#she's just such a good egg

[melien]

#sims #ts3 #sims 3 #photoshoots #character verse #eden astra-fletcher #she's just such a good egg #fun fact when taylor wasn't existing in the verse eden was briefly emmelie's girlfriend due to a dream I had once about them #I've done some fancy ass photoshoots with them #they looked nice together but... ah #in the end I guess they're like from two different worlds and it wouldn't last #and when I brought back taylor and started redeveloping her I eventually realised she and em have always been the one for each other #(literally. taylor swift's song the 1 reminds me of them) #so I had to discard edelie with a heavy heart and they don't even exist as exes anymore as it would be awks if em dated tay's cousin before #but yeah good memories. maybe in one of the parallel verses it still happens. who knows #but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna put eden back with april #they could have a nice friends to lovers arc #and april would fit perfectly into the freya stuff that I'm trying to figure out right now #in the previous version of the verse they were all friends actually and had elemental powers but that's a story for another time #note to myself: make a ts3 post with april I have her pics lying somewhere

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A new challenger approaches (slowly)

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #wen chao #jin zixuan #jiang cheng #lan wangji #tulu xuanwu #Wen Chao's turtlephobia starts now. I wonder if that's ever going to come back into play? #Slight re-ordering of events for the funny punchlines but we're close to getting back on track. #The mianmian stuff happening right after we also have a Torment Tortoise looking for blood makes this scene so chaotic. #A good kind of chaos as it is supposed to be overwhelming and anxiety inducing! #I have been sitting on the idea of the Beast being just a normal turtle with a knife for ages. Years in fact. #It's stupid as hell but that's sometimes what art is. Indulging the past you who would have loved to see the dumb thing be drawn. #Making it canon now that A-Qing's turtle (the one pd-Lan Sizhui found) is a descendant of this turtle. #Maybe she was so defensive because she has eggs she was watching over! How insensitive of these cultivators! #You can insert your own choice of boss music here - I did not grow up playing video games so I have nothing off the top of my head. #I am making a BOTW reference here so you could substitute one of those themes but I find them more melancholic than menacing.

[synthaphone]

new draik... not 100% sure what her deal is yet, i have to really think about it. but she's up to no good

#she keeps her wings folded most of the time #my art #neopets #i think she goes by 'Sonny' #i want to paint her miamouse blue but i just dropped almost a mil on the egg for her so i'm like :/ at the blue pppb being 2mil on the tp r #maybe i'll wait til i've had some good food club days #edit: PSIMOUSE NOT MIAMOUSE. AAA

[possumsarenice]

It’s nice to that The Sun and Moon Show has some cis representation with Moon. I mean, he’s the only one in the entire cast, but it’s still nice

#SUN IS TRANS DAVIS TOLD ME IRL/j #But like CANONICALLY SPEAKING #Lunar goes by he/they #Earth goes by she/they #Monty is genderfluid #I saw a post talking about how Eclipse could be a trans metaphor (but I would like to add that this could specifically be the #“Trans egg who’s trapped by internalized transphobia” experience) #Bloodmoon is just the “Numerous Bees” meme #and the nano-machines add to the trans vibes #And KC’s arc could hit with some trans peeps #Gemini was probably using gendered pronouns to “make things easier for Earthings” #AND EVEN IF SUN IS JUST A FEMBOY ITS STILL A LITTLE FRUITY #BUT TRANSFEM SUN WHO DOESNT WANT TO COME OUT OR EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE IT BECAUSE SHE NEVER GOT THE COURAGE TO TELL OLD MOON AND NEVER WILL #GOOD SHIT #sun and moon show #sams #the sun and moon show #tsams

[shen-mu]

oh my god imagine if dead eggs trying to wake up their siblings bc they can't sleep that long. imagine the panic in their voices and how they're trying to shake them. and the only one who can hear them is tallulah. they know that. that's why they're trying to talk with her but she starts crying in her sleep. but never wake up

