#show me your wips!

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when you see this, share a random line or two from your latest WIP

It had begun innocently enough. After Lothlorien, Legolas had often called Gimli mellon, in the same way he used it as an appellation for Aragorn. My friend. A mark of their growing closeness and affection. 

Legolas hadn’t expected that affection to further overflow, but by the time they’d left Gondor, mellon had no longer been quite accurate. When Gimli had taken his hand, softly, without mocking, to lead Legolas into the caves of Aglarond, when he’d spoken, hushed and reverent, about the rock and the gems that glittered within, it had only been truthful for Legolas—looking at Gimli and not his beloved stone—to say, “Yes, I understand now. It is lovely, meleth.”

Gimli, despite his raptures, had noticed the change of wording. He'd tilted his head to look at Legolas quizzically, but he hadn’t pressed. Legolas was sure he’d taken it to mean only another synonym for friend.

[moonwoodhollow]

Claudias room back in the early 90s

[fizzytoo]

butch pool boy at milf mansion! — pheonix! @minamill's priya and @beebeesiims's artemis's boy toyyyyy

cuuute

[elderwisp]

art of betrayal

[simmir99]

The Penthouse in Cuidad Enamorada

I decided to pull some inspiration from the Ritz-Carlton in Mexico City and create a Penthouse Suite in Cuidad Enamorada!

Next is a rooftop lounge to add a luxurious vibe to the city center <3

A cantina and other builds are coming soon… but Love Day in Cuidad Enamorada in this Penthouse, please SIGN ME UP!! As a Mexican Latina, I wanted to love the new world BUT it needs a little TLC. I am not sure if I am sharing this lot just yet because it will be a HUGE setting for my new LP, but it might be shared at a later date.

The NEW ESTATE drop by @felixandresims is STUNNING and the chandeliers might be my new favorite item!!

Here is a little WIP for y'all!

This build is HEAVY on FelixAndre CC and all items can be found HERE

[saladtomatoes]

work in progress ⋆⋆⋆

[wotunciba]

she's so pretty omg

[acetrappolad]

hi twstblr (ace wip) (except he's done but im not showing yet)

[eveningrainstorm]

People often talk about Rio Ranger as if he's the doll version of Sei but what I find super fascinating is that he isn't, not in the same way Fake Reko or the Dummies are replications of their human counterparts.

Ranger resembles Sei on a surface level — same physical appearance, just an unclear amount older; same way of speaking. But he is unmistakably different. Ranger is an incomplete being, missing his positive emotions, but even the true Ranger is Rio Laizer rather than Sei, because there's still something different.

Rio Ranger is, fundamentally, inhuman and yet desperate to be human. He was created to be jealous of humanity and despite his hatred for them, humanity is what he is always striving for. But it is something that he doesn't possess, and is forced to steal instead. He takes clothes from the dead and uses drawings on cards to feign emotion; he is the Dress-Up Doll, Rearranger, not possessor of anything of his own.

While the other dolls based on humans in the game have identity issues based on their personhood being defined by someone else, being merely a copy of another person, Ranger is not even allowed Sei's identity to base himself on — it's very likely he doesn't even know who Sei was. He does not have Sei's clothes — nondescript and tied to Asunaro as they are — and he does not have the capacity for expressing emotion that Sei had.

When comparing Ranger and Sei in terms of personality, differences are obvious. There are similarities, naturally — besides the abrasive way of speaking, there's the jealousy and desire for validation. But in Ranger, these are present to an extreme — they're all he has. (And, ironically, this is what Gashu claims to believe makes him so human, even when Ranger's inhumanity comes through most clearly in this lack of anything else.)

In Sei, on the other hand, these traits are tempered by logic, to put things in YTTD's beloved logic vs. emotion dichotomy. Despite his outwardly emotional nature, from what we see of him he appears realistic and focused on survival in a way that Kai isn't. He's aggressive and overly casual about killing people, but he doesn't express the glee at violence that Ranger does, only a fierce desire to prove himself and survive. Sei is jealous of Kai and desires Gashu's affection, but also has an understanding of the situation he's in that both Kai and Ranger lack — he can tell that Gashu doesn't care about him as much as he does Kai, and recognizes that the way Gashu treats both of them is wrong. Ranger believes Gashu truly loves him, a fact proven blatantly false by his eventual demise at Gashu's hands. Ironically, this blindness is more similar to Kai as we see him in his minisode, rather than Sei.

Of course, this understanding isn't simply a part of Sei's basic nature, but rather the fact that unlike Kai and Ranger, he has past experience to go on. Sei wasn't born into the Satou family — though his exact origins are unclear, based on his grief for his birth father and how he talks about Asunaro ("all this shady organization crap"), it's possible he wasn't even born into Asunaro at all. Before being sent to Gashu, he had his own father, one who we don't know anything about but whom he apparently loved. He doesn't accept Gashu's treatment of him and Kai the way Kai does because he has known a different father and a different way of life. This doesn't free him from Asunaro's influence — he still accepts the role of assassin they give him and resigns himself to becoming a killer. What choice does he have, after all? But he carries no illusions about Asunaro or his role in it. He knows that the training is cruel, that he is viewed only as a tool, that Asunaro is wrong even if they are also not worth resisting.

