#simblr love

I feel like I haven't said this in a while. However, I love you. Your sims, gameplay, screenshots, edits, custom content, and stories. They never fail to bring a smile to my face...

With the recent ts4 bs news, I wanted to stop being negative and be positive for a second lol. Now that I'm in a good place with my editing, storytelling and sim style in general I thought I'd just give a shoutout to all the simblrs who inspired me, whether that's in terms of editing styles, writing/storytelling styles, etc. because I wouldn't be where I am rn without this inspiration! The blogs I tag also have genuinely interesting gameplays (or stories!) that I have fun reading and have read more than once.

This is kind of long, but hey I've read a lot of sims stories/gameplays over the past almost 4 (!) years😅Everyone on here has at least one thing they did/do with their storytelling, editing, and/or sim style that I love and wanted to take inspiration from.

@sojutrait

@duusheen

@cinamun

@changingplumbob

@tulipsimss

@deathbypufferfish

@solacewhim

@nikatyler

@luvlian

@cowplantcalamity

@maytaiii

@cowplant-pizza

@buglaur

@servegrilledcheese

@pixelnrd

@sammyshuno

@biffybobs

@strawberry-nia

@bakersimmer

@fallstaticexit

@dumbsoftiesims

@alxandergoth

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Love train by @simblrfairy

With the holidays here and the year ending, I think its rather appropriate to start a love train! Tag your favorite people so show your love and appreciation to them.

Thank you, my dear @hamsterbellbelle and @bionibots! <3

I wish everyone happy holidays! May your health and the health of your loved ones be strong, and let failures bypass you!

Hi! Thank you so much darling, it makes me so happy to know you're enjoying it 🥺💖

Yeah so the skeleton is just from jungle adventure, as for the pose and the deathflower, I just whipped that up in blender specifically for preview shots.

buttttt I went ahead and stuck the pose in a package for you and made the deathflower into an accessory 🥰

here you go: download (simfileshare)

Sending one right back at ya!!! And can you believe we've been mutuals for 4 years??? Here's to more simblr chaos together ehehe 🤭❤️

4 years already!? it's incredible how fast time goes 🥲

if you weren't my first mutual, you were definitely one of my first, and i've always been so grateful for all your support and kind comments. it always makes me smile when i see a bunch of notifications from you. it genuinely means so much to me that you take the time to read everything and leave such thoughtful comments. thank you so much for all the love you've shown my little sims over the years

and yeah! here's to many more years of simblr chaos together! 🧡

So it's not that I don't worry about engagement at all. I mean, I am posting my silly pixel people's adventures over a social media account and not just in my private virtual journal or something. But as long as I get people interacting with me/my posts and who seem to enjoy my gameplay and I experience some sense of community, I'm usually not so pressed about the actual numbers?

That said: yesterday I made the decision to use the photography function in the Moschino pack for the first of Simply Lilac's fashion features - and I hated it. I couldn't believe how many photos were ruined by the flash, especially considering that our photographer (Dodo) was maxed out in that skill and I'd set up the area like a proper studio. The entire time I was pausing and exiting the game to check that I had at least one shot of every pose that hadn't been ruined before I continued on to the next one. And while Happy Pills managed to salvage the shots somewhat, if you polish a turd even with the nicest silkiest cloth, then well - it's still a turd.

You wouldn't believe it from the end product, but in total it took me over four hours.

Basically I had to force myself to go through with my plans and post the screenshots at all. I was really tempted to scrap the post but at this point, I'd sunk too much time into it. I'd get a few supportive comments from my 'regulars,' I'd figured, and at least have tried something new. And then I'd never do another again.

But then came the reblogs, the likes and the comments. Considering how maddening I'd found the entire process and how disappointed I was by the end product, they really meant a lot to me 🥲. While I'll need to rethink the whole in-game photography issue (the sims look much better in CAS but I also like them interacting with each other in shots?), I'm now feeling reinvigorated about this whole side project and have plants to do more. And one hundred percent of that is down to you guys.

So I'm not really sure where I'm going with this except that if you see someone on your dash who is pushing themselves out of their comfort zone and trying something new, please give them a little love. People being supportive and seemingly enjoying at least some aspects of the post (Moschino pack, you're still on probation) renewed my own sense of joy from it and made the difference between me never doing something like this again, and now not only having plans for a second but actually looking forward to it.

Thank you, that is so sweet!

Honestly, I would recommend any creators that have worked on collabs by @the-crypt-o-club which features several alternative cc creators!

Some notable creators that come to mind are: @crazy-lazy-elder-sims has a lot of amazing stuff, @omgcoffinfit for some all-around spooky cc, @aniraklova for some great over-the-top CAS, @azeternasims has some great stuff for a variety of subcultures and @evellsims has some great alpha cc that I recommend!