#( &. bellamy&mariah )

[doks-aux]

Sam Bellamy’s Piracy Tips

1) It is always morally correct to steal from the rich and Henry Jennings

2) Sometimes you need to let the boys set shit on fire even if you’d prefer they be more chill, it’s good for morale

3) It’s not kidnapping if the kid asks to join the crew

4) Benjamin Hornigold is a chickenshit bootlicking coward, please remind him of the time he was mutinied by a guy who’d been doing this for a weekend

5) Date a witch at least once

6) When in doubt, dicks out

(thanks to @lordess-dickery-doof for some of these)

[doushitemacaron]

I also feel like, with a witch, there's room to go pirates of the Caribbean rules and introduce some magic here. Raising Sam from the dead, etc. Or maybe she can see that he's still alive out there and send Izzy to find him?

I'm definitely here for one of those couples where the wife has her own cool shit going on and is in no way a deterrent to the slash pairing, and instead goes full ot3.

mariah voice Bro chill he’s married to both of us

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

The Most Attractive 90s Musician tournament - Round 1

GROUP A (over)

Match 1 - Geddy Lee vs Alanis Morisette

Match 2 - Brett Anderson vs Shirley Manson

Match 3 - KD Lang vs Kat Bjelland

Match 4 - Jarvis Cocker vs Mike Starr

Match 5 - Donita Sparks vs Matt Bellamy

Match 6 - Mike McCready vs Mike Dirnt

Match 7 - Zack de la Rocha vs Selena Quintanilla

Match 8 - Melissa auf der Maur vs Adam Horovitz

GROUP B (over)

Match 1 - Sean Kinney vs Mariah Carey

Match 2 - Rivers Cuomo vs Flea

Match 3 - Lauryn Hill vs Atsushi Sakurai

Match 4 - Shania Twain vs Dave Mustaine

Match 5 - Bilinda Butcher vs Whitney Houston

Match 6 - Dave Navarro vs Powerline

Match 7 - Dolores O'Riordan vs Missy Elliott

Match 8 - Janet Jackson vs Hope Sandoval

GROUP C (over)

Match 1 - Madonna vs Marty Friedman

Match 2 - Serj Tankian vs Prince

Match 3 - Tumblr anon vs Keanu Reeves

Match 4 - D'arcy Wretzky vs Kirk Hammett

Match 5 - Scott Stapp vs Martin Gore

Match 6 - Rachel Goswell vs Krist Novoselic

Match 7 - James Iha vs Tupac Shakur

Match 8 - Liam Gallagher vs Ville Valo

GROUP D (ongoing)

Match 1 - Patricia Morrison vs Chuck Schuldiner

Match 2 - Michael Stipe vs Michael Hutchence

Match 3 - Jason Newsted vs Mike Inez

Match 4 - Axl Rose vs Alex James

Match 5 - Kim Deal vs Tracy Chapman

Match 6 - Rob Halford vs Eric Martin

Match 7 - Henry Rollins vs Jay Kay

Match 8 - Chino Moreno vs Stephen Malkmus

ROUND 2 GROUP A PROPAGANDA SUBMISSION

Mini brackets and games:

Battle of the Mikes

previous tournament results <3 congratulations Tidal!

[diazsdimples]

Spotify Shuffle

tagged by @slightlyobsessedwitheverything and @hippolotamus thanks loves

rules: shuffle your on repeat playlist and list 10 songs that show up

Unintended (Piano Lullaby)- Matt Bellamy

Jetpack - Princess Goes

The Show Must Go On - Queen

As It Was - Harry Styles

Fantasy - Mariah Carey

Big Girls (You are Beautiful) - Mika

Butterflies & Hurricanes - Muse

Crazy In Love - Beyonce, Jay Z

Sweet and Low - Princess Goes

CREEP - Brian Justin Crum

Tagging: @daffi-990 @watchyourbuck @theotherbuckley @steadfastsaturnsrings @puppyboybuckley @tizniz @disasterbuckdiaz @fortheloveofbuddie @bucksbackwardcap @thewolvesof1998 @spotsandsocks @jesuisici33

[mikecrygor]

week b4 my vacation attacks!

ft

@/cosmoosmosis' mariah (rendered & stuff so i wanted to post it im rlly proud of it)

@maber610's julia bellamy

@/ExtraRare's OSCAR!

