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murfeelee · 2 years

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Check In Tag

Thanks @ktarsims for tagging me here!

I’m still not dead--luckily, I’m in the home stretch; just two more weeks and the semester’s done! I just have about a zillion papers and exams to get through, FML, LOL.

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Why did you choose your URL?

Cuz all I could think of was my frikkin name, like a baby idiot with no creativity.

How long have you been on tumblr?

Too effing long. 2023 will make 10 whole years, good grief.

Do you have a queue tag?

No, but I queue up everything anyways.

Why did you start your blog in the first place?

Cuz TSR was making me mad, and I liked the simblrs that were already here, and figured this was a great way to have some autonomy over how I simmed and shared content, without the peanut gallery yelling at me every stinking time I tried to upload something.

Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

It was part of a dumb silly little story I made for TSR back when Dragon Valley first came out, about how the gods blessed Sakura with a baby dragon. I reuploaded it on my simblr for the lulz. Don’t take it seriously, trust me, LOL.

Why did you choose your header?

It's from the same style of header/border I used way back in my TSR days.

What’s your post with the most notes?

My TS4 Rant - Still Unimpressed rant from back in 2015, jfc. It’s been HOW LONG since this wack AF mobile game in disguise was released? I can’t.

How many mutuals do you have?

How do we even tell anymore?

How many followers do you have?

A lot.

How many people do you follow?

Plenty. And I lurk even more.

Have you ever made a shitpost?

Sadly no; I’m not clever enough. U_U

How often do you use tumblr every day?

Barely at all lately; this new grad school I’m in is effing annoying; their numbers are woefully low, especially after the pandemic, so they’ve got me doing way too much work on crap that I don’t even specialize in; it’s really starting to tick me off. I didn’t come here for this crap.

Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

I have stepped on soooooo many TS4 simmers’ toes, it’s hilarious. I’ve had EA sycophants and paywall apologists cuss me out in my PMs, IMs, reblogs, etc. I don’t engage--I post my rants for posterity, not to hash crap out with people. My beef is with EA directly.

How do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

My blog my rules. I reblog what i want, and post what I want, when I want.

Do you like tag games?

I lovelovelove questionnaires and games. I avoid tagging, because I’m always afraid I’ll leave someone out, and I don’t want people to think I don’t like them.

Do you like ask memes?

I don’t even wait around for people to send the asks--I always just answer all of them at once, LOL.

Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

Tumblr famous and Simblr famous are 2 different things. I've had quite a few Simblr famous mutuals, but what even is being Tumblr famous anymore? O_o

Do you have a crush on a mutual?

No, but I am deeply in love with several simblrs’ art styles and gameplay aesthetics, in TS2, 3 AND 4. Pure chef’s kiss. So inspirational; I wish I had more time to sim, and try new things!

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Thanks for reading!

I tag anyone; y’all know I can’t do this, pfft!

#simblr #the sims 3 #questionnaire

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eisforeidolon · 2 years

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Trying to navigate the spn fandom with the Jared and Jensen hate has not been easy. I have decided just to enjoy the projects they do I'm interested in and ignore the rest. How have you managed to keep so level headed with the constant craziness and infighting amongst the various fan groups? I always appreciate your thorough replies to asks.

Thanks, anon! Although I'm not always as level-headed as I'd like to be, there are a couple of things that I try to do and remember to keep from getting too wound up about anything that goes on in the various factions.

First, I try to remember that it's just fandom and sometimes fandom is pretty fucking blinkered or just straight up dumb. Especially when we're talking about the opinion of some random blog in their own space, what does it really matter? Opinions, assholes, etc. And that's when it's even a take you can actually consider seriously. Some of the shit like complaining about the way Jensen poses for pictures or Jared sits on chairs is just so inconsequential, absurdly petty, and childish? I really do just find it more funny than anything. Like, you're so determined at that point to fixate on hating an actor you've resorted to analyzing that for something to be buttmad about? LOL, okay.

It's a lot harder to not steam over the crap that gets sent directly to the actors - like the creepy fetishistic RPF posted on the SM of Jensen and his business/projects, the suicide bait/death threats to Jared, and the attempts to slander both Js with faux social justice bullshit. Which, first, mostly come from hellers who we have years of knowing are Like That (a lot of what made the aftermath of prequelgate so hard was the seemingly sudden schism of it). For that stuff, I generally figure J2 are probably not personally regularly wading through the sewer that is their SM, so hopefully a lot of it goes unseen. I also figure that they're mature enough and have good enough support to see that fandom has some unhinged people in it who are acting out for attention and it's not really about them. Furthermore, outsiders with a working brain are going to see it for exactly what it is - butthurt, entitled fans that need to get a fucking grip. That doesn't make it not creepy, not hurtful, or remotely fucking okay, but knowing most of it probably isn't hitting its mark and won't generally move beyond the fandom does help a bit. Especially in the context of knowing that you can't actually stop it because twitter really is for trolls and assholes. They can always make more accounts.

Second, when I really can't get something out of my head, because I keep seeing it over and over again, or one thing or another just sticks in my craw for some reason? I post about it. Sitting down and organizing my thoughts "on paper" seems like it helps me feel like I've dealt with it, in a way? I can't stop bad takes, but I can make it clear that there are obvious other takes which exist and make my best case for why my take is better - or at least a reasonable alternative. That's actually what lead me to make a blog way way back in the beginning, just constant annoyance at really bad takes analyzing the show. I knew then I wasn't going to change the minds of detestiel truthers and I know now I'm not going to change the minds of hardcore J haters, but there are a lot more people in fandom than just the extremists and it can help to see that you're not alone in disagreeing with opinions that can seem overly ubiquitous.

Third, when I still can't get away from something, or even one of the petty things hits particularly hard on an already bad day? I walk away for a bit. Stay only on blogs I know don't play into the drama. Do something else that takes enough of my focus to keep me off tumblr for at least a few hours/days - read or work on fanfic, play the sims, rewatch a canon. Come back after I've had a chance to cool off and remember that it really is just fandumb.

#askboxery #anonymous #anti actor stans #long post

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holyalto · 2 years

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♡ A Sims Tag! ♡

This is from ALMOST a year ago. I seen it in my drafts so it's getting posted NOW because I'm finally playing the sims again lol.

Show us a rendition of yourself in your own art! Can be anything! Sims render? Random stick figure? Picrew? Go nuts! (Just be sure to tag the artist if you use someone else’s picrew!!!!) Tag the blogs you want to know, and don’t be a dick that’s it! Also, feel free to answer as vague or in-depth as you want. And if you don’t want to answer a question for any reason just don’t vibe with it! Skip it if you wanna!

(original tag by morgynemberisagenderfluiddaddy and the original post is here. i was tagged by cosmiksims, thank you!!)

1.) Do you prefer to be referred by your name or blog name?

either one is fine with me! i go by my nickname on here anyway. my full name is mercedes. :)

2.) Where are you from?

ohio. i have never tasted anything except corn and chocolate covered blobs of peanut butter in my life. someone please help me.

3.) Do you have pets? 👀

yes! my fiance and i have quite a few. we have a cat named tiramisu, a guinea pig named cookie, a bearded dragon named borris, a leopard gecko named anubi and a florida king snake that i call roach because i can't pronounce his real name <3 (and i don't like him rip)

4.) Tell us about your “dream.”

i just want to be a good mother, partner, friend, family member, stranger. that's it. i know it's very simplistic but that's my dream. i want to be a good person.

