Bones I 💀 is in session 🦴

Mac. Technically almost a doctor. Big fan of TLT and vampire fiction.

[inbabylontheywept]

Please could we hear the full proposal story? Because it sounds very sweet but also SO FUNNY

It's not a particularly plot driven adventure. My wife wanted to be surprised when I proposed, but she also wanted to know what day I would propose so she could wear a cute outfit and get her hair done and all those things. My solution to that was to buy the ring, and then also buy a dozen more ringboxes.

Then we just did a sort of mishmash of all our first dates. We went to the Desert Botanical Gardens, and I proposed three times, which she was flabbergasted by, and then we got lunch, and I proposed twice, which she was less flabbergasted by, and then we went to the Japanese Friendship Gardens, where I continued proposing to both her great amusement and mild annoyance. Then we went to the Phoenix Art Museum, and she'd peeked in my backpack enough that she knew I still had about five more boxes left, which meant that her guard was down. Rookie mistake - she was expecting me to only propose on the last one. Gave me one last chance to surprise her. So I beelined straight for the firefly room

and when we were walking there I told her about how that room had surprised me the first time because it looks like a Mormon Temple's sealing room. Mirrors in front of mirrors, designed to make you look like you're standing in front of eternity. A strangely loaded cultural symbol, even to a merely former Mormon. How it was jarring it was to just be laughing and looking at art on a third date, just having a silly time, then turning a corner and more or less immediately standing in a sort of scifi version of my culture's wedding altar. That the first time I'd actually considered what spending the rest of my life with her had happened almost involuntarily that day. That I'd been surprised, even then, by how unscary it had seemed. Even as mostly strangers, I knew she was special.

Then we went inside the exhibit I opened my backpack, and I let her see all the other boxes before handing her the real one, and she opened it to humor me and was instead met with the real ring.

We got married the summer after that.

[inbabylontheywept]

The evil pearl guides me

[cursed-and-haunted]

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

[cursed-and-haunted]

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

[gabyluvsxena]

this post has re-wired my brain in the best way

[ainecdote-remade-deactivated202]

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

[sloppity-bilepiper]

1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

[vintagedean]

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"

[dr-skelebones]

This, and the concept of the "Wendigo economy" put forth by Winona Laduke! The Wendigo is a harmful spirit related to cannibalism but also selfish, destructive actions as it concerns resources. The entire economic system wrought by Canada's and the US's settler governments, then, is a manifestation of the Wendigo spirit writ large.

[ainecdote-remade-deactivated202]

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

[sloppity-bilepiper]

1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

[vintagedean]

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"

[joliebean]

Prom 2026 Collection by Joliebean and imvikai

Relive the glamour of early 2000s prom season with my and imvikai’s new collaboration. Inspired by iconic y2k style, this set brings all the sparkle, drama and unforgettable experience of the big night to your Sims’ wardrobes. The collection includes a number of hairstyles, accessories and clothing items to complete a perfect prom look. Enjoy and happy simming! 💋

✨ About My Part ✨

BGC

standalones

10 files on my part

30 swatches (except earrings)

not allowed for random

custom thumbnails

instagram | twitter | pinterest | linktree

my TOU

You can get @imvikai 's part HERE

Download My Part HERE (Public Release - June, 29)

[tuesdayfreak]

i love you mae borowski

[trillyke]

In the 12th May update The Sims 4 introduced a new CAS category dedicated to accessory tops, called Base Layer. This way you no longer have to give up on gloves if your sim wants to wear a CC accessory top. (Originally all my accessory tops and chains were located under the Gloves catalogue so your sim couln't wear them at the same time. Downloading the new updated versions is not a necessity, if you like them located under the gloves section or you haven't updated your game to this patch yet you can ignore this post! ^^ )

After making a poll checking preferences, I decided to make a new, standalone version of my already existing accessory tops and body chains located under this new category. This way you can have the old (gloves) version and new (base layer) version at the same time and I noticed you can even layer two accessories this way hehe but if you no longer need the old gloves category version, you have to manually delete it. The file name changed the following way - I added the BaseLayerUpdate suffix to the original filename. Example:

Trillyke_Superstar_Waist_Chain_Belts.package - old file, located under the Gloves section Trillyke_Superstar_Waist_Chain_Belts_BaseLayerUpdate.package - new file in this bundle, located under the new base layer catalogue

➤ DOWNLOAD HERE (Patreon, Free)

Accessories like sleeve accessories and arm warmers I didn't touch, I feel they still fit more under the gloves section. Accessory chains however I updated, bodychains will be layered under tops, while waist and belly chains will be layered over clothing, as originally intended. Not on the preview, but I also updated the two male frame accessory tops I made in the past.

