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[curmudgeonness]

Rhys has had a wish to plant a Forbidden Fruit since starting this save. He obtained a seed from a Gene Splicing experiment on the Science Research Station.

I had him Bloom the seed to to the harvestable state. I then cast the Improve Nature spell (included in the Enhanced Witches Mod by puddingface at MTS) to improve to Perfect quality. I then had him analyze the fruit to clone more seeds (maybe).

Side note: Rhys is a fairy/genie/vampire/witch hybrid..

I'm hesitant to harvest the plant. Not sure I want to play Plantsim.

From SimsWiki:

"In The Sims 3: University Life, it is one of the possible results of using the ZRX-9000 Science Research Station to perform the Gene Splicing Experiment on a seed. In addition, when PlantSims successfully "Try For Baby", the result is a Forbidden Fruit seed.

The Forbidden Fruit seed is a Special plant, and requires level 7 Gardening skill to plant. Once planted, it will require 4 days to fully bloom and be ready to be harvested. The player will be able to select "Tend Garden" or "Pick Forbidden Fruit". "Tend Garden" will produce an edible fruit, which will be placed in the Sim's inventory. "Pick Forbidden Fruit" has a 50/50 chance of producing an edible fruit or a PlantSim baby. The quality of the Forbidden Fruit plant plays a factor on the PlantSim baby's starter traits. A Forbidden Fruit plant only produces one fruit (or baby), and becomes barren after being harvested.

Notes:

If an Alien picks a forbidden fruit, it will instead adopt a normal Alien baby. This is because the baby produced is a clone of the one picking the fruit up. Since Aliens cannot have occult life states, the baby cannot become a PlantSim.

Plumbots cannot pick the forbidden fruit.

An edible Forbidden Fruit can also be produced by using the Science Research Station to analyze a Forbidden Fruit seed and to clone the sample.

When a non-occult Sim who is a teen or older eats a Forbidden Fruit, he or she will receive a "Botanitis Minorous" moodlet. If the moodlet is not cured within 4 hours, the Sim who ate the fruit will become a PlantSim.

Even though Forbidden Fruit is considered to be fruit, it cannot be used to make nectar, unlike the other produce in the game that is considered to be fruit."

I wonder what Forbidden Fruit Nectar would do, if one could make it.

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Additional mods I have installed.

Enhanced Genies by puddingface at MTS

Enhanced Wands by puddingface at MTS

Imaginary Friend Power Mod by Xantak at MTS

Gardening Spells by Douglas Viega at MTS

There are enhanced mods from puddingface for Mermaids, Werewolves, Vampires and Fairies. Xantak also has power mods for Mermaids, Mummies and Plantsims. None of which I currently use.

On a personal note, I have been out the past few days due to an unfortunate injury. I was carrying a cup a coffee and got a sharp, knife piercing pain in my shoulder blade as I was heading up the stairs to the kitchen.

My wife immediately herded me to the Emergency Room, where, after wincing in pain for three and a half hours, they determined is was a muscle sprain. I don't think they know the word E M E R G E N C Y.

Anyway they sent me home after a show and told me to take ibuprofen. I've been in decreasing levels of horrific pain since then. I am actually at a point where the pain is bearable-to-none. I actually slept for seven hours straight last night after only getting an hour or so here and there. I was exhausted.

[chainsxwsmile]

I want to preface this by saying thank you to the handful of people who reached out to me with kind words. 

Truthfully, its been an exceptionally hard few months. I’m still feeling the pain of losing my abuelita in April, the voice actor of my comfort character and muse in March, and not being able to completely graduate in May. I’m thankful that the administration still let me walk during the ceremony, but I have quite a bit of work to do on my thesis document (and defend it, as well) before I’m finished. 

On top of that, returning to the workforce and job searching have added additional stress. 

During this erratic time, my instagram somehow managed to take off. After one of my reels went viral with now over 100K likes, I somehow managed to get over 7K followers. I’ve gotten dozens of commissions. But the attention only makes me incredibly conflicted. 

My art is getting more attention and interaction on Instagram in five days than I received here on tumblr for the past ten years. Because likes on Instagram actually help artists. That disparity alone made me tempted to just kick the proverbial bucket and avoid posting any art here. 

With that said, I still miss my roleplay partners. Especially the ones who have stuck around despite my hiatus and major dip in activity. In all honesty, my writing partners are the only things keeping me here. 

