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Half-baked artist, gamer. Tradgoth trash. Intersex, Enby, Pan, Married, Monogamous. Disabled. 🦇 🔞 🦇

[battybriefs]

Hey bitty bats, I'm Batty Briefs. Here's a few things about me that you might find interesting.

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✖️ Pan, Enby, Intersex, Married, Monogamous.

✖️ Disabled. I am always happy to share tips I've found for coping with POTS, PCOS and mental health if you need it.

✖️ Tradgoth trash & adj.

[ Scary Bitches ]|[ Depeche Mode ]|[ Human Tetris ]|[ Sexbeat ]|[ The Cure ]|[ Joy Division ]|[ Nightclub ]|[ Minut Machine ]|[ She Past Away ]|[ Delerium ]|[ Conjure One ]|[ Vandal Moon ]|[ London After Midnight ]|[ O. Children ]|[ Adam Ant ]|[ Carlo Onda ]|[ Paranormales ]|[ Siouxie And The Banshees ]|[ Bauhaus ]|[ Rosegarden Funeral Party ]|[ Divine ]|[ Book Of Love ]|[ Claire Voyant ]|[ Cocteau Twins ]|[ Beborn Beton ]|[ De/Vision ]|[ Christian Death ]|[ Soft Moon ]|[ Ministry ]|[ Old AFI ]|[ Calabrese ]|[ The Cramps ]|[ She Wants Revenge ]|[ VNV Nation ]|[ Switchblade Symphony ]|[ Insulin Reaction ]|[ Dead Can Dance ]|[ David Bowie ]|[ Queen ]|[ Blutengel ]|[ Blaqk Audio ]|[ Black Marble ]|[ Lebanon Hanover ]|[ Vision Video ]|

✖️ Owner & Artist for Demonatrix Designs, a goth clothing company that is currently in pre-launch.

✖️ Occasionally freelance as a graphic designer.

✖️ Lazy Artist - Procreate and Photoshop mostly.

✖️ Lazier twitch streamer - Lately I haven't had the spoons to stream or edit videos, but I occasionally stream on Twitch under the same handle. My favorite games include Stardew Valley, Harvest Town, Graveyard Keeper, Little Witch In The Woods, Among Us, Minecraft, Animal Crossing, Don't Starve (together), 7 Days To Die, Dead By Daylight, Witch It, Sims 4

✖️ Retired amateur alt model, cam model, goth club domme, Vampire Freaks LA staff member, and pro-faux pumpkin carver for a pumpkin themed interactive art festival.

✖️ Wine enthusiast

✖️ Cozy MK 4 experamental aircraft ballast

✖️ Cringey cat mom millennial

✖️ UwU'd too many times to be ironic

✖️ Am I kowai enough to be an E-ghoul, yet?

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🔞 Please | Based in SLC, UT

[battybriefs]

It's barely noon, and since the news hit I've already lost two of my friends, who have decided that it's their time to shuffle off this mortal coil...

I wanted to leave this here in case any of you need it. There are some really helpful resources on this list for whoever is struggling. Please, please reach out to these programs if you're feeling like you're barely hanging on today.

Remember that you are not alone. Remember that you are loved. Remember that you belong, and your presence makes this world a more loving, kind, and beautiful place. The world needs your love, your voice, your support, your resistance, your passion, and your presence more than ever. Don't give up. Don't let them silence you. Don't let them win. We will overcome this together, I promise.

My DMs are open if you need support. If you need a friend to talk to, I'll listen. If you decide you need to check yourself in to a mental health program to stay safe, I'm happy to share my personal experiences with you and talk to you about what to expect and what to pack for your stay. If you need coping skills to deal with despair, I can teach you what I've learned. If you need resources, I'll help you research what options are out there.

Whatever you do, don't lose hope.

[battybriefs]

Started reading a really good Labyrinth fanfiction on AO3 yesterday, and suddenly my Instagram algorithm is full of animals dressed like Jareth.

I'm not mad about it. 🖤🔮

[battybriefs]

Spotify: Why don't you stay for the night? (night)

Google Maps: Turn left at the next light.

[battybriefs]

Ungoth Confession: I slept on Virgin Prunes. Hard.

It was the go-to gothier-than-thou-art gatekeep band that Poseur Patrol used to bully baby bats with online. "I bet you've never even listened to Virgin Prunes."

That just gave me a hard ick, so I refused to listen to them for years out of principle. I just associated that band with those specific toxic people.

Dustin recently added Baby Turns Blue to his Spotify playlist, and it turns out I really, really like them.

[battybriefs]

Every time I watch Little Shop Of Horrors I fondly remember the rando on Gaia Online who I roleplayed with one time, who played as Marluxia from Kingdom Hearts and spent a great deal of the roleplay affectionately trying to cross polinate a man eating plant named Seymore. Little did Rando know, this would embed itself in my core memories and later send me on a rabbit hole life-long obsession over goth adj / spooky musicals.

