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going crazy about an oc again. like it's my fault
#this is normal behaviour but i get SO pissed off when it's an oc i make for a fic#bc i only ever make fic ocs when their sole purpose is to symbolise something and/or move the plot#like believe it or not i really do try not to have ocs unless it's specifically for the greater good of the fic#so it's like. you are an object to me. you are a tool. WHY have you got your own playlist#cassie you are so. like she's demented she's haunted by a past that broke her she has tried to return three different times regardless#she's whimsical she's erratic she wants to love the world when she has only ever seen the worst sides of it#she found one person who respected her (didn't even treat her kindly. he just viewed her as an autonomous person. that was enough)#and she latched on and didnt let go and now we're here. she followed him to war. she never wanted to fight#she probably wont make it. what the fuck ever#dog teeth#there's another oc in dog teeth that drives me crazy too but his part is much more minimal#i REALLY went hard with dog teeth ocs like they are all so compelling and painful come ON#cass and sasaki u were real to me. im sorry
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finally updated my game for growing together and the first thing i did when i opened cas was make this guy... say hi to rajan 👋
#river dipping#my sims#simblr#ts4#ts4 edit#basically mia for two days bc i was updating my game and cc hunting for infants and fixing mods and i come back w/ this#WHO is he? you ask#...............................idk just some guy kdjfngsjdnkjnsdgk#literally no refs no aesthetic board just made this guy from scratch after i realized i forgot to update stand still in cas#which meant the infants were all glitched and i couldn't do anything with them#like i was annoyed so i just started fucking around in cas instead of fixing the problem jfgkdjhg#i've fixed it now tho (i think) so i'm loading the game back up as we speak!!!!#i actually wanted to check on some sweaters i recolored and then i'm gonna make a baby for the sole purpose of putting them in theo's arms#>:)#also yea i went through the trouble of updating everything knowing that horses drops soon <3#i'll just wait another four months to update again 😁#...........also seriously this is just some guy i don't really have anything i need him for#i gave him outfits for all the categories too like....... why? idk but he was fun to dress#i'll probably throw him in either attilio's legacy gameplay (...pour one out for our forgotten men) or the new !! casual oc save#ALSOOOO need to edit the sim lush made me so it suits my sim style more and i'll put the sim in my saves too#i'll probably bring her back out whenever i DO update to horses kdjnhkjgnh i think her and attilio could be ranchers together
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Sole Survivor that writes in cursive and is illegible to literally the entire wasteland.
#the only ones that can read it go as follows#nick valentine#Curie#Deacon#and Haylen but ONLY because she’s a scribe and has practice#Nick probably used to write in cursive back in the day but adapted his handwriting in the wasteland so people could actually understand him#Curie’s handwriting would be 10x worse cuz she’s a doctor#and Deacon is just a shit that learned cursive solely for the purpose of snooping#everyone else is just like#dude#those are literal scribbles#fallout 4#fallout 4 headcanons#sole survivor#cursive#serenade posts
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Fuck it, here is an old Lego moc
#Lego#Lego moc#buzz light year#I used to just make these Mocs with the sole purpose of adding the old Lego buzz light year head#mostly weird thing’s like this one#but a couple are somewhat normal#you probably won’t see them tho#lego hero factory
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I said I might do this in the tags on the first post of last week's Chill Valicer Save update -- here's the full-sized images from the in-game photoshoot I had my trio do right before said update so I'd have at least one shot of them in the correct order and wearing the correct clothes for my "OT3 Math" Valicertine's Day post. And then I ended up using all three anyway because I couldn't decide which one I liked best. XD Did I really need to do this for a single silly tumblr post about how much I love my Valicer OT3? No. Am I glad I did it anyway? Yes. XD
#sims 4#the lazy save#valicertine's day#victor van dort#alice liddell#smiler alton#smiler always#technically I took more than these three shots#but as it turned out I accidentally had them do the 'thinking' pose in the second picture again at the end#without realizing I'd already done that pose a bit earlier#so yeah no need to include that one#already here!#as I explained in the OT3 Math post#I didn't have a good shot of Alice Victor and Smiler in THAT ORDER#wearing appropriate clothes to match the posters/logos I was using in in the 'times' portion of the image#so I fired up the game for the sole purpose of putting Victor in the right CC outfit#and then having them do a photoshoot so I could get a proper picture or three with them in fun poses in the right order#I mean yes it was probably more work than the picture warranted#but at the same time I'm glad I did it#as it was fun AND prompted me to change Victor's everyday outfit to that cool CC one I'd found for him#that actually looks kind of like the outfit he wears in the movie#so yeah all worked out nicely :)#more Chill Valicer Save shenanigans next week!#queued
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I finished the less important side characters. Just wanted to draw them so I had a visual ref for when I write them.