I will be returning to tumblr, but slowly and tentatively. Truthfully, I’ve lost a lot of faith in this site for supporting artists and the motivation to write has dwindled due to the workload still needed for my thesis. But I do plan on tentatively staying-- at least for the people who were there for me. 

[stil-lindigo]

a non-comprehensive guide to my favourite characters in claymore, the best manga you've never read (more under the cut)

don't know what I'm talking about? here's a crashcourse.

[nipuni]

Edwardian outfit complete! 🥰 I'm so happy with this look!!

Skirt and waistcoat: GibsonGirlDress (etsy) / Blouse: Lace Garden / Corset: Lucy's corsetry / Boots: American Duchess / Accesories: Aliexpress

[magpiedraws]

Wouldn't lizard fashion be something like spikes and scales and a frilled lizard collar?

Like so?

(Bonus art under the cut)

[front-facing-pokemon]

[quarklynx]

remember the headcanon that Alhaitham was wearing hearing aids? we should bring that back i think Bonus:

✨reblog to help ur local artist✨

Alt text under the cut

A short comic, all drawn with a loose style in a warmly tinted grayscale. The first panel depicts Scaramouche from Genshin Impact, he is dressed in the attire he wears as the playable Wanderer character and is angrily gesticulating towards the viewer and looking down at them scornfully. He says, in all capital letters, "are you deaf??". The second panel is a view from behind the Wanderer, showing the viewer that he was yelling at the Genshin Impact character Alhaitham. Alhaitham is significantly taller than the wanderer, even with his hat, and has a neutral expression and stance. The Wanderer has an anime style anger mark above his head, and Alhaitham has a speech bubble that only contains ellipses.

In the first panel of the second image, the Wanderer and Alhaitham still face one another in the same poses, except for Alhaitham's right hand. His hand is moving in the American Sign Language sign for "yes", which is also plainly written out for the viewer in text. The wanderer's anger symbol is no longer present. The middle panel is a simplified silhouette of both characters facing one another, their profiles visible to the viewer. A large ellipses hovers above their heads. The final panel shows the Wanderer turning away from Alhaitham, tugging down his wide-brimmed hat from the front to cover his face. All that can be seen of his expression is a small smile and a bead of sweat. The Wanderer has a speech bubble, which says in lower case lettering: "ah. my mistake". Alhaitham is standing behind the Wanderer, his expression still mostly neutral as he watches the wanderer turn to leave, but he has lines below his eyes that show irritation. His arms are now crossed, and his left hand is holding a book open under the opposite arm.

The bonus image is a grayscale sketch of Lumine and Kaveh from Genshin Impact. To the left, Lumine looks frustrated, with her shoulders drawn up and her left hand pressed to her face while the other rests on her hip. The hand on her face is dragging the lower eyelid on her left eye down. Kaveh is slightly hunched over towards Lumine, and he is laughing so hard he's crying and spitting through pursed lips. He's holding his sides with opposite hands tightly, and looking towards Lumine.

[pygmy--tyrant]

one of the most insane subplots of trc was when blue's mum started dating the man who violently murdered ronan's dad and there weren't really any objections. like no one minded

[zivazivc]

Sorry if this has already been asked before but why did the band break up? And did they break up on decent terms? Do they still talk to each other sometime?

It has been asked before, I just never answered jshfbdjcbh I'm still piecing everything together and stuff is changing or getting tweaked all the time, so I'm always super hesitant about answering these types of questions, afraid that people will take whatever I say as the final answer. So basically what I'm going to answer now will already contradict what I told some people already. And maybe in the future the story might go a little differently too (although I'm pretty satisfied with the current events)

Uhhh, get ready for a long info dump. I didn't expect I'd write this much...

Floyd basically stayed with the band for 8 years (from 14 till 22) and got pretty messed up in the process. The rest of the guys are all quite older than him so I guess I could say they were more responsible, or at least had a better understanding of their own limits (also they grew up in this kind of environment or grew up aware of it, while Floyd was oblivious and naive about all of it) and while they do get drunk and do drugs often, none of them are really dependent on them. They are also pretty good judges of character and know how to avoid trouble. Floyd on the other hand drove in with no breaks and constantly got himself in trouble that the rest (mostly Les) had to drag him out of. He also developed bipolar during this time (in my story Floyd constantly fluctuates between being saturated and being desaturated because of this) and his manic and depressive episodes started getting out of hand after his teenage years. (None of them are aware it's a mental disorder that's making him act so out of character.)

