#bc i no longer than the sims the cc anything

[sunflowersim]

ah yes, my drafts.

the place where most of my ideas die 

[schokokokatze]

So. I’m in the middle of my final exams, right?

It took me 2 years longer than everyone else to get this far bc my health is shit and nobody could figure out what was wrong for a long time, but that is not a story for the internet, mostly because it would devolve into an angry rant about nobody believing a woman working and studying in healthcare that she could tell the difference between being sick and being stressed. I got my diagnoses last summer. I suck at Latin grammar, but that plural is, in fact, intentional. (Side note: My old Latin teacher would laugh his butt off if he ever found out that my edgy “Ugh, nobody needs Latin, it’s a dead language!”-rebellion during his classes would lead to me getting royally dunked on by centuries-dead anatomists.)

So. The pressure is real, right?

So.

Guess which obsession is back. Now I’ll present this to you in form of an exam question because reasons. AHEM:

If obsessed with ancient Greek sims, and having downloaded several pieces of CC to match, which of the following courses of action make sense to you, given that it is the most stressful time of your life? (Only one answer is correct)

[  ] I’ll maybe start setting up a travel world for my main hood in my sparse free time. NRAAS Traveler is a thing, after all.

[  ] I’ll do nothing. It’s just sims, there’s more important things to worry about, I mean, will I ever really play that?

[  ] ... f*** it, I’ll just do my entire Civilization-Challenge in a Greek setting and have them and the Nordics visit each other once the Proto-Hellenic society gets to roughly the same time period, which took me only 2-3 real life years for the Nordics. Time to create some Stone-Age Greeks.

...

...

Guys, I did the third one. I can’t even write anything, I’m too tired, I just take pictures and play with Stone-Age Greek Simsies. Why am I like this? Anyway, that was my sign that I’m still alive for today, have a good day, love you!

EDIT: The lovely @danjaley informed me that diagnosis is Greek, not Latin. If anyone needed irrevocable proof that I really suck at Latin: I evidently don’t even know the difference. Those centuries-dead anatomists just had a good laugh at my expense, I’m sure :D

[aharris00britney]

ASKS 18

Andromeda’s a big wide open galaxy; okay anyways here are some asks about Dead by Daylight, ayoshi collab, sims 5, my old recolors, and just some sweet people who sent me some nice messages <3

Anonymous said: In your collab with Ayoshi, the outfit that shows off the Ciara Top and Jess shorts, where can I find the garter belt accessory used with the shorts?

Those stockings get asked about SO much lmao. They are BY Ayoshi like.. idk why people ask about them. I desperately want him to remake them with new textures. Maybe one day lmao. All of his CC is in this post including the stocking (Miso Tights).

Anonymous said: Omg whos your dead by daylight main

Kate and Yui <3 I have been using Jane recently too. I play as Spirit for killer but I only do killer for the challenges LMAO

Anonymous said: I am very new to The Sims world, ts4 is my first time playing, and finding out I can have mods on my game change my world, and you are one of my favorite creators! So I just came to say you are really amazing. I think I have all of your hairs, and most of you others cc, it is because of you my townies look so cute nowadays!! Remember your effort is really valued and you are loved!!!

thank you so so so much ;n; I would really advise against having all of my hairs lmao there are like 150+ and a lot of the older ones have issues i want to fix... just need to find the time

Anonymous said: what do u use to get the little sparkles in your edits :o is it a brush?

I honestly don’t remember. Every since the first one I just use the same lookbook PSD that has the sparkle on it. These look similar though so try them.

Anonymous said: wcif the first two chokers used in your pic for your hairs you just put up on your patreon?

All of my patreon cc posts are public the day they go up. the download is for patrons only but the CC posts are public. Those always have the CC i use linked at the bottom. Always. They have since June of last year. Just go to my Patreon and scroll down to the hairs, and you will see them linked. No pledging or following required. 

Anonymous said: Do you have a Ko-Fi? I’m wary about trying to send a one-off via Patreon incase I forget to cancel the next month.

I have a paypal.me link > here < but please don’t feel inclined to donate. Also if you do a one-off with Patreon you can cancel it right after you pledge and you’ll still have access to the Patreon content til the end of the month. 

