#it’s the sims I can do whatever I want but also I like having a crumb of realism

[storiesbyjes2g]

3.126 Uncle Luca

I loved how my dad loved Sophia. She was his new favorite sim, it seemed. If I ever lost him at a party, all I had to do was find Sophia because he was always somewhere nearby, admiring and watching over her. While Mama was filling me in on Alessia's situation, I saw him give Sophia a gift. He could have simply put it on the table just like everyone else, but he had to hand-deliver it so she knew he cared. If she weren't so wonderful, I think I'd have the right to be jealous, ha ha.

Just like at her birthday party, Sophia was the first one to hit the dancefloor, and one by one, everyone joined her. Even Alessia came out from wherever she was hiding. Previously, Chi Chi had latched onto Sophia and talked her ear off all afternoon, but she found a new friend in my mother, and that made me very nervous. I overheard Mama gushing about becoming a grandmother, and Chi Chi reminisced about Luna's infancy. I just knew they would eventually start talking about me, so I grabbed Less and got out of there.

We went upstairs, and as I stepped inside her room, the reality of her situation hit me hard. The familiar purple and blue color scheme I remembered remained, but everything else had changed. Three cribs had replaced her bed—two blue ones and a purple one. A changing table and other infant furniture crowded the walls, and baby play things lined the floor. These babies not only turned Less' world upside down with their presence, but also they displaced her, and now she slept in my room. I couldn't judge her for not appreciating the joy and privilege of becoming a parent because I had never faced the devastation of having my world upended like that. Me and Sophia's world would change with just one baby, but Less was having THREE she never wanted, and I felt for her.

"Less... I know this is a lot, especially since you didn't want any of it. But you're not alone. Me and Sophia will be here for you."

"No, you won't." Her voice sounded so hopeless and sad. "You're gonna have your own family to worry about and forget all about me."

"What? How could you think that? Yes, I'll be busy with my family, but you're still my family. I could never forget about you. You're my sister! And these babies are my family too. I might not be able to come all the time, but I'd never leave you in a lurch."

"Luca, I... I can't handle this!"

"You can! As soon as you see the babies, you'll know exactly what to do. It's in you! And maybe you won't like them, but you'll love them. And because you love them, you'll do whatever it takes to make sure they have everything they need."

"How do you believe that?" she asked.

"You come from a long line of amazing mothers. I'm sure you'll find your way."

"I doubt that, but I'm glad you believe in me."

I hated seeing her so down and wanted to cheer her up so badly. This moment was probably all wrong for our story, but she loved gossip even more than Mama. If I framed it right, maybe it would boost her spirits.

"You wanna know something Mama doesn't know?"

Her face was still droopy, but it lit up ever so slightly, just as I expected it would.

"Me and Sophia had trouble getting pregnant."

She gasped.

"Turns out we both had low fertility. We had to do IVF."

"Oh, Luca! I feel like such a dunce for complaining around you!"

"It's okay. You didn't know."

"Yeah, but still. Why didn't you say anything?"

"I mean, it doesn't segue well in conversation. 'Luca, I'm pregnant!' 'Oh yeah? I might not be able to have children.' Nah. Besides, by the end we were just so depressed like you are right now. We didn't want to bring anyone into that."

"I understand. I hate that for you, but I'm glad you finally got your baby. Do you want to meet mine? I know they'll be in love with you."

I was very surprised she invited me to feel the babies and hoped she was slowly coming around. I still couldn't believe she had THREE of them in her little body. I placed my hands on her tiny belly and felt an itty bitty bump. It was small, but it was there. Suddenly, hit me that I was an uncle! I never thought I'd be able to say that.

"Hey, little guys! This is Uncle Luca. I know it's a bit crowded in there, but play nice and be good for mommy, okay? I love you all so much!"

"You're such a doofus."

"Thank you, big brother. I don't deserve you."

"It's gonna be okay, Less. We got you."

