#rent flat

[wanologic]

The Mansons have Infinite Money

[metanarrates]

it's always funny when you see stuff that is so obviously preemptively written to ward off Posting. the most overt manifestation is marvelesque lampshading of cliches ("hey isn't it stupid that we were saved at the last minute?") but there's other types of it. there's writing that addresses criticism in-text (Marvel Lady #24 owning a hater who says that Marvel Lady #24 is antifeminist) or fan responses like shipping (that one plotline in bbc sherlock that shows moriarty/sherlock shippers as weirdos nobody likes) or even stuff like worrying the reader won't understand the characters (EVERY instance of characters using therapyspeak in a story.)

to the insecure artist, the shadow of the Poster looms large over them. they can never mentally escape the fear that someone, somewhere, may be making memes about how their art sucks. and you know what? that's just beautiful

[myshunosun]

#EAPartner Nookstone Flats

Happy The Sims 4 For Rent EP day! Thanks to the EA Creator Network program for letting me play with the pack a couple of days before the release. This is a no-CC 2-unit residential rental lot originally built in Oasis Springs.

20x15 residential rental lot (2 units)

EPs required: For Rent, Eco Lifestyle

No CC, furnished

Unit 1 - 1BR 1B, unit 2 - 2BR 2B

Total lot value 36 084§

Download tray files on Patreon or get the lot on The Gallery at EA ID: myshunosun. Have fun!

Download tray files / EA ID: myshunosun / Follow and support me

Follow and support me here: Tumblr / Twitter / Patreon / Instagram / Bluesky / PayPal

[mobius-m-mobius]

If it’s all the same to you… I’ll have that drink now.

[videogamelover99]

Bill Cipher angst at 2AM??? Also plz read Flat Dreams

[lighthouseeee]

Taka Soi Apartament

I fell in love with a new city, and I'm giving myself to it for the near future. There are 4 apartments on the lot (two studio apartments (1 for a student, the other for a couple) and family apartments for 2 rooms). This lot has a laundry room (popular in Asia).

No CC Lot size: 20х15 Lot type: Apartments Located in: Tomarang

Download ZIP file: Dropbox

[hellfire371]

“Crowley dear we may be eligible for — you’ll never believe this, I hardly could when I first found out!— tax benefits!!!!!! but only if we get legally married. so i arranged a court date for us next Sunday, you know, holy day and all—“ “angel. you’re getting us. married.” “Yes, dear, next Sunday. I was thinking around 2?” “angel. what”

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Wow, I like this! It's an apt. in West New York, NJ. Much cheaper than my apt. at $2,000mo. 1bd, 1ba, 2nd fl. Look at it, what do you think?

Like the modern railing.

This is nice.

Amazing how the current tenants decorated it like a mansion.

I like the galley kitchen, but they don't seem to have a table. I guess you could put one in the living room area.

Kitchen door opens to this cute patio with a pergola.

Very nice.

The bedroom's lovely.

Beautiful remodeled bath. West New York is a little too far for me, and my lease isn't up until Nov., but I would consider something like this.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6021-Palisade-Ave-FLOOR-2-West-New-York-NJ-07093/2056199830_zpid/?

[schwirrymartz]

[defiledtomb]

waking up feeling like a cinder block & having two meetings & at the end of those get a call to find out that I didn't get the apartment because I had to have been employed for 27 more days than I currently have been. I need to put myself into the washing machine on the carpet cycle. forever. goodbye.

[bonesimsdesigns]

Halloween Trick or Treating Neighborhood 5 houses!

A large quintessential neighborhood. 5 Houses! on a cul-de-sac perfect for the For Rent pack or to visit and go trick or treating with your simmies!

Fully Furnished homes!

1. First home from left is a 4 bedroom 3 bath, one car garage, pool.

2. Second is a one-bedroom home with a carport and Jacuzzi.

3. Third is a large 4 bedroom 3 bath, laundry room, and pool/Jacuzzi.

4. Fourth is 3 bedroom 2 bath, pool and Jacuzzi.

5. Fifth is a 5 bedroom 4 bath, three stories and a pool.

More Pics & CC Here

Download Here <-

[puppyeared]

When you go on walks, what’s your favourite part? Mine is when I find one of the rivers or small streams nearby my house. Or when I get to meet some new dogs- or when the temperature is just warm enough to bask in whilst the trees are rustling because of a strong breeze. Maybe my favourite part is the walk itself, I like walking places. Problem is I always need to have a destination in mind.

the weather is getting nicer so its the best time to go outside and poke around for some new visitors ^_^

[promethelice]

Okay but like what if someone just gave me 500 dollars right now like hypothetically what would happen, like if someone just slipped me a cool 700 for just being awesome, like just slipped me a cool 1000 dollars for being sick, just like a small donation of 7000 dollars just for being one of the girls like just casually gave me 40000 dollars, that would be cool, I don't need the money or anything

[lighthouseeee]

Modern Tomarang Apartaments

This is an apartment building that just exists as a decoration in Tamarang. This infuriated me and I decided to build it and make it functional.

