hi hi! so... it's been a while! *checks notes* i have not posted since august... of last year x.x i've been lurking around a bit occasionally dropping likes here and there, but for the most part been entirely absent. i feel like it's wayyyy past time for me to check-in, let everybody know i'm okay and all that jazz. but i am declaring this an actual hiatus now
tl;dr
i lost the simblr itch, i thought "surely it will come back" but it never came back and now i'm hyperfixating on other things.
i'm gonna put specifics under a read more if anyone's that interested in what i've been doing, what i will be doing, where i'll be hanging out now, etc. but it's really nothing big or major--just interests changing.
⭐ my content + patreon
(since it's kinda important and i want everyone to be able to see this)
i'm not deleting this account and i'm still keeping my content up both on patreon and sfs! you will still be able to download things for free!!!
i will be deleting my patreon tier! even though it was basically a donation tier, i feel bad keeping it up knowing i'm consciously not making more sims content (or being really active in the community) for the foreseeable future
i'll be reaching out to existing patrons and making a similar post over there as well about the tier change!
i also wanna say thank you to everyone who's ever followed, donated, liked, commented, messaged, lurked or just been sweet and kind to me ❤️! simblr will always have a special place in my heart, so i don't think i'll ever leave leave, but i owe it to you guys to let you know that i'm making the conscious decision to be inactive for some time.
as a closing statement, fk isr*el and i am absolutely 100% without a doubt full stop
AGAINST GENOCIDE AND FOR A 🍉 FREE PALESTINE 🍉
you should be too if you're any kind of decent human being :)
nothing really. or at least nothing different from how it's been for the last year and some change XD
like i said, i'm still keeping my blogs up, downloads won't move, etc. i am just committing to not actively posting content or really being on simblr that much. maybe i'll drop some likes or comments when the mood hits (like i have been), but not really much else.
i guess if there's any questions about this i'll answer them since my active attention will be back on simblr for at least a few days while i clean some things up.
i would like to do one last thing as a kind of parting gift at some point... i never did end up cleaning up my downloads page or organize the thumbs/sorting for my cc like i said i would so maybe i'll do that before it gets away from me again but i'm not making any promises
⭐why am i on hiatus?
nothing bad happened or anything, i just.... lost interest. I already wasn't really playing the game that much even when i was super active; i mostly just took pictures and did edits. but i just wasn't having as much fun as i used to, opening the game started feeling like a chore, i wasn't all that inspired to make content, etc.
i've burnt out on simblr on many an occasion so i just took a break like i always do but it kept going...and going.......and going.........until i realized it had been FOREVER and i hadn't really felt the itch to create here during that time, it wasn't coming back, and i was having much more fun doing other stuff.
the times i did consider coming back it was more bc i felt bad about not creating rather than any actual desire to create. so i had to think long and hard about whether or not i even really wanted to come back. and i flip-flopped for probably 6 months--trying to drum up creative projects and never committing--before coming to the conclusion that i think i just need to call it a hiatus XD
⭐what have i been up to?
annoying my family with boycott lists and making them buy alternatively :D
bouncing back and forth between many different hyperfixations... i fell back down the skyrim rabbithole several times, genshin, stardew, acnh, made a million notion pages i'll never use--the usual suspects. BUT BG3! at one point i swore i was gonna come back end of july/early aug but then BG3 dropped early and it was over... i definitely did A LOT of heavy lurking here when the girlies were all posting GORGEOUS tavs omg...
i spent a while getting ts3 up and running, even made a sideblog thinking "maybe i'll come back with ts3 content that would be cool!"... just to not end up playing and not using the sideblog and not coming back -.-
4LIENS were supposed to have a comeback like... 4 separate times and it just did not happen...
i've been making a concerted effort to get back into drawing and art. i've been in a kind of... depression? slump? with it for years now; always feeling like it wasn't good enough, that i should be better since i'm so "gifted and talented", i should be monetizing it and not "wasting" all that skill, blah blah imposter syndrome blah blah getting frustrated when i'm not 100% perfect all the time blah blah feeling like a disappointment to my family blah blah...
but i am HELLA sick and tired of having all this anxiety and fear surrounding something i used to love so much so i'm pushing through! i've been trying out lots of different mediums and actually using my sketchbooks and just generally trying to introduce more fun into the process and stop being so hard on myself all the time.
