#5.2.2

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Round 2, Matchup 26: I.v.1 vs V.ii.2

[the-wraxall-illustrations]

[drawnaghht]

Lineups and outfit ideas for my TMNT x USAGI mega-crossover! Pt 1!

Heyo! so this was done a while ago (summer and a bit of autumn) but I wasn't in the mood to post it yet as I was very busy this past year.

Here we have: Gen, Chizu, Kitsune and Usagi in undercover outfit ideas for when they find themselves in New York city in 2023, where they're found out by a few strange older turtles... and some of the 2003 cast from 2023! Don't worry, I have another sheet for Mikey and Donnie, they are not absent from this crossover :)

Hope you enjoy! These were very fun to draw and put together :) I'm particularly proud of that Gen and Kitsune!

[cliozaur]

The one in which Hugo once again employs an oriental discourse and digs deeply into the material and moral essence of sewers. He compares the plan of Parisian sewers with “eccentric oriental alphabet” with “the misshapen letters.” Always exoticize what you cannot quite understand!

Here, the parallels drawn between sewers and mines, connected through their association with criminal elements, are vivid. My favourite piece is this: “here and there are breathing-holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without” – Villon, a poet and convicted criminal who could hide in sewers, and Rabelais, who just got his inspiration from some criminal elements, and thus he is positioned “without” but still in communication with such figures like Villon.

In the part about “the sincerity of foulness,” Hugo refers to what I would call excremental archaeology. When one encounters someone's excrement, there's little else that person can hide. On the other hand, sewers, the receptacles of all filth, serve as the perfect haven for murderers to conceal trace of their crimes, and to which dirty water “in which bloody hands have been washed flows,” but once all these things end up there, it reveals the truth about what transpired.

[dolphin1812]

Hugo’s framing of the sewers as ancient and irrational, drawing both on facts – they date back to before the 19th century – and notions of Progress that contrast “modern” Europe with its past and “the Orient.” Such stereotypes play into Orientalism, as we’ve seen before with Hugo’s arguments about Progress, so this isn’t entirely new.

Much of this section takes me back to Patron Minette, with the idea of a darker, “unenlighted” Paris underneath the surface. This paragraph in particular wouldn’t have been out of place there:

“The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; the maillotins in the fourteenth century, the tire-laine of the fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin’s illuminated in the seventeenth, the chauffeurs [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic picareria, accepted the sewer as the adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber.”

The sewer is a vector for crime, yet it’s also a vessel for change, thus containing a glimmer of hope not found in Patron Minette’s depths. The sewer is almost religiously framed in how truthful it is, with Hugo linking it to a “confession.” That term, though, also suggests that it’s honest about society’s sins, once again emphasizing that the sewer is a mirror to social ills like the waste of the poor. 

Also: “A sewer is a cynic. It tells everything.”

I can’t read “cynic” without thinking of Grantaire, especially as this section comes so soon after his death. In “telling everything,” the sewer may be as incomprehensible as Grantaire’s speeches, but it’s also not useless. Grantaire reached for change with his death, so the sewer can’t be dismissed, either.

I unfortunately don’t know all the historical references here, but they generally serve to confirm the tumultuous history of the sewers.

[gift2hearttbr]

Lover Card

Lover Card - https://gift2heart.com/product/lover-card/?feed_id=34941&_unique_id=68661c7e8e4ae Ali - Gift 2 Heart Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.[1][2] An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love for food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional attachment.[3][4][additional citation(s) needed]

[theshiningdiamond]

(inhales) im going to beat krita with a stick

[loomsims]

Introducing...✧Starlit Glow!✧

I have reached yet ANOTHER milestone on this blog and I am so gagged rn you really don't get it 😅🫶🏽 Thank you guyths so much! 🥰 Here's a reshade preset for taking some pretty screenshots in TS3! I've downloaded so many different presets over the years, but I've always ended up editing them to the point of being unrecognizable, so I just decided to make my own. My goal was to make my shots bright and glowy with a soft and dreamy sort of feeling! :) This is my newest, and probably my favorite rendition of my preset! Comparison shots and details below!

: ̗̀➛ Details! ⋆·˚ ༘ *

This preset was created using Reshade 5.2.2!

This preset is NOT gameplay friendly and I made it purely for taking pretty screenshots.

I'm using the chaitones.fx from this collection of multi_luts created by the talented @erasabledinosaur! you need this for the preset to look right. I will include instructions on how to put it your game in the zip file! :)

I've made some effects toggable as they can get a bit overwhelming in certain lighting!

Ambient Light- shift+A

Hex Lens Flare- shift+M

Tonemap- shift+T

Cinematic DOF- shift+D

ts3 in fullscreen mode has a screen brightening effect which changes the way your screenshots may look, so your game must be in windowed mode for your pics to look like they do in this post!

Here's some more comparison screenies!

That's basically it! All I ask is that you don't claim this to be yours and don't try to modify it and re-upload it in anyway without my permission! If you use this in your game PLEASE tag me @loomsims I would love to see :-D Also if you run into any issues let me know as this is another first time for me!

