#the adventures of me and these 4 goofballs

[alterrune]

A SUDDEN CHANGE IN REGIME

Note to all the new people I've attracted from the Splatoon community: This post is for the people who've been fans of this blog before this sudden shift in fandoms. This blog is supposed to center around a Henry Stickmin fanstory known as "Altering the Outcome", which involves two OCs, Alter & Violet, two canon characters, Henry & Ellie, and Kyle (yours truly, and these posts usually come from my POV). This is what I normally post, and I'll be honest, I missed doing this.

(The rest of the CSB [ColorStreak Battalion] are currently all glaring daggers into me. I'm sitting in a chair in my room, with the 4 hovering over me with stern looks on their faces.)

Okay, guys. What did I do?

Maybe start with the whole "Splatoon 3" thing? What's going on there?

Yeah. We decide to check out the blog and all of a sudden it's all green.

(sigh) Okay, look guys, I don't think I've told you about this whole thing.

Clearly not. We read your post about this being a thing since somewhere between late Febuary & early March?

And you've been hiding this from us...why?

(I legit have no other choice but to fess up.)

Because I was afraid you guys would laugh at me, alright?! I don't like to admit it, but sometimes I feel like you guys would actually laugh at me for some of the things I do, AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS!!!

(All of them suddenly go silent. For the first time ever, I went ballistic on them. I had to. I had to or else the point wouldn't have gone across.)

Wait...THAT'S why? Kyle, buddy...we would never do that. Not to you.

Yeah. We're not just some OCs you made, we're your friends. And as you've seen in battle, we'd gladly take a bullet for you.

Laughing at the enemies? Yeah, we'll do that, and you'll join in. But you're not an enemy, Kyle, you're a friend.

The Colorstreak Battalion, our little 5-person group, wouldn't be the same without you.

(I suddenly begin welling up in tears, outstrectching my arms for a hug.)

(sniff) Get over here, ya big saps!

(The four of them all group hug me while I'm crying tears of absolute joy. I made this story, and by proxy, them. They're characters in a fangame I made. But this isn't something they were programmed to do. They do this out of their own volition. They were always a bit self-aware, but they've already outright embraced it a long time ago. This hug...it's genuine. Not coded, but genuine.)

Thanks, guys. (sniff) It means a lot coming from you.

Anytime, Kyle. Say, how about letting us in on the festivities?

Yeah! We're totally intrested in this. It's Past vs. Present vs. Future, right?

Well, guess what? We always look to the future as well. So we're with you on Team Future all the way, Kyle.

Yeah. Give us some Inkling weapons, we're ready for some Turf War!

(Drying off the last of my tears, I'm suddenly taken aback in shock. They actually want to join in on this. This was the exact opposite of what I expected them to do, and I love it.)

You guys...want to join in? Like hell I'd say otherwise! Let's do this, together!

YEAH!

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Anarchistic ColorStreak Rainbow

[anvilsims]

Been working on this for a long long time and I finally reached a point that I'm happy with it. I hope Simmers who are also big Nintendo fans like this.

Shout-out to @tomatomagica/@sims4niya for helping me out with making certain goals and just looking over the rules in general. :)

UPDATE: Slightly changed the goals in Gen 8, please reblog this version.

General Rules:

No cheats unless otherwise stated in generation rules, needed to reset a sim, or for decoration/building purposes.

Mods are okay, provided they do not give you an unfair advantage. What constitutes an unfair advantage is up to you.

Complete each generation's Aspiration

Above all, have fun. If that means continuing onto the next generation without finishing all of the previous gen goals, that’s okay.

(Generations beyond the cut)

Generation 1 Animal Crossing:

Traits: Loves Outdoors/Outgoing/Maker

Aspiration: Curator

You have moved into a new town with nothing but the clothes on your back. Well at least Mr. Nook was nice enough to give you a new home even with the work you'll have to do to pay him off. It’ll be tough but you’ve quite the knack for building and your neighbors seem more than happy to cheer you on.

Move into an empty lot and build a small house. (Optional: Make your house a Tiny Home Residential lot and choose what tier to work with from there.)

After one day, move two single townie sims into your neighborhood and become friends with them (If one of them becomes your founder’s spouse, make a new neighbor to move into their old house.)

Neither the founder nor spouse will hold a job, they will make money via at home activities like painting, fishing, etc.

Have a room to display your collections

At the end of every sim week, use cheats or mods to remove half of your household funds (to pay off your debt to Mr. Nook) until both your sim and their spouse reach the adult stage.

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Generation 2 Splatoon: 

Traits: Creative/Dance Machine/Party Animal

Aspiration: Famous Celebrity 

Despite your humble beginnings, you always dreamed big. You were often found drawing outfits from fashion magazines or singing along to your favorite pop idols or doing cool poses for selfies at the pool. Once you became a teen, you started taking little steps to join that glamorous world.

Become a simfluencer as a teen

Move to San Myshuno or Del Sol Valley once you become a Young Adult

Reach the top of the Style Influencer career (Trendsetter branch)

Host a party once every sim week

Either become or marry a merperson. Heir however must be just a sim.

Max out painting, dancing, and singing skills

~~~

Generation 3 Legend of Zelda:

Traits: Good/Adventurous/Music Lover

Aspiration: Jungle Explorer

Everyone expected you to become a spoiled brat but thankfully you turned out to be a good kid with a love for music and a dream of exploring far-off ancient ruins. You make a friend who supports you all the way but you also make an enemy constantly getting in your way.

Make a friend as a child or teen, become BFFs with them, and stay that way for as long as either sim lives (friend can be a future spouse) 

As a child or teen become enemies with one sim and stay enemies for as long as either sim lives. Win at least five fights with them. (Optional: Have this sim be an evil sim)

Max out the Archaeology skill and one instrument skill

Complete the Ancient Omiscan Artifacts Collection

Get the “Brave” reward trait

~~~

Generation 4 Earthbound: 

Traits: Goofball/Active/Geek

Aspiration: Friend of the World

Because of your parent’s travels, you never lived in one spot for too long. Despite that, you still liked making new friends and finding ways to keep in touch. And you learned to appreciate the magic in every world… figurative and literal.

Live in four different worlds before becoming a young adult

Make three friends and create a club with them (Optional: Make these friends as a child and grow up together)

Max out photography and comedy skills

Become a spellcaster as a teen and work on reaching the top rank

Complete the Postcard Collection

Adopt a dog when your first kid becomes a child

~~~

Generation 5 Pokemon:

Traits: Dog (or Cat) Lover (Animal Enthusiast)/Vegetarian/Socially Awkward

Aspiration: Friend of the Animals or Country Caretaker

Ever since you were little, you were obsessed with animals and even got along better with them than people. Your friends blame your childhood obsession with Voidcritters (even if some of them weren't really animals). When you grew up, you knew you were going to surround yourself with animals.

Complete the Voidcritters Collection

Adopt at least eight pets over your lifetime including at least one stray.

Have both cats and dogs

Open a Vet Clinic (pokemon center) and get it to five stars

Max out Veterinary and pet training skills

OR

Complete Voidcritters Collection

Adopt a fox or raccoon

Have at least one of each farm animal (chickens, cow, and llamas)

Win first place in each animal fair in Henford-On-Bagley

Learn all the animal treat recipes

~~~

Generation 6 Mario:

Heir 1 Traits: Family Oriented/Bro/Loyal

Heir 2 Traits: Squeamish/Clumsy/Bro

Heir 1 Aspiration: Nerd Brain

Heir 2 Aspiration: Mansion Baron

You and your sibling were as thick as thieves growing up and neither of you really liked the idea of one of you moving away so they stuck around. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own adventures.

