#voila problem solved

[homunculovers]

Was hazily watching some My Cat From Hell mock reality fixit up show, only to think about that’s exactly what they did with the Killinger fixes Rusty episode.

[pyromaniacbibliophile]

how i deal with the Thoughts

So I'm not suicidal or anything, btw, it is merely the intrusive thoughts being annoying (see. train tracks, amazing high cliffs) but this is my thought process when one arrives (sharing for no good reason I am merely bored)

1- blame the wolf. This is not an actual wolf, this is my good friend who has a wolfish name. He introduced me to the concept of intrusive thoughts two or so years ago, and since I have blamed every intrusive thought I've had on him- example a, thought comes in saying 'imagine jumping off that cliff wouldn't it feel like flying you should try it'. My response 'damn you [friend's name]'/'bother you [friend's name]'/'what would [friend's name] say'- surprisingly, it works. now this need not be any friend in particular, you may pick at random. (no, he doesn't know i do this)

2- if they're being really really annoying, answer thus: 'death may well be the next great adventure, but I'm not done with this one yet. Haven't completed the present mission. Still got more coins and stars to get and princesses to save [insert video game reference of your choosing]. Remind me again in 70 or so years.'

[defmaybe]

Lessons in PHP

12 Days of Christmas: Day 4, December 28th, 2024

Girl’s Generation/SNSD’s Kim Taeyeon x Male Reader

2k words

Christmas Masterlist

The clicking sounds of keyboards ring through the room. Students are doing their in-class assignments, while you’re struggling to solve the first problem on the sheet. How the fuck can your friends do this?

Fuck, this is hard. Your code repairs seem fruitless against the errors, so you raise your hand, hoping that one of the TAs will help you.

You look around, seeking for help, until you meet one of your TAs’ eyes.

Kim Taeyeon.

Fuck.

No, you’re not scared or intimidated by her, you’re just always perplexed by her otherworldly features. There are her sharp eyes, her perfectly sculpted nose, and that jawline that makes you almost drool. Every time she helps you with your code, you’re just unable to focus on the material because of the intoxicating perfume she wears. It’s as if she knows that it’s your weak point.

Taeyeon walks towards you with purpose, every step is confident. Her short skirt and tie sways with the movement. She looks straight at you, expressionless, until she reaches your desk.

“So.” Taeyeon starts the troubleshooting session. “What do we have here?”

“I–I can’t add the new values into the table, M–Miss Kim.”

She nods. “Okay, can you show it for me?”

You let the code work on itself, before typing your information into the boxes, press submit, and–

“Voila,” you mutter quietly. It doesn’t work. She seems to be amused by your attempt at cracking a joke.

“Alright, I’ll see what I can do.”

Despite her efforts, her attempts are also proven fruitless. The code just doesn’t seem to work how hard she tries, and you can feel that it’s starting to get on her nerves.

“I can just ask an AI for this, Miss Kim.”

She shoots you a surprised look. “AI? Yah! You won’t learn that way! Just–meet me after the class, alright? I’ll help you.”

“O–Okay, Miss Kim.” You’ll be late for lunch again.

—

The students are starting to leave the seats one by one, having finished their in-class assignment early. Then, there’s you, trying to fix your damn code, trying to learn. Still, it just won’t budge.

“Fuck.”

Finally, the bell rings. You pick up your laptop and walk towards Taeyeon, hoping to find some relief in her. She nods at you. 

“I’ll be there,” she says. She’s still helping Haewon with her code.

—

Taeyeon starts her debugging session. It’s particularly hard on PHP, because it won’t tell you where the mistake is. Fucking PHP.

As time goes by, you’re surprised that Taeyeon doesn’t seem to become stressed with the failed attempts. Hell, she even seems to be happier and happier, humming as she debugs the code! What is going on?

“You know, I think this is a delightful session–” she moves closer towards you. Her right arm touches yours, hands still on your keyboard “–we’re having.”

Her perfume fills your nostrils. It pervades your space violently. You’re starting to get hypnotized by it. Fuck, she smells good.

She moves in a little closer. Her hips press into yours. You can feel her body heat against your side. She types in a few letters. You hope it can finally make your code run. She reloads the page, dragging her fingers along your keyboard lazily before submitting the credentials.

“Whoops, seems like it doesn’t work~” says Taeyeon. There’s something in her voice, but back to your laptop first. Why won’t it work, and why does she sound so–

“Looks like we’re missing a few more things here.” She scoots her chair closer to you. It’s so uncomfortable, yet you don’t want to move away from her.

You’re revelling in this.

You watch as she types more letters into your screen—enter, shift, echo. She does it so elegantly, contradicting what every computer job is supposed to be.

She reloads the page again, typing in the information languidly. It’s as if she doesn’t want this to end.

It still doesn’t show up.

She shrugs, sighing at the disappointment on your screen. “Guess I’ll try again,” she says with a small smile.

