#the sims 4 soap opera

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Sunrise in San Myshuno and first snowy day this autumn.

[growing-up-crumplebottom]

Episode 4: Ready to drop

Agnes had been busy all day. She had spent the morning maintaining the property and now was spending the afternoon on her ward, Violet. They had done homework, extra credit, a project and some work on character values.

Agnes was pooped! How did people do this? It was so much more challenging than running her flower stall. She really was ready to drop! She decided to ring her cousin Agatha to invite her to stay over. Maybe she would know what to do with the girl… was handy with a paintbrush…and besides, she missed her. After that she took a minute to close her eyes, but then heard some strange cries… Why were her tenants always making such strange, loud noises?

On going to investigate, she found Trina Tickle who had clearly gone into labour. Agnes sighed. This was what happened when people canoodled. They reaped what they sowed.

However, as Teddy was still at work, Agnes decided she’d better take her to the hospital herself, rather than risk any more mess on the apartment floor.

Trina’s twins were delivered by Dr. Bennett Betterman, who confided to Agnes that he and his family were looking for a temporary rental property while they searched for their forever home. Agnes nodded in approval (imagine - a doctor would really raise the tone at Crumplebottom Villas)! She invited him to come round to visit.

After a brief labour (god I wish my labour had been as quick as a Sims), Trina’s twins Toby and Tate were safely delivered!

Agnes stopped trying to smooze Dr Betterman and stared in awe and disbelief. Maybe the tiredness was making her delusional, or maybe she was softening, as she fell in love with the twins at first sight and insisted on becoming their godmother.

[agena87]

Morgan's looks for the Globetrotter Challenge (I'll probably use the Expanded version).

[lucaorama]

one of the benefits of having a service dog is bringing them to places that don’t normally allow dogs. mango always enjoys a nice day at the amusement park :)

[whisperoffate]

New sims 4 series on Wednesday at 6pm

[madebysimblr]

Grace: Come see the rest of the place! It was so fun to design it myself, I swear it was a project that brought me back to life a little! Everything is exactly how I want it too!

Whitney: That's good. If you could just point us to the rooms-

Santos: Giving another grand tour, baby?

Grace: Oh I wasn't sure if you were home! Santos, this is some of my family. Everyone this is Santos.

Santos: Sup.

Whitney: Yeah. Hi. Mother, we're a bit tired so we'll just head to our rooms thanks.

Grace: [annoyed sigh] They're the last doors down the gallery.

Charlotte: Cool! I'm gonna go play!

Santos: We should def all go out for dinner, yeah?

Grace: Great idea! I'll get reservations at our favorite spot.

Sorella: Your side of the family is bizarre.

Whitney: Tell me about it...

[dxsmel]

Would you believe they have one of the craziest storylines ever written?

Be on the look out to congratulate the newly wedded couple of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Michaels 🥺❤️

[twinsimming]

TS4 to TS3 TV Channels Default Replacement by Twinsimming 📺

This mod replaces video clips from The Sims 3 TV channels containing Sims 2 characters with video clips from Sims 4 TV channels containing Sims 3 characters and adds new channels converted from The Sims 4!

Place in your Overrides folder.

Overview

Replaced Existing Channels

New Channels

Replaced Existing Channels

The following channels have had their video clips replaced:

Basic

KidZ Zone

Romantic Rendezvous

Sports Universe

Action World

Basic Plus

Cookin' Cable

New Channels

The following channels are new and available depending on the quality of your sim’s television:

Basic

TV Classics - Shows old black and white TV shows and soap operas (from Vintage Glamour Stuff)

PolitiSim - Broadcasts political debates and campaigns (from City Living)

Basic Plus

Civic Public Access - Features various shows including a sitcom, a dating show, and news broadcasts from different city festivals (from City Living)

BEtween - Features a cartoon based on MySims Agents as well as other shows for more mature kids (from Kids Room Stuff)

Premium

World Culture Network - Features documentaries about Champs Les Sims, Al Simhara and Shang Simla (from City Living)

High Definition

Music TV - Mainly shows music clips

Laugh Track (renamed from Comedy) - Shows a stand up comedy set and a parody of a late night talk show

Conflicts & Known Issues

- Conflicts with any mod that edits TV.xml file.

- Videos are no longer black and white on older/retro TVs.

- The video clips don’t fit all TVs perfectly due to the different aspect ratios. Some fit better than others.

- The video quality isn't the greatest (even when uncompressed), so if anyone knows how to upscale videos, please reach out!

Credits

EA/Maxis for The Sims 3 and The Sims 4, s3pe, s4pe, and Notepad++.

