#replies are ok though

[foundagame]

Haven't checked email stuff happened

[deoidesign]

panels from my webcomic. the characters are also from my webcomic. believe it or not it's about gay time traveling vampires

[royalarchivist]

Mine: Refer to me however you want!

Mike: Yeah, for me too. I think I use all pronouns too.

[They high-five and fist-bump each other]

Mine:

[via @barbmine]

[mikeru6]

jack and ralph’s stupid inside joke (but I animated it)

idea from @jack-merridoomed !! inspired by this post

[duusheen]

I mean bc she can and possibly bc she would forget if she update her family tree everytime something happens, that would honestly so stressing.

Look I play A LOT. In my game right now the heir is already born, Pandora has 4 kids, and she's an adult. If I wanted to, I could spoil the whole legacy 😂 That's why I don’t update the family tree often. But a few days ago, someone sent me an ask asking me to update it. Now I do, and I get an ask asking why there are spoilers 😒 idk maybe because it’s updated? Lmao

[wackywatchdotcom]

ive posted so much every single day on this blog for weeks now i feel weird having barely posted today . ive been busy but uhhh heres a random image i never posted from my tadc art folder?

[benwyattforcongress]

I see a lot of criticism and comparisons to "innies" as spoiled kids. And I do STRONGLY see the connections to innies and outies having a parent/child dynamic (oMark even calls iMark a child), but a lot of the comments stop short of the reality that innies are being faced with their own version of death. To me, it goes beyond "parent with more knowledge and experience says to do this thing and the kid is being rebellious. " Innie Mark was literally born out of oMark's inability to cope with grief and loss. To continue with the analogy, Mark Scout had a son to take on the burden of living, as it was more acceptable to get Severed than be passed out drunk for 8 hours a day.

Mark S. and especially Dylan G. have their moments of hypothesizing and basically fantasizing about who their outies are. Wellness sessions are just stories about these almost mythical beings and are held with such reverence by all of the innies. It's reminiscent of storylines in literature and other media where the "little orphan child" idealizes a parent they know they will never meet.

Except then Mark S. does go to the outside world. They plan an elaborate escape with the overtime contingency to warn anyone they can about the evils of Lumon. But instead, iMark uses his last works in S1 to tell them about Gemma/ Ms. Casey.

Mark S. spends most of Season 2 now trying to find and help liberate a woman he barely knows because now HE knows it's important to his outie. But this sacrifice is never appreciated by oMark. The scene in the birthing cabin shows how iMark goes from revering and admiring his outie to feeling used and discarded.

By all accounts for Mark S., his outie, a person who sired iMark and then never gave him a second thought until he needed something, is asking him to die. It goes beyond belittling his romantic interest in Helly. It's not a comparison of "Mark x Gemma" vs "Mark x Helly" and which relationship is stronger or more meaningful or deserves to be saved.

It's the fundamental lack of empathy for a man who is being asked to risk everything he has ever known and loved and worked for. This isn't your standard parent/child dynamic where the parent has shown the child a lifetime of safety and security and emotional support. Mark Scout does not care about what happens to his innie. I'm not gonna talk about whether or not oMark should or shouldn't because I don't know if it would make a difference to my stance. I don't think it's even about absolute morality. To me, it's about the expectation that a child should never act in their own best interests because an adult has made a decision for them.

The final act of the Season 2 finale follows Mark S. as he does everything that he was asked to do. He obediently finished Cold Harbor, risked his life to break Gemma out of the testing room, and he SUCCEEDED in getting her out. He accomplished his mission.

Mark S. made one decision that was selfish, when the alternative was asking him to cease existing. Outie Mark really didn't say "get her out and I don't care if I die". His goal was to get her out AND see her again, even if it was at the cost of his innie. And since his innie was solely created as a vessel for his grief, he's no longer needed now that Gemma is back.

And to me, that's what my issue is with the criticism of iMark's choice and comparisons to him as a rebellious teenager. He isn't choosing to throw away his life and run away with his first high school girlfriend. This isn't just a "but I love her, Dad" moment. This is a consciousness who has finally accepted that he also deserves a life.

