#begging for a solution

[simbleleven]

Sims CC Makers, I have a question; is it possible to make heterochromia eyes that are a complete swatch, and don't need to be one main swatch and an additional skin detail swatch?

[tee-dohrnii]

I'm gonna try to do the Hades 2 textbox thing and stuff but have a rough draft God Gale in Hades but he's depressed and yearning for tav who left him because he ascended and Gale's dialogue is all about how he regrets choosing godhood over being with his loved ones

Finished version: God of Ambition

[darkwood-sleddog]

the dear neighbor of mine (who is genuinely a family friend) keeps having to escalate her response to keep her reactive working bred labrador from running at our dogs when we walk by her house. First it was 'oh he comes when called' and then he didn't. and then it was 'he has an electronic 'fence' he won't cross it' until he did. then it was 'oh well i'll just grab him when you walk by' until you weren't able to and now it's escalated to 'he has an additional e-collar on that i'll zap him with when he reacts to your dogs'. like this is not working. at all. i just wonder what will be the trigger for actual containment of this dog (tie out line or fence would be acceptable as they use on their OTHER DOG) will it be your dog getting into a fight he can't win with ours as they try to calmly walk by? will it be him running out at a car or person biking and getting injured? Like he already has two separate shock collars on. you can't escalate much further without giving in and getting some goddamn containment. which is what she should have done the first time.

[menecrates]

usamericans please stop putting your "congrats uk!! hope this happens to us in november!!" posts in the uk politics tag please please you have no idea

[septemberkisses]

no one talks about how absolutely hard it is to study for the last exam of the exam season

[hoboblaidd]

@keepslore asked: At first, the Vir'abelasan had been a constant stream of whispers, echoing at the base of her skull, enough to make sleep a distant dream these last two days. A dream as distant as he is, quietly fuming and working away at his most recent fresco, depicting that choice of hers—as if she really had one. What was she meant to have done? Let Morrigan take it? Morrigan, who had spent the previous few hours butchering Elvhen lore and speaking over the First of Clan Lavellan to do so? Bad enough that Dhavihal had turned her mischievous nature on her. Only for the Witch to have the audacity to claim she alone had the necessary knowledge to make good use of the Well? No, certainly not. — Dhavi hadn't wanted it. Whatever price Mythal demands for this wisdom, she wishes she hadn't been made to pay it. But there was nothing else to be done; they needed it, and no one else worthy of it would pay the price. So she did. She always would. Solas stands before his completed fresco, seemingly watching the pigment dry, and Dhavihal approaches quietly. She keeps her distance, but sighs to let her presence be known. If he's not ready to talk yet, she'll just come back later. And then again after that, if need be. Until he's ready.

His frescoes were usually careful, considered. Solas would spend days sketching them out, even longer tracing the outline into the immutable canvas before putting it at last to paint and plaster.

Not this one. It flowed like water, like blood, and he didn’t care that it was not perfect. He worked feverishly, endlessly, having foregone sleep himself these last two days. Painting and repainting and carving the lines so deep into the plaster that he hit stone.

Solas stood now in its center, hands stained with blackened pigment clenched into fists at his side. The harsh, dark lines of the sentinels loomed almost as large as the uneven slope of the eluvian’s silhouette. The high vaulted walls of rusted gold and chipped jade towered over them all like a veil, and in the heart, a brilliant, burning sun. Mythal.

She had always asked for more, she had always taken more. And now, even in death, she would not be satisfied until she had taken everything.

He heard Dhavi approach, he always did, no matter how quiet her steps. It had never failed to bring him comfort and ease the line of tension in his shoulders. Until today, that line tightened and the shadow over his brow grew. 

“I begged you not to drink from the Well!” he snapped, and his voice echoed throughout the empty rotunda. “You have no idea what you have done - what you have given.”

Solas finally turned, but he could only face her for a moment. She stood with a slave marking etched into her face and unseen runes of command and obeisance seared into her soul. He couldn’t bear it. Not her.

“Why could you not have listened?” 

[rachandroll]

Part of the reason I am so jazzed about the conversation with the Arch Heart is because it has removed the illusion of this being an easy choice. As Orym said, and as he has been operating on the assumption of, the people of Exandria are like ants to something like Predathos, likely to be crushed underfoot. Correct, yeah. But the point of the Arch Heart's responses was that the same is true of the gods. The world is faced with a scenario where one way or another, some power is very likely going to be unleashed and put quite a lot of people in danger. Unless they can somehow very quickly quell the gods' fear*, either the gods or Predathos will be freed and stomping ants.

That refocuses the question. People are going to die. The question is, how long will the danger go on? And what kind of world will be left, after?

