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happy pridemonth to all my fellow gays 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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why would you ever outsource fun to chatgpt? are you stupid? you can make mediocre shit by yourself too.

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back on my ts3 bs 💅👯‍♀️

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Sim looks weird? Make another one.

CC looks bad? Create something new.

Render doesn't slap? Try again.

Edit not coming together? Try a different layout.

Build falling apart? Choose a new lot.

Challenge not working out? Find another one.

Keep trying, keep practicing, keep working.

Scream if you have to but keep moving forward.

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When Christa has free time, there's a good chance she's going to spend it with Amiri.

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being obsessed with your own oc and you can only see them if you go in and take the screenshots or draw or write the fucking fic yourself there’s no search there’s nowhere else you can dig them out except from inside your own head

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you need to develop obsessions with strange niche content

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you know when you really want to talk abt your OCs but don’t know what to say so you’re just holding them up like Simba with a bunch of exclamation points overhead?

Yeah.

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blog/personal update

hiiii y'all!

long time no see! i took a little break a couple months ago from simblr to play some different games and dabble in other hobbies, but i plan to come back to simblr soon. i have no intentions of abandoning grant and his story, so that will continue first and foremost in due time :)

i am probably still going to be on hiatus for a bit longer, but i do have some exciting personal news in the meantime! my hiatus is extended because after a year of struggling in the job market (post-grad life sucks, my sincerest apologies to anyone else who graduated last year or will soon), i have a brand new job, and i've been busy with training for said job and moving into my new apartment!

tl;dr: hi, miss y'all & hope everyone's doing well + will come back soon

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might seem like a harmless quirk but once you start typing in exclusively lowercase you can never capitalize anything again outside the designated midsentence Gay Emphasis Zones or anyone following you for longer than a week will think you’re about to commit murder

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the sims 4 is...finally too overwhelming for me I think. I can't keep up with new packs and updates, the intrusive advertising is killing me, the game is riddled with bugs that make parts of it totally unplayable.

it feels so loud and so big, not to mention so incredibly bloated.

I tried to play this weekend...and I was just...frustrated playing it. It doesn't bring me joy anymore.

I might try to do something in an empty world and stay mostly cc-free (cc is ruined for me between early access, perma paywalls, entitled modders, creator kits dear GOD creator kits...it's gross).

or I might try to do stuff in ts2.

it's just hard letting this series go, letting this community go...and I don't want to leave. so I'm really trying to find a happy medium. I hope I can.

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cerise's apartment 🎨🧡

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tysm for tagging me!! ❤️

i'll tag: @stargazer-sims @dandylion240 @enchanteriv @windermeresimblr @feroshgirlsims @simari @happy-lemon @papermint-airplane & anyone who sees this and wants to do it :)

I'm starting a tag game for songs stuck in your head.

Reply, or reblog with a song that's been stuck in your head this week, and then tag some people you might want to.

For this game I tag: @grossmuppet @coolmomvinyl @socalledmixtapelife @cr33pyspo0kytr33s @maylilithreign @xlittle-ghost @beardyoakenshield @subpixie420 @sensualkiwi aaaaand @justabitchwithunsettlingdesires

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... and these for Henry, please & thanks!

🥐Sweet or savoury?

🐈What is their favourite animal?

🌓Day or night?

📚How did they do in school?

of course!! thank you for all the questions, i really appreciate it 💙

🥐 sweet or savoury?

his very best friend might have a sweet tooth, but henry honestly doesn't. he's cool with sweet drinks like some sugar in coffee, but otherwise, he can go without dessert just fine. grant takes the candy, henry takes the chips 🤝 it's a good arrangement for them

🐈 what is their favourite animal?

as for pets, he's very much a cat person, and he and soobin have a cat named marcurio (yes, after the character from the skyrim). he likes dogs, except he's severely allergic to them, so there are no pet puppies in his future. as for other non-pet animals, his favorite are koala bears. he would 100000% love to cuddle with a koala bear at least once in his lifetime

🌓 day or night?

he's a night owl for sure. he can get up early if he's forced to, but he'd rather stay up until 3AM playing video games or working on his photography stuff. he leaves the daytime thriving for his early bird wife lol

📚 how did they do in school?

henry wasn't the best student. he did fantastic in art class, but not so hot in anything else. part of that was not caring about the other subjects, and the other part of that was test or performance anxiety. he does very poorly with being put on the spot and being asked to recall information. his mind just goes blank from the stress. but, hey, Cs get degrees, right? he did really get an art degree in the end, so he did alright for himself!

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Hey! For the oc ask game:

💖What’s something they like about themselves? Can be a physical feature, a personality trait, anything about them. 

😶What’s something they dislike about themselves? Can be a physical feature, a personality trait, anything about them. 

🥶What is this character's primary fear response; Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn? 

🎁What is something others are surprised to learn about this character?

For Grant, please & thanks!

hi hi hi!! thank you so much for asking 💖

💖 what’s something they like about themselves? can be a physical feature, a personality trait, anything about them. 

i answered this one here, but i thought of a few more! he quite likes his freckles. he has no particular reason for it, he just likes having a lot of freckles. i think he's also happy with his intelligence. if he believes in anything about himself, it's his ability to learn skills and memorize quickly and accurately, and that is true! he is good with lots of information or complicated tasks

😶 what’s something they dislike about themselves? can be a physical feature, a personality trait, anything about them.

not gonna lie, it's easier most of the time for grant to find something to nitpick about himself than like. he is better about that than he used to be, but he has a few major hang-ups. the main one is he has never once been comfortable with his weight at any point in time, but that one can be immediately chalked up to the shit mother mary had to say to him and his sisters their entire lives about body image. she had (and still has...) some very YIKES views there

🥶 what is this character's primary fear response; fight, flight, freeze, or fawn?

grant's default fear response is 100% flight. that mode of, "oh fuck, i feel, um, not great! time to go lock myself in my room and never respond to a text message ever again!" is very familiar to him. he's been doing that (and many, many, many more manifestations of flight) forever

on that note, his default fear response is part of the reason he was always over at his cousins' or grandparents' house growing up. yes, the rational and not-fearful part of himself wanted to be over there because he loved spending time with them, but he also was over there 24/7 because he was putting as much distance between him and his mother as humanly possible. you can even see this behavior continue into the present day tbh. he left home as soon as possible after college and then picked a job that guaranteed he'd never be in the same place for more than a few days at a time

to use a southernism: he gets it honest

🎁 what is something others are surprised to learn about this character?

ooh, this is interesting! the very basic answer is it surprises people to find out he grew up speaking irish with every family member (except his parents, ironically lol)

the less basic answer is that he's a major germaphobe. a popular place people find this fact out is at parties or potluck-type events because he REFUSES to eat food he didn't bring. his thought process is very much: "fuck that, i don't know what their food safety practices are like! did they wash their hands before cooking that? did they rinse the vegetables? do they clean their dishes properly? that has dairy in it; how long has it been sitting there in the sun? did they cook the meat to the right temperature?" honestly, it's kind of a miracle he even eats at restaurants. i think he only does because he assumes they do actually follow best sanitary practices to the letter

nobody let him watch kitchen nightmares

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please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts