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berriblossom · 4 months

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Hi can I make a request of Casper from a date with death with a short s/o that’s chubby and a baker and is a otaku and is a tomboy but still likes some cute things tho

I just wanna see some domestic things for Casper

-> This is so much cuteness! Thank you for the ask!

-> What he loves most | Casper x gn!reader! -> Second POV, just fluff!

There were a lot of things Casper had to get used to when he had his newfound freedom from being a reaper of souls. Many of which he happily shared with you.

Whether it was going through old manga that you had stored on your shelves that he read in his free time, or watching old animation films you bought for him to entertain himself with. Some nights if he felt up to it, he'd ask to wear a face mask while watching a new show of yours. He may not understand the concept of "fighting for your honor back " but he'd watch if it makes you happy. Another thing Casper loves while doing this is laying his head on your thighs or tummy. Slowly as you watch the film you'll notice him lean closer and closer to you as the show goes on. Soon enough he's lying on your thighs commenting about the protagonist being too bright or obnoxiously loud. (if you mention anything about being the same way to him, he will deny it and say you get an exception because his sunshine is supposed to be bright and vibrant.) He will also remind you if the show you are watching or catching up on has new episodes, just to remind you and make you smile at the end of a work day.

If you like playing games of any sort, he is down but is competitive and kind of a grandpa.(remember the emoji convo) so be patient with him. He is trying. I see Casper as the type of gamer to play the Sims and never leave the computer, just designing his future with you, your pet, Azrael, and a garden for you. (with a large kitchen and space for baking, with a personal room for you and your novelties and books). Don't let him play a horror game. He either makes fun of it for the overdramatic deaths or he'll challenge it. Either way, the fear factor won't work on him like that(in my opinion) but try and delete the 4 bedroom and 3 bath home on the Sims he made for you, there you will get tears and screams.

Another thing Casper likes is your job. Even though he has mentioned that reapers don't need to eat, sleep, or breathe somehow he is always jumping at the occasion whenever you text him about bringing home any baked goods or pastries from the shop home to him and Azrael. (yes, him too because it is an excuse for you to bring more to share) It doesn't matter what you pick, he'll eat it with an adorable face of joy. He sometimes will come down to the bakery and help if you need it.

While making fun of you for being "below the average mortal height" that he has seen over the years. You can flirt as much as you want to but, Casper will always use his height to his advantage. If you're in the shop and need something from a high shelf or above the fridge? Ask him politely to inflate his ego a little bit and then he will help you. While placing his tease a bit. Looking for something specific but can't seem to find it. He placed it on top of the fridge in "sky jail" because you teased him earlier about liking cream in his mouth. Now you'll never finish the dessert you were making unless you go to find the step stool. (which he has also put in a higher place to piss you off more.)

Cuddling sessions after a tiring day of work are as ethereal as Casper is. Had a hard day at work? Get in the blanket with him, he might be as frigid as a frozen tundra but his cuddles and affectionate squeezes and words of encouragement are just as warm. A customer made you a little upset? Oh, trash needed to go out on Thursday anyway (that's a joke, unless...).

The best learning experience for Casper is when he tries to bake or cook with you, he doesn't know the proper measurements for anything, it's random bullshit and go for him. But he will listen to your instructions. While he is intently measuring the sugar, water, and yeast mixture with full concentration, if you go up to him and give him a kiss or hug him from behind he'll shoo you away and mumble about how he was so kind to be helping you at work. FOR FREE. But after a few minutes, he'll ask for your assistance on a task and will cling to you like glue. Will he get flour in his hair? You'll never know, but he will snipe samples and test batches of anything you'll make. Your coworker's batches? Not so much. Even if it is hot garbage in your opinion he will still eat it up as if he was starved.

All in all, Casper can be a little shit or sweetheart for you. Just bring some extra snacks for him and Azrael for the next few days while he is on that Sims 4 dream home.

#xoxokuki💜#xokuki blog #kuki's writing #xokuki writes #xoxokuki #a date with death grim #a date with death casper #a date with death #a date with death x reader #casper x reader #grim reaper #grim reaper x reader #hes so cute #kuki answers 💜#on this blog we respect Azrael

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euphoriiabts · 5 months

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Idol Jake x Idol Y/N

When fans start shipping you with TXT's Huening Kai, Jake is quick to see the clips and tiktok edits, causing a huge wave of jealous to overcome him that you've never seen before in your life.

You come home from your group's music video shoot to find Jake sitting on the living room couch, scrolling through TikTok.

"Whatcha looking at, babe?" You ask curiously as you walk towards him.

"Is he better than me?" Jake replies, causing a spout of confusion to bloom in your facial expression.

"Is who better than you?" You ask, confused, looking at him quizzically as if you're taking my last math exam of the year in high school.

"Kai. Is he better than me?" Jake answers, no specific tone of voice being detected, but you can tell he's jealous with the vein that pops out of his neck from his anger.

"Why are you asking me that?" You question as you sit down next to him.

"Just answer the question-"

You shake your head, "No, Jake, he isn't better than you, you know that," You reply, thinking for a moment before continuing, "Is this about the fans?"

Jake looks up at you and for the first time since you arrived at home, you could finally see his facial expressions. He had a hint of anger, possession, and jealousy in his eyes, but his gaze softens when he meets yours.

"Look at the edits, baby, the clips and the pictures? They make you guys look so good together.." Jake whines and pouts like a big man child despite being 21 years old and judging by his tone of voice, you know that he needs reassurance, so you look him in the eyes and move a strand of hair out of his face.

"Baby. It doesn't matter what the fans think they know or how they feel because I'm your girlfriend and nothing is going to change that, okay? I love you and you are the only person in this world that I want."

"But what if-"

"Nuh uh, no 'but what ifs', I don't want to hear you talk down to yourself, do you understand me, Sim Jaeyun?" You say, cutting him off before he can finish his sentence. Jake just nods and that was the end of the conversation that night, but if you knew Sim Jaeyun any better, you were already well aware that he was going to need a lot more reassurance than that.

So you went to bed, cuddling extra close in his arms that night and running your fingers through his hair as we relaxed and fell asleep quickly. The rumors about you and Kai only grow more intense, the fans dying and begging to see more. You try your absolute best to comfort and reassure Jake that fans just have a tendency to act that way and you think it's going well until one day your management holds a meeting with you, telling you that your group is going to be doing a song collaboration with ENHYPEN. At first, you assume that it's all just a coincidence, until after the song is recorded and you guys release the teasers, Jake gets extra touchy in all of the TikToks the groups make together. You weren't the only one who was catching onto it, in fact, every last member of both yours and his group started saying things about it.

"Jake, you're so close to Y/N in this one, even the fans have noticed. You know how much trouble you could get in if it was leaked that you guys are dating, right?" Jungwon states and the reaction Jake gives says all too much that he is definitely up to something.

"Sim Jaeyun, what are you plotting?" You ask, raising your eyebrows as you speak, looking at him with your hand on your hip, maintaining a stern look on your face. You look him directly in the eyes and you swear for a moment you saw him grinning, but you couldn't get a good enough look to confirm before his face goes back to a normal one. Jake nods,

"I understand, I'll be more careful." Jake says to Jungwon, ignoring your question. You shake your head and brush it off, hoping that he'll stick to his words. As the next few weeks move forward, your collaboration has been completely released and the speculations about you and Kai have almost gone entirely radio silent as new dating speculation between you and Jake builds. You lay next to Jake in bed, watching as he scrolls through TikToks about it, smiling to himself.

"Are you proud of yourself?" You ask rhetorically, already knowing the answer to the question.

"Look, babe, they think we'd make a better couple than you and Kai.." He states happily as he points out one of the comments on a post. And with that, the new rumors calmed your jealous boyfriend down and you never had to hear about another dating rumor again.. Until about two weeks later when you open your Twitter notifications,

"Omg did you see Jake and Chaeryoung? They're so cute together, look!"

"No literally they'd be such a cute couple."

"Something HAS to be going on!!!"

"I'll be so happy if they're dating, OH EM GEE"

You stare at the comments and quotes on your phone as you feel a huge wave of anger and jealousy overcome you,

"Oh HELL no.."

A week later..

1 Notification: Twitter.com

"Pop Crave: According to Dispatch, ITZY's vocal line member Y/F/N and ENHYPEN member Sim Jaeyun are reportedly dating! An anonymous tip-"

You didn't get time to even finish reading the tweet before you heard your boyfriend yelling your name from the other side of the house,

"Y/F/N what did you do?!" Jake yells, anger and amusement apparent throughout his voice.

Well this was going to be a fun week for the both of you..

