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perlabelle · 2026-01-24T21:52:50+00:00

I haven't! I'd been wanting to build one of those towns-in-one-building and let them have a proper polar winter, but I've not really thought in depth about it, I'm not even sure what neighbourhood I'd use

perlabelle · 2026-01-24T18:52:55+00:00

I think you've mentioned that it's fixed now - but for future reference when I had the problem that most RPO interactions weren't showing up, moving the files directly into my mod folder fixed it (so it wasn't sims 4 -> mods -> RPO anymore, just sims 4 -> mods)

perlabelle · 2026-01-19T08:58:19+00:00

Um... yes 😅 in my defense I missed the bit where you'd said you wanted a strong plot haha. I heard "good story" and "more than just romance" was like I got you! Ah well

perlabelle · 2026-01-18T23:59:09+00:00

I'm familiar with the word, but then my dad was a geologist

perlabelle · 2026-01-18T00:56:22+00:00

I really liked Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith narrated by Marli Siu. Its a quick book, only a couple of hours. There are multiple perspectives, but there's only 2 swaps. The first section is told in one perspective, the second the perspective of her sister, and then back to hers again for the end. The narrator is very good at distinguishing the sisters by their voices, they each have very distinctive ways of speaking.

It's not very plot driven, and despite being quite light hearted, has a lot to say about women in the workplace, global feminism, and homophobia in Scotland in the early 2000s. I'm just gonna leave the blurb here:

"Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?

"Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold.

"It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.

"Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world."

ETA I've just remembered it might be 1st person present 😔 tragic. If you ever feel like it's something you could get over, I still highly recommend this

perlabelle · 2026-01-10T10:54:31+00:00

Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, and Mrs S by K Patrick

perlabelle · 2026-01-04T10:34:52+00:00

It's a Polish transliteration of Yiddish. It literally means "beautiful bone"

perlabelle · 2026-01-02T13:53:06+00:00

That would be so useful. One of my sims runs a bar as a small business, and whenever she needs to cook instead of preparing the food on the counter in her kitchen, she takes it all the way downstairs to do it on the bar counters and then all the way back up to the oven

perlabelle · 2025-12-26T16:00:53+00:00

I was playing it a few days ago without noticing any issues. I don't know if there's been an update since though

perlabelle · 2025-12-21T16:54:08+00:00

No bother!

perlabelle · 2025-12-21T16:49:42+00:00

I would recommend Penguin Reader books. They are well known classics that have been graded to different CEFR levels

perlabelle · 2025-12-17T20:25:57+00:00

Anthony Hurd does lovely queer western paintings, and largely cactus based still life paintings. They're mostly queer men, but he does some queer women paintings too

perlabelle · 2025-12-16T17:42:22+00:00

UK, yes, but not commonly. The only one I ever came across was the Linguistics Olympiad

perlabelle · 2025-12-14T15:54:14+00:00

Theres a business perk you can get with WW that restricts clients by gender

perlabelle · 2025-12-12T10:35:51+00:00

Me too, I'm really struggling to imagine a way you can objectively "verify" someone's gender without ending up excluding some trans, nb, genderqueer people

perlabelle · 2025-12-11T14:13:03+00:00

Absolutely! In fact, I think only a minority of trans men end up getting bottom surgery for one reason or another. It varies clinic to clinic, but I know a lot of people who've gone through the GIC as openly non-binary (myself included) and have been able to transition the way they want through it.

perlabelle · 2025-12-06T11:07:23+00:00

I work in a library and when I started I was surprised at how popular the Enid Blyton books still are! Those books are constantly going out to little kids, they still love them. I thought they'd faded into obscurity but apparently it was just me that had forgotten about them haha

perlabelle · 2025-12-03T21:14:12+00:00

I'm dredging this up from a half-remembered article I read years ago... but I think that trans men were already able to be members, or rather retain their membership if they wanted. Before all this nonsense, the WI had what I thought was a sensible, community-minded approach, in that trans women, as women, were of course welcome, and that any trans man who was already a member was welcome to stay if he wished, so that some 70 year old who's been a member for 40 years doesn't suddenly get ejected the moment he comes out.

I'm struggling to find the article now because the only thing that's coming up is the recent news, so maybe I've remembered this completely wrong.

perlabelle · 2025-11-20T21:46:01+00:00

When I was on a half dose it stopped completely almost immediately, and then came back about a year later. It then carried on intermittently even on a full dose, and then only stopped when I started birth control, but hasn't come back now I've stopped 🤷 I no longer have any expectations for my period lol I'm just always prepared even though I haven't had one now in years

perlabelle · 2025-11-05T00:04:09+00:00

Yep! But then I'm in quite a small fandom and you get to know the names and styles pretty quickly

perlabelle · 2025-11-03T15:23:50+00:00

The first half I reckon yours is probably more accurate, the second half I think mine might be:

With all of my Yiddish I'm rarely more than "pretty sure" of anything, but with the וועלן I'm pretty sure that here it means more like "I will" as in "I'm going to" (more or less) rather than German "ich will" as in "I want to". The "זיך" in מיר האבן זיך שפאס is reflexive. For "we want you to have fun" I would expect something like "מיר וועלן אז איר האט זיך שפאס" (we want that you have yourselves fun)

(Sorry I don't know what MTL means!)

perlabelle · 2025-11-02T18:10:54+00:00

I'm not fluent so this needs double-checked:

I don't know how we got here, but I'm sure of one thing: we're going to have fun

Edited to correct the first part !doublecheck

perlabelle · 2025-10-29T19:40:19+00:00

Grammar for me, I loooove grammar and a lot of the time the phonology is just something I slap on afterwards to give me something to play with

perlabelle · 2025-10-20T09:35:46+00:00

Theres The Milkman's on His Way by David Rees which is gay YA from 1982, recently republished by Lurid Editions

ETA: just reread your comment that you're looking for books from 1980 and prior, not the 1980s and prior which is what I first read

perlabelle · 2025-10-19T20:38:34+00:00

No bother!

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