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simmer-rhi · 2 years

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Willow Creek Rotation - Pancakes Flashback

Hastings Family - Part 11

Eliza and Bobby's wedding was an intimate affair, with only their closest family members invited. And even Eliza's mother had to admit that she'd never seen a couple so blissfully happy.

#pancakes flashback #hastings family #pancakes family #eliza pancakes #bob pancakes #ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #simblr #sims 4 screenshots #sims 4 rotational play #strangerville

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thetaurussimmer · 2 years

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Meet the Hastings family! Or more specifically, meet Brie and Seth Hastings! The founders of our family.

Brie Hastings started off with no home to call her own and not a single simoleon in her pocket. All she had were the clothes on her back and a few seeds she had gathered. That didn’t stop her though. Through hard work, determination, and the support of a few local friends, Brie was able to make a name for herself and build up her dream life. After finally achieving a new home and a new outlook on life, that is when she met Seth Valenzuala (a beautiful sim created by SimsbySelena on the exchange) and instantly fell in love. Fast forward and soon they were the proud parents of five beautiful babies.

This is the story of their lives and the legacy they created!

To see the family tree and learn more about the family traits and connections, click here

Directory of family members, here!

#sims 3 #sims 3 gameplay #sims 3 simblr #sims 3 screenshots #ts3 #the sims 3 #ts3 legacy #ts3 gameplay #hastings family #brie hastings #seth hastings #denver hastings #shelby hastings #sloan hastings #lark hastings #rowan hastings #valerie hastings #hastings gen 1 #hastings gen 2

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rezisims · 2 years

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roxanne & eileen hastings

sooo... guess who got the werewolves pack.

roxanne is a full-blooded werewolf. she is paranoid, neat, and a perfectionist. after falling in love with cliff palacios, a human, from mt. komorebi, she thought she could have it all. he accepted her for who she was, and was ready to love her through any and all difficulties. however, the first night she trusted herself, at his behest, to be in his presence during a full moon, blood covered their apartment. she fled, terrified and torn apart (metaphorically) to have killed her true love, to moonwood mill. surrounded by other werewolves, roxanne found that she was pregnant with eileen. she settled at new moon shack, got a job as a nurse after studying extensively, and adopted a new name. now, she looks for a cure for both her and her daughter’s affliction, while at the same time teaching her how to fend for herself in case human tourists come knocking at their door.

eileen is a loner and good. she loves her mother but believes she’s behind the times. being a werewolf to this teen is not something to be cured, a plague, but something to be celebrated and used for her own gain. she listens to her mother’s teachings and catches on quickly, but good luck to anyone who thinks she’ll grow up any time soon.

dynamic plum family tree

cc list: 1. skin overlay - sicily skin by sibylline sims (eileen) 2. skin overlay - fleur skinblend by flowermilksims (roxanne) 3. eyes - in your element soft default eyes by larularo 4. cas background - cappuccino by shasims 5. poses - male poses 04 by helgatisha (eileen, CAS) 6. poses - model poses 04 by ratboysims (roxanne, CAS) 7. in-game poses - twilight poses by ratboysims

#ts4 #the sims 4 #the sims werewolves #sims werewolves #ts4 lookbook #lookbook #the sims lookbook #sims 4 lookbook #eileen hastings #roxanne hastings #hastings family #currently playing

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burnbrighterthanever · 1 year

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Okay, we've all heard abt Desmond accidentally calling Shaun "Leo" or "Malik" and Shaun freaking out. And that's fun and all, but allow me to propose:

- A very tired Desmond called Rebecca "Claudia," and Rebecca's heart melted a little.

- Shaun brough Desmond some tea after a long session in the Animus, and he said, "Thank you, Shay." It took Desmond a good ten seconds to realize why everyone was staring.

- William was being Awful as per usual, and Desmond snapped in a perfect English accent. "Charles, control yourself or I'll have to ask you leave." The resulting explosion was heard from Abstergo headquarters.

#desmond miles #rebecca crane #william miles #shaun hastings #haytham kenway #shay cormac #ezio auditore #claudia auditore #assassin's creed ii #assassin's creed brotherhood #assassin's creed iii #assassin’s creed rogue #kenway family shenanigans #stel speaks

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lykegenia · 7 months

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So something has been bugging me for a while now about A and N’s backstories, and while I know not everyone will be as pedantic as me, as someone who loves history and has done a lot of writing, I feel that if you’re going to write a story about vampires and give them a specific time and date of origin, then there should be a certain level of research that goes into making that background authentic. I'm not saying that Mishka didn’t do any research. It just seems that in order to keep the vibe of a happy, mellow fantasy some of the less savoury aspects of A and N’s upbringings have been left out, and it's a shame. To be honest, it feels a bit disingenuous, and it feels like an opportunity got wasted.