#ISBI challenge #sims 4 story #sims 4 gameplay #adolting #adolting gen 3 #luca winston murillo #emerald pope #alessia amina murillo #xochitl luna #ali murillo #sophia aguilar #tw infertility

[mattodore]

pose making they could never make me hate you

#river dipping #theodore doe #matthias evanoff #a burning house to live in #echthroi #ts4 #......... i should probably just make a tag specifically for my blender wips actually #ummmm...... #blender #obviously 😭 will go back and retag old blender posts with this tag eventually #missed this soooo bad i'm having so much fun 😭😭 #<- person who just made a simple hug pose #no but. #there’s seriously nothing better than being able to do whatever i want in blender #if i knew how to render the way like rai and the rest of you can TRUST ME!! i would be posting mattodore content every dayyy #but since i can't even rip matthias's sim without his skin details fucking up i just make poses for in-game use </3 #i have this huge list of poses i want to make and shitty notes app drawings of some ideas i've scribbled down these last few weeks lmao #and i also want to start learning how to animate....... which i might spend some time on tomorrow #like getting blender back in order makes me so happy 🧎 #i’ve got so much i want to do in here!! #but okay... i do need to go lay down kjdfhnfgjn i'm gonna read and try to sleep mwah mwah mwah #bye to the three other people online rn 👋

[symerr]

more headmates, you never would've guessed it.

#simblr #the sims 4 #ts4 #create a sim #ts4 cas #cas err #err #sym 275 #sym felix (he) #(( felix 📓 he )) #idk what's wrong with [redacted]'s floating eye cc but no matter what i did it left that little black strip near its cheek #we want to edit it to remove the eyelashes anyway but thats a future-us problem #also we want to edit it so it doesnt do that like #flicker/glow thing because it made me get a headache but again. future problem #also my hair cc has random bald patches for some reason so i need to reinstall it to see if the op fixed it or... figure out how to edit #and the wings we use for [redacted] need to not have so much transparency so it can match our ''style'' or whatever #these are all non-issues though and im just rambling about it at this point rip #shoutout to the vamp dlc having so much white and gold clothes though it really carried [redacted]'s outfit

[nana2009]

now i kinda wanna do the dk kids bedrooms mmm

#kinda already did on the sims now i just gotta sprite everyfin lol #also on an unretaled note i been thinking aboat how the only one id be able to cosplay half decently is jade and femkat lol #and a way to do their crazy hairs(specifically karkat) since i dont like wearing wigs :P #kinda have an idea what i could do but alas i need clothes(no sewing skill or money for international shipping) #that could b fun tho but id only do it for like a con and theres none id be allowed in(by my hardcore christian mom) #uuuuugh. few years until i can do whatever i want and also pay taxes(i wont)

[merrunzs]

ENOUGH about gortash/durge/ascended astarion ENOUGH

#can i say something. #sorry. i believe in everyone doing whatever they want forever and that being ok. but i also believe in being a bitch about it online #this is a wider issue i have beef with abt people treating bg3 like a dating sim exclusively and #reducing the npcs esp important ones like This to accessories to their durge/tav while failing 2 consider their individual characterisation #anyway im not character tagging this for fear i will be killed. bc aa fans and my fellow gort fans are scary #bg3 #sunny speaks

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Been thinking about sans x reader a lot lately because it's so fucking funny but like why is everyone making horrortale sans a big soft boy who has never done anything wrong in his life

#random thoughts #undertale #picking up a pen like i have to craft the sans i want to see in the world #make him fucked up!!! #stop making him a yandere he would not fucking say that #he's a toxic tsundere AT MOST #but also i like yandere shit it's so funny #characters saying shit like 'your mine 🔪🗡🍴' while im laying in bed eating a bag of chips like 'oh word?' #god the best writing ive ever seen for a yandere character in a fan creation is that fucking stardew valley mod for the beach guy #where he kills himself at the end it's so fucked #but back to the original topic i do not give a singular shit about sans fanfiction in actuality #do what you want show ass eat ass whatever #but like it is a little funny #like you know that one undertale bone fucker club dating sim #where it's just a demo rn but you can talk to horrortale for like five lines #and he's just antisocial and a gardener #which i like the gardener part. i think more horrortale sanses should be more focused on food acquisition #and like food hoarding and shit #but like i get it's a demo but like. i feel like horrortale is just wildly inappropriate tone-wise for the shit most people write??? #so they have to tone it down #you can just choose another au. make your own or something ig

