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simlishnoir · 5 years

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Timeline

So a few years ago (okay October 2016) I started working on a timeline-ish for my headcanon of The Sims. Maybe it can give someone inspiration idk.

Legend: Standard text - Names of characters/Important events Italic text - The neighborhoods/worlds Bold text - The games

2009 – Barnacle Bay

2004 – The Sims 2 (Pleasantview, Strangetown, Veronaville), Tycho Curious is born

2000 – Beau Broke and Ariel Capp are born

1997 – Celeste GilsCarbo is born

1994 – Bella Goth is abducted, Desdemona Capp is born

1993 – Alexander Goth, Lucy Burb, Jill Smith and Buck Grunt are born

1992 – Hal Cap, Beatrice Monty and Benedick Monty are born

1988 – Dragon Valley, Juliette Capp and Romeo Monty are born

1987 – Dustin Broke, Dirk Dreamer, Angela Pleasant, Lilith Pleasant and Hermia Capp are born

1986 – Miranda Capp, Tybalt Capp, Mercutio Monty and Ripp Grunt are born

1985 – Sunlit Tides, Tank Grunt is born

1983 – Ophelia Nigmos is born

1982 – Johnny Smith is born

1980 – Part of SimValley is now incorporated as Old Town in the Greater SimCity area, Nervous Subject is born

1979 – The Sims

1977 – Lucky Palms, Aurora Skies

1976 – Kristen Loste is born

1975 – Kaylynn II Langerak is born

1974 – Ajay Loner is born

1973 – Erin Beaker is born

1971 – Monte Vista, Alice GilsCarbo is born

1969 – Roaring Heights, Dina, Nina Caliente, John Burb, Jennifer Burb née Pleasant, Goopy GilsCarbo and Kent Capp are born

1968 – Cassandra Goth, Brandi Broke née Newbie and Hero Monty née Arlecchino are born

1967 – Don Lothario, Antonio Monty, Loki Beaker and Circe Beaker née Salamis are born

1966 – Mary-Sue Pleasant née Oldie and Regan Capp are born

1965 – Daniel Pleasant, Cornwall Capp née Dane, Lazlo Curious and Lyla Grunt née Vandermorgan are born

1964 – Buzz Grunt is born

1963 – Vidcund Curious is born

1962 – Pascal Curious is born

1961 – Bianca Monty is born

1960 – Areas of Sunset Valley are now known as SimValley

1959 – Goneril Capp is born

1958 – Darleen Dreamer née Matlapin is born

1957 – Albany Capp née Norman, Olivia Monty née Dottore and Jenny Smith are born

1956 – Riverview, Darren Dreamer and Claudio Monty are born

1954 – The Sims 3 (Sunset Valley)

1953 – Sinjin Balani is born

1951 – Cordelia Capp is born

1950 – Caliban Capp née Gale is born

1948 – Skip Broke and Susie Broke are born

1947 – Lola Curious-Smith and Chloe Curious-Smith are born

1946 – Bella Goth née Bachelor and Kaylynn I Langerak are born

1945 – Maria Arlecchino née Amantes, Madhuri Loner and Willow Nigmos are born

1944 – Mortimer Goth, Trinculo Arlecchino and Missy Grunt née Melons-Steel are born

1943 – Chip Grunt, Vikram Loner and Creon Nigmos are born

1942 – Coral Oldié née Ruggbyrne and Tobea Dane née Scott are born

1941 – Ruby Broke, Trigger Broke and Herb Oldie are born

1940 – Hamlet Jr Dane and Daisy Loste are born

1939 – Michael Bachelor, Bob Newbie, Betty Newbie née Simovitch, Brad Burb and Tiffany Burb née Marsh are born

1938 – Adriana Lothario née Fiorello, Parker Langerak and Grainne Salamis née McGork are born

1937 – Nicolo Lothario and Gundrun Beaker née Halfdanarson are born

1936 – Patrizio Monty, Isabella Monty née Pantalone and Arty Loste are born

1935 – Mariana Matlpain, Diane Pleasant née Danders, Jacqueline Vandermorgan and Olive Specter are born

1934 – Lolita Goth, Jeff Pleasant, Consort Capp née Thebe and Ichabod Specter are born

1933 – Omar Matlapin, Contessa Capp and Bjorn Beaker are born

1932 – Katrina Caliente and A.P. Vandermorgan are born

1930 – Delilah Dreamer née Darong is born

1929 – Sunset Valley is founded by Gunther Goth & Chester Landgraab, Nighat Caliente née Al Mahmoud and Davis Dreamer are born

1928 – Judith Dottore née Brighella is born

1927 – Flamenco Caliente, Holofernes Dottore and Kitty Curious née Hogleg are born

