#my scripts are not THAT clean XD

[kingcreativityau]

Hi, I was wondering if, because you aren’t planning on working on this any time soon, you would be willing to release any notes you had on the story. I’m curious about how the story ends and so if you had anything on that it would be really appreciated.

Hi!

I'm willing to spoil a bit of the story for your curiosity, so here you go!

So what I planned to do was to do a bit of more backstory bits and the Split itself (personally one of my favourite moments)

And then to go on with the main story. Some main bits:

Virgil's nightmares terrorizing them all. Turns out baby Patton has some power over them though. Also, Janus can fight them.

King pitting Janus and Virgil against each other. Manipulating Virgil, having lots of talks with him. There's one moment where he pretends to be twins 'breaking through' and throws some shade about Jan, so Virgil (already being on the edge) actually goes to fight him.

Lo keeps staying in the middle. Being the glue to hold it all together.

There's still some doubts about our local snake though.

Then King separates them for a bit later on. Lo stays on his own with Pat and King steals baby Patton to, well, torment him a bit. Some stuff ensues. (also one of my personal favourites). Anyway, Virgil goes to attempt to rescue him later.

Let's say Shadow Virgil plays some role in there. And that kickstarts the plot of there actually being hope to fix this mess :)

And then there's the second half of the story. Which I like even more but I think that's enough spoilers for today :)

Hope you liked it!

[reikurusu]

🎧🎶Shuffle your favourite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/paste this ask to your favourite mutuals. 🎶🎧

Bestiieee!!! Hi!

Lol, I don't have Spotify or any of those music apps where people make playlists on. I once put 3 albums on my phone (Midnights by Taylor Swift, Flicker and Heartbreak Weather by Niall Horan) so I'm going from those songs, so this is going to be very limited xD

Everywhere - Niall Horan

Karma - Taylor Swift

High Infidelity - Taylor Swift

Paris - Taylor Swift

Heartbreak Weather - Niall Horan

WAIT! I have a bunch of music on my pc, though! I have no idea what's there because I never listen to it and I've collected it over many years so guess that'll be fun as well! Who knows what'll pop up! Not me!

Demons - Imagine Dragons

Put A Little Love On Me - Niall Horan

Rock Bottom - Hailee Steinfeld ft. DNCE (tf? I don't remember this)

Labyrinth - Taylor Swift

Animal - Racing Glaciers (I FORGOT ABOUT THIS AND IT'S SO GOOD!)

Natural - Imagine Dragons

Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry <3

Fire Fire - Flyleaf

Eye To Eye - A Goofy Movie (LOL WHAT??)

Fight 'Til The End - Jack Savoretti

[did-i-do-this-write]

Assuming that you are playing your own ask game: :D

Cappuccino: Share a fact about your writing process and I'll share a fact about mine!

Earl Grey tea: What's the best compliment you've ever gotten on your writing?

I am, in fact, playing my own ask game, but you may be able to tell that I'm doing it very slowly, at my own pace 😅 regardless, I appreciate the ask! XD

Cappuccino: Share a fact about your writing process and I'll share a related fact about mine!

Fun fact time! I write my whole draft in brackets until I'm ready to make the final, complete "clean" version. All my dialogue is written in script form until I re-write it for my final draft. It helps me get out of my own head when I get stuck because I know that it's all temporary and none of it matters, because 90% will be erased by the end.

Earl Grey tea: What's the best compliment you’ve ever gotten on your writing?

Not necessarily one compliment, but two of my besties leave detailed reviews on every chapter of Home is Where Your Light Shines Brightest that I share with them. It's not so much what they say that stands out, but just the fact that they take the time to respond to literally everything that gets their attention. It's just so special to me. Shout out to @cara-kira and @bafflement, you guys are my heroes.

[riverianepondsims]

Hey, hey, guess what I stumbled upon, or what I've managed to figure out: Boroughsburg has payphones!, and they've been there since the beginning, duh! Any clue on how to make them work? I've tried to get them functional with your mod's script, but it seems like they need more than that, but I'm clueless, honestly haha!

Hey there Josh, Apologies for it being a while since you originally sent this...I've been caught up in a flurry of work for the last long while. This turned out to be a novel 📝, so I'll hide it under here:

So the payphones in Boroughsburg are likely deco items, so they are there for visual appeal but do not have a function! The ones that I posted were the same, they were originally deco items. What I did to make them work was even more simple than a mod, but honestly so tedious! Wall phones already exist in TS3 (can you believe my surprise that they don't have those in TS4??), so I cloned a wall phone to start. Then I imported the mesh for the payphone I wanted to overwrite the old one, as well as the textures. The next thing to do for items like this is to add geostates. These seem to be at least somewhat unique to TS3 and sims game creation-spaces in general, so it was hard to learn how to do this or what in the world a geostate is. They're present in a lot of TS3 objects, starting from the base game. For example, the bookcase getting more or less full based on how many books are in it, food plates getting slowly more empty until they are completely clean when the sim is done eating, pizza slices disappearing, drink glasses becoming empty when the sim is done (some of these are geostates, some are effects), the phone handset disappearing from the phone when the sim "picks it up" etc...there are so many more but these are just some examples. How these work, at least from a CC creating standpoint, is modification of the mesh in TSR Workshop. When you set the geostates, you are telling the game to remove certain polygons/parts of the mesh when needed. So the entire mesh is there, but parts of it disappear and reappear when told to. So the handset on the payphone when not in use stays, but when a sim interacts, that piece of the mesh disappears. The handset sims actually use is another default object called from somewhere else, like the mop sims use to clean puddles that they carry around in their pocket everywhere XD Setting geostates is a painful clicking activity. You need to de-select each individual triangle that you want to disappear for a geostate. Some objects have more than one (like bookshelves). With certain meshes, it is enough to drive one up a wall. Simple enough but definitely one of the most annoying CC creation tasks! This is also something important to keep in mind that with objects that have geostates, they will be invisible in-game if you don't make sure to set up their geostates. Even if you don't plan to make them dynamic (eg, a bookcase that never gets empty or full, just stays the same no matter how many or little books are added), they need to have all faces selected for their geostates or else they will be invisible in-game. This is luckily easy, there's a shortcut to select all at once (the exact shortcut fails me, but I'm pretty sure TSRW tells you when you're in the editor). This was a long winded half-rant about geostates but I hope this (and maybe this tutorial here) helps give you an idea of how these work @joshttewloves!

