#the creators network

[myshunosun]

Edge Office

Happy September! Edge Office includes 4 new items for your pixel people. The "moveable" board is fully functional as a pin board - so you can, for example, pin your favorite postcards to it.

You can read more about the items and check out the in-game preview below.

Download (always free on Patreon) / Follow and support me

Here’s what you get:

Cabinet, 10 swatches, 180§

Board, 10 swatches, 100§

Desk chair, 10 swatches, 100§

Desk, 10 swatches, 350§

More info and credits:

Base game compatible

New meshes, all LODs

Custom specular and normal maps

Custom catalog thumbnails, tagged swatches

Simlish font used in textures: Simlish Lengiza by gazifu

Have fun! You can search for “edge office" or “myshunosun” in the buy catalog to quickly find these items.

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@maxismatchccworld @mmfinds @s4library @public-ccfinds

[peacemaker-ic]

Loving the new Riviera Retreat kit as well. The waterfall rocks are going to get a lot of use. Really appreciate the airy design of the pieces as well.

[aashwarr]

i've been messing around with the goth galore kit! can you guess the characters? 💀

[mysimsloveaffair]

It's that time again, and I'm extra excited about this one! 🎊🎉🎈

Thanks to the EA Creator Network for the extra PC game code to give to one lucky follower! 

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[rachelpedd]

Large Family Home For 6 Sims and 2 Horses!

A large family home for you your Sims and their horses to enjoy!

Completely CC-free.

Requires only Base Game and Horse Ranch to work.

4 bedrooms | 3 bathrooms

��98,522

40 x 30 lot (Chestnut Ridge)

“bb.moveobjects on” will need to be input before placement.

Now available on The Gallery! Origin ID: RachelPedd.

Download (SimFileShare)

⭐ Please consider supporting me on Ko-Fi! ⭐

Happy Simming, everyone!

[sevenines]

i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.

two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!

[flowur-the-weirdo]

Totally Awesome 80s Legacy Challenge!!!

Here are the rules for my super long legacy challenge. They haven't been tested thoroughly yet so feel free to let me know if anything isn't doable. It's meant to be done in either normal or long lifespan, but if you want to try the short lifespan I won't stop you. You can skip any generations that you can't do due to pack limitations or if you just don't feel like doing that generation. This is meant to be fun, not strict. If you don't like one of the rules feel free to skip it. Another fun thing to do would be to find and watch the movie before each generation so you have a better handle on what I was trying to recreate in that generation. Also if these graphics are unreadable I do have a Word file I can link. Please let me know if you try the challenge and tag me in any posts or videos so I can see how you're doing. (All pics used in the graphics were found on IMDB.com)

[kimbasprite]

I've been posting so many Sims 4 challenges, but here's one of them in action! I'm almost done with the Disney Princess Legacy by MissPlaying on my YouTube channel. This is a short lifespan save file, and I pack one entire generation into a single video, so it's low commitment!

[Series Playlist]

I hope you consider checking it out, even if you play it in the background or just reblog this post! Your views help support my content, so I really appreciate it. 💜💜

[arethabee]

my favee build buy items from the crystal creations stuff pack. these are going straight to my favorite witch's house. 🌙🔮

[angelsdean]

I need people to understand how S&P (standards and practices) works in television and how much influence they have over what gets to stay IN an episode of a show and how the big time network execs are the ones holding the purse strings and making final decisions on a show's content, not the writers / showrunners / creatives involved.

So many creators have shared S&P notes over the years of the wild and nonsensical things networks wanted them to omit / change / forbid. Most famously on tumblr, I've seen it so many times, is the notes from Gravity Falls. But here's a post compiling a bunch of particularly bad ones from various networks too. Do you see the things they're asking to be changed / cut ?

Now imagine, anything you want to get into your show and actually air has to get through S&P and the network execs. A lot of creators have had to resort to underhanded methods. A lot of creators have had to relegate things to subtext and innuendo and scenes that are "open to interpretation" instead of explicit in meaning. Things have had to be coded and symbolized. And they're relying on their audience to be good readers, good at media literacy, to notice and get it. This stuff isn't the ramblings of conspiracy theorists, it's the true practices creatives have had to use to be able to tell diverse stories for ages. The Hays Code is pretty well known, it exists because of censorship. It was a way to symbolize certain things and get past censors.

