#does NOT work in compatability mode

[trannykong]

I absolutely tried to fix it and I absolutely made the problem infinitely worse but we took at least ONE step in the right direction after like 4 hours of troubleshooting

Not the biggest deal in the world but I'm sad that my VPN isn't connecting for some reason. It updated recently and has been wonky since then, unsure why

[fishnapple]

You in their eyes, how do they see you?

(Future spouse/partner/lover)

This is a general reading meant for multiple people. Take only what resonates and leave out the rest.

Your feedback is much appreciated. If you find the reading resonated with you, leave a comment, I’d love to know 🎐

About me | Masterpost Book a reading with me - KO-FI (→ personal reading)

MAELSTROM

• Spirit animal: Turtle

You're a balanced combination of both soft, mysterious energy and firm, assertive energy. They can definitely see that you have mental compatibility with each other. Words flow between you effortlessly, conversations would take hours without anyone noticing time was flying by. They can talk about anything with you without fear of judgement and misunderstanding. You stimulate their mind, and when conflicts arise, you can discuss them logically with clarity without letting emotions take over you. This make problems solving between you and them easier, leaving less space for resentment and unresolved feelings.

You seem reserved and quiet in their eyes. Your display of emotions and affection is subtle and intuitive, a quiet devotion that embraces them every day without suffocating them. Though, sometimes, they would have difficulties in trying to decipher your deeper feelings, to understand you at your core, the part that you conceal from them.

But they admire your ability to embrace your inner child fully. They know that this didn't come naturally for you, there's a journey behind it, lessons and hardship you had to go through in order to protect and bring your inner child to the world, no matter how you're perceived. They love this courage, this fearless attitude when you have to face people's opinions, you don't let yourself be swayed by them. Sometimes, you can even be rebellious. But the funny thing is, the more you fight, the more rebellious you're, the more attractive you're in their eyes. And it's not like you go about it in an aggressive and confrontional method. You do you, unapologetically, like a child unaware of how seemingly "odd" their behaviour is in other's eyes. But they know you're not childish. Behind that oblivious attitude is a strong sense of self, a wise person, ruling their own inner kingdom with iron fists. Like a ballerina, their movements can be so graceful only because they've spent endless hours discipline themselves and practised.

Sometimes, they can think that you're being too engrossed in the pursuit of material achievements, like you're always in preparation mode for some disasters looming in the distant future. Greedy might be too strong of a word, but they can view you as materialistic or have a mindset of lack. They understand that material security is very important to you. You need to feel a strong foundation under your feet to feel safe. That can make you overwork yourself to the point of exhaustion, always looking for the next thing to do. But they can see you putting that same effort in making the relationship work, you care about them and are willing to take care of things to make their life easier. They will feel that you're always there when they need you, your presence is a constant that is very much needed in their life. They would feel empty, a part of them is missing when you're away.

SEA FOAM

• Spirit animal: Fish

They think you're their good karma (if you believe in the concept of karma) or a reward, a surprise given to them by some higher powers. I see the image of someone being ushered into someone's life. Both parties can be quite reluctant at first, but as fate has it, you and them need to be together. There's a heavy element of fatefulness in this connection, or so that's how they see it. You are destined to love each other, no matter how much both of you try to deny or run away from it.

I think you will be the one who does the running away in the beginning. You seem "hard to catch", like trying to catch a fish with their bare hands. You would fleet in and out of their life at first, they can't seem to figure you out. But your presence will be a pushing force in their life, pushing them into a different direction, to where they are afraid to tread but secretly wish to.

In their eyes, you can be a little immature or temperamental, acting on whims of the moment. This makes you exciting and unique but sometimes, also agitating and hard to pin down. It's like they're torn between the feeling of love and frustration for you. Their personality probably is more serious and intense than yours. They want to be in the deep water with their lover, but you seem to refuse to swim there with them. But they will always want to care for you, to protect you from the harsh world outside.

The way you talk and act just exudes a young and pure energy, as of someone who, just for the first time, allowed to go outside to explore. You might talk a lot (compare to them), you ask questions, sometimes funny one, sometimes philosophical one, sometimes silly one. They will like to indulge you, patiently answer each one of your questions, then sometimes they can get irritated and start to lecture you, to that, you will just ask more questions. You want to learn, to understand this world. Behind that seemingly busy bee mind is a yearning to explore, to be free and soaring. And even if they can't fly with you, they sure will gather all the winds to lift your wings, instead of trying to pull you down into their water (who's the fish here?).

Your habits might be a little more messy or undisciplined compared to this person. You seem confused lots of times and don't have a good grasp of how to navigate your daily life efficiently, yet miraculously, you still swim through life effortlessly, much to their amazement. You don't fret too much about the future, somehow always arrive at the desired destination on time, things just work out for you, as if you just need to focus on taking good care of yourself and be contented, the rest will be taken care of for you by some mysterious force. This contrasts sharply with their approach to life, always planning ahead, always wanting to control the outcome. This creates a complementary dynamic between you two. Where you need structure, they provide, where they need spontaneity, you provide. In the end, no matter how different you guys are, you just fit each other neatly, like puzzle pieces.

SANDSTORM

• Spirit animal: Swan

They just know that you're the perfect partner for them, the one they need to get married to or at least make a serious, long-term commitment. You just possess all the qualities they seek in a spouse, the thought of committing probably will appear in their mind early on. You have a natural ability to understand them, nurture and protect them, at the same time, be a reliable pillar of strength for them. You are serious in your commitment, never take feelings for granted, you date with marriage as end goal in mind. They also think you would make a good parent, someone with enough tenderness and discipline to raise children with good balance.

Your work might involve lots of travelling and communicating. They can see that these are prominent parts of your life, demanding a large chunk of your time. They think that you tend to overwork yourself, being too engrossed in working, you're always busy, I wonder if this also means that you don't spend enough time with them, they feel like they have to demand for your time, to take you away from whatever is bothering your mind. Security is very important to you, you need to feel abundant to feel safe, yet they think you hardly ever feel that way, hence the constant working. They will want to help you in this area, just like how you help them. You mirror each other, in energy, in intentions, both of you want to care for each other in the same way as the other person does.

They probably like to hear your voice, be it talking, singing, or making other sounds. It feels soothing and calming for them. What you say also brings a new perspective, widening their view about the world. They sometimes see you as a teacher, whom they should listen to and want to be guided by. You just move through life gracefully, always open to new adventure, but still leave space for contemplating deeper meanings about everything. Like a philosopher wandering through life, observing the world, and sharing wisdom with the people. You need to be constantly in motion, travelling, or just moving around, and they're happy to be your companion, though they might sometimes want to slow down and rest a little.

They think you have a lot to uncover. You hide a huge treasure of deep love inside, something too intense for you to confidently show to the world. They would be sad to see you lock your dreams away, and they are willing to help make your dreams come true, if you would just ask them to. Your inner child is also someone they want to get close to. You seem to be disconnected from your inner child. They can feel that you want to connect, but something in your psyche is scaring your inner child away, making them reluctant to join the "family". From the outside, this makes you look a little cold or unaffectionate, you're discreet with your love, only ever bring it out when you completely trust someone.  They would want to reach out their hands and pull your inner child closer, to give your inner child a hug.

DUSK

• Spirit animal: Phoenix

They think that you being in a relationship with them is be a big step away from your past wounds. Not that they want the credit for themselves, but as an admiration for you, for your strength. They can see that you had a great fear concerning relationship and commitment in general. Maybe you have been burnt in the past, childhood baggage, and the bad examples you saw around you made you wary of love. So choosing to be in a relationship with someone, being committed to that person, trusting that person enough to share yourself with them, all of these are really brave actions in their eyes. It shows that you don't let your past hold you back and define you, you rise above it and are willing to change, to choose happiness for yourself.  Sometimes, they would reminisce about the initial getting-to-know-each-other phase, how many obstacles they saw in your connection, and how hard it was for them to gain your trust and affection. They would even tease you for it.

Your life seems to be ridden with changes of direction. You're not meant to stay still in one place, both mentally and physically. Life will always present you some events to push you to move. You can't stay stagnant, if you think you're contented with the current situation, then sure enough, there would be an event, an opportunity appearing in front of you, making you reevaluate your current direction in life. So life with you definitely won't lack movements and changes. Another thing is, you also actively seek to restructure your life. From small hobbies to big life decisions, you can be pretty random and go with the flow. You would change the plan at the last minute, planning to turn left, then suddenly turn right because something caught your attention that made you change your mind. Or some mornings, you would suddenly announce that you will take up a new hobby, register for a dance class, learning new language etc. without prior warning.

Life with you would be busy, you always have something to do, a task to complete, a news to watch, a track to run, a book to read. It's like they can't never see you being still. Maybe that also made them feel like you were afraid of commitment when they first got to know you. They could feel that you're too busy for love. But of course, that's not true, being a busy bee is just who you are, and over time, they've gotten used to it and adapted to it well. That busy energy also shows itself in the way you talk. Maybe you talk a lot, very fast, always have something witty to say. They love your humour, your ability to look at yourself, and joke without being defensive. The way you express your ideas and emotions is clear and rational but not cold. You know when to offer the softest words of encouragement and when to debate with the sharpest points.

They think you like to beautify yourself, you like beautiful things but at the same time you seem to be reluctant to spend on yourself, almost like you're stingy with yourself. Even if you like something, you might rationalise and deny yourself that thing. You want to earn lots of money yet don't feel comfortable spending it, especially for yourself. They know this trait of yours, so they will try to guess your desire and get it for you. You're not stingy with them or everyone, though, you're likely to pour your resources into the people you love and the house you share with them. You might like to beautify the house instead. Which is where you would like to stay a lot. You can seem like a homebody to them (with all the busy work) but you will have to go out and make an appearance in the world and they know the world loves you.

SIERRA

• Spirit animal: Phoenix

If they were the wind, they would lift your wings up as much as they could. Your person sees so much potential in you, so many talents, yet you're limiting yourself with your fears. You have an enormous desire to learn and expand your mind. But you also fear going deeper. You might be the kind of person who learns various subjects simultaneously, has a good grasp of everything, but doesn't dig too deep into any particular subjects. Not because you're shallow or impatient, it's the opposite, you know that once you've engrossed yourself in something, you go all in, it would get to the core really fast, and this drains your time and energy so much, you're reluctant to dive in. You also know that there will be hidden things inside you that need to be uncovered if you were to go any deeper. But they think you have the strength to do this because they understand, deep down, you're much happier when you devote yourself to something.

And they know you devote yourself to them and the relationship. Once you're in a commitment, you take it seriously, you see your life as an entanglement with each other, not just one's own anymore. In a way, you're a team person, someone who has a talent for working with people. This makes being in a relationship with you so much easier. Because you're willing to cooperate and want to make a team effort to build the relationship strong, instead of demanding from a selfish stance.

But you're not a pushover or a people pleaser in their eyes. Your individuality shines intensely. You have no trouble being yourself, you can't help being yourself. Even if you wear normal clothing like everyone else, blending in quietly, you still somehow stand out to them. Like a visible halo around you is beckoning them. They admire your creative energy so much, if they're ever short of ideas, they can always turn to you to get some. If you want to pursue some creative endeavours, they would probably encourage and support you wholeheartedly. Because they believe in you.

They also love your playful side, which you only show to a few close ones, and only in a comfortable space. You appear much more serious in public than when you're with them in private. When you're home with them, you can be tender, childish but also very seductive, you show yourself fully to them. You can act silly, making jokes all the time with them, being competitive in games, or playing pranks on them. But all of those are saved for alone time together. Outside, to the world, you're more uptight, serious. People also respect you a lot, looking up to you like a teacher. What you say probably are well listened to by people. You appear as a wise, mature friend, whom people can come to for sound advice. Your person would sometimes chuckle quietly to themselves whenever they see you out in public or with acquaintances. Those people wouldn't imagine how you would act in private, imagine their reaction when they found out some of your silly jokes. They definitely think you have the world fooled.

RIVER

• Spirit animal: Lamb

You're a quiet presence that haunts their psyche in an inexplicable way. They sometimes can't understand why they're so drawn to you, they have that feeling in their heart, but they can't put it into word. If someone asks your person how they feel about you, they would stumble a bit and would take a long time to come up with a coherent answer. Don't mistake this for their lack of affection or commitment, they just haven't fully comprehended your effect on them. When they hear the question, in their mind, the image of you would be conjured up in so many different ways and different areas, it's like you're everywhere.

They admire your grace under pressure. Your quietness doesn't mean you're meek or naive. Your energy is pure and wise. The hardship you encountered in the past didn't turn you into a bitter and cold person. On the contrary, you developed compassion for other's suffering. Everyone has their own story and they deserve to tell them without shame. Each pain is traded with wisdom. They probably wish to learn a thing or two from your stoicism. You're here, in the present, you don't put your mind to needless worrying nor do you cling to the past.

You're the person they would always turn to when they need an advice, your words have a stabilising effect on them, you make them believe that everything will be okay in the end, that they're safe and sound. You might not talk a lot, superfluous information doesn't interest you, but each word holds values. You can talk about deep and taboo topics without judgement, fear or prejudice. Your person will also love your voice, it sounds tender and calming, though they may wish that you would talk more so that they can hear your voice more.

They do notice, when they've gotten closer to you, that you tend to hold in your anger, you don't want it to affect other people, but your person will worry that this can affect you negatively. You also hold your drive and ambitions close to your chest, refusing to disclose them to others. You work silently, diligently towards your goals. It's like you don't want to show anything too overt, your emotions, your struggle, your passion, they are kept simmering inside, while outwardly, you show a serene and placid disposition.

