#and flower middle name

[jpriest85-blog]

My Discord friends introduced me to @blacktabbygames Scarlet Hollow, and now I'm obsessed. I've created some concept art of my MC Valentina Scarlet. Her main trait is mystic, but I'm having trouble deciding which secondary trait, so I've created multiple saves for her; Occult Nerd for Mystic/Book smarts, Gothic Romance Heroine for Mystic/Hot, Disney Princess for Mystic/ Talks to animals, Psychic Detective for Mystic/ Keen eye. I've compiled some info for her so far:

Name: Valentina Dahlia Scarlet

Gender: female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Age: 23

Face claim: Manal Issa

Home city: San Francisco

Noticeable Features: The characteristic Scarlet™️ cheekbones and deep set "haunted" eyes. As well as multiple ear piercings, a nose ring, and tattoos;  protective evil eye tattoos on both wrists, and an in memory tattoo on her right shoulder of Dogwood flowers and golden poppies besides her mothers name and a quote from "My Way" by Frank Sinatra. 

Traits:

Occult Nerd Mystic/Book smart

Gothic Romance heroine Mystic/Hot

Disney Princess Mystic/Talks to animals

Psychic Detective Mystic/Keen eye

Occupation: student trying to get a degree in Psychiatry.

Living situation: attic bedroom and shares a house with 10 other roommates, because rent in San Francisco is expensive AF!

Romances: Avery on Occult Nerd save, Reece on Gothic Romance heroine save, Oscar on Disney Princess save, and Kaneeka on Psychic Detective save.

Personality: Valentina comes across as a well-meaning if eccentric person with a strongsenseofcuriosity. She's usually a very sweet and understanding person, which is why she tries to be patient with her cousin Tabitha when she first arrives in Scarlet Hollow. After all, Tabitha is grieving, and family relationships aside, she's still a stranger to her cousin. Still, there are people who will test her temper, and she can be pretty stubborn. Her mystical attunement does sometimes put others off and Valentina has been known to unintentionally creep out people (although during her bus ride she was a bit happy about spooking the creepy guy who kept chattering at her).

This made things very difficult for Valentina growing up as other children would avoid her and her creepy imaginary friends, which later on turned out to be not so imaginary. So she missed out on a lot of things as a kid, like sleepovers and being invited to birthday parties, etc. Thankfully, her mother did what she could to help, even going to doctors and therapy sessions with Valentina. Eventually, people just considered Valentina a harmless eccentric when she grew up. So, while she never quite blossomed into a social butterfly, she did learn how to make friends (especially when she became so pretty as an adult).

Miscellaneous info & Headcanons

Vivian was a big fan of old school jazz and Swing music, and she wound up naming her daughter Valintina because her favorite song was "My Funny Valentine," by Frank Sinatra.

Valintina's father was a Lebanese Jazz musician called Gabriel Aboud who met Vivian while he was touring North Carolina with his band. 

Valentina used to take piano lessons growing up, partly because her father was also a musician, and because it was also one of the few lessons Vivian was forced to take, she didn't completely hate.

Much like her cousin, Tabitha Crystantum, also has a flower middle name, and there is a variation of Dahlia flowers known as Valintina.

Considering how much tragedy befalls the Scarlet family, Vivian probably used many protection charms and talismans on Valentina, especially when she started developing sensitivities to the supernatural when Valentina was old enough, she'd continued this habit from her mom by getting protective evil eye hamsa tattoos on both her wrists.

She was prone to sleepwalking as a child, another reason Vivian took her to see a therapist. She's mostly outgrown it, but sometimes Valentina will start sleepwalking again when she's emotionally distressed.

She's is a polyglot that's fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic (and being able to speak with animals in one of her saves).

She went through a witch phase in high school.

Valentina also knows how difficult it is to live in and maintain an older house, as she resided in a Victorian home in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Granted, the infamous Scarlet Mansion is much grander than the "Painted Lady" she was staying in before coming to Scarlet Hollow.

Living in San Francisco means Valentina gets to meet some pretty eclectic people. For instance, one of her roommates is a Wiccan, another is a violinist for the San Francisco opera, and another is a professional dominatrix.

When she started college, Valentina became involved in a poly relationship with a male TA for a class outside her major and a non-binary classmate. It became pretty serious for a while, but over time, people changed, and Valentina ended her romantic relationship with them when she realized she wanted different things from her life. She is still on friendly terms with both of them, and her exes are still in a relationship with each other.

In addition to the 10 roommates, Valentina also shared her cramped attic bedroom with the ghost of a hippie that died during the Summer of Love back in 1967. He's a pretty chill ghost, actually. His hauntings mostly involve a sudden strong smell of patchouli and asking Valintina if she's seen his hidden stash.

Valentina did not appreciate Wayne protecting/stalking her and probably attempted to mace him at least once before she realized he really didn't intend to harm her. She's a single woman who grew up in a big city. Of course, she's not going to react well to a large man in a mask following her! Tbh Wayne's lucky she didn't try to hit his groin and run.

