#compulsory creativity

[dustedmagazine]

Bruno Duplant & David Vélez—des-illusions (Unfathomless)

des-illusions by Bruno Duplant & David Vélez

Sound artists Bruno Duplant and David Vélez are well matched. Each is an artist whose work processes the world around them and their reactions to it. And they share an awareness of the personal dimensions of collaborative creation. Duplant, a multi-instrumentalist and composer from France, has made scores that doubled as letters to the artist who has expressed interest in performing said score. And Vélez, a Colombian who has recently spent several years studying in England, made his understanding of the tension between Duplant’s hopelessness about humanity’s prospects and the defiant hopefulness expressed by making new work a guiding force in his contributions to des-illusions.

According to the album’s liner notes, which you can read on its Bandcamp page, the impetus for this collaboration was a conversation the two men had about making music in a time of environmental and social crisis. Collected sounds ��� birdsong, bugs, rain, running water, the conversations of passing people, machinery — figure prominently in the two-part, 43-minute-long piece, which is bisected so evenly (the running times are exactly 22:00 and 21:00) that one suspects that this CD might once have been planned to be an LP. But so do played sounds, particularly pulsing and tolling synthesizer voices. Both have been subjected to interventions, having been looped, chopped and filtered so that their combinations constitute a sound environment quite distinct from the ones that were sampled to make it. The played sounds don’t mix with the environmental ones so much as they bob on top or alongside them, which might represent the relationship between humans and the world they strive to manipulate and manage. But if this is a soundtrack to our currently combusting world, it imposes a very specific combination of moods, simultaneously forlorn and persistent.

The experience of this recording may be modified by skipping the accompanying notes. Separated from their description of intent, this music’s crepuscular vibe might dominate, and hip sleep specialists could plausibly prescribe it as a possible aid for those seeking slumber. This is not, however, a failure on the part of the work to communicate, but evidence that the collaborative impulses that brought it into existence include the listener.

Bill Meyer

[rising-above-stars]

this did wonders on tiktok

this was also my final assignment for a sociology paper

[poetrythatismediocre]

bisexual

why are you crying? because women are supposed to be with men what does that mean why are you crying? because women are supposed to be with men what does that mean? you ask you don’t understand the hurried sticker i slap on me like a label tape stuck over me from a printer machine you made “bisexual”, right go ahead — call me a coward  because i am

what are you talking about? women are supposed to be with men and i am woman so my sticker says i like man too but why are you crying? because you don’t understand you’re a woman who likes men and i’m a girl whose supposed to like men who’s supposed to like men? why am i crying?

i’d tell you there’s a phrase for it the place where i’m from but you wouldn’t know — women are supposed to be with men

i’m sorry i’m not a man  who likes women i’m sorry i’m not man

[hardtobeasaintdotmp3]

had a freakout at work yesterday because I realised that I shouldn't have changed my minor at uni. but now I've missed the deadline so if I want to change it I have to pay for the course I'm currently in as well as the one I want to do. which is an extra 1.7k as well as the 2.2k that the course I want to do costs. so I can't really transfer. or I could but I probably shouldn't because that's a shitton of money

[mylittleredgirl]

oh ho ho i have looked up the massachusetts ballot questions and i am so personally excited to vote against the MCAS, the high school standardized test students must pass to graduate. it never impacted my own education because i was in the very last class not to have to take it (late 90s), but i was selected for the pool of beta testers the year before it was universally implemented.

i had a great time actually—get out of class for two days for a test that doesn’t even matter? i enjoyed the process of taking standardized tests (when they didn’t matter) because i had spent most of my pre-high-school days in a homeschool environment without grades, so they reminded of the trivia workbook pages that were rationed out and treated as rewards (in a one room schoolhouse with 5 kids, you take the thrills you could get—public school education was pretty amazing after that).

the most memorable part of it for me was that we got little boxes of raisins as a snack and mine had an inchworm in it. but even then as a dumbass teenager i remember giving feedback that this would be demoralizing and unfair if imposed on everyone. schools chose who would put in the test group, and every one was an A student! what kind of sample was that?

