#round robin legacy challenge

[teamdesert6]

Being a Huckleberry comes with certain responsibilities and expectations, but Lesley's determined to experience life on her own before taking Olivia's place as head of the Huckleberry household.

It took a little convincing, but after a tearful goodbye and a promise to return (and to host plenty of family dinners), Lesley signs a lease for an apartment in Copperhead City. Her first order of business?

Rocking out.

Watch out, world. Lesley Huckleberry's on the rise 🔥

[roguebotanist]

Receiving 71/101 (70.3%) of the votes, Lesley Huckleberry is our sixth-generation heir! Thanks to everyone who voted-- I definitely didn’t expect to break 100. I still have to tie up some loose ends before passing the neighborhood on, but rest assured, the legacy will continue. Tune in to @ejsims’ blog later this summer for the next generation!

[katatty]

Bonnie: Wooo, silver fox! I know where Jayden gets his good looks.

Kurt: Ha! He's not actually mine, biologically speaking. But I appreciate the compliment. You're obviously very attractive too.

Jake: Wow.

(Slight spoilers, but this was the exact moment Bonnie was out of the running for "Jayden's future spouce" to me, lol! I don't want my poor boy marrying anyone lusting after his family members, lmao)

[confusedshades]

Game: 10 First Lines Challenge

Rules: Share the first line of your last ten published works or as many as you are able to and see if there are any patterns!

Tagged by the amazing @zorilleerrant!

So I don't have 10 fics posted, but here's what I have already and one which will be soon posted. (Just needs a round of editing before it's ready so I'm counting it)

1. Eroticism of the Everyday - Jason’s morning cup was interrupted by furious knocking.

2. Hoarding Robin - Tim’s obsession with the Robin had originally started with the quadruple somersault that had reminded him of something.

3. Awkward Family Dinners and Anecdotes - Tim didn’t have a lot of regrets in his life, but he had a few.

4. Are You a Mister or a Miss? - Danny was exhausted.

5. Legacies We Leave Behind. Legacies We Inherit. - “What shall we drink to?” Jason asked.

It was interesting to realise that I tend to introduce the character whose perspective I'm using within the first sentence itself. A lot of my writing process is less deliberate choices and more instinct so I've never thought about sitting down to analyse my own writing style. I'll have to start looking more carefully at the choices I end up making to see where I'm going with stories.

No pressure tagging @ghost-bxrd @redbirdandbluebird23 @gaddaboutgriffon

[batman66sexyrogues]

Round 3, Match 3:

Boasting an impressive seven-octave singing range, Lorelei Circe alias the Siren started out as a prominent singer and harpist before turning to a life of crime, using a special high note to put men under her control. She was first introduced aiding the Riddler, hypnotizing heavyweight champions so they wouldn’t be able to challenge his title. This seems to be what gave her the idea to deduce Batman’s secret identity, as her next appearance would have her hypnotizing those who worked with him in an attempt to infiltrate the Batcave and, when that failed, hypnotizing Bruce Wayne in order to commandeer his assets. Although her final confrontation with Robin and Batgirl seemingly resulted in the loss of her voice, Siren would later become a prominent rogue in the spinoff material, boasting a whopping seventeen appearances across mediums despite only appearing twice in the series proper.

With Julie Newmar unavailable for the filming of the movie (most sources I’ve read say she was filming something else at the time, with one or two claiming instead that she was recovering from a back injury) Lee Meriwether stepped into the role. Her Catwoman used her alias as Kitka to gain leverage against Batman, at one point even threatening to have Kitka killed if Batman got too close. Unlike Newmar’s Catwoman, Meriwether’s Catwoman did not seem to be attracted to Batman, or if she was, she never expressed it. While she teamed up with Riddler, Joker, and Penguin, she also seemed to enjoy escalating or at least watching disagreements between them, at one point even throwing her cat at them with the expressed desire that said cat would scratch them. While there is some question over whether her Catwoman should be considered the same character as Newmar’s or a separate one, the spinoff film Batman vs. Two-Face would portray her as almost a legacy character, initially a prison staff member who Newmar Catwoman swapped places with in order to escape, while the comic spinoff seems to see her as being Newmar’s Catwoman, since she never has a proper appearance in the books.