Chose two siblings to serve as Double Heirs, they do not need to be twins

Both heirs take a part time job as Manual Laborers until one of them gets married then the married one joins the Doctor career

The other heir maxes out the Medium skill and becomes a Paranormal Investigator

Both heirs max out Handiness skill

One heir unlocks Sylvan Glade and the other unlocks Forgotten Grotto

~~~

Generation 7 Kirby:

Traits: Foodie (or Glutton)/Cheerful/Childish

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

You grew up in a very supportive environment with family members encouraging you to try a little bit of everything. You liked helping your family cook but you also discovered a love for acting from trying so many different hats. At that point, you decided that you were gonna be a superstar!

Join Drama Club as a child or teen

Max out the Cooking, Gourmet Cooking, and acting skills

Reach the top of the Actor career

Reach pristine public image

Gain the People Person lifestyle

Once you become an elder, retire from acting and open a business selling cooked meals.

~~~

Generation 8 Metroid: 

Traits: Loner/Unflirty/Noncommittal

Aspiration: Strangerville Mystery

While your parent enjoyed the spotlight, you preferred to keep to yourself with exercising and star gazing. As soon as you were able to, you moved out into your own place in a quiet out of the way town called Strangerville. However it seems your wish for a normal quiet life wasn’t meant to be.

Max out body and wellness skills

Reach the sixth level of the Astronaut career and quit after one shift.

Only take odd jobs after quitting your career

Have an alien child (feel free to cheat/mod to get an abduction or to get a female sim alien pregnant)

Gain the Techie lifestyle

Never marry

~~~

Generation 9 Pikmin:

Traits: Hot headed/Overachiever/Genius

Aspiration: Freelance Botanist

Despite your alien heritage, you adored the world you grew up in but that isn’t to say you had no interest in the stars. You enjoyed helping out at the school greenhouse along with watching for comets and UFOs on weekends. It didn’t take long before you started to wonder if there was a way to combine your love for both worlds.

Join Scouts as a child

Master gardening and rocket science skills

Visit Sixam and befriend three different colored aliens

Complete the Geode and Space rock collections 

Find all three alien plants on Sixam and plant them in your garden (Do NOT buy them in Henford-On-Bagley)

~~~

Generation 10 Fire Emblem:

Traits: Bookworm/Proper/Ambitious

Aspiration: Leader of the Pack 

Growing up, you admired stories of brave knights and kind heroes. While you eventually outgrew the fairy tales, you still wanted to help people like the brave hero kings and queens in the stories.Thus together with your closest friends, you decide to try to make a positive difference in the world.

If a sim dies, you cannot plead with the Grim Reaper nor can you resurrect them in any way

Max out Charisma, writing, and research & debate skills 

Reach the top of the Political Career (Politician branch)

Form a club (forming an army) and eventually build up to recruiting eight members

Marry a member of your club (and if they aren’t already, have them join the military career)

Write a Bestseller Fantasy book

If you give the challenge a shot, either @ me or tag "NintendoLegacyChallenge"

[super-weed-ninja]

For a little over a year now I've been slowly amassing a collection of ninja turtle books and I wanna talk about some of them. Picture books, joke books, novelizations, coloring and activity books... For all different iterations and all different reading levels.

Well ok they are pretty much just kids books let's be real, but some of them are really great and it's nice to see some new adventures. I've loved ninja turtles for as long as I can remember. Watched the '80s cartoon when I was young, read the comics, caught '03 in it's first season and was hooked immediately, and have pretty well kept up with everything since, with the exception of IDW (SOON.) These books have given me a new appreciation to the TMNT.

At first I just wanted to get my hands on some '03 books, but I was at the same time falling back in love with the '87 show, and books related to that series ended up being a lot easier to find. There's new adventures, some adapted episodes of the cartoon, some from Archie comics...

A rap song to fight drugs, and a little book adapting the first live action film with the '87 boys (Raphael defenestration and all, LOOK AT MY BOY THEY KILLED HIM)

I wasn't really planning to get so many, but THESE 4 delightful books really had an effect on me.

I'll probably make another post just about these 4 books sometime because I have so much to say on them! There is such a charm about them and they've changed how I think about the '87 and Archie turtles. They also act as a prequel series to either! Each book focuses on a different turtle. You see them in some of their pre-series naivete, learning and exploring and joking around. It's really no surprise they're so good, given the author, Stephen Murphy, was a primary writer for TMNT Adventures (Archie) and Tales of the TMNT. '03 girlies, he co-authored "Sons of the Silent Age" in Mirage and was a writer for several '03 episodes!

Anyway, after reading these, I really started searching.

It's so interesting to me to read these characters in this form, from different authors with their own ideas about the turtles.

There's several unique stories in the '03 books, with wonderful illustrations. These goofballs just shine even in the silliest of the adventures. Stephen Murphy, again, shows up here as an author of '03 books. I really love how he writes the boys.

'12 tends to just be episode adaptations, although I haven't actually read the novels I have yet. '12 books have been pretty easy to find so they have not been high on my priority list, but I try to grab ones that look like unique tales!

Mikey's Nightwatcher Scrapbook was so adorable, one of my favorites! Newspaper clippings, date and time stamped sightings and attempts at catching/talking to the elusive Nightwatcher... It's very fun and endearing! The Rise novels are just retellings of episodes, but each story is told by a different character! It's not much, but it's a cute detail.

finding coloring books is HARD, and even harder is finding one that's not been used. The joke book is full of the most garbage jokes but I had some fun torturing friends with it. :3

The coloring books in particular I'd like to scan sometime to share. I remember seeing '03 coloring books around all the time while the show was running; now you're liable to find yourself in a bidding war for one! (against me)

These books have become so important to me and I wanna talk about them more so I might just start taking one every now and then and ranting about it in a post. I have about 80 various books now, and a decent list of more I'm on the hunt for.

[jikookficsdiarry]

HELLO LOVES!! I'm here to express my deepest love for episode 4. Finally, it has been a long week, and the wait for episode 5 is almost over :)

OFCOURSE I'm gonna begin with

너는 나, 나는 너 🥹

Jikook in the swimming pool, enjoying their time together, getting on with their daily antics was the best thing ever!! The way they played rock, paper scissors under water🥹 CUTIES my goofballs for real!! Also, yes I have the same question as you, why did Kook have to remind minie that the glass was see through?? What kind of mischief was jiminie upto?!!!

Also, umm hello?! My 2015 baby army self would have never survived this. Please I think BT21 took hiatus too seriously. Damn, I used to lose my mind over foreheads...we have come a long way lads.

Also, the ppeuri after the whole ramyeon conversation?! Hello?! Like what was going on?! The way I screamed into my pillow. BYE.

BUBBAS🥹🤍 (the yawning in sync, they are the embodiment of you are me, i am you)...also I felt so bad for tae cause his neck hurt after head banging...I really hope his neck felt so much better when kookie gave him the message🥺

You wanna know the exact moment I said "what in the AO3?"

This right here. I combusted. I smiled, then I teared up and I replayed it 10 times to know if this wasn't a fever dream. It wasn't. It was reality and then I teared up some more. Happy tears I promise🥹🤍

When I first saw this thought the sign was edited🤭 little did I know the universe was trying to give me sign instead.

