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Not really a reply post since I don’t have anything to add to what I’ve already said about the topic, but I’m under impression that dumblr deletes comments from older posts so I wanted to preserve this discourse as people brought up very good points. Much text under the cut but it’s worth a read. Even more here and @mdpthatsme​'s related 4t2 hair texture tutorial is here.

[plasmasip]

❦ A Tricou Family moodboard requested by @mackieblr

[mikexx2]

WCIF the turban in your Makeup Kit preview?

hey @mackieblr!

You can find it HERE.

[penig]

How do you manage to keep a neighborhood fresh and interesting to play for a long time? All your hoods are so well-established and have generations of sims to draw upon, and I lose interest with a hood in like, two. Maybe three.

First of all, I’m not certain that what you say is true. Drama Acres has representatives of several generations, but many of the first sims I created for it are still alive. Widespot was created with all age stages except toddler and infant (and those coming along soon!) and a tolerably complete backstory. Both of these hoods are likely to seem older than they are. I might get bored by the third generation, too, if I could tell what a generation was; there’s no way to know at this point.

I have the advantage of knowing my own tastes tolerably well. I’ve been an avid consumer and producer of stories since before I could read. I know what I like,  I know what I want to include when making a story, I know what I can’t include if I do it professionally so need to make room for when working outside of the publishing industry. I focus on characterization and let the characters drive the plot, and I am fascinated by the way lives interact in a community, watching the effects of events in one household and the decisions made by one person ripple out into the larger world. I’m constantly interpreting sim behavior, nudging it in key places that I know will give Story a chance to happen, and prepared to follow up on the Better Ideas that properly developed characters will always throw in your way, if you let them.

Another thing that keeps me coming back is that no two households are played the same way, just as no two real-life households are alike. Different characters are played by different informal rulesets (written rulesets would kill it for me) based on what I “know” about them. They are all constantly changing, too. So I’ll have one frantically busy house full of kids, teens, and toddlers followed by a restful old couple; and the restful old couple used to be a hotbed of juicy drama. My habitual one-day rotations also prevent me from spending so long with a household that I get bored. If I get bored anyway, it’s time to change something. Why play a game if you’re bored? If you want to be bored, that’s what day jobs and James Bond movies are for. 

But that’s me. I still haven’t done a lot of things in this game - not one top-level business, not one gold badge in any crafting station, not one werewolf, and so on. I’ll do all that eventually, probably. But I’m not goal-directed when it comes to the game. What you need to do is figure out what you’re most interested in, and learn to provide it for yourself.

Anyway, who says there’s anything wrong with playing a neighborhood for one or two generations and then moving on? The only wrong way to play is the way you don’t enjoy.

[simper-fi]

mackieblr replied to your post: my dl folder has tipped the 15GB mark again, oh...

WCIF that red teapot?? its gorgeous!!

right HERE by one of my favorite creators ever!

[yandereplumsim]

Overdue Replies... Part I

“The Bad Book’s Finale”

@mackieblr I haven't finished a novel-length fic series out of spiteLMAO

Oh, i’m all the other way around, would finish it and rant about it! justlikewithtwilights 

@mikexx2 The first part, definitely. “All the horror I described was just my fictional journal lol!!!”

What do you mean? i’m seriously curious about it 

@celebkiriedhel yes. Although the book was the Kavanaugh hearings.

Oh we do agree on that one... srly, WHAT THE EVEN FUCK WAS THAT?! I’m seriously still speechless about it. The guy is a fucking mess, how did that happen? i don’t get it, and you’re hearing it from someone that lives in country that had a head of a prostitution net as Supreme Court Judge (Who, btw, is still free as a lettuce; fuck it) THE POINT IS THAT THESE THINGS SHOULDN’T HAPPEN DAMN IT.

@lilibethsonar Not to the point of building a neighborhood, but I feel ya. (Do you plan to get them married in that 'hood?)

I have half answered this one to you on private; but no, i don’t plan to re-make the protagonists of that story for the neighbourhood, because i’m sane enough to know that would destroy the little mental heath i have. But already figured a way around it. 

@nekosayuri Sooooooooo yep

*highfive* i admire your dedication to it <3 

@spiderprincess Yes! It was Mary Shelley's The Last Man. I never actually started the hood, but I did make the sims.

Oh, oh, oh!! Do you have them posted? Can you link me to them?! I’m freaking curious about it! Why didn’t you start the Neighbourhood, btw? 

@clericalrodent Not books, but several tv shows

Oh so many of these... *share chocolate* I even tried building a Westeros, but got my sanity back after a month or so. 

[deedee-sims]

Thank you guys, you’re all awesome, @nekosayuri, @mackieblr, @mdpthatsme <3

[simlish-savvy]

I absolutely LOVE that you play completely CC free!

well, I can’t take credit for being 100% CC free…I have default eye replacements installed and, like, one mod or so, but other than that it’s a very vanilla game :3