📝

[silverolivia-upsidedown]

Hello! Just me back and being a huge nerd about the Eliksni So, while we don't have an actual official conlang for them we do have a VIBE for how their language might be written out by the design team. And it's been under my nose this whole time!!! Join me for this journey and exploration <3

First off let's take a look at what I've been seeing most places.. like, 99% of all the language we see is basically given to us like this...

(Yes, I might have obsessively taken a screenshot every time I see the in-game language DONTJUDGEMEOKAYTHISISASAFEPLACEFORSPECIALINTERESTS >.< But what we see here are probably something like a single word, or a word/symbol that has a meaning like the way that the Chinese alphabet has meanings for each letter. It could also be a tagger's name, but then that brings up all sorts of wonderful questions like WHO IS TAGGING THIS SHIT xD which is really just a nothing burger as much as it's a wonderful idea. It could also very much be a sort of... Like... you know how when you get a rubbermaid bin and you write like... "Christmas ornaments" on it, but then end up get rid of what's in it and just write the new contents next to the old contents? I feel like that might be what a lot of these are. Like the OFFICIAL, clean looking one says like, "Ether Tanks: Medium". And then the new spray paint next to it says something like, "Short Term Produce" or whatever. Or maybe it's like, the shortform name of the crew that this belongs too for shipping and redistribution, ala a quarter master trying to keep track of everything. 🤷

But I'm digressing. Here are those formal script and then the messy next to it.

Anyway. So the other way we see the language in very small snippets is like below, where we see there is a strong (but with notable variance) inclination towards a horizontal writing style instead of vertical. We can also see the general vibe or, um.... flow of the text and individual letters and how they deferrer when they are basically typed out and printed nicely instead of freehanded on the side of a wall.

Okay.

We have our baseline. Let's get into the weeds.

First of all we should not take into consideration a few of these for the rule of vertical vs horizontal because many of these are actually just turned on their side. And in general (and really what this whole post is about) right now I am focusing on the way the design team has decided the language should feel when it's written out. So very briefly, I am going to go over some not in-game official bungie material with Eliksni script on it, since I feel like this I have too, even though I kinda feel like, unless they specifically say "this is how it looks", the in-game art design is always going to be more... official? I don't know. We press forward!

There's more, but I think you get the idea. And yes, I included the Cayde comic because I feel like there's some interesting things in there.

Anyway, moving right along. I want to bring attention to two thing in particular. The first is that I don't think we should dismiss certain small lines in the spray paint versions as drips. I think they are part of the form.

I think they have meaning like in Japanese or other languages where each character has a story or a meaning and changes the way a word is said and also how that word might be used or changed when interacting with other letters/symbols.

The second thing is that there is a lot of repeating/flipping of the decals and in-game assets. But even with that, that I think there is a definite flow with the way the letters are allowed to smoosh into one another, but on a design level, while I think there are some basic rules, I feel very strongly those rules went into making the original script/decals/assets that the devs now use, and that when they go to write something like this...

they are literally just copy/pasting or going "qwertyuiop[]\';lkjhgfdsa" on the keyboard. Now, on to the exceptions of which there are three (as far as I've seen). For this next part I humbly request that you forgive my waxing poetically and also indulge my theories, I promise they are actually based in reality xD The first, and most exciting, and the reason I even posted this, is that I finally noticed the flags on the skiffs! And they.... have a FONT... And actual in-game font... and I think it was a happy accident the devs rolled into some fun lore.

This...

is house of dusk... but the FONT that whateverthissays is in is ABOSLUTELY in the style of House of Winter.

Now, I have two thoughts about this. The first is the happy accident I was talking about before which is that the original skiffs were all done in the design for House of Devils... and House of Winter in D1. But then they needed House of Dusk, who are mostly all the house of winter peeps who scattered after The Final Attempt (battle of six fronts). So they just recolored the House of Winter stuff and BOOM, they can keep the old assets and just recolor them.

The second idea, and one that is a DEEP LORE thought, that I don't think bungie actually cares enough about their lore to connect the dots for: is that as mentioned in a lore tab where Variks and I believe Fikrul are talking, there is a mention of a second "High Speech". And to me, it would make a LOT of sense for there to be a written version of that High Speech that would be a bit more flowery and have different characters. I think it would also make a lot of sense for that more special text be what things like House symbols are made out of, and also what one might put on their flags... like on that skiff.

The second is this little guy... he's very new and I only saw it recently, and I'm nearly 99.99% sure it's eliksni, only because there is a break in the "C" in the center and that's VERY eliksni.