You are starting to get restless. Her perfume is still invading your nostrils like crazy. You want to go to lunch so fucking bad, but you also don’t want to leave this smell of sensuality circling around her.

“Miss Kim, I–It’s fine, I’ll just–”

“No,” she commands, her voice stern. You jump slightly as she says that. “I won’t let my student go out of this room learning nothing.”

She presses into you even more. It’s starting to hurt now, yet you don’t have any intent to walk away from her, not when she smells so fucking good like this.

You hear a soft giggle from her. Is she enjoying the way she’s getting this close to you like this?

You scoot away from her a little, giving you and her some much-needed space. You can hear her sigh. Is it out of disappointment?

“Are you okay, M–Miss Kim?” you just have to ask. Can’t let your TA be uncomfortable after all.

She giggles. “Oh, I’m fine~ and please drop that name, mister,” she says with sultry. Her fingers draw an invisible line over your arm, hovering over it. Still, it makes you shiver.

“I like something more–” her hands are hovering on your shoulder now, and she’s pulling you in closer and closer, as if you’re magnetized “–intimate.”

Your breathing becomes shaky. Your hands tremble. Her scent becomes stronger and stronger as seconds go by. You’re lost in her.

“Wh–What’s more i–intimate, Miss Kim.”

She giggles, leaning in closer. Her breath touches your ear softly, and she whispers, “Call me mommy.”

You swallow hard. Being dominated by your TA isn’t exactly what you’ve been expecting today.

Her hands start to grope your pliant body. You respond to her touch strongly, sucking a sudden. She drags her hands down the front and back simultaneously, fully capturing you in her cage.

“Look at you, so–willing,” she says, letting out a giggle after. She reaches for your belt now, and she slowly unbuckles it adeptly. It comes off so easily, leaving you bare, unguarded. She then unbuttons your trousers. The edge of your boxers comes into view.

“Mommy will take your pants off, alright?” asks Taeyeon. You can only gulp and nod.

She pulls your zipper down gently, slowly revealing the tent under your boxers. Her eyes gleam, letting out a giggle.

“Ooh~ so excited for mommy, huh?”

You say nothing but a whimper. Your body quivers in unbridled anxiety, apprehensive of disappointing her. The tension is high. Taeyeon starts to grope your erection through the boxers, making your body quiver in pleasure.

She then climbs onto your lap, and your breath hitches. Your crotch makes contact with the wet spot on her panties. You can feel it. She’s wet.

She smiles and starts to grind her wetness on your crotch. She lets out a hum, clearly satisfied with her student’s reaction. You’re desperate for the friction she’s giving you. Your breathing quickens. You’re struggling to contain a moan any longer. It’s sickly sweet.

Taeyeon rests her arms on your shoulders, pulling you closer into her embrace. You’re completely captured by her—her face, her smell, all of her, and you’re revelling in the way she’s doing it.

“Y–You smell so good, mommy,” you utter, enraptured within her pungent aroma. Your mouth opens slightly, hoping to lean in for a kiss.

She chuckles. “That’s J’adore for you, baby.”

Taeyeon then parts her lips, just slightly. She leans in until her hot breath touches yours. It mingles in the air between you two, thickening with desire.

At the first touch of your lips, you feel shockwaves coursing through you. Her tongue touches yours, and you get to feel the soft flesh inside her mouth. You get a hint of strawberries remaining on her lips. Maybe she was in a rush this morning.

As you clash into each other, her tongue starts to invade your mouth recklessly, as if she’s trying to take as much of you as possible. She lets out one sweet hum after another. Her hands are still gripping onto the back of your neck. Wet sounds of the kiss ring through your ear. The sensation on your crotch remains. She’s grinding against you adeptly. She’s good at this.

The kiss deepens. Her taste of strawberries becomes too intense for you to handle, but she won’t let you go. Her hands start to glide down your willing body again, feeling your soft skin and muscles. You let out moans and moans in response.

“M–Mommy,” you rasp, muffled into the kiss. Her grinds quicken, stealing breaths out of your lungs. You are overwhelmed by the sensation of her clothed sex on you.

Her thighs tense up, her breathing quickens. She’s going to cum from grinding on your cock, fully clothed.

She unlatches herself from the kiss, leaving a string of saliva connecting you together. “Now, fuck, mommy’s going to cum, alright? Mmmm.” She bites her lip after she finishes her words, sucking in the air through her teeth. Fuck, that looks so hot.

“Y–Yes, mommy,” you reply. Your high is also coming. “I–I’m gonna cum too.”

Taeyeon giggles before grinding on your cock even faster, drawing stuttered moans out of you. Your loins tighten. You’re going to cum inside your pants!

Good thing you wear rather dark-colored pants today.

Her breathing becomes shorter and shorter. Her grip on your neck tightens. Her moans grow louder and louder. She’s cumming, and you’re all here to see it happen.

“Gonna cum, gonna cum, gonna cum, ahh!”

