#i'll never be able to share this because it uses so much cc

[anamoon63]

Your TS3 gameplay really does inspire me to give that game another shot. Are there specific mods you use to make sure the game runs smoothly/is stable? What mods/cc are the best to use so the sims look good?

Hi, Marci! 😊

First of all, thank you very much for your ask. Knowing that my sims and/or my gameplay can inspire other simmers to play means a lot to me cause The Sims 3 is my favorite game in the whole Sims series. Plus, I love my sims, so this makes me twice as happy. 🤗💖

That said, it is my duty to warn you that The Sims 3 is not an easy game to maintain, it requires a lot of care and patience, even from the moment of its installation. You ask me what it takes to make it run smoothly and make it stable, well I'm no expert, but what helped me with that is all contained in this Steam post. I believe these tips you can follow even if you don't have your game on Steam. I followed all these steps when I reinstalled my game back in 2017-18, and I have never had a problem like lag or crashes since then.

It's thanks to the amazing person who wrote that post and to talented modders like @lazyduchess and Twallan (Nraas Mods), whose mods I consider indispensable, that I have been able to play The Sims 3 without problems for years now. I may have had a couple of crashes due to some wrong or corrupt cc, but that's on me because I download a lot of stuff. In those cases, it's a matter of locating the bad cc, taking it out, and that's it. The game runs great, even with a ton of mods installed. (I have a 9 GB mods folder, and I've had more than that at times, lol, but I try to keep in less than 10 GB always).

As for what mods and cc's to use to make the sims look good, well, that would depend on your taste, or as they say now, on the aesthetics of your game or your sims.

For what it's worth, I have always used Ephemera's E-WEAK skin as default. I also use some other Ephemera's like E-Skin Natural MIX, Asia and Fresh. I use some by Kurasoberina too.

I think Ephemera's site doesn't exist anymore, but the E-WEAK skins I use can be downloaded on MTS here. Kurasoberina TS3 skins you can find them here along with more of their fabulous content.

I'm sure there are other skins much newer, and super nice too, but these are the ones I use, cause they give my sims the look they are known for. 😊

Also I use Tifa N38 default eyes, as well as Buhudain's You Are Real body and face maps replacements to give some realism to my sims' skins/bodies. Neither Tifa's nor Buhudain's sites exist anymore, unfortunately, but you can still find Buhudain's archives on this SFS page. And those of Tifa in this other one in Mega. (I hope I am not doing wrong by sharing them, otherwise I will remove them).

There's also this stunning version of Buhudain's You are Real by @nectar-cellar named You are Hyperreal. :)

As for the rest, if I start listing all the other content I use such as hair, clothes and makeup I would never finish, I'd gladly share my whole mods folder, but I don't want to piss off the creators, or blow-up other players' computers, lol. I'm WCIF friendly, though, so feel free to ask for any specific content, of any type, CAS or Buy/Build, I got my custom content well documented, so I'll provide you with links to any of them.

For the time being, here is this link to my custom Content List on my Blogger. I have kept this list for many years, and I still use most of that content; it may be a little outdated of course, cause I have a lot of new stuff now, so my intention is to update the page soon when/if I have the time. Also, some of the links may not work anymore, if so just let me know and I'll fix them for you if I'm able.

I hope this answer has helped you. Sorry for taking so long to reply, but I wanted to make this post as detailed as possible. If you have any other questions about The Sims 3, I'll be here whenever you need me. Good luck and happy simming! 😉💗

#the sims 3 #ask me anything #sims 3 simblr #simblr ask #the sims 3 cc #ts3 cc

[thecoolerliauditore]

i don't get all the fuss about CCs reading fanfic. if you didn't want people to see it then why would you put it publicly online. like aren't you taught that if you don't want something to be seen you shouldn't put it on the internet?

i don't understand the people mad at tommyinnit for reading fanfic. like you have this space where you talk about this real person but *he's* not allowed to read it? wtf

anon this is so angrily worded are you okay lmao

i'm not really huge on fic writing myself (dabbled in it here and there but i have friends who are writers) and i care negative percent about the dee ess em pee side of things so I'm not really The Person to ask but I'll try my best to explain 👍

CCs reading fanfic is fine. They're allowed to lurk as much as everyone else is.

CCs reading fanfic in videos is exposing fic writers to their wider audience and mcyt fans have a history of harassing fandom creators into online nonexistence for any reason under the sun while simultaneously the CC themselves actively makes money off of the fic writer's work.

I ramble a bit more and it got kinda long but that's the main point. (more stuff under the cut)

Fics are "about" the cc, yes but they are often not made for the cc but rather for the writer and maybe a close group of friends. That means they're often a combination of the writer's love for the source material and a sprinkling of their own interests/experiences. This can go anywhere from smashing two interests together in crossover AUs to deeply personal stuff like using gay ships to explore their own experience as a queer person.

Straight CCs are Not Going To Understand the latter in the way that writer and their gay friends are going to enjoy it. They can read it but they're never gonna be able to look at it the way their fans will.

That's one of the more forward examples but this applies to everything. You will never have that degree of separation from the source material to be able to enjoy fic the way fans do, you're simply not the target audience.

What's more is (not talking about the thomas innit guy or whatever i genuinely don't know who he is lol) these reading fanfic videos tend to have more of an unfortunate.. point and laugh aspect to them? A lot of the time it's presented in this LOOK AT HOW WEIRD THIS THING IS! way that can be humiliating for the author and incite even more harassment because the audience gets introduced to the author not as a person but as entertainment. You can see how this is a bad combination when you consider the previous point about a lot of fanfic being personal, I hope. It all can feel just a bit exploitative.