That and it's on a crashed ketch that was in a mission we played within the last year lol

But this is.... totally different from everything else we've seen, and I honestly am totally stumped. It might actually be a representation of the influence that humanity has on the Eliksni. And that many eliksni (especially those in house of dusk) feel disconnected from their heritage, and more connected to the ruminants of humanity's golden age, and earth in general.

The other interesting little thing is something I found on a ketch that I managed to get on top of before it despawned. (at least that's what the file name makes me think I was trying to convey >.< past me is a dumbass and says "Oh, I'll know what this means later" spoilers, I never ever know lol)

Again, this is... just completely different from what we've seen before. Even the letters are different. The way they are grouped is new. I just wish I had more of stuff like this.

But theory crafting aside, we can really get an impression for how one could replicate or imitate the flow of the language. That's it! Thank you for coming on this little meandering exploration of the in-game text ^^..^^

[lilpotatjj]

A/N: My first Pedro fic *cries in gay* and it's sooooo sweet and lovely♡♡♡ writing this was soooo much fun. I hope u enjoy it and by the way I just ad non canon story just for the plot.

WARNING: if u can't handle fluff and sweeeet sweeet pedro skip, otherwise enjoy and scream silently 🤭 reader is shy, lots of kissing and did I say sweet pedro? Ehm...hint of a panicattack

Wordcount: 1,6k

Proofread? I tried xD

Masterlist

Dirty Coincidence

"1:30 pm fu'ff'(ck)! I'm 'f'(t)oo la'f'(t)e!" Cars and people pass you by as you run along the path with a Hot Dog in your mouth, without looking back or paying much attention to the road. *I'll never have a chance at one of these roles if I get there too late!* you thought.

With a bang you run into someone big and you both crash to the ground. "fuuuuck.......!" your eyes fall first and foremost on the mess you have made. "oh my god I'm so sorry!" Your eyes widen as you realise whose jacket you have just soiled. "ah....o....oh my.....holy sh.....I'll clean the jacket I'm really really sorry!"

A light laugh is the only response from the man facing you.

"I don't believe it. I just ruined Pedro Pascal's jacket...." you whisper to yourself and still can't believe who is standing in front of you.

"It's not that bad. Leave it, but you should look where you're going in the future, pretty lady!" You turn bright red at his words and look at your watch in shock. "Damn it! I have to go! I'm really sorry, but it was nice to meet you!" A thoughtful Pedro looks after you and just shakes his head in amusement.

"The day is off to a good start huh?" He smiles and continues on his way.

You stand in front of a large building and stare at the huge windows. "Let's go then...if it's not already too late"

With big quick steps you look around the entrance hall and walk briskly to the reception.

"I had an appointment 10 minutes ago...I'm really sorry I'm late but I had a little accident on the way here..." You literally have a cold sweat running down your face. The lady at reception looks at you and smiles kindly as she holds a phone to her ear.

"Neil, your 1:30 appointment has arrived, shall I send them to you?.............ok" After a short pause she looks at you. "You can go to the back, aisle 2, room 4, left side. Neil is waiting for you there. He says you shouldn't worry. Your audition partner for the text samples hasn't arrived yet either".

A deep sigh comes out of your mouth and you nod, walk towards room 4 and knock. The door opens and Neil looks at you with a relaxed smile.

"Welcome, step in" The two of you are talking about the first scenes and script while you are waiting for your co-worker when the door suddenly opens.

"there you are, then we can start now!" Neil says and your jaw almost drops to the floor when you see who is coming in.

Immediately the blood rushes to your cheeks as the handsome, attractive man looks at you in surprise. "What a coincidence, we meet again so soon" Pedro comes to you and gives you his hand to greet you.

"ah....ehm...hi...." That's all you can say and smiling speechlessly, too uncomfortable with the whole situation, grabbing his hand.

"you two know each other?" Neil looks back and forth between you.

"well....something like that" Pedro smirks and grabs his script. The two of you start working on the text phases and, despite the situation beforehand, you quickly get into your characters. Together you rehearse for over 2 hours and Neil is visibly thrilled by your natural appearance.

You take a break and go to the cafeteria together.

"your jacket....-" "Don't mention it" you were about to start, but Pedro interrupts you, stuffs some fries into his mouth and looks at you.

"you live here?" He asks

"I just moved here and I don't know my way around yet" you dig into your salad. "is that why you ran like that?" he teases you with a cheeky smile. "hehe......yeah. i got lost first. now i know where we have to go." You can't help but keep looking at him. "working with you is pretty entertaining so far" you try to stay relaxed and put some food in your mouth.

"I think you did a pretty good job" Pedro finishes his fries. Without noticing that you are smiling at him almost dreamily, you continue to eat. "thank you...."

You two can easily inspire Neil and start shooting a part of season 2 in The Last of Us together.

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It has been 4 weeks since you both got the roles and you are more than just a well-rehearsed team. Today we start filming a flashback for Joel 10 years ago in which he met another woman besides Tess because of the work situation.

The scene wants a kiss, which has to be shot as authentically as possible. For Pedro this is less of a problem as he has already shot different scenes with such a situation but for you? Primere! Great, and then also with him. You get into it and everything goes well until then. You can almost hear your heart beating, why?

You're excited.....about the scene? ...Pedro? The audience with all the cameras? Your gut feeling knows this quite well because it is totally tingling. Then it happens and the first kiss is perfect. For the shoot?....no not for that....Your breathing almost stops and you are far too nervous to continue, you run completely out of breath towards the toilet. A dumbfounded Pedro remains standing. Pedro looks after you silently and just stands there in confusion.

