#it can only get worse from here

[nichenarratives]

Welcome to 1918, Mordecai. You're gonna hate it here.

#hurricane heller #hurricane heller teaser #mordecai heller #lackadaisy #fanfiction #niche narratives #lackadaisy mordecai #fanfic #tracy j butler #lackadaisy cats #no beta we die like atlas may #influenza #the grippe #1918 flu epidemic #yep we hit the pandemic chapter #it can only get worse from here

[jj-is-sleepy]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I just finished episode 10,11 of Bad Batch

Spoilers under the break

Lemme help you out there crosshair

See

Happy ending

Nothing bad happened

Everything is fine!!!

#starwars #the bad batch #I hate you hat man #bad batch #can the force please allow someone to be happy #I hate everything #It can only get worse from here

[themisstresstm]

Was supposed to upload this yesterday but procrastination got the better of me.

ANYWAYS HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!

More blue and orange gals.

#hoping to get more art done this month #which is what i say every month #i already failed day one but hey day two went great #it can only get worse from here #also i cant draw side profiles #cant draw a lot of things in fact #artists on tumblr #art #pride month #bisexual pride #pride art #lesbian pride

[ajasontoddfan]

Why is he thinking about my girl so much this ep…? It better not happen again🤨👊

#it can only get worse from here smh #we’ll see where this goes #ig kabru is cool #but why is my girl always on his mind? #🤔🤔🤨 #i’m joking btw #if you can’t tell #lol #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #laios touden #kabru #anime and manga

[random-lil-illing]

‼️ TW: BLOOD ‼️ (granted its not very realistic but still)

the best friends finally meet !! granted its during the end of operation sand viper and theyre both Going Through It™ but at least they met :)

#my art #art #digital art #finished art #fanart #cod #cod ghosts #call of duty #call of duty ghosts #cod ghosts fanart #cod fanart #call of duty fanart #call of duty ghosts fanart #cod ajax #cod keegan #alex ajax v johnson #keegan russ #keegan p russ #alex ajax johnson #alex ajax johnson fanart #keegan russ fanart #kejax #sort of #not exactly the intention but it can definitely be interpreted that way #keegan x ajax #also idk if this canon but they are meant to be 17 (ajax) and 16 (keegan) here #they just went rhrough so much in such little time and its only going to get worse from here on out #you cant really tell but ajax is also very traumatised but hes trying to calm keegan down. so hes trying to look fine #as soon as keegans not having a panic attack anymore and they get back to the others tho hes dropping the mask #enjoy the burnt food

[pebblezone]

I understand her on a molecular level

#hellsing #hellsing ultimate #seras victoria #integra hellsing #a #sertegra #low key but god knows it’s only gonna get worse from here I just can’t draw integra that well yet #they’re speaking directly in my ear & they’re telling me it’s okay to avoid studying for my psych exam so I can kick myfeet & draw them more #need to learn how to draw pip too fuck the French but he’s got a goofy design heehee cowboy #also cocolacola if you’re out there pls know your brain is elite thank you for having the thoughts you do

[quietwingsinthesky]

i do love canon amy & rory but god, does some part of me wish they really had gone with the idea of the doctor picking up a child as a companion (and then later, that child’s best friend with a huge crush on her.) with the rest of the season really not changing at all, except now it’s amelia pond with an angel in her head killing her and lost alone in the woods. it’s little rory who dies and is forgotten and becomes a toy soldier. if this is going to be a fairy tale, then let it be one. children have never been safe in fairy tales.