@cappeyheel's amanda myson

@hellfirefuzzy's gummi

@rainbowdelicartz's petunia

@/cupheaf (on insta & twitter)'s holly

[auroragoth]

SimTalk monthly

BY SIMS FOR SIMS

December 2022 - Volume 1

CONTENTS

News

Lifestyle Focus on two lifestyle counselling agencies

Interview Attica Riot - After Dragula

Fashion Cosying it up for winter

Culture This month's suggestions

Travels The beauty of Granite Falls

Food In the kitchen with Chef Powell

Our Partners

Next Month

Editor’s Note

December... the month of hot chocolates, cosy nights by the fire, first snows... and the beginning of our magazine's life! What started has a little daydream while cleaning up hotel rooms has turned into a fully fleshed work finally ready to see the light of day. Who believed this would happen? Certainly not us, but here we are! This whole endeavour would not have been possible without the help and support of our dear sim friends, and the kind collaboration of all the people involved in its making. We hope you enjoy this magazine, and come back for more next month! Best wishes, and happy end of the year to you all!

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[whalepropaganda]

2023-24 Signing News, Rumors, etc.

June 29 update: WELL NEVER FUCKING MIND, APPARENTLY

(I'm going to link this post in my pinned post and update it whenever there's something new to add!)

Players under contract:

Allie Munroe (D) - signed a two-year contract during the 2022 off-season (and renegotiated her salary prior to 2023-24)

Kennedy Marchment (F) - signed a two-year contract during the 2022 off-season (and renegotiated her salary prior to 2023-24)

Taylor Girard (F) - signed a two-year contract during the 2022 off-season (and renegotiated her salary prior to 2023-24)

Tori Howran (D) - signed a two-year contract during the 2022 off-season (renegotiated a new two-year contract prior to 2023-24)

Melissa Samoskevich (F) - signed a one-year contract during the 2022 off-season but was mentioned as being under a two-year contract in the press release for the Bellamy signing. Samo was subsequently confirmed by Melissa Burgess to have extended her previous contract into a two-year deal.

Kacey Bellamy (D) - signing announced on April 20, 2023

Kendall Cornine (F) - signing announced on May 18, 2023 (previously reported to be a possibility by Dan Rice in his April 26 Around the Rink in the PHF [AtR] podcast/Twitter Spaces)

Emma Söderberg (G) - signing announced on May 23 (two-year contract)

Maude Poulin-Labelle (D) - signing announced on May 31

Janka Hlinka (F) - re-signing announced June 12

Justine Reyes (F) - re-signing announced June 13

Sandra Abstreiter (G) - signing announced July 15

Players rumored to be signing with the Whale:

Michela Cava (F)

Emma Greco (D)

As reported by Dan Rice in the June 21 AtR episode: "I believe [the Whale is] going to sign, if they haven't already signed, Michela Cava, who was the MVP of the playoffs . . . as well as defender Emma Greco, who previously played in Connecticut and played the last couple of seasons with Toronto. I believe they're both gonna end up in Connecticut. . . . If they're not signed already, it's pretty close to and I think it's gonna end up happening."

Possibly Mariah Fujimagari (G)???!!!???!!! (I 💖 Fuji)

Per Dan R. on June 21: "I heard Fuji might be back, possibly as a third goalie with Connecticut, don't know."

Players from the 2022-23 roster who are rumored not to be returning:

Dan Rice reported in his April 17 Twitter Spaces conversation with Allie Morse that he has heard that Meeri Räisänen (G) might not return. He specifically said, "I think Connecticut would probably look for another goaltender, but I don't know that for a fact--just kind of reading what I've seen and what I've heard." In the same conversation, Dan mentioned that some players may be unable to balance next season's increased time commitment with their jobs/education and specifically cited Janine Weber (F) and Lenka Serdar (F) as players who might not come back due to their other commitments (nothing definite, though). [WhalePropaganda note: Lenka has been participating in Whale-related activities this spring, so maybe she'll be sticking around?]