Let's start with the fact that there are 6 apartments in the house (they have the same layout: 2 rooms, 1 bathroom). On the territory of the apartment building, I have placed a parking lot for cars, a playground, cafe and gym. There is also a laundry room, so the washing machine doesnt take up much space in the house. The apartments are half full, as this is a new house in which no one lived.

No CC Lot size: 30х30 Lot type: Apartments Located in: Tomarang

Download ZIP file: Dropbox

[elven-butts]

i like having them share things and do things for each other because they are both selfish assholes

[good--merits-accumulated]

truly truly Neil Charlie Todd triumvirate is king please share any thoughts you have on them

OH BOY ANON YOU HAVE OPENED A CAN OF WORMS.

I. OPENING THESIS?

Basically, here’s my abstract for this whole thing:

(Les Misérables, trans. Isabel F. Hapgood)

And having put this down, I’ll ask you to overlook it, lol. Or treat it as a very loose guide! (If you haven’t any idea what the context of this refers to, here’s a quick rundown: a chief is a leader and someone who people rally behind. A guide is an enthusiast about all things and an advocate for progress, someone who checks the rampant idealism of the chief. The centre is warm, loyal, and acts almost as a mini-Sun for the chief and guide to orbit around, to stop them shooting off on their own wild trajectories.) In the interest of complete transparency, reading Les Mis at a young age had this irreparable effect on me where I now have to think of every triumvirate as a chief/guide/centre dynamic, but I don’t think this model applies 1:1 towards Neil/Charlie/Todd. Instead, I think of them a little as composites, interplaying with each other – Charlie as a guide who would much rather be a chief, Neil as a chief who works better as a guide, and Todd as a centre who’s never given the grace to grow into that role. Let’s go!

II. CHARLIE AS THE CHIEF-GUIDE

Charlie is like if rowdiness was a Guy. He’s big, he’s brash, he’s the instigator and he’s the captain and he’s the shameless one and he’s a side character! I have always found this very interesting whenever I watch DPS; despite Charlie’s main character-ness he is secondary, and doesn’t even get his own sideplot in the same way that Knox (for example) does. He’s a born leader who by virtue of the trappings of his story is relegated to supporting others, although you can so, so clearly see him fighting for space in the story. He gets pushed into being a guide almost by default; only the trait of enthusiasm really applies here. If Neil wasn’t there he’d be the leader of their group, no question. And the thing about Charlie is that he gets things done. He’s the one pushing the most for the re-creation of the Dead Poets Society after Neil, he’s caustic about things that are in his way (“Well, why don’t you stay home?”), people follow him! See Knox running after him, asking to be taught:

Charlie is the man of action – the telephone stunt is the biggest incident of that. And the way the boys gather around him afterwards as he regales them is chief-like; here he is acting as the chief, because this is around the same time that Neil’s chief role starts to slip away from him. But more of that later. 

The big thing is that Charlie never gets to really assume that role of chief, because Neil is always there. I talked earlier about how he pushes for the re-creation of the Society; well, Neil is the one who finds Keating’s old annual and reads it aloud to them. Charlie is the one cutting down the guys’ concerns about sneaking out after school: Neil is the one who suggests it – more than suggests it! Almost commands it, in a way that leaves little room for debate:

(Note that in this section, it’s Charlie who does the arguing for Neil, who doesn’t speak except to lay down the law and then ask who’s coming. Real king and knight energy.) 

Charlie never quite manages to edge into centre stage. You can sort of see how there might be resentment there – perhaps there would have been if they had gone on uninterrupted. But then of course Neil dies, and Charlie assumes the chief role by default, but it’s no longer glorious or something he can covet. But he does it anyway; he wakes up Todd, he breaks the news to him, very, very gently, he wipes Todd’s mouth with snow when he vomits and tells the others to leave him alone. But by this point, Charlie going into the chief role he’s so good at isn’t enough to stop the splintering of their group or his own expulsion.  

