#no i had to delete the first post and remake it with the tag

[grifpaw]

Hi rvb tumblr so did anyone else think that movie was utterly bizarre or is it just me

[dangoulains-devotion]

yuffie has many interesting elements to her but people refuse to move past "i find energetic kids annoying" and it makes me sad

[muffinrecord]

Current Plans + Musings

I don't plan on playing Exedra to the degree I did for Magia Record, or playing it at all. Because of that, I won't be taking an active role in the community and archiving anything for it. Of course, if Exedra has like amazing gameplay and stories then this is all subject to change, but for now I think I'm done with phone games.

The two youtube channels will stay up and I'll check em periodically to make sure there aren't copyright strikes against the content. I've saved all my raw files, especially for the battle animations, so I can remake them in the future if the music ever becomes a problem for some reason.

Google Drive will stay up until Google rots away. I haven't recorded footage in a long time (as in stories, I do for the character doppels and such), but I'll upload things if they're sent to me.

Magia Union Translations still plans on translating things and making videos, especially leading up to the end, but also for after the game is over for whatever wasn't made in time. I'm not sure what form this will take in the future-- if it'll be manual captions added to the videos or not, but I know it WILL happen.

As for this blog, I'm not going to delete it or anything. However I'm going to be taking a step back. I'd like to say that I'll do liveblogs but I mean... *gestures at blog* I've been saying that for years and the only one I really did successfully was the Oriko one lmao. Ahhh oh well.

I'll have more words later, but it was really fun to be part of a fandom experience like this. I'm excited to work on my own original story projects though and quiet down a bit.

...

When I started this blog, I never expected it to have people actually read it. Or look at it. I just wanted a place to gush about how much fun I was having. I didn't even want to tag the posts with "Magia Record" at first because I was terrified people would be mean at me, haha.

But I'm glad I did. I made so many good friends through this game. I'm glad it existed. And it made me happy to have a place where people cared about what I had to say. Some folks actually got their news from here, can you imagine that? They had notifications turned on for this blog. My god.

Anyways, I'm going to be here for the next two months, and tomorrow I'll start reblogging fan projects and initiatives, plus general news. Maybe this blog will turn into a dumping site for art and fanfic reblogs, who knows. I might watch the remaining stuff and add various thoughts here and there.

Otherwise, you can find me on my main blog @malignmuffin, which only reblogs stuff (I don't talk much if at all there). I have another tumblr blog for my comic, but I think I'll reshare the name once I actually have content you can look at on it. It's pretty bare bones for the moment.

Actually it'll be funny if the end of this game is what makes me finally work on it again. I was in the process of working on it when NA came out, and it totally derailed me. Stopped writing, drawing, just focused on this silly little phone game. Now it's like those five years have gone by and I'm going back to where I started, except I think my lil comic is going to be a bit better than it was before. If I actually make it, that is.

If I ever do actually make my comic and start posting it, I'll be sure to update y'all here. hah

Anyways, thanks for being on this wild ride with me. The memories have been great, and I'm glad I had this experience, even if it had to end.

[the-one-who-lambs]

AO3 Questions Tag Game!

I was tagged by @bamsara (on my main @onethirdofimpossible but most of my readers follow me here for cotl stuff so I'm posting it here)

I tag @i-eat-deodorant and @megsiepoo!

Under the readmore because this is long as shit

1 – How many works do you have on AO3?

69 BAYBEEEE

2 – What’s your total AO3 word count?

213,360 words published

3 – What fandoms do you write for?

Previously: Pokemon (no longer online), Steven Universe, a few Deep-Sea Prisoner games (Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea, The Grey Garden, Ice Scream)

Currently: Cult of the Lamb

4 – What are your top five fics by kudos?

The Care and Keeping of Eldritch Gods. Until the rewrite of RL/FG is done, this is my magnum opus

Present My first ever CotL fic. This was the first time I'd written fic in like four years and I was dusting off my writing muscles...

Smitten soft narilamb....

Cat(nip) Boy wrote this for shits and giggles in my early fandom days. The One Who Waits on catnip

How Narinder Takes His Tea First part of the old RL/FG series. Though I'm remaking it as a longform multichap fic, I'm keeping up the old series because of the memories + I don't want other people who saved the old one to lose it.

5 – Do you respond to comments?

All the time! I was able to respond to literally every single comment back in 2022, but as last year went on, I realized I probably can't realistically do that anymore. It's a blessing and a curse.

6 – What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

We already knew how this would turn out. Title not given directly in my answer in case of spoilers. My readers saw it coming because I had built up to it, but I took my time writing the gradual reveal in the last chapter to make sure it landed the way I wanted it to.