Juicy!

[wild-flowerhoney]

can yall stop tagging "moonwater/moonseeker" for your hc about remus and regulus being friends. the ship tag is FULL of this platonic bs and its impossible to actually find romantic stuff. like no, i dont want to look at posts about them being besties, i want to read about them kissing!!

[tiredtriedfailures]

they should put testostorone in cigarettes i think that would fix you

pissed off you nailed me so well. yeah t cigarettes would fix me.

[robo-dino-puppies]

dragon age 2 | isabela

[memorys-skyscraper]

something that really frustrates me about Discourse(TM) re: stories in video games is that the vast majority of people who engage in those discussions seem utterly incapable of considering anything besides the literal text of the game and will not acknowledge any meta elements of a game, how it functions as a product, etc.

like i'm seeing people argue about the point of giving majima amnesia in pirate yakuza, and i'm only seeing shit like "it was pointless bc he just ended up remembering anyway", "he wouldn't have gotten as invested in noah if he hadn't lost his memory", etc etc, like. gamers. they gave him amnesia because this game is meant to be an intro to majima for people who picked up the series with y7/y8. y7 in particular did huge numbers and brought in a ton of people who are new to the series. they wanted those people to be able to play the game without being completely lost but also didn't want to try to dump 7 games' worth of majima lore on them to get them up to speed. giving him amnesia and transplanting him to a completely different setting lets them do that, while also letting them slowly reintroduce the parts of majima's backstory that they want new players to know over the course of the game. i'd bet my bottom dollar that his amnesia + hawaii as the setting were among the first things about the game that were decided on for that specific reason, and everything else followed from that. any function/value his amnesia may or may not have had wrt the narrative was entirely secondary.

like im not saying we need to take a super ~academic~ or ~rigorous~ approach to discussing the wacky pirate game, but can we use our brains at least a little bit?

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

sorry for only saying this type of shit lately but i kinda wanna drive a car straight into a brick wall at the highest speed possible

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The thing that sucks about knowing the context for a popular ship redraw meme or incorrect quote is watching people be so so incorrect about it and just having to sit there, gripping your thigh, reminding yourself of your values

My personal problem is the quote from "Everything Everywhere All At Once": "In another life I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you"

Because every day EVERY DAY even with ships I love, I watch people use it as a "Oh my god isn't it so tragic that these two characters are forced to suffer the horrors or to be ripped apart when in their heart of hearts they want to be living domestically and doing laundry and taxes?"

And I have to sit there and think "No no you don't get it! That line wasn't the tragedy of the characters not having a better life where they can just be together. It's a different kind of tragedy! The main character didn't like her normal Chinese immigrant life of running a laundromat and dealing with taxes and her family in the USA. Once she learned about all of these different worlds, she began to feel even more like her current life was one that she didn't want. In fact, this life where the guy said that popular line was one where she chose not to go to the USA with him to build a life and love together and became a famous actress instead. She has been thinking about how her husband truly held her down and stifled her life. How if she hadn’t chosen him she wouldn't have had to deal with him and her life would be better and more exciting. And so she's talking to this alternate version of her husband who never became her husband, and she starts making a case for why this is the best outcome. After all, who would want to live in a laundromat and do taxes when she can be a movie star and have anyone she wants? And this is when he tells her that that life that she rejects, that she feels is lowly and one that no one would want, is something that he wants. He doesn't care that she's a famous actress now, he would have loved to just live a simple life with her, even if it was hard and taxing. And this moment in the movie is so so many things (things I'm not even doing justice to here), but it is also a major moment that highlights the disparity in these two characters (even if one isn't her og husband) and their desires.

The main character feels trapped in her life and that she never lived up to her potential. Her husband truly would want to be with her simply because of the bits where it isn't exciting. Even if they're poor and suffer hardship and do things considered simple and lowly, he would still like that life with her.

So yes every time I see this meme my brain screams "get out of here with your blorbos in an au who tragically can't live normally and domestically. Bring in your blorbos who love(d) each other and are messy and are on the verge of divorce and want different things in life, who have to make a choice in what to do about it. Give me your "person who feels trapped in this small life and wanted bigger and better things who lowkey resents the other who is just supporting them" x "person who understands this life isn't always easy or glamorous but is glad that they get to do it every day with this person, who would choose a life of love with them no matter what"

[onedirecton]

wish my parents were normal about Catholicism ahhhh

[ta-bajna-cerna-okybaca]

Simply rotating Outer Wilds in my head isn't enough I need to inject it into my bloodstream

[bmpmp3]

hmmmmmm. hmmmmmmmmmmmm. definitely gonna have to sit on those new virvox designs for a while.