#this is literally Hamilton 2.0

[redisveryyummy]

Late night modern hotd music headcanons :D

Rheanyra loves Beyonce so fucking much dude

She feels like she would have one playlist and it's just called boss bitch or something

Reputation is the only Taylor Swift album she constantly listens to and evermore but we won't talk about that

Former theater kid, if you disagree argue with the wall

I am a strong believer that she is a fan of musicals/romcoms and her and her boys have a movie night where they watch their favorites and sing every song word for word

(Daemon does not participate)

ESPECIALLY MAMMA MIA

Rheanyra singing "Slipping Through My Fingers" to Jace and/or Luke has me sobbing my eyes out dude

Jace, Luke, and Joffery singing "Honey Honey" omg

JACE AND (INSERT S/O OF YOUR CHOICE PROBABLY CREGAN) SINGING "LAY YOUR LOVE ON ME" TO EACH OTHER AGHSBSUDBHD

Daemon listens to dad rock and dubstep exclusively, nothing else

Bro is literally the cbat guy

Daemon is really the kind of guy that would be like "there's this band but you probably wouldn't know it because it's so underground" and it's literally Weezer

Alicent loves her yearning music

Phoebe Bridgers, Frankie Cosmos, Laufey, Mitski, Conan Gray

Two words. BOY. GENIUS.

Her and Rheanyra have TOTALLY gone to many boy genius concerts together

folklore folklore folklore

Aegon 😐😑😐

Cbat guy 2.0

Listens to WAY to much house music

No real music taste

Whatever is on the radio, but like the radio in 2016 you know?? Or like late 2000's

1989 (Taylor's Version) he's not a monster lol

Usher (that's the only person I can think of rn lol)

Aemond only listens to classical music or weird experimental jazz because he thinks it makes him different

Activity hates on Taylor Swift for all the wrong reasons

Secretly likes her a little and is way too excited for The Tortured Poets Department

Helaena is so whimsical I love her sm <3

Very much into indie stuff with down to earth vibes

Hozier, The Crane Wives, Noah Kahn, Everybody's Worried About Owen, Bears in Trees, Maya Hawk

"Why Am I Like This" by Orla Gartland...iykyk

Jacaerys Velaryon is an Arianna Grande FAN I don't make the rules

Him, Beala, and Rheana definitely have little dance parties whenever they come over

Loves Ari and Brittany

Also enjoys country music

He gets it from his daddy 🥰

Taylor Swifts Self Title is his everything

LUCERYS VELARYON IS A THEATER KID I REPEAT LUCERYS VELARYON IS A THEATER KID

It's all his mom's fault

His playlists are all just musical soundtracks

Little Shop of Horrors, Heathers, The Falsettos, RIDE THE CYCLONE, BE MORE CHILL, Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton

Same with the Hazbin Hotel soundtrack y'all don't even know

Luke loves "Hell is Forever"

Also bro has a HORRIBLE singing voice

Anyway I will probably have more tomorrow but that is what I got for tonight :))

[cokoweee]

Right now you're like Hamilton 2.0 you're literally writing/drawing like you're running out of time. That is either way magic or very suspicious.

Were you kidnapped? Do you have a gun to your head? Give a signal and I'm gonna get your ass out.

LOL NO I’m all right. Sorta lol

I do what i Can before my mind decides to drop the idea and make a new one soo I literally draw every minute I can. It’s actually pretty bad if u look at it. Even I know that the rate I’m making these updates is bad but I literally can’t help it

[iamgodsoopsie]

Astarion Headcanons (that you probably won't like) Pt. 3:

Part 1 link

Part 2 link

More Astarion headcanons that are mostly me projecting onto a fictional character to help me process my own trauma!

BG3 does an excellent job at depicting SA trauma and the beginning of the healing process/journey. Many of the headcanons I've seen floating around (intentionally or unintentionally) gloss over the uglier side of healing from (prolonged) trauma. I'm not judging anyone for magically healing him, he's fictional after all, but I'd like to make some more ...realistic... headcanons.

Disclaimer: Everyone's healing process looks different, but they tend share commonalities. These headcanons are based on my own experiences. Not everyone who is healing from their trauma will experience what I have or have experienced it like I have.

[Please don't message me with explicit details about your trauma. I am at the point in my healing journey where I can share my experiences, and commiserate with other's similar experiences, but I am unable to support others in a more personal manner at this time. I wish you the best of luck in your healing process/ journey.]

Spoiler warning

Mental illness, SA, & SH (suicidal ideation) Trigger Warnings: More descriptive and potentially triggering than part 1, but about equal to part 2.

These headcanons are based on an Astarion who is still a spawn and romantically involved with a Tav who honestly loves him and isn't abusive or manipulative. Also Cazador is dead and Astarion got to stab him. They also assume that he himself does not turn into Cazador 2.0 or wish.com Cazador.

Have things been going well for awhile? Is he reclaiming his sexuality at an exponential rate? Does he think he's practically conquered his trauma?

-> If you said 'Yes' to any of the questions above, then be ready for: A trigger he didn't know he had hitting him out of no where and setting his mental health on fire.

->-> If he's at a place in his healing journey that he is able to recognize what happening and use his healthy coping tools/ honest communication to process his unexpected emotional (maybe literal) flashback then it'll be a not fun time for him, but he'll get through it fairly quickly with minimal mental damage.

->->-> If this happens closer to the beginning of his healing journey then be ready for him to spiral and catastrophize. He'll insist that he'll never truly be free of Cazador, that he's broken, that he isn't allowed to be happy, etc. All you can really do during this time is be there for him. Reassure him that you love him and that you believe that he will get better.

->↑ This is a normal part of the healing process, it's shitty and God-awful- but it gets easier to manage and happens less frequently over time.

Even if he weren't an immortal vampire he's still a high-elf and will probably outlive you. And boy oh boy the pressure he's going to put himself under to hurry up and heal is going to be immense AND counterproductive!

-> Poor bby is terrified that he'll finally be happy only for it to be ripped away from him.

->-> Him rushing his healing will only make it harder for him to heal, and he knows this. But Gods damn it all he can't seem to shake the feeling that he's running out of time (okay Hamilton).

->->-> I gotta be honest, I have no fucking clue how to help him with this. I suppose that the only thing you can do is love him with the time ya'll have.

->->->-> TBH I can see him deciding that he'll KHS when you die. I know you have the best intentions, but asking him to live for you after your gone will (probably) be perceived as very manipulative.

->↑ I honestly don't think ya'll are going to come to an agreement on this if you're vehemently against the notion. It may be best to make your preference known and then leave the topic alone- as pressing it will only cause him to double down. (After 200 years of not being allowed to make any decisions for himself, he's not going to let anyone tell him how to 'live' or die).

Surviving "200 years of shit, PURE. SHIT!" had to have been exhausting. And healing from trauma is exhausting. All Astarion wants to do is rest but he feels that he can't truly rest until he heals from his trauma and he's so damn tired and has to keep dealing with this shit and he really wants to give up somedays but he'll be damned if he lets Cazador 'win'.

->↑ Healing is hard work. But it is so damn worth it.

I'll go back and edit any grammar and spelling mistakes later, but I'd really like to post this now.

