#i never really had that phase when I was a kid of using the sims to play out romances just for romance's sake

[rockethorse]

Thanks to a cute post on one of the Sims 2 subreddits (I don't remember which is the one which went crazy and I'm too afraid to ask), I've become obsessed with the Sorority household from LFT, and remade the girls from it in my test hood to play around with, because I love the WLW cliche potential of two women who (thought they...?) were in love with the same guy getting with each other instead of fighting over him.

They have dogshit chemistry since one is Romance and the other is Family but they made friends pretty quickly...

and this is how I found out that throwing food is accidentally(?) coded as a romantic behaviour lmao so now Sarah Love has caught feelings. Because of course she has

Also I made all of them bi for convenience's sake and my GOD. ALL of them want a slice of Monica. They cannot keep their hands OFF her. SHE'S NOT EVEN FAMILY OR ROMANCE SHE'S KNOWLEDGE. of course the house full of wlw is desperate to get to the chubby booksmart redhead with the "against animal testing" tote bag could you girls be a LITTLE less predictable

[bucketspammer4life]

super macho man hc blast bc i dont post about him much

im tweaking.im gabagool.grgghhgggggshsbznzkzlmzöxö

Likes stupid shirts & designs,has DIY’d some shirts for himself including one that says “the superest machoest manest everest!!” he wears to interviews.

Was OBSESED with sharks as a kid,specifically great white sharks,still likes them a lot but will never be able to top 5 year old macho’s shark obsession.

Cooks up some concerning stuff in his notes app when he’s drunk,is he writing plans to assasinate a goverment official or is he trying to come up with a stupid pun? None of us will know except for drunk SMM and his notes app.

A good chunk of his fans are hatewatchers, still hasnt caught onto it.

Had his twitter account hacked into once,the only thing the hacker did was tweet “SUPER MACHO MAN LIKES SUPER MACHO MEN! #GAY” and log out, its a running gag between his fans.

Used to be in a frathouse.

Anytime he showers it looks like someone’s threw crumbled up roof tiles around the place thanks to his fuckass tan coming off.

Smells like axe deodorant and burnt plastic.

Used to have a goth phase,his fans only have a few pictures of that era but they abuse it s lot. (He still listens to the music sometimes but shhh)

Once had a mental breakdown over losing a pair of sunglasses only to find out it was in his bag.

Speaks some brazilian portuguese, he started learning the language purely because he thought it sounded cool.

Has his own shitty podcast where he talks about literally anything,he could be talking about something really traumatic in one episode then talking about snorting bath salts the other episode.

Would eat a plastic bottle if you double-dog-dared him to.

Dances like a sim, you could take this dumbass to a rave and he’d somehow end up doing the macarena.

Unironic weezer fan.

[theageofsims]

Story process asks, no. 10 & no. 12! 😊

Hi, thanks for asking me these questions :)

[TEN] Clearly it would be Makoto so I can just let my cats sleep around with other cats and produce kittens while I don't keep a steady job… and sleep with Judith Ward's mean ass to the point I get her pregnant even though I'm supposed to be a gay man -- LMAO, sorry. I had to once again throw some MAJOR SHADE to Makoto

Honestly? I'd probably want to be Gloria at this point in time because now that I'm a type 2 diabetic, I can't eat fucking cake when I want to eat cake. If I was Gloria I'd have a fridge full of cookies and cakes and pies… not because that's what I ate before I became a diabetic or what made me one, but because now that I am one I can't just eat that stuff whenever my hormones or anger wants me to eat it. THIS WAS A TRIGGERING QUESTION apparently, LMAO!!!! I'm kidding… but also, she's in a serious relationship William fucking Jones now. That's like being involved with Batman… well… maybe not Batman, but Bruce Wayne at least! I should haver probably said Indiana Jones instead, but I'm trying to not mention another Harrison Ford character (that I adore) so… yeah. LMAO. But it would have worked out because Indy is a scientist anyway.

[TWELVE] Being able to have visuals added to stories I would have written elsewhere anyway. I think I've mentioned it at least a couple of times that I've been writing stories my whole life practically. I was about 9 years old when I used those wild colored gel pens my parents bought me for school and all the notebooks to write fan fictions on my favorite musicial artists, made up characters, tv characters, and movie characters. I continued as I got older. Aside from riding bikes outside with my friends, going to the movies and the mall, or just hanging out with them at thier houses or them at mine, in my spare time I would write stories.

One thing I always wanted to do was be able to draw and I can't. I'm really creative in a lot of ways, but I can't seem to learn how to draw no matter what I do.

Anyway, so I spent years writing, but all of the visuals were in my head. I didn't think that I'd ever use the Sims to help me get some of my stories across (I still actively write fan fiction, but I post it on Archive of Our Own and there's no images to go with them) becaus I've been playing the Sims since Sims 1. My first attempt at a sims story and simblr started somewhere in 2014/2015 with the Sims 3, but it never amounted to anything.

I didn't really think I'd end up writing a story that I've stuck with for so long, but there's many factors why that's come to be. It may happen for my other stories as well, I just don't know yet.

I guess a truth, though a unique one, is that I love movie characters a lot and I have my favorite actors/actresses who play a wide range of characters. Clearly Harrison Ford is my most favorite actor for many years now and I've spent a lot of those years writing fan fictions with his characters as well as other characters from other things I love, but also made up characters of my own.

Every time I watch a Harrison movie I always wonder what their lives are like outside of the movie -- or what happens to them at the end of the movie? So that's where fan fiction comes in not just for them, but for all the characters I love. It's like fleshing out their characters even more and giving them a new life or new experiences with different sorts people.

It's just something that comes natural to me as it did when I was writing fan fiction for the tv show NCIS or before that, with The X-Files. All of my fan fiction from age 13 to age 20 had to do with Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Skinner, Krycek, and everyone else from The X-Files because that was my total jam during that phase of my life (but it will always be one of my most favorite TV Shows) anyway.

So I guess my "simblr story writing process" isn't really a simblr story writing process, but just more of a story writing process but with pictures. I get to see my favorite characters visually unlike I've never been able to see them before and I love that… if that makes sense?

[loorain]

Sims 4 Fontenot Legacy - The Twins' Final Toddler Days

The Legacy House is in full preparation for a double birthday party! With the twins aging up in two days, the house is buzzing with prep and other things.

Sabrina has been hard at work as usual maintaining the restaurant, and things have been going quite well. The days following the wedding have been hectic so they haven't spoken to Beau or Marquise lately, but with Juno's birthday coming up next week that'll surely change.

Sigrid has been soaking up these final toddler days with the twins, taking extra time to read them bedtime stories, play with them, and otherwise love them up. It's a bittersweet moment, knowing that her little girls will soon not be so little anymore, but she's also happy to witness them grow more into themselves and looks forward to the freedoms having older kids will allow her.

Sigrid and Robin have stuck to their promise to be workout buddies again, which is really boosting Sigrid's mood and increasing her self-confidence. She knows her body will continue to change with time and age, but she feels good knowing she's doing what she can to keep herself healthy both physically and mentally.

Sigrid's also managed to squeeze in some leisure time while the twins are at preschool, giving her mood an extra boost. Hey, work hard, play harder!

Scarlett has been taking a little extra time to do things with Sabrina as well. Sabrina and Scarlett's main form of bonding, when Sabrina was younger, was athletic activities like soccer. While they still like to squeeze in the occasional run, their choice in bonding has changed more to food, experimenting with flavors and textures to play around with new dishes for the restaurant. While Sabrina is the one with a culinary degree, their mother is also talented in the kitchen, so this has been especially fun.

Scarlett's new career has also been a fun new challenge for her, and she's gotten back to her passion for music when she has time. In the process, Scarlett's time dealing with her midlife crisis has come to an end. Her life has not been an easy one, losing her mother young, her father in her teen years, supporting her little sister Kira through her journey of teenage motherhood, and then eventually supporting the family she left behind with her sudden death. Still, she did what she could with her life, achieving many great things. She's already had two successful careers, raised a child of her own, mastered many skills, and so much more. She has become a jack-of-all-trades and successful sim despite all her hardships and obstacles, from her ADHD struggles to single-parenthood.

Before anyone notices, it's the night before the twins' birthday party, and hence their last night as toddlers. It's an emotional evening for everyone, but especially their parents.

