#the cortes legacy

[chimiibo]

*drumroll* GENERATION 3 IS HERE! I can't believe I made it this far??

My bbg Dalia has officially moved to Copperdale for a fresh start!

Marital status: couple – Your heir must obtain a romantic live-in partner. they do not have to be married.

Children: 3

primary career: Social Media (Public Relations) – No additional money-making opportunities.

secondary career: fast food employee

generation goal: Fulfilled – The heir and spouse (if applicable) must complete their first aspiration. If the spouse is accidentally too old when they move in to have time to complete an aspiration, they are not required to do so, but try to be reasonable with this provision. This doesn’t apply to second-chance spouses unless you want to do it with the second partner.

perfect children:

all children born must have a B in elementary school

must have an A in high school

have a BFF during childhood

ONE romantic partner for at least 24 hours during teenhood

toddlers must reach level 3 in all skills + raise at least one skill to level 5

EACH child must gain at least 3 positive characteristics traits when aging to YA.

     2. pet shrine: through the generation build a shrine for your pet

miscellaneous fun: Regular Diner – Once a week, the entire household must go out to eat at a restaurant. All three courses and something to drink should be ordered

[madebysimblr]

The Rest of the Summer~

End of Chapter 2

[vvarvvon]

!! jakke cortes & OPEN (mutuals & non; children of hecate) !!

being made of mist, created to always know where those of the divine world were, jakke was always aware of those around him. of their auras, their emotions, their temperaments ("their vibes," as his younger brother would say; benes needed less screentime, in jakke's opinion).

point being—it was not often jakke was caught off-guard.

a sibling stepped foot into his store. but not one he would have expected—three sets of small feet, followed closely by two heavier sets. the one who crossed his threshold was also of the gods. one of his creator's children.

how odd. most of the hecateans he was close with had been slaughtered, killed by their fellow demigods passed three years ago.

"why are you here?" he had moved on. been moving on for the past three years. (trying to, at least. it's hard to move on when every time he closed his eyes he saw those he failed, those he slew.) closer stores existed if they had needed supplies; he wasn't one to entertain social calls.

[alainas-sims]

Character Moodboard: Oscar Jameson Huntington Cortes

- Son of Gen4 Heir Olga Cortes Huntington, twin brother of Gen5 Heir Consuelo Huntington Morales, uncle of Gen6 Heir Héctor Morales

Read Oscar’s story here.

[ausetkmt]

The Denver Post: A $12 million ancient Mexican artifact has been seized in Colorado. Now the “Earth Monster” is headed back home.

The Mexican delegation stood on the tarmac Friday afternoon near Denver International Airport, waiting under hazy skies for a forklift to deliver a wooden box, the contents of which archaeologists have been searching for nearly two decades.

Inside that box — 95 inches tall, 46 inches wide, emblazoned with the Mexican flag — sat a 2,000-pound, elaborately carved stone from the ancient Olmec civilization, a precursor to the Mayans who thrived more than 2,500 years ago near the Gulf of Mexico.

The prized relic, known as Monument 9 or the Earth Monster, was carefully crafted between 800 and 400 B.C. out of volcanic rock, archaeologists believe. Its wide mouth represents the door to the underworld.

“This is one of the pieces we have been looking for for the longest time,” said Jorge Islas, Mexico’s consul general in New York.

Authorities believe the stone artifact was stolen in the late 1950s or early 1960s from the central Mexican state of Morelos. It was exhibited in New York’s famed Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1970s, and sometime after made its way into the hands of an unnamed private collector or collectors in Colorado.

Now the stone artifact — with an estimated $12 million value — is headed back to its ancestral homeland after authorities seized it Friday, part of a long-term investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office into stolen Olmec antiquities.

“This is testimony our nation is recovering our great patrimony,” Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Mexico’s foreign secretary, said during a news conference.

“A decisive civilization”

Monument 9 isn’t just any old Mexican antiquity.

The Olmecs were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization, dominating the tropical lowland of the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco south of Mexico City.

Architecture from the Olmecs is quite advanced, said Mario Córdova, an archaeologist who accompanied the Mexican delegation to Denver. That’s why it’s so valued and desired.

“It was a decisive civilization,” Casaubon said.

The Earth Monster sports iconography of jaguars, revered as the most dangerous animal in Central and South America, as well as sacred mountains and indigenous plants.

Archaeologists don’t know how much was taken from the Chalcatzingo Archaeological Zone, but the looting was significant, Córdova said. Mexican authorities believe sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s, looters broke Monument 9 into pieces and smuggled it into the United States.

The Met exhibited the work from July 1970 through February 1971 as part of its Before Cortes exhibition, a museum spokesperson said. The relic was on loan to the museum from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY.