What makes this show great is that, objectively, they all deserve a chance at happiness. Gemma DESERVES to be with Mark after all of her suffering. OMark DESERVES to be with his wife after he grieved her for 2 years.

But iMark and Helly, by the realities established within the show (not to mention how basically everything they have been doing was to prove that innies are their own consciousness) also deserve that. IMark being asked to sacrifice his life so his outie can be with Gemma feels no different than oMark being asked to sacrifice himself for iMark to be with Helly.

There was no option for a happy ending, but Mark S. made what he thought was the best decision that he could-- Gemma is free, and he gets to spend at least 10 more seconds with the person that he loves. He gets to live.

[oneknightstand-if]

As has been mentioned, I've been using it since the very beginning and it's come up in discussion several times on this blog at this point, so I'm giving my current opinions on it as a coding function.

Some parts of the game used it heavily while some parts used it lightly as I tried to determined which way of coding was more time efficient. After using it for two years, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that outside of certain circumstances, widespread use of multireplace is a waste of time for me.

There may be people who can easily parse the wall-of-text paragraphs that multireplace tends to create...

"In some of my worst dreams, I'm stuck in a memory of @{trauma the children of our band being dragged off to the Harrower|the children of our band starving last winter|a dying child|my followers, when…when I failed them|my followers dying|an old comrade dying|someone I had to kill|an old friend trying to kill me|a friend being Harrowed|a helot girl being Harrowed|being inside a Harrower|Plektoi coming for me|Theurges raining fire down on us|being locked in a dungeon|being poisoned|being speared in this arm}."

But those people aren't me.

I end up introducing a butt-load of typos and errors using multireplace that seriously slows down my editing phase (and is also more likely to get past me into the public beta). Most reported spacing issues (missing a space, a space where it shouldn't be) were caused by multireplace.

I also end up wasting time if I start using multireplace as a simple if/else replacement and then decide, no, I actually want to add in more conditionals/flag variables/do something more intricate that multireplace can't do, so have to go back and redo the whole coding from scratch again.

It also hampers the function of Random Test, that if you set up an if/else conditional that's impossible in the game, Random Test can let you know that line is never reached. It can't do the same with multireplace.

Since multireplace only saves vertical space (which is only going to save you a couple kilobytes per file if that) and line length isn't something that's advertised in the published games, time/bug efficiency > spacing efficiency for me.

So outside of preset macros such as pronouns & bond levels for characters, I've been mentally slapping myself to try and get out of the habit of using it over if/else statements at this point.

[whispering-brushes]

*KNOCK Knock knockknockknockkno—*

Mister Valden, are you in there?! Emily told me she hasn’t seen you all day! And— there’s an alarming amount of cats running around!..

You didn’t turn into one… did you? It couldn’t be!

*there’s some scrambling noises outside the door— and a very agitated meow*

"Hello?" Edgar's voice is clearly annoyed, especially as the knocking continues. Then, of course, he listens to what Emma is saying. "A day isn't that long... and no, of course I didn't—" He grumbles, before opening the door, though a "Agh— Maple, I know someone's there, don't leave, I don't want to have to find you—" can be heard.

And then, there he is, the door open, cat ears on his beret, kitten in hand. He's frozen for a moment, looking at Emma. "...It's a long story. If you decide to come in, watch your step. They're faster than you think, and you will trip over them if you aren't careful."