III. NEIL AS THE GUIDE-CHIEF

Part of Neil’s tragedy is that he would be good at the things his father wants him to do! He’s a wonderful all-rounder, he's the perfect all-American specimen, there’s no doubt in my mind he would have been a great doctor – except he wouldn’t, because the enthusiasm and the motivation would have been lacking entirely. (As someone who just did a shit ton of medical school interviews, yeah, they would have sniffed this guy out really fast. Or maybe they wouldn't… not sure how stringent they were in the ‘50s.) He would have been technically great. But being able to do something doesn’t mean you should; these are the things that Mr. Perry conflates and which Neil is never able to verbalise to him, except in a way in which he thinks he’ll understand:

In this scene, when he talks to him post-performance it’s not “I enjoyed it”, but a very simple, “I was really good”. And despite this concession of terms he says it when his father can't hear, because he knows he would never relent, oh God.

Actually, a lot of what I wanted to say about Neil has already been said in Charlie’s section. (The summary is basically that you must imagine me offstage with a megaphone as the movie plays, yelling, “YOU TWO NEED TO SWITCH PLACES, FUCKOS”.) Neil is a good leader, but that doesn’t mean he likes being one, or that he should be one! He has a few characteristics of a guide – he’s enthusiastic about everything, he has this boundless kind of delight in the things he loves (not idealism; that’s slightly different). But this is honestly where the model falls apart. I don’t think that Neil would make a great guide either, logic not being his forte; the irony is that the role of the triumvirate he most fits IS the chief, it’s just that that’s what kills him. The responsibility that comes with being someone who “speaks and people listen” isn’t good for him – this dichotomy of having “control” over the friendship group/no control over his personal life is terrible. He does get to lose the chief role, but it’s not in a way that is good for him; instead this manifests in a loss of control that happens very very quickly, which just makes him reach for ways in which he can control his own life. And besides, stepping outside of a leadership role with a great deal of responsibility and losing control over the course of your own life are two very different things. I just think that he should get to go offstage for a little bit and rest, with zero expectations on him ever. (Also there’s something here about how he gets to play Puck – a side character who has major effects on the story but doesn’t have to actually put his skin in the game. This is what I think Neil should get to do In Real Life.)  

IV. TODD AS THE PROTO-CENTRE 

One thing about Todd is that in my mind, I always imagine him as much redder than he actually is in the movie. I don’t mean I imagine him to blush more often – I mean ruddier, more flushed. Going back to the Les Mis quote – in my mind he does “possess all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance”! Todd is a catalyst like Keating in a way that Keating isn’t; this is never explicit at all but he has always felt to me like someone who inspires others by their presence. He’s such a wonderful, calming, grounding influence. Even when he talks to Neil and they have that non-argument he tempers Neil and reminds him what’s at stake without looking down on him. And when he realises how serious he is, he goes with it and supports him to the best of his ability – he says “Oh, Neil, Neil, you’re crazy” but it’s fond, he’s overjoyed for him. And you can see similar behaviour perhaps to a lesser extent with Charlie in the way particularly he calls him Nuwanda after his request, which is taken as ridiculous by other characters: 

And even after Neil’s death he does so, refusing to go back to normal:

But the reason I’ve put “proto-” for a prefix is because these are all singular occasions. The thing is that I think Todd could be that brilliant, grounding, assured man, a lighthouse of a man, almost. But he isn’t – he clearly isn’t – at the beginning of the movie he is shy and diffident and the non-argument I mentioned early does go a little sour, because while he speaks from a place of concern and love, his anxiety manifests in the conversation and makes him a little less tactful than he might have been otherwise. If things had gone on better than they went, and if Todd had been allowed to grow and develop more and without worry, he really, really would have blossomed into this kind of centre, this very steady man who would have reminded Neil of the consequences of his actions and made Charlie care about the consequences of his. But he doesn’t get to do that – by the time he grows and becomes more confident it’s too late, the worst has already happened. 

V. SUMMARY

I’m so sorry, anon, this is a prodigious answer to what was a very simple ask, but you hit on the subject I have Very Strong Feelings About. Not to toot my own fanfic horn, but there’s an excerpt from the fair folk AU which I think sums this up pretty well:

TL;DR: Charlie gets pushed into a secondary position which doesn’t suit him; Neil gets pushed into a leadership position which suits him, but he hates; Todd is willing to step into that secondary position as a behind-the-scenes supporter, but never actually gets that opportunity. Hence the tragedy. Hence the taking of lives. Hence how many fucking tears I have shed over this movie, Jesus. 

(I had a lot of fun writing this – thank you for giving me a reason to!)