And one more comment I won't post here bc (for anyone who wants to read it) spoils the ending but shoutout to the person who physically felt the shock lurch through their body when the realization hit them after the slow build-up.

As much as I love angsty stories with happy endings, what gets me more are stories that are happy at face value, with endings that are heartwrenching because of the underbelly of what lurked beneath that facade.

7 – What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

The Risen Lamb and the Fallen God. Bit a spoilers below if you're avoiding that

The original wedding fic (as part of the original series) is up, but it's going to get a good polishing in the rewrite. Lambert and Narinder are going to have a private first dance, Thenana and Narinder are going to have a deeper conversation, Ratau's interactions with Lambert are gonna be shown rather than just told, Aym and Baal will be revived.

8 – Do you get hate on fics?

Mostly no. There was one time last year that I was compared to another writer in the fandom and slowly asks evolved into "your own concepts are being done better by others" and shit, and the other writer got hate messages as well, and... well, it was a whole thing. Don't wanna talk too in detail about it because I don't wanna beat a dead horse but cotl writers have unionized so we got the last laugh I guess

9 – Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

lol ya it's on remainderofreality. What "kind?" uh. experimental because I'd never tried the genre before this fandom and it kinda shows but that's okay.

10 – Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Honestly, I'm not really into crossovers! Unless it's Webber in cotl. He can stay, he's cute.

11 – Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yeah. It was actually the first fic I posted online, ever. In middle school, I wrote a whole ~100k-ish word self-insert pokemon fanfic, which I wrote by hand in like five composition notebooks, so I never posted that online. But after that I decided to post shorter one-shots for pokemon online, and a few months later I found one of mine reposted without credit. Plagiarized entirely, basically. It scared me and I deleted everything I had posted online, and I don't have extra copies of the works now. :(

12 – Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope, but I'd be okay with it if I was asked beforehand and proper credit was given!

13 – Have you ever co-written a fic?

Yeah! Of Duty and Devotion is basically a glorified roleplay between me as Aym, @i-eat-deodorant as Baal, @checkplzjuliet as The Lamb, and @surfdudeboy as Narinder. I also wrote Hide and Seek, a cute little Bishop family one-shot, with @lordiedams (hi Damien I miss you).

14 – What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Narilamb. I haven't focused on a ship for this long, except maybe Rupphire back in the day, but I'm fixated so much more on CotL than I was for SU.

15 – What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Honestly, Of Duty and Devotion lmao. I'm much more focused on my own projects and so are Pavi, Surf, and Juliet. I do want to finish it though.

16 – What are your writing strengths?

Pacing, diction, syntax, getting the intended point across and doing it well. Once I commit to doing something, I don't usually let myself "give up" on it, hence why I barely have any unfinished WIPs. That's a skill honed with tons of practice, though. I have massive ADHD, and I'm bad at finishing things, but when it comes to writing by god I'm gonna do it.

17 – What are your writing weaknesses?

I often struggle to get to a point where I'm totally focused in on what I'm writing. It does happen once or twice a month, but honestly, I'm usually so busy with life stuff that I don't get to do that most of the time! I wish I had more time to make room for my hobbies, but alas. At least summer is coming up, and I'll be able to do that more often, hopefully!

18 – Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

It's possible to do it naturally for sure, but I rarely see it done well in fic. I've never attempted it...... or, wait, have I? I guess Thenana's sign language counts, huh? ...I feel like I need to do more research about this topic to answer the question properly.

19 – First fandom you wrote for?

Pokemon <3

20 – Favorite fic you’ve written?

The Risen Lamb and the Fallen God or The Care and Keeping of Eldritch Gods.

Risen/Fallen (and the enemies-to-lovers narilamb dynamic) was like the first thing that I did to make a "mark" on this fandom, and I didn't expect it to inspire so many people for sure! But, the first iteration of the series was so rushed. I wrote the whole thing in just over three weeks and averaged one chapter published every day and a half. Now that I have a better grasp on the characters after playing with them for a long while, I get to see my improvement, and I get to see so many friends I've made along the way sticking with me, the revamped "director's cut" version is definitely on track to be my favorite work.

However. It has yet to surpass Care and Keeping. As the oldest of four kids in my family, I based so much of Shamura on my experiences as an eldest sibling, and many of the experiences the younger bishops had in their formative years on our own childhoods. I based Narinder's childhood off of brother #1's (brother who is two years younger than me), Kallamar's childhood on my own, Heket's childhood on my sister's (five years younger than me), and Leshy's off of my youngest brother's (ten years younger than me). This story wasn't just an exploration of the Bishops and their dynamic/relationship pre-canon, it's also a testament to my own love as an eldest sibling... and all the anxiety associated with that, too.

