I still don't know how to title these things

[squishiifishrose]

What would happen if Pablo were to try Indian food? I was inspired by your Dora and Friends at Denny's fic and Pablo's love of Peppercorn to ask this. That, and I went to an Indian restaurant for lunch. Let me tell you, Indian food, depending on the dish, has a kick.

I feel like he'd commit some kind of heinous food sin (remember the peanut butter, peppercorn and ketchup sandwich) or sneeze for half the meal. This boy's sneezing mechanics get triggered by what I'm assuming is regular pepper. Really spicy food is going to make that worse.

[iiinkarnation]

So me and my friend were discussing how to characterize shape bandit and bad news I got attached to him as a result of it

[squishiifishrose]

Bro. I'm not even into team umizoomi as a fandom, GIVE ME MORE OF THIS.

[pixopix]

Recolour of circus dividers, red and yellow please!

Please credit @pixopix, likes and reblogs are appreciated!

Check out my other circus sets!

[idog-graphics]

Unused stamps

[stamps that didn’t make it into the collection]

Just for fun / to calm down

[idog-graphics]

primary color crazies stamps

Just for fun / calming down

[squishiifishrose]

omg the three teams plot twist exploded artfight.

I still can't decide on a team though but I am leaning between comedy and mystery. The jester mascots are that good.

[squishiifishrose]

Edit: I went with team mystery because the color red.

Also they managed to tape the artfight website back together.

[artfight]

Art Fight 2026 team cards! Use these to advertise yourself and your characters - post them on social media, on your Art Fight profile page, or in the #target-hunting channel on our Discord server.

[squishiifishrose]

Thankfully artfight puts the resources up on tumblr.

[squishiifishrose]

omg the three teams plot twist exploded artfight.

I still can't decide on a team though but I am leaning between comedy and mystery. The jester mascots are that good.

[squishiifishrose]

I'm thinking of making an ask blog for my ocs. Should I do it?

[lorencethecat]

I wish more life sim games had disabled focused content in them. I want my character to be blind. I want my character in a wheelchair. I want my character to use a cane or crutch or walker. I want braces and hearing aids and oxygen tanks. I want sign language and AAC devices and the option to be completely nonverbal. I want disability representation in my life sim games

[squishiifishrose]

As someone who has a nonverbal character they want to put in a life sim - YES

As someone who has a lot of characters with mental disabilities- YES

As someone who doesn't really have more than one oc with a facial difference - YES

As someone who really hasn't gone through writing characters who present day have physical disabilities but knows that they are a normal part of how life goes for a lot people on account of knowing a percentage of 7 billion is still a lot of fucking people - YES. They're a normal part of life. Why can't they show up in any capacity unless someone mods them in.

But in all seriousness if a dollar store ripoff of tomodachi life who's indie team abandoned the game at a free demo could bother even attempting to add some, very limited, elements of disability (namely deaf-muteness and a checkbox to make your islander a wheelchair user), why can't AAA studios even include a few attempts?!

The game is called New Day it's actually kinda fun if you're into fishbowls of the tomodachi life variety but way less notifications of problems (plus the obvious bugs of it being an indie game that appears to no longer be in full production swing)

[iiinkarnation]

Together All for One

[saszor]

Happy face equality week. One mildly finished drawing due to #mysurgery and adjacent events.

[squishiifishrose]

Oh hey it's that artist I reblogged a burn guide from, this looks really cool.

I hope you're feeling better from your surgery Saszor.

[eameschairs]

me and @microbiologistmusings made a guide! we were talking about how frustrating it can be when so much (well meaning!) art of wheelchair users seems to get the chairs...not quite right. so maybe this will help :) i had a lot of fun drawing it and thank u to levi for your unending wisdom <3

[squishiifishrose]

*Sigh*

Okay so quick note: I ate some of my words from late last year when I first started talking about sims 4 related stuff, and have ended up playing the Sims 4 again, I must've just not been comfortable playing the game while the buyout was such a hot topic and not just like another thing we have headaches about. I'm not exactly sure if this warrants an apology but I am sorry since I said it was related to reasons beyond the sims 4 as a game. In all devil's advocate, I'm 90% sure that play time alone doesn't give money to EA soooo, I don't think EA has made any money off me specifically. Also my own instructions didn't say anything about not playing the game anymore, just not spending anymore money on it.

