#legacy legacy

[loonaserena]

Karina and Kora loved their summer at Camp Gibby-Gibby ❤️🏕️

[thelegacylegacy]

Jamie got changed and, after Sam "borrowed" an outfit (that Jamie was sure he would not see again), they both teleported to Del Sol Valley.

Jamie had been in that hotel many times but, that night, the bar had closed and the place was completely empty.

That night, the party was somewhere else.

Somewhere most human sims didn't even know existed.

Madame Lucero prided herself on hosting the most exclusive parties among the vampire circles.

She also always made sure to let some "lucky" humans in.

Some of them, willing preys that chased the thrill of being bitten by a vampire.

And others, poor idiots that were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Jamie: I think we are late

Samael: I think we are perfectly on time

(poses by @thebramblewood)

[wejustvibing]

first of all, his role with the team will go on for a longer period, even when he decides not to drive anymore. i can't see him driving for another team and he's gonna be always this iconic racing driver and personality outside. so, i very much hope that our careers and our journey continues beyond the racing. but in terms of the age you see athletes now pushing those boundaries. we have much more scientific understanding how to live our lives & improve in performances. Tom brady is always a good example... and with fernando, you see, his anger still drives him. so yea, with lewis we can go a long way - toto wolff

[incorrect-mtg-theories]

[west-rangers]

a simblr housing mostly original images, though the wild reblog invades.

While re-reading my TS2 Legacy legacy searching for a particular screenshot, I realized at the end when “everybody died” (because I lost my save file haha) the legacy could actually continue because theoretically if the rest of the family died while on vacation then that would mean that Saturn is still alive??  

It might be a fun thing to have her start anew as the sixth generation somewhere else.

[whilereadingandwalking]

Morgan Parker and Jamila Woods in Conversation

Morgan Parker ended her Magical Negro: Poems tour last night at Women and Children First with a reading (bringing the bookstore into charged, awed silence with her repeated “ever”s at the end of the poem “Now More Than Ever”) and conversation with singer-songwriter Jamila Woods, whose album “Legacy, Legacy!” came out May 10.

On Magical Negro

“We can think of ourselves as magic,” said Parker, but “there’s a violence” in labeling an entire people as magic, as inhuman. She compared it to when people tell her she’s a “superwoman” for getting it all done—there’s a devaluing in attributing it to magic as if it doesn’t take effort, exhaustion. “That’s not a passive thing,” she said. “It doesn’t happen like magic.” When people attribute survival to magic, they forget the pain—Parker used as an example the way doctors don’t believe in black female pain.

So Parker hoped to push back on that in Magical Negro, but at the same time, she wanted to point to what is magic about the black community, from within it. She called on “images that seem impossible”—weird, complicated, energies, particulars: like Denzel Washington’s “continuous battle with various forms of transportation,” or Diana Ross eating a rib. To pick small things out and say, “This is something to be documented”—an archive of “little slivers of characters” that should be written down.

On Writing

"I always put inside jokes in my book, and some of them are just with me,” Parker said. She is at the core of all her poems. Woods asked about her titles, which are singularly fantastic (see: “I TOLD MY THERAPIST I TRIED TO MEDITATE AND SHE LAUGHED” or “My Sister Says White Supremacy Is Turning Her Crazy” or “Who Were Frederick Douglass’s Cousins, and Other Quotidian Black History Facts That I Wish I Learned in School”)—while many poets choose titles to summarize, Woods pointed out that Parker’s often juxtapose the events within her poem. Parker said that she often starts with the title, and that it’s necessary to her work. It sets up the spirit of it—“like decorating a room. What’s the mood here?” It’s vital for energy and tone: “It’s part of the poem, and often it does a lot of work that can’t be done within the poem.”

She wasn’t afraid of evoking famous figures in her collection because she wasn’t trying to get at their interior lives, but only their images. On evoking Beyoncé in the title poem of collection There Are Things More Beautiful Than Beyoncé, she said, “I mean, she hasn’t called me, so that’s telling.” The voice of Parker’s poems is a very complex ‘I.’ "It’s about the multiplicity,” she said. “Giving the ‘I’ the space to be I, us, we, you.” She is guided through the poem by spirit guides, ancestors, figures, voices, lens, masks—and so she was often surprised by the truths revealed in her poems, sometimes needing to walk away.

Why It Matters

Writing is hard at its core. When she’s writing, she doesn’t “necessarily feel better, because I usually feel worse.” In September, her YA will come out (“about a person named Morgan Parker, surprise, surprise, I have no imagination”) about a young black teen diagnosed with depression. It was difficult to write, as it’s very personal. She fought for it not to have a triumphant, neat ending, like in much YA, because she feels it sends the wrong message to teens. She fought for a real-life end instead, “where at the end, this b*tch is alive. She’s there still.” and that is the triumph.

She has learned more about herself and her sisters on tour by continuously reading these poems, and says that it’s the black women who have consistently lifted her up when it got hard. “I wrote this, but it wasn’t only me who wrote this,” she said about the collection—the feeling of carrying truths out into the world led to a feeling of responsibility. “It’s work, and I do feel like there’s something at stake,” she said. And if she speaks up, it will make a difference.

She said: “I’m ready to fall on my sword for every black girl who wants to say something true.”

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Jamila Woods - Zora

From the album Legacy! Legacy! out May 10th via Jagjaguwar.