#is there a mod out there I wonder to make this possible

[shatinn]

Sims 4 - gameplay

(ohgoshwhyjustno)

[in-tua-deep]

I saw a murderbot daemon au where ART built murderbot a drone to act as a daemon and implies constructs are severed and yall know im a sucker for daemon aus?? But also like. daemon au where every secunit automatically comes with a minimum of one (1) drone, and at least one drone is essential to functioning. why? folks don’t know, maybe it’s storage or something. If units have multiple it’s usually as decoys for the important one

anyway obviously this drone is a daemon by another name. they don’t change shape partially bc they don’t know they can, partially bc the gov module will zap em dead if they change

It is making me think that after murderbot goes on the run it discovers its beloved drone has like. Idk. Multiple settings? Little spider drone that can skitter. Little lizard drone that can stick to walls. It can even do things like, lil cat drone that can claw up someone’s face real good (:

Ignore the people who think that this apparently means murderbot’s drone is a daemon. those people are stupid bc humans have daemons and murderbot is a CONSTRUCT and this is its DRONE thank you

but anyway yeah in a daemon au murderbot has the best and coolest drone and has its hands over its ears and is LALALALAing at top volume whenever anyone suggests it might be a daemon

[rollo-rolls]

I oficially present to you my two lighting edits! One for CAS, one for game. However, it wouldn't be possible without BoringBones wonderful mods! I just played around with some numbers and importing and exporting few things. My game lighting mod is a mashup of BB's mod and Brntwaffles one. I'm extremly nervous, it's my first time doing and sharing that kind of thing. Shall you find any issues, let me know ASAP! Few notes:

be sure to delete any other cas and game lighting mods

remove any lighting tweaks mods that you may have

put in your Mods folder and preferably don't merge

CAS:

SFS | PATREON

WORLD:

SFS | PATREON

@boringbones @brntwaffles @nectar-cellar (your cas mod was a huge help when editing the numbers ♥)

Please, no reuploading, no claiming as your own and no making profit out of my cc!

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and every cc blog, thank you if you reblog! ♥

If you’d like to throw a coin or two, you can support me on Ko-Fi. Thank you!

My Ko-Fi Page

[cripplecharacters]

I often see amputee characters in illustrations with a tied off sleeve. Just wondering if this is a thing and if so how it's done?

Hello!

We don't currently have mods who are upper limb amputees. If any followers have first-hand experience, feel free to share.

I've never seen it in person and very rarely elsewhere. I think it only makes any sense if you have a very short residual arm (=don't use it for tasks) and you don't like your sleeve flopping around. Otherwise it would prevent you from using your stump. Most arm amputees are below the elbow and a knot at the end of the sleeve would probably only get in the way.

If someone is genuinely frustrated by the flopping sleeve problem then most amputees I've seen with that issue just get their clothes tailored. It's not some big adjustment generally, and it's less work on a larger timescale.

Obviously you might have situations where it's cold out and the person hides their arm like that to warm it up (basically the same thing you would do if you have a whole arm). But if warmth is a constant issue then putting a sock on the arm would probably be more comfortable. Just like it's more comfortable to put on a glove than tie your sleeves off.

In media specifically it just feels like the billionth reiteration of "doing everything possible to not show the stump". Bandages, tied off sleeves, prosthetics that apparently never come off, etc.

If any followers with amputation(s) have opinions on this trope feel free to share.

mod Sasza

[allfearstofallto]

you’ve mentioned once that you’re not sure if childe and his darling knew each other before, well, the whole kidnap situation

so i was wondering how childe “found” and then decided to kidnap someone who kinda didn’t even know he existed💔

btw love your childe posts, you’re lit feeding me

OMG, I love this one so fucking much.

So I do have headcanons for how Yanderes met and fell for their darlings or one of the ways they could've and the only one who didn't write for was Childe, mostly because I couldn't decide. Like, for him, I have so many ideas.

I mentioned Ajax's darling always hailing from Liyue because that's where I assumed Childe spends a good chunk of his time, but some other thoughts I'd have is: Young Ajax with a full cheeks a bright smile, far before he fell into the abyss. He'd meet a girl unfamiliar with the snow and maybe shivering and shaking like a leaf in a storm.

The orange haired boy, feeling pity on you would give you his gloves and scarf, but not much else could be said before you're pulled away. A fuzzy memory that he can feel more than envision. At least, until he spits that familiar face once again and he doesn't want to let you go.

Okay, so another one, and this one is common, is: owing money to him or the northland bank in some way, I wrote something similar with "When it Comes to You" but another way I'd love to add depth to the idea is by not owing just for yourself.

Assume, you were orphaned, possibly dropped off at the nearest orphanage in liyue. You stayed there, grew, and got nothing, but love and adoration from your little family. Watching the others come and go while you still stayed, but you didn't feel any sorrow upon staying within those dreary walls, because they held unconditional love.

You'd stay until you were supposed to age out. And even longer after that. No longer a resident, but now an employee, gifting the same love you'd received once before. Everything seemed well, almost fairytale like. Everything except the finances.

So many hungry mouths to feed, so many mods that entered every day. You were drowning in a perpetual cycle of struggle ajs fear. You could leave. The thought crosses your mind from time to time. But who will care for the young ones if not you?

You go to the bank in search of help and catch his attention almost immediately. When Ajax offers you a deal, you don't hesitate to accept. It's not like you have many other options. And they amount he's willing to give is more than you can make on your own.

The children are healthier with the amount they're being fed, they have toys and clothesm yet you can't help, but notice the frequency in which you're seeing Childe roaming around. And how his interest lies in you.

Obviously I have a bunch more, but those are just a couple!!

[sunsetvisitor]

The 1000xRESIST 1st Anniversary Fanzine is OUT NOW

blue communion, the 1000xRESIST 1st Anniversary Fanzine is OUT NOW.

This fan-led collection features over 100 pages made by 24 contributors (and 4 mods).

Within these pages, you'll find:

foreword by Remy Siu, the creative director of 1000xRESIST!

fan illustrations and cosplay

fan fiction, poetry, and essays

micro-TTRPG and personality quiz

food and drink recipes

music transcription and diy craft project (standalone printable assets offered with the zine download)

Get the Fanzine here!

We are so stunned by the talent and effort on display. Below is a copy of the forward, written for the fanzine. Hopefully it captures how we're feeling here at sunset visitor about this amazing display of love. This is truly next level.