[margridarnauds]

Hello, please talk about some TV show and song recommendations. :)

I've actually been wondering for ages if you've heard of the concept musical, Lady M, which has been releasing promo songs here and there. I want to emphasize that I'm not SOLD on it, not 100%, since (1) They've only released three songs and (2) They talk about inventing "an original backstory to Lady Macbeth's villainy and downfall" and they how "chilling flashbacks of her haunted past are woven into this reimagining of the famous tale", and that sort of thing can go either really, really well or really, really badly (I am begging people, she doesn't NEED a tragic backstory, especially if it ends up being trauma porn), BUT Lady Macbeth's song, "What Must Be Done", DOES fuck. If the rest of the musical ends up being garbage, I'll still have this song.

Another concept musical that I've been really impressed with (and now has had a concert performance that was recorded and is available on Spotify, so I can judge it more accurately) is Treason: The Musical. I've been supporting this musical since 2021, so I've been very interested to see whether this would do well or whether it would be one of those musicals that get a bit of traction and then burn out. It seems, at first glance, to be one more cynical Hamilton rip-off (not to name names...but. You know. You Know™), and I think that it WAS born from the Hamiltrend, in the sense that I don't think it would have been created without it. But it has its own unique folk sound that sets it apart; it isn't mindlessly following the trend, and honestly I would say that the weakest parts of the show are the moments where it DOES sound like Hamilton (namely, James (V)I's parts). They even use the lyrics to one of my folk songs, "The Unquiet Grave/Cold Blows the Wind" as a bookend to the musical -- and it's impressive that I LIKED it since I'm a die hard proponent for the "Dives and Lazarus" musical setting for the song (most non-D&L settings are...boring, which is criminal in a song about a ghost coming from the grave to tell her boyfriend to stop crying over her.) Favorite songs include: When Will I See You Again, Blind Faith, Burn, The Day Elizabeth Died, No Happy Ending.

Finally, no song/musical recommendations list of mine would be itself without me plugging my beloved Marie Antoinette: The Musical, specifically the 2.0 version (DO NOT watch the German, I BEG you, if you want to have any affection for the musical left). It features my favorite feral gremlin musical lady protagonist, Margrid Arnaud, who we're first introduced to when she splashes champagne on the Queen of France, and she only gets more unhinged from there. She's everything that people say they want from a female Blorbo -- She's pathetic, she cries on stage over a situation she absolutely partially caused, she might or might not be fucking the king's scheming goth cousin while pining for Marie Antoinette's boytoy, she has daddy issues, she has mommy issues, she has half-sibling issues, she leads a mob to Versailles, she commits perjury and gets off free during the height of the Reign of Terror, she calls down the wrath of God on the aristocrats. She's like Madame Defarge on speed with positive character development. Literally no one is doing it like her. Have some of Margrid in her natural element, from the Korean proshot (which I'm not legally allowed to say whether I have a copy of it.)

Speaking of Storming Versailles, have some Je Veux le Monde from 1789 -- every single production of 1789 has had Woman Problems in some capacity (hilariously enough, NEVER the same Woman Problems, so you get to pick your poison), but the song fucks.

[sol1loqu1st]

apparently the gay pirate show got cancelled and can i just say thank god. can we all recognize that this was hamilton 2.0 pirates boogaloo now or

edit: this is actually not connected to whatever discourse is happening outside my bubble i just thought season 2 was kinda obnoxious and in hindsight "hip progressive diverse shows about real historical slave owners" will never not be weird. i was very much into season 1 when it came out but i have since changed my mind and i'm literally just tired of hearing about it

[redratt]

Oh good lord the epic: the musical Fandom is literally going to be Hamilton 2.0 isn't it.

[angelicmemo]

Our Flag Means Death is a wonderful and fun show about pirates having adventures and is only possible BECAUSE of the historical context. It’s the dynamic of the pirate legend and the aristocratic bumbling fool found in history with the real Stede and Ed that MAKE the show

did you expect David and Taika to get the idea and just be like yes let’s make this, this sounds so fun….

Oh we can’t use the real guy cause, like pretty much everyone in the 1700s, he sucked????

Let’s use my oc instead! His name is Steve Nonnet but he’s known on the sea as the Dandy Swashbuckler!

People would notice, people would obviously be like umm wtf is up with that? It’s so much better to already have the basis of literally hundreds of years of legend backing up your a story.

Do you think the show would be nearly as effective if everything was the exact same but Stede wasn’t Stede and Blackbeard wasn’t Blackbeard? The reason Ed’s character arc works is BECAUSE we already know Blackbeard and then we see him and he turns all our expectations on our heads. Replacing him with another random pirate wouldn’t have the same effect, neither would switching out Stede when a simple google search can reveal that there was someone with the exact same basis as him already existing and interacting with Blackbeard.

You can’t praise the historical inaccuracy of a show (Olu’s Crocs, Jim’s Binder, Timeline errors with when things are invented etc) and then go back and slander it for not following the lives of these characters exactly how they happened- racism, abuse and slavery included.

The show is a lighthearted comedy based loosely on the dynamic of two pirates who died 300 years ago. Not everything has to be about Trauma. Just let people enjoy things it’s seriously not that hard.

[nibeul]

OFMD is historically accurate the same way a ttrpg campaign set in a specific year is. The characters have the same names, yes, and do many similar things, but they may as well be their own separate characters that just have the same names. Blackbeard going to a fancy party at sea? Stede saying he’ll “leave a bad review”? Cmon man. Unwind and have fun with the gay pirate show

can y'all ever shut up... like y'all will always be ok with racism and antiblackness so long as you have your gay rep, so I'm gonna tell u rn, I don't give a flying fuck if there's explicit queer relationships in there dude. And what you're saying is bad anyway, because they're still taking these historical figures and completely erasing the fact that yes, they were slave owners. Black fans are understandably upset about this, and not to mention, Taika Waititi has a history of unchecked antiblackness so I don't understand why fans didn't do a background check when looking at this show

[blackbutlerbitch23]

💖Now that I have some followers who cannot escape my feed and are forced to listen to me, I will rank my top 5 ships from Black Bulter from Worst to Best and explain why I placed them there. BTW my opinion is 100% correct, AND no, I do not take criticism. Buckle up your seat belts because this will be a long ride, and no, we're not gonna stop; you should have gone to the bathroom before we left. Now sit back, relax and HAVE FUN, EVERYONE!!!! 💖

5. Vincent & Madam Red

Aesthetically this couple is fantastic. Betrayal, drama, jealousy, and forbidden love. There's a reason why blue and red are often paired together. PRIME COLOURS, BABY. That's what the kids call colour theory 😎. ANWAY, this is the Angelica Schuyler (work, work) and Alexander Hamilton (lol, you defiantly threw away your shot) ship of the Black Butler community. Even the name Angelina looks and sounds similar to Angelica. They are a bisexual dream of "may I have a side of step on me" 👞👡. They would have been that couple. Yet, I gotta rate them at number five because even though they would be slaying it together (literally and figuratively *very clever jack the ripper and watchdog joke*🔪), it does reduce the intelligent and independent Madam Red into an "uwu notice me sempai" girl. She gets turned from girl boss (affectionate) into girl boss (unaffectionate). Like GURL, I know he is bad, but you are a Miranda in a world full of Nates. The Devil wears Prada because he has taste👠. He's not worth trying to stab an eye-patched child over.

