#and then kaylynn starved

[holocene-sims]

the four plagues of salmon woods

correlation apparently is causation: the presence of firefighters (collin) causes fires

fire #1 (not pictured): kaylynn may be going a little senile. she abandoned her food in the fryer

fire #2: kaylynn again. she abandoned her macaroni and cheese

before fire #2 was finally put out when collin came home from work, sun-young briefly caught on fire and birdie burnt to death. one of the dogs, hawke, pleaded with the grim reaper and saved her life, but as soon as she resurrected, kaylynn starved to death because she never got to eat

and uhhh none of the dogs saved her

fire #3: baby ingrid aged up the next day! and for the first time in my 11 long years of playing sims 3, the BIRTHDAY CAKE EXPLODED IN FLAMES

fire #4: idk????? the fireplace wasn't on????? potential cause: spontaneous rug combustion

[aondaneedles]

K, T and U! 💕

K: Your S3 Traits or what is your Aspiration?

Definitely Family/ Pleasure. As for traits: absent-minded, friendly, family-oriented, dog person and green thumb. Not a very expressive list of traits, but... 🤷‍♀️

T: Worst Sims Experience

That one time my anti-virus just straight up deleted the .exe and I had a very hard time getting the game to run again (it must've deleted something else, too).

As for actual in-game experience? One time, Kaylynn Langerak starved to death while reading to her toddler. While pregnant. Daniel Pleasant came home to an empty home and tombstone. That was... not good.

U: Best Sims Experience

Everything that has to do with storytelling! Creating my own custom neighbourhoods, telling stories with the game I play. Especially if something exciting happens by chance!

Thank you!

[g-kat423]

Pleasantview Shenanigans for tonight:

Mortimer Goth and Dina Caliente had a baby boy, but Dina still has it bad for Don Lothario. She’s just waiting for Mortimer to die since she only married him for his money. She doesn’t want the baby or Mortimer’s son Alexander, but Alex will be off to university soon. As for the baby, I have mods that would allow Dina to give her son up after Mortimer dies, but maybe she’ll have a change of heart?

Don Lothario cheated on Cassandra Goth with several more women after they were married. Cassandra tried to look the other way because she also immediately got pregnant (I have a couple of mods that make all woohoo risky even if they didn’t specifically try for baby and I have autonomous casual romance so sometimes they just boink without me telling them to) and was stressed out with that, but when Don cheated on Cassandra with Bella Goth, her own mother, she was done with both of them. She divorced Don and cut her mother out of her life. Bella is alive in this version of Pleasantview I downloaded so there’s also a chance she could end up back with Mortimer again. The story I’m using is that the aliens dropped her off as a townie so she doesn’t have all of her memories back. Don moved into Nina Caliente’s apartment with her being the mooch that he is. He’s still more interested in Bella Goth over the other ladies, but has his current want of woohooing 10 sims.

Darren Dreamer took the opportunity to scoop up Cassandra since he’s always been in love with her . They aren’t officially together yet, but once Dirk gets settled into college, Cassandra is going to move him into the Goth Manor with her to help raise the baby and maybe they’ll tie the knot and have their own kids together.

Brandi Broke had a baby girl via becoming pregnant before Skip died. For anyone who has played the Broke family in sims 2, Brandi broke is always pregnant when you start the save. Normally, the baby is always a boy and a clone of Brandi since the devs didn’t actually give unborn baby Broke any genetic ties to Skip, but this version of Pleasantview I have downloaded has fixed all of that. Beau is a child and is doing well in school. Dustin has reached the top of his part time career and also improved his grades so he’s just moved out into the college bin until I decide to play all of the Pleasantview teens in uni. I downloaded a mod to make university only last 8 days rather than 24 so the plan is to move all the Pleasantview teens of this generation who want to go to uni, all into one dorm or house together and just get it all over with in one go until the next generation.

The Pleasant Family, my favorite. So the scripted events didn’t occur as normal because of what happened during the play through the night before. Mary Sue and Daniel just couldn’t seem to make up. They’d have a few interactions because of ACR, but Mary Sue remained furious at him. I tried my best to keep Lilith away from the family since they always pick fights with her. She was actually getting wants to do her homework, make friends, and go to uni and since I’m doing wants based gameplay, I was focusing a lot on her. Aside from her boyfriend Dirk, Lilith has become good friends with her cousin Lucy Burb so I have them in a group together that goes and plays games at the arcade I put in Pleasantview. Lilith and Dirk stopped sneaking out after the last time they were busted. In the meantime, Angela and Dustin had some ACR fun and Angela wound up pregnant thanks to inteenimater. Before her parents even found out though, Daniel Pleasant fucking died of starvation. He didn’t eat before work one day and then he got fired due to a chance card so he came home still starving to death instead of fed like sims normally would come home at the end of a work day and he died on the sidewalk. Not much of a loss since I was eventually going to have Mary Sue divorce him and kick him out. Sucks to be Kaylynn though as the original plan was for them to move in together in their own place. Anyway, Angela started showing and Mary Sue wasn’t pleased with that and they started fighting which caused Mary Sue to pick on Lilith more than she already was. Lilith wound up running away for like half a day. After Angela gave birth, I wound up moving Lilith in with her grandparents, Herb and Coral Oldie so she’d stop getting caught in the crossfire and now Angela can use Lilith’s room as a nursery.