Her body spasms on top of you. Her eyes flutter. Her mouth hangs open. She screams, loud. She just came from grinding on your lap alone, and that couldn’t make you happier. She lets out a groan as her orgasm subsides, threading her fingers through your hair.

“Good boy,” she says with a smile, pressing her red, pouty lips on your forehead. That’s going to leave a mark.

The all-too-familiar feeling builds up inside your stomach. It seeps through your lower body muscles. Your feet twitch. Your thighs stiffen. It’s there. It’s there.

“M-Mommy, I’m gonna cum,” you utter. 

She smiles back at you, planting another kiss on your cheek. You’ll have to wash your face before going to lunch.

“Cum for me, baby.”

You grunt loudly. Maybe someone could’ve heard that. Your body writhes in bliss. You can feel your cock twitching inside your pants. Cum leaks out from the tip and paints the insides of your pants white. Some of it seeps out through your pants. It feels so good.

A giggle leaves Taeyeon’s lips. She’s loving the way her student breaks under her like this. “Good boy, good boy.” She runs her fingers through your hair lovingly, making you whimper a little.

Your orgasm finally fades. You pant in exhaustion after the sensual act. Your hands are still shaking. You just cum from dry humping with your TA!

“You okay?” she asks. You’re probably looking disheveled right now, all panting, chest heaving. “You look–scattered.”

“Y–Yeah, mom–uh–Miss Kim,” you stammer out. Your mind is in haywire right now. Should you still call her mommy?”

Taeyeon chuckles at your apprehension. She seems satisfied with her student being a mess like this.

“Oh, and about the code,” she suddenly says, snapping you back into reality. “We might have to make an arrangement at a later date.”

You blink, trying to connect the pieces back together. You were struggling with PHP, so you asked Miss Kim to help you with that. However, you got a dry humping session instead. The code is still unfinished.

“Y–Yeah, the code,” you respond, giving her a shy smile. “An arrangement, sure.”

“Maybe–this Saturday? I don’t have classes on that day.”

“Sure, Miss Kim.”

She gives you a smile, satisfied with your answer, before climbing off your spent body. “That settles it, then.”

You smile back at her before getting off the chair–

Fuck, you forgot to put your pants back up. Taeyeon giggles softly at your predicament.

“Oh, and–be prepared,” she says.

“Yes, Miss Kim?”

“It’s going to be a long session.”

—

[k-hippie]

K-MODS : UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

Now that we ( at last ) finished our global x11 update, time was coming to get a closer look, especially on the oldest files ...

There's a joke to be made with updating after EAxis mess. Maybe something like ... Si(m)siphus ... Really, once we start working on an update, it seems like *everything* needs an update and we'll never get to the bottom of it. Or ... worst ( or better ) we get an insight on something we couldn't figure out and now we just want to test a theory or two, just in case it'll crack the code ... aaand we'll be good to make an overhaul of something else. Anyway ! Here we are :)

BRINDLETON BAY We are half pleased with the results here but those files needed to be updated ... Indeed ! The Cats & Dogs town is back into the fold with updated texture. We even removed the red pavement for more consistency. We aren't quite happy with the final result of this town and we'll probably come back later for finishing touch here & there but it'll do for the moment.

Please enjoy the return of Brindleton Bay among the family of the k-mods files :D

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SELVADORADA ( JUNGLE ADVENTURES ) It was long overdue indeed but working on Selvadorada is like working on San Myshuno, it is clearly not EAxis best hours ...

Anyway, we completely reworked both nature and urban files, finished the ruins, added the files we hadn't done ...

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STRANGERVILLE

We always have a soft spot for Strangerville, surely because it reminds us the Sims 2 Strangetown which was was so fun and irreverent !

You already have the k-505 nature we updated not long ago. Now, we remade the k-505 urban and put work into finishing touches, making sure we've covered everything that needed to be k-hippied :D

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K-505 : BASEGAME NATURE FILES UPDATE Which should actually be : What-A-Surprise-We-At-Last-Found-Files Somehow, we tackled the San Myshuno Pit Of Darkness Problem. Yes, you read that right, with one single file, two little adjustment and a lot of hair pulling ( "What do you mean EA stretch that file like peanut butter on a toast ?" ) Okay, with less sardonic comment, the k-505 base game mod actually got a new update that's even better. You know those rocks with grass on them ? Yeah, we cleared that. It's now better looking. No more funky hairy rock. And of course, as you may know if you read the previous post, we finally found the files guilty of the black/question mark deep down in San Myshuno ! So, do not hesitate to update all your files ;)

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K-101 : MAJOR UPDATE Technical lingo : we updated the specular files because it was bugging us to no end. Old wooden floor, cool. Old wooden floors that shined so much it looked new ? Not under our watch, no sir ! In addition, it solves a glossy problem for Mac users with an intel based computer. Damned ! we are so good ... :D All floors have seen their specular double-checked and done ... and by the way, all Jungle Adventures floors were added, all of them. Of course, if you notice something we may forgot, just tell us :)