[blissfali]

Talked to my friends about the sims today. Im the only one who genuinely enjoys the game. They say its boring but tbh like the act of being able to check off little boxes and lists like when u do something thats Heaven like instant serotonin. Prolly why i like it so much

#Its the autism #also i just rlly like making stories in my head for my sims #Outside of the fuckin arg whatever im surveying cup to against their will #its genuinely fun to just like. Make shit up in ur head #Like idk anything specific just even tho the sims i have are based on people its like Wow those people #How do i explain this. #Idfk man i just like being creative with it #like being able to do whatever i want #and no one can tell me otherwise and i dont even have to write it down #its like heaven bro!!!

[toytulini]

wish the little listicles and articles reccomending google alternatives didnt like, mention ios. like no offense but do you think i dont know what an iphone is. you think im looking into google alternatives but i dont know that apple exists? you really think that? if i was going to buy a fucking apple product id already be doing that?

#toy txt post #I think id rather try to brute force my brain to learn fuckinf. idk. coding shit than fuck w apple #idc they say theyre better about privacy lol i dont trust them either #also like lol better about privacy but they out here pioneering in the field of planned obsolescence and im not fucking with that OS sorry #i simply cannot #idk its just like. the article be like 5 NON GOOGLE GPS OPTIONS and i get all excited and its loke heres 4 kind of mediocre pain in the ass #obscure things you can try that require some sort of technical skill to install and have less convenient updated features than google. and #also apple maps. sorry have you heard about The Iphone(tm)? just making sure youre aware of one of the biggest non google tech companies #in case you somehow missed it?? #like. sorry. what?? #anyway. i really hope this goes without saying but this is Not the post for you to rave about How Cool Apple Is and How Much You Love Your #Apple Products and Why I Should Switch To Apple! good for you glad you like your shit make your own post and fuck off! #argh #anyway. currently thinkjng about l #buying another s7 off amazon and 1) making sure it works w my sim card before i do anything 2) fucking around and finding out #w one of those alternative OSs like uhhhh iodé or whatever on either the new s7 OR. my old one. idk. want to see if i can do it and make it #work. im sure itll be a huge pain in the ass and ill freak out and give up partway through or smth #need to look into how that interacts w like? my ohine service if at all? #also want to look into uhhh #trying to reinstall old versions of the samsung camera and gallery/photo editor apps on my newer device maybe just to see if i can pull it #off and have like a fully updated OS without switching to a camera i hate #and it would be cool to have whatever version of the photo editor pro i have on my s7 on my other devices cos it lets me do things i cant do #on these

[bumblingbabooshka]

If Chakotay and Janeway played an open world game together Janeway would be adventuring and going on quests and slaying monsters while Chakotay found the safest and most aesthetically pleasing spot to set up base and from there spent the entire time building houses and cultivating wildlife.

#he'd also protect the little town he made but he's gonna stay in that town...the people need him v_v #but you know I wasn't just thinking about Janeway/Chakotay. The real highlight of this is Tuvok watching them play and having opinions about #all of it but refusing to actually play with them #Tuvok only plays two video games and they're Whatever His Kids Ask Him To Play and Sudoku #picturing Janeway giving Tuvok's kids minecraft and the sims #his 4 kids all huddled around and sharing the one save file bc they are cooperative and want to play together #in minecraft they build accurate buildings and landscapes from blueprints or just structurally sound ones from imagination #in the sims they have their families live the most safe and boring lives possible - NO killing and NO messing around #they have a timer on the desk and everytime the timer goes off they switch who controls the game though everyone has their own opinions #on what they should do. #Janeway: Have you kids tried deleting the pool ladder when a sim is in it? #Tuvok's kids do so and watch the screen.......and then they're all horrified when the sim dies. Like if they were humans they'd be screaming #about it. T'Pel has to come and load the game from the last save so their sim can be alive again. #Tuvok: Were there no signs that your little person was on the cusp of death? #Asil: We believed in his strength... / Sek: It was illogical that he would not be able to lift himself from the pool. #Elieth: I cannot speak about it. / Varith is unbothered - too young to understand the tragedy that has befallen their little person.... #AHA. You thought this was a J/C post but you look a little deeper and its actually a Tuvok family fluff post! GOTCHA!