My last family of the night in my rotational play through was the Burb family. Lucy ended up shedding her good girl reputation when she started getting wants to sneak out with Lilith and what really surprised me was when she autonomously called her friend over for a bootycall, she hadn’t even had her first kiss yet and then just randomly loses her virginity to her best guy friend like okay girl. Thankfully she did not wind up pregnant because her mother was pregnant with fucking twins. Speaking of, when Jennifer gave birth to the twins, I forgot I had a mod installed that adds a 10% chance for all childbirth’s to result in death so she has the babies and suddenly I see the grim reaper icon in her action queue with the word “expire” and she drops to the floor dead! I had John plead for her life because it would have been insane to have to deal with a teen daughter on a rebellious streak and twin baby boys. Luckily, it worked because it didn’t work when I had Mary Sue try to plead for Daniel. Then after that John finally wanted a job. He has been unemployed this whole time because he never rolled a want to get a job so now he and Jennifer are both employed and can finally start bringing decent money into the house.

I wound up calling it a night shortly after that. I moved almost all of the teens to the uni bin since they had decent grades and all had wants to go to uni except for Angela who is now a teen mom so her want to go to university has disappeared and they’re all replaced with wants related to caring for the baby (meanwhile Dustin hasn’t even met his daughter and just fucked off to college lmao) and surprisingly Lucy Burb hasn’t rolled a want to go to college. Since I’m doing wants based gameplay, sims aren’t getting jobs or going to college unless they want to so if Lucy doesn’t roll the want to go to college before she ages up to an adult, then she’ll just be an adult I guess since young adult is an exclusive life stage to university in sims 2. I hope she has a change of heart before it’s too late, she has always done great in school but ever since she’s aged up to a teen she only wants to hang out with her friends and have random woohoo.

[yakumtsaki]

(So I accidentally deleted this goddamn post and now I have to rewrite it from scratch, fml, there’s nothing new in it so if you’ve already read it just ignore. That’s what I get for shittalking Don so much.)

-Listen here, iVan, if we’re going to continue working for this family we’ll have to unionize, these conditions are inhuman! -𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐; 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗; 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚍.

-Wow iVan, I’ve never noticed before I was forced to stay in the house all day, but you’re one fine piece of metal!🌸 -𝙷𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝙱𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙻𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚛 𝙻𝚊𝚠𝚜 𝚄𝚗𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍.

Well that was easy! Springtime romance bonus is the best, huhu.

-God, what new depravity is this?

Get off your high horse, Kaylynn, it’s better than Daniel Pleasant.

-Oh là là, le glitchéd butleré is tres hotté!

Wyatt istg. So we have arrived at the glitched butler disaster I was telling you guys about, I have no pics of it because I straight up thought I was gonna have to reinstall but what happened was the butler was throwing errors every 2 seconds; I would reset him; it would happen again; I deleted him; a different error about the butler missing started popping up every 2 seconds; the lot was unplayable; batbox wasn’t working; I was losing my shit; I had to quit without saving around a dozen times; finally I trapped him and Cyn in a 2-tile fenced area and she was able to fire him right before he started resetting himself..

..at which point he threw this message around 50 times and crashed my game. Basically as he was leaving the lot he would throw it with every step he took. Thankfully I had saved right at the second Cyn fired him and when I reloaded he just fucked off normally but this was the most stressed I’ve been in this game possibly ever. I hadn’t backed up since Cyn + Shajar LEFT FOR COLLEGE, for real I don’t even wanna think about it. Point is, learn from my mistakes and fire the butler the moment he starts glitching.

-Man I need a drink. Tell me about it Shaj, that shit was stressful as fuck!! -No, not that, Sophito’s birthday is today! Soon he’s gonna start asking questions, like ‘where is my other mom’ and ‘when is my other mom going to interact with me’ and ‘why did my other mom let my mom name me Sophito’. Shajar for real, never in a million years would I have thought you’d be my biggest problem this gen.

Now that we have no butler we’re gonna need some other kind of help around here since we are useless. After he mastered robot-building, Jojo has moved on to flowers so we can do a pro-gamer move and put those need-boosting snapdragons everywhere! -Woe is me, from artificial intelligence to being bested by Florence Delarosa. Ya no offense, Jo, but I think you missed the ‘intelligence’ part of the artificial:

IVAN FOR FUCK’S SAKE WITH RUNNING AMOK BECAUSE OF THE POOL. ENOUGH -𝙹𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚜𝚠𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐; 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚜𝚠𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐.

Real talk, Sophie is by far the smartest sim I’ve played during this legacy and in the top 5 smartest sims I’ve played ever. I knew she was an IQ chad when she kept getting straight A+s in college with 0 studying, then I had some doubts when she almost died exercising, but now I’m back to my original assessment of her. I never have to intervene to keep her from dying, she just takes cares of her needs herself and always rolls appropriate, non-idiotic wants..

..so you guys can imagine my surprise at the fact her absolute fav in this house is WYATT aka one of the top 5 dumbest sims I’ve ever had. Half my time during gen 2 was spent making sure he didn’t starve to death, he was always passing out around the house and he took a literal lifetime to top his freaking cop career. Yet somehow these two LOVE EACH OTHER, they always want to gossip and their relationship is at an unmovable 100/100. Sophie legit has a better relationship with Wyatt than she does with Shajar’s flop ass at this point, I cannot.