the MCAS wouldn’t become a compulsory requirement for graduation until no child left behind, but it still immediately changed things. my sister was one year behind me, and her experience in the same classes i had taken the year before was so much less inspiring. history and civics teachers who had been painstakingly gathering copies of real articles for decades about historical events had to teach from state approved textbooks. the cross-disciplinary fun projects for multiple subjects were cancelled. older teachers started phoning it in and planned their retirement.

anyway, one of the things i have always felt most grateful for in my life is that i squeaked through my public education before state testing choked it. it was a small rural public school (pretty well funded though, there are a lot of fancy summer homes in property taxing distance), and had very passionate teachers who were having extra creative fun squeezing out the last of their independence, knowing that testing was coming. i was one of the canaries in the coal mine and i will take great pleasure if my vote helps shut it down.

[amalgamasreal]

SOURCE

Bit of a long video but worth a watch.

TL;DW though is that hidden in the Terms and Conditions for Google's AI Labs is a nice little poison pill that says they get access to your entire Google Drive if you opt in.

So if you're an author of some type and you keep your unpublished works in your G-Drive that means an AI will get to scrape all of it and by opting in you will have given them permission to it. The content creator goes on to predict that Google is going to let out their own streaming service where the scripts, and potentially the art if it's animated, will be almost or entirely AI generated using that scraped data as a baseline and the authors/artist's who's work was essentially stolen in its most raw form to crib from will have zero way of fighting Google on that in our current legal system.

This is of course right in the middle of the writers and actors strike where we're seeing just what lengths studios will go to in order to screw everyone but themselves.

They go on to recommend that if you keep any creative or personal works on Google Drive that you pull it off as soon as possible and delete your entire Drive. They acknowledge that of course this doesn't mean Google really deleted the data but if you do it before they start compulsory opting everyone in there's a chance your work might get overlooked. They also recommend several free editing programs that aren't run by corporations like Google with LibreOffice (the default office program of most Linux distros) being named.

Finally they go over methods of shaming Google which I feel like you just have to watch for comedies sake so I won't describe them in full.

Now this is from me: I know the majority of people don't have the ability to build and manage a big archive just for themselves, but if you're a creative NOW IS THE TIME to educate yourself on what you can do to protect your works. Cloud storage was always iffy at best, but with AI scraping entering the mix it's now downright malignant. Get a bunch of thumb drives, buy some external hard drives, if you have the money buy a pre-built NAS, and if you really want to get into learn how to build your own NAS. These are the old ways before cloud and they're coming back again, more important than ever.

[devisrina]

🌟Sydcarmy week 2024🌟

The grand opening of our very first sydcarmy week!!

You heard it here Jeffs, let’s fuckin’ go!!!!

Graphics made curtesy of @ambeauty

Sydcarmy drawing done by me @devisrina

Prompts

Day 1: Found Family

Day 2: Acts of Service, hurt comfort, sick fic

Day 3: Drawings, Tattoos, & their creative process

Day 4: Jealously trope

Day 5: Mutual pining/Realization

Day 6: First date

Day 7: Serious heat (Spicy content to level of your desire)

(Bonus day) Day 8: Strange Currencies (alternate universe)

Rules/guidelines:

* Prompts are up for interpretation, as long as it is connected to Sydcarmy

* Have fun

* Be considerate of others!

* Anyone can participate

Sydcarmy week 2024 will be held September 9-15 leading up to Emmy’s night!!!

Bonus day: “Strange Currencies” is held on the 16th September (or a later day if you need more time) for anyone who wants to partake in the additional day, It’s not compulsory!

Please feel free to participate with fanfics, fanart, meta, edits etc that highlight using the prompts of each day!!!

Use #sydcarmyweek2024 on tumblr, tiktok and instagram for us to find your work.

For ao3 fanfic writers, please use #sydcarmyweek2024 on the tags of your work so that we can find them on there as well!!

[twwpride]

TWW Pride is intended to encourage creation of queer fanworks and help to form community and support for queer creators in The West Wing fandom.