#qsmp #qsmp eggs #and about pomme & dapper #what if pomme asked dapper to go and check on their family just to be safe #and when dapper goes into 'shadow' mode he sees....nothing #everything is quiet and he goes to check on richas #he's asleep but there's a lot (and i mean A LOT) of sticky notes with 'wake up soon' and 'hope you're having good sleep' and he just knows #so he goes back to pomme and tells her everything #and she's looking up to the sky to ask her dads (etoiles and antoine) to keep an eye on them #im fine btw i just woke up lmao

[trashworldblog]

gotta say this is some of the worst fucking lists of all time

#stevens is mostly good but it has some zags (egg? white bread? huh) #ryans is logically The Worst. flour? two tortillas? flour over corn? HOT DOG BUN? #andrews is pretty good but really confised me with leaves. i just... i dont understand how thats a vessel #/lh of course #also my number one is sourdough bowl from panera save me.... bread bowl save me.... #maybe a hot take but she got me thru so much #top 5 beatdown spoilers #top 5 beatdown #watcher #steven lim #ryan bergara #andrew ilnyckyj #worth it #watcher entertainment

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Meanwhile roxy doing Easter stuff for the pizzaplex.

There she goes!! Very busy doggo!! She's got Easter eggs to hide!!

#she's working very very hard!! #it's a difficult job but get through it!!! #such a hard worker!! so dedicated!! doesn't even eat any of the eggs on her way!!! #the kids just don't always find them all!! she's just too good at hiding them sometimes!! #roxanne wolf #fnaf security breach #I've changed how I colour Roxy every single time I've coloured her lmao #pop rox answers #pop rox draws #also made a new signature watermark I think it's neat

[whetstonefires]

Do you have any opinions on Scholomance?

I do! I like it a lot. I really enjoyed all three books, blitzed through them easily and was much more excited to see how the plots unfolded than I'm used to these days, as a jaded adult, and I also really appreciated them as works of craft.

Especially the first one, I spent the whole time being all 'wow!' at how simple it was. So easy to read, but no waste. You really need to know what you're doing, to get that kind of pared-down elegance of form to work and still fit so much content in.

Like these are dense, there's a fantastic stylistic minimalism that allows El's character all the space it needs to breathe by making absolutely every other thing and person in the whole novel also do character work for her, which is exactly where the first person voice shines.

Also great use of character perspective to make the pacing feel really natural, so the fact that the first book takes three weeks, the second book takes one year, and the third book is like. Five or so incredibly stressful days spread out over the course of a few weeks? Doesn't feel imbalanced.

I actually got distracted from the story a few times by noticing the strength of Novik's technique. 😂 This is a me problem, in itself it's the opposite of distracting. Very low-profile.

I think the Scholomance is a great example of how far you can go in specfic when you aren't cringing from the label 'derivative,' because the Scholomance books feel very fresh ad clean specifically because nothing in them is concerned with standing out as 'original,' whatever that's supposed to mean, only with being well-executed and suitable to its task.

Hm, maybe that's where Liesel was born, the intersection of the efficient narrative style and the vast proportion of the story that concerns the maximization of utility and the instrumentalization of persons by themselves and others, and the forces that incentivize these behaviors. Or maybe she's just the narrative counterweight to Orion 'Head Empty' Lake lmao. How's that for a principle of balance, Galadriel?

I really did enjoy how beautifully it was laid out, over and over, in dozens of shades of humanity, how no matter where you go in an exploitative system almost everyone is being driven by the same survival instincts.

Because I don't think I've ever seen made so cleanly clear why you just can't expect any person or small group of people, no matter their level of goodwill or status, to unmake one of these systems from the inside; how it's not a matter of people being bad but of every single person being very...small.

And then not retreating into the idea of a person who is Big coming and breaking the cruel system from the outside as some kind of panacea, because 1) that is terrible, even if it's necessary and done in the best way possible and 2) that's not a sustainable answer to anything. Getting a balance between the protagonist being able to effect change and not subscribing to the great man theory of history can be really tricky!