-So Dad, since Sophie and Wyatt won’t stop riding each other’s dicks, what do you say you and I improve our relationship by interacting more than once a year? Do you have any batshit new theories or anything?

-Well, I’ve been flirting with psychology lately, and I do have a theory about how an adult child’s entire world revolving around their parents’ approval guarantees a disastrous marriage :)

It’s triple cat-promotion night! Bro I have only gotten a pet chance card wrong ONCE this whole gen, this streak of luck is unreal.

I love you, Torr! -Dude, what’s that noise? What noise?? -Some happy tinkly firework thing. I’m not hearing anything??

FUCK I FORGOT THE KIDS’ BIRTHDAYS THANKS TO THE BUTLER BS. I didn’t even get them cakes!!! Sorry, kids :( Inspection time, so Sophito seems like a pretty even mix of Sophjar, from what I can tell he definitely has Wyatt’s nose that both Cyn and Shaj have-

-and Sugar is.. suspiciously cute. It’s too early to tell if he just extremely took after Cyn OR if I didn’t fix Don’s stupid face template correctly and he has the broken face 2 features that are gonna explode later, we’ll see once he becomes a kid. LOVE THE HAT though, keeping it. Now time for what really matters, the personality panels..

So Sugar has Don’s EXACT PERSONALITY, KILL ME, mean, shy and sloppy. Absolutely disgusting.

And Sophito is an active neat freak (so far, so Union) with.. 7 NICE POINTS. Where the hell did they come from, Shajar has ONE (1) and Sophie has 3. So to recap we have the personality clone of Don, whom everyone hates, and the nice progeny of turbo-bitches Sophie and Shajar! Man, you kids are in for a rough childhood.

Whatchu doing, Soph?

-Burying my hopes and dreams for a chad son, that’s what I’m doing.

[letomills]

Pleasantfiesta Round 1 Part 12: Burb (2/3)

On the next day, Jennifer got into her commercial actress costume and went back to work, determined as ever to show the world her true star power. 

Routine kicked in for John as well. While Lucy was at school, he went fishing at the park. 

There he was joined by Herb Oldie, and that gave him a chance to learn more about Daniel and Marie-Sue’s divorce. Herb let him know that Lilith had been particularly impacted by her dad leaving and that she was staying at the Oldies for the foreseeable future.

“Sounds like a good idea,” John said.

“Yeah. Poor kid.”

The tensions between Lilith and Marie-Sue were no secret.

They talked for a little longer, until John had to go back home before Lucy's return from school.

For the first time ever, Lucy brought a friend home from school: Chloe Gonzaga.

Lucy had always been the quiet kid who likes to be on her own. Even back at their former home in the city, she didn’t really have friends to hang out with outside of school, and she would usually retreat in her bedroom with a good book when her more sociable mother had guests over. So when they moved to Pleasantview and she had to change schools, John and even more so Jennifer worried that she might get overwhelmed by all those new faces and close herself off even more.

But there she was, already making a new friend!

John let them chat in front of the TV while he cooked the fish he had reeled in. Lucy and Chloe had eaten at school but he was starving, so he enjoyed an early dinner by himself.

When John came back from the park on the next day, Lucy welcomed him with an A+ report card.

He was very proud of her.

In the evening, Daniel called to chat with Jennifer, which she was really happy about. They’re opening up to each other, one conversation at a time.

Another day, another friend for Lucy! This time she invited Orlando Bertino over.

They’re so cute 😄

That evening the Burbs had a visit from Kaylynn, who came to introduce herself after Daniel told her about them.

She and Jennifer got along well and she ended up staying until quite late.

Dina was there too and after John went to bed the three of them had a fun time hanging out and watching sports together.

Dina and Kaylynn are quite different and I’m not sure they’ll ever become good friends (Kaylynn tried to admire Dina and she rejected her), but at least Jennifer was happy to meet her brother’s partner.

[emperorofthedark]

Hi! I love how you give life to premade sims and make them your own. May I ask what you think of Don Lothario?

Thank you so much!

Hmm, Don.

For Don, I think he’s Lonely. He’s too shallow and self-involved to have any kind of meaningful relationship with anyone, from Nina Caliente who just wants to have a good time (which would be fine, but Nina is honest about it and Don never is), to Cassandra Goth and Kaylynn Langerak, who want to get married, who want families of their own. Neither of which he can - or is willing to - offer.

But he also can’t be alone. The silence of his condo. The empty rooms, and the cold sheets, and the dinners alone in front of the television, and the constant, inescapable knowledge that this is how it will be for the rest of his life. Some day, when his looks fade and his dick is purely ornamental, he will be alone in his condo. A frail, starving bird looking out at the world through the bars of his pretty cage. And it’s all because he sucks as a human being.

He’s a control freak, and he’s selfish, and entitled. He won’t make any personal sacrifices. He won’t compromise. He won’t settle. He wants sex without love, love without conditions or expectations, he wants a happy, stable life where women will shower him with attention and affection, and ask nothing in return. He wants someone who will be as dedicated to him as he is to himself.

But that woman doesn’t exist within a single fuckable body. So he has a revolving door of women specifically chosen and called upon to cater to him. To touch him and pet him and love him until he’s had enough. Then when it’s her turn, if she tries to make things complicated, he can make up some excuse and send her on her way. Simple and easy. He can just work his way down the list.

