OswaNily

Swann | 26 yo | France. Currently playing: Barbie Legacy. Real-to-Sims builder. Recolor & Re-texture suggestions are most welcome. WCIF friendly. EA ID : TheKinaQueen.

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Important Blog Update

(Below cut because it might be long)

Hi...

You may have noticed I stopped posting again. The reason is simple, I don't want to play the game. That's a problem, when you're a gameplay Simblr. I have tried to open Cat's save a few times, but I always end up making over builds or playing in CAS, and then I feel guilty for not making any actual content for the blog. To the point that it's past 4 AM and it's preventing me to sleep.

So I am going to say the word I have been avoiding this whole time...

This blog is now on a gameplay hiatus.

That means, until my drive to play comes back, I won't be posting gameplay anymore. Instead, I will post other sims related things. I want to start posting CC again, making lookbooks and edits, and sharing screenshots of sims and builds I make, among other things. I will still be taking CC commissions and suggestions. I've also recently picked up drawing again, so I might drop some assets for CC creators, like seamless patterns. I will also try to interact with the community more by reblogging posts (this isn't natural for me so I will try to remember to).

Of course, that means there will be less posts than the 4-5 a day rhythm I have been doing for a while. But I think this is best for my mental health. Just writing this out already makes me want to open my game!

Also, I'm playing New Style Boutique 3 on an emulator at the moment and I am HOOKED, so even the non-gameplay Sims posts might take a bit to start coming. Buuut if you would be interested in some random screenshots from that game, I can provide! I don't think I've ever posted any other game but sims on here, but I am not opposed to it!

I do hope to resume Cat's gameplay eventually, but right now I would rather do things I enjoy with the few hours I spend awake every day (I have hypersomnia) than do nothing because I forbid myself to do what I want because I feel like I have to provide content.

Anyways, if you aren't interested in non-gameplay posts, go ahead and unfollow me, I won't be mad. I just needed this off my chest.

Hope you have a good day/night,

Swann 🦢

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Amalynda (Portia's soulmate) came over the next day. They get along better nowadays.

Also, JB spent the night, and headed straight for the hospital. She had a son, Rylen James Andrew.

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Judy-Beth showed up after Portia's first day of work, to check out the new house. Portia and I discovered she is very pregnant.

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The vet clinic is, however, very pink. It is Barbie, after all.

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Portia in her new house! It's very different, lots of old pinks and warm browns.

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No joke, I feel like editing screenshots.

I NEVER feel like editing screenshots… except when I have like negative five to edit.

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Simblr, Let's Get Talking! 3rd May '26 - #10: Ask Game 20 Sim Questions

HOW ASK GAMES WORK

You reblog the list of questions, and then people send Asks with the questions to you about usually a particular Sim. Then you answer those questions about that Sim in particular, or a character of your choice if the Asker doesn't pick someone in particular. This one is designed to be suitable to both gameplay and storytelling Simblrs.

If you reblog this list from someone, make sure to send them an Ask Game question from the list after you reblog! It's polite Simblr etiquette to do so. I recommend replying to your reblog of this Ask Game with names of your Sims or a Sim / OC list of sorts so people can pick someone.

Feel free to tag all responses regarding this ask game with #simblr let's get talking.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO RECEIVE ASKS: - Then you can instead answer all of (or some of) the questions for your Sims of your choosing, write it in a post, then tag #simblr let's get talking

No FreezerBnuuy rule is OFF for this one! Send me, @freezerbnuuy, an Ask from this list, and I'll send you one too, so long as I'm able to send you an Ask (your asks are open and neither of us have blocked one another). My character page is here if you want to pick someone in particular.

I will make a post here to say when I am done with this Ask Game personally to prevent burnout, but for now feel free to send me asks about this Ask Game until Sunday 10th May!

SIMBLR LET'S GET TALKING 3RD MAY - SIM OCs ASK GAME

What is your Sim's favourite hobby?

What is your Sim's career?

What is your Sim the most afraid of?

What trait (whether in-game or in general) best defines your Sim?

What is the funniest thing that has happened to this Sim (whether in-game or in story?)

Cats, dogs, or horses - which is your Sim's favourite?

What 3 things does your Sim love?

What 3 things does your Sim hate?

Does your Sim have any siblings?

Who are your Sim's parents? What was their relationship like to your Sim?

Show us your favourite screenshot of this Sim!

What occult is your Sim, if any? If not an occult, which one would best suit them?

What world does your Sim live in? Have they ever moved?

What is your Sim's favourite weather?

Is your Sim a good friend?

What does your Sim like when it comes to interior design?

How many Simoleons does your Sim have (or their family?) If not a gameplay Simblr, then where would your Sim land on the class scale?

Does your Sim have a favourite outfit?

What is your Sim's Lifetime Wish or, story-speaking, ultimate goal?