5.) Aside from art, what are your hobbies?

my 'art' is playing the sims apparently hahahaha. uhm, i like other video games as well. more simulation management style. things like software inc, jurassic world evolution, project highrise, tropico, ANIMAL CROSSING EEEEE, etc.

6.) Does anyone irl know about your blog?

my fiance! he called my bee legacy 'fan fiction' and i nearly died.

7.) Do you know anyone from your blog irl?

nope.

8.) What are some fun facts about you?

i own every animal crossing main game. i still play pokemon go everyday. i have a six month old son who is VERY cute. and i'm turning 22 next month.

9.) What’s your day job?

i'm a stay at home mom :)

10.) What’s your aesthetic?

uh!! next question because i'm just... slob trait lmao

11.) What kind of artist are you?

i actually went to graphic design school. college sucks hard when you're mentally ill tho lol

12.) How did you get into your form of art?

art - wattpad. i was 12 and started making book covers for people haha. i got really into photo manipulation after that and took that as my focus in vocational school and then went and did about two semesters of it in college. sims - i was 11 and wanted the paranormal pack. my mom went out and bought it for me because i begged for it for days. i played with it daily and eventually collected all of the sims 3 packs except for the last one. it took me a long time to switch to sims 4 after release because i was stubborn. i bought it like four months late, opened it twice, hated that i didn't understand the controls, and refused to play it again until a few months later.

13.) What do you watch/listen/read/anything else while you create?

youtube mostly, in the background. a lot of flabaliki/simssupply and buzzfeed unsolved because i love them and their dumb faces so much.

14.) What meme would you use to describe yourself?

probably the 'not a thought behind those eyes' tiktok audio

15.) If you were on the run, what would you change your name to?

why would i just give away information i may need in the future

16.) Have you ever or do you want to change blog names?

yes! i want to but i have some cc that uses that name. so i'll stick with it.

17.) God forbid Tumblr decides to pull a MySpace and lets us have page songs, what song would you choose?

i would simply delete my blog.

and now, the tags. only if you’re comfortable though! ♡ just tagging the people i see most in my notifications. don't feel pressured <3 @almost-spring @coatedinhoney @whyhellosims + absolutely anyone else. just say i tagged you.

#taggame #tag game #saviorhide

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friendlylifecherry · 1 year

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I posted 9,273 times in 2022

That's 6,997 more posts than 2021!

63 posts created (1%)

9,210 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@goddessofroyalty

@featherfur

@crazynekochan

@egberts

@the-irken-pony

I tagged 352 of my posts in 2022

#obey me - 200 posts

#obey me lucifer - 62 posts

#dialuci - 49 posts

#obey me diavolo - 38 posts

#danganronpa - 29 posts

#obey me shall we date - 19 posts

#obey me mammon - 15 posts

#obey me satan - 12 posts

#kiyotaka ishimaru - 11 posts

#obey me mephistopheles - 11 posts

Longest Tag: 133 characters

#and i had to spend the whole time with my jacket wrapped around my waist because my jeggings looked like a murder scene the whole day

My Top Posts in 2022:

Hamefura AU where Maria ends up unlocking her past-life memories of being a Fortune Lover fan who just absolutely adored og!Katarina (to an unhealthy degree) and makes it a mission to make herself a Katarina route, because Katarina deserves to be with someone who genuinely cares about her, not that dirt bag Prince Geordo! If all works out, awesome! If it doesn't, well, she knows the secret route, she knows where to find a good basement

110 notes - Posted October 5, 2022

You know, it's kinda weird, but even though the brothers definitely deserve to get called the fuck out about how they treat Mammon, I don't think I've seen much of Mammon getting mad at whoever was doing the callout. Both because it makes him feel bad to hurt his brothers, and also in a "fuck you, you don't know me/us, this is private family shit" kinda way. Even if it's by MC, Mammon seems like he would still be pissed at them acting like they speak for him and for hurting his brothers (even if they deserve it), like most people in pretty toxic situations when that toxic person gets called the hell out and the person stuck in it gets mad at the caller

150 notes - Posted August 2, 2022

So according to Wikipedia, Melinoë was born at the mouth of the river Cocytus, where Hermes is stationed as a psychopomp just on the border of the living world and the underworld, which is just a hilarious image of a heavily pregnant Persephone taking a break over by the river when she heads into labor. None of the House of Hades is going to get there in time, thus leaving poor Hermes to play midwife in between bouts of trying to get literally anyone else to help

155 notes - Posted December 8, 2022

Lucifer has just enough characters with history with him to feasibly be the main character of an otome game himself. For example:

Diavolo is the clear simp and lonely rich boy with more to him than meets the eye and a very complicated relationship with Lucifer

Simeon as the former childhood friend/first ex who would like to reconcile despite how badly the break-up went [I see them more like brothers in how monks are brothers, don't @ me]

Mephistopheles is the poncy vain jerk who resents Lucifer for past slights but has a nice side to him that he gets super embarrassed about

Solomon is the mysterious weirdo trying to prove to Lucifer that he means no harm and trying to get past all his abandonment issues.

MC is the brand new exchange student that Lucifer warms up to a lot and ends up getting super attached to, despite just how dumb they can be

And for the secret character, Michael, who is a fucking weird dude (I say this with love) and fellow former bestie trying to get close to Lucifer in secret so that Lucifer doesn't push him away again

Add in the brothers and the other characters as a supporting cast and write up some bad endings and you have yourself a good base for a dating sim!

326 notes - Posted July 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Fic idea based on this where the RAD newspaper club is going to the Mausoleum of the demon kings for some fluff piece when one gets the bright idea to head inside and do some stuff for the Demon King, pay some respect and maybe some funny pictures. So as one of the members goes in, the others record for a combination of posterity and a desperate attempt to explain it to the authorities if they get caught where they aren't supposed to be.

But as the little leader gets close to where the Demon King lies, they notice something off; the king should be in eternal sleep but he doesn't seem to be breathing. Not like they would know about how the Demon King sleeps, but it's still weird, isn't it?

Then they get close enough and there's definitely something wrong. They haven't seen the King in millennia at this point, but he has this unnatural grey-ish pallor and his body looks limp, not unlike a corpse.

The leader gets a bright idea: approach and touch the King, just to check if he's alive. This is risking getting eaten and their club members all tell them so, but still, gotta try, right?

A gentle poke, nothing.

A soft shove, nothing.

A whisper in the ear, nothing.

A semi-distant shout from an irate Mephistopheles (he must have called the other members at some point about why they went inside), nothing.

That's when the leader decides to check something; touching his chest to see if he's still alive, checking for a heartbeat. So they use their wings to fly up and reach a careful hand to push onto his chest. Only that it sinks upon their touch, like the Demon King's flesh is mattress foam instead of muscle over bone. But what their fingers sink into is the worst part.

It's a stab wound to the center of his chest, with stagnant black blood leaking out onto their hand and coating their fingers with a revolting sheen.

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Mephistopheles can barely tell what's going on between all of the screaming, even as he tries to get back order and get some semblance of an explanation. But then he gets the worst news that he had ever heard in his life.

