#non-sims

[heldhram]

My friends: Wanna go out for a bite this weekend? Me: Sorry, I've got errands to run x.x

The errand:

Those blueberry bushes just ain't goan water themselves yanno?

#non-sims #stardew valley #harvesting them blueberries is so satisfying in this game for some reason is it just me #when them don't fall into those ponds because of how close I initially planted the bushes around them #guess for whom those peppers were lmao #yeah I should probably get sprinklers

[cas-fulleditmode]

ah yes, december 24th. i hope nothing terrible is going to happen here tonight.

#ace attorney #pheonix wright #miles edgeworth #turnabout goodbyes #nonsims #non-sims

[melsie-sims]

I did it! 🎉🎊

This has been absolutely ridiculous! I love it so much!

If you guys still need some "given" or "received" just spam me and I'll assume you need to be spammed back! I'm here all night!

#non-sims #just chatting #boop #boop o meter #april fool's day

[mysimsloveaffair]

Here are my November/December crochet creations. The first picture is of a doll I created a year ago for my sister. My sister has locs and wanted her doll to match, so a few weeks ago I gave her a makeover by changing out the wavy hair for locs and adding a jacket and purse. The second picture is of a series of angel ornaments that I completed in November. I listed them on my Ko-fi shop, and they sold out that same day 🤗.

My shop currently has no dolls available for sale, but I am taking a few commissions. DM me for details! Serious inquiries/shipping to the U.S. only (for now), thanks 🥰

#replies #diego2memphis #personal #who is diego2memphis #non-sims #other hobbies #crochet #amigurimi

[medleymisty]

Kitten booping! From almost a decade ago, gosh.

The babies and their mother this morning:

#boop #booping #kittens #kitten video #non-sims #we found Pixel abandoned and pregnant in our backyard

[nonsensical-pixels]

so in the last week or so i've started getting these very random, very oddly-timed, and somewhat disturbing anon messages over on my main and @nonsensical-pixels-finds.

as anyone who's been following my blog will know, i most certainly haven't been in any beef recently, i've not received any 'hateful messages' before that first message; literally all i've done is post cc on the weekends and the occasional sims ramble lol. 'downplaying someone's mental disorder' what? i've most definitely not done anything other than reblog cc on my finds blog lmao.

the fact that the second message mentions ableism though, reminds me of @sammysundog's stalker situation. that's the only time that mental health has ever been 'discussed' on this blog to my recollection, and that was weeks ago. really not sure why i'm being targeted given that i've literally only reblogged that post but... 🤷‍♀️

tl;dr i'm turning off anon messages for this blog, and all others. sorry guys, if you've got the courage to ask me to do something for you, like a request, then you've got to have the courage to let me know who you are. and i'm sick of weird anons messaging me for completely off-topic stuff.

have a hopeful piggy praying for the redemption of your soul anon, he hopes you'll see the light and leave his mum alone🤲

#ky rants #important info #kinda? #seriously when i got the first post on jan 1st i was like #ok who do i have beef with... #who has beef with me... #nope nope no more beef on this blog ever again ty #non-sims #tw mentions of ableism #tw stalker #cw mentions of ableism #cw stalker

[penig]

Behold the dress that kicked my ass.

After finally perfecting the empire waist dress I was of course sick of sewing it, so I went through the patterns inherited from a friend's mother (friend doesn't sew, mother was about my size and had a significant stash of projects she never got to start) and found a cute one that would do for my purposes. I should have dug out my muslin (I found muslin for $0.99/yard once 20 years or so ago and have been lauding my own wisdom in buying the bolt ever since) but instead I thoughtlessly pulled one of the fabrics from the inherited stash. Because I am smart enough to use stuff I have paid little to nothing for the first time I make a pattern.

I have never altered a dress with princess seams before.