Thank You

Thank you to @simbouquet for extracting the video files and answering all of my questions, and to @riverianepondsims for testing!

If you like my work, please consider tipping me on Ko-fi 💙

Download @ ModTheSims

[amethystamanda]

Listen To A Radio Show

Gather around the radio and listen for a while!

This mod adds a new pie menu, Listen to a Radio Show, to all regular stereos, which will give your sim the option to listen to a variety of different kinds of shows, mainly aimed at the first half of the 1900s up into the 1960s, inspired by things that they would have been able to listen to. Despite TV taking off in the 1950s, radio shows seem to have remained popular for a while after that.

There's also a new social interaction to go with one of the shows, and a new piece of deco cc to go with another.

The pie menu should show up on most things in the audio category of buy mode. It won't appear on the music box from Life and Death, Lin-Z, DJ booths, or karaoke machines. It should show up on cc stereos too, for maximum historical usefulness.

While your sims are listening to their show, they are strongly encouraged to sit (on furniture, not the floor) and listen. They may decide not to, especially if there's not enough room or seating. They might decide to dance, or chat, or put away a book. They will stay within three tiles of the radio, in the same room. They should not cancel the show autonomously unless their needs drop too low, the radio breaks, or they get interrupted by something with even higher priority (including, unfortunately, a pop up to ask if they want a new preference).

Most of the shows are two hours long. Some are available for toddlers, some only for child and older sims. Some are basegame, some require City Living (the talking ones), and Country requires Horse Ranch.

Most of the time, sims will get a buff while listening (kids don't get a buff for listening to soap operas. Some of these vary by age and/or traits. Then, once the show is over, most of the time, sims will get one of a variety of buffs from what they watched. If a group of sims watch, they probably won't get matching buffs (I'm thinking of it as they reacted to different parts. One show would generally have been shorter than they'll be watching here. For example, soap operas may have been 10-15 minutes long.). The buffs may be a reaction to a specific show, or they might be a bit generic. If they reference a specific show, it's a real show that existed. If it references a real person, I mostly substituted a sim (not necessarily from TS4), except for one singer.

At any time while the show is on, you can change the station, and sims listening will continue to act as if their show is on. You can even turn it off. If your sim or you hate the station I picked, you can switch it. If you want your News to sound like Latin Pop, well, they had studio musicians. But if your sim has a trait that makes them lose fun from listening to the show, that will continue.

Details below:

Listen to a Children's Broadcast -- with bonus CC

Station: Kids Radio

Length: 1 hour

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For toddlers, children, Childish and Family-Oriented sims, and sims who like Kids Music

Fun loss: For sims who Hate Children, and sims who dislike Kids Music

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who Hate Children or dislike Kids Music, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 6 for Child and Childish sims, 2 for sims that Hate Children or dislike Kids Music, 4 for teen-elder sims who don’t hate children or dislike Kids Music, and 12 for toddlers

Bonus: A Badge to Make You Brave, a deco toy shield that a child/childish sim can get a buff to send in box tops for.Can be purchased in buy mode, under kids deco or clutter.Can be purchased on the phone, under gifts (only two swatches, because there are too many. The swatch can be changed after buying). Will appear in the inventory of the sim who bought it.Can be put into a sim’s inventory, so your sim can take it everywhere with them.Goes in small deco slots.Will not make anyone brave.12 swatches.148 polys

Listen to a Classical Music Show

Station: Classical

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For sims who don’t dislike Classical Music

Fun loss: For sims who dislike Classical Music

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who dislike classical music, one for toddlers, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 3 for sims who dislike classical music, 7 for toddlers, and 10 for everyone else

Listen to a Comedy Show

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For sims who don’t dislike jokes, comedy, silly behaviour, or funny sims

Fun loss: For sims who dislike jokes, comedy, silly behaviour, or funny sims

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination, Comedy

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who dislike jokes, comedy, silly behaviour, or funny sims, one for toddlers, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 3 for sims who dislike jokes, comedy, silly behaviour, or funny sims, 4 for toddlers, and 8 for everyone else

Listen to a Country Music Show

Pack: Horse Ranch

Station: Ranch

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For sims who don’t dislike ranch music

Fun loss: For sims who dislike ranch music

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who dislike ranch music, one for toddlers, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 2 for sims who dislike ranch music, 8 for toddlers, and 11 for everyone else

Listen to a Radio Play

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: Yes

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: No

Currently Listening buffs: Yes

Follow-up Buffs: 13

Listen to a Soap Opera

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 1 hour

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: Yes, with extra for sims with these traits: Love Bug, Romantic, Family Oriented, Nosy, Family Sim, Home Turf, or the Clingy childhood phase