Córdova and other archaeologists spent the past 18 years looking for this significant piece of Mexican history. It’s not clear when, or how, the multimillion-dollar antiquity made its way into the hands of the Colorado collectors.

Authorities didn’t divulge these individuals’ identities on Friday.

“They got a settlement,” Islas told The Denver Post. “They’re super famous, super wealthy people.”

The Mexican government approached the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office with evidence that the artifact had been stolen and authorities located it this year, said Alejandro Celorio, principal legal advisor for Mexico’s foreign ministry.

Douglas Cohen, a spokesperson for the Manhattan DA’s office, said Friday’s seizure came as part of a long-term investigation into stolen Olmec antiquities. The office sports an antiquities trafficking unit that spearheads some of the country’s largest art-crime investigations. In recent months, the team returned stolen artifacts to Iraq, China and Yemen, among other countries.

Recovering lost heritage

The Mexican government in recent years has prioritized cultural property repatriation efforts, scouring the globe for artifacts it believes to have been looted.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador even launched a campaign under the hashtag #MiPatrimonioNoSeVende (“My heritage is not for sale”).

In March, authorities in France, Italy and Germany returned 86 cultural objects to Mexico. The Netherlands in December, meanwhile, returned 223 objects to the Latin American nation.

The country’s efforts come as the global south has increasingly pressed for the return of its heritage after decades of plundering and colonial rule. Museums and private collectors have faced increasing pressure — and attention from law enforcement — over the provenance of antiquities.

Córdova could hardly contain his glee as he stood on the tarmac at the private aviation terminal next to Denver’s airport.

In minutes, the archeologist would accompany the enormous wooden box on a military plane, headed for Mexico. Monument 9 by next week will be displayed at the Palace of Cortés, the famous conquistador’s former residence in Cuernavaca.

“I didn’t believe this was possible,” Córdova said in Spanish through an interpreter. “I’m just so happy.”

[maryflorlovyblog]

"When true love leaves, it leaves us its legacy: To love unconditionally today and now, because tomorrow there may not be time to love again."

-Leandro M. Cortes

[honeyjars-sims]

I absolutely love your stories and I’m so proud of Paul 💜💙🩷

I’m a new lurker to simblr was was wondering what sim stories you’re enjoying right now?

Thank you so much, I really appreciate you saying that!!! 🥰😭 I'm proud of Paul too!

Oh my, I don't think I could list all of the stories I enjoy on here but I will do what I can! Some of them are on hiatus, but the good thing about simblr is you can start reading at any time.

First some stories I've been following for a while:

@cinamun Things Fall Apart @hannahssimblr Lucky Girl (and Lucky Boy) @havenroyals Gossip Queen @lynzishell Star Sign Legacy @rebouks Somnium (and Forever in Between) @stargazer-sims Has several stories I enjoy @shesthespinstersimmer Weird & Wonderful, Destination San Sequoia @softpine Frozen Pines @thebramblewood Helena Zhao is Dead @theosconfessions The Stephens

And some that are newer to me:

@300yearschallenge The Olafssons @bakersimmer Martin's Escape @beachyserasims Geneva Island Legacy @bridgeportbritt The Simdonia Royals @daniigh0ul Moonlight @holocene-sims Everything the Stars Promised @funkyllama The Way We Were @earthmoonz Wifey @igglemouse Sims of Our Times @madebysimblr Cortes Legacy @morningglory-sims The O'Shaughnessy Story @nexility-sims 1992 @sirianasims The Duchelli Legacy @thewoodslegacy The Woods Legacy @trentonsimblr Trenton Royals @weirdosalike Dazed in Paradise

I know there are more, but I think that's a pretty sizable list to start off with! I also reblog with the tag "sim stories." Thanks again for the ask and have fun reading 😊

Edit: It didn't let me tag everyone but I tried to add some links 🤞

[lovejustforaday]

Shoegaze Classics - Xuvetyn

Xuvetyn - Lovesliescrushing (1996)

Main Genres - Ambient, Shoegaze, Ethereal Wave, Experimental

A decent sampling of: Drone, Noise, Dream Pop, Post-Rock, Neo-Psychedelia

I'm not gonna lie - I'm super excited to gush about this record. I've been meaning to get around to reviewing this bountiful, fascinating little gem for years now. Let's hope that I can do this often unsung masterpiece the much needed justice that it deserves.

🙙

I touched on this previously in my Ride review, but for all of the talk of the 'Big 3' of shoegaze, I think that many of the younger shoegaze fans these days would agree that Slowdive and My Bloody Valentines' discographies are a cut above the Ride catalogue. Not to diss on the band, but the Big 3 is really starting to feel more like a Big 2 these days, with Slowdive's relevance to new fans only increasing over time whilst Ride's relevance seems to be stagnating.