#jake enhypen #sim jaeyun #enhypen fic #enhypen fanfiction #jake x reader #enhypen x reader #no smut #drabble

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extralively · 6 days

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Satoru's apartment (Part 1)

Continuing with my whole thing of trying to make the characters' apartments from my fic in The Sims, let's finally get into Satoru's apartment! ....Or part of it, because his apartment is fairly big lol. Here's the layout:

*The office and washroom are blurred because I haven't actually gotten around to them yet lol

Satoru's place is pretty big, but not the biggest he could have afforded because he is just one guy... so a fairly "modest" apartment will do.

("modest" my ass lmao)

His apartment is pretty neat, which tends to surprise people that expect someone like him to make a mess of things, lol. But Satoru had a pretty strict childhood so some things just stuck with him, and along with the way his family never allowed him to decorate his room in the Gojo Estate with trinkets and stuff, most of his apartment ended up the same--almost void of personality. The things he actually cherishes are kept away from prying eyes, even if this is his own apartment.

Honestly, I had a few very vivid images of what I thought his apartment looked like in my head (or parts of it), and it was kinda tough trying to put them all together into a definite layout lmao. If I made some weird architectural choices, well.... good thing I'm not an actual architect! I just really wanted to make it look like how I pictured it in my head.

In this post we'll take a look at the living room/fireplace/dining area and the kitchen after the cut!

The entrance is pretty spacious, and right behind the camera here there's a door leading to a whole ass closet for shoes and coats and stuff.

This here is the living room, where Satoru spends a lot of his free time watching movies (especially when he has people over. And by people I mean Yura and Shoko, mostly). He has a bunch of DVDs and Blu rays there on the shelf behind the TV, and he also has a couple of video game consoles that he doesn't use a lot.

Yes, this is where the Movie Night oneshot took place (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)... among other scenes.

(That corridor in the second pic with the white door leads to the guest bedroom, the office, and the washroom. That white door is the guest room, specifically.)

This is the fireplace area! Satoru doesn't actually use the fireplace a lot since he has central heating in the entire apartment, but in the opening chapter of Deeper in the Dark, this is where Satoru made a little pillow nest on the floor for him and Yura to snuggle... and yes, other things.

It's got a pretty good view! (...just pretend it's Tokyo back there)

(That corridor in the first pic leads to his bedroom.)

Here is the dining room that Satoru only uses when he has people over, otherwise it's just easier to eat in the kitchen or outside in the balcony (more on the balcony in another post... cause I still need to make it prettier lmao)

Also I might make some changes to this dining area at some point because I'm not 100% sure on the decor yet....

And here's the kitchen! This is the one place that has the most trinkets on display, a lot of novelty items that were mostly gifted to him by Yura over the years (and that he actually makes a point to use). Funny mugs, cookie jars, silly sugar bowls--since Satoru is filthy rich, it's very hard to give him gifts, so Yura eventually found out that he actually likes being given 'stupid stuff', in her words.

I had a very vivid image of the kitchen entrance in my head from that chapter where Yura was sleeping in the guest bedroom after coming back from NYC, and she sleepily stumbles into a shirtless Satoru with his back to her by the counter... cue her brain short circuiting for a moment lmao.

Anyway, next up should be the bedrooms! It's been a struggle making this apartment because I had to download so much CC and mods to be able to make things look the way I wanted to, and I'm still constantly changing things lol. If I do decide to change something, we'll just call it Satoru renovating his apartment at some point throughout the years lmao

#gojo satoru #jjk #jjk fic #the sims 4 #you guys have no idea how much CC i downloaded just to make this #it took so long and I'm still not done lol #but I'm actually having fun so you cant stop me now!!#satoyura

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thehopelessexception · 1 month

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how can a person know everything at 18 but nothing at 22 (almost 24)

warning: im writing this while im on my period and eating ice cream.

i've been dissociating for what now? half a year maybe more. i dont recognize reality. i feel im floating in this sea we call society and i've been feeling the wilson of the story here. i assume everything that's happening around me is real, ofc. but that doesnt make it any less a convenient arrangement i build for myself to try to act like a real person and not freak out. i am feeling out of reality. like the part of the game where you let the sim on auto-mode. i am the sim on auto-mode. and i don't know how to stop this stage of oblivion.

to make a vague introduction, the thing with me is that im a living paradox of a full time contradiction. i am flamboyant but i hate being perceived. i like to speak up for myself but i hate people thinking about me because of it. i have my own process of how i understand things. i trust logic and i question everything. im quite skeptical over things when there's no empirical evidence. i seek for knowledge. critical thinking, data analysis and the whole stuff. i know myself. i sometimes look like i am too obnoxious, frivolous, morally corrupted (people have told me that), when i obsess over something —because i sometimes treat people like they are stupid (not my intention really)—; but probably the only thing im completely sure of is myself. i tend to be a confident person, to have an ego, to not let the guard down, to calculate every single move. and lately i am noticing myself being impulsive, insecure, nervous, weird, saying stupid shit, nonsenses, feeling small. and i don't know how to make it stop. the thing is i put my whole self-esteem backed up by my intelligence, however im not sure of anything anymore. i don't know if the reason behind not recognising myself lately is the fact i have somehow a new crush —or a new hyperfixation for that matter— or just the natural act of growing, also known as the quarter life crisis.

i have this thing where i hyperfix on random stuff, i've been like this my whole life. one of my friends even made a powerpoint of all the things i've been obsessed with over the years. and the issue here is that this things never last that much, or maybe they do? i actually never though about it. the most random ones i remember are probably me buying ice-cream cakes of this specific brand every week for two months. i also got obsessed with eating too many scrambled eggs all day every day for a very long time. then it was that turkish telenovela on an airing channel. then ofc succession, and it grew into watching every single movie kieran culkin was part of. the world cup. mbti —im intj by the way—. red white and royal blue (i watched it five times in a day), then nicholas galitzine —did yk he has a lineage that comes all the way from the romanovs?— and his entire filmography. and also politics, i got way into politics; election campaigns, follow up candidates, history, economy, the law, etc (my candidate lost tho) (we're succumbing to disgrace) (like literally we collectively, as a country, haven't had any kind of good news since then) (please help me). and etc etc. but the thing is, i also hyperfix on random people, or not so random i guess. it doesnt happen very often tho, im quite picky, but the procedure is this: i meet someone, they draw somehow my attention, i want to know everything about this person, i talk to this person a lot (medium to long term) (week to months), and then this person becomes my friend or i get bored and completely ignore them for the rest of my life and move on.

but this time is different, or im feeling it different. i find myself questioning everything i know and i was convinced of. i dont know if it has something to do with the fact that i met someone, probably the first person wise enough to make me question if i was ever correct about anything. maybe i am hyperfixating on this person, idealizing them. but it's truly amazing how much more data this person has about everything i know of. and right now i feel way too insecure, because even if this person told me they find me smart and they enjoy talking to me, i am always thinking that if i say something not completely fact-checked they'll think im stupid. it's absurd. it's a boohoo situation, i know. and it's a process im having about who am i, or what am i supposed to be. some months ago the whole context around my life changed or i think it changed? i dont know how to explain it, —i mean i know how but i would have to talk about other things not related to this (politics stuff, things happening in my country, etc). i'll probably will make a new post about it someday—. but the whole issue is, i dont know myself anymore. and everything is crumbling.

im afraid the person i build for myself it's a fraud. or doesnt exist anymore.

i remember myself at 18, and i was this marvellous whole person. independent, smart, focused, driven. that girl spent their whole days outside her house. did everything she wanted to. wasnt scared of anything. and i look at myself now and think how? the pandemic has a lot to do with it i guess, but when i first heard taylor saying that in nothing new i thought "that wont happen to me". guess what, i was wrong.

for my fellow girlies being 23 —in my experience— is exactly how they say it will be. the worst age of your life.

next month is my birthday and im pushing 24. and i have to say my life is a mess. but i dont know if i can call it a mess because it is truly a mess or because i am a complete drama queen. because people probably have worse problems than mine, and i am what you call a white girl, only poorer —and a third world country citizen—. the issue is, i am almost 24, almost 25. almost 27. ALMOST 30. and i did nothing with my life. absolutely nothing. my mom had me at 29 for god's sake.

and by nothing i mean everything i do is not enough to feel it worthy of a life well-lived. should i look for a job and work while studying just to say i am extremely occupied because i have somehow a life? just to feel something? even if that makes my stress situation and anxiety even worse? should i somehow save enough money so i can move from my parents house? even if for my whole generation it's close to impossible? is studying something i (kinda) like enough to not feel like shit about myself? i've never had a boyfriend, nor girlfriend. shoud i look for one? get myself one? even if i dont think any of that would make me happy? i dont think i know happiness as a state of mind, nor the concept of it.

i dont feel like i have many anecdotes to tell in my future. should i measure the life-worth by anecdotes? my friends feel the same way i do, but they have a more organized life. jobs, boyfriends, careers, plans for the future, one of my closest friends move to the other side of the world with her boyfriend (!) in the blink of an eye. but they aren't much happy nor they have many anecdotes either. and i dont have the money or the guts or the available friends to create any.

every day i understand fleabag a bit more.

my favourite anecdotes about my life are from when i was about 13 and 15 years, also known as the worst time of my life. i didnt appreciated it back then, probably none of us did. but when we were teens everything was possible and we didnt have a care on anything other than mundane stuff or rebellious stuff but nothing more than yelling at people, drinking and smoking weird shit (i never had weed tho). not a real responsibility. being careless, free, avoiding consequences that mattered. i think that girl hates me right now. and i am not sure if that's the feeling i should have or if it's just utterly pathetic.