Let me explain (long post got long, it's 2am)

Let's take A first, since the problem is simpler here.

A is the child of a Norman lord and an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, born in the first generation after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. A says that these were turbulent times but that their parents had a happy marriage. Which. While I’m sure a lot of unions in that time period made the best of it, I can’t help but feel this description strips away a lot of the context of what was going on at that point in history - and removes some of the complexity about A’s thoughts on love and relationships.

Basically, after he took control of the throne, William the Conqueror stripped many Anglo-Saxon lords of their lands and titles so he could give them to his Norman buddies instead - with the added bonus that it left the Anglo-Saxons without the means to raise armies against him. The sisters, daughters, and widows of the dispossessed Anglo-Saxons were then forced to marry these new Norman lords to legitimise their power, not infrequently after all of their male relatives had been slaughtered. It’s not as if Anglo-Saxon women weren’t used to being used as political chess pieces, but the years after the conquest were brutal. It’s why William had to build so many castles. The point that I’m trying to make is that even if A’s mother was content enough in her daily life, due to the power imbalance between her and her husband, it's very likely she had little choice in the matter. She may have seen a lot of her family killed for political reasons, with the knowledge that – in an age where women had very little protection outside of their paternal household – she might be next if she made too much of a fuss.

It would be fascinating to see what effect that tension has had on A 900 years later, or even to get an acknowledgement of how much times have changed, but we don’t. We don't see how their early years affected them, how they view relationships formed naturally instead of via political contracts. And I really, really wish we did. There is so much potential there.

But A is not the one keeping me up past 2 in the morning. It’s N, and the utter detachment their backstory seems to have from the period in history they lived in as a human. And it all stems from the fact that they came from the English nobility in the late 1600s.

See, the bulk of the problem is that English inheritance law at the time heavily favoured primogeniture, where a man’s wealth would go to his first-born son. Some dispensation was made for widows and other children, but the estates, assets, and most of the money had a very clear destination.

For one thing, this makes it kinda weird that N’s stepfather would have needed an heir before he could inherit, because except in extreme circumstances everything would have gone to him anyway. Don't get me wrong, this isn't the worst part of the problem, it’s just annoying when there are more plausible reasons for him marrying a woman already pregnant with another man’s child (old family friend wanting to save her from disgrace, needed the dowry to pay off gambling debts, there was a longstanding betrothal between them that would have been tricky to get out of, etc.).

No, the bigger problem with N’s backstory vs primogeniture is firstly that at the time the English aristocracy was racist af (still is tbh) and given his pretty obvious mixed-race heritage, no court would have agreed that Nate was a legitimate son (this is for a very special reason that we will be coming back to). I say Nate specifically here because primogeniture requires the eldest legitimate son. Nat wouldn’t have inherited at all, as women in that period passed from the guardianship of their father (or other male blood relative) into that of their husband after marriage, and only gained any kind of independence with widowhood. If N had been an only child, maybe they would have been treated as a special case, but unfortunately Milton exists: the eldest legitimate son who by law will inherit everything.

Now here’s the thing. Your average aristocrat in the 17th century is very obsessed with lineage and keeping the family line unbroken. He would not, therefore, send his legitimate heir to sea to be shot at or drowned before he can carry on the family name – that joy instead goes to any other sons who need their own profession, because again, they will get very little. Nat would have had a dowry, but would never have been expected to make her own living, so I'm going to focuson Nate for this next bit.

In Book 3, if you unlock his tragic backstory Nate tells you he joined the Royal Navy after Milton went missing so that he could go look for him. And, well. This is where his backstory as Mishka tells it completely falls apart. For two reasons:

1. Even in the modern day, you can’t ‘just’ join the Navy, and you certainly can’t just jump straight to being a lieutenant – it takes years of training and after a certain age they won’t take you because they won’t be able to mould you easily enough into a useful tool. For most of the Navy's history, the process was even more involved. It wasn’t an office job you could just rock up to and then quit if you felt like it, it was a lifetime commitment. Boys destined to be officers would be sent to sea as early as 12 to learn shipboard life, starting at the bottom and moving up the ranks. These were gained by passing exams and by purchasing a commission – which is why you generally had to come from wealth to be an officer at all. Once you get to lieutenant you're responsible for a lot of people, and might be tasked with commanding any captured ships alongside the daily running of yours - it was not an easy job.

