#the brights

[squeamishnerd]

The Brights

Chapter 29: Their Fall, Part 1

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Ahriman: There are only three houses in Glimmerbrook, mine and two that look like they've been abandoned for ages.

Rory: Who lived in this house in your original universe?

Ahriman: Just a… woohoo partner.

Lou: That's rough, buddy.

Rory: So, old houses covered in cracks and cobwebs, overgrown lawns, the whole place is off the electrical grid, and no reception.

Rory: How come you get our texts though?

Ahriman: As a spellcaster, I'm connected to a pocket dimension, and those exist everywhere at once, so my phone probably gets reception from everywhere. I also get my magical powers from my old universe via my pocket dimension.

Lou: Hmm…

Lou: Hmmmmmm……

Rory: Sorry that I changed the subject. Maybe you wanted to talk about your woohoo partner?

Ahriman: I'd prefer not to.

Lou: Hey, Ahriman.

Lou: Why's the tall grass only here? Why isn't the whole place covered in tall grass?

Ahriman: The short "grass" is mostly moss and wood sorrel. The tall grass doesn't spread very well, it stays in one place, and its length would usually be kept in check with magic.

Rory: Wow, this portal is huge.

Ahriman: It's for accessibility.

Rory: Have you figured out why there's a portal here when there aren't any spellcasters in this universe?

Ahriman: I think I have…

Ahriman: ... and I don't want to think too much about it,...

Ahriman: ... but I paid them a tribute a while back.

Rory: Should you really live here if it reminds you so much of your past?

Ahriman: Please, if there's something that reminds me of my past, it's you two. You look exactly the same as in my original universe.

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[canisalbus]

✦ Siesta ✦

[desolationlesbian]

The butch lesbian/trans man "funky printed button down" stereotype is true but you must understand that the men's section of so many clothing stores is a bleak and miserable place. Clothing manufacturers are simply convinced that no one who wears men's clothes wants anything besides the most boring outfits possible. Often stripes are the most exciting it gets. If you want to wear clothing designed for men but happen to like "color" and "joy" in your life then often the funky printed button down or the hawaiian shirt are simply your only options, especially off the clearance rack.

[mcmissileproof]

favorite hobby when I'm driving is to catch someone trying to climb up my back bumper while I'm going a completely reasonable speed and just slowly take my foot off the gas. you seem upset, brother. why don't we slow down and enjoy the view awhile

[yellowsnow77]

The Brights - Oyster Rock!

Sigo con la conexión entre Australia y Madrid. Y es que, si ayer os dejaba el nuevo álbum de Pop Filter, el cual edita Bobo Integral, hoy es el turno de The Brights, un grupo de Sydney que entrega su álbum de debut en Meritorio. Como ya sabréis, estos dos sellos madrileños editan pocas referencias a lo largo del año, pero todas ellas de mucha calidad. Y The Brights no son una excepción. Este…

[justalittlesolarpunk]

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

[hattedhedgehog]

My embroidery of the Sera character card from Dragon Age Inquisition is now complete!

75 hours of work, 11.5x19.5 cm

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[Image description: An embroidered version of the Sera character selection card from Dragon Age Inquisition. She stands atop a slanted tree trunk with her bow held suggestively between her legs, looking at the Skyhold tower in the distance, where the tiny figure of the inquisitor is present in the window. Mountains and turrets make up the background behind her.]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

vampires must find it odd/annoying that humans portray them as dark shadowy figures of the night, because like. vampires have night vision. to them, their shadowy candle-lit castle is basically lit up with ultra high lumen LED bulbs. a dark moonless night is in fact quite comfortable--no need to wear sunglasses like on annoyingly bright (aka gibbous moon) evenings. their vision is so good they basically never perceive a human's version of "darkness" except when they're tucked up nice and cosy in their coffins. everything but pitch black is bright to a vampire, they barely have a concept of shadows. not like those weirdo humans who are constantly getting spooked by their own bad eyesight

[choodraws]

gutted (crop) (full thing on patreon)

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[salted15]

personally i think he should be given a really big hammer nothing wrong will happen i promise

(i very recently started commissions btw !! since this post has been so successful i thought i'd edit it and do a shameless plug dkjfghsdkfgh)

[squeamishnerd]

My Top 23 Screenshots from 2023

Thanks for the tag @sharona-sims 😊

Pictures below the "Keep reading" cut

Most of the pictures also have links to the posts they're from 🙂

From The Original Ahriman

Ahriman being photogenic

These two being... questionable? 😅

(It's just self-woohoo with extra steps)

Morgyn's training session

The "What do you mean I should treat others the way I want to be treated?" face

Cornelia Goth making her son nervous

Ahriman meeting Harold 🥰

From The Brights

Beren crying 🥺 Taking this screenshot broke my heart

Beren laughing 🥰 When he played Never Have I Ever with Jayden, Cameron, and Julia

Beren reacting to when Melon first started

New chassis colours! Kodex kept their original blue chassis colour, Eve changed to silver, and Melon changed to red

The first time Ahriman saw a bot

Cameron and Jayden breaking up 🥲

Selfie! The picture for Arc 2 😊 (Also, see if you can find something I hid in the background)

Beren and Melon going to a restaurant

Ahriman sitting by the broken portal

Beren "got distracted" 😅

Melon being dramatic 😂

The Order of Enchantment when they were found by Julia. I just love how he squints with one eye 😆

Other

✨ Glimmerbrook ✨

And here are four pictures from a Dress Up / Alternate Universe Prompt game. People gave me prompts, and I dressed up my sims in a separate save file. All of these are just me playing around with the ideas from the prompts, so they're completely AU and not canon 😆

Beren as an engineer in the 1800s

Beren as a steampunk engineer

Beren and Andrew at a ball in the 1800s

Beren as a steampunk scientist and Ahriman as a vampire, in the 1800s

And I'm tagging @pomelosims, if you want to do it, no pressure 😊

[beybuniki]

based on sth i saw on twitter :)

[ceo-of-sloppy-men]

[emthimofnight]

HE'S BREACHED CONTAINMENT!!! He's escaping Sega's basement!!

[davisbette]

MICHAEL SHEEN as MILES MAITLAND in BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS (2003)

— dir. Stephen Fry

[justalittlesolarpunk]

There is hope. I promise. Young people just won their case against the state of Montana. Ecuadoreans braved escalating political violence to vote against oil drilling in the Amazon. Brazilian deforestation is down by enormous amounts since Lula took office. They’ve invented hydropanels that synthesise pure water from the air. People are farming in solar parks. A ship just launched for its maiden voyage using rigid sails designed to mimic wind turbine blades. EV sales are taking off, and, more crucially, cities are re-assessing their very relationship with the car. By the 2024 Olympics the river Seine will be safe for people to swim in again. More and more people are replacing their gas boilers with heat pumps. Solarpunks are growing crops in their back garden and distributing them to their neighbours. Great tracts of land are being given back to nature. Young people are channelling their energies into meaningful careers. Pilots are leaving the aviation industry. Yes, the world is dark and terrible and full of awful dangers that keep you up at night, but we are a huge movement that grows every day in numbers and power. Your small actions matter. Our collective triumphs are increasing. Things are going to get harder, extreme weather will be more common, but with ingenuity, resilience and crucially, COMMUNITY, we can build an equitable world on this strange, tired old planet. See you in the future.