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fyrefrostanimus · 4 months

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Hey look, Fyre's revisiting one of her older AUs that's been mentioned on her blog before!

Jokes aside, I'm pretty sure the only person who read that post is connectionterminated13, so maybe it's better to just put the whole context here.

Remember FuhNaff's Midnight Motorist theory that got run hard into the ground by Sire Squawks proving it could just never be canon? The theory (if you don't know) is that Evan Afton, as the Crying Child, got lured out by Funtime Freddy disguised as Fredbear with illusion disks and got killed. Then William recreated him as a robot, but he remembered how he died, hence his fear of Fredbear despite being okay around his plushies. Then he dies again in the Bite of '83 without having a new robot body made again after.

Yeah I made an AU with that theory as the base. I would have posted this tomorrow for the free space day if I hadn't realized that it does fit at least the trapped prompt, and to some degree trust.

It's pretty much the theory as-is, with the AU timeline diverging as Evan realizes that this isn't Fredbear after the illusion disks are turned off. And this pink-and-while bear with a Bonnie hand puppet has malicious intent. He tried to run away, but Funtime Freddy pulls the classic move of throwing BonBon at him, killing Evan on impact (unlike the Bite, this was a blow to the neck). He goes on to possess BonBon which is like a nightmare for him.

Evan's trapped in a tiny body that makes him feel cramped (for reference, minus Cassidy also being in the same body, possessing Fredbear was like a cozy pillow since it's soft on the outside and bigger than him). And trapped with the bear who killed him. And on top of that, trapped in an underground facility with no natural light and no escape except when let out. The only reason Funtime Freddy was able to get out on that one night was because he manipulated the electricity to make his way out through the elevator (don't question it, I thought of this on the spot to make it make a bit more sense). Evan doesn't want to trust this murderous ursine robot, but he doesn't have much of a choice since Funtime Freddy is his main source of protection and movement. Which is complicated by the bear being the one to act out the most, meaning that they both get shocked if one of them does something wrong. He doesn't want to tell his reluctantly-chosen ally that he's actually the kid he killed that one time he got out, but what if that got him abandoned? What if he was forced out to be alone, barely able to move or defend himself?

Timeline mostly continues as canon up until Michael ends up scooped. Evan eventually works up the courage to leave, definitely egged on by the fact he's hitchhiking inside what he assumes (like Elizabeth does) is his father's corpse and ditches early while inside the house. Being smaller and made up of less wires made it a lot easier for him to detangle himself from the rest of Ennard and just wait out the rest of that time under the couch. Eventually Mike regains control of his body, finds the tiny wire blob under his couch, and freaks out thinking it wants back inside him (he does not want back inside the corpse). Evan's rather friendly since Mike isn't trying to hurt him and eventually the reveal of what actually happened to Evan when he went missing shortly before his birthday happens (don't ask how I have not planned that out).

Evan ends up alone again after Pizzeria Sim since Michael didn't know he was going to burn in there. He would have brought his little wire blob of a brother if he knew on the off chance it would bring him peace, but he didn't. Not sure what happens past that point.

ONCE AGAIN my posting is delayed. I was gonna post it and then my family went to eat out so yeah.

Height chart (idk I just like making these)

A little doodle of the Evan-possessed BonBon knowing what's coming when Funtime Freddy says that specific line

Wire blob Evan being held by Michael for a bit more scale. He loves being held gently like hamburger

And finally, ghost sketch! I had an older sketch to reference but with not as much detail

Aside form what's shown here, I settled on the difference between ghosts who possess animatronics on their own with no assistance (like Charlie, Elizabeth, and at least my version of Cassidy) and those who don't with them being able to interact with the physical world a bit more. So yes, when Evan falls over because his legs collapsed from under him, he can knock things over.

@and-stir-the-stars

#crying child weekend bash #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fyrefrosts fnaf au hell #evan afton

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yooniesim · 6 months

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First off, I don't think you're the troll blog, but they ARE somebody right here among us. They even admitted that they got a shout out on simblrpositivity, as their main account, and then of course made fun of it. This is the quality of people we're dealing with, and it's actually scary to post anything even though they're blocked because people are submitting other people's sims/accts to them.

Yooo really? I mean, they could always be lying about the simblrpositivity thing in order to get people riled up and witch hunting. Beware of that, because it's definitely a tactic trolls use. But it's no doubt someone either active here or just actively a simp. You can tell according to who they insult and who they seem to like (they deleted the asks of them simping over a few specific simblrs for example, but the internet is forever). It's disgustingly easy to track these "anonymous" blogs that way, if you pay attention, especially because this one is just plain stupid. They delete a lot cos they're terrified of someone finding out who they are and connecting their bigotry to their real account (they've already deleted a ton of anti-black comments, transphobia, and ableism), or of anyone just bucking back up at them. That's why they block anybody that talks back to them and delete everything they ever said about that person. Once they get discovered, everyone is going to know what a bigot they are, which they're clearly very afraid of. They're the one that's scared, love- and they should be.

I know it seems scary to potentially become a target, but honestly, they are not scary. What are they gonna do, give the same tired "they're ugly" insult and Billie eilish pic? Make up some other lame comment with absolutely no bite? Make themselves look stupid, then delete it within 24 hours when they realize it just made them look like a fool? They got no comebacks, no cleverness, and no (metaphorical) balls. They're weak and terrified, and no one here needs to have any fear of them. And it's the same with the anons submitting stuff to them- they're all weak little bitch babies that couldn't ask for ketchup at McDonald's, but get all brave on anon. And as soon as they sniff out who this person is, they're gonna get torn apart just like the people they're insulting, and this person is gonna whine and cry about how this community is filled with opinion-nazis or some shit. Seen it a million times. Every other blog like this in the past was eventually outed, along with a lot of people that supported them- I remember the apologies some simblrs had to give over it. And as soon as they were outed, the big strong "honest" blogs lost all their teeth and ran with their tail between their legs. Because they're all spineless dogs with absolutely no power at the end of the day.

What I suggest to you is- don't let them have power over you. They're nobody. If they insult you, so what? That says more about them than you. You got more bravery in your little toenail by putting yourself and your art out there, despite their hate, than they do in their entire body. It takes nothing to put on a mask, hide your name, and insult people. That's the easiest and most spineless thing in the world to do. What takes real guts is putting everything you have out there and doing it proudly, with your whole chest. That's "honesty". And I can guarantee that if you do that you'll get far more love than hate. That's the type of attention they crave, but can never get because their personality is rancid and their ass likely unwashed, so they've resorted to getting negative attention instead. That's what happens when you have no emotional intelligence and refuse to socially age past kindergarten. You become an emotionally stunted loser. Don't let a weak, insignificant little bug of a person like that get to you. Because at the end of the day, you're better than they are without even trying.

#asks #anonymous #ceci speaks

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marengogo · 1 year

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UGH!-5: JUNGKOO-GATE

Memories That Cannot Be Erased - by Sim Hee Jin [The Glory, Pt.2 (Original Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)]

[Music is a very big part of my life and I’m MOSTLY INCAPABLE of writing without music, so I just thought I'd share what I am listening to while writing this]

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I was going to just play the Sims, while watching youtubers reacting to “The Glory”, Anything BTS, or anything which my mind & soul might deem to be needed at the very present. Needed to feel something, what? I don’t quite know myself, maybe something that will help me finally carry on with my project? Maybe something that will make me feel happy for the time being, at this very moment? Or maybe just something that will make me feel like I can forget that there are so many thing I must remember, at least for one fucking day. Yeah, I was going to do all of that right at this very moment, and I still will, but now it will be after I’m done writing this.

