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Day 23 (Part I : 4/4)

And a team takes home the win, it's time for a trip to the spa!

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Day 23 (Part I : 3/4)

The camp is split in two for todays challenge and on one team, things are getting heated...

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[headcanon: this is not a real rocket imagine it's a lifesize lego]

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Day 23 (Part I : 2/4)

The Stone Space awaits!

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Day 23 (Part I : 1/4)

Cressida wakes up and confides in Jaden, admitting she's confused on what to do next with Chris

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Twins!!! Emit!! Sims 3 lore!!!

Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 191 (Love Wins In the End, Part Two?)

With the twins' birth fast approaching, Angela Pleasant stayed close to home to await their arrival. When the family learned Lilith was expecting at the same time, soon-to-be grandma Mary Sue was beside herself with excitement!

Her husband was much more subdued, but Daniel had also made a new friend - with twins on the way to take up the family's attention, he hired a live-in maid to keep their home spotless. When she wasn't polishing every surface in the home to perfection, the new maid was chatting and laughing with Daniel.

Kaylynn Langerak was sweet, with dark hair like Mary Sue before she went gray. Daniel's wife agreed a maid would come in handy, but she couldn't understand why he wasn't as excited to welcome grandkids. She thought he was regressing into a midlife crisis in his 60s, but she focused on her daughters' needs during their pregnancies.

Angela put on a brave face, but she was scared. She worried about raising twins with or without Emit, but childbirth scared her, too. Lilith visited her family in Britechester when Felix was working out of town, with the polar opposite twins chatting by phone more than ever when she was home. Lilith even agreed to fly out to be there when Angela was ready to give birth.

Emit may have delivered fancy bassinets from the future for the girls, but he'd stayed away since confessing his love for Angela, as well as the paralyzing fear that left him unable to make a decision.

The day Angela's labour started, she met Lilith at Foxbury Clinic, a world-class teaching hospital connected to the town's renowned universities.

Angela's labour was long, with little progress for close to a day. She and Lilith made themselves comfortable inside the hospital, with Lilith opting to stay fit using onsite equipment, and Angela going for walks to the cafeteria between her contractions.

"How are you feeling?" wondered Lilith. They'd both lost track of the hours they'd been there, and Lilith knew the answer to her question.

"I feel like I want these babies out of me. What are they waiting for?"

"Mom said we took our sweet time, too. You're just getting a dose of your own medicine."

"Hmph. Don't suppose you'll have better luck than me."

Lilith grinned. "I don't. But Felix will be with me. I'll be okay."

Angela rolled her eyes as she got into bed. "Fine, I concede; you'll have better luck than me."

"It's going to be okay, Ange."

Their conversation was interrupted by a short knock at the door. In the window, the girls spotted a mop of teal-coloured hair before Emit walked inside.

Taking a look at Angela resting in bed, he pulled a smile. "I made it."

"Took you long enough," Lilith scoffed. "Felix emailed you yesterday."

"I had to quit first," he said. "I told my superiors everything and they deprogrammed my biometric wristboard. Just let me keep the suit and a device to go one way. I thought they'd exile me, but they gave me a choice."

"What choice?" wondered Angela, sweating through another contraction as Lilith quietly excused herself from the room.

"They asked what I wanted and I said I wanted to live with you and the twins. Here. In your time. I thought they'd laugh me out of the room, but they said that's the choice I always made. They have my death records and they always knew I died hundreds of years before I was ever born."

"So you know when you die? Do you know anything about the twins?"

He shook his head as he sat on the edge of the bed. "They wouldn't show me my own records and I never looked up the twins. I'm not supposed to, but the curiosity made me anxious, anyway. What if I looked them up and discovered something horrible? I wouldn't want to live with knowing that, or with not telling you what I might know."

He leaned in to dab her glistening forehead. Angela smiled; her confusion paled to her relief that he was here. "So, you're not going back?"

