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this next part is just me bitching but. the main interaction that lead to me making this post (combined with just. all of the incidents of me saying my current job and whoever i'm talking to goving me wayyy too much kudos for just Doing This Job and me feeling sooo weirded out bc like bruh it's not community service it is a Job that i am getting paid for. and this job is easier and pays better than my past job as a cashier but no one gave me kudos for being a cashier.):
during a work holiday party me and a couple coworkers were talking about this pair of clients we shared
and someone brought up how the husband was nice but the wife was a grouch (in my case, she was a little sour to me at first but actually became quite sweet once she got to know me. apparently she had not similarly warmed up to any of my coworkers. which, by the end of this conversation, i realized Exactly Why). no screaming or hitting or any other kind of abuse, not even direct insults, just generally being a bit impatient and condescending and grumpy.
and then my (already least favourite, lol) coworker was like "i straightup told her she couldn't be talking to me like that. that i was there to provide help and if she was gonna treat me like that then i wasn't gonna help her anymore."
and all of our coworkers there, INCLUDING OUR SUPERVISOR, were congratulating her for "standing up for herself" or whatever???
and like see if she was a cashier or housekeeper or whatever i would've been like "hell yeah, get their ass, demand respect on the job" but in the context of this job it really just rubbed me the wrong way because like.
1: we have a significant power over our patients that most other professions don't have over their customers
2: i question if she would have said that to a customer if she was a cashier or housekeeper, or if she only felt emboldened to do this/deserving of a certain degree of respect BECAUSE of the power we have over our patients
3: while we absolutely shouldn't tolerate outright *mistreatment* on the job (as i said above, we're employees, not fucking martyrs), i think we need to be a little more discerning over what constitutes mistreatment than many other professions do. like we gotta be able to think "yeah this woman is in constant physical pain, knows death isn't far away, and now has to pay money to have total fucking strangers coming into her house to do tasks for her that she used to be able to do by herself. it's actually pretty understandable for her to be huffing and eyerolling here and it's not a personal attack on my ego"
4: the way my coworker talked about being there to help like she was providing a FAVOUR rather than just... doing the job that she is getting PAID to
AND THEN this mf had the gall to be like "it's funny that she's planning on checking herself into a home in the next few months. they aren't gonna tolerate being talked to like that there and she's not gonna be in charge there like she is at her house." and like??? idk man i just don't think we should be treating losing power via institutionalization as a justified punishment
i wish i could say that i had some eloquent retort about disability rights and whatnot to stand up for that lady but i was just too fuckin dumbfounded to say anything
i think i've said it before but. as a professional caregiver it rubs me the wrong way how our field (and pretty much any field that involves caring for vulnerable people) is venerated
like don't get me wrong i am all for appreciating blue collar type professions, employees that are underpaid and overworked and vital for how our society functions
but it's a specific flavour of treating us like martyrs that doesn't show up when people appreciate construction workers or garbage truck drivers or janitors or fry cooks or whatnot.
it's a specific flavour of acting like we're doing a huge selfless favour for our clients that doesn't show up when people appreciate customer service workers or housekeepers or whatnot.
what's really ironic there is caregivers have far more power over their clients than customer service workers or housekeepers have over their clients.
and it just leads to so much shittiness in the industry. it's bad for patients cuz they don't feel like they can speak out when a caretaker is mistreating them (or even just doing something they don't like, even on accident), cuz they're expected to feel grateful for what the caregiver is doing for them. and it enables some shitty caregivers to get a complex about how their patients owe them gratitude for doing their jobs. isn't good for non-shitty caregivers too cuz sometimes the good ones then feel obligated to overextend and sacrifice themselves to be worthy of that gratitude.
just like yeah idk appreciate us but don't appreciate us any differently than you should appreciate any other worker i guess idk
#eliot posts#this is just me bitching about work lmao#but like this was wack right?#i'm not just being too much of a hater towards my coworker here right? like she was out of line?#all in all it's good that that coworker requested to stop going to that house tho. mainly for the old lady's sake lol.#i haven't been back to that client in a while tho cuz i like to work afternoon/evening and they usually need mornings#but i honestly rather liked them#anyway like. this isn't me thinking i'm some perfect caregiver or anything#like i have had to bitch about clients privately to friends before to get the bitchiness out of my system before next shift w said clients#(with personal info redacted both for hipaa reasons and general privacy/decency yk)#i am not even particularly skilled at this. i am a compsci major doing this shit as temp work#AND YET i am frequently told by supervisors and clients alike that i am exceptionally good at this or that i am their favourite#and for a while i chalked it all up to them Just Being Nice but i'm starting to believe some of them are being genuine#but instead of that making me feel good about myself it just makes me feel Horrified about the state of the industry#like all i do is treat them w respect and do what i can to minimize the power imbalance. and do my best to do my job well#like you're telling me THIS SCHMUCK *points at self* is one of your best workers??? that is NOT a good fucking sign
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Made it with an hour to spare 😎
Read right to left bc i Always end up with everyone facing the Worst direction for drawing their hair so i had to fix that--
This is so dumb sjshsshgd happy birthday Mephisto get surprise objectified i guess???
