#while edna is the worst one lol

[mistbow]

Since @laindir mentioned something about Ratatouille!Dezel I decided to look up Gameplay Numbers for Snack Preparation.

First five rows are for failures. Not including those failures, there are 35 snacks that can be prepared. Numbers indicate the probabilities out of 100, so they are in percent essentially.

In terms of failure rate, Dezel cannot fail at all (0%), while Edna is most likely to fail (33%). The rank for failure rate is Edna (33%) > Alisha (17%) > Sorey (16%) = Rose (16%) > Mikleo (10%) > Zaveid (4%) > Lailah (3%) > Dezel (0%).

Not counting the failure stuff, Mikleo can make everything, while Edna can make the least (she can only make 14 snacks). The rank goes like Mikleo (35) > Dezel (32) > Lailah (31) > Zaveid (29) > Sorey (27) = Alisha (27) = Rose (27) > Edna (14).

Sorey and Rose might seem like they share similar stats here, but I think Rose might slightly be better at this since she has the highest chance (7%) of making the best snack in the game, Marron Glacé. Out of the humans (who all seem to be bad at this), Rose actually might be the best cook, despite trying to do so with abacus.

If we look at their specialties (by seeing which snacks have the highest possibility for each character)...

Sorey: Pear Compote (10%)

Alisha: Strawberry Waffle (12%)

Rose: Baumkuchen (10%)

Mikleo: Fruit Frappé (7%), Raspberry Mousse (7%)

Lailah: Strawberry Shortcake (10%)

Edna: Chocolate Rusk (12%), Palmier (12%)

Dezel: Baumkuchen (8%)

Zaveid: Grape Mille-Feuille (10%)

As seen from Sorey, specialty doesn't necessarily indicate favorite food. Here are some interesting tidbits:

Sorey can make his favorite, Soft-Serve Ice Cream, but out of the ones he can make, it has the lowest chance of happening (1%). I suppose that's because his favorite has to be specifically made by Mikleo (Perfect Guide's words, not mine), which has a 5% chance of happening, just below his specialties and Ice Pop. It's just when push comes to shove, like when Mikleo suddenly can't make it for him, he will make Soft-Serve Ice Cream himself... while crying.

Dezel and Rose share the same specialty. Makes you think.

Also, there's a skit where it's said that the way Dezel bakes Madeleines is similar to how Rose does it. The chances for Madeleines are 4% for Dezel and 2% for Rose.

You can definitely see from what they can make and their specialties that the seraphim's elements definitely have something to do with the snack preparation here, as mentioned in a skit.

And that's the useless Zesty knowledge of the day.

[daryfromthefuture]

IT HAS BEEN A WHILE since i have made a proper ramble on here BUT.

bttf the game.

i've been replaying it recently and i forgot how insane it was. the story is SO DAMN GOOD and now i'm going to explain why i think that the citizen brown timeline was, in my opinion, an even worse timeline for marty to experience than 1985a.

(game spoilers ahead!)

so we all know that what caused the citizen brown timeline (we'll call it 1986b) to exist: emmett marries edna strickland and she gets him obsessed with law and order and using his science to control people's psyche. this results in edna and emmett being the totalitarian rulers of hill valley when marty comes back to the 1980s.

doc's face is everywhere, telling people to sign up for citizen plus. he's an idol for everyone. and i'm sure that emmett, after all of his failures, is pretty proud of that. he probably thinks that life in law is the only thing that made him successful and science was a bad idea anyway lol. anyway this is not the point.

marty enters and discovers this new hill valley. it's all clean and neat and at first glance doesn't seem as bad. there's no crime like in 1985a, in fact, there's no danger at ALL. nobody's going to shoot you or roll you over with a motorcycle.

marty, though, knows everyone in this timeline but also. doesn't. his parents both are alive. jennifer is alive (though changed significantly), and doc is alive too. and marty needs to find him.

but doc does not know marty.

imagine being a teenage kid who has had this man as your only support system for your entire youth only for him to become a complete stranger when you need him the most? this is fucked up, and we see it in marty's reactions when he eventually goes to citizen brown's office and tries to convince him he's a time traveler. marty talks to him like he'd usually talk to doc, only in this case, it's the wrong way. he gets yelled at when he tries to address an issue in hill valley.

do you think marty ever got yelled at by doc. no.

marty is, in fact, partly scared of this doc: his voice grows quiet when doc silences him in that cellar where we eventually find edna with all her monitors, and he's careful when he talks to him. of course, he wants his timeline to be restored, but he needs any version of doc to do so and he's got to work with what he gets.

i think the worst and most messed up part of 1986b is that, in comparison to 1985a, you would not expect it to exist. would you expect biff to try and get himself rich as soon as possible? yes, sure. biff is a butthead and everyone knows that.

would you expect doc, the smart, kind, father-figure in the films to become such a drastically changed person to the point that not even marty can trust him anymore and who essentially becomes an antagonist? i don't think so.

marty was completely taken aback by this entire thing and has to navigate through this strange timeline by himself. he has ZERO allies in this one. everyone either is confused by him, doesn't know him or even dislikes him.

if i were him i'd honestly cry lmao

another huge thing about 1985a and 1986b are the ways they get erased.

all it took for 1985a was to get a book back from biff. that's it, that's all this timeline hinges on. marty gets it and burns it, and done.

but 1986b? damn. that's a thousand times more complex. you've gotta convince young emmett to dump someone who he genuinely is in love with and who keeps him motivated. bonus, you even caused this relationship to happen in first place.

i'm pretty sure it was easier for marty to just steal a book than to go and break his best friend's heart to get said best friend back.

marty knows what he wants, but citizen brown almost talks him out of it. we get another glimpse at marty's selfless personality; he wants his timeline back, but what about the doc who's standing in front of him? is this worth the risk of losing the doc he has only to try and get back the version he knows?

marty is hurt when emmett literally tells him he hates him and when he's faced with the fact that he, in fact, has ruined doc's youth instead of making it better. what is this boy supposed to feel. yes, he will get the doc back he knows, but at what cost? he will forever have to live with the fact that, at some point in his life, doc loathed him.

him, the boy who eventually become his best and most loyal friend, hell, even family.

this HURTS. marty collects trauma like pokemon cards

AND LISTEN. the final episode. when citizen brown gets hit by that car to get marty out of the way. we all thought he was AGAINST marty's intentions but then he fucking saves his life with absolutely no hesitation?? then he lies there and dies while marty holds his hand and grieves him????

telltale whY MUST YOU HURT ME LIKE THIS

marty mourns this strange doc because it was still doc in a way and all marty wanted the entire goddamn time was to save doc and get back HOME and instead he gets more PAIn

marty even ends up confusing emmett for doc when he steps out of the expo hall because marty just. he just wants to have his bff back for fuck's sake and emmett is also alredy his bff and he only wants the best for him even though emmett thought differently.

i can't even begin to express how happy i am about the fact that marty and the ACTUAL, REAL doc get to hug at the end. if only it had lasted longer than 2 seconds.

THIS WAS A MASSIVE RANT but i have been rotating these thoughts in my brain for the past week or so. enjoy.

bttf the game is a fantastic addition to the franchise, it makes me FEEL THINGS and i absolutely love how we, instead of like in the first film where we had to fix the relationship between marty's parents, we have to fix the relationship between the main characters which we all thought was pretty much unbreakable in the movies. a+ stuff right there.

play bttf the game if you haven't. and then go write some fanfics about it please there aren't many and this is a CRIME. i gotta love me some game content

[sylphystiasymp]

I still need to edit more sprites of him, and even these aren’t fully right as they lack the gradient for his hands/arms, but I promise that the other empyreans in the Empyric crossover AU will get their references I PROMISE 😭😭😭😭

Until I have the balls to open Eizen’s wip of a ref sheet, because of how fucking detailed he has to be, take these fun facts about Empyrean of Earth! Eizen :]

- Actually he isn’t matched with Lailah, he is older, making him the oldest of the four empyreans.