Fanzine Forward

I can’t believe it’s been a year. While working on 1000xRESIST, it felt like development would never end. There was always something left to do, some sound, animation, or piece of music. A missing voice line here, a missing texture there. A bug persisting somewhere. I’m told this is a normal feeling in game development – and certainly we had similar experiences in the arts world – but this particular timbre of endlessness was new to me. And I think, new to many of us on the team. But... upon release, we continued to experience new things. We saw the first reviews go up. We saw players resonating with the story. We saw the first bits of fan art posted online. The first forum posts in ResetEra advocating for the game. The first messages and emails sent through our contact forms. We got to experience 1000xRESIST being discovered. Discovered by fellow devs and industry workers, discovered by the wonderful community gathering in our Discord, discovered by the amazing fans and artists online, and yes, by all the fantastic people here featured in this fanzine. Performing arts can be lonely. Even though you perform to people in-person and in real-time, after the performance is over, you rarely see the audience again. Their engagement with the work lives inside them, in memory, and one cannot really access that. This is what I’m used to. Getting the post-performance blues. To see fans continue to engage with 1000xRESIST, to get familiar with usernames and avatars, to answer questions on the Discord, and to witness this fanzine come together – to witness it even existing – has been remarkable. Thank you to all the contributors and organizers for making this possible. There’s so much talent and passion collected here. We are so grateful to have this community around the game, continuing to bring new people in and spreading the word. We say that a lot. We’ll keep saying it. 1000xRESIST was by no means a guaranteed success. There was a lot of risk. A lot of challenges. After all is said and done, we still exist because of the fans. It means the world to us that they’re making these characters – this story – their own. We get to discover a whole chorus of diverse artistic voices and perspectives, and all of a sudden, it’s not so lonely anymore. It starts to feel more like a collaboration. So, enough from me. Time to step aside and let these amazing folks take center stage! Six to one and HEKKI GRACE. – Remy Siu (Creative Director of 1000xRESIST) April 30th, 2025

FanZine Credits

MODS

manager & co-editor: 0x0ada

editor & co-manager & social media & promo artist:mynn

layout designer: eira

art moderator & cover artist: SpilledTe

CONTRIBUTIONS BY

0x0ada

Irutzencre

smanki

419 MHz

Issu the Res

Snazz

Amygdala Suzanna

Jupiter

Some-Creep

cadmean

Paprika

SpilledTe

Captain Turnip

Rashika (litchilovers)

thunder0star

deadfinches

ravenzeys

tj_ayyee

goblincat

Revenger210

Umbring

inksoot

sangkalibutan

WolvZephyr

[man4jiro]

Anime TV Channels Mod

...so. I love the anime mod for TS4, and was bummed out to find out nothing exists like that for TS3 (at least I couldn't find one) so with the mention this is my first mod (so excuse the possible dubious quality) I made my own and thought to share. :3

It comes with 19 new TV channels for your TS3 weeb sims. They are in dub.

@s3animefinds

Anime list (I tried to make it diverse but keep in mind I made this based on anime I either like or plan to watch): Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia, Seraph of the End, The Promised Neverland, Tokyo Ghoul, Death Note, Tokyo Revengers, Haikyuu, Blue Period, Demon Slayer, Pokemon, Hunter x Hunter, NaruSasuNaruto (not me making NaruSasu edits unintentionally during pride month I realized after actually. It's a sign.), Attack on Titan, Bungo Stray Dogs, Diabolik Lovers, Vampire Knight, Erased, Free

Keep in mind that some of the clips contain spoilers/gore

They have assigned traits! So sims with those traits will prefer these channels. Info under the cut (along some credits). Some are based on the vibe of the anime, some are nods to a specific character, some are because I'm evil lmao. IYKYK. Don't take them too seriously.

I added just for packs I personally have, so while the Loves to swim trait is perfect for Free I don't have Island Paradise so I didn't add it (you're free to do so if you know how however! :) ). I also don't have Into the Future so sorry if you wanted to watch anime on the holo TV!

please don't reupload all that stuff <3

this will conflict with any mod that edits the TV XML file

download

Jujutsu Kaisen: Adventurous Brave SupernaturalFan Charismatic My Hero Academia: Brave Good Friendly Excitable ComputerWhiz (this is a nod to Tomura cuz is the closest to a gamer trait) Seraph of the End: SupernaturalFan Diva (this is a nod to Ferid my diva sassy vampire king) NaturalCook ( ;) ) Vampire* The Promised Neverland: Brave NaturalCook (I'm evil.) FamilyOriented (i'm evil. x2) Tokyo Ghoul: Brooding NaturalCook (I'm evil. x3) SupernaturalFan Death Note: Genius BookWorm Perceptive Brooding Tokyo Revengers: Daredevil Rebellious VehicleEnthusiast Haikyuu: Athletic Ambitious Blue Period: Artistic Ambitious AvantGarde Demon Slayer: SupernaturalFan NightOwl NaturalCook (I'm evil x4) Adventurous LovesTheOutdoors Pokemon: Adventurous AnimalLover Excitable CatLover DogLover Equestrian Hunter x Hunter: Adventurous Excitable Angler Naruto: Charismatic Ambitious Loner (this is a nod to Sasuke my nonchalant emo king and my first anime crush. I started strong.) Attack on Titan: Daredevil Brave NaturalCook (I'm evil. x5) Bungo Stray Dogs: SupernaturalFan Perceptive BookWorm Diabolik Lovers: SupernaturalFan HopelessRomantic NightOwl Flirty (both bc it fits the vibe and as a nod to Laito) Irresistible Vampire* Vampire Knight: HopelessRomantic NightOwl SupernaturalFan Charismatic Vampire* Erased: Perceptive Genius Dramatic Good Free: Athletic Friendly

*this is a hidden trait! <3

credits:

this tutorial

things I used for the NaruSasu edits: 1 2 3 4

all the wonderful people I used already made clips by <3

the sim in the previews is an edited premade downloadable sim by @florydaax (she's a weeb and a baddie-)

[omorithedreamermod]

MAY DEVLOG

It's time for the MAY DEVLOG for OMORI THE DREAMER mod! There's a lot to talk about and then a lot that cannot be talked about (spoilers are difficult...)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

In contrast to last DEVLOG's optimism, it has become apparent that the end of year release date likely won't be met. Being fully honest, this is because the team just isn't big enough. There's amazing people who signed up, but in regards to map tileset and sprite artists, there's simply not enough people, and since this is a passion project, nobody will be pushed beyond what they want to do, so development has slowed out of consideration.

This is a good thing! Quality will be prioritized more in certain areas now. I also need to slow down for a variety of reasons, so overall it'll be a healthier pace, but people will need to wait a little longer. No new release date will be announced, since it's currently uncertain. (Of course, it will not be OMORI's development cycle, since everything is planned out already and organized. It's simply making sure nobody is being rushed or pushed!) Most probably a 2026 release, though. Just wanted to be fully transparent about what's going on!

PROGRESS (BOOK ONE):

It's hard to explain in more detail due to a large part of the mod still being hidden. Because of this, I'll break down each book into "SECTIONS" when talking about them.

SECTION ONE is completed and playable, from writing, to music, to new assets and art, and is being tested. This is around two hours of gameplay, if seeing everything.

SECTION TWO is currently in the asset creation stage, and will be the heaviest on new assets, so most time consuming. Everything is progressing beautifully though, and i'm sure everyone will be very surprised by the results! The team is working hard! Some writing is in progress, but until certain asset creation, most writing is completely halted. Music is both being made and partially in pending while waiting for writing. Portrait art is in progress, while cutscene art creation has not begun.

SECTION THREE is both in asset creation and partial programming stage! Music and general creation is happening, but the writing is mostly in full stop until SECTION TWO is complete.