[raiiny-bay]

i haven’t really been online this week but i logged in & saw it was simblr gratitude day today, so i figured i’d make a quick post & tag some people that i think make this community brighter & a fun place to be & whose posts i always enjoy seeing on my dash :-)

@simspurgatory @lilamausmaus @teddybearsims @elderwisp @nekrophoria @simmersofia @wileyfern @sikoi @glammoose @mattodore @fizzytoo @barbieaiden @void-imp @blacknoiseabyss @salemssimblr @daydreamertrait @vicciouxs @lynzishell @rebouks @morrigan-sims @bloody-soda @potential-fate @machinegrl @alelelesimz @seaslugsims @pralinesims @simanin @aniraklova @gashface @lilypixels @kimbr3 @wolfavens @gothoffspring @ellisimis @kawaiishitty @cyclopstrait @salemsimss @wastelandwhisperer @aurorangen @hekpacubo @hell-dusk @diwns @bunmou @novac2281 @koibish @wldestluv-rs @noeyinthemist @lucidicer @bobapplesimblr @deathtulips

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

Like honestly my main problemo with mainstream kink culture is that like. I'm sorry but you will never convince me skinnyhot cishet girlies being pounded into literal submission by a bigstrong cishet man in a "playful" recreation of extreme patriarchy is subversive. Straight women crying about being "shamed" for liking booktok alphas and reclaiming their sexuality just doesn't move me as an argument for feminism when the shit they write/read is just straight up hetero rapefic. Good for you for getting off but getting off isn't inherently radical or progressive.

Like I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry dude you need to at least fuck him in the ass on the reg for me to care. Like if you're just being a femsub girlbottom then I don't care how reclaimed and empowered you feel and I won't celebrate you for bragging about it.

I won't cheer for you if he spits on you or chokes you or whatever else you're into just because you personally get off to it. I don't care. It's not a power move. Come back when you idk. Put thang (man) on a leash. Release a song about breaking in a male dom like a horse. And then we'll talk subversive.

[crossbackpoke-check]

tagged for six non-selfies by @gordiemeow!! 💕💕

1. 90% of my daily life (grad school)

2. my friends the 10000 deer who live in the woods i run in

3. hippo campus concert :)))

4. flipturn concert :)))

5. decorating for a friend’s surprise party

6. alligators!

tagging @catboy-mahura, @tofumilanesa, @bhagell, @2minutes4yeehawing and you, reading this!!!

[crimeronan]

Halfway through the raven boys, and you are so right about them. Why are they all like that about eachother. Insane. Deranged. Blue get tf outta there!!!!

this is so funny. blue is deranged too!!!! let her be deranged!!!!!

[sodapopcurtis-dx-asks]

You and Steve ever go storm chasing?

Soda sat down on his stool with a big sigh. He was exhausted, and the day had only just started.

Thankfully for him though, he had some stuff to wake him up — such as thinking up a reply for this note.

Storm chasing?

OH, you mean like racing the storms and following after them? Hell-fuckin'-yeah, we have!

Soda looked outside the window to stare at the truck that occupied a sleeping Steve. He smiled, and got back to writing.

Most people hate storms, I do myself! But, hehe, when it's me n' Steve caught in the middle of a big thunderstorm, either hunkered down in a busted up car or straight in the middle of the fields...

I'm just about ready for anything at that point. Let the storm take me on, y'know?!

It's a real big adrenaline chase everytime because we love to run head first into a good storm. Whether we're driving or we're running, it's just... so fun.

Darry gets real tired of it 'cus he hates the idea of us gettin' hurt or sick, and sometimes we do get sick, but– it's fun!!! And it's so worth the sniffles and cold the day after!!!

[oneknightstand-if]

Are all the ROs available to all the reincarnation backgrounds?

There's one modern reincarnation/Camelot MC combo that's mutually incompatible (as in the RO just nopes right out of that). That particular one should be quite evident by the end of the first book, so you don't have to worry about going after a doomed romance after that point.

There's also some Camelot MC/RO combos that will be harder to romance than others for... reasons, but there's only one that's a complete no-go.

[kiras-law]

The Broken Heart Serial Killings

T / lawlight / 1335 words

AU where L doesnt die, Light gets locked up, then escapes, then kills more people with not the murder book just because he missed his boyfriend.

Yagami Light is Kira, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Yandere Yagami Light, i guess ? hes kinda cray cray, Non-Graphic Violence, Non-Explicit Sex, the violence is a lil blood, not much dw guys, Out of Character, just a tad, Blood Drinking, Blood Kink, Knifeplay, Yagami Light Has a Crush on L