#and afaik these are the only triplets

[lavenderstobins]

The Cousland family in my main world state! Close-ups and details under the cut because I'm a little obsessed with them

Eleanor and Bryce

My warden Jaemi has brown skin and I wasn't particularly vibing with her looking adopted so I mainly played around with Eleanor so recreate her how I personally picture her. She grew up on the seas! Raised on a warship! There's next to no information on her actual family (afaik anyway) so I like to think her mother was from Rivain.

Bryce I didn't change too much aside from giving him brown eyes instead of blue. Also, considering the game made them look ancient when they're in their late 40s/early 50s, I made them look younger than the game does.

Fergus, Oriana and Oren

Fergus I tried to keep similar to his in-game appearance while also keeping him consistent with the redesigns of his parents and the appearance of Jaemi. He looks more like Bryce, but he has Eleanor's eyes and complexion.

Oriana is from Antiva, so I based her appearance more similarly to Josephine's, and her appearance in the mod Oriana Cousland of Antiva. Oren then is a mix of both of his parents.

Fergus later adopts Amethyne, Iona's daughter in the Denerim Alienage, and I think maybe he'd end up in a relationship with Nathaniel Howe but I'm still figuring all that out right now so they are currently missing from the tree </3

Jaemi, Alistair and their children

Jaemi, in the tree, is starting to show the effects of the Blight, but its progress has slowed considerably thanks to Avernus' research. I'm choosing to retcon 'Grey Wardens are basically infertile' since it's stupid and we have both Alistair and Kieran with no real explanation as to how Fiona managed to have him (to my knowledge).

Jaemi would keep her surname as she and Fergus are the only ones left of her family, but I think as queen she'd let her name be Theirin-Cousland. I do think that all of their children are Theirin-Cousland too, but with the favouritism shown to Calenhad's line they'd be known more as Theirins.

Alistair I think has pointy ears but they're not super visible. I kinda love the headcanon that Eamon had Alistair's ears clipped when he was a baby to hide his elven parentage, but idk if I want to incorporate that or not yet, and the sims hates elven ears anyway, so.

Eleanora is their firstborn child. She was conceived during the Blight (specifically during the long venture through the Deep Roads which is a little hilarious to me) and she was born sometime after Jaemi returned from Amaranthine in 9:31 Dragon. She's older than Kieran by a couple of months (Kieran and Morrigan aren't on the tree solely because I haven't recreated Kieran yet) and therefore the heir to Ferelden's throne. She's very headstrong and adventurous, like Jaemi, and Fergus jokes that it's karma for all the trouble she caused their mother.

Duncan is their secondborn and their first son. His full name is Duncan Bryce Theirin-Cousland, because Alistair wanted to honor Duncan and Jaemi wanted to honor her father. He's the complete opposite of his older sister, being a quiet bookworm and socially awkward. He was born a year or two after Eleanora in 9:33 Dragon.

Isobel, Rose and Lillian are triplets (obviously not identical). They were intended to be the third and final child, and Alistair briefly fainted when the third baby was delivered. They were born 9:35 Dragon.

At this point, Jaemi started her search for a cure for the Calling, though mainly it was research and communications via letters etc. Rhys, their second son and sixth child overall, was an unplanned baby, born in 9:39 Dragon.

When he turned two years old, Jaemi embarked on a journey to find a cure. As much as she didn't want to leave her family, she couldn't risk them losing her and Alistair to the Blight. Honestly, I think there could be some fuckery here with Eluvians, but I need to look into it further/

Their last child, Ffion, is born in 9:45 Dragon, after Jaemi has returned from her search. She wasn't exactly planned, either, but this time it was more of a "if it happens, it won't be unwanted" rather than actively trying for a baby. Her name being similar to Fiona's is unintential on their part, though I like to think sometime after this Alistair finds out about Fiona being his mother.

Eleanora and Lucanis

Eleanora is my Rook for this world state. She romances Lucanis and she's 'technically' a Grey Warden, by which I think she has a sort of immunity to the Blight on account of both of her parents being Grey Wardens. Also because the surname Thorne 1000% sounds like she went to say Theirin and then panicked because she didn't want to reveal her identity.

Everyone in the Veilguard assumes that she's an only child because she avoids the topic of her family (not wanting to accidentally reveal her heritage or, yknow, status of Heir to Ferelden's Throne). Lucanis definitely assumes her family is small, like his, so he has quite a surprise when she finally confesses everything to their group.

[inky-duchess]

Hi! I know this kind of unrelated to most posts of yours bc I see you mostly post about royalty afaik, but do you have any tips on writing triplets by chance? I only have one sibling and it's almost a 10 year gap between us and I'm worried i will make my character seem unrealistic or like just best friends who casually look almost exactly like each othert

I hope you can help me, I love your blog!