[A further WhalePropaganda note: based on the fact that Söderberg and Abstreiter have been signed, Meeri's definitely gone and we just don't know where she's going. My guess is that she'll be staying in Europe—she seemed really upset that she couldn't bring her dog with her when she came to the US :( ]

Abbie Ives (G) - Here's what Dan R. said in the May 16 AtR: "I still think there's a chance, from everything that I've heard . . . that if those two goaltenders [Söderberg and Abstreiter] sign in Connecticut, like, I wouldn't be surprised if Abbie's also there as well, like, again, teams carry three goaltenders. It's not easy, it's probably not ideal, but you want to have depth, and they went through last year where they had two goaltenders that split the time, so you never know, injuries can happen. But I've also heard that Abbie Ives might be a possibility in Buffalo— that's another team that I've heard that she's been speaking to."

On June 21, however, he said that Fuji is a possibility for the Whale's third goalie, which may eliminate that as a possibility for Abbie.

Players from the 2022-23 roster who are definitely not returning:

Shannon Turner (D) - retired :(

Emma Keenan (D) - signed with Montreal Force (officially announced May 12, previously reported by Ian Kennedy and Dan Rice)

Kateřina Mrázová (F) - (probable departure previously reported by Dan Rice) signing with the Rivs announced June 2

Caitrin Lonergan (F) - (prev. reported by multiple sources) signing with Boston announced June 2

[leanstooneside]

FRUITS & VEGETABLES

Jennifer Love Hewitt's oaky wrist

Chris Pine's oaky wrist

Salma Hayek's oaky wrist

Marcus Schenkenberg's oaky wrist

Ace Young's oaky wrist

Kyra Sedgwick's oaky wrist

Jenna Elfman's oaky wrist

Sean Lennon's oaky wrist

Joe Jonas's oaky wrist

Joe Manganiello's oaky wrist

Adrian Grenier's oaky wrist

Paul Rudd's oaky wrist

Alyson Hannigan's oaky wrist

Jason Lewis's oaky wrist

Hugh Hefner's oaky wrist

Matthew Bellamy's oaky wrist

Johnny Knoxville's oaky wrist

Jamie-Lynn Sigler's oaky wrist

Niall Horan's oaky wrist

America Ferrera's oaky wrist

Kat DeLuna's oaky wrist

Gavin Degraw's oaky wrist

Derek Hough's oaky wrist

Colin Farrell's oaky wrist

Mariah Carey's oaky wrist

Christina Milian's oaky wrist

Stephen Dorff's oaky wrist

Lance Armstrong's oaky wrist

Alison Sweeney's oaky wrist

Karina Smirnoff's oaky wrist

Samantha Ronson's oaky wrist

Chris Colfer's oaky wrist

Freddie Prinze, Jr.'s oaky wrist

Matt Damon's oaky wrist

Uma Thurman's oaky wrist

[our-flag-means-death-ao3feed]

Time is a Cruel Mistress

by sourassin (scherryzade)

Izzy Hands is dead. Edward Teach has one chance to change his past and save their future.

Words: 519, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Cruel Seas

Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, Mariah Bellamy

Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Israel Hands

Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Historical Inaccuracy (Our Flag Means Death), Time Travel, Magic, Fix-It, although to be fair it’s fixing something I broke myself, Low-key SteddyHands endgame jsyk, Temporary Character Death, Inspired by Fanart, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Izzy’s ring

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/47541481

[sourassin]

It has to be done on land, Mariah explains, for there’s no telling where he’d end up if he does it from the deck of a ship that was only built seven years ago. Best case scenario he ends up in a forest in England, leg stuck in a tree—more likely he’d drown in the wild waters of the Atlantic.

They reckon the Adventure would most likely dock at the Republic of Pirates—they, in this case, being Ed and Fang, baffled, Fang being the only one of the crew who’s survived.

Ed had asked Bellamy if he’d heard of—but to hell with it, he’s going to change their history.

He can’t count the number of lives Izzy’s cruel blade saved, even if it was only ever in his service.

He leaves the Queen Anne with his new first mate, and follows Mariah up the hill overlooking the harbour. Bellamy trails after them, one hand on his sword and the other holding their son’s.

It’s not far—it’s not much of a hill, even if the view is good enough, if you like looking at a shithole like Nassau. The Whydah Gally dominates the port; the Queen Anne is listing slightly—likely he hasn’t kept it up as well as he did with Izzy to nag him about the fucking barnacles.

