This is the home of my Sims In Bloom Legacy Challenge-slash-supernatural soap opera, featuring current Gen 3 heir Lavender Gordon. The creative daughter of a busy vet and the local police chief, she's a skilled violinist who puts most of her focus, when she's not stuck with homework, on her successful Plopsy shop, LavaKnits. She dreams of a future working for herself and with her hands, and when it comes to love, she wants one thing: a best friend to share her life with.
Follow all posts chronologically backwards with the #sims in bloom tag to filter out reblogs and other rare goodies from me. I hyperfixate on one save file at a time and this wild ride is the result.
Most Recent Episodes
Gen 1 (Daisy) | Gen 2 (Buttercup) | Gen 3 (Lavender) - tbd
Extras | Family Tree (beware of possible spoilers or yet-to-update family info from time to time)
Sims In Bloom miniseries
Vet School Diaries - Gen 2 vet Heather Gordon mentors submitted sims for a fall season at Buttercup Vet School. (COMPLETE)
Higher Education - Gen 3 spare Ash Landgraab attends Foxbury Institute with his good friend, Nyon Specter, who finds himself face-to-face with the unethical Beakers. (COMPLETE)
Yoga instructor: Alright everyone, find a comfortable place on your mat.
Yoga instructor: Take a slow inhale through the nose… and exhale fully.
Yoga instructor: Close your eyes for a moment and settle into the room.
Yoga instructor: Thank yourself for showing up and taking this time for yourself today.
(…)
Alexander: Nasja asked if we want to grab lunch together.
Avery: Sounds lovely, but I’ll have to pass. I scheduled a meeting with Darren to go over Finn’s case. I just hope he has some idea what to do about it…
author's note: Ahh, yes~ Let's just hope Darren pulls an ace out of his sleeve, because you can bet they need any input they can get on that case. :'D
Geekcon! Fern wins the hackathon, Abi faces off against Darth Vader, Saphira has lots of fun time, and an old face has come back in town from Sulani to visit...
Looks like it might be time to woo the pub owner... I forgot how I made the last baby daddy who was actually female able to impregnate Yvonne... I must investigate
There's vampires in Saint Denis? Pray I never come across one.
We get to dress Arthur up again? Welllll say less.
Plan is is that Strauss will be behind the men we will be playing poker with to give us signals on if we should fold the round or bet all in. Plus, the dealer is a friend of Trelawny's so he will be giving us good cards. We are such sneaks.
First round, we folded. Now it's just me and you big guy. But Arthur wants to raise the stakes... We're now betting lots of money and a very expensive watch. (Also I gave Arthur's hair a trim. I personally was loving the long hair, but we needed to look a little more put together for this is we're to pull off we're some rich oil man.)
Who you calling hillbilly?
Tehehehe. Show me the money and the watch!
Javier was disguised as one of the security guards on this boat. We really thought of everything!
The other guards started looking around since they heard my gun shot... Just play it cool...
That is one way to play it cool!
He's onto us...
a shoot out happened so fast, I really didn't know exactly what I was supposed to be doing, nor who I was supposed to be shooting at.
But we fled the boat and swam to shore! Came out with thousands. This will please Dutch! (Not that I care to please that man anyway)
This sure is something, Dutch, I agree. Do we think we're gonna get into some trouble?
Well probably not too much trouble without our weapons.
We met up with Bronte and he started telling us of the richest folk in Saint Denis.
*record scratch* whoa now-
I mean...
Arthur is not amused by this Italian man. Me either frankly. Also, Arthur looking so beautiful in a suit, I am absolutely pleased with this.
Interesting man. I think this is our next villain.
But he's definitely not stupid. He knew we were around for something, so he asked. Dutch was honest. We're looking for money and a lot of it. He told us there's a trolley station with lots of it. A trolley station seems really random but what do I know. Maybe trolley's are racking in the dough.
Got it. Find the Mayor. Steal nothing.
Being a gentleman and serving the ladies champagne.
Went up to introduce ourselves to the mayor and he was getting heckles by this very obviously drunk man. Arthur took care of it.
We put him in time out.
Brownie points with the Mayor!
While guests were distracted by fireworks we followed this worker to see if we could find out more about they know about Cornwall.
Found somethinggggg
Everyone got some sort of lead on something. Looks like our job here is done.
Jared: “Glad to see everyone here at the Ravenwood Cemetery. Hope everyone is ready for lab today. Your task is to find 5 graves from before 1912, and 5 after, and compare the average lifespans. Then we can move on into our study of bacteria and viruses.”
Renee: ”No offense Professor Lopez, but where do you come up with these weird labs?”
