No. 25: “You’re not delivering a perfect body to the grave.”
Storm | Buried Alive
This part really struck me, and I wanted to draw it! Luffy is just trying to protect his little family, and while the Lapins nearly got them killed, he still helps pull one out of the snow....because he recognizes they're trying to protect their family too. And I love that ;v;
ID: A fluffy gray cat lies on the bed beside a human. The human pulls her closer. "Come on babe."
The cat, purring loudly, wriggles in against the humans leg and gives a soft, trilling "Mrrah!" of pleasure.
"Who did a good job in class today?" the human asks, scratching the top of the cat's little head.
The cat presses up into it, visibly smiling and intolerably smug. She gives a soft, silent meow, as if to say "'You know it was me."
"Was it you? Did you do a good job, sweet pea?"
The cat purrs and wriggles some more.
The human laughs warmly. "Yeah, you did! I'm so proud of you!" /end ID
We have struck a plateau the past couple of days, so I am sticking with simple reinforcement and repetition rather than trying to refine the tricks or get her to do them at a distance of more than about a foot. This is all very new to both of us. We are still having so much fun, and she loves the snuggle time on the bed after. Good girl.
Finally figured out how to make a Mistoffelees design I’m happy with! Apparently the key ingredient to making him feel like Misto instead of just a random black cat—-sparkles ✨💖
He joins the Cats the Musical customs gang! Next up (and the only other cat I currently have plans for)—Tugger, of course.
That’s Macavity and Victoria next to him :3
They are all customized Fabulous Felines, one of my favorite obscure 80s toy lines. I have the full original set (minus that darn possibly-nonexistent playset), and am slowly working on accumulating extras when I find them at good prices for this Cats customs project.
Two default skins sets using @withlovefromsimtown's excellent Birthday Suit set.
@isimchi posted about the lack of options for players who want darker default skin sets, so I was like 'defaults? that's my one skill!' offered to make some, and we came up with these. :) There's also a slightly edited version of the 1.00 skin available as custom, so read on.
Set one uses 0.40, 0.60, and 0.70 skins for S1, 2, and 3 defaults and is intended to be used with Lifa's S4 default from the original post. Lifa's S4 file is not included! Go download their original sets, what are you waiting for? There's loads of cool add-ons! Like freckles! And nose masks!
Set two uses 0.50, 0.70, 0.80, and 1.00 for S1, 2, 3, and 4 defaults.
The 1.00 S4 default comes in two versions, Lifa's original and a version I edited to add a small amount of highlighting to the face. It's verrrry subtle:
A custom version is included; it's completely standalone, so you can have both the original and my edit in your game, and includes a custom icon and tooltip to differentiate it.
Following Lifa's example, the files are not compressed. Proper swatches in the download. Enjoy, feel free to mix and match sets, etc!
Download: SFS | Mediafire
Credit: @withlovefromsimtown for the lovely skins; @isimchi for coming up with the sets, brainstorming, and feedback
No one asked for this lol but I was talking about it the other day- the killjoys essay I did for my junior year 🫶
Some little notes:
This is set in a world where the Fab Four faked their deaths after the events in Sing, hence why they’re here!
The characters Ghost Bullet, Cyanide Candy, Black Heart, Glitter Baby, Acid Cat, and Lighting Storm are ocs created by my best friend tumblr user @frankierosbackbends and myself!
Speaking of Cyanide, Ghost, Acid, and Storm, they’re based off of sims Niamh (@frankierosbackbends) and I created about 5-6 years ago, who you can meet here!
Annoyingly so, I live in Florida. By now, we all know Florida fucking sucks. This was written around the time the don’t say gay bill was passed. Being scared at the time, I hid the fact that Ghost and Cyanide are gay, which made me feel awful I had to hide that part of them. And I still feel awful about it. I was scared of any repercussion I could’ve faced, so while it’s know that they’re together, I hid the fact they were gay men. It still really annoys me almost 2 years later that I did this.
If it’s not great, it was for school lol. I would’ve done a lot more if I didn’t have school barriers around me
Fancy now CRIES adorably if she doesn't get to Go To Class before bed. She even goes and takes her seat and comes up on her haunches to show how eager she is. I'm so proud of her. I don't even feel like it's training. We are just learning and having a good time and also having a little snack, so it's Class.
Mastered: Up
Very Good: Stand, Come, loading targeting stick
Next In Line: Follow, Stay, Sit
Stretch Goals: Jump, Spin, High Five, What's Up/Chat
Future: manual commands, chain commands
We are having a lovely and very rewarding time.
Tuckered out.
Cats CAN be trained, they CAN enjoy it, they DO want to make us happy.