Keira and Marta have moved to San Sequoia, and live in a residential rental. There are six units so I thought I would introduce who lives where. Keep in mind, the Romero household is the only one I will be actively playing. I'll reblog this when I end up playing them this rotation but wanted to share what I've been working on the past few days.
I'm only showing the living spaces for all of them but they have 1 to 3 bedrooms and 1 to 2 bathrooms.
1 Dockyard Way Units - The Hanks Unit
Dr Xander Hanks and fiance Marissa Montgomery
Guess who? I finally got around to putting Dr Hanks in the world. I gave him a fiance who is as profession focused as him. She's in the business career so will be Eliza's coworker. They are engaged but not in a rush to marry, and don't plan on kids anytime soon. Good thing to as the unit is a 1 bedroom.
2 Dockyard Way Units - The Romero Household
Keira Foster and Marta Romero
Here are my happily engaged girlies. No interior shots until their rotation though because spoilers. If you are unaware Keira is moving here to work at the Marine Life Institute as a marine biologist. Marta is a part time barista and is working on planning their wedding.
3 Dockyard Way Units - The Staples' Unit
Stefan and Margarita Staples with their twin boys Oli and Vernon
Oh look it's my For Rent testing family! I missed y'all, couldn't leave you behind! Have fun in the background my darlings. Stefan is a gym trainer while Margarita works from home as an accounting assistant. The infants are of course infants.
4 Dockyard Way Units - The Wiley Unit
Wyatt Wiley and his wife Tianna
Two sims uploaded to the gallery by SimzZilla, aged up to elders. Wyatt and Tianna have been married for so long that they don't bother wearing their rings anymore. Deciding not to have kids the couple spent their life between work and travel. Now retired they are ready to forge some connections.
5 Dockyard Way Units - The Bolton's Unit
Marjorie Bolton with her husbands Sergio and Joaquin, and their cat Ginger
Yes you did read that right, it was not a typo. These sims were part of my rotations at the start, way before I even dreamed of posting the story anywhere, but I was finding the guys careers boring so moved them to the back benches. Marjorie is a 2 star techie, in the same career path as Joey. She fell for both Joaquin and Sergio and luckily for her, the men ended up falling for each other along the way. Joaquin is a 3 star celeb DJ while Sergio is a style influencer. Ginger the cat is basically their child but with a 3 bedroom unit they're not opposed to expanding their family with either humans or more cats.
6 Dockyard Way Units - The Ali's Unit
Harper and Lawrence Ali with son Roger, daughter Paola and cats Rudy and Minnie
I had these sims for testing... well I've tested a bunch of stuff with them. The blurb below them says MagicBlueDragon but I'm looking through my library and can't see them individually. We'll just say Harper and Lawrence were originally made by MagicBlueDragon to be safe.
Haven't set up too much here but I will say Kelly will find an enemy in Roger despite him not appearing on screen for this chapter. You'll read why tomorrow, or your today depending on timezones.
Elvis, Gene Smith and the band flew to San Antonio, Texas, where Elvis performed at the Municipal Auditorium at 3.00 and 8.00 p.m with opening acts: Hank Locklin, Wanda Jackson, Leon Payne, The Texas Cool Cats, The Farmer Boys, Charlie Walker.
