#so i just reset it the next time i visited it on switch so I could start in the ruins

[illdothehotvoice]

ANYWAYS can't wait for my nintendo to say Undertale is my most played switch game even though that's a whole ass lie again

[romanticapology]

how i plan my day - a (not so) mini guide

i'm a person who tends to procrastinate and struggles with motivation mainly due to depression and general issues with staying focused. however, right now i'm at a point where if i want to, i can spend the whole day being active - as in, "actively participating in my own life, and not just idly passing the time unhappily". what helps me the most with staying on track is making a plan of my day beforehand.

in this post, i talk about:

- how i do it, basically - additional tips - my own observations, reflections & a word of advice

foundations

my planning system is very simple and comprises of two main components - a. a general, fixed weekly routine and b. more detailed lists of tasks for each day, created as i go.

a. your weekly routine is essentially like a frame which you fill with tasks you have to do on specific days. i use a popular method called time blocking. i basically divide each day of the week hour by hour into smaller periods of time devoted to different groups of tasks.

note: just because you block a certain amount of time - let's say 3 hours - dedicated to, for example, cleaning the house, doesn't mean you have to spend exactly 3h doing that. it can be less. the point is that you should perform the tasks you have planned within these hours.

i make a weekly plan like this every time i get a new schedule and i don't really change it up otherwise.

b. even though my general routine stays the same, every day is a little bit different. that's why i also make detailed to-do lists. i write down a list of specific tasks i have to do each day (usually the evening before), in the order i want to do them; then i work on them during assigned blocks of time.

for example: let's say that in my weekly routine i have blocked 2 hours for studying. on my to-do list i wrote down that i need to work on an essay, take out the trash, read 2 chapters of a book and review my flashcards. writing an essay and flashcards fall under the "studying" category so during that time block, i'm going to focus on completing these tasks.

other tips

have solid morning & evening routines that include self care. make your bed and get dressed right after you wake up! remember to wash your face and teeth, brush your hair. stretch. don't drink coffee or tea first thing in the morning, switch it out for water. the way you start and end your day is everything.

with tasks that have to be done routinely - like any cleaning task, washing your hair etc - plan how often exactly they need to be done (every weekend, every 10 days, every 3 months etc). mark those days in your calendar, then automatically include them in your daily to-do list when the time comes. don't wait until it gets "dirty enough".

don't be afraid of… breaking the routine. obviously you can't schedule everything beforehand; it's impossible to fit every hangout, visit at the doctor's, trip etc into a routine. that's why the day is divided into blocks - you can decide which of them you want to "sacrifice" to do something else, and then it will be easier for you to get back into your day afterwards (you'll just move on to the next block).

be radical when removing distractions. move them into a different room. hide them from yourself in a place you don't check often. turn your devices off entirely, uninstall apps you do not need. if you notice yourself losing focus, stop and do absolutely nothing for a few minutes. look through your plan and get back to it.

focus solely on the task you're doing presently (this one is easier said than done). don't multitask. get away from your thoughts and be as much immersed in action as you can. it takes practice.

don't plan every single day. allow your brain to reset and exit "focus mode" every once in a while. make time for "wild card" days during which you let yourself do anything you feel like doing, even if it means nothing at all - especially after exhausting events.

don't give up. at the beginning, you will probably fail to follow your routine more often than not. don't beat yourself up for it, just realise that you need time to adjust & keep trying every day.

observations & some advice

when i first started working on being more organised and planning my days efficiently, what i struggled with the most was predicting how much i would actually be able to get done in one day. it took me some time to get to know myself better; now i can quite accurately estimate how much time a task will take me and plan the day accordingly. putting too much on your to-do list at first is prone to happen.

sometimes i have bad days, and despite my best efforts i can't keep up with my own plans. remember that there is no such thing as lost time. starting the day "wrong" doesn't mean it has to end that way; you can get back into it at any point. & if you don't it's just as fine. life goes on regardless of how you spend your time - which should motivate you to spend your days doing what you want - but also, in the long run, it won't matter that you didn't do what you planned to on a particular singular day. in the words of ocean vuong, "[…] The most beautiful part of your body / is where it's headed. & remember, / loneliness is still time spent / with the world."

when i feel like i might need some gratification i put tasks on my list that i'm 100% sure i will complete - like "get out of bed" or "eat lunch". lol (now that i think about it. sometimes i get so caught up in doing something that i forget to eat. so you might want to put these on your to-do list as well.)

it's also completely natural to need some mental & physical cooldown time between high-focus tasks (what i said earlier; you should perform your tasks within said hours, not for the entire duration of said time. essentially - take breaks. duh). don't think you have to be "productive" every minute of the day, seven days a week. productivity is a bullshit capitalist concept anyway and you shouldn't measure your worth based on how productive you are.

you owe it only to yourself to live a life you are happy with, and for that you need the strength and ability to function properly & manage your time to make space for things you want to do. that's all

[guentzel]

BASEBALL PRIMER: Rules

Here is the tag where you can find all the posts.

I think this is going to be the last "big" post like this for a while. Any asks in regards to this, though, will be tagged with #baseball primer, so as questions come in or people point out stuff I've missed, it should be there.

But I'm going to go over some of the other rules involved in the game, so hopefully they're helpful!

APPEALS

Not the same as a manager's challenge, which we will cover later. The defending team can appeal plays made on the field that may have otherwise been allowed. An example of this is a batter batting out of turn. Another example is the baserunner failing to tag up correctly before advancing or retreating to a base, or not touching a base at all while running. Appeals have to be made before the next pitch.

BALK

A balk is when a pitcher makes an illegal move in an attempt to deceive the baserunner or the hitter. This can be lifting his foot up and putting it back down without properly disengaging. If a pitcher is called on a balk, all runners on base advance one position.

With the addition of the pitch clock, here are some recent changes:

Pitchers are limited to two disengagements (pickoff attempts or step-offs) per plate appearance. However, this limit is reset if a runner or runners advance during the plate appearance. A third disengagement, or a disengagement violation, would result in a balk.

For example, if a third pickoff attempt is made, the runner automatically advances one base if the pickoff attempt is not successful.

Mound visits, injury timeouts and offensive team timeouts do not count as a disengagement.

If a team has used up all five of its allotted mound visits prior to the ninth inning, that team will receive an additional mound visit in the ninth inning. This effectively serves as an additional disengagement.

source

An example of a pitcher movement that is not a balk is Jojo Romero. Romero lifts his foot three times, tapping it against the dirt before he comes set and delivers the pitch. This is not a violation, because Romero does this before every pitch.

CATCHERS INTERFERENCE

The batter is awarded at first base if the catcher interferes with him at any point during an at-bat. An example of this is if a catcher is too far up in the box, reaches out to catch the ball, and the batter strikes him with his bat. This can be any part of the catcher: glove, arm, etc. A catcher known for drawing a lot of these calls is Will Smith of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

COACHES INTERFERENCE

If a coach interferes with the baseball in any way, that's interference. If the coach grabs a player at first or third and holds them at the bag, that's interference. 1st and 3rd base coaches are basically supposed to be seen and not do anything at all besides talk to the runner to discuss strategies, or indicate to them whether they should keep running or stop during a play.

DEFENSIVE SHIFT LIMITS

All four infielders must be in the boundary indicated on the below diagram. Infielders can not switch sides--for example, you cannot swap your short stop and second baseman if you think that the batter is going to hit it towards the second baseman, just because you think that they're not as defensively talented as your short stop.

Two players must be on one side of the line during all at-bats, and two players on the other.

DOCTORING THE BASEBALL

Nothing may be applied or done to the baseball. This includes dirt and saliva. If a player is caught applying any sort of illegal substance or altering the ball in some way (via gouging lines into it with a sharp object) the pitcher is automatically ejected from the game and receives a 10-game suspension.

What pitchers can do: rub the ball with their barehands.

What they can't do: basically everything else. You're not allowed to wear bracelets or bandaids anywhere near your wrists or on your hands while pitching. You can't rub it with your glove, your clothes, literally anything.

Here's where things changed a little: while on the mound, but not touching the rubber, a pitcher can touch their lips or mouth, but cannot when touching the pitching rubber, and must wipe their hand dry before they can touch the ball again. The only exception to this is when its cold, and they are allowed to blow into their hand.

FIELDER RIGHT OF WAY

Fielders are allowed to use any and all space on the field in order to catch a thrown ball. If a runner interferes with them in any way, the runner is ruled out. A runner, however, doesn't have to move off the base for the fielder to make a throw.

Ways a runner can interfere with the fielder that are illegal: deflecting the ball, smacking it out of their hand, purposefully oversliding/sliding outside of the bag to knock them down, etc.

MANAGER CHALLENGE

During the regular season, at the start of every game, each manager is allowed one challenge. During the postseason, All-Star Game or playoffs, each manager is awarded two challenges.

Each manager has 20 seconds to decide if they wish to challenge.

What can be challenged: safe/out calls at any base, homeruns, non-homerun boundary calls, whether a runner scored before a third out, or a hit-by-pitch. So, strikes, balls, etc aren't reviewable.

If a manager successfully challenges and the play is overturned, they get to retain their challenge. If not, they lose it completely for the rest of the game.

MOUND VISIT

Coaches (including the manager) can make one mound visit per pitcher per inning without needing to remove the pitcher from the game. If you visit the same pitcher twice in one inning, that pitcher must be removed from the game. Mound visits are limited to thirty seconds, starting when the coach exits the dugouts.

You're limited to five mound visits per nine innings--if the game goes into extras, you're awarded one per inning.

OBSTRUCTION

A fielder while not in possession of the ball or trying to play it impedes a baserunner's path. If a play is made on the obstructed runner, the ump will allow all runners to advance to the next base.

PITCH CLOCK

The pitch clock was added in order to speed up the game and to prevent both batters and pitchers from wasting time between at-bats.

Between batters, there is a thirty second timer. Between pitches, there is a fifteen second timer (which means that a pitcher must throw a pitch to the batter within that time frame), and if there are runners on base, there is a twenty second timer.

Pitchers:

A pitcher must begin his delivery/motion before the timer runs out. If violated, a ball is added to the count.

If the pitcher attempts a pickoff on a runner, the pitch clock resets as long as they properly disengaged from the rubber. They are allowed to do this twice per batter. If the runner manages to steal the next base during the same at-bat, the limit resets.

If a third pickoff attempt is made, the runner gets to automatically advance if it wasn't successful.

Batters:

Batters must be in the box and looking at the pitcher by the eight second mark, or they will be charged with a strike.

Extra time can be allowed by the umpire if needed. An example would be if there was a standing ovation for a batter at the plate, or if a catcher was on base/in the box as the last offensive out and needed time to get their gear on.

SPECTATOR INTERFERENCE

If a spectator interferes with a batted or thrown ball, the play will be blown dead. If a spectator clearly interferes with a fielder's ability to catch the ball by reaching into the field of play, the batter will be ruled out. However, spectator's interference will not be called in a player reaches out of the field of play and into the stands to try to catch a ball.

THREE-BATTER MINIMUM

To keep manager's from making a lot of pitching changes and to keep from the game slowing down, the league instituted a rule that each pitcher brought into the game must face three batters before they can be removed. The only exception to this is if the pitcher is injured or sick. However, there are exceptions. If a pitcher faces the last batter of an inning, they may be removed from the game. If they are kept in the next inning, they must face at least two more batters.

[loveylo]

rottmnt!Raphael gets the comfort he deserves

hey gang i’m not feeling so great, so here’s me projecting onto my favorite turtles again!!!

(i am totally avoiding hw rn but shhhhh raph (me) needs the comfort)

TCEST DNI THIS IS FAMILIAL LOVE/AFFECTION!!! I HAVE A BAT!!!

No tws from what i can tell? Maybe just cws for depression and such. If any of yall think i need to add one, please tell me, ty!

Headcanons/Tags for this oneshot:

He/She Raphael

They/It Donnie

She/Her Mikey

He/Him Leo

They are all the big neurodivergent cuz idk how to write neurotypical people :skull:

Raph is 100% burnt out/depressed autism but she has the best support system ever frfr

FLUFF AND COMFORT SO SO SO MUCH FLUFF AND COMFORT

So it was one of these days huh?

Raph grumbles into his pillow, brows furrowing at the rough texture. He shakes out his heavy arms before flipping the pillow over. This does absolutely nothing to help alleviate the uncomfortable scratching.

She huffs, pushing the pillow away entirely, planning on using her arms as a replacement. They work decently (despite the spikey nature).

The lack of energy finally catches up, and he falls asleep.

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And when he wakes up, there’s a warmth at his side. It’s warmer then his plushies, but still cold. It seems to have scales as well and- oh.

“So from there, I’ll finally be able to reset the router-” the warmth was Donnie, “and connect the files to, welcome to consciousness by the way, my device.”

It was a quick greeting, spoken under a hushed tone. From there Donnie continues to info dump, and Raph continues to listen.

She is lulled to sleep by Donnie’s voice, while it continues to explain it’s “Major Awesome Cool Particle Accelerator.”

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The next time he comes to, the warmth has moved to the top of his shell.

Mikey.

Shockingly enough, the room is not filled with noise. There’s just a comforting blanket of silence that covers the room, with the only real noise coming from the switch in Mikey’s hands. It’s soft and fluffy, kind of like ice cream.

Raph’s stomach growls at the thought, and Mikey’s head shoots up from it’s resting spot. She smiles in understanding, before reaching at the bedside drawer. Raph raises a non-existent eyebrow in confusion, however, the feeling is smothered by the smell of butter on toast.

An easy texture to handle, and an even easier taste. Not too overwhelming, not too bland.

Raph tears up at all the thought that went into her meal. Mikey pretends not to notice, sliding off the spiked shell and landing criss-cross next to her. Raph doesn’t sit up, she doesn’t have the full strength to do so. Mikey’s smile softens, and she glances between Raph and the toast before them, a question.

He eats it all, before promptly passing out, holding Mikey in his arms.

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She realizes that the plush in her arms isn’t Mikey first.

Consciousness flows back to her brain like an hourglass tilted sideways. When the top is finally free of sand, she feels a hand slowly scritching the back of her head. Based on the previous visits, she can assume it’s Leo.

Raph finally processes the soft flipping of pages, knowing Leo, it’s a Jupiter Jim comic that he’s read about 100 times by now. She huffs in amusement, throwing her arms around the turtle and pulling him down. He yelps in shock, clearly unaware of her awakening.

“So, what time is it?” The words jumble out of her mouth. Soft and quiet.

“Around dinner time,” Leo giggles out, shuffling closer to her plastron, “I’m pretty sure Mikey’s gonna come in with food soon.”

That sounds nice, Raph thinks to herself.

“That sounds nice,” Raph says aloud.

And it is.

He finally sits up when Mikey walks in. He eats the noodles laid out in front of him. He stretches, gets up, walks to the couch.

He got up today, and his sibling’s eyes grow wide and fluffy and soft and caring and loving.

He got up today, and it’s progress.

He got up today, and that’s enough.

That’s enough.

Raphael Hamato is loved, no matter what time of day she gets out of bed (if she even gets up at all).

He is not alone. He will never be alone.

Not when he has his amazing family by his side.

[goosecorp]

My Pokémon SwSh game is bugged.

I am a big fan of the Pokémon series, and pretty much been here for awhile, however, despite that, my first Pokémon game that I ever got to play was Pokémon Sword & Shield, and even then, that was on my friend’s switch at school, so when I finally got my own switch with my own copy of Pokémon Shield, I was hyped. Unlike with the save on my friend’s switch, I took my time lovingly crafting all of my Pokémon team, and including my favorites such as Yamask, Slowpoke, and the most recent ones at the time such as the Galarian Zigzagoon evolution line and the Grookey evolution line, however the Pokémon of interest in this story is this Low Key Toxtricity named “TOXIC MIST!!”