#obey me#obey me smut#obey me fanart#obey me mephistopheles#obey me mc#obey me memes#based on a true experience sfjzjgzjg#would like to state for the record that this isn't meant to be mephisto slander i find his annoyingness to be endearing--#also just picked all the boys i think would be most bothered by the situation + asmo bc. he knows all. obviously#my determination not to give my mc ANOTHER bitch vs my constant need to imagine how every character fucks dhjvdjs#(and I'm a sucker for kinda pathetic boyfailure types esp ones that would probably get indignant about being dominated at first lmao)#i did not try at all on the lighting in Levi's panel and for that i am sorry but i literally cannot work on this anymore zjsbbxbzbz#lucifer#mammon#levi#asmo#kuroo#mephisto#my art
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ah that holiday depression
#just doesn't really matter does it#people who have big nice organized christmasses: good for you#do not show me pictures.#do not tell me what you ate.#i will probably be eating toast for christmas dinner.#i don't live alone i just have divorced parents#and one is going to hawaii and the other didn't invite me over so i'll just.#be here i guess.#wrap presents for other people lmao which i do enjoy doing !#wish i could open something tho. just for fun#sigh... online orders could fulfill this need... unwrap something from ugly road-dirty plastic... i guess...#fuckin scrooge up in this bitch#ok also i started drawing a bit and it's UGLY and that made me UPSET#hurgle says things#i also haven't really slept in a few days bc i've been at work asjhbsgbsbgbs selling things to christmas people.#but that's definitely a factor#like this is 100% just that nighttime disease#but i feel sad about it !
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Giggling like a school girl whenever my mind settled on the headcanon of Mihawk unconsciously trolling Zoro during the timeskip like Zoro asked what's his training regimen and Mihawk answered farming aka just speaking his truth. So imagine Franky's confusion when Zoro asked him if he can build a farm in the crow's nest and honest to god, Franky sometimes forget that their crew is a little loose on the head and he expects Sanji to at least disagree with the idea but to his horror, the cook was supportive because who in their right minds would deny fresh ingredients.
#one piece#headcanon#one piece headcanon#zoro#mihawk#sanji#franky#strawhats#mihawk unconsciously instigating chaos is so on brand for him tbh#he's just like shanks in a way#that's why they work together lmao#but don't get me wrong#it's funnier now that buggy and mihawk are in the same group#shank's exes be bitching about him lmao#mochiajclayne.txt
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Lace, possessed and speaking directly to Rook: You took everything from us, and you thought you won. But we're still here. We will endure. In spite of you.
Lucanis: 😌🙂↕️😌🙂↕️
Spite, from behind Lucanis' eye: 😂😈👹
Rook: 😐🫥😶🌫️
Solas, from behind Rooks eye: ✌️🙂😔
#im sorry but giving the elves white guilt was a very funny plot twist i didnt see coming pfpfppf#datv#solas#rook#lace harding#datv spoilers#solas: yn what u got me there#and then making the SOURCE of the guilt right there come with us but just enough that he cant upset anyone#but gets to hear the weight of every fuck ass decision he made lmao#yeahhhh bitch u go back to ur room and THINK about what uve doney!#GO TO UR ELUVIAN RRIGHT NOW BITCH#can we adtually keep solas post game...hes like a little ancient problematic tomagotchi#lucanis wants to keep spite well rook wants to keep solas#HES MINE I HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE HE DOESNT WREAK HAVOC#works for both lucanis and rook#come get ur freak of a man hes doing things— no i set him loose#also works for both lucanis and spite and solas and rook lmao
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My inconsequential pet peeve with the dragon age fandom is the erasure of male Lavellan and the assumption all Lavellans romanced Solas. And that's the devs' fault cause like Solas should be a bi option or AT LEAST discuss the vallasin (i am not looking up how to spell that) thing with male Lavellans also. But that didn't happen soooooooo like...I don't do bald dudes and I like to play as funny little guys. Where is my funny little guy Lavellan rep???? He's very silly and he loves buff, emotionally constipated women who devalue his religious background and who leave him to become the pope (it's problematic tbh)
#obligatory no this is not all people who call Lavellan she#female Lavellans are cool too blah blah blah#Solas x Lavellan people though yall are...#idk that's your thing LMAO#I'd be all over the angst with Solas if it was gay shit ok?#and I just like Cassandra in gen she's my fav companion so i kiss with tongue#I also am a big fan of funny but big guy Adaar#That shit fucks esp. with a Dorian romance#anywayyyy i'm avoiding work to bitch about shit that DOES NOT MATTER WOWIE#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#lavellan#but i'm stil gonna tag to be messy hehe#me when i say things on tumblr like it's the hottest new gospel but it's actually stuff people have been saying for almost a decade#I'm such a revolutionary
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i literally had this post already drafted and was dragging my feet whether to send it or not; and then @reapersmarch tagged me for a wip so fuck it we ball
