#scheduled maintenance

[flightrising]

There will be scheduled maintenance starting at 09:00 server time on Tuesday, November 12th.

This is an open-ended, curtains down maintenance. The Flight Rising website will be unavailable to players during this time.

[squorttle-pox]

I might not make it...

[carrot-felisidad]

Ao3 is down and I just finished meditating for 2 hours and I understand God now I am not afraid of death anymore life is a contract you make before incarnation to learn few lessons you need to advance as a soul ego is the enemy but it's only one part of the whole human condition you must overcome including destructive hobbies and habits generational karma and the likes and we are spirits with human body not human body with spirits and we are here on this world subconsciously understanding that we thrive to go back to the gentle realm of the afterlife because this world makes us feel drunk and makes us FEEL and THINK and RUMINATE but our small minds raised by the limiting society -by samsara- does not like this and does not like being present minded and unblocked and powerful that's why we would rather occupy our minds with other things such as social media and Ao3 please come back Ao3 what am I supposed to do with my hands and my thoughts I don't want to be enlightened at such a young age come back baby come back 😢😭

[momentsbeforemass]

Scheduled maintenance

You’re bad. And you should feel bad.

Contrary to what the anti-Catholics I grew up around told me, telling yourself that you’re bad so that you can feel bad? That’s not the point of Lent.

But what about all the Lent stuff? The fasting and abstinence? The Stations of the Cross? The penance services? The whole aesthetic of Lent just seems so…

If that’s how you want to see it.

But if you have an open mind, may I offer a different perspective?

Growing up on small farm, we didn’t have a lot of money to buy new equipment. Because of that, we took very good care of the aging tractors and machinery that we did have. But over time, things still wore out.

Even though we picked all the stones out of the fields, the cutting edges on the field cultivator would still wear out and need to be replaced.

Even though we made sure the fuel storage tank wasn’t rusty, the fuel filter on the tractor would still fill up with gunk and need to be cleaned out.

Because my father knew this, he made time for scheduled maintenance. It was the reason why we were able to keep everything running, even on our shoestring budget.

When it comes to your soul, to your walk of faith, to the care and maintenance of you, Lent is very much like that.

Because even if you and I take very good care of ourselves spiritually and emotionally, things will wear out, things will fill up with gunk. 

Our holy mother Church knows this about you and me, which is why the Church makes time for our scheduled maintenance – in the form of Lent.

And all of the Lent stuff? The fasting and abstinence? The Stations of the Cross? The penance services? The whole aesthetic of Lent?

It’s all designed to support your soul, to support you in your walk of faith, to support the care and maintenance of you. To help you keep everything running.

By renewing what’s worn out. By cleaning out the gunk.

This Lent, take advantage of what the Church is offering.

Become who God made you to be, make time for your scheduled maintenance.

Today’s Readings

[chibi-kingdom]

We're offline for scheduled maintenance. We'll be back online around 7pm CST with a brand new Gacha!

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[autumnslance]

Pre-Dawntrail Schedule

End of April, all of May and June, to the beginning of July and release.

FF16 Crossover ends May 8

Yo-kai Watch Returns (with a new Framer Kit!) April 24 through June 25.

Moogle Tomes of Genesis Part 2 from May 14 through June 24.

Make It Rain goes from May 15 through May 31.

Producer Live Letter 81 is on or around May 16.

Dragon Quest X returns from June 5 through June 20.

Producer Live Letter 82 is on or around June 14.

48 Hour Maintenance June 26th through 28th; the expansion shouldn't take too much longer than normal, but they want to give folks plenty of time to download.

Early Access begins on June 29th.

Official Launch July 2nd.

[thetomorrowshow]

when you had nothing to say

CHAPTER 3

uhhh if this is the first one you see it's a fic in which the world where the evolutionists all started on descended into war. after fighting in the war for several years, they fled to evo together. this fic is a 5+1 about 5 times that someone found out Jimmy was Deaf and 1 time he was accommodated :)

cw: internalized ableism

~

Jimmy wakes up in bed, gasping for stolen breath.

He’s still shaking from that death, his heart beating too fast. How had that—he’d thought it would be safe to touch, he hadn’t thought—

He checks his communicator.

Ren and Skizz down, too.

How much of an idiot—?

Jimmy messages an apology into chat, tries to shake off the feeling of exploding. It’s one of his least favorite ways to die, getting blown into bits all over the place. Even on worlds like these, where they respawn. He hates tnt.

Jimmy sits on his bed for too long, probably, just trying to catch his breath after such an intense end. He didn’t like that. Holy moly, he didn’t like that at all.

Get up, he tells himself. Come on, get up, go do something.

He doesn’t.

It’s too overwhelming, is all. He’s fine, he’s fine, he just needs a minute to sort himself out before he can bear to leave this room. He needs a minute to gather his thoughts, blown apart by the explosion just like his body—

A minute grows into two, into three, into. . . .

