Kinwoven is a gameplay-driven serial story, following the adventures (and misadventures) of my Sims as they navigate personal plotlines, build relationships, and get tangled up in the wider lore of the Sims 4 universe. Expect drama, twists, and plenty of Sims-style chaos. I hope you enjoy the ride!
Enter Kinwoven ➺
I've been putting a lot of love into this project, so if you enjoy Kinwoven, a reblog would mean the world. Thanks for being here! 💗
had some bird troubles... pigeons flying around the dining room like they own the place. No I have no idea how they got in there 🧐
Anyway, hello again frens, I am back and I come bearing gifts with actual new Kinwoven posts in my queue! 😁 Well, maybe also some gifts. I've made some cc items that I've been meaning to share for ages but my perfectionist self wants to make sure they're super clean and nice first. We'll see if I actually get around to getting those together at some point 😅
I'm actually making some progress on Chapter 2 (Paradise) now - finally found some time & energy. 😊 And I've decided I'm definitely gonna go with my original idea for Chapter 3, because although the mod I need to use for it (All Worlds Are Residential) is still kinda broken (because EA changed the way their code works), it's still being updated by Zerbu to be semi-stable. So I'll be fulfilling my previous bear promises after all~ 🐻
Next Kinwoven post will be up right after this one! And the one after that, probably tomorrow or the day after. I'm on a bit of a writing roll at the moment so at least for a little while there shouldn't be huge breaks between posts. 😊
Also... I left so many likes etc on posts yesterday; sorry for the spam 😅 It was great to have some time to catch up on your stories, though! 😊💗
hello frens, a few updates, mostly complaining about things 🙃
That big patch that came out on August 19... omg. It broke so many script mods 😭 I create a lot of my Kinwoven story through gameplay and because of that, I rely on a lot of script mods to keep my game from becoming too chaotic. And that patch broke a whole lot of the mods I use 😣
There's one broken script mod that has significantly affected Kinwoven - that's Zerbu's "All Worlds Are Residential" mod, which, according to Zerbu's discord, "there is no known fix for at this time." My entire planned setting for Chapter 3 of Kinwoven was Granite Falls, and using Zerbu's mod I completely edited the entire world and added resident characters who live there (a little while ago I posted some teaser screenshots of some of those builds & Sims). And... because my loosely planned events for Chapter 2 (the current story I've been posting) were supposed to lead into that Granite Falls storyline, I've had to come up with some revisions, and I've been worldbuilding for a different Chapter 3 plotline elsewhere. So... maybe no shady bear will be involved anytime soon 😔 I'm still kinda holding out hope for an update to the mod... in the meantime, if anyone knows of another mod that makes vacation worlds residential, let me know!
Anyway... here's a peek at some of the worldbuilding I've been doing for my (potential) Chapter 3 plot pivot ~
some more complaining about my ongoing battle against reality under the cut ⤵
I'm always planning & trying to be more active on simblr, because I truly love the stories you guys create, and I really enjoy commenting on them as I go (because I always have THINGS TO SAY 😆). But the truth is that the ADHD gremlin that lives in my brain has zero time management skills, plus there's some recent stuff that's been eating up all my time like Stephen King's Langoliers:
I've got pretty severe scoliosis which has been getting a lot worse recently, so I've had to start seeing an osteopath frequently. My spine isn't rebelling against me quite so much anymore, but it still doesn't much like me sitting at my home computer after a full day of sitting at my work computer. Some days it just straight up refuses to do any more sitting 😣
And yeah... all aspects of my job require me to be sitting at a computer. I work as a 3D texturing and modelling artist for film/TV and unfortunately my studio doesn't have a zero gravity chamber for me to work in Maya. This kind of work also requires many hours of focusing on fine detail so I've developed a really bad habit of unconsciously gripping my mouse/stylus too hard, so my mouse hand is sometimes just like "nope" after an intense day of doing that.
On top of all that, in a somewhat stupid move, I accepted an outside gig to work on environments & assets for a VR game by an indie developer. In my defense I was offered some really good monies for the project & the game looks really cool. But it's also a total time sink in addition to my job & disobedient spine. (If you're interested, the game's website is here. Currently I'm working on fixing all the terrible textures, lol 😅)
As always, though - I'll be catching up on all your stories & posts whenever I manage to have enough energy & downtime 💗💗💗
Yayy, another patch 🫠 If your Mods folder is as ridiculously huge as mine, patch day = a hellscape of broken mods and Last Exception spam. I thought I might share something that makes patch days slightly more bearable for me. It's a script I wrote to make Windows scan the script mods (TS4SCRIPT files) in my Mods folder and generate a report that looks a bit like this:
(I cropped the tables in this image of my report, because I have a lot of script mods 😅)
The report doesn't tell you what script mods are actually broken, but it does give you a good idea of what script mods you probably want to check/update first when there's a patch, where they're located, and what date you installed/updated them. It also gives you other info, like what script mods you might have accidentally placed too deep inside your Mods folder to work. You don't need to download anything for this - it's just a script I wrote to make Windows generate the report for you as an HTML file.
