#nigelchey

[gunthermunch]

ernest. cant explain further

i had to read that post 34 times for some reason my mind wasnt clasping it

[farklelucas]

katie you have to listen to naddpod if you never have!!!! almost every d20 main cast member has been a guest & murph is such an incredible DM and its just so good.

i HAVEN'T seen it yet but maybe off your rec lena i will... i Adore murph as a player so i'm sure i would love him as a dm. ill give it a shot when i've got a chance!!

[meatmandean]

i totally loved your video, it was so thorough and perfectly explained it in a way that a lot of former fans who made videos weren’t quite able to hit. i also watched your gotham video and TOTALLY loved that, and agreed with everything you said in that one as well! please keep making video essays, yours are great!

Thank you hon!!! I’m really glad to hear that 💖💖💖

[ambitionsource]

can we just talk about nigel... walk us through him please

i’m 2 months late to answering this, but yes. yes we can! i’ll try to give the same general portrait of him as i did in the past with like nate and stuff, hopefully it will be somewhat coherent bc i love him and he deserves to be appreciated and understood just as much as our other fave a class kiddos

so as we all know damn well at this point, nigel is an aspiring actor. he’s one of the few students in the a class who has a very core passion that he doesn’t waver from (like in the way maya, farkle, yindra, riley, etc. kind of just do lots of everything -- and eat up the opportunities in their wake LOL -- nigel is like zay in that they both have very clear areas of expertise that they dedicate most of their energy and passion to). and though he’s not as intense or vocal about it, acting is extremely important to nigel. actually, the whole process and experience of being an actor is, from the character work to the play reading and annotating to those moments of actual delivery. he’s an actor in his bones, equally as dedicated as maya or zay just significantly more outwardly laid back about it.

that being said, i feel like all you have to do to really get a sense of how deeply he cares about it is to... ask him about it. like if you get him talking about shakespeare, any of his plays, the kid who always seems so quiet and laid back will be talking a mile a minute and unpacking the nuances and brilliance of shakespeare’s works faster than you can keep up. he’s also like this -- tho not to the same degree as acting -- about classical music / jazz / a capella choirs / orchestra (since he plays the violin), local cafes + coffee, nostalgic story-driven cartoons like digimon that he watched on pbs when he was younger, and editorial cartoons. like he’s the friend that sends yindra and zay his favorite political cartoon from the new york times every sunday to their group chat (and after some time, jade gets these excerpts too). he’s also decently savvy about fashion, at least the lowkey hipster art deco pretentious chic type of fashion. i think he’s similar to asher, riley, and charlie in that he comes off a certain way and everyone assumes they know what he’s like bc he’s great a maintaining this calm persona, but those who really know him know that it’s all a charade and he’s extremely nerdy, excitable, enthusiastic, and impassioned, etc. if he’s comfortable with you, then you get the full nigel chey experience with all those quirks and eccentricities.

part of the reason nigel has the calm, unbothered persona, though, is mainly because of his family. he has a good relationship with his parents and his siblings, but he comes from a family where there’s a lot to juggle and so many things going at once that it behooves him and makes him feel better to be out of the way and not adding to anyone’s plate. as we mentioned on the income scale, nigel is one of the scholarship students at aaa, so much of his parents’ time is dedicated to making ends meet and looking out for all of the chey children. nigel has a few siblings, but the age gap for the most part isn’t that wide. he has an older sister who is one year ahead of him in school (but is not an artist, she’s studying to be a school counselor), a younger sister who is a freshman, a younger brother who is in middle school, and then the baby brother of the family who was unplanned and thus is quite a few years younger than the rest of them. so they’re a crowded, hectic little clan, and nigel feels like the best thing he can do is just stay out of the way as much as possible and be useful when he can. so he’s become very good at internalizing unpleasant emotions, letting things go, and not getting riled up (esp by provocation of younger siblings). in some ways, this has also made him a bit of a doormat, as we see in some scenes with yindra and zay where their personalities are just so much louder than his so he tends to default to them or try to keep the peace.

nigel also puts a lot of pressure on himself because of the money situation in their family as well as the unspoken expectations of his parents. both of them are supportive of him pursuing acting, and they always do their best to make it to at least one of his performances, but they’ve taken pains to make it understood that nigel is going to have to work his ass off simply because they don’t have the means or industry savvy to help give him a leg up (like half of his classmates do). like, they wholeheartedly supported his application to aaa -- especially his dad, who is a bit of a lit nerd himself and loves shakespeare / passed that on to him -- but they made it clear that if he couldn’t get a scholarship, it just wouldn’t be feasible. thankfully, that worked out for the best, but i think nigel lives very aware of that threat nipping at his heels at all times and that’s part of why he throws himself so deeply into the work and was basically oblivious to any other form of Teenagerdom (i.e., jade’s crush or his potential feelings for anyone) for most of his time at aaa.

there’s also a bit of an internal pressure in wanting desperately to make his family proud and feel secure about his future in such an unstable career. like his mom is an analytical mind, she was studying to be an engineer when she was in college but then she dropped out to help take care of nigel’s maternal grandparents and so she never got to realize that for herself and i think she has a lot of anxiety about nigel ending up in a similar situation where he isn’t as secure or happy as she wants him to be. but she doesn’t really like... understand in her head that thats where her hesitation is coming from + the fact that she just isnt an artist and doesnt really get why doing such a risky career would be worthwhile. she supports him, but doesn’t logically Get it. so i think nigel wants to be able to Prove to her he’s got it under control, that he’ll be okay, so that then they can just enjoy his passion as much as he does without worrying about him at the same time. he’s also the first son of the family, and so he has a sort of subconscious pressure as well from masculinity in terms of like coming out successful and able to help support his family, both his and the one he builds in the future with a partner. so big melting pot of anxieties and pressures going on in that beautiful nerdy head of his, but he doesn’t talk about it really even with people he trusts (like yindra and zay) nor do i think he truly understands himself that he’s carrying all that around. it will probably hit him eventually. guess we’ll find out someday!