This is a major part of why Ranger isn't Sei, why he cannot be; because Asunaro is all Ranger knows. They are his creators, who he was literally built to serve. In Ranger's mind, he is not only Gashu's son and heir, but his creation, his masterpiece. And of course he wouldn't have been created with Sei's memories — why take that risk? Why give him any sort of knowledge of a life outside Asunaro or reason to be disloyal to them?

Ranger is not Sei — so why model Ranger after him? Because Ranger is the idea of Sei, what Sei was meant to be: a counterpart to Kai, a rival, a second choice. Gashu preferred Kai, once; Kai won out over Sei. But Kai has proven himself a failure and betrayed Asunaro, leaving Gashu with no choice but turn once more to Kai's long-dead competition. Ranger is, like Sei, the opposite of Kai, temperamental and vulgar while Kai is stoic and polite, and perhaps more importantly, capable of murder while Kai steadfastly is not.

And yet Ranger isn't Sei. Sei was jealous of those — specifically Kai — he saw as superior or at least as being treated as such; Ranger is this idea taken to its natural conclusion. Sei had lost everything he had outside of Asunaro; Ranger never had anything else to begin with. Sei was a human; Ranger will never be, doomed to forever long otherwise. Ranger is Sei only in the ways Sei was useful — desperate for recognition, willing to kill, a perfect rival to Kai — but something entirely different, an inhuman machine, in all the ways Sei was a liability.

Sei was human, and he knew that he deserved to have that fact respected. Ranger isn't human and gets only the wanting, desperate to be as good as a human even humanity itself is unattainable. Of course, it isn't being a doll that is actually Ranger's problem — it's Asunaro, who view humans and dolls alike as disposable. Sei's humanity didn't make him any less of a tool as far as Asunaro was concerned, it only made him more difficult to control. All Sei wanted was to be seen as an equal to Kai, a person worthy of respect — and this is what he gets, in the end: his face and voice used as a base for one of Asunaro's weapons, while his true identity and personhood remains forgotten.

Ranger has nothing to hold him back from doing his duty for Asunaro, nor does he have anything to hold onto outside of it. In that sense, Ranger is an ideal asset for Asunaro — at least until the very jealousy and hatred Gashu programmed into him goes too far, and he is, once again, deemed a failure. Ironically, Gashu shoots Ranger for attempting to kill a participant, when willingness to kill was perhaps the one true advantage Sei had over Kai.

In the end, Ranger is offered no more humanity in his death than Sei is — they are both merely pawns of Asunaro, set to die at its whims. But while Sei dies in the arms of his brother, receiving one final act of kindness as Kai refuses to kill him, Ranger has no one in either of his deaths but his creators: in his death as Rio Laizer the dubious kindness of Tia Safalin, making his final moments full of agonizing guilt, and of course in his first death, as Rio Ranger, nothing but Gashu's coldness, the bullet in his head a sort of culmination to the favoritism Sei found weighed against him, and a demonstration of just how far Gashu has come from the father who once genuinely cared for Sei. Sei was human, Ranger was not, but as far as Asunaro is concerned, they are exactly the same: tools, easily thrown away as soon as they stop being useful.

[knottybliss]

This morning I thought it was Thursday for a moment and panicked. I never could get the hang of Thursdays, and this week’s Thursday is going to be more of a challenge for me than most.

Thankfully it is Wednesday, which means I ask to see your WIP of whatever it may be.

[teddybeartoji]

WIP TAG GAME!

make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous!

let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

tag others to continue the game!

THANK YOU SOOSO MUCH MY BELOVED @gothsuguru I'M KISSING YOU SO FUCKING HARD ILYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

— i hunger to commit the act of touch: the first meeting (prince!gojo x knight!reader)

— blinded by the light: the red flare of fate (toji apocalypse au)

— sweeter than ever, the smell of fear (werewolves!stsg)

— a reflection in the broken glass (a secret chapter of 'ihtctaot')

— 001. greetings in the rain (rookie detective!gojo x experienced detective!reader)

— no depth, just filth (knight!suguru x knight!reader)

— i am jack's tainted mind (tyler durden!sukuna)

— flesh and blood; i want you so (bloody sashisu makeout)

— to devour and be devoured (journalist!gojo x vamp!reader x vamp!suguru)

no pressure tags: @madaqueue @cruel-hiraeth @satoruxx @kissxcore @unriding @hiraethwrote @lxnarphase @antizenin @minnaci @ohimsummer @luvrodite @sunnie-angel <33333333333

[lotus-lamps]

Oh?

[cream-and-tea]

oh pallas and agnes power dynamic you really are SO unbelievably fucked,,,,,

[acidicpenumbra]

two "ultimate" level douchebags

[ladymirdan]

[simmir99]

A little sneak peek… (last one, I promise 😉)

Oliver and Mari’s kitchen and formal dining ✨

(Quick update below)

Down to decorating my last townhouse (Mari & Oliver’s)! I’m in love with the dining room and now the kitchen!! To say I spent hours contemplating their kitchen… well let’s just leave at that. 🤦🏻‍♀️

The Girl Next Door is still in progress, but I needed to get these 3 townhomes done so they can move in episode 02! I’m very ready for them to have their own space because 6 adults with careers, relationships, WW and then navigating them 24/7, it's a lot. That said, this week at work kick my butt but with open enrollment active for only 10 more days, things should go back to normal very soon! Grateful that decorating has been a nice zen during this crazy time.

I promise my LP is coming very soon!! 💜💜 Thank you for being patient with me 🤗