This year, TWW Pride is extending the event through all of pride month! Prompts begin on Sunday, June 1st, and continue through Monday, June 30th. Any fanwork posted within these dates and tagged with #twwpride25 or included in our Ao3 Collection will be included as part of the event. At the end of every day and week, we’ll be posting round-ups of everything created, in addition to an end-of-month masterpost. Feel free to join our Discord to talk with other creatives in the community. Anyone who participates in all thirty days of Pride Month will be added to our Hall of Fame!

A massive thank you to @bartletslesbians for help with prompt generation!

Event Info & Guidelines

For Pride Month, one prompt will be provided per day. These prompts are primarily intended to generate inspiration, so if your creative process takes you elsewhere, you are still welcome to share regardless of the day.

If you do choose to follow the prompts, they will be filed under whatever day(s) their prompts fall under for easy reference. If you post on Tumblr, don’t forget to tag your work with #twwpride25 or mention us directly @twwpride — any tagged posts will be reblogged unless otherwise requested.

The prompt list will be reposted weekly as we count down to the beginning of the event. During Pride Week, prompt reminders will be posted at the beginning of each day, and round-ups will be posted at midnight EST.

In order to keep TWW Pride accessible to everyone, we request that you add alt-text or an image description to any visuals.

This information, as well as an accessible version of the prompts list, can be found on our desktop site here.

FAQ

What do you consider a queer fanwork?

Whatever you consider to be queer - and in whatever form (fic, poetry, gifs, edits, art, etc) - so do we. This is an inclusionary event, and here will be no policing of identity or creation. While any maturity rating is welcome, all we ask is that content is appropriately tagged for its platform (AO3 or Tumblr).

Do I have to wait until the month begins to start writing/drawing/editing?

You can begin creating as soon as you’re ready, but only content posted during the month will be counted for archival purposes.

How closely do I have to follow the prompts?

The prompts are inspirational, not compulsory. Any queer fanwork is welcome this month, regardless of if they fit into the prompts!

How do I make sure you can find my work when I post it?

If you’re posting on Tumblr, be sure to use the tag #twwpride25 so we can reblog and promote it! On Ao3, you can find The West Wing Pride Week collection here! A question we missed? Ask us right here!

[f0x-teeth]

Since I can't write a full fic at the moment here's some headcanons (which may also just be supported by canon) ((can be seen as platonic or romantic, they're beyond labels atp))

-Alongside stealing Wilson's food, he likes to steal his clothes. He doesn't know why, Wilson assumes it's just to annoy him but it feels almost compulsory; the same reason he doesn't know why he prefers Wilson's food over his own.

-Wilson obviously doesn't agree with House's drug habit but after (possible season 4 spoilers) House electrocuted himself, he couldn't help but prescribe him a little extra. (Not like he's expecting the same praise as the one he did when House was in a hospital bed, but he knows it makes him happy anyway)

-They love to talk but I also imagine them having a lot of parallel-play kind of moments where House plays on his game-boy while Wilson does his paper work just because it's so familiar and comfortable

-Since I also HC both House and Wilson to be neurodivergent they get in a lot of arguments due to their Justice Sensitivity ™ (they don't care about each other's feelings, just the fact that one of them is right)

-also arguments whenever one of them gets overstimulated; ie, near the end of the day after having to deal with a bunch of idiots and one of them snaps at the other. They'll be a bit butt hurt but things will be fine the next day

-random acts of service like House getting Wilson a coffee (and when Wilson acts suspicious he plays it off like there's no-specific-reason) or Wilson washing House's dishes when he doesn't feel like doing them (House never says anything but he's secretly appreciative)

I'm running out of steam guys I need to be more creative </33

[morrowforge]

Hey everyone!

I'm new to Tumblr- but wanted to share the first episode of my new podcast, "Mage With a Mic". It's a silly goofy podcast that is perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett, The Magnus Archives, and just fantasy stories in general.

