and then some

Dee, She/Her, Swe, Adult. Retired cc creator. wciff.

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✨Soft Re-launch of Custom Content Help Desk✨

Hello everyone. Some of you won't know this but, i am the new "king" of the Custom Content Help Desk that Misschaii started many years ago with some people. I wasn't there then but i was so helpful in my early days that she promoted me to mod status pretty quickly lol. Now, Misschaii has moved on from simblr and left me in charge of the Help Desk.

So this is the SOFT re-launch of the server! I've been trying to fix it up and changing some settings and all that stuff but it's so much that, i think it's best to just do little by little and open the server and work on it bts in the meantime. You'll just have to sit through some changes here and there whenever i get a chance to fix something. When and if i ever get around to a proper run through of all the server settings, i'll do an official re-launch then.

My goal and idea for the future of the server is to add some fun activates, such as monthly cc making challenges. Maybe someone saw the flower wedding attires zeussim posted a couple months back? Or maybe even the flower heels i was working on? Yes that was june challenge lol. But since i am but one admin and mod, it's a lot to work on activities by myself but. I also wanna do some cc making live streams and things like that.

Same stuff as before applies: it's open for all ages (discords own age restriction whatever that is) and for all people who wants to learn AND share their own knowledge. This is a two way street, not a Join Once And Get The Info You Need And Then Dip And Pretend You Spent Hours And Suffered Loss Of Blood Sweat And Tears All By Your Lonesome Self. Knowledge is meant to be shared among everyone! And also, you have to be nice to people and keep drama out of the server. That should all go without saying but, we all know it needs to be said..

If you wish to join you will need to ask for an invite. You can either ask me here on @cookiesandcrumbs or you can ask over at @thefoxburyinstitute as we share the same goal: learning should be fun and for everyone!

Thanks to @whirliko @iliketodissectsims and Cerise for help with the banner lol

Edit 2024-08-09:

Hello! i'd like to make some addons and one announcement!

First, i want everyone to welcome @xldkx as a mod in the help desk! We are all very lucky to have someone with as much knowledge as nik has to share. welcome welcome!

Second. We have decided that we will not be allowing people who do early access in to the server. We don't have any ill-will towards early access as a whole, but we wish to make a stand against it by making sure that the server serves as a FREE space for everyone. That means free content, free knowledge and free advice. As much as we would like people who do early access to also learn and grow, we wish for the server to be freely available in all ways. Thank you.

[elisecairo]

[katherynefromphilly]

As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Give it a try.

[raccoonmilf]

If the only thing that has kept you going was outliving Mitch McConnell, imma need yall to pick a new person to outlive and fast. Your mission is not over.

[raccoonmilf]

Umm hello??? Do u have the death note @sharkgalaxy????

[sharkgalaxy]

cant believe i have to pick another person to outlive already

[kuttithevangu]

OK I keep seeing people refer to the Michigan parasite outbreak and then others will chime in “it’s in my state too!” so to clarify this for everyone it is a NATIONWIDE outbreak reported in 31 US states as of today, July 12th 2026. There is no reason to assume it is not present in the rest of them

Cyclospora, the ‘Explosive Diarrhea’ Parasite, Cases Reported in at Least 31 States: See the Map

NBC News’ tally shows at least 26 states have reported cases of the parasitic stomach illness, as health authorities race to find the source

[cookiesandcrumbs]

day 192 of FUCK AI I MADE THIS IN PAINT cus i have free will

[depsidase]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My father is a classic layabout lazy bastard. He's the guy that people try to stereotype people on benefits as when they call them "dole bludgers". Sits in a filthy house all day whining that his wife won't clean it up, gets a great idea for a new business every few months and gives up after two weeks when it becomes clear that starting a business is hard, does everything he can to avoid doing a single scrap of work in life, uselessly drags his feet when the government forces him to actually do some.

