#reblogging again cus im still very proud of this one
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Hello Pollux! Can you explain your OTP tags?
This is something people want? Lol okay:
This includes League of Legends and Fate.
Fate:
otp: be my queen | richard/ayaka
reference to the fact that richard is continuously trying to get ayaka to be his master. since they are master/servant and i like them romantically it turns from “be my master” to “be my queen”. a good otp 10/10 narita when will you ever.
otp: avenger and ruler | edmond dantes/amakusa shirou
i hope this is obvious. it’s an avenger and a ruler. demonstrates the fact that they’re polar opposites but still good as a ship.
otp: dragon slayers | siegfried/saint george
reference to how they work really well together in defeating wyverns in fate/grand order. may include kojiro if i find some siegfried/kojiro art i like.
otp: thief and executioner | robin hood/charles henri sanson
i like these two, especially in the salem chapter. the ship name is reference to their roles: one is a thief, one is an executioner. i was also thinking of giving them a title like “the new fruk” cause that’s basically what they are lol.
otp: im a self insert | guda/fgo character
any art of a guda and a fate grand order character. mainly avicebron and dantes because that’s who i ship myself with. more characters may join eventually but im very gay.
otp: casters of opposing factions | avicebron/william shakespeare
in apocrypha they’re the casters for the opposing factions. in fate grand order they seem to keep this dislike for each other.
otp: a new isolde | tristan/melt
ok i haven’t seen the full ccc event yet but basically tristan compares melt to isolde so yeah she’s a new isolde for him. i don’t like how fate writes her name (isseult?) so we’re going with this spelling.
otp: i’ll make you tsar | kadoc/anastasia
this is kadoc’s plan in lostbelt, to make her tsar of the lostbelt. that doesn’t really happen though but they’re in love okay?????
otp: hate at first sight | kirei/kiritsugu
i was tempted to call them “beautiful ties” as a pun on their names but decided against it. hate at first sight because that’s what happened. get along you two.
otp: president and princess | rin/issei
their roles at school. proud captain of the rissei ship. i will love this ship by myself if i have to.
otp: like cats and dogs | gilgamesh/cu chulainn
this is because of ip. go through her gilcu tag. i swear you’ll come out a different person. gilcu is a good ship. they’re a cat and a dog.
otp: i hate everything you stand for | hansa/jester
hansa and jester both hate each other because of who they are. jester despises those from the church, hansa hates dead apostles. they’re fun.
otp: l’auteur malfaisant | edmond dantes/dumas
this is just what dantes calls him, “the wicked author” but in french. love these two so fucking much. if you want me to be happy just mention eddumas.
otp: beast like me | caren/angra mainyu
in hollow ataraxia, it’s stated that they are both beasts: caren for being born “out of wedlock” and angra mainyu because he’s all the evils of the world. they are both beasts by birth, and must deal with the sins from being called a beast. also a big otp.
otp: sad a lot | tristan/lancelot
i was originally calling this ship “tristalot” which sounds like “triste a lot” which is french for “sad a lot”.
otp: up until this moment my wish was being granted | medea/souichirou
OTP TO RULE ALL OTPS. god i love these two. it’s a reference to what medea says in UBW when she dies. man i love these two so much.
otp: the jewel resting near my heart | rin/shirou
reference to the pendent rin gives shirou. may include rin/archer i’m not sure yet.
otp: let’s destroy the world! | kirei/gilgamesh
wow this is late on the list lol. the ship name is what they wanna do. kirei route when nasu.
otp: on the defense | hector/alter cu chulainn
both of them are known for being defensive characters, both in playstyle and in personality. they’re old, tired men let them nap.
otp: i may not always be by your side | issei/shirou
this is a line issei tells shirou in prillya. love these guys a lot. especially with rin.
otp: sword and sheath | saber/shirou
that’s what they are. saber is the sword and shirou is the sheath. no sexual jokes please. like them romantically and as friends.
