#not only that but the woman is pansexual and very broken. babe how do you sell me on this AGAIN

[shiryawashere]

I'm just gonna come clean and reveal that I have in fact reached the level of whipped where I've been listening to an audiobook just because My Special GirlTM is narrating parts of it and I will wear my whippedness like a medal of dishonor and prostrate myself in this house empty of god for one reason and one reason only

To inform everyone that halfway through the book her character says a single sentence in Japanese perfectly and I'll be real with you I think I ascended

[foxsimthings]

Jerica Riley for @lotusplum ​‘s Benny BC!

Super Parent | Ambitious | Family-Oriented | Creative 26 | Social Media Influencer/Fashion Design Student | Single Mom

I hope everything checks out okay! This is my first time doing one of these so I mostly went off how I had seen other people go about it bc apparently that’s just how I learn everything now. I also hope you enjoy looking over her stuff as much as I enjoyed working on it! <3

Jerica Riley (@j.riles.u.up) was making money off simstagram when she was sixteen. Fourth of her sisters with a four-year gap between herself and the second youngest, she was expected to follow the same path into science. Their parents were wholly clever people, a radiologist and a cardiologist that found love under fluorescent lights. But her passion was fashion, design, funky photography. She wasn’t famous from her simstagram, but well known around San Myshuno where she grew up.

But where the mistakes of teens go unnoticed by most, Jerica’s were made in the public eye. And her younger years were rowdy, to put it gently. Men she should have stayed away from, parties she should never have gone to, tattoos she could(spoiler, would) regret. And all of it was online for the world to see.

She was nineteen when Aspen was born. The internet saw her baby girl still swaddled in hospital linens, saw the sweet baby clothes Jerica stayed up late nights crafting, babe on her breast in one hand and a sewing needle in the other. And before long she was making her own clothes as well. Though she would never consider Aspen a mistake, reviews on the young woman’s choices were unpopular. She was told often that it was selfish to keep her, that she was too young for a child, not responsible enough, too wild. But no opinion could change her mind, and though doing it alone was difficult, she had not a single regret when it came to her daughter.

Life as a young single mother took her from the public eye for a while, but now that Aspen is older the world is seeing them both again. Between attending UBrite to pursue her newfound passion for fashion design and working with the fabrics herself, staying up late nights sketching new designs for her future clothing line, raising a rowdy seven-year-old far too much like her and maintaining an online following, one would think her far too busy for love. But love, like many things, relies on being in the right place at the right time, just like her parents meeting all those years ago in the austere hospital halls.

That, and Aspen was pretty certain her mom being on TV would be ‘sicc’.

~~Fun Facts~~

She says the scar on the bridge of her nose was from a fight. Lie detector tests prove that that is a lie. She had suctioned a cup to her face as a tween and ran into a wall. This also chipped a few of her back molars.

Jerica was in a rock band as a teenager. They were called RoadThrash and they were horrible. She still has their first performance on DVD somewhere.

Aspen is absolutely Jerica’s best friend. They’ve traveled the world together and there’s still plenty more on their mother-daughter bucket list.

She learned to cook from her mother’s side of the family. Although she couldn’t throw together an apple pie if her life depended on it, she can whip up bibimbap with her eyes closed and nothing in the fridge. 

Jerica has designed and made a tuxedo for a potbelly pig to wear at his owner’s wedding. His name was Gerald, and she has a framed picture of him and his humans in her office.

She’s very clever with her money and has no problems getting her hands dirty. Though she may not know everything, she can learn. And if it’s broken, she’ll be the first to roll up her sleeves, pop open the hood and shine a light inside.

Though she identifies as pansexual, she leans more into relationships with women. Especially now that she’s mellowed out a bit, the urge to goof off with guys that are no good for her has thankfully died down(though the wannabe rock icon still lives on within her somewhere).

Jerica’s very ambitious. Everything she has she’s earned on her own. The pride that runs in her family kept her from ever asking for help, so she’s only ever known to knuckle down and get it done herself.

