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Hey here's some free Sims games. Don't pay for digital media in this economy.

Sims 1

Sims 2

Sims 3

Sims 4

Sims Medieval

Here is also all non-PC sims games. As well as links to a variety of emulators:

PS2

PS3

XBOX

XBOX 360

PSP

DS

Wii

GameCube

Game Boy Advance/Other emulator

EDIT (2/11/25) I completely forgot that Vimm's Lair got a lot of games nuked recently, here is a link to the 🏴‍☠️ games megathread.

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The Crossroads

Greetings, my name is Mara Staples, and this is my blog dedicated to my comic: Complex-Cassandra

I chose this format and platform because I want my work to be freely available to enjoy, even after I begin making physical copies.

This comic will be updated at least twice a month, sometimes more depending on my workflow.

This is a stylized retelling of Cassandra’s myth. It is not entirely accurate, so please keep that in mind when reading.

House Rules:

-This comic is made by one person, I have no assistants or editors, so please remember to be patient

-please read the disclaimers before reading.

-I am proudly anti-A.I. All of my work is my own, everything from the illustration to the writing is made by me. I will not tolerate my work being used to train or “inspire” A.I generated works.

-Please do not debate or argue in the tags or comments

NAVIGATION

Title Page, Disclaimers, and Acknowledgements

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dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better

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Technology transparent PNGs

free 2 use

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Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.

It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.

One day I will end this ring light fad. It is my ultimate side quest.

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The Cassandra Complex- webweave (a story on grief and the end of the world)

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Thematic Rec Masterlist

★ Lists (of links) to lists (of fics) || as of 2022.03 ※ About my favourites + fave authors ※ Crowdsourcing for ultimate favourites

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Timeline :

Book 1. Sorcerer’s Stone : Friends in early years of Hogwarts

Book 2. Chamber of Secrets : Draco has the diary

Book 4. Triwizard Tournament : Draco appears in the 2nd task  |  Yule Ball

Book 6. Sectumsempra : alternate scene

Book 7. Horcrux hunting : Draco with the trio

Hogwarts Era

Wartime

8th year   •   8th year Hufflepuff!Drarry

Draco’s birthday

Halloween

Christmas

Settings :

5+1 things

Bets & Wagers / Pranks

Breaking the Statute of Secrecy

Climate change

Clubbing

Coffee shops AU

Coming back to the Wizarding world   |   Leaving England

Different schools AU : Beauxbatons, Durmstrang

Disappearance / Missing

Everyone lives AU   |   Sirius Black Lives

Fairy-tale elements

Games : drinking games, party games,…

Historical AU

Magical theory

Movie/TV AU

Muggle life   |   Muggle things

No Hogwarts AU (joining the Wizarding world later)

Non-magical AU (& high school, college/uni)

Politics

Pureblood culture

Quidditch

Sentient house / Hogwarts

Sorting AU : Slytherin Harry | Gryffindor Draco | Ravenclaw Draco

Time travel   |   Dimension travel

Voldemort wins AU   |   No Voldemort AU

Genres / Formats :

Angst

Canon rewrite

Case fic / Mystery

Dark fic / horror

Epistolary   |   Social media

Fluff   |   Fluff (Hogwarts era)

Humour

Hurt / comfort

Kid fic   |   Raising a child

POV Outsider

Serialized fics

Slow burn / slow build

Song fic / song-inspired fic

Relationship status :

A/B/O Dynamics

BDSM

Bodyswap

Bonding

Boss/Employee relationship

Casual relationship

Childhood friends

Counselling

Courtship

Domestic!Drarry   |   Pet names

Enemies (to Friends) to Lovers

Established relationship

Fake/Pretend relationship   |   Arranged marriage

Flirting

Friends to Lovers

Friends with Benefits

Infidelity

Marriage proposal

Misunderstandings / Miscommunication

Reconciliation

Roommates   |   Sharing a Bed

Secret identity

Secret relationship

Slavery

Soulmates

Stalking

Strangers to Lovers (with various AUs)

Teacher-student relationship / Tutoring

Ties switching

Unhappy ending (between H/D)

Unrequited love

Occupations :

Arts : artist, dancing, music, musician, pianist!Draco

Auror   |   Military

Breakup specialist!Draco

Chef

Healer!Draco   |   Mind healer

Matchmaker

Minister-for-Magic!Harry

Model

Odd jobs

Pirate

Potions Master!Draco

Professor (at Hogwarts)

Prostitution / Sex Work   |   Stripper

Secretary / PA!Draco

Seer!Draco / divination

Unspeakable!Draco

Wandmaker!Draco   •   Wandmaker!Harry

Writer

Characteristics :