Elvis back stage at the Antonio concert. The photo was taken by Kay Wheeler who met Elvis for the first time. Below: Kay Wheeler and Elvis – she was the 1st Elvis Fan Club President. In an interview with Joe Krein she states;
"When I walked into Elvis’ backstage dressing room in San Antonio [April 15, 1956] – he was a rockabilly rebel! He had on a blue satin shirt, a gaudy EP diamond ring – hair in a cool ducktail with sideburns. He was plumb dangerous! He turned to me and said in a strong, sensual voice with a heavy lidded grin on his face, ‘So you’re my fan club president. Honey, what do you want me to do?’ He walked up to me – slid his hands down my sides and said, ‘Is all this really you, Baby?’ At that point, he started to kiss me. I flipped! Later, during his show, I was dancing in the wings on the stage. After it was over, Elvis made me show him my special ‘rock & bop’ bop steps that I did during his show. The early Elvis at that time was all you could imagine a rebel to be – he said anything he wanted to shock the news reporters. I was with Elvis on the rest of the Texas tour and on many occasions during the next 2 years. Elvis was wild and free in the beginning. I loved him for it …"
While under siege in his dressing room, Elvis gave a recorded interview to DJ Charlie Walker of KMAC Radio in San Antonio. Walker asked about the seven-year contract Presley had recently signed with Paramount Pictures. “Of course, it’s a dream come true,” Elvis declared. “It’s something I never thought would happen to me … of all people. But it just shows that you never can tell what’s gonna happen to you in life.” Naively, Elvis then expressed his desire to keep his acting and singing careers separate: “I’ve had people ask me was I gonna sing in the movies. I’m not, I mean as far as I know, cause I took strictly an acting test and I wouldn’t care too much about singin’ in the movies.”
The two shows Elvis performed the same set of songs: Baby Lets Play House, Heartbreak Hotel, Long Tall Sally, I Was The One, I Got A Woman, Only You, Blue Suede Shoes, Money Honey and Tutti Frutti
Between the show, Elvis amused himself by playing on the organ.
#OTD: 42 years ago, F-14s from VF-41, flown by Cdr.'Hank' Kleemann/Lt.'DJ' Venlet, and Lt.'Music' Muczynski/Lt.JG 'Amos' Anderson, destroyed two Libyan Su-22s over the Mediterranean (Aug 19, 1981). The event became known as the 1st Gulf of Sidra incident. #avgeeks #USNavy
-punk rock, post punk, emo and goth music!! (i like metal too but not that much)
-zombie and vampires
-wars!
-dinosaurs or just history/prehistory
-guns/weapons
-alan tutorial!!
𝐌𝐘 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒
Flippy (htf), Habit (emh), Vinny (emh) Observer (t12), Prebrand (t12), Alex Kralie (marble hornets), Jeff The Killer (crp), Ghoulia (mh), John Doe (jd XD), Sid (skins), Maria (silent hill), Chris (dh00), Michael (ml0), Andre and Cal:3 (zero day), Pinkie Pie (mlp), Abby Anderson (tlou), Toki (Metalocalypse), Ada Wong (resident evil), Wesker (resident evil), Hank Anderson (dbh), Larry Johnson (sf), Todd Morrison (sf), Postal Dude (postal), Sophie (cof), John Ward (ftut), Miles Upshur (outlast), Norman Jayden (heavy rain), Shaggy (scooby doo), Patrick Bateman (american psycho), Jesse Wells (hollow hemlocks)
𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀/𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁
Anal Cunt, Buerak, Sedes, 5mewmet, dj trippie flameboy, Злые Гномы, Пурген, Molchat Doma, KMFDM, Type O Negative, Chernikovskaya Hata, Mindless Self Indulgence, Ploho, Nürnberg, Linkin Park, ssshhhiiittt!, Crystal Castles, Pisse, Dezeter, Brudne Place Zabaw, Pornofilmy, Myslovitz, CASTET, 100 Tvarzy Grzybiarzy, Twoyastara Of Death, Hamulec, Gruzja, Казённыи Унитаз, Fester Witch, Оргазм Нострадамуса, Elusin and many many many other
𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐢 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭
Postal, Half Life, Silent hill, Lomando.com, John Doe, Outlast, Sally Face, Fran Bow, Cry of Fear, Afraid of Monsters, Faith the unholy trinity, Buckshot Roulette, Priest Simulator, Call of Duty, Red Dead Redemption, Mortal Kombat, KryptaFM, Neverending Nightmares
movies/shows/series that i like:3
Duck, Zero Day, Saw, IT, My Little Pony, Monster high, Elephant, Scooby Doo, Fight Club, Breaking Bad, American Psycho, Sala Samobójców
𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚝 𝚖𝚎:3
-I love windy weather smsmsmms
-talking abt ai 24/7
-im lonely as hell
-im watching movies with Joey Smack all the time
-i love darkness
-staying up all nights
-YES I LOVE EDGY MEDIA
-im a walking multifandom literally
-I LOVELOVELOVE COOKING CAKES
-my favorite animals are wolfs, dogs and lemon sharks!
