#parti seti

[celestialspritz]

Why Sims 2 has been so broken the last ten years

This is down to my own research, and I'm not saying it is the one and only reason why the game is so broken these days, but I have some points worth mentioning.

So, you're bored one day. You remember this game you had so much fun playing a few years ago, or maybe as a child. It's The Sims 2!

The game has a few issues than from when you last remembered playing, so you search on google for some fixes for the tiny resolution, and among the countless posts you may find, you may find this:

Or this:

(to the creators and players mentioned here this isn't me making a dig at you, i'm just pointing out some cc that could affect the game from working properly. your stuff is all beautiful :D)

Lesya's game is gorgeous!!! Oh, how can I get it to look like that?

So you, with a clean, vanilla (ugly) game you decide to download a few mods she listed, such as:

Skylines by GCKP (you can get optimised ones by me here)

Skies by Lowedeus (you can get optimised ones by me here)

Trees by Criquette (you can get optimised ones here)

No More Blurriness by Voeille (you can get optimised snow only here)

Cool! And then you notice some cheats than can give the game that open-world, interactive feel. Even better!

And you shove them into your folder and you boot up the game. Everything's going great!

Until...

You search hundreds of posts looking for the fix. Some recommend 3rd-party tools, but they seem to make the problem worse. You reinstall, finding you only wasted your time. Something has to be causing this, but you'd never guess it'd be the mods everybody swore by.

Well, in fact, it is. Partly.

I've struggled with pink flashing since 2019, when I reinstalled Sims 2 after I got a decent computer for once. I did everything above, searched for fixes, found Lesya's blog which was my primary inspiration. It was through Lesya's guide that I was able to make my game look pretty!

These mods, which are a staple in the modding community, are beautiful indeed... but what if I told you that the reason they're so beautiful, is because they're high-quality. With textures soaring up to 4k, when, hang on--

In 2004, 4k resolution was... probably unheard of. With the leading monitor size being 1024x768, what would be the point of using such huge textures on an engine that was designed for monitors of at least this size? Would you be able to see the detail of 4k on a monitor of that size? Definitely not.

The max visiting sims, okay, a little hit or miss. If your sims are all wearing high poly alpha CC, then it's a problem. If not, good luck.

Then comes the cheats I mentioned. The lot skirt cheat expands the view distance a significant amount. With the mergenhoodflora cheat, that displays more trees. Combining the two, what do you get?

A massive view distance, blinded by trees.

With skies and skylines with large textures up to 4k, and trees with textures up to 2k, The Sims 2 will collapse. It's like forcing an old man with health conditions to do 20 situps, again and again.

It'll overexert him, by the very least. And you're overexerting the game by cramming custom content that is not optimised for the engine TS2 was built on.

So please, next time you encounter the pink soup, please check your CC folders, and research changes and cheats before you put them into your game. You will enjoy the game much more if you do this, and won't encounter this problem so often.

Don't use Graphics Rules Maker

Instead, opt for a maxis original Graphics Rules uploaded here by Veronavillequiltingbee. It's essentially a rewrite of an old tutorial I made a long time ago.

Once you download the file from VVQB, open DXDIAG by pressing WinKey+R and typing 'dxdiag'.

This value I've underlined is what you need to put after seti textureMemory. Open the sgr file and do CTRL-F and input seti textureMemory.

Add the value from DXDIAG and then save it.

You can use GRM for adding your GPU to the game, but I do not recommend it for anything but that.

Optimising the game... inside the game

*shoves GRM off the table*

We're going to go into TS2 in-game settings for this one.

These settings are optimal if you play CC-heavy households. It will ease the load on your game to make space for the heavy CC you have in your current household. You can tweak these when you want to take photos outside, but for playing I recommend them all to be off - especially at community lots as there are lots of sims there.

I never see anybody talking about Object Hiding.

Object Hiding hides objects from floors that aren't in view. If you're playing downstairs, objects upstairs won't be rendered, thus minimising the load on your game.

I have reflections and smooth edges off because I use ReShade.

Snow on Ground is optional. Sometimes snow can cause pink flashing, I believe it's due to texture replacements that are huge in size too, Voeille's is 2k. I've linked a resized one above.

This post will be updated with later findings. I hope you all found it informative :]

[the-red-thread-that-strangles]

Oh look, it's her! Pocket-sized murder (demi-)goddess. Definitely not stabby at all. That dagger is just for, uh, self-defense. Very floofy.

(She is actually much nicer now that we've banished her other half into a literal torture shadow realm.)

Plushie YCH commission for @screen-gremlin~! Seti's design is SO cute aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Info to get your own plushie YCH in the source <3

[nkjemisin]

From the launch party for The Stone Sky, way back in August 2017, at the Housing Works bookstore in SoHo. (Why does it feel like that was 2,334,872 years ago? Don't answer, I know why.) The intrepid disaster researcher/Stargate consultant/SETI researcher* Mika McKinnon graced us with her awesomeness, and we had a chat about geophysics and disasters. I know squat about geophysics -- I nerd out about rocks and volcanoes, is all -- so I just hope I didn't bore her. She's such a fun person.

We tried to commission a geode cake for this event, but for some reason none of the fancy cake places we called were willing to make one. So we ordered a very nice cake from one of the places that was polite about it, and my intrepid assistant ordered these rock-sugar cake toppers from Lucitini Cakes, and badow.

*She has like a million titles. I picked my faves.

[drifting-pieces-blog-blog]

Breaking down the comics: Denial is Strange (Issue 36)

Moon Knight, Issue # 36: Ghosts

Written by  Alan Zelenetz and drawn by Bo Hampton 

Now, I’m a long time fan of Dr. Strange. In fact, he’s number three on my list of favorite comics! (Number two being Scarlet Witch and number one being MK if I even need to mention that). So a Moon Knight with early Dr. Strange cross-over? Yeah, I’ll dip into that no problem! 

The first page is a note from the editor, Denny O'Neil. You see, in previous issues, they had asked where fans wanted to see Moon Knight go. They were running low on ideas and didn't know how they wanted to further develop the character, as it looked like he was going to stick around for a while. 

Since Moon Knight started in a supernatural horror book (Werewolf by Night), it only seemed fitting that Moon Knight continue to carryon his career as leaning heavily on the supernatural side of things. A fist of the moon and Spector of vengeance, they have decided to let Moon Knight continue on his path of walking the line of what lurks on the other side of the shadows. 

"Lots of heroes catch crooks. Moon Knight will be going after a different quarry. We hope you'll go with him." 

Also it's interesting to note that they introduce Zelenetz and Bo Hampton as the new MK team, when they only did three issues before the 1980s series ended and things had to get a re-vamp as MK again went in a new direction. Hmm. (He does come back periodically in later runs, but doesn’t stick around.) 

For those unfamiliar with Dr. Strange, ....things get strange. An original Marvel character from back in the day, created in 1963 by Steve Ditko himself, he embraced the psychedelic comic art style of that time. Let me put it this way, if Dr. Strange gets involved, you know things are about to get colorful, confusing to look at, and WEIRD. 

That out of the way, we open in Nubia, in Ancient Egypt during the twentieth century B.C. 

