#story: the (after) life of the party

[wistfulpoltergeist]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to 10 simblrs whose sims you adore ♥♥♥

Thank you! Спеціально для тебе, сонечко, я обрав цього древнього як моє життя упиря :D

I present you... COLD ICE!

1) Cold Ice is one of my oldest characters. I created him as a kid when I was... idk 11? And this is the first digital picture of him↴

Yeah, enjoy my old childish art :D

2) I was so obsessed with his appearance that I wanted to study 3D JUST to make him close to real.

3) Cold Ice neither a man, nor a woman. He's also both a man and a woman. Sometimes he turns into Lady Winter. (Yeah. I made him like this as a kid. And I'm from a quite ordinary family, mind you.)

4) Cold Ice is a nosferatu. Which means a simple "vampire", but I imagined that nosferatu in the vampires' world is something like archangel in the world of angels. Though, like all kids, I went even more epic and egocentric than that. I made him the mother and the father of all undead, the will of the Darkness itself. :D

5) But the most creepy fact about Cold Ice is that he was actually born from my imaginary friend I used to talked to when I felt sad.

Oh, hey! I found pics of him I made in Sims 2 eons ago!;D

[hobnob-moth]

Alrighty, time to start the countdown to Halloween with Todd and Janus as O'Brien and Bashir from Star Trek Deep Space 9. It took a bit to initially figure out who they should go as since I haven't had the chance to watch much Star Trek, but thanks to @kessyathena 's help a direction was found. I then decided to go with a more con-attire look this time round as they would be actual fans of the series. Next in the lineup for Saturday is Carmen and Todd as Jaws the shark and Matt Hooper.

[cator99]

I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

[gogandmagog]

“A love story with a psychological interest … a rather doubtful experiment with a public who expects a certain style from an author."

— Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Selected Journals of, on the subject of 'Kilmeny of the Orchard'

[silusvesuius]

n*loth is literally a demon i mean iHold on YAAASSSSS!

i mean it 😒😒😒

[theyarebothgunshot]

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[stonerzelda]

i luvvvv bg3's portrayals of the drow but the One thing i would maybe change is giving you the option to reject lolth if you're a lolth sworn 😭 i get that d&d has very specific rules about them and how i was Barely even allowed to play as one in the actual d&d campaigns ive started too since theyre always supposed to just be evil but it wouldve fit Crezia so much better to be a lolth-sworn that ends up abandoning her deity....in my new file (that i spent 6 hours playing yesterday. God) i made her into a Seldarine now and it mostly suits her better but i dont like the implication that she didn't grow up in the underdarkkkk i want her to be from Menzoberranzan, she's technically nobility anyway, but agh. Tho i guess Seldarine works since she's supposed to get murdered and then resurrected with no memory of her previous life at all so. Ok 🙄

[alexiethymia]

As promised, Death on the Ice Field

Nothing I say here will be new since the themes have been tackled plenty of times in fanfic (which I am so thankful for), but it’s still fun regardless. I feel like I usually have to put the disclaimer that this is a HitsuHina blog, because I think I will always have more to say about them.

Like Death on the Ice Field for example. It frustrates me the anime didn’t show Momo’s part here, because I’ve always believed that she was as crucial to Rangiku and Granny in setting up Toshiro on the path of a shinigami and meeting Hyourinmaru.

The way I see it, Momo was the spark, the impetus, Rangiku showed the way, while Granny allowed him to go. The special chapter, in my view, was all about awakenings or an awareness of change. It was Momo leaving which reminded Toshiro about things changing. It’s an allegory of sorts about growing up. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that perhaps this chapter also showed the start of his awareness of his budding feelings towards her (I mean there will always be naysayers and live and let live, but even without the relationship chart, I don’t think you’d blush at your sister or sister-figure no matter how close she was).

Another thing is how when he says Momo and Granny were the only ones never to be afraid of him, he says next that that’s why he likes Granny, but he doesn’t say the same of Momo. I’ve always thought Kubo excelled in his use of negative space, but that also applies to the dialogue-variant in that he seriously leaves a lot of things unsaid and interactions unexplored (Isshin reuniting with Rangiku and Toshiro, Kirio with Hiyori). It leaves a lot of room for interpretation and makes things fun for fans. Personally, I always read it as him being unsure of his feelings for Momo now, again something brought to his awareness with her leaving, a characteristic tsundere response if you could say.

