Thought I'd update my pinned post with some info about me & my tumblr. Also a handy place to find links to my mods.
Reblogs: BabblingStaceyReblogs
(updated October 6 2023)
Basic info
I believe I'm much older than most simblrs out there! I played the original Sims way back when, then didn't play any versions until a month into the pandemic for something to do. I've always loved storytelling so this was perfect to rejuvenate my creativity.
I don't really play any other games, to be honest.
I do not have a gaming computer I just play on a laptop. I don't have any fun reshades, only editing I do to my screenshots is cropping and occasionally will brighten them. So they will not be high quality but I enjoy taking them/telling stories anyway.
I'm terrible at CAS but I love to build. I don't know how good I am at it, but I do it for my own amusement anyway. Gallery ID BabblingStacey.
I've had this tumblr for a very long time but only started sharing my gameplay through over the few years - mainly because I kept taking screenshots with nowhere to put them.
My game and blog is LGTBQ+ and BIPOC friendly. If that bothers you, then this is not the simblr you want to follow. For the record, while I'm a CFBC straight middle aged white CIS woman, I try to keep my gameplay as diverse as possible. If I do get something incorrect, please send me a message. (unless you are a TERF or racist, then you can kindly just fuck off).
My avatar is my simself, or as close as I can get to one.
Gameplay
(I've been swapping a lot, just to stop from getting bored)
Current: Gerdie the SuperSim, using @lostinsophiesave save file. Gerdie is from my Julissa the Unlucky Chef and Gerdie the Genius. gameplays, but in a brand new save. I just like this girl.
Current: Power Pop Legacy. My own little legacy, inspired by power pop songs from the 90s. Making it up as I go along. Using Prxnce Love Letter Save File
Previous play and mods/CC below the cut (it got really long)
On hold: Yvette's Wandering Life with Yvette Deaton, a continuation of Anna's Vagabond Challenge. Using @haledela's savefile.
On hold: Landry's Growing Together with Vanessa Landry. Just a little family I'm exploring the new update & pack with. Vanessa was created by NoMoreBadTownies on the gallery, the rest of the fam were created with her genetics. Total vibing, no real storyline so far. Vanilla-lite gameplay in ratboysims' amazing save file.
On hold: my own legacy challenge. Mainly on hold because I need to replace a lot of B&B CC in my homes anyway because I've been deleting a lot of problematic creators who leave their content locked behind paywalls for too long for me to be comfortable with using any longer. I've done Not So Berry (the updated version) in a previous save and started my current legacy with the Chromatic Legacy Challenge but during the 6th gen I decided I wanted to write my own that fits more of the way I like to play. You can see my plans here: BabblingLegacy, I update it as I get an idea for a generation. Using SweetieWright's save file. I do change up the houses/lots a lot, but it's a great way to have a starting point.
On hold: Tianna the Wolf with Tianna Pancakes, daughter of Iggy. I really wanted to play this pack - I'm not even that much of a occult simmer but man, this is a lot of fun. Using Fleuralia Save File. On hold because there are now triplet toddler wolves and...i needed a break.
Previous Play: Iggy's Frogs with Iggy Pancakes (again). Just one post.
Previous Play: Aliens Stole My Parents scenario. Can Anna & Kasen Deaton get their father back? Using @anotherplumbob save file.
Previous Play: Stuck in Their Shadow Scenario with Nova Curious. Just a a quick scenario play.
Previous Play: Teenage Kicks. 5 Willow Creek teens transferred to Copperdale High. How will they survive high school? Will they actually all go to school at the same time? Time will tell! Using lilsimsie's save file.
Previous Play: Globetrotter Challenge with Iggy Pancakes. Using lilsimsie's save file.
Previous Play: My Perfect Life challenge with my Sim June Yamamoto. Also with lilsimsie's save file.
Previous Play: Robles Family. Started as a Sim Scenario Making Money. Used @anotherplumbob save file, though I've downloaded random lots/households from the gallery to fill out the world's.
Yvette getting electrocuted, since I needed an image to break up the text.
Abandoned: Iggy's Making Money Scenario with Iggy Pancakes. Using Fleuralia Save File. Started because I was bored, abandoned because it did the trick, got me interested in a different challenge. Maybe I'll come back to it to finish it but it's not looking likely.
Abandoned: Expansion Berry Legacy, created by @becciisiim, featuring the Shaffer family. However, I'm not doing the generations in the same order as the original. Using @ratboysims's save file. Abandoned because I got bored. I may come back to when I feel more inspired.