Or at least, he was, until about three years ago, when he was sent off to do mandatory Work for the Dole at a volunteer organisation. He'd done a lot of Work for the Dole in the past, of course, and like most people who are forced to do a shitty job under the threat of starvation, was neither enthusiastic nor particularly useful. But in this particular place, he was given a job that he could do better than anyone else (he was one of 2 men working with a legion of elderly women, and the only person able to easily haul around the heavy goods that the organisation works with). He quickly found himself with a job he could understand, he could see the clear utility in, and that his coworkers greatly valued him for. He started arriving on time every day, putting in the effort, getting shit done. He started caring about the results. And when his Work for the Dole time was up, he kept volunteering.

He's one of two people paid to work in that warehouse now (the other person being the manager), and he's a lynchpin of activity there, their sole regular and reliable source of physical labour. When he takes holidays, they have to plan around it, because his consistent hard work has become such a critical asset to their work. And he's not taking nearly as many holidays as he should -- he works extra unpaid hours, lifts loads that are somewhat heavier than he should be lifting, shoulders the work of others when they need breaks, and we all have to urge him to take more days off for his health since he's not a young man any more. For my entire life this man has been a pile of old mud in the shape of a human, and the instant he found a job that fulfils his needs, he won't fucking stop. He's gonna die in that warehouse and die happy.

[brightlotusmoon]

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day 192 of FUCK AI I MADE THIS IN PAINT cus i have free will

[freezerbnuuy]

Freezerbnuuy's Simblr Storytelling .psd

I am sharing the .xcf I use for storytelling in .psd form so GIMP and Photoshop users can use it. It's pretty minimal, and is designed as to not distract too much from your lovely screenshots. < 3

DOWNLOAD (free, no AdFly)

Includes various shapes and positionings of dialogue text background boxes and text boxes in lower opacity, to make your story text easier to read

I recommend to keep the story text background boxes set to Multiply mode.

Recommended fonts are Coolvectica Condensed for story text and LEMON MILK BOLD for the Area Description (Both free)

I hope this is helpful to someone!

@simblr-resources

[modelsof-color]

Ateta Jok by Marina Vengut for

[are-they-a-faggot]

DAVE LISTER - RED DWARF

is he a faggot

yes

no

possibly

i dont know him

i dont know him but he looks like a faggot

Remaining time: 6 days 44 minutes

reasoning: i think he is very likely bisexual at the very least

[freezerbnuuy]

Xila'al'pasi ('She who is peaceful with all'), better known as Ruby, was a Sixamian social worker and the adoptive mother of Dylan and Oliver. She was known for her immense kindness and patience and for the difference she made to so many children's lives, human and Sixamian. She was killed in a rocket crash when visiting her home planet about a decade ago, but she left her unique red promise mark on her son's palms to prove she would definitely come back...

Her focus on reform and non-violent problem-solving has definitely rubbed off on her eldest son, who is more interested in giving people a chance to change for the better than he is in revenge and forever punishments.

[radsturbate]

*reblogs post before i finish reading it* wait shit i don’t agree with that

[dagenssvenska]

*rebloggar ett inlägg innan jag läst klart det* vänta fan jag håller inte med om det där

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I regularly think about that arsehole developer CEO (or whatever the fuck he was) who goaded chatGPT into helping him try to screw over the Subnautica 2 creators, failed spectacularly as one might expect, and now his company literally loses money every time somebody buys Subnautica 2 on Steam

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[cookiesandcrumbs]

day 191 of FUCK AI I MADE THIS IN PAINT cus i have free will

[andromeda-xyz]

Lucanis Week 2026 - Day 1 - Work/Leisure

Print available here!

Lucanis tries to warm Rook up on a book genre she doesn't usually enjoy–romance. Lucanis is the romance reader and Rook is the romance slanderer. That, at least...applies for Anya lol.

Thank you @datvcompanionweeks for hosting this event!