Anonymous said: not to rush you or anything but bella is one of the prettiest sims you've ever created and i can't wait for you to release her omg

Bella queen wbk (thank you)

Anonymous said: your models are so pretty! would you consider release the tray files of them?

that is the plan, not sure when though. I am building them a house rn which i’ve been having fun doing. They all lived in a basement before

Anonymous said: hi :) just out of curiosity, what is the EA policy u always mention concerning the third hairs in ur posts? thanks!

CC put on Patreon is supposed to be post within 21 days of going on Patreon. One of the community managers said it a while ago. I have the details on my Patreon about me page if you want to read and get links. <3

@ariapixie​ said: Happy New Years!!🎆🎉🎉🎆🎇🎆

thank you!!! i hope youve been having an amazing year so far <3

Anonymous said: Heey love :) I am obssessed with your hairstyles *_* you're the reason I switched from alpha to MM :) just wanted to ask you how come you no longer include recolors for your latest hairstyles? :)

well there were a few reasons:

1). I never used the recolors myself. I like the colors I just never used them 2). I got comments about the colors looking too metalic 3). I had started Patreon around that time and doing recolors for 3 (and sometimes more) hairs every month would have been a lot. Especially bc my DDS was broken so I had to do them a bit more complicated than just saving as DDS. 

I know that some people really liked my recolors, and I am sorry if me stopping caused any issues. There are actions for the hair colors and recoloring hair is really easy to learn and do. 

@sadnessimmer said: 💌This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it is sweet to know someone thinks you’re amazing inside and out! 💌

Anonymous said: how is your content so amazing ily so much 🥺💕

Anonymous said: Thank you so much for all that you do! Your hairs and collabs are amazing

thank you so much! 

Anonymous said: Could you ever see yourself creating hairs (or custom content in general) for the Sims 5 once it comes out?   

If the style is something I enjoy and the creation method is similar yes

@ariapixie​ said: Hi I think tumblr ate my ask so I’m sorry if you’ve already gotten this. I really love your editing it’s so beautiful and I was wondering if you would ever consider doing a tutorial on how you do it

honestly most of the time i do stuff differently. I run the same topaz/sharpening actions every time and then add some shadows and play with curves. Nothing that is super intensive tbh. I wouldn’t even know how to go about doing a tutorial tbh

Anonymous said: What's your name on the gallery? I can't ever seem to find anything from you, or do you not have one?

aharris00britney; make sure you have CC enabled

@wcifblog​ said: Hi, I am in love with your CC. I'm a simmer for a long time but just lately I've been trying to learn how to make my own CC. I've seen some of your speed meshing videos and I was wondering if you'd ever consider making a tutorial for beginners on how to create a new mesh from scratch. (I'm trying to create a curly hair on blender but I'm stupid I guess). Thank you so much for all your work, love, Kel.

hey! thank you so much <3 I actually don’t mesh stuff from scratch though. So I’m afraid I am not able to help in that department :( I’m sorry

@tarrinix​ said: would it be possible for you to upload a mass file for download that has all of your hairs? (I'm asking for only the ones created by you so others don't miss out of credit links and things like that.)

I really wanted to get all my 2019 CC updated before the end of the year and have it up in a .zip. But I never got around do updating stuff from the start of the year. I need to get back into updating stuff I just am so.. unmotivated recently? Idk hopefully I can get all my stuff updated in the next few months and have some mass downloads for 2017, 2018, and 2019 stuff. 

@xayami​ said: any thoughts on 365? 😳

well.... im excited for B#RN. that is what matters, right? LMAO I’m going through a Weyes Blood/FKA Twigs phase rn so I haven’t been listening to much kpop. Especially at the time that 365 released.

Anonymous said: the sim modeling your piper hair can murder me and i will thank her over and over how make good sim

Anonymous said: it's not even just her it's every GODDANG MODEL!!!

LMAO Ivy is my 2nd blond model. She is a queen isn’t she? She is actually the sim from this lookbook and I just randomly added her to my models household and she stayed. 