Yeah, yeah, spooky Pokémon in the game next thing I’m gonna tell ya is Missingno. appeared and deleted my save, but no, up at this point the game played as normal, beating the gyms, beating other trainers, and then going camping, I favored the Toxtricity the most during camping, I really liked it’s design, despite how simple it was in actuality, it definitely climbed the ranks of my favorites fast, and it was definitely my most used pokemon, or at least second most used, first place went to my Rillaboom, since he was a Grade-A tank.

But I beat the game, facing minor bumps (Rose literally sucks, screw steel-types forever), and I decided as celebration for my pretty clean playthrough of the game, I spin a wheel and release a random Pokémon on my main team, y’know, give them freedom away from my character (silly I know, let me be happy ok), I put every-Pokémon on my team on an online wheel website, and spun it, it ended up landing on Toxic Mist, of course her being one of my favorites I re-spun, again, and again, and again, but every time it landed right back on Toxic Mist, I felt awful letting go of one of my favorites but I just soothed myself imagining that Toxic Mist would run off into it’s own habitat and be happy, maybe even visit my trainer character sometimes, I remember this bit clearly since I drew doodles of this scenario later.

I released Toxic Mist and then moved on, I think ended up getting bored after I finished the story-mode and moved onto other things since I didn’t have the DLC, I ended up resetting my save to redo the story mode a couple months later with a different batch of Pokémon.

This is where the game started acting up, and things felt…weird, I felt like I was being watched, I even ending up taping my curtains to block any gaps, but that feeling never left, in-fact, it got worse by the time I found myself at the Giant’s Mirror part of the Northern Wild Area, thats when I found a Low Key Toxtricity, but something about it was off to me, something about it paired with the fact I felt watched made me deeply afraid of this specific Toxtricity, I approached it anyway, because it’s just a Pokémon character, nothing it could do could effect me in real life, plus it was just standing there doing nothing even after I got close enough to the point it should of reacted so I assume it was a bugged Pokémon.

I was proven wrong as soon as I engaged battle with it, for some reason the encounter played as if I was battling a trainer, it also let out this ear-piercing ringing sound, it was so loud I turned my switch’s volume down to mute, before I continued I looked at the Pokémon but couldn’t see anything but it’s back due to the camera angle, but thats when I noticed the name “TOXIC MIST!!” spelt the exact same way I named my own Toxicity from my previous save, I thought it definitely had to be some bug at managed to save bits of my previous data to the game and loaded it where it didn’t belong, which was strange since I didn’t encounter any other bugs before this point.

Bug or not, I was immediately proven wrong when I proceeded and it finally showed it’s face, but the way it did it was it curled backwards like that one clip from The Exorcist, and when I saw it’s front I was immediately stunned by a mixture of shock and fear, mainly shock, It’s front was a messed up slurry of textures that I’ve never seen the game, but the part I focused on the most was it’s neck, for some reason it’s neck had been entirely split open like someone slit it, instead of blood like you would expect it was just foamy, I didn’t know how to respond to this, so I tried attacking it, after my turn was done I felt my switch start to heat up quickly, I immediately turned off my switch and the heat died down almost immediately.

After a couple tests my switch turned out to be fine and so was the data of the other games on it, but just to be safe I’ve deleted Pokémon Shield off of my switch, that moment still stresses me out whenever I try to figure out what happened to my game during that moment, but the only thing I do know is that I’m not risking my hands nor my switch to test something that only effects one game that was on it.

Authors note time!

I realized I never posted this so I decided to post it for the spooky season! This is based off a TikTok clip of a glitchy Toxtricity.

This was my first attempt at a Pokepasta and I pulled a lot of specific info from my own experience with Sword and Shield, real fun to do to be honest!

I got nothing else to say so uh…thanks for reading!!

[still-rolling]

The burnt city, shows 13-15

After Friday’s triumphant Persephone loop, Hades was the logical choice for the Saturday early. I was possibly a little late finding him - coming down the stairs from the greenhouse, and wasn’t selected for the 1st 1:1. I hung around the square for a bit and was lucky to be plucked out for the second. A fellow WM tried to sneak in front of me to get it - but Sam gently pushed her back and beckoned me forth.

I’ve felt a connection with Sam’s characterisations since TDM - and his (extended) loop was just brilliant. He’s got a way of being both terrifying and captivating and finally after 13 shows - I felt like I’ve got a grip on the story of the city. Sure the fall of Troy is the basis of the show - but I don’t think it was until after this visit that I really got the punchdrunk re-telling.

After the near perfection of shows 12 & 13, I was concerned Saturday night was going to be a disappointment, so I decided for 14 to go without too much of a plan. I fancied seeing Nicks Polymestor, but wasn’t committed. So started with a familiar face, following Emily’s Hecuba for loop 1. I’ve seen most of the loop previously but haven’t followed her before. The flower shop solo was raw and beautiful and the boudoir anger that followed was so intense.

The kinky PolyM scene also sealed by my decision to follow Nick for loop 2. And boy was it worth it. We became friends on the balcony - and I firmly switched my allegiance from the distraught mother to the bad boy.

Loop 3 was decided for me. I walked through the boudoir to find Andrea’s Aegisthus almost alone - how could I leave him??? By the time we left for the flower shop it was just me and him, and the flower shop strop dance was purely for me. It was gorgeous and it felt like I had the Mona Lisa to myself. We had company by the time we reached the party, but I was fortunate to get the 1:1 and completed the loop feeling very special.

I knew the Sunday show (show 15) was going to be busy, so again didn’t want to set expectations. Jonathan was playing Kronos, and given he’s new, I thought it may be quiet. It was indeed a quiet loop - just 3 WMs, but I wasn’t the lucky one at reset time. I wandered upstairs to klub and then to Mycenae but there were so many people about, I decided it was time for a Peep loop (not a poop leap). I’m so unbelievably glad I made that choice! Nick and Carl were hosting - and it was AMAZING! Kampe’s (Andrea) performances made my mind up that I’d do a Kampe loop for loop 3, and once again he was the incredible performer we expect. I danced with him in the square, praying that a restraining order isn’t going to be landing on my doorstep next week.

My love for TBC continues to blossom - back next month for show 16!

[bigmoneypastelhalloween]

What happens next?

Because of the move downtown from wytchwood ive had to switch from the eglington east welfare office to the front street office downtown, and my new caseworker finds me sus. I keep saying that im just not getting called in to work. I dont think he's going to be as lenient with the disability paperwork resets every 3 months like the last guy was so im stressed about what happens when he think im not employed and supposedly looking. I dont want to start that cycle.

Ive been buying weed from this middleaged guy with a moped who was introduced to me by the girl i failcased on at new years. I keep feeling like he's doing some kind of weird sex wizardry on me and the only way out is thru; i get used to feeling like everyone is wondering why they can hear me jerking off to a weird old wizard. Leni moves sadie in without asking me and it seems fine at first, its a rent reduction, i like sadie ok. It annoys me that shes barely legal and i annoy her by being a million years old. She takes my room and i make a loftbed over a computer desk in the boiler room behind a wall in the kitchen. Sadie and i do have a few friends in common and one starts staying with us, under the stairs. Sadie then moves a couple in, friends of hers. Im already worried about getting kicked off welfare. Now we have 6 people sharing a 2 bedroom and 3 paying rent, 2 on the lease. shit hits the fan with the teen runaway from the fort, who is mad at sadie for breaking up with her to date leni right when they had been about to go public that they were dating because the kid was turning 16 (age of consent in ontario). I never wanted to get wrapped up in sadie drama and she and leni HATE everything i have to say about how theyre fucked up. They start having passive aggressive conversations about me in the kitchen. I decide i need to move out.

Fortunately ive been in an intensive antishame workshop via the psychic interferrence of the weed guy and im prepared to announce that I'll leave as soon as i have enough money for a boat to live on in bc and that I'll be hoeing to get it. This is greated with thanks that im making things easy. I start a seekingarrangements profile. Another key factor here is that ive been diying testosterone for a few months now.

The origin of the sex for pay plan was it was an option put forward for covering our insane utility bills at the fort, we were living with a famous nudism activist who would get kicked out all the time for being a pain in the ass. We kicked her out for being a pain in the ass but she refused to go for a long time. That saga was starting just as i was moving out. But before that she'd been like "how is money a problem, you get $60 a pop for a bj anywhere in this city any day" and i was like huh, i LIKE giving blowjobs, $60 you say? But the vibe at the fort just wasnt super chill about my first slut summer and i couldnt really imagine leaving in a headspace to do sex work and then coming back having done it? Really tried. Just couldnt see it.

But the SA thing took off and i made 3 stacks in a month or two, which, i figured I'd need 6 grand for a shitty boat to just live in. I hadnt done any research whatsoever. I got kicked off welfare.

Shit with leni and sadie's couple friends started getting super awkward. Suzy came to visit with her band and they all crashed in the living room. Sadie was mad that suzy hooked up with me (to make a point). Suzy tried to cover all the bases and do right by everybody including the runaway teen, who was her old friend from soybomb. Things didnt go great and leni blamed me for buying everyone absinthe. She sent this weird pm about it to the kid who just showed it to me. i finally flipped and went downtown and stole a tent from mec and took the streetcar to the spit, it had just gotten what i considered warm, late april? I'd gotten the impression that luke was all gung ho to start a camp there... maybe not from the time he'd showed it to me the previous summer but from something recent he'd said, during the drama. Basically i thought he'd said he'd be there as soon as i bailed on the leni and sadie scene. He might have been mad that i had been insensitive about his friends recent od. I thought he'd been insensitive about it too, really. We'd also had this dramatic scene right before seeing a movie with his mom over by st lawrence market, where id been like ok i want to date you actually (after vetting him for a year because he was just so red flaggy i had to know more) and he was like "i dont want to date you" and i was so like pissed that he'd been hanging around going on dates and shit like waiting for his turn to reject me after I'd rejected him the previous summer (after our second date or something when we went to the bud light lime vice island event hahaha), that i was like "how dare you?!" Without thinking, like pure stewie griffin shithead moment. But his mom showed up at that exact second and we both just totally squashed it and went to see a spy movie.

Anyway i moved to the spit. I left my money at the apartment and kept paying rent so theyd store my stuff. I worked out a sugaring deal with the weed guy himself, not sure exactly why i stopped crashing there, i think i got the feeling that he was another weird toronto boy who wasnt getting the nonbinary thing.

By then i guess i had emailed my folks a picture of my tenting spot and a query about the boat my dad co-owned since he was selling it. I offered to buy out his partner or something but they were selling for something like 18k and it was way too big for 1 person. Under 28ft was recommended to me at that point iirc, theirs was like 40. Anyway a few weeks after this exchange my dad suggested that he loan me money to buy a shitty house to work on. Was back at the spit at this point and i ran it by nat, they said it'd be stupid not to, i guess. I had this lofty goal of having somewhere the runaway teen could live without drama. Like if it was just her and her friends itd be no problem.

This parts sort of boring. Nat and i backpacked around downtown for a while after bouncing from the fort again. I was out of money. We ended up at nats aunts place housesitting. While we were there a listing nearby came up, flash sale, no cross site posting. One week, best offer. I got that house for 318k or something. Everyone was quietly aghast that i was actually from money because i act like someone who is so cartoonishly affected in either direction class polaritywise that its like impossible for a while to tell whether im just one of those people who fronts like they have a wealthy family theyre estranged from because they feel like it has cache or theyre psychotic and their origin story is getting just really wild, or what. No one really knew how to react. I'd been totally upfront the whole time. I asked my parents for a couple grand to get started on the house. For the first month i had the place virtually no one visited. No one asked. I didnt have power but it was a warm september. The hoarder house...full of ghosts and mountains of various types of stuff. I got one of those rental bins and started hauling.

A few days into emptying the house, some guys affiliated with martin showed up directly from the arcade. Weird. Turned out ok but i was kind of taken aback. It wasnt very friendly how theyd shown up. I got antsy. A guy who i found cute for looking like martin was dogging me on lefty t.o. facebook (on hugh's page lol) and i was like we should hang out. I went over to his place on the eastside. His schizophrenic north korean roommate seemed to think i was there to hook up with him, and he started yelling more and more so we went to a park and i was like did you tell you roomie i was going to bang him? And he was like what no. And i was like i would have but i was there to bang you i thought? So we made out and he came back to my place across town. I had a SA date that night so i went to that and came back and this guy, marcel, was still there. We hooked up again and the next morning was my birthday. I gave him this total endurace marathon skullfuck bj that he wanted and he was like wow champ, i made that pretty difficult. In my head i was like this better be suuuuuuch good karma for my 30s, im being sooo sexually accomodating of someone else on my birthday. I feel like its good luck. I do get lucky that night with someone else who shows up at my birthday party at the bovine where i am unconsciously catty to bruce la bruce (i was there to see vcr play). The house thing is looking up.

Marcels more universally compassionate former housemate from g street gets concerned pretty quickly about the situation but the ones nat really sticks by give us insanely high caliber meth. They are not a reliable hookup. Neither is their hookup. The compassionate one tells me how to get a job as a tv extra. I get an agent. I get a funny little prison scene on an episode of the 12 monkeys miniseries. I dont think the scene was used. I did spend the whole time complaining about how corny it was. The teen runaway is still living at the fort but she sends two of her friends by to see if they want to stay, and they do. They move in. All is chill for a while. Nats around sometimes. Im mainly avoiding marcel. But nat managed to score more meth thru the two friends, and i spend a few weeks just doing meth alone in the house and getting paranoid about the marcel situation. He keeps posting stuff on fb i take as passive aggressive and threatening. At the same time i am absolutely sure that thats martins interpretation of my blog(s), not without a few valid reasons, and i take it as cosmic retribution. I am simultaneously thru the roof paranoid of other peoples motives and capacites for violence and overflowing with masturbatory solopsism for anyone i dont feel like a scumbag jerking off to (so like, scumbags). I cant help but sympathise with marcels petulance etc. I start talking to him again. He basically moves in. I spend halloween in mtl with nix and the coven at skidhaus.

Marcels weird housing situation collapses and he permanently moves into my house out of nowhere along with his 16 year old kid and her 29 year old bf, both of whom promise to be gone in a week or two. I have some extraing gigs. Martins eastside crew is there one day, im on meth and theyre mean to me, it sucks. We're all at a rave in an episode of orphan black.

Nat is in and out but cant stand marcel. Im coming down off an insane yuletime meth binge i was on to do some writing, and i spend new years 2016 sobbing at nat who once again is a saving grace. I kick marcel out for being mean to his kid over the next couple weeks. I get back on welfare, this time at a third office. Theyre really nice there. I say i want to try to go on disability. The three month cycle of hassle free cheques starts. Ive bought some time but the bills are stacking. The house is a mess plumbingwise and electricswise. The 16 year old and her bf keep clogging the one toilet and running 3 1500+ watt spaceheaters with the window open all day and night. Veña comes to stay for a month to see whether moving in to help me stabilize is workable. I cry at the airport when they leave but they assure me theyre coming back soon.

The compassionate friend who told me how to get the extraing job suggests that they know a facilitator par excellance who can help me get the kid and her bf to leave. I meet up with him and he moves in to the basement but mostly he just hangs out doing more and more heroin. I buy meth from him. Oh boy! Meth again! After a few weeks he brings up the topic of the weird stupid fight i had with martin. I realize this dude lives at both our houses and just switches whenever one place gets more uptight about him leaving lids and spoons everywhere. (The kids all hate living with a weird white junkie who wont talk to them, basically, but everyone is very polite. I feel popular haha, im having my gatsby moment the whole time, im like martin martin the house is full of old computers, if only someone wanted to plug in the old monitors and play with them, im too zombified to take the time or have the innate curiosity to do a thing like that and for some reason i was also too lazy to throw away only the coolest stuff, like, the diapers and horseracing astrology printouts that took up half the house disappeared by elven magix). Finally veña comes back and the guy from the arcade brings over his annoying heroin dealer who proceeds to be racist. I kick them both out in the morning after letting them sleep. Veña leaves too, its just too much.

