[image description: Watercolour and ink painting of a wide-eyed little mouse with a wreath of stars and a graphic gold star on her long shift. Text reads, “245, Trinette, small god of Naiveté”]
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There have always been some people—some lucky, shining people—who walk through the world unbruised and untarnished by its many trials, who can continue to see the goodness in everything around them. They aren’t oblivious, these lucky few, and they aren’t foolish: they’re simply capable of believing that things will always be better, that the arc of the universe will always bend toward improvement.
Trinette walks with them. She wishes there were more of them, but her faithful are born, not made. Few of them ever know her by name; many of them believe they serve other gods exclusively, and wouldn’t know her if she stood before them with hands outspread and filled with stars. They’re hers because of the sweetness they maintain in the face of adversity, and not because of any pledge or promise that might have bound them. She loves them, those unwitting followers of hers, and she wishes them only ever the best in all they dream of or desire.
Trinette’s world is a beautiful one, because she can’t imagine it any other way. She believes there is good in everyone, mortal or divine, and that even the worst of us only need the time to prove themselves better than their worst desires. Alley, Small God of Survived Hardships, follows close behind her, and warns anyone who might take advantage of Trinette’s willingness to believe the best about people that they won’t enjoy the consequences.
Too many of Trinette’s faithful never find an Alley of their own, mice in a world of predators without a devoted cat to follow where they lead and keep them safe. Those who do, thrive. The world needs balance, after all.
Which means the world will always need Trinette.
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Please join Lee Moyer (Icon) and Seanan McGuire (Story) each week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a guide to the many tiny divinities:
i'll be honest, it's very, very interesting as a french person to see everyone else be taken in by the twists and turns of vfv cause, like... they're just my history. trinette? cool, sure is a poor person name. oh La Voisin? oh yeah i know where the story is going.
Suz is a Mod girl who's always at the edge of cutting edge of fashion. Her signature colour is black and white but single, "total look" coloured outfits are a staple as well. She doesn't like pants or anything that goes below the knee and with those legs who can blame her?
Everyday:
Hair: Base game
Eyelashes: Kijiko 3D Lashes | Kijiko (kijiko-catfood.com)
Eyeshadow: Base game
Eyeliner: ghostgnome: TWIGGY LINER - by ghostgnome ◦ bgc... : MMFINDS (tumblr.com)
Blusher: Base game (MAC)
Lipstick: Base game (MAC)
Dress: sims4sue: DOWNLOAD: RETRO SHIFT DRESS Short shift... : MMFINDS (tumblr.com)
Tights: Base game
Boots: sims4sue: DOWNLOAD: MADLEN’S TRINETTE BOOTS ... - Dopecherryblossomheart (tumblr.com)
Formal:
Eyeshadow: Base game
Eyeliner: Base game
Blusher: Base game (MAC)
Lipstick: Base game (MAC)
Dress: The Sims Resource - Sheer Mini Dress
Pantyhose: 👽 CLASSIC TIGHTS SET (upd 28.07.2022) | Patreon
Shoes: Base game
Athletic:
Bodysuit: ALEGRIA BODYSUIT (candysims.com)
Tights: Base game
Sleepwear:
Nightie: Base game
Party:
Turtleneck bodysuit: Playdate bodysuits by pralinesims - The Sims 4 Download - SimsFinds.com
Skirt: The Sims Resource - Mini Slit Skirt
Pantyhose: 👽 CLASSIC TIGHTS SET (upd 28.07.2022) | Patreon
Boots: hiddenfinds.tumblr.com/post/184027733979/february-catalog-this-month-s-catalog-is-inspired
Swimwear:
Swimsuit: The Sims Resource - Rosalie Swimsuit
Hot Weather:
Dress: Crystal cf Slouchy'n'Cosy dress. File available on request.
Pantyhose: Mod The Sims - Better Pantyhose
Shoes: Shoes: [Newen] Sims4 Spuare Mules Shoes New Mesh All Load... : NEWEN092 (tumblr.com)
Make-up: [ d r e a m g i r l ] 3 D_l a s h e s_V6, miiko-3d-eyelashes-part-1(glasses), JH [COSMETICS] EYE MAKEUP #6, JH [COSMETICS] EYELINER #117, JH [COSMETICS] EYESHADOW #134, JH [COSMETICS] EYESHADOW #135, JH [COSMETICS] LIPSTICK #148, Pralinesims_Lip_N236_LucidDream, 4w25 - CutenessIntensifiesBlush, Pralinesims_Nails_Female_N27_SugarMilk, Pralinesims - UltimateEyelinerCollection, Pralinesims - UltimateLipstickCollection
[image description: Twilight. A single lamp glows as the sun sets on this challenging part of town. Upshot of an imposing anthropomorphic cat in rough clothing that might suggest a buccaneer, one hand a fist, the other holding a long knife or short sword in a manner that suggests comfort. The cat bears an eyepatch over their left eye, and wicked scars are visible wherever their skin and fur are exposed. They have a prosthetic below their left knee. Text reads, “246, Dark Alley, small god of Survived Hardships”]
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They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not always true. Sometimes what doesn’t kill you just makes you harder and more brittle, scarred and stiffened by the unwanted agonies of a world too big and too cruel for any single person to understand. Dark Alley understands that very well. Alley is the small god of the ones who survive. Not the ones who thrive, not the ones who pass unbroken, just the ones who somehow manage to keep standing.
She loves her brittle, bruised, brutalized faithful, and does what she can to protect them from a world that never sees a single dance with suffering as sufficient, a world that would be more than willing to come at them again and again and again, never giving them the opportunity to heal. She isn’t the small god of healing, not the keeper of the kintsugi either literal or metaphorical. When the shelves come crashing down, she’s not the one who has the glue. But she’s the one who might keep you breathing long enough to reach the helpers. She’s the one who’s got your back, even when you feel broken, even when you feel like breaking down.
She has a soft spot for Trinette, who has survived hardship, but never known it, because she never noticed. For her, hardship is just one more beautiful thing in the path to tomorrow, and Alley wants to keep it that way. Alley is, in the end, a god of innocence; she knows that many never have the chance to preserve their own, but she’ll fight for it when she can, and she never gives up before she has to, and she never surrenders.
Alley herself has known hardship, but she doesn’t speak of it often; those gods of kintsugi, she’s been to see them, she’s been shattered and stitched back together, and what’s in the past is in the past, now and forever. She wants to help her followers. She wants to see some forms of suffering lost forever.
She wants you to be safe, in whatever way you can be, now and evermore.
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Please join Lee Moyer (Icon) and Seanan McGuire (Story) each week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a guide to the many tiny divinities:
desire to make menjar blanc vs trinette being unable to eat almonds
i mean technically i could make it with regular milk but i looove almonds. me + almonds forbidden love.. trinette often is like hey can i have some of your chocolate i love rittersport chocolate and im like it has almonds in it.. i ate all the normal rittersport already im so sorry.... im a guy who casually kept a whole block of marzipan in the fridge that was meant to be used for baking and just ate it. guy who snacks on almonds. the store had a bar of soap that was almond scented and i almost cried because the smell was so beautiful. i was not allowed to buy it. my favourite candy from ages 3-10 was almond joy and honestly it still is now. one time i got in trouble for eating a bag of almonds too fast.
anyways i think we're gonna settle on making two batches of menjar blanc, one with milk and one without