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Day 8 of Simsmas: Happy New Year!
EA_Mai
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Happy New Year Simmers!
For the first time in 3 years, I welcomed the new year with my family in Spain. In my family, that means eating 12 grapes at 12am for a year of good luck, and eating cake to celebrate my uncle's birthday.
Each of us have our own traditions and celebrate the New Year in a different way - how did your Sims experience it? Share a screenshot of their party with us!
My Sims, eating their midnight "grapes" as is tradition in Spain
(they used cheese crackers as an alternative to the grapes
)
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The good ol' American way
Celebrating the New Year of 2019 at the Beach. Here in South Africa, our days get extremely hot up to 48 Degrees Celsius (118 Fahrenheit)... under the SHADE!!
Going down to the coast is not just to have the perfect holiday, but you get to see beautiful Sunsets and at 12am, Fireworks. There's no better time spent then spending new years with family and friends ending the night moving into the new year with a few drinks... alongside the big blue sea.
Beach can be found on my sims gallery (Day 8 Beach Party)
LOL! Hope they had a good enough time to remember throughout the next life at least hahaha
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
LOL
Later they did some fireworks... one went wrong.
They were okay, but my Sim missed the countdown to midnight because she was under the shower. It was still a nice holiday though.
Afterwards they did fireworks at the Spice Market. Then they celebrated in her apartment with music and the New Years Channel.
The quests gathered in the bedroom to chat and drink
None of them came to watch when Hisoka set off some fireworks
All the quests left before midnight but the baby still had to be fed
Kiara found a glass of wine on the floor and enjoyed it alone
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My sims game gave to me
New Year's festivities,
Game goodies in 2018,
Building Simsmas,
Guess the Guru game,
A Treasure Hunt,
Holiday decorations,
A Simsmassy avatar
and
Father Winter comes visiting!
Growing up, my brother and I would watch the countdown on TV trying our best to stay awake. Some years we didn't quite make it but Mom woke us and we exchanged Happy New Years before shuffling off to bed.
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But actual traditions for New Year's? I would have to say that I've established my own, starting last year. See, we don't do much for holiday celebrations anymore, but in October 2016, I started to take my YouTube channel seriously, and then in April 2017, I published my first fanfic in, oh, two decades or more? Since at least college. It broke a creative hiatus of at least fifteen years.
So I started establishing traditions for these creative outlets. Now, my work on AO3 is currently in the Person of Interest fandom, though I've started branching out a bit, especially into Welcome to Night Vale (I've got a full household of POI characters in Sims 3, and a loosely-inspired-by-WtNV family in both Sims 3 and Sims 4, which is where I'm drawing these screenshots). And as I've attracted a surprising number of people who think my writing is good, I've started using the holidays as a time to really give back to the people who support me.
October is my "Creepyfest," a time when all the reins are off and I go as dark and weird as I want to; in 2017 this was a POI fic based on the Lovecraft vibe, while in 2018 I spearheaded a project with over a dozen participants worldwide, writing a set of POI fics set in an AU based on the SCP Foundation. (And for my YouTube channel, I uploaded two creepy cover songs. Had hoped to record a short film to upload during October, but I ended up being too busy with the other project.)
A couple of weeks before my birthday, I offer a prompt for people to write me presents (first year: a specific kidnapping scenario; second year: make ex-CIA assassin John Reese play a game), and then, on my birthday itself, I release a present for the fandom as a whole (2018's present was a set of my first ever podfics). And then, in December, I drop everything and try to write gifts. I pick a subset of my readers/fans/friends (those categories can get kinda fuzzy around the edges), try to figure out what style each person enjoys, and write something aimed specifically at them. The first year, I wrote to thank the ones who were most supportive of me. This year, I went with my newest readers, the ones I've attracted in roughly the past four months, writing fics for some and recording podfics for two others.
And then, on Christmas of 2017 and New Year's Eve of 2018 (and I think NYE is going to become the norm for this), I wrote a fic in which the discussion between two characters sounds pretty normal for a POI fic... but where the end note says to go back and read it as though the main character is me, the writer, and the other character is the fandom -- a special meta message for those who've been enjoying my work. It's a way of commenting on the year's achievements, my own troubles and worries, a commitment to continue producing content, and so on.
So, what's my New Year's tradition by now? Writing a ton of specific projects. Hence, this pic would best encapsulate it: Me reaching out to friends and fans around the world, cementing ties among the fandom and getting heartwarming reactions as various people open their inboxes to find notifications that a fic has been released as a gift for them.
drive.google.com/open?id=1kUNRUt5aPt9XHmxEzri1fho_MJ5E8tJ5
https://imgur.com/HNdNOvK