#it wouldn’t have to change any of the actual plot of the season. except MAYBE amy’s choice but even then i think amy’s choice would be the #one episode where they should be adults. if only for the half where they live in a village in that dream. #because that’s the kind of future that children would dream up. they live in a little cottage and nothing ever goes wrong and their best #friend visits them all the time even though they’ve grown up. #they aren’t actually adults there just children with an idea of what they should be as adults and acting accordingly #and it would still end the same way. #but idk its just. rory’s 2000 years waiting for amy inside the pandorica is already tragic. yes. #now imagine its a kid. a kid in a little roman soldier helmet who will never grow up. who will not leave his best friend. #he loves her and she’s more important than the whole universe and that sort of love is supposed to MEAN something in a fairy tale! #its supposed to melt the ice out of hearts and transform people from stone. #and what that love means here. is that he will have to wait 2000 years. a child and a box. #little rory and the amelia who followed the doctor’s letters to the pandorica. and she doesn’t recognize him again. #and amelia in the pandorica… 2000 years a child trapped in a small box waiting to be rescued. #s5 is already fucked for them but it could be worse. it could be so much worse. #and it would make the doctor choosing to take her place in the pandorica to save the universe later even better. #because who else but the doctor would put the fate of the universe on the shoulders of two children and realize much too late what a #monstrous thing he’d done. and still have to hope. have to hope. that amelia would remember him fondly enough to bring him back to reality. #the logistics of all of this would have been a pain lmao. child labor laws in acting and all that. #BUT. hypothetically. it would have slapped. #doctor who #amy pond #rory williams #<- also this entire time ive been referring to him in my head as rory pond so much that i fuckin. forgot his actual last name. #and then like if you want them to be adults in s6 or whatever you can just timeskip to them getting married and still have amelia remember #the doctor there. it would work. it would. #amelia pond au

[fourx]

no more fucking vague talking im going to be up front because this has been going on for an entire year and has genuinely distressed me for a while. I will preface this by saying that I don't mind if you take inspiration from me, im so glad I was able to be an inspiration for you. I make art out of happiness.

but there's times where I feel people cross the line in taking literal aspects of my identity and who I am. I dont think I ever was built to deal with things like this, i struggle heavily with who I am and my artwork. if you take inspiration from me the most I can ask for is a mention it means a lot. In the end I'm just a random person on the internet, and i can't control what you do. I only ask for respect

#im mentally ill and struggle with my life im not the coolest person in the world #i guess what made it worse for me is seeing these people get so much traction or talk with people who do not like me #ibsaw someone with my name and art similar to mine and it was my tipping point #the last half of this year has been a nightmare for me please just try to respect me i just love cute things and drawing #thank you for everyone who has supported my art work and been here for me it means so much #and again if you take inspo from me i am not made at you it means a lot truly #i can only do so much

[extravagav]

Yk I never did truly recover from the sick fic chapter

#one day im gonna make a post overanalyzing every single frame from this chapter bc its just so good #everything from how confused sakura looks at the idea of them coming to visit him when hes sick #to suo suggesting they leave bc he knows them staying here the now will only make him worse/uncomfortable which is the last thing he needs #bc yeah although he shouldn't and doesnt have to hes used to dealing w/ things like this alone #hes convinced he needs to and thats not smth you can just expect to change from one visit #still i need my hurt/comfort sick fic sequel please and thank you #so we can get a full circle of sakuras character development where he actually lets them help/asks for it #and NO im NOT projecting 🙅‍♀️ #i DONT just wanna see my son getting comforted through his sickness when hes at his most vulnerable nuh uh 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ #wind breaker #wind breaker spoilers #sakura haruka #ALSO ALL THIS ^^ WITHOUT EVEN MENTIONING THE REASON HES SICK IN THE FIRST PLACE LIKE???? #MY SON WAS SO EMOTIONALY CONFLICTED AND CONFUSED THAT HE GAVE HIMSELF A FEVER 😭😭😭😭 #ALSO also i seriously cannot get iver how scared he looks in the last panel like ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️ #ok im going off in these tags rn i need to stop fr

[thecardinalsims]

A Fool’s Journey in Self-Taught Modding / Pt 1

Coming up on a thousand posts between MTS and NRaas in the space of a year, I sometimes figure my lack of uploads weighs negatively upon whether it seems like I know what I’m talking about.

So, it's time to start a devlog. If you were tagged, don't feel obliged to read it- just wanted to credit the names and faces behind this rabbithole I've gone down.

Tiny blips of my work are floating about out there- I made the geostates for @twinsimming's default replacement tree, cracked some of the mysteries of decrypting TS3 Store worlds, and I’ve shot a number of small CC items and tuning packages from the hip as needed for individuals in both forums.