So I am here writing this because I couldn’t stop myself from doing so, because, AND HEADS-UP THIS IS ABOUT TO GET VERY GRAPHIC ✌🏾, when one is pressing to go to the toilet, they should. Trying to hold it in, is very bad for your system as a whole, same goes for throwing up or sneezing, or anything else which obviously your body has decided that “yeah no, this can’t stay here, it's gotta to go. Now”. So release myself I will, but like everything else in life EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING there is a place for such activity. When it comes to excrement, the toilet is such a place. When it comes to sneezing, opening your mouth widely into someone else’s face is not the place. When it comes to my feelings, with regards to a specific topic, my blog is one such place.

In real life, I am the type of person that cracks jokes to no end, because it makes me happy knowing that I was the person who was able to make you laugh; I love it, I almost crave it. I am the type of person who would choose friendship over romance, in the sense that if we are going to have a crush on the same human, I will step back and that is a fault, nothing to brag about, at all, because I don’t like unprovoked conflicts when your life has been a constant fight, after fight, after fucking fight, you will quickly try to veer clear of any, if you can and also I grew to be very selfish about my romantic ideal, in my head, if you really liked me like that, I shouldn’t have to compete with someone else also another fault, to a certain degree, so I’ll just keep being me, wait, and see; if we are not meant to be, I’ll be just as fine on my own, I got used to it. I am the type who is also so patient and nonchalant that, if you don’t know me, you will straight away peg me as the person you can easily walk all over, if you do know me, you will be carefully looking for ways to intelligently tell me anything, and if you love me friend or lover you know you can just come at me and we will get at it, whatever “it” may be.

Out of the many things that I am not, forgetful is one. I will remember anything: trivial, important, bad, good, numbers, shapes of clouds, you name it; I will remember it AND WHAT A FUCKING NIGHTMARE THAT IS and let me tell you, a memory like that is usually the product of a well trained self-defense mechanism process, so also nothing to brag about. I am not a person who can sit and watch seemingly innocent people take an unwarranted beating, be it physical or emotional, because I was once there myself and I wished someone else stood up for me. I am not a saint, through life experience I morphed myself into something far from actually, so I will never truly judge you, unless you ask me to, and anything else will always just be a deliberate relying of my opinion, in my blog.

So what does any of this have to do with Jikook? Hmmm … yesterday’s live, heavily highlighted how people like me, or rather, people who are not like a certain demographic in this fandom, are often not given the benefit of the doubt. It’s all so fucking guilty until proven innocent. It reminded me just how jarringly white and black many seem to be when it comes to Jikook’s relationship in general and as the gray-citizen that I am, it is alway so criminally mind-blowing that I usually have no words and just leave it at that unless being otherwise prompted or if I see someone I care about being pestered.

Yesterday however, it specifically made me think about JK. I don’t think I’ve ever said this anywhere in my blog but I heavily relate to JK in his way of thinking, and perhaps also feeling soulwise I think I might be closer to Yoongi, but we are about to find out soon enough, which is probably why I like JM so much 😜😜😜. Because, people such as myself and JK tend to either joke or stay calm as their MO, we usually don’t speak about important things with people we don’t know/connect with, and when we do, it might look so out of nowhere, it will end up feeling “uncharacteristic” hence sounding weird, forced and scary 👻 at times.

Out of all that, there is one particular aspect I feel like JK and I have in common, which is the fact that you can't tell me what to do, at all. That is your quickest way to win a ticket at my “I think not, in fact, I will definitely find a way to NOT do what you just told me you want me to do” Show 🤡. The one very big difference I have with JK, however, is that his parents seem to have been the child's personal decisions supportive-type, whereas alas mine were not. So even though in my formative years I was a bit of a loose cannon and did everything I wanted, it was always just as long as it didn’t involve my parents. They had/have working on it, therapy, is a wonderful thing the strongest hold on me. But so … who has a hold on JK? Does anyone even have a hold on him?

Hobi has expressed how JK is “handsome, but doesn't listen”. Yoongi has expressed how “JK might be a genius but that doesn't mean he doesn't work hard at what he does”. JM has expressed how “JK is different behind the cameras, he is actually cute, but also has a sort of manliness to himself”. Namjoon has expressed how “even though every member of BTS is important, there is no replacement for Jungkook”. Tae has expressed that “JK is the type of person who has outstanding basic talent”. Jin has expressed, with his caring actions towards JK, how even though JK is formidable, he is still a young man in a big-big world.

Very stubborn. Impossibly talented. Regrettably young.

That is what I have gathered of JK, thus far. From what we’ve been allowed to experience through footage, from what the members have conveyed when talking about him and from JK’s “art/work” itself as fans. The one person who hasn’t had a problem in often pegging him as cute is JM. Namjoon has time and again pointed out how JK is a softie with the body of a rock, yes, but JM always attempts to point out the fact that JK in reality is just a big ball of softness, but he is then quickly “silenced” when instantly confronted with the fact that he is the “resident mochi” … we won’t get into that particular monicker today so he just ends up agreeing 😬. Why am I pointing this out? Do I think JM controls JK? … ��😂😭😭 … Please 😑, if they are in a relationship, JM would be a lover not a ruler.

JM has a very big influence on some of the final decisions he makes, I honestly do believe that, but JK is first and foremost his own “unique” person, who however, for at least a good 10 years, had no other choice but to listen to a whole lot of other people. Control is a very big aspect of my life: I literally FEAR losing it. Reason why I am scared of trying sleeping pills, reason why I’m scared of falling asleep while on plane, reason why I don’t do drugs, but at the same time reason why UNFORTUNATELY I drink an unhealthy amount, ever since I figured out that I always remember everything i’ve done and I that I do get loose just enough not to lose myself. Basically, the second I feel like someone is trying to take “control away” from me and if I am in a position where I can I lash.

And by that I don’t mean that Imma scratch you obviously, just means that within 3 second of the happening I would have already formulated plan A-Z in order for me to either regain the control I lost, or find ways to soothe me and give me the apparent comfort I need to feel like I have regained some sort of control I am a master at self-soothing. At that very moment, what is paramount, is knowing that from that moment on, every single decision made involving me would be made by myself and myself only. Meaning that, at that very moment, if you saw me being undecided between broccoli and kale juice, and you kindly offered your opinion, without me asking, I would most certainly feel the sudden craving for a vanilla ice-cream cone instead.

As an introvert I’ve often found comfort within my room. Is where I’ve created most of my projects, where I’ve taught myself a whole language, where I was safe from bullying, where I could allow myself to dream, where I am 100% in control. When I’m in comfort zone, I tend to not think much about what I do, even if 85.13% of the times what I do will not make sense to anybody and has made people call me “crazy”, at that moment, it made sense to me, because i decided to it, so I would quite frankly, not give a fuck. Anyways, me and my room are the main reason for the struggle people I love have when I rather stay home than go for a day out. Once I am out, I’m the light of the party; just gotta get me there 😬.

As it just so happens, JK seems to have found one of his comfort zone in “talking” to ARMY. He maybe has an excuse to escape from whatever it is that he actually needs to be doing/thinking of, while at the same time he shows ARMY that he is alive: WIN-WIN. Reason why he drinks with us, he entertains us, does his laundry with us, eats with you, WEVERSE-living might be providing JK with a way for him to momentarily gain control while at the same time conceding it because he is fulfilling his role as idol, he is promoting things , etc without causing any causing much of any rifts in his comfort zone. So when people ask him not to drink, to go to bed, whatever it is, if it goes against what he was there for, do not for a second think he will do any of it; because in that very moment we are most likely just a part of his well constructed comfort zone.

So this should go without saying, but it is clearly NOT sticking with some people out there. When you are looking to get some reaction from Jikook as a couple, something that will give you the fix you need for the day, week, whatever, please kindly be reminded that not only their relationship isn’t confirmed, but it is also not a paid subscription show, so they don’t owe you shit. JK is not touching JM the way you want him to? JM is not with JK in the palaces you want him to? Jikook are not doing lives the times you want them to? It is all very sad and all but it also all very much sounds to me like you problem. Thus, please be reminded that there are MANY DIFFERENT TYPES of people on this sphere, and as it is hard enough to live a life as them, as me, as JK, as JM, as you, as anybody, a little bit of consideration, and “thinking before you speak” goes a bloody ass long way.

Happy Easter, stay safe 🫰🏾💜

Always respectfully yours,

Marengo.

#Marengo Goes UGH!#Netflix Isn't Free but more Satisfying #Jikook #JK is his own person - Like I am - Like you are

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moyokeansimblr · 6 months

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Hi Moyo :)

I would really love to know about your rules regarding wants/ltws/secondary asp etc. How do you choose aspirations for your sims? Is ltw (for example, career one) more important to you than regular wants (for different careers for example)? Are you trying to acomplish ltw even if sim doesnt have many wants about it?