He measures time by the number of years she entered the academy, and while she still smiles brightly at him - the same smile she graced him with five years ago - she no longer faces back (to Toshiro, Jurinan, take your pick) when saying goodbye the way she did the first time she left. And unlike five years ago where Toshiro just scowls and says she shouldn’t bother visiting anymore, this time he no longer keeps the pretense up, he waves back, though a bit limply because Momo doesn’t even see it, only facing forward, sure in her goal. (Be careful what you wish for and all that.)

So when Grandma says at the end that Toshiro didn’t want to make her lonely, it brings to mind what she said while scolding Toshiro that he shouldn’t say what he said because doesn’t Momo leaving make him feel lonely? He doesn’t deny it either, only pretends that everything is ok and that she���ll be back soon anyway. It’s also no coincidence, I think, that Granny wanted to talk to him right after Momo visited again. In other words, he didn’t want to make Granny lonely the same way Momo leaving made him feel lonely. But that theme of loneliness also applies to Hyourinmaru. Both sword and master would always feel lonely if Toshiro never discovered his name. And if you take Bleach Track 8 as canon (which I do because I love that Drama CD), there’s something to be said about Toshiro discovering Hyourinmaru’s name out of a desire to protect Momo, and Momo being the first to discover him discovering his shikai and subsequently calling him ‘Hitsugaya-kun’ without any prompting this time. In a way, it was a mark of growing up for Toshiro. That’s why there’s plenty of underlying themes between Hyourinmaru and Hinamori in relation to Toshiro that I love to see explored, which @rays-of-fire-and-ice does wonderfully in their fic! That theme of loneliness was also present in Momo during the Soul Society arc (and truthfully for a lot of characters) when she must have felt so isolated because of everything going on around her.

Laying it all out like this, you can really see the parallels with how Toshiro wakes up to both Momo and Rangiku, and how the line “I hear a voice” gets repeated for both Momo and his Granny. I don’t know how intentional Kubo really is with references to mythology, but it’s a fun coincidence to liken the three of them to the fates - Momo as the Maiden, Rangiku as the Mother, and Grandma as the crone - all pivotal to Toshiro’s path.

[leibholz-moved]

— normal science 🫖

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[fireflies-in-june]

Daniel Abt on Inside Brains Podcast (1/2)

[werewolfpdfs]

now the problem with the narrative as an oppressive force is you get people ascribing main character syndrome to the princesses (for not??? acknowledging the privilege of a “happy ending” i guess???) which like, fundamentally a bizarre position to take on people reacting to countless reiterations of trauma and in many of their cases gendered violence and the true and deep understanding that not only have they been denied personhood but they are not *people* to begin with but okay. seems weird to call having every action, emotion, and thought manipulated to bring you to happily ever after “happy” and weirder to introduce the concept of an “ending” to a cyclical narrative. but okay.

[heavencasteel420]

There is a tiny Nancy/Jason subplot in my Robin and Jonathan WIP. Chrissy’s not popular yet, Nancy’s still a Good Girl (TM), and Jason’s ego has not yet swelled to S4 proportions because he’s barely out of freshman year, but it’s going to fall apart the second religion or politics comes up.

[potahun]

nif is so good but it's so long but it's so good but it's so damn long but it's so good but it's

[skrunksthatwunk]

JUST FINISHED NANBA'S DRINKING BOND PLOTLINE!!!!! I HATE GAY PEOPLE

[wildflowercryptid]

⚠️ spoilers for gustafa's year 4 starlight concert dialogue below! ⚠️

his follow-up dialogue from the next day :

i've slowed down on sharing screenshots from my awl playthrough, (mostly bc i'm lazy when it comes to moving them over to my phone,) but i really wanted to share these. getting these bits of dialogue from gustafa actually made me tear up and just... really made me glad that i decided to marry him in my first playthrough. he has so much love for his family and the friends he's made in the valley, it's so sweet to see him share his passion for music with them year after year.

i've actually played a few of the other bokumono / sos games before this one and love a lot of the characters from them, but i really think gustafa is one of my absolute favorite marriage candidates from the entire series now...

bonus screenshot below!

meanwhile, bea's clearly not picking up on the vibes tonight. 😔

[coles-scythe]

Not asleep yet, I was playing DQXI earlier to work on getting all the extra outfits and now my brain is filled with thoughts of Erik. Also how dirty they did him (and everyone but the Luminary) in Act 3.

EDIT: I realized I went on a very long rant in the tags. Spoilers for the game and it's post-game content in the tags.