Queercoding, in particular, has been used for ages in both visual media and literature do signal to queer audiences that yes, this character is one of us, but no, we can't be explicit about it because TPTB won't allow it. It's a wink-wink, nudge-nudge to those in the know. It's the deliberate use of certain queer imagery / clothing / mannerisms / phrases / references to other queer media / subtle glances and lingering touches. Things that offer plausible deniability and can be explained away or go unnoticed by straight audiences to get past those network censors. But that queer viewers WILL (hopefully) pick up on.

Because, unfortunately, still to this day, a lot of antiquated network execs don't think queer narratives are profitable. They don't think they'll appeal to general audiences, because that's what matters, whatever appeals to most of the audience demographic so they can keep watching and keep making the network more money. The networks don't care about telling good stories! Most of them are old white cishet business men, not creatives. They don't care about character arcs and what will make fans happy. They don't care about storytelling. What they care about is profit and they're basing their ideas of what's profitable on what they believe is the predominate target demographic, usually white cis heterosexual audiences.

So, imagine a show that started airing in the early 2000s. Imagine a show where the two main characters are based on two characters from a famous Beat Generation novel, where one of the characters is queer! based on a real like bisexual man! The creator is aware of this, most definitely. And sure, it's 2005, there's no way they were thinking of making that explicit about Dean in the text because it just wouldn't fly back then to have a main character be queer. But! it's made subtext. And there are nods to that queerness placed in the text. Things that are open to interpretation. Things that are drenched in metaphor (looking at you 1x06 Skin "I know I'm a freak" "maybe this thing was born human but was different...hated. Until he learned to become someone else.") Things that are blink-and-you-miss-it and left to plausible deniability (things like seemingly spending an hour in the men's bathroom, or always reacting a little vulnerable and awkward when you're clocked instead of laughing it off and making a homophobic joke abt it)

And then, years later there's a ship! It's popular and at first the writers aren't really seriously thinking about it but they'll throw the fans a bone here and there. Then, some writers do get on the destiel train and start actively writing scenes for them that are suggestive. And only a fraction of what they write actually makes it into the text. So many lines left on the cutting room floor: i love past you. i forgive you i love you. i lost cas and it damn near broke me. spread cas's ashes alone. of course i wanted you to stay. if cas were here. -- etc. Everything cut was not cut by the writers! Why would a writer write something to then sabotage their own story and cut it? No, these are things that didn't make it past the network. Somewhere a note was made maybe "too gay" or "don't feed the shippers" or simply "no destiel."

So, "no destiel." That's pretty clearly the message we got from the CW for years. "No destiel. Destiel will alienate our general audience. Two of our main characters being queer? And in a relationship? No way." So what can the pro-destiel creatives involved do, if the network is saying no? What can the writers do if most of their explicit destiel (or queer dean) lines / moments are getting cut? Relegate things to subtext. Make jokes that straight people can wave off but queer people can read into. Make costuming and set design choices that the hardcore fans who are already looking will notice while the general audience and the out-of-touch network execs won't blink and eye at (I'm looking at you Jerry and your lamps and disappearing second nightstands and your gay flamingo bar!)

And then, when the audience asks, "is destiel real? is this proof of destiel?" what can the creatives do but deny? Yes, it hurts, to be told "No no I don't know what you're talking about. There's no destiel in supernatural" a la "there is no war in Ba Sing Se" but! if the network said "no destiel!" and you and your creative team have been working to keep putting destiel in the subtext of the narrative in a way that will get past censors, you can't just go "Yes, actually, all that subtext and symbolism you're picking up, yea it's because destiel is actually in the narrative."

But, there's a BIG difference between actively putting queer themes and subtext into the narrative and then saying it's not there (but it is! and the audience sees it!) versus NOT putting any queer content into the text but SAYING it is there to entice queer fans to continue watching. The latter, is textbook queerbaiting. The former? Is not. The former is the tactics so many creatives have had to use for years, decades, centuries, to get past censorship and signal to those in the know that yea, characters like you are here, they exist in this story.

Were the spn writers perfect? No, absolutely not. And I don't think every instance of queer content was a secret signal. Some stuff, depending on the writer, might've been a period-typical gay joke. These writers are flawed. But it's no secret that there were pro-destiel writers in the writing room throughout the years, and that efforts were made to make it explicitly canon (the market research!)

So no, the writers weren't ever perfect or a homogeneous entity. But they definitely were fighting an uphill battle constantly for 15 yrs against S&P and network execs with antiquated ideas of what's profitable / appealing.

Spn even called out the networks before, on the show, using a silly example of complaints abt the lighting of the show and how dark the early seasons were. Brightening the later seasons wasn't a creative choice, but a network choice. And if the networks can complain abt and change something as trivial as the lighting of a show, they definitely are having a hand in influencing the content of the show, especially queer content.