wouldst anybody perchance be interested in an fhr code chart like this? 👉👈
#thank you for the tag!! gave me that ounce of bravery that i think i needed :)#fallen hero#kaist speaks#rebirth is pretty much finished#but i think there is supposed to be a small update to it sometime so i want to wait for that#no need to have two different versions circulating#and also bc it gives me time to rest my eyes away from this thing and then do one last pass#i also need to write up a bit of a guide on how to use it#i made it with intention of being as instantly readable as possible but people are always different and think in different ways#so a small master doc just in case is always good (even for myself to remember for subsequent books hah)#technically i already started retri but then i thought maybe sharing rebirth first would be a good idea#get some feedback on what could be improved#bc making changes to what's already done is a bitch and a half#even though i mostly made this for myself for get-my-mind-off-stuff reasons#so i try not to psych myself out too much about making this perfect. it's just a lil project of mine for me&myself first#but if other people could use it as well then i would love to share it :)#i have seen a lot of great guides around but nothing quite like this so i hope i didn't accidentally double up someone else's work#(please let me know if so and i won't publish this ofc! would spare me work on retri too lmao)
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I've landed on some stuff about rye's awful ex-boyfriend: his name was Maxellan Anaxas, the youngest and most woefully superfluous child of the Duke of Cumberland. By the time of his early 20s he’d managed to make enough of a party boy menace of himself back in Cumberland that his family sent him off to Nevarra City to stay with an aunt in the hopes that she'd straighten him out. (it's hard to know whether this was intended as a punishment more for him or for her. Fambly politics!).
wanting to reinvent himself as a hashtag Intellectual upon his arrival at the capital yet blissfully free from any genuine intellectual curiosity or desire to apply himself to gaining any skill of his own, young max hit on the perfect idea: to revive and expand after a brief lull — in his aunt’s name, of course, he is but a humble servant to the family name — the grand tradition of the 'Duchess Games' of the late Duchess Ravria Anaxas (I'm a bit unclear on the timeline here, so for now I'm imagining that this would have been his grandmother or great grandmother and thus aunt’s either mother or grandmother in turn. I feel like she was a more private introverted person and resented the way the tradition had completely ruled the household while she was growing up, and she shut it all down upon ravria’s death half out of spite, even with the way it tanked her own influence. Five fucking minutes of peace and quiet with my cup of tea without some umm actually cumberland scholar infodumping at me PLEASE. Actually looking at it like that I kind of get her lol).
That shit was free real estate for a young man with new ideas and the urge to impress, though. That's right, max created a Salon tm where he befriended a specific set of the other capital nobles, called in some of his old contacts in cumberland, and rapidly surrounded himself with intellectuals, writers and artists of all stripes to act as patron for -- sunbathing in their reflected radiance until he too appeared to have a pleasing tan of intellectual merit. (he was actually pretty damn intelligent in his own right and especially good at deft social maneuvering, obviously, but he was also chased ever on by the snarling hounds of his many and crippling inferiority complexes from being raised as the kid no one had been clamouring for, the ‘oh. Yeah, and max. Of course. If we must’ of the family, and with very little ability to maintain his attention on anything that did not ultimately center on himself or could somehow profit him for any length of time. you know the type. He was is uncomfrotable when we are not about me. He may have been a little bitter that practical consideration meant he had to do all this in his aunt’s name and initially largely with her money.)
the deal he and his aunt eventually struck was that he managed her new growing art collection until it was the envy of the whole city with all the associated prestige and social clout (he had genuinely good taste and a knack for understanding and eventually guiding the market), and in exchange for handling everything public-facing or social for her she quietly sponsored his renewed party boy antics, art commissions and fancy dinner parties for his arteeste friends far beyond what his punishingly reduced allowance from his father would have permitted. (oh no how the family politics turntables, the fuckup family members have teamed up). And once a year it all came together in a series of debates and competitions to prove who was the smartest specialest little boy (gender neutral) in all the land etc. even the mourn watch received gracious invitations to leave their grave tending for a few days and participate. the levels of backbiting, in-fighting, professional envy, intricate rivalries and love affairs with associated duels and near-constant inebriation going on within his circle of influence as some of the greatest minds of a generation mercilessly competed against each other for maxellan anaxas' attention and generosity were, of course, near radioactive at all times, and that's exactly how he liked it.
