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Aesthetic Legacy Challenge (Sims 4)

I love legacy challenges in the Sims 4, so here is my take on it: a generational journey through some #aesthetics. Each generation will have a popular aesthetic, some mostly random traits and objectives to achieve in each lifetime. Feel free to change the gender roles. (Also sorry in advance if my mood boards aren’t aesthetically accurate) .

Generation 1: E-Girl (or E-boy) / Scene

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/E-Girl 

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Scene

Scene has always been the black sheep of her family, so when an online friend told her about a cheap new apartment (19 Culpepper House) in San Myshuno, she jumped at the opportunity. Life hasn’t always been easy and money is tight but with her spontaneity and style, Scene will reach new heights!

Traits: Geek, Clumsy, Creative

Aspiration: City Native

Objectives: 

Start your life at 19 Culpepper House with 10,000 dollars.

Master the City Living aspiration [final apartment value objective is optional]

Start a career as a Freelancer (Programmer)

Master the skills of painting, programming and video games

Have a child (to be the next generation)

Generation 2: Femme Fatale

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Femme_Fatale

Fatale grew up a city kid and she grew up to fast. She loves her mother and admires her courage and spontaneity, but she needs more stability in her life... and she will do whatever it takes to get it. Her mysterious allure, intelligence and beauty puts her in the sights of the Agency, who recruit her as a secret agent. Will she become their top agent or live long enough to become the villain?

Traits: Genius, Self-Assured, Ambitious

Aspiration: Serial Romantic

Career: Secret Agent

Objectives:

Master the Secret Agent career path

Master the Serial Romantic Aspiration

Master the Charisma and Logic skills

Get married as an Adult

Have a child (the next generation)

Disappear from your family and transition to a vampire before you become an Elder

Generation 3: Minimalist

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Minimalism

Garde doesn’t like people. Ever since her mother disappeared, the only thing she has loved is art. Her father wanted her to go to college, but she knew better. College was for sheeple, not thought-leaders like her! Her life was going was going exactly as planned until she caught the scent of her mother’s perfume. Why had her mother left?

Traits: Perfectionist, Art Lover, Snob

Aspiration: Mansion Baron

Career: Critic, Detective

Objectives:

Reach level 5 of the Critic Career Path

Meet your future husband at an Art Gallery or at work

Quit your job and become a detective

Master the Vampire Lore skill

Have a child (the next generation)

Generation 4: Bohemian 

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Bohemian

Boho loves colour and chaos. The first chance she got, she moved from her straight-lace home to the islands of Sulani. Sure she may have gotten some financial support from her family, but she is trying to make a difference and that can be expensive! She loves to swim in the ocean and believes that she will find true love with a local. (Hopefully a handy one because living off the grid is harder than it looks). 

Traits: Cheerful, Child of the Ocean, Green Fiend

Aspiration: Soulmate

Career: Conservationist

Objectives:

Move to Sulani and live on an Off-the-Grid lot

Master the Soulmate aspiration

Be in a relationship with a mermaid

Master the Archaeology skill

Travel to Selvadorado and explore some ruins

Have a child (the next generation)

Generation 5: Dark Academia

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Academia

Dark had a life of adventure, traveling with her mom and learning about history... but when the chance to attend Britechester came along she knew that she found her place within its ivy covered walls. History, books and ill-fated attempts to fit in would lead her to become one of the brightest (and chaotic) legal minds of her generation.

Traits: Bookworm, Proper, Erratic

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

Career: Law

Objectives:

Go to Britechester and get a degree in History

Live on Campus

Master the Law Career

Marry a Selvadorean local

Have a child (the next generation)

Generation 6: Boujee

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Boujee

Boujee knows that life doesn’t mean much without a little luxury and a lot of fun. As an actress and soon to be world famous star, she knows that the road to hell may be paid with good intentions but the road to Del Sol Valley is paved with stars. Lights, Camera, Action!

Traits: Materialist, Self-Absorbed, Kleptomaniac 

Aspirations: Master Actress

Career:  Actress

Objectives:

Master the Master Actress Aspiration

Have an elaborate wedding

Master the singing skill

Become a 5 Star Celebrity

Have a child with another celebrity (the next generation)

Have a nanny

Generation 7: Cottage Core

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Cottagecore

Core was raised by a nanny, trying to avoid the spotlight. Her only haven was the estate garden where she learned about plants and wrote poems. She dreams of the day when she can move to a little cottage and spend the days caring for her plants and pets.

Traits: Romantic, Loves Outdoors, Vegetarian

Aspiration: The Curator

Career: Freelancer (Writer)

Objectives:

Live in a small house (cottage)

Have a pet

Master the Gardening Skill and Cooking Skill

Master the Curator Aspiration

Write a bestseller

Become a witch

Have a child with a witch/warlock

Generation 8: Bubblegum Witch

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Bubblegum_Witch

Bubblegum comes from a family of witches and is ready to find her power. She is not your garden variety witch, she knows that true power is in the chaos. Bubblegum may look sweet but she has a vicious streak. How else can she become a master duelist?

Traits: Childish, Mean, Insider

Aspiration: Spellcraft and Sorcery

Career: Social Media (Internet Personality)

Objective:

(If you did not inherit the spellcaster life state) go through the Rite of Ascension

Master all 6 ranks of the Spellcaster

Master the Social Media career path

Create a Coven (through club functions)

Get Mischief and Wellness Skills to level 4

Have a child with a vampire 

Generation 9: Royalcore

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Royalcore

Royal is the final progeny of the challenge and she is determined to be recognized for her excellence. If she cannot become a queen, she will become a Master. The Grand Master Vampire of Forbidden Hollow. Bow down and you may yet survive by her grace. 

