#keeping it basic (bitch)

[temperamentalaquarius]

Y'all. Dick is not a people pleaser. Idk where that came from when reading Dick's comics is basically an exercise in watching his eyes glaze over as someone begs him not to do something crazy because in his mind he's already done it. Like, yes, Dick is very empathetic loves helping others but in the same way your dentist does. If they think it's the right move they're going to stick that long ass needle in your gums and drill into your teeth. Whether or not you're happy about it is irrelevant.

[malzykins]

stands up I Like the little hand freaks

[sunny-knight]

Decided to visualize a bit of my AU ideas…

thank ya @tinybrainboy for giving me the motivation/inspiration to visualize more of this idea :333333

[akito-shinonome-daily]

🎤 day 451 🎵

➥ today’s akito is from the (brave new world) cinema 3DMV!!

[mossiestpiglet]

The Royal Tutor is so funny because the whole premise is that all these princes want to be king, but the further in you get its like. Do they?? Do they really?? Half of them don’t seem fully convinced the monarchy should even exist let alone that THEY should be the monarch.

[pastafossa]

hello!! this is a super random question and you don’t have to answer but how do you keep such a good track of the daredevil show timeline?? all of your fics are so coherent and seem to follow it amazingly well so i’m just wondering if you have any tips for that like it’s so noticeable how well you know the show when i reread trt and i really admire that :p

THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO READ CAUSE THE DD TIMELINE IS INSANE, SO THANK YOU. I've spent more than one night tearing my hair out over it and that appears to have paid off! 😂

So I have two things I did in order to really track the Daredevil timeline.

1. In order to reference larger Marvel events along with other Defenders events, I use this timeline by gamesradar which has both the movies and the Defenders shows on a year by year timeline. This gave me a rough idea of gaps between seasons along with when other characters might pop up.

But more importantly,

2. I created my own Daredevil timeline that goes episode by episode. I did this by going through a series rewatch focused specifically on the timeline itself. Every time day shifted into night, I noted it. Matt waking up? That's a new day. Indicator via dialogue that it's been 2 days? Add that gap. Season reference like Ben mentioning in late S1 that it's getting colder (thus a sign that S1 takes place from at least early summer to fall)? That's written down. With this I could roughly track not only how much time passes in each episode, but I also was able to have a general idea of how long the individual seasons last. Doing this allowed me to weave my own plotline in and out of canon and construct a concurrent TRT events timeline in a way that feels like it fits! I even added some sections on Matt's injuries so I could track not just when he's hurt but his heal times. This is in addition to a quicknotes sort of guide I made for each episode so I could quickly double check my references without necessarily having to boot up Dis+. Obviously some canon gets changed in TRT but when I do change things, I make sure the goal of those canon scenes are still met, whether that's clues or foreshadowing.

Now granted, some parts of the canon timeline I quickly discovered are batshit. S2 is supposed to take place in the course of about 2 weeks, for example, which is WAY too fast for that big of a trial, and Matt's healing period in S3 is hilariously short. Those are moments I chose to take a crowbar to and stretch out a bit (in TRT, jury selection for Frank's trial, for example, no longer takes 2 days; now it takes a week, and the trial itself will be a bit longer than in canon), but because I had my timeline of events, I knew there was a long gap after Elektra's death (summer, roughly) and the little bit at the end of S2 where he goes to meet Karen with his mask (I think it's early winter, if I remember my timeline correctly). So that's kinda how I know where I can fiddle with the timeline while still ensuring it all flows coherently and doesn't ram into anything!

[peoneys]

Lil ref for a turned saoirse if she `romanced` an ascended astarion

[devilith]

dont get it twisted. solmares announcement was made for one reason and one reason only:

the players refused to support the game, so obey me couldnt afford to keep itself alive

free to play/live service games 100% rely on the support of players to keep themselves up and running. if they cant afford to keep the lights on, then they cant afford to keep pushing out new content and updates

and i havent ever in my life seen a player base as nasty and hostile as the obey me fandom. yall absolutely crash out and throw the foulest, most outrageous temper tantrums at literally every single thing solmare ever does. yall refused to support the game in even the most minimal of ways, but at the same time yall CONSTANTLY demand more and more from the staff while screeching that every single feature should be spoonfed to you for free

