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ceealaina · 5 years

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Won’t You Ever Know That I’m In Love With You?

Square: TSB A4-First Kiss, IronHusbands O4-Hurt/Comfort Rating: M Warnings: Brief mentions of sexy times Pairing: Tony/Rhodey, Tony/OFC (background) Link: AO3 Summary: “The thing was, he could sleep around as much as he wanted, and it was never going to make the fact that he was completely and totally in love with Rhodey go away.” Something short and sweet for my First Kiss and H/C squares.

Tony groaned as he thrust into Mina, trying to keep his brain focused on the here and now, the feeling of her body against his, the arch of her spine beneath him. It wasn’t really working. Usually sex was a foolproof method for slowing down the thoughts in his head, for turning off and quieting the noise in his brain, but lately it hadn’t been cutting it.

Later, after Mina had come with a ‘yes, yes, yes, yes, yes’ that made him roll his eyes behind her, he lay in her bed, smoking a cigarette and staring at the ceiling and trying not to think about his impending graduation (about Rhodey leaving for basic training).

“Tony!”

He almost jumped at Mina’s sharp hiss of his name and winced when he realized she’d been trying to get his attention for a few minutes. “Sorry,” he said, giving her an apologetic smile and batting his eyes in a way that usually never failed to make the girls melt.

Mina remained unimpressed.

“Look,” she told him. “I don’t know who you’re looking for, but it obviously isn’t me. I don’t think this is working out.”

Tony blinked at her. “You just called me to come over three hours ago. You decided to wait until after we fucked to break up with me?”

She shrugged. “You’re really good in bed,” she offered, not sounding particularly apologetic. Tony scrubbed a hand through his hair, taking another deep drag off the cigarette before she plucked it from his mouth. “I think you should go now.”

“But it’s the middle of the night!”

Mina just stared impassively back at him and Tony rolled his eyes and huffed out a sigh. “Fine, whatever,” he grumbled, rolling off the bed to search for his clothes.

It was cold out, a light drizzle in the air, and he was a good thirty minute walk from the apartment that he and Rhodes had rented after their first year in the dorms. He knew he should call a cab, but it was a Saturday night (Sunday morning, now) and they were a good way from the main bar drag, and he didn’t really love the idea of waiting outside Mina’s house like a rejected puppy. Besides, being cold and wet and miserable seemed appropriate for how his night had been going.

It wasn’t like he had really expected things to work out with Mina. Quite the opposite. But still - five breakups in six months, none of which he’d instigated, was a little sad. And a post booty-call middle-of-the-night breakup was the most embarrassing yet.

The thing was, he could sleep around as much as he wanted, and it was never going to make the fact that he was completely and totally in love with Rhodey go away - and it wasn’t going to change the fact that Rhodey was leaving in just a few short weeks. Tony knew how these things went. They’d stay in touch for a bit, but they’d gradually drift apart, and probably he’d never see the other man again.

So, no. Sleeping around wouldn’t change any of this, but it did beat the hell out of lying in bed night after night, wondering what would happen if he just gathered the courage to get up, go next door, and tell Rhodey how he really felt.

By the time he made it home, Tony was shivering and ready to crawl into bed and forget the whole night. He let himself into the apartment and stopped when he spotted Rhodey on couch, laughing over some stupid late-night comedy thing, apparently still wired from the ROTC party he’d been at earlier.

“Hey,” Tony said, peeling off his soaked jacket and leaving it in a pile at the door, smiling despite himself at Rhodey’s bright laughter.

“Hey!” Rhodey answered. “Wasn’t expecting you back tonight.” He tilted his head back over the couch to look at him. “Jesus, what happened to you?”

“It’s raining out,” Tony offered, teeth chattering as he moved over to the couch.

“Yeah, no shit,” Rhodey replied, but it was fond and he was already wrapping Tony up in one of the blankets on the couch. “Why were you out walking in it? Thought you’d be crashing at Mina’s all night.”