The Demon King is dead, stabbed in the chest who-knows how long ago.

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The news is all over the Devildom within hours. It's understandable, their sovereign had been killed at some point and no one had known. The video evidence of the RAD newspaper club finding out is all over social media within minutes, and it's a mass panic for everyone that sees it. Mourning, fear, furious blaming the angels or the humans or just anyone because this can't be real, this can't be happening. The Demon King is dead, murdered.

Diavolo was the first to find out, Mephistopheles calling him in tears. It felt like the world had frozen in place, he was trapped in shock.

Not because his father was dead.

Diavolo was the one who killed him.

It's that people had found out.

371 notes - Posted June 27, 2022

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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texasthegreatdestroyer · 2 years

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And I’m back, Mother fuckers! And I’ve got a blog update!

Now that I have a little more free time once again, I’ve got some news. So let’s get the main thing out of the way. I’m done with the Sims 4 anti paywall Community. They’re a bunch of team killing fucktards, and they’re gonna eat themselves alive, and uh, as a good song once said. “I have no fucks to give, my fucks have run a-dry!”. Worst case scenario, if shit hits the fan, and we end up back at square 1 with EA, where they aren’t enforcing their policies, and CC creators are illegally profiting off of their content, I’ll do what I did before I found the anti paywall evidence community. I’ll pay for tiers, nab the content, and leak it with burner accounts. Point is, I couldn’t give less of a shit about the morons in that particular community. Karma is a real fuckin bitch, and everyone’s gonna get what’s coming to them eventually. It’s just a matter of time. P.S. There’s also been a lot of discourse since a bunch of screenshots dropped by Mack, and everyone’s bitching about how she was being dumb for it, and irresponsible, and I have to laugh at those people. Since she’s not online anymore, I might as well spill the tea for ya. Yes. We’ve been talking off of tumblr. She blocked me on tumblr, something I personally told her to do, because it wasn’t worth her getting dragged into my shit, but eh. It happened anyways. What can you do? News flash my guys. People don’t have to shun others just to make you feel better about yourselves. If you think that way, then all I can really do is tell ya to fuck right off. Like seriously, sit the fuck down, Diet Mean Girls, Virgina George will always do it better than you, simply because she’s prettier and smarter. Regardless, yes, we had been talking behind the scenes. I knew she was going to drop the screenshots. She was in the middle of actively investigating that shit, got tired of everyone’s bullshit, dropped the screenshots, and left like a fuckin mad lad. So please do continue to bitch about how the dropping of the Harrie legal threat ring screenshots was done irresponsibly, because literally it’s a bunch of people losing their minds over shit they caused to happen in the first place, lol. It’s fucking comedy gold. You want things handled sensitively and responsibly, maybe don’t treat the person doing it like a punching bag. That in mind, I’m doing a content shift, and when I say content shift, I mean I’ll be going back to my roots. I’ll be returning to the writing and drawing aspect of my blog that it had been the majority of this account’s time on tumblr. It’ll range between regular and random art, fandom stuffs, as well as my own original works. Maybe even the occasional Sim, CC recolor, and house build as Sims 4 has become one of my primary creative outlets. I’ll also be looking through my followers, looking for iffy accounts, and removing them from my blog. Mostly because I know there are individuals who’d love to sit there and look over my account every second of the day like the fucking schizo lunatic they are (They will not be named, because I’m not drawing more attention to them than I need to, if you know, you know.), might as well clear out the weirdos that are either leaking them shit from my account, or allowing them to even look over my account, as well as ultimately burn some unneeded bridges. If I get asks about certain things in regards to anti paywall stuff, I’ll still respond so long as it’s to that and nothing else, but otherwise, I’m not going out of my way to be apart of community structurally built on selfishness that attracts fake ass bitches. (Yeah. I see some of you stupid hoes in the back who were originally holding the same stances as myself, only turning your back on them when they weren’t popular anymore. I suppose I’m not surprised in a community where the figure heads are a bunch of pick me girls.) I want to do my own shit again, speak on shit that interests me, and post my creations. If that ain’t your kind of content, then I’d unfollow. Otherwise, that’s it folks. Expect a change in content.

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brindletonboo · 2 years

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i got tagged by @oakvy! participating because i have nothing else to do lol

why did you choose your url?

i’m a brindleton bay girl at heart and always will be, so i chose a user handle based on the world that came with cats and dogs! the “boo” was just a suffix i added. it was actually supposed to be “babe” or “bae” but url is taken so >:( i finally settled on “boo”!

how long have you been on tumblr?

i’m pretty new to tumblr! the first time i dipped my toes in was literally when i created this blog back in aug 2021. i was a young, naive girl who doesn’t even know how to navigate tumblr, let alone a sims blog.

do you have a queue tag?

no, i don’t know how queues work and i don’t ever wanna know how (dumb bitch alert)

why did you start your blog in the first place?

i just wanted a platform where i can share all the things i do in sims! i first opted for twitter but honestly, it never really clicked with me. plus it’s toxic as hell. i have an account there but it’s purely just for sharing my builds and a bit of my sims. i finally settled on tumblr because i’ve heard of simblrs and wanted to try running one too!

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

i like cats. end of story.

why did you choose your header?

it’s a pretty screenshot of cavalier cove in brindleton bay, so why not? :D

what's your post with the most notes?

as far as i know it’s my sim lookbook 2, currently sitting at 1,200+ notes and counting. i don’t even know why it’s blowing up 💔

how many mutuals do you have?

uh i think around a hundred or so?

how many followers do you have?

i just checked it and we’re at 1,870 rn! UNREAL. i still can’t believe that but i appreciate and love every single one of them!

not the p*rn bots, though.

have you ever made a shitpost?

i make a lot in my personal blog hehehe

how often do you use tumblr every day?

i check in every once in a while but only post once a day.

did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

LMFAO first off, i love how this question has a follow-up one that asks about who won 💀 anyway i don’t think i’ve ever had an argument with another blog before, and i want to keep it that way. i don’t like getting into fights with other people online because;

1. it’s pointless.

2. you don’t even know me. why would i argue with you?

how do you feel about 'you need to reblog this' posts?

like @oakvy i have never encountered those posts before so...

do you like tag games?

maybe. i’m just afraid that i’ll annoy the people i tag in it 😭

do you like ask memes?

i’m okay with it!

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

this’ll make me sound like i’m bragging so i’m just gonna drop hints 👀

one is famous because of her aesthetic and sims (her sims are absolutely adorable. i admit, i reblog her posts a little too much) another is a popular cc creator, and the last makes insanely good edits/renders of her sims!

do you have a crush on a mutual?

nope. i already have a girlfriend. her name is @lexofcrows. /j

tagging @shady-sims, @rainymoodlet, @gothoffspring, and @sublimesims! feel free to ignore if you've done it already or if you don't feel like doing it! i’m kinda embarassed to do this so i hope it’s alright 👉👈

#nonsims #messages from the bay #brindletonboo

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melsie-sims · 2 years

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Check in tag!

