#the latest installment in

[aheathen-conceivably]

Wait, so is the school Violette’s about to go to a segregated school, especially since Abraham doesn’t know she’s mixed? Because if so then identity crisis incoming I guess 😫😥. I’ve been literally thinking about this since I saw the story post hours ago and finally worked up the courage to express my worries about Little Lottie (on anon of course).

Awww Nonny! If something is weighing on your mind always feel free to ask! I’m glad you worked up the courage to do so (even if it’s on anon 💕)

This is actually discussed in a few posts, but to give you an answer now: no, Violette will not be attending a segregated school. Although there were segregated schools in New Mexico in this period, Strangerville is not one of those. This is a purposeful choice influenced by the bounds of this story as well as the historical situation in this region of the state. If you’re interested in more background info I’ll leave it for y’all below the cut.

Also on the topic of your worries, we will be seeing Violette’s journey with her identity throughout her life. Even at an integrated school, she is in a unique position and as she grows older it’s something she becomes more and more aware of. But I appreciate your worry for our little heiress and again always feel free to reach out.

As discussed in this post, Strangerville is a figment of my imagination, but it was in-part inspired by the towns and locations throughout New Mexico where Black Americans moved throughout the 19th century as well as the Jim Crowe Era (Blackdom, New Mexico and African American History in New Mexico are both great books on this). Many of these settlers formed their own towns and communities, where others found success amidst established towns. Strangerville is meant to be one of these towns, and the Hines (our new characters) are an homage to this history.

Like much of the nation in this period, Black Americans in New Mexico faced segregation both formal and informal. As discussed in this post concerning interracial marriage, this was less extreme than in other parts of the country (and by this I should clarify that I mean legally, as the day to day situation and experience of people could look much different than what was legally permitted). This includes school segregation, which was legal but infrequently employed in New Mexico.

In 1924 the New Mexico State Legislature made it legal to establish segregated schools. However, the decision was left to the individual school districts, and the vast majority of segregated schools in New Mexico were established along the Texas border, which was a segregated state. As the Darlington-Duplanchiers are in the Northwestern part of the state, this was much less likely to happen. Further, most segregated schools were in places with large populations such as cities, while smaller regional locations (like Strangerville) continued to operate with integrated schools as they would have been pre-1924.

However it is also very necessary to note the fact that some school districts in New Mexico voted to have segregated schools for Mexican and/or Native children. As this is not a topic I have researched like the one above, I will abstain on speaking on it further, but it was an everyday reality in this part of the nation that worked in tangent with the segregation of black children in this period.

For the purposes of this story, all of the children in Strangerville attend one school and will continue to do so throughout the story. While this may be realistic for the black population in this region, it is perhaps more unlikely for Native children. Strangerville is meant to be located amongst Navajo land, so it is likely that many of these children would attend school on the reservations. However, I’m unsure how this intersects with personally owned native tracts and have chosen to give this particular fictional town one school. If anyone has insight into this I would be more than glad to hear from you!

Now all of this is not to say that the town is free from informal segregation or racism. It will not be as heavy of a theme as it was in the 1920s, as I purposefully conceived of Strangerville as a place with long history of integration and multi-ethnic history. However, we will still see some of this on a personal level, and especially insofar as Strangerville residents hold a distrust particularly for newcomers to their town.

#the latest installment in #a heathen goes on a history ramble #not even gunna lie to y’all I feel like I need to make this a real tag 😅 #anywho thanks for asking Nonny I’m glad you did! #gunna give this one a #Darlington extras #too #since Strangerville world building is mostly happening in my brain and this gives y’all a better visual of it #ask #answered

[redlenai]

Come with me, brothers, sisters and siblings. Let's go pirate Sims 2 and download 4t2 Custom Content. Support modders and CC creators and listen to Hot N' Cold

#Sims 2 #The Sims 2 #TS2 #me seeing the dumpster fire with the latest Sims 4 game pack #btw if you're going to pirate The Sims 2 go for Ultimate Collection #save yourself from having to install each Expansion disk and just make it in one go #it is really a blessing instead of praying to three different deities for all expansion to not end up unrecognized after installing another