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[maeselc]

So i head you have Klingon vagina head-cannons. Do tell.

Well I'm just delighted to have received this ask. Indeed I do! Thank you for asking :)

I developed the concept while working on a Seven/B'Elanna fic that I am unlikely to ever finish, and I was going to try to write this up more conversationally for Tumblr but I think I probably won't get round to it so I'm just going to share this section I wrote under the cut.

Context: Established early relationship; Seven has brought B'Elanna some reading material about Klingon reproductive anatomy. You can safely ignore the dialogue between them at the end, but I have included it because it contextualises what I had in mind with the tone I was writing the book passage in.

Also tagging @walkingstackofbooks because ages ago you said to tag you if I ever posted about this (hopefully I am not misremembering! XD)

ETA: I should have given more detail up front about what this is, apologies. This is written as a sort of factual (but not entirely scientific) guide to anatomy with frank discussion of sexual practices including penetrative sex between Klingons and Klingon cunnilngus.

Right, with no further ado...

5.2: The Klingon Vulva

The following discusses what can be seen in the diagrams noted as Figures 5.2.1 and 5.2.2.

The vulva is positioned higher up on the pelvic area for Klingons than for humanoid species without dual genital structures. This gives the Klingon vulva a more front-facing appearance than is common for those other species.

Aside from the outer and inner labia, the most identifiable external structures comprising the area are the dual clitorides, which are placed side by side at the top of the vulvar area. These will, for most individuals, be somewhat discernible at all times and fully exposed when the individual is sexually aroused. This visual change is due to the clitorides’ increased size when erect and the retraction of the clitoral hoods due to mild muscular contracting that takes place around the labia in the early stages of arousal.

Individual variations are common in appearance, size, shape, and sensitivity, as they are with most humanoid species. However, in general, the Klingon clitorides are very sensitive to any stimulation at the tip (glans). These areas must be stimulated very gently if, indeed, the individual wishes to have any stimulation of the tips at all. In general, the clitorides have less surface sensitivity lower down along the clitoral shafts, and are usually especially responsive to pressure at the base.

The internal urogenital organs have, unsurprisingly, bilateral symmetry, with clitorises positioned above vaginal openings, with dual urinary meati between them, and the urethrae running along the outer edges of the internal clitoral structure.

The internal clitoral structures are also very pressure responsive, and are relatively large and wrap around each vaginal canal, with muscle tissue wrapping around that in turn. Penetrative sex for Klingons generally involves a lot of deep penetrative grinding, rather than repetitive thrusting as in some humanoid customs. Arousal provokes involuntary muscular clenching around the vaginal canals that stimulates a Klingon partner’s dual penises while also resulting in the internal clitoral tissue being essentially massaged between the penises (or other inserted objects/body parts) and the internal muscles.

Orgasm occurs separately at each side, and it is not usual for both sides to climax simultaneously unless a great deal of care is applied. This is because it is usual for one clitoris to need more stimulation or time than the other in order for orgasm to occur. In evolutionary terms, this is theorised to have helped ensure that mating lasts long enough to stimulate up to four ejaculations from the male partner, ensuring a higher likelihood of a viable pregnancy with a mate who took his time to please a partner, even if his own stamina meant he would have his first and second ejaculations early in the process. The involuntary contractions of the muscles surrounding the vaginal canal provide pleasurable stimulation for the penetrating partner. These muscular contractions continue until the point of orgasm, and as Klingons with penises do not have refractory periods, there is little inclination for a penetrating partner to discontinue coitus before the penetrated partner is “finished,” which for most means after both clitoral structures have been stimulated to orgasm. If clitoral stimulation is only happening internally, that can take a long time (in other words, a tired Klingon will learn to use their fingers).

Klingon cunnilingus usually involves taking both clitorides into the mouth all the way, so that the teeth rest against the pressure-sensitive base (where the surface skin is much less sensitive than it is on the glans and the rest of the shaft). Some light biting at the base is usual, with a gentle grinding motion – not too hard, and not chewing! – and then the tongue can be used to more gently stimulate the tips. As with any individual of any species, however, desires and needs will vary, and the most successful approach will be one which involves clear communication about what the individual finds pleasurable.

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B’Elanna tilted the padd away from her face. ‘Seven…what exactly is this? Is it medical literature, or a…’ she hesitated, grimacing. ‘A travel guide?’

‘I believe it could be considered a combination of both,’ Seven said. ‘It is medically accurate, but it is written with the intention of the knowledge being put into practice.’

‘I’ve never heard of this,' said B'Elanna. She tapped the padd's page buttons back and forth, flicking through. 'It’s not a Klingon book.’

‘No, it is part of a series published by an Earth research institute. There are similar texts on all Federation species as well as some others who have a history of contact with the Federation.’

B’Elanna nodded vaguely at Seven before returning her attention to the text on the padd. ‘I see. I guess.’

Seven regarded B’Elanna as she read. Something in the next passage made her wince, which prompted Seven to break the silence.

‘I…apologise,’ she said. ‘Perhaps I should not have initiated a discussion of this text. I am here to learn from you.’