Over a couple of days, I learned geostates from scratch to make the sprout and sapling.

I’ve also ended up with the shiny orange username at MTS thanks to contributing a few tutorials, which did wonders for my confidence. Said tutorials are quickly decaying as I outgrow my own methods, but I promise to revisit them when time and health allows.

Making GIF examples was a highlight of working on the tutorials, so far.

In truth, I’m always working on bigger things. Much bigger things. Half of the answers I give are ones I work out on the spot for the purpose of answering- and then I squirrel away what I learned into my growing reference pile. I’m happy to chip away at a hundred little problems, because I come away with a hundred little skills.

I’m just too stubborn to let my first public release be one of those small successes. It simply has to be the most ambitious project on my plate- the one made of months of work and half a dozen restarts from scratch. 

What started as a simple 'find hairs to use as default replacements' project has turned into a 'repurpose mesh pieces into new hairs from scratch' project.

The truth about learning to mod any game is that a fair bit of it will (or rather, should) have nothing to do with the game itself. Being competent with Blender and XML in general- and familiarising myself with S3PE so thoroughly I could manually do anything that usually is automated by other tools- was the greatest favour I could have done for myself. 

I started wanting to write a devlog- or whatever is appropriate to call this when it won’t involve programming for quite some time- to try and encourage this sentiment in others. Learning to make a specific creation vs learning to create is very similar to the proverb of being given a fish vs being taught to fish. The sooner you unlearn relying on for-purpose knowledge and dive into all-purpose knowledge, the better.

If you want to be a prolific creator of hair CC, I wouldn’t even recommend starting with my tutorials on making them for TS3. I’d encourage you to learn to create and edit meshes, work with morphs and bone assignments, so on- all concepts that neither The Sims nor EA invented, but if you are introduced to them for the first time through modding you may fall into the trap of believing a modder is the best person to teach you. The remaining jump to then get that work into the game is smaller than you think.

Manual bone assignments are the most recent trick I've put up my sleeve, and one of the reasons for another soft-restart of my project.

EA didn’t provide a single modding resource outside of CaW for The Sims 3, so I empathise with the DIY nature of the tutorials that exist. The familiar names of the 2009-2010 modding scene pulled the game apart themselves, wrote their own programs, and carried the community on their back with the effort of sharing what they learned. 

Over a decade later, creators are less often programmers, computer engineers, and 3D artists and more often hobbyists following in their footsteps with no prior knowledge of these fields. You will lose sanity if you have big CC plans and try to learn all of it from a video tutorial recorded on an overheating laptop that didn’t edit out any of the times TSRW crashed or the person making the tutorial coughed directly into their mic- I can tell you that much. 

The first thing I made was actually a skill for TS4, which I crunched through with Sims4Studio and a lot of squinting at @icemunmun-spicy-scalpel's Candle Making skill, and is where I first spat out the name CardinalSims for the sake of filling in the creator name box. Which, for the record, is supposed to be a pun on Cardinal Sins and not that I consider myself the cardinal of sims.

I'll come back around to release this one day if someone doesn't beat me to it, hopefully with compatibility for BrazenLotus' mods.

For that reason, a lot of TS4 creators are my largest inspiration even if I see myself focusing on TS3. Icemunmun and @brazenlotus are my meshing and modding role models- custom food is my passion despite my current workload, so when I finally get some of these projects out that is where I’d like to settle most. Preferably churning out hundreds of recipes and harvestables for the rest of my days.

After messing around with hair recolours, eye textures, and asymmetrical dog ears, I flipped back to TS3 (the far more intimidating of the two to work with) and haven’t stopped piling projects onto that plate ever since. Hair became the somewhat dominant topic of my expertise, but believe it or not it all started with a plate of scrambled eggs.

3D scrambled eggs, intended as a replacer for @echoweaver's recipe. All it's missing is a half-eaten state, but I got a tiny bit distracted: read, it has been ten months.

It’s not really a devlog until I go over what I’m working on, though, is it?

No matter how many things I try to juggle, I can promise that the first release will be a large something called BGHR. Which involves somewhere in the range of 45 hairs, give or take.

