you've gotta have friends who are older than you, not because you're a dumb kid, but because you'll be terrified of growing up otherwise
being the oldest person you allow yourself to know will eat holes in your brain and you'll start saying weird stuff
Get a hobby that is intergenerational. The friendships with people much older and much younger than you will mean that wisdom and ideas are shared among many and not isolated among the few.
if your ocverse was like a published media which character of yours would be interpreted by the fandom in the most horreeendously incorrect ways possible
That design document predated the decision to exclude gay relationships in the game. Its pages described a web of social interactions, in which every kind of romantic relationship was permitted. That week, Barrett confounded the expectations of his disbelieving boss. He successfully wrote the basic code for social interactions, including same-sex relationships.
“In hindsight, I probably should have questioned the design,” Barrett, who is gay, said. “But the design felt right, so I just implemented it. Later, Will Wright stopped by my desk,” Barrett said. “He told me that liked the social interactions, and that he was glad to see that same-sex support was back in the game.” Nobody on the team questioned Barrett’s work. “They just pretty much ignored it,” he said. “After a while, everyone was just used to the design being there. It was widely expected that E.A. would just kill it, anyway.”
In early 1999, before E.A. had a chance to kill the design, Barrett was asked to create a demo of the game to be shown at E3. The demo would consist of three scenes from the game. These were to be so-called on-rails scenes—not a true, live simulation but one that was preplanned, and which would shake out the same way each time it was played, in order to show the game in its best light.
One of the scenes was a wedding between two Sims characters. “I had run out of time before E3, and there were so many Sims attending the wedding that I didn’t have time to put them all on rails,” Barrett said.
On the first day of the show, the game’s producers, Kana Ryan and Chris Trottier, watched in disbelief as two of the female Sims attending the virtual wedding leaned in and began to passionately kiss. They had, during the live simulation, fallen in love.
TIL i learned that the team behind The Sims had originally decided to leave same-sex relationships out of the game until a newbie on the team by the name of Patrick J. Barrett III coded all basic interactions of the game due to one of his senior team members being on vacation, TIL Barrett unknowingly had been given an old design document and everyone just assumed someone else had reversed their previous decision and rolled with it, and TIL that all that plus a rushed demo led to the team’s presentation at that year’s E3 featuring an unplanned lesbian kiss
"everyone is beautiful and no one is horny" really truly changed the game. the closest to a household name a media essay can get. people were discussing it irl like it was 1780 and a hot new pamphlet had just dropped
everyone on this site is all ‘yearning’ this and ‘pining’ that and ‘dark feral sublime monsterfucker’ yes but as soon as the actual full-fledged jealousy comes out you cowards uwu your ‘top ten reasons x is an abusive no good very bad person’ thinkpieces all over the goddamns tags like a repressed nerd’s premature orgasm and I for one can not abide this hypocrisy
Pray tell, how does one pine and yet skirt the indignant sting of perceived rejection? How can one yearn without feeling the ache of envy for those privileged to bask in their love’s brilliant light? How can one’s love be considered wild or feral or monstrous if it does not light a fire of bitter fury in the cold dark corners of one’s broken heart? And moreover, what better measure of one’s character than for them to smother those flames and swallow the poison fumes so no one else will have to choke? What, pray fuck, is the god damn dramatic point of want if it has no bite?
basically y’all are boring and I’m revoking your yearning rights until you take a long hot sec to ponder why you need to pathologize regular-ass emotions do not pass go do not collect 100k coffee shop au go directly to jail and face the divine terror of your all too human hunger.
saw The Invitation and I am ready to romanticize, fetishize, normalize, etc
van helsing, about jack seward: look at this nerd. this dweeb. this absolute loser. you think he gets women? he barely knows what a woman is. he’s never so much as glimpsed a woman’s shin, and let’s be real, he never will. (unless it’s for a medical reason because again, he has no life.) zero game. his doctorate is in being pathetic. you’re aware of this, i’m sure, miss westenra,
if you wanted to see the ‘the invitation’ and haven’t yet don’t read the rest of this post but i’m trying to empathize with the protagonist of the movie but am unable to because i find the whole idea of an eternal vampire foursome very very sexey
The magical forests of Eyvind Earle (1916-2000), whose work for Disney I occasionally feature.
If you don’t pick up the tempo, you’re gonna lose your head. Snap, snap.
Van Helsing (2004) Queen of the damned (2002) Dracula: dead and loving it (1995) Fright Night II (1988) The fearless vampire killers (1967) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Buffy the vampire slayer (1997 - 2003) Vamp (1986) The vampire diaries (2009 - 2017) From dusk till dawn (1996) Blade (1998)
it’s not so much that I don’t want a job as that I don’t want to be accountable to anyone ever
you've gotta have friends who are older than you, not because you're a dumb kid, but because you'll be terrified of growing up otherwise
being the oldest person you allow yourself to know will eat holes in your brain and you'll start saying weird stuff
of course i love nandor. i just want him to finally meet guillermo's boyfriend and experience such violent jealousy that he shakes and cries like a wet chihuahua
good job everyone
I like my job and more importantly am very resistant to change but oh my god I need to make more money
a man's most important accessory is some blood on his face. his second most important accessory? his chest hair
cool story but why can’t I drink blood from my vampire chalice
this does seem like a massive oversight
no onw allowed to take photos 😭😭😭 ik it sounds stupid but i saw a guest post a video of the bride making fun of her and then it out me off my guests beinng able to take vids/photos……there’s a photographer for a reason!!
ALSO, pre-approve wedding speeches!!!!
yeah an "unplugged" ceremony is pretty standard these days, but omg, a wedding guest posting a video of the bride making fun of her is so evil!!!! and speech screening is a great idea, we trust our MOH/ best man/ my dad's speechwriting abilities pretty implicitly, but good lord, the speeches I have heard at weddings 🥴
