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sailingesme · 2 months ago

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the dreaded anchor drag

5/4/25

We’ve learned a LOT already in this short 2- day, 100 nautical mile journey up to Key Biscane, which is just south of Miami. Major lesson number one: anchor dragging. Good thing we already do set our anchor alarm every night. We were anchored just outside Boot Key Harbor in Marathon, and it had a fierce tidal current, perhaps from the harbor pull and push. The first night, no problems. The second night was the eve of our journey toward Key Largo and then Key Biscayne. We were planning the next morning to get up, pull the motor off the dinghy, tie up the dinghy to the davits on the back of the boat and sail up to Key Largo, nice and early so we could set anchor before sunset with our Aussie friends. Our friends had us to their boat for a pre-journey dinner, kids watching a movie, adults chatting and sharing a beer, and reasons for why we’ve all chosen this lifestyle. We also happened to chat extensively about anchors dragging and the benefits of using all chain on an anchor. We discussed how excited we are to finally get an auto helm and not be hand steering for hours on end. ‘Game changer’ claims Justin. ‘You wouldn’t catch me hand steering for more than 30 minutes’. He declared in his Irish brogue. Another game changer: the lithium batteries he’s about to pick up in Miami in a couple days. Each small upgrade makes a massive difference in this whole experience. Meeting another boat with kids, for instance. Game changer. Having an actual chart plotter (even if it’s ancient) instead of an iPad and phones. Game changer.

‘Goodnight! See you tomorrow in Key largo! Fair winds’ we dinghy our family back to the boat as it’s getting dark so we can all tuck in and get a decent night sleep before the long day ahead. Everyone asleep, and then an hour later our anchor alarm goes off. I mentioned to jimi before that this boat reminds me of having a newborn-I’m usually up at every sound and then I wake jimi if it seems pressing. So anchor alarm goes off, I get up, and sure enough our pattern says we’re dragging. Another thing my father in law, John taught me, is to make sure you’ve picked a point on the horizon to check in the middle of the night, so you know your anchor is set. John, if you’re reading this, just know you’re on this boat every day with all the tidbits you’ve taught me! So I look for my red flashing lights, the three in a stack, not the three horizontal ones, and they’re still there, but damn we’re a lot closer to that one boat… “Jimi, you gotta get up, our anchor alarms are going off” (we’ve set 2). He startles awake, and we troubleshoot what the hell is going on. Are we dragging? The wind is definitely strong, but the tide is super strong. 5 knot current? Can that even be right? So we have a crazy current, and the wind blowing us. The chart says we dragged 365 ft. No way. Thats insane. Plus why didn’t the alarms go off sooner? ‘Oh damn’ Jimi says, as he turns up the volume on his phone….maybe that’s why we didn’t hear it going off…

Finally jimi says, “welp it doesn’t seem to be dragging anymore, and the direction we’re dragging would put us to the side of these boats, not into any of them, so I’m going back to bed!” So we set 3 anchor alarms, and try to get some sleep. Beep! Beep! Beep! Alarms (all 3) go off again, this time a couple hours later, 4am. Again, jimi is sound asleep, (we need to put those damn alarms closer to our bed), and I’m up immediately. This time it’s obvious we’ve dragged. 350feet!!! “Holy shit! Jimi wake up! We’ve dragged so far we’re right next to the Dizzie (our friend’s boat). He’s up in no time and starting the engine this time. “We’re gonna have to pull the anchor and reset it.” He shouts over the engine. (Side note, if you’re wondering what happened to the kids in this story, they’re asleep. Not a stir. )

So I go up front and start yanking that anchor in. And I realize we can’t use that dumb anchor anymore. It’s called a Bruce something or other. And it’s just too flat for these grasses. The reason we used it is because some other friends said that would be better than not having chain at all. That using that anchor with the chain, is more of a guarantee than the one (the one that got us through all the other crazyness- remember the run -agroundings?). ‘I think we need to use old faithful’ I say to jimi cursing Bruce the anchor. “This anchor ain’t nothing but a dinghy anchor!” I’m pretty sure Bruce was pretty ashamed after that. So we motor forward all the way back to our original spot and deploy old faithful. ‘Tomorrow I think we should just switch the anchors so we have old faithful on the chain and the Bruce can just be retired. Stupid Bruce.’

And for the next post, I’ll tell you about the crazy storm we just experienced. I’m just too whooped to write anymore.

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thecelestiallegacies · 2 years ago

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Chapter 8: Summer Wind Part 3

"I just don't want you to get so caught up in the details that you lose sight of what you went there for." Hermes' voice was playing in his head like a soft, methodical rain on the roof. "Hermes, I've done so much research on our ancestry and the island spirits-" "You went there to heal from what happened on Sixam." She interrupted him and he was struck with what he was trying to forget. He nodded his head. "You're right." Hermes laughed "I know I am." Hermes was pacing around all the rooms of his house, pressing the little blue cell phone to his ear and grinning. "Well, any advice on how to go viral? I need a million followers to get promoted." "You can't be afraid to be too much of yourself. Also super dumb basis for promotion at a job... Just thought I should let you know that before I hang up. Let yourself sleep dude. Love you." Vulcan could only sigh and smile. "Love you too" He sat down at his computer and let his boss know he would be working the rest of the week from home. His followers had seemed to have plateaued. He needed about 5k more in order to get promoted in the social media career as an internet personality.

Vulcan switched from blogging about DIVA cat to blogging about Furball which resulted in a raise of a thousand followers. "That's a start." He stated,

He was offered a thousand dollars to do a video with a commercial at the beginning. "Its worth a shot" He said, and instantly comments flooded in about him 'selling out'. Five thousand unfollowed.

He took a deep breath, set up his webcam and uploaded a video. Immediately after, his computer screen showed a blue screen with white text across it, shooting sparks. Vulcan slumped into his seat in disappointment. "Is it even worth it?" He asked the sparking laptop. Rolling his eyes he straightened up and started troubleshooting. The computer revved back to life and he checked his page to see that the video he uploaded had gained him one... million... followers.

A deep exhale when he saw the message from his boss, promoting him to Meme Maker. He was so proud of himself, he decided to pick up a keyboard and teach himself how to play.

#the sims #sims #the sims 4 #my sims #nebulalegacy #sims 4 #simmer #ts4 #simblr #sims story #planetarylegacymercurygen

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nnedix · 5 months ago

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New Beginning

It's been a min...I know, but I'm super stoked for a few months ago, I bought a brand new gaming laptop. High end Lenovo with a 4080 built in! I'm so excited for the next gen of gaming and bringing Sims 3 with me everywhere I go now. I do still need to set up my Sims game properly and everything, but once I do, I'll try my best to post at least monthly to start off.

In these past few months, I've been doing some troubleshooting to my game saves (since they were running way too slow and causing lots of unnecessary headaches playing) and took out some ancient mods (that actually corrupted all of my saves) RIP, saves from all the way back from 2014🤪😤🙃 so I pretty much have to start over. I do have some of my fav sims saved in the bin (so not everything is lost) but still, some bs (but that's life).

Also, I have also realized that the Sims 3 modding community is still alive and well, which is great, so I have been updating some mods, some I've removed (including Story Progression) which is one of the main reasons my game was running dumb slow and crashing excessively. And added new ones like Dutchess Smooth Patch (which is incredible btw) among many others.

When it comes to CC, I am just ever adding more and more every time I log into this damn app and spam download for hours. I have also noticed that my game does have some bad CC, which I have gone down the list of searching and deleting it with Nraas help, but some are not even searchable, so hiding it indefinitely will just have to do. I don't want to delete my entire CC over like 7 bad files I cannot find ugh.

I do have some long overdue music video content I want to eventually record, but I really want to take the first few months to play Sims like I used to and just enjoy the game again before I dive back into creation mode.

Overall, I'm excited for these next few months, in getting back to playing and also dabbling into new life sims like InZoi and whenever Paralives drops. I'm excited for what 2025 has in store. :)

#ts3 #the sims 3 #sims 3 #updates #new stuff to come

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ultimate-character-design · 6 months ago

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Pleasantly surprised at the outcome! Also using this as propaganda for each of these medias.

Link Click is a mystery time travel show about these two guys who team up and go back in time through photos to solve cases. It is a master class in suspense and emotion, and it's one of my favorite shows of all time. TW for depictions of murder, suicide, and abuse.

