#Pop Wellington

[bstroobery]

Continuing on my reposts of Blue’s art…

Time for the AFF! It’s a great story that you guys should check out once Blue figures out how they want to post it. This stuff is from 2019-2020 btw. That’s right, in going back with the art!

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[trentonsimblr]

Rutherfords through the seasons 🌷☀️🍁❄️

[the1ronduke]

Stop hunting me @banasstre

[geezerwench]

The Wellington Family

[needcake]

I watched Napoleon (2023) yesterday and it's... pretty bad

[vibrantpuppeteer]

Of all the things that go together in this world...

Beef fizz and corn dogs (a.k.a. beef wellington on a stick) are certainly a pair We'd like to try.

[imakemyownnotes]

[falseandrealultravival]

In the Canary Islands (Eiichi Otaki): City Pop

The boss of City Pop, Eiichi Otaki, has the most transparent and beautiful voice among Japanese male vocalists. One song from the album "A Long Vacation" that includes "Kimi wa Tennenshoku" is "In the Canary Islands". What do you think of the forgetfulness of this song? He casts off his troublesome persona and spends some time playing in the windless space. Having so much free time makes life so much more enjoyable.

♪ Thinly sliced oranges

float in iced tea

Slide only the pen on the terrace facing the sea

  When the shadow of summer rushes across the sandy beach

  Refreshing to live

It's strange because I can see

canary island

canary island

the wind doesn't move

カナリア諸島にて（大瀧詠一）：シティ・ポップ

シティ・ポップのボス、大瀧詠一は、日本の男性ヴォーカルのなかで、最も透明感のある美声の持ち主だ。「君は天然色」が収録されたアルバム「A Long Vacation」の一曲が「カナリア諸島にて」だが、この曲の忘我感はどうだろう。煩わしいペルソナを脱ぎ捨て、しばし無風空間で遊ぶ。これほど自由な時間が持てるだけでも、人生は楽しいというもの。

The place where Napoleon was finally exiled by Wellington.

(2023.05.14)

[robascoltayoutube]

Justin Wellington feat. Small Jam - "Iko Iko (My Bestie)" [2019]

[bstroobery]

Hey look! We made it to the end!

Gonna post the AFF:PI stuff next :3

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[episims]

Kijiko Pop Wellington Glasses Edit

A collab with awesome @pforestsims!

@rented-space shared a 3t2 conversion of Kijiko's Pop Wellington glasses here and I've recolored them in the distant past. I haven't found much use for those recolors myself, so I wanted to try something different.

Pforest came to help and edited the mesh to work with transparency and the material to look more like plastic. I turned the edits into a new standalone mesh so it can be used alongside the original.

We made 9 slightly translucent recolors; 4 gradients and 5 various tortoise shell patterns. They have a subtle shine on them, so the colors appear a bit different depending on the lighting.

👓 Download (SFS) (alternate)

Files are compressed. Available from children to elder of both genders. Binned properly as glasses so they will trigger the glasses TO and won't be layerable with other glasses accessories.

[cossaboomboombelly]

Apart from Templeton in Charlotte's Web, this was the cartoon that started my fascination with weight gain, particularly in animation, and cemented Wimpy as one of animated weight gain heroes. The cartoon was "Egypt Us" from the old King Features Syndicate series of made-for-television Popeye cartoons of the early 1960's, and the frames of "fat" Wimpy were burned into my head the moment I saw them when growing up. When I found the cartoon again in digital form years later, in the age of photo editing tools, I started making my own art with other backgrounds and situations, as well as discovering other cartoons and comics in which "Wimpy the Moocher" gained enormous amounts of weight, making hi, in my opinion, one of the best fat cartoon characters of all time. But this was the cartoon where my fascination with his big belly started.

[ofmdrecaps]

12/07-08/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Rhys Darby; GCC Columbus 2024: Con, Vico, Nathan, Kristian; Anapela Polata'ivao; Guz Khan; Fan Spotlight: One More Song; Gay Pirate News Hour; Love Notes;

= Rhys Darby =

Rhys has been keeping our hearts full these last several days! First up, he was featured in a NZHerald Article!

Source: NZHerald Instagram

Next up, Rhys decided to show of his regal side!

Source: Rhys' Instagram

Check out this episode of BahHumbug with Helen O'Hara with Rhys about #ThatChristmas! Spotify Episode

Source: Helen O'Hara's Bsky

== Con, Vico, Nathan, Kristian ==

This past weekend, Con, Vico, Nathan, and Kristian were out in Columbus Ohio at Galaxy Con! As you can see by the photos below, the sheer amount of Pirates that were that was immense! I've read so many wonderful stories from all our crewmates on every social media platform-- and it sounded like an absolute divine experience! It sounds like some folks got some food poisoning thought! I hope you all are feeling so much better by now!