There was absolutely no leftover fabric of that black; there wasn't even enough for the sleeves. Fortunately, I also overbuy solid colors in plain fabrics on sale and had quite a lot of a green that coincidentally match the palm trees. That button plaquet was not supposed to be a button plaquet, it was supposed to be facing, which I turned into a button plaquet when the front panels wouldn't meet across the portion of my anatomy that shakes when I laugh like a bowlful of jelly. I misjudged where and how much the flare needed to be changed to accommodate that and I couldn't think of a good way to make the scraps into a gusset to fix the problem. The button plaquet mostly solves that; but I didn't consider how much it would widen the neckline, and when my first try-on came I found myself with an off-the-shoulder dress and a really deep decolletage.

And that was when I entered one of my "what are shapes?" phases. I'm not good at rotating shapes in my head at the best of times; sometimes, I cease to be able to parse them at all. They become like numbers and make no sense. There's nothing I can do but tuck the problem into my backbrain and give it time. As usual, this method didn't fail me, and when I finally saw the leading edge of how to deal with the problem I started picking away at it one small task at a time.

This is still a shade too wide at the neckline (my hair's over my shoulders so the bra straps don't show) and there are seams that any seamstress as good as people think you need to be to make your own clothes would not tolerate for a second - but I happen to be a crappy seamstress who makes her own clothes anyway, and today I reached the point at which I could say: "That'll have to do; hem the thing."

I can't be said to have learned the pattern, either, due to the jiggerpokery with the facing/plaquet. Next time (which will not be tomorrow! Or even next month.) I will definitely call on my faithful cheap muslin. But it actually is kind of cute, and if I can learn to alter princess seams to my shape properly - well, that's a whole new world, isn't it?

Anyway, consider this encouragement to do any project you think you're not good enough to do, and to see it through. Whatever it is. If I can do it, you certainly can.

#sewing #crafts #creativity #projects #non-sims #personal

[horusmenhosetix]

I haven’t really played sims in a while, my attention span is just not good enough for it atm. I have been playing this lovely game called Sun Haven! It’s a fantasy farming sim akin to Stardew Valley and i’m loving it so far. It’s very relaxing to play. And the art style is adorable!

#non-sims #Sun Haven #it was on sale and i couldn't resist #i've also been replaying Vampyr and simping over Johnathan #but that's neither here nor there :'3

[simlicious]

Personal update about my anxiety

Time for another personal update! At the moment, I'm not really in a creative mood and my projects are all resting.

I am working on more stuff in my real life, including cleaning/decluttering my apartment and working through an anxiety app which will hopefully get me to start exposure (though I shudder at the thought alone). The funny thing is, the app is for social anxiety, and I do have some social anxiety, but I think I mainly have agoraphobia (but there is no medical app available for this at the moment, so I took the next best thing). The app said: "Let's make a gradual steps plan, you first choose a very easy step, then one that is a little harder and harder, and so on until the hardest step comes at the top." And for the easiest step, it actually suggested one of my hardest steps: going into a store, buying something, and interacting with the cashier. Checkouts give me such anxiety. I once had a full-blown panic attack because I couldn't remember the PIN number for my credit or debit card. And I very rarely get panic attacks. Luckily, my brother was present and he was able to pay for me while I almost hyperventilated and tears were streaming down my face. Generally, I start sweating and get shaky hands which does not help while handling cards and remembering pin numbers. I get tunnel vision and cannot focus on anything that is going on around me. Sometimes, blood rushes in my ears so I have a hard time picking up whether someone is saying anything. Then, all items need to be put into bags at lightning speed, and I always fear that I am not fast enough and that everyone else in line is annoyed and angry with me and this makes me even more nervous. Putting things away with shaky hands is tough! So I send my boyfriend shopping for me or buy online most of the time. If I absolutely must, I can go shopping with one of my loved ones because I feel a tiny bit calmer and know I have a safety net with me. They can also help me put stuff in my bags. But alone? That's nightmare fuel for me. Same thing with using public transportation, I just can't do it. I also have a very hard time sitting in waiting rooms at the doctor's office, I get so tense and do not know what to do with myself. Oh, and I also have severe anxiety when I need to make a phone call 😫 But all that is seriously impacting my life, as you can imagine. And I want to change something.