PRELUDE UPDATES:

After release, some nice additions have been added to the PRELUDE visually. More bugs have also been ironed out, and some things slightly adjusted for the full release. Also, battling is being overhauled, in the sense that skills and balancing as well as the moves of the enemies are being fixed by someone who actually understands OMORI battle programming! Hopefully this will make for a more enjoyable battling experience in the full version.

CONCLUSION:

Although it's a bit sad the initial launch is likely impossible, internal deadlines will keep up, and the goal is still to release "as soon as possible". The slight slow down will hopefully overall create a better mod! Of course, it would be wonderful if more people who know how to create tilesets and sprite art sign up, but even if not, the current team will still do their best, and they are very very amazing!

Wish us luck on continued development!

[echotunes]

Pac's talk about Arkanis

(disclaimer: I'm not fluent in Portuguese so I may have missed or misunderstood something but this is what I gathered)

It's going to be a "survival and RP" series - there's also going to be enigmas and mysteries, but it's also going to have regular Minecraft gameplay like building houses and such

The "first season" of the series will begin very soon ("not like, next week, but soon")

Pac wanted a studio for the series so he, Batista, Tayr, Himaru, and Guhzera made one - Boiss Studios. They've been working on the project for a couple of months now

They have a team of programmers, artists, and actors(!) for the server

There'll be new mods that we haven't seen in Minecraft yet, they're being made specifically for the series

It's going to be a completely original story

There's going to be 20 participants total! So far people who have been revealed (via Twitter here and here) are Meiaum, Bagi, GabePeixe, Guaxinim, Maethe, Choke, Matt, Felps, Pac, and Coreano.

Pac emphasised that "for now" there's only going to be people who speak Portuguese in the series, which made a lot of people in chat wonder if there's gonna be Portugal-Portuguese speakers there, but he didn't say anything else. He also trailed off mysteriously about the "for now" part

Pac said he'd be streaming basically every day. the people are doubtful of this but who knows

There will be "probably weekly" events, maybe some related to specific dates as well

Regarding the story: There's a city called Valigma and it has a mayor named J. The mayor has a Twitter account and "he's very suspicious honestly". He wants to recruit "experts" for their talents, for a purpose that is currently unknown

"What talent does Pac cubito have? I don't know, we'll have to find out."

(paraphrased) "If you're upset that your streamer isn't participating: Who knows, maybe there'll be an event in the future and they'll appear, who knows."

There'll be one central story but every member can create their own story as well

There won't be subtitles like there was with the Qlobal Translator in QSMP because that mod was made for QSMP specifically. Maybe other people will have the Twitch subtitle extension like Pac does, but there won't be anything in-game

It's a mainly stream-focused SMP, and people can make stream highlights if they want. Pac said there'd probably be things posted on his own clips channel

There'll be an official Arkanis Twitch channel that'll "go live sometimes"

"Is Pac on Arkanis going to be the same Pac cubito as in other universes? I don't know! It's possible!"

It's been a very cool thing for Pac to be part of the team working on it, he's very excited and hopes people will enjoy it

It's called Arkanis from Latin "arcanus" meaning "mysterious"

There might be a fanart museum like in QSMP

and then he ended stream. I may have missed or misheard something so if anyone else wants to add on feel free but that's the general gist I got!

[lcdrarry]

LCDrarry 2025 Master List Part 2: Fic

Dear lovely Participants, Creators, Alpha and Beta Readers, Cheerleaders, Readers and Fans of this fest,

The 7th installment of LCDrarry has come to an end. 7! That's a whole school life at Hogwarts!

We'd like to thank you all for taking part in this fest, for creating so many amazing new Drarry works for us all to enjoy, for commenting on your favourite creations, for sharing and recommending the LCDrarry gems with your friends and blog followers, and for making this fest another amazing experience for everybody.

Fests would not exist without their participants or readers. You're all amazing! And we're so happy that you chose this fest in the vast and wonderful offerings of HP and Drarry events.

And now, you can find out under the cut who created what ;D

~Your LCDrarry Mods Tami (@celilasart) and Suzi (@erin-riwen)

PS: Please have a look at the creator notes and tags on AO3 for additional information and more detailed content warnings. Thank you! PPS: You can find a link to the "Master List - Part 1: Podfic & Art" under the cut.

Enjoy!

Part 1 of this Master List with all the lovely podfics and art can be found here.

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Fic

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Things I Almost Remember

Prompt: "Anastasia", 1997, Don Bluth Prompted by: cailynwrites Author: slyth_princess Word Count: 2,056 words Rating: General Warnings: No archive warnings apply.

Summary: Harry grew up in the dark with no memory of who he was, only to stumble across a mystery, a rumour spread throughout all that remains of Wizarding London. Could this mysterious Lost Prince really be him? He honestly doesn't know. Nor does he know what to make of the man who discovered him. Draco just wants freedom. A way out of the hell his world has become. So when a stranger stumbles upon the hideaway he'd made in the ruins of the Ministry for Magic, that looks shockingly like Harry Potter, who is he to turn down his best shot at getting what he wants? If only the man wasn't so hard to keep his distance from.

Read it now on AO3.

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what could this thing possibly do?

Prompt: "Zombieland", 2009, Ruben Fleischer Prompted by: Gnarf Authors: winchesterss & arcasra Word Count: 2,519 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.

Summary: Draco works with muggle artifacts, Harry is bored, and they end up inside of a zombie film.

Read it now on AO3.

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The Little Merman

Prompt: "The Little Mermaid", 1989, Ron Clements, John Musker Prompted by: Anonymous Author: Meowfoy Word Count: 5,286 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.

Summary: Draco Malfoy as Ariel in this Little Mermaid inspired HP AU! Harry as a Prince, Voldemort as Ursula and some interesting twists to the Little Mermaid story as well. Also Draco just doesn't want to be a merman, he doesn't feel like it is who he is. So he doesn't just change for love. Though a hot prince definitely helps.

Read it now on AO3.

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A Boy, A Mouse, a Library Card, and a Stupid, Stupid Diary

Prompt: "The Owl House", 2020 Prompted by: Thel1ght6 Author: Thel1ght6 Word Count: 6,006 words Rating: General Warnings: No archive warnings apply.

Summary: Harry Potter is a human boy, whose parents unfortunately died in a crash. He was left to his horrid aunt and uncle, and lived in the remnants of what his parents left behind. One day, A strange bird makes off with Harry’s stuff. It runs into a house, and Harry is teleported to a strange world called the Magic Isles. He is taken in by a wizard named Dumbledore and his demon buddy, Hagrid. He has gotten in a lot of situations; one of which got him trapped on the isles. He’s met a lot of other people on the Isle. Hermione, Neville, Luna- his favorite being Draco. Today, and for the millionth time this week, he’s going to visit Draco at his job. However, he has a favor to ask. He needs to find something, and only Draco could know where it is.

Read it now on AO3.