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

bangtan boys in turtlenecks (9/??) ↳ for @kimtaegis 🎂 | cr. 0613data | bonus annie bias line:

#turtleneck!bts #userbangtan #usersky #annietrack #usermaggie #trackofthesoul #useremmeline #userdinnerthing #heyryen #shirleytothesea #btsgif #dailybts #dailybangtan #mine! #ok all of that is out of the way #scheduling this bc I’m shy but I think it’s your birthday where you are now so 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 #i made y’all wait for this one #happiest birthday to the sweetest angel on this whole website annie!!!!!!! #i'm so original giving you another turtleneck set but i know you're a fan so how could i resist dedicating the latest installment to you? < #anyway! i love you so much and i love your presence here and your art and your kindness #i hope you have the most wonderful birthday and that you are showered in love and have a beautiful year ahead #and that its full of cinnamon #i hope your week goes up from here 🤍✨ #I’m like so proud of that second hobi gif you wouldn’t believe #I just look at it and wonder how tf I made it #annie you share a birthday with one of my dearest friends so I’ll never forget it now 🥺🥺🥺🫶

[smply-sktchng]

from a ‘redrawing official Fairy Tail art’ phase of art block a few months ago

#just realized I forgot to post this it’s been in my drafts for eons #latest installation in the reclaiming middle school hyperfixation saga #fairy tail #fairy tail redesign #fairy tail laxus #fairy tail gajeel #fairy tail erza #fairy tail juvia #fairy tail gray #fairy tail lucy #fairy tail natsu #fairy tail wendy #fairy tail happy #fairy tail carla #official art redraw #official art #I have one parasocial enemy and it’s Hiro Mashima /hj

[rainymoodlet]

"... you ain't from 'round these parts, are ya?"

asher downey for @hauntedtrait's chestnut ridge bc!

young adult, twenty-six, they/them

an angry five foot five inches

farrier and hoof health specialist

will actually fight you over your horse/cattle/sheep/goat's feet

can confirmed fireman carry anyone... try them

shoulders are a lot broader than they appear they're SHORT

asher downey is an outdoor-loving, loner animal enthusiast who wants the best for your animals and will absolutely tell you to shut up until they finish assessing the issue. they're not rude, just... brusque. to the point. while they have a mean mug and a lot of quick comebacks loaded up in that small frame, asher is actually quite a genial sim. raised by polite parents in a polite town, they genuinely are a "good neighbor to know" - it's just gettin' past their cold front that's the hard part!

the scar and the bite are from particularly nasty run-ins with local coyote packs: they now own two, having rescued them as pups!

likes: mini goats in particular, cooking selvadoradan food, country fashion, the creak of old wood floors, historic landmarks, riding bareback (ahem), bitless goddamn bridles, wide open fields, flower-scented perfumes, crossfit, chewing wheat unironically, animal cops mothafuckin houston babeyyy

dislikes: the big city, smog in general, beating around the bush, passive aggressiveness, gossip, complaints in general like omg, washing the dishes, being expected to be quiet, THEIR HEIGHT, the tourism industry, the general slow gentrification of chestnut ridge, molasses, and - funnily enough - chestnuts

i am sinfully late with this and you know i can't help but make a bedazzled butch but i am utterly in love with asher and i'm so thrilled with how they came out 🥹 feel free to take whatever creative license you'd like with them, my beloved fangs!! shorter hair, no hair, bigger muscles, etc. i don't have the updated height slider back in my game so they're not height-accurate in-game, i'm going to go back in and fix that dsfkjhsdkf. private dl if chosen, and even if not, i'm so excited to see what blue is going to get up to!! 🥹 cas and in-game outfit below:

#mmm i could eat these kashisun presets up like a SNACC #ts4 #ts4 cas #ts4 screenshots #ts4 edit #ts4 bachelor challenge #hauntedtrait #chestnutbc #i am so in love with them omg #LATE TO THE PARTY AS USUAL #but god i can't get enough of them ok i really can't #let me live my hot horse hoof specialist fantasy... like pleas... #you can change them however you like!! #i wanted them a bit Beefier but my cas sliders were a bit fucked up by the latest update #that i ... finally installed cough #fun facts: is the third oldest of TWELVE and the owner of their late mother's smithy #their family i imagine is a bit of a staple in the local community?? #feel free to insert them however you like~ #but i know for a FACT they saw blue and were like hm... i could carry you yep

[lesbianangeldust]

my girlfriend's current hyperfixation is poker and she just bought a set of proper nice chips... but these ones are giving angel dust to me

#yea theyre purple not pink... idk if you get pink poker chips??? like traditionally ? #if you do then i need em #latest installment of me nd my gf being huskerdust irl #huskerdust #hazbin hotel #my posts

[emster-ds]

This guy

#behold the latest installment of Things I Put on the Discord However Long Ago #dark shadows #barnabas collins #ds discord doodles #thank you Sights for the idea once again

[payasita]

Systems Collapse but just the general vibe

#doodles #murderbot diaries #murderbot #i know the ART drone is canonically like kind of huge but whatever #its 11pm and ive taken so much nyquil.im not designing a robot #anyway i finially read the latest installment and i think. im gonna reread the entire murderbot diaries #sorry #EDIT also if anyone knows where the fuck this meme is from please hit me up

[prince-liest]

You’ve probably answered this before so I’m sorry in advance if that’s the case, but I think you mentioned a couple of times you can see Alastor only ever going all the way with Vox as an exception and no one else. What makes Vox different to Alastor? (Except their implied past closeness with that one picture in the Finale)

No worries at all, I don't think anybody's asked this directly before!

I feel like I should clarify a little bit about what I meant in my tag comments, haha, because it totally has nothing to do with their implied history!

The way that I personally write Alastor is a particular flavor of aroace that is mostly leaning in the "not interested in sex or relationships" direction, but I also think he's a really funny and weird guy who is also, like, kind of obviously a raging sadist. The way that I write radiostatic in the 666 series is specifically based off of the launching point of the relationship being that Vox is so hilariously cringefail levels of obsessed with Alastor that it meshes perfectly with Alastor's self-absorbed sadistic ego and Alastor literally just goes, "This seems like it would be fucked up in a really funny way that will also function as a powerplay. I'll try it."

And it progresses from there! But the place it progresses to isn't actually "Alastor is now into sex with Vox," it's "Alastor is into this weird, messed up mindfuck powerplay situation that they have going on while sometimes being okay with sex being part of that and sometimes still just actually not even remotely wanting to fuck." If you count their sexual encounters in order, it's hardly a list of traditional examples of "going all the way," even if you remove the supernatural aspects. If you have people that like D/s play as an aspect of sex, then you also have Alastor, who is sometimes okay with sex as an aspect of D/s play.

They're both super deranged about one another in ways that I don't think are really possible to accomplish with other characters, at least in my interpretations of them. I'm not saying everyone else I could ship him with is normal, but I am saying that everyone else I could ship him with is more normal about it than Vox, and his extremely specific obsessive cringefail flavor of not normal is what allows radiostatic to happen the way that it does in 666.

#ask #personal #Anonymous #nsft #hazbin hotel #radiostatic #I'm actually taking a break from 666 in favor of the mimzy fic partly because I'm trying to figure out #if I'm just not feeling writing smut or if I feel like I shouldn't have tried to include a smutty bit in the latest installment at all #because even in this case with the way I write them they're drifting away from the motivation Alastor had to actually Do A Sex #(at least A Sex that involves his body in that way) #long post

[andoutofharm]

patrick talking synesthesia and imposter syndrome and adhd and revealing he’s the reason they call ginasfs “synonym” on many of the setlists…..i love him

#LATEST INSTALLMENT OF FOB Q&A DROPPED ON THE DISCORD

[gilligould]

Better Call Saul — 3.03 / 4.01 / 4.05 / 6.08 / 6.13

#the latest installment in ‘chuck was right’ #bcs #bcs 3 #bcs 4 #bcs 6 #bcs caps #bcs rewatch #100

[biteofcherry]

I really need you guys to read Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh, so not only we can gush to each other about it, but also all the hot potential for AU with our favorites? 🥺❤️

Powerful and terrifying Archangel of New York, Steve? Lethal and merciless, but carries softness and loyalty which he shows only to his close ones. He's also fascinated with you - a hunter he hires to do a job, but who steals his heart with your spine of steel and loving human heart?