[nikatyler]

Last replies before I move to my dorm tomorrow! Prague, here I come. 

I’m in this weird state of freaking out and being calm at the same time. It’s hard to explain. It’s very different from how I felt the day before starting high school, I remember crying about how badly I don’t want to go there. As for today, I’m actually looking forward to the classes. Especially the history ones. Oh my god, and I’ll see my new friends again on Thursday! Maybe even tomorrow, but I’m not counting on that. I’m so exciteeeeed.

I don’t think I can give you any updates on my sims saves at the moment. I played a bit of Roses (finally!), a bit of my Realm of Magic save, a little bit of NSB...but mostly I just recoloured stuff. I’ll release it for simblreen I think, even though it’s not Halloween themed at all. For one of the tops I’ve even taken the preview pictures and the only “spooky” thing about them is that they were taken in Forgotten Hollow. But oh well. I mean, at least you’ll be able to use my simblreen treats all year!

elisabettasims replied to your photo “So basically, I’ve come to conclusion that high free will is broken in...”

Something I had to do in TS3 when I attempted something like this was remove almost EVERYTHING that was fun to get them to socialize at ALL. Because they would rather do something fun than talk. Before that, I would manually tank their social so they would have a NEED to talk. Yeah, it's kind of cheaty but, jeeeeesh.

Here’s a tiny spoiler: I moved the whole BC household to Twinbrook, which is most definitely smaller than St Claire (and, being an EA world, it has to be somewhat optimalized to run on all PCs I believe)...and suddenly my high free will is working, there are interactions between the sims...I love that! Wish I had realized that earlier though, it could’ve made the BC more interesting. Oh well, it was a learning experience. I might do another BC in the future. Keyword might. It definitely won’t happen next month.

poisonfireleafs replied to your post “You would think that signing up for classes is no big deal...but the...”

I'm almost done with my studies, but I really know this feeling

plumbobhart replied to your post “You would think that signing up for classes is no big deal...but the...”

im at the end of my uni studies and i still get anxious about signing up for classes D:

plumbobhart replied to your post “Phew, that was fast! The best times were gone in less than five...”

that sounds horrifying. my university is so small that some courses are self study cause it's very possible you're the only one taking it (love that). i'm taking a course in chinese though, and we're over 40 ppl on the course and it's kinda terrifying.

I’m going to the oldest and I think the biggest university in my country, so yeah, so far quite a lot of my experiences have been terrifying because there’s just SO MANY PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. I signed up for an optional class today though, and so far there’s six of us. But for the other ones, there’s about 20-40 students in every group, and then there’s one lecture where there’ll be 250 students. It IS scary.

1o8percent replied to your photoset “Glimmerbrook Home I know, I know. Not the most creative name but hey,...”

I love it!

Thank you! I really like it too. It’s not too complicated because I just wanted to play the game.

elisabettasims replied to your photoset “Tao: “This is getting more fun with every second.” Annemarie: “I...”

I miss the TS2 days when your neighbor would come yell at you for peeking in their windows.

They would WHAAAAT? That’s so funny! Wow, I really should give TS2 another try, every time I hear about these little things I’m so amazed.

tashsim replied to your post “�� yeah!”

hah, no idea

Yup, that was the point haha!

toxoplasmajuice replied to your photo “Maybe my high free will isn’t as broken as I thought it was. I...”

ur doing great sweetie

lbr that would be me if I ever entered a BC

swinging outside while everyone else is socializing

tiny-tany-thaanos replied to your photoset “So what exactly is happening here? Tao is flirting with Hannah and...”

They are just exploring their options in case they get eliminated XD

I’m not surprised...but in front of the bachelorette? The girl they’re fighting for? Ruuude

1o8percent replied to your post Closing ts3 now because I need to take some pictures in ts4...in the...”

From your NSB I like Valentine. As for your Rose legacy I’ve always liked Reagan and Sammy from your current generation.

Aww yeah, they’re my, let’s say, secondary faves too!

Secondary faves sounds so sad tho

tiny-tany-thaanos replied to your photoset “Scarlett: “Why did you do that? Of course we’re not supposed to do it...”

