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Video Game Completed – Name: Oneironaut

Atlas: ASH!!!

Asher: Finally. Are you ready?

Asher: What was that for? Atlas: I finished. It’s done.

Asher: Oh my god, we did it? We fucking did it!!!

Asher: [laughing] Okay okay, put me down. We’re gonna be late.

Dawn: [offscreen] How did your appointment go. Asher: [offscreen] Great. Two healthy babies, everything looks good. Li: Ooh, they’re moving again. Atlas: Can I feel? Li: Of course!

Aspen: Whatta you doing? Asher: My babies are in there. I’m saying hello to them. Li: Do you want to say hi? Aspen: Hi!

Dawn: Ezra Ezra? Atlas: Yep. Dawn: He’s the last person I’d ever expect to leave. Did the town burn down or something? Atlas: [laughs] I don’t think so. Dawn: Wow. Good for him, I guess? Atlas: [shrugs] Dawn: How are you doing? It can’t be easy. Atlas: I’m fine.

Dawn: That bad, huh? Atlas: I said, I’m fine. Dawn: You only say you’re fine when things are really bad. Atlas: I say I’m fine when I don’t want to talk about it. Let’s not ruin a perfectly good day. Dawn: Okay. Dropping it. Atlas: Thank you. So, what’s new with you?

Dawn: Aspen finally started pre-school last week. Atlas: How’s that going? Dawn: Really well. I was able to get her into the same one as Mei. Having a friend there has really helped. She’s actually excited when I drop her off. Rude if you ask me. She could at least try to act sad when I leave. Atlas: Aw. I’m sure she’s just putting on a brave face, for your sake. Dawn: [laughs] That must be it.

Dawn: It’s good though. Now that she’s out of the house for most of the day, I’ve decided to go back to work. Atlas: Oh yeah? What are you going to do? Dawn: I’m going back to the Dreamer Foundation. Obviously, my old position wasn’t available, so I’ll just be doing, like, part-time administrative work. I don’t mind though. It’s low-stress and gets me out of the house. Eventually, I can work my way back up again. Atlas: That’s great. I’m happy for you.

Asher: I’m done. Your turn. Atlas: Are you tapping out already? Asher: Yep. I’m gonna throw my back out at this rate. Dawn: You know you don’t have to toss her around like that constantly. Asher: I know, but it makes her laugh and I’m a sucker for it.

Li: Are you sure you’re ready to have two little gremlins? Atlas: You mean aside from not having a house or a stable income yet? Li: Of course. Asher: We’ve never been more ready for anything. Cook ‘em faster, will ya? Atlas: Or not. We do actually need a house and a stable income. Asher: Yeah yeah.

Dawn: It’s getting late. We should get going. D’you want to come over for dinner before you head back? Atlas: No thanks. Kinda feel like relaxing here for a bit, maybe watching the sunset. Asher: Such a romantic. Atlas: [laughs] Oh yeah, that’s me. Dawn: Well, enjoy it. Let me know when you get home safe. Atlas: I will.

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i've been working on this legacy challenge on and off for months now and it's finally here! i really made this because i wanted to play something like it. but i thought it'd be fun to share for anyone else who might be interested. if you do play, feel free to tag me. i would love to see your journeys 🥹 there are too many words for a tumblr post, so you'll have to check out the google doc. the general rules as well as a link to the "deck" and dice roller will be under the cut!

Click here for the Tarot Legacy Challenge

G E N E R A L R U L E S :

Start with a single founder in a new save.

Each generation follows the theme of a Major Arcana Tarot card, completing its unique goals and embracing the fate of the tarot card pulled.

Each heir must fulfill their generation’s goals before passing onto the next.

You may draw your Tarot card for the next generation when the first heir is born. You are welcome to choose any of your current heir’s children to be the next generation’s heir.

This challenge will include all packs so feel free to modify to fit your needs when necessary. This was created with Life & Death as the most recent expansion pack. As new packs release, you are more than welcome to modify the rules for the new content.

Play on any lifespan and with any mods or cheats you’d like– whatever makes the challenge more fun for you, have at it. Add any little twists that you’d like to spice up gameplay. If you want to use different traits/aspirations/careers than listed, go for it! Again, whatever you feel fits your playstyle best. Just try your best to stay aligned with the Tarot theme of that generation.

