#1x2 mine

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Such a charming boy. I'm sure he doesn't bite

Lestat in After the Phantoms of Your Former Self

[darlenicy]

Oh no, the MAIN character has to SHARE her room with someone else. How dare they.

[gingerylangylang1979]

Possessiveness

One thing people don't really speak about is the possessiveness growing between Carmy and Sydney. It's not at the forefront of their dynamics but it's there and I imagine it will grow in intensity.

They chose each other. Carmy chose Syd. She is the only person that he selected on the staff. Syd chose Carmy. She could have found a job at much better establishment than The Beef, but she didn't choose the restaurant, she chose him. By episode 1x2 Richie establishes Carmy as Syd's best friend. By episode three they are saying we. By episode 1x7 Tina establishes that Syd is Carmy's friend. Nobody else in the kitchen is acknowledged as a unit by the others. That same episode Carmy loses his shit when she leaves. He feels like she belongs there, with him. He feels betrayed. He thought they were a unit.

In season two we see them side by side, in sync, in unison, dressed alike, early on. Throughout the season we see Carmy interject when Marcus or Connor has her attention. We see Syd's obvious jealousy of Claire. But the two most intriguing things are Syd asking for his undivided attention and him demanding her presence. She doesn't want to share it, she doesn't want to share him. And when Carmy gets stuck in the fridge he cries out for her. They each feel entitled to have the other, when they want, in some capacity.

It's subtle but I think the possessiveness brewing is so delicious and hot and insane. I don't know where it's gonna go but I know it's going to manifest in big ways and I'm going to love it.

"You will be mine, all the time."

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

dream time i’ve got two for you!!

1: keith from the try guys died

2. i was watching my brother play minecraft and he was down in some caves mining and this new mob spawned next to him but it didn’t like acknowledge him. BUT it acknowledged it’s friend. like it was two different mobs working as one. and one of them was really tall and skinny and the other was short and wide and the tall one spoke to my brother like a person and like. explained their whole Thing to him. and it was like. you’re safe as long as the thing separating us from you is a 1x2 gap in a wall because neither of us can fit through there. so my brother started panicking bc he was fully exposed. and the mob gave him a head start so my brother dug himself like a tiny little cave but he didn’t have any blocks to cover himself with so he had to cover the front with doors and he was like slay this will work they’ll leave me alone. then BAM they start pummelling him with like zombies and blazes and all the evil mobs that are normal height like they were operating at a level 500 iq.

1. Are those the guys who had the guy that like cheated on his wife and it was a whole huge thing or am i thinking of different guys

2. Thats some alice in wonderland level of psychological horror but im really obsessed with them. Me and who fr

[chrysochroma]

Hermit Horror Week

Day 2: Environment

@hermithorrorweek

Title: Anthropocene

Prompt: Environment

Rating: Teen And Up

Words: 1,219

Warnings: Gore, Blood, Violence, Death, Horror, Dead Bodies

Summary: Grian comes across something interesting while mining.

read on Ao3

Grian had been strip mining for almost an hour, with very little to show for it. 14 diamonds, about a stack of iron and a half stack of gold were all that made up the contents of his inventory, not counting the stacks of cobblestone and other various materials.

Grian sighed, placed a torch on the wall of his 1x2 tunnel, then put his pickaxe away and took a bite of steak. He leaned against the wall and closed his eyes, debating on whether or not he should just call it quits for the day. Then, he heard a low, airy hum from below him.

Suppose checking this one couldn’t hurt, Grian thought.

He took another bite of the steak, then re-equipped his pickaxe and started to dig a staircase down towards the origin of the sound. He only had to dig out a couple of blocks before he dropped down into a twisting cave. He walked through it, mining out any ore he saw and placing torches as he went. Finally, the cave came to an end, closing itself off right after a vein of diamonds. He went to mine out the gems, each one appearing in his inventory with a pop.

As he broke through the last piece of ore, a window of darkness opened up from the other side. Not another layer of stone, just pure darkness, and a stench bad enough to make Grian start to cough.

Zombie spawner? Grian wondered.

He knocked another block so he could get inside, then climbed through the hole. He was met with he sight of not a spawner, but a pile of … something. Trying to breathe as shallowly as possible, Grian grabbed a torch from his inventory and held it up.