- he named her ‘Sylphistia’ because “well, she’s a wind malak…..also I’m not creative, that’s your job.” [as he said to Zaveid]

- he did name the mysterious doll-child ‘Laphi’ because he is a sentimental old bastard who lost too many kids :/

- Even without his Draconic abilities, he is (totally not surprisingly) the strongest of the four empyreans.

- his Empyric Armatus has CLAWED hands!!!!! (He is also absolutely feral in a fight.)

- Survivors guilt, 24/7, but in a mature and sexy way lmao

- Yes. He was the one who buried Edna’s body. He insisted and did so in solitude.

- likes whiskey, and surprisingly, REALLY likes chocolate. (No like, to the point of literal violence. Call it ‘dragon instinct’ or whatever you want, idc, he WILL throw hands over it. Dark and Milk chocolate in particular, dark being his favorite.)

- His eventual purification did not fully succeed, hence, the horns, scales, tail, etc.

- Midway the month of March is the WORST of his rut. Dragon mating season, he leaves his spot at the New Empyreans Throne, and goes to Spiritcrest, and stays in solitary for weeks on end so he doesn’t hurt anyone he loves. (Oftentimes, with such brutal mating urges, he’s more likely to kill someone than breed them 💀🔫. He is pretty forwards about it, he won’t mince words to explain why he has to leave. He rarely comes out, it’s best to leave food or gift at the base of the mountain.)

- while hand-to-hand is his go-to, he does also know mastery in scythe-wielding (what a twist -_-) and spear work.

- He hates his empyrean gear, he would rather wear his old time clothing. (Not ever gets all fancy for ceremonies, and complains about it under his breath.)

- his empyrean gear lacks a shirt because “Pride of our element is its physical strength, show yours.” Which Eizen says is “A rather stupid piece of reasoning.”

- the crystals along his tail are all obsidian! In fact, his horns are as well, though the outside looks like raw stone, but if broken, it’s a shiny black interior! (They’re SHARP!!!! He could craft spearheads and blades with these shards, so intimacy can be difficult…rip any blankets ever ;-: )

- Can literally cut a mountain in half if he so wanted to. That’s the kind of power this man got.

- Fluent in German, will curse you out in it.

- speaks in the Ancient Tongue when he wants to say something to Zaveid and keep the meaning hidden from others (only Zaveid and Lailah are fluent, while Sorey is learning.)

- won’t say it but if you leave him crystals, he will be very happy. (Also probably will rant about them to you without provocation. Beware.)

- pretty much awake all night 💀

- yes. He can fluidly switch between walking and crawling like a goddamn beast man. Yes, it scares the fuck out of people. Yes, he will use it to catch up to you or scale walls 😭🔫

Here are a few pieces I made of him :>

The last is just an anatomy bit for displaying the gradient arms (totally not inspired by zhongli —)

Thanks for reading lol

[beesmygod]

i always kind of hold off on posting things that make it seem like im too patriotic or psycho about 9/11 but if people are interested in some little details that i've looked into and read about regarding the attacks that have stuck with me since i saw the towers fall in 6th grade. politically, i dont think ppl will be surprised where i land and its too depressing to think about how much of it was our own fault and was so entirely out of anyone's hands. but since watching the cnn cameras hastily cut away from what i, even as a kid, instantly recognized as bodies falling from the towers, it haunted me not knowing what happened to them and why no one talks about it.

no gruesome images here. you can look those up on your own if you're so inclined and clever enough lol (they are fairly difficult to find for, im assuming, propaganda reasons. they are horrid). i don't begrudge you for doing so because this is a horrifying and singular event that HAS truly been sanded down. when the human body lands from a great height what happens to you is that you become unrecognizable as human.

note: i grew up in nevada. it's 3k miles away from new york. i have the opposite of first hand experience. you need to go out of your way to learn about these things for yourself if you want literally any kind of understanding of the world around you.

this is a segment from dean e. murphy's collected oral histories of 9/11: the account of ernest armstead, an emergency medical specialist is a notoriously gruesome stories that just barely touches on what EMS and rescue had to look at that day.

the story of rick rescorla who saved nearly 2000 people at the expense of his own life.

literally one of the worst stories you can use to bring down the mood of a party instantly: firefighters had to hide under rubble and pretend to be trapped because the rescue dogs were getting too depressed at being unable to find any survivors

edna cintron waves for help from the hole where the plane crashed

the audio is gone now but a weird story: a wired FBI informant accidentally caught the only uninterrupted recording of the entire attack

the fark.com livethread and an archive of the something awful livethread. these are so stupid darkly funny now. the fark one is making me go nuts bc i forgot they used "fark" as an explative

this one really haunted me for years: a marriot hotel employee covers remains with tablecloths until cleanup can arrive (some...uh. chunks)

both planes severed the sprinkler systems, leading to this eerie image of water pouring down the stairwell. the photographer survived.

rather than link the video, which is graphic due to the fact that there are visible jumpers and sounds, one strange thing to note is there is at least one video of the towers burning and collapsing while billy joel's "she's always a woman" plays. the most horrible thing you've ever seen set to muzak is one of the most surreal experiences i think a human can be forced to endure.

steve buscemi, a former firefighter, was on the ground helping victims

finally: the new york times archive of transcribed oral histories

i wish there was a way to be like "research the TRUTH about 9/11" without sounding insane, but the older i get the more i realize i wasnt misremembering and the memory of that day has become completely sanitized as an example of american heroism in the face of terrorist aggression and not one of the most horrific systematic failures and explicit moments of sociopathy resulting in a mass maiming/cancer/unidentified remains event.

an unfathomable amount of firefighters died because, despite being given a 21 minute warning that the building would collapse from a helicopter above specifically bc the NYPD hates the fire department

after the first tower had been hit, workers in tower 2 tried to flee and were told to go back to work by security guards and port authority

1000 remains are still unidenitfied

[thefloatingstone]

We’ve gone from Self-Isolation to Quarantine and in some places to gradual relaxation phases, but that doesn’t stop the need for more nonsense you can watch on youtube while you wait for things to get back to normal. And recommending things and making lists are some of my favourite things to do but I have not yet figured out how to start or structure a video myself, you guys get another rambling tumblr post of things you can watch on youtube.

This time I’m once again just gonna recommend individual videos rather than full channels like I did in part 2.

Part 1

Part 2

In no particular order; 

LOCAL58: The Broadcast Station that Manipulates You

I recently started watching the Nexpo channel when I went on a binge of creepy youtube videos. Most of his videos are really good although the ones where he himself goes into theory crafting can be a little asinine. However, this video is REALLY good. And before you get nervous, LOCAL58 is not a real TV station. LOCAL58 is a youtube channel created by the same guy behind the Candle Cove creepypasta. This video by Nexpo covers the various episodes of LOCAL58 and discusses them. Just be aware going in that this is abstract horror, and will probably get under your skin regardless if you’re unaffected by certain topics or not. although cw for suicide mention.