Con sent a very sweet note after the con on his Threads (I ran out of screenshots on tumblr so here it is in text!): "Dear people of galaxyconcolumbus we can we saw (we got horrible food poisoning but that's another story) and we meet the most beautiful, powerful, weird, filthy souls and you touched our hearts. Thanks you one and all for the glorious weekend ... you are loved, your are powerful, you are the future. Don't walk...fly x"

Source: Con's Instagram

Nathan apparently found his favorite food ever at the hotel coffee shop in Columbus, he posted more than once about them. Anyone from the con know what's in those? 👀

Some of you may recognize Joel Perez from Helluva Boss amongst other voice work! Vico and Nathan got to hang with him at GCC!

Source: Mister Joel Perez' Instagram

Vico kept us well fed with pictures of their Izzy Drag costume and pics hanging with Con at the One More Song Drag & Variety show!

Source: Vico's Free Patreon

The absolute sweetest, badass crewmate out there-- Irene Adler was kind enough to let me share these pictures of Con at the OFMD Panel. These shots gave me some wonderful laughs and you can just feel the joy there, thank you Irene!

Source: Irene Adler's Instagram

== OFMD Panel ==

If you haven't already - please send @adoptourcrew all the love for transcribing everything in such detail from the OFMD Panel at Galaxy Con Columbus! They've been very sweet to keep us apprised of these events! If you're on bsky, please visit their thread here and give them some love!

Source: Adopt Our Crew's Bsky

= Anapela Polataivao =

In non convention related news -- Our brilliant Auntie, Anapela Polata’ivao received 'Director of the Year In Honour Of Richard Campion' for The Savage Coloniser Show at the 2024 Wellington Theatre Awards!

Source: Petmal Petelo's Instagram

= Guz Khan =

And something fun -- Guz was out on Michael Mcintyre's The Wheel!

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Source: Guz Khan's Instagram

= Fan Spotlight =

= One More Song =

From what I hear, the One More Song Drag and Variety show was absolutely unforgettable! Between all the extremely talented performers-- Con's attending his first drag show, and Vico's stellar performance, you can just feel the buzzing of energy popping out of the screen-- I can't even imagine what it was like in person! Not only was it fabulous, but the proceeds raised were for an amazing cause -- the Kaleidoscope Youth Center. The version on youtube is just the live version, they'll be working on a full edited version of the show. You can follow their social media accounts @onemoresongofmd. In the meantime, if you would like to donate to the Kaleidoscope Youth Center cause you can do so here: https://kyc.app.neoncrm.com/forms/onl... and if you'd like to let them know One More Song is how you found them, they'd greatly appreciate it!

Source: GretchaSketches Youtube

= Gay Pirate News Hour =

Still looking for more convention coverage? Well look no further! Our crewmats over at Our Flag Means Fanfiction (with Carly and Andrea!) were able to get on the line with @ringasunn and Con and Nathan!

Source: Gay Pirate News Hour Instagram

== Love Notes ==

Hey there Lovelies! Gosh the amount of love and sheer joy I've heard about from the convention is just beyond belief. I've talked to so many different folks, that span from all across the fandom, and everyone has such beautiful stories of camaraderie and kindness! I wanted to say-- Some of my dear friends passed on your well wishes (I wasn't able to make it even though I really wanted to and was planning on it earlier in the year) and hearing that some of you were thinking of me really warmed my heart (I may have cried a bit, but it was a good cry). So thank you so much, the message did reach me!

I don't think you all know just how much those of us who can't make it to conventions appreciate all the joy and fun you all share on your socials. We're getting a glimpse of the glee there and it helps us feel like we're not missing out on the wonder of this fandom. I saw the group selfie, and you know what? It made me so very happy. I recognized SO VERY MANY of you, even though we've never met in person. I see your smiling faces across social media, and even if I only know you by your online handle, I've come to know so many of you and so when you all get together like this-- it's like the best thing in the world. Getting to see so many people I recognize and interact with and care about all in one place having such a great time is honestly just such a wonderful gift. I know that we're a few days after the convention now, and I know a lot of folks are experiencing Post-Con depression/funk and I just wanted to send you a reminder that nothing is over. You aren't in person anymore right now, but your presence is everywhere, and people get genuine joy from it and you every single day. If you're feeling the drop in dopamine, remember to drink some water, get some rest, and pop back on when you're ready. We love you crew. Take care lovelies <3

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Source: The Latest Kate's Instagram

[sootchild]

So what is happening in your Blades in the Dark Game exactly? The Midnight Runners Specifically?

[Takes a deep breath in] OK so this is gonna take a bit.

Blades in the Dark: The Midnight Runners was run by my friend colinomicon on The Lost Caravan RPG twitch channel at the start of 2024. (You can find 3 out of 4 sessions on the youtube channel, sadly the 4th is lost to time and space.) The premise of the game was the 1979 film "The Warriors".

