#sim: Long Quiet

[paintinthesims]

Settling in - Part 2

Note: this post is kind of huge, since I decided to take on the bulk of my screenshots for this part.

From where I left off, my sims were starting to run a bit low on simoleons, so they had to start looking into ways to make a living. While Quiet focused on studying logic, Princess ventured out into the forest to find seeds for her garden.

She eventually ventured into the town's Big Park. Usually they're a good source of seeds, but what Princess found instead was tons and tons of flowers. She spent a couple hours just harvesting them. Sometimes a new flower would immediately pop up elsewhere the moment she picked one. After she had picked the park clean, she had about §1,000 worth of flowers in her basket. She would go on to regularly gather flowers here, but in the meantime she still had some time to kill so she decided to peruse the seasonal attractions.

It seemed she and Quiet weren't the only unusual characters living here... There were a few ghosts having an eating contest, and another ghost that had apparently been drifting around the rollerskating rink for actual days.

She eventually found a smack-a-gnome game, which... she was not very good at.

When she later arrived home, she saw that Quiet had bought a chessboard. Logic books could get pretty expensive, but there was no limit to how much they could learn from chess. It would be a great way for them to develop a useful skill, strengthen their bond, and have fun all at the same time. There was no room for it in the house unfourtunately, but at least they still had the outer roof to protect them from the weather.

Later, Quiet started on making goopy carbonara for dinner. He seems to have made himself quite at home in the kitchen.

Some days later, Quiet finally got a new job as a Ghost Hunter. He initially considered becoming a firefighter, but realized that his feathers would easily catch fire. He also happened to have some experience with ghosts, so he was a good fit for the job. Though... they did force him to wear some uncomfortable human shoes.

The next day, I got a nice shot of Quiet and Princess playing chess. I thought it was cool how they're playing matching colors but... Don't look too closely at the board. ^^;

One night when Quiet was doing some ghost hunting at the gypsy van lot, I saw some people picknicking.... In the middle of the night. During a full moon. On closer inspection, I think they might actually be zombies. I don't know which is funnier.

Going back to Princess, her garden is really kicking off. As her skills increase, she'll be able to plant even more of the seeds she finds in the wild.

I caught a tender moment between these two in the kitchen. I'm not sure if it's because of a mod I have installed, but they've actually started autonomously flirting with eachother every time I let them socialize on their own. They're (surprisingly) not a thing yet, but they probably will be sometime soon.

[vickozone]

Proving that I am still alive, here are some quick sketches and a drawing I’m working on

[loveabledustbunny]

please don't kiss the birds (they have teeth)

[neverfeverdream]

the distortion except it’s just a really fucking weird parking lot

[cookiealchemieart]

Did I post this here? Uhhh anyway have TLQ being a creacher in Jon's office

[aspiringsophrosyne]

Oh damn.

I only just realized.

The Specter's third chapter. The Moment of Clarity's nightmare. The stencil chalk drawings that Shifty shows us for every Vessel at the end of the game....

(spoilers below the cut)

They're all in the same style because they're all from the Princess's point of view.

[eggnoodlesoop]

realized i haven't posted anything tma in a bit WHAT HAVE I BECOME? /j

heres a bunch of random doodles from the past few months to feed yall, mostly done on microsoft whiteboard while taking notes in my classes lmao

i am also sneaking in my dnd jmarts teehee theyre so sillay vv

[blankieisablankie]

Here have this fanart I made of The Long Quiet dying in a glue trap

Plus some other STP doodles

Jonathan Sims & Jonathan Sims (Bird Edition) (they are friends)

[dualogical]

Voice of the Archivist

Did I ever tell you about the idea I had of Jon Sims, maybe when he's supposed to be in the coma, maybe somewhen else, waking up to the words of,

'You're on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world.'

He's a Voice in a body, the poor guy in charge of it doesn't remember a thing, there's another Voice who's as confused as him.

There's a lot of posibilities there, what if Hero and Quiet end up thinking Jon is the memory holder of the team or the like?

[currenylyfailingup]

So when I started listening to the magnus archives at the beginning of this year I thought Jon sounded familiar but I didn’t think much more of it. It wasn’t until today that I realized that he’s the fucking narrator in slay the princess!!!

