#babblemonster

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this should have gone under a read more sorry

babblemonster

❤ nothing could make me happier then knowing you're doing/writing something for you and making yourself happy. I love these sorts of author rambles. Reminds me that you're real (if that makes any sense).

I can see how that makes sense.  I’m definitely a real person. And trying to be happy, but mostly just trying to do something I enjoy for the very simple purpose of actually enjoying it.  Instead of doing something I’m not enjoying to feel validated somehow.

aikea-guinea

*crawls into the corner*

You are welcome in my weird little corner!  Especially if you bring your amazing and weird sims along with you. :P

anchoredsims

I dont know exactly whats going on but I am always thinking good thoughts for you and I hope everything will even out.

Not anything new hon  just the same old bullshit.  I’m just more tired and less tolerant of it than I have been.  One of the biggest ones that’s driving me up a wall is my daughter’s meds are the most likely culprit in a rather severe bout of “Do I have to eat? I’m not hungry and food is gross”    she’s lost about 10 lbs in the past month,  she’s not dangerously thin yet, but heading that direction, and forcing her to eat sucks.   Uggg and the high school filing in truancy court because paperwork didn’t make it to them from the district office so they think she has 6 unexcused absences that she doesn’t actually have,  so i have to take the kid to court again and the juvenile prosecutor is a BITCH. excuse me. 

Plus a lot of other various bullshit that just majorly sucks.   Like summer coming up and trying to figure out how to get the kids to their grandparents house AND able to have a visit with their baby sister without their dad causing problems.  

and other random bullshit.

anchoredsims

I cant write when I am not okay, or when I am not in the mood. Some people write to relieve stress. I can only seem to write when I am happy and content. So I know how that feels. And I love that your blog is for you. That is the BEST part of following people. To see their creativity and not see them "run a business". 'Must make everyone happy.' 'Give them what they want' No. That's not what these blogs are for. I love when you post, whenever that is. :)

Sometimes the words flow and it’s all good, but it’s been a LONG time since that’s been the case.  I don’t like having writer’s block.  It sucks SO much.  

I think that’s what I’ve been trying to do without realizing it- “running a business”  or whatever, like you said.  Like the only way this means anything is if a ton of people like it. or care.  Like it’s even gotten to the point where i’ve gotten seriously discouraged because I’ve never gotten any hate.  Like ... really? Why should that bother me?  But I guess feeling invisible kinda sucks.

amyfollowsthesims

When I feel like that, I can't write either. You aren't alone. And yeah...writing that stuff isn't fun. I agree that writing out the nitty gritty isn't needed, sometimes the after affects tell the story 100 times better anyway - I did that with Hunter. My inbox is always open, even if I'm not around a lot! I will always get back to you ♥♥♥

I remember you doing that with Hunter, it makes sense.  I just have to find the right way to do it for Xavier.  It’s damn hard sometimes. I’ve broken his heart so often.  And thank you for being there for me hon, it’s okay if it takes awhile to respond.  I’m patient.  lol, mostly. :P

[valoisfulcanelli]

babblemonster replied to your post: Character writing prompts are open!

WHY DID I GET AN NOTIFICATION FOR THE POST SAYING YOU WERE NOT GOING TO DO THIS NOW, BUT NOT WHEN YOU POSTED THIS! I DIDN’T SLEEP LAST NIGHT. I DIDN’T MISS IT. THERE ARE NO EXCUSES! I AM SO ANGRY! TUMBLR YOU HAVE FAILED ME!!!

I don’t know. Maybe Tumblr just wanted to make me feel like absolute shit by not showing that post to anyone. Well, it worked.

Writing is the only talent that I’m confident I possess, so when I offer that out into the world and the world just gives me crickets in return, it’s time to reconsider.

*sigh* Depression tends to hit me hard in winter, and I’m going through things right now that are only making it worse (which is another reason why I’m so quiet, both here and on the writing front). It’s almost 2pm and I’ve only just got up, after about four hours of simply laying in bed. alternately crying and and telling myself it’s probably best to just cancel TMoMG or rush through to the ending because hardly anyone is interacting with it, which means the story clearly needs its throat cut to put it out of its misery.