[2dkapsddr]

October 20th, 2023 - SDVX EG, Groove Coaster, Project DIVA, DaR, PIU PHOENIX, DDR A3

THE TRUE DAY OF RECKONING HAS ARRIVED, NOW IT'S REALLY TIME FOR MOTL5 GAMING!!! but first, isn't this card the absolute coolest??? i got it while checking into the event, slapped a crude drawing of my fursona onto it, and now i'm geared up n ready to destroy!!!

so i went to waffle house for the very first time with my family to eat breakfast (very good experience btw, i already miss the chocolate waffles), then we set off to spend the whole day at the mall and GUESS WHO I FOUND FIRST THING IN THE MORNING

IT'S BOMBER IN REAL!!! IN THE FLESH!!! WITH HIS ICONIC LACH TOWEL!!! AND HE KICKED MY ASS AT SDVX!!! (but he gave me haruka e-amuse pass to compensate :])

always wanted to meet him in person and the dream had become REAL, SUPER COOL EXPERIENCE!!!

also random tangent but while we were playing sdvx, it turned out the PIU Phoenix kit was installed overnight and was being played while we were playing?? just last night it was XX... but i guess now i'd finally get a taste of the new system for the first time!

since all the dance game cabs (except DaR) were occupied for tourneys, i decided to warm up with the alternative... the busted old unused cabs! gc is so broken whyyy

bonus: HAPPY FAMILY feat. moca and uli!!! (the tiny kohammy is mine)

but now, after all those exhilarating meetings and fun times, it's time for the real deal, my personal action moment of the event... it was TOURNEY TIME!! STARTING WITH PIU PHOENIX!!! warmups were simple, trying out the new songs and getting used to the pads,

but then, it was the real deal vs MajinnTy in a waterfall-style bracket... and after almost getting wrecked with the top-right arrow dropping continuously... i managed to beat him 2-1 and took 2nd place in the pool!!! but since it's waterfall format (i didn't realize this until later), i got thrown into the redemption pool with everyone else and wouldn't get to play until later... but in retrospect that was STILL such an impressive victory.

so once the redemption pool started, i got put up against EMCAT, who had been slowly upgrading from level 2 up to here. it was a weird match, but i hypothetically managed to 2-0 in my set, getting this sick 985k on beat of the war! but once again, it wasn't enough to beat the acc gods in the pool, PacRob and Ty, and i ended up 3rd out of 6 in the bracket, which left me a little dejected to see i wouldn't have my dark horse moment in my first tourney... but in retrospect i worked against the odds and managed to do really well!!! such a nice showing personally, and i'm excited to train some more and try again some other time! (also the 2nd image is from the commentary that my friend watched when i was up which is why i mentioned the dark horse moment, forever alone...)

but NOW!!! IT WAS TIME FOR THE 2ND AND LAST TOURNEY OF MINE FOR THE NIGHT, THE ONE THAT WOULD SEAL MY POTENTIAL OVERALL LEGACY, THE DDR A3 TOURNAMENT!!! unlike the previous PIU tourney, this was a round robin format where all 4 players got to play against each other once in a best-of-three set. and after a set between two others in my pool, i was up for some back-to-back sets, starting with LUBANAHHHH

having warmed up already with pump, i decided to pick long train runnin' challenge for my warmup to confuse the commentators, but then the REAL action began. our first song was lubanah's pick, New York Evolved (Type A) DSP-13 (fucked up), which i dominated solely thanks to MA! and then when it was my pick, i PFC'ed Yoidore Shirazu ESP-13 on-stream once again, taking the set 2-0!!

next up was against KINDLADY/Zaphine, where we both went in without warmup and played Xepher CSP-15 (Zaphine's pick) and Mess With My Emotions ESP-12 (my pick), and i took the set 2-0 again!! except with such a close call on Mess With My Emotions...

and finally in my pool, i played against MisterGuy in both Step Machine ESP-14 (my pick) and Healing Vision (Angelic Mix) ESP-13 (MisterGuy's pick), where i would just barely win Step Machine by 2 points (even got clipped on the Ohio DDR channel), and then PFC Healing Vision to claim my 2nd in-tourney PFC, taking the set once again 2-0 and advancing to level 9 with a perfect performance!!!

level 9 came and i was put up against SnowStorm/SIM, thejurok, and gabbyjay, which would be where my demise would come... only before a bunch of cab crashes! no scores for most of these unfortunately, but i was bested 0-2 by SnowStorm on Revolutionary Addict ESP-13 and PARANOiA Revolution DSP-14 (my MA wasn't quite up to par on either songs, probably exhaustion from only eating before my pump tourney...)

for my set against jurok though, i won my first pick; roppongi EVOLVED Ver.D ESP-15, even despite forgetting to disable my sudden+ before the speedup!!! i forgot what his pick was, but i lost it and lost the tiebreaker too, MAX 300 DSP-12, in order to lose the set 1-2...

then lastly, the final and most ultimate set... the one against longtime Black Flag Academy admin and potential rival, GABBYJAY!!! this set was super funny because we both won each other's picks (he won Bang Pad(Werk Mix) ESP-13, i won osaka EVOLVED (TYPE1) DSP-13), and for the tiebreaker we got New Gravity CSP-14...

and after such an intense battle not shown on stream due to the sheer intensity and vulgarity (actually the stream was what was causing the cab to crash repeatedly), we finished the song and looked at each others' scores to see the results, and...

