Julius and Leo have been spending most of their time since the end of the whole school explosion ordeal together.
Julius has been enjoying the fact that his parents are alive and well, but quickly came to realize that actually living with them was getting to be too much at times. So he and Leo are now living together.
Leo, for his part, has been giving some exercise classes at the Stoneshields gym, earning a bit extra money and helping people stay in shape at the same time.
They are both looking forward to their last year of the academy and to finally getting their lives in order.
#111 for @aondaneedles: From the final decorating stages for the BaCC, this is an interior shot from Whitestone Castle showing the fancy fourth floor bathroom. I think I actually posted this one already, but apparently I somehow forgot to move it out of my Fraps folder. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#150 for @palewitchchild: This was an extra pic from the Blackbirds’ first rotation that I didn’t know how to fit into the other photosets. It’s one of the hood’s townies, Old Al, out and about and looking pretty, uh, primal, while at it. 😅
#7 for @astraeanevermore: All abroad the nostalgia train! :’D This is a top-down pic of my old contemporary hood, taken shortly before I decided to tear the whole thing down and start a medieval fantasy BaCC. I wanted to keep it around for memory’s sake but could never really find an excuse to post it… until now, anyway!
#75 for astraeanevermore: Another extra one from Whitestone Castle. I took way too many pics of that lot. :’D
#353 for astraeanevermore: Future blip! This is actually from a rotation I haven’t gotten around to posting yet (it’s that one extra day I had with the Moonfeather household), but I figured it’s not that spoilery so it made the cut anyway. ;) Payday for Ambrose, aw yiss!
#400 for @digitaldevil-sims: If you’ve been anywhere near my blog between October 2019 and now you probably already recognize Artisan Alley. This is just one of the many, many extra pics I took of the lot but didn’t share because I was too lazy to edit them. Could be a case of author blindness, but they've all started looking the same to me. x’D
1. Your first OC ever?
Sparkle is my first OC.... she was originally made as a white cat in an oooold Facebook game, called Pet Society R.I.P.
She was originally made as a male cat called Spike, but within the first week of playing, I realized there wasn’t much clothes available for male pets in the game, so I turned him female, but wanted to keep the name with an ‘Sp’ sound, and Sparkle was simply the first that came to mind.
After said FB game closed down, I moved my characters to Sims 2, and later sims 3 where they stay.
4. A character you rarely talk about?
Hm, when you have as many characters as I have
you end up with a lot of characters you rarely talk about, which is a shame, cause so many of them deserve the spotlight, there’s simply just not enough time for me to put all of them in focus.
So I could name MANY here.... and we could sit and talk the rest of the day/night away, and I’d gladly do so, but no one wants to listen to that, so... I’ll pick one I wish I would put more in focus: Akin.
He’s my Alpha wolf, and earlier in my story he was much more in focus, but over time my focus shifted to some of the newer characters, and Akin sadly got forgotten along the way.
I am trying to bring him more in focus the past year, cause he’s a very interesting character, with a very heavy background.
He grew from a lot of loss and sadness, and became a very skilled and ‘well-rounded’ person.
11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”?
*Snort* yes, but it’s always very ironic... Adrian!
I always call him ‘my ray of sunshine’.
He even has a tattoo over his collarbone, saying ‘here comes the sun’, self-irony is the best! XD
18. Any OC crackships?
(I’m literally THAT old.... I had to Google what ‘crackship’ means)
Hmmm... Raven and his corpses.... is probably a good place to start, and end.... *clears throat*
23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like?
Jackall.... he was originally introduced as ‘the bad guy’, and meant to cause havoc and later get killed off.
However, he turned out to be a very misunderstood character, and although I actually killed him off, I couldn’t bare not to give him a better chance, so he was brought back, about a year later.
Today has been frustrating. That’s all I’m going to say. Well, it started off nicely, I did something I was proud of. Then it went kinda downhill. I’m probably going to make it even worse as soon as I post this...there’s this thing I’ve been thinking about for the past few days. Considering I’m soooo good at communication and expressing my feelings, it’s going to end up great, you can bet.
Sarcasm aside, let’s talk about my legacies:
I just queued the rest of part one of Gen 6! It’ll run for like 40 more days though.
After that, I’ll finally post the first generation of my BPR, almost a year after starting it. I know what you’re thinking, I’ve been posting TS3 for months, I should switch back to TS4 now, it would be fair, and yes, I thought about that too. But I kinda really want to get rid of the BPR. Gen 1 is finished and I don’t want to keep it to myself anymore.
As for gen 3 of NSB, I haven’t been playing it too much recently. I’ll play it a lot in June though, I hope. As soon as the exam chaos is over.
I’ve also made some decisions about Roses, but I’ll talk about these later. There’s still a high chance I’ll change my mind.
Besides, when do I not make decisions about Roses? They’re on my mind way too often. It can’t be healthy.