Inside Job is an adult cartoon, and it does have that stereotypical, vulgar adult humor from time to time, but it definitely has pretty clever and smart jokes that are genuinely funny too. Inside Job is a show about this corporation known as Cognito Inc. which is dedicated to controlling America from the shadows and covering up conspiracies. The main character, Reagan, is incredibly sardonic and the other main character, Brett (he's in the poll!) Is your stereotypical "yes man" with a heart of gold. They make such a wonderful duo, and season 2 just gets so good. I will warn you though... Netflix canceled Season 3. I do think it's still worth watching, though.

Centaurworld looks incredibly silly and dumb, and it is. But it's also incredibly serious and grim. I think it sets up the juxtaposition between both worlds incredibly well, from the more rigid, anime style of the human world, and the soft and round Calarts style for the centaurworld. Such a juxtaposition makes The Nowhere King that much scarier and that much of a better antagonist for our TW for death, war, and attempted suicide

I don't remember much about Nier since I played it so long ago but I remember that I played Replicant (still havem't played Automata) and it made me cry. Soundtrack is also a banger.

Wind Breaker is one of my favorite mangas, and they just recently released a Season 1 for an anime earlier this year (with Season 2 coming out later this year). As someone who loved Tokyo Revengers but got frustrated at Takemichi rather often (opening is a banger though), Wind Breaker seemed to have everything I wanted. A strong main character who learns that accepting others is another form of getting stronger, the found family, and the character dynamics are also all excellent. A very wholesome delinquent manga/anime. Season 2 will also have Tsubakino, and I love Tsubakino so much.

Everhood is... how some people would say... Undertale on LSD. The overworld is very similar to Undertale, but in battle, you hop between lanes with attacks coming at you, like Guitar Hero but you're trying to avoid the notes (at first). It has a more unique perspective on genocide than Undertale does, where the main/good route is the genocide route.

Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun has a super cute art style, but the story gets... surprisingly dark and emotional. It's a lovely blend of the cute and funny human world, and the darker spirit world. TW for murder, death, mentions of suicide, cannibalism, minor horror, and probably a lot more?

Alien Stage. Man. TW for death, angst, none of your favorite characters will be safe from The Horrors. It's a free series on Youtube that's pretty short--like only around 30-40 minutes of content total. Humanity has been taken over and enslaved by aliens, and a select group of humans are trained specifically to sing for a competition where the loser is killed.

Elevator Hitch is a fun and short point-and-click horror game that involves the main character, Protag, getting stuck in an elevator before a job interview. It gets a little weird, and if you die, the Protag remembers. It also has a good amount of humor.

Gokurakugai is a cool manga about Alma and Tao, who run a Troubleshooter Agency that basically solves people's problems, including ones dealing with maga which are basically like. Evil demons/spirits that come from the remains of people and animals. It is a bit gory, and there's only about 23 chapters right now, but I really like it and I'm excited to see more. TW for violence and death, on-screen depictions of suicide, etc.

Experiment:

Reblog this post and add a poll of your own to the reblog. You can make it a poll about anything. Let's see how far it goes.

#ucdt ramble

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taehawke · 1 year ago

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'Dumb Luck' Episode 2 Dropped!

So, I FINALLY posted episode 2. I apologize for the delay! The explanation is a little winded, but I'll try to explain it effeciently!

So, in working on episode 2, my Procreate app started corrupting artworks, which led to them being bricked. I couldn't open or edit them anymore. This was super scary considering I was nearly done with the episode and it was originally a longer one. I updated my iPad and then realized that my Procreate was fully gone. Following some troubleshooting, I got it back, but my gallery was wiped. I lost every single work, including everything for my comic. :(

So, I spent the last month catching back up and trying to build back up to where I was. I'm going to try to post every week again now that I'm to a good point once more! :)

#original comic #original character #original characters #comic artist #webtoonscanvas #webtoons #webtoon artist #webtoon canvas #post apocalyptic comic #post apocalyptic #cybercore #dumb luck #dumb luck on webtoons #digital art #digital comic #webcomic #original webcomic

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sunny-satellites · 2 years ago

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I thought maybe people were exaggerating a little bit but no, KPIs are literally so dumb and dehumanizing. They're also just totally tone deaf to the problems we're having.

Sat in on a meeting Wednesday, and like, we're currently working with engineers to process servers that essentially are the next wave of data center servers, but this tech is super new and there's basically no troubleshooting guideline for it, so we have to operate each one on a case by case basis essentially getting two teams of engineers to sign off before we can take the next troubleshooting step.

So, lol, of course nVidia upper reps get into a call w/ my org because they're FPGA instruction set servers and they're part of a current tech gold rush, and they're asking for a literally impossible number.

Engineers keep asking my techs for like, additional diagnostics which is dragging the process along. So sometimes processing a single server that has *zero*issues they'll ask for an additional two hours of diagnostics, and that's not counting shit like the time it takes to rack and boot a server, submit paperwork and everything. I want the engineers and techs to be able to like, do their job and I nVidia leadership trying to squeeze us with unrealistic goals is what's really pissing me off here.

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defiantscribe · 2 years ago

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Feeling Lost

As the title implies, I'm feeling lost these past few days and it's culminated in me having to write because my brain is just too busy and I'm tired of depression napping.

So, Monday I decided that I didn't want to work so I took a "mental health day" and just decided to sleep in and bum around. Pretty normal for me to do about once a month, twice depending on stress levels. But it also stems from the fact that I'm not enjoying my job. Now, this doesn't mean I hate my job, but I've said it time and again and I'll say it again: I hate having to work.

Work sucks, plain, simple, to the point. I don't like the idea of having to do something for someone else to earn money to just live. I understand that's how the world works, doesn't mean I have to like it. Lately, my biggest complaint with my job is the people calling in and what I feel is them feigning ignorance when it comes to certain things with computers.

I understand there are certain things they aren't going to be well versed in, especially the more elderly people within the org, however it's when I get the 20 something's calling in and acting as if they've never touched a computer in their life and I have to walk them through simple fucking tasks on a computer or getting pushback when I'm attempting to troubleshoot. "Oh I already tried that". Oh really? You're trying it again so I KNOW you did it instead of you pretending you did it because you think you know better.

It's a constant battle with these bankers. I'm not working with the general public (thank fucking god), but it's about as bad some days. The worst is the need for audit paper trails. Anything these people need typically requires a request be filled out as a papertrail back to the need/request. I get it, I just think it's dumb when one team fucks it up and requires the user to do this when they shouldn't have had to in the first place.

So that was Monday.

Monday night we had a pretty bitchin rainstorm pass through our area. Tuesday morning, I get woken up by my son well before my usual wake up time and open my front door to see one of my fucking trees diagonally across my yard. Now, don't get me wrong, was super happy it didn't hit my house, my car or was even in the street, but I now have a very LARGE problem in my front yard.

Contact a tree removal service and spend more than I was comfortable with to have it cut into pieces and removed. Stressed the entire day about the cost of the removal, but they did a good job, gathered up all the bits and hauled it away.

Come Tuesday night, wife comes home after taking son out practice driving and says something's wrong with the car. About to have a spaz, when I ask if she had been running the AC in the car. Running the AC does have a tendency to tax the car's system and cause it to act different. She says yes, so I chalk it up to that.

Wednesday.

First day of school for my kids, so I get up extra early to get my son to school so he can catch a bus to a vocational school as those are where his morning classes are. Get in the car, turn it over, immediately see that it was NOT the AC causing the issue. Something is definitely wrong with my car. Can't really come to full stops as it feels like it's going to die. Get my son to school just fine, come back home, call up my boss and say I'm out again today as I have to get this resolved as it's the only vehicle we have and can't be without.

Spend the morning attempting to call mechanics, but after a few no answers, find a place that says I can bring it by Thursday afternoon and they'll take a look and then talk price. I say fine, but can only imagine what the price tag of this shit is going to be.

Now, I don't have much in the way of savings, but what we did have is quickly being exhausted by all of this BULLSHIT currently happening and I'm losing my fucking mind. Make my appointment, schedule with others to help get my son to school and meet me at the mechanics tomorrow so I can get a ride home, but JFC, I'm so fucking stressed out I took a fucking 5 hour depression nap today because I just could not deal with this. I'm up typing at 2:37 a.m. because I just have to get all of this out of my head, put somewhere because any time I'm looking for sympathy, no one's there and what sympathy I get has the vibe of "oh well, least it's not me, sorry it's happening to you, but not my problem" and that burns.

