mid-sized city hopes and small town fears

27/FTM/PNW USA. Multifandom (Sims, Pokemon, Marvel, etc)? Check! ✔ Mental health musings/resources, sometimes from a psych-critical perspective? Check! ✔ Zero filter? Also check! ✔ Definitely a furry? If you have to ask, the answer is ✔

[catboykilljoy97]

Hi there! I've been meaning to redo my pinned post and do some restructuring, so this seemed as good a time as any.

Welcome to my tumblr! This is a multifandom blog, primarily Sims 2 (and the assorted handheld spinoffs), Pokemon, Star Trek, and Marvel (although I'm really only there for Bruce Banner). I also post sometimes about mental-health related topics, either reblogs from people I think made good points, or my own things I've learned from the last 20 years navigating life with mental illness and also life within the mental health treatment system. There's some stuff I've had to learn the hard way, and my hope is that I can make it somewhat worthwhile by passing those lessons to someone else.

I mostly rely on the queue to post, and I'm trying to use social media more wisely this year, so I may only be here sporadically. However, I'm also trying to be more social this year, so if I see you in my notes a lot, I might send a quick message just to say hi 😸 and you can always feel free to do the same!

Here's some tags you might find useful 'round these parts:

FANDOM:

Sims: #ts2 #cool cc #sims handheld #sims 2 ds #sims 2 gba #sims 2 psp

Pokemon: #pokemon #galactic leader cyrus #gym leader volkner #elite four flint #ignitionshipping #perfectworldshipping

Marvel: #bruce banner #betty ross #the incredible hulk #mcu phase 1

Misc. Fandom: #star trek #ds9 #taylor swift #romeo + juliet #bees #always rb bees

(...bees are a fandom, right?)

BRAIN STUFF

#mh tag , for all mental health related posts

#may this mean something to anyone , for my original musings/ramblings/resources

#psych critical , for posts which touch on the flaws and failings of the mental health treatment system. This is a topic I have quite a few opinions about-- I'm not anti-therapy or anti-medication, but I've seem enough of those aforementioned flaws that I think it's a conversation we need to be having, for the sake of both clients and clinicians (because it fails them, too!). If this is something you've got any questions about, my inbox is always open!

MY OWN TAGS

#cbkj speaks , for all original posts.

#cbkj gifs, for gifs I make

#my fic for, well, my fic. Currently the main one I'm working on is my exceedingly overambitious tankjohnny fic, Something Beautiful. Gods willing, it may get finished sometime this century.

[catboykilljoy97]

IT'S DONE

At (very long) last, the final two chapters of Something Beautiful! Loyal ao3 readers already got Chapter 15 over the weekend, but I didn't want to make a second tumblr post 😅.

You can read it here.

After this, the plan is to go through my notebooks and take a look at all the stuff I've started but never finished and see how much I can turn into proper works. Not sure if I'll continue to post on tumblr (I miss y'all, I really do, but unfortunately, leaving tumblr has continued to be great on my general sanity and dignity). Here's what I know I've got a start on:

A handful of MCU oneshots, mostly focusing around Bruce Banner (and when I mean mostly I mean. all of them.)

A loose collection of GBA/DS era Tank fics

A multi-chapter Pokemon fic with Team Galactic!Volkner, ignitionshipping, and an inspo playlist titled "toxic yaoi: the musical"

bisexual MacGyver

If any of this interests you, keep an eye on my ao3. If not, then it's been nice knowing you, I wish you well, and thanks so much for sticking around. Really. I mean it. 💙💙💙

[catboykilljoy97]

Whoops, I almost forgot. Two new chapters of Something Beautiful! Yep, it's a double feature! That hopefully isn't worse off for spending so much time in Editing Hell *glares*

Idk if anyone still follows this account anymore, but in case I have any Tumblr-only readers, still wanted to let you know. I do have a few other Sims-related things in the works that I might put up here and my CC blog, but for the most part, I don't see myself coming back to tumblr. (Un?)fortunately, my sanity and especially my dignity have benefitted too much from bowing out. I miss and am grateful to a lot of y'all, so maybe I'll come back someday 💙

[catboykilljoy97]

*sneaks in* Okay, I am legit trying to quit most social media for a while. I was already on my way out, since I can really only be on tumblr in a non-unhealthy way (reading, amd posting, yikes) if I stay in a fandom bubble, and I’m not so active in any fandoms right now. Buuuuut I finally finished the next (and likely antepenultimate) chapter of Something Beautiful, so I figured I’d slide it over to y’all real quick, if anyone here is interested. You can read it HERE at Ao3

[fwaysims]

Object Freedom 1.02

Object Freedom 1.02

Do you have custom objects (or maybe even Maxis objects) that are not able to be quarter-tile placed, but don’t have the time to painstakingly go through every file to change the values? 

Do you have a handful of objects that you need to put down constantly, but it wasn’t enabled in the catalog to do so? 

Does that small custom plant sit fine on the table, but wish for your Sims to actually eat at the table (not with food in hand) while the plant sits upon it? 

Tired of cars crashing into each other, puddles stacking, etc. and you didn’t grab the hotfix yet? 

Object freedom 1.02 might be your solution!  More info after the cut!

The above Sim is eating Porridge by @jacky93sims​ from her Healthy Food set sitting at the table with a Maxis object not labeled with “CT - Allow with Food” in its BHAVs. 

Keep reading

[themediocresulk]

Imagine working for Maxis in 2004. You make a couple typos while developing a very complex and detailed game under tight time constraints. Then, eighteen years later, someone notices and posts them online just to poke fun at you. Man, that would really suck. Who would do such a thing. heartless.

