Hello lovelies! I’m back from Tasmania and have to say first of all a heartfelt thank you for all your holiday well wishes and comments, which kept me warm on many a freezing Tasmanian night. I missed you all desperately and tried to keep up sporadically using the app, but internet was not always reliable and the app is as buggy AF, causing me near heart failure at one point when it told me I was not following ANYONE. While it seems to be a problem isolated to the app please do not hesitate to let me know if I have somehow accidentally unfollowed you. It seems anything is possible, mired as we are in Dumblr’s unrelenting ineptitude. Anyway, enough whining- I might post some pics later, but I’ll tag them Tassie photos so you can block them. Actual story replies after the cut!
@simmerjazen
Such an asshole!! Why is Joel friends with Roy?
@simblu
How the hell are they " friends"?
The main reason is that they have known each other and been friends since kindergarten. And despite everything, Joël knows that Roy will never, ever desert him, or not be there for him when he needs him. Roy may be an arsehole, but he is also very loyal and generous friend, with his own (very unique) moral code!
@tyrellsimsoficeandfire
Nice scene. What's the meaning the nickname Roy uses for Joël? Read it before but might missed it
The quote comes from Roy's sister Georgina's teenage diary, where she rapturously described Jojo's smooth ‘mahogany’ skin.
@thickness1988
But Roy speak the truth to Joel. Anita is his second gar mama and if shit goes south I bet everything going be in her name
Roy genuinely thinks he is trying to help Joël by pointing out some home truths. But he’s also in denial about how upset he is that Joël isn’t going to be living in his apartment anymore, and he also has a lot of paranoia that his friendship with Joël will suffer when Joël moves in with Anita.
@hyperkaos
Dammit Roy stop being a dick. Oh wait...
@dandylion240
Joel should just keep on walking but he won't. He sticks to Roy like he keeps going back to Anita. What's this about him offering to sell his houseboat. Didn't he tell her he couldn't sell it because someone was renting it? Or do I have that wrong?
Correct, he did originally tell her that, but a few minutes later he was willing to change his mind when he realised how deeply she cared about them living together as a family. He told her that he would sell it if she really needed him to.
@reverieinsimlish
Has Joel ever dated anybody Roy didn't have a problem with? I mean, really. I think Roy's threatened by the idea that someone may mean more to or have more power over Joel than him.
You’ve hit the nail on the head
@inda-sims
Joel should ditch Roy and his BBQ! What an ass! That's no way to treat a friend!
@simechro
I'll be surprised if nothing goes wrong at the bbq lol
@willky12
Joel knows he's right
@karnzter
Barbecue eh? So many people to expect to come in both invited and uninvited *Gossip Girl season 3 Thanksgiving special flashbacks* >:)
@sweetnovember77
"You’re a whiny, pathetic, freeloading loser." ... 😂😂 Roy, keeping it 💯as per usual.
LULZ!! GO ROY!!! ;=)
@lilsisterg
Screw Roy and his BBQ, he's such a jackass! If I were Joel I wouldn't go. I get the distinct impression that Roy is going to sabotage Joel's relationship with Anita
@phyresimblr
I'm not liking Roy at the moment... Why is he hellbent on destroying Jonita. Not cool, Roy. I am thinking Joël is completely in his right to spill the beans on some of Roy's dirt to Sonja, so Roy can know the feeling.
What a delicious thought! But also Roy knows that Joël would never violate the code and do that. It would be the equivalent of Roy sleeping with Mia, or Anita. There are just lines that can’t ever be crossed.
@simblu
Not criticism of the writing but of folks who would tolerate such disrespect
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I did that once. I put 2 lots next to each other, one residential one a nectary, and I just had my sims buy it and they ran it next door to their house. Not sure if that's what you're wondering but that's what I got! :D
simechro
You can, should show up under real estate and travel services > check real estate > view purchasable properties
@hyperkaos answered your post: Saffron: Actually, before you go back ...
LMAO!!! That FACE! Love it!!!
@miraakles answered: …… My heart just broke for her…. WAIT…. WHY DO I SHIP TEDDY AND SAFFY…. Oh my gosh… I don’t even know anymore. Poor Saffy. :(
@devyquinnsims answered: Ugh, and it only makes it worse that she seems nice. I hate when people I want to despise are nice. Like, just be a douche and let me hate you!
@lauraraeamos answered: Oh no! lol! So that’s why he was acting so weird!
@simechro answered: aah she’s cute I hope she’s not crazy!
She’s actually a very sweet and down-to-earth girl and studying medicine with Teddy so she’s smart too!
@heavensims answered: And then there was the sound of a thousand pieces of Saffy’s heart shattering against the floor. And I giggled. Because I am a horrid person.
@caterpillarsims answered: Daisy looks age appropriate.
@expectopatronsim answered: Oh, this is fun!