In love, you show a more relaxed energy to them, like a child finally out of the house after a heavy rain, enjoying the freshness and the earthy scent of everything. You can act a little more erratic with them than when you're with other people. Maybe they adore that side of you or more tolerate towards it. You can be unpredictable, not showing your cards fully. They sometimes have to guess how much you love them, how you feel about them. They can ask you for your opinion about other matters and receive practical and solid answers from you, but when the questions change to the topic of personal feelings and love, you can be elusive. This frustrates them greatly but also pull them to you greatly. You're like the muse and the poet at the same time. And they're your avid reader.

[dacrystalsim]

TS3 Functional Closet Mod

The idea for this mod started with my want to convert TS2 Apartment Life closet. I could have used the Supernatural wardrobe as a base, but I wanted the doors to have proper animations and the ability to function like real closet doors against the wall, similar to how doors work in the game. So, this mod was created! 😊

What is this mod?

This mod functions as a dresser but includes a new animation that allows the doors to slide open like an actual closet. When the closet opens and closes, the Sim plays an idle animation, and when changing clothes, they use the spin animation.

The mod includes two different types, depending on the closet:

Dresser Type – Offers the same interactions as the base game dresser. This type is best for closets without mirrors.

Mirror Type – Includes interactions from the vanity table in Supernatural and Showtime (Don’t worry, the mod is 100% base game compatible!).

Important! This mod does not add a closet object to the game by itself. It only provides the necessary functionality for closet objects to work properly!

The Closet Object:

As mentioned earlier, this mod was created because I wanted to convert TS2 closet. The conversion is included with the mod, and you're welcome to use it as a base for creating your own closets! 😊

The closet comes in three different versions:

Opaque

Mirror – This version is split into two parts: the closet and a separate mirror for the animated door. To use it properly, simply place the mirror on the closet—it will slot into place and move with the door 😊

Glass

Both merged and unmerged versions are included—please install only one! (The merged file does not include the mod itself.)

How to Install?

Place the mod and the closet objects in your Mods/Packages folder.

Download links:

[SFS] | [MTS]

Credits: EA/Maxis, Blender, SimPE, S3PE, S3OC, TSRW, ILSpy, Visual Studio 2022 and Battery for the Script Mod Template Creator. Special thanks: @zoeoe-sims, @deniisu-sims, TS3CreatorCave discord server for all the help and Bloom from simlogical for creating a mirror door that I used as a reference to figure out how to make the closet move with the mirror ❤ @xto3conversionsfinds @pis3update @kpccfinds

Additional information, CASTable channels, polycount and how to make your own closet under the cut.

How to Create Your Own Closet?

Choose the version you'd like to clone as your base and ensure the OBJK is set correctly in S3PE for the closet type you want.

For a closet without a mirror: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.ShelvesStorage.Crystal.Closet

For a closet with a mirror: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.ShelvesStorage.Crystal.ClosetMirror

Polycount:

The 3 versions share the same polycount. LOD 0 (High Detail): 2430 LOD 1 (Medium Detail): 1070

Additional Info:

The closets are found under Storage -> Dressers in Buy Mode.

The original TS2 catalog description and price.

The meshes were UV edited to make them CASTable.

The package files are compressed.

[cloudellesims]

@maxsus's "Garden At Home" Hydrangea Recolour!

!!Original Mesh Required!! You need to download the mesh, this will NOT work without it!

This is the matching recolour to my "A La Ferme Hydrangeas Recolour" in the same swatches because I apparently needed even more options when building

Info:

48 swatches / 2 leaf colours

Base Game Compatible (does not require any packs)

Can be found by searching "cloudellesims" or "(MAX20)" in build/buy mode

Correctly tagged by colours & categories

Pricings are the same as the original

No known issues but please let me know if you find anything wrong!

CREDIT

@maxsus for their beautiful mesh!

Unsplash for their free textures that I used to make this<3

Download | SimFileShare / Google Drive (free/no ads)

@sssvitlanz @alwaysfreecc @public-ccfinds @maxismatchccworld - Thank you!!

[moonlightcycle571]

Marvel making familiars for his loved ones

So I was thinking about Tawky Tawny (again). The thing about him is that he got so many different backstories or explanations on what he might be, but a common enough theme that we see is that he is a stuffed toy when he wants to be.

So here me out.

Tawky Tawny is Billy’s familiar and helps him adjust to his magic when he wants to use it in his small form. He was originally a toy given to Billy by his parents and later given life by The Wizard.

It came with more benefits. Tawny would eat his nightmares, be able to teleport to Billy’s location so that he could never get stolen or lost, protect Billy by going into his tiger form and all around be a constant warmth on his life.

So imagine Billy doing the same as The Wizard.

A lot of his friends aren’t magic users and don’t have the same magical protection he does, so maybe he gives them some enchanted clothing or pendants. A semi familiar (because without magic you can’t make a magical familiar pact with a living animal) where he just makes them familiars.

He would create stuffed animals, and weave in some magic to make them sentient. Maybe it would start with younger heroes, but when he realises his coworkers in the JL need the help as well, he absolutely would make some for them. They, like Tawny prefer to stay in stuffed toy mode, but will sometimes would want to stretch their paws and go into animal form once they feel like they are in a suitable environment.

Just picture it.

It all started with Raven, and the constant stress she might feel with having to constantly guard over Trigon. She can’t have a familiar because most creatures would suffer if give a link to her because her magic is not compatible like that. Captain Marvel decided to make her a companion. He makes her a little leopard wearing an elegant pink suit with a little top hat.

Raven: Is that a plush?

Cap: I heard you have trouble sleeping, so I got you a friend. I haven’t given them a name or pronouns, so that’s up to you.

Raven: … why

Cap: Trust me, they are for nightmares! Tawny *holds up his tiger plush* tells me they are fun to hunt and makes quite the sweet treat.

Raven: *holding the handmade gift* thank you 🥺

Cue shenanigans where she thinks he’s just trying to be a great den mother, and is a tad naive thinking stuffed animals actually work. Not that she isn’t holding little Ebony Darkness every night and is getting the best sleep she has in years.

Another thing to add is that insomnia and PTSD is a common sight within the caped community. And of course Billy notices that. So, after seeing more and more positive results of his plushies, he makes more and more. It becomes a trend. Younger heroes receive a small teddy of an animal and proceed to get attached to it almost immediately.

Nightwing almost cried when he got an elephant wearing a bow tie . Cap said that he seemed like the type to like them. Now Dick has given Zitka a little sibling to sleep at night with. But then that plush becomes fond of Zitka and gave the og elephant plush sentience.

Starfire absolutely adores her shrimp plush. Said something about being able to see colours together. Wally doesn’t know what to think about getting a turtle, but quickly gets attached, even putting little designs in the shell.

Jason also likes to put in patterns in his sting-ray, which Roy doesn’t get cause he thinks his jelly fish is perfect just the way she is. Lian gets a smaller jellyfish, which makes her happy because all the Outlaws get a sea animal.

All the members of YJ, even the retired ones, get a reindeer. They suspect he knows.

It gets back to the JL that Caps giving stuffed toys to their protoges.

Flash: Hey, Cap, how come we don’t get any stuffed animals?

Captain, exited his work is wanted: You want one!!!

Flash, can’t say no to that face: … yes I do

He gets all exited and makes plushies for all of his coworkers, that he pours a bit of extra magic in his work.

CM, fidgeting infringe if the door:

Batman: what is it Captain

CM: I made you something but then I realised that you wouldn’t really want it but then it could be cool if you did and I didn’t want to overthink-

Batman, stopping Billy’s rant: go ahead

CM, hands him a plush snake wearing spectacles: I thought you would like them. I haven’t named them so that’s up to you

Batman, not knowing where to go from here: … is the name important

CM, offended: It’s the MOST important

Batman sighs and keeps the snake. Naturally he does a billion different tests but finds it’s a snake plush. One that’s handmade. That must have taken a lot of time and effort. Batman keeps George Snaking. No he will not admit that having the snake wrapped around his shoulders is soothing.

And it just spirals from there. Hal gets a Sparrow in a poncho, Plastic man gets a kangaroo wearing the nicest boots, Wonder Woman gets a duck in a fancy dress, Aquaman gets a penguin in swim shorts, J’onn gets a lion in a toga … Guy gets a clown fish.

It has no rhyme or reason. The only common thread is that it’s an animal with some sort of clothing. Cap just says that of course they have clothing, they are distinguished and perfectly civilised individuals.

It all come to a head when the League faces some threat, and they are weakened, only for their plushies to fucking teleport and turn into massive version of their respective animals and saves the day.

Hawkwoman, starring at her bear: I- Mrs Snuggles?

Mrs Snuggles: *shrugs*

Shayera: … I could have been getting bear hugs this whole time

Guy: *looks down* Flippers?

Flippers: *flops on the floor*

Guy: ….

Guy: how come the others get bigger version of their animals

The League of Superpets aren’t that worried about competition. They tried to recruit the plush’s, but turns out they are just lazy. Like, they will beat a butch if necessary, but won’t actively go looking for crime to solve. They act more of a home défense.

The only ones who knew about the sentient plushies where Ma and Pa Kent (their Octopus is extent helpful around the farm), Alfred Pennyworth (he’s the one who actually requested hamsters to help keep the manor clean and keep an eye on his family) and Damian who’s instinct immediacy told him his fennec fox is alive.

Oracle got a capybara. The Capybara is the most powerful one Billy has made, second to Tawny. I don’t make the rules.

Constantine is the only one who never got one. Billy is still salty about him trying to steal his powers. Plus he would prolly sell it.

[anonymous-dentist]

So Quackity has a new translation app called Dababel, and here's what it says about itself on the website:

Talk to anyone, in any language. Near Real-Time Text and Voice Translation for calls, meetings, travel, and gaming, all from your phone or computer, with Dababel.

And that is very impressive! It's something that's been desperately needed for probably, like, forever, and it's something that we all know has been a passion project of his for probably his entire life.

But, before we all jump on the Dababel Bandwagon, it's our responsibility and right as consumers to examine the app and determine for ourselves whether or not it's worth giving our money to.

This post will be examining some of the more... questionable aspects about Dababel as it stands now on 7/9/2025 (July 9, for those who aren't American.) This is not a post meant to tear down Quackity or his team, but it isn't a post to hype them up, either. It's an objective look at a service being advertised to us.

For legal clarification, I must state that I am a paralegal student and nothing said in this post can be considered legal opinion or advice. I am simply collecting information about Dababel and sharing it with potential consumers.

1. Translation

Of course, this is a translation app, so let's first examine what's being promised to us on the official website:

"Your Personal Travel Buddy": Dababel can be used while on global vacations

"Compatible With Most Devices": Smooth syncing between phone, laptop, computer

"Human Moments, Real Connections": Real-time conversations with anyone, anywhere

"Celebrate Every Culture, Live Every Story": Dababel lets you experience global cultures and languages

"Grow Your Brand Globally As A Creator": Real-time translation allows you to grow as a creator and reach new audiences

"Your Voice Is Yours Only": "The uniqueness of your voice is yours only. Your voice will never be used to train any AI models."

This last bullet point is what I would like to highlight, because it brings up interesting questions in regards to the app's actual translation features.

Because I am unwilling to pay to try the app out for myself, I will be using the website's "app showcase" as well as the video on Quackity's channel showing the app off.

Here is a screenshot of the desktop version of the software:

And here is the phone version:

Now, the way the program seems to work is unlike traditional translation software such as the infamous Google Translate. While those translate written text and text from images, Dababel seems to be unique in that is translates the spoken word.

This, of course, is revolutionary! It allows for full conversations to be translated in what's pretty damn close to real-time between two people who don't share a language. That's crazy!

But... how does it actually work?

The website's FAQ doesn't actually give any answers besides explaining the process itself, which I won't go into.

But, based off of the video, and according to the FAQ's descriptions of, quote, "Play Mode", it seems that there is voice cloning software in use when using the program.

Voice cloning, for those unaware, is something that's been around for decades. If you've ever seen a "JSchlatt Sings Frank Sinatra" video where the audio isn't pretty obviously cut-together voice clips spliced into new sentences, chances are you've been exposed to voice cloning. All of those AI voice things? Voice cloning.

While it is possible to do voice cloning without the use of AI, doing so requires immense amounts of voice data; it requires pretty much every sound a human mouth can make if you want it to clone a voice accurately. AI voice cloning is a version of generative AI, and we all know the dangers of gen AI, especially its catastrophic environmental impacts.

With Dababel, the app has you speak into the microphone, and then a cloned version of your voice says the original sentence in the language of your choosing. This is the app's main draw, and the previously-mentioned "Play Mode" allows you to save up to two voices to choose from. In order to add a voice/create one, you read a series of voice prompts for upwards of 15 seconds, and the program creates a fully-functioning clone of your voice from that.

If the voice cloning software is not AI, that's a good thing! But voice cloning like that can be costly and time-consuming, and Dababel makes it clear that these translations are quick and snappy enough to be used in real-time conversations. As such, it can pretty easily be assumed that generative AI is being used to produce such accurate voice cloning so quickly.

And so, when the website advertises that, quote, "The uniqueness of your voice is yours only. Your voice will never be used to train any AI models," it's a little hard to take that at face value. While, yes, your voice won't be used to train AI models in the same way stolen text can be used to train programs like ChatGPT, there is generative AI being used in regards to your voice and the spoken translations.

2. Terms and Conditions and Private Policy

Let's start with the private policy:

This will not be a comprehensive look, I assume that you all can do your own reading. I will, however, be listing the things that stand out to me the most.

Personal information is collected. Here is a list of what that information is:

names

email addresses

phone numbers

contact preferences

debit/credit card numbers

usernames

billing addresses

No information is collected from third parties except for, quote, "...in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company."

Cookies may be used on the website, which includes stuff that allows the following:

"We also permit third parties and service providers to use online tracking technologies on our Services for analytics and advertising, including to help manage and display advertisements, to tailor advertisements to your interests, or to send abandoned shopping cart reminders (depending on your communication preferences). The third parties and service providers use their technology to provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interests which may appear either on our Services or on other websites."