I dont want to go on SA again because I'll run into old clients and i want them all to think im on a boat in bc. I start checking backpage for escort company ads. Find one that says woman-lead. Phone interview with a lady and a guy, theyre pretty chill. We arrange a pickup. Its the guy. I text the cars plate to my safety contact (garrett) and we're off to barrie or wherever the fuck. Hes chill ~enough. He reminds me of marcel. Thats the spring. I spend the summer hoeing, its all great til it falls apart.

But before that happens, its midsummer and my dad comes to stay because he's having an elective procedure at a clinic in toronto. Finally this gets the 16 year old and her bf to bail. They dont want to deal with some weird old rich guy feeling like theyre a threat to his assets. Could go anywhere. Probably doug is telling them we're masons because of my masonic family ring he found once.

The couple who've been great all along move a friend in after the other couple moves out. He's a blast. My birthday that year we have dinner in the junction, i dont say its my birthday. Shit falls apart at work and i have to make myself hard to find and disperse the people affiliated with me. The escort agency guy has made various claims of affiliation himself, including the masons and the russian mob. Im more interested in his grow op. I flip the house for 465k and take off west after crashing at lukes briefly. I return the router to the internet company per the tos, i tell welfare im moving to bc. I leave behind a pair of boots i got in mtl at lukes.

I get to bc around the end of november i guess? and stay with garrett for a few weeks writing, until nix comes to stay with me at my parents place for yule. She had been coming to visit me all year off and on since the spring. I guess i had a lot of lead time knowing she was staying with me for the holiday because my mom had knit us matching wool blankets by the time the end of december rolled around. The van nix had recently moved from mtl to vancouver in wasnt working but i wanted to go on a roadtrip so i bought her a new old van from a burner and got her ex/bestie a passport so they could come because theyd been letting me crash at their place with nix after the holiday. I wont get into how annoyed people were to deal with me being little lord suglaroy.

So right during the 2017 potus inauguration we drove down to oakland and nix's ex flies home from there, and we head over to the gulf coast and florida, then up to nc to see old friends and finally back to mtl to pick up another roommate bound for bc. They dropped me off in toronto after we checked to see if the escort guy had moved the grow op. It seemed like it. I got into the sublet I'd luckily--soooo luckily--lined up during the week in mtl and started booking a gender affirmation procedure consult at the nearest clinic with reviews from trans clients. Ive got a scrip of my own for testosterone now, since the previous spring i guess. The consult is at the start of march. I get marjie to agree to be my pickup person.

My rebirthday is 4/4, a month after my consultation. Amazing. I survive the whole thing and recover. The people who own the house im subletting in are dreadful. In may nix picks me up and we get a uhaul and jam my stuff in. Many treasures i cant stand losing. Litany of the hoarder. We head to mtl to pick up the friend who gave me the boots. We get as far as sault saint marie before nix and i have a fight and i tell her to fuck off without me. Rattled, rather than bonfiring my stuff she drives it to bc and puts it in storage for me. It means a lot to me that she did that but the fight really upset me. After a week i fly to vic. Im in the airport having a meltdown because nix is texting me. I head immediately to veña's place, i dont remember how, i guess i cabbed, where i crash for a couple months researching boats and floathomes and land values before kicking myself out over tumblr drama (which when i finally talk to veña this year, they were still mad at me about. As usual i still think im right so i just say that in as many ways and veña doesnt respond). I had bought a fat-tire ebike while i was there (after some more research) so i pack it up and take off. I plead my pathetic case to nix and she lets me move into her broken down van in eastvan. This is july 2017.

August 16th i buy a $6500 26ft sailboat on salt spring island. I have one week graceperiod at the slip. I panic about the weird skinhead hanging around the marina after a few days and decide to take off. Its the day of the eclipse, i barely notice because im navigating and praying the outboard doesnt die. I make it to montague harbor off galiano island no problem. Triumphantly, i explore. Im so hyped up i climb a small mountain for the view sort of by accident and then have to climb down.

I stay there a couple days. In retrospect i should have failcased a land project there. Lots were affordable at the time. But i had gambier in my mind. I was fantasizing that as soon as i set up everyone, my everyone, would move there and we'd all do kayak floatilla activism around the south coast. Id been to gambier already at the start of august, met the realtor in horseshoe bay and we powerboated over to the sea-access-only strata i was looking at. Ive seen a geodome build on yt there since then. But i decided the rules about septic were too strict and i wasnt really going to be able to import materials effectively there. i had also gotten an airbnb in gibsons for a week and investigated the available lots on the other end of gambier where there was ferry access. It was a foot passenger only ferry, no room to bring a bunch of pallets for instance, and like $12 a trip with no debit machine. I was immediately at odds with the place. But i didnt know where else to go, i didnt have anywhere better in mind. Somehow the summer stay in gibsons (with the backdrop of a smoke filled atmosphere and a pinkorange sun, the alien sky, the whole time) had really made an impression so i decided to go there. i was still considering gambier (i have this problem with assuming kismet is at play when i feel pulled by a place, and its geographically the closest island to vancouver i could afford anything on. Hindsight informs me that galiano has direct ferry service to van and its easy to bike trailer a kayak onto a proper bc ferry. Not the gambier tug lol. Which goes to langley. Anyway i had found a lot that i felt like oh yeah i recognize this place, gotta be it. )

So i was like pouring over this shitty tourist map of the island I'd picked up in ganges because i didnt have charts or cell service so i couldnt use an app. I doubt it had occurred to me. I HAD gotten my boating license back in gibsons. I guess since i spent time at the library and had been there before and all, i was familiar with it and impressed by the walkability. That factored into me deciding it was the end goal harbor instead of thinking about just staying in Montague. In retrospect this is all so stupid but this was my research process. I couldnt keep getting kicked out of places, i felt like another fight with nix about the first fight was immanent, or about me crashing there. Both maybe. Eek. So i had to have the boat pronto and i had an investigative trail I was picking up.

After a couple days on galiano i headed to that island brother 12 lived on because it seemed doable. I did it. I rowed over to the island and explored. The next day i headed for nanaimo. I ran aground on an oyster bed at false narrows blasting deathgrips from an ipod i had. I think i dislocated my thumb from outboard kickback. People came to check on the dumbass who ran aground, eventually when the tide came back in just enough a guy from mudge pulled me off with his boat and guided me thru the narrow on my way to nanaimo. I was in shock the whole time and the stars were coming out as i hit the marina dock. Someone came out and told me it was something like 200$/ft/night and i was like skull emoji. A dude on another boat was like hey just go over there to newcastle theres slips at the park, its $14 a night.

I had lost my dinghy somewhere between the last island and false narrows and i was so glad there was somewhere to go with a dock because i was out of cashflow again, i couldnt use my phone to get money unless i was on wifi. I didnt have the first $200. The credit union I'd left my house sale money with had refused to let me cash out my account on my way out of toronto because i hadnt gone to my home branch. So id just left it. I was working off some balance I'd withdrawn for the trip but I'd spent a bunch on stupid shit like hotboxing the boat with spraypaint and dinners out on galiano. I couldnt think so i just motored over to the island in the twilight. So, newcastle. I lived offside of nanaimo for a couple weeks waiting for enough money to come through again for me to get a dinghy. Nix visited me there. I saw a couple kayaks on kijiji and decided 2 dinghys was better just in case i was towing and the line snapped again. When i got them i realized they both fit up on deck on either side of the mast. Hauling them up made me never more glad to be on t. Every time haha. Once i got the kayaks it was getting late in the summer, for trusting the weather for my level of boating. So i had no choice but i was freaked out about the outboard, my thumb was still fucked up. There was a dispensary in nanaimo then, so i managed to smoke my way through it and leave, i had decided to see how long it took me to get to the marina at dolphin beach. And from there try to cross parallel to the maximum number of potential anchorages until i was on the other side. The trip to dolphin wasnt reassuring. I decided I'd been mainly against the tide. I wasnt checking tides. Still using a waterproof tourist map of the island (that listed anchorages). So i just tied up at the fuel dock overnight so i could immediately ask for fuel and offer to leave or pay when someone showed up. Whole plan. Low float. No overnight recourse out there. So it was good no one confronted me about it at all and when the fuel dock opened i just filled up and headed straight out because it was the perfect conditions id been timing the crossing for. Water like glass.

It was harrowing but i made the whole crossing to secret cove that day, did a repeat of the fuel dock shtick and got into gibsons the next day. At the fuel dock there they pointed me to the dogpatch of unattended cruisers offshore. One was a massive rotting yacht. I stayed there through fall 2017, christmas was gas station food and drinking on my boat in gibsons. Writing jag. I had gotten a slip at a kindly marina by november. How rare that is... nix came to visit and i was catching vibes again so i stopped talking to her. My phone with my toronto number fell in the ocean and i took it as a sign. I stopped contacting everyone. I got a new phone with a vancouver number. It had some data. It wasnt a good plan. I was busy with boatlife. I didnt feel like i needed it. Boatlife is getting drunk and singing by yourself/with your increasingly psychotic delusions, and jerking off. I decided maybe being close to vancouver was stupid. That i could just take the boat wherever once i made it a very large paddleboat somehow through an utterly undrafted series of modifications i was always vaguely considering and then backburnering. The boat being adventure-handy was the lowest priority. I was obsessed with cob houses and finally applying the earthship principles i conceivably could, and growing weed. The big big dream was always growing weed. (Weed i later grew on quadra is still my mainblogs pfp. It was a totally terrible grow. More on this later i guess)

i got advice from a guy who also lived there, he said the warmest water in canada is in desolation sound. So i started researching near there. Veña had insisted that if we were going to live on an island it had to have ferry access and preferably have a pharmacy on it within walking distance. Sensible in retrospect. At the time I envisioned that i was going to be fucking like portaging 15k both ways to get mail for the next 60+ years and i was like why wouldnt anyone want to do that, that sounds amazing. The list of islands with lots in my range that also have pharmacies is suprisingly small. I looked around desolation sound for pharmacies and I noticed ok, quadra, and nada. On quadra I'll be boating distance from desolation, i can find a slip easily at one of these three places in campbell river just next to it so i can overnight in the city sometimes, and we can farm this sandy loam they apparently have. So if veña ever gets in touch they can move there any time because theres a pharmacy and I'll be like yes come to my weed farm. And now nix will have somewhere to do van henge like i promised.

But i was insanely paranoid that id forgotten how to use the outboard or that something else horribler than running aground or being stressed out about running out of gas would happen, so as soon as the weather turned again in april of 2018 i paid some guys to tow me to quadra. Badabing. One day deal. I had gotten all my money transferred to a credit union in gibsons finally. It took a lot of wrangling with the other end.

Anyway i was off to the races. I took my bike ashore off the boat for the last time (getting it on and off always was another thing that made me glad i was on t). I started looking at lots and looking around the island for random seller signs (thered been some private sale, no online listing type deals on keats when id investigated it in march or so, but keats hadnt impressed me with its amenities or vibe).

There was nowhere waterfront with anchorage, which id originally been looking for so i could just live in my boat while i built. By that time i hated to be apart from my boat, i was always worrying about her. I would have nightmares about boat problems constantly.

I spent the summer drinking and singing all night in heriot bay. I finally decided on a lot, out of the ones walking distance from the pharmacy across the island from my anchorage. I put in an offer and it was accepted. I lowballed. No problem. Had a $3000 28ft rv there on a pad i laid by thanksgiving that year. luke randomly came to visit. Brought me my mtl boots back. Left before rocky horror halloween night at the quadra community center. I settled in for the winter after that to continue drinking and singing alone. Rollover to 2019 and i spend the year anxious that my parents are going to die in a car crash because back in 2011 i prophesied it (i was on 2cb i never usually make unconsidered prophetic statements so it stood out to me a lot) and it just seemed like, universal knowledge or whatever so i was worrying i hadnt like averted it the whole time. They were fine. I became a lot less worried about anything prophetic after 2019. Just in general. This was just before my plague warning turned real, but i was sure it wasnt the apocalypse because i was sure it wasnt as bad as whatever happens after the global average is 3° higher. Plus my parents were alive in 2020, so i was a dud as a prophet anyway. But I thought an island was a good place to be for a plague and if nothing happens, cool island. That was why i wanted it to be on an island in the first place. Anyway in 2019 I got back in touch with an old friend and her bf who was from campbell river it turned out. I spent part of the winter in vic with them but when the snow melted a bit i went back to quadra to drink alone for another couple months. They had just moved to a place that was too small for three people, i helped. She and i went surfing that march. it got warm again and i worked on the whole thing of clearing a space and framing in a foundation and putting up walls. That was a really all i did that year somehow, i think i was super depressed. While id been in vic this guy who knew martin showed up at my friends place because he's besties with her bf. Eventually i let feeling like she and i werent clicking turn into a thing like she was part of a conspiracy she was starting to side with or whatever, and i stopped talking to her again, i think i freaked out and blocked her number. I had freaked out and blocked garretts number too after moving there and him and his gf saying it was too far to visit much. I thought theyd want to move to quadra? I did my best. Then nix got back in touch and i guess i spent the rest of the summer drinking and watching movies with her. And then probably also that fall, and that winter, and that spring, so now its 2020 and im getting the house together because its finally summer, and you can even sleep in the loft, i move into the build. BUT I AM GOING SO UTTERLY INSANE. Im obsessed with the neighbors, i have been hearing everything they do for months. Its almost impossible to work under the onslaught of third party voices and images constantly intruding on my mind. I spend that summer becoming increasingly psychotic. putting cob walls in but mainly slavishly working on an opulent outdoor bathtub because i am obsessed with my plan to have hot baths again without a hydro connection. I cant get a contractor to get back to me about getting a connection (unless youre a certified home builder thats the only way to get one in bc), ive broken offgrid core and started trying basically as far back as 2019. Deadends.

Nix takes off after my birthday, 35. Im like full on mediating ghosts constantly like a swiss army knife at this point. I spend a couple delirious weeks on my boat. Luke visits again and leaves before halloween again, right as i run entirely out of money. I use the time to apply for welfare. My psychotic obsession with feeling like im living on a masonic psychic torture island intensifies at intervals. Finally i moved back into the rv for the winter, sharing it briefly with luke. A tree has fallen on the roof, as of the previous cold season. I blame a neighbor. It doesnt impact the heat retention. I nearly set myself on fire on halloween, spraypainting mishap. Early november 2020 im borrowing money from nix and garrett who im back in touch with as of that summer, and binning a lot. Like constantly. I spent my last money on paying for my hydro hookup from some neighbors to keep the lights on and cook food. My lot doesnt get enough sun where i am for my solar panels to do much with. I cant bring myself to cut down living trees bigger than my arm/with a canopy wider than my arm span, so im completely fucked. I get the news im on welfare. I spend the winter drinking tea and talking to ghosts. Its 2021. That summer finally the rain lets up and im starting to get to work again. I spend it even more psychotic than the previous summer and someone finally gets sick of me screaming to myself one night because im way louder than usual and i will not stop and they call the cops. Why does nothing every turn out like it should. I end up permanently impaired from a canine takedown that miraculously ends with me alive, and my big dream of one day being on disability comes true.

Oh i skipped the part where in the summer of 2019 i put together a shitty greenhouse and grew a bunch of pot plants and spent all day every day monitoring them in a stupefied state of crisis about the house build not going quickly enough because i couldnt throw a woodtock 2019 party and was officially a total failure. By fall they were noodle thin and 2 ft tall with no buds. I couldnt figure out how to keep them warm best over the winter and before i could try moving them all to the rv they froze and died. So did the one i did try moving to the rv. After that i decided to finish the other projects like a having a place to shower and a house with a roof (the roof thing always kind of eluded me honestly).

So anyone want to buy swampland next to the most exciting meth lab? Deeply haunted, partial build in place, lovely and lively neighborhood. Like,,, long story short.