Sigrid: Ah... it's finally here, huh? The twins' birthday.

Robin: I know. Hard to believe. Bittersweet, yeah?

Sigrid: Yeah. Funny how you can't wait for each phase to happen, yet mourn the end of the current one so deeply.

Robin: What's been your favorite phase so far?

Sigrid: I loved it when they were just little babies. Learning new skills, the beginnings of their personalities starting to form... and man, they were the cutest little things in the world.

Robin: They were. Though I have to say, I think I liked the toddler stage just a little bit more.

Sigrid: Really?

Robin: I think it's because now, they're really forming their true personalities. You can see the good and bad more clearly, and it's given me a lot to think about when understanding who they are as sims.

Sigrid: I suppose you're right...

Robin: But you still miss them as babies.

Sigrid chuckles.

Sigrid: Yeah. I do.

Robin: I understand. It's time we'll never get back.

Sigrid: Feels like time is just always on fast-forward. I want things to slow down. Better yet, can it just rewind?

Robin: Life's not that kind to us. We just have to keep moving on wherever it takes us.

Sigrid: Yeah, I know... And I've been thinking... I don't feel like our family is quite complete yet. I know we've talked about it in the past, but...

Robin: You want to revisit it?

Sigrid: I think it'd be good for the girls. Having another companion when they drive each other crazy or when they feel we don't understand them. Someone who can always be there.

Robin: Maybe you're right. It could teach them a lot of things. And it be another little one to love on.

Sigrid: You really think we should?

Robin: I do. So let's make it happen.

Sigrid grins.

Sigrid: Have I ever told you you're the best husband ever?

Robin chuckles, pressing a kiss to her cheek.

Robin: Not since the title change. I could get used to it, though.

Sigrid: Well you better, because I'm never going to shut up about it from this day forward.

Robin smiles.

Robin: I love you, Sig.

Sigrid: I love you, too.

[igglemouse]

Get to Know Me - Sims Edition

I was tagged by @autonomousllama and @cactusblossom, thank you both for tagging me and I guess I am getting at this late but here it is!

What’s your favourite Sims death?

The old age death because it means a sim has lived like and are gently passing on! I also love that they give a little salute like “It was fun while it lasted but PEACE!” if I have a chance to give a salute and famous last words before I die I know I would!

Alpha CC or Maxis Match?

Maxis Match not because it looks better but because it blends in with the game.

Do you cheat your sims weight?

Never! 

Do you use move objects?

I imagine it is hard not to when you are a competitive sims player lol.

Favourite Mod?

Hmmm, this is hard. I will say Wicked Whims though. I know, I know, you all think i’m super horny over here but really sex is a big part of life it is, one can argue, one of the most important aspects of life itself as one must have sex to create life (kind of at least) so WW really expands on that. Just get rid of the sex animations it adds, ignore that completely, it still adds an indepth menstrual system, attraction system, fertility system, etc! 

WW actually determines how many kids my sims will have for example since some are naturally more fertile than others so yeah!

2nd place is MC Command which is great for just having more control. I mostly use that to make over townies when I see them lol.

First Expansion/Game Pack/Stuff Pack?

The first one they released? It was either Luxury party or the camping one right? Whichever was the first one lol.

Do you pronounce live mode like aLIVE or LIVing?

DO IT LIVE! **** IT! WE’LL DO IT LIVE!

Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made?

Oooh, I actually don’t make many sims since I play legacy and just rely on genetics but I will say Araceli! I made her when I relaunched a legacy and I spent so much time on her! I loved her! I thought of bringing her back in some form so we might not have seen the last of her actually!

Have you made a simself?

I have for the fun of it but i’ve never played it. I hardly make myself in games. I just always think of a character I guess.

Which is your favorite EA hair color?

Dark brown.

Favorite EA hair?

If you go back I had a vampire in my story named Edda, she wears it. It’s the real short one but ummm, the short one. Most people know by now I do love short hair lol

(EDIT: Not sure why I referenced Edda...Laverne wears this hairstyle lol. There, that is a more recent sim) 

Favorite life stage?

Young Adult! EA just put all the fun in that phase though. 

Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay?

I am not that good at building...

Are you a CC creator?

I’ve made poses years ago!

Do you have any Simblr friends or a Sim Squad?

I have simblr friends but part of no squad. I feel like a mostly outsider or lone wolf in the simblr community but im nice to everyone!

Do you have any sims merch?

I WISH!

How has your “Sims style” changed throughout your years of playing?

I don’t think it has honestly lol.

What’s your origin id?

Igglemouse!

Who’s your favorite CC creator?

Hmmm, I don’t know! 

How long have you had simblr?

Since 2014 since the game launched in 2014 and I literally had a post the first day it launched.

You can even see this post here!

https://igglemouse.tumblr.com/post/96447498872/this-is-lourdes-fuentes-my-very-first-sim-in-sims

I’ve been a Sims 4 OG as the kids would like to say and my simblr has really flunctuated in all that time. I’ve had posts getting 100s of likes to now just around 10 lol, I’ve come full circle!

It’s kind of sad because @floofymilk-blog was a real good online friend I had known for years and she was someone you saw constantly liking my posts and commenting at first and she has completely disappeared from like...everything. So yeah T_T, from discord, from steam, from switch, and I always wonder what happened to her and seeing that post and seeing her in the notes there just makes me sad but...she was the biggest AC fan I’ve ever known T_T and a big Sims fan too!

She was Japanese and disappeared before the release of Snowy Escape and I wonder if she would have loved that pack :/

How do you edit your pictures?

I used to do A LOT more but honestly, I just gave up lol. Now I just use a reshade, add a border, and move on. Lazy, I guess? But I’m posting legacy content. What is called a Plotacy. If I hung up on editing every single picture it would slow me down a ton. You can see the story content I tried it was a lot more edited!

What expansion/ gamepack is your favorite?

Hmmmmmm seasons, yeah, Seasons!

I will tag @joannebernice - @mysimsloveaffair - @wolfavens - @wannabecatwriter - @lollipopsimblr - @thereesespiece

If you have done it already or dont want to no worries!

[hauntedtrait]

♡ jasper: 27 29 & 47

♡ queenie: 25 31 44 & 50

ily jessieeee

answering these on mobile forgive the formatting

QUEENIE

25. what is one thing your sims wants to do before they die?

tour the world with her band! see every corner there is to see and meet every kind of person there is to meet. also the applause from adoring fans all over the world ❤️

31. does your sim have a lucky charm?

she had a phase where she got really into tarot and crystals n stuff like that and while that didn’t last long she still keeps a piece of quartz around because it makes her feel good, in a way you could say that’s her lucky charm

44. what is a flaw your sim has?

just one? lmao. she can be really mean sometimes and her emotions turn quick so you kinda never know how she might react to something. she’s very stubborn too so she rarely if ever admits to doing something wrong. she can also be kind of manipulative. she lives in this world in her mind that revolves around her and her alone unfortunately.

50. what is the last text your sim sent (and who did they text)?

no one bc its 1989ish lol

JASPER

27. s your sim a netflix viewer? if so what are their top 3 shows.

i imagine he would be! top 3 would be… midnight mass, the sandman and the witcher ( i wanted to have more vampire media in there but most of the vampire stuff on netflix isnt good imo lol )

29. does your sim enjoy video games, if so what is their favourite one and do they play on pc or console?

he used to! it’s not something he’s done much since he moved out of his parents’ house. he doesn’t really want to be seen as the nerdy kid anymore lol. but when he did play i think he played a lot of horror games, i’d say resident evil 4 was his favorite, and he probably played more on console, which he hasn’t upgraded since the ps3 lol. as a computer programmer nowadays he does have a good pc so if he ever got back into gaming it would be on pc. that answer was longer than it had any business being lmao.

47. If they have one, what is your sim’s greatest regret?

he’s not really the kind of person to regret things! if he loses the familiar that will be something he regrets lmao idk i gotta think more about this one!

[simphic]

Tag game.. WELL YES. Thank you for tagging me! @sheplayswithlifee🫶🏾

1. What’s your favorite sims death? Dying from laughter or being angry, it's so funny djfndj

2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? I used to be just a straight alpha girlie, but I've been playing with mm last and this year. So both!

3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? Uhhh N-O. I love it after the pregnancy phase as well. If my sim likes going to the gym, I'll include that into their daily routine.