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - K-303 : SKIES & MOONS UPDATE As the title says : those are moon & night sky replacements. It is re-organized ( we redid the folders to do not mix moons and skies ) All you have to do is to place these files into you mods folder and tada ! a brighter and bigger moon for your Sims :)

Voila, that's all for this week :) Hope it will be ok for you and your fun ! Next in queue, Britechester and Del Sol Valley …

All the k-mods : https://tech-hippie.com/k-mods/

k-303 Multifix stuff : https://tech-hippie.com/k-303/

if you think it good enough: ko-fi // paypal

:)

[vegan-kaktus]

It's me, needing help again, ha! The bone from bon voyage, the one sims can dig up and dogs can chew on, it seems EA managed to break the shadow. The resources are there, but they are not used. If you clone the bone in SimPE, these resources won't be pulled at all. I looked at EA's blue bone (from pets) which has a working shadow and noticed some differences. I edited the gmnd (gave it the shadow-related resources) and edited the cres (to reference the shadow's shpe as well). These were the only differences I noticed, but it didn't solve it, the shadow is still not used in-game. I then took a look at the "Interaction - Play" BHAV, and I think this is where the problem lies (please do correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not that comfortable with BHAVs). Here is an example:

This is the case for nearly all of the shadow-related-resources in the BHAV. I can't for the life of me figure out how to edit them though. The BV bone doesn't have that arrow down-menu, and I can't figure out how to get it? Does someone know? I included my edited file for the bv bone and a package file containing a clone of EA's blue bone (with working shadows) over on my MTS thread. Many thanks in advance!!

Worth mentioning: the bv bone's bhav is called "Interaction - Chew" and pets bone is called "Interaction - Play".

Edit 2025-03-15: I managed to fix this fucking bone it, I simply replaced the cres with the one from the bone (with a working shadow). I changed the name and resources (numbers) to 'default' the white bone's cres, edited the cres to reference the white bone's shpes and voila! Terrible explanation, sorry.

[henrikvanderhussy]

Okay, we've gotta talk about The Silent Spy. I didn't remember much about it before replaying, and you never really see anyone calling it their favorite game, so I knew it wasn't going to be great, but I was still disappointed.

Similar to The Shattered Medallion, which I talked about here, I do think there's a GOOD game in there somewhere, but it's bogged down in some really messy structural problems.

Those problems are also very similar to MED's problems, which makes sense since MED was the next release after SPY. Just like in MED, the character interactions were all over the fucking place. I felt like I had the same conversation with each character about 12 times. Asking Moria "What was the Colony operation?" I dunno Nancy, maybe you could have figured it out from the newspaper article, the archives database, the info from every other character, or the papers at the cabin. And it feels like this is something that would have been relevant way earlier in the game.

But then at the same time, there are these bizarre jumps where it seems like you've missed conversations. We're asking Ewan if we should trust Alec when we've never even talked to Ewan about Alec before and there's no reason they should know each other.

Speaking of feeling like I missed stuff, the poem was the worst. "I need the full color copy of my mom's Jabberwocky poem" Girl, what Jabberwocky poem?? Apparently it was in Nancy's luggage, but the luggage gets stolen immediately when you start the game and we have no idea what's inside of it. She briefly says something to Alec about a poem, but that was after Nancy already noted she needed it to solve a puzzle.

Also similar to MED, there was such a weird manufactured sense of urgency. I was soooo very frustrated by the tests set by Revenant. I got the first call and thought "hmm, not sure what choice I want to make. I'll poke around at some other things first and then decide if I want to follow their instructions or not." Then all of a sudden I get a call saying that I've failed their test.

How was I supposed to know there was a time limit? What was the time limit based on anyway? Was it a literal amount of real-world time? Did I trigger another plot point in the game that ended the window? Hell if I know

The result is that you're left feeling like things could end or change at any moment and you have to do them quickly, but also simultaneously feeling as if it doesn't matter since obviously the game will continue anyway if you miss anything time-sensitive.

A weird combo of both stressed and 'eh fuck it'. Thanks I hate it.

This post is getting longer than I planned, but here's the thing, I actually think these problems could have been addressed with a really simple fix: Let Nancy sleep.

If the call from Revenant says "you have until midnight to give us what we want," then the player knows that if they want to follow the instructions, they need to do it before sending Nancy to bed.

If all of that weirdness in character conversations was because I was talking to characters and doing things out of the intended order, then structure the game so that certain things need to happen before you can go to bed ("I can't sleep yet, I have to xyz!"). Then make it so other actions can't happen until the next day. VOILA, problem solved.

You still want the structure to be somewhat loose to allow the player to explore, and so not everything should be confined to specific days, but it would allow linearity in the things that do need to be linear.