7/10 - if I was Angelina, I would have poured red wine over Rachel's wedding dress because I'm petty like that👰🍷.

4. Mey-Rin & Ronald Knox

I KNOW WHAT YOU ALL ARE THINKING🧠. That's right, I'm telepathic AF. Call me Anya 2.0. "Didn't they only interact once?" Yes, and your point? I could sense the chemistry and potential oozing like a warhead from that singular interaction. When Mey-Rin said that was the first time she ever got hit on, I was shocked and appalled because that girl is a hot warrior queen 👑like some Victorian Hippolyta. If I was shot by Mey-Rin, I would thank her because that meant she noticed little ol' me. Ronald (lol nerd) may *technically* be a dead sociopathic playboy, but underneath all that, he is also a clumsy idiot with some pretty snazzy fighting skills like a certain maid ;)). They both rock the sexy geeky🤓 look, AND Mey-Rin deserves to be swept away by a man who understands the struggle of trying to impress your superior (and failing horribly) while cleaning out blood stains🩸. They are number four because I vaguely get some The Mister by E.L James vibes, which makes me break out in a cold sweat 😷🤢if I think about it for too long. Plus, they did only interact once. God, imagine having Grell as a mother-in-law.

7.5/10 - Call me captain because Imma go down with the ship like the Campania that brought these virgins together⚓.

3. Ciel & Sieglinde

Bubala, I want to get this out of the way before we proceed. I'm no Humbert Humbert. Miss me with that ❌Lolita❌ shit (although it's a fantastic book, shout out to my lad Nabokov). When I ship kids, it's in an "it would be cute in the future" way. I don't expect a thirteen-year-old and ten-year-old actually to date. Kapeesh? Anyway, this is also not a reflection of Elizabeth as a character. We can all agree that their relationship was doomed the minute Lizzy discovered that OCiel wasn't RCiel and proceeded to have one of the worst reactions possible™. She tried to kill Sebastian, ran away from home, and let a TEENAGER get arrested because she got Parent Trapped. Girl, you even knew he was innocent but go off sis🙄💅. You know, ✨everyday rich girl things✨. Sieglinde, our little green witch, adores Ciel for who is truly is, not the broken-down actor carrying around his brother's ghost. Our scientist saw OCeil at his lowest point and still came to respect him. She also was tricked by him but didn't try to get him arrested, so...🙄💅. I'm more of an On the grind 💪 appreciator than a girl boss, manipulate gaslight type. Gotta love a spider leg, girl.

Unlike Elizabeth, who has dealt with tragedy from a distance (and don't get me wrong, she hasn't had an easy ride. It's just more psychological/self-inflicted), Ciel and Sieglinde, these two pipsqueaks have been through hell and back but came out stronger. In short, they can relate to each other's pain more than others their age. Plus, she's super adorable and a genius who can keep up (and outsmart) Ciel and is unafraid to be herself. They might not win in a leg race, but they will destroy you on a chessboard♟️. The best girl in town deserves the worst boy in London 😈.

8/10- Don't witches 🧙‍♀️ love the devil or whatever? Hocus Pocus girl and contract boy can fangirl over the same demon together. Fandom goals

2. Diedrich & Vincent

Ah, Hello again, Vincent. You have shown up on this list more than the actual Manga. Anyway, WHEN I SAW THE PANEL, THE ONE WITH "THE DAYS SPENT WITH YOU ARE BURNED INTO A MEMORY," I WANTED TO CRY. OMFG. I LOVE IT SO MUCH 😭😭😭😭💖💖💖💖. They look so sweet together there🥺. I'm a bitch for dark English academia shit because I am basic AF. Like, don't come at me. I know dark academia has a somewhat problematic history, but Imma keep shoving it down my throat like how Diedrich shoves down those sandwiches😏. The relationship between Vincent and Diedrich is so angsty that I need some rain boots because it's pouring tears out here. Even years after Vincent dies, Diedrich remains loyal to him and tries to save his child (in his "I hate you but I serectly love you" way).

Now I can hear you exclaim, "well, Vincent basically enslaved German boy as his brother-servent thing," but let me tell you, if he wanted out, he could have just stayed in Germany, but that Guten Tag man kept visiting that fine British ass until the day that fine Britsh ass was burnt to a crisp. Vincent was hot until the day he died🔥. Diedrich even keeps a picture of their time together and thinks of it fondly, despite Vicent treating him like a lapdog. THIS MAN DIDN'T EVEN GET MARRIED!!!! WAS IT BECAUSE HE WAS TOO BUSY WITH VINCENT🤔🤔🤔???? Probably not, but for my sake, I will say yes. If Lana Del Ray's music was a couple, it would be this one. They are at number two because as much I love them, there is one ship I adore a bit more. Plus, Vincent has so many side pieces that I don't trust him to stay in a monogamous relationship.

8.5/10 - I wish I knew WHY Vincent chose Rachel over these icons. Like girl, we have no beef, but I need to understand how you collared Vincent🐕‍🦺.

1. Sebastian & Agni

HAHAHA, YOU MUST OF ALL KNOWN MY (DE)MAN WOULD HAVE TO BE A PART OF MY NUMBER ONE PAIR!!!! Oooooh, the scene where Sebastian said that Agni was the first person to ever call him a friend👌👌👌. Sebastian's first friend. Think about that. The AMOUNT OF ADMIRATION they had for one another. This is Sebastian "lol, humans are bugs I like to burn with my magnifying glass" Michaelis, who respects nothing but himself (and cats). Yet, he believed Agni to be an "exemplary butler" who lived up to his ~asethics~ and Agni, the literal right hand of Kali, reached out (no pun instead) to a DEMON and saw something worth appreciating. 

Sebastian even listened to his advice over Ciel's. His master and meal ticket. The guy he signed the bloody contract with. That's like if your lawyer turned to the opposition and said, "they make a fair point, and I agree my client is in the wrong." Like WHAT???? Seb values Agni's advice. A human. In Yana's own words, a species he views as nothing more than a cluster of pests. At best, they're amusing, like how a kid keeps an ant farm. Yet, Agni is different. Here the grasshopper has become the master🙇.

Their potential stepdad AUs were just up my ally. FOUND FAMILY ADMIRES UNITE! But I gotta admit, as much I love Soma, I would give him up for adoption if he was my kid. I can't deal with that level of extra. At the very least, he would go to theatre camp for the entire summer and boarding school, as is tradition for most rich British families. See, I'm not totally heartless😘! Talking about heartlessness, don't even get me started on Agni's death scene because I will ugly cry. When Sebastian dirtied himself with Agni's blood, even tho we all know that prissy bitch is more protective over his clothes than a runway model😔✊. That was the most upset we had ever seen him (outside of almost losing his son Ciel), and he seemed at least happy Agni died in peace. I doubt Sebastian can genuinely mourn, but now at least, he has double reason to hate Undertaker. 

In Conclusion, I just think they are neat.

