#Johnny Zest

[nitrozem]

🧡

[asphaltwhims]

A goth in paradise 🌴☀️

[acuar-io]

Zesty little guy

also hes neurodivergent which isnt surprising

[fallstaticexit]

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AN: heads up, next post is NSFW so it will be broken up into "two parts" (even though it's one post). First part is the SFW part which will post on tumblr as normal, and the rest will be on Pillowfort which will be linked to the post. I'll drop a formal TW/CW before the post drops tomorrow he he

Transcript under the cut

Transcript:

Nancy Narrates: [There was a certain feeling that arose within me when I saw her name on properties around the city; it stirred a mix of both anger and desire]

Nancy Narrates: [If I was going to revel in the satisfaction of her loss to me, I knew I would have to put in twice the work, even if it came at a price]

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Geoffrey: Go, Johnny! Go! Keep pushing!

Bob: You got it, kid! Bring it home!

Geoffrey: YEEEAAH! That’s my boy! That’s my son!

Bob: Whoa! Kid’s a natural athlete!

Jonathan: I-I made it? I made it! I did it!

Jonathan: Mom! Mom, I made my first goal! Mom!

Nancy: I guaranteed to Mayor Dreamer that I could cut cost 20%. We have 15 days left before the bid is awarded. We need to make this happen!

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Malcolm: Mommy, come look at my sketches! I made a big house, just like you-

Nancy: I can’t keep burning daylight waiting for answers- one second. Malcolm, not now. Mommy is busy.

Malcolm: [whines] But you’re always busy! I want you to look at it right now!

Nancy: [groans] Please, no whining. Spare Mommy for a moment, please? Give me an hour.

Malcolm: [huffs] One hour!

Nancy: One hour.

Malcolm: It’s been exactly one hour, lady! Mommy? Heeyy...are you sleeping?

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Nancy: She thinks she can best me at my own game? I’ve prepared my whole life for this, I refuse to let some second rate nothing firm challenge me.

Nancy: And I’ve research her work, her designs are horrid. She’s a brutalist. Of course she is. Anyone can put no effort into a tacky, soulless desolate building and slap a sale price on it. It requires no talent which she clearly lacks.

Geoffrey: Nance. [huffs] Listen, I love hearing about your day, but when I asked how you would like to celebrate our 10 year anniversary, you said you'd be busy with the Dreamer Project, which I understand, but when I asked could we make arrangements after, you went on a tangent about Lily Feng for 45 minutes.

Nancy: D-did I? ...I’m sorry.

Geoffrey: I know I married a passionate woman. It’s just, you have to find a balance with these things. You have to make room for the boys and for me.

Geoffrey: Johnny is feeling sore about you missing his big shot at his game.

Nancy: But I didn’t miss it. I was there!

Geoffrey: There’s being there, and then there’s being there, you know?

Nancy: God, I’m making such a mess of this. I’ll make it up to him. Perhaps... we can make a thing of it, our anniversary. We can take a trip with the boys.

Geoffrey: I’d love that. Baby, I don’t mean to make you feel bad-

Nancy: No, you were right to. I’m getting too carried away.

Geoffrey: [chuckles] I don’t know why you’re so worried, we all know you’ll win.

From: Nancy Landgraab (Nancy@LCorp.net) 3 more days until I’m awarded the bid. I may have a janitorial position open for you if you ask me nicely for it.

From: Lily Feng (l.feng@LE.com) Up so late thinking about me, are you? I guess we’ll see who ends up begging on their knees for work, Landgraab.

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Assistant: Mrs. Landgraab, the site manager from Tomarang returned your call. He’s on line one. He also has his translator on the line as well.

Nancy Narrates: [I was going to win. Fortunately for me, money was a language spoken everywhere and I had plenty of it]

Lily: [speaking in Tomarangi]

Victor: I need to speak with you. It’s urgent.

Lily: [scoffs, laughs] More important than the needs of our clients here?

Victor: It’s about the Dreamer Project and the Landgraabs.

Victor: The contractors pulled out. They were paid off.

Lily: Fuck! This cannot happen, Victor! The fucking proposal is due in 24 hours! Where the hell are we going to get the cheap labor and materials?!

Victor: We can’t! We’re screwed!

Lily: So... so she won? Is that it?

Victor: Won? Are you serious? Damn it, Lily! You and this- this game of yours will ruin us! We needed this!

