@Morkovka
Lol, Caleb had to lock Morgyn into a room with him for some pricacy, because everyone wanted a piece of them Poor Darling, living in a house with all those hormone-addled people who would all happily jump each others bones if given a chance .
Umm, Caleb, why do you have gravestones in your room? For aestetics?
Poor Morgyn and Cassandra, to be considered gastronomically mediocre Though it´s probably good for their health, otherwise they would have even more vampires circling around them. I keep failing to recoognize Venessa, she looks so much better without that ridiculous hair.
@AlwaysAsking
Luna and Simeon look aweet together, your Simeon is very handsome! In my game, Luna married Don Lothario during the brief time I had MCCC-marriages turned on. Surprisingly, they are still together, so I am leaving them alone for now.
Mortimer knows about Bella´s baby fever. It would be hard not to, since whenever I play her, she keeps dragging him off into bedroom several times a day to try for a baby (I am using a mod that enables try for a baby with ghosts, but poor Bella is still failing to get pregnant. She can´t help but think whether or not it is a punishment for giving away her daughter Noelle all those years ago). Bella and Antoniette try to discuss their families as little as possible, because it´s several levels of complicated, thanks to Alexander´s history with Antoniette´s sister and nieces and Bella herself having had affairs with two of her friend´s grown-up sons.
Alexander is living with his eternally young mother and dead father and wondering about at which point his life became such a disaster. He is still in love with Amara, who refuses to come anywhere near him or let him see Jocelyn before he gets his life together.
There is a belief some players have that Bella married Mortimer for money. It stems from the Playstation version of Sims 2, so it´s debatable how much of a canon it is, but it´s part of why they are often portrayed having an uphappy marriage. This and Bella being a very attractive sim.
There is barely any canon information about Gunther Goth´s youth, so it´s free to speculations. When he is introduced at Sims 3 he is already an adult with a wife he has barely any romantic relationship with, a son and a ghost of a young woman called Lolita Goth, who keeps flirting him if given a chance. No one has any memories of Lolita or how she ended up dead (her ghost inplies that she died via electrocution), not even Gunther, who she is fixated to. By the time of Sims 2, Gunther and his wife have died in two separate fires (which is quite impressive, if you ask me, for Mortimer to have such bad luck that his parents died in two separate fires). No information about whether or not those fires were accident, so you can´t rule out the possibility that they were not. So in general, there is no canon proof that what happened to Gunther in my story did not happen.
Mortimer would be intrigued to learn that there is someone still alive who might possibly be able to shed some light into the riddle of Lolita, something that has fascinated him as long as he could recall. Mortimer is a writer and a scientist, the sort of person who thrives in mysteries. Whether or not he would like everything he learns is another question.
Ther other Morgyn´s life is not in danger. Probably.
Gideon is a heartbreaker. I already knew it since I aged him up in cas after he aged up to toddler to see what he would look like, but still I can´t decide who is cuter - he or Leo, whoever they are gonna date when they grow up will be a lucky sim.
I have been experimenting with poseplayer. Still o luck with poses with more than one people, but I am getting there eventually.
Your screenshots folder is impressive! Mine is not even 3 GB
@sarabeth2984
Congrats to Joanna! Wonder which ones of her powers her baby? babies? is going to inherit. Vinent is such a lovely shade of teal
@Becka28
I have been experimenting with poseplayer and photography in general. A funny fact about these pics: as I wanted them to appear in game, I had Morgyn take pictures of Antoniette, but he kept trying to wander off to talk to the cat, to the point where I turned autonomy off for the first time ever. Afterwards, I sent them off to bed but forgot to turn the autonomy back on. Fast forward to the next morning where I spent 5 minutes worrying about what was wrong with my game because no one was doing anything. Facepalm
Jessica´s new house is impressive! I can´t build to save my life, so 99% of time, I don´t even try. I have built exactly one house, which turned out to be a huge, empty, awfully impractical box. I am tempted to have Antoniette burn it to the ground.
What are Cassie and Edwin Ollie going to study? (Sorry if I have already asked it, my memory is a plum) Is Viktor still smitten with Max?
Nothing noteworthy today. I am thinking of adding yet another floor to Morgyn´s and Antoniette´s house, because I have ran out of space again and I have four more rooms to fit somewhere.
Shine and Roddy went over to the Britechester campus:
Polly Honeydew saw her nephew and ran over to him. 'Roddy! How are you doing?' She asked. 'I'm doing fine, Aunt Polly!' Roddy replied, curtseying. 'That's good to hear!' Polly said, smiling. She gave Roddy a big loving hug:
Roddy talked to Polly for a while:
Polly then made a kissy face at Roddy, which made him giggle:
And then Polly gave Roddy a big smooch on the cheek:
Shine smiled at her sister. She was waiting for her class to start:
Polly smiled sweetly at her nephew:
And gave him another big smooch on the cheek:
Polly then changed into a hot weather outfit, and gave Roddy a very big hug:
She waved goodbye to Roddy. Shine had finished her class and walked over to Polly:
'Hello Shine, how was class?' Polly asked. 'It was good, sister' Shine replied:
Shine and Polly gave each other a friendly peck on the cheek:
The two siblings chatted and caught up:
Shine then gave Polly a big loving hug:
Shine said goodbye to Polly. She and Roddy went back to Dianthus Hall.
Homework
Once back at Dianthus Hall, Shine went into her study area and got working on her homework.
Roddy was at the other desk...because, why not?
Shine was making good progress with her homework:
She wrote the last few sentences:
And Shine was done.
Affection Time!
Shine went into the makeover room and reapplied her shiny, bright pink lipstick, with Roddy watching her as usual:
Shine then checked herself in the mirror:
Shine then gave Roddy a big loving hug:
She then gave Roddy several big smooches on his face:
Roddy went bright red and giggled. Shine had covered his face in big, shiny, bright pink lipstick smooches:
'Please may I have some more lipstick smooches, mummy?' Roddy asked politely and sweetly:
'Of course you can, sweetie!' Shine replied:
Shine then gave Roddy several more big smooches:
Roddy went bright red and giggled again. Shine had covered his face in more big, shiny, bright pink lipstick smooches:
Roddy used one of his makeup removal wipes:
Shine smiled and gave Roddy a big loving hug:
'Thank you for the lipstick smooches, mummy!' Roddy said, cheerfully:
'You're welcome sweetie!' Shine said, smiling:
She then blew a kiss towards Roddy:
Sims 4 Family: Benjamin, Shine, Princess Roddy, Sophia and Hamish Furystrykar and Shelly Heart. Princess Roddy is my avatar, and he's a boy!
Back from my three day absences. I was at my friend's house for the New Year's and had a blast.
Recap: Jonathan was pregnant with either Christian's or Don's child. He gave birth a baby girl named Juliet, and the result: Christian is the baby's father.
Short update before we move on to the main legacy story...
Jonathan and Christian moved back to their home in Willow Creek, and the Antoine siblings got to meet their niece.
Well my roommate-fiance just dumped me,over some silly argument. This was the day after I engaged her mind you! (this seems like something that is too harsh of a punishment for the standard roommate arguments,does anyone know if there is a way to fix it?)
@GrumpyGlowfish, page 562.
Even in death, the urge to cycle is strong for some.
This update is when they fixed the firepit. And yes, that's a burned pirate ship. I swear, Brindleton Bay's wetter than the UK!
Roddy also knows how to safely put out a fire:
The nearest assembly point for the family is the beach.
Archaeology
Screenshot only section.
Chores around the house
Hamish cleans up the result of a thunderstorm:
Benjamin uses Scrubberoo:
That didn't work. Roddy was nearby and he got cleaning:
Ooh, a crystal!
Gardening
Shine completed the Friend of the World aspiration, so she's now working on the Freelance Botanist aspiration. She's got two blackberry plants and two strawberry plants in her study area. Here, Shine's planting the seeds:
Benjamin tends to his bees:
And the honey is his reward:
Berry Bliss visits
Who's that at the door?
It's Berry Bliss!
Roddy greeted her with a big hug and a kiss on the cheek:
Roddy and Grandaunt Berry play in the fountain:
Later on, Berry Bliss gave Roddy a very big smooch on the cheek:
Roddy then chatted with Berry:
And then Berry gave Roddy a big loving hug:
Berry Bliss said goodbye and went back home.
Time to go to class!
Shine and Roddy then go over to the Britechester University campus:
Time to go to class!
Roddy waits patiently:
Shine's class finishes:
And she and Roddy go back to Dianthus Hall.
Plants and homework
When Shine and Roddy entered the study area, Shine noticed her plants had started to grow. Time for a bit of research!
After that, Shine got on with her homework:
The festival of spice
Later on, Roddy and Shine went over to the Spice Festival:
Roddy is training his tastebuds to get used to spicy food.
Afterwards, the pair go back home to Dianthus Hall:
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Sims 4 Family: Benjamin, Shine, Princess Roddy, Sophia and Hamish Furystrykar and Shelly Heart. Princess Roddy is my avatar, and he's a boy!
Oh my gosh, I can't believe Dakota and Brianna ran off to play hooky and went to a bar!!! That's really funny, what did they even do there?
Dakota practiced the piano (for the first time of what I think may be the start of something for her), Brianna chatted up with every Sim that came in. Which is funny because I found out she was a loner. I changed her to a Social Butterfly, because it seems more fitting. Yet, she was still chatting up like crazy with people as a loner. I'd never seen such a social loner lol.
I also keep forgetting that Dakota is the granddaughter of Cassandra Goth. Her father (pictured in my profile picture with Dakota's mom) is the only descendant of the Goth family in my game. (His paternity is questionable, though, since Cassandra married Liberty Lee. Both Dakota and her father have strong Goth genes, though, so I have no doubt he's her biological son. We'll just say his father was a 🐸🐸🐸🐸 donor!)
No matter how much Don didn't want Friday to come, it came anyway. And Thorne left, for 18 days. He was going on a short concert tour out east, and when he walked away all of the feelings and memories of the day Thorne walked out on Don came flooding back.
Don knew it wasn't the same. Thorne was positively coming back to him this time. But it felt almost the same, because Thorne was going to be gone for so long.
Right before he left, Thorne told Don that he would not tolerate Don leaving Malcolm's house while he was out of town. "You belong to me now. Don't go to anyone else Don," Thorne had said to him. "Just wait for me here, because I'll know if you don't."
Don had assured Thorne that he would not leave Malcolm's property. He would stay there and wait for Thorne to come back, just like Thorne told him too.
Don didn't want to leave Malcolm's house. He just wanted Thorne to come back, and he wasn't taking any chances that Thorne wouldn't come straight back to him.
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Thorne had given Don a credit card from Thorne’s account, with Don's name on it, so Don could use it anywhere.
Don did what Thorne told him to do. He ordered a giant new TV and game system for his room. He played the games, and tried to keep his mind off of how much his heart hurt, and how empty he felt without Thorne.
It's possible that Thorne was just as upset about being away from Don, as Don was upset about Thorne being away. The days were hard to face when he knew they wouldn’t end in Don’s bed.
Judging by the amount of gifts that he sent to Don, on an almost daily basis, Thorne never stopped thinking about Don.
He sent Don some stylish brand name athletic shoes, beautiful platinum jewelry, and an elegant upscale jacket all within the first 3 days of his trip.
Thorne called Don as often as possible. Sometimes it was very hard to do. Don was nearly always crying, and his tears made Thorne want to cry, but he didn't.
He held strong for Don. "Don, Bud, you'll be fine. I know you miss me, I miss you too..... No, it's not going to be forever .... I'll be back pretty soon. ..... What are you doing to stay busy? .... I don't think it's working well enough, we have to think of other things."
He texted Don constantly, night and day, mostly asking Don to send him selfies.
Thorne said that he wanted pictures of Don in his new clothes. Don was pretty sure that Thorne wanted the pictures so that he could see if Don was in Malcolm's house. So Don sent him selfies.
Thorne wanted pictures of Don without his new clothes.... without any clothes. But Don said no to that. "You never send me that kind of picture,” Don texted him. "I'm not sending you any. You probably let your assistant use your phone."
Thorne chuckled when he got that text. Whaddya know? Thorne thought to himself, maybe the guy isn't that dumb after all. Thorne's assistant did use Thorne's phone.
Presents continued to arrive for Don almost every day. On the fifth day, a present arrived that really impacted Don's life.
He took the package into the house and opened it. It was a digital sketch pad. Don had never seen one before, but once he turned it on, it was love at first sight.
He had a natural affinity for it, and he learned quickly. He practiced with it constantly. The sketch pad was the only thing that made Don feel remotely better while Thorne was away.
As Thorne moved from city to city he missed Don more and more. He wished Don was with him. He'd love to show all of these places to him. He knew that Don had never been more than an hour and a half away from Newcrest, and Thorne wanted to be the one to show him the world. He sensed that there could be more to Don, if he was exposed to new places and new experiences. Thorne thought to himself, maybe he'd figure out that there's more to life than sleeping with every person he meets.
Although .... the plan didn't allow for that kind of thing. Thorne kept pushing the plan to the back of his mind. It isn't time yet anyway, Thorne decided. And I did promise to take Don to Hawaii. At least that would be fun.
Don continued drawing things on his sketch pad. It was very comforting to him, and it's a good thing that it was. Because Don still needed to go see a doctor, but he didn't want to go. He didn't want to know what was wrong with his health.
He was sure that it was nothing, just him missing Thorne, because even when Thorne was in town, he was often busy. So Don put off making an appointment for himself.
And Thorne kept insisting that Don had to go. After Thorne had been gone for 8 days, and Don still hadn't gone to a doctor, Thorne had his assistant make an appointment for Don.
Then Thorne sent his friend Penny Pizzazz over to pick Don up, and take him to the doctor's office.
When Penny came to pick him up, Don went with her, obviously. He knew that Thorne would be mad at him if he didn't go.
Thorne trusted Penny. He knew Penny wouldn't let Don out of her sight, and he knew Penny would not succumb to Don's charms.