[paintinthesims]

Slaying Simming the Princess

I finished playing the pristine cut update for Slay the Princess a while ago and thought to myself: what if I made these guys in the sims? And so I did. I guess this is where they ended up after the "And? What happens next?" ending. XD

I started on The Long Quiet first. I'll admit that his CC is pretty scuffed, but this is the best I could find. It really should not be this hard to find animal parts (that actually work) for a sims game that's been out for this long, but that's just how it is. 😤 I kept seeing these big, beautiful wings taunting me from ts4 the whole time I was cc hunting... I also gave him a long, pointy nose to replicate his beak, and I think it looks alright. I may shorten it in the future, but he does canonically have a pretty monstrous-looking face, so maybe I should just let him be a little ugly. I also think his expression and slight overbite are also kind of cute. ^^ As for his traits, I realized that LQ is actually meant to be sort of a blank slate for the player to project onto, so I picked his traits off of how I personally played him. I also gave him the "Natural Cook" trait since he's already proficient with a knife. XD

Princess was much easier to find CC for, but her anime facial proportions posed some challenges of their own. Knowing from past experience that you can't make anime eyes really work in ts3's artstyle, I tried to go more semi-realistic. I'm not totally satisfied with how her face turned out, but I think she at least looks pretty by normal human standards. I may go cc hunting for a more accurate hairstyle in the future as well. I gave her the "Loves the outdoors" trait since I figured she would appreciate being outside more after being confined for so long. Also, you can't see it with her dress, but I made it so that she's usually barefoot. I mean... in the game, you never once see her wearing shoes, so I figured that she just doesn't have 'em. 🤷‍♀️

So... that's all I have to say about these two for now. I'm going to move them into Moonlight falls, and may consider moving them to Dragon Valley later (after they scope it out with the traveler mod). I plan to post about their first days doing life together sometime soon. ^^

[theendorisit]

I woke up this morning out of a dream I don't remember with nothing but the phrase

"You're meant to slay the princess, not MARRY her!"

stuck in my head.

Instant visuals of a cabin reconstructed as a church. Shifting mound and Long Quiet in wedding outfits. Narrator splutters indignantly. Smitten weeps in inconsolable joy. Every other voice stands about in the aural equivalent of having your mouth hanging open.

I mean, I don't know if I'm getting visions of The Pristine Cut, but I am amusing myself endlessly.

Art by the amazing @abby-howard and @blacktabbygames

[icewindandboringhorror]

I've referenced before how I have a big google document to keep track of every media I've ever seen in my entire life (just for reference because I like to track everything possible lol… I am the Data Collector), but recently as I was updating it, I thought of actually evaluating them to find out random percentages (like for example, out of Total Shows Watched, what percentage did I finish vs. stop watching, what percentage did I like or dislike, etc.)...

Evaluating these things is made easier by the fact that I already place everything on each subsection of the list into 6 broad ranking categories, so I don't have to go back and guess to figure out how I feel about them or anything. The categories are: Ranking 5 - overall best* (despite some criticisms of course because I'm too much of an Analyzer to ever find anything Perfect lol) Ranking 4 - more positive than neutral, but not good enough to be 5 Ranking 3 - either the good + bad negate each other, OR it's just not memorable/interesting in any way enough to be ranked higher or lower (this is the Default category ALL things are placed in if no other rank applies) Ranking 2 - maybe a few redeemable elements but largely more negatives than positives Ranking 1 - So bad that it circles around to being fascinating to observe in some way (not necessarily Funny, or Good, but just interesting somehow) Ranking 0 - Bad in a genuinely frustrating or obnoxious manner

*("best" primarily defined here as most interesting, rather than most good in a technical sense, or some other measure. I tend to value more highly whether there's something novel or thoughtful about the worldbuilding, tone, writing, base premise, etc - than about whether it's actually executed perfectly.)

And here's the amount of shows that have so far been placed into each category -

TV shows ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 20 shows ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 28 shows ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 114 shows ~ Rank 2 (mid low) -33 shows ~ Rank 1 (low low but intriguingly so) - 14 shows ~ Rank 0 (iredeemably low) - 2 shows

This would make for a total of 211 TV shows overall. However, there are 57 shows within these list marked as "didn't finish" (typically meaning I quit on the very first or second episode - but log them still to keep a record that I at least had a brief view of them).

So my total of genuinely fully watched shows would be more 154. 211 Total, but a More Accurate Total of 154.

Counting them all and using the Total Number Of The List (211) -- that means roughly 9.5% of all total shows I have ever watched (or at least attempted to watch) have been Mostly Good, 13% have been Moderately Okay, 54% have been either entirely Forgettable or some mix of good + bad that lands them right in the Neutral Middle, 15.6% have been Mostly Bad, 6.6% have been Bad (but in an interesting way), and 0.9% have been Terribly Bad.

Additionally, I didn't even get past the first two episodes of about 27% of the total.

Sooo, discounting ones I didn't finish, my total TV shows ever watched in my life would be about 154 (maybe give or take a few, assuming I might have forgotten some from very long ago).

But instead of entire life, let's just say this is the total for 'About 20 Years' (so, not counting very early childhood when I likely wouldn't remember things I saw/have no detailed recollection of them (like for example, I'm sure at some point when I was like 4yrs old I must have seen an episode of Spongebob or something, but I have zero distinct memories of it, can't quote anything of it, and barely recall the premise - so I don't count it on the list, etc.)).

In that case, 154 divided by 20 would be roughly 7.7 shows a year.

