#in the meantime this is a random sim i made to play around with the NEW SLIDERS

[youredreamingofroo]

a bit of a message talking about inactivity and my possible hiatus. I dont know if this counts as a cw but i talk about depression here and there at the beginning (nothing graphic) and as usual, its a rant

im gonna be straight honest rn, i'm probably not gonna be active on tumblr for these next few days, ive been super up and down depressed and im just unmotivated and too tired to do anything, im still gonna check in here and there but dont expect me to reblog or reply to many posts, if at all. This could mark the beginning of a hiatus, but with mood swings and up and down depression, i could be back, active as ever tomorrow. Ever since ive uninstalled Sims 4, i did feel a weight lift off my shoulders, but simultaneously made me depressed due to the lack of... well... doing something, i dont... really know how to put it into words, its just something in my brain that i just cant explain, i guess a good way to put it is playing sims 4 gave me the motivation to stem off into other mediums, blender for example, gave me something to do, something to learn, and while i can still use blender, i just get progressively slower and slower at doing stuff in it because of my limited resources, some scenes i want to do require specific outfits and i dont have the facilities to make those outfits... i mean i probably do but i just dont feel motivated to do all that. I still play other games, ive been playing a lot of slime rancher 2 and have been trying to branch out to other games (indie games and bigger games), I want to post gameplay but if youve seen me rant about tumblr before, one of my biggest gripes is just how fucking annoying it is to upload images, so i just get completely unmotivated to post images/gameplay especially if its just some silly post. if uh if anyone is still reading this, ill be honest, i havent even been motivated to write about WAS at all, probably havent touched the planning doc in about 2 weeks. This... 'spiral'... has been noticeable for me for the last week as my sleep schedule gets swapped around from sleeping at night and awake during the day... to sleeping during the day and awake at night, this is all my fault, but its also just something that happens rotationally for me, i go from sleeping VERY early in the evening (6PM at the earliest) and waking at VERY early times in the morning (4AM at the latest) to sleeping VERY late in the morning (6AM at the earliest) and waking up late in the evening (3PM at the latest), i dont really know what causes the shift, but it happens, and i often blame myself for it even though i dont know what causes it...

anyways sorry, this will probably mark a very iffy hiatus, like i said ill be active but not... super active, i didnt check tumblr at all yesterday/monday, so thats kind of the pattern to expect from me depending on the day. In the meantime... i might try to get back into older sims games, ive mentioned this before, but i do have sims 1 on my laptop so maybe ill post stupid little gameplay posts from there (granted i havent played in like... a month 😐). I'll probably put up a poll after this post for people to vote on which sims game i should play- i KNOW i did it once before but im probably gonna do it again cuz i cant find the post and i have over 1000 posts 😭

if you read thus far, thank you for sticking around, if your a random person who read this for no reason... thanks? if your a follower of mine and cant understand where im coming from with this lengthy post, see yourself out or deal with it 🙃 otherwise, thank you all and i will be lurking about

[faerielandsims]

Hi everytime i see your hair conversions im so curious about your sims. Are they just models you created or randomised for this? Are they old sims you love? Whats their stories?

Also thank you so much for the hairs i legot barely use anything else by now ♡

Hey there

The red haired sim is called Athena Dragonheart and she was a child of the second generation of my first legacy that lasted more than ten generations. I totally loved her, so she lived with the legacy until I abandoned them. I made her an immortal witch. A view generations later I created James, her husband, also a witch, he is my male model. They ended up having their own save and had a daughter, Lily Valentina, which you can take a look at on my saves page. She ended up with a vampire named Cedric. He is also there. For the last couple of years now, Athena and James act as my hair retexture models. But they have also gotten a few new saves in the meantime. One time they lived in a futuristic custom world, where I mainly focused on Into The Future. I have a save in an equestrian cc world that I play with them, where there's only their house, a large horse stable, a large paddock, a covered training arena, a open-air sand training arena, a competition arena, a small lake with horse trails around the lake covered in trees and two areas with small paddocks for horses. Athena and James live their with kid girl and a toddler girl, a cat, two dogs and I think six horses or something. Athena and James are still my all-time favourite sims ever.

My black skinned model is named Lysanna and I originally created her for fun to make random photoshoots along with Himiko, Emmalynn and Raven. She then ended up being my hair retexture model and because I like consistency, I needed a male counterpart. So I created a male black skinned model, but I can't for the life of me remember his name. I don't use him for gameplay or photoshoots.