Mariah touches his hand gently; he still startles, and swipes at the tears.

“Alright, how do we do this?” he asks, and Mariah shoves a wad of something foul in his mouth, mutters indistinctly while he chokes on it, and summarily shoves him in the chest. He staggers back—falls, still choking, into the mud—and falls again. And again, and again, for what seems like an age.

When he catches his breath, he’s still lying in the mud, but the sun’s out, and the hideous smell of the Republic in winter has been replaced with the far worse stink of the Republic in summer.

He stands, the bay clear before him, and there she is—the Adventure, bright as the day they took her.

“I don’t know how long I can give you,” Mariah had said. “Work fast.”

He can see the bustle on his old ship—not the makework busyness of a Naval ship or the flurrying inefficiency of a fat merchantman, the buzz of a hardworking pirate ship about to set sail. He runs.

He was an idiot, back then—now—an idiot who thought he knew everything about being a pirate. But not such an idiot that he couldn’t tell when someone was aboard his ship who shouldn’t be.

“Look lively, lads,” his younger self drawls. “We’ve got a visitor.”

The crew jump to, and turn every which way, bouncing off each other in their eagerness to find the interloper. A couple of the brighter ones clock Ed, and make a grab for him. Ed drops one—a quick slash to the hamstring and a pop to the throat and he’s wheezing on the deck. The others are suddenly a little less eager.

The crew opens out, leaving nobody between him and their captain. For a moment, anyway, before Izzy pushes through the crowd and stands in front of his captain. Christ, he’s so young. He wasn’t, of course, when Ed was on the other side of him—Izzy was the one with the experience, the only one who knew shit about piracy, those first few years when Hornigold gave them the Adventure.

Izzy’s pure tension, hand on his sword, ready to strike. Ed’s younger self is just as tense, but he only knows that because he’s been inside that skin—no one else would see beyond the nonchalant swagger of his surface. “Nice moves, old man. Who are you, and why are you covered in shit?” asks his younger self.

Ed shifts his stance and rolls back his shoulders. It’s an echo of the young man’s pose, except it’s not, because Ed has twenty-five years on him and it isn’t bravado any more, and they can tell, the lot of them. The crew falls silent, and Izzy’s gaze flits between them, and Ed’s younger self tosses back his hair and scowls. “The fuck are you?”

“I’m your future, kid.”

“What, I’m going to live to 75 and become incontinent? Nah, don’t think so.”

“You’re going to get everyone you love killed.”

Ed’s younger self laughs, but Izzy snarls and draws his sword. “You think you can threaten Blackbeard on his own ship and live, old man?” He stalks towards Ed, and the crew murmurs appreciatively.

Ed can’t help smiling. “Izzy,” he says, and both of them flinch, Izzy’s stride faltering. “Oh yeah, no-one calls you Izzy, do they? Nobody but Ed.”

“And Jack,” says his younger self.

“And Jack, right,” Ed corrects himself. “But Jack’s not here.”

“Who the fuck are you, man?”

Ed ignores this, and stalks forward himself. He bats Izzy’s sword aside, and grabs him by the throat. The crew gasps like a gaggle of scandalised society ladies. Izzy chokes a little, and goes slack enough that Ed can drag him over to his younger self.

“You are going talk to him,” Ed says. “You are going to talk, and you are going to listen. And if he doesn’t understand, you’re going to keep talking until he does, alright.”

“The fuck are you on about—“

“Shut the fuck up. You’re going to talk, both of you, and you”—this to his younger self—“are going to be patient with him when he can’t keep up with all the bullshit in your head. And you—”

There’s a horrible swooping tug at his stomach. Shit. He’s running out of time. His hand’s still round Izzy’s neck, and Izzy’s looking up at him with wide eyes. He’s so young. “You’re going to tell him how you feel.” Izzy shakes his head. “Yes, you fucking are.”

Another tug, worse than the first. “Fuck! Fucking listen to me—“ He kisses Izzy, swallowing the noise of protest he makes and ignoring the aggravated “Hey!” from his younger self. “If you don’t tell him, it’ll kill you both,” he says, and pushes Izzy into his younger self’s arms before he has to stagger back, the tug wrenching his whole body backwards.