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Knockturn Hill

Prompt: "Notting Hill", 1999, Roger Michell Prompted by: Elizah321 Author: SpireaSalix Word Count: 9,148 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary: Fifteen years after the war, Knockturn Alley — where Draco and his friends sought refuge from their tarnished reputations — has transformed into a surprisingly charming neighborhood and rebranded itself as Knockturn Hill. Draco has settled for a boring, pathetic and lonely life between his shop and an apartment with an emerald green door. Meanwhile, Harry Potter, the wizarding world’s most famous and adored figure, has grown accustomed to a life of luxury, constant attention, and admirers eager to please him in every way they can. When a group of reporters ambushes Harry in Knockturn Hill he is left desperate for a place to hide.

Read it now on AO3.

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Something Fucking Sinister

Prompt: "Jennifer's Body", 2009, Karyn Kusama Prompted by: Trishjames Author: Trishjames Word Count: 9,581 words Rating: Mature Warnings: Minor Horror Elements, Creepy vibes

Summary: Something is seriously off at The Three Broomsticks. Harry knows it. The walls know it. The washed-up band playing definitely knows it. But his roommate-kinda-frenemy Malfoy? Well. Malfoy is too busy flirting with danger and looking like trouble in human form to care. This was not the stress-free eighth year Harry’d been looking forward to.

Read it now on AO3.

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The Legend of Tower 7

Prompt: "Tower 4", 2020 Prompted by: DrWhoIsGinnyHolmes Author: DrWhoIsGinnyHolmes Word Count: 9,927 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: Minor Character Death, Creepy, Mystery

Summary: Losing his adoptive parents was the last straw. Harry needed to get away, so he packed up his things and left for America. He travelled out to Glencour Park and Camp Grounds, a magical forest that housed all sorts of creatures, including a Horned Serpent Sanctuary. He heard this place had a problem with missing campers and occasional fiendfyre, not to mention the Muggle forest fires that threatened the land.

He hadn't even been there one day when odd things started happening: classical music coming from the radio that no one else could hear, creepy sounds near his tower that he couldn't explain, random cold spots in the woods, and the feeling of being watched all the time. This was going to be a long Fire Season.

Read it now on AO3.

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Close Encounters

Prompt: “The X-Files”, 1993-2018 Prompted by: pocket_lin (ao3) Author: LadyShipwreck Word Count: 12,107 words Rating: Mature Warnings: aliens, alien abductions, missing time, Draco's racing anxiety thoughts

Summary: When Draco is transferred to the Ministry's X-Files, it seems like Potter is there to ruin his life yet again. But soon he finds himself immersed in the biggest mystery the universe can hand him: how to survive falling in love with the Savior of the Wizarding World. Featuring a UFO convention, some dramatic and unhelpful friends, and a possible alien abduction. Can Draco keep a cool and rational head when everything around him is getting...spooky?

Read it now on AO3.

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The Grim Barbarity of the Department of Mysteries

Prompt: "Severance", 2022 Prompted by: phoenixortheflame Author: holygnocchi Word Count: 12,828 words Rating: Mature Warnings: Themes of spousal loss and grief

Summary: Harry sits and listens to the minutes tick by, and tries not to think about all the sounds that are missing: the clatter of cabinet doors and whistle of the kettle; the whoosh of an accio’d briefcase and the rustle of papers haphazardly stuffed inside it; an intermittent off-key hum along with the wireless. He’s not sure how long he sits there trying-and-failing, but without Draco there to cast a warming charm, the coffee goes cold before Harry thinks to drink it.

OR: Harry doesn't want to grieve. So instead, he forgets.

Read it now on AO3.

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The Drarry Trap

Prompt: "The Parent Trap", 1998, Nancy Meyers Prompted by: meandminniemcg Author: meandminniemcg Word Count: 15,075 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: No archive warnings apply; past unplanned pregnancy of a trans man, referenced PTSD

Summary: You send your son to an international Little League Quidditch camp, and he comes back being like a different person. Maybe he is. At least that happened to Harry and Draco.

Read it now on AO3.

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Undiscovered Country

Prompt: “Station Eleven”, 2021 Prompted by: pocket_lin (AO3) Author: DodgerKedavra Word Count: 15,715 words Rating: Mature Warnings: Post-Apocalypse, Pandemics, Blood and Injury, Parent Death, Panic Attacks

Summary: “Everyone’s dead,” Harry sobs, his voice mostly gone. “Hey.” Uncle Pads strokes Harry’s hair. “Not everyone.”

Read it now on AO3.

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here, in my arms

Prompt: "Rebecca", 1940, Alfred Hitchcock; 2020, Ben Wheatley Prompted by: MoonSmurf Author: newskyillusion Word Count: 18,337 words Rating: Mature Warnings: Morally Grey Harry Potter, Morally Grey Draco Malfoy, First Person POV, Fire, Murder, Gothic vibes

Summary: Last night I dreamed I went to the Malfoy Manor again. or, Drarry meets Rebecca

Read it now on AO3.

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Only Three Rules

Prompt: "The Holiday", 2006, Nancy Meyers Prompted by: alexandra6727 Author: JessicaLuci Word Count: 20,064 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.

Summary: The son of the Duke of Wiltshire returned to dreaded England for a much needed holiday. Planning on spending the Christmas period alone in a serene cottage with nothing but books, thoughts, and an odd dog called Crookshanks. Draco did not expect those plans to be utterly destroyed by a singular (but extremely handsome) man. Harry Potter: veteran, divorcee, and single father, returned to his sister's house for the night after getting thoroughly pissed. However, as he pounded on the door to be let in, he wasn't greeted by his sister's exasperated expression, he was greeted by a man who instantly took his breath away. Three rules were all they had. Three rules they quickly broke.

Read it now on AO3.

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Seven First Dates

Prompt: "50 First Dates", 2004, Peter Segalo Prompted by: Anonymous Author: qqquack Word Count: 20,898 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, References to Depression

Summary: When Harry ran into Draco Malfoy in a Muggle bookshop, he certainly found it odd. When he spotted him there for a second time, Harry convinced himself that Malfoy was plotting something awful. By the third encounter, he’d realized what was actually up: Malfoy had short term memory loss. He was stuck reliving the same day over and over again. Well wasn’t it just his luck that Harry was starting to fall in love.

Read it now on AO3.

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each fallen robin

Prompt: "The Hunger Games" (2012) Prompted by: veradubhghoill Author: veradubhghoill Word Count: 21,050 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Canon-typical deaths, canon-typical child abuse, psychological manipulation, psychological torture, cruelty, implied sex work

Summary: In the distance a cannon boomed; Harry looked down at himself, then at his opponent, who was entirely still, waves lapping at his face. Quirinus, Harry remembered. That was his name. A Career tribute. They had nodded at each other during training, maintaining some semblance of decorum—but here in the arena all Harry could think about was the way Quirinus had lunged for him, spittle flying from his mouth, spear in hand, knowing that all that stood between him and victory was a malnourished fourteen year-old.

Read it now on AO3.

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Twenty’s Plenty

Prompt: "What's Your Number?", 2011, Mark Mylod Prompted by: veradubhghoill (ao3) Author: orolin Word Count: 21,811 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply; Infidelity but not between Harry and Draco

Summary: After a string of failed relationships and a Witch Weekly article that proclaims anyone who has dated over twenty people is more likely to end up alone, Draco decides enough is enough. There must’ve been someone in his past who he missed a connection with, so there’s only one thing for it. Hunt down all of his exes and find The One. What he didn't account for was Harry Potter coming along for the ride.