It does Not take a lot for a CC to open the floodgates on harassment. Just earlier this year another youtuber followed one of his fan artists and that eventually lead to that artist being full-on doxxed. Regardless of anyone's opinions on that situation, whether the youtuber is to blame, etc. etc. it's a pretty blatant example of how CCs even just interacting with fan creators on social media can lead to people being unhinged if they don't like their work. Now imagine making a Whole Video.

and don't say "oh just don't write weird stuff you don't want them seeing" because:

a space where writers are afraid to share their more intimate experiences with taboo subjects like mental health, queerness, abuse, and so on is Not Healthy artistically. Less communication about these topics = less people finding others who are like them = more people feeling alone in the world. I don't want that just in a fandom because a youtuber (who is not forced to look at fic) doesn't want their cubito to kiss certain people.

people. will. find. things. weird. anyway. i've seen twitter call the most mundane, wholesome, coffee shop au fics PROBLEMATIC for daring to ship two characters who have a four or five year age gap. I've seen literally almost every ship you can think of get called incestuous at some point or another because Someone On Twitter said they have "sibling energy" and all of a sudden it's incest and the writer should Die I guess.

"weird stuff" is really hard to define in the first place.

CCs are not authority and we don't have to listen to or cater to them. Fic is never going to directly affect them.

this isn't even getting into character/cc divide and how it's different for everyone and a lot people don't like "writing about real people" so on so forth.

This is only tangentially related but there's this.. odd thing i've noticed where fic writers aren't "respected" in the way artists are in fandoms? I've noticed people are often "scared" to talk to artists and react to things like animatics with more awe than anything else ("this has no right to be as good as it is!") whereas with fanfics it's more like. WE'RE READING FANFIC?!?! 😳😳 (I GET MARRIED TO WHO?!?!?)

There's something to be said about how a skill gap in visual art is more immediately noticeable to your average person than in writing but anyway. anyway.

#random thoughts #discourse #i hope this makes sense? You can tell I'm not a writer lol #anon this ask very much sounds like it was made in bad faith tbh but these are thoughts i wanted to get out anyway so

[dreamhot]

the end of an era !

i don't think i'm necessarily in the space to put together the most cohesive post at the moment - as everyone can attest to, there's been a lot going on, and i feel as though there's only so much one can do to process everything in such a short span of time. for the time being, i felt it necessary to say something, at least:

regardless of how things shake out, i will never regret my involvement in the community. i've met so many kind, talented, incredible people, and either individually or as a group we have accomplished some amazing things. a fractured base doesn't undo the sheer unifying power of passion and creation, and nothing can take that from us. and i stand by the causes for which i've fought, because i still believe that, at its core, this community was built on love.

that being said, of course i'm hurt. i'm disappointed. how can you not be? whether or not the full extent of the allegations are true, there's still been a breach of trust, and it's not easy to heal from that sort of thing. it's a sense of mourning, in a very real way. some may be able to walk away from this situation without much baggage, and some may carry that pain for a long time. you're valid, regardless of which outcome awaits you. please just know that you're allowed to feel what you're feeling. just because it's online, involving someone you don't actually know, it doesn't mean it can't affect your emotions.

for that reason, i support and encourage anyone who needs to take a step back - or leave entirely. you need to take care of yourself first and foremost. the emotional toll may be real, but this doesn't have to consume your life either. focus on what brings you comfort and joy. this may have been a big part of that, but there will always be other things to love, to share, to get so damn excited about you don't even know what to do with yourself. a shock like this can't take that from you. and you are not lesser for having been involved to begin with. focus on the good memories, if you need to - but don't let this make you regret anything. no cc is worth that.

in the interest of full disclosure, i've not fully decided what i'm going to do yet. owing to certain circumstances, i am choosing to wait for more information. for the time being, this blog will remain up but inactive, and while i'll reopen my inbox for the day in case anyone needs to say anything, it will be closed after the fact. mutuals are free to ask for my discord, with the understanding that i've not forsaken the content entirely as of yet. i just wanted to be honest about that much.

no matter what happens, you guys were the best of it all, and i can't thank you enough for making my time in this fandom as exhilarating as it was. i've been pushed both creatively and emotionally, and i feel as though i can still walk out the other side feeling like a better person for it. be kind to yourselves and others. sometimes that's the most important thing, yknow?

love you all <3

[dystopianam]

Since @gutosimmer hasn't been active on Tumblr since April 1, 2022 and nothing is known about his Early Veronaville, before starting my uberhood with Early PV and Early SV I think I'll create Early VV myself for personal use.

Unfortunately I won't be able to share the neighborhood because I have a lot of ccs and NPCs (I don't feel like creating a clean folder just for that) and I don't even know how to extract a neighborhood, so it will be something strictly personal.

I think I will create the neighborhood AFTER I fix my original Maxis uberhood and my BACC (I have to do a lot of makeovers...) so if you have any news on gutosimmer's Early VV please let me know before I create a mess! I love his neighborhoods and his style very much.

WHAT I WILL USE:

Veronaville Clean Empty Subhood Template from HERE.

The original Consort, Contessa, Patrizio and Isabella (the one from Maxis.)

Since gutosimmer uses genetically corrected sims, I'll use Consort and Contessa and Patrizio and Isabella's children from HERE. (Only their children and their wifes/husbands). I decided to use the original Consort, Contessa, Patrizio and Isabella because these versions use the genetics of their original Maxis parents.

Some ancestors from HERE (I need the parents of some sims).

Puck and Bottom's biological parents from HERE.

gutosimmer edited his lots staying true to the Maxis style, so I'm going to use the lots from @sundogsam who do great makeovers while keeping the Maxis style! HERE.

And finally I will use this mod to create memories. I've never used it, so I'll make a thousand thousand backups before I start using it.

#the sims 2 #pleasantview #early pleasantview #strangetown #early strangetown #veronaville #early veronaville #custom neighborhood #the sims 2 premades

[annegirl13]

Sims Tag

Tagged by @charmandersims, so I figured I'd answer. I don't share my sims stuff any more but I do still play. (Now that I finally have a computer that can run it again.) I never tag anybody, but if you're a sims person and you want to do the tag, do it!

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What’s your favourite sims death?

I like death by satellite. I don't make a habit of killing my sims on purpose, but sometimes, just to let some frustration out, I'll make a sim of an annoying person and drop a satellite on them on purpose.

Alpha CC or Maxis Match?