But he’s getting older. His reputation is starting to take on a kind of funk. The list is getting smaller. Women no longer view him as a challenge. They’re not so eager to “fix” him, anymore. Even Cassandra has begun to accept that no amount of money or love or forgiveness will ever be strong enough to bond him to her. And shit, man, she was his last hope. A doormat made out of hundred dollar bills. If she gives up - and he is beginning to feel the first inkling of genuine fear, and it only gets worse when he calls her and she doesn’t pick up, or he texts her and she doesn’t immediately respond - he is well and truly fucked.

Still, his ego eclipses his desperation. He still thinks he can do better. His hair is still full and dark, he doesn’t need the little blue pills yet. It’s her loss.

Nights are the worst. When no one will stay, and there’s no more names on the list. When he catches a glimpse of his reflection in one of his various mirrors, and the skin he meticulously moisturizes isn’t as soft and smooth as he thought it was, the hair isn’t as thick as he believed it to be. When the loneliness unfurls and enshrouds him. When the house is empty, and his phone is silent, and all the women are gone and everyone else is asleep.   

He turns on the lights, pours himself a drink, and he turns to the TV where he watches anything at all because he can’t stand the silence. It doesn’t matter whats on, he doesn’t care if it’s a show he’s never watched before in his life, it just has to be noisy. It just has to keep him company until the next day.

He sleeps on the couch most nights. His bed is for entertaining. That’s the bullshit he tells himself and bullshit he makes himself believe.

It’s just easier to pretend, when he wakes up the next morning with the TV still on, and the wine bottle still within arms reach, that there’s still any hope for redemption at all.

[kittynannygaming]

[Advent Calendar 2020] 14 of December

Soul soul!

It’s my birthday today so, something special! A Sims 2 fanfiction! Enjoy!

Title: Gifts

Author: Kitty Nanny Gaming

Fandom: The Sims 2

Summary: Don Lothario got a gift from the Heavens and it changes his life.

Pairing: Don Lothario/Cassandra Goth, Don Lothario/Dina Caliente, Don Lothario/Nina Caliente, Don Lothario/Kaylynn Langerak

Rating: T

Notes:

Don Lothario had everything to be happy. He had a good job, one which allowed him to meet lots of people. He was engaged to Cassandra Goth, so his future was secured. He has three amazing romances. Yes, life was good for Don Lothario.

And he was so close to have a promotion at work! He just needed to learn a little bit more of Logic. Easy! He would look in the telescope and gain that knowledge in no-time!

After a brief date at his home with Cassandra, he went to his rooftop and looked at the night sky. It was almost 1 in the morning when he saw something strange.

He was skeptical, at first, but the pull confirmed his theory. He was being kidnapped by extraterrestrials! He was like stuck into a nightmare and, after having a panic attack when he woke up, he decided to eat (he was starving) and then to do a little bit of exercise. He needed to evacuate all this tension.

Three days later, he gave birth to a daughter and she was the most amazing thing that happened to him! He named her Stella. And he needed help. He called first Kaylynn, then Nina and finally Dina. He explained to them what happened, what he was going to do now and that he needed their help.

He didn’t know anything about taking care of a baby! And, if Kaylynn was nice enough to give him helpful tips, Nina and Dina were less helpful. They never add any children or never interact with such small babies. And all three of them wanted fun. And you can’t have fun with a baby. They broke up with him quite fast.

So, he decided to talk with Cassandra. They were engaged, after all, and maybe she would be more willing to help him. After he explained the situation, all Cassandra said was

“I’ll be there in a few.”

And he waited, Stella in his arms and he was feeding her.

Cassandra knocked but didn’t wait for a response. She walked in, gave him a peck on his lips and looked at the baby.

“Oh! Don, she’s beautiful!”

Don was relieved. Cassandra would help him.

“You didn’t tell me her name…

- She’s named Stella.

- Such a beautiful name for such a beautiful girl. But, you look exhausted Don, why don’t you go to bed for a nap? I’ll wake you if there is anything.

- Thank you, Cassy.

- You’re welcome, Donny”

After a nap and a discussion, it was decided that Cassandra would come to live with him. She brought in enough money to made the house bigger and better.

After Stella’s birthday, when she became a child, Don decided to change himself. It was a long time since he had romances right and left. Cassandra was more than enough and he wanted a big family of his own. He didn’t have any siblings or cousins. He was the last of the Lothario.

So, with enough to buy a ReNuYuSenso Orb, he changed his aspiration to family. His new Life-Time Want was to have 3 children graduating from College.

Stella was already a little genius. Grand-Pa Mortimer was ecstatic to have such a mind in the family and was Stella’s favorite opponent in Chess.

Alexander, who was in College, talked about all he was learning and the people he met here. Stella was an avid listener. Few days after Stella’s Birthday, Don popped the question and just before Stella was off to College, they were finally getting married.

Three children followed. Another girl, Bellatrix, nicknamed Bella, for her grand-mother and the twins, Apollo and Phoebus.

Stella followed in Mortimer footsteps and choose a scientific career. She became one of the maddest but most revolutionary scientist of the world.

Bellatrix choose an artistic career and she became a visionary. (Well, Don would tell you that he always knew his daughter was a visionary but that would be biased). And the twins, after graduating from College, decided to work at home, one in flower arranging and the other at toys making. Valentine’s Day and Christmas were very busy days.