Traits: Hot-Headed, Music Lover, Family Orientated

Aspirations: Master Vampire

Career: Politician

Objectives:

Become a Vampire (if you are not born one, get Femme or a Master Vampire to change you)

Master the Master Vampire Aspiration

Master the Politician career path

Master the Piano skill

(If Femme is still alive) Move in with Femme

Have two or more relationships at the same time

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[godwantsit]

[power-and-glory]

I just wanna feel you…

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[benjhawkins]

Portland Head Light during today’s winter storm, photo by Benjamin Williamson Photography

[da-rk-ac-ad-em-ia]

“I’m homesick all the time… I just don’t know where home is. There’s this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it’s like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon.”

- Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

[lolwtfmemes]

[lovesdaya]

[shithowdy]

just saw a post complaining about how hard it is to find adhd resources for adults and one of the comments said “tiktok has a lot of adhd tips” as if telling someone with adhd to enter the algorithmic quicksand of perpetual dopamine hits isn’t the most insane thing you could suggest for someone with adhd

[glowtinggg]

[romanticnihilists]

[storm24universe]

[nubbsgalore]

[nubbsgalore]

the red eyeshine of the alligator occurs when light enters its eyes, passes through the rods (light receptors) and cones (color receptors) of the retina, strikes a membrane behind the retina called a tapeatum, and is then reflected back through the eye to the light source. most of the animals with eyeshine are, like alligators, night hunters who must make use of limited light. (x, x, x)

[storm24universe]

Well there is my nightmare

[taylor-swift-deactivated2015032]

[prismatic-bell]

Can we just stop and talk about this for a minute?

Thresh doesn’t make an alliance. Thresh doesn’t waste time liking her. Thresh knows that either he must kill her or she must kill him for one of them to win.

But this is the only way he can repay her for protecting Rue when he couldn’t. It’s the only way he can repay her for honoring Rue when he couldn’t. He honors her by sparing her friend, the girl who would have died for her.

The revolution really doesn’t start with Katniss.

It starts with Rue.

[yourloversstaymyage]

SOMEBODY FINALLY SAID IT

[silenthill]

This is exactly the point I’ve been trying to make for years. Okay, so the revolution gets it’s kindling with Katniss. She volunteers, well that’s new, she rebels in the display of talents by shooting the apple. This triggers her perfect score, okay. These aren’t really “Revolutionary” though. 

It’s not even revolutionary when Peeta professes his love, because, let’s face it, the rules of the game haven’t changed. They’re still just two kids who would have to KILL each other to win. Without a doubt, it would bring some interest to the games, so the Capitol makes propaganda about it. The “Star Crossed Lovers” in a game of life and death.

But what changes the game is Rue. Right away from her introduction in the books we know Rue is going to be somewhat of a big deal. She was compared to the most important character to Katniss, Prim, so that’s a huge indicator. She’s small, young, she’s what Prim would have been.

So Katniss instantly feels a subconscious pull toward her. 

When they meet in the trees, Katniss could have killed Rue easily, and Rue probably could have pulled a sneak attack or alerted the Careers of Katniss’s presence. Instead, Rue points out the Tracker Jacker nest.

Then it escalates, Rue and Katniss become an odd team, they’re an alliance, which is never new in the Hunger Games, as forming teams and then betraying them at the end seems to be a common, but there’s is different. It’s close, it’s sisterly, protective.

And then Rue get’s impaled. Katniss kills her first tribute with ease after that. Comparing it to hunting game. Katniss holds Rue, she cries, and then she sings. She sings for Rue a song of promised safety and warmth, something completely absent in the arena. 

And this is where the metaphorical canon fires. Katniss could have left Rue, the hovercraft would have been along to pick her up, but she can’t. She’s morally obligated to love this girl as much as possible. And this is where the revolution starts. 

She honors the dead. She honors a dead tribute from a district she’d never seen, a person she’d known for only a short period of time. But she throws away Hunger Games norms. She rejects them completely.

In the Hunger Games you’re supposed to kill mercilessly and leave the victims for the plain box they’re shipped home in. 

Katniss gives Rue a funeral in the Games, she decorates the body, she makes it look like Rue is sleeping. Like no harm had come. Katniss just ignited the coals that Rue had placed.

Rue’s District sends a parachute. Homemade bread. 

Then Thresh kills Clove and distracts Cato by taking his bag. 

The fire is going now, and the actions in Catching Fire are even more obvious.

The Speech for Rue. Peeta’s painting. Everything eludes back to this one little girl who became Katniss’s family.

So the revolution never started with Katniss, she was just the tinder for Rue’s ignition. 

Rue was the real Mockingjay.

[luke-biwalker]

Also, who’s four note whistle is constantly attached to the trailers?

Rue’s whistle.

Rue is omnipresent in the books and movies, and I absolutely love it.

[sourcedumal]

The rebellion was started because the innocence of a black girl was defiled.

That is a powerful statement that a lot of people gloss over for this book

[storm24universe]

@millenialcryptid

[dennybitte]

stormy last light

by Denny Bitte

[storm24universe]

This is beautiful

[storm24universe]

I used to wish I had a soundtrack for my life... Well this is pretty darn close.

[dennybitte]

a comfortable day on the coast

Lofoten / Norway

by Denny Bitte

[storm24universe]

I've dreamed of this place.