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ATTENTION UK MOOTS AND FOLLOWERS!

[ pt: attention uk moots and followers! ]

please sign the petition below to stop the bullshit “Online Safety” act. this post (embedded link: https://www.tumblr.com/spinnysocks/789152953351192576?source=share) has the basic info.

if you can, share with everyone you know who is a UK resident. this affects us all. if you're not a UK resident, please share this if possible! /srs

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A while back, @anxiousarchitect approached me about turning some of my pictures into in-game art. I had no idea it would turn into a full-blown collaborative project, but I'm so glad it did! Today, we're releasing a set of 10 decennial portraits to adorn your walls (for an appropriately devilish sum, of course), and we're hoping this is just the first in a series of vampy art to come.

I've had the idea of finishing this portrait collection in the back of my mind for a long time, and with Sarah's help it's finally happened! I created all the portraits, including three which are as yet unseen, and she edited and fit them to best suit the frame. Vampires is required for the mesh. It's quite large by default, but it also looks great sized down. The three new swatches are meant to be a fun little surprise if you put these in your game, but I'll also be revealing them in their full glory very soon! Thank you again to @anxiousarchitect for working with me to bring these to life. 🖤

TOU: Please do not alter the images used for these paintings without express permission or redistribute behind a paywall for any reason. Please do feel free to tag us if you use them; we'd love to see!

DOWNLOAD: Simfileshare / Google Drive / Dropbox

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Some UK Online Safety Act Thoughts

I'm in a really weird place with my writing right now and Simblr in general. Tumblr notoriously incorrectly flags content as mature, not matter how innocuous that content is. I've seen Sims screenshots with no sex or violence flagged as mature, just people having a familial hug, or once some crates of vegetables. The deadline for compliance from service providers with the UK Online Safety Act is the 25th of July, and I really worry for how it will affect my access to the internet, including Tumblr.

If my blog gets incorrectly flagged as mature, will I be locked out of my own blog unless I provide ID evidence of my age? And I will not provide ID evidence of my own age. That is a huge security risk and I should have to. If I am locked out of a service, I won't provide my ID to use it, I will just not use that service or only use what of it I am still allowed to use.

I don't know what the future holds for being able to connect and make friends with people through Simblr. On Bluesky, only users who confirm their age will be able to use DMs. There is so much uncertainty right now.

To anyone who is not a British citizen or UK resident, please share this post (link here) with a petition to repeal the Act. I only found out about what's going on with the Online Safety Act this week, and there are absolutely British Tumblr users who won't have heard of this yet. If the petition reaches 100,000 signatures before the 22 October this year, the petition will be considered for debate in parliament. British citizens or UK residents, please share, sign and email your MP.

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final frontier // caleb & inna & lilith

They just seem like the kind of people who'd get all dressed up to go see Wrath of Khan.

i've been having some trouble exporting Caleb - i think it's a preset issue. i haven't had this issue with any other sim - there is something uniquely broken about his model (and mind). fixed his eyes, mouth, and nose, but in my attempt to get his eyebrows to work, I made him... stern. i figured, fuck it! and just threw some elf ears on him. he's dressed as a Vulcan now! hooray! problem solving!!

Caleb's uniform (TSR)

Inna/Lilith's skant uniform (TSR)

Lilith's hair by @ice-creamforbreakfast

Inna's hair by @simstrouble

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pull up a bucket and stay awhile 💗

a teeny tiny preview of Tyler's future shipping container rooftop workshop say that five times fast featuring just a fraction of the build/buy goodness contained within this kit because I had already built and halfway furnished this little space in my part 3 (!!!) prep save 😝

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As a follow-up to my posts about unnecessary mature flagging of entire blogs, I just wanted to add that maybe the best action we can take collectively is to tell Tumblr how we feel. Here is the link to Tumblr's support form. Choose the category "feedback." Of course, it's very unlikely they'll respond with anything more than a canned automated reply or even at all, but it's worth a try. I stressed to them in my feedback how long I've been on Tumblr, how much I've championed it over other social media platforms, and how lately I've been rethinking my relationship with it due to their poor implementation of the flagging system. I don't want to be completely delusional about our voices being heard and how likely it is to change anything, but at least it's a way of putting our frustrated energy to use.

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puck summerdream

puck has been blessed with two loving parents—and a bratty kid sister—but sometimes he still finds himself lonely. can he find a companion in hermia?

check my older makeover of him here

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mutuals this is us

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Foxbury's Skyward Palms Campus

Art Center

Commons

Student Housing x2

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"I want to live a lifestyle that's symbiotic with nature, a self-sustainable sort of livelihood. The plants we nourish in turn provide us nourishment and the moon ties our world to others through its energy. Some call it magic. All Sims feel it, though some may not understand it. In Moonwood Mill, we connect with the night sky. On the Isle of Volpe in the Bramblewood, they connect with the animals — at least they did centuries ago. These natural wells of power are easy to find if you know where to look. "

—Kristopher Volkov

Some highlights from the Nature's Calling event.

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"You don't know me. I'm not the same person anymore."

"That's okay. I'll get to know you again."

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sorry if i'm gonna be quiet for a while. my country recently introduced laws that make it so that in order to use social media to the fullest (not being able to view ns/fw content and in a few cases, not even having access to dms), i HAVE to give the sites my id/face scan.

it goes into effect july 25th. it'll probably effect here too, since this place allows mature content (tho not full on ns/fw)

i'm very distressed about it bc i might end up not even being able to talk to my internet friends. i don't really have any irl ones

if i have to disappear on most socials by then, you know why.