A pile of bodies in different stages of decomposition filled the room. The ones at the top of the pile almost could’ve been sleeping, if not for the facts that their eyes were frozen open and their chests were still. The further buried the bodies were, the more decayed they got. Grian’s eyes glanced over masses of rotting flesh peeling off the bones of the bodies they were on. The ones at the bottom of the pile were nothing but stark white bones. They looked damaged, too, all in different ways. A few of the corpses looked charred, others’ bones were cracked or snapped in half, and others were covered in black veins that seemed to lie just under the surface of the bone.

Grian’s eyes focused back on the top of the pile, at the less decayed bodies. He froze. He swore that one of them looked like Scar. The longer he stared at it, the more convinced that it was the body of his friend he became. They looked exactly the same, save for the lack of blush in his cheeks and movement in his eyes.

He pulled his eyes away, more confused than he had ever been. He searched through the pile, looking at each of the bodies in turn. Mumbo, False, Ren—the more he looked, the quicker his breaths became. He raised the torch up higher, letting its light flood over the rest of the pile. Impulse, Doc, Stress, Tango—the list went on and on. He started to walk around the edge of the pile, horrifyingly transfixed on the stack of corpses.

There were several of each Hermit, each seeming to be damaged in different ways. Fire, combat, even the void showed their effects on the bones. Grian’s mind shot through a list of possibilities, each worse than the last.

A sharp cracking noise came from the stone above. Grian glanced up at the source of the noise, and a chunk of stone fell from the ceiling, embedding itself in his now cracked skull. Slowly, he moved his hand up to meet a drop of liquid rolling down his forehead. He stared at the bright red on his finger.

Grian woke up.

Above him, a peaceful blue dotted with white painted the sky, letting the sun’s rays shine down on him. He reached back up to his forehead, then looked at the lack of blood on his fingers.

He wasn’t confused to be alive and he wasn’t afraid of death. Maybe it was the curiosity, or maybe something else, but he stepped out of his bed and began to fly back to the entrance to his mine. He dove down the tunnel he had made only an hour ago, ignoring all of the branches from the main tunnel he had dug. Finally, he reached the bottom. Diligently, he retraced his steps, only taking a few wrong turns. He reached the end of the tunnel he dug, then lowered himself down into the cave. A dissonant reverb and subtle clicks filled his ears as he ran through it, finally coming to a dead end. Before him, the cave tapered into nonexistence, with no trace of the entrance he had dug into the room. Then a speck of turquoise caught his eye. Carefully, he pried a chunk of diamond out of the stone. He dropped it, then turned back to the cave wall.

Grian began to tear through the wall with reckless abandon, destroying much more of the cave than he needed to get into the room. It was almost exactly the same as when he had left it—there was nothing to suggest he had even been there. No crack in the ceiling where the rock would’ve fallen from, no rock on the ground, no blood. Almost the same.

Grian picked a torch from out of his inventory and held it up, looking at the top of the pile. There he lay, rivers of blood dried on his forehead, the rock still embedded in his crown. Even though some part of him was expecting this, he almost stopped breathing. His heartbeat increased as his world seemed to slow to a stop. He was transfixed on the sight of himself motionless, atop a pile of the bodies of his best friends.

He inhaled sharply, then spun around to come face to face with a stone wall that he knew was not there minutes ago. He took out his pickaxe and began to chip away at the cave wall, doing much less damage to the stone than he usually would. He kept hammering, though, relentlessly determined to leave this place.

With a snap, Grian’s pickaxe broke. He switched to the other one in his inventory, disregarding the fact that it was supposed to be reserved for Silk Touching materials. He continued to hack at the cave wall, producing little more than a hairline fracture. His hunger bar slowly depleted itself, his stomach screaming at the lack of food. His muscles started to fail, and his head began to swim in a mix of sharp pain and overwhelming numbness. A few strikes later, his second pick broke. He took a bite of the last piece of food in his inventory. He shivered, then sat down against the unyielding stone and finished the last bite of steak.

He sat there for hours, unmoving, letting his body heat fade and watching his hunger bar tick down as his torch burned itself into embers.

He inhaled. He exhaled, shakily and ragged. He closed his eyes.

Grian woke up.

[siphersaysstuff]

BIY Lego Town Hall, in progress

So the Lego "modular" city blocks are a fave theme of mine, and I was looking at the prices for the Town Hall from 2012, and NOPE. NOPE NOPE NOPE. Starting at $500 incomplete and only going up from there, never mind shipping.