1926 – Anne Norman née Anjou and Mary Melons are born

1925 – Zelda Mae, Richard Norman and Xanthos Salamis are born

1924 – Mike Steel is born

1923 – Sycorax Gale is born

1922 – Tango Caliente, Prospero Gale and Glarn Curious are born

1921 – Gertrude Dane, Macduff Scott and Glabe Curious are born

1920 – Hamlet Sr Dane, Lady Scott, Katherina Amantes and Wanda Grunt are born

1919 – Fatima Simovitch, Anastasia Marsh, Stephano Arlecchino and Rock Grunt are born

1918 – Robert Sr Newbie, Susan Burb, Quickly Arlecchino and Bhu Frehndly are born

1917 – Mags Newbie, Willian Marsh, Petruchio Amantes and Milony Frehndly are born

1916 – Vadim Simovitch, Mamie Ruggbyrne, Benjamin Burb and Andromache Thebe are born

1915 – Bruno Ruggbyrne, Iliana Langerak née Mae, Hector Thebe née Albion and Lerato Muenda are born

1914 – Agnes Crumplebottom, Jocasta Bachelor, Mary Lu Broke, Dustin Langerak and Peponi Muenda are born

1913 – Isabella Fiorello, Irma Oldie and Kavi Loner are born

1912 – Simis Bachelor, Erik Darling, Primo Fiorello and Jeevika Loner are born

1911 – Buck Broke and Myron Oldie are born

1910 – Hecate Nigmos is born

1909 – Frida Goth, Benazir Al Mahmoud, Carmelo Lothario, Scribonia Capp, Moira McGork and Zog Nigmos are born

1908 – Tariq Al Mahmoud, Mama Lothario, Francisca Pantalone née Zanni and Ingibjorg Halfdanarson are born

1907 – Melinda Danders, Octavius Capp née Caesar, Silvia Monty née Capitano and Gwrtheyrn McGork are born

1906 – The Great Fire of SimCity, Flat Broke, Flo Broke, Kynda Pleasant, Valentine Monty and Leif Halfdanarson are born

1905 – Sef Darong, Lina Darong, Marshall Danders and Vincentio Pantalone are born

1904 – Gunther Goth, Cornelia Goth née Crumplebottom and Dacia Dreamer are born

1903 – Twinbrook, Dalmar Dreamer, Les Pleasant and Lucetta Brighella are born

1902 – Dull Dottore, Jaquenetta Dottore and Petunia Simnitch are born

1901 – Thurio Brighella and Vera Loste are born

1900 – Mathilde Norman, Gertrude Beaker and Leonard Simnitch are born

1899 – William Norman is born

1898 – Canute Beaker and Annie Hogleg are born

1897 – Eleanor Anjou and Notzo Curious are born

1896 – Henry Anjou and Goshem Loste are born

1895 – Dulcinea Caliente is born

1894 – Hamm Hogleg is born

1893 – Bunny Curious is born

1892 – Nestor Caliente, Eurydice Salamis and Zoe Curious née Whelohff are born

1891 – Andros Salamis is born

1890 – The Modern Landgraab Dynasty begins

1889 – Queen Thebe is born

1888 – Eetion Thebe is born

1887 – Hecuba Albion is born

1885 – Enriqueta Bachelor, Priam Albion and Julia Pantalone are born

1884 – Cleopatra Capp and Proteus Pantalone are born

1883 – Milton Bachelor and Mariana Capitano are born

1882 – Angelo Capitano and Overdone Zanni are born

1881 – Lucio Zanni is born

1879 – Antony Capp is born

1878 – Portia Monty is born

1876 – Prudence Crumplebottom and Bassanio Monty are born

1875 – Robert Crumplebottom and Calpurnia Caesar are born

1874 – Gretle Goth is born and Simon Crumplebottom is born

1873 – Julius Caesar is born

1872 – Victor Goth and Olivia Goth are born

1870 – Samuel Goth is born

1866 – Cherish Curious is born

1864 – Rich Whelohff is born

1863 – Marshall Curious is born

1862 – Rosy Whelohff is born

1831 – Steward Curious is born

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bibliolokust · 5 years

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‘gray matter.’

another that i had clear (yet, it turns out, incorrect) memories of reading, ‘gray matter’ is a relatively straightforward tale of body horror in that long tradition of horror stories in which a human is somehow transformed over the course of time into something entirely Other and it’s the first time king really delves into the voice of grumpy old white new england retirees that he would hone all throughout his career and, while some of the old timey turns of phrase read a bit goofy, it’s surprising how assured he already is with that voice and neither the narrator nor his fellow elderly barroom buddies read like caricature.