I created the brand behind Mage With a Mic, MorrowForge, after I was made redundant in February of this year. I have such exciting plans for MorrowForge going forward- namely being able to be a haven for queer and neurodivergent people like myself to express themselves and have a channel to promote (and earn from) their creative work.

It would mean the world to me if you could check out the first episode, The Warehouse, and maybe consider following the podcast or subscribing to it. Below are links to the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. I may well be just shouting into the ether with this- but it's worth a try I suppose! I'm happy to answer any questions you might have too, so please feel free to get in touch! Thanks, Dan

EPISODE SYNOPSIS: Welcome to Mage With a Mic, the official (and compulsory) tourism podcast for the peculiar realm of Thither! Your host, Mage Doughball, newly appointed Head of Tourism under threat of execution, dives headfirst into the magical unknown with all the enthusiasm of a man who’d rather be anywhere else. In this debut episode, Doughball investigates a mysterious monthly gathering deep within Thither's enchanted forest. Every full moon, a mysterious warehouse appears and hosts a rave, only to be completely gone by sunrise...

[aroaceenjolras]

Respect sex averse/repulsed artists or leave.

I'm gonna say something, and it might make me sound like an extremist or a gatekeeper or whatever. But it needs to be said for my own sanity.

If you, as an ace person, are unaware enough of compulsory sexuality (and privileged enough under compulsory sexuality) to say shit like "art MUST be horny to have value", we are not part of the same community.

If you, as an ace person, have no issue with the sentiment that a person MUST be sexually expressive to make good and meaningful art, we are not part of the same community.

Yes. You are still a Valid Asexual™®©. But for what? Where does that validity get you if you're going to regularly express or pass along sentiments about how people who are not sexually expressive are a creative void who have never contributed anything of artistic value to the world? Where does being a Valid Ace get you if you're going to devalue the creative work of other asexuals? Why claim to be part of a community you're actively sabotaging?

It's not my concern which microlabels you use or how much sex you have or don't. If you use your platform to spread ideas that hurt us, I have some serious questions about why you want so badly to be one of us.

[letrune]

Why I don't like the "X is perversion"

So, let me give you the short version. I am a polyamorous transgender furry woman, likely asexual (jury is still out on that one), coming from Hungary. Every single one of these was called a perversion in one time of history, but especially now, they are treated like being either, like just being a furry, is to be at best ashamed of, and most a reason to isolate people like me from society forever - and that I should be thankful for nobody calling for my extermination at the government levels.

Except, you know. Some do. Some US and Russiand jerks had been calling for building what amounts to be gulags for being queer and furry and foreigner, and stuff people in for that alone; simply because "you are a pervert and want to harm the women and children because you are queer or a furry".

So... What do these people actually think? Someone likimg cartoonish anthro characters is to be throw into prison? Asexuals to be throw in some cell in a panopticon? Asexuals to be sent to a forced labour camp? All of us to shut up forever and never even peep online?

Because I heard thrse proposals and yes, actual ideas on how to exterminate us. To have death squads like it's Pol Pot's Cambodia. To round furries up and shoot them. To break into homes in the middle of night and drag people away for public executions. You know, this is like "let us murder anyone who likes Star Trek!".

Back in 2017 if I recall correctly, maybe 2016, I was at a protest. LGBTQ+ people wished to be tteated equally. A man from the government came over and told us: "Come on. Stop it. Be happy you are not shot into the Danube.", which is like telling anyone wishing queer equity "be happy you are not sent to Dachau.". That same sort of "just shut up and be happy we are not murder you, secondary citizens" attitude came out again a lot of time.

Furries who want to claim being a furry is inherently perverted, some queer people wanting to throw the rest under the bus to secure themselves some secondary citizen rank, and so much more...

Just feels like these people want to go "please Mr. Government, let me kill people you don't like as long as I can keep my life, I am happy to be beaten up if I step out of line but please do not hurt me, I am willing to beat others up, please just spare me". You know, quislings. People who happily handed out blindfolds and then realised there was one for themselves and got pushed to the wall too. People who happily rounded up others to be shot into the Danube, or stuffed into a cornhopper to Dachau, or called the secret police on.

