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When I first moved out I planned to have one, but after that I kept putting it off. I've put all interior decorating ideas and furniture purchases on hold for the next few months due to major life plans though so whether it stays that way is up in the air.
read something recently that said a majority of people don’t have a wall clock these days, thought it was interesting since I’ve always considered it an essential and functional piece of home decor.
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City Shots 6 (2024)
One of my long overdue personal trips was one I spent in the Old City. I've made plans to visit the place before but due to unexpected upheavals (with me moving last year and all), it took until Lent 2024 for me to actually do so. If you haven't been following me, I have a longstanding interest in historic Philippine architecture which had its roots nearly 10 years ago when I started building colonial-themed houses in the Sims 3.
My trip was, like the one in 2022 before it, made during Lent. Unlike in 2022, however, I traveled alone, which gave me plenty of opportunities to explore Plaza San Luis and its neighbors.
I only had time to explore the area around Plaza San Luis and three of its museums (only two of which I elected to share). Inasmuch as I would want to take pictures of the rest of the city's museums (including the ones situated at Fort Santiago) and the other structures around the district, I ran out of time and energy due to how mercilessly hot the day was.
Like with my previous post, more information is shown under the cut.
Camera: iPhone 11
Date: 26 March 2024
Location: Plaza San Luis Complex, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines
Usage: By request. Noncommercial only.
The Old City of Intramuros (meaning "Within the Walls") was the nucleus of modern Manila, built over the flattened remains of the fortress city-state encountered by the conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legaspi in 1570. The city was the crown jewel of the Spanish Philippines and was once the home of the city's elite. Today, the city's residents comprise mostly of students and informal settlers, with the majority of people being tourists and the people who work in the businesses supporting the tourism industry.
Many of the sites in the city are in various states of ruin and restoration, very few of which besides the walls being the original structures at all. Most of the buildings in the city (including the entirety of Plaza San Luis) consist of reconstructed replicas. The Casa Manila Museum (the large yellow structure) isn't even based on a structure from the Old City but is a rebuilt building from a different district altogether.
The only building from the era that survived to be restored is San Agustin Church, the oldest surviving colonial stone structure in the country. Much of the Old City was destroyed toward the end of World War II.
#photography#city shots#urban#cityscapes#architecture#buildings#trees#colonial philippines#urban photography#church#museum
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City Shots 5 (2022)
My opportunities to visit heritage sites have been few and far in between, what with recent upheavals and major life milestones coming about. Unlike in the 2010s, where I could make these trips on a whim, things were different in the 2020s. Up until I earned enough to go on trips on my own, I largely traveled with my family, especially during the pandemic. The images taken here were taken during Holy Week, when my father agreed to do our annual Visita Iglesia in the Old City of Intramuros.
The shots were taken using two phones (an older phone was used in some shots as a precautionary measure against thieves). Due to the afternoon heat, my family could only go down one road rather than pray through all the stations scattered in the district. Despite this setback, I had enough time in between prayer to take a modest selection of images of the reconstructed and themed structures of the city.
This is the first of two parts. View the second post here.
Important historic notes (including one about the street art) below the cut!
Camera: iPhone 6 and iPhone 7
Location: Plaza Roma, Luna Street, various side streets, and the Plaza San Luis Complex, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines
Date: 14 April 2022
Usage rights: By request. Noncommercial only.
Only one building complex, the San Agustin Church and convent, truly survived the bombings of World War II. Older historic buildings (including the Manila Cathedral and the Ayuntamiento de Manila) had to be rebuilt. One building, the Casa Manila Museum, was a reconstructed structure from a different district altogether.
Some of the newer buildings were also made to superficially resemble 18th and 19th Century colonial buildings. The district's current administration mandated that all new structures in the city must be in that style to preserve its atmosphere. The result is not quite an authentic historic district but what feels sometimes like a theme park version of one.
Featured in the parking lot street art is Manila's heraldic animal, the "sea lion," a chimerical mix of the front parts of a lion and the tail of a fish (not to be confused with the animal of the same name). The coat of arms of Manila, which included this creature, was first bestowed upon the city by King Philip II on the 20th of March 1596. This is not to be confused with the Singaporean merlion, which is a chimerical beast with the head of a lion and the body of a fish, first used in 1964.
#photography#city shots#urban#urban photography#architecture#buildings#trees#church#colonial philippines
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Well, I can read analog clocks just fine (being born in the 90s does this to you). I started preferring digital clocks later in life but like analog clock faces as an aesthetic. On top of that, I do hold that analog clock faces have their purpose, though most of them that i do know do not involve my daily life.
If you mean "type" as in using an analogue typewriter and its derivatives efficiently, that's outside my wheelhouse, but typing in general... well... you're reading this, aren't you?
To a limited degree, I can read a little Latin (speaking in languages where loanwords ultimately derive from Latin helps), while actually speaking it is beyond my capabilities. I am taking up Latin on Duolingo if that counts.
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While I am a homelander and my surname is indigenous, I'm Mestizo with presumed Chinese (inferred from my features) and European (slightly less obvious, but more or less confirmed) heritage so there's definitely a few immigrant somewhere up my bloodline. I just don't know how far back since the furthest I traced back my ancestry was the mid-1800s and on the side of my family who were from the local nobility (principalia).