It was his and Cassy’s Golden Anniversary and he was very happy. He couldn’t have imagined what his life was going to be when he was first abducted. And he was grateful for this opportunity. He had a life full of love and life, and laughs.

Their children and grand-children were in the garden, playing at the light of the lamps. Cassandra talking quietly to Stella. He decided to go to the rooftop and to take a look through the telescope. Just a few minutes.

[simstationdance]

@jeebie-sims​ asked: for the headcanon meme: Daniel Pleasant, Johnny Smith, and Mortimer Goth

ok so i apparently had a lot to say about these three, especially johnny and mortimer because they are favorites of mine. i was also inspired by the pictures u put in your answers to the shipping asks, so i decided to pair a few pictures with my answers.

i would’ve answered this as a regular ask, but for some reason, applying a read more to an ask applies it to the ‘question’ part of the post and not the actual body of the post where it should be, and not actually truncating the post at all. i couldn’t fix it no matter what i tried and eventually i gave up. tumblr is a Functional Website.

answers under the cut because i’m a turbo nerd who wrote way too much. i hope you enjoy it nonetheless

(headcanon ask meme)

Daniel Pleasant

Sexuality Headcanon: straight

Gender Headcanon: man

A ship I have with said character: daniel x marriage counseling. no, really.

ok but in all seriousness, it’s obvious that dan and mary sue really really need to work their shit out and i don’t think they could do it easily, if at all. if nothing else, they’d stay together for their public image I MEAN their kids whom they clearly love sooo muuuch 

(meanwhile i’m certain angela and lilith - especially lilith - would rather their parents divorced because the tension in the house is so fucking thick you could cut it with a knife, and that’s not a healthy environment to grow up in)

i don’t really ship him with anybody, to be honest. i know he’s with kaylynn on the side but i don’t personally see her sticking around, especially in the aftermath of a destroyed marriage.

unless he actually gets his shit together, i can’t imagine him being able to fully commit to a relationship, as evidenced by his abysmal relationship with his own wife.

A BROTP I have with said character: hmmm. maybe dan and don would be friends? i mean, they’re both cheaters, and they’d become social pariahs for it, but they’d be in it together, at least. meanwhile, their respective marital exes can get together to actually have a happy relationship.

for all i know, don might’ve actually convinced dan to take the plunge into debauchery in the first place. like he was like “don’t you miss when you were a carefree bachelor, dan?” and dan’s like “yeah man i miss that life” because its obvious he’s going thru a mid life crisis, so don basically encourages him - wittingly or not - to cheat on his wife. and they’re probably unaware that they’re both dating the maid.

oh fuck. now that i think about it this makes perfect sense.

A NOTP I have with said character: i guess daniel and mary sue? like, it’s an obvious answer but i literally almost always expose him as a cheater to her when i play the pleasants lmao their relationship really does not stand a chance.

A random headcanon: daniel usually prefers peace and quiet, so the constant arguing between his daughters - mixed with his poor relationship with his wife and the secret he keeps from her at the start of the game - makes it very hard for him to want to be around his own family.

instead of taking more initiative to take control of his domestic life, daniel instead opts to run from his problems. because he’s a Bastard. he envies his sister for having a healthier marriage than he does, unaware (or unwilling to entertain the thought) that perhaps jennifer and john have their own problems too.

General Opinion over said character: daniel is an absolute wet moldy rag of a man and his soap-opera-esque suffering amuses me.

Mortimer Goth

Sexuality Headcanon: pansexual.

Gender Headcanon: man

A ship I have with said character: i mean, the obvious answer would be mortimer x bella 5evr. they really are, or... were, a lovely couple. back in the sims 1 days, they were the ‘adorably eccentric’ goth family.

his wife had her strange magic, and he had his weird science, and together they were a power couple to end all power couples. but the thing is, i don’t imagine their relationship was built to last.  mortimer had far more ‘energy’ than bella did, and although they were a match, it was often difficult for her to keep up with him and his... mortimerisms. obviously bella had her quirks, but mortimer was something else. people often wondered how they managed to work together.

and as for his relationship with dina in the sims 2... well, the way i see it is, after bella’s disappearance, mortimer was utterly distraught. dina came to introduce herself and perhaps comfort him, since she was bella’s former sister in law, and in his weakness, things slowly escalated.

but even in his old age, mortimer is a highly intelligent and intuitive man who, i think, could read just about anyone like a book. if dina was just a run of the mill gold digger, he would’ve dropped her like a rock because he’s smarter than that. therefore, i’m almost certain that their relationship goes deeper than dina being interested in his wealth.

A BROTP I have with said character: this might seem odd, but mortimer and bonehilda in both the sims 1 and the sims 2. listen, i know she doesn’t appear in the sims 2... officially. but that doesn’t stop me from modding her into the game. and i have done exactly that.

the best part about acquiring the skeleton maid was that mortimer finally had somebody to ramble endlessly to about his latest ideas, the things that kept him up at night, but he didn’t want to bother bella while she was trying to sleep.

previously, he’d get an idea and would enthusiastically slams the door open like “BELLA I JUST HAD AN AMAZING IDEA!!!” and bella, laying in bed, would say “it’s the middle of the night and i have a golf tournament in the morning, dear.” and at that, mortimer would back out and slowly and quietly close the door.

so while bonehilda was tidying up the house, he would be essentially pacing around and talking to himself. thinking aloud helped him keep his thoughts in order - he has so many of them - and she would dutifully listen to his every word.

unfortunately he eventually had to retire the maid, she would frequently emerge from her coffin at inopportune times while bella was entertaining guests and they’d run out screaming.

bella also got tired of her drinking her cocktails and leaving puddles everywhere.