I just feel like life is doing it's damnedest to try fuck me over and it's getting the best of me right now. And then I'm questioning my direction in life. I'm fast approaching that midlife crisis, but I'm trying to find a way to make it far more…. productive than me getting a fancy car or some other stupid shit.

I've always said family first, work second. I'm starting to feel like I'm going to flip that here soon as my children are far more independent, they're not in sports or musical academics so much anymore and the need to have that kind of flexibility is waned. My wife drives now, so going places isn't dependent upon me, so I have far more ability to not be relied upon for certain things in life and with my son learning to drive, it's going to become even less.

It's hard for me to potentially change my pattern (I have to have some ADHD or Aspergers or something), but I feel like I may have to abandon some of my more favored habits to put change in my life that is necessary. I don't want to, but if I continue this pattern, I'm doing no favors to my family for the most part (or so I believe).

I just really needed to get all of this out as it just sits in my head, stewing like a pot of sauce that never finishes. And not really having anyone beyond my wife, who's going through the same paces, stinks, so I just put it here for anyone to read. No one will, but it helps me at least release it as if someone really wants to know, I can point them here and don't have to go into grand detail from point zero with them.

Life, please, things have been quiet and they've been good, I don't need sand in the face, it's not helping.

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hierneneuro · 2 years ago

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I think my razer headset is giving up on life ToT

#ive only had it for like 3 years n im super careful w it #im trying to do some troubleshooting rn but if nothing works ill have to get a new headset #n like the only gaming headsets i like the design of r the razer ones #but itd be so dumb to buy another razer headset if this one turns out to be done for after only 3 years #but where else am i gonna find high quality audio n mic AND kitty ears . nowhere

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criquette-was-here · 4 years ago

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Long Due Replies

Hi everyone! It’s been some crazy few months for me. Real life has taken over completely so I didn’t have a chance to pay attention to my inbox. There are lot of asks on troubleshooting and I apologise for not being able to help on time. I hope everyone who needed help has got it somehow >.< There’s a crazy amount of messages, so I’m going to hide it under the cut.

@shutupshirley said:

Hi Criquette, I’m sorry because this is dumb, but I don’t understand how to install your neighbourhood lighting mod on an installation of Ultimate Collection... do I change out every lighting.txt file I can find across all the expansion and stuff packs? :/

Thank you!!!!

Hi @shutupshirley! I’m not a big specialist on windows version of TS2 and UC but I believe there are two folders you have to look at and they are ‘Fun with Pets’ and ‘Open for Business’

Anonymous said:

What do you imagine residents of Feverfew are called? I keep doing Peruvian but like Ferfewian or some

Oh, yes, I was thinking about this matter at some point! Feverfewian is what I came up with. I even found a wiki article about different names for different town inhabitants to sort of made it up a bit, but I haven’t write down the result I had and now I’ve lost it. I think feverfewians sounds best, it can even have some silly derivatives like ‘fewies’

@3sushiroll said:

Hi Criquette, I'm getting into SC4 and have been getting the hang of it while using the sims 2 hood planner. I've been starting to use bridges and have been using yours. When I put in the tile measurement into the hood planner (ex: 15 tile = 8 in SC4), it doesn't exactly line up in game. Does this usually happen for you and you put in a piece of fake road in the middle or am I just doing it wrong and it should line up super nicely? Thank you for all your wonderful creations!

Hi @3sushiroll! Yes, TS2 parses SC4 roads this way. I always put some decorative road in the gap or I make the shores narrower so that the bride would overlap the road. But to make slopes where the road ends equal, you have to use TS2 terraforming tool to make this flat empty piece of terrain right after the road end into slope so that it would look like the opposite.

Anonymous said:

Hi there, hope you're doing well! I downloaded your simple walkways set and noticed that they float. They don't sit on the ground properly. Is there anything I can do on my end to make them sit closer to the ground? Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Hey anon! Thank you! Yes, this old set of walkways was made this way. Maxis made neighborhood mode roads float, so I had to do the same with road related decorations. But now you can use these Cobblestone paths or side walks from the Rural Charm, they’re as close to the ground as possible.

Anonymous said:

hey! would it ever be possible for you to create recolors of the cobblestone sidewalks in red brick/cobblestone?

Hi anon! I don’t think so :| I can’t even find the time to fix some Ferverfew related issues >.<

Anonymous said:

Hi Criquette. I liked Feverfew very much. I would like to make some of the houses multi-unit, keeping your doors in place. Is it possible to add the function of apartments to these doors? :)

Hi nonne! As far as I’m aware, you can only default replace those apartment doors which is quite useless. What you can do, is to put an apartment door right behind the front door. This, obviously, would eat up the space but could work as a solution.

Anonymous said:

Hello! I just downloaded Feverview and it's gorgeous! I can't believe all the little details you added, the effort and love you put into this project is incredible. I just had a small question: a few residential lots are fake apartments, I was wondering if you know how to turn them into functional apartments

Hi anon! I’m glad you liked Feverfew! ^__^ In theory, you can use SimPE or Lot Editor to change lot type from residential to apartment and then implement apartment doors somehow, but since I don’t have AL in my Super Collection, I have zero experience in that.

Anonymous said:

Hi Criquette! :) I just realized recently that if I delete objects in game, I have to delete first the recolors of it. I've already deleted a bunch of objects without knowing about this, so now my downloads folders has houndreds of recolors without meshes. Do you know about anything I can do to find and delete these orphans? (Delphys download organizer just can't make difference)

Hi anon! I’m definitely not a helper on the matter of keeping Downloads folder organised, sorry ^^’‘ I would thing about finding sets of files with similar names keeping eye on the absence of the word ‘mesh’ in the names, and looking at the file size at the same time. And that would take ages, obviously.

@ardyyy4 said:

Hello Criquette. I love Feverfew so much. But I have a problem. The grass and NHood objects are flickering together and it looks bad. How can i fix it? Thanks.

Hello Arda! That’s because of the neighborhood camera you’re using. I’d recommend you to install this particular camera just to get rid of flickering.

Anonymous said:

Hello! First of great content! Always been a fan! I was wondering if you could give a bit of advice with hood deco, I have downloaded an Ocean floor from Gwenke, and in lot view it only shows up at the very far edges, around my lot it is missing (it does show when render is set to small though). And it shows on beach lots too, I was wondering if you know of way to make it so that it is seen no matter what the view distance is etc? (I have the relevant cheats on btw) Thank you in advance!

Hey nonnie! Thanks :) Have you ticked off object hiding in the settings? Other than that, it could be camera issues.

Anonymous said:

is there a way to stop neighborhood decor from fading? I know there is the „boolprop dontmergenhflora“ cheat, but I still get some fading. for excample when I look at the lot from the street the NH decor by the street fades

That’s definitely sounds like object hiding option from the game settings :}

Anonymous said:

Hey how are you ? I hope all is well. I was wondering how is it that ts2 has no ski deco but in ts1 we had ski slope and skate lake !?? I was wondering can you and the sim community make deco or interactive items such as a ski slope or even snow shoes or just something that goes with seasons n BV pack ?

Hello anon! I hope you’re well too! Ski slope and winter sports related decos is something I wanted to make since 2016, but never had enough time to do so. Sometimes I even think about available TS2 technologies to make an animated ski lift and umm.. may be in the next ten years? ^^’‘

Anonymous said:

hello!! i'm sorry if u already answered something like this (i searched but found nothing) but the better nightlife isn't working for me :(( i put the better nightlife+voielle water on download fold and the decorations still flashing in pink light, i did something wrong? (i use win10) sorry for the inconveniente

Hey anon! Sometimes you have to do these weird steps in order to make it work:

remove Better Nightlife + water mod from your downloads folder,

load the game, load the neighborhood, make some changes, exit game

put Better Nightlife with water back. Toggle day/night with ‘L’ key to see if it works. If it’s not, than the problem is somewhere else. Pink flashing also could be unrelated to Better Nightlife, so I’d recommend to check TS2 graphics setting for Win10 manuals available.

Anonymous said:

Hello there, I'm having a problem with the rural charm, on lot view the roads have yellowish boards (idk how to explain exactly). I saw that was because of CuriousB terrain, but I don't have it downloaded anymore so I'm kinda confused. What should it be? Sorry for bothering,,,

Hello, anon! What’s current season you’re having in your game? It can be the season lighting differences that make roadside and terrain grass colors different. If it’s not, I’d check the Downloads folder to see if there’s still some terrain DRs I’ve forgot about.

