Slumber-sims

It wasn't about the doll.

I was thinking about Tank Grunt's secrets in TS2 on PSP;

When Ripp took the doll from him, knowing that Buzz has 0 interest points in toys, and it being a doll, I imagine Tank must've been too afraid to ask his father to tell Ripp to give her back to him...

The doll was only one of the ways in which Tank tried to be in tune with his feminine side, all of which were either taken away from him or turned into a negative association

Him wanting to go into ballet but being forced to follow his father's footsteps is another example, and I personally find it lovely to see that in contrast to this, in TS2 on DS and on GBA he wears the pink shirt 🩷

And then there's the face paint...

Note that in TS2 on DS we find out from Tank that his face paint apparently is tattooed on and doesn't come off... I could be wrong but was THAT the punishment?

Think about how his face paint looks identical in TS2 on PC, PSP, DS as well as GBA and even in TS4 he appears with his family, where we can see that his father no longer has the lines on his cheeks, but Tank ... still has the face paint U.U

Honorable mention: in TS2 on GBA one of our first interactions with Tank is regarding him thinking that we are going to judge his apparel, presumably the pink shirt mentioned above, and this makes me wonder if his father's 0 interest points in fashion as well maybe made him view fashion (let alone the color pink) as something 'too feminine'...

...especially considering Tank has all the same interest points as his father

I drew Kalamainu'u Iona!!

A Theory on What Happened to Bella Goth...

While replaying Strangerville I realized something...

It is pretty clear that aliens are in some way involved in the Strangerville incident; if not for the "explosion that caused the crater", or all the curio-merch referencing ufo-s, or even the following table lamp from the High School Years EP referencing the Strangerville (now retired) Pilot George Cahill having designed said lamp with an "unclear source of inspiration" when the lamp is shaped like- and named after a saucer;

;it made me wonder how exactly they could have been involved, and that's when I discovered this sentence uttered as a response when you try to speak with infected sims in Strangerville:

"Our Mother" obviously refers to the Mother Plant, but while beauty is subjective, she doesn't wear a red dress... but maybe at some point she did...

This begs the question: who in the sims-universe do we know of who is famously dressed in red, and who isn't just beautiful, but her name literally means the word "beauty"? That's right: Bella Goth!!! Now, bear with me here; In The Sims 3 there is a Dance Sphere which (with upgrading) has an option for sims to "enter dimensional gate" If one does this, there is a chance that the following chance cards show up:

A theory I have regarding Liberator.exe...

Another grave in the cemetery in sims 2 on PSP has written in its epitaph that "RJ finally left the saloon". Note that the grave is the only one there that has a gravesite, it's special, meaning RJ must've been beloved...

Here's Misty Waters!!! O:

Here's Dusty Hogg!!! O:

I do appreciate that the urbz are just this

Also he is featured on Plopsy in The Sims 4, again under the name Dale...

"please...please find my children..."

this is Alice the weeping mother from the new Life and Death pack <3 🥺