Floyd was becoming miserable because of this and all of his problems pilling up, and started blaming Les for the way he was. Les never argued this which only fueled Floyd to blame him more. In the end he was getting so frustrated and irritable that Floyd constantly tried starting arguments with him, even putting him down and getting aggressive at times because Les gets very unresponsive and closed off during personal conversations (guy is a giant onion of suppressed trauma that Floyd is hellbent on peeling open).

Eventually there was one fight too many, terrible things were said, some objects flew through the air, and Floyd walked out (or Hed kicked him out, I haven't decided yet) with the promise of going home and never seeing them again.

So, yeah, it was very messy and Floyd was the primary asshole, even though he's not really to blame either...

But Floyd didn't make it home (was too scared to sneak through Bergen Town to get to the tree (i don't think i can judge him for that either)) and he just returned to the reckless lifestyle, this time without anyone being there to keep him safe. So if he was messed up before, this is the time period where he got absolutely fucked up. This is also when he got heavily addicted to sour worms. And when he chronically slept around (half the time just to get offered free worms or have somewhere to sleep, other times because he was having manic episodes and was feeling hypersexual). (This is also potentially the period when he had the two eggs with that techno troll, but I'm still thinking if I want that to be canon to the story or not.) During this time he also grew to become very anxious and his self-confidence went to shit when he was being himself.

Then after about three years of that, he bumped into Les at some party. He wanted to dodge him out of shame but Les grabbed his arm and manhandled him outside to talk. Floyd felt like shit about the way they had split up and tried apologizing for all the stuff he had said and done to Les, but Les wasn't having any of that because he wasn't angry at Floyd, he was just worried about him. Les is also insanely empathetic like Floyd, and he knew that Floyd never really meant any of it, and that he was just looking for an outlet when he was hurting. Also he does think he is to blame for the way Floyd ended up.

Les wanted to know why he didn't go home like he had said (because that was the only reason Les had even let him walk out in the first place). A few exchanged words later and Floyd broke down telling him all the awful things he'd done, and Les promised to help him, feeling insanely guilty. Floyd wondered if he was allowed back in the band but Les made it clear that the band wasn't good for him and that he was never taking him back. Instead Les helped him go though rehab. I don't think trolls have those institutions (or at least not many are aware of them or how they work (I'm sorry but I refuse to believe the Trolls world has internet and cellphones, Mountrageons can keep that for themselves lol)), so it was more or less just Les finding Floyd a job and his own place to stay in the middle of bumfuck nowhere where he had no option but to detox, and constantly checking up on him to make sure he was doing okay. During this time they grew pretty close again. Or maybe the better term would be that Les slowly started putting his walls down again.

Hed needed a while to warm up to Floyd again. He's almost as protective of Les as Les is of him, and he resented Floyd for the way he had treated him.

Flea is pretty phlegmatic when it comes to any sort of arguing or drama. He was casual about seeing Floyd again, they were never super close anyway.

And Liv, she left the band when she and Hed broke up (haven't decided if that happened before or after Floyd left), so Floyd didn't get to see her again after bumping into Les at the party. And I haven't thought yet if they'd ever meet again somewhere later in life. But if they did, I think they'd both be happy to see each other.

Anyway...

Floyd managed to detox and successfully kept the job for about a year, but then he became manic again and messed it all up. After that he returned to his nomadic lifestyle, but he never fell as hard as those three years again. In my story Floyd's life is a constant cycle of getting his life together and fucking it up and booking to the next place. And he and Les are trapped in a never-ending cat and mouse game where they're both trying to fix each other.

So, uh, Les and Floyd are still very close and see each other somewhat often...

(sometimes monthly, sometimes yearly)

Yeah...

I am so fucking obsessed with them I'm gonna hurl. Please take this song before I combust:

[just-null]

ur art is so good i might just get back into my noritoshi phase omg

everyone should have a Noritoshi phase at least once. im here to provide and bring everyone back in it. i love that fucking idiot sm it makes me so stupid

noritoshi is so that bitch who you hug and his hands hover over you. he'll stay like that if you don't physically move his hands to wherever you want them. Afterward, he'll hold onto the fabric of your clothes like a lifeline.

this guy's hugs would be so stiff esp w you. BUT ITS LIKE. if you give him enough time he'll ever so slowly melt into it. though if you hug back too quick. hes out and pushing you back if hes not out like a light. thats too much holy fuck. hugs over. go home. <- he says while yelling at himself internally to take it all back. hes so fucking lamemsmsm

and tysm!! ive read some of your work too and i love it!!