I found a Jack Vettriano pose that was so good but I had a thought in my head of what if Leyendecker had a hand on it somehow lmao.

Previews below the cut :)

[freezerbnuuy]

Dear Beloved Simblr: Don't let 'What if it's AI?' Stop You from Reblogging Stuff Altogether! It won't be good for human Simblr creators.

I don't want to reblog from the person directly cuz I don't wanna put them on the spot nor do I want them to think I'm lecturing them, but I think people who are scared to reblog in case something is AI, I honestly think that's not the way to go. So people are scared of:

'I can't tell if it's AI-generated, I'm scared to reblog it in case it is and then I will feel bad for supporting AI / people will hate me and think I'm pro-AI'.

So let's go through a few things.

There is nothing you can do to stop Tumblrinas thinking you reblogged it on purpose. I've spoke about the 'torch and pitchforks' mentality before, and it's kind of along those lines.

Tumblr will more often assume you are a dangerous person than not. Sometimes for non-bad and very understandable reasons (Multiply marginalised people are of course going to be more wary of others because of bigotry, that is understandable) and sometimes for bad reasons (Shitty people love to claim other people are bad people, and those people love smear campaigns. How often have you seen otherwise-toxic people decide to be anti-AI?). There sadly is nothing you can do to stop people thinking you might have reblogged AI stuff on purpose. I don't say that in a blunt way, just a 'it is what it is' way.

You are not a bad person if you reblogged something AI-generated and didn't know. No matter how much someone else says you are, you aren't.

Second point: If you let the panic and anxiety of AI stop you from supporting others, then that defeats a part of the purpose of being anti-generative-AI. One aspect of being anti-generative-AI is the 'support humans'. Greatly lessening your support in paranoia doesn't do that.

Let's face it: As with any morality issue that ends up taking centre stage on Tumblr, People learn to be angry and afraid, but not everyone figures out the 'why' part, and so sometimes they end up kind of accidentally shooting themselves and others in the foot. For example, transphobia: Loads of people only know to say 'kill all transphobes', they never learn the ins and outs of why it is a dangerous thing.

It's the same with AI. Some folks who are anti-AI don't think about the reason part. They don't think of the polluting issues, the way people who unlearn an ability of how to do things without generative AI doing it for them are easier to control by the higher-ups, its toxic addictive nature to some people, its replacing of human connection, the issues it causes actual creatives. etc: People just know they shouldn't like AI, to block other people who use AI, and to be deathly afraid of being assumed to be pro-AI.

If you are terrified of reblogging something in case it's generative AI, then you will in turn end up lessening your support of creators, as I would say that human creatives in this community outweigh the AI fakers. And 'it's bad for creatives' is a large part of why people don't like generative AI. So you have to make sure it doesn't stop you from supporting creatives entirely.

You can always DM your close friends first and ask them if they think it's AI before you use the CC / reblog the post.

If you're really super duper worried, get a second pair of eyes - it can help you figure out what's AI slop and what isn't. My close friends do this with me, and I help them figure out whether to block or not.

Remember there is no one guaranteed way to determine what is AI-generated and what isn't. It is not always obvious because of technology advancements and increased sneakiness.

Sometimes it's dead obvious, but sometimes not. Now, this doesn't happen often in THIS community, but on Tumblr in general, people make AI claims quite a lot with some very loose 'proof'.

Remember, if you are going to publicly accuse someone of using AI make sure you have proof, have verified it amongst other people (helps to do this with people who are neutral against the accused to help prevent bias) and have good reason for your assumptions. I've seen a few artists on Tumblr get accused of AI over admitted 'hunches'.

I get that moral scrupulosity runs rife on this website, and some people can't help that, but please try not to let this scare you off from being supportive of Simblrs who don't use AI! Remember that a lot of us are human creatives, don't let your fellow hoomins down over AI slop < 3

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day 191 of FUCK AI I MADE THIS IN PAINT cus i have free will