I prefer to play one household and don't really play occults very often.
I have all the packs except for some kits and stuffpacks.
I play with mods, a partial list: MCCC , WonderfulWhims, UI Cheats, Personality Please!, Meaninguful Stories, First Impressions, Control Any Sim, many from LittleMsSam (@littlemssam) and Bienchen.
I use a lot of Maxis Match/Mix CC; some of my faves: Clumsy Alien (@clumsyalienn) , Okuree (@okruee), LittleDica (@littledica), Peacemaker (@peacemaker-ic), CharleyPancakes (@charlypancakes), myshunosun (@myshunosun) and probably a bunch more. I've been trying to use less build/buy CC but use it for my own gameplay frequently.
First day of work in her new office! Honey's new company is full of young up and coming computer geniuses and she felt right at home.
One member, Oak, didn't have as much programing knowledge as Honey so she became a mentor to him and wondered if that was her next move - mentoring and teaching, once she reached to top of the company - which she's sure will happen soon.
Honey is done with uni! She graduated top of her class with an A+ GPA as well captain of the E-Sports team. She was a gained a genius trait to boot. She was instantly recruited by The Next Big Thing tech company and prepared to leave her academic life.
With her savings and the large bonus from her new employer, she managed to get a cute 1 bedroom apt near her new office. Best of all, her collage bestie Fredricka, newly minted chef, has an apartment in the same building. Honey may only have $36 to her name but she's excited to start her new life.
However, she had a burger the first night in apartment! Before the police could get there, Honey successfully took care it herself.
Sadly, halfway through Honey's final year she received devastating news. First Cricket the dog, then Arion the horse, then finally Cara all passed away within a few hours of each other.
(I seriously got the message Cara had died 5x, but she hadn't. So I finally loaded back into the household and she immediately died. Thanks Sims for making me witness it.)
Honey, as per tradition, hosted the funeral for Cara, giving a beautiful eulogy for her beloved mother. Bradly was shocked and devastated; he was older than Cara and never expected to have her go before him.
But he had been unexpectedly granted more bonus days and will be around a bit longer.
Honey excelled at everything she did - in high school , she became both the president of the computer team as well as a top game streamer, not to mention acing all her exams. She, of course, was accepted to the Foxbury in computer science distinguished degree program and immediately joined the e-sports team
She made friends too, including her two besties Fredricka and Nicole.
However, romance seemed to elude her. Her friends, especially Fredricka, had a new partner every other week, but it didn't appeal to Honey at all. She decided it was a distraction and her work gave her more pleasure.
Generation 4: You grew up in a small town on a farm, and you always dreamed of getting away and moving on to bigger and better things. You know you are destined for greatness, and you are determined to never have your dreams squashed. You care deeply about success, and you will do anything in your power to get it.
Color Theme: Yellow
Traits: Geek, Ambitious Overachiever, Hates Children
(either I missed it but I couldn't add Ambitious as a teen so I changed it to Overachiever)
Career: University Student (You decide major + career post graduation)
Aspiration: Academic, Master Mentor
Additional Rules: Successfully graduate university with at least a B grade. Complete both aspirations. Choose your own career benefited by your degree, and max the career post graduation
Max the Logic, Video Gaming, and Research & Debate skills.
Honey is all ready to go for her generation goals! This ambitious gal has spent her time as a child maxing skills and achieving aspirations, just preparing herself to go far in the world (already finished 2 aspirations, Mind + Body and Wiz Kid). She isn't a fan of nature, unlike her parents & siblings - she's ready to get out of this small town! As soon as she became a teen, she joined the Computer Team as well as becoming Video Game Streamer for a side hustle. She's excited to max as many skills as possible!
I'm excited to start this generation! It's totally different than Cara's but still fun for me. However, I'm finding some bugs with Business & Hobbies and the Master Mentor aspiration since the patch update - I grabbed the mod fix for the white board, but when asking a small business owner to start a class, they don't lecture. Honey was still able to get gold...however apparently getting gold doesn't count as getting bronze in 3 classes. I plan on just cheating it though, because that's just stupid.
ETA: logged in today and the gold level class did count, as did the silver level, and the small business owner did actually start the class with a lecture.
I don't know how many players gotten this far already, because of the Ambitious trait not being able to use for Teens but I'm going to try to gain it and Overachiever fits exactly the type of storyline I have in mind. I didn't see any conversations online about it and I guess I could have just missed it. Not excited about Hates Children but I'm going to do my best.
