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Star Maker 2023 vs 2019 I really enjoyed repainting this one. Maybe in a few more years I'll give it another go!

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Listening to "High School Never Ends" [Bowling for Soup] in the year two thousand and twenty fucking five makes the line "and you still listen to the same shit you did back then" feel a bit like a personal attack

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what a beautiful day to not be in high school

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I think an interesting exercise for making the culture of middle America more salient is actually to look at the mechanics of the Sims. The devs of the Sims add things to it all the time, often in attempts to make it inclusive, but it's still indelibly American and middle-class.

You age up your Sim by blowing out the candles on a birthday cake. You make money by having a job (freelancing was added in an expansion pack), and you make more money by getting promoted. The icon for traveling to a different lot--even one in your home neighborhood--is a car. You live in a house (apartments were added in an expansion pack). The first food your Sim can make, even with no cooking skill, is mac and cheese.

Simlish isn't a language, but the language it is not is English.

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best advice i ever got as a writer was to pick a hobby that i hated more than writing and stick with it. i’m a runner now and it’s miserable and i Hate It and writing is so lovely in comparison. bonus: i’m in excellent shape and running gives you a lot of time to think about writing. i’ve solved a lot of plot complications while running.

This is such funny advice. Writing is so excruciating, you gotta take up Self Torture so that writing feels like a fun little break 😭

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the boy and the babushkas

(find the heron)

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there's a p common attitude in fandom spaces (fandom in general, not a specific one) that's like "why care about canon, or the characters being ooc? we're here to play with the dolls any way we like" and as much as i obviously am a person who thinks about canon a lot in theory i'm into that. in practice though when popular fanon takes things in a wildly different direction from canon so often it's in the service of taking something that was originally canonically weird and interesting and making it blander. it's flattening a complex character into a broad archetype i've seen a million times before, it's taking two characters with a complicated canonical relationship and writing them in a way where you could find-and-replace the names with any other popular migratory slash fandom pairing and the fic would make as much if not more sense. if you're going to break away from canon at least do something interesting? don't make it less weird? i feel like i'm watching someone take a really beautiful expensive cut of wagyu steak and grind it into hamburger to cook it well done and cover it in ketchup

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Peter is also prone to disappearing at inopportune moments…

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Having headcanons is so fun because sometimes you’ll be like “I believe Blorbo suffered childhood trauma, specifically abandonment and ostracism from their community, and this is the reason they took X action in canon. I base this off these brief but telling conversations they had with others in five different episodes, plus their reaction when Skrimblo disappeared for two days.”

But then also sometimes you’ll say “I think Glup Shitto is lactose intolerant.”

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have you guys seen the zesty b1 battledroid....

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He loves his brushies

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dear baby bats and new goths:

polyester is plastic. most lace you buy, is polyester. when it gets hot out, and you hear a voice in your head saying "oh I can wear this, it's long-sleeves, but it's mesh/lace and very lightweight!" that's the devil talking. you will be wearing plastic that does NOT breathe, and you will be dying of heatstroke.

sincerely, a grown adult goth who still hasn't managed to learn this, and Suffered today.

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Let’s get cleaned by mama

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fav gaspard & lisa pieces <3 <3