Which is actually surprisingly low considering that I often have stuff on in the background for hours whilst I make sculptures and do costumes and stuff (maybe I should have also marked some distinction between 'things I fully paid attention to' and 'things I kind of half listened to whilst sculpting', but that would further split the categories too much probably lol), but I guess a lot of that is youtube videos or random documentaries, so .. eh.. maybe I get it being lower.

Now, doing the same thing for movies-

Movies ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 4 movies (3.4% of total) ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 12 movies (10.3% of total) ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 91 movies (78.4% of total) ~ Rank 2 (mid low) - 8 movies (6.8% of total) ~ Rank 1 (low but interesting) - 1 movie (0.8% of total) ~ Rank 0 (irredeemably low) - none in this category (0%)

That makes 116 for a Total (Actually Remembered) Movies Watched In Lifetime (Or At Least In 20 Years).

116 divided by 20 is roughly 5 or 6 movies a year (I feel this has probably been skewed though by adding everything since like elementary school onwards, as I remember a lot more movies from child/teen years.. Whereas, the past 3 years I feel like I've barely seen maybe even 5 movies?? lol). I also have "Didn't Finish" marked on 18 of them. Which means I quit halfway through about 15% of the total movies.

So, a for broader summary stuff..

I seem to be less forgiving to movies than tv shows, by far. Which makes sense to me, I guess, because I love elaboration and details, so "short form" things that only last an hour or two are often lost on me a bit. My biggest complaint with movies is indeed usually walking away just wishing there had been more exposition, more scenes where characters are doing nothing, more "mindless bantering" conversations, more Quiet Downtime and Lore Elaboration and so on lol, so... of course most 1-2hr films end up feeling a bit Not Enough To Draw My Interest/Nothingy to me.

If you count 5 and 4 as "like" and rankings 2 to 0 as "dislike", then for TV shows I at least somewhat liked 48 of them, and at least somewhat disliked 47 of them.. So it's almost exactly the same lol. I'm just about equally as likely to find something bad as I am to find something redeeming about it. But overall, the largest chance is that I just won't really care much for it at all and it will be tossed into the 'neutral' pile, forgotten forever. Movies have a bit better of a balance, "liking" 16 of them, and "disliking" only 9 of them. So I'm slightly more likely to enjoy a movie than to find it annoying - though still VASTLY more likely to just not find it anything in particular, possibly not even finishing it.

ANYWAY.. this is vague and literally pointless, but like I said, I just really find information fun. Like my document where I've rated every apple flavor I've ever tried (like 40 of them now?), or reviewed every oreo flavor (32?), or ranking data from my entire 10 years of Trying To Make Friends process (out of 100 people, roughly 8% chance of a moderate compatibility, 3% chance of high), or etc. etc.. I love to have random pointless things to analyze I suppose lol.

I doubt anyone tracks things in their life in this same exact way, but I'd be interested in hearing any at least somewhat similar data !!! (like, how many TV shows you watch a year on average, and what percentage of those you like vs. dislike (if you keep track of that sort of thing), etc.)). I guess it might be easier with movies, since I think some people use those websites where you curate a list of movies you've seen and you can rate them or something, so maybe the numbers are already available on those places. :0

[nanaarchy]

Someone compiled all of the voices in your head clips and put it in a playlist... that is SIX HOURS STRAIGHT OF VOICE ACTING. SIX ENTIRE HOURS WORTH OF ONE-LINER SENTENCES. THE SAME SCENES OVER AND OVER AND OVER. jonny sims is insanely skilled but how the hell is he sane

[eliasyourlocalcryptid]

avatar au jonmart but stp

okay so i’ve been binging tma and also playing a lot of slay the princess and i think so many voice lines from the voice of the cold( + the broken) that i think would match an avatar swap au.(with jon being the avatar of the lonely and martin being the avatar of the eye)

i’ve never really indulged in tma swap au’s but some of the lines from stp would fit so well for jmart angst/antics and i really wanna get around to drawing this sometime :DD

[sage-thee-herbmaster]

I know I’m hyper fixating on a new fandom when I start making polycules lol.

So basically after the The Magnus Archives finale, Jon and Martin get transported to the Construct and basically end up speed running most of the game awaking The Shifting Mound and The Long Quiet early and then four set off and travel together.

I also like to think they find a baby abandoned in the woods near a village with extra eyes, possibly marked by the Eye, like Jon and they all collectively decide to raise this baby together, who will fit in perfectly with their new not-so-human family.

(The purple mean crushes, pink means dating and blue means just friends.)

Jon’s crush on The Shifting Mound is one sided for now, while The Princess and Martin are mutual crushing on each other though of course only Jon knows that. The Long Quiet has a crush on Jon, and Jon also fancies The Long Quiet. The Long Quiet and The Shifting Mound are dating and Jon and Martin are dating. Martin and The Long Quiet are good friends :3