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[nicobees]

Birds of a Feather Sims 4 Legacy Challenge

I made this legacy challenge that I call, "Birds of a Feather Legacy Challenge," where every generation is based on a different type of bird!

If you decide to try it use #birdsofafeatherlegacy and tell me about it!

I'll be doing the challenge on my youtube channel @nicobeesims if you want to see and follow along!

Here are the rules:

Generation 1: Owl

You don’t have family or resources, but you do have your mind. Since you were a child, you have been told how wise you are, and you are determined to make a life for yourself out of your academic work-ethic.

Color: Brown

Style: Academia

Traits: Loner, Bookworm, Overachiever

Aspiration: Academic

Goals:

Start off on an empty lot with zero dollars

Complete the Academic Aspiration

Get married to a student at the rival unviersity

Join the secret society at University

Continue to Live in Britechester after you Graduate

Generation 2: Pigeon

Growing up in a sleepy college town, you’re only childhood ambition is to get out. You did inherit your parent’s love for research and writing, but you would rather apply it out in the world rather than in stuffy libraries. As soon as you graduate highschool, you decide to move to the city and pursue life as a journalist.

Color: Grey

Style: Preppy

Traits: Creative, Ambitious, Outgoing

Aspiration: City Native

Goals:

Complete your Aspiration

Move to San Myshuno as a Young Adult

Reach Level 10 of the Writer Career in the Journalist Branch

Move to a Penthouse Apartment as an Adult

Marry the first sim you date (Pigeons mate for life!)

gen 3: Chicken

You decide that the hustle and bustle of city life is too hectic. You seem to not have inherited the natural charisma that makes your Parent able to navigate the social life of San Myshuno with ease. You say goodbye to San Myshuno and create a pastoral life for you and your family.

Color: Red

Style: Cottage Core

Traits: Loves the Outdoors, Animal Lover, Outgoing, Socially Awkward

Aspiration: Country Caretaker

Goals:

Complete your Aspiration

Move to a Pastoral Neighborhood as a Young Adult

Reach level 10 of the gardening skill

Name your children after plants

Become best friends with 3 animals

gen 4: Peacock

Plants and Animals are all well and good, but you are much more interested in people. Specifically people’s eyes on you. You love fashion and fame, and you want nothing more than to have your style become a household name.

Color: Blue

Style: Maximalism

Traits: High Maintenance Self-Assured Self-Absorbed

Aspiration: Admired Icon, World Famous Celebrity

Goals:

Complete the Admired Icon Aspiration as a teen

Complete the World Famous Celebrity Aspiration in Adulthood

Reach Level 10 of the Style Influencer Career

Reach level 10 of the Charisma Skill

Get a Divorce as an Adult

gen 5: Stork

You love your parent, but part of you resents the time they spent on talk shows, runways, and with fans instead of with you. Witnessing your parent’s divorce as a child left you with an idyllic view of family life that you commit yourself fully to. You vow to always be there for your own children.

Color: Pink

Style: Retro

Traits: Family Oriented Childish Perfectionist

Aspiration: Big Happy Family

Goals:

Complete Aspiration

Get married as a young adult to your childhood best friend

Make money from a freelance career of your choice

Complete at least 3 gold star toddler playdates during your lifetime

Throw a party for every child’s birthday and every holiday

gen 6: Crow

Your parent obsessed with giving you the perfect childhood, and you are grateful. You live with them well into adulthood, and as you watch all your friends move out and on with their lives, you’re more than happy to live in the place you grew up, spending your time on whatever you find interesting, which is mostly programming and adding to your various collections.

Color: Black

Style: Alternative

Traits: Geek Genius Loyal

Aspiration: Curator

Goals:

Complete Aspiration

Live with your parent(s) until you are an adult

never move from your hometown

win a contest at GeekCon

reach level 10 of the Programming Skill

gen 7: Penguin

You love anything that gets you active: Climbing, Swimming, Snow Sports! You always needed to be the strongest and bravest of all the kids on the block, You love sports of all types and dedicate your life to achieving your athletic goals.

Color: Orange

Style: Athleisure

Traits: Active Good Bro

Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast

Goals:

Complete Aspiration

Reach Football Team Captain as a Teenager

Go Swimming at least once a week from childhood onward

Reach level 10 in either Skiing or Snowboarding

Successfully climb Mount Komorebi

gen 8: Canary

You love making other sims smile, whether that be with a pretty song or a warm baked good! People are naturally attracted to your optimistic personality, and you decide you like playing the field. You tried to pursue a career in music but decided the spotlight was a bit much for you and decided to open a bakery instead.

