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Newcrest Fresh Start Challenge Rules

The Sims Municipality Planning Committee offers a new solution to revitalise the previously empty and soulless Newcrest: motivated Sims will be offered ownership a free pitch of land on the condition they build a mixed use community together.

in this challenge each Newcrest lot has a designated business or community lot assigned to it. Sims move in with no money but some equipment to help them get started, and must work hard to earn enough to build their dream home and business.

I'm going to playtest this challenge over the coming months and post updates here. Rules may be adjusted as I play test it!

General Rules

Any of the rules can be adapted if needed to accommodate not having necessary packs.

You may use existing sims or make new ones. (I'll work on uploading the ones I make to the gallery)

2. You may complete each lot at a time or play rotationally

3. Long or custom life spans are recommended, unless you want to play each lot generationally.

4. You may choose in what order to place sims or randomise the order (or a bit of both)

5. Each lot starts with a tent (or tents), a convenient toilet bush, a sun umbrella or gazebo or similar for shade, something to sit on, a cooler and a barbecue to meet basic needs. Each lot also starts with specific lot items to help the business start up (outlined below).

6. Once a sim has moved into their lot and has their starting kit their funds must be reduced down to zero using cheats.

7. As this is a new community with limited existing facilities, there will be some restrictions in place until community lots meet enough criteria to fulfil the needs of the local community. The list of restrictions is below. Each will be lifted once the relevant lot is able to open to the public.

8. Sims may make money in any way they want within the restrictions of the rules, until they are lifted.

9. Sims may not leave Newcrest in order to fulfil needs.

Additional note: This challenge was created BEFORE the jobs and hobbies EP is released (because I got excited). It's hoped that with that EP all these live in community spaces will be possible but until then, as needed, players may 'fake' it but moving a sim onto an empty lot and buying the Newcrest lot as a business is allowed. The sim just needs to stay and build on that lot.

Restrictions

As Newcrest lacks necessary facilities at first, there are restrictions in place until community lots start to open to the public.

All lots have Simple Living lot challenge in place until the Community Farm in open and they may not order groceries. Once lifted sims can remove the restriction, or order fresh produce.

Sims may not get married, host weddings, funerals or other events until the Chapel and Cemetery is open to the public.

Sims may not add decorations to their homes or create crafts or artworks until the Arts Centre is open (does not apply to the Sims occupying the Art centre).

Sims may not play, listen to or dance to music until the Nightclub in open (does not apply to the Sims on the Nightclub or Theatre lots).

Sims may not bake or use cakes for aging up or drink coffee or energy drinks and potions until the bakery and cafe is open.

Sims cannot alter their appearance until the Tattoo/ Thrift Shop is open (with the exception that children that age up can have one CAS edit using base game items only).

Sims cannot use their occult skills, drink potions or serums or similar or upgrade their skill trees until the Magic Shop is open (with the exception that Vampires may compel sims in order to drink Plasma, and magic Shop owner may create and sell potions).

Sims may not own a pet or any livestock until the Vets is open (does not apply to the vet sim who may start with a dog).

Sims may not order new books or tomes or use skill books to level up skills until the Library is open.

Sims may not order meals for delivery or order food from bars and kiosks until the Restaurant is open.

Sims may not purchase a television until the Theatre is open.

Sims may not buy gaming equipment or use computers and phones for fun until the Arcade is open.

Sims cannot use gym equipment or swim until the Fitness Centre is open.

Sims cannot travel to other worlds for vacations or to gather supplies until the Hotel is open.

Sims cannot sell collectibles for money until the Museum is open (This rule does not apply to the Sims on the museum lot or to the plant collection for Community Farm or Chapel and Cemetery sims).

Lots and Sims Guide

Each lot has a designated community lot type, a recommendation for Sims to move in, some additional starting equipment and a set of requirements that must be fulfilled to open to the public.

Note that these requirement don't necessarily include walls.

Chapel and Cemetery

large lot type

Suggested Sims: A small family with a mortician and a love guru sim.

Additional Equipment: Florist table, Computer

Needed to open: A wedding Arch, a bar, toilet and sink, 2 benches, trashcan, headstone or urn and a gravesite.

Arts Centre

Medium size lot

Suggested Sims: A collective to artists and makers.

Additional Equipment: Easel, Woodworking table, Camera, Knitting Basket, Cross-stitch basket and powers wheel.

Needed to open: All the standard requirements for an Arts Centre community lot and 8 sim-crafted works to display.