Read it now on AO3.

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Love is All Around

Prompt: "Four Weddings and a Funeral", 1994, Mike Newell Prompted by: Anonymous Author: ToBoldlyGeek Word Count: 24,266 words Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply.

Summary: Everyone is getting married, except for Harry. Over the course of five social occasions he figures out how to change that.

Read it now on AO3.

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Nothing can keep me away

Prompt: "Sister Act", 1992, Emile Ardolino Prompted by: apricitydays (AO3) Author: skotini Word Count: 24,330 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Kissing under the influence of alcohol (sacramental wine), Breaking of religious vows, Negative portrayals of religious figures

Summary: After being witness to a terrible crime, Harry Potter must go into hiding at Netley Abbey, a magical monastery. But that’s where Draco Malfoy has already taken vows, and he’s definitely off limits…

Read it now on AO3.

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Life As We Know It

Prompt: "Life as We Know It", 2010, Greg Berlanti Prompted by: Anonymous Author: use_it_well Word Count: 25,803 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Minor character death, death from terminal illness

Summary: When Andromeda suddenly passed away, leaving Teddy in the care of both Harry and Draco, neither of them knew how they’d manage to live together without killing each other, let along survive as parenthood was thrust upon them. Raising a ten-year-old boy would be hard at the best of times, but raising one who had just lost the only parental figure he’d ever known was another thing entirely. Would it be possible for Harry and Draco to put aside their (very many) differences in order to provide a stable family for Teddy? And what would they learn about each other – and themselves – along the way?

Read it now on AO3.

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Treat me like a dog, Take me out back, Tell me that my hunting days are done

Prompt: "Crazy Rich Asians", 2018, Jon M Chu Prompted by: Anonymous Author: morningliliesmourningglories Word Count: 29,271 words Rating: General Audience Warnings: Canon compliant racism, One (1) dead fish

Summary: What is lineage, if not a gold thread of pride and guilt. The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon.

A.K.A The Drarry Crazy Rich Asians retelling in which everyone learns that to get what you need does not mean that you get what you want.

Read it now on AO3.

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Will Do So Gently

Prompt: "The Last Of Us", 2023 Prompted by: shewhxmustnxtbenamed Author: shewhxmustnxtbenamed Word Count: 138,444 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: Depictions of war, bombing, heavy angst

Summary: Following a coup organised by Voldemort, England's society collapses. Initial attempts by the government to regain power are thwarted by Death Eaters, and a rebellion group called ‘The Order’ forms to fight against them. The country divides, people flee, and those left are trying their best to survive. Draco Malfoy, raised since birth to believe in Voldemort, grows wiser with age and abandons his home after he realises the terror Voldemort intends to inflict on the world. Afraid of what The Order might do to a marked Death Eater, he goes into hiding where he remains for years until Harry Potter finds him and sparks his long-lost will to fight. Their paths separate, and Draco goes out to join The Order or die trying, not realising that his Death Eater status will be the least of his concerns when he arrives.

Read it now on AO3.

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Part 1 of this Master List with all the lovely podfics and art can be found here.

As always, reblogs here on tumblr are very much appreciated to share all the wonderful works of LCDrarry 2025 with more people. But of course, please also shower our creators with comments and kudos on AO3 ;D Thank you! Read you next year ;)

[simaddix]

Opening TS3 Medieval Market

Hello, my lovelies! Today I would like to talk about an opportunity for our beloved medieval (and historic) TS3 community!

Interested? Well, I guess let’s get into it and see how far it goes.

Why Discord, rather than a Tumblr Community or a personal page?

That’s a great question – and one that might be better explored as time goes on. However, here are a few perks that I’ve noticed.

1: A discord server as a download market presents an ideal solution by combining accessibility, organization, and engagement.

2: Organization – less scattered forums/websites. Discord allows structured categories and channels to keep content well-organized. We have the option to create additional channels or categories to keep content separated – so there’s less confusion when people stop using a tag, or add a new one that other’s aren’t tracking. There are also transferable roles assigned by moderators, so if someone wants to leave – there is no data lost, and the server stays active as usual.

3: Direct downloads – requiring no additional host/server. If you’re a part of the creator discord pages, then you’ll notice there is a hoard of available downloads that bypass the need to go to an alternate download site. Creators can upload their content directly into the appropriate category.

4: Discord servers have little to no spam bots (that I’ve noticed, anyway), and if there are issues, it’s relatively easy to remove those pests and keep the community protected.

5: By centralizing downloads in a dedicated server, creators can upload their content, receive immediate feedback, and build faster relationships with their community, and followers can immediately engage, comment, or download. Discord mimics Tumblr in that it allows for real-time interactions, sneak peeks, polls, events and more.

Here's what I've established so far inside the server:

A welcome channel established for people to drop into the server, and members to say hello!

More channels to host discussions, show off real life/other games/hobbies/etc. And of course, everything TS3 - because we like seeing people play!

All the "Market" tabs you could want! (And if it's not there, we'll add it to the list - free of charge lol)

The "Cargo" section mimics the creator discords a bit in that it allows you to ask WCIFs, make CC requests, trade and barter another member/creator for CC (I.E - swap CAS for BUILD/BUY items, etc), start collab projects, and more.

I highly recommend also keeping up to date with the other creator discords, there's already so much activity there!

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Is the market meant to replace Tumblr pages, other creator discords, or personal pages?

Absolutely not! As we all know, there are many Tumblr pages/websites/servers dedicated to the TS3 community at large. Ts3 has thrived for so long partly because it has such a dedicated modding community, and hosts player-made content. However, distributing and protecting all of the content effectively while also fostering a sense of community is challenging. There has been a massive amount of effort put into the community through wonderful pages such as @katsujiiccfinds and @pis3update, (as well as all the other CC pages out there), I am personally a member of two creator discords that have been essential to me as I’ve learned to create, and now tumblr is exploring the new community options. However, the fallback of this is that hosts get burnt out, stop creating themselves, or abandon pages/websites all the time. There are many of these “ghosts” haunting Tumblr as we speak – though we all love a good comeback story, so to those who have returned, or will return, we all welcome you back with wide open arms! Right? Right! Huzzah! The point is, this discord is not meant to replace any of these options, but it might help us find a centralized location.

Modern/electrical CC will be booed – but possibly tolerated lol

This Discord is being opened as of right now – so don’t be surprised if you pop in and there’s no CC yet. These things take time – Rome wasn’t built in a day.

You will need a Discord account to follow the invite!

Paid only content will not be allowed on this discord. If you would like to upload paid content - you can always start free servers on Discord! When your content is free - absolutely feel free to add it to the market!

See you there! (Please let me know if there are any link issues!)

Personal Letter of Invitation: https://discord.gg/e6skNu9t

[gummilutt]

Autonomous crafting for all teen+ Sims

I've never before been so happy to share a creation! Get ready to get crafting, because it's about to get autonomous! Released today in collaboration with the wonderful @joplayingthesims who has built a community lot for the mod, seen in the pictures below. Exciting!