It was expectable... Especially from such sim. I actually feel sorry for her - she isn't that lucky so far... Except for winning a challenge but it didn't save her from a further failure...

I felt so bad when I rolled the dice and had to pick this interaction. But also, I was curious. Maybe it would work out. Well, it didn’t, and then I felt twice as bad.

lilleputtu replied to your photo “The title for the most useless BC host goes to…”

She is doing her best and I appreciate her efforts of absolutely ignoring the whole BC moderating business :D

She’s a whole mood in this challenge and I’m living for it.

toxoplasmajuice replied to your photo “Scarlett: “It’s happening, isn’t it? We’re running for the worst BC of...”

i mean. it could be worse, scarlett. nobody's dead. *yet*

*nervous eye emoji*

(i’m not saying anyone died, but there might have been some uhhh...near death experiences)

melien replied to your post “Hi I just wanted to come in and say I hope you’re having a good day...”

Wow damn this is so organized, it inspires me to clean out my mess at least a little bit

It’s the curse of being taught to think like a librarian for four years and having some slight OCD on the side

melien replied to your post “Closing ts3 now because I need to take some pictures in ts4...in the...”

Gen 6 of the Roses was pretty fun, and I especially liked Lydia (even before I got to make a spouse for her)

Ahh...I really, really want to love gen 6 as much as I love gen 4. If anything, the storylines (especially Regan’s) are so much better than anything og gen 4, and I’m proud of them. But I guess it’s kind of like dating a new person while still missing your ex. You love them but you miss what you had before. Which totally makes sense coming from a person with zero dating experience.

berryconfetti replied to your post “simmeronnie? Doing simblreen this year? It's more likely than you...”

i did it for the first time last year and it was pretty fun. Crazy to keep up with, but fun ��

I hope I’ll be able to do it! I have my cc ready like I said, but will I be here to have my porchlight on? I don’t know. I mean I should. Just because I’m moving to uni and have already made plans with some people doesn’t mean my social life will suddenly make me unavailable for simblr stuff. If anything, that might happen over longer time period, not in a span of one month.

elisabettasims replied to your photo “Happy Bi Visibility Day to all my fellow bisexuals! ������”

*raises a fist* That me.

*high fives you* *gives you awkward finger guns* Yayy!

[deathbyhysteria]

57 facts tag !!

i was tagged by @serensims - thank you for tagging me even though i took so long because it gave me a migraine lol

i tag @gemgeminox @maplestreetsims @justkeeponsimming @all-harlows-eve @daisydezem and anyone else who wants to have a go.

facts are under the cut!

1.   i just turned 21 years old

2.  i am studying law in london

3.   when i finish i may go and do a postgrad somewhere abroad! we’ll see

4.   i have literally no hobbies now

5.   when i was younger i used to do ballet, viola, piano, guitar, yoga, drama, dance, singing and ballroom dancing - not all at the same time (i.e. i was much more well rounded than i am now)

6.   i have one younger sister

7.   i always wanted to have an older sibling, especially an older brother

8.    i used to be a big reader but i stopped. but over the summer i’ve been reading more again, especially crime books by Harlan Coben

9.    some shows i’ve been watching a lot of over the summer: bojack horseman, 3%, the flash

10.   s5 of bojack horseman actually came out on my birthday and i tried to rewatch all 4 seasons before then but i failed. however i just started the new season today!

11.   i was admitted to hospital twice over the summer, once while i was abroad i’m holiday which SUCKED

12.   i love travelling and some of the places i’ve been to are: italy, cyprus, various places in the usa, jamaica, mexico, nigeria, greece, spain, switzerland.