Museum

Medium size lot

Suggested Sims: An alien archeologist and their scientist partner.

Additional Equipment: Telescope, archeology table

Needed to open: All the standard requirements for a Museum community lot and 8 collection items to display.

Hotel

Medium Sized Lot

Suggested Sims: A family with young children

Additional Equipment: A bar, fridge, cooker and counter.

Needed to open: A better bar and seating and two guest bedrooms with ensuite toilets and showers (which do include walls and doors!).

Community Farm

Medium sized lot

Suggested Sims: A family of ranchers and gardeners

Additional Equipment: Vegetable, fruit and herb seed packets and two patches of prairie grass

Needed to open: A market table to sell produce, 10 sim-grown plants, one farm animal, toilet, sink and trash can.

Fitness Centre

Small sized lot

Suggested Sims: A fitness and wellness couple (which could include a mermaid)

Additional Equipment: A yoga mat and the cheapest boxing bag available

Needed to open: The standard requirements for a Gym or Spa lot.

Arcade

Small sized lot

Suggested Sims: A single gamer/ techie sim

Additional Equipment: A computer

Needed to open: Bowling lane, two gaming items, bar, 2 benches, toilet, sink and trashcan

Theatre

Small sized lot

Suggested Sims: Two sims that are aspiring comedians, musicians or actors

Additional Equipment: Microphone and guitar

Needed to open: Standard Lounge community lot requirements

Restaurant

Small sized lot

Suggested Sims: An aspiring chef and their elder parent.

Additional Equipment: Fridge, Cooker, counter, dine out stall

Needed to open: 4 tables with chairs, chef station, host station, dishwasher (OR upgraded kitchen and dine out stall with appliances), toilet, sink, trashcan

Library

Small sized lot

Suggested Sims: A single vampire with a writing aspiration.

Additional Equipment: Computer and cheap bookcase.

Needed to open: The standard lot requirements for a library community lot.

Vet Practice

Small sized lot

Suggested Sims: Single parent sim and their child, with an optional dog.

Additional Equipment: Used vet podium and vet platform and dog bowl (if they have a dog).

Needed to open: Complete set of vet equipment and pet training course, toilet, sink and trash can.

Nightclub

Small sized lot

Suggested Sims: An aspiring DJ and/ or mixologist

Additional Equipment: basic DJ booth

Needed to open: The standard requirements for a nightclub community lot.

Cafe and Bakery

Small sized lot

Suggested Sims: A single parent and child

Additional Equipment: Fridge, Cooker and Counter and bakery display

Needed to open: Standard cafe community lot requirements

Tattoo/ thrift shop

Tiny sized lot

Suggested Sims: A single werewolf

Additional Equipment: Digital drawing pad

Needed to open: 4 thrift store racks, retail counter, sofa, coffee table, tattoo bench, waste disposal, toilet and sink

Magic shop

Tiny sized lot

Suggested Sims: A single spell caster sim

Additional Equipment: Crystal crafting station and/ or a cauldron

Needed to open: Retail till, 10 crafted products to sell, toilet, sink and trashcan.

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Newcrest Fresh Start week 48

The Sims Municipal Committee is back to pay a short, and potentially last, visit with Avery and Kit whilst they add the finishing touches to the Newcrest vet Clinic.

There have been lots of changes since our last visit. Kit now finished university and Avery is now a ghost. They were eave all the work to their son, yet, so opted to stick around incorporeally until kit is ready to run the clinic on his own. Only Zoe Patel (now Lothario!), now an elder, is still working for them so Avery employs two new trainee vets.

Sadly, the age down treats ran out for Baron whilst we were away, and he finally walked the rainbow road to the other side.

With the new staff settling in and Kit diving into work they can start decorating their apartment and improving the atmosphere in the clinic. Both Avery and Kit are animal and dog lovers and missing having a pet massively, so they adopt two new household members; Elsa husky puppy and Percy the ginger tom.

Kit is natural with the animal patients and doing well at work so Avery takes some time for themselves and to up their energy. They do worry that Kit will be lonely when they finally pass over to the other side, especially since his teenage paramour Tane Ngata has now settled down with someone else.

With Avery's nagging encouragement, Kit hits up the dating apps and quickly matches with Barry Volkov. They have so much in common, Barry also adventurous and loves dogs. In fact, Kit thinks he has kind of a puppy quality himself, golden retriever energy? Kit can't explain it.

It's a whirlwind couple of days of romance, where Kit and Varry spend all their free time together. Kit quickly becomes so used to him being around that he really misses him when he doesn't visit on the full moon. The next day he throws caution to the wind and invites Barry to move in.