This puritanical "destroy them, because being X is perverted" is obvious when you consider that they said the same of homosexuality, trans people, furries and asexuals. That they are inherently a danger and should be removed from society, any means necessary, just like how they also wanted to remove people of other countries, religions and skin colour.

These people are a danger to society and themselves, as they want others dead for simply existing. They want everyone else to fall in line to some cis-het-compulsory, patriarchal, no-creativity allowed, it-is-all-about-me world.

Furries and being queer predate agriculture. Being a xenophobe is relatively new, especially xenophobes who think the only solution is "kill anyone in this group".

[randomx123]

Should the Kanya Saraswatism Academy have something similar to houses??

Like yk sorting kids into their talent zones...

BUT based on their interests, like a house that focuses on arts more while one on learning and healing aspect

Like the house for Neel Saraswati (ig it would be blue house too) can focus more on subjects like medicine and science

The house for Matangi can focus more on arts and music and yk performing arts

Ugra Koushiki's can focus on physical education and martial arts

And Brahmani's house (if we are taking her as minor avatar too) can focus on the creativity aspects like architectures or biochemistry (idk if that makes sense also Vishwakarma cameo ig)

Ofc the students can choose the subjects mixed matched but ykwm

I've never heard of subjects being focused more on by a specific house, but... It makes sense here, I think? It's more like branches and streams tho...

Like, some subjects are just common and compulsory for all, but some subjects are for students who have been put in the house for apparent interest and capability in that subject?

[unhinged-as-hell]

Hello! Would anyone be interested in a Canon Marauders roleplay? you must be a minor, since that's what the mods decided they're comfortable with.

And when I say canon, I mean canon. All the characters will have to be as close to canon as possible. If you don’t know much about the character in canon, then you have to base your speculation on what we do know. It will all be canon, ships(expect Wolfstar), personalities(yes, including the characters that were canonically pricks), all of it. This means you will have to do your research on the character you want to play.

This doesn’t mean you won’t have creative liberties, of course. We know next to nothing about most of the Marauders era characters, so as long as your headcanons match the little we do know, then you can do whatever.

This is an experimental roleplay, and I know it sounds boring, but trust me. Learning about Regulus Black in canon and making headcanons based on what we know from just that was one of my hyperfixation for a reason. Not to mention wanting to learning about Ted Tonks, then realising we don’t know much of anything, and then comparing him and Tonks, and then searching Andromeda and basically minusing her from Tonks-I got Ted. Anyway- It’s really fun.

It also has a discord Roleplay! Not compulsory, just something on the side so we can get comfortable rping with each other out of the public eye.

The characters taken are: Regulus Black, Ted Tonks, Remus Lupin, Lily Evans, Pandora Rosier(we don’t canonically know if she was a Rosier but it gives us more to work with), Andromeda Black, Sirius Back, Bellatrix Black and Evan Rosier.

The characters that are free are: Barty Crouch Jr, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Alice Fortescue, Mary Macdonald, Marlene Mckinnon, Molly Prewett, Arthur Weasley, Frank Longbottom, Fabian Prewett, Gideon Prewett, Dorcas Meadows, Aamon(made up name) Avery, Malvolio(made up name) Mulciber, Lucius Malfoy, Severus Snape, Narcissa Black, Rodolphus Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, Gilderoy Lockhart, Rita Skeeter, Emmeline Vance, and Xenophilius Lovegood

So if you’re interested message me, @hellincarnation , or @lovely-rants-alot (yes we are only three people at the moment, and no you don’t have to three characters each, we are just insane :>)

Again this is just experimental, and not at all a mockery to the current marauders fandom. You respect us, we respect you.

Nobody in this rp supports Jkr.