All the food moments, apart from making me extremely hungry made me realise how much attention kookie pays to minie whilst he is eating. Not only in these episodes but every time kookies ensures jiminie has eaten well🥹 like idk how to explain but it tugs at my heart strings🥹🤍

Also, idk why tae bear didn't join them for snorkelling, but his smile when he looks at kookie and jiminie has my whole heart🥹🤍

I was so happy that my baby caught to fishes!! Look at that adorable boxy smile🥹 my whole heart...oh I miss tae. Okay sorry no more tears.

I usually don't point this out, but omds I could not hold back this time, the SIZE DIFFERENCE!! I know there are so many other moments, but something about kookies hand enveloping jiminie hands and jiminie holding onto kookies thumb....yeah, my heart is doing a triple axle as we speak.

To conclude, I really from the bottom of my heart enjoyed watching this episode. I was struggling health wise last week and this epsiode gave me the energy I needed. I also feel I was more relieved by the fact that Jiminie didn't feel sick anymore and wasn't hurt in any way. I was so happy to see vminkook giggling.🤍 And jikook being so happy in each other's presence. Their moments, the little things they do for each other, I see them🤍 I know there are so many theories and asks about so many moments not only in this episode. I'll reteriate, I am not going to respond to asks that are offensive or not OT7, and I am just trying to enjoy the show, please let me kindly do that🤍

Episode 5 has me already excited. Less than 24 hours!! LESSSGOO!!

Are you sure?! You truly are my serotonin🥹🤍

Thank you.

~ Nel🤍

Please drop a good review for AYS if you can🫶🏻

[writteninlunarlight-years]

Hello!!! May I request an obey me matchup? Here are the details and thankyou so much for doing this! I hope you have/had a great day and if not , I hope tomorrow is better <3

Pronouns- he/they

Gender - non binary , male leaning of sorts , AFAB

Appearance :- glasses , brown skinned , pretty tall about 5'11, black wavy hair which reaches shoulders , dark hazel eyes

Likes/some attributes : philosophy, literature, gaming , coffee, painting, research, organising things for comfort, reading , writing , singing , sometimes dancing? , learning new things , classical music , can play violin , Veena and the sitar , fluent in 4+ languages

Dislikes : noise, unorganised things, people who don't wanna listen , making assumptions and judgement based on unknown facts , people with no willingness to learn new things/utterly foolish for no reason and no will for self development , insensitivity, rudeness for no reason , boisterous for no reason.

If it helps , I'm an ENTJ and a Pisces

Thankyou once again <3

~~~~~ MATCHUPS ~~~~~

OBEY ME!

Diavolo

~~~~~ HEADCANONS ~~~~~

Dia is a loveable man child. Okay well he is a prince so he's a little pampered but he's really down to earth and wants nothing more than to learn all about you and humans in general.

Dia is the perfect amount of chaos for your control. Though he is capable of being composed and poised he is definitely a goofball and likes to push your buttons.

He loves watching you organize things especially if you do something color coordinated he's all on that.

You're like another Lucifer and Barbatos for him, not that he would ever compare you guys. He's just excited to have another structured person in his life.

He loves taking you out for adventures, he thinks it is fascinating how intelligent you are.

He loves when you play any music for him. He's working music, he's showering music, he's setting up the student council room music.

When he finally confesses his attraction fo you he gets every brother and exchange student involved.

Honestly a little embarrassing and mildly chaotic but it was cute how hard he tried and that's what matters.

He loves when you teach him new things, where he thought dates had to be big grand things you showed him it could be as simple as sitting over a cup of tea and learning about each other.

His new favorite pass time is doing just that by the way. Listening to your ideas and philosophies so he can better understand how to help his people.

The first time he kisses you is when you two are dancing at one of his families balls.

You two are waltzing around discussing important business when something over takes him, maybe it was the way you looked in your outfit or maybe it was the light laugh and lilt in your voice.

He was smitten and asked graciously to show you how much he cared about you.

~~~~~ BLURB ~~~~~

It was another slumber party at the castle with Dia and Barbatos. You and Lucifer looked like matching dolls with how your movements and eye rolls happened at the antics of the other 6 brothers. Though you didn't like the eldest brother's attitude, 90% of the time, you had to agree his siblings were an unorganized mess. As you made your way to Dia's room, where you always stayed, you noticed paintings had all been moved slightly askew. This was horrible. Knowing it was either a Mammon prank on you or a Satan prank on Lucifer, you sighed and walked into the room to drop off your stuff. You would deal with the pranks later. For now, you just want to see your partner and relax.

It was as if Dia entered the room on cue and came to sit next to you. Gently, he took your hand and caressed it while he listened to you rant about the brothers. From Lucifer's demands to Belphies actions, you had a lot to tell for each brother. You didn't hate them by any means; you loved them like family, but they could push your buttons almost as severely as Dia could. As you sat up hand in hand with Dia, you pouted and began talking about all the paintings in the castle being askew. As you spoke, you noticed a hidden grin slowly morphing on the man's face and a concealed laughter bubble in his chest. He wouldn't, would he? It was a little early for the boys to already be causing trouble.

As soon as it clicked that the culprit was Dia himself, he had already gone out the door. Chasing after him, you ran through corridors, foyers, and other rooms. Eventually, the whole group was in on this massive game of tag. What was once frustrating became laughter and a good time around for everyone. Once you finally caught Dia with Lucifer's help, you'd have to thank him later; you pulled him into a hug. "Caught you! How could you do this to me?" His laugh was radiant as he picked you up and kissed your forehead. "Because, handsome, watching you get like this is a sick pass time of mine." Even as you were smacking his arm for the sultry comment, he was laughing fully, running away soon after restarting the game of chase again.

~~~~~ EXTRA ~~~~~

(You were in the school's theater room practicing a song for the upcoming recital.)

Barbatos: You realize we have a student council meeting today, my lord?

Dia: Yes, but just five more minutes. He sings so well I can't miss this.

Barbatos: You realize they will sing again, but this is not life or death.

Dia: How can I win the best boyfriend award if I am not constantly supportive? Asmodeus says it's an extremely hard and coveted award.

Barbatos: Did it ever occur to you that Asmodeus was messing with you?

Y/N: Can you two please be quiet for five minutes, then we can go?

Barbatos and Dia: Yes!

[planetbluegaming]

"Emails I Can't Send" Sims 4 Legacy Challenge

Did I decide to make a Sims 4 legacy challenge based on Sabrina Carpenter's latest album "Emails I Can't Send"? Yes I did!

The album is very love and break up based in my opinion however I still thought it could be pretty fun to try and turn that into a legacy challenge. I've decided in this to cut a couple songs from the main album to use a couple from the deluxe album "Emails I Can't Send fwd:" since those gave me more ideas.

I have made some general legacy challenge rules however I am not going to dictate your gameplay so if you do something different such as a different career or trait then go for it!

General legacy rules:

1. Regular legacy challenge starts with 1800 simoleons or 0 if you want a bigger challenge. However, you can use money cheats for your first lot/house if you wish.

2. Mods are allowed. Use CC, use cheats, use MC command center, use whatever your heart desires.

3. Follow the rules in each generation. *rules are optional additional rules that are up to you to decide if you wanna complete them.

4. I have a brief storyline/background for each generation but feel free to make up your own or adjust to fit your gameplay.

5. If you want to play as an occult sim for any generation go ahead! I won't be making any of them occult so you have the freedom for that.

6. Keep the same last name throughout all generations.

7. Feel free to move lots for the start of each generation but don't move during a generation. If you do this, roll a number between 1000 and 7000 for the money you can take with you.

Gen 1: Vicious

As a teen you had a relationship and your partner seemed almost perfect, as did the relationship. That was until you found out that they were jumping between you and another. Finally realising this, as a young adult you cut all ties with them and tried to move on with your life, first healing yourself before wanting to help others heal.

