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The gang (plus Red and Kitty), in The Sims 3. Their traits.

Note: Sims who graduate university receive one extra trait. Hence, Donna, Eric, Jackie, and Kitty all get an extra trait. :) Eric also gets an extra trait (7) for making it to level 8 in a social club (as a proud nerd).

Donna: Hot-headed, perceptive, bookworm, athletic, ambitious, cat person. She should have all these traits innately, but an unmodded Sims 3 only allows five traits, as a base. Pick what one she adds in college, then. :)

Eric: Socially awkward, unlucky, friendly, good, couch potato. Then he becomes brooding in college, and then hones in on his documentary filmmaker skills, and acquires photographer's eye. He says he's charismatic, liar. :) He also says he's a coward when he's insecure. :(

Fez: Socially awkward, unlucky, easily impressed, over-emotional, coward

Hyde: Perceptive, rebellious, unflirty, neurotic, handy

Jackie: Social butterfly, perfectionist, ambitious, hopeless romantic, snob. Then, she earns charismatic in college. She says she's got the star quality, but that's a reach (she doesn't think so, though).

Kelso: Absent-minded, commitment issues, childish, daredevil, flirty

Kitty: Friendly, nurturing, natural cook, social butterfly, hopeless romantic. Then, she becomes more family oriented, as she goes to school and gets older.

Red: Unflirty, loner, angler, vehicle enthusiast, handy. Some say he's grumpy, but he wants to be happy. He's just pessimistic. He also says he's a brave war hero, but that's often hyperbole.

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it’s so cool how the search function on every website, a technology that was essentially perfected over a decade ago, is borderline unusable now

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"came back wrong" but it's from a nap

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Can you make something good again please.

Aw anon! I didn’t mean to be such a disappointment of an artist to you. Here you go

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Free Fallin by Tom Petty is so Jackie and Hyde coded it hurts

Great song! Great musician (gone too soon 💔).

For me, the lyrics don't fit J/H perfectly. But this kind of thing is subjective. People's musical tastes, favorite songs, and interpretation of characters and their relationships create a myriad of opinions and connections for an individual. No one is "wrong" when they say X-song is Y-shipper coded. For that person, they feel a connection between the song and the ship. It's an intimate and innate feeling that can't be debated.

Then there are songs with lyrics that are more objectively a match. They're chosen with a writer's mind rather than a shipper's heart.

For instance, the show choosing, "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones as one of the songs Hyde listens to after Jackie dumps him in season 5 and why is absolutely on the money for Hyde's character and complex feelings in that moment. I generally don't enjoy country music, and this song isn't one I listen to. But the lyrics reveal Hyde's subtext (because he is almost all subtext) as text. He's listening to the song because it matches and reflects his mental-emotional state, something so many of us do.

I'm going to post the lyrics with commentary about how they fit Hyde's character in that specific point in time and since his romantic relationship with Jackie began.

He said, "I'll love you 'til I die."

She told him, "You'll forget me in time."

Hyde is so deeply in love with Jackie that it scares him. Because of his childhood wounding of parental abandonment and betrayal, he doesn't trust someone he loves that much will stay. So he, unlike the protagonist of the song, doesn't verbalize his feelings of love. That would make him too vulnerable to loss, he believes. Instead, Hyde demonstrates his love through actions and indirect / misdirecting dialogue. But the song reveals his true feelings nakedly: he'll love Jackie as long as he lives.

The next lyric illustrates Hyde's understanding that his protection mechanisms have led Jackie to believe she doesn't mean much to him. He never expresses directly that he loves her and bridles against her attempts to have him verbally confirm his feelings.

Then he doesn't trust or respect her enough to ask her why she's seemingly cuddling with Kelso on the Pinciottis' sofa but rather assumes the worst -- because of his childhood wounding and expectation of abandonment and betrayal -- and sleeps with another woman to break up with Jackie a) in a hostile way he hopes will hurt her as much as he believes she's betrayed him and b) to ensure they won't reconcile because he hasn't stopped loving her and might go back to her again (as he does after the "Get off my boyfriend!" break-up), and his act of cheating will be unforgivable to her.

Jackie's belief as described above is confirmed a few episodes after Hyde listens to the song when Jackie explains to Eric and Donna that she needs Hyde but Kelso needs her. She thinks Hyde can walk away from their relationship easily and will "forget [her] in time." He's given her this messaging when the truth is the opposite, as the song's next lyrics demonstrate.

As the years went slowly by

She still preyed in his mind.

He kept her picture on the wall,

Went half crazy now and then

But still loved her through it all,

Hoping she'd come back again.

Hyde is heartbroken, and he envisions his future without Jackie: remaining in love with her, the fact they're not together messing with his mental state, and always hoping they'd reconcile and resume their relationship, even if it takes years.

Skipping ahead in the lyrics to the last two stanzas:

You know she came to see him one last time.

Oh, and we all wondered if she would.

And it kept runnin' through my mind

This time he's over her for good.

He stopped loving her today.

They placed a wreath upon his door,

And soon they'll carry him away.

He stopped loving her today.

The lyrics come full-circle from the man saying to the woman, "I'll love you 'til I die," to the lyric, "He stopped loving her today," because he died. The "wreath upon his door" is on his casket door. The end of the song reflects Hyde's depression and lack of belief Jackie will forgive him. He can't imagine loving someone else as much as he loves her, and he'll die loving her. He hopes she'd care enough to go to his funeral, the irony being that she returns to him only once he's dead.

The depth of Hyde's love for Jackie, although present in the subtext throughout season 5, is laid bare in this song. It's a brilliant choice by whoever chose it for the show. Its specific details match Hyde's inner self and his relationship dynamic with Jackie one-to-one in an analogous way.

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Claiming he could easily fit into a similar position at most companies, local CEO Mike Waltke told reporters Monday that his skill set was transferable to any job that requires an inept dumbass to receive a big salary. “I have the incompetence necessary to effortlessly transition into a role at any company that yields a seven-figure income,” said Waltke, adding that as long as a business pays him millions of dollars a year, he’ll adapt quickly with his long resume of botching simple tasks and making stupid fucking decisions.

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Please someone make it stop

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Prompt #1194

"It's not that bad."

"Not that bad as in 'we can fix this'? Or not that bad as in 'I only need to leave the country, but not the planet right away'?"

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THAT 70'S SHOW 1x01 "Pilot"

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BRANDY as CINDERELLA

CINDERELLA (1997) dir. by Robert Iscove