Update: I’m still not done with my replies but I just got a message from my teacher, saying that I did well on the English writing exam! I don’t know the exact grade but yay me. I mean, I knew I was going to do well on this one, but finally seeing I passed feels much nicer than “oh yeah, I’m confident about my English, there’s no way I can fail”. The way this exam system works...I was worried it wouldn’t scan properly or some crap. In the past, people had problems with that.
Update 2: Still writing the replies but I just found out that apparently I got 100% on the exam. Holyyyyy crap.
tiny-tany-thaanos replied to your photoset “Courtney: I really married this idiot. I’m stuck with him forever. Oh...”
Don't worry it could be worse. It could be Ross for example (sorry, not sorry��)
Ooooooh. Yeah I mean, what Felix does is kinda natural, what Ross does (or used to do)...is just wrong.
sparkiemonkey replied to your photo “I have three weeks to learn everything for my last exams. Am I dying...”
Good luck with your exams. You can do it.
Thank youu! I hope so. I feel like I still remember nothing from the notes, but at the same time, when I read some of them, I’m like “duh, I’ve heard this a million times, of course I know what it is!”
desira-sims replied to your photo “I have three weeks to learn everything for my last exams. Am I dying...”
If it makes you feel better, I’m constantly rethinking how I should have posted my story too. I think it’s why I’m enjoying doing these mini photo shoots for Gen 2. It’s glimpses into their life that I didn’t fully express in my story.
I feel like everyone does this, they get great ideas when it’s too late to change it. Some people are just better at moving on, I guess. Not that I want to move on from gen 4, nope.
justkeeponsimming replied to your photoset “Let’s see what we have down here…”
The lighting in this shot is gorgeous!
It is! Isla Paradiso underwater is amazing. I wish there were more diving spots though.
deathflowertea replied to your photoset “It’s getting dark so fast. This should be a quick dive, or else…well,...”
this is how midnight sun challenges start...
Imagine if I did that. I love this idea.
dreamsongsims replied to your photoset “Houston we have a problem I forgot Isla Paradiso is a glitchy mess”
Yes. Yes it is. All that work to get to a dive spot and BOOM! Right back to shore.
It’s frustrating that it’ll most likely never get fixed :/
astraeanevermore replied to your photo “10 Day Self Sim CAS Challenge: You At Another Age Kind of based on an...”
I also got an ugly haircut with ugly blonde streaks when I was 15 :’D guess that’s a 15 years old thing? XD Anyway, love the pic! *O*
It might be?? And it wasn’t even a good blonde. In many photos, it just looks yellow, sometimes even a little green. But hey, I learned from my mistakes, now I’m never going blonde :D
And thank youu! ♥
justkeeponsimming replied to your photoset “I love this…wait, it seriously take me a whole day to get here?!”...”
most adorable screenshots ever! her expression is so cute!
She makes the best faces, I love her ♥
alfalfalegacy replied to your photoset “I was going to make a comment about her work outfit, saying the...”
The alien powers from Miracle are resurfacing lol
I mean, DNA is weird, sooo... 👀
alfalfalegacy replied to your photoset “Me during the first part of Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 4 vs me...”
Haha a BIG mood
Biggest mood
I thought episode 4 fucked me up...but then episode 5 came and...let’s just say ep 4 was alright compared to this.
twistedsim replied to your post “Well that was an amazing surprise! ������”
Shit! I just now saw the score. XD Damn, you whooped Sweden's ass!
Usually it’s the other way around :D Yeah, it was great to watch. I was expecting to be disappointed but not surprised, but actually...if I’m not mistaken, that’s our best score with Sweden ever. And then with Norway, we did great too...too bad we lost with Russia today. There were so many chances and not a single goal...but oh well, it’s just one game. It doesn’t mean anything. I hope.
flowerhoneysims replied to your photoset “I was just kidding I don’t actually want her to die jkahdkfahdflg”
My diver died because of a shark ;-;
Oh nooo ;-;
create-a-sim replied to your photoset “Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck was that a shark?? A SHARK??? I’m gonna die I’m...”
Ohhh :(
This was actually a funny moment. I thought “Awesome, her mother died in a fire, she’s going to be eaten by shark and who’s there to save their ass with a ‘quit without saving’ button? Me again! Maybe they’re telling me I should stop playing this legacy.”
But then she wasn’t actually killed by a shark. Phew.
desira-sims replied to your photo “10 Day Self Sim CAS Challenge: Date Night Bold of you to assume I’ve...”
I love this dress. ��
Me too! And I never use it for some reason. I wish I had something like this irl.
desira-sims replied to your post “So…I took a break from studying to watch the latest episode of Game of...”
I haven't watched this season yet. �� I keep saying I'm gonna sit down and binge it, but haven't done it. Maybe I'll do that Wednesday.