From left to right we have:
Nicolle, Gabriellas aunt and thus her fathers younger sister. She's the middle child and as you might be able to tell from her outfit, a professional ice skater. The glitter on her dress is supposed to represent a rising phoenix, a metaphor for being "reborn" after having to drop out of skating for a while due to overexhaustion and burn out and coming back better than ever. Her career is her life, she will not talk about anything else ever. Her sister does her hair for her.
In the middle we have Alexandra, the youngest sister to Nicolle and Gabriellas father. She does heavy wheight lifting, owns a sports clothing brand and organizes sports programms to teach people that sport can be fun without needing to be competitive or for wheightloss purposes. Also graphic eyeliner is a must and her outfit is inspired by 4-time olympic gold winner Serena Williams' adorable poofy tennis outfits. Sports wear can be cute and practical. For her physique I references Emily Campbell, britains first ever medal winning womens olympic wheightlifting candidate
And last we have Waylen. Waylen is an adrenaline junkie and a member of the Hale pharma private military. He has a whole arsenal of prosthetics for different pruposes and yes those are mantis blades from cyberpunk and the prosthetic legs are inspired by that one lady from the first kingsman. He went through so many body modificatiosn that the constant switching out of parts, medications post surgeries and his overall very low self preservation instincts took a bit of a toll on his body so now he has to permanently wear the bottom part of his airfilter mask or else he will literally suffocate. All the foods he consumes must be liquid and snorkeled in through a straw and a little hatch at the front of his mask. Thanks to the previously mentioned issues he has a almost non existant feeling of hunger, meaning that he often only realizes he should eat when it's allready to late and he tips over sideways. Depending on how much coffee he has in his system he can be a representaion of every song in the misery/cpr/reeses puffs mix. The only reason for why he hasn't been kicked out of the military and sent to early retirement yet is because he's good for the morale and knows what he's doing as long as he's in a team, on his own he suddenly looses all those braincells and turns into a "stealth is optional? nice *explosions*" type bingus.
#myart#ocs#I used to hate sports growing up because in school everything was competitive#and outside of school everything seemed to be with the sole purpose of loosing wheight#in fact you can be quite active in sports and still not loose a pound simply because muscle is heavier than fat#and also because diet plays more into wheightloss than training#so to everyone who keeps calling people who don't look “normal” (notice the “”) lazy and unhealthy: plz shut the fuck up and die <3#you know absolutely nothing about the people you're looking at. their body their choice and now do me the favour and fall off a cliff#I'm really sick and tired of people trying to police other peoples bodies AND FEELINGS ABOUT THEIR BODIES under the guise of care#as you might be able to tell I didn't put as much work into these as the others since they are only side characters#that will only pop up once or twice#also since gigi is as ashy and pasty as the rind of a parmesan cheese and her aunties are significantly darker you can probably guess#she is mixed with her mom being what would be asian on planet earth and her dad is mixed black and something secret#and with something secret I mean this is still a work in progress#he'll be the bestest of best dads none of that toxic father figure bs in my house#he is inspired by christopher judge who was literally one of my childhood heroes in his role as teal'c in stargate btw#visually and personality wise I mean#a strong but still kind and caring for those he holds dear. maybe a bit odd to outsiders :3#tw eating issues#tw ed#kinda#bc of waylens digestive situation?#side characters
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They should make horse blinders for me to wear inside stores so I am not distracted by every single colorful object within my raw 210 degrees of vision
#post canceled actually. I remembered that human horse blinders absolutely probably exist.#post uncanceled because i want to post it anyways#SLFJFKE POST SUPER UNCANCELED because I just pictured myself buying horse blinders in a kink shop for the sole purpose of wearing them to#the grocery store to make up for the nationwide adderall shortage#Prescription Horse Blinders.#im so funny. to myself anyways.#I’m imagining they’re the same exact blinders as the kink ones except they get spray painted Hospital Off-White#sorenhoots
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"After, in the torchlight, he wondered at the marks on me, the red around my neck, and the purple on my arms and chest where he had gripped me. He rubbed at them, as though they were stains, not bruises. 'The color is perfect,' he said, 'look.' And he held up the mirror so I could see. 'You make the rarest canvas, love.'"