In my game, I have a community lot with crafting stations for Sims who can't afford one, or don't have space for one. But as I visited it recently with one of my college students wanting to learn flower arrangement, I got a bit depressed by all the empty stations and the other visitors just standing around chatting. I wondered if anyone had added autonomy, and I came upon iCad's autonomy enabler. While neat, it only adds autonomy for the active household which is the opposite of what I wanted. So I made my own that enables it for visiting Sims as well, only to quickly realize how annoying that got. All these Sims asking me to pick a recolor for them, blergh! So I went on tweaking, fixing the annoyances as they came up, and here we are! Finally it is possible to have a lively crafting studio where all Sims participate, without being annoying for you the player! Are you excited? Because I am excited!

What does the mod do? - Enables autonomy on "make many" and "continue" (see readme for more info on why not make one) for all five original crafting types - Robots, toy making, flower arrangement, pottery and sewing - Does NOT charge your Sims money for background Sim crafting. Money sounds and visuals show for all Sims, but only your current households crafting charges household funds. - By default only autonomous on community lots. Has optional autonomy on residential/apartment lots, you can enable autonomy on those lot types by placing the Autonomy Toggler object somewhere on the lot (custom object made using parts of the FT crafting clutter, found in hobbies/misc for 1 simoleon). I set it up this way as residential autonomy sounds irritating to me, but I'm all about flexibility for the user. Perhaps you want to run arts classes at your residential playable school, or you simply like autonomy more than I do :) Please note that autonomy advertisement is tuned with community lot use in mind, so it might be higher than you'd want for residential. If there's interest I am happy to make a second version with lower advertising for those who primarily want residential use. If you are somewhat familiar with TTAB edits yourself, you can try changing attenuation code to low or medium to limit advertisement distance which will reduce appeal to Sims. VER 2: Toggler object now also works on community lots, turning off autonomy if present on community lot. Residential/apartment behavior remains the same as before. - Fixes annoyances with background crafting, such as selecting recolors and pop ups about progress - Changes inventory mechanics to allow for owned studio-type use, in case you'd like a friendly owner Sim present to provide instruction. Crafting now only goes to business lot owner if done by an employee, otherwise crafting Sim gets the object. Includes home business, so if it bothered you that family members don't get to keep their work, this also fixes that. If that part annoys you, see readme for how to remove this feature.

Download mod on simfileshare | Download ver 2 on simfileshare (New version out, fixing a bug reported by Nemertes. More info here)

You might say "Okay well fun for you Gummi, but I don't have a community lot with crafting stations, so why would I need this?". Well fortunately Joandsarah has the solution for that problem! Check out the cute crafting studio she built to give all of you a place to start community crafting! Available on MTS

Conflicts: Only known conflict is iCad's original autonomy enabler, you have to pick if you want hers version of autonomy, or mine :) Readme contains breakdown of the functionality of all parts, to help you decide a load order should you encounter conflicts. It should be possible to resolve conflicts though if there are any others, so please report them to me :)

Credits: @joplayingthesims for collaborating with me and providing a lot that you can get started with if you don't have one, iCad at @dramallamadingdang for the original autonomy enabling mod, @cityof2morrow who helped playtest the mod

If anyone else builds a community lot intended for autonomous use, I hope you let me know somehow so I can add links to it in my post :) If any other modders see ways to improve on what I did, please feel free to do so :) I am hoping to eventually post an update that sends all crafting to inventory to fix the make one issue, and the station clogging that happens over time.

[paluding]

MODDERS WANTED!

Maxis lost and found: Sims 2 werewolf faces?

Nope, I didn't use any custom face templates or sliders to make this render. This werewolf face IS in the game! Once again, nothing to download here, at least not for now. Hopefully we can make this an actual thing. All the details and research under the cut 🐺

So I was digging through the Pets EP files the other day for a project I had in mind when I found these meshes:

The "Arch" in the name caught my attention, because that's how the CAS face templates are named as well, so when I loaded the preview I found these really cool werewolf faces!

That got me thinking… this was probably intended for the werewolf transformations, right? Looks like the devs scrapped this idea on the final Pets release. @/hypersaline already restored the werewolf fangs, and I was wondering if it would be possible to restore these faces too.

Are "temporary face sliders" overlays even a thing in this game? The closest interaction I can think of is the Plastic Surgery station and its preset faces for the failed surgeries, but those just create a new face in the genetic data of the Sim, which is permanent unless the player gives them another plastic surgery session. The ideal thing would be morphing the face with these "sliders" when they transform into werewolves, and then remove them once they go back to their human shape.

Anyway, I figured I could extract the meshes and see if I could preview the faces in Blender just to showcase them. The files are pretty broken, they don't even have a UV map and the vertex order is all over the place. So after some tedious vertex snapping shenaningans I kinda remade them in Blender. Here's how they all look, compared to the base second face template in the game:

Adult Female Face (afArchLycan):

Adult Male Face (amArchLycan):

Teen Female Face (tfArchLycan):

Teen Male Face (tmArchLycan):

No elder faces as far as I know, and obviously children werewolves aren't a thing in the vanilla game.

The modding skills needed to restore something like this (if it's even possible) are way out of my scope. So yeah, if any modder knows a trick or two about how to implement this face transformation back in the game and feels brave enough to give this a try, please count me in! My DMs are open. I'll be more than happy to help with anything I'm able to on the meshing department 🙇‍♂️

Until then, at least here's a showcase archived of what could have been for Sims 2 werewolves 🌝

[cookiescribble]

New In Town

A/N: hey there, to the anon that requested this, I lost your actual submission but I hope this lived up to expectation! I started writing this, forgot I started it, and then got sick but I tried my best haha, enjoy! Happy pride month! - mod ghost

p.s. sorry to mod angel, I definitely called her out in this fic lol 

You had only been at the BAU for about a week, but something about Spencer made you feel like a moth drawn to a flame, as cliche as that might be. Sometimes, you’d catch yourself staring at him during briefings or even just sitting at your respective desks. Watching the way his hands would move over pages as he tore his way through books. His reading speed always amazed you, and you wondered how he actually retained any of the information he was taking in. Yesterday, he’d caught your gaze, making eye contact with you and giving you a polite grin before returning back to whatever it was he’d been doing. Your heart nearly pounded itself out of your chest, which is about when it dawned on you that you definitely had feelings for him. Shit, you thought to yourself briefly. It was probably best to keep this to yourself for now, you’d heard a lot about everything he had been through from the other members of the team and figured it’d be best to leave him alone. Even if you thought this while in private, it didn’t seem to actually stop you from flirting with him. What could possibly go wrong? He’d say no, but that wasn’t terrible. A few days later, you found him at his desk before the team was about to fly off to investigate a new case. You, however, weren’t cleared for field work yet, so you had to work in something before he went,

Gently putting a hand on his shoulder to get his attention, you leaned in closer to him as you said, “Have a safe flight, pretty boy, I’ll see you when you get back,” then walked off toward Garcia while practically being able to feel his eyes on you. Whether that was a good thing or not, you couldn’t tell, and the idea of having to wait until the team came back stirred up some nervousness that seized in the pit of your stomach but you pushed it aside for now to focus on helping Penelope here in Quantico. “I’m sorry, why is Reid making that face?” She laughed as she all but chased you further down the hall and away from the bullpen.

