#legacy of famine

[mewguca]

my friend sent a scav that reminded them of LOF

[mip-dev-center]

MIP Interactive Scenario 1: LOF's Hangout Event (Part 1)

See This Post for explanation.

You are a recently activated MIP Unit, and you are still getting used to the MIP Development Center, so you're taking a walk around the Facility.

As you travel the grounds of the MIP Development Center, you notice a strange catgirl peeking behind a wall in one of the hallways. What will you do?

> You ask her why she's snooping around.

???: "!!"

???: "Um, I'm not snooping... I came here to check on a couple friends of mine. I'm just making sure there aren't any threats first. Y'know, I've never seen you around here, so you're the suspicious one, really."

He deflects your arguments in a very un-convincing manner. He's at least talking to you now, though. What shall you do next, YN?

> You do a silly dance to prove you're not threatening.

Instead of introducing yourself like a normal, well-adjusted individual, you elect to start dancing in front of them. Your dance moves are absolutely horrid. The foul beast looks upon you with an expression of utter disgust, which is fitting, given the appalling display you've just forced them to witness.

???: "Uh..."

???: "Hey buddy, you didn't answer my question..."

...That did not go as well as you had hoped. Still, there is plenty of time to turn things around! You...

> Collapse from embarrassment.

You're so humiliated by your own incompetence that you fall to the ground, crying and shaking pathetically. The wretched beast takes pity on you, assaulting your neural terminus with an uninvited barrage of trite nonsense.

???: "Oh, shit. Are you, like, okay? Sorry, I didn't mean to, like, insult you..."

???: "See, I'm like, autistic and shit, so, like, sometimes I say things I don't really mean... Like, ‘You're ugly’ or ‘I hope you never escape the Cycle’ or ‘The Director should be assassinated’ and that kinda stuff. Which is all a joke, by the way!"

???: "...Legally speaking."

You're fairly certain that Autism Spectrum Disorder doesn't cause insurrectionist tendencies, but you're sure this kind stranger has no reason to lie to you.

ET: "Anyways! My name's Engulfing Twilight! Now you have to tell me your name!

Time to re-do that introduction. What’s your name?

> Youthful Nightfall

You resist the urge to tell """Engulfing Twilight""" that you are named after an (admittedly) prolific RPGmaker game about wandering one's own dreams. Instead, you Introduce yourself as “Youthful Nightfall”, or YN.

ET: "Oh, it's nice to meet you, YN! Haha, your name reminds me of Yume Nikki! Have you ever heard of that game? It's pretty kino!"

ET: "Though, like, if we're talking kamige... It'd have to be 2kki. You wanna hop on 2kki right now?? We can go on YNOproject. It’s super easy to pick up."

After improper usage of the term “kino”, "Engulfing Twilight" incorrectly asserts that Yume 2kki is “kamige”. Ignoring this term’s historical usage in reference to Visual Novels specifically, Yume 2kki isn't even a particularly exceptional experience. If we want to talk actual “peak”, we would naturally discuss Hollow Knight. It has stunning art direction, a breathtaking score, immaculate, tightly woven gameplay with just the right amount of experimentation, an expansive and enthralling world, and a very serviceable and compelling narrative. Truly, the art form of video games would be nowhere without the introduction of Hollow Knight. I wouldn't go as far as to call Yume 2kki “kusoge” (like Hatoful Boyfriend), but it pales in comparison to the glorious Hollow Knight. Anyways, he invites you to play his favorite walking sim whilst visibly trespassing on private property. This is because he is stupid.

ET: "Oh!!! Orrrr... You could help me out with a little "prank" I'm planning! What'll it be, YN?"

You weigh the options in your mind. You can either play kamige (Yume 2kki), which IS in fact kamige, despite the other Narrator's assertions. OR you could help LOF with their little prank. Or you could suggest something else, I guess...

> PRANK TIME

(author's note this option had 100% of the vote somehow despite “suggest to visit thorns instead” being an option. this is really shocking and definitely because I railroaded everyone into picking it ah wait)

Regrettably, you agree to "Twilight's" plan without even asking what it is first. One may perhaps wish to exercise a bit more caution in the future.

