#pleasentville

[readplayerone99]

Per la Rubrica: 𝓝𝓲𝓰𝓱𝔂 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓰𝓵𝓲𝓪📽

Genere: commedia, fantastico, drammatico

[randomwhimsie]

Pleasantview Lagacy Challenge

I do love the drama Pleasantview always have, and I wish to play that out in sims 4. Each generation is represent a sim in each Pleasentville household in rotation order.

          The heir doesn’t need to be the gender of the sim that inspire that generation. I have keep it mostly basegame friendly (with basegame alternative if it’s not). Hope you enjoy it!

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First Generation: Don Lothario

         You’re an eligible young sim with looks and successful career, everybody wants you and everybody wants to be you. And you certainly not gonna say no to that. You love to climb a ladder; you want to be on the top. That’s why when it come to time to tie the knot, you choose a match that will bring you money and recognition. You should give up on your wild day after you married but you didn’t. Well, why pick and choose when one can have it all?

Aspiration: Serial Romantic Aspiration Traits: Ambitious, Romantic, Bro  Career: Doctor (recommended)

Rules

Complete Serial Romantic Aspiration

Marry a rich sim but leave them at the altar the first time then marry them again.

Reach level 10 of your career of choice

Woohoo in every woohoo spots

Is friend with all you kid(s) and let at least one of them catch you cheeting.

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Second Generation: Cassandra Goth

          You saw your parents’ marriage and can’t help but hope you will do better. You wish for nothing but a big happy family like the one in the commercial. Unfortunately, you’re nothing like your parent, you are shy and quiet. Music is your escapism and you make sure you are good at it.

Aspiration: Big Happy Family Aspiration Traits: Socially Awkward (or Loner), Music Lover, Family-Oriented Career: Scientist (recommended)

Rules

Get married and have 5 children

Master one musical skill and complete Big Happy Family Aspiration

Have all children complete their child aspiration

Every child must have at least one good character trait

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Third Generation: Dina Caliente

          Thanks to your parent good work, you have an advantage of child reward trait and it’s easier for you to success in life. You want to be rich (or richer), and you’ll do everything to get it. And everything means EVERYTHING.

Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy Aspiration Traits: Outgoing, Self-Assured, Materialistic Career: Law (recommended)

Rules

Marry elder rich sim, and re-married a new one as soon as they died, and repeat

Reach level 10 in a career of your choice, and level 10 in Charisma Skill

Complete Fabulously Wealthy Aspiration

Host a party every time important event happened (Birthday, Wedding, Graduation, etc.)

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Fourth Generation: Lilith Pleasant

          You hated your home life; it was awful seeing different old step-parent coming in and out of your life. You wish to escape as soon as possible, and you were not shy to express that. You become a rebellion, always dress alternatively, and have bad relationship with your parents, every one of them.

Aspiration: Chief of Mischief Aspiration Traits: Hot-headed, Mean, Gloomy Career: Any

Rules

Become enemies with your parents

Must have a part-time job in teen years, must complete the aspiration before moving out and must move out as soon as possible. Graduate early if you can.

Always dress alternatively, preferably in black. You may change after moving out.

Must reach at least level 5 in a career, reach level 6 in three skills, and is an adult before have a kid.

Max one creative skill.

Suggestion: Move out to a place with only few necessities (like early part of the regular legacy challenge) for extra challenge. If you do, you must have a complete house before have a kid.

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Fifth Generation: Dirk Dreamer

          You saw how hard your parent work for your better life and you are grateful for that. You wish to make them proud, so you are all in in your education. You have a great interest in robot and mechanical stuff, you are an inventor! Or at least you try to be.

Aspiration: Academic Aspiration Traits: Genius, Geek, Ambitious Career: Engineer (recommended)

Rules

Get grade A in all school years and complete one child aspiration

Graduate from a university and complete the aspiration.

Max logic, handiness, and robotic skills.

Craft a Servo.

You caught up in your invention and forgot to have any kid, so hurry up and have one close to elder age. (NOT BEFORE YOU FINISHED A SERVO)

Suggestion: If you don’t have Discover University, you can skip the robotic part and just have one kid early on in life then have an Oops baby close to elder age. Reach level 10 in Tech Guru Career instead of graduate from university. And use Nerd Brain Aspiration instead, build that rocket!