[silent-simblr]

news from 15 years ago - apparently, Jason Cleveland is gay, and i only noticed it because he had like zero chemistry with his wife, with them both being fortune sims?? and my stupid ass figured that after i made him have another kid with Marissa??? 😭😭😭 i feel so bad now, and i'm so sorry my man, we will find you a partner on the next rotation i promise (Kent Capp, maybe? we'll see). this becomes even more hilarious, because when i was making him a makeover, i thought that he looks like Joseph Christiansen and Soldier 76 combined 😭 should always listen to my gut, i suppose. well, now he has two sons - Justin and Jasper, making his similarities with Joseph almost comical at this point

Justin in the meantime is having a fantastic time, hitting on all of the redheads in the town

when i don't know sim i'm playing very well, i just randomize their traits and watch them interact with others. Justin got artistic, irresistible, and two neutral traits like dog person or whatever. irresistible in his case was so funny, because he kept failing every single talking interaction with everyone around, so i replaced it with socially awkward. and him being artistic is pretty interesting, because i think that it's his mother who keeps pushing him into military, when he just wants to live his life. and his friendship with Puck should help him open this "artistic" side of him (i also made Justin have a crush on both Puck and Juliette because i could totally see that happening, this man have a thing for redheads)

after a short while Justin rolled a want to sneak out with Puck, and, well, he got caught pretty quick. with his father being a police officer, i can see why. i made him grounded for a day, and his grades sunk down to F

Puck was present on the lot when Jasper was born. i guess it makes him Jasper's fairy godmother

ah yes, another redhead for Justin to have a crush on

then my game decided that it had enough, which is completely understandable with a number of lots i've been loading and this weird mailbox glitch i've been experiencing, so i reload game, moved them out, and leave them be until the next rotation

[queenofmyshuno]

Alternate Universe Storyteller Challenge (#AUSTC) (Sims 4)

Simblr Tag: Use the tag #AUSTC (stands for Alternate Universe Story Teller Challenge) for all posts so other people who’ve taken the challenge can easily find your posts.

Works Best For: Storytellers or rotational players who have created characters in multiple households and who have a world set up.

Purpose: To be able to live in the world you created and interact with the sims you created (albeit in a very promiscuous way).

Phase 1A: Make yourself and a sibling. Make a YA sim to represent yourself and also make a YA sibling. Your sim self does not actually have to look like you or have your traits, and your sibling does not have to represent anyone in real life. To round out your personalities, you may use cheats to give you and your sibling up to 3 reward traits each.

Optional: since this challenge involves both you and your sibling dating other sims, it might be easier if you're attracted to a different gender than your sibling is attracted to.

Preparation Phase 1B: Make an “apartment” lot. Make a faux apartment building on a residential lot. Make the apartment in a manner of your choosing or as follows: 3-story residential; 1st story--lobby (may contain parking, laundry room, multiple mail boxes, or any other common area one might find in an apartment building); 2nd story--apartment; 3rd story--second apartment.

Move your sims in. Set door locks so that siblings don’t have access to each other’s bathrooms or bedrooms but can access the living room, dining area, and kitchen of each other’s apartments. (You can unlock doors as needed when you have guests over.)

Phase 2A: (Sibling) Date. Your sibling is very traditional and wants to find "the one." The goal is to find a girlfriend or boyfriend for your sibling. Your sibling should hang out with or date potential partners. Your sibling should choose from a minimum of three potential partners by the end of this challenge.

Primary Paramater: The sibling must date sims who have a role in your story or rotation or an NPC who has played a role in your storyline; it cannot be a random sim you’re seeing for the first time. If desired, set up secondary parameters for who your sibling can date.

Optional Secondary Parameters: Secondary parameters can be based on young vs. old, single vs. taken (if you want to be devious and break people up), wealthy vs. poor, major vs. minor characters, club membership, career, hobbies, or something more specific to your unique storyline. Just make sure you have a big enough pool of sims to date who fit within the parameters.

Phase 2B: (Sim Self) Sleep around. You've always wanted a baby, but you're not sure about the whole marriage thing. The goal is for your simself to have no less than 1 and no more than 2 illegitimate pregnancies and at least 1 illegitimate child without using "try for baby." (Pregnancies and number of children are differentiated here because of the possibility of having twins or triplets.) Use MCCC or another mod to increase the percentage of risky woohoo. If you're not successful after one night, you must try again with a different sim.

Suggestion: start with a low risky woohoo percentage and increase it in increments if a pregnancy has not occurred within a certain amount of time.

Primary Paramater: The primary parameter is the same as for your sibling. You must hook up with someone who has a role in your story or rotation or an NPC who has played a role in your storyline; it cannot be a random sim you’re seeing for the first time.

Optional Secondary Parameters: See Phase 2A for suggested secondary parameters. The secondary parameters you set up for your sibling and yourself can be the same or different.

Optional: Phase 2C: Aged Screenshots of Child(ren). If you’re posting the challenge on a blog, post a picture of your child(ren) as a toddler, child, and teen for your followers to see what they ended up looking like.

Cheats: You can use reward trait cheats as stated in Phase 1A. You can use money cheats at any time. You will need to use MC Command Center to set up risky woohoo. You cannot use relationship or motive cheats. You must build up relationships naturally, as well as fill motives naturally.

Challenge Completion: This should be a relatively quick challenge once everything is set up. The challenge is complete when (1) your sibling has asked one of 3 sims they’ve seen romantically to be their girlfriend or boyfriend and that sim has accepted and (2) you have at least one illegitimate child.

