The Glimmering Grove

A whimsical gal who loves games, music, and more!

[sims-himbo]

THE SIMS 4: BARBIE Legacy Challenge!

oh hi there! i haven't posted here in a while, but i just watched the barbie movie a few days ago and needless to say, it is now my entire personality. so here's my first ever legacy challenge based on barbie's many, many careers and achievements!

apologies in advance, this challenge uses a lot of packs! i'm sorry! i might try to make a base game version at some point

BASE GAME version

portuguese translation by @demaciana-sims

sims 3 version by @appaloosawhims

challenge rules below the cut

All heirs must be female and named Barbie. (non-heir children may have any name)

You may use the freerealestate cheat for your first house, but try not to use money cheats after that!

You are allowed and encouraged to use lot traits and rewards to boost skill gain, anything that’s in-game is fair game.

Packs you will need:

EPs: Get To Work, City Living, Cats & Dogs, Get Famous, Island Living, High School Years

GPs: Spa Day*, Parenthood

Optional packs (for the optional generations):

EPs: University, Cottage Living, Horse Ranch

GPs: Strangerville

*You only need Spa Day for the High Maintenance trait in one of the generations and nothing else, so it's fine to skip out on it.

You've been raised with traditional values: find a good man, start a family, be a homemaker... But you want your children to aim higher, so you'll make sure to set them up for success.

Complete Successful Lineage aspiration

Max Parenting and Cooking skills

Have at least 3 kids and 1 pet, each child must complete at least one child aspiration and they must all max out their grades in school

Must have Family-Oriented trait

Your mother was happy staying at home, but not you. You're ready to fight your way to the top and make enough money to support your family for generations to come.

Complete Fabulously Wealthy aspiration

Max Charisma and Logic skills

Max Business career (Investor branch)

Must have Ambitious trait

Your family is pretty wealthy, so you've used your funds to open up your very own vet clinic and follow your dreams of being surrounded by furry little guys all day! But it might be more difficult than you thought...

Complete Friend of the Animals aspiration

Max Veterinarian skill

Run a 5-star vet clinic

Have at least 3 pets and be good friends with all of them

Must have either Cat Lover or Dog Lover trait

You grew up surrounded by pets, and you now want to explore even more of the animal kingdom... So you're going underwater! What magical secrets will you discover on your journey?

Must live in Sulani

Complete Beach Life aspiration

Max Conservationist career (Marine Biologist branch)

Become a mermaid

Max Logic and Fitness skills

Must have Child of the Ocean trait

Your mother had an almost supernatural level of fitness at sea, so now you've been inspired to master fitness on land! You're determined to reach your full potential in physical performance and become a world class champion.

Join Cheer or Football team as a teenager and reach highest level

Complete Bodybuilder aspiration

Max Fitness and Charisma skills

Max Athlete career (Athlete branch)

Must have Active trait

Your family has achieved many, many accolades, and you've set out to capture all of it in an epic Tell-All novel that you spend your entire life writing!

Complete Bestselling Author aspiration

Max Writing skill

Write Book Of Life and bind it to your parent, use it to successfully bring them back from a premature death

Must have Creative trait

Movie stardom is the next logical step for your lineage, so you set out to conquer the silver screen. Will you catapult the family name into even greater heights, or will it now be associated with infamy?

Complete Master Actress aspiration

Max Acting skill

Must reach at least Proper Celebrity status

Must have a secret affair with a fellow Actor!

Must have High Maintenance trait

As the child of a successful actress, people may roll their eyes and immediately write you off as yet another nepo-baby trying to start a music career... So you must prove them all wrong by becoming a proper rockstar!

Complete World Famous Celebrity aspiration

Max Singing skill

Max skill in at least 2 instruments

Max Entertainer career (Musician branch)

Must have Music Lover trait

What's next after conquering so many careers and reaching worldwide fame for the family name? World domination, of course! Become the greatest Leader this nation has ever seen!