Nancy has a hotel room! There's already a bed and everything! It would have been simple to put in a sleep mechanic, just like in so many of the other games.

Look, I'm not a game designer, so I'm definitely speaking more confidently than I have any right to, but I just feel like the problems in The Silent Spy are fixable! And I really wish they had been fixed!

[saintmeghanmarkle]

The Harkles quest for relevance by u/alreadydoneit01

The Harkles quest for relevance The recent forum in Austin was interesting . For one, she/Archewell had to pay for it. So nobody asked her to participate. I think I realize her problem-she has nothing to back it up. She is the classic one trick pony. She has no substance, no talent to keep the interest of the masses.In today's world, you need new content, she keeps giving variation of the same thing about what happened in the bRF. YouTube creators, tiktok creators create a ton of good content or crazy content-but today's world has changed. You need new content to stay relevant. Rehashing the same thing over and over and over is not going to sell. I mean look at Jake Paul or any number of sinners on youtube.I think they know this and that is why they are pushing for reconciliation-so they can have new content. They desperately want new content. While now it is harry reached out to William , but no contact back articles are released-strategically before the Austin event, just imagine what kind of articles will be released-if William responded and said a cursory hello..I think by now, the duo know they are worthless without the BRF. For now all they have is stories from the past that they keep spinning-but to be relevant-they need new content.George pushed Archie down and called him a xyz. How racist of George. Catherine didn't let me borrow her car and I had to hire a taxi and face the paps blah, blah . Any contact and Hey Voila-new content-problem solved for the Sussexes. They are back to being relevant. I think Markles know they need new content to stay afloat and I think the BRF knows that they are viewed as content and not people for the harkles and so keeping at arms length. KCIII managed it beautifully-with him flying off in a helicopter and making it a point to release when the Harold came and left -after announcing every step of his gallant dash to see his father in the newspapers- and not giving him any royal property to stay.Until the harkles have access to the BRF again-they are left spinning their wheels spewing the same stories over and over and over again and hence will not be able to connect like they did with Oprah. Each story begins to vary a little and opens up more questions. So they have reduced themselves to content creators. What a fall! post link: https://ift.tt/n6RdTK7 author: alreadydoneit01 submitted: March 09, 2024 at 01:53AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[brinara]

College this semester has been doing some wild-ass things to my self-esteem. Sometimes I’m like “Not only was I a failure as a writer, but I can’t even make it as an anthropologist. I can’t do the science part correctly. I’m a sham” and other times I’m just “Yeah, let me nonchalantly solve this worldbuilding problem for you, bud. You just employ this psychological trend in displaced populations, maybe add some syncretism à la various cultures, and voila.”

[oldguy56-world]

Conclave

Conclave conclave conclave conclave...Sorry I got that confused with all those Contrave ads I see on TV. I should be able to keep them separated. One is for a bunch of people that wear mumus all the time and the other is for people trying to lose weight. If you have been following the news there is a new pope. His name is Leo XIV (pronounced Ziv) We were a little disappointed at this because I wanted to throw my name into the hat or miter so to speak. My wife was looking forward to being a popette. But popes can't be married you say? History lesson that was not always the case. They were married at the beginning but it stopped after a while. All it took was one bad mother-in-law and voila, problem solved.

Pope Bob (sorry Leo) seems like a decent guy so I harbor no hard feelings. I wish him all the best for all of us. All that aside, if you are not Catholic (or even if you are) there are some things you might not know about the entire process. I have dusted off my catechism and will now bring you closer to the situation.

Pope Facts

They were torn between an Italian and an American for the job and originally they were thinking of Rudy Giuliani. They found this was contrary to church doctrine because there is a clause about electing a vampire as a pope. Something to do with the holy water.

Similar to above they looked at DiCaprio. He already had the right first name but when he heard there was a vow of chastity involved he said no thanks.

They started looking at someone who had seen more of the world and thought that Popeye, being a sailor, would fit the bill. He only had to remove the last two letters from his name to use the official pope stationary. Unfortunately his forearms would not fit into the Hassock.

Did you know there were two pope John-Pauls back to back? First one only lasted 33 days and since all the stationary had been already printed the 2nd one had no choice but to take the name.

Curious observation. They had two John-Pauls but no George-Ringos. Those two never got the same amount of respect.

Back in the day (middle-ages) they had a conclave that lasted 3 years. Only thing that brought an end to it was the fact the peasants told them they were going to bring no more food, and since Uber Eats was not around yet they finally elected a pope.

The actual process is a secret. All I could find out was that there is some kind of dance-off involved and a secret handshake when it is over.

Up to now there have been 266 Popes in 2000 years. This is about one every 7.5 years. Might have something to do with the fact the average new pope is 97 years old.

Finally I have to dispel a vicious rumor. There is no truth to the story that there is a connection between the popes making a name change and the witness protection program.

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK: When there is a lot of bad things in the world let's celebrate some of the good things when they happen.