This has left a potential vacuum in the consensus online. Don't get me wrong; plenty are still going to champion Ride as one of the giants of shoegaze, and most folks that were around for the original scene that celebrated itself are most likely still diehard for Ride as the scene's closest group to being mega rockstars.

But in terms of the legacy of 90s shoegaze, could there still be a record that is missing from all-time canonization? One that has oft been overlooked when discussing this supposed "Big 3"? Is one of indie rock's most beloved and revisited eras still hiding an elusive diamond in the rough?

In case it wasn't already obvious, that's the case I'm going to be making today. And I don't think I'm entirely alone on this one. Few shoegaze bands from the 90s have had such a considerable late resurgence like this band, though they've always had a cult following.

Today I'll be making the case for Lovesliescrushing, the creative juggernauts behind the 1996 experimental ambient shoegaze masterpiece Xuvetyn.

The Band

Lovesliescrushing are one of the rare American bands of the original 90s wave.

The project began in 1991 as the brainchild of avant-garde guitarist and producer Scott Cortez, who teamed up with the apparitional soprano voice of singer Melissa Arpin-Duimstra, a vocalist who more than any other shoegaze vocalist before or since has dedicated her artistry to using the singing voice as a medium to carry and modulate the properties of sound timbre first and foremost.

Daringly, Lovesliescrushing as a band decided to forego having a rhythm section altogether. Not even a drum machine. The band's radical ethos right from its inception would seem to have been to distill shoegaze rock music down to a purified elemental substance, achieving the platonic ideal by creating an undisturbed solution of dense and glorious blended textures.

Indeed, where reverberated guitar sounds with bizarre effects and blended vocals were what set apart bands like Swervedriver, Catherine Wheel, and Curve from being otherwise ordinary indie/alternative rock bands, the qualities I just described encompassed the near-entirety of Lovesliescrushing's early output, taking the concept of the subgenre to its logical extreme.

The band pioneered what is essentially the fusion of ambient music and shoegaze, a match made in heaven as far as I'm concerned. This marriage of genre ethos would give way to some of the most unyielding sublime auditory sensations that I have ever been so fortunate to have experienced.

Lovesliescrushing also had one foot steeped firmly in the murky waters of ethereal wave (particularly on the sophomore record), the goth subgenre which served as shoegaze and dream pop's most apparent predecessor and influence. Indeed, some of the band's material can be seen as building upon the prototypical blueprint that can be found in Cocteau Twins' fourth LP Victorialand which similarly removed the rhythm section in order to create pure blissful atmosphere.

Some may see Cortez's work as hero worship, and I've heard a dozen or so folks accuse this band of being "My Bloody Valentine without the melodies and drums", but this is a grossly reductionist take that does a huge disservice to just how brazenly groundbreaking and experimental this band's early work was at the time and still remains to this day.

Lovesliescrushing also regularly made their foray into other schools of experimental music like drone, sound collage, and harsh noise, incorporating these ideas into their creative process. Some of their material even sounds like experimental music with no apparent roots in any particular legacy whatsoever.

This is honestly some very radical music. I can't think of much of anything really quite like early Lovesliescrushing. Perhaps MBV is one of the closest points of reference, but then only because they were a shoegaze band that also sounded quite unlike anything at the time.

Information on the beginnings of this band is scant on the internet compared to many other shoegaze artists, and they were never well-documented by the alternative music press the way that bands like Slowdive or even Catherine Wheel were. And as far as the North American scene goes, Drop Nineteens definitely overshadowed their popularity.

I think it's a fair assessment to say that Lovesliescrushing were truly underground in the band's formative years. I remember only as far back as 2017, when I was just getting into this band through online recommendations, that even many avid fans of Slowdive and MBV had never even heard of this band. But I digress.

Lovesliescrushing released their debut LP Bloweyelashwish twice: first as a casette tape in 1992 on their own indie label with a shorter track listing, and then as a longer full-length album in 1993 on Projekt Records, with newer recordings and mastered versions of the songs.

Bloweyelashwish is a beautiful record in its own right. More generally noisy and droning than its successor, with crunchier guitar sounds, blown out distortion, and a listless melancholic atmosphere. Somewhat closer to very early Sonic Youth, or some of A.R. Kane's weirdest output. What the record does somewhat lack, at least in comparison to its successor, is relative cohesion.

Nevertheless, some very brilliant tracks on the debut LP. "Babysbreath" is music for when you need to smother your tears in a pillow with all of the lights off, "Sugaredglowing" is one of my favourite ambient tracks ever (and a surprisingly potent form of migraine relief), and "youreyesimmaculate" is a stunning and ethereal foreshadowing of what was to come next.