4. Do you use move objects Well YES.

5. Favorite mod? Hmm I love overrides. I think more colums and traits would be a fav mod. Also the Relationship & Pregnancy mod!

6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? I think it was Get Famous, City living, or Seasons. All I know is I started off with those first.

7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? I'm confuseddd but I say LIVE as in going LIVE

8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? Between Shanti & Yassah.

9. Have you made a simself? I never have sjdhfh I should try, but idk I feel like it wouldn't look like me idk?

10. What sim traits did you give yourself? I would give myself hmm.. Funny, Cat lover, Out-going, and creative!

11. What is your favorite EA hair color? Honestly the light and dark brown, the orange, and the like dirty blonde!

12. Favorite EA hair? The box braids have been eating lately so..yeah.

13. Favorite life stage? Honestly like Teen to YA but I love when they are kids as well, it's a slay!

14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? Not much of a builder but I can decorate some rooms now! But I love gameplay so yeah.

15. Are you a CC creator? Nah not at all. I know how to do some recoloring but I would love to get into creating my own cc at some point.

16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? Well, SORTA KINDA.

17. What’s your favorite game? Well aside from TS4. I love to play videogames so Fortnite, Until Dawn, TallTales TWD series.. love it so much!! The Last of Us 1&2, Hitman, GTA 5, Saints Row (the one with aliens) just a bunch of stuff chile!

18. Do you have any Sims merch? Did not know that was an actual thing... nah.

19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? Nah. I tried to make a tutorial for blender and stopped.. idk why hm. But no I do not.

20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? I stopped downloading every damn thing. But, I stopped using realistic skins as much, laid off on the alpha furniture, and incorporated more maxis match cc into my gameplay.

21. What’s your Origin ID? Sapphicyxnce WHY YES.

22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? I really enjoy Whoopsims content and cocogames!

23. How long have you had a simblr? For like a year now I believe? Or like 10-11 months idk..

24. How do you edit your pictures? Gshade and Photoshop!

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? I love growing together for the infants like yesss. I love parenthood, cats and dogs, and city living!

26. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? I don't even know chile.. I feel like they should re-up parenthood. But anyway something that's fun and will have a nice world is all I'm hoping for!

Tagging anyone that wants to do it!!!

[polkiuu]

2023 Dive Into Aquaplus

After having been into Utawarerumono for well over a decade, and having one foot into Tears to Tiara for the longest of time as well, I decided to finally take the plunge this year to try a variety of Aquaplus' very colorful catalogue.

I got into Utawarerumono a long, long time ago, back when the 2006 anime adaption of it was still airing. At the time, my like of it was mostly superficial. I was still a kid, and I just liked the aesthetics of it. I only started watching it because the name was long and nonsense to me who didn't know a lick of JP at the time. But it stuck with me as it was one of the first few anime I had started watching as it was airing in Japan and subbed. It also introduced me to Suara, who my love for has been anything but superficial.

If it weren't for the 2015 anime adaption of Utawarerumono Itsuwari no Kamen, it may have just stayed as a memory of aesthetics. A few episodes into its airing, I had a strong urge to buy the game, and so I asked for it for Christmas. I was never the same since.

While waiting for the release of Utawarerumono Futari no Hakuoro later in 2016, I got my hands on Tears to Tiara 2 to try and fill the void. I had previously seen the Tears to Tiara anime back in 2009 while it was airing, as I had immediately recognized the art as being similar to Utawarerumono. Looking it up I learned it was from the same company, and Amazuyu had also worked on some of the designs for it as well.

Unfortunately, the game was incredibly difficult for someone like me who is terrible at strategy games, and the writing didn't manage to hook me early on, so I ended up putting the game on hold indefinitely about 10 hours in. At some point in 2017 I picked up the remake of the first game, Tears to Tiara Kakan no Daichi, and really loved it. It still wouldn't be until this year though that I fully threw myself into the Tears to Tiara franchise.

Fast forward to 2023, through various Utaware phases and burnouts, and the release of Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten along with the 3rd anniversary event in the Utawarerumono Lost Frag mobile game re-igniting my mood for the series at the tail end of 2022, I finally decide that this year is the time to make due on my desire to play more Aquaplus titles.

Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overlord

Seven years after my first attempt, I finally went back to this in January and finally completed it. My issues from my first attempt never really went away, however the writing managed to hook me around chapter 5, and I had a lot more enjoyment with the OST and various small things now that I had actually experienced the first game, and not just the anime. The uses of Until and Tears to Tiara 凱歌 will live in my head rent free until the end of time.

Tarte became not only my favorite TtT character, but maybe even my #1 Aquaplus favorite. ああっ女神さまっ…

This game got me to start paying attention to Honjou Tatami.

The nostalgia for the first TtT game wrecked me hard and I ended up replaying it right after.

Tears to Tiara: Kakan no Daichi

我が友よ

My Tears to Tiara mood was unstoppable, and so I finally bought its fandisc.

Tears to Tiara Gaiden - Avalon no Nazo

Nothing could have prepared me for the Lidia content in this game or the dragon stage straight from the ninth level of hell.

I still haven't recovered from the ending and the double whammy of realizing what the start of the OP is. The bastards really did it twice.

After this I went on a spree and bought all the LEs and the novels and manga... it is criminal how little supplementary material the games have, and how 2 has none. I have nothing to go on now but copium and offering my life to Marui Takeshi.

Tears to Tiara Gaiden 2 and Tears to Tiara 3 when.

Next, I played my first dating sim in 8~9 years, and a more obscure one at that.

Routes

You don't know what you're getting into until you've already beaten this game.

One of the more unique things I've experienced, to the point I don't know how to talk about it without spoiling it, and it is definitely a game best played blind. Quite possibly the most unique script-writing I've seen. The way the two scenario writers duties were split is one of the best uses of multiple writers that I've seen in a game.

The voice acting in this game is a masterpiece.

One thing I really love about both Routes and Tears to Tiara is the kind outlook on life they have.

I started this just before the Dungeon Travelers 2 series re-release and still have not touched those.

Next, I somehow ended up on one of their most famous.

White Album 2 ~Introductory Chapter~

Short, but emotionally loaded. After All ~Tsudzuru Omoi~ changed me as a person.

I started this one just a few days before the first White Album game's re-release because of course I did.

White Album 2 ~Closing Chapter~

One very charged, and very long work. I had to sit on it for quite a while after. I also binged all its supplemental material.

I haven't had a love/hate relationship with something this strong since, well, Inuyasha. You have issues, Maruto.

Kazusa Normal was a great route.

WHITE ALBUMの季節はまだまだこれからだよ。

White Album ~Tsuzurareru Fuyu no Omoide~

A little underwhelming, honestly. The way the gameplay and routes are structured makes the writing very fragmented. Had some nice moments, but overall I enjoyed the writing of Sayoko's route most, as it feels most coherent, likely due to it being added into the 2010 remake.

Despite the fragmented writing, I did like many of the heroines quite a bit.

White Album has been stuck in my head for months, and now the season for it is upon us...

And what would be most fitting to follow it up with another winter-related game, if not...

Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu

It might be time to lay off the depresso games for a bit, as I had a hard time getting into this one. In a weird way it reminded me a lot of how screwed up my own mentality was when I was younger, and it's not something I cared to remember. I suppose it gets points for realistically depicting the unstable nature of the adolescent mind.

It had some interesting underlying themes, and I don't dislike the message of it, but I was unable to feel any investment in the heroines. I may have liked it more if the characters were a little more fleshed out.

I've only just beaten it, so I need to sit on my thoughts for it a little longer.

And then a special mention to none other than:

Utawarerumono Lost Frag

I finally picked this back up in November 2022, during it's 3rd anniversary event when they added Raikou. It's not every day you get an entire event dedicated to your only OTP in the series.

I got especially into it after my TtT marathon, and I've read most events, various character stories and a little of the main story. I always wanted to give it another chance, and I'm glad to have finally found something to pull me back into it. I really enjoy what it offers, from the expansions of various Utaware lore, to doing things only a social game really can. The event writing is out of this world.

It gave me 2 of the top 3 things I wanted to see for 7 years from the series now and I can only pray it delivers on the last someday.

Final thoughts

I've had a lot of Aquaplus vocal tracks in my library for many years, and its fun to go through their backlog and realize what songs are from what, and which ones I had that I didn't even realize were from Aquaplus games. And since I've followed Suara since 2006, making the connection between her discography and where her non-utaware songs are from has been a blast so far.