I wonder if the chronology of my last post is coherent enough...

Missing context:

In summer 2010 just after the g20 riots i moved to toronto with veña and simon, we got the cheapest 3 bedroom we could find, it was "above the 401" as they say, the hinterlands. Veña and i moved in first and smoked salvia in the empty apartment, simon got there a month later. I got a job at a queen street headshop after a couple months, hand of god given that i dropped off 5 resumes total and spent all day every day blogging and agonizing over where i could get decent weed and how to afford more. leni moved in that fall, originally sharing a room with simon but there was conflict and she switched to veña's room. Holding pattern while i make connections thru work and hang out with coworkers. By the new year we're rolling again, we're going to dj nights, etc. The manager at work changes when 50k of legal highs disappear. Martin, who i know from uvic, moved in may or june of 2011. We all ended up on 2cb or some research chem near-analog, i was supposed to have mdma for us but the batch sold as, was later confirmed to be 2csomething via the dealers gf postfacto. Immediately martin got us househunting and within a few weeks we saw a bunch of places and then moved from 2441 finch west to 114 finch east i guess starting in august because we had a big summer moving in party. Leni and veña were on speed and i told them not to jook up with this undergrad they knew but they did anyway. The kid and their friends hung around all summer wondering when we'd actully be fun. The kid figured out martin was the fun one and got mad at veña for liking their ex better. The kid is lux. Lux starts talking to martin about metal instead of veña. Halloween '11 is a 0 degree night out of nowhere and we're at a bridge show martin has a reading at, after going to a party at my store managers place with lux, which sucks so bad lux bails for the night. Someone does a callout of a stylistic choice in martins work and things sort of derail. Martin wants us to play defense, which turns things into a popularity contest, and martin would win going strictly by defender numbers, 4 v 1 ("your network is your networth") except because the girl and her friend who are complaining about martins story have more metal attached to their clothes martin is ashamed of our bad optics. This foreshadows much to come. I lose my job by being more and more of an insane mess and go on employment insurance. Yule 2011 I went back to bc with my fiance garrett who was living in boston working on his phd in psychology. I spent that easter doing k and acid with lux. In march 2012 i had what garrett said was a psychotic break.

Martin moved out may of 2012. I went to panama to teach the primatology class at a field school for 2 sessions from june to august. I got assaulted by a coworker, martin was the only person i told from home who took the position that i was being unreasonable. I got my septum done in bocas del toro, it was a body-ownership move as much as a memento of the place; Ive never stopped wearing a ring in my nose since then, ive even gauged up a bit. I got garrett a ticket to panama, he moved into the house with us after we got back from panama together, he still had to write and defend his thesis. 2012 we had a big vegan house party for yuletime. A few days before that was the big mayan calendar failpocalypse, i spent it writing on 2ce. Somewhere in there i got into a facebook spat with martin over veña, and got blocked. New year 2013 i got a job i'd written a preholiday rush cover for, at a headshop really close to the house, at yonge and steeles. Worked there 5 months, ran into another coworker issue. General workplace friction with the whole vibe of working for GoT fan ancaps in the legal high/weed paraphernalia business. 2nd verse same as the first. I started spending more time with lux because they were the most sympathetically in tune with my rage about the panama situation and my sorrow about the state of the world, and i ended up going with them and nat to meet suzy for the first time that spring after end of session at u of t when she was moving out of the student res that a few years later got closed for being uninhabitably damaged. Suzy gave me a hundred or so caps of name brand dexedrine as a parting gift. Blast off.

Right at the time things were melting down at work again martin told the others about moving back to the city. It triggered a midtier manic episode but i was also on long speed jags at that time, it all coalesced. I left martin a letter in the paper tray of the copier they wanted to pick up. A month or so later they came to the house, probably while i was at the fort. Id started hooking up with lux after doing speed at a backyard show there and they were insanely demanding after that. (I met nix spring 2013, at one of the fort shows that happened during that time.) When i got back everyone said martin had spent the whole time trying to get them to shit talk me and itd been pretty awkward. Leni said she saw martin find my letter and disgustedly throw it away. Emma came over and we all unloaded about how martin was being so bizarre after moving out. But then simon decided to move out. I asked them to give me my first stiknpoke before leaving and they gave me a division symbol on my wrist. Lux was squeezing someone out of the fort at that time, the house founder in fact, and needed someone they could stand, on short notice, to take over a large share of the rent, so they used emotional leverage and got me to bail on veña and leni. I was almost out of money and my big plan was to go on welfare for the first time after moving to the fort.

I left in july to go hitchhiking with lux, who wanted to chase their remaining roommates to a grindcore festival in bc and basically make sure people werent just sitting around complaining about the coup that had actually scared off the house founder and her bestie, so the rent situation was tenuous and being held down by the mom of this guy ryan who lived there and had spent 3 or 6 months in prison for being a g20 rioter, he got beaten every day by guards and left with crippling depression. He was dating someone from another collective house who was in bc waiting for fastcore with nat already because they'd trainhopped and made it the whole way thru ontario in 2 days. I got my first smartphone so i could document the trip and i started a new facebook, maybe i was hoping my sudden metamorphosis into someone with a punk name would register to martin and theyd add my new account and we'd talk. We go to mtl to visit nix and bug at death church; bug had moved out of the fort before luxs coup. We doubled back quickly and then headed north. I got my 2nd stiknpoke from lux outside wawa (infamous hitching black hole), a bong. Lux and i got lucky with a 2 day ride across the praries in a dodge charger after a week in north ontario. We met cassidy and her gf at the time in edmonton, & after a few days there we got over to vancouver where we met up with ryan who said he was there to try to find shrew because theyd had a fight. He said some bad consent stuff happened, after we'd been hanging out for a day (lux loved him) and lux and i nervous laughed & called shrew who said to lose ryan and get up to squamish. We caught up with nat and shrew, eventually linked up with nat and shrews lost travel crew....and an old roommate of luxs named natalie who had gone from plur to acab in the same space of time as lux had. (All very coincidental im sure.) Remember natalie. In squamish i gave myself a mans ruin stiknpoke while we hung out at the skatepark, beautiful day. After fastcore we bummed around vancouver a couple days before lux got their guardian angel cj to buy them a bus ticket because they were cranky from bin-diving giving them food poisoning and all their internet friends we'd met turning out to be normie libs (no one wanted to lay pipe). I spend my last cash on a ticket for myself. Greyhound still runs cross country in 2013. Garrett and i move in to the fort right as nat and lux hitch to mtl together to visit nix. Shrew was still living at george street, i think doug was trying to get them to stay there at the time but all the guys there were saying ryan was a good guy and we were all totally willing to kick ryan out whether shrew moved in or not. I dont know where he was at this time, but based on the stimulator screening we went to with him back in van, he hadnt even noticed being leftcoast famous for getting arrested until that outing, and there were a lot more warm welcomes to make a tour of before trying to talk to shrew again. He was all set up at a well known collective house by the pne grounds.

So garrett and i were actually alone at the fort with shrews miniscule cat beez for a couple weeks before anyone came back. I was on my way to shrew and ryans first face to face over at g street, on my bike, and got arrested because a cop said i spit on him. He said some got on his shoe. I got cuffed and ticketed but they let me go. I missed the thing with ryan and no one at g street found getting arrested remarkable. I went home to the fort and garrett found it so remarkable that he dumped me. I spent the next three months crying at sammy yatim demos and police hearings and watching tv in bed or having last chance sex. During this time lux and nat were trying to find more renters and this runaway kid who'd been having trouble at another house moved in, along with a street artist the others knew from around. As soon as garrett was gone at the start of December 2013, nat and i took a bus across the border and started hitching to IDA in Tennessee so they could tell us how to make an effective collective house. We learned that everyone needs their own house and its normal for people to go years within a community not talking to eachother. We got back and the street artist and shrew were at it with eachother. I got a tattoo from her anyway, in the living room. On her birthday we all go to a soup kitchen, martin is there with a bunch of shrews old friends. We're weird and avoidant of one another, i decide to let martin say hi if they want to, they dont, more to it but whatever. Skip to, we tell birthday gal we need to find someone who is actually paying rent. She sets the house on fire. We put it out. Happy 2014.

Then came the business of kicking lux out for being a manipulative weirdo who turned out to be mad at natalie because natalie was like "the sex we had was not consensual, youre a rapist" and lux was just like "what a bitch can you believe this bitch" about it, and then also "technically i also raped my ex who veña always liked better" about it, too. So that was a mess. That winter and early spring are a blur, nat and shrew and i go to some parties. Doug moves in. Various other people move in and out. Random people are in and out all the time. I live in a closet, which i consider heaven. I take a bike repair class. Nat and i go to a party at emmas and i meet luke, its still cold old. I ask luke out but he seems uninvested and morbidly curious from the get go. Im morbidly curious myself once i realize that bug called this guy out over something and i recall that while lux and i were in edmonton lux defaced a bunch of his bands show flyers. I get a really cool bike via nat and start joyriding all over the city, im hoping kismet will kick in and I'll run into martin. Nat and shrew hear from shrews friends that martin lives on the eastside with them. Nat and shrew go to one of martins readings and i say be nice dont troll like you did at the soupkitchen in the winter. They troll worse, tell me all about it when they get home. It sounds like martin won them over by being mildmannered afterward but theyre not forthcoming about that part.

I think that kind of catches things up to where we were before...

I spent summer of 2014 living at the fort and hooking up with luke and a guy who lived at george street named chris. That year on my birthday i sprained both wrists doing a stupid bike stunt. That was the same day i applied to be a courier. Shrew and i got into a conflict over the runaway kid's whole deal and i decided to move out as soon as shrew said they were going to. They stayed, i left. I bused back to bc to regroup with the gang. First i met up with simon, who was hanging out with martins bestie a lot and thru an awkward series of events i ended up crashing at that persons place with them and their bf felix, even tho martins bestie was clearly terrified of me and couldnt understand why simon had brought me in the first place. Then i went to stay with veña and leni, who were living together at veña's moms place. We all did m during a bloodmoon watch and i accidentally outed some information leni had been withholding. Garrett and i kept meeting up and hooking up too, and he got annoyed that i wasnt making room for him in the veña/leni/me situation and left things on bad terms but later apologized. I kept trying to get them all to move back and get another place but the only one who was all in was leni, after the big reveal she felt like relocating would be more fun than staying and facing the music.

Over halloween we hitched from van to winnipeg to save money and bused the rest of the way. They broke up after she got to toronto with me. We stayed at emmas moms place for a month (nov 2014) while i started the courier job it turned out i'd had for weeks, and leni apartment hunted. Doing a good deed is remembered by the spirit of the city, and we found a cheap basement in the trinity-bellwoods area I'd flyered for the first sammy yatim response demo.

I kept working the courier job and one day leni and i ran into luke. He started crashing at our apartment because it was so close to the rehearsal factory. I started writing a summary of the lefty witch agenda as a thesis project for suzy because i had been relying on her counsel more and more since leaving the fort and i wanted to do something that might have some kind of tangible impact and ime she's a very talented witch, one of the most talented i know if not the most, so in her hands a document like that could go anywhere. Lord knows if she ever read it all. I remember she started it and was like you didnt cite so and so and i was like as far as i knew that was original, and its like ok well, she's seen it before. Collaged in with all the same other stuff, too, most likely. I think she thought my format choices were cute, anyway.

I stopped going to the courier job so i could work on my speedifesto full time. I spent new years 2015 on acid at a party on the eastside with a girl i was dating and leni and the girl she was dating. The night ended badly. I ruined things with the girl so many different times but having a self-obsessive bad trip while she wanted to have mindblowingly romantic sex instead, was a big one of the ruiny moments. She's happy now with someone who isnt stupid.

[squib-2006]

Next

I am going to rewatch one episode of ninjago a day until I ether give up or finish

I will put my thoughts down as I watch it and rate each episode out of ten.

Day 1

Ep 1 rise of the snakes

The old monastery was so empty

Those controllers are huge

I want to play what they are playing why can’t this be a real game

Not cool sensei wu you didn’t even let them save

Cole talks with Kai’s voice wow he is magic

Yes the tornado of creation the super op move that will only be used three(I think it’s three might be wrong) times throughout the intire series, but seriously so my situations could have been solved if they just made the tornado

The game magically didn’t reset and erase there progress

The people that “spotted lord garmadon” need to get glasses. How do you confuse an adult dark warlord, with a literal 10 year old

The ninja bumping into eachother looks so awkward but is still somehow funny

Jay being awkward around nya is always good for my Jaya heart

Really Kai you could have killed someone with opening the door with out checking if someone was under it

Also did the monastery always have a dragon stable or did they have to add it

Jay falling=peek Comedy

Kai stop being sexist to your sister

I miss the dragons they were so cool

Rocky and Cole friendship my beloved

Jays voice was so much lower in the first season it sounds weird to me cuz I’m used to him screeching every five seconds

Dragon acrobatics are cool

Jamanakai village the og village I wish we could go visit it in the newer seasons because I love how it looks

BABY LLOYD MY BELOVED
YOUR LAUGH GIVES ME JOY

You get ur candy baby

Cole saying that he escaped again implies this isn’t the first time they have delt with him

Wow these adults are a-holes. They gust throw rotten fruit at a child

Kai your parents literally fought in the serpentine wars your telling me they never mentioned anything about the serpentine ever

Why are they carrying Lloyd like that

Oh my god I remember them putting Lloyd up on the sign and finding it funny as a kid but now this just seems cruel

Zane paid for all that candy with a single coin

Mucacho, kai just called Lloyd muchacho. Why

Now they’re just bullying Lloyd with candy

“Kai about to get on his dragon” top ten moments before disaster

Why does wu have a dragon saddle bag

And you cannot tell me wu didn’t put that there on purpose to motivate them

What is it with kai and Cole steeling each other’s voices.

If it’s the “ancient language of our ancestors” how do you know how to read it. Like I know your a robot but still Zane I don’t think doctor Julian programed that in

This prophecy is incorrect because Lloyd is the green ninja

This competition is so stupid

I should just start a counter for how many times kai and Cole switch voices (3)

Setting up Kai’s obsession with the green ninja

How did Lloyd get to a snowy tundra wasn’t he just on a mountain village

Why is it so easy to open the tombs I think it should be a bit harder to release vengeful snake people

This Ice is so pretty

How is the snake now under Lloyds control if he hypnotized him self. Shouldn’t he be under his own control

Sneks

Any time baby Lloyd laughs I want to grab him and jut hug him so hard he screams because it is so cute

Any time jay gets hit by something I giggle I don’t know why it’s so funny to me

The kendo suits look so weird to me for some reason

Rip Cole

The combat here seems so clunky compared to modern day ninjago

Baby fire ball is adorable

Jay looks so sad poor bean

Rip pole

Where did the other Shuriken of ice go?

Oh there it is

And then the one underneath coles foot magically goes back to Zane despite it being trapped in the ice

Cole could have chopped Zane’s legs off

Wow petty much jay

When Cole smashes down the scythe of quakes the grounds textures glitch

Sword of fire gets to hot for Kai to control because he is getting to angry more evidence that the golden weapons are sentient

How does the stone light on fire and in a perfect circle around kai

Sparkles are pretty

Lean ninja. They knew what they were doing

Wu gets mad at them for training yet he is the one who wanted them to train

Why are those watermelons so tiny like the cucumbers are larger then them

Baby Lloyd is so cute even when terrorizing villagers

Wu be smoking the good stuff

Kai doesn’t care until he remembers that nya is there. He really loves his little sister doesn’t he

Jays voice was really low when he said “that leaves us with one choice” and then the “run” broke my eardrums

Stealth 100

Not all of them have tails nya

Jay stop being sexist to nya

Kai shaking his head at jay gives me life

Kai ignores his sisters advise and looks the snakes in the eyes

Kai’s whole body flattened when he hit the wall

Also physical Comedy = peek comedy

Always look where your going Lloyd

Also Lloyd is somehow need the fountain now

No one listens to nyas advice they all stare at the snakes

By golly made me cringe

Maybe if you hadn’t strung Lloyd up like a piñata and taken him to wu so much of this whole show could have been avoided

Wu never teaches them anything they ask him to

Patience nya you just have to wait thirteen seasons and you can become a dragon

Why didn’t the anti venom cure Cole

Final thoughts

This is a good intro into the season but it drags on a bit with the green ninja tournament and without watching the pilots you might be a bit confused. Lloyd was as cute as I remembered. The ninja go the other hand were a bit boring. I liked the set up they did and the animation was good if not a bit clunky. Over all I give this episode a 7/10

[babytaes]

reaction to playing video games | tbz- ─ ot11 ˎˊ˗

𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐: a few curse words, quite lengthy 

requested (anon)

✧ sangyeon∘*

Not only did whining get you places, but it also warmed your boyfriends' stone cold heart. It's a perk.