Future Add-On Challenge? If you want to keep going. I made this challenge with the next step in mind, but I haven't written or played it yet. In the future, I'll probably develop a Phase 3 and give a complete list of requirements. In the meantime, here's the short version:

Two of your main characters marry people they would NEVER marry in your regular game. Also, your sibling marries their girlfriend/boyfriend and you marry anyone EXCEPT your baby daddy/mama. All 4 couples move into 4 homes on the same block or street and raise their families together as a close-knit neighborhood.

Simblr Tag: Use the tag #AUSTC (stands for Alternate Universe Story Teller Challenge) for all posts so other people who’ve taken the challenge can easily find your posts.

[deggdegg]

poppy

[grisdidthis]

Townie of the Day: Mad Science edition!

Well, I gave up on trying to make all my townies from scratch -- there are just too many slots to fill and my creativity is currently at an all time low, so. I’ve been going around nabbing the ones other people kindly put up for adoption and challenging myself to make them fit into the world of PF42, which is it’s own brand of fun. The rules I’ve set for myself in doing this are, loosely:

Won’t mess about with the core facial structure; adding blushes and shading and wrinkles and whatnot is allowed, though.

Won’t change skin or eye color unless I’m trading for a similar one (I have about one hundred different skins and eyes, and like the way the highlights, shadows and tiny details are done better on some that others, even if the base tones are the same) OR the sim has an unnatural skin or eye color but I still wanted them because they had amazing cheekbones. 

Hair and clothes can be changed with no caveats.

If the sim comes with additional information - a name, stats, aspiration, a little bio, hell, even named relatives - I’ll stay as faithful to all that as the setting allows, up to and including making them that brother or sister or child.

So. With all that laid down, here is the current Mad Scientist (official job title, not a descriptor of anyone’s mental health status or indicator that they’re very very pissed) lineup.  

1. Prof. Dana McMillan

Dana was made by uranium-z. When I saw her, I mentally assigned her a role as Igmar and Imka’s cool auntie on their dad’s side and downloaded her for that purpose. Then I read her bio, went “Okay, you are a researcher who dimention-hopped via cheese sandwich, cool, we can work with that instead!” and decided that she would be the kind of person Winifred would definitely give a lab to if she ever showed up on the platform. And also that the kids definitely don’t need ANOTHER aunt who wears a white coat. (Dana doesn’t much care for it either, but it’s a status symbol and also mandatory, so what can you do.) 

2. Dr. Zeena Salman, MD

Zeena I’m pretty sure I got the facial structure for from SOMEWHERE, but it was right at the start when I was downloading all the things, and her original file had already been deleted by the time I went looking for it, so I can’t remember who made her and if she had another name before. I also tinkered with her enough in the meantime that I probably wouldn’t recognize her in her basic form if I stumbled upon it in the wild. EITHER WAY, Zeena here is a case of Some Townies Are More Important Than Others, in that she’s older than half of my playables and was originally going to be Abdul and Nadeem’s SISTER rather than a love interest for both of them. I considered leaving her as a playable after moving her out of their household, but then I’d have to build ANOTHER lab, which is a bit of a waste since she’s going to move back in with the Madhavis at some point in the future anyway. 

3. Dr. Milo Hemlock (not an actual medical doctor)

Doctor Hemlock is the result of playing around with the random feature on CAS until someone who was okay-ish but in need of some tweaking came up. I needed an evil shrink and an evil dude who cooks meth (and every other drug used to make characters pass out, declare their passionate love for each other when nothing else will do, etc etc etc) and he was originally going to be the shrink (the maroon eyes are a book!Hannibal Lecter homage) and Doctor Lobe, below and created through the same process at the same time, the drug engineer. Then I let them free will away for the two seconds it takes to townie-fy, looked at the facial expressions this dude was pulling, went “No, you are definitely the one who cooks meth!”, traded their roles and changed both their names.

4. Dr. Lyman Lobe (licence suspended)

He’s an evil shrink who doesn’t eat people but does gaslight everyone a whole bunch, which tbh makes him evil enough already.

4. Prof. James Ancillary

This guy has me so torn re: the rules for appropriating sims not originally mine who have stories. His base was made by clonesimsclones, and his bio is both super detailed and has him as a robot, which. We aren’t this far ahead with artificial intelligence in the setting of PF42. Yet. And the base had a perfect face for a character I’d planned for and not yet created. So I’m going to work around all this (yes, one post and two sims in, I’m very good at sticking to rules, as you can see) by making this dude a human AI engineer and committing to at some point in the story having him create a Doctor Boom that is modeled after him and has a story more in line with the recipe given. (And who will lead a far more pleasant life, since he gets to inherit his creator’s workshop after Professor Ancillary’s tragic death, skip all those nasty updates and go straight to a life of idyllic robot fixing.)

[nardaviel]

Part 8 / ?. You know that time in December when there are too many holidays all squished together? That’s this part. Nothing else I promised at the end of the last part has happened yet, but soon! Soon.