-idk what i feel abt my sexuality tbh
-my comfort people are Evan Jennings, Rikki Audax and Andreas Ronnberg:3
-atheist:D
-i think about zombie and fake shooters media all the time
-PLAYING GAMES AND LISTENING TO MUSIC 24/7
⠀ DNI!!
-minor p3dos/p3dos
-n4zis.
-adam r0sner supporters
-SOME yansim/genshin/pj sekai toxic fans
-dsmp fans
-ppl who r romantizong being slavic bc its annoying
-SOME taylor swift and lana del rey fans (i dont mean listeners!)
-millennials
-proshippers
-PEOPLE WHO HATE DOGS OR CATS.
-posers
-annoying skinheads and metalheads
-ppl who are hating on other basic/alt ppl
-EVERY WEIRD south park fans
-g0re enjoyers
INTERACT!!
-slenderverse and creepypasta enjoyers!
-tcc (just dont talk abt killers like abt little kids and be normal)
-punks:3
-POST PUNK AND PUNK ROCK LISTENERS.
-indie, story and horror games fans
-KMFDM AND MSI LISTENERS (jimmy supporters dni lol)
-fictional school shooters enjoyers!!
-minors
-edgy people pleaseee
-PRIEST SIMULATOR OR KRYPTA FM POLISH FANS
-analogue horrors enjoyers
-kpop community (the same thing as tcc)
-artists!
-cosplayers hell yeah
-ranfren russian and polish fandom (BE NORMAL PLESSEEEEE)
It's my Big Bang posting day, and I am delighted to bring you Ghosts in the Machines, a Reverse AU following Detective Stern and his prototype Android partner Hank through events that may be familiar, and may be very different.
I have been blessed to be paired up with @vladlen4i and @winterbaroness for this Big Bang, and they have both produced truly stunning artwork for Chapter 3, available here now.
It has been an honour to have my story chosen by two such incredibly talented artists. It's been a little intimidating knowing that I needed to write to a standard that complemented the wonderful artistic skill of my partners, and I hope you're all happy with the end result.
I'd also like to thank @dj-dorito-dust for their help beta-ing and Americanizing. Your help has been invaluable.
Ghosts in the Machines will continue to be updated at a rate of one chapter daily until it's complete. Until then, please enjoy the products of my brainrot and go and scream at @winterbaroness and @vladlen4i about how amazing they are.
And please keep an eye on @dbh-bb2023 for more fics and art in the coming days and weeks!
Your band au inspired me! I’ve also written a bit more as well but I figured I’d only send you the first part in case you don’t want anyone using your art as inspo. Which is totally okay if that’s the case and sorry if I’ve overstepped!
The venue was dark and lit with the bright colors of neon and the roving lights that cast everyone's face in an angelic glow one second and dark shadows the next. Gavin walked in through the blacked out double doors, nodding to the bouncer as he walked inside, flashing the ticket on his phone as he passed. Heavy bass reverberated through his bones in the way that had become nearly second nature to him and he wandered toward a dark corner of the bar where cigarette smoke hung a little heavier in the air. It wasn’t too crowded by the bar; most people gathered near the stage, which was a few feet off the ground with nothing separating the crowd from the performers, which told him all he needed to know about their current musical success. He snorted to himself at his pettiness as he pulled his pack of cigarettes out of the jacket of his hoodie that was layered beneath his black leather jacket and lit up. The bar was familiarly sticky but he couldn't say he much minded; it wasn't like he was hanging out in much better places. He scanned his eyes around the place falling into what Hank would call his cop habit and he would violently deny because he wasn’t looking to bust the potheads in the corner or the girls with the long pinky nails and large pupils he just wanted to enjoy the few hours in the day that were actually his and weren’t spent getting the shit beaten out of him or seeing the worst humanity had to offer. His need to watch the room was both a passive enjoyment of people watching combined with the paranoid need to make sure that no one was going to get the drop on him.