Don had no choice but to trust Penny. He never wanted Thorne to be mad at him again. He never wanted Thorne to leave him again. The image of Thorne saying "Bye Don," and walking away from him, like Don didn't matter at all to him, was seared in Don's brain. He never wanted that to happen again.
Everything about Don's current behavior was ridiculously opposite to what Don's normal behavior had been, for as long as anyone could remember.
But it wasn't bothering Don. To Don it was the most natural thing in the world. Thorne was his whole world, and he was fine with that.
Dr. Hastings called Don into his office. He and the doctor discussed Don's symptoms. The doctor was concerned. It was unusual for symptoms like that to last so long, and the doctor didn't want to find anything drastically wrong with Don. He knew who was paying Don's bills, and was not anxious to be the one to give Thorne bad news.
He did a physical examination of Don, but it was inconclusive.
He was going to do an x-ray to look for obstructions in Don's digestive system, but something stopped him. Instead, he had Don give blood and urine samples so that he could check for a few things that seemed possible, given the symptoms.
He had Don go sit in the waiting room with Penny again, while he ran analyses on the samples Don gave him.
He called Don back into his office to give him the news. "Mr. Lothario," Dr. Hastings said. "I've got the answer to your health concerns. You might be confused about it though."
"What is it?" Don asked him. "What's wrong with me?"
And the doctor told him.
"What?!?" Don sputtered. "That's impossible! You know that's impossible! What is this? A joke?"
"I'm afraid not," Dr. Hastings said. "I ran the analysis 3 times. There's no doubt about it."
Don was aghast. "Oh my God!" he lamented. "Thorne is going to be so mad at me!"
"I'm sorry," Dr. Hastings replied. "I was hoping that perhaps this would be good news."
"Well it's not!" Don yelled. "He's going to blame me! He's going to leave me!"
"You have probably been overly emotional lately," Dr. Hastings said. "Maybe it's not as bad as you think. Talk to Mr. Bailey," the doctor advised. "Maybe he'll be happy. Just remember, if you find yourself acting oddly, or out of character, this is why. It’s very unusual and can cause intense emotions in men.”
"Ok," Don said. He really wasn't listening to the doctor. "I'll come back with Thorne, when he gets back.” I need Thorne! He thought to himself, over and over.
He didn't tell Penny what was wrong. He just told her that things were ok, but it was going to take a while before he got better. He said to her, "I'm scared that Thorne is gonna be mad.”
"Don," Penny said, with a concerned look. "If it's something that you could have passed to Thorne, you need to tell him right away, even if he will be mad. He'll need to be treated right away."
"No," Don said. "It's nothing like that. Thorne will be fine. I think he's going to hate what's wrong with me, and how long it will take to get better."
"He'll be so happy to hear that you're going to get better that he won't care how long it takes, I'm positive about that," Penny reassured him.
"I don't know about that," Don said, "I just need him to come back right away. I need to talk to him face to face, right now. I can't talk to him about this on the phone."
"It's more likely that he'll be mad if you force him to come back early," Penny pointed out.
"Dang! You’re right," Don agreed. "I'll wait, but I'm really scared."
"Don't be scared Don," Penny said. "He must really care about you if he went through all this trouble to get you to a doctor."
"I don't know how he feels about me," Don admitted. "He's never said he loves me.”
"Have you told him that you love him?" Penny asked.
"No," Don said. "What if he doesn't love me? I can’t handle it if he doesn't say it back.”
"Well...." Penny answered, "I think you should tell him. At least then you'd know."
Don shook his head and said, "I'm too scared."
Thorne called Don to ask him what the doctor said.
Don told Thorne that the doctor said he would be fine after awhile. He told Thorne, "I think the doctor didn't believe that I understood what he said. He wants you to come with me to see him when you come back. I think he wants to explain it to you himself."
Thorne said, “Does the doctor know we won’t be able to come in for 10 or 11 days?”
"He said that anytime within 2 weeks was fine," but then Don said, “I’m kinda scared, it would be nice if you were here.”
And Thorne quickly interjected, “Please Don, don’t ask me to come back. I don’t want to have to say no to you. I'll feel terrible if I have to say no to you. If I have to cancel one of my concerts the paparazzi will be all over me. As it is, they leave me alone when I’m at home. I stay so low key there’s no point for them to follow me. But if I cancel a concert they won’t stop until they find out why I did it. Please, don’t ask me to come back early,” he pleaded.
So Don didn’t ask him to come back, but when he hung up the phone he was sure he had the answer about whether Thorne loved him or not, and it was not.
Don threw himself into his drawings. They distracted him. They kept him from thinking about how afraid he was. He doesn’t even love me, Don thought to himself. He’s never going to stay with me through all this trouble.
He watched YouTube tutorials to teach himself the best techniques, and he used the tutorials to practice drawing pop art, classical art, and impressionism art.
He looked at the people around him, and practiced drawing people. He went out into Malcolm's yard to practice drawing landscapes.
But thoughts of Thorne never left his mind. He found a picture of Thorne online, and he decided to try to sketch him by looking at the picture. The sad feelings overwhelmed him. He hated thinking about what would happen when Thorne got back, but he still sketched the picture. Thorne was an obsession.
Don was surprised at how well it came out. He printed a copy of it to hang up, and he sent a digital copy of it to Thorne.
Thorne was very impressed. "Don!" Thorne exclaimed. "You said you were having fun with your sketch pad. You never said you could do sketches like that!"
Don said, “Yeah, I’m pretty good at it now,” and Thorne agreed with him.
Don liked the sketch pad the most, but he still did other things. He played his video games, especially if Raj would play multi player with him. Video games could be really good at distracting Don from his fear, anxiety, his desperation to be with Thorne, and the dread he felt about losing Thorne when he got back.
But the sketch pad was the best distraction, because it made him feel closer to Thorne in so many ways. Thorne had picked it out for him, sent it to him, and talked to him about it all the time. Then when Don figured out that he could draw Thorne with it, it became his lifeline. He might not have Thorne for long, but he’d always have the sketches of him.
He'd once taken a picture of Thorne that he really loved. He decided that he was finally drawing well enough to try to sketch that one on his sketch pad too, and he thought it looked pretty good. So he sent a digital copy of it to Thorne.
By this time it was only two days until Thorne came back. Thorne called Don, and told him that the drawing was fabulous! "Don!! Buddy! That's amazing! I'm so proud of you!"
"Do you really think it’s good?" Don asked. That particular sketch was important to Don, and he wanted Thorne's opinion of it, before it was too late.
"I do!" Thorne exclaimed. "It’s amazing that you can draw pictures of me without me being there! And it’s really good Don, I’m not just saying that. I can't wait to see you! Just 2 more days! I want to see your sketches in person."
"I just want to see you," Don said sadly. He wanted to know if Thorne would walk out immediately when Don told him the news.
"I'll come there straight from the airport, ok?" Thorne said.
"Yeah, ok," Don answered. Two days felt like an eternity to Don. He kept telling himself, he doesn’t love me. Be ready to lose him. He tried very hard to prepare himself for that kind of devastating pain, but of course he couldn’t think of any way to do that.
The two days passed, and finally it was the Tuesday evening when Thorne was coming back.
Thorne had raced to Don's room, wondering why Don hadn't been waiting at the front door for him. "Don!" he said. He'd missed Don so much he couldn't describe it.
Don slipped wordlessly into Thorne's arms. Finally! He thought. I can breathe again. He's here.
A few moments later Thorne said, "I thought you'd be at the front door."
"I'm sorry," Don said. "I didn't want the guys around when you got here. I was crying." In truth, Don had been crying all day. He couldn’t help but think that this would be the last time that Thorne would put his arms around him, and make him feel safe.
"Why?" Thorne asked him. "Didn't you want to see me?"
"Yeah," Don answered, "I really really wanted to see you, but I'm scared you're going to be mad at me, and leave me again."
"What did you do?" Thorne jumped to his feet. The anger was already detectable in his voice. "I told you to stay here Don. I told you not to go to anyone else. What did you do?"
Don hated the anger in Thorne's voice. More proof that Thorne didn’t love him. Don answered, "I didn't leave! I didn't go to anyone else! I'd never do that!"
"Why are you scared then?" Thorne asked. He still sounded angry.
"Thorne ...." Don almost whispered, "I think you're going to leave me again, because .... do you want to be a father?"
“Excuse me?” Thorne said. “What did you say?”
“That doctor guy told me that I’m pregnant,” Don answered him. “That’s what’s actually wrong with me.”
“Are you kidding me?” Thorne asked him. “You have to be kidding, right? That’s not even possible!”
“I guess it is,” Don said. “The doctor said it’s been happening for the last few years, just to a few couples, but they don’t know why. Are you mad?”
“Mad?” Thorne said. “Of course I’m not mad! Why would I be mad?”
“I don’t know,” Don said. “I figured you’d blame me, you’d think I did something to make this happen, but I didn’t, I swear!”
Thorne smiled as he thought, that 50 grand I spent on hormone treatments probably had a lot to do with it……
“Don, no, I’m not mad. I’m so happy!” Thorne assured him. “I can’t tell you how happy I am!”
“Do you really mean that?” Don asked. “For sure? You’re not mad?”
“Oh God no, Baby, I’m not mad. I’ll never be mad at you again,” Thorne told him.
Thorne pulled Don into his arms and he whispered, “I love you,” into Don’s ear, just as he remembered that he was going to wait for Don to say it first.
Not in the World
Reyansh Basu
Sione Faamoana
Alvin Liu
Hakim Mounib
Raul Massey
Kolby Arnett
Agustin Betancourt
Art Brinkley
Gilbert Palumbo
Lawrence Funk
Santino Stclair
Deacon Sparacino
Ramin Aleman
Iker Hays
Barry Solano
Curtis Norton
Karter Hanks
Ali Abd Al Kader
Soren Higa
Norman Felder
Shingo Mori
Clark Vance
Jaquan Crespo
Demetrius Yazzie
Fernando Salcedo
The Grubbs Brothers
Charles Grubbs
Lincoln Grubbs
Darryl Grubbs
The list is long, and so are the names. San Myshuno holds most of the townies. Even to this day, I'm trying to wrap my head around how to pronounce some of them. I kept thinking Ausage was Asuage.
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Sims 4 Family: Benjamin, Shine, Princess Roddy, Sophia and Hamish Furystrykar and Shelly Heart. Princess Roddy is my avatar, and he's a boy!
@AlwaysAsking@Becka28@O-meezy@Morkovka (hopefully I didn't miss anyone because I did not get a notification of Becka's comment and I haven't been reading the thread as closely as usual, so if that happened to anyone else I didn't catch it).
Thank you for your comments! I'm glad you enjoy my elders. I created the household originally to play out the end of their lives so they didn't live forever. I very quickly decided that it's more fun for me if it's fun for them. So they would have made the perfect Sulani testers in better weather. As it is, I played them for the last full week of winter, so they did get a few hours of sun, and some days that were just cloudy so they could still do most things. I'll post the pics of their week in a spoiler.
Supriya and Justin beach selfie!
First trip to the beach:
I updated the beach in the left-hand neighborhood. After their first trip I edited it further. It's meant to be a full family destination so there's something for all ages. You can see it in the background in this sandcastle photo:
Technically that was a sand-cowplant. I didn't get a screenshot of the final product.
And I did take this sunbathing photo on that beach also.
I switched Supriya to the beach life aspiration, so she spent every ounce of sunlight trying to get her first tan, and finally succeeded.
Meanwhile, Moira switched to the Angling Ace aspiration, since she's an outdoor lover and there's more fishing than gardening available on the island. She explored the sailboats.
Moira and Dominic also enjoyed brunch at the local food stand, even when the weather suggested they wear their cold weather outfits.
Rinaldo went snorkeling and almost met a dolphin. It was trying to decide if it liked him enough for me to interact, then Rinaldo autonomously started snorkeling again and it left. This was a super cloudy day.
Supriya also tried snorkeling, and then tested out the Aquazip.
That seems unsafe over a reef at night, but what do I know?
They also tried out the clothing optional beach on that little island in the volcano neighborhood (I have put no effort into learning the names of things, obviously). Rinaldo found it embarrassing. Navya loved it. I forget if she was confident or energized, but she was happy. She's by the steps in the shot.
Everyone else pictured is a townie because my sims were all scuba diving or exploring the waterfall, which I didn't get any pictures of. They also wore themselves out swimming over so I didn't try waterfall woohoo since they were at risk of overexertion.
Ananya didn't make any of the above photos so here she is sunbathing with Supriya on the first day that there was a break in the clouds.
That's pretty much what they got to do before the rain and thunderstorms hit in time for New Year's.
You may recall that I have a night club in a cemetery, which absolutely never gets visited by the ghosts buried there. So of course two of them show up in Sulani, because that makes sense right?
That's Diego, with Mimsy from Windenberg in the background. Don Lothario was there also. Mimsy is still attached to her original lot, but the other two have been buried in the cemetery since the vampires arranged for them to freeze to death.
Come to think of it, Gunther has only showed up once since he died, and it was in Selvadorada. Maybe ghosts just like to be warm?
Anyway, apparently chatting with a ghost that froze to death is dangerous, because both Moira and Dominic turned blue despite the weather being merely cool and the fact that they were inside. Changing to cold weather outfits fixed it, but I had no idea that could happen.
Can y'all tell me where the stand is that sells things like local fruits? I have only found food stalls. I was going to start a garden for them on their lot but Supriya had to eat the coconut she found for her aspiration and Justin made the kava root that Moira caught fishing into a fruit salad, and I haven't found anything else. So I planted one of the emotion berries Rinaldo brought back from Selvadorada, but I'd like to plant the local fruit too eventually.
Oh, and @AlwaysAsking I don't really pay much attention to the tv either, so I have no idea if they're referencing anyone in particular, but I was very amused at how the sim on tv was practically posing for that screenshot. I think it may have been the public access channel. At least, at some point Supriya had a whim to watch that channel that I directed her to do, and since she's in that picture that's probably it. I'll do my best to remember to look up the lot name and report back when I'm in the game later tonight.
