gosh darn it i am at it again

I built Dan & Phil's new set in the Sims! [inspired by this post]

I plan on building the rest of the phasement because I found this both very fun and challenging. A few fun details and the rest of what I have built (not much) under the cut

Ahh! It's been 84 years (two calendar months) but I'm finally sharing my full piece from the Under The Ethersea zine! Please check out the full zine; there is so much wonderful art by some amazing people and dear friends of mine. It is now available to download for free!

"Well, I did have that, um, mixer. At the— At the headquarters, and I invited you. You did not come, but I—" "I thought we attended, if memory serves." "But I made a— a dip." AKA what happens when you overthink a one-off bit and end up making everyone cry.

Word count: 5,092

Ship: Oksamber

Warnings: Threats of violence (for about two sentences and then it becomes silly), Canon-typical Amber and Devo interaction, Discussion of betrayal of trust.

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As soon as they arrived at the mixer, Amber realized it had been a terrible idea to attend. The room was less crowded than she had expected, but full of people way fancier than they had any right to be, in her opinion. The Chaperones’ headquarters were like a love letter to everything the shoreside community had thought Founders’ Wake would be: all thick metal panel walls, visibly re-outfitted and shaped to fit together from old military type submarine hulls. Large patches of steel bolted and welded in place, polished to a respectable shine, lined the room and made up the floor, the walls, and the ceiling —maybe seven or eight feet tall—. The chamber itself had easily two or three times the floor space of the Cloaca, and there were a bunch of those tall little tables scattered around for people to congregate and, well, mix. The drink service was set up along one of the walls, sharing a corner with the snacks (finger sandwiches, assorted pastries, some fancy stuff. Amber, on the other hand, had snuck in a flask full of skunknuts wine). On the other side of the room were two simple metal doors with signs that indicated they led to single-stall bathrooms.

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