#pre-simblr pics

[fireflysparks]

Julie Parker

Julie Parker is the middle child of the Parker family. She's sporty and not afraid to stand up for herself or what she feels is right. But she's still figuring herself out. Julie and Jenny are often at odds with each other, because they're very different. But in spite of that, Julie loves her younger sister dearly. And she would do anything to protect her family.

[fireflysparks]

If I wanted to introduce you to my heart and soul made into sims...

Jane Roberts never fit in. After years of teasing from her classmates, all she wanted was to blend in and be normal. But on Jane’s first day of fourth grade, her life changes completely when the new girl, Jenny, brings with her arrival the secret of magic. Jane goes into training, where she learns the ins and outs of magic and its great history. But not even magic can top the feeling Jane gets when she meets Chaz Parker, Jenny’s older brother. She’s head-over-heels and wants to be with Chaz forever, but a nine year age difference makes Jane wonder if he’d ever look at her that way. Between learning magic and falling in love, Jane’s year is bound to be anything but normal.

I can't believe it's been such a long time since I first made my Magic Inc. characters as sims. These sims actually helped helped my first artist with the Magic Inc. cover.

Guys, I finally made the Parker family from my (eventually) upcoming book, Magic Inc. And the little Jane Roberts, my main character.

[potionio]

Summer Vacation.

[novvaable]

Get to Know Me- Sims Edition

thank you @hurricanesims for the tag <33

sorry for taking so long to reply, for some reason it took me ages to actually answer these questions🤠

What's your favourite Sims death?

i hate when my sims die.. i can honestly say i’ve never forcefully killed any of my sims as I get so attached to them. in this case, id probably say death by old age.

Alpha CC or Maxis Match?

alpha! back when I used to play ts4 i gravitated towards maxis match.

Do you cheat your sims weight?

seems pointless to me lol

Do you use move objects?

yes!🫡🫡 impossible to build /decorate without it

Favourite Mod?

nrass master controller - it so universal and makes life a lot easier 🥺

First Expansion/Game Pack/Stuff Pack?

my first expansion was university life. it will forever have a special place in my heart, I love it so much

Do you pronounce live mode or aLIVE or LiVing?

never even thought about it honest, probably like alive??

whos your favourite sim that you've made?

my girlie marcie, she’s come so far with me so I just have a special kinda attachment to her lol

Have you made a simself?

no i think this would just make me miserable

Which is your favourite EA hair colour?

none. I always find the tones of ea hairs to just be a little off? i just use custom colours

Favourite EA hair?

well i dont use any EA hairs they look ugly I have default replacements hairs by maryjane

Favourite life stage?

young adult

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

only recently have i been in it for the gameplay. but i use that phrase lightly. i wil forever be a builder at heart.

Are you a CC creator?

barely lol. sometimes i post occasional things for dl. my knowledge of cc making only scratches the surface. i can do the basics like make poses, and custom photos (alongside sims and builds - but who doesnt).

ive tried to get into cc making a couple of times but its so complicated? i have mad respect for cc makers in the community. ill leave that job to the professionals.

Do you have any Simblr friends or a Sim Squad?

back in my day... lol not so much anymore. after i took a fat hiatus a lot of the people i used to regularly talk with moved on.

@pixelevia is still my girlie. she doesnt post much, but we talk all the time off tumblr and regularly get each other excited about sims storylines that are yet to come to life lol.

Do you have any sims merch?

yes.. i am embarrassed to say that when ts4 was release i pre-ordered the deluxe version. it came with a mouse pad.. its long gone now. but i always remember it having a funky smell ??

also i dont wanna talk about the fact i paid an arm and a leg for ts4 (i dont even play it?!) and now its free. forever going to be salty over this fact.

How has your ''Sims Style'' changed throughout your years of playing?

i'd like to think it has! considering my blog is old, i feel like it has grown with me and that reflects in the style of my sims. recently ive been striving for a slightly more realistic looks to my sims

Whats your Origin ID?

i do have an origin id unfortunately. (is it stil even called that?)

i have a lot of opinions on this new ea app bs. but we wont go into that.

Who's your favourite CC creator?

everyone! honestly anyone who has the skills to be able to make beautiful and functional cc are brilliant.

but just to name a couple:

@rollo-rolls

@smallsimmer

@martassimsbook

@sourlemonsimblr

@satellite-sims

How long have you had simblr?

I had to check my email for this.. as of feb 2023, my blog turned 9 years old?! so I guess almost 10 years. (thats kind of mad)

How do you edit your pictures?

depends on the picture! usually for scenery pics I will just sharpen them and adjust the brightness / saturation / contrast.

for sim pics it really just depends on how bothered I can be.

