#Chester Rows

[vox-anglosphere]

'The Rows' in Chester are a Tudor architectural fantasy come to life.

Northgate Street Chester

[hepdenerose]

Under Cover (Museum and Market)

Thursday grey and damp, we sought covered spaces to avoid the worst showers. From a rainy Eastgate Street, we sheltered in The Grosvenor Shopping Centre to be diverted by TK Maxx and Castle Fine Art’s window, featuring mediocre efforts by Bob Dylan and Billy Connolly. Emerging on Bridge Street rows, we kept dry until reaching the steps at the end and crossed to Grosvenor Street. We paused to…

[cheridraws]

this isn't done yet lol but!! i'm really diggin how all of these are coming out so i'm sharing the wip here :D

I'm making trading-card esc thingies for me and my buddies' ocs :] I've got about... 12 out of 30 rendered lol

[whatifijustmashedwordstogether]

I might be thinking about the Magnus protocol too much but my phone isn't helping when it glitches while in a translation app and types out, without outside interference, a Chinese phrase(用眼) that according to the translation app meant "with eyes" (it actually means "using eyes") repeatedly until I looked at it and it stopped???

immediately thought about tma:p (hoping that's the right abbreviation)

[tommy-h-bff]

5'6 guys after lifting for 3 days

[samama--khalid]

It hurts

It’s sharp

We’re hungry

Is- is there any way to get you out? Hungry for what?!

[candy-stims2edits]

template

thank you

[blueberryminiloaf]

The Rows, Chester, 2023.

[terrorbitch]

"yeah, i am saying my technique is perfect." he didn't waver at the way she responded to him. especially because he knew what he could do to her in the cramped confines of a bathroom booth. he was grinning, because he was getting what he wanted. an in, further with her, which meant that somewhere down the line he'd have something closer to getting what he wanted when he rolled into the city. however, linde was... more than he had expected. he followed her gaze and then looked back at her, nodding his head. "so i need to be crafty. that is really, truly my specialty." he lied his way into most places, he was good at it. and even if his talent wasn't an an all-time high, his luck sure was. he patted her shoulder, gesturing for her to head to the back of the club where the fire exit was and made a b-line for the man. running his hand through his hair and making sure that the 'fuck me' eyes he reserved for linde stayed on as the locked eyes with the paid muscle.

"you don't trust chiropractics... but you believe in the zodiac? you really are an enigma, damian." she hated how charmed she was by him and his easy confidence, able to sell even the most blatant falsehoods with nothing more than a small. "you're making some pretty big claims... you're saying your technique is perfect?" it certainly had never disappointed her, but linde's expression remained neutral as she reached forward to straighten out the collar of his shirt. "you and i both know that my husband's been a taker his entire life... and i think we also know you don't have what it takes to satisfy him." that is, chester would pose too much of a threat to her husband's ego. "but i'm open to the idea.... of course, we'll have to shake my little shadow back there." her head tilts to the side, indicating a man in one of the booths at the back of the bar. they were almost always imperceptible, but lin knew her husband had someone tailing her at all times.

[isattt]

how would chester feel about mc coming out 2 him as a trans man .. coming from a trans man who discovered gentle fall today i MUST know how hed feel ^__^

ps rlly loved the demo! cant wait for the full thing to come out 💗

he would probably be a bit confused since he doesn't have any experience with things like that (this man has zero social experience i am so sorry), but he will be very supportive and will be obsessing over how hrt works and researching it for three days in a row without sleep just so he can help you the most through it

[the-l-is-silent-yall]

TikiTaka is objectively a bad brand collaboration and here's why

Starting with the obvious...

#1: Absolutely none of this is Visa themed

The background is in Visa logo colors, and that's pretty much it. You wanna know what my first thought was? The colors of the European flag. Y'know, where the football player Kika Nazareth is from (specifically Portugal)?

It doesn't make sense that the coach is in Visa colors either, when this is one of the first image results for Kika Nazareth. The coach doesn't look like Kika wearing Visa blue, it just looks like...Kika.

The map is also themed after sports and not anything that Visa would normally be associated with, like shopping. We could've had Let's Go To The Mall 2.0 as a Visa collab and instead we got...this. It doesn't even have the Visa logo! There's the letter V and it's not even the Visa font V which means it could be literally anything! At least other collaborations had products tying them to Just Dance (like Brand New Start being unlocked through physical irl bags of Cheetos).

#2: I didn't even know Kika Nazareth had a Visa partnership herself until I started making this post

Kika Nazareth isn't like Jake from State Farm where we see her face and immediately associate her with the brand or vice versa. I use Visa and I'd never even heard of her, albeit that may just be because I'm in the wrong region for it. In fact, even doing an image search of "Kika Nazareth", I had to scroll through several rows before I dug this up:

Just Dance did nothing to show there was a pre-existing link between Kika and Visa otherwise, making it seem like a completely random combination. They could've mentioned it on their socials like "check out this map inspired by Kika Nazareth, who's been working with Visa since [insert year here idfk]" but there's nothing like that, it's just mainly her and "brought to you by Visa" is a footnote. The coach isn't even really her, it just represents her. I am probably not going to think of Kika Nazareth next time I pull out my Visa card.