2. Even as a lieutenant (one rank below Captain, with varying levels of seniority) it’s not like you can just go where you want. In the 1720s British colonies already existed in India, the Caribbean, and up the entire eastern seaboard of North America and into Canada, and the Navy was tasked with protecting merchant shipping along these seaways (and one trade in particular that we’ll be getting to, don’t worry). Nate could have ended up practically anywhere in the burgeoning empire. He would not have been able to choose whom he served under, and would not have been able to demand his superior officer go against orders from the admirality to chase down one lone vessel because he thinks another one of the admirals might be a bit dodgy. It could not have happened.

Besides these impracticalities, there’s a far easier way for the child of a wealthy man to get to a specific point on the far side of the globe to look for their lost sibling, which is the route I assume Nat took sine she couldn’t have joined the Navy (yes she could have snuck in but she’s specifically in a dress in the B2 mirror scene so). All they'd have to do would be to charter a ship and tell the captain where to go, which is the plot of Treasure Island. It's quicker, less fuss, with less chance of things going wrong. It's even possible in the age of mercantilism that the Sewells had some merchant vessels among their holdings that could be diverted for the task. Why go through the hassle of joining the Navy and potentially ending up on the wrong side of the world when you can just hire a ship directly?

If Nate does have to be in the Navy (and let’s face it, it’s worth it just for the uniform) then it's far more plausible is that, as the illegitimate son who would not inherit because of racism etc, he got sent to the Navy as a boy and rose through the ranks to become a lieutenant. When he got news of Milton’s disappearance not far from where he was stationed, he begged his captain to go investigate in case whatever happened turned out to be the symptom of a bigger problem. Like pirates.

I like this version better not just because it makes more sense, or because it keeps Nate’s situation re: inheritance closer to Nat’s and therefore makes their stories more equal, but also because it adds a delicious amount of guilt to Nate’s need to find his brother. We know his entire crew died looking for answers, because he was selfish – that’s roughly 100-400 lives lost because of him, and we know that sort of thing eats at him.

So that's one side of the story, but if Milton wasn’t in the Navy, what was he doing on the other side of the Atlantic in the first place? Well, this is where we come to the biggest elephant in the room regarding N’s backstory as a member of the 17th century English aristocracy and potentially as a naval officer: the Atlantic Slave Trade. If you are wealthy in 17th century Britain it's more than likely that your wealth comes either from the trade itself, or from the products made with the labour of enslaved people. If you are wealthy, you want to protect your assets from attack by pirates or foreign powers so you don't become less wealthy, and that is what the Navy is for.

Regardless of N’s own views on slavery at the time – and any subsequent changes in opinion – it’s likely their family owned or had shares in slave plantations in the Americas. As distasteful as it is, it makes far more sense that Milton was on a trip to check the family’s holdings when his ship - specifically a merchant vessel - went missing. From a pirate perspective, a merchant ship would make a much better target than a Navy vessel, being slower, more likely to have valuable cargo, and less likely to have marines or a well-trained broadside.

It's not surprising that Mishka left out the subject of the slave trade given her tendency to skirt around darker subjects and general blindspot for racial politics, but it is nuance that, if it was there, would create a more grounded and coherent backstory for N that doesn’t have quite so many holes. Like with A being the child of an invader and his war bride, we could get some deeper thoughts from N about their place in the world - How do they feel to have grown up so privileged when others who looked like them were regarded as literal property? How did they feel being part of the system that made it happen? Did it inform their compassionate nature? Is it still a source of guilt or someithng they've tried to make up for?

I'm not sure where I was going with all of this. It's late, my sleep pattern is fucked. The tl;dr is that giving the vampires' backstories historical context would make them feel more multifaceted and would give opportunities for character growth that are instead missed because of a desire for a more sanitized version of the past.

