#THIS IS SO RAMBLY

[tellwhichsmilesimfakin]

i think what makes so high school such a gorgeous love song is the fact that shes using images of immaturity and being carefree to describe the light joyfulness of how she feels with travis. i’ve seen people speaking about how this feels such a contrast with the ever present anxiety in songs about joe, even the happiest ones, but i also think it’s especially beautiful considering the lyrics we get in the manuscript where she’s talking about being ‘wise beyond her years’ and attempting to seem older than she is and just a real focus on maturity that she demanded from herself in order to appeal to these older men. and this is just so different from so high school because she’s allowed to be immature and she’s not trying to be seem older than she is. and then you consider the other lyrics in the manuscript where she says that after that relationship she reverts back to innocent parts of her childhood, like the cereals and sleeping in her mum’s bed and it makes it even more emotional because its like in her relationship with jake she had to hide anything which undermined her so called maturity but with travis she’s just allowed to exist, even if makes her seem ‘young’

[adamsrcnan]

okay i'll bite, here's my jeremy knox speculations !!!

it's nothing super outrageous in my opinion, as fun and interesting as that would be, but alas lets dig in.

with regards to the police, his step grandfather is a congressman which means his step father probably has political ties too. this could mean they have ties to the police force perhaps involved in funding or something?? hence why jeremy would be recognised by them bc he gets forced to go to these occasions to paint a perfect family picture and maybe they're full of cops?? and maybe that's just not something he wants to be associated with lmao. cannot blame him now can we?

rhemann tells jean he can ask jeremy to leave the vicinity if he wants to press charges and call the cops i don't think this is because jeremy could get in trouble or anything bc i don't think rhemann would risk that. i think it's just because him being there might have sway or might lead to more gossip among the force that jean would wanna avoid. and if rhemann knows about whatever this weird avoiding police thing is i'm not sure it would be something so horrible??

in terms of his past. personally i don't agree jeremy was aggressive as a teen. i read him talking about his high school team as more of a "they played that way. i didn't vibe with it. i wanted to make sure my college team wasn't the same" i mean it's basically what he says he doesn't imply anything else but again the guy is closed off as HECK so god knows. but i don't think jeremy has an aggressive tendency. i feel like, given how the foxes have their entire lives pried into, if jeremy had such a reputation in the past (being in a class 1 team and captain of it no less) it would be known. and jean would know bc of kevin's obsession. like that would be a huge scandal.

i don't think he's done anything crazy like murder or manslaughter or has any assault charge. although that screenshot i posted a couple days ago is very Very sus, i think it might stem from how his family makes him feel about himself. because again i don't think he'd be able to keep any of that hidden.

UNLESS it's been all swept under the rug thanks to the political ties from the step family, and maybe that's why they dislike him so much. but again i think it's all a bit far fetched bc i don't think jeremy would be able to be so well adjusted after something like that, even after attending therapy.

which brings me to my next point, which is where he mentioned his mother finding the therapist for him and his family as he says "us" when talking about it which means they all see this therapist and jean mentions jeremy does not seem bothered to be exposed for having to go to therapy. i think if he was in therapy bc he did something really terrible he wouldn't want it known. especially if it's meant to be swept under the rug. i think this is in relation to the mysterious brother and the possibility of losing them to suicide. as he becomes very serious when jean says he promised he wouldn't kill himself saying it's nothing to joke about. also his concern for jean's wellbeing after ravens start dropping like flies maybe bc he knows how the grief feels.

thought that could also be a far fetched speculation because jeremy says the fall banquet broke their family in half. it's obvious his step family and his older brother and younger sister are not on his side, his mother sounds questionable too. so maybe that just leaves his other brother and his father and again maybe it's just a case of them being supportive of jeremy's sexuality.

there's also a brief mention of jeremy's dad being stationed in europe - some kind of military man?? since his mother re-married there's definitely something there too. maybe jeremy still keeps in touch with his father and it's not appreciated by the rest of the family? idk this one's a bit of a stretch but i feel like it might crop up again. what with jeremy not wanting to be addressed as "knox" as well - is that his father's name or his step father's name??? why does he not like it??

moving on to the scandal at the fall banquet i think this has to do with jeremy getting outed for being gay. lucas before cutting himself off at the beach says "now that you're.." implying they didn't know before so maybe jeremy was keeping it under wraps but got involved with someone from another team (???) at the banquet and got caught. his step grandfather and step father, and brother are probably very conservative and of course did not agree with jeremy's "lifestyle" and i think this had consequences on the whole family as it probably got out and "tarnished" their image. jeremy was probably asked to give up exy so as not to get involved with all "that" and he obviously refused. punishment for that probably meant his sister not caring for his games anymore as he wouldn't compromise for her, him getting put on a strict allowance and his mother's bookkeeper having to keep up with his expenses bc he's only given a certain amount of money. maybe a way for them to take back control over his life?? it also could explain why he has to stay at home during the school year so they can keep an eye on him perhaps??? also him getting dismissed from the dinner table bc of his hair as well idk sounds like his family are probs homophobic. also kind of a stretch but mayyyybeee the reason jeremy feels so bad is because he got the person he was involved with into trouble so he feels like a terrible person. but again there's really no alluding to that or implication i'm basically just taking a wild guess. but i feel like it would make some sort of sense

TLDR; i think jeremy's big "scandal" was that he's gay and his step family are just not accepting so they make his life difficult on purpose and he struggles to stand up to them about it

[wrathofrats]

Sub Omega sub Omega Sub Omega

Hi I got carried away

It’s almost a game to alpha, see what he can do to make omega break. He’s just a bit too easy when alphas got omegas back pressed against his chest, working him over through his pants.

It’s hard to fight against alphas clever tongue, the degradation making his brain fizzle out. Alpha talks fast, it's hard to keep up and with the way hes palming him through his slacks, it makes him feel stupid

He hits subspace a lot harder like this. Physically he loves a fight, he loves to see alpha lose.

But verbally? when alpha speaks to him like he’s just some fuck toy? Like he can do whatever he wants to him? Omega can’t, doesn’t want to retaliate. Makes him dizzy when alpha degrades him because oh he knows how much alpha loves it too.

too fucking overwhelmed by my hand on your pants that you can’t speak?

Omega shakes his head against alphas shoulder, stumbles out a couple protests but nothing enough to string together a full sentence

Alpha chuckles. He mocks him for trying to sound better than what he is,

it’s ok I know your secret, don’t need to try and act better than you really are

His tone is mocking, condescending, he squeezes him through his pants and omega nearly chokes on his own spit and lets out a sound that is barely above a whimper, embarrassingly forced.

really are just nothing more than a whore

What really gets omega is when alpha brings up Terzo. Tells him he wishes he knew how weak omega actually was, wishes Terzo could see how omega can barely hold himself together. And he refuses to let up no matter how much omega squirms.

im not a whore, let me go-

It’s an unconvincing argument, especially when omega tries to convince alpha that he’s in charge, that he’s in charge with Terzo too,

And truly alpha finds it amusing, considering how omega is about to cum in his pants from alpha just rubbing him through the fabric. It’s a bit funny to hear him try and tell alpha how he’s not pathetic, he’s not easy.

just enjoy whoring yourself out so much that you’re willing to cum in your pants for me instead of admitting that you’re a fucking slut

Alphas palming is rough, feels like an act of charity more than anything else. It’s a power trip, just showing off and it makes it so much more shameful for omega.

“Fuck you im not-“

Omegas words die in his throat as alpha pulls his hand away and steps back, like he’s really going to leave omega fuzzy brained and aching in his pants.

Alpha doesn’t even say anything when omega nearly trips over himself to grab onto alphas hand to try and press himself against him again.

The panic in omegas eyes is enough to make alpha smirk, maybe laugh a little to himself because after all that argument omega looks like he may cry if he doesn’t get alphas hands back on him.