DNI:

NSFW content Zionists Transphobia Homophobia Racism Sexism Nazis Xenophobes Proshippers Pedophiles

[lynnsh1fts]

―୨୧⋆ ˚about me

hi pretties

i go by lynn and i'm of asian descent, desperately trying to be obnoxiously multilingual, obsessed with philosophy and psychology and all things 'clean girl' or 'stockholm' aesthetic. i love all things classy and all things glamorous (contradicting, i know)

i think of myself to be someone relatively open minded but i'm also strong willed if i have a fixed opinion on something.

i have a best friend who's a shifter and i desperately need more shifter friends so i don't burn her head when i talk about my DR for the ten thousandth time so drop me a dm please! let's be moots

―୨୧⋆ ˚my shifting journey

i learnt of shifting through my best friend in 2020 and i've been a shifter ever since.

i've had a very on and off relationship with shifting since 2020, taking a huge break (unconsciously...i just forgot about it let's be so for real now) for a year or two and only seriously getting back in mid 2023. i've tried multiple methods, had episodes where i doubted shifting itself and my abilities but eventually i've come to accept and trust shifting and myself because i believe wholeheartedly that all those who know of and believe in shifting will shift.

ever since i was a little girl, i remember getting so upset at the very fact i couldn't be a thousand different characters; live a thousand different lives; and experience whatever i've read and watched. i remember thinking to myself, "why do i have to live a life where i can only do one thing and live only one path?" and this is honestly what keeps me going. i know i came to know of shifting for a reason.

i personally believe in the multiverse theory and i just love the fact that being a shifter allows one to be so much more grateful, experience so much more, be mpre creative, and essentially experience quantum immortality (just my take on shifting!)

―୨୧⋆ ˚my DRs

1. harry potter

honestly, i only scripted one DR (it's not compulsory to script but i just love being organized) but the following will be DRs that i plan to script when i feel up to it

i'm in slytherin, a pureblood and my S/O is theodore faustus nott (MY MAN MY MAN MY MAN). my patronus is a panther and i scripted out the battle of hogwarts (your girl is just a wee bit scared of watching others die!)

i absolutely adore harry potter shifters and please please let's be moots my fellow hogwarts goers

۶ৎnot in order of preference۶ৎ

2. star wars

3. baby

4. better cr

5. heartbreak high

6. fame dr

7. the godfather

8. bridgerton

9. gossip girl

10. mixte 1963

11. hogwarts (knights of walpurgis era)

11. derry girls

―୨୧⋆ ˚a little more info about me

favourite artists (as of right now because i can't stick to a few for the love of my life):

- gracie abrams

- lana del ray

- tate mcrae

- jade lemac

- xtina gg

- lucy grey

- nessa barrett

favourite books:

- the hunger games trilogy

- the war that saved my life

- the adventures of tintin (all of them)

- fourth wing

―୨୧⋆ ˚aim of this

i aim to share my personal journey, thought process, and whatever that might help others. be it introducing shifting (as i know it), giving scripting inspiration (again, not a must to script), or just sharing my experiences, i hope you guys enjoy it and we can be friends in this shifting community! (PLEASE DON'T BE SCARED TO DM i'll answer)

[iridescentis]

Ride The Cyclone Sims 4 Legacy Challenge! 🎢💚

Welcome to the RTC Legacy challenge! This idea was created by me and @nischabrainrot a while ago and I think it deserves to be shown to the world! So here it is! :D

You have to be this tall to ride the cyclone (rules):

No cheats, beyond the usual (CAS, build, etc - no money cheats!)

You may alter any generation if you don’t have the pack(s) required and find base game alternatives to goals, but any rules you are capable of doing are compulsory. 

All generations must reach level 5 singing, to honour the Saint Cassian choir

Google Doc is here and the generations are listed below!

Generation 1: Noel Gruber Alone on the streets, you've gotta do what it takes to survive. Scavenge, homewreck, take money from rich old men, you do what you have to. You always wanted bad love, but maybe that's not all there is to life?

Aspiration: Serial Romantic

Traits: Romantic, Creative, Bookworm

Career: N/A

Requires: City Living

Rules

Start with 0 simoleons in a small unfurnished apartment (or an empty lot if you prefer)

You cannot be employed, you may make money however you see fit except from a job, options include: finding and selling collectibles, writing books, theft, marrying for money, homewrecking old married men and taking their money, and so on.