We see a classic Egyptian styled man about to sacrifice a cat for 'the demons of the dark'. He declares himself Amutef, first among necromancers and worthy to be a pharaoh. 

Okay. That's a start. 

Suddenly a bunch of men run into the room. "Seize him, priests of Khonshu!" 

Yeah, it's illegal to slay 'the holy cat in mockery of the gods.' 

Amutef declares revenge (Mummy style). "On a moonlit night, ages hence when we meet once again." 

Once the mummification of Amutef is done, the head priest prays to Khonshu that 'this enchanted pendant will keep the base Amutef's soul bound within these linen grave clothes for all eternity." 

Amutef's spirit enters into the necklace, waiting for his curse to come to light. 

And right on cue, we head to the present where we see a beautiful blond woman wearing the necklace. 

"I may have been an archeologist's daughter, but these cat mummies can still give me the creeps." 

Aw jeeze. It's Marlene. 

And we see her there with Steven at the grand opening to an Egyptian wing of a museum as a memorial to her father. 

Marlene, why are you wearing an antique Egyptian necklace? 

"It will go to the museum one day, Mr. Director. I'm wearing it tonight for the first time since my father found it in one of the tombs of the Seti Kings." 

Yeah no. 

Their social session is interrupted by a security guard trying to kick out a party crasher. 

"Listen, we get all kinds of crackpots crying CURSE every time we open an Egyptian exhibit--" 

"But I am Stephen Strange, and my conjurations have led me here. I fear that evil will be born this night--" 

(I’ll start by saying the art style reminds me of the comic art from around late 1960s, but I’m also not a fan of how Marlene is portrayed here. She’s too soft and arm candy-esque. I miss the Marlene from Bill’s days where she was capable and intelligent.) 

Also, Steven clearly has NOT heard of Strange fully if he dismisses him after that display. You’d think by now that Steven would be like ‘oh. Right. I’ve fought zombies. This isn’t that odd for me.’

A cat (belonging to the security guard?) breaks loose and instantly goes to attack Marlene. Steven backhands it easily before it can sink it's fangs into Marlene. 

"In the name of the Vishanti! Don't you see? The animal senses evil." 

"Look. How are you at sensing harassment suits, Mister Magic?" 

"Dr. Strange, this is a museum, not a circus show." 

I love how no one ever takes Dr. Strange seriously when they first meet him. Even in today's age, they just write him off as a cheap palm reader. 

Marlene notes she feels terrible and wants to go home. Steven and Marlene head home and Stephen follows above. 

Stephen…This is why no one takes you seriously. I hate to hear how he talked BEFORE he became a sorcerer. Can you imagine him in the ER? “By Gray’s Almighty Anatomy, someone hand me the mighty retractor of Senn!” 

(Stephen what is that pose? Steven…What is that lurking image of you?) 

He scans Marlene while doing what I like to think of as his Vampire flight pose. 

"Yes--But wait, there is a mystic aura about this man, Grant, as well. Then there are occult forces at work here that appear to defy even earth's sorcerer supreme, thus--" 

He lays a protection spell on Marlene that will keep the possession at bay for the next 24 hours then flies home to do research. 

Back in the mansion, Marlene gets into her usual skimpy night gown STILL WEARING THE NECKLACE. 

Look, if I ever go to bed still in a necklace that gaudy, please consider me cursed. 

Marlene is worried about the curse. She feels terrible and she's a little spooked. 

Steven Grant feels differently. 

"That black cat at the museum has got you all strung out. You'll sleep it off. As for curses... You should know better than anyone, Marlene, that these days--for sanity's sake, I like to keep a cool distance between myself and thoughts of the supernatural." 

Steven no… 

Jokes aside, we must remember that DID is a form of self preservation, protection, processing, and denial. When it comes to their DID, Stephen has ALWAYS been the first one to go "Nawh. I'm fine." and then try to strong arm his way through every situation. Marc is the first to go "May as well die" and throw himself head first into a dangerous situation, and Jake is the first to go "It ain't my problem. I'mma chill here with my buds." 

Here is classic Stephen Grant, fresh off his most recent run of self doubt and slow crawl into a mental break (for the third or fourth time) and he's living in denial land and choosing a path that he feels is the most conducive to compartmentalize and keep his distance from their trauma. 

"I try to forget that the ruthless mercenary I once was--Marc Spector-- apparently died and was reborn in a desert tomb years ago... 

Under the gaze of a cold white statue of Khonshu, God of the moon... Whose spirit I use to believe reanimated me." 

And yet you won't shut up about it. (I kid, but seriously, Steven.) 

"Believed only too well. I relied on that superstition until I'd almost lost my mind --Forgot just where Khonshu ended and Spector or Grant began." 

Why does he always forget about Jake? 

"But you helped me see that I derived my strength and abilities from my own will and commitments, not from some long-dead mythology. You redeemed my soul and my sanity, Marlene...

And I'm not about to lose either of them again. So no more talk of witchcraft, okay? Just sleep tight while Moon Knight makes the rounds." 

Steven sure is in a mood. I don't blame him. 

(I also love how depending on who tells it or remembers it, we either see bloody beaten up Marc at the foot of the statue or we see a gently and sexily sprawled out Steven rendition with a gently weeping Marlene memory. I’d love to see how Jake remembers it.) 

Moon Knight takes off and a clearly possessed Marlene mutters a classic line about “After thousands of years we have met once more, fool Thosbi. Now Amutef’s spirit, given voice by inhabiting the mortal frame, shall utter incantations of revenge.” 

Classic. 

Meanwhile, Stephen Strange is doing his own thing. 

Stephen is...wordy. I'm going to summarize the WALL OF TEXT that is his ramblings and chantings. 

Marlene is possessed by an ancient sorcerer. Steven Grant has been mystically endowed with the spirit of an ancient priest of Khonshu. 

Meeting up on this moonlit night spells trouble with a capital T and now the curse is real. 

He must get Steven Grant to cooperate with him or it will spell doom for them both. 

And then we cut to Moon Knight, still angry about the implication of something supernatural happening to him. 

"Steel and glass and concrete. There's reality for you. No room in a city like this for superstitions." 

He spots some thugs assaulting a couple and he decides to glide down to intercept. 

Yeah that…that seems about right. 

He barely manages to dodge a gun shot, his crescent dart whacks a guy right in the face and cuts him, and he barely manages to catch up with the other two fleeing villains. 

And of Course Detective Flint arrives to drive in the nail. 

"Say, everything okay? Not like you to lose your wind over a trio of amatures." 

"Just an accident, Detective--Cape got caught, you go on and treat the punks to a night in the slammer. Put it on my tab." 

And to make his night even better, Stephen Strange shows up. 

"It was no accident, Steven Grant." 

"YOU again!? Am I supposed to admire your persistence or--Wait, you called me Grant?"

"Yes, it was Steven Grant I sought, and I'm afraid your costume does little to disguise HIS psychic aura. But, that is inconsequential--It is your life, not your identity, that is in jeopardy." 

I...Could have SO much to say about breaking down that statement and we'd be here all night as I talked about the psychic aura of Steven vs. the others, his life vs. his identity, and all that fun stuff... But I have a feeling the writer wasn't aiming for that line...sadly... SO I'll leave it alone....this time. 

