Julius and Leo have been spending most of their time since the end of the whole school explosion ordeal together.

Julius has been enjoying the fact that his parents are alive and well, but quickly came to realize that actually living with them was getting to be too much at times. So he and Leo are now living together.

Leo, for his part, has been giving some exercise classes at the Stoneshields gym, earning a bit extra money and helping people stay in shape at the same time.

Let the games begin!

#111 for @aondaneedles: From the final decorating stages for the BaCC, this is an interior shot from Whitestone Castle showing the fancy fourth floor bathroom. I think I actually posted this one already, but apparently I somehow forgot to move it out of my Fraps folder. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#150 for @palewitchchild: This was an extra pic from the Blackbirds’ first rotation that I didn’t know how to fit into the other photosets. It’s one of the hood’s townies, Old Al, out and about and looking pretty, uh, primal, while at it. 😅

#7 for @astraeanevermore: All abroad the nostalgia train! :’D This is a top-down pic of my old contemporary hood, taken shortly before I decided to tear the whole thing down and start a medieval fantasy BaCC. I wanted to keep it around for memory’s sake but could never really find an excuse to post it… until now, anyway!

#75 for astraeanevermore: Another extra one from Whitestone Castle. I took way too many pics of that lot. :’D

#353 for astraeanevermore: Future blip! This is actually from a rotation I haven’t gotten around to posting yet (it’s that one extra day I had with the Moonfeather household), but I figured it’s not that spoilery so it made the cut anyway. ;) Payday for Ambrose, aw yiss!

1. Your first OC ever? Sparkle is my first OC.... she was originally made as a white cat in an oooold Facebook game, called Pet Society R.I.P. She was originally made as a male cat called Spike, but within the first week of playing, I realized there wasn’t much clothes available for male pets in the game, so I turned him female, but wanted to keep the name with an ‘Sp’ sound, and Sparkle was simply the first that came to mind. After said FB game closed down, I moved my characters to Sims 2, and later sims 3 where they stay. 4. A character you rarely talk about? Hm, when you have as many characters as I have

Today has been frustrating. That’s all I’m going to say. Well, it started off nicely, I did something I was proud of. Then it went kinda downhill. I’m probably going to make it even worse as soon as I post this...there’s this thing I’ve been thinking about for the past few days. Considering I’m soooo good at communication and expressing my feelings, it’s going to end up great, you can bet.

Sarcasm aside, let’s talk about my legacies: 

I just queued the rest of part one of Gen 6! It’ll run for like 40 more days though.

After that, I’ll finally post the first generation of my BPR, almost a year after starting it. I know what you’re thinking, I’ve been posting TS3 for months, I should switch back to TS4 now, it would be fair, and yes, I thought about that too. But I kinda really want to get rid of the BPR. Gen 1 is finished and I don’t want to keep it to myself anymore.

As for gen 3 of NSB, I haven’t been playing it too much recently. I’ll play it a lot in June though, I hope. As soon as the exam chaos is over.

I’ve also made some decisions about Roses, but I’ll talk about these later. There’s still a high chance I’ll change my mind.

Besides, when do I not make decisions about Roses? They’re on my mind way too often. It can’t be healthy.

Update: I’m still not done with my replies but I just got a message from my teacher, saying that I did well on the English writing exam! I don’t know the exact grade but yay me. I mean, I knew I was going to do well on this one, but finally seeing I passed feels much nicer than “oh yeah, I’m confident about my English, there’s no way I can fail”. The way this exam system works...I was worried it wouldn’t scan properly or some crap. In the past, people had problems with that.

Update 2: Still writing the replies but I just found out that apparently I got 100% on the exam. Holyyyyy crap.

Here in Italy we have an ex politician, Vladimir Luxuria, who is a trans woman. Despite having been out for years, she's only had a few surgeries and for years her look was VERY androgynous. She's one of the people who's been fighting for giving italians trans people the right to get their documents changed without being forced to go through surgeries first. I wonder if these lovely people would dare to call her "a disgusting caricature" too?

a) Some of them probably would, because they’re assholes.

Happens to me too XD I can go for almost a month without posting anything sims related and gain 25+ new followers despite my blog being inactive... then, as soon as I go back to simming stuff, I lose 1-2 followers for each new sims post I share XD and I'm like... wut? XD I'm not even angry, I just wonder... why the heck did you guys follow a sims blog if you weren't interested in sims in the first place? XD

@vampireacademysims replied to your photoset “I went in-game to test my latest batch of downloaded cc, but then I...”

Holy sjdhasdjah!! HOW??

Or, more precisely, a cc cocktail consisting of Lowedeus’ moving clouds, iCad’ blue skydome recolor, the Custom post effects mod, Eva’s swooping dragon conversion and the Store Castle kit, with a wee bit of Photoshop thrown in for good measure. :) I don’t have too much cc in at the moment (still gathering stuff), but it’s simply amazing how far we can transform our game with just the right mix of mods, isn’t it? Seriously, all the love for the S2 community! <3  

@mdpthatsme replied to your photoset “I went in-game to test my latest batch of downloaded cc, but then I...”

Awesome!

@ove51 reblogged your photoset and added:

so wonderful!!!

@skyesims2 reblogged your photoset and added:

this is seriously the prettiest thing i have ever seen

vampireacademysims replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”

You-re creating more and more unreal images, it all looks sooo good!

@fyachii replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”

So beautiful, seriously.

@liberlibelula replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”

Oh god SO PRETTY!!

@ophidiaesims reblogged your photoset and added:

Oh, that’s lovely!

@deedee-sims replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”

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You guys are seriously so sweet I don’t even know what to say ;_____________;

spacetowaste replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”

can I just like - move into your hood *_*

digitalangels reblogged your photoset and added:

Can I just move in with your settlers?

@spacetowaste and @digitalangels, that depends - would you be willing to learn how to use medieval weaponry and magic to fight off enchanted beasts and malevolent spirits? Cause that’s kinda what I plan to put my poor settlers through, besides the classic ‘gains skills and gets promotions in order to unlock features’ BACC gameplay. I... have a sneaking suspicion that both my sims and I are biting off more than we can chew with this setup, but we’ll see how it works out in the end. :)

@astraeanevermore replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”

Woah! :O I swear I thought it was TS3 Dragon Valley at first :O it's so gorgeous! *O*

D’awww, thank you! ^___^ Dragon Valley was among my inspirations for this hood, so I’m glad to hear that it shows. I was honestly so happy when I found a conversion of that DV watchtower thingy for Sims 2; I basically told myself right away, ‘I have to find a way to fit this into my new hood somehow’... and then I remembered that I had added a tiny island with a lighthouse the last time I played this map. Replacing the lighthouse with the watchtower was all it took to give my new hood that lovely Dragon Valley vibe :D (well, that, and a whole bunch of other small tweaks and additions, but pshht, who’s splitting hairs).

@lilsisterg replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”

Beautiful! Do I see The Tree of Life?

Thank you, and good guess! ^____^ It’s not the Tree of life itself, but it is a functional tree by Sun&Moon (harvestable olive tree), so you weren’t too far off. :D  

@soloriya replied to your photoset “Welcome to Wyvern’s Bay, a (somewhat) plot-driven BACC with a magical...”

i can't believe it's ts2!!