@pinkflamingosims said:

Hi criquette! I was wondering if you have any idea why some hood deco cc crashes on mac, like palm 1 to 4 from the tropical 4t2 set by leoz94. Leoz94 says the only difference is the high polycount, but I don't think that's it, it looks a bit high to me but not insanely so, I have other stuff in that range with no problem... Have a nice - evening?

Hey @pinkflamingosims! I hope you’re doing well! Yes, some hood decos are really make the game crash and frankly speaking, I think that’s jsut package related issues like broken references in the resource tree. The best way to fix this type of hood decos is to make a clean and stable new clone and replace mesh/textures again.

Anonymous said:

Hello and thank you for amazing Feverfew map! I have a problem... ground is flashing red and I cannot fix it, do you have solution for this problem? It's been soooo long when I last played Sims 2 so apparently I did something wrong when installed CC. :(

Hello anon! Thank you! Oh, red flashing could be the result of lighting mod not being installed correctly. I’d start with getting rid of any lighting mods to see if it helps.

@marv61 said:

Hi Criquette. I just downloaded your terrain of Forkshire, it looks great! I know it has been since 2009 that you uploaded the terrain but I was wondering if you have a completed Neighborhood with houses, trees and all for download? I would love to play your version. Thanks.

Hi Patchman! Oh, goodness no! :D That was 12 years ago, those TS2 files are long gone since then.

Anonymous said:

Hi Criquette, first things first, I love your work thank you so much, you inspire me! Now the question: I have been using the dirt roads from your Rural Lanes set and found that sometimes it is difficult if not impossible to fit them to the slopes of steep terrain. Would it be possible to instead create road pieces as a texture like your Neighborhood Decals? That way they would "stick" onto the terrain regardless of shape. Wondering what you think? Love!

Hello and thank you, anon! The problem with the decals – we can’t see it in lot mode yet. And it must be a DR only so we’d have to ditch one of the Maxis’ decals for dirt road, which isn’t great too.

Anonymous said:

Hi Criquette! Will Betternightlife mod ever be updated to work with lighting mods with dawn and dusk? Is there any that already works with it? I really want to use the light up hood decos!

Hey anon! You can use it with lighting mods that add dusk and dawn to the game. For instance, there’s one here by @dreadpirate.

Anonymous said:

Hey Criquette! I recently used your template to make lit-up hood deco buildings using the Better Nightlife mod. The day text was great! However, the night texture was being clipped by the day texture. That is, some parts of the day texture was showing through the night texture. Is there a fix for this?

Hello nonnie! I’d recommend to check the meshes to see if day/night parts clip through each other and if they aren’t I’d check if all the day/night TXMT data is correct.

@criquette said:

I've installed Fewerfew following all your istructions. Apparently it works but the night lamps are flashing pink even ig I've installed the mod better night light. It seems that this mod does not work properly. Any recommendation?

Being Criquette, you should know the solution to that issue yourself :P Just kidding, sorry, couldn’t resist! If it flashes pink only by night than you have to check your ‘Downloads’ folder for conflicts. If it’s flashing constantly day and night, than I’d better check graphics setting using some windows related guides available across the Internet.

Anonymous said:

Hello, I love Feverfew and it's amazing. I have a problem where Linden Tree 1A isn't showing up in my game even though it's in my downloads folder. Also the railroad tracks are flashing blue, and those are in my folder too. Thanks in advance! :)

Hello anon! What type of the trees you’re using? Stand alone or default ones? If you’re using defaults, you can find the trees under Maxi’s oaks accordingly. As for the flashing blue railway tracks, check if you have this set in your ‘Downloads’ folder :)

Anonymous said:

Hello Criquette, before asking for help, I came to say that the Brazilian community loves your creations. But, to get to the point, anyway, I have been thinking about creating a Hood (inspired by Rio de Janeiro), so I would like to know how to create Deco Hoods for my game (the statue of Christ), I can't find that anywhere, Would you help me?

Hi there! Ah, most kind, thank you ^^ Well, there’s no big deal in creating hood decos. You have to switch your SimPE to advanced mode and after that neighborhood decoration will be visible in the catalogue to be cloned. I assume you already know how to make lot mode objects and know how to create, edit or convert meshes/textures though.

@hideshio said:

Hello! I found your train set (and it's AMAZING) on mts and was wondering if you had a railroad crossing sign? With the lights, X, and the red/white hand that goes down. Or the lights that go across a pole above the railroads. Thank you! =D

Hello @hideshio! Well, there is a railway crossing sign with lights and red/white hand included in this set :D it’s not animated though. But still!

Anonymous said:

Hi criquette, I’m a huge admirer of you work and I was wondering if you had any advice regarding road placement. Specifically the difficulty of road pieces that are deco only being able to be placed underneath the actually roads leaving it looking a little off.. if there a way to raise them higher before placing them or some kind of work around?

Hey anon, thank you! Unfortunately, there’s no way to make decorative road pieces work for lot mode and neighborhood mode at the same time. If you lift them so they look okay in hood mode, they will float in the air in lot mode. Since my latest creations are lot mode oriented, I’ve decided to save my efforts on making road pieces even with neigborhood mode roads.

Anonymous said:

Hey Criquette. I noticed that in my Feverfew none of the buildings across the street of Feverfew Sports Hall show up. I know those are supposed to be hood deco and look like duplex buildings, but I can't figure out what I'm missing. I deleted and redownloaded everything and couldn't fix it. Also the river ends at the first bridge in front of the cathedral, so the boats next to it appear to be flying. What is going on?

Hey anon! There’s definitely some files missing. If you’ve checked and redownloaded all the files, try to replace the Feverfew neighborhood folder with initial one. The game never restores disappeared hood decos by itself. Even if they were placed in the folder after their absence is discovered.

@simping-simmer said:

Hi Criquette, am I remembering correctly that there is a trick you can do with SimPE to change the height of individual pieces of hood deco? I’m struggling with putting ships in my dock because if I change a CC ship’s placeability to be able to be on both land and sea, it just sinks, but if I only keep it on sea, it can’t get close enough to the shore to place it in my docks. Does this make sense at all? Lol

Hello @simping-simmer, you’re absolutely right. You can change the height of placed hood decos via SimPE. Things you need to do are described here and here

Anonymous said:

Hello! I love all your work. I was wondering if you had ever thought of making some desert roads along the lines of the Terrain Mod: Dusty Roads for Desert Neighbourhoods by Stev84? I love the way this looks in my desert, but unfortunately, this mod makes the road in live mode a floor, which then makes you unable to place driveways.

Hey anon! Thanks ^^ Frankly, I don’t have any plans on creating any desert related CC at all :|

Anonymous said:

Hello Criquette. I would like to thank you for all the amazing work you have done creating content for sims 2. Thanks to you all my projects are possible. My question is: Chainlink fences for neighborhood deco... Do they exist? Searching the web these past day only found for build mode. Do you know of someone who already make some for deco hood? Or kindly will you be able to make some if its not much work? My sports fields and Industrial zones will be pleased for sure! Once again, thank you! :)

Hey anon and thank you! I don’t think hood deco chainlink fences were created by someone yet, but they definitely would be a great addition to the game. I was going to create some while working on Feverfew, but never had enough time to do that. May be i’ll make one at some point in the future!

Anonymous said:

Hello, Criquette. Do you know of any way to place lots without the area around it moving? I downloaded Ousmeo's remake of your Dullsfielde and read his og post using the waytime machine. When viewing that post, Tumblr recommended similar posts, one of which seemed to be a tip to prevent good deco from moving when placing lots nearby, but that post wasn't archived, so I can't visualise it. My guess is that if anyone else knows about this, it must be the best hood decorator that ever was ;-)

Hello anon! Ugh, this TS2 ‘feature’ is driving me mad quite often too! Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to get rid of it. The only way to fix the consequences is to backup initial hood folder and when you finish placing lots, replace spoiled terrain with the initial one with SimPE or HoodReplace.

#replies #answers #asks #Anonymous

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anothertimdrakestan · 5 years ago

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Stay With Me Tim Drake x Reader

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This story is kinda inspired by the 2003 Teen Titans episode between Kid Flash and Jinx because it’s my favorite episode and ship ever and I wanted the roles to be reversed with a super smart and powerful female and Tim ofc!

In an AU where Damian had an older sister who escaped the Al-Ghul family when he was 6-7ish and is now older and has mad tech skills which she uses to steal from the rich and give to the poor as well as some side work for villains!