He tells Steven that he's in danger and Steven demands to be shown the demons after him. 

Stephen tells him that they were the ones that grabbed his cape, but he banished them before they could destroy him. 

Moon Knight still isn't buying it. 

I swear, half the Dr. Strange cross-over comics are spent with Stephen trying to convince everyone that magic is real and that he isn't full of it. 

"I have learned that you are endowed with the spirit of a priest of Khonshu whose mystic powers are needed to save Ms. Alraune from the evil spirit which possesses her." 

Honestly, while this isn't the first instance of the OG comic showing the cult of Khonshu and the priests, this is the first time someone has considered Moon Knight to be imbued with the spirit of a priest of Khonshu. 

As many of you may be aware, the current run with MacKay pushes heavily into the Priest of Khonshu plot line, which has often been dropped and lost by subsequent writers after this one. 

However, Strange is insisting that the priest himself is inside Moon Knight, while it's long been determined that Khonshu himself has imbued Marc and the others with his own power to make Moon Knight his own sort of priest. 

Let's see how this issue plays it out. 

"I would have mesmerized you without asking in order to summon the Ancient Priest within your being... But even your unconscious will is incredibly strong and I could not break through it." 

I'm cackling about this. Imagine Strange trying to get in there and just being met by a really pissed off Jake Lockley. 

"Bet on it, Mister." Steven is thinking the same thing. You know it. "My will's like granite, because that's what holds the real world out there together for me. It's my sanity." 

Oh Steven... 

Moon Knight calls Khonshu a myth and make-believe. "Do you think I'd ever embrace that madness again?" 

He calls for Frenchie. He's done with this. 

"If the spirit is not exorcised from Ms. Alraune by tomorrow night, she will be the one who knows true madness. Without the mystic aid of KHonshu, my spells can protect her no longer than that." Stephen Strange calls after him. 

Moon Knight calls him a "blasted Looney" and takes off. 

The next evening at Grant Mansion, the doctor informs Steven that he can't figure out what's wrong with Marlene. 

Steven tells her that he'll cut the Moon Knight patrol short and be back before midnight. 

(She's still wearing the necklace). 

As Moon Knight leaves, Marlene sits up, possessed again, and sending the evil spirits out after the Khonshu priest Thosbi. 

This time they attack the chopper. 

Oh no. Not the chopper! 

While the possessed Marlene chants of vengeance from the balcony, cats start to gather in the nearby tree. 

Dr. Strange arrives to the chipper and starts to fight off the invisible demons that only he can see. 

Frenchie tells Moon Knight to glide to safety. The chopper is going down. (My dear Frenchie always looking out for his friend.) 

Moon Knight refuses to jump and the chopper starts to function again. 

A particularly nasty demon shows up to fight Strange. 

"Begone, Mage, for my chaotic powers are summoned by a spell more ancient than any your mortal lips can utter." It taunts him. 

While Strange battles the demons, Frenchie manages to land the chopper. 

Side note, I do love the way they draw Moon Knight’s costume. This is the start of the era where his shorts start to actually look like shorts and not underwear outside his outfit. You also see more black mixed in with his top and leggings. While you see the muscles, he isn’t drawn HUGE and ridiculous. It’s believable. 

Also behold Strange before the goatee! It looks wrong… 

Anyways, Moon Knight is not pleased to see Strange again. 

They argue and give me my most favorite image of Frenchie EVER. 

This man. I love this man. 

Look at it. The moon hat. The lighting on his face. The relaxed sit. The smoke rings. Not one not two but THREE pens in his pocket. The gloves. The match book in his other hand. This is just another day for him. 

The copter nearly crashed for unknown demonic reasons and his BFF super hero buddy is outside arguing with a wizard about being possessed by an ancient Egyptian priest. 

Jean-Paul Duchamp I love you. 

Strange tells him that if they don't contact the priest of Khonshu within the hour, Marlene is going to be lost to them. 

Moon Knight concedes. He jumps in the chopper and they follow Strange back to the mansion. ....Why he doesn't let Strange fly in his chopper but makes him fly...You got me? 

They arrive to find the mansion crawling with cats and Marlene in a trance staring contest with one of them. 

Moon Knight decides to take a short cut to get to Marlene as fast as he ....OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. THERE ARE SO MANY Other WAYS TO ENTER YOUR MANSION! YOU BUILT IT! 

(Adds another hash tag to the list) 

Moon Knight crashing through his own window with his nunchucks out in a room full of cats. I just... He is the ultimate catboy. 

They send away the cats, who were apparently there to attack the evil. 

Stephen sets the room up for the ritual and Steven carries Marlene to a chair. "Save her, Strange... Even if it costs me my mind." 

We get some interesting art here... They made Steven look like a bad anime magical girl transformation reaction or something. I can't even begin to describe this. I apologize for what I’m about to show you. 

Flew too close to the sun with Frenchie. Now we must all pay the price with anime boy Steven Grant. 

So Strange does his thing and forces the demons to show themselves. 

"Do you think to conquer Amutef with glibness of tongue, mage?! I who was first among necromancers, who dared blaspheme the names of Khonshu and Osiris.." He summons his own demons to battle Strange. 

He summons the priest of Khonshu through Moon Knight and we get some CLASSIC Dr. Strange art. We got the symbols, we got the squiggle lines, we got the colors, we got the eyes, we got the floating heads and we even got the floating hour glass. 

As much as I love Dr. Strange, it takes me a while to read his old comics. My processing skills can't handle the barrage of EVERYTHING on every page. I’m glad it’s just a little in this comic. 

We watch the two men do battle through time and space and in King Arthur's backyard for some reason... We see the great pyramids and some temples that my geographically challenged mind does not recognize... 

Just as the battle is picking up...

"What?! I sense emotions of abnormal pitch. No! They flow from the mind of Grant. The strain on his will is too great! But he can't succumb now---!" 

We see chanting and...wait... those words... They sound familiar...

"Khonshu, Nehem kua her entet ari-na maat! Amutef, thosbi! Affirms thee no longer to be!" 

Parts of that sound suspiciously like something Harrow chanted from the MCU show. HMMMMMM....

Yeah, the battle is over and Marlene and Steven come out of their trances. 

"You've survived, Steven Grant, and your mind is whole, stronger than before. You have experienced life AND death, the natural and supernatural. You have mastered your will and become a complete man." 

Then Strange essentially does the "I must go now" thing and zips away to fight the occult forces of evil elsewhere. 

We are left with Steven thinking things over. 

"Occult forces. Like Marc Spector's dying and being reborn through the ghost of an ancient priest. You know, Marlene? I believe him. I don't for one minute like the idea...But I believe him." 

The End! 

Okay you guys… This was a wild one. It was a disaster start to finish but it did what comics are meant to do and it made me laugh and it was fun. 

The art was…all over the place. It worked for an issue with Dr. Strange, but they made everyone FAR too baby faced and pretty. What’s weird is that the next issue is the same artist but he gets his shit together and it’s back to Moon Knight nitty gritty. What the hell happened? Let’s blame Dr. Strange on this one. 

But….

Can you imagine THIS being the face of Steven Grant, Marc Spector, and slap a mustache on that and you got Jake Lockley!? THIS?! 

He’s so judgy! 