Barry agrees but only if they can build him a lockable underground hang out space. It's probably for total normal reasons.

Newcrest vets clinic and apartment is now finished and uploaded to the gallery here without Barry's rage basement underground rec room. It has two bedrooms, a functional vet clinic and training yard. You can also find it through my ID AngelaSlamsbury and tagged #newcrestfreshstart

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Newcrest Fresh Start week 47

This week the Sims Municipal Committee will be paying a short, and potentially final visit to Kristoff Burkhart. As the first participant of the Newcrest Fresh Start Project, Kristoff has built a library, a home and a family, he just need to add finishing touches now he can buy decorations.

A lot has changed since we last caught up with the family, there are now three teenagers in the household, who don't always get along great. The lair apartment might be full and noisy, but the teens at least have space to do homework and entertain themselves in the library, which gives Kristoff a bit of space to work on his writing.

Meanwhile Paka'a has been wearing clothes more suitable for island living for years, so takes teens to Wild at Heart shopping for some new fits so they can finally wear something less basic.

Being a good parent is important for both Dads so they make sure to fit in some bonding time, including showing Uriel how to manage his new swimming 'talents'.

Aside from decorating the pair also have a wedding to plan, after Paka'a popped the question whilst we were visiting other residents. After two funerals the Blanchett's are delighted to host a wedding at the chapel. It's so nice to have everyone in the same place for a happy occasion.

The twins, Natalia and Michaila, take it as an opportunity to cut lose after they've filled their roles in the ceremony. However, an open bar, a lot of cake and fan-girling over some of the local celebrities proves a bit too exciting for Natalia, who is mortified to throws up in front of everyone.

Before the week is out, Kistoff has added decorations to the library and their home. The family is finally able to relax and enjoy the lot they've built from nothing with each other and their friends.

This is probably the last visit we will pay to Kristoff, but the residents of Newcrest will be able to continue enjoying the library and we will see the family as we check in on the progress of the other residents.

Newcrest Library and Kristoff's lair apartment can be downloaded here or from my ID AngelaSlamsbury.

The lot includes a two story library and an underground home with three bedrooms, small pool and kitchen diner.

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Newcrest Fresh Start weeks 45 and 46

The Sims Municipal Committee are delighted to welcome the last of the current cohort of new residents - Candy and Yuki Behr. Yuki is a talented up and coming DJ who wants to open her own Nightclub as part of the Newcrest Fresh Start initiative. Yuki ia a gamer and prefers to be alone. Can Yuki juggle a new business and looking after her teenage sister. How will Yuki cope with all the people and noise?

They start with a mixing desk, a laptop for Yuki, a tent and some basic supplies.

Candy already has a job as an entertainer, but as she needs extra cash she heads down to the Narwhal Arms in Windenburg to hop on the desk to supplement her small income with some tips.

Yuki, meanwhile, starts an after school job side hustle as a streamer. Despite the lack of walls she manages to get so absorbed In streaming that she manages to completely ignore any of the neighbours popping by, including the welcome wagon. This suits her fine.

Candy decides that the nightclub stints are a good earner, but she needs to invest in some new outfits, especially party wear for performing, so she drops by Wild at Heart to get some fresh clothes for herself and Yuki. She finds that spinning records at Discotheque Pan Europa means really raking in the tips. It's way more profitable than her career job so she decides to use up her vacation days before quitting to concentrate on spinning records full time.

After a couple of nights she can register her club, CRUSH, and get a pop up bar. She only needs to pull in a favour with Vanessa Jeung to man the bar, fix up her desk after a recent rain shower, then she can open her club up for an open air set; free party style.

It works but they desperately need some indoor space as there is no way Yuki can sleep through this noise. At least in the meantime she can escape to the newly opened Dreamer's Arcade.

The outdoor club nights also get rained off frequently, and the mixture of rain and booze leads to some classic naked festival debauchery. Cleaning up the next day in the rain isn't fun either.

Her own club is not yet profitable as tips she gets at the more established clubs so Candy has to juggle both whilst Yuki concentrates on school and her streaming hustle. It's not long before they can build a small living space room, and a bigger one for the club.

Candy also employs bar staff and a cheesy warm up DJ. He's not as popular as Candy but gives her a chance to chat to some of the clubbers and build up the clubs reputation.