[nomaishuttle]

i literally have completionist brain but for real life and like. not a fun way for me to play games Definitely not a fun way for me to live irl

#bc in games like. skyrim or what have you i do nottt play them right ik there isnt a right way to play them #but i do every single quest and i pick the options thtall give me the best rewards etc and it just isnt very fun. and rhe point is that its #a role playing game so i should roleplay and if i want to see what happens if i pick the other options i just Make anew save instead of #reloading over and over again. and yet #and its not fun in the sims bc j literally judt force them to max their skills get highest level in their careers complete theiraspirations #and then im just like. ok. and it ends up making my sims games so samey and not fun bc ill Make sims thatr different from eachother but #well. 1. sims 4 sims do not act different from eachother Lmao you Can pick different traits but the most u get is moodlets and maybe 2-5 #dialogue options. not that much... vs like skms 3 where each trait could change up a sim a lot #butttt whatever. anyways... #but yeah irl im like Noooo i cant just do this 1 good job bc there are all these other jobs i also need to do i cant pick one major i have #to do all of them i cant Not be able to romance this person !! but real life isnt a video game and that mindset fucking sucks for videogame #anyway... like i like completing a game but i wish i didnt let it ruin games 4 me #bc it rly does i never finish games anymore bc i stress myself out over 100% it... #and i make too many spreadsheets abt them. but i love spreadsheets :[[[[ #i should go back to sdv again.. and return to an old save thats another thing #ill obsess iver a game to the point i burn out completely and stop playing and then ill get the urge to play again #but i start a new save and inevitably burn out again and its like ! the devil

[gayofthefae]

The thing with the Byler twist - and it is a twist, even if we’ve predicted it - is that all that the general audience really needs to be on board is to realize that all of Mike’s behavior will have remained in character. No sudden change or confusion to accommodate this fan service ship. Even if you didn’t see it coming, it is very consistent with his behavior over the seasons.

That’s all you really need for a good twist. Not predictability but rewatchability. Does it makes sense? It doesn’t matter if it was built up. Because this isn’t a slow burn. It’s an “it was under my nose the whole time” subversion. Yes, it’s been built up from the start but that’s the part about being under your nose the whole time. Some people will have caught it some won’t, but ultimately, the fact that Mike’s behavior won’t change is what will make people see it.

Because the general audience is, by definition, not actively fighting the idea. Casual viewers. Character consistency is all that’s needed. Even if it WERE to be fan service, if they were to be able to execute that unplanned plot with great character consistency, props to them, that’s the story now, and I’ll accept it. (Just like I say a non-Byler ending would be totally great if it can maintain character consistency and realistic happy endings within that - I just can’t think of a way it can). 

This has been a long way of saying.

Mike and Will getting together will not feel out of character or like an adjustment or accommodation to this “new” storyline. And that’s really all that’s ever needed for a twist or subversion to work. It doesn’t have to be foreshadowed or predictable. It just needs to make sense. And as long as that’s true, no general audience member will fight it.

