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updated gear for our dearest buff and bone ˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗

↬ sad news, bone's cursed hand is killing him

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Nevermind??? The lots open just fine, but I tired to go to manage worlds and it did the same freeze-load thing as before. 😭😭

ts4 is on my shitlist right now... I can't open most of the lots I've made. Which is a fucking PROBLEM when I need to edit them. Someone suggested that I repair my game and get rid of my lighting mods to see if that helps, but I don't have a complete set of backup files, and I can't repair the normal way because of... recent events. Luckily the set of backup files I do have at least includes the files for Oasis springs, because that's the world I care about right now.

Really fucking hoping thing works, because while I have most if not all of my lots and rooms saved to the gallery, I'm still gonna be pissed as hell.

I haven't even updated my game in months, so I thought I would be safe from the game corruption issues. But apparently not.

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PSA: Shut The Fuck Up

that's it that's the PSA. if you pirate something, don't talk about it publicly. do NOT talk about how/where you're doing it publicly. you're going to blow it for everyone else. shut up.

and no "but they don't care" isn't a good reason not to shut up. most cops don't care about jaywalking but if you do it right in front of one while waving a little flag and talking into a megaphone about how great and easy jaywalking is they're still gonna be obligated to do something.

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Thank you for the tag @goldenwaves!! I'm not one to save a whole lot of pictures that aren't cat pics or out of context discord quotes, but I did my best.

(I put my foot down and said I'm not allowed to use any discord / text / tumblr dm quotes, because I've been a part of all those conversations so it's cheating.)

Also, I'm 98% sure that the two CR memes are by @void-critters. And thank you to Izzy for sending me the autism and weekly dnd ones and thank you to Verena for sending me the aroace one.

Idk who to tag, but if you wanna do this, feel free to say I tagged you!!

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Eris

Human!Cyra's ex-gf and the other half of the "rival cults Romeo + Juliet toxic yuri" thing I have cooking in my brain. Named after the goddess of discord because she pretty much did nothing but fuck shit up for Cyra (and everyone else, tbh).

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tell me more about sigmar 😏

OH, HI NONNY!!!! You send this to me on the day of my Biggest Brainrot... glorious.

I'm not really sure where to start, or how much you know. I'm going to direct you to this post, where I talked about his relationship with Rook.

But if you're already read that and want more, I have plenty more to say. I'm going to try to keep it short-ish, but knowing me it's going to be an essay.

UPDATE: yeah, it got kinda long. It's all in bulletpoints though, so it's not actually too bad. Putting it under the cut for length reasons.

Sigmar doesn't actually exist. He was just a name and persona used by the BBEG, Dr. Purity, for one of his many corpse-puppets.

The body Rook knew as Sigmar has actually been dead for 12 years.

Before it died (the first time), it belonged to a scientist working for Oriana, the evil queen (at the time. she was deposed by the group's previous dnd party, before I joined.)

The body was destroyed by the party in some pretty brutal ways. The essentially tortured him to death.

Whenever Rook next runs into one of the corpse puppets, I want him to ask if Purity can feel what happens to the bodies. When talking to the DM about the reasoning for the question, I said "It's not about whose body he's possessing currently. It's about "I watched my friends tear you apart. Did you feel them do it?""

Anyways, back to Sigmar.

Despite being a persona / fake identity, the DM told me that Sigmar is the closest thing to the real person behind the mask of Dr. Purity. (We know like 5 false names he's used but not his real one.) I am so very normal about this.

He's very prickly (especially to people other than Rook), and most of the other players kinda hated him when he was traveling with the party. Unfortunately for me, there's nothing I love more than prickly unpleasant characters who don't know how to love.

Speaking of not knowing how to love, after Sigmar's true identity was revealed and Sigmar's body was destroyed, Rook went and searched his house. In a hidden cupboard, he found a book that featured a mentor character. The margins were filled with notes of how to fill that role for Rook.

As the above point proves, he really truly does love Rook. (And Rook still loves him, or at least he loves Sigmar, not Dr. Purity.)

He was the first person to ever find out that Rook was cursed by a demon lord, and that was thanks to him beating Rook's 26 Deception roll by one (27 Insight).