“If you really weren’t a pathetic whore like you say you aren’t, you wouldn’t be tripping over yourself for me to touch you through your pants again”

It’s such a treat to watch omega fumble over his own tongue to debate whether or not to respond.

“If you really want it you can beg for it”

“What?”

“Beg pretty sweetheart and see what you get”

Omegas hesitating, of course he is. Even when nobody's around, he can't let go of what little control he thinks he has.

He doesn’t want to give in, doesn’t want to let alpha win.

There’s an extra element of shame, that stupid smirk and the taunting that comes with it, it’s an extra bruise on his ego that he swears he doesn’t have. Something about letting such a petulant brat have any control over him,

But it’s hard to deny alpha, dizzy and hard and oh if he could get that mouth on him?

“Come on please alpha I need it just-“ omega chokes the words out, his tongue feels heavy in his mouth as he tries to swallow his pride around the sentence.

“Again, know you can do better”

Alpha can’t help but make him beg again, and again just babbling, he can’t help himself. Alpha sinks to the floor in between omegas legs purely to tease him, look up through his eyelashes and watch him continue to say anything he can to convince alpha to just do something already. Its an ego stroke if nothing else.

fuck- you’re right I’m a whore I’m stupid and pathetic and please I’ll do anything if you just-

He doesn’t care anymore, too hard to be quiet after the third time of repeating how much he needs it.

please not even Terzo gets me like this, only you, only want you to dominate me

It gets to alpha a bit more than it should. He’s always been possessive of omega and to hear his thoughts confirmed out loud? Makes his dick twitch, makes him feel warm.

Alphas reward is getting to hear the breathless gratitude that tumbles out of omegas mouth once alpha gets his mouth onto him. Even puts omegas hand in his hair to let him guide him, make him take as much as he wants. It’s an absolute treat getting to watch omega come completely undone for him.

He keeps a tight grip, barely tries to guide alpha, more just keeps the hand wound tight to stable himself.

It shuts omega up almost completely besides trying to stifle his own involuntary whines that he can’t seem to keep down in this state. Flushed, panting eyes rolled back. He’s nice and docile, gentle like this.

His voice is rough and warbled, pitching trying to control it but omegas lost all control by this point.

[marsosims]

Hello! I've been super busy finishing up requirements for school... Today's the last day for the submission of requirements and I've been rushing to do them and submit on time, but I've been struck with a bout of procrastination, and I thought I'd participate in simblr appreciation day!

(under the cut because it's surprisingly long [that's what she said...])

I don't really have any particular people in mind but that's mostly because I cannot remember every single person and I would feel bad about forgetting anybody,,, ANYWAY! here's some appreciation to:

The people who make CC and mods - y'all make this game bearable and I genuinely cannot live without them so I am very much thankful to all of u ily all (except the permawallers)

The people who make those CC and mods POSSIBLE - the people over at s4s and all the other tools like s4castools, as well as the tutorials they've made over the years have been INVALUABLE to the community and I just wanted to recognize them and say thank you <3

The people who reblog CC and mods - I feel as a creator, I've always been very appreciative of people who reblog my content because it genuinely helps me out to have my content spread to a wider audience. On the flipside, as a consumer, I'm also very appreciative of these people because I LOVEE discovering new creators that I've never known before who make literally the best items out there and AAA i'm just so happy

The people who download and play with said CC and mods and create the most beautiful sims, stories, and builds with them - as a creator, I honestly feel very giddy whenever I see people use my cc or even my mods. I know I don't generally reblog (because I usually forget) but I genuinely appreciate all of you! Thank you so much! All of the sims and builds I've seen with my CC have been incredible and have been truly inspiring <3 The stories and edits that I see on my dashboard (or when I stalk people on my activity dashboard IM SORRY) are honestly amazing and I LOVE to see it!

Of course, the people who play vanilla! - whatever type of gameplay you make, whether it's vanilla or with a shit ton of CC and mods, I love to see it! It's so refreshing to see how differently people use the same game to create such a diverse community! Vanila players, however, I have SOO much respect for. You guys are the strongest soldiers out there. I am weak to the temptation of custom content. Always have been.