every single new nightmare and nightmare revival, yall would start screaming and pissing yourselves and harassing the official obey me twitter accounts, calling solmare "greedy" and "scammers" for DARING to have gacha in their gacha game

yall lose your shit and started sending the employees death threats over the date ticket feature, a completely optional item bundle in the shop that you could literally ignore if you didnt want to buy it

yall rage the fuck out at microtransactions existing in a FREE GAME and took your anger out on the employees, then immediately turned around and demanded more content that you refused to pay for. acting like supporting the game was beneath you

yall never lifted a damn finger to support this game. yall never spent a fucking penny to support obey me and help keep it alive. yall lost your minds and attacked the studio time and time and time again when even the OPTION to support them monetarily existed. yall had a public meltdown and lost your minds you were so fucking offended that a free game would have the audacity to have optional purchases available.

yall refused to EVER support them, and now yall are acting upset that the game is forced to stop updating because they dont have the player support to stay alive?

yall should be fucking embarrassed of yourselves

[wellfine]

Hey I found ur art uncredited on tik Tok

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMreQSnaw/

They said they "found it on Reddit" so they just decided to steal it and post it ig?? Ugh!!

Wow, that's a whole other repost to the one I thought it was going to be, lol. It's been reposted to TikTok once before, and I'm also not surprised this person got it from Reddit, where I doubt I was credited either.

At the end of the day I appreciate the heads up but there's nothing I can really do about it. The most helpful thing anyone can do is to leave comments on the reposts to provide credit,* because if artists ever try and comment then we pretty invariably get attacked. Don't be mean or aggressive, that just builds their animosity towards the artists, but I do think people respond positively to outside pressure to do the right thing 🤷

*Remember to make sure there's enough context - eg. something like "art by @ landegart on Twitter" is more searchable/useful than "artist is Landeg" to someone on TikTok who has no idea who I am haha

[rat-rosemary]

Going from my antropology class, where we have enough nuance to walk in circles, and even the guy who believes in pyramid conspiracy theories has some damn respect for other cultures vs my phsyc-analysis class where the teacher will constantly bring up "some tribes in africa" and implies endlessly racist shit and I just had to argue that 9-15 year olds are physically unable to give a healthy birth because their bones are not right for birth is giving me whiplash. I NEED TO KILL EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM

[toytle]

I don't really watch the dc live action films but apparently they're gonna have Green Lantern again and Kyle Chandler was cast as Hal, was wondering what you thought about that??

i’m not personally familiar w his works and i can’t have a full opinion until i see his hal acting, but for first impressions alone… i get the vision. he’s not my first choice, but apparently he wasn’t their first choice either, and considering the other controversial names that were floating around (*cough* ryanreynolds *cough* joshbrolin), i can only sigh in relief that the role went to literally anyone else

visually, i would have to get used to the idea of him as hal, not bc they’re portraying him as an older man this time (which should not be so contentious?? hal is old), but mostly bc he’s a real person and hal looks in my head like how i draw him ☺️ also kyle chandler has incredibly distinct eyes that i don’t associate w hal, but i’m excited to have my mind changed abt it if only for a single show

but like i said, i see the vision. i tried to watch some of his works to get a sense of his acting, and idk how they’re going to write hal in this, but kyle def has the range to play charismatic characters as well as comedic ones, so i’m rly curious for how this will play out. if i had to nitpick, i think his voice is jarring for hal, but that’s bc hal’s voice is one of his most distinct and defining traits to me. i literally had a dream once that they made a new GL movie and the whole time i was trying to judge whether or not the the actor’s voice sounded enough like hal, so obviously i have my priorities straight lol

all in all, i like this casting so far! less psyched abt guy’s (he was my perfect hal voice T__T), but i’m excited to see how aaron pierre plays john! apparently it was between him and stephan james, but aaron had better chemistry w kyle, so maybe that means more john and hal interactions! also he was on the beach that makes you old, which has nothing to do w anything, but i just found out and it made me laugh so i’m sharing this information w you too

[loserlovesmusicals]

Bitches be like "I'm faking autism" and have an obsession with musicals to the point where it feels like it affects very core of their being, and are entirely convinced life would be dull and unbearable without it. And they're also unable to sit still when thinking about their current fav musical.

[v88sy]

You know what, season one is really underrated.