Maxis Match. I think alpha CC looks out of place in any sims game.

Do you cheat when your sims gain weight?

Not usually. Sometimes, if I have a story reason for a sim to be skinny, I will, but usually I just let them stay fat until they roll the want to be skinny again.

Do you use move objects?

ALL. THE. TIME. I have to. I try really hard not to get my sims stuck places but sometimes they get stuck. And sometimes you just want somebody or something RIGHT THERE. Move objects is the easiest way.

Favorite mod?

I'm gonna go with Macrotastics. I like being able to tell my sims to do something using the macro menu instead of giving them 47 commands.

First expansion/game/stuff pack you got?

I first played Sims 2 Deluxe, which had the regular game and Nightlife. My sister got it for our ancient PC (which we called the Rocket, because it always sounded like it was going to blast off). Boy was I surprised when I got the base game for my Mac and there wasn't a downtown or dates or anything!

Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing?

I think I say "live" like "alive" but I don't know. I don't usually say it aloud, and then when I think about it for this kind of question, I can't figure out what I actually say...

Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made?

So, I don't know that I ever shared this neighborhood (and if I did it was ages ago and all evidence has been deleted) but I made a BACC founder named Lexi who I really liked. She was kind of quirky and she had elf ears...(I don't tend to make a ton of my own sims...)

Have you made a simself?

Ages and ages ago, and I don't have one around anymore.

What sim traits do you give yourself?

Bookworm, Shy, Creative, Loves Kids...I'm a family sim? (I don't think about this much...Can you tell?)

Which is your favorite EA hair color?

I'm a sucker for red hair. I always wanted red hair.

Favorite EA hair?

Um...I don't know? I haven't used just EA hair for a while now.

Favorite life stage?

I'm going to say toddlers, because they're cute, but I like all ages.

Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay?

More gameplay and storytelling than building. I'd rather download something if I need a specific lot, but sometimes I just have to build it myself.

Are you a CC creator?

Nope!

Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad?

Not really anymore? I mean, I have people who I know play sims on here who I'd call friends, but we don't talk about sims. I just like their posts of their sims. (Is that friendship?)

What’s your favorite game? (1, 2, 3, or 4)

Sims 2. I never played Sims 1 or Sims 3, and while I got into 4 for a while, I find the gameplay too shallow for me to enjoy it longterm. Whereas with Sims 2, I can remake the same town and makeover the same sims 47,000 times and not get tired of it.

Do you have any sims merch?

Nope! I can't think of any that I'd really want either. It's cool to have, I guess, but I don't wear jewelry or t-shirts much and I have too many mugs already...

Do you have a YouTube for sims?

Nope!

How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing?

Um...I've just kind of learned a lot more about how the game works, I guess? I've probably gotten more Maxis Match...Um...When I first started I was making original characters in original neighborhoods and now I play premades?

What’s your Origin ID?

I have no clue. I don't use Origin anymore, since I don't play Sims 4. (Sims 2 still runs on my Mac without needing Origin, for which I am rather grateful.)

Who’s your favorite CC creator?

I can't pick just one!

How long have you had a simblr?

Since...2013, maybe? I don't remember exactly. I started on Tumblr around the time people were moving over here from Livejournal, because I wanted to follow certain people whose blogs I liked.

How do you edit your pictures?

I use Preview. I just kind of crop them and that's it.

What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next?

If somebody would make the last two expansions for Mac, I'd be so grateful! Specifically Apartment Life. I want witches!

What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far?

I'd say Nightlife is my favorite. I also like Open for Business, because Bluewater Village is my favorite neighborhood, but as I mentioned, Nightlife has features I can't live without. (Also Bon Voyage just for the "walk to lot" feature.)

Again, I'm not tagging anybody but if you want to do the tag, do it!

#sims 2 #sims stuff #sims tag #tag game

[cruwmo]

i wanted to wait longer before making a post, but seeing how fast everyone is going on hiatus or leaving completely, i wanted to get this out until you guys had a chance to see it.

This will be long, so by short i want to say that this blog will stay, I'll go back and delete things, but i had this account longer than i was in the fandom so i don't want to trash all of it. I'm @cruwmo on twt as well, and i know i wasn't really talking to any of you guys, but my dc is Cruwmo#4551, and my alt here is @star--atlas ,i think I'll feel more comfortable posting there and having a blank slate for a while. Feel free to add me on any of those accounts <3

I don't know what to say except that I feel so damn devastated. All of it crashing down at once, i somewhat expected it to be this way but i truly believed I'd slowly get away from the fandom to new waters one day, and still revisit their channels and be able to smile. No matter the outcome, i won't feel comfortable making content related to him anymore. And that hurts because this fandom has truly been my biggest passion, and my largest plans were just starting to come to life, now most of that's gone to waste.

I don't think I've ever been so in love with any fandom before, or have been actively a member for as long as I've been with this one. It has given me so much, and i will forever be grateful for that. Everything you all and i created means the world to me, and my heart breaks that it all came down to this moment, but it will be okay.

To me the lesson to take here is to manage my social media consumption better, and well, the parasocialism. Never ever have i followed any cc's the way i followed them so this was all new for me and i fell right into the pit. I feel like i don't even want to ever watch any youtubers/streamers actively again, i feel so fucked up right now. I hope that changes, to a healthier behavior with time.

It's hard to see everyone go because i felt like there still was so much left for us. So many more happy and hard days to share, so much more we could've created. But i comfort myself by thinking of the good stuff we had. I was mostly a lurker, but i feel so damn grateful for all of you that have ever interacted with me in any way, and i hope we can somehow keep in touch. It brightened my mood every day to read your posts, to see the art you've shared, it honestly gave me the most comfort and joy in these two years.

