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LOL Rhett jumping rope in the kitchen in his underwear. Your sims are really knocking the inappropriate-but-okay-for-sims behavior out of the park today.

Coral is less horny than Herb but she has slept around to, last round with Sara Bellum. It's an open and equal relationship.

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We have watched 1776 every July 4 except 1 since the late 80s. (We...really could not Feel It in 2017 after a full year of the anti-President.)

rb and tell me what’s your most re watched movie.. and be honest

#movies #non-sims

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And Rhett has his sights set on a threeway, by the look of it.

Even though I have a no fire mod I make every sim learn the skill in order to get into college. I just act like they are studying normal school subjects. They also need so many skills etc.

And now Herb has his sights set on Chloe Curious.

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Well, that's all right then!

Jean: How was work, mom? Did you track that whale? Les: It was definitely less eventful than your day, sweetie. And no, the whale is still avoiding me. How are you feeling? Jean: You know what, I’m good. I never know what to talk about with anyone. Now that we've had this fire, all my classmates are asking if I'm okay and want to be my friends!

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Since Niall and Odin hadn't had a chance to get close, I gave myself permission to direct him in an emergency, but Baldur actually stepped up as Head of Household to feed people, and the dog bowls had been filled right before Odin died, so it wasn't necessary. Which is good because he and Freya would not keep their fists off each other! They survived the mourning period with no major disasters, but now there's decisions to be made in the wake of insurance payouts.

#Sims 2 #Eden's Land

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People are mourning in their own ways and neighbors are dropping in. Not only are Freya and Niall at each other's throats, but Frey starts picking on Bran (that was Bran who sat down to chess with Freya, not Thor - I need to change their hair so I can tell them apart better in pictures.)

An unexpected potential complication is that Niall and Frigga triple bolt.

The good witch drops off a date reward (I guess that was a date after all - I played all this last week so I'm not as up on things as I am with a neighborhood I'm actively recording) but for some reason leaves it at the very edge of the lot. It'll look good in the feast hall, or maybe on a bedside table.

#Sims 2 #Eden's Land

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There's going to be a whole wave of Founder deaths now, isn't there? Not allowing aspiration rewards hasn't affected gameplay much till now because the only one I routinely use is Elixir. But not using Elixir is sure having gameplay effects now!

#Sims 2 #Eden's Land

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At home, things are peaceful. I sat Freya down at the chess board to call Niall to her, but Thor Bran came instead. Frigga is busy training up dogs in the ways they should go.

#Sims 2 #Eden's Land

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Baldur has gone awhile without a date, so he heads to the Swimming Pool, where he meets a charming sparkly woman. I can never remember the witches' names but if he dates her I'd better learn. He works on getting the relationship to a point where a date might be accepted, and then she flies off and he has a nice meal with Chava. He's friends with her and her husband so he's not trying to rekindle anything at this time. Frigga is nagging him about an heir, but he's got two younger brothers - three, counting Niall. There's plenty of time and the situation's hardly dire yet.

#Sims 2 #Eden's Land

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Baldur spontaneously made breakfast and they now have two adult dogs and can start breeding puppies!

#Sims 2 #Eden's Land

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Alas, I cannot keep Niall and Freya away from each other's throats. Freya is a valiant shieldmaiden and easily beats this adult man's ass, even though she's once again trapped by the bunk bed ladder. That only happens in this house, and almost exclusively to Freya. I have no idea what the deal is here.

#Sims 2 #Eden's Land

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Let's have a party! Thor wants to found his own household and Rachel Tite is a practical option for him: a fellow Fortune sim, with a lot of skill points - particularly the creativity points that are such a mainstay of the local economy - from a similarly patrilocal culture but with badges in "masculine" skills that, while necessary, don't interest him very much. They didn't know each other well as teens but they never had any negative interactions, either. Testing the waters in the context of a large party, including members of her family, is sensible.

Despite her attraction to women, Rachel has been thinking along the same lines and she's not shy about meeting him halfway. This is looking like a good potential match.

Nobody knows what Chava is apologizing to Niall for, as the neighborhood consensus is that Chava has never done anything wrong, ever, and their enmity is 100% his fault; but then she never could stand not to like people and probably realizes that he's too contrary to make the first move. Also, he dated her sister Leah through high school and the possibility that they'll make a match, too, probably factors into things.

#Sims 2 #Eden's Land

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The first thing Freya and Niall tried to do when I opened the household was fight each other, so I set her to doing homework and him to learning to sew. He also had to try to get to know his biological father some.

Fenris and Ulfa gave us some trouble on the housebreaking front. I kept not noticing what they were doing till both dogs were far away and the puddle was in the middle of the workroom.

#Sims 2 #Eden's Land

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This is at least partly because Tolkien's fantasies weren't about Power; they were were about Healing.

Every time I reread, I am more forcibly struck by the fact that this was a work by a World War I veteran. One who survived because he got too sick to fight. He belonged to a culture that discouraged emotional expression and valued repression as the way to "get on with things". Therapy was expensive, a bit fringe, and in its infancy so not very good. He had a living to make and a family to support and an imaginary world of considerable depth and richness living in his head.

It took him years to write and he wrote without a plan, discovering new things and tying them in to old ones in his head. Occasionally he read bits aloud to his literary friends, who were also veterans. He incorporated things with his children in mind. The world in general and his country in particular plunged into another war like the one he'd lost so many friends to and barely escaped with his life from. He'd learned a number of hard things from the first war, that the world around him insisted on not learning.

LOTR has to be read and analyzed as literature, not as a therapeutic process. But damn if it isn't the closest thing to experiencing somebody else's therapeutic process we're going to get, all the same.

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

#literature #Tolkien #LOTR #history #non-sims

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Happy birthday and good luck at school, Jean.

#land grant university graduates #mysterysimblr reblog #I'm erratic about reblogging LGU dormies made playable because sometimes I'm tired and sometimes there's a cat between me and the keyboard

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Herb and Rhett attract remarkably little attention...

Desiree is studying hard. Homeschool doesn't mean she can slack off.

Herb and Rhett fall in love.

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There's just nothing funnier than sims going full-out with other sims standing right next to them paying them no mind.

They had an amazing date

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