Once again some new packs have come out. I’m not sure I want them to do Strangerville, but I’ve already done some stuff with Get Famous and Island Living, either in this part or the next one, which is also complete and just needs to be edited.

Winterfest morning dawns at Ibushi’s new house.

That greenhouse is way, way, way bigger than he needs, but I don't care. I just got so sick of his miniscule greenhouse at his starter home.

On the inside, the house is extremely green, and where it's not green, it's full of mismatching wood tones. You can blame that on me, if you like (except for the mismatching wood tones, that’s 99% EA's fault). I blame myself. I built this house ages ago and I judge my past self real hard when I look at the interior decorating. But it's funnier to blame it on Ibushi's own tastes. He has a favorite color, okay? He knows what he likes.

In any event, he wanted to have a gathering for Winterfest. Just a little one, with his three best friends and the little bit of his family who he's on good terms with. However, while Atsushi obligingly chats with him in the kitchen...

Atsushi: No, honestly, Ibushi, I'd love to help, are you sure you don't need anything?

...his workaholic cousin Sora closets himself in Ibushi's tiny office and smiles down at the laptop...

...while Sora's daughter Antigone makes a beeline for the bookshelf in the otherwise deserted living room.

Not unlike I would have done as a teenager, I guess, except I'd have brought my own book.

A brief introduction of the OCs: Sora is Ibushi's older cousin, featured in this Ibushi fic that I wrote if you're interested. His wife Sarah is mentioned a few times. As of the end of the fic he hasn't had time to have kids, but in the canon verse he has three. However, the Sim Yumura family is based more on a Harry Potter AU than on canon, so Sim Sora has five. The blonde teenagers are Auden and Antigone, the green-haired child is Caelan, and there are two toddlers who you won't meet for a long time, if ever, because I can't be bothered with them.

Do any of them look like the actual characters look in my head? No, not really, so if you have read that fic, please don’t replace your existing mental image with Sim Sora. But the canon third years don’t really look right, either. They’re recognizable, and so are the OCs.

Listen, the trio needed friends, and I never care enough about random townie Sims to try with them. The OCs will only be supporting characters in these posts, I promise. Party guests, that type of thing.

Anyway!

En is pleased to see Atsushi when he at last wanders in.

While this is sweet, Sora and his two teenage children are still over in a far corner of the house away from their host...

...possibly because Caelan kicked his dad off the computer in order to play Tetris Blicbloc badly.

You might be wondering where Kinshirou is. If you've read that fic, you might also be wondering where Sarah is. I have no answers for you. Maybe they're just going to be really late?

Look at all the food Ibushi made :D and the pretty flower arrangement! With flowers that he (mostly) grew himself. What a talented guy.

Ibushi: Dinner's ready! Come eat! (If the rest of them don't show up now, I'll just give up.)

You might have noticed in the last screenshot that Woody grew up! He looks like he's sad because he has no food, but in reality he has no food because he just ate.

Sora, in the meantime, has started opening presents on his own. What a rude guy. No wonder he's raised such rude children. This is all so OOC all I can do is laugh tbh

It worked lol. Welcome, Sarah and Kinshirou.

Also of note: Antigone went straight for the cake, she didn't even bother with the ham. Maybe if Sarah hadn't been so late, she could've told her daughter not to eat dessert first.

She feels guilty, I can tell.

Sarah: So how has it been going? You’ve been keeping the kids in line? Sora: Yes. Definitely. They’ve all been very well-behaved. Sarah: ...sure, Sora.

This game is so weird about sitting down... not just when eating but in so many contexts. Let the Arimas sit!!!!!

ok but joking aside though this warms my heart.

Ibushi: Kinshirou, it's Winterfest! Lighten up. Kinshirou: I'm perfectly content, thank you. Ibushi: Try to laugh more! It's the spirit of the season. Like this! Kinshirou: Ibushi, no—

Ibushi: HO HO HO!!!!!!

Ibushi: Come on, it's only once a year. Try it.

Kinshirou: No.

He looks like he's still in a pretty good mood, though. I guess it’s Winterfest spirit.

The kids get sent home (it's literally just across the street lol) so that the adults can open presents. Makes you wonder what kinds of presents they're exchanging...

... oh :C

It was En's present, wasn't it? Wasn't it, En?

It totally was. En, how cruel.

This is one of the most perplexing and worrying screenshots in the entire series to date. Ibushi stares at Sora in disappointment while Kinshirou, who disappeared with Sora a few screenshots back, tries to exchange a smug and meaningful look with him. However, Sora is smiling (nervously?) at his wife, who, in turn, is staring into space, smiling obliviously, probably thinking about work.

Sora, what clandestine political plot have you dragged Kinshirou into? He might have family connections but he's a pure innocent bby, don't corrupt him! You know Sarah would never approve!!!

Sarah: *whispering* Yes, Sora, this is the right time to open presents. Sora: (Oh, god, she knows... how does she always know?)

Eventually, even the lure of presents isn’t strong enough. En can't help himself: He finds Atsushi again and grabs him in another passionate embrace.

