mintvapejuice

about me

I love my sims characters so much, that I create stories to help them come to life. This is a place where I'll be sharing some screenshots as an extension of storytelling. I do like to create custom content sometimes.

my content

my sims | custom content | Q&A/wcif answers

socials

TikTok | Patreon | Twitter

pose moments only we know by [willowsworld]

it's been so much fun seeing Tomo as a toddler running around in Taiga and Gin's house now. He looks so much like Buford to me now. They've been enjoying the warm weather in Taiga's back garden.

absolutely adore everything @/wotunciba comes out with, these bangs are an absolutely dream come true݁ ⋆⭒˚.⋆

𑣲⋆｡˚ little day out for these two ~

Dear Gin,

your strong presence somehow makes the transition between winter and spring so much more beautiful than it already is.

I catch myself looking to you, and watching the navigation of your red eyes instead of the of the blooming of spring surrounding me.

When you are around, it is as if you are breathing the life back into me;

how lucky I am to know you in this lifetime

if someone turned the lights off, what would I do?

Taiga's Dream..

" They say flowers bloom where people fall, maybe that's why this one feels so familiar. It all slips through, just like always. "

Has someone taken your faith?

Gin sets his ipad aside on the kitchen table and neatly tucks his chair away. Lifting his arms up wide for a stretch, he gazes over at the clock on the kitchen microwave just to realize it's nearly 2am in the morning.

he finds himself navigating to a softly lit orange room to climb into his side of the bed next to Taiga. As he opens the door gently, Taiga perks up:

"Are you coming to bed?"

Gin sits down on the edge of the bed and replies quietly, "Yea, I finished up that fashion spring article on my blog- why are you still awake? Are you having a hard time falling asleep again?"

"No..." she whispers; and lies.

Gin wraps up Taiga in his arms "Well... Then I hope you weren't waiting for me to join you in bed; you know my work requires a lot of my time... I can't always predict my schedule, I need to be ahead of others."

Taiga contradicts; "I know, it's not that... I'm just glad you're here."

She buries her face in his plaid shirt, gently caressing him while closing her eyes. For a moment she pictures the face of Buford, his warmth caressing her back. The faint smell of orange blossoms brings her back to reality; glitching back to Gin's face and present energy.

Although they never discuss the topic amongst themselves; Gin knows that Taiga is still dealing with the remnant feelings from the loss of Buford. His intuition doesn't fail him, and in his mind he knows exactly why Taiga is awake.

He never brings it up - but in this moment, he has a sting of jealousy. All he can do is prove himself to be her number one, rather than a second place to a ghost of a person he could never out-compete.

He holds her tightly while his heart races with ache and anxiety over the thought of Taiga potentially not loving him to her fullest.

"I love you more than anyone else in the whole world..." these misdirected re-affirming words said aloud to her seemed to ease his nerves.

They were words that Gin so deeply had wished to be said to him...

𑣲 and you still bet all your odds on me ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .

"and to think you still love me unconditionally, even though things have never been in our favour. is this version of me the most suitable for this version of you?

our love has always been a reflective mirror that cracks in the sudden temperature change

where do you find the strength in your heart to look past it all, and still bet all your odds on me..?" - Gin

The new hair I use for Taiga is Hazel hair by Atomiclight

forewarning it has some major clipping issues with hats

˚ʚ💄ɞ˚ beautiful moles collection

I needed more beautiful moles in my CAS. So I decided to take my ipad out, and make me own skin details; and obviously share it with you guys as well!

There are 4 different types of mole designs and 2 different shades for each design [faded/bold]. So you should see 8 swatches total in your CAS.

no smoke with no fire 🔥

screenshots from my most recent video

deep in your soul -☁︎

Another override for infants mint? Absolutely - yes.

The default EA infant spoon was really jumpscare, and needless to say she needed to go. So I pulled out my ipad and drew over it and created some cute new colour swatches. -`♡ ´-

package files are named according to the colour swatches in the image above.

[ download link ]

hey! here's the posepack:

56. High attitude chair by The Serenade Of Shadows

i know you recently answered questions ab your shaders and lighting mods on ur tt, but i was wondering what shader effects you use? im really new to the game and im trying to understand how everyone makes their sims so soft/blended and cozy-looking 😭 thank you!! (this is my first time doing a tumblr ask so I hope this is okay 💗)

Hey there! I'm so honored to be your very first tumblr ask! ٩(^ᗜ^ )و ´-

I'm so glad you find my content enjoyable, that always puts a smile on my face. A lot of the aesthetic boils down to the skin overlay you use on your sim, and also your in-game lighting mods - and importantly your reshade/gshade preset.

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This is currently what I use:

- reshade [software that allows you to have a filter]

- reshade preset

- relight

Lighting mods:

- better in-game lighting by NSW

- noblu

- noglo

- sunblind

Skin overlays -> honestly, I use a lot of northern siberia wind's skin overlays and genetics; so I would start here.

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Pinterest is a great resource as well for finding reshade/gshade presets, skin details, overlays and other custom content that might be up your alley to find your "sim style". You can search: "sims 4 [insert cc you're looking for]" and a lot of resources will pop up. Just be weary where you download your cc from I would stick to patreon downloads until you are more comfortable downloading custom content. As some sites can be sketchy.

I hope this is helpful to you! Happy simming!

hey there! I'm so glad to hear you've been liking my content so far, that means so much to me. ♡ all builds showed on my socials have been builds I've put together myself; since I play the same household, I like to do other stuff in the sims that stimulates the feeling of "doing something different" for my own gameplay purposes. [this keeps me engaged in my own content, and breaks feelings of boredom]

I will likely never put any builds up for download, I think it gets too messy re-uploading cc from a creator term of use perspective and it's a really big task listing and linking each individual item. However, I do have some cc free shell builds up on the gallery via [EA ID: stinkysnail421] that might interest you! [I do plan on adding more in the future]

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If you're wondering "mint, how do you go about building your lots??" - my answer is I love to look at real buildings on Pinterest when I have an idea in mind. I'll usually make a vision board for a certain type of lot I want to create, and typically take elements from those real pictures I see. I deeply feel taking elements from life, it really helps me to create a sense of life in my game.

I really hope this was helpful to you ♡

lingering feelings .