“Baby...I'm dying to play. You and the others never let me play.” You moped over to his setup and pouted as you sat at the edge.

“All right, I'll let you play once, but if you lose. So, please-.” You winked at him as you pressed your finger to his lips and grabbed a remote, settling in for the game.

“What the fuck was that, Y/N? You never told me how good you were.” He exhaled deeply and lowered his headphones. You strode out the door laughing, pushing his chair away and saying.

“See, should let me play more."

✧ jacob∘*

“DID YOU SEE MY CONTROLLER, Y/N?” As he rummaged through his room looking for it, Jacob yelled out to you.

Hearing his shouts from the living room, you swiftly grabbed the controller from the stone table and laughed your way to his man cave.

“You always leave it by the living room set up,” You say. He chuckled and kissed your forehead, thanking you as he pulled the controller from your grip.

Jacob called out to you just as you were about to walk out the door.

“Hey, want to play with me? Today, the boys are offline.” You rushed over to the chair and snuggled up close to him as you grabbed your red controller, smiling at his request.

“Mr. Bae, are you ready to be demolished?”

✧ younghoon∘*

Over the facetime call, he whispered something and pointed the iPad at your screen, tapping it to make it clearer.

“I need help with this level; I've literally asked the guys and they haven't been able to assist me. So I figured I'd consult the master.”

You let out a gasp and shook your head.

“Not sure why you didn't ask me FIRST,” you remarked, rolling your eyes, “but I guess I'll help you.”

He finally made it to the boss level after minutes of discussing the level and advising him where to go. Before kissing the screen, he turned to you and smiled broadly.

"Thank you, Y/N."

"Anytime Younghoon"

✧ hyunjae∘*

As you sat your headset down and spoke into the mic beside you, you heard a knock on the door.

“Hey guys, I'll be right back. Leave some suggestions for places to visit in the game in the chat.”

You walked out and unlocked the door after turning off your microphone and camera. Hyunjae stood in front of you, holding some containers, much to your astonishment. He strolled in with a joyful smile on his face.

“My mum insisted on me bringing some food over since you know how they are.”

You kissed his temple and went to get some chopsticks and bowls while putting some food on the table for him.

“I only have a few more rounds on my server before I can leave. You are more than welcome to observe; you may certainly benefit from it.

As he scoffed, he glanced up with a wide mouth and noodles in his mouth.

“Wow.. some sort of friend you are.”

✧ juyeon∘*

“So you're a gamer,  Not like those people who do "games" online."

Before displaying your Twitch, you pushed Juyeon and laughed. He appeared intrigued as he scanned through the videos before selecting one.

He leaned back,  head resting on your lap. As the demon rushed toward the screen, he was already dying from your reaction. You asked him a question while rolling your eyes at his state.

“Hey, do you want to be a part of my broadcast one day?” I'd be happy to show you some things.”

Before returning to his comfortable position, he glanced up from his seat and nodded his head.

“I'm thinking about subscribing because this is high-quality content.”

✧ kevin ∘*

“Have you played Animal Crossing: New Horizon?” Kevin poked your side from his laying down position, waiting for your answer.

Your eyes widened as you lowered your phone and slowly turned to face him, jaw wide open.

"Don't tell me you play Animal Crossing too?"

He showed you his Switch with a laugh and a nod of his head.

You sprung off your couch and dashed to your bag, returning with your Switch.

“You should have told me earlier; you must see my house!”

✧ new∘*

“Why don't you stop being so bad, then we can talk about my techniques.” As you scoffed, you turned your head sideways to look at New.

“Says the person who recently finished last in our team's tournament. Do you want me to check the scoreboard one more time, or are you finished?”

Sunwoo shook his head as he walked back to his room, looking at the two kids arguing.

“This is the 20th time the kids have fought this week, Sangeyon. If you don't want to do anything, I'll do it for you.”

You both turned around to see an agitated Kevin with twitching eyes.

“Forgive me, Kevin, but I'll be more mature and quiet.” As you pushed the play button on the game, you laughed.

“Bitch” New whispered under his breath as he “accidentally” killed your character off.

“OH NOW IT'S ON.”

✧ q∘*

“Please let me play one more time, Y/N. I'll do better. “I will vanquish the Evil.” Not amused by his confidence, you rolled your eyes and crossed your arms.

“All right, but don't injure my ears for the 4th time today. I will smack you."  He gave you a wink and walked up to your game set. As he watched you set up everything, including the Oculus, Changmin tapped his legs. That dreadful thing.

As you finished prepping everything, you switched off the lights and set your LED's to purple. You took his hand in yours and kissed it many times while rubbing the back of your neck.

“I'm sure you'll be fine.” Changmin turned to face you and said "fighting" before putting on the headphones.

As you observed him, you noticed that he was doing fairly well; he was approaching a new area of the level as he frantically looked around. As his scream echoed throughout the house, you clenched your hand and squeezed your eyes.

You quickly grabbed the Oculus and yanked it off, only to be confronted by a frightened boy.

“At the very least, you made it past the first section. I'm proud.”

✧ juhaknyeon∘*

“You're killing me, Love; it's not fair.” You tossed the controller on the couch and pouted at him with your arms folded.

He laughed and walked over to your side, pausing the game.

“How about a hug and a kiss as an apology?” Next round, I'll take it easy on you.” He smiled and drew the two of you closer together. As your eyes opened, he held onto you. Grabbing your controller, you tossed a knife at his character as he collapsed to the ground. 

“BABE... “What was the point of that?”

You returned his controller to him, smirking.

“You always gotta be ready, learn from the best.”

✧ sunwoo∘*

“Babe, it's only a simple tap, hit, and swing,”  Sunwoo fought to breathe as he rested his hands on his knees.

“Wait..I-..just give me like 10 minutes,”   As you stood over his large figure, laughing at his antics, he dropped to the carpet.

“So you can dance for hours at a concert, but you can't get past the first two levels of Just Dance? Sunwoo, make it make sense.”

You watched as his face lit up with a smile and his chest rose and fell as he chuckled.

“That's different; these dances are crack. Who comes up with it?

You looked up at the TV, shaking your head, and chuckled at the title song.

*The Stealer* 

“What an ass.”

✧ eric∘*

“So, according to your buddies, you're a Mario Kart "master,” is that correct?” Eric spun around and clasped his hands together in his fancy gaming chair, cocking his head to the side.

“It depends on your willingness to face him.” He chuckled and sat you down in front of one of the monitors.

You strolled up to his setup and sat down, laughing. You took the controller and customized your bike while choosing your character, Pink Toad.

“First and foremost, ladies, I'll let you choose the level.” You chose Rainbow Road and started your engines, smirking at his arrogant face. As you thought about how this was going to be the ride of a lifetime, he winked at you.

“FINISH... AND THE CROWD GOES CRAZY. What's the number on the scoreboard? PINK TOAD TAKES FIRST PLACE AGAIN!!”

Before resetting his controller, he rolled his eyes.

“Rematch?”

“Will you be able to handle the Master for the second time now...?” you smirked.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* 　　 *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

➳ Navigate to the Maze

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Patch Notes

PC: 1.76.81.1020 / Mac: 1.76.81.1220 Console: Version 1.43

Happy Summer everyone! We hope you are well wherever you are in the World. We have a Game Update that we hope you enjoy and some bug fixes.

Thanks again for your continued support and feedback! Stay cool and hydrated and if you are not in a warm season, stay warm and cozy.

Chau Chau!

-SimGuruRusskii

What’s New?

Continuing our Summer of Sims, nothing says Summer like a music festival doesn’t it? Now you can experience them in The Sims! We welcome you to

Sims Sessions

with this update, a music festival where some of your favorite artists come together to entertain and to delight us with some of their most iconic songs. And we sure have a fantastic lineup for all of you!

Drumroll please…

Headlining the event, we have the award winning and critically acclaimed, two-time Grammy nominee,

Bebe Rexha

! She will be performing a magical, acoustic rendition of her song Sabotage.

Also performing we have

Glass Animals

, with their alternative, experimental sound that has captivated audiences across the globe. They will perform their top of the charts single Heat Waves.

Last but by no means least, is the soulful sound of

Joy Oladokun

! Recently deemed “2021 Artist to watch” by Amazon Music and NPR, Joy Oladokun’s words will stir all emotions and take you on a musical journey with the song breathe again.

Now that we have told you about our lineup, you must definitely NOT miss this event, I mean… Why would you? So let me tell you how to get there…

Sims Sessions will be hosted in

Magnolia Blossom Park in Willow Creek

on every Sunday (that is In Game Sunday), starting June 29 (TODAY) 10 a.m. PT to July 7 at 10 p.m. PT. Once Simmers load their game today (after updating the game of course) your Sims will get a message telling them about Sims Sessions (this will happen on in game Sunday in a new Save, but if you are not in a new save you will need to wait for it to be Sunday in your game after the Game Update), they will also receive a ticket in their inventory that they can view for more information and they will be able to travel to the location of the festival.

However, if your Sim is curious and absolutely cannot wait for the message, Sims can see the Sims Sessions pop up in the game in Willow Creek’s neighborhood map.

The festival venue will have vendors from which your Sims can buy merch and spots to relax and unwind while listening to amazing music.

We hope you enjoy this event! If you want to know more about Sims Sessions, you can visit the

Sims Sessions website

.

And with that we move on to the bug fixes...

Bug Fixes

Sims 4

Our master gardeners treated a few of our plants so they no longer reset to a previous growth stage randomly. If only life worked that way…

We fixed an issue where selected Create a Sim outfit parts on Sims were not showing up appropriately highlighted on the right side menu.

Teens generated with the Play with Genetics options in Create a Sim will no longer have Crow’s feet.

We have fixed an issue where Sims could not use stairs when Simmers deleted the floor of a fence block that was built around the stairs in the upper landing. It sounds like a mouthful, doesn’t it?

Some of our new hair colors (Neutral Black, Warm Brown, Neutral Blonde, and Light Blonde specially) were creating some issues in some Create a Sim hairstyles when applied, making Sims’ teeth disappear (?????) or turn grey in some cases.

Your Sims just LOVED their new hair colors, but noticed it also changed their eyelids and eyebrows instantly? I mean instant eyeliner is something I truly desire but we know that we needed to fix this one everyone, so indeed your Sims can no longer get automatic eyeliner and eyebrow colors from choosing a hair color.

Fixed an issue where when Sims learned about the Likes and Dislikes of other Sims their Sim Profile became blank. I mean, unless they like or dislike nothing, that is… troubling.

Get Together

Invited NPC will now leave… eventually. You know that saying that some visitors start smelling like rotten fish after a certain amount of time? We had to tell the NPCs that well, they were a problem so now they should be leaving appropriately.

Snowy Escape

I see a little silhouetto of a Sim, Skiing next to me - Omg, Omg, this is not a ghost tho? All the snow activities were really frightening me! All fixed now? Fixed now? MAGNIFICO OOOO.

If you had noticed invisible Sims doing snow activities in your game because they switched boots on the slopes… worry not, it should be fixed.

Bust the Dust

Sims with the Slob Trait can now complete the Fabulously Filthy Aspiration goal of Letting at least one floor level of your home become dirty! #goals?

[s4rainbows]

Back at it again with this whole challenge stuff.

This Challenge is half “Survive this”, half Legacy, and based around the various stages the main group in the TV Show “The Walking Dead” went through. You don’t need to have watched it to play this challenge, but many requirements will feel arbitrary if you haven’t. Since these aren’t really, uh, generations, I will refer to the individual parts of this challenge as “Stages” Packs required: Outdoor Retreat, Seasons, Eco Lifestyle, Get Together, City Living, Discover University, Get to Work

The Setup:

- You will need either Triplis’ “Kids Quit School” mod ot MCCC to make quitting school possible. - Create your founder and any number of other survivors in CAS, Two of these additional survivors need to be children. - Use your own physical dice or find an online dice roller, you will need that!

General Rules:

- It’s the Apocalypse, so buy mode is heavily restricted. You can’t just go to Ikea and buy  new couch! You will need to use the fabrication and handiness skills to make furniture! Some Random Events and generational rules may allow you to get stuff otherwise

- You may only cook with ingredients you have! If you play this after the release of Cottage Living, use the Lot Challenge!

- You will always play off the grid!

- The monetary cost of crafting is considered “materials”. You can "barter” for materials by using the selling table from City Living, or sell furniture and stuff you scavenged, thus “dismantling” it and salvaging it.

- Any children you have aside from the two you create in CAS automatically suffer a -2 penalty to all rolls they perform, on account of being children. 

- Randomized townies you encounter are generally considered zombies. (or WaLkErS of you don’t wanna use the evil Z word). If they engage you in conversation, consider it an attack and roll a d20, adding 1 for every two levels of fitness the Sim in question has. Below a 15, they get injured in the scuffle and are out of comission for the rest of the day. Below a 10, they get infected and die

- Pregnant and elderly Sims cannot perform any chores or other survival tasks and suffer the same -2 penalty as children!

- Every ingame week, roll on the random events table!

- Play with normal lifespan!

Stage 1: The Atlanta Survivors Camp You just survived the Apocalypse’s initial outbreak and you are settling with a small group outside a large city. However, calamity soon threatens your little sanctuary.

- Move your household anywhere with freerealestate, then take a vacation on the campground lot in Granite Falls.  - Set your money to 5k and start your grind. When you can no longer extend your vacation, your camp gets overrun and you are forced to flee. Roll Fitness checks for each member of your group and disable/kill accordingly. - If your founder dies in this, appoint a new one from the surviving sims

Stage 2: Hershel’s Farm After getting out of the overrun camp and having a little happening at the CDC, you are back on the road and lose one of your two kids in a run-in with a horde. Worse, even, your other kid gets shot and is badly injured! Thankfully, you are offered help by a small family on a nearby farm.

- Kill of one of your two CAS-created kids. Sorry, Sophia! - The other CAS-created kid is now injured for the rest of thi stage and can’t help you out or build skills. - Move your sims to one of the lots south of the Chalet in Windernburg (Or Henford on Bagley if Cottage Living is out!)  and build a little farmhouse big enough to accommodate four sims, with a small vegetable garden and 2 power generating and 3 water generating items. -Create four Sims that “own” the farm and help you out. One of them has to be an elder! - Two weeks into this stage, the farm will, unfortunately, get overrun and also set on fire. Do your fitness rolls for everyone and run for your life.

Stage 3: The Prison Again, you are on the run, but there’s a little shimmer of light at the end of the tunnel - an abandoned prison! Now, you just need to like... reclaim it.

- Build a Prison, or download one from the gallery! - Cheat one of your sim pregnant, if you don’t have a pregnancy yet. - Reclaim the prison! Make Fitness rolls for each level + the outside. - After your pregnant Sim gives birth, kill her. Sorry, Lori! - Create a rival 8-sim household and put your sims in a club, and their rivals in one too. Have  “fight (other club)” as one of the activities, then have them visit you and... start... a gathering... ;)

Stage 4 The Prison 2, Electric Boogaloo You defeated Woodbury! ... or did you? Well, you don’t really have time to deal with it right now, because there is a deadly strain of influenza wrecking your community. 