I don't have anything on triplets I'm afraid, anybody else gave any pointers for @dragoninahumancostume

[foxune]

Do you keep up with Super Mario-kun? Like the really current issues, collected books, or not? Did Luigi's Mansion 3 ever get to the Triplets? 58 has Origami King, 59 has Mario Strikers, and 60 has Wonder on the cover, and I just want to finish LM3 so I can start a translation project.

I have every book up to 59, which is the most recent, afaik.

LM3 is only featured in 56 and 57. The story gets through the entire game, but omits the Triplets along with a few other boss ghosts (Johnny Deepend, Captain Fishook, Phantasmagloria, and bizarrely, Hellen Gravely). Everyone else appears.

[notaplaceofhonour]

The theme of false duality is also just really smartly foreshadowed & woven throughout the series, even down to repeatedly introducing pairs of people that are actually part of a set of three:

The Quagmires are introduced as fraternal triplets people mistake for twins because the 3rd triplet died in a fire, and it’s later revealed he survived.

The Denouements are introduced as identical twins—one good, one evil—but it’s later revealed they’re secretly triplets.

even the Snickets, who afaik aren’t triplets, are 3 siblings that—for most of the story—are only known as 2 brothers.

The third siblings from all three families only show up in the final third of the series, as the previously simplistic good/evil duality of The Schism is broken down. And in The End, how do the Baudelaires survive the world’s deadliest fungus? A bitter apple given to them by a snake—fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good AND evil.

something I respect about A Series of Unfortunate Events is that it both never talked down to children—either in terms of sugarcoating dark & tragic subject matter or avoiding long words & complex concepts (like, the first book revolves around a child marriage in which the villain forces his adopted daughter to marry him so he can steal her fortune, & relies on explaining multiple legal concepts in family & marriage law)—AND still found a way to mature with its readers, with each book building on the complexity & maturity of the previous one

[jadeazora]

The Tinkatink line from Triplet Beat!

Also, there's Timed Research codes for you to catch the Regis in Pokemon GO. Afaik, the codes are unlimited to Trainers downloading them, but the research only lasts for a bit more than 8 days from posting:

Regirock: 6X4H9UCA8F7TT

Regice: YKG5ZPC4SLXAX

Registeel: 6AKRAV5WJN5FS

[tinydancerandthemoonchild]

Leo. You're a twin. Pri is a triplet/quadruplet. If you do have a bun, it's not gonna just be one.

Well, yeah- wait. What do you mean "quadruplet"?

// rn the only people that know afaik are levi and maybe ali, leo has no fucking clue lmao

[otnesse]

Might as well post this regarding Linda Woolverton based on something that she said a little while back.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-linda-woolverton-alice-through-the-looking-glass-20160523-snap-story.html

In particular, something she said in the article really irritated me, which is the following in regards to the so-called Disney Princess culture:

"'I grew up in that princess culture,' Woolverton said. 'I remember feeling very incensed that the men would retire to the library and talk about interesting things and the women and girls were supposed to be over here baking and sewing. We weren't supposed to be thinkers or philosophers.'"

Okay, first of all, Woolverton, I'm pretty sure that is NOT the Princess culture (in fact, technically, the Disney Princess culture didn't even EXIST at the time she's referring to, as the only three movies that existed of Disney Princesses were Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. The Little Mermaid had yet to exist, let alone Beauty and the Beast and others, heck, the idea of an interconnected franchise regarding those characters like Disney Princess was not even an idea yet.). In fact, I don't recall it EVER being implied in the movies that women were not supposed to be thinkers or philosophers at all. Far from it, Cinderella at least was actually shown to have studied history if her naming one of the mice after Emperor Octavian, or more accurately, his nickname of Gus, is of any indication. So don't conflate your experiences with the princess culture.

Which brings me up to my next point: Don't imply that what you described was even widespread enough to be a culture, or that women during that time weren't allowed to be thinkers or philosophers, or even allowed to enter libraries. Sure, maybe YOU have personal experience regarding that bit, but that doesn't mean it was even remotely widespread enough to qualify as a culture, since it's unlikely that most common Americans at the time, heck, most common Californians even, had that experience you did (or various people in the world, for that matter). Actually since it was mentioned earlier in that article that during her childhood she learned to tie knots on the family's 45-foot boat and often went sailing there, she's actually closer to one of the more wealthy citizens of America at that time, meaning that DEFINITELY wasn't a common occurrence among mainstream America (for example, my parents weren't exactly slouches in terms of income or being well-off when they were children, with my dad being the son of a traveling businessman and being raised in Edina, Minnesota, and my mom being the daughter of a traveling Baseball announcer who settled down while still young at Massachusetts. However, not even THEY could afford during that time a 45-foot boat to travel the Atlantic coast or even one of the lakes of Minnesota.), or even the world for that matter. At most, this was just something your own family had as a social rule.