So, after that I started in on the last household of this rotation. And guess who got engaged? Unflirty Lucas and his patient girlfriend Holly!
It was Love Day, so he managed to be in a flirty mood despite himself.
And just look at the expression on his face a few minutes before I directed him to propose:
I think he wanted me to know it was time.
2 of my male sims got stuck in the remolded dorm "ladies restroom" because I put the door on backward. I was saved by a cheat another sim player had posted instead of having to move them out one by one and back in again which would have taken most of the night.
Awesomes out this is the earliest my data has stopped being ornery ha, I was playing my future legacy family and just had to share this one with you, it also got a little long so naturally story will be in and outside of the spoilers.
Firstly this, as when I first played them years ago he died in a fire with two of their sons caused by ice cream, that dragons breath ice cream see I kept them for a while and they got to enjoy some of the packs but it was the beginning for me as before my computers could only handle the base game still it's been years. Anyways she survived fine.
Now storywise schoolwork goes on and he looked especially nice coming home from work, he was glad to be off but a little disappointed that Anaya wasn't home yet though there was little he could do about that this was for their future. He still couldn't believe after meeting online how their life moved forward. He missed her so when he was alone, even surrounded by other students it wasn't the same. He didn't want to admit it to her, she was nearly as affectionate as he was but he worried that would be a little much for her she was much more used to being surrounded in a crowd of friends even when they were welcomed to the neighborhood she controlled the room and did her homework at once he was just glad to run out on their neighbors and go to class.
Getting ready for the day waking up alone wasn't so unusal he was surprised to see her still in her pajamas downstairs, he tried to play it off but he got a little emotional all the same.
"Hey stranger."
After Angela invited them out for lunch they hadn't really seen each other in days he'd be asleep, wake up to leave then come back and she'd be gone or focused on homework and dozing off. She grinned.
"Now what sort of greeting is that for your girlfriend do I not look hot yet?" she teased.
"I love you."
"I love you too, I missed you so much." she cooed giving him a healthy squeeze to ease his nerves.
Also here is her uniform, she didn't have time to go to the bathroom before class but she loves her uniform she only occaisonally picks her usual outfit...I think it's cute.
Finally a weekend for them, classes were done and they had spent the rest of their time rushing through homework and studying, he was glad they had a little bit of freedom. He felt a little out of it though he wasn't as active as he used to be they were just busy he was lucky to be a life guard or he'd have something else to go crazy over.
He has a little fun teasing her after a shower, she takes it so seriously and he just finds it funny because she's so cute to him, he pulled her off the machine for something for the both of them after. He was both relieved and a little down that he did in fact have a shift today but he'd make the most of it.
She showered up and joined him and scoffed
"You're not getting me on that thing!" though she was delighted to see him out of his shell again, she didn't dwell on it she knew he'd talk to her when he was ready but she could tell when he wasn't quite himself.
"Oh you're getting on."
"Relax babe it's easy."
"Yeah for you." she muttered.
He was impressed she could complain with the best of em but if she didn't give her all, he loved that about her...well too, he loved everything about her.
Either he changed his outfit or he got a promotion I saw the promotion blurb pop up so maybe...anyhoo aside from his usual way these days were wearing him down.
He's not washing his face I moved up and heard him crying over the music I had playing, like really he's very sensitive, he was having a hard morning though it wasn't like he could ask her to wake him up when she got up.
"Leon! Hurry and dress you owe me a Valentine's date!" he managed to perk up relieved.
She burnt their V-day snack...but uh she looks cute doesn't she?
He still ate it and watched some cheesy romance with her before taking her out it was finally time and he wasn't going to miss his chance.
I closed in Hogans so the heat wouldn't make them change, she doesn't care where they are she just likes being with him.
The guy dropped their food naturally...
Leon had them bring out a cake they could take instead.
I love how they are all lovey dovey then Eric is just there giving his wife a look like Olivia just asked a really difficult question..like where do babies come from lol.
Anyways moving on...
"Forget the food I have a surprise for you."
"sure "
"So what do you have for me?"
"Isn't it pretty?" he tried feeling a bit of nerves.
"Yeah it is...oh are we gonna do a photo shoot?"
He chuckled.
"i thought you didn't like being on camera?" he teased
He took this in the bar but she was just tired.
"I was just tired"
see?
lol
"Okay if you say so maybe we could but actually I brought you here for something else."
"Tell me, my head is gonna explode."
"Let's test that."
"It's cute when you're nervous." she said taking her turn to tease.
For second he was afraid he read her wrong as she didn't say a thing his heart was doing a two step as she squealed screaming out a yes.
There was more certainty with the future he didn't have to worry so much that they would end up being a pair of flings once they graduated, she was much of a people person than he was after all.
He let her up and was surprised to see her crying as he wiped her tears away she hit his arm.
"You ruined my make up you big jerk." she said with a laugh, he smiled.
"Well maybe you could fix it, or just stop wearing it all together you're beautiful without it."
She grinned.
"You know I knew you'd bring me here."
"You knew I'd propose."
"No I hoped you would propose, but I heard about this place people say it's cursed but it's not enough to just visit it...you need to make a wish on Valentine's day with your lover." she said wiggling her hands to emphasize the "spookiness." he laughed then.
"You know we're going to do just that now."
"Yeah yeah I'm coming."
"now you need to throw in at least three hundred." Anaya warned
"such a specific amount you know this is fake right?" he naturally used to spend a lot of time on the net when alone debunking things with those who would listen something he hadnt done since he met Anaya. Nothing to occupy his mind was much scarier than the stories he read.
"Hey I don't want bad things happening to us..."
"Don't worry so much."
"Leon wait..." she started seeing a hundred in his hand.
Though he tossed in a hundred and made his wish he just wanted to be connected to her forever...
She almost found it sweet.
"Leon!' she cried, he let out a string of forbidden words before the smoke simply faded.
"S..see what I tell you? Nothing" he said though she noted he was a little shaken too.
"Still...."
"Uh....hi."
They looked down as their screams echoed for a moment.
"I'm going crazy.....you're not seeing this...I'm not seeing this nothing is happening" Anaya said in a panic
Leon didn't know what to say as he caught her glaring at him, he didn't even notice the...child had taken his phone.
"Anaya I.."
"I....can't believe you didn't listen to me...what is that some know it all right of passage??"
"Babe..please, calm down I can."
"Don't say you can fix it!" she snapped.
"What are you going to do? Throw a ghost back down the well and never mention this again?"
"I..." he checked out a bit as she yelled at him, mostly because her anger faded so quickly she was upset those were not the tears he wanted to see, he felt there was a lot more than not listenting that upset her. It wasn't just the new addition to the family either she was so easy going nothing seemed to rile her up...now this.
He remained silent looking for some clue on what to say or not to do.
"Oh forget it...you'll never understand I'm going home."
"Anaya wait let me.."
he stopped feeling a chill around him.
He nearly lost his footing as the child peeked out at him.
"holy watcher in front of me..." (wink wink)
"Sorry daddy..."
He tried to calm his nerves as he looked...through him.
"I uh...it's ok.." he muttered seeing her grab a taxi, she'd be fine with some space for a moment at least he thought so while he tried to think of what to say.
"Does mommy hate me...?"He gave him a look finally catching on.
"No she doesn't she's just mad at me...but you...why do you think we're you're parents?...Did they drop you in there?" he started horrified.
He shook his head.
"No, my other parents were sick or something dad wanted me gone so when mom died I went with her and dad wouldn't talk to me...but I forgive them....I heard if I prayed really hard and was a good boy I'd get new parents, you're the first couple to come for me...do you hate me ?" he was cheerful but seemed down all the same. He already reminded Leon far too much of himself except when he asked his father that same question he got an answer and he still remembered it.
"Oh I...no I don't hate you either..." he said still unsure wishing he could wake from the nightmare...he spent so much time calling bluffs on every story he reached that faced with this now he felt entirely unprepared. Though he thought to comfort him.
He almost laughed at himself...responding as such he expected to fall flat on his face though he froze coming in contact, the boy was cold to the touch but he could have been another child fresh out of the cold..that was transparent of course. He smiled at him.
"...What's uh...your name?"
"Axel!...are we gonna go home now...I hate it here..."
He felt a bit sick, now he knew but what he knew didn't make sense and that had been quite enough space for Anaya.
"Yeah...we can..uh can you hide yourself to others?"
"Sure can I'm really really good at it, cause no one ever talks to me."
He sighed how he tugged at his heart strings he really needed to get back to Anaya.
Anaya stopped short seeing him appear beside her hearing Leon call she wanted to go right to bed she backed away as Axel only smiled at her.
They did in fact have a ghost child guess it was just the length of the time they got ghosts eventually too after Leon's death hmmm
So uh we'll see if I share anymore with you, unless anyone wants to know what happens next with him.
Reddestiny921 on the gallery...still not sure if I capitalized the second d..lol
All the sims err'day
A brief makeover - Diego now has his natural hair colour back! Also changed a few clothing items, added eyelashes, changed some makeup and stuff. Old look here.
@Keidra okay, that is fair! I'm distinctly... not a programmer, so I might stick with AO3 And dang, hope you're able to work out what broke!
Love the cast pictures! Not sure about Caleb's goatee, though, he does have a baby face XD The piercings are fun, though! Really, Morgyn is just unfair in general. Lilith looks kind of amazing as a blonde! Lakshmi looks like she's doing better, yeah. Poor Michelle, kid of a Sage and she didn't even get magic!
@DeafSimmer Jarvis and Aria are very cute together!
@Morkovka honestly, the Untamed household sounds about right XD That mix of chairs is glorious! Heh, only a little taking advantage, yes!
@Koteyka I liked the talk between Thor and Steve. There's a lot of intense emotion there from them, and yeah, no easy answers. Snickered out loud at Peter wearing an Avengers shirt, that's a bit meta! "Hey Pa, did you ever notice you and Dad are a lot like Captain America and Iron Man?" Awww, I'm so glad they had that talk! And now they can start again, properly and honestly this time. Post-credits scene - oh jeez Thor definitely shouldn't have let that slip!
@AlwaysAsking ooh I see that added drama. Dangit, you're really determined to make me see Don Lothario as a giant woobie, aren't you? XD
@Daephene sounds like the old folks are having fun! Oh dear, poor Diego... you can get the local fruits at the iLand kiosk, IIRC there's one near the bar in Ohan'ali Town.
TBH... If anyone wants, I'd be happy to make a quick visual walk-through guide to WordPress and how to do stuff on it if someone's willing to tell me what they wanna know how to do (I'm not great at guessing these things because I know how to do everything already). Because having issues with WP seems to be common around here and it's a decent tool and I like being a helpful person, it makes me feel useful.
Also GREAT news, this save is finally unbroken. (And Pixel's still around! He's an adult now of course, but yeah! He's Morgyn's familiar now. Minerva and Kit are also around and fine.) SML is set 13 years later, so expect some differences... it'll be lots of fun I think cause there's been some really notable personality shifts in a few of them already (I haven't even started writing but I can Feel it... Damian sorta turned into a bamf what the hekkkkk) and I can't wait to play with it and get to know Esme. I will be posting links to it when I start writing it in the stories forum. I did drop the evil mermaids but I don't think anyone will mind. LOL I also dropped Miss Hell because I have way too much else to do and I need to intro new people and tbh if she tries being present Lilith really will kill her. ... presuming Summer doesn't first.
I'm building a penthouse for them on Stargazer atm, but I'm being ridiculously picky about it, so it's taking many long. xD And then I gotta go do the Straud Mansion reno oh man. But at least I'm not getting LEs every ten seconds anymore.
Also fun story, Kane is actually based on a female Sim of mine (so technically is canonically FTM lol), and he looks almost exactly like his female version. It's wild. (That female Sim would be Dove Ciresi, and she does have a story of her own so I have a special affection for Kane. xD He's my lil babskie.)
@Morkovka
Ikr. I didn't change anything else, and it's just like Who is this. Sometimes facial hair makes no difference to speak of at all, and other times man it really does.
I have OCD so bad and the chairs just really bother me. xD
@ryttu3k
Fortunately it was just my eye replacements, and a couple hairs. Everything else seems fine. But it broke CAS and everything and turned Esme's eyes black and I was like NOOOOO gimme back the greeeeey.
Yeah he uh. Morgyn, Damian, and Cassandra might eventually ban Caleb from facial hair forever just because it's so weird XD Everyone's got at least one piercing. You can't see it but Damian's got an eyebrow piercing under his hair. And Caleb thankfully didn't go as nuts as Lilith did, but he and Morgyn have matching eyebrow rings. Because nothing says love like getting a piercing in the exact same place right?
And right? Omg. I was just clicking colours to see what Lilith looks good in and ran into blond and was like Oh my god y e s. Unfortunately this is me so Lakshmi's happiness will not last long. She also might've lied when she said they'd never be friends. Donno, is up to the kids. Right? At least 'chelle can go get magic if she wants it later.
@Koteyka
Yay! I'VE ONLY BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER. KICK HIS BUTT!
WAIT. THOR NO. THOR BAD. OMG.
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白雪夏夜我不停歇
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
@AlwaysAsking@ryttu3k basically answered your question to me about changing Caleb's traits, but to add to it I started up a new save and when I did it seemed the game actually slightly changed Caleb's traits. I assumed this happened because it was a new save, and even though he's premade maybe sometimes the game changes things up slightly to accomodate it being a different universe? Not really sure if it was that or just a glitch, either is possible. Either way, my Caleb has the romantic, foodie and ambitious traits. I may have changed them myself at some point and I just don't remember. It wouldn't surprise me considering I don't like the thought of Caleb being materialistic.