"Angela, I want to be with you. I want to watch our girls grow up. Every fear I had about disrupting timelines...I should have acted sooner, admitted everything to my superiors. I should have been here months ago, and I'm not asking you to just forgive me for it. All I want is the chance to show you I might deserve it some day."

"I'd really like that. I'm glad you made it."

Angela's long labour finally ended with the healthy birth of twin girls, Solange and Selene Pleasevart. Their names meant 'angel of the sun' and 'moon' - a pair of opposite named twins just like their mother and Aunt Lilith. (Solange was expertly suggested by @paracosmic-sims as a sweet tribute to mama Angela while Sunny and Selene won the naming poll. I'm the one who decided to smush their surnames into a whole ridiculous new one - it's pronounced Pleh-zuh-vart!)

"So, which one's Sunny and which one's Moonie?" chuckled Daniel, smiling proudly at his granddaughters. Mary Sue shook her head with a lighthearted laugh.

"Is that really the nickname you're going with for Selene?"

"If you can think of a better one, let me know it (in the comments)!"

Life was good in Britechester, and Emit began to make himself at home in the present.

Despite how difficult raising twins would be, the girls' arrival marked a joyous new chapter for the Pleasant family. ->

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NOTE: No birth scenes because Emit wasn't her birthing partner, since he showed up at the eleventh hour, and Lilith couldn't be her birthing partner, either, for some reason. So rather than spend way too much time at the hospital trying to bring expected labour down to have the babies, I filmed the stuff with Emit and waited to see if giving birth would come up in a normal amount of time, eventually bailing out, heading home, and having the twins at their bassinets, which is why there's a jump between Ange in labour and the twins at home. For canon's sake, she definitely gave birth to twins in the hospital!

WCIF: Because I'm lore obsessed, I couldn't just add Kaylynn, oh no! I added her parents and brother from Sims 3, Iliana, Dustin, and Parker, as well as her plant-loving Aunt Zelda. I also added Monika Morris as Parker's wife and gave them a daughter, Mae Langerak. Then I found a version of Sunset Valleyite Christopher Steel on the Gallery and rolled his genetics with Zelda to create their now teenaged son Liam Steel. Christopher was then deleted and is canonically deceased.

Excepting Mae and Liam who will be introduced eventually (if you know Sims lore, you might know why), all these sims were found on the Gallery by creators ambermarie25 (YA Kaylynn), SakuraLeon (TS3 Langeraks), quartermoon1 (Monika Morris), and Carbuncle1992 (Christopher Steel).

I switched out kid Kaylynn with YA Kaylynn and set family relationships manually, rather than age up kid Kaylynn and make her over myself. The rest of Kaylynn's family is currently living in Windenburg, and they've been aged up since they're all older than their TS3 counterparts, but I'm curious to see how they might inject themselves into this TS4 timeline.

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Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 187 (A Proposition...)

Rafa Bonilla returned home from work in a daze, and his girlfriend, Melissa, caught his forced smile. "Did you have a bad day at the villas?"

"No worse than usual," he said. "Conrad called me."

"You look...I don't know what you're thinking. I've never seen that look before, Rafa. What's going on?"

"Ximena's pregnant."

Melissa was dubious, recoiling at the mention of his sister. "She's what? Don't they have condoms in prison?"

"Apparently they worked in the prison library together, one of the prisoners started a fight with the guards and left them alone...I don't know all the details but you know Ximena. If she wants someone she'll find a way."

"She told you she never wanted kids."

"Conrad says she won't raise it. The prison doesn't have a program for incarcerated moms, but Ximena probably wouldn't want it, anyway."

"So what happens? The baby goes to foster care when she gives birth?"

Rafa shifted uncomfortably. "Not if there's family to take in the baby."

The lovebirds shared a long look. Melissa silently begged him to be serious, but she knew what he was thinking. "Rafa, we can't raise a baby. We live in a shipwreck. I don't make a lot as a lifeguard, and you barely make enough in tips to buy the materials you need to renovate this place."