now please imagine 19 year old rye ingellvar -- gangling, naive and self-conscious, just at the beginning of his transition, having barely ever spoken to anyone outside of the mourn watch before in his life and thought a little odd even among them, talented but too restless to consistently apply it to anything and so starved for any kind of affection after renn's death eight years prior that his subconscious was ready to do fucking Anything to obtain it who needs self-respect I am so lonely I could gnaw myself to the bone without help from any beetle -- dropped straight into this piranha tank of nevarran high society :') he never stood a chance, especially when max immediately sniffed out the possibility of adding a promising young watcher to his own private collection of devotees. ("he collected art for his aunt, and peple for himself," rye tells lucanis many years later, while lucanis vibrates with 'please please PLEASE can I kill him for you, I will pay you to be allowed to kill this man' energy. 'that is very sweet but you’re late to the party, unfortunately — I heard he already went and got himself killed in a duel a couple of years ago over fucking the wrong person’s husband' 'given the proclivities of your people, may I go out there and put him down again?' 'huh. there's a thought. let me think about it. also I love you <3')
I only have the barest outlines in my mind of the professor who served as rye's mage mentor growing up/shathann equivalent in his life, but I feel like rye getting together with max (after an intensely effective charm offensive on max’ part, he was very good at making you feel like the most special person in the room and even meant it this time, probably, at least until he got bored) would be the thing that made that relationship permanently cool after already getting strained as rye grew up and continued to be 'difficult', unfocused and underachieving despite his potential. she meant well and was right to try to warn him because as you can tell the writing was pretty much on the wall from the beginning (and for all her shortcomings in a parental capacity she had loved rye since he was all but a baby and didn't want to see him hurt), but a) in all of human history literally when has well-meaning sensible advice ever gotten through to a young person in the throes of their first big love and b) she was not particularly gentle with her advice.
in hindsight it was perhaps not a promising start to order him into her office to tell him "he is not good for you. he is not good for anyone, least of all himself. Yes, I wager he can be nice from time to time if he feels like it, but he is not kind, and you are too good to be just another addition to his inane collections. WHY are you wasting your time with some noble whelp instead of focusing on your studies, these last crucial years of your training??? did I teach you to be so careless with your duties?" and that's when resentment built up over years (especially since most of the actual nurturing part of parenting had been renn's domain and she'd been kind of helpless to help rye with the grief after he died beyond the odd watcher truism and awkward ‘chin up sport’ pat on the shoulder) finally broke its dams in rye's heart and made him snap back. (despite having some parallels here, the biggest difference between rye and taash’ base temperaments is probably that rye would never dream of talking back to any of the adults in his life growing up the way taash does with their mother lol he was more of the people pleaser who nevertheless couldn’t seem to please anyone/high masker. More given to Flight and Fawn than Fight overall, but with that repressed rage building up even banished to the deep even more for it, of course.)
so after he's shot back with uncharacteristic ferocity that "so when exactly am I going to get to have anything other than duty in my life? do I have to stay down here among the dead and wait until I join them to be allowed to have anything of my own at all??" and she's answered "...that is what the order asks of us, ella -- I mean, rye. watcher ingellvar" more perplexed to hear him raise his voice with her than angry in turn but completely at a loss for what to do with any of it........ there wasn't really much left to say. and so when the predicted catastrophe unfolded over the next few years like a very slow yet inevitable train crash with the relationship rye had hoped would be the big good thing that could make it all mean something turned increasingly toxic and controlling, there wasn't really anyone there to catch him as he crumbled nor help him pick up the pieces afterwards. (which then as now also has a lot to do with him not letting anyone in to help him; he did have some watcher friends who sort of tried but were gently rebuffed until they mostly gave up.) and that's partially why rye is the way that he is today probably. the first thing/person to get through to him and his depression after all this was varric almost a decade later, and that in turn is why the realization of what actually happened to varric sealed solas' fate so irrevocably.
I think rye and mage mentor did reconcile a bit before she died when he was in his early 30s, but in a way that mutually and ruefully included the understanding of the things they couldn’t be to each other and the acceptance of that. That might be the only funeral of someone close to him where he lead the ceremony, at her request — with renn he was just Baby and numb with grief, and with harding ( :’( im so sad) and varric he’s too torn up about it still and emmrich kindly steps in when the team come together to have a little memorial post-game for everyone lost.
(re: the inferiority complexes and charm offensives: yes, max is who rye means when he tells illario he reminds him of his ex. (‘Not in a good way.’) And illario not unsympathetically is like ‘yeah I get that a lot’ and it’s ironically one of their most simpatico moments. During that interminable dellamorte family dinner party, they truly Got each other.)
tl;dr: rye may have had a very bad relationship in his early twenties that almost ruined his life (he very nearly didn't finish his trials to become a watcher because of it, breaking up with max for good literally like. a week before the point of no return and having to do half a year's worth of work in that one fevered hungover week lmao, that orb he keeps in his room is a miracle in several ways) and that made him even weirder at intimacy than he already was naturally, but at least it permanently vaccinated him against the particular 'prove yourself to me and I'll give you my honest respect, trust and affection (prommy, this time for sure)' game that solas likes to play with people. I think even feeling the impulse to impress solas rise within him would make rye immediately nauseous and 'lmao nah baby I've been here before I've seen this room I've walked these floors and it sucked the first time around too. Fool me once shame on me fool me twice I’m ready to bite someone’s throat out actually.'