Where The Warriors leave their turf in Coney Island to take part in a meeting in uptown NY city called by the largest gang in the city. Things go south and The Warriors have to survive the night and get back to their turf whilst everyone thinks it is their fault things went wrong at the meeting. So our game followed that premise but with a bit more to it.

In our game The Midnight Runners is a small gang of drug producers/movers that specialize in "Blue Lips" a psychedelic mushroom that grows on corpses. It mimics the "going into the light" feeling people have in near death experiences, though untreated the shrooms cause actual death. The gang knows how to make the shrooms safe to consume and also how to make the purest high, so they corner the market on Blue Lips.

The members are (L to R)

Rust: The Cutter. The muscle of the group. Loves to fight and fuck, typically in that order.

Soda Pop: The Hound. Second in command and drug tester. Drinks a lot of soda pops, like so much. There is a post about her pre episode 4.

Cricket: The Lurk. "God's favourite child", an ex Blue Lips junkie and sneak thief. Likes having a place she feels she belongs and River.

River: The Whisper. She sees dead people and talks them into moving on which makes the Blue Lips high all the better. She likes stuff... she is insane but she likes Cricket.

Dexy. The Leader. Botanist, mother figure, the best of us all. GM NPC.

The gang got their invite to the big meeting called by The Unseen by crashing a big old fundraiser/ball at the Academy and getting everyone high as balls off Blue Lips that was added to the beef wellington and vegetarian dishes. As well as having smashed so many priceless antiquities and releasing some ghosts in the process.

There was a lot of downtime and flashbacks that happened in episodes 2 and 3 so I'd suggest checking out the videos that didn't get lost to time and space, cause I think we were entertaining and brilliant.

At the meeting (which they had to go to without any weaponry since a truce was called), all the leaders were called up to the stage to talk with the leader of The Unseen... Only for a bomb to go off. Killing a lot of the leaders, including Dexy. Dexy had been wearing a piece of pottery that served as a new calling card for the gang and that unfortunately survived the explosion and made everyone think that The Midnight Runners had set up the bomb.

Episode 4, which is sadly missing, was the gang trying to get back to Barrowcleft.

Dodging gangs and the police. Dangerously climbing under a bridge to bypass a barricade. Fighting Soda's old bounty hunter mentor who was trying to collect the bounty on them. Fighting a gang with a ghost toilet cover, River called up a useless ghost of a man that died on the toilet along with the ghost of his toilet. So Rust having no weapons armed himself with the cover from the ghost toilet and bashed a man's head in.

Getting back onto their boat to try to make it home, only for the mostly exploded leader of the Grinders, Marlo, sitting in the boat being a scary badass. Luckily talked her into not killing us all with her one good hand.

Got back to Barrowcleft only to find our hideout, the barn, on fire surrounded by cops. Decided, fuck it, we are going in live. Ends up that "Officer Muttonchops", a seemingly joke of a man, was the one that set up the bomb and pinned it on us... Soda shot him through the eye before he could get into his whole villain monologue. Everyone ran in swinging: River summoned a lightning storm, Rust punched his way through, Cricket armed herself with dynamite from some stashes, and Soda made her shots count.

In the end The Unseen showed up and ended the conflict. Apologizing for thinking we were to blame for the death of their leader and offered us reparations. We said we'd need a new hideout and since we needed new corpses for Blue Lips, we'd be taking the cops'.

That is how it went. Hope that answers your question.

[mdianasims]

Grace Hastings

for @bloomingkyras Travelogue Journey Bachelor Challenge.

Name: Grace Eleanor Hastings Age: 26 (young adult) Aspiration: Renaissance Sim Traits: Horse Lover, Squeamish, Genius, Business Savvy, The Knowledge. Likes: sunrise yoga, spa days with friends (hand massage and manicure are essential), riding along the shore with her horse, grandma's signature Beef Wellington. Dislikes: cooking (would start a fire if left alone in the kitchen), bugs (will drive them away with high-pitched screaming), mucking out stables, people who think they are funny when they're not.

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Grace grew up in Brindleton Bay, with her parents and younger brother. A lot of her younger years revolved around horses and Grace became a skilled equestrian. Many Summer holidays were spent on her grandmother's estate in Henford-on-Bagley. The family spent their Winter vacations in Mt. Komorebi to go skiing.

In her teenage years, Grace dabbled a bit as a Simfluencer. It did make her more popular in school and even got her elected as prom royalty, in spite of graduating early (the really smart kids aren't usually popular). She still has a love for S-Pop (more of a guilty pleasure these days) and her signature hot pink nails and lips to show for her Simfluencer days. She wanted to take a gap year and travel, but her parents didn't allow it on account of her being too young. So, Grace went to study economics at Foxbury and, of course, graduated with honours.