However I've stayed true to my own instructions and haven't bought any packs or given any money to creators I know are EA partners, and I still implore you to continue to do the same.

Someone tell me why EA has decided to add virtual currency to the game that you can only get via purchase?! And for custom content, one of the most affordable (or free if you're patient and/or don't go through creators that do early access) things in the whole culture of the game?! I get that the answer is money but W H Y?!

For anyone who doesn't play the sims 4 with mods and hasn't really heard about the sometimes trainwreck that is the sims 4 modding scene, here's why this is bullshit:

The official policy, FROM EA, is that if you decide to paywall any mod, including custom content, you have to release it for anyone to download after three weeks (you can definitely make it released for everyone earlier though), and you cannot permapaywall something. There is a thing such as taking commissions (Simandy for example), but even those are released for everyone, not just the commissioner. Because you cannot get the virtual currency to get custom content on the (I'm assuming, I live under a rock) upcoming sims 4 marketplace in any way for free, this means any content on there that isn't available anywhere else is now permanently paywalled and in violation of EA's own policy.

People making stuff for the marketplace only get 30% of the money coins you pay for to use on that creator's content (assuming I'm understanding correctly). At least if you pay for early access to custom content on a person's patreon (which I don't do because I have a bad enough sleep schedule that 1-3 weeks isn't that long for me, and even if I didn't sims 4 mods aren't really something I see as needing fastpass for), the motherfucker gets the money from that subscription and anyone else's subscriptions, and I believe patreon takes way less of a fee than 70% and most of the materials needed to make sims 4 custom content are either free (sims 4 studio, blender, patterns and images for textures) or would already be owned by the creator (the sims 4 and packs). So I really don't get this as a good deal even if you do have any kind of paywall for mods you've made.

C: Everybody already either looks on patreon, Tumblr, The Sims Resource, or Pinterest for mods and custom content, myself included. So uhhh, aside from people who have never modded the game before, which there are already numerous written and video instructions for, this is almost useless except as a notifications thing.

D: Assuming this is trying to break into the nostalgia market more, who in their right mind said the sims 3 STORE was the best part of the game?! Like there are so many things you could've done that would've been way less useless in my eyes and still try to tap into the nostalgia market (2014 branding considering everyone is somehow nostalgic for 2016, branding like the sims 3, the sims 3 sale that is CURRENTLY HAPPENING, putting the sims 2 and 1 rereleases on sale, making a stuff pack or better yet base game update full of stuff from the older games).

Needless to say, I still won't be buying anything out of EA, and would rather wait three weeks than trade money for coins I can't even physically hold.

Also if I have something disastrously wrong, please tell me, I just- WHY?! WHAT DOES THIS DO FOR ANYBODY?!

(It is 1:58 am when I finished writing this and I'm downloading custom content rn.)

[squishiifishrose]

Update: Someone who cares outside of knee-jerk reaction more than me looked at conditions for creators. OMG, is there a kaiju hotline I can fucking call? I feel like we need some kind of kaiju at this point.

It actually is a permanent paywall because cc posted on the marketplace cannot be posted anywhere else, not even the creator's own patreon. (Caio, Twisted, did you not read the fucking agreement?!)

The cut isn't even exactly 30% every time, and it's 0.30 cents to the creator for every 100 moolah. To make minimum wage you'd have to charge so much that no one would want to buy your stuff!