Main colour: Red

Traits: Hot Headed, Geek, Good

Aspiration: Inner Peace (move onto Zen Guru if you finish the first)

Career: Yoga or Meditation Instructor (choose a part time job as well if you want to)

Rules:

1. Complete the Inner Peace aspiration

2. Max the wellness skill

3. Find true love as an adult

4. Have at least one child

5. *Complete the Zen Guru aspiration

Gen 2: Read Your Mind

As a child your parent(s) always brought you up to believe in inner peace and that everything was hard but you could make it easy. However, you decided you wanted to live in reality. As soon as you aged up into a young adult you moved out and started to navigate the harsh world on your own.

Main colour: Yellow

Traits: Adventurous, Gloomy, Overachiever

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

Career: Business

Rules:

1. Complete the Renaissance Sim aspiration

2. Max the business career

3. Max the logic and writing skills

4. Adopt at least one child no younger than a toddler

5. Marry someone with the overachiever trait

6. *If you have Get to Work, open a business of your choice

Gen 3: Tornado Warnings

Growing up, your parent(s) didn't really have an awlful lot of time for you. They were very career and business focused but never parenting focused. You caused a lot of trouble as a kid in attempt to get their attention but it didn't work. As a young adult you find yourself a partner who isn't the best influence on you but you're both in love. You both always ignore those tornado warnings.

Main colour: Purple

Traits: Goofball, Jealous, Party Animal

Aspiration: Chief of Mischief

Career: Retail Employee

Rules:

1. Complete the Chief of Mischief aspiration

2. Max the Retail Employee career

3. Max the mischief skill

4. Be with a sim who has the kleptomaniac trait

5. Have as many children as you want

Gen 4: Because I Liked a Boy

Growing up with parents who cares more about fun than grades and behaviour, you developed a keen eye for theiving. Especially from your second parent. You never really wanted to work or settle down either, life was just a lot of fun for you.

Main colour: Pink

Traits: Kleptomaniac, Ambitious, Self-assured

Aspiration: Public Enemy

Career: Criminal

Rules:

1. Complete the Public Enemy aspiration

2. Max the Criminal career

3. Max the fitness and mischief skills

4. Never settle down/get married

5. Have at least one child from a "one night stand"

Gen 5: Already Over

As a teen you have a partner who is no good for you and you know it however, you can't get your mind off them. After high school you decide to end things because you want to be a better person, especially better than your parent and they weren't making that any easier. For a while you go no contact until one day they pop back up into your life and you can't help it, they're already over right?

Main colour: Orange

Traits: Art Lover, Romantic, Ambitious

Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire

Career: Painter

Rules:

1. Complete the Painter Extraordinaire aspiration

2. Max the Painter career

3. Max the painting skill

4. Have a long-term live in partner who you cheat on when the ex comes back into your life

5. Break up with your partner and marry your ex

Gen 6: Nonesense

Seeing your parent get back together with their one true love, their highschool sweetheart, made you want to find that kind of love. You have troubles along the way as you see the best in everyone even if they aren't that good. You do find your true love and live happily ever after.

Main colour: Rainbow (all colours)

Traits: Romantic, Neat, Cheerful

Aspiration: Serial Romantic

Career: Social Media

Rules:

1. Complete the Serial Romantic aspiration

2. Max the Social Media career

3. Max the charisma and media production skills

4. Don't find THE ONE until you've completed the serial romantic aspiration

5. *Have children with whoever along the way or with the one in the end

Gen 7: Skinny Dipping

Seeing what your parents went through to get together and being so happy made you excited to find love of your own. However, the one you thought was the one ended up having you swimming in the edge of cliff. Arguments and expectations, you want it to just be water under the bridge so you can find happiness.

Main colour: Blue

Traits: Active, Loves Outdoors, Music Lover

Aspiration: Soulmate

Career: Writer

Rules:

1. Complete the Soulmate aspiration

2. Max the Writer career

3. Max the writing and singing skills

4. Make sure your soulmate isn't the original partner (from the storyline)

Gen 8: Decode

You thought you'd end up having a big happy family in life. That was all you wanted. Your partner was very indecisive about having children with you so eventually instead of letting their confusion keep you up at night you decided there was nothing left to decode and ended the relationship. On your life's journey you found you didn't need a romantic partner to have a family.

Main colour: Monochrome (black/grey/white)

Traits: Family Oriented, Childish, Foodie

Aspiration: Big Happy Family

Career: Culinary (Cook branch)

Rules:

1. Complete the Big Happy Family aspiration

2. Max the Culinary (cook branch) career

3. Max the cooking and gourmet cooking skills

4. Have a minimum of four children with at least two different sims

5. *Find love in the end and settle down

Gen 9: Feather

Your life was laid out on a platter. Your parent(s) had a career in mind for you and even a partner but that wasn't what you wanted. You wanted to decide for yourself. Besides, that potential partner wasn't all that nice to you anyway. So you slammed the door on your way out to start your own life.

Main colour: Green

Traits: Music Lover, Genius, Clumsy

Aspiration: Musical Genius

Career: Entertainer (music branch)

Rules:

1. Complete the Musical Genius aspiration

2. Max the Entertainer (music branch) career

3. Max the singing, guitar and piano skills

4. Find love after your career is stable

5. Have two children

Gen 10: Opposite

This was it, you thought you'd found the one! Except when your wedding day rolled around they said "I don't" instead. Your heart shattered but to make it worse, only days later your saw them with another that was the polar opposite of you. That destroyed your heart. For good.

Main colour: Black

Traits: Mean, Loner, Perfectionist

Aspiration: Villainous Valentine

Career: Critic (either branch)

Rules:

1. Complete the Villainous Valentine aspiration

2. Max the Critic career

3. Max the charisma and writing

4. Don't have any children

If you play this legacy challenge whether you build, create Sims or share you journey I'd love to see! Use either hashtag #EICSLegacy #Emailsicantsendlegacy

[guppygiggles]

Top 5 characters? I wanna know your favorites cause we stan rambles

Ayyyy thank you for asking! 💙

God, this is a tough one...

This would probably be all OCs if I used them, (and you know Avery would be #1... hehe) so I'll do regular characters only.

1. Data from Star Trek... I love him very much. His fascination with humans and their emotions, his unusual physiology, his interest in the natural world, his desire to belong and integrate, despite being so different... His gentle kindness, and his "fish out of water" demeanor despite being obscenely intelligent and physically strong... Ugh. He's obviously an inspiration for me!

Oh, my god... I think I just realized he's Avery's voice claim, too...

2. Haruhi Fujioka from Host Club. I love her so much, I relate to her so much... the way she interacts with her friends, her dry humor, her mild personality, her obvious compassion and strong interest in her friends... Yeah. I have my qualms with the show itself, but I love her very much. I'd even go as far as saying that she was partially responsible for my beginning awareness of being nonbinary.

3. Sans from Undertale... Just, classic Sans, not any of the variants. Yeah, yeah, I'm basic. I'm just really into that whole "funny goofball who is secretly very powerful, traumatized, and/or both" type beat. INB4 I am also a massive sucker for wordplay, so this shouldn't be a shock.

4. Pazu from Castle in the Sky. This is my favorite movie, and I just love Pazu's gentleness, passion and sense of adventure. Everything about this movie is incredibly close to my heart.

5. House from House MD, aka Dr. Medical Malpractice, lmao. It's exceedingly rare for me to like a villain or an asshole, but he's just so flawed and damaged that his rare moments of gentle kindness and vulnerability hit me like a truck. I love Wilson also, and their interactions with each other. I rewatch this whole show from time to time.