The file is a ZIP file containing 38 package files, make sure you unzip it and move everything to your Mods folder! ✨

Useful links: Blog post about the new The Sims 4 update Masterpost of my accessory tops

[invisiblequeen]

Your service to the simblr community is appreciated and adored.

[scarycatipillar]

consider me terrified

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[dr-skelebones]

honestly depending on who the heir to the estate of a given author is we might have a loooooong wait to be able to read them in the public domain and not give money to their regressive pet causes

[oh-jod-dammit]

WE ARE ALL OF US FOOLS. Mercy's hair isn't pink or strawberry blonde or rose gold or ginger or auburn or any of the options we usually consider.

You noticed the colours first, beneath that harsh and unlovely light: that the hair was a dead flower or apricot colour, and that the skin and lips and brows were of a similar hue, so that beneath the nacreous cowl the saint looked like a painting with a very limited palette; and the eyes …

But the Emperor wrapped his arms around his Lyctor as though she were a precious and runaway child; he pressed her to him, drawing down the hood and tousling that overripe rose-tinted hair, heedless of the curtseying, bowing Cohort officers in the wake of his passage.

Your eldest sister, looking distinctly green around the gills and checking long strands of her overripe-rose hair for globs, had also risen—but the Emperor said, “You. Stay,” and she froze.

Her prismatically white Canaanite robe was wrapped very tightly around her, as though she were cold, and she had bound back her peach-coloured hair as though it were a wimple.

Mercy had it worst: the knot of hair at her neck had come down, and now was springing loose in pale, rose-gold strands, and she was actually sniggering.

The Lyctor at his left was combing out her hair—it tumbled in a heavy mass around her shoulders, that curious heart-of-a-yellow-rose colour, that pinkish, reddish, goldenish shade that was not entirely appealing.

She stood there with her shoulders heaving and her hand pressed over her face, pinky-reddish hair coming out of her braid, looking unhurt but pretty sorry for herself.

And she cocked her flower-coloured head to the side so that her sweaty hair fell over her face, in that sizzling, gulping heat, and she stared at us,

At one point, she threw her head back as though she were going to yell aloud, and that weird-hued hair shivered over her back.

The collapsed body on the floor, Mercymorn’s hair tumbling close to his feet in rosy, bloodied tangles.

It's not any of these colors.

It's all of them.

A lot of us already accept that she's using flesh magic to make it an unnatural colour. I propose one step further: It's literally changing slightly every scene, sometimes even mid-scene. Sometimes it's multiple colours at once, in ombres or streaks. Occasionally it's a colour unknown to mortal eyes that only Lyctors can see, the one Gideon describes as just "weird".

[toothybj]

Wizard council

Bonus panel:

https://www.patreon.com/toothybj

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

As though we needed more evidence that the wizard council is full of shit...

[dr-skelebones]

You know what given this information I'm actually on @evilwizard 's side now. Hail the Dark Lord I guess

[processedlives]

“I will have an undergraduate class, let’s say a young white male student, politically-correct, who will say: “I am only a bourgeois white male, I can’t speak.” … I say to them: “Why not develop a certain degree of rage against the history that has written such an abject script for you that you are silenced?” Then you begin to investigate what it is that silences you, rather than take this very determinist position-since my skin colour is this, since my sex is this, I cannot speak… From this position, then, I say you will of course not speak in the same way about the Third World material, but if you make it your task not only to learn what is going on there through language, through specific programmes of study, but also at the same time through a historical critique of your position as the investigating person, then you will have earned the right to criticize, you be heard. When you take the position of not doing your homework- “I will not criticize because of my accident of birth, the historical accident” - that is the much more pernicious position.”

— Gayatri Spivak (via fearandwar)

[apoemaday]

Boy Driving His Father to Confession

by Seamus Heaney

Four times now I have seen you as another Man, a grown-up friend, less than a father; Four times found chinks in the paternal mail To find you lost like me, quite vulnerable. Twice it was your incredible distress, Once your adult laughter, now your weakness. There was the time when my child-brother died And in the porch, among the men, you cried. Again, last year, I was shocked at your tears When my mother's plane took off: in twelve years You had not been apart for one whole day Until this long-threatened, two-week holiday. I left you lonely at the barrier, Was embarrassed later when you stood a beer. The third time you made a man of me By telling me an almost smutty story In a restaurant toilet; we both knew This was an unprecedented breakthrough. Today, a sinner, and shy about it, You asked me to drive up to church, and sit Morose as ever, telling me to slow On corners or at pot-holes that I know As well as you do. What is going on Beneath that thick grey hair? What confession Are you preparing? Do you tell sins as I would? Does the same hectic rage in our one blood? Here at the churchyard I am slowing down To meet you, the fourth time, on common ground. You grunt and slam the door. I watch another Who gropes as awkwardly to know his father.

