An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
It’s kind of normal, I keep missing my updates around social media about fanfics 😂 I also just noticed we could directly share from Ao3 and Wattpad onto Tumblr....What did you miss the first Six chapters? Well, their flight to Ireland takes a turn and they land a bit far away from where they were supposed to go....
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: The Sims (Video Games)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Parker Langerak/River McIrish, Parker Langerak & River McIrish
Characters: Parker Langerak, River McIrish, Kaylynn Langerak, Michael Bachelor, Fiona McIrish, Original Human Character(s)
Additional Tags: Sunset Valley (The Sims), Europe, Roadtrip, Adventure, year 2016, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Slow Build
Summary:
River moves away to Ireland to assist her mother during a family issue. She and Parker happen to attract each other before the day she leaves. Parker who convinced her to follow her mother appeared by River’s house to confess his love to her and both share a kiss. Now both have a reason to wait for each other.... Or had, as their lives got busy and each followed a different path.
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Ecofinisher's crediting list for the "Ecofinisher 2.0 Sims 4 Game File"
About two months ago I think, I was thinking about wanting to do another save file again on Sims 4, but I didn’t know when exactly. During a procrastination moment I got into with fanfic writing, I took a small break and did other things, got from a work friend a couple of notebooks since she knows I love to write and I wrote down something I dreamt once wondering if it could be turned into a plot…..then as it was actually something for Sims, I thought about writing it down as a family summary. Around that week, I gathered more ideas and noticed down, what I had in mind to do. From an instruction video, I read the many variations people used in their save files and I decided to use the content only from the gallery. Content made by other Simmers. There are a few families out there, that I still created or downloaded from my starter-times in the game, because it wasn’t enough or I didn’t have any family in mind to fit the plot.
Notes:
- This save file contains objects and clothings from the following pack: Get To Work, Cats and Dogs, Werewolves, My first pet (Free/UTB free) and Holiday Celebration (Free/UTB free).
-The following worlds were used in the save file: Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, Newcrest, Magnolia Promenade, Brindelton Bay (1 new lot, the rest remains the same), Moonwood Hill. (1 new family is located there)
-The game should be free from any CC. There’s a possibility, that it could have something I have missed.
- I recently installed MasterController and some things I have fixed with it, rather than manually. *coughs* career.promote-cheats….you know, that way.
Moving on, here is the link, and it's packed inside a ZIP-file with a PDF file of all the buildings I screenshotted straight from the gallery with the original creator's name. The screenshots were too many for this single post only and it would be annoying to make more posts solely for that. The PDF file consists of 30 pages, but most of the sheets are just screenshots and the family that lives in it.
On the rest of this post, I have the crediting list for the households I downloaded from the Gallery. Go under the cut to check the screenshots out.
Link via Sims File Share
Click down here:
Households
The Alto family. The red-marked is the original one from the gallery from user gemz123. The one you'll find in my game has base-game content only. I only have the mentioned packs above and tried to stay closer to the original.
The Alvi-McIrish household. (McIrish are based on the mother-daughter duo from Ts3's Single Moms household and the Alvi are the ones with the single divorcee Dad from Sunset Valley) I had the Alvi's saved a long time ago in my gallery and I couldn't track back the right creator. I assume it was hestiah23. I only remember redesigning their clothes back then. McIrish as seen in the red square was made by gemz123.
From gemz123 I have gotten her parents. As far as I know, the user hasn't made its own version of Blair as far as I know. So my current favorite version of Blair is from this user mentioned in the image. (Oh I also took screenshots to facilitate for everyone, when looking for those versions on the gallery.
Taken from my other save file I shared back in 2023. Here you see hestiah23, the original creator and the clothing were put into owned games to prevent them from being "naked" (Oh and Judy's a scientist, lol I forgot about that)
The Goode and Bad household from Twinbrook. Ah from the last sales I bought Ambitions and played with them. (It was the only family I was familiar with 😂Wish I had got the game earlier)
Where are my former PSP gamers at? Do you all remember Annie Howell, the bar girl? I remembered her existence and had to add her in the game as well, knowing that she was a werewolf in the game and I had the pack as well! TengGong had made a great Sims 4-version of them. If you own said packs, you're definitely going to enjoy having them in your game. I had to go with what I had and follow somehow the PSP design.