Thanks @zosa95 for the tag! It’s been a long while since I’ve done something like this! 💙

Why did you choose your URL? My IRL nickname is Mel and my middle initial is C. Combined, it sounds like Mel-sie. Those of you that are pronouncing it with a hard S are technically wrong but that’s okay. I think most of you probably imagine it as Mel-Zee at this point. 😂

How long have you been on Tumblr? I've had this specific Simblr account since May 22nd 2020, so almost two years now. I had a personal trash tumblr before that I’ve since abandoned. I’m sure it’s been over five years since I originally joined the platform.

Do you have a queue tag? All of my posts are queued by default. I don’t... just post. The only ones that aren’t are reblogs and “just chatting” posts.

Why did you start your blog in the first place? I wanted to share my sims content, write stories and meet other simmers. Mostly I wanted a place to dump all of my sims screenshots.

Why did you choose your icon/pfp? I really need to update it since it isn’t autumn anymore... but Winona is one of my favorite sims and I thought an orange/autumn theme would look cute. That was last September.

Why did you choose your header? Same as above!

What's your post with the most notes? OK I’m really dumb, but how do you find this out?? I did go through the last couple weeks’ of posts and found this one had double my usual notes so...

How many mutuals do you have? I follow a lot of people and have a little over 500 followers so... I’m sure some of you I probably follow back?

How many followers do you have? 554!

How many people do you follow? 493!

Have you ever made a shitpost? Nothing to cause drama/target other simmers... but I have whined about EA a few times. 😂

How often do you use Tumblr? It varies, but lately pretty much every single day. I open the app whenever I’m bored to look at posts... and add to my queue after every play session... so sometimes daily? Sometimes every few days?

Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? Noooo. I’m not good with conflict so I’m very grateful for this! I’ve been fortunate not to get any trolls or haters in my comments section so far.

How do you feel about 'you need to reblog this' posts? I don’t really know what those posts are? If they’re the posts asking for money for so-and-so reasons, usually involving very personal life struggles... then I ignore those... sorry. I don’t reblog a lot. If I like a story/challenge/series I’ll reblog the first post and link to the story/challenge/series’ tag. I also reblog some cc.

Do you like tag games? YES! I love them and definitely don’t do them often enough! I do take a while to reply sometimes though... but definitely don’t hesitate to tag me! I don’t mind at all! 💙💙

Do you like ask memes? Probably? I don’t know what those are. I know, I’m a terrible member of the community. I don’t know anything!

Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? I don’t really keep track of notes... but lately I think @eurosimmer has been doing pretty amazing!?

Do you have a crush on a mutual? Pffft wouldn’t you like to know. 😏

And that’s it!! I’m tagging @cyazurai, @gutsberries, @witheringsims, @eurosimmer, @micrathene-w & @katmk36. Feel free to ignore this if you’ve already been tagged or don’t feel like answering.

#non-sims #just chatting #tag game #check in tag

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winter-fox-queen · 3 years

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Dragon’s Lair

Here’s a quick little Writer Wednesday thingy…I have not had time to write on the three things I desperately WANT to write on, but this popped out. It’s not great, but hopefully it will make someone happy.

SUMMARY: Frankie (single, no kid) is feeling out of sorts post the events of the movie, but doesn’t want to start replacing other addictions with drinking too much, so he looks for another hobby, where he meets you. You is written in the third person. No real description Save she is female and closer to Frankie’s age.

Food is mentioned. Video game type violence. Meet cute. Not even kissing…some light hand holding.

Thanks as always for #Writer Wednesday @autumnleaves1991-blog & @clydesducktape

Not bet’d

Frankie needed a new thing — the bar was dangerously becoming another addiction, he could watch sports at home — he needed something to make him go out.

Then he saw the flier for the Nostalgia Bot Arcade. “Not just for kids!” The flier declared in oddly childlike comic sans. But Wednesdays through Saturdays it was open for 21+ only.

So why not? He thought, as he showered and dressed.

Because I’m not a dumb ass kid anymore. He answered, as he pulled into the mall parking lot. The Nostaliga Bot was in what used to be the major department store for the mall.

You’re allowed to have fun. He reminded himself, as he pulled open the door. The mall was mostly quiet, but the Nostalgia Bot was bright and lit up. He shoved his hands in his pockets and wandered through.

He bought a game card and put some money on it. The guy at the counter smiled and Frankie smiled back, trying to make the voices in his head that told him he wasn’t allowed to be here, that he was a creepy old man shut up.

There were fought simulators. He put his hand on the round ball of the joystick and looked at it with fondness and longing tinged with regret. He let his hand fall away. He watched a couple of kids play Mortal Kombat for a bit. See, that’s how you know your old. Mortal Kombat looks too violent to you. He shook his head when they offered to let him play, and moved on.

He sat down on the shooting sim, Deer Hunter. He had to play something — he’d put in the money. He shrugged and put in his card and followed the instructions. He scored high…didn’t miss a beat. Typing his name in with the buttons…Fish…didn’t make him feel any sense of accomplishment or victory. It just made him feel tired.

“This was a stupid idea.” He pulled himself out of the sim. He didn’t want to pass the Mortal Kombat kids, so he decided to complete the circuit.

There, in the back, was Dragon’s Lair. Stupid, cheesy, hilarious Dragon’s Lair. He grinned despite himself…he’d loved the cartoons as a kid.

Someone was already playing it. She turned and gave him a cute smile. She was wearing a black tee shirt with a kitsune that say Zero Fox Given and jeans. She was closer to his age but she seemed…free. Like she genuinely gave zero f’s.

“I used to see this game all the time at the pizza joint my dad would take us to,”. Frankie said without thinking. “He never let me play, said all these games were a damned waste of money.”

“Well…nothing;s stop;ping you now, honey,” she said in a soft, gentle voice. “Unless you don’t join me?”

He stepped up to the right set of controllers. “Tell me what to do…”

She says her name, prompting Frankie to introduce himself.

“Let’s start from the beginning,” she says. And the Dragon Lair screen and intro started.

They played for way too long. They ran themselves out of money on their cards, and ended up going to the snack bar.

“I saw you when you first came in,” she says, then takes a sip out of her Coke float. “I thought, he’s going to leave the second he can.”

He nods, playing with the label on his rootbeer, peeling at it. “I felt stupid…I mean, I’m…in my 40’s.” He blushes a little. “I should know what to do with myself, by now.”

“Says who? I don’t…I started a business based on the idea that people might — just might — like to lose themselves in pretty colored lights and nonsense graphics for a bit.”

He’s impressed. “This place is yours?”

She nods. Steals a French fry out of his basket. “My sister and her girlfriend handle the food, I handle the games. I fix them when they go bad, mess with the card machine when it stops working. I have a whole bowling alley I got at auction for cheap, and I’m trying to get it installed, but…”

“A whole…bowling alley?”

“Well. You know. The lanes, the machine, the chairs and the scoring thingy. I can do the software set up, but the making the bowling machine work is sort of out of my league.”

He pauses. “Was that a pun?”

She kicks him lightly. “What? And I supposed to leave the puns to the 40-something DILF’s I meet?”

He blushes again, then looks at her, right in the eyes. “I’m not a dilf.”

She grins back. “Good to know.”

He clears his throat. “I’m good with mechanics. And building things. We find a manual…I can make it work.”

“Really?”

He nods.

“I’ll pay you. And feed you. And, like, give you all the cards for the machines you want.”