A most dangerous, skilled vampire, who is Archangel's second? Bucky is a predator, who seems to have no heart, or softness. The heartbreak from millennium ago is what honed him into the ruthless creature that he is, but perhaps it can change when he finds echo of his lost love in you?

Weapon's master, Curtis? Rough and scowling angel, who is brute, savage and one of the most dangerous warriors. And more than ready to stubbornly breach through the walls you created around yourself, to shield yourself from heartbreak.

Unrepentant flirt and charming soul overall, Ari? An angel of power, who is said to soon be ascending into Archangel's position himself. Most loyal and fiercely loving humanity, he could be your doom, because while you always fought against being turned into a vampire, it's the only way for you to be with him for eternity.

Venomous (literally, too) vampire Ransom, who appears indifferent, snarky and wicked. When you pity your fate of being turned into a creature against your will, Ransom is there to roll his eyes at your whining and provoke you to fight for survival. He annoys you to no end, but he also shows you understanding and teaches you how to never be weak again.

🥺🥺🥺

Seriously, tho. It's a really good urban fantasy series. Great world building and character development. I mean true character development. The main heroine calls out her Archangel on so many macho bullshit and he actually fucking listens and changes. She works on her own changes, too, because she carries many scares. And there's so much partners supporting each other and allowing each other feelings and talking about those feelings. It goes for other characters, too. Each gets their separate book and there's such satisfying development and relationship nuances. Also includes many POC in various positions of power, complex characterization and own love stories. I highly recommend, since there are also quite a few hot scenes included 😎

#I just read the latest installment in the series that came out a few days ago #so I'm just deep into that universe once again lol #but seriously I recommend this series #if you like fantasy mixed with modern and some hot moments too

[nostalgia-tblr]

I watched Avengers: Age of Ultron (apart from I skipped some overly long action sequences) and I am not sure so can someone tell me whether or not Tony Stark was the baddy in that film? Because about halfway through I was sure he was but then it was maybe just an evil robot after all and I am confused because either this film was surprisingly subversive or it was about robots hitting each other.

#I CANT STAND THE CONFUSION IN MY MIND #also i get why people wrote wanda/sylvie. they should go on a wholesome chick-flick revenge-quest together. and also they should kiss. #also i am now only *half* joking about thor being in love with mjolnir #it kept doing Christianity Bits which was quite awks. #not sure why it used the bit about building the church on a rock for some metal i mean wasn't jesus making a pun there? about peter? #i think Vision might be Jesus? or else he's Dr Manhattan who's done a first year philosophy course. could go either way on that tbh. #BUT TONY WAS THE BADDY RIGHT? WAS HE? WAS TONY THE BADDY OR NOT???? #with the homocidal glitches in what he thinks is his winning personality? #and all the weapons he's made and is in fact still making but now he only sells them to The Good Guys? #except look how easily they fall out with each other and also don't a lot of innocent bystanders die in their overly long action scenes? #also i need to write fic about whether mjolnir does in fact obey some unknown code that can be cracked if you set your mind to it #she does like Robot Jesus so apparently we can rely on her to make the major decisions from now on #the ending's a bit ominous - apparently someone's collecting those TVA paperweights to do... something? Oh no! :O #yeah i watched the MCU in the wrong order shut up this was inevitable and Marvisney should just embrace that at this point #(i know 'Marvisney' will never catch on but that will not stop me using it) #the loki series ending is but the latest installment of “unlimited power with no oversight is fine as long as the Good people have it” #UNLESS TONY WAS ACTUALLY THE BADDY. WHICH AS I MENTIONED I AM NOT AT ALL CLEAR ON. #maybe what i mean is was tony stark the baddy *on purpose*? #i only picked this one to watch next because tumblr gifsets told me thor wears a nice coat in it #which he does! but only for a small fraction of the film :( #journey into the mcu #the avengers (the marvel ones not the other ones)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ough....the laughingstock In My Head... im unwell....