I got a lot of spare bits, I'll build my own, thanks. Even if I have to do some Bricklink buys (and I DO and have one already on its way), it'll be way cheaper and more fun since I can do a lot of altering on the way.

The first floor is nearly done. I still need a lot of 1x8 rail-plates to complete the columns and slanted roof parts. A couple key pieces to finish the double-doors, and I'm debating my planter options. The light-gray 1x3 arches are gonna get replaced with dark-gray. Instead of flat gray walls up front, used masonry-bricks, I think they add a bit o' dignity.

Working on the interior. Using micro-builds from other sets, particularly The Office, to make it nicer inside than the rather plain original. Miiiiiiiiiight pull apart the back wall and go all light-gray masonry-brick like with the front. Which I don't have enough of, at least not 1x4 ones. Nothing but 1x2s would be a structural nightmare. Maybe some art on the left wall.

Second floor is less done. I've run out of not-small nougat-colored bricks; the original set uses a dark orange, and I like the more subtle lighter look of the nougat. Also I had (had) a shitload of 1x4 and 1x2 masonry-bricks in that color, which are fine for the front and back walls. The side-walls can be plain cuz they're gonna get mooshed up against some other buildings.

Not got much furniture in there yet, but soon.

Also working on a more elaborate elevator car. The original was basically just a floor, which felt... bad. Gave this one walls and buttons, and an escape hatch. Lacking the Technic piece for the locking mechanism on the back-left corner; once I get that (in the mail now), the design might change depending on how exactly the car sits height-wise at each floor.

The third floor is... whoof. I need a lot of 1x2x2 white windows (in the order), and I have very few nougat bricks in either form left outside of a lot of 1x2s and 1x3s, which is not ideal for big stretches of wall.

The nougat bricks might have to get bulk-ordered. They're surprisingly pricy.

Made some decent progress on the roof and clock tower. Most of it is done and the parts to complete the gray front and skylights are on order, as is the huge clock face dish.

Clock tower interior. Was debating putting a bunch of the random Technic gears I have back there, but had no good idea for how to properly attach them to the wall without them sticking WAY out, so ppppffft. One giant Mario gear.

The original bell tower design was shorter (only two 1x1 cylinders used) plus the bell was affixed to the floor. No thanks. Now the bell hangs, and even better, thanks to the 1x1 round plate/bar, it can even swing from side to side a bit!

I wanted to make a gold bell, but sadly they don't do the 3x3 dish in pearl-gold. Ah well.

So, all told, getting there. I'm sure I'll tweak it more on the way, there's been tons of light alterations I've made all over the place already.

Also, any excuse to sift through the bulk bit bins at a Bricks & Minifigs. Mmmm.

[hooliganpaints]

The Overdue Sunday Breakdown

YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS. Also, long post is long.

With Sunday having been a big show (having been both the Last Tournament of 9th, as well as likely the Last 1000 Point Tournament), I knew I had to go out with a bang. Enter: The last dataslate, which gave Broadsides back Core, for some godforsaken reason, and the prompt for this army: “Hey, what if I gave broadsides full rerolls? Wouldn’t that be fucked up?”

The army list breakdown:

1x Ethereal on Hover Drone. This guy served as a utility workhorse, allowing me a fast-moving infantry option to score secondaries if necessary, while, in the early game, allowing me to buff the Broadside Brick with a 5+++, -1 to hit if they moved, the ability to perform actions and shoot, and sharing his Leadership if I happened to run into a morale bomb. He also had the Exemplar of the Mont’ka (buff a Core unit to re-roll all wounds on the closest target in 9″, 12″ if I chose Mont’ka), which was only relevant like. Once.

1x Shadowsun with drone suite - The Queen of the Kauyon, the main combo maker that I purchased and painted solely to hand out a full “reroll all hit rolls” to the Broadside brick. Also shares in the Ethereal’s duty of “being very fast and an infantry unit who can score” while lacking the vulnerability of the ethereal due to her guardian drone’s “You can’t shoot her unless she’s the closest visible target”.

1x3 Broadsides with High Yield Missile Pods, Smart Missile Systems, 4x Marker Drones, 2x Shield Drones, Advanced Targeting Systems - The other half of the combo brick. A withering 48 shots, 24 at S;7 AP;2 D:2 and the other 24 at S:5 AP:0 D:1 with “ignore light cover” and “indirect fire”, wrapped up in a lovely package with 8 ablative wounds and “hit rolls of 6 auto hit”

And finally, 1x2 Hammerheads with Accelerator Bursts and Railguns, because I was determined to turn this game store into a salt mine.