“We’ll see.” He finds that he’s really enjoying the idea. His day job was boring — it wasn’t flying. He liked the idea of solving the puzzle, making something work again.

She takes his hand…more, rather, wraps her fingers around his thumb…and pulls him towards the back. “Let me show you what I have. You can totally back out…but the men’s department is towards the movie theater side? And so the bowling alley has its own entrance, and…”

He followed her, grinning at her enthusiasm…and at his own, sudden, brilliant optimism.

#writer wednesday #frankie morales #pedro pascal #frankie morales x reader

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lie-where-i-land · 2 years

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Transphobes other than TERFS

Writing a cohesive post about identifying radfems and terfs got me thinking about transphobes and their different faces. As someone put it to me in conversation, people miss-apply terms like terf when the person in question isn't even a feminist. She wasn't wrong; the word we use for folks like that is just "transphobe." But I've been mulling this over, and I've realized that just as many people have a general understanding that terfs are bad but can't really explain what they look like outside the most egregious examples, many people have little experience identifying what I have previously called "garden variety transphobia." More than one person I spoke to recently was surprised when I described the sort of transphobia I experience from inside and outside the queer community. I don't say this to make anyone feel bad; as I've said before, it's functionally impossible to know everything or to be invested in every problem everywhere all at once. So I've put together another post about another type of transphobia.

Keep in mind, I will be talking here mostly about trans men, and my experience as a trans man. I can't say I speak for all trans men, and I definitely can't speak for all other trans folks. I'm not trying to say anyone has it better or worse that anyone else. Other trans folks are welcome to add on about their experiences that might parallel this situation - especially trans women.

To start off, I'm going to say that I generally dislike bringing up fandom in the same conversation as other issues. I feel like saying "oh this happens in fandom too" cheapens the original message of the discussion. On the other hand, I've noticed some people acting like behavior and experiences offline are the only ones that "count" - both in terms of what you're allowed to feel hurt by, and what you're allowed to get away with. Additionally, I was prompted to write this by a fandom-related post I saw, which is adjacent in function to the terf posts I talked about previously (innocuous posts to draw people in to their blogs, and engage them in deeper transphobic conversation). See below:

I'm sure more than one of you has seen the sims gaming section, which some popular bloggers screenshotted and have been mocking. That's how the whole post came to my attention. This is why I'm bringing up fandom and media. A lot of people are talking about queer fetishization in the media and in fan spaces, and while some people are trying to do that in good faith, it quickly becomes obvious that some are not.

So how does trans-man hating connect to vent posting about fandom? I’m going to try and break down how transphobes describe and smear trans men, how they slip it into discussions of fan behavior, and transphobia lives on in the cis-gay community.

There are a group of folks on tumblr who call themselves TEHMS (trans exclusionary homosexual males) - effectively, gay guys that don’t consider trans guys to be men and don’t consider us to be gay the same way they are. Offline, we would just call these guys transphobes.

The post above is pretty absurd. But I first want to draw people’s attention to the bullet points about height and femininity. When we consider writing about gay characters, I would challenge people to think about what a man looks like. Is there any set definition of what a man is? Do men like baseball? Must he have a beard? Hair on his asscheeks? Hands that span a certain width? My point in saying this is that if you go to a gay bar and look at the people you find there, you will not find two people that look the same, sound the same, or have the same interests. I find it real funny that "short man" must mean a lady is writing a self-insert character. Look, I'm short for a man (even among other trans men). But my cis partner is not much taller than me, he is not white, and he's very much not "female coded" for being 5'5." Trying to apply these standards to cis guys shows how dumb they are, and it reeks of the same selective biases as "no fats, no femmes, no asians."

The other thing is the focus on authors like Albertalli. Albertalli is a queer author, who was forced to out herself after some extreme community gatekeeping. The language here describing her makes it clear that this fellow doesn't see her as queer, or perceives that she came out falsely as a ploy to ... idk, she hasn't shared her evil manifesto with me /sarcasm. This, in combination with a title like "straight/bi women fetizishing men" is what tipped me off that a post like this is really about having a dig at trans men.

So I hop over to this fellow's blog. My suspicions are almost immediately confirmed by the blog heading:

"actual homosexual, actual opinions." So... as opposed to the fake homosexuals with invalid opinions? Who exactly are these fake homosexuals? If we were gonna compare this to how radfems and terfs talk, using phrases like "real woman" and "actual lesbian" as a way to covertly identify themselves to each other as trans-women exclusionary, one can see that the "fake homosexuals" here are gay trans men. It gets even better, just wait.

This guy is actually pretty transparent about it. His blog is stuffed with this crap - usually, I have to hunt for it. Immediately, I find posts like this:

note how he uses "TiFs." This is an acronym that stands for "trans-identified females." Trans-identified female is a transphobic term for a trans man (TiM is the term many transphobes use for trans women). It is transphobic because it focuses on the sex we were assigned at birth, and positions our gender identity as being of lesser significance. It's misgendering to bring up the fact that our genitals and other bodily characteristics do not match cis folks', that gender affirming medical therapies may never achieve a physique like our cis counterparts, and to use a term that heavily implies that transness is the mental aberration of perverts who can never truly be or satisfy cis gays.

Other things to note about this post: the strong aversion to porn. Note the claim that porn is not realistic and doesn't portray real world social or relationship dynamics. This is technically true, but look at what he uses this kernel of truth to say. That cis gay adult actors are simply earning a paycheck by shooting scenes with trans men - that no cis gay man would date or sleep with a trans man, and that a cis gay man cannot genuinely be attracted to a trans man. Note also that he refers here to a bisexual adult actor. The assertion here is that the actor is bisexual and not gay, because only cis men are men, that gay men can only be attracted to cis maleness, and that the bodies of trans men are not male but female.

But wait! There's more. Further down I find another post about homophobia. Let's take a look.

Obviously this person is in a vulnerable position and has experienced homophobia in their community. I'm gonna start by saying that individuals are the experts on their lived experiences, and it's likely true that this person has a keen sense for detecting homophobia. However, it's not true that being cis or being white is a magical protective factor against all harm, and it's disingenuous for him to say so - when people say that being a person of color or being trans makes life hard, they mean that it has a unique impact on their lives and the sort of bigotry they face, not that it erases how other people are suffering. But looking at this tells me how this person was radicalized to think like this: vulnerable people who lack support are most at risk for radicalization (and cult-like indoctrination in general). Transphobes are good at poking around for weak links, and exploiting people's pain. They position themselves as the only safe harbor for storm-battered ships, and teach people that anyone else seeking shelter alongside them is their enemy.

I want to draw your attention now to the second paragraph. Look at how he describes trans men/ afab genderqueer folks. We're straight (and therefore trying to coerce gay men into relationships, or to spy on their lives for voyeuristic pleasure). We have bad hair and ugly clothes, and no social life (aside from our physical bodies, we must be immature and unappealing). We use "ratself" pronouns. For what it's worth, there's nothing wrong with neopronouns, and genderqueerness doesn't need to fit inside existing binaries or be a neutral third category, but it's very telling that this dude picks something he thinks is unflattering in an attempt to make us look mentally unwell. And it's worth addressing how this is ableist. Mental illness or neurodivergence does not invalidate someone's gender. How paternalistic to say that we must all be little confused girls, who should be prevented from mutilating ourselves, cured of the delusion that we're men, and prevented from sexually traumatizing ... our willing cis gay partners? make it make sense, because this sounds more like someone under the effects of heatstroke than any cohesive ideology.