His house has way too many clocks, which is apparently because Dr. Purity sets all kinds of alarms to keep an eye on the MANY corpse-puppets he has.

Or well, it used to. Rook set it on fire after finding the book. No one in the party knows Rook even went there, and given that the same night Captain Wolf destroyed all the buildings owned by the Merchant's Guild, one more little arson went unnoticed.

His token has a hat and mirrored sunglasses. My sim version of him has the hat, but I can't quite take him seriously with the sunglasses.

He gave Rook the first (and so far only) birthday present he has ever received. It was a ring with an emerald (Rook's birthstone) in it.

After Sigmar found out about Rook's curse, Rook snuck out to find an enchanter to enchant the ring Sigmar gave him to hide the physical signs of his lack of sleep. On the way, he saw Sigmar doing something very similar to hide the effects of the poison from Ivan. (See the doc I linked at the top for a bit of story on that.)

Oh, and he was also the first (and for a very long time only) person to know who Rook's father is. Not even Zara knows that information, and the 2nd person who found out (an NPC old lady barbarian) only found out because she's from the city-state Rook's father helps govern and knows what he looks like.

Actually, he probably knows Rook better than anyone else in the world does, given that Rook is only starting to get to know Zara again after 3 years not seeing each other. (Also, they are only just beginning to get to know each other on an even footing, now that she named him captain in her place.)

He played our party wizard (who knew from the beginning about Sigmar's true identity) in chess, and the wizard won (we rolled dice). The wizard specifically narrated using his rook to take Sigmar's king.

His own daughter called him old and a loser. (She didn't know he was her father, and she's more of his science experiment.)

Rook once told him he had been assassinated by replying to Simgar's "You're lucky to be alive!" with a simple "I wasn't, yesterday."

Also later the same day he ran into Sigmar (literally) after a very intense combat, and the first thing he said was "I think I died again." (Which was true. Not Rook's best few days, lmao.)

He taught Rook three chess-themed combat moves, called gambits, that I can use. The first one was obviously based on the rook piece, but I also learned moves based on the pawn and the king.

In the Evil Rook AU, he has a full set of gambits, one for every piece on the board.

Sigmar and Rook's shared tarot card is the Seven of Swords, because it mostly has to do with deception.

I gave his sim the same ring I gave Rook's father's sim without knowing his true identity at the time. It was probably just because I don't have many good rings for masc sims, but I like to think it was a subconscious nod to Sigmar having told Rook that he knew his father. (Apparently it's the Asshole Ring now, hahaha.)

His sim version looks like this:

This is the Sigmar/Purity playlist:

And this is the playlist for Sigmar and Rook:

(I think Matt Maeson owes me money for emotional damages from how accurate his songs are. /j. Also Burning Down is the most perfect song of all time to describe Rook and Sigmar.)

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sorry for falling off the face of the earth. I moved into my own apartment and am starting a 6-month internship at one of my dream places to work tomorrow. I'm really hoping it goes well, ajdkasd. Some (vaguely) more sims-related life updates, though:

The dnd session I was waiting on to inspire my next render got delayed until the first weekend in August. This is bad because now I have to wait like 3 more weeks to see this play out, but also good news because hopefully it will give me time to get my shit together enough that I'll actually feel capable of making a render after it happens.

I really really really need to stop procrastinating and prep for the oneshot I'm running for my sister and some of my dnd friends the 2nd weekend in August, because it's been months and I haven't touched my planning doc. Please, I need to stop procrastinating and suddenly having a fuckton of reposnibilities isn't helping.

I have a "new" dnd character in the works (or rather a total overhaul of an old one), I'm very excited to keep fleshing her out. I don't have a whole lot to share yet, but the teaser you get is: "griddlehark-inspired former cultist toxic yuri romeo and juliet situation". (Yes, this is another entry to the Buff Butch Bitch Brigade.) I'm hoping I can make some renders of her (and maybe her gf) at some point, too.

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it's my first night alone in my apartment and it's storming outside, so I'm too on edge to go to sleep. Consider this like, an AMA (sims/oc-related or not).

If I end up chilling out enough to go to sleep anytime soon, I'll answer any leftover asks tomorrow.