[lightningzbolt]

Bring Me The Horizon Tees

See I like more than just two bands. I made a lot of swatches of these, like a looooooooot. 171 to be exact.

As you can see here, if I did that much more it would take over the screen. So I can't show them all off but I took a bunch more CAS screenshots to show some more off.

Some have back designs too. Which ones? Well you're gonna have to find out. :^) Since these are just recolors there's nothing special about them or anything extra needed. Some I made over five years ago as some of the first Sims 4 CC I ever made, and in Fact my Sim of Oliver, along with his brother and Kellin, were the first Sims I made in this game when I first started playing it on the last day of 2018. I started making CC less than a day in.

SimFileShare

Below the cut is my journey with updating and fixing my game for Life & Death in case you're interested as I have to tell someone.

So when it came to the Life & Death patches and pack, I was hyped, the pack looked amazing and exactly for me. And well, it is, but also, my game was in a bad state, immense lag when clicking on Sims ingame, and, okay, I was playing as Awsten last when he was my testing Sim, was was Jawn as I had him over at the time, so let me just tell you it took 27 seconds after clicking on Jawn to make the pie menu show up. 27 seconds! It was 17 earlier this year, which is also insane, but I grew used to it. It was not much better clicking on Awsten himself. Pets wasn't so bad, and younger Sims as they got younger were less bad. But. It was bad. So. I tested like every mod combination I could think of. logging down exact number of seconds the delay was every load in, every test. Without mods there was minimal delay, and WITH mods in a fresh save there was even less delay. But I could not seem to figure it out for my longstanding save. So. I did what I hate doing, asking other people. Those helper servers. Mainly as I'm paranoid of having mods they deem as evil and terrible and mad or whatever. But I'm good, I followed the rules of one to make sure any mods I had on the list were not in my game, only a couple. That's fine right? I can show them logs of my game without issue? WRONG! I had something 'bad' in there! That I did not know ahead of time! So fine, that's gone now, can you guys look? Nope, another bad. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME AHEAD OF TIM- okay, it's gone. Now what? 'Oh those bad mods may cause residual damage to your save file so that may be an issue. Also start a new save." Bitch, what? That makes no sense and is unhelpful. So. I spend the next 7 hours just deleting every townie in my save. All of them, minus pets, and minus a few I spared prior for funny names or some other status, Any premades or Sims I made or got from the gallery were skipped, I only deleted randomized townies. Guess what? This helped, a lot. Residual damage from mods my ass. I brought the delay down by over half just by deleting townies. Got it down even more by deleting more mods. Now it's at the best it's been in awhile, 8-12 seconds, which isn't nothing, yes, but it is playable. And now I have a folder in my Mods folder that's called Forbidden Mods. :) And guess what those mods are fine. They don't cause issues. You know what did give me issue before? When I was recommended a mod to try from one of thee helper servers, THAT broke my game. Fucking ass. So lesson learned, rely on nobody, do everything myself, I can fix my game and saves better than anyone else can, and people policing what others can do in their own single player offline games experience is very very stupid. Why is baby grilling funny and okay to have as a mod in Sims 2 but not in Sims 4? Why is it bad in 4? It's all fiction in the end! Baby grilling in Sims 2 is seen as a funny memory of what modding used to be and no one gets offended by it. But I can't do the same in 4 unless I wanna get on a watchlist. Among other things, but damn, it's pixels, it's someone else's game. You can't abuse and hurt pixels, and Sims is a game series where everyone has played it like a monster before. That's part of the fun. But, anyway. Now Jawn is my designated testing Sim, I'm sure he's honored. And I've been in 'testing mode' for the past couple weeks since I got my game back up to snuff. He lives in Copperdale and that world is a lot of nothing so it's not laggy at least. It's a fine place to test. Honestly by testing I am trying to now prevent my game from making townies as much as possible, and it's not really working the way I want, so I'm also just deleting them from my households as I get to it so it won't take 7 hours again to delete 2 thousand again, as spoilers that was how many townies I had deleted. That was HALF the Sims in my save file. TWO THOUSAND TOWNIES.

[rotationalsymmetry]

"It's all well and good for you paladins to stick to your convictions, but if I make a mistake, half a million citizens pay for it."

I mean, Lord Shojo does have a point there.

[lunapwrites]

Why yes, 11pm is the perfect time to make banana bread, why do you ask?