Even in s15, (seasons fifteen!!!) Misha has said he worried Castiel's confession would not air. In 2020!!! And Jensen recorded that scene on his personal phone! Why? Sure, for the memories. But also, I do not doubt for a second that part of it was for insurance, should the scene mysteriously disappear completely. We've seen the finale script. We've seen the omitted omitted omitted scenes. We all saw how they hacked the confession scene to bits. The weird cuts and close-ups. That's not the writers doing. That's likely not even the editors (willingly). That's orders from on high. All of the fuckery we saw in s15 reeks of network interference. Writers are not trying to sabotage their own stories, believe me.

Anyways, TLDR: Networks have a lot more power than many think and they get final say in what makes it to air. And for years creative teams have had to find ways to get past network censorship if they want "banned" or "unapproved" "unprofitable" "unwanted" content to make it into the show. That means relying on techniques like symbolism, subtext, and queercoding, and then shutting up about it. Denying its there, saying it's all "open to interpretation" all while they continue to put that open to interpretation content into the show. And that's not queerbaiting, as frustrating as it might be for queer audiences to be told that what they're seeing isn't there, it's still not queerbaiting. Queerbaiting is a marketing technique to draw in queer fans by baiting them with the promise of queer content and then having no queer content in said media. But if you are picking up on queer themes / subtext / symbolism / coding that is in front of your face IN the text, that's not queerbaiting. It's there, covertly, for you, because someone higher up didn't want it to be there explicitly or at all.

[myshunosun]

Heartlines Tattoos

I heard you like maxis match tattoos. This set includes new tattoo designs in a few swatches. Read more information about the files below. Enjoy!

Download tattoos (always free on Patreon) / Follow me on social media

Chest tattoo

12 swatches

Teen to elder, all genders

Not allowed for random

Custom thumbnails

Base game compatible

Left arm

3 swatches

Teen to elder, all genders

Not allowed for random

Custom thumbnails

Base game compatible

Right arm

6 swatches

Teen to elder, all genders

Not allowed for random

Custom thumbnails

Base game compatible

Enjoy!

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[thenightfolknetwork]

✨ Why you should listen to Monstrous Agonies! ✨

Monstrous Agonies is a fiction podcast created by @monstrousproductions that captures the weekly advice segment on the UK's only dedicated radio station for creatures of the night 👻🥰

Featuring:

A late-night radio advice show for monsters

A butter-voiced English narrator so soothing they have literally sent people to sleep (take care if listening while driving!)

Now complete at three seasons, there's over 100 episodes to binge, with additional bonus eps, bloopers and end-of-season Q&As

Full transcripts for every episode, linked in the show-notes

Average episode length of 10-15 minutes (can you tell it was made by someone with ADHD... 😉)

Monsters as a metaphor for marginalisation

Monsters as not-a-metaphor-at-all - sometimes a sentient tapeworm is just a sentient tapeworm

Asexual vampires! Gay werewolves! Trans lizard ladies! If it can be queer, by God it will be queer!

Funny ha-ha!

Also, funny like ‘wait, are they eating people?’

Variously described as, ‘eldritch late-night Radio Four’, ‘fun and full of love’, and ‘like a warm hug from a creature with one too many arms

'While the podcast is now finished, the world continues here on @thenightfolknetwork where you can send in your questions about life, love, and all things liminal 😎

If that sounds like your cup of tea, search for 'Monstrous Agonies' on your podcatcher of choice and give us a listen! 🎧💕

[aashwarr]

the urban homage kit eats. 🧡

[mysimsloveaffair]

I'm back again with another one… 🎊🎉🎈

Thanks to the EA Creator Network for the extra PC game codes to give to a lucky follower! The winner will receive codes for both kits.

To Enter:

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[chrissieyt]

Can I interest anyone in some gorgeous pictures of Tomarang 👀

I have early access to For Rent right now & wanted to see what the world & one of my builds would look like with my Reshade on & I am not disappointed!

The apartment building in the first pic is already up as a Speed Build on my channel, & you can see it HERE! I also did an Apartment Tutorial on how the new Residential Rental lot type works, that you can watch HERE if you want more info about it! I've also done a complete World Overview up as well, where I go through all of the lot sizes, lot & family descriptions, & even give you a closer look at the world scenery as well! You can check it out HERE if you'd like! And for anyone curious, I'm using BojanaSims' Light Preset 2.0 Reshade preset! I tweaked the MXAO settings a bit, but didn't change anything else!

ꗥ～ꗥ 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐀 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 ꗥ～ꗥ