The first 'BGH' Redux I made + the most recent one- have fun puzzling over that acronym until release. I blame it on the fact I modded Skyrim for a long time before this.

Which is not including the dozens of variants and age/gender conversions I end up with along the way, which I export to a mesh dump that I’ll come back to later:

Once that floodgate is open, I will be prioritising releasing the smaller projects quite quickly- likely the 3D scrambled eggs and the default harvestable plant + vine to match the tree that have been sitting 99% complete in my project folder.

Thank you for reading, if you made it this far. I'm out of breath and I didn't even have to say all of this outloud.

Next devlog should be more focused on a singular topic.

#did i write a devlog or a journalistic article on the nature of modding itself #who can tell #ts3 #ts3cc #a fools journey devlog #the tarot references will only get worse from here on #simblr #the sims 3

[kaseyskat]

thinking about scary and normals relationship again do NOT hit me up

#dndads #dndads spoilers #kasey rambles #admittedly the only teen ship i’m like. actively into is oakworthy #because i’m much more focused on the platonic relationships #and scary and normals platonic relationship fucks me UP and it just keeps getting worse #i think that knowing how similar younger scary was to normal just adds such an interesting layer like GOD #and scary was SO protective of normal in the earlier season she only turned on him when he got the main character energy from his lineage #and i miss that and i hope their relationship can mend but for now i am sitting here #picking apart each tangled thread of parallels #wondering truly if normals headed in the same direction scary found herself in before and if she’ll catch it in time to stop it

[thekidsfromyestergay]

i'm so 👀 for the los angeles aka wife city energy

Gerard Way, known pegging enjoyer, is about to be performing in the place their wife's strap collection is... We're in danger

#it can really only get worse from here #if we're getting a collar. it's gonna be now

[airenyah]

bad buddy music in 23.5 degrees: ep5

(ep1 | ep2 | ep3 | ep4 | ep6 | ep7)

in episode 5 of 23.5 degrees there was a total of one (1) pieces of royalty free music that have been featured on bad buddy too and not to be drammatic but this one actually killed me when i heard it on 23.5:

not right (instrumental version) - CLNGR

bad buddy timestamps:

ep5 pt2 - 5:28

y'all. this is the ep5 music store scene when pat finally faces the fact that he's in love with pran. i'm sobbing

23.5 degrees timestamps:

ep5 pt4 - 6:35

#23.5 #23.5 degrees #23.5 music #bbs #bad buddy #bbs music #airenyah's thdrama music collection #adrm #HOW COULD THE 23.5 EDITORS DO THIS TO ME THEY ARE OUT TO GET ME #THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD BE WORSE IF THEY USED MUSIC FROM– no i shan't say it i shan't speak it into existence #i think you can easily guess which one i'm referring to dkkjksdf #FUCK OFF WITH YOU BALL OF PROHECY @APOLLO THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HERE BYE #also pls tell me i wasn't the only one who had such a strong reaction to this music i mean come ON

[jizzlords]

man. fizz is really out here edging fucking a deity 10x his size.

#── ♡ ❝ i can bring the sex appeal. ( ooc ) #⸻ ₊˚ʚ delete this. ₊˚✧ #what a king act. #fizz has the rizz. i dont- what else do u want me to say? #these Will be deleted i just #it's only gonna get worse from here when muses take the big leap aksdjfgh

[coquelicoq]

i just saw someone say that "the vast majority of the userbase is complaining" about tumblr's recent layout change. i see this a lot after a change: people complaining about it (sometimes without saying what about it is bad, making it sound like either it's self-evident (it usually is not) or just that it's bad because it's change and change is always bad) and saying that everyone else is complaining about it too. i don't know how to tell you this but a) you don't follow every user on tumblr so how can you possibly know what "everyone" or "the majority of users" thinks about anything and b) ONLY THE PEOPLE WHO FEEL VERY STRONGLY ARE TALKING ABOUT IT!! people who are not bothered are not spending time posting about how unbothered they are! please look up "selection bias" and stop making me read this nonsense with my own eyeballs.