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Sixth Generation: The Oldies

          You’re a servo. Your creator died before they raise this little baby of them to be an adult, so it is now your job! This little baby seems to like food so much so you become a chef for them. Nothing makes you happier than to see those chubby cheeks full of food that you make.

Aspiration: Master Chef Aspiration Traits: Loyal, Good, Foodie Career: Culinary, Chef Branch

Rules

Raise that kid, but don’t forget to find love. True love or woohoo-sim is your choice. (the Oldie become a polygamy couple in my save so if you want that…)

Complete Master Chef Aspiration and max cooking and gourmet cooking skill.

Cook every gourmet meal after complete the aspiration. Keep all of it for the next generation to eat.

Adopt some animal if you have Cats and Dogs. (Or some rat if you have My First Pet Stuff, or Llama if you want, idk.)

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Seventh Generation: John Burb

          You get married to a career driven sim and become a stay-at-home partner. You want multiple kids but your partner is quite busy so you got to find the middle ground. Actually, you can’t actually blame them to have doubt since neither of you actually love to take care of baby. You mostly spend your time gardening in the sun, it’s more fun than baby, what can you say!

Aspiration: Country Caretaker or Freelance Botanist Aspiration Traits: Loves Outdoors, Lazy, Glutton Career: None

Rules

Marry a career driven sim and quit your job (if you ever have one) then move to countryside.

Not so close with your kids, don’t have any more child until the first one is almost a teen. And let them mostly take care of their other sibling.

Complete the aspiration and reach level 10 in gardening skill.

Complete Gardening Collection.

Don’t forget the COWPLANT.

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Eighth Generation: Kaylynn Langerak

          Your parents rely on you so much, all the sibling become your responsibility. Fairytale become your escapism, those true love seems so wonderful and you wish for that life. You have a high school sweetheart but for some reason he won’t propose to you. So you start looking elsewhere, maybe already married one would be more willing to walk down the aisle more?

Aspiration: Soulmate Aspiration Traits: Childish, Bookworm, Neat Career: Writer (recommended)

Rules

You can’t move out until the last sibling become young adult.

Have a non-committal high school sweetheart, try to propose to them and get rejected (at least twice). Then get involve with a married sim.

Convince them to leave their spouse and marry them.

Write 20 Romance Books.

Have a twin

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Ninth Generation: Malcolm Landgraab

          Your parents scandalous marriage ruin your reputation, you were teased and look down upon. You wish to be respected.

Aspiration: Mansion Baron or World Famous Celebrity Aspiration Traits: Snob, Jealous, Perfectionist Career: Business or Criminal

Rules

Complete your aspiration and live in a big house/mansion

Max out every skill that needed for your career

Complete crystal or metal collection (or both)

Have 20 friends and host a party every time you got a promotion.

Reach level 10 of your career

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Tenth Generation: Bella Goth

          Your parent is loud, in everywhere possible. So much expectation push upon you. You are a grade A student, know everyone you’re supposed to, marry a sim you’re supposed to. You start having a double live and then run away, no one ever see you again…

Aspiration: Angling Ace Aspiration Traits: Loner, Active, Goofball Career: Secret Agent

Rules

Always have A grade in school, have 10 friends, and marry a rich sim that have good relationship with your parents

Runaway from that life, change your identity and cut ties with everyone from your previous life. Never step out of your home, you can only contact with people from your job.

Complete the fish collection

You can use Off-the-grid lot challenge to add more fun, but I hate that lot trait so it’s up to you.

[simplykorra]

Shallow - Chapter Sixteen

“Okay, I really should go though.” She starts to roll off the bed and Clarke hesitates to let her go. She knows Lexa has places to be - to go spend time with Aden and she loves her for it, but spending the rest of the night alone doesn’t sound like much fun. “Do you…want to come?”

 Even Clarke is surprised at how fast she sits up. “Would that be okay?” She clears her throat, suddenly embarrassed. “Or…you know…something less pathetic and clingy.”