Complete Mansion Baron aspiration

Max Politician career (Politician branch)

Max Charisma skill

Must have Self-Assured trait

Now that you've conquered the world, it's time to venture out into Space! There's so much to explore out there, and Barbie must leave her mark all across the galaxy.

Complete Nerd Brain aspiration

Max Astronaut career (Either branch)

Max Logic and Rocket Science skills

Go to SIXAM at least once and bring a souvenir

Must have Genius trait

Still want more? Here's some extra Barbies that you can play with!

Secret Agent Barbie

Complete Bodybuilder aspiration

Must have Active and Geek traits

Complete Secret Agent career (Diamond Agent branch)

Max Logic, Fitness and Charisma skills

Become enemies with a Sim in the Villain branch of the Secret Agent career! (You may need to cheat this career level for sims outside your household)

Countryside Barbie

Complete Country Caretaker aspiration

Max Gardening skill

Must make all money from gardening, farming, wine making, etc. No day job!

Must own a horse and have it max every skill

Must have Animal Enthusiast trait

Army General Barbie

Must live in Strangerville

Complete Strangerville Mystery aspiration

Max Logic and Charisma skills

Max Military career (Either branch)

Must have Erratic trait

Scientist Barbie

Complete Nerd Brain aspiration

Max Scientist Career

Be abducted by Aliens at least once

Must have Genius trait

Ultimate Barbie

Set lifespan to long

Complete at least 2 child aspirations

Complete Renaissance Sim AND Academic aspirations

Max 10 skills

Have 12 or more traits

Graduate from college

Reach the top of any career

Have a house worth 1 Million Simoleons

Have at least 5 kids and max your relationship with all of them

that's about it! if you play this, please use #sims barbie legacy

have fun:)

[theaftersundown]

*writes two paragraphs after months of literally nothing and it took three hours*

[honeybee2807]

Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

[eurodynamic]

[kanagenwrites]

I once wrote a 1500 word essay on something I'd forgotten to read in the 40 minutes before class. Including the time it took to read the thing I'd forgotten to read.

I got an A on that paper.

Writing is a skill. Skill is muscle. If you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. If you are a student and you are tempted to use genAI to cheese an assignment, I am begging you for your own sake to not do it.

This is not a moral stance about genAI (which is shit at what it's ostensibly for, and full of lies and evil, and fueled by art theft and burning rainforests, and there is no good reason to ever use it for anything; that's the moral reason for why you shouldn't use it), it is a purely pragmatic stance based on the fact that if you use it you will never learn the single most essential skill that is used in every single workplace.

You will never learn to bullshit.

And if you cannot bullshit, you will not understand when you are being fed bullshit by others.

For your own sake you must learn to do your own thinking, your own bullshitting, because our trashfire society runs on bullshit and for your own good you must become fluent in it, because very few people will bother to translate it for you. It was asinine in the late 90s, and it is asinine today, but it is the central truth of adult society: everything is bullshit, and you need to know what is going on beneath the bullshit, and you need to be able to bullshit back if necessary.

I know that the expectations being placed on you are ever-increasing, and I know that it does not seem rational to put effort into explaining the plot of a Charles Dickens novel to someone who has read the thing 50 times and will read 50 identical essays about it over the weekend. I know you are being handed ever-greater heaps of what is functionally mindless busywork because of an institutional obsession with metrics that don't actually measure learning in a useful way. High school was nightmarish in the 90s and I am fully aware that it has only gotten worse.

Nevertheless, you must try, if only for your own sake. Curiosity is your best hope, and dogged determination your best weapon. Learn, please, if only out of spite.

I was able to get an A on that paper because I was able to skim the reading, figure out what it was about, and bullshit for 1500 words in the space of 40 minutes.

Imagine what you can do if you learn to bullshit like I can bullshit.