#BIIIG blorbo lore drop out of nowhere! idk. I've lost control of my life etc. as you can tell by my complete capitulation to parantheticals#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#oc: Ellaryen Ingellvar#rye's backstory side cast has reached that level where I genuinely forget they're not strictly like. canon which is always a good sign haha#(unironically btw it means something has started to come together well enough in my head that it's alive in its own right now#no matter where it came from. see also me having to remind myself that zero does not have a sister canonically I just made that up lol#once you've made a series of little guys so deeply they become inseparable from the weave of the narrative for you you know you've arrived#I hope that translates ok if/when I ever try my hand at purely original work (well. we must be allowed our dreams#however wildly unrealistic in the moment lmao :') ) also: see what I mean about the parantheticals. bitch I DO live like this pls help)#I like bumbling parent professor a lot she makes the whole thing make a lot of sense and I am charmed by her lack of rizz#good addition. gifting renn a stiff socially awkward buddy cop partner in platonic coparenting since his actual on and off gf#is in like. starkhaven most of the time and then dumps him#rook x lucanis#rookanis#tagged mostly for myself so I can come back and think about lucanis brimming with the urge towards protective murder lol#long post
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i haven't checked the lstwt since kaboodle left. i open up twt and oh that's a clip of derapchu calling his fans replacable. I close twitter.
#grem rambles#Using my monthly bitching session rn#But that's fucking wild#It's awfully horribly worded#Like yeah people come and go that's literally how fandoms work#But ccs don't get to dictate how people choose to leave#I get that all those Leaving lstwt :( posts are silly#But those posts are probably addressed to their friends in the fandom.#And not a cc who's constantly checking what the fandom is up to#And to say that everyone in this fandom is replacable is fucking insane ngl#Way to objectify your own fans#Tell me you see your fans as numbers without telling me 💀#Maybe he doesn't care about his own fandom but fuck off man#The people you say that are replacable are my friends#I met absolutely amazing people in this fandom and the fandom space would not feel the same without them#Btw lmk if he doubled down on it or not please LMAO#I saw 1 clip and went on a whole tangent#I already don't like the way he belittles fanfics and sexualized the hell out of that one edit of zam arts#So this was like. Cherry on top#It's also just plain sad how some ppl in the fandom are trying to defend him like 😭😭😭#Discourse#Derapchu neg#I suppose 😭#Not exactly a neg but more like a Goddamn he really did just say that
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Sims 2 CC Mega Post
I say 'mega' but there really isn't a whole lot, I just didn't wanna split it up. Anyway, yeah, I mostly and normally and prefer to make Sims 4 stuff, but I made some Sims 2 stuff for me last year and this and I figured, may as well share it. Most of these require outside meshes so keep that in mind, Sims 2 CC downloading is a bloody nightmare.
Alex Skin
So I made a custom skin with tattoos for Alex as it seemed simple enough to do. Ain't gonna look perfect, but it looks fine from a distance, same resources I used for my Sims 4 versions, so I did vector the rose and skull. I based the skin off these default replacements. You don't NEED these, but they make it so that everyone matches. Yes that site requires an account and login, it's NSFW, it has body hair and works with nudity. Because obviously I play with mods like that. I made the skin look right for Fit/Thin/Fat but I didn't bother with any age but adult nor did I bother with female, because, idc. I THINK this is Alex's hair mesh, but idfk, I have so many that look like this.
It also works in Castaway Stories, as does all of these, because I used them in it too. :> That made Alex the palest guy on the island as all the skin tones in Castaway Stories were shifted to one tone darker per. I manually put my replacement skin in that too, but I didn't have the darkest, so no body hair to them.
Streaked Jack Hair
You need this mesh to make this work. I made this for myself as I didn't really like anything else I had for him, and this is Sims 2, so I went with earlier hair, and I liked how this mesh looked. Loosely based on like this hair. I didn't bother with other ages beyond adult again. I would have if I decided to de-age him and send him to university, but I did that with Otto instead.
Again also works in Castaway Stories, as I used it, again. It's easy to import Sim's faces from 2 into the stories games.
Awsten Tricolor Hair
Awsten Red Hair
You need this mesh to make this work. The bright green in that is also great and I used that for him at first. These are his eyes too, or rather his right eye. No screenshots of the red hair, but it's just a bright plain red in case you prefer it. I made this hair as it looked okay with the colors kind of being randomly spread around the mesh. This is his outfit btw. Again only works with adult as far as I'm aware.
BONER Shirt
R&R Shirt
NoRegRetsShirt
JALEXShirt
BMTHShirt1
BMTHShirt2
BMTHShirt3
BMTHShirt4
You need this mesh to make these work. All of these are Everyday fashion only by account of only the Everyday category having the option for separates and these are all tops. Don't ask me what pants I use, I have so many downloaded, but these work with all of them.
As it turns out I didn't take screenshots of all of these ingame, but maybe these help with that.