I’m dying out here you guys. Someone draw a mustache on that and I’ll love you forever. I think this broke me. 

So… Aside from the… What ever all this was… It reminds me of the issue recently with Mackay. Where we got to go into Moon Knight’s mind-scape and we got to see Marc, Steven, and Jake all work together to defeat outside forces. They worked as a team and it was their special weapon. Going after Marc? No you aren’t. You’re gonna get punched in the face by Jake and Steven (steven gonna look at you like a highly disapproving father). In this early run, we don’t have the wonderful understanding and research into DID to fully comprehend or experience this, but looking back, I like to imagine it’s there under the surface. 

I also look at the priest as not being the one that revived them. Again, I cite Khonshu himself. The priest issue can be folded into current and then building lore of the Priesthood of Khonshu. This was an early and powerful priest that happened to have a grudge against this particular bad guy. Perhaps this is where Mackay starts taking his ideas and lore from. We’re already seen other ideas from the OG run that he’s explored. If this is the case, it’s nice to see him doing his research and getting back to basics. 

So what did you guys thing? Did it make you laugh too? Are we all cursed by the Magical Anime Steven image? 

Next time I’m dipping back into the past to cover some of the issues I skipped. We’re getting to the home stretch you guys. 

[aisakalegacy]

Printemps 1919, Al Simhara, Égypte (3/3)

Le frère, Hosni, n’était pas très collaboratif. Je dois donc ma survit au fait que leur vieille mère Amina ait été présente au rendez-vous. Il a été convenu que je réside dans une ruine proche de la ville. À l’entendre, je m’attendais à ce qu’il s’agisse de quelque vieille résidence détruite, mais non, il s’agit d’un temple mortuaire de Seti Ier… C’est donc là que je loge actuellement. Amina m’amène des provisions tous les quelques jours quand elle va chercher de l’eau au canal. Je vois Hosni de temps en temps, quand il accompagne sa mère, et j’en profite pour m’informer des évènements car la vieille Amina n’est pas d’un grand secours dans ce domaine. Les émeutes durent depuis trois semaines, et plus de huit cent Egyptiens auraient été tués. Quelques Britanniques téméraires qui sont restés là auraient été abattus en représailles, ce qui me conforte dans mon idée de ne pas bouger en attendant que ça se calme. Il parait que des négociations entre l’Egypte et le Royaume-Uni ont été entamées. Avec de la chance, tout cela sera tassé d’ici l’été.

J’espère revenir entier de cette expédition. Embrassez votre grand-mère, votre femme les enfants pour moi.

Votre bien d��voué,

J. Le Bris

[Transcription] Jules LeBris : Can’t Nephty simply help me go into the city and find a boat? (Nephty ne pourrait-elle pas simplement m’aider à entrer discrètement en ville et trouver un navire ?) Amina Hosni : She can’t help you, my friend. She’s waiting for things to settle down before she can join her husband to Cairo. (Elle ne peut pas t’aider, mon ami. Elle attend que les choses se calment avant de rejoindre son mari au Caire.) Jules LeBris : Why can’t I do it myself? (Pourquoi ne puis-je pas le faire moi-même ?) Amina Hosni : The authorities set up a curfew, it’s dangerous for you to stay here. (Les autorités ont mis en place un couvre-feu, c’est dangereux de rester ici.) Amina Hosni : Everyone is angry, protesters could kill you if they saw you. (Tout le monde est en colère. Les manifestants pourraient te tuer s’ils te voyaient.) Jules LeBris : But I’m not even British! I’m Canadian. The British have been subduing us, too. (Mais je ne suis même pas britannique ! Je suis canadien. Les Britanniques nous assujettissent nous aussi.) Helmi Hosni : It won’t matter. When people see you, they see a settler. (Cela n’a pas d’importance. Quand on te voit, on voit un colon.) Jules LeBris : Where are the British archaeologists? Maybe I could reach them. (Où sont les archéologues britanniques ? Peut-être que je pourrais les contacter.) Helmi Hosni : You’re too late. They are already gone. (Tu arrives trop tard. Ils sont déjà partis.) Jules LeBris : What am I to do then? (Qu’est-ce que je suis censé faire, alors ?) Helmi Hosni : I hardly see how that is our problem. (Je vois difficilement en quoi cela nous concerne.) Amina Hosni : You’ll hide in the old ruins. Wait for things to settle down. (Tu te cacheras dans les vieilles ruines. Tu attendras que ça se calme.) Amina Hosni : I’ll come see you, bring you food every couple of days. I go there often to fetch water, it will not drag attention. Then, you take a boat and you go home. (Je viendrai te voir, je t’apporterai des provisions tous les quelques jours. J’y vais souvent pour chercher de l’eau, ça n’attirera pas l’attention. Ensuite, tu prends le bateau et tu rentres chez toi.) Helmi Hosni : This is too dangerous. We are all going to get killed. (C’est trop dangereux. On va tous se faire tuer.)

[poughkeepsies]

Congratulations on your bi blorbo seti I hope you got no sleep last night and you party all weekend ❤️

thank you SO much I did not get any sleep last night AND I'm gonna work today and tomorrow I'm gonna fucking jump

[angel-0f-verdun]

13 State of Possession

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I realized quickly that I was not going to get through this book very fast. So, I decided that I would need to read only the relevant parts of the chapters. I skimmed the index and got to work happily finding the information I was looking for. Set was certainly a rebellious Egyptian God. His original reign was over the desert, storms, disorder, and warfare. I wondered if this was why I enjoyed rain and storms, glancing at the tattoo on my wrist. Later in the New Kingdom Set was considered a maker of discord and strife, identical to my namesake, Eris. Some of the pharaohs even used him in their names, such as Seti I, Seti II, and Setnakht. They thought of him as the protector of Ra, God of the Sun, the creator himself. Ra had gifted Set a dagger, which was in two pieces. One part is a ruby representing everlasting health. The other was obvious to protect Ra. He used this in his many endeavors such as one of the times he killed Apopis the enemy of Ra. Later when the Europeans invaded Egypt Set was an outcast from the pantheon, thus making Set the new and more powerful enemy of Ra. This changed everyone’s view of him, merging him with Apopis. Thus the ruby and dagger took on a different meaning, darkness, which is how he ended up recruiting Ahmanet.

I sighed, knowing this information was not as comforting as I would have thought it to be. But I was glad to have the knowledge, I closed the book and put it back inside my bag. I closed my eyes thinking about the goddess, Eris. She was the child of Zeus and Hera. She mostly just loved mischief, I remembered a story that used to be told to me at the orphanage, she wasn’t invited to a wedding, but she showed up anyway. When at the after party she threw a golden apple with the words ‘for the most beautiful’ into the crowd, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera all thought it was for them. This caused some issues between the three as Eris had hoped. Paris, the prince of Troy, offered to help them end the argument by being the decision-breaker. Each goddess tried to bribe him, Hera with power, Athena with wisdom, and Aphrodite with the most beautiful woman in the mortal world. Obviously, Aphrodite won. However, the woman she promised him was already married. Her husband wanting revenge for Paris stealing his wife, started a war to get her back. This became known as the Trojan War, which lasted 10 years.

