#it's hard to explain

[loucifersbitch]

"How did you know you were gay?"

Tommy's stride faltered.

"I - wh- p-pardon?"

Eddie took the brief opening to land a jab on Tommy's shoulder.

"Just - how did you know?"

Standing up fully out of his defensive stance, Tommy tilted his head. A droplet of sweat rolled down from his hairline, streaking dangerously close to his eye.

"Um, I just did, I don't know."

"Oh," Eddie frowned, relaxing his stance as well.

He evaded Tommy's attempts to make eye contact, stalking over to the bench for his water bottle.

"Eddie, what's this about?"

Still avoiding his eye, Eddie shrugged.

"I was just thinking about it," he said, lifting his bottle for a drink.

"You were thinking about me being gay?"

Eddie coughed and sputtered, water spilling down his chin, Tommy patting him on the back apologetically.

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[vegan-kaktus]

EA's leaves are kind of dull, and I personally think TNW's are too bright, so here's my spin on a leaf default + a new mod :-D

Leaf variety mod

There are 4 different leaf textures in the game files but only one is used. I talked with @shastakiss some years(?) ago and she mentioned an unfinished mod Neder started working on to make the leaf use different textures. Unfortunately, Neder couldn't get it to work. Shasta kindly sent me said mod and I handed it over to @lamare-sims last year who of course managed to fix it (thank you so much once again, you're a legend!!)

Note #1: worth mentioning, this mod will only affect leaves that spawn after you've installed the mod! the same goes for my mesh fix included in the default below. Note #2: if you already have this mod in you dl-folder, delete that file and use the one from this download if you're planning on using my default (otherwise my uv-map and texture edit will not work).

Defaults

Replaces all 4 leaf-textures with new, more colorful and less blocky textures. I also edited the "effect"-textures of single leaves (the ones falling from the trees). This default can be used without the mod mentioned above, but then only the "original" texture will be used - see second image.

The leaves that spawns under the tree (the one sims can't rake), it was impossible to make it look good with any of the four textures, so I re-mapped it and gave it it's own texture (256x256px). There's also an optional default for the rake included, I edited a tiny error in the mesh and gave it a texture makeover. I made a separate LOD90-default for the leafpile (meaning: the mesh in neighborhood view) and instead of replacing the textures I repo'd them, meaning that the LOD90 default works with any leaf texture default you might use (it will only be showing one texture in neighborhood view).

Texture sizes are all the same as EA's:

Leaves: 512x512px x4 (my default +1: 256x256px)

Rake: 128x256px

Leaf effects: 32x32px x3

Edited leaf-related cc

I edited Sophie-David's leaf pile pet bed (the mesh) and repo'd it to leafpile_txtr, meaning the mesh will now pick up my default (or any other default you might have for leafpile_txtr, and if none - EA's original texture). The mesh now needs seasons + pets, since it's repo'd. Their recolors are not included, so be sure to download them from the link above if you want them and replace their mesh with mine!

I also edited Shakeshaft's leaf cover mesh (warning T$R) , I repo'd it to one of the leaf textures and made recolors - also repo'd - to the rest of the textures. This mesh and recs now need seasons, this also means that the mesh and recolors* can be used without my default.

*with the exception of rc4, which is repo'd to my custom leaf texture, found in my leaf default.

Recommended mod

I recommend simler90's Gardening Rake Leaf Pile Mod or jfade's leaf pile fix (I have no idea what the difference between those two mods are, they edit the same thing so choose one of them).

Nothing in this download is dependent on each other* so feel free to pick and choose what you want :-) remember you can only have one default for the leaves, meaning that if you have any other default (1, 2, 3, 4) or Shakeshaft's/Sophie-David's original meshes, make sure you remove them before installing my files. Everything has been compressed to reduce file size, as usual. Do let me know if I messed up anywhere!

*with the exception of rc4, see above.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: Neder, @lamare-sims (many many thanks!!), @shastakiss, Sophie-David, Shakeshaft and lasty EA.

[not-poignant]

I was thinking back to the post I made about ebooks being so much more accessible for so many people compared to paperbacks/hardbacks and the other thing I wanted to add is the vast, vast majority of the time, the author gets so much more profit comparatively for an ebook than a paperback/hardback.