Speaking of which...

The Record

Xuvetyn is... what even is it?

Xuvetyn is a series of documented sound frequencies that would be made by a sentient, shimmering blue light galaxy consisting entirely of trillions upon trillions of frozen ice shard particles. Alternatively, it is the contradictory sound of the bitter coldness of the universe itself caressing the listener in a warm cocoon.

The fact that most of all of this is accomplished with guitar, pedal, vocals, and some studio effects here and there is still unfathomable to me. That is an incredible feat in itself.

Judging solely by the ability to create awe-inspiring atmosphere, I don't believe that there is any other shoegaze band that has managed to accomplish the level of mastery that Lovesliescrushing consistently demonstrates on this record. Yes, If Loveless was the zenith of shoegaze texture, then Xuvetyn is the zenith of shoegaze atmosphere. Completely surreal and captivating.

As I've described the band's sound itself, Xuvetyn really is the concept of shoegaze distilled into its essence, then manipulated ever so slightly with a delicate songcraft and expertise, in order to give these tracks a semblance of form and structure. But make no mistake - there is no solid seabed foundation to this ocean of resonant sounds like there would be on any other shoegaze record. No, this is just infinite, icy sonic fluid that flows all the way down into a multi-dimensional abyss. And holy fuck is it ever beautiful.

Which is not to say that there is no songwriting here - just that it is incredibly subtle. But also incredibly effective.

People who generally don't care for or listen to ambient music often stereotype the genre as being uninteresting, low-effort, or too non-descript, when in fact all of the truly greatest ambient musicians know that making a masterpiece is about learning how to do miraculous things with precious little. It requires immense patience (as does the listener sometimes), a keen ear for detail, and meticulous perfectionism. Unsurprisingly, Scott Cortez strikes me as being just that kind of guy.

The album is a double LP in length, with an hour and sixteen minutes runtime and a listing of 18 tracks. Most songs generally run over the five minute mark, with the A, B, and C sides of the record all padded out every one or two tracks with these really curious little intermissions that are generally less than a full minute each.

These intermissions are often the most experimental recordings on the album, like the abrasive hailstorm noise collage of "Aquan 1" and the gloomy factory white noise of "Hum VIbralux". I could see how someone might want to omit these, but personally I think it adds to the record's pacing by giving it room to breathe, and they made the right decision to let up for the last set of tracks. Plus, the little intermissions are all so deliciously weird that it kinda reminds me of the way that your brain will just plant these bizarre, inexplicable little blips in the middle of your dreams sometimes.

Also hey, can I just nerd out about something really silly for a second? Has anyone ever noticed how a bunch of the track names on this record end in an "-ed"? "Threaded", "Handed", "Blue-Eyed", "Honeyed", "Blooded". Just another cute little detail, adding to the esoteric nature of this record, and I appreciate the alliteration.

OKAY, let's just get to the track by track analysis already.

Admittedly this is one of those records that hits you with the very best it has to offer right out of the gate. Listening to "Valerian (Her Voice Honeyed)" is among the most sublime feelings I have ever experienced in my life, literally ever. Not just in music but like, anything.

Think of any familiar place, or perhaps a virtual space in a piece of media, that held a sort of transcendental significance to you during your childhood, as though it carried a life of its own, a place that you may have revisited in your warmest dreams - for me, it's the lost woods in Ocarina of Time. Think of the sensation that those transcendent spaces would give you.

This track is that same sensation, only on steroids. As soon as that heavy ambient wall fades into the foreground and the sense of infinity takes hold, this gently flowing waterfall of dark sound matter creates a sort of window of reflection into wherever it is in your soul that you have ever felt the most at home. I get that music is a subjective experience at the end of the day, but I feel like what I just described would be inevitable for almost any listener, unless they simply weren't listening to this track the right way. One of the greatest songs ever? I'd wager a hard fucking yes.

The good news is that from here, you have only just begun your journey into a world of many more sublime and mysterious figures.

"Xarella Almandyne" is like the sound of a choir of angels in a massive hall the size of an entire city - the unknowable, lovecraftian, biblically-accurate seraphim kind of angel. Somehow soothing, yet oddly paralyzing at the same time. Based on this track alone, I must say that I'm not entirely convinced that Scott and Melissa are regular mere mortals of this world.

"Blooded And Blossom-Blown" is an eerie, gleaming, and loudly piercing void. I find the majority of the songs on this record to be overall comforting, sometimes somber and darkly mystifying if anything, but this might be the one odd track that genuinely unsettles me; in a way that I cannot get enough of, mind you. Compared to what we often call white noise, this piece represents sound that I visualize in the distinctly unnatural shades of negative blues and turquoises.