I also recommend most of the rest of this channel, although be careful where you tread. I don’t recommend his series “Disturbing things from around the internet” as it can sometimes include real life crime, abuse and such caught on security cameras. Everything else is really good tho. (although I was really annoyed by his 2 videos on KrainaGrzybowTV)

The Search for D.B. Cooper

LEMMiNO has a new video out covering one of the most unexplained crimes in the past century of the US. LEMMiNO is the guy I’ve recommended before who did videos on the Universal S. He is very down to earth and not someone prone to conspiracy or even really that fanciful of thinking. (He’s like the one person I feel covered the Dyaltov Pass incident and was confused by why this was even a mystery because if you read the Russian Autopsy reports and documents associated with the case it’s all pretty logical and easily explained)

D.B. Cooper is the name given to a man who, in 1971, hijacked an airplane with a bomb, asked for a large sum of money, and after receiving it, parachuted from the plane and was never seen or heard from again.

The Austrian Wine Poisoning | Down the Rabbit Hole

Down the Rabbit Hole also has a new video out, this time covering the Austrian Wine Poisoning event from 1985. A scandal that involved literally the entire country of Austria, affected multiple countries, and forever changed the way wine was made world wide. As someone who is generally pretty allergic to most artificial substances this one made me personally very angry. But luckily, it has a happy ending and a better world for us all... if I could drink wine which I can’t do anyway.

The Turbulent Tale of Yandere Dev - A Six Year Struggle

The Right Opinion is another channel I only recently subbed to after watching his cover on Onion Boy. I put off subbing to him simply because of his channel name and I thought it meant he would come across as smug and elitist. Luckily this seems to merely be one of those “I chose a bad channel name and now I’m stuck with it” type of situations. (IHE has a similar problem).

Anyway, I have a weird interest in bizarre internet personalities, so I’ve been enjoying his channel as he simply discusses and presents a timeline of events of certain individuals. In this video, he covers the developer behind the much maligned Yandere Simulator. It’s a tale of hubris, arrogance, immaturity, and an unwillingness to accept your own shortcomings due to ego.

Oh and there’s a meme game about Japanese school girls with anime tiddies in there as well.

The Most Relaxing Anime Ever Made | Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō

Kenny Lauderdale is a youtube channel which is slowly becoming bigger which I’m very happy to see. He exclusively covers anime and live action Japanese television no younger than the mid 90s (as is the case with YYK) and which usually never saw a release outside of Japanese Laserdisc. I do wish his videos were a little longer, but if nothing else his videos serve as an excellent starting to point to find some older and underappreciated shows... or hot garbage fires. In this episode he talks about the 2 OVA episodes made based on one of my favourite manga, Yokohama Shopping Log. A Post apocalyptic anime about an android who runs a coffee shop outside of her house, and the quiet solitude of living in a world of declining human population, brief encounters with travelers and other people, and just... existing. The anime was never released outside of Japan and is only available on Japanese VHS and laserdisc.... but hey guess what!! Somebody uploaded both episodes, subbed, to Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2HCVOH6DtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqSTwfkobME

YMS’ slow descent into madness as he uncovers just how bullshit the Kimba Conspiracy is

I’m linking a full playlist for this one.

YMS is busy planning his review on the “live action” Lion King remake as the original 1994 movie is probably his favourite movie all time (and also self declared what made him a furry). As part of the 2 hour review, he decided to what all 2000 hours of Kimba the White Lion just to mention how The Lion King potentially stole the idea. ....until he actually watched all 2000 hours of Kimba and realised that if you actually WATCH Kimba, it has VERY little to do with the Lion King at all apart from having the same animals in them because AFRICA. Watch as one man slowly loses his mind as he realises just how stupid this conspiracy theory is, just HOW DECEITFUL and straight up LYING people can be. People who write BOOKS. People who teach LAW AT UNIVERSITIES. Because NOBODY bothered to actually watch the entire show and just parroted the “Disney stole this” lie which got started by like 2 salty fans on the internet.

The man set out to just mention how Disney stole an idea, and uncovered one of the most infuriating rabbit holes on the internet. Screaming for SOMEONE to provide him with sources or evidence.

YMS will be publishing his full Kimba documentary this month which he has said is around 2 hours long before he continues to work on the Lion King one.

Science Stories: Loch Ness eDNA results, Poop Knives, and Skeleton Lovers

TREY the Explainer has a video giving us some updates in Archeology from 2019. In this video he discusses the findings of the eDNA results conducted on the Loch Ness to see what animal DNA the lake contains which will tell us what living animals currently inhabit the lake, ancient knives made of poop and if this is a real thing that could have existed, and a skeleton couple found buried together which were at first thought to be lovers, then revealed to be both male, and then how in this instance we cannot let our modern sensibilities dictate what we WANT this burial find to be, but to look at the evidence as presented to us and place in context finds of this nature. The worst thing an archaeologist can do is look for proof to a theory they already have.

The Bizarre Modern Reality of Sonic the Hedgehog

Super Eyepatch Wolf is back and he’s here to talk to us about the very very strange existence of Sonic. a 90s rebellious “too cool for School” answer to Mario, a lost idea as the world of video games changes and culture shifted, a meme and punching bag amplified by a unique fanbase and poor quality games, a transcendence into a horrific warped  idea of what he once was, and modern day and where Sonic and his fans are now. As usual Super Eyepatch Wolf knocks it out of the park.

Kokoro Wish and the Birth of a Multiverse: A Lecture on the Work of Jennifer Diane Reitz

I don’t even sub to this channel as I’m not entirely sure what Ben’s usual content is about. But every now and then he has a “101″ class, where he explains to a room full of his friends in a classroom setting (complete with Whiteboard) an internet artist and oddity, the timeline, and what it is they have created. (wait... didn’t I say this already?). Unlike TRO however, the 101 classrooms are not a dark look into disturbed individuals (although the CWC 101 is debatable) nor is it a “lol look at this weirdo” dragging. Instead, of the 3 he’s done so far, it’s usually a rather sympathetic look at some of the strange artists on the internet who through some way or another, left a very big cultural impact on the internet space through their art. Sometimes they may not be the best people, but their work is so outside of what we’re used to seeing that just listening to him run you through these people’s internet history is fascinating.

In this episode he talks about Jennifer Diane Reitz. And although it is titled Kokoro Wish, the lecture is more about Jennifer’s larger work back in the early internet when being a weeb was unheard of, how being trans influenced her stories and characters, and her world building that is so rich and in-depth with it’s own ASTRO PHYSICS it puts any modern fictional world found in games or movies to shame.

Jennifer is not exactly a nice person... and in many ways can be seen as dangerously irresponsible, but she created something truly unique in a way that you kinda struggle figuring out if it’s terrible or a work of genius.

Anyway I think that’s enough for now

[simpsonsnight]

Episode #200

Trash of the Titans Season 9 - Episode 22 | April 26, 1998 Episode TWO-HUNDO! This one *kinda* feels like a special episode. Steve Martin and U2 as guest stars is a pretty big deal, I guess. Homer becomes sanitation commissioner and makes a big mess of everything. A budget crisis causes him to hire out Springfield to be dumped in by other cities, causing a garbage eruption all over the place. They move the whole town 5 miles down the road, which is a funny and memorable gag. Continuity heads take heed: It’s just a joke that I’m pretty sure they never reference again, like the much-hated Armin Tamzarian episode. What surprises me is that between episode 100 & episode 200, I think I actually like this one better. It’s funnier. The first act is excellent, and the U2 scenes are kinda lame, but forgivable. At least it’s realistically handled with them throwing Homer out of the concert, and not inexplicably like “we’re going to help you now and be friends with you, HOMER!”. And like I said, the ending is satisfying enough. Daddy... like? My friend London once pinpointed the actual Simpsons jump-the-shark moment with a specific scene in this episode where Homer sings “The Garbage Man Can” song. The jump-the-shark moment occurs with the line “’cuz he’s Homer Simpson Man”, which is really fucking awful. While I don’t think the song overall is bad, that line sure is, and I always think of London when it plays. Along with “what do I think of the pie?” from Special Edna it’s one of the worst musical Simpsons moments in the series. The Simpsons should have gotten out of the music biz after they Sang the Blues.