I had a different plot for them, but changed at a later point. I was meant to focus on either Kaylynn or Parker, but ended up getting the idea to make Iliana "the main character" Iliana being the workaholic we know suddenly finding herself lost and needing to find her way back to reality. The Langeraks and Zelda are shared separatly, but were made by the same user. Also gemz123. The dog is from the user rnr1975 and is the house dog of Iliana and served as her therapy dog during her low days. I picked a Leonberger, which only exist in the gallery by other users as the game didn't own one in the breeds list.
The Jones-Brown family. Also from Twinbrook. They're not part of the plan, they are homeless. I thought about adding Jenni, because of the summary of the Goode and Bad household.
Yeah, I gave Mortimer parents in the game. They're also from the gallery, just one of the two happens to be dead now. - They also are dressed differently in the game. Very hideous, sadly :/ If you got the packs above, you'll get this look as DolphinSimmer13 made 😍
The Ritchi household. (In other names "The Megamind household)
They were both variations of them alone or together already. I preferred these two versions from two different users and set them together in the game. Roxanne doesn't need a lot of packs and Megamind is base game, so you wouldn't have a problem, when downloading them from the gallery.
The Sekemotos - OK, in the game they live separately. Yumi lives in a smaller house in Newcrest and Leighton is located in Oasis Springs with his toddler Sam. Everyone's favorite "legacy daddy" lives just like in the OG Sims 3 as a single Dad, just he might be interested in someone in this new town. If something is going to happen between them in the future.....it's up to you.
The Ursine household - Like girl, screw Jared Frio and everything, that happened in Sunset Valley. Take your daughter to a new place and raise her on you own. You have seen in life more men and women were doing the same with their kids and it's possible. Also from gemz123 - Simmers, seriously all his Sims 3-inspired Sims look so close to the original. This user so far has impressed me with how detailed the results were.
The Wainwrights - Owning the Get to Work park, they deserved to make an appearance somewhere in the game as well. "Eco, what idea did you even have for them? People barely know them?"
I stuck with the same plot as in Sims 3, just it progressed here 😂 I had read recently, that Oasis Springs is basically Strangetown, so....military, science freaks, weird shit.....why not?
Ok Ignore the name there, I had to remove their original kids from the save file and that was just my "emergency save name" - Just in case I save households during CAS, because you know.....freezes, crashes and mostly at the wrong moment. Luckily nothing has ever happened to me in the past weeks, but you never know. (As an avid fanfic writer I learned to press CTRL-S every 10 seconds to avoid trouble 😭)
They live separately in the game. Thornton had an affair with Jamie, while being married to Morgana. Both women figured it out and broke his heart and became friends. What happened next? Guess, who fulfilled Morgana's deepest desires? 😏
The Mysterious guys! People might look at the bio and wonder.....hmm they seem familiar, others would be.....some weird-ass looking Sims.....then you enter the game and notice one or two other Sims and realize......THOSE ARE FAMOUS SOCCER PLAYERS! I picked the ones, that went into my head first. (Of course, Messi and Ronaldo would be part of it xD Kinda obvious) They're also from different users, so I'm sharing all Sims separately and adding the RL picture of the players.
Yassine Bounou, created by Simmer Ruit43
Based on: Yassine Bounou a.k.a Bono - Morocco's goalkeeper
Erling Haaland, created by ENTjungferer
Based on: Erling Braut Håland - Norwegian Soccer Player
Kylian Mbappé, created by maudhuy
Based on: Kylian Mbappé - French Soccer player
Cristiano Ronaldo, created by maudhuy
Based on: Cristiano Ronaldo - Portuguese Soccer player
Lionel Messi, created by maudhuy
Based on Lionel Messi - An Argentinian Soccer player
Ecofinisher's crediting list for "Ecofinisher's Sims 4 BASE GAME file"
This is my game file with the ideas and dramas I have put up together to make it more…..interesting.
I’ve seen various Simmer do them, some created every little thing on their own, others did use gallery stuff or edit existing buildings and I did somewhat both. I’m not very talented with buildings and tend to download other places or just use the existing ones and change it up.