Hope this is not too much questions :)

Have a nice day!

Hi nonny!

That is so weird, I was just thinking last night I wondered if I should post about some of my gameplay rules and here you asked! Let's see, how can I organize my response to not ramble... I'm gonna ramble anyways I can't help it.

I try to follow my sims' wants, within reason. 90% of the time I'll do whatever they want but it is my game at the end of the day. I don't have a lot of specific want-related rules. One that comes to mind is when teens roll the go to college want. I will entirely ignore it if they roll it prior to their birthday. If they roll it any time on their final teen day then I'll lock it in and then they'll go. But I don't lock it in before because they could change their mind 😉 College is a big decision! With things like engagement & marriage I'd ideally like both sims to want it but that doesn't always happen and then I have to decide whether I think the desire of the sim who does want it trumps the other sim not having the want. Usually I decide it does.

Sims don't get jobs unless they want one, meaning there's no guarantee a sim with a career-related LTW will fill that. However, I do keep it in mind when a sim is looking for a job - in the cases where they just roll a generic 'get a job' want or if they roll any job want I'll hold their LTW career in higher regard and if it's one of the options I will choose it instead of whatever the want is for. I won't spoil which sim but this exact example is in my queue atm. But if my sim isn't showing any want indication for a job I won't go out of my way to be like "well your LTW is x so here you go!"

So to answer that question I'm not sure if that makes LTWs more or less important than regular wants...I guess they sort of are less important because I want there to be a chance that not every sim is fulfilled. At the same time there's a lot of gray area. You could argue with former-townie Renee Andrews who has the custom Self-Employed Talent LTW that I shouldn't make her start a business until she has a regular want for one, but I've kind of made the executive decision that whenever she can afford to that I want her to start one...mostly because businesses are really fun imo.

The same goes for whether or not I'm trying to accomplish a LTW even if they don't roll many regular wants regarding it - it's a big ol' depends. Pol's LTW is to raise 20 puppies/kittens but it's not like he's had wants for Baby and Tarabas to try for kittens (is there even a want for that?). Pol did want to obtain a pet and adopted Baby, but I had to force the adoption of Tarabas and do the rest. But that's because I've personally never completed that LTW and I want to give it a shot so I am. The Max 7 Skills LTW is usually pretty easy because Knowledge sims always want to skill anyways so I don't have to intervene at all there. Same with Romance sims, they'll roll wants to have x lovers or woohoo with x sims regardless. But I obviously have their LTWs written on my spreadsheet for a reason. I'm not going out of my way to fulfill them but they're always in the back of my mind. I guess that's the answer.

Aspirations are chosen based on Zodiac. I have two tables saved on my spreadsheet and I'm 99% sure they're from Cindy/Pleasant Sims because I borrow a lot of the way I play these days from her. I have one that does incorporate Pleasure as a primary asp and one that doesn't - and seems like from my past-self's decision to highlight the one that does that I am using that one for Strangetown 😜

Secondary Aspirations are calculated using interests with this calculator, which I don't know if it was made by Cindy? But I know I borrowed from her. The only additional rules I have regarding secondary asps are that I only assign them once a sim is an adult, and if a sim has the highest number of points in their primary asp then they won't have a secondary. If they tie in a category then I choose.

This seems like a good point to mention that I also don't look at LTWs until a sim is a young adult...unless of course I see it by accident. I have a few age-specific 'rules' for when I check things and add to my spreadsheet. Here are those, along with some other rules I wrote down for myself so I don't forget. Such as because I use the shorter university mod I cheat sims $1k for each semester it skips because idk I think that's fair... gives graduates a little extra money. And then I wrote down the actual amounts per grade in case the popup disappears before I see it since I will put that into each sim's individual bank account. Wondering now if it'd make more sense for me to do body hair as teen too... 🤔 I've always done it at YA but I only recently added in that I want to start rolling for glasses and facial hair otherwise I forget and none of my sims will ever have them. Dunno.

Let me know if you want clarification on anything or have any other questions! I'm always happy to answer about the way I play 🤗 One of the best things about this community is being able to inspire and be inspired by each other!

#moyokean #anon ask #answered #sims 2 #ts2 #the sims 2 #thesims2 #moyo's gameplay rules

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hello, elli! how are you doing? i'm always very impressed by your builds, you seem to craft them very carefully and you definitely have an amazing eye for detail. there's lots of small touches that make them feel alive/realistic and they have a warm atmosphere that really appeals to me. because of that, i'd like to ask you if you have any tips when it comes to building and finding inspiration. oh, i almost forgot, i'd love to have your last builds and its residents when you reach the milestone!

Hiya!! this is such a sweet ask and the ideas are brewing in my head so you get a dissertation under the cut :D (ps ily you made my day HEHE)

ALRIGHT! so first of all a little context, i've been building since i got the sims 3 alll the way back in 2011. i think. i was 7, couldn't speak or even understand english yet and my game was stuck in it so for a very long time i was just doing whatever and most of the time it.... sucked! I got the sims 4 back in 2014 with the mac release, and back in the day the build mode was revolutionary so i spent a lot of my time in there. For me building is fun, i know a lot of people who see it as frustrating and timeconsuming and while it can be- it can also be very enjoyable in the right setting.

first of all, style changes a lot and my builds look different every year! the style i've been building in now only really started in 2021/2022 with this build:

now for some tips:

there's a lot of ways to get inspiration, but my favourite and most useful is pinterest! i have a board full of exterior and interior designs, some i use for vibes and others i follow very closely, i find using references (just like you might for sims) helps a ton when trying to build something realistic. Also think magazines like architectural digest, design blogs on tumblr, youtube home viewings, other video games, tv shows etc. When i'm building for DFM i like to keep Stranger Things, Gone Home and Bones And All in mind as inspiration, and when i build the house in this post for @literalite's Dgwicf i referenced the house from Bosch.

Along with that comes inspo from other builders on Simblr. Go and look at your fav builds, what makes them stand out to you? how can you incorporate that into your own builds? what do you need to be able to do that? One thing i did a lot while learning was watching speed builds; and i mean the REAL kind not the stop motion ones despite them being weirdly satisfying lmao. Ones with a good voiceover help too. Seeing someone actually build makes it a lot easier to figure out more complicated building styles.

One thing i like to do is to build through storytelling. I personally mostly build for sets, so then i like to consider what the viewer needs to see to be able to understand a character without having to know them, where you are/live says a lot about you! But for gameplay it works similarly. Ask yourself questions; who lives here, what is this lot used for, how much money do they have, where is this set, does this match the rest of the neighbourhood/town. If building many lots for something like a story or save file, i like to make a pinterest board for the town vibes too.

Technically, i think there's two main tips for making a build look nice in this specific style. Landscaping and Clutter! i actually think landscaping is the most important part of building as it ties the entire thing together; even if its just three trees in a planter pot. Don't forget about terrain painting either! this one's hard to learn if you never do it but i'd say start out with the softest but largest brush option and kind of airbrush some dirt/gravel around the lot and add a little extra dirt underneath houses and roads. Last tip; if you struggle with roofing there's lots of tutorials on youtube, or you could just choose builds that have less roofs.

i have no idea how to explain how to clutter but you could walk around your house to look for stuff you'd normally clean up if someone would come over. add that into your build :) think trash, laundry, study materials, craft projects, little random nicknacks, cooking supplies, etc. sometimes i go through my clutter folders and just put everything i want to use in one room and distribute it later once the furniture is in!

so uhmmm,,, i hope this was helpful lemme know!! have fun building and don't forget to take snack breaks... sugar helps hehe

#ts4 #ts4 build #ts4 building #anon #ask #you're so kind i was giggling at the compliments hehe

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downwithpeople · 1 month

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system shock remake

game was good, first and foremost.

it looks stellar. it's a proper immersive sim. the environments look great and are full of all kinds of goodies for you to pick up and subsequently vaporise into a scrap cube. my first encounter with this kind of game was bioshock, of course, but it's incredible how bleak the situation at citadel station has become. there were people still trying to get by in rapture (including the splicers!) but in citadel shodan is grinding up the last pockets of free humans by the time you wake up. the audio logs tell the same story again and again: once upon a time, someone was dying alone. it feels almost pointless to weigh in on system shock's story or theming because it's such a classic. you know shodan, you love shodan, everyone does.

