KINWOVEN

Hello! Welcome to my TS4 story/gameplay simblr! ✨

Kinwoven is a gameplay-driven serial story, following the adventures (and misadventures) of my Sims as they navigate personal plotlines, build relationships, and get tangled up in the wider lore of the Sims 4 universe. Expect drama, twists, and plenty of Sims-style chaos. I hope you enjoy the ride!

Enter Kinwoven ➺

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had some bird troubles... pigeons flying around the dining room like they own the place. No I have no idea how they got in there 🧐

Anyway, hello again frens, I am back and I come bearing gifts with actual new Kinwoven posts in my queue! 😁 Well, maybe also some gifts. I've made some cc items that I've been meaning to share for ages but my perfectionist self wants to make sure they're super clean and nice first. We'll see if I actually get around to getting those together at some point 😅

I'm actually making some progress on Chapter 2 (Paradise) now - finally found some time & energy. 😊 And I've decided I'm definitely gonna go with my original idea for Chapter 3, because although the mod I need to use for it (All Worlds Are Residential) is still kinda broken (because EA changed the way their code works), it's still being updated by Zerbu to be semi-stable. So I'll be fulfilling my previous bear promises after all~ 🐻 Next Kinwoven post will be up right after this one! And the one after that, probably tomorrow or the day after. I'm on a bit of a writing roll at the moment so at least for a little while there shouldn't be huge breaks between posts. 😊

I had so much fun creating these mockups of Kinwoven as a Netflix series, using these awesome Netflix templates by @seungnm! 💗

(The "episode" of Kinwoven featured in these mockups is here 😁)

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hello frens, a few updates, mostly complaining about things 🙃

That big patch that came out on August 19... omg. It broke so many script mods 😭 I create a lot of my Kinwoven story through gameplay and because of that, I rely on a lot of script mods to keep my game from becoming too chaotic. And that patch broke a whole lot of the mods I use 😣

There's one broken script mod that has significantly affected Kinwoven - that's Zerbu's "All Worlds Are Residential" mod, which, according to Zerbu's discord, "there is no known fix for at this time." My entire planned setting for Chapter 3 of Kinwoven was Granite Falls, and using Zerbu's mod I completely edited the entire world and added resident characters who live there (a little while ago I posted some teaser screenshots of some of those builds & Sims). And... because my loosely planned events for Chapter 2 (the current story I've been posting) were supposed to lead into that Granite Falls storyline, I've had to come up with some revisions, and I've been worldbuilding for a different Chapter 3 plotline elsewhere. So... maybe no shady bear will be involved anytime soon 😔 I'm still kinda holding out hope for an update to the mod... in the meantime, if anyone knows of another mod that makes vacation worlds residential, let me know!

Anyway... here's a peek at some of the worldbuilding I've been doing for my (potential) Chapter 3 plot pivot ~

some more complaining about my ongoing battle against reality under the cut ⤵

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Yayy, another patch 🫠 If your Mods folder is as ridiculously huge as mine, patch day = a hellscape of broken mods and Last Exception spam. I thought I might share something that makes patch days slightly more bearable for me. It's a script I wrote to make Windows scan the script mods (TS4SCRIPT files) in my Mods folder and generate a report that looks a bit like this:

(I cropped the tables in this image of my report, because I have a lot of script mods 😅)

The report doesn't tell you what script mods are actually broken, but it does give you a good idea of what script mods you probably want to check/update first when there's a patch, where they're located, and what date you installed/updated them. It also gives you other info, like what script mods you might have accidentally placed too deep inside your Mods folder to work. You don't need to download anything for this - it's just a script I wrote to make Windows generate the report for you as an HTML file.

Under the cut: How to make Windows spit out info about your script mods to save you time on patch days 🪄 ⤵

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Valentino & Julietta Paradise

Oof, it's been a month since I was last here. 😞 There's several not very fun reasons for the absence including work/money stress and various mental health things. For my fellow ADHDers, you're probably familiar with that moment when your brain just goes "nup, not doin it" and sits itself down like a stubborn child on the floor of a busy supermarket in full protest mode 🙄 The ever-frustrating too-many-things-to-deal-with ADHD freeze 😣 Anyway, I'm managing better now that life-related things have settled down a bit. 😊 I've been catching up on stories here - omg I've missed so much good stuff and I couldn't stop reading; it's been hours and I still have tons of posts I wanna catch up on 😅 So I'll be doing more of that this week 😁💗

I've actually got some new Kinwoven posts ready to queue up. 😁 I'm gonna switch to posting my story updates twice a week (with a couple timezone reblogs cos I live in the upside down hemisphere 🙃). That should give me a bit more breathing room with less risk of imploding under my own plotlines. I've done a ton of worldbuilding recently though, and created several new characters for the next chapter, Paradise — which will make its debut, finally, this Friday 😁🎉

I've put lots of mysterious teaser images under the cut below, foreshadowing the upcoming antics in Kinwoven's next chapter. 🧐

Yes, there is a bear. He is a real bear (definitely a real bear). He currently serves as the Member of Parliament for Granite Falls — and I cannot stress this enough, he is, in fact, very much a real bear. 🐻

Bears. Builds. Battlestar Galactica ⤵

I was tagged by @simstagramsomeone - thanks for the tag, lovely! 🥰 I decided to make a mood board for Perdita, because the next chapter of Kinwoven will be focused on her (along with some side shenanigans 🙃)