This was fun, thank you again! 💙

[softlyapocalytpic]

Deacon

My interpretation of Deacon is very much in the camp of, “every good lie has a seed of truth”. Got no idea if that what makes a good lie, but I think it’s a fun story telling device so idc. I never want to take away from him being a liar because it feels like it’d be a disservice to his character, but from his dialogue it feels like there’s always that grain of truth. Rather than just flat out lies, he twists the truth. The only time it ever feels flat out is when you’re supposed to doubt him, (like that he’s been to Greenland or played cards with Mr. House). It’s wacky, outlandish, and he plays it straight because that’s apart of the joke.

Because at his heart he’s a goofball! I think that Deacon shows more of who he truly is than he realizes by the mere fact that he doesn’t really know who that is anymore. If you spend sometime time as the lie, when does it become the truth?

He’s so edgy in own head, but I think that his true colors show from his actions which are usually spent either a) protecting the people he loves, or b) keeping their spirits high. He may be cynical, but he doesn’t want to be. He admires optimism and hope and surrounds himself in it, and I think some of it rubs off on him when he isn’t looking.

How can he not? The way that I can hear his voice SPARKLE after you blow up the Institute… Like the whole world has just taken on a new brighter shade. But also the way that he fights, and he fights, and he fights even in the darkest hours of the Railroad. At times I think he feels beaten down and broken, like he couldn’t get up again, but then he looks at these beacons of hope like Dez, Glory, and everyone else and he can’t help it! While he definitely has the “man loses last bit hope he didn’t know he had” moment, he doesn’t stay in the darkness. He’s magnetized to the light. Something something a lantern in the dark hehe.

Piper

I’ve fallen in love a little bit with almost all of the Fallout 4 companions, and Piper is the latest 💞. I made a conscious effort to spend more time with her on my survival play through and she’s just so charming. Bethesda knew what they were doing and they got my pansexual ass hook, line, and sinker. She’s sweet, and awkward, and passionate, and quirky, and goofy, and driven. What’s there not love?

I think my Piper is definitely a reflection of what I’m feeling like in my early twenties, except a more fantasized “country girl in the big apple vibes” version. Life is an adventure, and oh fuck being an adult with responsibility is difficult. I care so much about my community yet feel so isolated for one reason or the other. She’s fighting for justice but doesn’t have it all together yet. She trips, stumbles, and is learning.

I think the biggest roadblock for loving her character had been the contradiction of being ostensibly pro-synth but also lambasting McDonough for being a synth publicly. However, when I took a look at that as a character arc I really began to appreciate her!

Piper’s point was never to promote synth hate, and I’m so compelled by her grappling and dealing with the fact that she did. That her constant strive to deliver the unabashed truth, along with her (rightful) disdain of McDonough as a person meant that she helped the paranoia. That she made synths the bad guys rather than the Institute at large. Her seeing the toll of a full out war with propaganda from all sides, and developing another layer to her belief system. An awareness of her words and how they effect people.

Cait

I know that for some character arcs it’s about learning to be okay in your own body, on your own, but it’s SO important to me that Cait ends her story with someone absolutely smitten for her. It doesn’t matter the gender (although I’m personally partial to a girlfriend for her), she needs someone to hold her. To be patient with her. To call her out on her shit when she’s being dumb, and stand by her through the roughest parts of her journey. I want her to feel warm, and safe, and held and to be surrounded by people who love and appreciate her.

Also want her to have a complicated relationship with drugs that isn’t easy, but that she feels like she has agency and choice over. That she doesn’t need to feel ashamed for her drug use! That sure she’s got baggage but she’s so worth carrying it. I want Cait to live an easy breezy life where she’s surrounded by laughter.

(Man I guess this was less meta and more me wanting to give Cait nice things lmao).

In such a bad mood after reading something that I won’t say more about because I don’t care for engaging in internet discourse! So instead I wanna post something positive! These are just some thoughts on a couple of the companions. Definitely not the full breadth of my thoughts, but I’m kinda just not in the mood to be critical right now. Just need something good to cheer me up. Hope it can do the same for you!

My interpretations generally tend towards the sweeter more optimistic end, and I’m aware of that. But I stand by them none-the-less. I want the wasteland to become a softer place, not a harder one, and I think that while characters start out in dark places they can be lifted out of that. Fallout already spends so much time really showing off the depths of the horrors of humanity and I think that it needs to foster hope. Hope and growth give meaning to the struggle. The violence may be pointless but then we can choose to be different. Idk y’all it’s nearly two in the morning and I just want some feel goods after being absolutely STEAMED.

If you wanna join in on the fun and add your own thoughts I’d love to hear them. About these guys or any others. I just picked a random three myself. It can be angsty! I just ask to keep things respectful and compassionate in how you talk about it.

[humblepoet26]

4. 6. 15.

4. what are you looking forward to?

At this point, stabilising my mental health. But also catching up with some family for my mums birthday dinner coming up. & taking my niece to the show/carnival thing that's coming to town next weekend.

6. is it hard for you to get over someone? -

Initially yes, especially without closure and having abandonment issues makes it slightly more complicated. I am getting better at learning to let go of what's not meant for me though.

But in saying this I am a pretty compassionate person so if you had a place in my heart, one way or another, you probably always will but I also know things mostly happen for a reason and obviously some people arent meant to be in your life forever. Some are lessons, which we're supposed to learn from.

15. personality description -

I am terrible at this one but ill give it a go. An actual fucking goofball with a heart the size of an ocean 😅 too fucking kind for my own good but the dorkiest sucker, I will make such a fool of myself to see someone smile/laugh. Pretty quiet until you can get me to open up. Creative and spontaneous, I don't always think things through but always try and find the good in things. I don't know, I'm terrible in talking about myself 🤦‍♀️

(I just asked a family member and these were some of the traits they said I have)

Adventurous, caring, loving, talented, loyal, sense of humour, tough, protective, stand up for what's right, hyper, unique, beautiful, one of a kind, stubborn. So there's from someone else's perspective too. 🤷‍♀️

[homestuck-iconz]

mmm hi mods! ny1 can answer but I have sum ships id like u 2 r8!!!

jadedave <3

jakeroxy (one of my newst otpd 4 sum reason...) <3

junerezi <3<

arajade <3

jasprose <> calliope

dirk <> jake

davepeta <3 jade

jane <> nepeta

tysm in advance & have a good day

-cupid

Mod John here! I'll give these ships the good ol inspection. o7

Jadedave <3 - 6/10

I think its cute! It's not my favorite or go to or anything, but I understand why people like it and I can also enjoy their goofy moments. Childhood friends to dorky lovers. Plus, I sorta dig opposite aspects together. Obviously it won't ALWAYS work, but it can be fun! They bounce off of each other well and always seemed a bit softer with the other.

JakeRoxy <3 - 5/10

Goofy! Something about Jake being able to confide in Roxy more and be himself and Roxy doing the same with this nerd. Or... what I assume it would be! I don't personally ship it, partially because I headcanon Jake as aroace, but I can definitely see where you're coming from! All I can think about is Roxy and Jake's friendship in this humanstuck au us Mods are in where Roxy is the first to know about Jakes bad living situation and goes to help him out.

Junerezi <3< - 8/10

I have ranked these two before but as John, but I LOVE these girlfriends! Terezi licks and is a weirdo with June and I think Terezi is an amplifier to June's weird nerdiness. They get on each other's nerves, but boy can they pull a good prank on you! June has to make sure Terezi doesn't make those pranks TOO crazy. Overall great ship, love these goofballs.