9.5/10- YASS KING, WHISPER YOUR DEMON SHIT WHILE HE PRAYS TO KALI!!! However, I can't give this a perfect score because one half is dead, and I do not support necrophilia💀. I hope we get Ciel and Sebastian explaining to Soma that they did not kill his daddy and, in fact, were planning a family vacay🏖️. I swear to god, if they have Soma work with RCiel, Imma flip my lid like a fucking kettle. Overall, they would have been couple goals💏.

[redridinghood03]

In honor of Hamilton’s release on Disney+, I am here to present to y’all five reasons why you are straight up SLEEPING on burr.

Behold:

1. The man was an abolishionist. And none of that phony “gradual abolishionist” bullshit either. He wanted it done and he wanted it done all in one go.

Okay that could have just been because he fucking hated Jefferson, but you know what—that was still a very radical ideology and the time, and he was one of the only founding fathers to vocally support it

2. He was a FEMINIST. Yeah you heard me—supported gender equality and pushed for his daughter (Theodosia) to have the right to an education. She later became one of the most educated women of her time, and all thanks to Burr.

3. The man literally tried to start America 2.0

You think I’m kidding? Google that shit. Tried to make his own country with the help of the spanish out in the western territories. There is some speculation, but it’s also believed he was planning on trying to overthrow the US government too. Sadly, Andrew Jackson (yeah fucking trail of tears Andrew Jackson—he can kiss my ass) ratted the man out.

Despite that, he was still left in charge of keeping the western territories under control, never tried for treason, and stayed on LITERAL spanish government payroll for the remainder of his life.

A fucking legend.

4. Alexander Hamilton was an elitist piece of shit who rigged the banking system to only support and loan money to the upper class. Burr, yes burr, said fuck that shit and fuck you and LITTERALLY STARTED a whole second fucking bank that all social classes could get loans from.

Icon.

5. My favorite. He outlived litterally all the other founding fathers.

So, at the tail end of his life, people began to track him down and interviewed him about the other founding fathers, because he was the only real tie anyone had left.

Burr, of course, being the ICONIC piece of shit grouchy old man that he was, used his power wisely, and highlighted many of them... unfavorably, you could say.

Basically, he shit talked them to his grave and no one else was alive to call him out.

I mean bro.

Now stop wasting your time on stanning slave owning piece of shit founding fathers and start stanning a litteral LEGEND who lived his best god damn life after Hamilton had an Unfortunate Accident.

And scene.

[redhairedwolfwitch]

A String of Hearts (6) - How Does Your Garden Grow? - Mary Hamilton x Fem!Reader - Batwoman

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Summary: a string of hearts, or ceropegia woodii, is a trailing plant characterised by its heart shaped leaves, but what happens when the string of hearts between you and Mary, grows poison ivy?

"Who is it now, Montoya? Pollen Boy? Candy Man?" the detective gloated, making fun of Rene working for the Rogue's unit.

"It's not Bug Eyed Bandit. She used robotic bees..." You whispered as you lingered behind the cordoned off area, watching Renee.

"Tell the commissoner to prep for all hands on deck. Things are about to get ugly around here." Renee instructed as she cut out a phone from the honeycomb murder scene.

Your jaw clenched as you realised what Renee was alluding too.

This was Poison Ivy 2.0.

///

"Mm, please tell me that there's a jar of this somewhere." Alice hummed as she took a bit of honey from the honeycombed man's ear.

"Why did Batwoman send you here to torture me?" Mary grumbled as she went over the man's vitals.

"She didn't. I volunteered, and Batgirl isn't here so..."

"Y/n's at the gym. Pretty sure she's trying to actually become the next Batgirl." Mary muttered as she turned to her equipment.

"Speaking of next generations... apparently this is the work of a Poison Ivy wannabe." Alice smirked, wiggling her eyebrows slightly as Mary looked up from the honeycombed man's arm to roll her eyes at Alice.

"The question is, what kind of monster would entomb a man in a swarm of ravanous bees. You know it's bad if it makes me cringe." Alice remarked, waving her hand around.

"Oh, I have an idea. Why don't you leave and go find out?" Mary snarked, about to continue working but Alice sighed.

"That's the thing, steppie. I think I already know who this disturbed creature is. You." Alice stated as Mary glanced up, frowning at Alice.

///

"Sweet, naive, Mary. Look around, you've turned your clinic into Jumanji, you're downing water like you just ran the Gotham City marathon, your secret girlfriend is acting weird and trying to become the next Batgirl, and if you think that is anything other than a poison ivy rash, you should give back that shiny medical degree." Alice remarked, waving her arms around to gesture to the clinic-turned-botanical-garden.

"Seriously? Look at me. I'm Doctor Mary Hamilton. Do you actually think i'm capable of hurting anyone? Much less, doing this?" Mary remarked as she removed the gauze from Chris' eyes.

"Get away from me! You did this to me!" Chris exclaimed as Mary's face fell into shock, and Alice looked triumphant.

"Y/n!" Mary blurted out, spotting you in the clinic doorway, your face mirroring the shock on Mary's face.

///

"Team meeting in the literal dead of the night. So, why are we here?" Luke asked, as Ryan, him, Mary and you were gathered in the Batcave.

"So, you know how we have the Bat-team rules, and the first rule is holding each other accountable..." Mary began, playing with her fingers as she glanced back at where you were leaning against the railing for the steps.

"Yep." Ryan replied as Luke nodded.

"So..." Mary hesistated, as Luke raised an eyebrow.

"So?" Luke prompted, unfolding his arms in confusion.

"I'm b-" Mary stammered, letting out a breath, trying to breathe as Ryan frowned.

"You're..." Ryan prompted as Mary leaned on the table.

"Oh, wow! I thought watching Kate come out was torture!" Alice remarked, throwing a conversation curveball.

"Wait, you're coming out?" Ryan exclaimed, excitement in her eyes as Mary froze, turning back to look at you.

"What? No... uh, actually... it's besides the point, but..." Mary glanced at you, gesturing for you to come over.

"We've been dating for 6 months now..." You explained as you walked over, fingers brushing with Mary's as she let out a breath.

"So, when Mary went missing in Gotham Park overnight, and I found her in the morning..." You explained, your arm moving to rest on Mary's waist, but you froze slightly until Mary leaned into you, and you smiled.

"Coming out in a way, yeah... but there's another thing..."

"Mary, my god!" Luke exclaimed as Mary rambled.

"When I found her in the park, she'd been infected by a vine. A poison ivy vine..." You began, looking at Mary to explain fully.

"I'm Poison Ivy!" Mary blurted out, grimacing as you withheld face-palming at her explanation.

"Mare, I love you but that was a terrible way to tell them." You mumbled, kissing her forehead as Mary sighed, letting her arms hang exhaustedly.

"and I know what you all must be thinking. 'Mary, that's impossible, 'cause you're so normal, and compassionate, so how could you become some plant-whispering attempted murderer?' but then I realised I don't even remember where I was earlier today. Y/n was at work, then the gym... but I was in some fugue state, torturing Chris Hayner, who I don't even know."

"I'm sorry, what?!" Ryan exclaimed after hearing Mary's rambles.

"See the little worker bee in the hive, when he cracked his eyes open, he blamed Queen Mary for turning him into a epi-pen AD." Alice explained, pretending to stab Ryan with an imaginery epi-pen.