But yes, as ryttu3k said, the mod in question adds extra traits for matchmaking purposes. Both my Caleb and Morgyn have the lover traits which makes them very compatible, for instance. It's actually really nifty and worth having installed for realism. The NSFW aspects of the mod can be disabled so you can just use it for the trait attributes and the ability to start poly relationships if you don't want the other stuff in your game.
Yeah, I realised when I was posting the 3rd part of my story that I should probably index my chapters. I did put a link to the previous part on that post which you might not have seen, but I didn't put a link to the beginning. I'm going to for the foreseeable updates though because since it's been the holiday period people will inevitably have missed things Thank you for thinking the plot is cool!
I'm not really that worried about my writing, I just like comment feedback to know what people actually think about my stories. I've always been a pretty prolific fanfiction writer and I've posted a lot of writing, but I've noticed that while many of my works get a lot of likes/awesomes/kudos/favourites, they don't get much written feedback which is disappointing because it really inhibits my ability to gauge exactly how much people like my writing, for what reasons and what improvements or changes I should make to coincide with those things.
It's my dream to be a published author one day, so I always appreciate when people give me contructive criticism or any feedback at all on my writing so I can keep improving. Nobody should ever feel shy on telling me what they think about my stories, I want to hear it!
And lastly I don't know what happened to my save, but I went back to my game and Peitrie was a child again so it looks like my game didn't save properly. No matter, I'll just have to age him up again, and as you said he's adorable as a kid so it's not the worst thing in the world xD
@Becka28 Indeed that smile was from the presents - the funny thing was Caleb didn't like what he got once he opened the present and realised what it was. I guess his response was fair though, I mean what is a vampire expected to do with a pear?
@Morkovka I always forget there are non-native English speakers here. I apologise if my writing is a bit tricky to understand, especially the part where Francois was talking. I purposely gave his part a semi old-English vibe because he's supposed to be centuries old and I imagined him to speak differently to the way modern people do.
And as you pointed out because I come from a fanfiction background I tend to focus more on the text rather than the pictures sometimes, which is why my text can be a bit long sometimes. That said I'm touched you're still keeping along with my story despite it being hard for you to follow! *sending virtual hugs*
@Keidra I made my first post on Simprovise. I hope I did it right, I inferred from your post what I was supposed to do but I haven't rp'd in that way before so feel free to correct me if I took too many liberties
@everybody who responded to my Happy New Year post - I wasn't expecting anybody to respond to that, so thank you! Happy New Year again to all of you and everybody else on the thread!
@Keidra Very generous of you to offer personal WordPress tutorials, but since I was turned on to Archive Of Our Own by (hope they don't mind the mention) @ryttu3k I was blown away by the rich-text editing option, where you can edit it as it actually looks, and the ability to rearrange chapters even once they are posted, so I could sandwich in a chapter that needed writing, in retrospect. It was pretty much everything I was looking for in ease, intuitive interface, flexibility, freedom. So I ported my Tale of Gaston over there, adding to it as I went.
But you're still really awesome to offer to help all comers, with WordPress questions!
Oh, and I finally played some more, and for anyone who remembers the hilarity of what *really* happened when Caleb went to try to save Gaston from Sunglasses Man (Inexplicably, Gaston chose the exact moment when Caleb was viewing him from the other side of the one-way mirror into the cell, to disrobe, whereupon Caleb "had it out" with himself while watching ! AHHH And then to my horrified delight, whipped out his phone and took photos!
Well...something came of that that again had me astonished because I didn't see it coming. Caleb was at Club Nosferatu, using the Alien PC, and I wanted to know what he was up to, so I hovered over the PC icon...drumroll....
He was SELLING those pics of Gaston he had taken, on the internet! ACK!
Not as nice a guy as I thought he was, apparently!
I was tempted to quit without saving, but curiosity for whether there will be any in-game consequences to this, made me leave it.
Naughty, naughty Caleb! Got to keep you on a short leash, apparently!
Racism is EVERYONE's fight #BLM #StopAsianHate
Let's make Liberty and Justice For All a reality.
@Nushnushganay I'm confused, how could Caleb have taken photos AND started selling them online autonomously? As far as I know there's no option to sell photos at all on the computer and the only way photos are saved is if you manually get the sim to take them, not that they autonomously take photos anyway...
@Nushnushganay
I read everything in this thread, I know who it was lol and yeah you can do that with WordPress, too... sooo... there's that.
For everyone else, that's really not an AO3 thing. Almost anything can do that tbh.
Also so nobody misunderstands me, I don't like WordPress that much more than AO3. I really don't. What I also don't is I don't like biases against certain software. They're all pretty much the same under the hood and can often do the exact same things as one another and I will rail against choosing one platform over another because xyz can do zyx... because, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw can probably also all do it. It's just not a valid reason to me and my knee-jerk reaction is educating. lol
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白雪夏夜我不停歇
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
It's time to wrap up Blake's second to final semester at UBrite!
Term Day 4
Blake woke up early to do his homework for his classes.
He went to class and afterwards, he went to the UBrite Commons and Siobhan was there. She talked about the San Myshuno festivals with him.
That night, he grabbed a bite to eat and chatted with one of his roomies, Allie.
Weekend Day 1
There was a game day event, so before he can participate, he worked on his term paper.
Nothing beats a great selfie with your school mascot!
He played ping pong with Lilith Pleasant, who is a Foxbury student
Although Blake lost to Lilith, he did his best.
Another selfie with the mascot, although Blake's face was covered
Doing the UBrite Cheer at the local bar!
Before the day ended, Blake went to Foxbury and vandalized their statue
That good feeling when a UBrite student pranked Foxbury successfully
Weekend Day 2
As usual, he participated in the Creativity Celebration event with his friends and roomies
What a lovely mural!
Afterwards, Taylor, his roomie, told him that she had a lot of fun at the event.
Blake praised Taylor's artistic skills
Later, Ken, another roomie, joined in the conversation and Taylor asked him if he had fun at the event as well.
Final Day of the Term
Blake: Heya Frankie! How do you think you did on your final exam?
Frankie: I studied really hard for this exam, so I have a feeling I did great!
Blake: Well, I felt like there were some questions on my exam that I've not seen before. Is my professor throwing curveballs at me?
Frankie: I hope not. Let me guess. You haven't spent time looking at those questions?
Blake: You're right. I definitely haven't spent time on them.
Later, he met up with Ken at the UBrite Commons.
Ken: So, how was your final exam?
Blake: Not bad, although there were questions on there that I've not seen before.
Ken: Questions you not seen before? Maybe you haven't studied those before your final?
Blake: That's the same thing my friend Frankie told me! It's clear the reason I've not seen those questions before was that I've not spent time on them.
Final grades for the term. Not terrible to say the least. He'll do better in his final term of his university career.
Bonus: Mila Munch volunteered to pose for the Art Society's Figure Painting event.
I'm not saying anyone does, but if anyone should, for some reason, want to hang the polyamory pride flag on their Sims' walls... here you go. It uses the pride flag object in BG and just adds another recolour. Actually it duplicated it, darn it S4S. I'll fiddle with it later.
Got it. It should now override properly, redownload it. c:
I'm uh, slowly getting places on this penthouse.
Ngl, I got Moschino Stuff for these windows and that's it. Yeah. ROFL
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白雪夏夜我不停歇
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
So, AO3 and Sims lit! Now that I've finished my most recent long fic, I want to get started on some Sims stuff, and I'm trying to work out where the best place to start is. I'm thinking it'll probably be with the Vatores moving to San Myshuno? And then having their turning, Caleb meeting Johnny, et cetera in the backstory (and potentially flashbacks). Much more prose-heavy than my existing posts!
@Keidra yay for unbroken saves! Honestly, yeah, Miss Hell is kind of superfluous when you have all the other characters around XD (And if you do need another antagonist, well...) Anyway. I vote group tackling Caleb and shaving off the facial fur by force XD Morgyn's just like, "I could get a razor or I could inferniate it off, your choice." "...RAZOR PLEASE." Oh man there's someone on Simsta who gave Lilith white hair and she looks amazing. Just. Daaang. (Also, because of Fay, I now ship Lilith/Morgyn just as hard as Caleb/Morgyn, so...)
Ooh, poly flag! Totally snagging. Maybe I should do a flag wall at Chateau Vest XD (Once Morgyn's there too, it'd have... let's see... trans and bi for Caleb, gay for Johnny, aromantic and pansexual for Lilith (and pan for Morgyn), genderfluid and/or nonbinary for Morgyn, and poly for them all XD) And seriously, those Moschino windows are amazing.
@TheLastStar that is weird to get new traits in a new save, since Caleb's defaults are Ambitious, Foodie, and Materialistic! I did keep Materialistic, but exchanged Ambitious for Romantic. And yeah, it's definitely a really customisable mod!
@Nushnushganay I'm all for getting more people (and more Sims content!) on AO3, all good By the way, there's a general Sims fandom tag you can use! 'The Sims (Video Games)'. Helps get more readers in general. You can also add in a ton of miscellaneous tags discussing themes! For instance, these are the tags on my most recent fic:
Advantage of this is that you can get readers who are actively searching by themes. Say someone's searching for fics featuring poly relationships, or aromantic characters, or stories that talk about trauma, they'd be able to find it that way, too. And that can also get in readers who may not even know the fandom or characters, which can introduce people to them too!
@Keidra I have to agree - Esmerelda IS ridiculously beautiful. Cassandra rarely has ugly children but wow! Plus now I know what a BAMF is - that one passed me by for some reason.
I would appreciate your quick walkthrough on Wordpress - especially how to set up like a main page and the post different stories under different headings. That is an incredibly generous offer. I know it took me forever to set mine up and if I had to go back to it and set it up again I wouldn't remember. Hints and tips about setting up whats on a page would help too (I found that a lot more intuitive and forgiving to click and see then the skeleton to hang the pages on so to speak.) Some guides on this forum helped but weren't as broken down for novices as needed.
This is the link to my blog so you can see what I started ie re: page structure (not asking you to read it LOL) https://rebeccassims4.home.blog/ (a lot of headings are empty as it is a very young work in progress and I haven't had much time for the actual writing which takes more time than screenshots!)
@ryttu3k Yes, I built on the 64 x 64 lot so I only have the Villareal lot and the lot in Brindleton Bay I can move it to and I am not happy. I may have to find a space for madeover Jessica in another save too - after everyone's comments.
Love your made over Diego, especially his hair and facial hair choices. And your Diego makes me wish we didn't have to rely on cc for male bodyhair. - seeing your clothing choices I realised both Jessica's Diego and my other one wear those same Moschino trackpants and jumper in different outfits - and we picked the same winter outfits. (is that his default?) I had to change those particular speedos to another pair as the stripy ones say sleazy uncle from the 1970s to me. I do have a Diego in another save who is a bit of a serial romantic. He hasn't settled on a fashion style yet (but I hate to admit he still has his moustache). I may have to find a space for made over Jessica in another save too - after everyone's comments.
images - spoiler to save room.
Breaking hearts all over San Myshuno - this poor young guy cried when Diego said he just wanted to be friends.
and then became a little bit of a stalker
I do have unironical Moschino sim - Moira Rose from Schitt's Creek
I'd quite like Diego to meet up with David Rose - I think they would have fun together (and be snobs together).
@Koteyka enjoy your camp. will keep it short so you dont have a lot to read when you get back. Yay - Thor saying some sense to Steve (all the things I yell at the screen). So nice to see Steve and Tony talk again instead of leaping to conclusions and assuming things. I was happy (to say the least) and then distressed when Thor confronted Nick. Will Nick ever leave Tony alone?
@RedDestiny92 and @O-meezy thankyou for your comment on my build. It has taken over a month (I am no speed builder) and is still no where near finished inside. I had to watch so many tutorials to get close to the ideas in my head. At least modern builds don't have a lot of roof building.
@RedDestiny92 the wishingwell story was funny - I didn't know that would happen - would the usual potions / cures work for the child?
@AngeliqueAdelaide thank you for the house comment. I have no idea what they will study. Edvin has level 9 art but seems to be losing interest in it so fine arts may not be his thing. I was thinking Lawyer as end game (he seems a serious and earnest sim) so a degree that gets you into Lawyer. I really struggle with Cassandra and am open to suggestions - I really can't get a good read on what she would prefer. Sims just don't seem that interested in long posed photography sessions but I can imagine them just all standing around without their autonomy the next morning. LOL
@daephene - oh those unflirty sims - they give me palpitations sometimes. Lucas was very sweet during his proposal. The notification thing really bugs me. This thread is fine for finding missed ones but I don't check other threads a lot.
@GrumpyGlowfish ghosts on bikes! do they have to have a bike before they die? have you seen it in other worlds other than Britechester?
Well this was going on outside Jessica's house!
I assume they were on the celebrity house tour (those outfits hurt my eyes especially the socks with flip flops situation)
But what was this guys issue?
and why did he feel the need to take touristsnaps of Tiasha and Tyrell (they are attractive but ask first)
at least after 2 kids they are still autonomously romantic.
spoiler to save room...
The camera situation is killing me and I may have to move the entire house - but the views are so fabulous. Please fix our game...
Diego came to visit and was autonomously romantic - in the unrenovated room of course..
Jessica still enjoys the simple pleasures - she hasn't let being a celebrity change her too much.
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Haha no, they're engaged to different pre-made sims (or their children, the pre-mades are starting to die now I'm on the fourth rotation!)
Charlotte on the left is engaged to Gunther and Eva's son, Theo and Camilla is engaged to Sergio and Siobhan's son, Sean.
@sarabeth2984 Don seems like a bit of a player lol. Congrats on the alien baby!
@Morkovka Are those chairs in your first picture cc? I really like them
@Becka28 I'm horrible at making houses so I'm so jealous of what you made lol, you did a great job!
Lol, Caleb had to lock Morgyn into a room with him for some pricacy, because everyone wanted a piece of them
Umm, Caleb, why do you have gravestones in your room? For aestetics?
