that's not a worry people should have. thank you for that

i had no idea they had been confirmed for that long (i don't pay attention to their dates and specially not festivals if it's to a place i can't go sksnsj), so pulling out just two weeks before feels so much worse. also i'm so sorry about the whole festival thing, with the refusal to refund. i hope you do get to sell your ticket (if that's what you're trying to do, as i understand)

yeah, i have little to no hope that the new album will be good. i'm sure there will be some songs i like, because vic, i think, said in one interview that there would also be songs they wrote by themselves, prior to LA, so if that stays true, those are the only songs i'm looking forward to. but a couple of good songs doesn't make the whole album good, so that's probably gonna be my mindset going into it. let's hope my expectations are so low that they actually manage to blow me away lmao

also i haven't talked at all about it but that new song they played at circo massimo.... most of the song is good, i like the beginning of it, but there are some parts of it that just don't flow well imo (like when he sings "i don't give a fuck", there's just something off about that line. maybe the studio version will be better, idk). i honestly thought it was a genius idea to play a brand new song at circo massimo, but i was kinda disappointed it was yet another song in english. that's, what, the 4th one so far for this new era (not counting gasoline, because it will most likely not be in the album). i don't have an actual problem with their songs in english, i like iwbys and for you love, and i adore mammamia and touch me, but they've always had more songs in italian than in english on their albums (ibdv is a close 7 to 5, but still, there are more italian songs), and i'm starting to think it might the other way around this time and. i don't like it lmao