13.   my dream destination is japan... i would love to visit so badly

14.   speaking of japan, my favourite cuisine is actually japanese food, and i also really enjoy chinese and what little i have tried of vietnamese food too

15.   i have only one (two?) piercings and that’s my ear lobes. but i would love to get a second set of piercing on my lobes and i’m hoping to do it in the near future

16.  i’d love to get a tattoo one day but i’m not sure what i’d get and also i don’t like pain

17.   i’m in and out of hospital kinda frequently because of a medical condition i have (without going into specifics, you could say i’m a little like a spoonie)

18.   the only surgery i’ve had was when i was about 6 years old and i had my tonsils removed

19.   i really like makeup and i can get quite creative with it, but i don’t tend to wear anything outside of mascara, my go to lipstick (which is touch by mac) and possibly eyeliner on a daily basis

20.   i’m 5ft 7in (and a half)

21.   i know basic french and a little more than basic spanish, and i’m a native english speaker

22.   this year i’m learning yoruba, and i’m also hoping to pick up some basic german too

23.   i rarely cry at movies but the only ones which did manage to make me cry were: titanic (i’m sure i was too young to be watching it at the time), princess and the pea, boy in the striped pyjamas... oh and avengers: infinity war which made me bawl like my puppy had died

24.  i’m a really big fan of the mcu and i always go to watch the new releases in the cinema with my sister and my dad

25.   i’ve never see the incredible hulk so idk maybe that makes me a fake fan

26.   i had to wear braces for 6-7 years? but afterwards i stopped wearing my retainers so some of the gaps opened up in my teeth again 🤷‍♀️ what can you do

27.   i love music and i always try to give every genre a go... the only one i can’t deal with is country music

28.   my favourite thing is getting to see live music and i’ve gotten to see: one direction (my first concert!), 5 seconds of summer, little mix, twenty one pilots, hey violet and most recently taylor swift

29.   i’m still taking driving lessons over a year after i first started but my driving test is booked for next friday so idk maybe i’ll have an official license soon if i don’t flop

30.   i had 4 really close friends in high school but after that we kinda grew apart and i got pretty lonely and pretty bad (read: ridiculously awful) at making friends

31.   i did struggle with depression and mild anxiety in the past

32.   if you have mental health issues - please try and talk to someone about it. keep trying until you find someone you can trust. it took me a long time to admit i needed help and even longer to find someone i felt comfortable confiding in, but it was the best thing i ever did.

33.   i did really really well in my gcse’s but since then i’ve just gotten dumber i guess because all my grades have been nothing short of average, sometimes even significantly below average

34.   tumblr is basically the only social media i use now. i stopped using facebook, twitter and instagram, and i only keep the snapchat app around so i can take cute selfies, but i don’t ever post

35.   it’s 2am as i type this and i’m running out of things to say

36.   i used to get really painful periods, to the point where i was basically bedridden and the pain was enough to make me physically throw up. luckily they aren’t as bad anymore

37.   i love the summer and i really need that vitamin d in my life

38.   i really love winter clothes and big loose comfy sweaters are literally my favourite thing

39.   i drink a lot of tea, especially green tea with lots of honey

40.   i’m mildly lactose intolerant and yesterday i drank a chocolate milk which had some adverse effects... it wasn’t worth it tbh it tasted kinda nasty

41.   i used to really love bratz and i watched all the movies and even bought some of their albums

42.  i can’t really walk in heels but i’m trying... platform heels are not so bad but then i get people telling me i’m tall already so i don’t need to wear heels (as if i don’t just wear them because i like them)

43. i love lush bath bombs and i always have a few hanging around my bathroom

44.   my dress size is like a 10 but sometimes i have to go up a size because of my big bust, which i hate

45.   i actually really enjoy playing the papa’s pizzeria franchise online and they’re like my go to games when i’m really bored

46.   speaking of games i also really love phoenix wright, i’m playing the trilogy on the app now as i had only played ace attorney before

47.   i love getting manicures and idk why but i always tend to paint my nails dark blue... there’s this shade this one shade and no matter which nail bar you send me to, if they have it i’ll always pick it out without even realising it

48.   i play sims on my macbook air which probably isn’t a great pc for gaming bc it always makes the fan go absolutely crazy, although my game never lags even back when i used alpha cc

49.   i played the og sims but i never played sims 2 or 3 and i also never bought any expansion packs even though i was desperate to

50.   i wear a lot of black, not intentionally but probably because it’s just a safe colour that you can’t go wrong with

51.   i actually really enjoy getting socks as a gift but no one buys me them because i think it’s a universally accepted fact that socks are a rubbish gift