#its 3 am im tired cant sleep live laughingstock love- #laying in corpse position staring at my glow stars #playing through the Elaborate lore... the plot... howdy redemption arc.... #its very funny bc for this whole Plot i have.... literally everyone is aware of the Drama Unfolding #except for frank / julie / poppy #theyre just vibing and the. the rest of the town is sooooo Involved with barnaby & howdys bs #eddie is out here wingmanning both of them. sally has one sided beef with howdy. wally has unlocked the Protective emotion #home is listening to wally update it on the newest Hot Goss every night #home has very dtrong opinions that wont be heard #absolutely unprompted #oausgdhsbdjsnxms #barnaby: im so over him i swear (lying) #hard cut to howdy sobbing behind the counter with a bottle of his strongest root beer #theyre both handling the failed confession like champs!!! im Lying!!! theyre both disasters!!!!! #if i had it in my id... id write a fic.... might outline it for funsies #because ohadudhhdnfjsnxms #THERE IS NO LAUGHINGSTOCK FANFIC RN #except for the delectable delicious crumbs in Stamps by Indigopoptart gofuckingreadit #ohhhh and the scrumptious sensational crumb in the latest installment of Imaginatorofthings' fantasy au series gofuckingreadit #i reread both all every crumb all the time #i need a pickmeup? crumbles <3 #like the cinnamon crumbs on streusel... the best part.... #BUT i crave a full meal and i may have to provide for myself #i shall create the laughingstock fic i want to read in this world #if no one else will do it!!!! i will!!!! maybe. dont quote me on this <3 #oh to be a great enthusiast of a rarepair... agony and pain and yet such delicious delight #i do not recieve much but what i do get... more powerful than any mainpair (idk what the opposite of a rarepair is) creation #tis not just a treat on my table #tis the heavens opening to shine glorious rays of sunlight upon my withering crops and my cold skin... something to Bask in.... #but a full fic's not gonna happen any time soon so im gonna roll up my sleeves and do it myself

[nikatyler]

what if all i need is you?

#ts4 #sims 4 #the sims 4 #sims #simblr #brezee nsb legacy extra #oc: ross #*caleb #ship: nsb raleb #valentine's day is only good for taking spicy vampire pictures there i said it #the way their story drives me insane. and you haven't even seen the latest installment

[landgraabbed]

sometimes you gotta take in the lil details

#non sims #i'll come up with a skyrim tag #in my tes era again #(always i just go sleeper agent on it ig) #still in my modding skyrim era i'm sick so that's not v conductive to me actually playing morrowind so this is what i've been doing #sad bc nammu made some good progress he joined house redoran he's actually level 3 and somehow keeps invading every vampire tomb #(i run away bc i cannot deal w that right now) #his slave bracers finally broke off <3 #i'll compile some screens and post tomorrow maybe #i truly am the people todd coward thinks about when bethany esda is concocting the latest installment of weird ass lore told through #environmental storytelling and esoteric books and an open world crafted with meticulous detail cursed with bugs up the wazoo #but yeah modding skyrim is being surprisingly fun after i figured out mod organizer #i have bookmarked some mods that require me to regen lods dyndolod or whatever it's called but i'll do that at the end #at least in morrowind that's how i do it #i did my engine fixes my bug fixes my graphics and sounds overhauls my model replacers enb landscapes and now my cities and locations mods #armor next and then i'll start overhauling combat #i'm gunning for dark souls like bc that combat style suits me rly well and i always hated melee in skyrim #(re: armors sforz i looked at your imitations previews and i'm in love i'll have fun experimenting w/ them i owe u my life) #but yeah...... 99% of my skyrim experience has been in ps save for a brief moment i pirated it on release on my shitty laptop i had then #it's been wonderful to actually mod it