I’ve recently made the change to gshade so that’s been doing all the heavy lifting for me.

I use hunnybee’s moon syrups preset <3

What expansion/ stuff pack is your favourite?

university life!! it was the it was the first expansion pack i got and so it holds a special place in my heart. its also a pretty awesome pack too.

tagged:

@satellite-sims / @smallsimmer / @pixelevia @kitty-pixelz

[erasabledinosaur]

cleaning up files. not in the mood to “play” sims 3 yet despite finishing all my builds (i did start some new bs soooo...)

found some old ass pics from my pre-simblr days when i played ts4.

if i ever went back to ts4 it would only be for my best girl and her two alien kitties (also the OG cactus blossom being used in sims 4..weird)

[madeofcc]

Already so many have been said ! Here some stuff I do as well :

1/ Don't be affraid to have your own style, story and characters even if it's not what simblr is used to like/reblog. There will be an audience waiting for your story (except if it's an awefull racist and homophobic one, we'll ignore you otherwise because we're tired of this shit). I personnally love horror/thriller, that's why I'm focusing on these genre.

2/ Don't be affraid to play with genre and things you love. For instance, I cut my main story Destiny Harbour in 5 parts/seasons that explore themes I wanted to work on : s1 is about teenagehood and basically is a tribute to teenage occult drama tv shows like Buffy, s2 was about to be focused on global warming and how rich people doesnt give a fuck about it and was more a dramatical comedy season as it also includes plots focused on romance and family, s3 is about the end of teenagehood, the toxic masculinity and will be a tribute to Wes Craven's Scream and Nightmare on Elm street (so that means it will be a horror story), s4 is about adulthood and how my characters will face it, the story is also a tribute to Stranger Things and zombies story, s5 will be about social rights and also the end of the entire story so I still have to think more about it. Don't be affraid to play/use your personnal reference because we're going to love recognizing them while reading your story.

3/ Make your characters fail and grow. It's always better to follow a character that seems more complex than just the super hero kind. I personnally love to see my characters failing a lot just to be happier when they succeed. If your story is long, don't be affraid to make them older like I do with mine (Destiny is 18 when we start and will be 30 by the end of the story). You don't need to show us their entire life, just some important moment that will lead you and us where you want this story to end.

4/ If you're writting a sims story focusing on the pre existing sims, don't be affraid to play with the lore of this game ! There's a lot of hints for each family to give you the basic elements you need to start your story. And the best of it is that you can play with all the genre, with all the family. Just think about the Goth and all the twisted plots they can be part of : family comedy like The Addams, a weird family SF with alien abduction, a thriller focused on Bella's disapearance (yeah I already did that), a haunted house story (that manor is creepy as f*), a teenage story focused on the kids ... See ? The lore is also here to help you sometimes :)

5/ Don't be influenced by "the trend" if you don't want to talk/use something that it's popular, your true followers won't blame you for respecting your original choices.

6/ @zombietrait is right, music is DA shit !

7/ Don't be affraid to play with content and visuals. I love to add some kind of realism including text, twitter, simblr account or else on my screenshots when it's necessary. That way, you can focused on the story itself rather than the screenshots and also give some dynamic to your story. I love to make gif for instance, creating some kind of cinematic experience. It's a good way to show more stuff than you've planned in just one pic. It's also a good way to show something random but important to your readers like someone's room or a little note left somewhere, anything that can says something about your characters life/personnality.

8/ Don't be stuck on an idea and makes it evolve if you can't find/create what you exactly need. If like me, you can't create your own poses or can't find the right accessories you need, try to find another solution before changing your story : think about your screen and how you could still tell that story but just from a different angle. Most of the time, you can still focused on a little part to make your scene work. Do we really have to see your character being tortured to understand that ? No. Do we really have to see how Don is bad at bed to understand it ? No. Using the right words is, most of the time, enough. Songs also works perfectly.

9/ Don't force yourself. If you don't feel inspired then you might not be. Don't stress and force yourself to post a story that is not inspiring you even if it's not completed and popular. If you want to move on, it's totally fine. But try to prepare some kind of ending plans before writting the story itself. It will help you a lot to write if you know where you and your characters are going. That way, if you cancel your story and have a lot of readers, you can still share your ending plans with them (think about all the tv shows you loved that has been cancelled without a proper ending). If you don't have a proper ending already, it's also fine don't worry.