He’s not going to keep his footing much longer. They stare at him, his younger self scowling, his arms tight around Izzy. Izzy looks dazed. Ed grins, until another tug nearly sends him sprawling.

He’s out of time. He’s done what he can. He’s forgetting something. He’s falling.

He’s forgetting—“You,” he says, pointing at Izzy, “be nice to Stede.”

He falls, and falls, and—

tbc…

Credit goes to @piratingsoup on Twitter for infecting my brain with Young Izzy meeting Old Izzy ideas

[doks-aux]

Thinking about Mariah Hallett (I’ve seen her name spelled numerous ways and like this one best) and deciding to have her as Sam’s friend and amiable ex in Reunion AU. Cape Cod legend casts her as a witch, and at the very least Sam fully believes it. And thinks it’s unbearably cool.

The Whydah and Revenge crews meet up at the Republic, and Sam is happily telling Izzy about a letter he received from Mariah. It doesn’t happen too often, but every now and then he’ll make port in Nassau and there will be a letter from Mariah waiting for him at a tavern he frequents.

“It’s like she knows when I’m going to be here. But she is a witch, so I suppose she would.”

Izzy just frowns. “What’s the date on the letter?”

“What?”

“Wouldn’t it make more sense that she writes when she wants to and sends the letters ahead knowing you’ll be there eventually?”

Sam looks between the letter and Izzy, trying very hard to keep his expression neutral. “Suppose it could either be that or the witch thing.”

“What’s the date then?”

“...”

“...Show me the letter, Sam.”

“No.”

[onlyonemc]

Mariah Carey and Bill Bellamy in an MTV Christmas Special (1994)

[invisibledorkette]

Diyoza: "She must be important to you."

Bellamy:

Diyoza: "The pills are between you and your wife."

Kane:

[mariahcadieux]

Pobody’s nerfect?

Closed starter @matthewbaudelaire

Where: Descray

When: Early hours of the morning

 It had been a little while since Mariah had last seen Matthew. This was partly because they both kept entirely different hours with work, and partly due to the fact that the blonde vampire had made a concerted effort to avoid the human. She was overwhelmingly aware of the fact that he had made it clear that he had no interest whatsoever in resuming a relationship that included sex and friendship, and Mariah had made it abundantly clear in return that if he didn’t give her what she wanted, she would make his life hell.

Since then, she had had time to reflect, and reluctantly admitted that she might have been very slightly, entirely out of line, more than bordering on predatory and abusive. Considering this revelation, the vampire’s instinct had been of course to flee the town but… since that wasn’t an option, she instead opted for hiding out in her shitty apartment and draining every bottle of blood until she had run dry.

The problem with Mariah running low on blood was that even with her Opulence given gift, the inner turmoil she experienced was excruciating. She may be able to stop feeding from others before she killed them, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t still battling the desire to drain every warm-blooded creature in Opulence.

This was how the blonde ended up standing outside one of the feeding venues just on the outskirts of Descray. It was nothing like Bellamy’s establishment of course, but Mariah suspected that she had been banned for… well, eternity, and it was too late to shop at the local supermarket.

The bottled blood she had spent the last day bingeing on was better than nothing, she could survive off it, but the stale life source did not give Mariah the glow that Matthew’s blood had. The dark bruises beneath her green eyes had returned, the gold in her hair had become dull and lifeless, and her skin was so pale it bordered on translucent. She was not acclimatising well to vampiric sobriety.

“Fuck’s sake!” The blonde hissed, kicking at the wall of the outbuilding, frustrated with having to stand in line to feed on whichever poor mortal was inside and charged next to nothing. The vampire in front of Mariah snarled at her, and it took ounce of self-control in Mariah to not snap the vamp’s neck and drain his just to make a point!

[leanstooneside]

FACE BOOK

- David Cook's finger (misappropriated)

- Nick Lachey's finger

- Crystal Harris's finger (stolen)

- Cindy Crawford's finger (pawned)

- Jessica Lowndes's finger

- Fernando Alonso's finger

- Jessica Alba's finger (embezzled)

- Olivia Palermo's finger

- Brandon Davis's finger

- Forest Whitaker's finger (stray)

- Christine Taylor's finger (ripped off)

- Celine Dion's finger

- Mariah Carey's finger

- Matthew Bellamy's finger (exchanged)