* didnt know how to sum this up well but like from what generation was the most recent person to immigrate to your country from, from your direct line (parents, grandparents etc) so if your mother’s parents immigrated and your father immigrated directly then it would be a parent (your father)
pls reblog for sample size etc
follow for more occasional useless polls :)
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I was part of a friend group with a guy who shared the same nickname. In that specific friend group we gave him a different nickname.
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Since, in true Celtic fashion, I’m gonna start saying “it’s too hot” today, here’s the perfect poll…
Reblog & put your answers in the tags because I’m curious and need to know I’m not suffering alone
#35 Degrees and above is my threshold#27 to 28 is my ideal temp#24 - 26 is sweater weather#get to know me#raised in the tropics yo
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Kedatuan (2023)
This was a project 2-3 years in the making (or longer counting the times I've attempted to make a world like this in the past).
Heavily inspired by my previous world, this is a playable Sims 3 world based on the Tagalog-dominated lowlands of the Philippines from the Medieval period through the early 1500s. Although artistic license was used extensively, I did a lot of research and tried to get the environment as close to how things might've appeared in the colonial period. The map I used is an enlarged version of EA's Isla Paraiso, the basis for my previous Spanish Colonial Sims 3 build.
This version is released in an incomplete form for beta testing purposes. I would've made it more polished for the release, even for testing, but the above-mentioned issues kept me from doing so.
You will need the Sims 3, patch 1.67, and all expansions up to Island Paradise to play this world. Stuff pack items will not be needed here.
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Program: The Sims 3, The Sims 3 Create-A-World
Date: Beta released to the public 12 June 2023
Usage: Available for Download
It’s been a couple of months since my last update. In the interim, I dealt with work, computer problems, financial issues, and the typical headaches that come with being lorded over by morons. You know, the usual. I’m still recovering from Covid as I type this but am on the track to recovery. By now, I’m just doing this to help me pass the time.
i am finally done with the routing of the world and will now be working on the finer details such as filling the empty lots with trees, adding spawners, and finishing the lots wherever the settlements may be. So far, the island has one large settlement, pictured above. I plan to make a few more inner-island villages, including one that basically acts as a pirate stronghold.
I can’t make any promises of when it would be ready for testing, though.
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Me, trying to say "fudge knuckles" instead of "fuck" because of toddler reasons: oh fuck knuckles
Me: wait
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This gets oddly personal, but that's vague enough to count.
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I use three shelves. One is arranged strictly according to the Library of Congress classification and uses alphabetical arrangements. The other use an arrangement only loosely planned around the LC classification, if only to maximize the use of available space.
The last one, for books that are less presentable, are stacked by size and are arranged that way mostly to make sure they don't fall onto one another.
Reblog for a larger sample size :3
(I am fascinated bc ppl have so many different ways for this and I'm curious!!! They all make so much sense tho which makes the whole thing even more interesting :DD)
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#get to know me#Art#The Sims 3#Marvel stuff#This blog and its connected accounts are mostly for my creative endeavors#My earlier fandom-based account was originally made in the wake of Big Hero 6#It'd be more accurate to say that I went to Tumblr originally to gush about things I like
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A City of Brick, a City of Marble (2023)
A few screenshots of a personal project I made in the Sims 3. Called Latium, it an artistic and significantly scaled down reproduction of Ancient Rome during the First Century CE. Featured are various artistic depictions of real-world structures that have been constructed in the Roman Forum and the foot of the Capitoline Hill as they might’ve appeared toward the end of Emperor Augustus’ rule.
Other buildings are reconstructions of commoner structures that would’ve filled in the space between the monuments of the real city. I drew inspiration from various reconstructions of the era (both historical and artistic), most notably Digitalis Forum Romanum and the sets of HBO’s Rome and the BBC’s Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire.
Progress report:
I finally built the shell of the Mamertine Prison. I moved and embellished two of the insulae and moved them to the foot of the Capitoline hill. Also, I built a smaller version of the Porticus Deorum Consentium.
This basically begins the first of the actual street scenes leading into the city center and creates a very big contrast between the Augustan Forum in its splendor and the blighted lives of the Empire’s working classes. My next task is to sculpt and landscape the Capitoline hill then work my way outward to the other geographic features.
You can view the rest of this project on my dedicated Sims 3 build blog.
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Program: The Sims 3, The Sims 3 Create-A-World
Date: 27 January 2023
Usage: In progress
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Completely Unexpected (2022)
This is a simple crossover doodle inspired by stuff I encountered on Reddit. After seeing a mini based on the 3 cardinals from the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition sketch, I doodled Dr. Doofenshmirtz of Phineas and Ferb fame as one of them. One can say this was an unexpected surprise. He also exists in mini form, viewable here (pardon the typo) and here.
Dr. D is wearing the aviator cap of Cardinal Biggles. The anachronistic hat makes it all the more obvious that I’m referencing the sketch specifically. Naturally, his plans are often foiled by Perry the Protestant.
Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz was created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. Phineas and Ferb © Disney Enterprises. Cardinal Biggles and The Spanish Inquisition © Monty Python
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Medium: Digital (hand-drawn lineart)
Date: 26 August 2022
Usage: Fan art. Available for reblogging
#digital art#fan art#jokes#crossovers#Phineas and Ferb#Monty Python's Flying Circus#Spanish Inquisition#Dr. Doofenshmirtz#Disney#Monty Python
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