Using a social media log-in provides Dababel with the information relating to said social media.

Here is what is said about keeping your personal information safe:

"We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment."

This is notable because, within two hours of the program's announcement and it going live, it was hacked. While the hacker had good intentions and noted that subscription info wasn't immediately available upon hacking, it's something to keep in mind when it comes to potential security risks and the handling of your data, including payment information (which we'll get to soon.)

And now for the Terms and Conditions:

Again, this will not be comprehensive, but it is every consumer's right and responsibility to read through the Terms and Conditions provided for every good or service they purchas.

A lot of it is par-for-the-course as far as Terms and Conditions go.

Most notably, there is no actual usage of either the term "AI" or the phrase "Artificial Intelligence". As such, there is no transparency on the software being used to create the earlier-mentioned voice clones, and there is actually no real guarantee listed that protects your voice from being used to train AI models. That, as far as I can tell, is a promise exclusive to the program's front page; it's just advertising, not a real protected legal statement.

In addition, this statement from Section 2 worries me in regards to users' protections from AI:

"We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, including all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics in the Services (collectively, the "Content"), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the "Marks")."

What counts as audio in the case of an app whose functionality centers around vocal translations? And it is not guaranteed anywhere in the Terms and Conditions or the Privacy Policies that users' voices won't be saved by the company itself. Your voice is yours, yes, but would it not be reasonable for the company to claim ownership of a vocal clone? While it is illegal to claim ownership over someone's voice, that's a pretty new legal wormhole that hasn't been fully explored yet. Technology like Dababel is pushing the limits of what is and is not able to be claimed by the company as "Content". The vague wording could potentially allow the company to claim your vocal clone as "audio" that you agreed to let the company own by signing the Terms and Conditions.

Being the creator of the Terms and Conditions, the company maintains the right to change them at its discretion. Users will be notified of any changes, so please click and read through them if you use the program and receive an email about the Terms changing.

Here is what is said about user submissions:

"By directly sending us any question, comment, suggestion, idea, feedback, or other information about the Services ("Submissions"), you agree to assign to us all intellectual property rights in such Submission. You agree that we shall own this Submission and be entitled to its unrestricted use and dissemination for any lawful purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you."

And here is what's said about user representations:

"By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary; (3) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms; (4) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or if a minor, you have received parental permission to use the Services; (5) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise; (6) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and (7) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation."

The refund policy will be listed in the upcoming billing and payment section of the post.

Section 10 lists the service's prohibited activities, which I won't list all of for brevity's sake. But I will list one notable bullet point:

"Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Services."

That bullet point can be argued to forbid users to overly criticize Dababel, its parent company, or its employees. This may include Quackity himself.

There is a binding arbitration clause, which basically means that, by agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, you agree not to take the company to court should informal negotiations not work out. However, quote, "the Parties may litigate in court to compel arbitration, stay proceedings pending arbitration, or to confirm, modify, vacate, or enter judgment on the award entered by the arbitrator." There are also provisions regarding exceptions to arbitration. Any instances of taking the company to court will have to be held in California.

Finally...

3. Payment

Dababel uses something called "credits" to sort of monitor how much you're allowed to translate at any given time.

Here are the subscription plans as listed on the Dababel FAQ:

Starter Plan: 5,000 weekly credits

Pro Plan: 10,000 weekly credits

Premium Plan: 20,000 weekly credits

Business Plan: 100,000 weekly credits

Enterprise Plan: Custom-built

Content Creator Plan: Custom-built

Your first purchase includes 1,000 extra credits.

And here are the prices as of 7/8/25 (July 8):

The payments are weekly.

Based off of user testimony, it appears that 500 credits is equal to 20 seconds. Doing the math, paying for the basic plan would come out to 3 minutes and 20 seconds of translations for 10 USD. And, because the payments are weekly, a month's worth of payments would come to less than an hour.

This contradicts the program's advertising of being able to use the app anywhere at any time, but it isn't necessarily bad. It just means that you'll have to conserve your conversations for really important things.

As listed in the Terms and Conditions, there is no refund policy available. As such, you cannot get a refund.

What is interesting is the fact that there doesn't seem to be sliding pricing depending on global location. This is the norm for most internet-based paid services, but Dababel seems to only use USD. That might be a small price for better-off US Americans, but that is an insane amount of money for other countries.

Here's a small list of price equivalents I went ahead and got:

9.99 USD

54.59 Brazilian Real

5599.38 CFA Franc

5035.23 Costa Rican Colón

565.76 Philippine Peso

13735.55 South Korean Won

8.53 Euro

185.39 Peso

But, even for US Americans, the country is rapidly sliding into an economic depression. It isn't sustainable for many Americans to spend 40 dollars a month on less than an hour's worth of translation services, and it inadvertently promotes the use of free services such as Google Translate.

None of the information regarding payment is advertised on the website's front page. Me clicking on the "Get Debabel Now" button thinking it would take me to an informational page on how to download the program and pay for it immediately just started downloading the program. In order to access the subscription plans, you have to go to the FAQ, which is only linked at the very bottom of the webpage.

In addition, the only mention of "credits" on the webpage outside of the FAQ is a statement that one's first subscription comes with 1,000 free credits. Absolutely nowhere is it stated how much a credit is worth, or even what a credit is; that information isn't given in the FAQ, either, increasing my confusion as I had to go to (ew) Twitter to try and find out how much a credit is worth.

4. Conclusion

My personal thoughts on Dababel are that it's a waste of money and a potentially-unsafe program that has wording in the Terms and Conditions that I do not like. The lack of transparency regarding AI and its potential usage in both the vocal cloning and the translation software really makes me worried about the environmental impacts Dababel could have, and Quackity/Dababel not saying a thing about AI doesn't give me much more hope.

However, Dababel is a truly incredible piece of engineering. AI usage aside, the potential for a real-time vocal translator is INCREDIBLE!! If something like this can be real now, imagine what it could be in even just a decade. Quackity and his team should be proud of themselves... if the program actually works.

I've seen people show hesitance towards Dababel's Japanese and Korean translations due to the... lackluster capabilities of the QSMP's translator when it came to languages with different sentence structures. But I've seen just as many hope that Dababel has grown past what the QSMP's translator was able to do, and it's quite possible that it has done so because its development has lasted longer than the QSMP's translator's (presumably) did.

With several languages already available and more supposedly on the way, it'll be interesting to see what Dababel has in store.

Whether or not you download it and subscribe, that's up to you. Just keep everything I found in mind, do your research, read the Private Policies and Terms and Conditions even if they're long and boring. Your right as a consumer is to examine potential purchases and judge whether or not you want them, so do that.

[luigisleftshoe]

Dating Luigi Headcanons

How it starts:

Yall probably meet at like one of three places; some activity like surfing (you get a sneak peek of him shirtless in board shorts), at a bar and your trying to play pool and he’s like “ actually 🤓 you need to hold the stick like this” (man was actually just trying to flirt with you and he didn’t know how to), or HEAR ME out like a random niche gym class you both signed up for and your both just there like 🧍‍♀️🧍

First date I feel like is like slightly unhinged actually?? Like this man wouldn’t go straight for like “let’s get dinner together” the man wants to do an escape room to see how compatible you guys are at solving puzzles together ? Yall will progress to dinner tho

Also like I look at his Virgo moon and Aries Venus and I’m just like I feel like Luigi would lowkey play hard to get. Not in like the he likes to be chased way but more of a he’s like very anxious in commitment. Like it takes a lot for this man to be like yes ! Were bf and gf! Ya know like he really has to be warmed up to the idea

Anyways!

He takes a stupidly long time to actually confess that he likes you too! Like you’ll be there 3 “friend dates deep” and haven’t even held hands. But once he does it’s very heartfelt and dramatic and you know he’s using his hands a lot to try and convey how he feels. Definitely would prefer a friends to lovers type beat

That’s also not to say he hasn’t had his fair share of hookups bc look at that man who wouldn’t want him. But like he’s not just gonna bring anyone home to his mom ya know. Also italian-Americans boys are massive mamas boys imo so if he’s bringing someone home HES BRINGING HIS PERSON HOME. Like Look, Luigi would treat introducing you to his family as basically a marriage proposal ok. Not everyone gets to be brought home to his family and he will be stressing about it for weeks beforehand like it’s a final boss battle.

Being together:

The man loves being domesticated??? Legitimately it’s his favorite thing. Grocery shopping? A date! Washing dishes together? A date! Fixing a leaky sink together? Basically foreplay.

Bro he would love it if you hopped in the cart while grocery shopping and just directed him around and what to get. he’ll love pushing you around, but after like 5 minutes he’s dramatically like,“Okay my turn, get out. It’s my turn” And man would be a sassy king about it too.

Like you’ll reach for a random olive oil and he’s already behind you like,“No. We get the good one. That one’s disrespectful. Put it back.”

He’s surprisingly (not at all) very bossy but not in a jerk way, more of a him putting his hand on the small of your back and steering you left in the grocery aisle because “Babe, trust me, the good bakery section’s this way.”

Also he would be constantly glued to you when your at home together. Like everything is a group activity. You’re trying to wash dishes? He’s behind you, arms around your waist, doing absolutely nothing helpful but insisting, “No I’m helping, moral support.” You’re folding laundry? He’s throwing socks at you and laughing when you miss.

OHMYGOD he would be so serious about home improvement projects. Full engineer mode. It doesn’t matter that his engineering is not at all close to the project you're doing. He's got out his protractor and man is hard at work. And he would fully try and reenact like a porno trope of OHMYGOD the sexy maintaince man has come to service you 😏😏 while waggling his eyebrows.

Busts out unnecessary tools just for the aesthetic. You’re hanging one (1) picture frame and he’s got a full toolbox laid out like a weapons montage scene in a spy movie. Leveler? Check. Protractor? Check. Stud finder? Beeping it against his own chest like “guess I found one.”

OH and he will INSIST on doing it shirtless “because he’s sweating.” And it’s like sir you unscrewed two screws why are you shirtless. No ones complaining ab it tho.

He has absolutely zero chill once you praise him. You say one thing like “Wow you’re so handy,” and he short circuits. Immediately ten times cockier. “You know I could totally redo the whole kitchen. Build you a greenhouse. Knock down a wall. Babe we could have an open floor plan in like two weekends.” Man would be threads deep in Reddit that night trying to figure out how to rebuild your entire house just the way you want.

I feel like once this man is in he’s in and he’s absolutely whipped. Man is so obviously down bad for you and he doesn’t even care he’ll own every time his friends give him shit for it. Like “stay pressed you can barely get a tinder date”

Would insist on you stealing his clothes. Would purposely leave a hoodie draped over your couch like “Oh nooo I guess you have to wear it now, crazy how that happens.” But also the man like rotates the same closet from 8th grade so lowkey he starts running out of clothes v quickly if you steal them.

Gets quietly obsessed with your hobbies.You start painting? He’s randomly showing up with watercolor sets. You like baking? He’s researching recipes to try with you. Literally acts like whatever you love is now his life’s purpose too. He would absolutely die on the spot if you expressed interest in his too he’d be so happy.

Will never, ever, EVER forget anniversaries, milestones, or inside jokes.

Also just wanna say the man likes to argue for the sake of arguing. Like to be fair he probably is right but when he isn’t he doesn’t stop bc he just loves the debate. Lowkey gets turned on by it if it’s a good debate

Also idk why I have this feeling but I just know this man loves to get high and fuck up overcooked with you.

“Babe, trust me, I’m cracked at this game. I’m basically Gordon Ramsay.” 20 minutes later he’s screaming because he’s accidentally thrown a pot of soup into a trash can.

He gets high and turns into a full-blown Overcooked tyrant. Barking fake orders like “YOU’RE ON TOMATO DUTY, MOVE MOVE MOVE!!” Running around in circles on the screen shouting “WHERE’S THE PAN?! WHY IS EVERYTHING ON FIRE?! WHO BURNED THE ONIONS?!” (It was him. He burned the onions.)

He absolutely BLAMES YOU for everything that goes wrong. “Babe you’re supposed to be dicing! Why are you just standing there?!” Meanwhile he’s throwing chopped lettuce at a plate that’s already on fire.

He’s losing every level but he’s like “One more time. We’ll get three stars this time. I have a new strategy.”(His strategy is yelling louder.)(I’ve never met a quiet Italian man in my life)

Afterwards he cuddles you and swears you’re a terrible teammate but he wouldn’t want anyone else. He’s laying on you like a weighted blanket, mumbling into your shoulder, “You’re the worst line cook but the best girlfriend. You can’t teach that kind of loyalty.”

Hes way more protective than he possessive

Like Walks on the street side of the sidewalk without thinking about it. Steps between you and a guy being weird at a bar. Double-checks your locks without even saying anything. Notices when you’re tired or uncomfortable before you even say anything and adjusts.

If a guy flirts with you? His vibe would be less “blow up and make a scene” and more “laughs coldly, stares daggers, and tightens his grip on your hand.”

Below the belt:

He’s way more dominant than he acts day-to-day. He’s playful and flirty outside the bedroom. But once the tension tips over? He’s heavy, needy, in charge, and a little mean (in a sexy way). “You’re not getting away from me tonight.”

Man is a golden retriever by day but night is a different story

Grips your hips, manhandles you easily, but with that slow patience — dragging it out because he likes hearing you beg a little

Slow build king. As he should be tho. Foreplay lasts forever if he has his way.

Kisses down your chest like he’s savoring a wine tasting flight. Hands everywhere — mapping you out like he’s learning you on purpose. Whispering stupid cocky things between kisses like “you’re not even ready for me yet, babe.”