- Start placing ads for roommates. Those are the former Woodbury people you took in! - Every Time someone gets one of the GTW illnesses, roll your d20. Below a 10, they die to the sickness. Kill them, and roll fitness for one of your household sims, since the dead turn into walkers! - Three weeks into this stage, your friend, the Governor of Woodbury, comes back with a fresh new group he roped into his nonsense. Roll Fitness checks and book it. (also kill the Governor. RIP in pieces)

Stage 5: Terminus From bad to worse, you’re on the run again, and split up this time. Divided we fall, huh? Good thing there’s this totally not ominous set of markers leading you to a place called Terminus. I’m sure nothing bad will happen there.

- Split your Household and surviving roommates and pop them all into different empty lots. Play a week with each of them (aging off here, this is meant to happen simultaneously!) and roll on the random events table until you have eight sims left in total. Hope you weren’t attached to any of them. - Put them back into the same household again, and create yet another rival club to beat up. That rival club is Terminus. Surprise, the group with the name meaning “Death” was bad! - Switch to your Terminus household and “invite” your sims over, then lock them in the basement, true sims style. Go downstairs and start a club gathering. Keep an eye on them, every time someone loses a fight, kill them. Do this until you have either 5 good guys left or all of Terminus is dead.

Stage 6: Alexandria and The other blokes You got away from the humanitarians and were invited into the community of Alexandria. Thing are finally looking up again!

- Move to a 50x50 lot and build a little “village” with gardens, energy production and everything you might need. - Create two more 8-sim-households on similar situations and create clubs for them, with the activity to be friendly with yours! These two households will be Hilltop and The Kingdom. - Make one of the Evergreen Harbor Community Spaces a marketplace and frequent it! - Stay in this stage for four weeks!

Stage 7: The Saviour War Things just couldn’t stay okay, could they? You ticked off a horrible cult-of-personality-type organization called the Saviours, who now start their reign of terror against you.

- Create another household and club meant to be mean to you, Hilltop and the kingdom. Make their Leader a magnificent bastard and give that one plot armor. Narrative Immunity! - Host a little multi-club gathering and roll a d8 twice. Look at your own household portrait lineup and kill two of your sims whose portrait position corresponds to your rolls. - Take your strongest fighter, aka the highst fitness stat, aka Daryl Dixon and put them into their own household, to take them out of the equation for a while. They’re the Saviours’ prisoner now! - Congrats, you have been promoted to vassal state. The Saviours demand five of every crop you produce. Don’t hav enough to feed your people? Sucks to be you! - Stay in this stage for 4 weeks, then bring back your poor fighter, and kill off half of the Saviours, add the rest to your household and Kingdom & Hilltop. Their Leader must survive! Keep them in your basement from now on and visit them regularly to gloat.

Stage 8: The Whisperer War Finally, some stability. Oh, whats that? New enemy faction, and this one of even worse? Fantastic.

- Cease communication and trade with Hilltop & Kingdom for two weeks, Then hold a big party! - ...during said party,  kill 12 total sims from each faction. - Create a new rival faction called the Whisperers. Make their two leaders, Alpha & Beta, level 10 in fitness. - Hold weekly brawls with the whisperers. Kill every fight loser, but replenish the Whisperers losses. There’s no end to their forces! - Give Alpha a daughter and take her in after your first clash with them. - When you resume trade, roll a D20 every time you travel away from your lot. Below a 10, your travel party gets attacked by the Whisperers! Roll Fitness checks for every Siim traveling. - Remember the Saviour leader? Yeah, they’re doing better. Have them befried one of your household’s children, and gradually integrate them into your community. - After an additional 4 weeks of this, send your redeemed Saviour leader over to the Whisperers and befriend them. They’re a spy now! - Survive another week, then ply s the Whisperers and attack Hilltop! Move the survivors into your main household. - After this attack, your spy strikes and kills Alpha. Put them back into your household, then gear up for a big fight! - Cheat “Roughhousing ecouraged” in your NAPs, then gather all surviving characters along with the Whisperers and fight!

Did you survive this? Well, until season 11 comes out, that’s as far as we go. You can continue playing with the Random Events and general ruleset!

RANDOM EVENTS:

D20: 1.  There’s a drought. Sell all your stored water and reset your money back down 2. Zombie Attack! Roll Fitness and kill accoridngly! 3. Electric whoopsie-doopsie. Sell your stored electricty and set your money bck down 4. Roving bandits! The next time travel, all your traveling sims lose their inventory contents! If they had none, kill one of them! 5. Baby Boom! Get one fo your Sims pregnant 6. Other Survivors! Roll a d4 and add the resulting nuber of sims to your household! 7. Tragic accident! Kill a random sim 8. Extra Ammo! Every Sim gets a +1 to their next fitness roll! 9. Thunderstorm! Your Sims may not leave their lot for this week! 10: Supply thief! select a random sim and hoard food for this week. At the end of the week they get found out nd either killed or exiled! 11. Breach! Your wall has a breach! Reduce your funds by 150 to fix it. If you don’t have that much, kill a random sim in the resulting zombie incusrsion! 12. Illness! There’s a flareup of the deadly flu from the prison! Play with this Stage’s rules (regarding the illness) for this week! 13: Re-roll! 14. Sabotage! Your fabricator and woodworking table cannot be used this week! 15. Zombie Attack! Roll Fitness and kill accordingly! 16. Lost Child! You find a random child, adopt one! (cheat the money for the adoption) 17: Feast! Your Sims make the poorly informed decision to par-tay! Delete all the stored crops you have. 18. Horde! It’s too dangerous to leave the fortifications right now! Suspend all travel this week. 19. Foraging! Cheat yourself enough money and buy a seasonal seed packet that corresponds to this season! 20. Re-Roll!

[goosecorp]

Released

This is something that happened around the time Sword And Shield was still the latest game in the Pokémon series, so this is a pretty old story and my memory isn’t the greatest, but I’ll try to tell it as truthfully as possible, also, I’m writing this on my phone so I’m sorry for any formatting issues.

I am a big fan of the Pokémon series, and pretty much been here for awhile, however, despite that, my first Pokémon game that I ever got to play was Pokémon Sword & Shield, and even then, that was on my friend’s switch at school, so when I finally got my own switch with my own copy of Pokémon Shield, I was hyped. Unlike with the save on my friend’s switch, I took my time lovingly crafting all of my Pokémon team, and including my favorites such as Yamask, Slowpoke, and the most recent ones at the time such as the Galarian Zigzagoon evolution line and the Grookey evolution line, however the Pokémon of interest in this story is this Low Key Toxtricity named “TOXIC MIST!!”

Yeah, yeah, spooky Pokémon in the game next thing I’m gonna tell ya is Missingno. appeared and deleted my save, but no, up at this point the game played as normal, beating the gyms, beating other trainers, and then going camping, I favored the Toxtricity the most during camping, I really liked it’s design, despite how simple it was in actuality, it definitely climbed the ranks of my favorites fast, and  it was definitely my most used pokemon, or at least second most used, first place went to my Rillaboom, since he was a Grade-A tank.

But I beat the game, facing minor bumps (Rose literally sucks, screw steel-types forever), and I decided as celebration for my pretty clean playthrough of the game, I spin a wheel and release a random Pokémon on my main team, y’know, give them freedom away from my character (silly I know, let me be happy ok), I put every-Pokémon on my team on an online wheel website, and spun it, it ended up landing on Toxic Mist, of course her being one of my favorites I re-spun, again, and again, and again, but every time it landed right back on Toxic Mist, I felt awful letting go of one of my favorites but I just soothed myself imagining that Toxic Mist would run off into it’s own habitat and be happy, maybe even visit my trainer character sometimes, I remember this bit clearly since I drew doodles of this scenario later.

I released Toxic Mist and then moved on, I think ended up getting bored after I finished the story-mode and moved onto other things since I didn’t have the DLC, I ended up resetting my save to redo the story mode a couple months later with a different batch of Pokémon.

This is where the game started acting up, and things felt…weird, I felt like I was being watched, I even ending up taping my curtains to block any gaps, but that feeling never left, in-fact, it got worse by the time I found myself at the Giant’s Mirror part of the Northern Wild Area, thats when I found a Low Key Toxtricity, but something about it was off to me, something about it paired with the fact I felt watched made me deeply afraid of this specific Toxtricity, I approached it anyway, because it’s just a Pokémon character, nothing it could do could effect me in real life, plus it was just standing there doing nothing even after I got close enough to the point it should of reacted so I assume it was a bugged Pokémon.

I was proven wrong as soon as I engaged battle with it, for some reason the encounter played as if I was battling a trainer, it also let out this ear-piercing ringing sound, it was so loud I turned my switch’s volume down to mute, before I continued I looked at the Pokémon but couldn’t see anything but it’s back due to the camera angle, but thats when I noticed the name “TOXIC MIST!!” spelt the exact same way I named my own Toxicity from my previous save, I thought it definitely had to be some bug at managed to save bits of my previous data to the game and loaded it where it didn’t belong, which was strange since I didn’t encounter  any other bugs before this point.

Bug or not, I was immediately proven wrong when I proceeded and it finally showed it’s face, but the way it did it was it  curled backwards like that one clip from The Exorcist, and when I saw it’s front I was immediately stunned by a mixture of shock and fear, mainly shock, It’s front was a messed up slurry of textures that I’ve never seen the game, but the part I focused on the most was it’s neck, for some reason it’s neck had been entirely split open like someone slit it, instead of blood like you would expect it was just foamy, I didn’t know how to respond to this, so I tried attacking it, after my turn was done I felt my switch start to heat up quickly, I immediately turned off my switch and the heat died down almost immediately.

After a couple tests my switch turned out to be fine and so was the data of the other games on it, but just to be safe I’ve deleted Pokémon Shield off of my switch, that moment still stresses me out whenever I try to figure out what happened to my game during that moment, but the only thing I do know is that I’m not risking my hands nor my switch to test something that only affects one game that was on it.

[[End-Post Author's Note: This was based off a TikTok clip by oslith, check out the clip here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVARULN/ or don't...I don't really care.]]

[wesimpforxiao]

Say My Name and I’ll Be There: 9.2

"Oh my god!"  Your shriek nearly deafened the yaksha while your nails dug into his shoulder and back.  The wind whipped your hair into both of your faces, much to his dismay as he struggled to keep track of his footing.  "This is crazy! This is awesome!" Another leap and your heart dropped to your stomach in a fashion that sucked the breath out of your lungs.  "W-wait this is terrifying!  Xiao!  Slow down!"  

You asked for this yet have the audacity to panic?  Xiao tensed under the increasing grip around his body and made another leap.  Well, a 'leap' is a bit of an understatement; whether he was teleporting or zipping through the air, you couldn't tell--it happened so fast your mind couldn't keep up.  The two of you were nearing the top of Mount Tianheng, and with every 'jump' he took you'd look down to find another fifty or so feet added to the distance between you two and the ground.

Just as Xiao was beginning to think you wanted him to stop, an exasperated laugh left your lips.  "This is awesome!"

The yaksha clicked his tongue at the myriad of sounds you were making.  First you were screaming with excitement, then terror, then laughing, and now you're gasping?  Will you just make up your mind? Are you scared or not scared?  He couldn't keep up with your quick switches just as you couldn't keep up with his speed.

And then there was the fact that you asked him specifically to carry you up the mountain, not climb up with you or merely teleport to the top.  Was this the duty of a boy friend?  He didn't recall you ordering Aether to carry you at all during your travels.  Minus the time you had your leg clawed by that lawachurl, but that doesn't really count--

His feet lightly landed onto the grass at the top of the mountain and he stilled, stealing a glance at your profile.  "We're here."  Archons, your grip finally relaxed against his stinging skin.  He was expecting that classic dumbfounded look on your face, but you pulled away with the widest--and dumbest--grin once your feet lowered to the ground.

"That was amazing-!" You nearly lost your balance from the vertigo of travelling so quickly, but Xiao grabbed your arm before you could stumble over the edge of the cliff.  "Can we do that again?"

"You can't be serious," his eyes narrowed in disdain.  

"One hundred percent! Come on, please?"

Wha-What is this all of a sudden?!  Xiao averted his eyes the second your pleading ones took hold.  He let go of your arm as his gaze fell to the grass.  

You couldn't contain the gasp within your lips, "You're...blushing?"  You don't remember if it's happened before, but the very tips of his ears were pink and it was painfully obvious in the sunlight of late morning.  "Xiao, the Vigilant Yaksha, BLUSHING?!"

"I suggest you keep your quips to a minimum unless you--"

"I can't believe this is happening! What did I do to make you blush? You're ears are bright red!"  Your hands cupped the sides of your face as you freaked out.  He was so neutral when it came to emotion, but the past sixteen hours or so he's shown you more of his vulnerable side.  But the adeptus was visibly showing emotion! "This never happened before!"

"There's nothing timid about you, having the courage to mock me.  So fight me," he started to raise his glare from the ground.  "How long do you think your body will last against my blows?"

"Rex Lapis must've blessed me-!"  

In your excitement, you failed to remember that the ledge was right behind you.  One second you were laughing your ass off with a face as bright red as Xiao's, and the next you were flailing breathlessly in the air attempting to find solid ground.  Xiao's figure shrunk at the top of the cliff as you plummeted.  The shock rendered you unable to scream and instead you gasped for breath as the wind whistled in your ears.

Xiao lifted his gaze in time to watch you fall over, and he simply moved so that his gaze could still follow your shrinking figure.  "It's a wonder humans survived this long," he muttered with a slightly amused expression.  Does she not realize she has her wind glider?  He failed to notice the corner of his lips curling upward.  

He had no intention of letting you plummet to your death.  But after the stunt you just pulled on him, he figured it wouldn't hurt to tease you a bit too.  You were by no means anywhere near the ground or any other hazardous objects; his enhanced vision and depth perception confirmed it.  Why not let you fall a bit?  Maybe your wits would return to you and you'd actually remember the glider attached to your back.

Three...four...five...Xiao counted the seconds.  You were nearly half-way down the cliffside.  ...Six...She's not going to remember, is she?  Seven..."Tch." He prepared to jump.

I-I'm going to die!  You finally managed to inhale a reasonable amount of air, not daring to peek behind you at the ground that was closing in.  Your thoughts were racing with nothing but panic.  Think, think! Think of something! You wanted to smack yourself when you remembered who accompanied you.  He wouldn't just let you die like this, it was stupid of you to even forget that much!  You involuntarily reached for the cliffside where Xiao was now nothing but a miniscule dot in the distance.  

"Xiao!"

Warm arms wrapped themselves around you the instant his name fell from your lips, and the familiar sensation of teleporting enveloped you.  You spun around and hugged him as tightly as you could the second your feet touched the ground.  He didn't even tense up this time--

"You didn't remember your glider," he pointed out nonchalantly.  Almost teasingly.

"That's why you just stood there?!"  He grumbled something you couldn't hear and returned your embrace with his head buried at the crook of your neck.  His ears were still red.  Are you telling me this is how he acts when he's shy?!  

The two of you stayed in that position for awhile, never quite loosening your hold on the other as if to ensure they wouldn't float away like an anemo slime or a bloaty floaty.  A cool breeze slid across your skin--an intimate gesture Xiao wouldn't dare outright commit, much less think of.  And yet the wind entangled itself in your hair much like his hand would clasp around your nape.  It seemed to embody the long-lost gentleness of the yaksha.  It was subtle.  Soft.  An indirect display of affection.  Maybe it was just your imagination.

Just awhile longer, Xiao's heart yearned as he held you close until rational thought returned to power.  Your absence would sting more now that he's seen you, but that didn't take away from the fact that this visit allowed the sealing of your bond, and therefore saved you from a painful demise for the time being.  The last thing he wanted was for you to return to Childe, but maybe this is what would prevent his karma from touching you.  The farther you are from him, the safer you'd be.