Once in the toilet, you gasp for breath, almost as if you are having a panic attack. You put your hand over your mouth, completely lost in thoughts, as you realise how you feel about Pedro. "not him......" There is a sudden knock at the door. "Y/N, are you okay?"

"y....yes...I'm f..fine" your voice totally shaky trying to put the words together.

"can I come in please?"

"n...NO!....i mean...fuck..." You finally open the door and look halfway at him with your cheeks all red. He comes in, closes the door behind him and looks at you calmly.

"Do you want to stop work for today? When you feeling sick we can take a break"

You just shake your head. "No...that's not it" You grab your left upper arm. Pedro eyes you piercingly, almost as if he hears all your dirty thoughts, and comes much closer to you.

Your heart is about to explode and you can't help but approach him too.

Your gaze full of longing to be closer to him, he silently granting and you slowly close your eyes. His breath is clearly perceptible, you kiss him tenderly on his lips, he continues to respond to the kiss without hesitation and plays along with your sweet lips. You detach yourselves from the kiss without looking at him. "I'm sorry....."

"you are a really sassy girl" he says with a sweet smile and carefully kisses again, more intensely and a little more dominant that you are both completely out of breath. "

We have to go back. The others are already wondering where we are" he winks at you, but you can't concentrate on anything else. Bright red, you return with Pedro and are obviously no longer in the mood for filming, so Pedro makes a deal with Neil to get the rest of the day off.

"Do you want to come to my place?" he asks you casually, without any ulterior motives. You nod shyly and the two of you finally head home to him. When you arrive, you just stand there, which makes him smile. "Don't worry, I won't bite, make yourself comfortable... I'll make us some coffee." He disappears into the kitchen and returns shortly afterwards with two coffees in his hands. Both of you sit on his comfortable couch and sip the coffee.

"we are making good progress with the work"

"yes........" you stare at your coffee. He senses your discomfort and looks at you sweetly. "in the kiss scene.... was that your first?" He scrutinises your reaction. "because you're so damn shy"

"Yeah...sorry...." you look down at your legs and pinch your jeans.

"it really doesn't have to....god damn it you're so cute"

Your head is already all messed up and you bite your lower lip, which is not hidden from him and he looks directly at your sweet lips. His fingers sneak under your chin, forcing you to look at him. Without asking you, he kisses you tenderly and carefully, which makes you relax and accept his sweet kiss.

The two of you can't detach each other, but you only separate to catch your breath and engage in another seductive kiss between your lips that screems for so much more. "you want more....?" he asks you but instead of awnsering you just kiss back, lick over his lips which makes him open his mouth and your tongues both fight for dominance.

You let out a sigh and finally you part, face to face, gasping for air. "You're a damn good kisser" Pedro looks at you, slightly messed up, but he signals for you to snuggle into his arms. Shyly, you lie down in his arms and rest your head in his neck, which is why you can smell his wonderful scent with every breath. "if you need anything just let me know" Actually you need a new panty right now but you just nod and cuddle up to him more. He gently strokes your back without being intrusive. "I can't believe I fell in love with you clumsy" he smiles.

You cling to him tighter. "I... think I love you too..." you say and he kisses you on the forehead, smiles cheekily.

All this just because of a bump 4 weeks ago!

If you want a part 2 with or without smut just comment or request me :3

[amynchan]

When you finally let yourself relax into a new label and look back and see "oh wow all of that makes a bit more sense lol." Except, instead of a "new" label, it's one you've been tentatively using for years because it seemed right, but now it feels a bit more right. For example,

When I was younger, I asked my grandpa if I could ride on a nearby roller coaster. He told me it "would cost a pretty penny." I proceeded to look all over the parking lot for a penny, found one that was pretty banged up, and told him I'd clean it and make it really pretty. I was dead serious.

Whenever I stayed the night over at my grandparents' house, we always used the same blankets. I was told that it was polite to fold them up after we were done using them, so I'd go around the entire house and fold up every single "this is a blanket that a grandchild uses" blanket. I still do that, tbh.

As a child, I was told to make sure I rinsed all of the food off my dishes. It wasn't until last month that someone informed me that I was practically washing the dishes clean. I've always been confused as to why people don't wash dishes by hand, and now I realize that I took the instruction a bit too literally.

When I discovered meal prep, I was absolutely ecstatic. All of my food prepared at the beginning of the week, and I knew what was in store, and it was great. Still have trouble conceptualizing that people get bored with the same food every day tho.

Giving kindness is normal. Getting it is weird. What's the procedure? What do I do? Please tell me the script.

Whenever my younger siblings were in distress, that was the only time I could be affectionate to them. I had a script to follow. Figure out the root of the problem. If I can fix it, fix it. If I can't, find the person who can and get them to fix it. Everything else was straight up, terrifying, uncharted territory where everything I did was wrong somehow. Did not realize that this was confusing until much later. ^^;

I've always had a problem with people talking over each other and constantly interrupting each other. It's to the point where I literally check out of conversations for a while when I get overwhelmed. Check out, then stammer, then go utterly silent. I get the sense this is not neurotypical.

Evidently??? My therapist thinks???? That my reactions to secondhand smoke and the smell of marijuana may be an autism thing???? Hyper sensitivity to certain senses?????? Thing is, the doctors won't test me for allergic reactions, so idek. Doctors, please test me. I wish to know why I doubled over coughing my lungs out and was in immense pain when one of my students walked through the door. I literally couldn't breathe for half a day afterwards and still had to keep pushing through.

Whenever I get overwhelmed at a friend's house, I like to organize their dishes. Repetitive motion with clear progress goes brrrrrrr.