Thanks for tagging me! Back to working on my presentation...

[dio-the-thot-exterminator]

whats the tumblr accounts of some of ur fav ocs like

I wanted to come up with actual usernames for them but some were taken and that's kinda awkward uhhhhhh

Becky Maurice

“You have tumblr? Ew grosss”

I love Becky but she wouldn't be caught dead on tumblr 

She's a Instagram tiktok girl sorryyy

If we are being sillay then she’d have a secret acc prlly one of those girly coquette blogs or a stan blog for cupcakke whaaaaaa

Definitely just something with aesthetic photos and gifs.

Also Becky does editing as a hobby so she might post some of her videos

If she were to interact/collab with someone it would be like those giant editing videos

(i guess this might be an instagram thing but when a lot of amv editors come together and slay)

She would only post edits that are relevant to the aesthetic and theme of her blog

also she'd delete asks and dms (if its not about collabing)   

Jia 

"What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my--"

I used an old photo i alr had oof

I don't even know but she would send a lot of hate anon

Like her whole blog is just her arguing with people.

She sends it off anon first but if someone stops replying or blocks her

She makes an another acc and goes on anon to terrorize people.

She's deff the person on live telling the opps to pull up and it's like 4 am

She got a job (a literal warrior princess) but she behave like she unemployed so she on here 24/7

I don't wanna say her blog would be like a thirst trap blog but...

if she's not arguing with ppl she's flexing on them and posting like insane workout videos.

Or sparring sessions.

or thirst traps but in a way to piss people off

She’d prlly post some sort of art too but the replies and reblogs are turned off cuz she fight with too many people hahhhhh

She’d also have to remake her blog so many times cuz she gets reported a lot

Jelly

"Actually now that i think about it she'd send anon hate too"

Jelly wouldn't use social media cuz she doesnt know what it is

But if she was stalking really liked someone she’d join.

Deff one of those accs that look like a bot

no header no pfp no posts no likes no titles or anythin

she just lurks 

or sends weird anon asks

Rurue 

"I draw her too damn much she doesn't need an image"

pink with glitter and its kinda tacky lookin with clashing colours

Her tumblr would be kinda a fandom blog?

About all her little shows that she fw

reblogging and likin everything hahaha hits the post limit everyday

she's one of the people that goes crazy in the tags

Rurue would post her fandom ocs awwww its gonna be so cute. 

Also just post images of her toys and little crafts then fucking randomly a image of her killing someone.

She gets away with it because people think it's a fake

She also doesn't know how to take good pictures so the victim is not identifiable

Octavia and Debbie

"Debbie doesn't look like that i was having trouble with her face so i covered one eye and yassified her..."

I'm grouping them together because they’d have very similar blogs.

(they are literally connected)

they are both kind of self loathing so they’d never post anything directly about themselves. 

ooo Becky would prlly find Debbie's blog and put her on blast -

"Uh look at the stupid shit debbie is posting on tumblr lets all make fun of her"

"Wait a minute becky…how’d you find that?”

“.......”

“What are YOU doing on tumblr???”  

The blogs would be a mix of like a rant vent #depression and like those early 2010 cringe like

The main difference is that debbie would be posting shit like this

and like those black and white images of crying anime girls.

Octavia would be reblogging historical art and photography etc etc

Ok thats it. Ahaha i spent to much time on this, sorry for typos <3 

[pkmn-ken]

Alright…new Introduction…!

Ken - 21 - He/They

Hello, rotumblr…I am Ken, a crazed…Dragon-type trainer…born in Sinnoh…but I moved to…Unova…to start anew. I live with…my beloved N…and Harmony…:-)

I have been…turned into…a Human-Reshiram hybrid…by a magical anon…better than being….stuck as one…with giratina…

my team…in case it wasn’t…obvious…is all dragon types..! Consisting of…the following:

Haxorus

Garchomp

Hydreigon

Giratina

Dragonair (Service Pokémon)

Flygon (Ace Pokémon)

Current Arcs-

Past Arcs-

#Giratinaception - a very silly mini arc I thought up of at 12 in the morning #Chaos In Kalos- Ken takes N to kalos for his birthday, but they get themselves into some chaos and trouble when they run into team flare. #Galactic Takeover - mini arc of Ken’s past self somehow hacking into his Rotumblr account. #bad dad - Ken’s father finally comes to see him after 11 years. Though he isn’t the greatest or nicest person to him. Will his father be able to change his ways and make up with ken, or is Ken’s father forever dead to him? Cw for transphobia, homophobia, abuse, and mentions of death. #Sinnoh anew - Ken returns to sinnoh with his father, N, Akira, and Harmony. What could go wrong? #First Week Of School - Harmony going to school. Needs no further introduction. The plates of Arceus - Takeover event featuring Ken’s Ancestor, Yūrei. He’s a ghost type specialist who works for the survey corps, and has an interesting secret.