Also did I mention, I love El, and I love most of the cast, even the dreadful ones. How am I going around with this many feelings about Li Shanfeng who doesn't appear until the actual climax?

The romance murdered me a bit, but it took up no more space than it absolutely needed to do its job, and I respect that. Also I appreciated Orion as a love interest; Novik has a slight record at this point of a version of that style of male love interest who's like a caricature of Mr. Darcy but old, which was shaping up to be my least favorite thing about her body of work.

...Orion is kind of like if you took the human king from Spinning Silver and gave him an alignment flip come to think of it, so he's not coming out of nowhere. Lmao.

Which reminds me (re: romance character typing) I've heard Novik didn't want it to be known she was astolat, which this series has renewed my sympathies if so. Because if I were a published novelist I wouldn't want people going 'you know, that resolution was really emotionally satisfying! reminds me of that fic she wrote where optimus prime and megatron get stuck in a hole underground and hatefuck about it.'

I don't even like Transformers. That fic almost made me cry. Actually I suspect it reads better if you don't like Transformers because I'm sure it does not give a shit about canon.

Anyway, whoever pointed out that one of the things El has going on is she's Enoby (and we're going to sit down and explore what the true reason to put your middle finger up at preps is, and what are some constructive ways to channel that socioeconomic wrath, and what it means that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism) was right and I'm not entirely over that either.

Fucking love El's mom as a character. Spectacular level of parent relevance and usefulness. A+.

Aadhya and Liu are also characters who fucking delivered.

Re: minimalism though, I laughed at the start of The Golden Enclaves when I realized that none of the enclaver characters who'd gotten development in the the first two books were from London, the enclave El was theoretically shooting for when we met her.

#ask #hoc est meum #Anonymous #scholomance #my sister's biphobia made an appearance when i was reading the second book and tried to tell her about this thing i was enjoying #still mad at her about it #anyway though #good! #wish i could ask novik what she was thinking by making a single-cell abortion work as human sacrifice #like is it just because magic works on intent so if you think the newly fertilized egg #that you couldn't know about without magic #is 'your baby which you are killing' #then it is? #for purposes of hole in reality making? #or does this story have a spot where its politics sharply reverse and human life begins at conception #spoilers #scholomance spoilers #especially in the reblog #lakjfaldkfs seanan mcguire has granted this rambled Circulation oh dear

[shikai-the-storyteller]

AWH... I'm skipping through Roier's QSMP Day 1 VOD because I'm looking for a specific thing, and I just noticed that when Jaiden stands in front of the group to do her introduction and her mic isn't working, Mariana laughs (not in a mean way, I laughed too) and Roier immediately smacks him and tells him off for laughing.

[Timestamp ~36m 50s, volume warning for Quackity's awful mic]

It's such a little thing, but I think it's really sweet in retrospect, especially considering how Roier and Jaiden have become such good friends in recent weeks :')

#i talk #qsmp talk #legitimately though I frickin adore Roier and Jaiden's friendship IT'S SO SWEET THEY'RE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS... #Jaiden was so nervous the first few days of QSMP and she talked about how she was too anxious to talk to people she didn't know #So this Egg event really helped her (and a lot of other people too) #It gave everyone a chance to make friends / bonds with people they might not have interacted with as much otherwise #it's just really sweet #I've got a special place in my heart for Jaiden I like her a lot #I used to watch her animations a bunch because my little cousin loves her #then I just kinda stopped because I don't watch Youtube creators much and my memory is awful #But QSMP made me start watching her again #and I found out all the stuff she's had to go through and I watched her videos where she talks about more serious stuff / her personal life #and like not to sound parasocial or whatever but my ''protective parental instinct'' went nuts after hearing all that #she's been through the wringer but it seems like she's doing a lot better #she's really funny and cool #but social anxiety is still a nightmare #I'm really glad she got Roier as her Egg partner -- he's so friendly and nice I think it really helped her relax a lot #and she's actually learning more Spanish despite saying she had 0 Spanish knowledge whatsoever when joining the server!!! #Idk man I'm just really proud of everything everyone's been doing on the server #and I'm really proud of Quackity for bringing people together like this. It's amazing #I love him so much and I'm so grateful this server exists. #First and Best Multilingual server baby!!! #Anyways I forgot how bad Quackity's mic sucked from literally everyone else's perspectives on Day 1 LMFAO #Roier specifically says ''Don't laugh!'' and ''Give [her] a pass!'' (for the mute issue) #alright I added a clip I can't not put a clip for this