He handed his card over to the bartender and asked for a whiskey neat, he saw the way she rolled her eyes for just a moment and couldn’t help but agree it was a douchey drink but at least it gave him a nice buzz a bit faster than a beer. The set he had come to see was about to come on judging from the time on his phone but knowing places like these it could be another twenty before the band was ready or the current one playing was ready to give up the stage. He watched the crows and they seemed to be enjoying the set but there seemed to be an air of anticipation and he wondered if the next band would live up to the hype that Matt had given them.
“Thank you everyone for coming out tonight and listening to our set.” The frontman said with a smile and a round of cheering went up in the room, “Please welcome LED Rainbow.”
This cheering was nearly deafening compared to the last and Gavin wondered how badly that had to sting, they hadn’t been terrible but he definitely now had even higher expectations for the next band. They quickly gathered their gear and unplugged their guitars as they cleared out and the DJ quickly took over to keep everyone dancing and to cover the sound of musicians setting up. Gavin turned and tapped his ash into the ashtray on the bar and gave the bartender a small quirk of his mouth that was the closest thing that came to a natural smile for him as she refilled his drink. She nodded in return and he watched her eyes drift behind him to the stage and he turned to see the new band plugging in and setting up.
LED Rainbow seemed to have three members: a bassist, a drummer, and a singer. He watched with rapt attention as the lead singer adjusted the microphone with long deft fingers. The lead singer, Gavin assumed, was tall and evenly built with obvious muscle but not overly so his hair was a dark brown that was neatly styled as was the rest of his clothing. Gavin would have mistaken him for some model instead of a singer in some alt-indie band playing in a step above a dive bar hole in the wall. A group of women gathered at the foot of the stage seemed to agree as they cheered raucously as the guitarist strummed a few chords and the frontman turned to say something to her.
“Hello, glad to see some familiar faces,” The man's dark brown eyes swept the room and seemed to settle on Gavin, “and some unfamiliar ones tonight.”
He wasn’t an overly expressive man with an almost neutral expression and the barest hint of a smile but Gavin would be a liar if he said he wasn’t a little rattled by the intensity of that glance. The drummer began a soft beat and after a moment or two the bassist joined in and Gavin recognized a cover of Seven Nation Army which the crowd cheered happily. The frontman quickly joined in and whatever notion of them being terrible and coasting on looks alone was quickly squashed much to Gavins chagrin now he would be tortured by the knowledge that someone that good looking was also actually that talented and also definitely looking at him. Every so often that heated gaze would find him once again and Gavin hoped he would look away just so the semi he was sporting might go away.
They performed for an hour and Gavin could safely say that Matt hadn’t been lying about how good they were. They covered a couple of songs but their original stuff was just as good and he wondered if he would have to ask for one of their albums to be set aside for him when he went back to the record shop later. The only reason he had been able to come tonight was because Matt, his friend who owned the record shop down the street from his apartment, had a ticket he couldn’t use and he had been told their recent album had been selling out faster than he could keep it in the stacks.
“Thank you for all the support tonight guys. We’re gonna be announcing some tour dates in a month or two because of all the love you’ve shown to our album so thank you.” He announced as he gave a larger smile but that almost seemed fake to Gavin. He watched as the band quickly began to pack up and he watched as the lead singer was dragged into conversation with some of their fans at the base of the stage.
