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We are back at it again! (Happy Pride Month btw~)

So, for June, let's talk about Mr. Vlad and my Vampires LP all the way back in 2017. I played this save for 5 years, 5 WHOLE years, until 2022. My goal was to get to Vlad IV, like it is in the lore of the town, but I ended up getting to Vlad V, where I decided to stop, after 5 generations. I played this save on long lifespan (ironically), and this is probably the closest I'll get to a forever save. Even though I barely took any screenshots of this save (apparently).

Not only was it my forever save, it was also my forever occult save. I remember it being so intricate, and detailed. I had this idea that Natalia, my sim, moved into Forgotten Hollow as a sim on a budget, who didn't mind the creepy town. Vlad ended up saying hello and stopping by, and over time, they built this connection. Natalia didn't try to change to Vlad (unlike Eris), she liked him for him, she didn't mind he was ugly, and hissed a lot. It was very much a Beauty and the Beast kind of vibe, okay?

And they waited. Both traditionalist, they waited, until when the moon was the fullest before they wed, and then Vlad turned Natalia, and then not long after, they had Vlad II. I eventually created so many different types and kinds of vampires, and to this day, they are still my favorite occult. Nothing will compare to the love I have for them, like in real life if I could be one, I would do it a heartbeat (pun intended?).

I also think nothing will compare to the love I had for Natalia, and the work, effort, and LORE, I put into my Vampire Kingdom save, that I still to this day follow. Natalia adopted a human daughter, in efforts to keep her, and Vlad, more on the human/humane side. And it was hard, to watch her daughter become old and gray. It was hard on the vampire siblings as well, seeing their sister age, when they did not, and eventually having to keep it secret, so that she could live a normal life.

I had beachy vampires, elegant ones, normal every day ones that were nurses, ones that were very techno and liked to party, and each one was a Family. A legacy, an original, a heritage, whatever you want to call them. They were all ancient bloodlines, and I made it my goal to intertwine them all, so that no matter what, Natalia and Vlad were the king and queen of vampires.

I also had this idea that Vlad liked to take more of the backseat, and Natalia was always the one going out, making rounds, you know? Because it was also my occult save, I had mermaids, and spellcasters, and if I had faeries at the time, I would've added them (so we shall see with the new leak!), and I had like the Queen of each, and I made so many clubs, and one of them was the rulers of the occults, and they would meet often to talk about betrayals, forbidden loves, like Natalia's 'niece' marrying a human, and so much more.

I hope to one day to make a save file to share, and I will make sure that Natalia is there, still standing as the reigning Queen, if not all of the occults, at least then all of the Vampires. Long live the Queen!

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never forget your roots

fanfiction.net before they removed the NC-17 stories

going to fanfiction.net at all

going to adultfanfiction.net in the fallout of the great “purge”

figuring out that ain’t nobody actually monitoring NC-17 stories there anyway so just rate it “M”

“please R&R! concrit appreciated!”

warning: lemon

though it may be more on the limey side of lemon

“summary sux just read it”

replying to reviews in the author’s notes

author’s notes in which the characters talk to each other and the author

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Welcome back! This month, I wanna talk about my Seasons Let's Play with the Thornhills~

Now, this is not my longest running save. That was probably my original vampires one with Vladdy Daddy himself which again we'll get to, but in the spirit that summer is coming we're gonna talk about this first. This is, however, probably my second longest save I ever did from 2018-2022 (Summer is pictured with her ghost cat Lorelei, and even as an old lady!).

I made Summer Thornhill as soon as Seasons came out, and I played it on long life span, because at the time that's what I did. And I lived out my farming dream as much as possible. I think I ended up having 5 generations, all in the same house, same lot. Though, I did change the decor a few times. It was one of the rare saves that I actually really focused on generational, family, gameplay and had pictures of them everywhere in the house, and had a dedicated fake cemetery. I even had a tree in the front, that had all of the past pets under.

Everyone's name was nature themed, and by the end of it, it was a well-oiled machine. All of my second gen sims, all of the children and their spouses, I did move into a 'retirement' home so that they could be reunited under one roof. One of my prides and joys. I had every plant I could, including money trees. I had a cowplant, I had chickens, cows, cats, dogs, flowers too. Beetles, bees, meat walls galore. I was truly living off of the land. I unfortunately didn't get to have goats or sheep or horses with them, but I know I would've. Maybe I'll go back and do a small thing in the spirit of them this summer.

