As Far As the World Goes & To the Edge of Time

A Sims 3 visual novel about mobsters, love and duty

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Story Masterpost

As Far As The World Goes (AFATWG) and its sequel To the Edge of Time (TTEOT) are a long-running Sims 3 visual novel series spanning across several generations of a mobster family. 

A hybrid of genres (action, romance, drama, fantasy, sci-fi, thriller,...) and with a large cast of characters and overlapping storylines, this story simultaneously follows the Golzine family along with several characters in- and outside of the mob, in their day-to-day activities, personal relationships and moral conflicts.

AFATWG Redux (2013-2014) - A must read as these are the story summaries of previous generations, when it wasn’t a graphic novel yet.

As Far As The World Goes (2014-2018) - Plunging into the story without transition after the summaries.

To the Edge of Time (since 2018) - Direct continuation, with a time jump.

My recommendation? Jump directly to the storyline of the current Golzine heir, Laurie! You may be missing some pieces, but you can always go back later to the previous generations.

TRAILER:

-> Follow the “#tteot story” tag! Go to last post

...or my WordPress blog where everything is neatly sorted out.

For more content, check out the following links:

Character page🧑

Photo shoots 📸 - Bonus shootings

Character development ❓ - OC asks, rambles, etc

Downloads ⬇️- TS3 poses

Not-a-tutorial tutorials 📖 - Tips: camera shots, dialogues,...

Family trees 🌳

Deezer playlist 🎧🎶

Youtube channel 🎥- Character videos, trailers, etc

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Mature content, such as nsfw scenes and trigger warnings, is properly tagged and labeled. Some degree of violence is to be expected, but it remains quite tame.

English is not my mother tongue, and I apologize in advance for any mistakes you may find. Please don’t hesitate to message me with corrections!

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Music Tag

How to: Pick an OC, write down a line/lines from a song your OC identifies with/feels describe them, and if you want you can also link to the song, but it is not a must.

@nekrophoria and @bagesims tagged me, and there is actually this one song that fits poor, brokenhearted Gloria...

Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me

I'll close my eyes, then I won't see The love you don't feel when you're holding me Morning will come and I'll do what's right Just give me till then to give up this fight And I will give up this fight

'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't You can't make your heart feel something it won't Here in the dark, in these final hours I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power But you won't, no you won't 'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't

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Luxury & Elegance by @herzblau

Rules: Create a Sim who radiates pure luxury and stylish elegance...

Create a Sim who radiates pure luxury and stylish elegance. Whether it’s a glamorous evening gown, a sophisticated designer look, or a perfectly tailored suit — anything that showcases class and refinement is welcome. Let your creativity run free and show how your Sim combines wealth, style, and personality.

Allowed are: your favorite Sim(s), or a completely new one one or multiple Sims normal Sims or Occults any age pets CAS / gameplay / render screenshots

Please don’t forget to tag me in your post so that I can find your Sims too. #Herzblau #Luxus&EleganceChallenge

Thank you for tagging me @solorisa!

"Quiet luxury" defines Laurie's style, and I don't think any other of my characters can pull it off as easily as he can. Perfectly cut, timeless and high quality clothing, subtly sophisticated. That suits him to a tee. :)

(I'm a bit rusty with photo shooting, you have no idea how many different pics I took in different settings and they were all crap)

I tag anyone who feels inspired!

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This or that... Tropes edition!

Thank you @echoweaver for tagging me, this was really a fun one! As with anything else, tropes can be great when done well. But they are quite personal and will resonate with some people more than others. I have my favorites and if you read my story, you'll know I use them lavishly. ;)

Slow burn or love at first sight?

My preference goes for slow burn, because that is the most effective and plausible way to start a relationship in my book. I love dissecting why two people click together.

But who am I kidding? Love at first sight can be so damn romantic! Instalove is only annoying when based purely on physical appearance.

Fake dating or secret dating?

Secret dating all the way. Forbidden love is one of my favorite tropes ever. Like, how is it ever going to work?! The angst! The risks! Fake dating just seems hypocritical and hollow. I know it's a trend, but I don't see any sensible reason that could justify that situation in real life. It doesn't speak to me at all.

Enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers?

Friends to lovers always seems a bit like a waste of a good relationship. (don't you dare throw Erik and Laurie at me - sometimes you just have to accept it, okay?) Enemies to lovers has a lot of potential but in reality often translates into one of the characters being an ass to the other. Unfortunately, unkindness and pettiness turns me off. I prefer a situation when the characters start off on the wrong foot or have very different goals/perspectives, then gain a sort of grudging respect for each other from working together and getting to know each other better (think Anh and Laurie).