i said that the game was clunky in a way that felt good and i'll stand by that for the most part. when you can fight on your terms combat settles into a fun rhythm of finding cover, shooting cyborg, ducking behind cover. you are not always fighting on your terms and sometimes you get bumrushed by a gorilla tiger. unfortunately part of the clunkiness is moving slow as shit in a way that does make things tense but only because of your rank clumsiness rather than any of the other things the game can do to amp up tension.

the boss fights blow. you fight diego twice and the cortex reaver three times. the solution to both enemies is the same: berserk patch, stamina patch, reaction patch if you're feeling nasty, run up and hit 3-4 times with the laser rapier. it doesn't feel very climactic.

the chronic lack of storage is frustrating. the cargo elevator has a piddling lack of space ensuring that you have to just dump the guns you pick up on the ground then go back to that specific floor if you want to play around with them again. it's not exciting, it's not dramatic, it doesn't build tension. it just means that i'm never gonna use the grenade launcher because it takes up space. the cargo elevator should have just been the size of your inventory, who gives a shit. resident evil did this for years then did it again for the remakes.

i have no idea if the set up for the endgame was in the original or not but jesus christ i hate it. the game takes a swan dive around the time you're poking around on the executive floor and you have to do all the groves. i felt like i was soft-locked on my first run because i didn't have enough batteries to do beta, so i started a new game and let me tell you, the groves don't become more fun on the second run. when it was revealed that i had to go to every single node room and copy down the stinking numbers i nearly uninstalled. what a chore. what a hassle!

cyberspace was fun the first few levels then became tedious every successive level, especially the one that would make my game crash (as i was playing a pirated copy that didn't have the patch). if i do another playthrough i'm just turning that shit off. the puzzles were fine.

in general i think i would have preferred more humanoid enemies rather than robots and more of them like the mantis that got up close and personal instead of hanging back looking for angles.

this was, of course, something that would change in system shock 2, so if and when nightdive gets that out it's gonna be a day 1 for me.

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Hellooooo, anyone out there remember me? It’s been almost a year since I’ve used this tumblr last - and over a year since I decided to start it.

As a bit of an explanation, I lost the Blackwood and AHC save files. Actually, I lost ALL my save files except some I’d backed up like three months prior or something. I’m not sure what happened but I put new CC into my game and when I started it up next just. Everything was wiped. I lost motivation after that and pretty much quit Sims 4. I switched to Sims 2 and really had a lot of fun!

Then my laptop broke. It stopped charging unless the charger was in a very specific position. We thought it was the charger itself so we bought a new one. Turns out it was the charging port. Online it said it had most likely come away from the motherboard. It’s been months since and I’ve been without a computer of my own.

That said, I’ve been using my husband’s desktop and it’s been a whole new experience for me. I’ve only ever had laptops. When he let me put sims on his computer it was like a totally different game. The graphics looked better, it ran so smoothly, and I could finally use reshade!!! I was so excited and it’s really given me my spark back for sims. So much so that I started an actual legacy challenge - The Sims in Bloom challenge. I had started the AHC before, but I never got very far into it since I lost my saves soon after. The Sims in Bloom legacy helped me really see the appeal of legacy challenges and I got pretty far in it before I found the Whimsy Challenge. Then my attentions shifted to that because I fell so deeply in love with it that it was all I could think about sometimes lmao.

But now I’ve found a new challenge and can feel myself wanting to get my grubby little hands on it. I read through the Crybaby Whims legacy last night and just. Wanted to start it so bad. But I know it’ll be like my other ones - I’ll play it till I find something better and then abandon it. I don’t want that to happen to my Whimsy legacy and I most definitely dont want it to happen to this one if I start it. So I’ve been thinking of bringing this simblr back to life. Maybe having the Crybaby Whims save as my simblr save, and the Whimsy save as my personal? Since I’m already almost finished with generation 1?

I also have to think about how I’ll be able to manage it. My depression has made my energy cap at like 5%. I’ve lost irl friendships bc I just can’t manage surviving and communicating at the same time anymore. Would adding an active simblr to my plate again be a good idea? I’m not sure, but I know I want to try it. I have this whole idea of making a cast list for the Crybaby legacy and how the drama of the first gen will start and I’m excited to FINALLY play with a teen because I haven’t played a teen at ALL since HSY came out. So I think what I’m going to do is…. Just post when I feel like! I was never a big simblr to begin with so it isn’t like I have dozens of people anxiously awaiting my posts. Especially since I’ve taken such a large break. I think I’ll kind of have to build back up again. Either way I’m not going to put so much pressure on myself to post here, and I think I’ll only use my twitter to announce posts and maybe chat with people here or there. Definitely don’t plan on getting into debates with people about the state of the sims or ea.

That’s just what I’m thinking about, anyway! Im getting a desktop of my own soon, so I might not start anything until then. Then again I’ll have to transfer stuff anyway. What’s the harm of another save file??

#thinking #thoughts with witchy #I will also have to remove the Blackwood and AHC and family tree pages #lol it’ll be funny if I post this and then this blog sits here unused for another year

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shanie-the-komania-toyaddict · 11 months

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Shanie's Action Figure Update! 6/19/2023

SPECIAL EDITION!

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So I haven't done one of these in awhile, but this isn't a normal update. This is specifically an update on my "Collections".

Because really, nobody ever asked for my picspam posts so maybe a text post you can skip is more palatable.

Discussion of Sami, Kevin, AEW Women, and The Bloodline figures under cut.

So in case any of you didn't know, I have "Collections" of things. namely, sets of figures that I'm trying to complete for display as a whole.

One of these Collections is a full, main line set of each First Time In Line AEW Womens figures.

The only update to that is that I have Jamie Hayter coming MOC in a protector some time in the near future. It was on backorder so I'm waiting for it to come in from Ringside Collectibles. But I will get it eventually.

That is all I need from that for the moment as there are no other figures out there right now. Although I need to get a loose Ruby Soho for my shelf.

The second collection I'm working on is my Zowens Matched Sets MOC collection.

That one, I have TWO updates for!

I just bought the Yep Movement Kevin Elite MOC. Good price, looks like it's in great condition. I already have the clamshell for it, I just need to have it delivered and put on my wall with the others.

The second one I bought was the Elite 101 Wrestlemania 38 Kevin.

Yeah, I gave in. I'm getting the WM38 figures.

Of course, Kevin WILL be opened. Very carefully. And his SCSA shirt is coming off and his heads getting swapped before being put back in the case and THEN put on my wall. I want him displaying his ACTUAL WM38 look if he's going next to Sami. (Sidenote: I really really hate that Sami figure, but it is what it is.)

That means the only figures left to get for that wall right now is the Yep Movement Sami (See below) and Wrestlemania 38 Sami.

And yeah, the Sami is still at Ringside, but that Sami, OMG SAMI.

Finally, my Extended Bloodline collection!

That one, I have a single update on. I bought a loose Elite 40 Umaga in the black and red (of course) which will be a placeholder on the shelf until I can find a way to make, buy, or commission a set of 3 Minute Warning figures. OCD prefers matched sets and having Umaga and Superhero Rosey rubs the sharkskin the wrong damn way, especially because there is no Superhero Rosey in Mattel scale, and if I try to put the Jakks one with it, it'll look weird.

Next on that list to get is Elite 15 Yokozuna, which I would love to find loose in good condition with a robe but I may have to settle for loose good condition WITHOUT Robe. The Summerslam Flashback version is the same figure as the Elite 15 but the colors are reversed (E15 – Black belt, red tights, SS – Red belt, black tights). I suppose I could settle for the SS one, but I really want the E15.

Also on the list – Jakks Classic Superstars Peter Maivia and Rocky Johnson. Yes, there is a Mattel Rocky Johnson but good GOD is it awful. They gave him R-Truth's skin tone. It is BAD. Also, the gear is the wrong color.

Outside of that, the only other person I could potentially want that’s been made is Deuce (Tamina’s brother) but again, he’s Jakks only and he wouldn’t fit on the shelf at ALL. Not unless I can find a way to customize him into his Sim Snuka persona which still wouldn’t fix the fact that he’d be out of scale with the rest of them (Outside of Peter and Rocky).

At some point I’m gonna find a way to make a Jacob Fatu figure. There’s someone who sells the 3D printed heads (Same guy I got the Bloodline Sami head from) and I think I know a good formula it would just require some paintwork on the tights, some modified accessories, and painting the head. No, Jacob was never in WWE, but then this really isn’t about the WWE, it’s about the family. And anyone I can make and have the ability to make, I will.

Anyway, that's the update.

Now, for the rant about Yep Movement Sami.

That figure *THAT FIGURE*

So, the original run of that line was defective. His newsboy cap did NOT stay on his head in package. It would fall off and either cover his face or rattle around inside the box.