If you interrupt me while I'm doing my homework, I will go feral on you. And then I won't be able to regain my concentration. And then I'll cry.

I always have to use music to get started on projects or to time myself on them. I have timed ambiances, playlists, lofi (timed and not timed), and the Ghost Hunt OST for difficult mathematics. It helps me filter everything else out so I can focus and not get interrupted.

Yeah, no. Do not interrupt me while working. It's very frustrating. More than that, it's overwhelming, and then I gotta focus on two difficult things at once (whatever I'm working on plus figuring out how to politely interact with the Distraction while not getting mad).

Anyways, yeah. XD Autistic things. Aren't they fun.

(obviously this is just my own experience. different people look different in all of this)

[theflyingkipper]

WOAH!!!!!! THATS A NICE BOOK KIPS, MAY I SEE WHATS INSIDE!!!

I meant to answer this last night but I fell asleep LMAO Here is the Thomas book I picked up on my birthday.

You can still see the yellow Goodwill sticker on the spine since I forgot to take it off.

Despite this book now being ~20 years old (copyright says 2000. I am also not a big fan of the passage of time), Its very clean, unwrinkled, and no one has written their name in this book.

There's three stories in the book, all from season 5 with images right out of the episodes. The test says "freight cars", so they used a US adapted script.

I remember reading book adapted versions of thomas episodes as a kid. Kind of ironic how they come back to the storybook medium back from the screen XD to a degree, I think it detracts from the experience a bit- but at this time we couldnt go watch an HD remaster of an episode on youtube whenever we wanted- and you couldnt take a giant clunky VHS and CRT television anywhere. But a paperback book of your favorite episode can go with you wherever your little self goes.

There's a few more books in this collection of adaptations including Edward's Exploit and something titled "Diesel 10 means trouble", which I can assume would have images right from the TATMR movie

This is definitely outside the usual scope of things I post. Although its very fun to hunt for old Thomas media and toys, I don't think my newly opened bank account would agree x_x

[pokemon-ash-aus]

Critique is most valuable when an artist ASKS for it. You didn't ask, and people are acting like you're ungrateful.

I get not being into something, especially a fan work. But sometimes you have to look at something and ask what it's SUPPOSED to be before giving someone advice about it.

Is this supposed to be a structured series of AU comics, or whatever that first anon wanted? No? Then telling you to MAKE it that wouldn't even be a helpful criticism. People really forget fan work and social media in general can be for FUN.

I like your AUs btw, I'm just mad at the poor critique etiquette from some of the anons you got.

It is very strange lol

I can see where they come from, i have an adundance of AU's that i seemingly make zero content for.

But the issue with that is- I do.

Some of them are strictly story driven, making comis doesnt feed into it the right way a comic does, and sometimes its the opposite.

I could try to make a fully fledged out FT Fic but nothing can compare to how i draw it out.

But this is the the opposite for something like the Genderfluid AU. Sure you can get pictures of how they all look, but nothing can compare to the raw feeling i put out when writing it instead.

Not to mention, this all takes a lot of time XD

I aint no professional, im an amatuer artist and writer that was strictly self taught. I cant churn out 4 clean coherent comics in a day, nor can i spit out weekly fic updates at the same time.

I do this for fun, and im so greatful for the traction that I do get.

And heres the thing, i dont mind criticism even if i dont ask for it.

*Your Posing looks a bit off* *Hey this part was too fast paced* *I think you need to rephrase this.*

Are all very valid criticisms imo. But to look me in my eye and say that the AU's i make and create shouldn't be made because their isnt enough content, isnt a criticism. Its a demand.

I aint no pack mule Or working cow.

Saying "Oh i wish there was more for this AU* is vastly better than "None of your au's have ckntent, why do you make more."

The content i churn out is all inspiration based. Sometimes i have a fully fledged out script for a comic and sometimes i just wing it cause im in a certain mood.

I cant speak for everyone, but im sure its this way for many creators As well.

But thank you for sticking around and liking my au's :3 i really appreciate it!

[coreene-simblr]

Uberhood Gameplay!

Alright, so I have been wanting to have a little uberhood gameplay for sims 2 for a while now and I finally set it up to play. It is half an uberhood though. I've only attached the 3 base game hoods+downtown+bluewater village and all university+vacation destinations.

These updates will be longer than my sims 3 ones and therefore I will send them out maybe once a week or once every two weeks. I'm planning on just releasing one season in one household with each update.

Broke Family - Round 1

This was always my favourite household to play as a kid and kind of want to capture that nostalgia with this gameplay.

Classic prompts, it is also nice to see Brandi and Dustin interacting positively on their own.

There you go! Now Beau knows how to walk!

Brandi's starting wishes are flirt with someone and meet someone new. Which means I'll be on the look out for passerby's.

uh-oh

I went ahead and added the rest of the Langerak clan (Dustin, Iliana, Parker and Zelda) into the hood and set them as family with Kaylynn. Now that I think about it I hope what I did didn't break Pleasant house's pre set event xD

This is Parker Brandi is greeting, Kaylynn's older brother. She has no chemistry with him so we'll be looking elsewhere for that flirt.

Yes, yes. Beau is a musical boi!

First baby bump!

Dustin getting scolded in front of Angela xD happens everytime in the first day of these guys.

Dustin had a wish to have first kiss with Angela and there they go!

Boy did they move fast xD Thanks acr

As scripted Angela came for a sneak out that night but Dustin was exhausted. Between pregnant Brandi and taking care of Beau, he had a lot of responsibilities at home.