otp: my wish is for her to live | medusa/sakura
purple girlfriends. love them. love heaven’s feel. reference to a line medusa tells shirou.
otp: my superman | sakura/shirou
OTP TO RULE ALL OTPS. the best ship in stay night with kuzucaster. i love heaven’s feel so much. they were what got me into drawing. i love them so much. reference to the superman scene in HF.
otp: two too pretty boys | diarmuid/gilgamesh
this is 100% because they are attractive guys. that is it. the ship name shows this.
otp: you cursed me | emiya alter/kiara
don’t @ me i like these two. emiya alter an alter because of kiara, hence the ship name.
otp: you were literally made for me | gilgamesh/enkidu
I DON’T HATE THIS SHIP WHY WOULD I TAG AND REBLOG IT SO MUCH IF I HATED THIS SHIP? I simply stated that I am tired of seeing it so much in the f/sf tags. I do like these two shhh. name is a reference to the fact that kidu was made for gil.
otp: lance to the heart and you’re to blame | kirei/cu chulainn
hello i love kotoyari. reference to the UBW ending. feb 14 isn’t valentines day it’s kotoyari day.
otp: your dream is mine | kiritsugu/irisviel
i can’t talk about this ship without crying just know i love them. iri wishes for his dream to come true.
otp: i wanted a saber anyways | rin/saber
just gals being pals you know . and originally rin wanted a saber.
otp: the woman was a saint | kirei/claudia
im not crying you’re crying. a line in the VN.
otp: you remind me of someone | paracelsus/phantom
no this isn’t just because they’re pretty boys lol. like the idea of them being good friends who help each other when the other goes berserk.
otp: dancing with the devil | mephistopheles/paracelsus
there’s a lot of cool/interesting ship art between these two that’s really cool and i love. love the idea of them adopting jack.
otp: fist of the north star to the heart | saint martha/sasaki kojiro
just wait until the summer event. love how koji has joined the dragon slayer’s group. hope he enjoys his new friends. you have to fight her at one point for koji’s development. it’s a joke about how her np is a fist of the north star joke.
otp: calm desert nights | nitocris/scheherazade
reference to lalalack’s ‘desert beauty’ piece. they spend those nights in the desert exchanging stories, calming each other down.
otp: how about we put it to the test? | li shuwen/beowulf
what beowulf says to li shuwen before they start their fight. they like to beat each other up and it’s great.
otp: beat up a pretty face | beowulf/fionn mac cumhaill
who has the pretty face is up to you. reference to how fionn looks ephemeral in the beofionn art.
otp: a king and his knight | diarmuid/fionn
it’s their roles. yeah i know fionn “killed” him it’s fun.
my chivalrous knight | diarmuid/saber
who is the knight and who is chivalrous? up to you!
otp: blue knights | cu chulainn/saber
only two people ship this there’s only two posts i wanna die
a queen and her knight | saber/irisviel
based on when saber acts as her knight (aka all of fate/zero) in f/z. doesn’t have otp cause i’m lazy.
ot3: church trio | gilgamesh/kirei/cu chulainn
they live in the church lol.
ot3: we could have had it alllllll | sieg/jeanne d’arc/astolfo
based on the fact that apocrypha could have easily juggled the three of these into an ot3 but nope.
ot3: my two friends | gilgamesh/enkidu/kirei
there is only 1 piece of fanart in this tag but it’s a very good piece of fanart
ot3: this could have worked really well tbqh | kirei/gilgamesh/tokiomi
team archer could have been good if kirei didn’t get his dick sucked by gilgamesh.
ot3: princess president and prince | rin/issei/shirou
their roles - i think shirou should be a prince. i just really love rissei and shissei so why not combine them into an ot3 y/y?
group tag: aesthetic of death | gilles de rais, uryuu ryuunosuke, jeanne alter, prelati
i love these guys a lot okay? a lot of gilles/ryu because canon otp. was supposed to be art of death because of ryuunosuke's CE but it was mistranslated and i'm too lazy to change it!