 “No, I like clingy Clarke. Means you like me.”

 “Me bent over with my ass in the air didn’t give you that impression already, huh?”

 Lexa shrugs. “I like to be sure.” Clarke smiles, swinging her legs off the bed. “Aden’s got one of the Spider-Man series loaded up and wants to watch them tonight. He lost his mind when I told him I hadn't seen any of them.”

 “Wait like…none of them?” Another shrug as Lexa steps into her jeans. “Which ones is he starting you out with?”  

 “I have no idea, he says Andrew Garfield, which means nothing to me.”

 “Okay, those are good, but the Tobey Maguire trilogy should not be ignored - well…maybe the third one.”

 A bit of recognition lights up in Lexa’s face. “Tobey Maguire, the guy from Pleasentville?”

 “Aww babe,” Clarke stands up and presses a kiss to Lexa’s lips as she pops her head through the neck of her shirt. “You’re such an old lady.” Despite Lexa’s grumble, Clarke stays close. “I wouldn't want to intrude on your time with him, though.”

 “You wouldn't. Aden gets pretty caught up in his stuff. He’s good at entertaining himself - he prefers it. Plays on his laptop and watches movies at the same time. I don’t think he’d mind if I had a little side action going during the movie.”

 Clarke snorts a laugh and rolls her eyes. “I’m not going to dry hump you in front of your brother.”

 “Who said anything about dry humping, Clarke?” Lexa snaps the ‘k’ sharply. “You really need to learn to control yourself.”

 “Why do I put up with you again?”

 Lexa taps her chin, looking overly thoughtful as her pouty bottom lip sticks out. “Hmm, I think you said something about loving me.”

CONTINUED ON AO3

[dimonds456]

In light of TomSka's video about plagiarism going up, I wanna share something that's funny in retrospect but is also one of the best ways to get under my skin /lhj

So. Follychromatic.

I had the idea back in 2020 for a cartoon show that starts out black and white, and then as characters became happier being themselves, the more colors they gained as a result. I was pitching the idea to my mom in the car one day and she was like "oh, like Pleasentville?"

I had never heard of this movie until then. So I was like "what's that?" And she told me that the movie centers around black and white characters slowly gaining color as they become happier with their lives.

So, out of curiosity, we watched the movie together. And I fucking hate that movie HFNSBF

This is such a funny example of parallel thinking to me. This movie is ages old now (no it's not it was released in 1998), and I'd never seen it, but I and at least one other person had this idea and had two VERY DIFFERENT ideas on how to execute it.

In Follychromatic, characters work to revolutionize their world to make life better for themselves and their future peers. They do this through community and personal growth.

In Pleasentville, they do that through THE MAGIC OF ✨ SEX!!! ✨

I'm grossly underexplaining the plot but it's. Shocking. How much fucking sex is in this movie. Not trying to be a purest here, I just was not warned about that before my mom and I watched it ._ .

These two pieces of media are opposites and that's so fucking funny to me. But also if you compare FC to PV I will personally rip your liver out /drama

[thealmightyemprex]

Which of these fantasy comedies should I watch

Heaven Can Wait-A remake of Here Comes Mr Jordan starring James Mason

Being John Malkovich-A weird movie about a portal into the head of John Makovich

Pleasentville-two people enter the world of an old TV show

Witches of Eastwick-Jack Nicholdson is the devil

@ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @the-blue-fairie @piterelizabethdevries @themousefromfantasyland @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @amalthea9 @countesspetofi @barbossas-wench @filmcityworld1

[mothersmalice-a]

◈   TAG NINE PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER .

favourite colour(s): red, gold, lilac. favourite flavour(s): savoury, sweet. occasionally spicy. favourite genre(s): horror, sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, drama, comedy, rom-com. favourite music:  broadway / theatre, numetal, indie, orchestral, jazz, vocaloid ( not a genre per-se but ive a 50+ hour playlist so hopefully that speaks for it enough ), film / show / game soundtracks. favourite movie(s):  batman returns, chicago, the little stranger, nightmare alley, hereditary, knives out, fantastic mr. fox, paddington 1 & 2, the corpse bride. favourite series: his dark materials, hannibal, the fall (2013), luther, the x-files, the sarah jane adventures, sex education, the mandela catalogue, the haunting of hill house, derry girls, grace and frankie. last song: way down below - pleasentville. last series: first watch - the flight attendant, rewatch - luther. last movie: paddington ( for the hundredth time, ft. the same "ok marisa" jokes being made about millicent & me crying over mary. ) currently reading:  american gods ( media ... ♡︎ ), the little stranger ( are you noticing the trend where i pick up the sources of shows/films with my favourite actors in them ), the book of dust: la belle sauvage ( thank you Michael Sheen for keeping my attention in the audiobook. ) currently watching: shows - the affair, the x - files, QI. films - the others, true things. currently working on: portfolio work & finishing up my last term, along with a few gifsets / edits / whatnot when i've time.

tagged by: @toxicmalicex & @secondbetrayer ( thank you ♡︎ ) tagging: @dustserpent, @silvertonguc, @mrscoultxr, @evebeforethefall, @viciousgold, @mysteriary & whoever else sees this. ♡︎

[ladyorlandodream]

Dana Delany - The Other Two (2023)

I can see pleasentville in here 🤣❤️

[enemy-of-the-other-me]

"sapessi quante volte ti avrei detto addio

Ma riflesso nei tuoi occhi sembrò bello anch'io"

{nitro~Pleasentville}

[sleeponarooftop]

Non avranno il vostro stesso colore di pelle ma hanno più cuore di alcuno di voi.

Ore 10:08. Per un soffio riesco ad arrivare al binario per prendere il treno diretto a Treviso. È una bella giornata di febbraio ma il sole caldo somiglia tanto alla primavera. Infilo le cuffietta al cellulare e le porto alle orecchie, riproduzione casuale. Una canzone intotalata "pleasentville" risuana battente. Un ragazzo di colore mi guarda e accenna un sorriso. Il mio pensiero è "che palle, un altro". Poco prima un altro ragazzo straniero era giù all'interno del sottopassaggio che chiedeva l'elemosina. Io sono rimasta indecisa a lungo, con i miei 2.50€. Ma la mia parte cattiva ed egoista ha prevalso. Insomma il diavoletto "io mi faccio il culo tutti i giorni per prendere una miseria, provaci anche tu". Ore 10.09. Il treno arriva. E stranamente, puntuale. Salgo

[redemptioninterlude]

“Don’t give me that look! It wasn’t my fault!” @ rue !

the random meme ( accepting ) + @amoriscustos // minako

so maaaaybe they were kind of getting into trouble in town. the both of them climbing through a fence to get to the closed off part of town that honestly? looked WAY MORE FUN to wander through in the afterhours of the circus. everything else seemed so pleasentville dull, and honestly, when they'd been driving past this place... the both of them had exchanged looks that had said it all. they were all in, until... well, an alarm starts going off from within the mall that they've been searching through, long abandoned, with the innards all graffitied over and looted through. it's a marvel, until the sirens. the both of them visibly panicking, rue's dark eyes widening.

“Don’t give me that look! It wasn’t my fault!”

"what! it's not my fault either!" rue's got her hand in minako's, pulling the blonde after her so that the two of them could make a hasty scramble towards the door. unwilling to risk the both of them getting arrested, when they were only really going to be in town for a few weeks anyways. it's up and over the debris that dots this place, making her way back FROM MEMORY, determined to pull the other girl towards where the exit was, the both of them bursting out, and rue, quick as anything, started pulling the other girl towards the gap in the chainlink fencing that they'd squeezed through in the first place. "hurry!"

[gumballmrsmall]

When readings say u r attracting bad boys I'm like where do I even get them dude I live in pleasentville I am too shy to even get near anyone who sells weed hsnnshwk

[rollercoaster59]

all these books are blank, whaaa # pleasentville

[dreamlandcreations]

Oh, really? It was one of my faves in the 2000s (damn I sound old 🫣)

If you by any chance seen Pleasentville it's kinda that vibe in a way, like the newcomers make the black and white little town slowly realise that life is more than just living as expected of you. So it's about finding/experiencing freedom and Chocolat also has that wandering main character who just can't seem to settle bc something calls to her...