"I know, but I was thinking...you know Sulani PD asked me to join their force after I took out those smugglers when Ash was kidnapped."

"And you told them you were past making trouble but could never be like the guys who slammed my head into the sidewalk the night Ximena's deal was bust by the cops."

"Conrad's not like them. I could probably do it like Conrad. Oliana doesn't need me; anyone could serve drinks to rich tourists at the villas, but Sulani PD would pay me enough that we could rent a real home here. One with room for a baby, and an indoor shower."

A smile pulled at Melissa's lips, but she couldn't bring herself to let it spread. "As much as I'd appreciate not having to shower in the waterfall every morning, you don't want anything to do with your sister. You think she'll leave us alone if you're raising her kid? We're not ready to raise a baby, let alone your sister's demon spawn."

"I'm from the same people as my sister, Mel, and I'm not like her. I can't let my own niece be raised by complete strangers."

"Niece?"

"Conrad said the tests say it's a girl. He says he'll work personally to make sure Ximena's baby is placed with the right foster home, but I don't care if Ximena's a lost cause. Babies are innocent and I can't abandon Ximena's daughter."

Melissa knew how he felt, but she needed time. "When do you need to decide?"

"We have months. We can decide after she gives birth if we want to. That's what Conrad said."

With Rafa and Melissa left with a massive decision in Sulani, Heather returned home after a late night at the clinic in the Bay. She smiled when she found the kids quietly doing homework and Conrad on the floor playing with Roan.

"Hey, how was your day?" She could see tension in the smile he gave their infant son, and she knew something was weighing on his mind.

"My day was...interesting," he said, shaking Roan's rattle as the giggling boy's tiny hands reached in futility.

"That sounds a little more ominous than it should, Conrad."

"I know. It's nothing terrible, I just...Roan's hungry and I want to take a shower, get out of my suit."

In truth, he wanted time to get his thoughts together, and he wanted to get the kids to bed before he told her.

Heather still hadn't changed or showered by the time the kids were all off to sleep; she was too anxious about what Conrad had to say. "Do you want to talk about your day now?"

"I got some news from Brindleton Prison," he began. "Ximena's pregnant with John Brindleton's daughter, and the courts are going to ask Rafa and Melissa to take the baby. If they don't take her, she'll end up in foster care."

"Well, it's not that hard for babies to find foster families and get adopted," she said. "Puppies and kittens never stay in shelters for long, either."

"The way Rafa thinks about loyalty...it took ages for him to turn on his sister. He's not going to let his own niece get lost in the system."

"But he lives in a shipwreck..."

"I talked to him earlier. I told him I'd do everything I can to support him, but he's not even sure he'll convince Melissa..."

His voice trailed off, leaving an echoing silence and the thump of his own racing heartbeat. Like he knew what he was about to say could start a fight. Heather took a deep breath.

"Conrad, you're not thinking we raise the baby...?"

"I know it sounds insane. Ximena made our lives hell, but I wouldn't doubt she's having this baby to torture the brother who put her behind bars. I heard her promise she'd make him regret it the night he confronted her at the prison. Rafa's like a brother to me; he won't accept the system and putting Ximena's kid with strangers, but he'd accept us."

Heather shook her head. "And what about our kids? What would Ash think living in the same house as Ximena's daughter? She's the reason he was kidnapped! And what if she gets out of prison on some wild-eyed appeal and comes back to torture us, too?"

"I'm not suggesting we do this without talking to the kids. I'm trying to do what's best for Rafa, and I know us, Heather. We can give that baby everything he can't, even better than some strangers in the system."

"You can, maybe. I don't know why I should have to raise your erratic ex-girlfriend's prison lovechild."

Conrad shook his head. He'd expected this reaction, and there was no use carrying on. "You're right, I'm sorry. It's a bad idea."