So, how’d I do? Well - I won, but not as hard as you might think. I’ll talk about the games first and see if you can figure out what happened here as I go.

Game 1 was against a World Eaters player with Lord Invocatus, a squad of Beserkers, and 2 squads of Eightbound with an Exalted Eightbound squad to cap them out. He didn’t deepstrike anything (I’m....really not sure why), and soft-conceded after round 2 when I’d shot everything meaningful off the board. We played until the end, but there was a lot of complaining about how broken my army was while I plonked him down.

Once Kauyon came on on turn 3, it was over, and I was able to move across the board and score my remaining goals.

My next opponent was a Thousand Sons “soup” player, in quotes because his “soup” was a Knight Abominant.

Nice score.

This one was tougher as our map was definitely more LOS blocking, but I pushed into the middle early with Mont’ka allowing me to move and shoot without penalty and - once again -blowing everything off the board by turn 3.

The highlight was his Abominant running up to my Hammerhead on the hill there, before unceremoniously getting his dome chrome’d in close-quarters carnage, exploding over everything and wiping out half of our armies.

Top ten pictures taken seconds before disaster

Game three was versus a mini Silver Tide Necrons player, with a 20x warrior blob, a reanimator, a technomancer, an orb overlord, some scarabs and a smattering of destroyers of various flavors. This was a final quick fun romp where we bantered for most of the game before closing out again at the bottom of 3.

So, after a long day, herein lies my issue that you may have noticed:

Tau secondaries? SUCK. Real bad!

For those who haven’t had the privilege of enduring T’au yet, there are two things at play here:

Firstly is Philosophies of War. This is our army rule, and essentially is “on rounds 1-3 OR 3-5 you get one of two effects, you choose”.

Secondly is how our secondaries INTERACT with Philosophies of War. Of our 3 for Arks, 2 of them are only scoreable on the rounds we’re benefiting from PoW. A Clean VIctory is “Score 1 point if you kill one enemy unit, 3 points if you kill 3 or more for a total of 4/round”, and Decisive Action is “Score 4 points if you hold half or more of the objectives on the map at the end of the turn”. (The 3rd, Aerospace Targeting Relays, is “score 2/6/9/15 points by doing an action at the midpoint of table edges“, but that was flatly very difficult to do with this list).

Overall, this means that for most Tau lists (and especially this one), we have to rely a lot more on generic secondaries, which are usually pretty rough to score on. As such, my “perfect games” where I was tabling my opponent by turn 3 at the latest still had me scoring relatively low - 70 points at most - which is definitely a good score, but nowhere near what I ““should have”“ scored.

That’s mostly just whingeing on my part, though - overall, I’m hopeful that 10th will 1. make this steaming pile of crap impossible to run and alphastrike everything off the board, and 2. be a bit more lenient with secondaries for scoring.

Huge shoutout to the crew at Game Knight NH for running these tournaments and getting me some sweet action shots!

[afaimsarrowverse]

250(ish) Favorite Arrowverse Episodes: Part 4: 175-151

Picked from „Arrow“, „Black Lightning“, „Supergirl“, „Legends of Tomorrow“, „The Flash“, „Barwoman“ Season 1+2 and „Superman & Lois“ Season 1+2. I did consider kicking „Superman & Lois“ of this list, but since it pretended to be part of the Arrowverse for its first two seasons I left it on here.

 175. My Name is Oliver Queen (Arrow 3x23)

69, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Marc Guggenheim, Jake Coburn, Directed by: John Behring

 „You were delivered by the prophecy. You wed my daughter. Your name is Al Sah-Him and you are Warith al Ghul!" "My name... is Oliver Queen!"

 174. The Calm (Arrow 3x1)

47, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Marc Guggenheim, Jake Coburn, Directed by: Glen Winter

 "I thought that I could be me and the Arrow. But I can't. Not now. Maybe not ever."

 173. Legends of Today / Legends of Yesterday (The Flash 2x8/Arrow 4x8)

Part 1: The Flash 2.8/31, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Aaron and Todd Helbing, Directed by: Ralph Hemecker, Part 2: Arrow 4.8/77, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Brian Ford Sullivan, Directed by: Thor Freudenthal

 "It's just... the rules keep changing. One day, I have to run through time, the next, I'm fighting a telepathic gorilla, and now we're, what? We're chasing down an immortal madman on a rampage against a reincarnated warrior priestess? I just never thought I'd have superpowers and feel more powerless than I ever have in my entire life."