As much of a fashion nut as Jerica is, she still changes into her extremely old and baggy sweatpants as soon as she gets home, and her secret is that she’s actually terrible at doing her makeup. Her skincare routine is rigorous only so she doesn’t have to learn about contouring, or baking, or whatever.

More than anything she’s excited for the potential to try something new, meet some new people, find love??? and anything in between. Plus, great simstagram content! #bacheloretting 

[giselle-stoneheart]

INTRODUCING:

SILVER- TONGUED DEVIL

BASICS

NAME : Giselle Stoneheart

AGE:1,283 Appears to be 28 years old. .

HEIGHT : 5′5

SPECIES: Fae

ORIENTATION : demiromantic pansexual

FREQUENTS: Belwyn Forest

OCCUPATION : Owner of Collector’s Quarters

Residency: 6087 The Offshore Villas

FUN FACT: Her favorite color is forest green, but is often wearing black or dark colored clothing with accents of green through out her wardrobe and yes it is fabulous darling.

RELATIONSHIPS

FATHER: Odysseus Stoneheart (NPC) MOTHER: Tempest Stoneheart (NPC) SIBLINGS: Rosily Stoneheart(NPC), Willowbreath Stoneheart(NPC), (WC) Stoneheart SIGNIFICANT OTHERS: Syphon Greyjoy ( husband, deceased)   Prudence Windwalker ( wife, missing) 

OFFSPRING: none

SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS: Ward ( Syphon’s child WC)

tw: tourture, murder, kidnapping, death

BACKSTORY: 

“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”

She’s  precocious, a trait that has only increased the longer she’s lived. It served her well when the idiot trio accidentally made vampires. Giselle could remember the smug look of satisfaction on her father’s and mothers face at the witch’s folly, “Serves them right for trying to understand a thing that was never meant for them.” gingerly sipping on his tea but the true venom laced every word.  While some called them accidents or abominations, her father and in-fact all from her family line saw themselves as prodigies. Faeries existed not because of the wills of some angelic being, but by shear will. Forge form the great magics that swept the lands. Nurtured by mother nature herself. Powerful, beautiful, immortal. We are the things they wished to be, beings that will be left standing long after the wars  end.  This sense of pride isn’t for prides sake. The legacy of a Stoneheart is tracked all the way back to the Fruition. “ So why aren’t we a part of the high courts? Why settle to be just and adviser?” it was a question she often asked herself even now. She came from a family of advisors on her mothers side and warriors on her fathers. If they wished it: more power wasn’t so far out of their grasp. “The head may wear the crown but it’s the neck that can move the head, this way or that.” Even in her bloom of youth she could understand what her father meant. Giselle was nothing if not quick and witty. Though weren’t most fae .  She was only 150 years old still a baby, in most eyes. But that didn’t stop the want and need for more control and power to fester deep within her. For like those who came before; she would have it and she would have it by any means. 

“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies,

Giselle learned as most fae do to keep her true thoughts to herself. Human were so easy to read, witches to : at least the less clever witches. Emotion played so easily on their faces.  Keeping her thoughts to herself was always easier with them. Then came Syphon, a fae that thought he was so smart. In truth he was, he bested her at every turn. It was a funny thing, she had never considered marriage before. She didn’t want to be the figure behind a man’s name. She wanted a name for herself: it was why she studied so hard. Practice her magics and skills.  But at every turn he bested her. Which only made Giselle want him more. The wedding was a grand one. As most things are  with Giselle. It was a marriage of convenience for Syphon. For while she wanted him, Syphon had fallen in love... with a human no less. A human that carried his child; it was an embarrassment that she couldn’t stand. Especially when he had given her no children of her own. This is when a more malevolent nature took root. Though to his face, she was the picturesque wife. As she plotted the end of the lovers story; fading into the darkness unseen or heard by either of them. She slipped into their quaint little home. Their new born l resting peacefully in their bed. Taking the human child and replacing it with a fae babe.  Of course, Syphon would realize it- so she slit him open from navel to nose. Thanks to the iron she has slipped into his food over the last several months. Not enough to notice just enough to weaken him for this moment. Giselle reveled in the mess she had made;  his blood stained the sheets.  His lover sleeping peacefully, and their child quietly watched in her arms  as her papa desolve into faerie dust