“I was,” he admitted, calling after Rhodey as he wandered off down the hall. “But then she dumped me. And kicked me out of her house. So it was that or stand outside looking pathetic for twenty minutes while I waited for a cab. Figured I’d rather walk.”

Rhodey gave him a sympathetic look as he returned with three of their softest towels, dumping two in Tony’s lap before grabbing the third and attacking Tony’s head with it. Tony rolled his eyes, even while a secret part of himself delighted over Rhodey looking out for him.

“I’m sorry, man,” Rhodey told him. “Mina seemed... great.”

Despite the sting that he was still feeling over it, Tony snorted. “You hated her.”

“I didn’t hate her!” Rhodey protested. “I just... hated her for you.”

Tony’s smile went tight. “Yeah, well,” he mumbled. “Joke’s on me, because clearly you were right.”

“Hey,” Rhodey’s hand squeezed at his shoulder and Tony tried to ignore how good that felt. “I’m just... I’m kinda worried about you, Tony. You’ve been tearing through girls like nobody’s business lately, and that’s fine, it is, it just... Kinda seems like you’re using it to distract from something else.”

Tony shrugged, but it wasn’t like he could argue, exactly, so he kept quiet, smiling faintly when Rhodey passed him a beer. He could feel Rhodey’s eyes on him and focused on the tv, pretending not to notice. Rhodey just sighed, scrubbing a hand over his head.

“I’m just saying, you don’t gotta sleep with everyone who says something nice to you. Maybe slow down before you jump into bed with the next one. You’re a catch, Tones. You don’t have to settle. You could have anyone you wanted.”

Tony blinked over at him. “Even you?” he whispered, eyes widening when he realized he’d spoken out loud. “Fuck,” he muttered, glaring at his beer bottle.

“I.” Rhodey made a choked noise. “What did you say?”

“Nothing,” Tony said quickly, shoving the bottle down on their makeshift coffee table. “Nothing, I just... Had too much to drink tonight. Not making any sense.” He got heavily to his feet, brushing past Rhodey and giving him a smile that he knew Rhodey would see through. “I’m going to bed. Don’t worry about it.”

“Tony.” Rhodey still looked flabbergasted, but he collected himself enough to grab Tony’s wrist on his way by. “What. Did you. Say?”

Tony sighed, squeezing his eyes tightly shut for a brief moment before he turned to face him.

“I...” He shrugged his shoulders helplessly. “I’ve kinda got a thing for you, Rhodes. Have for a long time. You wanna know why I keep going through so many people? Cause none of them are you.” Tony laughed, sounding high pitched and awkward to his own ears, and scratched at the back of his neck with his free hand. “Sorry,” he added, not able to meet Rhodey’s eyes. “Hell of a thing to drop on you, I know. At least graduation’s soon, right? Won’t have to see me after that.” He couldn’t make himself stop talking. “I’ll, uh. I’ll stay out of your way, till then. If you want. I won’t make it weird. Promise.”

Rhodey still hadn’t said anything, and Tony could feel his eyes burning. He squeezed them shut again, pulling half heartedly against the hand Rhodey still had wrapped around his wrist. “Can you let me go now, please?” he asked, voice dropping to a soft whisper.

Rhodey let go of his wrist like it burned him, and Tony winced as he turned away, still without looking at him. He was drunk, which was definitely the only reason that he found himself chewing his lip and fighting back tears until he was safely behind his bedroom door.

“Tony!”

Tony stilled halfway down the hall, drawing in a slow breath before turning back to face him. “Yep.”

Rhodey was off the couch and moving down the hall toward him. “Don’t... Don’t do that, man. Don’t shut me out like that. You caught me off guard, that’s all.”

Tony tried to smile, running a hand through his hair. “Well, that’s fair. Nobody expects anything like this. Can we just... write this off as a drunk fever dream. Pretend it never happened?”