Arajade <3 - 9/10

I actually love this ship!! I prefer it more pitch, but it's still good! Like I said before, I do enjoy a good ol opposite aspects situation. Aradia is pretty adventurous and carefree, and Jade and her would go on adventures together. They are two weird girls in love and I love that for them.

JasproseCalliope <> - 5/10

I wanna call this "Jaspriope" tbh. Anyways, I've never thought of this before! I think it could be kinda goofy. They both have experienced some form of plurality, Jasprose who used to be two people (well cat and person), and Calliope who used to share a body with her brother. I could see how they could click and bounce off of each other!

Dirkjake <> - 3/10

I'll be honest, I don't really enjoy Dirkjake a whole bunch. I think they can be cute and work under some contexts, but it's not my personal favorite. However! I do understand why people like it and I think their care for each other is sweet.

Javepeta <3 - 8/10

I love these two goofballs!! I think they are both super cute together. I enjoy Jadepeta and I also like Jadedavesprite (Jadecrow is the best version of this.) This is one of those ships I have shipped for a while. I can't explain the best *why*, but I do love this one.

Janepeta <> - 5/10

I... don't think I would have ever thought of this one. I think there is something silly about Jane with cat girls that just works. At first I was like "ermm...", but it's warming up to me! I think Jane would find Nepeta endearing. I also think of how Jane knew Fefeta, and theres probably some connection there that isn't clicking exactly in my head right now. Cute though!

[queer-cosette]

15 Question Tag Game | OC Edition

Thanks for the open tag @just-french-me-up to answer these questions about my OC! I love talking about my beloved Carlotta Suero - she features in various Miraculous Ladybug fics, with focus on her in The world is still sleeping, while I keep on dreaming and these are times that can't be weathered (and we have never been back there since then), and it's been too long since I talked about her <333

Rules: answer the questions below as yourself and/or your OC. (I'd also add that you make your own post).

1. Are they named after anyone?

Yes! Her first name is after Carlotta Brown from Enid Blyton's Twins at St Clare's series. Carlotta Brown is, like my Carlotta, Spanish by birth and a bit on the wild side with a desire for adventure and refusal to bow down to a perceived authority determined to make her conform. Very fitting for my girl.

Suero is a Spanish surname that I chose because it was likely my dad's family's surname a few hundred years or so ago. We don't know at what point we left Spain for Ireland, but Suero is a common surname in the area we were most likely from. Lil shoutout <3

Her middle name, Estrella, is slightly after my friend Stella, who is possibly the coolest person I've ever interacted with in my entire life.

2. When was the last time they cried?

these are times that can't be weathered (and we have never been back there since then) actually addresses this! Carlotta made a (implied to be unhealthy) choice at four years old that crying is pointless after witnessing a beached whale die in New Zealand. Her mother, in an attempt to lessen her heartbreak, tells her that "We shouldn't cry at something so beyond our control!" and she internalises it very heavily until her mid/late teens when she discovers the horrific truth about Gabriel Agreste's favourite pastime, and slowly breaks down in tears thinking about how it's going to fucking wreck her friend Adrien (Gabriel's son) when he finds out.

3. Do they have kids?

No, largely because Carlotta has a lot of me in her, and I don't want kids. I also unintentionally designed her superhero alterego as having the colour scheme of the asexual pride flag, so make of that what you will.

4. Do they use sarcasm?

Yes, but mostly with her younger siblings. She tries not to with Adrien because he's (in my canon) autistic and also very sheltered, so he doesn't always get it and she hates being bitchy to him even by accident because it feels like kicking a small animal. She's more a deadpan snarker than anything else, sarcasm-wise. Marinette is very much the same way, so they'll watch bad movies together and snark their way through it as a bonding exercise.

5. What’s the first thing they notice about people

Voice undertones. Carlotta is visually impaired - she has occipital lobe damage from a skateboarding accident at age 13 and has hemianopsia as a result - so sound has become even more important to her than it already was. And it was important to begin with - as a diver, she spends a lot of time underwater, and sound travels faster and further underwater than light does. Since her accident, she's learned how to pick up on tonal significance very very accurately. She can hazard a scarily accurate guess within five minutes as to where someone is from and what they think of the person introducing her to them.

6. What’s their eye colour?

Dark brown with slight violet undertones, turning fully bright violet with her Whale Miraculous transformation.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

Both, in a way; Carlotta adores high-stakes adventure movies with happy endings. A few jumpscares go down a treat, so long as everyone's found peace by the end.

8. Any special talents?

Besides learned skills (scuba diving, playing violin, skateboarding etc.) Carlotta is weirdly good at convincing people she's way more of a goofball than she actually is. All her childish antics do a good job of concealing how genuinely intelligent and sharp-minded she really is.

9. Where were they born?

Maternity ward in Asturias, Spain, in the Spring of 2000.

10. What are their hobbies?

Scuba diving, playing violin, and skateboarding!

11. Do they have any pets?

Her mother has a service dog, a golden labrador named Honey, after she had a workplace accident that left her with multiple severe burns from the waist down; Carlotta herself doesn't really consider Honey to be *hers* though. She did have a magical underwater encounter with a juvenile sperm whale off the Azores who she named Herman, but Herman is, of course, a wild animal, and more a friend than a pet.

12. What sports do they play/have they played?

Carlotta is very into swimming and diving! She's a very powerful long-distance swimmer, and has competed in diving competitions. She prefers outdoorsey activities to actual sports, though - things like skateboarding and tree-climbing.

13. How tall are they?

Five foot eleven inches (same height as me!). I wanted more tall girl characters, so I made one.

14. Favourite subject in school?

Biology. She wants to be a cetologist, and has thus far managed to find a way to turn the topic of every essay back towards oceanic megafauna.

15. Dream job?

Part time cetologist (she wants to be the first scientist to film the birth of a blue whale) and part time superhero. Maybe both at the same time!

Tagging @hanaasbananas @theladyfae @private-bryan @multimousenette and anyone else who would like to talk about their OC!

[musicals-n-cartoons]

As threatened, I turned Luz into a sim. Specifically, the version of Luz in Thanks to Them, as that was set in the Human Realm. This version was made with no mods or DLC.

A lot more pictures under the cut.

Nothing controversial for the gender and sexuality section; I made Luz into a biromantic bisexual ciswoman. Sims are by default pansexuals who are exploring romantically, and so that's what I leave for the people with no canon sexuality, but as Luz is canonically bi, I turned the exploration option off for her.

The traits are the first place where I really struggled against the game's limitations. How can I compress Luz's personality into just two traits? Traits that could have fit include Cheerful, Creative, Goofball, Bookworm, Geek, Ambitious, Childish, Good, and Outgoing. But none of these traits really scream Luz to me. If I were to describe her in two words, I would have said kind and impulsive. In the end, I decided that Luz showed both her caring nature and her depression above all in Thanks to Them, so I picked Good and Gloomy. Tho now that I think about it, Outgoing and Gloomy sounds like a lot of fun.

There's no option to become a witch in the base game, so I gave her her backup aspiration of being a bestselling author. Completing that aspiration gives you the ability to "capture life itself in a book, and wield it to bring back someone they've lost" which sounds like a really fun fanfiction idea.

The hair is the second place where I struggle against the limited selection of the base game. There are not a lot of options for wavy hair that goes down to the neck but doesn't cover the ears. This is basically the best I could come up with.

