Abe turned back to Callum. He bit his lip for a moment, then reached for his boyfriend’s hand, “Well this was…–”
“Abe, dear!” Abe flinched, dropping Callum's hand far quicker than he’d reached for it in the first place, and turned to greet his mother. She kissed one cheek, then the other, and smiled at him. She didn’t spare a glance in Callum’s direction as the other man shifted to stand close behind at Abe’s shoulder, and Abe felt the blonde stiffen at the lack of acknowledgement..
“Hey mom…” Abe gave her a half-hearted smile as she pulled away.
“I’m surprised we didn’t have time to chat before the ceremony started,” Elaine said, “I know we both got here with plenty of time to spare.”
“Yeah…” Abe let out a short awkward cough, “It’s been pretty busy around here…”
“Oh, I know!” Elaine clapped her hands together, smiling across the room at the bride, “Pia looks so happy!”
“Yeah, she does” Abe chuckled pleasantly at that, “Thomas is a good match for her.”
That, at least, was true. Abe had known pretty quickly how smitten his friend had been in college, even though they’d fallen out a bit in their later years there. Thomas was an ideal match for Pia’s wit and her admirable amount of perseverance. He couldn’t think of a better match for her. She’d been lucky to find someone so well in tune with her own goals.
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why do people hear/read i really like/love/ am obsessed with this character
and instead hear
if they were real I would want to fuck/marry them
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just saw a mildly irritating post that talked about seeing takes about how sdv is actually bourgeoisie or whatever (am not reblogging because the rest of the post was honestly kind of unrelated and i want to talk about this sdv claim w/o derailing the rest of it) as if that take popped out of the void when i know for a fact that that take specifically is a response to the much more common "stardew valley is actually a leftist anti-capitalist utopia" type takes, a thing that is even less true about stardew valley than claiming it's bourgeoisie
like. the double standard of making completely detached from reality statements about how left-wing the ideals of stardew are, and then claiming people making the opposite take are armchair activists like... you don't think claiming that you play sdv because it fits totally with your leftist values (rather than that you play it because it's cute and fun or any other thing you are probably actually choosing to play it based on) is a form of armchair activism? isnt it more weird to need everything in your life to perfectly align to your politics, not in the sense that you select your pastimes based on those politics, but that you select them based on non-political criteria & then insist to everyone that Actually This Is Based On My Politics even when we can all plainly see that it's not???
stardew valley is a little farming sim. whether you like to play it or not says nothing about your irl politics. but literally just by looking at what you do in the game, which is produce things so you can sell them to make more things, you guys cannot seriously be claiming THIS is your anti-capitalist utopia and get weirdly mad and project this sense of armchair activism onto people who point out that it just literally isn't. sdv is a lot of things, but anti-capitalist is so totally not one. and i have no interest in explaining the intricacies of how the sdv farmer could be capitalist when they throw joja out of town, because frankly i have seen other posts about that and i have yet to see anyone involved in arguing for #sdvleftistutopia demonstrate any understanding of like. well like even the most basic understanding of class dynamics or that the word bourgeoisie has a specific meaning that is distinct from 'rich person' or 'ceo of corporation'.
also everyone takes it wayyyy personal like saying that sdv isn't anti-capitalist somehow translates to saying anyone who plays sdv and is anti-capitalist is actually a FAKE LEFTIST BETRAYING THEIR VALUES which is just not what anyone is saying ever and acting like they are kills the conversation dead. the conversation that YOU STARTED by claiming sdv was leftist or whatever
inb4 anyone gets on my ass about letting people do what they want, i LOVE stardew valley. i have played more than 1000 hours of stardew valley. if pointing out that sdv is capitalist makes you shit your pants then actually i kind of think you are a fake fan. what was all this about the spreadsheets to maximize efficiency. just like think for even 20 seconds about what you do in the game and how it may actually clash with your irl politics and hope for the world and ultimately imo that will make you a much better leftist than insisting that everything you do is actually already leftist simply because it makes you feel nice and cozy. niceness and coziness are not correlated in any way with 'correct' politics and the sooner you internalize that without viewing it as an attack on the things in your life that are nice and cozy the less we will have to have stupid conversations like this
also last thought it's totally your prerogative to turn off your brain and not think about politics while gaming but if that's your position then don't get on tumblr dot com to claim these things are leftist (how would you know, your brain was off) and also when people kept their brains on (regardless of what their conclusion was about the internal politics of sdv, or for that matter any media) and are trying to talk about it to each other, don't annoyedly get on your high horse about how actually you shouldn't have to turn your brain on. you don't have to. stop talking to me about it if you won't though.
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the way unmodded ts4 lacks things that are interesting and desired by the players to an almost embarrassing degree but has an excess of things that are Beyond annoying (the phone usage spam, stopping to sniff the damn floors, 'see what's happening', spam cooking/grilling, etc) will be studied by scholars in 50 years
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no me gusta 🤾🏻♀️ ain't no way overreactsimsie won... ain't gonna say anything else but eh, well people are missing a lot 🤷🏻♀️ also, feliz año nuevo ai!!!
the guy that made the awards probably had little to no idea about simblr and even less information on the stories in here (hence story on tumblr) so i think it only made sense i lost. i still have no idea how any of this worked and how i got nominated out of a bunch of other people tho
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