Poor Morgyn and Cassandra, to be considered gastronomically mediocre
@AlwaysAsking
Luna and Simeon look aweet together, your Simeon is very handsome! In my game, Luna married Don Lothario during the brief time I had MCCC-marriages turned on. Surprisingly, they are still together, so I am leaving them alone for now.
Mortimer knows about Bella´s baby fever. It would be hard not to, since whenever I play her, she keeps dragging him off into bedroom several times a day to try for a baby (I am using a mod that enables try for a baby with ghosts, but poor Bella is still failing to get pregnant. She can´t help but think whether or not it is a punishment for giving away her daughter Noelle all those years ago). Bella and Antoniette try to discuss their families as little as possible, because it´s several levels of complicated, thanks to Alexander´s history with Antoniette´s sister and nieces and Bella herself having had affairs with two of her friend´s grown-up sons.
Alexander is living with his eternally young mother and dead father and wondering about at which point his life became such a disaster. He is still in love with Amara, who refuses to come anywhere near him or let him see Jocelyn before he gets his life together.
There is a belief some players have that Bella married Mortimer for money. It stems from the Playstation version of Sims 2, so it´s debatable how much of a canon it is, but it´s part of why they are often portrayed having an uphappy marriage. This and Bella being a very attractive sim.
There is barely any canon information about Gunther Goth´s youth, so it´s free to speculations. When he is introduced at Sims 3 he is already an adult with a wife he has barely any romantic relationship with, a son and a ghost of a young woman called Lolita Goth, who keeps flirting him if given a chance. No one has any memories of Lolita or how she ended up dead (her ghost inplies that she died via electrocution), not even Gunther, who she is fixated to. By the time of Sims 2, Gunther and his wife have died in two separate fires (which is quite impressive, if you ask me, for Mortimer to have such bad luck that his parents died in two separate fires). No information about whether or not those fires were accident, so you can´t rule out the possibility that they were not. So in general, there is no canon proof that what happened to Gunther in my story did not happen.
Mortimer would be intrigued to learn that there is someone still alive who might possibly be able to shed some light into the riddle of Lolita, something that has fascinated him as long as he could recall. Mortimer is a writer and a scientist, the sort of person who thrives in mysteries. Whether or not he would like everything he learns is another question.
Ther other Morgyn´s life is not in danger. Probably.
Gideon is a heartbreaker. I already knew it since I aged him up in cas after he aged up to toddler to see what he would look like, but still
I have been experimenting with poseplayer. Still o luck with poses with more than one people, but I am getting there eventually.
Your screenshots folder is impressive! Mine is not even 3 GB
@sarabeth2984
Congrats to Joanna! Wonder which ones of her powers her baby? babies? is going to inherit. Vinent is such a lovely shade of teal
@Becka28
I have been experimenting with poseplayer and photography in general. A funny fact about these pics: as I wanted them to appear in game, I had Morgyn take pictures of Antoniette, but he kept trying to wander off to talk to the cat, to the point where I turned autonomy off for the first time ever. Afterwards, I sent them off to bed but forgot to turn the autonomy back on. Fast forward to the next morning where I spent 5 minutes worrying about what was wrong with my game because no one was doing anything. Facepalm
Jessica´s new house is impressive! I can´t build to save my life, so 99% of time, I don´t even try. I have built exactly one house, which turned out to be a huge, empty, awfully impractical box. I am tempted to have Antoniette burn it to the ground.
What are Cassie and Edwin Ollie going to study? (Sorry if I have already asked it, my memory is a plum) Is Viktor still smitten with Max?
Nothing noteworthy today. I am thinking of adding yet another floor to Morgyn´s and Antoniette´s house, because I have ran out of space again and I have four more rooms to fit somewhere.
Polly Honeydew saw her nephew and ran over to him. 'Roddy! How are you doing?' She asked. 'I'm doing fine, Aunt Polly!' Roddy replied, curtseying. 'That's good to hear!' Polly said, smiling. She gave Roddy a big loving hug:
Roddy talked to Polly for a while:
Polly then made a kissy face at Roddy, which made him giggle:
And then Polly gave Roddy a big smooch on the cheek:
Shine smiled at her sister. She was waiting for her class to start:
Polly smiled sweetly at her nephew:
And gave him another big smooch on the cheek:
Polly then changed into a hot weather outfit, and gave Roddy a very big hug:
She waved goodbye to Roddy. Shine had finished her class and walked over to Polly:
'Hello Shine, how was class?' Polly asked. 'It was good, sister' Shine replied:
Shine and Polly gave each other a friendly peck on the cheek:
The two siblings chatted and caught up:
Shine then gave Polly a big loving hug:
Shine said goodbye to Polly. She and Roddy went back to Dianthus Hall.
Roddy was at the other desk...because, why not?
Shine was making good progress with her homework:
She wrote the last few sentences:
And Shine was done.
Shine then checked herself in the mirror:
Shine then gave Roddy a big loving hug:
She then gave Roddy several big smooches on his face:
Roddy went bright red and giggled. Shine had covered his face in big, shiny, bright pink lipstick smooches:
'Please may I have some more lipstick smooches, mummy?' Roddy asked politely and sweetly:
'Of course you can, sweetie!' Shine replied:
Shine then gave Roddy several more big smooches:
Roddy went bright red and giggled again. Shine had covered his face in more big, shiny, bright pink lipstick smooches:
Roddy used one of his makeup removal wipes:
Shine smiled and gave Roddy a big loving hug:
'Thank you for the lipstick smooches, mummy!' Roddy said, cheerfully:
'You're welcome sweetie!' Shine said, smiling:
She then blew a kiss towards Roddy:
Back from my three day absences. I was at my friend's house for the New Year's and had a blast.
Recap: Jonathan was pregnant with either Christian's or Don's child. He gave birth a baby girl named Juliet, and the result: Christian is the baby's father.
Short update before we move on to the main legacy story...
Aged up Juliet, and she looks adorable.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
(this seems like something that is too harsh of a punishment for the standard roommate arguments,does anyone know if there is a way to fix it?)
Even in death, the urge to cycle is strong for some.
This update is when they fixed the firepit. And yes, that's a burned pirate ship. I swear, Brindleton Bay's wetter than the UK!
Roddy also knows how to safely put out a fire:
The nearest assembly point for the family is the beach.
Benjamin uses Scrubberoo:
That didn't work. Roddy was nearby and he got cleaning:
Ooh, a crystal!
Benjamin tends to his bees:
And the honey is his reward:
It's Berry Bliss!
Roddy greeted her with a big hug and a kiss on the cheek:
Roddy and Grandaunt Berry play in the fountain:
Later on, Berry Bliss gave Roddy a very big smooch on the cheek:
Roddy then chatted with Berry:
And then Berry gave Roddy a big loving hug:
Berry Bliss said goodbye and went back home.
Time to go to class!
Roddy waits patiently:
Shine's class finishes:
And she and Roddy go back to Dianthus Hall.
After that, Shine got on with her homework:
Roddy is training his tastebuds to get used to spicy food.
Afterwards, the pair go back home to Dianthus Hall:
Dakota practiced the piano (for the first time of what I think may be the start of something for her), Brianna chatted up with every Sim that came in. Which is funny because I found out she was a loner. I changed her to a Social Butterfly, because it seems more fitting. Yet, she was still chatting up like crazy with people as a loner. I'd never seen such a social loner lol.
I also keep forgetting that Dakota is the granddaughter of Cassandra Goth. Her father (pictured in my profile picture with Dakota's mom) is the only descendant of the Goth family in my game. (His paternity is questionable, though, since Cassandra married Liberty Lee. Both Dakota and her father have strong Goth genes, though, so I have no doubt he's her biological son. We'll just say his father was a 🐸🐸🐸🐸 donor!)
Index to other chapters
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17397341/#Comment_17397341
Chapter 20 In which Don says some magic words
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17383549/#Comment_17383549
Chapter 19 In which Don leaves
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17374861/#Comment_17374861
Chapter 18 In which Thorne takes Don to Hawaii and then Really messes up
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17370055/#Comment_17370055
Chapter 17 In which Thorne is home and Hawaii is discussed
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17362895/#Comment_17362895
Chapter 16B In which Dash and Diego go to the Romance Festival
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17393044/#Comment_17393044
Chapter 16A In which Diego really messes up
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17377978/#Comment_17377978
Chapter 15 In which Thorne leaves Town and returns to hear big news
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17357228/#Comment_17357228
Chapter 14 In which we continue Diego and Dash and Diego’s story - Taking it slow
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17348854/#Comment_17348854
Chapter 13 In which Don is sad to hear Thorne is going away
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17344835/#Comment_17344835
Chapter 12 In which Thorne is thrilled that his plan for Don is working
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17343055/#Comment_17343055
Chapter 11 In which we begin Diego Lobo’s storyline
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17340514/#Comment_17340514
Chapter 10 In which Thorne does a favor for Don
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17338796/#Comment_17338796
Chapter 9 In which Don is in terrible distress, and Katrina Caliente tries to help him
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17336707/#Comment_17336707
Chapter 8 In which Dash unknowingly causes a great deal of drama
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17335918/#Comment_17335918
Chapter 7 In which Don begins to worry about Dash, and Thorne “Don-naps Don for a weekend
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17335495/#Comment_17335495
Chapter 6 In which Thorne tries to steal Don from Dash, including a stressful trip to a restaurant.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17334448/#Comment_17334448
Chapter 5 In which Thorne finally “gets together” with Thorne
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17331811/#Comment_17331811
Chapter 4 In which Don appeases Dash, and Thorne spies one last time
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17328246/#Comment_17328246
Chapter 3 In which Don jeopardizes his “relationship“ with Dash
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17326248/#Comment_17326248
Chapter 2 In which Don declares that “Deep Water is Still”
https://forums.iii//forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17316673/#Comment_17316673
Chapter 1 In which Thorne meets Don and observes “The Master”
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17316673/#Comment_17316673
No matter how much Don didn't want Friday to come, it came anyway. And Thorne left, for 18 days. He was going on a short concert tour out east, and when he walked away all of the feelings and memories of the day Thorne walked out on Don came flooding back.
Don knew it wasn't the same. Thorne was positively coming back to him this time. But it felt almost the same, because Thorne was going to be gone for so long.
Right before he left, Thorne told Don that he would not tolerate Don leaving Malcolm's house while he was out of town. "You belong to me now. Don't go to anyone else Don," Thorne had said to him. "Just wait for me here, because I'll know if you don't."
Don had assured Thorne that he would not leave Malcolm's property. He would stay there and wait for Thorne to come back, just like Thorne told him too.
Don didn't want to leave Malcolm's house. He just wanted Thorne to come back, and he wasn't taking any chances that Thorne wouldn't come straight back to him.
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Don did what Thorne told him to do. He ordered a giant new TV and game system for his room. He played the games, and tried to keep his mind off of how much his heart hurt, and how empty he felt without Thorne.
It's possible that Thorne was just as upset about being away from Don, as Don was upset about Thorne being away. The days were hard to face when he knew they wouldn’t end in Don’s bed.
Judging by the amount of gifts that he sent to Don, on an almost daily basis, Thorne never stopped thinking about Don.
He sent Don some stylish brand name athletic shoes, beautiful platinum jewelry, and an elegant upscale jacket all within the first 3 days of his trip.
Thorne called Don as often as possible. Sometimes it was very hard to do. Don was nearly always crying, and his tears made Thorne want to cry, but he didn't.
He held strong for Don. "Don, Bud, you'll be fine. I know you miss me, I miss you too..... No, it's not going to be forever .... I'll be back pretty soon. ..... What are you doing to stay busy? .... I don't think it's working well enough, we have to think of other things."
He texted Don constantly, night and day, mostly asking Don to send him selfies.
Thorne said that he wanted pictures of Don in his new clothes. Don was pretty sure that Thorne wanted the pictures so that he could see if Don was in Malcolm's house. So Don sent him selfies.
Thorne wanted pictures of Don without his new clothes.... without any clothes. But Don said no to that. "You never send me that kind of picture,” Don texted him. "I'm not sending you any. You probably let your assistant use your phone."
Thorne chuckled when he got that text. Whaddya know? Thorne thought to himself, maybe the guy isn't that dumb after all. Thorne's assistant did use Thorne's phone.
Presents continued to arrive for Don almost every day. On the fifth day, a present arrived that really impacted Don's life.
He took the package into the house and opened it. It was a digital sketch pad. Don had never seen one before, but once he turned it on, it was love at first sight.
He had a natural affinity for it, and he learned quickly. He practiced with it constantly. The sketch pad was the only thing that made Don feel remotely better while Thorne was away.
As Thorne moved from city to city he missed Don more and more. He wished Don was with him. He'd love to show all of these places to him. He knew that Don had never been more than an hour and a half away from Newcrest, and Thorne wanted to be the one to show him the world. He sensed that there could be more to Don, if he was exposed to new places and new experiences. Thorne thought to himself, maybe he'd figure out that there's more to life than sleeping with every person he meets.
Although .... the plan didn't allow for that kind of thing. Thorne kept pushing the plan to the back of his mind. It isn't time yet anyway, Thorne decided. And I did promise to take Don to Hawaii. At least that would be fun.
Don continued drawing things on his sketch pad. It was very comforting to him, and it's a good thing that it was. Because Don still needed to go see a doctor, but he didn't want to go. He didn't want to know what was wrong with his health.
He was sure that it was nothing, just him missing Thorne, because even when Thorne was in town, he was often busy. So Don put off making an appointment for himself.
And Thorne kept insisting that Don had to go. After Thorne had been gone for 8 days, and Don still hadn't gone to a doctor, Thorne had his assistant make an appointment for Don.
Then Thorne sent his friend Penny Pizzazz over to pick Don up, and take him to the doctor's office.
When Penny came to pick him up, Don went with her, obviously. He knew that Thorne would be mad at him if he didn't go.
Thorne trusted Penny. He knew Penny wouldn't let Don out of her sight, and he knew Penny would not succumb to Don's charms.