This fandom, I’ve discovered, works pretty much like this:

Author: I’m going to write a dark, novel-length work which will wring your emotions, make you think about relationships, trust, and control, and it will contain a ton of world-building. It won’t be easy reading at times, because I want you to really think about whether you trust certain characters. Community: *meh*

Author: I'm going to write an effortless, updated-daily story where each chapter is just 500 easy-to-digest words, and it'll be all about a woman pushing out 100 babies! Community: OMG YAY! MY FAVOURITE! YOU HAVE A READER 4 LYFE! WRITE MORE!

In short: right now I’m wondering why I bother :-/

[valoisfulcanelli]

lilyparkersims replied to your post: My game won’t load

Major bummer! Why does the game we love have to be so damn difficult sometimes?! It sucks all the fun out of it. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. :(

babblemonster replied to your post: My game won’t load

Sucky. Sorry.

I finally managed to get it to load, after a lot of swearing and restarting the computer, but it’s so damn slow as to be almost unplayable. I’m not sure if my hard drive is on its way out, or if I have a failing stick of RAM, but something is causing some pretty bad problems. The game was absolutely fine a month ago when I last played it; a little bit of lag, but no more than you’d expect from a game with as much CC as I tend to run with.

That said, I am going to finally do a clean install. I managed to load up the most important save--Gunther’s home--and noted down every single thing in it (I kid thee not, there are six A5 pages of items) so I can dig those out from my thousands of CC download folders and put them into a single folder ready for the reinstall.

Everything else, I’ll have to do from scratch again. There isn’t really another lot that I can’t recreate again fairly easily, although I may note down the items in the Veil’s Throne Room, because that was fiddly as hell to do. I may also note down what’s in Elliott’s cabin for the Ocean Wild story, since that’s fairly complicated as well.

What this does mean, unfortunately, is that all of my TS3 updates will be on hiatus until probably at least mid-February. I have a lot of cataloguing and sorting to do, and it’s probably going to take me about two or three weeks at minimum to get it all done :/

[valoisfulcanelli]

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Sorry about the back-to-frontness of the double-replies. No matter which way around I select them, Tumblr always posts the second comment before the first one.

I remember seeing a post from you that you lost 10 or so subscribers once you started really moving away from Ocean Wild...

nanasamantha replied to your post “babblemonster replied to your post: Character...”

I'm so sorry about that! I didn't even see the notification for a lot of your posts (now that I'm scrolling through your blog)... I'm afraid I don't know much about your main stories; since I mainly subscribed for your Elliott x Sebastian fics, but if you wish to write about them too, I'd love to read! I don't want to turn your blog into another Stardew blog and have people sub and unsub once you start working on other things though...

You’re not the first person to say they received no notification whatsoever of that original post I made. This makes me wonder if Tumblr is experimenting with a Facebook-like metric (god, I hope not) wherein if you don’t ‘like’ enough posts someone makes on a certain topic, you stop seeing posts by that person on your dash. That’s exactly how FB works, and if Tumblr is going to go that way, well... 

serindeppity replied to your post “babblemonster replied to your post: Character...”

But from what I see you still love madness it's clear with all the effort and passion you put into it so don't extinguish that flame simply because a lot of simmers prefer the simple easy to read things

serindeppity replied to your post “babblemonster replied to your post: Character...”

I can't say much cause I'm in the same place with Danevbies but as long as you're enjoying what you're putting out there and even if it's just a fraction of the readers you had X amount of time ago I don't see why you should stop (that's what I'm telling myself anyway).

I do love it, yes. And I won’t stop writing it. I’ve just been having a lousy couple of weeks, combined with some other things. I don’t talk much about my life itself on here, so most people aren’t aware of what’s going on. All of that just coincided with my excitement about trying a new thing... which promptly received zero response. And that just deflated me like you wouldn’t believe, leading me into a spiral of depression worse than I’ve experienced for a long, long time.

thegyoulovetohate2 replied to your post “Just two likes and no requests? Nobody wants their own custom fic?...”