#reminder also that homophobic casual viewers don't count because that is a bias even if it is out of fandom #going with the flow of whatever happens in character without actively rooting for anything and just kinda riding the wave is the type of per #son i meant #general audience byler #also fix its are great but at the end of the day i'm a believer in the idea that what's happened in the show happened so if an ending feels #in character then that is the ending of that story #i don't pick and choose #i don't even skip episodes of sitcoms on rewatches because i am always in it for the full story overarching #if they really do just absolutely pull byler out of their ASSES and have been doing fan service this whole time #and execute season 5 with character consistency #i really do not give a shit what was on the original drawing board however long it was bc welp it was scrapped and the reason doesn't matter #fan service is only bad when done poorly #writing at the end of the day is just putting characters you know into different situations and seeing how they react #suspending disbelief that byler would be hypothetically unplanned #the fact that there is even a situation to drop the existing characters into that would warrant byler as a result is great and i say counts #i'm thinking of it as a simulation. an if >> then #you can change your mind on the outcome all you want as long as you can execute it within the sim of just dropping your established characte #rs into situations and letting them play it out #if that makes sense #like this is a sort of metaphor i know the writers aren't just gaming on sims 4 all day with the proper personality traits and then getting #he demogorgon expansion pack #but you get what i mean #if it's in character most people including myself will not give a shit what other in character ending we could have had #because in most cases there could have been another in character ending up until a certain point #times the timeline could have branched off from different in character decisions but didn't and now that it hasn't the options are end the n #arrative arc in season 5 one way #or continue the show long enough to execute something else #both work imo #although i do want the integrity of ending it #i just can't think of a combined s5 finale alternate

[xamaxenta]

Ugh i had a brief burst of serotonin and now its all but gone

#i just have a huge sense of doom lingering over me #i also feel like shit #I dont want to go to work tomorrow but i have to because my boss will hate me further #honestly i could go fuck it but really it’s whatever #ill just do the bare minimum and not talk much not that i usually do #insert negative sims interaction minus sign #depression can go fuck itself saps everything out of me tbh #feeling horrifically dysphoric too #i just feel very small and angry and like life is so unfair #its not really but my experience as a closeted transperson in a really close mindrd community sucks

[yakamozarda]

I think i should like. Talk to my therapist about taking a gap year bc i feel like i need a proper rest that wont be related to anything i wanna do in long term and just Chill but at the same time idk how to. Rest. Like it is legit something im bad at i cant fucking rest more than a week and i feel like i need more than a week to fucking unmentally ill myself or some shit. I dont fucking know man

#cecil.txt #I know im experiencing some sort of burn out? Or whatever the fuck it is #Idk it feels. Too luxurious to take a gap year even tho i know i will probably at least find a part time job for it #Idek #Yesterday while talking to my therapist i realised how i didnt wanna do anything at all #So idk if it is healthy to push myself to find a paid phd program or a job next year right after graduation #Esp since i can like. Afford to take a gap year. My mom is more than okay with me staying with her during that time but i fucking hate the #Idea of moving back in. I love my mom but my hometown is boring af #Working in istanbul would be great as a gap year but holy shit. The fucking economy. Idek man it doesnt sound uuhh hashtag relaxing to me #Idk #I fucking wish the jobs/internships i have applied so far would work out. I either keep getting rejected or ghosted #Yesterday i got rejected by a job i didnt even fucking want and i KNOW im fucking overqualified for it most likely. I fucking hate this #It was a fucking mobile dating sim writing. I have a degree in literature and i have done narrative design for fucks sake and worked in a #Game project with a way more complicated mechanic than a fucking lame dating sim #Got rejected bc 'they are looking for a more specific cv' #All my writings feel too niche or specific for me to get an entry level job and i fucking hate the idea of writing for a lame game to begin #With #And if i wanna get away with my weird af design ideas phd is the best way to go but. Im so tired of academia. But im also fucking terrified #Of getting a job. Ugh #There is this internship that would be PERFECT for me that im qualified for but ffs they ghosted me. Im gonna fucking go insane #Anyways #Negativity #Or whatever yall use to filter these bs

[yourthirdparent]

how is jason both an older brother figure and a father figure? good question. have you ever played obey me