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Tags-

#Ken reblogs - he reblogs a ton of things, but 90% he’s responding to something.

#Ask game- Ask games! I love ask games! Ask him anything. They’re always open.

#n speaks - just N speaking, no introduction needed. #Harmony speaks - Same as the ‘N speaks’ tag, but the CHILD!

#🅰️ - So I did a thing with this particular ask game, so here’s all the responses and lore

Extra ⬇️

//had to remake the intro cus I deleted a bunch of posts for the sake of an Arc [my goodness gracious.]

Notes

— Ken has a strange speaking pattern. He typically speaks in a slow, monotone voice (hence why…he talks…like this.)

— Pelliper Mail is always on. Send him anything you want. Something good, something bad, he’ll accept it in his own way. (Just don’t send anything sexual that’s all I ask.)

— Ken speaks in Violet text (but occasionally speaks in red text when angered), N speaks in green text, Harmony speaks in Pink text

— and then here’s a full-body of Ken.

oh, and the sillay lil child Harmony.

[dazzle-art]

WIP Wednesday!

Tagged in spirit by @kyngsnake​ since I kinda wanted to post something art related today

I was unsure about whether or not I was gonna post this from the start, but hey it’s wip wednesday. This one is almost done but not quite so it’s still a wip so shut up. It’s also one in a series I was planning but just started yesterday

It’s Robin! I think this is the first Robin art so everybody say hi lmao

Their uniform is still in the works so this is subject to change absolutely

May post the clean up version later or tomorrow since the sun is starting to go down here

Edit: I had to delete and remake this post after tags initially and forgot to do them the second time, RIP

So I am tagging: @calzoneboy669​ @wild-moss-art​ @onyxedskies​ + anyone else who wants to do them! Apologies you didn’t actually get tagged till now :’)

[revenantghost]

HI sorry to dm you out of the blue but i tried posting my post on WEDNESDAY MORNING and the first time i deleted it after 12 hours of it being up and still not in the tag, my second attempt is still on my blog because i sent support a ticket about it (i deleted the book club tag off it tho), my third attempt, which is what's in the tag, was literally me copypasting the html into notepad, making a mostly blank post, adding the og post piecemeal, and seeing if it disappeared from the tag or not. it seems there were a few specific images that were the problem, two of which i deleted and the third of which i just used a different crop of the page and it worked. i don't know WHY those images were a problem but hopefully support will shed some light on it if they get back to me?? i saw you had trouble with your vashwood post so i wonder if other bookclubbers are having the same issue and i'm afraid i'm missing posts because of it v_v

also re: your other tags YEA i agree abt the DID rep, i'm familiar with it bc i used to be close to someone who has it, i dont see it a lot in media to begin with but i've DEF seen worse from media that's much more recent than trigun lmao. also- yes razlo is there in the scene but my question is more abt his /degree/ of involvement like. did he convince livio to join eom/plant the idea in his head/tell him ww was there/etc... because "wanting to follow ww" as a motivation def comes from livio not razlo.. IF that even makes sense sorry i am half asleep rn. ALSOOO PLEASE DONT APOLOGIZE FOR THE RAMBLING OMG.. i love your tags sm and look forward to seeing them on my posts!! i love the rambling it's delightful.. i should be the one apologizing for sending a wall of text in your askbox LOL

Oh man, no worries! Yeah I had the same thing happen with this post, to the point that I had to eventually remake it without any images (which were kinda core to the post, thanks Tumblr!!!) and for some reason that worked??? I even reworded the whole thing multiple times, but nothing! So I'm gonna tag this as bookclub so it shows up and folks know that the tag is being stupid from time to time. This is also happening to posts in the "Trigun" tag and search function, and someone I know had an issue with blocking the other day, so I think Tumblr's probably fucking with the code

Seriously, kudos to Nightow for writing this in the early 2000's (when I assume this volume was probably initially published as chapters in its magazine) and doing better rep than every single horror movie out there. Even if it's magical fantasy grow-a-third-arm DID, it's so much better than most rep :')

OHHHHH I see what you mean!!! That's definitely the angle that Tristamp seems to be leaning toward, but it would be VERY interesting if Trimax Razlo hunted down big brother Nico and wanted Livio to join him. That's obviously pure headcanon, but I think I'll tuck that nicely into my own personal headcanons

ASKJNALSKJ OH THANK GOD, I don't always have the spoons for rambling BUT WHEN I DO... BOY I GO OFF. So it's nice to hear it's not annoying :'D And you're totally fine yourself, no worries!!! <3

[annegirl13]

Sims Tag

Tagged by @charmandersims, so I figured I'd answer. I don't share my sims stuff any more but I do still play. (Now that I finally have a computer that can run it again.) I never tag anybody, but if you're a sims person and you want to do the tag, do it!