The people who made this a thing! - this has honestly been one of the best things I've seen on simblr in a while, all the negativity and drama have made me a little less keen on being here a few months ago, but I've slowly come back and I'm genuinely so happy to see something like this happen :D

My patrons - honestly couldn't really end this appreciation post without saying a thank you to my patrons. Seriously, thank you :D You don't know how much your donations mean to me and my getting through college. The extra funds from your donations have allowed me to be generally independent in terms of funding myself and my activities. Seriously.

Anyway, this has been a super long post and I'm actually kind of embarrassed to post it because it feels like a long diary because I've been rambling about stupid stuff that I should have probably kept to myself but uhh yeah!!!!

Hope you guys have a happy holiday season!!! Expect more things from me, at least until the end of this year! I've been working on some stuff! Probably not exciting, but it's stuff!

[myristicisms]

Made myself so ill and sad about Ace not knowing what his mom looks like, like I've spoken about it to a couple friends but Ace looks so much like Rouge with Roger's color scheme and in my mind, I feel like Garp's at least mentioned before that he looks so much like his mother while Ace was growing up. I dunno I feel like he feels envious of others that are able to have a relationship with their parents and be able to recall exactly what they look like because while Ace knows exactly what Roger looked like, all he has for Rouge is his imagination and what Garp has pointed out. He doesn't know just how soft his mom really was but he knows he got his eyes and his freckles from her, he got the same waves and fluffiness of his mother's hair and the same pensive expression from her. He knows he has Roger's smile and as much as he hates the man he also likes that he can take that smile and make it his own? Hard to express what the hell I'm rambling about but like... He loves his mother so much even without knowing who she was or what she looks like because in his mind that's the first person to ever love him unconditionally even if it resulted in her death which only further enforces in his mind that loving him is a death sentence. He outright says if not for Luffy he wouldn't bother with trying to live but I feel like he wouldn't want to spit on Rouge's sacrifice for him. He's a mama's boy through and through and I think while he says some mean stuff about/to Dadan, that's also his mom and he loves her just as much as he loves Rouge. This is so rambly but I'm on one right now about Ace and how the circumstances of his birth and the ways people around him interact with and treat him have shaped his views on both himself and the world around him which is why he was so surprised that Whitebeard bothered to come and save him in Marineford let alone so many other people joining the fight. Which ties in to the extra enforcement that he's a blight on the lives of those around him in a world where Marineford happened differently and why he becomes so much more withdrawn because in his mind all he does is bring death and sorrow wherever he's loved.

TLDR: Ace loves both his moms so much for different reasons, wishes he knew what Rouge actually looks like, and I want to write more Ace lives au stuff.

[jarchivussy]

Yo sorry if this is long but for the ask games

🥊 for kai (1,5,14)

🙌 for ed (3,6,19)

💀 morgan (4,9,23)

🎹 for Rel (16,27,44)

(The numbers were for the second ask bit. You don’t need to answer them all :] )

kai loves working out (his favourite sports are dance, kickboxing and parkour) and tinkering with mechanical stuff and eating yummy food and making morgan pay for said yummy food :3 he HATES math and confrontations and cleaning and swimming/anything with a lot of water ❌❌

his first date is hard to define cause he goes out with morgan a lot before they realise they like each other and even then they don't have much time to date :-( but i've been thinking recently it would be kind of funny if their first "date" to their fav restaurant was back when they still totally hated each other. and morgan saw him while he was out and she was like omg kaii hiiii ^_^ and she went to hug him and he was like ! wth but then she was like 'play along or we're both dead.' so they pretend to be besties and go out to a restaurant and make small talk which is really funny cause kai is bad at it but it works on the people spying on them. anyway of course morgan pays cause she has expensive taste and too much money and then they go out and through some shadier streets and defeat the guys following them (actually theyre only following kai but morgan doesnt say that) and kais like hey we make a pretty good team and morgan is like tch 😒 whatever but secretly she likes it

