sul sul! and so on...

kim . 30 . she/they white . "australia" . unceded meru land idk what im gonna do here, i just needed to scratch the sims itch

[llamallagoon]

sul sul!

(how original) maybe one day i'll make a cute lil TS4 UI-style intro about myself but for now:

K (or Kim) | she/they | early 30s cis woman | white | autistic (bc i LOVE being able to SAY it!) living on unceded meru land (australia)

im one of those simmers with a love/hate relationship with ts4, and also my gaming laptop has an even more tumultuous love/hate dynamic with the game so there's that.

deeply admire those of you who can play multi-gen saves, complete challenges, create and edit and share sim stories, but i am simply Not one of you. i spend most of my time in cas and then end up unhappy with the results, yay!!! i also like making lists and charts and spreadsheets and family trees, and trying to cram lore and relationships from past iterations of the sims into TS4 without losing my mind~

big lover of mods and cc, very much a maxis-match person. plan is to have mod & cc finds filed over on @llamallagoonfinds but she's a lil empty and inactive atm. goal atm is to keep this main blog for My Own BS (and like...rly important guides and notices), then have the cc finds sideblog mentioned above, reblogged challenge rules/ideas will go on @llamallagoonchallenge, maybe my own attempts will go there as original posts but they might get posted here then rb'd to the challenge page. have another page setup @llamallagoonlikes with the plan of reblogging other ppl's stories, sims, gameplay, etc (that's not cc or challennge rules). that's the plan but who knows if i'll stick to it :)))

[llamallagoon]

Has anyone else made a '21 day seasons' option/override or is LMS still the only one who's done something like that? Has a similar feature been incorporated into MCCC now?

[llamallagoon]

SUL SUL, SIMMING FRIENDS!

I return! And I barely remember all my must-have mods, so if anyone has recommendations or wants to point me directly to their personal modlists, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE that as a helpful little shortcut, please and thanks 💚

[cowplant-snacks]

The Ten Simmandments 🙏

Thou shall not put any content behind a paywall, including Early Access.

Thou shall not host content on Curseforge.

Thou shall not host any content or links to content in such a way that endangers or puts at risk one another’s devices.

Thou shall not use AI to create content.

Thou shall not upload content to sites that require the disclosure of personal information in order to obtain said files.

Thou shall only respect reasonable Terms of Use (TOUs).

Thou shall work hard to rid themself of Same-Face Syndrome and the evil there of.

Thou shall appreciate their own gameplay aesthetics without putting down other styles whether they be Maxis Match, Alpha or Maxis Mix or some variation there of.

Thou shall back up their mods folder, screenshots, and savefiles.

Thou shall play offline until their mods are fully updated or are removed.

*I’m not claiming perfection here. I share these in jest and with aim to foster a community where these mores become our norm.

I’ve had my own journey with some of these topics and I’m grateful for the folks here who’ve helped me along the way.

Also, I’m sure there are plenty of other things that could have been added, I just focused on what was top of mind for me.

[llamallagoon]

SUL SUL, SIMMING FRIENDS!

I return! And I barely remember all my must-have mods, so if anyone has recommendations or wants to point me directly to their personal modlists, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE that as a helpful little shortcut, please and thanks 💚

[simsdynastytree]

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[llamallagoon]

time for some regularly scheduled grumbling!!! today, about how destination worlds should just be fully inhabitable! and also a newly discovered (by me) thing to grumble about: werewolves came with all that implied lore about the 2 packs and greg or whoever and made 2 plot-relevant (i guess) community lots so there are THREE ??!?!!!??? 3 TOTAL ?!!!?? residential lots in moonwood mill??????? i know that's p standard for a game pack but still :/ that was the world i was like "ok this can stand in for granite falls" but I GUESS NOT, jesus (i know there's a mod to make destination worlds residential but i always seem to run into problems trying to travel ANYWHERE in game when i have it installed so)

anyway, reason for my woodsy-based complaints below the cut~~

still need to decide how i want to format the series of Proper Posts TM (makeovers, remakes, whatever), and what/where to add text etc on the images, but ......... Kurt Lumberjackson makeover !!! by way of @/aliengirl's #BeautifulBodies AND #AntiSameFaceSyndrome CAS challenges

i think for once im actually happy with my First Attempt and idt i'll be making any other major changes but who knows with me

goddamn randomised facial features for the challenge gave me pointed ears smh. like, my man looks like he should be a fairy but NO.