"We'll help Rafa and Melissa," she offered quickly. "Of course we will. If they're going to raise a baby, they've got to get out of that shipwreck. Maybe we should even plan a family vacation to Sulani after Ximena gives birth to help them through the first few weeks with a newborn. I'm sure the kids would be happy with a tropical vacation."

"Yeah...yes. That's a great idea."

"Conrad, I love you. But that witch..."

"I know. I love you, too. Don't think about her anymore. It was a wild proposition; I shouldn't have asked. It wouldn't be fair to you or to Ash."

"Or you!" she argued.

He smiled. "Right. Me neither."

The lovebirds fell asleep in a comfortable embrace - as though making up for the fact they felt very differently about who should raise Ximena's baby. ->

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We start the final week off with the last Dirty Diner, hosted by one of the newest couples Chris and Cressida. After the vote and dumping from the previous day, Cressida voiced her concerns to Chris about who voted for them and decided she'll spend the day looking for the culprit couple..

Whilst away at the diner, the other couples strengthen their bonds, with some making plans for the future...

Post breakfast, when they're all back from the Diner, the campers are told they'll be moving out from the Campsite - their home for the past 3 weeks...

and into their new and cosy Finalists Lodge! [with beds ;)]

But the day ends on a sour note with Cressida and Chris as she ends up finding out information she wasn't exactly hoping to find. Chris has *had* eyes for another girl in the camp, Lena - leaving these two in a rocky and unsure position...

And in the wee hours of the night, Ty and Lena sneak out of their bedroom for some privacy.

I thought it would be best to do a previously first! I got this idea from berrysims-lp (whom I won't tag because of the spoilers) but it's a good idea & I think it's needed.

If you want to read the whole of Day 22 for more context, here: 🏕️

And if you want to read the whole of Camp Dramarama Season 1 for more context, here: 🏕️ (it's a long one)

If you want to pick up from where we left off, there are posts scheduled for tomorrow!! (yay)

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what i've been up to lately...

just a little wip to put some life back on my page🫶🏾

Using Milk Thistle by @softerhaze for lighting

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Torendi Tower Spa and Resort

Perfect for a day of relaxation for city natives or sims looking to get a taste of San Myshuno's fashion district 💅

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How to make custom balconies for apartments 🏙️

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Addison: How does it feel to be Mrs. Rocca soon? Neve: Actually, he suggested changing his to Elderberry. He doesn't have much connection to his name, but keeping mine would be an honour. It's a surprise for my parents, though.

Addison: I was thinking a yellow-ish wedding, you love yellow, it's a happy colour. And it goes well with pink, which you also love, and- Is it sinking in yet? Neve: Not at all.

The girls spent the night away chatting about details, future plans, their past and everything that has lead them to today. If Dawn and Cecilia hadn't taken their toddlers to the same park that day years ago, they wouldn't be here, as close as ever, sisters. I have to go hug my mum, Neve thought.

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Terrell: Are you talking about this?

If you know Terrell and especially Neve, you know she's not a very emotional person and can be quite distant and even mean, so they kept it short and simple. Words are nice, but actions do speak louder.

Neve: Came here as a girlfriend, leaving as a fiancée. I still can't believe it. Terrell: And I can't believe you made me spill the beans here. I was meant to prepare something nice. Neve: This is nice. It's perfect. And I mean, what even took you so long? Terrell: Getting the courage to ask your parents' blessing was tougher than I thought. Neve: You asked for their blessings?

Terrell: Of course, I couldn't do it without. I want everything about us to be perfect. I won't be doing any of this a second time. Neve: I wouldn't let you, anyway.

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My favourite couple still go on very regular dates, and are still head over heels for each other.

They like to go to the new bowling venue that opened in Oasis Springs. It's a good drive to get there, but feels quite worth it.

Dawn always ends up winning, though. But Rohan feels like one just by seeing his wife happy.

