#and a sense of humor

[igotsnothing]

Chasing Love ❤️- A gameplay story

Chase is one of my oldest sims.

I decided to give him a little makeover and play this game for once. I end up using most of my time posing my sims for my stories and rarely playing the game. And yes, I know there are a million bugs- but I still like playing it... and have barely played with the last couple of packs. So, I am going to post Chase's adventures here whenever I play his save and I'm going to try not to butt into his story too much.

I turned on autonomy and have him looking for his future spouse...

Chase is a farmer and spends most of the day taking care of his orchard, cow, and chickens. He's a pretty easy-going guy, but he's tired of being alone.

After a long day of work, it's time to get out a bit.

The Gnome's Arms is pretty much the only pub nearby. Fortunately, it has plenty of lively events every week, creating opportunities for all kinds of folks to socialize. It's owned by Sara and Simon Scott, old school friends of Chase's.

Of course, he gets there too early. There is hardly anyone there, except for Derek McMillan.

When Makoa walks in, it's infatuation. Instant attraction. Makoa IS adorable, but...

Sorry, Chase. He just popped in for a pint before heading home to his wife. Still, Chase enjoys Makoa's company and they continue chatting.

Soon enough, Simon brings someone new around. His name is Seth and he is very pissed off for some reason... that he begins to share, much to Chase's chagrin. He does not like Seth. At all. It's a shame, because Seth is hawt and I do like me some tsunderes so I was going to have them flirt despite the lack of attraction, but then I stopped myself. It's gotta happen organically.

After that fiasco, a different sim started flirting with Chase. Thiago is from Ciudad Enamorada and is only in town for the fair- which is a shame, because they got along really well. I do get the sense, though, that Thiago is a bit of a player. He's a little too suave.

Sara and Chase keep making goofy faces at each other while he and Thiago talk. I think certain exchanges among friends are universal...

All in all, it wasn't a total bust. Chase was a little tired when he got home, but in good spirits. He was in bed by 11, as he gets up at the crack of dawn.

Thiago and Chase did exchange numbers. Who knows? I'm still wondering about Seth. Maybe he was having a bad night?... I'll stay out of it...Maybe.

Beginning/Next

[ajaxbell]

Look since I mostly want to talk about Tan Jianci's clothes in all his pics, I would be remiss if I didn't share these. Though I sure don't know what to say.

[inkyself]

He died the day after Easter. The cuntiest since Jesus Christ

[majubengel]

Skin Care

[klancecuredmydepression]

They better make this a juju stroll

[guinevereslancelot]

it's a beautiful day at the roman senate and you are a horrible goose

[chloesimaginationthings]

Vanny did no wrong in FNAF she was just silly

[wavewavethoughtsonly]

IlLogical

Shockwave revealing one of his many creations to overthrow the Autobots.

While everyone assumes Shockwave is being uncharacteristically stupid, Soundwave knows he’s trying to please him.

[aidoneusmelindia]

Andrew Minyard has a beautiful brain and is quite the comedian, as we can all read in the books ('is your learning curve a horizontal line?'). So I introduce to you the headcanon that during movie nights Andrew will whisper all kinds of commentary in Neil's ear, and Neil regularly dissolves in giggles or straight up laughter and everybody is so confused because the scene wasn't even that funny? Is Neil hearing voices? Stoic Andrew Minyard cannot possibly be that funny right? Neil just waves them off and tries to hold his laughter in. Andrew, btw, is very smug about the fact he can make Neil laugh like that.

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

[umblrspectrum]

3 years of this godforsaken show

[majubengel]

Parents and children~

extra:

[idontmindifuforgetme]

lived my whole life in guilt bc i thought i was responsible for people's feelings. newly realizing that other people are responsible for their feelings and reactions, even if they make it seem like i'm the problem. a lot of the time it really has to do w them and their own emotional regulation. i can't keep thinking i'm not allowed to have space bc of other people's insecurities. like i literally refuse to dim myself. other people are responsible for their feelings just as i'm responsible for mine.

[probably-impossible]

A dumb sequel to this dumb post.