#gen intro

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Generation Three: Fruits

Color: Pink

Parents: Pyrite Moonstone x Pitaya Lotus (made by @purpleleopard96)

Children: Lychee | Watermelon | Honeydew | Cherry | Strawberry | Raspberry | Pear | Guava | Plum | Peach

Time Played: June 2022- October 2022

World: Oasis Springs

Generation Summary

This is when I started becoming kind of conflicted about having spellcasters lingering around. Pyrite, the founder of this generation, is a third generation spellcaster, but because I'd been so focused on just surviving with 10 babies, I hadn't had much chance to fully lean into the magical angle. I decided to try and incorporate some story, and framed it as Pyrite was hiding his magic from Pitaya. He would sneak off to the magic realm with the magically-inclined children while she was asleep. Eventually she found out and they got in a big fight because of it.

I was also really interested in making this generation excel at music, but it didn't really pan out because I was still so busy just trying to get by. This is when I really decided that for my own sake, I really needed to iron out strong generational themes moving forward, and eventually move on from just having everyone be spellcasters. I started to figure out was was possible and realistic to do with a generation, and my gameplay really shifted after this.

I queued up about half of this generation on Tumblr (roughly 50 posts), but I never posted it. If anyone would be interested in me posting it, let me know, as I still have the posts saved and would be willing to finish them.

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Generation Eight: Plants

Color: Green

Parents: Shadow Midnight x Sorrel Plantain (I THINK @bimbles-and-simbles made him for me, but it's someone who has since changed their blog name so I'm not 100% sure, please correct me if I'm wrong!!)

Children: Ivy | Laurel | Leaf | Daisy | Sage | Poppy | Forest | Briar | Juniper | Lily

Time Played: January 2024-July 2024

World: Henford-on-Bagley

Generation Summary

This was my farm life generation! We lived on a quiet little farm in henford-on-Bagley, raising animals and growing plants. The inheritor of this generation, Shadow, was actually born a vampire but he always loved plants and his dream was to exist in the sunlit, so he cured himself of vampirism and bought his own farm.

Every week in this generation, we went to the Finchwick Fair and competed for ribbons. This was kind of breaking the rules for me, because I usually followed a rule about not leaving the active lot if I had newborns. I'm glad I did, though, as it was only for a few hours each week and it was fun to get the family out of the house and meeting some townies. In addition to our many cows and chickens, we had a little hamster called Thorn in this generation.

The kids in this generation were a mix of those who loved farming and those who wanted to get as far from the farm as possible lol, which was a fun story to tell.

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Generation Nine: Beach

Color: BLUE

Parents: Lily Plantain x Water Lily Lagoon Fresh( @cosmicamos-archive originally made this amazing sim for me, but unfortunately I'd lost some of the CC over time, including his original hair! I also dumbly named the heir Lily, which was too confusing with Water Lily, so I changed his name to Lagoon.)

Children: Island | Marine | Coast | Sail | Coral | Buoy | Shore | Scuba | Pier | Tsunami

Time Played: July 2024-November 2025 (wasn't sure I'd keep going...)

World: Sulani

Generation Summary

Lily grew up on the farm, but always knew she was a Child of the Ocean! She moved to Sulani to become a marine conservationalist, and fell in love with Lagoon Fresh there, who she didn't know was a merman 🧜‍♂️

While they originally lived in a pretty nice house on the main island, Lily kept having to travel to Mua Pel'am for work, so I eventually moved the family into a converted shipwreck build there so that she didn't need to travel. Lily also had the Loves Cats trait, so she adopted her little blue cat, Fish, while she was still living on the farm. Fish was a staple of this generation, and fiercely protected the family by always attacking strangers haha.

We had a total of five mermaid babies: Island, Coral, Shore, Scuba, and Tsunami. It was my intention to turn Lily into a mermaid at the end of the generation because she had such a deep love for the ocean, but in the end she was happy as a human in a family full of merbabies.

Enjoy a few more screencaps than my other posts, as these are more recent and I am happier with them... and I honestly just have so much mermaid spam...

I also want to give a big shoutout to @incandescentsims for their incredible berry mermaid cc recolors. They have amazing recolors in general... and also the most adorable berry sims ever.

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Generation Seven: Vampires (spooky)

Color: PLUM

Parents: Tenor Sforzando x Raven Midnight (by @disasterbri)

Children: Tarot | Storm | Luna | Salem | Slayer | Ash | Hex | Rune | Shadow | Mystic

Time Played: August 2023-January 2024

World: Forgotten Hollow

Generation Summary

This was my messy generation, by which I mean there was SO MUCH DRAMA! I had never tried to do a vampire x werewolf romance in the game, but let me tell you--- it's actually very challenging to keep them in love. Tenor and Raven were immediate enemies, and I couldn't get them to accept any nice socials from each other, so I had them meet at a bar to challenge each other at foosball for a few nights, and that progressively brought their relationship to a more neutral status so I could start building their romance.