"Then he's seeing things, I mean his eyes are practically swollen shut. I mean, he just experienced a major trauma." Ryan argued as Mary let out a sigh.

"Okay, than explain my sudden obsession with plants." Mary interjected, leaving Luke to huff.

"You're a doctor, you care for things. Your secret girlfriend, apparently, studies plants too!"

"Or my sudden constant unquenchable thirst." Mary exclaimed as you hummed.

"Honestly at first I thought you had a UTI." You admitted as Ryan stated that Mary was dehydrated.

"Mary, you work in the clinic all day and night, you don't eat or sleep unless Y/n's there, you're always putting everyone's needs before your own." Ryan began, but Luke interrupted as Chris Hayner's phone was decrypted.

"Uh, guys, why were Chris Hayner's last three texts to Mary this morning?" Luke asked as Alice let out a breath.

"Finally we're all on the same page. Well, that was an excruciating process." Alice remarked, heading over to the computer.

"You knew Mary was infected by the vine, that's why you were being so coy in Montoya's office." Ryan realised as Alice shrugged.

"I just figured the last thing anyone needed was for Mary to end up on Renee's wall of weird."

You zoned out the rest of what Alice was saying as you wrapped your arms around yourself, looking at your girlfriend worriedly.

"What are you doing?" Ryan asked as Mary handcuffed herself to the Batcave computers.

"What one does when they realise they can control mother freaking earth. I nearly killed someone, and I don't know why, or when this infection is going to make me transform again, and until we figure it out, I am a threat to everyone, including the people I love!" Mary exclaimed, looking at you as she announced she was staying put.

///

"Do you remember meeting him on Facebook?"

"I don't even use Facebook, I've never seen this guy before in my life." Mary admitted, whilst Luke and Alice investigated Mary's profile.

"Are your eyes green in your profile picture?"

"No, I think it's just bad lighting." Alice remarked, leaning on Luke's shoulder, much to his disgust.

"Maybe he was stalking me, or some date rape guy and I found out about it?" Mary suggested, as the computer beeped.

"Ah, it seems like he just wasn't interested in whatever you were trying to ask him. Yeah, according to your dm's, which I merely skimmed for key words, he said you seemed 'sweet' but couldn't help with what you wanted, which looks like something to do with Y/n's research..." Luke raised an eyebrow at you, but you shrugged.

"My plant research is more, focussed on deforestation and wildfires, so I have no idea, unless you thought he saw something whilst stargazing?" You asked, glancing over Chris' profile, whilst Alice pretended to be offended by the use of the word 'sweet' and honey.

"I think I want to date Poison Ivy Mary." Alice remarked, whilst you glared at her.

"You don't really think that's how people see you, right?" Ryan asked, but Mary's eyes were on you, and the look in your eyes at what Alice said.

Even when Mary was being revealed to be an attempted murderer, you were protective of her, and loved her.

"Hey, you don't remember going to a hardware store this morning?" Luke asked, whilst you frowned.

"You were out before I even left for work." You admitted, playing with your sleeves.

///

"How can you still look at me with love in your eyes, after all of this?" Mary asked when Alice and Ryan left to go to the vacant lot in Burnside.

"Because it's not you doing this, it's the infection, and I love you, Mare." You affirmed, wanting to reach out to your girlfriend, but she stared at the floor, guilt wracking her mind.

///

"Can we get back to the fact I'm turning into an ubervillain against my will?"

"I'm pretty sure your Batgirlfriend said Poison Ivy was an 'anti-heroine' but fine-" Alice fell quiet at your glare, your gaze softening as Mary began to panic, tensing up as you sat on the table next to her, stroking her arm gently.

"Poison Ivy's an ecoterrorist. Neither of your victims had any public records of actively hurting the environment."

You zoned out when Luke said 'ecoterrorist' focussing on running your fingers up and down Mary's arm, your gaze on the poison ivy rash on it.

///

"What did you mean, Renee wanted me dead or alive?" Mary asked, glancing up from the floor.

"Oh, Renee and Poison Pam have a backstory. I don't want to be a gossip, but it's similar to you and Batgirl here... but in the end, Renee called Batman, who convinced her to lure the love of her life, into his trap..." Alice explained, as you and Mary exchanged looks of worry.

///

"That's really intense. So Renee sold out the love of her life to Batman?" Mary asked, as Alice leaned in to explain, making you shove her back.

"And he buried her deep underground, away from water and sunlight to shrivel up and not die. Can you imagine not going without skin cream for all those years? Imagine what she'd do to someone she barely even knows?" Alice began to freak Mary out, leaving you to glare.

"Stop talking." You glared, the sunlight glaring in your periphery as you looked at the roots of that weird tree in the middle of the cave, your eyes widening.

Pulling your knees to your chest, you closed your eyes and tried to act like you hadn't just accidently figured out two very important things, blocking out Alice and Ryan in the process.

///

"Are neither of the three of you concerned that our leader, Batwoman, left her bestie infected, vulnerable, terrified, to go 'help' a woman who literally shares a bedroom wall with a serial killer?" Alice exclaimed as she pointed to herself.

You zoned out as Alice rambled about Ryan to Luke, leaving Mary to be hit by the sunlight, even as she felt your hand clasp hers to ground her.

"Hyah!" Poison Mary shouted, knocking Luke out with a keyboard, before proceeding to absorb more sunlight, her eyes glowing green as she gently removed something from her pocket, blowing it into your face as a tear dropped from your eye, sending you into a peaceful slumber.

"Good morning sunshine."

"You figured out sunshine was my trigger, just like my darling..." Poison Mary smirked, running a finger over your cheek as Alice unlocked Poison Mary's other hand.

"Well, they don't call me a supervillain for nothing, but Batty will be home soon, and... I do have to ask, what's the deal now with your darling Batgirl?"

"She'll join me, or I do the one thing she claimed I could never do... hurt her." Poison Mary brushed your eyebrow, removing some of the pollen from it before she pressed a kiss to your forehead.

///

Luke was waking up by the time Ryan returned, but you were still unconscious, curled up on the floor, sleeping peacefully.

///

You woke up in the Batcave, alone. Some sort of pollen on your face that had knocked you out. Quickly rubbing at your face, you hurried over to the computers to listen to Ryan and Luke on the comms.

"Batwoman, Batwing, do you copy?" You asked, pressing the comms to try get them to work, but you received no reply, only hearing Ryan and Luke talking instead.

"You're not hearing me, Luke. This is exactly me, just without the part that does everything you want." Poison Mary's voice was clear over the comms, leaving you to rub at your forehead in frustration as you heard Mary take out her frustrations on Luke.

"Friend? You never ask me how I am. You never gave me any of your time. The only person who did that was Y/n. You give more of yourself to a woman who literally gave you away and said she wanted nothing to do with you than you do your own teammate! And that is not friendship."

"I'm done with team spirit. It's time you heard my voice for once, loud and clear. Y/n's not the only one listening, and I know she is, I know she's sat in the Batcave, frustrated she can't do anything. You've been so wrapped up in your own drama, Ryan, it's time you got wrapped up in mine for once." Mary stated, wrapping Ryan up in vines before walking away.

Your knees to your chest, a sob left your throat as you whacked your fist on the ground, tears dripping down your face as you grabbed your car keys.