Really into control( we’ve all seen how big his hands are you know he likes to put them around your throat)lowkey would love to sleep spooning with his hand around your neck. Loves when you tug at his shirt, moan for him, grab at his arms.The second you show him you want him to take it further, it’s over.He switches into that possessive slow dominance mode instantly.“Good girl. That’s all you had to say.”

He’s a growler, not a moaner. When he gets frustrated (aka you’re teasing him too much)? You’re gonna hear him low-growl “quit playin’ with me.” It’s half warning, half promise, and it always ends with you absolutely wrecked.

HES A MUNCH. I KNOW A MUNCH WHEN I SEE ONE

Will happily spend hours between your legs if you let him. Turns it into a game — how long can he keep you trembling, gasping, falling apart on his mouth? Spoiler: longer than you can handle

[lee-the-yeen]

Yeen's Blitzwing Headcanons!

Been going nuts about analyzing this big silly bot so here's some HC's

So, to start, I don’t think Blitzwing was one bot split in three, but two smashed together.

Blitz’s Icy face was a seeker, the off-color spaces on his cheeks even being the perfect place for where his theoretical vents would have been.

Hothead was a tanker, and while we get only one example of a “pure” tank cybertronian in TFA in the form of Warpath…

…you can see my vision here, right?

If you go with the ”split” method, no matter which face was the “original”, the other elemental power and alt mode had to come from somewhere.

But if Icy was the jet, and Hothead was the tank, where does Random come in? To answer that, I wanna get into the process of becoming a triple-changer.

The procedure could have been a way to try to make a super soldier, master of the land as well as the sky. Adding on Icy and Hothead’s elemental powers, the resulting individual would, in theory, be an unstoppable force.

If this sounds somewhat familiar, it should. A possibility for how Safeguard exists could be because the Autobots caught intel about the Triple Changer experiments. However, they would have had to make some serious adjustments since canonically, every single attempt to create a Triple Changer has either failed or ended up wildly unstable mentally. Blitzwing might even be in Megatron's inner circle purely because he’s the only “functional” Triple Changer to exist.

My thoughts for how the process goes is that not only are the frames and abilities combined into one, but their minds are combined as well.

Two consciousnesses being forced together, with all their memories and experiences preferably intact (that way your perfect soldier doesn’t have to re-learn to walk and talk), it causes an existential dissonance. Imagine being bombarded with the memories of someone else, and expected by everyone around you that they are yours now.

The resulting existential crisis burns out the processors, offlining the lucky, and maddens whoever manages to survive.

You have to be the cybertronian equivalent of drift compatible in order for it to go even decently well. Blitzy’s components were close, but not there yet.

What spared them the fate of other failed Triple Changers is a few precautions from Blackarachnia. She had the foresight to stick a third, empty processor in Blitzwing’s head to act as a buffer for the huge influx of data, as well as EMP-ing him as soon as the Existential Dissonance was occurring. This wiped the majority of his memories of his life before the procedure, but even all that wasn’t enough.

The trauma of the procedure, being torn apart and put back together again, as well as the Dissonance (whether they remember it or not), it was too much...leading Random to manifest within that empty processor.

Now, what brought me to this conclusion? Time for my amateur psychoanalysis under the cut!

To start, the expected disclaimers.

I am not a psychologist, and I do not claim to be. This whole thing is just for fun, and over-analysis of media I like is a big pastime for me. I also do not have DID, and anyone who does that has objections and/or critiques of my analysis, I fully encourage you to voice your thoughts.

Also, keep in mind that cybertronian brains likely don’t work one-to-one with how humans do, and that there’s no true equivalent to what Blitzwing is in terms of human psychology.

With that out of the way, with these headcanons in mind, Icy and Hothead are not alternate personalities in the psychological sense, seeing as they were once completely separate bots.

But Random is.

Random acts as something of a mediator or moderator for Icy and Hothead, in order to keep them somewhat balanced and working as a team. See the Jet-Tank argument, with him popping up to propose a compromise.

While all three faces can and do hold their own, to me Random especially acts as a protector. Examples being him headbutting Lugnut in ‘Lost and Found’ and his sudden change of trajectory in ‘Velocity’ (Never give up, never surrender, nevermind!). Bringing up the Jet-Tank argument again, he notably pops up while the sirens of the “autobot reinforcements” are getting closer and louder.

As for why Random pops in just to make jokes, humor is often used as a coping mechanism [he just like me fr], and not only did Blitzwing’s components go through the Triple Changer procedure, but millions of years of war. It’s no wonder, really.

And while a lot of Random’s jokes are very much “haha I’m so craaazy”, that feels like it’s more of a cry for help. Blitzwing is hyper-aware of his condition, and self depreciates as a way to cope [he just like me for realllllll :,)].

In conclusion, someone get this mech in Rung’s office, he desperately needs a psychotherapist (cyber-therapist?).

As a side note, something I really like is that, despite the nicknames for his faces in the Almanacs (that I used here mostly for clarity), Blitzwing is just referred to as Blitzwing, no matter what face is up front.

[joshseoh]

Lighting Overlay CC

I made this lighting overlay to create fake shadow on your sims to simulate more realistic lighting in The Sims 4! It's good to make your screenshots look more realistic and dramatic!

What and how does this CC works?

This overlay can be found in multiple categories like Skin Details, Makeup, and Tattoos! It adds fake but still realistic shadow to your sims. This overlay will not conflict with any other CC/mods since it's just cosmetics, not a real lighting mods or something like that! I highly recommend using this only when taking pictures of your sims!

This overlay affects the whole body and outfits! (except the last 2 setups that only affects head and neck area)

For all frames

Basegame compatible

15 different lighting setups, each with 5 different opacity!

For infant to elder

Custom thumbnail

Found in Skin Details, Makeup, Tattoos, and Brow Ring (left)!

Compatible with hue, saturation, lightness sliders! (Makeup category only)

Live Mode Preview ✨

Read my Terms of Use before downloading!

DOWNLOAD HERE (FREE)

[sunmoon-starfactory]

Loads o' Laundry 2.0

2 years after the release of Loads o' Laundry, we now present: Loads o' Laundry 2.0: a much-improved version of the Laundry mod and system!

Several gameplay features have been improved and many annoyances bigger and smaller have been resolved! A large number of new objects have also been added for your enjoyment. Sims 3 and 4 players may see some familiar things... Overall, it represents a marked improvement over the original version.

Furthermore, the Laundry Mod now comes with full language support for Dutch, French and European Portuguese with more coming soon... Edit: Polish has been added!

Before proceeding further, make sure you have the following requirements installed:

Requirements

Easy Lot Check

Easy Inventory Check

Smarter EP Check

Money Globals

Time-out Controller

Fetch Water (water bucket)

Suds 'n Bubbles (for making your own detergent)

Flowing Fabrics (for the fresh outfit)

Various master meshes (see Manual)

A more detailed list of requirements as well as detailed instructions can be found in the Manual.

Gameplay overview and Download links below the cut

Gameplay Overview

Your Sims will now generate laundry if their hygiene is low enough. This requires the Laundry Global Mod (offered separately from the objects) as well as a Laundry-related object being present on the lot.

Sims may store their laundry in a hamper. Sometimes automatically if it's close enough and your Sim is inclined to be neat....

Wash and dry your clothes: a variety of both historic and modern, manual and mechanical ways to wash and dry your laundry are included.

Tired of the laundry piling up? Simply place a "Laundry-Begone-Box" on your lot and your Sims will no longer generate laundry!

Laundry Global Mod

The global mod is the backbone of the laundry system. You will need it in order to have your sims produce laundry. As it is a Global Mod, it is in its own rar. The Laundry Mod also has various trait-related features for you to enjoy:

Support for the Nevernude, Neat and Slob trait

Support for the following custom lifestates: Ghost, Mermaid & SkeleBro

NEW: Support for @anachronisims' Nudist trait

NEW: Hamper magic! If your sims are neat enough, they may automatically put their dirty laundry in the hamper (if there's one in the room)

MAC-compatible!

You need to have the file "SunMoon-Laundry_Hamper_Wicker_Round-REQUIRED" in your folder in order for the global mod to work!

Washers, Dryers, Tubs and Lines

Your Sims may wash their laundry using a wide variety of both manual tubs and modern washers. Both of these require detergent to use. Of course, after your laundry has been washed, you can dry them using either a dryer or a line. Just make sure not to hang your laundry outside on a rainy day. Just a small overview of the features offered:

Laundromat mode: run your own laundromat business at home or on a community lot! Sims will actually wash their dirty laundry! Of course, it works for visiting Sims too!

NEW: @anachronisims Big Spender Trait now effects the likelihood of a Sim using a laundromat machine

NEW: Stock your washer or tub with a detergent of your choice; no longer will you need an entire box of detergent for a small load, now one detergent will last multiple loads!

NEW: 2 extra detergents have been added. You can now choose between a Box or Bottle of detergent, Soap Solution or even a Baggy of Soap Nuts!

NEW: The fabulous @jellymeduza has created a fantastic little ceiling rack for drying your laundry

NEW: Many more washers and dryers straight from the Sims 3 and 4

NEW: Modern laundry detergent vendor. You can still access any laundry product still despite its looks.

Custom sounds and animations: not only does laundry come with custom (Sims 4) animations courtesy of @mortia, there are also some custom sounds!

Color Controller

This set also comes with a "Color Controller". This object allows you to choose the look of not only your newly-spawned laundry, but also how the fabric on your drying lines looks like! Use only ONE per lot.

Bonus

Another new feature is the (optional) support for @lazyduchess Laundry token: players with FT installed, have the option of downloading his laundry mod and getting the same slower motive decay for comfort when changing into different clothes using our fresh outfit object. Players without FT and/or this token will get a small bonus to the comfort motive instead. This is NOT available for MAC-users! You will need the following files from his mod should you want this feature:

ld_BecksLaundryMotiveDecayController

ld_BecksLaundryMotiveDecayToken

Download links

Now for what you have all been waiting for: the download links. REMOVE all old files before updating! File names have been changed!

Download Laundry Global Mod (Required) Download Loads o' Laundry (objects) View Manual

Localization

Added support for Dutch

Added support for European Portuguese - Obrigada @logansimmingwolverine!

Added support for French - Merci @helene2troie !

Partial language support for many other languages has been added in the form of catalog descriptions for Sims 3 and 4 conversions. (NOTE: 3t2 conversions have no Simplified Chinese, 4t2 conversions have no Hungarian. None of them have Thai)

Polish, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese support is currently in progress and should hopefully become available sometime in early 2024

Would you like to have this set fully translated into YOUR language? Don't hesistate to make a translation using the localization strings. Just send it over when you're done and we will add it to the set! (send it via or Discord or PM fireflowersims)

Special credits and thanks: @gayars, @2fingerswhiskey, @picknmixsims, @lazyduchess, @jellymeduza, @logansimmingwolverine, Gaby, @hodgekiss, @mustluvcatz-reloaded, CashCraft, ATS/Sandy, EAxis, all the people who helped to localize The Sims 3 and 4, all our many wonderful Beta testers

[muntitled]

𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐳𝐢 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲!?

Didn't anybody tell him being back in the booth will leave him singing solo?

Pairings: Lee Jihoon x Fem!reader | Slight!Kim Mingyu x Fem!Reader

Synopsis: A kink confession in couple's therapy might just save your relationship

Warnings: Established Relationship, Insecurities, Gender Roles, Slight!Toxic Relationship, Fluff, Slight Angst, Smut (+18 Minors DNI), Masturbation, Dom/Sub undertones, MeanDom!Jihoon, Sub!Reader, Innocence Kink, Slight DDLG, Ownership Kink, Hair Pulling, Spitting kink, Massive Degradation Kink, Praise Kink, Slight Humiliation, Submission Kink, Dirty Talk, Grinding, Oral Sex (Male rec), Breeding Kink, Slight!Hate sex

Word Count: 3.9k

Song: Mine | Beyonce

Woops

"I'm aware that I'm on this mission to get my boyfriend to actually want to fuck me again but why does it feel like I've already failed on the very first step?" A whine so childish, and so petulant rips itself from the depths of your throat but Jihoon's running shower silences the pathetic noise.

While he showers, you're left sitting on the floor surrounded by a graveyard of designer lingerie. A too small Victoria's Secret set is immediately abandoned in its box, leaving you howling into the phone as you wriggle yourself into the complicated underwear.

Your confidence wanes as you adjust to the intricate bows and string of the set, wincing as you pull up the pink garter belt until it's clasped around your thighs. Soon enough, you're padding across the floor of your walk-in closet, hesitantly approaching a mirror.

"I mean, this says 'slut' but what if 'slut' isn't what he's attracted to?" Your hand curls tightly around the width of your phone, "Jihoon is an anomaly! What if I end up making a complete and utter fool of myself?" The mirror is nestled between Jihoon's clothing rack harbouring all his neatly pressed designer pieces. You let the sight of his intimidating fashion waver your already fragile confidence. 

"Are you hearing yourself?" Scoffs Mingyu through your phone's speakers, "What man has ever in the history of the universe not been attracted to 'slutty'? I feel like that might be a prerequisite in terms of the origins of the word." He says in a lax, calm manner, "Woozi'll just be happy to see boobs and ass becuase that's usually how a guy's brain goes. Or how mine goes at least."

Despite Mingyu's assurances, your arms are still folded over your scantily covered breasts while you cradle your phone in the air. "I don't know," your bottom lip finds its way between your teeth. "You didn't hear him today at counseling, Mingyu. I feel like our therapist might actually hate us." You continue to cradle your torso, forcing yourself not to flinch at the memory of your earlier session of couples therapy. 

How far away Jihoon had felt despite being seated right beside you, like a gleaming, stoic-faced monolith. You feel as though you have been living in nothing but a perpetual winter, forever trying to please Jihoon, your boyfriend, but always falling short in front of Woozi, the entertainer. Work, work, work, on his mind meant that you were left to entertain your own wants by your lonesome. Even more harrowig, is the excuse he had given your therapist.

