#.am i back idk but i took this photo for discord and i figured 'eh if i edit it it could be cute'

[brokestudiesnrefs]

[31.01.2018] playing 🎵

rejected captions:

poutine is the greatest canadian invention since its confederation

“no i’m not trying to get a sponsorship,” i say as i deliberately turn all products to showcase its brandname

yes i am alive

[potential-fate]

Check in tag

I was tagged by @sicksadsim, thank youu!

Why did you choose your url?

uhm. honestly it's really old. basically just took my normal gamertag from when I was a teen and added "-sims" to the end lol.

How long have you been on tumblr?

Okay, so I've been on tumblr in general since like 2007. But I've had a simblr.... probably since like 2012? I took 3 years off though, and then recreated this as my main blog since I didn't really use the others. So this one specifically only goes back to the beginning of 2020/late 2019.

Do you have a queue tag?

Yup. I think it's just "queued". I queue almost everything so I don't overwhelm people with my posts. I think it's currently set to 10 posts a day?

Why did you start your blog in the first place?

I think I just moved here when everyone else did in the early 2010s. I used to do sims on livejournal, and when people started moving here, I was like "oh I already know how to use that website!! and I liked that I didn't have to port my images from a photo-hosting website.

Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

Eh, it's just my pfp on everything. Nothing crazy. Figured it's easier for people to tell who I am on discord and stuff if it all matches.

Why did you choose your header?

To be honest I am not even 100% sure what my header is.

What's your post with the most notes?

LMAO, much to my disdain, the most that has the most notes is a nonsims townscaper post 😂.

How many mutuals do you have?

hm... I'm not sure honestly... like probably quite a few. maybe like 50-70. But maybe like 10 that regularly interact with my stuff and me with theirs though?

How many followers do you have?

just over 400 currently.

How many people do you follow?

a little over 300 right now.

Have you ever made a shit post?

oh probably. It was probably a text post having to do with the premades too.

How often do you use tumblr each day?

More than I'd like to admit lmao.

Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? Who won?

..... not on simblr? and it was a personal argument when I was still a teenager lmao. so I'm not sure if really counts if the beef was outside of tumblr and just spilled over onto my blog.... and idk who won lol.

How do you feel about 'you need to reblog this' posts

Tbh I tend to ignore them. I'll reblog meaningful things, or to help out people I know personally, but I also tend to curate my blog for only sims specific stuff.

Do you like tag games?

Sure. they're fun. I like the ones that are sims specific especially! I'm normally really slow at answering them though haha.

Do you like ask games?

Sure

Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

Lol this feels like a "ooh look who I know!" question 😂 but fr I don't really know what qualifies as "famous" on simblr. Probably @plumbtales if I had to guess who most people know?

Do you have a crush on a mutual?

What does this even mean? like a fr crush? or just a "wow I really wanna be friends with that person pleeeeeeeease" type crush? 😂 if the first, then no, I'm happily in a long term monogamous relationship so nah. if the second, yes. obviously there are people I follow who I would actually die if they decided to follow me LOL

[sandriinehebert]

say hello to my (revamped) little friend :)))))

lea michele has been my idol and source of inspiration ever since i was 11 years-old. i looked up to her and loved her and supported her. i met my two closest friends because of glee and lea. she’s the reason i got into glee, and glee is the reason why i decided to join roleplay years ago. i owe so much to lea. that being said, i do not support, condone or accept her alleged behavior. i knew about her being self-centered and difficult to work with, but i never thought i would log online some night searching for instagram photos for sandrine and find out all of that. i was reading the twitter thread all night long and watching a decade of my life disappear before my eyes. i know my feelings are worth nothing and are completely irrelevant & meaningless compared to the gravity of the situation that brought out all of these allegations. i also want to point out this is not a representation of mine or sandrine’s views on racism, bullying, performance activism or politics.

one of the first things that came to mine was sandrine and this group. i never bragged about being original, so it should come as no surprise that sandrine took a lot of characteristics from lea. her bubbly and lively personality, the tiny but mighty energy, the italian family background, the singing part, the cooking, the love of beauty, everything from her looks to her voice, it screams lea michele when i think about sandrine. changing her faceclaim was not an easy thing to do, because it implies changing this character i cherish with all of my heart. anyway, here’s a list of things that will change about sandrine from now on / things that will stay the same.