Part 2

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Having already had your fun in Star City with the Queen family and in Metropolis going after the Daily Planet CEO you had packed up your tech and headed for Gotham. Metropolis had been easy, whatever the DP paid their tech team was clearly not enough because the firewalls they had set up were the ones you practiced with. When you were 12. Star City had been more difficult because another online entity, SMOAK, was trying to follow your path. Sadly for them, they travelled down one of your many Alice In Wonderland traps, if they were actually as dumb as they coded they might still be in there you thought with a smirk.

Gotham was a whole other ball park. Rich CEO’s were constantly interacting in Gotham with nothing but a weak VPN covering their elephant sized accounts with a paper napkin’s worth protection. What was BatBrat and his fun-sized sidekick going to do to you? Unless one of his 5 Robins were an expert hacker you’d have no problem, and that’s assuming they even find out your plan, which is near impossible seeing as they’re vigilantes not billionaires.

Setting up in a coffee shop was easy, you looked like every other student with a laptop, phone, and tablet and connecting to their server along with the 30 other people in the shop was perfect cover. Hiding in plain sight was something your mother had taught you years ago. Ra’s would find you when you hid but not when he believed you weren’t hiding, just busy somewhere else.

Before beginning your heist you thought back to your baby brother, constantly beaten and bruised from battle before he could understand what he had done wrong. Leaving him was your only regret, but he was training for a better position than you and you hoped he’d toughen up. Regardless, you spent your years after escaping learning code, battle, or anything else anyone would teach you. Becoming a sponge for information paid off, using your skills now to steal money from the 1% and transfer it to orphanages, hospitals, or anywhere else kids needed help. You were a modern day Robin Hood. Knowing you were saving lives eased the guilt from losing your baby brother, but it pushed you towards greatness.

With the nasty sentimental moment over you began running program after program. Using thousands of perfected commands running across millions of servers you were a grain of sand at the bottom of the ocean, troubleshooting your servers in real time under the cover of a coffee house. You began with common, but low class CEO’s. Making sure your programs were perfect, you auto transferred the first load to Gotham’s Pediatric Hospital as an anonymous donor. Moving on it was time for your biggest feat yet, Bruce Wayne.

That playboy billionaire did not need all he had, and you assumed he wouldn’t notice you skimming a couple million dollars off the top. He always says he’s big on charity right? Diving in you noticed three of your programs hit a wall, this was a record for you. Groaning you began typing frantically to patch your systems one at a time and made sure to set of lots of traps for anyone trying to follow you.

-- deep in the batcave --

“TIM GET DOWN HERE NOW”

Tim raced down, having just caught 4 hours of sleep he was feeling good, hoping for a good mission, but Bruce never called him that aggressively for missions.

Coming down to see Bruce typing at the BatComputer was not an uncommon sight. Tim came to a halt when he saw about 20 frowning Robin’s as his defense system was falling apart. “Tim excuse my french but what the fuck is happening” Bruce stood up from his seat letting Tim settle in, as soon as he landed his fingers began flying across the screen. “B I’ve never seen a program like this, don’t worry they’re going after Wayne Enterprises not the BatCave but this program is so fast and secure I don’t know if I can figure this one out” Bruce did not get comfort in knowing the hacker was only going after his billions of dollars and not his secret identity.

A light bulb struck, “B get Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak on the phone, didn’t they get hacked a couple weeks ago- oh! I found a path down let me follow this- go call them!” Tim began coding down a path, until he realized how it was just a little too easy. Knowing his own system had rabbit holes he began running his own program highlighting the thousands of pointless ventures he could get stuck down. Realizing the coding was too advanced for him to access remotely, he gave up defending Bruce's accounts, letting his opponent blaze through his defense systems and began going after the hacker’s physical location. It was a race for who could find the other first, the mystery hacker hunting for Bruce’s offshore accounts and Tim hunting for the hacker themself.

Turns out the Queen’s were no help, Smoak had tumbled down a rabbit hole and spent no time deciphering the whereabouts of the hacker. Damian realized his pet adoption fund was on the line and took to the streets with a reluctant Jason who believed “it’s about time Bruce stops relying on his endless supply of money” while Dick was trying to mother Tim, who did not look well. He was sweating, cursing, and cramping while Bruce spoke to other CEOs who had just lost millions.

While Jason was questioning his favorite drug lords Damian decided to hit the streets as a jogger, trying to look for anything suspicious and be on the ground ready when Tim found the hacker’s location. While running he saw a familiar face he couldn’t put a name to. She looked focused, typing intently on a tablet then switching back to her laptop, pushing strands of hair out of her face. Damian felt drawn to her, abandoning his original mission to find out her name.

Not being one for subtleties, Damian padded up to her and stuck out his hand. “Damian Wayne, I feel like I know you. Are you in association with my father?” Your heart skipped a beat looking into the same eyes you’d seen begging for help all those years ago. “Y/N” you replied, wondering if Damian remembered you. His eyes widened as he sat down in front of you. “How. Do. I. Know. You. Y/N” he said it desperately, but you couldn’t give him what he wanted. “My sister and I attend Gotham Academy, she’s in your grade I’m sure you’ve seen me around. It’s nice to meet you Damian but I am totally gonna fail this test tomorrow if I don’t keep studying - I’ve been studying all day!” you plastered a smile to your face hoping Damian was as shy now as he was at 6 years old and that he wouldn’t know everyone in his grade. Damian blinked, shaking off the fantasy playing in his head and nodded, without a word he turned and left. You let out the breath you’d held in the entire interaction and returned to patching, only to notice your opponent had stopped trying to defend Wayne Enterprises. In the few moments you’d been with Damian, your opponent had switched from defense to offense and had probably discovered your location.

“I’ve got him!” Tim cried, making Dick jump about 10 feet in the air. *Where* Damian and Jason asked over comms. “The bastard is on 72nd and Main, at that little coffee shop I always go to!” Tim raced from the chair to his suit, he needed to find this hacker and learn from them capture them.

Realizing your cover was blown you frantically closed your laptop and backed up your tablet and belongings heading out the door, not before you were stopped by three vigilantes. “Going somewhere?” Red Robin asked with a smirk. “Uh- class, I’m late!” you gestured to your backpack. “The smallest Robin spoke up “interesting because when I asked you a few minutes ago you were studying Y/N. That’s the hacker I can assure you” knowing your cover was blown you dropped your backpack and smashed the laptop and tablet, sliding your phone in your bra during the commotion.

Before you knew it you were locked up, staring face to face with Red Robin who you assumed was your opponent, the only person in the world to best you. The silence was comfortable. A mutual understanding of the other’s brilliance. Red Robin broke first “how’d you set up the traps, I’ve never seen a program hide it’s own steps like that” you lied using a response that made no sense, testing him.

The 4 other members of the bat family watched in awe as you and Tim spoke in what seemed like a different language. Jason thought it was hot, Dick was scared of you, and Damian was confused. Deciding he couldn’t deduce alone he broke the silence. “I believe Y/N is my sister” Every head spun to him as he explained the bits and pieces of what he could remember. “Why wouldn’t she change her name?” Dick asked. “My grandfather did not want to lock her up and mother simply wouldn’t go after her so we just let her fall into a sea of names” Damian replied staring at you. “Is she mine?” Bruce asked with fear. “I do not know father, but I know she is my blood” and with that Damian entered the cave, typed in the passcode and entered the room with you.

Falling into his embrace you began tearing up “I did it for you little bro, all these years and you’re running with these dumbasses?” you felt Damian shake, almost as if he was crying, in your arms. “Y/N it’s been so long, why the hacking?” and the two of you began exchanging stories sitting peacefully in the corner of your cell.

Tim watched every tape from the cell’s camera. He was infatuated with your genius. When Damian felt satisfied with his understanding and began visiting less your time was filled more and more with Tim. Talking in such a deep code no one really knew the relationship the two of you were forming. Fighting turned to teasing, shifting into understanding and developing quickly into flirting. Through just talking about JavaScript you knew more about Tim than anyone in his family and you had to admit, you had some feelings for the boy wonder.

Tim was head over heels. He brought you food, worked on cases next to you, and begged Bruce to let you out. He was convinced you were good, and with no access to your laptop and tablet you weren’t dangerous. You’d been in their custody for about a month when Tim took his mask off in front of you. Drinking in his appearance you bonded more with him through the wall, slipping in mentions of your changed opinions and desire to cup his face in your hand.