Now for the last to ponder, Ahmanet. Power-hungry, much like Athena, on a quest to get exactly what she wants. She had even killed her family to reach immortality and greatness. But with a few wrong steps with those smarter than her, Set in particular, she let her desires cloud her judgment. She then became all-powerful, but before that transformation could be complete she was captured and mummified alive. Now she needed me to complete that task for Set to live in a mortal body.

“Oh hey, Winston.” Rick’s voice snapped me out of my thoughts about Ahmanet. I looked over my shoulder, seeing him walking towards us with Winston trailing behind him.

“You know O’Connell, ever since the end of the Great War there hasn’t been a single challenge worthy of a man like me.” I heard him babble, he normally gave this speech when he was inebriated.

“Yeah? Well, we all got our little problems today don’t we Winston?” Rick pulled out the chair next to me as he replied, flicking Jon’s ear to get his attention. The only way to shut Winston up was to get him through his memories as quickly as possible. Rick and I were all too familiar with this. He was one of the first people Rick introduced me to when we had first arrived in Egypt. Jon poured Rick a shot as I finished off my drink setting it down on the bar, gesturing for the barkeep to get me another.

“I just wish I could’ve chucked it in with the others and gone down in flame and glory instead of sitting around here rotting of boredom and booze.” Winston finished up his story, patting the boys on the back. He really needed a hobby other than sitting around and drinking. I could visibly see Rick’s annoyance set in. He looked as if he was ready to call it a day but knew there was more to be done.

“Oh well, back to the airfield.” Winston let out a laugh spinning around and leaving us alone.

“Tell me, has your sister always been?” Rick started to ask Jon, shot in hand ready to throw it back. I received my drink, thanking the man and giving him a bill to pay.

“Oh yes always.” He answered Rick’s question before hearing anything else. I started sipping my refill.

“Well we’re all packed up but the damn boat doesn’t leave til tomorrow morning.” Henderson came up beside me and Jon putting his arm on the bar between us leaning towards me. I watched him closely, curious if we really needed to go through this again.

“Tail set firmly between your legs, I see,” Jon replied to him, sarcastically. I mean what really were they supposed to do, they thought they were going to die from opening the chest.

“Yeah you can talk, you don’t have some sacred walking corpse after you.” Henderson breathed out, confirming the fact that he was scared.

“Ah but we do have a thousand-year-old entity with us constantly and she’s a bore,” Jon replied, knowing that Henderson wouldn’t understand what he was getting at but I certainly did.

“Whoa, be careful, I’m doing my best over here to hold her but she’s a force to be reckoned with,” I warned Jon not to make Ahmanet upset, especially when I was continuing to mentally hold her in her place. But for some reason, it was more of a chore than it had been before, I felt a migraine coming on since I walked through the threshold to the bar and it was only getting worse as time went on. The thought of continually keeping her at bay was becoming less and less a reality.

“What’s he getting at?” He asked me flabbergasted at the thought.

“So uh, how’s your friend?” Rick asked Daniels who appeared next to him, both of us ignoring Henderson.

“He had his eyes and his tongue ripped out, how would you be?” He replied sullenly, not in the mood to converse about the pain his friend had gone through. We all spun around in our chairs watching the entrance to the bar, it really was a beautiful modern area for the time. It almost had a Moroccan theme with the fabrics that were hung to look like curtains, filling the space with earthly tones. The tiles that were embedded in the floor were a nice touch as well, lots of blues and whites. This bar was much better than the others I had been in while looking for Rick. There were some men in the corner sharing a hookah pipe passing it around, happily. Oh, to have no cares in the world right now.  

“Good luck boys.” The four of them clinked their shot glasses together and I with my gin and tonic. We drank to their luck and health getting away from Egypt still intact. Immediately when the drink hit my tastebuds I spat the liquid back out.

“Sweet Jesus tastes just like…” Henderson started.

“Blood.” Rick and I finished his thought, Rick dropping his glass on the floor as he looked at the fountain.

“And the rivers and waters of Egypt ran red and were as blood” Jon quoted the Bible.

“He’s here,” Rick whispered out and took off running in the opposite direction. I took off after him grabbing my bag.

“Rick, wait!!” I called after him, as I realized where he was going.

“Oh Evelyn…” He called her name in a sing-song voice, slowing down upon approaching her so he wouldn’t bulldoze her.

“Oh, so you’re still here?” She asked him, there was some tension here that I wanted no part in deciphering.

“We’ve got problems.” He told her just as a clap of thunder shook the complex. The rain started pouring and I felt queasy, staggering, attempting to get my balance back. I knew that this was no doubt what I had been feeling earlier with the migraine. It felt as if the world was on my shoulders and I couldn’t keep standing anymore.  Neither my brother nor my friend noticed the issue I was dealing with, which I was thankful for. Ahmanet took over as I felt my consciousness fade as I gave into the pressure.

“You are getting weaker, as he rises,” Ahmanet spoke to me in the confines of my mind.

“What do I do?” I asked her, sitting on the ground in an all-black room with no reference as to what was going on outside my head, no reference to my body.

“There’s nothing you can do. Unless…”  I groaned out feeling pain all over, just like when the tattoos appeared.

“Unless what?!” I yelled, hearing my voice echo around the area. I was prepared to do anything at this point to get control back.

“You’re too weak to continue on your own. I am the only reason you are still consciously here, in this place. It was my choice to keep you alive. I could have tucked you away you forever when you fainted.” She told me.

“But you also need me,” I told her skeptically feeling even more faint than I did before.

“Beauty and brains. But this, you will not win.” She laughed as my consciousness faded away for the second time, I relaxed into it accepting my fate. 

***

“Eris!! Wake up!!” I heard his tortured screams as he attempted to wake me. Ahmanet allowed me a glance through a window. Rick was being slashed up by the dagger of Set. This was yet the third time he had been in mortal danger in this entire excursion and I doubted it would be the last. I watched as the curved blade barely touched his skin but ripped through him like razor wire. 

“You talk of bravery like a Medjai, yet you are still mortal, how do you forget this?” Ahmanet questioned him in broken English. Evy was cowering in the corner as the mummy turned to face her attempting to kiss her.

“Rick!!” I yelled to him trapped in my mind, my voice echoed off the walls, bouncing back to my eardrums. I crumpled from where I stood, the pain erupting in my ears and brain. I tried to push forward into the forefront of my mind but Ahmanet’s hold was too strong, she was growing stronger from the darkness and the plagues that were reigning on the world. I watched as she fought with my brother, she had maneuvered him onto the ground, straddling him. She reared up the dagger in my hands, ruby glinting in the fire-born sky ready to plunge it directly into his chest. A cat strode across piano keys directing everyone’s attention to it, the mummy stopped in his tracks and disappeared into a cloud of sand. Jon and the Americans pulled me off of Rick and secured my hands behind my back. 

“We are in very serious trouble,” Rick said to everyone wiping away the blood that had been drawn.

“Let’s get her to the museum,” Evy murmured quietly as she tended to Rick’s wounds. We walked outside and to Jonathan’s car, piling in. It was an expeditious drive for Jonathan to get us there as quickly as possible as they now knew Ahmanet’s true strength. The Americans dragged me from the car and led me by my arms, following Evy’s instructions. 