So. They made a running change. They put out a second version of the figure with the hat packaged on the side.

But that running change was late in the release and was only ever available at brick and mortar retail, which by that point had mostly moved on past that wave.

So there was never a whole lot of that variant out there, to begin with.

So you can imagine how impossible it is to find a minty fresh MOC figure, from 2018, that was ONLY available in stores, that had an impossibly short release run in the first place.

I have literally seen ONE specimen online in two years that I would display and, when I bought it on sight, I was immediately refunded because the seller had already sold it off ebay to someone else and forgotten to take the auction down.

Outside of that I've only seen one OTHER listing PERIOD and the box was trashed.

I don't think I'm ever getting this one. I'm gonna keep looking but at this point I'm contemplating just buying the original release and opening the box, using sticky tack to affix the hat, then putting it back in box and in clamshell.

It pisses me off royally, but it really is what it is. I'll make it work somehow. In the meantime, I have the the two Kevin's I need on the way.

So, this concludes Shanie's Action Figure Update. Sorry for no pictures tonight. This morning. Today. Whatever. Sorry for no pics, but there's more than enough text here to make up for it.

Stay tuned for next time when, who knows, I might actually have photos.

#Shanie's Action Figure Update #Shanie's Action Figures #Action Figures #WWE Figures #AEW Figures #Sami Zayn #Kevin Owens #The Bloodline

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The Fictional Men That Hold My Heart Part 1

These men hold my heart dear and inspire how I write male characters in my own works. Note they aren’t in a particular order.

1. Caesar from Survive As The Hero’s Wife

Caesar is the second prince of the empire in the story and is Carnelia’s (the main character) arranged husband. This man, I love this man! I’m absolutely feral about him! From looks, he seems like another stoic male character in OIs, but he is not. He’s the purest dork who is so down bad for Carnelia and a caring brother to his younger brother despite said young brother’s mother making his life hell. Hell, he even promised to keep his younger brother’s mom safe despite everything this woman made him go through. He’s a natural leader despite overthinking things and being a little insecure, especially regarding Carnelia. He’s a dork that thinks comparing your wife to a frog is flirty because the frog is a scarce species that is beautiful in his eyes. WHO EVEN TAKES THE COMPLIMENT THAT HIS HAIR LOOKS LIKE SPIDER LEGS HAIRS BECAUSE HE THINKS SPIDERS ARE COOL. He is also flush and shies around Carnelia, who enjoys every second of it. He’s such a failure in romance; I love him.

Speaking of Carnelia, he is supportive and considerate of Carnelia, who does the same for him. Like there is a scene when he finally confesses his feelings to Carnelia, but she can’t respond yet because she never thought Caesar loved her and trying to process this information. He tucked her into the bed while she was confused since it seemed he was not going to sleep in the bed (it’s a thing to room share once weekly). He then turns around to say, “You treat me like a child sometimes, but aren’t I a man?” Boy, my heart went boom. It was even cuter when he got instantly flustered later in the scene. He’s so respectful of Carnelia’s choices and space while still having his own personal thoughts. Survive as the hero’s wife was my first OI comic, and Caesar set a standard for a male love interest in OI that very few characters fit the bill.

2. Garroth Ro'Meave from Minecraft Diaries.

Minecraft diaries and I go way back, and Garroth was my favorite character in the show. He was the captin guard of Pheonix Drop (the main village of the show) and was the first person to trust Aphmau to become a good lord of Pheonix Drop after the last lord was murdered. He was there for Aphmau for most of the adventures, giving tips and advice. Even bailing her out a couple of times. He even talks sternly to Laurnace for his admittedly creepy flirting with Aphmau. He was even a stand-in father figure for Levin and Malachi. He was loyal and kind but a bit shy and stubborn. He is also insecure.

Also, his storyline was, to this day, my favorite. He is actually a son of the lord of O'khasis and was arranged to be wed to stop a war, but he ran away due to the increasing fact that his father was a tyrant and didn’t want to marry, so he faked his death and fled. Garroth then lived for years in Phoenix Drop as a guard with Zenix, a pulp of his that he loved and treated as a son. Only to learn his pulp was the one to kill the last lord and has fallen to the Shadow King. For this man broke the spell placed on him and sacrificed his own chance to ever leave the Irene Dimension for Aphmau and the others to be able to go home. There is so much to him that I’m sad his writing takes a back-to-seat for the later seasons of Minecraft diaries and Mystreet. If I was ranking this list, he would have been around the bottom for that fact.

3. Tucker Martinez From Anon.

Anon. is that series that if I drop the name of it in a specific section of the Sims 3 community, at least five people would know what I was talking about. It was a Sims 3 series about an ordinary, socially awkward girl named Chelsea Clark, who has a crush on the cute football star from her school Kyle Weston. We follow her as she tells the audience weekly through her blog, signed as "Anon.” Everything starts when this fucker, Tucker, appears in her life.

Out of all the characters on this list, I don’t have much to say about outside the fact I was team Tucker, and I sometimes thought He deserved better than Chelsea, especially when she was still hooked on Kyle. He was like your typical bad-boy character, but he treated Chelsea right. He wasn’t the best father, but he still tried, especially when his daughter got pregnant as a teenager by Kyle’s son (watch the series, please, it’s wild). Also, his dad is in the drug cartel because why not?

He did make clear that I like characters that seem like walking red flags to turn out that they are green flags, and they only seem bad because of unreliable sources or the way they carried themself.

[tune in for the next part of this beautiful indulgent post]

#sims 3 #Minecraft Diaries

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less-than-three-3 · 1 year

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my shin megami tensei retrospective (after nocturne)

For the past 2 years I’ve gotten into and fallen in love with SMT, starting with Nocturne (yes I did start with the remaster I know I’m a sinner) and pretty much playing every game available on the 3DS and Switch (besides Devil Survivor). I don’t aim to do a like armchair dev game design analysis thing here, but I do want to just talk about and think about what sucked me into these games, what didn’t really land, and why I would or wouldn’t recommend them. There will probably be spoilers so this is the warning, but I’ll keep it fairly lean since there are so many different endings of all these games anyways.

What I’ll just get out of the way first is that I have not played (nor do I really have the desire to) persona, but I’ve watched plenty of people play them from my friends to internet funnymen. I know there’s like some beef between persona and smt fans for some reasons or another and I just like am not interested in that either. I really don’t care for social sim/visual novel stuff and high school tropes and all that jazz, so I know I will not really enjoy the parts of the game that are not the combat. But it’s just not for me, I got nothing really that much against persona. Just a disclaimer for the rest of this piece.

The combat and constant evolution and team building is probably the main aspect of SMT that keeps me drawn in. This is an entirely uncontroversial take as I know plenty of people go “you play SMT for the master class gameplay and just accept the rest as ok”. I’ll come back to that claim specifically in a bit, but I want to really emphasize about how great the gameplay loop is.

First and foremost is demon fusion and negotiation. You like pokemon evolution? You like the constant feeling of growth and strength? You like little mothmen calling you a dipshit? The persistent cycle of leveling up, fusing demons, and learning new skills makes for incredibly addicting progression as you power up. At every step of the way I would be looking at my compendium and planning my next fusions and how to fuse them or who I am willing to turn into fodder for the new guy. Demons naturally falling off and being harder to level is a genius way to encourage that kind of loop, even though later in the game you usually can unlock a power to just keep up your old demons stat-wise (especially useful for support abilities). It does usually slow down by the endgame as leveling becomes a little harder and demons become more sparse but I never really find that to be much of a hindrance because at that point I am just trying to get to the finish line anyways. Negotiations are a great mechanic for giving each demon personality and silly bits, even though it can sometimes sort of be a crapshoot for what the right answer is, but I never feel bad for missing out a recruitment because you lose nothing and can just try again in the next encounter.

The pace of the game fits this very well, you’re never stopped in your tracks for particularly extended periods of time usually, and even if you are I never felt like it was nearly as grueling as in, say, some other games. This does mean that many people won’t really find the plot and characters particularly mindblowing since, though that doesn’t mean the stories are generally put on the backburner, there just isn’t that much time spent building it all explicitly. In a post-souls, botw, etc. world, I think people can generally accept that a game’s world and characters can be pretty well built even if they don’t have a movie’s worth of cutscenes. The plots of the games aren’t or shouldn’t be barebones or minimal in any way, I just mean that not having 30 minutes of cutscenes between dungeons and 10 different activities to do before the next combat segment really helps make the gameplay loop shine.