‘No, it’s not that,’ B’Elanna said. Her expression relaxed as she met Seven’s eye. ‘I mean, in some ways, you probably know more than I do. I’ve never given much thought to where my urethras are.’

‘Yes, I was surprised by the inclusion of that detail, since it is unlikely to have relevance to most sexual encounters. My own research suggests that this is considered notable because their placement differs from that in most humanoid anatomy. It is interesting, because most of the unique aspects of Klingon anatomy pertain more directly to the redundancy in Klingon internal structure, whereas the relative position of the urogenital organs is—‘

‘Seven.’

‘…Apologies. It is not important.’

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Round 1, Matchup 189: IV.x.4 vs V.ii.2

[johziii]

hi, this might be a weird ask but i'm using the same reshade preset as u bc i was inspired by how ur game looks (it's so pretty btw & i love ur sims so much!!) but for some reason the mxao and adof settings don't appear to be working, so i guess i'm wondering which version of reshade ur using or possibly what ur settings are?

im using 5.2.2 and this is what my panel looks like, but the only thing i edited was the fastsharpen :)

[grimfolks]

hi lin! i was wondering which reshade version you use? i heard that some effects don't work in ts3 and that you need a modded version of reshade, but i noticed the modded version is still on 5.2.2

I use a gshade 4.0.4, haven't updated it since that whole situation emerged with them changing code that could be potentially dangerous(?) so it's def outdated but it works fine for me. Never felt like I need a newer or modded version.

[m0rtissims]

THE SIMS 3 TWILIGHT INSPIRED Y2K RESHADE PRESET

Hello! First proper Reshade preset. I hope I captured the look of 2000's low budget indie films and the first Twlight movie. More screenshots, comparisons and download below.

Made with modded Reshade 5.2.2.

I turned Edge Smoothing 'off,' but it might not matter and can turn it on if you want.

Not recommended for gameplay, as while performance is fine on my computer, it is very hard to read pop-ups.

[elenas-elysian]

el's minecraft resources ── .✦

this is for version 1.20.1, which is the main version i play and build on! the completed list is below;

shaders:

for the shaders, i switch between BSL Shaders v8.4 [profile: high] and Complementary Unbound r.5.2.2.

i suggest downloading both and seeing which one fits your style better ‹𝟹

texture packs:

Mizuno's 16 Craft CIT Pack

Mizuno's 16 Craft Texture Pack

Mizuno's 16 Craft Invisible Item Frame Pack

Mizuno's Better Leaves

[gift2hearttbr]

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Lover Gift Card - https://gift2heart.com/product/lover-gift-card/?feed_id=34914&_unique_id=68651f6231c42 Ali - Gift 2 Heart Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.[1][2] An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love for food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional attachment.[3][4][additional citation(s) needed]

[duck-plus-horse]

Gonzo (performer)

Gonzo, occasionally credited as Gonzo the Great, is a Muppet actor, writer, and performance artist best known for his[a] longtime friendship and many collaborations with Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson beginning in the 1970s.

For his film debut in The Muppet Movie (1979), Gonzo was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He saw continued success in the early 1980s in a series of comedies, usually in supporting roles, such as The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Tootsie (1982), and The Muppets Take Manhattan (1983). Repo Man (1984) marked his entry into edgier material, followed by another Academy Award nomination for Supporting Actor for the war drama Platoon (1985). He then appeared in the poorly-received Shanghai Surprise (1986) and Ishtar (1987), though the latter has seen a recent revival as a cult classic, due in large part to Gonzo's performance.

Following the death of Jim Henson in 1990, Gonzo took a brief hiatus from acting until 1993, when he reunited with the Muppets to play Charles Dickens in The Muppet Christmas Carol, receiving another Golden Globe nomination for Supporting Actor and igniting a partnership with Rizzo the Rat that lasted until Rizzo and the Muppets parted ways in 2016. The Muppet Christmas Carol, along with To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) and Muppet Treasure Island (1997), heralded a career resurgence that led to Muppets from Space (1999), resulting in a Golden Globe win and Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. After Muppets from Space, he appeared in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001), his first of four collaborations with the Coen brothers.

Gonzo has continued to work with the Muppets, most recently as head writer for Up Late with Miss Piggy (2015-2016). He has also emerged as a vocal queer activist and has been arrested a number of times at climate change protests.

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1 Early life

1.1 Controversies

2 Career

2.1 1970s: Early television roles

2.2 1975-1979: The Muppet Show and breakout

2.3 1980s: Transition to film and early leading roles

2.4 1990-1993: Henson's death and hiatus

2.5 1993-1999: Partnership with Rizzo the Rat and elevation to leading whatever

2.6 2000-2010: Return to performance art

2.7 2011-present: Work with Disney

3 Filmography

4 Awards and honors

5 Personal life

5.1 Relationships

5.2 Activism

5.2.1 LGBT issues

5.2.2 Climate change

6 Notes

[a] Gonzo uses he/him and they/them personal pronouns. This article uses he/him for consistency.

7 References

8 External links