Color: Yellow

Style: Soft

Traits: Cheerful Music Lover Foodie

Aspiration: Serial Romantic

Goals:

Win a Karaoke Contest

Never get married

Join the Music Career as a Young Adult

Quit your career as an Adult to open a store that sells baked goods

Reach level 10 of the Singing Skill

gen 9: Parakeet

You love making jokes and making friends. Unlike your Parent, who wanted to stay out of the spotlight, you love being the center of attention and are meticulous about maintaining your online presence. You are extroverted and always need to be surrounded by other people. From housemates to extravagant weekend plans, you organize your life so you’ll never have to be without company.

Color: Green

Style: ‘00s

Traits: Party Animal Goofball Insider

Aspiration: Live Fast, Party Animal

Goals:

Complete the Live Fast Aspiration as a teenager

Complete the Party Animal Aspiration in Adulthood

Never live by yourself (always have at least one other sim in the household)

Reach Level 10 of the Social Media Career

Perform Comedy at an Open Mic Night (Talent Showcase)

gen 10: Hummingbird

You never could stay in one place for long, and upon graduating, you decide to put this restlessness into use, entering the secret agent career where you are constantly moving and on new assignments. This begins to wear on you, the not being able to get close to anyone, the secret identities, it gets lonely. When you fall in love with one of your fellow agents, you both decide to get out and start over somewhere where your pasts couldn’t find you.

Color: Purple

Style: Grunge

Traits: Non-Committal/(Romantic) Adventurous Jealous

Aspiration: Soulmate

Goals:

Complete the Soulmate Aspiration

Move to a new town every time you are promoted while in the Secret Agent Career

Marry another Secret Agent, and both quit the career

Replace Non-Committal with Romantic Trait as Adult

Reach Level 5 in 5 different skills

[shiokishuji]

For later

[etheringtonbrothers]

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[betterbinderproject]

Transform a sports bra into a binder: THE TUTORIAL

Is it possible to cheaply transform a simple sports bra into a binder? Would that binder be any easier to wear than what’s on the market right now?

WE DON’T KNOW, BUT WE’RE TRYING TO FIND OUT. If you’re willing to give it a try, here’s how.

Keep reading

[shiokishuji]

To try out.

[paganinpurple]

AO3 Etiquette

It would seem a whole new kind of AO3 reader/writer is emerging and it is becoming clear not everyone quite understands how the website community works. Here is some basic guidance on how most people expect you to go about using AO3 to keep this a fun community archive that funtions correctly:

Kudos is for when the story was interesting enough to make you finish reading. If it sucked or was badly written, you probably left. If you finished - you kudos.

If you liked it, you should comment. It can be long and detailed or a literal keysmash. Writers don't care, we just love comments.

No critisism unless the author has specifically asked or agreed to hear it. Even constructive critisism is a no-no unless an author note tells you it's okay. Many people write as a fun hobby or a way to cope with, among other things, insecurity. Don't ruin that for them.

Do not comment to ask the author to write/update something else. It's tacky and off-putting and will probably have the opposite effect than the one you want.

There is no algorithm, it's an archive. Use the search and filter function to add/remove the pairings/characters/tropes etc. you want to read about and it will find you the fics that fit the bill.

For this to work, writers must tag and rate stories. This avoids readers finding the wrong things and missing the stuff they want. I don't care how cringy that trope is in your eyes - it gets tagged.

Character A/Character B means a ROMANTIC or SEXUAL relationship of some kind. Character A&Character B is PLANTONIC, like friendship or family.

Nothing is banned. This is an implicit rule because banning one thing is a slipperly slope to banning another and another, until nothing is allowed anymore. Do not expect anyone to censor for you. Because of the tags system, you are responsible for your own reading experience.

People can create new chapters and sequels/fic series any time after they "complete" a story. So it's considered perfectly normal to subscribe, even to a finished story. You can even subscribe to the author instead just to cover your bases.

Do not repost stories or change the publishing date without an extremely good reason (like a complete top to bottom rewrite). It's an archive, not social media. No one cares what's the most recent, only what fits their tag needs.

Avoid deleting a story you wrote if you hate it - orphan it so others can still enjoy it, without it being connected to you anymore.

This is a creative fanfiction archive. No essays on your insights or theories please. There are other places for that.

I KNOW there's plenty more I missed but I'm trying to cover most of the basics that people seem to be struggling with.

I invite anyone to add to this, but please explain, don't berate.

