#Yeah. Unfortunately I am not into kid!fic or Mpreg or pregnancy in general. So I will not be writing it. Despite how often it's

[doyouknowhowtowaltz]

Lady of spring aside, I always kinda assumed that the wardens couldn’t have real children. Like even if they could make/have kids (which is very unlikely) they wouldn’t be wardens like them and would probably be mortal, like a really watered down version of themselves.

Am I close? :)

That's pretty much it! Though, Spring also doesn't have children, the Spring Lineage is fully adoptive, hence why all three generations are different species. And I think any offspring that wardens could produce would be fairly analogous to my thoughts on Beastnoch children which I summed up here

[kaesaaurelia]

In my quest to download all the stuff I wanna read, I remembered I had this forum thread bookmarked.  It is 41 pages of Sims screencaps of someone playing through an Immortal Dynasty challenge, which is a player-created Sims challenge with extra, weird rules that make it harder.  I have read it I think 3 or 4 times, because it is a genuinely engaging, funny, metafictional family saga, with romance and tragedy and and immortality angst, and the weird kind of storyline that you end up with when you have to explain (or just not try to explain) silly game mechanics and bad pathing decisions (like, for example, because TS4 is bad at keeping the world populated with kids and teens, almost every generation the family has an unrelated-to-them himbo move in whose entire job is a. fix things around the house, and b. get townies pregnant.), and I really cannot recommend it enough even if you’re like “I enjoy playing the game myself, but why would I want to read 41 pages of forum posts about somebody else’s Sims???”  Just trust me.  [Edit: UNLESS you are squicked by het or pregnancy, because while there are a couple of really touching same-sex love stories, most of the main couples are m/f, and they have to have children for the whole dynasty thing to work.  There’s also some mpreg near the end.]  Anyway!  Oh my god.

So I want to download the whole thing so I can read it anywhere, right?  But it’s got so many pictures -- a big reason I want to download it!  Image hosting isn’t always stable and a lot of illustrated fics became un-illustrated with the crumbling of Photobucket.  (Unfortunately the majority of the images here are hosted on Photobucket, so they have the watermark, but at least they still display.)  So the dotepub plugin isn’t going to work.

Apparently there’s a single-page html download format, .mhtml.  So I started in on that, and figured I could convert it to .epub and then stitch the .epub files together with a Calibre plugin called EpubMerge, which merges... epubs.  But before I got too far in that (and because the download was taking a while) I googled just to make sure calibre could convert these files to .epub, and found this forum thread, which I am probably not going to save to reread, because there’s so much weird hostility:

Why exactly must you use MHT? Just save the web page itself, I think calibre will download the necessary remote resources when you import the HTML file. If not, well, then you can do what you should have done in the first place. Even a lousy browser like Internet Explorer can still save as "Web Page, complete", which calibre can certainly handle fine and which you did not in fact do! Instead you saved as a "Web Archive, Single File", which is a Microsoft-specific format and it is therefore completely unsurprising that calibre doesn't know how to handle it. 

You can tell it’s really serious by the bold and underline.  Anyway, OP says they have a bunch of MHT files from prior to using Calibre and they’d like to convert them, but what they’ve been doing leaves a lot of weird formatting, and they’re then berated for assuming that Calibre can and should handle other people’s bad coding + wanting to read things on badly-coded sites, and oh my god people, this poor person just wants to read some old websites they saved, why are you like this.

Anyway yeah, still not sure what I’m gonna do with the Sims story.  Downloading it as “Web Page, Complete” and converting to epub is readable but it doesn’t look good, so I may do that just to keep an archive of it handy, and then use that to make a Word version which I can format as I like, convert to .epub, and give a nice title page.  It really is a good read!