Finally, once night has fallen...

Father Winter shows up! :O

...even though the fireplace is lit. Must be a tough job being Father Winter.

He's about to laugh, but it looks like he's got cramps. Too many cookies?

Despite his agony, however, he replenishes Ibushi's present pile. What a nice man. Not like you, Sora.

He's a much better gift-giver than En, too.

Just casually chatting with Santa, as you do.

Don't give Ibushi a hard time about his hygiene, okay, he's been working hard all day.

Finally, the holiday comes to a close. It's just Ibushi and Woody again, both passed out in Ibushi's extremely green bedroom.

:D

But now it's back to Kinatsuen. We have to switch households now or else we'll miss

En's favorite holiday, Pretty Boy Day. Look at all those hearts around the traditions I can't believe it

Atsushi has decided to be more thoughtful in choosing holiday decorations from now on. No more going to the store and grabbing the first thing he sees! He's going to think carefully about what'll look good and where.

Meanwhile, En has dragged Kinshirou onto the couch to set the mood early.

En: Look, what I was talking about earlier, with the tongues. Isn't it weird? Kinshirou: Yes, En, this is all very strange. (Oh, no, this is too vulgar, I can't watch... how is this even permitted on television... yet I can’t give En the satisfaction of reacting too strongly...)

Atsushi... you tried your best.

It’s actually not awful, for the most part, but the ribbons on the fences make my eyes hurt. The colors clash too much.

As Kinshirou flees the house to escape from that TV show...

...Atsushi comes downstairs to take his place.

Atsushi: Good morning, En-chan. What are you watching? En: ...you'll see. Atsushi: All... all right then...

At least they both get invested in the same plot points.

As an aside, Kinshirou has come back and started a fantasy novel, and the game suggested that I name it Cat Lord, Cat Counsel which is absolutely a book I would read.

Don't remember the last time I showed one of these so these are the books Kinshirou is currently getting royalties for. I don't even remember what some of these titles are based on? What AU would inspire a title like Forever Quiet, that sounds depressing.

Or that’s what I was thinking when I was typing this commentary as I played. Now, going through it again to post, I have an idea for what AU it might have been, and I was right. It’s depressing. Kinshirou, sometimes your books are real downers, you know that?

The sun has finally come out. Perfect weather for Atsushi to show the world his smuggler costume, right?

...well, En sold a painting and I got the Get Famous notif, even though the option itself didn't have the (+Fame) next to it when I clicked on it. So I guess this is the first step down the path to En Yufuin, famous artist.

I sound reluctant but actually I'm kind of excited haha. I even thought about having him not quit his job, since I think that would give him the chance to get things like fame chance cards, which would let him get fame faster... then I realized how OOC that was and changed my mind. En and Kinshirou, Atsushi's famous artist boyfriends.

En: Atsushiiii... Hey, Atsushi. How do you like my costume?

Atsushi: I like it, En-chan. It's subtle. I can barely tell you're in costume at all.

En: ...hey, what's that supposed to mean? Atsushi: Anyway, are you coming in for lunch? En: ...no. I was just showing you my costume. It's probably not getting any warmer than this, so I'd better do the best Pretty Boy Day tradition now. Atsushi: En, really? It's the middle of winter, you'll freeze!

En: Pretty Boy Day is still Pretty Boy Day even when it's snowing! Atsushi: Yes, but... you know what? You go ahead, En-chan. I'm going inside. En: You won't even stay and keep me compa⁠— Atsushi: Have fun.

En: (Well, fine, I'll just go by myself... what did that even mean, "I can barely tell you're in costume at all"? God, it's fucking cold. ...I wonder if they're watching, heheh. Although, actually, it’s so cold I’m not exactly at my best here.)

Atsushi: Hey, Kin-chan, don't look outside. En-chan is⁠— Kinshirou: *averting his gaze, his eyes barely open* YES, THANK YOU, ATCHAN, I CAN IMAGINE

Your sense of propriety is fooling no one, Kinshirou.

That's okay. They can have their own Pretty Boy Day in here while En is out having a good time.

Kinshirou even reprises his grim reaper costume.

...for just enough time to realize he feels stupid and take it off again.

Kinshirou: Yes... this is much better.

Kinshirou: What is that... ensemble. En: Do you like it? Kinshirou: No.

En does his best to change Kinshirou's mind.

In the background, Atsushi listens and laughs to himself. I would say he's watching, except, of course, he isn't wearing his glasses.

Have you ever looked at a character and just thought, "Yes... he is perfect"?

A happy ending to PBD. Is Kinshirou entranced by En's beauty, or is he annoyed that En fell asleep in Kinshirou's own bed before Kinshirou could even lie back down after the WooHoo? (The answer is: both.)

But then, he thinks, how sad will it be for Atchan if he comes home after a long day at work, after having to work on Pretty Boy Day, and he finds us both asleep?

So he goes down to wait for Atsushi instead.

Cute.