“Tony!” Rhodey was grinning at him now, that fond look that he got when Tony’s ideas got really out there, and Tony was too embarrassed and too tired to figure out why. Rhodey seemed to know what he was thinking and he shook his head, laughing softly. “Yeah, man,” he said, finally reaching him and settling his hands on Tony’s arms. “Even me.”

“What?” Tony asked, frowning. Then his earlier words came back to him. “Wait... what?”

Rhodey’s grin was a little lopsided now, a faint flush on his cheeks. “Yep,” he said, a little nervously. His hand slid carefully up Tony’s upper arm, and Tony resisted the urge to shiver, hyper focused on the sensation. “Just... never thought you’d feel like that too.” His hand slid higher, curling around the back of Tony’s neck, and Tony swallowed hard at the feeling, their eyes locked.

“Oh god,” Tony blurted out. “Please just kiss me?”

Rhodey huffed out a laugh at that, and Tony giggled too and then they were kissing softly, Rhodey’s lips dry and cool against his own, his fingers tightening against the back of Tony’s neck. It lasted a few minutes before they pulled away again, blinking at each other.

“That was weird, right?” Rhodey asked.

“Super weird,” Tony admitted, eyes dancing and a pleased smile on his face.

“Come on, man. I thought you were supposed to be good at this.”

“What?” Tony protested, giggling again. “I am good at this! I’m amazing at this. If anyone needs to step it up here, it’s you. Get on my level, Rhodes!”

“Get on your level?” Rhodey repeated. “I’ll show you my level.” Then he had fisted his hands in the front of Tony’s shirt, dragging him for another kiss and it wasn’t weird at all.

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tipsoctopus · 4 years

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Football & Covid-19: When it comes down to it, absolutely no one has thought this through

The optimists tell us nothing’s really changed. OK, there are not any actual games on at the moment, and there’s chatter about clubs losing money and sacking staff, but well, that’s just normal chatter. That’s what the media always does. Scaremongering.

They say the season isn’t going to start until sometime in the 22nd century, but they always try to worry us. They’re just filling space in the paper. It’s just like those transfer rumours: they give us 100 players we are going sign this summer and we sign none of them. Rumour, rumour, rumour then we promote three youngsters and buy someone who’s never been talked about.

OK there’s a bit of a problem in some clubs, and maybe a few will go to the wall, but that’s just the survival of the fittest thing. The big mongoose eats the crab. Tough on the crab but it probably had a good life. Until the mongoose came along.

So there will be a shakedown, a few smaller clubs will go to the wall, but some will be rescued by local businessmen who want to make a bit of a name, and we’ll carry on as before.

Besides, the little clubs that go down will probably be reborn and get a new life. Just like Wimbledon. Beat Liverpool in the FA Cup final went bust a few years later. Moved to Milton Keynes and came back, with the reborn original club playing in South London. Clubs survive.

No hang on, says the next group of thinkers if the season doesn’t get going again really soon, and so clubs don’t finish off the games, there will be a problem.

For everything to stay as it is, the broadcasters need the season finished or they will want three-quarters of a billion pounds back, and the clubs don’t have that. And we’ve only got until July to get it all sorted because the preliminary rounds of the Europa League and Champions Leagues start in July.

And if the clubs come up with some whacky scheme of playing behind closed doors with all the games played at two or three neutral stadia, in order to rush it all through, it only needs one player to get the virus, and it will all be cancelled again. Is that really going to work?

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OK, so the problems take a bit longer to resolve than we thought, but we can still finish off this season, even if it is in September / October. We just change next season.

Which is ok, except for two things. First, next season will be shortened and the clubs will still lose broadcasting money because there will be fewer games.

And second, lots of clubs are already on the edge. Clubs like Barcelona, which has apparently run out of cash already because in the summer it earns a fortune out of stadium tours and the museum. And they are shut.

Besides, Barcelona lives and breaths on the concept that it always buys the best players no matter how much it costs, no matter what it takes. But now the unthinkable has happened, there is no cash. Putting out the kids is not Barcelona’s style. Which is why the likes of Cesc Fabregas and Hector Bellerin left to go to Arsenal – to get games.

