#eric lewis adult

[sundaymorningsims4]

« Bon, voilà le topo : Dennis Kim et Lydia Spencer ont eu une fille, Alice Spencer-Kim, avant de divorcer. Alice a épousé Eric Lewis, avec qui elle a eu une petite Olivia Spencer-Kim-Lewis. Ils vivent tous les trois avec le père d'Alice (Dennis, vous vous souvenez ?) et la mère d'Eric, Vivian Lewis. Quoi ? Personne n'a dit que la vie de famille était simple ! »

Vivian Lewis 🥐

Dennis Kim 🏌🏻‍♂️

Eric Lewis 💼

Alice Spencer-Kim 🎨

Olivia Spencer-Kim-Lewis 🤡

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[dear-indies]

Hi dearies! I was wondering if you could help me find an fc (obviously!) The muse in mind had a bit of a wild side in their youth but is trying to turn it around now and be a proper adult. I know that's a little particular, but thankfully nothing else is decided! Any ethnicity, gender or age as long as they can sell the "used to be bad but now good" look. Please and thank you! Hopefully that made sense 🤞

Danny Trejo (1944) Mexican [Indigenous, as well as European, small amount of African].

Lindsay Duncan (1950)

Clarke Peters (1952) African-American.

Benjamin Bratt (1963) Peruvian of Quechua descent, White.

Timothy Olyphant (1968)

Peter Dinklage (1969) - has achondroplasia.

Melissa McCarthy (1970)

Don Lee (1971) Korean.

Carla Gugino (1971)

Michael Irby (1972) African-American / Mexican.

Clemens Schick (1972) - has said that he's not interested in either "gay" or "heterosexual" labels and falls in love with both men and women, but only dates men.

Sara Ramírez (1975) Mexican and some Irish - non-binary, queer and bisexual (they/them) - is pro Palestine!

Pedro Pascal (1975) White Chilean - called for ceasefire and medical aid in Palestine!

Tawny Cypress (1976) African-American, Accawmacke / White - is queer.

Raúl Castillo (1977) Mexican.

Rutina Wesley (1978) African-American - has dated men and women but hasn't labelled her sexuality.

Natasha Lyonne (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Stephanie Beatriz (1981) Colombian [White, one quarter Sephardi Jewish, possibly other] / Bolivian [Unspecified Indigenous, White, possibly other] - is bisexual.

JD Pardo (1980) Argentinean / Salvadorian.

T'Nia Miller (1980) Afro Jamaican - is a lesbian.

Ricky Whittle (1981) Afro Jamaican / White.

Beth Ditto (1981) - is queer - is pro Palestine!

Gabriel Luna (1982) Mexican and Lipan Apache.

Riz Ahmed (1982) Pakistani - is pro Palestine!

Mahesh Jadu (1982) Bihari, Gorakhpuri and Kashmiri Indo-Mauritian.

Billie Piper (1982)

Dichen Lachman (1982) Tibetan / German.

Ed Skrein (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly English.

Greta Lee (1983) Korean.

Levy Tran (1983) Vietnamese.

Carlos Miranda (1984) Nicaraguan.

Asia Kate Dillon (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unspecified - non-binary and pansexual (they/them) - is pro Palestine!

Max Riemelt (1984)

Jaimie Alexander (1984)

Richard Cabral (1984) Mexican.

Rahul Kohli (1985) Punjabi Indian - uses he/they.

Clayton Cardenas (1985) Mexican, Filipino.

Miguel Gomez (1985) Colombian.

Jai Courtney (1986)

Josh Segarra (1986) Puerto Rican.

Monica Raymund (1986) Dominican Republic / English, Ashkenazi Jewish - is bisexual.

Roberta Colindrez (1986) Mexican - is queer.

Michaela Coel (1987) Ghanaian - is aromantic.

Sarah Snook (1987)

Mae Martin (1987) - is non-binary (they/them).

Lewis Tan (1987) Singaporean Chinese / White.

David Castañeda (1989) Mexican.

Danielle Brooks (1989) - has openly dated men and women but hasn't labelled her sexuality.

Hannah John-Kamen (1989) Nigerian / Norwegian.

Jack O'Connell (1990)

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (1991) African-American, 1/4 Emma Mackey- is trans.

Ramy Youssef (1991) Egyptian - is pro Palestine!

Jeanine Mason (1991) Cuban.

Julio Macias (1990) Mexican.

Eric Graise (1990) African-American - is a double leg amputee and uses prosthetic legs and a wheelchair.

Kiowa Gordon (1990) Hualapai (maternal grandmother), White.