One night Candy gets invited to a rave at the graveyard and figures it might be a fun way to earn some tips. But when she gets there finds it's just some sims around a fire - luckily she had her portable decks with her - but no-one seems up for dancing.

People are enjoying CRUSH though there is some way to go before Candy can fulfil all the requirements to open properly and allow her neighbours to enjoy music in their homes. She is still really happy with her progress and celebrates the end of their first two weeks in Newcrest by inviting all the neighbours she has met over for a New Year's Eve Party before ticketed doors open. She even manages to coax Yuki out to sit awkwardly in the corner!

With just three lots left to fill the Sims Municipal Committee is going to check back in with it's residents - who are now able to decorate their homes, hold weddings and funerals and play video games for fun.

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Newcrest Fresh Start weeks 43 and 44

You might recognise Newcrest's newest residents, Johnny Zest and Vanessa Jeong from the local lounge circuit or perhaps their commercial work. The friends met at auditions whilst trying to make it big, but breaking through as an actor or comedian is a cut throat business. When they heard about the Newcrest Fresh Start project they figured they could open their own theatre to give them a ready audience and have a platform for other aspiring stars.

Vanessa and Johnny start with nothing to their name but a couple of tents, a way to eat and wee, an acoustic guitar and a lonely mic. Can they hustle enough to build a whole theatre by themselves?

On their first day Vanessa scores a bit an audition that requires level 3 guitar when she cannot play at all. She spends all her time practicing, whilst Johnny escapes to the library to write jokes and a new routine (and for some peace and quiet).

Vanessa'a audition is a success; though she's not sure if the humiliation of the costume is worth the pay check. At least she can fill herself up at craft services and enjoy a real toilet and shower for once.

Getting to know neighbours is important, as is getting your name out there so the pair make sure to introduce themselves around town and travel to a couple of spotlight showcase events.

Throughout the week Vanessa books another couple of gigs and even hits it off with one of cute the producers, Jesse. her fees help to build a basic room to start their theatre. It's literally a microphone, some folding chairs and a pop up bar but The Noxy is born.

Despite its humble appearance and the fact that they have to take turns manning the bar, visitors to the Noxy seem to enjoy watching Johnny and Vanessa perform. One night they even hold an open mic night and let some of their neighbours hop up on the mic, which everyone enjoys.

The Noxy is yet to bring in much per night so Vanessa continues taking auditions. She does find that practicing romantic scenes is a good way of getting closer to Jesse, which is definitely a plus.

Before the winter is out they can use Vanessa's gig money to expand the theatre, add in a proper stage and a nicer bar, even employ a full time bartender. They're still not raking it in it ticket sales but they can start hiring warm up acts. It turns out Paka'a has some real crowd pleasers ready to go, who knew?

As they're still camping out in bunkbeds back stage it is clear that the pair need to pull in more money. Vanessa decides to start a secondary business, Noxy Improv classes, where other aspiring actors and comedians can test out their material and learn from another. They even have plan to hold acting and comedy workshops with the aid of a white board.

Johnny and Venessa haven't quite managed to hit all the criteria to allow their neighbours to start watching TV yet and they still have to work on their living space. They will have to work on that when we next visit as it's time to leave them and welcome just one more family (for now) - Candy Behr who will be juggling setting up a nightclub with looking after her loner gamer teenage sister, Yuki.

[stealingpotatoes]

well that odysseus guy never had to deal with a self checkout so if anything my grocery odyssey is actually worse than whatever he was doing

[ftmtftm]

Call me crazy but I do think that trying to apply a cisgender based framework of gendered oppression onto intercommunity trans dynamics — in any capacity — will always have one major, glaringly obvious point of failure, which is:

NONE of us are fucking cisgender and the gendered privileges afforded by cisgender society are never genuinely or fully afforded to ANY of us.

[lachonk]

I think it's a shame that "Oedipus complex" refers to fucking your mom instead of the actual point of his story, fulfilling your destiny through your attempts to avoid it. It just so happens his destiny was to fuck his mom

[charyou-tree]

Yeah, I don’t know what Freud was thinking, but Oedipus very much did Not want to fuck his mom. He spent the entire play trying to avoid that, and then gauged out his eyes when he learned that he had anyway.

[lachonk]

I think Freud was too caught up with the fantasy of fucking his mom to appreciate the themes of the story tbh

[bigmickswingin]

Freud, barely listening to a summary of Oedipus: hmm probably time to do more coke.

[2pretty-2butch]

As usual jen giving us the real take

[krissytransmom]

I think if I ever see this and do not reblog it then I must be dead.