And if can happen to Barcelona, what about half the clubs in the Premier League?

Let’s try this a different way around. Wolverhampton Wanderers are pushing to get into the top six to get a place in Europe as the next step on their upward journey. To help them do this they are constantly investing in the club, which is fair enough.

But before this season suddenly ground to a halt, Wolves borrowed a fair chunk of money from one of the specialist financial organisations that loan money to clubs. Nothing wrong with that – it is the sort of thing that goes on all the time.

Now that firm wanted a guarantee on the money (as financial institutions always do) so Wolves pointed to the basic revenue they would get from Sky, BT and the BBC at the start of next season.

Their gamble was quite reasonable: if they make it into the top six they will be able to pay back the money easily because they will be earning far more than they budgeted for in getting this loan. And if they don’t get into Europe, ok they can still pay the money back from the TV money, and meanwhile, they’ll be able to buy more players in the summer.

But supposing the TV money doesn’t come in, because there is no football this season, then what happens to the repayment of the loan?

This is the problem: football has got used to borrowing money, with guarantees based on earnings not yet made. And mostly it works. But quite possibly it won’t this time.

In this type of situation, one club can’t pay another, who can’t pay the next and so on. And in the financial world that we will live in, after the virus has finally been beaten, there most certainly won’t be any cheap loans on the table. Those will vanish as quickly as the government’s offer to pay people’s salaries.

If the above scenario does come about, clubs will start going bust all over the place, which means defaulting on payments owed. Clubs need money, but suddenly that £50m player turns out to be only worth £7m because that’s all anyone can afford. And besides, half the players in the Premier League are for sale as clubs try to cut their costs. Players, the clubs’ biggest asset, suddenly become worth practically nothing. That guy who cost £60m last season is now worth £3m. And unfortunately, he hasn’t been paid for yet, because all transfers are paid over four years.

Now, the real problem is not that these thoughts might become reality, but rather that few people have started to think what to do if we get anywhere near the third thought, let alone the fourth or fifth. There is no planning for this sort of problem because most clubs have been living on the financial edge for years. The money comes in from TV, etc, the money goes out on wages.

When the bandwagon falls over, clubs will go into meltdown and banks will call in the debts – no matter how unpopular that will make them. Don’t think TSB or Natwest or Barclays will say, “No, we can’t call in that club’s debt because all their fans will close their accounts with us,” because that thinking is not going to happen. Banks, like everyone else, are taking a hammering at the moment, and they will want their money back on the date specified, payment with interest in full.

Clubs will go into administration, the administrators will do a fire sale of players, and then sell the ground for housing development.

The clubs with actual money in the bank (not the wealthiest clubs, but the clubs with cash) will be fine. The rest will be watching the cliff edge get closer day by day

And what is the answer to that?

“Oh that won’t happen,” I am told. Which is why newspapers are still full of stories of all the players clubs will be buying this summer. As if nothing untoward is happening.

We are walking backwards, blindfolded with the lights off towards the cliff edge. Of course, we might be able to stop and walk forwards again, but it is certainly not guaranteed.

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thesimsblues · 2 years

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The 2022 NSFT calendar is coming soon!

#tsb chatter #nsft calendar #sims spice #sims 4 nsft #c: alan atelier

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thesimsblues · 2 years

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This new wedding game pack with the couple walking arm in arm has given us all the vapors, like we just witnessed the leading man in a Regency drama hand off his lady counterpart into the carriage.

Mmm, minimal human contact.

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thesimsblues · 3 years

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Actually, I won’t just leave that in my tags.

Clothes creators, PLEASE for the love of Bob Pancakes consider making your clothes for both frames. Not just by unclicking the frame and gender restrictions in S4S. Using the actual meshes themselves.

It is soul-sucking to not have many options for representing trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, or genderfluid sims.

#tsb chatter

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thesimsblues · 2 years

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@nappingcucumber has reminded us what brings our community together. I thank you for your service.

