#lockdown hobbies

[shesnake]

the problem with mainstream fictional media today is it is predominantly made for people who don't like fictional media all that much

[daddy-long-legssss]

had my personal assessment for work and it went well but i still felt like i could burst into tears at any given moment.

[bakingmoomins]

did you know. that in certain areas. when you go out at night there's a little guy that looks like this

[cultivating-wildflowers]

oh I almost forgot! happy anniversary to me getting a house and moving out!

[ellenchain]

Hitman question time! Which lockdown hobby did the Hitmanfam take up and who still does theirs to this day?

Ohhh another ask and such a banger! Damn it's a hard question again 💦

I think 47 (somehow the easiest right now) has discovered baking for himself. We see an option in the safehouse with lots and lots of bread - so much bread that I wondered if he doesn't supply a bakery on the side. I also think he has kept the hobby (maybe he just loooooves bread ❤️)

I think Diana used the time to do something more for herself. Finally read the books that were usually just lying around gathering dust. Using the bath additive that had actually expired a year ago but smelled so good but never got used. Catch up on a few series that are now 10 years old but have been recommended to her so often. Maybe there was even a (online) watch date here and there with 47, because he probably had a lot of series to catch up on too. But unlike 47, she kept her self-care to a minimum after covid. Not because she doesn't want to continue, but because everyday life has taken her back.

Probably not much has changed for Olivia, lmao She's a hacker, she hardly ever left the house anyway; she was probably more annoyed that so many people are now permanently online as well. Maybe she has discovered knitting for herself eventually. Or crocheting. So that she can make her own things. But I'm sure she would have learned to do that at some point regardless of the lockdown (“those Etsy products are so cute, but surely I can make them myself!”)

Lucas is soooo hard to judge. It sounds harsh, but I don't think the man has any hobbies 💔 Buying guns, trading guns, cleaning guns. Researching on the internet, reading bad news, smoking a lot, passing out in between and calling it sleep, working out and when he's bored and the intrusive thoughts come back, drinking alcohol. But I think AFTER Providence he will find himself. And I think he would meditate. Find inner peace. It doesn't always work, but it helps him to organize himself. He would certainly keep that up after lockdown. Even if it's not always easy to do it in everyday life.

But what do you think??? It's such an interesting question!

Although tbh they probably didn't stay in lockdown lol - I can well imagine how 47 still went out every day wearing a mask Or Covid won't just hit him like it does to normal people, he's a super human after all

[autistic-shaiapouf]

I'm aro bc there is not a person on this earth that can make me feel what music makes me feel <- he is listening to music that is not miku for the first time in days

[bagofghosts]

🦑🐙 Squid girl! 🐙 🦑

[martitheevans]

Thinking about how expensive band merch is and quick psa, DIY shirts are fun to make!!! And DIY CDs are cheap as shit!!!

[todorokies]

glock to ur head, you and geto selfship thoughts GO‼️

AAAHHHH OKAYYY SO during the lockdown we quarantined together and one day we were soooo bored out of our minds so we decided to adopt a cat !!! ( specifically a black cat )

i always joke around saying how the cat and him are basically twins and he’d get soo pouty and lowkey mad abt it omg 😭 ALSOOO we made a lil book club with each other in quarantine and we’re still committed to it !!! sometimes he’ll read me a few pages of a literature book he recently started reading and lordddd his voice is sooo soft and dreamy i’ll immediately fall asleep on his shoulder

[quinnhayden]

long time listener first time caller but I would love to hear how the trio handled COVID after living through the outcome of the last pandemic in the 20s.

The Spanish Flu hit hard in 1918 and 1919. It lingered a little bit in 1920, but my research says it wasn't much of an impact. So, Bucky was born in March 1917, Steve in July 1918, and Quinn in November 1920. (I did find out that there was a serious problem with pregnant women catching this Influenza variant and their children were born with a lot of health issues so who has a new headcanon that Sarah Rogers was a survivor of the flu!)

With that said, the trio's parents all remember. This was around the time that Quinn's pa, Benny, was just getting to Kentucky and he remembers the chaos. Gravediggers were getting sick and dying so fast that the military had to bury bodies. Cars and horse-drawn carts were just heaped with bodies. That's only in Kentucky. There's no imagining what New York was like during this time.

That said, you best believe that Quinn (a doctor) and Steve (a chronically ill man who lived during a time when people were hot for eugenics) were put under house arrest by Bucky because they wanted to have "words" with anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers.

[nerdie-faerie]

Just because I've finished the assignment doesn't mean I don't still feel agitated and restless like I'm supposed to be doing something. But when no distraction is working it's at the point that I dig into the pandemic hobby box

[nyaa]

also I cut every single one of these frames out by hand

[inkbotkowalski]

I picked up one of my swords again after ages and swung it around a bit and only hit the chandelier twice... and gods it felt GREAT. now I just have to either move stuff around in my apartment or go outside after dark so I can practice again without destroying any furniture

[area51-escapee]

Me: I should take up printmaking! I should learn to crochet! I should draw more!

My hands that always without fail ache after doing any activity, sometimes including even just a few hours of work at my actual job: 

[therosejamjournal]

you know when you can feel that it's an end of an era and a chapter of your life is closing and instead of being excited for new opportunities you cannot help but grieve what could have been and mourn the inherent impossibility to replicate or modify the past. and you're stuck in a weightless loop in the time-space continuum and minutes feel like molasses because the clock barely moves and everything on the surface is the same but now you see it as uncanny valley because there is no more familiarity, it's all gone. you know the vibe.

[pixelnrd]

Thank you for reading the Langston Legacy

To all my dear followers and friends - it took me some time to post this final post for the Langston Legacy, because it is so hard to say goodbye to this group of sims that has been part of my life and many of yours for nearly 5 years.

But we made it. All the way to the modern day! This Decades Challenge is complete ⌛️

I hope you all enjoyed the final walk with Mac through the Langston family back to their origins. I really loved revisiting where they came from and seeing old faces. It felt like the fitting way to round this Legacy out.

This is the end for the Langstons. Above you will see all the characters we met over 12 decades - and I have the wonderful @goldoradove to thank for helping to create a 51 sim pose that was so unique to this particular family and all of its individuals. The thing I love most about this community is the people I have met through telling my sims story, and collaborating on this pose to say farewell has been truly heartwarming. I have endless, endless thank-yous, Rilla 💖✨

Ew I’m crying now as I write this, how dare sims make me feel this kind of emotion?! But seriously. Thank you everyone who has ever been invested in this sims story. 5000 followers later (excuse me 😳), and I want you all to know that every comment and like and message has been so meaningful. You are the reason I was able to keep this going for so long, pick it back up after long hiatuses, and finally finish it in my own slightly-protracted way as my life outside of simblr has changed. What started as a pandemic hobby in lockdown turned into a huge project that has sustained me creatively and I feel a bit lost now that it’s complete.

So… what’s next? Stay tuned and I’ll update in a few days on where I’m at with my future plans on simblr. But in the meantime, go discover and read and follow and support all your fellow historical simmers and above all, create your own characters and worlds of your choosing without shame or inhibition 💕🥹