MAIL BAG

Here’s a message from back when the B-SODE was a thing:

respect the b-sode. at least read a wiki page about it and throw a zinger or two

Okay I’m sure I don’t have much in the way of new readers who don’t know or care what the B-SODE is, but I’ll remind everyone: I used to do a thing where I matched up the Simpsons episode with an episode of another animated show that was thematically similar to (or sometimes just had one thing in common with) the Simpsons episode being covered. I had a rule that the show had to be of a similar vintage from the Simpsons episode I was reviewing. (If the Simpsons episode was from 1992, for example, I could use anything from 1990-1994 for the B-SODE). When I started the blog I would watch every B-SODE, Then life became hellish and I needed to work two jobs to pay all my bills and the B-SODE eventually became more and more of an afterthought until I just axed it all together.  Honestly researching cartoons for the B-SODE was a huge pain, especially when I had to do it for a modern episode. Here’s an example: In season 1 Bart cuts the head of a statue. Ren & Stimpy, an early Simpsons contemporary, had an episode where they destroy the head of an Abe Lincoln statue. See how easy that is? But in season 26 when the episodes are like: “Homer is addicted to craigslist/Lisa starts dumpster diving/Bart gets in trouble for lunch-trading at school/the couch gag is a 7 minute parody of Bosch/it ends with a 2 minute stand-alone short with Mr. Burns explaining the electoral college” what the fuck am I even supposed to do with that?? I’m thinking when the Simpsons-every-day portion of the blog is done, I’ll probably start covering different Simpsons-adjacent shows in some capacity. I’m making an insane unwieldy list as we speak. Not committing to anything, I’m just putting it out there. Might watch stuff casually and do little recaps covering the shows as a whole when the mood strikes. Hey it could happen!

lol half some self control man i just wanna see u write about the simpsons not hear you beg to say a slur

Haha, I kinda remember what post this is referring to, I went off on some tangent where I was like “LOOK I SHOULD GET TO SAY RETARD OR FAGGOT WHILE I’M DRIVING OR ELSE I’LL KILL SOMEONE”. And guess what it? It’s true! I stopped saying both this year and so many have died because of it. Many of them cops. Anyway, I’ll try not to slur unless it’s my birthday or something.

[drunkportuguese]

the one anon about Sam Wilson wearing Cap. America's clothes: Oh... Sorry for not explaining better, but Sam wearing Cap. America's battle uniforms/battle suits. The one battle suit from Civil War, or from Endgame, or the one with the star ripped out in Infinity War. Just something i've been thinking because of stuff that happened at the end of Endgame, not based on something you posted.

Thank you so much for clarifying! I’m going to go on a little bit of a big rant, but it’s like, my first time writing like this, so please be patient :D I have also not read the comics so all of this is speculation!

Sam wearing Steve’s uniforms is something that doesn’t quite sit right with me. While I believe that the CA mantle is not something that should become the hero’s personality, I do think that it’d be cool to see some changes based on the person who’s wearing it. Sam picking up Steve’s used uniforms and not altering anything would be pretty lame and ilogical imo

I follow a few tumblrs that do read the comics and so I see comics’ Sam!cap once in a while, and I love the way the uniform was tailored to him!

^This looks really good to me! There are a few obvious flaws that I’ll talk about later, but regardless, it’s different enough that everyone knows that that’s the incredible Sam Wilson, but also recognizable enough that you can tell perfectly that he’s Captain America, what with the Puerto Rican flag n’ all (I joke).

However, I’d love love love to see Sam wearing the famous stealth uniform:

Like, this one is a godsend and I really love it (just like the rest of the world lmao). I think it’d really look good on Sam!

But that’s really the only original suit that Sam could wear without making changes to it and still look normal and logical:

Unless Sam’s wings are like those of an owl, he’d make noise flying, as well as that most stealth missions involve going inside buildings, so stealth would have to be on the ground and in closed spaces for most of the time.

Thus, Sam wouldn’t fly a lot in these situations, only using the wings as extra punching-“hands�� or a full body shield.

Because of 1) and 2), the original uniform’s build makes sense to me, as the suit doesn’t need to be aerodynamic - flying would not be the focus of these types of missions, and I think Shield would rather the suit was focused on protection and noise reduction than being aerodynamic.

Sam’s fighting style is more airborne than Steve’s, so the other uniforms don’t really fit this different fighting style.

To show you what I mean, let’s take off (hah) from the MCU and dive (hah x2) into the DCU, into the last Aquaman movie. This is what I didn’t like about the movie:

(beware as the picture under this sentence is an edit, but is also a faithful representation of the real suit - i couldn’t find a good quality picture of it besides this one)

Here’s the deal: Nothing in these suits screams hydrodynamic to me.

Mera’s skintight suit might look the most hydrodynamic of all, but that was not the intention they had when making her wear that. They wanted her to have a skintight suit because she’s a woman and thus needs to look sexy. I hate this trope in superheroes’ suits (yes, even in Aquaman’s own skintight suit), but I digress.

Mera’s suit has an egregious neckline. Who the fuck designed this? She’s gonna be swimming superman-style at breakneck speeds and your first thought is to put an enormous boob window where water will 100% make it into the suit through the middle of her boobs?! During the entire movie I was waiting to see her puff-up like a pufferfish from all the water intake the suit must’ve had.

Mera wears heels, which is ridiculous for a society that doesn’t even really walk!

But King Orm’s suits are the worst to me. The first one might not be that bad, but why does he look like a medieval knight/gladiator?

But the third picture… is the absolute fucking worst.

Why does he have a cape? That shit’s gonna float around him and strangle him someday, and I’m gonna be on the sidelines watching and laughing with Edna Mode.

The whole suit looks clunky and heavy, and it might be made of scales but that still doesn’t look oceanic to me. Looks more like someone took Jon Snow’s suit and changed the colors to fit an ocean environment.

All of this is to show you that:

I’m way too picky about superhero suits;

When I rant, I go for the long haul;

These suits are not adapted to their environment, and that’s their biggest flaw.

Steve’s suits are not made to go airborne, and that make sense, because Steve doesn’t fly. Steve’s suits are adapted to ground fighting.

But Sam does fly, and I’d hate to see Sam’s CA suits become the Mera/King Orm of the MCU, where they make them look borderline military-like and too superhero-y, and Sam stops looking like his suits were made to fit an airborne environment and more like they just look cool and that’s it.

So let’s look at skydiving suits:

Notice the full helmet and the how these clothes are baggy but still tight to the body? These suits also have a full-body harness, to make sure no part of the body is under too much strain when you open the parachute and the speed you are travelling at drastically decreases. Would the harness be just for the shoulders, like a backpack, I don’t know - you might dislocate something!

Now let’s look at Sam’s suit:

I’d appreciate if he had some sort of protection for his mouth and nose. Sam’s fights can make him need to do a lot of quick ascends and tight turns and he can very easily have the breath knocked out of him with a rogue gust of wind.

The breastplate/belly-plate(?) looks a little too solid to me, thought, and this is a man that literally performs falcon takedowns, where he needs to curl up quickly:

I’d say with all the technology available in the MCU, now especially with Shuri’s help, they’d be able to make a more flexible but protective suit for Sam, and that’s what I’d like to see when he debuts as CA.

But other than that, it actually looks like a good compromise between being aerodynamic and protective.

It looks protective enough if we ignore the exposed skin around his elbows (I’d be terrified if I had exposed joints – one well-placed stab or slash and my arm would be gone).