“He does seem to like Evy.” I heard Jon say from behind me. Henderson was holding my wrists guiding me where I needed to be. 

“Yeah, what’s that about?” Rick asked, I could hear the curiosity in his voice intertwined with anger.

“There’s only one person I know that can give us any answers.” She spoke confidently as she rounded the corner to the Old Kingdom display heading towards the curator's office.

“You?!” Evy exclaimed stopping in her tracks. 

“Miss Carnahan, gentleman… Eris? What’s happened?” I heard Dr. Bey ask as he noticed I was a fugitive. 

“What is he doing here?” Evy asked him not answering his question. I hoped we would get to my situation as soon as possible because it was not fun being a captive in my own head and in real life. Henderson pulled his gun from his holster following Rick’s lead as everyone was tense from the fight with the mummy.

“Do you really want to know, or would you prefer to just shoot us?” Dr. Bey asked rather annoyed that he had guns pointing at him and Ardeth. 

“After what I just saw, I’m willing to go on a little faith,” Rick said as he stepped aside for the two men to view me. 

“Richard, what have you done to your sister?” Dr. Bey asked in a serious tone as he came up to me inspecting my eyes.

“Ardeth, you’d better take a look at this.” He breathed out, stepping away from me with fear in his eyes. I thrashed against Henderson, trying to get free of my bonds. I hissed at Ardeth as the Medjai walked up to me. He grabbed my chin holding me still to take a look at my eyes. 

“Ahmanet.” He breathed out.

“Ah a real Medjai, let’s see what you’re made of,” I heard Ahmanet speak in Egyptian this time. 

“Take her around the corner to her office.” He instructed Henderson. He nodded and moved me towards the walkway, Rick went to follow but Ardeth stopped him before he could go much further.

“I’ll do my best to get her back, but I must do it alone.” He said to him. Rick nodded and backed away with Henderson as Ardeth took my arm in his, his touch burned my skin I felt Ahmanet waning away from control. We walked towards my office, he pushed the door open and set me in the chair. 

“Eris, I’m going to recite a series of prayers. We’re going to try to reduce Ahmanet’s power over your body, at least enough so you can have control again.” He told me, a guttural growl escaped from my throat as Ahmanet did not enjoy what she was hearing. 

“Mother of the gods, the One, the Only, Mistress of the Crowns. Bast, beloved daughter of the sun, send us comfort. Envelope Eris with you. Expel all evil forces from her. Destroy and banish all witchcraft, bonds, and curses. Take away everything that could harm her.” Ardeth recited a prayer to Bast in Arabic. I could feel Ahmanet shrinking from consciousness. As she weakened I pushed forward back into my own body. I sucked in the air, it felt pure. I felt like me again. I couldn’t feel Ahmanet anywhere inside, it was like she had vanished. 

“Are you alright?” I heard Ardeth ask me as he bent down toward my face. I nodded not willing to speak. He turned me around and cut the bonds on my wrists letting me go free. 

“Aren’t you worried she’ll be back?” I asked him. He considered the question for a bit but did not give me an answer instead he wrapped his arms around me in a hug. I felt safe, smelling the lotus and vanilla that seemed to hang over him. His chin resting on the top of my head he breathed out letting go of his inhibitions. He pulled away much too fast for my liking, holding me at arm's length just staring into my eyes. He leaned forward placing a light kiss on my forehead. I soaked in the moment before he rushed out the door to inform Rick that everything was alright. I sat back in my chair staring into oblivion not wanting to even glance at the mirror to my right. I didn’t want to know if she was still there. 

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[judasizm1]

Küçük bir yazı dizisi hazırlıyorum..

Biraz zaman alacak başladığım zaman anladım; on yıllarca Türkiye, bölgesindeki komşu ülkeler ve dünyadaki olayların özellikle bizi nasıl etkilediğini irdeliyorum. Bilgim vardı ama arşivim, belgelerim yoktu, şimdi onları topluyorum..

Butün bu yıllarıı anımsadıkça satranç tahtasındaki bütün taşlar yerine oturuyor. Okuyabilene aşk olsun diye bir ön bilgi vereyim, ama okuyunuz lütfen. Ben mühendisim, bilim adamı olmanın kıyısından döndüm; Türkiye'mizi kuşatan Fuller'in tarikatları ve cemaatleri yüzünden. Ama bir gün olmak istediğim için değil bilimsel bir kafaya sahip olduğum için bilim insanı olacağım... Özetle bu yazı dizisinde kaynaklarım hep kaynakçalarımda olacak.

Başlık olarak şunu düşündüm; "Fuller'in BOP eşbaşkanı ve CHP yönetimindeki erleri.."

Nasıl?

Tabi ki Fuller'in ilk okul mezunu maşası fetöşe de yer vereceğim.. Tabloya geniş açıdan bakma yeteneğinizi geliştirin; LGBT diye büyüttükleri kesimin en çok reklamını yandaş medya yapıyordu! Güneşli bir günde yağmur yağsa çıkan gökkuşağını LGBT'li diye atmosferi suçlayacak İ.Melik Köçek (pardon Gökçek) hatırlamaz mı bu güne kadar ilk ve tek LGBT bayrağı hangi parti toplantısında açılmış?

Ey Milletim,

("Bu ülkede savaş çıksa başka ülkeye giderim" diyen vatandaşlık verilmiş çakmalar ve "Suriyelileri gönderirsen Allah bizi yakar" diyen dotmatrix yazıcıdan çıkan her sigorta poliçesine tapanlar hariç. Afgan, Pakistanlı, Afrikalı vs benim kardeşim olmayan -kimin kardeşiyse artk!- onlar da hariç.. Milletten kastım bunlar değil..)

Evet, sana sesleniyorum, bu ülkenin patronu olan sana, ulusuma sesleniyorum. 100 yılda unuttun mu bu işgalci ülkeleri de şimdi Fuller'in kuklalarının peşinden gidiyorsun? Akıl ve bilim diyen yüz yılın liderini bırakıp müslüman bile olmayan bu güruhu nasıl yüceltirsiniz?

Ne çabuk unuttunuz Said-i Nursi denen akıl hastasını? Adam, Allah ile konuştuğunu idda ediyordu! Müslümansan sana soruyorum; "Hangi peygamber Allah ile konuşabilmiştir?" YOK! Her zaman melekleri vasıtasıyla emirlerini göndermiştir.

Said-i Nursi denen ruh hastası üzerinde Atatürk'ü yıpratmaya çalışan dangalaklar; siz de eşşek gibi biliyorsunuz ruh hastası olduğunu ve zamanın padişahına (daha Atatürk, Atatürk olmamışken) Said-i Nursi denen delinin ettği hakaretlerden dolayı ve bölücülük yaptığından dolayı padişahın emriyle hapse atıldını nasıl inkar edebilirsiniz? Padişah emriyle atıldığı hapiste soba ile konuşan kimdi? Evet, yanlış okumadınız "soba"!

Said-i Nursi denen deli ve müritleri Osmanlı düşmanıydı, bugün ise Türkiye Cumhuriyeti düşmanıdır, BENDE ONLARIN DÜŞMANIYIM..