A NOTP I have with said character: i’d make jokes about it but i probably wouldn’t ship him with his skeleton maid. other than that i can’t think of any.

A random headcanon: mortimer is the very definition of mad scientist. open the page in the dictionary and you will find his picture.

being a knowledge sim, i feel like mortimer would do anything in the pursuit of knowledge, because he’s perpetually overwhelmed with curiosity and a desire to understand everything about the world, even if that often drives him to doing strange and, perhaps, unethical things in the name of science...

his curiosity led him to his chosen field in the first place. he was a bit of an amateur scientist even before then. as he rose through the ranks in his career and gained more notoriety for his scientific pursuits, he also took quite a lot of heat - some of his more bizarre experiments caused a great deal of scandals in his younger years.

he always managed to get back in the public’s favor, and he eventually got the last laugh against the press because he retired with a huge fortune.

General Opinion over said character: i’ve never been able to put my finger on it, but something about mortimer has always, ALWAYS felt extremely shady to me... and that’s what makes him interesting.

Johnny Smith

Sexuality Headcanon: bi

Gender Headcanon: man

A ship I have with said character: johnny x ophelia is cute, but johnny x ripp is also cute. you know what’s even cuter? all three of them together. they are so wholesome and good.

in my experience with strangetown (both in my current project and in an abandoned uberhood i did a while back), ripp usually has no romantic interest in ophelia and 100% interest in johnny, just on his own. their lack of feelings for each other, however, doesn’t stop them from both being with johnny, if they ever decided to do so. the only thing stopping them is their own personal convictions and... fear. as is the standard for these kinds of relationships, it would take a A Lot Of Work.

i’m sure johnny really loves them both, just in different ways. i see him as being the very physically affectionate friend who gives hugs out like candy and they both love him for it because they’re both touch starved as fuck. (that’s what you get when you have olive specter and buzz grunt as parental figures)

even tho it’s his first, the progression of his relationship with ophelia feels very natural to him. meanwhile, the idea of him and ripp together has never crossed his mind, not because he wouldn’t be interested, but because... um, well, he has a girlfriend, so... imagining himself with people other than his girlfriend would be weeeeird, you know? yeah...

he might also be a little oblivious, so that’s probably why he hasn’t picked up on ripp being weird around him yet. so ripp’s watching johnny be affectionate with ophelia like “god i wish that were me” and then johnny’s like “ripp are you ok” and ripp is like “haha yeah bro i’m great!!! :’)”

he’s always there for ophelia, and if ripp were willing to open up to johnny more often, he’d do the same for him.

A BROTP I have with said character: johnny!!! and!!! ripp!!!

whenever ripp is at johnny’s house, Which Is Often, they usually play SSX 3 together. johnny is better at it than ripp is, but at least ripp can beat him at darts on the dartboard on the back porch. they’re equally matched when it comes to playing pool, however.

they also really like to make dumb jokes at each other, including dumb puns and other such groan-inducing jokes read from vintage joke books and candy wrappers.

A NOTP I have with said character: hm... i can’t think of any because i don’t really ship him with anyone other than his two friends.

i could say johnny and tank but honestly that would be a total lie because i can imagine plenty of reasons to ship them, oddly enough. i don’t, but i can see why some do.

A random headcanon: johnny has basically spent his entire life surrounded by people - family, friends, etc. - to the point where being totally alone actually scares him quite a lot. he’s a popularity sim after all.

and, as unhealthy as it is, he really feels like its’ his responsibility to bring balance to ripp and ophelia’s lives by being the fun cheerful affectionate buddy, who always tries to lend an ear and a shoulder to cry on. he’s a little scared that if he didn’t hold them together at their worst, then they’d fall apart.

it’s a lot of work and he loses sleep from it sometimes because holding other people together is Actually! Very! Stressful! but he dreams of being a hero on a white horse and all, so if he has to, he will be the hero they need. he doesn’t want them to worry about him, he doesn’t want them to feel like they’re burdening him, so he never tells them that.

General Opinion over said character: 

[whimsiesofanerdgirl]

Most Anticipated Reads of 2020

I’m gonna stop you right here and forewarn you, there’s a lot of amazing retellings on the horizon for 2020. And if you’d ask me if I was sick of them all, the answer will forever be NO, NEVER!

All the Stars and Teeth

by Adalyn Grace

I’m pretty much a sucker for anything adventure + mermaids + pirates, sooooo SIGN ME UP!

The Betrothed

by Kiera Cass

Another YA romance from Kiera Cass that quite a lot of people are hyped about!

Hollis has grown up with the other nobles always hoping they would be chosen by the king to become his bride. Shockingly, Hollis has caught the king’s eye and he declares his love for her. At first she is happy to be chosen, but then learns that the future queen’s shoes are awfully big to fill. Then she meets a stranger who seems to take a piece of her heart. So now Hollis must choose between the great and the unknown.

Oh! So juicy!