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What’s your favourite sims death?

I like death by satellite. I don't make a habit of killing my sims on purpose, but sometimes, just to let some frustration out, I'll make a sim of an annoying person and drop a satellite on them on purpose.

Alpha CC or Maxis Match?

Maxis Match. I think alpha CC looks out of place in any sims game.

Do you cheat when your sims gain weight?

Not usually. Sometimes, if I have a story reason for a sim to be skinny, I will, but usually I just let them stay fat until they roll the want to be skinny again.

Do you use move objects?

ALL. THE. TIME. I have to. I try really hard not to get my sims stuck places but sometimes they get stuck. And sometimes you just want somebody or something RIGHT THERE. Move objects is the easiest way.

Favorite mod?

I'm gonna go with Macrotastics. I like being able to tell my sims to do something using the macro menu instead of giving them 47 commands.

First expansion/game/stuff pack you got?

I first played Sims 2 Deluxe, which had the regular game and Nightlife. My sister got it for our ancient PC (which we called the Rocket, because it always sounded like it was going to blast off). Boy was I surprised when I got the base game for my Mac and there wasn't a downtown or dates or anything!

Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing?

I think I say "live" like "alive" but I don't know. I don't usually say it aloud, and then when I think about it for this kind of question, I can't figure out what I actually say...

Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made?

So, I don't know that I ever shared this neighborhood (and if I did it was ages ago and all evidence has been deleted) but I made a BACC founder named Lexi who I really liked. She was kind of quirky and she had elf ears...(I don't tend to make a ton of my own sims...)

Have you made a simself?

Ages and ages ago, and I don't have one around anymore.

What sim traits do you give yourself?

Bookworm, Shy, Creative, Loves Kids...I'm a family sim? (I don't think about this much...Can you tell?)

Which is your favorite EA hair color?

I'm a sucker for red hair. I always wanted red hair.

Favorite EA hair?

Um...I don't know? I haven't used just EA hair for a while now.

Favorite life stage?

I'm going to say toddlers, because they're cute, but I like all ages.

Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay?

More gameplay and storytelling than building. I'd rather download something if I need a specific lot, but sometimes I just have to build it myself.

Are you a CC creator?

Nope!

Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad?

Not really anymore? I mean, I have people who I know play sims on here who I'd call friends, but we don't talk about sims. I just like their posts of their sims. (Is that friendship?)

What’s your favorite game? (1, 2, 3, or 4)

Sims 2. I never played Sims 1 or Sims 3, and while I got into 4 for a while, I find the gameplay too shallow for me to enjoy it longterm. Whereas with Sims 2, I can remake the same town and makeover the same sims 47,000 times and not get tired of it.

Do you have any sims merch?

Nope! I can't think of any that I'd really want either. It's cool to have, I guess, but I don't wear jewelry or t-shirts much and I have too many mugs already...

Do you have a YouTube for sims?

Nope!

How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing?

Um...I've just kind of learned a lot more about how the game works, I guess? I've probably gotten more Maxis Match...Um...When I first started I was making original characters in original neighborhoods and now I play premades?

What’s your Origin ID?

I have no clue. I don't use Origin anymore, since I don't play Sims 4. (Sims 2 still runs on my Mac without needing Origin, for which I am rather grateful.)

Who’s your favorite CC creator?

I can't pick just one!

How long have you had a simblr?

Since...2013, maybe? I don't remember exactly. I started on Tumblr around the time people were moving over here from Livejournal, because I wanted to follow certain people whose blogs I liked.

How do you edit your pictures?

I use Preview. I just kind of crop them and that's it.

What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next?

If somebody would make the last two expansions for Mac, I'd be so grateful! Specifically Apartment Life. I want witches!

What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far?

I'd say Nightlife is my favorite. I also like Open for Business, because Bluewater Village is my favorite neighborhood, but as I mentioned, Nightlife has features I can't live without. (Also Bon Voyage just for the "walk to lot" feature.)

Again, I'm not tagging anybody but if you want to do the tag, do it!