But for right now, just awhile longer, he'll allow himself to drown in your warmth.

...................

"You seem more than eager to get back to work, Mezzetin," Childe teased as he led you through the halls of the palace.  The two of you had just returned to Snezhnaya, but the Tsaritsa had apparently no intentions of letting either of you rest after your long journey.  

"Don't mistake my happiness for the Lantern Rite as happiness for the Tsaritsa's operations.  I'm only cooperating to keep the peace in Teyvat."  

"So, when are you going to tell me what you and Xiao did?"

"Excuse me?  Since when is my private life any of your business?"

"I have the right to know since you so blatantly disobeyed my orders not to leave the harbor."  Childe grabbed the door handle and faced you.  "I expected more professionalism from you, but honestly, I'm not at all surprised," he baited with narrowed eyes.  "I could tell the Tsaritsa, you know."

Your heart seemed to skip a beat at the thought of facing her again.  Something about that nightmare you had when you were with Xiao ignited a vague fear of her that you didn't really have before.  You swallowed hard before jutting your chin up at the harbinger.  "Do it."

"Oh?"  Childe squinted as he towered over you.  

"Do it," you repeated.  "Who do you think she'll discipline more, since it was a certain harbinger's idea to bring me along and didn't properly watch me?"  Childe stared at you for a few silent seconds before twisting the door handle and entering Dottore's lab without another word.  Yeah, that's what I thought.

"GAHHHHH!"  A deafening, sickening cry of pain snapped you out of your gloating session.  It was much like the rest that you've heard; the test subjects of Dottore were often strangers to mercy.  But unlike the trials before, there were no piles of bodies lying in the middle of the arena.

"Did he just start for the day?"  You forcefully peeled your eyes away from the suffering man and kept them on Childe.  It would be unusual if he did; he started in the early morning hours, but you and Childe had arrived in mid-afternoon.  

"Dunno," he shrugged slightly.  

"Ah! Childe."  Dottore noticed your presences and gave a signature manic grin, his arms spreading wide.  "We have made a breakthrough!"

"This doesn't look like a breakthrough to me," you muttered loud enough for him to hear.  Anger flickered across the masked man's face before he reset his eyes on his fellow harbinger.

"This is the fifth subject of the day."  The man's cold stare eyed the suffering Fatui agent with something similar to a sadistic excitement.  "It appears your idea to bring that brat with you succeeded."

You didn't hear Dottore, intent on watching the Fatui agent closely.  He had finally stopped shrieking, and he pushed himself to his feet rather unsteadily while wiping the sweat away from his forehead.  He was healthy despite being drenched in sweat and breathing heavily while he recovered from the subsiding pain.  You let out a sigh of relief you didn't know you were holding in.  You didn't have to watch another person die at your feet--

Wait a minute.  He wasn't dying.

A cool shiver crawled down your spine at the realization, and you flinched when a manic laugh escaped Dottore.  "That was the original serum at work.  How's that for a breakthrough, brat?"

"That's...impossible," you uttered with wide eyes.

"Thank your superior for making it possible."

Your attention slid to Childe, who didn't bother to look you in the eye.  His expression was unreadable, and it remained that way when he escorted you to your room in silence.  His presence couldn't feel more hostile in that moment.

"You...my bond...," you choked when the two of you were at the door of your room.  "You lied.  You used me! You used our bond for your own selfish purposes!  How could you?"

"Don't start this, Mezzetin," a weary sigh left him as he turned to you.  His allegedly guilty appearance only infuriated you.  

"Outside, now."

The second the two of you were outside the palace walls, you let yourself snap into a fit of rage.  Childe had barely started to turn around when an ice shard shot at his face, slicing across his cheek.  His blood splattered onto the snow, and he wiped at his face to examine his blood on his fingers.  "Mezzetin--"

"Don't 'Mezzetin' me!"  Hundreds more icicles shot at him in a flurry until he had no choice but to defend himself and summon his hydro blades to parry the blows.  "This was the last straw!  I'll kill you!"

"Then I'll be more than happy to give you a fight."  Despite his usual excitement when it came to battle, he was calm and collected, even so much as cold and distant.  He lacked the usual spark fighting always gave him.  His eyes were empty and lacking of enthusiasm.

"Tch."  Your vision glinted in the sunlight as the temperature surrounding you dropped below zero.  Snow whipped through the air to create a barricade that caged the two of you in a small arena.  The blizzard made the snowflakes like needles that could cut through skin if one got too close to the edge.  Your own powers seldom hurt you, but in your anger, a few rogue icicles cut across your forehead, arms, and your back.

At the pace you were going at, it was self-destructive.

Childe noted this as he parried your every attack despite his blades turning frozen solid now.  "Mezzetin!  Keep this up, and I won't hold back!"  His warning fell on deaf ears.

"What makes you think I want you to hold back?  I'm settling this here and NOW!"  The snow beneath his feet erupted, sending him spiraling out of the eye of the storm and into the blizzard's rage.  You summoned your polearm without hesitation and began to walk towards him.  

His arms were stuck to his blades, which were stuck in the ground.  He must've attempted to summon a new set and accidentally froze his limbs.  He watched you approach, hunched over to shield himself from the blizzard.

"You said visiting him would be good for me!"  Your screams were carried away by the wind.  "That you realized your own selfishness!  This was nothing but more manipulation, wasn't it? You're NOTHING but a lying monster!"  The wind grew harsher.  Your blade grew sharper once you were a few feet from him.

Cold eyes looked down upon the Tsaritsa's war dog.  What a pathetic site it was; an esteemed harbinger on his knees before you.  A harsh kick to his jaw dislodged his hands from the ice they were trapped in, and more blood was splattered onto the snow.

"That's it," a smile of satisfaction spread across Childe's lips, making your eyes narrow in disgust.  "You're finally showing potential."  He sat up with his back to you.  "If you constantly fight like this, I'd listen to you more carefully."

"Shut up--!"  Your lance stabbed at his figure, but in one fluid motion he swung around and deflected your blade with his hand.  A sudden burst of electricity sent you flying several feet backwards.  "Ngh!"

"But unfortunately for you, ojou-chan, you misinterpreted the entire situation."  Your clearing vision settled on the electro delusion that glinted at his hip.  His figure stood over you and a sharp, hot pain tore through your side.

"Gah!"  

"I have the right to discipline my subordinates as I see fit," he twisted his blade and dug it deeper into you, completely uncaring that you were squirming around and twitching from the electric shocks pulsing through your body.  "Listen closely, girlie, because I won't say it again."  You desperately clawed at his weapon, but he held it firmly in place and refused to remove it.  "You needn't tell me what you learned from Mr. Zhongli or your adeptus boyfriend.  I don't care for that information.

"My bringing you back to Liyue was truly for your own benefit, and it just so happens it was for the Tsaritsa's benefit as well.  Make no mistake Mezzetin, I am on your side when it comes to private life.  But when it comes to work and the Tsaritsa, my loyalty lies with Snezhnaya.

"I don't care if you don't believe me.  If you so badly want to escape the Tsaritsa's grasp, you have much to learn.  Patience, for starters."  He ripped his blade out of you.  "Don't take this too personally, ojou-chan.  I don't condone disorderly conduct from anyone under my supervision."

[kasienda]

The Five Minute Adventures of Snake Noir: Ch 6 - Miraculous Abuse

Chapter 1: I Want It To Be You

Chapter 2: Best Friends

Chapter 3: Best Laid Plans

Chapter 4: A Thank You

Chapter 5: Unwanted Revelations

Chapter 6: Miraculous Abuse

If Adrien had avoided using the snake before, he now was operating on the other extreme. Ladybug had told him to abuse it, and he’s not sure she would have meant it quite so literally, but well… he and Nino had come up with a list. 

It had started with his homework. If he could finish his homework in far less time, he’d  have more time to visit Nino and Marinette. Not that it took a lot of time to visit Marinette as it was usually a loop, so even if he spent hours with her, it never took longer than ten minutes as far as the rest of the world was concerned. 

He unfortunately couldn’t do all of his homework in a time loop because that would leave whatever he had completed in the last five minutes erased. But he could do all the reading, researching, planning, and studying in a loop. Anything that didn’t require him to write anything down. 

Nathalie had only walked on him transformed once. 

“Yes, Nathalie?” he had asked, without looking up from his textbook. He hadn’t even thought about it. 

She stood stock still and was dead silent. He glanced towards her with a frown - her eyes were comically wide, but that was the only sign that she was shocked. He glanced down, and remembered he was transformed at Aspik. 

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“Oh shit!” 

But it had been easy enough to fix. He just reset, destranformed, waited for Nathalie to come in and deliver his schedule changes for the week and leave, and then he transformed again. 

And then Nino had realized if he could pack all of his studying into the space of five minutes, Adrien could surely squeeze in some well deserved leisure time as well. 

It only took 71 loops to read a hundred thousand words, and Adrien had long ago discovered the joys of fanfiction, but he had never really had time to read more than a bit here or there. Now? With unlimited time and an entire endless library of things to read based on his favorite games and anime? Let’s just say his current power set brought a whole new meaning to the phrase, “Just One More Chapter.” 

And a season of anime was only 119 loops. Hell, he had gotten through all 981 episodes of One Piece in 4532 loops, which was still nothing compared to his time as Aspik, and honestly, far less traumatizing. 

He had felt slightly guilty about it. He was literally using the powers of time travel to watch anime. 

But when he mentioned it to Nino, his friend had just rolled his eyes. “Dude! You’re thinking about this all wrong. You’re a hero and we need you to be okay. This is about avoiding burnout as much as it is about having a good time. It’s so you get enough of a break and enough sleep to be a competent hero that we all need!”

But eventually the stories and shows hadn’t been enough to hold his attention. And he took another of Nino’s ideas and started paying visits to several of his friends. 

He had gone to Kagami first. He had no expectations of healing things with her, but he had always wanted to be able to explain so that his apologies might mean something.

“Chat Noir? Is there an akuma?” she asked by way of greeting. 

He rubbed the back of his neck. 

“Ah, no. I wanted to talk to you about something, but I also have to erase your memory after the fact to protect identities. Are you okay with that?”

Her eyebrows rose in surprise. “You have piqued my curiosity. You may proceed.” 

He nodded. He had already activated his power before he had landed in her bedroom that was definitely as lavish as his own if not quite as spacious. 

“So… more than anything I wanted to apologize to you?”

She frowned. “I’m unaware of anything that you have done that would require an apology.”

“Kagami, I’m Adrien.”

Her eyes went wide for a second. “Ah, I see.” Then, she nodded. 

“That’s it?” 

“No, it makes a lot of sense.” And then she did something he never would have expected. She smiled. And most of his tension released. 

“I just wanted to explain now that I had the ability to. That I wasn’t ever lying to you or running from our dates because I wanted to.” 

“You had to sacrifice your own desires for a higher calling.”

“Yeah, that’s it exactly.”

She smiled at him again. “I appreciate you coming to explain and I understand completely why I can’t remember. May I ask you a question?” 

“Of course!” 

“Were you never in love with Marinette?”

“Well, I… uh… it was hard to see Marinette when I was completely enamored with Ladybug, but…”

She shook her head. “Are you in love with both of them now?” 

“I mean, sortve?” He knew Kagami hated when he ended every sentence as if it was a question. “They’re the same person.”

Kagami sighed. “How disappointing.” 

“Disappointing?! She’s amazing!” 

“I know, but if she’s Ladybug and you’re Chat Noir, I have never had a chance with either of you.” 

He felt like he had been thrown off a cliff. “What? You had feelings for Marinette?” 

She grinned. “Well, she is amazing, as you always say. At least I know that I have really good taste.”

“Well, I’m sorry to have ruined all your prospects.” 

“I will survive. Neither of you define me as a person.” 

“You’re pretty amazing, too, you know,” he told her sincerely. 

She nodded. “You honor me.” 

He laughed. “Kagami, please don’t get all formal on me. I’m still just me.” 

“Well, I hope you know that I appreciate all that you and Ladybug do for the city,” Kagami told him, ignoring his request.

“Thank you, Kagami. That means a lot coming from you.” 

She nodded in acknowledgment and he knew he was being dismissed, and then he slid the switch on his bracelet and he was on the roof of her family’s manor once again his heart a little lighter.

He had gone to Alya after that. He had been nervous since she was the one who tended to push him aside as Chat Noir. But his fears proved to be completely unfounded as for the most part she could never stop laughing whenever he revealed himself.

“Wait! You’re Adrien?!”

She burst into cackles immediately. 

“Why is that so funny?!” He has demanded the first time. 

She had just grinned, shaking her head and still chuckling. “I wish I could explain it to you, sunshine.” 

“I already know Marinette is Ladybug,” he said.

“Oh good! Then I don’t have to be panicked about accidentally slipping!” And she went back to rolling on the floor laughing. 

“You wouldn’t happen to already know Marinette’s other secret would you?” she asked.

His eyebrows scrunched together under his mask. “Umm… that she’s in love with me as Adrien?” 

Her face lit up. “Oh see!! You do get it!” 

He shook his head. “I do not get it.” 

“The two of you managed to get yourself in a love square. You’ve been chasing each other around like two cute little hamsters in hamster balls.” 

He sighed, far less amused than Alya at the current state of his Marinette’s relationship. “I’m really glad someone is getting some joy out of this.” 

“Hey!” she objected. “I’m only going to know this for another three minutes! Let me have my fun!”

He held up his hands in surrender, and he was smiling in spite of himself. Maybe some time in the future, after he and Marinette could be together, it would be funny to him, too.

“God! This is why it feels like I’m third-wheeling during akuma fights,” she exclaimed.

“You feel like a third wheel?!” he repeated in disbelief. “Have you seen the chaotic energy that is you and Marinette coming up with a plan together? I am definitely the third wheel in that situation.”

And then she was cackling again. “I’m sorry,” she wheezed. “Nino says I can be a bit of a bulldozer when I’m trying to find a solution to something.” 

“That’s putting it mildly,” he said dryly.

All the mirth fled her face and she looked at him in concern. “Hey, you okay?”

He nodded. “It’s not like I’m allowed to be anything else.” 

“No, don’t say that! You’re allowed to be upset with me! I deserve it sometimes.”

He shook his head. “I’m never going to hold your ability to defeat an akuma against you. I just… have felt a little unneeded lately,” he admitted.

She stared at him for a second and then she burst into laughter again. 

And despite still not getting it, he found himself chuckling, too. Her laughter was just that infectious. “Why do you find this so funny?” he asked. 

“Because you’re a literal superhero and a model with more money than god, and a heart of absolute gold. You work with her as Ladybug so well I have to deal with crazy conspiracy theorists on the Ladyblog  who think the two of you must be telepathic aliens!” 

“What? People don’t think that.” 

“They do! And it’s annoying. But my point is you’re the real deal, Agreste, and she’s crazy about you, and you know it, and yet you still manage to doubt yourself.” 

“I’m glad my struggles and hang ups are so amusing to you,” he said with a pout. 

She sat up and fist bumped his shoulder. “Aww! Sunshine! I didn’t mean it like that. I just meant, your insecurity makes you seem sweeter and cuter. And it makes you seem more human. I don’t mean to mock you in any way.”

He searched her face and only found open sincerity.

“Thanks, Alya.” 

“So, does she know that you know?” 

“I mean, she doesn’t right now. But I’ve told her. Many many times, but it was just like this and she doesn’t remember.” 

She softened. “That sounds difficult.” 

“It’s apparently better than the alternative,” he said, going for nonchalance, but he didn’t fool her if her scooching to sit right next to him was anything to go by.  

“I wish we could all fix it for you, Adrien.” 

“Yeah, me too.” 

“How are you?” 

He shrugged. “I’m okay at the moment. Some days are worse than others. Nino… Nino has been a godsend.” 