I am also quite used to play with the existing Sims or ones from the gallery and from hearing about this with the sharing of game files I thought about making one too. I don’t expect it to be perfect, but I could put my ideas on it. Normal and crazy ones (I’m pretty sure in-laws crushing on each other is crazy, right?)
This save was actually started back, when I had three other packs active and would use anything. Youtuber "savythatsimmer" mentioned something about, the lack of base game files, so I changed my mind and tried to use only base game stuff, but it was challenging to me to not accidentally pick them. Sometimes I read how to “deactivate them” and did so to facilitate my job to use base game content only. It might contain something from the Christmas pack, which I ACTUALLY did remove, but it keeps showing me, that I’m using an object from there when I’m not. It was either a glitch here or I couldn’t really find it, which is weird, cause most of the time it was about a bracelet. If anyone gets a notification about that pack missing, it won’t be a big chance like a shirt or something.
Here’s the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k2foELAi1NENgrd4Y3yHG_f672OVBv-9/view?usp=drive_link
or
The difference between version 1 and 2 is only, that in the first I forgot to complete the summaries of the existing buildings.
If anything doesn’t work, feel free to tell.
The following listed buildings I used were created by other users and I will list them down here in case you’re interested to look for their original creator.
I do have also Sims I used from the gallery, mostly the ones based on Sims 2/3 characters. Mainly, because they looked better, than my own creations. (Althought the River McIrish one I made once was hot for a Sims 4 character xD But I wanted her to look closer to her, you know…..)
Other Sims I made by myself are newer creation, others are based by my old sims or foreign media. (Cartoons and all)
House Plan B (Inhabited by the Furtado family) (c) xoGerardine
Tilelicious (Inhabited by Iliana Langerak) (c) blondemaniac
Base 35k family home (Inhabited by LOL) (c) lilsimsie
Birch Cabin (Inhabited by the Blackwood household (c) Dippy Designs
Quick family home (Inhabited by the Rolloos) (c) lilsimsie
Pet Starter (Inhabited by the Sheppard household (c) HARIBOWS
London Townhouse (Inhabited by Cosplay Chicks) (c) FurryCassidy2021
The Hive (Inhabited by Zelda Mae) (c) Martacatarino
Single Moms: Asilomar (Inhabited by Zaczkowky clan) (c) OG: lilsimsie/ Current: staceymoonkenzie
Minimalist Basegame (Inhabited by the Single Moms household (c) MDR-CA
Bulkhead (Inhabited by Langerak Jr. family) (c) blondemaniac
Big Basegame Mansion (Inhabited by Wolff family) (c) DeadlyBloodRoses
IKEA SIMS (A furniture store) (c) Emmateitsma
Musical Castle Hall (A music-themed museum) (c) fatwolf54
Flor da Magnolia (A castle with a park) (c) diogoneves35
I like to move it (Fitness center) (c) karalianne
Nightclub Orion (Nightclub) (c) MAXIS
Used Pre-Created Sim-characters by MAXIS
-Don Lothario
-The BFF household
My own created Sims (Before creating the game file)
-Diogo (Da) Costa (Based after a Sim of the same name)
-Jake Furtado (Based after a Sim of the same name)
-Nathaniel Kurtzberg (Based after a Miraculous character)
-Lila Rossi (Based after a Miraculous character)
-Marc Gaiman (Facilitated version of an existing LGBT-Sim)
-Davy Linnell (Based after an NPC-Sim of The Sims 3)
-The Langerak-Goode household (Based on the household of the same name from Lunar Lakes)
-The Norgay Household (Based after the trio in DreamWork’s Abominable)
-Ruby Langerak (In-game born + edit daughter of River McIrish & Parker Langerak)
-Kari Clavell (In-game born + edit daughter of Xander Clavell & Ayesha Ansari)
-Guillermo Caliente (In-game born + edited son of Dina Caliente & Diogo Costa)
-Jake Wolff (DNA-generated in CAS. Son of Morgana/Thornton Wolff)
-Johnny Furtado (DNA-generated in CAS. Son of Jamie Jolina & Jake Furtado)
-Emil and Jonas Alto (Science-babies. Sons of Vita/Nick Alto)
-Arthur Jr. and Jake Langerak (DNA-Generated in CAS. Sons of Arthur Langerak & Gloria Goode)
Other Simmer’s creation based on Sims 2-3 characters
Sims 2
-Caliente Sisters (c) Mizzystace
Sims 3
-Ayesha Ansari (c) ToriGlory
-The Alvi family (c) DianaTheMad
-The Alto (c) 6cac182574f19e03
-Bert Alto (c) presumed to be 6cac182574f19e03
-Jamie Jolina (c) Dawwno (OG), Edited by liamdixon1
-The Wolff family (c) presumed to be 6cac182574f19e03
-The Langerak family (c) Omri147
-The Clavell family (c) Vit_DM3994
-The Hart family (c) hestiah23
-The Bunch family (c) hestiah23
-The McIrish family (Single moms household) (c) hestiah23
-The French family (Single moms household (c) MegKatt
Bonus: Inspiration for my own creations for the save file
PARTY GIRLS
Based on how I and my extroverted friends would be like, if we actually lived in a commune. Names and nationalities are changed and multicultural. Used google as well.