[silvermoon424]

Ok confession time. I was once semi active in a fandom and I hold the so called coveted title of "canon" url. As a result, other people with so called canon urls followed me. There was this one girl, I followed her back and tried to have the idle chit chat with her every so often. Ok, so I've had issues with stalkers and I don't like releasing much info about me online. However, I made the mistake of letting people know my sexuality and gender in my about. So that girl, everytime I'd reblog something and tag my partner, she'd reblogged alot of ace discourse. At first I thought it was a coincidence, but I started snooping around and saw that she was going into anti ace tags and reblogging posts from there. So I stopped tagging my partner in stuff and she shaded me in a post that we finally broke up and she was glad, ironically my partner had tagged me in something so I reblogged that and again with the anti ace spam. So I unfollowed her ass. But she'd send me so many asks and would tag me in those tag games while still continuing to bombard with the ace discourse. So I blocked her when blocking was implemented, just for her to delete and remake her blog and follow me. So again I blocked. I'm not sure what exactly I did wrong, but I found it so creepy that she still tried being tumblr mutuals with me when all I did was be nice and try being her friend. Also I am a girl who was dating a girl, yet somehow the relationship was straight despite me being cis and so was my gf at the time? I was so confused, was she misgendering me cause I was ace? I mean, neither of us were trans or anything. I just found it so fucking creepy she did all that shit and as a result I refuse to ever have a bio or an about me on social media anymore.

Ugh, I'm so sorry you went through all that :/ It sounds like she was deliberately antagonizing you and trying to get under your skin. People can be so fucking gross.

[starsweepersims]

Get to Know Me- Sims Style

@petrolstationflowers tagged me so here we go!

What’s your favorite Sims death?

Oooh I think Jellybean. It’s rare but it’s kinda fun. Other than that I ‘like’ the animal deaths in that the animations are cute even though it makes me so sad. :c

Alpha CC or MaxisMatch?

Maxis Match.

Do you cheat your sims weight?

Nope! Not my taste to edit that sort of thing.

Do you move objects?

I do, especially decorative stuff.

Favourite Mod?

Ohhh I’m not sure! It changes frequently, but I think currently it’d be good ol StoryProgression.

First Expansion/Game Pack/Stuff Pack?

In 3 it’d be Late Night, because I got the double pack.

Do you pronounce live mode like aLIVE or LIVing

aLive.

Who’s your favourite sim that you’ve made?

Oh I’ve not posted her, but my very first sim I ever made in 3 was a woman named Lilian, and her adoptive daughter Leera was by far my favorite, even to this day. I should remake her sometime.

Have you made a simself?

I have, but they’re old. And then I learned I’m faceblind, so they probably looked nothing like me.

Which is your favorite EA hair color?

In 3, I think they have a nice black tone. In 4 I’m a big fan of the firetruck red.

Favorite EA hair?

Good question, but I know it’s from Island Paradise. Sort of a bun with two side pieces?

Favorite life stage?

I’d say teens! They start really showing personality at that stage, and has a lot of chance for fun storylines.

Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay?

A mix! I enjoy my gameplay, but whenever I’m in the mood to build I build a lot!

Are you a CC creator?

Sadly no. :c

Do you have any Simblr friends or a Sim Squad?

Not really, but I would definitely like to! I have some friends who also have a simblr though, who I’ll be tagging later on.

Do you have any sims merch?

Nope.

Do you have a YouTube for sims?

I’ve tried, and I have failed.

How has your “Sims style” changed throughout your years of playing?

Definitely have focused more on family gameplay, and I now play with lifespans. I’ve also been doing challenges recently which has really helped curb boredom.

What’s your origin id?

RIP Origin (i can’t remember)

Who’s your favorite CC creator?

I think @catlover800, who was one of my driving forces for me joining simblr, will always have a special place in my heart. I don’t think I could choose a single person otherwise.

How long have you had simblr?

My previous ones...I’d say 2017 was when I started, but it was deleted because of anxiety.

How do you edit your pictures?

Paint.net! Up contrast, up brightness, vibrancy filter.

What expansion/ gamepack is your favorite?

I’d say World Adventure or Island Paradise!

I tag @dragonplumbobs and @papermint-airplane if they’d like to do it!

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Thoughts on Maintaining Old Characters.

Don't feel like you gotta read this, I know I don't have any long term OC fans who have kept track of what I'm doing with my guys. It's more just stuff that's been rattling in my head and I feel like would be nice to jot down so people who do decide to trawl through my old art tags can see why my characters have changed in the ways they have.

I've been making characters since I was 11, which as of this post, means that some of my earliest characters are 13 years old. I still even have some of them. This blog has stuff dating back to when I was 13 (I joined tumblr a week or so after my birthday on a now deleted blog, before that I was on deviantArt and roleplaying forums almost exclusively)

I was exposed to the idea of self-inserts and mary sues (and that they were bad and nobody liked them) extremely early on, so I almost immediately swung in the opposite direction, people pleaser that I was. This first generation of characters would set up three types that I would end up remaking over and over with different coats of paint.