"Virgin Blue-Eyed" is a very rare departure in the band's early discography from their guitar ambience, focusing on the incantations of Melissa's euphonious elven voice, with clanging little bells in the background (which, funnily enough, technically makes this the most percussive track on either of the band's first two records).

My favourite of the intermissions is "Seesaw". Transitory shoegaze in a continuously elevating loop, like music for the loading screen that would take you to the shoegaze version of heaven, or perhaps the mythological world of Mag Mell.

"Golden-Handed" is soft, swirling, hypnagogic, and lamenting. This ambient ethereal wave track manifests as the faintest, loneliest light flickering in the gloomy hush of an otherwise dead midnight. Completely arresting atmosphere.

"Bones of Angels" is a two parter - first there's "Bronze Lit Feathers", a labyrinthine chorus of resplendent, inharmonious, and rippling guitar impressions, drifting almost aimlessly and forming only vague constellations with the help of Melissa's frail melody, and a foundation of ambient bass notes cutting through the discordance with great magnitude. This is contrasted by the second part "Her Tongue Pulled Out", wherein the sky parts and the drifting guitar sounds align into a shrill cry, forming a radiant column of sonic light, as if something gorgeous is beginning to descend upon the world. Music for high priestesses summoning divine power.

Xuvetyn reaches its second greatest peak with the penultimate track "Ghosts That Swirl", a piece which opens with this really foreboding orchestra of dreary, gargantuan ambient chimes, sounding as though the world around the listener was compressing in on itself and then stretching in and out of itself, like alternating waves in the membrane of the universe. This overture leads into an ominous, secluded, and crystalline dreamland soundscape, further removed from reality than any other track on the record, and unlike any other song that I have ever experienced. This is music that could only be dreamt up from the confines of a comatose slumber, wherein Melissa's whispers in your ear are the only traces connecting you to the corporeal world, though only audible as faint echoes far off in the distance of a seemingly endless cerulean.

I could go on all day but I've decided to end the track-by-track analysis here. The entire record is vividly evocative beyond what should be reasonably possible (and what I can convey words). You might get something entirely different from my descriptions of these tracks, but I guarantee that you will experience something unearthly.

What Came After That?

Lovesliescrushing followed up their first two records with a series of two records in 2002 that were more just straight up ambient music, rather than comprising an ambient shoegaze fusion.

The first of these is Glissceule, a similarly icy record to Xuvetyn with less dark edge and more of a reserved calm, plus more electronic elements. Second was the more ambiguous Voirshn which I enjoy significantly less than previous projects unfortunately.

The band has sporadically released more ambient records over the course of the last couple of decades, which I have yet to really deep dive into. Scott has worked on a few separate projects, most notably his other band Astrobrite which releases much harsher noise shoegaze records. Nothing from this band has really grabbed me like Lovesliescrushing's work, so I am not very familiar with it.

Like I mentioned previously, Lovesliescrushing's relevance in online shoegaze circles has seen a steady increase over time for a little while now. But Scott and Melissa have always been favs amongst the more hardcore followers of the scene, achieving an almost mythical status as figureheads of the experimental shoegaze micro-scene. And they're pretty much always one of the first bands I see people recommending nowadays when someone online says that they're looking for more "weird shoegaze".

And believe me, I'm one of those nerds recommending this band with every relevant opportunity that I can seize. This should be among the first dozen records we play when the aliens come down to Earth, in order to plead our case for the culture of humankind. This is a very special piece of art.

I won't pretend that this is going to be music for everyone, but if you really wanna transcend your corporeal existence in way that doesn't involve experimenting with potentially harmful substances, I can't really think of any better method. Xuvetyn is from beyond our plane of existence - some people native to our world (allegedly) just happened to manifest it one day.

Join me next time where, in case this review wasn't goddamn long enough, I will be doing a series of reviews on every major Slowdive release from the self-titled EP all the way up to their latest record 🙃.

10/10

Highlights: "Valerian (Her Voice Honeyed)", "Ghosts That Swirl", "Bones of Angels", "Xarella Almandyne", "Golden-Handed", "See Saw", "Blooded and Blossom-Blown", "Virgin Blue Eyed", "Flowered Smother", "Mother of Pearl", "Mandragora Louvareen", "Milkysoft", "Hum Vibralux", "Staticburst"

[empressgeekt]

Los padres de Creek trataron durante años acabar con la familia de Branch (y casi lo logran) solo para que su hijo se vuelva sercano a su primo, desentierre los secretos de la familia, corte (o lo intenta) lazos con ellos, termina con todas las malas enseñanzas de su familia, se cambia el apellido y termina con todo el legado de su familia XD