Also I know her main outfit is more white than yellow but I didn't like the way the others clashed with her hair. And I liked that outfit on her, plus I think it shows how different she is from the rest of her family - wearing white on a working farm.
Also, I plan on skipping gen 5; I don't own Bust the Dust and nothing about this gen sounds fun and I don't want to play that deeply with For Rent. So Honey's child will be Tomato - plus that gen works with the Fairy pack, if i decide to get it.
Horse Lover, Loner, Unflirty, Cheerful (gained), Family-Oriented (gained), Self Assured (gained).
Grand Champ Horse Trainer
Maxed Skills: Horse Riding, Handiness, Cooking, Gardening
Finished Aspirations: Mind & Body (child), Championship Rider, plus Soul's Journey as a living sim.
Skill Mastery Perks: Aspirational Thinker, Mental Aura, and Spacebender.
Full rules here by lilsimsie
Logo by Risshella
Cara came up from a teen runaway with few funds to a be the owner of a huge working ranch and a beloved horse trainer. While most of her money came from entering competitions and odd jobs with her champion horse Arion, she also grew magnificent carrots and pumpkins that the locals clamber for. She is proud to say she built most of the furniture herself and lived off the grid, though recently with the birth of her 3 children, she finally agreed to be connected to the grid again.
She did reconnect with her father Aubrey late in his life and kept a strong, if distant relationship with her mother Joslyn and her new family. Both her parents and Aubrey's husband Manuel are now buried at the same cemetery as Cara's grandmother Dana.
Her first love will always be her family - horses Arion, Hurricane, and baby Sassafras, loyal dog Cricket, life partner Bradley, children Honey, Sunshine, and Acorn, llama Misty, mini orange sheep Daisy, goats Bert and Ernie, and multiple chickens. Even though her generation goals are complete, she aspires to continue to be a Country Caretaker and grow her ranch and farm even more.
However, her daughter Honey is more than ready to take up the Very Veggie mantle.
However, she'll have to wait until she's at least a teen to get truly started. Originally she wanted to be a bee, but has since her family is back on the grid, she has discovered a love of video games and everything to do with nerd culture.
I still think she looks cute as a bee.
This was so much fun to play and I would forget to take screenshots. I love Cara - in fact, she's my girl to work through the Nature's Calling event in a separate save. The horse training took forever and was very grindy but we managed to get Arion to level 10 in all skills (with a little "age down potion" aka MCCC cheat to make sure it happened). Cara also has an age down potion she may use if I don't feel Honey is ready to start and the other kids are ready to be on their own, since Honey will be off to college.
After much hard work from both Cara and Arion, the took FIRST PLACE in the Master Horse competition! They failed the first two times so this was a sweet victory.
There was another surprise too, Hurricane & Arion welcomed their very own little one later that day - Sassafras!
Bradley proposed not long before Cara aged up and moved in. It was nice to have an extra hand around the farm, as it had now grown to include Misty the Llama, Daisy the orange sheep, Bert & Ernie the mini goats and a bunch of chickens.
It kept them busy, but Cara kept up with Arion's training.
And Cara & Bradley kept busy on cold winter nights. They welcomed their daughter Honey, with the twins Sunshine and Acorn following soon after.
Full rules here by lilsimsie
Logo by Risshella
One day while riding, Cara ran into her neighbor Bradly Lawson.
Bradly was also rancher and horse lover, which made him easy to talk to, despite Cara's shyness around strangers. He invited them back to meet his horse Hurricane.
Full rules here by lilsimsie
Logo by Risshella
Carrot farming
Riding her beloved (and champion) horse Arion
Her cute doggo Cricket.
Cara is living her dream life.
This is my favorite generation, I'm having so much fun and not really taking screenshots. Cara has maxed Horse Riding (and Handiness), thanks to living on a micro home and Arion has level 8 or9 in all horse skills. They've competed in 15+ competitions, taking gold in 3 Master competitions. With that & her carrot farming, she's been able to build up a home.
She's close to aging up to an adult...and there's a handsome cowboy living right next door...
Full rules here by lilsimsie
Logo by Risshella
Cara Pepper
Generation 3: Your parents weren’t exactly great role models for love, and you’ve always struggled with human connection. You long for someone who will accept you, won’t judge you, and will love you for who you are. In your hunt for companionship, you find someone who loves carrots unconditionally: a horse. You devote your life to caring for and raising your horses, and become a championship horse rider.