Regardless, I think the Thornhills laid the foundation for me to complete the other challenges, you know? Especially, my simself/nsb hybrid. They are iconic to me, and I will always treasure them. Happy Simming!

Oh! Btw, the house was built by Lilsimsie!

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my dumb? founded. my flabbers? gasted. my gob??? smacked

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Hi, Barbie! Here's a massive dump!

Okay, so last year in February, I decided because it was the month of love, to do something PINK. And who better to use then Barbie?

Around this time, the new swimsuit kit came out and I thought it was perfect for a Barbie, so I used the new kit and made Barbie Doll, and then I decided (like I always do) to have 26 kids (technically 27), one for each letter of the English Alphabet. Like for example, Barbie and Ken (because of course) had the first kid, Astro, who yes, I did make become an astronaut. I also tried to have each kid pursue a career that matched their name, like Duchess became an actress. For a lot of the dad, I either used pre-made maxis sims I didn't get use during the 100 baby challenge, or I used original characters from various yt channels, like Dil, from Dan & Phil, or Florida Man, from Graystillplays, etc.

But I think what was more fun, was leading up to it and after. The storyline I gave her, was probably one of my favorites! I had her start off in the Barbie camper as a student at Britechester Uni studying law. What, like it's hard? Then, I had her move to her yacht, and become a world-renowned actress. Having parties, walking the red carpet, starting her own viewtube channel, and of course adopting a chihuahua named Alan. We love Alan <3 and THEN, she co-starred with THE Judith Ward, like what an icon Barbie is~

Ken, of course, crashed on set, and Barbie did eventually get her star on the walk of fame! and then, after all the partying, and raising her kids, in her DREAM MANSION, she decided to settle down with her soulmate, her loyal companion, Ken, in a Vegas-style wedding, with even Elvis in attendance. They then had Skipper, their little girl, and watched the sun set as they decided how Ken can chase his dreams. The vibes last year were amazing. Happy Simming!

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Okay, I want to talk about the time I did the occult baby challenge in August of '22!

Basically, I've done this in parts. I didn't do a vampire, werewolf, mermaid, etc., because I do them all the time. I have another sim who has one of each of those kids and lives with them on an off the grid island, so I didn't feel like I had to 'collect' them so to speak. And, I did the elemental and father winter's baby separately in another save because I just wanted the special traits they come with. SO, when I went to sit down and finally do this, I wanted it to be WEIRD.

Meet Shanna! Both Shanna and her wife Kimber are downloaded sims from ErenSparkles on the gallery I believe. I changed Shanna a little to make her fit more of what I wanted her to be and the attached photos are the highlights (and again inspired by Kelsey's lp!)

I had so much fun doing this. Almost every other time Shanna was pregnant, she had twins, so I actually had quite a lot of occult bebies and I did have to cheat A LOT with MCCC (to have a baby with, not whether she had twins). But hey, I got them! and it was cute, living in this pastel-y maximalist house with the occult babies (do you see a pattern? 'cus I do lol). I had this idea that she was a paranormal investigator and meat all of these people through that and just got really 'close' to them LOL.

Anyway~ here are the occults with their children: Bernard - Wednesday, Alien - Pandora & Aurora, Patchy - Sparrow, Plant sim - Lief, Party Skeleton - Rio & Phoenix (fraternal twins!), Bunny - Clover, Bonehilda - Archie, Island elemental - Margot, Father Winter - Harper, Wishing Well - Cruella, Servo - Marcus & Scott, Grim - Dove & Astrid, Tragic Clown - It.

So, my favorite baby is It, but I'm also quite partial to Dove & Astrid. Dove ended up being a spellcaster and married the Night Wraith. Astrid became a werewolf and sent off to reunite the Daughters of Grimm (shh~ must keep this a secret until I tell!). Marcus is inspired by Detroit: Become Human's Markus, and Scott was a mistake from getting Cyclops and Cyborg confused (two different comic companies too?).

But yeah that's about it! Happy Simming~

P.s., It's dad died from laughter. Oops?

