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When you really think about it her story is so tragic. the evil queens bs pushed her to her limit. Seriously, instead of executed her normally, she literally forced her stepmother to wear burning shoes and dance until she died. snow has a bit of a sadistic streak and I love it for her.

You know, I've been kinda thinking a little bit about modernizations of Fairy Tales/Fables and how they reinterpret characters in a more serious or gothic light. The whole Grimmification trope and how it gets used in regards to individual fables, and I kinda realized there's one famous one in particular that really kinda gets the short stick: Snow White. A lot of dark Snow White versions kinda go for pretty surface level takes: "Oh what if Snow White was a vampire" or "Oh what if Snow White/The Dwarves/The Prince were evil" or "Oh what if she was a badass" and god knows how many deconstructions of the whole true love's kiss bit (rightfully deserved btw). But something I feel gets ignored is that like, the base story of Snow White herself is actually kinda sad without really needing to change too much.

Like, Snow White is a child. A literal child, 7 years old in the original story, who gets forced to flee away from her home and more or less any civilization for reasons she does not/cannot understand. There's some versions of the story where she's so terrified when the huntsman initially comes for her that she straight up begs him to let her live even if it means she has to never go home again. And again, she is a literal child when this happens. Then, after she meets the dwarves and everything, she's still a child. A stranger offers her a present and she takes it not because she's just gullible or foolish, but because she's a kid who's receiving a gift for possibly the first time since she's left home.

Honestly I feel it might actually be more interesting to look into how that kind of experience would impact someone, instead of the usual playing with the setting and character aspects. What being a kid who's thrust into fearing for her life and fleeing everything she knows because of some random cruelty would do to someone's psyche over time. Like, there's a lot of metaphors you can make out of someone being forced to leave their life behind at such a young age for reasons completely beyond their control (Refugees, LGBT+ people being cast out after coming out, victims of racism, etc) for one. And on a character level, having the dwarves/the prince/whatever help her deal with the resulting emotional baggage and trauma would be really fucking interesting and hold a lot of potential that hasn't really been explored in a lot of adaptations, at least to my knowledge.

Just something that's been on my mind recently.

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[ID in Photo] trying clip studio for the first time so have a little book accurate Rhaenyra and Alicent!!!

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#baela's so pretty

6 links to maxis match hair for your Baela Targaryen sims

1 2 3

4 5 6

thanks to these amazing cc creators! <3

@fatalrosecreations @simstrouble @imvikai

@thatonegreenleaf @gegesimmer

pt: 1 2 4

main: @westerosisim

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#play the giver by chappall roan

Notice how Alicent and Mysaria didn't need a tree to believe Rhaenyra should be queen

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petition to remake hotd in this style

House of the Dragon, the Targaryen family.

Private commission, please don't use.

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Tyanna has seen some things.

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I just stew in the toxicity honestly.

Maybe I am the toxic one

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“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

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STAR WARS WRITING RESOURCES

PLEASE REBLOG AND ADD ANY OTHERS YOU MIGHT KNOW OF <3 <3

WOOKIEEPEDIA. The source of anything and everything you want to know related to Star Wars. Good for fact-checking, character history, or simply killing time. There is also, of course, the official Star Wars Databank! STAR WARS GALAXY MAP. A fantastic project that maps the Star Wars galaxy as we know it. Consider donating ( if you can! ) to help keep the site up and running! Also check out W.R. van Hage’s map and the Star Wars Atlas Online Companion. TIMELINE. While hosted on Wookieepedia, this is nevertheless deserving of its own bullet point. This page provides an approximate timeline with dates of all canon material. You can also filter items, so that it displays only TV episodes, for example, or only books, or only movies! Find the Legends timeline here. STAR WARS SLANG AND PHRASES. A collection I’ve been keeping of phases, slang, idioms, insults, and more from the Star Wars universe. This also contains a glossary of frequently used terms, such as “refresher” in place of “restroom”. Please feel free to use/share! 

STAR WARS NAME GENERATOR. This is a fun one AND a life saver. You can generate up to 100 Star Wars-sounding names ( first and last! ) with a click. 

OTHER GENERATORS: 

Spaceship names as well as spaceship type/models

Earth-like alien planets for any alien planet you don’t have info on

Random landscapes, see above

Technobabble generator for when you need a reason for a red alert

Alien plant/herb/flower name generator. Also: mineral/metal/gemstone names, material names, medication names, and descriptions of alien substances

Scifi tool names for gadgets and gizmos

OTHER WEBSITES:

Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions, Dirk Loechel’s Sci-fi Spaceship Size Comparisons, and other Star Wars Deckplans

Star Wars Post 

Star Wars News Net

TheForce.net

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not a cersye fan anymore. im so-so

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thanks!