Don had no choice but to trust Penny. He never wanted Thorne to be mad at him again. He never wanted Thorne to leave him again. The image of Thorne saying "Bye Don," and walking away from him, like Don didn't matter at all to him, was seared in Don's brain. He never wanted that to happen again.
Everything about Don's current behavior was ridiculously opposite to what Don's normal behavior had been, for as long as anyone could remember.
But it wasn't bothering Don. To Don it was the most natural thing in the world. Thorne was his whole world, and he was fine with that.
Dr. Hastings called Don into his office. He and the doctor discussed Don's symptoms. The doctor was concerned. It was unusual for symptoms like that to last so long, and the doctor didn't want to find anything drastically wrong with Don. He knew who was paying Don's bills, and was not anxious to be the one to give Thorne bad news.
He did a physical examination of Don, but it was inconclusive.
He was going to do an x-ray to look for obstructions in Don's digestive system, but something stopped him. Instead, he had Don give blood and urine samples so that he could check for a few things that seemed possible, given the symptoms.
He had Don go sit in the waiting room with Penny again, while he ran analyses on the samples Don gave him.
He called Don back into his office to give him the news. "Mr. Lothario," Dr. Hastings said. "I've got the answer to your health concerns. You might be confused about it though."
"What is it?" Don asked him. "What's wrong with me?"
And the doctor told him.
"What?!?" Don sputtered. "That's impossible! You know that's impossible! What is this? A joke?"
"I'm afraid not," Dr. Hastings said. "I ran the analysis 3 times. There's no doubt about it."
Don was aghast. "Oh my God!" he lamented. "Thorne is going to be so mad at me!"
"I'm sorry," Dr. Hastings replied. "I was hoping that perhaps this would be good news."
"Well it's not!" Don yelled. "He's going to blame me! He's going to leave me!"
"You have probably been overly emotional lately," Dr. Hastings said. "Maybe it's not as bad as you think. Talk to Mr. Bailey," the doctor advised. "Maybe he'll be happy. Just remember, if you find yourself acting oddly, or out of character, this is why. It’s very unusual and can cause intense emotions in men.”
"Ok," Don said. He really wasn't listening to the doctor. "I'll come back with Thorne, when he gets back.” I need Thorne! He thought to himself, over and over.
He didn't tell Penny what was wrong. He just told her that things were ok, but it was going to take a while before he got better. He said to her, "I'm scared that Thorne is gonna be mad.”
"Don," Penny said, with a concerned look. "If it's something that you could have passed to Thorne, you need to tell him right away, even if he will be mad. He'll need to be treated right away."
"No," Don said. "It's nothing like that. Thorne will be fine. I think he's going to hate what's wrong with me, and how long it will take to get better."
"He'll be so happy to hear that you're going to get better that he won't care how long it takes, I'm positive about that," Penny reassured him.
"I don't know about that," Don said, "I just need him to come back right away. I need to talk to him face to face, right now. I can't talk to him about this on the phone."
"It's more likely that he'll be mad if you force him to come back early," Penny pointed out.
"Dang! You’re right," Don agreed. "I'll wait, but I'm really scared."
"Don't be scared Don," Penny said. "He must really care about you if he went through all this trouble to get you to a doctor."
"I don't know how he feels about me," Don admitted. "He's never said he loves me.”
"Have you told him that you love him?" Penny asked.
"No," Don said. "What if he doesn't love me? I can’t handle it if he doesn't say it back.”
"Well...." Penny answered, "I think you should tell him. At least then you'd know."
Don shook his head and said, "I'm too scared."
Thorne called Don to ask him what the doctor said.
Don told Thorne that the doctor said he would be fine after awhile. He told Thorne, "I think the doctor didn't believe that I understood what he said. He wants you to come with me to see him when you come back. I think he wants to explain it to you himself."
Thorne said, “Does the doctor know we won’t be able to come in for 10 or 11 days?”
"He said that anytime within 2 weeks was fine," but then Don said, “I’m kinda scared, it would be nice if you were here.”
And Thorne quickly interjected, “Please Don, don’t ask me to come back. I don’t want to have to say no to you. I'll feel terrible if I have to say no to you. If I have to cancel one of my concerts the paparazzi will be all over me. As it is, they leave me alone when I’m at home. I stay so low key there’s no point for them to follow me. But if I cancel a concert they won’t stop until they find out why I did it. Please, don’t ask me to come back early,” he pleaded.
So Don didn’t ask him to come back, but when he hung up the phone he was sure he had the answer about whether Thorne loved him or not, and it was not.
Don threw himself into his drawings. They distracted him. They kept him from thinking about how afraid he was. He doesn’t even love me, Don thought to himself. He’s never going to stay with me through all this trouble.
He watched YouTube tutorials to teach himself the best techniques, and he used the tutorials to practice drawing pop art, classical art, and impressionism art.
He looked at the people around him, and practiced drawing people. He went out into Malcolm's yard to practice drawing landscapes.
But thoughts of Thorne never left his mind. He found a picture of Thorne online, and he decided to try to sketch him by looking at the picture. The sad feelings overwhelmed him. He hated thinking about what would happen when Thorne got back, but he still sketched the picture. Thorne was an obsession.
Don was surprised at how well it came out. He printed a copy of it to hang up, and he sent a digital copy of it to Thorne.
Thorne was very impressed. "Don!" Thorne exclaimed. "You said you were having fun with your sketch pad. You never said you could do sketches like that!"
Don said, “Yeah, I’m pretty good at it now,” and Thorne agreed with him.
Don liked the sketch pad the most, but he still did other things. He played his video games, especially if Raj would play multi player with him. Video games could be really good at distracting Don from his fear, anxiety, his desperation to be with Thorne, and the dread he felt about losing Thorne when he got back.
But the sketch pad was the best distraction, because it made him feel closer to Thorne in so many ways. Thorne had picked it out for him, sent it to him, and talked to him about it all the time. Then when Don figured out that he could draw Thorne with it, it became his lifeline. He might not have Thorne for long, but he’d always have the sketches of him.
He'd once taken a picture of Thorne that he really loved. He decided that he was finally drawing well enough to try to sketch that one on his sketch pad too, and he thought it looked pretty good. So he sent a digital copy of it to Thorne.
By this time it was only two days until Thorne came back. Thorne called Don, and told him that the drawing was fabulous! "Don!! Buddy! That's amazing! I'm so proud of you!"
"Do you really think it’s good?" Don asked. That particular sketch was important to Don, and he wanted Thorne's opinion of it, before it was too late.
"I do!" Thorne exclaimed. "It’s amazing that you can draw pictures of me without me being there! And it’s really good Don, I’m not just saying that. I can't wait to see you! Just 2 more days! I want to see your sketches in person."
"I just want to see you," Don said sadly. He wanted to know if Thorne would walk out immediately when Don told him the news.
"I'll come there straight from the airport, ok?" Thorne said.
"Yeah, ok," Don answered. Two days felt like an eternity to Don. He kept telling himself, he doesn’t love me. Be ready to lose him. He tried very hard to prepare himself for that kind of devastating pain, but of course he couldn’t think of any way to do that.
The two days passed, and finally it was the Tuesday evening when Thorne was coming back.
Thorne had raced to Don's room, wondering why Don hadn't been waiting at the front door for him. "Don!" he said. He'd missed Don so much he couldn't describe it.
Don slipped wordlessly into Thorne's arms. Finally! He thought. I can breathe again. He's here.
A few moments later Thorne said, "I thought you'd be at the front door."
"I'm sorry," Don said. "I didn't want the guys around when you got here. I was crying." In truth, Don had been crying all day. He couldn’t help but think that this would be the last time that Thorne would put his arms around him, and make him feel safe.
"Why?" Thorne asked him. "Didn't you want to see me?"
"Yeah," Don answered, "I really really wanted to see you, but I'm scared you're going to be mad at me, and leave me again."
"What did you do?" Thorne jumped to his feet. The anger was already detectable in his voice. "I told you to stay here Don. I told you not to go to anyone else. What did you do?"
Don hated the anger in Thorne's voice. More proof that Thorne didn’t love him. Don answered, "I didn't leave! I didn't go to anyone else! I'd never do that!"
"Why are you scared then?" Thorne asked. He still sounded angry.
"Thorne ...." Don almost whispered, "I think you're going to leave me again, because .... do you want to be a father?"
“Excuse me?” Thorne said. “What did you say?”
“That doctor guy told me that I’m pregnant,” Don answered him. “That’s what’s actually wrong with me.”
“Are you kidding me?” Thorne asked him. “You have to be kidding, right? That’s not even possible!”
“I guess it is,” Don said. “The doctor said it’s been happening for the last few years, just to a few couples, but they don’t know why. Are you mad?”
“Mad?” Thorne said. “Of course I’m not mad! Why would I be mad?”
“I don’t know,” Don said. “I figured you’d blame me, you’d think I did something to make this happen, but I didn’t, I swear!”
Thorne smiled as he thought, that 50 grand I spent on hormone treatments probably had a lot to do with it……
“Don, no, I’m not mad. I’m so happy!” Thorne assured him. “I can’t tell you how happy I am!”
“Do you really mean that?” Don asked. “For sure? You’re not mad?”
“Oh God no, Baby, I’m not mad. I’ll never be mad at you again,” Thorne told him.
Thorne pulled Don into his arms and he whispered, “I love you,” into Don’s ear, just as he remembered that he was going to wait for Don to say it first.
Continued here....
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Gallery ID is ARIANNANEAL
Sabrina Hart
Madeline Stephens
Alysia Sawyers
Cherry Bright
Reinheart Sisters
Noelle Reinheart
Janice Reinheart
Elsie Reinheart
Mia Reinheart
Irene Reinheart
Heart
Shelly Heart
The Funny and the Strong
Alan Zanemeister
Cuthbert Ravaro
Mills
Rusty Mills
Kim
Jewel Kim
Pickett
Dorothy Pickett
Bunch
Eliana Bunch
Townies
Townie Tower 1
Mariko Maeda
Ayaka Wilkes
Pania Kalawai'a
Vihaan Datta
Ananya Ramesh
Kalama Kealoha
Samaria Misipeka
Salma Herbert
Townie Tower 2
Nuihaur Turei
Vivaan Srivastava
Loario Hoapili
Haych Akana
La'el Kalawai'a
Năwai Ngata
Townie Tower 3
La'el Akana
Rarahu Faamoana
Ashaya Anand
Teulia Ausage
Fuifui Vainu'upo
Rarahu Opunui
Teulia Kahananui
Townie Tower 4
Leinani Turei
Wiki Kahananui
La'el Turei
Diamond Rosa
Izumi Yoshida
Rieko Mori
Salma Mandir
Townie Tower 5
Aleki Kahananui
Roderick Sumner
Haych Kuresa
Reyansh Meshram
Rangi Ngata
Adrien Kitchen
Fuifui Faamoana
San Myshuno
Nobouya Murakami
Fetia Iosua
Van Chau
Veer Kumar
Sione Ausage
Riya Basu
Youssef Ferhat
Tommy Baer
Nuihaur Ausage
Ellis Neuburger
Vasyl Paul
Hawea Kalawai'a
Neelesh Nair
Moses Maldonado
Hassan Patrick
Camila Reilly
Norma Ordonez
Avani Kumar
Jessie Noriega
Kiera McDonnell
Kari Winter
Adelyn Berenstein
Paulina Garza
Kristina Thorpe
Iris Melton
Mikayla Oliver
Makenzie Thomason
Francesca Wolf
Joyce Lowery
Grace Kruger
Akshara Banerjee
Yusun Holbrook
Gracelyn Bragg
Kailee Tubbs
Raven Ojeda
Meilani Hauata
Afu Topasna
Samaria Lahela
Teulia Tilo
Kalama Faamoana
Năwai Kahananui
Fatima Al Arabi
Aarohi Parikh
Destinee Redd
Kristina Cortez
Kalama Elikapika
Kaydence Delaney
Drew Blackman
Arjun Srivastava
Ayaan Venkataraman
Aleki Paoa
Rayansh Raghavan
Fetia Kahananui
Sara Joyson
Aarohi Chauhan
Arihi Ausage
Năwai Opunui
The Spellcasting Quartet
Kara Robertson
Manuia Vainu'upo
Fetu Ausage
Loario Parata
Bannister Sisters
Janie Bannister
Rania Bannister
Aahana Bannister
Erika Bannister
Pania Bannister
Meilani Bannister
Admiral's Wreckage
Samaria Parata
Teulia Paewai
Meilani Lahela
Meilani Misipeka
Wiki Kahananui
La'el Tanielu
Vaea 🐸🐸🐸🐸
Tangled Flat
Pania Ka'ană'ană
Arihi Ka'ană'ană
Hayley Ka'ană'ană.
Samaria Kealoha
Sione Vainu'upo
Arihi Paewai
Not in the World
Reyansh Basu
Sione Faamoana
Alvin Liu
Hakim Mounib
Raul Massey
Kolby Arnett
Agustin Betancourt
Art Brinkley
Gilbert Palumbo
Lawrence Funk
Santino Stclair
Deacon Sparacino
Ramin Aleman
Iker Hays
Barry Solano
Curtis Norton
Karter Hanks
Ali Abd Al Kader
Soren Higa
Norman Felder
Shingo Mori
Clark Vance
Jaquan Crespo
Demetrius Yazzie
Fernando Salcedo
The Grubbs Brothers
Charles Grubbs
Lincoln Grubbs
Darryl Grubbs
The Adventure Duo
Pearl Victoria
Grace Valencia
Carmona
Aurora Carmona
The Celebs
Kayla Flemming
Izzy Fabulous
Holly Alto
Dustin Broke
Dirk Dreamer
Baby Ariel
Cho
Brytani Cho
Servo
Rubanoid Gearsprocket
The list is long, and so are the names. San Myshuno holds most of the townies. Even to this day, I'm trying to wrap my head around how to pronounce some of them. I kept thinking Ausage was Asuage.
