If you'll humor me for a second - wow, I am really proud of myself for how far I've with both my editing and decorating! The top picture is from May 2023. The bottom one is from July 2024. Night and day!
so in love with my pixel family’s little (not so little) home! I've been building and adding on since May of last year... it's a huge property at this point and my game sounds like a fighter jet when it’s running.. but that’s okkkkkkayyyy
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Y'all, I have been taking pictures of this family's entire story. It's been a rag to riches fam, but I got upset with the game one day and deleted all my screenshots. (All my in-game pictures got deleted and I was about to give up completely on this family.... I have two entire walls of picture collages. It completely ruined my vibe. Hince why there's an unused photo frame on the fireplace in the first pic. My heart won't let them go !!)
I've since started taking more pictures of their story. Gonna start posting them soon while I recover from my 4th back surgery… Happy Simming ❤︎ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
But... do not allow yourselves to be fooled as I have
For mermaids, as lovely as they are, are nothing but monsters
A truth that I discovered far too late...
CC List below:
||Skin by @berrygameplay||Hair by @simpliciaty-cc||Mermaid tails by MrBaSims||Arm and dorsal fins by Serinion (patreon exclusives)||Tops by @oydis||Scales by @xy-a||Ear preset by @evoxyr||Underwater dome and seaweed by Merman Simmer (in comments)||Posepack by @theserenadeofshadows||
I've said it before but I'd like to say it again. I've noticed that the sims/simblr community has become a prominently black/POC space over these past few years, and I honestly couldn't be happier. Most of my life, I've felt ostracized by my own community because of my non-stereotypical interests, which was compounded with neurodivergence I have finally come to accept and am learning to deal with. It feels really nice to have a community, even if it is online, of people that you can identify with and talk to on more levels than "I like this game."
I also feel like these past couple years, this game and this community has helped me fall in love with myself. When I started my simblr 10 years ago, there was such little representation of people that looked like me; plus sized and dark skinned. I did not resonate with any of my sims and often found myself giving the same European features over and over again to sims no matter what the skin tone because when I used something darker, it just didn't feel right. I am so grateful for the overflow of natural hairs, cocoa complexions, and different types of skins to represent different shapes and types of uniqueness. I am so grateful I am able to share my sims with you, but also represent people I see in my own family and my own community, in my own life. I used to feel my blackness was ugly and undesirable because it was never shown in media, so now in my 30s, it's an amazing feeling to not only see people like myself in media, but also to be highly praised and put at center stage.
I can't do anything about how it was when I was a child, but I'm so happy that I'm finally able to create the representation I needed as a child and heal her from the inside out.