as you can tell, the Popes have been put on hiatus once again. i’m sorry about it, i’m just having a hard time with this story line right now. it’s a head vs. heart battle -- because i really just want to focus my attention on a pope rewrite, but also i kind of refuse to leave the current story line where it is without some resolution. so...
it’s hard for me to decide what to do. i really want you guys to know where all of this was meant to go -- i feel you deserve that after the last few years worth of reading and following along. but i’m having a really hard time going through all the motions of getting it together. thanks for your patience, every one of you who sticks around and still reads!
Don’t Let Go is not on hiatus, however. i’m just writing the next chapter right now. i’m also kind of sick (i’ve been on and off again sick for like a month, allergies are killing me) so it’s hard to concentrate. when i’m not at work i’m staring or sleeping. anyway, i’ll be updating this either this weekend or not too soon after.
lastly, i’m trying to decide on an editing style for the rewrite of the popes. which will be the next thing that i work on. so that’s one more thing that’s stealing my attention. i want a more muted color palette for this one, and i’m playing around with different dof editing things and just... yeah. there’s a specific feel i’m looking for, and i want it to be right before i really get into things. hopefully i figure out what i want soon.
tl;dr, have a picture of briar and tilda while i cease to be relevant again!
might have spent all weekend playing around in cas -- definitely in a save that i’m not supposed to be in, but what’s new??! lbr who’s surprised? not you -- and i regret absolutely nothing.
sorry about the infinite nothing that is my blog right now. i’m going to push through this little stop block soon (definitely this month, even if it sucks for me bc my brain is saying ‘do not want’ but eh)! in the meantime, have this blast from the past.
probably -- in a future far, far, FAR away -- there will be a rewrite of the liar-era of the pope legacy... where i like the things better. and so maybe i won’t have completely wasted this weekend. but if nothing else, it was fun as hell! i missed my babies and briar needed to rock these new laundry day hairs. so.
also i’m populating an empty world save with my own sims so i don’t have to see tragedy townies the next time i start a new story and/or game. so there’s that. weekend not wasted :)))
i promise i haven’t abandoned any thing i’m working on. just... by the time i get back to it you might not even know what’s happening but... le sigh. anyway, i hope you guys had an awesome weekend. and happy february!
okay, so... i was trying to stick to updating my pope legacy or becoming un because those are the two things that i’m already posting and i don’t want my blog to be all over the place.
but i can’t get my mind to focus on anything but don’t let go. my drafts folder is a mess of out-of-order posts and i have to queue some for my sanity... so...
as soon as i can focus on the popes again, i will post them. neither of my other works are discontinued, don’t worry. this is just the way my brain has decided to flow. i’m sorry guys!
i need to know if you guys actually click on the pictures on your dash to see the larger versions, or if you just look at them as is? for ... science.
bc... say i just posted things in 540px width... would that suck or you don’t even care?
bc tumblr insists on making every single thing blurry unless it’s exactly 540px in width??? and it’s one of those nights where i’m sitting here like... i can’t live like this?????
this is an actual question. do YOU click the pics? (someone pls answer me, ily)
why yes, this is taking me longer than i anticipated... the good news is that i am on vacation in 2 [count ‘em -- TWO] days worth of time. hopefully i actually manage to get some free time when this happens! meanwhile, i swear i am working on this every day.
the bad news is that my queue will definitely not be loaded until the weekend. what this means for you is no popes until monday probably.
the good news is... here, have some gravan to tide you over. i mean... you can’t see evan’s face but. you know. he’s there.... hugging grace.
so i’m not sure if i’m too tired to attempt loading the queue for tomorrow. i think i probably am -- it was crazy hot today and it zapped all my strength. in any case, there’s some lazy-man’s replies under the cut.
(here have this outtake of briar and desi that never happened bc i’m the worst person ever and briar’s dead)
i wanted to say a couple of things about sink first though. i meant to when i started gen 3, and i’ll probably go back and edit the “cover” image post to include some general info/trigger warnings at some point. but my organizational skills are horrible lately, so... here goes.
while this is a continuation of the pope legacy, i obviously am doing things a bit differently than i was before. this is mainly because it got too character heavy for me to keep up, so i needed to limit the perspective/pov when i was posting things. this will allow me to condense how i tell the story (so the gen doesn’t go on for years like gen 2), without dropping all the characters. i also am trying to improve my pacing, so that things are happening more. i feel like that’s my biggest weakness in writing. so hopefully i get better at that!
now some important things to note about sink in terms of things changing...
as everyone knows, tumblr has implemented it’s own censuring tools. a lot of sims 4 posts get marked (and obvs everything rn) as nsfw even when it isn’t. my blog is no different. i do go through a request review, but the process is slow. so if you’re under 18, just know that i do my best to keep up with that but i’m sorry.
that being said -- a lot more of my posts are actually going to be nsfw this gen.
because my teens will be tackling some heavy topics. i’m just going to tell you there will be some serious trigger warnings
[[ HEY -- SPOILERS LAY AHEAD ]]
including eating disorders, teen sex, teens talking about sex, so many sex references listen... i think sex is all these guys plan to talk about i’m srs, teen pregnancy, suicidal tendencies, mood disorders, violence, sexual preference bashing, bullying, drugs, alcohol, terrible parental units, possibly child abuse... those are the things that i know about.