I look forward to diving further in in 2024. I want to give their other famous series like Dungeon Travelers and ToHeart a shot. Comic Party is still waiting on my shelf, as well.

Going through different time periods with their artists is a really fun adventure from an artist's perspective. It's fun to see where they've improved, what habits they've kept, the areas where they adjust things to be more modern, and how their painting evolves. For a long time I only knew Amazuyu by name, but now it's fun to glance at an artwork and be like "Oh, so and so drew this around xxxx year."

I want to see another game with Tatami as the main artist...

I also recently realized the only things I've finished since March have been various Aquaplus fanarts (I have drawn other things, just not finished...) Something unlocked in my brain and I'm enjoying drawing again to an extent, and for that I'm glad.

[ecofinisher]

All the Sims that appear in "Ecofinisher's Sims 4 Base Game file" - Part 6/6

I forgot, what was the reason I wanted to do this bio, but here it is.

This post focuses on the Sims, that live in Newcrest. Both self-made and gallery-taken Sims.

WOLFF (Thornton, Morgana and Jake Wolff)

Summary: Morgana and Thortnon had agreed on having at least one child, in order for Morgana to be able to get to know how it is like to be in parenthood. During the son's growth, Thornton slowly sympathized with him and allowed him to be more often around him. Things get weirder, when his former affair Jamie steps into his life again and he has the choice to stay faithful to his newfound family or go a different path.

OG Creator(s): presumed to be 6cac182574f19e03

DRAMA LAMA (Serena McCallister, Lilibeth Darrow and Kaylynn Langerak)

Summary: Three different childhoods met each other in this WG. All had their different family issues and moved together to escape the drama. They grew up to become BFF's and prayed to be inseparable. One little thing do the girls not know about…..their crush on Don Lothario!

OG Creator(s): Kaylynn by Omri147 (The child form)

Notes: The girls moved away from their original household.

(ILIANA) LANGERAK

Summary: Dustin and Zelda have been hidding their affair for years from their family. Kaylynn, the youngest of the Langerak clan was aware of the situation, but was never able to talk to someone about it in fear, it would only destroy their family. Things begin to change, when Zelda complains about nauseous issues Kaylynn spits out about, what was going on. The drama had intensified in the household, that around the time, Kaylnn's older brother left for college he took her along.

OG Creator(s): Omri147

Notes: Dustin and Zelda live alone together. Kaylynn moved into the Drama Lama household. Parker moved into the Langerak Jr. household.

ZELDA MAE (+Dustin Langerak & Janet Mae)

Summary: Zelda and Dustin had to move out from the main house of the Langerak’s as her older sister and Dustin’s relationship changed drastically upon Kaylynn’s confirmation. The whole clan followed different paths leaving the parents back with Zelda and the newborn child. Dustin and Iliana are still married by law, mainly because Dustin doesn’t want to lose his love of his life and is begging for a third or fourth chance…..as if that’s ever gonna happen….

OG Creator(s): Dustin and Zelda by Omri147

Notes: They moved away from the main household.

LANGERAK JR. (River [née McIrish] Langerak, Parker Langerak. Ruby and Robert Langerak)

Summary: Upon Kaylynn leaving to be on her own,the oldest Langerak child became a father of two kids. Parker actually had it all good, perhaps better than his own dad. When the kids grew older, Parker began to deal with a peculiar feeling, making him question his life and he eventually returns back to his old habits.

OG Creator(s): River by hestiah23. Parker by Omri147

Notes: River used to live in the Single Moms household.

BUNCH (Jack and Judy Bunch. Lisa and Ethan Bunch. Arlo and Darlene Bunch. Vj Alvi and Bebe Hart,

Summary: As they thought that dealing with Lisa during her teenage time was a tough time, it has gotten worse as now Arlo and Darlene have their rebellious phase including their ongoing rivalry. More trouble raises as both Lisa and Ethan bring their partner into their hut as Bebe and Lisa bring their former enemy-ship into the place as well. Will the Bunches really keep their family together in this state or will they put an end and force everyone to leave?

OG Creator(s): Bunches, Bebe by hestiah23. VJ by DianaTheMad

Notes: VJ originally lived with the Alvi clan. Bebe originally lived with the Hart clan.

ALTO (Vita and Nick Alto. Emil and Jonas Alto

Summary: Holly during her growth earned the opposite traits of her parents thus making her the most kindest person of the Iberian clan. When the girl one day falls in love with the kind boy of their neighborhood the parents have forbidden her any contact with him. Fun fact, they expected she would have obeyed them about that….

OG Creator(s): Nick and Vita by 6cac182574f19e03

Notes: Holly Alto used to live with the Alto clan before.

ALTO-LINNELL (Bert and Holly alto. Davy Linnell)

Summary: Bert offered his niece and her boyfriend shelter, so both wouldn't be in trouble, upon leaving the Alto clan. Bert does know the Altos very well and doesn't sympathize with them as well. Holly was grateful at first for her uncle's offer, but soon has to realize, that he does have a few problems with some clients....

OG Creator(s): Bert presumed to be made by 6cac182574f19e03 Holly by 6cac182574f19e03

Notes: Holly Alto used to live with the Alto clan before.

End Note:

Presumed and marked with ???? Sims I wasn't able to find their owner again and on my gallery they were tagged as "mine", when I actually had saved them and changed their clothes to "base game".

All Sims are split into 6 blog posts due to the limitation of images.

I'm looking forward to sharing each household separately into my gallery in the next 48h for anyone who's interested in specific ones only.

[beikonsims]

15 questions for 15 mutuals

Tagged by @curiousb

1. are you named after anyone?

After a popular artist from the city I was born in and a stupid song my parents used to torture me with for years.

2. when was the last time you cried?

Few months ago was the last time I cried for real. When I lost my father back in January. Other than that I sometimes get a little teary eyed while watching/listening to sentimental stuff, but I don't think that counts as a proper cry.

3. do you have kids?

Hell no. Never intend to have.

4. do you use sarcasm a lot?

I do. Mostly with people I'm close with, when I know they will understand it and not get offended. But also it comes naturally in online arguments, because I'm petty like that.

5. what sports do you play/have you played?

I'm not rly sporty, never have been. The only sport I enjoyed was casual badminton, but also haven't done that in years.

6. what’s the first thing you notice about other people?

I honestly don't know? I tend to look at people's faces to try and "read" them. I feel like I can genuinely figure out a person by looking at their expressions (which doesn't really seem like a hot take).

7. scary movies or happy endings?

I'd say happy endings, but not in the sappy generic way. I like when there's a little bit of everything for a good balance - some angst, drama, comedy, light-hearted happy stuff etc. I don't tend to watch scary movies, because they rely too much on blood and gore these days and it's not exactly good for my intrusive thoughts.

8. any special talents?

Not that I'm really aware of? People I know tell me I'm good at coming up with stories and writing OCs, but I mostly keep that in private. Don't share much of my stuff in public outside of the light-hearted Sims posting here.

I used be good at drawing, I guess? Before I neglected it due to mental health issues for years and now I just don't really feel like picking it up again to practice.

9. where were you born?

In a little hellhole called Poland, but we don't talk about that.

10. what are your hobbies?

Mostly video games. Writing characters and stories with my close friends. Generic stuff like listening to music and watching anime from time to time. I also read a lot when I have a "reading phase", especially horror genre (ironically) and novels based on the video games I like.

11. do you have any pets?

Yep. A 9 y/o cat and a 5 y/o guinea pig.

12. how tall are you?

1,70m

13. fave subject in school?

I used to like language, art and IT classes. Never had the brain for science or memory for dates and numbers.

14. dream job?

One that pays decent and doesn't require me to interact with customers. I feel too old to think about "dream jobs" anymore and all the ones I used to have when I was younger were eventually verified by life and my anxiety.

15. eye colour?

Grayish green. They always felt more grey to me, but I was told there's a green tint to them.

I know I should tag mutuals here, but I don't exactly interact much with people here. Not because I don't like you, but because I'm a generally anxious creature and don't like to bother people with stuff like that. If you're reading this and you follow my simblr, you're welcome to do it. Feel tagged.