No matter what, I'll always remember the times we had here and look back at it with a smile. I don't regret any of it. Thank you for everything guys, it's been a ride, and if you're leaving, i hope we meet in other places

#cruwmo rambles #negativity tw #long post

[blocksruinedme]

….. team rancher perhaps? For the “brutally honest opinion on a ship” question

Okay so yes I got this in march. I've been thinking.

the ship? on double life? delightful. I fell for it so hard in the silliest way - i was writing a flower husbands fic and i wanted jimmy to talk to scott about tango, and thus i had to figure it out and woosh. There I was writing SO MUCH. (and then a spin off of that one got me into smalletho, i'm a hilarious creature.) Obviously I'm obsessed with Jimmy, and they were so cute together, they worked together well, good wholesome vibes. Sometimes it's nice to have a comedic duo as a ship. I got fanart printed, it was the first thing I published, I sat around and daydreamed about my many many wips.

However. Tragically. I've given it months and I just think I'm done for the foreseeable future. I am BUMMED about this. I wish I could separate c and cc on this one, and not care about the crossover and just write DL. Nothing about DL or LimLife or whatever interferes with my SmallEtho or Flower Husbands feels, each series is something i can choose to bring into what i'm feeling/writing. But, ugh. It's not working here. Especially with actual crossover-setting ranchers as opposed to DL etc.

To jump ahead - my remaining ranchers wip WILL be finished, because I'm so lucky to be able to bring in the amazing passionate clever supportive thoughtful kind and considerate @that-tall-queer-bassist as a co-author. They saw what I was afraid to ask and offered. (I might have asked eventually.) The most important parts are there, imo. My first fic was "my ex stole my soulmate", (fwhip/jimmy/tango) which i wrote in a possessed fervor the day the crossover started. this is the sequel, "my soulmate made a date for me and my ex". It's all outlined and the beginning is written, and most crucially the final conversation is written, where i got Jimmy and Tango's voices to my satisfaction and did how I wanted things to wrap up. I just... the thought of doing it makes me so anxious (especially after i got a "why haven't you updated" comment and had a VERY bad day from it) but I swore I'd never abandon a wip. It keeps getting kudos - the first one had 3x as many kudos as any other fic until the month, and then it's just one fic, it's still so popular - and i don't even want to reread it. It's a very strange feeling to have you biggest hit be something that makes you sad!

the rest of the unpublished wips - man idk how many partially written ranchers fics i have. so many. a lot are in what would have been a flower husbands/ranchers multiverse series that might have hit 100k, which i'm never doing. i'm planning to publish a couple short stand-alones. Some of the ranchers shit is good! My current thought is to go back to them a few months after "my soulmate made a date" is finished and skim and see if any are in a shape where i might want to share some on request, because right now i have so much anxiety about it all to even make decisions. i especially love the sequel to "love respect joy and ranchin'" cause that was 17k of sexual tension and a lot of sexy things happened after.

Maybe time will pass and I'll get what I want! Maybe I'll be able to look at DL ranchers and just enjoy what is there, what I loved before, and not be disappointed about what never happened after animated heart reunions etc. My hopes were SO high and I'm going to try and never get my hopes that high again for something dependent on so many factors.

It is funny that I wrote fics that people are probably using for some fix-it feelings, while I myself can't fix it for me! I'm supremely lucky that I have so many other ships.

#me #my writing #that-tall-queer-bassist #answering asks

[simblrnova]

to expand on my last post a bit a rant below the cut.

i've been playing Sims for years. I was even in this community once before. No I won't go into that detail as I'd prefer my privacy and to start over. I remember a lot of stuff about it and I was so invested in it as a teen/young adult. I left from around 2017-2021 because honestly I wasn't feeling inspired to create anything anymore and I needed a new outlet before I cracked. I've been trying this new thing with my CC folder where I do have CC and I do have all these things I want to use, but I challenge myself to minimize or reduce my CC usage. Part of the inspiration loss came from I never really built or played a family of sims because I always felt like i needed to define my style and make a unique thing rather than just have fun and do what I like. part of my issue was letting CC carry my style sense to where every house was so predictable. All my sims felt the same and I just felt trapped. Another part was my obsessive need to TWEAK EVERY LITTLE DETAIL TO PERFECTION to make sure I had a unique gameplay style so people could like my sims/gameplay/builds/etc rather than just "I like it, I'm happy with this". I went through all the known hair palettes that I ended up not feeling... Flipped flopped from MM to Alpha to SMM to I dunno what it was other than a whole mess. As you notice, I just drop stuff without the crazy over polishing and trying too put so much effort into making the advertising for it super appealing and appeasing to the eye. I make what I want, drop what I want and if people like it, cool. I think it's better for me that way and it's been freeing for me to make CC without spending weeks making sure the Effing Screenshots of it had enough filters to make it look perfection incarnate so people would click on it. Maybe in 2023 I'll try to keep a consistent look to present and Title my CC, but honestly I like where I am where I just drop whatever's in my head and keep it going. It's honestly been going pretty well minimizing my CC as well. TOOL and Better Build/Buy have really helped because I can turn off and on seeing CC, so I can quiet the urge to "just use the damn CC" and challenge myself to make a home that looks good. I did a set of vintage homes I shared here and since then I've been feeling super into decorating and making houses again and I feel like I have a style and a feel to them that isn't just "Here's XYZCreator's entire catalog in every room" as my personality. I've also discovered maxis items I like using and have been able to stretch my creativity a bit by forcing myself to find ways to use Maxis items when they don't really fit together. I've been making what I need, where I need it and it's also been a experience too. I don't sit here looking for projects to make, I just... wind up making something I'm like "wow I need that in this house" so yea... It's been a thing. I might share some houses and try some gameplay soon, so expect that.

#ramblings

[emmysimmy]

WIP of me going absolutely nuts over the fact that the roost is not in new horizons, creating a brewster sim, making him hot, making him a cafe, making a sim to flirt with him, and then building a whole neighborhood with a movie theater, hotel, restaurant, candle shop, flower shop, massage therapists office, and law office, and 7 different apartments 

why am i like this  

#i'll never be able to share this because it uses so much cc #also new reshade... i took a pinky one and turned it orage #orange #my little city

[michael-aftons-nonbinary-lover]

Could you provide us with a few sweet CC and Gregory fluff headcanons? (platonic ofc) <3

THIS IS THE CUTEST THING EVER, OMFG

So, my idea for how C.C. would be there in the first place isn't really fully formed bc I hadn't really thought about it, but that's ok! I'll just wing it and have fun!