group tag: equipe francaise | d’eon, marie, mozart, sanson
they are cute but this tag is pushed by my thirst for mozart. the tag means “french team” which is basically what they are right?
brotp: my retainer | waver velvet/alexander the great
im sorry i can’t ship this romantically but they are cute together!
brotp: troy's defense | penthesilea, hektor
these two are good bros who break pots together and will rip achilles' open
League of Legends:
otp: spin to win | katarina/garen
this is about gameplay. garen is known for his e, which is a spin. the joke “spin to win” comes from that ability. since katarina also has a spin, spin to win works for these two.
otp: drasona | draven/sona
it’s just their ship name lol.
otp: takes two to tango | evelynn/twisted fate
reference to the twisted fate and evelynn shared tango skins. such a good ship. i love them and twisted fate/graves. league of legends please do something with these two i stg.
otp: partners in crime | twisted fate/graves
man this is the best lol ship man i wish lol would do anything with this ship that would be great i love my gay men. and they’re working together again! nice!
otp: the sun shines for you | leona/pantheon
i don’t know what lol is doing with these two if if they’re actually gonna be together and i love diana/leona too but i’ve always had a soft spot for these two. also? a great bot lane if you can stomp early.
otp: it’s called art | jinx/jhin
to be honest i just think these two would be hilarious. let them just do whatever they want in piltover.
otp: collecting souls | thresh/kalista
aesthetic and also a great botlane. i just love kalista tbh. ghost wife.
otp: trying to keep the balance | shen/zed
wow the first otp for league of legends. good shit guys hope you guys get more content soon.
If a ship you know I like is not on this list it’s probably just tagged as the ship name! I’m probably going to go through and create tags for each ship like these as I think of them. If you have suggestions for ship names let me know!
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youre proud the portuguese used to be major colonizers?? what do the british have to do with south america??? im. a little lost
Okay so, I’m going to assume you’re a gringo to be asking that question, and I’m also going to take this in good faith for yours and other people’s benefit because South American history is not really a subject in other countries’ educational system to put it very charitably.
First of all, I’m absolutely not proud of the Portuguese empire’s colonial legacy. On the contrary, I’m highly critical of it and its lasting consequences in all of its past colonies, and the atrocities that they perpetuated. What I meant was that to erase the Portuguese empire’s part in the colonization of South America, the differences between the past Portuguese and Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and how those differences shaped our current geopolitical situation is to erase half of the history of the continent. When I brought them up, it was to remind that they were in fact a major power in the world before the British Empire took that role, something that is quite often overlooked or downplayed like it was in that post I reblogged. I don’t say it as a point of pride, I say it as a reminder of a historical fact, awful as it is.
And, you ask what do the British have to do with South America, and I tell you, more than you might think.
The British had been trading with Portugal in their colonies since the 16th century when they first started to dip their toes in the transatlantic trade. They first started sailing from West Africa and then started to make stops in the northeast of Brazil, before returning to England. At first, they came for pau-brazil, a type of wood native of South America that gives a very deep and rich red dye and it was all the rage before sugar came along and became the Portuguese colony’s main export as well as other raw materials like cotton and tobacco. Of course the Portuguese cracked down on those trades eventually, and also Britain had the Sieges of Boulougne going on, so they had to give it a break for a bit.
So guess what? Around the late 16th century, the British empire sent down fucking pirates to press on the Spanish and Portuguese fleets. Privateers but, you get the picture. You’ve heard of Francis Drake, right?
Yeah, that guy. He and some other notable names like Edward Fenton and Thomas Cavendish were sent to explore the waters between the Atlantic and the Pacific and find ways to circumvent the fleets to make the way around the globe, going through the Strait of Magellan. You know, the southern tip of South America. Also, to steal stuff from the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Just to prove that they can and to clap back at the Spanish. And the ports of São Vicente and Santos in the southeast of current Brazil became an almost obligatory stop for English ships sailing in the south Atlantic to restock their ships for the rest of the journey.