“I’m fairly certain I just called him pretty boy or something, I don’t know. I might’ve blacked out.” You sighed, averting her gaze as much as possible as you pushed through the door leading to all of her equipment.

“I knew it! You have a crush on Spencer!” Garcia cried in excitement, seconds away from jumping up and down. “Could you yell it any louder?? He might hear you! China might hear you–” You grab her arm as you whisper hurriedly, pulling her through the door and closing it behind her, “--wait, am I really that obvious about it?? Who else knows other than you?” “Mainly us girls, don’t worry. But I might be able to help you, see if he likes you back?” “What, have my own spy crew just for a crush? No way, I’ll get over it.” You brush a hand through your hair in embarrassment and frustration as you and her sit next to each other at her desk. All you could think about was Spencer, though. Nothing that happened throughout the day could fix that. Especially when he called a few hours later to ask for information. Garcia picked up the phone before you could react or steel yourself to the idea of talking to him again. “Hey, tall dark and nerdy, talk to me” She spoke quickly, leaning back in her chair. It made you blush, which you silently cursed her for. “Uh, hey, Garcia,” he paused to chuckle, “I need your help–” “Obviously” You started to get up to escape the room and compose yourself, but, much to your chagrin, he’d heard the background noise over the phone, “Is someone else in there with you?” His voice crackled over the phone line again, which made Penelope stop you from moving, 

“Yes, actually,” She nudged you as she spoke,

“H-uh, Hi, Spence.” You spoke up, trying to sound lighthearted. The idea of speaking to him again this soon seized your heart and made it hard to breathe. 

“Hey…as you can probably hear, I made it here safe. No need to worry.” There was a bit of a teasing tone to his voice. You’d never quite heard him use that tone with you before. Or anyone for that matter. 

Before you had time to process that, they were on to talking about the case again and you were able to escape the situation pretty much unscathed. 

The rest of the team didn’t return until later that week, on a Friday, so Garcia got pizza for everyone to celebrate. 

She came to grab you from your desk and the two of you arrived just in time to see something that stirred up something in you, so deep you think you were possessed by one of your distant descendants.

“You’re cutting pizza with a butter knife?!” You ask incredulously, not meaning to come off so viciously. 

Spencer froze, plastic butter knife still in hand as he stabbed into the pizza. 

“We…We don’t have a pizza cutter here, and some of the slices were kinda stuck together with cheese…” he explained, almost frozen in place as he awkwardly chuckled at the ridiculous nature of the conversation while Garcia couldn’t help but laugh. 

“Sorry, I honestly have no idea what came over me. Let’s uh, let’s dig into this pizza, huh? Now that I’m done getting possessed by my grandma?” You joke, going closer to the table with Penelope and grabbing one of the slices that were…cut. Definitely not sawed apart poorly. He’d tried his best. At this current moment, Spencer Reid was honestly just lucky he was cute. Despite that, you smiled politely and spent time with your found family that is the BAU.

That night, after all the fun was over and it was time to go home for a much needed crash, it had been just you and Spencer. You both volunteered to clean up after everything so that everyone else could go home for some much needed rest and to get a start on their weekend. They tried to insist that they’d help, too, but everyone was tired and it wasn’t that big of a mess so there was no need for everyone to stay. 

You thought it’d be fine, because surely you could be at least somewhat normal around him, right? 

The two of you easily talked and joked the whole time, the energy in the room fairly normal until you both reached for the same pizza box. Your hands brushed together and you instinctively looked up at each other, a similar electric feeling running down both your spines. 

“Oh, I can um…I can grab that.” you speak softly, almost afraid to speak in the sudden intense silence. 

“It’s okay, I got it. It’s the least I could do after you almost stabbed me earlier for my inferior method of cutting pizza.” Spence replied with a soft smile.

“Hey, you were the one with the plastic knife, mister.” 

“I’m never gonna live that down, am I?” 

“Not as long as I’m here,”

You both broke out into laughter then there were a few moments of just eye contact before you’d started to lean in closer slowly. Like too fast of a movement would scare him away. It seemed like he would, too, but before either of you could touch the other, he quickly stood up and away from you.

“Sorry—um, it’s been a long day. I can take care of taking out the rest of the trash, you don’t have to stick around. Thanks for the help, though.” He says hastily, grabbing one of the two bags of garbage bags that sat by the door and quickly rushing off. 

You sighed to yourself and grabbed your bag, heading out for the night and silently cursing at yourself. If it wasn’t awkward before, it would be now. 

But you just couldn’t help yourself around Spencer, everything about him screamed out to you like some sort of siren call. Every time you weren’t around him, basically anything would remind you of him. 

You just needed to bite the bullet and ask him out, so that’s exactly what you were going to do. The worst he could do was say no, right? 

So the week after that, you had finally worked up some courage. The whole team was at a bar together, Spencer being the only one not drinking as per usual. You, being about two drinks in at this point, had enough of tiptoeing around him. 

It’s now or never, you thought. 

You went over to him while everyone else was doing their own thing in different spots in the bar, so it was just the two of you, and you sat yourself next to him. 

Spencer looked over and smiled kindly at you, his brown doe eyes shining in the dim lighting. Your chest flooded with warm affection as soon as you made eye contact with him, and it made you that much more sure about this. 

“Hey, having fun?” he asked cheerfully, the happiest you’d heard him in a while. Since you’d started working at the BAU, you’d realize when you thought about this moment later. 

“Yeah, but um…I really need to ask you something, Spence.” 

“Oh? By all means, go ahead,” he gestures for you to continue, turning his body toward yours to give you his full attention. 

“Okay so…um…I…I like you. Like, I really like you—“ you started to say, before he interjected. 

“This isn’t sounding like a question”

“Spencer, please”

“Sorry, go on” he sheepishly smiled, apparently having fun teasing you a little. 

“Thank you, but I uhh…shit—“ you cursed. 

“You were saying you really like me?” 

“Right—so, I was wondering…if…if you’d want to…maybe…go out sometime? With me?”

“We…are out,” he gestured to the bar around the two of you, “right now.” 

“That’s not what I mean—“

“I know what you mean, and I…I’m not sure.”

“What?”

“I’ve had a lot happen to me recently, between going to jail and everything that happened with Cat, as well as everything else and our jobs themselves…I’m not sure I have room to have someone else in my life. No matter how much I like you, too.” 

You nearly gasped when he said he liked you, too, but you held it back. This was the most emotionally vulnerable he’d ever been around you. You weren’t going to take advantage of that. 

“Well…” you take his hand in both of yours, holding it close to your chest. “We could take things slow…ride things out, y’know? But that’s only if you want to. I’m here to make sure you’re happy. Whether it’s with me or not.”

He stared at you silently for a moment, considering everything you’d just told him. He kept glancing from your eyes to your lips, as if he was contemplating at a speed your slightly buzzed mind wasn’t quite up to keeping up with. 