Lily: [murmurs] She- actually beat me?

[plumdale]

Time jump! The babies aged up, the fam moved to a new house but they are remaining in San Sequoia. Also, Johnny appeared and is demanding to have custody of Nico. At the very least, he wants joint physical custody, but Galia does not agree…

(build is by kevinandthesims found here)

[simsthetica]

a much deserved Johnny Zest makeover 🔥

[eurosimmer]

And the obligatory Winterfest picture!

[abbysimsfun]

Sims In Bloom: Generation 2 Pt. 107 (The Old Man at the Salty Paw)

"I was starting to think I'd made you up, but a friend of mine said he thought you might be the old keeper of the Brindleton Light."

"I hate that name, but I love that lighthouse," he said. "I haven't had a reason to leave the island in over a century and a half, but when you showed up in town I got excited!"

"So why only come out once, then never again? My friend said I should try talking to you, but...I hadn't worked up to it yet."

"I can relate; never thought much of ghosts myself, when I was alive. I stayed away because I don't like being around people much, and you've been occupied with more important matters. I know they still occupy your mind, but I heard you on the phone the other night and thought I better not let you think you've lost your mind."

"Thanks a lot...So what is it you've been waiting to tell me, Ben?"

"I'd love to talk about many things with you, but the main reason I've been waiting to talk is because of my dog, Captain Whitaker. You met him the other night."

Conrad shook his head in disbelief. "Felix is good. He thought you were the lighthouse keeper, and I wondered... The ghost was your dog."

"He was my best - my only - friend in the world. When I died, he was still a young dog, and he was cheated of a happy life with a loving human because my time came without warning."

"Legend says he stayed to watch over the lighthouse long after you were gone."

Ben nodded. "That, and I was there. I've been waiting for a Gordon to come back to the bay for a century and a half. Cap's happy enough, but I know he wants to stay. He wants a family, and he smelled a good one on you and your girl when you did your unmentionable dance in the lighthouse. Both times."

Conrad blushed. "We've got a full house, busy lives, rambunctious kids - is he sure we're the right family for him? Does he like cats?"

"Captain Whitaker knows we're related. He smells it, and he knows what he wants. I think he knows you have the ambrosia treats to bring him back, too. He's always had a great sniffer!"

Conrad considered this, but Ben could tell he wasn't quite convinced. "If you're not ready to bring him home, we'll keep waiting, but it's been a long afterlife for me. I'm just about ready to pass to the Netherworld, but I won't go until I know the Captain will be happy."

"What else did you want to talk about? If you can leave the island and make it over here to the pier, I don't suppose you saw anything the night we found a body?"

"I heard about it back at the lighthouse because people love to gossip just as much as they did in my day, but I try to stay away from anywhere the Brindletons like to be."

Conrad nodded. "So they've always been unpopular, huh."

"They were rotten to the core in my day. There were rumours they didn't even found the town they put their name on, but that's from before my time." A memory pushed a laugh beyond his long mustache. "As a boy, George Brindleton liked to come out to the isle with his friends and chase seals. The Captain and I scared him so badly one night, he never left his fishing boat whenever any of his crew came to the island."

Inside the bar, Johnny toasted his wife while Heather looked around for Conrad. He'd been outside so long, Hazel and Nicola had left in a huff, arguing as they threw on their coats and walked out the back door. (The really left out of nowhere while I focused on Conrad and Ben. 😐)

With drink in hand, she spotted him standing outside by the patio tables and excused herself. Stepping into the snowy night, she heard him talking, but no one else was there. "Conrad, are you alright?" she called.

"I'm fine. I'm just talking to the old man." He stood to introduce them as Heather approached his picnic table, but he turned back around with a start. The old man - Ben - had disappeared.

"Where?" she asked with a smile, but as it dawned on her, her expression turned to concern. "So, he's definitely a ghost?"

He nodded. "Definitely a ghost. He's the old lightkeeper. According to Felix, he's also a great-great-great uncle of mine. Or something. But we're related, I guess."

"Wow! And you thought you didn't have any family after you lost your parents."

Conrad bristled. He understood relativity, but family was something else. Family was the people he'd do anything for, but he'd pushed off Ben Gordon twice, already. "He wants us to revive his old dog, take him home with us. He's waiting for his best friend to find a family before he'll pass on, and apparently Captain Whitaker picked us the first time we went to the lighthouse."