He isn’t sure how long he sits there, but soon enough, his door opens, and Scott, Grian, and Scar file in.

Jimmy straightens, trying to look like he hadn’t just been staring into space, limbs trembling and mind flashing through with memories. They don’t seem to notice, judging by the lack of anything but gleeful pity on their faces. Good.

Grian’s mouth moves, his voice muffled and near-silent. Jimmy frowns—he hadn’t even realized his hearing aids weren’t on. He clicks on the power on the left piece, then the right—but the right one pops painfully and he hisses, turning it back off.

He takes it out, turns it this way and that. It looks okay—he turns it on in his hand and it sparks once, but otherwise seems fine.

Jimmy carefully fits the hearing aid back in his ear, then looks up. All three of his friends are watching him, and Grian raises his eyebrows.

“All good?” he asks, but Jimmy doesn’t hear it.

He clicks off the left one again, panic sprouting in his chest. They can’t be broken. They can’t, they just can’t, he can’t afford another pair—

Turning the left one back on doesn’t do anything, though. Turning off and on the right one doesn’t do anything but make it spark again.

“My hearing aids are broken,” he manages, his throat tightening. “I—I don’t have spares. The explosion—”

This can’t be happening. This can’t be happening! He’s been exploded loads of times, why did this one break his hearing aids?

Grian’s shoulders slump; Scott won’t stop staring at his ears. Grian takes his communicator out of his pocket, types out a message. A moment later, Jimmy’s own communicator vibrates on his hip.

Sorry, I don’t remember any sign. Do you need to drop out of the game?

“I can keep playing,” he says, swallowing around the lump in his throat. “I’ve been deaf for a long time, I—I know how to deal with it. I just . . . being able to hear is helpful.”

Grian fixes him with a sympathetic expression. Scar wheels himself over, squeezes Jimmy’s hand.

“You’ve got this,” he says. “All you . . . okay?”

“I missed most of that.”

Scar just squeezes his hand again.

When Grian and Scar leave, Grian with promises to help pay for a new pair, Scott comes over to Jimmy’s bed and sits beside him, typing out a message on his communicator.

I didn’t know that you’re deaf.

“I don’t really hide it,” says Jimmy. “I don’t go around shouting about it, but it isn’t a secret.”

Why didn’t you tell me?

Absentmindedly, to help gather his thoughts in a quiet world, Jimmy starts to sign as he speaks. “Never came up, I guess. I just assume people already know—but now that I think about it—”

He considers it for a moment.

“Um, now you know,” he counts off his fingers. “Grian, Scar, Martyn, BigB. I think that’s it, though.”

Had he really told so few people?

It isn’t quite the truth, really, that it never came up. There were plenty of opportunities over the past weeks to talk about his hearing loss, to explain why sometimes he asked Scott to repeat himself multiple times, or why he usually didn’t hear calls of his name.

He avoided it, though, even if he didn’t have a real reason to. Did he need a reason to not give others a weakness to exploit? Did he need a reason to let others know this truly vulnerable part of himself?

It explains your lisp.

“I have a lisp?” Jimmy exclaims. Grian had always told him he was perfectly understandable, and Martyn didn’t say anything, and nobody else has ever seemed to realize that he was deaf.

It’s not bad, you just kind of over-do the s sound.

He never even knew. That’s so—that’s so weird! He’s had a lisp, apparently, and no one told him.

“That’s so weird,” he says, fidgeting a bit with the torn hem of his shirt. “But—erm, I’ll probably be a pretty useless ally, now. Sorry, you’re on your own.”

He doesn’t want to leave. He doesn’t want to be alone in this, when he can’t hear a thing in a world full of hearing people. It’s lonely, so dreadfully lonely, and it always has been. He doesn’t want to go back to that. He never wanted to.

He refuses to drag Scott down any more than he already has, though.

“You can use my house as storage, or something,” Jimmy says, though he still can’t quite find it within himself to get up. “I’ll be out of here by the end of the day.”

Maybe Scar and Grian will take him in? To use as bait, if nothing else. Grian knows how to be a good friend, anyhow—he’s been in circles where people just have no clue how to treat a Deaf person and just end up ignoring them. Grian’s heard Jimmy rant about far too many times to let it happen. Otherwise, he’d prefer being on his own.

Scott taps him on the arm, and Jimmy pulls himself out of his thoughts of the desert and isolation to look at his communicator, held in front of his face.

What are you talking about?

Jimmy doesn’t have an answer for that. He thought it was pretty clear.

He shrugs. Scott types something else out.

You’re staying. You’re my flower husband, I’m not just going to leave you.

Oh.

Jimmy doesn’t expect help. He doesn’t expect that everyone should be forced to work to make things easier for him, when it’s already fine for everybody else. They shouldn’t have to make exceptions just for him.