Is there anyone your Sim despises?

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Sorry for the unprompted hiatus but 1) vet gameplay is boring as hell, 2) i am doing EMDR therapy and they had to put me on not one but TWO medications at once to keep my ptsd flashbacks under control, and 3) it’s fucking allergy season so when it’s not the flashes stopping me from sleeping it’s the fact that i can’t BREATHE (i am on meds for that too… they are for entertainment purposes only, they do nothing)

Anyways i do have a few posts to queue… will do so when i feel alive enough.

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Simblr, Let's Get Talking! 24th Apr '26 - #1: Favourite Sims Game

What is your favourite Sims game out of 1,2,3 and 4, and why? (this includes any version of these games across any console/platform)

What is your favourite non-main-series Sims game and why? (includes, but is not limited to: The Urbz, Bustin' Out, TS2: Apartment Pets, TS2: Life Stories, Castaway, Medieval)

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I am a sims 4 girlie at heart, mostly cause it’s the only game i got to really play as an adult (i don’t own the others).

Fir non-main-series, i 100% completed MySims Agents on wii as a pre-teen. Funnily enough, it was the first sims game I got. I used to play TS2 on a borrowed disc, but never owned it.

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This is Hestia. Hestia owns half of my heart.

Purring not pictured.

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when reading a book, do you read the prologue/epilogue?

yes

prologue only

epilogue only

no

nuance (comments/tags)

Voting ended onApr 13

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Looking at the tags, a lot of people are blessedly unaware of the Discourse, for posterity:

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People I'd like to get to know better

I was tagged by @cassymblr, thankies!

Last song: the Bizarrap session with Daddy Yankee (i think they have names but not on Spotify?)

Favorite Color: Orange, tho i really like deep purple too, or any deep color actually.

Currently Watching: a SeanieDew live replay. For real, I have no TV shows at the moment, this year is sloooow in terms of series.

Sweet, Savory, or Sour: At the moment, savory (which is unusual for me).

Currently Reading: Evermore (book two in the Everless series). It's on the younger side of YA, but I just finished Last Chance Live and I needed an emotionally easy read... tho it's still fantasy, still has death and suffering, don't go read that expecting all love of kittens cause of me.

Current Obsession: Two Point Campus. I have not finished the main game story-quest, but I wanna 100% it because it's so good.

Last Google Search: no freaking clue. I use private nav for everything, and it was before my nap so I don't remember.

Currently working on: reading more (used to be my favourite thing to do, I miss it), getting an internship so I can "show motivation" enough to get state funding to train as a pet groomer, spending more quality time with my cats (they have been very sick and most of our interactions this past month have been health related), also getting a shit ton of health diagnoses done, both physical and mental. I'm just trying to get my life

together lmao.

I tag all my mutuals who haven't done this in the past three months. I also tag anyone who has never done a tag game, you should try it, it's fun!

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Random essay on early access and event-themed CC

Hi. This is a very random before-sleep thought but I need to share it. I have genuinely been wondering for forever why people release event-themed CC for public after the actual event. I know the short answer is « money », but if that’s true… are they really that bad at marketing?

And then I realize… yes, they are. They do not understand how things work. Think about it. How often do you see a creator’s « April CC collection » with a public release date on May 2th? Like, if a creator who does that sees this… sorry to tell you but for the vast majority of people that’s your May collection. And if the collection is Easter themed (this is an hypothetical, I haven’t seen anyone do Easter CC this year), very few of us need Easter CC in May. Of course it will trigger some people’s FOMO and they’ll want to get it ASAP so they can make their edits… but it also makes you look bad to non-paying people, aka potential customers.

Meanwhile… if you put that April Easter-themed collection up for early access in March, with a release date 1-2 days before Easter, the people who can afford to pay will still do it, cause 1-2 days is a short time to plan out a lookbook or edit, AND the people who don’t pay (which are the majority) will still have a little bit of time to put something together, and you will be getting exposure from the increased public use of your stuff. It will also make you look good, which matters more than some seem to believe.

Anyways, I don’t see how this isn’t obvious? Trying to be capitalists is making a lot of these people earn less than they could.

I still am 100% against early access by the way. It’s just, if you are gonna do it… at least do it well?

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Hello new house, hello new banner... Hello new gen!

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Goodbye house... and goodbye gen 2 banner.

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Of course, Bunny won't retire, at least not yet. I watched for the last time as she walked through the door in her ugly politician uniform...

Bye, BunBun... Portia, the cats and I won't be here when you get back.

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I am not gonna cry... Okay maybe I am.

Bunny is definitely in my top 5 favorite sims ever. She is up there with Auretta, Mavis, and Mercy (personal gameplay sim and CC model, who also happens to be Bunny's grandmother). Her love story with Emery was also so wholesome. I will miss her.