You were gone by the time Ryan and Luke returned, unaware of their plan, as you had one of your own.

///

"Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Quite well it seems from all the sirens I've been hearing around town. It's fully electric, steppy, just like your beloved's car is, but she has a much more complicated avoidance of gasoline-"

"Is that supposed to impress me?" Poison Mary remarked, as she and Alice headed towards the car Alice had stolen.

"Uh, yeah, since it was ten times harder to hotwire. So are you going to tell me what you did to that cellar dweller down from city hall or-"

"On the road."

"Ah, there's that patented Doctor Hamilton bedside manner, was the pillowtalk between you and Batgirl like this too? All warm and chatty?" Alice questioned, but Mary just huffed.

"Get in. And don't talk about Y/n like that." Mary stated, the two driving away, whilst you drove in another direction.

Your destination? Wayne Manor.

///

[pyaasa]

Don't watch our flag means death 💀  it woobifies slave owners and makes them seem all lovable and cutsey. Literal Hamilton 2.0 💀 

What! Isn't this taika watiti? Taika noooooo

[amedetoiles]

1Anyway, I have been thinking about how glorious an Untamed musical could be. WWX could have an epically sad villain song at Nightless City. A fun, bouncy song for WWX when he was a student at CR, with LWJ interrupting every other line with a rule that he’s breaking. ALL THE DECISION SONGS!!! There are so many pivotal moments, like when WWX decides to do the core change (and having Jiang Cheng sing a reprise of the Core Change Song after the temple AAAgh)

Omfg, anon, what did I ever do to deserve your extraordinary galaxy brain gracing my lowly inbox?? I am not worthy. If someone turned mdzs/cql into a musical along the likes of some Hamilton, Wicked, and Anastasia combination, I would never stop screaming on the floor. THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING!!!

Imagine Wicked’s “No One Mourns The Wicked” but for Wei Wuxian as the first song. Good news! He’s dead! The Demon of Yiling is dead! The wickedest demon there ever was!

For extra angst and extra heartbreak, MXY and WWX should do a duet as the introduction where MXY’s verses weaves slowly into WWX’s verses to represent the complete destruction and sacrifice of his soul and being. It’s the only time in the entire musical we get to hear his voice. (Omg, the tragedy of Mo Xuanyu :( I’m weeping already.)

Flashback starts with a very sweet sibling ensemble introductory song. We meet all the sibling pairs! It involves happy lyrics about soup! In contrast to the Sunshot era sibling ensemble song that still involves soup lyrics but is much less joyful. Wei Wuxian is only there in the beginning and then doesn’t come back until the very end when he rises out of the Burial Mounds to go after the Wens.

BUT OMG WWX FEAT WQ GOLDEN CORE SONG AND THEN THE REPRISE BY JIANG CHENG AS HE’S STARING AT SUIBIAN IN ABSOLUTE DEVASTATION A DECADE AND A HALF LATER!!! This is literally everything I ever wanted. The sheer agony of this imaginary musical sequence already as me on the floor.

Wei Wuxian’s destructive grief-stricken villain / antihero solo at the Battle of Nightless City. It goes from coldly angry to complete grief. Just imagine as he falls from the cliff / dies in the Burial Mounds, his voice fading: I’m erasing myself from the narrative. </3

Every single song Jiang Cheng sings is furiously angry, but also excruciatingly sad. When he stands on the cliff (or attacking the Burial Mounds), we have these Hamilton lyrics: History obliterates / In every picture it paints, it paints me and all my mistakes / He may have been the first one to die / But I’m the one who paid for it / I survived but I paid for it

Third reprise of the golden core song when WWX and JC pine for each other like absolute morons across the courtyard at the end.

Important question though. Who is going to duet a Defying Gravity-esque song with Wei Wuxian when he rescues the Wens and breaks off with the cultivation word? I’m thinking some combination of Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji. Because these lyrics are just too good:

Why couldn't you have stayed calm for once? Instead of flying off the handle! I hope you're happy, I hope you're happy now I hope you're happy how you've hurt your cause forever I hope you think you're clever

I'm through with playing by the rules Of someone else's game Too late for second-guessing Too late to go back to sleep It's time to trust my instincts Close my eyes and leap!

I am absolutely here for Lan Wangji literally never actually singing for the the majority of the musical though. That is a HILARIOUS gag. He only sings at key points: (1) Wangxian in a cave, (2) Wangxian separation in the rain, (3) a very sweet one line song while standing on the stairs of Jinlintai about that single-plank bridge, and finally (4) Wangxian confession 2.0 dUETTTT

Also, also, please consider: the most awkward heterosexual confession song sung by Jin Zixuan to Jiang Yanli. IMAGINE THE HILARITY OF THAT HETEROSEXUAL SOUP DRAMA IN SUNSHOT ERA. Then, Wei Wuxian comes blazing into the tent with a very angry rock number.

ALSO ALSO ALL THE NIEBROS SONGS. Nie Huaisang in the flashback to Nie Mingjue’s death. Reprise of that song at the end when Jin Guangyao is dead and Nie Huaisang picks up his hat.

[kirstinmaldonado]

CHAPTER TWELVE 2.0

I started the last two chapters, happy to have something of substance to talk about, me being at home, improvements I was seeing, maybe even some rightful disappointment at some people’s lack of care in their actions…but like clockwork the beginning of the week brought in new developments and my mind drifted focus. My fingers lost the spark to write about feel-good situations when the chaos in the world seemed to extinguish the flame.

I was in Texas just two weeks ago but it honestly feels like forever, as if time is confused on what pace its on. The USA seems to be confused as well.

Theme parks across the nation are opening up. Some flights are back to full capacity. The world seems caught on a pendulum of thought: “Are we good enough to pretend and pass like we can go back to normal?”

Meanwhile, people are still getting sick. People are still dying. Protests are still happening, although it apparently doesn’t serve the media to still be airing that. Justice has still not been served for those we’ve lost: Breonna Taylor, Vanessa Guillen, Elijah McClain, and so many more. The media and internet is ablaze with people ridiculing, attacking, or making fun of each other, on top of everything going on.

I wonder if I’m a part of that sometimes. While I still think protesting for “bar lives” is unfathomable and tone deaf, while it was so easy to ridicule because it was so insanely insensitive to compare to the BLM movement, did I help to further a narrative full of spite? Did I egg on anger and divisiveness, did I unintentionally help create arguments online? Did I give a platform that I don’t agree with more attention by calling attention to it?

I’m all for the hard but important conversations. I love them, to be honest. My family and I had many thought-provoking conversations when I was home, about what they’ve experienced with racism, about our opinions on all sides. It was wonderful to expand our ways of thinking using past and present! I think we all walked away with more rounded backing to our opinions, me included, and I’m thankful to have a family that can be so open and willing to discuss.

Yet, those conversations can’t be condensed into however many characters can fit in to a tweet. The art of negotiating is not all about winning, it’s also about empathizing. It’s about explaining and getting the opponent to understand your side and school of thinking; if you just tear them apart for their lack of understanding or different opinion, how can they ever fully understand or want to, especially if you are the one trying to teach them something not in their wheelhouse?

Racism, of course, is non-negotiable.