She smiled. “He is pretty amazing. He knows outside of a loop?” 

“He does.” 

“I’m glad you have that, Adrien. Marinette was falling apart at the seams before she told me.” 

“Does he know about Marinette?” Adrien asked. Sometimes, it seemed like Nino knew more than he was letting on. But maybe his friend was just really respectful of secrets and didn’t ask questions.

“Not from me! And he hasn’t told me about you being Chat Noir either.” 

Adrien glanced toward the window. 

“Does it bother you that there are secrets between the two of you?” he finally asked.

“No, not these ones. They’re not our secrets. They’re yours, and they’re Marinette’s, so they’re not ours to share.”

“I'm jealous,” he admitted.

She offered him a sympathetic smile. “Someday, you won’t have to be anymore.”

The Snake beeped it’s first warning. “Time’s just about up.”

She offered him a fist bump and then a hug. He reciprocated both. “I’m glad you stopped by, Sunshine. You’re always welcome any time you think my particular brand of company is something that would help you.” 

He grinned. “Thank you, Alya.” 

“I look forward to the day when all four of us can just be open about everything,” she said. 

He snorted. “You and me both.” 

His went to his bodyguard next. 

“I just wanted to apologize to you for always running off. I don’t mean to make your job harder or get you into trouble. I am literally running away to save the city.”

His bodyguard didn’t say anything. He never said anything. He had just let out a resigned sigh and then patted Adrien’s shoulder. 

Adrien took that as forgiveness and reset the loop. There was no sense in sitting there in awkward silence for another four and a half minutes. 

When he had told Nathalie one afternoon at her desk outside her office, she looked horrified - frozen as still as a statue trapped in Medusa’s gaze. 

“Nathalie?” 

“I… all this time?” she whispered.

“Yeah. I know it’s a lot. I know it causes you a bit of grief when I disappear.” 

She waved away his concern. “Right now, we’re in some kind of time loop and I won’t remember?” 

“But you will,” she said. It wasn’t a question.

“Yes,” he confirmed anyway. 

“Adrien, I need you to listen to me.”

He nodded. 

“I can never find out. Your father can’t either. If you need something because you’re hurt or cornered, or…” she trailed off.

Was she crying? 

She cleared her throat. 

“Go to your friends. Their parents. Just… not your father, okay? Or me, because I’d have to inform him.”

His brows furrowed together in confusion. “Okay?” It wasn’t hard to to agree despite how weird she was being. He knew Paris needed him and he also knew that his father would never let him continue. Especially if he was seeking help due to an injury or something.

That’s what Nathalie was referring to, right? 

She patted him on the shoulder. It was even more awkward than when his bodyguard had done it. 

“Adrien, you’re quite impressive as a hero.” 

“Thank you,” he said with a smile.

And then there was Marinette. He had learned that it was impossible to tell her he was Adrien without making her cry, which was frustrating because she was also so much more open and affectionate once she knew. 

“How do I get you to not breakdown when I tell you this?” he asked her seriously.

She laughed through her tears. “I’m sorry, kitty. I have no idea. It’s just… it’s not fair.” 

He smiled. “That’s what Ladybug always says,” he told her casually. She didn’t know that he knew this go around.

“She’s right! You deserve so much, and life… it’s not fair!”

He turned to her seriously. “I don’t need life to be fair, Mari. I just… don’t want to have to wear a mask all the time.” And then he smiled. “I’m glad that you’re okay with me doing this.” 

She nodded tearfully. “Anytime, Kitty. Anytime.”  

Then during a regular patrol at one point. He had just realized he wanted to make her laugh. So he spent another few hundred loops figuring out which jokes made her laugh the hardest and which ones were absolute duds. Then, on a day when she was having a hard time, he showed up on her balcony and gave her the best one hour comedy of her life. 

Her unrestrained laughter was so explosive she had literally fallen out of her chair. Totally worth it. 

“Thank you, kitty,” she said wiping the tears induced by her laughter. “You have no idea how much I needed this.” 

He hadn’t argued. “Of course, princess. I am always at your service!”

Then, he started working on the perfect confession. He was trying to see if he could get her to kiss him as Chat Noir without revealing his identity because, you know, that always made her cry. 

“Can I use the snake to ask you a very important question?” He has asked Ladybug on patrol. 

She nodded, and he activated it. 

“What do you think it would take to get you to kiss me?” 

She laughed. “Are you serious right now? That is your very important question?” 

“It is,” he nodded, but offered her a huge grin so she could take it as a joke if she wanted.

“Why? You haven’t been able to be successful yet?” she teased.

“Oh no! I’ve been super successful. All I really have to do is tell you my name.”

She scoffed.

“No, I’m serious!” he boasted with a huge grin splitting his face knowing she only half believed him.

“So, why don’t you just do that?” she asked seriously. 

“Because you always cry! And I don’t want to kiss away your tears. I want to make you smile.” 

She got quiet. “You know, we can’t be together right?” 

“Yeah Marinette,” he whispered. “I know that really well.”

 It was silent.

“How long have you known?” she asked softly.

He had no idea how to answer that question. Because time was now very weird for him. In one sense he had only known for a few weeks, on the other he had literally spent so much time in loops that it had to have been at least twice that at this point. Maybe more.

“A while,” he said. “But we’ve already talked about that to death. I’d much rather figure out how to get you to fall desperately in love with this half of me.” 

She raised her eyebrows. “You want me to fall desperately in love with you in five minutes?” 

He shrugged. “We have a solid foundation of trust and friendship. I’m not starting from nothing. Plus, I’ve fallen in love in less than five minutes before.” With her. He didn’t think he needed to say that though.  

She actually smiled. “Yeah, I’ve fallen in love pretty fast before, too.” 

And it occurred to him that he had no idea what had made her fall in love with Adrien. He probably could ask her, but that was one more memory that he wanted her to remember having told him. 

He could probably just show up on her balcony as regular old Chat Noir and just say something like, “So, Adrien Agreste, huh?” She’d probably tell him, and she’d even remember it. But she wouldn’t know that it was him she was telling. 

How the hell had his life gotten so complicated? 

“There’s no way I would start crying just from knowing your name though,” she said. “You have to be making that up.”

He just turned to her and raised his eyebrows. 

The expression probably didn’t work as well with his transformation covering them. 

But she still hesitated. “There’s no way!” she exclaimed, but then she got a thoughtful look in her eyes. “Unless…” 

And then her eyes started welling with tears.

And he almost laughed. But he managed to hold it back.

“Oh, come here, bug,” he said instead, grabbing her by the waist and pulling her to him. And he just held her as she shook silently. 

“It’s not fair,” she whispered. 

“I know,” he said, and then kissed the top of her head. “I know.”

“Do you see my problem now?” he said after another pause. 

And she laughed through her tears, which had been his intention, and he smiled.

She pulled away. “I’ve thought about it before, you know.”

“Thought about what?”

“Letting myself fall for Chat Noir?”

He hugged her tighter. “Yeah?” 

“It never seemed like it would be that hard. I think if it hadn’t been for Chat Blanc, it would have happened after New York.”

He laughed. “Really? New York was when I thought maybe I should ask out Marinette.” 

She looked up at him in horror. “Oh my god! We’re just perpetually screwed, aren’t we? We’re just going to keep missing each other over and over!”

He kissed her hand. “No m’lady,” he assured. “That can’t happen because now I know, and I can’t forget.” 

And then she was crying again, harder. “I don’t want to forget either.”

“I know,” he told her, kissing her hand again. “I promise it won’t be forever.” 

“I love you, Adrien.” 

“I love you, too.”

And that time, of the two of them, it was he who was stronger and able to slide his fingers across the reset. 

And he might have stayed in that loop far longer than he should have trying to figure out the way to the heart he had apparently already won.

He learned that she did enjoy his flirting whatever she said to the contrary, but the moments where he was vulnerable and genuine were the ones that seemed to move her the most.

But none of it was quite enough. If he wanted a kiss, he always had to tell her his name. 

But despite his failure, pulling himself out of that loop was the hardest thing he had ever done.

And that’s how he knew he was in trouble. 

… 

“Nino, you have to take this away from me,” Adrien said, holding out the snake miraculous. He had just arrived and released both his transformations. 

Nino took it, his eyebrows pinched together. “What? Why?” 

“Because I’m scared I’m going to go into a loop and I’m never going to come out of it.” 

“What do you mean?” 

“Look! Being here with you, with you knowing everything, is amazing. It’s the only time I feel like myself, unless,” he held up the bracelet, “I’m using this and… it’s getting harder to pull myself out of the loops.” 

“Your visits to Ladybug?” 

“Yeah,” Adrien admitted. “She told me to go every single day so I would remember what it was like to be loved,” he paused for a second, trying to swallow the sudden lump in his throat. “The problem is I really really like being loved.” 

And then he couldn’t hold the tears back anymore. 

Nino pulled him by the arm down to the ground and sat right next to him shoulder to shoulder.

Adrien buried his face in his hands. 

“For the record, dude,” Nino whispered. “You are loved even outside a loop with Ladybug.” 

Adrien threw his arms around Nino. “I honestly don’t know why you put up with me at this point. I feel like you have to put up with a lot.”

Nino grinned. “Hey! I happen to like hanging out with you! This shift has been awesome because I get to see you way more often.” 

“And I’m not like messing up date night with Alya or anything, am I?” 

“Nah!” Nino waves away his concern. “Alya and I hangout in the mornings and during lunch. Lately Marinette has monopolized her evenings.” 

Adrien managed to keep a straight face at that. “If you and her ever do need a day away from the children, I’m sure Marinette and I can figure out a way to take care of ourselves for a day.” 

Nino burst out laughing. 

“What?! I’m a big boy and Marientte’s a big girl. We can take care of ourselves.” 

Nino just shook his head, still snickering. 

“Maybe all four of us could do something some time,” Nino suggested, his eyes sparkling.

Adrien narrowed his eyes. Did Nino know? He knew he couldn’t ask without giving it away, and he had just handed over the snake. 

“That sounds really nice,” Adrien said, knowing he wouldn’t be able to handle going on a double date that he had to pretend wasn’t a double date. But someday. 

He wanted to cry again, but his eyes remained dry. 

“So, you just want me to keep it?” Nino asked, holding up the bracelet. “Should I hide it here in the room? Or wear it?” 

“Wear it,” Adrien said. That was the only way Nino would know where it was at all times. “But don’t use it. Not even for an akuma.”

He didn’t want Nino to ever experience a loop on the battlefield. Not if he could help it. 

“I reserve the right to come save your ass if necessary,” Nino said as he slipped the miraculous around his wrist. 

Adrien laughed. “Okay, but please don’t unless you absolutely have to. I don’t need Ladybug pissed at me for giving away a miraculous.” 

Nino frowned at him then. “Why are you giving this to me, instead of back to her?” 

Adrien’s answer to that was complicated. Partly because he didn’t want Marinette to know that his loops with her were hurting him even as they gave him hope, and he definitely didn’t want her to know that he had fallen to the point of being borderline addicted. 

But there was also a strategic element to his choice. He could approach Nino in either form, and Nino would know to trust him. 

“You know who I am,” Adrien finally said. 

“Will you be okay without it?” Nino asked.

Adrien shrugged. “I don’t know. But I’m definitely not okay with it right now.” He paused, then looked at Nino. “I might be texting and calling you a lot over the next few days.” 

Nino laughed. “I can’t promise to answer right away all the time, but you can always do that, man. Always.” 

Adrien let his head fall onto Nino’s shoulder. “Have I ever told you that you’re the absolute best?” 

“I could stand to hear it a few more times,” Nino said. 

Adrien grinned. “Noted.”

…

Chapter 7: The Five Minute Adventures of Ananta

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The Sims 4: New Game Patch (June 29th, 2021)

There’s a new Sims 4 update available for PC/Mac and Consoles. 

PC: 1.76.81.1020 / Mac: 1.76.81.1220 / Console: Version 1.43

Remove all MODS and Custom Content before updating your game

Happy Summer everyone! We hope you are well wherever you are in the World. We have a Game Update that we hope you enjoy and some bug fixes.

Thanks again for your continued support and feedback! Stay cool and hydrated and if you are not in a warm season, stay warm and cozy.

Chau Chau!

-SimGuruRusskii

What’s New? Continuing our Summer of Sims, nothing says Summer like a music festival doesn’t it? Now you can experience them in The Sims! We welcome you to Sims Sessions with this update, a music festival where some of your favorite artists come together to entertain and to delight us with some of their most iconic songs. And we sure have a fantastic lineup for all of you!

Drumroll please…

Headlining the event, we have the award winning and critically acclaimed, two-time Grammy nominee, Bebe Rexha! She will be performing a magical, acoustic rendition of her song Sabotage.

Also performing we have Glass Animals, with their alternative, experimental sound that has captivated audiences across the globe. They will perform their top of the charts single Heat Waves.

Last but by no means least, is the soulful sound of Joy Oladokun! Recently deemed “2021 Artist to watch” by Amazon Music and NPR, Joy Oladokun’s words will stir all emotions and take you on a musical journey with the song breathe again.

Now that we have told you about our lineup, you must definitely NOT miss this event, I mean… Why would you? So let me tell you how to get there…

Sims Sessions will be hosted in Magnolia Blossom Park in Willow Creek on every Sunday (that is In Game Sunday), starting June 29 (TODAY) 10 a.m. PT to July 7 at 10 p.m. PT. Once Simmers load their game today (after updating the game of course) your Sims will get a message telling them about Sims Sessions (this will happen on in game Sunday in a new Save, but if you are not in a new save you will need to wait for it to be Sunday in your game after the Game Update), they will also receive a ticket in their inventory that they can view for more information and they will be able to travel to the location of the festival.

However, if your Sim is curious and absolutely cannot wait for the message, Sims can see the Sims Sessions pop up in the game in Willow Creek’s neighborhood map.

The festival venue will have vendors from which your Sims can buy merch and spots to relax and unwind while listening to amazing music.

We hope you enjoy this event! If you want to know more about Sims Sessions, you can visit the Sims Sessions website.

And with that we move on to the bug fixes…

Bug Fixes

Sims 4

Our master gardeners treated a few of our plants so they no longer reset to a previous growth stage randomly. If only life worked that way…

We fixed an issue where selected Create a Sim outfit parts on Sims were not showing up appropriately highlighted on the right side menu.

Teens generated with the Play with Genetics options in Create a Sim will no longer have Crow’s feet.

We have fixed an issue where Sims could not use stairs when Simmers deleted the floor of a fence block that was built around the stairs in the upper landing. It sounds like a mouthful, doesn’t it?

Some of our new hair colors (Neutral Black, Warm Brown, Neutral Blonde, and Light Blonde specially) were creating some issues in some Create a Sim hairstyles when applied, making Sims’ teeth disappear (?????) or turn grey in some cases.

Your Sims just LOVED their new hair colors, but noticed it also changed their eyelids and eyebrows instantly? I mean instant eyeliner is something I truly desire but we know that we needed to fix this one everyone, so indeed your Sims can no longer get automatic eyeliner and eyebrow colors from choosing a hair color.

Fixed an issue where when Sims learned about the Likes and Dislikes of other Sims their Sim Profile became blank. I mean, unless they like or dislike nothing, that is… troubling.

Get Together

Invited NPC will now leave… eventually. You know that saying that some visitors start smelling like rotten fish after a certain amount of time? We had to tell the NPCs that well, they were a problem so now they should be leaving appropriately.

Snowy Escape

I see a little silhouetto of a Sim, Skiing next to me – Omg, Omg, this is not a ghost tho? All the snow activities were really frightening me! All fixed now? Fixed now? MAGNIFICO OOOO.

If you had noticed invisible Sims doing snow activities in your game because they switched boots on the slopes… worry not, it should be fixed.

Bust the Dust

Sims with the Slob Trait can now complete the Fabulously Filthy Aspiration goal of Letting at least one floor level of your home become dirty! #goals?