ROLLOOS
Googled Dutch names and picked random ones.
MCKENZIE
Last name I got from some random person on Facebook. Name should have an opposite meaning. Sim Angel came out randomized like that. 3 kids are named after Sims 4 soundtracks.
DEREK SHEPPARD
Random name.
ASTRUC-VOLKA
An old newspaper notification with similar story. Names came into my head randomly.
LAURENT
“Breed the ugly challenge”
SHEPPARD-GIRLS
The Miraculous love square, except the girl knows the cop’s identity, but he doesn’t know hers, because she’s a masked criminal. The Clavell household from my safe file.
COSPLAY CHICKS
The LOL-household.
ZATTAH
Googled for Greek names.
ORTIZ
Went into my head.
CHAVES
Went into my head.
MOONSPELL
Went into my head.
DARROW
Random, suggested family name in the game.
BARAKAT
Googled for Arabic family names
GAIMAN
To hint their sexuality.
HELSINKI/DRONNINGEN
Random Scandinavian-sounding names. The first names I took inspiration by the Snow Queen franchise.
DANIELA ALBERGHINI
Bella Bachelor’s Italian dubbed name. I also used the new Bella of EA, but made some changes to make a “fake Bella”
MCCALLISTER
Some channel aired Home Alone and well…..ask Kevin.
G-BAND
The name MBAND, which is a music trio with men.
TRAVOLTA-BENSON
Some movie I don’t remember the name, but John Travolta played in it along with Robin Williams. Benson came to a later point, when I watched Bee Movie advertisment.
HOFMAN
Random generated name by Sims 4. Nouns first names came into my head randomly and I googled for some. Summer Holiday’s name.
LOL-GAMER
Somehow I realized LOL also means “League of legends”
More Pregnancy interactions mod, but I excalated with the screenshots
Xander is REALLY excited he's going to have another kid again.
And at the same time, their kid crushes through the door. At least she wore a helmet. (*coughs* thinking why spelling lampe without sch means something bad...)
Aww :3
I'm running out of captions, but the last two pictures look HOT.
I made two, because I thought I missed something.
Así es la vida, si, that's just life baby.......sorry, I have no caption, but now a earworm from Youtube.
"Is breá liom tú" versus "jag älskar dig" - Which one sounds more romantic?
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I'm pretty sure playing Sims and having shipping obsessions isn't as healthy as solely doing one of them.
Ok, I actually wanted to have them dance under the moonight and by under the moonlight I mean IN THE SKY. It didn't work out the way I thought it would (By putting them on the 5th floor and erasing the floor. Even with cheats I couldn't delete the ground under their feet) So now they're just dancing by the waterfall.
Fun fact: The original song inside the radio (Custom) was actually a break up song, so I changed xD. I mean the song still fits in a way.
The picture "in the sky" 😐
Honestly, in some aspects, I would need to take 100 pictures to have the lighthouse shine into the fourth wall + an awesome pose. I would need more patient for that.
I had set in mind to use the pregnancy interaction during a "wedding scene" but after figuring out CC brides dresses (Or the ones I downloaded" don't show up on pregnant Sims my whole setup got ruined 🤡 Anyways, I took around 80 pictures and uh well....it's hard to pick a favorite 😂
Conheço o olhar, no seu rosto a dançar. É igualzinho ao que eu tento disfarçar.
