#julesbbsea17

The guy with the short blonde hair is Dina's father. I created him using genetics in CAS. And Adelyn (her toddler daughter) is just the cutest fucking thing. They have an infant daughter too, Mila, but I left her at home with a babysitter.

Something I love from this wedding: Chase was holding Adelyn when I told them to cut the cake. So he put her down, cut the cake, then went & picked her up again immediately after, which is why he's holding her while Dina feeds him a bite of their cake (which I didn't even tell them to do, & I love that he was able to hold Adelyn while Dina fed him cake 🥹)

Angel is in a rush to grow up

When I have to pose a lot of people, I put them all in random poses where they stand so they don't run off & do other stuff until I can get them where I want them.

Brock is a clingy kid

Tables are for standing on

Ghosts DJ'd the entire night, including a shift change

I have no idea what Morgan is doing, but she calls it dancing

How many mers can fit in a pool?

20 minutes in, me: These babies are making it impossible for me to write! The adults keep wanting to check on them while I'm trying to organize scenes and it's driving me nuts. I think I'm gonna move them out. I feel bad but I cannot fucking write.

After:

🤯 THANK FUCK I MOVED THE BABIES OUT! I did not think the space heaters would be dangerous in the game too. The babies would be dead because the game didn't give me the fire pop up notification until AFTER IT WAS EXTINGUISHED 😡

Decided after that to delete all the baby stuff in that room & turn it into a luxury cabin bathroom for romantic scenes with Yuki & her friend 😏 Bathtub in front of a fireplace? YASSSSS

I have the mansion in the DSV Hills. I've played this lot before, it's the same one my bachelorette gameplay was on (because it's the same mansion I used for it). I didn't have a problem of alien abductions when I played that. In fact I've never had a problem with alien abductions in the game. They just don't freaking happen to me, even with contacting aliens with the computer. But for some reason the aliens decided to make 3 out of the 12 people in this household their special interest. I didn't even take a picture each time it happened, but it happened soooooo often, especially to Jacoby. But he never came back pregnant either. It was so weird.

I got so sick of it that I found a mod that disables the abductions entirely & downloaded it. Like seriously, fuck off, y'all

Also was there a version of Wicked Whims that birth control didn't really work? At all? Because if there was, I have it. I'm behind on versions of that since I haven't updated my game in a while. But all 6 couples got pregnant even if they didn't have a condom break. I wondered if maybe I turned down birth control efficiency but nope! It's set at realistic. I don't understand, but the dopamine each surprise pregnancy has given me has been so worth it 😂

And now for some photos of the chaos of the Sims itself.

Why do they insist on watching the theater screen from movie hangout while standing up? Because this is what happens during a boring movie

Candy is over being pregnant (and pink lipstick goes so much better with her skin tone than the red they had her in)

I imagine this photo going something like: Candy: What the fuck are you smiling about? Orlando: I just love you

Infants are worth this insanity, I don't even care. They're the absolute cutest things in this game, ever. Except maybe kittens. The house currently has 5 infants. Infant insanity indeed but I'm only annoyed with the adults 😂

Dina got struck by lightning (and Orlando is like "why do you look like burnt rotisserie chicken?"). I now lock them in the house when it's storming because it's like they all run outside like excited puppies when it's storming. Also old style Dina Caliente looks GORGEOUS in this hair from Cats & Dogs (in a more realistic blonde shade, because wtf is the yellow playdoh hair color??)

Infants are apparently really heavy because Chase's arms broke carrying his.

For the first time in years I actually not only have stuck with a save until the couple were married, but also until they birthed the baby. I've held two weddings in the game with this save file, and have had 6 babies born. This was something my ADHD did not let me do before, ever since Mermaids first came to the game. I had my first mer couple & stuck with their storyline through 5 generations and ever since haven't been able to even stick with a save file until marriage & babies born. So this absolute madness is somehow working & also not making me rage quit 😂Also to be clear, I always play mers because I wrote lore for the occult. My ADHD got bored not because of that but because the game was no longer new & exciting after that massive first mer family storyline

Adalyn was born first, to Dina & Chase.

Ariana was born second, to Greta & Jacoby

Ashton born third, to Morgan & Corey, and is THE ONLY BOY. I've never had this happen, boys usually take over my Sim pregnancies. Also I realize several of the sims I'm referencing in this are not in anyone else's games but my own & I'm writing as if y'all know who the hell Corey, Jacoby, Peyton, Olivia, Orlando, & Chase are 😂

Angel was born fourth, to Candy & Orlando, and I realized at this point that I had chosen all A names

My favorite photo from Candy & Orlando's wedding 🥰

And the most recent baby in the house, Natalia, born to Charlene (Julia Wright but I changed her name to Charlene because Julia is too close to my own & it was weird for me) & Joaquin. Peyton & Olivia are still pregnant...

