#Declarative UI

[disciplineinfotech]

Dive into 'React Unleashed' by Discipline Infotech and discover the transformative power of declarative UI. Explore cutting-edge React techniques and elevate your web development skills today.

[demo-ness]

jfc discord on desktop just updated and it's SO ugly

[pyrrhicprose]

yeah sure the UI changes suck but if anything is gonna make me leave Tumblr it's gonna be whatever the fuck their content moderation team thinks they are doing with trans women's posts rn

[aestherin]

KEEP MY HEART

epilogue: where's the trophy

NOTE: ending the year with the very last update for kmh 🙇‍♀️ thank you very much for being patient and waiting for more than a year!! i'm so thankful and grateful for all of you 💗 i hope everyone has a great year ahead ^^ - ri <3

Short of breath, Scaramouche's eyes paced back and forth, from one direction to another, rapid blinks in between.

The timer.

03:00

Then the scoreboard.

TNU UI 1 1

He clicked his tongue in annoyance.

He has very little time to seal the game. What's worse, it's the opponent's ball right now. They're at a disadvantage. If someone from the other team manages to score, it's all over.

They're going to lose. Even in his last game.

He could hear the roaring drums from the two cheering teams. He could hear the clashing cheers from both sides. He could hear the narrations of the game commentators.

Hell, he could even hear his own heart.

It was beating—no, it was ringing. Whether it was due to adrenaline, exhaustion, or anxiousness, he couldn't tell.

He took deep breaths. Get your head back in the game, stupid.

He was near the mid-field line, making his position decent. He was quite confident in his ability to make himself available for both options — he can aid in defense, if need be, or he can go for the offensive if the ball manages to get near the goal.

Everyone in the field, including himself, is already exhausted. Every single one of them is running on adrenaline alone.

01:37

"Fuck," he uttered once he noticed that TNU's ace and forward, Xiao, has already managed to position himself near the penalty area. "You better fucking stop him, Heizou."

As if Heizou heard his captain's orders from a distance, he dashed, speedily locking on to the teal-haired male. "No you don't."

"Calm down. I don't even have the ball yet," Xiao replied.

Heizou could not help laughing at how one of Xiao's teammates attempted to pass the ball to him moments after he just said that.

"'Yet?' It's not 'you don't have the ball yet'." He flashed a smile so warm yet so sinister. "You won't even be touching it."

01:01

Xiao moved, intending to receive the pass. Heizou did too. Xiao sped up, Heizou did too. Xiao blocked Heizou with one arm as he ran, the other did too.

"You're annoying."

"Well, thank you." Heizou grinned. "It's my job to annoy strikers, you see."

"You're doing a very good job."

"You're really flattering me here, you know. I'd blush if you weren't my opponent."

Despite a certain someone making it hard for him, Xiao had managed to make his way near the ball. 'Only a hair's breadth away,' he thought. 'I can reach it.'

A much more solid block from Heizou.

Then a heavy, foreign-sounding, decisive step.

In the blink of an eye, Xiao's clear view of the ball was replaced with a blinding scene — one that radiated of long, golden hair. The only thing that came between him and the goal that he was so close to scoring.

"I'll be taking this now, ace," Aether declared with a smirk. "I'm afraid our captain wasn't really blessed with patience."

Heizou beamed. "Nice save, Ae."

The blonde nodded in response.

00:39

Scaramouche, being aware of what had just transpired, positioned himself a little closer to the area where he knew it'd be possible to for him to score.

It was a little farther, yes. But he trusted in Aether and his ability to send him the ball, wherever he is.

00:32

"Scara!" Aether's yell pierced from across the stadium, followed by a resounding noise from the intensity of his kick. The crowd collectively gasped in awe; eyes locked onto the ball that is now spiraling from one side of the field to the other.

Scaramouche leaped into the air, flawlessly cushioning the ball with his torso. "Good fucking boy," Scaramouche whispered with a grin.

00:28

00:24

00:20

Scaramouche could not feel nor hear nor see anything else, except himself, the ball, and the goal. He was now on the left side of the penalty area. He swore he managed to pass by a man with teal braids who tried to block him earlier too, but everything was a blur.

All he knows is he has to get this one shot in.

00:18

And there he was, Scaramouche's last hurdle.

Looking as big of an annoyance as ever. The dependable captain of the other team. The notable and talented goalkeeper. His greatest obstacle.

Kaedehara Kazuha.

Your older brother.

00:14

Scaramouche stalled in order to pace himself. The man standing at the goal was a formidable foe, he could not rush his decisions.

Think. Think. Think.

00:13

Fuck.

Kunikuzushi, think!

00:12

God, please.

00:11

As if on cue, a certain blonde friend of his made his presence known, finally managing to catch up near his captain's position. "Here!"

00:10

Without hesitation, Scaramouche swiftly positioned himself and got ready to pass, alerting the other defenders, and even the goalie. Even Aether prepared himself to receive it.

00:09

Scaramouche hit the ball, causing it to roll in Aether's direction, who was at the right side of the penalty area.

00:08

The defenders flocked to where Aether was, ready to block the ball once it reaches them.

00:07

Kazuha shifted a little to the right, in anticipation for what Aether might do. Scaramouche caught it.

00:06

The raven-haired man took a deep breath, then forced his body to move lightly and quickly, barely managing to catch up to the ball that he kicked himself.

00:05

A light tap, and the ball stops.

00:04

Kazuha's eyes widen upon realization, scrambling to get to the opposite side of the goal. But it was too late.

Scaramouche, the one in the blue jersey #03, has already kicked the ball.

00:03

Please.

00:02

He gulped as he saw Kazuha's outstretched hands. 'Please don't reach it,' he mentally begged.

00:01

Please make it. My goal.

00:00

Scaramouche drew a breath as the sound of the ball hitting the net echoed throughout the silent field.

And for a second, he stood still.

The buzzer rang.

Cheers were chanted. Drums echoed, and crowds roared.

His teammates were running towards him.

But he was running to you.

KEEP MY HEART — scara x reader smau

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[sashasspace]

MOVIE LOVER TRAIT BY SASHA'S SPACE

This CAS trait is for sims who love to watch movies. The movies from Movie Hangout and movie theater options from Growing Together are included in this trait. This trait is meant for child sims to elder sims. There are 34 in-game movies, so that means your sims will have 34 wants plus other social-related wants. Thank you so much for supporting my first-ever mod, the love language mod.

Packs Needed: Mostly Growing Together and Movie Hangout, but there are some wants that have Get Famous and one want is from Kids Hangout.

HOW DOES THIS MOD WORK? Your sim will wants to watch movies. For Growing Together’s movie theater wants, the symbol will all be the same. This is also true for Movie Hangouts. IMPORTANT NOTE: Sims who don’t enjoy a movie won’t have a want completed, so I recommend you to cheat it with UI cheats mod. Right-click over the want and complete it like that.

Child sim wants: Watch Moonlight Massacre III Watch SuperKids Cortex Catastrophe  Watch Lost Dog’s Journey Home Watch The Adventures of Spaceship Simulation Watch the Sheriff from Alpha Centauri Watch Yibs Yibs! Watch A Room with No Door Watch Of Tea & Treachery Watch VoidBop: The Movie Watch Critters from Mauven Forest: The Last Llama Watch Peter Barker’s Homecoming Hijinks Watch SuperKids: Agent Diaper Eat Popcorn Imitate movie scene Read books under the covers Discuss love for movies Complain about movie Talk about your favorite movie Talk about the movie you last watched Declare your favorite movie genre Text a friend about a movie Invite a friend and watch a movie with them Watch a movie Perform a puppet show Dream about the cartoon world Join the drama club Host a sleepover *you can use MizoreYuuki's mod that unlocks plan social events for child sims as a bonus way to complete the want if you want* Read the book from that one movie

Teens to Elder wants: Watch Simder Watch College Cram Watch Moonlight Massacre III Watch Roaring Vice Watch SuperKids: Cortex Catastrophe Watch Lost Dog’s Journey Home The Khlumzee Sisters Watch Diamonds Are For Sims Watch The Adventures of Spaceship Simulation Watch the Sheriff from Alpha Centauri Watch Yibs Yibs! Watch Of Tea & Treachery Watch VoidBop: The Movie Watch Princess Cordelia’s Pirates Watch Captain Sigma: Olympus Landing Watch All My Friends are Fred Watch Tournament of Honor Watch A Room with No Door Watch Critters from Mauven Forest: The Last Llama Watch Packs & Prejudice Watch Treasures of Aarbyville Watch The Great Pickle Capers Watch Dusk Glow 3: Shadowmoon Watch Peter Barker’s Homecoming Hijinks Watch Simder 2: Master Suite Watch Live and Let Diamond Watch Missing Handlebars Watch Gentlemen Corgi: A Memoir Watch SuperKids: Agent Diaper Watch Untamed Treachery of the Heart Eat Popcorn Discuss love for movies Complain about movie Talk about your favorite movie Talk about the last movie you watched Text a friend about a movie Declare a movie as your favorite genre Video Call Call a friend and talk to them about movies Cuddle while watching a movie Argue about movie Take a selfie with a movie star Ask for autograph Watch movie with Watch movie Gossip about actors Throw a movie party Movie and chill Create a movie review SimTube channel Reenact a scene on a mirror Ask a celeb for a hug  Ask to take a picture of a celebrity Talk about Starlight Accolades Go to the movie theatre alone Talk to a youngin’ about old movies **Adults and Elder sims only** Reminisce about past movies *Elder Sims only* Join the acting career **Young Adult Sims to Elder Sims only** Join the Drama Club *Teen and Child Sims only* 

I don't recommend this mod for people who use movie overrides because it may be a bit annoying to keep getting wants on movies you don't have in your game since you have an override. I'll consider making an override user-friendly version for this trait in the future♥

General mods I recommend for people who play with wants Wants Reroll by Lumpinou UI cheats by Weerbesu Searchable Pie menu by Twisted Mexi

Credits

Ravasheen for listing all the Growing Together movies

SimsVIP for listing all the movies from Movie Hangout

Zerbu mod constructor v5

Lot51 Tuning Builder

Sims 4 Studio

EA & The Sims

TwistedMexi Better Exceptions

Nisa K x Scumbumbo Tuning Error Notifier

Tee for teaching me how to create wants/buffs 🫶🏾

Cepzid for helping me with a situation goal

Jordy for motivating me and for inspiring me to add a scary buff+ starlight accolade tea

My amazing testers love you 🥹

Pose makers and the cc creators I used for the thumbnail tysm♥

To all my motivators, my family, friends, subscribers on YouTube, and all of you who’ve been leaving amazing comments on all my social media, I worked on this for you. Thank you for being part of this journey with me. To celebrate all my recent milestones, check my video out to join the giveaway for Growing Together and Movie Hangout to celebrate all my recent milestones. The video also shows how this mod works. This mod will be in early access for two weeks.

For any modder who wants to translate any of my mods, I don't mind if you upload it on your Patreon or any other website that monetizes, BUT I do not want you to post it on CurseForge. I would also like it if you keep the mods up publicly for download no early access/paywall. If any translator translates mods before the early access period, please wait till the mod is public to release it for everyone.

A bonus mod I recommend to help the in-game movie experience is the RVSN film reaper mod (movie theaters in all worlds). Btw I will create a Tumblr post on all my favorite mods for movie gameplay in the coming days!

DOWNLOAD EARLY ACCESS// Public August 25,2024

[sweetvoidstuff]

Bittersweet II Cha Hyun Su x Reader

Cha Hyun Su x Reader

Summary: In the aftermath of a nightmarish struggle for survival, strained bonds and lost memories characterize the heartbreaking exchange between you and Hyun Su, where a desperate attempt to bridge the gap between shared experiences unfolds, leaving a lingering sense of loss as you face an uncertain future together.

the first part, kinda ~~~~~ the next part, kinda

Masterlist

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The last few hours unfolded as a nightmarish chapter in the ongoing struggle for survival. Your group of survivors had been taken hostage, forced to fight off scavengers seeking harm. The struggle for survival had strained your bonds, particularly the delicate balance after Ui Myeong's inclusion, triggering an unspoken personal turmoil with Hyun Su and the others but also between you two.

After your decisive move to aid the vent lizard monster, the atmosphere grew more strained. Pushing past Hyun Su, you rushed to aid the vent lizard monster, recognizing the fear it instilled in others, your determination to buy time for the creature clashed with escalating threats. Hyun Su and Ui Myeong had disappeared during the chaos, leaving you with a lingering regret of missing the chance to talk to Hyun Su once more. You had seen  his face as the others tried to kill the jelly monster.

Returning to the common area, you collaborated with fellow survivors, sealing the entrance in a desperate attempt to ward off hostile monster attacks and create a brief illusion of security for the night. The atmosphere remained charged with anxiety and uncertainty, survivors grappling with the aftermath of relentless assaults and the toll it took on their collective psyche.

Sang-wook's sudden dash with Yu-Ri on his back disrupted the makeshift sanctuary. Concern etched on your face, you inquired about the situation, opening a dialogue with Sang-wook to understand the urgency of their escape plan. His brief words revealed the desperate need for a refill of Yu-Ri's asthma spray, and with a sense of urgency, he handed you the car keys. Taking charge, you sprinted towards the abandoned vehicle, only to be abruptly blocked by a sudden force, sending you flying, disoriented, and confused as you overheard the end of their conversation.

"Does it matter? We won't be here. I will go with you," Hyun Su declared, bewildering you as you tried to pierce together the events that unfolded amidst the chaos. The urgency of the situation and the underlying tension left you grappling with the unknown.

Confusion reigned as you attempted to convey the urgency of Yu-Ri's situation, but Hyun Su's unfamiliar coldness dismissed your concerns as you came back up to your feed. The following sequence of events played out in slow motion, culminating in a moment of shock as Ui-Myeong aimed the gun at the departing duo, gunfire echoed, and Hyun Soo's anguished scream reverberated.

As Ui Myeong redirected the gun toward you, a sudden push threw you into a wall, pain radiating through your body, ultimately knocking you out. The chaos intensified with gunshots and screams, leaving the fate of Hyun Su and the others hanging in uncertainty.

Upon regaining consciousness, the landscape had changed once again. Sang-wook and Yu-Ri and even Mister Han were gone, leaving a void in the group dynamics. Hyun Su stood among the survivors, his memories wiped clean. Ui Myeong gone. The weight of the day's losses threatened to bring forth tears that remained elusive.

Stepping closer to Hyun Su, despite the heaviness that lingered in the air, you extended a hesitant hand, your fingers brushing against his arm as if seeking an anchor in the disarray that had become your reality. His eyes, a canvas of confusion, held a spark of recognition that flickered and faded like a distant star.

"You don't remember..." you began, the words caught in your throat as you gazed into the depths of his bewildered eyes. It was a plea, an attempt to bridge the gap between the shared experiences that seemed to be slipping away from him.

His expression softened, an acknowledgment of the void he couldn't fill. "Thank you for saving me again," you continued, the gratitude woven with a tinge of sorrow, sitting next to him. Every syllable carried the weight of moments that seemed destined to be forgotten.

A somber silence hung between you, punctuated only by the echoes of the distant hum of the shelter's generator. In that silence, you found the courage to address the unspoken pain that lingered between you and Hyun Su.

"I don't remember saving you. Or you," he confessed, his voice carrying the weight of an apology he couldn't fully understand.

The admission cut deep, like a wound that refused to heal. In that moment, you chose not to dwell on the fragments lost in the recesses of his mind but to weave new threads of connection. "It doesn't matter," you whispered, your voice a gentle reassurance that sought to bridge the gap. "I will always remember you."

Hyun Su's gaze faltered, self-doubt clouding his eyes. "Isn't it inconvenient for me to be here? Shouldn't you be afraid like the others?" he questioned, baring the vulnerability that lingered beneath the surface.

The words hung heavy in the air, a reminder of the fractures in his memories and the trust that seemed to be slipping away. With a steadying breath, you addressed the uncertainty that loomed. "We've had this conversation before," you said, your eyes meeting his with unwavering sincerity.

You extended your hand like so many times before, a silent plea for him to hold on, to grasp the hand you were offering. His gaze didn't meet yours, the unspoken invitation hanging in the somber atmosphere. His eyes, filled with uncertainty, locked onto your hand, and you hesitated, uncertain if he would recognize the gesture.

 He didn´t. Uncreatin looking at your hand. In an act of boldness and with embarrassingly red cheeks, you gripped his hand, holding it tight. His confusion reflected in his expression, you held his gaze and, with a deep breath, spoke softly, "I trust you, Hyun Su." The words lingered in the air, a testament to the connection that surpassed the boundaries of fleeting recollections.

"With or without your memories, I trust you."

His gaze met yours, and you saw a flicker of gratitude in his eyes, as if sensing the depth of your unspoken pledge. A fleeting smile graced Hyun Su's lips, a fragile bridge between the past and the uncertain present.

In that moment, you chose to focus on the small victories, finding solace in the fragments that remained. The weight of uncertainty lingered, but the warmth of the connection you sought to rebuild offered a glimmer of hope in the aftermath of the day's turmoil.

Unbeknownst to you, this heartfelt exchange marked the last time you would speak with Hyun Su for a very long time.

[quack-quack-snacks]

Time Will Tell - Chapter 1.32

My Time Will Tell Masterlist

My Cha Hyun-su Masterlist

My Navigation and Masterlist

The Time Will Tell Glossary

Warnings: The fight with Ui-myeong, character death, mourning, memory loss. Word Count: 2,955

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Yeong-su fell asleep with his head against your shoulder as you walked to the daycare and you were grateful. Grieving was almost always easier with sleep and you hoped this was one of those times.

You left him there with Su-yeong who had also fallen asleep nearly immediately after you got into the daycare. They were safe there, especially since Jin-ok promised to take care of them and she sat close by as they slept. You needed to speak to Hyun-su and figure out what was going on since you hadn’t gotten an opportunity to since you got down from the roof. 

On your way to the main lobby, you nearly got toppled over by a familiar scarred face carrying a wheezing Yu-ri. 

You jogged after them to see what was happening and watched as they both got sent flying back, Sang-wook knocking into the chandelier and Yu-ri harshly falling to the ground. 

Ui-myeong walked forward, his face in the shadows from the leather hooded trench coat he wore. He dug a foot into Sang-wook's wrist and picked something up from his hand. You didn’t know what it was until he spun it around his finger.

Car keys.

Then, the boy you’d been searching for walked up after hearing the commotion. “What’s going on?”

The hooded man held up the keys, jingling them a bit. “They were trying to leave.”

“It doesn’t matter,” Hyun-su protested with a flat voice still. 

“If they report us, the soldiers will come,” Ui-myeong reminded him. Hyun-su’s face relaxed a bit but it was so minute you wondered if anyone besides you noticed it. 

“We won’t be here by then… because I’m gonna leave with you.”

You gasped. An audible gasp that made you clasp both hands over your mouth. The hooded man’s eyes shot over to where you were standing and he grinned while the boy who said it had to force himself not to turn around. He looked back at the boy with a satisfied smile just as Hyun-su leaned down to talk to Sang-wook. 

“Why are you trying to leave?” He asked but received no answer. Instead, all Sang-wook could do was watch Yu-ri in desperation as she continued wheezing. When the boy caught onto this fact, he grabbed the keys from Ui-myeong and placed them in the scarred man’s hand before helping him up to stand and shoving him towards the gasping girl. He fell pitifully and started his attempt of getting her onto his back again. “Let them go. They’ll die anyway.”

The boy in the trench coat smirked and together they watched as the couple started jogging towards the car again. 

Five gunshots rang through the eerie silence and Hyun-su screamed as Ui-myeong shot at the two. When he rushed forward to stop him, the boy simply brushed him off with a push of his arm but it sent him flying. 

Everything went by in a blur: Ui-myeong started shooting at everyone inside, declaring nobody would leave; Byeong-il placed himself in front of Hye-in and took the bullet meant for her; you hid behind a pillar and blessed your intuition of leaving your siblings in the nursery; Yi-kyung came out with a gun and shot at your assailant as many times as she could; and you began to drag Byeong-il away with the group. You watched as the life left his eyes and felt tears fall down your face as Hye-in sobbed for the loss of her friend. 

You didn’t get any time to grieve when gunshots were heard and Hyun-su - who had tackled Ui-myeong just before he could start shooting at all of you again - was thrown across the room and sent skidding into the wall. 

“I should’ve known when you were a bum after killing that woman,” the boy said as he walked up to your love who was groaning in pain on the floor. His voice sounded distorted, like multiple voices were saying the same line. A hand shot out to grip Hyun-su’s chin and lift him so he was paying attention to his words. “Wanna hear something funny? Let me tell you the truth. You didn’t kill anyone,” he confessed. The injured boy on the floor looked confused and rightfully so. It wasn’t until the monster stabbed a spear shaped part of his hand through the boy’s torso that he expanded on what he meant. “Because that woman was me!” He laughed maniacally.

He pulled away and the mirror fell on top of him, shattering around him from the impact. “Nobody can leave.”

“Cha Hyun-su!” On instinct, you sprinted forward to help him but didn’t get far when the same person who saved you from a chokehold position on the roof locked you in another one. 

“Where are you going little birdy? You can’t fly now,” he teasingly whispered in your ear. 

Eun-yu screamed your name but stayed back, terrified of the man holding you. You had no such fears and kicked and screamed at him with all you had - which wasn’t much in comparison to him considering he had monstrous strength. “Fuck you! Why would you do this? How fucking dare you!”

He just laughed and tightened his grip around your neck with a smirk as you started to gasp for air and claw at his arm. The laugh quieted down real quick when all the light in the sky disappeared with an unexpected eclipse. Ui-myeong turned around, sensing a change in the atmosphere and in Hyun-su.

You watched in fascinated horror as little thorns of a flesh and bone combination impaled their way through the skin of Hyun-su’s arm and out to the surface. He let out a pained scream as a thousand more spikes suddenly formed a wing and shot out from his shoulder. His eyes were pitch black with black and purple veins protruding through the skin around the socket. They writhed and moved around uncoordinatedly but that could have been the loss of oxygen getting to your brain from the choking you were still receiving. Your fight died down and you were barely scraping the palms of your fingers against the leather jacket. 

Despite having you in a chokehold, Ui-myeong clapped excitedly and laughed as Hyun-su approached him - and you. 

You calmed your racing heart as you watched the boy approach closer and closer and aim his wing to strike. 

It was fine. 

If this was how it ended for you that would be fine.

You would have none but one regret dying to the one you loved, the only one being that he was the one who had to live with all the guilt. 

But it would be okay.

As long as he got to live.

You closed your eyes, preparing yourself for the feeling of spikes piercing through your body when you heard the sound of his wing swooping through the air, but it never came. Instead, the constriction around your throat seemed like it vanished into thin air from how fast it was released, and you collapsed forward into a familiar chest, coughing and taking in heavy breaths. 

Your head cleared as you began to regain your breath and you watched in surprise as Hyun-su lowered you to the ground against the wall - with much more gentleness and control than you expected he would be able to have in this state - and kneeled down in front of you. His face stayed the same with its emotionless expression and you couldn’t get a read off his eyes since they were just two dark voids at that moment, but you could somehow tell he knew it was you and that even in this lack of controlled state, he would still never hurt you. 

You only heard the crashing as Ui-myeong cut a hole in the ceiling, making it fall directly on top of you. You didn’t flinch when you saw his wing rise above you like a shield from the debris despite the way everyone else who watched did and screamed as they feared for your life. They thought he raised it to attack you but you knew better. Neither of you had broken eye contact despite everything. The only reason you looked away was when dust got into your eyes and you tried to blink it away.

When you opened your eyes, your savior had disappeared. Confused and worried, you looked around and found him with his wing around Ui-myeong, the sharp pieces of bone and flesh impaling him before he melted away with a happy and satisfied smirk. 

You watched as Hyun-su walked towards Eun-yu, Eun-hyuk, and Ji-su, the latter two of which were holding a Molotov cocktail and a flamethrower but being held back by your friend.

“No… Hyun-su!” You tried to stop him, slowly getting up because your legs felt so weak from the exhaustion. He swung around his wing uncontrollably and you cursed. If you didn’t do something, he would attack them. 

And you knew he would hate himself for it. 

Just as you finally stood up and prepared yourself to run over and stop him, the last person you expected to run towards him did. 

Han Du-sik sprinted towards him, hugging him and allowing the boy’s wing to go through his chest. The acid that came from his new appendage dropped to the ground and you heard it sizzling as it ate away at the tile. Du-sik groaned in pain but hid it as best he could as he continued to hug Hyun-su. 

“It’s okay, Hyun-su,” he reassured. “It’s okay. It’s not your fault. It’s okay.”

He continued to reassure him until the black void in Hyun-su’s eyes got sucked back into his pupils and the wing slowly retreated back into his skin. You covered your mouth as tears filled your eyes as the boy you loved started to sob into the older man’s shoulder. They fell to the floor, Du-sik still holding him tightly and refusing to let go. 

The stillness of both their bodies is what scared you the most. You couldn’t even move from how paralyzed with fear you were. 

The previously eclipsed sun finally revealed its rays once more, shining brightly through the windows and illuminating the dark scene. Hyun-su opened his eyes slowly and sat up. His gaze was unfocused and unfamiliar. You walked towards him with staggered steps, your breath hitching with your sorrowed tears. Hyun-su didn’t recognize or acknowledge your approaching figure; instead, he looked at the older man sitting next to him. There was no doubt he had passed away and the boy could tell that instantly. 

A tear fell down his cheek after a few moments of staring at him and he looked agonized yet confused. 

“Who is he?”

You watched and more tears filled your eyes with the sudden lapse of his memory. He didn’t remember him. He didn’t remember the man he started to see as a friend, a companion.

As family. 

“Why am I crying?” He asked then, more tears falling and his expression slowly transforming into one of grief and despair. “My heart is… breaking.”

All you wanted to do at that moment was wrap him in your arms and comfort him as best you could, but you were terrified he had forgotten you too, and would reject your attempt to help. 

He raised his gaze to the three behind him, looking at them with wide eyes as they stared right back. Then, he finally turned his gaze to you. There was a flash of recognition that gave you hope he remembered you but he still seemed so confused. 

He broke the locked gaze between the two of you and stood up, walking past everyone and aimlessly wandering in that direction. 

You followed after him slowly, ignoring the sobbed calls of concern from Eun-yu and continuing on. 

Hyun-su entered into none other than the arcade room. You watched through the window as he tried to fix the sweater that was hanging from his body by a thread and failed. You wished you could wash him off and help him but you had no idea how. 

After what felt like hours but couldn't have been more than half of one, he opened his phone with a blank face and just stared at it. He didn’t scroll or do anything to it, they just stared. It must have been the last straw for you because you quietly opened the door and entered the room. 

He kept his head down for a few seconds before looking up at you. You sighed nervously and walked over to be sitting next to him, making sure to give him plenty of room to not make him feel uncomfortable. 

“How are you feeling?” You asked softly while looking down at your lap. 

He was silent for a moment, like he wasn’t sure how to respond, until, “I think I’m okay.”

“That’s good. I’m glad,” you said with a small smile. Then, you took a few deep breaths and asked the question that had been weighing on you. “Do you… Do you remember… me?”

He looked up at you from where he was looking at a filing cabinet straight ahead. His face remained emotionless and you wondered if he was able to feel much of anything at that moment. Losing your memory must have a huge impact on you mentally and you couldn’t even imagine what he was going through. 

Instead of answering your question, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a scratched-up velvet box.

Wait… you recognized that box.

“Wha-”

“I think I was supposed to give this to you,” he interrupted you unintentionally and hesitantly held out the box. You took it with all the gentleness you possessed and clutched it to your chest. 

“I- I don’t- But we left it?” You stammered, opening the box expecting to see the broken necklace and ring that didn’t fit you. Instead, you saw the necklace fixed perfectly and the ring strung onto the chain. You gaped at it, tears welling up in your eyes but not yet falling. 

“I-” his eyes looked conflicted, like he wasn’t sure what to say. Finally, he said, “I don’t remember. I just know that I meant to give it to you.”

“I- I don’t-” You took a deep breath and wiped the unshed tears onto your sleeve. “Thank you… Hyun-su.”

He nodded and looked down at his bloodied hands settled in his lap. You looked down at them and saw his phone in one. 

What surprised you, even more, was the lock screen on it. 

It was the picture of you and Hyun-su that you took as your profile picture in his phone; except now it filled the entire screen and you could see the tiny little smile that lit up Hyun-su’s face. 

It only broke your heart more to see it. 

“You… You really don’t remember me… Do you?” 

He looked up at your words and saw the devastated look on your face. His heart hurt seeing the tears you had wiped away return and fall down your cheeks. You chuckled sadly and a fake grin was plastered on your face as you scrubbed the tears away from your face. 

“Sorry, it’s okay, you don’t have to answer that. I’ll just leave you alone for a bit, I shouldn’t have come,” you scolded yourself out loud. As you stood up to walk away, he grabbed onto your still slightly injured hand. It was light enough that you could easily break out of it if you wanted to and wasn’t strong enough to hurt you - like he subconsciously knew where the hurt areas were - but firm enough to communicate he didn’t want you to leave. 

He didn’t speak, he merely tugged you to sit back down, this time closer to him than you had been previously. Your knees skimmed against each other’s and your breath hitched each time. 

“What were you to me?” He asked all of a sudden, breaking the comfortable silence that had settled over you like a blanket. His hand still held yours gently; you got distracted each time his thumb skimmed over the halfway-healed scabs from where you punched the glass surrounding the axe when you traveled up to your house with him. His eyes seemed to be captivated by the injuries, almost like he was trying to heal them with his gaze and mind alone. 

“I don’t know,” you answered honestly, your eyes focusing on the soft caresses of his thumb and the warmth of his thigh from where yours nearly pressed against it. “We were friends… but I don’t know if I was anything more than that to you,” you squeezed his hand gently, ignoring the slight pain that shot through your arm at the action. “I-”

You paused. Were you really about to admit your feelings for him? Admit that you loved him in every sense of the word? Admit that you would do anything for him just to see that small smile you saw those few times? Even after he had forgotten everything about you? After he’d forgotten everything the two of you had been through together and the soft words you shared?

No…

No, you weren’t.

But if you didn’t do it now, who knows when you might be able to do it again?

Should you?

Yes. You should. 

“I… I care about you a lot.”

‘Such a fucking coward,’ you thought to yourself.

His lips seemed to twitch into something like a smile before they fell and the emotionless expression took over yet again. It simultaneously brought you hope and broke your heart. 

“I think… I know… I cared about you too,” he confessed. 

At least you could smile enough for the both of you.

~

@hyeon-yi

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[castlephantom]

Some spoilers form new chpater 548 (no pics this time)

•I'm officially declaring that I'm James Lee hater because he is using everyone (literally everyone)

•Goo looks like he misses Gun moment

•Gitae wants to re-create Pre-Gen!? (Are Gitae and James crazy)

•Also knock out Allied!? That's brutal! And then attack Jinrang and killing him with his fucking axe!? This proofs to me that Gitae definitlly has huge daddy issues (bigger then Jake's)

Theory for the next chapter

• We might see Daniel in UI state?

[simspaghetti]

Hello! May I ask how you have your NRASS settings for your decades challenge? And how you cater your game in the sims 3 with the challenge

Hello anon!

Thank you for this question, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on medieval-style gameplay at all lol there are definitely many more people in the community more knowledgable than me! But I've done my best to detail some resources along with my NRAAS settings below, I hope this helps! <3

In terms of how I cater my game for the challenge, I have a lot of historical replacements and cc which make things look more immersive,

If you want a few recommendations:

Zoe22's Off-Grid Plumbing, Buzzler's Scribbling Pad & Functional Washboard

All of Danjaley's stuff! They've been the GOAT in the sims 3 medieval community for a long time and have some great CC including lots of defaults, their CC finds blog is also a fantastic resource for other peoples stuff

JoojConverts also has some great medieval (and other historical periods) clothing & objects

Omedapixel has some essential historical defaults and other great medieval CC!

MsPoodle has some great historical defaults and medieval CC

This sims medieval total object conversion pack & this functional fireplace / cauldron conversion are really great bits of CC converted from TSM

Declaration of Dramas has some fab medieval CC along with a few medieval mods to enhance your gameplay, such as adding a whole religion system!

Ani's Sims has lots of mods which fit in really well with medieval-style gameplay, adding hunting, digging for treasure, blacksmiths, woodcutters and loads more!

Random Default Replacements: Clothesline / Fishing Rod / Music Tips Jar / Paintings / Baby Blanket

Arsil's no cellphones mod / No answer calls mod are really useful as cellphones are one thing which just break my immersion so much!

The carpool disabler is also pretty useful

Feyerin made a bunch of medieval-style careers to be used in conjunction with the NRAAS careers mod

The Merrye Makers on MTS have made a whole bunch of medieval CC and mods I really reccomend!

Technical Stuff: Sims medieval music, UI & CAS room

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I've listed my changed NRAAS settings below, they are mostly the same as the ones listed on my nraas settings page, I've only listed the ones which are different below - so be sure to check out my main settings page first!

Storyprogression:

Caste Options -> Teenagers

Pregnancy: Allow Participation -> True Romance: Allow Marriage -> True

General Options -> Options: Money

Options: Fees and Support -> Child support payment -> 0 Daily fee per household sim -> 0 Elder support payment -> 0 Social secuity per elder -> 0 Welfare per child -> 0

Options: Purchasing -> Purchase bicycles minimum -> 100 Purchase canes -> True Disallowed Cars -> (All 'modern looking' cars have been disabled, leaving a few CC options such as horse and carts, sleighs, bikes etc.)

Town Options ->

Pregnancy: Base number of children -> 5 Pregnancy: Maximum number of children -> 10 Pregnancy: Newborn last name -> Father Pregnancy: Rename Newborns -> True (I like to give them historically accurate names) Romance: Legacy Marriage Name -> False Romance: Marriage Name -> Husband Romance: Marriage Name: Same-Sex -> No Change (If a same-sex couple does get married, I like to view it as a 'secret marriage' between them, which is not officially on paper)

Woohooer

Try-For-Baby -> Species: Human

Allow Same Sex Try For Baby -> False

And that's pretty much everything! It's been a while since I've played the decades challenge tbh so I'm not that caught up with the medieval community, but I hope the resources I've listed above are helpful :)

[centrally-unplanned]

I have been taking my fit-and-starts second stab at playing Victoria 3 - I did a Japan run, and a Korea run, and this is a very frustrating game. It bothers me because its deep core is probably the best of Vicky so far. It understands that the appeal of these game is Factorio-esque; you want to build up this cool little supply chain that goes chug chug chug I make-a the widgets and numbers go up.

Vicky 1 was ofc just pure cheese; most goods could just be dumped on the global market with no buyer and do fine, certain goods were just hard-coded to be profitable, and insane things like 100% of import costs coming out of the government's budget pushed you towards a kind of samey, slapdash hyper-industrial mercantilism. Vicky 2 was the opposite - so opaque in its function that you as the player didn't really have agency over it, as the vaunted World Market just does its thing. Your strategies "worked" no matter what you really did though, so you just kind of followed basic "build factory in same territory as RGO" logic and let the system run itself. Both of these systems made for functional-but-not-exceptional gameplay loops.

Vicky 3 is more complicated than its predecessors, but in ways that makes how the economic system functions more concrete. You have local prices for goods, wider markets with clearly labelled high-and-low demand, and clearly defined "production methods" where buildings can commit to better tech at the cost of different inputs. As a player you can build factories, farms, and mines of a dozen different types anywhere, so you always have agency - and those new production lines gives you goals. Invent steel tools, so now your tooling workshops can make more tools but will need steel instead of iron as a input? You can switch over the lines...but make sure you have enough steel mills! And oh, that drives down the price of tools once you do it...so now your cattle ranches can justify switching their line to tool-assisted butchers! And now you make more meat, your local cost is low, but oh in the Russian market meat prices are high - as shown by that little gold coin icon it - so you can export it now!

Things are looped, contingent, and based on your decisions. It is simple, of course, you are making lots of little, easy calls that build you up over time - which is what makes it fun. It has to be simple, because otherwise it is a dizzyingly complex web of a million markets, it would never work. You feel like you are actually building the economy without being overwhelmed by it.

Which would be great if it wasn't stapled to one of the worst political & military systems I have ever seen, played with a UI God abandoned in shame.

So you can join the markets of other countries? Like you have your own market as a default, so you can click the "market" tab and it will show you how much wheat your country makes, how much iron it buys, etc. All good. But if you join another country's market, now that tab shows the collective market, everyone's wheat, iron, etc. Useful but like obiously I am not playing the market, I am playing the country; so how do I see how much wheat I make?

You can't.

You actually can't! Idk maybe they patched it in recently, but I couldn't find it and all the reddit threads I google from 2023 say you can't. Are you planning to declare independence and wanna see if you make enough food for your people? Too bad! Fuck around and find out I guess. I saw one thread where someone's advice was "save the game, declare independence, screenshot the new market, then reload". Quantum timeline level of experimental design going on in these guys' Bureau of Labor Statistics.

It isn't even the gameplay implications that bother me the most - this is a game about building an economy. You want to see what you built! And they stop you. It is baffling, and is just the tip of the iceberg - there are so many things like this. One of my favourites is that your "construction sector" is a hybrid of government and private projects, sometimes it is you spending the money, sometimes investors. Okay, cool, when it is you spending it comes out of your treasury, right? Well, yes, but the way they show that is when everyone spends it comes out of your treasury, but the private sector reimburses you for their share. Which you will not understand your first ~3 games, and instead just see huge red numbers on your budget screen and panic. And you are just left asking why? Why do that?

Beyond UI, the political system is just half-baked. It is "interest groups", each has baseline popularity, and verrrry slowly that changes as your economic structure changes (or revolutions). And to change laws you initiate campaigns to drum up support with roll dice to pass/fail. Which isn't a bad baseline, but it completely fails to capture how political change occurred in the era. Like the Meiji Restoration is "done" by you putting industrialists in power and kicking out the "landlords" lol. Japan didn't have industrialists then! Landlords are the ones who did the restoring of Meiji.

More importantly than inaccurate it isn't fun - to change a law you just arrange a coalition in power than kind of backs it, then pray you get good random events. In Vicky 2 they had a lot more railroad-style decisions and stuff you could do to capture history, "hit this military score benchmark and launch a civil war" kind of stuff. It wasn't complicated, and it was less organic, but it was pro player agency, you could take active steps to achieve it. In Vicky 3 it is mainly waiting or cheese - people often talk about getting the Meiji Restoration by deleting all your armies at game start and launching a civil war immediately that the AI will lose by default. A checkbox decision is better than that!

The military mechanics are the epitome of their "systems over gameplay" approach. What they wanted to do was two-fold; reduce micro in Vicky 2 where it is "click army to province" over and over, and "balance" the game by making combat not reward micro where players could cheese the AI. Very valid goals, I totally support it. What they did was built a system where armies auto-move to "fronts" and their AI can't handle it, but now as a player my agency over my units is gone so I can't fix it. The UI is awful, you can't even really tell armies to attack or defend, they just ~whim. You have to do a lot of clicking to fight the system - yes it is less clicking than Vicky 2, but in Vicky 2 that wasn't mentally taxing, it was fun enough to wage the war you wanted to wage. Everything was concrete and in your control.

Here...look, as Korea I declared war on China to gain independence. Then the UK - not my ally, just separately, declared war on China as well. So now we are kindaaaa on the same side? At which point half my army auto-reployed to Hong Kong because a "new front" had "appeared". One my one boat. Then the UK declared war on me as well and then 50% of my army was fighting the UK in the South China Sea alongside the Russians (???) while the other half of my army is sitting there at home facing the Qing troops along the Yalu River going "bro, wtf?". At one point a newly spawned army of mine tried to auto-redeploy to Senegal.

All of this is just so preventable - you wanna reduce micro? Make combat provinces really big. You just invade "Manchuria", no clicking from Jilin to Mukden, and have bordering armies support each other defensively or something like that so you don't have to dash back and forth. Don't try to make your AI "do it for you" because it clearly can't and you want to play your own game. I'm sure the above will get better as I learn the system but I can just see the hundreds of players who saw this system and insta-quit, because until you "understand" it, it stabs you in the back. Not what you want out of a game.

Anyway enough me whinging about the game for way too long - the fundamentals are strong in the end. I will test out mods, I could see an overhaul mod really fixing everything except maybe the combat (and then you just cope). I definitely want it to work, the potential is high.

[2nd-toughest-in-the-infants]

Crown of Ashes and Flames (WIP) on itch.io Review

Author: @coeluvr

Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Plot: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Choice: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Writing: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Replayability: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Overall: 4/5

Pros: ANGST ANGST ANGST‼️, absolute monster of an antagonist, compelling characters, regular updates.

Cons: awkward dialogue from younger characters, no return button on UI.

**SLIGHT SPOILERS**

Notes:

TW!: Family Death, Murder, Forced Marriage, Child Marriage, Bullying, Isolation, Struggles with Mental Health

Crown of Ashes and Flames is another really strong IF WIP on itch.io with a very active author and so far it’s been receiving regular updates so I’m quite excited to see how the story develops as the game updates further. As it stands, I still want to share my thoughts on what is available to play so far.

So, Crown of ashes follows the MC who is the last surviving royal of Vesphire after King Luceris of a neighbouring kingdom, Rosea, declares war on Vesphire, murders MCs entire family, takes them back with him to Rosea and forces MC to marry him and become the new Royal Consort (at age 9?!?!) all for the sake of avenging the death of his wife, who he believes was killed by MCs older sister. As you can probably tell by that quick summary, this is an IF that is absolutely LOADED with Angst and drama, so, naturally, I was drawn right in!

I have to start off by saying how good of a job the author did in managing to create a cast of characters that are all so uniquely compelling in their own right. It can be the case that sometimes IF authors will focus too intently on just one or two main ROs while the others can feel like a bit of an afterthought, but in CoAaF, I feel as though all the characters are given equal opportunity to shine. That isn’t to say that there aren’t stand out characters, because there absolutely are and the first that comes to mind has to be Luceris. For me he stands out because not only is he an incredibly well-written, complex villain I find it rare that I have as much of visceral hatred of a fiction character as I do for him. I mean, what he does to MC in the name of ‘vengeance’ and the way he justifies himself just solidifies him as one of the most delusional and twisted villains I’ve read in an IF.

Also, the setting and minor characters in the story really serve to highlight how the MC is ostracised in their new ‘home’ as punishment for their sisters crimes. And it really is sickening how both adult and young characters justify the way they effectively bully MC because of something MC doesn’t have any control over and really serves to highlight the theme of injustice vs. justice that has been present throughout the game so far.

Furthermore, I enjoyed the amount of choice given to the player over the way MC reacts to what they’ve been through as well as to how the people around them treat them (both good and bad) and provides the player with the opportunity to explore how the traumatic events of the game impacts the MCs attitude and mental state.

It’s also quite interesting to see how the MC develops as they grow as the story starts with the MC as a nine year old and eventually grows up. This however, can be quite tricky from a writting perspective as typically authors can have difficulty with writing young child characters. Unfortunately, this is something that I have noticed was the case with this author as I felt that a lot of the dialogue exchanges between the younger characters (particularly the MC) just didn’t really feel accurate coming from a nine year olds mouth. Aside from that however, I feel as though the rest of the dialogue fits very well and overall I would say the writing is of a good quality.

All in all, I would definitely recommend this game to anyone interested in picking up a new, angsty WIP and I will certainly be patiently awaiting updates!

[yuujiheart]

Reading the chap again has made me question if sukuna is really gone and why yuji was desperate to save sukuna after declaring he would eat anything to kill him..

Megumi said his lone finger probably won't be able to carry his soul because of resonance. But what about two fingers. coz yuji technically is sukuna's finger atm literally bathed in his ce and connected to his soul...Which would explain the resonance between them. It works the same as sukuna's finger. This is what gege said about sukuna's fingers.

And yuta also said something similar.. Sukuna can sense big physical changes. And I think sukuna using piercing blood can be used as a proof.. At first I thought he must have learned it after seeing choso fought yuji but now I think it is because of resonance. In chp 259 we know yuji had to learn BM manually. What kamo explained him the was the mechanism of convergence ( basics of BM) Which causes big physical changes. So sukuna could have sensed him. Although He was surprised when yuji's blood exploded (supernova) but we can consider that yuji learned in the moment...

But the reason he didn't know about soul swapping stuff is because ui ui said he can replace the boxes without anyone knowing. So I assume it doesn't cause any big physical changes for suku to sense...

In short yuji is practically a finger and can carry the connection along with the last finger.. Just like other fingers.

Another thing i noticed was yuji being hellbent on changing suku's mind.. The chp 265 starts with sukuna asking about what yuji did but says he did it in hurry and just wanted to talk meaning him wanting to talk to sukuna is not something he did it on impluse. Then he takes him on his childhood trip ,treating him like a normal person doing fun things..But it doesn't work which he expected then he threatens/tries to force him to return to his body. He does it again after separating him from megumi . This time he urges him to live again and promising he will stay with him no matter what. As per yuji he can kill him without him changing vessel but still wants to/ offers to host him again

This and what yuji said about them being born carrying a curse makes me think yuji definitely knows about sukuna's past or something similar. Irrespective of how yuji got to know that ,this much is true that yuji believes nd want to give sukuna a chance to live again. Even if sukuna has killed choso,gojo and Higuruma. ( I really wonder how bad things were for suku to make yuji go this far) ..So I really wonder would he let him go that easily?? He allowed gumi to decide for himself but threatened sukuna?? As if he knew he wouldn't listen.. It's kind of funny tbh...Megumi also said if yuji doesn't take care in tearing sukuna's soul apart he'll die.. Which I wonder did yuji do that?? Of course not showing suku completely disintegrated also doesn't help..

The only part where I get puzzled at is when did he realize this truth and how? .. Was it during timeskip Or in the middle of the battle...If I were to guess, I would say this panel was the first moment he noticed something.. I believe this was the first time the resonance happened when maki stabbed sukuna's heart. simultaneously yuji also coughs up blood realizing something has yet to be healed but we never saw what exactly was injured. This happens again during chp 263.

This might explain why we weren't shown gojo yuji interaction at all. And the reason is that after separating with sukuna there must have been some change in yuji 's body which gojo would have noticed at first glance with his six eyes. Maybe something similar to him seeing megumi's soul during his fight. Maybe it's because yuji is like a finger but he also has his soul so the resonance works little diff than it would work between two fingers.

And I do wonder why kenny did all this. What sukuna and yuji has to do with merger apart from suku being the initiator in case kenny dies.. And how come the fingers suku spat became useless.. Why didn't he revert into his finger form.... Huhhh😮‍💨😮‍💨

Honestly this whole chapter raises more questions instead of providing answers not just about yuji sukuna but other things too...It is possible that whatever I have written is completely wrong or may not even be addressed by gege. I had so many thoughts that i had no choice but to write them down to provide some relief to my brain. It is funny how manga is about to end in 3 chp but there is a lot we readers still don't know.. ..

[roiyoshida]

Between The Lines —Rin Itoshi

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"What Are You Going to Study?" : Chapter 7

It was one of those evenings where the air felt cooler than usual, the sky bruised with navy clouds and a few dim stars peeking through. Rin walked beside her, hands in his hoodie pocket, the light scuff of his sneakers brushing gravel. Y/n looked tired again—her hair tied in a half-done bun, shoulders slumped under her oversized hoodie.

But when she looked at him, she smiled. And Rin would walk a thousand miles just for that look.

“I’ve been thinking,” he said, trying not to sound too serious, “about what colleges I might apply to.”

Y/n raised an eyebrow, nudging his arm playfully. “Look at you, already growing up. That’s so weird.”

He chuckled softly. “You’re only two years older.”

“That’s like five in girl years.”

He smirked, then glanced at her from the side. “I wanted to ask what you think. You know… where to apply. You’re smarter about this stuff.”

She gave a small sigh. “You’ll probably have it a bit easier with your football thing. Sports quota and all.”

“I guess,” he murmured, almost disappointed she was right.

She looked at him, thoughtful. “What are you interested in? What kind of degree?”

Rin hesitated. “I don’t know. I like psychology. Sometimes writing. But maybe something lighter so I can train full-time.”

She nodded slowly, kicking a pebble on the sidewalk. “That makes sense.”

“What are you doing again?” he asked, though he already knew the answer—he’d overheard his parents once talking to his older brother about how 'Y/n is doing engineering. Electronics and Communication or something.'

“Electronics and Communication,” she said with a mock groan, confirming it. “It’s draining my soul. Circuits, signals, math that shouldn’t exist. If I disappear one day, just know it was the Fourier Transform that killed me.”

Rin blinked. “Sounds… brutal.”

She laughed, the sound warm and familiar. “It is. I’ve been thinking about switching. Maybe after I graduate. I kind of want to go into design. UI/UX stuff.”

He tilted his head. “What’s that?”

She grinned at his confused expression. “It’s like… designing apps and websites. Making them easy to use and pretty to look at. User experience stuff.”

“Ah.” He nodded slowly. “So… like making buttons not annoying?”

She burst out laughing. “Exactly. You’d be surprised how many apps fail because of bad buttons.”

They kept walking until she stopped outside the usual convenience store. Without asking, she grabbed his wrist and pulled him inside.

“You need brain fuel,” she declared, reaching for the shelves. She picked up a chocolate bar first, then after a moment, a small pack of chips. “Sweet. Then salty. I know you get cranky if you only eat one.”

Rin stared at her for a second. “You remembered that?”

She gave him a look. “Of course I did.”

He didn’t say anything back. His throat felt warm all of a sudden, a small ache settling in his chest. For all the times she called him “little” or “baby Rin,” for all the ways she dismissed his feelings as pure or naive—this moment felt different.

She remembered the little things.

He followed her out of the store with his heart pounding quietly, the salty snack in his pocket and the sweetness already melting on his tongue.

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[scholarinbookland]

Clarifying My Blog Usage

So I’ve gotten some followers related to my Jimin rambles, and I’m happy to have you, because I’ll be rambling about Jimin probably for the rest of my life (notice how I got into Freddie Mercury 6-7 years ago and still am a huge fan).

So I’m using this post as a secondary mission statement, with the disclaimer that the main reason for posting this is to see whether I’ve correctly figured out the Read More and link-adding functions before posting my immensely long Like Crazy MV post series (I’ve split it up into three sections, pray for me because I am struggling with figuring out the changes to the Tumblr UI).

Currently I have all the free time in the world, and so I’m replying to comments constantly and love to see them. But I do have some clarifications and standards I’ll set in advance, since I’ve gotten some asks and hope to have more come in.

Shippers/Shipping/Sexuality: I’m about as anti-shipping as you can get without hating on people online or making declarative statements about celebrities I don’t have any personal connection to, but it doesn’t come from a place of denying that Jimin may have some form of not-straight identity. Until he says something outright (which I do realize is very unlikely), my assumption is not that he is straight, but that his sexuality is none of my business. Regarding asks like the one I already answered where we touched on the idea of FACE being a breakup-based storyline, I did my best to eliminate gender from the conversation about the theoretical ex-partner, and my conversational partner was also courteous in that regard. If I’m using feminine pronouns for love interests in any of my think-pieces, I’m probably referring to the characters Jimin is playing in his MVs, not the private life of Jimin himself.

I identify as on the asexual spectrum, which some people count as LGBT/QUILTBAG and others do not, so it’s personal when I say that I don’t approve of assuming ANY sexuality. I firmly believe sexuality and relationships are something even celebrities should have the room to figure out on their own, outing people is wrong, and that sexuality can be more fluid to some than a label you find and stick with from early on in your life. I do differentiate my opposition to shipping, however, from think-pieces about artistic output through a queer lens, which I don’t consider necessarily assuming an artist’s sexuality, and so I do appreciate posts like those.

About me: My perspective, as I indicated in my pinned post, is not perhaps that of your average Jimin fan writing long posts. I’m definitely not caught up on Jimin’s massive digital footprint, I haven’t watched any paywalled content except a bootleg of Are You Sure, and I first heard FACE and MUSE when they were both already released. So I’m doing a lot of detective work from the mindset of me not knowing much at all, and trying to amalgamate perspectives. The other perspective difference from other fans comes from my own life experiences.

The most relevant identity to my writing is that I’m an autistic woman. If you’re not familiar with that neurodivergence for whatever reason, I’ll lay out what it means to me.

I’m not great at social nuance and cues, I’m very hyperverbal/hyperlexical, I have sensory differences and associated health problems, and I have the comorbid condition called prosopagnosia commonly seen in autistic individuals. So when I say something about difficulty differentiating the faces of BTS members, this is not a microagression.

I literally can only pick out Jimin because of the unmistakable way he moves and holds himself, and his amazingly unique vocal tone. (Feel free to ask me about how I feel comfortable analyzing acting if you’re curious, but in short, I did a lot of occupational therapy.) The rest of BTS I can guesstimate based on height compared to Jimin or fashion tendencies, but prosopagnosia is a big reason why I’m not calling myself a BTS fan.

About my BTS opinions: I don’t have them. I enjoy most of the music but not the reality content unrelated to the music, performances, or cinematography. I don’t have a problem with any BTS members, but I don’t have much of an opinion on them. Jimin’s enough for me, and I’m not going to fake either loving or despising a group of 6 other guys I can only differentiate less than half the time. As long as Jimin’s happy in the group, I’m happy for him.

I’m also not rooting for the group to disband, as I know some solo fans of various BTS members are. I just hope he is able to find some downtime after he’s released from mandatory military service and doesn’t feel pressured into immediately creating content for fans, because that doesn’t seem fair to him or any BTS member.

Reblogs: As for reblogging things- I don’t necessarily check out the blogs of the people I’m reblogging from, and I only reblog when I feel I have something to add to the conversation. Otherwise, I just like the post and leave it at that.

Ground Rules: So if you’ve read this far, you know where I’m coming from. I’d adore more asks and comments, but the only hate I’ll tolerate in my inbox is directed at the company/executives, because I strongly distrust them as much as I imagine most Jimin fans do. Anything specifically about an individual BTS member besides Jimin I reserve the right to not respond to, because I don’t feel I have anything to add to conversations about them, unless anyone wants to educate me about something. I’ll leave that to blogs who are aware of who they are as people and artists.

I also welcome constructive criticism about how to improve the readability of my posts. If I’m using ten words when one could serve, let me know. If the grammar is off, tell me. If it’s incoherent, I’ll revise my post. And if you disagree, I love debates where I can genuinely be educated on facts that I’m mistaken about, but please let’s start from a place of understanding and not insults. So let’s chat!

[gacha-incels]

The "if there's men I don't play" situation in CN is actually funnier than it sounds.

So, the thing about CN is that a lot of players like to track their favorite game's revenue, and playing a game with high monthly revenue can somehow make them feel better about themselves.

And these dudes' ideal game is kinda like those bullshit isekai clones where the player character is the only man living in a world full of conventionally attractive women whose lives centered around them and them only.

There fellas were loud so a lot of gaming companies chose to pander them. One of the more well-known game, the literal gospel for these dudes, was Snowbreak: Contaminant Zone (Imma call it SCZ for short). It's one of those softcore porn game targeting dudes who are too repulsive for real women.

And SCZ's revenue got steam rolled by Arknights, another CN game knows to have lots of women players and an active fandom composed of mostly women, every single month. Like Ak isn't some saint game made by saint company, but they do have record of firing male employee for engaging in hate speech against women using one of the company's social media account, so they had a relatively decent reputation among gaming women in China comparing to other companies.

So the SCZ dudes gets salty for not being the "silenced majority". They launched an attack on the game, spamming discussion forums when Arknights released a male character (Ulpianus), who debuted like a year ago and was presented in multiple story updates, this May, attempt to stir up community problem by pairing him up with a popular female character(Skadi) who was released at launch.

Now here's the problem. There are some dudes who want male characters out of Arknights completely, but they're like, 1% or something. Most people who played doesn't give half a rat ass about SCZ dude's big problem with fictional men existing.

Furthermore, the two character they attempted to pair together already had plenty of build-up to their relationship, and both the story's narrative and the fandom treat their relationship as teacher-apprentice/father-daughter. So their attack was largely viewed as "out of nowhere" and "ridiculous". They were also ridiculed by the community, people just kinda take their words and made a bunch of copypasta about popular ships in the fandom out of it.

And Arknights's playerbase was huge. It launched at the best time for mobile games in CN and it's the few weeb game that people who aren't into anime or gaming heard about or played. Heck it was even viewed as some sort of cultural phenomenon that influenced the UI, art style, story etc. of mobile games that comes after it. So the playerbase was huge, and the majority of it wasn't even aware that there was an attack at all.

So yeah the attack was as big as an ant bite on an elephant at best. Then these dudes go back to their little echo chamber enjoy their self-declared victory on Arknights. Then life continuous on as usual.

Also these dudes seems to have found a few more new CN exclusive gachas and called praised them too nabraska and back for not containing male characters in promotional trailers, only to be supersized by like one or two playable dudes at launch. Those lads were seething in the comments.

Also the Japanese Himedanshi/Himejoshi(people who enjoys yuri) community mistakenly interpreted their goal to be "only lesbian relationships allowed, no hetero bullshit". Funniest shit.

the snowbreak game is crazy lol truly the future of incel gacha. I feel bad for the women who just wanted to see lesbian relationships.

I’m glad they could be totally ridiculed humbled even though AK pulled this shit on their KR server which was never addressed by Hypergryph. This is at least really funny though. These guys seem to always try this “cuckolding” bait with the characters to make people riled up specifically within these Chinese incel gacha communities. I’ve seen the craziest shit recently looking into the newest clusterfuck going on with them and that Genshin Impact character “Wanderer” they seem to hate to an insane degree. after this I looked up their upcoming white pharaoh ™️ banners, it’s so many female characters and they still lose their shit like this about existing male characters… I think there was also a huge blowup with “Girls Frontline 2” with some assumed cuckolding issue, and the CN Blue Archive server literally had to issue an apology for doing a collab with the game Mahjong Soul because the BA players thought they were being cuckolded by the MA players

I don’t want to get too deeply into the more niche aspects of it because it’s not the main focus of this blog and I feel like I’m falling down a rabbit hole of info lol. but when I have a little more time maybe, just so I know I won’t be rushing and using a place like reddit to double check things. But thank you to everyone who has sent info, it’s been interesting to read about and see how it compares to the other movements chronicled here. It’s been hard to find some of this information in English so thank you to everyone who has ever sent a message for writing to me in English as well. Thank you for your patience. I’m trying to learn Korean on my own now so I can actually speak with Korean feminists in their own language and read their works without machine translation….

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Updates from Rust Community

Official

March Project Goals Update

Newsletters

The Embedded Rustacean Issue #43

Project/Tooling Updates

Shadertoys ported to Rust GPU

Meilisearch 1.14 - composite embedders, embedding cache, granular filterable attributes, and batch document retrieval by ID

rust-query 0.4: structural types and other new features

Observations/Thoughts

Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

ALP Rust is faster than C++

what if the poison were rust?

A surprising enum size optimization in the Rust compiler

Two Years of Rust

An ECS lite architecture

A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

BTrees, Inverted Indices, and a Model for Full Text Search

Cutting Down Rust Compile Times From 30 to 2 Minutes With One Thousand Crates

SIMD in zlib-rs (part 1): Autovectorization and target features

Avoiding memory fragmentation in Rust with jemalloc

[video] Bevy Basics: Who Observes the Observer

Rust Walkthroughs

Rust Type System Deep Dive From GATs to Type Erasure

Async from scratch 1: What's in a Future, anyway? | natkr's ramblings

Async from scratch 2: Wake me maybe | natkr's ramblings

Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 4

Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust

[video] Build with Naz : Declarative macros in Rust

Miscellaneous

March 2025 Jobs Report

Rust resources

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is wgpu, a cross-platform graphics and compute library based on WebGPU.

Despite a lack of suggestions, llogiq is pleased with his choice.

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Calls for Testing

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If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear in this list, add a call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

No calls for testing were issued this week by Rust, Rust language RFCs or Rustup.*

Let us know if you would like your feature to be tracked as a part of this list.

RFCs

Rust

Rustup

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Call for Participation; projects and speakers

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Updates from the Rust Project

480 pull requests were merged in the last week

Compiler

detect and provide suggestion for &raw EXPR

don't suggest the use of impl Trait in closure parameter

make the compiler suggest actual paths instead of visible paths if the visible paths are through any doc hidden path

tell LLVM about impossible niche tags

remove Nonterminal and TokenKind::Interpolated

re-use Sized fast-path

Library

add core::intrinsics::simd::{simd_extract_dyn, simd_insert_dyn}

initial UnsafePinned implementation (Part 1: Libs)

polymorphize array::IntoIter's iterator impl

speed up String::push and String::insert

std: add Output::exit_ok

Cargo

added symlink resolution for workspace-path-hash

improved error message when build-dir template var is invalid

Rustdoc

search: add unbox flag to Result aliases

enable Markdown extensions when looking for doctests

Clippy

arbitrary_source_item_ordering should ignore test modules

implicit_return: better handling of asynchronous code

accept self.cmp(other).into() as canonical PartialOrd impl

add manual_abs_diff lint

consecutive returns dont decrease cognitive Complexity level anymore

consider nested lifetimes in mut_from_ref

correctly handle bracketed type in default_constructed_unit_struct

deprecate match_on_vec_items lint

do not propose to auto-derive Clone in presence of unsafe fields

fix: iter_cloned_collect false positive with custom From/IntoIterator impl

fix: map_entry: don't emit lint before checks have been performed

fix: redundant_clone false positive in overlapping lifetime

various fixes for manual_is_power_of_two

Rust-Analyzer

ast: return correct types for make::expr_* methods

add children modules feature

add normalizeDriveLetter

distribute x64 and aarch64 Linux builds with PGO optimizations

fix dyn compatibility code bypassing callable_item_signature query

fix a small bug with catastrophic effects

fix an incorrect ExpressionStore that was passed

prevent panics when there is a cyclic dependency between closures

shadow type by module

ignore errors from rustfmt which may trigger error notification

port closure inference from rustc

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Relatively small changes this week, nothing terribly impactful (positive or negative).

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: e643f59f..15f58c46

1 Regressions, 3 Improvements, 3 Mixed; 2 of them in rollups 35 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

No RFCs were approved this week.

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

Split elided_lifetime_in_paths into tied and untied

check types of const param defaults

Stabilize flags for doctest cross compilation

Do not remove trivial SwitchInt in analysis MIR

Implement a lint for implicit autoref of raw pointer dereference - take 2

Implement Default for raw pointers

make abi_unsupported_vector_types a hard error

Stabilize let chains in the 2024 edition

Make closure capturing have consistent and correct behaviour around patterns

Stabilize the cell_update feature

Other Areas

*No Items entered Final Comment Period this week for Rust RFCs, Cargo, Language Team, Language Reference or Unsafe Code Guidelines.

Let us know if you would like your PRs, Tracking Issues or RFCs to be tracked as a part of this list.

New and Updated RFCs

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Second Tuesday

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In person Rust April 2025 at Braavos in Tel Aviv in collaboration with StarkWare

Europe

2025-04-19 | Istanbul, TR | Türkiye Rust Community

Rust Konf Türkiye

2025-04-23 | London, UK | London Rust Project Group

Fusing Python with Rust using raw C bindings

2025-04-24 | Aarhus, DK | Rust Aarhus

Talk Night at MFT Energy

2025-04-24 | Edinburgh, UK | Rust and Friends

Rust and Friends (evening pub)

2025-04-24 | Manchester, UK | Rust Manchester

Rust Manchester April Code Night

2025-04-25 | Edinburgh, UK | Rust and Friends

Rust and Friends (daytime coffee)

2025-04-26 | Stockholm, SE | Stockholm Rust

Ferris' Fika Forum #11

2025-04-29 | London, UK | Rust London User Group

LDN Talks April 2025 Community Showcase

2025-04-29 | Paris, FR | Rust Paris

Rust meetup #76

2025-04-30 | Frankfurt, DE | Rust Rhein-Main

Kubernetes Operator in Rust

2025-05-01 | Nürnberg, DE | Rust Nuremberg

Hackers Hike 0x0

2025-05-06 - 2025-05-07 | Paris, FR | WebAssembly and Rust Meetup

GOSIM AI Paris 2025

2025-05-06 | Paris, FR | WebAssembly and Rust Meetup (Wasm Empowering AI)

GOSIM AI Paris 2025 (Discount available)

2025-05-07 | Madrid, ES | MadRust

VII Lenguajes, VII Perspectivas, I Problema

2025-05-07 | Oxford, UK | Oxford Rust Meetup Group

Oxford Rust and C++ social

2025-05-08 | Gdansk, PL | Rust Gdansk

Rust Gdansk Meetup #8

2025-05-08 | London, UK | London Rust Project Group

Adopting Rust (Hosted by Lloyds bank)

2025-05-13 | Amsterdam, NL | RustNL

RustWeek 2025 announcement

2025-05-13 - 2025-05-17 | Utrecht, NL | Rust NL

RustWeek 2025

2025-05-14 | Reading, UK | Reading Rust Workshop

Reading Rust Meetup

North America

2025-04-17 | Mountain View, CA, US | Hacker Dojo

RUST MEETUP at HACKER DOJO

2025-04-17 | Nashville, TN, US | Music City Rust Developers

Using Rust For Web Series 1 : Why HTMX Is Bad

2025-04-17 | Redmond, WA, US | Seattle Rust User Group

April, 2025 SRUG (Seattle Rust User Group) Meetup

2025-04-22 | Detroit, MI, US | Detroit Rust

Rust Community Meet and Conference Report - Ann Arbor

2025-04-23 | Austin, TX, US | Rust ATX

Rust Lunch - Fareground

2025-04-23 | Austin, TX, US | Rust ATX

Rust Lunch - Fareground 2025-04-23 | Spokane, WA, US | Spokane Rust

Community Show & Tell at Fuel Coworking

2025-04-24 | Atlanta, GA, US | Rust Atlanta

3rd 3RD TIME OMG YES!

2025-04-25 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Ball Square Rust Lunch, Apr 25

2025-05-01 | Saint Louis, MO, US | STL Rust

SIUE Capstone Project reflections on Rust

2025-05-03 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Boston Common Rust Lunch, May 3

2025-05-08 | México City, MX | Rust MX

Calculando con el compilador: Compiler time vs Run time

2025-05-08 | Portland, OR, US | PDXRust

Apache DataFusion: A Fast, Extensible, Modular Analytic Query Engine in Rust

2025-05-11 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Porter Square Rust Lunch, May 11

Oceania

2025-04-22 | Barton, AC, AU | Canberra Rust User Group

April Meetup

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Jobs

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Quote of the Week

IEEE 754 floating point, proudly providing counterexamples since 1985!

– Johannes Dahlström on rust-internals

Thanks to Ralf Jung for the suggestion!

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