[totally normal under the cut. dont look.]

OH YM FUCKNIG GOD, I KNOW YOU AND THE SHIT YOU WRITE IS SO FUCKING GOOD TYSM FOR THE COMPLIMENT...

GOD I WANT TO BE COOL AND COMPOSED FOR MY CULT MEMBERS BUT HOLY SHIT YOUR MR. LOVERMAN DRABBLE GOT ME FUCKED UP. YOU CAN TELL WHO I WAS THINKING ABT WHILE READING IT, AND OH MY FUCK YOU HAD A NORITOSHI PHASE???? FAM I'LL COLLAPSE AND DIE <- DERANGED.

YOUR YAN POET, NERD, AND LOSER HEADCANONS HAD ME IN A HEADLOCK FOR WEEKS. PUNCHES MYSELF, GOD I LOVE YOUR STUFF 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️ TYSM FOR THE CONTENT....

[wolfram-but-art]

i adore ur engie having a chord tail so re: requests how does spy feel about/interact with it

he'd mostly think it's endearing, part of Dell's silly charm. sort of like when you see a puppy

sometimes Dell uses it to get Spy' attention, or to make sure he's still with him and Spy sometimes uses it to make sure Dell doesn't impulse buy a set of power drills or a tablesaw

though, no matter how much spy thinks the tail is cute, he knows it was designed out a desperation.

things rarely go without complications when dealing with amputation and prostetics - things like phantom pain or conectivity issues and basically an every day issue Dell will be forever insecure about the fact he can't just engineer it all away, he definitely regrets cutting half his arm off.

so he designed the tail as a way to counter his weakness. but what if Dell doesn't just stop at the tail? what if he tries to mess with his anatomy further? what if he ends up doing something that irreversably destroys his body? sure he's an engineer, but not a medical proffesional.

what if the pain becomes unbearable for Dell though? what if further modifications are necessary for him to live in peace? will Dell know when to stop? Will Spy know when to draw the line? when to put his foot down?

what if Dell loses himself to the idea that he can elliminate all that is wrong with him with mods like this? what if this is just the beginning?

for now it's probably fine. probably

[revelingrexan]

silly guy continues to be fun to draw (part 1! :D)

bonus Lulu under the cut!

[langernameohnebedeutung]

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[your--isgayrights]

wait IS jhy confirmed trans? i was interpreting that way but it seemed like translation confusion when i read it. i'd be so happy if that was true ;o;

Short answer: JHY is definitely a woman, early translation confusion was largely due to the fact that Korean doesn't necessitate gendered pronouns as much as English, she is never specifically called transgender but her portrayal represents a lot of trans experiences and I choose to interpret her as transgender.

Long Answer:

Jang Hayoung as a character represents the webnovel catagory of 'transmigration,' wherein a character from 'the real world' wakes up in the body of a 'character' and must navigate their life. Jang Hayoung was a transcendent reborn into the body of Aileen Makerfield's 15 year old 'son' Aslan in the demon realm. To my understanding, Jang Hayoung's gender previous to her transmigration is unclear, it's possible that she was a cis woman in her first life. Hayoung (or Hayeong) is commonly from 夏�� with the meaning 'glory of summer' and generally has a feminine connotation. Regardless, after her transmigration she has to face the dysphoria and challenges of 'spiritually' being a 23 year old woman in the body of a 15 year old 'boy,' and the interactions she has with other characters are easy to recognize trans experiences in to me.

Throughout 'episode 43' her gender is discussed a lot. YJH who has little concept of transmigration calls Jang Hayoung a weak 'guy' and a 'rude jerk,' to which Jang Hayoung replies 'actually I'm a bitch.' It's also shown around this time that through the scenarios, transformation of the body is possible to the point of changing gender representation, as Yoo Joonghyuk takes on the 'Punisher' persona while enduring a punishment for rescuing Kim Dokja. Afterwards, Jang Hayoung says something to the effect of 'no matter what your body is, if you are a girl you are a girl no matter what' and YJH vehemently agrees with her, leaving Kim Dokja very confused. My interpretation of this scene is that YJH gains experience of what Jang Hayoung feels being seen as 'the wrong gender' because of her body when he presents as the punisher because he still feels he is the same person as before, but I've seen other interpretations of Transfem-coded YJH that also make a lot of sense.