Before you could speak or even think further on it, he was leaning forward and speaking low enough that only you would be hearing it. 

“Let’s go, let’s go back to my place. We’ll talk about this more, I just can barely hear myself think with the music in here.” 

You nodded and stood up from the booth, both of you waving goodbye to the rest of the team with gentle smiles before walking off. 

Back at his apartment, he barely had the door closed 5 minutes before he was kissing you. 

So much for talking things through. 

The way his lips pressed to yours felt passionate, desperate even. Like he’d been waiting to do this for a long time. You let yourself relax into it, your hand drifting up to tangle your fingers in his hair. Everything about kissing him just made you want to lose yourself in him until you weren’t sure where each of you ended and began. 

Then, just as suddenly as he started, he pulled away, taking in deep breaths and pushing his hair back away from his face but still close enough that you could feel his breath ghosting over your face. 

“Sorry, that…I shouldn’t have—“

Before he could finish, you were pulling him back in for more. He wasn’t about to get away with a kiss like that with just a simple ‘sorry’. Not if you had anything to say about it. 

The two of you ended up tangled together in his bed for the rest of the night, the blanket gently wrapped around you both in a comfortable silence. 

Talking could wait, for now you were just…together, and that was more than enough.

[cripplecharacters]

I was wondering: I noticed that in art I almost always see limb stumps that are, for the lack of a better word, thick and with a rounded end. But observing amputees around me, what I noticed is that their stumps are more tapered, they also are often uneven instead of perfectly round, and the rest of the limb is often thinner as a result of less muscle mass.

Is this coincidental, or do you think stumps are represented in a way that is assumed to be more aesthetically pleasing to abled folk? How common is the "perfect round muscular stump" thing, if at all??

Hello!

As an artist that seeks out art of disabled characters, it's 100% trying to make the character look "less disabled and more pretty". It's usually not a conscious decision, most people just have pretty=good and disabled=ugly ingrained into them and don't think about it ever. Positive depictions of disabled people will do everything to portray them as conventionally attractive as possible, and there is no disability that is exempt from this.

This applies to everything. Most art showing disabled people will try to keep the disability to the absolute minimum - it's not coincidence that positive disabled characters have to be white, thin, young, if they use a prosthetic it has to be really cool and/or unrealistic, if they use a wheelchair it has to be a manual that has to be really cool and/or unrealistic, and they have to look as abled as possible; an abled model who just happened to be holding a cane is preferable since gait disorders are ugly. Good luck trying to find a drawing of a character using an ostomy bag, with congenital skeletal conditions, with severe spasticity, in one of these big powerchairs, I won't mention facial differences and how non-existent realistic representation of them is. Hell, it can be hard to find art of blind characters who aren't wearing blindfolds and eyepatches (since disabled body part ugly), let alone using an aid like a cane or a brailler (since that's Disability, and not just a quirky character trait).

With stumps, it's the same thing. Most often you don't see them, since they are Clearly Disabled. Usually they're behind a cool prosthetic that's called something else (cyborg bionic automail whatever...) that sounds less disabled. If they aren't, they're probably bandaged, since they are Surely Scary. If they aren't that, they will be perfectly round, scarless (or with that big "starburst" type scar for some reason), symmetrical to other limb, and essentially look like you just erased the rest of a model's leg or arm.

Again, I don't think this is done on purpose, I think artists just don't think enough about how they choose to portray minorities. No one is researching anything, everything is a game of telephone from how someone else draws it, who cares that that person didn't bother to check anything either.

[Disclaimer that we don't have amputee mods]

How common is the "perfect round muscular stump" thing?

Not very common, but someone with a disarticulation (much more rare than through-bone) will have their muscles still attached to something and thus may not have the kind of tissue atrophy like someone with an above the knee amputation will. Even weightlifters with an above/below amputation will have some degree of atrophy (you can look at guys like Max Okun, etc.) so it's not like you can just "exercise it out".

A residual limb can be fairly round, but it mostly depends on where it actually is. A lot of people will have excess skin from skin flaps + tissue atrophy which gives it a different shape, BE amputees can have the actual bone shapes visible on the stump, etc. And of course there is scar tissue (unless it's congenital) which can affect how the limb looks like beyond just the sew line being visible; it can leave the stump with an indent around it, etc.

But all of that is of course Disability and Different, so it gets omitted in art. It'd be cool if this wasn't the case, but what can you do.

mod Sasza

[hazyaltcare]

Typing Quirk Suggestions for a Robot kin

I hope it gives you a wonderful uptime! :3

Mod Vintage (⭐)

Letter replacements:

Replace "O" with zeroes "0"

Replace "i" or "L" with ones "1"

Replace "one" with "1", including "one" sounds like "any1", or "we 1 = we won" (the past tense of "win")

Replace "zero" with "0"

Frankly, you can just replace all sorts of letters with numbers, such as

R = 12

N = 17

B = 8

A = 4

E = 3

etc.

or maybe make all "A"s and "i"s capitalized, cause "A.I." (artificial intelligence

Prefixes and Suffixes:

Get inspired by programming languages!

Begin your text with "//" like a comment on C++

If you prefer other languages comment tags, you can use "< !--your text-- >"

Or maybe begin it with " int main () { std::cout << "your text"" and end with "return 0; }" like C++ too

Greet people with the classic "Hello world!"

Or greet people with "beep boop!" honestly, I have no idea where this comes from, but it's cute.

Or write down html stuff, like sandwiching your italicized text with "< em> "

The possibilities are endless!

Robot Lingo:

(under the cut because there's a LOT! maybe terabytes! ...just kidding >;3c)

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some of these are from the machinesoul.net robot server! (not sponsored) (we're not in there anymore, but we saw the robot lingo shared there when we were)

Fronting = logged in, connected

Not fronting = logged out, disconnected

Conscious = activated

Dormant = deactivated

Blurry = no signal

Upset, angry = hacked

Small = bits, bytes

Bite = byte

Huge = gigabytes, terabytes, etc.

Your intake of food, medicine, etc. = input

Your artwork, cooking, handiwork, handwriting, etc. = output

Body = chassis, unit

Brain = CPU, processor

Mind = program, code

Imagination = simulation

Purpose = directive

Nerves = wires

Skin = plating

Organs = (function) units

Limbs = actuators

Eyes = ocular sensors

Glasses = HUD (head's up display)

Hair = wires

Ears = antennae, audio sensors

Nose = olfactory sensors

Heart = core

Liver = detoxification unit

Circulatory system = circuits

Voice = speaker, voice module, voice box

Mouth = face port

Name = designation

Sleep = sleep mode, low power mode, charging

Eat = fuel, batteries

Energy = batteries

Tired = low on batteries

Translate = compile

Memory = data, database

Bed = recharge pod/charger

Dreaming = simulation

Birthday = day of manufacture

Talking = communicating

Thinking = processing

Transitioning = modifying your chassis

Depression = downtime

Joy = uptime

Trash = scrap metal

Fresh/Clean = polished

Keysmashing = random 1s and 0s

Self-care = system maintenance

Going to the doctor = trip to the mechanic

Group = network

Anyone = anybot