maybe i'll turn a henford-on-bagley lot into a residential rental (jk im turning basically every residential lot into a rental so that they can all house at LEAST 2 households. i haven't touched any of the other for rent gameplay or even the world yet - i live in cas leave me alONE - but upping the population count per world, per neighbourhood, per lot ????? gamechanging !!!!) and he can share a lot with those elderly gays in that woodsy area idk. or copperdale has a wooded area i think

he looks like someone.... idk if it's another sim or some character from another game or some feature is reminding me of a celeb I DON'T KNOW i can't figure it out but new!Kurt seems weirdly "familiar" now that im looking at all the cas screenshots

[llamallagoon]

i need to find a way to have nancy landgraab and judith ward be related

[llamallagoon]

quick CAS touch-ups before I play the Gomes household for a bit, so I can ~get to know them~ a little before I commit to a full makeover (thanks to @saytrtiara's suggestion/request), but when I loaded them up in Live Mode they all had ugly additional randomised outfits on and I simply had to fix that. added a couple of cc facial details, liked tziporah's outfit but not the purple, something in me demanded she needed glasses, im not happy with this outfit on radwan but i like it more than his default everyday look idk, and just changed zelmirah's makeup basically. i haven't really touched ravenwood or any L&D sims yet , but have just been on the wiki & seeing the extended gomes family includes a trans man, non-binary teen, and old-timey non-binary ghOST ??!! ok !!!! idk if im gonna enjoy much of the gameplay because it's all pretty occult-heavy but oh well!

[llamallagoon]

How do we feel abt L. Faba?

idt this will be her final form but now that I've finally got my mods folder sorted and i can play without the Unfunctionally Pregnant bug, Im just playing around with Fern (can't get the fuckin nature event to even trigger in this new save, which was half the point of making her lmao ANYWAY) she got an anonymous call from a 'secret admirer' and i was like yeah okay whatever....and L. showed up at her door and i was like No....ur great but they made u So Ugly, i can't let the 2 of u interact without a makeover intervention first... ???

they gave her the Mean trait so i like to think she's, like, into Mischief magic not for hehe silly funny reasons but because that and some dabbling in Untamed can ruin relationships and jobs and lives and she's, yknow, a lil bit of a sadist, gets a bit of a kick out of all that.

as much as i hate the "dual forms" of most occults, in this case i kinda wish spellcasters had the option bc i think this is close to fine for ... Ah Yes, Formal Coven Meeting in The Magic Realm, or Diplomatic Trip to Innisgreen/Forgotten Hollow (she'd rather die than go to that filthy doghouse Moonwood Mill, and Sulani's sunshne would incinerate her on the spot), etc etc. but she needs a vampire-style Dark Form to show off the otherworldly and inhuman scope and effects of her magic, her power !!

she's a lesbian because in any and every save i've ever encountered her in, she's only ever autonomously flirted/back successfully with female sims without me ever touching her orientation in cas so. evil sexy lesbian immortal witch. u get it.

[llamallagoon]

forgot i can't get face closeups with height-slider-mod made shorties......

[llamallagoon]

BABE ALERT !!

NAME IDEAS, PLEASE, LET'S GO.

[llamallagoon]

because i simply cannot commit to any one thing for more than 48 hours, and because i am an absolute SUCKER for a beautifully organised, detailed, auto-filling, colour-coded spreadsheet (and accompanying lengthy reference doc) i WILL, of course, be attempting to start a build a world challenge save

so. guess i'll sit in CAS for the next ???? too many hours as i create my 4 founding households then bail immediately :))))

[llamallagoon]

SCREAM nevermind, not playing with Fern yet, apparently I've failed to notice nearly 6 hours passing nnsnfjfjk... hello, 6am !!

[llamallagoon]

killing two birds with one sim, as it were - made a fairy to explore that occult state and the new world, and also attempt to redo the nature event now that the whole thing is available (bc it glitched last time i started it, and then i haven't actually been able to do it since? in any save??? idk it just doesn't show up or register that im trying to engage with it lmao)

Her name is Fern, and...that's all I got, man.

[llamallagoon]

The 2 Walshes are now sisters... and I'm debating whether to turn Annie Welsh (Toddler Stuff) into Annie Walsh and fit her into the family somehow, too. (Also wanting to do something about how wildly different their first names feel, but changing names really adds a whole other layer of complications to making over townies, so idk.)

Haven't made any changes to Fauna at this stage, but spent some time reworking Darling... I think I'm happy? But we'll see.

[llamallagoon]

it's sooooo funny seeing the little waves hit the shore but having no idea when, where or what [drama] was dropped to cause the ripples in the first place