Absolutely smitten in two months, Tim thought of you as a partner. Damian often visited you and Tim began slipping into your cell to be closer, your relationship blossoming. After gaining the boys trust you began planning your escape. As much as you loved Damian and enjoyed Tim’s company you had a mission to fulfill, live brother or not. Being in the BatCave with your phone meant direct access, and since Tim spent all his time on his laptop next to you, you could discretely encrypt your own code into Tim’s original programming.

You had a gig for Vandal Savage in a week and with a heavy heart you decided it was time to leave. Not without some flare first though. You convinced Tim to work an all-nighter in your cell that night, spending the night laughing, flirting, and eventually holding hands and playing with eachothers hair. Around 5am you began your plan. “Timmy let's go see the sunrise, I miss the sun please. We should stay in Wayne Manor but I just want to stretch my legs and look at the sunrise with you!” Nearly three months in, Tim was a sucker for you, and as planned, he finally caved.

Hand in hand you ran out of the cell, skipping, jumping, smiling: freedom felt good. The two of you spent the morning together, you rested your head on his shoulder, fingers intertwined in pure heaven as you watched colors dance on the Gotham skyline. “Y/N I think I really like you” “Tim how? I’m bad, I’m supposed to be in that cell right now and I know you’re gonna make me go back in.” You frowned, trying to feign innocence. “Just a couple more days, Bruce is so close to letting you go! Maybe you can work for our team, I’ve always wanted a partner in non-crime!” Tim smiled from ear to ear, so hopeful and ernst it broke your heart. "You always say your like Robin Hood and I'm Red Robin so we fit perfectly together already!" his eyes gleamed with anticipation and emotion and it took all you had to not come clean with him. “We’ll see Timmy” with a sigh the two of you fell back into silence before it was time for you to go back to your cage.

Tim led you down the passage to the cave, you just had to get within 20 feet of the BatComputer to launch the program from your phone. You came down to see Bruce at the computer frowning. “Tim are you seeing this? I think Y/N is doing something - speaking of which how is she? I haven’t checked in a while seeing as you’re always with her. You slid into your cell as Tim sheepishly walked up to the computer. “B what are you talking about she smashed her laptop and tablet plus she’s in the cell, I think you’re being too harsh.” he began typing and saw one of his oldest codes he put on to stop Damian from sneaking out and saw changes to the code. “W-What is this?” you realized it was time to leave and began running your final program. With a click your cell opened and the BatComputer kicked Tim off his own program. “Sorry boys. I’m not ready to be a good guy just yet!”

With a heavy heart you began your escape, overriding the system that was locking you in the BatCave and running programs to lock all other doors except the ones necessary for your escape so no other Bat Brats could interrupt you. Bruce and Tim began chasing you. As you heard their footsteps nearing you launched the electro-nets the Bats were usually using on villians. Falling to the ground Bruce and Tim looked up at you. Bruce looked disgusted but the look Tim gave you broke your heart. Knowing you were in the clear you moved back to Tim, using the cuffs originally on you to tie him up.

As Bruce writhed on the floor you looked in Tim’s eyes. “Timmy I need you to know all our moments were real. You need to tell Dami I love him. You know I could’ve left months ago but I stayed for you, Tim. I know you’re gonna try to follow me and I hope you do, because this can’t be the last I see of you love bird.” the best goodbye you could give Tim was cupping his face and bringing his lips to yours, this was not part of your plan, but for once you let your heart decide what was important. Feeling Tim kiss you back was all you needed to know this wouldn’t be the last you saw of him. Lingering in his presence you took a deep breath and took off, turning to see Tim fumbling with his cuffs. You broke into a run, not before leaving a message that would stick with Tim for months.

“See you soon Timmy”

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Part Two Here

#im way more obsessed with this story than anyone else will be but that's okay #tim drake #tim drake x reader #tim drake x y/n #tim drake x you #damian wayne #bruce wayne #damian wayne x sister!reader #batboys #dc #tim drake angst #jason todd #dick grayson #strong female lead

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andromedarune · 5 years ago

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Hello! A nsfw for Leon please! His female s/o has a new job that has her wearing stockings and heels. He didn't see her leave that morning, so when she meets him, Raihan, and friends for dinner, he is shook. S/o: what a day, I can't wait to take these (stockings and heels) off! Leon, not thinking: I can do that for you S/o and everyone: ... (Raihan is crackling) Leon, still going: or I take everything else off and leave those Cue terrible blushing and the pair leaving early. Thank you

A/N: Okay, THIS is a cute fucking prompt! I mean, even though it took me like 4 days of agony to write (don’t ask me why, bc I can’t give you an answer lolol), I really think this was a super fun prompt. But I’m not too sure if what I’ve written was decent or the idea you had in mind, but I tried! I hope it’s readable!

“Uniform” - Leon x Reader

“When’s your lady supposed to get here?”

Leon swatted Raihan’s shoulder, trying to ignore the rising urge to look around the area one more time.

“She’s just getting out of work, probably. But it’s not too far from here so she shouldn’t be long.”

Ah, fuck it. Leon glanced around, scanning the plaza one more time. You said you’d be joining the two of them later that day. Leon let himself smile just a little bit at the idea of the three of you finally getting to wind down after a busy day, watching the sunset from the fountain in the middle of Wyndon. Most people were returning home by now, so the three of you likely wouldn’t be disturbed. It was a perfect way for him to finally spend some time with his two best friends.

When you and Leon first started dating, he was actually a bit worried to see how you would interact with some of his friends. Sure, you were nice and sweet to most everyone, but he had dealt with plenty of partners that turned face wickedly fast if they felt that Leon might care for someone else more. So far, that definitely wasn’t the case with you. You were nice to literally everyone - one of the main reasons he couldn’t help but fall in love with you. It was nice not having to choose between a romantic partner and your friends.

That being said, it was always a spectacle when you, him, and Raihan got to hang out together. Most of the time, it’s just you holding the boys back from doing something insanely stupid (like the time they considered jumping in an elevator, or the time they wanted to jump into a pitch-black Dynamax hole to see how deep it was). Sometimes, Raihan would decide to mess with Leon and joke with you; it eventually became a running joke that you would leave Leon for Raihan and run away to Cinnabar Island in Kanto together. While Leon was more than confident that Raihan wouldn’t do that and that you wouldn’t leave him, the man couldn’t help but get that little twinge of worry in his chest. You always said that you loved his shyness when it came to displaying affection in public, and you always said that he was the best partner you’d ever had. So why was he worried? Little bits of jealousy would spike up in his chest everytime Raihan jokingly wrapped an arm over your shoulder, or picked you up off the ground in a tight hug. You always reassured him that you and Raihan were just messing with him, and he knew for a fact that you weren’t cheating, so why was he worried?

“What’s with the face?”

Leon turned back to his best friend, trying to erase all evidence of his troubled thinking.

“What face?”

Raihan snickered, leaning back on his hands as he gave the champion a toothy grin.

“That face. You’re all scrunched up like you’re pissed or something.”

Leon slapped a hand over his face, giving it a quick rub before dropping his hand back down to his thigh. The dragon tamer belted a laugh, nudging his friend in the shoulder.

“Come on, mate - what’s the matter? Don’t tell me you’re worried that your girl is five minutes late.”

“It’s not that,” Leon said a bit too quickly, shaking his head as Raihan turned his body to fully face the champion. “It’s just… I don’t know. I’m just… worried, I guess.”

“About what?”

“About… Like… I don’t know. I can’t help but think that I’m not doing enough for her. I mean, she moved all the way from Wedgehurst just to move in with me, and she had to get a new job here. She’s changed her entire life just to be with me, and I - I don’t know - I feel like I’ve hardly lifted a finger.”

“What the hell are you talking about?” Raihan slapped Leon’s shoulder, gripping his friend as if that would assuage his fears. “Mate, come on. She’s doing all this stuff because she loves you. And give yourself some more credit: you were the one who helped her get that job in the first place, and you’re always trying to find the perfect gifts for her. Besides, if she really had a problem with the relationship, she would’ve said something by now.”

Leon managed a nod. Raihan wasn’t wrong; after all, he’s usually the first person Leon goes to whenever he needs help finding a gift for you. And while Leon mentioned that you didn’t necessarily need to work, that he’d take care of you financially, he was also incredibly supportive when you affirmed that you still wanted to work. He called in a couple favors, and eventually landed you an interview at an esteemed business firm. Today was your first day, and Leon wanted to hear all about it, hoping that you liked it well enough. Where were you, anyway?