Tabi ki, Fuller'den beslenen kim varsa hepsinin de düşmanıyım.. Ülkemdeki hiç bir siyasi parti sempatizanı değilim (bana göre hepsi aynı) ve ülkemde en güvensiz olarak gördüğüm insanlarsa siyasetçilerdir. Oscar ödüllük roller yapıyorlar ülkemde siyasetçiler, neden hiç aday dahi gösterilmiyorlar Oscar için? Burası devasa bir ülke ve sizin hayal dünyanızdaki Hoolywood seti değil! Yerel seçimlerde anlarsınız patronu!

Korkmayın! Bu kukla sürüsü en çok sizden yani Yüce Türk Ulusu'ndan korkar.. Korkutmaya devam...

.. .

Akıl, bilim, vicdan ve sevgiyle kalın.. Ve cesaretle.. (Dünyada en sevilmeyen karakterdir korkaklar, çünkü güvenenleri yüz üstü bırakırlar. Sen, mezerı dahi olmayan on binlerce atanı yüz üstü bırakabilir misin?)

[fancoloredglasses]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Making it fun to yell at the movie since 1975), Part 3

[All images are owned by 20th Century Fox Disney....wait, really?! Anyway, please don't sue, kill, eat, or...whatever they did to everyone at the end...me]

WARNING: This review is NSFW, as it deals with sexual themes. You’ve been warned.

Are you OK with this? Good, then let’s continue.

This review is going to be done slightly different than most, even the one that was essentially a musical in that I will be going over the songs after the clips (as most of the plot is driven through them) and will be including audience partici…

SAY IT!

…pation lines (at least the ones I do) on occasion. These will be done in chat font (as shown above).

(Word of warning, despite whatever I may say at the movie, it’s not intended to be mean-spirited. I’m just going along with the show)

PREVIOUSLY ON...

Brad Majors...

ASSHOLE!

...and his fiancee Janet Weiss, ...

SLUT!

...following their car breaking down, find themselves in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Frank, along with his servants Riff Raff and Magenta and his groupie Columbia, have created life! (to wit, Frank's newest plaything Rocky)

During the course of the celebration, a biker named Eddie emerged from cold storage and terrorized the party-goers before being murdered by Frank with a pickaxe.

Now, on with the show!

Following the party, Brad and Janet were brought to their rooms to stay the night as Riff and Magenta looked on.

Same room, different filter. What a cheap fucking movie!

Later in the evening, Frank pays a…personal visit to Janet

SLUT!

What about the football team? That was just practice!

Meanwhile, Riff and Magenta decide to torment Frank’s new plaything…

…until he runs away. Then they celebrate.

(Remember what I said earlier about them being siblings? Apparently, incest is best in Transylvania)

Later in the evening, Frank pays a…personal visit to Brad.

ASSHOLE!

She’s not down there!

Unfortunately for them, Riff interrupts announcing Rocky’s escape.

Meanwhile, Janet has left her room in search of Brad. However, she finds Rocky and starts tending his wounds…

…which inspires yet another song as Magenta and Columbia watch via the cameras.

(NOTE: Due to content, you'll have to click on the video to watch it on YouTube)

(Thanks to RockyHorror274306)

So…I guess Janet just had a fantasy gangbang?

Unfortunately for Riff, Frank is NOT happy that Rocky escaped (imagine what his mood will be when he realizes one of his other new playthings is playing with Rocky!)

Thank him for the beating, Riff! Say it in French!

Riff checks the cameras to locate Rocky, but instead finds Dr. Scott (remember him? Brad and Janet’s old professor) outside. Brad of course recognizes him.

I…don’t think you meant to let that slip, Riff!

Frank has also heard of Dr. Scott, who is now working with the SETI research with the government, and suspects that Brad and Janet are government spies working with Dr. Scott (if that was the case, the Brad is the dumbest spy ever) Riff announces that Dr. Scott has entered the castle.

Zen go get him!

Frank then turns on a powerful electromagnet that drags Dr. Scott’s wheelchair all over the castle until…

HEY KOOL AID!

After Frank gives his paranoid theory to Dr. Scott, Dr. Scott throws that accusation away, saying he’s looking for his nephew Eddie.

Frank was picking on him

Then Frank hears a gasp from Rocky’s birthing tank and discovers…

After this awkward reunion, Magenta announces that it’s time for dinner. Rather than throw everyone out on their collective asses (or worse), he invites everyone to dine with him.

Any way you slice it, it’s still Meat Loaf!

As Riff and Magenta serve dinner, Frank sings a half-hearted birthday song for Rocky, then Dr. Scott again asks about Eddie.

Yep, as the audience hinted at earlier, they’re likely eating Eddie! Columbia then leaves the table in hysterics

What’s the matter? She’s eaten Eddie before!

For some reason, this prompts Dr. Scott to start singing.

(Thanks to Lewis Hewitt)

Upon seeing Rocky comforting Janet, Frank immediately starts in on another song.

(Thanks again to Lewis Hewitt)

Unfortunately, the clip ended before the song did, so here’s the rest...

(Thanks again to THIRDPROJECT)

Shut up bitch. It wouldn’t have rhymed anyway!

Then Columbia has had enough and demands that Frank choose between herself and Rocky.

I don’t think that went how she saw it in her head. Then for good measure…

…Rocky gets turned to stone as well.

So with just the Transylvanians left, Magenta wants to go home to Transylvania. However, Frank wants a floor show. So now we go to the Big Production Number.

What? You think those other ones were Big Production Numbers? You ain’t seen nothing yet! Tune in for the epic conclusion!

[yamamuragaku]

Tamaki Birthday Lines 2023

Tamaki

Thanks for congratulating me, manager. I'm soo happy that everyone remembered my special day!

Iori

Yotsuba-san, happy birthday. It seems like you got a lot of presents from our classmates, but I'll try to surprise you even more when you get home.

Yamato

Happy birthday, Tama. I made a fancy bentou for you today, so look forward to it.

Mitsuki

Tamaki, happy birthday! Let's make today the most happiest day together!

Sogo

Tamaki-kun, happy birthday. Next time, can I participate in your secret late-night sweets parties too...?

Nagi

Happy Birthday, Tamaki! I've gathered a selection of King Pudding merch. Tonight, let's have an unboxing ceremony!

Riku

Tamaki, happy birthday! Let's secretly play games together all night!

Gaku

Yotsuba, happy birthday. Lately, haven't you become more and more a cool guy? I can't lose either!

Tenn

It's Yotsuba Tamaki's birthday? His natural attitude is rather comforting.

Ryunosuke

Tamaki-kun, happy birthday! Let's go to an aquarium together again. I heard there's a place with huge rays!

Momo

Ta-dah! To commemorate your birthday, this is Momo-chan's hand-picked sweets setI wanted to hear Tamaki say yay, so I got all fired up!

Yuki

Tamaki-kun's happy expression comes to mind. I want him to keep showing his unique charm.

Haruka

Yotsuba, happy birthday. I'm giving you these King Puddings! Buying so many was embarrassing...!

Toma

Today is Yotsuba's birthday! I'm still surprised at the gap between when he dances and when he talks.

Minami

It's Yotsuba-san's birthday. The other day when I gave him a cream puff, he was very pleased, so I think I'll buy him one again.

