#etain

[aodhan-art]

@days-like-dominoes prompted me to draw Midir and Étaín, and so I did!

[xandezsims]

[Bodice Ripper Romance Novels]

'Roman Darkmoor Must Die.' The Devil of Darkmoor Collector's Edition, by Henford-on-Bagley's own A.D. Dorian. This (pretend) period romance series follows the varied loves of Roman Darkmoor, the man everyone wants, and wants to kill. Our hero is a bisexual disaster on a mission to get himself off--er, offed--and everyone is dying to help him.

Have you read this?

Happy Valentines Day! In honor of those who'd rather just read a book, we brought you a gift! Because why would you brave a date or spend money when you could be at home with a spicy novel?

Featuring fully-designed covers, familiar tropes, and an actual plot (!), the Devil series is bound to bring your Sims some joy. And it looks nice on a table--or, if you're shy, under a bed. We won't tell. Preview gifs, more info, and download below.

Like enemies to lovers? Hurt/comfort? Forbidden love? What about swordfighting? Magic? Time-travel? If any of these ring your bell, this is the fandom for you! Be braced: the forums are a warzone.

Download: Patreon (free) | SFS

All filed under Clutter or Storage > Bookshelf. The readable books can be bought from a phone or computer, just like any other book. They should also be in the catalogue, set apart by their preview style.

Starring: Etain Bishop as Juliana Lalune Frederick Duncan as Dr. Albert Sterling Fredette Duncan as Lucia del Sol David Duke as Captain Cyrus Astraean "the Traveler" as the Fairy Godmother(/father/parent) and Victor Gray as Roman Darkmoor

Some Facts About this Project:

Dez came up with this in 2022: Harlequin-style trashy novels as unique clutter. The original concept was 2 deco books. It turned into 3 deco books, a full book set, and 5 readable books. So far.

The titles are modeled after 1980s romances. Dez went through hundreds of Simlish fonts, and finally modified the title font character by character to better match the English font, Georgia.

Every bit of text in this is Xan's fault. He went overboard. Back cover blurbs, book pages, the lot. Don't let a writer do anything.

The book pages were meant to be cliche racy novel schlock, but they came out much better than expected. Oops.

We hope you like this--and that, if you do, you'll tell us. Between research, screenshots, photo-editing, font-editing, meshing, writing, testing, designing and redesigning, we spent actual, real-world months on this. And we're proud of it. But it was a lot.

Despite that, Xan is considering a semi-historical version. (Let's be real: dirty books are not a new invention.) So that might happen.

Mini-Credits:

CC on the covers courtesy of about a million people, including @soft-simmer @happylifesimsreblogs @lady-moriel @midnight-moodlet @trillyke @strangestorytellersims @plazasims @kotcatmeow @candysims4 @okruee and about a million other people. I'll make a proper shoutout when I have time to count it up.

Poses by @sciophobis @helgatisha @natalia-auditore @sewersims and @solstice-sims. Couldn't have done this without you.

@alwaysfreecc @maxismatchccworld @mmfinds @sssvitlanz

...If you made it all the way here, congrats! You earned a cookie. 🍪

[gaybobafett]

niche posting. the top lyric “who would you live for / who would you die for / and would you ever kill is so etain coded

[writing-for-life]

Étaín of the Second Look…

In Brief Lives, we hardly get to know her and then she’s gone: a somewhat ancient Irish woman, maybe one of the fair folk, who senses something is off and just about manages to get out of her flat before it blows up (thanks to whatever Destruction has set up with his “early warning system” 🙄). She escapes in her underwear and with just her purse. And “of the Second Look” is definitely a hint at her gift of sight. But it’s also more than that if you know where to… look (ugh). And of course we’re looking (half-Celtic woman alert, I won’t shut up about characters rooted in my folklore 🤣)…

Étaín (pronounced Eh-daeen [old Irish] or Eh-deen [slightly more modern pronunciation]) is a character from the Irish Mythological Cycle “Tochmarc Étaíne” (The Wooing of Étaín). She is the wife of Midir who is one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and we are just assuming she’s as godlike as him. But she’s really human (even if some people will tell you online she’s also Tuatha Dé in her first life, but I guess they haven’t read the Tochmarc?). I think the idea that she’s fae comes from the fact that the Tuatha Dé Danann are generally residing in the Otherworld but are quite involved with humans, and also that the portals to “our” world (the sídhe) are something we often associate with fae. And in later folklore, the Tuatha Dé are called Aes Sídhe, and those are pretty much the fae most people know.