#tsb chatter #also thanks for making me WHEEZE #sounded like an accordion being sat on

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thesimsblues · 2 years

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Hi, friends! I'm having a pretty serious lull in TS4 interest lately, so there will be little to no activity from this simblr until further notice.

I'm an insatiable goblin in other Internet venues, so feel free to DM me if you'd like to keep in touch.

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thesimsblues · 2 years

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Hii! Where can i find the makes hair & glasses in this post?

https://thesimsblues.tumblr.com/post/671826342668533760/maybe-ill-never-die-ill-just-keep-growing

Hi there! Danny's hair is from Eco Living, and his glasses come care of @pralinesims. I'm not sure which of the round ones in the set are his, but they're all excellent choices.

#tsb chatter #asks #wcif

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thesimsblues · 2 years

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I posted 548 times in 2021

94 posts created (17%)

454 posts reblogged (83%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 4.8 posts.

I added 830 tags in 2021

#reblog - 348 posts

#inspo - 66 posts

#s: gutter house - 65 posts

#c: neven bahri - 64 posts

#tgh: summer 3 - 58 posts

#tgh: year 3 - 57 posts

#sims stories - 49 posts

#gutterverse extras - 47 posts

#c: ruthie nelson - 46 posts

#c: marcus aurelia - 30 posts

Longest Tag: 109 characters

#reblogging this post because it finally was uncensored by tumblr after i sent them literally a dozen messages

My Top Posts in 2021

Please enjoy a sampling of sapphic Regency romance, featuring Bella Goth and Nina Caliente.

224 notes • Posted 2021-03-07 16:51:07 GMT

Hey, guys. I'm selling my CC folder for $100. 40GB of unsorted package files. Here's what you'll get:

All chairs have been broken by the last patch and haven't been updated. Your sims can't use them, but they're pretty.

Duplicate files, but I won't tell you which.

Lots of recolors without the required mesh.

Default eyes have been unrandomized so you get that convex face look.

All of Felix's CC.

None of mine.

Will accept any form of payment. $20 for international shipping.

238 notes • Posted 2021-05-02 21:27:50 GMT

Actually, I won’t just leave that in my tags.

It is soul-sucking to not have many options for representing trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, or genderfluid sims.

241 notes • Posted 2021-01-30 21:23:00 GMT

Five Sisters Vases: BGC Deco by @thesimsblues

I wanted to get some practice making meshes from scratch in Blender, so I hunted down a nice little photo of some white ceramic vases and did my best to emulate them. Size them up, size them down, stick stuff in them--even stack them! These versatile friends will do it all.

Base game compatible

16 swatches: 14 from my Salt of the Earth palette, black, and white.

<1.1k polys

1 small, medium, and large slot at their mouths. Not everything looks great stuck in them, but a good variety of things do!

Separate and merged package files

I have no TOU, so please enjoy these vases as you’d like!

download @ SFS (no ads) | download @ GD (no ads)

281 notes • Posted 2021-01-04 00:34:33 GMT

As a Metro Detroiter, I’d like to encourage you to celebrate the Trans Day of Visibility by supporting some LGBTQ+ communities and causes in my area.

Here’s a great article from BLAC Detroit about Detroit’s Black transgender community.

Here are some organizations that support LGBTQ+ Detroiters:

Trans Sistas of Color Project - Detroit: Created by and for trans women of color, this project supports community members with finances, housing, medication access, and so on.

Ruth Ellis Center: Named after Ruth Ellis, a Black lesbian who advocated for LGBTQ+ rights, the REC provides resources and support for all members of the Detroit LGBTQ+ community but especially focuses on LGBTQ+ youth.

LGBT Detroit: A community center for LGBTQ+ Detroiters, the organization provides counseling services as well as support groups.

Please take the time to donate to all of these organizations -- or any of your local trans rights and support organizations.

336 notes • Posted 2021-03-31 17:11:20 GMT

Get your Tumblr 2021 Year in Review →

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