New Traddery - A Sims 2 Small Town

What happens when we apply deep south, small town dynamics to the pre-made Sims 2 neighborhood of Riverblossom Hills? A complete takeover filled with gossip columns, hyper-religiosity, hypocrisy, family drama, dive bars, and the occasional whodunnit. Follow the Woods, Thornes, Thibadeauxs, Vandersens, and others as the push the figurative and literal boundaries of what was once a peaceful farming town.

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Welcome To New Traddery: Start Your Journey Here

Tags and Content Guide, Part 1

(Part 2 is here.)

General Information - New Traddery (all posts)

Media Outlets

New Traddery Times

Under Oath, Over Coffee

Where in New Traddery

Schools

Churches

Homes

Civic and Public Institutions

Retail

Services

Food and Drink

Parks

The People of New Traddery

Wood

Carl Green/Carl Wood Asha Wood Sunny Traddery Wood Victoria Wood Phillipa Wood Aelric Wood Theo Wood Goodie Wood-Hollmo Brandyn Wood Kelsey Wood Thorne Kelly Wood Rev. Blair Wood Stephen Wood Ashton Wood Thibadeaux Bellamie Wood-Warner Cordelia Wood Erica Wood McGaw Baylor Wood Alon Wood Ruffin Wood Elizabeth Wood Wehlberg Rose Wood Bui Whitney Wood Christopher Wood Chloe Wood

Thorne

Craig Thorne Darla Thibadeaux Ivy Thibadeaux Josias Thorne Rivers Thorne Wood Bethanie Thorne Wehlberg Margaret Wehlberg Wood Toby Wehlberg Jaiden Thorne Wood Ellen Thorne Alec Vincent Thorne Brendan Thorne Errol Thorne

Thibadeaux

Damon Thibadeaux Derrick Thibadeaux Craig Thomas Thibadeaux Soleil Thibadeaux Steveigh Thibadeaux

Vandersen

Gretchen Vandersen* Carolyn Vandersen Kyler Vandersen Wood Adam Vandersen Hugh Vandersen Dagmar Vandersen Thorne Jessleigh Vandersen Greta Vandersen

Jalowitz

Gretch Jalowitz Ava Jalowitz Wood Nerrie Jalowitz Thorne Finn Jalowitz Joslyn Jalowitz

Other

Ron Sharpe Bim Sharpe Vince Thorne Phillip Bui Ichelle Bui Alejandro Warner Jaycen Forrester

Simnational Aspirational Convention (The religion of New Traddery)

SAC Full Meter Aspire Now! Traddery University

See Part 2 for tags and content guides for Tales From New Traddery and other specialty tags and topics.

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Tales From New Traddery

The Direction of Birds

Part 8

6 weeks later...

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4WB: 2025 Favorite Screenies challenge

Thank you for tagging me, @ennysimmer. Hopefully it's ok to do this challenge this way, because as y'all probably know, my screenshots are aggressively edited, so it's more like my favorite edits, but in my defense, I couldn't get Reshade to work in my game (without pinksouping the crap out of it) and my vision is terrible. Anyway, since it's an annual retrospective, I did my best to put them in chronological order, and it's a mix of captures of builds, stories and characters that I just am personally very fond of - either aesthetically or sentimentally. Happy New Year! Also, I am so lousy and self-conscious about tagging people, so if you want to participate, please consider yourself tagged!!

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Tales From New Traddery

The Direction of Birds

Part 7

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Tales From New Traddery

The Direction of Birds

Part 6

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Tales From New Traddery

The Direction of Birds

Part 5

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Decorating and Furnishing a Sims 2 Home From Bachelor to Newlywed Life

(I can’t believe I’m actually doing this)

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4WB: So this took two days of editing and voiceovers and it's still definitely got "first video" energy, but it would mean a lot to me if y'all would check it out. There are no story spoilers, promise - mostly just furnishing and decorating a lot with some playtesting to prove the concept. I'm kind of proud of it.

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New Traddery Township - Office of Community Standards

In response to recent public concern regarding a newly opened late-night business operating within city limits, the Office of Community Standards, in coordination with the Licensing and Zoning Committee, has completed a full compliance review of Violet Delights, operating at 6769 Jane Best Road.

The review confirmed that the establishment in question is operating in accordance with all applicable municipal ordinances, zoning requirements, and safety regulations currently in effect.

No violations were identified. Accordingly, no further action is planned at this time.

Signed,

Peter C. Wood Director of Community Standards New Traddery Township

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Tales From New Traddery

The Direction of Birds

Part 4

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Welcome To New Traddery: Start Your Journey Here

Tags and Content Guide, Part 2 of 2

(Part 1 is here.)