Oooh, I’m not sure if I would be able to binge watch it. Every episode left me feeling overwhelmed with thoughts and emotions, doesn’t matter if they were negative or positive. Actually, I don’t think this season is as bad as so many people online say...it’s not perfect but nothing is. 🤷♀️
Then again, speaking of binge watching, I was able to watch the previous seven seasons in less than a month last year, so maybe it is possible.
plumbobhart replied to your post “So…I took a break from studying to watch the latest episode of Game of...”
I hated it sooo... yay? D:
I’m not sure how I felt about it. Like I’ve said already in this post, today has been frustrating and this episode contributed to that. There were some things that bothered me, some decisions that bothered me, oh and there was a great example of character development going to hell (that really disappointed me tbh), but overall...idk, I guess I still kinda enjoyed it - I mean, as much as one can enjoy this tv show. It was brutal.
I’m not going to talk about it all in depth though, I could spend whole evening with that and I don’t want that haha :D
astraeanevermore replied to your photo “So, uh… one of my sims just showed up on SimSecret. -_- I’d like to...”
Here in Italy we have an ex politician, Vladimir Luxuria, who is a trans woman. Despite having been out for years, she's only had a few surgeries and for years her look was VERY androgynous. She's one of the people who's been fighting for giving italians trans people the right to get their documents changed without being forced to go through surgeries first. I wonder if these lovely people would dare to call her "a disgusting caricature" too?
a) Some of them probably would, because they’re assholes.
b) Vladimir Luxuria is the best fucking name anyone has ever had. I am glad she is using her powers for good.
astraeanevermore replied to your post “Everytime i post something i loose followers. My follower count doesnt...”
Happens to me too XD I can go for almost a month without posting anything sims related and gain 25+ new followers despite my blog being inactive... then, as soon as I go back to simming stuff, I lose 1-2 followers for each new sims post I share XD and I'm like... wut? XD I'm not even angry, I just wonder... why the heck did you guys follow a sims blog if you weren't interested in sims in the first place? XD
That’s exactly what happens to me! I was inactive for like 6 months or something and my follower count pretty much stayed the same, now im back i’ve lost like 100 followers or something. People are weird :P
@vampireacademysims replied to your photoset “I went in-game to test my latest batch of downloaded cc, but then I...”
Holy sjdhasdjah!! HOW??
Or, more precisely, a cc cocktail consisting of Lowedeus’ moving clouds, iCad’ blue skydome recolor, the Custom post effects mod, Eva’s swooping dragon conversion and the Store Castle kit, with a wee bit of Photoshop thrown in for good measure. :) I don’t have too much cc in at the moment (still gathering stuff), but it’s simply amazing how far we can transform our game with just the right mix of mods, isn’t it? Seriously, all the love for the S2 community! <3
@mdpthatsme replied to your photoset “I went in-game to test my latest batch of downloaded cc, but then I...”
Awesome!
@ove51 reblogged your photoset and added:
so wonderful!!!
@skyesims2 reblogged your photoset and added:
this is seriously the prettiest thing i have ever seen
vampireacademysims replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”
You-re creating more and more unreal images, it all looks sooo good!
@fyachii replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”
So beautiful, seriously.
@liberlibelula replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”
Oh god SO PRETTY!!
@ophidiaesims reblogged your photoset and added:
Oh, that’s lovely!
@deedee-sims replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”
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You guys are seriously so sweet I don’t even know what to say ;_____________;
spacetowaste replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”
can I just like - move into your hood *_*
digitalangels reblogged your photoset and added:
Can I just move in with your settlers?
@spacetowaste and @digitalangels, that depends - would you be willing to learn how to use medieval weaponry and magic to fight off enchanted beasts and malevolent spirits? Cause that’s kinda what I plan to put my poor settlers through, besides the classic ‘gains skills and gets promotions in order to unlock features’ BACC gameplay. I... have a sneaking suspicion that both my sims and I are biting off more than we can chew with this setup, but we’ll see how it works out in the end. :)
@astraeanevermore replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”
Woah! :O I swear I thought it was TS3 Dragon Valley at first :O it's so gorgeous! *O*
D’awww, thank you! ^___^ Dragon Valley was among my inspirations for this hood, so I’m glad to hear that it shows. I was honestly so happy when I found a conversion of that DV watchtower thingy for Sims 2; I basically told myself right away, ‘I have to find a way to fit this into my new hood somehow’... and then I remembered that I had added a tiny island with a lighthouse the last time I played this map. Replacing the lighthouse with the watchtower was all it took to give my new hood that lovely Dragon Valley vibe :D (well, that, and a whole bunch of other small tweaks and additions, but pshht, who’s splitting hairs).
@lilsisterg replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”
Beautiful! Do I see The Tree of Life?
Thank you, and good guess! ^____^ It’s not the Tree of life itself, but it is a functional tree by Sun&Moon (harvestable olive tree), so you weren’t too far off. :D
@soloriya replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”
i can't believe it's ts2!!
I know, right? Honestly, some days I find it hard to believe myself, even though I’m staring at the Sims 2 launcher. xD What a difference good cc can make! *____*
