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pretending this is the roots platter from Stardew Valley because I’m normal and well adjusted

2 carrots and 2 potatoes I cut up and roasted with olive oil adobo and pepper. Feat. “Homemade” ranch. The ranch is 1 heaping spoonful of sour cream and another heaping spoonful of mayonnaise with ranch powder to taste. Tastes better than the bottle kind. Got the idea from a tiktoker.

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For the purpose of this poll, books in the same world but not Directly sequels count. If they're grouped on Goodreads, it counts. So like, Percy Jackson but also Magnus Chase count as the same series.

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Sleeping with the teefs out

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My mail app has decided that ao3 is junk 🫠 Not that I see many kudos or comment emails these days and it��s been a long while since anything I’ve subscribed to has updated. I created a new email address specifically for ao3 because I had someone a while back sending password resets for ao3 to the old email address.

I doubt they could have gotten in with the security measures I have set up, but it was enough to make me nervous and also a bit angry??? Like don’t you dare fuck around with my fics or my bookmarks. Even if I’m not currently playing with my toys, you cannot have them EVER or do anything to possibly yeet them from existence. So yeah I don’t get any actual spam mail to that email address, just things that it randomly decides to be spam and apparently ao3 is the filter’s latest victim. I’m hoping moving them back to my inbox and opening them will be enough.

I’ve had this issue in the past when I was subscribed to a newsletter and no matter what I did it would be sent to my junk folder. I even set the contact as a VIP and it still went to my junk folder. I hope my ao3 emails aren’t forever condemned to that place. If I were still writing or randomly made a comeback that would be really discouraging if I didn’t check my junk folder or ao3 itself.

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4 dog beds, 2 couches, and 3 human beds she’s more than welcome to sleep on btw

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I had a dream that I was asked out as a joke to prom, only I was unaware that it was a joke until I tried to sit next to my date at a table and I was laughed out. I am 32 years old, why am I dreaming about high school things 💀 I was also fortunate that no such thing happened to me. I actually attended two senior proms (though around here it’s senior ball not prom, prom is for juniors) one when I was a freshman and then my own, both with the same date. It didn’t work out between us for obvious reasons, but idk I’m still glad I got to have those experiences and I didn’t miss out completely. If only I had lived in a more accepting area in a more accepting time (mid to late 2000’s and even very early 2010’s was hell on earth to discover you were not straight. That Hilary Duff PSA existed for a reason) then I could have been more comfortable being myself and skipped out on the whole being set up with my mom’s coworker’s son era.

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you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.

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I haven’t posted about sims in a while since I had gotten burnt out, but I’m back at it again. I know how much everyone loves my sims posts *proceeds to be mass unfollowed*

*ahem*

So I’m playing this family in sims 3 and the father’s lifetime aspiration is to raise 5 babies to teenagers. Simple enough, without mods anyway. The mother had 7 or 8 pregnancies with only 5 of those resulting in the children needed to complete the aspiration. After she had the last baby, I decided that I did not want her to get pregnant anymore both for the reason of not wanting to raise any more children in this family and to also potentially spare my sim more grief in case the pregnancy didn’t work out. They mourn for 2 full days with this mod if they miscarry. I go into my NRAAS menu for my individual sim and disable the ability for her to have risky woohoo or try for baby and I assume that’s as good as her being sterilized. That’s also what I’m pretending it is within the sims universe since I don’t have any mods for sterilization (the only one I’ve found is apparently broken since it hasn’t been updated in years).

Anyway, she winds up doing autonomous regular woohoo with her husband and I don’t think anything of it since she should no longer be able to get pregnant. The options are actually grayed out and unselectable for any woohoo that could result in pregnancy. WELL, at one point I notice she had the nauseous moodlet with “unknown cause” which usually means a sim is pregnant. I’m thinking it’s a mistake so I go over to my pregnancy info tab and she is pregnant. Luckily the enhanced hospital mod I do have allows for termination so after further tweaking nraas (which will hopefully disable pregnancy completely just for this sim) I send her off to terminate the pregnancy.

She gets out of the hospital afterwards and I’m thinking she might be sad or get a corresponding moodlet. Nope, she waves at the hospital with a smile on her face and cheerfully says “Sul Sul!” Which I think is generally used for hello now but I believe in older sims games it could be used interchangeably as goodbye. GIRL. Made me laugh which was why I wanted to write it down before I forgot. Honestly I prefer that she did that rather than getting some sad moodlet that made her cry for days because not all abortion is a sad occasion. She was probably like fuck them kids, I just had my fifth baby and I’m supposed to be sterilized, I’m not doing this shit anymore lmao.

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REBLOG IF YOU USED TUMBLR IN 2011 - 2013

If so, you knew how turnt Tumblr use to be

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Old people really know what’s up when it comes to hard candy. I never understood before, but I totally get it now. (I am an old person).

