#femmesim

May 22nd, 2017: I had been watching @lilsimsie‘s videos for a good few months now and I kept hearing her mention the fact that she had a Tumblr where she posted unedited screenshots of her Current Household, so I looked it up, and I was really interested by what I saw. I discovered an entire world of online creators, each so talented in their own right, and decided right then and there that I’d create one. 

Now, I had had the blog ‘TiredToothAche’ since maybe sometime in 2016, I’m not sure, but I never used it, and I debated creating another blog with a Sims themed name, but in the end I liked TiredToothAche too much to get rid of it. So I went onto the gallery, downloaded Kayla’s sim Dylan Vanderbilt, tweaked her to my then sim style, created a current household using the ‘new’ Dylan Benson and started uploading unedited pictures of her and her dramatic life.

I took awful screenshots and didn’t know how to edit, and for god's sake I didn’t even use my own sim! But I was enjoying myself...until it got boring. I was sick of my version of Dylan and her now boring life and wanted to create another household. 

It was around this time I remember following @femmesim. I was completely in awe of her writing skills, as well as her editing and the sims she created, and I adored the fact that she used the sims to convey a realistic story, it was such an interesting concept to me as I hadn’t seen it been done before then.

So low and behold, I again went onto the Gallery and found two sims, a typical teenage girl and a guy called John Styles. (Around this time I was also interested in starting the NSB challenge and I had made my founder. Realising I couldn’t play it until I got City Living, I made her mum and aunt, and I became so interested in their story and relationship I changed them into toddlers and created their parents, the original John and Kennedy). I tweaked these sims and as it was JFK’s birthday the day I ‘created’ them I incorporated him into the sims names, thus they became known as John and Kennedy Fitzpatrick. I decided I would start a story about the two, and I named it “Love to Death”, stupid ik. I got carried away, and instead of the story starting when they were teenagers, it properly began when they were children, and so started these six months of chaos.

Over time I came out of my shell, started chatting with people here and there and I developed a small amount of editing skills. I learned basic code and after many days eventually changed my theme to one I liked. This is when one of my favourite people in this world @littlemissnellie messaged me. Honestly, it’s one of the best things to ever happen to me. She asked me if she could use the theme I used, and we each helped each other with the coding (bc goddamn it's hard) and that was the beginning of a wonderful friendship. I’m so lucky to call her my friend and I’m so grateful for all she’s done for me in the past couple months I’ve known her. Eleanor is so kind and thoughtful and I can always go to her to obsess over musicals and rant about future plotlines etc...Thanks for being such a wonderful person El, ily ♥

Through her I met Elysia (@whiite-tea) and Molly (@surreysimmer), again, two of the most wonderful people I’ve ever had the pleasure to talk to. We’ve all become so close in such a short amount of time, it’s creepy really, and I know we were just meant to meet each other. 

Elysia is one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met, she never fails to make me smile or to brighten my day, and even if we don’t talk as much as we’d like to (stupid timezones) I know I can always count on her. Ily Elysia ♥

Molly is generally just incredible. She’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever met and she always brightens my day, no matter how shit it has previously been. She gives great advice and I know she’ll always be there when I need to rant or complain. Ily Mols ♥

Amber (@panda-plumbobs) is such a lovely, friendly person. I’m not actually sure how we began talking but I’m so glad we did. She’s always there to lift others spirits and to cheer people up when they're upset, and she always has a witty comment too, which is appreciated lol. She is so funny and just such a kind person. Ily Amber ♥

All my friends are such hard working, diligent, amazing people and I’m so lucky to have them in my life. They’re constantly inspiring me, encouraging me and supporting me and I really appreciate it. You guys are the best, thank you!