(fun fact: nigel’s mom also does side work as a seamstress, so that’s part of why he has such a natural appreciation for that type of work. now who else do we know who is a masterful seamstress... hm... its on the tip of my tongue...)

all of that being said, at his core nigel truly is a very laidback guy. its somewhat a persona, but it also is true to his inner self. he’s passionate, but in a tempered and healthy way. i think that sometimes, despite how creative he is in many aspects, he struggles to think outside the box and off the beaten path because of how important measured success and competence is to him. so things like maya doing whatever the fuck she wants and yindra thinking about skipping college and just jumping into the industry don’t compute for him (the same way all of it doesn’t really click for his mom), and as we know, he sometimes becomes frozen in inaction because that feels safer or more logical. and he’s just never going to be the diva that zay or maya or farkle can be, and he’s content with that. if he’s going to make it, in his head, he’s going to achieve it through hard work, dedication, attention to craft, and being a decent person who people enjoy working with. and he also definitely understands the importance of knowing who to trust and having that tight inner circle, i.e., what he has with the true star squad of yindra and zay.

-- Maggie

[lovesickallovermybed]

no but like. were you standing in the hallway with a big cake happy birthday DID I PAINT YOUR BLUEST SKIES THE DARKEST GRAYS.

A UNIVERSE AWAY

[hazardsoflove]

1!

sofia - tiny meat gang

send me a number 1-100 and i’ll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist!

[faevilles]

hi! i’m not actually a new simblr, but since the creation of this blog i haven’t been super active until now, and i never did one of these when i actually made this blog for the first time, so here we go!

i’m lena (she/her), and i’m a maxis mix (but mostly maxis match) simmer. i’ll be posting mostly lookbooks, sims, and gameplay (i’ve just started a series called “a place to call home”) and i’m wcif friendly!

please feel free to follow me, or reblog this post to share it around! i follow back from nigelchey, and i’m very excited to connect with the wonderful and talented people in this community.

[slice-of-magenta]

@nigelchey !!!!!

I cant unseee that! I love itt

Can more people ship Sciles so I can drown myself in Sciles fanfics thank you (especially ones where they adopt/take care of Liam)

[ambitionsource]

who in the a class watches spn and what r their reactions to “canon” destiel LMAO

i’ll be honest, i don’t think any of them would ever admit out loud to watching supernatural at that school gFJSGLKDLH. like. people get ragged on for stumbling during dance. you think anyone is gonna risk that humiliation...

however, as for who actually does or did watch it, probably haley, sarah, and yogi (also wyatt when he was there). haley would be oblivious to the like fan culture around it, and yogi i think would humor stans but not actually be invested in any capacity, so when that happened he was just like LOLLLLL okay. sarah is definitely a destiel stan and is really aggressive about it on her fandom twitter. whereas wyatt probably knows about it but is super aggressive about it NOT being a possibility bc he identifies with one of those men and couldn’t possibly fathom them being g*y

-- Maggie

[ambitionsource]

zayby! king! favourite movie and favourite tv show?

Hey! Favorite movie (cool answer) is BlacKkKlansman, favorite movie (real answer) is Step Up. Favorite TV show (cool answer) is Schitt’s Creek, favorite TV show (real answer) is Dance Academy.

[ambitionsource]

who would you rather be stranded on a desert island with, haley or darby?

That’s an interesting question. Darby does whatever other people tell her to so she would be useful, but not good company since she also agrees with everyone’s opinions. I don’t know Haley very well but when I have spent time with her it’s been pleasant, and I know she’s a hard worker, so I’ll go with Haley. 

[ambitionsource]

i think i have made my feelings on today quite clear but AUGH. OH MY GOD. I AM SO EXCITED.

90 more minutes team!!!!!

-- Maggie

[ambitionsource]

have u seen the movie dead poets society? thoughts?

I actually have, but it’s been a while since I watched it. It’s my list to watch again, and really like, process. Even so, from the one time I watched, it resonated enough for whatever reason that I count it as a favorite film. Maybe because I’m a nerd, I don’t know. But I think it’s great. When I watch it again, ask me this again and I might be able to articulate my thoughts better.

[ambitionsource]

hey ash! what’s your favourite song of all time?

Favorite song of all time... um. I don’t even know where to begin. I really like Lorde and Troye Sivan and lovelytheband, but I don’t know if any of their songs are my favorite per se. I also really like Ruel, but he’s still kind of on the rise so not many people know him.

Actually, though... okay, this is kind of a guilty pleasure song but it’s the only answer I can think of. I have always loved “Copacabana.” I know that’s so weird and dumb, which is why I never tell anybody. I would be destroyed at Adams if I said that out loud. My parents used to listen to it all the time, it’s kind of their song (in a silly way), so I grew up listening to it basically since I could process auditory input. It’s like branded into my brain. And I like the theatricality of it, I know I used to do really dramatic reenactments of it while dancing around my room in elementary school.

This is why it’s good to have a boyfriend who is a total goob. Dylan’s the only person I’ve told about liking the song, and of course he found that fun fact amazing and insisted that we listen to it the moment I confessed. It’s nice, having someone in my life where I can be ridiculous like that with and know it’s a completely safe space and his opinion of me will not change. Now sometimes he’ll randomly turn it on and get me to dance around to it -- though never to the level of showmanship I had at age 9.

Oh, God. We’re turning into my parents, aren’t we?

[ambitionsource]

will there be another duets week this season?

There will in fact! Ah, duets week... what chaos could possibly reign this season...

-- Creative Team