@simulet-comments reblogged this from you and added:
A W K W A R D
@twinsimskeletons answered: aaaawkward
@sweetnovember77 answered: Oh my god, I can feel Saffy’s heart breaking.
@futuresims answered: Anita’s famous crazy gene is about to activate in Saff in 3…..2…..1….
@pibsims answered: Saffy - he loves you like a sister.
Yeah, it’s not going to be done tonight. But I am trying to get a beginning and an idea of where it wants to go.
I also put the whole chapter so far in a WordPress draft and fixed a few little things with the rhythm and phrasing in the last few updates. I also already have a title for the next full WordPress update.
It’s just....most of the time words just kind of show up when my fingers hit the keys and I’m like “Yay pretty words!”, but eventually the story gets to a point where I have to take all the previous pretty words that just randomly showed up without any direction or fixed ideas and figure out a way to make them make sense and fit in with the new pretty words, and it’s all hard.
Really though I wouldn’t have it any other way. ;)
Yay! It’s been so long since the acceptance email - I wonder if that means my story was one of the first ones they picked?
emperorofthedark replied to your post: Woot!
When/where will we be able to buy it?
It’s actually an online magazine that is free to read, which is cool because then everyone can read it regardless of their current financial situation. I will definitely link it here and you guys can drive traffic their way though!
As for when - all I know is the “end of the month”, so no more than a few weeks. Looking at their previous issues, it has been usually around the last day of the month.
And yeah, it’s a token pay market, but their stories do sometimes get nominated for the big awards and anthologies, and it’s a publishing credit to help editors at pro markets take me a little more seriously. And they do pay actual money and not just copies. ;)
berrysimlish replied to your post: Woot!
Wooooohoooooo! Congrats, sweetheart! :D I’m so happy for you! Let’s throw a party!
Yay thank you! Perhaps I shall go in game and take pics of Seth and Sarah partying, lol. :)
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Can I hear five random facts about [Terry]? Once you get this, paste it into 5-10 people's inboxes whose characters you'd like to know better! :)
Thank you simechro! XD
1) Terry loves living with the models because they are as pretty as him. They love just sitting around all night staring at each other.
2) Terry sleeps with a toy teddy bear called Mr Cuddles. Mr Cuddles travels everywhere with him and was even on the cover of Italian Vogue with Terry 5 years ago. Steven Meisel said Mr Cuddles had great cheekbones.
3) Terry can still fit into the hot pink ruffled taffeta mini he wore to his high school prom.
4) When asked by an investigative reporter at TMZ about his chest hair, Terry confessed that while it generally maintained itself, individual hairs were still tamed before each photo shoot by Zack Zack of Zack’s Crack Sack and Back Shack. Monsieur Zack also said in a recent interview with TMZ: “Terry’s chest hair is his strongest feature, which is why it receives so much attention. There’s not a lot that I have to do to it to keep it looking great. I mainly focus on grooming the hairs and keeping them in position. For this I use a combination of saliva, K-Y, and superglue.”
5) Terry’s instagram has been described as ‘a treasure trove of manscaping porn.’
tagging buckleysims: Rebecca Carlisle chillimps Fredrickmysimsloveaffair. Laurencetwinsimskeletons. Jessicaninjaofthepurplethings: Jake Salmon (but of course nobody is under any obligation whatsoever!)
simechro replied to your post: I am so ignorant I am the most ignoran...
Nope! Also, ignorance with an open mind is much better than ignorance with a narrow mind….
I know that intellectually, and I do appreciate you reminding me. :)
But it’s just - I feel like a failure if I don’t already know everything.
And I don’t mean that in the oh noes I was identified as gifted in school that means I can never not know anything or fail way. Like I am perfectly fine with not knowing facts and I like learning new things that I didn’t already know.
It’s just when it comes to emotions and empathy and other people’s experiences that I feel like I should already know everything, and that I am a bad person if I don’t know, and an even worse person if I made assumptions about what I don’t know.
Actually what prompted that post was that today I’ve been googling around and reading blogs about people who grew up in fundamentalist Christian communities, and also people who can admit that they are a recovering bigot. I’ve never been around religion or real hardcore bigotry, so there’s a lot there that I don’t know and I made assumptions about people.
But I am trying to learn!
roseoftheoakmoongames replied to your post: I am so ignorant I am the most ignoran...
I actually find you very educated. And on the things you don’t know, you always seem willing to learn.
*hugs* Thank you! And I like learning! I just feel bad when I don’t know things about how other people experience reality.
I imagine that probably some people in the Sims community don’t like me for how I take anon haters to task for judging people that they don’t know and not taking the time to learn about people and their lives and what made them who they are and why they post the things they post before running away with hateful, negative, and self-righteous assumptions and doing a lot of harm to people, but if any of you are reading this - I assure you that I am just as hard on myself about it.