You can play as many or as few generations of this legacy challenge as you’d like. You don’t have to play all 22 generations. I would recommend a minimum of 5 just to make it a “legacy” – but follow your intuition 😌✨🔮

D E C K & D I C E R O L L E R :

A link to the “Deck” :

https://spinthewheel.app/yOOKcsbAUE

Dice Roller (Only necessary for some generations) :

https://g.co/kgs/QkCbwo4

Death Type: Crows

💼 Supervising Entity: Netherworld Department of Death

🦅 Subdepartment: Critters and Creepers Control » Wrangling all things venomous, vicious, and viney «

💀 Reaper: Corvina

⤷ Role: Earthly Harbringer ⤷ Alignment: Benevolent ⤷ Territory: Ravenwood

⏳ Decedent: Lady Ravendancer Goth

☠️ Death Trigger: 「 🎬 」 Provoke a pet crow multiple times ➥ Pack required: Life & Death 👻 Ghost Quirks:  ✦ Gain an uncomfortable buff when provoking the crow again ✦ Crows will only bring common gifts from now on

More Death Types [ x ]

💀 Corvina » Don't cross Corvina — or her crows. Keep your distance, stay respectful, and you’ll walk away just fine. « — Mr. Mortis ✦ Genetics ⊱ Hair • Eyes • Skin • Gradient • 💀 1 + 2 • Claws ✦ Clothes ⊱ Dress (+ Necklace) ✦ Accessories ⊱ Headpiece • Jewlery

⏳ Lady Ravendancer Goth ⊱ Hair + Acc • Dress* • Necklace • Sandals

* Life & Death

C R E A T O R S

Corvina @sentate @yin-shimo @regina-raven @cerberus-cc @remussirion

Lady Ravendancer Goth @feralpoodles @flowermilksims @jius-sims

Since it did not make the laundry list may I humbly request you go and "upvote" weather effects indoors if you experience it and have not reported it yet?

https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/s-weather-effects-occurring-inside-structures/5051547

I wish I could show you more of yourself. I wish I could make you somebody else. But I left it way too late. Are you stuck in your own ways?

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alora & kai’s cozy place 🍂

𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬   |   EPISODE NO. 2 "Carry Our Dead"

❧  𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟐 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬  /  𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯  /  𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭.

this is the depressing one, being the funeral and all … things get much more fun and sexy hereafter, if i may say so myself (after grandma reminds leonor to wash her ratty hair, that is). anyway, i had the notion that this first act was a grief diary for me, which is so weird as a self-proclaimed Person Who Hates Writing What I Know. however, the intensity of that as a creative process seriously helped me connect with the whole worldbuilding premise of this episode: in uspana, funerals are public, disruptive, and unvarnished, with the expectation that you forcefully expel the grief in a ritualized process that cleanses or exorcises in some vital way. leonor’s issue, of course, is that she believes she has failed step one … anyway, as before: if you're new, go catch up !

𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭 ↓

02.01 - a news broadcast recaps safya’s life : This post was the hardest to narrow down yet! There wasn’t fierce competition; I feel somewhat “meh” about it all now, which is wild since it was quite the heavy lift. Lots of different characters, settings, eras ... Runner-up is the first shot of Beatriz addressing the media about the funeral soon to begin. After the glut of color and activity preceding it, the simplicity of her plain white dress and shaved head against the gilded palace doors is even more stark. But, I like this one better. Maybe because it does look like we’re in this everyday classroom with Safya. Maybe because, again, we’re seeing her without her face, this time knowing it’s likely the last live clip of her most Uspanians would see. And these kids? What a memory!

02.02 - the family leads a procession : The procession remains a scene I’m proud of. It took so much learning! It’s hard to find good ~indigenous~ content—damn near impossible beyond American Girl fans and Manifest Destiny roleplaying. And anything more southern than the U.S. border? Forget about it! The yellow is marigold, a nod to the inspiration I’ve taken from Indigenous Mexico, blending Nahua, Maya, sometimes Huichol elements, or at least my best reading of contemporary art and so-called “pre-Columbian” records. I’ve always aimed to upend royal simblr’s pillars and called my story an “anticolonial fantasy,” and this was, to me, as far as you can get from the iconic Diana funeral replica. This one shot is a redo of a tester. You can tell in the post that it’s meant to be from Mateo’s vantage. Altho a teenager, he’s culturally an adult, but I imagine he didn’t feel it until he was asked to join his uncles and grandfathers in carrying his mother.