Everything else, and it’s a lot, that we have encountered in the last few weeks (mainly dealing with COVID) feels like it’s cumulatively driven us to a breaking point, to a point where I don’t really feel like I live in the “United” States of America. I feel like we are now all pitted against each other, immediate to defend our point, and jumping to 10 because honestly we are tired of the bullshit.

I get it. I do. But in the last few days while I’ve watched coronavirus cases develop, “Karens” making a fool of themselves in public places and endangering people’s lives with their sense of entitlement, while watching Hamilton for the first time and seeing good and bad critiques, Kanye running for president, while I’ve cried over Vanessa and what happened to her only to have someone try to belittle my reaction compared to others we’ve lost, I realized something.

Chaos. All chaos.

How can we make real change when we are all just screaming? How can we move mountains when we are pushing from two opposing sides? And while we have made progress, will we have the sensibility to keep with it or will our boiling frustrations overrule and distract us from our end goal, lasting and transformative change for the betterment of BIPOCs and everyone?

I’m not hating on our progress. And I’m not vilifying people’s reactions to things not in your school of thought, albeit insanely frustrating things. I’ve been there and am there. The amount of Facebook posts I’ve written novels for, the shock I feel on a daily basis for some people, is all still there. Yet, my sadness for this world and how to heal it has crept in and bated me.

What can “I” do to make a difference?

Hating and bashing things is our new normal, our humor has become intertwined with it so much that we ridicule and make jokes out of everything. Click-bait headlines only stoke the flames. Coronavirus is still surging every day, and you know what, some people can’t pretend to go back to “normal” amongst it all.

The entertainment business, for example, won’t be back up and running for… who knows? I wouldn’t be surprised if Broadway was closed for longer than a year. We rescheduled our tour in hopes that we would be able to go, but with the way things are looking I can’t help but feel distressed about the outlook for the entertainment industry/shows all around. So many people’s “normal” won’t come back at all until we get a headway on this virus, and it’s gonna take us all coming together for that to work as well. We have to truly be THE UNITED states of america.

As a side-note, Pentatonix has never been this stationary since we started…and that’s bittersweet too. Never take anything for granted, guys.

So while I dissolved into a puddle over Vanessa and how I don’t even know how to help mediate the world anymore, with people at each others throats literally and figuratively all the time, with good people and bad people on every side, I returned to a very old school of thought for myself. 

Be kind. 

What can “I” do every day? 

Yes, use my platform as a strong voice of advocacy, try to filter through everything to make sure I’m posting facts and not scare-mongering or leading anyone astray from what they should be seeing.

I’ve protested. Signed petitions. Written emails. I tried to raise awareness and bring everyone along with me on my journey as I learned, which I thought was helpful.

But I forgot about the most important thing, the thing that’s been ingrained in my head since I was a child for better for worse, the one thing that even though practiced vehemently, never always comes back guaranteed.

Be kind.

I lost that somewhere along the way, a bit. I could feel my soul hardening at how cruel some people can be, I felt how easy it was to smite and bash people’s names who have done far worse. I felt my eyes cloud with hate.

For a long time I thought the battle was human vs earth and I was always so sad to see how easily we destroyed such a precious gift. 

Now I know at its core that the real problem is human vs human: how to one up each other, how to be more successful, how to win, how to be MORE all the time. That feeling has been slowly poisoning us and our empathy and compassion towards others. That feeling is not about bettering oneself, it’s about greed and it spreads like cancer. 

For a long time, I didn’t want to “be kind” like a Disney princess anymore. I was tired of trying to use kindness as a shield as if people’s actions did not hurt me. I was mad at my kindness for blinding me and letting me get hurt. I thought the phrase “kill them with kindness” was stupid, because I was the one that kept getting hurt.

But my kindness did not do that to me. I did not do that to me.

People did. Hurt people. Confused people. People that had problems within themselves that were in no way a reflection of me. People with opposing views. Those people are not my fault. Those people don’t get to have their anger bleed in to my life, they don’t get to poison my disposition with their greed and animosity.

What can I do?

Every day, I can make a point to not be divisive. To not so easily make fun of things, belittle, call names, etc.

I can tone down my “complaining” online. I can not get so upset and rush to attack people that would be hard to get my point across to anyway online, so I don’t work myself up for hours about one internet troll when I could be doing other more important things. Why lose sanity over someone only wanting to argue? Why revert to the name bashing, why invite more stress and anger in to my life, even though there’s enough anyway with what’s going on in the world?

As I uncovered more history, had more awakenings and understandings, and dealt with my own personal stresses, I felt my strength oscillating and now I know why. I was so hardened with hate and disbelief, I felt like a fool living in a world that said it was something else. And...I left my best ally behind in my own rush for MORE.

Kindness. 

Empathy. Understanding. Patience.

So for July, I’ve decided to take care of myself a little more. Take care of others. Make sure that I am not contributing to anyone’s pain, and only being an ally to amplify voices that need to be heard. 

There’s a kinder way to say everything. There’s a kinder way to live. Amongst all this chaos, maybe if we were all a bit kinder, we could ease the waves of tension and calm the storm. Maybe if we could see past ourselves, we could make a lasting change for us all.

I changed my bio the other day. We must be like the sunflowers, pulling toxicity from the ground and air. Nature’s helper. I said I would be like that.

They don’t contribute anything negative, they just stand tall and strong, a mediating force in a world that needs purifying. 

So, I will armor myself with my strength, knowledge, and kindness. 

And see about tomorrow. 

[moonmeg]

Wow, Alex Jr and Eliza Knox. I have no idea who these two are (besides the fact that theyre a Hamkid couple). What's their story? And do they (and others) think it's a bit strange that they're literally Hamliza 2.0 with the names? Like was AJ a bit weird about dating someone with the same name as his Mom? I need some details about them, they're strangers to me

Historically? There's so little on them.

They married in 1817 and it's assumed they had at least 10 years of an age difference (there's literally nothing on Eliza Knox other than her name, the name of her father, the year she married Alexander Jr. and her death date). In 1817 Alexander was 31 and she was presumably somewhere between 19 and 21. They seemed to be happily married though. They also had no children. What is known however, is that for a few years they lived together with Betsey, Eliza and Sidney Holly in a townhouse that Alexander Jr. purchased and that they voyaged through the West a little.

I don't think Alexander specifically chose to court a Eliza. You don't control who you fall in love with. While it may have been awkward, I don't think he bothered about it a lot.

Also... John Church Hamilton's wife? Maria Eliza van den Heuvel... history and it's coincidences :D

[tamtam-go92]

And that concludes Pleasantview-Widespot-SSU fall 2

I just wanted to leave you some notes around what happened this season and the year before ;)

Beare Family: Allegra was first trimester pregnant when the season started and the two of them welcomed their first child, a daughter they named Maya into their lives. Also their lot (it’s the former Dreamer home) experiences a weird bug where there would always be a light snow outside even on warm days. I hope that bug vanishes once it starts snowing in winter.

Burb Family: John and Jennifer aged up into Elders this fall. Jennifer has an affair going on with her co-worker Jared Starchild, but she hasn’t met him this season.