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You're very welcome. The post wasn't meant as an attack on you, and I hope no one gave you serious shit about it, as that was not my intention, but I'm glad my reply made you think about it. Not crediting artists is a super common issue, not just on simblr, but all over the place.

Searching up things on pinterest and then copy+pasting it elsewhere is just so easy. And with so many people reposting art that isn't theirs (often without credit or links to the OP) on repost accounts, not to mention the popularity of genai, it gets harder and harder to find the real source. (Plus plenty of people post genai without labeling it as such. I got lucky that this account had it in their username. Otherwise it would be much more difficult to know for sure. Especially as genai gets "better" at copying art.)

But I do hope that internet culture as a whole can shift more towards crediting artists for their work. (And honestly just more appreciation for creative work in general.)

If anyone is curious, the site I used was Pic Detective, which is free, allows you to copy and past images (not just save and reupload), or use the image url. Plus, if you upload your own image (art, etc.) to check if it's been stolen, they (at least claim) don't store the images after doing the search.

It's really easy to use! I recommend sorting by size, as usually the highest quality/largest size image will be the original.

In the case of the last pic, it ended up being faster to search the name from the watermark, but some artists' watermarks don't match their username, or might change with time.

this is me, formally begging for cc creators to make actually out of the box cc for the new pack. i dont just want to see the same crop top with 2 swatches added to it or the same pair of jeans except this time theyre sparkly. i want to see actual ethereal custom content. i want masks with multiple wings, i want body shimmer that make it look like your sims always glowing, i want makeup that looks iridescent, i want dark claws and fangs, i want flowers and leaves and vines. i want huge wings, i want tiny wings, i want bright and bold and colorful and dark and mysterious and creepy. i want messy hair and button noses and long braids that cascade like a waterfall. i want flowing dresses in silk and satin, i want cotton and linen, i want blood spatter and dried blood and grass stains and corsets and stays and vests. i want a faun face, i want clothes for satyrs and gold and silver and trinkets hanging from belts. i want so many accessories i want crowns and horns and rings and bracelets and necklaces layered on each other. i want long hair for guys, i want flowy pants and shirts and ruffles and layers. i want royal and regal i want monarch of the fae i want terrifying yet ethereal. please. just something new

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A 256gb flash drive is $15-25 USD. That should be plenty to back up all your mods, saves, and tray files, even if you have well over 100gb of mods.

If you wanna back up stuff other than sims (which I recommend), or also wanna backup screenshots or cc PSDs and .blend files, or edit PSDs, etc., a 512gb drive is $20-40 USD.

That's not an insignificant price, but if you can afford it, it's worth it for peace of mind that you'll be able to get your favorite sims back.

EDIT: If you play vanilla or with a small mods folder (or if you just wanna back up your most important stuff), a 128gb drive is $10-20.

I recommend doing a backup at least every month or two, and ideally before every time you update. It also makes transferring your stuff to a new computer a breeze, if you find yourself in that situation. (Especially helpful if you previous one goes kaput out of the blue.)

I also recommend backing up any important edits, cc or pose wips, templates or photoshop actions you've made or modified, and anything else you don't want to lose / cannot recreate easily.

i've heard from people losing their whole galleries, cc folders and saves a few times in last few weeks, which is a lot. even one person is a lot, four is an awful number of people losing everything they've been working on for years

so guys please i beg you, back up things that you treasure, your oldest saves, your precious sims, maybe your cc folders if you can afford the space

upd: if you have no space to backup your cc folders, you could also make a video recording with you scrolling through your cc. redownloading it will still be a pain, but at least you won't forget something, especially if it's rare or deleted

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people I want to get to know better tag

I was tagged by @fireflymoonwitch. Thank you so much for the tag!

Favorite Color: Black (2nd place goes to crimson red and royal blue)

Currently Watching: Nothing. The last thing I watched was rewatching all of Lockwood & Co in one day. I miss that show so much and I'm never going to stop being angry about it getting canceled.

Last Movie: I don't remember. It's been a WHILE since I watched any movies. It might still be Flow (the one animated in Blender) with my dad a couple months ago??