#3: It's not a real song

Maybe I'm a sucker, but when I hear You Make Me Feel by Cobra Starship, my mind immediately flashes to the Cheetos map and I think of Cheetos. I think of the dancing Chester Cheetah, I think of the coach. It's a strong enough association to pop up in my head even when the very song itself comes up in a playlist...

...which doesn't work when the song doesn't exist. I am never going to hear TikiTaka in a "best hits of the 2010s" playlist and immediately think of Visa, because Ubisoft made the song up.

#4: This map seems like it's made for children

Kids don't have Visa cards. It's not like Waking Up In Vegas being a PopChips promotion, where kids could beg their parents to buy them PopChips. It's not like the Minecraft promotion, where kids can beg their parents to buy them Minecraft. What's the goal here? For kids to beg their parents to...use Visa?

#5: No seriously you'd have to check their socials to even know it's a Visa promotion

The in-game news popup and banner don't say a word about Visa. Since the map doesn't show it, that would be the one perfect opportunity to slide in an in-game "sponsored by Visa".

There's nothing.

Tl;dr we were subjected to this and robbed of a real song being our summer song for nothing

[askchestermckee]

P.O. BOX 214, WASHINGTON HEIGHTS

C/O CHESTER MCKEE

Nick, if I wanted you I’d already be outside your house with a gramophone raised over my head playing Ain’t We Got Fun?

Do you know @askchestermckee yes or no

I'd say no, but I fear he'd expose me even further. So, yes. I do. Happy now, Chester?

[melsie-sims2]

Fraser, Year 27

For the second year in a row, this was my most dreaded household and these two were the main reason why. Multiples are so tough in such a small, broke household. I was fully expecting everyone to be miserable all day.

As the eldest of the Fraser children and the only one able to actually do anything productive, Ozzy decided to dig around for treasure in the yard, hoping to help his parents make a bit of extra money. He was pretty lucky too, earning somewhere between 150 and 250 simoleons from some kind of fossil or bone.

The Goran-Bells live nearby and today the two eldest teens decided to drop by for a visit. First Skyler came over to hang out, and Trixie was quick to follow. She would never pass up an opportunity to be the main character of the story.

Ozzy was significantly younger than Skyler and quite a bit younger than Trixie, but he still got along well with both of them. In fact, he was one of many Sims to have chemistry with Trixie... and we all know how she feels about appropriately younger teenage boys.

While Ozzy was having a good time for once and making friends, Rue was trying to get Atticus to learn some toddler skills... unsuccessfully. Unfortunately, he was in a miserable mood and completely uncooperative.

The twins aged up and they're the spitting image of each other! They also happen to share a Zodiac: Aquarius. They're both very nice and playful, but Alma is just a little more playful. On the other hand, Chester is a bit neater while Alma would probably be a bit more on the sloppy side.

His six points in neatness weren't doing him any favors. Rue and Ozzy ended up spending most of the evening carrying the three toddlers back inside the house as they kept wanting to go out in the storm to play in puddles. They couldn't help it, it was their only source of entertainment in such a small, boring house.

Finally, Lincoln was home from his night shift, having earned enough money to buy a stove for his family. Now they were broke all over again and looking forward to more struggles next year. Yay.

[freedelusionshere]

For someone who was so close to Tiff, it's kind of weird we never see Claire and Tiff interacting much (or at all?) at the wedding and that the show chose to do that? I know they're both under the table, but that's hardly deeply personal.

Instead, they have Claire saying that's she basically there for the front row seats to whatever they all think Donna's might do to Frank?

And Chester's connection to Frank's family, and his mother in particular when Frank said his parents were just humble teachers, but Chester likes expensive things. It comes up whenever he's around. He likes trendy, expensive shit and said Frank who is super rich fired him and that he knows him through his mother.

Anyone have thoughts or am I misreading this?

[forgetyoursingalongsandlullabies]

TMAGP 41 Thoughts - Spoilers

- 2 cliff hangers in a row with 2 Alice’s and we return to the OIAR. You’re killing me!

- Have you heard anything from Alice? Aww Gwen is worrying

- “Gwen, there’s no shame in being worried about her” yeah, Celia! call her out

- “I’ve worked with Alice long enough to know how little she thinks of me” 😭 ouch

- It hasn’t been that long since Chester read a statement at all but I always love to hear from him

- Marconi Alchemics

- Suspect arrested at the scene but must be a clerical error that name listed was that of the decedent. Another doppelgänger

- Gwen reached Lena! I’m surprised Freddie gave her the number. It possibly goes against a theory I have? But also possibly fits with it too

- Lena plays on a Curling Team? Cute

- Moved to The Private Sector… ooh what is Lena doing now?

- Alice and Heinrich! Thank you!

- “Heinrich, look I’m real scared right now-“ “Danke” oh Heinrich, you’re so silly

- An address? Not another location!

- Alice & Heinrich roadtrip! BFFs

- “I’ll bring the chair” 😂

- Alice is truly on her explorer arc but she has a buddy that is only lightly kidnapping her ?