Thank you for your comments! I'm glad you enjoy my elders. I created the household originally to play out the end of their lives so they didn't live forever. I very quickly decided that it's more fun for me if it's fun for them. So they would have made the perfect Sulani testers in better weather. As it is, I played them for the last full week of winter, so they did get a few hours of sun, and some days that were just cloudy so they could still do most things. I'll post the pics of their week in a spoiler.
First trip to the beach:
I updated the beach in the left-hand neighborhood. After their first trip I edited it further. It's meant to be a full family destination so there's something for all ages. You can see it in the background in this sandcastle photo:
Technically that was a sand-cowplant. I didn't get a screenshot of the final product.
And I did take this sunbathing photo on that beach also.
I switched Supriya to the beach life aspiration, so she spent every ounce of sunlight trying to get her first tan, and finally succeeded.
Meanwhile, Moira switched to the Angling Ace aspiration, since she's an outdoor lover and there's more fishing than gardening available on the island. She explored the sailboats.
Moira and Dominic also enjoyed brunch at the local food stand, even when the weather suggested they wear their cold weather outfits.
Rinaldo went snorkeling and almost met a dolphin. It was trying to decide if it liked him enough for me to interact, then Rinaldo autonomously started snorkeling again and it left. This was a super cloudy day.
Supriya also tried snorkeling, and then tested out the Aquazip.
That seems unsafe over a reef at night, but what do I know?
They also tried out the clothing optional beach on that little island in the volcano neighborhood (I have put no effort into learning the names of things, obviously). Rinaldo found it embarrassing. Navya loved it. I forget if she was confident or energized, but she was happy. She's by the steps in the shot.
Everyone else pictured is a townie because my sims were all scuba diving or exploring the waterfall, which I didn't get any pictures of. They also wore themselves out swimming over so I didn't try waterfall woohoo since they were at risk of overexertion.
Ananya didn't make any of the above photos so here she is sunbathing with Supriya on the first day that there was a break in the clouds.
That's pretty much what they got to do before the rain and thunderstorms hit in time for New Year's.
You may recall that I have a night club in a cemetery, which absolutely never gets visited by the ghosts buried there. So of course two of them show up in Sulani, because that makes sense right?
That's Diego, with Mimsy from Windenberg in the background. Don Lothario was there also. Mimsy is still attached to her original lot, but the other two have been buried in the cemetery since the vampires arranged for them to freeze to death.
Come to think of it, Gunther has only showed up once since he died, and it was in Selvadorada. Maybe ghosts just like to be warm?
Anyway, apparently chatting with a ghost that froze to death is dangerous, because both Moira and Dominic turned blue despite the weather being merely cool and the fact that they were inside. Changing to cold weather outfits fixed it, but I had no idea that could happen.
Can y'all tell me where the stand is that sells things like local fruits? I have only found food stalls. I was going to start a garden for them on their lot but Supriya had to eat the coconut she found for her aspiration and Justin made the kava root that Moira caught fishing into a fruit salad, and I haven't found anything else. So I planted one of the emotion berries Rinaldo brought back from Selvadorada, but I'd like to plant the local fruit too eventually.
Oh, and @AlwaysAsking I don't really pay much attention to the tv either, so I have no idea if they're referencing anyone in particular, but I was very amused at how the sim on tv was practically posing for that screenshot. I think it may have been the public access channel. At least, at some point Supriya had a whim to watch that channel that I directed her to do, and since she's in that picture that's probably it. I'll do my best to remember to look up the lot name and report back when I'm in the game later tonight.
So, after that I started in on the last household of this rotation. And guess who got engaged? Unflirty Lucas and his patient girlfriend Holly!
It was Love Day, so he managed to be in a flirty mood despite himself.
And just look at the expression on his face a few minutes before I directed him to propose:
I think he wanted me to know it was time.
Firstly this, as when I first played them years ago he died in a fire with two of their sons caused by ice cream, that dragons breath ice cream see I kept them for a while and they got to enjoy some of the packs but it was the beginning for me as before my computers could only handle the base game still it's been years. Anyways she survived fine.
Now storywise schoolwork goes on and he looked especially nice coming home from work, he was glad to be off but a little disappointed that Anaya wasn't home yet though there was little he could do about that this was for their future. He still couldn't believe after meeting online how their life moved forward. He missed her so when he was alone, even surrounded by other students it wasn't the same. He didn't want to admit it to her, she was nearly as affectionate as he was but he worried that would be a little much for her she was much more used to being surrounded in a crowd of friends even when they were welcomed to the neighborhood she controlled the room and did her homework at once he was just glad to run out on their neighbors and go to class.
Getting ready for the day waking up alone wasn't so unusal he was surprised to see her still in her pajamas downstairs, he tried to play it off but he got a little emotional all the same.
"Hey stranger."
After Angela invited them out for lunch they hadn't really seen each other in days he'd be asleep, wake up to leave then come back and she'd be gone or focused on homework and dozing off. She grinned.
"Now what sort of greeting is that for your girlfriend do I not look hot yet?" she teased.
"I love you."
"I love you too, I missed you so much." she cooed giving him a healthy squeeze to ease his nerves.
Also here is her uniform, she didn't have time to go to the bathroom before class but she loves her uniform she only occaisonally picks her usual outfit...I think it's cute.
Finally a weekend for them, classes were done and they had spent the rest of their time rushing through homework and studying, he was glad they had a little bit of freedom. He felt a little out of it though he wasn't as active as he used to be they were just busy he was lucky to be a life guard or he'd have something else to go crazy over.
He has a little fun teasing her after a shower, she takes it so seriously and he just finds it funny because she's so cute to him, he pulled her off the machine for something for the both of them after. He was both relieved and a little down that he did in fact have a shift today but he'd make the most of it.
She showered up and joined him and scoffed
"You're not getting me on that thing!" though she was delighted to see him out of his shell again, she didn't dwell on it she knew he'd talk to her when he was ready but she could tell when he wasn't quite himself.
"Oh you're getting on."
"Relax babe it's easy."
"Yeah for you." she muttered.
He was impressed she could complain with the best of em but if she didn't give her all, he loved that about her...well too, he loved everything about her.
Either he changed his outfit or he got a promotion I saw the promotion blurb pop up so maybe...anyhoo aside from his usual way these days were wearing him down.
He's not washing his face I moved up and heard him crying over the music I had playing, like really he's very sensitive, he was having a hard morning though it wasn't like he could ask her to wake him up when she got up.
"Leon! Hurry and dress you owe me a Valentine's date!" he managed to perk up relieved.
She burnt their V-day snack...but uh she looks cute doesn't she?
He still ate it and watched some cheesy romance with her before taking her out it was finally time and he wasn't going to miss his chance.
I closed in Hogans so the heat wouldn't make them change, she doesn't care where they are she just likes being with him.
The guy dropped their food naturally...
Leon had them bring out a cake they could take instead.
I love how they are all lovey dovey then Eric is just there giving his wife a look like Olivia just asked a really difficult question..like where do babies come from lol.
Anyways moving on...
"Forget the food I have a surprise for you."
"sure
"So what do you have for me?"
"Isn't it pretty?" he tried feeling a bit of nerves.
"Yeah it is...oh are we gonna do a photo shoot?"
He chuckled.
"i thought you didn't like being on camera?" he teased
He took this in the bar but she was just tired.
"I was just tired"
see?
lol
"Okay if you say so maybe we could but actually I brought you here for something else."
"Tell me, my head is gonna explode."
"Let's test that."
"It's cute when you're nervous." she said taking her turn to tease.
For second he was afraid he read her wrong as she didn't say a thing his heart was doing a two step as she squealed screaming out a yes.
There was more certainty with the future he didn't have to worry so much that they would end up being a pair of flings once they graduated, she was much of a people person than he was after all.
He let her up and was surprised to see her crying as he wiped her tears away she hit his arm.
"You ruined my make up you big jerk." she said with a laugh, he smiled.
"Well maybe you could fix it, or just stop wearing it all together you're beautiful without it."
She grinned.
"You know I knew you'd bring me here."
"You knew I'd propose."
"No I hoped you would propose, but I heard about this place people say it's cursed but it's not enough to just visit it...you need to make a wish on Valentine's day with your lover." she said wiggling her hands to emphasize the "spookiness." he laughed then.
"You know we're going to do just that now."
"Yeah yeah I'm coming."
"now you need to throw in at least three hundred." Anaya warned
"such a specific amount you know this is fake right?" he naturally used to spend a lot of time on the net when alone debunking things with those who would listen something he hadnt done since he met Anaya. Nothing to occupy his mind was much scarier than the stories he read.
"Hey I don't want bad things happening to us..."
"Don't worry so much."
"Leon wait..." she started seeing a hundred in his hand.
Though he tossed in a hundred and made his wish he just wanted to be connected to her forever...
She almost found it sweet.
"Leon!' she cried, he let out a string of forbidden words before the smoke simply faded.
"S..see what I tell you? Nothing" he said though she noted he was a little shaken too.
"Still...."
"Uh....hi."
They looked down as their screams echoed for a moment.
"I'm going crazy.....you're not seeing this...I'm not seeing this nothing is happening" Anaya said in a panic
Leon didn't know what to say as he caught her glaring at him, he didn't even notice the...child had taken his phone.
"Anaya I.."
"I....can't believe you didn't listen to me...what is that some know it all right of passage??"
"Babe..please, calm down I can."
"Don't say you can fix it!" she snapped.
"What are you going to do? Throw a ghost back down the well and never mention this again?"
"I..." he checked out a bit as she yelled at him, mostly because her anger faded so quickly she was upset those were not the tears he wanted to see, he felt there was a lot more than not listenting that upset her. It wasn't just the new addition to the family either she was so easy going nothing seemed to rile her up...now this.
He remained silent looking for some clue on what to say or not to do.
"Oh forget it...you'll never understand I'm going home."
"Anaya wait let me.."
he stopped feeling a chill around him.
He nearly lost his footing as the child peeked out at him.
"holy watcher in front of me..." (wink wink)
"Sorry daddy..."
He tried to calm his nerves as he looked...through him.
"I uh...it's ok.." he muttered seeing her grab a taxi, she'd be fine with some space for a moment at least he thought so while he tried to think of what to say.
"Does mommy hate me...?"He gave him a look finally catching on.
"No she doesn't she's just mad at me...but you...why do you think we're you're parents?...Did they drop you in there?" he started horrified.
He shook his head.
"No, my other parents were sick or something dad wanted me gone so when mom died I went with her and dad wouldn't talk to me...but I forgive them....I heard if I prayed really hard and was a good boy I'd get new parents, you're the first couple to come for me...do you hate me ?" he was cheerful but seemed down all the same. He already reminded Leon far too much of himself except when he asked his father that same question he got an answer and he still remembered it.
"Oh I...no I don't hate you either..." he said still unsure wishing he could wake from the nightmare...he spent so much time calling bluffs on every story he reached that faced with this now he felt entirely unprepared. Though he thought to comfort him.
He almost laughed at himself...responding as such he expected to fall flat on his face though he froze coming in contact, the boy was cold to the touch but he could have been another child fresh out of the cold..that was transparent of course. He smiled at him.
"...What's uh...your name?"
"Axel!...are we gonna go home now...I hate it here..."
He felt a bit sick, now he knew but what he knew didn't make sense and that had been quite enough space for Anaya.
"Yeah...we can..uh can you hide yourself to others?"
"Sure can I'm really really good at it, cause no one ever talks to me."
He sighed how he tugged at his heart strings he really needed to get back to Anaya.
Anaya stopped short seeing him appear beside her hearing Leon call she wanted to go right to bed she backed away as Axel only smiled at her.
They did in fact have a ghost child guess it was just the length of the time they got ghosts eventually too after Leon's death hmmm
So uh we'll see if I share anymore with you, unless anyone wants to know what happens next with him.
All the sims err'day
@Keidra okay, that is fair! I'm distinctly... not a programmer, so I might stick with AO3
Love the cast pictures! Not sure about Caleb's goatee, though, he does have a baby face XD The piercings are fun, though! Really, Morgyn is just unfair in general. Lilith looks kind of amazing as a blonde! Lakshmi looks like she's doing better, yeah. Poor Michelle, kid of a Sage and she didn't even get magic!
@DeafSimmer Jarvis and Aria are very cute together!
@Morkovka honestly, the Untamed household sounds about right XD That mix of chairs is glorious! Heh, only a little taking advantage, yes!
@Koteyka I liked the talk between Thor and Steve. There's a lot of intense emotion there from them, and yeah, no easy answers. Snickered out loud at Peter wearing an Avengers shirt, that's a bit meta! "Hey Pa, did you ever notice you and Dad are a lot like Captain America and Iron Man?" Awww, I'm so glad they had that talk! And now they can start again, properly and honestly this time. Post-credits scene - oh jeez Thor definitely shouldn't have let that slip!
@DarkAngel1994 aww, Juliet is a cutie!
@GrumpyGlowfish aww man, I wish I could do that with bikes!
@AlwaysAsking ooh I see that added drama. Dangit, you're really determined to make me see Don Lothario as a giant woobie, aren't you? XD
@Daephene sounds like the old folks are having fun! Oh dear, poor Diego... you can get the local fruits at the iLand kiosk, IIRC there's one near the bar in Ohan'ali Town.
Also GREAT news, this save is finally unbroken. (And Pixel's still around! He's an adult now of course, but yeah! He's Morgyn's familiar now. Minerva and Kit are also around and fine.) SML is set 13 years later, so expect some differences... it'll be lots of fun I think cause there's been some really notable personality shifts in a few of them already (I haven't even started writing but I can Feel it... Damian sorta turned into a bamf what the hekkkkk) and I can't wait to play with it and get to know Esme. I will be posting links to it when I start writing it in the stories forum. I did drop the evil mermaids but I don't think anyone will mind. LOL I also dropped Miss Hell because I have way too much else to do and I need to intro new people and tbh if she tries being present Lilith really will kill her. ... presuming Summer doesn't first.