x. "Galatea", Madeline Miller
#Galatea#Madeline Miller#📚#so ive been mostly rereading comfort books as of late for a large variety of reasons lol#&this is the first new fiction ive read in a sec&it was heartbreaking lmao riiiiight back to the melancholy.#this story was beautiful. it involved rather intense domestic abuse-- despite the quote the most intense of this#was most def the emotional abuse described throughout-- so i wouldnt like. rec it randomly lmao.#but pygmalion+galatea was the most uncomfortable of all the grecian myths for me; mostly bc its always cast as a love story.#&its not that i wouldnt consider it a love story its more that i feel it should be extremely obvious why the story is not a healthy#depiction of love-- if love is the word youd use which i wouldnt. id think more lust lmao.#so like on the one hand the idea of being made as the ideal of loving perfection by someone then brought to life w a sole+clear purpose#makes me Feel lmao. but not like. the healthy part of me lmao.#so anyway it was... not nice but good seeing the myth reframed to highlight the fact that a man who hated women so much carved one#that wouldnt speak or behave in any way that irritated him then pined for her to have a heartbeat so fervently that she was brought to life#probably wouldnt have actually treated her well once she was able to speak&think lmao.
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Still obsessing over that magnus archives au. Suddenly became consumed w the idea of Lonely!marcia rather than Beholding!marcia. I'm going to stick w beholding for now bc I think it fits better and is closer to Being A Wizard. But there's also at least one reference to marcia seeming lonely in the series and I mean. Just look at her. Her only friend is a ghost
#sep talks#I still think hunt!septimus is the correct way to go#although. I was thinking abt the ya equivalent being the cult of the lightless flame#like. I'm already fucking w things enough why not#like. Septimus starting out being w the cult of the lightless flame. And then somewhere along the line ending up hunt aligned#either before or after meeting marcia tbh I don't think it matters#just at first he's one of a few hundred kids kidnapped for the sole purpose of being turned into either sacrifices or servants of#the desolation. And then he grows up and starts killing ppl <3#I think the chances of anyone other than marcia+septimus being actual Avatars of any entity is very small and also I don't rlly care abt#anyone else so. I probably won't bother talking abt anyone else.#marcia overstrand#septimus heap#<-idk if those will even work bc there's so many tags on here already but we'll see
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I am intrigued about soul magic please expand maybe :)???
hm yes hi Trade I can very much expand on that!!!
caveat that a lot of this info is very possibly stuff I made up literally this month bc I only had the vaguest idea of how soul magic worked before starting on this particular story (ie the box for it in the twinery thing where I keep all my worldbuilding legit just has the world it comes from in it and nothing else lmao ^^; )
The vague in-text explanation we get is thus;
“Users power their spells with their lifeforce,” Jasper said. “Its main applications are healing and interrogation, but it can also be used to create locks and the like that are fine-tuned to a specific person.”
which is very rough but honestly it covers the basics. Jasper knows what he's about
When he says locks, I'm meaning like... biometric kinda scans only I couldn't remember the word when I wrote that. I may go back and write that in actually.
The other thing it can do that is like. the main part of the plot of this story is that the mages can use it to control other people! They're getting other people caught for their crimes!!
Mostly when a soul mage uses their magic, they're relying on their own life to power it. So many soul mages burn out early because they don't get the exchange right, or they just use their magic too freely. If a soul mage is old it means that either
a) they don't use magic a lot
b) they know the best exchange rates for spells (eg smaller spells will take less life)
c) they largely use it via aids such as gems and older spells that have been sunk into items for general use
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d) they tie their spells to someone else's life.
d is why soul mages tend to have a pretty bad rep amongst the wider mist worlds. They're not as bad as green witches in general but hoo boy.
sometimes!! sometimes tying their spells to something else is useful. This is how you get the healing; you convince the hurt person's body to heal itself gotdamn quicker and if they maybe get a year or so knocked off their life in the process they probably won't notice. Can they siphon off other people's lives to extend theirs? uh. technically. yes. that's the plot of another story (sort of)*.
This is how you get the biometric locks and other fun trinkets that non-mages can use; you set the spell into the lock or the item or whatever and give it a trigger phrase or motion which can be used by anyone. Biometrics will ofc only work for like the one person, but anything else is just dependant on the person knowing the phrase or the motion. Using an item with soul magic in it is obvious - Solaris likens the feeling to a sudden weakness at one point and doesn't like using it. You can fully faint while using soul magic if you're not used to it sort of thing.
This is how you get the interrogation; no one likes having their soul poked at ok. it feels gross. they can and will rifle through your memories. Sometimes they ask for consent first (it could also be a therapy tool, I guess) but holy fuck it's tricky to do without damaging anything. Weirdly this is a fine-wire one that tends to fall more on the mage's life being the one used up because they're still the one using the magic. They could tip it the other way, but then they run the risk of like. killing the subject before they get anything useful.
