Oh Please Let This Work. I'm So Sick Of Stressing Because TSIME STILL Isn't Done

Oh please let this work. I'm so sick of stressing because TSIME STILL isn't done 😭😭😭

Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

Okay, settle in for this one.

sepia tangerine cider? maybe? idk how close we are 🤣 burgundy LAVENDER moss (only because you don't like Roberto or Henrik) emerald also, here's the post link in case this ask sits in your inbox for 6 months and you forget what it's for: https://sparxaf.tumblr.com/post/752132198518407168/okay-yeah-this-might-be-fun-im-mentally

Honestly it would have been six months and I would have forgotten but you challenged me and I made it a mission to remember this and post it 😝 Which is to say, woman, you better cross Cider off there. We're clearly emerald and don't you forget it. I AM strange and off-putting. It's part of my... well not charm...

Burgundy. Same. Haha, I knew I'd get bit. And moss goes right back to you. I just cannot with Roberto.

Huggles!

Tried S9 or whatever

I didn't want to play. I just wanted to see what the MC options were because it's fun to build an MC. So I built this one with kind of stupid space bun hair because all the hair is stupid and looks wrong, like the volume of the hair is too small for the size of the head and the head looks too small for the width of the shoulders. And oh my god why did the locs look so bad? Fusebox has done locs successfully before, so I know they know how! What even is this? Every season it gets worse and worse with them paywalling all the protective hair options, and then having the audacity to give so little fucks about making them look decent (I will admit, I liked the mermaid braids last season though). As a woman of color it's just infuriating. But yeah, after building an MC that I liked, it was 92 gems. 92. If you buy the 140 gem package in the US for $9.99, that means it would cost $6.56 before the game even started. What? Just to be pied off by characters I never liked to start with? I shut the game down without buying a single thing or even making it past the creation process. I can spend less on an overpriced tea latte from Starbucks that will give me much more joy.

I know I say I'm done every season and then I get sucked in because my fandom friends beg me to play, but I really do think I might be done with this one. I'm just beyond uninterested. Their bait and switch "All-Stars" BS already set my teeth on edge, and I hate the "stars" they've brought back. I've seen the possible list of returning characters and there isn't a single one I care enough about to entice me to play. I love Marshall but if he comes back as a host, I don't care. It won't be canon to me. And if he comes back as a returning islander, I don't care because it won't be canon to me. There is such a fundamental disconnect in Fusebox's understanding of what people want. I'm just fucking tired. The seasons are coming so fast and furious that the fandom can't even get on its feet and enjoy what happened. I keep having to go back to the fandom wiki to even remember what happened in the previous seasons because they're just blurring together in my mind. There's no time to discuss it or theorize or come up with fun fanon. To make mood boards and character boards dedicated to what kind of house they'd live in. There's no time to craft a long fic for the season that just ended unless you start it at the beginning of the season before events even happen. It's just sucked out all the joy. Which maybe, might be the point? Throw them at us so fast, we play hard, and don't have time to think about it or criticize it or come up with ways to make it better. Consume it like a rice cake. Flavorless and forgettable. And I say this as someone who actually rather enjoyed last season, until it got stupid repetitive, with what felt like zero branching.

I dunno. I'm just not having fun. For those who are having a good time, or at least enjoying the chaos and train wreckage, I'm so glad. I look forward to hearing about it because I know I will 😆 For me, I'm gonna be focusing more on finishing TSIME and then working on some original fiction. And maybe some Romance Club fanfic, if the mood strikes me. Because the world building, branching, storytelling, and sexy love interests (even when I hate them) are delicious and immersive. NGL it's expensive, but RC is more generous with their gem rushes and tea parties and whatnot so I don't feel ripped off.

I mean look at this man. If I have to spend my hard earned money on something other than tea lattes from Starbucks, I'm spending it on him.

I've heard that too. And from very reliable sources.

I heard a rumour that you are loveable just the way you are. I also heard that you are enough and someone is really proud of you. 🌸

mustard, cider, and void 🥺👉🏽👈🏽💗

Aly, thank you! Haha, I appreciate you too! Also, I really don't have correct takes on everything, I just say so many words that it FEELS like I must be right 😂