[wlw-cryptid]

i- uhm . hgnj, hbgnjmkgh bhnjgmkh you. made me wet. im keeping this in the vault forever

#im so. oh my god #good GOD you get it #you GET it #tentacles #she speaks #anon #asks #this makes me want to draw. i think we're really onto something w the hot springs idea #v-velvety tendrils......... 😵🥴😖😵🥴😵 #“exploring the soft warm thing thats visiting them” stop that made me feel so pretty #i love imagining body still reacting to being filled with eggs even when they dont take. giving me that extra milk production #god it just all sounds so comfortable and fulfilling you wrote this just perfect for me #greatest hits

[cerunilea]

Direly hoping/looking forward to seeing Bagi witness just how much Cellbit *cares* about the eggs and treats them so softly and would be such a wonderful Uncle to Empanada. She's only ever seen him without the eggs around, the closest thing being to when he's around Roier YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND she's never actually seen him at his best and that side of him that only seems to show up when he's watching over or talking to one of the children and I think that would just be something special when thus far she's only been seeing him getting worse, and seeing this side of him that was locked away since the eggs went missing can only benefit their relationship and I want to see the look on her face when she sees him greeting the eggs (especially Richas, Em, and Tallulah) again for the first time, I can guarantee we would visibly see her heart melt through her eyes and smile and I CRAVE TO WITNESS THAT FEELING AFTER ALL THE NEGATIVITY BETWEEN THEM. It would prove to her that he can still change for the better, that there's still something there to hope for and reach out to and bond with, all's not lost between them and the eggs are a line of stability that even if they don't stray him from his present path of destruction it's still there to show there is still hope and a reason for him to not completely lose himself *claws at the walls*

#It'll yet be some time until his return #and we still don't know how the nuke will effect him #nor whether he will still continue his murderous rampage and associated instability now that the eggs are back #but I just want to see him interacting with the eggs again #and I want to see Bagi SEE HIM doing so #it'd show her that there is still a good part of him left #that he can still be helped #the eggs always were such an important part of a majority of the islanders' mental health #and I would be thrilled for Bagi to see that in action with someone she feels so helpless to help like her brother #going insane there's so much potential here and I hope we get to see even a fraction of it #qsmp #cellbit #bagi #qsmp eggs #qsmp cellbit #qsmp bagi

[filmnoirsbian]

october 2023

monster mutant boogie by bloodsucking zombies from outer space

tw flashing lights and jumpscares

#tcp #my videos #geo #xavia #adriane #horror is a love letter to humanity #2 fun things about this hhn on actual halloween night: 1. in the stranger things haunt the steve actor at one point looked me up and down #and went 'call me' so geo and I had a good laugh abt steve 2 for 2 striking out w lesbians #2. in the back of some random mutant bug haunt there was a secret jordan peele easter egg haunt including the set from nope and scare actor #from us. there was NO advertisement abt this btw it really was just a surprise for anyone who happened to go on that random ass tram ride #also the purge show was actually the best one by far I was a bit skeptical when I saw it'd been voted best by audiences but by god they #really earned it #also featuring when xavia got so crossfaded she had to get wheeled out of the park

[mariatesstruther]

okay more on jackson’s senior center based off this post:

- it started as just miss shirley and her best friend darla wanting to live together and asking maria if she could maybe find a house for them to settle in together instead of living apart

- before this, mama shirley and darla would have to walk five houses each way to see each other for afternoon tea, which just won’t do. mama shirley is 92 and darla is 90 now, and both of them are too old to be have to walking that much everyday, mama shirley tells maria. she quickly and vehemently agrees

- maria has the idea of fixing a house up for jackson’s senior citizens to live in if they’d like to. it takes a lot of unnecessary convincing to get the council to dedicate one of jackson’s best houses to a maximum of five people, but maria gets it done. they pick one of the few houses that are placed in the farther back part of jackson, near the farm and the daycare center, so that it can be far-reaching from the entrance of jackson

- the first people to movie in are shirley and darla, who share a room on the second floor (thanks to tommy replacing the stairs in the house with a reliable ramp with a wall-attached handlebar)

- gary moves in not long after he breaks his left hip while herding the goats. he likes that the house is designed to be wheel-chair access and far away from most people in town. he also likes it because he can be close to darla, who he has feelings for, but nobody knows about that except for tommy and joel

- mr. wilson moves in on maria’s insistence that he’ll get hurt if he continues to live alone and try to do everything himself. his name is harold, but he insists that anyone younger than him calls him mr. wilson on account of maintaining a respectful distance. he’s a grumpy, gruff old asshole that reminds joel more of bill than bill himself, but he’s also known to do anything and everything maria tells him with only a small amount of grumbling. somehow, she convinces him to move in after he accidentally sets his kitchen on fire trying to make himself a pocketknife (which?????? maria still doesn’t have an answer for????? why harold was trying to do that????)

- last but not least is sandra dee, jackson’s oldest and most enigmatic member. nobody really knows where she came from or what her story is: she’s the only one of jackson’s seniors that managed to get to town on her own, arriving to town at 94 about a year after its founding with nothing but a backpack and three handguns. she clamed to be sandra, but they’re not entirely sure if sandra dee is her real name. she hums songs from musicals all the time and has expressed that grease was always her favorite. at least once a month she requests to go hunting with patrol and gets mad when maria tells her no

- senior center tea: shirley and darla have longstanding beef with sandra dee because she always cheats at cards during game night, shirley knows about gary being sweet on darla but is lowkey jealous about it because SHE is sweet on darla, and everyone thinks mr. wilson has a thing for maria but he actually told her in confidence last month that he is actually sweet on gary. mama shirley and mr. wilson can’t STAND each other

- tommy calls the seniors the jackson five. all of them call him thomas. he and joel bring them all basic living supplies at least once a week, but are known to be around there pretty often

tsym for anyone having interest in this pls feel free to add anything u want!!

tagging :))) @clickergossip @nerdieforpedro @mrsmando @callmekittenandyourmajesty @steeb-stn (ty for the idea of putting it next to the daycare!) @thatoneobsessedlinguist-writes

#maria finding out from gary that hes sweet on darla knowing shirley is sweet on darla and harold is sweet on gary: oh FUCK #idk where this is coming from but theyre all so vivid in my mind like #theyd have the best breakfastes over there at the jackson five home #dinas older sister talia works as their main caretaker #shes the only person is jackson all five of them agree is a good egg #she loves them but they drive her nuts #NO gary you cannot bring the stray cats in to sleep in bed with you. because theyre dirty!!!! im not arguing with you about this again!!!! #no mr. wilson miss maria is not coming by today. i don’t know exactly why the council is busy. no i cannot take a letter over there #darla. shirley. are you guys high????? did you steal my weed tea again???????? #what do you MEAN you made your own???? #its just a whole sitcom #talia and the gang #the tipsy bison #the jackson five #the name makes tagging so convenient #jackson seniors #jackson senior center #maria miller #tommy miller #joel miller

[maeshelix]

Am I really so vain that I'll seriously consider getting into a fighting game just because they have a transfem character in it now?