“Besides,” Raihan pulled back, opting to gaze up at the orange sun that was working its way behind the tops of skyscrapers, “she’s totally stuck on you. I know we probably mess with you a bit too much, but believe me when I say that she’d sooner shoot herself than break her commitment to you. And I wouldn’t do you dirty like that.”

That was just enough to pull Leon’s spirits up a tad. He offered a kind look to his best friend.

“Thanks, Raihan. I needed that.”

“But you could stand to be a bit more brave.” Leon pursed his lips; just like Raihan to build up Leon’s ego before knocking the wind out of his sails. “I mean, you two hardly ever hold hands in public. Much less kiss. How’s anyone supposed to know that she’s off-limits?”

Ah, well, Leon couldn’t refute that. He nodded, resting his hand on his chin to debate more on that idea. However, the sound of heels in the distance caught his attention.

“Hey guys - sorry I’m late!” Leon spun around, eager to meet your vibrant eyes, only to nearly choke on his spit at the sight of you. “I didn’t realize how slow I was in heels.”

Leon never really considered himself an outfit kind of guy. He always appreciated your extra effort in how you dressed sometimes, but internally he felt that there was nothing better than seeing you down to the skin. However, with those black stockings that no doubt had a garter belt attached, and that brand new pair of black pumps, he was beginning to reconsider.

“You, in heels?” Raihan snickered, ignoring the blank expression on Leon’s face. “That’s a change.”

“I know, I know. Trust me, I would’ve rather worn my flats, but policy says that girls have to wear these dumb heels and skirts. But at least it’s cute.”

“Totally,” Raihan elbowed the champion. Leon blinked a couple times, struggling to focus his eyes on your well-made face and not, well, everything else. Definitely not the blouse that draped like fine silk around your chest, nor the tight pencil skirt that hung perfectly around your curves. But oh Arceus, those stockings and heels…

When it became obvious that Leon.exe was still troubleshooting, you let out a small sigh, trying to distract yourself from the way he seemed outright hypnotized by every movement your legs made.

“Yeah, but I’m exhausted from wearing this all day. I can’t wait to get home and take these damn stockings and heels off.”

Leon blinked.

“I can do that for you.”

Raihan snapped his head towards Leon, a surprised smile on his face at the boldness of Leon’s words. You practically flushed red from head to toe. A part of you wanted to race over there to smack Raihan, who was desperately covering his mouth to hide his snickers, but the other part of you was a bit nervous to get within arm’s distance of your normally shy boyfriend. But Leon didn’t seem to be thinking, as he continued.

“Or we can just get rid of everything else and the tights and heels can stay. Take your pick.”

You could only stare back with a bewildered smile, unable to force the corners of your lips down. Normally you’re the one embarrassing him in public, and now??? Raihan continued to laugh, having to shove his head into his hands while Leon kept a serious expression.

“Y-you’re… you’re kidding, right?” you tried to laugh it off.

“No. Pick one.”

You squeaked in surprise, shooting your eyes down to the pavement below to try and steady your beating heart.

“Th-then… I guess… option 2?”

You could hear Leon chuckle from where he resided, and eventually felt him swing an arm around you once he got close enough.

“Change of plans - Raihan, you’re on your own, mate.”

You attempted to cover your face in your hands.

“L-Leon!”

Raihan gave a thumbs up. You could only cling to your overexcited boyfriend as he dragged you down the street, ready to take action for his bold words. Leon was really starting to like the idea of you coming home to him in that outfit everyday. And judging by the flustered grin on your face, he figured that you were, as well.

#pokemon #Pokemon Sword and shield #pokemon swsh #swsh #request #requests #pokemon requests #x reader #Leon x reader #champion leon #leon #female s/o #also featuring wingman raihan #if Leon doesn't think he's actually smooth #otherwise he's just a himbo #that's a fact

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gecko-s-greenhouse · 4 years ago

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an introduction to my colleagues

the raven: the boss. has shiny thing syndrome. doesn't believe in mental health.

buttons: (nicknamed because their impression of crystallography is "mmm buttons! let me push them all and see if something happens") emotionally resilient. a realist, but an optimistic one who is great at finding and focusing on the silver lining. always laughing, always smiling. an excellent scientist. never makes you feel like an idiot even when your question is super basic. a good conversationalist. an interesting human. maybe i have a little crush on them?

PR santa: takes no shit, gives no shits about what other people think of them. will do what they want, within reason. a good scientist, a good mentor, a good student.

csv: driven, hardworking, efficient. came to my group meeting the same afternoon after they got married.

chives: cheerful, fun to talk to. doing interesting science, eager to learn.

the organizer bunny: does what it says on the label. organized person meets energizer bunny. thoughtful, kind, stable.

the good egg (x2): kind. generous with their time. thoughtful. i want to be this person when i grow up.

the absentee landlord: not a particularly good conversationalist. more of a reservoir of facts, and if you say something adjacent to one of their facts, they'll tell you the adjacent fact. could also be nicknamed wade watts.

cajones: the intern. has little experience but the confidence of someone ~10yrs senior. not a particularly good experimentalist primarily because they "wing" protocols on the first go-around and don't want to do things the right way because that takes a lot of time. conversation topics: what kind of white are you? oh my grandmother is racist but she's not racist because i love her. young. lots of personal growth ahead of them.

the mathematician: a senior member of the lab with the confidence of a newbie.

the sjw: kind of predictable. if the liberal left espouses a certain view, you can confidently bet that the sjw will too.

wc: unable to take criticism, will "YEAH YEAH YEAH" at you until you shut up and stop trying to share your advice/experience, but this isn't reciprocal haha. example: i saw they were doing a dumb thing with an easy fix, but instead of telling them the easy fix (and get YEAH YEAH YEAH'ed) i just told them that their thing was broken and let them figure it out themselves. everyone happier that way. poor follow through - if an experiment doesn't work the first time around, will there be troubleshooting? probably not. didn't contribute to shared lab duties until a FLASHY one came up (lots of brownie points in the boss's eyes). at the end of the day, they are just very, very selfish, which, in the grand scheme of things, might not be forgivable, but it's easily worked around.

wc2: mini-me of wc (see below). unfortunately also has the added toxic trait of being defensive as fuck. example: i saw they left a reagent meant to be stored in the fridge at room temp, so i moved it back and told them i had moved it. they said, "oh i know about that, that was for your* benefit because the reagent was stinky so i was airing it out." what the fuck? would it kill you to say, "oh thanks for doing that! i'll keep an eye on it next time." does it make you a lesser person to acknowledge that you were forgetful once? i am certainly holding the victim blaming against you. a braggart. "i went to your neighborhood to have lunch, it was so lively and beautiful!" haha when i hear that my neighborhood is lively i wonder how many homeless people will be wandering around screaming "FUCK" in the wee hours. i guess i can't hold this against them because they don't know where i live.

wc + wc2 common traits: i used to refer to them as slob1 and slob2. also: don't clean up after themselves/leave messes in common spaces, don't help out around the lab, not good lab citizens, big talkers, love to hear the sound of their own voice, get off to their own self-importance. their current bragging chip: getting the pfizer vaccine (instead of moderna or j+j, we're in the u.s.). they're pfizer supremacists and i want to punch them in the face every time they brag about how they are superior by association. wc might have a crush on wc2. i think they're made for each other.

me: i'm a cynic. i'm tired, i'm jaded, i just want to be left alone, except for an occasional beer with the people i like.

#personal

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vagrantblvrd · 6 years ago

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That bit in the Get Fried! - Left 4 Dead: All Gus August video where Jeremy mentions he almost went to school in Savannah?

Just like.

So many Jeremwood AU possibilities?

The adorable romcom where Jeremy’s a bright-eyed bushy-tailed art student who meets Ryan there?

Ryan’s like. Look, idk a newly minted professor or TA. Maybe just a forever student. Maybe IT. Something, I don’t know because it’s been forever since I slept, but!

He and Jeremy meet and there are all these Feelings and Pining.

Ryan’s a newly minted professor/TA or something, or maybe a forever student or an IT guy and there’s adorable fail-flirting and their friends giving them endless grief about everything?

OR.

Jeremy going back to college after having to pick up a job right after graduating from high school or there was a family emergency and life got derailed for a few years, but now!

Now everything’s more or less back on track and he’s got some money saved/his parents pitching in to help/a scholarship or grants or whatever and all that.

