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misslavenderlady · 3 months

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My Baby Bats 💜🦇

This post is in honor of @hypocriticaltypwriter and her own baby bats. This part is about The Lost Boys themselves. There will be a part two with Michael and Star!

So some of you know I love the Sims 4. Back in 2022 I made The Lost Boys in the game because ya girl is obsessed. I also made:

The Emersons

Star and Laddie

Max

Thorn and Nanook

The Frog Brothers

The cave

Grandpa's House

The comic book store

The boardwalk

And....I just so happened to put myself in the game with them. There was no official "story" at first. I just wanted to smooch my boys so bad, and seeing as I don't have any digital art programs (I used to draw but I'm sooooo rusty), the Sims was the perfect way to go about it. 🥰

My sim self had a daughter with each of the boys (because I too wanted to have a gang of Lost Girls lol). I named each girl after the actor their fathers play.

Pictures and story below~

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David's Daughter - Kira (the closest I could get to Kiefer)

She admires her father more than anything in the world. She wants to be a good leader and an even better protector of her sisters. Kira never backs down from a fight, often having moments in childhood where she beat up bullies that were harassing her sisters. But she doesn't use her brawn though. She's as smart as a whip, using patience and strategy to navigate life. Always studying her surroundings and knowing what to say or do for her next step. She's a mysterious girl and never reveals what she's thinking or feeling. As far as Kira is concerned, she needs to be on her guard should something happen to her father and she needs to take over as head vampire. That being said, she's very sensitive deep down, and is incredibly close to her parents, never wanting to be away from them for too long. The anxiety overwhelms her. David worries about the pressure she puts on herself.

Dwayne's Daughter - Billie

Billie is a gentle and kind girl. She's quite shy, often keeping to herself whenever she's around someone outside of the family. As a little girl, she would often hide behind her father, too scared to even say hi to new people. Dwayne was incredibly patient with her, and eventually found a way for her to socialize without getting out of her comfort zone. He introduced her to animals and wildlife in the Santa Carla mountains, showing her the hidden beauties of the world. She loves animals so much, and likes to spend time caring for stray cats and dogs she sees on the streets. Billie also inherited her mother's love of writing, and enjoys poetry most. It helps her navigate life and the feelings she has.

Marko's Daughter - Alex

A little artist like her father, Alex has an eye for the most fascinating curiosities around her. She's a jack of all trades, enjoying everything from photography, to sketching, to painting, to jewelry making. She has so many ideas, and her dad is more than happy to support her vision. She's also a little troublemaker like Marko, often going out to spray graffiti on the walls of various Santa Carla buildings. She's not afraid of causing some mischief if it means expressing herself. Alex also has a fondness of spooky stuff. She has a crystal ball, a collection of candles, tarot cards, and has a planchet earring that she uses whenever she wants to break out the ouija board. She's loves playing fun, witchy games with her sisters during sleepovers. Stuff like Bloody Mary and Light as a Feather, Stuff as a board.

Paul's Daughter - Brooke

Oh she's definitely her father's daughter. Brooke is a little wild child, always eager for an adventure. She's got plenty of energy to burn, dancing and running and jumping off furniture. She loves to stay up late and play video games or have dance parties with her sisters. Above all, her biggest passion is music. Growing up she listened to her father play guitar a lot, and immediately got inspired. He was more than happy to teach her, and ever since then, she's had a dream of becoming a rock star. She's got the energy and the beautiful singing voice for it after all.

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Here are some pics of the baby bats:

I'm gonna reblog this post with more baby bat pics from when the girls were little. Stay tuned!

#the lost boys #tlb #lavender lady rambles #sims 4 #Lav Baby Bats

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metalgearsolidexclamationpoint · 2 years

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The Quarry ch1

A few hours later I picked the game back up and played chapter 1 (actually I had already played ch1 by the time I revised my first post, obviously).

(Actually I've already written four thousand words of thots about this demonstrably stupid game that barely even runs on PS4. I would be ashamed except, like, Carol Clover wrote Men, Women, and Chainsaws and like, it’s no dumber or more useless to analyse horror video games. Also I wrote reams about horror in college when I took various film courses and also cringe is dead.)

Some thots:

Like my complaint from earlier, can I just choose NOT to open the basement... my choices were cut fuel line or remove rotary arm, not "do neither." And yeah, doing neither means no video game, but it also makes Jake look extremely unhinged to the point that it makes me call every one of Jake’s future actions into question.

On the other hand, I spend a lot of time thinking about narrative consistency, and this no-choice choice really informs the way I can allow myself to play Jake. He’s clearly always on the cusp of absolutely losing it.

All the girls walk like they have the Skyrim sexy walk mod installed. I hate this.

Actually, the graphics as a whole are not good. And I'm not a 'graphics are king' kinda person, but they're not as good as UD, which came out 7 years ago. I'm wondering if this is a day 1 problem or perhaps also a developed on PS5/played on PS4 problem. Some of the textures are screwed up. Faces just don't look natural. There's fog everywhere and it's not Silent Hill ambient fog, though it might be Silent Hill hide the graphical issues fog. There's definitely lighting issues. I'm leaning towards, SM just took a really slapdash approach to decreasing graphics quality to play on PS4. If only PS5 were available in stores fuckin anywhere...

Abi is cute in the vein of Ashley from UD. I'm playing her as kind of a goody-two-shoes who wants to be friends with Emma, so she's willing to bend the rules if it will make them closer.

Dylan gives me Chris vibes but for some reason he looks kind of sinister when they do the slo-mo close-up of his face during decision-making QTEs. Like he's secretly thinking of doing something evil. I'm trying to walk the line between a class clown/wanting to mess with teacher kind of kid while also wanting to suck up to Ryan, who doesn't like that behavior. So he's like I really want to look through David Arquette's stuff....... but I won't touch anything or mess with anything, I prommy.

Didn't go into the basement in Mr. H's office.. UD TAUGHT ME NOT TO MESS WITH TRAPDOORS OKAY.

Also picking up the phone and it said "Dylan" in a breathy voice was nicely unsettling. I'm also LOVING all the random spooky shit in the background of scenes that aren't jumpscares, just like, hey, there's a ghost here that YOU can see but the PCs cannot. :)

So..... they've revealed the...... rednecks smearing blood on themselves and watching the kids through a rifle scope early in the game...... I love the changing camera angles, where suddenly the char you were controlling would be viewed from through a window, as though you were watching them (/spying on them/ogling them), very creepy and almost RE vibes. But this reveal kind of explains that diagetically? Anyway, not to steal MORE from UD's playbook, but of course the creepy stranger spying on the kids was actually a good guy for the thirty seconds he was around before getting killed.

Speaking of borrowing from other games, seems to do the Silent Hill thing where the PC will look in a direction, presumably to guide you towards it. A few times this has revealed a tarot card. Sometimes they just seem to be staring at the sky??

The tarot cards do indeed function like the totems and hint at what you should do. Unfortunately they are difficult to see, so I actually did the opposite of what I was supposed to do and now Emma goes forth sans fireworks.

#the quarry #the quarry spoilers #fox plays #text

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