[antoschauniverse]

Groomer's biggest blunder - and he must have been pissed, to this day he pulls out his dyed hair for this blunder - was inviting the SunLife “team” to the premiere of TXF… This sealed forever the existence of a relationship with all of them, not just the sugarbaby, as well as marking the approximate date of the beginning of the affair - after all, nobody invites strangers to an event for the most important work of their career. The gang's presence at the party, as special guests, demonstrated that they had been part of his personal circle for at least a few months. As Anon rightly pointed out, Duchovny has to pray that KF never does anything again, because the connection to him - and even more so, MP's connection to the pimp, is irrefutable. He's not safe by any means, this SunLife scandal is relatively recent - and the reason for the reticence about the partner and marriage (she's wearing a wedding ring along with the ring) - is out of pure fear of attracting attention, falling right into a period of weak news, someone deciding that it has potential for good gossip, they're going to research the bride's past life and? voila! KR appears as Rumpelstiltskin. Duchovny and his staff are aware of the risk and the potential for disaster hanging over them. It's one thing for a career to slow down due to a natural process of stagnation that happens to all actors - with the door to work remaining open - it's quite another for a career to sink because of proximity to something shady like prostitution and grooming young girls. That closes the door forever. Apparently he's not yet ready to take his Dixie Kong, disappear off the map and retire to a tropical beach, enjoying blissful anonymity.

As I wrote earlier, no one invites random people to such events (the premiere of the X-Files), especially since Khalil and David's sugar baby were David's personal guests. I agree that it was the worst idea.

I assume that Khalil solved all of his problems in California💰 and he preferred to move away so as not to attract more attention and not get new problems from the past. But past problems often come back with renewed vigor and at the most inopportune moment. Any scandal would mean the end of David's career, but also for his daughter and, possibly, for Tea. It's like living on a volcano that can explode at any moment.

I doubt sugar baby will ever leave David, she has nowhere to go and nothing to go with. And David, who cared about his dick more than his confidentiality, should understand that his sugar baby knows too much for David to just get rid of her, so it's easier and more convenient for David to keep a young, submissive body next to him, which costs him very little.

It's really interesting that David's career has stopped. David was in very good shape after the last season of The X-Files, but David hasn't received any serious job offers since. And all of David's talk that he wants to try something new is a lie to hide his lack of demand.

Before escaping to a tropical island, David must remember to take a suitcase of blue pills with him, because despite all the "genius" of the sugar baby, I doubt that she will have conversations with David about world literature😂

[newbie9034]

Nope you saw, what I already told you Sunday Kerolin is a very egotistical player. She wants to be the best and show tricks, but what do you buy for those tricks if it doesn't lead you anywhere. She is a winger, but how many crosses did you see coming from her feet?

She always comes inside, because she wants to be the one to score the goal. But if she comes inside she either shoots the ball straight at the keeper (and then Hampton dives on the ball and keeps laying there for a while) or she runs into box taking her winger and the other person who is tracking her with her which means you suddenly have next to the 2 central defenders 2 extra defensive players in the box which makes it far to busy in the box because there are to many players and no room. And Kerolin is a 1-trick pony. Chelsea learned from Sunday what to do against her speed and voila problem solved.

What City also misses is some defencive midfielders. Today I only saw Yui in that role, which is why Viv needed to defend so much. I'm also asking myself I see Viv tracking back, but where is Kerolin (she should have the speed for it) or even Mary (although she was playing taped up) or Gracie or Jill for that matter.

I didn’t watch her in the NWSL enough to know if that’s what she always does, but I’ll admit it’s most of what she’s done so far. I don’t really understand her cutting inside. I agree she should stay wide and leave space for runners (Viv). I would be surprised if that’s ALL she does though, given that it’s my understanding she was a very good player in the American League? But I don’t have personal knowledge on that

Agree, Viv tracks back. But id almost rather her not, so she’s up top for the attack. Not that anyone gives her a ball she can use. Idk what’s up with that but it’s getting on my (and her) nerves.

[whitherwanderer]

I have so many OC thoughts to rattle around about 7.2 story (loved it) and I need a place to put them. Suffice to say, tread ye lightly. Spoilers abound under the cut.

Ivih and levinsickness

I was very, very pleased to have confirmation of my theory that leaving the dome would theoretically allow those who live with levinsickness to lead a more mobile life, which is why Ivih spends time outside it in the first place. Less pleased that CBS3 keeps solving the normal people problems it invents only a couple patches later while letting other things like Gridania’s long-overlooked mistreatment of some of the Shroud’s denizen slide for as long as possible. But still pleased overall.

Ivih’s feelings about this would be mixed to say the least, and I imagine that a lot of people in her situation would also have varying opinions. Her first and strongest feeling would be sheer anger. Utter frustration at the cosmic joke that is living with a debilitating condition that can be solved by getting on an increasingly short waitlist to be prodded by the Healing Pig and then, voila, all better. Not 100% obv and lifestyle changes would still be necessary, but well enough to live her life more freely than ever. Life that she had been unfairly kept from for decades despite every attempt to fight for it. And all it would take is letting the nice red girl's pet floating pig vomit aether at you for a bit.