His pants look comfortable and not too tight, which prevents getting a wedgie mid-fight and allows the body to move freely.

It has the full-body harness like the suits we saw earlier, but it could use some work. Parachuting means you will have maybe one time where your body will experience a drastic decrease in speed, but Sam will increase and decrease speed very quickly and many times during fights and pursuits. He needs a sturdy body harness with more belts than the parachuters’ so the strain is even more distributed throughout the body, to prevent his groin and shoulders from getting crazy amounts of stress. He is human, after all, and the human body has limits.

Let’s look at the comics again:

This might look a little ridiculous with all the muscle definition, but apart from the exposed boot laces and maybe too tight clothes, it looks pretty fit for high speed flying, acrobatics, and fighting.

Note especially how the suit wraps around his face. The only problem I see there is that it should have a mask to, again, protect his mouth and nose. That flap under his chin could get a little loose with use, and one day Sam gets uncomfortable air flowing into his suit – which, needless to say, a split-second distraction like that in superhero fights can be disastrous.

There’s also very little exposed skin: I’d argue that a Captain America-style helmet would help a lot to protect his head but still being aerodynamic, to keep him flying as fast as he can.

 So, basically:

Sam’s MCU original suit already looks pretty good. He could use having less exposed skin, more flexible materials, and a Captain America-style helmet, which can all be achieved by combining his original suit with the CA standard suit. CA’s suit aesthetic is especially good, because you can segment the breastplate into two pieces, the blue top, and the red/white bottom, making it more foldable and flexible without compromising the classical CA look.

His suit also needs a Winter Soldier-style mask, but while it’s such a big deal for flying, I still don’t think it’s going to be implemented, because then Sam would become so covered-up that Marvel could be tempted to cgi his entire suit like they did with Iron Man, and I really don’t want to see that. We all know that, with a few exceptions (like James Cameron’s Avatar), cgi does not age well.

 -.;.-

I hope at least 10% of this rant makes sense lmao. Also, I know these are superhero movies that definitively don’t need to have all this thought put into them but hey, I like to speculate and complain about shit lol

I’m nowhere near an expert at whatever the fuck I’m talking about in this post, but I tried my best! This deviated into a bit of a different topic, so I’m not sure this is what you wanted, but I wanted to talk about this anyway :s Thank you for the ask!

[municiberg]

Sometimes Mini will doodle just downright horrendous fashion designs and pin them up along side the actual designs Edna is working on. I mean these are the WORST things you’ve ever seen. To many bows and frills and cuts to show skin and they are BAD. She does it because sometimes Edna will get in such a streak of making clothes that she’ll accidentally make one or two of the godawful designs only to notice them much later and be appalled while Mini laughs so hard she cries.

LOL! Poor Edna was too in the zone to notice!!!

[jennycalendar]

"hey come off anon" *anxiety noises* I will. maybe do that sometime. I don't use tumblr the Conventional Way™ so I haven't actually used my personal blog in yonks. I usually use one of my other 2 and they're both character blogs from different fandoms because I'm an Aspie so I hyperfocus on specific characters- in this case it's Giles tho so I got a lot to say and you don't seem to mind so I'm just. gonna dump some more on you just tell me to stop lol

SO I have a lot of thoughts about Giles and trauma, specifically response to it. Like Jenny says, she feels bad that she doesn't feel better because of his fluttering about and it's been talked about a lot that it's a very realistic and valid way to feel. Rupert as well, fretting and trying to help, is equally realistic and understandable, except he's no stranger to traumatic incidents. Surely he'd realise she needed some space, having had similar feelings with his own traumas? 1/6

Except I don't think he did. Rupert went through a lot at the Watcher Academy, locked in rooms with hungry vampires and made to look through tears into dimensions that send grown men insane, and finally watching his friends and classmates slaughtered in front of him as a result of the the Council's negligence. The Lorophage Demon had been about to feed on him too, and he was saved at the last minute but noted that all of his trauma had been drawn to the forefront of his mind. 2/6

All of it fresh in his thoughts at once. And I think he was very much left alone with those thoughts until the meeting with his father, where he was told to get over it, that his feelings didn't matter. That his friends didn't matter. That he didn't matter. I don't think he ever wanted space. I think he desperately wanted someone to give a shit. And I don't think that ever went away (e.g. drinking with the dangerous, unscrupulous Ethan because hey at least he'll listen while I vent) 3/6

And even when his Gran tracks him down and shows concern and tries to comfort him, Edna Giles was a Watcher of the Council. Used to lead it. Her grandson was not, would never be, the highest priority. She sets him straight by convincing him back into the Council, where he proceeded to repress like it was going out of style and throw himself into the role she provided and we all know what that did to him in canon. It stopped him being dangerous, but it didn't really help him. Council M.O. 4/6

Whereas my dumb au has him separated even further from the Council and in with people who aren't ordinary but won't encourage him into self-destruction. People he can be himself around while he figures out who that is, who can help him see his magic for what it is- something he can do, that what he does with it is up to him. He doesn't have to be a copy of his father to be a good person 'cause right now he's a mess but these kids give a shit and Jenny gives a shit and that's so much. 5/6

It's a chance to explore the kind of person he could have become if given the chance, and to see how that different person could have changed things with the Scoobies (with Jenny who could have been so good and with Willow and Xander and Faith who all needed someone to give a shit) and the Hellmouth and whatever Watcher they'd send to Buffy and everything, for better or for worse. (I'm so glad you like my dumb ramblings from before btw!!!) 6/6

don’t undersell yourself!!!!! i seem to have so many people in my life as of late who r doubting their contributions n their words even more than i do and when i get these lovely asks n thoughts it’s so important that you know i appreciate them greatly & my inbox is always open, anon or no

anyway um. oh my gosh? i’ve had v long conversations w/ one of my giles/jenny friends re: the subject of giles’s trauma & his general tendency to repress things, because i absolutely agree with everything you’re saying here. like i feel like giles’s desire to Be There For Jenny could 100% be read as him wanting to provide for her what he wants from someone else. hlsdkf i wish i had Good Things to contribute but your asks always knock me out of the park. so. all of this is excellent content

which is i guess why i’m always so soft for giles & jenny?? the one moment we see him being vulnerable and genuinely open, imo, is in the dark age, when he’s telling her that he’s not a safe person to be around. and also like...that’s the one time we see him comforted. like he looks at her and you see him thinking “this is someone who doesn’t want to go away” and there’s a very real, very genuine moment there for him. of course things get confusing and painful after that and i definitely don’t want to disregard the fact that jenny’s own journey is similarly complicated but like....i’m realizing now as i type this that it’s possible he wants to give her that feeling. he wants to make her feel just as comforted as she makes him just by Being There. which is so completely valid and again why i’m always so proud of him for just backing off (tho i of course feel bad for him, because who wouldn’t? that’s such a painful way to have your past dredged up. literally the worst-case scenario)

[evenstevensranked]

#17: Season 3, Episode 18 - “Stevens’ Manor”

With the house to himself for the weekend, Louis decides to open up a bed and breakfast to afford a snowboarding trip for the gang! What could possibly go wrong?!

I’ve been meaning to tell you guys to ignore any typos in my reviews within the first day or so of them being posted. It takes a few read-throughs for me to catch any/all errors. 

That being said...

This episode opens with the subplot. Although, this is yet another one where the subplot and main plot work together super well. I’ve noticed that this is becoming a theme with these higher-ranked episodes. Huummm. 