Chubby!Drarry

Dark!Drarry

Determined!Drarry

French!Draco

Insecure!Draco

Jealous!Draco   •   Jealous!Harry

LGBTQIA+ : asexuality, coming out, crossdressing, fem!Drarry, transgender

Manipulative!Harry

Master-of-Death!Draco   •   Master-of-Death!Harry

Oblivious!Drarry

Older!Drarry (+ divorced)

Pining!Draco   •   Pining!Harry

PoC!Drarry

Possessive!Drarry

Powerful!Draco   •   Powerful!Harry   •   Powerful couple

Protective!Draco   •   Protective!Harry

Reckless!Harry

Recluse!Harry

Sassy!Harry

Shy!Drarry

Silly!Draco

Snarky!Draco

Spy!Draco / Redeemed!Draco

Sweetheart!Draco

Tall !Harry

Troubled!Draco   |   Exiled!Draco

Magical / physical situations :

Abusive relationship

Age difference

Amnesia

Animagus

Captivity : Draco in Azkaban   |   Harry in Malfoy Manor

Creature!Drarry (vampire, veela, werewolf)  |  merman  |  phoenix

Dark Mark

De-age

Disability (+blind, deaf)  &  mute

Drunkenness / Intoxication

Ghost

Illness   |   Hanahaki disease

Injury

Internalized homophobia

Life debt

Love / Lust potion

Mental health issues / PTSD   |   eating disorders

Mpreg!Draco   •   Mpreg!Harry

Occlumency

Parseltongue

Patronus

Sectumsempra

Substance abuse

Suicide implied/referenced

Tattoos (magical)

Sexual details :

Bottom!Draco   •   Bottom!Harry   •   Switching

First time / Virginity   |   Awkward first time

Non-Con (Dub-Con) elements

Smut : (specialized) dildo, hate sex, hospital sex, ice play, piercings, praise kink, (semi) public sex, riding (Draco), sex toys, size kink, slut, wanking

Interaction with other characters :

Animals / Pets

Draco & his parents

Draco & Luna friendship

Draco & Ron friendship  |  Draco friends with Hermione/Ron first

Draco & the Dursleys

Draco & the Weasleys : Molly  |  George  |  Ginny & others

Draco has a sibling

Drarry & Scorbus

Drarry & Scorpius

Drarry & Snupin

Drarry & Teddy

Drarry & Wolfstar

Harry & Narcissa friendship

Harry & Pansy friendship

Harry & the Malfoys / Meeting the Parents

Harry & the Slytherins friendship

Harry has a sibling

Harry reconciles with his Muggle family

Matchmaking / Meddling from family, friends, professors…

Mentor!McGonagall

Mentor!Snape

Sex Ed class

The Golden Trio broken up

Misc.

+ podfic

uncategorized themes (aka Suprise me!)

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✔ Most popular fics of the year ✔ Longest fics sorted for every month ✔ New complete fics posted on AO3 each day

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Hi 👋🏻 i love your blog it always helps me find the perfect fic for any mood im in so thank you 💞🥰 i was wondering if u had any good fics where draco is friends with luna it doesnt have to be anything specific just that they are friends thank you in advance 💜💞

Hello there! Here are all the lists I can find :

by @dragontamerdrarry : Luna

by @mxlfoydraco : Draco & Luna Friendship

by @onemadeofglass : Draco and Luna friendship

by @themalfoymanner : Draco and Luna are Best Friends

from AO3 tag : #Luna & Draco Friendship

✔ masterlist

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Hi! I’m sorry if this is already somewhere, but I don’t really know where to look: do you know of any fics that explore Draco’s relationship with his parents (especially his dad)? Thanks!

Hello nonnie~ These are the lists I can find :

by @dragontamerdrarry : Lucius Malfoy

by @sleepydrarry : Narcissa 

from AO3 tags :

Malfoy Family

Draco & his father

Draco & his mother

▲ Also :

Caring parents!Malfoys

Lucius as Draco’s boggart

✔ masterlist

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at times when the world's wretchedness threatens to overwhelm, i remind myself firmly that despite all else, it is within my power to go to the chinese grocery store frozen section and buy an utterly enormous bag of dumplings. and that helps

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he sells his patterns on etsy!!! he’s also on instagram and youtube- his name is marcus and he’s pretty damn cool :)

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Punishment Room (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Samit Basu﹒

Four Books Written By this Author:

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

The Simoqin Prophecies

Turbulence

The City Inside

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Happy reading!