Probably there bc Cassidy got tired of torturing William, but doesn't want other kids getting hurt, so he goes to make sure they're ok

I personally think that C.C. would be anywhere from 9-11, and since Gregory is canonically 10-12, they would be close in age

They accidentally met while Gregory was hiding from one of the animatronics

Gregory runs into a hidden room, probably a very closed off and/or secluded one thats very hard, near impossible, for adults to get into, and completely off the animatronics radar

It was probably made/found by some teenagers, and they tell stories about the room, and how haunted it is so that none of the kids go in the room or tell anyone about it, and they can keep their hangout room for when they have siblings, cousins, ect that have parties they find boring

Since it's rarely ever used by anyone but teenagers, that's the room where C.C. has decided to stay, since it's quiet and he doesn't like big crowds of people

Gregory sees the kid and asks if he's lost and needs help too

Completely shocked to find out that his new found friend has already passed, but wants to be friends either way

They pass hiding time by sharing interests and find out that they both like plushies and video games(of course, very different video games, but still, video games all the same)

C.C. sees Freddy and freaks out, but Gregory comforts and reassures his new friend and C.C. eventually becomes friends with Freddy as well

Freddy swears to protect both boys to the best of his ability, even if it means risking his sentient-animatronic life for them

When they get to the Daycare, C.C. finds he can't make physical contact with the generators, but he can distract Moon/MoonDrop while Gregory puts things back in order

They both get banned:(

Using the knowledge that C.C. can be seen but not hurt by animatronics, he distracts them while Gregory gets shit done. They get out of the Pizzaplex much faster than either one of them originally thought

These boys fill Freddy's stomach to the BRIM with plushies and toys of all kinds before they leave

C.C. finds out that Gregory is homeless and is NOT letting that slide. They all go back to the old Afton house, where they find Mike. Mike and C.C. go through a lot of emotional stuff, but they've got it worked out by dinner time, and Michael is also re-fathering them both now. Also, the boys get bunk-beds, and get to introduce each other to their favorite video games, books, foods, candy, and basically everything else

All in all, I think Gregory and C.C. would be best friends. Gregory would never let anyone bully C.C. and C.C. would protect Gregory from his dad, other kids, ect. They would also definitely find ways to cheer each other up.

They have a secret handshake and a friendship dance

Water balloon fights, pillow fights, and food fights all become a regular occurrence, once C.C. learns how to interact with physical objects

Mike gets them a trampoline because he can, and they have the best time on it

He also builds them a treehouse

Glamrock Freddy reads them bedtime stories

Michael teaches all three of them how to cook and bake, because he remembers that C.C. loved being able to help him

(For sake of the food headcanons, pretend that ghosts can eat:/)

They play Mario Kart and C.C. wipes the floor with Gregory

Michael beats them both at Super Smash Bros

Gregory is best at Pokémon though, no one ever beats him

Overall, 11/10 besties, would protect with my life

#michael afton #fnaf security breach #security breach spoilers #fnaf fandom #crying child fnaf #gregory fnaf #glamrock freddy #dad mike lol #fnaf headcanons

[a1t-alt]

I'm slowly catching up on the streams I've been missing and that means I have seen Wil's most recent lore stream (July 25th, 2021) and I'm- I- !!!!?????!!!!!!!

I'm here once again to say that cc!Wilbur is incredible and that I absolutely hate c!Wilbur (Revivebur) with a seething passion.

He's written so well, I don't think I'll ever be able to compliment Wilbur's writing and improv skills as much as he deserves. He's done such a good job?? At making me hate his character?? I love it!!! It's like a double edged sword. Revivebur lies and he's manipulative!! But his manipulation tactics are wild to me like- I want to say he's kind at times, passionate, vulnerable, etc. But I know, as a viewer and onlooker, that that's all just play- that's all part of it!

The fact that I myself as an observer am so convinced by the character that I want to sympathize with him or even be apologetic towards him is insane to me. He just- Wilbur, man, my guy, buddy, Mr. Soot- I do not know what to feel, sir. I've been put into a spot where I feel like I have to choose a side- and I feel like that's sort of.. maybe that's intensional. Because c! Wilbur is so hellbent on their being sides to take, battles to fight, that as a viewer you're set into a spot of "either you are on my side, or you are not." And I find that so intriguing and cool and GODS DUDE I'M LOSING IT.

Ranboo and Wilbur have been teasing that they're writing together for a bit now, even if not a ton, they've both mentioned it at one point or another. And to actually see their characters interact again is.. hm. C!Wilbur being set on his opinion of c!Ranboo when they met before only to immediately pretend that he never really felt as heavily as he'd said prior is neat. Obviously we know why, right, he wants Ranboo to do all the hard work for his new burger van. Ranboo's got the materials, he's rich as Fuck, and he craves validation from those around him. He's a perfect target for Revivebur to use! Obviously! And he goes along with it!

I adore c!Ranboo, I love how he's written and played and I love that he's not a black and white character- that he has really silly lore and incredibly dark lore (I'm biased of course, he's my streamer). I see where he's coming from in going with c!Wil. He has nothing to do- plus he reached out to Wilbur about trying again at a proper introduction, since the first went so poorly. So he goes along, he hears Wil out and happily adds to the conversation! He's doing his best to see if he can be friends with Wilbur. I don't think he's stupid, I think he's gauging how far he has to go to have Wil's trust in him if something happens. That thing I'm afraid of is that.. as he said many times, he's not good at telling when something is going to go good or bad. He doesn't realize just how much danger he's out himself into by doing as Wil asks.

Building the van for Wil, giving Wil the sword (though he didn't use it, it was still in his possession and he knows what it's called now), the vandalism in Las Nevadas- first the window (and Wil made sure he didn't silk touch the glass), then the tnt (which when Literally Cornered and told to blow up, he did). Not to mention the fact that he hid his unease from Wil after doing those things- just to gain the trust of the Actual Terrorist on the server.

