[ID: Sketch in greyscale of Emil, Enoch, Steward, and Ian of Cris Rios’ holosquad all dressed in boiler suits with formal suit style lapels and ties, and holding an umbrella in the left hand and briefcase in the right. End ID]
Tag-teaming the amazing @regionalpancake for a truly magnificent transformation of this sketch <3 <3 <3
See below the Season 2 fix-it proposal that this relates to.
After finding out all the mess that happened, the holos decide to take matters into their own hands. Ian devises portable emitters that can be disguised as a 21st century brief case. So, the holos demerge, leaving Emmet to cover for them (so no one intervenes), then Enoch figures out a way to take them back in time, and they rock up to bring Rios home. This is their 21st century disguise because they’re pros at this.
Summary:When Sizhui, Jingyi, and Zizhen are captured with Jin Ling at the Guanyin Temple, they’re sure that Hanguang Jun and Wei Wuxian will fix everything - until Su She stabs Lan Wangji through the stomach, and everything falls apart around them. In a last, frantic attempt to undo the damage Jin Guangyao has done, Wei Wuxian activates a deadly array to send the four juniors back in time, sending them to the morning of Jin Ling’s one-month celebration. With the fate of everyone and everything they love in their hands, Sizhui, Jin Ling, Zizhen and Jingyi race to prevent the ambush at Qiongqi Pass and the subsequent fallout, but Jin Guangyao has returned from the future as well, and he has no intention of letting what he wants fall through his hands a second time.
My comments: Okay, wow, this was so epic, it’s hard to break down. The gist of it is that the four juniors get sent back in time from a moment of utter tragedy and overwhelming loss to fix the future. So they’re all pretty fucking traumatized from the get-go. (Future Jin Guangyao is a complete and terrifying psychopath.)
If I had to pick 3 tags to describe the story it’d be WHUMP, H/C and BONDING. So, author doesn’t hold back on the violence, which I fully endorse and devour. (I might have rated this one an M, actually, just for graphic violence and stressful situations.)Everyone gets a turn to be utterly beat up if not straight up tortured. POV is multiple, and that includes everyone (I never expected to admire and empathize with Jin Zixuan so much!). BUT, before you run away screaming, know that there is soooo much comfort and healing and bonding going on, throughout whatever the current trauma is (there are many) as well as after. I did a quick search, and there are 102 uses of “I love you”, and it’s not limited to wangxian. wwx says it to jiang cheng and a-yuan and all the poor time-travelling teens who have just lost everything and everyone in their entire worlds and suddenly are only a few years younger than their ‘fathers’. The juniors say it to each other and their dads. jyl says it to everyone. the lan bros say it, the nie brothers say it. Everybody is just so fucking supportive and trying so hard and they just have faced what a world could be like if they DON’T communicate, and so by god, they’re not gonna go that route, and also, no one’s gonna let them forget it.
I really, really loved how all the time travelers latched onto their 'parents’ and the relationships that they grew: with them, with their families and with their itty bitty counterparts. It highlighted the Juniors’ innocence (and trauma) to be compared to people only a few years older and yet so much more mature and experienced because of having been through the war.
So. An epic, plotty, TASTY time travel fix it that features everyone and the way they all fit into each other’s lives, getting into situations that are truly terrifying that have NO EXIT, being hurt and watching it happen to people you love, and lots of escapes-by-the-skin-of-their-teeth-and-please-god-are-they-still-breathing. It’s an excellent and satisfying balance.
time travel, fix it, angst, whump, captivity, hostage situations, threat of torture, hurt everybody, temporary character death, hurt/comfort, emotional hurt/comfort, tearjerker, feels, you will cry, self-sacrifice, POV multiple, adorable juniors, traumatized juniors, adorable a-yuan, qiongqi path ambush canon divergence, family feels, future reveal, jin zixuan lives, jiang yanli lives, wen remnants live, golden core reveal, found family, jiang sibling feels, pining, idiots in love, love confessions, first kiss, cuddling & snuggling, platonic cuddling, qi deviation, golden core surgery, baby golden core, wei wuxian is a good dad, lan wangji is a good dad, communication, nightmares, PTSD, panic attacks, wedding, adoption, cynophobia, wei wuxian’s fear of dogs, puppy therapy, healing, recovery, fix it, epic, parent-child relationship, father-son relationship, happy ending, favorite
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Summary:A night hunt gone wrong leaves Wei Wuxian facing life without a husband and son. He refuses. Using an experimental array, he attempts temporal transmigration, but it goes wrong. He sends himself back to the age of ten, and the strain on his young body and mind requires another desperate use of resentful energy… which also goes wrong. A different sort of time travel fic.