52.   i don’t own any trousers that aren’t jeans and i think that’s probably a little odd but i’m not sure

53.  i don’t have a great track record of keeping my mobile safe and i’ve ruined a lot of good phones by cracking the screen, dropping them in the toilet, dropping them into my cereal, or just plain losing them

54.   speaking of which i currently have an iphone 6s in rose gold and i love it and don’t care all that much to upgrade it. but it only has 16gb of space and i’m desperate for more

55.   i also really enjoy getting new pyjamas. and my favourite pyjamas are the ones that aren’t pyjamas at all i.e. just give me a t-shirt in size xxxl and i’m good to go

56.   i wear glasses because i have a lazy eye and i’m also long sighted (which is an absolute recipe for disaster when you’re trying to apply eyeliner, let me tell you)

57.   i’m genuinely surprised that i managed to list 57 facts about me!

[ibroughtthisonmyselfpixels]

Let’s (5) Statistic

Here’s something else I haven’t done in a while! When I recently accidentally corrupted my old USB pen, my ‘distribution spreadsheet’ got lost in the shuffle. However, I had an earlier copy on the old laptop itself which I took to the new and I managed to update it to where I’m at now, which made me realize that I should really outline where I’m at, now that I have more Sims to show for myself than I did last time I had the chance.

I have thirty-six Sims who have been officially placed and ranked in BCs old and ongoing (the most recent of which are Rowan and Garbhan), eight who are currently making the rounds, thirty whose BCs or involvements are no longer active or otherwise dubious, and seventeen in reserve for future competitions or story-based projects. This makes ninety-one Sims in total. We’re up eighteen from our previous total of seventy-three, starting from Mollie and ending at Emery Elizabeth.

I say starting from Mollie, but Daw was made literal years ago, between Hopkin and Cordelia and thus before her. Since one is technically only ‘new’ in the sense one is only now being acknowledged in the spreadsheets, though, this makes Mollie the oldest Completely New. 

Further, Tania is still not included in the reserves as she too is currently much too dubious. I do still have her .sim file, fortune of fortunes, but she may need a makeover when all is said and done. 

Special Snowflake Status (newcomers go here to see why I call them that) has become a little more difficult to determine in recent weeks, what with all the ‘sorta’s, ‘?’s and ‘unknowns’ in various categories. However, counting only Yesses and Nos in the categories of transness, queerness, and disability, we have thirty-six special snowflakes, twenty-nine that nearly count, fourteen that barely count, and twelve that do not count. As before, though, only the four listed last time are completely devoid of snowflakeness.

Of the ninety-one, forty-four are designated as male in-game, while forty-five are designated as female, and Alex and Eun are still their own thing. That’s nine new DMACs and nine new DFACs. You see why I left it now?

To say that none of the new arrivals are cis, as last time... would honestly be a lie. Though I haven’t released him yet, Max Uccello is the first Sim I’ve made deliberately cis for a very long time. Angel gets away with it by virtue of being cis in life and non-cis in death, much like Madison; Angel’s brother, not so much. 

And honestly, a case could be argued for Rowan as well (though I’ve still pegged him as non-cis until he confirms otherwise) - though he is stated to be exploring, it’s never stated what to, and he still uses he/him/his pronouns with no statement of alternative or demiguy justification, so he could fall on either side of the fence. I’ve also opted to solidify Peter as cis rather than demi after all as I pondered in the last statistics, since he was made before the boycott, and trans vloggers are rare to non-existent. (There are still two older unreleaseds who I’m uncertain about, though, Butch and another one; they can keep the side up.) 

Twenty-nine cis Sims, therefore, out of ninety-one accounts for 31.9% of my contestants... or, put another way, 68.1% of my Sims are un-cis. A very good standard.

Using the same ratio of types of pronoun sets as last time, and excluding Butch and Angel, twenty-one of my non-cis Sims use entirely standard sets (she and he), nineteen combine standard with non-standard sets (including omnipronoun Sims); and twenty use entirely non-standard sets (including none at all - can’t remember if I counted Jake as combined or non-standard last time). Moving ‘they’ to be part of the standard sets, those numbers become twenty-eight, eighteen and fourteen respectively. My non-cis Sims encompass twenty-five unique pronoun sets, including those standards.