All right. The time has come. En wakes up and realizes he has no more vacation days remaining.

Employer: En, hello. Are you finally ready to come in to work? En: Ah, actually, no, I'm quitting, effective... now. Employer: You're quitti— En: Bye!

Bye.

This is the second time in a row he's painted this exact painting. He painted it, sold it, and started a new painting which is also this painting. I guess he just really wants to go to the beach.

Then, fuelled by black tea, he decides to improve his logic skill by observing the sky. I was laughing to myself at how slowly it was progressing when I remembered that he actually had several points in it already for work. That's how long it's been since I've paid attention to En's job lol

Who brings food to the computer and puts the bowl ON the keyboard, though? En is a madman.

It begins...

That was fast, though. Only two books. Maybe it made a difference that they were both bestsellers? Either way, congrats, Kinshirou. Although actually, I'm not sure he's going to be thrilled about the idea of fame.

That unsettled, perturbed stare as he gazes into the distance, imagining his growing fanbase massing on the horizon...

Okay, here’s a bit of a text wall, by the standards of these posts: I'm going to be honest, none of the fame perk trees are aimed at any of the Boueibus, but in particular not Kinshirou. Half of why this idea is so funny to me is that I love the idea of them getting famous through their writing or their art (or their cooking? celebrity chef Atsushi??) but being completely unenthusiastic about it and just wanting a chill life.

I think with Kinshirou and En, I'm going to go at least halfway up the tree that gets you more money from crafted objects, for obvious reasons. You also get some neat stuff in the mail every day! And, unfortunately for them, you gain fame faster from skill-based actions, which I assume includes writing and painting. If Kinshirou was still trying to be a villain, he could put points the negative reputation tree too, where being a douchebag in public makes you famous. But he is reformed now, thank you very much.

Anyway, all that is to say, here's Kinshirou's first fame perk (and En’s, once he gets to this point):

Now on to the story.

En: En, you're an artist, he says... En, Atchan's ribbons looked so horrible for Pretty Boy Day, he says... I don't have time, he says... Jeez, give a guy one success and he thinks he can order anyone around. After I'm done, he'll never ask me to decorate anything again.

I would probably have done something like this for New Year's Eve, left to my own devices:

Sadly, En wanted to repulse Kinshirou so we are instead left with this:

As many flashing lights and tacky prints as possible, all in different colors, none of which are New Year’s Eve colors. The anti-Kinshirou decorations. It’s actually not completely horrible. Maybe En was incapable of making something that looked completely horrible. But it is not great.

...and now I've found En's least favorite holiday. He doesn't like to decorate, as Kinshirou will soon discover, and he doesn't like to party. That's half the things you do on New Year’s Eve.

Maybe this will cheer him up, though. No more having Kinshirou boss him around. (Ha. As if. Kinshirou will always boss him around.)

Kinshirou: Good morning, Atchan. Atsushi: Good morning... Kinshirou: What's wrong? Atsushi: Oh, it's just... last night, when I got in from work... Kinshirou: ...yes? Atsushi: ...you really thought that was better than my Pretty Boy Day decorations? Kinshirou: What?

Kinshirou: Kinshirou: At least Ibushi's moved. ... Oh, no, Ibushi’s visiting later. Yumura-san is visiting later. We’re having guests.

En admires his own animal painting. He's feeling very pleased at the moment, and he's not sure why...

Turn around and you'll find out, En.

Atsushi has an ambition. A burning ambition. His goal is to make three fancy dishes and serve them all during a single event. And since they're planning to have people over for New Year's Eve, this is the perfect opportunity!

...or so he thinks. Ibushi, who has randomly come over without being invited or let into the house, is distracting him, making the whole thing take twice as long as necessary. Kinshirou is just cheering him on, deeply impressed as always by his boyfriend's kitchen skills.

But if they're going to have company, I need to remember that they own a thermostat so that everyone isn't stuck wearing jackets in the house.

As the sun sets, Atsushi calls the other two over.

Atsushi: Okay, guys, before Ibushi and his cousin get here... you know what time it is, right? Kinshirou: Yes, En. You know what time it is, don't you? En: Huh? What time is it?

Atsushi: It's time to make our resolutions! I wonder what I should work on next year... Kinshirou: *pointed look* En: ...he doesn't actually think I'll make a resolution, does he?

Kinshirou: Yes. I must focus on self-improvement. En: (They seriously think I'm going to do this.)

Atsushi: All right! I can do it! This year for sure! Kinshirou: Yes. I will be sure to... where is En?

Please appreciate my dedication to characterization over gameplay. Kinshirou could have chosen to write a book, which he does all the time anyway, and Atsushi could have chosen to complete an aspiration milestone, which he is about half an inch from doing. Forget the week-long time limit, he's going to do it in a few Sim hours. They were both so tempting.

(Also: "Kinshirou wants to work on a skill for his resolution! Start working on a skill to get this done!" Thanks for the tip, that clears up a lot.)

Everyone is here!