Under the cut: How to make Windows spit out info about your script mods to save you time on patch days 🪄 ⤵
So to make Windows generate this report, I run a script in PowerShell. No, wait, don't leave! I promise this is super easy to do! 😅 PowerShell is just Windows’ built-in command box, where you can type or paste little scripts to make your computer do useful tasks (like making it a bit less painful to hunt down broken mods).
Super simple step-by-step guide:
❌ Step 1. Close The Sims 4 (important!).
📂 Step 2. Open your Mods folder:
Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods
🖱️ Step 3. Hold Shift + Right-Click in an empty spot in the folder → click "Open PowerShell window here" (or “Open in Terminal”). You don't need to open it as admin, if that option appears.
📜 Step 4. I've saved my script in a Notepad (.txt) file that you can view or download from my Google Drive via the link at the bottom of this post. Highlight/Select All the entire script, copy it (right-click & "Copy" or Ctrl+C), and paste it into PowerShell (right-click & "Paste", or Ctrl+V). Paste it after the blinking cursor (PowerShell won't let you paste it anywhere else anyway :P)
🤔 Note: When you paste the script into PowerShell/Terminal, this window will probably pop up:
This is just PowerShell’s way of saying “Hey, this is more than one line — are you sure you meant to paste a whole block?” Click "Paste anyway" to make PowerShell stop trying to be the script police.
🔍 Step 5. Hit Enter and wait a few seconds for the script to run. You'll see PowerShell doing some fast scrolling as it scans your Mods folder for script mods.
🖥️ Step 6. Check your Desktop → you’ll see:
S4_AllScriptMods_DATE.csv
S4_Suspects_DATE.csv
S4_ModReport_DATE.html
📄 Step 7. Those CSV files contain the raw data that PowerShell generated when it scanned your Mods folder. The HTML file is that same data, just organised into a nice table layout that's easier to read. If you open the CSV files, they'll open in Excel/Sheets if you prefer to read the data that way. To view the cleanly formatted version, double-click the .html file to view the summary in your browser.
💫 Step 8. Behold! You've now made Windows generate a report containing organised tables of:
All subfolders inside your Mods folder that contain script mods, organised by the number of script mods inside them: "Top folders by script count";
All the scripts you might have in your Mods folder/subfolders that are older than 2025: "Scripts older than 2025 (check these first)";
A list of all your installed script mods that are more likely to break when Sims 4 has a patch update: "Patch sensitive frameworks detected";
A bonus list of any script mods you might have placed more than one folder deep by accident (meaning they won't work): "Script mods nested deeper than one folder (move these up)"
✨SCRIPT TO PASTE INTO POWERSHELL: Google Drive Link ✨
This link opens my .txt file in Google Drive’s viewer — you don’t need to download anything if you don't want to, you can just copy-paste the script right from the page, into your own .txt or other document file. Or you can download the file itself if you prefer 😊
I hope this report generator script is helpful! It's not something that will actually identify which of your script mods have borked on patch day - but it's saved me a ton of time hunting down the most bork-prone ones 😆
I really enjoyed making my previous moodboard for Perdita Paradise (my OC that Kinwoven's Chapter 2 will be focused on) so I decided to make similar moodboards for her parents, Valentino and Julietta Paradise. They'll also be characters introduced very soon in Chapter 2 👀👻🦚💵💋
Oof, it's been a month since I was last here. 😞 There's several not very fun reasons for the absence including work/money stress and various mental health things. For my fellow ADHDers, you're probably familiar with that moment when your brain just goes "nup, not doin it" and sits itself down like a stubborn child on the floor of a busy supermarket in full protest mode 🙄 The ever-frustrating too-many-things-to-deal-with ADHD freeze 😣
Anyway, I'm managing better now that life-related things have settled down a bit. 😊 I've been catching up on stories here - omg I've missed so much good stuff and I couldn't stop reading; it's been hours and I still have tons of posts I wanna catch up on 😅 So I'll be doing more of that this week 😁💗
I've actually got some new Kinwoven posts ready to queue up. 😁 I'm gonna switch to posting my story updates twice a week (with a couple timezone reblogs cos I live in the upside down hemisphere 🙃). That should give me a bit more breathing room with less risk of imploding under my own plotlines. I've done a ton of worldbuilding recently though, and created several new characters for the next chapter, Paradise — which will make its debut, finally, this Friday 😁🎉
I've put lots of mysterious teaser images under the cut below, foreshadowing the upcoming antics in Kinwoven's next chapter. 🧐
Yes, there is a bear. He is a real bear (definitely a real bear). He currently serves as the Member of Parliament for Granite Falls — and I cannot stress this enough, he is, in fact, very much a real bear. 🐻
I was tagged by @simstagramsomeone - thanks for the tag, lovely! 🥰 I decided to make a mood board for Perdita, because the next chapter of Kinwoven will be focused on her (along with some side shenanigans 🙃)
I'm not sure who's done this tag already, so I'm tagging anyone who thinks this would be fun to do for their oc 😊💗
