#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

[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)

[barnowlive]

*points at a character who could probably murder me if they wanted to* look at my pathetic son. hes so smol and tiny

[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?

[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. ^^

[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!!!

[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

[justsalpals]

Jon and Martin are lost to tides of a million million different worlds in their way to Somewhere Else, so entrenched in the flow and the chaos and the fear and the quiet and the in-between that they nearly never find their footing again

Only to be saved by a pair of gods, The Shifting Mound and The Long Quiet, who lead them to solid ground

(maybe truly in their god forms, or maybe after leaving together they retained some ability as mortals similar to avatars.

the princess distrusts and despises these two immediately, but her little bird can't help but feel compassion for them. the shaky reflection of a corpse he'd only heard echoes of. it's hard not to feel kinship with a presence he's known since be first opened his eyes, who created and guided him through all the trials and tribulations, even when he knows this is another man entirely.

he wonders if the narrator was named Jon as well.)

[goponylover]

These came to me in a burst of inspiration.