[[OKAY SPOILERS ARE BEHIND ]]
i will use trigger warnings and nsfw tags. i will also try to make a warning post the week or day (depending on how i load my queue) beforehand.
but if any of this scares you... well... the best i can tell you is we’re not in kansas anymore. so if you don’t like oz, hey no hard feelings... i can’t keep doing the popes the way i was doing it before, it was making me yawn a little. i love you guys as my followers, but also i gotta like loading this queue or it’ll keep going dead so ^_^
hopefully, you enjoy what’s coming. i’m excited for it. thank you guys for reading, liking, following, commenting... all that!
replies under the cut.
darkhunters13 replied to your photoset
I was hoping Desi would inherit the blonde hair but she is still so beautiful
sweetchocolateysims
replied to your photoset
“when no one answers, chlesea pauses flipping pancakes to glance over...”
Did Desi make it??
yes! she looks like some kind of tiny super-model, idk what to do with myself honestly. she’s crazy adorable!
sweetcocoberry replied to your photoset
LISTEN HERE! How could you... how could you bring these tears out of my body. These tears should never be outside this body.
nvaleee replied to your photoset
Why are you breaking my heart????
darkhunters13 replied to your photoset
I'm not crying, it's just raining. Inside my house
malyenoretsev replied to your photoset
HOW DARE YOU
darkhunters13 replied to your photoset
I'm crying
malyenoretsev replied to your photoset
How dare you though
pretty much all of sink is brand new eyes (plus every other sad paramore song ever) so... you know... prepare to die. i mean... it is called “sink” so... i kind of warned you???
sweetchocolateysims replied to your photoset
Getting a very OG Liam and Chelsea vibe and I'm loving it! Most definitely looking forward to see what happens to the two.
yes, this is very much so the case. when i planned grace, i knew she was a lot like chelsea. evan’s not a lot like liam though (well he is but... well you’ll see liam now and the liam you knew are so not the same, so). anyway! i’d buckle up, it’s gonna be a long ride lol
darkhunters13
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“yeah? what kinds of things are important to you?” evan asked. he had...”
Dump him
about ashley & evan ... yeah. they get better, i think. but they get worse too. so, you know, you’re right. but ashley lacks the self-esteem and self-respect to heed that advice, so. yeah... she’s not gonna. unfortunately for all of you. and all these teens too, bc i think they’re all over ashlevan already.
sweetchocolateysims
replied to your photoset
“dylan: “if you try to make my new life difficult, i will destroy you....”
Huh, well that kinda answers my question. But I'll ask anyway. Would Dylan ever kill the kids? Even his "daughter"?
you asked this forever ago, but hey! hi! i think dylan would do anything to protect himself (so yes, if he had to) and unless he has some serious character development that’s not likely to change. but, also, i love character development. so maybe it will get better. but also, allison -- sadly bc she’s gorgeous and her storyline is awesome -- does not have a huge role in my outline rn for “sink” so... probably we won’t find out.
simpyre replied to your photoset
no, seriously. wtf. bringing Akira back to their place? you WANTED to get caught, didn't you?
ugh. i had an entire side story for akira and like his criminal adventures but i just don’t think i have the time. to my eternal disappointment. also, there was a whole scene i cut out (i cut out a whole lot of ronan and reese scenes in gen 2 bc there was too much else to tell, sadly) of ronan’s where akira shows up there to say goodbye to him bc he’s leaving town. and that’s why he was at the apt. but also, yes, ronan wanted to blow up his relationship. that is also true.
i’m sure there were many things i didn’t reply to. but this was mostly bc by this point i think events have replied for me. i’m always saying i’ll get better about replies, so i just won’t even lie to myself! i’ll try! do know i always read your replies though and love them. so much.
lookit this cuteness! which happened when i put down a younger version of riley and bryce (i forgot to un-marry them first...)lbr, he’s way too immature to have appreciated a cheek kiss at this age! but i’ll pretend.
sooo... i am very much not writing right now. just life has been in the way; i’m sorry about that! but i will try to get another chapter of don’t let go put together this week for the weekend. the legacy is still on hold until i decide if i’m just going to move on to the rewrite or continue to a good place in sink.
so i’m trying to decide my editing style for the legacy re-write and i’m wondering if you guys have a preference between:
1. the text bubbles that i used to do
2. the captions that i currently do
3. or text at the bottom only which i haven’t done for a long time?
wait what that's it? they just fall asleep? I mean, I usually don't mind nakit cuddilng, at all! but I need to know what happens next! :O
replying to this in a post because the next part doesn’t even pick up from this scene, and when i posted it i wondered to myself if it seemed a little bit like a cliffhanger... and yeah.
like i said, #these dumb lol
the conversation kind of stops there because kit is so busy trying to figure out wtf, and nate... doesn’t think there’s any need to say anything else? like, nate genuinely doesn’t understand the angst.
at this particular moment in time nathan keyes literally has everything that he wants, and he doesn’t want anything more than what he has. kit has said he loves him and they’re cuddled on a sofa where kit can’t get away from him lol
literally for nate this is as good as it gets. and kit doesn’t want to say anything else because he’s afraid he’ll probably make things awkward and terrible. because 1) what if nate doesn’t realize he means in love, in love?? and 2) what if nate does realize he means in love, in love??! and 3) howtf else could he have meant “in love” but ...”in love”... kit needs some time to process... (spoiler alert -- nate’s not confused about the love thing)
so... the emotional impact of this particular scene is going to take a while to unpack. and it’s, unfortunately, going to have to happen in layers because we’re dealing with a serious case of skinny love here.
