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[honeysylvan]

Liliana Meadows - Chestnut Ridge Lookbook 🐎

[sunflowerik]

new beginnings✨️🌧

[softerpixels]

settling in... 💕

[buttertrait]

introducing Bambi Meadows, my heir for the postcard legacy challenge!

[tainoodles]

Meadow and Felix's story time had a few guests. We started with Malachi, which was really cut, but he didn't stay very long. Instead we had a skunk and Peaches the cat join in. And things got really stinky after they showed up...

[ohmeadows]

very interested to hear your fu xuan thoughts now that she’s out !

first of all love her second of all i'll just do this in bullet points because my brain is soggy cereal today:

starting with her character stories, so spoilers under the cut:

she hails from the xianzhou yuque, famed for their divinations and jade abaci export, and it mentions that "centuries passed" so. she's at least, at the barest minimum, two centuries old, probably older. she ran away from the yuque to attempt and avoid a foretold destiny, namely that she would kill her teacher. indeed her teacher even says it was part of the reason why he took her on as a student.

this is interesting because it ties into her teacher's prediction that she becomes master diviner of the yuque, a destiny she defies by running away. but...

xianzhou fleet follows star calendar dating, and in 8072, third abundance war happened, a decisive year for many on the luofu. (caiyi dies in this war, as well as dan shu's love.) fu xuan, annoyed that the divination commission can't do much to help in the battle, devises a plan to use the cloudpeer telescope, putting it on the battlefield and calling down lan's arrow to raze it, winning the fight. jing yuan agrees to her plan, but takes responsibility for it. as a way to protect her.

she is willing to go down and be the one to call on lan. but no. the person who goes down with the cloudpeer telescope... is her mentor. he dies. as does many. but the battle is won.

this battle happens roughly 30 years before current timeline in-game, where while it's not confirmed 100%, we can guesstimate that we are around 8098 or 8100 SC (xianzhou reckoning, we know it's 2158 Amber Era, IPC calendar) which, sidebar, jingliu was ""killed"" by jing yuan in 7380. that's almost 700 years of the high cloud quintet survivors being tormented in various ways.

not sure of the timing of this report, but lan is on the move again.

the third war is very interesting because it left part of the hexafleet struggling to recover; luofu only recovered because of widening trade, something we see reflected in tingyun, yukong opting to work in the skyfaring commission, and aurum alley. and it was won because of fu xuan's choices.

in the time since, she seems to have come to terms with destiny being impossible to change. she writes in this letter (emphasis mine):

Let me be more straightforward here — the way the Matrix of Prescience Ultima operates is like a black box. We know that we can derive a frighteningly accurate prediction from the Chaos system by "observing our observation," but no one knows how it works nor can anyone explain it. Many, including my colleagues from the Divination Commission, consider this to be an example of how humans can change or select the future with their own power. But for me... I will interpret this from another perspective... The past, present, and future are not diachronic, but synchronic. (This statement denies the existence of time, so the use of "diachronic" and "synchronic" might be slightly inappropriate.) Every moment in the universe has been predetermined since the genesis. That is to say, it is impossible to change the future.

i find this very fascinating because we can thus also trace what that war did to her mindset and point of view; she doesn't think the future can be changed and that the universe is a deterministic one. (note that i don't think it's proof it is, as we saw with kafka and our choices in her quest, she also grapples with the question of if everything is predetermined or not. these are their point of views.)

now, some other observations and picking at her voicelines:

so, the omniscia/third eye she has is a gift from nous the erudition, also known as the wisdomwalker on the xianzhou. she writes in glimpses into the beyond that she has had at least one audience with nous, and regards them highly. (i also wrote more in-depth about that book here already, so i won't dig too deep right now.) she's had it most of her adult life, even before the third abundance war, before leaving the yuque.

despite being harsh sometimes, she's not mean. this comes across very well in march 7th's quest, i think: she does care what people think about her, but she's not about to go simpering or sucking up to get liked. i really respect that in a character, especially female? i've seen men write her off as a walking red flag of a personality, which is hilarious to me. she's a delight! just not your soft uwu waifu.