That's not a problem for huge huge huge authors either way, but for small-time authors, or authors with small publishing houses, the difference in profits can sometimes be $2.00 or $3.00 per ebook sold vs. $0.50c or $1.00 per paperback. Really. You pay more, but the author gets a lot less.

In the case of indie authors like myself, ebooks give the highest returns always.

This isn't necessarily something most readers think about, but I have had readers assume that because the book format cost them more, that automatically means more goes to the author. In fact it's often the opposite. There are very few exceptions (university texts come to mind). But in the case of your run-of-the-mill indie fiction, if you genuinely want the most profit to go to the author, get the ebook.

[raiiny-bay]

would you approach them yes or no

[nattikay]

man just really not vibing with the fandom at large recently

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

The "MACV-SOG" Watch

This arrived while I was away, a Seiko SNK381K1. I took off its metal bracelet and attached it to this Waltham wrist compass that I had in the LRRP collection.

I'm reasonably satisfied with it as an approximation of one of the models of Seiko 5 that SF guys reputedly wore in Vietnam, but it is not perfect. This image (which I lifted from this video) compares the SNK381K1 with two Seiko 5 models used in Vietnam

So you can see the numerals' font isn't quite right, the hands are the wrong shape, the case is a bit off, and the day shows white on black instead of black on white. Furthermore, the days on the model I got show in English and Arabic; English and Japanese would be better.

Apparently there is another Seiko out there with a case and hands that match the '60s watches more closely (the SNXS79), and enterprising individuals will combine the face and mechanism of the SNK381 with the case and hands from the SNXS79. One can also swap out the day wheel. They make all this sound easy, but I'm not sure I have all that in me.

[skyward-floored]

"How do you juggle writing nine characters" I juggle nine siblings in daily life. this is nothing

[unstablemotions]

I don't know how to explain it. But the feeling of switching from one alter to the other kinda feels like this. I fall into the abyss and another part of my fragmented person has been pushed into my body. Almost like who I am disappears and someone else has taken over my life

[railway-lands]

Ronan Lynch is not my favourite but sometimes I understand just what he felt like (esp in cdth / td3 as a whole) because I am sitting in a classroom and time is dragging on and I feel like I'm full of potential energy ready to explode when there's sunshine outside and wind and trees and I think I need to see the ocean again. and my form of dreaming and creation comes in art and I want to be home and drawing and painting and quiet. you are made of dreams and this world is not for you and I understand why he felt this way

[glacierruler]

Also, yeah, called it. Dipper's having a manic episode backed up by intense 'irrefutable' proof.

Like, yes, it is a logical conclusion for him to make, but the way he's going about it feels like a severe manic episode.

[forestguardianstudios]

Soooo, this totally started out as a headshot movement study and then I remembered the scene I wrote and it was all down (or up)hill from there

[anotherprofessional]

So err, who's looking forward to the next episode? :D

[vohtaro]

crazy what the power of knowing how to use a drill can do to a man. i want a holster for this thing.

[sporco-filth]

totally random but I have this really annoying thing where when I try to write stories or fantasize I start sneezing or at the very least my nose starts running. It doesn't even need to be sexual, it's like when I get the pleasure of imagining fictional things my nose starts playing up

It's incredibly frustrating

[wanderingmind867]

Great. My dad kept news from me. A while ago, my dad sent my old tablet to some sort of tech shop, to see if we could get it fixed. He also asked the shop to look for a phone case for me, since my phone's current case is beginning to come apart with age. And now, I may have once told my dad that I didn't want him to tell me who all of this if ended up being bad news (because I know about my volatile temper), but I didn't expect my dad to actually hide it from me!

But he did! Today I asked about the phone case, and he just tiredly blurted out that the tablet returned last week and they couldn't fix it. Also that they still hadn't found me a new phone case. And ever since he said all that, it's been stuck in my head. Because it made me feel like he hid something from me. And I know I can't judge him for that (since i've hid my posts on here), but it still got to me. And it's been messing with me for hours now. It's agitated me.

Nevermind the fact that my dad's apparently texting some new person and i've felt like he's been pretty evasive about that. I know I have no right to judge (since I sort of hid this account and my posts from him), but it all still bothers me nonetheless. Especially dinc my dad once brought up potentially remarrying, and I couldn't tell how serious he was. sigh… It's just a lot of confusing feelings and thoughts to deal with.

[imaginalstudio]