...by two points. i got a PFC up from a 988k, on-stream, not having seen the chart before, and yet i fell short by such a tight margin, losing the set once again 1-2...

but overall, super satisfying performance from both ends (and super funny reaction)!!! i loved this experience even if i didn't advance twice (which is fine, level 9 was more of a victory lap anyways LOL i was just a silly little teen playing against intimidating adults). but that did indeed conclude my tournament run at the mistaketh on the laketh, so until next time! thanks all who tuned in and cheered me on in chat, the support was so nice to read back at the hotel! but there's still 2 more days of the event to enjoy, so let's enjoy 'em!

[polizwrites]

PoliZ’s Stucky Bingo Round Four Masterpost  (R4011)

Despite the long runtime of this bingo, I wasn’t sure I was going to get a blackout - I did need an Adopted square and a last minute drabble to get there.    I filled 25 prompts with 24 fanfics (one multichapter work = 2 fills) for a total of 17,758 words written.  I completed seven of the nine Monthly challenges - woo!

I had a mix of platonic (eight) and romantic/sexual (fifteen) fils, plus two Stuckony fills. Ratings-wise,  I wrote fifteen Gen-rated fics,  five Teen-rated,  one Mature and four Explicit.

See below the cut for my completed card and fill list. 

B1 - Mutual Pining: Making All Things New - Chapter 3 [Steve/Bucky, Explicit,1837 words]

B2 - "Hold on. You can't even drive a car." : Stucky Bingo March 2023 Round Robin [Steve & Bucky, General,325 words]

B3 - Legacy: A Written Promise [Steve & Bucky, General,400 words]

B4 - AU: Artist/Muse: A Work of Heart [Steve & Bucky, General,652 words]

B5 - KINK: Double penetration: Fill Me Up With Your Love [Steve/Bucky/Tony, Explicit,1613 words]

I1 - 1930's: Casting Bread Upon the Waters [platonic --> romantic, General,456 words]

I2 - Marksmanship: A Moving Target [Steve & Bucky & Clint & Tony, General,100 words]

I3 - "Open wide": Stucky Bingo December 2022 Round Robin [Bucky & Steve, General,333 words]

I4 - AU: Changed into an Animal: Avian Avengers [Bucky & Steve, General,100 words]

I5 - Friends to Lovers: In Sickness and in Health [Platonic --> Romantic, Teen,1036 words]

N1 - AU: Fairytale: The Captain and the Soldier [Steve/Bucky, General,200 words]

N2: Okoye: A Refuge for Rogues [Steve & Bucky, General,701 words]

N3 - FREE: Making All Things New - Chapter 1 [Steve/Bucky, Explicit,2026 words]

N4 - Nerdiness: Stucky Bingo September 2022 Round Robin [Steve/Bucky, Teen,339 words]

N5 - Telepathy: Stucky Bingo October 2022 Round Robin [Steve/Bucky, Teen,330 words]

G1 - Adopting a pet: Stucky Bingo January 2023 Round Robin [Steve/Bucky, General,306 words]

G2 - Writing format: remix one of your fics: Half of the Flesh and Blood That Makes Me Whole [Bucky/Steve, Teen,1238 words] (ADOPTED)

G3 - Music: Stucky Bingo April 2023 Round Robin [Bucky/Steve, General,348 words]

G4 - KINK: Car sex: Well I Wanna Make Your Motor Run [Bucky/Steve, Mature,200 words]

G5 - SHIELD: Stucky Bingo May 2023 Round Robin [Steve/Bucky, General,341 words]

O1 - Identity Porn: Surrender (But Don't Give Yourself Away) [Steve/Bucky/Tony, Explicit,2192 words]

O2 - Stark Tower: The Words Engraved Upon Our Souls [Bucky/Steve, Bucky & Tony, General,986 words]

O3 - Domesticity: Rite of Spring [Steve & Bucky, General,369 words]

O4 - AU: Supernatural: Beyond the Beast [Steve/Bucky, Teen,984 words]

O5 - Innocence: Stucky Bingo November 2022 Round Robin [Bucky/Steve, General,346 words]

[teacherintransition]

Getting it Right Again…For the Very First Time

Self actualize, prioritize, …realize

The transition…looking back, fighting regrets, did you live the life you wanted?