[erigold13261]

Small story/anecdote thingy I think. Just some feelings about the Eriverse and junk that I need to deal with at some point instead of pushing it to the back of my mind.

You know how when you play a game so much, usually a game like Sims or a simulator game (Stardew Valley or others like that), and you hit a point you want to just start over with a fresh batch?

I get that feeling a lot with those games. I would make one family of sims and turn off aging just so I can be with them for a long time. Then I would get bored, make them have kids and have a small spark of fun for a bit before wanting to reset everything and start from the beginning all over again.

It happens a lot with idle games too. The struggle of the beginning is the most fun part to me. So getting so far into the game there is nothing else to do just makes it pointless, so restarting is the only way I can really find motivation to keep playing.

I say all of this because I've honestly been wanting to reset everything recently. Maybe because the Eriverse is getting really complex and fleshed out (definitely not a bad thing at all), but it's becoming like... overwhelming? Maybe that's the word for it?

Like I am definitely having fun! There is no doubt about that! But the story was not made with other media in mind. It was just supposed to be NSR and NSR only. And even then, I've gotten so far into my own headcanons for NSR characters I have been thinking of resetting myself and my mind for a long while in this area.

I think this is why I like AUs so much. It gives me a break from the longer storyline as a whole and allows me to play with different aspects of a character I find important than the ones I ended up originally choosing.

This is also a thing I do in Sims and Idle games. I will play the first round for a very long time, getting really far until I get bored. Take a break, and then reset. But each reset is just shorter and shorter until I abandon the game for a LONG time and come back to have along playthrough again before doing my shorter resets.

I used to have a story with multiple medias in my mind (mostly animes, creepypastas, and horror movie villains) that I kept up for YEARS. Like all throughout middle and high school. Very in depth and complicated. Similar to how I am doing the Eriverse.

And I just gave up on it. Haven't thought about that stuff in YEARS until this moment. It was the center of my life and I just gave it up because I found something more fun at the time? I think that is what happened to me.

Anyway, I don't know why I said this. Just something I've been feeling for a very long time. It happened in a few roleplays I did when I was younger too. I just kept making it more and more complex, and that kind of like... ruined it? I guess.

I'm not saying that Eriverse is ruined for me at all. I am still very much going to continue talking about it and stuff (I still have PLENTY of stuff queued up for like another couple of weeks), but just like... maybe I'm getting burnt out because the story was never meant to be like this?

I'm sure if I had actually planned shit out I would be a lot more happy and ecstatic for this story, which is why I am really happy to think of the Future Act which is being planned for multiple media than the Present Act of the Eriverse.

I don't know. This was just a ramble. I'm not resetting anything, maybe if I do it will be a soft reset. But I guess I just wanted to say this out loud (or you know, write it out loud lol), just so that it was out there and not just stuck in my mind.

It's like this depression that hits once you lose a hyperfixation or end a really good TV show. That in-between phase that feels empty and void of a lot of emotions.

I definitely still love NSR, a lot more than any of these other medias I am talking about, but I was loosing the love for NSR a bit and decided the best course of action would be to do a crossover.

Which turned into all this Eriverse stuff. Well, I guess even before the NSpidR AU crossover stuff I was kinda running on fumes by just adding more OCs into NSR instead of playing with the canon characters themselves. Which was the start of the complexities that kinda made me want to step away from NSR in the first place.

But it feels like I have nothing else. I am not attached to any of these other medias like I am NSR. Even now, if there was no connection to NSR, I wouldn't give a shit about making art or content at all for HFR, Psychonauts, Spiderverse, Homestuck, or JJK.

NSR literally is the glue for me and I've been wanting to reset my version of NSR for at least a year, maybe 2 years now. Just to go back to canon and start making a new version of NSR that is different from the one I built up in my head after all these years.

I guess it's my AU brain doing this? Wanting to always have a new "what-if" scenario to play with? I don't know. It makes me sad.

Sad that I can't just love another media with the same love I have for NSR. I literally can only have one main media at a time until I throw it away for something else entirely. Then it becomes a sad memory or a passing thought that takes over my brain for like a week before I go back to the new main media I am in love with.

It sucks. It honestly really does. It reminds me how I just can't do major things at the same time. I can't watch JJK and read Homestuck at the same time. I can't learn to drive and be in college at the same time. I can't do shit half the time because I am too busy doing another thing.

I can't fucking multitask properly and it fucking sucks. It impacts my everyday life, work life, fandom life. It is all just one thing or nothing at all. And once I put everything into that one thing I get sick of it and want to throw away years of work just because I am bored as shit and want something new in my life.

Sorry. I don't know what I am really trying to prove at this point. I am just sick of my brain telling me to reset my ideas and headcanons over and over. I want to go back to when I first was introduced to NSR, when there was an active community, when I had a lot more online friends.

It all just feels like it fell apart and I ma just screaming into the void. Even though I fucking know I'm not because I have so many people sending me in asks and actually interacting with me.

Maybe it's because I can tell that my followers' main focus isn't NSR anymore like it used to be. I get so many more asks just about Spiderverse, Homestuck, and JJK with only a few mentions of an NSR character and it just feels like... Like I am listening to other people talking to me about their interest that I kinda share.

I know that sounds fucking rude and shitty. Because I really do love hearing other people's opinions and headcanons, even if it isn't for NSR characters, but it's almost as if I'm just not interested in hearing it, even when I am!

I actively can't think about these other media's unless they connect to NSR. And when they don't then I just can't give a shit. I have an ask for Sam and Dion sitting in my inbox that I want to answer but I just can't fucking actively think of an answer or a drawing without seeing the ask because I can't give a shit about them outside of asks!

It fucking sucks so much! I want to think more actively about these other medias! I want to be able to come up with my own headcanons and not just piggyback off of others!

Do you know how much it fucking sucks to know people want to hear my headcanons for characters like Peni, Kento, Sam, or any other character I fucking love but I literally just can't come up with shit for them at all?!

I feel fucking awful when someone puts their heart and soul into an ask about a character with such an amazing headcanon and I just can't care about it at all!

I WANT TO FUCKING CARE ABOUT IT! I WANT TO CARE ABOUT YOUR HEADCANONS! I WANT TO HAVE MY OWN I CAN ACTIVELY SHARE WITHOUT NEEDING TO BE PROMPTED FOR AN ANSWER!

This fucking shit is going nowhere! I hate this so much! I thought talking about this would make me better but it just makes me think I am not appreciating the little community I made and I fucking hate myself for it!

I really do appreciate you all for sending me in asks. I have so many I still need to answer but damn. I think the reason it takes me so long is because I just can't actively think of these characters outside of asks being sent to me.

I don't daydream about half these characters like I do with NSR characters. I wish I could, but I just can't seem to do it.

. . .

Okay, I'm done. I think I got it all, or at least mostly, out of my system. I just... wanted to share that I guess. I don't know.

Sorry. You don't have to change your asking habits for me. It's fine really. I think I just need to visit source material again for most of these media. Maybe that will spark something in me.

I did get the two Spiderverse movies recently. Maybe I'll watch those again and replay Psychonauts when I get the chance.

Anyway, anyone who actually read this, thanks. I'm not resetting or ending the Eriverse at all. This has been stuff in my mind for probably years now (even more so actually since I abandoned my first major multi-media daydream).

Hope everyone is doing good. I'm gonna eat some chocolate and watch fun videos to just ignore my problems.

[thingswhatareawesome]

tried swarm again in sr

attempted stage 3, did ok until the final boss when i just idk, got really stupid. didn't focus down the right bugs fast enough, and they killed one character then did some *thing* that pasted two more. then ofc last character died fast too. i think i was on the final phase too.

but like swarm's always stressed me out hard, and so like bc my brain is stupid while i was attempting it i was literally shaking. which is just so ludicrous. but i think i just got so wanting to be done with that i rushed and made myself sloppy.

honestly i still don't get the whole process. i'm just too dumb for it i guess, like i just want the propagation path. but like there's pages of things to do and all these different things to be working towards and i've never quite gotten how it all connects or the basics of do this then do that then do this other thing, rinse/repeat, you're done. I really just need *linear* instructions. not here's this giant path to fill out AND this web of things to fill out and this other stuff and the only bit that's vaguely clear is the difficulty 1-5 page.

idg why it's all such a mess anyway. for all that i dislike them, basic sim univ and forgotten hall both make sense. how to do them and how to get rewards make sense. swarm just doesn't.

anyway, was using jy/dhil/qq/luo and elation, and i'm fairly sure i could've gotten the final boss if i hadn't fucked up focusing on the true stings (i think that's what i did wrong). idk maybe i should've had a slightly different team, instead of qq maybe?