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Ysrune Wintercourt, a fairy from an archived story. Full lore here. As a young child, She was friends with a young human child, and met when the child would hide by a tree that led to her domain, the Sylvan Glade. They would remain friends even into their adult years, and she aided his transition by asking for his deadname so that she could take it and essentially make it disappear, meaning nobody would remember it. He was wary of this since the fae can use a real name to essentially control humans; Fae can only control you with your name if it is your real name, and since it wasn't, he was fine. She likes regular communication and has a sweet tooth.

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I hate having to post political posts like this nut he we are again. Anybody from the UK wanna sign this. Folks from outside the UK maybe share it?

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This fairy is known for its friendly nature, always bringing a smile to the people. 🌻

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the fairy and her gnome partner

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Act 6:11- The Mercy of Wolves (Page 2)

LORE | CHARACTERS | ABOUT / WARNINGS | CHAPTERS ← PREVIOUS | BEGINNING | NEXT →

Katlego

To my surprise, I have not bored the students to death with my long-winded discussion on herbalism. If anything, they seem to enjoy it. They're a lovely bunch. They tell me they've heard 'plenty of good things' about me from Áine and Owen. If anything, they seem to prefer me to Owen, in their own words, with many mocking his formal speech, comparative strictness and his usual dour expression.

"Now, I understand that Áine has likely taught you plenty about Wild magic and self-defence, but I believe I ought to teach you about another important kind of magic - that of community."

"Back home, we have a saying - 'I am because you are.' It calls to a shared humanity and a need to help each other. It runs deep within the spirit of my country, and is lost on many of the people of Henford. I know most of you are not from Henford and will know exactly what I am talking about."

"I don't know what Áine and Owen have taught you on the matter, but you must put community before all else. we can kill as many witchfinders as we like, but if we don't maintain community, that is when everything will fall apart. I understand that some situations may mean you have to use force to stay alive, but you must put protection and uplifting each other before violence and taking the lives of others."

"But weren't you wronged long ago by that physician and the people of Finchwick?"

"I was, but many stood up for me as well. We must remember that." 

I know that people will not entirely understand my point - after all, their own alchemy teacher killed the figurehead of the witchfinders.

"Miss Anansi, may I ask - do you think the witchfinders will strike again?"

The question definitely strikes me - right in the heart. These young people should not have to be thinking about such things. 

"That, I cannot say. What I can say, is that myself and your other two teachers will try to prepare you for whatever happens. The witchfinders will not win if we look after one another."

"Is it true that you're a Mischief caster?"

"That I am."

"Is it true you can't teach us Mischief Magic?"

"I can to Gracelyn, but nobody else."

"Oh? Why?"

"Our magic is so dangerous that the only people we trust with it is our own communities," I explain to them. "But that doesn't mean I can't teach you a few things about general trickery…"

After some basic lessons on the use of Mischief magic, Gracelyn and new student Jade stay to talk a little. Jade is the daughter of Isidora Viridis, the woman in the mansion adorned with lions said to be a little… eccentric. Jade, on the other hand, seems very bright. Gracelyn's familiar, Mr. Nibblesworth, is supposedly her closest friend. She claims he is the only reason she's able to make potions at all.

"I didn't expect that we'd ever have a Mischief magic teacher! It's wonderful to have someone else like me around."

"Indeed," Jade adds, with a smug grin. "It feels as if there are so little of us now, and so much we cannot share with others that we can share with each other. I was hopeful when I joined this place that there'd be a Mischief teacher eventually." 

"You are both too kind. It's wonderful to not feel like the only one, also."

"Miss Anansi - I can't help but worry about what's going to happen from now. I'm glad Volpe is dead, we all are, but ... won't he just get replaced?"

"I know how you're feeling, Gracelyn," Jade replies. "The worst part of all this is that my deluded mother only cares about the fae and not about the physical world! My mother is a skilled Mischief caster, but she's alienated almost everyone except for myself and her swindler of an uncle! She thinks because we're protected that everything is fine - it can't work like that."

"Oh? Whatever do you mean?"

"You won't believe this, but our family has always had ties to the fae for as long as we can remember. We consider them our friends and valued neighbours. The story I've been is told is that one in particular took an interest in us - a fairy that couldn't feel. it wanted some of our personality for itself. One person from our family is selected now and again to meld with it, ditching their physical being and taking the form of a bright green lion that helps protect our family. 

I've never seen it, nor have I seen any fairies - but my mother claims to have seen it. It sounds unbelievable, but as time has gone on... I've wondered if it's true. After all, we've never been endangered despite all that's been happening."

That does sound barely-believable, but anything is possible in the world of magic. 

"This may sound strange, Miss Anansi, but I do not believe my father died as my mother told me. He was in good health until his death. I believe he may have been taken by the fairy and became the lion to protect our family... I believe my mother has been lost ever since. Perhaps, on the off-chance that my prediction is correct - it might snap her out of her melancholy.

Do you think you could try and talk some sense into her, Miss Anansi? You'll meet another Mischief caster, and either my mother snaps out of her behaviour and returns to the real world - or if this lion does exist, she can try and encourage it to help defend Glimmerbrook as a whole if it's needed. I don't know what that will cost, but..."

It's the most outlandish thing I've heard in some time, but even if the lion story is just that - a story - another Mischief caster to aid us in case this explodes into conflict is something we'll need either way. Then again, if the Annorin family have had a gryphon serve them for centuries, is it so strange that the Viridis lion may not merely be a family tale or a figment of her mother's imagination?

"I'll see what I can do, Jade."