Torao

It's Yotsuba Tamaki's birthday. I was invited to play an action game the other day. Maybe I should give it a try.

Banri

Tamaki-kun, happy birthday. Your straightforwardness always helps us out.

[tournament-for-best-neopet]

Wow! With such close polls this time around, the next Petpets to join our final round are Kepru and Seti! It was soooo hard to choose this time around, wasn't it? There's so many cute friends in the desert sands!

With that out of the way, let's go a little more... Bestial. That's right, we're turning back the clock and partying like it's 199999 BC! It's... Tyrannian Petpets!

These little guys might seem a bit more simplistic, but I prefer to think of them as Triassic- er, terrific! ...It's so hard to come up with prehistory puns, isn't it?

Well, let's get down to bedrock basics and post the next round's bracket!

This one might be tough - I already see some particularly popular Petpets this era! We'll see how it turns out, though! We'll be posting all TEN matches of round one on Friday, at 2 PM NST, as always! See you then, and remember to have a nice day, please! :)

[simswithchin]

Hedonia - Meet the Characters: Seti Mendoza

Seti Mendoza (they/them) is an enigmatic teen artist. A scholarship student at Copperdale School with exceptional creative talent, Seti hopes to buy their own art studio after graduation and regularly sells their creations to spendthrift classmates in order to save up for the down deposit. When their art expo fails to gain enough traction, Seti turns to a new money-maker: selling party drugs supplied by their Selvadoradian cousin, Javi...

Traits: Creative, Ambitious, Art Lover, Perfectionist

Skills: Painting, Dancing, Singing

Hedonia premieres Sunday, July 30th at 12:00PM PST on my Youtube channel

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[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.16 (before 1940)

456 – Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire. 690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire. 912 – Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba. 955 – King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 1311 – The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time. 1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman. 1590 – Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover. 1736 – Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England. 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles. 1793 – French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed. 1793 – War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge. 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm. 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig. 1817 – Italian explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, uncovered the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings. 1817 – Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela. 1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground. 1836 – Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock. 1841 – Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada. 1843 – William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers. 1846 – William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation. 1847 – The novel Jane Eyre is published in London. 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women. 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. 1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business. 1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place. 1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination. 1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States. 1919 – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party. 1923 – Walt Disney and his brother, Roy, found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, today known as The Walt Disney Company. 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement. 1939 – World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.

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Dekoratif duvar çıtaları bir dekorasyon aracıdır duvarların alt yada üst kısımlarına yerleştirilip güzel ve şık görünümler kazanmak için kullanılır. Dekoratif ahşap duvar çıtaları evde, avm'de, iş yerlerinde yani kısaca tüm yaşam alanlarında kullanılabilmektedir. Dekoratif duvar çıtası kullanarak iç ve dış tasarımlarınızda şık bir görünüm kazanabilirsiniz.

Ahşap mdf objeler popüler olan ve en çok satılan hobi malzemeleridir. İç mekan dekorasyonlarında, oyuncaklarda, masa ve sandalyeler gibi daha fazla çeşitli malzemelerde kullanılır. Ahşap (mdf) kutusunun çeşitli şekillerdeki ahşap boyama seti fiyatları ve modelleri vardır.

Hobi setleri yapacağınız hobilere göre değişmektedir. Maket yapım setleri uçaklar, gemiler, binalar gibi ahşaplardan ve plastiklerden oluşmaktadır. Örgü setleri yünler, iğneler, iplerden oluşmaktadır. Ve bunun gibi bir çok hobi setleri ve modelleri kişinin zevkine göre değişmektedir.

Dekoratif kapı süsleri bir çok kişinin tercih ettiği bir süstür. Kapı süsü kendiniz yapmak istiyorsanız çiçekler, çerçeveler, minyatür gibi süs aletleri kullanabilirsiniz. Kapı süsleri iç tasarım olarak odaların ve evinizin dış kapısı gibi yerlerde kullanılmaktadır. Bu süslerin kişiye özel kapı süsleri, ışıklı kapı süsleri gibi daha fazla kendi zevkinize göre yapabilir veya alabilirsiniz.

Çanta süsleme keyif veren ve yaratıcı bir hobidir. Çanta aksesuarları; çanta sapları, püsküller, desenler gibi daha bir çok çanta malzeme ürünleri ve aksesuarları kullanarak zevkinize göre çanta süsleyebilirsiniz.

Ayaklı fenerler; lamba ve mum kullanarak aydınlatma sağlar. İç mekanlarda ve dış mekanlarda yani her yerde dekor amaçlı kullanılabilmektedir. Ev dekorasyon ürünleri ve süs eşyaları, ev dekorasyonu dekoratif ürünler ile evlerinizi süsleyebilirsiniz.

Ev dekorasyon ürünleri modelleri ve fiyatları, ev dekorasyon ürünleri toptan, ev dekorasyon fikirleri için dekoratif objeler, ev aksesuarları ve ev dekorasyon ürünleri 2024 ihtiyaçlarınızda bizimle iletişime geçebilir hobi ve sanatsal ürünlerimizden faydalanabilirsiniz.

Ev dekorasyonu yapabilmek evlerinizde küçük değişimler oluşturabilmek için duvar dekorasyon ürünleri & süsleri ürünlerimizden faydalanabilirsiniz. Dekoratif obje modelleri 2024, ev aksesuar ürünleri ve fiyatları, duvar dekorasyonu ürünleri ve fiyatları, duvar dekoru modelleri 2024, toptan ev dekorasyon ürünleri ve fiyatları, toptan dekoratif ürünler, ucuz toptan ev aksesuarları için bizimle iletişime geçmeyi unutmayın.

Püskül çeşitleri; tüy, püskül ve saçak modelleri hobi işlerinizde kullanabileceğiniz dekorasyon için kullanılabilmektedir ve bir süs malzemesidir. Püskül çeşitleri; metalik püsküller, sentetik püsküller, deri püsküller gibi daha fazla çeşitleri vardır. Püskül çeşitleri ve modelleri için bizimle iletişime geçebilirsiniz.

Evde canı sıkılanlar için hobi malzemeleri arıyorlarsa kullanılmayan eşyaları ve yardımcı ekipmanlarla evde hobi malzemelerinizi ve hobilerinizi yapabilirsiniz. Evinizde kullanılmayan eşyaları hobi malzemeleri kullanarak süsleyip dekor için evinizin bir köşesine koyabilirsiniz.

Süs yapım malzemeleri kullanarak ev süslemelerini kendiniz kolaylıkla yapabilirsiniz. Parti̇ ve süs malzemeleri̇ çeşitleri ve fiyatları, hobi ve süsleme malzemeleri, parti süs malzemeleri, süs malzemeleri, süsleme malzemeleri isimleri, doğum günü süsleri için bizimle iletişime geçmeyi unutmayın.

Mutlu edecek hobiler kişiden kişiye ve ilgi alanlarına göre değişiklik gösterebilir. Hobiler boş zamanlarda yapılacak kişinin keyif alabileceği sinir ve stres atabileceği aktivitelerdir. Kıyafetlerinizi kendi zevkinize göre tasarlayabilir ekstra dekor katmak için kıyafet süsleme malzemelerini kullanabilirsiniz.

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