I wouldn't put it past cc!Ranboo to have more meaning behind going along with things. He's a very good writer and he's very good at playing his character, genuinely. If c!Ranboo is only doing these things for possible future help, I think he's being naive. But I have a feeling that he's got something else in mind. He hid his unease, blatantly lied (and well enough now that c!Wilbur didn't notice) and "yes, and"ed everything- there's no way he's playing this much pretend just to make a friend. I don't know what's going on his enderboy's head but I am very excited to know just what he could possibly want from this.

Back to Wil- I don't know what exactly he has planned for the van. Not drugs, that's too easy- besides, Q was part of the drug business before, he would figure it out. It may be to prove a point- what point, I'm not entirely sure. Or? Or it could just be as simply as.. he just wants to get on Q's nerves. To fight with him, physically or mentally. He's bringing in help from his 'friends' as back up, I feel, in case things do get too rowdy- but I still only have so little idea what the fucker has planned.

C!Wilbur is an enigma to me. People see him as someone who has never and will never understand or utilize anything but black and white. Sides, countries, factions, ideals, etc. But times change, people change. He was gone over 13 years, he knows full well what he's doing- and he's doing a frustratingly fantastic job at it, whatever 'it' may be.

I look forward to his story, how it goes and who with and why. I look forward to seeing what his plans were- or what his cover-ups are. I can't wait for cc!Wilbur to share more with us because just Holy Fuck, man. I also look forward to how cc!Ranboo plays his cards here, because there are many things that can stem from here, even with c!Wil shadowing c!Ranboo.

Anyway, thoughts written, excitement shared. Feel free to add on and theorize! I'd love to see what others are thinking 👀

#dream smp #dsmp #wilbur soot #c!wilbur soot #ranboo #c!ranboo #(DSMP LORE) Healthy Competition [july 25th 2021] #← the stream in case anyone sees this and is confused as hell lmao #altan speaks #also im so sorry i use tumblr mobile i have no idea how to or if i can cut the post to -keep reading- #long post

[xbaebsae]

hello, Queen ♥ today I'll start replaying FC5 and i'll use your mods and it'll make me so happy :) Thank you for sharing your incredible work with us! Also, can I please ask a question about 3d modelling? I want to learn a little bit of blender to make custom content for sims 4, but tbh i'm afraid I'm too stupid to figure it out. I watch tutorials and I guess I can follow them, but when I stumble at the fact that the latest Blender isn't compatible with Sims4studio and I have to convert it back to an older Blender version - and I can't figure out how to do it - i just want to give up. I realise that to do this well I need to invest time and tears into it, and I'm just not sure if I should bother trying if my intelligence and diligence are not enough. Sorry, this is a weird question, but what would you recommend?

Heya! ♥ Happy you like my stuff :)

I have no idea what's needed for sims 4 cc because i never created any myself, neither do I have the game so i'm afraid I can't be of too much help here sorry.

However, since you already found tutorials and the only actual problem seems to be the correct blender version, here is a link that has downloads from all previous releases. The compatible one should be among them: https://download.blender.org/release/

I think you should definetly 'bother' trying btw :) And try to approach it a little more positive and not with 'i won't be able to anyway' ♥ Even if your first project is just something simple, it'll help you understand the process.

#asks

[420pogpills]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who kind of has a problem with all the alts and private accounts. Like I don't see any problem with having an alt twitch if you want something less professional and more chill but trying to keep it a secret or on the down low on purpose just feels very exclusionary. It's the same with the private twitters, especially the Mr_____ ones because those seem like they exist solely for the sake of "oh look you guys can't get in." I don't mind it in the case of Dreamhangouts because Dream kept it open for like a week at least and he has a very good reason for doing so considering fans were getting harassed by trolls for interacting with public tweets. It's clear he was trying to create a space for his fans that was safer which is why he left it open for so long. But Karl kept his private open for only a few minutes and so few people got it. Even less so for the Mr____ alts. And now these twitch alts got tweeted about and then deleted so quickly and Karl's was on the private that so few of his fans can access. The vods got deleted too so anyone sleeping just missed out completely. I already barely sleep worrying I'll miss a regular stream where I know the vod will be saved. I have no idea how I'm going to be able to sleep now. It creates so much stress for their fans to do these things and makes so many people feel left out. I understand that maybe they want more chill environments and I want them to be comfortable but I don't think they realize that you can't simply try to force a smaller audience once you've gained a large one. All that does is exclude people who are your fans and will be hurt by it. We just want to have content of people who bring us comfort but we can't be awake 24/7 or on our phones all the time :[

yeah i mean i do see both sides, i get that it’s fun for the cc’s and yeah it can make fans feel excluded, it’s a situation where not everyone is going to win. 

another long one sorry

those mr alt accounts never bothered me because i knew they were never actually going to use them anyway :’) there wasn’t really a point for them other than just trying to meme people. i’m pretty sure i saw someone post a screenshot of the tweets and it was absolutely ridiculous stuff with no context to it whatsoever, i don’t think anyone missed out there haha

as for the twitch alts, and them not saving the vods, i really do think that is unfair. like you said, once you have a large audience, you can’t force it back down into a smaller one because there is no way to do that without excluding people and making them feel hurt. these twitch alts did just that. they could have at the very least kept the vods. i don’t really understand this whole exclusivity thing, it might be exciting for them and the fans who are around for it, but there were a lot of fans who were either asleep or at work or just not on social media at that given point and had missed out. 

i don’t really know what to say other than try not to worry so much about it, and that you should watch them for comfort, not to make your own life harder. i started off caring really intensely, wanting to catch every stream and every video and every tweet and i would stay up till stupid o’clock to make sure i didn’t miss anything - and i realised eventually that it’s silly to do that. it’s silly to exhaust yourself and allow yourself to get upset. most of these things you ‘miss’ will still be available for you to look at when you do come back online. obviously these alt twitch vods were an exception, but you will find fans who are there to help out, to either share any recordings or share a summary of the stuff that happened. 

really and truly ask yourself, if you missed a stream - did it really affect your life at all? that’s what i asked myself and i realised the answer is always no. the only thing that was affecting my life was how hard i was trying to keep up with them, and how exhausting and unenjoyable it became. now that i just watch what i can when i can, and i get tweet notifications just from a few select favourites, and i don’t worry about those locked accounts - i am finding it so much more enjoyable to be here. i am finding a lot of joy in interacting with the fandom. it’s a different story of course if what you want is interaction with the cc’s - that was never a motivation for me, i don’t really mind if they don’t know of my existence, i don’t really care to get a tweet or a follow. i think that’s why i am able to enjoy myself a lot more :) i just enjoy being involved in whatever way i can be!