So the Portuguese started to get fed up with the English stopping by their colony and started to fend off the ships and arrest the sailors if they made port. So because they were pirates, they attacked the Portuguese colony. They assailed the Bay-of-All-Saints (current Bahia, Brazil) for two months, they raided and pillaged engenhos and towns on the southeast coast, and when they attacked Recife, they got so much loot from the city that they needed the help of Dutch and French ships to take it all with them. (an interesting source to dig through)
Also, where do you think our sugar went to? The engenhos (our version of plantations) sent the raw sugar to the Dutch who refined it and sold it across Europe, especially the British. Until the Dutch and the Spanish started to plant sugar cane in the Caribbean, Portugal had the sugar market pretty much cornered. That’s why the Guyanas exist and one of them have English as their main language, it was a Dutch colony and the British took control of parts of it from them, so they could trade with the native communities for prime resources, like wood, pau-brasil, native animals, cotton, tobacco, urucum (it’s another source fo red dye, google it), and so on. Guyana’s capital is called Georgetown??
Oh, shall I get to the fact that the majority of the gold you see in the interior of Buckingham Palace is from Brazil? I think I shall because, during the gold rush in Minas Gerais, Portugal was severely in debt from their wars with the Spanish and the Dutch. So much debt that what they got from exploiting their colonies, they spent it right away with industrialized goods. Goods from England. We in Brazil have an expression, “quinto dos infernos”. Literally “the Devil’s fifth”. It comes from the taxation of gold from the mines, one-fifth of what the miners extracted went to the Portuguese. To send someone to the Devil’s fifth is to tell them very emphatically to go fuck themselves. I think that explains how the people in the colonies felt about the taxes. It also caused revolts like Levante da Vila Rica and the Inconfidência Mineira, the last one being a major historical event in Brazil. So much so Minas Gerais’ state flag’s design is the same as was suggested by the rebels.
Libertas quae sera tamem is latin for “freedom albeit late”.
Oh, and you think pirates and privateers got involved just those first times? Think again! The tensions between the Spanish and British fleets in the Caribbean caused some major upheaval and even a war between the two of them, one battle affecting current Colombia, with the British attempting to siege several major ports from the Spanish. The war started cus the Spanish cracked down on illegal commerce in their colony by the British.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the British invaded the Vicoroyalty of Río de la Plata, (currently Argentina and Uruguay). The war was a good cover to attack one of France’s allies, but it wasn’t the first time the British had their eyes on the region, they’ve had previous attempts at trying to take control previously. The defeat of the British by the local populace with little to no help from the Spanish colonizers was also the last straw they needed to push for their independence.
Speaking of dwindling colonial powers, when Spanish and Portuguese ships kept failing to supply ships to meet the colony demands, it was the British who stepped in and filled the gap. After the Napoleonic Wars, the transatlantic trade basically belonged to the British, and if you’re paying attention, that greatly affected colonial and independence era South America. After Brazil’s independence from Portugal, the British were one of the new country’s main economic partner, mostly because it was their support when the royal family came to Brazil that pushed for independence. They even opened a mining company in Minas Gerais that ran for 125 years.
And these are just the things off the top of my head. The British Empire, like all the other European empires, had their fingers on many major events in Latin America as a whole as well as all over the world, but I tried to stay focused on South America.
Colonizing powers in Europe of past and present have always had their fingers here because that’s what having colonies is. It’s exploitation and intimidation and always trying to get more and more, no matter who gets hurt or killed in the process. The plantations and engenhos were brutal, the mines were brutal, the entire system of colonization is brutal and revolting. Countless enslaved people, mostly black people, died in those places, so many even the slave trade couldn’t keep up with the demand for slave labor. It’s absolutely horrifying. And our countries have suffered and still suffer from external influences in our politics, especially by the US in more recent history, even if we keep fighting against thinly-veiled military intervention constantly. It really fucking sucks.