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: No

Currently Listening buffs: For teen to elder sims

Follow-up Buffs: 5

Listen to a Winter Holiday Broadcast

Station: Winter Holiday

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Toddler to elder

Fun: For sims who don’t dislike Winter Holiday music and don’t have the Grouch trait

Fun loss: For sims who dislike Winter Holiday music or have the Grouch trait

Skill gain: Creativity, Imagination

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who dislike Winter Holiday music or have the Grouch trait, one for toddlers, and one for everyone else

Follow-up Buffs: 2 for sims who dislike Winter Holiday music or have the Grouch trait, 8 for toddlers, and 8 for everyone else

Extra: If you have Seasons, only available in Winter

(There were two, but they're very similar, and I didn't notice until now.)

Listen to The Farm Radio Forum -- with bonus interaction

The National Farm Radio Forum was a Canadian adult education program after the Great Depression. Local groups would register, and then they would be sent reading material to review before the weekly broadcast, with questions included to discuss. They would then return their answers to the provincial office, which would sometimes forward summaries to the government.

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 2 hours

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: Yes

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: Mental, Herbalism, Gardening, Logic, with extra for sims with these traits: Genius, Loves Outdoors, Rancher, Animal Enthusiast, Super Green Thumb

Currently Listening buffs: Yes

Follow-up Buffs: 5

Extras:

Sims will take notes during the show

New social interaction: Discuss The Farm Radio Forum, under Deep Thoughts in the Friendly category

Child to elder

Always available, but only autonomous if you have any one of four of the follow-up buffs from the show (the other is a generic one used in multiple places) or the currently listening buff, and only for young adult to elder sims

Encouraged or discouraged for sims with certain traits and relationships, but must have met the sim

Can succeed or fail, with 4 succeed and 3 fail buffs, which apply to both the sim initiating the interaction and the sim they’re talking to. They may not match (you can have different perspectives on the same conversation, after all), but both sims should get a buff

Listen to The News

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 1 hour

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: No

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: Mental, Logic

Currently Listening buffs: Yes

Follow-up Buffs: 9 possible buffs (75% chance a teen to elder sim will get one, with increased chance for an adult or elder sim, not available for sims who have the traits Childish, Irresponsible, or Uncontrolled Emotions) OR 6 possible buffs (75% chance a sim who has the traits Childish, Irresponsible, or Uncontrolled Emotions will get one), PLUS 4 possible buffs (50% chance a teen to elder sim will get one).

A sim might get one, both, or neither.

Listen to the Sports Play-By-Play

Station: Talk Radio

Length: 1.5 to 2 hours

Ages: Child to elder

Fun: Yes

Fun loss: No

Skill gain: Motor and Fitness unless the sim is Lazy, with extra for sims with the Active, Bro, Physically Gifted, or Gym Rat traits

Currently Listening buffs: One for sims who don’t dislike Fitness, and one for sims who do dislike fitness

Follow-up Buffs: 6 for sims who don’t dislike fitness, 1 for sims who dislike fitness

I'm going to say this requires City Living. Technically, I think you could use it with just base game, but you'll be missing some text and some images will be llamas. You can try to use it without City Living if you want, but I won't be providing support for that. You'll have 3 of the 10 shows available, and you'll have an overall poor experience. The Country show requires Horse Ranch, but that shouldn't affect the rest of the mod.

Requires Lot 51's Core Library

Download: https://simfileshare.net/download/5216335/

Updates:

Jan 20, 2025: PlumbBuddy manifest updated

Known issues:

If a sim gets interrupted on their way to the stereo, they'll (probably) still listen to the show, but they may not get the buff for it. This is most likely to happen if there's little room. If they don't get the currently listening buff, they might not get the follow-up buff either. If you want them to get the currently listening buff, you can cancel the interaction and tell them to listen again.

This was inspired by my Horse Ranch radio as BG TV. The problem with that one is that it's tied to one specific radio. The idea was to inject TV interactions into stereos, but video is not compatible with audio devices. This is not a replacement for the TV, since it does very different things, and won't count for a bar's requirements or for holidays that require TVs. It's more of a companion.

Thanks to Kuttoe for the original idea, which then spiraled out of control, and to the kind people in Creator Musings for helping when I forgot how to mod.

[absolutebl]

Hi!!! Your posts are always amazing and I have so many bookmarked because you create the best little collections. Anyway, I am in a big BL rut right now and I can't seem to get into anything. Any fast-paced, recs that can bring me out of my slump? Thanks so so much :)

Oooo, fast paced is pretty subjective lemme think...