Barry Keoghan (1992)

Bae Suzy (1994) Korean.

Jessie Mei Li (1995) Hongkonger / English - is a gender non-conforming woman who uses she/they.

Bilal Baig (1995) Pakistani - is genderfluid and non-binary (they/them).

Kehlani (1995) African-American, French, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Mexican, Filipino, White, Choctaw - non-binary womxn, lesbian and polyamorous - she/they - is pro Palestine!

Ruth Codd (1996) - is a right leg below the knee amputee and uses a prosthetic leg.

Florence Pugh (1996) - is pro Palestine!

Emma Mackey (1996)

Emilio Sakraya (1996) Moroccan and Serbian.

Please let me know if you'd like something more specific!

[moonsimi]

The Lewis Family - Rotation 5 End

The Lewis household consists of Eric and Alice. They have an adult daughter, Olivia, who´s moved out and had a child of her own. Still living at home and in high school they have Noelle and Arthur who are twins, and was born on Winterfest (hence the christmas names. lol) Noelle and Arthur are both in high school and very close to each other. Noelle is a theater kid, who has drama club after school, and Arthur is on the computer team. He´s a bit more popular.

Eric is in the business career, and Alice used to be in the artist career, but quit to open up her own store. She now paints for a living and sells them in her own studio. 

[aestheticallynotdeerlightful]

It would be super cool to see your voice claims for the characters!

VOICE CLAIMS WOO!

Okay okay so this is a very long list, because I’m indecisive, and originally I would’ve loved to make this a video but alas I do not how to edit, nor do I own my computer, so it’ll have to wait

I was debating if I should of just sent my Google doc here of everything (because that doc has even more then I’m sending here) but I decided to just- copy and paste some of it so apologizes in advance for the length!

This list is very extensive and I’ve pulled voices from ALL over the place, I haven’t even watched all these shows, most of this I’ve just seen through clips and went “omg it’s perfect” so it’s a mess I’m sorry akdjsjd

Long post ahead!! (Italicized font are the ones I especially like the most)(I’ve also included links to some of these if you’ve never heard them)

UNDERTALE

Frisk

•Gregory (Over the garden wall)- Colling Dean

•Jessica (Craig of the creek)- Lucia Grace Cunningham

•Chihiro (spirited away English dub)- Daveigh Chase

•chowder (chowder)- Nicky jones

•niki yang, BMO (adventure time), Candy (gravity falls)

Flowey

•Yakko Warner (animaniacs) -Rob paulsen

•Richard Horvitz

Toriel

•Sigourney weaver

•little foots mother (land before time)

•Kala (Tarzan)- Glenn close and Kat cressida

•freya (god of war)- Danielle bisutti

Napstablook

•Sadness (Inside out)- Phyllis smith (although maybe a tad pitched down. But only a smidge)

Sans

•Herb (BoJack horseman)- Stanley Tucci

•Bob (bobs burgers)-H. Jon Benjamin

•Moist Cr1tikal (the YouTuber)

•Revtrosity (also a YouTuber)

•Red guy (DHMIS) -Joseph pelling

Papyrus

•Jacksepticeye (you all know who that is.)

•Scudworth (clone high)

•Skeletor (he-man) (I think this one speaks for itself)

•revtrosity (YouTube)

Monster kid

•Darwin Watterson (Gumball)

•Steven universe- Zach Callison (specifically young steven)

•Wybie (Coraline)- Robert Bailey Jr

Grillby

•Jack Skellington (nightmare before Christmas)- Danny elfman and Chris Sarandon

•Wirt (over the garden wall)- Elijah wood

Gaster

•Narrator (the Stanley parable) kevan Brighting

•bubo (bubo)- James dijit

•knight lautrec (dark souls)

•Sasha barbicon (titanic adventure out of time)

Undyne

•Jasper (Steven universe)- Kimberly brooks

•kuvira (legend of Korra)- Zelda Williams

•Yunan (amphibia)

Alphys

•Peridot (Steven universe) -Shelby Rabara

•Lara Jill Miller

Mettaton

•ENA (ENA)- Gabe V and Lizzie freeman

Mettaton Ex

•Alaska thunderfuck (hieeeee)

Burgerpants

•Hiccup (HTTYD)- Jay baruchel

•Randell(monsters inc)- Steve Buscemi

Asgore

•Mufasa (lion king)

•Aslan (Narnia)- Liam neeson

Asriel

•Lewis (meet the robinsons)

•kubo (kubo and the two strings)- art parkinson

•yes hear me out: Max (camp camp) -Michael Jones

Hyperdeath Asriel/Adult asriel

•Anakin (Star Wars)

