#difficult pool

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[shemaegomez]

San Francisco Modern Pool Inspiration for a huge modern backyard concrete paver and rectangular lap pool landscaping remodel

[slavicafire]

a whole bunch of wagtails, yellow-bellied, sits in the blooming wild cherry tree that I'm, well, sitting in as well. I'm trying not to move - not to spook the birds but also not to spook the roe deer I can see sleeping in the blackthorn bushes below. the sun kisses my face fiercely as I look up to watch the buzzards circling above us: a pair, soaring and sky-dancing together, calling out loudly.

the young sorrel I brought with me up into the tree is overwhelmingly sour. can't wait until there'll be fruit, too, to balance it out - but for now it's just the wind that's sweet, and the water from the tiny mountain spring below me. and that's alright

[overchromatic]

im probably gonna be posting here less frequently for a while due to. Medical Issues.

[camellcat]

I dunno if this was just sunalso being absolutely brilliant here, but are there more any more spuffy actor aus? I know of a sweet oneshot by violetta but I'm hungering for some longer stuff if there's more

[rangerpippin]

Yes yes it's not the dark itself, it's what's in the dark, yes yes what if something comes out of the dark what if it touches you and you can't see what it is yes i understand but what if it was a cat. what if as you sat in the darkness and the thing touched you you could tell that it was a cat. And what if even though it's so pitch black that you can't tell if you can see your hand in front of your face or if you're only imagining, you know somehow that the cat is as inky black as the darkness itself. What if you could feel it rubbing itself noiselessly past you, making friendly overtures. What if you felt it throw itself comfortably across your feet and stretch out its paws. What if it rubbed its little head against you. What if it climbed up into your lap with the calm assurance of a creature who can see perfectly well where it is going even if you cannot and has decided it can trust you even though you've never met. What if this little piece of the inky black night sensed your fear and sadness and decided to comfort you. What then

[julpernulper]

i somehow managed to evade getting invited to a pool party until july.

[doodlingwren]

Time to lock in

(voting in the Saint Seiya queer pool)

[lilbittymonster]

-lays down- the fic is finished weeeee

I need to not look at it for like 12 hours but it should go up tomorrow (today? time is fuzzy)

[rxttenfish]

it does continue to annoy me that there's no perfume out there that adequately captures the scent of the ocean. like, i know WHY this is so difficult to make or to find, but at the same time, you would think it would exist already with how many scents aim at something aquatic!

[merlions]

Not to be a conspiracy theorist but I have this suspicion that in the next decade or so we will discover something (almost certainly a heritable gene alteration, likely from either prolonged stress or smth environmental - I want to say in water most likely but hey, ya cant rule out teflon or like ibuprofen even) which has some really specific effects on some extremely narrow, specialized type of cells in/related to the thymus specifically, and it's gonna be for autoimmune diseases what germ theory was for infectious diseases + the discovery of the parathyroid glands all at once

[clannfearrunt]

Is it just me or do rill and you headcanons for warabi have similar backstories? They could hang out

my splatband stuff is deprecated at this point (esp stuff from before Haikara Walker released and shook stuff up) but the similarity ends at the interspecies adoption idea. It's a favorite space to explore and I do it pretty frequently bc there's a lot of angles to take it. That aside Rill actually hates music like some kind of villain from a children's animated movie, and he also dislikes other rich people, so I think he would absolutely fucking hate interacting with Warabi on multiple levels

On a vaguely related note a musician Rill actually has met is Pearl; they happened to be at the same party a few years ago. Pearl probably would not recognize him and he is fine with this. He Does Not Like Her. Do not fucking tell her who his father is he doesn't want to acknowledge they've met before and he doesn't want her to learn his face. Nightmare

[gikairan]

Big Crab! BIG CRAB! BIG CRAB!! 🦀🦀🦀

[dykesynthezoid]

I’ll be honest if it were me I could not just announce in my dating profile that I was “femme4femme” like that would be embarrassing 2 me. Truly

[kedreeva]

Do you know things about peacock pheasants that you could share? (Any variety, I think they’re super cool and would love to keep some someday maybe)

I do not know very much about peacock pheasants, since I've never kept nor wanted to keep them, but I know that they are a very uncommon, expensive, difficult-to-keep pheasant regardless of which species. I have a friend that keeps a pair, or was keeping a pair of palawans (I think she lost the hen this winter), and even though she keeps peafowl and a few other types of fowl, and has kept himalayan monals before even, these were worse. My understanding is that they need a lot of space, and are delicate, wild birds.

Unless you have a lot of experience keeping pheasants in general, I'd pick a different, hardier breed that is a bit cheaper, like some mutant ringnecks or even varieties of golden pheasant. They're both sought after for pelts and/or meat, and pretty widely available. Even silver or amhearst are easier finds, easier to keep alive, and cheaper to acquire than peacock pheasants (and I mean like, there's a COUPLE of peacock pheasant breeders in the entire US and babies are HUNDREDS of dollars and you'll be on a waitlist, vs if you have $5-20 and are willing to lose sleep for a night you can go get a ringneck or a golden pheasant morph from a bird swap or livestock auction basically every weekend in the summer here) and less of a loss to the community of keepers as a whole if you make mistakes and lose a bird. Obviously no one wants to lose any bird, but the impact to the breeding pool for peacock pheasants is so much greater a loss than it would be for the others, it's just not worth the risk to try to start there, both for you and for the birds.

