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Sims 2 Simblr. Mostly reblogs these days. For original content you'll need the sideblogs, which sucks, but it draws less attention from the Crumplebot. Will follow and reblog anyone playing Widespot or Land Grant University.

[lasudio]

VeronaHills, Round Twenty Eight: Roseland

Were water-side proposals cursed? Sunny really had to wonder.

A long time ago, his dad Cyd shared that he was bisexual, and had proposed to another man by Owlberry Lake before meeting his mum Penny. Coincidentally, the man who turned down Cyd's proposal was Leod McGreggor, who originally owned the land Sunny now lived and worked on, all because Cyd later married Tybalt, who was close with Leod. Life was funny like that sometimes. Anyway, Sunny wondered if he should've known better when he took Dot by the hand to his favourite spot on the farm, by the sparkling fish pond on a sunny day.

Dot said she loved him. She admitted she'd been a wine drunk when she blurted out she'd marry him after he footed the bill for new Printer Press gig equipment as a gift. She said her heart was with the Printer Sisters and maybe always would be and it wouldn't be fair on him to have one foot on her drum pedals and one foot on the farm with him.

It all made sense. It still hurt to hear.

Although it was summer, the metaphorical rain poured when Sunny found Tina on the dirt ground of the barn the next day as he was going in to prep for a market. She liked getting a headstart on inventory; her clipboard lay with an unchecked list next to her. The doctor had told her to take things easier lately; something she'd laughed off but Nathaniel wished he'd been more stern about as her husband. A grim quiet fell over the farm as even the dogs ceased barking in an extended moment of silence.

One night, Nathaniel and Sunny wordlessly pulled up chairs to the computer and put in adoption applications - Nathaniel for a cat named Baron, and Sunny for a dog named Posey. All they wanted was to feel like a normal, busy, alive agricultural hub again.

[odysseys-blood]

the fairy vs walrus thing has been tried and died by now ofc but seeing this is rly like

yeah no id be way more confused by random walrus encounter

[penig]

I think he's still looking for his bucket, poor thing.

[truetgirl]

Car Trunk vs Car Boot: A clear win for US English, trunk was already a thing in which you stored items, frequently for transport.

Crisps vs Chips: I gotta admit, the Brits have this one. They're thin slices of potato that have been made crispy. No chipping of any materials involved.

Car Park vs Parking Lot: Equally matched. What's a car park? A place to park cars. What's a parking lot? An otherwise empty lot where you can park.

Elevator vs Lift: Both equally fail to address that the damn thing also goes down.

[penig]

The trunk of the car, originally, was an actual trunk, at least on some models.

I know this, because my mom had the literal trunk of an old car that she kept memorabilia in, her yearbooks and stuff. It got a little grungy and I did a home ec project in junior high (this would be the early 70s) where I painted and lined it. Got an A+ as I recall. You'd never know it was a car trunk to look at it; it's just a trunk.

No, I have no idea what make or model it was. She might have said, but I didn't retain that bit. It was the trunk, it was fastened to the back, and I'm pretty sure the rumble seat incorporated it.

Where the Brits got "boot" from I have no idea. You can't fit squat in a boot.

[natteryaktoad]

Ottomas, Day 19

I can't remember if this is breakfast, or a post-work late lunch.

Anyway, they napped after work and then headed out in the evening.

Harry: ... Yeah, the whole family's made me feel really welcome.

Junior: Yeah, they're a welcoming family.

I should make Dora related to Harry, right? Aunt? Grandma?

Peter learnt to come here!

Harry and Dixie had an unphotogenic day, mostly filled with work and sleep.

[penig]

Dora was Harry's great-grandma originally, being the son of an Ottomas twin and a Hawkins...in this universe, they might even be cousins. A degree (or even two) removed, of course.

[penig]

They really need more lights on this lot, but don't have much spare cash to buy them with. At least this means clear skies for Sally's stargazing?

[penig]

With a certain amount of hustling, Jamesina and Katherine secure the rent. Sally starts helping out by doing housewifely chores, but Jamesina makes sure she understands that there's a wider world out there, and women have as much right as anyone to do and be and have all that they can get from it.

[penig]

This is twice I've had to move the Towns due to insufficiently tested apartments, and the Poores were originally supposed to be renting their house, too, but I had to move them in three or four times and still always had something unusably annoying wrong. So I made the Tester Family -- Pen, A.L., Cis, and Tem -- to try out new apartments with and then go back into the Family bin. Someday the kids will come home from school with somebody, but I'll worry about that later.

These apartments are the same basic concept as the Rental Shacks, but less ugly, with a place to put the bathtub that won't be a high traffic area, and less overpriced for what they are. We'll see if these are big enough for the Town Families to stay in long term.

[penig]

I love the way these families are all up in each other's business, but the nursery simply isn't big enough, even with the twins being infants and sleeping in the grown-ups' room. They still need to get to the changing table.

[penig]

Both Town families have made rent…barely…again. But with the advent of Lacy's twins, it is becoming more and more obvious that there simply is not enough room in the "Family Apartments" for families of these sizes and degrees of closeness. The landlord isn't the help he thinks he is, either.

At least the Hawkins women played outside when they dropped in. I'm not sure how that happened. It was Saturday, and I was busy clearing routing failures, and suddenly there were Hawkinses.

[penig]

Bert's carefree lifestyle runs into problems occasionally. He's a little shocked that Madge deigned to be angry when he was at Railroadhouse with Melissa Fancy. It's not as if she's going to leave her husband, but he supposes there's the whole baby issue, and he's heard on the grapevine (Meadow says that Tosha told her) that Millie, whom Madge hates so much, got engaged to MJ, who is flunking out of college; but you didn't hear that from him. It's enough to make anybody testy; especially since this will be the second in-law Madge hates.

But none of that, except the baby issue, is Bert's fault. It's not very reasonable of her to take it out on him, as he tries to explain when she waddles by to kick the trash can. She ignores him and goes to play chess with his brother on his nephew's porch.

That's all just life, I guess.

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[plotholes-and-spellingerrors]

Is this post mature content, though? Or is there maybe something else that staff doesn't like about this post

[porterdavis]

A lot of their fuckery is permanent

See also: Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

[penig]

Robby's new book generates lots of interest. Meadow starts getting to know her new family better -- they'll be living right next door to them.

[penig]

Meadow takes congratulatory phone calls from townies and Robby starts his next book.

[penig]

Having behaved properly all through high school, Robby and Meadow take full advantage of their married opportunities. They'll almost certainly be in her inherited house by the time anything comes of it, so why hold back?

[penig]

Bert likes to get out to the Billiard Bar on a Saturday night, see who's around. It's nice to see girls starting down the path of dissipation young, but he's not touching either of those. Rich girls slumming, and their mammas'll bring them up short if word gets back to them. Which it won't from him.

Janie is another matter.

[penig]

Bert drops in on Madge to get a copy of Robby's new book, and not at all to follow up on the word on the street. "Two in a row, huh? You -- and Malcolm -- didn't waste any time." "It was a surprise, but what can you do?" "Well, I hope it's a girl and looks just like you!" Hoo boy, does he!