And you could have learned all this - and more! - if you just bothered to open a single Wikipedia article. Like, literally google “history of South America” or “Latin America-United Kingdom relations” and read. Bonus credits if you dig into the article sources and read them if available to you in English. But if reading is not your thing, there are several youtube channels out there who want to teach you stuff you don’t know and are a decent enough jumping point. Literally all I can say after all this is, educate yourself.
(I’ve leaned more on Brazillian history which is what I’m more familiar with, but if there are any fellow latines who want to correct me on something or add on to this, pls do so!)
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Man, Spore is a lot harder than I remembered it being. How hard can it be to be a damn military city? Anyway, some replies now, the rest later when I’m surer there’s none left.
@jackssims replied to your photo “Divided. i.e. in a part in which several musicians normally play...”
The bold on execution tho ��
Foreshadowing taking to its most literal level: putting a bold shadow in the forefront
@cafesimming replied to your photoset “¦ Lorelei: “Sculpting, then?†Lyra: “What?†Lorelei: “Tomorrow’s...”
me tbh
Sometimes, without prompting, it can be hard to remember that Lorelei is legally blind without her glasses - it’s just not at the forefront of her traits, as it were - so scenes like this help me as well as cause her pain
@tosimornottosim replied to your photoset “Catherine: “…the air is crisp. Rich with magic. I can taste it. The...”
C A T H E RNI NE
Catherine Axiom’s pseudo-evil twin: Cathernine
tosimornottosim replied to your photoset “Lyra: “Okay, is everyone ready?” Catherine: “As ready as I can be.”...”
Catherine: *brow furrowed* whats an art
Catherine: can you fight evil with it
jackssims replied to your photoset “Lyra: “Hmmm… Looking good so far on this end!” Katya: “Lyra, we have...”
I think you've got some clay in your hair, Felicity
See? There was already a clay explosion and Lyra didn’t even notice!
@sevenleafsimblr replied to your photoset “Eden Lee: *taps out in a rhythm on the clay as they work* Lavandar:...”
contestant bonding
Whistle Ear Worms While You Work
cafesimming replied to your photoset “Kira: “Okay, almost… allllmost…” Lavandar: “Nearly there, nearly...”
AWW
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A W W
Same Aww, just stretched out a little longer
@simstrations replied to your photoset “Toby: “And… there. Lorelei, I’m done with my sculpture! …at least I...”
Uh Scott, I know you were inspired by the entrance to the Mills College Art Museum but I thought you were going for unique?
I know we already had that private IM where I mentioned that his actually was unique, but I want to bring attention to this again cus I googled the museum and just
look at these sculptures !!
sevenleafsimblr replied to your photoset “Lorelei: “Yes… I think I’ve got it. I- the result, and the luck!” ...”
im proud of ginerva and their pedestal
It’s interesting how the most expensive sculptures on both sides were pedestals... I wonder if this is symbolic of something.
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WOOT
wait shit that means someones gonna die tonight
not woot
A Revelation, in Three Acts
simstrations replied to your photoset “Lyra: “Yours is definitely unique, Scott, but it’s also only worth...”
Betrayal! Betrayal of the highest order! You're supposed to be doing better than this Scott, I'm counting on you! (You are doing decent though Scott don't worry I still love you)
Me when I first saw that:
tosimornottosim replied to your photoset “Lyra: “Yours is definitely unique, Scott, but it’s also only worth...”
Catherine! You did it! You took all the fun out of art but you did it!
Catherine: What is this ‘fun’ you speak of? Is it the same thing as the ‘art’?
simstrations replied to your post “Scott’s Interview”
I was reading this over as a refresher and I have a comment for past me, a Harry Potter reference, really?