The Boundless

by Anna Bright

The sequel to The Beholder, one of the books that I finished in the end of 2019 and I am super happy to have its sequel to look forward to in 2020.

I am half sad and half excited, due to the way the first book ended and I’m gonna leave it at that so I don’t give away spoilers to anyone who hasn’t read it. So if you haven’t read it…please do! There’s is an awesome and even bigger adventure that has yet to unfold in this story.

The Earl Not Taken

by A.S. Fenichel

Historical Romance? Check.

Victorian era? Check.

Headstrong female protagonist? Check.

Unsuitable rake? Check.

Enemies to lovers trope? Double check.

In Restless Dreams

by Wren Handman

I’m trash for anything YA, Unseelie and Seelie fae courts, deception, and potential love triangles.

Where do I sign my soul away?

Let me stand in this mushroom fairy ring portal.

Give me all the magicked fae food.

GIVE. IT. TO. ME.

Kingdom of the Wicked

by Kerri Maniscalco

I AM SUPER PSYCHED FOR THIS NEW SERIES BY ONE OF MY NEW FAVORITE AUTHORS! *SQUEE* If you haven’t read Stalking Jack the Ripper series, I HIGHLY recommend it!

This new story will feature witches, demons, and romance galore in 19th century Italy. YES, PLEASE!!!

The Princess Will Save You

by Sarah Henning

YOU GUYS, WE’VE GOT A GENDER SWAPPED PRINCESS BRIDE RETELLING ON OUR HANDS THIS YEAR AND WE’RE ALL HERE FOR IT!!!

The Seven Endless Forests

by April Genevieve Tucholke

A gender bent King Arthor retelling. GAAAAAAAAAH. Do I have to say more?

Torvi goes on an adventure with a druid and the Butcher Bards to save her sister who has been taken by a priest leading a pack of starving girls. Along the way she will come across magical filled nights, a tavern within a tree-town, drakes, and a tower in an endless forest to find a mysterious sword.

The Shadows Between Us

by Tricia Levenseller

Just, OH MY GOD. I’ve heard about this one for a long freaking time and I can’t tell you how excited I am for how the stars aligned to give us this beautiful jewel of a book.

The main character, Alessandra, wants the power that comes with royalty and to be seen so she makes a plan to woo the Shadow King so she can marry him and kill him to take the throne for herself.

Little does she know she’s not the only one trying to kill him. Therefore, she’s forced to try to keep him alive all while trying not to fall for the wicked king in the process.

Shielded

by KayLynn Flanders

I’m a sucker for arranged marriage tropes in YA, but I get the feeling that won’t really play a huge part in this story which is totally fine. I can get on board with the whole courageous magic-less princess heroine saving her kingdom.

The Stars We Steal

by Alexa Donne

I’ve never read any Jane Austen books, but I’ve always wanted to. I probably won’t read The Persuasion before I’d get to this one. I normally don’t care to give sci-fi books a shot, but because it’s a retelling and a romance I’m willing to give it a chance!

Straight on Till Morning

by Liz Braswell

To be honest, I have yet to read any of the Twisted Tales that Disney has come out with, but none of them have turned my head like this one. As I’ve gotten older the Peter Pan story has grown on me more and more.

What if Wendy first traveled to Never Land with Captain Hook?

This is definitely one to get your hands on.

Thorn

by Intisar Khanani

A Goose Girl fairy tale retelling infused with a kingdom in danger of a sorceress and romance. SO MUCH YESH.

The Winter Duke

by Claire Eliza Bartlett

When a sleeping sickness takes over Ekata’s family - including the brother who was to rule, she is forced to become the Winter Duke. A title that she was not prepared to take in any shape or form, not to mention she’s also inherited her brother’s betrothed in the process. Now it’s up to her to save the kingdom from war as well as learning how to love.

Plus the synopsis mentions Sleeping Beauty and Anastasia retelling so that’s an automatic yes for me.

BONUS SIDE NOTE: LBYR / The Novl just sent me this book in the mail in exchange for a review, I’M FREAKING STOKED!!!!! Obviously you guys will be the first to read my review! :D

What books are you psyched to read in 2020!?!

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[holleyberry]

“Well, come on in before Poppy tries to get out. You can put your bags by the door. Are you hungry?”

“Starving.” Don answered as he apprehensively followed her into the apartment.

He followed Kaylynn further into the apartment and looked around. It was neat, tidy, and nothing was out of place. Everything was pristine, clean...and white. He stopped abruptly in the middle of the room.

“Hey, uh, Kaylynn?”

[g-kat423]

I started playing sims 2 again. No matter what, it’ll always be my favorite iteration of the sims. I downloaded a clean template of Pleasantview that fixes some stuff in addition to restarting the neighborhood, including making Bella Goth a living townie. I also downloaded a bunch of mods I was excited to try out. My favorite so far is the one where time passes at home while your sim is on a community lot.

How it works is you play your sim that goes out and then when you call for the cab that brings them home, it goes back to your played family at the time you left and says “sim name is due home in x amount of time” and then you get to play your family and have them tend to their needs or work on skills until the time your community lot sim is supposed to come home. I love that even more than sims 4’s system where time passes automatically because I have an issue where my sims go out and none of my family at home takes care of needs or tends to babies. I’ll often have to have my sim come home because an infant is about to starve and be taken away while the other parent does nothing and then of course when you come home, everyone is exactly where you left them except infants will be off of their playmat or out of their crib and everyone is starving, dirty, and bored despite having everything they need. It’s so annoying. This mod with sims 2 is perfect since you get to sort of time travel and play both parties the way you’d want to. Then when your community lot sims come home, it makes sense for them to be tired because it’s like 10pm and not still the early afternoon like when they left.