"She's always in boss mode," Jihoon's tone was as cold as ice, refusing to spare you even a single glance as he faced the therapist ahead, "And that's one of things I love about her, yes. Her drive and determination makes us compatible because I know I'm the same-"

A scoff slips past your lips at that point, making Jihoon's fist clench on the arm rest as you snootily interjected, "Don't misconstrue." You said, "He works more than me," and it was the truth as far as you believed it. Yes, you would gladly admit to neglecting a few key elements of your relationship in the face of your career, but never had you ever made Jihoon feel microscopic in your pursuits. Not like how he made you feel.

"It's important to listen to each other without interjecting." The therapist calmly scolded, leaving you grumbling in your seat, "You'd be surprised at how much could truly be accomplished by simply listening to each other,"

You were truly ready to tell that old lady to go to hell but something strange happened, and Jihoon finally opened his mouth, unburdening himself with what has truly been bothering him in his relationships as of late.

"It's just," He swears lightly under his breath, which does a terrific job in garnering yout attention. You peek up from underneath your lashes and you're stunned to hear him say, "I just wish she'd understand that it wouldn't burn down the foundations of feminism if she'd just," Jihoon's jaw ticked as he displayed the very first signs of emotion, "-Just let me take that load off for a bit…"

"In what way?" The therapist asked, sensing the nearness of a eureka moment. She treaded carefully, in fear of scaring Jihoon back into his shell. Thankfully, he made himself clearer because by now, you needed to know as well.

"She's the boss in her day to day and I respect that," he says, "But all I'm saying is that it wouldn't hurt to leave all that shit at work..."

The therapist nodded with grave understanding, although even you could see the trepidation easing onto her face. There is no hiding the conflicting emotions displayed on your face.

"You're asking her to become more…" The therapist cleared their throat, "Submissive?" Jihoon had not responded after that, letting the pregnant silence act as his megaphone.

"I'm submissive," you had whispered, nodding as if trying to convince yourself of your words. "I'm like… so submissive," before you could decorate your lie with even more lies, Jihoon finally turned towards you. 

"Really?" He asked, "Where?"

You let an incredulous chuckle escape from your throat as you shot back, "Where what?"

Jihoon did a show of looking around the therapist's clinical office, delving deep into his petty theatrics as he calmly, "Where are you being submissive, because it hasn't been with me?"

The session had ended with you wracking your brain at Jihoon's admittance of what you suspect to be a kink. His words haunted you on the silent drive home. They had piqued your interest considerably, filling the atmosphere with a tense warmth, as if a tempest was brewing. One that neither of you was quite aware of how to deal with yet.

It was a feeling that led you into the deepest confines of your closet, until you pulled out the Savage x Fenty lingerie box, immediately calling Mingyu in a fit of panic while Woozi was in the shower. He was, after all, your best friend way before you even knew of Lee Jihoon.  

Ripping your arms away from your torso is a mission on its own, one you succeed with immense reluctance as you finally gaze at your reflection in all her half naked glory.

You commence a hesitant twirl in front of the floor to ceiling mirror.

Very hesitant. 

The lace bralette is digging into your ribs, and the matching pink garters are cutting into the skin of your ample thighs. It is all so painfully uncomfortable that you're threatening to take it off, no matter how much of a wet dream you may look like.

But there is excitement there too, bubbling beneath the surface, awakened by Jihoon's confession. You are almost excited to try this with him. Submission, sexually, was never on your cards previously but maybe this is something you should have noticed long ago. You pride yourself on being observant so why didn't you notice it before?

The soft affirmations of "Say my name," while he was steadily bringing you to orgasm with his fingers alone. The unmistakable need to have his hand locked around your throat whenever he was on the verge of cumming.

Even the non sexual stuff.

Ordering for you. Making sure your hand was always locked inside his when you found yourselves wandering the city. Forcing you to pay with his card despite knowing you made more than enough to sustain your lifestyle. 

How didn't you know?

Keeping a hesitant grip on your satin nightgown, you tilt your head at your reflection skeptically.

"Imagine how embarrassed I'll be if he just ignores me," The insides of your mouth is bleeding non stop from the way you've been gnawing at it, "Maybe I should just accept that work is the only love in Jihoon's life."

Mingyu's voice is diabolically soothing as it bleeds through your speakers, "No, no," he says, and you can imagine him swatting away at the air in the process "Jihoon acts like a prude but he's one of the biggest sluts- if not - the biggest slut I know."

"Besides yourself of course," you murmur,

"Besides myself of course" Eventually, Mingyu comes up with what he suspects is his big master plan.

"Perhaps you should send me a pic of you in it, that way when the little guy gets out of the shower and sees you, then you'll be far more relaxed in the knowledge that someone else has already seen you in it." 

It truly was Neanderthal mathematics. 

However, there is an underlying veneer in Mingyu's tone bleeding in through the phone's speakers that makes you believe your best friend is far from joking. Despite it infuriating Woozi to no end, Mingyu might never stop flirting with you ever. In respect of your dynamic.

"Surely, I shouldn't have to tell you that I'm not sending you a pic of me in my lingerie for you but I guess I have to put that into words you would understand maybe?" You hold up your fingers and clear your throat as you monotonously say, "how dare you," 'have you no shame, Mingyu," You ask, "Need I go on?" 

In the midst of Mingyu's petulant whines urging you to just 'leave your man' Jihoon's shower silences, and you right your bad posture immediately. You suddenly have no idea what to do with the drawstring of the nightgown. Somehow, this seemed like the make it or break it moment. The moment where you would decide to dive headfirst into your plans of winning back your relationship despite the possibility of being met with Jihoon's hostility and coldness that you had grown so accustomed to.

The pool of dread and anxiety is deep, and your hands are nearly shaking as your fingers gloss over the lacy pink garment. "I have to go," you whisper into the receiver, vaguely aware that you've already clicked the button to sever the line before your sentence even ends. All while you awaited the footsteps from Jihoon. But they never came.

Courageously abandoning your fear for the sake of actually getting laid, you walk up to the door of your shared bathroom and knock hesitantly.

"Jihoon? Honey, are you okay?" But he is not okay, in fact, Jihoon might venture to believe he may never be okay because your voice is just so pretty, even when muffled by a closed door. His eyes are squeezed shut, and his forearm is leaning against the shower glass, and you just called him honey and fuck, if he didn't start tugging at his dick faster. He feels pathetic, having to get himself off when you were right there but the nuances and complexities of fighting with your partner introduced the need for such things. 

Jihoon's jaw is locked tight as he succinctly and suspiciously responds with a rumbling and groaning "Fine."  His brows are furrowed, and his teeth locked tightly together as he fights to get off easily and succinctly.

He hopes that you would take the hostility in his voice as a sign to make yourself scarce. Jihoon already fucked up when he let the 'submissive' thing slip but he cannot bear to imagine the utter humiliation he would be subjected to if you swung that door open right now, catching masturbating in the shower, as if he did not have a girlfriend able to meet those needs… It bruises him like nothing else could. He did not want you to see him like this. He did not want you to know that even in the midst of your fights, you were the only woman he ever really thought of.

His palm skates over his soaked cock as his mind is filled images of you on your knees in front of him, head tilted back and tongue sticking out like a-

"Good little slut," It was intended as a whisper to fuel the violent pool of heat bubbling in his abdomen and make him cum quicker. A whisper that you weren't supposed to hear but your ear is on the door now and you shout back, 

"Did you say anything?"

He cannot reply because his cock is aching and heavy with the weight of his fantasy. A fantasy in which you were his to hold, his to fuck, his to cum inside of until you were completely and utterly full of his load-

"Fuck-"

He rushes to squeeze the base of his dick, edging himself even though he's not quite sure why. This had been his moment to just cum all over his hands, wash off his spilt seed and be done with it, but you're knocking much more fluidly on the door, and you're becoming impatient. 

"Honey, you're scaring m-," You venture to say, despite already pushing the bathroom door open. You're both left momentarily stunned by what the other is seeing in front of them. He is left paralyzed by seeing you in so little clothing… and wearing pink. 

While you did not anticipate seeing Jihoon naked in the shower. Why had you not anticipated that? That’s so silly. Your mouth hangs open with the shock of his beauty perhaps.

Has it truly been that long? 

In the same breath, Jihoon's lungs are wiped clean as he stares at you through the glass. His breathing is heavy, ghosting over the glass while his broad chest rises and falls. He is nothing but darkened hooded eyes. Eyes that ravage the sight of you in your lacy pink underwear, underwear that he had not seen anywhere. Where did you get that? When did you get that? Myriad thoughts swirl in Jihoon's mind, each more sinister and lustful than the last because you look so completely innocent and so soft standing by the door, arms at your side while the dressing gown hangs lazily off of your shoulders.

After a moment of silence, Jihoon decides to stop this nonsense by leaning back slightly. His long black hair still dripping down the sides of his face and his tongue skates over his bottom lip as he says,

“We should not be this surprised to see each other naked,” He says, a deep voice ringing out through the acoustics of the bathroom, “We are a couple, last I checked.”

When you do not respond, he tilts his head downward, letting an even deeper shadow cast over his eyes as he scans you from head to toe. For an innumerable amount of minutes all is quiet. It feels as though the world had been rid of noise, like you had teleported back in time, to a Charlie Chaplin motion picture. A world of absolute silence. 

You begin to wonder how you might respond because surely, you cannot stand here, gawking at him for the rest of your merry life.

Before you could even think of adding to the silence with anything, anything at all, Woozi keeps his ice cold gaze on you, as he leans his head against his forearm, the one still positioned against the shower glass and he resumes his movements of languidly stroking his thick cock buried in his tight fist. 

Your mouth runs dry as your eyes betray you, finally venturing down to watch him. You seem to have forgotten just how beautiful your boyfriend truly was, taking in his damp locks kissing his shoulders. He is all solid lines with a sculpted torso and you feel as  if you never even knew him at all.

"Jihoon," Your voice quivers with immense passion but he silences you immediately. 

"Don't ruin this. Please don't-"

"I wanna help." His mouth snaps shut but he can feel himself twitch in his palm. Jihoon's breath grows hot as you step closer and closer and he squeezes his cock, as the overall scent of you forces its way through his nose and into his brain. You're so utterly addicting, Jihoon's hand strokes almost instinctively, his hips even venturing to push his cock into his palm as he follows your every movement.

"I want you to tell me what to do," You finally say, letting the silk gown fall to the floor as you step into the shower, lingerie and all. Jihoon's mind has completely descended into lechery while his hooded eyes watch you with nothing but adoration.

"Your knees." Is all he is able to force out, "I need you on your knees," He whispers an incredibly hoarse, "Please," that has you falling to his feet automatically. The movement immediately had Jihoon's reeling. 

"Fuck," He whispers, the sound of complete awe rushing straight to your core as he finally let's all his inhibitions wilt away with the rest of his manners. Jihoon is quick to bury his fingers into your hair with a roughness you're surprised to see. Surprised but far from disappointed.

"Open your mouth," He instructs, despite already prying your mouth open with his thick fingers, forcing your teeth open as if you were his plaything all while craning your head backwards. 

Once he gets your mouth open, Jihoon is insatiable. He immediately bends down and crashes his lips into yours, letting his tongue invade the inside of your mouth like his life depended on it. It's a manic, passionate and domineering kiss, neck that had you moaning into his open mouth as your tongue wrestled with his.

"I'm gonna fuck your mouth now, okay?" His tone however, lets you know that he is not asking, not really, but you nod anyway, unsure of who or what has come over you. All you're really sure of is that you want to make him feel good. The goal, the satisfaction of it is building so fantastically inside of you, pushing through your arteries, steadily soaking your panties with arousal and eliciting a slightly wayward kind of dizzying emotion inside of you all at once.

"Tell me," he says, and you're forced to crane your head back as he straightens his form. "Tell me to fuck your stupid little mouth. Tell me it's what you want." His jaw is locked tight as his hand once again encloses around his sensitive dick. He refuses to give you anything, however, unless he hears you submit to him fully and completely. He feels like he needs to hear the words. Some part deep in his monkey brain needs the confirmation from the source, as if hearing you say such nasty, horrible things would increase his already heightened arousal.

"Please, Fuck my mouth, Jihoon!" In any other instance you might have been shocked at the words flowing out of your mouth, but your cunt is absolutely dripping through the fabric and your hand immediately dives down to cup your pussy through your panties as you look up at him and say, "Please fuck my slutty little mouth, Jihoon! I fucking want you to, pleasepleaseplease-"

"Such a slut- such a pretty little slut-" you'd never heard Jihoon's voice crack the way it just did and you really wish to hear that beautiful sound again. His hand is once again in your hair while his other hand is on your jaw. He pushes a finger inside until he's flattening your tongue and craning your neck even further back. You're momentarily confused, trapped in a haze of stupid lust before Jihoon hovers above you and spits directly into your mouth. 

You're moaning, and keening and Jihoon is already forcing his cock all the way inside your mouth.

"Your mouth-" His voice is hoarse as he eases his cock inside the warmth of your mouth. He cannot take his eyes off of you, his beautiful, brilliant girl taking his cock so far into your mouth while you had taken to humping your own hand like an insatiable little slut.

"Fuck baby," He murmurs, letting the tip of cock meet the very back of your throat before inching out again, "is my little girl really getting turned on from sucking cock?" His humiliation is punctuated by a sharp and powerful thrust, one that has you seeing stars and your vision blurring as you fight to keep him inside your mouth. "You don't even have to do anything," He says through gritted teeth, "I'm doing all the work fucking this tiny little mouth of yours, aren't I?" You can feel how turned on he is. He's fucking huge inside your mouth as he slides himself to and fro like his life depended on it.

