#Travis and Bay

[abbysimsfun]

Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 189 (Brindleton Bay Picks a New Mayor)

Growing up, Alexander Goth dreamed of becoming Brindleton Bay's first real mayor in decades. After high school, he got involved with No Sim Left Behind, marrying his teenage sweetheart, Lydia Kim-Lewis. Now, they had two amazing kids - son Jagger and toddler Carina. His family was the light of his life, but he'd always been drawn to activism and politics.

Once George Brindleton met his end while wintering in Sulani, Alex could finally push for an election - and for a while it looked like he might run unopposed. Brindletonians were used to joking Heather Gordon's Tuxedo cat, Mayor Whiskers, ran the town, but just before the deadline, Bay Landgraab Security director J Huntington III entered the race. Alex hadn't run a campaign since he won student council president at Deadgrass Isle High - a real mayoral contest excited him!

Hazel Nesbitt was one of his wife's oldest friends, and she eventually moved to Brindleton Bay to be closer to both Lydia and her elder sister, local vet Heather. With her experience working for Henford's Mayor Varner before her divorce, Alex enlisted Hazel to manage a clean campaign focused on meeting locals and telling them his plans for the town in detail. It was the best way he could think to counter J's populist tough-on-crime agenda.

Alex wanted to clean up every shoreline, revitalize tourism, and make Brindleton Bay the kind of place families stayed for generations. That meant jobs, recreational spaces, and total commitment.

His ambitions were high, but his perseverance was higher. Voters saw a young, enthusiastic leader, and on election day, they rewarded him with a significant victory.

Brindleton Bay's often rainy spring weather couldn't dampen his excitement as he thanked his supporters for their faith in him. He was already raring to go - not even mud puddles in the rain could stop him from making Brindleton Bay a world class town!

(The 'energetic speech' option borders on aggressive but it made me laugh. Go Mayor Alex, you won! Since Mayor isn't actually a level in the political career in-game, he's a high-level politician and I changed his first name from Alexander to Mayor Alex. Officially.)

Alex's proud mother, Bella, threw a party at home to celebrate his electoral victory. His proud big sister, Cassandra, arrived with her husband, River, and their sons, and Cass headed straight for the piano as soon as she walked into her childhood home.

The Nesbitts' two-story cottage in Henford was more garden than home, with no room for a piano. But Cassandra took lessons as a child, and with gentle music humming from the ivory-coloured keys, guests gathered happily around the grand instrument.

"Isn't this the piano Conrad possessed when Bella made him that cocktail?" wondered Heather. "It's so big! I can't believe he made this thing float!"

Bella and Dexter prepared food for the guests in the kitchen, with Bella adding her secret spice to the superfood salad for an extra kick. Conrad grinned as he spray-cleaned the kitchen sink to prep it for dirty dishes. "I don't know how you do it, Mrs. Goth. Everything you make is impeccable."

"Oh, you know me." She laughed as the salad bowl seemed to shimmer in her hands. "It's just a little touch of magic, I guess."

"Ash said he's sorry he couldn't make it to the party, but he's having a sleepover with his friends tonight."

"Don't worry about it. Ash is growing up. He'll be a teenager soon; of course he wants to spend more time with his friends!"

"He's more ready to grow up than we are. Doesn't seem that long ago he was in diapers."

"Well, we can't stop time forever. Only Reapers stay the same."

"How are things with you and Grim?"

"Never better! It's still very casual, you know. It's impossible for us to live like a normal couple, so we don't. He's reaping tonight, but he might stop by once the party's over."

The hostess had also extended an invitation to the losing candidate and his family. Alex wanted to have a good working relationship with the guys at Bay Landgraab Security; for better or worse, they were important to the town.

In another room, Alex found J obsessively consulting a future cube and interrupted. "I wanted to make sure there's no hard feelings after the vote," he said. "As mayor, I want safety and security in the bay as much as you do, and I want to work with you to ensure the best for everyone in town."

J scarcely looked up from his cube, smiling as the toy revealed a positive fortune. "No hard feelings," he insisted. "I only ran because some suits at Landgraab Corp. said I should and paid the registration fee. If I won I'd be indebted to them, but this way I can say I tried so they don't punish my guys for my non-compliance. But between you and me? I voted for you, too."

