I'm Gonna Play Sims

Porch swings!

The rocking chairs are good but I feel like there's some American Porch and Backyard culture missing via PORCH SWINGS.

This is Missy, the person. She's weirdly formal and loves purple.

This is Starry, the matriarch.

I got the new stuff pack because it felt really cool for a side-hustle for Titian, though there seems to be a fascination- at least with gluttonous sims- with eating RAW dough and batter. To the degree I think it might be a glitch

But Tish saved up just enough to get a sales table and has started selling... Questionable goods. Mainly because the apartment leaves her uncomfortable so often. But it feels right that she sells her less-than good food she doesn't wanna eat. Plus it's still kinda scammy and the crime career alone doesn't pay very well early on.

Mmm. Funky Bagels.

The boys are like on different ends of the nerd spectrum, but I think Honey might be more on the creative side(?)

They live close to grandpa so when mom is at work and they're uneasy, they can go play chess at his house.

Xanthous won 2 matches. I'm starting to think he should hold the title. I GUESS Honey could split the handiness skill, but overall he seems way more artsy. I think they could support each others fixations by raking together funds from their passions.

I think it's just because he's a newer townie lol. But yeah he has a wife and kids and lives next door.

But apparently Tish decided she was just gonna establish their dynamic because she autonomously started making bagels in his home

Oh, AND bread. As you can see he's not very happy.

I also made sure to go back and let the dads retire. They make more than enough money to take care of themselves and Auburn actually aged up recently! I had also been keeping a keepsake box, mainly for family memories I feel like I know I'm gonna forget. Which is probably the point. BUT I finally got to use the gameplay mechanic and pass the memento onto Tish! This makes me happy :3

I also decided to at least get another tier of Thorne's soulmate aspiration done, so the old men went on a date.

This actually made me a little emotional!!! I'm gonna miss gen 1!!!

The boys still continue to make me question who may be heir. I think Xanthous has been showing more initiative but Honey may be taking quicker to mental skill?? It's still early days.

I like her having that kind of "old-timey burglar" kind of vibe to some of her shirts lol

Then of course she moved out after feeling like a failure for being expelled and took the boys. She wants to prove herself!! That included only accepting a few thousand for down-payment from dads. Their relationships are still fine but Tish has finally decided she wants to be DRIVEN. To crime, but DRIVEN-

I may or may not have decided to get basement treasures to make her apartment look even MORE "second-hand"

So far the boys woke up early to go do homework and chat in mom's room and this screenshot feels like some hazy core memory

Titian got expelled from high school first, though!

Definitely didn't take it well, because she snuck out to avoid her dads and kids and accidentally burned somebody's house down.

She was trying to make cookies.

On the holiday, TItian's mom came over and made ANOTHER cake. I think the foodie NAP plan is active, but it kind of works that maybe that's how Sunny tries to connect with her and that's why Tish likes baking.

At some point I think Tish may have told Honey he was the favorite and I died

The boys were first to age up! Honey has more of a comfort-forward vibe while Xanthous is more modern and experimental.

Thorne aged up into an elder! I need more like, grey-tinged hair but this hair was nice. He looks kinda like a mob boss lol.

Auburn is a BIT younger, but not that far behind. I made him as an adult sim. So he got a more matured/middle aged look.

AND after years of being betrothed these two FINALLY got married. Auburn is also in the social services route of the politician career now as opposed to being his assistant/campaign manager, so maybe they just waited until Auburn wasn't technically employed by Thorne.

I couldn't get a good picture of the ceremony but here's their cute kiss after woohooing in the observatory during the reception

Like??? I guess it's just perception, right??? She hasn't gotten told off a lot for her pranks or anything.

She got a few good naps in at school. She even got off punishment once from the principal! I didn't know that was a thing.

BUT yeah the main focus was on bebes.

First off, before age-up, we get some co-parenting from dads.

For yellow I think the aesthetic is gonna be like, vintage visions of the future. Thinkin like Jimmy Neutron vibes.

These were their main outfits as infants! Left is Honey and right is Xanthous. Honey was given the more cuddly vibe but he was also sensitive and for whatever reason the most glitchy? So he was kind of a hellion.

I also wanna show a glitch that seems to be generational.

Like mom, like sons I guess.

Then the boys aged up! Here they are on their birthday where I realized I accidentally gave them the same jammies. I think it works, though.

They're both blondes of course, but Honey has more warm-toned hair and Xanthous has the white-blond.

I feel like I might alter the rules a bit bc yellow was ORIGINALLY supposed to be an only child, I think they'll just have no close friends beside Thorne and each other until he dies.

They're just so cute playing together!

I think beside their hair they may in fact be truly identical. Like. Clone identical.

Oh yeah! And we finally decided to hash it out with the work rival all night until we could settle our differences.

And maybe with the help of a little bribery. Still though, it felt like this rival was in the way FOREVER and the work actions did so little each time. I guess it's nice so you're not just rolling through the career but I was at LEVEL NINE!! I JUST WANTED TO BE DONE!!

HELL YEAH HE DOES.

YAAAAAAAY THEN, Titian gets THIS call from her other dad-

Which IS NOT the way I thought it would go, but thinking about it that's probably, in fact, the best way. Now of course they'll stay engaged until Thorne's an elder but I think he just wanted Auburn to know that he's all in this time.