Chara

•Connie (Steven universe)

•Kristofferson (fantastic mr fox)- Eric chase Anderson

•Marcy Wu (amphibia)

•Demetri (cobra Kai the karate kid saga continues)

•Ronno (Bambi)

Temmie

•Happy (Fairytail)- Tia Ballard

Mad dummy

•Blitzo (Helluva boss)- Brandon rogers

Gerson

•Yule (Mune: guardian of the moon)- (it’s the large green old guy)

That’s it for the Classic cast so far, I’ll make a seperate post this with my picks for the Environmentalshift au and other miscellaneous voices at a later time. This took forever

Maybe someday I’ll turn this into a video. So it’s easier

[looloolooweez-sims]

At the start of Round 3,

The Caliente-Lewis family:

Lives in the Pendula View neighborhood of Willow Creek; with N.A.P.s Foodies Unite, Green Gardening, Juiced Community, Support the Performing Arts

Has about § 3,850 in the bank

Owns a house worth about § 112,625; with lot traits Convivial, Good Schools, Geothermal

Personal details under the cut!

Eric Lewis:

Is an adult

Has the traits Glutton, Materialistic, Self-assured; plus the aspiration trait Business Savvy, plus the reward trait Entrepreneurial

Has the Fortune aspiration Mansion Baron, at level 4 "Mansion Baron"

Has the Fortune aspiration Fabulously Wealthy, at level 2 "Learning Earning"

Is in the Criminal career, at level 5 "Minor Crimelord"

Is working on the skills Programming (level 8), Mischief (level 5), Fitness (level 2), Parenting (level 2)

Has developed the lifestyles People Person, Techie, Workaholic

Dina Caliente:

Is a YA

Has the traits Lazy, Materialistic, Romantic; plus the aspiration trait Alluring

Has the Romance aspiration Soulmate, at level 2 "Marriage Material"

Has the Popularity aspiration Neighborhood Confidant

Is in the part-time Retail job, at level 3 "Customer Support"

Is working on the skills Charisma (level 8), Mixology (level 5), Dancing (level 3), Fitness (level 3), Parenting (level 3)

Dulcinea Caliente-Lewis:

Is a toddler

Has the trait Independent

Is working on all toddler skills

[realjennyrae]

Spencer-Kim-Lewis Family Rotation 4:

Eric Spencer-Kim and Alice Spencer-Kim have had two children successfully fly the nest, but now have their youngest daughter Cristina Kim-Lewis facing her teen years. As she prepares to be a young adult, what path will their lives take?

Sims 4 Rotation 4 || Willow Creek Families || Spencer-Kim-Lewis Family

[deathdyinggrief2023]

Thanatology Bibliography

THANATOLOGY READINGS 

Moll, Rob. (2010). The Art of Dying: Living Fully Into the Life to Come. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN: 9780830837366 

Parkes, C., Laungani, P. and Young, W. (1997). Death and Bereavement Across Cultures. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9780415131377

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alford, John & Catlin, George. (1993). The role of culture in grief. The Journal of Social Psychology, 133(2), 173-84.

Aries, Philippe. (1976). The Hour of Our Death. New York: Bantom.

Burton, Laurel., & Tarlos-Benka, Judy. (1997). Grief-Driven Ethical Decision-Making. Journal of Religion and Health, 36(4), 333-343. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/27511175

Castle, Jason. & Phillips, William. (2003). Grief rituals: Aspects that facilitate adjustment to bereavement. Journal of Loss & Trauma, 8(1), 41-71.

Corr, Charles A., Donna M. Corr, and Kenneth J. Doka. (2019).  Death & Dying, Life & Living. Boston, MA: Cengage.

Crunk, Elizabeth. Burke, Laurie., & Robinson, Mike. (2017). Complicated grief: An evolving theoretical landscape. Journal of Counseling & Development, 95(2), 226-233.

Doughty, Caitlin. (2015). Smoke gets in your eyes and other lessons from the crematory. New York: Northcott. 

Dresser, Norine & Wasserman, Freda. (2010). Saying goodbye to someone you love: Your emotional journey through end-of-life and grief. New York: Demos Medical Publishing. 

Frank, Arthur W. (2013). The wounded storyteller. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Guinther, Paul.,Segal, Daniel. (2003). Gender differences in emotional processing among bereaved older adults. Journal of Loss & Trauma, 8(1), 15-33.

Heath, Yvonne. (2015). Love your life to death: How to plan and prepare for end of life so you can live life fully now. Canada: Marquis Publishing.

Hemer, Susan. (2010). Grief as social experience: Death and bereavement in lihir, papua new guinea¹. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 21(3), 281-297. 