#i don't get what's so bad abt this change bc it doesn't bother me & no one is explaining it! the most i've seen is it's 'like twitter' #which people don't like i guess bc this might imply that tumblr could be taking more cues from twitter than just the layout? #which is also fallacious reasoning #some changes i do hate. like for instance the change that made it so i can no longer click to the version that someone rbed from #which breaks the prev tag culture :( #but some changes are whatever! and some changes are good even!! #it's fine if it takes time to get used to something being different of course but it seems like the reaction on here can be so extreme #so fast. 'bombard the app with 1-star reviews!!!!' how about you give it a couple weeks and maybe you'll calm down. #i think there's a sense of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' but it is broke though! tumblr is unsustainable and they gotta do stuff to make #the site more attractive and easier to use for new users. they can do that without losing what makes tumblr tumblr #the layout is not what makes tumblr tumblr! the functionality is. and sometimes that does change for the worse #and i get having complaints about that. but not really about moving the location of some buttons #anyway i haven't said anything before because i don't have strong feelings about this UX change but i DO have strong feelings about #the vague yet very forceful complaints about the UX change that i keep seeing lol #tumblr #fallacies #anyway don't get distracted by my tags. this post is not really about me not understanding what's so bad about this specific change #it's about people who hate a change assuming that everyone agrees with them because they're only seeing the reactions from #a biased subset of the userbase #(by biased i don't mean the users are biased. i mean the sample is biased...it's highly likely to include people who feel strongly #and unlikely to include people who are neutral or feel less strongly)

[fluxedbuds]

If you want text, kingbdogz on Twitter, the dev who is pretty much in charge and responsible for sculk and the deep dark and the warden, has talked about the sculk various times

But at least from one video about the sculk, the deep dark biome literally comes from the void (so it generates as low as possible in the world) and catalysts are the stomachs of the sculk

(Link to the video I believe is being referenced)

First of all, holy SHIT you should not have told me about this because there's SO MUCH- sculk's visuals being inspired by opals?! are you KIDDING me sculk RULES

Second of all- I Was Right About Everything The Whole Time And None Of You TOLD ME

To be pedantic (because I think it holds huge importance to the lore of it), the deep dark biome itself was described as having an anchor point below bedrock- which doesn't necessarily mean it's *from* the void, just that its intended to be as close to it as possible. Whether or not it comes FROM the void massively affects its intended purpose

GOD it's awesome hearing sculk being confirmed as a living thing though, And further confirmation of the souls-exp correlation. However, the specifics of how its described makes me question whether it was 'created' by the civilization it ultimately destroyed. Language barriers are a factor here, but the fact that its described as 'having found itself' underground makes me think its an organism taken from elsewhere. This WOULD still require external interference, and likely major editing, as we don't see any mirrors of it elsewhere, so it's definitely still at least partially artificial.

The Warden being described as a defense system For the sculk is also interesting- continuing to presume the sculk was created/edited for defense against the End/Void, this would imply the sculk Itself is the defense, instead of merely being the infrastructure required to support and transport the Warden as I'd previously assumed. If we assume it was edited rather than created, though, its very possible that my original thoughts were correct, with the Warden being the intended defense, and the sculk simply being brought along as the necessary precondition for using him.

I do also want to quickly note that electricity is a major factor in real-life living things, so the sculk interfacing with redstone isn't Too wild, but the fact that it gives out a strong enough signal to register on devices not specifically designed for that is notable. No other living thing in minecraft can trigger redstone without an additional connecting layer (like an observer) as far as i know! And it's obviously something that was being studied, if not actively used. The main question there is if it naturally had that trait, or it was amplified or introduced artificially

SCULK!!!!!!

#letters #theories #also twitter is straight up unusable so I'd basically need an external record of tweets in order to get anything out of it 😔 #i Refuse to make an account just to read tweets and I honestly doubt it'd work even then #it was also funny watching those videos where its always a Huge point how Scary and Horrifying the deep dark & warden are #i imagine its like listening to people being scared of the ocean when you personally would live in the sea if you could #thats just my dad lol hes not that scary. sculk is pretty. just get quiet loser #i can maybe see why nobody told me i was right now actually. i will only get worse from here