Makers who signed up before this whole thing was announced were fucking kept anonymous from each other and couldn't mention what was going on thanks to contracts, manipulation, and the fact that EA purposefully targeted financially struggling cc creators. Simandy herself mentioned that in her experience she was getting constant rising expectations from EA, and being misled into thinking this was "do what you're currently doing and you'll get some extra pay."

Note: This is what I've heard offhand from other people, I haven't really been digging too deep into official sources since while I care enough to have a knee-jerk reaction, I basically cannot make myself care more than "this is useless and stupid for everyone involved"

But so far, my feelings haven't changed. On the cc user side of things, I could care less. However this seems to throw cc creators who are financially struggling a dilemma: Not violate the no-permapaywalling rule that's been known for at least a few years now and that you have been following or earn extra income.

And considering Simandy, a cc creator I know has (or has had I don't remember if she stopped putting it in recent posts or not) a blurb at the end of her patreon posts about having issues paying for adhd medications and college and asking for people to even spare a dollar because a lot of her fanbase doing that would clear a large weight on her shoulders financially is saying no to this and recommending other creators get out while they still can, I'd say the choice is clear enough.

*sigh* FOR FUCK'S SAKE PEOPLE JUST WANT TO MAKE THEIR SIMS PRETTY WHY ARE THEG GOING THROUGH THIS SHIT?!

[squishiifishrose]

*Sigh*

Okay so quick note: I ate some of my words from late last year when I first started talking about sims 4 related stuff, and have ended up playing the Sims 4 again, I must've just not been comfortable playing the game while the buyout was such a hot topic and not just like another thing we have headaches about. I'm not exactly sure if this warrants an apology but I am sorry since I said it was related to reasons beyond the sims 4 as a game. In all devil's advocate, I'm 90% sure that play time alone doesn't give money to EA soooo, I don't think EA has made any money off me specifically. Also my own instructions didn't say anything about not playing the game anymore, just not spending anymore money on it.

However I've stayed true to my own instructions and haven't bought any packs or given any money to creators I know are EA partners, and I still implore you to continue to do the same.

Someone tell me why EA has decided to add virtual currency to the game that you can only get via purchase?! And for custom content, one of the most affordable (or free if you're patient and/or don't go through creators that do early access) things in the whole culture of the game?! I get that the answer is money but W H Y?!

For anyone who doesn't play the sims 4 with mods and hasn't really heard about the sometimes trainwreck that is the sims 4 modding scene, here's why this is bullshit:

The official policy, FROM EA, is that if you decide to paywall any mod, including custom content, you have to release it for anyone to download after three weeks (you can definitely make it released for everyone earlier though), and you cannot permapaywall something. There is a thing such as taking commissions (Simandy for example), but even those are released for everyone, not just the commissioner. Because you cannot get the virtual currency to get custom content on the (I'm assuming, I live under a rock) upcoming sims 4 marketplace in any way for free, this means any content on there that isn't available anywhere else is now permanently paywalled and in violation of EA's own policy.

People making stuff for the marketplace only get 30% of the money coins you pay for to use on that creator's content (assuming I'm understanding correctly). At least if you pay for early access to custom content on a person's patreon (which I don't do because I have a bad enough sleep schedule that 1-3 weeks isn't that long for me, and even if I didn't sims 4 mods aren't really something I see as needing fastpass for), the motherfucker gets the money from that subscription and anyone else's subscriptions, and I believe patreon takes way less of a fee than 70% and most of the materials needed to make sims 4 custom content are either free (sims 4 studio, blender, patterns and images for textures) or would already be owned by the creator (the sims 4 and packs). So I really don't get this as a good deal even if you do have any kind of paywall for mods you've made.

C: Everybody already either looks on patreon, Tumblr, The Sims Resource, or Pinterest for mods and custom content, myself included. So uhhh, aside from people who have never modded the game before, which there are already numerous written and video instructions for, this is almost useless except as a notifications thing.