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I realized I never posted this commission I did for Omi on Highrise on my art blog.

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A little WIP for a stream starting background I've been working on for my Twitch channel.

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The Trad Goth Collection: 666 Follower Gift

Ever since I started making custom content and posting it on this tumblr over two years ago, I told myself I wasn’t ever going to do a follower gift. That’s because I was never in it for any followers, I just wanted to make cool stuff and share it around, that’s it. However, the only follower milestone that I thought would be right up my alley is to celebrate getting 666 followers on this blog. So, the fact you are seeing this right now only means one thing…

Thank you all so much for enjoying my alternative content! It means a lot! To celebrate this milestone, I wanted to continue my ever-increasing effort to both combine my love for the goth subculture with the sims and making my game as maxis match as possible by making some maxis match goth rock band designs! I was heavily inspired by the countless simmers, like @faeriessims, and @femmeonamissionsims, who render real-life stuff into the sims and took 13 iconic goth bands from the 80s and recreated their imagery into a sim-y likeness.

I’m super happy with how they all turned out and I love the cc I made with them, especially now that my sims and I can finally have matching band tees! Thank you @sims4satan​ for the play-testing! 

Don’t worry if you don’t know a lot about these bands, if you want your sims to own this stuff without looking like a posuer, you can find find a nice little playlist of these bands on youtube and spotify provided by yours truly! ;)

All the items are base game compatible. The CAS items have versions for masculine and feminine frames. Male shirt uses a mesh from a buckgrunt t-shirt, mesh is included. All items have 13 swatches except for the biker jackets which only have one swatch. All items have custom catalog and swatch thumbnails.

The download link and further information on this collection can be found here!

Custom content on models by: @sims4satan, @lunchsims, @monstermoms, @pralinesims, @luumia, @simandy, @candysims4, @turquoiseesims, @wistfulpoltergeist, @savvysweet, @redearcat, @feralpoodles, @trillyke, @tukete, @coloresurbanos, @forgiveusoursims, @renlishsims, @catsblob, @mothz and @s4simomo

Poses by: @helgatisha and @simmerberlin​

[mellosakicc]

trad goth jacket

for anon a long time ago. felt like making something patched. the female version has no shirt attached so you match with accessory shirts - male version, i couldn't figure out how to get rid of it.

base game compatible

m&f - teen thru elder

enabled for random

custom cas thumbnail

download (simfileshare) | download (patreon - free)

[battybriefs]

Started playing Sims 4 for the first time.

Spent hours finding CC and designing myself and my husband as accurately as I can.

Launched the game. First thing my husband's Sim does is b-line to the stove to cook Mac and Cheese. He catches himself on fire. My sim catches on fire trying to help. The house catches on fire while we're running around on fire. We both perish.

[battybriefs]

I miss IPods.

Yeah, it's nice that we have so many music streaming services where we have access to pretty much unlimited music at any given time...

But there was something really special about a time where people were limited to carrying around 160 GB of music. People had to really curate their collections, and pick only the songs that meant the very most to them.

Borrowing someone's Ipod was such an intimate way to get to know someone, and borrowing someone's Ipod was such a huge milestone in a friendship or relationship. I miss that. 💕

[battybriefs]

Finally finished the poster commission for an upcoming fundraiser show for a local Muay Thai studio.

[battybriefs]

Fallout! At The Disco playlist decided to mix things up. Teenage Dirt bag by Wheetus popped up. I'm still mad that it isn't a 2000s lesbian anthem.

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Oh. I guess I forgot to post the finished shirts I made for the Rutan Canard Fly In.

We did the timed air event and came in fifth place. We came in at 216 MPH. We took the turns super wide because we weren't familiar with the course and we didn't push too hard because cylinders 5 and 6 were coming in a tiny bit hotter than we wanted. Now that we know what we are doing, next year we'll come in even faster. We're hoping to join the 220 MPH club. 💕

[battybriefs]

Listening to Fallout At The Disco! while I work on art piece for a for a local women's Muy Thai studio.

Vibe is giving being in highschool in the early 2000s.

Brushes I used for the hair by Vegalia. Honestly their Procreate brushes are so good, and not terribly expensive. They're an amazing POC artist. Give them some love on Tiktok and Gumtree.

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[battybriefs]

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a child, but then I realized I was terrible at math and had a crippling fear of heights and the vaccume of space.

Now I'm married to a pilot, and ballast for his home built aircraft. That aircraft, The Cozy Mark 4's design was derived from the Long-EZ canard aircraft designs by Burt Rutan, who is the same person who designed SpaceshipOne- the first civilian aircraft in suborbital space.

It's interesting how the little themes in life repeat themselves.