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River has been doing well about being at home, but Melody still has questions. Will he be able to convince her that everything is fine this time? Enjoy.
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Awww, thank you so much! Elsanine is as beautiful as all the Fae are (they're not nicknamed the Fair Folk for nothing, after all) and I've always referred to Arcturus as that "handsome fangy fella". Well, Valois probably has another nickname for him—affectionate, rude, and in their shared French language!—but that's what I call him
Thing is, I post a lot of non-story updates over on Tumblr, so if you were following me just for those, you'd still need to dig through all of my other stuff just to find them! It's still about 99% Sims content (a lot of building, random pictures of my boys, and the like; oh, and the occasional bit of NSFW, which I always tag with 'Sims NSFW') but the side-arcs are not always marked as such, or distinguishable from other things (case in point: my recent Sunnyview Retirement Home guide with Dame Edith. It's written in a manner akin to a first person dialogue, but it's not a story at all).
Then there's the fact that my tagging, er, leaves a bit to be desired over there I have two fairly long-running Tumblr-only side-arcs (The Rocker - very NSFW! and The Knight's Tale) and if you were to read the tagged posts in order, you'd see not only the story posts but—in the case of The Knight's Tale—some random building posts (because I can't resist showing off my gorgeous cc'd-to-the-hilt medieval builds!) and—for The Rocker—a lot of 'photoshoot' posts. For me, that takes them out of the 'story' category and more into a 'general enjoyment with a bit of story added' category. Plus neither of those have been updated for months! I tend to play those saves when I feel like it.
What I'll probably do is put together one Tumblr page that links to all of my side-arcs and point people at that. TMoMG is still my main story, so my focus (when I have any!) is on that. I may add the new Elsanine/Arcturus story to the index if it grows enough legs to become a serious story in its own right *g*
That's fantastic news! You've really made my day with that. I think I saw that you were only five chapters into your story so far, so if you look at those amounts you'll see that—before the changes—you would have got 50 chapters done (of that story or that and any other story) before running out of space but now you could get 500 done!
Great news! Well done on tackling it and getting all of that work done. It really does make a difference, and I can only hope that some Simmers see this and make those two little changes (resizing to fit the blog's theme and saving as JPG) before they begin posting their stories, thereby saving themselves a lot of work when they realise they're 30 chapters in and almost out of storage space.
Between this, and some lovely feedback for The Madness of Mr Goth on my wall from @VexiVee (who I don't think has been into this thread, but welcome anyway if you pop your head in - lots more fantastic stories to be found in this area of the forum!) I has a happy today
@fayshinomori I always hate that .. you have two gorgeous parents and you get goggly children from the mix .. lol that is the Sims for ya! That is where my adept skills in cheating come into play! (I am not a big cheat player but I know how when the time is right LOL)
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@FayeShinomori .. agree with @SilentWolf101
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I have lots of stories in the Index that are Simblr stories that are the style of "just an image with a small text caption." (I do exclude CAS posts, build posts, heir polls, news/opinions/editorials, things of that nature, but otherwise, have always been quite open and accepting on the format of a "story"). I think people are too set in their own personal defintion of "story." They think it must be something grand, with lots of text and dialogue and plot arcs -- and certainly there are many submissions like that in the Index -- but I have never made that a requirement. I've found so many people don't submit because they don't think of their own work as a "story." And really, I just go off the good ol' definition of "an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment." Many simple images with a small caption that are sharing the life of a Sim for the entertainment of others... that's a story to me. As are YouTube Let's Plays and video challenges. The authors themselves seem to be far more strict in their own perceptions; even when I invite them (an indication "your work is perfectly acceptable and welcome here!") they are the ones that tell me it isn't! I've always found this phenomena quite fascinating.
@lisabee2 : That is excellent news! More onsite storage space means more worry-free stories to tell! That is always a wonderful thing!
@JulyVee94 : Good luck with your own image conversion project!
@FayeShinomori : Aww, don't just judge your Sim kiddies based on their looks! As a bonafied big-girl myself, it is a shining personality and the enjoyment they bring you as you play that should be key. ^_^ I prefer lots of diversity among my Sims, myself!
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@mastressalita .. I am still happy dancing today
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@everyone : So is anyone else having ZOMG TGIF right now and counting down the hours until they get off work/school/other forced engagements as well? Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... Longest. Friday. Ever.
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Chapter 10: Clear Waters
After the events of Bridgeport, a moment of calm is more than welcome for Amelia. As is a friendly ear and some more explanations about just what is going on around her.