[eldritchamy]

For my senior year of AP English, I was assigned reading over Easter break. We were instructed to read The Old Man And The Sea, and save the rest of the short stories in the book for the first week back.

Unfortunately, what I heard was "read everything BUT The Old Man And The Sea."

Double unfortunately: the first day back was a test, on The Old Man And The Sea. Which I had read exactly zero words of. It was, notably, a short essay test. It wasn't multiple choice or fill in the blank. It was designed to require deliberate answers from scratch, entirely out of your own head, with nothing to go on BUT what was in your head.

And in the course of about 45 minutes, I was able to use the questions of the test itself to piece together a vague enough sense of how the story went to bullshit my way through other questions. I gave wide, thematic answers that were extremely light on details, since I did not know any of them, and did not even know this test would be happening until it was in front of me. An essay test for an AP-level English class.

I had a starting point of zero information, and an essay test about the thing I was supposed to have read.

I bullshitted my way to a B+ on it.

On a test I should have gotten a ZERO on.

It's been 16 years since I took that test.

I couldn't tell you a damn thing about The Old Man And The Sea.

But you better fucking believe I still know how to bullshit, and when someone is trying to bullshit me.

The power and utility of knowing how bullshit works CANNOT be overstated. It is one of the most important skills you can ever have.

[kittydesade]

My favorite part of this is the little “Yet I’m still failing” at the bottom of the screencap. It’s not yet occurred to you to change something you’re doing? Maybe try not using ChatGPT?

[thememedaddy]

[the-starlight-papers]

Nintendo for years: our niche in the video game and console market has been lower power systems marketed at kids! These systems are usually less expensive than our competitors as a result.

Nintendo now: the switch 2 is the same cost as a PS5

[theglimmeringgrove]

Justice for Darcy Lewis

As a character, Darcy had so much potential. I will forever be sad Marvel never took her character and ran with it.

[theglimmeringgrove]

Sims 4 CAS and Build Challenge launching soon!

This year's theme will be "fill the grove" so get those creative juices flowing people and stay tuned for the prompt post coming in a little bit. I can't wait to share this little brain child of mine with you <3

[theglimmeringgrove]

I stream on twitch btw!

my tumblr has sat pretty much barren for years, but I've rediscovered it and figured I would plug myself on twitch.

I stream the sims, rdr2, Hogwarts legacy and other simulation and open world kind of games. Hope to see you stop by sometime!

[grimeysociety]

Darcy/Steve

Accidental first kiss/fake dating

"Whoa..."

Thanks anon! I went with fake dating. Hope you enjoy! ❤️

(T, 980 words, un-beta'd)

“Babe!” Steve had so little time to react that he kissed her automatically, though he had never spoken to her before.

“Babe!”

Steve had so little time to react that he kissed her automatically, though he had never spoken to her before. He remembered seeing Sam talking to her across the lobby one time, Sam’s head thrown back with his hand on his belly as he roared with laughter, the woman giggling as she clutched her laptop to her chest.

Her hand was gripping his arm, a desperation to it that didn’t show on her face as she pulled back, their lips smacking softly. Steve stared down at her, eyes widening as she grinned and babbled on.

“I can’t believe I didn’t see you from across the bar! You can tell it’s after 6, my brain’s all over the place.”

Steve glanced over her shoulder at a stranger in a suit, a man with hair slicked back, his collar open to show the sweaty skin beneath. He held a tumbler of scotch, his body swaying slightly. He was clearly drunk, staring at the back of this woman.

There was a flash of anxiety on her face, a pleading that tugged on Steve’s heartstrings. He cleared his throat, forcing a smile as he improvised.

“It’s okay, sweetheart, I saved you a seat.”

She kept holding his arm, waiting as Steve’s eyes trained on the stranger, who began to retreat with a turn of his heel and a stumble back from where they came from. Steve looked down at the woman again once he was gone, settling into a seat by one of the tall windows that overlooked Manhattan.