D: Assuming this is trying to break into the nostalgia market more, who in their right mind said the sims 3 STORE was the best part of the game?! Like there are so many things you could've done that would've been way less useless in my eyes and still try to tap into the nostalgia market (2014 branding considering everyone is somehow nostalgic for 2016, branding like the sims 3, the sims 3 sale that is CURRENTLY HAPPENING, putting the sims 2 and 1 rereleases on sale, making a stuff pack or better yet base game update full of stuff from the older games).

Needless to say, I still won't be buying anything out of EA, and would rather wait three weeks than trade money for coins I can't even physically hold.

Also if I have something disastrously wrong, please tell me, I just- WHY?! WHAT DOES THIS DO FOR ANYBODY?!

(It is 1:58 am when I finished writing this and I'm downloading custom content rn.)

[squishiifishrose]

Hey if you're worried about calling your reps and not hitting voicemail, just know that I finished calling my reps and senators a couple minutes ago, and from recent personal experience, if you go through a local office you're more likely to just reach an office worker who will pass the message along. And in my expirience they're not going to say much to stuttering and word hang ups.

Of course I only have my own personal experience to go off of, but I'm pretty sure your average office worker for a US senator will be happy to get a call from you.

It took longer than 15 minutes but it feels damm good to know a politician knows how I feel about current stuff.

[rederiswrites]

Donald Trump, let's be clear, is circling the drain. His mind is well and truly going. When they put him in front of a camera, he mumbles and confabulates wildly and forgets the names of his own cabinet and mispronounces words egregiously. Or just falls asleep. Donald Trump is still a clear and present danger, because he's a sadistic, spiteful old man with all the self restraint and sophistication of a spoiled toddler. But we need to be mindful of the fact that not only do we know that he's on his way out, but his donors and puppeteers and handlers know it as well, and they have to be feeling extremely urgent about securing their efforts, but even more so their position and safety. As Steve Bannon said, if they lose the midterms, a lot of them aren't just out of power, they're going to prison.

So yeah. He's sundowning, hard. But that makes this a really dangerous time, and we can't just sit and wait for a good housecleaning at the midterms. We have to get out there and protest and organize and fight and call our reps and support each other in every way we know how. We have to put massive pressure on Congress to stop these insane threats of war. They've made it clear they don't want war; but they need to actually act to make that happen. We have to slow the administration down in every way we can. Because they're running out of time.

[protectthecitizens]

As always:

Not sure what you want to do but you want to help? ACLU has actions you can take broken down into time intensity:

Actions Archive | American Civil Liberties Union

Got 15 minutes to call your representative, senators and governor? 5Calls has hundreds of scripts you can read off and will auto connect you! (It genuinely takes less than 15 mins for all of them and frequently you get a voicemail so you don’t even have to talk to them!)

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Wanna get out and protest? Mobilize has thousands of events across the country listed at all times!

Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Mobilize

Create change in your community. Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, and fundraisers in your local area, organized by charities

The day is won through thousands of individual acts of resistance hitting them on all sides! These resources are just a drop in the bucket, I guarantee there is something you can do to help!

Stay strong!

[the-sacred-now]

To OP's point, consider the administration a cornered predator. They're getting wilder, more dangerous, more damaging--as we weather this and fight back, we must remember it's because they're in danger.

Collective action is endangering their personal comfort and well-being and the things some of them have been working for for decades. They're puffing up REAL BIG. It's fluff. They're lashing out HURTING AND KILLING people. That's real. That's also what they were going to do anyway, eventually, even if they weren't desperate. It is real harm--AND it is showing real weakness, on their part.

Don't fall for the illusion. This is the time to act, to push, to stand together. If you don't know how, check those links.

We can do this. I know, because we are doing this.

[squishiifishrose]

I need this because

A: Yay actionable stuff!

B: Part of the ability to persist through the horrors is being aware of them.

C: I'm actually going to look at 5Calls and set an alarm to call tomorrow. Since I can most definitely spare 15 minutes.