Last Book: It was a while ago, but rereading Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. TLoLL is one of my top 5 books of all time, and I love the Gentleman Bastards SO much. I'm very sad about not being able to have access to my books for the next 6 months.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: It depends on the day and time, but either sweet or salty.

Last Thing I Googled: "kroov art tumblr" for this post.

Current Obsession: The Liars (I've been brainrotting over them since Sunday. But let's be honest, when am I not?)

Looking Forwards To: Equal parts nervous and excited, but I guess starting my internship on Monday. I move into my apartment (in another state + timezone!!) today, and I'm kinda terrified about it, because moving stresses me out, but I am excited to do my internship!!

Tagging: @rickyrainfrog @otherpigeon @cautiously0ptimistic @cinnamou @taanoir and @apricote (no pressure!)

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tell me more about sigmar 😏

OH, HI NONNY!!!! You send this to me on the day of my Biggest Brainrot... glorious.

I'm not really sure where to start, or how much you know. I'm going to direct you to this post, where I talked about his relationship with Rook.

But if you're already read that and want more, I have plenty more to say. I'm going to try to keep it short-ish, but knowing me it's going to be an essay.

UPDATE: yeah, it got kinda long. It's all in bulletpoints though, so it's not actually too bad. Putting it under the cut for length reasons.

Sigmar doesn't actually exist. He was just a name and persona used by the BBEG, Dr. Purity, for one of his many corpse-puppets.

The body Rook knew as Sigmar has actually been dead for 12 years.

Before it died (the first time), it belonged to a scientist working for Oriana, the evil queen (at the time. she was deposed by the group's previous dnd party, before I joined.)

The body was destroyed by the party in some pretty brutal ways. The essentially tortured him to death.

Whenever Rook next runs into one of the corpse puppets, I want him to ask if Purity can feel what happens to the bodies. When talking to the DM about the reasoning for the question, I said "It's not about whose body he's possessing currently. It's about "I watched my friends tear you apart. Did you feel them do it?""

Anyways, back to Sigmar.

Despite being a persona / fake identity, the DM told me that Sigmar is the closest thing to the real person behind the mask of Dr. Purity. (We know like 5 false names he's used but not his real one.) I am so very normal about this.

He's very prickly (especially to people other than Rook), and most of the other players kinda hated him when he was traveling with the party. Unfortunately for me, there's nothing I love more than prickly unpleasant characters who don't know how to love.

Speaking of not knowing how to love, after Sigmar's true identity was revealed and Sigmar's body was destroyed, Rook went and searched his house. In a hidden cupboard, he found a book that featured a mentor character. The margins were filled with notes of how to fill that role for Rook.

As the above point proves, he really truly does love Rook. (And Rook still loves him, or at least he loves Sigmar, not Dr. Purity.)

He was the first person to ever find out that Rook was cursed by a demon lord, and that was thanks to him beating Rook's 26 Deception roll by one (27 Insight).

His house has way too many clocks, which is apparently because Dr. Purity sets all kinds of alarms to keep an eye on the MANY corpse-puppets he has.

Or well, it used to. Rook set it on fire after finding the book. No one in the party knows Rook even went there, and given that the same night Captain Wolf destroyed all the buildings owned by the Merchant's Guild, one more little arson went unnoticed.

His token has a hat and mirrored sunglasses. My sim version of him has the hat, but I can't quite take him seriously with the sunglasses.

He gave Rook the first (and so far only) birthday present he has ever received. It was a ring with an emerald (Rook's birthstone) in it.

After Sigmar found out about Rook's curse, Rook snuck out to find an enchanter to enchant the ring Sigmar gave him to hide the physical signs of his lack of sleep. On the way, he saw Sigmar doing something very similar to hide the effects of the poison from Ivan. (See the doc I linked at the top for a bit of story on that.)

Oh, and he was also the first (and for a very long time only) person to know who Rook's father is. Not even Zara knows that information, and the 2nd person who found out (an NPC old lady barbarian) only found out because she's from the city-state Rook's father helps govern and knows what he looks like.

Actually, he probably knows Rook better than anyone else in the world does, given that Rook is only starting to get to know Zara again after 3 years not seeing each other. (Also, they are only just beginning to get to know each other on an even footing, now that she named him captain in her place.)

