#sim: alecto

[wildmelon]

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[faerietas]

I need everyone to see this thought I had

[bb-enablefreebuild]

Guys I caved okay I couldn't play with sim Griddle without sim Harrow. can u forgive me

[scalpelsister]

"There was a thought above and below that knew what it was, but the moment she looked at either thought she'd lose the game." - Tamsyn Muir, Nona The Ninth

[ajcrawly]

Poker night immediately post-resurrection with Augustine, Alfred, John and Alecto. How many waves of potential resurrectees did John go through trial-and-erroring until he felt like he could bring back some of his friends... don't get me wrong I love the idea of the OG Lyctor squad all chilling post-Res together, but this is much funnier. God is saving his favourite sims for a rainy day. When we have resurrected enough people and taken enough time to get out to Jupiter, then I can bring Scientist Friend #1 back (and his hedge fund manager little brother I guess). As a treat.

[alaterdate]

9 people you'd like to get to know better

tagged by @neotula

Three Ships: Gonna try to not make these all Dragon Age lol.

But of course my #1 is M!Hawke/Fenris. I prefer the rivalmance version and in my wildest fantasies they have a sad breakup, but are still in love with each other forever. Teehee 😁

Everything going on in The Locked Tomb series. Cytherea/Gideon. Ianthe/Harrow/Gideon. Harrow/Alecto. Camilla/Palamedes. Mercymorn/John/Augustine. Pick something babes, it's a smorgasbord.

Floyd/Vil. It's kind of crack, but also kind of has crumbs in the actual game. I want to write something for it eventually.

First Ever Ship: Dang, I'm tryna think of ships I actively ship(ped) for these questions so I guess the first one ever was maybe, oh man, Zack/Aerith/Cloud/Sephiroth LMAO.

Last Song: Last thing that came on shuffle in my playlist was Putting the Dog to Sleep by The Antlers. Last thing I actively picked out was 8 Graves' new album Hello Jupiter (I didn't really like it 😩).

Currently Reading: Still coming off my website coding high and finishing up Make It So by Nathan Shedroff & Christopher Noessel.

Currently Watching: I don't tend to watch a lot of series, but the last thing I put on then forgot to finish was Loki Season 2

Currently Consuming: A cup of coffee, I just finished it 😋

Currently Craving: non food answer but i am craving buying a new sims pack 😫 I have a *cough* version on my laptop with all the packs, but I wanna play on my desktop

Tagging: @pandorakarp @diokyouran @masterofthetear @fresh-squiffer @49mp @anneapocalypse @sqbr @ruuubelle @bemused-writer if you'd like, & whoever else would like to do it!

[divine-swag-summit]

ATTENTION MORTALS

A significant amount of out contestants are from books, podcasts, and TTRPGs and therefore have no official art. I want to include pictures of each contestant for the polls, but I can't draw every one of those characters and don't want to use fan art from the wikis without permission.

So! I have an idea. I will draw all three of the Welcome to Night Vale contestants, but I need your help for the rest. If you're familiar with any of the following characters and want to draw some art for them or already have art for them that you would be ok with me using, post it and tag this blog. I will credit you in every single poll the character appears in by tagging your blog.

Characters that need art:

The Eye and Jonathan Sims(The Magnus Archives)

The Web(The Magnus Archives)

Emperor John Gaius(The Locked Tomb)

Gideon Nav(The Locked Tomb)

Alecto(The Locked Tomb)

The Scarlet King(SCP Foundation)

The Dear Listeners and Bob

Prism(CPU Kerfuffle)

Crimson(CPU Kerfuffle)

Cobalt(CPU Kerfuffle)

The Watchers(Evo SMP)

Nikignik(Hello from the Hallowoods)

Mare Incubus(Mare: Drømmefyrsten)

Anoia(Discworld)

Offler the Crocodile God(Discworld)

God of Corn/Helio(Dimension 20: Fantasy High)

Ronan Lynch(The Raven Cycle/The Dreamer Trilogy)

Cthulhu(The Cthulhu Mythos)

These characters may need art if they win the prelims:

The Spiral(The Magnus Archives)

The End(The Magnus Archives)

The Buried(The Magnus Archives)

The Small and Forgotten Gods(Wanderhome)

Thanks in advance for your help y'all!