You cannot find a “soulmate” or healthy, long-term relationship until you have completed the serial romantic aspiration. If you never complete it, you must die alone.

If you don’t complete the aspiration, you can only have one child, to be your heir (either via science baby or a one-night stand if your sim/the sim you hook up with can get pregnant).

If you do complete the aspiration, fall in love and marry your soulmate, and have as many kids as you want. 

Generation 2: Misha Bachynskyi Growing up, you either rotted away in a dingy apartment with your parent, hopping between old dudes’ mansions for quick cash, or flourished in a loving family, your parent the strongest, and most morally questionable person you know. Regardless, your upbringing was weird. Maybe it was the instability, or your parent’s shady background, but a strong, rageful passion within you craves to run away, leave your hometown behind and start something new, a path towards stardom, your name on billboards. Secretly though, there’s a part of you that dreams of falling in love along the way.

Aspiration: Soulmate

Traits: Hot-headed, Materialistic, Romantic

Career: Freelance Musician (Music Production) -Youtuber - Streamer

Requires: Get Famous and High School Years + Get to Work/Dine Out

Rules:

If you grew up in a house, have your bedroom be in the basement.

As a teen, cause trouble at school: pranking, arguments, fights etc. Fight all bullies you see at high school, any time you see bullying at school, beat up the bully.

[Requires Lovestruck or a mod] Find a partner on a dating app.

Join a high school extracurricular activity and befriend at least one of your teammates.

Either: break up with your partner and become high school sweethearts with one of your teammates, or meet and exchange promise rings with the partner you met online. Whichever you choose, you must stay with them forever.

Max the media production skill + 1 performance skill of your choice (Singing Lvl 5 is already compulsory, but you can max that as your added skill, or choose something else like Dancing or Acting)

[Requires Parenthood, optional] Age up to YA with the Argumentative trait (low conflict resolution)

Once you are a young adult, move out of your family home and start your full time career. It is up to you whether you want to live solely off music production, or also become a youtuber/streamer as well, but you can’t join a normal career.

Marry your long-term partner and have 3+ kids, with a significant age gap between them (for example, a new baby towards the very end of adulthood)

[Requires Get to Work/Dine Out] Have your spouse open a cafe/bakery as soon as you get married, and run the shop with your kids.

Generation 3: Constance Blackwood You love your family, more than anything. Living in a big family home with your parents, who are still passionately in love and always have been, and your siblings, who you spent most of your free time growing up playing with and taking care of. You’re your family’s superstar, friend to all, nicest person in town, and one day you’ll take over the family business. But is that really all there is to life?

Aspiration: Big Happy Family

Traits: Good, Foodie, Family Oriented

Career: Running the family business!

Requires: Get to Work/Dine Out

Rules:

Have maxed relationships with all family members.

Max the social skill as a child

Maintain 5+ friendships outside family at all times

[Optional, requires Get Famous/Seasons] Join either Scouts or Drama club as a child and stay until you’re a young adult

Befriend a sim (as a child/teen) with one of the following traits: Self-Assured, Perfectionist, Self-Absorbed, Overachiever or High Maintenance. This sim will be your best friend.

As a teen, run the cafe/bakery after school and on weekends, and bake something every day

Go to every prom [Bonus: always go to prom as friends with your best friend, regardless of potential love interests]

[Requires Parenthood] Age up to YA with the Mediator trait (high conflict resolution)

If your best friend ages up to YA with a positive trait, stay best friends and/or date them. If your best friend ages up to YA with a negative trait, argue and end the friendship.

Max the cooking and baking skills

You must accept any and all invitations to festivals, no matter what, to honour the fall fair

Get married to your chosen partner quickly, ASAP. Move them into your family home as soon as you do - your family wouldn’t want you to move out!

When you age up to Adult, have a midlife crisis and start a new career. If your game gives you a midlife crisis on its own, follow every single request, no exceptions. 

Have one child, or have your youngest be the heir. 