Brandi wanted to talk with Dustin and here they are.

2nd baby bump!

oh, man I forgot I had that miscarriage thing. She's sleeping now though we're good.

It is not easy being a single pregnant mother of two boys.

But she managed to teach Beau to potty without using smart milk as no one has enough points to get it yet xD

Alright, first chance card. Let's go with Ritzy Shops.

Nice! Good job Dustin! You are a natural born criminal xD

As you guys know the clean uberhood hoods don't have townies but I added them. I used the townie stealth hood to add Strangetown ones and added Veronaville ones one by one. VV guys have their own names but ST ones are randomized though I know this one here is known as Gerard Landry.

Between everything I forgot about Beau's birthday and he grew up in the doorway xD honestly I can't be assed to do a whole cake thing for it in this household. Maybe Angela will get a party xD

Meanwhile Brandi was busy looking for a job. They have a 150 bucks in their account and she needs to work. Medicine pays well and she already has some cooking skill so why not?

Beau and Dustin getting along talking about the criminal life xD

I like the fact that these guys start so close to having a friendship and I'd like to cement it. She started by having a little chat with Dina.

I spotted Gilbert and again she has no chemistry with him so our search for a partner for Brandi is still on!

End of part 1! See you on the next part which will still be the Broke house as I'm playing till the season turns to winter.

[blazingstaro]

An update! LOTS O' DOTS IN STORE!

YOO GANG! Just letting you know that I'm still alive!

In fact I'm cooking up some real special stuff! It's currently in the scripting phase, but once I've gone far out enough, I'll get to drawing a whole bunch of this goodness and blasting it onto here!

You guys can thank Mags for this LOL This funny little catboy has given me a pile of content to give you guys while I'm fixing up DotS behind the scenes!

Once again, thanks for the help lil' guy XD He's been helping me out a lot, and has actually slipped over some really handy lore stuff that's become quite essential to DotS' story. He's been a good boy, I pROMiSE—

Just look at him! Totally innocent—

—ANYHOW! There's been some lore advancements/changes as of late, so DotS is going to need a little more time to bake than I expected. However these changes are AWESOME! And for episodes I've already written, it'll only require some tweaks or additions!

All the episodes I had before outside of the first story arc have basically been wiped clean, so I have an incredibly large and flexible clean slate to work with! AAH— so refreshing to have the old junk finally out of the way! (Main story beats remain intact, however! Just going along a vastly different approach and negating unnecessary content)

Problem with that though is that I have to basically rewrite/script most everything from the ground up following that first arc EEEEGGHHH— So yeah it's gonna require a little more time due to all that, but A LOT lately has been falling right into place, and my sweet little mystery puzzle is coming right together at last <33

It's a lot of work, but it'll pay off big time because this is the best version DotS has ever been! I just want to make sure I have all my ducks in a row before I start producing pages of the main story again!

I accidentally hosed myself over 5 years ago by starting off so hastily before I had fully built my world. Then again, I initially expected this to be just a fun little diddly side thing and not a deep journey into the soul instead LOL

SO YEAH— that's why I've been quiet lately! Been busy writing a whole bunch, fixing some more things, and pumping out this side comic project! I'll have a separate post to give you guys the skinny on what I've had cooking in the kitchen for the past couple of weeks!

OH and I finally recovered from that stupid cold! (Not allergies turns out— some kinda super cold BLUGH)

AT LAST, I LIVE AND BREATHE AGAIN!

[psych---ologically-deranged]

psych commentary 1x15

Scary Sherry

franks, kulchak, roday rodriguez, hill

"The best show creator in the world" "As long as he keeps signing our cheques"

Landis spare me

There was a version of this script where scary sherry turns out to HAVE really jumped, & KK was the one to say she shouldn't die, more interesting

instead of her being impaled on a unicorn.

The door falling on her was NOT planned & she just went under it

The original script was 79 pages!! It should be 50

JRr: I got you saying "damn girl" KK: We were wondering who was going t oplay Gus this week bc he's so much hipper than before (Ig jrr's scripts are different that just SF')

GOOCH!!!

Jamba juice

They used the same actress from the first episode, the sexy girl

Network to JRr: Take out the liquid kitty scene, I don't think that's possible JRr: It did. To me, actually.

DH has been asked irl if he's budd from cosby

The entire episode is bubilt on this bit right here

Her bedroom with stffed animals & chad michael murray

Gooch!!! I love her I wish we got more of her

JRr: That is my mother's maiden name

Mel Damski

Make DH say things that long & multisyllabic He had his lines on his computer screen

John Landis WHIPPING the keys at him

DH's nepheew pla.yed young gus somewhere... & then got cut

IN THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT BIANCA WAS BEHEADED JRr: the axe of a suit of shining armour fell on her & the head actually bounced down the stairs.

That toaster cooming down the wall XD KK I love her

Reallly good crying & JRr is barely holding on XD

"the legendarytar ppits of santa barbara" Tar pit It's a very small tar... right off the road, right off of state street

First dream sequence! Young shawn & gus got out of the car & say the whole thing & gus was still dressed as lando

SF: There's the sample case that doesn't get enough play DH: Oh no it gets enough play trust me. That's a heavy case!

My black ass

Never want a shawnvision on another shoe again

Green day shawn vision changed a million times & just went back to the initial one

Poor stunt actor, bleeding all over the place

JRr: Now there was also in the original draft, there was a little more to alice & doreen's relationship than what meets the eye. KK: Oh that's right JRr: They were actually a little bit closer than just best buddies. KK: Are you saying they were lovers? JRr: They were actually lovers. We took it all the way. Especially with beheadings. SF: The tone of the episode changed ever so slightly KK: But I like how you're making your connection here that this relationship is close to yours & gus's relationship JRr: Right. Super tight. I can see why they didn't have them be gay lovers comparing to gus & shawn.