Translation: Creek's parents tried for years to take down Branch's family (and almost succeeded) only for their son to become close to his cousin, dig up the family's secrets, cut (or try to) ties with them, end up with all the bad teachings of his family, he changes his last name and ends the entire legacy of his family XD

Answer:

Life has a funny way to giving back what you gave. Meadowlark was driven to the lowest Branches of the tree and almost eaten out the world, however they almost never took short-cuts, and it in the end, they lived through Branch and the royal line...while those to stepped on others to lifted to their greatness, fell the hardest.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unloaded on Republicans for hypocrisy Thursday while defending her fellow "squad" member, Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Republicans voted to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because of her controversial comments in the past about Israel. Ocasio-Cortez, in a fiery floor speech, said Republicans have been rewarded for doing worse.

"Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks, when you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers, and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body," she said, a reference to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. "This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America."

Greene in 2018 published false and anti-Semitic conspiracies alleging the "Camp Fire" wildfire in California was orchestrated by politicians and wealthy Jewish bankers.

After being stripped of committee assignments last Congress for her rhetoric, she now sits on prestigious committees on oversight and homeland security.

Ocasio-Cortez further called out Republicans for rewarding Rep. Paul Gosar, without mentioning by name, "with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this Congress" after she said he threatened her life.

The House voted in 2021 to censure Gosar and remove him from his committee assignments when he tweeted an edited anime video that showed him killing Ocasio-Cortes. His committee assignments this Congress include Oversight and Natural Resources.

"I didn't get a single apology when my life was threatened. Thank you," she said, ending her speech by slamming her book on the lectern.

The House voted along party lines to remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, except for Republican Rep. Dave Joyce of Ohio, who voted "present."

Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, said a "disgusting legacy" of the September 11 terrorism attacks has been the targeting of and racism against Muslim Americans. She characterized the vote against Omar, who is Muslim, as "an extension of that legacy."

"There is nothing consistent with the Republican Party's continued attack except for the racism and incitement of violence against women of color in this body," she said.

[madebycoffee]

Would you rather: start your current project from scratch or do a soft reboot focusing on a different character?

answering in terms of my simblr ( @madebysimblr ) b/c I don't really have a project here:

I think I have sort of already done a soft reboot focusing on a different character! So that! But I recently decided that instead of just focusing on the main legacy family I started with (cortes') I'd start doing stuff focusing on a side family (the steeles yay).

Plus the legacy is so long IDK if I would want to restart it from scratch 🤣🤣

[chimiibo]

what a turn of events

[madebysimblr]

Ti: Do you want me to call in for some soup or something?

James: Uh, no. I'm mostly fine.. I think I just need to rest.

Ti: Ok, I'll leave you to it!

-

James pulls out his personal phone and dials Sorella's number.

James: [whispering] Shit, shit, shit.

Sorella: Hello?

James: Sorella, It's-

She hangs up.

James: Fuck.

-

Ti: I was going to make some tea, would you like some?

James: No. We need to talk.

Ti: You keep saying that.

James: The nanny has the kids?

Ti: Yes.

James: Then we're doing this now.

Silence...

Ti: Just say it, James. [voice quavering] You slept with someone, right?

James: …. Yes.

Ti: [chokes back a sob] I can't say I'm really surprised. But I'm still hurt.

James: I'm sorry. I should have said something sooner.

Ti: Yes. You should have. But now that it's out in the open, we can work through this-

James: What? You don't want me out immediately?

Ti: Of course not! We have kids, and you've already been away from them long enough. I'm not about to throw away 10 years of marriage just because you made a mistake!

James: It wasn't a mistake.

Ti: Excuse me?

James: It isn't just that I slept with her one time. I've been having an affair. I'm in love with her, and I want a divorce.

Ti: What!?

[vvarvvon]

he'll never admit it, but jakke does take inspiration for spells from different television shows.

[alainas-sims]

Character Moodboard: Olga Elena Cortes Huntington

- Niece of Gen3 Heir Manuel Marquez, Gen4 Heir, mother of Gen5 Heir Consuelo Huntington Morales

Read Olga’s story here.

[crisgameflix]

O LEGADO DO JARDIM - GARDEN LEGACY CHALLENGE

Oi amores tudo bem?

Iniciei um novo desafio na Twitch GARDEN LEGACY CHALLENGE e estarei levando os cortes dessa live para meu canal no Youtube.

Esse desafio foi feito por @cowplant-pizza e traduzido para o portugues pela nossa querida @paulamarchiante-blog.

E a protagonista dessa série será Madalena, nossa Madá do Desafio do Manicômio, quem lembra? Ninguém melhor do que Rosa Madalena pra interpretar essa amante por jardinagem 😍

Abaixo colocarei as regras do desafio, mas também deixar o link AQUI do tumblr da Paula pra vocês irem la seguir ela.