Kalanithi, Paul. (2016). When Breath Becomes Air. New York: Random House.

Kellehear, Allan. (2002). Grief and loss: Past, present and future. Medical Journal of Australia, 177(4), 176-177.

Kwon, Soo-Young. (2006). Grief ministry as homecoming: Framing death from a korean-american perspective. Pastoral Psychology, 54(4), 313-324. doi:10.1007/s11089-005-0002-1

Lawrence, Elizabeth., Jeglic, Elizabeth., Matthews, Laura., & Pepper, Carolyn. (2006). Gender differences in grief reactions following the death of a parent. Omega - Journal of Death and Dying, 52(4), 323-337.

Leone Fowler, Shannon. (2017). Traveling with Ghosts. New York: Simon & Schuster. 

Lewis, Clive Staples. (2009). The Problem of Pain. New York: Harper. 

Lopez, Sandra. (2011). Culture as an influencing factor in adolescent grief and bereavement. Prevention Researcher, 18(3), 10-13.

McCreight, Bernadette. (2004). A grief ignored: Narratives of pregnancy loss from a male perspective.Sociology of Health & Illness, 26(3), 326-350.

Miller, Eric. (2015). Evaluations of hypothetical bereavement and grief: The influence of loss recency, loss type and gender. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International De Psychologie, 50(1), 60-3. doi:10.1002/ijop.12080

Northcott, Herbert.C., & Wilson, Donna.M. (2017). Dying and death in Canada (3rd ed.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

Nuland, Sherwin B. (1995). How We Die. New York: Vintage.

Penman, Emma., Breen, Lauren., Hewitt, Lauren., & Prigerson, Holly. (2014). Public attitudes about normal and pathological grief. Death Studies, 38(8), 510-516.

Rosenstein, Donald L. & Yopp, Justin M. (2018). The Group: Seven widowed fathers reimagine life. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rubinstein, Gidi. (2004). Locus of control and helplessness: Gender differences among bereaved parents. Death Studies, 28(3), 211-223.

Sandburg, Sheryl, & Grant, Adam. (2017). Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 

Schonfeld, Davis., Quackenbush, Mike., & Demaria, Thomas. (2015). Grief across cultures: Awareness for schools. Nasn School Nurse (print), 30(6), 350-2.

Stelzer, Eva-Maria., Atkinson, Ciara., O'Connor, Mary F., & Croft, Alyssa. (2019). Gender differences in grief narrative construction: A myth or reality? European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1),

Stroebe, Margaret., & Schut, Hank. (1998). Culture and grief. Bereavement Care, 17(1).

Swinton, John and Richard Payne. (2009). Living Well and Dying Faithfully. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Tarakeshwar, Nalini., Hansen, Nathan., Kochman, Arlene., & Sikkema, Kathleen. (2005). Gender, ethnicity and spiritual coping among bereaved hiv-positive individuals. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 8(2), 109-125.

Versalle, Alexis. & McDowell, Eugene. (2005). The attitudes of men and women concerning gender differences in grief. Omega - Journal of Death and Dying, 50(1), 53-67.

Walter, Tony. (2010). Grief and culture. Bereavement Care, 29(2), 5-9. 

Walter, Tony. (2010). Grief and culture: A checklist. Bereavement Care, 29(2), 5-9.

Winkel, Heidemarie. (2001). A postmodern culture of grief? On individualization of mourning in Germany. Mortality, 6(1), 65-79.

[ausetkmt]

The New York Times: Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books.

“Picture the Dream,” on display at the New-York Historical Society, shows that children, far from being mere witnesses to the civil rights movement, have played central roles in it.

In a verdant rural setting, a weathered gray fence separates two girls, one Black, one white. The Black child extends her hand as the white girl, already straddling the fence’s top rail, reaches down. Although they barely grasp each other’s fingers, a viewer can sense their curiosity, their anticipation, their desire to surmount this barrier.

The scene, a watercolor by E.B. Lewis, is among the first works visitors encounter in “Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books,” on view through July 24 at the New-York Historical Society. Created for Jacqueline Woodson’s book “The Other Side,” from 2001, the painting reflects two of this exhibition’s major themes: that progress stems from everyday, individual action as much as from collective effort; and that children, far from being mere witnesses to the civil rights movement, have played central roles in it.

“It was kids themselves who are on the sidewalks and streets, going to jail, getting bitten by dogs, taking the attack of billy clubs,” Andrea Davis Pinkney, the exhibition’s curator, said in an interview at the museum. “And that is happening right now. This minute.”