Kinshirou: I've been making progress with your request, Yumura-san, and I think... Sarah: Sora, what are you talking about over here? Sora: *thinking fast* A book we've both read. Kusatsu-san isn't a fan. c: Sarah: Hmm...

A nice, low-key New Year's Eve party. Except that Atsushi wasn't satisfied with his fancy salad so he's scrambling to make some extra. (That is to say, the gourmet dish counter for his aspiration reset unexpectedly lol)

Congratulations, Atsushi!!!!! That reward trait is incredible, too. Way better than En's.

Kinshirou is lagging behind a little with his aspiration but that's okay. I'm working on it behind the scenes.

Unlike some Ens I could mention, Atsushi already knows what he wants to focus on next. He wants to hone his nerdy instincts with the Nerd Brain aspiration, which focuses on logic, books, rocket science(!), and handiness. The video game-focused one would require him to change careers, sadly, so we're going with this.

As of right now, though, Kinshirou is the resident repairman. I guess Atsushi will have to slowly take over. Even though Kinshirou is already at 6 skill points... oh, well.

:D There they all are. And now Atsushi can finally eat his sparkling excellent!-quality food.

Ibushi and the Yumuras head home after dinner. Atsushi waits for the countdown to start on TV, but if En wants to stay up for that, he needs to take a nap while he can...

Then, once the clock ticks over to 11pm, the three of them commence the creepiest thing I have ever seen in The Sims 4.

Kinatsuen:

Kinatsuen: *in eerie unison* Shushoobie!

Kinatsuen:

Kinatsuen: *in eerie unison* Shushoobie!

Kinatsuen:

Kinatsuen: :D

It was honestly like watching a cult ceremony. Very scary. Happy Sim New Year???

Atsushi: Thank you for staying awake, En-chan. Or for waking up again, I guess.

Okay, well, that's cute. But is it cute enough to justify all the creepy chanting...

That’s all for today. Part 9 begins at the start of spring, the start of the new year, &c. &c. I can absolutely 100% guarantee this time that part 9 is the wedding episode, and I suffered so much to make that wedding happen that I’ll probably post it soon just to get it out there and away from me.

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Norway Road Trip with a toddler

If you ever considered visiting Norway, I have one thing to say to you - Go! Go! Go! CI could easily become a number one fan of this country and send messages to a random people convincing them to go there, but I am already nr 1 fan of Mia and it takes all my spare time. One is for sure - it is one of the most beautiful countries I’ve been to (and I’ve been to many) and I don’t even know how to start describing it, as all the words coming to my mind are more or less like “magnificent”, “stunning”, “incredible”, “unspeakable”, “unique”.

Here are some basic and useful info:

- internet - we got a SIM card at Telia, it gives you 10GB for a week and each week you’re there you can add 10 euros and get another 10GB. The only problem was that we could not charge it online by using a German credit card (only Norwegian works). It was a problem, as there’s not too many stores you can recharge it on a way. Having a Norwegian friend could be helpful. I didn’t have one so I ended up asking a salesman in a store to buy it for me and I gave him cash.

- costs - travelling around Norway in a motorhome is a great idea. You loose all the big costs like accommodation, camping sites, restaurants and cafes. In Scandinavia there is this beautiful law that land belongs to everyone, which means that you can park wherever you wish (of course not at someone’s backyard). We did free camping all the time. We cooked in a van and took a shower over there as well. There’s a lot of places where you can refill the water and get rid of the black and grey one. There is also this magical machine, where you place your toilet cassette inside and it does all the work for you (if you ever emptied one, you know what I mean. And… you will never forget the first time you take care of “this business”). Products in shops are a bit more expensive, that’s true. But what can you do, you need to eat plus it’s a very small price to pay for all the beautiful things you’ll see around. You can save money on drinking water, as it’s everywhere around.

- currency - we used a card everywhere, I did not use an ATM once.

- sleeping - anywhere, just like this. There’s so many beautiful spots over there. We did not plan overnight stops, we stopped wherever we love a place. The beautiful thing is that you can make a campfire in Norway. You will see so many prepared by previous travellers places for a fire. You can also use the campground, which are very well prepared and offer a shower :D

- food - I read somewhere that you do not travel to Norway for food. I think that this person did not try delicious fish they have. Another friend told me that she used to spend all her pocket money on fish when she was a kid. I am not surprised at all. They also have amazing local meat and goodies from a forest like blueberries in sugar - definitely recommended! We did not eat in restaurants, we cooked almost all the meals. We like to cook out of local products, it’s exciting and it’s fun to search for new goodies in a local store.

- Norway with a toddler - I think that there’s no better country to travel with a toddler. You have a beautiful animals everywhere, stunning views, many playgrounds. We could not go on a trekking as Mia was simply not interested. Not at all. But we still managed to see stunning places and experience a lot just by driving. Finding a place to stop and explore is not a slight problem and you can share your knowledge of plants and animals with them (mine is not impressive but for Mia I was a plant specialist). The thing about Norway is that, except for a beautiful nature, there’s not much to do. It helps to disconnect, focus on what’s important - hugging and kissing your kid. Just remember that your toddler will not stay happy only with kisses, it needs entertainment. If I can give you one advise about a toy that made our journey so much easier is a modelling clay aka plasticine - Mia loooooooves it! She could spend hours playing with it and making up her strange and super cute stories. She cooked many cakes and pizzas out of it.