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The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. 2

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hi! can you recommend some books by indian writers? both fiction and nonfiction. thank you

Hi! I read your other message and here you go (I've also linked other asks where there are more relevant books mentioned)

Fiction

[x] | [xx]

Serious Men by Manu Joseph — about a low-caste man in a chawl in Mumbai and all that he does for his son to escape the limits of his position; satire on caste and class, scientific education in the country

Raag Darbari by Shrilal Shukla (trans. Gillian Wright) — really, really good satire on an village in the north a few decades after Independence; looks at how systems fail on ground, how clearly incapable most of them are at dealing with problems; also about the early years of the nexus forming between criminals, politicians, and businessmen and corruption taking root

High Wind by Tilottoma Misra (trans. Udayon Misra) — about a Sanskrit scholar who in the 19th century moves to colonial Shillong; explores the changes happening in Assamese culture and society during the time, how different communities and 'tribes' take shape and negotiate the colonial order

A Burning by Megha Majumdar — how the lives of three people intersect at the crossroads of law, justice, class aspirations and in an increasingly volatile political atmosphere

Baluta by Daya Pawar (trans. Jerry Pinto) — a memoir by Pawar about being a Dalit and how the identity changes as it moves from the village to the city

Name Place Animal Thing by Daribha Lyndem — it's like a bunch of character portraits of people who are all connected to each other and together they paint a picture of one girl who's growing up in a turbulent community in Shillong

The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee — an old and joint family in Kolkata in the 1960s; looks at how it adapts or fails to; it's really good at how it shows a very distinct social class in decay in specifically post-Independence Kolkata but also at the same time could be about similar stories of the zamindar/landholding class unravelling elsewhere

A similar but older take on the joint family decaying in Maharashtra is Old Stone Mansion by Mahesh Elkunchwar. I read the original and I do vaguely remember there being a translation, but I'm not sure so do check that out. I think it'll be in this.

Battlefield by Vishram Bedekar (trans. Jerry Pinto) — about a Hindu man and a Jewish refugee who meet on a ship going from Europe to Hong Kong just before World War II; looks at what it means to be in exile, what it means to aspire to nationhood

I would also recommend the Aleph Book Company series on Greatest Stories Ever Told. I've only read a few but they seem quite well curated.

Non-fiction

about northeast India | the revolutionary movement | military history | [x] | colonisation and aftereffects |

A People’s Constitution by Rohit De — how people experience the constitution; how they participate in the legal and political process; really great because it takes the constitution beyond its documentary role

India Trilogy by V. S. Naipaul — An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, and India: A Million Mutinies Now; one of the best commentaries on 20th century but post-Independence India; also very different from other commentaries because Naipaul worked to see the country as something other than a former colony; also great because you get to see him traveling and changing his mind and arguing with himself over the three books

Sixteen Stormy Days by Tripurdaman Singh — about the first amendment of the Indian Constitution which has been a controversial one given that very soon after the Constitution being ratified, it put curbs on freedom of expression and property rights and gave birth to the Ninth Schedule

India: A Sacred Geography by Diana L. Eck — how precolonial and ancient Indians imagined the geography through religion and vice versa; how Hinduism and generally Indic religions are closely tied with the land

India Unbound by Gurcharan Das — it's a personal economic history of sorts where he looks at the post-Independence economic growth (or lack thereof) through the routes his life has taken; really good because he brings to a table the experience of living in a 'mixed' economy and can really get across why 1991 was such a big deal

Castes of Mind by Nicholas Dirks — essays on how caste and race interacted to reorder the social structure in colonial India; how law, policy, politics, and profit all worked together when it came to matters of social categories and identity

The Eastern Gate by Sudeep Chakravarti — sort of journalistic history on how 'mainland' India has seen the Northeast, how insurgency took root; how conflicts have been navigated, solved, worsened

Modern South India by Rajmohan Gandhi — South India from the 17th century to the 20th; a little information heavy at times but useful

Our Moon Has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita — memoir on the Kashmiri Pandit genocide; also see his Hello Bastar if you're interested in the Naxalites

Kanshiram by Badri Narayan — a biography of Kanshiram and through him looks at Dalit politics and the whole world of OBC and Dalit consolidation

The Emergency by Coomi Kapoor — like India Unbound, a personal account of sorts of living through the Emergency; and she was a journalist then so it's really in-depth

Army and the Nation by Stephen Wilkinson — the relationship between the Indian Army and the Republic; how India has managed to keep the military establishment away from politics unlike Pakistan, which to all intents and purposes, inherited the similar institutional setup as India

Happy reading!