 "Why would you risk the lives of your friends and family for two strangers? 206 times I have killed them. What hubris possesses you that makes you think that you can prevent me from doing so again?"

 172. Pilot 1+2 (Legends of Tomorrow 1.1-1.2)

1&2, Written by: Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisgberg, Directed by: Glen Winter

 "I know it's difficult for you to fathom, but where... when I'm from, the year 2166, you and everyone on this roof aren't just considered heroes... You're legends." "Legends?" "I, um, I hate to nitpick, but doesn't a legend have to be dead?"

 "One thing that time travel teaches you is that time changes, people don't."

 171. Heritage (Superman & Lois 1x2)

2, Written by: Todd Helbing, Directed by: Lee Toland Krieger

 "You have any idea what you just did? You ruined their childhood, Clark. I've seen the toll this life's taken on Lois over the years. She never says anything to you, but I know. Now you're going to put the boys through the same hell?" "This is gonna keep my family together." "No, Clark, It's going to tear it apart."

 170. Off with her Head (Batwoman 1x15)

15, Written by: Natalie Abrams, Directed by: Holly Dale

 "Red is a very symbolic color. It's the color of love, but it's also the color of passion, courage, war. At one point or another, you're going to have to wrestle with all of these emotions, and what defines your character is how you balance them. So keep me close to your heart, because I'll be thinking of you while I wear mine."

 169. Deus Lex Machina (Supergirl 5x17)

104, Written by: Lindsay Sturman, Katie Rose Rogers, Brooke Pohl, Directed by: Melissa Benoist

 "I didn't just save the world. I made a new one."

 168. Magenta (The Flash 3x3)

49, Written by: Judalina Neira, David Kob, Directed by: Armen Kevorkian

 "Sorry John... Frankie's gone!"

 167. The Demon (Arrow 7x5)

143, Written by: Benjamin Raab, Deric A. Hughes, Directed by: Mark Bunting

 "There was a time, Talia, when aligning yourself with a man like Ricardo Diaz would have been beneath you."

"I do what it takes to survive. Another lesson you seem to have forgotten. I taught you to separate the man from the monster. Instead, you exposed your identity for all the world to see and became the monster you always feared you were."

 166. Manhunter (Supergirl 1x17)

17, Written by: Derek Simon, Cindy Lichtman, Rachel Shukert, Directed by: Chris Fisher

 "Ancient Greeks had Hades. The Egyptians, Anubis. The Incas, Supay, the lord of the Underworld, god of death. Today, the villagers that live among the ruins of that empire believe that Supay has returned to live amongst them. But this creature is no devil, it is an alien fugitive, the Manhunter."

 165. Elongated Journey into the Night (The Flash 4x4)

73, Written By: Sterling Gates, Thomas Pound, Directed By: Tom Cavanagh

 "Did I make a mistake back then? Did I cost a good man his life?" "I don't know, Barr. He did break the law. Crossed a line. And you didn't make him do that. And you didn't make him blackmail the mayor. But, maybe Caitlin was right. Everyone who's gone what you, and her, now Dibny's gone through... maybe he deserves a second chance."

 164. The Wrath of Rama Khan (Supergirl 5x8)

95, Written by: Lindsay Struman, Jessica Kardos, Directed by: Marcus Stokes

 "People make mistakes and they do terrible things. We have to let them do better, bring them back to the light. Otherwise, what's the point in trying to save everyone?"

 163. Life Sentence (Arrow 6x23)

138, Written by: Wendy Mercile, Marc Guggenheim, Directed by: James Bamford

 "I am the Green Arrow. I realize that I've denied that claim with the same conviction with which I'm speaking now. I have let good people stand accused of things that I've done. Roy Harper is not the Green Arrow. Tommy Merlyn is most certainly not the Green Arrow. These are two names on a long list of people who have given so much and sacrificed everything in the name of my crusade. Some of them gave their lives in the pursuit of one simple objective— to save our city. Star City still needs saving."