PTV Hoodie
DropDead Hoodie
You need this mesh for the PTV hoodie. I don't THINK the DD hoodie needs anything external, I compared it to a vanilla mesh and it seemed to line up. I don't know, I made it last December and I didn't log everything I did. Like the shirts above, Everyday category only as they are tops.
As a bonus, here's some misc Sims 2 screenshots to hit the image limit, including this stuff and with no context to my game. I know most people on modern computers play with The Ultimate Collection, but I installed it via discs, and a few ISOs as I didn't feel like spending $30+ for a few missing stuff packs on eBay. :) Pretty sure those ISOs are why my game is British and I have to always manually set the clock and a few other small things every time I load it. Not a big deal to me, just felt I'd mention for clarity. Castaway Stories is from an ISO too as have you SEEN those prices on eBay?! I have Sims 3 on Disc too, 100%, never made any CC for it tho. I love how Sims 2 was out at the peak of, ahem, mid to late 2000s culture so a lot of CC for it is of it's time in the best possible way. I kept this theme going with adding in custom music that ONLY existed from before 2009 (so 2008 is my cut-off date) and it's fun only hearing music of the era ingame. :) I DID make stuff for Sims 1 too years ago but I don't know how I even really did it so idk how to make more and also I don't care that much. I wanted to try playing with Alex and Jack in Sims 1 too but I kept getting fucked up files that didn't work or look right and I didn't know what I needed to do to make it right and I didn't wanna waste more time than I already did trying to make their faces. I do have semi-not ugly faces and outfits for a couple others tho.
Oh yeah, all this stuff is made in the Body Shop and GIMP for textures.
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#sims 2#sims 2 cc#ts2#ts2cc#sims 2 download#sims 2 cas#alex gaskarth#awsten knight#jack barakat#bring me the horizon#pierce the veil#Sims 2 is chaos and drama and no one attracts chaos and drama in my game like Alex and Jack do#Their house is a haven for enemies to come by and steal their newspaper knock over their trash can and pick fights#So the yard is often a biohazard of trash and inside isn't much better as both of them are slobs and Jack is lazy#Also they're engaged to each other despite both their aspirations hating commitment go figure#Jack did it I didn't they just somehow decided to accept despite getting negative memories for it lmao#Alex is a crybaby who's hard to satisfy and Jack just wants to make out and woohoo he's a lot easier#But they both have a lot of enemies who they fight a lot especially Jack as it feels like no one like pranks in this game#And I use him to attack Sims who are mean to Alex a lot too as Alex gets a lot of shit from townies for some reason#Awsten likes them as he likes to eat trash and also he's a werewolf and he just doesn't seem to care about much of anything#I had a case where Rian kept coming over and inviting himself in to make out and woohoo with Alex while beating up Jack#Now I got Jack and Rian to kinda get along but Rian is grumpy and it doesn't take much from Jack to set him off#Otto also hates Alex and likes Jack but again drama drama drama#I totally get why Sims 2 was really popular with middle aged moms in its heyday its like a soap opera#Geoff exists too as a werewolf as he wanted to be one and I just used him to turn Awsten as well#I brought Awsten and Geoff on vacation with Alex and Jack as I wanted to meet Bigfoot and have Jack flirt with him#But I needed mods to do that grrr#Also Alex got pregnant on that vacation but we don't have to talk about that it made him very difficult to work with#But he kind of already is a little bitch all the time anyway#sims castaway stories
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WORST part of replaying this game. Is that i actually *have* to progress through (most of) it to see Kerry again... Like having to wade through little chocolate gold colds to get to the real shit that ACTUALLY matters.
It actually sucks you meet him so late in the game and only get so much time with him :( especially because I (personally) find his romance and plotline to be one of the more developed slash more enjoyable ones and I just :( wish they gave us more time with him ugh I jUST MISS HIM OKAY GUYS I MISS THIS OLD MAN!!!