(ofc the whole thing boils down to: boy here's this thing that everyone else understands how to do it, no one else has problems with how to do it, i'm the only one that doesn't understand it, doesn't that make me feel really like an idiot, to be the only one that can't grasp the concept. so much for the a student gifted kid i used to be, i can't comprehend a game mode in a video game that no one else is confused about.)

[riverdamien]

Walking in the Spirit of Love!

“Mary of Nazareth, who is both Jewish and Palestinian, extend your mantle of mercy over all the peoples of the Holy Land -- Jews, Muslims, Christians, Palestinians, Israelis, migrants, and refugees. Mother of the Messiah, show us how to be instruments of healing and peace in the midst of war, occupation, terrorism, and divisions. Give us an embracing love for all in the Holy Land, especially hostages, innocent victims, the homeless, and the dying. Mary our Mother, given to us by Jesus on the cross, pray for us.” Amen!

Walking in A Spirit of Love!

Key Findings Survey by Trevor Project:

  

41% of LGBTQ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year—and young people who are transgender, nonbinary, and/or people of color reported higher rates than their peers.

56% of LGBTQ young people who wanted mental health care in the past year were not able to get it.   

Transgender and nonbinary young people who reported that all of the people they live with respect their pronouns reported lower rates of attempting suicide.

Fewer than 40% of LGBTQ young people found their home to be LGBTQ-affirming.

Roughly half of transgender and nonbinary young people found their school to be gender-affirming, and those who did reported lower rates of attempting suicide.

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I think of my own journey in adolescence as a queer youth, for around 10 I realized I was not interested in girls, and knew I was different. As I mentioned that to my parents I was told "You are in a phase," never to mention that to any one, and sermons were preached in church of the sinfulness of being "gay".

I increasingly became depressed in a homophobic society, and experienced all of the chart above; feeling called to ministry; and entering ministry those feelings became worse, until I came out and left my former denomination, and my journey for sanity began.

I remember Jay, a 14 year old kid when I met him hustling on the street; he had come from a small town and came "out" by prostituting , but within himself he was struggling with the issues of his sexuality, and was into drugs, anything to take those feelings away, and at 21 he committed suicide.

The teachings of Jesus are loud and clear all that is required of us is love; it is our own fears, prejudices, and fears of differences that lead to violence and rejection.

The Trevor Project is an organization that works with queer youth, brings them into treatment, has a hot line, which I have worked on, and provides educational information, a worthy project.

As I walk the forty miles, (twenty so far), I remember my own struggles, the fact that I am careful when I go to some parts of the country, and really can not go home again to where I was raised and feel comfortable because of homophobia.

I think of now the hundreds of youth I have walked with in their pain of struggle, depression, and rejection. Many have committed suicide, who have lost families and their home places because of homophobia.

This is why I am walking, this is why I do my work. Join me in the liberation of homophobia and transphobia! Deo Gratis! Thanks be to God!

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The Trevor Project

PO Box 69232

West Hollywood, CA 90069 US

212-695-8650

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Fr. River Damien Sims, sfw, D.Min., D.S.T.

P.O. Box 642656

San Francisco, CA 94164

www.temenos.org

415-305-2124

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Let Love Ache

Father, give me the courage to keep on loving.

when others keep on hurting.

help me to live an achy love, a gritty,

persistent and emptying love;

a love that’s not afraid to flow toward the other

who has little left to offer in return.

And may I tread faithfully with heaven

through the unfinished work that surrounds me.

Commoners_Communion

Strahan Coleman

[starry-simming]

1. What has been your favorite time period to play in or which one are you most excited for? I’m so excited for the 1910s-30s. It basically encompasses my favorite world event and favorite period of time in US history. WW1 has been a fixation of mine for a few months now so I’m trying to make it as accurate as I can in this challenge. Then the 20s-30s is just so fun. I love the Roaring 20s. 

2. Do you have a favorite piece of historical cc? (CAS or BB) This is so bad but I never remember where I get my cc, my mods folder is a wreck. Probably everything I have from happylifesims absolute iconic 

3. Who is your favorite sim currently? I love them all but I love little Florence lots. If her story wasn’t going to be similar to what we’ve already had, I’d follow her. She’s such a fun little kid, very smart and a bit of shit and I think she’ll stay that way. She’ll be popping up every now and again when we start following Isaac so I won’t abandon her 

4. What is your favorite world? You know I love Strangerville. It’s so pretty, I love the lighting and I love when it’s late-stage plantapocalypse and the sky gets all fucky. Besides that I really love Henford and Selvadorada

5. Are you more gameplay or story focused? Pretty gameplay atm, but it’s just very repetitive so that’s why. Tommy and Caroline’s stories have pretty much closed out and the kids won’t have their stories start for a while yet which is why I wanna timeskip a bit because it’s just the same. Now that Jacob is a teen it should be less samey for me to play. I have a story in mind and I have ideas for what I want to do going up into the 80s even, so it’s just a bit boring at the moment because the big event I need to kick us off is world war 1 and that’s like 10 years off yet

6. Do you like to play with pets in your historical saves? I don’t tend to play with pets in my normal saves, so not really. They’re cute but taking care of however many sims is enough without adding a pet into the mix. If it’s just 1 or 2 sims I might

7. What’s your biggest immersion breaking pet peeve with the game? Everyone keeps going on their freaking phones. ALSO both Jacob and Isaac have had the bear phase and I refuse to deal with it and then they get sad because I won’t let them in their historically inaccurate bear suit.

8. What’s your favorite in-game historical item? (CAS or BB) Anything from cottage living is a godsend, especially the appliances. The icebox from cottage living and the one from realm of magic are my loves. Also all the historical music machines, like the gramophones and big ol radio/jukeboxes

9. What would you like to see as a new pack or asset to the game? Historical gameplay-wise, I’d love more medieval stuff or like 40s-50s style televisions and stuff. In General, I want more complex relationship styles which would be useful for my gameplay going forward but I gotta use mods for this. Stuff like polyamory, marriages of convenience, that stuff. 

10. What pack do you think is invaluable as a historical simmer? Cottage Living 100%. There’s that one art deco-ish kit that I have that is gonna be killer in the 20s also but that’s just for me. I think Jungle Adventure also has some good build-buy stuff

11. Do you have a favorite mod to enhance historical gameplay? I honestly don’t think I have any. I have an arranged marriages mod but I don’t have to use it yet. Would be handy if you did a save way back in medieval times or something. 

12. What’s your ideal family size for playing? As few as I can get away with. I don’t love managing a lot of sims. The Beckhams are a house of 5 and the kids have been spaced out perfectly for my sanity so I’d say 5 is the best for me

13. Do you use poses? Not much. I get too annoyed at trying to set them up. I like to when I do family portraits and probably will for stuff like weddings or other general important story moments but for the time being I don’t see myself using poses a lot

14. Do you use any overrides in your game? Nope! I just imagine

15. Do you, or did you, play off-the-grid during your game? I tried very hard to but I decided it was too annoying. Caroline could barely cook anything I didn’t want them eating salads forever

16. What lifespan do you play on? Same as op ^ I like being able to track the exact year

17. What inspired you to start playing a historically? I’ve always kinda been a history guy. I love researching different time periods, I always loved looking at historical/vintage fashion, and it’s just always intrigued me. I think finding out about the decades challenge and ultimate decades challenge really got me into gear 

Tag Game for Historical Simblrs! 📖

1. What has been your favorite time period to play in or which one are you most excited for?

As far as actually playing the game? The 1900s. I really did a lot of gameplay and overall it was just a wholesome, pleasant time to play the game. However, it’s definitely my least favorite story wise and I feel like not a lot happened.

So as far as the actual plot goes, I’ve been looking forward to the 20s literally since I began this challenge. While difficult, it has also been so fulfilling to actually see it all come to life. Now, I’ve got my eyes set on the 1940s 👀

2. Do you have a favorite piece of historical cc? (CAS or BB)

Oh this is…impossible 😅

I have gone through so many styles and eras already that I have mainstay pieces for each as well as pieces that just stop my heart. I think the one that I’m fixated on right now is Zelda’s 1920s bob. Of course she’s grown it out a bit now but it’s still iconic in my heart.