10/ Don't compare yourself to others. You'll have your style, your flaws and qualities that no one else have so why would you want to change it just to be more popular ? Your audience will like you no matter what because you are you ! So be patient, be nice and don't be affraid to share your wonders with us :) Be proud of this special creativity of yours. Also, when you feel down, remember that you're basically doing the job of an entire movie crew (including the marketing, producing, FX team and all) by yourself so .... Respect !

Let’s share our storytelling tips and tricks when posing a sim with an accessory I make two outfits, one with the accessory, the other without a accessory so I don’t have to go back into CAS.

[deathbypufferfish]

Updated the sims from my old sims story I did pre-simblr! It was a no-dialogue story I did on my finsta for my irl friends lol. It was called "College Mayhem" and I did story polls for my friends to make plot decisions.

Horatio Goodwin | they/them

Jasmine Hoyt | she/they

Enid Houser | she/her

Darion Bolton | he/him

Mia Xiong | she/her

Dakota Darling | he/him

before pics under cut

[cerulean-sims]

wedding vibes 🥰

[pxlheaux]

Sunday morning photoshoot.

Kenya and Kane are all packed and ready to head to the airport and take their flight to Kenya’s surprise vacation destination. He woke her up early in the morning, telling her to put on this dress with these new shoes he bought her and brought a fully packed suitcase in their room.

Kenya loved it, and the pictures, but she her pregnancy hormones still had her looking at the back of Kane’s head like he was crazy.

[legilimensims]

This has to be my fave apartment makeover I’ve ever done.

Heavily inspired by this apartment by Thetideschanging, but I put my own twist to it.

It’s now occupied by my current off-screen household, the sisters Ava and Felicity, and Felicity’s cat Oliver (I just couldn’t resist lol OTP).

It’s a bit cramped but I love it :3

[simlit]

a visual guide | requested by @izayoichan​

Iza asked me for some tips to get started with fantasy setup and scenery, and I've been asked before in the past, so I figured I'd just write up a post to better explain my personal process. This is by no means a tutorial and if you like your builds to be playable and seamless this is not the post for you. But if you're interested in how I go about things or just have a morbid interest in long rambling posts, enjoy!

decide what you want to see in your pictures

I approach all my pics the same way, because I generally have a specific look I want to achieve, the same way I have a type when I make sims, I like all my pictures to have a consistent aesthetic throughout. I think it's common that a lot of simblrs have a signature, even if they don't think they do. I'm just aware of mine and actively work towards it. But I haven't always had "my thing" and honestly the only way to find what is yours, is to try different things and find what stands out to you as being visually pleasing.

When I make photos I incorporate the same few elements; namely transparent curtains or "flowy draped things", leaves and florals which I use to frame my pictures to give some semblance of foreground and depth to my photos. Plus a lot of hazy soft white light... and sometimes sparkles.

One way I can recommend to find what your style is without taking heaps of pics, is to go through your favorite kinds of artwork and see what elements pop up repeatedly. What sort of things do you like about those pictures and how can you try to mimic or incorporate them in yours?

building with the final product in mind

A lot of people have asked for my builds over the years not realizing that while some of my sets are expansive, they are only made for the explicit purpose of taking pics, and that I intentionally angle photos to give the impression that there's more to it than there is. Most of my sets are very small and don't make much sense in practice:

Think of the sort of picture you want to make, and consider your formatting. For edits I do "pinterest/lock screen" style vertical format, which means I will have a very narrow, very tall lens, so I only need to decorate in a condensed space. For story shots I have to build more extensively because they are wide shots. Building for a specific picture or set of photos can reduce the amount of work you put into setup.

planning your set

Depending on the sort of theme you're going for, find some pieces of cc that illicit that vibe of the aesthetic you want. Here are a few of my go-to’s when I do anything elven:

Take lot space into account. I almost always build on 64x64 lots unless I am doing a single room. When I build small sets I usually focus on details up front, then get less detailed for the background because I know they will be blurred. This applies to lived in spaces like homes or community lots where you would clutter surfaces, or in wooded areas, use more of your flower and stone clutter in places you know will end up in the photos.

Larger sets are much trickier, because you have to have a sense of scale to make things seem realistic, but since ts4 gives us limited space to work on, it can be very challenging. For my castle and other large scale builds I usually only build one particular area on a lot, then other pieces of it on separate lots. [For example, in this CotS scene, the bridge entrance into the banquet hall was on one lot, while the interior was on another]. This is one way I make things seem larger than what they really are. But this is not recommended for someone who wants full builds with all locations seamlessly together.

When I start building, I generally begin at the middle and expand outwards. I’m not one of those smart people that pre-plans where everything will go on a lot, I just go in swinging and hope things fall into place lmao. Please reference this ask for more evidence of my failure and disorganization amazing city-building skills.