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Welcome back to my monthly photo dump of sims lp's I've done! This month we're reminiscing on my Simself legacy~

Back in later 2021, and for most of '22, I did a Nightmare legacy challenge with my simself. Lilsimsie was gaining a lot of traction on her idea and I always wanted to do a simself legacy, but it felt really weird and wrong to do one, so I figured, well, if I did it on short lifepsan, I wouldn't have to deal with me for very long, and honestly, it worked! I got to 10 in like a blink of an eye. I made my myself, and then I married a sim I made that I would probably actually date and I just kept going. So, here are some rules and highlights of the legacy:

1.) I actually used Lilsimsie save file, so we ended up being friends and she came to my wedding LOL (also congrats to her and Dan!).

2.) I won an award for my best selling novel.

3.) My son died in a fire, and that gen was just plagued by them in general.

4.) I tried to have more of a vanilla game play, so I stuck to basegame venues and house for most of the early generations, but I did try to live in every world we had at the time during the legacy.

5.) at one point, I had a mom and a daughter that were pregnant at the same time in the same household, so I had them go to the hospital at the same time, and they had back to back births.

6.) Out of all the pets I had, the white boxer in a pink dress named Myrtle was my favorite.

7.) I did eventually have a sim die at my wedding. She was the bartender.

8.) When you're on short lifespan, I feel like all I did was having weddings, births, and deaths.

9.) Eventually, I decided that I was going to marry all of the famous simtuber's big lp characters, so I had someone from Simsie's not so berry, and Kelsey's 100 baby, etc.

10.) and lastly, I loved this legacy so much that I didn't want it to stop, so my last sim, Jade, was also the founder for my not so berry legacy. I gave her a birthday party and all.

As always, Happy Simming~

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For my next Sims 4 Challenge LP that I wanted to share, let's talk about my Not So Berry save from '23.

NSB had actually started from a Simself legacy challenge (which I'll talk about some other time), and so by the time I finished, I had 20 generations; the longest legacy I have ever had. I was, and still am, quite proud of this achievement. I hated playing as myself, but I really loved the legacy I did, and the families I made that I just didn't want to leave, so I tackled another rite of passage in terms of legacy challenges.

I also used this opportunity as like a way to explore different family dynamics, and in the spirit of the challenge, all of my heirs were named after fruit (except for a few)! The pictures attached are probably my fav highlights.

Gen 1: Jade, Gen 2: Cherry, Gen 3: Summer, Gen 4: Berry (not her name on the gallery, but is canon), Gen 5: Plum, Gen 6: Clementine, Gen 7: Raspberry (technically, but I think on the gallery I had her as her sister's name), Gen 8: Peachy, Gen 8: Lime, Gen 9: Blue (my only male heir!). Cherry and Clementine were probably my favorite in terms of the character I made. Plum was my favorite in terms of storyline and gameplay. Rasp and Lime were the most fun in terms of aesthetic.

I also had little mini challenges throughout, and aesthetics I was adhering to. Jade's husband had an affair that produced a child, and Jade had an alien baby named Grey. Cherry married an actor, which I thought was fitting since she as like the popular girl. Summer, had a dog that had puppies, and hung out with her alien cousin Minty. Berry had 3 different partners, and Plum was a twin. Plum then had a teen pregnancy (thanks to MC Command Center), but I loved playing her, raising her son in the big city. Clementine was expelled from high school, and was very much a maximalist hippie. I also had her do the Strangerville storyline because I love that pack so much. Rasp married a transwoman, had triplets. The triplets I adore so much. She had Autumn, Amber, and Peachy (the baby). Rasp was also very pastel goth in my opinion, and her cat had kittens. Peachy, married her police chief, and lived in a beach house. Lime was very grunge-y/e-girl, and lesbian. Her wife had a son, and when they got married, they ask their friends to be donors. Blue was a science baby from Lime and their asexual friend, and his sister River was created with Lime's gay friend. He and his husband were thrilled to co-parent. So, I really loved Lime having this found, mixed, family. Blue was very like American dream to me, you know? White picket fence, a dog, a cat, 3 kids (one was an adopted alien named Lemon). It was very sweet. It was fun to push the boundaries for myself and see what creativity I could come up with.

All in all, I would do this again in a heartbeat, but there's other challenges and ideas I want to do. As always, Happy Simming~

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Here's is my part two, to my lovely Matriarch Eris for her 100 baby challenge, my Villainous Valentine if you will.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun playing her. Caleb is one of my fav sims, and I use him in everything all of the time, so I couldn't kill him. Instead, he was Eris's bff.