Hurt/comfort or amnesia?

Okay, I know amnesia is a thing and I can roll with it, even if it has a sitcom, old-fashioned vibe. It's kind of an easy and unrealistic plot device. I had never heard about hurt/comfort being a trope, but YES QUEEN. That is the way to push my buttons.

Fantasy AU or modern AU?

I like both. Together too.

Mutual pining or domestic bliss?

Pining all the way. Me want drama and angst. Domestic bliss is good for epilogues.

Although I would like to see more stories with couples already formed. It absolutely does not mean domestic bliss for me, because life is like a boat, you know?

Smut or fluff?

Smut with fluff? I mean, I enjoy reading smut like the next person, and I do like to sprinkle some of it in my story, but it needs to have meaning. I like a sex scene that unravels the characters. Maybe not exactly fluff, but smut with feels, y'know?

Reincarnation or character death?

Sue me but I like the reincarnation trope. Probably from my time as an Inuyasha fan. Some of my favorite stories have a reincarnation element to it, and I can't help liking it a bit? It's like love at first sight, loving someone through time is pretty darn romantic. But it can be unnerving when it's unclear whether the person is loved because they are a reincarnation or for themselves.

Character death... yeah, that can go very wrong. Like, when death becomes another tool for the writer to wring emotions out of the reader or to make the plot move forward. It's a double-edged sword that can also be very powerful when used well and with caution. Overdo it and you'll lose all that emotional engagement.

One-shot or multi-chapter?

Have you ever read anything by me? No? Maybe you thought it was too long? There you go.

I don't know how to say goodbye.

Kid fic or road trip fic?

Road trip fic wins by default but fails to inspire.

Arranged marriage or accidental marriage?

Arranged marriage! So many good combos for that trope. Only recently, @eljeebee suggested that Anh and Laurie should be in an arranged marriage and I had to agree. ;)

Accidental marriage... is that when two characters are drunk and happen to be in Vegas, and then bam, they're married the next day? We've seen it in Friends, it was fun, but let's not get carried away.

High school romance or middle-age romance?

I like teen romance, when everything is a first time. Unfortunately, I'm starting to be too old to relate. Middle age romance deserves more recognition, but I don't recall ever reading a good one. The characters either sound jaded or immature. I'm sure there's a way to reconcile experience with passionate feelings. Or the type of quiet love that comes only with time.

Time travel or isolated together?

Don't get me started on time travel. Worst decision in my life. I am now resentful of writers who manage to pull it off.

I'll go for isolated together because I used that trope myself quite recently, didn't I?

Neighbours or roommates?

Neighbours because it's cute and convenient. I've never had a roommate in my life and I'm quite sure I would thoroughly dislike having to endure someone's quirks if I'm not romantically involved with them. Having a roommate seems to me like a terrible idea, and falling in love with them a recipe for disaster. I don't want to read about that mess.

Sci-fi AU or magic AU?

Any of those.

Body swap or genderbent?

Once upon a time, I thought I was so clever to genderbend Ash and Sam. I actually like those tropes. Body swap is maybe slightly outdated (I get 80s vibes, don't you too?). But both are fun, and I loved writing Boy!Sam and Girl!Ash still sounding very much like themselves but with different body parts and endocrine systems.

Angst or crack?

Obviously, considering all of the above, I would go for angst. Crack is just for funsies.

Apocalyptic or mundane?

I've stayed away from the dystopian trend in apocalyptic stories. Mundane sounds boring at first but can be brilliant if pathos is correctly dosed. There is a lot to say about slice of life if you add just the right amount of ANGST and DRAMA.

I'd like to tag @nekrophoria, @anamoon63, @danjaley, @kimmiessimmies, @simcatcher, @simdreams, @tia-amorosa, @nornities, @heldhram, @ennysimmer and @eljeebee :) I'd love to read your views!

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Doggo’s saying hi and thank you for the well wishes!

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Oops

Has it already been a month since I last posted? Alright then. Maybe it's time for an update on stuff.

So I've been on holidays in Scotland for a while, which was great but also finished to deplete my budget (Scotland is so crazily expensive, you guys). So no more holidays anywhere for a good while, methinks. Staying at home is not properly appreciated.

Especially since our doggo is getting old (12 years old today actually) and didn't seem to have enjoyed being left at the dog hotel for 2 weeks. He came back sick with stomach flu, all weak and sad. :( Thankfully he's doing better now, but we felt so guilty that we resolved never to go anywhere without him from now on.