She was wearing one of the ugly base-game dresses, so you don't really see anything by the angles I picked.
"Today I'm more confident thanks to you" - Wow this honestly doesn't sound anything romantic in English 😂 Moving on, I'm just adding the pictures, I didn't think of writing anything at all.
10/10 mood. It's understandable when you're sitting here in a video game for around 5 hours.....
Now that I see the chandelier there....we heard at work today that Sia song and I commented how awkward things would be, if you had to dub every song in existence into every country's language. Like imagine having to sing in German the refrain like: ICH WERDE SCHWINGEN AUF DEN KRONLEUCHTER. AUF DEM KRONLEU-CHTER! 😂 It would be amusing tbh.
"On what name do I have permission to call you by now?" .- Parker.
"The one that gives you goosebumps" (Oh this is random, the German word "Entenparker" means goosebumps as a old slang word 😂 Weirdly no ones knows about the word)
I thought she wore a different dress as I picked or no I think I changed my mind because of something.
My effort on trying to make a gorgeous bride: 67%
My effort on trying to make a gorgeous groom: 3%
They should be actually dancing at night, but I missed the night😂 Let's sell it as a one-nighter dance. If we can call it like this.
Two things are infinite. The Universe and Ecofinisher's Imagination.
Just a comparison picture down the rug.
I actually love River's natural look, but still gave her for the wedding a bit of color. I didn't go through a lot of hairstyles in MTS and only had in mind to have a hairstyle, that wouldn't be that long. I changed my mind in the end and used one of the hairstyles that came with Seasons and she actually looks good. (Coming from someone who knows nothing about make-up)
OK those were my pictures. They're still the most adorable thing I have done yet. (With them at least) ❤ If I get to know how to work with poses at some point, I sure will take more. Or actual put up screenshots of a "basic wedding"
I took advantages of the sales on EA and bought The Sims 3 seasons and I'm so happy, I bought it 😭 I would have bought it earlier, if I knew the game was this cool (*coughs" also previous laptop wasn't good enough, lol)
I can only share 30 images, so I pick the ones I liked the most. I only have experienced Halloween yet and the festivals, I'm curious to see, how Christmas and the other festives are like in the game.
AUTUMN
Kids preparing for Halloween cutting their pumpkins. Just like in normal Halloweens, your kids can go trick or treating alone or with friends. Adults can have costume party or do one by themselves. I was busy with the kids, so I didn't see the party yet, but I have seen, they get dressed in a random costume. (Weirdly I became a hot dog, which I like, but hated on my Sim xD)
ANY SEASON
I actually find this pretty amusing, when kids are the ones attending it 😂 Ah our girl Bella stuffing the hot dogs in her mouth as if she was stuffing Mortimer's.......Finish the sentence your way, cause I would get banned for that 😬
Water balloon fights
WINTER
Sports in winter seasons, we've get snowboarding and ice skating. The most adorable thing for me is the helping each other out feature 😍
And of course, failures are always accurate. (Mostly, when both don't know a thing about it)
Sports guy Michael doing a good job at snowboarding. (And he's polite!)
Building Igloos alone or with friends.
"Do you want to build a snowman?" Kaylynn Langerak......Wait, that's not her quote.....
Snow ball fights!
We all know Sims 2 has better details in graphic, but at least no 3 has better details, than Sims 4. (I should have screenshot our newborn baby being put inside the snow 😂 This is the funniest thing for me.
But at least, they don't freeze......
SUMMER
Ok, this works in real life in all seasons. As expected, Sims only can train Penalties. I think kids can play as well, I didn't think about trying it out.
THIS OBVIOUSLY BELONGS TO SUMMER......Eventually people go out on lower temperatures too? I don't know, I can't afford a whirlpool. (Yes, I made all couples get in and go naughty.....can they all woohoo at the same time? Probably not)
OK this is nothing special, but you get added new interactions and the "slow dance option" is the cutest one. 🤩 (TBH I want to see all my OTP-inspired Sims do this as well!)
Ok the spaceship is also cool as well 😂 I think I'm going to be using it quite more.