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Got my maple candy 😁

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I unblocked someone today while having to moderate my community without any idea as to why I had them blocked to begin with. I guess some people wind up catching strays with how liberal I am with the block button. Goes to show that it’s often nothing personal when it comes to me curating my experience online in general and especially in fandom so my apologies haha.

Other than that, I pop in to check my notifications, say what’s up, post the dogs, and then I dip. It has helped me a lot with processing my emotions on my own and not keeping myself in a negative mindset by having to vent all the time. I don’t think it’s good to bottle everything up, but there also needs to be balance between that and posting every time something upsets me. Some things can just be. Same with hanging out with friends as well. It’s great to have friends you can talk about anything with, but it is important to be mindful and not always use that time to vent frustrations. Some things can be processed internally or in a completely private space. Good things happen too and it’s important to put that out into the world. It’s like with product reviews or reviews for anything really, they might skew negative because people who are satisfied tend to not say anything.

Positive things: I am babysitting again today and looking forward to it. The little one is just shy of 4 weeks and is so calm and chill. Her cries even sound like they’re from a doll. I like being part of her life and helping out her parents and again, it’s nice hanging out with a baby that I am able to give back because I know being a full time parent is not for me.

Been writing a little, just personal things for me so I can reconnect with that part of myself without feeling external pressure.

Skipping out on the NY state fair again. Haven’t gone since pre covid. It’s just not worth it to be in a crowded space and I’ve made my peace with it being a thing of the past. My parents are going though and I’ve requested some maple candy so hopefully have that to look forward to if there is any.

In addition to Date Everything, which I still have a lot of progress to be made, I am going through my game libraries to continue unfinished play throughs. It’s crazy how you can put a game down and then years pass in between. It’s been so long since I’ve checked into Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life that I couldn’t remember where the shipping bin was. Funny because if you were to put the original GameCube version in front of me (I still have it, I just don’t have any way to set my GameCube up unless I get an adapter since none of the tvs here have the inputs) I would know where everything is like the back of my hand despite years of not playing. I played the shit out of that game as a child. I’ve also picked ACNH back up. While it’s not my favorite of the series by a long shot, I think it might be nice to tidy up my island and house and start doing my dailies again. That’s another game where I spoke to a villager who said they hadn’t seen me for 3 years 💀 Time just keeps ticking away and it’s like there’s so many things that have stayed the same yet it’s also so different.

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Radioactive shrimp from Walmart and a teenage girl

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Important Stop Scrolling

butts

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It doesn’t matter how long I stay away or how little I tend to think of re8 in recent days because my brain will always pull me back. Tell me why I dreamt about Mother Miranda last night 😂 I would share the rest of the dream, but I think I might expand on that elsewhere potentially. We’ll see.

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Popping on to say that I wound up buying Date Everything for the $7 discount even though I wanted to wait for a larger sale. I need something to take my mind off red dead redemption. I finished my low honor play through and have nothing left to do in the epilogue other than hunting or challenges that I’m not interested in. I’m not the type to 100% a game unless it’s not super difficult or time consuming.

I didn’t get much further than I had gotten in the demo. I think I’m not in the right headspace for a visual novel right now. I kept losing focus and getting up to do other things. I will play it though and I will date everything because I spent money on it damn it. I did however start playing sims 3 again. I primarily play sims 2 and sometimes 4 though not so much recently with 4 because it’s broken af even without mods and not as fun. I forgot that 3 is actually pretty fun once you get past the potato looking sims and the lag. I have all my graphics on the recommended settings and a smooth patch, but once the sims leave CAS, they look like potatoes again in actual gameplay.

I’ve been throwing parties and I think sims 3 has the best party system. Sims 4 parties are ass with all the goals. Like why does my sim have to eat and drink 7 times and do specific social interactions rather than just dance and have fun? Sims 2 parties kind of suck too because they always wind up with a bad score despite good social interactions unless people start woohooing or it’s a wedding party and the bride and groom get married. Sims 3 parties are so fun. Everyone actually shows up, people crash the party, people bring food, and unless some crazy shit goes down, everyone leaves saying they’ve had a good time.

Other than that, life is still life-ing. We’ve already closed our pool because we’ve gone from extreme heat to not warm enough to swim. I’ll take any weather that’s not snow though. We did have a crazy hail storm yesterday out of nowhere though. Been babysitting, gonna be house sitting soon and then a couple more times before the year ends, nothing major but quiet is always good. I have some longer thoughts regarding fandom and writing (nothing bad) that I’ll probably write out another time. Probably gonna go sleep now so ttyl.

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I thought tumblr was done because it wouldn’t let me back on 💀

I’ve been keeping myself signed out so I have to make a conscious effort to get back on and not mindlessly scroll my dashboard or check and post 10000 times a day.

Anyway, I’ve been babysitting recently and it’s been nice. I enjoy taking care of a baby but also having the option to give the baby back after a few hours haha. Hope you’re all well.