"God you're so beautiful like this," He whispers, "You're so fucking beautiful taking my cock like a good little whore."

Jihoon's gaze lowers down to where your hand has taken to pushing aside your panties and rubbing swift wet circles on your clit.

"You're not gonna cum like that," He says, almost immediately stilling his frantic hips, "when you cum, it's gonna be because of me, understand?" His grip on your forearm is solid as he pulls you up from off the shower floor. You're absolutely limp in his hands, breath heavy as he brings you close to him. There is a silent, almost tender exchange, with him breathing heavily in your face while you stare wide eyed up at him.

Soon, he's spinning you around with his hands digging into your sides as he presses your front against the fogged up glass. Letting your tits push against the cool, wet surfaces, he draws your hips to his. 

Before he sinks his cock into you, a very strange thing happens. Soft pillowy lips brush against your shoulder blade, eliciting a sharp gasp from you.

"Thank you," He whispers before sinking his cock into you with determination. He bottoms out faster than you anticipate, all while you've taken to moaning and whimpering like a mad woman. Your sounds egg him on, until he's rutting his twitching cock inside of you, desperately searching for the alleviation of a budding and aching need inside him.

"You feel so fucking good, you know that?" You hear him behind you. Feel him behind you. Your walls stretch and contract around his cock who continues to bully your insides.

"F-Fuck, Jihoona-" 

"Fuck, you're squeezing me, Princess," Your orgasm sneaks up on you pile the devil himself, stripping you of your dignity as you push your hips backwards, almost instinctively forcing his cock deeper as you fucked yourself back onto him. Jihoon's mind is absolutely deranged with lust. He sinks his nails into the softness of your sides and he pulls your hips impossibly closer. He fucks you like a madman, his cock is fluid and quick, pushing against that particular cushion of nerves that has your orgasm feeling like an absolute lifetime. Your panties that had been carelessly pushed aside creates a second later of friction that has him so dangerously close to the edge.

"I'm going to cum inside you." He states while never letting himself stop fucking you, "Fuck- I'm going to cum inside you-" It's the hardest you've ever seen him cum before. His hair is messy and a darker shade under the wetness of the shower, his eyes are hooded and glossy and his body is shuddering against you, overcome by a wave of vicious shocks as he stutters and empties his balls deep inside of you. His cock is forced deeper than it's ever been and you're made completely full of his load. Jihoon is utterly spent as he lowers his weight onto your back. Letting a sea of kisses reign down on your back as your heavy breathing fills the warm and damp air.

"You look so fucking beautiful," He says, never letting his pecks against your back stop, "so fucking gorgeous." That seems like apology enough, on both parts.

[ssspringroll]

DL (mediafire)

Today I bring you not cc, but a small collection of .blend files for making cc a little easier. If you've ever wanted to quickly put a braid into a custom hair without completely obliterating your poly count*, then these might be able to help.

*braids will still add a LOT of polygons to your hair, but since every single polygon is visible** on these tiling braids, at least you know they're all being put to use, whereas if you were to physically braid 3 strands of geometry, lots of those polygons would wind up inside the braid, just adding to your count without contributing anything to the look

**if some polygons end up inside of other meshes, you may want to delete them to reduce the poly count further. The boolean modifier may be able to help you, but I haven't tried

These are completely hollow, tiling braid "facades". They just look like a braid, without being anything more than a stylized tube. Available in 9 shapes (which are all pretty similar, more or less, but have different 'vibes', and one of them technically doesn't resemble a braid, but if you squint it looks close enough) and 3 polygon counts to hopefully fit in with your project.

TOU: Same as my cc. Read it here. I obviously don't own this concept, so feel free to reverse engineer, make your own braid tiles, etc. Just don't use mine for anything commercial (using them in commissions is fine, just not paywalled final products!)

You will need to be using one of the newer versions of blender, I believe 2.8 and up. These were made in blender 3.6, so the files will not be compatible with old versions like 2.7x.

Quick start guide:

Open your hair wip's .blend

In object mode, 'Append' the 'BraidTile' object of your choice

Select 'BraidPath' and, in Edit mode, position it however you like

Additional info under the cut, because I tend to ramble, and these require a little bit of a primer before use, probably. Unless you for sure know what you're doing, in which case, feel free to just take these and run with them.

THIS IS NOT A TUTORIAL ON MAKING HAIR, OR HOW TO USE BLENDER. Seek that information elsewhere.

Before appending braids, you may want to open up the blender file and look at all the shapes, to decide which one you want to use.

When you first append your braid, or open the blend files, you may notice it does not look like the preview images above, and instead looks like a shiny pink slug. This is intentional! For previews and development work, I use @/simandy's base textures, but your hair will probably be using a different texture, so I have not included a texture at all.

Simply switch the material of the 'BraidTile' to the same material your hair is using, and adjust the uv map accordingly. I'm going to assume if you are making hairs that you know how to do that, so it will not be explained here.

Once you have your braid appended, and have edited the UV Map of the 'BraidTile' piece to your liking, you can also try scaling the tile in the X, Y, and Z axes to change up the look a little. Make sure you select all of the vertices before scaling, to make sure it still tiles. This should be safe to do, and not mess up the tiling at all, but make sure you do it in Edit mode, not Object mode. (If you mistakenly do it in Object mode, you just have to press ctrl+A and select 'scale', and that should fix it)

When you have your braid adjusted, switch over to the 'BraidPath' object, and use edit mode to move the points around however you want. This is just like any other hair strand, if you're used to making hairs with paths and curves then this should already be familiar to you. All the same controls should work.

And, if you already have a curve in your hair that you'd like the braid to snap to instead, you can select the 'BraidTile' object, locate the curve modifier, and switch the curve object to any other curve in your .blend. You'll want to change the curve in the array modifier to the same one, most likely.

If you haven't used curves to make a hair before, here's a couple quick controls you might like to know:

ctrl+T will let you Twist the object around the selected point(s) alt+S will let you Scale the object around the selected point(s) selecting the first or last point of the 'BraidPath' and pressing E will Extrude a new point, making your braid longer

Remember to do all of your positioning on the 'BraidPath' object! You do not need to edit the 'BraidTile' at all once you've set up the UV map and adjusted the scale!

It should tile, twist, etc. with little issue, and should get longer or shorter according to the length of your curve with no issue. If it doesn't, make sure both the array and curve modifiers of your 'BraidTile' object are using the same curve. They should be using the 'BraidPath' object by default, but if you changed this manually, ensure that both modifiers match for best results.

Unless you know what you are doing, I do not recommend messing with any other settings in the modifiers, or adjusting the 'BraidTile' mesh in any way besides scaling the entire object at once. Otherwise you could end up with gaps and holes in your braid.

When you are done posing your braid, you can apply the modifiers to turn the whole thing into a regular mesh. I like to make a copy of my 'BraidTile' and 'BraidPath' first, just in case I want to go back and change the shape later. After converting it to a regular mesh, I'd recommend going in with proportional editing turned on and randomly scale and move a few of the pleats just a little, to make the braid look a little more organic. You can even add a couple strands to make it look messier, if you dont mind adding to your poly count even more. But this comes down to your preference and style. The braid below has had some half-assed editing done to demonstrate the concept. (Note: This is actually the low-poly version of this particular braid shape)

Ultimately, it is up to you to decide how you want to blend the braid in with the rest of your hairstyle. I can't tell you how to do that, as it is ultimately going to come down to your own personal preference, workflow, and the hairstyle you are making.

How do I know if I should use Hi, Mid, or Lo poly?

This is largely due to personal preference, and how you're using the braids in your project. I have included the three different poly versions to try and be mindful of the overall poly count of your poor poor meshes, but even a lo-poly braid is going to add an easy couple thousand polygons to your project. Keep that in mind! If you plan on having a LOT of braids, something like this EA hairstyle, for example:

You will probably want to follow their example and use a very simple mesh and just apply a braid texture instead of using these. EA's braids here appear to be a simple box shape painted to look like braids.

If you only plan on having one, maybe two braids in your entire project, especially if they are very large braids, then you might want to go with the hi-poly option. They're the smoothest, roundest choice.

If your braid has a very small diameter, you can probably get away with just using the lo-poly option, and save some polygons you won't need anyway.

The mid-poly version exists as a sort of happy medium. They aren't quite as pointy as some of the lo-poly shapes, and they won't inflate your poly count as much as the hi-poly models, so you may find you prefer them for your applications.

It's all very subjective.

I think that's pretty much everything I wanted to say. If you have specific questions, my inbox is open.

Keep in mind I am not very skilled in blender! There's probably some optimization that can be done if you know what you're doing, and I welcome you to tweak these meshes to your heart's content, if that's you! I made these for me, but I figure they could make someone else's life a little easier too, so here you go.

If you make anything using them you are welcome to tag me! If you don't end up making anything with these then I hope you at least have some fun playing with them!

[fisheito]

Today's topic is: Curseblaze Darkgleam Chuuninun YakEmo Rm 1+2😔 (primarily Room 2, which is the culmination of all my life's suffering into 13 minutes.)

how ttf he see past his stupid bangs. they are at the PERFECT length to poke him in the eyes whenever they're open. how is that practical? you think your hair will hide you from the ghosts? it won't. what's wrong with you.

ROOM 1 I love how , just like in a video game, eiden and yakumo poof into their exorcist outfits once they step foot in the castle again. Attire for the atmosphere. Matchy matchy ambience. I thought the castle would crumble into wreckage after the main plot (or magically slorp itself into a dimensional wormhole), because that's a thing that happens a lot in these stories. but nope. the castle stays intact. Ghost Mode Sarif (i assume) is at peace, but leaves his old house intact on the mortal plane. People can still walk in and out of the ruins. I guess that's fine... Except for the risk of idiot adventurers running amok inside and finding NEW perils. hm. how very conscientious of yakuei to comb thru the castle one last time, for the good of the surrounding community. Yall weren't traumatised enough? ? ok......

did i mention that these two are like stupid shy teens trying to navigate their first crush. well, at least yakumo is. there's a lot of: touch! no nevermind no touch!!. , i'm fine. i don't need to touch. ..touch?////// 눈_눈 i'm just perturbed by the amount of handholding these two engage in. who the heck can hold hands this much. are your palms not sweaty? uncomfortably wet??? why are they so casually linking with each other like that? ever since i counted the handholding instances in intimacy rooms, i'm like. the number! is too! dang! high!! WHO ELSE IS HOLDING FINGIES AT THIS RATE? I MUST KNOW! anyway. they tour thru the castle remains. yakumo is a nervous wreck. let me share one of my fave shots:

yakumo's in a whirlwind of emotion (protective, terrified, anxious, wary of doors that are physically capable of opening). eiden takes it all in stride, as usual.

besides the fact that

needs to happen more often, eiden is . is so. so so radiant... he knows just what to say, and he's so encouraging and sweet and i [[low growls at the base of my throat]]]]

Turns out eiden has backup candles in his bag, so they light one up using yakumo's lantern. add more light to the scawee casuww.🏰

and this is the point where my eyes widened to Saucers. UM? WHAT? EXCUSE ME? no. no itca n't be. not in- i did n't think in my LIFETIME- i mean, it SHOULD be in myu lifetime, because it makes SENSE and the fact that they havent even touched on it until *checks calendar* 3 years later is an egregious oversight of compatible kinks re: individual character traits, but. REALLY? ARE THEY FOR REAL? ARE THEY REALLY GONNA---

if this really happens, i owe my entire life to morvay. morvay, my wonderful horny soldier. he does so much work behind the scenes and now i'm imagining the wondrous antics he's accidentally instigated by packing the Best Possible Stuff for Master Eiden. thinking of morvay and eiden casually discussing the upcoming trip while packing. eiden's folding up his many pairs of underwear, and morvay is helpfully stashing some "emergency supplies". if Master is going LARPing in the dee~eeep forest with yakumo and blade, he's gotta be prepared! since morvay likely can see in the dark, he has no use for regular candles. incubi flex!. but that means that the ONLY candles he would even CONSIDER stocking would be sexy candles. waxplay candles! poor, sad,, human eiden needs light to see, but i'm sure THESE candles will serve him just fine. imagining that morvay LITERALLY DOES NOT KNOW about the existence of non-sexy candles. if he does, he frequently forgets. because what's the point of a candle that can only illuminate a setting? he can see just fine in the dark. thus, fastdrip fastcooling temperature play waxsticks are the Only Candle in Existence. into master's bag they go!!!!!!! i doubt eiden will scold morvay about his mistake when he returns to the mansion. he might just give a gentle reminder about packing some "standard" issue candles next time. and morvay will eventually use his "What Would a Human Need" empathy brain centre and go "RRIIIGGHHHTTT gotcha master! whatever u need!" before he notices that the # of candles eiden left with is NOT the # of candles eiden returns with. by a substantial amount. cue morvay interrogating eiden about the filthy details of how he used the candles and eiden's like WE WERE USING THEM TO LIGHT UP THE DARK CASTLE, I SWEAR, HONEST TO- [eventual gossip session] anyway. yakumo and eiden are recovering from the surprise wax drips. yakumo's minding he own dam business and trying to nurse his widdle ouchie- blowing air on it,which is an interesting approach. one would assume that he would immediately put it in his mouth, which is a common reaction to burns. whatever. he's phewphewing on it and eiden's like [[how can i make this Sexy?]] "oohhhhh we're in such a scaarrryyy spopoooky castle.. i'm so o o jittery and nervous. but i know JUST the way we can both calm down. trust me. it'll work like a charm~~~!"