[thesevenumbrellas]

People are so entitled in the comments damn like no you writer don’t have to put up with you being rude they wrote you entertainment for free

[pluckyredhead]

To the people in the notes who are insisting that they have the right to leave negative feedback on AO3:

What you’re not understanding is that fandom is not a service, it’s a community. I saw someone compare leaving a comment on AO3 to reviewing a product on Amazon - if you didn’t like the product, you’re going to say so. But fanworks are not products and you didn’t pay money for them. They were shared with you.

Leaving un-asked-for criticism in AO3 comments isn’t like reviewing a product you were disappointed with. It’s like going to a friend’s house when they’ve cooked a meal and telling them all the things that are wrong with the food. Sure, you can do it, but it’s rude as hell and they are probably not going to invite you to dinner again.

("Can you leave crit in comments” has been a debate as long as I’ve been in fandom, but 20 years ago the argument was “I’m helping the writer improve!” and not “I am a consumer with a right to complain.” Fandom has gotten more creepily capitalistic over the decades but jerks are evergreen, I guess.)

[theslowesthnery]

anyway i looked up the post about seeing your grandma's boobs and tumblr has deleted the screenshot of the story where the finnish dude says that americans are "like that" because they haven't seen their grandma's tits

good job tumblr 👍

[antarctic-octopus]

[theslowesthnery]

there it is!

my comments on that post were (sorry for shamelessly copy-pasting them):

american attitudes about nudity are fucking wild, and the worst part is that because they're american, they just assume that everyone everywhere thinks the same. i will never forget seeing people on a left-leaning, progressive site saying that families bathing together is creepy and gross and clearly a sign that something is wrong with the family, that they'd never seen their siblings or parents naked and would in fact rather die. meanwhile to this day i bathe and go to the sauna with my sister and mother and have been bathing and sauna'ing with various family members - and even strangers! - my whole life. but yes, can confirm, seeing your grandma's tits as a child does you good, and not just because it teaches you that "beauty is fake and temporary", but because it broadens your ideas about what beauty even is in the first place. my sister and i used to spend our summers at our grandma's house by the countryside and frequently bathed and went to sauna with her. we saw not just her breasts but also her flabby skin, her moles and liver spots, her body hair and varicose veins, and we didn't see any of that as weird or ugly because they were a part of our grandma who we loved very much. and when we see those things in other people - ourselves included! - we think "well it wasn't ugly on my grandma's body, so why would it be ugly on anyone else's body?". it makes you much more understanding and "forgiving", if you will, towards the completely normal bodies of strangers as well as your own body.

[theslowesthnery]

terfs and radfems not-so-kindly fuck off

[shiokishuji]

Hear, hear

[thechekhov]

English is the most gender neutral language, therefore it’s the best language

[Transcript under the cut]

While English is certainly much more neutral than some select languages, i don’t believe it’s accurate to call it the most neutral. 

There are many languages that have a built-in neutral pronoun, such as Armenian, and some that lack grammatical gender completely, like Swahili. Language and gender is complex, so I’m not sure there’s any way to reasonably rank them from ‘worst’ to ‘best’.

And although I understand your appreciation of English and feel quite grateful to it as well, your statement made me recall something...

You see, as a middle school student, I took classes in German as my ‘language’ requirement. At the time, many kids in my class were only there because they had to be, and at one point, a girl I sat next to said “Urgh, why do we gotta learn another language anyway? It’s annoying. Everyone should just learn English, it’s the best language.”

Which, at the time, was hilarious to me because I had just gotten used to speaking in English and knew personally how convoluted its grammar was.

And almost immediately after, I felt quite angry.

Unfortunately, calling English the ‘best language’ for any reason is not quite the neutral, positive statement it sounds like.

Many people who speak English think of it as superior, and use that as a reason to put down other languages. 

But regardless of how gender neutral they are, or how complex their grammars are, languages are all incredible. 

They aren’t good or bad, or BEST, they are something much more.

Languages are, at their core, a history. 

A history of its people, a library of their culture, and a living embodiment of not only the ones who speak it now, but those who spoke it hundreds of years ago. 

Each one is unique, each one has something that it can do that other languages perhaps cannot. But this does not make it lesser or greater. Instead, it gives us the ability to describe our experiences with our culture in a way that is inherently tied to our community and history. 

I share your fondness for English, and I like the fact that it’s neutral, and I like its ridiculous rules, its archaic spelling and its frankly ludicrous amount of vowels... but I can’t agree with it being the ‘best’ language. 