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23 books I want to read in 2023 ✨

i was tagged by @medustudies and @bennistudies, tysm for the tag <3

1. babel: an arcane history (r.f. kuang)

2. in the dreamhouse (carmen maria machado)

3. the graveyard book (neil gaiman)

4. you’ve lost a lot of blood (eric laroca)

5. family business (jonathan sims)

6. these violent delights (chloe gong)

7. before the coffee gets cold (toshikazu kawaguchi)

8. they both die at the end (adam silvera)

9. iron widow (xiran jay zhao)

10. good omens (terry pratchet and neil gaiman)

11. piranesi (susana clarke)

12. please look after mom (kyung-sook shin)

13. crush (richard siken)

14. hunger pangs (joy demorra)

15. the vanishing half (brit bennett)

16. the secret history (donna tartt)

17. war of the foxes (richard siken)

18. letter to my daughter (maya angelou)

19. all about love (bell hooks)

20. the price of salt (patricia highsmith)

21. the priory of the orange tree (samantha shannon)

22. alecto the ninth (tasmyn muir)

23. the sandman #1 (neil gaiman)

[john-bracket]

Significant Jother Prelims!

The prelims for Jacket 4 will come in two waves after the winner’s bonus poll ends on Sunday, so get your votes in there.

First, there will be the prelims to decide between love interests for Johns/Jacks/Variants who had multiple submitted. There are eight of those matches, and they will be released throughout the day on Monday, July 10.

Then, there will be the prelims to decide which single nomination significant jothers will make the bracket. If a nomination was submitted multiple times as the only love interest, they are already in. There are 11 polls of four significant jothers, and the winner of each will make the bracket. Prelims were seeded by submission order, and those polls will be released throughout the day on Wednesday, July 12.

Match-ups below the cut!

Monday Match-ups: Who shall win the jand?

Prelim #1: Martin Blackwood (11) vs Georgie Barker (1) for Jonathan “Jon” Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Prelim #2: Jason Mendoza (5) vs Derek (1) for Janet (The Good Place)

Prelim #3: Mercymorn (2) vs Alecto (1) vs Augustine (1) vs Mercymorn + Augustine (0 but throuple rights) for John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

Prelim #4: Zatanna Zatara (2) vs King Shark (2) for John Constantine (DC)

Prelim #5: Nisha Kadam (2) vs Moxxi (1) for Handsome Jack (Borderlands)

Prelim #6: Brad Majors (2) vs Frank-N-Furter (1) for Janet Weiss (Rocky Horror Picture Show)

Prelim #7: Shayera Hol (1) vs Mari McCabe (1) for John Stewart (DC)

Prelim #8: Rafael Solano (1) vs Michael Cordero (1) for Jane Villanueva (Jane the Virgin)

Wednesday Match-ups: I don’t have a funny name

Prelim A: Phryne Fisher for Jack Robinson (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) vs Kitty for Johnny Thirteen (Danny Phantom) vs Marguerite Baker for Jack Baker (Resident Evil) vs James “Jamey” Emerson Fletcher for Mary “Jacky” “Bloody Jack” Faber (Bloody Jack)

Prelim B: Naomi Herne for Evan Lukas (The Magnus Archives) vs Pete Tyler for Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who) vs Agnes Montague for Jack Barnabas (The Magnus Archives) vs Eric Bittle for Jack Zimmermann (Check, Please!)

Prelim C: Anna Bates for John Bates (Downton Abbey) vs Rose DeWitt for Jack Dawson (Titanic) vs Wendy Torrance for Jack Torrance (The Shining) vs Samatha Carter for Jack O’Neill (Stargate SG-1)

Prelim D: Joan of Arc for JFK (Clone High) vs JFK for Joan of Arc (Clone High) vs Elvira for Don Juan (Moliere) vs Pocahontas for John Smith (Pocahontas)

Prelim E: Penta Roujeat for Jack Wright (Namesake) vs Jethro Bodine for Jane Hathaway (Beverly Hillbillies) vs George Jetson for Jane Jetson (The Jetsons) vs Peter Parker for Mary-Jane Watson Parker (Marvel)

Prelim F: Thor for Jane Foster (Marvel) vs David Read for Jane Read (Arthur) vs Marla Singer for Jack/The Narrator (Fight Club) vs Sophie Aubrey for Jack Aubrey (Master and Commander)

Prelim G: Jay Nakamura for Jon Kent (DC) vs Satinder Hall for Ivo Keys (Shaderunners) vs Edward Rochester for Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre) vs Co Bao for John Rambo (Rambo)

Prelim H: Rosemary for Jack/Raider (Metal Gear Solid) vs Vriska Sekret for John Egbert (Homestuck) vs Maddie Fenton for Jack Fenton (Danny Phantom) vs Minnina for Jonathan Ratker (Dracula Starring Mickey Mouse)