The show, which traces the civil rights movement from segregation to the present, captures those terrible moments, along with interludes of joy. Organized by the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, “Picture the Dream” is the first exhibition to chronicle this history through children’s literature, Pinkney said. When the show debuted at the High Museum in August 2020, she added, some visitors thought George Floyd’s killing and the following protests had inspired it. But while “Picture the Dream” had been planned much earlier, subsequent events, including the racist massacre in Buffalo last month, have only sharpened its relevance.

“A picture book can never heal a tragedy,” Pinkney said, but “it can help us,” she added. Books allow families “to come together — an adult and a child — and say, ‘Let’s talk about this.’”

The potential to provoke such conversations was key to selecting the exhibition’s art, which comes from 60 books, nonfiction and fiction. Pinkney, an editor at Scholastic and an award-winning writer — she frequently collaborates with her husband, the illustrator Brian Pinkney — knew the show would commemorate milestones, including the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955 and 1956 and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches in 1965. But in addition to honoring events, she wanted to feature a range of mediums and artists, including young illustrators like Vashti Harrison, as well as renowned figures like Faith Ringgold and Jerry Pinkney (her father-in-law).

The artworks, combined with explanatory text, constitute a kind of picture book themselves. Pinkney wrote the words as if she were creating a story, exhorting young museumgoers to get ready to walk: “Look down at your shoes. Are they sturdy?”

Pinkney and her collaborators also divided the show into chapters: “A Backward Path” explores the Jim Crow era; “The Rocks Are the Road” focuses on the movement itself; and “Today’s Journey, Tomorrow’s Promise” celebrates its rewards, while stressing that there is still much to be done. Along with famous faces like Rosa Parks and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., each segment features surprises, not the least of which is seeing the illustrations at full scale.

“The original artwork speaks with a different resonance,” the illustrator Bryan Collier, who has four works in the show, said in a phone interview. Because, he added, “it tells you a little bit more, it expands the idea of what a picture book is.”

The collage-and-watercolor illustration that Collier created for a picture book of Langston Hughes’s poem “I, Too,” depicts a Black Pullman porter in a striking close-up, staring resolutely through the translucent stars and stripes of an American flag. What visitors learn is that African American railway porters circulated news to Black communities around the country.

“When you say, ‘Pullman porter,’ you’re talking about a community organizer and a leader,” Collier said. Such a figure, he added, was “a driving force to tell that poem.”

The exhibition pairs Collier’s illustration with a 1959 copy of “The Negro Travelers’ Green Book” — a guide to places that were safe for Black motorists — as well as a digitized version visitors can read. The historical society supplemented the show with these objects and others, including segregation-era “White” and “Colored” signs and a photograph by Stephen Somerstein of children in a Selma-to-Montgomery march. The photo complements P.J. Loughran’s illustration of a marching crowd for Lynda Blackmon Lowery’s vivid memoir, “Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March.”

“I think kids and adults sometimes go to a museum, and they see illustrations or pictures of things, and they think: ‘Well, was this real? Did this really happen?’” Alice Stevenson, the vice president and director of the historical society’s DiMenna Children’s History Museum, said in a phone interview. “And we wanted to be able to give some touch points throughout the exhibition to really ground people in the reality of what these illustrations are representing.” (Visitors can also see historical footage in a short film, “Picture the Dream,” on the Bloomberg Connects app.)

The added objects heighten the impact of searing portrayals like Eric Velasquez’s charcoal drawing of white adults and children heckling Black girls marching, from Angela Johnson’s book “A Sweet Smell of Roses.”

“History itself did not see fit to sugarcoat itself for me,” Velasquez said in a phone conversation. As a Black man, he added, “I portray it the way I remember it.”

The exhibition is unflinching in acknowledging that not all Black children survived the struggle. Philippe Lardy’s image for Marilyn Nelson’s poetry book “A Wreath for Emmett Till” features the face of Till, a 14-year-old murdered by white racists in 1955, encircled by thorns and chains. Tim Ladwig’s illustration from Carole Boston Weatherford’s book “The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights” is less stylized. It shows Till’s portrait and his coffin, but uses the raised lid — the boy’s mother insisted on a public viewing — to hide the brutalized body.

In choosing such images, “we were going to lean right into the truth,” said Pinkney, who added that the educational organization Embrace Race had evaluated the accuracy and the tone of the exhibition’s content.

The show’s final section strikes a more optimistic note, with illustrations like Velasquez’s portrayal of Barack Obama at a jubilant campaign rally, from Michelle Cook’s “Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack and the Pioneers of Change.” The historical society, however, has also interspersed three works that children created in 2020 — not for picture books but about Black Lives Matter protests.