The Fey of Life - fairytales in life are few and far between (Forum thread HERE)
The Chrysanthemum Tango - a story about life, death, magic, and how to be a good landlady (Forum thread HERE)
Forget-Me-Not - some things just refuse to stay buried; an Ambrosia Challenge story (Forum thread HERE)
However, this conversation did spark my interest in finding my balance for my images and after some trying and failing (or more like, reuploading a few chapters' images and only then really deciding the pics were a bit poorer in quality than I'd have liked and then being too tired to fix them) and retrying I found my balance between file size and quality (my pics should be around 80-200 kb now and they should still look decent)! I reuploaded some chapters' images but after the failures of the beginning I sort of gave up and decided to just be a better person from now on! I just moved to storing my pics in Imgur so the Wordpress space isn't an issue to me anymore. So all the more reason to be nice about the pics and optimising them. I mean, I don't want to not suffer because of my own laziness when others might. So no more laziness from me in this regard! I do feel better about the most recent chapters of both of my stories when I know my pics are taking up less space and hopefully being more user-friendly.
Sorry about the kind of pointless, rambly post. Just felt like sharing. Carry on.
Except wait! I guess I'll share this too: I've been checking my blogs on other computers to test out how they look and I realised that my own computer must show colours more muted than some other ones because my story pics look super bright on some other computers. Like, distractingly so to me. But it's not really like I can do much about it except try to somehow take that to account when I'm editing my pics. So sorry about possibly bleeding eyes because of overly-bright pics! I'm not sure how widespread a thing that is. I mean, of course all computers and different settings will be, well... different, and show things a bit differently, but, eh... it's interesting.
The Fey of Life - fairytales in life are few and far between (Forum thread HERE)
The Chrysanthemum Tango - a story about life, death, magic, and how to be a good landlady (Forum thread HERE)
Forget-Me-Not - some things just refuse to stay buried; an Ambrosia Challenge story (Forum thread HERE)
@RipuAncestor I've actually experienced that with images as well -the difference in brightness. These days I just check it on my two different screens (one which tends to show muted colours and one that appears quite a bit brighter) and strive to achieve some kind of balance XD
The Fey of Life - fairytales in life are few and far between (Forum thread HERE)
The Chrysanthemum Tango - a story about life, death, magic, and how to be a good landlady (Forum thread HERE)
Forget-Me-Not - some things just refuse to stay buried; an Ambrosia Challenge story (Forum thread HERE)
I never really worry much about such things, since brightness/contrast is something pretty easy for an end-user to simply adjust to their liking, just like font size. But I suppose some monitors do have variance, just based on their age/type/brand, as well. I sometimes feel like I'm one of the last people alive that is still using a 4:3 aspect ratio sized monitor instead of a "wide-screen" one.
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I also don't want to keep my screen overly bright because I suffer from migraines, and I think the "eco mode" in my computer is also dimming it a bit.
The Fey of Life - fairytales in life are few and far between (Forum thread HERE)
The Chrysanthemum Tango - a story about life, death, magic, and how to be a good landlady (Forum thread HERE)
Forget-Me-Not - some things just refuse to stay buried; an Ambrosia Challenge story (Forum thread HERE)
@mastressalita: My university is phasing out the last of our laptops and monitors with a 4:3 aspect ratio (necessary but for different reasons, because those machines are definitely dying in droves), so...yes you are. I do keep tablets, phones, and laptops rather dim, but my desktop monitor is on full brightness. Things don't look quite right otherwise.
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Also dropping this off:
April 2016: "Green Man"
outrun / blog / tunglr
How're you all?
The Fey of Life - fairytales in life are few and far between (Forum thread HERE)
The Chrysanthemum Tango - a story about life, death, magic, and how to be a good landlady (Forum thread HERE)
Forget-Me-Not - some things just refuse to stay buried; an Ambrosia Challenge story (Forum thread HERE)
Just doing a quick stop to say hi and happy Sunday to you all .... hope your day is glorious
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Both my screens are widescreen, one a little larger than the other. I'm hoping to add a larger screen (television HD) to the duo. I have so many tabs and things open at any one time, I need the space just to be able to see everything!
@lisabee2 *HUGGLES!*
@ValoisFulcanelli XD Awwwwwwwwwww, that's awesome! ^-^
@VexiVee Hello, and welcome! I don't believe I've seen you here before...
Yes, I'm still working on my stories. But I am restarting them (again). Links will come when they're up.
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Yes, I'm still working on my stories. But I am restarting them (again). Links will come when they're up.
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Ooooo pretty!