Caliente Family: Don and Nina are climbing their careers. Their daughter Ariana grew up into a child. As an explanation: Nothing of this really was planned. I didn’t want them to become a classic married couple with 1,5 children, a picked fence and a dog. It was all their own doing. Don and Nina both rolled a want to get married during a date. And guess what? After getting engaged they went straight for the next sofa and tried for a baby. I was freaking out when I heard chimes. During Don’s next round I quickly fulfilled his first LTW to woohoo 10 sims so he could get married to Nina the next season. And they did. In their wedding night Don was abducted by Aliens because he needed a logic point for his career and somebody thought it was a good idea to buy the expensive telescope... So I relocated them to a bigger lot and here they are...

Dreamer Family: I know DarrenxCassy gets a lot of hate, but I like them together. They are a very rounded couple in my game and were blessed with an other son, Damian this season. That’s they last child, as Cassy is growing old next season.

Goth Family: Ever since Frida was born, Mortimer and Dina were constantly trying to try for an other baby but I always canceled the interaction. Morty wasn’t getting any younger and I have a one elixir of life per sim-rule and he drank the rest of his in summer. But somehow sims always do what they want and Dina got pregnant through risky wohoo... great... Now they had a son called Moss and Morty died the same evening his son was born. At least he was able to meet his youngest child before death and he was surrounded by family (he also died in platinum aspiration).

Nova Family: Tiffany and Castor are constantly trying for a baby but so far no chimes. I’m not sad about it, since those two are really broke af. Luckily Tiff finally found a job in the medical field. But Castor is still on the search. They won’t get married until Tiff is either pregnant or Castor has a job.

Oldie Family: I skipped playing Herb this season. He’s waiting for Ivy and Orlando to graduate.

Pleasant Family 1: Guess what? Kaylynn got herself abducted this season and since I’ve got a mod that allows female alien pregnancy she gave birth to a little alien boy I called Parker. When Daniel found out that Kay was pregnant again, he retired. He really tries to be a better dad to his sons and helps Leonardo, who is struggling with school, with his homework a lot.

Pleasant Family 2: That’s such a funky household, it’s so much fun to play! Candy has a little bakery she tends on her days off at the restaurant. Val and MS are the cutest couple ever, but have never woohooed! I like that little detail about them. Stone grew into a teen and he’s now a Romance/Fortune sim (after both his grandpas). His LTW is to be a space pirate.

Starchild Family: Heather started off 1st trimester pregnant and gave birth to a little boy during the round - Alonso. Sam and Ty are eagerly trying for a baby too, but no luck so far. They took in the last crops of the year and gave a lot of their crops away to friends. They all are quick to climb the career ladder.

Traveller Family: Nothing interesting happened this season tbh... Laurie really wasn’t planned, again risky wohoo stroke but I’m super glad to have her, she has the cutest little face ever!

Upsnott Family: Those two really are driving me nuts! They are broke as hell and can’t find a proper job. I didn’t like Brit getting pregnant so soon, I couldn’t throw them a wedding party since they had literally no money for the wedding arch. They could merely afford the crib for their baby! And then... they had twins *face palm*. Yeah, a girl and a boy called Matías and María José. I have no idea why the name generator dropped two Spanish names. Luckily at least Josh found a job in the criminal career and can now support his family. The twins also grew into toddlers and they look so cute (broken face template...)

Beech Household: It’s really difficult managing so many students, but they all are doing pretty well. The love triangle between Virginia, Woody and Goldie seems to be interrupted by River, who really has the hots for Ginny. She still has higher chemistry with Woody, but Woody prefers Goldie. Goldie, Ginny and Scot graduated the last day of fall. While Ginny moved back in with her parents and Scot moved in with his boyfriend, Goldie temporarily moved back in with her older brother. But she’ll eventually move in with Woody.

Bright Household: Everything’s good here. I always wanted Lucy and Lilith to be close but in fact... she’s closer with Dirk... Lilith graduated the last day of fall and moved back in with her mother. I’m super exited what happens when she meets Ashley Pitts (knowing their chemistry they share in @katatty’s game...).

Freshman Household: Dixie threw herself a graduation party on the first day of fall and moved in with her fiance. Angela graduated mid-season and moved into the old Broke-Trailer on her own where she’s waiting for Dustin to graduate. Tina and Isaiah have a little something going on, they already did so as teens (they are best friends since their childhood) but neither of them is really for settling down and exclusivity.

Land Household: Alex and Delta met at Lucy Burb’s farewell party and they had such a great chemistry that I had to make something out of it. And of course they savaged each other first things after moving in together. Don’t know where it’ll lead, they just had their first real date but I’m excited.

Oldie Household: They are not so interesting to play as they are very studious and don’t have much contact to the outside. I tried to give Orlando a bit of an NB story and his outfits change between male and female each season.

Beech Family: Daytona has used the last bit of elixir of life so she passed away this season. Sandy has a small clothing store in Widespot that is a lot of fun to play. Hamilton is almost top of his career. Grey grew into a teenager and he’s a Pleasure/Romance sim. That’s gonna be some fun!

Gavigan Family: Such a cute family. But they are a lot like the Travellers, not much is going on for them except for careers and kids. It’s so funny that some families just get one gender as kids. I know a lot of families in real life that are the same!

Hart Family: Penny and Rhett have a really good relationship but both tend to stray sometimes (Penny once had an affair with Don Lothario (of course)). Snow is Skye 2.0. I gave him an alien eye heterochromia, since he’s got nothing from Penny’s alien heritage and I thought that was pretty sad... Rhett and Penny both grew into elders and Rhett topped his career fulfilling his LTW. His new LTW would be to become a professional Party Guest, but I guess that’s not gonna happen. Snow then grew into a teen, becoming a Knowledge/Romance Sim (after his grandpas).

Land Family: I skipped playing Beulah for the same reason I skipped Herb Oldie. At least River is gonna move back in with her after university.

Mann Family: This is such a hectic household... I struggled with getting Rich into golden aspiration so he could have some of the elixir of life, he really needs it. And guess what? I laughed so hard when that fourth baby of Mary was also a girl. But they called her Lana after the decreased grandmother she’ll never meet and Rich is super caring. I’m totally surprised, that he’s such a caring grandfather to all of the girls but he always tucks them in and plays with them. Oh! And of course Ira grew into a teen! She’s now a Pleasure/Family sim.

Roseland Family: Arg, this family has really grown on my heart. I always love Brandi and her kids and I struggle so much finding a perfect partner for her. But when she met Cyd over a mutual friend they had perfect chemistry. Sadly they didn’t get along at first but soon it clicked and now they are joined at their hips. They shouldn’t have had Ella, their calculated amount of kids was three but I just couldn’t deny the mutual have a baby want... Beau will go to college next season and Skip grew up into a teen being Romance/Family like his big bro.

Stacks Family: Those two are constantly trying for a baby, ever since Martin came from College. But somehow Jane isn’t as fertile as I’d expect from a Family sim. On the last day there were finally chimes! Selina is... something. She has a really sharp face, I think because of Martin’s broke face. Her cheekbones could cut through glass!

Swain Family: Dixie moved in with Erik and Jimmy on the second day of fall and they had a wonderful wedding party two days later. Jimmy takes Scot for dates every second day and Scot has rolled a want to get engaged (of course). Erik has a locked want to have a baby, but Dixie wants to find a job first.