So hey this is @aisakalegacy! I discovered your blog a while ago when @danjaley rebloged your tale telling post, but I didn't really start reading it before yesterday. I read gen 1-2 + 3 on the web version and caught up with everything that's on tumblr this morning. I'm French, i understand English just fine, so I just used the browser translation to English (the French one is sloppy) and it was completely understandable, it's just that your whole writing style disappears to leave only the meaning, unfortunately (if that makes sense?)
So, just as promised, writing you what I thought from memory here. This is going to go all over the place... I really like how diverse each character arc is and how you build everyone's personality. Like, for instance, the fact that Jaeda started as a werewolf but became a witch through sheer obsession with the supernatural - which is an ark that resonates with me a lot since we're currently planning something like that for one specific character's futur ark in the story I'm writing with @selidren. That's a trope/idea I find entertaining, and I really liked finding it here! I do like the pace you have - kinda slow, taking a lot of time to develop stuff. The whole gen 1 was kinda "amateur", as you warned, but overall it really shows how you've bettered yourself at storytelling / taking screenshots / modding your game / etc., and it really didn't bother me.
On the contrary I wasn't too fond of the early gen 2 (and by that I mean: from the moment Bianca leaves home), especially of the Bianca fake bimbo ark which was kinda frustrating sometimes. I don't know why, because of the "mean girl" vibe maybe? But at the same time it was nice to see her grow and it makes her relationship with Bree more than deserved - like, let my girl get PEACE at last. Love Fuschia, love how she grows up, wish to see more of her!
Gen 3 => love it. Love the characters, it's also much darker than what it was before. A little too graphic for me and my PTSD sex-wise, so I just skip those parts (which is why the PEGI 13 tumblr version's great for me lol). Basically, the characters feel much more real in this ark. The pictures you take are gorgeous, Flo/Finn are definitely my favorite ark so far (not because I read them last, but because they are more in depth!).
So yeah, keep up the good work!
♥♥♥ I hope you're okay with me answering this publicly, otherwise I'll delete asap!
Yes, gen 1 was indeed "amateur". I've written quite "scened" stories in the past, as it is what I urge towards, but there is always part of me that wants to be a "normal" sims player doing oldschool legacies. The problem is, the moment I have a sim or family I care enough about to actually play with them for a very long time, stories start developing! In this case it started with Bianca being born, as I could imagine some sort of enemy-sisters arch between her and Alice. It ended up differently, and I would've done things differently in yet another way in retrospect (developing all the gen 2'ers a lot more!), but it gave way to gen 3 and my darling Floflo ofc ♥
I also wish to see more of Fuchsia, however ridiculous it sounds since I decide after all, but any writer (however serious) can agree that despite you "controlling" them, sometimes things... just don't go a certain way? I look at every reason to implement her more, and will likely do so more once my focus heavily shifts to Gabi as I want Gabi and Gisele to be very close. There is also the in-game reason of her always being out to somewhere 🙄
You can likely tell that I slowed down the story a lot - A LOT A LOT. Since chapter 22, which was march in the year flo and finn become 29 and gabriella 7, about 1 year and 3 months have passed - that's 1 year and 3 months spread over 14 chapters lol. In early gen 3 I was still torn between "trying to do a legacy with some story or hardcore story", and my lifespan was normal, so a lot of things were very rushed with little time to develop things, such as Flo's genderexploration, which I plan to re-explore better in the future with some flashbacks. After they got back from Isla Paradiso (so chapter 22) and me wanting to develop them properly, I decided, F a normal legacy, let's do a very slow realistic lifespan. My sims live for about 2000 days now which gives me much more space for the little characterbuilding moments (and yes, also the graphic sex scenes)
I purposefully do tumblr much more PG, in one part due to tumblr rules, also so there is a safer version. There are whole scenes/minichapters/parts of chapter I only post on weebly. In fact, I am working on a poseset for a tiny chapter that will be weebly-exclusive as it is the comeuppance scene of a certain very bad character and things are gonna be wild, because he deserves it.
I still use google translate, btw, just not as literally as with those dutch-only chapters. To make sure dutch and english versions align well I google translate the dutch version to english and then alter it, getting out mistakes, badly translated expressions, making it refit my prose better. It saves a lot of time compared to rewriting the english version from scratch, especially with a lot of sentences being completely fine google-translated. Some scenes are in my head in advance in english and others in dutch so I occasionally do it the other way around too, it varies a lot (I am functionally almost bilingual)
Anyway, seriously thank you for the effort! When I saw all the likes I went oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh omg!!!!! And if you have any other questions or comments (or feedback!), I don't mind them!