“We want kids to be able to respond to the past in their own lives,” Stevenson said.

Perhaps the best call to action is the books themselves, all shelved within a reading nook in the show’s concluding segment. Here, too, an outstretched hand appears, part of a joyful blown-up illustration that Collier painted for Useni Eugene Perkins’s book “Hey Black Child.”

“That’s always the goal — to read books, to embrace them, to love them,” Pinkney said. “And to know that a picture book can be your North Star.”

[52booksproject]

Book 2: I Took My Frog to the Library

Ok, so after last time I was feeling a bit wary and so when I got 801, Literary Theory, I had my choice by such giants as Harold Bloom, C.S. Lewis, or Umberto Eco. But I fell in love with the title "I Took My Frog to the Library". And so I went so far as to get the paper book since it didn't have an e-book let alone being available from Overdrive.

The book is 32 pages long and meant for 2-5 year olds. It was written by Eric A. Kimmel and illustrated by Blanche Sims. It's cute and it points out the perils of bringing various pets to the library (frog scares the librarian, giraffe reads over peoples' shoulders, hyena laughs too loud at storytime, etc.). I kind of wondered why the hyena didn't eat the children, and then I had my art project for the book. At first I was going to have the protagonist bring her Cronus to the library where it proceeds to eat the other children à la Goya, but given recent events I decided it wouldn't be the greatest idea, so I used my second choice.

SHOULD YOU READ THIS BOOK? If you're 2-5, or enjoy books in that range I say go for it. It's delightful and you learn a valuable lesson about appropriate places for pets to boot.

ART PROJECT:

Given my art skills, I'd call this a victory for trying to get in the same <del>neighborhood</del> country as the art style for the book.

Next week it's back to adult books again.

[alexandrasimblr]

Sims 4 Base Game Revamp: Spencer-Kim-Lewis

First off, they all get careers:

Dennis -> business Vivian -> culinary Eric -> tech Alice -> painting

And of course, their ages get adjusted so Alice wasn't a teen mom when she had Olivia. Skills get added, appropriate to their career levels and ages. (Dennis is an elder. He should have *some* charisma, right??)

Secondly, their lifetime wishes need to make sense. Vivian wants to be friends with three of her kids? SHE NEEDS THREE KIDS! Introducing Barb and Anthony Lewis. Barb is the oldest sister; she's lesbian and currently single, almost an adult. Anthony is the middle child, because I imagine Eric as the youngest child, since he's the one inheriting the family manse.

Barbara Lewis (Barb) is an art historian -- she and Alice often have, *ahem* "difference" of opinion on interpretation of paintings.

Anthony, the neglected middle child, turned out quite gloomy. But he randomized with this awesome hair dyed and straightened his hair recently to give himself a proper rock star look. He wants to go places in the music industry. Anthony is ethically non-monogamous, and would love to share his life with multiple partners, but we'll probably breed him off to someone's spare cousin as we edit the world to make sense.

Oh, and of course they all need a Dead Dad: Earl Lewis, who I killed off by died from an unfortunate accident when attempting to repair his son's computer.

He'll be in a tombstone in the Willow Creek graveyard, which is of course across the street from the Goths. But more on that later.

(I lowkey hate that ghost sims change color to match their mood, and they're always so buggering happy.)

Oh, and their house, Cypress Plantation. More on that in the next post. It's one of my favorite gallery builds.

[brazyprincess]

This Abigail Cowen-Led Film Is Everything That Is Wrong With Christian Movies

Headline : Redeeming Love a 2022 film from Pinnacle Peak Pictures and Mission Pictures International, exemplifies a chronic problem with modern fiction made by Christians (rather than films about Christianity): it lacks depth. That's a sadly ironic sentiment, given how the Christian Bible advocates for universal acceptance, compassion, and peace, and addresses topics grim enough to make David Cronenberg flinch. Redeeming Love, for instance, simplifies and sanitizes nuanced subjects before presenting a facile, nigh-magical solution to suffering. The film's themes are worthwhile in theory yet rendered lifeless through poor execution.

Consequently, Redeeming Love also lacks the empathy its faith espouses. Everyone knows the great wordsmith Roger Ebert's description of filmmaking as "a machine that generates empathy." Visual media is especially qualified to distill the common universality of the human experience into a few hours and highlight the nonuniversal. And the key to a compelling movie is a strong narrative and an empathetic heart. Remove that from the equation, and what's left? A story as flat and unappetizing as yesterday's pancake batter.

What Is ‘Redeeming Love' About?