He played our party wizard (who knew from the beginning about Sigmar's true identity) in chess, and the wizard won (we rolled dice). The wizard specifically narrated using his rook to take Sigmar's king.

His own daughter called him old and a loser. (She didn't know he was her father, and she's more of his science experiment.)

Rook once told him he had been assassinated by replying to Simgar's "You're lucky to be alive!" with a simple "I wasn't, yesterday."

Also later the same day he ran into Sigmar (literally) after a very intense combat, and the first thing he said was "I think I died again." (Which was true. Not Rook's best few days, lmao.)

He taught Rook three chess-themed combat moves, called gambits, that I can use. The first one was obviously based on the rook piece, but I also learned moves based on the pawn and the king.

In the Evil Rook AU, he has a full set of gambits, one for every piece on the board.

Sigmar and Rook's shared tarot card is the Seven of Swords, because it mostly has to do with deception.

I gave his sim the same ring I gave Rook's father's sim without knowing his true identity at the time. It was probably just because I don't have many good rings for masc sims, but I like to think it was a subconscious nod to Sigmar having told Rook that he knew his father. (Apparently it's the Asshole Ring now, hahaha.)

His sim version looks like this:

This is the Sigmar/Purity playlist:

And this is the playlist for Sigmar and Rook:

(I think Matt Maeson owes me money for emotional damages from how accurate his songs are. /j. Also Burning Down is the most perfect song of all time to describe Rook and Sigmar.)

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Please. I'm so fucking sick of the cutesy tinkerbell-type aesthetic. If it's not at least a little horrifying and fucked up, I don't want it.

In case anyone cares, here's the sources for each of these images, as best as I could find:

ai generated image by @/aineuroangels on threads 🤢

Queen of the Seelie Court by Febe de Vos on artstation ANIMATED 3D MODEL (!!!!) (seriously, click this link, it's so fucking cool.)

cropped version of an artwork by @/froggygoon on instagram

LEPIDORA The Lost Fairy by Arch Apolar on artstation

Smells like spring by @juliettecousin here on tumblr (an illustration of their original character)

prince of twilight by @kroovv here on tumblr (an illustration of their d&d OC). (He's done work for critical role and I literally own a shirt with his art on it!! That's so cool!!!)

Please support these artists and consider reblogging their art or buying prints or commissioning them! (the real ones, that is. Fuck genai.) And who knows, maybe cc creators will see some more cool inspiration looking at their work.

this is me, formally begging for cc creators to make actually out of the box cc for the new pack. i dont just want to see the same crop top with 2 swatches added to it or the same pair of jeans except this time theyre sparkly. i want to see actual ethereal custom content. i want masks with multiple wings, i want body shimmer that make it look like your sims always glowing, i want makeup that looks iridescent, i want dark claws and fangs, i want flowers and leaves and vines. i want huge wings, i want tiny wings, i want bright and bold and colorful and dark and mysterious and creepy. i want messy hair and button noses and long braids that cascade like a waterfall. i want flowing dresses in silk and satin, i want cotton and linen, i want blood spatter and dried blood and grass stains and corsets and stays and vests. i want a faun face, i want clothes for satyrs and gold and silver and trinkets hanging from belts. i want so many accessories i want crowns and horns and rings and bracelets and necklaces layered on each other. i want long hair for guys, i want flowy pants and shirts and ruffles and layers. i want royal and regal i want monarch of the fae i want terrifying yet ethereal. please. just something new

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link copied!

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In honor of the anniversary I've been listening to my Liars playlist all day. I'm never going to get over how Burning Down by Alex Warren is the most Liars song to ever exist. And I think Matt Maeson owes me money for how many of his songs are just perfectfor Rook / Sigmar / both of them.

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IT CRASHED AGAIN. ON THE SAME FUCKING LOT. THAT I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.

my game (which takes too damn long to open) just fucking crashed on me. I'm going to scream. If it does that again, I'm going to lose my mind. Especially since I don't even know what the lot I was trying to load IS. Hence why I was trying to load it.

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my game (which takes too damn long to open) just fucking crashed on me. I'm going to scream. If it does that again, I'm going to lose my mind. Especially since I don't even know what the lot I was trying to load IS. Hence why I was trying to load it.