3. Who is your favorite sim currently?

Okay another one that is basically impossible. Because like, how do I pick between my pixel babies right now? Antoine and Jo are absolutely my baby angels, and are both my favorites at various points in the narrative.

But it’s so difficult to pick them as my overall favorite over Zelda, just because I’ve been playing and writing as Zelda quite literally since she was born.

4. What is your favorite world?

Currently? Willow Creek hands down. This is more because I’ve transformed it into New Orleans than it is because of any merit it has on its own. I use mods and put in a lot of work to make it look this way, but now, it’s by far my favorite.

5. Are you more gameplay or story focused?

Well….I think we know the answer to this one 😂

Storytelling drives my gameplay without a doubt. I write very far in advance, and that plot is what determines how I tell the story. Often I try and recreate these things as close as possible in gameplay, but let’s be honest, that isn’t always easy in this game.

6. Do you like to play with pets in your historical saves?

Ah, not an awful lot. Because I’m usually in storytelling mode posing sims and trying to get from one scene to another, I can often find them cumbersome. Of course we did have Daisy in the 1900s and she was lovely to have at Darlington Cottage, but I think that’s because I was doing more gameplay in that era so it made more sense.

7. What’s your biggest immersion breaking pet peeve with the game?

Sigh. What always got me was when a family member from another world showed up at my sims doorstep or is just walking in the background. So I’m in downtown “New Orleans” and all of a sudden, oh look! There’s Virginia walking in the background of a scene.

Luckily now I have this mod to get everyone to stay in their world 😉

8. What’s your favorite in-game historical item? (CAS or BB)

Honestly, just to make my life easier, I often filter by Custom Content and call it a day. This is especially true in CAS because I find all the assets overwhelming, I don’t even really use many in-game items there (except for a pair of base game lace up boots I use constantly).

In BB I find there’s a number of small items that I like using, such as the BG coat rack, the flowers from Cottage Living, the round BG dining table, the Tiffany lamp from Cats and Dogs, and a number of others!

I also used quite alot of the Realm of Magic Assets in Zelda and Antoine’s apartment, so I’m really fond of those, especially the Art Nouveau parquet floorboards and wallpaper.

9. What would you like to see as a new pack or asset to the game?

This is a personal one for the story going forward (👀) but absolutely horses. Otherwise, I would love to see more functionality for music and bands in the game, maybe even with some vintage assets to complete that vibe.

10. What pack do you think is invaluable as a historical simmer?

Like I’m sure most people would say, Cottage Living. It just offers so much gameplay for historical simmers as well as a gorgeous world that I’ve gotta select it (see my whole long list of pack recs here).

11. Do you have a favorite mod to enhance historical gameplay?

The mod that is absolutely invaluable to me is Timeless. It is what allows me to get so many scenic screens without pesky objects in the way and also simply makes the worlds so much more immersive to me.

12. What’s your ideal family size for playing?

The 1900s Darlingtons are frankly as large as I can go with the family. So a household of six, max, plus maybe a pet. Even then, I get very overwhelmed. So I usually prefer households of 4-5 although I do also like a household of 3 with an only child 😉

13. Do you use poses?

Goodness gracious, yes. All the poses all the time for everything. Even when I try to use in game animations I get more annoyed that I can’t control the angles as much.

14. Do you use any overrides in your game?

I actually don't! I suppose it would be very useful but its just not really something I've ever delved into.

15. Do you, or did you, play off-the-grid during your game?

Yes, I played off the grid for all of the 1880s and 1890s. I now slightly regret it because this means I was taking all of my photos with candles, and that lead to that heavy yellow tone in all of my early interior photos.

I also played off the grid for most of the 1900s until darlington cottage got that upgrade that included the inside bathrooms. Best moment of the game lol

16. What lifespan do you play on?

I play with custom lifespan settings where 4 in game sim days equal 1 IRL year.

17. What inspired you to start playing a historically?

Whew. Well I was playing my own version of the NSB challenge that I wrote when I hit gen 6. This gen was meant to be a film star, so I kind of had this idea that as her career progressed, her fashion would also go through the eras of old Hollywood. Looking back, I now also realize that this was me getting fed up with the lack of time progression that inevitably comes from playing a “modern” legacy challenge.

Anywho, I was looking for CC for this when I came across the wonderful lookbooks of Pixelnrd. This of course led me to their challenge and I started reading one afternoon. By the next day I had the idea for the Darlingtons already forming in my head 🥹

Thank you so much for the tag my dearest @antiquatedplumbobs I’ll pass the love along to @heartblobs @alainas-sims @taanoir @miraplayssims @lovecidik @someplumberrys @sims-half-crazy @greatbritishsimchallenge and @come-hell-or-high-water

And anyone who feels like answering a whole long list of questions! 🤗

[enhypia]

JY ; almost lovers

almost lovers answers questions with the choice of drinking instead of answering

pairings: sim jaeyun x gn!reader

genre: fluff, angst if you squint

words: roughly 1.4k

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~guides and warnings~

italics - reader speaking

bold - jake speaking

[enclosed] - interviewer speaking

italicized bold - both reader and jake speaking

[enclosed bold or italics] - question (depends on who's speaking)

heavily inspired by: rec.create lie detector games, cut truth or drink

warning: contains and mentions of !!! drinking and swearing

i don't promote underage drinking, save your livers

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hello~ my name is jake!

and i'm (y/n)

and we're almost lovers

[you guys were invited here today as almost lovers for a fun little drinking game, you guys aware of that right?]

yes we were

[okay, for this game, questions will be asked and if you refuse to answer, you drink, it's that simple. should we start?]

yup!

i'll be drinking regardless if i answer or not btw

why?

it's free alcohol

[how long have you guys known each other?]

since middle school ??

yup, so like 6 or 7 years ?

[wouldn't you be childhood friends then?]

oh no, jake and i weren't friends

*jake laughs and (y/n) grins

we really weren't, we were just somehow always put in the same classes

classmates, that's literally just what we were

ah i got it, we just knew of each other's existence

yup that

*both laugh

[how did you guys became almost lovers then?]

oh it's the classic project partners thing

we became seatmates, and like for that whole school year almost every teacher assigned seatmates as partners

it's like they all collectively agreed to it

yeah so we just eventually got close and ,,,

chaos ?

chaos.

*both giggle because jake's giggle is contagious

[why didn't you guys get together?]

we were both cowards and dumb with feelings

and jake had to move back to australia

and i had to move back to australia

[so if jake didn't move, you guys could've been together?]

,,,, i honestly do not know

yeah same

jake was the popular dream guy, i wasn't even dating him back then but so many rumors spread

i'm sorry about that really

don't worry, it wasn't your fault

*you pat him on the head making him smile widely

[how about we start the q&a between you guys?]

yeah, let's go~

*both nod and played rock paper and scissors to determine who gets to ask first, jake wins

okay! first question

*jake picks up a card and laughs in disbelief

why?

[do you still find me attractive?]

*(y/n) bursts out laughing

i don't know if i should be offended that you're laughing or what

no, because it's ridiculous!

whY?

jake i literally compliment and hype you up whenever we meet

*jake blushes

so yes i still do find you attractive because you ARE attractive.

*(y/n) smiles teasingly

*jake rolls his eyes

*(y/n) picks up a card

oh wow

[did you see ever yourself loving me?]

*jake takes a shot

you know that just makes you sus

it's not like you don't know the answer?!!

that's the point! i do know so you could've just answered instead of drinking

shut up *jake grumbles

*you take a shot to make him feel better

the answer is yes btw, i did see myself loving them

*(y/n) almost chokes

*jake laughs

it's different hearing it out loud

*jake g i g g l e s

just read the next question

[do you think it's my fault that we didn't become a couple?]

pffft-

i mean

yeah yeah, but for me i'm blaming australia

sure buddy.

*jake :O

but no i don't think it was your fault, like we said a while ago, even if you didn't move, we were still dumb with feelings and we probably would've prioritized our future than a relationship. it wasn't the right time i guess??

*jake nods in agreement

[sorry, was it ever clarified between you guys that you had feelings for each other?]

oh yeah! we knew about it

yeah bUT AFTER I CAME BACK FROM AUSTRALIA ???