It’s worth the nasty burn of the iron handle etched into her skin. She plays the poor widow for all of a day. Before she is back to her true form and married to another. Prudence, someone as vicious and wily as herself. This new era for the newly appointed fae advisor isn’t a fulfilling one. It is prudence disappearance that pushes Giselle towards more darker means of power. cautiously dabbling in the dark arts. But she always knows to wear a smile and look the part of an unassuming shop owner. until it’s time to make her play for real power. She is ever the wise and humble advisor

A LITTLE DEEPER:

- she has a nasty scar on her hand thanks to the iron in the dagger she used to kill her husband. Because of this and her own vanity, she wears elegant gloves all the time. The only person who has seen the scar are those she trust... so not many.

- the dagger that ended her husband’s life hangs proudly on the wall of her shop behind the counter her trophy. 

- Syphon’s and his lovers child Giselle has raised as her own. though she doesn’t claim the child. She does put on airs that she cares for them when really she is just using them as a way to continue to torture their human mother. 

- contrary to what most think she does care for some. but her love of power and control out weighs that most of the time. 

- this makes it hard for her to form deeper attachment. Prudence was the only one that seemingly got it and with her missing. Giselle is less incline to care for anyone or anything that doesn’t benefit herself in the long run.

- Giselle loves making deals, loves it even more when she gets to collect on those deals. Be careful. you may think you’re giving just a foot but she’ll end up taking your whole leg. 

CONNCTIONS:

* long/deep plots if your interested leave me a message ! 

- *the other woman: this is syphon’s lover. it was a very big misfortune to have gain Giselle’s ire but she sticks close to the human offering up her ‘friendship”. For no other reason than to make sure that she can make the other as miserable as possible. And to have a front row seat of it.

- the unwanted ward- this is the offspring of Syphon and his lover. Giselle is very good at making people believe she cares. But caring is harder for Giselle to do these days and as much as she has tried not to grow a fondness for her late husband’s love child she has. 

- *A Stone heart through and through- this is Giselle younger sibling. More than willing to help them as rise to their own power. So long as they don’t try to undermine hers they are the best of friends. 

- Unwilling allies- This is someone that has found some use to Giselle and in return she is found useful to them as well. Of course as with most things alliances are easily made and broken in this world. We’ll see how long this one last. 

[theoldgods]

CAOS 2 thoughts/reactions/spoilers I guess?

That was at least 50% stressful nonsense, so much so I attempted to spoil myself for the end after about 2 eps because I could not continue watching if Blackwood was going to get even slightly away with it. Which he sort of did but I’m ok with him being on the run for drama in season 3 as long as it means Zelda is well and truly done with his ass. I can’t take a third season of Zelda being weirdly dickmatized by this dude. (I did like how she explicitly was like “I’m not in love with him, I just want power and maybe an occasional dicking and whipping,” which is valid, but c’mon, Zelda, you didn’t seriously believe he really would ever share power with you, did you? That was somewhat unbelievable as a character move and made her seem pretty dumb/naive.)

Other shit I wasn’t wild about

The compulsory heterosexuality that underlies so much of the witchcraft in this world that’s sort of being dismantled but not quickly or explicitly enough for me, really. There will be great moments like Lilith’s speeches or Zelda and Prudence teaming up against Blackwood but then also a continued overall focus on heterosexual romance. How often do these women have to learn that the straight men around them are 150% garbage and not worthy of them until they get their male asses in order?