It would take a while to accept, and for a while she would even refuse treatment because she has spent her entire life learning how to work around obstacles, and she got pretty damn good at it. When life finally deigns to remove them, she’d want to know why. What’s the punchline? What the hell was the struggle for then?

I love that for her but also MAN. Stop solving all the problems I give my idiots, y'all.

Pyrite and Oblivion

Pyrite would be so busy during this patch, oh my god. Rattled after the attack of the clones during 7.0, now faced with the same situation with increasing frequency in an even more unstable populace. She’d have trouble sleeping, if she sleeps at all.

I was REALLY PSYCHED to see the “break room” because I had written specifically about a little coffee machine and beds back there (well, I had written bunk rooms but close enough)!! It's where Pyrite mostly stays because it's really hard for her to go back to the apartment she still technically shares with Galena.

Events of 7.1 would have already had her alarm bells going off, obviously. She would have, perhaps, attended the service for Sphene from a cautious distance if only because they were friendly once (there were few who weren’t), but with her distrust in regulators (despite her insistence/excuses to keep wearing one) and the strangely-timed distribution of the neo regulators (using information from cultural records that her own organization had found, insultingly), she would rather observe than be directly involved (there were already so many parenthetical asides, this one is just for kicks).

News of a certainly-not-dead Queen Sphene and attendees having their memories of the service altered would have already thrown her lifestyle into an uncomfortable tailspin. Now her organization’s oldest enemy—until recently little more than a ghost whose tracks were imprinted into the very foundation of Alexandria and all who call it home—is revealed to have been alive (relatively speaking) and biding time right under their noses. She'd struggle not to put a bullet or blade through any sentry that wanders just a little too close. (Side note: I cheered when the hunters showed up to cull the rogue sentries. Those cutscene transitions were slick.)

A fresh new confrontation about death and grief is a loud drumbeat to set the cadence of the chaos that quickly follows. There’s also the fact that her husband is still quite solidly set in his decision to refuse to wear a regulator, for which she can fault him less and less.

Even then, she can’t seem to part with hers. The specter of death has never felt closer and, try as she might to appear otherwise, she is scared. At least after her first brush with what death can take she had been spared the initial shock. But now she’ll have to face it fully, and the thought makes it ever harder to fulfill her duties to an organization whose very name is an inevitable conversation with herself that she has pointedly chosen not to have.

And now there is another Sphene—the original—walking around in the Backroom, news of which surely made her go pale with nausea as she’s asked to be nice and offer whatever assistance she can.

Pyrite is deeply unwell this patch. :)

I love this game man.

[strange-daughter-x]

If u really love the Welch's sparkling juice things, but they're only seasonal or too expensive, we just learned that you can just put soda water into whatever juice you want, and voila. Fizzy, less intense juice!!!!! It's so delicious and both options are cheap. It's super good for if u are nauseous too.

We've been trying to find a lower sugar soda for so long (not diet, no fake sugar, just LESS SWEET alternatives to normal sodas) and soda water dilution has perhaps solved the problem

[emrinalex]

I had another idea for a fic:

I have a special liking for both of Nie Mingjue and Qin Su. Poor NMJ ends up a dismembered corpse, and not only did Qin Su get stuck being married to a Jin, the guy ended up being her brother, who killed her and their son. She and NMJ deserve more!

I've read a couple of very funny fics where Qin Su uses the summoning spell to bring back Wei Ying. I wonder what would happen if let's see...

Very esrly on Meng Yao realizes that Nie Huaisang is on to him and kills him. He thinks he gets away with it, but Big brother Nie Mingjue figured out what happened (hand wave the timeline). He knows he has nothing but qi deviation on tap, so he does the summoning spell because if anybody has the wit to get Meng Yao and nail him for A-Sang's death, as well as solve the Nie Sect's resentful energy problem, it's Wei Ying.

And voila! A very confused Wei Ying finds himself back in the land of the living and a very respected 😁 sect leader to boot. I think it could be written as being both serious and hilarious as he adjusts. At least Da-ge left him a letter explaining what he needs Wei Ying to do and all the details he knows about Meng Yao.

Meanwhile, Meng Yao is all "I'm home free, baby!" Right up until the moment he realizes "oh shit, I'm not.