He’s a little nervous about being older than most of the freshmen there but totally up for bettering himself and all that.

And he meets Ryan who is one of the above options mentioned for him in this romcom scenario only there’s less of a power imbalance between them – Ryan’s not his professor/TA in either scenario (or maybe he is??? Reader’s choice I guess) and anyway, they’re smart enough not to get themselves in trouble.

Just you know.

The Pining.

Awkward flirting that is adorable as hell until someone interrupts or they realize how inappropriate it all is and scurry away/make awkward excuses and then scurry away.

More Pining until the end of the term or one of them graduates and then it’s like.

“So, hey. Would you like to get coffee sometime?”

Whoever is asking is freaking out wondering if they’ve read the signs wrong and oh God, how embarrassing??? And the other one falls all over themselves (literally or figuratively) saying yes and anyway, just all kinds of adorable shenanigans and like. Cuteness overload with occasional bouts of Drama. (The whole thinking the other one id dating someone else and the :((((((((((((( heartbreak only to realize it’s one of their BFFs or something.)

Also, also, maybe Jeremy decides to try out for the college gymnastics team or wrestling and Ryan is like OH NO because muscles and flexibility and he’s a dirty old man at the ripe old age of *mumbledysomething* while his friends despair of his idiocy so much. (SO MUCH.)

Because you know Jeremy invites Ryan to one of his meets or competitions or whatever for moral support, hahaha, like Jeremy doesn’t have his own tiny, super enthusiastic cheering section.

And Michael, who side-eyes Ryan so fucking hard just to see him squirm. (Jeremy will not shut the fuck up about the guy, and it gets a million times worse when the idiot’s drunk and omg, Jeremy, omg, just fucking man up and ask him on a date. Or bone him, whichever.)

OR.

The Battle Buddies/agency AU/FAHC AU where they were both students there at the same time (Plot Reasons) and they have this drunken one-night stand they both kind of forget about? (But not really?)

Jeremy young and stupid and there’s this hot guy at a party with his stupid floppy hair and he’s had enough to drink to make ill-advised decisions that (probably) won’t haunt him years into the future in unforseen ways?

And Ryan, it’s the one (1) time he gives in and lets his buddies get him (somewhat) drunk to the point he will also make those same sort of ill-advised decisions.

And look, okay, look. There’s this guy there with his hair dyed some ridiculous anime color and this smile and this laugh and Ryan’s.

He’s not drunk, just kind of stressed because exams just ended and he’s always been the Good Kid and college is supposed to be where he has this kind of fun, right? Not hurting anyone and figuring himself out and is the guy checking him out? (Oh God, the guy is totally checking him out.)

And then you know, one-night stand where they have a nice time and everyone’s happy, but clearly this was an ill-advised choice and anyway, anyway.

Ryan gets caught up in shenanigans that end up with him joining up with the Battle Buddies agency/life of crime and he doesn’t really have the luxury to pursuing anything of a ~romantic nature with the hot guy from the party. (Didn’t even really catch his name, so there’s that to consider too. Also, it would put him at risk and hell, the guy probably doesn’t even remember him.)

But, you know. There’s something oddly familiar about Jeremy when they meet (Jeremy has the same feeling?) But it’s been years since that night and Ryan’s taken to wearing his hair short/in a ponytail and the whole Vagabond deal, and Jeremy’s taken to shaving his head. (Also being drunk-ish at the time helps in the not recognizing one another thing for Plot Reasons.)

And like.

All this Pining between them not realizing they’re that memorable one-night stand from college/the one that got away shenanigans until they get a mission in Savannah and Jeremy mentions he went to school there and everything comes flooding back and they’re like, OH SHIT because they never forgot that night and all that.

MORE ridiculous Pining only with ~Memories to back it up and everyone around them stuffing popcorn in their faces waiting for these idiots to get their shit together because it’s been a long time coming.

OR.

The Battle Buddies AU/agency AU/FAHC AU where they end up in Savannah because a target’s connected to the university or whatever?

While they’re setting up surveillance gear or doing reconnaissance Jeremy’s like, “Oh, hey. Did you know I almost went here? Even did a campus tour.”

Ryan, who’s doing some troubleshooting with their tech/driving/whatever and listening with half an ear is like “Oh yeah? Talk about a coincidence, huh?”

And Jeremy, okay. He thinks Ryan just means it’s a coincidence they have a mission that brought them back here, but no.

Not really.

Because once upon a time Ryan was a student here or something, but maybe Jeremy doesn’t know that part? Ryan doesn’t think much of what Jeremy said other than being an interesting little tidbit about Jeremy’s past?

But the longer they’re in the city and around the campus the more memories keep surfacing of his time there, and he’s like.

Shit.

Because there was. Look, Ryan switched majors a couple of times when he was in college, shifting interests and whatnot and that’s kind of what college is sometimes.

Anyway, anyway.

Before his life kind of went to hell and he joined the military/government agency/became a ~terrible criminal he went to the university, right.

Saw his fair share of student tour groups coming through or whatever, and maybe, maybe, there was this one kid who kind of looked like Jeremy? (His Jeremy.)

And he only noticed the guy at all because he was loud and boisterous, laughing it up with his buddies and this laugh that he couldn’t not notice because it was infectious as hell.

Ryan glancing over and watching these dumb kids so full of life and totally unaware of what life held in store for them regarding college life, because ~suffering with the being forced to resemble functional adults?

Didn’t really think much about it after that day, except when he first met Jeremy. (His Jeremy.)

Thought oh, wow, because it had been years and years since he saw that group of high school students and saw the kid with the infectious laughter? But damn if Jeremy doesn’t have the same thing going for him.

Thinks nothing of that either because there are just people like that sometimes, and Ryan’s too busy keeping up with Jeremy and his shenanigans to connect the dots. (Doesn’t really have reason to, does he?)

But then!

Then there’s Jeremy and his idle comment, just dropping a nugget of info about himself that happened to pop into his head and Ryan!

Ryan is like.

WAIT.

Because did he actually sort of kind of run into Jeremy before they officially met? (Not the weirdest thing to happen to him if it did, but what are the odds?)

But they’ve got a mission to see to so he shoves all that to the back of his mind to pick apart while they murder the hell out of some asshole or whatever.

Later, after the target’s dead and they’re back home, Ryan does some digging.

Goes to Matt or whoever is their techie guy and asks a favor. Ignores the side-eye he gets for that and the favors he’s going to owe in return because this little ~mystery has been nagging at him the whole time.

Some time later Jeremy happens across Ryan who’s got a yearbook or copy of a student paper or something, this look on his face like that time they ran into some asshole Ryan thought was dead.

Real piece of work who faked his death and came after Ryan for revenge or something and it was a whole Thing (Jeremy’s got this wicked scar to show for it and Ryan gets this look to him when he sees it, but that’s a whole other Thing they still need to deal with whenever Jeremy can pin Ryan down for it, but anyway.)

“Everything okay?”

Ryan laughs, kind of dorky and everything and tells Jeremy that hey, wow, yeah. Everything’s fine, but remember how you said you almost to school in Savannah?

And Jeremy is a little concerned because he mentioned that weeks ago (a month, almost) and Ryan’s still thinking about it?

So Ryan shows him the yearbook or student paper and there in stunning black and white is this photo of a bunch of asshole high school kids touring the campus. Some dumb little caption about prospect for the upcoming school year, but the thing that captures Jeremy’s eye is the fact he’s one of the assholes in the picture.

Stupid teenager Jeremy with even more questionable fashion choices and -

“Where the hell did you get this?” Jeremy asks, dumb little smile on his face because jfc, what was he thinking with that hair?

Not to mention the clothes, and oh, God, he was such a disaster back then, huh?

And Ryan points out this little cluster of college students at the edge of the photo, almost out of the frame.

One of them is stupid tall and has this ridiculous mop of floppy hair and some nerdy t-shirt and holy fuck, that’s Ryan.

“Oh my God,” Jeremy says, in shock and delight. “Oh my God.”

He snatches the yearbook/student paper out of Ryan’s hands and goes off running to show whoever the hell he can because look at this idiot, okay. Just fucking look at him.

Never mind Jeremy’s own dumb face, fucking looking at Ryan’s, okay.

And Ryan is like JEREMY NO and chases after him and anyway, anyway, just like. Idiots in love who maybe already know/have yet to figure it out and this weird little coincidence of a connection they didn’t know about before.

So...yes.

#jeremwood #ragehappy #technically not a fic #vagrant fic #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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