It IS nice to have lassiter on the other side

Like a little baby orphan

Supposed to have a cooking montage :(

XD fih screensaver

it's hard to play drunk DH: When I play drunk I like to actually get drunk KK: Do you really? DH: I'm joking

Gus with Henry & Shawn I love brought flan XD Flan & flan, then flahn & flaan, & together it's flaan.

virile virile man.

cleaning up both the flan

CB improvised this? JRr responded: That was creepy John Lanis, offscreen: YES IT WAS *quiet*

Magic Head

Never see the dog

I love how the writers are just cracking up girls have friendship rings, "friendship" rings

She could walk upright in the gutter

SF: I should know, I used to work at the haunted mansion

Juliet's car XD

Oh yeah the score is always good, horror stuff is great

Oh yeah, rent the sme stairs & just redress it

Lanis fighting he really wanted the dolls

I like the headset

Triped & fell into the alice in wonderland bit

The colours

the hands, all them laughing in there

"I put my foot through this paper, how will I get it out"

lassiter before you

they're just laughing at the belt

cuts his finger XD

Why woul you make the deleted scene SHORTER

Network didn't want shawn leaving gus in the building

trying not to swear XD

gus tossing them a fortune cookie

Ooh the bloggers caught him say dulé (unless it is dule or d'andre)

American duos!

[dracota]

So I went ahead ans was irresponsible with money. Not a lot but a little.

Mostly on kitten toys when i meant to only get kitten food.

I did also get a few things for the Halloween aesthetic project. there are some other things that i would love to get but... i need to do a little over time first. XD mostly there is a cute wig that I think would work.

I still have to sell/give away the 40 gallon fish tank & stand so i have filming/photo space. I am hoping that my neighbor will want it and the 3 ten gallon tanks and the 3-4 one gallon tanks and all of the gear... in as is condition for $100. I'm never going to get them up and running again and they seem to have a few already so I am hoping.

As Is because only one 10 gallon is clean. The 40 gallon has mold in it. If I have to clean it it would be $100 all on it's own. and wouldn't be available until late October.

I already have all the decorations I could need for now. Being a lover of Halloween since birth and a goth in high school means I have acquired enough bits & bobs on my own over the decades. My friends that 'got over' their goth self's giving me some of their old stuff also helped.

The outfit... that one might be a little tricky. I have an idea of what I want to wear. But I don't know if it will really work or if I'll have to dig around for alternatives. I don't want to do a lot of outfit changes. Mostly if I have a hand full of outfits then I can just film a bunch of different segments in one outfit a day and then just mix them up as I post.

Tho personally I would like to just have one standard Look.

I have already grabbed my name on a few other places. and a domain or two. And then there was a super cute Halloween tarot deck. And the hot glue gun.

I need to work a lot of over time I think. Technically I can do 5 hours each week, but I'm not sure if now that we have enough people in the dept if that is still the case?

I'm just really hoping that I get everything long before October. Because there is nothing like setting a supper fast deadline for yourself when you are depending on things being mailed to you internationally.

I also have to figure out keywords, a script and god knows what else.

[sie-rice]

SIEEEE

☯ : what do you love about your language?

☪ : what do you hate about your language?

❀ : which language(s) would you like to speak fluently?

F*CK YEAHHHHHHHHH SPYLD

☯ : what do you love about your language?

i love how insanely sophisticated and calm sounding it is. i sound like im from high society everytime i try to speak in it LMAOOO. i cld be cursing someone's whole family and id sound polite its INSANE

☪ : what do you hate about your language?

funnily enough, same as above !! it may sound clean as f*ck, but the problem w such a high and mighty sounding language is u cant do a proper verbal smackdown w it :') it just sounds kind of entitled LMAO (which is why i have backup languages to diss ppl in 👍i love contributing to the anger levels of those around me)

❀ : which language(s) would you like to speak fluently?

my native language, for one </3 second would funnily enough be french- i'd always try to learn it as a kid (even got to doing it at one point, though i gave up within like a week XD)

also japanese. would love to learn that if it didnt have three whole entire different scripts. thats just insane i dont have the mental capacity for that

[dzpenumbra]

4/11/23

Ugh, I'm feelin kinda crappy. Headache. Kinda been warm all day, peeing a lot. Usually all adds up to being a bit under the weather. Hoping I'm not. I have no idea how I could get sick, I have left my apartment like one damn time in the past 2 weeks!

People downstairs and I think the chick upstairs were coughing throughout the day, so maybe that's why I've got sickness on my mind. I'm probably just exhausted.

I did a really intense yoga routine, it had me sweating. It was good, very worth the effort. Maybe that's why I'm a bit run down.

Also, sleep was not great. But I thought I had caught up? I guess not, I'm absolutely wiped right now. Like actually nodding off.

So... I want to capitalize on my early tiredness. I'll sum up the day very quickly.

I refilled the birdfeeder and the Nuthatch came back and was eating all day, it was nice. I hope the people coming to inspect the apartment in about a week aren't going to be dicks about the birdfeeder, it's really nice to have nature in my life again. I played Ad Aspera again, I like the story. I kinda wish they had like... story mode and then just... simulator mode where you just terraform the planet. That's the big reason why I'm there, I just want a realistic terraforming simulator, that was the big reason it drew me in. The story is a nice bonus, but in some ways its a bit distracting. But again, it works.