Color Theme: Orange
Traits: Loner, Horse Lover, Unflirty
Career: No Formal Career - Earn money through horse contests
Aspiration: Championship Rider
Additional Rules: Have 3 horses. Grow carrots. You can marry, but only after aging up to an Adult. It takes your Sim a long time to feel comfortable around new people.
Max the Horse Riding skill.
Cara couldn't be more different than her father Aubrey. Growing up, Aubrey tried to get Cara to love what he did - fashion and popularity especially - but when she decided it wasn't her thing, he mocked her for preferring a book and faded jeans. As a child and an early teen, she had her beloved grandmother Dana to run to and confide in. Dana inspired her find her own style, and not to care what the rest of the world thought.
Unfortunately after Dana passed away, Cara felt lost again. School was filled with bullies who laughed her unfashionable clothes and her love of horses. She spent a lot of her time crying in the bathroom, still devastated by the loss of her grandmother. Home was no better, with constant fights with her father.
After a particularly brutal fight, Cara had enough. She was given the option to graduate high school early so that night she simply left home with just enough of the money her grandmother had left her to buy a plot of land away from everyone in Chestnut Ridge.
There was room for a greenhouse and a stable, now she just needs to earn some money to make her dreams come true.
Evil, Romantic, Bro, Cheerful (gained), Perfectionist (gained), Active (gained)
Licensed Clinical Romance Relationship Councilor, level 10.
Maxed Skills: Romance, Fitness, Dancing, Nectar Making
Finished aspiration: Villainous Valentine, plus Soul’s Journey as a living Sim.
Full rules here by lilsimsie
Logo by Risshella
This evil dum-dum. While very proud of his wine cellar and especially of his giant eggplants (heh), he spent most of his time romancing anyone who came across his path, breaking up marriages and smashing hearts with little regard to anyone.
He got an offer for a huge inheritance if he got married, and it so happened that his current partner Joslyn happened to be pregnant so he took the money and gained a family.
Note, he also had other kids around the world. He has not met them.
Unsurprising, it didn't last long.
They constantly argued about everything in front of their (very adorable) daughter Cara. Finally, Joselyn, fed up with Aubrey's constant cheating, took off and moved back to Tomarang but Cara stayed, mainly because her beloved grandmother Dana moved in.
However, once Aubrey's wild ways began to get dull, he met his soulmate in neighbor Manuel Pepper.
And they lived happily ever after.
This generation was so tedious and was so annoyed with it. It just seemed to take forever and honestly got a little boring. I started to hate the whole thing, and it's why i didn't take many screenshots. But I completed it honestly and now I'm excited to start with Cara, which is more how I like to play.
Also, it's funny, the rules state to dress gen 2 in the eggplant costume for all outfits, but I just did it as one of his sleepwear. But I got a weird bug where his profile pic was constantly that damn eggplant, even when he wasn't wearing it.
So I guess that worked.
I did end up switching save games because I was getting a lot of bugs/lag with the save file I was using (downloaded). I think there was just too many elaborately decorated lots, along with a lot of residential residentials.
Dana Pepper
Creative, Art Lover, High Maintenance, Cheerful (gained), Perfectionist (gained)
Owner of Pepper's Paints & More, a Local Legend (5 star) business in Magnolia Promenade, specializing in Painting, Pottery, and Knitting classes. Featuring huge work spaces for artists and delightful gifts for sale as well serving the best coffee in town.
Maxed Skills: Wellness, Painting, Knitting, Tattooing, Entrepreneur.
Finished aspirations: Lady of the Knits, Painter Extraordinaire, Esteemed Entrepreneur, plus Soul's Journey as a living Sim.
Dana finished within a few days of her adulthood. She is a true artist, dabbling in different crafts, most recently in designing jewelry. However she is more than ready to to pass the torch to her son Aubrey, who became a teen the day the business hit 5 stars.
Aubrey Pepper
Generation 2: Everyone won’t shut up about romance. All day every day you have to listen to weird suggestive eggplant jokes, people complaining about their partners, or even worse: them going on and on about their happy little relationships. You’re sick of it! Love is dead, and you’re going to prove it. You decide your life goal is to ruin as many relationships as possible. Well, at least when you’re off the clock. You can’t exactly quit your day job. Relationship saver by day, relationship ruiner by night.
Color Theme: Purple
Traits: Evil, Bro, Romantic
Career: Romance Consultant
Aspiration: Villainous Valentine
Additional Rules: As an adult wear the eggplant costume for every outfit. Grow giant eggplants. Become a nectar connoisseur and maintain a nectar cellar.