J's lookalike fourteen-year-old son, Caiden Huntington, had joined his parents, approaching Lavender as she chatted with her cousins, Michael and Sammy, in the living room. "Have you been practicing your double stops?" he asked.

Lavender grinned at the teenager who'd recently become her violin teacher. "I have been. They almost sound good now."

"It always sounds better than you think it does, Lavender."

"If you say so!" She didn't really believe him.

Of all the guests at the party, Mortimer Goth was perhaps most proud of his son's mayoral victory. He wasn't a resident of the town and couldn't vote for him, but seeing him succeed meant the world.

"Another great Goth tale to add to the family archives," he mused, wrapping the oldest of his sons in a hug. "As a kid there was a simulation game I played, and I always made the sim designed for me become the president of the world. But you might actually go out and do it. I couldn't be prouder, Alexander."

Dexter scoffed from a nearby chair. "You were into video games? But Dad, you're so old!"

"It's not like I'm a hundred years old, Dex. Karl and I both like to play video games sometimes. We've got a console at the villa in Willow Creek."

"Are you any good?"

"You'll have to come to Willow Creek to find out," he chided.

After a special week for his family in Brindleton Bay, Mayor Alex Goth was ready to get started fulfilling his promises to the town. ->

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NOTE: Caiden elected himself Lavender's violin instructor when he took one of the Huntington pets to the vet and randomly idled like this. ⬇️ I was already looking for more ways to involve him in the main fam's plotlines though he and Ash aren't friends, and this surprised me because he doesn't look like a violinist - but, for me, that's what works about it! In my head Heather offered to pay him to teach Lavender after she heard him. (Heather 'likes violin,' which is sweet, because Lavender's playing makes her happy.)

NOTE 2: For those who like townie updates and gossip and for those who don't know, Alex's wife Lydia is the younger sister of Olivia (Kim-Lewis) Watson and Heather's close friend, Spencer Pancakes. She and Alex met after the Goths' old cat had kittens; River was already dating Cassandra, so he took Hazel and her friend Lydia to adopt one. Victory moved back to Brindleton Bay with Lydia once she and Alex were married.

In the bottom right photo before the cut are the parents of Avery Harms, who's the girlfriend of Bella and Mortimer's youngest son, Dexter in the posed pic before the cut. Hayes Harms and his wife Abby started life as the randomized Henford grocer and creature keeper after I made Michael Bell and Kim Goldbloom playable. They're parents to Elliott, Avery, and Isaac. Hayes is also the biological father of former Brindleton vet tech Emi Kudo's twin sons (including young ballet dancer Charlie, who's been teased enough and makes his debut May 27th!). Charlie and his brother, Oliver, are younger than Elliott and Avery, but older than Isaac. Currently, Hayes and Abby are aware of the affair twins but know nothing else by choice; Emi has stayed out of their way ever since she first left town, and Avery and her brothers are in the dark about the whole thing.

WCIF Poses Used: Three poses used for the top two photos - Special Day by @beto-ae0, Big Family by @traveling-sims, and Siblings by Katverse.

[nottodayjustin]

June 29th and 30th 2024 best hockey tweet(s) of the day(s)

I will not be commenting on the Panthers parade discourse at this time because it seems pretty heated and I don’t want anyone to get mad at me, thank you for your understanding 🫡

[esqueletosgays]

FRIDAY THE 13TH (2009)

Director: Marcus Nispel Cinematography: Daniel C. Pearl

[shadow-draws-gta]

more of the Fury Horse AU but in the Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron and Horseland art styles :D this AU is growing on me I have to admit it’s a lot of fun to draw

the whole crew in the Spirit art style:

(Left to right: Trini, Grady, Don, Boyd, Norman)

Norman, Don, and Boyd in the Horseland art style:

@onceuponanightmareisawme you asked me to tag you :D thank you for the support :)

[conniesmlb]

Travis Jankowski walk-off ✨⚾

[lucasaustin1995]

Top 3 Paramount Transformers movies

"Bumblebee" (2018)

"Transformers One" (2024)

"Transformers" (2007)