As for my story, know that I'm still writing it in my head. Actually sitting down to shoot and type it all however... that is not happening (yet). I had some good hopes for this past long weekend, but then the temperature was too hot and I felt sluggish and I think I just needed to find some excuses for not doing it. Maybe it's because people on here have slowly taken up other interests and I feel like the only one who’s still into TS3, and there's no sense of emulation anymore. Which is fine, totally, but it does erode my motivation.

I'm not sure why I can't move on, it's been years now and I can't muster the energy to just DO STUFF. And by doing stuff, I mean things as broad and varied as writing my story, finding a different hobby, changing jobs, getting interested in anything, etc. It's just been me doing the same things I've been doing for a decade, same routine, same everything. Like I want everything to stay the same forever. Stuck in limbo. I'm sometimes afraid that something's wrong with my brain: I'm inarticulate, slow and forgetful, unable to focus and easily overwhelmed.

Weird, I know. That's not for you to solve.

ANYWAYS! Someday, I'll post an update out of nowhere and fingers crossed that some of you crazy, beautiful people will still be out here to read it.

I've been tagged by @solorisa for creating a Sim that "radiates luxury and elegance". Damn if I didn't think about my main character for this one, but for some reason, I find it difficult to do a simple shooting. I'll get to it though! Luxury and elegance, that has Laurie's name on it.

I've also been tagged by @nekrophoria for an OC song, and I feel unimaginative for always coming up with the same tracks for the same characters. But maybe there's a song I haven't shared yet, I'll think about it some more.

...see my earlier point about stagnation and lack of involvement?

Finally, I've just been tagged by @echoweaver for choosing tropes and at first glance, I'd say that we are very much aligned, hehe. So even if my answers wouldn't be that different, I'll do it anyway because it's a fun one.

Thank you for keeping me in the loop, you all! You are the best. Seriously.

Oh, that turned out longer than I expected. I hope you didn't mind my random yapping. Take care, much love on you.

Noctie

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About unfairness

I've just come to realize that Laurie and Anh throw the word "unfair" at each other all the frigging time. :'D

It didn't do it on purpose. They don't even mean it in the same way.

Anh is embarrassed that Laurie has en effect on her. In my (twisted) mind, she uses the word in the Japanese sense (ず る い - zurui), which describes a situation when someone is cheating and breaking the rules. Therefore, she calls her whole relationship with him "unfair".

Laurie calls Anh "unfair" when she gets particularly defensive with him (not every time though, because it would become too repetitive xD). He feels like she is too fast in her judgement. She hides that she's hurt beneath a cold behavior. Which is ironic because Laurie is totally capable of doing the same.

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Tagged by @nekrophoria <3

rules: type 'me core' in pinterest and pick nine photos

This is my life in chronological order.

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Reblog to gain creative energy and to give more creative energy to the person you reblogged this from.

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About Anh and Laurie's final moment

I'm not sure if it shows through my writing, so I thought I'd clarify a couple of points I wanted to make.

Anh and Laurie have put their armor back on. Well, especially Anh and Laurie only follows her lead. Anh was very nervous and sad to be in the same room as Laurie, that's why she lashed out at him the way she did, despite everything that they'd been through together. She can't keep her suspicion towards him in check, especially in front of other people. She knows by now that there are several sides of him, and she can never be quite sure which one of them he is showing at a given moment. So she puts her own mask back on and is harsh with him. And he plays along by distancing himself emotionally as well (which he excels at).

But also, she's seen right through him and that unnerves him. She challenges him to look inside himself, and he knows she's right but he's so scared of what he will find.

Anh knows how to reach him though. Her last words to him, "You are a good person", are the stamp of approval that he told her he was looking for. Because her opinion of him matters a great deal.

So yes, they're back into their respective roles but because they understand each other better, there's a lot going on in subtext.

I wanted to give them one last kiss but it did not make the cut. Have it anyway. :)

There was no infamous hand kiss either, there were so many other references to previous conversations that I felt it would have been too much.

Laurie never actually admitted that Erik was his lover. He couldn't even get himself to say it. The word feels meaningless, just like "friend" didn't quite cut it either. In fact, quibbling over words is something Laurie and Anh have in common. ;)

In the end, brave Anh makes the decision for both of them. She gives him an honorable way of getting out of their complicated relationship by making it seem like she's the one breaking up when her emotional investment is higher than his. She smashed her own heart by letting go of her first love, and knowing Anh, there probably won't be another man in her life any time soon, if at all.

As for Laurie, well... will he take Anh's advice and be more honest with himself? We will let him simmer on that a little bit, the next update will focus on other characters. :)

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822 - Dusk

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To be continued

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Author's note: This is a sad echo to their first secret meeting.

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Author's note: Anh is referring to this scene. I don't think I need to link back to The Hug(TM) between Laurie and Erik.