Krasnoyarsk Nobility

A QUICK NOTE:

Hi friends! Taking a page out of @pixelnrd’s blog, I wanted to type up a much-belated introduction and disclaimer to this blog ahead of my story starting back up May 1. So, without further ado—

The Shakhovskoy family was originally began in summer of 2019. Their stories, as well as the kingdom of Krasnoyarsk, take heavy nods from Imperial Russia. Though I do not intend here to recreate any individual belonging to the Houses of Romanov, Windsor, or Hohenzollern, you will undoubtedly see similar storylines. If you feel anything I am writing is it any point too close to reality for your liking, I am happy to accept constructive feedback.

I am not a monarchist. I won’t go into my political beliefs beyond that here (mainly because I am almost positive none of you followed this blog to hear what I think), but this blog is in no way meant as an endorsement of absolute monarchies, as is found in Krasnoyarsk, nor any sort of monarchy.

And as for content- though this blog will never pass the point of PG-13, there are several sensitive themes in this blog that either have been or will be dealt with by the Shakhovskoys. All posts with sensitive subjects in them will be marked with a trigger warning directly below the title. Those themes include, but may not be limited to:

With all that said, I’d like to say another thank you to all 507 of you for your continued support and patience with me & this blog. Much love and thanks, and I’ll see you back in May!

Rules: basically you just put your sims in some cocktail clothing and show us, it can be your oc’s, your gameplay sims, whoever you want really! just have fun with it and take your own spin on this. tag #DNCE and/or #DNCE Challenge so we can see it! I “challenge” anyone who sees this to take part

Arlus and Sarah in a date. I know it’s not the most cocktail thing in the world but I honestly just took this as a chance to do a cute photo shoot.

I’m tagging @bridgeportbritt @thealbionroyals @reigningsims @vaestronianroyals @royalsimsofhanover @royalsofsimstanstaisia @royalhouseofcarrington @sosa-royals @krasnoyarsk-nobility @simaliaroyals to try the challenge :)

As an introverted, shy, overthinker I have struggled with how to engage with other simblrs. Every time I would try to send and ask or comment on a post, I would delete it because I felt it sounded ingenuine or dumb. I wanted to engage with the community but I didn’t know how to do it.

Also, I knew that the community would benefit from the engagement. The more we engage, the more we learn about each other, each other’s stories, build relationships, and build an overall fulfilling community. And I knew that I wanted to contribute to that.

Through trial and error and stepping out of my comfort zone I feel a bit more comfortable and confident with sending asks and comments. For those of you that might be in a similar boat as I, I have summarized some of the tricks I used to help!

Start with low hanging fruit!

Story questions!

Last Points!

WHILE understanding that a hereditary ruling class is a fuck-stupid thing to have IRL, I have no intention of leaving off reading and writing about secondary-world nobles and/or royalty. It lets you elevate family drama to extremely weird levels and really raise the stakes on questions of obligation, tradition, inheritance, and being tied into a job you actually might fucking suck at. Feels like all my life I’ve been seeing finger-wagging about how it’s more virtuous to write about regular folks, and how dumbass fantasy fans just project themselves onto princes and princesses because they’re in denial that their ancestors did physical labor, and I’m like, “irrelevant. Sometimes you just want to see sibling rivalry escalate to stabbings”