[billykcplan]

THE INCREDIBLE HULK (2008) dir. Louis Leterrier ↪ marvel cinematic universe [ 2/? ]

[themediocresulk]

Danger Days was so ahead of its time like theres just something about the imagery of guys in masks living in a hot, dried-out hellscape controlled by an soulless megacorporation that's really been hitting different lately

[engagementscenario]

alfixes Replacement Project - Extracted Fixes and more!

Tired of the many conflicts with alfixes? Can't put up with Pescado hiding features in his mods? Then this might be of your interest.

Alfixes is something that has bothered me for a while, ever since I found out that it deletes date cards. No wonder I've barely seen them in game!

With Charity's incredibly thankful documentation on the topic, we now have a compiled list of mods to fully replace the few documented (cough) features that weren't already fixed by EAxis in Mansions & Gardens/later patches/Ultimate Collection. What you'll need to download is...

(List under the cut. Also stick around for my own extracted features, which I haven't found corresponding mods for.)

Tunaisafish's Enthusiasm Overhaul (which among many other things, also stops the hobby enthusiasm from decaying when playing in other households);

Simler90's Matchmaker Fix (she will behave properly when showing up at community lots);

AncientHighway's Love Potion Restock Fix (the game does not incorrectly restock it as a nice potion);

Gummilutt's M&G Physiology Fix (no longer maxes out the Body skill when working out after learning the skill);

BoilingOil's Skill While Tinkering (NOT included in alfixes, but mentioned/linked in Charity's thread);

Tunaisafish's Get Parents Fix (NOT even mentioned in Charity's thread, but this an essential corruption fix to a problem that got even worse in Apartment Life. alfixes DOES address the bug, but I didn't need to extract it because Tuna already did a much better job, from scratch).

Also be sure to check @belladovah's additions to the list over here.

And then, here's where I finally come in, extracting directly from alfixes the missing features, of which THERE WERE NO OTHER EXISTING MODS TO REPLACE. You can read more details about it here. Here's the download link with my alternatives: https://simfileshare.net/folder/143255/

I'd like to thank SimPE and it's creators for allowing me to extract all the junk from alfixes, Charity for all their hard work in manually testing the bugs, Belladovah for the extra mods to complement this list, Amairani for mentioning the missing 3 undisclosed features in the thread (4 for you Glen Coco, you go Glen Coco!) and none for Pescado Wieners, bye.

[chad-lilith-vs-virgin-angela]

but why the FUUUCCKKKKK can you be gay on literally anyyy of the Sims games except for the handheld console games. makes no goddamn sense. its the same series..im gonna go chimp mode

[thesimquarter]

hi! not to randomly show up on your post, there’s actually a reason for that. (source, a twitter thread with Dan Posluns, a programmer on The Sims 2 for DS)

So, it’s a combination of two factors:

The DS and GBA are considered to be 'for kids.' Therefore, EA would not publish games on the DS and GBA if they didn’t have an E-rating as they didn’t think T-rated games would perform well on those platforms. It's important to note that almost all Sims games have Teen ratings except for those released on the DS & GBA. And this was the trend for all EA-published multiplatform games. The console versions could be Teen+, but the versions of the game on the DS and GBA couldn't go above an E or E10+*.

The ESRB wouldn’t give a E or E10+ rating to games if they allowed for the player to be gay.

And... it really is just that.

Given how the Sims 2 for PSP turned out, AKA the only Griptonite/Amaze handheld Sims game to be allowed a Teen rating… I’m pretty sure we would have had the option to romance whoever we wanted if they were allowed to do that. Alas...

and, you know what, it makes me pissed too! not towards the games at all. the urbz/tsbo for gba really do push the limits of what is allowed for an E-rated game. hell, the sims bustin’ out had an entire revision that, to my knowledge, mostly censored a lot of the flirting dialogue and changed who could be flirted with! It’s pissed that That was the ESRB’s limit (at least in 2003-2010**). like, having the option to romance whoever you want suddenly makes it ~so much more inappropriate.~ Yes, I’m aware of the historical/cultural precedent for this, but that doesn’t mean it’s not absolutely ridiculous!

*Sidenote: E10+ wasn't created until 2005. Not completely relevant here, but the first two GBA Sims games would've NOT been E for Everyone if that rating had existed back then.

**Second sidenote: The last Sims game released for the DS and the last Sims game to receive an E rating from the ESRB, The Sims 3 for DS, doesn't allow same-sex relationships.

Third sidenote: If you're playing, specifically, The Urbz for DS on an emulator, someone made a mod here that might help you. :3

[andrevasims]

two IKEA dressers = cardboard box

or crate or whatever

[ganymedesclock]

I think cis people should also be their gender of choice. Like, if you're a man, you should get to really enjoy being a man- have fun with it! If you're a woman, take the parts of womanhood that really deeply make you happy. If being a little androgynous or ambiguous or hidden is the part that really makes you happy, you don't have to be trans for that. If you wanna lean really hard into being femme or masc- do it! You have one life in your body, do what makes you happy. Ditch the stuff you don't like.

My sinister queer agenda is I think that everyone should be the gender they like in the way they like it.

[qufy]

ENOUGH! *aromanticize every love song*

[vegetabletaxi]

this is just a bunch of text and barely a comic sorry, but i really wanted to talk about this stuff even if i don't have the energy to properly draw

[zihette]

multiple people (cis n trans) at my workplace have pronouns on their name badges but i just happened to have this convo a few shifts ago while on shift

[newporters]

hm okay well i dont find that to be similar at all

[themediocresulk]

TS2 has so many little details and quirks in just about every aspect, but my favorite has got to be the birds you can hear chirping when you use the terrain paint tool. Like, someone was just outside trying to record a spraypaint sound to use and accidentally recorded some birds in the background and now those birds are just. immortalized in a 2004 video game. and i think that's great