"That's the dog's name? Captain Whitaker? King Tut, Mayor Whiskers, Queen Cupcake - you know what I think."

"That I should have revived and adopted Captain Whitaker the night me and Gord first met him?"

She grinned. "I love strays. They're my weakness!"

He smiled. "I know you always have time for strays, but I don't feel right bringing home a new pet with everything we're dealing with lately. I'd want to be able to give him time to to get adjusted, train him a bit..."

"I get it. The clinic will pick up again after the new year and I'd want to be able to give him all my time, too. Should we make a deal?"

"What deal?"

"After you find Ximena and her brother and this is all behind us, we'll head out to Deadgrass Isle and bring Captain Whitaker home."

He smiled, glancing at the overcast sky as thick snowflakes fell on the patio umbrella above their heads. "You have a deal."

Heather followed his gaze skyward, snuggling against his shoulder to combat the cold, coastal wind. "It's almost midnight. Did you want to go back inside for the countdown? Hazel and Nicola left early, and I want to get back to Lavender and my parents soon."

Watching the cloud form in front of his face as he breathed through the chilly night air, he nodded and followed her inside. They found Johnny and Eva gathered in front of the television with other patrons, counting down as the ball dropped in San Myshuno.

Heather and Conrad joined in late, though Heather gave it more enthusiasm than he did. He thought he'd feel relief when he'd finally solved one mystery, but celebrating this one still felt conditional.

He checked his phone, just in case a dispatch had come that might answer his fears. He wouldn't be able to enjoy solving the mystery of the old man and his unfinished business until Ximena was behind bars and he'd found Rafa.

Back at home, they found Lavender sleeping peacefully in her crib while Neal and Daisy flirted in the living room. Heather glanced at Conrad, hoping for 30 years of happiness with him, just like her parents.

Knowing they were safely back home, Neal and Daisy went to bed in the upstairs guest room, and Heather snuggled next to Conrad until they fell asleep. ->

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[gastreet]

Townie Monster Mash - by @mickimagnum

Day 20: Johnny Zest as Zombie🧟

♫♫♫

[frootjice]

meant to be💞

[ryttu3k-sims]

all eyes on me in the center of the ring 👁️

Johnny Zest, femming it up a) in an act of radical self-acceptance and queer resilience and also b) to really piss off his conservative estranged relatives. Love that for him.

Premade makeover week for @gloomiegalaxie's Femboy Friday. It's been forever since I've played with Johnny, and I missed my boy! CC used beneath the cut.

cc used: @azeternasims (studded bracelet, top) | @barbieaiden (rings) | @dangerouslyfreejellyfish (eyebrows) | @gorillax3-cc (necklace) | hallowsims (skirt) | @imadako (skin redness)

@kotcatmeow (stubble) | @iowa-cc (jeans) | @madlensims (boots) | @nell-le (eyeliner) | @occultradio (top)

@oydis (contacts) | @pralinesims (headband, earrings) | @pyxiidis (lipgloss) | @ratboysims (eyeshadow) | @saruin (skin, blush)

@simandy (hair) | @strangegrapefruit (undershirt/gloves) | @tamo-sim (eyebags) | @trillyke (wrist wrap, legwarmers)

[pixelatedblues]

Hallie hates Johnny but ever since she cut off her last dealer (her ex) he's the only one around

[meateatersims]

random makeovers ⁉️

[acuar-io]

The Zest residence

[fallstaticexit]

10 year old Jonathan Landgraab & 8 year old Malcolm Landgraab

[plumdale]

Long post incoming and some updates‼️

Nico went on a couple of dates w Mitchell, whom he met on Cupid’s Corner, and is now in an official romantic relationship with. None of this which he told to Ida, who meanwhile is paying his rent and sending him money just because 😭 (Nico never said he was loyal)

Protesting and working and working out

He keeps bumping heads w his neighbor 😬 apparently she keeps hearing thumping (hm what could that beeee??)

He met up w his dad and somehow thought it was a good idea to tell him he’s dating an older woman, to which Johnny quickly caught up with and did not approve. He’s probably gonna tell Gali which will be an issue lmao

Ida herself is getting suspicious w Nico bc he avoided some of her calls, but he quickly “reassured” her