After graduating university, Grace took a job in her mother's business, something to do with the San Myshuno stock exchange. Instead of using her degree and connections, Grace opted to start at the bottom of the corporate ladder. Which may have been a mistake. Apartment life in San Myshuno didn't agree with our country girl. She got into a relationship with a co-worker and things got messy, both at work and privately. After she broke up with him, she moved back to her parents house in Brindleton Bay. She was more than happy to commute every day if it meant spending more time with her favourite horse, Artemis.

Recently, Grace felt that her job didn't really suit her anymore. And things were complicated enough, with her ex and her mother constantly around at the office. She went back to what she knew best: Social Media. Of course, Grace has to start all over again, but she can take a more serious route this time. It still requires a lot of trips to San Myshuno (because that's where 'it' is happening), but at least she can do so on her own time.

Grace is good at almost everything she does and that makes others perceive her as arrogant. She simply does her best and certainly has her flaws. It's not a coincidence she's participating in a bachelor challenge with a bachelor who enjoys cooking. But that's not her only reason for participating. Grace feels she does have a few things in common with Shawn and hopes they can find that common ground and build on it.

A few notes:

Grace's backstory talks about a few things. I did not actually play through all of that. I created her as a young adult in CAS and then cheated some skills and a job. So she has no degree or reward traits from her teenage years.

I wanted Grace to have the overachiever trait in addition to her 3 base traits. But I spent soooo long on compiling her outfits, that I didn't feel like playing her for a long time as well (I have my own BC to get back to ;) ). Also, respect to people who are good in CAS - we all have our own talents, and mine is in build mode.

I know there was more I wanted to tell you about Grace, but I either forgot or didn't manage to work the into the story the way I imagined.

@bloomingkyras if there is anything else you want to know, feel free to message me.

To conclude this, here's the (mandatory for all BCs) swimsuit photo ;)

[princessanneftw]

Fendi pays tribute to Princess Anne with themed Milan show

This was the designer’s witty love letter from one strong, forthright woman within a powerful dynasty to another

Stephen Doig for the Daily Telegraph

Just this week, a colleague was extolling the wardrobe virtues of the “accidentally stylish” Princess Anne. And it seems that Silvia Venturini Fendi, the formidable matriarch of the Roman fashion house, is in agreement.

“I fell in love with the style of Princess Anne who, to my mind, is the most elegant woman in the world,” said Fendi, backstage in Milan. “When I saw the Coronation last year with Princess Anne in her uniform, I thought she looked beautiful. So I said ‘let’s be inspired for a men’s collection’.” The collection took the codes of the Princess Royal’s singular approach to dressing and applied them to men’s clothing, with a dusting of Fendi luxury in the mix.

“It’s a little bit Town and Country,” Fendi said of the distinctly British homage. “The Princess Royal is very rigorous in how she dresses, with this kind of military minded attitude, but feminine at the same time. She has a life outside the spotlight. She’s kind of an anti-fashion person, and to me that’s something that’s actually very fashionable and chic.”

Princess Anne’s status as a style icon over the years certainly hasn’t been by design on her part – leave the Princess of Wales to the Burberry while she dons House of Bruar – and was never the intention of the no-nonsense and hardworking royal, who favours practical country attire and Oakley shades over couture and experimental shapes, horse trials over the Gucci horsebit loafer. But that same sense of self-assuredness, stoicism and very British approach to dressing is just what appealed to Fendi in theming her show around the royal.

In actual terms, that translated into twinsets and chunky tweed skirts, heritage fabric coats – plaids spliced on plaids for a layered effect – waxed jackets and Wellington boots. The kind of attire built for yomps at Balmoral and Gloucestershire horse trials rather than the bars of Milan’s Brera district. The colours were those of the British countryside; olive, moss, oak and stone hues that evoked Gatcombe’s Green & Pleasant Land. The skirts, coincidentally, were in fact big, blousy Bermuda shorts designed to ape the appearance of Princess Anne’s solid kilts, although the royal herself has always mixed up the gender codes with her upright military uniform, so perhaps she’d approve of a bit of fluidity in that respect.

This being Fendi, a bit of experimentation with fabrication also weaved its way into the collection, with a tufted coat actually made from slivers of denim and some plush shearling on cropped jackets.

What Princess Anne would make of the sparkly suits on the willowy young men on the catwalk – perhaps a nod to her 1970s glamour – as well as the screaming furor from fans outside due to the presence of K-Pop stars and actors James Franco and Kit Harrington is anyone’s guess. But Silvia Venturini Fendi is no stranger to the singular position of being a strong, forthright woman within a powerful dynasty. It was a witty stylistic love letter from one woman of substance to another.