Use flowers, rocks and bushes to hide sharp edges or corners, especially to cover the bottom of walls or foundation. A little terrain painting underneath to add naturalness, and some fallen leave clutter to give the appearance of the passage of time. 

Scale is really important in high fantasy. As scenery elements in fantasy concept art, movies or video games are often depicted as massive, and impose themselves on the surrounding setting. Here’s a great video that explains scale in art. How can we achieve this in sims? Easy! We have the power of resize button ;) Add some interesting angles and voila!

Make the lot seem bigger, more "mystical" with the use of fog and light objects for exteriors, or mirrors when doing interior/corridors. 

Downloads: [fog rugs] [light + darkness objects]

As a purely alpha simmer, I also use heavy foliage, cliff rocks, backdrops and fog to obscure the maxis match game world. 

Use TOOL mod and OMSPs like your life depends on it.

If you want more technical and visual guides on how to build in ts4, or do big city builds, I know kateEmerald and SatiSims both have time lapse and how-to videos on their youtube channels.

When building fantasy sets I don't usually have reference photos. The fun part is creating my own personal world, so I don't want to mimic something inch by inch. Instead I try to recreate a feeling for myself. I've always loved fantasy, LOTR in my favorite movie, and WoW was my first major MMO. Their settings make me incredibly nostalgic, not only for the feel of the parallel history they represent, but for the time and place in my life in which I discovered them. When I'm building, I am specifically trying to recapture that feeling. Which is why I settle on a handful of sets and use them again and again, because they represent some portion of that memory. 

It's hard to explain it in writing, but I recommend digging through your own personal experiences with your favorite fantasy game series, novel or maybe a place you visited that gave you a feeling of "magic" and try to weave that into your build. One such place for me is Yehl/Vaia's bedroom, which reminds me a lot of the room in Rivendell where Frodo wakes up after Arwen's ride, or the inn from AoA which makes me nostalgic for the renaissance festival in my home state. Focusing on the feeling can be sometimes better than trying to recreate something, because often when using a fantasy concept ref you are going to run into some game limitation, especially if you can’t make your own cc, and that will discourage you from continuing. It may also be better than using other people's game photos as reference, because then you will likely end up too similar and that style wont feel like your own. But if you’re just starting out, I really recommend using pinterest to collect some images of things you like, photographs or artwork, anything. It’ll give you a starting point if you’re completely lost.

After sitting down and trying to write this up, I realized it’s much more difficult to explain via text how I make any of my sets LMAO. I know you primarily asked for my thought process and such, but I’ll be happy to try and answer any specific questions you might still have. All in all, the only way to improve is to practice. And try not to get discouraged and give up, because that only hinders progress. Find some part of it that you can love, cuz otherwise you’ll never be able to make yourself do it xD Anyways, this was just a long drawn out way of saying “throw things at the wall and hope they stick”, GL!

[fireflysparks]

Kimberly Cordial

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[simsandsonder]

Welcome

Hey, I'm Sarah! I've been playing the sims for ages now and have always enjoyed browsing other people's simblrs but never made one of my own. I've finally decided to bite the bullet SO! Welcome to my brand new simblr! I play the sims 3 and post pics + stories of my rotational game play. I'm currently playing in Hidden Springs with pre-made families but my goal is to create a custom hood from scratch someday. Feel free to like/reblog, whatever (I'm still figuring this site out lol) - I'd love to find some fellow simmers to follow and interact with!

<33

[larularo]

check in tag ✔️

thank you so much @pixeldemographics for the tag!! 💖 it’s been a while since I answered these kinds of posts.

why did you choose your url?

This is my 3rd url btw! (previously silly-daydream and myshvno). I wanted a more distinct url that isn’t just random or related strictly to sims, since I talk about other games from time to time. Laru-laro means “to play/playing” in Tagalog, which is pretty apt for this blog.

any side blogs? if you have them name them and why you have them.

Just my cc finds blog @larularo-cc and my simspiration blog @mamaya-laro under this main one.

how long have you been on tumblr?

Uhh I was 12/13 when I made my first blog (which has since been deactivated), soooo 2009/2010? I witnessed the cursed superwholock era, if that counts.

do you have a queue tag?

It’s just “q”, but I kinda want to go with “right behind queue” as a Mass Effect reference, maybe next time.

why did you start your blog in the first place?

I decided to search other people’s sims gameplay and found out about other people’s stories and custom content, and I ended up making a simblr bc it seems fun!

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

It’s my simself, bc why not; I actually want to change it with one of my sims, Clementine, but haven’t gotten around to pick and edit a new profile pic yet.

why did you choose your header?

