#gbsc extras

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I had big plans for this month, but we got hit by (yet another...) sickness wave - my daughter caught something in the kindergarten, and OF COURSE I had to catch it from her just like the previous five times this year 🙄, and now I look at the calendar and we're just a couple of days away from May. Welp. That probably means nothing new from me this April (unless I suddenly wake up tomorrow full of energy and with a perfectly working nose). In the meantime, I thought you might enjoy this video I just found & watched on YouTube - one of the coolest explanations of Iron Age cooking I've ever seen!

I do have my reservations when it comes to the dried thyme though 😛

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If I encounter one more page saying that Boudica led her armies into battle fully naked and covered in a layer of woad paint, I'm going to riot.

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When you still haven't found the right words but don't want to disrupt the writing flow or forget what's supposed to happen in the given moment 🖋💯

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In-story vs in-game:

In-story: My main character in a rush leaving the village where she spent half of her life, buried a child and two husbands, because she's just had the wildest woohoo ever with a man she absolutely doesn't want to be attracted to and panicked big time, so she instantly accepted a marriage offer from a man from a faraway place even though she has close to zero feelings for him and basically just wants to run away, and now she's sitting on a cart getting further and further away, looking back at all she's leaving behind, trying (and failing miserably) to look at her grown-up sons who're staying behind as well instead of at the man she's running away from, while said man stares back at her looking calm and at best slightly annoyed because toxic masculinity, pride and the fact that literally the entire village is gathered around won't let him admit that he's actually dying inside

In-game: Do you want those sims to move in together? Merge families. OK. Loading screen.

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My writing software:

Me:

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Don't you just hate it when you're trying to write a dialogue-heavy scene and to not get lost you have it all nicely planned out, either on paper/screen or at least in your head, but then you suddenly hear your characters say things which weren't planned at all and you think 'hey, that's actually good, let's write it down', and the whole convo goes into a completely different direction and you either need another 500 words to arrive at the line they were supposed to say or you never even arrive there at all...?

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Me: I finally finished writing a scene I'd been struggling with for a good week! What an amazing achievement! Such a successful day!

My writing software:

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My GBSC / Iron Age / Celtic save has fully taken over my brain. I spend every free minute writing, I have face claim folders for almost all the important characters, I have them sorted by their DnD alignment (you know, the lawful vs. chaotic and good vs. evil thing) and I dedicated yesterday's evening to making a full-blown moodboard of those non-existent people, so now it's the first thing I see when I turn on my laptop (because ofc it's now set as my desktop background 🙃). Is that healthy? Is that even still Sims? Why am I sharing it if it isn't? So many questions...

...but don't stop me now 'cause I'm having a good time, I don't wanna stop at all 🎵

In case anyone wants to enjoy those vaguely Celtic vibes with me, here, enjoy! 😊