The Garden: A Legacy Challenge Versão 2 Atualizado para Estações

Por: @cowplant-pizza; Traduzida por: @paulamarchiante-blog

The Garden: A Legacy Challenge é um desafio realizado em 10 gerações de uma família de Sims de sua escolha. Esta introdução ao desafio pode ser utilizada apenas como uma diretriz, se você desejar. Fique à vontade para expressar sua criatividade durante o desafio. 

REGRAS: 

Cheats de dinheiro NÃO são permitidos

CPs estéticos e poses são permitidos

As quedas de necessidades devem estar ativadas DURANTE TODO O TEMPO

Sinta-se livre para pausar o envelhecimento APENAS PARA FINS DE HISTÓRIA

Seus sims devem viver no MESMO LOTE por 10 gerações. Um lote maior é recomendado

Qualquer mundo é permitido

Você pode editar a aparência de seus Sims no CAS

INFORMAÇÃO: 

Todas as suas 10 gerações terão nomes de plantas que você pode encontrar ou ter em seu jardim. Isto é inspirado no fato de que seus Sims terão amor pela natureza ao longo de todas as 10 gerações, vivendo sua vida na fazenda da família.

GERAÇÃO 1: ROSA

Traços: Ambiciosa, Adora o Ar Livre, Vegetariana

Aspiração: Botânica Autônoma

Cor do Fruto: Vermelho

Informação: Esta é a fundadora do seu legado! Depois de viver toda a infância em uma cidade fedorenta e barulhenta, ela decidiu começar um novo estilo de vida no campo. Ela sonha em administrar uma fazenda para sustentar as gerações que estão por vir. 

Regras: 

Complete a Aspiração

Tenha pelo menos 2 filhos

Tenha 1 cachorro e 1 gato

Complete a coleção de plantas do jogo base

Atinja o nível 10 da carreira de Jardinagem

Cuide de pelo menos 2 plantas-vacas ao longo de toda a sua vida

Maximize o nível de amizade com pelo menos uma caixa de abelhas

Atinja o nível 10 da habilidade de Jardinagem

Atinja pelo menos o nível 5 nas habilidades de Culinária, Criação e Educação e Mecânica

GERAÇÃO 2: MARGARIDA

Traços: Extrovertida, Bondosa, Segura de Si

Aspiração: Amiga do Mundo

Cor do Fruto: Branco com detalhes em amarelo

Informação: Você cresceu em um lar amoroso, tornando-se uma Sim amigável e carinhosa que não quer nada além de ajudar os outros.

Regras:

Complete a Aspiração

Atinja pelo menos o nível 7 da carreira de Política, em qualquer ramo de carreira. Causa: Fale pelas Árvores

Case com seu primeiro amigo

Tenha 4 filhos

Atinja o nível 10 nas habilidades de Carisma e Jardinagem

Saia, pelo menos, 3 vezes por semana com amigos

GERAÇÃO 3: JACINTO

Traços: Familiar, Romântico, Asseado

Aspiração: Família Grande e Feliz

Cor do Fruto: Azul

Informação: Você cresceu cercado por irmãos. Foi a melhor infância que você poderia imaginar. Você quer abençoar seus filhos com essa mesma infância!

Regras: 

Complete a Aspiração

Atinja o nível 10 na habilidade de Criação e Educação

Mantenha níveis de amizade perfeitas com seus irmãos

Complete sua Família/Grupo com filhos (você pode ter, pelo menos, 1 animal de estimação)

Atinja o nível 5 em dois empregos diferentes

Todo ano, realize o melhor feriado do Dia do Amor

Todo sábado, leve seus filhos em uma viagem de um dia 

GERAÇÃO 4: GIRASSOL

Traços: Seguro de Si, Pateta, Infantil

Aspiração: Astro/Estrela da Comédia

Cor do Fruto: Amarelo

Informação: Você sempre foi o palhaço da turma, se metendo em confusão o tempo todo. Você pregava peças infinitas em seus irmãos e pais. Você não quer crescer nunca. 

Regras:

Complete a Aspiração

Atinja o nível 10 na carreira de Entretenimento: Ramo de Comediante

Atinja o nível 10 na habilidade de Comédia

Atinja, pelo menos, o nível 7 nas habilidades de Carisma e Travessura

Lidere um clube chamado Brincalhões

Use um Boneco de Vodu em seu cônjuge, pelo menos, 10 vezes

Case com um(a) Musicista

GERAÇÃO 5: MAGNÓLIA

Traços: Amante da Música, Solitária, Desajeitada

Aspiração: Gênia Musical

Cor do Fruto: Branco com detalhes em rosa bebê

Informação: Seus pais nasceram artistas, viveram para estar no palco. Você compartilha seus talentos, mas é muito tímida e reservada. No entanto, você ainda sonha em ser uma musicista conhecida e respeitada.