Weirdly, I first had four wolf girl babies followed by four vampire boys, so there was a bit of a battle of the genders going on. I tried so hard to have all the siblings like each other, but failed pretty miserably at that. Raven was also a bit indifferent to her wolf babies, which was a little sad, but I liked it for story building.

In the end, I had Tenor take the immortal trait, so Raven and Tenor lived immortally in my game, locked in their weird love/hate relationship and sometimes checking in on their descendants.

I also have to give a huge shout out to @disasterbri for Raven, because my initial plum sim maker had backed out on me, and I requested a sim from them specifically, and Raven ended up being such an iconic matriarch in my game!

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Generation Six: Werewolves (music)

Color: RED

Parents: Icicle Overcoat x Key Sforzando(by @dcwnandout)

Children: Chord | Coda | Forte | Riff | Lyric | Ballad | Melody | Harmony | Tenor | Rhapsody

Time Played: June 2023-August 2023 (so short!)

World: Moonwood Mill

Generation Summary

Welcome to my werewolf generation! This is the generation where I feel like I finally perfected having a theme. This gen really fueled me and gave me so much inspiration, partly just because Werewolves is a good pack. I built them a run-down swamp house in Moonwood Mill, with mismatched furniture and a grubby, homemade vibe. I usually gravitate towards clean aesthetics, so this was a brand new way to play for me and I LOVED it.

As fate would have it, Icicle, my inheritor to this generation had the Loves Dogs trait (I randomly rolled this), which was such an adorable detail. We adopted a dog named Ringo who would always howl along when we were teaching our little wolf babies to howl. I had Key turn into a werewolf at the beginning of the gen, and then ended up with four wolf babies by the end (Tenor, Harmony, Melody, and Lyric). I leaned into ripped up denim and well-loved t-shirts for the aesthetics and it really made this gen stand out in my mind. This was definitely of my favorite generations.

As a side note, @dcwnandout who made Key for me also did a version of this challenge many years ago, which is still on their blog and is adorable if you want to check it out!

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Generation Five: Winter

Color: WHITE

Parents: Nutmeg Chai x Wreath Overcoat (by @anxiousmoodlet)

Children: Winter | January | Glacier | Snowdrop | Freeze | Hail | Antarctica | Evergreen | Alpine | Icicle

Time Played: November 2022-June 2023

World: Mt. Komorebi

Generation Summary

Nutmeg and Wreath were easily one of my top couples in this challenge. I actually think this may be the only generation where playing out their relationship was more exciting to me than developing the (many) kids. Part of it was because Wreath (by @anxiousmoodlet) was an incredibly gorgeous sim. He had the childish trait, and as fate would have it, so did Nutmeg. The two of them indulged each others childish fantasies and built a rocket ship together in their backyard. 🚀

Technically, this was my winter generation. I spent a lot of time taking the kids skiing, and hanging out in the onsen. I was also in the middle of this generation when infants were introduced, so I got to play with them for the first time, and it really changed the pace of the challenge!

Weirdly, I don't feel very attached to the kids from this generation, but Wreath and Nutmeg were the best dads

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Generation Four: Teas & Spices

Color: Orange

Parents: Peach Lotus x Cardamum Chai (by @mathemagicsims)

Children: Rooibos | Chamomille | Anise | Ginger | Cinnamon | Matcha | Nutmeg | Pepper | Clove | Oolong

Time Played: October 2022-November 2022

World: Glimmerbrook

Generation Summary

We're finally in our magic era!! ✨🌙 This is my fourth generation of spellcasters, and we finally lean into that, move to Glimmerbrook, and make it our theme. We live in a haunted house, and many of our children practice the medium skill, even if they're not witches.

This might be the fastest I played any generation! Looking back, I can't believe it only took me a month. I This is also the only time in the whole challenge that I had triplets! I wasn't expecting Nutmeg to be the heir, since he was born only halfway through the generation, but Clove, Pepper, and Oolong came along all at once. I guess that's also why I was able to play it quickly.

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Generation Two: Crystals

Color: Mint

Parents: Sprinkles Sherbert x Alexandrite Moonstone (made by @simbersanders)

Children: Pearl | Jade | Opal | Malachite | Amythest | Jasper | Fluorite | Topaz | Mica | Pyrite

Time Played: March 2021 - June 2022

World: Willow Creek

Generation Summary

This was also a very long generation! My commitment to the challenge wavered. I was uncertain if I would continue posting it on youtube. I had some issues with recording that were very disheartening and I lost a lot of footage. In the end, I decided to keep playing, but not posting videos.

Eco Lifestyle had recently come out when I was playing this generation, and my intention was to explore some of those features. Alexandrite was a maker sim, and an eco-inventor. We had big issues with money in this generation, so it was one of the hardest for that reason! I remember the power kept going out, and we couldn't afford beds for everyone at one point.

Sprinkles was also a spellcaster, but mostly kept it a secret from her family. Later in the generation, when some of the other spellcaster babies were older, they took a few trips to the magic realm together, but this generation also didn't have a strong theme.

I posted this whole generation on Tumblr. You can view the posts here.

I also played some of this generation on youtube! You can still view the videos here.