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Hi! I’d love to read more books from India. Maybe some classics, but more recent stuff too. Do you have any recommendations? As for genres I enjoy lit fic the most. I hope you have a good weekend ✨

hi! thank you, i hope you had a nice weekend too. here you go —

cocoon by bhalchandra nemade (trans. sudhakar marathe): coming-of-age story; follows a 21 y/o coming to terms with moving to a new city, dealing with disillusionment both at home and as a student; kind of stream of consciousness like; it’s a particular favourite

the shadow lines by amitav ghosh: set in the 1960s, explores how world wars, partition, independence, and decolonization affects his family and the people around him

the hungry tide by amitav ghosh: about a marine biologist studying the sunderbans; also explores the tension between development and ecology and the human-environment conflict; really good environmental fiction

a fine balance by rohinton mistry: about four people brought together during and by the emergency (1975) in mumbai; their friendship and what it means for either of them

kanthapura by raja rao: about how satyagraha comes to a south indian village, how people receive it; about the popular memory and myth of gandhi; a little dense while reading and not everyone’s cup of tea, but there’s something to be said with how it mixes public memory with storytelling

baluta by daya pawar (trans. jerry pinto): pawar’s memoir of being ‘untouchable’ in mumbai, living in the city’s underbelly; very raw, and it’s a good translation

midnight’s children by salman rushdie: follows the life of salim, who’s born at the stroke of midnight on august 15, 1947 and is now telepathically linked with other ‘midnight’s children’; mixes magical realism with historical fiction to explore the changes taking place after independence

untouchable by mulk raj anand: about a sweeper’s son, bakha, working to come to terms with his reality and living a life in the caste role he’s born into

here’s some more recent stuff —

maharani by ruskin bond: about the queen of no-longer kingdom near mussoorie; how she and her family cope with no longer being royalty in a democratic republic

also literally anything by ruskin bond. especially check out the room on the roof, a flight of pigeons, the blue umbrella

the lives of others by neel mukherjee: if you like generational novels about families, this is for you; about how this bengali family in kolkata copes with partition, the naxal movement, and everything else happening in bengal and india in the 1960s and 1970s 

em and the big hoom by jerry pinto: follows a goan catholic family in mumbai as they deal with the mother’s mental illness; very tender, also jerry pinto is great

the adivasi will not dance by hansda sowvendra shekhar: a collection of stories set in marginal jharkhand

serious men by manu joseph: about ayyan mali, who weaves stories for his son in mumbai’s slums; explores ambition and ego and how peripheral lives navigate socio-economic settings

ghachar ghochar by vivek shanbag (trans. srinath perur): a rags-to-riches story of a kannada family; how the sudden presence of money tears the family apart; it’s a short book, worth a day’s read  

cobalt blue by sachin kundalkar (trans. jerry pinto): about two siblings who fall in love with the same boy; traces both their relationship with the boy and the subsequent impact on their family

name place animal thing by daribha lyndem: explores different lives set in shillong as they deal with politically charged social settings 

and if you’re interested in historical fiction, check this list.

i hope you find something you like!

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I’ve been meaning to read more of Indian authors lately since I sometimes feel kinda ashamed to consume so much of foreign books but not of my own country, but the thing is … I just can’t get into most of them (that I’ve tried so far ). I’ve dnf’ed so many and I don’t even consider myself a picky reader. so it’d be helpful if you suggest some of your favourites that aren’t internationally popular ones.

I understand; I'm also very picky with the Indian authors I read, but here are some I've liked:

Battlefield by Vishram Bedekar (trans. Jerry Pinto): about two refugees fleeing wartime Europe (one Hindu, one Jewish), who meet on a ship and grow really close

Maharani by Ruskin Bond, or Room on the Roof, or The Blue Umbrella: I will turn myself inside out recommending Ruskin Bond, but these are my top three for you

Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto: about an East Indian family in Mumbai dealing with the mother's mental health; it's a really touching book

Our Moon Has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita: a memoir of the Kashmiri Pandit genocide and its aftermath; it's a chilling memoir, but really good

English August by Upamanyu Chatterjee: about this elite bureaucrat who gets posted to the "hottest town in India" and how he deals with the locals; it has good satire going for it

Raag Darbari by Shrilal Shukl: another satire; follows a village and through it, explores democracy in early Independent India (or lack of it), the transition for the landed elite and generally most of the village to a democratic society. If you can read Hindi, I would recommend reading the original. If not, there's a translation by Gillian Wright.