Imma got with the narrative sense of the word pacing (rather than just an in-your-face fast-moving plot, although that too,) so: good tension, craft, and narrative. Here's my pulls - I went broad and into the well, in case you had seen some recent stuff.

10 Fast-Paced BLs to Pull You Out of a Slump

(I'm assuming you have seen KinnPorsche)

I did a quick pitch for each cause I'm drunk so maybe they're funny, all spelling errors are my own and the result of growing up in 3 different English speaking nations and 2 non-English ones.

Someone wanted more elevator pitches a while ago, here ya go!

Our Dating Sim - nerds in love, reunion, deadlines, gaming, teasing, pining tiny idiots, ADORABLE

2. Semantic Error - you cannot be a BL fan and not have watched this, the ultimate enemies to lovers, also the prettiest

3. To My Star - neurotic actor (actual puppy), grumpy chef, sparks, cooking lessons, LOVE!

4. We Best Love - defines fast paced in romance, literally when asked why his character fell in love so fast Yu said, "well I only had one 20 minute episode." Yet... we BELIEVED IT.

5. HIStory 2: Crossing the Line - it's a perfect sports romance, don't bother me with trifles

6. Not Me - also how do you say antidisestablishmentarianism in Thai? + hot boys kissing who probably shouldn't be and convoluted soap opera identical twins plot... someone at GMMTV thought it made sense, we just here for the tattoos and the the Pride scene

7. The Eighth Sense - who let Korea be this angsty? SO MUCH TENSION.

8. Unintentional Love Story - omg the plot, forced into a totally understandable betrayal, falling in love despite himself, put into a corner he can't get out of, the AGONY, the eyes EMOTING at us in PAIN

9. HIStory 3: Trapped - hot cop falls in love with hotter mafia boss he is chasing for MURDER (bonus weirdly domesticated switch-blade wielding hit-man obsessed with geeky police tech support - COME ON)

10. Long Time No See - assassins, cat fishing, either side of a turf war, HOT sex scenes then even hotter beating the shit out of each other and kissing while COVERED IN BLOOD (this came from KOREA?)

There.

All kinds of flavors.

One of them just HAS to work!

If not, you could go for shorts. Try Strongberry:

(source)

[rottenpumpkin13]

I turned on my computer and saw that I still had the sims 4 downloaded and recently updated and it made me remember the time I created Sephiroth, Lucrecia, Vincent and Hojo 💀

I remember Vincent and Lucrecia had a fight when she got pregnant and stayed in bad terms with each other since then. Hojo and Vincent already hated each other since their first meeting so Vincent stopped coming over their house.

And when Seph was a teenager Lucrecia invited Vincent over (I have no idea why maybe they made amends when I wasn't watching?) and Hojo found out and slapped Lucrecia (gasp) Sephiroth saw them and got into an argument with Hojo but then Hojo slapped Sephiroth too (gasp)

And I saw all that drama unfold like I was watching a soap opera, one of my best playthroughs without a doubt.

I completely skipped over the first paragraph and was desperately trying to remember where in the compilation did I miss all of this 💀 10/10 playthrough.

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Late autumn, Mount Komorebi.

Anabelle Goth's birthday!

[growing-up-crumplebottom]

[pilvimarja]

I've fallen back into Sims 4 obsession! I got most of the expansion packs and started properly playing the game for the first time in years, and I've spent all week building my own detailed version of Sims Los Angeles for a CruiseTeller playthrough. I also downloaded Jamjar's omegaverse mod, so it's an AOB universe, inspired by the fic I wrote together with Fopps :3

I'm pretty proud of my Miles and Tom Sims, which I made myself, and I also have a ton of pre-made celebrity Sims that I downloaded from The Sims Resource.

I'm also doing a funny and satiric soap opera called Beverly Sims 90210 for our Discord server where I make short 5 minute episodes from my gameplay. I can't share the actual gameplay here because I use Wicked Whims and it's NSFW, but here is the intro I made for my soap opera :D

[blmpff]

✨2023: A Summary✨

Post your most popular and/or favourite edit/gifset/analysis for each month (it’s okay to skip months!)