Hey. so . ⬆ that is a screenshot of the intimacy rooms as i was unlocking them. I *meant* to get a screencap of Room 2 BEFORE it was cleared, just to show my initial excitement at the preview image, but .understandably, i had ZERO THOUGHTS after Room 1 ended. I was on a mission. and when i saw the image preview again i think i screamed. the preview, which is. well. yakumo is right at dick level. they wouldn't.... they wouldn't think of continuing where they left off in Feast of Roses, would they?? that would be TOO DIABOLICAL. PLAYING THE LONG CON, AGAINST ME, SPECIFICALLY. dON't YOU Your Warmth ♥ ME , WITH THE COUPLED REFERENCES TO BOTH TEMPAERTUERE WAMRTH AND THE ELEVATED HEAT OF DICKITUDE DURING STATE S OF AROUSAL- with new context from room 1 (eiden just discovered he has waxplay candles conveniently in his bag and is about to Horny Up a Situation) , i was IN A FRENZY . UNLOCK THAT ROOM NOW! WHERE ARE THE INTIMACY ROOM POTIONS? MASS PRESS THEM BY THE 10FUL I NEED 800 INTIMACY ROOM POINTS AND MY ENTIRE STASH OF COOKBOOKS/SPICES/GOLDEN EVENT GIFTS **RIGJT*******NOW********* GET OUT THE EIDEN PORTRAITS IF NECESSARY. DICKSUCKING WAITS FOR NO ONE SO. i unlock room 2. the first visual on screen is a flash of:

IMMEDIATELY I PUT MY PHONE DOWN. I'M IN A STATE OF ELATION. INTOXICATED BY A SWIRLING TEMPEST OF MY EXPECTATION MIXED WITH DISBELIEF i need to distance myself from the screen. i toss the phone across the room and retreat to the nearest blank wall to express my agitation.

after a healthy hearty rest, it is time to actually start the room.

i pick up my phone to see the first line of "dialogue", which was abandoned on the screen while i was in civil discussion with the wall:

🏁FALSE START. i return to the wall and snarl some more. (that's what happens when you start a room with a little pained-yaku-gasp)

after another very reasonable recess, we can start the room for REAL. let's progress past the first 3 lines now, mm hmm? ya think we can do that? you feeble wretch?

Eiden: does it hurt? Yakumo: a little.... Eiden: ohhh nooo. if it hurts, i better stop- Yakumo: NO DON'T STOP Eiden: 🤨? Yakumo: i . i mean. ummmmmmm 👉👈 Eiden: no waaaay. it cant be. could you possibly.... LIKE? it??? oh wAow,,,,,,,, guess i better try agaaaain, just to know for suRE(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)

meanwhile, me: slammng my head repeatedly against the glass]] I CANNOT WITH EIDEN'S VOICE RIGHT NOW he's acting SO Silly and playing it up to level 90000 but yakumo is taking him so seriously and speaking so earnestly and honestly and answering all of eiden's stupid questions with actual answers even tho eiden obVIOUSLY aleready knows the answers the contrast between these two is making me laugh eiden playing at being experimental and surprised like. please. you are in total control of the situation. you predicted everything that would happen. EIDEN YOU PUPPETMASTER OF SEX, YOU'RE OGNNA KILL ME WITH LAUGH CRYING EMOJI😂

wait a gotdamn dimnut.

is that what yakumo's outfit looks like underneath that white jacket thing? it's naturally BACKLESS LIKE THAT? WOW, OK CARLYLE, I GUESS STEWARD'S NOT THE ONLY ONE FLASHING A LITTLE SKIN CARLYLE JUST WANTED TO BE A LITTLE STEALTH ABOUT IT!! OK!!!!! WHORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT KEEP THESE PRECIOUS SECRETS FROM US, OK???????????

*SLAPS YAKUMO's BARE BACK WITH THE FORCE OF A THOUSAND JACKFRUITS ROLLING DOWNHILL

PAINED WIDDLE YAKUMO GASP #2

NUMBER#3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (my brain in its background processes, watching every line where yakumo describes why the hot wax+cool air+whole combination of fluctuating temperatures , FEels Good, Actually,, annd i'm YELLING . I CALLED IT. OF COUSRE HE WOULD BE INTO WAXPLAY I IFIKCKIN CALLED IT AND I FEEL SO VINDICATED AND RAAAAAWWWRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH) ...

so yakumo's sticking his face into eiden's crotch like a dog with the fewest boundaries ever. just sniffin that thang and drooling and making eyes at it

I'M GONNA DIE. I'M DGONNNA DIE AND THIS ROOM IS GOING TO BE THE CAUSE AND YOU WILL ALL BEAR WITNESS AND TESTIFY ON MY BEHALF DURING THE TRIAL WHEN TTHE LAQWYER ASKS IF THE MURDERER IS IN THE COURT WITH US AND YOU ALL COLLECTIVELY POINT TO THIS ROOM AND IT GETS CONVICTED OF 29485820 COUNTS OF FISHSLAUGHTER FOR EVERY TIME I DIED

NUMBER FOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

every. time. that eiden asks yakumo if it hurts. and yakumo says yes. then admits that he likes the pain. and md anfdi i . mf. dllsefes;. .gfd. GRAWWHHHHHAAHHH [werewolf ripping off shirt]

NMUMBER 5! PERFECT COMBO!!!!!!! KEEP THAT STREAK GOING! ⬅⬆⬇➡🐾🐾🐾👣👣👣🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈YOU'RE A STAR!!!!!! ⭐

No, No. no need to apologise. keep doing what you're doing. actually, can you yell into this jar? so i can listen to the echoes resonating with my cells at an infrared frequency , all sub-visible-wavelength-like. so i can instill the epiphanic sensation of yelling into a majestic canyon and feeling the molecular vibrations sync up in my physical core. yes, thank you.

hey have i mentioned that this whole "performance" and "reward" narrative that's been happening in the last couple yakurooms, is super duper great and i rate 5 stars, would Thumbs Up again? yeah? no? yeah? yeah. make him dance, eiden. DANCE FOR THE PUPPETMASTER YOU SLITHERY LITTLE MASOCHIST-- Yakumo: starts suckin

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT'S HAPPENINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

at last. we have reached apron yakumo continuity. from that first day that yakumo went lickin eiden's dick like a lollipop , i was waiting for the genuine succ that was sure to follow. yaku is no slacker when it comes to Proper Student Behaviour. he must escalate his performance and incorporate all previous milestones in-t-oo------ GIOSDFOISEJWODAPKDWAFOUIESHJ A YEAR LATER, WE HAVE THE PROPER SLORP. JUST LIKE YAKUMO'S YEAR LONG JOURNEY INTO HAVING OUTDOOR SEX. huh. i wonder if that's gonna be a narrative from now on. eiden asks yakumo to do something, yakumo gets so embarrassed he runs into a cave and hides, then emerges a year later ready to do the Thing. Slow moving snake? keeping us danglin'............

god. why is eiden so sculpted. why he got his whole abdomen AND a hip window sticking out like that. with naught but a flimsy little strip of fabric in between. is that meant to keep your pants up? it's nowhere near the level of a belt. just snip it off at this point. walk around with your pants hanging off your butt. like a FOOL.

-Yakumo's Suck Starting pace is : warpspeed. -Eiden tells him to slow down. -not JUST to slow down. to slow down in the way he specifically taught him -Yakumo slows down and asks for feedback. -i wanna die again.

pardon my below-sea-level standards for yaoi communication, but i am returning to bashing my head on the glass solely because yakumo is Taking Pointers and Incorporating His Lessons in Suckin D

WHEN YAKUMO FIRST PUT MOUTH-TO-EITO-DICK, EIDEN PONDERED, "ohoho havent felt such a novice tongue on my dick in a while. might be nice to teach him how to do it juuuuust the way i like it" AND FOR REAL RLEALIDLA LOOK AT THEM NOW YAKUMO IS BESPOKE TO EIDEN BESPOKE BLOWJOB GAWD EIDEN, WHAT'S IT LIKE TO HAVE YOUR OWN PERSONAL BLOWJOB MAID TAILORED EXACTLY TO YOUR PREFERENCES? ????????????????????????????????

yakumo really be out here sticking a dick down his esophagus til it touches his stomach acid and lackadaisically remarking, "what, like it's hard?" (sorry for your acidified dick, eiden. i hope it heals expediently.)

NO///GAG////REFLEX!!! WHY DID WE NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS FROM DAY 1?????

we knew that eiden could be elbow deep in yakumo. shoulder deep. knee deep?. idk where yakumo's entry point of Suck is, but he will get at least ONE ENTIRE eiden extremity in him along the way. he has had this power since time immemorial. what an absolute mockery of burgeoning potential , to only allow it space to {{FlHLoRKPH}} in the third year of the game. well. better late than never. let us all learn from this valuable experience about where our priorities doth lie.

hey, eiden. have you considered yanking on that chain. it's just like, dangling there. perfectly yankable. have you considered tugging on it like reining in a horse., t hat's sucking your dick. or maybe just to bully whatever's on the other end of that string. just a possibility. thanks

and JUST as i'm getting all smug and snarky and cocky again and eiden takes all the fear i previously felt (this time, it's EIDEN who thinks he's gonna die!!!!!!! from the thorough sluuuckin'!) THEY PUULL THIS CINEMATIC HGAGRBAGE

AND I

ITS THE FHUCKIN EYES IT IS ALWYS SHS THE HFUGKIN EYES THOSE BIG WET STUPID SEEING ORB COLOURED SPHERE WITH HAIR BORDERS STUPIFD EFHCKIN EYELASHES TEEMING WITH MITES AND MICROSCOPIC LIFE FROM ALL THAT NEASTY MICROBE WHATEVRE WHY THE FGG UIS IT EEVEN SUPPOSED TO BE ATTRACTIVE DOESNT NA HMAKAE NANY SENSE SOMEONE GOUGE THOSE THINGS OUT AND PICKLE THEM AND PUT ME OUT OF MNY MISERY

THEN EIDEN 's EDIICK GETS *BIGGER* FROM THE EYE CONTACT!!!!! THIS IS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE(so far) !!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha edick. wait, wouldnt it be more suitable to call it edick from the edroid and not from the e-iden. and eddick sounds more like edmond, so really, it should be more like eiden's proprietary dick slang would be eidick, but i also wonder if that is like a ship name for Eiden x A disembodied dick, which is just as plausible as anything else in this world----

PAY ATTENTION! YAKUMO IS STILL EATING HIS FOOD.

the camera kept panning to yakumo's kneeling lower body and i was so Locked In that i actually turned up my screen's brightness to see what the HECK they were trying to direct my attention to.

ME. Turning up the brightness. For my eyes that lurk eternally in the dark and squint when the slightest squidgeon of sun sneaks thru. All for This.

snan better appreciate me taking the time to adjust my settings. JUST to look at his dick outline, apparently.

because that's all there is . i guess. i take a moment to ponder the position. why is it angled like that? yakumo must be wearing underwear after all. That, OR, his poor benpis is trapped under his wholly unnecessary pants. if he wasn't wearing anything under his robe, that dick would be tenting FREESTYLE and VERTICAL , for god andtheskies to greet from above. but no. it is not tenting in the beauteous way that it did during Naked Apron Yakumo. thus, it must be restrained by some unnecessary prison of cloth. unfortunate. but also, if eiden were to reach over and try to free it, how would he manage? would he have to slip through a hip window and wriggle his way around like a ferret in a pipe? and even then he'd have to jork it under the robes. truly nonsense. just get rid of all the fabric.

have i mentioned that i like eiden's little sounds through this whole room? he's quieter than usual. i guess cuz he's not getting his ass blasted into the team rocko sparko. a lil bit of restrained ngghhs from eiden, mixed with the crunchy texture of yakumo's wails. hm. yep. that's some good mixology. set it on fire and let it burn some poor unsuspecting drunkard's mouth

Yakumo: *speeds up* Eiden: i am going. to die. Yakumo: if you're going to die, please do it in me Eiden: wait waht for real??? Yakumo: *MAXIMUM HORF* Eiden: blorhgjrh

and now. the visual here is a delightful view of eiden's spunk on yakumo's face, but the description says that yakumo took it down his throat. so. where are we? the mechanics escape me in this moment. he swallows the cum, as he has been doing since Day 1 Frotting Behind Eiden Because He Can't Bear to Look at His Face (but will still lick up all the splattered jizzpaint on eiden's abdomen and geniticular region) Noteworthy: the artists went out of their way to show the splooge around yakumo's mouth so. did yakumo pull off some INSANE porn star timing and relinquish the dick at the exact millisecond of eiden cumming? because there was no mention of handjerkin eiden to completion (tentative achievement unlocked: unassisted blowie orgasm) then he opened his mouth and stuck his tongue out (as is seen in the animation) and with Mathematical Precision caught the trajectory of the cum fountain in his throat?

i am conjuring the image of those carnival games with the water guns. shoot and fill up that clown's mouth, why don't you.

well. whatver way it went down. It went down. and i've no complainmts. yakumo even thanks eiden for his meal at the end. this polite bitch. sayin grace or kudos or some shtihte. for the home-pressed artisanal dick juice. ThROW Him Overboard.

AND AFTER ALL THAT. IN THE. HAUNTED ABANDONED CASTLE OF MUSKY CELLARS AND COBWEBBED CORPSES:

*facepalkms most wearily* nothing washes away the anxiety like sucking eiden off and submitting to the fleeting pain of molten wax

he sounds So GRATEFUL and RELIEVED and eiden's just like

(・▽・；)............................... haha sure! yeah, buddy.... any time..... happy to be of service... ha..ha..........

it's ok, eiden... let him think that you were truly just trying to calm him down. let us engage in the act of temperature play fellatio in this mysterious section of the basement that somehow has a clean couch. or is that brick? no matter. regardless of the supporting surface, our nerves shant be fraught after this One Simple Trick. i assure you.

[cloudellesims]

@syboubou's "A La Ferme" Hydrangeas Recoloured!

‼Meshes Required‼ You'll need both the hydrangea bushes and the potted/bucket versions for this to work! It will NOT work without them!