It's also good to note that in Korean gendered pronouns are not used as frequently, so Jang Hayoung confused many translators because her use of exclusively feminine pronouns is not confirmed until the first chapter told from her third person POV, after which most translators switched their pronoun choices for her.

For me ORV's interpretation of JHY's transmigration falls into a lot of the transgendery feelings that I have. One time a girl in a psych class asked my professor why there were so many genderqueer autistic people when one of the major symptoms of autism is struggling with changes and I had to get on my soapbox of like, to be honest I feel like I never really changed but suddenly everyone else around me did. Like it was never important to me whether I was a 'girl' or a 'boy' because basically those were like teams to be on in elementary school and it didn't matter. But then I was growing up and it was kind of like... There was something just so soul crushing to me about the idea of growing up to be a "woman" as opposed to growing up to be a "man," as arbitrary as those labels can be it just does mean something to me. Choosing to be a guy and let myself orient my experiences and social life around that concept just feels right and makes it easier to be myself without being misunderstood by others. So for me the idea that someone with kind of reverse feelings from me who has always been a woman having to endure the experience of being in the role of a 'prepubescent boy' is pretty representative of A Transgender Experience even if that language is not specifically used. It's also a lot more compassionate than representation seen in other works, or even earlier in ORV itself, and I think my favorite thing was Kim Dokja being told he was a dumbass for thinking a woman wasn't a woman just because she was in a 'boy's body,' lol.

[sayurinn]

Good morning la squadrians!!! If you’re even out there…😔💔 ghiaccio somehow became one of my favorite jojo characters despite being in only like 3 episodes and being annoying, irritating, and stupid the entire time… so here’s a ghiaccio drawing and some la squadra doodles :-)

^^^ these are charm wips… still deciding on a final style so if you have opinions lmk ;D

[bumblingbabooshka]

My name is [BRUTUS] and my name means [HEAVY] so with a [HEAVY] heart I'll guide this dagger Into the heart of my enemy

Something about having absolutely no choice in who you marry. About being literally forced by the law to spill blood - to accept this stranger as your husband over a man you truly care for or accept the fact that the man you love might die because you put him in danger. Something about risking becoming the wife of a man you've never even seen before a few minutes prior because you know anything would be better than putting your beloved in harm's way. Something about the trust inherent in that decision and in the way she speaks of it after. Truthfully, T'Pring doesn't know the captain and she doesn't know Spock. Either one of them could have taken her as their wife but she does know Stonn. She knows that Stonn will remain by her side no matter what. They made a plan together. They have an agreement which T'Pring believes will be upheld even though the plan changed with the arrival of Kirk. Stonn will always be there, always, and Stonn will be hers. Something about the language used around T'Pring: Ownership, subservience, non-personhood. T'Pring is an object that Spock can win. She cannot reject him, she has no say in the matter other than having Stonn 'claim' her instead. Even when Spock leaves after being very clearly rejected by T'Pring he says "Stonn, she is yours." as if despite her clear rejection he still owns her and is must formally 'give' her to Stonn. But the language T'Pring uses around Stonn is a break from that: "There was Stonn who wanted very much to be my consort, and I wanted him." Stonn who wanted very much to be HER consort and she WANTED him. The language here is very particular - It's not, for example: "Stonn wanted me to be his wife" - he is HERS. And she WANTS him. There's a mutual affection there and a strong trust - a trust which seems to be well founded since Stonn (though silent) stands by her side at the end of the episode. <- That might seem small but if Spock would reject her for 'daring to challenge' (again, the language is not 'because I don't want you' but more of an implied disgust at her having the AUDACITY to reject him) then it's not a stretch to assume that it'd be considered an insult in the TOS Vulcan society to NOT choose Stonn as her champion after a prior agreement. Anyway T'Pring was a woman in an impossible situation within a society which saw her as more of an object than a person and she wanted Stonn and Stonn wanted to be hers and she trusted that he would understand if she had to publicly pick someone else to ensure his life would be spared and he did understand.