#while the game is THIS BROKEN

[florwal]

haven springs (minimal cc)

inspired by life is strange: true colors

LOT INFO:

50x40 lot (totter park in copperdale)

lot type: generic

everything but the florist + dispensary are shells

*cc included but also requires basemental drugs*

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[xfand0mfr34kx]

shape idk

[hamsternamedmarinette]

@yeet-noir 's conversations with AI Adrien have been living in the back of my mind for days. So I drew them

Bonus (my favorite):

[tinni404]

[mrkanman]

ohhhh on god we are slaying that princess...

[cubicpeebles]

ANOMALY

My headcanon for Enot is that they are immune to the lore due to basically just being a sentient glitch, which Saint does not even remotely understand.

(Bonus under cut!)

[skidthelid]

Guys would you still love me if I was into Uncle Samsonite

[noelle-v]

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[districtunrest]

not to guy-ify another taylor swift song but 'i can do it with a broken heart' is as much about peeta as it is katniss, if not more so

[qoldenskies]

Thinking the awful thought of how much worse the curse could have potentially gotten if April and Splinter had been affected somehow.....or even just. If Donnie had decided to stay at April's for a while out of the belief that maybe if he was out of the lair things would calm down. Like, would they have eventually gone looking for him because the "dying" part of the curse wasn't fulfilled yet? Would they have eventually been willing to put APRIL in harm's way because the curse made them think she was trying to protect him or something? Like the fact that this could have easily been made EVEN WORSE by just a few small things is what's gonna keep me up at night OP (pos) (Also I'm so so curious to know what the trigger to the curse starting even was, if it was a spell that was cast or something that was a small detail in the fic that nobody's picked up on yet, and if Raph Leo and Mikey even noticed anything was off or not until it was far too late. I am connecting dots that haven't even been fully connected)

dude dude dude i think about it a lot. how if donnie had stayed with april, it would have been worse (and there's a very good chance they could've lost april in the line of fire, too, if he was safe with her for a long while. the curse doesn't change their feelings on each other, it'd just have to get bad to a point where they would GENUINELY put their murderous hatred for someone above her life). how if he'd actually gotten out instead of running for his dad, it would have been worse. the curse would get worse and worse and worse until he died, and the longer it was held off, the more aggressive the treatment. the exact situation he was in saved his fucking life. raph putting his hands around his throat saved his life. that was the best possible outcome short of him being consciously aware of there BEING a curse, and he was too far gone for that to happen.

its sososososo tragic. like they're more grateful than ANYTHING with april doing what she could while they couldn't, even if she was stumbling in the dark, but that had the potential to have been dangerous and i dont even think they'll ever realize that.

[lesbianshadowheart]

the lack of fandom insanity about aloy hzd is crazy to me.....she was literally born of immaculate conception to be the saviour of a world that doesnt want her. she was the loneliest girl in the world the first and last of her kind. while gay

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

I think Slay the Princess is so popular partially because the *gets stabbed* "I'm in love" reaction is both intentional on the part of the developers and then they completely follow through on it.

[its-all-papaya]

close enough!

close enough is shave fic

haven't touched her in aaaaages because of dad lando and i'm not sure when i'll re-invest. i need to go watch that video from the fall where that one interviewer goes "oscar's smooth like a baby" or w/e and lando immediately goes HE SHAVES. bc they did that for this fic specifically.

now that i've written smut fr, though, it does make me more confident in my ability to write shave fic, because i think the appeal of the whole thing is kind of that oscar being close enough to lando's face to shave it (and also the soft dom energy of performing someone's personal care for them) is like. sexy. and would turn lando on. and oscar def notices the first or second time he does it but doesn't say anything, but then once lando shows up to break padel with his goatee back, and oscar realizes it's because lando has only been shaving when oscar does it for him.......... that emboldens him.

oscar murmuring "tell me if you want me to stop" as he leans over to suck lando off is like 75% of the inspo for shave fic i'm ngl. it's gonna be 'undernegotiated' on ao3. it's gonna be 'light dom/sub' on ao3. it's so tasty TO ME (and my fictional lando) to imagine oscar deciding when lando will have facial hair or not.

anyway! shave fic!

[cowardstiel]

shame that bc of the (disastrous) release of cyberpunk 2077 it became everyone’s favourite AAA lolcow. bc it actually is very awesome

[wolfavens]

24 Favorite Screenshots of 2024

i was tagged by @spacexbug & @its-opheliasgarden - thank you! tbh i didn't really like anything i did on this blog this year 🤷‍♀️ fact is i was pretty distracted most of the year and didn't have any motivation to create sims content... or any content really. 😅 unfortunatelly i don't think that is something that will change anytime soon. mostly because every save i start recently is immidiately broken by new updates - ty EA - & because i'm trying to write more, concentrate on friends and family and just use the time i have in between work to not get frustrated - get it EA?? sigh, anyways, here is the "not quite 24" pics from 2024 🪴