Prelim I: Clary Fairchild for Jonathan Christopher “Jace” Herondale (The Mortal Instruments) vs Marisol Garza for Jonathan “Jon” Cartwright (The Shadowhunter Chronicles) vs Jo Lupo for Zane Donovan (Eureka) vs Robert Martin for Janet van de Graff (The Drowsy Chaperone)

Prelim J: Rebecca St. Claire for Jack Secord (Warehouse 13) vs David for Giovanni (Giovanni’s Room) vs Lucy Moderatz for Jack Pullman (While You Were Sleeping) vs Petra Solano for Jane “JR” Ramos (Jane the Virgin)

Prelim K: Scott Summers for Jean Gray (Marvel) vs Hessa for John the Baptist (The Wife of John the Baptist) vs Helen Wick for John Wick (John Wick) vs Patrick Bateman for Jean (American Psycho: The Musical)

[sarcasticgaypotato]

Well if you INSIST... ;) As you might’ve gathered from the last post, Mara is in a Curse of Strahd campaign, but no major spoilers here.

Freshly stuck in Barovia, Mara teams up with a group consisting of a fire genasi sorcerer named ‘Priscilla’ and her human fighter bodyguard named ‘Vayle,’ an aasimar paladin named ‘Beau,’ a rabbitfolk bard named ‘Quince’, and another fighter of, at the time, unknown race, but unnaturally tall and very pale, named ‘Alecto.’ The group comes to name itself ‘Community Dagger,’ who you can see here in some adorable art from one of the other players!

Mara and Alecto hit it off immediately with Mara tending to Alecto’s wounds and Alecto taking a protective role in battles. Alecto’s mysterious, but then again so is Mara- who has not told anyone of her condition or why she hides her face, leading to the only way of reading her expressions being the movement of her ears, which stick out of her hood.

Some one-on-one bonding and intense emotional scenes later, and Mara is the first to discover that Alecto is in fact a Deva- an angel who cannot permanently die, but loses some of her memories every time she perishes. She barely remembers who she is or what her life was, but she knows that she has a son who was kidnapped and she is going to get him back.

Mara, a holy woman, is naturally a little shocked at this realization, and quietly panics under her veil because this entire time she has been having some not-so-holy-thoughts about Alecto and her very big muscles, and it might be a sin to think about an angel like that- she’s not sure. Mara’s a big ol’ repressed lesbian nun- complete with intense touch starvation on account of the ‘I can’t touch anyone with my bare hands or they’ll die and I literally have a kiss of death’ thing.

Still, she swears to Alecto that she’ll do anything within her power to help her find her son and the two of them gain another relationship heart in this gothic dating sim that we’ve forced our DM along for the ride on.

If I recount the entire almost year-long campaign we’ll be here all day, so I’ll just go over the biggest Mara bullet-points.

- In a fight against one of the villains from Priscilla’s backstory and his pet Displacer Beast, Mara rolled multiple natural 20s on animal handling checks and managed to not only keep it from attacking, but sway it over to her side. She named the beast ‘Ghost,’ and proceeded to have frankly supernatural luck with further animal handling checks (including another nat 20) leading to a well-trained, friendly giant murder-cat that trails behind Mara wherever she goes.

- Alecto is naturally the first one to see Mara without her veil in a moment of trust and vulnerability,

(Mara art from the incredible @bondibee​!)

But Mara wasn’t looking quite as good as she does in this picture. Mara’s necrosis is rapidly getting worse, reaching all up her arms, across large portions of her face, and over her heart. Mechanically this is represented with an unavoidable, resistance-ignoring 2d10 necrotic damage anytime Mara’s blackened skin is touched (or if any vampire-spawn are stupid enough to drink her blood...). Damage which, fun fact, stacked with the spell ‘inflict wounds,’ which Mara was forced to have prepared every day. Less fun fact, this is actively killing Mara. Her goddess’s protection is holding back some of the damage, but she’s on borrowed time.

- So in the last post when I said Mara’s mom died of a mysterious sickness? That was a bit of a lie. Elora Delune, Mara’s mother, got very sick very rapidly, asked Mara to care for her siblings, and then was gone the next morning. Presumed dead and mourned for as such. ...Guess who’s undead? Mara’s mother, who had also contracted the same necrosis as Mara, ended up in Barovia, succumbing to the rot and becoming a feral, tortured undead that Mara and the others were forced to fight. After an emotional fight, Mara managed to get through to her mother enough for Elora to ask Mara to put her out of her misery, which a grief-stricken Mara agreed to.