 162. Truth, Justice and the Amercian Way (Supergirl 1x14)

14, Written by: Michael Grassi, Yahlin Chang, Caitlin Parrish, Directed by: Lexi Alexander

 "What I have done is protect this city. This world. Humans understand little about justice. Justice must be absolute. I'd hoped that you'd see justice the same way your mother did. The way I do."

 161. Armageddon Part 5 (The Flash 8x5)

156, Written by: Kristen Kim, Directed by: Menhaj Huda

 "You don't think I want to see him dead either? 'Cause I do. If I learned one thing being a cop, it's that you can't just protect the people you think are good. You have to protect everyone. That's what heroes do." "I know that." "Do you? A hero is not just in the name, Barry, or in a red suit. It's the choices we make that decide who and what we become. You know that."

 160. Anti-Hero (Superman & Lois 2x7)

22, Written by: Max Cunningham, Michael Narducci, Directed by: Elizabeth Henstridge

 „My father used to say pain is just a way of reminding me I was alive. Quite the gem.“

 159. Rogue Time (The Flash 1x16)

16, Written by: Grainne Godfree, Brooke Eikmeier, Kai Yu Wu, Directed by: John Behring

 "How many times are we gonna go through this, Snart?!" "Until the best man wins!"

 158. Purgatory (Arrow 8x7)

167, Written by: Rebecca Bellotto, Rebecca Rosenberg, Directed by: James Bamford

 "The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It's Mandarin for purgatory. Now I understand why. The memories, the pain, I've never escaped them. They're always with me, a reminder of what I had to endure with only one thought, one goal-- survive. To save the multiverse, I must become something else. To do that, I have to return to where my journey began-- purgatory."

 157. Man of Steel (Supergirl 4x3)

68, Written by: Rob Wright, Derek Simon, Directed by: Jesse Warn

 "Ben Franklin's fears have come to pass. The modern immigrant cannot assimilate, and it's not a question of desire, it's not a question of culture. It is a question of biology, and from that context... from that context, I should be proud if you were to call me a nativist."

 156. Attack on Gorilla City (The Flash 3x13)

59, Written by: Andrew Kreisberg, Aaron Helbing, David Kob, Directed by: Dermott Downs

 "Father taught me well. Always think ahead."

 155. Revenge oft he Rogues (The Flash 1x10)

10, Written by: Geoff Johns, Kai Yu Wu, Directed by: Nick Copus

 "The Scarlet Speedster. Any preference on how you'd like to die? The flame or the frost?"

 154. How queer is everything today (Batwoman 1x10)

10, Written by: Caroline Dries, Directed by: Jeff Hunt

 "Okay, people. Time to recalibrate our gaydar. Batwoman is a lesbian? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but talk to me, Gotham. Whatever happened to politics staying out of our superheroes?"

 153. A New World Part 1: Reunions (The Flash 9x10)

181, Written by: Eric Wallace, Thomas Pound, Directed by: Eric Wallace

 "You win one battle, Thawne, not the war between us. Neither of us can do that. If you don't walk away tonight, you will lose everything."

"Liar. Don't you know who I am? I have always been the hero. You're the villain, Flash. You're the one who reversed my entire life and dragged me into hell. And that's why you die tonight, by my hand."

 152. A Head of Her Time (Legends of Tomororw 5x4)

72, Written by: Morgan Faust, Directed by: Avi Youbain

 „Ava, I can handle myself in the field. I once played capture the flag to raise awareness about feline OCD.“

 151. Paranoid Android (Legends of Tomorrow 7x8)

105, Written by: Phil Klemmer, Marcelena Campos Mayhorn, Directed by: David Geddes

 „Ugh! Hate watching people die with no sound! What are we, in the Dark Ages?“

[turtle-to-eternity]

Day 137 - Much More Mining

Calories: 2150

It was a pretty good day today. My grandmother has been doing more things for herself, I got a nice new leash for my big excitable dog, and I got to play Minecraft all day.

Writing for today:

Lots of progress and at the same time very little. I managed to scrounge up enough ancient debris to get a netherite ingot, but then ended up getting the key to the mining dimension by accidentally killing the Warden instead. By accidentally, I mean I got trapped in a 1x2 hole with him and kept getting put back into it by the local waystone teleport every time I tried to get to my gravestone.

So I respawned about 20 times, each time smacking the Warden once and getting one-shot in return. Eventually the dude died and I got an allthemodium ingot to finally get to the mining dimension.