Tagged by @lurkingshan, and also @colourme-feral and @troubled-mind as I was working on it, thank you ❣️

My two main ~things~ are uploading actors' photos, and doing my own favorite X posts from shows I'm watching, and considering I've uploaded 5593 posts in 2023, in this essay I'll focus on my own.

disclaimer 1: I started posting my edits in March, so the first two months of the year will be just actors' pics to not skip them disclaimer 2: as for favorites the answer is always my favorite shots posts because each and every single one of them is my precious baby disclaimer 3: I added SHOWS to each month for my compilation posts for them

JANUARY:

- most popular: First Kanaphan from their trip to Japan I think - favorite: ArmyJoe stills from gmmtv twt

FEBRUARY:

- most popular: Fluke and Thor TWE bts - favorite: this MosBank

MARCH:

- most popular: Our Dining Table promo picture - favorite: Midnight Museum ep5, The Eighth Sense ep2, first Shared Location

APRIL:

- most popular: P'Jojo explaining the use of thai soap opera cliches in Our Skyy 2: Never Let Me Go - favorite: T8S x train ride, Jaewon calling Jihyun his boyfriend, shadow kisses, Midnight Museum moon shots 4/4, the post where I save links to all the shows/movies I make posts about - shows: Our Dating Sim, The Eighth Sense, Destiny Seeker, Midnight Museum, Blueming, Bed Friend

MAY:

- most popular: P'Jojo posting about Only Friends getting the green light - favorite: Man's hands, this Between Us scene, this ONHCT scene, OS2 x Win's Adventures - shows: OS2: The Eclipse, OS2: NLMG, Happy Merry Ending, ABAAB, Love Mate, ONHCT, Dear Ex, Please Tell Me So, A First Love Story 1, A First Love Story 2, Step For You

JUNE:

- most popular: Cooheart in a bridal dress at Bangkok Pride - favorite: Fluke's hair poll, IQ subber in House of Stars, ODT Tane - shows: Star Struck, Our Dining Table, Love Tractor

JULY:

- most popular: NeoMark Only Friends Q photo - favorite: these two Tokyo In April Is parallels, this Semantic Error scene - shows: Step by Step, La Pluie, House of Stars, My Ride

AUGUST:

- most popular: P'Jojo talking about sex scenes in Only Friends - favorite: ML Shin being Shin, this scene in SMC - shows: Tokyo In April Is, Sing My Crush, Egoist, Low Frequency, Stay Still, Sonnet 18

SEPTEMBER:

- most popular: the epic journey that was Red Peafowl cast announcement - favorite: Leehyun repeatedly calling An his boyfriend, Joohyuk x Sungmin, hyung, EarthBank - shows: Laws of Attraction, Love Class 2, Marry Go Round, Minato's Laundromat 2, Hidden Agenda, Bon Appetit

OCTOBER:

- most popular: P'Jojo roasting Boston - favorite: IFYLITA dream dancing, bloody Papang, bloody GG kiss&murder - shows: My Personal Weatherman, Only Friends, Grand Guignol, Semantic Error: The Movie

NOVEMBER:

- most popular: new YinWar show Jack&Joker pilot - favorite: this Mermaid's Jade scene, this The Devil Judge scene, these Playboyy posters - shows: I Feel You Linger In The Air, Mermaid's Jade, Kiseki: Dear To Me, Pure Vanilla, One Room Angel

DECEMBER:

- most popular: Babe causing Billy to malfunction - favorite: JellyfishBolster compilation, this AobPuen, DFF I've been impaled - shows: Sweet Home 2, Shadow, To My Star s1, Absolute Zero, Bake Me Please, Moonlight Chicken

Tagging everyone who wants to do it and haven't already, this site helps!

[profesionalpartyguest]

my contender for @cobycobsy2k's bachelor challenge! DOWNLOAD HER HERE! what's not big about Hazal Nebahat? she's got big boobs, big lips, big cleavage, big hair, big temper, big scandals, big fame, big houses and, although unknown to the general public, big talent. classically trained in shakespeare from a young age, her main goal in life is to become famous as REAL FILM ACTOR, not to be stuck doing the same roles on various mega popular soap operas. she's going on this show as a way to introduce herself to studio town (she doesn't really care for love or whoever the bachelors are). she's ready for her close up, bitch. More info under the cut!

she only wears the most beautiful all-about-style & Joebart courture. ofc. her personality is: 4/5/7/8/1. she's turkish but is fluent in english. she aspires to popularity. her lifetime goal is to become an Icon (in the acting career from University). also also. she comes with 1 new piece of cc, a skinblend! made specifically with her in mind. note that the changes are AF only!

(yes i used a face shine for a reason). the body textures are from joebart, the face textures is a blend of textures @whysim & @glorianasims. lips are from sims3melancholic, nose is an edit one from leh, eyelids are a blend of lilith-sims's dewy eyeshadow & io's eyelids, teeth and tongue are from sixfoothsims, blush is from pralinesims. additional hand-painting, recoloring & editing by me!