[gangasemwal2025]

2025 NFL Draft Begins in Green Bay: Cam Ward Set to Shine as Top Pick

2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay: Cam Ward Poised to Be No. 1 Pick Posted on April 25, 2025 by DailyZingMindBazaar The 2025 NFL Draft has arrived, and it’s turning the small but mighty city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, into the heart of the football universe. From April 24-26, the iconic Lambeau Field and its surrounding Titletown district will host this annual spectacle, drawing an estimated 250,000 fans…

[packisbackhuh]

faces pt 2 1

[always-rolling-my-eyes]

Taylor hauled her cookies all the way to fuck ass Wisconsin, in the snow, just to watch the Chiefs lose

Omg, she loves him so much 🥰

[chippergoose]

[supernightboy08]

“The Sonic Movie Effect”

The “Sonic Movie Effect” is when a negative fan reaction caused the movie’s design or production to delay or change and end up earning what the fans wanted instead.

In 2018-2019, the design for the Sonic movie was revealed and it end up looking questionable and kinda creepy but when fans saw this design, they demanded that it be changed so the Sonic Movie was delayed to 2020 and caused the filmmakers to change Sonic’s design into the one we got in the recent Sonic movies. Somehow this Ugly Sonic design end up being on the 2022’s Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers movie which I haven’t watched but I think it’s best to ignore that Old Sonic design.

The 2nd time that happened it’s when the Mario movie was announced in 2021 with Chris Pratt being the voice of Mario and it caused a lot of Mario fans to create a petition to change his voice back to Charles Martinet who voiced Mario in the video games but Chris Pratt somehow dodged the bullet on that one which end up making the Mario movie a big success in 2023.

When Micheal Bay was signed on to direct the Transformers movies, he changed the design to look like more organic and somehow unrecognizable which caused a lot of fan backlash throughout the Transformers movies’ history which leads to the box office disappointment of The Last Knight and Bay stepping down as director. But the Transformers movies were saved with a new director “Travis Knight” who changed the designs of the Transformers characters to look more like the original cartoon in the 2018 Bumblebee movie and winning over some G1 fans.

I heard that the “Sonic Movie Effect” is still going on with the new “Minecraft Movie” with Jack Black which I am unsure about but I’m ignoring the fan backlash news about the Minecraft Movie which is coming out in 2025.

What do you think? Did your movies have the “Sonic Movie Effect?”

[rainbowskittle]

I so wish I kept wish ASL back in high school but even then (cuz of this show!!) I learned some but not enough to talk with it.. I can kinda tell signs but not enough to know know. Sigh need an app like Duolingo but for ASL.. all the ones I find aren’t free after one or two lessons. Or just aren’t helpful. I used to use lifeprint but I like how Duolingo is laid out more like ‘game’ lessons to help idk.

[marcovaleyeah]

07.11.24

#Marco-Marathon | Transformers | Films

Film Name: Bumblebee (2018); Production Studios: Paramount Pictures, Tencent Pictures, Hasbro, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Allspark Pictures, Bay Films, Tom DeSanto/Don Murphy Production, Laika Entertainment; Director by: Travis Knight; Screenwriter: Christina Hodson, Shoji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake; Starring: Dylan O'Brien, Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, Jason Drucker; Genres: Science-fiction, Action, Adventure; Running Time: 1 hour 54 minutes;

"Bumblebee" (2018) is a warm and nostalgic film about the friendship between a teenager Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld) and the robot Bumblebee, which refreshed the "Transformers" series. The film is distinguished by emotionality, the atmosphere of the 80s and the successful performance of Steinfeld, which makes it soulful and exciting. Dynamic scenes with robots are complemented by humor and charm, creating a unique story.

Four stars — a touching adventure that shows a new side of the Transformers universe.​​​​

My rating:

⭐⭐⭐⭐

[lucasaustin1995]

Ranking the Transformers movies produced by Michael Bay

"Bumblebee" (2018)

"Transformers One" (2024)

"Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" (2023)

[pimento-playing-hopscotch]

Don’t let the NFL team fool you- Green Bay is a very small, not happening city.

To know Taylor is there breathing the same air as you would be the highlight of the damn week