Anyway, ramblings done, i liked this and wouldn't mind a full fic or a drabble or two to expand on some points 😇

Benny x Flower Child

Benny Cross Masterlist

A/N: A lovely anon's request to see Benny with a woman who loves and accepts him for who he is. Since it's the '60s, I thought the concept of Benny meeting a free spirited flower child fit really well.

🌼 At first the Vandals dismiss your relationship as a fling without much of a future. After all, how can two people who cherish their freedom as much as a biker and a hippie ever hope to hold each other down?

🌼 The first time Benny brings you to meet everyone, the wives note your lack of jealousy when someone flirts with your man and frankly find it suspicious how you live in your own little world of pleasure separate from Benny as your silvery voice floats above the campfire like a siren song meant to attract their men.

🌼 The guys in the club take to you with immediate enthusiasm, listening to your tales of carefree adventure as Benny looks on with a lovesick smile. They recognize the mischievous twinkle like Benny gets in his eye and they see your shared sense of wanderlust.

🌼 It comes as a shock to everyone when you don't move on over the next few weeks, accepting Kathy's offer to stay at her place so you can plant a little garden in the back yard and watch it grow.

🌼 Your role as a nurturer becomes even more apparent when the guys from the club come around sick or hurt. You always seem to have a home remedy available to heal them.

🌼 It becomes a running joke that Kathy's porch is the place for strays when dogs begin to appear alongside the men, all drawn to your empathetic spirit.

🌼 Benny too finds himself orbiting around the same unlikely center of domesticity, hunched over Kathy's ring stained coffee table as you read his tarot cards.

🌼 "You actually believe all that hocus pocus?" the guys heckle him through the screen door, but the goosebumps he feels prickling his arm as you reveal the lovers card time and time again answers the question for him, the temptation of his heart revealed long before he's able to speak the words.

🌼 Late at night when he's fitful, you remind him of his place and purpose, guiding him out onto the roof to gaze up at the stars. Huddled together under a blanket, chain smoking and pointing out constellations, you feel the tension leave his body as his restless mind shuts off.

🌼 Eventually this ritual takes on a new meaning, the vastness of the night sky reminding you both how much living you have to do. So you pack the same worn satchel you arrived with and Benny takes you away for places unknown.

🌼 You stop to say goodbye to Johnny, tho he says he doesn't know why you're leaving the safety of the home you've made with the Vandals. He couldn't possibly understand that from now on home is wherever you and Benny are together, wild and free.

[larosaneratralerosse]

Sapessi quante volte ti avrei detto addio

Ma riflesso nei tuoi occhi sembro bello anch'io

Vedo il cielo che piange

Le mani sull'anche

Le tue gambe stanche

Intorno alle mie guance

Respiro ansimante

Di chi non rimpiange

Di dare anche il sangue se qualcosa è grande.

- Nitro, Pleasentville

[entropiceye]

Restiamo svegli fino all'alba

Col mondo che ci guarda

Mordimi il collo finchè si taglia

Così il nero del mio corpo viene a galla

Ti sei innamorata di un uomo morto che parla

Ma con te è diverso sai che intendo

Riesco a parlarti pure dopo che vengo

Resto a guardarti mentre dormi sul mio petto

Il mio letto senza te sembra più stretto e chi l'avrebbe detto

E adesso riposi

La gente non comprende passaggi

Tu cerchi i paesaggi nei miei tatuaggi

Che da zitto mando messaggi

Perchè sono la droga che assaggi in omaggi dosaggi

E quando piangi da sbronza metti gli uramaki nella salsa di insonnia

È tutto nella norma e tu mi cadi addosso come pioggia in forma di donna

Se tocco la tua immagine poi colma la voragine di pagine che toglie troppe anime dal margine

Per stare così stabile quando sono il più fragile

Scrivo di lacrime amare per amare le lacrime

Vorrei un mondo in bianco e nero come Pleasantville

Dove i colori non li vedo e posso accenderli

Dove il colore dei tuoi occhi può sorprendermi

[thewritingamateur]

Paul Walker |Pleasentville (1998)