i picked up crocheting for a bit. at this point i haven't touched it in so long i probably forgot how to do it but... maybe one day i'll make a blanket or smth
I started journalling (relatively) regularly for a bit. i was feeling really down at several points throughout the year and i thought having daily entries would help combat the feeling like every day was just absolute shit. on the contrary, the majority of days are good--at worst mundane--the bad ones just tend to stick out more.
trying to get back into reading again... i miss doing it for leisure and taking notes bc i want to and not because i have a 300 annotation school assignment :P
and a whole bunch of other stuff probably but it's hard to remember every single thing that's been on my mind for 16 months lol
⭐what will i be doing / where can you find me now?
i'm hoping to start a webtoon/build up art socials in the new year as a part of my "reconnecting to art" process. i made some art socials @kbearie-art here and @/kbearie_art on insta, youtube, tiktok, and twitter; they're empty for now though bc i got scared the minute i made them and never posted anything -.-
but i'll be real with you... twitter is a cesspool, and im not fond of tiktok so i think tumblr, insta and youtube will probably be where i'll dedicate my time
i've been thinking about getting back into posting videos on youtube again just in general. in fact this thought was the final push for me to make this post bc i was like... if i post a video out of the blue with no word to simblr that would be fked up XD
i play games all the time and i had such a fun time recording, learning to edit and stuff that i think i'd like to pursue that further. i wouldn't be doing sims related stuff though bc...well... i don't play anymore XD but other games ya know. my other youtube is kspice (the same place with my tutorials, speed edits, the acnh vid, etc.) if you'd be interested in that
and i guess that's pretty much it!
again, for at least the next couple of days i'll probably actively have my eyes on this post/simblr in general (and i am gonna clear out my inbox hopefully) so if you have questions i'd ask em quickly before i go back into hiding XD
thanks again, i love you guys, free palestine, and have a good new year! 🍉⭐💖
Hi there! I'm not sure if this constitutes as a WCIF but in one of your 3.5K Followers Sims Dump, you had a sim called Skunk that I wanted to download but his hair link wasn't working. I was just wondering what was the name of the file so I could look for it if that's okay? Thank you for your time! :)
hi hi! here's a folder with old s4simomo content, i'm not 100% sure but i think it was the "mad mohawk" with the rainbow addon!
hi mikayla ! love ur blog, use your skin details religiously, and so sorry if this has been asked b4 BUT -- Do you have a tutorial you watched for how to make the 4LIENS posters ? or easy guides ? im curious how u did the tape effect & trying to make some posters for my in game band rn! <3 <3 tysm tysm
hi there! thank you so much ily <33
i found this tutorial which basically explains everything i did to make them! i just searched for posters in s4studio, exported the textures and edited them with in-game screenshots or edits using Clip Studio Paint.
you can make all kinds of custom painting or posters this way (this is also what i did for the cds and things)
Hi there :) I've been trying to get Dove 2.0 to work but after installing reshade 4.9.1 it seems that the legacy effects are gone. I'm not sure what to do haha
hi hi! so i just tried to start an installation of the latest version as of right now (5.9.2) and there's an option for it still at the bottom of the list of effect packages at installation. It's just called "Legacy effects" now.
you could try updating to this version or maybe run your 4.9.1 install again in case you missed it?
Hello! Your CC is absolutely fabulous and your sims are as well! If it’s not a bother, could I ask where I can find the freckles/moles on the sim in the preview for your lovely Wanderlust skin? It’s a two year old post so absolutely no worries if you can’t! I absolutely understand if it’s too old
hi hi thank you so much! fortunately, i have never gotten rid of any freckles/moles that i've used so it was fairly easy LOL.
I keep having this issue with reshade and presets where everything looks like it has a ghost😢 I followed your tutorial to a T what am I doing wrong?😂
hi hi! i think it might be a version error? if you're using the latest, 5.x versions i think some things may have broken/changed from the 4.9 version. probably mxao since that always "breaks" from version to version.
if you are on a 5.x version, consider reverting back to 4.9.1. i'm still on this version and everything is working fine for me.
Is your Everglow Default skin updated for the Eco Patch? I came across it on my dash and it looks super pretty so i'd love to use it but it was uploaded before the patch happened and doesn't seem to have been updated since.
no it's not. i haven't used it, ummm, in quite a while so the thought never crossed my mind to update it. but if it's as simple as a s4studio patch then i'll get around to it soon!