Right, so, after reading some error logs, obtaining a copy of the objects.package that shipped with the Sims 2 rerelease, and talking about this with Lazy Duchess, I have a conspiracy theory about why the rerelease is so damn broken

So first, I looked at an error log that was happening in the Enthusiasm Tracker. It was coming from the function that signs sims up for a magazine subscription after they choose that option on the phone. It's a very short function, all it does is 1) check to see if the family has a magazine subscription token, 2) create one if it does not already exist, and 3) set a property on the token regardless of whether 2 was necessary or not. All three of these actions make use of the Manage Inventory primitive, which controls not just sim inventories, but also tokens like this, memories, and gossip. I compared all like five lines of this function to the one in my objects.package, that I have from the Ultimate Collection, and they were exactly the same. But for some reason, in the rerelease, this throws an error. There is no explanation at the level of this function. I kind of scratched my head and thought, maybe they changed how the magazine subscription token works in this version, and forgot to update this function? Or something?

Next, there was an Too Many Iterations error log that had a very obvious cause: for some reason, the active family had over 500 tokens in its inventory. The family inventory isn't listed in the error log, so have no idea what those tokens were, or how there came to be 500+ of them. BUT. The aforementioned magazine subscription token is a token that goes in the family inventory. Maybe these two problems are somehow related. Are those 500 tokens all magazine subscription tokens, or something?

And then there is the infamous error that the game now throws when a sim goes to get abducted. I didn't see an error log for this one, but I was making a post on MTS listing all of the known issues with the rerelease, and someone mentioned there that the issue is not so much with the abduction as it is with other sims reacting to the abduction, and if there are no sims on the lot to react to the abduction, the error does not occur. Someone else then mentioned that the Abduction Reaction Fix mod that I made actually fixes this error. I made that mod, I know exactly what it does. What does it do?

Well, you see, objects in the game all have what is called a tree table, which is a table of interactions and the functions that need to be called when those interactions are triggered. One of the interactions on the telescope is the interaction to run to the telescope after someone has been abducted. But, in the Free Time expansion, a lot of new interactions were added to the telescope, and for some reason, EA decided to renumber all of the functions when they did that. They forgot to update the tree table, which references functions by their numbers, and as a result, the function that was called when sims were supposed to do the run-to-telescope interaction was actually the function that gives sims credit for discovering a new planet. In my mod, I fixed this, so that when sims are supposed to run to the telescope, the proper run-to-the-telescope function is called instead.

So, the error happens when my mod is not installed (when the planet discovery function is being called erroneously) and not when it is (when the run-to-the-telescope function is called instead). So the error must be coming from the planet discovery function. What is in the planet discovery function? It is almost identical to the magazine subscription function. It checks for the planet discovery token, adds it if it isn't there, and then modifies a property on it, using Manage Inventory. So this is exact same bug. And other people are reporting that some sims cannot gain memories - another game function that is handled by Manage Inventory. There is also an error that happens after a sim cooks food - one thing that happens at that point is that tokens and memories are added to the sim's inventory marking that they have successfully (or unsuccessfully) learned to cook that food.

So at this point, my theory is that EA somehow broke the Manage Inventory primitive. It's used all over the code, to do all sorts of stuff, if you break something that ubiquitous and fundamental, of course it's going to cause a whole lot of seemingly completely unrelated errors. Manage Inventory is now going hog-wild, throwing errors, adding hundreds of extraneous tokens to inventories, refusing to give sims memories, and who knows what else. I can feel it, this is the answer

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princess elia & lady lyanna (my shaylas)

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can we please give all the solo children (canon and legends) free therapy !! ☺️

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Padme Amidala Outfits | by kelldar

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Padmé Amidala with Luke and Leia

Art reference: Abandoned - Frants Henningsen 1888

Click for better quality

Commissioned by Finn H. (posted and print with permission)

Buy the print

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the sequels are only real so Luke can adopt Rey and thats it

(ko-fi requests are open!)

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His mistrust of the Jedi and Obi-Wan would make so much sense. I would hate the people who took my sibling and left me and my mom in slavery. From Owen’s pov his brother would either have been killed during order 66 or he’s currently fighting for an empire that enslaves, murders and destroys with no care. It is understandable that he would not want his nephew to leave him and be a Jedi. Look where it got his brother.

Also Owen gives me older sibling vibes. He would totally bully Anakin into not falling for Palpatine’s lies.

AU where Anakin and Owen are actually brothers like we deserved in the films. Nothing about the plot changes it just makes everything like 20% sadder. (Plus space wizard farmer family shenanigans).

I honestly believe half-brother Owen could give Anakin enough of a reality check for this to be a fix-it au LOL

(commission info // tip jar!)