I use these flowers in literally all my builds but recently decided wanted them a few more colours... which then turned into a lot more colours. More than I probably even need

Info:

48 swatches / 2 leaf colours

Base Game Compatible (does not require any packs)

Can be found by searching "cloudellesims" or "SYB A La Ferme" in build/buy mode

Correctly tagged by colours & categories

Pricings are the same as the original

No known issues but please let me know if you find anything wrong!

CREDIT

@syboubou for their wonderful mesh, thank you so much for sharing and allowing recolours!

Unsplash for their free textures that i used to make this<3

Download | SimFileShare / Google Drive (free/no ads)

SYB'S TOU

Enjoy!! And please let me know if you encounter any issues!

Gif preview + swatches below<3

@sssvitlanz @alwaysfreecc @public-ccfinds @maxismatchccworld @farfallafinds @pixelglamccfinds - Thank you!!<3

[hisui-dreamer]

rewrite the stars

Characters: Leona, Azul, Jade, Idia

Synopsis: if the stars say we're not meant to be, then why don't we just rewrite the stars?

Tags: horoscopes, reader is insecure, crack(?), fluff, comfort, not proofread

Word count: 1.4k+

Notes: rewrite the stars got stuck in my head then this idea popped up hehe

Disclaimer: i don't really know a lot about astrology, so most of the things i say are from google searches. in general, take astrology with a grain of salt yeah.

but also my sign and jade's sign are compatible hehehe

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it's not easy being confident in love, and sometimes when you get so lost in your fears, you let anyone and anything tell you what you fear to admit, without a care for how truthful those words may be.

truthfully, if you were dead serious and broke up with him, he'd just grumble out a "whatever" and put up the façade that he doesn't care

but he'd actually be so mad at himself for pushing you away and how nothing in his life could ever go smoothly

but your eyes are swollen and tears are threatening to spill as you whisper those words

he silently approaches you, and instinctively reaches to brush your tears away, but his warm, calloused hand only makes you cry harder at how much you love the man before your eyes

he pulls you into his arms and holds you close as you sob into his chest

he doesn't say anything and waits for you to elaborate, there's a part of him that's afraid if he asked you why you wanted to break up with him, he couldn't bear how his own self-hatred

once you've calmed down, you start explaining how you two are incompatible in astrology, that he's a leo so it's easy for miscommunication to happen and other issues that have plagued you since you read about them

he's heard all this make believe astrology personality stuff before, but never before has he been glad of how ridiculous the idea is

you hear leona let out a big sigh, and the tension in his shoulders immediately lessens

pulls away from you to stare deep into your eyes, his face completely serious and solemn

"Herbivore, are you happy with me?" he asks. At you confused face, he repeats the question, his expression unchanging. When you nod firmly, he smiles slightly and asks again. "Then what else matters? As if I would let the souls of the past kings or some random star talk decide who I'm gonna love," he scowls at the idea. He leans forward and rests his forehead against yours. "You're stuck with me now, I'm not lettin' ya go that easily," he whispers.

He pulls you with him as he falls back onto the mattress, cradling you in his arms. "Sleep. You're not a baby anymore so don't go crying yourself to sleep," he teases, but he gently kisses the remainder of your tears away.

azul.exe has stopped functioning

blubbering like a fish out of water (wait...) he's lost and hurt and confused and panicking all at the same time

"w-w-what have i done to upset you angelfish????"

the tweels walk into azuls office just to see the two of you crying and confused, azul trying to ask you why and he's sad and crying, you're stumbling over your words and sniffing and crying

ok after a glass of warm water (thank you jade) the two of you calm down to actually have a proper conversation, though azul is still very obviously tense

you explain that he's a Pisces and that means you two not compatible with how sensitive he is and he's a water sign and so on

azul is very confused about how stars can determine people's personalities, but he does fit the description of a Pisces, and if his beloved Angelfish is stressed over astrology, then it must be a reliable tell (azul no)

he asks for you to give him some time, to actually understand your reasonings and of course, to give him a chance and prove to you how willing he is to work out a relationship with you

the next day, azul visits you with very deep dark eye circles, but the glint in his eyes shows full determination and confidence

azul businessman mode on!

sits you down and pulls up a slideshow

azul ashengrotto is now an astrology expert!

he's determined to show you that you two have maximum compatibility and whatever issues you have? he'll always work them out with you

"Darling, you mentioned our Sun signs yesterday, but I think it's crucial to also discuss our rising, moon, and star signs." He declares as he points to a star chart. "Now, following the calculations of our birth dates and locations..."

An hour later, you sit completely convinced that astrology all but supports your relationship with Azul, and you can't help smile and jump into his arms. Azul, sleep deprived and running on anxiety, somehow manages to not fall over, but soon leans his weight on you. "See? We're perfectly compatible with each other," he murmurs against your ear. His arms wrap around you, squeezing you gently, "so please don't leave me, I wouldn't know what to do without you..."

eyes wide slowly blinking like "... I beg your pardon?"

honestly jade doesn't look that surprised/hurt

but really he's suppressing the turmoil of emotions inside him

ever the logical thinker, he'd ask a calm "May I ask why, my dear?"

and you surprise him again with flowing tears and a trembling voice

though he's listening very patiently as he's diligently wiping away your tears with his handkerchief, soft careful movements to avoid causing discomfort

asks questions when he doesn't understand what in astrology is going on, genuinely making an effort to understand this field of academics

in a sense, he's distracting you from being upset with academic discussion

okay, he's a Scorpio, which makes him good at manipulating people??? and he's very bold??

now while he finds all this very interesting and slightly accurate, it still feels pretty whimsical that the time you're born in determines your personality

particularly as he's so different to Floyd! and they were born at the same time!

whichever the case, the more pressing issue is his dearest lover sniffing and whining that you could never be happy together with how incompatible you are

he pulls you into his chest for a bit, rubbing soothing circles into your back and leaving gentle kisses you until your sniffing quiets down

"Dearest, won't you look at me?" he murmurs against your ear. You look up to see the most tender expression you had ever seen on him, his mismatched eyes filled with warmth and affection.

"While it is indeed extremely unfortunate that our star signs are incompatible, I don't believe there's a single person out there who could love me better than you do," he says as he kisses your hand. "I promise that your happiness will always be my utmost priority, so won't you continue to love this silly eel?"

"Now, while I will always find you enchantingly beautiful, I do believe a smile shines the brightest on my lovely pearl," he smiles while brushing the remaining wetness away from your eyes.

simply put, idia panics immediately

every day he thinks the fates have been far too kind to him for you to even reciprocate his feelings

he's always mentally preparing himself if you want to break up or you need to leave him

so he puts up a brave face when you say you can't be together

but wait... you actually look really upset and on the verge of tears???

"Hold up, why are you the one crying?"

please don't tell him those are tears of joy i think he'd die on the spot

through sobs and sniffs, you tell him that you were curious about your compatibility based on astrology

and okay...? he's a fire sign??? explains the hair

okay so you're telling him, you're breaking up with him solely because you think this thing might be right and not because you hate him, right?

brb gotta blow up some stars

starts mumbling about some plans to build space missiles and blow up some stars that make up his sign or something

he can't be an asparagus(??? idia no it's sagittarius doesn't matter) if the constellation no longer exists, right?

you stop him (thank god) by cupping both of his cheeks to make him stare straight at you

he's flushing up instantly and every fiber of his being yearned to turn away but your teary gaze makes him stop squirming

"You know," he begins, his voice earnest and steady, "everyday, I can't believe how lucky I am to have you in my life. If you're unworthy of me, then I'm unworthy of you."

He lets out a chuckle, that rumble echoing right into your ear. "I suppose I can put those star destroyer blueprints on hold, at least for the time being. But if the stars ever mess with us again, it's game over for them."

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[kindness-ricochets]

Loosely Organized Thoughts about Parker & Eliot in The Cross My Heart Job

Rewatching The Cross My Heart Job has made me realize that Eliot mostly talks to Parker to tell her something he thinks she should already know and a lot about their relationship is determined by how he says it. It’s a deliberate choice—Eliot has no problem keeping his mouth shut, he’s choosing to talk to Parker—and in the first 5 minutes we see this occur several times in different ways that show how they cooperate on a job by the end of the episode. This also makes sense with where each is in terms of character development, Parker being herself but able to connect in shared activities, Eliot shifting from ‘constant guard mode’ to ‘constant guard mode with a wingman accent’.

The episode opens on the team coming down an escalator, griping about a recent job, and Parker complains that she “didn’t even get to see the emerald”. Everyone groans, but Eliot puts his hand over his eyes, then snaps at her that, “For the last time, it’s not an emerald, all right?! It’s an island!” Parker moves—she’s next to Eliot at first, but she puts Nate and Sophie between them. Yet from both perspectives, this makes perfect sense. Parker was just doing what everyone else did and griping about the job, she was participating, why can everyone else gripe but not her? And while social patience is not Eliot’s gift, he took the time to explain. He replied to her comments at face value, as he usually does.

When they’re discussing the job, Parker asks, “Can’t we just get another heart?” We know Parker doesn’t always pay the closest attention. It took her almost a whole episode to realize the potato was, in fact, a potato; and there’s a reason in The Office Job they left her out of the euphemisms. She may not actually realize that “heart” means “heart”. She might not realize requirements for a heart transplant—compatibility, health, etc. Parker doesn’t exactly have a traditional education. Eliot squeezes his eyes shut and asks, “From who?!” Even as Sophie moves the conversation along, Eliot and Hardison are both looking at Parker.  This may be when she realizes what’s actually been stolen. It’s also when Eliot shifts from snapping at Parker to asking her questions to make her think over what she said.

Eliot uses not looking at someone as a way to express frustration a lot. He does the same thing when Sophie is hamming up her twisted ankle. When Parker asks if they’re going to break Eliot’s wrist next, he squeezes his eyes shut and then opens them to glower at her.

As they’re starting to work the job, Parker asks if the kidnappers won’t just return the child. “They just stole a heart, you think they’re gonna leave witnesses?” It makes sense. Parker isn’t good with manipulating people. She’s gotten better, sure, but no one’s ever going to forget the fork incident. But they’re into the job now. Eliot’s taking lead on this team (Eliot, Parker, Sophie) and Parker honors that. She still asks questions he thinks have obvious answers, but two things have changed. First, with clear goals (first: ensure safe return of child), Parker has aligned her perspective with the rest of the team. Should she already know the answer to her question? Clearly Eliot thinks so, but it’s a naïve question from someone who fundamentally misunderstands most human behavior. Second, Eliot has a goal. He’s not burning off the frustration of a difficult prior job or waiting while everyone figures out how they’ll approach what is essentially the murder of a child. She’s more ‘normal’ and he’s less frustrated.

They might not be perfectly aligned, but Parker and Eliot work together well because they trust each other. When Sophie says they have to assume the heart is still in the airport, she just asks, “Why?” and Eliot tells her, “’Cause otherwise we’ve already lost.” He kind of growls, but that’s just default Eliot. He doesn’t snap or close his eyes or seem particularly annoyed with her—they’re working together now, and they work together well. They turn their backs and give Sophie some privacy while she changes. When Parker starts counting out cash, Eliot empties his wallet. There’s that trust again.

Which is why it’s so funny when Parker muses, “It’s a good thing we didn’t stay on that island to see those emeralds,” and Eliot just bursts with, “Parker, I just told you!”

And finally, Eliot summarizes the mook he’s just choked out: “Not a professional, lousy zanshin.” Parker interrupts, “The what?” And Eliot explains, “It means personal awareness.” There’s a parallel here between Parker and Eliot. Each experiences the world from a perspective unlike the others’. The difference is that Eliot used to be a socially mainstream guy. He understands that world, he just doesn’t know how to leave his second-world behind. But he doesn’t blame people for not knowing what he perceives as uncommon knowledge—he’s considerably gentler to explain military things. Granted, he’s also just beat someone up, and for all Eliot complains about being the hitter, he quite clearly feels more relaxed after a fight. (Presumably because he perceives the world as a place of constant danger, of course he’s less tense once the immediate threat has presented itself and gotten its ass beat.)

Here's what I find so interesting. Parker’s first comment comes from failing to realize how different her own perspective is. Jewels were mentioned, so this is about jewels, obviously. The average person likely encounters metaphorical jewels far more frequently than literal ones, but Parker loves literal jewels (I’m planning a post about this later) so it makes perfect sense that her mind goes to… literal jewels. And has a hard time leaving, because jewels and cash are her favorite things. This is so far outside of Eliot’s experience and perception. He doesn’t try to understand Parker, but he tries to bring her into the rest of the group’s understanding of the world. Parker asks questions and Eliot answers them.

…all of which is why I so love how Eliot and Parker work together. They’re so different but there’s a lot of trust between them. While Hardison hacks the national donor registry with a desktop, Eliot and Parker work together on the walkie-talkies, and there’s a lot of physical acting so they seem to be genuinely interacting with one another. They break into lockers and change into airport cosplay together. They drive around in their little airport truck together. In the final play, Eliot’s radio call is, “I’m set, Parker. It’s on you.”

The trust each other. Eliot all but says it. Parker shows it. She follows him on jobs. Even when his answers are delivered in a tactless way, she trusts the answers. He takes her comments at face value, accepting who she presents herself to be instead of trying to parse Parker.

I don’t have a full conclusion about Parker and Eliot. I just like when these two work together and within this episode there’s a nice arc from everyone being in a terrible mood and sniping at each other to the end, when they’ve rescued the heart, rescued the kidnapped girl, rescued the boy who needed a transplant. While Eliot becomes less sharp and stressed over the episode, by the end he’s back to playing wingman, getting Hardison and Parker to leave so Nate and Sophie can have a moment. The relationship is so good through… well, the series. But I particularly enjoy this episode.