The Average Life of Me

guess who's back, back again

lol jk but seriously, guys, Hope Brooklyn and I decided that our challenge needed a little ✨spice✨ so we changed things up! Some generations are the same, some are completely different, and some just have a few small changes. The biggest one you'll notice is we changed Gen 3 from Lemon to Grapefruit and completely changed that entire generation and we're much more excited about this one than we were about the other lol. We FINALLY finished our occults portion of this challenge and wanted to release this beforehand for all of you! We are going to keep the other rules up (you can find them here) so if you like that version better you can play that one instead! Either way we hope you have fun playing our challenge and we can't wait to see your sims through #fruitylegacychallenge!

You can also tag us on instagram - Hope Hay Brooklyn

Hope is going to be doing a play through of the new rules over on her instagram, and I'll be posting updates here on tumblr. I'll also be posting updates on my second instagram account occasionally!

Occults: Coming this week👀

I plan on trying this. I seriously need to make myself finish a legacy challenge T.T

Credit: @pet_foolery

I think I already reblogged this but im gonna do it again because this is a good reminder on how toxic gatekeeping it.

I’m reblogging this for the amount of thought that was put into figuring out the necessary configuration for a mertaur wheelchair.

MMMMM, the LAYERS to this. 

She’s technically a monster too. She might not look it at first glance and seems mostly human, but it isn’t deniable even despite her looks compared to the other monsters. 

But she realizes that she is still not like the rest of the monsters either and may not have entirely the same experiences as them, which is why she feels that she might not belong to or deserve to go to the support group. By sometimes passing as human, she feels she isn’t worthy of the space. 

The sad reality though is even though she’s mostly human in appearance, that tail she has undeniably would still cause her some struggle. Humans are still gonna look at that tail and think she’s a freak. There are probably still accommodations she needs because of the tail that she may still struggle to have access to. Even if it is just the tail, that tail is still enough to other her from humans and cause her problems and discrimination. 

She should get to belong in that support group even if she gets told she’s not monster “enough”. She still shares some of the same struggles as them that are caused by being a monster, and needs support. 

This is an excellent demonstration of the flaws in the concept of passing privilege. Bravo to the artist. 

NOW I will reblog this.

Towa dresses like a boy bc its easier to fight and goes to an all girl's school huh

is she...... you know

sorry, i just had to meme this

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Another set of beautifully laid out public health data points.

Compliments of Data is Beautiful [Instagram].

International students in the US: If your college/university has canceled in-person classes due to COVID-19, DO NOT LEAVE THE COUNTRY. Your SEVIS record may be terminated, and you may lose your visa.

This was an email sent out to students, not in my college, but in one of our neighbors in the consortium. I’m still waiting to officially hear from my school, but I spoke to our Dean of International Students yesterday and they said something to the effect of online classes not being considered “full-time study,” which is required to maintain F-1 status. They’re looking into making an exception for COVID-19, but it’s still lost in a tangle of bureaucratic bullshit.

I will update this post as soon as I have any more information. Please stay safe, look after yourselves, and know that you are not alone 💜

Honestly just wash your hands with soap!

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how “smooth” sharks really are.

Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because it’s so smooth.

But buddy.

Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the shark swims. … In the opposite direction, it feels very rough like sandpaper.

((Here m8 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basics ))

Buddy. It’s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you don’t know how to read?

this post is transcendent

You’re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.

Source: I’M A MARINE BIOLOGIST

No, I’m thinking of sharks.

Source: I’m a superior marine biologist

Oh this hit all my red flags, I've torn down 3 already just walking Malaya to the park

If you see shit like this Especially outside your local highschools rip it down there's a 80% chance this is a trafficking scam

Thankfully seems I'm not the only one in town who feels this way

This is totally ok to rb by the way

Scam signs:

Welcome to the space age, ladies and gentlemen

This is really quite a big deal. A tremendous amount of modern research ends up being sold to journals which require unreasonable payments to access it and only pay the original authors a pittance. It’s nice to see an agency like NASA deliberately widebanding its findings.

Not sure if people fully realize just how big of a deal this is. THIS is how science is advanced. Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars. But through open, uncensored and unrestricted public access to knowledge.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22[Filter]

^ There’s the direct link to all the studies.

NASA IS GOOD, NASA IS GREAT

@osunism

NASA is the hero we don’t deserve.

This deserves every reblog.

@geh-is-okeh

In the face of institutions being silenced, this is doubly huge.

I love seeing that, for once, there are more reblogs than likes

Keep passing on this info, guys. Good job