My comments: Oh, wow, I loved this so much! I’m really looking forward to more in the series, because I could happily drown myself in 50k more words of it.
Wwx sends himself back in time, but this story is different, in that once he enters his 10-year-old self (which is pretty traumatic) he ends up with amnesia, so really IS just a child. The chain of events this sets off is fabulous. While he’s in a coma and things are touch-and-go, Madam Yu has an opportunity to examine her poor treatment of this boy in the past and set about making some changes. Because he’s crying out for “Lan Zhan”, the Lans are invited to try to clear away the resentful energy (they think it was cast at him as a curse in an attack), and Lan Qiren brings both his nephews.
The story covers about a season, and POV jumps around, which is wonderful, because everyone is GROWING. They are changing, their worlds are different, and they’re being exposed to different people and different ideas. Madam Yu and Lan Qiren go through perhaps the biggest development arcs, but seriously, EVERYONE is affected. (And none of this is done with a heavy hand, either: the focus is on the story, and the growth is all organic.)
Little Lan Wangji opens up like he never has before, Jiang Yanli starts to learn to be a healer and LQR teachers her musical cultivation… the ripple effect of change is simply fascinating. The Lans become less rigid, and the Jiangs more loving. And young wwx is the nexus and the catalyst. Especially when he ‘remembers’ a few things that make them believe he’s become precognitive.
time travel, fix it, child wei wuxian, madam yu is good, POV multiple, child lan wangji, hurt wei wuxian, sick wei wuxian, angst, amnesia, jiang family feels, caretaking, illness recovery, character growth, (all of them - they are growing and becoming better people), social change, adoption, lan qiren is good, sharing a bed, nightmares, emotional hurt/comfort, hurt/comfort, doting lan wangji, street orphans, gege jiang cheng, didi wei wuxian, jiang wuxian, betrothal, arranged marriage, grief, sect politics, protective madam yu, protective lan wangji, protective everyone, favorite, @rosethornewrites
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Summary:When Jiang Yanli joins Jiang Cheng in visiting Wei Wuxian at the Burial Grounds, the two brothers are on the verge of cutting ties forever — until Jiang Yanli has a better idea. Wei Wuxian doesn’t need to leave the sect. He needs to get married, and she has the perfect Sect Leader in mind.
When Lan Wangji is invited to come along on Wei Wuxian’s visit to the Unclean Realm to spend time with his new betrothed, Nie Mingjue, he agrees — even though his heart is breaking. How else is he ever going to see Wei Wuxian again?
When Nie Mingjue welcomes Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji into his home, he realizes two things very quickly: 1.) They clearly want each other so badly they can barely stand it, and 2.) Nie Mingjue is Into That.
(In which arranged marriage to Nie Mingjue solves just about everyone’s problems)
My comments: Aahhh, this was a ship I never realized I needed in my life, but here we are. Author does it so well: in the context of the story, not only is it robust and believable, but it’s honest and loving and fun for all three of them. And if, in the process, the course of canon is changed such that everyone lives and the world is a brighter, happier place, than so be it. (Of course, there’s some angst and intrigue and machinations to get through first, but that’s requisite seasoning, imho.)
(Seriously. I’m very jealous and protective of my OTP wangxian, so it has to be a pretty special story if I’m willing and happy to share them with someone else. However, remember that your mileage may vary.)
canon divergence, OT3, niewangxian, raiarranged marriage, angst, pining, jealousy, but only briefly, POV multiple, courting, nie mingjue just says I’ll marry both of ‘em, flirting, golden core reveal, first kiss, first time, top nie mingjue, bottom wei wuxian, poor lan wangji has to wait a few months, fix it, domestic, friends to lovers, polyamory, fluff, xiyao, sect politics, jiggy being morally gray, sooo much threesome smut, light dom/sub, dom nie mingjue, dom lan wangji, sub wei wuxian, nie sect qi deviation issues, tenderness, joy, everybody lives, jin guangyao redemption, he’s a really interesting character, wen qing doing all the arcane and impossible medical procedures, happy ending, epic, podfic available, @giraffeter
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G (maybe a very soft T for making out), 82k, wangxian, marked as incomplete, but it feels wrapped up tight, so ignore that
Summary: Alternate Universe - Jiang Fengmian never adopts Wei Ying.