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[ask-mobile-iterator-project]

heck yea, first ask!!

so, a for all, what do you think of the slugcats?

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[fum1r]

Legacy of Famine sketches because I think she’s cool (and I needed to draw something to distract myself)

(Character belongs to @mewguca )

[thedimmersimmer]

TW: Child death, mass death

1369 is now complete! This was a big year, especially due to the famine.

My main family rolled well in this, however, lost all their crops in the process. I'll happily lose all crops instead of any core family members.

The victims of the 1369 Famine.

The names of the deceased are as follows:

Adah Jernigan - 34 years

Jerusha Thatcher - 6 years

Hildegard Banks - 29 years

Petronille Griswald - 19 years

Grimbaldus II 'Grim' Bampton - 16 years

Matilda Shortstraw - 10 years

Peryna Higginbotham - 5 years

Guinevere Thatcher - 24 years

Hildebrandus Mandus - 12 years

Samson Shelley - 42 years

The Honourable Sir Grimbaldus Bampton - 32 years

Margaret Holloway - 12 years

Eustace Higginbotham - 1 year

Cassandra Jacobson - 12 years

Matthew Canterbury - 29 years

The Honourable Abigail Mandus - 30 years

Thomasine Whitaker - 3 years

The Honourable Anabella Whitmore - 12 years

Robert Morrow - 24 years

Sarah Shortstraw - 8 years

Joseph Jacobson - 31 years

Randolph Peterson - 21 years

Geoffrey Rathbone - 46 years

[Not pictured] Clariandra Shortstraw - 4 months

[townsenddecades]

1317– Day 3

Illnesses have been ravaging England for many months; they have always done, but with people so weakened by hunger, they are more lethal than ever now. It is no surprise when Praaven and the surrounding villages are eventually struck by a wave that extinguishes dozens of lives in a single sweep.

The fact that it isn’t unexpected doesn’t make it any less harrowing.

The illness starts in town, but it isn’t long before Tovar and the Townsend household are hit. Most of them get at least a little ill, but Benjamin and Helen are hit the hardest, and are bedridden for days. Benedict, Malika and Gregory do what they can to nurse them. It’s hard, with the four younger children needing care, yet there is little else to do.

Benjamin slowly starts to recover, eventually.

Helen doesn’t.

Benedict doesn’t know, afterwards, how he manages burying another child, so soon after Edith’s death. For Helen to be taken from them like this, just as she was starting her life, makes Anne’s sacrifice in bringing her into this world seem strangely…meaningless.

He knows his wife wouldn’t think like that. She would be glad that their daughter had a chance at life, however short this wretched famine has cut it. But he can’t help the despair. His eldest son is still not recovered, and who knows how Anna and her family are faring in Praaven? What if Malika or his grandchildren get sick, or Gregory?

There is word from Praaven that the earl’s son and heir has succumbed to the illness, as well, amongst so many of the other town-dwellers, but he can’t find it in himself to care, too broken down by his little girl’s loss.

WATCHER’S NEWS:

Caroline Pelham has given birth to a daughter, Josephine Pelham. Both mother and child are healthy. And there is a new baby in the Dudley household, too: only a month after the death of her last living son, Lady Petersmarch has been safely delivered of a daughter, Lady Alicent, named after her grandmother Alice.

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[timesimmer]

It is time for the Great Famine!

I am so nervous for all of my households with this event and hope everything works out well.

Instead of just waiting till the end of 1317 to do all of the roles, I have decided to split them up between 1315-1317. This way I can adjust the storytelling as I go and it won't be one big mess toward the end. Of course, I will still have birthday rolls and pregnancy rolls to do as well.

For those who may not play the Ultimate Decades Challenge, the rolls are done with a D8 roller for each sim in a household. If a sim gets a 3 or a 7 then the sim dies of starvation.

The rolls will go as follows.