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Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 179 (Saving Nancy Landgraab)

cw: mentions death in childbirth

Nancy Landgraab should have been the best ballerina the world had ever seen. Encouraged from a young age by her mother, Queenie, she fell in love with the graceful yet aerobic dance and put her life into it.

After the death of her mother during the birth of her younger brother, Johnny, ballet was the only place she found true comfort. She could honour the memory of her mother and avoid the nannies who stood in for her absent father.

Chester Landgraab had little interest in his daughter - his son, Johnny, would carry on the family name, after all. When she asked to shadow him at Landgraab Corp. for Career Day presentations at school, he scoffed at her. "Your best contribution to the family will be to marry well. Someone whose business we can buy out after the wedding."

Chester thought he was clever and interesting, but Nancy disagreed. Her gilded life was a cage, and she turned to her beloved ballet whenever she felt like her life was nothing but a curse.

She resented her brother because their mother died giving birth to him. She never wanted a sibling to begin with, and Johnny was an annoying little clown. Every time she looked at him, she remembered what she lost. Johnny couldn't even remember their mother. He'd never understand how she felt, and she never got close to him because of it.

Two things got Nancy through high school - ballet, and Geoffrey Bridgers. The outgoing goofball seemed the furthest kind of man from her own father, and she fell hard for him their senior year.

But not even Geoffrey could protect her from injury. Her broken ankle ended her ballet dream in its tracks. She would never headline Swan Lake at the San My Philharmonic, and a part of herself died when the bones broke.

She hadn't felt like this since her mother's death, and her father wouldn't even try to understand her. "Go to college," he said. "You'll meet a good man there."

Chester didn't like Geoffrey Bridgers. The man came from new money - his dad had a small engineering startup the Landgraabs really didn't need. Chester understood real estate, and it was a valuable empire. He never seriously entertained diversification.

But post-ballet Nancy Landgraab turned her focus to the family business. She couldn't bear to see Johnny turn it into a mockery, and she had an aptitude for it.

But Chester wouldn't listen, so Nancy ran away.

She was legally an adult when she left for the desert, hoping to find work in a dance revue in the gambling district of Oasis Springs. She would never be a professional ballerina, but she could handle being a chorus girl. If she couldn't be Landgraab Corp.'s CEO, she wanted to dance.

The Fortunas Casino Royale was big and flashy and had the best dance revue on the strip, but their dance roster was full. Management offered Nancy the chance to serve on the casino floor as a cocktail waitress. She wanted to be first on the list when auditions opened next time, so she took the job. She hated it.

But even though she was miserable, she was stubborn. She wouldn't tell anyone where she was - not that anyone cared to ask. Except Geoffrey.

Chester was convinced his disappearing daughter was going through a phase. If he knew she was working as a cocktail waitress, he probably would have told her to meet a rich gambler and become his trophy wife. That's all her mother Queenie ever was to Chester, anyway.

But Geoffrey wasn't like Chester. He wasn't obsessed with wealth and status and loved Nancy because he saw the girl hiding inside her protective shell. When he finally found her in Oasis Springs, he sat down at one of the tables and waited.

She was angry when she spotted him, as much as she wanted to run into his arms and never let him go. But Nancy's shell was harder than that.

"Why did you come here? How did you find me?"

"I could hear slot machines in the background the last time I called, and this casino has the best dance show. It's just the first place I looked. If I hadn't found you here, I'd have kept looking."

"What do you want, Geoffrey?"

"I want you, Nance. I want you to come back to San Myshuno and forget about this cocktail gig. You can become the CEO of Landgraab Corp. and take over the San My Ballet Company board of directors. No one would run either organization better than you could."

"You really believe that?"

"I know it. I'm so confident you could run the world, if you wanted it, that I want to marry you and take your last name. My dad's company could become Landgraab Engineering; just one branch of the largest, most diversified company in the world."

Nancy loved the way that sounded. "I can't just leave. I have to give notice before I quit."