Jared: “The best lessons are learned hands on. Just watch out for ghosts and you’ll be fine.”
Tori: “Man, it’s hard to see the name on this one. It’s a shame though, he died so young…”
Jared: “That is a shame.”
Jared: “He deserved so much better. How I wish I could turn back the hands of time…”
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We are so back! I’ve determined that the only way I’m going to keep my posts coming is to minimize the screens, no captions, and let gshade do the editing after the disaster that was me deleting my entire document folder. Hope to get more posts going, I’ve missed it ❤️
Also this is a real lab I did in a college environmental science class. I did not make this up on my own lol.
The problem is, both Cassia and Adrian are very social paras. They want friends, but they never got around to making any before they dove head-first into a very abrupt parenthood. (Thanks a lot, Watcher! 😒)
Isabelle is a super sweet baby. So adorable. The best! But Cassia is restless and lonely. She doesn't really want to be a full-time stay-at-home mom.
So she browses the job listings and finds a tour guide position in the evenings that will work nicely with Adrian's work at the elementary school. They'll only need to have Isabelle in daycare for a couple hours!
Her new job won't start until Sunday, but that's too far away. She's growing a little stir-crazy, and she needs to get out of this house!
She doesn't have a baby carrier or a stroller, so she'll just carry Isabelle in her arms. While she runs around town. Without being able to multitask, she can't even read this sign board while she holds her baby, so the only thing to do is to put the baby down on the ground.
This outing isn't going very well, so she heads back home to wait for Adrian's arrival.
Finally, at long last, hubby is home.
"I missed you so much," Cassia squeals, hugging her man. "Here's the baby. There's a bottle ready in the fridge. I signed up for yoga on the mountain tonight. Love you, bye, see you later."
Exhale. That was the best escape yoga she ever did.
New parenthood is isolating and exhausting for these two, but they're making it work, and their marriage still mostly fine. They still like each other. But babies are pretty tedious, and there's not very much to do. But they think it might be kind of cool if their Watcher rotated households for a few days, like maybe until Isabelle's toddler birthday???
Sunday arrives and Cassia finally gets out to start her new job as a tour guide at the museum. She used to be a hairdresser for a minute, but she won't return to that line of work. (Because we totally forgot that she ever used to do it...) And anyway, this uniform is super adorable on her!
In her absence, Adrian discovers just what Cassia already knew—having a baby in this game makes you feel a little bit stir-crazy.
So, let's go to the gym.
In real life, some gyms have those nifty childcare rooms to drop off your kiddos while you work out, but this one does not (maybe we can edit the lot to add one???), so Adrian does what we do with babies in Paralives. He sets her on the floor.
But it's good to get out of the house and make some new friends. Adrian meets a fellow gym-rat. His name is Jason and we hear he's a very popular guy. Adrian feels a little intimidated. At six feet tall himself, he feels like a shrimp next to this guy!
No worries, though. Jason is cool. But he does have a question. "Hey, is that your baby over there on the floor?"
"Yeah, totally," Adrian says. "But it’s cool. She’s happy. She has her rattle!"
Isabelle is thinking: Hey, Dad, this concrete is kind of hard and cold. At least, like, put a rug down or something?
notes: I really like the age spans mod I chose. It's really nicely balanced in all the life stages, and the extra long splits everything into tidy weeks and makes the paras lifespan long enough, but not ridiculously long. My only complaint is that they gave babies two weeks! 😱 One week would have been perfect, but two is a little much with so little to do!
That's okay, we'll just rotate around town for a bit until she's due to become a toddler! 😆
Starting the day with the only thing that never glitches: coffee.
Phee: “What? You want coffee too?”
Louie:…
He communicates exclusively through judgment. - “Every household needs a tiny judge. Mine just happens to be striped and smelly.”
“Pretending I’m a Sim with full green needs for five whole seconds.”
Phee: “Look at you, acting like my high-level Familiar. If you’re here to warn me, can you use actual Simlish this time?”
Crow usually chooses ‘Mysterious Caw’ interaction.
Ravenwood at night: peaceful, eerie, and definitely not haunted. Probably. Escorted home by my emotional support omen.
Victor: “Hey! Did you survive capitalism?”
Phee: “Barely. I’m one errand away from a full-on
Tense Walk animation.”
End of spooky walk. 10/10 restored by balcony himbo energy.
And finally we are here! Marilyn and Brendan will be heading off to Del Sol Valley.
While Lucian is joining them (it's the closest we have in-game to Silicon Valley), Ziggy will be busking in San Myshuno to officially start the money making part of his gen.
These two were meant to attend in a more timely manner, but well.