she loves her boba and milk tea. she claims it eases her constant pain from the third eye, which kind of tracks for me, i usually need to have caffeine in some form to help alleviate migraines. she likes them far too sweet for my liking, however, but she's big on teas. (it's suspected she is the one arguing that startaro tea is amazing and everyone else is just a loser and hater.)

and the pain. so, xianzhou natives, because of the abundance's blessing, are constantly healing. nous implanted a third eye into her that if it had been made by mortals, would have just been rejected. her body is constantly fighting this third eye, pushing it out, but it does not budge because of nous' powers. hence, unending pain until the day she dies. she even refers to it as an eternal punishment.

also worth noting how she's a follower of nous, while being on qlipoth's path.

her trigram talk sounds a lot like the i ching to me, and she's constantly consulting it, sometimes several times even before breakfast. implication? that she does not like surprises, perhaps. that knowing the future is her greatest security.

in march 7th's quest, i feel like we get to see a very protective side of her. she does not take lightly at having her work interfered with, even by fuli's followers, and you can see a glimmer of why she follows both qlipoth and nous here: intense desire to protect, and intense desire to know the truth at the bottom of it all, even if it makes her unhappy.

i also think her desire to be general stems from her preservation path, beyond just ambition. sure, she wants power, but to me she seems to want power to ultimately protect and guide.

ignorance is not bliss to fu xuan, to put it lightly.

she notes that the trailblazer doesn't have a trace of future destinies around them, and calls it strange. gestures.

[kissalopa]

Oh no, Meadow died of old age 😭

Meadow was a wife of Kasper, who is Hunter's older brother.

With my Seven Wonders challenge I started to tag individual sims on posts, like some of my mutuals do. But I didn't do it back then, unfortunately. I could've given the link to all post with Meadow now. Maybe I'll go back and add tags to old posts 🤔

[andrevasims]

I’m too afraid to commit to playing my custom hood/uni so I’m just playing premade hoods, like my no-CC copy of Pleasantview/Sim State University, with a sim I made Sunsky Starshimmer

I sent all the Pleasantview teens to college and turned them into dormies, cause using clean templates/NoDormieRegen there weren’t any otherwise

[vulnaviasims]

Myshuno Meadows - San Myshuno

here we are at the last lot in San Myshuno, which is part of the vulnaviasims save file: the central park

This beautiful creation is not mine, the original id is "AbyArashi", I just renovated it a little bit, very little because it is perfect and stunning.

There is a pic nic area, bar, bbq, kids zone, painting area, all immersed in a beautiful garden

there is a beautiful greenhouse, where you can celebrate weddings, and upstairs discover unusual plants!

I hope you like it!

find everything in my save file here

see you next time!

[vidcuntcurious]

round 11 at the grunts :) tom and meadow had their first (and probably only) son, christopher grunt

[albiorixsims]

Игра одобрила смену пола персонажа 🌈🌈🌈

Шутка)) Это Мидоу и ее младший брат Филд. Вообще, у них разница в возрасте большая (сейчас он тодлер и живет с их бабушкой), но делала я его на ее основе, чтоб были максимально похожи, а потом уже "омолаживала".

[honeysylvan]

The "estate" Lily inherited turned out to be nothing more than a rundown cabin, clearly abandoned by her uncle long before his death. Whatever Lily had in mind for ranch life, this definitely wasn't it! She'll have to put in serious effort to restore it, and Lily doesn't exactly do "serious effort"...

Featuring a (slightly edited) lot by Gryphi! You can watch the speedbuild here!

[sunflowerik]

rainy autumn days🍂

[softerpixels]

rehearsal dinner, except i got one (1) decent picture of the dinner portion of the night's festivities. which is fine because look how fuckin' good kori and rocco look!!!

[buttertrait]

Another day fishing for bells with some hotdogs to end the day on

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[tainoodles]

I unlocked the door for five seconds and already the apartment is filled with other people. 

And Randy’s bottom teeth are stuck to his top teeth.