In the context of writing (professionally and in fandom) how does this manifest? Well, refer to the first post about writing gay characters, and this:

Rhetoric like this is interested in finding Those That Don't Belong, and Those With Bad Intentions. I will say first that I am very much not interested in sorting the chaff from the wheat here, when the consequence is that in trying to remove the chaff, we forcibly out queer writers. And that really is the end result here. Trying to figure out if someone is writing something for the wrong reasons will only lead to picking people's lives apart. Look, I'm not even a fan of Albertalli's writing; I'm rather outside the target age demographic for high school meet-cute lit. But I think claiming a queer woman is fetishizing other queer folks fails to use Occam's Razor (forget the razor, it's a bit like trying to shave your legs with an orbit sander - why is an orbit sander your tool of choice??). Try going through some more plausible options first: her writing is good but you don't personally like it, her writing is bad and you don't like it, or she has some rather natural spots in her writing that lack the insight a gay man might have (let's face it, even with plenty of research, I don't think I could write about a Finnish character as well as someone who lives in Finland; that doesn't mean I can't get pretty close or do a respectful job researching).

What does this have to do with trans and genderqueer people specifically? Well, there are still people talking about the "plague of fujoshis" in fandom. I don't deny that there have been many fans who have behaved inappropriately. Between showing explicit rpf to actors/singers/youtubers; stalking, doxxing, and grabbing people's asses at cons; and either not doing enough research or challenging biases about sexuality/gender and how that impacts how they interact with fandom, there is plenty to talk about. But when we have been talking about bad fan behavior for over ten years now (I've been on this site a long time, I'm showing my age)...

Look. We have got to address bad behavior on a case by case basis. Because making sweeping statements about "Why People are Really Writing This (It Must be For Fetish Purposes)" only ever leads to Becky Albertalli situations. We are asking people to out themselves, or be labeled a fujoshi. And here's the thing about calling people fujoshis. That term has been totally co-opted by TEHMs like the guy that wrote the posts I've been examining to insult trans men. Why? Because fujoshi is an unflattering term for a straight slash fan. And to transphobes, trans men are straight girls who are sick in the head, fetishizing real gay men and traumatizing them by forcing ourselves upon them:

I'm not saying anyone who says "look, X gives me bad vibes" is being transphobic. I'm not saying we should not be discussing how to be more respectful to queer and genderqueer folks online and offline (I am the (gender)queer folks we're talking about). However, I want people to be aware that even if you haven't personally seen it, this is a line of rhetoric that has old deep roots in ridiculing anyone who violates cishet norms in their personal or fannish life. And look, I used a fandom/writing post as an example because that's what came across my dash first, but there are legitimately people calling gay trans men "fujos" for loving other men. This is not just a fandom issue, but the least we can do is not give it fandom airtime.

I'm blurring out usernames and the like because I don't know this guy, he seems like the sort of asshole I don't want on my blog, and I'm not writing this as a callout or something. I'm writing this to illustrate how people (even people inside the queer community) talk about specifically trans men, so that people can be more aware of falling into prey to certain logical fallacies or lending power to transphobes.

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#transphobia #trans #queer #transmasc #trans men #gay #good to reblog #trans tolkien

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simsfromupthere · 2 years

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uhhhh so yeah, i know ive been MIA for like 303948483938 years i was actually embarrassed to open the app at all and post about it hhhh idk why i have this voice in my brain that kept telling me people would be md at me for some completely unrealistic reason, but ive been off my adhd meds for over 2 weeks now (not by choice or per my psychiatrist, my pills ran out) cause i started having a really bad experience and so these past weeks i just been incredibly sleep deprived then jumped to hypersomnia like waking up at 5 PM and shit, i had awful dry eyes dog that shit sucksss, but anyone for the longest time i legit lost all enjoyment in doing anything i usually do down to things that take me a lot of effort beyond a hobbie like making art (these are some random scraps i made most are weeks/months apart from each other) to even things i do for simple entertainment and as a relaxing fun hobby like TS4, so i legit had no content to even post cause i didnt even feel like playing when my game finally loaded, i had headaches 24/7 with a dash of nausea, was heavily having constant thoughts about r*l*psing and ideations of that ~bad thing~, i pretty much isolated myself from everyone and everything even my family and close friends and would spend all day in my room just melting all and hating myself for possibly screwing shit up again when i had finally started feeling a little content i swear i started getting angry and frustrated that i couldnt even cry and let the agony out (just zoloft things 😂), but a couple days ago then i had 2 awful p*nic attacks 2days in a row cause i just got so frustrated with myself, my self destructiveness and the way i drag down the people i love with me in my stupid vicious cycle, soooo...yea i was not doing too fresh to be online or post at any social media tbh i feel embarrassed about posting this cause i have vented abt my personal chaos so much on this blog thats meant to be about the sims 4 and not posted ts4 content and i idk i just put dumb expectations and feel embarrassing and stupid even rn writing this; i feel a lot better i mean i still feel awful but i feel significantly okayer especially with passing the concerta withadrawl hardcore symptoms and feeling getting a good cry, i just wanted to post this for...i legit have no idea why i felt like randomly posting this at 3AM maybe the kl*n*pin mellowness or something but idk i had this weird feeling of even feeling like i look stupid and feel embarrassed i wanted to post some sort of update cause ive been (or at least it feels maybe it hasnt been that long my concept of time is fucked) off the grid on this blog for so long and just wanted to drop by with a “whoop whoop am still alive” or something sorry im rambling i probably sound weird as shit rn lmfao, anyone here some irl art cause even though im still playing ts4 ive been mostly useless on ts4 content and just playing as a hobby to pass time as of now heh

#non sims #text post #my art #my art i guess #irl art #yes thats jerma985 in the second #life update #god life is sucky #life or whatever update #tw: anxious thoughts #tw: sh mention #tw: sui mention #tw: withadrawl mention #? that a thing?#tw: vent #tw: kyle venting in an incoherent long ass post again 😂👎#but seriously if i missed some tw tag u can send me an ask ill try to keep watch and add it #i still kinda suck at how tw works and properly adding them lmfao #update

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twdeadfanfic · 2 years

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Even when fics don't get comments or reblogs, shot outs in fic Rev lists or whatever, there's people reading... Like me! Sometimes I read then again at night after a sad day 💚 (Green heart for Murphy... Hoping you wrote for Connor too)

That's nice to know.

But yeah it's sad when you see the fics in your dash getting shouts out and comments and all that, while it seems you can't write anything that people like anymore. Especially like people who I interacted with since forever and I don't anymore.

Then again I pissed off everyone in the Daryl writing fandom except like 5 people so it's my fault 😅

By this point I write for 3 people, or it feels like it. But for those 3 people, I'm trying to write an end for Outsider and to not drop Irish Luck (you read that one I guess? I'm sorry that I can't get into Connor! He's attractive though... I just really wish to interact in the chapters with people that read it).