#unfollow me rn i'm hyperfixating #i won't share content about it other than this post but i can't promise i won't randomly hop in the tags of a post and mention a character #but if i say lucifer it's referring to my friend luci i do not give a shit about the obey me character and will never mention him #not tagging fandom or character #sorry about all the tags rip #allfatherly guidance #also yes i know there are. issues with obey me. i've played the game. i've seen the problems. i'm hyperfixating anyways #whatever i'm practically a pjo blog you guys are familiar with media with Oddities c'mon #also to that one person who follows me who's dni includes obey me fans i'm so sorry #bonus pologies for tags tag #also i will elaborate on what the fuck this means if asked OR if i feel like it #bonus BONUS pologies for tags tag woah #i cannot shut the fuck up wow #still into jj though! if i make original posts or reblog any fandom content it will probably still be about him #i will come out of my shitty demon dating sim induced haze if i see him he's more than just a character to me he's like a person #it's like how i'll reappear from the woods if i hear my children calling my name yk #wow i literally don't shut up i should make a tag for when it gets this bad so people can block it so tumblr will warn them of my tags #or so they don't have to see what i rambled about for so long it needed a tag ever again #i want it to be a reference to this post actually but like so stupid that nobody who knows this post or even the context would get it #so not even i'll get it later #so uuhhhhhh block uhhhhhhhhhhh #the devil is the father of fathers and brother of brothers and god is satan's chippering son #← block that one that's for if i ramble on for like 20 fucking tags like now that's my shut the fuck up god tag #literally just block it and never read the rambling it's not worth it the post wouldn't be worth it #i should make a pinned post just to tell people to block that tag #could explain anything about who i am (probably should considering i haven't even officially posted my name) but no #it's just gonna be like ↓BLOCK THIS TAG↓ and the only tag is that #actually i'm gonna make that pinned. first i have to figure out how to pin a post

[fingertipsmp3]

Things that happened in my sims game today that ✨just make sense✨

-My sim went on a date with his stalker

#so i have this one house in which a romance sim lives who can't get laid #god knows why he can't get laid. he's hot and bisexual and he's a line cook. like what more do you want #anyway i finally resorted to using the matchmaker just to try to get him laid and for whatever reason she sent me this woman #who could not be interacted with aside from talking; flirting and influence #which meant i couldn't end their date and it also couldn't really progress? so i was like 'well this sucks' #so i had him get another date #obviously she was PISSED that he rejected her for this hot policeman so she left him a fiery bag of poop on his doorstep and a stinky lette #(he didn't even get to first base with the policeman btw) #except that wasn't the end of it. she kept COMING BACK #she'd just stand for hours upon hours looking at his house. i mean literally she was there ALL DAY #it seemed like she only left when i directed him to go greet her. literally as soon as i put 'greet elle' in his queue she left #eventually i managed to have him actually greet her and there was still only talk; flirt or influence available #(once he greeted her btw she completely made herself at home in his house. she took like two bubble baths?? and i couldn't ask her to leave #she eventually left because she was hungry and i wasn't going to feed this crazy ass woman who had literally been lurking outside his house #for damn near two weeks straight. i was like you can die here if you want to. that's fine #anyway. i decided to have him invite her over for a date to see if that unstuck her because by this point i was weirded out by the limited #interactions. so she agreed to the date but didn't get unstuck #i had to use boolprop testing cheats to make her selectable and then unselectable. THAT finally worked #for some reason casual romance settings (acr) still don't work on her though? so she can't be woohooed because he's not in love with her #i suspect she's a young adult and something's messed up in her coding. or i have a mod conflict. despite my best efforts #i've never seen a sim behave like her before. she was literally just standing unmoving STARING at his house. no idles or anything #i thought she was stuck but she could blink. fucking eerie #tl;dr ts2 remains the game of all time #personal

[royalberryriku]

Me: I'm gonna write when I get home

Also me: I'm feeling A Bit Sad so I'm gonna play Sims instead

#personal #but what if I became an art major in this virtual little world? #he doesn't have chronic fatigue so he can live out my fantasies! #or depression #or cptsd #or whatever else I've missed in this list #I WILL do writing because I really want to and have so many freaking ideas that my brain will explode #also.. I just have The Urge™ where you feel wordy and wanna write #so this isn't me forcing myself basically but like... I do have The Big Sad so Sims it is #and yeah I think the stuff with friends is hitting harder than I'd like to admit and I'm feeling shitty for not knowing what to fo #*do #or what to say and knowing I've already reacted without thinking by prying and just okay yeah maybe I do just need to Vibe