- highway - is paid. You can register online and they will send you a bill via email.

- while travelling in Norway you will most probably use some ferries. Nothing to worry. You just go wherever you wish and when you get to the port, you wait in line of cars and give your card or cash before boarding. No need to go anywhere or book things. Easy. It’s also another way to see unique views.

- when to go. We went there in August and there were not that many tourists. July is apparently very busy, but also warmer. I’d love to go back in winter, but for this Mia has to be slightly older and my camper van slightly younger.

Our route:

Let me just write that you don’t really need to focus on getting to places. The whole road to your destination is stunning. If I could, I’d stop each 20m and take pictures. Unfortunately, my kid will make my life a hell if I did so I didn’t. But I did admire it through the window.

Hardangervidda nasjonalpark - We went through while driving from Oslo to Odda. I remember being shocked how stunning it is. We could see the traditional houses with roofs covered in grass, horses and beautiful views. If Mia was more optimistic about trekking, I’d definitely do some. But for now I have a plan to come back when she’s older.

Eidfjord beautiful town with stunning fjords. We stopped there just to take some pictures as you cannot pass next to this view. They do have a good coffee as well :)

Odda - it’s not about Odda itself, but its surroundings. There are some beautiful trekking options in the hood and the town itself is pretty. Little houses on hills are cute as well.

Fjaerland we stopped for a night under a glacier. How crazy amazing is this! When I was travelling with Mia in New Zealand we had to take a helicopter to enjoy it. In Norway it’s just there, waiting for you :D

Skei I Jolster - was my coffee stop. I made my own coffee and stood there staring at this stunning view. There was a house just next to it. If they ever sell it, I’d love to buy it. So I guess I have to start saving 10 years ago.

Loen - one of my favourite spots. Turquoise water, stunning fiords and we had fun over there with Mia. On the end of the road, there’s a very lovely camping site.

Stadlandet - it’s surfers beach and there were many surfers over there. It’s one of these unique places where you have to go down with a very narrow curly road and need to look at all the stunning views on the way. The only minus I guess is that you cannot stop there just like it, you need to pay. It’s obviously more than worth it! We stayed for the sunset over the curly road and it was one of these pure happiness moments.

Runde - unfortunately I did not manage to take pictures of the island as Mia fell asleep on my hands and it was carrying her around for about 45 minutes. After this experience I had to wait a bit before driving as I could not operate the steering wheel. The Island is beautiful and I definitely recommend visiting.

Alesund and Stiftinga Sunnmøre Museum- it’s a village which is a museum. You can check out how they used to live in Norway and it’s pretty cool. You can visit an old shop, check out the buildings or go on a Viking boat!

Trollstigen - this is a hell of an experience, especially for a driver. You want to go down with this road! Not up, at least I prefer not to with my 23 year old van. I do not have a support in a steering wheel and I did it! Just look at all these curly roads.

Atlantic Ocean Road - each part of this road is stunning. These are small islands connected by many bridges. All of them covered with green grass (most probably in the summer) and tiny houses. Behind one, there’s a ship wreck.

Trodheim if I only could sit in one of the cafes and enjoy a view. Meantime, I kept running after Mia, which was pretty awesome as well.

Foldereid we stopped here on our way on the ferry to Lofoten. It’s not a special or a popular spot, I just truly enjoyed the surroundings and took 1000 of pictures over here.

Lofoten - is a unique place in Norway. I will risk writing that it’s a must if you want to see an unspeakable beauty of mountains thrown into a water. Lofoten includes islands connected by bridges or not (so you need to use ferry sometimes, but you don’t need to, depends on where you go). I think that the most popular part is at the end. We got there by ferry and started from there. If you travel without a toddler, I believe you can make some awesome trekking. But I do travel with one and she prefers short ones, which means 15 minutes max. We stopped at a few stops, but to be frank, the whole drive is simply beautiful.

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Hamnoya

Sakrisoya

Moskenesoya

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Husoy, Senja - a tiny town located on a tiny island which creates a spectacular view.

Oldervik - town at the end of a road. It’s something what I am glad I experienced as the way over there was filled with horses and beautiful sunrise and I woke up to one of the most beautiful mornings.

Nordkapp - I wanted to skip this part, as thought that I saw enough beauty in Norway and nothing will surprise me. I was obviously wrong. Nordkapp is a must in Norway, at least from my perspective. This is a place where you can hang out with reindeers and I mean it. I woke up to them in the morning. They were sleeping in front of my camper’s door. And I give you 100% chance that you’ll meet them a lot :) The area is also beautiful. I wanted to go there for a day, but I stayed for long. I can totally see myself staying there forever.

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