#ask #anon #sapnap #quackity #karl jacobs #mcyt #personal opinion #discourse #this one is more positive i'd say #but still gonna tag it as negative just in case #negative #negativity

[tinkasims]

Hi, I really love Betterfield. It's one of the most beautiful neighborhoods I've ever seen and I love the way you designed it. I especially love these early summer night pics, they're so gorgeous. I'm also very impressed by your graphics. What kind of graphics card or computer setup in general do you have, if I may ask? I'll need to buy a new computer soon and I'd love for my game to look like yours.

Hi dear Anon! :) Thank you very much for your kind words! 💜💜💜 Actually Betterfield is a remake of @ousmeo’s remake of @criquette-was-here​‘s Dullfield. When I first saw that neighborhood it was love at first sight, and I wanted that map to be the base of Betterfield (which already existed). I modified and redecorated it many times, this version of Betterfield is the 2020 version, but there were many before. I have to say there’s still a lot of work with this to finally be complete. Anyway I’m thankful for all of the wonderful neighborhood deco creators!

And about my graphics setup... Well, it’s interesting you asked it, because yesterday I was about to write a post dedicated to this theme, I’m just not sure about some things so there’s a lot of testing still waiting for me, but here (after a lot of useless talking) I answer your question. 😁

So, I have a Lenovo Ideapad 520, with Intel i7 7500U, 8gb RAM, and two graphics card, an NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and an integrated one, Intel HD Graphics 620. Oh and I run the sims 2 from an SSD. That’s it in general, but if you interested I explain how I manage to run the game with such a beautiful graphics these days under the cut.

Warning! It’s going to be messy and huge, and more like a long boring story than a tip, but can be useful for someone. (I’ll write it down properly someday)

------cut should be here but tumblr refuses to put it here, and put it at the top of post instead where I can’t delete, sorry------

When I bought my laptop I was really dissapointed, because I was only able to play the game with the integrated card, and it wasn’t bad but kind of annoying when I knew I have better. If I tried to enter Betterfield with nvidia, the game crashed on the neighborhood loading screen. Uptil some point I was like okay, then I’ll play with integrated card, nevermind........ but of course I’m dealing with those problems like almost everyone in the community the random crashes and purple flashing.

I’ve dedicated half of my life to solve these problems. :D Sims 2 really is an annoying game! I’ve tried every possible solution what can be found over the internet, there were always some little trick what helped, but after some time the troubles came back. The last year was intense. There are a lof of clever people out there finding new ways to get rid of the crashing and flashing issues coming with new and new solutions and I couldn’t be more grateful to them. When I say I‘ve tried everything I’m not kidding. And I was like okay, I’m going to pretend my integrated card doesn’t exist and I will fix NVIDIA. However there are those annoying issues with both of them........

I’m trying to mention everything what helps me these days to run a smooth and beautiful sims 2 with a huge CC folder (67k+ file lot of them really high poly). First the 4gb patch and the Graphics Rules Maker. These two are pretty common.

There’s one solution what seems like to help a lot of people but for me it never worked, the DXVK method. It looks really useful, and time to time I give it a shot, but somehow never works out for me, my game crashes whenever I try to use it. But the tip @episims made is one of the most useful things I’ve ever seen, and the one by @dramallamadingdang as well.

Absolutely useful, but somehow never enough. Maybe because of my huge CC folder, or some broken mod, or my computer specs, or just windows 10 or sims 2....... whoever knows....So I was messing around with nvidia profile inspector according to iCad’s tip, trying to reach beautiful garphics with low ingame settings. It was a complete failure. Maybe my expectations are too high but those looked terrible! I decided to turn everything to the best in nvidia control panel (profile inspector seems too complicated for me), and then checked the game again. It was still ugly as hell with low ingame settings. Then I thought what the heck, and I’ve turned every settings to the best and highest, and went on checking Betterfield.

It was something I’ve never seen before. A completely smooth, lag free, purple flashing free, crash free wonderful game, with beautiful textures, smooth edges. With the highest graphics setting in and out of game! I loaded my biggest lots which are always crashing or flashing, none of them did! That was the time when I first posted about Betterfield.

The next day I was really happy, started my game thinking it’s going to work... well, I was wrong, but not too surprised. It crashed when I loaded Betterfield. I took a deep breath and started to think through what have I done yesterday what helped. And after I’ve tried some method I guess I found the little trick what helps me from that day to reach that “dream state of sims 2” again.

So, I have an almost empty neighborhood which I named “stop crashing b**ch”, that I use for testing and etc... I did the graphics tests I mentioned above there as well. So my first thing when my game loads up is to load that neighborhood and a household in there. In the household I set all of the graphics settings to the lowest (expect smooth edges). Then, I load up Betterfield. I have to mention here Betterfield is really a huge city, with tons of decoration, lots, and households (which could be corrupted as well XD). So, at that point Betterfield loads up just fine, but remember the settings are on the lowest. Then I enter one of my biggest lot, which used to be nothing more than a purple flashing. And in the household I turn the garphics settings to the highest again. And that’s it. Ugly textures are refreshing, becoming high res and beautiful, Sims 2 runs like a dream, and beautiful as a blooming flower! At this point I usually test night mood and turn on and off some lights just to see everything is fine for real. After that I can enter to my other big households, lots, without any crashing or flashing. Once I look around everywhere in 360 degree it’s absolutely lag free. Same goes for the neighborhood itself. Beautiful in day and night. :)

The only reason I haven’t share this little discovery of mine, because there’s one lot (Betterfield High School) which is still causing the purple flashing (even if it’s just a huge unfurnished building...), and sometimes there are some objects here and there randomly flashing... but according to the purple game I had before it feels more like a small bug or something :’)....