Redeeming Love — based on an enormously successful historical Christian romance novel by Francine Rivers — introduces Angel (Abigail Cowen), a popular sex worker in an 1850s California town. Angel didn't choose this lifestyle; following the death of her devoutly religious mother Mae (Nina Dobrev, who's too good for this), a wealthy pedophile known as Duke (Eric Dane) forces Angel into child prostitution, rape, incest, and non-consensual abortion and sterilization. An adult Angel despises her situation but is penniless because the brothel's madam, the Duchess (Famke Janssen, also too good for this), confiscates the money for her own use. Angel has nowhere to go and no way to support herself outside the brothel. Keeping her emotional walls up at all times is her only protection against further pain.

Enter Michael Hosea (Tom Lewis), a young farmer praying for a wife. He falls in love with Angel when he spots her walking the town streets and takes the news she's a sex worker with humor and refreshing acceptance: sure, God, why not! He spends exorbitant amounts of gold to visit the object of his affection. The two don't sleep together. Instead, Michael repeatedly asks Angel to marry him; Angel refuses, befuddled, irritated, and bored that they just won't bang and get it over with. It's only after a severe beating from one of the brothel's guards (who has a disturbing sexual obsession with Angel and almost rapes her) that a pain-befuddled Angel wearily accepts Michael's latest proposal. Marriage to a weird farmer is surely a better option, right? Ding-dong go the church bells, and Michael whisks his new bride home to the farm.

Despite the Success of the Novel, 'Redeeming Love' Was a Flop

The Christian-based studios, Pinnacle Peak Pictures, and Mission Pictures International co-produced Redeeming Love and it was distributed by none other than Universal Pictures! Both companies are behind surprise hits: Pinnacle Peak (then Pure Flix Entertainment) released God's Not Dead in 2014, which grossed $64 million on a $2 million budget, while Mission Pictures oversaw I Can Only Imagine, the fourth highest-grossing biopic in the world ($86 million on a $7 million budget). The Redeeming Love novel has sold over 3 million copies since 1991, so both precedents would suggest a similar profit trajectory. Instead, Redeeming Love failed to redeem its $30 million, seeing a return of $9 million at the box office. If Christian audiences responded to the prior films, why not this one? That merits deeper speculation for another time.

Redeeming Love' Brings No Nuance to Difficult Topics

On paper, Redeeming Love isn't necessarily a terrible film. The central performances are fine (Abigail Cowen is a rising star and her role in Netflix's Fate: The Winx Saga suggests great promise), the cinematography's pretty enough for $30 million, and the directing's worst sin is the sin of lackluster. But everything goes through the motions of a story instead of having a soul. The narrative clearly wants its audience to sympathize with Angel. We should root for her happiness; instead, I resented how this woman's past unfolded like emotional torture porn far more than I despised the fictional characters committing said acts. Even considering how women were treated in the 1850s, piling atrocity after atrocity onto Angel verges toward parody and audience manipulation.

Moreover, the depiction of sex work is nuance-deficient. One might briefly entertain a good faith argument that there wasn't enough runtime to do justice to those who choose sex work willingly and their right to do so, those unwilling but without any other recourse to survive, and the communities such poverty disproportionally affects. But for a story inseparable from sex work, the film's hot take seems to boil down to a vapid "prostitution bad."

It doesn't help that some of the plot twists are worthy of a spit-take and therefore undercut any good intentions on the part of the filmmakers or actors. For example: Duke orchestrates a meeting between Angel and her dad. The neglectful jerk hasn't seen Angel since she was around eight years old. He doesn't recognize this beautiful adult woman, so Angel has sex with her father as punishment for leaving her and her mother destitute. Once her father realizes he unknowingly slept with his bastard daughter, he takes his life. Is this baloney a legitimate drama, or did I accidentally turn on the Days of Our Lives: 1850s spin-off? (That doesn't exist, but I would probably watch it.)

[anotherdayinsimworld]

Okay, so here's the link to the actual in-game version of this family:

Dennis Kim became Dennis Mercer, because I thought the word "Mercer" referred to a type of infection, because I used to watch House and I misunderstood what they were saying when they said "MRSA". Dennis Mercer starts the game as an elder so he didn't last very long. He also died before I started making an effort to collect tombstones/urns, so all I have left of him are the photos I took early in the game.

Dennis Mercer's legacy is his prize chrysanthemum collection, which were maintained after his death by his daughter and then granddaughter. Most of them have been upgraded to "perfect" status. Of course, the plants were overridden when I installed Basemental Drugs, but that's a whole thing.

Dennis Mercer's daughter was Alice Sepsis-Mercer, who became a prominent painter in Willow Creek and Simworld in general and I think she has a star in Del Sol Valley so she would have been a Global Superstar.