I'm building a penthouse for them on Stargazer atm, but I'm being ridiculously picky about it, so it's taking many long. xD And then I gotta go do the Straud Mansion reno oh man. But at least I'm not getting LEs every ten seconds anymore.
Also fun story, Kane is actually based on a female Sim of mine (so technically is canonically FTM lol), and he looks almost exactly like his female version. It's wild. (That female Sim would be Dove Ciresi, and she does have a story of her own so I have a special affection for Kane. xD He's my lil babskie.)
@Morkovka
Ikr. I didn't change anything else, and it's just like Who is this. Sometimes facial hair makes no difference to speak of at all, and other times man it really does.
I have OCD so bad and the chairs just really bother me. xD
@ryttu3k
Fortunately it was just my eye replacements, and a couple hairs. Everything else seems fine. But it broke CAS and everything and turned Esme's eyes black and I was like NOOOOO gimme back the greeeeey.
Yeah he uh. Morgyn, Damian, and Cassandra might eventually ban Caleb from facial hair forever just because it's so weird XD Everyone's got at least one piercing. You can't see it but Damian's got an eyebrow piercing under his hair. And Caleb thankfully didn't go as nuts as Lilith did, but he and Morgyn have matching eyebrow rings. Because nothing says love like getting a piercing in the exact same place right?
And right? Omg. I was just clicking colours to see what Lilith looks good in and ran into blond and was like Oh my god y e s. Unfortunately this is me so Lakshmi's happiness will not last long. She also might've lied when she said they'd never be friends. Donno, is up to the kids. Right? At least 'chelle can go get magic if she wants it later.
@Koteyka
Yay! I'VE ONLY BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER. KICK HIS BUTT!
WAIT. THOR NO. THOR BAD. OMG.
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
Stop player on player violence.
@AlwaysAsking @ryttu3k basically answered your question to me about changing Caleb's traits, but to add to it I started up a new save and when I did it seemed the game actually slightly changed Caleb's traits. I assumed this happened because it was a new save, and even though he's premade maybe sometimes the game changes things up slightly to accomodate it being a different universe? Not really sure if it was that or just a glitch, either is possible. Either way, my Caleb has the romantic, foodie and ambitious traits. I may have changed them myself at some point and I just don't remember. It wouldn't surprise me considering I don't like the thought of Caleb being materialistic.
But yes, as ryttu3k said, the mod in question adds extra traits for matchmaking purposes. Both my Caleb and Morgyn have the lover traits which makes them very compatible, for instance. It's actually really nifty and worth having installed for realism. The NSFW aspects of the mod can be disabled so you can just use it for the trait attributes and the ability to start poly relationships if you don't want the other stuff in your game.
Yeah, I realised when I was posting the 3rd part of my story that I should probably index my chapters. I did put a link to the previous part on that post which you might not have seen, but I didn't put a link to the beginning. I'm going to for the foreseeable updates though because since it's been the holiday period people will inevitably have missed things
I'm not really that worried about my writing, I just like comment feedback to know what people actually think about my stories. I've always been a pretty prolific fanfiction writer and I've posted a lot of writing, but I've noticed that while many of my works get a lot of likes/awesomes/kudos/favourites, they don't get much written feedback which is disappointing because it really inhibits my ability to gauge exactly how much people like my writing, for what reasons and what improvements or changes I should make to coincide with those things.
It's my dream to be a published author one day, so I always appreciate when people give me contructive criticism or any feedback at all on my writing so I can keep improving. Nobody should ever feel shy on telling me what they think about my stories, I want to hear it!
And lastly I don't know what happened to my save, but I went back to my game and Peitrie was a child again so it looks like my game didn't save properly. No matter, I'll just have to age him up again, and as you said he's adorable as a kid so it's not the worst thing in the world xD
@Becka28 Indeed that smile was from the presents - the funny thing was Caleb didn't like what he got once he opened the present and realised what it was. I guess his response was fair though, I mean what is a vampire expected to do with a pear?
@Morkovka I always forget there are non-native English speakers here. I apologise if my writing is a bit tricky to understand, especially the part where Francois was talking. I purposely gave his part a semi old-English vibe because he's supposed to be centuries old and I imagined him to speak differently to the way modern people do.
And as you pointed out because I come from a fanfiction background I tend to focus more on the text rather than the pictures sometimes, which is why my text can be a bit long sometimes. That said I'm touched you're still keeping along with my story despite it being hard for you to follow! *sending virtual hugs*
@Keidra I made my first post on Simprovise. I hope I did it right, I inferred from your post what I was supposed to do but I haven't rp'd in that way before so feel free to correct me if I took too many liberties
@everybody who responded to my Happy New Year post - I wasn't expecting anybody to respond to that, so thank you! Happy New Year again to all of you and everybody else on the thread!
But you're still really awesome to offer to help all comers, with WordPress questions!
Oh, and I finally played some more, and for anyone who remembers the hilarity of what *really* happened when Caleb went to try to save Gaston from Sunglasses Man (Inexplicably, Gaston chose the exact moment when Caleb was viewing him from the other side of the one-way mirror into the cell, to disrobe, whereupon Caleb "had it out" with himself while watching ! AHHH And then to my horrified delight, whipped out his phone and took photos!
Well...something came of that that again had me astonished because I didn't see it coming. Caleb was at Club Nosferatu, using the Alien PC, and I wanted to know what he was up to, so I hovered over the PC icon...drumroll....
He was SELLING those pics of Gaston he had taken, on the internet! ACK!
Not as nice a guy as I thought he was, apparently!
I was tempted to quit without saving, but curiosity for whether there will be any in-game consequences to this, made me leave it.
Naughty, naughty Caleb! Got to keep you on a short leash, apparently!
Let's make Liberty and Justice For All a reality.
I read everything in this thread, I know who it was lol and yeah you can do that with WordPress, too... sooo... there's that.
For everyone else, that's really not an AO3 thing. Almost anything can do that tbh.
Also so nobody misunderstands me, I don't like WordPress that much more than AO3. I really don't. What I also don't is I don't like biases against certain software. They're all pretty much the same under the hood and can often do the exact same things as one another and I will rail against choosing one platform over another because xyz can do zyx... because, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw can probably also all do it. It's just not a valid reason to me and my knee-jerk reaction is educating. lol
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
Stop player on player violence.
Term Day 4
Blake woke up early to do his homework for his classes.
He went to class and afterwards, he went to the UBrite Commons and Siobhan was there. She talked about the San Myshuno festivals with him.
That night, he grabbed a bite to eat and chatted with one of his roomies, Allie.
Weekend Day 1
Nothing beats a great selfie with your school mascot!
He played ping pong with Lilith Pleasant, who is a Foxbury student
Although Blake lost to Lilith, he did his best.
Another selfie with the mascot, although Blake's face was covered
Doing the UBrite Cheer at the local bar!
Before the day ended, Blake went to Foxbury and vandalized their statue
That good feeling when a UBrite student pranked Foxbury successfully
Weekend Day 2
What a lovely mural!
Afterwards, Taylor, his roomie, told him that she had a lot of fun at the event.
Blake praised Taylor's artistic skills
Later, Ken, another roomie, joined in the conversation and Taylor asked him if he had fun at the event as well.
Final Day of the Term
Frankie: I studied really hard for this exam, so I have a feeling I did great!
Blake: Well, I felt like there were some questions on my exam that I've not seen before. Is my professor throwing curveballs at me?
Frankie: I hope not. Let me guess. You haven't spent time looking at those questions?
Blake: You're right. I definitely haven't spent time on them.
Later, he met up with Ken at the UBrite Commons.
Ken: So, how was your final exam?
Blake: Not bad, although there were questions on there that I've not seen before.
Ken: Questions you not seen before? Maybe you haven't studied those before your final?
Blake: That's the same thing my friend Frankie told me! It's clear the reason I've not seen those questions before was that I've not spent time on them.
Final grades for the term. Not terrible to say the least. He'll do better in his final term of his university career.
Bonus: Mila Munch volunteered to pose for the Art Society's Figure Painting event.
I'm not saying anyone does, but if anyone should, for some reason, want to hang the polyamory pride flag on their Sims' walls... here you go. It uses the pride flag object in BG and just adds another recolour.
Actually it duplicated it, darn it S4S. I'll fiddle with it later.
Got it. It should now override properly, redownload it. c:
I'm uh, slowly getting places on this penthouse.
Ngl, I got Moschino Stuff for these windows and that's it. Yeah. ROFL
我并不感到困扰
I am kind to everyone. But if you are unkind to me, kindness is not what you will remember me for.
I am autistic. Wording isn't my strong suit.
Stop player on player violence.
@Keidra yay for unbroken saves! Honestly, yeah, Miss Hell is kind of superfluous when you have all the other characters around XD (And if you do need another antagonist, well...) Anyway. I vote group tackling Caleb and shaving off the facial fur by force XD Morgyn's just like, "I could get a razor or I could inferniate it off, your choice." "...RAZOR PLEASE." Oh man there's someone on Simsta who gave Lilith white hair and she looks amazing. Just. Daaang. (Also, because of Fay, I now ship Lilith/Morgyn just as hard as Caleb/Morgyn, so...)
Ooh, poly flag! Totally snagging. Maybe I should do a flag wall at Chateau Vest XD (Once Morgyn's there too, it'd have... let's see... trans and bi for Caleb, gay for Johnny, aromantic and pansexual for Lilith (and pan for Morgyn), genderfluid and/or nonbinary for Morgyn, and poly for them all XD) And seriously, those Moschino windows are amazing.
@TheLastStar that is weird to get new traits in a new save, since Caleb's defaults are Ambitious, Foodie, and Materialistic! I did keep Materialistic, but exchanged Ambitious for Romantic. And yeah, it's definitely a really customisable mod!
@Nushnushganay I'm all for getting more people (and more Sims content!) on AO3, all good
Advantage of this is that you can get readers who are actively searching by themes. Say someone's searching for fics featuring poly relationships, or aromantic characters, or stories that talk about trauma, they'd be able to find it that way, too. And that can also get in readers who may not even know the fandom or characters, which can introduce people to them too!
And oh jeez, Caleb, no!!
I would appreciate your quick walkthrough on Wordpress - especially how to set up like a main page and the post different stories under different headings. That is an incredibly generous offer. I know it took me forever to set mine up and if I had to go back to it and set it up again I wouldn't remember. Hints and tips about setting up whats on a page would help too (I found that a lot more intuitive and forgiving to click and see then the skeleton to hang the pages on so to speak.) Some guides on this forum helped but weren't as broken down for novices as needed.
This is the link to my blog so you can see what I started ie re: page structure (not asking you to read it LOL) https://rebeccassims4.home.blog/ (a lot of headings are empty as it is a very young work in progress and I haven't had much time for the actual writing which takes more time than screenshots!)
@ryttu3k Yes, I built on the 64 x 64 lot so I only have the Villareal lot and the lot in Brindleton Bay I can move it to and I am not happy. I may have to find a space for madeover Jessica in another save too - after everyone's comments.
Love your made over Diego, especially his hair and facial hair choices. And your Diego makes me wish we didn't have to rely on cc for male bodyhair. - seeing your clothing choices I realised both Jessica's Diego and my other one wear those same Moschino trackpants and jumper in different outfits - and we picked the same winter outfits. (is that his default?) I had to change those particular speedos to another pair as the stripy ones say sleazy uncle from the 1970s to me. I do have a Diego in another save who is a bit of a serial romantic. He hasn't settled on a fashion style yet (but I hate to admit he still has his moustache). I may have to find a space for made over Jessica in another save too - after everyone's comments.
images - spoiler to save room.
Breaking hearts all over San Myshuno - this poor young guy cried when Diego said he just wanted to be friends.
and then became a little bit of a stalker
I do have unironical Moschino sim - Moira Rose from Schitt's Creek
I'd quite like Diego to meet up with David Rose - I think they would have fun together (and be snobs together).
@Koteyka enjoy your camp. will keep it short so you dont have a lot to read when you get back. Yay - Thor saying some sense to Steve (all the things I yell at the screen). So nice to see Steve and Tony talk again instead of leaping to conclusions and assuming things. I was happy (to say the least) and then distressed when Thor confronted Nick. Will Nick ever leave Tony alone?
@RedDestiny92 and @O-meezy thankyou for your comment on my build. It has taken over a month (I am no speed builder) and is still no where near finished inside. I had to watch so many tutorials to get close to the ideas in my head. At least modern builds don't have a lot of roof building.
@RedDestiny92 the wishingwell story was funny - I didn't know that would happen - would the usual potions / cures work for the child?
@AngeliqueAdelaide thank you for the house comment. I have no idea what they will study. Edvin has level 9 art but seems to be losing interest in it so fine arts may not be his thing. I was thinking Lawyer as end game (he seems a serious and earnest sim) so a degree that gets you into Lawyer. I really struggle with Cassandra and am open to suggestions - I really can't get a good read on what she would prefer. Sims just don't seem that interested in long posed photography sessions but I can imagine them just all standing around without their autonomy the next morning. LOL
@daephene - oh those unflirty sims - they give me palpitations sometimes. Lucas was very sweet during his proposal. The notification thing really bugs me. This thread is fine for finding missed ones but I don't check other threads a lot.
@GrumpyGlowfish ghosts on bikes! do they have to have a bike before they die? have you seen it in other worlds other than Britechester?
@DarkAngel1994 Juliet is adorable.
Well this was going on outside Jessica's house!
I assume they were on the celebrity house tour (those outfits hurt my eyes especially the socks with flip flops situation)
But what was this guys issue?
and why did he feel the need to take touristsnaps of Tiasha and Tyrell (they are attractive but ask first)
at least after 2 kids they are still autonomously romantic.
spoiler to save room...
Diego came to visit and was autonomously romantic - in the unrenovated room of course..
Jessica still enjoys the simple pleasures - she hasn't let being a celebrity change her too much.