Sixty-seven Sims are confirmed to be on the LGBTQ+ spectrum through either sexuality or gender identity (Max is bisexual); fourteen more are assumed to be through any category; Butch and Xyq are unknown. The fourteen includes Rowan again, who is perpetually uncertain in both categories except for liking Nathaniel. That’s a range of sixty-seven to eighty-three of my ninety-one contestants - 73.6% to 91.2%. 

Myron remains the only Sim I have ever had to have been killed specifically for being on the spectrum. 

Sixty-one of the eighty-nine, or 67%, are disabled. Thirty of those forty-five have at least one mental disability; sixteen have a physical one; four have both; eleven are hidden.

The only News not to have a disability at this time are Mollie (lacking the schizophrenia of her sisters), Avdotya, and one other. However, the latter two are in similar circumstances to Skylar in that they are only placed there on a temporary basis, until more of their character can come through to me. 

Racheal, The Cheat, Moira, Anissa Alea, Gideon and Max join the Mental category; Rowan and Garbhan the Physical category on account of their HIV status. Emery Elizabeth is also in Physical due to her disease-induced lower paralysis, as is Angel, on account of it was a different disease that killed her. Admittedly, I’m not sure which diseases affected which of the latter two... can one still get polio in this day and age? 

The Distortionist (who I still count as a contestant despite earlier and later plans for mih) joins the Both category for reasons that will become clear - as does Peter of all people, who revealed something to me that, if you haven’t worked it out already from history repeating itself, I can’t tell you just yet.

Yori, Doireann, Osamu and Daw join the Hidden category. Being A Rhesus-Negative isn’t technically a disability for Yori per se, though it does make things damned inconvenient, and their dependency on Megumi is quite hard to define as anything in particular at this stage. Doireann has memory issues and difficulty with language, but this is in part tied to occult status, or at least to being feral. Osamu, meanwhile, is plagued by constant intrusive thoughts about his own death, but no real diagnosis can be made at this point as to what is the cause; Daw’s circumstances for one’s dissociation are similarly vague, though at least this can be narrowed down to either Depersonalization Disorder or Other Specified Dissociative Disorder.

I have twenty CAS-intended Supernaturals out of eighty-nine. No additional witches, but we have gained a Moonpup, a vampire, a pure mermaid, a fairy, and my very first pre-project/Folkvangr ghost. Guess which is which. Mollie and Auribus are the only two to have recently become Death-induced Ghosts. Gideon may become a legitimate occult further down the road, though? 

Thirty-seven Vanilla Sims, eight van/ban cusps (due to either ambiguously vibrant hair color or it simply being dyed), seven Banilla, two ban/berry cusps (again, guess who and how), and thirty-seven Berry. At least this one, I’m exactly split down the middle! 

Believe it or not, some of my news are still only going for two pieces of CC instead of three, at a six-eleven split in favor of three. It works in the favor of the Eklund girls for once that they have two bits each, and of Daw that he has only one, or else three would have completely dominated this sector. As it is, twenty-nine Sims total have two bits, twenty-two one-bit, and twenty-four three-bit. Castor’s still the only one with 1.5 bits, and Vanilla still the only one with four. 

Admittedly, though, if we’re going to be technical, Osamu has 3.5? Sort of? His hair is an in-game hair in a package form that makes it acceptable for use on DMAC rigs, so sort of CC but not really. He’s still counted in three for categorization purposes. 

Same with Emery Elizabeth; ze uses a wheelchair, but all the wheelchairs I’ve seen are downloadable objects that can be integrated separately as a prop as opposed to attached to the .sim file. 

Lyra is also considered to have three, as opposed to the like five or six she has in SoS; but that’s solely because in all regards but name and gender, she is being categorized as the pre-transition state that Placed Competitors keeps her as. With that said, though: do you think I should take “Rigel”’s download link down? With her going in for surgery now, the last unwanted aspects of “him” ought to be wiped away completely; I’ve only been keeping it around to ensure every Sim that’s public has a download link, but is that actually helping anybody? Lissa has suggested that I just update the DL link with her new design like I did with Sera, but is that a viable solution, do you think, or will it just make things worse, given she’s a bachelorette?