...but their baby will be arriving probably this weekend if not tomorrow night. The other wedding I held was Orlando's sister. I created Orlando years ago & had him saved in my library, and with this save file I decided to create his entire family too. Mom, Dad, 2 sisters, & a brother (which I regretted writing his family in as this large once I was in CAS because I don't like CAS very much). Oh I also built a new mansion for them & put it in San Sequoia since that's where I have Orlando's family & I loved writing the storyline while I had him & Candy "visiting" them for 2 weeks. I wanted more family style dialog & scenes with them. His older sister, Scarlett, married Rahul Chopra (Sorry, Rashida).

So I'm having a ton of fun & the dopamine is sooooooo good. The other baby born in the save file is to his sister & Rahul. As a doctor, Orlando delivered his own daughter because I couldn't figure out how to get another doctor to deliver Candy's baby (I thought the realistic childbirth mod telling me to use the surgery machine was gonna make her have a normal Get to Work hospital birth & I didn't want that so I kept yelling at my computer rather than looking up how the mod works), but after that I had him quit the career since he made it to the top & I'd rather him be home & available for writing with. But I put him in a doctor's coat & took him to the hospital with his sister so he could at least visit them in the room like he still works there 😂 His niece is named Dahlia.

The "Horses and Carriage" posepack by @herecirmsims was exactly what I wanted for this bride's arrival to my Castle wedding venue. I used a random sitting pose for the bride in the carriage, just raised the pose statue off the ground for it. The posepack worked beautifully for what I wanted, so thank you so much Herecirm!

Note: Ignore the freaking pennants on the building. I didn't feel like going into build mode again to place a decorating box to remove them (and when I did go into build mode again for more teleporter statues I completely forgot about it). It wasn't a holiday, I dunno why the hell the game decided to decorate the castle.

And Morgan looked GORGEOUS in her Sentate gown. I wanted a princess style wedding gown for her & this was perfect.

This pose from the "PS Love You" posepack by PradaPoses is a new favorite of mine for wedding photo shoots. It shows off both rings & is just beautiful & captures the intimacy of the moment. And I just absolutely love it.

This pose from "Day at the Museum" posepack by Beto is my all-time favorite for wedding photo shoots. It's elegant, it's beautiful, it's intimate, it conveys love & passion - I am head over heels for this pose.

The entire "Look at You" posepack by @simmireen is perfect for heart to heart pre-wedding chat scenes. Just beautiful & one I've been using heavily lately.

The Bride 2 & Groom 2 poses from @bohosimz "Wedding Collection - Ceremony Part 2" posepack has been a story saver for vow exchanges since Sims have such chaotic & weird animations in-game for exchanging vows. I just put them in this pose for the pictures then let them have their chaotic vow exchange after.

This is not how this pose is supposed to be - it's supposed to be from the side - but having the teleporter statue facing the camera they spin like this & I realized I absolutely LOVE having a picture like this. Zoomed in on the ringed hand on the back, I just love it so I use it pretty heavily. It's from the "Wedding" posepack by Beto.

And this is not a pose, I just wanted to share a tiny peek at my castle wedding venue because I love it so much, and those trees don't really disappear for pictures, which is such a huge pet peeve of mine with this game. I wanted the inside to look magical, fit for a princess, and those illuminated trees (I think from the Holiday Celebration Pack but maybe I'm wrong) were a perfect touch in my opinion.

Also shout out to some of the CC creators I used: @ekinege-sims @dansimsfantasy @sentate for the dresses. McLayneSims for the suspender shirt, I think Morgan's veil was by @serenity-cc. @johnnysimmer and @candysims4 for some of the hairs pictured, and the carriage by @notsooldmadcatlady

I'm probably missing some CC creators for tattoos & pants & hair - my apologies 💙

First of all, the moodlets. I love reading them & seeing them.

And then the interactions are just 🥹

And the fact that they pregnancy cuddled in bed autonomously, omg 😭And the freaking gender reveal party is adorable! I was able to snap these with my guy's camera while the parents cut the cake

I cannot wait to see all parts of this mod! Side note though I clearly need to change Banner's wardrobe since I put Knox in the same freaking shirt AND SWATCH. Wtf, I clearly have a favorite swatch of that shirt😂

And another mod I'm loving is Read to Infant on Lap by Simkatu 🥹 Way too cute (also doesn't hurt that there's nothing sexier than a good daddy & Banner is 🥵). They get moodlets from this too but I apparently didn't take screenshots of those. Lucy needed a nap, hence her "about to scream & cry" face & I accidentally chose just "read" rather than read to nap.

Skillful sleep scared the shit out of me. She's right there sleeping but her sleep ghost is in the closet working on her acting skill. They need to put a warning on how it works when you use it for the first time

It's nice that in The Sims you can be a neglectful parent & it's fine. Sleeping outside on the patio overnight all alone next to the bottles of wine is just... fine.

When you're writing a scene & the pose creator didn't specify which sim was which, just "Sim 1" or "Sim 4"

Feet

Their faces are priceless, how dare they put her hangry butt in the high chair! The AUDACITY!

But she's happy being on the floor behind her daddy, just sucking away on her thumb.

Real Mers dolphin twitch together