- Mara’s necrosis + inflict wounds combo (affectionately named ‘nasty touch’ for its ability to do, at the time of its last use, 7d10 necrotic damage that ignored resistances with a 3rd level slot) found itself being used in a time of need, despite Mara’s hatred of performing harm and especially of using the necrosis. Then it was used again, and again, until Mara was struck with horror at just how easy it became to excuse its use in the heat of battle. In the wake of a fight with an outcome Mara blamed herself for, she resolved not to ever use it again.

- After a long emotional journey of accepting her own mortality and recognizing that she had been living half-a-life on ‘pause,’ Mara formally asked her goddess to stop holding back the progression of her illness and let the cards fall where they will, accepting whatever comes next, be it cure or death. She also asks her goddess to instead watch over Alecto, as the two of them continue to get closer.

- Mara’s appearance is gaunt and drained of life, blackened veins snaking all across her body. She gains a vulnerability to bludgeoning damage as her bones are brittle, and any piercing or slashing damage releases black smoke that reduces her ability to regain hitpoints. She grows weaker and despite her attempts to insist the group continues as planned, they all insist on finding a cure to save her before anything else.

- This results in the group finding themselves in a temple deep underground filled with pools of holy water, where Mara decides to try an unorthodox method. Alone save for Alecto nearby, she wades into the pool and uses a high-level moonbeam to illuminate the water with radiant light before submerging herself and intentionally drowning herself. Letting the holy water fill her corrupted lungs, Mara might’ve died if not for Alecto’s Healing Hands giving her just enough hit points to survive the intense onslaught of radiant damage and near death via drowning.

Pulled out of the water at just the right moment by Alecto, Mara is on the brink of death but at the same time, reborn. No trace of necrosis remains, leaving her skin its usual purple-ish hue, her features lively and seeming nearly a decade younger, but most importantly, her touch? Harmless. The two embrace in the midst of the temple, sharing a moment that very nearly could’ve become a kiss... but not quite.

- Finally free from her curse for the first time in hundreds of years, Mara is overwhelmed with emotion, full of hope for the future that she always dreamed of; settling down and raising more children, living a quiet, domestic life.

...Then she got bitten by a super powerful werewolf within 24 hours and was cursed again. (’curb your enthusiasm’ theme plays)

With ‘Remove Curse’ not being strong enough alone to break the curse, mission ‘fix Mara’s curse 2: electric boogaloo’ gets put on the to-do list.

- But... on the bright side; Mara and Alecto admit their feelings for each other, finally share a kiss, and have a night of playful mischief together pretending to be young again. This comes after months and months of delicious simmering away of gay feelings on both sides, and is to date one of the sweetest romances I’ve had the joy of participating in. The monochromatic moms are one hell of a duo.

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There’s Mara Post part 2! I’m still leaving out plenty, but this post is long enough as is. Mara’s terrible luck with curses currently remains, and although Mara is eager to be rid of her lycanthropy, I’m personally having a lot of fun with it. ,

This character is genuinely so much fun to play, partly because of how very different than me she is. Maternal, wise, and inexplicably French-accented.

[zombified-queer]

I'm going to be thinking about Madam Hotel for a while.

She's some kind of fucked up cosmic horror whale thing. Love that for her. Where the FUCK is your pod, girlie? There's predators out here.

I have rotated stripclub idea in my head. Yes there will be blood.

I say this often but Managerboy Locked Tomb AU she gets to be Alecto. Which means she's getting The Nona Treatment.

Yes I already picked a name. Yes it's Blood of Eden. No it's not funny or cool.

Madam Hotel streaming killing the guests (Sims, ostensibly) on Twitch I'm offering her bits to set that dude on fire just as a goof. Console Command resurrect him as a skeleton, bestie!

Meatbody as a reflection of Buildingbody. Grey had better thoughts on this like "Makeup running when it rains outside."

[wildmelon]

tieflings i've made recently

[arcadianforests]

Okay so I play this online pet sim with dragons called Flight Rising and I made a Gideon and Harrow dragon pictured above but I don't know what to name her? She's currently named Nona because I couldn't think of anything better, but I really want to change it. I can't do IX because names have to be more than three letters, and I'm not sure Griddlehark is what I'm going for... any suggestions?

Also I'm counting the skull in the middle as Alecto, take that as you will.

[ryttu3k]

Going through Tumblr’s Year in Review posts! Which is pretty much just pointing to stuff and going, “I like that!”

Top 22 of 22: Hilariously, nothin’ but Halloween (20), since I’m not really involved with Pokemon (7) or Star Wars (13) any more. Alas! I do intend to watch Our Flag Means Death (9) but haven’t got to it yet.