"You're Nancy Landgraab. You don't have to worry about burning any bridges here. If you ever want to come back to this place, you can just buy it."

With Geoffrey's affirmations and a promise to let her pick her own engagement ring, Nancy decided to return with him to San Myshuno. She wasn't looking forward to seeing her father and brother again, but with Geoffrey by her side, she knew she could handle anything.

As the sun began to rise over the desert on the first day of the rest of their lives together, Nancy and Geoffrey shared a romantic kiss. ->

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WCIF: I gave the Gallery details for teenage Nancy and the Fortunas Casino Royale when Felix, Emit, and Lilith chased the time thief to 2020, but for the fuller flashback I aged down Johnny Zest to child, then found an adult Geoffrey on the Gallery by koppler640 and aged him down to teen. Shamelessly used a sim called 'Hot! Geoffrey Landgraab' for the flashback with no apologies.

Chester and Queenie (seen only in a portrait behind teen ballerina Nancy) also came from the Gallery, by MLandgraab and gimalta08, respectively. Nancy is posed at the casino with @tenyrasims' Posing With a Smile pose pack, and the portrait of Queenie, Chester & Nancy was made with With Or Without You by @talentedtrait.

Does anyone know of any poses that look like someone fell and broke their ankle? I tried to find something for an action scene with Nancy but came up short, so we skipped right to the cc foot cast by @stargazer-sims!

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i love all of these names!!

Sims In Bloom POLL! : Name Angela and Emit's Twins!

Angela Pleasant will soon welcome twin girls with her FWB from the future, Emit Relevart. Because opposite personalities Angela and Lilith have opposite names (representing 'angels' and 'demons') and even opposite significant others (one from the future and one from the past!), I want to give Ange's twins opposite names and came up with a few combos.

BUT I want to leave the ultimate choice up to popular vote! I'm not opposed to additional suggestions, so check the comments in case anyone else comes up with some new ideas and reply with an upvote or something if you like that suggestion more! I will count it!

Choices are Sunny and Selene (sun and moon); Cosette and Riese (small and giant), Merisa and Maren (sand and sea), or Terra and Caeli (earth and sky). Last name TBD because Pleasant-Relevart is too long and we don't know yet how Emit's going to take the news.

If Sunny & Selene win, you bet Angela picked the name after meeting the wonderful Selene Romero. This honestly might settle it for voters, but counterpoint: the name Sunny Pleasant is kinda cringe and not in a fun Sims way. 🤔 But anyway!

I'll be happy with any selection, but I do know I'm hoping for at least one blue-haired baby girl (though more redheads are always welcome!)

I'm also very curious how Emit will react, but first things first: Lilith and Felix get married tomorrow!

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hey guys!! skippable update post:

I get simmer burnout particularly when an era in my game is about to end and then i stop doing anything sim-related for that save. (duh jade everyone does that) But the same thing happened when i was *actually* playing Camp Dramarama in my game, I stopped at this exact point around the final week because:

i was gonna miss them lmao

i had no idea how to end it? and you're kind of gonna see that but i'm trying my best to make it seem more interesting with dialogue and everything

another problem i'm facing when making these last few posts into a story is that i kind of stopped taking screenshots🤦🏾‍♀️ i got super bored and wanted to get it over and done with and now it's biting me in the ass.

I also hate the final! I think you'll see why. But i need to find a better way to do it when I play Season 3 as I've already played Season 2 (literally straight after i played season 1 I was so excited) and it is slightly better but could use some improvement

Okay! Explanation done. Hope you guys are good🥹

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I can't believe this is the last thing I posted I'm so much further ahead on my Canva!! Which means there should be some consistent posting coming up (fingers crossed🤞🏾)

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Day 22 (Part V : 2/2)

Lena puts the Chris (romance bar) to rest!

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Ticking off the 'WooHoo in a Bush' whim for Lena✅