Unbelievably, I’m evens on As, Cs and Ss with regards to first names right now - eleven each! I’ve finally added not one, but two Gs to my roster, Garbhan and Gideon.

Note: at time of configuration, The Distortionist, the exception, and Emery Elizabeth do not have traits. I will probably wait until I know for sure I need them before assigning any to these three, so I don’t end up pigeon-holing myself. So going forward, know that I’m technically three Sims short from a complete picture.

With that said, as things currently stand, I’ve used: six traits once; seven twice; seventeen three times; twenty-three four times; twenty five times; eleven six times; five seven times; seven eight times; and two traits NINE times.

My most frequently used traits are Hot-Headed - Castor, Cashlin, Sprite, Racheal, The Cheat, Dalibor, Betty, Al, and Butch, with Racheal and The Cheat being the ones to take it to nine - and Hopeless Romantic - Madison, Daisy, Doireann, Moira, Pumpkin, SLIP, Elliot, Joe, and Osamu, with Doireann, Moira and Osamu being the boosters here. 

Traits used eight times are Coward, Family-Oriented, Flirty, Friendly, Loner, Proper, and Snob. Of these seven, only Snob hasn’t been used among the newcomers; the rest have been boosted at least once, with Family-Oriented being boosted by three (Yori, Daw, and Angel). 

Maybe that’s a trait I can give The Distortionist or Emery Elizabeth: Snob. Gotta do it for completionist’s sake, you know?

Cat Person and Grumpy have also been taken up by three each - Racheal, Max, and Angel for the former; Yori, Gideon, and Angel for the latter.

Percy, Casey-Mae, Octavio, SLIP, Lyra and Butch are the only ones to still have unique traits. Elanor has lost Commitment Issues to Max; Cree, Hydrophobic to Daw; and Riba and Elliot have both lost Equestrian and Heavy Sleeper to Avdotya.

The Sim with the ‘most unique’ / ‘rarest’ trait distribution is still Cree; their traits have been used a total of sixteen times across themselves and all the others, and the majority of xer traits still haven’t been used more than three times. (Hell, with Al being so obscure, Party Animal might as well be a unique trait... maybe I can give someone that too.) Conversely, the Sim with the traits who have had the most use among my set is Yori. Even their least used traits, Bookworm and Brooding, have both seen six uses total including them. 

All in all, including every single repeat, my contestants share a grand total of 438 traits between them. Once the other three get traits, this will jump up to 453.

The fifth place squad has gained three members since my initially coining the term: Sera, Octavio, and Rowan. All three join the ‘Nearly’ Special Snowflake sector - Sera due to being cis, Rowan due to maybe being cis, and Octavio due to only sorta being disabled. 

There’s an equal number of DMACs and DFACs in the group, though still only two are “properly” cis, Lila and Sera. Occults are a four-to-six split, with two more murder ghosts; coloration is a little more even with four berries, three vanillas, two banillas, and a van-ban cusp in Rowan. 

Cashlin is once again the only one of the ten to not be disabled in any sense. 

Four of the ten have one piece of CC; four two, one three, and one 1.5. All three of the newcomers bring custom hair to the table. It should also be noted that besides Madison, Cree now shares thon hair-skin-eyes configuration with The Distortionist.

Daredevil has seen the most uses among the squad, for Twink, Cree, and Rowan. Those with two uses are Computer Whiz (Midnight and Sera), Diva (Castor and Myron), Hot-Headed (Castor and Cashlin), Loves the Heat (Stellan and Rowan), Natural Cook (Lilavati and Myron), Nurturing (Stellan and Sera), and Perfectionsist (Myron and Octavio). Castor and Myron have the most traits repeated among the group [3]; Cashlin, Cree, Lilavati, Midnight, and Octavio, the least [1].

I haven’t had any breakfast yet. I’d better go do that, then get some Interviews Done Finally.