If you want to download Eris, she's up on the gallery. Ea id: Raspberry258 :)

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Me: Alright I’m going to be super productive tomorrow!

Me, the second my alarm goes off:

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Hello~ My name is Jess, I'm 25, and I've been on tumblr probably since 2014-ish? Literally, don't remember, couldn't tell you how long, BUT, what I can tell you for a fact, is that I have been a lifelong nerd, and I've been playing The Sims since December 2014.

In honor, of me playing sims for ten years, I wanted to finally starting sharing the saves and families and challenges I've played, and I wanted to post (as my first one) my very own challenge.

So, back in September 2022, I decided I was finally going to play the 100 baby challenge, but with a twist. I wanted my matriarch to be a vampire, so that every single kid was her own, all 105 actually, and I then I also had the idea to explore all the different death types.

I ended up doing a combination of the 100 baby challenge, gold digger challenge, and the black widow challenge. I would have a baby with the baby daddy, marry him, take his money (household funds and any simoleons from selling the furniture and such) from moving him in, and then kill him off. My favorite death was death by cowplant. I also decided that all of my donors had to be already premade/maxis townies that the games starts with, so unfortunately, Mortimer was a victim, among others. I did have to get some from the gallery, and I ended up having too many, so that's why I had 105, but it worked out.

And then, at the end of it, my sim had gotten to know Grim so well, that I figured, she should marry him, and so she did. They had a daughter, and a son from the wishing well.

So, I present to you Eris, my matriarch, and I think I'm going to call this the Villainous Valentine challenge, in the spirit of the aspiration that came out at the same time, and the latest expansion pack. I played around with Scarlet Widow for a while, but I like that title better I think.

Now, I've seen other people kind of do the same thing, so please let me know if someone else named this so I can give them credit where credit is due, but I would say this is my version of it. I'll post more of Eris's story in another post, but here are the (very simple) rules:

1.) You can have as many matriarchs or as little as you like, but each one must have the villainous valentine aspiration, and you must complete it before you can move onto the next generation (if you want to play with more than one), or complete it before your 100th baby.

2.) You must have a different father for each baby. No second uses.

3.) You must be good friends before asking to move in.

4.) You must be soulmates before you can marry.

5.) Once you've married, and moved them in (bringing all the money you can with them), then you can have a baby.

6.) You cannot kill the father (though you must), until after the baby is born.

7.) You cannot age up infants until they've had 2 milestones in each category, toddlers until they've reached level 3 in each skill, children until they've earned an A in school, teenagers until they've also earned an A (regardless of when their birthday is).

8.) Cannot use mods to increase household size. Gotta stick with 8, but in my experience the max I had at a time was 6.

9.) To count towards the 100, all children must become a young adult and moved out. Cannot move them back in once, they've moved out.

10.) and no killing, adoption, or child services. Honor system my friends.

11.) No job for the matriarch. Teens can have a part time one though.

12.) rinse and repeat, until you've had 100 different babies. No cheating, literally 100 babies. Twins, and triplets will count for 2, and 3 respectively, but any occult babies will only count for one. This is not a 2-for-1 deal.

I don't want to stump your creativity, so I'm not going to put a lot of rules to it. These are the basic rules I followed. Let me know any suggestions you all might have and I'll update this post :) Happy Simming!

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Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

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i am just an animal why am i doing all this

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Literally just reblogging this because I wanna get actual prints of these beautiful pieces <3

Leanin’ Art Prints

This new mesh that came with the latest game patch is gorgeous!! I love some casual art prints all over the place. This set includes 30 different swatches, including art from cinnamoonie, days-e, GDBee, kelseykingillustration, mayleeillustration, prinsomnia, & vickisigh. 

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It’s weird that to think that this is my first post. It’s true it is, but to this day, nothing has changed. I still read manga when I can. Still watch anime. Still obsessed with shadowhunters. I don’t know when this was, but it feels young, and I feel so old now lolol. I’m still a fangirl, and forever will I be.

My favorite book (series) The Mortal Instruments! And everything about the Shadowhunter Chronicles (by Cassandra Clare). I love anime and manga and of course reading and writing. I’m a fangirl, and forever will I be.

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vampires “sunbathing” great idea and Nina Loon by @krams-mkp