#thank you for coming to my ted talk #the wayhaven chronicles #twc #a du mortain #adam du mortain #ava du mortain #n sewell #nate sewell #nat sewell #it's annoying because it’s such a small tweak in the grand scheme of things #If she didn’t want unfortunate implications she could have made N from a century later when the navy was actively trying to stop slavery #A could have been from a 50 years earlier to tie his whole family’s demise into the subjugation of the english after the battle of hastings #or a century later when the two courts had mostly integrated #mishka made choices #they deserve to be given more substance than mere aesthetics #you can tell it’s late I’m using long words

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wonder-worker · 4 months

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Queens could, of course, be involved in more overtly worldly patronage, often in an intercessory role. A well-documented example is the involvement of the Mercers' Company of London with Elizabeth Woodville in the late 1470s. The queen first interceded for the merchants in 1478, regarding a "fraye" between the king's servants and some London citizens. By December 1479 the company had a much more serious problem; it owed the king an onerous sum for non-payment of its subsidy, and for its alleviation it looked to both Elizabeth and the king's chamberlain (William, Lord Hastings). From the beginning the queen's abilities were recognized as exceptional, not only by the company but by Hastings, who encouraged the merchants to cultivate her rather than himself. In January 1480, after the merchants had given "grete lawde & thanke" to their court connections, including Thomas Grey and "the lord Ryvers", they reported that Hastings had cautioned them "to be more secrete of theyre frendes and that non avaunt be made who that is frendly and laboureth for us Except the quenes good grace oonly, whiche that is, & always hath ben, oure verrey good & gracious lady in the said mater & c.". Evidently dealing with the queen alone would get the company into less political trouble than open lobbying of her relatives -- an indication, perhaps, that Elizabeth was not considered one and the same with "the Woodvilles".

By 8 January 1480, the queen had managed to convince Edward to forgive 500 marks (£333 6s. lOd.) of the fine, and the company decided that she was their most promising option; four days later the fine was further reduced by the same amount.

-Derek Neal, "The Queen's Grace: English Queenship 1464-1503"

#historicwomendaily #elizabeth woodville #I like this because the company evidently panicked and sent appeals to anyone perceived to be prominent and influential at court #including Elizabeth Anthony Dorset Hastings the Earl of Essex etc #But it's clear that at the end of the day Elizabeth was the one with the superior influence and the one who could actually get things done #It's funny when people try to emphasize Hastings' alleged influence when Hastings himself was out there emphasizing Elizabeth's 🤷🏻‍♀️#And when Edward wrote that he 'most singularly' placed his trust in her above all others in his own will #It certainly seems that the court widely regarded her as the one with the most effective influence #And like Neal points out this demonstrates how she should stop being overlooked and subsumed into larger discussions on her family.#She was the queen consort; her role was singular and distinctive.#Her family weren't known as 'the Woodvilles' by contemporaries either: they were known as 'the queen's kin'

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incorrectprettylittleliars · 7 months

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alison [watching paige and emily talk]: this is a hate crime.

spencer: how is it a hate crime?

alison: because I hate her.

#source: modern family #pretty little liars #alison dilaurentis #spencer hastings #incorrect pll quotes

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simmer-rhi · 2 years

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Willow Creek Rotation - Pancakes Flashback

Hastings Family - Part 12

After the wedding, Eliza and Bobby moved into a tiny trailer in Strangerville. They might not have had much, but they were happy.

Bobby spent a lot of time with Eliza's father, George, who had been out of working and struggling with his mental health for many years. He enjoyed the male company, Caroline and Eliza didn't much like fishing (and neither did Bobby, but we'll keep that between us).

Caroline: Bobby, I want to thank you for giving up so much of your time to spend with George. He's like a new man these days. And...

Bobby: Hey, we're family, that's what we do.

Caroline: Well, I know I haven't welcomed you into our family with open arms. I was wrong. I can see you are a good man, and I know you've helped Eliza through a tough time too. She was right about you. I'm sorry.

Bobby: Maybe you need to be having this conversation with Eliza?

Caroline: I know. It's hard to swallow your pride and admit when you're wrong. But I will speak to her, soon. I'm so proud of her, you know. She's her own person, strong and determined.

Bobby (laughing): Well, you're more alike than you might realise.

(me: 😭)

#pancakes flashback #hastings family #pancakes family #bob pancakes #ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #simblr #sims 4 screenshots #sims 4 rotational play #strangerville

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thetaurussimmer · 1 year

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Of course, though, Melanie encouraged Sloan to embark on her journey! She even promised to take care of the house while she's gone!

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junewongapologia · 7 months

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One day I will post my numerous pages of comparative analysis of the Wells and Wong families, but until then the upshot of it is: best crack friendship pairing is Mrs Wong and Lord Hastings.

#murder most unladylike #arsenic for tea #a spoonful of murder #june wong #lord hastings #wells family #wong family #robin stevens

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ilove-townies · 1 year

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