Questions & Answers (Tanya & Jawab)
I joined Tumblr in year 2014. Which is I've been here for 10 years and more with this year 2025 counted.
As 10 years anniversary, I will give some present other than The Sims custom content.
Because you may keep asking, but don't dare to ask me personally. I will give responses to answer questions in your head.
Why does the name of the blog 'TheBleedingWoodland' ?
TheBleedingWoodland is a name of island in my novel where the characters, one of them is the avatar of my blog, Jiang Weiyuan, and his college friends, went to vacation destination on airplane but ended up 'teleported' to unknown tropical island. They were separated then must find each other, teamed up with other airplane passengers. But in the end they realized they were 'controlled' by a system, that they must play "killing each other" game to survive. The story is indeed full of killing, bleeding and gore scene. I wrote this story way before Alice in Borderland and Squid Game became famous as TV series.
Why are you obsessed with vampires and blood ?
I used to obsessed about characters revolving vampires, drawing character about a monster with fangs and sucks blood, and a man with superhuman ability as vampiric monster slayer, in junior high school. In high school era I watched TV series "Vampire Diaries". Oh my.. that was when I had major crush on actress playing Elena ^_^ She's so fine and beautiful. And the blood part? To be honest I used to have.... fetish on licking bloody wound on girl's arm due to influence of vampiric thing I used to watch on movies, anime series, and video games. Not anymore today.
Huang Liyang is actually inspired from my ex-crush, I turned her to vampire hehe.
You are Asian. How did you speak English? Because I know there are English-speaking netizens who are ignorant and think Asians are bad English speakers and only able to speak with our native language, here I tell you: I have learned English language since 1st grade elementary school. I do not use any kind of online translator or dictionary when typing in English language.
Are you a hardcore gamer or just casual Sims player? Hardcore gamer indeed. Too many video games I played. Recently Tekken 8, Genshin Impact, The Spirit of The Samurai (almost finish it), Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2.
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3. Why are you keep making The Sims food CC and traditional Asian culture CC, why no longer creating vampiric, blood, gore related CC anymore ?
Not all Simmers playing bloody, vampiric, violent themed. This is why I came up with other new unique theme: Traditional culture.
My blog is not specific only for vampiric, blood, and gore only. I like creating unique things that other people do not. As I stated on my Blogger:
"My style is mostly for storytelling purpose, dark/goth/bloody, cultural, foodie, the rest are ordinary real life items."
I am one of Sims CC creators who can create CC with authentic traditional Indonesian and Chinese culture because of lacking representation of Indonesian and Chinese culture. Majority of Sims CC creators think Asia are just Japan, South Korea, and old-fashioned "Chinese stereotype in USA/western country"
Sure there are actual Sims CC creators from Taiwan and Mainland China creating authentic traditional culture CC but still not enough and majority focus on clothing, fashion, ordinary modern stuff. There are traditional hanfu and hairstyle, and traditional Indonesian stuff but mainly for The Sims 4.
I focus on the culture-themed CC first rather than ordinary modern stuff because the ordinary modern stuff can be done by other Sims CC creators. I like to create food because? Food is not just to fulfill your stomach, but it's part of culture and soul of people centered on food. Food is definitely something that is taken seriously in Asia: Because food is love language in Asia. It's usual for us to ask people "Have you eaten?" . Give food to people means "I care for you". Bring food to introduce culture to foreigners, usually it's the most effective way.
4. Why don't you make decoration food as functional food?
If you think custom food meal mod as brand new functional food with recipe appears on breakfast/lunch/dinner time for Sims to cook in The Sims 3, it's difficult to do and needs a lot of time to experiment. See the Tutorial: Sims 3 Custom Foods with CCLoader.
There are very little and lacking CC creations of functional food with custom food meal mod with recipe in The Sims 3, indicates that the mod is difficult to do, compared to The Sims 2 and 4 that The Sims 2 & 4 custom food mod creations are everywhere, indicates The Sims 2 & 4 custom food are easy to do by many CC creators.
Better ask the creator who succeed making TS3 custom food with recipe, sweetdevil-sims to take my food mesh to create the custom food.
The only I can make it possible at this time are:
1) Edible food (pickable snack from plate) as it doesn't need recipe.
That I used to create in year 2018. I have to re-learn again how to create the food with the mod because I made them long time ago.
2) Default replacement for existing food meal in the game, replacing food meal in Base Game or Expansion Packs.