So yeah, I read some spoilers this morning that got me into writing mood but then my activity was so dead that the mood kind of died because... What for? Everything I'll write will get systematically ignored by 3300 of my followers (I don't think non followers would get any interest in it, also a high percent of followers follows just because I reblog fics not for my own but why don't follow the original posters) , and the people who will not ignore it, 90% won't enjoy it, not even the people who used to like my things can get into what I write anymore, I guess something changed, maybe with my struggle to still love Daryl I can't write him anymore (and I guess I'm not enough into Murph to write him properly)

I used to be like hopeful, if I write this thing, maybe they'll like me again? But it was dumb and now I know better.

I don't know. Now it feels funnier to play Sims and make silly storyline there with crazy Sim stuff than putting effort in writing an actual thing.

Which it's bad because in my work I have to speak in english a lot and writing would be a good practice so I tried to get into it again, but the lack of interaction really turns off my ideas and makes me not want to get bothered into writing an actual story when I can just write random scenes in drafts without they needing to make sense.

But yeah, I feel this blog is dead even if I tried to come back.

Anyway I'll try to finish Outsider. Also tomorrow I want to post some of those no context no effort drafts that I threw together (just for the spoiler mood, got inspired to throw those drafts together, regret it now, but I'm mean so I'm posting it anyway and pushing it in all your faces haha)

I also have some rough drafts of a sequel for Hot Cocoa in which teacher reader (kind of pregnant), Daryl and nephew Dixon face the apocalypse together, some sort of rewrite, but I'm not very sure what I will do with those.

I'm not sure what I'll do with Irish Luck either, sorry! But if you read the last chapter you know that Murphy and reader aren't making it easy for me haha... Maybe I should change him for Connor lol.

I should crochet a green heart for the imaginary MacManus that live in my head.

#I even bought a notebook because I'm. Dumb #And it was sparkly

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Hi I just wanted to say you're one of my fav blogs.... I love reading your posts and they fuel my love for this game!! Anyway--I'm actually here to ask if you have any favorite headcanon about Tank or tank/Johnny because I'm always interested in that 😳

awww thanks! as for favorite headcanons, uhh... hmmm. i have different headcanons based on the different games they appear in together so i’ll uh, categorize those i guess (also warning: long. i am very dramatic and thus am prone to waxing poetic about how i perceive a relationship)

sims 2 pc - tank is just a repressed gay with no idea how to cope with it because of ... you know... everything. he can’t recognize his feelings, he doesn’t know how to cope with them, and he’s so frustrated by everything all of the time because of the kind of home he’s grown up in that all the wires are being crossed, and he’s kind of an asshole to people who don’t deserve it because of that. in theory he really, really likes johnny... johnny’s nice, he’s handsome, and likable... but that’s also why he really, really dislikes him and is supremely jealous... he isn’t in a place where he can realize anything positive he feels. tank doesn’t get why his pulse speeds up or his face flushes when johnny’s around, he doesn’t know why he craves his attention - for anyone else it should be obvious, but for him there’s just too much going on. but he knows when he sees johnny surrounded by people who like him, he wishes that he were johnny, and he knows he’s an alien ... tank knows what to do with that.

in theory johnny could have really, really liked tank too - he’s fit, athletic, he can be witty and goofy and creative - but... johnny doesn’t get to see the part of tank worth liking. the parts that he would like, that he likes in others already. tank won’t show him. tank can’t afford to be vulnerable! so because of tank’s issues, he causes issues for johnny and johnny only sees the tank who is kind of a jealous repressed loner. and he’s already friends with ripp through ophelia so he’d already be aware of how tank isn’t exactly brother of the year as golden child to ripps scapegoat. and with no way of figuring out that the way tank’s treated isnt actually any better, johnny’s a bit biased. but johnny’s bio says he dreams of being a hero on a white horse, so i always kind of interpreted that as something of a hero complex - so i imagine he’d soften quickly if he had any idea the full extent of whats going on.

oh, weirdly, that segues into -

sims 2 psp - not a very romantic headcanon - more about coping with circumstance - but theyre both victims of abuse from buzz and johnny knows it.

but so is ripp. so they’re not close, because johnny can see how the brothers are pitted against each other and he doesn’t like it... but johnny understands tank now, he understands why he’s like that, and he can’t really bring himself to be angry with him or blame him, even when tank is preventing his escape. he still has a hero complex. he sees the way tank has been hurt. he sees the way ripp is hurt, too. but he just can’t be mad. the fact he’s held captive by buzz isn’t the only reason why he hates him so vehemently, so passionately. he hates that he can see a father treat his sons so callously, so cruelly, and can’t do anything about it.

not that he’d put up with tank’s bs... but just sometimes trying to reach out, trying to talk sense into him. and maybe, because the nicest guy he knows is making some good points, maybe tank has doubts. maybe he questions buzz. johnny is very convincing. it’s not his fault!

basically im a sucker for the hurt/comfort of johnny’s kindness and his bluntness and courage helping tank realize that none of whats going on is right, or good.

sims 2 ds/gba - i believe in ds/gba era tank/johnny supremacy, first and foremost - it’s always good! but there’s just something so nice and comforting about it in ds/gba... from their perspective, things are so different and yet also so similar... and there’s a certain kind of comfort with each other in seeing how different they’ve become, but how familiar they are. how they’ve grown and improved, and forged a healthy friendship and connection... and they know each other better than anyone else in town at that point - everyone is either dead, or left town.

and the idea that tank just regularly comes into the pawn shop just to see johnny because he’s grown up and he knows how to follow his heart now... and johnny really is all he wants. maybe all he’s ever wanted, really. and johnny likes that. happiness is a good look on tank, and he likes seeing tank. you ever notice how johnny sells lotto tickets with tank’s face on them? i like to think he designed them himself, because he ... you know, likes tank. likes to see him.

when johnny’s not busy at the pawn shop, when tank’s not busy running the medical center he lives in... i imagine theyre supremely cheesy together. i mean, tank totally goes out of his way to help johnny around the pawnshop. i’ve always personally viewed johnny as supernaturally strong without trying, but i mean... us legbets just loooove to watch objects of our affection lifting things, and i can totally imagine tank just casually lifting things to impress johnny. he’s a bit humble but he likes attention from johnny, always has. and yeah, johnny can outbench him, but he enjoys the view.

and i KNOWwww that tank primarily lives in his dumb little medical center bunker he’s running, but i like to imagine that johnny has an apartment above the pawn shop (um, in the ds version anyways, it doesnt seem like the gba version has one but ... you know tank does spend a lot of time with a telescope up there sooo) and they live together, with a cat. its a very nice, domestic life that they’ve worked hard to manage with each other, and they’ve earned it

sims 4 - they’re gallery sims with no relationship or connection with each other but it’s an alternate timeline so i like to take advantage of the fact :)

you know everything i wrote about tank having a crush on johnny he had no idea how to deal with? i love the idea that it’s the reverse in sims 4 timeline. tank in every other appearance he’s had has been so... insecure, reserved. but tank in sims 4 is confident! outgoing! athletic! ... johnny doesn’t stand a chance. he’s just a useless bisexual and he thinks tank is really cute and doesn’t know what to do about it... but how convenient for him, tank doesn’t have the same problems that really stood in the way of a relationship that he had in sims 2.

lyla’s ghost being around to shape the household post-mortem has definitely had positive effects on the family - the grunt siblings have better relationships with each other, they have their mother to guide them and intervene if buzz is ever unfair to them, and to question his authority...

tank knows johnny likes him, in this timeline, and he’s a bit smug about it. but its ok! he kind of likes the scrawny green kid too. so what if he shows off a little more lately to get his attention? so what if he gets a little close in the hallways at school? whats a little kissing between homies?