The controlling-other-people part of the magic is less well known which is why everyone is so fucken stumped by the shenanigans that start this story. It's like. fairytale kinda nonsense. "the soul mage made me do it" to the tune of "the boy who cried wolf", you know?
But that one is tied to the victim's life and can be set as intricately as the mage likes. Most people never know they've even been controlled, although they'll have li'l missing screeds of time where they've just blanked the fuck out and then come to, maybe in another place with no knowledge of how they got there
noticeably it does not work well on fully bonded ferals bc they have two souls and not everyone knows this. The mage that goes after Jasper fucks up by just suppressing his human soul to make him lose the fight and uh. well. buddy's got a lynx soul in there as well, and the lynx has access to fire. That one may have backfired (lmao) on the mage that set the spell, but I'm not sure yet
The other fucked up casefile I have is Elise who is the target the soul mages are trying to get ahold of in this story bc she has a green witch sharing her body who fucked herself over by attempting to use soul magic when she was already dying. There's a timeshare going on. The soul mages stabilised them and would like the experiment back, thank you very much, but because of the stabilisation thingy-majiggy, soul magic no longer affects them. Elise would like the timeshare broken, the green witch is fairly sure she'd die in that case and Does Not Want that, no thank you. They are however both agreed that they're not letting the soul mages get their grubby little paws on them. The soul mages would like her back because literally no one can work out how the fuck she managed to make that happen. like. the only other beings that have two souls are fully bonded feral mages and uh. demons. I think is how Skilkran is classed anyway. but yeah Elise is decidedly neither like damn she's just a girl who turns into a witch when night falls.
(soul magic probably could affect them, the parameters of the spells just need to be set properly but no one's actually thought of that yet. or maybe they have but it's been since they escaped so they haven't had a chance to test the theory)
anyway! yes! soul magery! it was uhhhh it was born out of a dumb joke with brother#2 because the first time I wrote it the magic was set in the saxophone of a dude who was playing um. soul music.
that scene still exists within The Soul of the Party because there are no depths I will not sink to for a dumb joke.
*this is Mint of Red String, they may have had a bad break up with a soul mage in their youth and the soul mage reacted by uh. cursing them to drain the life of whoever fell in love with them? That gets broken with the power of polyamory and also maybe necromancy because fuck yes the gays are winning this one.
#soul magic#mist worlds#do I want to set a soul mage on skilkran just to see what would happen? maybe#we all know the answer is probably a godawful fucktonne of fire but you never know#I have yet to say anything about sole-the-fish#or sole-the-shoe I guess#maybe I can... shoehorn them in ayyyyyy#anyway I'm going to shove this into the twine file and pretend it was there all along#we love world building on the fly#definitely will find notes that contradict this tho I betcha#hopefully that is readable and also makes sense#I have been staring at a laptop on and off all day so I think I'm a li'l bit fried right now#I should probably do something else for a bit#(sleep. I might do sleep)#lisetta (the green witch who timeshares with Elise) is also an interesting one bc she legit should not have been able to use soul magic#which is possibly why they're so fucked up. like she got her hands on a healing item and went#''ah yes I shall twist this to my purposes'' although it ended up being a very heat of the moment thing#pff heat of the moment they were rolling about in a stream? having been hit by a bucket of water balloons?#I possibly need to go back and recheck that#... not the point here#that got long#hopefully it is understandable?#I fully could save this to drafts and recheck it tomorrow#but alas then i would forget it exists#no one needs that
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Do you ever listen to someone speak and marvel at how smooth, free-flowing, and free of pauses it is?
Because I sure do. I can’t do that.
Maybe that’s why I feel like most people’s speech is insincere even when it isn’t… because it sounds like how I would recite or read a script. That explains why I view people who aren’t native English speakers, have a heavy accent, and take long pauses to think of the words they need to say as being more trustworthy… because my cadence is similar to theirs; and we both stumble over words.