02.03 - beatriz gives leonor a warning : Rereading this scene for this ... Damn! It’s brutal. So, while I think this is a lovely and angelic close-up of Beatriz, I also feel like it conveys something deeper. Leonor catches her midway through her own preparations for this final ceremony with Safya’s body, desiring some kind of consolation or commiseration. The fact that she even attempts this interaction is naked, pitiful desperation. So, this? It’s Beatriz preparing herself. She is cruel, but it’s not without self-awareness. How must it feel, knowing she has to injure her dead daughter’s daughter, on this day, just moments before this ceremony? She suggested to the reporters that she was “empty,” but perhaps this pause suggests otherwise.

02.04 - the ceremonies take place : I never make passable statues but thought, “You know, with this wood texture, it’s fine!” Putting this all together, I noticed I adore profiles, and I noticed just now that this one mirrors the prologue image that I tagged as a favorite. No eyes, a contemplative expression ... I wrote this scene with raw memories of holding my grandmother’s hand while she died, feeling haunted by extra moments I lost when they took her body away too quickly but also intrigued by the feeling itself. I was always going to use an effigy, but the prose elevated it. There’s visual worldbuilding here around death and dying. Effigy Safya presides over a farewell for the flesh; whatever the effigy is imbued with, it burns with it. It must be something they don’t want or are unable to keep and tend alongside the bones, whose eventual unearthing signals becoming an ancestor.

02.05 - arnaut and blanca argue : Truth be told, this scene exists only because I love Arnaut and Blanca each and wanted to give her more screen time. It’s also a scene I redid! Notice a pattern there, lmao? Anyway, I like this shot for the angle. It’s a bit skewed but shows off the location. I think their orientation—him looking away, at a loss for words, while she mocks him—is fitting for bickering siblings, too.

02.06 - rodrigo explains to mateo and leonor : Don’t you love when you shoehorn a filler shot into a post and it turns out great? What I needed was space for dialogue that was, to abuse the phrase again, “visually interesting.” I chose this one the usual way: based on a vague gut feeling of whether it looked “right” or not. What I like is the sidelong angle as well as how the light hits. I’m not sure what the symbolism is, if there is any. It’s supposed to be a “shedding light” moment given Mateo’s questions? Rodrigo’s “illuminating” that dark night? I wanna say “Sometimes a picture is just pretty!” but that’s not my style as a certified nerd who Interprets™ for a living. It’s probably not wholly true either.

02.07 - beatriz prepares to move forward : I forgot about this scene! A treat to rediscover. True fans recognize Rowena and recall this troubled mother-daughter relationship. This scene is a reunion of Birdy and her parents, who appear elderly and in white. It’s a direct callback to two things: 1) the glimpse in the main story of Alfonso and Rowena on that bench prior to their wedding, and 2) the Father’s Day special where Alfonso, in poor health, consoles Beatriz on her wedding day and makes explicit what that glimpse showed, saying, “For me, this spot is where you came into being. This is the place where I first loved you.” Here, only Ro is visible while Beatriz departs (or approaches?) on a parallel track of sorts. I love that my story is, at least to me, so loud with intergenerational echoes. I said it best when I originally posted this scene:

idk idk idk i just love this setting !!!!! it's THE spot of circularity in This Story Where Time Is A Circle™ …

02.08 - the family departs to begin mourning : The finale! Leonor and Arnaut are central, showing that she intends to isolate herself by rebuffing, not only Arturo, but also her uncle’s attempt to fulfill undying obligations to his sister. However! I have a soft spot for the olds, and this shot is so ... evocative, to me, generally and of their dynamic. We surmise from the earlier scene that Beatriz is allowing Sal to be close while Matias is on the periphery. I won’t detour into that other than to say what I see here is Matias wandering in his own mind. He’s lost his daughter and firstborn, too, and arguably the child who favored him most in personality and temperament. He doesn’t begrudge Sal and Beatriz their relationship at this moment; he’s too selfless for that. He knows Beatriz won’t permit him to comfort her this way—not for lack of love but, maybe, because that’s how she loves. Sal and Bea know that he won’t rest and care for himself until he’s exhausted and alone. What I learned is how abruptly quiet and still life becomes when the business of death is done and its distractions end.

2 bedroom ✨