The rest of the day was chinese leftovers and recording music. I deleted everything I had yesterday and started from scratch. And I finished it... kinda. I got 4 guitar tracks - 2 clean, 2 distorted. All the guitar is done. About 12 minutes of it. It was a lot for one day! Especially considering I was just making it all up on the spot. Tomorrow will be bass and programming drums. Then maybe some strings or something with it, idk, we'll see.

And... that was literally the entire day. I did music for like... for a really long time. Like 5-6 hours straight? I don't even really remember honestly. Music just makes me tunnel-vision and trance out, I swear, every time.

It's really cool to see this project take form. It's such a big undertaking to do solo, but it's coming together! Again, this is for the desire path project, so... so far... walking the paths is done, mapping the paths is done, animating the paths is done (just need to export a few versions when it's time for editing), voiceover script is done, voiceover recording is done, now the foundation for the music is done, just need to finalize the music... then export all the audio... and then go into Blender and start the video editing. There, I have the path animations and some in-game footage from Minecraft. And... no idea what to do for the rest of it... XD I was thinking of going to a nearby college and filming a desire path in the wild out there... and going to a nearby national park and filming a trail walk. I just need to catch a "I'm cool going out into the world" day. It's been a while since I've had one of those.

I guess the hoodie is going on hold for now... this is the nature of my workflow, every time! Just hopping between whichever project is letting my creativity flow naturally at the time.

But I'm legit nodding off so I'm heading to bed. Zzzzzz

[ranvwoop]

Transcript:

Eret: "One year since the last eternalduo crumbs." Oh, I feel so bad. It's been a year? For real? One year? Bro! Literally how. Literally how.

Eret (clip): Okay, I will say eternalduo enjoyers will be very happy.

Eret: Bro, I was so hyped for it. I was so hyped for it!

Foolish (clip): That reminds me of like, me and you back in the day when we cleaned up that mess with the Wither cult.

Foolish (clip): Well, there was that time we went on that little adventure with the — when we fought off those trolls.

Eret, crosstalk: Foolish totally made up that Wither cult thing on the fly.

Eret: Alright. General gist of what the finale was supposed to be. Because I've teased it for a while, but I don't know if or when I'll actually post the script or whatever. But me and Foolish were supposed to team up, go to the End, and fight — uh, fight Dream XD. And that was supposed to bring a whole bunch of stuff together. And it was supposed to make a whole bunch of the timelines come together, and it was supposed to be the final thing that would make everything make sense.

Eret: Uh, there was a whole set we were going to borrow, um, from one of Karl's, uh, think it's like Tales from the SMP? That he had a set that was like a huge clock thing. Um, and the End wouldn't be the normal End, it would've been that. And me and Foolish were going to fight Dream XD there. We were gonna fight Dream XD there with anyone else who joined us.

Eret: And then the idea was... fuck it, I'll just say it now. The idea was that because we were — there was still — we were going to assume that there was a season 2. And we were going to find out that the whole process was cyclical. And that we've been through the process. So, like, season 1 of the Dream SMP could've been like season a billion, as far as we knew. And that's why so many characters have memory loss, and that's why so many people have memories of things in the past. And basically going and fighting god hits the reset button and everything starts again. And that's what my finale was supposed to be, before Dream didn't respond for three months and then decided not to do it.

Eret: So, I'm really bummed that I didn't get to do that. But yeah, that was the general idea. Me and Foolish team up to fight god and then the simulation resets for season 2. There was a lot more nuance to it, a lot more character points but that would be — that's the general gist of what the Dream SMP was supposed to end on. But, I never got to do it. Because, uh, people just didn't show up. The script was written, I was ready to do a whole bunch of stuff, I was asking people to do stuff, and then it all got cancelled last minute. Which, uh, sucks. If you're frusterated imagine how I feel. [Laughs]

Eret: The scripts I don't want to just post, but, yeah. There was this place, there we go. This area was supposed to be the place where the finale battle would happen. Uh, "Dream XD's world". But yeah, we were supposed to have the final fight in here and it'd get, like, absolutely destroyed over the course of it. Yeah. It would've been really cool! It would've been super cool! It would've been amazing!

Eret: And, yeah, none of the bits came together, I never ended up getting the set in time anyway, even though we asked. So all the bits just didn't come together. When planning something like this and some people don't respond, it's really, really hard. And that's... yeah. That's why I didn't end up doing too much lore on the SMP towards the end just because it became harder and harder and harder to do, and working with other people's schedules, and if people didn't want to do it, blah blah blah, et cetera et cetera. But it — it could've been really cool! It could've been awesome.

Eret: "Stealing this plotline for nefarious purposes (fanfiction)". Hey, go for it. But yeah. Battle in the End here, we find out it's cyclical, and uh, a personal character relation that I have been talking about for ages that might have been eye related might have been a reveal planned for that. Perhaps. Potentially. Only like a teaser, and then season 2 was supposed to elaborate on that a lot more. But yeah. That's Dream SMP character stuff for anyone who cares. Well, that's — that's that. I'm sorry it didn't end how it was. Unfortunately it was out of my control. I've sent the script to a few staff members as well, I think I've sent to Geneva and stuff. Anyway. I will post the script eventually, but it's not too much more than what I've just explained. It just gets more specific.

Eret and Foolish's cancelled Dream SMP finale

(from Eret's stream Dec 8 2023)

Sorry for the lack of captions, I'm just very tired. Transcripts are very welcome if anyone would like to add one.