And what good is the teambuilding if the combat doesn’t work? Luckily, Press Turn is an insanely satisfying and punishing combat mechanic rewarding knowledge and strategy while also being able to severely punish thoughtless or mashing (or unlucky) players. It’s slightly deeper than type advantages in like Pokemon or a weapon triangle or something because you can not only gain turns but very easily lose turns, but still simple enough that you can brute force your way through many encounters and some bosses. But some bosses can be very mean, in good ways and bad ways, and having that extra little aspect to play with means boss design can get really interesting. Or they can Almighty spam.

It doesn’t really seem like it adds that much but I think Press Turn (or rather, the lack thereof) is pretty much the reason I really didn’t get into Soul Hackers and thus didn’t finish it though I gave it a good shot. Even if the overall strategy might be similar, I felt that the lack of Press Turn (in addition to the rest of the game being a little antiquated) was really noticeable, even if I couldn’t exactly articulate why. Strange Journey Redux is a similar kind of example, though it does have Demon Co-Op which was an acceptable change of pace to me, though I definitely still would have just preferred a Press Turn game.

The dungeon crawling is another pretty well known aspect of these games, and I can totally get why. They aren’t like “puzzles at literally every turn” kind of dungeons, but they are generally pretty interesting to explore and map out. Some puzzles can go fuck themselves (teleporters and the wind puzzle from 5...) but overall they are incredibly well designed. They just weren’t what drew me into the game per se. Just a neat aspect that I think easily gets really overlooked in the era of open world games and hallways. If you want interesting areas to scope out in a dungeon crawler, SMT is pretty good for that.

SMT, of course, has also a reputation for being hard as nails. And I agree, there’s a lot of really fucking tough bosses and dungeons to get through no matter which game. But, unless you are SMT4 Minotaur/Medusa or Mem Aleph or SMT5 Shiva (ok that one’s a superboss but still), it never felt like a bad kind of challenge. You can figure out what you’re doing wrong, what you’re lacking either in terms of strategy, team comp/moves, or equipment. And if you’re around the level you should be you can get through it. I wouldn’t really say it’s casual-unfriendly, though it is sort of why I can hesitate to recommend the series to those less familiar with turn based combat, just demanding of your full attention and proper planning.

The little changes between the games do a lot to keep these aspects fresh too. The Magatamas in 3 and the Aogami essences in 5 give you a lot of freedom for building the protag, for example. Smirk is possibly the best addition (and worst removal?) to the series in my opinion though, even if it was a little overtuned in 4, but in both 4 and Apocalypse it not only made hitting weaknesses/crits even more satisfying, but with Smirk’s immunity to crits and statuses there is an extra layer to planning when to do your big damage turns instead of just wailing on the opponent every single turn. It also makes some bosses fucking tough (looking at you, Minotaur), and can very very easily turn the tides of a battle one way or the other. It’s such a cool mechanic that I am a little sad that it is locked on the 3DS when they didn’t bring it back for 5.

Another thing that I think 4 and Apocalypse excelled at was actually the story. Yeah, the thing that everyone says is mid. I know a lot of true diehard SMT fans say Nocturne is the best but I don’t really get it. I think in Nocturne, the Reasons are interesting moreso than the Law and Chaos dichotomy that is usually present but at the same time all of the alignment reps are just kind of psycho (which, sure, understandable given the circumstances) and I just feel like siding with the sane person who wants to make the world back to normal is really the thing that makes most sense. I felt like maybe people just consider the Nocturne story as the best philosophically but I didn’t really care for it as a device for driving my decisions and investment in the plot. Strange Journey Redux was fine? Nothing too much to write home about it’s pretty much even more straightforward than Nocturne.

4′s Law/Chaos/Neutral may not have been exactly the deepest things in the world, but I felt like the characters were all at least charming, and it has by far the most unique setting and worldbuilding out of the bunch. Its incorporation into Apocalypse is what really sets it apart. Playing the events from an entirely different point of view, as someone living in wasted Tokyo instead of the Samurai coming down from above to save the world, on top of having some of the best characters, genuinely tense, emotional, and interesting scenes and plot points easily makes the duology my favorite of the bunch. YHVH being the most creative and interesting boss out of them all also helped.

On the other side of the pond is 5 which, I mean, sure is a plot? I never really ever cared for any of the school portion, and actively felt like a specific major plot point at school and the resulting events were absolutely absurd and avoidable and just... fucking stupid. But I kind of like the alignment reps a little? More than most people online, I think. I don’t really know how to say it but I just never really felt wowed by a lot of the plot points even towards the end, and like I said above the entire first like third was just pointless. So if this was your first or 2nd SMT game I can totally get why you would be like “yeah the story is just ok but...”

And this is kind of why I find it hard to actively recommend this series to everyone I know. It’s a series that sucks me in for so long and I just want to keep going back, but it’s also a series that I think has some aspects that can turn people off. It just so happens to hit all my buttons and avoids all the bullshit I actually don’t like (and also I have 3DS so I can play the best one). In the end, if you’re a JRPG fan I could not recommend SMT enough. If you liked Persona, I will hesitate before mentioning it, because it is missing some parts that you probably liked from those games? And even the games that are trying to be more like Persona just kind of end up being like... SMT5. But hey, maybe you’ll fall in love with the pace of the gameplay loop more than in Persona. Just maybe get a 3DS with those games before eshop fully shuts down.

#smt #shin megami tensei

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tailsrevane · 1 year

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2022 in review, part 4: video game first plays

admittedly i spent more time on pokémon go than anything else, and it’s basically a completely different game than when i played it a bunch when it first launched so you could almost count it as a first play? but yeah, here are my top 5 favorite actual first plays of the year.

1. pokémon scarlet (2022)

yes i know it has some rather glaring bugs, but i don’t care about fps (frames per second), i care about fps (fun per second, admittedly that would work better if they weren’t the same letter).

seriously, though, an open world setting is such an obvious choice for the tone of the pokemon franchise. it’s kind of incredible that this is the first time it’s been done in a mainline game. and damn it, i just love the characters in this. they’re just so vibrant and real. and the new pokemon are amazing, are you kidding me with that fire/ghost alligator starter? incredible stuff in this game.

also like, i’m a huge fucking dork so the idea of being a student at a pokemon boarding school? fucking perfect. that is exactly the childhood i would want.

i hope the next game has more or less the same format but fewer bugs. but i fucking loved this.

oh, but bring back mega evolutions or dynamax, or just… something less gimmicky. terastallizing is so dumb. i actually hate it.

2. pokémon shield (2019)

i actually started playing this back when it first came out, but my life was very turbulent at the time and i got way too busy for it for a while & never got back to it because adhd yo. so as i was getting excited for violet & scarlet to come out, it made perfect sense to pick it back up.

i mean, this is kind of a better game than violet & scarlet, if we’re being totally fair. me preferring scarlet largely comes down to the fact that it’s open world, and that some elements seem designed to appeal to me specifically (the academy setting, the greater focus on character writing & relationships).

seriously, though, pokemon shield rules. i know that’s gonna be true of basically any mainline pokemon game, but it really does kick serious ass.

3. teenage mutant ninja turtles: shredder’s revenge (2022)

the difficulty curve on this is actually a bit higher than it looks at first glance. because it’s not that you’re trying to make a game that’s comparable to the tmnt arcade games early 90s kids like me grew up with. you’re trying to make a game that feels like those games felt to us at the time, today. so please understand that that’s an entirely different, much more challenging target to hit, and please also understand that this game knocked it out of the fucking park. (i’m pretty sure i just mixed my metaphors pretty badly but whatever.)

this game makes me feel about ninja turtles the way i felt about them as a little kid with a pocket full of quarters at chuck e. cheese. it makes me feel about them the way i felt when i was doing a ninja turtles coloring book or playing with my action figures or sleeping under my ninja turtles bedspread. it’s as cool as i thought the cartoons were at the time.

i love being a turtle!

4. get in the car, loser! (2021)

yes hello hi, i would like to play the game about the four lesbianish queers (one of whom is trans, another of whom is a blue-haired they/them himbo who STOLE MY HEART) beating up nazis while not flirting with each other but not not flirting with each other with extremely well-written explorations of imposter syndrome, depression, harassment, ethics & politics, and all that shit. that sounds great, yes, thank you. oh, it’s by the same person who did ladykiller in a bind, a game that featured the best depiction of dom/sub relationship psychology i’ve ever seen in any medium? that sounds lovely i’ll take three, thanks.

5. kaichu (2022)

this is a kaiju dating sim. this is a game where the entire goal is to get two kaiju to smooch. this is a kaiju dating sim. i am not about to sit here and pretend i have to justify why i love it.

#year in review #2022 in review #video games #pokemon #pokemon scarlet #pokemon shield #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #shredder's revenge #get in the car loser #kaichu

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