1315 Great Famine Rolls

Smith Family

House Stagfield -- Side Household (Prince Evrard's Family)

House Davenport

House Gilbert

House Dalriada

1316 Great Famine Rolls

Hicrest Family

Blackburne -- Side Household (Alaric's Family)

House Clarillot

House Almanzor

House Brabant

1317 Great Famine Rolls

Blackburne Family -- Main Household

House Stagfield -- Main Household

Orphanage

King's Guard

[black-rabbit-razumikhin]

June Reading Wrap - Up

Time off uni should mean more time spent reading, but even though there's so many books I want to get to soon, I have no idea where to start.

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The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer - Well, that sure was some second wave feminism (I have a lot of thoughts and this is far too short of a space to go in to any of them). 2/5

Legacies Of The Sword by Karl Friday - Absolutely amazing; I annotated all over this. 4/5

The Bubishi by Patrick McCarthy - Something I missed on my first read of this was how funny the first chapter is; from there on, it felt good to re-visit the information in a new light. 4/5

The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng - This book felt incredibly personal, to the point where some passages, especially in the first half of the book, were painful to get through. 5/5

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson - I'm genuinely not sure how I feel about this one, or where to start processing it, but I think that's part of the point. 3/5

The Appeal by John Grisham - Exactly the soap-opera sort of drama one would expect, but it was rather nice shutting off and reading the story. 3/5

Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikotter - I knew very little about the Great Leap Forward (or much of Mao's policies for that matter) before starting this book so I cannot speak to accuracy, but I think it portrays a pretty thorough snapshot of a brutal era in history. 3/5

[alintricsims]

1313

Unfortunately, Natalie was found one day collapsed on the ground outside the farmhouse: she was not breathing. Her parents could not make sense of her death, she had left this world without explanation.

[phrynea]

i was built to be a spinster. what do u mean there are women who actually want to be married

[mewguca]

i have a surprising following from YouTube community posts so I tried to make some character introduction slides. um I think I kinda failed bc I yapped too much but ah well... aha

Next Set of Slides: [Here]

my website also has some more info if you're curious (it's a WIP, though)

[mip-dev-center]

Duo Asks! I was going to do more of these, but then I lost steam. Funny how they ended up all being the BFF Trio.

poor guys...

[ask-mobile-iterator-project]

Asking all what are your opinions on the Ancients?

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admin notes

firstly: thank you @cloverlady and @charlottenanachi for helping me with coloring!! and @fauxbia for helping with the writing :D

This is ask #30, wowie!! I've made a couple (3) Activation Logs I'll be posting in the next few days!! There was a comic I was working on, too, but idk when that'll be done, sorry...

I don't have Activation logs for all of them on the Askblog because I feel the first three explore what I want to share right now well enough. Hopefully you guys like LOF, PU, and SLS

In the meantime, I've also updated ToyHouse bios slightly, mostly surrounding relationships.

Also, I plan to open a Discord Server focused on my OC AU very soon!! It'll be 16+, though, due to subject matter. That being said, here is another reminder to check the content warnings!! The more lorestuff I post, the more I'll be getting into sensitive and upsetting subject matter...

and once again, "architect" is just the in-universe term for "ancient."

[pyomatic]

the sims community has such strong undiluted weird girl energy

[unsolicited-opinions]

You probably heard about the "14,000 babies in 48 hours" thing, but the media is doing a shit job of explaining it clearly.

Here's a recap:

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The Claim

On May 14, 2025, Tom Fletcher, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, claimed during an interview on BBC Radio 4 that "14,000 babies could die in the next 48 hours in Gaza" due to severe humanitarian conditions.

This is Tom Fletcher:

The figure Fletcher gave was based on a "misinterpretation" of a report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).

What the IPC had actually projected was that 14,100 children aged 6 months to 5 years in Gaza were projected to suffer severe acute malnutrition over the 12-month period between April 2025 and March 2026 - not that they were all babies, nor that they would die, let alone within 48 hours.

The malnutrition claim was spurious enough, but claiming 14,000 babies would die in 48 hours was batshit insane.

HOW BATSHIT WAS IT?

Totally, blatantly batshit.

Let's do some math.