Since the app is not helpful with suggestions for my gradually harder steps to take, I have to come up with my own, and it is harder than I thought! All the things I think about are really hard for me, I cannot think of less hard steps to take 😣 Even just going outside without a destination/going out by myself is also anxiety-inducing for me. I feel like I am watched all the time, I get tense and my thoughts start racing or going in circles. This also happens while I am in a store to shop for something. I get paralysed sometimes with decision fatigue and if someone else comes into the same aisle, I have the urge to run away instantly. I get so distracted that I need to spend way more time in a store than usual and this is of course not making me calmer. I am just super exhausted after going shopping! I am proud that I leave the house twice a week now to go for a walk with my best friend though. We have just established a second day of the week this year, and we still do not go twice every week, but pretty often, which is great. And I love to walk in nature, it calms me (if there aren't too many other people around). 😊 I am also making progress with my borked sleep cycle. I am a night owl 🦉, but being awake the whole night clashes a lot with my family's plans. I have tried for months to shift it, but in the last one to two weeks, I actually made real progress and went to bed 2 to 3 hours earlier than normal, which is really huge for me! I found out that there are lots of free audiobooks on YouTube that authors upload themselves. So one hour before I want to sleep, I put one on, set a shutdown timer of 60 minutes so it will turn off after that time, and then go to bed and listen to it until I fall asleep. This has motivated me enough to actually go to bed earlier.

As a result, I get more daylight and I am more inclined to do housework, which I also struggle with in general, so this is really great! I am focusing more on that now. I also started playing Subnautica again, but I can only play for a few hours on end because it can get pretty intense. I kinda want to play Sims 4 again (weird, I know). My anxiety app wants me to think more positively, so instead of thinking that it is no use updating my mods because the minute I do, another patch drops anyway and I have to start all over, I should think more positively. I will probably drop the game after playing for a day anyway, so it does not need to stay updated for long! Maybe downloading and updating mods is more fun than actually playing anyway? 😆

#non-sims #personal #life with anxiety

[zombies-who-speak-simlish]

#non-sims #non sims #bioshock #bioshock infinite #video gaming #video games #gaming #victorian

[makgeolii]

i love these screenshots fr

#*gray plays: #*gray plays: uncharted #missing my uncharted girlies #i need to finish #but chapter 4 is literally so long for no reason #uncharted #non-sims #uncharted lost legacy #chloe frazer #nadine ross #i think i might share other gameplay screenies #like some characters be sooo fineee

[heldhram]

Mum: What are you laughing at.

Me: You wouldn’t understand.

Source here

#non-sims #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 meme

[nectar-cellar]

this tim hortons vanilla iced latte is sucking and fucking me rn

#non-sims #i went and did Social things today. i visited locations... i spoke to ppl. i discovered information. #i ate cheesecake! #i want to taste dunkin donuts ice coffee so bad one day

[peppermint-ginger]

I decided to jump on the wagon and made a thematic display [:<

#stardew valley #pmg plays other games #spoiler alert: he hated it #also a Lewis cosplay #w/ no pants ofc #non-sims

[medleymisty]

Look at my babies.

#non-sims

[nonsensical-pixels]

casual reminder: if your PC has a HDD drive, always remember to defrag it! especially if you're experiencing otherwise inexplicable lag!

i've had this setup that my grandpa gave me for my 10th birthday all the way back in 2016, and it's been so slow lately that i was almost about to scrap it. but one random chatgpt ask later and i learned about the 'defrag and optimise drives' function on windows 10:

you can find it by searching 'defrag' in the windows search bar!

just select the main drive you're using and hit 'optimise'... my PC literally started running faster while it was still running. like it doesn't take ts2 30 mins to load anymore, it only takes 2 😭google searches don't take 2 mins to even load the search bar ??

#what is this magic #non-sims #ky rambles #pc upkeep #just saved me a whole new pc :]