#I feel like that little kid “If you ever had a dream where— you want— you wish— if you could— you want….”#I’m not that bad; but I come very close to sounding like that sometimes LOL#I feel like I spoke more smoothly as a little kid…#but that’s probably because my verbal communication is almost at the same level it was at when I was eight years old#Like those people who have a growth spurt but end up being on the short side as adults because they stop growing immediately after#I figuratively shot up to 5’0” in third grade and never grew past that point#(with regard to clarity and flow specifically; not vocabulary… my vocabulary has definitely grown a LOT#but that’s only because I get sick of writing or talking in the same way for longer than a year… which is why I currently sound#like a pretentious 20th century englishman whenever I write fiction)#I have no “real” vernacular because I don’t feel comfortable with having a personal vernacular…#because using the same patterns of words over and over again for the same situations counts as para-scripting and feels fake#(to me)#sometimes I hear someone use a new word I’ve never heard in conversation; and I say “Cool! I’ll use that word myself.” But I later realize#it’s not just a fun one-time usage of a word; but it’s a catchphrase they say all the time and forsake any common synonyms of the word#— I assume — solely for the purpose of sounding smart to others (their behavior usually justifies my assumption; because these people#act like they’re better than everyone else)#And sometimes I catch myself doing the same thing; and I switch to a different word or format than I’ve been using; out of nothing#but embarrassment and twisted perfectionism#Or sometimes I come off the high of using lofty words and want to speak in a more commonplace way#and after awhile of that I start thinking “Wait a minute wait a minute…. Now I’m just trying to sound cool and normal.#This isn’t how I talk.”#But the truth is I really feel spoken language is an insufficient medium for communication.#I want a language in which the speakers pry open each others’ chests#rip out each others’ hearts; and rub them together#But at the same time it kills me that I cannot do the same amount of tonal shapeshifting when speaking#especially when my default (socially-acceptable) speaking voice sounds extremely airheaded#I’ve been trying to use larger words and more archaic sentence structures in speech lately and it feels good#but also like I’m trying to show off (even though I’m not and that’s just how I’d prefer to speak)#even then… all my speech patterns are copied from somewhere#It’s been a years-long identity crisis and I want it to end
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Who should be the first MCU character (and I mean MCU since the beginning, not the Fantastic 4/X-Men/anyone from the 20th century acquisition) to say fuck in a Marvel movie? Discuss.
((Hint there is a wrong answer and it is Starlord we do not give that honor to Crisp Ratt))
#the xmen thing js more just to stop people from saying deadpool tbh bc like. obviously yeah.#yall probably know my answer based on tge everything about my blog#but i would want it to be bucky sam or rocket tbh#or like. one of the twins/morgan stark solely for comedic purposes#mcu#mcu debate#marvel cinematic universe#let!! mcu! characters! say! fuck!#marvel#doctor strange#thor odinson#moon knight#captain america#bucky barnes#sam wilson#loki#guardians of the galaxy#mcu theory
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everyone's so used to everything being readily available i hate when people share something they've made and get pestered to produce it and sell it like clearly ppl saying that don't own small businesses or understand manufacturing at all like not everything that is created is done so with the intent to commodify it. and also, not everyone has to share what they make, it can JUST be for them. bye
#just came across this song run away to mars by TALK u should listen it's good right ok#but they wear these sick overalls in their video and tiktok comments are like do you sell these? you should!!!#because them and their gf make them#like. the logistical NIGHTMARE that would be buying supplies and handsewing overalls and then shipping them#they're clearly a musician not everyone makes something for the sole purpose of profiting off of it#it's one thing to make merch it's another to just have a handmade fashion line you sell as a side business ......#and another thing i saw was a mom whose kid asked for a mario squishmellow which i guess doesn't exist#so they made one themselves for their kid and people were like can you sell these pls omg!#like idk guys i would imagine a mom with a young kid is probably busy and also just doesn't want to do that for multiple reasons. go away#also sometimes my friends will see my nail art and be like omg open up an etsy! like i am a full time college student. def do not have time#not the desire to....... i'm just making this stuff for Me thx tho#ALSO. in this economy? in this state? with the way customers act? bye.
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the scarlet/violet motorcycle pokemon is so funny to me
#like its sole purpose is to be driven by its trainer#what a sad life to live lmfao#idc what its name is but yk the one#how does that even come to be in natural evolution like how did these animal things develop wheels#ik the devs probably just needed smth for u to get around the island quicker but still💀
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Phoebus Apollo
#It's been ages since I've posted anything on here#Have an Apollo for your troubles#I drew this for the sole purpose of putting it on my Cork board and it came out way better than I expected#I'll probably do an Artemis one next
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getting VERY frustrated with how many entry level jobs in my field are requesting or requiring a high level of social media literacy, given I have been actively avoiding the vast majority of social media since I was, like, fifteen, for the sake of my mental health
#I currently have TWO social medias that are linkedin (for jobs) and a twitter I mostly use for checking pokemon news#and also sharing video game screenshots like cute Animal Crossing outfits and Me Being Really Bad At Sonic#said Twitter exists SOLELY for the purpose of Having A Social Media With My Name In The Event I Need One For A Job#because I did know I probably need some form of presence for the field I'm going into#I just didn't expect... needing to understand the instagram algorithm to get an entry level position#''to be ideal for this job you should watch tiktok more than TV'' YOU'RE A TV COMPANY??????
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