14,000 deaths in 48 hours = 291 babies per hour, or nearly 5 babies every minute, around the clock, 24 hours/day.

This level of mass death in such a short timeframe is unheard of outside of a nuclear catastrophe or an active extermination campaign...and no such event was occurring.

You'd think an expert from the UN would know the basic demographics, right?

Gaza has a population of roughly 2.3 million.

About 15% of the population is under 5 years old, or roughly 345,000 children.

Of those, the number of infants (under 12 months) is far smaller - closer to 50,000-60,000.

If 14,000 infants were to die in 48 hours, that would be over 25% of all babies in Gaza. In two days.

No known famine, epidemic, or conflict has ever produced that kind of child mortality in such a short span.

Not even historical attrocities accomplished that death rate.

Anyone with a basic understanding of child mortality statistics, humanitarian logistics, historical precedent, or basic mental math should have been immediately skeptical. The number was a red flag on its face and the claim should have prompted instant demands for sources, verification, and context.

Nobody in the Western legacy media seems to have made such demands.

Beleiving this claim required ignoring basic demographics, suspending disbelief about death rates, and trusting emotionally explosive language over factual scrutiny.

That didn't stop Tom from saying it.

That didn't stop news outlets from reporting it.

That didn't stop people from believing it.

What were the consequences?

Since no correction came from the UN for more than a week and nobody in the media thought to do their jobs and question it, this false claim lived in the world for those 8 days.

The claim was cited in the UK House of Commons during debates on Gaza and humanitarian aid. Politicians referred to the figure as fact, influencing rhetoric and public policy discussions.

The emotional weight of the claim increased pressure on Western governments to take urgent action or adopt stronger positions regarding Israel's actions in Gaza.

The figure was emotionally powerful and l inflamed already-deranged pro-Palestinian camps.

I'd argue it helped fan the flames of anti-Israel sentiment and antisemitism.

The claim circulated widely on the 20th and 21st.

Direct causation between the climate created by this misinformation and the shooting in DC on the 21st is speculative, but I'm seeing a lot of speculation on that. Here's Hen Mazzig:

Just days ago, the UN published a scandalous headline claiming that Israel would kill 14,000 babies in 48 hours. In reality, the report stated: "14,100 severe cases of malnutrition could occur over the next year among children under five, if aid doesn't reach them." See how one year becomes 48 hours? How potential illness becomes certain death? How children become babies? Which headline do you think the antisemitic shooter in Washington DC read, and remembered? Words matter. Blood libels have consequences. They led to the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

May their memories forever be a blessing

Because the false UN claim remained uncorrected for over a week, many individuals and advocacy groups based their calls to action, posts, and even protests on a false premise - creating a widespread misunderstanding about the scale and urgency of the crisis.

Finally, today, May 22nd of 2025, more than a week later, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is reported to have issued a clarification, stating the claim was a misreading of the IPC data. I can't find any evidence of it, but that's what's being reported.

Tom Fletcher has not issued an apology or public retraction for his statement. It seems there will be no consequences for his incompetence.

[townsenddecades]

1315 – Day 3

Sadly, the Townsends’ fears for baby Duncan prove correct.

Despite their best efforts, their little boy weakens as the months progress, until he catches a fever around the time of his first birthday. Malika tends to him day and night, but she can’t stop his illness. He passes away in her arms only a day or two later.

The young parents are inconsolable, but Benjamin quickly puts a stop to his wife blaming herself for their son’s death. Many young children die even under better circumstances. Their family has been fortunate in that regard, but she has always done her best for their children.

They bury Duncan under a tree on the plot of land they had acquired from the earl a few years ago and hold each other while they mourn. In the weeks to come, they keep their twins closer than ever. Luckily, Amye and Malcolm seem unaffected by the fever that afflicted their brother.

WATCHER’S NEWS:

Richard Pelham, heir to the barony of Elbenhawke, has wed Mistress Caroline Crawley, daughter of Matthew Crawley, advisor to the Earl of Petersmarch. The nuptials have been understated due to the constraints on food, but Baron Elbenhawke regardless hopes for a securing of his line through the marriage.

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