Converting Luz's simple animated face into the more detailed Sims 4 style was a struggle, I must admit. I'm still not 100% satisfied with it, and I feel like I can spend forever going back and forth on the eye shapes. Or the eye size, the eyebrows, the nose, God, can one even turn her tiny animesque nose into a real one? And now that I think about it, her upper lips should probably be bigger. The base game doesn't even have any facial scars...

This is her everyday outfit. I based it on what she was wearing in the school scenes of Thanks to Them. The key piece of clothing is the varsity jacket which is, while the wrong color for Eda's jacket, still pretty nice. It's also classified as masculine, so a win for gnc Luz.

Her formalwear was of course based on the iconic Grom outfit. No tutus, unfortunately. Also, excuse the different poses. These sims can never stand still.

The athletic wear was based on her Boneburough Brawl design.

Sleepwear was based on her Thanks to Them pajamas.

I don't think Luz has ever worn anything like a party outfit, so this one was inspired by her Azura costume, on the logic that Halloween costume parties are a kind of party. I said "inspired" because I couldn't find any tailcoats, or even any purple and white suit coats. There is also a shockingly limited variety of hats available.

Luz's original design was too iconic to ignore, so I based the hot weather outfit on it. Strangely enough, I couldn't find a two-colored t-shirt. The lack of high-waisted clothing is the biggest sign that the Sims 4 is showing its age.

I wanted the cold-weather outfit to be based on her Adventure in the Elements design, but none of the clothes remotely fit, so I just put the alternative Thanks to Them design instead.

Here are the other people I made. I put far less effort into them than into Luz, so I won't show them in detail. I especially don't like how the boys turned out. I should do another crack on them at some point. I plan to do Eda and King later, just need to think on how to humanify King properly.

Now, I'm not going to pay a single red cent to EA, but if I were, what DLC would I use?

Realms of Magic is of course mandatory so that the witches can be converted into spellcasters (complete with pointy ears!). Cats & Dogs add a world with New England flavor, perfect for Gravesfield, and a vet clinic business for Camila. As these kids are teenagers, might as well add Highschool Years for more of Luz's angst (tho maybe a homeschool mod for the rest of the hexsquad?). Finally, Vee's shapeshifting disguise could be represented with either aliens or mermaids.

Fun fact: Sims can't be both Childish and Evil, thus proving that the Collector will be redeemed.

[mysteriouslybluepirate]

OFMD Favs Tag Game

I was tagged by- @likethehotsauce Thank you so much! Always love to rant.

(I'm probably not doing this right, cause I'm just using this a an excuse to look back on the parts of the show itself that I love, but I needed to write an essay today. And it's been months since I went back to my Stede/Ed roots. Before Izzy latched himself onto my brain. So here's some love!)

favorite Ed gif:

Look, I love ep7, especially on rewatches. Most rom-coms run into the trouble of not showing the audience our protagonists bond. They rarely get to relax around each other before the relationship really starts but that's what this episode is.

We've got Ed, who's starting to get comfortable/settled in around Stede. Stede having a fun little adventure, trying to make Ed thinks he's cool. Ed genuinely having a shitty day and finally getting that Stede cares about him. It's really fucking sweet. This gif just wraps that all up in a cute ball. The fit? Amazing. The lil hop? Adorable. Edward essentially telling everyone to shut up and just let Stede have his fun? Cute pre-boyfriend moment. He's a goofball, and this episode needs more love on here.

favorite Stede gif:

Yeah, yeah. Ed's here. But the scene is focusing on Stede and resolving an arc (my favorite thing), so it counts! Stede has issues feeling accepted. He has gone without a 'crew' for so long that he's unapologetically who he is. He already feels along, why the fuck would he care about dressing up and being a bit too 'feminine'? They already make fun of him for not being enough, he already feels along. Why wouldn't he try to be happy not giving a shit about what they think?

So, in ep 10, we see a Stede who feels accepted into a family. He gets to get up there with a silly little in-joke and have people put their trust in him. Are they doing this to get back at the Navy? Yeah. But Stede build himself a place where he feels like he can be accepted and welcomed. I don't always see Stede in the best light. Accountability is a huge thing for me, and S2 better include this guy fessing up for the hurt he's caused. But this scene always makes me smile when I think about it.

favorite Ed outfit:

:). I know what I'm about. I'm simple, and if you've been here a while, you already know. We get to see Edward proudly rocking Stede's lil handkerchief. The tummy is great, and so is seeing his tattoos. I always love a fingerless glove, and his jewelry is on point. Yes, I love Ed in soft fabrics. Especially the loose poet shirt moment in ep 4. But in my head, this is Ed being a frat guy and trying to seduce Stede. 'Usually the exposed skin and touching works :('. Cause this poor guy has had to seduce assholes like Jack, and isn't comfortable with opening up yet. Ed's also just having fun exposing Stede to 'pirate' things which is a favorite trope of mine.

favorite Stede outfit:

Unironically? All of them.

Next question.

OKAY. FINE. IF I HAVE TO CHOOSE-

Gender. Whole lotta gender right here. I'm a sucker for loose fabric and BOY.

Open Shirt? Yes. Hideously colored mustard robe that works because it's a part of the whole 'look'. Achieved. Rings? Amazing. Fluffy shirt that's a button-up? Yep, you could totally reveal more chest.

FLUFFY SLEVES!!!! AHHH. But seriously, most of his outfits are amazing. I chose like five different Gifs-before settling on this for the lace sleeves.

favorite Blackbonnet song:

Oh boy! Buckle up.

(I have 2 playlists with these 2 with around 40 total hours of music on Spotify from the 4 months post ep10 airing where I only read these two. So any answer I give is going to )

Stede POV specific('A Stede Soundtrack' on spotify)- Five Bells- CoCo and The Butterfields. Yes, I have better ones, but the general vibe is just happy, light, and in love. Excited for the future. (If this song is actually about something else, keep me innocent). With instrumentals, and dancing, and fucking joy. I love this song. 2.) Being 'May It Last'- The Avett Brothers if Folk music isn't your thing. 3.) 'The Bitch is Back'-Elton John For bitchy Stede. The best flavor.

Edward POV specific ('Blackbeard's Breakup' on Spotify)- Desperately in love Ed? 'honey'-Coastal Club. yes, I am a pet name Edward truther. Also a song about being excited by life and by love. If it's Stede Hating, Kraken era? 'Money, Money, Money'-ABBA. Yes, I know Edward is now the breadwinner, but it's very Him.

Gentlebeard. Sad era- 'Last Request'- Paolo Nutini. Oh shit, I have a crush era- 'I think I love you'-Specifically the Tenacious D cover. It's Jack Black, how can you hate it? Desperately in love- 'An Old Fashioned Love Song'-Paul Williams. This song has been in my Spotify top 100 for years. I fucking love it.

favorite OFMD fic trope:

HAHA! You didn't specify the ship, so I get to bring up Izzy.

SteddyHands specific- Stede&Ed working together/competing for Izzy to choose them first. Especially if Ed&Stede already know that Izzy has a crush on them but Izzy doesn't. I don't read this ship too much anymore, but this always made me happy.

Izzy Specific-Post S1 Izzy hunting down Stede, hijinks ensuing. Izzy gets injured, and this starts his character jornery into a mentally healthier person. Him getting loved tbh. Aslo, Izzy getting described as short. He's really not that much shorter than most of the crew. I just love when it's brought up.

Long fic- Anything character based, post S2 'reunion'. Essentially skipping how they all resolved S1 and skips to the fun parts. Love Izzy learning/starting to care for the crew. If reading a fic kinda feels like going to therapy, you're doing it right. Huge shoutout to anyone who has tried to break down how Izzy's brain works for angst fic. Also, Ed and Stede being held accountable for some of their more shitty actions.