#bulletin board #this is so long i am so sorry.#simpuke

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sunfloweradore · 3 years

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i’m leaving this blog

hi! this post is a bit long but at the end you’ll find prompts and requests that you are free to use if you’re a writing blog :).

hi there!! if you’re reading this, i hope you’re doing well and staying safe. i just wanted to say that i’m leaving this blog and i’m not sure if i’ll ever come back. the years i’ve spent being a harrie have been great and it’s been a crazy amount of time! pretty much since the x factor! however, for a long time it’s also felt like i’ve been forcing myself to be a fan of harry’s. i’ve put so much energy into being a fan of his that it hasn’t been fun for me in a while and neither has writing fanfiction, which is what this blog is mainly for. it’s felt very difficult to sit down and write a fantasy about somebody who i might not even like anymore and in hindsight it seems a little dumb, but i did stress over writing all the time. this isn’t really about anybody i’ve interacted with on tumblr because you’re all lovely but sometimes it feels as though harries don’t treat him like he’s a human being and instead like he’s a god. me, included. even though i know we joke about harry being the only man we’d let degrade us or destroy our lives or whatever, he is still a person at the end of the day! it took me a very long time to realize that and thinking of him as otherworldly or completely perfect was my way of thinking for a while and i think it was pretty damaging. the fact that so many people would literally die for him is sad because unfortunately, none of us are going to be on his “level”, so to speak. we don’t know him personally and chances are we aren’t ever going to. ahhhh please don’t be mad at me for saying this, it’s just something i’ve realized i need to change about myself and i think it’s something we should all consider about everyone we are fans of.

anyway, the time and energy i’ve spent on something so ridiculous is exponential and i really feel like it’s time to put it in the past. i’m dedicating this year to self-growth and part of that is learning how to be my own person. feeling like i have to be interested in something or someone in order to be normal has been a common theme in my life and harry has been that someone for as long as i can remember. this isn’t his fault of course but i’m getting older and i don’t want to think of this time in my life as the era that i was obsessed with harry styles. instead, i want to form memories and real life experiences instead of using fanfiction as a way to cope with all of the things that i can’t handle in my life. it worked for a while but at this point i’ve been reading it and writing it for so long that it feels like i’m living inside my head, like i’ve become dependent on it (obviously this is very bad lolol). so, long story short, i will be leaving this blog because it just isn’t good for me anymore. thank you to everyone who has requested things for me to write and anyone who has interacted with my writing. sorry i couldn’t get through them :(. i’d also like to thank everyone i met through this blog because you’re all such amazing people and you deserve the world. i will leave my writing up but the sentiment still applies- i’ve worked very hard on everything i’ve written so please don’t repost any of it without crediting me, thank you.

below are requests i couldn’t get to and prompts(?)/works that i never got to finish. feel free to use them if you want and tag me in them bc i’d love to see how you write them :)

1. paperboy harry!

i think the direction i wanted this to go in was kind of like a 40′s au? or just a long long time ago. not sure why i had this started seeing as i already have harry as a paperboy in a story of mine but go off ig

2. vampire harry!

i had a specific plot i wanted where harry was in a car wreck because of a vampire who ended up biting him in like an alleyway. reader saves him and is a vampire herself! she nurses him back to health n teaches him how to be a vamp with various shenanigans along the way

3. hospital au?

this one i’m not too sure about but if you’ve seen the red band society you’d sort of know the direction i was going with this. there’s kind of an in-between for people in the hospital who are fighting death or going into surgery and in that in-between is a boy who has been in a coma for a long time. i pictured this as being angsty and for harry to be the boy who guides people in certain directions but he ends up falling for the reader while she’s there

4. ghost au!

self explanatory but i pictured harry as the ghost who kind of just wants a friend lol

5. tea au?

this would probably be pretty short, i just thought it was cute! reader has different kinds of tea all the time and it’s a surprise each time he kisses her

6. strawberry farm au?

reader has a strawberry farm LMAO maybe harry buys them from her or it’s another vampire au, who knows!

7. threesome

most likely has been done b4 but a threesome w 2 guys and the reader where the guy is inside harry while he is inside the reader

8. chocolate by the 1975

a fic based on that song! it would probably be from harry’s pov

9. space au?

hmm i think i probably saw something that inspired this but all it says is “harry sends letters to space” so i’m assuming it’s an au where he just decided to send letters to space out of boredom or something and mayhaps alien reader finds one?

10. assassin au!

harry is an assassin and in my draft it’s super vague? and almost seems like he’s stalking the reader? it could go in any direction really but i’m assuming the reader is dating him and doesn’t know he’s an assassin

11. chapstick

very similar to the tea one! just w the reader wearing diff chapsticks all the time

12. shower

this is inspired by something i read on wattpad a long time ago and i’ve tried finding it but i think it might’ve been deleted. the reader flicks da bean all the time in the shower and is really loud about it, harry is distracted and confronts her

13. dang ANOTHER threesome

but this time harry is on a date with a girl and they’re at a bar- the girl is looking around, sees the reader and thinks she’s gorg and they end up having a threesome

14. photography au!

harry is a photographer who somehow ends up taking pictures of the reader. in my draft the reader asks him to delete the ones that are ugly but he keeps them all hehe

15. scrapbook au

similar to the last one, harry takes pictures of the reader a lot but it’s not bc he’s a photographer, he just thinks she’s pretty n wants to scrapbook. twist is that he has TWO scrapbooks- one of innocent pics and one that’s lustier (consensual ofc)

16. habits of my heart by jaymes young

self explanatory, angsty

17. roommate au?

this is for some reason also an assassin au? but they’re roommates and reader doesn’t know what he does. they’re bffs, mutual pining

18. don’t forget about me by clove

wow another song fic, big surprise

19. puppyy

harry gets a puppy who hates him :( but the puppy loves the reader!

20. mall au

lol this one is kind of dumb idk why i thought of it but harry is one of those kiosk people at the mall who sells perfume! dunno!

21. condoms

reader works at gas station, harry buys huge condoms

22. poetry

either person reads erotic poetry while touching the other

23. magic au

one of them makes a love potion, kind of dark? like making the other fall in love with them idk it could be an accident though

24. private chef

the reader is a private chef! that’s all i’ve got!

25. message board

this is inspired by..... the sims lmaooo you can pin messages to the message board in your apartment building and i thought it’d be cute if the reader and harry lived in the same building and he leaves notes on the board and she doesn’t know they’re for her! she always thinks they’re cute though

26. raisin theory

inspired by new girl! specifically a comment i saw in like a compilation? video of new girl on yt

i thought it’d be cute for harry to be that person

#tbh i haven't been reading ff either so if any of these have been done already i didn't know #anywhooo ily #hopefully this year will be good for everybody #harry styles imagines #harry styles writing #and of course the reader doesn't have to be female or in 3rd person #but yeah idk how many people are even gonna see this but my masterlist isn't linked anymore #if you search for masterlist on my blog it will come up #okay bye!!

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