#generally applicable

[wups-up]

I think she would benefit from lesbianism.

[penig]

Judging by complaints I've seen on my dash and the state of my own "flagged post" notices, the algorithm has randomly decided to go through old Sims 2 posts (possibly other games as well) and flag things like kids doing homework and elderly married couples dancing as Mature. All of the posts I appealed today and yesterday were from 2017, and several of them were reblogs, which I had no mechanism to appeal.

So far these are all clearing quickly. If this has happened to you, I suggest putting a simple sentence like "These are gameplay photos about a rated T for Teen game" into your clipboard and hitting Ctl+V to fill out each appeal, only pointing out the obvious or being snarky if you have the energy. Judging from past performance, we may have to do this for a few days until the algorithm gets adjusted or moves on to pasture new. I suspect they added a new Artificial Stupid measure and are fielding hundreds of hallucinated explicit photos from all parts of the site.

Just think how delightful it would be if this were the most annoying thing happening in the world this week!

[rikerssexblouse]

Oh god help me, I’ve given myself feelings about fictional characters

[penig]

I want to die like a Sims 2 sim.

I want to see the lifebar getting shorter and know the time is coming, but suffer no diminution of ability once the elder birthday is passed.

I want some green juice to give me a little bit of control over whether or not I get this or that project done before I let the bar fill up.

I want to spend those last days fulfilling my wants. Visiting. Going out into the community to have one last good time. Having old friends suddenly want to see me and dropping in.

I want to paint or garden or read or dance just as I like. I want to eat my favorite foods. I want to go on one last date with my favorite person and have a firework time. I want to learn to cook just one more meal, see just one more star, finish up and publish one last novel.

I want to vanish quietly off the portrait line as the pets wail and my loved ones cry softly and a nonbinary spectre greets me, while a chorus of hula girls gyrate to ukelele music. I want to accept a drink with a little umbrella and pick up a suitcase and walk happily away to discover a new, idyllic way to be, with my loved ones who have walked off the same way and the cats who have chased their catnip mice to that good unknown place.

I want to leave money out of nowhere to my friends and family.

I want to die like a Sims 2 sim.

[penig]

I was just spammed an ad for Grammarly with the tagline: Write as well as you think.

Dude, I write better than I think and I know a lot more about grammar than whoever programmed that crap.

[penig]

Apologia to people following me for sims content. I am unlikely to post or play about my own game until after the great foot ordeal is over, and there’s typically not much Widespot or LGU content to reblog in December, so the ratio of sims-to-literature content here will skew significantly literaturewards. To everything there is a season.

Most importantly, if you hate Dickens, block the Dickens December tag, because I love Dickens and adore this particular book!

[penig]

I am unfollowing some people to keep tumblr from being so overwhelming and also because I accidentally followed some people while I was trying to get tumblr to show me the people I was already following. (I cannot overstate how counterintuitive that app is for me. Also, touch screens suck, especially if you have long hair.)

So if you are the kind of person who notices that sort of thing - please don’t feel bad.

Also, maybe figure out how to stop noticing that sort of thing? It isn’t good for you to care about follower counts. If we’re really compatible we’ll find each other again, and we don’t have to be mutual for us to interact. Take care!

[strawberrysaur]

two birds on a wire but they’re both both birds