Greetings lounge lizards, ne’er do wells, seekers, finders, travelers of the wind and or world … you open minded wanderers. The teacher in transition finds himself inspired …finally …with martini in hand to expound philosophical. We are three weeks into our time here in the Round Rock/ Georgetown/ Austin area and feel settled in enough to have explored the area and allowed it to work it’s magic. Each of our temporary homes have been genuinely unique in experience and effect on us.

The Austin area has a reputation of being an open minded, free thinking and perspective altering place. I’ve found my essential coffee house for my writing, planning and reading. We have enjoyed some incredible places to dine and have a drink; and beautiful landscapes that the Texas Hill Country is known for. In addition, I’ve wandered into some art spaces that have been very motivational. These places can be found most everywhere if one just slows down to look for them. As part of the post career explorative adventures I’ve taken, seeking out such locations is a non negotiable. The overall results have been positive, but there are two sides to every coin. Self actualization has taken one on the chin.

Though on the back side of fifty I may be, this …place has reawakened the youthful state of mind of a guy in his twenties. The bitter taste realized by who I am is that I never got to be that guy in his twenties. College was an exciting, challenging, growing time for me where I realized what I was capable of achieving and learning. Instead of going to art shows, concerts, hiking explorations, dining experimentations, late night adventures and intellectual musings …what was I doing? I was working sixty hours a week, changing diapers, coaching baseball, teaching Sunday school and getting a mortgage. Uh huh …opportunities missed. Do not get me wrong sports fans, I’ve held my mission to teach and to raise a family in the highest of regards, nothing higher in my mind, but being here …now …tickles the strings of regret just ever so. Regrets, we’ve all got ‘em, but we all don’t try to fix ‘em before it’s too late. I’m trying.

The adage, “better late than never” certainly is apropos here. I’m currently reading, “Singing Backwards and Weep” by Mark Lanegan; the frontman for the Screaming Trees, member of Mad Season and Queens of The Stone Age and renowned “Grunge” poet of the nineties. He was an artist I’ve held in tremendously high regard along with other nineties Rock luminaries like Kurt Cobain, Andrew Wood, Chris Cornell, Jerry Cantrell, Eddie Vedder, Travis Meeks and on and on. The level of self expression and awareness presented in a painful, deep form of music; hell, any form of art (I’m looking at you Vincent V.G. and Robin W.) amazes me and awakens the deepest longing to just touch the hem of their garment …so to speak. I wasn’t seeking any of that when passion burns brightest in our lives …I was Ward Cleaver.

What if? Where would I have been? A torment all to common too humanity when they dare to look back. Did I live the life I truly wanted? Yes, but it comes with a degree of tormenting regret. A degree …maybe a couple, but I’m …here …now. To become the legend that Mark Lanegan, Cobain, Staley, Cornell, Weiland, Gossard … a terrible price was exacted to achieve the dream of artist. Five of the guys I just listed didn’t make it to my current age of fifty six; all of them left families broken and alone. I wished to be an artist of spectacular accomplishment, but that’s a price I wouldn’t have wanted to pay. Yes, I was domesticated and obligated; yes, it was regimented and stifling at times, but I have a beautiful family a career legacy of helping young people. And I’m here …I’m …here …right …now. Walt Whitman says it clearly and magnificently in his poem, “O Me! O Life:”

O Me! O Life!

BY WALT WHITMAN

Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,

Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,

Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)

Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,

Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,

Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,

The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

                                       Answer.

That you are here—that life exists and identity,

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.*

I am here …I exist …now. I have a voice. I have regrets. I have …now. I think I’ll go sing.

*Whitman, Walt; “O Me! O Life!;” Leaves of Grass; 1892

[elfpuddle]

Duncan's Family Tree. What will change in the next generation? That's up to @roguebotanist , and where she starts is up to you. The heir poll closes this Friday night at 8PM US Eastern Time. Have you voted yet? Vote now!

[tabbycatmao]

An eventful, loving life. Rest well, Bianca. <3

[tamtam-go92]

I'm reading so many great Uberhood content atm again and it's itching me to lay my hands on one again. I know it's stupid and I can't commit to it anyway but I just love to see those huge 'hoods developing an intervined story and relationships between sims I'd never think of. I have set up a minimal cc game for my part of round robin and I think I'll use that game for the uberhood AFTER finishing my generation. I'm pretty hyped on the whole thing but don't get your expectations too high xD

[teamdesert6]

Lesley's ready to start dating, but serious Paul Winters is looking for ✨commitment✨

Hightailing it out of Dina's Diner after the date goes south, Lesley is determined NOT to miss Robin River, or Shaun Melons, for that matter.