And here's the final point on the matter (and I learned of this yesterday): From what I gather, it was common among the upper class at the time that, around the time of dinner, the men retreat to the library in order to talk about stuff like baseball and other topics, while the women often separated to take care of dinner prep. It had more to do with a social rule among the elites, one that wasn't even embraced by all (not that my Dad's family was anywhere near the upper class, but he had a similar story: During dinner parties, the kids were often separated from the adults when they had conversations, mostly because the subject matter was simply not stuff the kids would have had the emotional maturity to deal with). Even assuming she had an actual legitimate grievance towards it, there was technically never anything stopping her from, say, actually entering the library. Sure, it's unorthodox, and not quite approved of by her class, but it's not like she'll get punished AFAIK by her parents like she would for, say, breaking curfew or refusing to clean up a mess, or that she'd get arrested for that.

I don't mind strong females by any stretch (heck, my #1 DP, Ariel, is plenty strong. And I'm also a fan of Misty from Pokémon and Samus from Metroid, both of whom were very strong females), but Linda Woolverton's attempts at strong females I do not approve of at all, especially not when she is trying to push the radical feminist agenda (and let's face it, her view of feminism and what she tried by her own admission to push onto children IS radical, from bashing the concept of marriage to such an extent in BATB that she effectively implied in the film that it was a woman's worst nightmare and that any woman who even remotely supported marriage in any way was some brainless bimbo who only falls for the town hunk, to basically bashing men by depicting them as either villains, incompetent, or doofuses like she did in BATB and Maleficent. Heck, even speaking as someone who actually has respect for the Beast, I have to admit she definitely had him poorly handled, especially in the ending where he was unable to do ANYTHING to save himself or even his servants when they were attacked, something that he was at least perfectly capable of in his old ways, unless Belle was physically present, as if Belle just castrated him.). And quite frankly, I thought you ruined Beauty and the Beast with your insistence of using that to push the feminist agenda, like Paul Verhoeven did with his pushing an anti-War agenda in Starship Troopers. Belle didn't come across as having true beauty within, and if anything those triplet sisters came far closer to that mark (to say little about their outer beauty). And there was literally nothing in common with the original tale (either version) save for the bit about Beast being cursed and her father encountering him. I'm sorry, but even the Disney version of The Little Mermaid was a lot more faithful to the source material than BATB is, and that's the one that got complained about being ruined by Disney for a changed ending (a changed ending's nothing to literally most of the entire plot being rewritten to such an extent that it came across as an in-name-only adaptation, the latter of which was BATB's problem.). Yes, several Disney films before then had significant rewrites as well, some even going as far as to be in-name-only adaptations but most of that was either due to time constraints (such as Snow White cutting out the poisoned comb bit) or otherwise trying to tone down the material due to the source material otherwise being too inappropriate for the age bracket to do a direct adaptation (eg, The Jungle Book). BATB was the first film to literally rewrite the whole film from the story it adapted from for the sake of pushing a socio-political agenda onto the masses, onto children even. And I wouldn't call that a good thing. To add insult to injury, you arguably insulted the original authors of the tale, Villeneuve and Beaumont, by having the story effectively imply that Belle was not only the only one of the village who was literate, but that she was an outcast for that reason especially due to her being female. Quite frankly, the only reason that jerk is working at Disney is thanks to Jeffrey Katzenberg insisting on a feminist twist to the story after critics complained that Ariel was "cloyingly sexist" just for the fact that she even wanted to go for Eric at all (completely ignoring, of course, that Ariel had already shown badass credentials in the very opening scene where she managed to encounter a shark and beat it, not to mention was explicitly shown to have an interest in humanity to such an extent that she already WANTED to become human long before even being aware of Prince Eric's existence, let alone meeting him face to face, or the fact that she, you know, saved Eric at least twice, and Eric returning the favor himself about that same amount.). I'd even go so far as to argue that, thanks to Katzenberg and this decision, that was the start of Disney shedding its wholesome family values reputation in favor of pushing leftist agendas that is currently plaguing the company right now.

[protoindoeuropean]

btw not enough people are aware of the other triple reflex in Ancient Greek: the labiovelars

τέλος (→ telos, telic, teleology etc.)

πόλος (→ pole, polar etc., via Latin polus)

κύκλος (→ cycle, cyclic etc.)

– all of these words go back to different formations from the PIE root *kᵘel- 'to turn', with a different reflex of the initial labiovelar depending on the quality of the vowel in its immediate vicinity (*kᵘelos, *kᵘolos and slightly irregular *kᵘekᵘlos >> *kᵘₔkᵘlos > *kᵘukᵘlos respectively)

thus also Greek τίς = Latin quis 'who' (< PIE *kᵘis), Gk. ποῖος 'which' = Lat. quoius > cuius 'Gsg. who/what' (< PIE *kᵘosi̯os), as well as Gk. οὐκ < οὐκι 'no(t)' (< PIE *h₂oi̯u kᵘid) and so on