while i had remembered the general plot of a child’s drunken layabout of a father turning into something between an amoeba and the inscrutable alien organism from irving s. yeaworth’s 1958 teen horror film, ‘the blob,’ what i had misremembered was the story being told from the child’s perspective and, rather, the narrator hears the details of what has happened to little timmy grenadine’s father, richie, secondhand after the child had told the bartender the story, coming in all aflush and on the edge of a breakdown to get his father his nightly case of beer. and i can’t help but be struck at how much more assured king is inhabiting the elderly narrator and how much more gravitas that gives the story than how i had remembered it.

as the bartender shows that he brought his massive .45 caliber handgun (referred to as a ‘hogleg’ and a ‘frenchman’s pecker’ in a couple bits of that ol’ new england jive that come together far better than one would expected given how clumsy and... off so much of his simile and metaphor usage was in ‘the mangler’) and explains the sad tale of richie grenadine drinking a bad can of beer and turning into a photophobic grey ‘lump’ we’re treated with a wonderful combination of pathos and hardness that captures, very effectively, that particular sort of old masculinity that king has struggled with, so far, as there’s a general sort of dislike already pointed at richie grenadine that’s tempered with a sort of ‘takes all kinds’ broad sympathy for the man.

before the men reach the apartment building that the grenadines live in, trudging through one of those hellish winter storms that northern new england is famous for, we’re treated to what i firmly believe is another of a few kernels king wrote that eventually grew into his monumental (and monumentally flawed) novel,’ ‘it,’ with the remembered tale of a man named george kelso who worked for the bangor public works department who suddenly quit after coming out of the tunnels with his hair turned white (a biological misunderstanding that, nevertheless, pos up in a number of kings work [although it’s usually forgivable as it adds to the general feeling of folk tales and urban legends that suffuse much of king’s oeuvre]) and sets to drinking himself to death while, at one point, mentioning that he saw a ‘spider as big as a good-sized dog setting in a web full of kitties an’ such all wrapped up in silk thread’ (the titular cosmic horror of the later novel being described as something that, while we cannot truly comprehend it, our brains reconcile as being akin to a giant spider that uses the sewers of derry, maine, to den in and travel through.) this image, combined with the nature of the boogeyman preying on terrified children in the previous story and the subterranean horror of ‘jerusalem’s lot,’ to me, clearly plant the seeds of ‘it’ (and one can even argue that the ironworks disaster in the novel harkens back, if only slightly, to the machinery gone malevolent in ‘the mangler.’)

right before the men enter the building, henry tells how young timmy saw, through a judas hole (peephole), his father remove a dead cat ‘swole up all stiff’ with ‘little white things crawlin’ all over it’ and eat it, which chills the men even in the bitter cold of the winter storm. they enter and the narrator describes the stink of the place, likening it to a cider mill in summer, and a dead dog he had once dragged from under the porch and it’s clear that king is taking a certain glee in trying to ever so gently gross the reader out, to unsettle the stomach rather than schock, and it’s rather effective and when one of the men cries ‘look what we’re walkin’ in!,’ we’re treated to a vision of a carpet eaten away by puddles of gray slime (the implication in which being that the poor bastard, richie grenadine, had not just become something inhuman but something whose flesh, whose very substance, was inimical to life as we know it.)

readying his firearm, henry calls to richie, telling him that he should come out and get his beer and it’s at this point, with richie’s transformed voice being referred to as ‘low and blubby,’ ‘like a mouthful of suet,’ and ‘horribly eager’ as he (it?) tells henry to pull the tabs on the beer and push them inside because he (it?) can’t that henry questions richie by saying ‘it ain’t just dead cats anymore, is it?’ which causes the narrator to recall that two young girls and 'some old salvation army wino’ had disappeared during the night, recently, and richie responds by threatening to come out.

as henry tells richie that he better, we’re treated to the image of the door bulging out before bursting open, echoing back to the biological horror that richie grenadine had become and, as everyone but henry flees (him firing at least three shots from that handgun of his) we learn that narrator caught a glimpse of the richie thing and that it had four eyes, instead of two, and seemed to be undergoing a process similar to the binary fission of bacteria, and he begins to almost obsessively start multiplying in his head (getting to ‘32,768 times two is the end of the human race’ after the men return to the bar to wait for henry’s return.

‘gray matter’ being one of king’s most effective early creepers, it combines the small town working class (that he’s finally getting the hang of properly describing) with a relatively facile body horror notion quite well and his affected prose elevates the piece (and the horror of it) rather than detracting from it and it’s worth noting that, up through this point, every one of the stories in ‘night shift’ have been open ended, letting the reader decide the ultimate fate of the players and this is something that has had varying degrees of success (it works well in ‘night surf’ and ‘graveyard shift,’ terribly in ‘the mangler,’ and just feels sort of tacked on to the end of ‘jerusalem’s lot’ as the REAL last of the boon family moves in) but, here, that open endedness, that uncertainty, of whether henry will win and return or whether he’ll be eaten by richie leaves so much more at stake and creates a truly chilling ending to what just might be one of king’s best short stories.