Ships: Ineffable Husbands rise eight places to 18. Thasmin debuts at 50 and will probably go no further. Korrasami drops 52 places to 84, whew! Zelink drops even further, 55 places to 92, and Griddlehark debuts at 94.

TV Shows: Doctor Who rises two spots to 15, Good Omens drops 6 places to 21. The Eurovision Song Contest drops 16 spots to 32 (see, this is what happens when you don’t have enough Maneskin), and Steven Universe drops 20 spots to 44.

Movies: Lord of the Rings holds steady at 4. It's not on the book list so I guess this includes both. Curiously, the only Star Wars movie to make it is... Revenge of the Sith, debuting at 41? Odd, but kinda neat!

Tumblr Communities: Don't generally post to these, but I do like occasionally checking up on Writers on Tumblr (rises one place to 3), Bookblr (rises eight spots to 6), Simblr (rises one place to 9), ActuallyAutistic (steady at 11), and Jumblr (rises six places to 22).

Dashboard Diving: An analysis of... Tumblr culture, I guess? Irony vs earnestness, and enjoying old stuff.

Space: Spaaaace!

Bands: Maneskin debuts at number 6! And Florence + the Machine rises 37 places to 13, dang! Pink Floyd drops 3 places to 39.

Web Series: Is Dracula Daily really a web series? Either way, it debuts at 4.

Memes: Already reblogged. Good shit.

Video Games: Sims 4 holding steady at 10, Stray debuted at 13 (never mind the VGAs, bby, you’re my GOTY). Breath of the Wild dropped six places to 18, but will no doubt be replaced next year by the skyrocketing Tears of the Kingdom, which debuted at 35. Skyward Sword also dropped two to 40. Flight Rising dropped two to 21, and fascinatingly, Pokemon Black and White debuted at 37!

Video Game Character: Link drops ten places to 13. Tragic!

Books: Dracula debuts at 2, beaten only by Percy Jackson, and the two forcing HP down to third! Nice nice. Locked Tomb rises six places to 4! Prayer circle for Alecto’s release next year to bring it to number 1! Yeah, Lord of the Rings is definitely listed under Movies, because the Silmarillion is at 11. Vampire Chronicles debuted at 24, presumably because of the show, and Animorphs rose eight places to 28. Not bad! Maybe next year I’ll do a reread...?

[scalpelsister]

Barbie: Death Of The Lord Edition*

*sword sold separately

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I posted 8,143 times in 2022

That's 5,231 more posts than 2021!

500 posts created (6%)

7,643 posts reblogged (94%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@mr-loverbee

@intergalactic-bean

@akashicrecord

@transmascnepetaleijon

@tonysopranobignaturals

I tagged 2,331 of my posts in 2022

#crabshit - 726 posts

#hall of fame - 484 posts

#favorites - 256 posts

#boyfriendposting - 58 posts

#tagged in - 51 posts

#playlist - 49 posts

#reference - 39 posts

#holy shit - 29 posts

#tagging in a friend - 29 posts

#help - 25 posts

Longest Tag: 133 characters

#i doubt most of them can even differentiate between romantic love and friend love which adds another spicy layer to the whole shabang

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

fucking hell . . . was playing through hades. no boons in tartarus, was slain once by alecto. moved on. got the life back with chaos but fucking died again in the process. i expect to taper out before the bone hydra.

NOPE! still almost no boons that improve my fighting, nothing on my cast, etc, very weak build --

i get to patroclus and idk why but i choose full revival. FOUR. FUCKING. LIVES.

im at asterius and theseus & i have almost no way to land good shots. this round is going to last until the end of time, jesus christ in a shopping cart.

16 notes - Posted February 2, 2022

#4

hatsune miku gave my phone a virus

16 notes - Posted January 26, 2022

#3

fondly remembering pirating the sims 4 from tpb and getting a virus so whenever i tried to open it itd set off my antivirus, id disable the antivirus and then play. it worked fine it just uses up my cpu like crazy. i have it quarantined now that i know safer places but no way am i torrenting another 7274673gb file lmao

19 notes - Posted March 25, 2022

#2

i love walking through a door and then closing it behind me and watching kim pace like he knows what hes doing

i go to the next location and he teleports right on top of me who is "supra-natural" now huh?

ok lt. kim "cant open a door" kitsuragi

19 notes - Posted April 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

orange juice with 155% pulp. orange juice you can chew on

86 notes - Posted October 13, 2022

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