Generation 4: Ricky Potts Your family love you, they do, but with so many people in one house, all the chaos of your multi-generational household, you fade into the background. So, alone with your boundless imagination, you dream and dream and dream, never quite understood by your peers, until you meet the right ones. All you know? Aliens are really hot.

Aspiration: Nerd Brain

Traits: Creative, Geek, Loyal

Career: Scientist

Requires: Get to Work and Cats & Dogs

Rules:

Max mental and creative skills as a child

Read every Sci-Fi book and watch movies daily

Have a pen-pal

[Requires Parenthood] Age up to YA with the Compassionate trait (high empathy)

[Requires City Living] Win the Ultimate Gaming Test and/or the Hackathon at Geekcon

Max the video gaming skill

Complete your aspiration, and switch to Friend of the Animals

Travel to sixam and meet aliens. Romance and marry one of the aliens, moving with them into a new home.

[Optional, requires Strangerville: Complete the Strangerville story and live there with your family]

Have 2+ kids with your spouse

Any space you have in your household, fill with cats. If you have your sim, your spouse, and 2 kids, you must have 4 cats. Your household must always be at 8 sims (the maximum), with as many cats as you can fit.

Generation 5: Ocean O’Connell Rosenberg Of all the people to be born into such an unconventional, unapologetically weird family, you wish it wasn’t you. You don’t hate your family, that would be extreme, but sometimes you find yourself as the white sheep of the family, the odd one out, the only normal one. Naturally, you harbour some resentment as a result. That’s not the only problem. No matter how much you convince yourself you’re the normal one, you have a secret that nobody outside of your family knows. How are you supposed to become the prime minister if everyone knows you’re an alien?!

Aspiration: Academic

Traits: Perfectionist, Ambitious, Snob

Career: Politician

Requires: City Living and Discover University [ + Get to Work]

Rules:

Have a strained relationship with family members (below 50 relationship points).

Get straight A grades all throughout education. Graduate early if possible

Either join an extracurricular activity, side hustle or part time job

Attempt to make friends, but use critical and condescending interactions with them, making attempts strained.

Keep your alien identity a secret as much as possible and anyone who finds out, becomes your enemy, however you see fit.

[Requires Parenthood] Age up to YA with the Responsible trait (high responsibility). 

Go to university and earn a History degree, this will advance you into your politics career

Mend poor relationships of the past - apologise to and befriend old friends, resolve enemies, reconnect with family, and try to be a better person.

Max the politics career, becoming National Leader AKA the president

Either marry an old friend you reunited with, a coworker, or remain single, but regardless of your relationship status, have two children.

Generation 6: Penny Lamb/Jane Doe

Raised by the president, with Alien DNA and a wild family history, it’s impossible for you to be invisible, even if you wanted to be. For the most part, you kept your head down, tried to avoid trouble and stayed in your lane, only causing a little trouble here and there with your sibling. That was until, through a friend of yours, you found the greatest sim to ever walk the earth, the most talented and admirable celebrity of your dreams, who you would do anything to meet and express your love for. Hang on a second, what rebrand?!

Aspiration: [Teen: Drama Llama] Country Caretaker/Friend of the Animals

Traits: Clumsy, Socially Awkward, Erratic

Career: Farmer

Requires: Get Famous, Cottage Living, My First Pet Stuff

Rules:

Become best friends with your sibling.

Complete your teen aspiration

Befriend a classmate as a child/teen. They, and your sibling, are your only friends. 

Early in your teens, find a celebrity to obsess over. During your mid teens, drastically change this celebrity [in CAS, go into their household and just change them up however you want] then HATE them. Attempt to attack and fight this celebrity.

Drop out of highschool out of embarrassment, and move out with your sibling and friend out of town, to an empty plot.

Start a farm on your new plot and become a full time farmer, still as a teen.

Buy a rat, and name him Virgil. As soon as Virgil dies, so do you, in any way you can. Suggestions: Buy a telescope and use it until you get hit by a meteor, grow a cowplant and let it eat you, or be killed by a Killer Rabbit/Chicken

Bonus, for fun, rename the Grim Reaper Karnak.