[catchymemes]

[lionofchaeronea]

Ooh, maybe this will counteract my run-in with the Zucchini of Despair.

[chapel-roach]

"You mustn't think that even now Edmund was quite so bad that he actually wanted his brother and sisters to be turned into stone. He did want Turkish Delight and to be a Prince (and later a King) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them—certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them. 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all those people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be much better than that awful Aslan!'" —C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Chapter 9

Just got to this point in my reread of the Chronicles of Narnia, and it made me think of my other recent reading: the book about Revelation, and the book about Christian nationalists.

I see a lot of the rank-and-file of Christian nationalism in Edmund in this passage. They don't really want to hurt anyone, at least if you ask them directly; they just want what they're owed. They're owed niceness, even though they haven't given it back, and they don't appreciate having their spite called out. They're owed power, even when it's promised by an entity that does not have their best interests at heart, and it's no use convincing them that this entity really is evil, because it's willing to treat them with the niceness they demand, at least for now. They're willing to crown it, even, even when it has no legitimacy.

And just because they don't want to hurt anyone, doesn't mean they aren't. Edmund has done real harm to the people around him. Tumnus is already stone; he comes across him in the courtyard. He continues to the Witch because he's too afraid of turning back—literally, he is too fearful to repent, and now the Witch knows Aslan is back in the country.

He rejects Aslan, whose coming is the greatest Good News possible for the suffering and frozen Narnia, because he is afraid of what Aslan will do to "his" camp. If Aslan gets rid of the Witch, how will Edmund become a Prince?

Choosing power and a false Christ over life and the true Christ will always bring suffering, to others and to oneself. You cannot see spring by choosing winter.

There is hope, isn't there? Aslan ransoms Edmund, who sees the error of his ways and finally repents and turns back. It doesn't save Aslan, but the battle is already won. And Edmund does even get his throne, even though it's not what he wanted at first. He shares it with his siblings, but he is glad.

It's so hard to pray for my enemies. I don't want to. They're being shits, just like Edmund, and it's so easy to say, if they want to go to the Witch's House and deal with the Devil, then damn them to it. But we can't. Let's ride out to meet Aslan at the Stone Table—Good Friday is coming—and trust that wrong will be made right when He is in sight.

[conarcoin]

[naamahdarling]

I would play the shit out of this.

[ashanoir]

Please support this game! I've been following it forever and the developers obviously put a lot of love into finally repping my people as Not Just Generic Bad Guys To Be Slaughtered in QuickTime Events, but the unabashed horse girls we truly are. I really love how outspoken she is about representing proper care and compassion for these animals in the industry too.

Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori (PC & Consoles)

Experience the legendary adventures of a brave courier rider! Bond with your horse and tame the open wilds of 13th century Mongolia.

[lionofchaeronea]

I'm not a gamer at all, but this sounds like the sort of game even I would enjoy.

[thefloatingstone]

it's in Early Access btw

The Legend of Khiimori on Steam

Take on the role of a brave courier rider in The Legend of Khiimori! Bond with your horse and tame the open wilds of 13th century Mongolia.

[polybius-on-gameboy-deactivated]

“I think America should be taken by Canada instead” No, I think America should be returned to its Indigenous tribes, while Canada should return to the First Nations, the Inuit and the Métis.

“I think America should be taken by Denmark instead” No, I think America should be returned to its Indigenous tribes while Denmark returns Greenland to the Kalaallit, the Tunumiit and the Inughuit.

“I think Texas should be taken by Mexico” No, I think Texas should be returned to the Apache.

“I think Florida should be taken by Cuba” No, I think Florida should be returned to the Seminole.

“I think the Blue states should form their own country” No, I think the Blue states should return to the Chinook, the Yakama, the Nimíipuu, the Pomo, the Chumash, the Diné, the Wôbanaki, the Massachuset, the Haudenosaunee, the Pequot, the Lenape tribes, and the Inuit, the Unangax̂ and the Tlingit tribes of Alaska.

Stop roleplaying colonialism with a leftist coat of paint and give land back to its fucking Natives.

[faunawolf]

I know someone who would have a suggestion.

[inwardsky]

@isuggestlandback

[isuggestlandback]

Hey!! I suggest that!!