May 8, 2022
I have written through almost all of my enormous backlog of screenshots I laid out for the Samples aeons ago.
I’m not sure I know what to do with myself.
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I have written through almost all of my enormous backlog of screenshots I laid out for the Samples aeons ago.
I’m not sure I know what to do with myself.
I’m not dead, just suffering a bit of writer’s block.
Also, you can send hate mail to @pudding-parade because the spouse and I are now addicted to Green Hell.
Well, I have 12 days of queue, which is more than I’ve had in I-don’t-know-when.
I have to say, I am following some of the most entertaining simblrs/simblogs I’ve seen in all my fandom. This is a tough crowd for feeling you’re making a contribution! Probably it’s just the pandemic that has my nerves. Sigh.
Actually, it looks like I might have to queue my old material from scratch. My old tumblr stuff either isn’t all there or I chose some weird options for what to post....
Man, I’m staring at my next half-written post and not liking it :-/
It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Creativity is not flowing. Modding is flowing, though. I have a fix for the half-implemented Sims 3 pet breed system in final testing.
Regarding the various forks of Xkit --
XKit-Rewritten is pretty simple compared to New-XKit, but I think it’s overall doing what I need. It doesn’t have the blog-following plugin that New-XKit has, but it does have an enhancement of tumblr’s tag-following feature that shows a list of unread posts for each tag. That’s doing pretty well.
One thing that might be useful info for the community: tag-following makes it useful for each storyline to have a UNIQUE tag -- unique in all of tumblr, not just unique to your blog. It’s even useful for a blog to tag every post with its username, which I’ve started doing. Tumblr allows you to follow tags but not blogs, so using your blog name to tag your blog posts isn’t redundant :-D.
At any rate, using XKit-Rewritten, I’m able to keep up with more complex stories and read all updates together instead of paging through my endless dashboard. I can catch up on a few stories at a time, since the unread-count won’t update until I load the tag. Slower-updating stories don’t get lost. I don’t feel that pressure to keep up with my feed that made it hard to read longer posts. And I can still read the dashboard for stuff that runs less risk of missing something. Its unread-tags count doesn’t get confused by pinned posts on a blog, so I’m getting proper info for blogs like @mosneakers.
I notice that New-XKit is also in active development. I think they might have pushed an update recently that broke blog-following on my work browser that still uses it. Or maybe it’s not working for another reason. Whatever the case, I miss some cool features of New-XKit, but I think XKit-Rewritten is doing it for me.
You might be curious @nocturnalazure :).
You know you’ve been in the fandom a long time when you find a mod on MTS, have a question, go to the feedback thread, and find yourself answering the same question to someone else in 2014.
In lieu of actual content...
This meme had to have been made for The Sims!
Content is queued!
There’s only about a week of it at my usual 2 posts a day. Guess I better get writing :). I played stupidly long before resuming writing, so I think I have about five more Wordpress-sized posts laid out and waiting for text.
It’s just a matter of focus. When did I last have focus anyway?