Okay, what I got is Sims 2 with highest graphics settings in game and in Nvidia control panel (like 8x edge smoothing and stuff...), working beautifully, the only thing I have to do before playing my HUGE neighborhood with my HUGE and high poly CC folder is to load up an empty neighborhood, enter a family, set the graphics to the lowest, then enter my big city, enter a big lot (or whatever, I’m not sure about this part), and set the graphics to the highest again!

I’m not sure if everyone have read this or if it makes any sense (bc of my crappy english), but I promise after some more testing, if I think it’s actually useful, I’m going to share a proper, understandable tip about this. ^^”

#betterfield #crash fix #sims 2 fix #it's so long i'm sorry #sims 2 graphics #purple flashing

[anarmorofwords]

I'm obviously not the previous anon, but your answer got me thinking. Firstly, I'll say that I do like what cc's doing with tlh, so this isn't hate per se? But I think her biggest mistake tlh-wise is how much of her original writing process she's shared with us.

That's what's prompted most of the 'show and not tell', in my opinion. Look at the characters's wiki pages. There's lots of trivia we've never been shown. Thomas's songwriting? Never even mentioned. James's passion for poem-making? Never heard of her. The Carstairs were going to be white (possibly half-french) ffs.

I'm an amateur writer; I'll by no means try to compare myself with a woman that has been an author for almost two decades, but I do know that characters change. Heck, my main characters changed a fuck ton in the few months it took me to come up with a plot; imagine how much cc's characters changed since 2013.

The thing is, cc overshared a lot of stuff about these foetus characters that she --ultimately-- must have realised had no true purpose to the story she was creating. That's completely normal, but nevertheless, it's information that should absolutely not have been shared with her big-ass following; who in turn came to expect something (or is currently expecting something) that simply won't happen for logistic --thus valid-- reasons.

Leaving original expectations aside and focusing on canon, I do think what she says is shown; but not to the necessary degree. This, however, is for obvious reasons concerning the plot.

Take TMT. We've seen they care for each other --we've seen them together as a friend group arguably quite often-- but:

1) James's drama with the gracelet, which we've seen greatly dampens his emotions (one of the first things he does after getting the damn thing off is try to go to Matthew to explain himself and basically tell him he loves him and say sorry)

2) Matthew's alcoholism and the secretiveness that came after his sibling's death

3) Thomas's massive crush on Alastair, who has bad blood with Matthew and James (I could talk more about this situation, because I have FEELINGS)

4) Christopher's probable fixation on Grace (there was actually no problem with him pre-coi, but oh boy will we have drama because of Gracetopher)

Are factors that greatly damage the confidentiality of a group, no matter how close they are. If we took them away, we'd see how J+M+C protested against T going on patrol alone, how TMT had a hiding out of sorts, how J trusted in them his marriage arrangement with Cordelia, how M+C+T are among the few J tells about his shit with Belial and accepts help from, or simply their interactions. We'd see all those things, and (possibly) think they are --indeed-- close.

I'd like to take a vote of faith, and say cc will resolve these issues satisfyingly in chot, but only time will tell.

(Concerning Matthew and Anna, I do have something to say, but I'm afraid this ask is getting too annoyingly long for you, lol)

(And this is clearly just my humble opinion)

hii!!! I'm probably repetitive, but, uhm, sorry for taking forever to answer!!

While I have issues with TLH (especially CHOI) that go far beyond the inconsistency between showing and telling, I do think you have a point and that might be part of the problem.

What makes this worse, however, is that for all her interacting with fans,CC never disproved any of that. It would make things so much easier.

And you know, she does rely on information included outside of books. She expects fans to know the short stories, she sends out Musicale and other bonus content, so it's not that we're being unreasonable trying to catch up with her additional content/info.

She doesn't, however, care enough to tell us which of those are still relevant and what changed, so it's all a little bit like wandering in a mist.

Concerning TMT, I kinda agree, and I personally don't hate their friendship, the dynamic between them, or think they can't be friends. Maybe it's because of my own experiences or the ones I heard about, but I don't think friends (just as other relationships) can't have problems without immediately being written off, especially when we consider how many truly intense things they're struggling with atm. I don't doubt that they love each other and have the potential to be amazing friends again, it's just that currently their dynamic is really lacking, and while some of that is understandable considering ~the plot~, some of it seems unnecessary to me?

The four months between ChoH and ChoI were apparently rather uneventful plot-wise, and while that didn't change gracelet, or erase Matthew's alcoholism, we could have been shown some of their interactions then?

The thing about writing is, I get that there needs to be conflict and issues and all that. But you need to also get it across that this wasn't always the case, you need to show that default state (aka them being good friends) as something believable, not just say it was the case. It's a challenge, but CC is an experienced author, she should be able to pull it off.

I hope I'm making sense - to provide another example, I read a book this year where MC's loved ones were murdered at the beginning. And I get it, in that case you can't see them interacting in the plot, but you still need to show how important they were to her, sell it to the reader. That's kinda the whole deal with writing.

Well, we certainly agree here, I also hope she can still resolve all that in ChoT. Hope dies last or sth.

If you feel like it, go ahead and share what you have to say about Matthew and Anna!

Oh totally! As you can see, I don't necessarily agree, but I get that we can see those things differently, that's absolutely fine.

Have a nice day/evening/night! <3

#q #cleaning out the inbox #sorry it took so long #but i lpve your guys' asks!!! #anti cc #i guess #i dont necessarily consider it anti more like criticism but just to be safe #ask answered #the last hours #tlh #the shadowhuter chronicles #spilling the tea