There’s no header atm, I like the minimalism for now.

what’s your post with the most notes?

My In Your Element eyeset, which is pretty unexpected ngl

how many mutuals do you have?

Tbh idk, is there a way to check? 

how many followers do you have?

Too many for someone who’s on her third blog revamp, most of them are probably inactive/deactivated too.

how many people do you follow?

408

have you ever made a shitpost?

I did before! Though I purged most of my posts pre-2017.

how often do you use tumblr each day?

Right now I restrict being online during the weekends since I want to focus my energy on work during weekdays.

did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

Nope, I try to stay in my lane as much as possible. 

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

Ugh it does the opposite effect on me and makes me want to ignore it on my dashboard even more.

do you like tag games?

Yeah! They’re really fun.

do you like ask games?

Yeah!!! Though my current saves aren’t fleshed out yet to warrant storytelling asks, they seem fun when other ppl do it.

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

First that comes to mind is @squea, which I’m still in disbelief until now bc she has such great character designs and cc! There’s more, but I’ll be writing this post for far too long.

do you have a crush on a mutual?

nope!

tags?

You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to/have already made this, but tag, you’re it!

@hotpatched @aggretsimko @squea @wooldawn @helloavocadooo @cherryfangs

[cmescapade]

Simblr Community Challenge by @amelettes

Rules: Tag some people, and let the community bonding commence!

Tagged by @aniraklova & @simsulate! ty for the tag 🥰

I’ll tag uhh @forgotten-pixels @fataleromeo​ @theageofsims and whoever would like to do it 🥰

gonna put it under the cut bc im chatty 😭

How long have you been playing the Sims?

On and off since uhh 2004?? My first exposure to the Sims was The Sims: Bustin’ Out for the PS2, where I had a sim named Pepto Bismol. 

...it was my favorite commercial ok 

How long have you been a Simblr, and why did you become one?

I’ve been a simblr since uhhh December 2017? I wasn’t that active then because I was too busy trying to figure out how everything worked on Tumblr since I never really had one (My really old one in like 2010 or w/e doesn’t count since all I did was reblog things when I remembered I even HAD a tumblr ahahahah)

I became a simblr only because I was told I should have one lmfao 😭 I thought simblr was scary bc ppl come and go all the time and everyone’s so good at editing n shit n all i ever do w my screenshots is redraw a hand every now and again

anyways Pre-Dec 2017 I made poses for myself, friends, and basically anyone who asked because I loved storytelling in The Sims. No one back then ever made poses for children specifically since child rigs in like 2015-2016 were so janky the only way to make them was to pose an adult rig and import it--so I decided that I could put up my random child poses for download in case anyone else was like me and needed them

even tho everything i made back then was.................................. questionable 

What type of Simblr are you?

The kind that tries to post sims-related content but fails bc they post pics of their INCREDIBLY HANDSOMe son every other time i mean c’mon u cant blame me for that just look at him

my chonky son, i love,, he smile,

i post gameplay and cc! for my gameplay stuff i’ll post as often as i could, but i’ll usually post cc on like sunday or monday, if i forgot to hit queue LOL

Which generation of Sims do you primarily play?

I prefer playing TS2 and TS4, but TS4 more often as of late. Nothing wrong with TS3, it just constantly runs like ass on my computer and I always forget where I saved my mods lmfao 

I don’t post my TS2 screenshots here because they always come out odd or I end up using a 3rd party program to take them, but here’s a gif of Colin & toddler Amy before they became vampires lmao

I also really like the Sims Medieval and ofc Bustin’ Out :))) but I forgot to backup my TSM screenshots when my old drive decided to peace out still kinda sad about that.......................

[trumpets0ng]

#FaceYourSims Challenge by @samssims

This was a trend on instagram called #faceyourart but I thought it would be fun to bring it around simblr. Post 9 faces of sims you have 100% created (not born in game) to spot similarities and to see your style.

Thanks for tagging me @helloavacadooo ! Since the great computer crash of 2020, I’ve been trying to replenish my sims stock, but it’s been slow going. (please note: many of these pics were taken pre eye defaults, lol)These are some of the OC’s that have been made from scratch. Some of my stories major players however, were either made over NPC’s & in-game characters or gifted to me by other simmers and didn’t fall into this challenge’s guidelines. 

One thing I’ve always known about my style is that I prefer square/sharper jawlines, high cheekbones and smaller eyes. 

I’m tagging @thesimsblues, @therichantsim, @ladybugsimblr & @storiesbyjes2g (feel free to ignore)