It starts off with Ren spying on Ruby breaking up with some random guy Dexter. Her oh so serious, love of her life boyfriend of 4 days. Sounds about right. This show seriously nails how ridiculous middle school ~relationships~ truly are. Ruby is devastated, so Ren presents the idea of turning their upcoming weekend sleepover into girls night complete with nail polish, magazines and ice cream! Yeeee!

Ruby clearly shocked and offended by Dexter’s decision to end it. We don’t actually hear the conversation, so this exaggerated expression really gets the point across.

It cuts to Louis, Twitty, Tawny, and Tom (who I will refer to as “the gang” from this moment forward) discussing how badly they want to go snowboarding at some lodge. Tawny estimates that it’d cost around $200 per-person, and I mean, what 13-year-olds have that sort of money laying around? I’m a grown adult and I can’t even afford Starbucks on some days. So, yeah. To any sane person, the idea would be totally off the table and seem completely farfetched... But not to Louis Stevens!! He’s all “Oh, it’s no problem” as he runs to answer a call on the school’s payphone, which is the millionth thing that closet space next to the stairs has been used for. The call is from someone looking to book a reservation at Stevens’ Manor. I really hope that payphone has a different number than the school and that Louis didn’t give out Lawrence Jr. High’s number as the contact info for “Stevens’ Manor.” I can’t. 

He explains to the gang that Steve and Eileen are going away for their anniversary, Donnie has an away game, and Ren is sleeping at Ruby’s... which means he’s got la casa all to himself. Twitty asks how he’s gonna get his parents to actually let him stay home alone though... and like??? I know that Louis can get a little crazy, but does he really need a freaking babysitter or something? Actually, wait. What am I talking about?! He immediately seized the “home alone” opportunity to turn the house into a bed and breakfast. Here we go again with the give Louis Stevens an inch and he will take 100,000 miles trope, lol. His plan is to fake cry to Eileen about wanting to come with her and Steve and not wanting to stay alone, before deciding to be ~strong~ and stick it out. Steve even calls Louis a “soldier” for it, haha. Okay. Whatever works I guess! I’d like to point out this kinda ugly transition they do of Louis smirking about his plan, to the moment where he’s actually executing it. It’s so weird looking omg. 

That morph tho. I guess the editing job isn’t too bad for 2002... but dang, it’s just slightly unsettling to me lol. 

I like how this episode basically jumps right into the plot asap! We’re only two minutes in at this point and the BnB transformation is already underway! Eileen and Steve ultimately leave and trust Louis to man the fort of course, and the birth of Stevens’ Manor happens the second they’re out the door -- courtesy of a short montage. Louis must’ve been preparing for this bed and breakfast idea for a long while, just waiting around for the opportunity -- because he has shirts embroidered with a fancy “SM” ready to go for him and his friends to wear! He’s even set up the technology to accept credit cards. Louis Stevens does not play! 

The first guests arrive and I’m assuming it’s supposed to be a joke when Louis greets them “Welcome to Stevens’ Manor! You must be the Mannings!” lol. The Mannings are an older couple made up of a “fellow Lou” Louis and his wife Edna. This information is vital for later on. When they’re shown to their room, (which is Louis’ bedroom transformed into the “Lincoln Bedroom” lol) Edna says “This is even cozier than the pictures we saw on the internet!” WOW!!! Louis really did have this planned! He probably whipped out a www.stevensmanor.com domain for this. How did he rearrange and clean his room with enough time to take the photos, post them, and get hits on the website (in 2002, mind you) without his parents noticing though? That stuff took tiiiime back then. Not to mention cleaning that filthy room of his would require the help of a garbage company! Oh, well. That’s an irrelevant detail. I told you he’d been preparing for this moment! 

Where did he get that bust of Lincoln (see 2 photos up) and that painting too? I searched out of curiosity and found this near-exact bust which costs $850!!!!! That thing better be some cheap plastic knock off because something tells me Louis somehow spent more money on making the place look legit than he’ll ever make back from it lol. 

The next guest is a woman named Mrs. Colepepper. What is up with these writers and throwing the word “pepper” into last names? We already have Ryan Zellpepper and now we’ve got this lady lol. I also just realized that both of these characters are black... not that that means anything at all. It’s just randomly sort of interesting imo. 

The last main guests are a pair of twin teenage boys and their parents. Now, Even Stevens is good at not double casting people (a.k.a being weird and having the same actors play two or more different characters throughout the series and hope the audience doesn’t notice) -- But they messed up here and I gotta call it out!! They’re acting like this is the first time we’ve seen these twins, but they actually already made an appearance as LJH students back in Season 2! Their first appearance is literally sooo brief that only a weird superfan like me would notice, but yeah. 

The twins in this episode.

The twins in Season 2! We haven’t covered this episode yet so I feel really weird including a screenshot but.. lol. 

There’s this short scene where Louis introduces Tawny as the Manor’s “human jukebox” because apparently she’s a piano wiz and knows “all kinds of songs” (Also, where’d Louis get the grand piano?! haha) One of the twins sarcastically asks “Does she know ‘I hate it here, we should’ve gone to Hawaii’?” And Tawny adlibs a song “I hate it here, we should’ve gone to Hawaii, where they say Aloha and roast little piggies!” This one line always gets stuck in my head. Always. I’m tempted to continue writing additional lyrics just to give myself more to sing.

There’s also a fantastic bit here of Tom arguing with Mrs. Colepepper about the pulp in her orange juice. I can’t even explain it, all you have to know is that it’s amazing. Also, Louis tells the twins to check out the “Rec Room” and hands them two ping-pong paddles. They’re like “All you have is a ping-pong table?” and Louis says “Yeah... Well... I never said anything about a table. So.” IT ALWAYS GETS ME! It’s such a small line, but I love it. ALSO Beans is the BnB’s “licensed masseuse.” Right.  

At Ren and Ruby’s sleepover, Ruby gets a make up call from Dex and they talk on the phone all giggly for an hour and a half. Ren is fed up and decides to head home. Safe to say Ren was in for a surprise when Mrs. Colepepper was asleep in her bed... 

Louis tries to explain the situation to her and of course, Ren is vehemently against it until she sets her eyes on the ~gorgeous~ twins. As they’ve already stated -- The twins hate it there, so she catches them juuust as they’re about to check out. Ren literally referred to these guys by name in S2. They were some weird names like “Mosh and Stosh”?! lol, Smosh. But now she’s acting like it’s the first time she’s ever seen them in her life and it always bothered meeeeee. 

Something that kills me about this bit is when their father says “The boys just aren’t happy here. I kinda have to agree with them. Your kiddie pool hardly qualifies as an ‘aquatic center’ so...” -- LOUIS REALLY PUT “AQUATIC CENTER” as a selling point knowing that all he had was a kiddie pool.

Imagine showing up to a BnB where this is the advertised “aquatic center.” I am dying of laughter. First the nonexistent Rec Room, now this. I can just hear Gordon Ramsay ripping this place apart on an episode of Hotel Hell.

Ren immediately tries to persuade the twins to stay for obvious reasons by bribing them with lame board games, but they apparently reciprocate her attraction and decide to stay. The fictional board game they pick to play is The Organ Donor Game (sounds like a fun time???) and it’s so suggestive. Ren says “Ooo! You landed on my kidney. That’s gonna cost ya! No cheating and... Hands off my pancreas” in the most sultry voice ever. Like... WHAT?! The doorbell rings while they’re playing and it’s Ruby coming over to apologize, but she too decides to stay at the Stevens’ once she sees the twins. Wow. I love how a fan is always conveniently there to blow Ruby’s hair dramatically whenever she sees a guy she likes.  

It happened the moment she developed a crush on Louis, too. And, uh... Didn’t Ruby JUST GET BACK TOGETHER with Dexter like, an hour ago?  