#.sjb.#THINKING HORROR #stephen king #night shift

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evignonita · 3 months

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Random headcanons: Curious-Hogleg siblings ver. 💥💥

Names:

-Jenny's full name is Jenny Mary (Smith) Curious Hogleg, common ass name for a queen, she didn't want to burn her neurons by choosing her name.

-Pascal's full name is Pascal Galileo Curious Hogleg, he chose his name himself because 🏳️‍⚧️ and I feel that Pascal loves the names of famous astronomers and scientists in general, that's why Tycho is called Tycho, for Tycho Brahe.

-Vidcund's full name is Vidcund Charles Curious Hogleg because of Charles Darwin... Glarn named him.

-Lazlo's full name is Lazlo Johannes Curious Hogleg because I don't remember why, I think I read it somewhere and I liked it. Kitty named him.

Height (cm):

Jenny is 176 cm tall; Pascal is 163 cm tall; Vidcund is 178 cm tall; Lazlo is 175 cm tall. The shorty siblings

Age (2004) and birthdays:

-Jenny is 43 years old, she was born on May 16, 1961, Twinbrook, Simnation. (*)

-Pascal is 30 years old, he was born on October 30, 1974, Strangetown, Simnation.

-Vidcund is 29 years old, he was born on November 3, 1975, Strangetown, Simnation.

-Lazlo is 23 years old, he was born on December 11, 1981, Strangetown, Simnation.

(*) I'm not entirely sure about Jenny's age.

Sexual orientation and identity:

-Jenny is a pansexual panromantic trans woman.

-Pascal is an asexual biromantic trans man.

-Vidcund is a demisexual biromantic cis man.

-Lazlo is a bisexual biromantic cis man.

Personality (MBTI and enneagram):

-Jenny: ESFJ 2w3

-Pascal: INTP 5w4

-Vidcund: ISTJ 8w7

-Lazlo: ENFP 4w3

Random data:

-Jenny loves listening to the Backstreet Boys, when she lived with her brothers she always listened to them; Pascal, Vidcund and Lazlo pretended to hate the musical group, but occasionally hummed their songs.

-Jenny distanced herself from her siblings and family in general because Glarn did not accept her relationship with Pol Smith, she never understood why (and that's why the Curious brothers and her don't have such a high relationship).

-Jenny taught Vidcund about botany.

-Pascal knows how to play piano (basic), write and draw, when he doesn't do anything, he feels stressed. He is a bit pretentious, but because he was only flattered as a child for his achievements, as he grew up he learned to be calmer and control his ego.

-Pascal was Glarn's golden child.

-Pascal wanted to study psychology, but he knew that he was going to excel more in physics.

-Pascal wears retainers for his teeth at night.

-Vidcund wore braces throughout his childhood and teen ages, he used orthodontics until adulthood, and he had to use them again because he never used his retainers and his teeth returned to how they were before.

-Vidcund bleaches his hair, eyebrows and beard, his natural hair color is black.

-Vidcund went unnoticed by his parents (the curse of the middle child).

-Lazlo loves monkeys because he and Kitty watched Animal Planet together, also because Kitty was a biologist and brought pictures with images of chimpanzees and monkeys just for Lazlo.

-Lazlo has a good relationship with Sinjin because Sinjin took care of him as a child when Glarn and Kitty asked him to (Sinjin and Jenny are the same age).

-Jenny, Pascal and Vidcund can speak Tagalog, Lazlo never learned the language and sometimes his siblings use it to their advantage.

Songs that give me vibes to them:

-Jenny: Cementerio Club - Pescado Rabioso (because of the green color of the album cover); Estación - Sui Generis; Lovesong - The Cure.

-Pascal: Lago en el Cielo - Gustavo Cerati; Mil Horas - Los abuelos de la Nada; Starman - David Bowie.

-Vidcund: Devuélveme a mi chica - Hombres G; A estos hombres tristes - Almendra; Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana; Heart of Glass - Blondie.

-Lazlo: Salir de la Melancolía - Serú Girán; Lobo hombre en París - La Unión; Blue - Eiffel 65.

I would like to add more things but😏🛌💤

#what #my hcs #ts2 #the sims 2 #ts2 premades #the sims 2 premades #strangetown #the curious family #the curious-hogleg family #simblr #jenny smith #jenny curious #pascal curious #vidcund curious #lazlo curious #insane me

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