*(y/n) laughs

we met up when he came back and i just went "oh did you know i liked you back then?" and then jake just -

*(y/n) can't finish the sentence because (y/n) remembers the scene perfectly and is laughing hard

*jake groans

thAT! he groaned like that and basically slammed his head on the table.

yeah and you gaped like a fish after i told you i liked you back then too!

*jake :P

*(y/n) :O

i did not

yes you did! you went *jake imitates a gaping fish

yah! *(y/n) hits jake's arm lightly

*both laugh

*(y/n) reads the card and takes a shot after

why are you drinking? i'm the one answering

i know, i just needed that shot to prepare myself

[do you still have feelings for me?]

*jake turns red and reaches for a shot

moving on-

i'm answering

*(y/n) error404 please restart

*both cannot look each other in the eye

i don't know honestly? i still am kind of dumb with feelings but the reason why i say i don't know is because i'm trying to make sure that what i'm feeling for (y/n) is real?? like i actually do like them and not with the feeling ??

*(y/n) nods understanding what he meant

because wouldn't that be unfair to (y/n) ? saying you have feelings for them when you aren't really sure? i don't want that, i don't want to hurt (y/n) in any way or form

*(y/n) downs a shot and covers their face in embarrassment

why~ ?

*(y/n) narrows their eyes at jake and just hands him the card to read

*jake laughs

okay let's go,

[do you still think about what could've been?]

goddammit

*(y/n) takes a shot

*jake is basically just laughing at everything at this point, but that's okay he's cute when he laughs

yes, i do. i think what plagued me the most were 'what if?' questions. when i see my friends getting into relationships or hearing them talk about someone they've been seeing. i would often ask like "what if we just had confessed earlier?" "what if you never moved?" "what if we actually got together?" things like that

but i think my hardest 'what if' was "what if we just tried?"

*please put jake in rice he is not working

*he raises his glass to do a cheers

here's to painful confusion !

and dumb feelings~

*both take a shot

[question for both: do you regret that you guys didn't get together?]

honestly, no? i feel like if we did, we would be two completely different people right now?

yeah, i like who i am and who you are right now, so i don't think i regret it either.

and we were shit at romantic feelings

we aren't kidding, we really were

i feel bad for everyone who had to witness that phase in our lives

rip

*both laugh

[freestyle! ask any question you want]

hmm,,

don't think too much

no <3

*(y/n) rolls their eyes

okay, okay, i have one

this better be good sim.

[you said a while ago that it wasn't the right time for us before. how about now? do you think we're finally at the right time?]

.........

*(y/n) is speechless

*(y/n) downs a shot

jake don't ask me out on television

*jake bursts out laughing

i don't know jake, you tell me, you're the one confused with feelings.

... .. ... .

*(y/n) realizes what they said

*jake literally 👁👄👁

,,,, what?

*(y/n) clears their throat

huh?

nu uh, what did you just say ??

i haven't said anything yet?? are you okay?

*(y/n) looks at the crew around them that were covering their mouths preventing laughs and squeals

you definitely said something that meant you have feelings for me!

i did not! you need to get your ears checked

*(y/n) is blushing and is avoiding jake's intense look

[that's one way to end, huh?]

oh yay! we're done, good job everybody!

*(y/n) is hurrying to escape like a pokemon

*jake is still dumbfounded, poor guy

[is he okay?]

don't worry about him, he's rebooting

*jake glares adorably at (y/n)

we are talking after this

sorry i have plans, i need to water my dog

*(y/n) teases jake making him facepalm

[i think i smell another feature, but maybe as couples next time?]

*both blushes at the statement

that's all up to jake, director :D

*jake :O

honey, close your mouth, you'll catch flies

*jake wakes up at the term of endearment and his blush deepens

yah~ !

*(y/n) grins widely and waves to the camera

bye~

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bonus: youtube comments (peep last one)

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a/n: AAAA ENHA CB !! the enhypen dimension opens owo <3 anyways, i made jake's lighter since i couldn't make it angsty, he's too precious, i must protect him. also, my jake timestamp (oh worm?) received a lot of love, thank you !!! i hope you like this one as well~ sunoo's will be uploaded next !! please look forward to it <33

[maxismatchccworld]

Sul sul! I’m Patina Wainscot*, and I’m thrilled you could join me today for what I’m calling Dream Home Decorator 101. We’re diving deep into the ins and outs of designing for clients because that’s the main thing to remember: it’s all about making your clients happy!

All About Clients

Take it from me: the best designs start with the Sims you’re creating for. I never go into a project without getting to know my clients first—at least, not if I plan to be successful. Back in my early days, I made that mistake a lot. Once, I planned a whole space around the gnome statue in the middle of my client’s living room—come to find out, that Sim was terrified of the gnome and wanted it gone!

Everyone has Preferences, you know? Likes and Dislikes matter when it comes to decorating. So ask questions! Find out their favorite color and music genre and decor style. Ask about the things that inspire them, if they have any hobbies, what their favorite pieces are. Walk them through color swatches and maybe some of the work in your portfolio. Take a few Before pictures for the client, too. After all, the more you know about someone, the easier it is to imagine a space that will truly bring them joy.

Remember to keep it professional, though! (Shower before you arrive. Trust me.) Every interaction impacts your reputation, and if you want to move up to bigger gigs, that matters.

All About Renovations

Once you’ve gotten a feel for what your client wants, nudge them out the door and turn your attention to the space around you. Sometimes clients want to redo the nursery, or add an in-law unit. I even had a Sim ask for a gym in the basement once. Whatever the task, I’m sure you’re up for it. Simply follow the budget, the client’s preferences, the available tile count, and the client’s actual ask.

(Sidebar: okay, yes, sometimes the requests get a little… weird. It’s your job to do what you can, though. I could share some wild stories, but client-designer confidentiality is a professional courtesy.)

Start with an empty space by selling off the items you can’t use (it’s a good budget tip, too!). Then, it’s all up to you to make your client’s dreams come true.

I personally love this phase of a project. Maybe Sims tend to be a little messy, so why not play around with modular shelving units for innovative storage solutions? Open concept is very in right now, and sectional sofas divide living spaces from the kitchen perfectly while keeping a roomy, airy atmosphere. And speaking of the kitchen, built-in appliances like ovens and stovetops save space too. For kids’ rooms, bunk beds are my go-to. As children grow, it’s easy to change the configuration and add a desk for homework!

My point is, don’t be afraid to play around. Sometimes the unexpected works best, and sometimes you’ll have a tried-and-true solution in mind.

All About Reveals

Once you finish the work, there’s just one thing left: the reveal! Once you’ve perfected the space, invite the client back to see the results. Personally, this is the moment I live for. That first reaction means the world to me. Whether Sims cry, throw their arms around me, or immediately start daydreaming, I always know when I’ve done a good job, and it’s amazingly fun to show off the Before and After photos.

So many factors go into whether or not a gig is successful. Did you stay within the budget? Build around your client’s preferences? Complete your objective? Were you respectful and fun? Hopefully, the answer to all of these questions is “YES!” Not only does it make your client happy and make you feel good, but it improves your reputation as a decorator. After all, people love to talk about things they love. So make them love their space!

A Few Extra Tips

Speaking of reputation, the more you get your name out there, the more gigs open up to you. Start with something small like a room remodel; by the time you’ve reached my level, you’ll be redesigning the neighborhood bar! Client referrals make a real difference, but I used to blog and promote myself on social media, too. Now, you can watch me on the home decorator channel!

Every Sim is different. I know, I know, I’ve said that a few times now, but I really mean it! In households with more than one occupant, sometimes it gets tough to balance what they want. Maybe two Sims have different color preferences; if you can’t make both work together, find some common ground to focus on instead. And never assume you know what a client will ask for! I had an adult client ask for a kids’ tent once—turns out, it was for their nephew!

And last but not least, the most important advice I have: just have fun with it. Remember why you chose this path. You’re a dream home maker, after all.

Thank you for coming to my Sims Talk. I’ll catch you on the home decorating channel soon! And don’t forget to follow The Sims Instagram—I have a new series called Spaces With Patina that I’m super excited to share!

The Sims™ 4 Dream Home Decorator Game Pack** arrives on June 1, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. PT in your region on Origin (for Mac and PC), Steam, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation®4, and PlayStation®5!