Relatedly, the continued absence of any f/f romance and the fact that Ambrose lost his male lover and got a female one instead (pansexuality is all well and good but, weird optics when he’s still the only really openly, detailed-ly LGB character in any sense beyond “yeah sure I’ll do an orgy with the same sex”) and the fact that the extremely gay Dorian Gray turned out to be rather evil (or at least a dark shade of traitorous gay, which is always side-eye-worthy if it doesn’t get developed further in future eps)

Shit I liked:

Nick/Sabrina, overall. He’s a messy dumbass but he’s mostly just there to look hot and prop her story and agency up so I’m okay with it for what it is.

The handling of Harvey/Roz and the Harvey/Roz/Sabrina triangle. I always like seeing teen romance being handled with a modicum of emotional maturity and a lack of jealousy, and this was good on those fronts. I’d prefer Harvey and Sabrina to stay broken up for good but I won’t be surprised if they end up back together anyway eventually.

Most of Prudence’s overall story. Frustrating as hell to watch her be continually desperate for Blackwood’s love but they finally acknowledged it wasn’t worth it at the end and I like the idea of her and Ambrose teaming up to get his ass and save the twins.

Hilda getting a bit more development, killing people for Zelda, and a getting a surprisingly nice offbeat but sweet midlife romance with what’s his face the incubus

God!Sabrina was visually very cool to me with the explicitly Jesus-esque and saintly imagery in the church, the Weird Sisters’ emotional reaction to her in that role, etc. Not wild about her just magically curing Roz’s eyesight but eh, it sort of came back to bite her in the ass? 

I love a good “fuck it, let’s kill God” storyline, so I completely dug the HDM-esque storyline there for the last ep. I’d really like a more explicit exploration of what Jesus and the Abrahamic God are in this world, though, since they appear to really exist--is Jesus just another witch/magic user? Is the Abrahamic God just another fallen angel setting himself up as a deity a la HDM? If so, can we please kill him too?

Lilith, like Zelda, had a messy road to “actually, fuck men”-ville. Sort of reminded me of an abusive relationship and finally being able to escape Lucifer by the end? I’d like this independence and antimale attitude to stick around and not just be a passing fad on her way back to some sort of “proper” heterosexuality again. Michelle killed it, though, as always, and her crowning herself (and crying watching the play of her life, and using her rib to make Adam) made me actually quite emotional.

I’m not trans, but I thought Theo’s story was handled about as well as you’d dare expect from a melodramatic teen drama. I liked mandrake!Sabrina’s patronization of him being called out for what it was and also how his midseason prophetic vision shit was all about dysphoria but in a thematically appropriate way? Idk.

What I want in the next season:

Seeing what Lilith is up to in hell, preferably still in Michelle Gomez’s body. (Can we get both Mary Wardwell on Earth and Lilith using the body of Mary in hell for maximum Michelle content?) Seeing her interact with other women somehow (ideally Zelda as her new high priestess).

Zelda and Hilda working to reestablish a coven and church (FOR LILITH???!) and hopefully reform the shit out of it. I’d absolutely love to see witchcraft move away from explicit monotheistic-ish religion/worship and into a more free will type thing, or at least go way more polytheism. You have fucking magic, babes, you don’t need to worship various demons playing dress-up as gods, especially with Lucifer currently imprisoned. (What are the other covens going to do, like....do they even know Lucifer is currently out of service? Could be interesting.) I also want to see what Dorcas and Agatha are like without Prudence and just in general what the remnants of the coven do and how they work with Zelda. 

No more Blackwood/Zelda unless it’s her literally killing him. Just. Enough. Give Zelda someone truly worthy of her thirst. (Preferably a woman, ideally Lilith, but u kno.)

Blackwood fucking dying in some appropriately painful and ignominious way. Yeah, sure, Richard is hot, but he’s a fascist fuck who’s had his run of it. We need catharsis.

Sabrina and co doing cool shit in hell I guess en route to finding Nick. Ideally, them killing Lucifer for good, but I’m assuming he’ll somehow get out of Nick’s body and continue to be an antagonist, especially since IIRC there’s also gonna be a season 4.

Some sort of f/f romance. Sabrina exploring it would be cool, and of course my holy grail is Zelda doing gay-ass shit, but at this point I’ll take just about anyone.