Max the Romance, Fitness, Nectar Making, and Dancing skills
Aubrey just aged up to a teen so he'll get a head start on some of these. Already has some earned traits: Top Notch Infant, Happy Toddler, Headstrong, High Self Esteem, and Relatable as well as inheriting Creative Visionary from his mom.
But no, he won't be wearing the eggplant costume for all of his outfits. Sorry simisie.
Full rules here by lilsimsie
Logo by Risshella
Gen 1: Broccoli Vegetables spend a lot of time outside staring at the sky. You notice the way sunlight filters through leaves. You hear how the wind sings. You watch the sky paint a picture every night at sunset. Nature is beautiful, and you want to capture it. You become an artist, and dedicate your life to honing your craft and sharing it with others.
Name: Dana Pepper
Color Theme: Dark Green
Traits: Creative Art Lover High Maintenance
Career: No formal career. Run small business selling crafted goods
Aspiration: Lord/Lady of the Knits
Additional Rules: Achieve a 5-star business. Max the Wellness skill. Max 3 artistic skills of your choice.
Full rules here by lilsimsie
Logo by Risshella
Dana started in this world with nothing but a empty lot in Magnolia Promenade. Slowly but surely, she build her business as an artist, first in an open air shop, then to a thriving business, teaching classes and selling her artwork and knitted toys and decorations.
She soon fell in love and married a spa specialist Nale. They were happy for a time, with Nale's opening their own spa space with Dana while Dana added tattooing as an additional activity. After the birth of their son Aubrey, Nale began to feel neglected, with Dana spending every waking moment either working to improving her small business or taking care of Aubrey. Nail finally had enough when Aubrey was a toddler. They started having an affair with a spa regular and finally blew up at Dana, who had no idea things had gotten so bad.
They tried therapy but neither felt there was a way past this. Nale left, taking half the business and set up with their new girlfriend in a different town. Devastated but determine to carry on, Dana worked even harder on her goal of a 5 star business, little knowing how this would affect her son Aubrey's development...
Current progress
Maxed skill: Painting, Knitting, Tattooing, Entrepreneur, and Wellness skills.
Need 4 more Legendary Knits to finish the aspiration.
Pepper's Paints & More currently at 4.5 stars. Added pottery as tattooing wasn't really getting any traction.
Bonus traits: Perfection, Cheerful
Skill Mastery Perks: In the Zone, Creative Aura, Final Touch.
Playing on short lifespans (started on Normal, changed to Short). Dana is currently ages up to an adult in 2 days.
I wasn't going to post this, so I hadn't taken many screenshots but I'm enjoying it more than I expected, I decided to start writing it down. It's been so long since I've posted here and while I've missed it, I've been all over the place with Sims4 gameplay.
I'll probably just check in occasionally.
I really dislike the Lovestruck romance changes (I'll usually cheat it back up to full when it drops for no reason) but in this case it worked out for the gen 2 story and Nale was beginning to annoy me anyway. They ended up being very attracted to a spa regular and it fit in with the Unsatisfied Relationship, while Dana was perfectly Satisfied. So, divorce time. Also one change for the next gen, I don't think I'll put Aubrey in the eggplant suit for every outfit, maybe just one of the sleeping outfits.
I haven't been playing Sims much or when I do, I'm jumping from save to save and not taking screenshots. However, I did complete the Every Life Stage Challenge, following James Turner's rules. Naturally, i used Iggy Pancakes, who i just can't quit.
Nell Pancakes, newborn. Child of Daisy Pancakes & Noah Kane.
Since I was already follow James Turner's rules, I figured I may as well continue with his Tiny Town too. I was already planning on doing Deligracy's Tiny Town but I like this set up better. I am using her lot though, but doing it as a rental, so only 6 so far because I'm scared of breaking my save with rental cheats/mods.
And James's Tiny Town cards are so cute!
I had to change/adapt some of the hobbies to make money, so they all have their original hobby & their money making one (Colin - fitness, Julian - gardening, Theo - rocket science, Joanna - knitting, Maxwell - baking. Daisy doesn't have a second hobby, but she has the easiest time with money with painting and all the other skills she has, plus has her husband & baby with her.
I spun the wheel to who goes first & it's Joanna. It's been really fun so far, but tough to make money right now, with both music & with knitting.
Oh and I thought I'd make one for Julian's dog too.