[lilithsaintcrow]

“Take year 3 student Emma Glenfield, who started with a simple question about magpies and wound up conducting some cutting-edge research almost by accident."

Do magpies target you? This eight-year-old's viral research could explain why

Emma Glenfield wants to know why magpies swoop. She's conducting some cutting-edge research — and displaying her results with Lego.

[adastra-sf]

"I watched the people he swooped and I recorded it," Emma said.

"Then I got everything I recorded and I figured out that the people Mr Swoopsalot swooped were male, they were tall, and that they had thin or receding hair."

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

[amalg-em]

y'all i don't usually say this shit out loud but please read the link. she got 30 THOUSAND responses to her survey. THIRTY THOUSAND. And she's eight. So learning how to use MS Excel for that data wasn't really an option.

So she made a graph out of Legos. LEGOS!!

This kid is an absolute genius and I am so excited for her.

[3liza]

everyone is sick of reading everyone else's list of personal problems at the top of their blogs, we've been over all the reasons why this is a bad idea both interpersonally and as an online safety thing, however i think it should also be mentioned that just showing me the big list of what's wrong with you first thing when i click on your blog counts as spoilers and ruins the narrative tension. i clicked on your blog to find out over time, through a series of mysterious flashbacks and delightful subtextual nods, what's wrong with you. youre taking all the fun out of it

[depsidase]

[foldingfittedsheets]

There is a word I’m not allowed to use. I love it. I love it so much. But my darling beloved wife hates it with a fiery passion.

I came across it from Anne Lister’s diary, where she says that she would “grubble under women’s skirts” and honestly. The word perfectly encapsulates the fumbling feeling of fighting your way through layers of fabric to reach the promised pussy land.

However the word has been forbidden, reviled from the first moment my beloved heard it. They shuddered and it’s truly one of the only restrictions they’ve ever placed on my vocabulary so I don’t say it. But I do think it, on occasion.

Sometimes the word will pop into my head and I will think it too hard and my wife will turn and glare at me and accuse, “I know you’re thinking it!”

“But I didn’t say it!” I protest. But they’re always right. Even with no context they always know when I’m thinking it.

Today I told my wife, “I shared the unmentionable word with Astrid today and she quite enjoyed it. She repeated it several times.”

They bellowed liked a dying wildebeest and said, “I can go months without remembering that word exists and then it comes up again. It’s so disgusting, it’s what Sméagol would do on the ground digging for worms!”

I was laughing and protested, “It sounds like fighting through skirts, the groping around.”

“No! That is something that happens in the muck and the filth. It’s negative sexy.

“Bet you're gonna take to Tumblr and share it and some people are gonna be like, ‘Oh what a great word! We should definitely use that in our lexicon. Top tier word!’ And you know what? THEYRE WRONG. GARBAGE WORD. GROSS.”

I listened to their impassioned hatred while cuddled in their arms and radiated love at them and remorse for having reminded them about the existence of grubbling. But now you get to hear about it. As a treat.

[afriblaq]

Anarcha Westcott was a young Black girl enslaved in Alabama. After a traumatic childbirth, she developed vaginal and rectal fistulas, a condition that left her in constant pain and shame.

Instead of receiving care, she was experimented on over 30 times by Dr. J. Marion Sims, who operated on her without anesthesia. He used her body to develop a surgery that would later be used to treat white women, with pain relief, dignity, and consent.

Anarcha didn’t agree to any of it. She wasn’t a patient. She was a victim of medical violence.

Today, she is finally being remembered, not as a statistic, but as one of the true Mothers of Modern Gynecology, alongside Lucy and Betsey.

[anarchistmemedistro]

Anarcha Westcott - Wikipedia

[depsidase]

[did-you-know]

Source

[dat-soldier]

back the fuck up

[sonnetscrewdriver]

There’s another story that I like about a Chinese general who had to defend a city with only a handful of soldiers from a huge enemy horde that was in all likelihood going to steamroll the place flat within hours of showing up.

So when said horde did arrive, they saw the general sitting outside the city’s open gates, drinking tea. The horde sent a couple of emissaries over to see what was what, and the general greeted them cheerfully and invited them all to come and take tea with him.

The horde decided that this was a scenario that had “MASSIVE FUCKING TRAP” written all over it in beautiful calligraphy and promptly fucked off.

Whoever that general was, he was clearly the Ancient Chinese equivalent of Sam Vimes.

[dat-soldier]

did he just invite us over for tea nah man i’m out

[catgoblinchelly]

This just keeps getting better

[sleepyferret]

I fucking love history.