That aside, I wanted to play through the scripted events of Pleasantview, but first I moved in some bin families, specifically the Burbs and the Oldies. I got the Oldies settled into a small house then left them to their own devices. When I placed The Burbs, I decided to play them for a bit since even after all these years, I never bothered much with bin families. No idea why especially since the two I placed are related to premades. Anyway, the Burbs are super cute and I’m doing wants based gameplay. Lucy is like the perfect child because she always wants to do her homework and John and Jennifer love each other so much. By the time I did a 4 day play cycle on them, Lucy aged up to a teen and Jennifer was pregnant with her second baby.

Back to the community lot feature though, on their first night in Pleasantview, Daniel called Jennifer and invited her downtown. I figured Jennifer should go, it makes sense that her brother would want to invite her out for a night on the town after getting settled in to see how she was faring in Pleasantview. So Jen goes in the cab and then when they get to the bowling place, DANIEL BROUGHT BOTH MARY SUE AND KAYLYNN TO THE OUTING. Like broski, you do not bring your bang maid and your wife out bowling with your sister 😭

Things were okay at first. Mary Sue and Daniel had some nice autonomous casual romance interactions while Kaylynn fucked off and bowled by herself. Then Jen started bowling with Mary Sue. I tried to have them all bowl together, but Kaylynn and Daniel were in their own separate lanes which I thought would be okay. Then Daniel goes and has some ACR interaction with Kaylynn where Mary Sue obviously catches him immediately. Big drama ensued, both Mary Sue and Daniel went into aspiration failure. I’m assuming Mary Sue’s was due to being cheated on and Daniel’s was from being caught. So I said fuck this and had Jen call a cab home. As she waited, Daniel and Mary Sue kept slapping each other, but then they all get in the cab together!!! I didn’t realize I had to disband the group lol. In the meantime, because of that time passing mod, after I sent Jennifer and crew home, I was able to play as John and Lucy where I basically just had John make dinner for himself and his daughter and they both showered and went to bed. It was so nice because it would make sense for John and Lucy to be asleep after Jennifer got in late from a night out. So of course because I messed up, everyone came home with Jennifer and I immediately told them all to leave. What a disaster.

So after I played with the Burbs for a few more days, I started going through the scripted events in the suggested order starting with Don Lothario, then the Goth House, then the Caliente’s, and after that I called it a night before getting to the Broke family. The Pleasant family is last, but I think because I had Jennifer go out with Daniel and he already got caught cheating, I probably won’t be able to do the scripted event of having Mary Sue get fired or demoted and catch Daniel and Kaylynn in the act, but I guess we’ll see. Either way, I plan to split up Daniel and Mary Sue because she deserves better and I’ll probably move Lilith out to live with her grandparents to get away from her toxic parents and sister before she gets upset and runs away.

I can’t wait to play some more and cause more drama along with having my wholesome moments with the Burbs.

[aondaneedles]

6, 10, 16 💕

6. what is the worst/unluckiest thing to ever happen to your sims in game?

Hm... My game is not as dramatic as those of other people I follow on tumblr. Don't know why, just not very chaotic. Although once, when I played Viper Canyon by @meetmetotheriver, the Ramaswami kid got taken away by the social worker because she overheated. And I couldn't get her inside to cool down in time because she was also so tired that she fell asleep on the sidewalk (maybe they did deserve having their child taken away...). Oh and there's that one time I played Pleasantview where Kaylynn Langerak reading to her youngest that she starved to death. She was pregnant at the time (and living with Daniel Pleasant, who successfully pleaded for her life).

10. who are your biggest simspirations? who influences your playstyle/aesthetic and why?

Uh, good question. I think naming all of them would go beyond the scope of this post (and would encompass half of simblr) but maybe I can name a few of my biggest inspirations? @meetmetotheriver was a big inspiration from the beginning (and I think the reason I settled for two-day rounds?), @didilysims with their BACC of course, I love how the style of @roguebotanist and @meliesims, I adore @sushigal007's sarcastic commentary, @grimbunnies storytelling is amazing... from here on, I could list about every maxis-matchy simmer, but as I said, that'd go beyond the scope (you're definitely on that list, btw).

16. who is your favorite created sim?

Galatea, don't even have to think about it. I just love her for some reason. She doesn't have the most unique face (it's just PT7 tweaked) but something about her attitude makes me enjoy her immensely. Audrey Gauthier is a close second. Love those chipmunk cheeks.

Thank you!

[aondaneedles]

As Kaylynn is busy staying alive and happy, it’s Leo’s job to make sure Tamsin and Eliphas don’t starve.

[aondaneedles]

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didilysims said: Oh no! There was even a pool ladder there. What happened?

I effed up. Apparently her energy was already in the red but I didn’t notice and just wanted her out of my hair (she and Ty had toddler girls and I was kinda focused on them). Put a few “swim here” in her queue... yeah. Not my brightest moment (I once accidentally killed Kaylynn Langerak because I let her learn “parenting” (she starved)... I have bad luck with keeping mums alive...)