Meanwhile, Beans is giving Louis Manning a massage by walking on his back in hiking boots??? Beans just further solidifying his place as “The Worst” in my heart. Old Louis (which is what I’ll call him now I guess) gets his back thrown out thanks to their wonderful, 8-year-old, obviously not licensed masseuse. This place is a lawsuit waiting to happen. 

Eileen decides to call home and check in with Louis, which creates one of my favorite situations everrrrrrr in the series. Y’all know I love when shows highlight the comedic side of miscommunication, and this is probably Even Stevens’ best stab at it. Edna is the one who answers Eileen’s call and all hell breaks loose when Eileen asks for Louis. “Louis hurt his back, he’s in a great deal of pain right now.” Edna explains. And Eileen says “You tell him I’ll be there in two hours and that I love him very much!!” Of course, Edna thinks Old Louis is cheating on her with some woman named Eileen and it’s great. 

Louis (Stevens lol) overhears the conversation and starts freaking out because how the hell are they gonna get all of the guests out of the house and revert it back to the way it was when it’s only midnight? That’s when Ren gets the brilliant idea (no seriously, it’s brilliant) to set all of the clocks forward to 7am checkout time! Oh my freaking god. Most of the guests have only been asleep for an hour or so, and suddenly they’re being told breakfast is ready. It’s absolutely hilarious! “Skies will be mostly... dark” Ren informs them of the days’ weather, omg. 

There’s no way they have enough time to serve everyone a full breakfast, so they shove all the food into a blender and give it to the guests as the “Deluxe Breakfast Combo To-Go!” Seriously, Gordon Ramsay would have a field day with this.

They pretty much scream at the guests to “move it!” and get outta the house at midnight while they’re all still in their pajama’s and disoriented. Even if it was 7am, this is some terrible service. At this point, I’d give Stevens’ Manor a generous zero stars on Yelp.  

Amazingly, they get everyone out with enough time to hustle and clean up the house before Steve and Eileen get back! *Whew!* Louis and Ren scramble to explain the whole Enda lady who answered the phone situation and claim that she’s the school nurse. Steve is so confused, “The school nurse made a house call in the middle of the night?!” Honestly, though. Suddenly Edna walks back in the front door “Excuse me, I forgot my umbrella.” Haha. That’s when she and Eileen have their final brush with miscommunication. Eileen is all “Thank you for taking care of Louis!” and Edna says “Well, let me tell you something, Eileen. I have dedicated my entire life to taking care of Louis, so let me give you a little warning... STAY AWAY FROM HIM!” 

Steve: “These school nurses are so protective...” 

Steve and Eileen decide to head upstairs and go to bed immediately, to Louis and Ren’s relief -- which actually made me realize something... Where do Steve and Eileen sleep?! From what we’ve seen of the upstairs it seems to only have a bathroom and Louis, Ren, and Donnie’s rooms! I’ve never seen space or a door for a third bedroom up there! Omg. Maybe they have a secret bedroom in a hidden attic or something? Hey! They had a giant secret cave underneath their house. It’s possible. 

The final minute bit of this episode is great. Steve and Eileen are watching some local news program and Mrs. Colepepper happens to be the host. She shares her experience at Stevens’ Manor and how she’ll never forget it in a strangely positive review segment. The best line is when she says “I don’t normally sleep through the night, but when my head hit the pillow -- the next thing I knew, it was morning!” HAHAHAHA. She makes a point to mention the “hip, young staff” and shows a picture of the gang (see cover photo.) And yeah. Steve blows a gasket. 

THE END!

This is a great episode. I mean, really. It’s super memorable, funny, and it’s an awesome episode for the cast as an ensemble. I cracked up countless times writing this review! It definitely gets a lot of “iconic” points for sure. I just personally prefer episodes that have more of a story to them and focus on the characters. As great as this episode is, it’s definitely one of those wacky plots that could only make sense in crazy Season 3. But I gotta give it to them... This is such a wild and elaborate plot, but they somehow make you believe that Louis could’ve actually pulled this off irl. I’m sure there were some impressionable kids out there who entertained the idea of doing something similar themselves, lol. I want y’all to know that #17 isn’t a “bad” spot by any means. I feel like I say this a lot, but at this point in the countdown, everything seriously is pretty much top notch. I’m simply arranging the best of the best in an order I hope is both personal and objective. It’s a difficult line to straddle, believe me.

To top off the review, I’ve added not one -- but two Stevens’ Manor designs to the Redbubble shop!! AYYYYYYYYY! I got carried away. I’m actually really excited about these, haha! Ya can now get the main “Stevens’ Manor” design and the employee logo design printed on whatevaaa you want. Doing these reproductions of things that exist within the shows’ universe is so fun. I’m really trying my best to get as close to the way they appear on screen as I possibly can (with my limited photoshop skillz)

They’re available in the shop now! Yay!

Thanks for reading!!

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[blueevelv3t]

Simsie meme legacy challenge

Google doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DatI1DhRgCx1ScTLdJEFAh_ysXMGUzfYn9OJNcPN5Z4/edit?usp=sharing

                    Rules

1: No ridiculas money cheats. You can freerealestate your first house if you desire.

2: (optional) Since this is a lilsimsie legacy, you need lilsimsie (Aka Kayla) in your household at all times, you may cheat to make her a young adult with mc command center by clicking sim commands, set age, young adult. Also, you can find her simself on the gallery, her origin ID is lilsimsie, or you can just make her in create a sim. (She’ll be put into every story somehow, not just randomly in your house lol)

(Also this is my first time writing a legacy so plz be nice <3)

Btw, whenever you see this font it's me! (Riley)

                                        Gen one

                    Susan

Your entire life you’ve had everything you wanted at your fingertips You have zero insecurities. You also, don't have many friends (Cuz you're kinda the worst). You constantly picked innocent girls from your school, and attempted to ruin their lives. Until one day the entire school finds out what you have been doing, and turns on you. Your parents find out, and are so disappointed that after you finished college you have to move into a garbage apartment in the city and work your way to the top.

(Optional) It got worse. One of the girls you tortured in high school is now your roommate. Truthfully, you were always just jealous on how gorgeous, intelligent, and loved she was. She has tried to make amends with you, but you just reject her.

Career: Your choice

Aspiration: Fabulously wealthy

Traits: Jealous, Self-assured,  perfectionist.

Rules: You can’t have any good friends until you finish the first part of your aspiration.

When you find the love of your life, you have to cheat on them, then reunite when you finish your aspiration. If you find them after you finish your aspiration, you have to reunite when you are an elder.

Must finish your aspiration and career before death. If you die before you finish them, then you can revive yourself with mc command center.

When you’re an adult you must become bffs with your roommate.

Master logic skill.

Have 1 child.

                    Gen 2

                    Edna

                Your entire life you’ve been a meme. (Relatable) Ever since you showed up to that wedding when you were a toddler people have been saying “Actually it's Edna.” Nobody really knows why.  That's just the way it is. You have been getting into youtube, and twitch lately. You want to start your own channel, but know you’d never get big. You dream of having a family of your own. Even though you’re young, you’ve always loved kids. Probably because, you don’t really have a relationship with your parents.

(Optional) Ever since you were little you have had a nanny. (Which would be Kayla)  She is the only one that gets you. You’re not sure why she’s been around so long since you can take care of yourself just fine. You don’t mind though since your mom is always out trying to make more money, and your dad clearly doesn’t care about you.

Career: Social Media

Aspiration: Super parent

Traits; Ambitious, family-oriented, geek

Rules:  Must be bffs with Kayak. (The nanny)

Must get A's in school before you age up.