I got one, I got one! It's in your ask

thegyoulovetohate2 replied to your post “babblemonster replied to your post: Character...”

Please keep bothering! You have a READER 4 LYFE right here :P

Bless your heart. If there’s one person I can always count on, it’s you <3 I’ll get to your prompt as soon as I can :)

nornities replied to your post “babblemonster replied to your post: Character...”

Sorry to hear that this community is giving you a hard time. Maybe tumblr is not the best medium to publish such a story? It is, after all, a picture sharing tool - quick and easy, and forgotten as quick and easy. To me it seems your pictured posts alway get a lot of attention and nice comments. I would think that many people do not scroll back on their dash or open single blogs to read the full story. Don't put your self-esteem in the hands of tumblr. Maybe there are fo

This wasn’t going to be a full story; just a scene that was asked for. Kind of like fulfilling a Secret Santa request for a short bit of fiction. I know Tumblr is more of a visual medium, but I don’t like sticking to unspoken community-defined ‘rules’ like that. I’m too old to be anything but contrarywise now. Social media takes me as it finds me ;)

(Incidentally, it bugs me that Tumblr’s comments get cut off after so many characters. I can see there was more to what you had to say there, but that’s where it ended in my comment box for that post. Sorry!)

samikattsims replied to your post “babblemonster replied to your post: Character...”

I'm sorry!!!

<3

babblemonster replied to your post “Character writing prompts are open!”

WHY DID I GET AN NOTIFICATION FOR THE POST SAYING YOU WERE NOT GOING TO DO THIS NOW, BUT NOT WHEN YOU POSTED THIS! I DIDN'T SLEEP LAST NIGHT. I DIDN'T MISS IT. THERE ARE NO EXCUSES! I AM SO ANGRY! TUMBLR YOU HAVE FAILED ME!!!

I know, and thank you for reaching out to me in person after I made that post. Chatting with you in Messages helped to bring me out of that funk and back onto a more even keel. After two days mostly away from Tumblr, I’m feeling much better. <3

[valoisfulcanelli]

babblemonster replied to your link: The Sims - The Biggest Little Update: Toddlers Are...

I’m actually re-installing it today because of this. No promises if I’ll play it much, but the build tools were so powerful that the prospect of having move-objects and toddlers is tempting me.

I’ve never actually played it. It’s just been sitting in my Origin library. Every time I fire up Origin (not very often; my TS3 game is through Steam) to check for new On The House games, I keep TS4 up-to-date if it has any free updates, but that’s it. I played with the CAS demo for about 30 minutes before the game came out, but nothing I’ve seen so far has tempted me to even bother loading the full game. Not even those amazing build tools (because yes, they did look fantastic).

I’m happy for others that they get toddlers at long last, but it’s the vampire pack with its dark, non-happy-glowy world* that’s finally piquing my interest XD

*ETA: Ah. Apparently it’s not a world; it’s a single, small block. [source] I guess that at least hopefully means no loading screens and a fast loading time. That video is pretty ‘complain-y’ but eh.

[valoisfulcanelli]

babblemonster replied to your photoset “Papa.”

I'm so glad Valois got this relationship. And I'm super proud of Mortimer for having such an accepting and loving heart. ❤

So am I, on both counts. They’re going to be each others’ comfort in future years.

[valoisfulcanelli]

babblemonster replied to your photo: Random mood board. No reason; just going through a...

Love yeah. ❤ Just wanted to remind you that you are amazing and talented!!

<3 Thank you.

[valoisfulcanelli]

babblemonster replied to your post: Shit

It showed up just fine on my phone… Which means you probably fixed this already. I tested the blog, disclaimer, and a random chapter (#4 I think).

The DNS is slowly propagating after I changed the nameservers, but many places still have the old DNS showing up (including the single UK nameserver, which means I still can’t access my own site!)