“Jesus, thanks,” the woman breathed, letting him go. “I’ll buy you a drink.”

“Are you okay?”

She rolled her eyes. “Well, no, if I’m honest. I got stood up and then that douche canoe wasn’t leaving me alone. He was watching me for the last half an hour while I waited.”

“Sorry,” Steve said, and she shrugged.

“I should be apologizing to you,” she said, settling on the stool next to his. “I mean, it’s not the wisest move to kiss a random dude to throw another off the scent.”

She winced then, as if the situation had finally registered. She gave a little groan.

“I’m actually so sorry,” she said. “I’ll settle your tab, too. That was really wrong of me-”

Steve found himself chuckling, ducking his head as he fiddled with his beer bottle. The woman stopped abruptly when he looked back at her again, her blue eyes wider than before.  

“It’s not the first time I’ve kissed someone like that.”

She pressed her lips together, her brow furrowing. She had a heart-shaped face, with long brown waves of hair that settled past her bosom. The longer he looked at her, the more he was drawn in. She was small but lush, soft-looking and open with her expressions.

“That’s a long story, though,” he added.

The woman tilted her head slightly. “Do I look like I need to be somewhere else?”

He stared back at her, considering. After another beat, he decided he wanted to entice her to stay, instead of keeping to himself like most other nights.

He turned his body slightly, offering his free hand.

“Steve Rogers.”

“I know who you are,” the woman said, before she took his hand to shake.

Her nails were red to match her lips, and Steve realized then that he’d have a smear of lipstick on his mouth, which he confirmed when he licked them as subtly as possible.

“Darcy Lewis,” the woman said. “We work in the same building.”

He launched into the story of him and Natasha on the run years ago, and how they kissed on the escalator to evade Rumlow and his squad. As he spoke, Darcy leaned her elbow on the bar, resting her chin in her hand as she studied him. Her leg would swing every so often, her lips curling in amusement.

“Did it work?”

“Kinda,” Steve said. “But I’m not great at undercover.”

“You did pretty well back then,” Darcy said, jutting her thumb behind her.

Steve smiled at her. It was easy with her, as if they’d known one another for some time. She wasn’t treating him like a celebrity like some people from the Tower were inclined to do. There was so little barrier between them that he found himself leaning over and dropping his voice.

“We… haven’t met before, right?”

She gave a slow grin. “No. Why?”

He didn’t know how to answer that without coming across as corny or creepy. Here it was, the thing he didn’t think existed between him and other women besides Peggy – chemistry. He stared at her a beat too long, his eyes darting away as he felt his ears redden.

“I’ll get you a drink.”

He gestured to the bartender closest to them and Darcy put a hand on his, shaking her head.

“Whoa, come on. You’ve already done enough,” she chided, but he insisted, enjoying the way she touched him without preamble.

“You deserve it. It’s to make up for that jackass,” Steve said when her cider arrived. “Those two jackasses, I mean.”

She smirked, lifting her glass to sip. She licked her lips, surveying him. Steve looked down at his beer again, feeling his stomach flip. She was really cute, and it was a damn shame that guy didn’t show up for their date. But in a way, he might not have had this without him letting her down.

“Not the worst way for the night to go, though,” Darcy said, and he let his eyes swing to meet hers. “Don’t you think?”

“Yeah,” he said.

He felt her give his knee a squeeze.

“As long as that’s not our last kiss,” she murmured.

He felt a rush of anticipation, leaning down to meet her as he kissed her, her lip between his two, his eyes shutting as she moved against him with a sigh.

[shieldshockfanfic]

LOVELY. :)

[orisnitsa]

[gay-thoughts-blog]

[churrotowns]

since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

[dadstielkline]

fun facts about sharks

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[arsonistblue]

growing up bisexual, i know what it’s like to be rejected twice in a row. that’s why this pride i’ve partnered with marvel’s morbius

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

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