When "The Sixth Sense " first came out in theaters, Valentina had a hard time sitting through the film. The scenes were Haley Joel Osmond's character was bullied and ostracized by his classmates because he was the creepy weird kid who saw ghosts, hit too close to home for her.

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Trying to transliterate Leara's name into Quenya, and it somehow becomes, uh,

Lëarra

Which basically means "You Sealion!"

And I'm just, "Oh yes, this is That Sealion Woman, and she can breathe fire, as all sealions do."

If Leara, for any reason at all, needed an actual Quenya or Sindarin name for any fun Elvish shenanigans, we'll just use Calairie/Calearil, which is "Light of the Sea" in Quenya and Sindarin, and what Leara actually means.

[solradguy]

I wonder if there's a way to find out if trans/nb people sometimes having unconventional names* was something that existed before roughly 1985 or if it's a direct side effect of generations y & z being exposed to American 1980s action movies, Japanese animated media, and the encouragement of personal handles on the internet not being an actual name

*Names of objects, weather phenomena, animals, adjectives, etc.

(yes I know about Public Universal Friend but that's only one example and an accurate dataset one example does not make)

[raiiny-bay]

oc questionaire

tagged by @sikoi & @salemssimblr (ty for the tags <3)

NAME: Kelly Parker

NICKNAME: Kel, Parker, Redhead, & (on rare occasion) Benny

GENDER: male, he/him

STAR SIGN: taurus

HEIGHT: 5'5

ORIENTATION: bi

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: american, white

FAVORITE FRUIT: lmao

FAVORITE SEASON: winter

FAVORITE FLOWER: iris

FAVORITE SCENT: ngl, it's probably weed

COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: hot chocolate

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: 10

DOGS OR CATS: cats

DREAM TRIP: he'd honestly be happy just taking a day to trip to go to a concert or something. he's not particularly interested in traveling.

NUMBER OF BLANKETS: 2-7 + Dhes

RANDOM FACT: his island in animal crossing is named hot topic

i tag @teddybearsims, @mattodore, @barbieaiden, @wldestluv-rs, @morrigan-sims, @fizzytoo, @void-imp, & @nekrophoria (feel free to ignore ofc!)

[simm-mouse]

I'm mining

I'm mining

I'm mining

I'm mining.....

Mobs so icy

Wonder why they kill me, I'm just mining

In water, I just fell in a hole

Now I'm crying

Every server I go on, yeah, it's inspiring

Minecraft

Minecraft

Minecraft

Minecraft

Minecraft

I'm just mining⛏️

I forgot to add these yesterday. They're also work doodles from monday

[the-mountain-flower]

How did you choose your username?

Short answer: it's pretty & I've had it for a while & decided to stick with it

Long answer: one of my names (my first name, that I got at birth & decided to keep) can be shortened to "Miri", which has been always been a nickname for me. When I was a kid I read a book called "Princess Academy" by Shannon Hale and loved it. One of the things that made me interested in the book in the first place was that the main character is named "Miri" after a local flower on the mountain where she lived. (I later found out that that flowers called "miri" do exist irl, tho are different from the ones in Princess Academy.) Miri flowers were described as small, pink (I love pink 🩷) flowers that appear delicate but thrive against the odds.

Like me.

I'm also from the USA west and spent several years of my life in Utah, which are famous for ⛰️mountains🏔️. While I have issues with living in the US and Utah, the geography of where I'm from is a part of my identity, and I do love the mountains. And I love flowers.

I'd sometimes call myself a "mountain flower" because of that. It evolved into smn I used as a username/pen name/etc, and more recently I decided I wanted to use "the mountain flower" as my artistic signature.

⛰️🌸

[cogbreath]

many "stinky" smells are more interesting and appealing to me than "pleasant" smells which often give me headaches and nausea

[jils-things]

i love my oc fo i love my oc fo

[scorpion-flower]

I think this is gonna get me some hate, but while I do support the Free Palestine movement, I also don't support the slander of Israelis who refuse to enlist in the IOF because they're not freakin' monsters. Yes, I know not wanting to kill inoccents, is the bare minimum, but we can't deny that not falling for the indoctrination of your regime/society, takes guts and that more people should be like that.

[trinitymarconeptune]

𝓜𝔂 𝓰𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓮𝓷 𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻

[briaberri]

photo essay 1: a flower loving child into a flower loving teen.

Elain, and the mortal life she thought she knew. I imagine a curious and observant soul with a rich inner world, fascinated by growing things, who would go without shoes as long as she could. a kid in love with beauty.

[icedteaandoldlace]

Kamilla's middle name is Jasmine, I've just decided.

[emieclat]

i don’t think i’ve ever picked up a bird before

[marislittlethings]

it's so fucking funny to read fic in a fandom that was most active in like 2016/2017 and has since become... a bit less so

[cyrilvows]

having an affectionate father is great until you get your lights cuddled out three times a day

[httpiastri]

45 years 💙💛