he doesn't argue for as long as he can and 1. dislikes confrontation 2. is really nice and forgiving so he doesn't argue a lot. except for morgan he loves bickering with her about everything cause she sucks and has awful opinions

as for pda he's ok with a smooch on the cheek or a hug or holding hands (i mean his favourite way to have a date is to visit his and morgan's fav restaurant) but he doesn't like affection for show, and prefers stuff like kisses on the mouth and other intimacy to be private. occasionally he does do embarrassing romantic stuff around other people cause he likes to see morgan get flustered but he never makes her genuinely uncomfortable :3

ed has one sibling and that's cass! though i was thinking about him having a brother that would die so like. cass could be a parallel but idk . anyway cass and ed are so fucked up they leave each other so much. that vee post that's like 'the love was there and it changed everything' that's them. i love them so much i could eat cement

oh man first impression. for morgan he thought she was super annoying and sucked and he genuinely wanted to kill her (based) and for kai. ed thought that kai was super hot and he hated himself for that. denial 💔

he hates arguing a lot and is bad with words so he tries to make it up through doing nice things! acts of service is his thing

19 is here!

MORGAN. PHOBIAS. YES this girl is so scarednervous. she's scared of the dark (ironically enough she as a character has a lot of darkness symbolism toed to her. something something she's afraid of herself) and she's really scared of intimacy, because she doesn't feel like she's good enough and she knows it won't last and it'll hurt when it's gone. she's really scared of disappointment and not living up to her own heightened standards for herself. i could go on 😆

she initiates affection less than kai but more than ed! it's cause she's evil and fucked up

for kai, she hates how selfless he is and how fleeting her happiness with him is. (esp because she's an elf and he's a human)

for ed well. she hates that they're both not very good at communicating so it's hard to work out their issues. but it's ok they have kai (for now)

defining characteristics huh. hmmmm well i'd say for morgan + kai it's soulmates + toxic codependency + divorced and remarried. for morgan + ed it's mutual hate/love + we're in love with the same guy let's either kill each other or have sex about it + verryy slow burn + eventually domestic

YAY REL he's such a hashtag weirdgirl ^_^ his hobbies are making toxic green slutch, gaslighting, overall emotional manipulation, evil politics, making plans and running mlms as well as clickbait craft channels on yt.

he has no significant romantic relationships so i can't answer those sorry!

[rowansender]

I’m no long religious myself for obvious reasons. But I did grow up with it and, for a time, studied it to some degree.

The disregard for the textual meanings of scripture is fascinating. For an active religion to bypass their own founding text (without meaningfully changing the text itself, mind you) is bizarre. Or maybe that is happening now. Are there nationalist versions of the Bible that directly edit the text? I know there was that trump bible that Florida was trying to put into classrooms.

I wonder if you spun this out for enough time, if they would adopt a new name? Would a new identity develop? Would Trump be the founding authority? Probably not as it stands now. But religions are built on contradictions. That’s what makes them compelling.

And obviously this has happened before. A million times over it has happened. But it is strange to experience. It made a lot more sense when people couldn’t speak Latin. It’s strange to see it with a literate populace (at least hypothetically). But cultural belief proceeds religious practice.

I grew up Calvary. Which, of the flavors of Christian, is relatively chill in their outlook. That there is this entire secondary culture so separate from even mainstream Christianity (or what I thought of as mainstream, but maybe this has usurped it) twists my brain.

I don’t believe in magic (mostly) and refuse to acknowledge the authority of a creator deity if there is one, but most of the teachings of Christ are a net good. I know this is the most “got stoned and thought about religion” thought, but man in the face of all of this, it bares repeating.

But again, founding contradictions.

I warned you.

About 15 years ago, I had a minor moment of Internet fame when I wrote a lengthy essay series on LiveJournal called "Christians in the Hand of an Angry God." In it, I argued that right-wing evangelical "Christianity" was literally Satanic by scriptural standards, was literally the cult of anti-Christ that Jesus prophesied in Matthew 25:31-46, that they were literally worshiping a made-up guy with the same name to justify cruelty, just like Jesus predicted they would the week before the crucifixion.