Prickly girls

Just so many prickly tsundere girls. Often short. Often bullies to the boys they liked. They were girlbosses who could win any fight but they also were bullied by the normies for being so weird and being outsiders. Pretty but still only liked by the one nervous guy they had chosen. The archetypal anti-sue, just a gaggle of Ebonys.

2. Tragic girls

These girls were usually innocent and silly and fun, but also haunted and sad. They were traumatized in very childishly "and then their whole family died in front of them :,,( " ways. They were never allowed to address the trauma, and everyone around them always had to baby them. Yeah, I was making those types LOL. Nooo I refuse to make progress on my healing bc then I won't have any character left!!!

3. Soft boys

I was still pretty married to the idea that I had to like boys, so the boys I made were all ones I thought I would like. This led to just a fleet of androgynous boys who wept and blushed often. I also rolled with a crowd of older tween girls who were deep in the Yaoi haze, and while I found they way they talked about the couples uncomfortable and objectionable even then, I still did my share in pumping out generic ukes to go with their bog standard semes.

I made characters in these three frameworks for like, a few years. Even after the main forum I had camped on died and I started making characters with school friends. I wasn't really pushed to change anything until a while into using tumblr.

I don't know if anyone else remembers this period of time, I had to have been like 14-15, but there was this attitude shift all the sudden that boiled down to how if you didn't have a diverse set of characters, you were a bad person.

Now I'm going to say immediately that I do think its good to have a diverse set of OCs! It's good to learn about people from other cultures and backgrounds and to put yourself in their shoes! It's also good to learn about all the ways humans can look and how charming and beautiful and different we can be!

The issue with the way this was pushed way back in pre-dashcon tumblr was that it wasn't about thoughtful diversity and exploring others lived experiences. It was about making sure you looked like you weren't racist to the other 14 year old white girls who still hadn't unpacked what watching South Park had done to their brains and were actively sending death threats to Lucy Liu for being on a Sherlock Holmes show that wasn't the one with the white men who might kiss any day now guys. When you see people mocking the Ultimate SJW Tumblr Character (you know what I'm talking about, the just caricature level mocking of disabled queer people) it's from this era of posts.

I saw this and I saw people dumping buckets of anon hate and bullying on just anyone who caught the mobs fancy and I very ungracefully slapped new ethnicities on a chunk of my characters. And it took me an embarrassingly long time to look at some of the choices I made and to go "Yikes!" Almost no one was an offensive stereotype or anything, but I definitely had picked characters that lined up with tropes without realizing it. (Important note, I did have some characters that were disrespectful to Roma culture, and an atrocious belly dancer character. I've completely gotten rid of them and I do recognize now how they were disrespectful and played into racist stereotypes.)

And this is still something I'm working on monitoring and fixing in my characters. I'm not gonna lie and say I've become the ultimate anti-racist. I'm white, I've only lived in majority white areas, specifically Oregon which has an extensively anti-black history as well as a lot of issues with orientalism, and I grew up on early 2000s media and all the baggage that came with that.

Speaking of 2000s baggage and weird yaoi culture. I am sorry mlm for the atrocities of boys I have made. It was that classic case of "I'm supposed to like boys so I'm going to make boys who are basically girls and then pair them with each other so I never actually have to deal with the anxiety of them actually being attracted to me." I only had like two characters I would say felt like they could genuinely be gay men. It was only after I was like a year deep into accepting that I was genuinely a lesbian that I looked at my gaggle of boys and went "oh shit, these are all lesbians, these are lesbian dynamics." Which like, yes I don't feel great that I used mlm pairs for my own character development. I know it's not uncommon, especially if a lot of your exposure to the idea of being queer was through tumblr, but it's still not great.

All this to say: I love my characters and I want to be more thoughtful with them. Most of my characters are 5+ years old and they all just need an overhaul. I'm taking most of them back to their prompts and rebuilding from there, I'm also turning a majority of them into lesbians. I want to explore all the fun wlw dynamics I never got to play with growing up. And girls are just more fun to design for me! Sorry!

As I put out new refs you may notice some characters look varying levels of different, some have been replaced with new characters taking over their roles, and some are gone completely. You are always welcome to reach out to ask me about any choices I've made and any concerns you have about the things I've made, past or present. And if you take anything from this it's that you should always be vigilant about how unconscious biases can slip into your creative works.

Thanks for getting to the end of this long ass post, it's one I've been thinking about for a while but had to take some time to put to paper. It's important to me to keep up my old art posts to see my growth as an artist and a person, but I also don't want to act like I still agree with every character choice I've made in the last 13 years.