Tish also went through quite a bit of drama.

She got a short-term boyfriend, who she went to a rather uneventful prom with, except a quickie in the photo booth which lead to-

...Uh oh.

So YEAH, this one's on me. See I really wanted to meet a few requirements here between Yellow gen having a good relationship with gen 1 (in this case Thorne) and Titian moving out on her own to a Needs TLC apartment when she's an adult. Of course they can visit, but I feel like Titian's actions might kinda distance her from her dad a bit, and I always kinda took the vibe of the original generation order that the first gen helped nearly exclusively raise yellow gen.

So we get a teen pregnancy storyline! I will say, I waited a good week before doing this so Tish is probably about 15-16 not like, 13. Not that sims teens ever LOOK 13. I think kids pretty much cover kid through tween up to 14-15.

Which is so much insanity for Tish because not only is her first pregnancy this early, it's with TWINS.

She tells her baby daddy, who is not exactly thrilled. And, well. We needed an enemy...

The DRAMA.

Of course, we still need to go to school, and school means PRANKS. I put some Humor and Hi-jinks reward fireworks in her inventory and I'm happy to say

You can 100% light them in school.

Titian went to school the morning after she found out she was pregnant, so she also had to go home and face the dads.

... I don't know how well Thorne took it.

Titian was overall pretty ignorantly blissful about the whole ordeal, beside the arguments she had with her ex. I think she was more the one like "what's the big deal??" and he was the one rightfully FREAKING out.

I think at career day though she realized this could be a big stopper in any school/career progress.

She even tried to host a gathering of her mischief club at the ruins and A)It was raining, B)She went into LABOR.

But we ended off with our THIRD GEN already! Given these are pretty extraneous circumstances.

Which turned into some more kisses

And a few days later I get THIS popup, which in my head is basically Auburn breaking down and being like "Well I spend so much time here anyway, maybe it's better for the campaign..." Uhuh babe sure.

And they only started dating AFTER this, leaving some new year conversations from Thorne battling his inner demons about how he's been in relationships before but he didn't want that and Auburn has to just patiently sit there like. Babes. I'm here. I've BEEN here. You're STUCK with me. Boy already had to be patient to deal with Thorne in a business sense.

ALSO. Titian went out to see her mom briefly (for social butterfly aspiration purposes mostly. But also story)

At one point, I had just, at random, moved Sunny out to live with the Pleasant sisters in Britechester. It actually took me a minute to recognize that she hadn't left but that the household was. Uh.

ANGELA MARRIED BOB AND THEY ALREADY HAVE 3 CHILDREN??? ALSO-

SUNNY got married. To a guy I'm pretty sure is ALSO one of Thorne's exes. I guess we know how they know each other?? (Actually canon-wise they did probably go to college together, that was a big portion of Thornes Ho era)

...They don't seem to be doing very well, though. Sunny is adorable, but the girl can be A Lot.

Still the fear of being cheated on lol. Now though it's kind of cute bc Thorne's trying to change so I'd imagine he'd feel like he almost deserves some karmic retribution.

Speaking of I invited over some loose ends and this is how Thorne decided to ask them to be Just Friends THIS IS MY SAFE ZONE YOU CANNOT ENTER MY SAFE ZONE

Tish, meanwhile, has been just. Going out. Her CHILD friend invited her to the gym after an energized text, which is really funny out of context of that being a regular game mechanic It still kind of is because WHY is it like that?? You'd think a kid would be like "you wanna go to the playground?" or "you wanna play at my house?" But nah. Get them gains, kids. Even though you can't even use the equipment. - Also I found the hair I wanted!

One of her closer friends was apparently a bit older because he became a teen, and he also did this lol

I think it fits, though. I feel she'd be pretty precocious and probably just going everywhere early on bc her dad is really permissive.

He's kind of focused on THIS cutie. His name is Auburn. He's a lower level work friend who Thorne kind of took under his wing. Even though it's not a game mechanic, I'd imagine he's like Thorne's assistant/ campaign manager.

Cute lil domestic moment of everyone cooking. They're still more friends than anything so it's gon' be a slooooow burn <3

But gosh I can't resist making them flirt a bit.

ALSO. Thorne got a mid-life crisis AND a work rival.

Listen, lady. All I'm sayin is I know my kid needs to witness a death.

(Nah I'm gonna befriend her and convince her to do her dream job lol)

I made him a prospective love interest for this :3 But I'll introduce them after the two actually meet.

ANOTHER birthday for Titian, I swear this is going so fast ;m; I tried a birthday event. Again. And hired a caterer to try and prevent catastrophe, only to have mom decide she's gonna bake the cake HERSELF

I swear this feels like an AITA post, somehow lol I got bronze. Again. BUT Titian did still get to blow out birthday candles! I swear I downloaded more curly ginger cc for kids, maybe it just didn't load, but I decided she was destined to be the Weird Girl who thinks she's a wolf/fox.

Totally not projecting onto this kid. No siree.

All in all though I do love creating a Weird Girl type. It also totally suits this generation.

And yes, there are identical versions of the outfits without a hat.

Aslhjklds- BRO.

YOU HAVE BEEN WITH HALF THE TOWNIES IN THIS GAME.

It's the projection for me, lol.

On a lighter note, even though Sunny is still really sour toward Thorne, she still occasionally comes over to visit Tish and it's adorable.