Lan Zhan meets Wei Ying as a beggar on the street and convinces Lan Qiren to allow him to come live in the Cloud Recesses.
Lan Zhan and Wei Ying grow up together as best friends. Nothing has really changed, but everything is different.
My comments: A soft story wherein the Lans take in homeless wei ying and he and his lan zhan grow up together, tightly entwined. We get glimpses of their earlier childhood, pass through the cloud recesses study arc (look at lan wangji making friends! and being stoically amused by intimidating nie huaisang, who had the audacity to sneak liquor into his cup). There is light angst and pining, before they figure themselves out, but the wen attack and sunshot campaign bring them to a new understanding.
child wei wuxian, child lan wangji, in which wwx goes to gusu as a child, adopted by the Lans, non-yunmeng wei wuxian, friendship, different first meeting, POV multiple, growing up together, light angst, pining, students at cloud recesses, lan wangji has friends, oblivious wei wuxian, feelings realization, getting together, love confessions, attack on cloud recesses, sunshot campaign, fix it, soft, fluff, first time, fade to black
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Instead of massacring the Jedi and clones at the Temple of Eedit on Devaron, Savage Opress is captured, frozen in carbonite, and brought to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. But what can the Jedi do to counteract the Nightsisters’ magical hold on him?
Things have been looking “wrong”, different, since I started messing with ts2 again recently. Couldn’t put my finger on what was different but there was definitely something. Went through all the troubleshooting, started to think something must have changed with my WINE profile again… Turns out my userstartup.cheat must have got overwritten at some point. No idea why! But everything is back to normal and long live uintProp lotSkirtSizeIncrease 120!
One day I will actually play rather than just finding more problems to fix.
First time I’ve opened the game in months…. And it’s not working again. It was working flawlessly last time I touched it!!! This is why I never actually get around to playing this stupid game .
(Also, hi, guys)
Oh it’s working now! And it only took me a day, haha. It seems that I’m getting better at this. And fixed the shadows again by switching @simnopke shadow fix to the “misty” one. No idea why that’s changed and I suddenly need a different mod but there were go.
First time I’ve opened the game in months…. And it’s not working again. It was working flawlessly last time I touched it!!! This is why I never actually get around to playing this stupid game .
MY SMOOTH EDGES ARE BACK! The Lutris developer and I spent practically the whole afternoon reinstalling and messing with it, but they are back and it’s beautiful!! He also says he’s found 2 bugs with Lutris while helping me, so now I don’t feel so guilty about wasting so much of his time haha.
Sorry, more troubleshooting. But I am completely lost and have no idea what else to try. Has anyone ever had smooth edges one moment and then experienced them randomly disappearing out of nowhere, when everything indicates they should be there?
I was so close to being ready to play. For a well over a month, smooth edges worked perfectly and I have no idea what suddenly caused them to stop working. I had changed nothing about my system the day they disappeared as far as I can tell. The setting is not greyed out, but if I drag the slider to “low” it looks exactly the same as “more”. I’ve tried multiple different Graphics Rules (which wouldn’t have made sense if that had been it anyway anyway, because the Graphics Rules I was using worked for over a month?), cheats in my usercheats, being in contact with the Lutris developer and trying different Linux stuff/wine prefixes, but he’s convinced it has to be do with the game settings itself, because according to everything else it should be working.
Sorry, everyone, I have another “is this normal for ts2, a 2004 game, or is this another Linux graphic glitch” question! Can anyone running ts2 on Windows (10, 8, 7, I don’t think it matters) check if their neighbourhood mountains in Riverblossom Hills look like this in snow if using the “uintProp lotSkirtSizeIncrease 120″ cheat in your usercheat.startup. I’ve tested in multiple households (Roth, for example) and this is how they look to me. Thank you! :)
Pictures below cut (and yes my smooth edges are broken in the second photo…they were working a day ago but they’re gone again now oops!) :
Look who got the Hack Conflict Detection Utility working, finally!! Yet again, Me/Linux 1, Windoze 0. Apparently, I was missing a wine/Windows dependency (wow, they are never ending).
