#also lbr

[crayonsandcottontails]

Not being listened to when you say you're big enough to do bathtime on your own. Waiting expectantly for you to get naked and then embarrassing you more by getting naked too. What, you didn't think I'd get my clothes wet, did you?? Washing you with baby safe suds and giving you bath toys and singing to you and

[revoltingbones]

Minrathous seems like a city of hair pullers. I don't mean that in the sex way, I mean that in the street fight way.

[ethicaltreatmentofcowplants]

outtakes from this post

Walk, walk, fashion babies! While to be biblically accurate, Clemencya would have to be almost a foot shorter than the other two, the way Soren and Hjordis are flanking her is apt.

Also biblically accurate, Clemencya and Soren bonding while Hjordis stretches ("cute, but I need to get the blood pumping").

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While they become besties, Hjordis goes swimming. Still wearing her sword.

You never know when Emily will make an appearance, I guess.

Soren, clearly the MVP of this shoot, continues to do the most, reassuring Clemencya about their voyage to the South.

"Just ignore those anachronistic yachts on the horizon. If the Watcher had the TOOL mod, she'd cheat them right away."

Clemencya, you're meant to be SOCIALLY AWKWARD. Even if it is your brother-from-another-mother taking this shots (thus making Soren the rare medieval-era sim with a PHOTOGRAPHY skill of 2), you shouldn't be looking anywhere near this confident and comfortable.

This however works for Hjordis.

"Oooh, I cannot wait to get that pretty boy Crown Prince on his back. In the training yard. By my own hand. Mwuhahahaha..."

Some final shots of Clemencya and Soren having the cutest dynamic ever. (The last picture is slightly off-centre because when I was running it through Happy Pills, I realised that we did actually see Emily...)

(Emily, no. You are too much of an icon and a relic from the days where the Sims 4 was actually whimsical and fun to be slain by a couple of sword-happy Fjordian warriors.)

And in another "anachronistic but also entirely in keeping with their character" moment, Soren is quite the camera whore.

Til next time, all!

[arabella-strange]

also in addition to the MAD respect I think we all gotta have for the sound editors of Heated Rivalry telling a **story** with the, er, just-offscreen sounds -- but also, did anyone else feel like the sound editing and production across the entire series was incredible? like the number of conversations between Shane and Ilya where it really sounds like they're in an echoy sterile hotel room or a cavernous staircase or right up close and muffled? very little ADR except maaaaybe over the fire at the cottage?

[desidarling123]

so joe biden has just laid out the terms for a ceasefire in gaza. it is not perfect by any stretch of imagination, but it will put an end to the daily casualties and bring in much-needed humanitarian aid, as well as closure to the families of hostages who will receive their loved ones' remains.

can you guess which part of the political spectrum is, for some insane reason, vocally opposed to it rn?

[imnotoverlyobsessive]

So anyway you guys wanna hear about my Regulus fic?

[krokonoko]

but do you WANT Kacchako to be endgame? 👀

I like Kacchako a lot, but Ima be real with you and say I wouldn't exactly be psyched about it.

it's no secret what my first choice for canon endgame would be, but I already resigned myself to that being p much out of the question.

the fandom is going to turn into a queerphobic cesspit when the obligatory everyone's-straight-married-with-kids ending happens. I know that, you know that, everyone knows that. and if I have to put up with that shit, I'd seriously only do it for IzuOcha.

[nilefreemans]

here's the tea: straight white people will always think straight white people are revolutionary for no other reason than they're straight & white