Regras:

Complete a Aspiração

Atinja o nível 10 na Carreira de Entretenimento: Ramo de Musicista

Atinja o nível 10 nas habilidades de Piano e Canto

Atinja o nível 7 nas habilidades de Violão/Guitarra e Violino

Tenha apenas 1 amigo fora da família

Case com esse amigo

Tenha 2 filhos: Gêmeos (Pode usar cheat para isto)

GERAÇÃO 6: PINHEIRO

Traços: Ciumento, Evasivo, Soturno

Aspiração: Sim da Renascença

Cor do Fruto: Verde

Informação: Você sempre sentiu que era o segundo melhor para o seu irmão gêmeo (se isso é verdade ou não, depende de você). Muitas vezes, você passou todo seu tempo com a cabeça enterrada nos livros, aprendendo muitas coisas diferentes, mas nunca as dominando.

Regras: 

Complete a aspiração 

Escreva um livro 

Pinte 1 obra-prima 

Componha uma música

Troque de emprego assim que atingir o nível 4

Tenha pelo menos 3 empregos 

Tenha 3 filhos diferentes de uma noite só 

Um relacionamento é permitido após os filhos nascerem

Nunca celebre o Dia do Amor

Você nunca se aposenta 

Você nunca se casou 

GERAÇÃO 7: TULIPA

Traços: Preguiçoso, Nauseento, Relaxado

Aspiração: Gênio(a) da Informática

Cor do Fruto: Roxo da Uva

Informação: Você cresceu confusa e em conflito sobre o relacionamento de seus pais. Isso fez de você uma criança problemática que teve que visitar muitos terapeutas e médicos. Você encontra conforto em videogames e conta com eles ao longo de toda sua vida.

Regras: 

Complete a Aspiração

Atinja o nível 10 da carreira de Guru da Tecnologia (Ramo de Esportista Eletrônico)

Case com alguém que você conheça na GeekCon

Engorde naturalmente e fique com sobrepeso

Atinja o nível 10 nas habilidades de Videogame e Programação

Tenha 2 filhos

GERAÇÃO 8: PICCOLINI

Traços: Genial, Asseado, Esnobe

Aspiração: Linhagem de Sucesso

Cor do Fruto: Rosa-choque OU Laranja

Informação: Depois de ver seu pai/mãe lutando com problemas de saúde devido ao sobrepeso, você jurou manter a si mesmo e seus filhos saudáveis.

Regras:

Complete a Aspiração

Atinja o nível 10 na carreira de Médico

Atinja o nível 10 nas habilidades de Ginástica e Culinária

Case com um colega de trabalho

Tenha 3 filhos

Não alimente seus filhos com comida não saudável nem lanches

GERAÇÃO 9: CRÂNIO-DO-DRAGÃO

Traços: Gastrônomo, Ativo e Engajado

Aspiração: Fisiculturista

Cor do Fruto: Rosa Claro OU Pêssego

Informação: Você cresceu sendo levado ao seu limite e adorou cada segundo disso. Você adora fazer exercícios e cozinhar e deseja que seus dois hobbies funcionem bem juntos. Você gosta de usar alimentos frescos encontrados na fazenda de sua família.

Regras: 

Complete a aspiração

Atinja o nível 10 na carreira de Atleta

Atina o nível 5 na carreira de Culinária

Atinja o nível 10 nas habilidades de Ginástica, Culinária, Confeitaria e Bem-Estar

Atinja o nível 5 na habilidade de Gourmet

Case com outro Gastrônomo

Tenha trigêmeos (mais uma vez, cheats são permitidos para isto)

GERAÇÃO 10: HORTÊNSIA

Traços: Materialista, Cabeça-quente, Perfeccionista

Aspiração: Fabulosamente Rico

Cor do Fruto: Azul Claro

Informação: Você finalmente decide que sua família merece mais do que viver em uma fazenda para sempre. É hora de seu legado seguir em frente. Você quer se mudar para uma cobertura na cidade e criar um futuro emocionante para as próximas gerações.

Regras:

Complete a Aspiração

Case com alguém rico e vivendo na cidade

Atinja o nível 10 na Carreira de Negócios

Atinja o nível 10 em 3 habilidades de sua escolha

Dê uma festa todo fim de semana e todo feriado

A geração (e o desafio!) termina assim que você completar as regras da geração 10! Depende de você continuar mudando seu Sim para San Myshuno ou parar por aí!

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