[superfluouskeys]

it’s oversharing on the internet time!!!!! so for the past, like…………..you know what it’s been a long time but in my defense I have been extremely busy LOL!  but I’ve been having issues with my hair where it pretty much never felt clean except after I just dyed it (idk I guess the chemicals just burned out all the product residue LOL) or SOMEtimes if I scrubbed the fuck out of my scalp and/or used a clarifying shampoo, but this obviously started irritating my scalp LOL.  so now I’ve got a situation where my hair and scalp just generally feel just a little bit bad.  not bad enough that I think oh no this is a major and immediate problem, just bad enough to be like :/ you know

at first I thought this was just an issue with my shower and the water pressure – I have pretty thick + porous hair and sometimes it just hangs onto things, and I’ve had this issue before when I had a shower with bad water pressure, but that was also + especially a problem with washing out hair dye!  so I started thinking, (in my DEFENSE I’ve been really busy + stressed and my brain is fried all the time!!!!!!!!!!), oh no, what if I’m becoming sensitive to the hair dye and that’s irritating my scalp??  what if my hair/scalp health is just getting worse as I get older and I’ll have to stop dyeing my hair???  I tried a scalp soothing serum that didn’t really do anything, I tried just straight up putting lotion/hydrocortisone cream onto my head to soothe it, and mostly I just kind of avoided washing my hair as much as possible LOL even though if you know me you know I LOVE showers

finally my last two brain cells knocked together and I was like yk what, I have tried like 3 different shampoos over the last ~amount of time this has been happening and I hate all of them, maybe I should get a shampoo I know will work instead of continuing to fuck around.  so I got a couple of kinds of herbal essences which I used to use all the time and really only stopped bc I like to shake things up and try new things LOL, and voila??????????  I mean I don’t want to speak too soon here but it seems like, problem almost entirely solved with one (1) wash????????????

[anxietymadmax]

A bit ago I said I wanted to draw some player character ideas I had, so voila

This is Hinoka! A Tiefling Fighter (with the Samurai subclass, if that wasn’t painfully obvious).

This is the character I’ve decided I’d play if the opportunity arose and it was a fairly low-key style of campaign, nothing too crazy on the character story front (I do have another character idea, but the story and theming go kinda mental, so I wouldn’t just dump them on any ol campaign lol).

What is a D&D character but a glorified OC, so I shall properly delve into her design and character below -

She's so fun!

I mentioned (on my post about Tiefling horn inspirations in antelope species) that I had an idea for Blackbuck styled horns, and here they are! Hinoka has been a concept for at least that long, but I don't actually recall when I came up with her.

Mechanically, the Samurai subclass has always seemed interesting to me, I find it amusing how so many of its abilities feel very trope-y (like, literally that thing where a character moves their sword millimeters and it cuts someone in half, that is basically one of the samurai abilities), and it's an interesting stylistic choice in a game so heavily western medieval styled (I do really fw samurais in fantasy settings, i.e. Elden Ring and Delicious in Dungeon).

Whether I'd be able to lean into the Samurai theming would depend on how constrained the setting of a given campaign is, but considering it is an official subclass I feel like I could worm it in. To that end, her weapon of choice is not a katana, but rather a katana on a stick, aka a Naginata, which mechanically would probably be a glaive, but flavoured otherwise.

Onto personality, like with her class, I purposefully conceptualise Hinoka to be easy for me to play as, so she can probably be summarised as 'headstrong naive optimist'.

She lives for a good fight, and will always approach the battlefield with honesty and dignity. She treats opponents with whatever respect they are due, and will never turn to trickery or dirty tactics. This can, of course, be used against her, as she will often hope the same of her opponent, and they may easily trip her up.

Hinoka has a very strong personal sense of justice, believing the world to be very black and white, good vs evil, and that every wrongdoing is easily rectified (which, to her, usually equates to a punch in the face). This outlook on the world comes from a fairly sheltered and idealistic upbringing, and is one that over the course of a campaign would likely be shattered and remoulded.

Despite a harsh view on morality, Hinoka herself is incredibly kindhearted to most, especially those in need. Any problem faced by another, she will do her best to solve. Again, she may have to learn that not all problems are easily solved, but she will do her damndest anyway.

The last main personality trait to go over is that, sort of in line with her other traits, Hinoka is not exactly the thinking type (mechanically, dump stat int and wis lol). When faced with a problem, the first instinct is to see if that problem can be hit hard enough, and when that doesn't work, it'll take a bit for her to decide on the next best option.

Hinokas backstory is not super set in stone, something I'd likely elaborate on if I were to actually play her, but the basic gist is that I think she'd be raised by some kind of family of guards in the service of a particular noble house or authority (literally a family of Samurai who serve a lord). This upbringing would provide her combat training, her style of honourable battle, as well as context for her sheltered and naive outlooks.

I haven't decided what would prompt her to leave her family and go on an adventure, but probably nothing super devastating, since it'd be important to me that her outlook on life is intact for the start of a campaign. Maybe just rite of passage type deals.

And that about wraps up the current deal with Hinoka. I think I would get a great deal of fun out of playing her, even just drawing her was a blast. Hinoka is, however, one of two player character ideas that I have, and the other is... a lot more... lots. Warlock of The Undead is all I have to say I think. I shall draw and infodump on them another time xx