But Scott . . . Scott doesn’t care?

Scott’s already sitting beside Jimmy, but now he wraps his arm around him, presses gently on his shoulder until Jimmy lets his head fall onto Scott’s chest. It’s—it’s—

It’s warm, is what it is. Warm, and a little bit gritty with dirt but soft, and Scott smells like sweat and gunpowder and flowers, and his chest is vibrating under Jimmy’s temple as he speaks, and Jimmy. . . .

It’s really nice after the shellshock of the explosion, is all. Jimmy doesn’t think he can be blamed when a tear slips from the corner of his eye.

Scott lets him sit there as long as he likes, and it’s just really nice. He finds stability, he thinks, so that his weakest parts can stitch themselves together again after the disaster of today.

Geez, he can’t believe he died twice. . . .

“Guess we’d better get to work,” Jimmy finally says, after what is definitely way too much time of hugging Scott. “Erm, I can lip read all right? But I need you right in front of me and talking loudly. Otherwise, you can just message me.”

Scott lets Jimmy sit up, then helps him to stand, taking his hands in his own. Looking Jimmy square in the face, he speaks, loud enough that Jimmy can match some of the quiet sounds to the movements of his mouth.

“We’ve got this.”

Jimmy tries (and fails) to suppress his smile. “Yeah, we do,” he agrees. “We’ve got this.”

[flightrising]

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[katatty]

2025 Simming Goals

Of course, I always have to set out some goals for the year, even if I was literally just talking about how last year's goals were too much, hahaha. This year I'd like to:

Complete the Veronaville summer round, and the accompanying story!

Complete the 8 Baby Uberhood Challenge, over on YouTube.

Make some progress on archiving my stuff over on katatty.com

Honestly, I think that is probably enough!! This year I am going to be actually modest with my goals, haha. It would be really cool if I have time for Spruceburg, Hollyhead and Driftwood, too, but I'm not gonna set myself up for failure by setting ambitous goals for those neighbourhoods as well - we'll wait & see what I have time for and what's most inspiring to me! <3

[prince-liest]

I always think I'm gonna get so damn much done on my one day off during inpatient and I DO get a lot done but it's never as much as I think I will because my expectations are silly, pbtttt.

Things done:

Three loads of laundry, including bedding

Grocery shopping

Meal prep for the week (fish, chicken, sausage, quinoa with veggies), lunch portions packaged into meal boxes

Mass watering all the plants and taking photo updates for a bunch of them

Potting up three new violets, feat. a holiday gift

Unpacking all the week's mail packages

Put together a new side table

Things not done:

Repositioning the new dash cam stickies in my car and applying the cabin view cam

Playing some Subnautica

Any writing whatsoever

Plant the new Pogostemon helferi in my aquarium (time sensitive, will hopefully get it done this week)

Read the new update for a fic I've been keeping up with

This post, which I'm making the day AFTER my day off, lmao

You know what, all that said, putting this list together DID make me feel more productive. Also I got set free from hospital jail timely enough that I get to read a couple fic chapters today. unu

[momentsbeforemass]

Scheduled maintenance

You’re bad. And you should feel bad.

Contrary to what the anti-Catholics I grew up around told me, telling yourself that you’re bad so that you can feel bad? That’s not the point of Lent.

But what about all the Lent stuff? The fasting and abstinence? The Stations of the Cross? The penance services? The whole aesthetic of Lent just seems so…

If that’s how you want to see it.

But if you have an open mind, may I offer a different perspective?

Growing up on small farm, we didn’t have a lot of money to buy new equipment. Because of that, we took very good care of the aging tractors and machinery that we did have. But over time, things still wore out.

Even though we picked all the stones out of the fields, the cutting edges on the field cultivator would still wear out and need to be replaced.

Even though we made sure the fuel storage tank wasn’t rusty, the fuel filter on the tractor would still fill up with gunk and need to be cleaned out.

Because my father knew this, he made time for scheduled maintenance. It was the reason why we were able to keep everything running, even on our shoestring budget.

When it comes to your soul, to your walk of faith, to the care and maintenance of you, Lent is very much like that.

Because even if you and I take very good care of ourselves spiritually and emotionally, things will wear out, things will fill up with gunk.  

Our holy mother Church knows this about you and me, which is why the Church makes time for our scheduled maintenance – in the form of Lent.

And all of the Lent stuff? The fasting and abstinence? The Stations of the Cross? The penance services? The whole aesthetic of Lent?

It’s all designed to support your soul, to support you in your walk of faith, to support the care and maintenance of you. To help you keep everything running.

By renewing what’s worn out. By cleaning out the gunk.

This Lent, take advantage of what the Church is offering.

Become who God made you to be, make time for your scheduled maintenance.

Today’s Readings

[chibi-kingdom]

Scheduled maintenance begins at 3pm CST! We're releasing a new Gacha later tonight! :D