Short Fic- You know what, I'll say it. I like soulmate (and adjacent) AUs. Love me a Hanahaki, or similar curses. If there's a story reason two characters are dubiously forced to admit their feelings, I'm there. I love that 'what if they don't like me' rant even though its destined, I love the holding yourself back to keep another person happy shit. Yes, irl, that'd be fucked. But since it's a short fic, it doesn't need to worry about all that.

Trope Tropes- Buttons being a Disney princess around animals. Lucius living in the walls. Izzy swears every other sentence. Any media of the Revenge (music, stories) being super out of time period. Two characters are falling in love, but are the last people to realize it. Stede being a pirate parent.

Ed’s hair or Stede’s hair:

I agree with what likethehotsauce said. Both fit the character really well. I can't imagine Stede or Ed suddenly shaving their head. It's a part of who they are.

If this is about me wanting their hair? I'm choosing Ed's. I've had Stede length hair for the past 2 years, and miss braiding my hair. Also, his hair looks soft as shit. Good to run your fingers through, etc.

longest gap between rewatches:

July 2022-January 2023. I watched it like 13 times post ep 10 aired, then immediately jumped into fan content. I'm a huge 'character' person when consuming media, so I generally enjoy doing that vs rewatching the show itself again.

Lucius is Hiding in the Ship vs. Lucius is Dead and a Ghost:

No corpse= Not dead. Once Ed and Stede reunite I don't think Ed would be able to forgive himself if he actually killed him. Lucius was saved by someone on the ship and hidden away. I do think Lucius will be discovered before the captains reunite. As much as I love ghosts, our guy is safe. Fearing for his life, but safe.

favorite Revenge crew member: OG Revenge-Frenchie or Buttons. If y'all haven't written him in your fics, including Buttons. He's so much fun to make the 'Cassandra' of your work! Let him be ominous and all-knowing, it's a great time! Frenchie because I'm always up for a bard, and he's a character that has so much potential. From being a bard to an 'assassin in training' with Izzy & Jim. They're fun to throw in!

Again, many thanks to @likethehotsauce! I would like to tag — absolutely zero pressure!!! I know most of you are mostly into Izzy, and I love hearing harsh opinions about Ed&Stede or general thoughts on the show looking back, after a year. @ivegotnonameidea @dianetastesmetal @gydima @downinthehull @treesofgreen @ladyrenity

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Sims 4 Bachelorette Challenge (starring me as the Bachelorette, duh)

Here are our bachelors! (Downloaded all these Sims from the Gallery, I didn't touch their traits or anything.)

1. Charlie Weasley - Young Adult, Spellcaster

○ Self-Assured, Adventurous, Unflirty, Animal Affection

○ Day 3 Relationship: Maxed out friendship bar, no romance

2. Usopp - Young Adult

○ Goofball, Loyal, Creative, High Metabolism

○ Day 3 Relationship: Friend, Very Attracted, no romance

3. Jon Snow - Young Adult

○ Gloomy, Active, Loner, Gregarious

○ Day 3 Relationship: Friend, no romance

4. Nanami Kento - Young Adult

○ Loyal, Ambitious, Proper, Spa Membership

○ Day 3 Relationship: Friend, Very Attracted, no romance

5. Masky - Adult

○ Music Lover, Gloomy, Self-Assured, Muser

○ Day 3 Relationship: Romantic Interest

6. Arthur Morgan - Adult

○ Materialistic, Good, Bro, Collector

○ Day 3 Relationship: Lovebirds

7. Adrian Tepes - Young Adult, Vampire

○ Loyal, Gloomy, Family-Oriented, Gregarious

○ Day 3 Relationship: Romantic Interest, but unattracted

Stay tuned for who will stay in the villa and who's romantic journey ends here, tonight at Sims Bachelorette! I'll try to post pics of everyone later.

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Gen 1. Snow White #49 Wedding Reception

@ratboysims Hold Me Closer Poses 4 La Coppia Serena by #orube1212, originally by #666kezza (EA ID)

After King Jeffery gave his toast, it was time to eat.

Everyone also celebrated Dwight's YA birthday!

The cake had to be pulled off the banquet table to work (sigh...)

(I didn't get too many good shots of the reception as I was running out of time...)

Afterwards, Snow and Florian headed to the honeymoon villa.

Rustic Honeymoon Villa by #schnuck01 (EA ID)

Teen Aspiration: Live Fast -> FAILED! (Didn't get invited to a college party. Basically none of my teens were able to complete this aspiration!) After-School Activity: Scouts Level 3 (Scouting Aptitude trait) New Aspiration: Ultimate Adventurer (Home Turf Trait) Traits: Goofball, Adventurous, +Childish Next Up: Britechester University Art History Distinguished Degree with Super Scout & Merit Scholarships

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Character #Inspo Pt 1 - Tad

Jason Mendoza from the Good Place

Jason has always been a solid point of inspo for Tad for me. It's the chaotic good energy of Jason, and the way that he's not smart in the sense that the other characters are, and yet somehow Jason also comes up with some solutions that the others don't because it's so out there. And that's something I feel that Tad very much is like. Plus there are some things Jason says or questions he asks that other people don't tend to ask and Tad is similar. He thinks of things differently and will end up on twitter asking those thoughts that pop up in his head.

2. Shaggy from Scooby Doo

This one is more about vibes and goofiness. The eating all the time and the stoner like attitude. That's something I definitely took into account with Tad and I got some inspo for. More when he was a stoner, but I think it's like a mentality too for him. Like loving food and vibing with his pets. Shaggy's got Scooby and Tad has Frodo the guinea pig and his pet rock.

3. The Dude from the Big Lebowski

The Dude has also been a lot of inspo for me for Tad. For the stoner nature, but also just like...the way the Dude just does not give a fuck about a lot of things. He's just trying to chill and vibe and get his rug back. And that feels like such a Tad type of worry lol. Plus this quote about not being Mr. Lebowski but being called the Dude. To me that's very like Samwise vs Tad. Tad is Tad and he prefers it that way. Idk this character is such good inspo for my guy.

4. Peregrin Took from the Lord of the Rings (Movie mainly)

It does feel ironic to pick a lord of the rings character that isn't Samwise, but hey lol, his parents guessed wrong about how he'd shape personality wise. So Pippin is yet another one of those goofy characters, only he has some growth and he ends up taking action and involving himself in things he never would have imagined in the beginning of the story. And to me that's a good character to take inspiration from for Tad. He doesn't pay attention to the important things that other people pay attention to a lot of the time, but like Pippin he can see strengths and goodness in people where other people might not. Idk I think it's a great character to take inspo from and maybe inspire me to continue Tad into a more heroic journey one day. Who knows, maybe not. He does like to just vibe. But Pippin is so funny and so good and definitely one of those I look to.

5. Bill and Ted from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Okay this is a duo but honestly, I could totally see this being Tad and another goofball in the rp. Or if someone wanted to bring another Finding Nemo bro (i.e. Sheldon or Squirt) I'm just saying. It could be most excellent. And okay yeah these two also give the stoner bro energy but that's truly where Tad stems from so this is more good inspo for my guy. Plus, Bill and Ted are nice guys and the message they want to spread is just 'be excellent to each other' and I think that's great. I also think Tad if he were in a situation where he met a philosopher would quote something like a song or a movie lmao. I don't have much else to add, they're just the vibe. Once again, if someone wants to bring a California bro to give this kind of energy...putting it out there in the universe.