Fly or grasshopper? 🤣

Anyway, back to Étaín. Midir’s ex turns her into a fly (and yes, it’s really a fly. I know “butterfly” or “firefly” sounds nicer, but the words are different in Gaelic, and the Tochmarc really makes her a fly). It’s a long story, she’s literally blown across the world for years, finally swallowed and reborn (after over 1,000 years) with no memory of who or what she was. She marries a High King, but then Midir (her former husband) comes back for her and recognises her. That’s also a second look, because she’s a being who has survived transformation and return (the Tochmarc doesn’t stop there of course; they turn into swans initially, then live together in the Otherworld, and I think this is where the elevation to goddess status in folklore happens, either of the sun because she was so beautiful and radiant, or of rebirth for obvious reasons).

Étaín and Midir—Stephen Reid (The High Deeds of Finn)

And maybe, just maybe, that’s where her gift of sight comes from.

And also: It’s not for nothing that I built this (slightly clumsy 🤣) bridge between “The Rowan Tree” and “Brief Lives Chapter Three” because the rowan is considered a “threshold tree” in folklore, where we’re not fully in one world or another. It’s an ideal place for fae and humans (and maybe Endless 😉) to cross. And I guess Étaín spent her long existence crossing that threshold in both directions many times…

[paranormal-paracosm]

Étaín, the leader of Envy. The leader of a failed uprising who was cast down for her treachery, leaving her at the very bottom of the 7 rings, deep under polluted waters. Begrudgingly supports the protagonists in their journey with what little power she has.

[oxventure-text-posts]

Actually, I'll do it now. I dont know how many of you have ever seen The Breakquest Club but I believe The Breakquest Club is like a fair few years, maybe a decade before Oxventure, mainly bc of two characters:

First off this guy, Goodbad the Badgood was also originally designed by Bendix and Ian Higton, his player, specifically requested for him to be bigger/taller than Dob

And while Ian clarfies in the replies that Dob and Goodbad definitely aren't related or even from the same clan, it's the way he says it, almost like it's an obvious lie (it's not) that makes me wonder "what if they are?". The closest he could be is like an uncle that hasn't seen his like sibling in ages (due to being on the run from his clan that wants to kill him and the fact Dob and Suzette lived alone in the woods so maybe their parents ran away from home, too) so doesnt know they even had kids.

The other character, and the stronger link, is this teen in the top hat

See his name is Cedric Dinsdale, and he's a spoiled brat

He gets like almost forcefully converted to a like religious order that worships a god of light, Pelor, by that blonde cleric, Etain, because she needs to up conversion numbers and his other option is that tiefling, Morrigan, kills him/exposes him as a cheating fraud in fencing fights to the death. And if you'll remember, in Faire Trial it is revealed that Egbert was bullied mercilessly by a Cedric Albright who is a very rich and popular paladin, and I'd like to believe that its the exact same guy.

It would not be a stretch to say he changed his last name to avoid the scandal from his hometown and picked a fancy one that goes with the new god (of light) that he has to worship now, or that he'd still be a spoiled brat taking his anger out on other people like, in this instance, Egbert (who, I'm sorry but, is absolutely the type of person to get bullied growing up)

[pearlswirls]

So I went down a rabbit hole recently

( I need to read the republic commando books so blame this discovery on Wookieepedia )

[birdsofrhiannon]

Etain by Tammy Wampler