Calling any language ‘best’ is as silly as calling green the ‘best’ eye color, or blonde the ‘best’ hair color. It’s important to appreciate all our languages, whether or not they suit our personal needs.

[ferricadooza]

if you're wearing a bra while quarantined................. why

[prewars]

#this post sponsored by the tiny titty committee because no one with a d cup would have written this

[shiokishuji]

Six fanarts meme - DA elves edition. 

[shiokishuji]

Past Lives - 17/2/2020

I felt like I needed to try this out after feeling really tense about my life situation right now. It’s helped me before, and I like writing these down anyway.

There’s a wall of text, so I’m leaving it under a cut. If you don’t believe in this stuff, feel free to skip.

Kazakhstan or Mongolia, late 1700s?

I was standing on a plain, the long grasses reaching up to my waist in places, shifting around my heavily embroidered clothes. The clothes my mother made me. I am alone, but I know my family is waiting for me to get home somewhere over the next hill. The sun is going down, it’s windy and getting chilly. I tug at the reigns of my horse, tired from the days ride. I’m walking beside her. I hum a song my mother used to sing to me when I was a little boy, and I start hearing the sounds of our little camp in the distance as I crest the hill and see my younger siblings running towards me, calling my name.

I don’t quite catch what they’re saying. My name starts with a K.

They take my hand and crowd around me, the familiar babble warm and happy. They’re telling me my bride’s arrived. I feel anxious, nervous, but also expectant and happy.

*

A year later. I’m pacing around a tent. We’ve made camp close to a town this time. My wife is in our tent giving birth to my first child. She’s quiet, all I can hear is our animals in the camp; most of my family have gone to the town to restock, or they’re herding our horses and sheep out in the plains. I can hear a cry of a new-born. Healthy lungs. Loud. I fall to my knees and feel tears on my face. After a bit my grandmother comes out of the tent holding a bundle. She tells me it’s a healthy little boy. I ask about my wife, taking my son to my arms. They’re shaking. She’s fine, tired but will recover.

I zone her out as I look into the dark blue eyes of my son.

I am so happy.

*

I’m an older man now. I’ve built us a house with my brothers. We’ve settled down into a town, my wife’s health started declining on the plains, so I made the decision to do this. Her family lives here, her sisters still visit often. My family still wanders the plains, but they tend to stay close by. It’s a busy, happy household.

I sit beside my wife, looking out into the inner yard; she’s embroidering something for our daughter’s wedding. She’ll be leaving us as soon as I set the date. I have six healthy children, the youngest sleeping in his cot beside my wife, my oldest son tending the horses on the yard, talking to his pregnant wife. It’s a good life, I think. Problems have a tendency to sort themselves out.

[shiokishuji]

ADORIBULL REVERSE BANG 2019

Essential Comforts

Artwork by shiokishuji

Essential Comforts by Delmire

The Desert within by venndai

[shiokishuji]

Essential Comforts, Dragon Age Inquisition, 2019

Essential Comforts by Delmire

The Desert inside by venndai

[insufficiently-advanced]

look i just

[shiokishuji]

Commission work. Zevran with extra smolder, as was requested.

[shiokishuji]

Commissions open

I’m opening commissions here, too. Payment via PayPal or bank transfer, upfront or half before I start, half after it’s finished.

Portrait

sketch (with rudimentary shading)

o   head                5€

o   ½ body           10-15€

o   full body        15-20€

inked

o   head                10€

o   ½ body           15-20€

o   full body        20-30€

inked and coloured

o   head                15€

o   ½ body           20-25€

o   full body        25-35€

will draw armour

props are +1-5 € depending on what’s asked (includes extra appendages such as wings, and weapons)

all extra characters +5€ (couple portraits or pets)

WON’T do new character designs (you provide references)

Situational

All depends on complexity, the amount of characters and how dynamic you want it.

10-100€

Contact me via message here, or on my other art sites, or via email [email protected]

[thatapostateboy]

I would personally like to thank ubisoft for this cut scene

(it’s spoiler free for anyone yet to play the game)

[shiokishuji]

Finished Legolas. <3A bit of a different colouring style.I think he's wearing some sort of night clothes here; definitely not travel clothes. Also, he would have something to hold his hair back during the day - a circlet (as fit for a prince) or some braids. Again, this is how I imagined him. Not the version in the films.

[shiokishuji]

Lineart on Legolas done.

I really like the expression, though. Trying out a new way of drawing eyes, and mouth. Will be trying a new colouring technique, too.

Note; this is the Legolas I imagined when I read the books. Not the film one.