#guilty gear #gg #bridget #bridget guilty gear #in all seriousness i dont know why her arcade mode dialogue hit me so hard but it legit did #something about the way she says 'because... i'm a girl' just brings me so much joy #something about the way this is handled in the arcade mode with so much support and thought #i dont even know. the way they handle this is so fucking good!!! how the two other characters verbally support her and encourage her #i cant put these thoughts into words i just #if i wasnt already sure i was trans the dialogue for bridgets arcade mode would have crakced my egg wide open thats all ill say #shit punched through my mental armor like an anti-tank round through balsa wood

[brittie-frog]

Right here's what I hope happens since we're not getting a qsmp stream like Foolish and Tina said we would get this weekend.

- they reset the art in the museum on Monday doing a nepotism and putting Tina's art of Pomme in

- wait a few days for people to see it and those that don't know about it realise that it THE TinaKitten that drew it

- have a lore stream that's potentially just Tina (and Foolish) escaping because Bagera and Cellbit chose to stay while Tina and Foolish were running to the boat and wanted to escape

- Foolish and Leo reunion, Teaduo reunion

- Tina finally gets to meet Empanada and immediately hit it off then they go to the museum as a mini family

- Tina points out the Pomme drawing and how she got in because nepotism and Empanada asks her to draw her

- Tina immediately does it off stream and privately messages the admins to put it in the museum and then she'll post it on the next monday after they've seen it so it's not spoiled

- chat and Em both freak out at seeing Tina's adorable drawing and then all the other eggs keep asking Tina to draw them

#i literally had this dream last night #and either em is cheeky being like why didnt you draw me? since the museum isnt canon #or is super nervous asking to be drawn as well because shes a little sweetheart #please i need them to meet and tina immediately fall in love #also bagi needs to ask her to be her girlfriend the second they get a moment alone #i cant have tina keeping going around like 'shes my minecraft... crush???? she might not have meant anything that way!!' #after having gone on a date and bagi literally constantly flirting with her #while bagis just constantly refering to her as her girlfriend before adding that she hasnt actually asked yet #these gay disasters #teaduo #qsmp #qsmp tina #qsmp empanada #qsmp bagi #qsmp teaduo #it would be funny that if tina does decide to draw all the eggs that the space above the lecturn on the second floor is the place for them #then the rest is still the fans art but the eggs can see Tina's art of them without having to find them in the server #i just fucking love tinas art and her pomme and have done leo are so good #i want to jnow how she would design empanada

[deadbeatdadjokes]

HI In love with the little ways Susie looks after him like…you KNOW she’s asked the same exact question before and got a very different response. She senses Lancer knows what it’s like too bc even though he doesn’t really talk about it, he wouldn’t have asked that question if he didn’t have a reasonable expectation for her to drop him if he was.

He’s literally so scared to lose her friendship and in within the minute she reassures him that, “dude, it’s all good, you have nothing to be sorry for” when he’s been made to feel sorry for literally existing by everyone for so long I-

#Susie too probably #i love their friendship she is his older sister #that puts jolly ranchers on his bullies’ cars and eggs their houses to defend his honor #i know they don’t talk about a whole lot #but they’re both really good at picking up “the vibe” #bc it’s a survival tactic so they both recognize the other’s mannerisms and behaviors #and while lancer looks at Susie as a role model that he can envision himself growing into bc she acts just like him but ‘cooler’ #ie ‘less weak’ as if he’s supposed to be faulted for being a young child #Susie looks at Lancer as a naive version of her past self and tries to mitigate his suffering the best she can #but it was destined to go awry bc she never really grew past her own suffering until Lancer causes her to see and care about #the damage she does voluntarily or involuntarily to those around her #ANYWAYS SHE PROTECC SHE ATTACK SHE GOT LANCERS BACK #i love them sm 😭😭 #deltarune #lancer #susie deltarune #ch1 is REALLY good guys #oh my boy indeed