Jayeless’ Sims

I'm not sure if any of this blog's followers are still active on Tumblr, but in case any of you are, I just thought I'd let you know I started getting back into playing the Sims and am planning to post my gameplay updates on Dreamwidth, where I find the interface more comfortable. To that end, I've started a brand-new legacy in The Sims 4, and I invite you to click over to the first instalment if you wish:

I have been putting a ton of time and effort into revising my languages though. I actually majored in Spanish at uni, and I’d sort of passively “kept it up” through social media and the like… but I’ve realised that outside of what you could call the language of public discourse, my vocabulary has deteriorated sooooooo much from what it was. And the less said about my Catalan, which I studied for TWO YEARS and can now barely string together a sentence in, the better…

As I think I said in one of those “five facts!” tag things, I’m a bit of a linguaphile, at least with the Western Romance languages. In the last two weeks I’ve been mostly focusing on Spanish and Portuguese, with a bit of practice of basic Catalan, French and Italian (of which only Italian feels really new, despite the seven years of primary school Italian classes I took haha). I’ve mostly just been using Duolingo and flash cards to practise, which is obviously far from thorough, but it’s kinda fun and better than not doing anything to keep that knowledge active!

Bit late, but I’ve got to make up for my queue running out somehow…

I’ve been tagged by both @daylightdisco and @sims4storiesandstuff to share a song that always lifts my room! There’s probably a lot of potential candidates, but one of the first songs to come to mind was Arctic Monkeys’ 505. It’s sweet, sentimental, and has a crescendo building throughout which I always like. Enjoy!

Ella and Joaquin have a rather tempestuous relationship… for example, Joaquin decided to multitask, reading his book while supporting Ella practising her comedy routines for work… but she was less than impressed. They end up doing a lot of this interaction:

Creeped out by the ghost of Morgan Fyres, and also fed up with having to live with her most hated sister India, Sierra decided to move to Oasis Springs with her Evil Aunt Ella, Evil Aunt Ella’s husband Joaquin le Chien, and their teenage son Victor.