Vivian Lewis became Vivian Plague, who also started as an elder and has long since died without an urn. Her legacy was writing a series of children's books about Bill the Dead Cat, most of which are still in the household inventory.

Eric Lewis became Eric Plague. He was a software engineer who advanced pretty far in his career.

Alice Sepsis-Mercer and Eric Plague only had the one daughter, Olivia Mercer-Plague, who was a child when the game started. Both have since aged and passed, their tombstones can be found in the Magnolia Blossom park which has been partially converted into a cemetery.

Olivia Mercer-Plague is currently a young adult and is probably a lot younger than she should be. The Glitch fucked shit up.

[distrolord]

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[simpsonsreviewsbykristyn]

S1E1: Pre-Show Stream of Consciousness/Wikipedia Read

HERE WE GO: The very first episode (sort of), "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".

I didn’t remember if the very first episode of season 1 was the one where they go on a summer vacation and Homer almost drives them off a cliff, or a winter holiday one, but now that I’m seeing the title of it again, it is clearly a winter holiday episode.

I have no recollection whatsoever of what happens in this episode. Is this where they get Santa’s little helper?? That is obviously on the Christmas theme. I know they get him in an early Christmas episode, but is it that early, literally the first episode? Maybe. If not I have no idea what it’s about. I remember the thanksgiving one where Bart ruins Lisa’s school thing. Wait is this that one?? Maybe it is, I just assumed the title referred to Christmas but maybe its even that thanksgiving one. I'm gonna read a bit about it before I watch it, because why not. 

OH MY GOD lmao, nothing could have prepared me for this: “Bart Simpson disobediently gets a tattoo against the permission of his parents.” Ok, I vaguely remember this now that I’m reading about it.

“After Marge spends all the family's holiday budget on having it removed, Homer learns that his boss is not giving employees Christmas bonuses, and takes a job as a shopping mall Santa.” I…..do not remember this…? I imagine I will once I see it. I guess it’s clearly neither that I thought though and those ones are still to come. 

As per Wikipedia: “Several of the scenes were laid out by Eric Stefani, brother of Gwen Stefani, the lead singer of the rock band No Doubt.” Fun! 

“Seymour Skinner, Milhouse Van Houten, Ralph Wiggum, Sherri and Terri, Moe Szyslak, Mr. Burns, Barney Gumble, Patty and Selma, Grampa Simpson, Ned and Todd Flanders, Santa's Little Helper, Snowball II, Dewey Largo and Lewis all make their first appearances in this episode. Snowball I is mentioned for the first time and Waylon Smithers can be heard over the speaker at the power plant, but he is not seen.” Also fun. I have no idea who Dewey Largo is - maybe the music teacher?

"Since airing, the episode has received mostly positive reviews from television critics. IGN's Robert Canning in a 2008 review of the episode noted, "though not the funniest of episodes, it certainly was groundbreaking. [...] With this episode, The Simpsons had its premise down, and it certainly had its edge.” I believe that edge is what I refer to as creepy - the creep zone. I don’t have a problem with edgy! I don’t know what it is but there is something in general that creeps me out about “”adult”" cartoons, until it eventually doesn’t, for some reason. Maybe we will discover why together. 

A few other reviews say it’s mediocre overall - that it’s good and bad in some ways, but otherwise fine.

It snowed here for the first time this week and is currently snowing so I guess it is apt. We still have halloween decorations up though, it feels insanely early and I like halloween more than Christmas, but we do have a tree so we have to justify having it by using it. Anyway I feel neutral about Christmas but tis the season kind of I guess. Ok time to watch, thanks for joining me! Xoxo kristyn 

[looloolooweez-sims]

Alice Spencer-Kim

Alice is a young adult at the beginning of Round 2.

Alice is the spouse of Eric Lewis, the mother of Olivia Kim-Lewis and Andrew Kim-Lewis, and the child of Dennis Kim.

[realjennyrae]

Spencer-Kim-Lewis Family Rotation 4:

Just as Alice Spencer-Kim got home and prepped for Cristina Kim-Lewis's birthday, she went into labor! She decided she'd do a home birth and let the party continue. Guests started arriving as Eric Spencer-Kim swayed with Alice in the kitchen.

Once the guests arrived, Cristina blew out her candles and aged into a young adult! She gained the Self-Assured trait and the Successful Lineage aspiration. Alongside her age-up, it looked like the Watcher forgot to age up her friends! They were all aged up together.

Sims 4 Rotation 4 || Willow Creek Families || Spencer-Kim-Lewis Family