[konec0]

ok but tbh that story misses a lot of the subtlety of the situation like ok

so this story is the Romance of Three Kingdoms, and essentially takes place between Zhuge Liang, resident tactician extraordinaire, and Sima Yi… OTHER resident tactician extraordinaire.

The two were both regarded as tactical geniuses and recognized the other as their rival. Zhuge Liang had a reputation for ambushing the SHIT out of his opponents and using the environment to his advantage, thus destroying large armies with a small number of men. Sima Yi (who kind of entered the picture later) was a cautious person whose speciality was unravelling his opponent’s plans before they began. So it was natural that the two would butt heads; however, since Sima Yi tended to have more men and resources, he started winning battles against the former. Which, y’know, kinda sucked.

On to the actual story: Zhuge Liang is all like “shit i gotta defend this city with like 10 men.” Literally if he fights ANY kind of battle here, he WILL lose; his only option for survival is not to fight. And that’s looking more and more impossible until he hears that his rival is leading the opposing army. And then he gets this brilliant idea. He basically opens all the gates, sends his men out in civilian clothes to sweep the streets, and sits on top of the gate drinking tea and chilling out and basically makes the whole thing out to be a trap

When Sima Yi comes he’s all like “yo come on in bro”

and Sima Yi is like “yeah he’s never been that obvious about his traps before. this is definitely a bluff” and he’s about to head in when he realizes

wait. he knows that i think he’s bluffing.

and so he gets it in his head that maybe, just MAYBE, Zhuge Liang has this cunning plan that will wipe out his army - recall that he has a pretty good handle on what his rival is capable of. And after a long period of deliberation (which is just like “he know that I know that he knows that etc.”), being the cautious man he is, SIma Yi eventually decides to turn his entire army around and leave.

Zhuge Liang later points out that the plan was based specifically on the fact that he was facing his rival; if it had been anyone else, there’s no way it would have worked. A dumber or less cautious person would have simply charged in and won without breaking a sweat. 

and that’s the real genius here: it was a plan formed entirely just to deceive one man, and it worked.

[uovoc]

Zhuge Liang is the most brilliant, sneaky-ass bastard in history. One time his side’s army was out of arrows, which pretty much meant they were screwed. So Zhuge Liang goes and does the logical thing, which is build a fuck ton of scarecrows and put them all on boats. Then he makes the men hide in the boats and sail them out on the river.

Well, that day was super foggy (which Zhuge Liang had predicted. Did I mention he was also a freakishly accurate meteorologist?). So the enemy across the river sees a fleet of boats armed to the teeth with what appears to be half an army of men. They panic! and start firing arrows like crazy. 

Zhuge Liang lets this play out for a while, then he’s like, ”Ok guys that’s enough.” They calmly turn the boats around and go back to base, where they dismantle the scarecrows and pull out all the enemy’s arrows.

Zhuge Liang is legend.

[optimysticals]

I love this post. It just keeps getting better. Like seriously, I would have adored learning about this in World History.

[futureevilscientist]

If you want to see this in cinematic glory, watch Red Cliff.

Especially since it makes Zhuge Liang look like this:

Red Cliff is 50% bloody battles and 50% eye candy and about half of that eye-candy is due to Zhuge Liang

[inkspot-fox]

@admiraloblivious we’re finding this movie and watching it asap

[idontevenhaveone]

Ffffff-

[xantissa]

Movie is actually kinda awesome.

[weidli]

we were talking about the criminalization of homosexuality in class and my professor (who as far as i know isn't in any way queer) said something i quite enjoyed in that. well the exchange was more or less this: a student asked a question (doesn't really matter what exactly just know that i was rolling my eyes So hard internally) and the prof looked at the student and was like (i'm paraphrasing here this conversation was not in english) Do you have any queer friends? and the student went Uhhhh in a manner that made it clear the answer was probably no and the prof said Actually statistically speaking you most likely do. If I had to divide this room into two groups the way to do it would not be "people with queer friends" and "people without queer friends" it would be "people whose queer friends are out to them" and "people whose queer friends aren't". And if you're in the latter category you should consider why that is--if maybe your behavior is indicating to the queer people around you that you're not safe to come out to. to come back to your question if you really want to know about queerness there's a very simple way of doing that: you make yourself a person queer people feel comfortable talking to about their experiences and then you fucking listen to them when they do (the fuck is not paraphrased) (there was a fuck involved) (frankly king shit)