#if i *HAD* to rank the romances the fate of my first born on the line here#I'd have to say Judy then Kerry then Panam and... unsurprisingly... River (they did him the dirtiest yall 😭)#judy because hers is not only so well developed#but also actually extremely extremely vital to the main storyline unlike the others and ties into the plot really well#kerrys is also kinda important to the storyline in the way its legit just kinda a johnny side mission#especially if you want that extra percentage towards yalls relationship to unlock some of the endings slash dialogue#and panams does feel like it kinda strays from the main storyline but you do meet her because of it (going 2 find rogue for the first time)#so it still ties in well enough#but river.... oh my boy how they didn't even give you a chance to run before walking.....#he just feels so disconnected from the rest of the story... which couldve worked!#it wouldve been fun to let V have relationships and interactions that didnt just revolve around the fact they were dying#river couldve been that respite for them that break away from reality that safeplace for V to just.. take a breather from hit after hit#after disastrous blow as gods own personal chew toy that game made them out to be#it couldve worked! so well! but its the fact you can FEEL how underdeveloped he and his plotline (as a character even)#how rushed it is. how they didnt put the same care and love into him as they did for judys and kerrys story#how they gutted HIS ROMANCE FROM THE POTENTIAL ONE THAT WAS PLANNED HAD WITH TAKEMURA#lik he isnt even his own character but this character stitched 2gether frm scraps of others they didnt have time or energy to fully develop#i feel so bad everytime people talk about how much they hate him and his plotline bc its not his fault guys#hes a victim of cdprs poor planning and writing 😭#like im sorry man but it was kinda a stark slap in the fucking face to going from rescuing his nephew from a fucking trafficking ring...#and the next literal mission we're macking up on the tower overlooking the trailer park#like that shit felt so forced 😭😭😭 where was the natural progression????#the chemistry besides a few offhand comments frm fanily shoved in 2 seconds before the tower 2 force it 2 make sense???#WHERE WAS THE FLIRTY DIALOGUE WITH THE OTHERS???#girl if he told me if i wanted to join him in bed like KERRY had the 1st time we met#bitch u know i would've been crawling on my knees like a DOG jumping str8 up onto that bed#LMAO anyway lost the plot this was a post about Kerry and i guess it kinda still is i just 💚 rambling in the safety of tags#cyberpunk 2077#kerry eurodyne#ult speaking
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im too deep down the silly rabbit hole... all of these ppl in the comments on various old man daniel craig interviews like he's so rude! he's so grumpy! ugh he hates talking about Bond so much, so ungrateful! and Im here like don't worry mr craig I understand you ... you just have a rly dry British sense of humor.. and also you ARE kind of tired of ppl making everything about Bond when ur not even on the press junket for Bond...
like. u gotta understand. this is an old man who according to Jamie Lee Curtis is NOT on any socials. The man is an actor but he is not an Influencer. off stage/out of character he's gonna be himself he's not gonna try to be a Brand
#also honestly. as someone who also will talk a lot but hates answering pointed info-gathering questions abt myself lol#I feel like I lowkey get the impulse lol#like ill talk about my thoughts but (for me) do NOT 🤚 ask about my personal life#no questions about what I do for work or if I have any siblings or etc.#you will learn that info the way god intended- naturalistically thru what I let slip lmao#but also do Not seem like you are keeping tabs on that info and bringing it out to me. keep that shit to yourself#you are allowed to collect info but Not allowed to trot it out as if you have some running dossier on me#but also mostly. his sense of humor is just very British & dry lol. and as a sarcastic bitch myself. I relate
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mizutaigen is literally like. the first "toxic" m/f ship i've ever cared for. cuz like usually my taste in m/f ships is basically "unhinged baddie" x "badass wifeguy" *
* (see:yen/geralt. trevor/sypha. adolin/shallan. kataang but katara is sane and they're literally so wholesome like theyre traumatised kids in love who are each other's emblem of hope in a war-torn world! so basically they don't count. anyway. i'm rambling.)
and to that end my friend called mizutaigen yaoi-adjacent and im like. yeah you're right actually cuz like hell yeah non-binary mizu and bisexual taigen rights and all the gender fuckery in the show in general
but also like.
theres just SOMETHING else about mizutaigen that just GETS me. like there's a special secret sauce like the pheromones in that one sephora lotion attracting spiders and i am the silly spider!!! there's just something about it!!! it's not even the enemies to lovers trope cuz i personally am not even usually into that (obv it's fine if you are. but yk.)
so as i keep rotating these thoughts around i thiiink it's the fact that, yknow, theyre so similar. like i honestly truly think they could be besties in another universe: a kinder universe where taigen was not taught to hate. a universe where mizu was not born a girl in a deeply misogynistic society or half-white in a xenophobic homogeneous society.
yeah now that i think about it that really just might be THE secret sauce!!! like the fact that they COULD be perfect and happy together, if only things were different, if only they werent themselves.
smth v bittersweet about that's just driving me insane and makes me want to root for them to overcome all those obstacles, to say "fuck all that" (re:the world and all its fucked up shit) and find each other in the end. to eventually become each other's fav person and confidant. who obv still bicker and tease and insult each other all the time but they dont really mean any of it and over time it just becomes a running gag between them and no one else has to get it because it's just between the two of them.