[roguebotanist]

Lesley, a budding environmentalist, hopes to put her family’s fortune toward preserving Robin River’s natural beauty. Her plan is twofold: First, invest in sustainable architecture. Second, write the bassline to a hit single that will inspire teens across SimNation to start composting.

Aspiration: Fortune/Pleasure LTW: Become City Planner (Architecture) Personality: 3/7/8/1/8 Traits: Vegetarian, Ambitious, Slob, Loves the Cold Hobby: Music & Dance Parents: Olivia Huckleberry & Daryl Dalton Life State: Werewolf

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[katatty]

Hi Kat! ☀️

First of all I am in awe. Big fan of your 8 baby challenge series, and of all you do in general 😁 as a storyteller especially. Hats off, you're very talented.

I was wondering, do you have multiples dowload folders? Do you switch depending on the save? I lurked on your blog/simblr a lot (as a fervent reader of yours) and genuinely wonder how you manage a) so much cc or b) switching defaults/cc depending on the saves 😊

Impatiently waiting for the next Baby challenge ep 📺🥳👌

Hope you have a great day.

Hello! Thanks so much for the sweet message! <3 There should be a new baby challenge video coming out later today, I just need to finish editing it xD

I do have multiple downloads folders that I switch out depending on the save, kinda! My EA Games folders looks like this:

(I like it this way, rather than switching just downloads, because this way it isn't possible to load the wrong neighbourhood for the downloads you currently have in and mess up your neighbourhood deco, lol! you can also have different collection files, cameras, etc.)

(Putting the rest under a cut since I got way too detailed describing all this, lmao)

So I have:

a "no cc" game folder for building projects (because I prefer building without cc if I am going to be sharing it)

a "low cc" folder for my YouTube saves, Fiero legacy, and a few other things

my "full cc" folder for my Hollyhead BACC & Pleasantview Plus uberhood.

The last one is definitely too much CC (24GB) and it does noticably make my performance quite bad lol! The game lags a fair bit and will start to flash pink if I play for too long, especially if I am loading large and heavily decorated lots. (This is why I go with a lower-cc vibe for Youtube especially, and whenever I start a new hood these days it tends to be a low-cc one).

Hollyhead & Pleasantview Plus both use the same mods and cc (arguably a mistake LOL), but I do switch out the neighbourhood-specific default replacements, the folders look like this:

There's not that much difference here lol, but they do use different plantsim skins, differences in careers, & Hollyhead has some "fantasy" defaults I don't want showing up in my uberhood.

Then, the "low cc" folder is much more limited! Mostly just essential bodyshop stuff, any maxis sets like the life stories collection or the store stuff, objects that have some sort of useful functionality... but then within that I do have more themed folders I swap in and out depending on the save :)

Robin River is my old for a round robin legacy hood, has some desert-appropriate default replacements & a few bits of cc specificly made for that legacy

Honeycoast is one of those indefinite-hiatus projects, has a lot of "European" build and buy cc as well as defaults

Shellcastle Sands is my legacy hood for the Fieros, the town has a beach city look so has a bunch of fun summery defaults

"Sprucestead" was the beta name for Spruceburg and has all the cc I use in both of my Youtube series. Way fewer default replacements in this folder since I went with more of a pure "maxis match" aesthetic

Each of those folders also includes a slightly different aging mod since I like tweaking that depending on how I am playing the neighbourhood, haha! I also have Uberhood_Mods and Spruceburg_Mods which have a few things that are stuff I want in the 8 baby challenge but not in Sprucebug, and vice versa. (e.g. only the uberhood has the playable nannies mod, Spruceburg has the more dangerous fires mod, etc.)

Uhhhhh, in terms of organisation, I just try to label each folder clearly and keep all my not-in-use folders on my desktop so they're easy to find. I think the different icons make it easier to tell stuff apart! I keep all sort of sims stuff (programs, backups, projects, mods I am saving for later, neighbourhoods, etc) clumped together on my Desktop and tidy it up every once in a while xD

As for how to make the custom icons bc I imagine somebody might ask about this lol, you do it like this:

I downloaded a pack of Sims 4 icons years ago (I can't remember where, sorry!) and made them into .ico files, this was long enough ago I don't really remember the details but I found a wikihow article that explains it xD

Sorry this ended up a crazy-long reply lol, I will say that all this is really not remotely necessary and arguably is quite convoluted and messy, hahha. It's like this bc I have been playing for 10+ years 😅 but I really enjoy organising folders and the like lmao, it's so satisfying to me!

[teamdesert6]

[teamdesert6]

How have the Huckleberrys been you ask? WELL--