After that, I am swimming in diamonds and iron and all sorts of things. Made a potion of netherite sight and loaded up on 150 chunks of ancient debris too. So much progress, but I'm completely without blaze rods or nether wart which these magic mods want me to have. A project for tomorrow maybe.

Today I got up late and felt a bit frustrated about it. But it was a pleasant day regardless. No major complaints. Even the weather was nice all day. Overall, today felt good.

[kiss-my-freckle]

Hi. Hope your arm feels better!

What was your Delena moment? On first and subsequent watches?

Mine, on first watch, was "Doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman?"

But on rewatch I realize 1x14 is THE Delena episode. And probably where some people boarded this ship. From the Stephan looks alone you can tell something big is happening.

Thoughts/GIFs?

I tore my cast off two days after they put it on. Something about the fabric didn't gel with my sensitive skin. Thank you for caring!

When did I start shipping Delena? I have markers of certain things for certain episodes, so here's a list of my feelings...

1x2 was the moment I fell in love with Damon's character. 1x3 was the moment I knew their plans for his character. 1x11 was about him trusting Elena. He was giving to get. 1x14 was him and Elena solidifying their friendship. 1x19 was his signature moment. 1x19/1x20 was when I started shipping Delena.

As to your feelings about 1x14, I agree with the way Stefan looked in that episode. He's a very jealous person, and he was fighting against their friendship. That's why he talked her into betraying Damon. He truly didn't want Damon in her life, but Damon being in her life is her choice. Theirs is a friendship she chose for herself, that's why their hug matters. She's forcing Stefan to accept their friendship.

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Loustat in After the Phantoms Of Your Former Self

[grazhir]

Sims 4 - SimLingo - LOL

Right. I sent my baby girl to the Romance Festival (mostly to harvest flowers), and she naturally started chatting with people. My girl natively speaks Komorebi and Toki Sulani, so...

As you can see, she's not exactly happy dealing with a bunch of people speaking Windenburgish and Simlish.

She looks like she wants to start the murder death kill spree.

[She's got three separate tense buffs going at the moment, and it adds up to Very Tense.]

"Maybe if I stare him down, he'll run away!"

I sent her home, poor thing. She's picked up the starting rank in Simlish and Windenburgish, at least.

New save. After being saddled with four children (three boys, one girl) in the last one...? Yeah, no. Fuck it, new save. I'm using Daughter of the Easter Hare if I put her in debt.

The, ah, "new" house. Which is really the same house I've been using since quite a while. This one still has the child stuff on the first floor (except for a crib in her bedroom, because nannies are useless when it comes to newborns), but I'm ignoring all that for now.

I did make edits, though, based on the last half dozen games. Such as, those three greenhouses at the back (one for dragonfruit, to sell or use as fishing bait), the middle one for trees, and the right-hand one for stuff to chuck in the fridge (and, well, four varieties of weed).

I still need to stock the pond, though.

Ground floor interior shifted stuff around. The lift (elevator) was moved into the back room (same above and below) and the entrance side shifted. A dresser is over the portal-rug-thing that makes it work (because I can't put a rug-rug over it as the portal stays visible/on top, and if I change the swatch to invisible, I'm fucked if I renovate because I may never find it again).

Kitchen went from back to what was originally her bedroom, and a half wall used to separate it from the living area. She's using the other master instead, with magical stuff in the back.

The fence around the entire property and all doors except the front door are blocked to non-household members. So is the lift.

Fireplace shifted out due to the lift being moved (and given a fake 1x2 chimney stack).

Just waiting on her hitting adept so I can get transportalate and upgradios (at least for the ground floor upgrades, minus the fireplace and television, because I plan to pay for my CinErotique channels).

On a side note, I did finally manage to donate to a museum docent for the archaeology mod from Simsonian Library, but then I ran into issues with turning in a mission. The thing said authenticated, I believe, but there was no option to turn in the one I bought along, or the unauthenticated one.

Rrrr.

Mining went okay (it really tires your sim to clear debris). I did not manage to mine enough to clear it out such that I'd want to "upgrade" by making the mine deeper (as was advised somewhere), but I can try again on this save.

Once I remember to get the thing for that.

[limenh]

There once was a man named ‘brine Who played games with Optifine He removed trees leaves Making them inhospitable to bees And loved his 1x2 mines

[elinordash]

Luck of the devil.

[burgesskims]

Leslie Elizabeth Shay in Every Episode 2/49

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