Master super parent aspiration and social media career before death. If you die before you finish them, then you can revive yourself with mc command center.

Have 3+ kids. (Adoption is fine)

Name one of the kids after Kayla. (This will make more sense later)

Mater parenting and charisma skills.

                        Gen 3

            Thicc mommy/daddy brian/brianna

    Your entire life you’ve been the most attractive person in any situation ever. Since you’re not on that whole have 428641749198147465524 boyfriend/Girlfriends train you’ve never had a partner. You’re extremely confident (Can’t relate) due to your parents telling you how perfect you are your entire life. But deep down you’re very insecure. You do have a girl you’ve got your eye on. But of course shes taken. You spend your days listing to (Insert favorite musical here) and dream of going into theatre. The thing is, you’ve got terrible stage fright, and anxiety. But your sister Kayla (See I told you it would make more sense <3) pushes you to make your dreams come true, while your other siblings don’t care that much.

Career: Entertainer (Musician branch)

Aspiration: Musical genius

Traits: Music lover, romantic, self-assured

Rules: Marry a woman named Marissa

Master aspiration and career before death. If you die before you finish them, then you can revive yourself with mc command center.

Master singing, piano, and guitar skills.

Have at least 1 child,

Be bffs with your sister Kayla.

Have at least 1 male baby.

                    Gen 4

                    Steve

    Your entire life you’ve always been artsy, you even have a chest tattoo about how much you love art. You eventually went off to art school when you met this random girl who you see literally everywhere. In your second semester she even introduced herself as Kayla. You told her that's your sisters name then it was awkward silence. That's really all you can remember about her. Sometimes you wonder what she did after she graduated. It's really whatever you just focus on your art. Your parents keep telling you to not focus on it so much, and get a “real job” Pshh,  what do they know? In reality your art career isn’t going so well. You’ll get there eventually though.

Sorry Kelpy isn’t in this gen. I thought it’d be creepy if I made them fall in love or something.

Career:  Painter

Aspiration: Painter extraordinaire

Traits: Art lover, Creative, Goofball    

Rules: Master aspiration and career before death. If you die before you finish them, then you can revive yourself with mc command center.

Master painting skill.

Must be a male

Have triplets & more kids if you desire

Choose a painting to leave for your legacy.

                    Gen 5

                The snacc pacc

Your entire life you’ve constantly been compared to your other fellow triplets. (Idk how to refer to them lol) You hate it! You just want to be your own person. Other than that you desire to be a famous author. You stay up day and night writing stories. Of course your sibling could care less. Its not like you have dreams or anything. You don’t really get any support from your parents either since your dad has a new girlfriend every month, and your mom is somewhere in the world, but certainly not in your life. You do have one fan though, your grandmother/father.

Career: Writer (Like from the computer)

Aspiration: Best selling author

Traits: Loner, bookworm, clumsy

Rules: Get married as a young adult

Don’t have a good relationship with your fellow triplets until grandparent dies.

Master writing skill

Have as many kids as you want.

Master aspiration and career before death. If you die before you finish them, then you can revive yourself with mc command center.

                Okay, so I only came up with 5 gens so far, I’ll for sure add more in the future. If you have any ideas let me know! -Riley <3

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Cherry Cake and a Cadaver by Susan Boles

    Synopsis

Lily Gayle and the gang set out to find a killer after local baker Luxen Natolovich is found dead hours before the grand opening weekend at the new Bed and Breakfast in town, Midnight Dragonfly. As Lily Gayle deciphers the clues around Luxen’s death she uncovers a conspiracy of lies and half truths that could very well be tied to a refugee camp in Mississippi during World War II. The deeper Lily Gayle digs, the deeper the conspiracy runs, and the closer she comes to being the killer’s next victim.

Interview With the Character

What’s it like living in a small town where everyone knows each other? It’s a pretty interesting situation. When you live not only in a small town, but in a small town where your family has lived for generations, there are so many good and bad things that go along with it. On the good side, everyone knows you and your entire family back to forever. On the bad side, everyone knows you and your entire family back to forever. LOL. That’s the honest truth. Every good and bad thing that has happened to you or a member of your family is part of the tapestry of life in a small town. So, while i may complain that everybody know all about my business and my family, deep down it’s a comfort most of the time to know that my roots are sunk so deep in this town that I always have a place.

Do you like getting caught up in the mysteries you try to solve? I really love figuring out what happened and who did the crimes. I have a pretty good knack for getting people to talk or for extrapolating information from just a clue or two that don’t seem to go together at first glance. I know it drive’s Ben crazy that I’m always sticking my nose into cases, but I’ve managed to come up with some really great information that helped solve the crimes.

Are there days you wonder why these kind of things happen to you? Oh my, yes! Ben would tell you that I just plain old attract crazy stuff. And, I guess I do. And sometimes would love to have a break from it. But then, I get over that feeling and I’m right back on the case.

Can you tell more about your gang, and what you find special about them? I laugh every time I think about it. Dixie and I go all the way back to diapers. We’ve been best friends, thick and thin, all our lives. And everybody in town will tell you I’ve led her astray all her life. Maybe that’s true, but we never got up to anything truly illegal, just some good natured fun. Like the time we spent several evenings going by a farm out from town where the owner raises fainting sheep. We’d honk the horn several times close together and every one of those sheep would fall over in a faint. We’d laugh hysterically and drive off. And old Mr. Blalock would come out the front door hollering and shaking his fist. Dixe didn’t want to do it, but she went with me. She said to keep me out of trouble, but I still say she secretly enjoyed all our escapades. And, in case you’re thinking I made that up about the fainting sheep, check it out. There really is such a thing. So, that brings us to Miss Edna. I have to confess, she was not always my idea of someone who’d make a good friend. She’s always been downright cantankerous and I never saw her soft side till my last case where I got hurt and Miss Edna came to my house to watch over me. Why, you could have blown me over with a feather when Ben brought her to my house. And I silently cursed Ben for doing it. But, that day I saw that even though she’s pretty outspoken and comes across mean as a snake, she’s really got a good heart and would give her last dime to someone in need. That day really changed my thinking about her. And, later on in the case when she wanted to form our triumverate, I thought that was about the worst thing that could happen. But its been a good thing. The three of us are really good at sniffing out information and helping Ben solve cases.

About the Author

Susan calls McNairy County, TN her home ground even though she has moved away. It was here, at Bethel Springs Junior High School that she began her writing career with two friends. They formed their own little writers group that was so secret they were the only ones who knew it existed. She still has some of the stories they wrote carefully preserved in a loose leaf binder and tucked away for safety.

She has worked in retail management, briefly for the Census Bureau and for many years in the investment/insurance industry in the regulatory compliance arena. All of which are left brain activities. So she exercises her right brain activity with reading and writing…just to keep both sides even.

Reading has been a passion since she was very young. As a toddler, her mother read to her from her ‘baby books’ and her Mother tells a story about her holding one of them upside down and ‘reading’ by repeating the story verbatim from memory.

Death of a Wolfman is the first in the Lily Gayle Lambert mystery series. Her previously published romantic suspense novel, Fated Love, is a contemporary paranormal romantic suspense (with a twist of paranormal) set in Memphis, TN. Her first novel, Kate’s Pride, is a historical women’s fiction set in West Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War. The novel is loosely based on her own Great Grandmother and published under the pen name Renee Russell.

Life got in the way of writing for many years but now she’s come back to her early love.

Author Links:

Webpage – www.susanbolesauthor.com

Twitter – @SusanBAuthor

Blog – https://susanbolesauthor.wordpress.com

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/people/Susan-Boles-Author/100010974857065

Linked In – https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-boles-author-a4075484

GoodReads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14866595.Susan_Boles

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