Gavin could see the heated gazes though that he was shooting towards the bar and he figured either the bartender was the guy's girlfriend or he might be getting lucky tonight. He turned to the bartender to close his tab and down the last of his drink, he watched her go through the motions of grabbing his card from the stack and pulling his receipt which he tipped and signed. When he turned back hoping to maybe catch a glimpse of tall and handsome before he left, he was met with the man standing in front of him much closer than he had anticipated which nearly set his teeth on edge but it was quickly forgiven when the man reached a hand out to him and nodded towards the darkly lit hallway leading to the bathroom. He smirked and grabbed the man's hand and was quickly dragged away from the bar and through the door to the single mens bathroom.
The man shoved Gavin onto the counter beside the sink and his back was nearly flush with the mirror as he captured his lips in a nearly bruising kiss. He could almost feel the cold seeping into his clothing through the three layers of fabric or that might have just been the shiver running down his spine and straight to his dick at the manhandling. One of his hands cupped the back of his neck slipping into the short hairs at the base of his neck while the other was thrown over his shoulder gripping the white and black jacket and using it to pull the nameless man closer between his open thighs.
Imagine seeing this ask at a coffee shop I couldn’t fully react YOU DIDNT OVERSTEP THIS IS LOVE LANGUAGE THIS IS GREAT SEND ME MORE coNTINUE I COULD KISS YALL
DID U SAY FIRST PART? Send in the rest come oooon im at the edge of my seat
There’s a lot to like about this episode: a pretty grody-looking corpse; plenty of shots of adorable rats scampering around; character interactions, like Sergeant Wu and Hank together at a bar or Monroe trying to mentor the hot-headed Roddy, that feel like a treat since they happen outside Nick’s immediate orbit; the hapless rich teens descending into what looks like such an obvious trap while essentially bragging to one another about how many times their parents have tried to call them for some delicious dramatic irony; Roddy playing what amounts to electric violin to direct his rat army in this massive underground room lit with candles. The combination of his rave-hosting “DJ Retchid Kat” tech and big, goofy, pink cat mask-head with the ominous, old timey light sources and the visual of the multitudes of rats in this space that’s got this turquoise and orange look is a real potent mix. The show continues to be quite entertaining, and particular lines or visuals demonstrate a certain flair and sense of fun or creativity.
This one is almost great—I just wish it had more to say about some of the themes it flirts with, even though I’m not exactly surprised, given that this is network television.
Maybe I thought I’d make it longer without using the word “copaganda,” but here I go (using it). Grimm is part of a long tradition of media that gives cops a whole lot of credit. I know it’s also a fantasy show where your refrigerator repair man turns out to actually be some sort of man-sized rodent… man, but it’s still got all the usual police procedural baggage, and outside the context of a fantasy show, the irritation and desperation Roddy and his dad express about their treatment by the system/police is pretty messed up (and accurate). The courtesy call Roddy gets late in the episode, where a dispassionate male voice tells him “I have to inform you, your father was injured when he refused to enter his cell,” is just so brutal: Like his dad just got stepped on by the universe or something and wasn’t abused by human beings doing their so-called jobs?
“I’d like an answer before politics screw things up,” says Nick’s boss at one point, which is… great.
Classism is another theme here that is ultimately not exactly paid off satisfactorily. Roddy was targeted for being too poor to have such talent or a rich girlfriend:
“You’re gonna pay.” / “Some of us can afford to.”
“That boy does not belong in our school.” / “Or in your neighborhood?”
(That second pair comes from a rich white mother and Hank, the show’s nearly singular Black character.)
Those are some excellent lines that feel perfectly barbed in the moment but are perhaps gesturing at things that are a bit too big (and dangerous) for this show to do anything meaningful with them. It’s a bit like Monroe’s blustery, abortive man-to-man talk with Roddy in that it says some things but misses a whole lot as well.
With Duke Of Paducah and Hank Snow, Elvis with Scotty, Bill and DJ appeared at the Rialto Theater, Louisville, Kentucky with Hank Snow for Philip Morris Company employees.