changes:

the faceclaim. lea is sephardi jewish (of turkish and greek descent) as well as italian. try and match that, it’s hard. plus, finding someone who is as expressive and joyful as sandrine is difficult too. i decide to use demet özdemir (who’s of turkish, bulgarian and german descent from what i read). compared to lea, i don’t know anything about her whatsoever. i lurked through gif tags and photos and she seems promising. if i don’t feel good using her, i will change to leighton meester and review, once again, the family background. (shoutout to lina for helping me, a true life saver!!!! <3)

alessandra “sandrine” serafina hébert. her last name changes. it is no longer lombardi, but hébert. (pronounced eh-bert in english, or hey-ber in french because the t is silent, i did some genalogy research and the surname hébert was, in some parts of the province, adapted from german so it fits with demet).

her age. sandrine is 30 turning 31 in september instead of 33 going 34.

her parents’ name. i will not redo the whole family post i did ages ago, but they all get a change of name and history. adamo is now only adam, and he’s 33 instead of 35. christian hébert is her father and monica evans is the mother. corinna remains corinna. christian’s father’s last name was actually esmer, but he changed to hébert when he moved in order to try and fit in the community.  the whole italian family storyline goes in the garbage bin, but since, historically speaking, traditional quebecer values are not that different from family, food and making babies, i’m good with that! i am absolutely not familiar with turkish and canadian history & relations so i have a lot of research to do there just to feel comfortable with this. i knew more about italo-québécois from school and from writing a paper about this community, hence why i felt no discomfort using cultural and historical aspects in sandrine’s story. montréal has the second largest turkish community of canada from stats i found, so, still, it’s not completely off either.

her career in ice skating / the reason she quit. sandrine will still be a successful figure skater who was amongst the best of her province, but i’ll twist things up. i won’t have her quit at 18, rather at 20. because (drum roll) i will give her a love interest. she started doing couple figure skating competitions at 17 and fell in love with her partner. they dated for three years, that innocent first relationship kind of love and he broke-up because he felt like he was too young to commit. hence why she still believes no one will ever love her as much as she loves them.

her timeline will go like this: at 20 she quit ice skating and dropped out of university. from 20 to 24 she stayed at home in montréal with her parents. from 24 to 26, she was roommates with adam in boston. and from 26 to now, 30 going 31, she is living on her own, running her salon in devinstone.

what stays the same:

lea’s voice is sandrine’s voice. when i write dialogues (which means 99% of all of my replies bc i can’t write), i hear lea’s voice. sandrine’ voice and singing voice will remain lea’s. that is unfortunately something i can’t let go of. 

she’s still lea’s height even if demet is 5″7.

she still has 2 of lea’s tattoos: the coffee mug and the musical notes.

she’s still a beautician. that does not change one bit! she still loves cooking. she still loves being annoying.

i will not delete any posts from before. i have so many faceclaim posts and instagram photos queued that some might slip away but those, i will delete them if i notice they get posted on accident. my queue has over 40 posts so it glitches and doesn’t always show me what’s in there.

everything else. she’s still the reincarnation of poppy from trolls, anna from frozen and pinkie pie from my little pony. big dumb dumb energy and all!

a faceclaim change should not be that big of a deal. but i’m a big baby who adored a celebrity for so long and i’m learning a hard lesson right now. i will proceed to changing her icon, theme, url, and to send a whole new biography to the main in the next couple of days. the main will also be contacted when they’ll come back to tumblr. since i don’t have discord, i couldn’t contact them sooner. i need time to process everything and to change sandrine’s muse without losing it. thank you for reading all of this and i am truly sorry if me using lea michele as a faceclaim ever offended any of you. i owed all of you an explanation and an apology as to why it takes so much time to change everything (idk who sent me this anon about me having to change my faceclaim but i was aware i had to do so since the moment i read the first tweets so i hope you didn’t worry about that too much). again, i’m sorry. stay safe, ily guys! <3