I’m sad that Romantic Standards seems to conflict with Same Sex Marriage though :’(
Now if I can just get sims2packs to open in Clean Installer, I’ll be sorted.
Has anyone ever had this problem with snow before? Just opened Riverblossom Hills and tried out snow for the first time and thought nope that’s not right. Lot view snow is absolutely perfect, outside the lot boundary is obviously not… It may be just one of those things I have to live with playing on a Linux installation (the other one being slightly funky reflections), but thought I’d check if it’s not something else that may or may not be an easy fix.
Had a response from the Lutris developer and he has this problem too and is currently looking for a solution. Great news because it means it’s not something I broke!! If he can’t find a solution (I have faith he will though…he seems to be a bit of a magician!) then I’m happy to play without winter/snow. Everything else runs like a dream!
I have successfuly installed The Sims 2 on my Linux laptop and got it fully working. An absolute miracle. I really just thought I was purposely wasting time and hadn’t really considered the possibility that it might actually work! It seems to be running smoothly and looks fine, although I am going to be very, very slowly adding in CC and play testing it properly, because I really don’t know if the game on Linux can handle heavy CC. Who knows, maybe I’ll be surprised again? And if not, maybe it’ll be good for me to go low CC.
I have also got Body Shop fully working, despite the creator of the Linux script apparently not knowing of its existence, and it also seems to be working, apart from an apparent glitch with the (original maxis) skintones not matching the head and body entirely. Some googling seems to suggest this a common glitch on Mac systems and some people fix it entirely by using custom skins, so maybe it won’t be problem when I put some defaults in.
The Compressorizor is also installed and working fine!
I have changed my blog theme (just spent way longer on this than I’d care to admit haha) and I have reogranised my tags page yet again. I seem to do this everytime I come back from a break.
Finally, I’ve created a new sideblog imi-reblogged for inspiration and CC finds, because the pinterest account I was using has become such a mess and I think I need the proper tagging system of tumblr. It’s not properly set up yet (still tweaking the theme!), but if you start seeing this account reblogging your stuff, now you know it’s me! I’m also going to try and keep this new resources page properly updated with what I actually have in my downloads folder (especially as I think I need to not let it grow too much, at least until I know if Linux can handle it).
What I hope to do next:
Install and get fully working CEP, Scriptorium, SimPE (oh boy, that could be fun), Sims2Pack Clean Installer, Mootilda’s Hood Checker.
Decide on my defaults. Especially important if I’m going to keep my Downloads folder small. I have so many favourite maxis match skin and eye sets that I can’t decide between and I think I need to go in game to compare. I am also so freaking excited that I now have the opportunity to have a tidy Hair folder. In my old downloads folder, I had about a million different maxis match textures in there with the odd non-maxis match texture getting lost in there too, but this time I will use one texture and it will Poppet’s V2 and it will all match and it will be beautiful.
Work out what basic mods I need to stop hood corruption etc.
Download and get camera and lighting mods fully working (so excited about the new lighting mods I have yet to try and fingers crossed they work in Linux!)
Actually play-test for a long period time, not just the few minutes here and there like I have been doing up to now, plus test each bit of CC after adding it to my downloads folder (because, again, unsupported operating system that not many people have tested…).
@hexagonal-bipyramid said: That’s super cool that Sims 2 can “work” on Linux. There’s someone that managed to make it playable using Lutris :)(youtube.com/watch?v…)
I know right! It’s so cool! It’s his script I’ve been using actually and I’ve been in contact with him today about various problems (think I accidently deleted some important stuff oops). This is his script if anyone else is interested: https://lutris.net/games/the-sims-2/. He was super helpful and the game is now fully functional! No more graphic errors…which actually took me less time to fix then on Windows 10. Funny that, huh? Leaving it for today because I’ll probably break something else if I don’t, but I am feeling pretty chuffed with myself right now
From screaming with excitement to oh this isn’t right to oh no definitely not right… Well, it may not be playable yet, but this is the closest I’ve ever got to a functioning game on Linux! I’ll take that as a win and try and tweak it again tomorrow. Guessing it might be a similar unknown graphics card on issue that you even get on Windows 10?