[victorluvsalice]

Hi everyone -- if you're a Sims 4 player, you may have seen that, back at the beginning of April, EA did a surprise SDX drop with various Pride-rated Build/Buy objects and CAS assets! I'm not sure why they did this in April, but I'm not going to say no to more fun Pride stuff in the game. :) Anyway, I hit my current building save a couple of weeks ago to check out the new stuff, which resulted in some updates to the Polyheart OT3 House and a mini-dress-up session with one of the Valicer trios living in my Library. And I figured it was about time I got around to sharing the results of that playsession with all of you! :) Let's start with the house and the new Build/Buy stuff I added all around the shop --

Bedroom – Checking out the new “Burst of Pride” beds (single and double versions) out on the front lawn by the pool (oh yes, the house now has a pool! A heart-shaped one no less) led me to realize that I’d never actually checked out any of the non-base-game loft bed options for the trio’s bed set up! (As a reminder, this is a double bed tucked under a loft bed (inspired by this "third wheel" bed), with the idea that the lower bed is for everybody, but the upper bed is for Alice should she want to sleep alone but not alone alone.) So, in the hopes of finding something better than the sad little metal-framed base-game loft bed I was using, I took a look through my options from Horse Ranch, Werewolves, and Growing Together. There were definitely some fun patterns and colors in there (lots of great stuff for a kid’s bedroom in particular), but in the end I ended up going with the “Cormac Pine Bunk” bed from Horse Ranch that had a nice red-and-black swatch that I thought went pretty well with the red-and-black theme of Alice’s personal room. I mean, it’s supposed to be HER bed in particular, so, yeah. I then swapped out the High Schools Years double bed I was using as a base for the “Burst of Pride” double bed in the pansexual swatch – it was bright and colorful, AND that particular swatch was the closest match for having all the trio’s colors (yeah, it’s yellow, blue, and PINK, but I’ve used pink for Alice elsewhere in the build, so…). So now the trio has some new beds! That’s nice! :)

As for the rest of the room, while I didn’t change the position of the rugs or the furniture or anything, I did rearrange the wall decorations a bit – after trying and failing to put the “Colorfully Eclectic Wall Gallery” somewhere in there (it was just a TINY bit too big for the space they had available), I ended up putting the calendar and wall clock in slightly different places above the dresser (the calendar closer to the door, the wall clock closer to the side wall), and swapping the positions of one of the poster collections and the painted-records-and-CDs collection – now the former is on the wall next to the bed, beside the other big poster collection, and the latter is on the wall beside the bathroom door, behind the hamper and the big corner plant. Just thought it looked a bit better, and the plant doesn’t cover up the painted CDs and records like it did the poster collection, so extra bonus there! :)

Left-Hand Hallway – Just added the new “Knitted Pride Flag” wall hanging to the wall here, beside the big picture of the lady with the wacky hair and across from the door to the trio’s bedroom – went with the most inclusive version of the flag, of course, with the rainbow stripes, Black pride and trans triangles, and intersex symbol. *nods* Nice. :D

Living Room – I ended up putting the “Colorfully Eclectic Wall Gallery” art in here instead, on the wall beside the game table (it contains a clock among all the various bits of art, so I figured it would be handy there). The trio of bird pictures that was in that spot previously ended up going on the wall behind the TV, as that seemed like the best spot for them – meaning the big bright fancy mural I had there had to go somewhere else because now it was a little too covered up for my liking. I ended up sizing it back up one and putting it on the outside wall by the pool, because I thought it looked good there and was a bit of fun. I REALLY wanted to put it on the wall next to the outdoor dining table, near the grilling area (which also now exists), but the game wouldn’t let me because that’s where the straight wall transitions to the curved one, and apparently it wasn’t fully supported by the wall there. (I have since "bb.moveobjects on"-ed it to the spot by the table where I originally wanted to place it -- you'll see it there when I do a proper update on what I've been doing to the yard around the build! For now, enjoy the sneak peek at the heart-shaped pool. :D <3 )

Front Foyer – Another simple one – I replaced the base game wall-mounted coat rack I had in there above the shoe rack with the “Out & About Wall Shelf,” since that has a coat, bag, and lanyard dangling from it, meaning it looked like it belonged perfectly in that space. :D And yes, I went with the “pansexual” swatch again, because it reamined the best match for the trio’s colors. *nods approvingly* (And also, I mean, Smiler IS pansexual as well -- I just lean into the nonbinary stuff for them because that's the flag that matches the coaster's colors.)

Smiler’s Room – Speaking of which – as my last action, I replaced the regular nonbinary flag they had up on their wall with the new “Pride Rocks! Collage” in the nonbinary swatch (because that sort of photo collage with a flag signed by their friends is EXACTLY the sort of thing they’d have on their wall)! Though, uh, after fiddling with their wall decorations for a bit to see where it looked best, I ended up REDOING THE PATTERN OF YELLOW-AND-BLACK-STRIPES ON THEIR WALLS just so I could get the darker-themed side of the collage on a yellow stripe and the lighter-themed side on a black stripe by their computer, because that’s where and how it looked best. *shakehead* Not like it was the hugest deal to swap the stripes, but seriously, Vic. You couldn’t just live with it the other way? (Survey says: “no, I like it much better like this.”)

*nods* Nice stuff, right? I really like these new objects and decorations -- they're very fun, and they suit this particular house to a tee. And I'm definitely using that "Pride Rocks! Collage" deco in any place my Smiler lives going forward. :) But how did the CAS items rank in my estimation? You'll find out in the next post!