#mizu x taigen#taigen x mizu#taimizu#[clenches fist] it's about the POTENTIAL of it all!!!!!#like taigen's last words in s1 being 'we're not done yet' like ?!? has me WANTING to see more. wanting to see them grow with each other#like i want taigen by the end to be ridiculously head over heels WHIPPED and SMITTEN willing to die and kill and just be BETTER. for mizu.#mizu. the person who changed his entire life. his entire worldview. pulled the rug from under him and made him a man forever changed.#to overcome his selfishness so he can be mizu's HOME in a world that doesn't allow her one#i want him to end up deciding like. 'on purpose. im going to love you on purpose.'#and mizu no matter how much she tries to convince herself that she cannot love or be loved. ends up accepting it anyway#love as work and violence but also love as rest and safety#and also bcs taigen represents the ideals of society. him willing to change & grow also represents society's potential to change & progress#LMAO okay sorry i absolutely cannot stop rambling about these bitches the brainworms are insane#bcs i just noticed that other mizutaigen enjoyers tend to also be in the same fandom circles for ships that i just. do not like. at all#and wondered like huh. i wonder why that is. and wondering what makes mizutaigen different#idk just ignore me i dont even know if im making sense my brain is goop from working on my research proposal#shut up haydar#fandom.rtf
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Spirit animal SQH
#svsss#shang qinghua#but mainly I'm just here to vague post LMAO I don't like to vague post its not very effective in terms of venting but#but basically I guess I'm becoming hyperaware of my like... cognitive dissonance codependency and derealization ee#also my general laziness ig and where it overlaps into executive dysfunction or whatever like I may genuinely have some issues but#I am also a lazy son of a bitch jfjfkgkg and i need to figure out how to figure it out so I can work on both in more effective ways hhggg#oh yeah but basically the thing to remember for later is the silence in the call and the immediate unmute and chat activity once I left#I should remember this and stop interacting I think? I should try to give em space I think I'm being too clingy or something#or maybe my own silence is too awkward and dampens the call? I was kinda just spacing out and not doing anything so I get its kinda weird#LMAO so I should just like try not to be in call for those times mm#I just like being in call with my friends jdhfkg but I suppose its not very good either#I overindulge I suppose another friend pointed it out to me before too haha but fjfjjt its just easier than facing bouts of dread by myself#eehh and that's why I gotta do something about my Metnal Ailneses hfjfj but ngl I don't really know how to go about it...#I get embarrassed looking stuff up djfnfkg and half the time I don't even know what to look up I just draw ?s and I give up#I suppose I also have commitment issues too but that ones not new which is an issue of itself aaaaaaaa#man idk idk I just don't really get it I guess djdjfjf and I've got existential dreads and think maybe it doesn't really matter whats wrong#cause there's no point to fixing them because ultimately I'm gonna die alone and a failure anyways? so like ehfjgkg idk#its depressing and I know its like sabotage cause my brain is being a little silly a little goofy and its not a shared sentiment#with the better half of me and the entirety of my friends but yknow its just ee harder sometimes to believe in the optimism ig#and i can talk about it somewhat normally and without like having a ✨️break down#but yknow djfjgkg I'm very emotional a person ya? I think sqh is relatable for gods sake 💀#irrationality sentimentality nihilism and existential dreads... wanting to die because living is too hard despite all my hopes for living...#just the ol regulars yknow?#and another thing... do I talk to my friends about these things? I vent them out here a lot but what do I really want?#I'm not strong enough to keep it to myself clearly but I'm also too proud to share these thoughts? I dump them out in the open and for what?#whenever someone reaches out with concern and care I don't respond in kind and refuse to elaborate?#so like what do I want with this? I guess I want someone to know I'm going insane half the time I'm awake? but not do anything about it?#that's pretty unfair I guess... and stupid I think I do want to share my thoughts with someone but I'm too scared of the ramifications#and that my pride can't stand the fact I might be looked differently by my friends even tho the image they have of me is already quite silly#man.... idk.... I'll come to conclusions myself and do nothing about them so I guess that'll happen again aah idk idk idk
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i wanna sit on the floor behind a coffee table eating out of takeout boxes with rin whilst i rant to him
#cora talking#STOPPED WORK JUST TO SAY THIS LMAO#me and rin gossiping about his bitch brother 5 years into our friendship so true#rin is a GOOD LISTENER. he hates whoever u hate. on god#he’s like “u should’ve told them to shut the fuck up” and he’s so serious#oh RIN U R MADE FOR A 2000s MOVIE TO MEEEEE#submerge and awaken: rin#fragments of memories: selfship#fragments of memories
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#17 Snailshade
no one really knows what this guys deal is bc he doesn't like or talk to anyone. Honestly the only reason he stays in RiverClan instead of fucking off to be a loner is for the security. He prefers vanishing early to patrol by himself, which he usually can do as even the deputy occasionally forgets he exists for days at a time.
#warrior cats#snailshade#SunDrownCove#warrior cats oc#yarrow draws#local guy who has been quietly working the same office job for like 10+ years#and is clearly annoyed by the job and by all of his co-workers but this place pays his bills and offers good health care benefits#honestly i just wanted to explore the realistic idea that not every cat in the clan would be the same cookie cutter--#'im going to be the BEST warrior and i love the clan and have no other thoughts about it!!'#snailshade is a slightly more extreme example but luckily current riverclan leadership is pretty lax if ur not actively causing problems#sometimes a bitch is just there for the health care lmao#and the boss decides the pros of their service outweigh the cons of not always being a peppy Team Player#morningstar at his warrior ceremony / job interview: 'here at this company we like to think of each other as FAMILY--'#snailshade: shut up. here's the documents you wanted. give me my paycheck.
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