I’m not sure if it says more about Harry Potter or myself that I didn’t even catch that Barry Zotter was supposed to be a play on Harry Potter until you just there pointed it out... ^^;
cafesimming replied to your photoset “Lyra: “Well done on the pedestal, Catherine. I double-checked my...”
i like catherine a whole lot tbh
Respect for Paladins step in time
tosimornottosim replied to your photoset “Ginerva: “That’s more like it! Now you can have a better look at me....”
It's not a bother it's an accommodation is something I should actually remember thanks Lyra
Same TBH. When you’re already prone to feeling bad about needing things, the tendency of neurotypical and able-bodied people to either shame us for or try to steal our own accommodations is doubly irritating to say the least, so I wanted Lyra to Be A Countermeasure to that, however small
@futurecarrie replied to your photoset “Lorelei: “Hi, Lyra.” Lyra: “Heh, your next contestant up here too?”...”
Russian bb has the best insults
I know!! It’s one of the best things about writing people with other languages as their first tongue, being able to work out all the linguistic nuances. Have you heard “a penis from the mountain” before?
jackssims replied to the same
Poor Felicity (also what is with the trend of Carrie's sims going after mine in BCs lmao)
A rivalry as old as time... or at least as old as whbcx2
simstrations replied to your photoset “Toby: “Hm. Lyra and Scott over there, you and me over here, Lorelei…...”
I love it! So much. Now I'm going to sleep before I notice another picture pop up.
In Hindsight This Was Probably For The Best
cafesimming reblogged your photoset “Lavandar: “–this is what you’re offering ♩ I’ll take the rain, I’ll take–” Lorelei: “Lavandar?” Lavandar: “EEK!”...”
#❤️
jackssims reblogged the same
#Felicity is doing her best
The same post, two different creators, two very identical reactions~
cafesimming replied to your photoset “ohgod ohgod i’m gonna fffn…” *scuffling* Lorelei: “Nnn… what’s going...”
oh no
Fun fact: Toby’s transformation here wasn’t even planned on my part. Either I’d forgotten how quickly the moon cycle changes around and how close the moon was, or there was an error in the cycle settings, or whatever, but that completely took me by surprise. Still, given it provided its fair share of... chaos, it was a great thing to use to my advantage!
tosimornottosim replied to your photoset “Lorelei: “I’m j-just gonna… put your dinner down here. Y-you d’nt -...”
You're very Brave Lorelei
Lorelei: n-no, I’m a coward... but thank you for saying so.
sevenleafsimblr replied to your photoset “Lyra: “Okay. Let’s really think about this, Lyra. Let’s set this all...”
@ your tags: me too actually
I come up with half my best plot points and dialogue exchanges in the pool. ...granted, when I get out I can’t remember half of them,,,,,
futurecarrie replied to your photoset “Lyra: “Then again, there’s not that much between them, is there?...”
oh man the murderer's being pretty ballsy, throwing the victim right in the pool in front of Lyra jeeeeez
Well, technically behind Lyra, but let’s not split hairs
simstrations replied to your photoset “Lyra: “…Scott? Scott, how’d you…? Fuck!!”
Yup, that's what I thought. Great. This sucks. Oh well. (My exact reaction as I saw the notification pop up.)
Okay, a quick question to those of you who got this far... did I make it too obvious in Episode 3 that Scott was going to be first to die? IIRC I’d already played up to the end of the challenge and rolled for that first victim when I began writing that installment in particular, but I tried to keep the foreshadowing quite light on that score... IDK, I’m trying not to be ungrateful - I guess I was anticipating more of a reaction to the idea that Scott, having been accused in all but name, would die first, but then I’m set in my ways like that.
jackssims replied to your post “Episode 4: Divisi Credits”
Felicity you're doing great sweetie
Priorities
#autistichatkid#toxoplasmajuice#futurecarrie#harmoniouspixels#tosimornottosim#simstrations#sos mm bc
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