#also doing this rags to riches style is challenging but i'm having fun

[galaxsims]

Obsessed with the occult from the time she was small, Gabrielle Winchester has given herself an ... interesting goal: to have a baby with every occult she can find. Why? She wants to understand the inner workings of each occult and what better way to do that than to have a baby who's part of that occult?

Okay, so it sounded better in her head.

Starting with $0 and absolutely nothing other than the clothes on her back, Gabrielle is determined to build herself a gothic mansion for her and her magical babies.

This is The Occult Baby Challenge.

List of occults Gabrielle will be having a baby with:

Vampire

Werewolf

Spellcaster

Mermaid

Alien

Patchy the Scarecrow

The Flower Bunny

Father Winter

Servo Bot

Plant Sim*

Tragic Clown*

Island Elemental*

Ghost*

Wishing Well

Grim Reaper*

[rebouks]

Kittiwake Peak had been sitting on the market for a good few years until Oscar stumbled upon the listing, and by that point it was set to go to auction. Good timing, thought he, sat at his PC sometime around 4AM... He did plan on telling Courtney, but thought it'd be more fun if he kept it as a potential surprise; besides, he didn't want to get her hopes up. There were no guarantees he'd win the damn thing, or scrape enough money together to even consider bidding on it. Several hectic bank trips and two cash loans later, Oscar rocks up at the auction house ready to slap a bitch to get this bloody house-.. except no one seemed interested and he wound up being the only bidder. And that's how Oscar "accidentally" bought a dilapidated mansion within two days of seeing the listing.. but hey! At least he got it dirt cheap :')

Here's a house tour! and Oscar's thoughts upon seeing the pictures.. probably

As a little side note.. I'm not cheating for money or anything whilst doing this house up so Oscar's getting what he wanted; a legit fresh start! 🤭 It almost feels like a bit of a rags to riches type thing 'cause they really have very little to start with, which is super fun for me! Less so for them ahaa... Oscar works as a freelance programmer so he brings in the majority, but Courtney also has a part time job at a garden centre on the edge of town (technically in the gardener career!) I'm having such a good time incorporating more gameplay into this save, I've really missed it and the rags to riches style is one of my fave things to do. If anyone ever read Oscar's gen of the nsb challenge I did, this is very reminiscent of that! Since he gave up everything and started over from nothing too.. hihi

[limeysims]

✿ Limey | She/Her | 33 | US

✿ WCIF-friendly ♡

✿ TS4 simblr, mainly gameplay and CAS posts.

✿ I use a lot of mods and CC. My style is mostly Maxis Match but some mix ^^

✿ I’m not a storyteller and my gameplay is pretty nonlinear. I'm also not much of an editor but I try ^^ *Just here to have fun and share with other simmers ♡

✿ My gameplay reliably stays PG-13 *I don’t use any mods that add violence/spice/illness/etc ^^

✿ Navigation links for mobile below

Casual Gameplay + Challenges:

✿ Catnip Cottage ✿ Rags to Riches ✿ Serial Romantic / Villainous Valentine ✿ Playing in CAS

Legacy Challenges:

✿ Not So Berry G1: Mint ✿ Rosemary Berry ✿ Beginning | Latest

✿ Just Desserts G1: Blueberry Pie ✿ Airelle Tarte ✿ Beginning | Latest ✿ Quimby Legacy [on hiatus] ✿ Beginning | Latest

✿ My Sims: ↬ My "main" Sims are Fawn and Pumpkin (Eco Robo BFFs)

↬ They have other saves/AU's where they do different things: Horse Ranch: Fawn | Pumpkin Fantasy: Elf Fawn | Witch Pumpkin Their best friends are the

↬ Geek Roommates: Hana | Abbie

Elders: Terry | Bonnie | Rhea

Premades (my Maxis edits): ✿ Erwin in Strangerville ✿ Bob + Eliza Pancakes: Self Discovery ✿ Johnny Zest (more coming soon ^^) ✿ Celene Lopez (ROM + Cottage living casual gp)

Premades (edits of edits/not mine): ✿ Cassandra | Bonehilda

Other links: ✿ Sim Downloads ✿ Ask Box ✿ ✿ WCIF Tag | Answered Asks ✿ Resources Page | Recs | CC finds

last updated 7-12-24

[deathbypufferfish]

I was wondering if you’ve got any tips for someone who wants to start sharing their gameplay on their simblr? I always want to start, but getting nothing on my posts is kinda demotivating. Thanks!

I can't give you a guaranteed formula but here are some things I'd suggest. But again it's up to your preference and do what makes your blog reflect the way you play and your interests.

Tag relevantly. People are looking at specific tags for a reason! I usually get an idea of what the tags people commonly use by scrolling through one of them. Like I found out what tags people used for builds by searching the "ts4 builds"

It's fine if your theme or editing style changes. Take time to figure out what you like best for your content. I changed crop style, editing programs, editing style, and a million other things throughout my rags to riches because I was still figuring it out

Engage with the community! This is so important! Look for other new simblrs, do people's ask games, do challenges, reblog, comment, etc. It wouldn't be simblr if we didn't interact :)

Even if it feels like no one is seeing it you should still post. It should be fun for you not a job

If you're not having fun with what you're playing you shouldn't feel obligated because of your blog to keep playing it.

The only technical thing I would recommend for gameplay screenshots is to make your subject clear. Cropping is also a helpful way to do this and I find some pictures are better landscape and some are better portraits. This is a personal preference but I find cropping my landscapes to a 7:5 ratio makes my screenshots fit better to the feed and feel more clear on what the focus is. I also recommend resizing your images if you can. For highly detailed edits you might want to keep it as is but the way Tumblr works is that it will compress large images on your feed and can make them blurry until you click on them. I usually resize my landscape screenshots to 1000x so it still has good quality but doesn't blur as much.

I'm always trying to play around with how I frame a screenshot or position it. So try out low and high angles, exterior shots of where your sims are, ones that aren't necessarily just a head on shot of a sim etc.

Again just do what fits your vision for your blog and engage with the community most of all! It's your blog so don't feel like you have to do what someone else does to the t in order to have a good blog. A good blog is someone doing what makes them happy.