Tales From New Traddery (click the title for the full tag, or follow in order using the links below the title)

Late In The Evening/A Suit Well Worn

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Req Epilogue

The Hours of Her Garden (Journey to Bluewater Act I)

Soleil, Part 1 Soleil, Interlude Soleil, Part 2 Soleil, Part 3 Soleil, Part 4 Soleil, Part 4.5 Soleil, Part 5 Erica, Part 1 Erica, Part 2 Hugh, Part 1 Hugh, Part 2 Momma

The Direction of Birds (Journey to Bluewater Act II)

Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8

We Are Us

Radio New Traddery

Times Like These

New Traddery Without Context (short, limited text posts that stand alone outside of the story)

Block List

To avoid stories/posts that center religion, block these:

TW: Religion Aspire Now! SAC Full Meter Traddery University Where in New Traddery: Churches

*to follow the murder mystery, track posts tagged Gretchen Vandersen

New Traddery on Youtube

For behind the scenes, story notes, and process notes, please follow my main blog, @pleasedonotfeedtheangels

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Tales From New Traddery

The Direction of Birds

Part 3

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Tales From New Traddery

The Direction of Birds

Part 2

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Tales From New Traddery

The Direction of Birds

Part 1

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Tale From New Traddery

The Direction of Birds

Prologue.

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Tales From New Traddery: The Hours of Her Garden

"Once I stood to lose her, when I saw what I had done Bowed down and threw away the hours of her garden and her sun So, I tried to warn her, I turned to see her weep Forty days and forty nights and it's still comin' down on me There's a big, a big hard sun Beatin' on the big people Oh, in a big hard world" -Hard Sun, Eddie Vedder

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Tales From New Traddery: The Hours of Her Garden

Hugh, Part 2

Ok, let me get this straight. You had the chance to date your dream girl, you dropped the ball and disappear on her for months and then out of the blue, her brother tells you to meet her here or... what? Did he threaten you? Why didn't you just call her?

I don't know, I guess I was embarrassed. She'd invited me to come over to her house for one of your church things and I was going to go, but work called and told me I had the chance to go on the research trip, I didn't want to miss the opportunity so I jumped on it and I know I should have explained myself better, but when I thought about it, I'd already backed out of a date with her because it was a different church event. No offense or anything - I just wanted to hang out with her without my family around. So I thought maybe I'd offended her and just kind of gave up. But then I get this email from her brother and-

Wait - what do you mean "your church things," "your church" - you mean Aspire Now? You're talking about-

Shhhh, she's coming over, be cool for once in your life, please!

What are you guys talking about?

Fishing?

Hobbies? The, uh, fishing hobby.

Yeah, they let any idiot get a fishing license these days. It's causing overfishing in a lot of places. The aquarium has me looking into it.

Are these guys bothering you, Soleil? What are they boring you with now?

I'm not sure - something about idiots and fishing, but I think I'm confused about who's the idiot and who's doing the fishing.

Huh. I'm starting to wonder the same thing myself.

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Tales From New Traddery: The Hours of Her Garden

Hugh, Part 1.

.,,real food for the soul, Hugh. Seriously, I don't know why I never went to that church before, but it really spoke to me. I just have to convince Erica here to take the whole family.

I'd love to get more involved. Are there a lot of opportunities to get out and serve the community?

I know there's a food pantry but maybe a soup kitchen, you know? We want to do more philanthropy. There's so much privilege that comes with the estate - I just want to make sure it's not going to my head. I need to stay grounded and-

Soup. Ground. Sounds great, Chris - y'all excuse me one moment, I just need to-

-excuse me, do y'all mind if I join the game for a round?

So. How's the uh... how's the game going so far? Is, uh, is there anything new about...? Soleil, are you, by chance... winning the llama game? Because it kind of looks like I MEAN SEEMS, I mean seems, seeeeeems like you might be winning the llama game and I hope, you know, you'd tell me if you were, you know, winning. The llama game.

... winning the llama game???LOOKS LIKE?? Why would you think that-?

I know a winning llama game when I see it. It's nothing bad, I just... you know... big family? Constant llama game tournaments?

I don't think anybody actually wins this game...Pastor. I think... it was over before it even started. I've already decided - I'm not even going to... finish the llama game. You probably, you know, wouldn't even have time for a new llama game. You're... committed to, you know, that whole other game. All those pieces on the board. I don't see how you could do both.

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R-R-Right. Right, you're probably right, I'm sure you're right. Yeah. I mean no, no, I would be willing to try. To do something... that is, I love llamas. And here lately, all I can think about is how maybe I haven't been playing the llama game the right way, and how you, you'd be a champion llama gamer and-

Yeah, ok I really have no idea what I'm saying - anyway, I think my sandwich is ready. You ladies enjoy your game.

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Uncle Hugh, thank The Watcher you're here, I need your help with something - grab that table in the corner, quick...