I hope you can support me as I continue to grow as a person!

[the-lesbian-orpheus]

GOOD NEWS THIS POST IS NO LONGER RELEVANT- IT WAS ABOUT MY TREASURED AU POST SEEMINGLY DISSAPWARING

Every post that I had linked it on the link no longer worked

And I thought it got deleted somehow

I went thru a related post I made of the au when I first had the idea and clicked the tag i made

The post still exists thankfully tumblr just broke all links to it for some reason

Original post of me asking frantically for help to find it is below the cut lmao no need to read

Guys the master post for my Hadestown AU has mysteriously disappeared off the face of the planet

I don’t know if it’s actually gone or if it’s just a glitch on my end

It’s linked at the top of my blog but every time I click it or search my blog for it or click where I’ve linked it in other posts it gives me the this page doesn’t exist blank blue thing

If it’s gone is there anyway to retrieve it

It wouldn’t be in the wayback machine unfortunately

Please reblog this post so some genius can help me I’m actually gonna cry if it’s gone

I mean i remember it for the most part and i have art in the making for it but ugh it took so much time and it had links and it’s not gonna be the same if i remake because it’s so hard to cohesively explain your thoughts

Please help

[derangedfruitcake]

Hey there, the sick cat post (sliced-and-diceed) is a scam. This person has been remaking their blog with a different spin on the same “sick pet” story numerous times and the current one is less than a day old.

Scammer’s blogs usually:

- Are very young (you can scroll to the bottom within a few minutes; on PC you can easily access their Archive which summarizes all their posts)

- Reblog most posts from the source/op (they just go through common tags and don’t genuinely follow anyone)

- Will request that users answer their asks privately (hiding their tracks)

- Request that PayPal payments go through Friends & Family (bypasses most of PP’s anti-scam protocols)

(if you delete the post please remember to report op for spam as well)

Thank you so much! Normally I check first, but that account had a lot of posts so I didn’t scroll back far enough to notice. Everything has been posted in the past 2 days, you’re correct that it’s a scam. I’ve deleted my post about them, reported them and the post, and blocked them.

Thank you for letting me know and helping protect others

[invisiblemelonmoose]

Having a huge internal debate with myself currently. Just mulling things over and needed a space to have it written out.

Anyone who's followed me for a while is probably aware that when tagging pokémon trainers, I have a tendency to go with Japanese and OG 1st-2nd gen names in referring to characters and tagging them. I prefer this name scheme because it seems more consistent to me personally, but also I don't like the idea my my headcanons being assumed to be for or based off of the PokeSupe (ポケスペ) versions of the characters. Things have gotten particularly complicated with the introduction of "Green"/"Blue" in Let's Go and the time olf debate (akin to Kris vs. Lyra and RGBY!Red vs FRLG!Red, but worse as PokeMas makes canon quite screwy, despite how much I enjoy certain epilogue-esque stories).

Personally, my most preferred headcanons lie in RGBYGSC timeline because that is what I've developed the most, regardless of what posted headcanons might imply. For me:

RGBY => GSC => "BW => BW2"** => XY => SM => SwSh => SV

*with the World Tornament, the implication is that FRLG/HGSS is the connected canon, but if there were a Gray version ala Yellow Crystal Emmerald that (and Z) would be my actual canon

Don't ask me how Hoenn and Sinnoh fit into the timeline because as much as I want to say they fit in just like how they do with FRLGHGSS, remake connectivity and (U)S(U)M make things screwy and confusing. I'll figure it out eventually... maybe.

Anyways, back to the topic at hand. I'm heavily debating referring (or at least tagging) my Blue stuff as Leaf and Gold stuff as Ethan because I actively dislike how they choose to characterize everyone. Crystal being a smart was a characteristic I already had, but didn't care for her stuffiness. My view of Gold was basically poisoned for a really long time because I didn't really have opinions on him (as he has a practically identical depiction as Kris) and PokeSupe was basically the first time I saw him characterized in a defining way and I really didn't like it. A lot of my headcanons were based off of that and I really don't like a lot of them looking back on them.

RGBY/GSC game only headcanons are my thoughts in their purest form based on interaction text and inflicting my own personality traits onto my blorbos.

I may, at some future point, delete old headcanons or just edit them to better reflect actual game characterization of Gold as well as potentially changing my tagging system for Blue/Leaf and him. I'd say I've already done that with Silver/Kamon, but I basically stopped referring to him as such a looooooong time ago, pre-tumblr, for accessibility reasons (it's still his name, but he doesn't go by it).

[auricbound]

i have not been doing well.