And at least half of the people who read it and praised it called it excellent satire. They saw my point, thought I was onto something, but couldn't take seriously that I literally meant what I literally said.

"Do not commit the sin of empathy."

Jesus' prophesy that these people were coming was not especially miraculous, in hindsight. No philosophy or theological movement becomes a large organized church, let alone a majority faith of a nation, without needing rich people's money, and/or government funding, to pay for it all.

And rich people in general, and right-wing governments in general, get to be the way they are by believing that the poor and the down-trodden can never be shown anything but cruelty, should never be rewarded, or else they'll lose all motivation to obey, to work hard, to be good. (By contrast, they believe that the same thing would happen to rich, powerful, popular people if they were ever punished in any way, if they were ever anything but rewarded.)

And rich people and governments are not going to subsidize your church foundation funds, your church repair funds, et cetera if you tell them that they're evil. But someone definitely will come along and offer to take that money. The people who take that money and conform won't even all be lying psychopaths; if you truly believe that your organization matters, is doing irreplaceable good in the world, you'll sacrifice any principle of your faith to keep the bills paid, you'll look away from or excuse any sin. It's that or see it all shrink and crumble into irrelevance.

I've come to the conclusion that it may not actually be possible to be a good person while practicing the majority faith of the land you live in. Or, if it is possible, well, like the man said, "straight is the gate and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it."

The Episcopal Church has its own legacy of sin, they've long overlooked a laundry list of crimes to pay their own bills, so don't rush to congratulate a mainline bishop for preaching mainline Christianity or take too much pleasure from Trump and his fascist followers being surprised that that happened. But do remember this:

From the mid-1970s to the present, right-wing billionaires have poured a LOT of money into church expansion and maintenance conditional on them distorting the Bible's teachings to make it appear that Jesus was pro-fascist. "To deceive, if it were possible, the very elect." So when honest theologians tell you that this is literally anti-Christ, literally checks every box in the Bible's description of the future cult of anti-Christ, you need to hear us.

The modern book and movie image of "the Antichrist" was a well-funded propaganda campaign to distract you from the plain language of the scriptures. The biblical anti-Christ is not some socialist liberal peacenik. The biblical anti-Christ is everyone who tells you that Jesus wants you to be cruel to "the least of these, my brethren" so that they'll straighten up and fly right.

[goldensunset]

can you reblog a two-part post in the correct order?

[bonesandthebees]

one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

[scrawnym4]

”pdf file” “unalived” “grape” “corn” what if i killed myself right here right now

[vasira96]

it's always "immortals always lose the ones they love!" and never "this family has had this incredible, powerful, loving figure present through generations of their lineage, all because they are descended from someone the immortal loved long ago" and i think that's a shame!!

[thecrowfinder]

biggest reason i make so many flop posts on here is because everything i do reeks of the desperation to make a popular tumblr post. this is deliberate, because it is what protects me from ACTUALLY making a popular tumblr post. so long as i crave it, tumblr fame will never find me. it is only when i turn away, and accept my fate of obscurity, that people will lay their eyes upon me. and it WILL be because i tripped and fell on my stupid face while i was turning

[werethropy]

"The nonbinary afab who goes by she/her, dresses femininely, and uses a push-up bra when I—" when you what? What's wrong with her?

Is she not nonbinary enough for you? Is the way she experiences her queerness and how she presents not perfect enough for you? Nonbinary people don't owe you androgyny, right? So why is she the exception? Why does she have to hate herself to appeal to your standards? Why is she any less trans—any less worthy of respect—cause it's "not visible"? Queer solidarity my ass. Don't spout this bullshit on Pride, man.

[some-pers0n]

You ever look at some art your mutual made and you just sit there in stunned silence and awe that one of your friends is out there making jaw-dropping beautiful art just for the hell of it

[swearphil]

when something major goes down in a fandom you're not a part of